Stellantis Sued By Shareholders Over Godawful Earnings
Good morning! It’s Friday, August 16, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
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Why have European car makers struggled to succeed in India?
Remember Opel Astra? It was India’s first tryst with German technology on the roads. With automatic transmission — a rarity in those days — ventilated disc brakes and a CFC-free …
Rolling SUVs Down A Cliff Reveals How Safe Modern Cars Are
Morbid curiosity drives many folks to YouTube car crash videos, be they professionally and scientifically staged or dashcam footage from far away countries, but this video of two brand-new crossovers …
These Are The Cars You All Regret Selling
I was 24 and working seasonally so money was tight most of the time. I had a 1992 Buick Roadmaster, that I purchased from a friend, whose grandfather had passed …
Driving A Volvo 264 TE Limousine Made Me Feel Like Erich Honecker
Wheezing through the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden, surrounded by a literal sea of cerulean velour, vinyl and polyester, blasting Abba on FM, I felt like the disco era superstar I’d …
Let Some Rowdy 8,000 RPM Lancia Rally Cars Melt Your Work Week Pains Away
It’s nearly time to turn off your work computer, and your overworked brain, for a few dozen delightful hours of you-time known colloquially as the weekend. In anticipation of ending …
Check Out The Weirdest, Most Beautiful French Cars From The Mullin Museum’s Auction
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik Estimate: $2,500,000 – $3,500,000 The centerpiece of the auction is this 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Aravis Special Cabriolet, one of only four ever made and one of …
Maybe Don’t Buy This ‘Former Government Vehicle’ From 1940s Germany
Cars don’t deserve a bad rap just because their owners were shitty, but as humans we can’t help but assign significance to objects via their owners. Take this very brief …
Here’s How The G-Wagen’s Ancient French Cousin Ended Up On The Front Lines In Ukraine
While poking around on Instagram I found a picture of what looked like a drab green military-spec Mercedes-Benz G-Class that had been recently delivered to the forces fighting on the …
Hyundai Is Frickin’ Serious About Winning Pikes Peak
Hyundai announced on March 1 that it would be tackling the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this June with a massive four-car effort. The Korean automaker …