Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 30, 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. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Elon’s Tesla Pay Package Faces A Ton Of Legal Hurdles In … Read more
It seems Lexus has decided to leave us landlubbers behind and take to the seas. The automaker just unveiled its new flagship: a 2,000 horsepower, 68-foot long yacht with a 1,849-gallon fuel tank, accommodations for 15 people and six beds. A Small and Overpriced (for Volvo’s Target Audience) EV is Coming The Lexus LY 680 … Read more
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik The naturally aspirated V6 may be slowly going extinct, but the naturally aspirated V8 is on a collision course with the end of time. Right now, there are just 31 separate vehicles you can buy with naturally aspirated motors. But, it’s even worse than that. A lot of those vehicles … Read more
My RAM Promaster. I can’t stand FCA, now Stellantis, because of their blatantly shitty quality, their dealer network’s horrible (and well earned) reputation, and of course their insistence on catering to the worst of people with their rather obnoxious marketing and their screw-the-earth Hellcat all the things product strategy. But the Promaster is a proven … Read more