Elon Musk Loses His $56 Billion Pay Day, Flooded McLarens In Florida And Americans Love Hybrids In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the country earlier this year, wrecking houses, bursting river banks and flooding cars. Lots and lots of cars. Now, some of those flood-damaged vehicles are turning up at auctions, including real bedroom poster cars from the likes of McLaren, Porsche and Lamborghini. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, December 3, 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. - Owen Bellwood Read More

This evening Jaguar released its audacious Type 00 concept at Miami Art Week, with the pink and blue pair of coupes previewing the electric four-door GT that will go on sale in 2026 as the first model in Jaguar’s completely reinvented lineup. Lots of digital ink has been spilled about the Type 00's radical looks and its extremely controversial logo redesign and accompanying brand campaign — no matter what you think of the car, there’s no denying it’s the most anyone has talked about Jaguar in decades. - Daniel Golson Read More

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 4, 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. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Good morning! It’s Monday, December 2, 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. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

There are a lot of satisfying things to watch on the internet, like the massive tank that Porsche’s cars swim through on the production line or crash tests of luxurious motors. Those pale in comparison to footage of cars getting a long-overdue clean, especially rare cars like the Ferrari F40. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel’s resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists always knew that heavy lead was a seriously bad thing for humans to be near, breathe in, or work around. In the 1970s the scientific community came together to confirm that even trace exposure to children with developing brains could be detrimental to their development. It still took over two decades to get the additive banned from highway gasoline. - Bradley Brownell Read More

“Oh my god, there’s so much camera equipment in here.” If you’re a Transportation Security Administration agent opening up photo legend Larry Chen’s rolling carry-on camera and laptop bag, you might be surprised by how much he can pack in there. When he’s traveling all over the world to capture incredible photos he needs to bring a lot of equipment to make it happen, and it has to fit in a carry-on because if an airline were to ever lose the bag not only would he be out several thousand dollars of equipment, but the job he’s flying to would be totally wrecked. - Bradley Brownell Read More

I’m about to drive one of the most controversial cars of the 2020s that isn’t a Cybertruck. That’s right, I’m getting behind the wheel of the all-new and all-electric Dodge Charger Daytona, Fratzonic “exhaust” and all. Before I take this massively powerful out on the roads of Phoenix and on the track, I want to know what you want to know about it. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

How far do you think you could go on a single liter of high-test gasoline? If you’ve always dreamed of pushing a vehicle to the absolute pinnacle of performance and engineering, then the Eco Mileage Challenge might be for you. Ever since the event was founded in 1981 a group of enthusiastic smarty-pants eco freaks have been pushing the envelope. In the high-octane class, a team called the Wednesday Club recently set a new world record achieving an incredible 7,080 miles. Honda got hundreds of hours of footage of the weirdly-shaped ultra-green cars going around sipping fuel, and like any sane automaker would, posted a few hours of ambient b-roll footage to YouTube and set the whole thing to some pretty chill beats. - Bradley Brownell Read More