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Good morning! It’s Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 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.

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Living in the frigid clime of America’s Third Coast, just blocks from Lake Erie, I am the key demographic for tire companies when they plan their winter tire marketing campaigns. Winter is getting an extremely late start in 2024, but I know that winter tires will be a necessity when the white stuff finally does start…

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Wheel Craft's 2024 Black Friday Sale is happening now, and you save up to $150 on PVD Chrome, Black Chrome, and more through Wheel Craft's super easy wheel exchange program.

Continue reading Add Color to Your Corvette for the Holidays and Save $150 During Wheel Craft’s Black Friday Sale at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.

Rivian has received conditional approval for a federal loan of $6.6 billion to fund a plant in Georgia The plant will have an annual capacity of 400,000 vehicles and is anticipated to start production in 2028 The plant will initially build Rivian's R2 and R3/R3X compact crossovers Rivian has been granted conditional approved for a $6.6 billion...

Last week was a big one for armchair design experts, after everyone and their moms decided they had an opinion on the branding of Jaguar’s a controversial rebrand. The critique of the new design language got us thinking, is there any way it could be the worst automotive rebrand of all time?

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If you’re a Formula 1 fan or just a fan or racing in general, Monday was probably a big day for you. Nearly two years after Andretti Global joined forces with Cadillac Racing in a bid to compete in Formula 1, it’s officially happening. Starting in 2026, Cadillac will go up against teams such as Ferrari and McLaren in…

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Nearly one hundred more horsepower? Yes, have some Push-to-pass gives the Taycan a 10-second, 94-hp boost It’s $149,895 for the GTS, and $151,795 for the GTS Sport Turismo Heads up: Porsche has breathed on its go-farther, charge-faster 2025 Taycan, and piled on more of what we find so compelling about its maiden electric sedan. No matter how...

The seats in the bed on today’s Nice Price or No Dice Brat aren’t just for terrifying passengers, they were once Subaru’s way to get around the U.S. import tariff commonly known as the “Chicken Tax.” We’ll have to see how taxing its present price is on a potential buyer’s wallet.

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JLR is in the process of transforming its Defender nameplate into a standalone brand focused on adventure vehicles, and as part of the transformation, the automaker will enter a Defender factory team in the grueling Dakar Rally in 2026. The Dakar program will be run by JLR motorsports boss James Barclay, who currently oversees Jaguar's Formula E...

A new generation of the Audi Q5 is slated to arrive in U.S. showrooms early next year, and Audi on Tuesday provided a first look at the compact crossover's sleeker Q5 Sportback body style. The new Q5 Sportback starts sales later this year, initially in Europe, and an arrival in the U.S. sometime next year is likely. Both the Q5 and Q5 Sportback...

Our semi-famous and always popular Midyear Monday photo gallery features those classic C2 Corvettes that were on display at the 2024 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals show (MCACN) in Chicago over the weeked.

Continue reading [GALLERY] Midyear Monday! 2024 Muscle Cars and Corvette Nationals Edition at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.

Turbine jet-powered airplanes are the highest maintenance vehicles on the planes, so being cut off from the necessary firehose of spare parts will have consequences. Currently, half of the Airbus A320neo and 321neo planes in Russia can’t fly due to maintenance issues. Most of the grounded aircraft desperately need new…

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Last week at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the most impressive seats I sat in weren’t in a sports car or a super-luxury sedan, but in an electric three-row crossover. Kia debuted the new EV9 GT at the show, a 501-horsepower performance version of its excellent family hauler, and the seats in all three rows are simply…

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After nearly two years of negotiations, Cadillac looks set to join the F1 grid in 2026. General Motors on Monday announced an agreement in principle with F1 to launch its Cadillac-branded team and a corresponding power unit program, although the latter may not be ready in time for Cadillac's debut as F1's 11th team. GM is partnering with TWG...

Another C8 Corvette prototype was spied in public, leading many on social media to declare it the return of the C8 Grand Sport. In this post, we lay out our thoughts about a possible return of the Corvette model which checks all the right boxes.

Continue reading [SPIED] Might This Camouflaged C8 Prototype Be the Much-Rumored Corvette Grand Sport? at Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle.

We all know HOAs suck, but as with all things that suck, Florida HOAs are on another level. An HOA in Florida contracted with a tow company to tow vehicles with expired registration out of people’s driveways and, predictably, this is pissing people off.

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It’ll be a battle for the ages when Ford and General Motors face off on the Formula 1 grid in 2026. Ford will be working with Red Bull Powertrains to build engines from that point forward, while Cadillac will partner with Andretti Global to enter a Ferrari-powered car as the 11th team. Sorry Europe, you had your time…

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The Germans love them some forklift racing, and why wouldn’t they? Forklifts are awesome. Racing is awesome. There’s no way it wouldn’t be awesome if you combine the two. This year’s competition was different, though. The Stapler Cup, named after the German word for forklift, dropped “German” from the name and…

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Sometimes the fun of cars is found in doing dumb things with your friends. It’s not against the law to decorate your MkIV Volkswagen R32 like Burt Reynolds’ 1978 Trans Am from the film “Smokey And The Bandit,” then road tripping it to Texarkana, Texas. Nobody can stop you if that’s something you want to do, which is…

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