These Are Currently The Best SUV Deals Under $50,000 According To Consumer Reports
Typically, the best deals you’re going to find on new cars are available on old models that are nearing the end of their lifecycle. They might not have the latest, most advanced features, but that doesn’t necessarily make them bad cars. That said, sometimes you can also find good deals on cars that just aren’t selling…
SpaceX Is One Step Closer To Killing The International Space Station
The International Space Station is set to die soon, with SpaceX contracted to deal the killing blow sometime in 2030. Now, after a test last Friday from one of the company’s Dragon rockets docked to the station, SpaceX is one step closer to killing the ISS for good.
VinFast Ready To Burn Through Another $2.1 Billion Of Its Founder’s Money
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, November 13, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Honda CR-V's Iconic Built-In Picnic Table Is Back And Better Than Ever For The 2026 Passport
Talk to any nerdy car person long enough, and they will eventually bring up how every version of the second-generation Honda CR-V came with a secret picnic table hidden inside. Underneath the cargo area’s carpet is what looked like a typical plastic cover for the underfloor storage area, but remove it and you’d…
These Are The 2026 Honda Passport TrailSport's Best Design Details And Cleverest Features
Honda just unveiled the 2026 Passport, which is described as its most off-road capable SUV ever. No longer just a Pilot with a shorter rear end, the new Passport is a fantastic piece of boxy design — I think it’s Honda’s best design in years, and certainly its most interesting U.S.-market crossover ever. I recently…
2026 Honda Passport Revealed As Honda's Most Capable Off-Roader Yet And Its Best Design In Years
Back in the 1990s before coming out with its own crossover, the CR-V, Honda offered the first-generation Passport, a rebadged Isuzu Rodeo that was a legit body-on-frame SUV. Since then, the Japanese brand has mainly stuck to crossover-y models that aren’t focused on off-roading, but that’s changing with the…
Spirit Airlines Close To Bankruptcy: Report
Spirit, an airline known for its excellent service and in-flight animal entertainment is gearing up for a bankruptcy filing, according to the Wall Street Journal.
You Can Buy This Mercedes-AMG GT For The Price Of A New Honda Civic Type R
If you’ve got high-end sports car dreams but premium hot hatch money, you may want to take a trip to the UK. There, you’ll find what’s likely the cheapest Mercedes-AMG GT currently on the market, offered for about the same price as a new2025 Honda Civic Type R.
Traffic Jams: Rosie Tucker – 'For Sale: Ford Pinto'
“For Sale: Ford Pinto” is not, in any meaningful way, about the act of selling a Ford Pinto. It’s entirely possible that Rosie Tucker has one in a garage somewhere, and they’re wondering why this song hasn’t led to an influx of offers, but I’d be surprised. Still, automotive focus or not, it’s a great track from a…
At $13,500, Would You Rove The Land In This 1981 Land Rover 109?
In a bit of questionable salesmanship, the ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Land Rover describes it as being “a primitive and uncomfortable ride on the highway!” Let’s decide what such a Paleolithic beast might reasonably be worth.
Fake Cop Gets Caught Pretending To Be A Cop In Front Of A Real Cop
This $8,000 Suzuki From India Received A 5-Star Crash Test Rating
There aren’t any new models available under $20,000 in the for American car buyers anymore, but emerging auto markets like India have plenty of cheap cars to go around. One of these budget cars just proved that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be safe.
NASCAR Fans Are Calling Logano's Playoff Championship Illegitimate. He Says That's 'A Bunch Of Bull****' And I Agree
NASCAR got the season-ending “Game 7 Moment” it has been chasing since instituting the Playoffs points system in 2004 last weekend, and fans are pretty pissed off about it. The 2024 Cup Series champion, Joey Logano, secured his third title with the worst average season-long finishing position in NASCAR history. Across…
Even Tesla's Twitter Account Is Only Kept In Check By U.S. Regulators
Remember back in April, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Tesla it could no longer call its semi-autonomous software “Full Self-Driving,” and that it had to throw a “supervised” in there to cover its ass? Well it seems no one told Tesla’s social media team, because the company’s tweets…
2026 Cadillac Vistiq Is A 615-HP EV With A Predicted 300 Miles Of Range
Cadillac continues its EV push with the introduction of its new family sized three-row electric SUV, the 2026 Cadillac Vistiq that was previewed earlier this year. The second largest Cadillac EV and the fifth overall electric model for the brand, the Vistiq comes across as a more handsome version of the gas-powered…
Police Use Grappler To End 100 MPH Chase With Unnecessary Crash
Only millionaires typically have time and money to cosplay as Batman, but the police already have all the heavy equipment and qualified immunity to indulge their superhero fantasies. A sheriff’s office in Olympia, Washington used a grappler to end a pursuit last week by crashing a stolen car at 100 miles per hour. The…
After Nearly 100 Years A Factory-Built Blower Bentley Has Completed A 24-Hour Race Without Blowing Up
Bentley absolutely dominated endurance racing in the pre-war era, winning Le Mans five times between 1924 and 1930. You might associate those wins with the famed Bentley Boys and the almighty “Blower Bentley,” but it may surprise you to learn a Blower never even finished a 24-hour event until last week. All of Bentley’…
‘Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave’ Elon Musk Is Reportedly Already Too Annoying For Trump Team
Elon Musk may be the richest person in the world, CEO of the most overvalued car company in the world and was rumored to functionally be Trump’s co-President. Yet, despite all of his financial success, he’s never been able to escape one simple truth: He is a deeply unlikable person. He can blame it on his reportedly…
This One Weird Trick Will Force Mazda To Build A RWD Sport Sedan
For decades, if you wanted a mainstream family sedan that was actually fun to drive, it was hard to do better than the Mazda 6 or its predecessor the 626. Sure, it was front-wheel drive, but the engineers delivered in the handling department. Now that Mazda’s moved upmarket and begun selling the rear-wheel-drive-based…
Car YouTube Peaked 15 Years Ago With Wagon Attack II
Cars are tools. Primarily we use cars for transportation, but they can also be tools of diversion and fun, tools of community building and human interaction. I don’t need to touch grass, I just need to go for a drive in an old rusty Honda van on the sand dunes. That might fix me.
