Новости за 17.04.2024

After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he parked the truck in his garage, where it decided…

The Williams Formula 1 team last won a championship way back in 1997 and it took its last race win in 2012 when Pastor Maldonado took the checkered flag in a shocking Spanish Grand Prix. Since then, Williams has been stuck at the back of the pack fighting for Q2 appearances and points whenever it can get them. Now,…

Atlas is dead, long live Atlas. The hydraulically-articulated version of Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot was retired last week in favor of its electric motor-driven version introduced on Wednesday. Hyundai is majority owner of Boston Dynamics, and the new all-electric Atlas will eventually replace the company’s…

About 3 million Hondas are facing increased scrutiny from the U.S. National Traffic Safety Administration after over 1,000 complaints about the unexpected activation of the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system. Now, those cars are facing an engineering analysis from the organization.

We, as Jalops, all enjoy cars. It’s one of our defining traits. While we may get into our own debates about whether cars are better for pleasure or commuting, long trips or short grocery runs, there’s one use case we can all agree is bad: Cars should really not be weapons.

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Housing is tight across the country, but it seems to feel tightest in Southern California. Between low supply and rents that stubbornly won’t come down, residents — like myself — are being squeezed on both sides by the issues. Some are taking things into their own hands and literally making their own dwellings near…

When Ford unveiled the hardcore Mustang GTD at Monterey Car Week last year, its aggressive face was plastered all across the internet, and as of Wednesday, Americans and Canadians can apply to potentially buy one.The application opens today, April 17, 2024, exactly 60 years after the first Mustang debuted at the 1964…

After the MV Dali brought down the Franklin Key Bridge in Baltimore, folks wondered how this could happen, and could it happen again? As if to answer this unspoken question, it almost immediately happened again: the APL Qingdao lost power near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor earlier this month.

Last we heard from former North Carolina representative Madison Cawthorn, he had just been caught driving on a revoked license for a second time. He’d been pulled over three times in five months. The credibly accused sex pest who also had a habit of trying to take guns through airport security apparently hasn’t…

Tesla may have told its staff it was laying off over 10 percent of its workforce over the weekend, but apparently, not everyone got the memo. Some workers didn’t realize they were laid off until they showed up at the automaker’s facilities and found their key cards didn’t work anymore.

For more than 75 years, Maserati has been designing stunning road cars at its base in Italy, with a team of highly skilled designers and engineers working to create icons like the 3500GT and the MC12. As technology has progressed, the company has moved away from pens and paper, and now uses programming and prompts to…

Planes are good. Flying on them is often deeply, deeply bad. This sort of contrast, the Hegelian dialectic, speaks to the duality at the heart of all humans. There is, however, a synthesis to be found from these two opposing views: Bad airplane experiences that make for good stories. Earlier this week, we asked you…

Everyone knows that, generally speaking, concept cars are meant to be just that — a concept. Odds are, they’ll never make it into production, and that’s OK. Maybe they’ll end up influencing a future production vehicle, but maybe not. Of course, some end up being a barely disguised version of a car that’s already coming

A judge in Delaware, where Tesla is incorporated, determined in January that part-time CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package was against the best interests of the company’s many investors, nullifying the “performance-based” award. The package, which was approved by the crony-packed Elon-tied board back in…

For years now, Tesla has been promising a $25,000 car to serve as the entry point for the brand. This is unlikely to ever happen, but Elon Musk continues to claim it’s totally real and absolutely coming any day now — even when Reuters says it’s dead.

Welcome to the party, pal! When Harley-Davidson launched the new Sportster lineup back in 2021, it brought a big engine and lots of power to the mid-size cruiser game. The Sportster pushes out between 90 and 121 horsepower, while the prior-generation Indian Scout managed just 78 ponies with its inexpensive Sixty line a…

Indian’s bread and butter Scout model has been hanging around since Polaris re-introduced the all-American mid-size cruiser model to the world back in 2014. A decade on, this bike is still Indian’s biggest seller, shifting ten thousand units a year, give or take. It was important that the company get an improved Scout…

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, April 17, 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.

Riding a motorcycle is about as much fun as you can legally have as an adult, but there’s no getting around the fact that they’re incredibly dangerous. Even if you do everything correctly, you can still end up in the hospital courtesy of other drivers. Outcomes are much better if you’re wearing a helmet when you…

GMC revealed the Sierra EV back in 2022 with a promised 400-mile range, 754 horsepower and 785 pound-feet of torque. That’s a whole lot of power, but it also requires a whole lot of battery, meaning it “only” has a 0-to-60 time of 4.5 seconds. Oh, and the Sierra Denali Edition 1 was also announced with a $107,000…

Maserati broke new ground Monday, becoming the first luxury carmaker to release a high-performance, all-electric convertible supercar, which it’s calling the GranCabrio Folgore. The new car joins Maserati’s lineup of EVs, which also includes the Grecale Folgore and the stunning GranTurismo Folgore.

If you’re going to join a cult, it might as well be a weird and quirky one like that surrounding old VW vans. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice EuroVan could be a good entry into the club if the admission price isn’t too high.