Tesla Ditches ‘Gigacasting,’ BMW Changes Names, And We Mourn Oldsmobile In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, May 1, 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. - Owen Bellwood Read More

There’s nothing German automakers like doing more than screwing with their naming conventions, and BMW is once again doing just that. However, instead of making things more complicated and confusing, it’s actually streamlining its naming structure by dropping “i” from the end of its internal combustion-powered vehicles. Don’t worry, it’ll still be at the front of all its EV’s names. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 2, 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. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

There are hundreds if not thousands of accessories you can buy for your Jeep Wrangler. Many of them are super ill-advised, but one may stand (or sit) above the rest: a bolt-in third-row seat. That’s right, you can – theoretically – buy an aftermarket third-row bench seat to cram two more people into your Wrangler. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

For better or worse, the automotive industry as it stands right now is all about numbers and specs. How fast is a car? How much does it weigh? What sort of 0-60 times can it do? What has the most interior space? What gets the best gas mileage? - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, April 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. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Once the largest division of General Motors, the Oldsmobile dream was killed off at 107 years old, on April 29, 2004, a full 20 years ago today. While the brand was largely seen as a stodgy, outdated, and unprofitable liability by the time GM ended it, the automaker was responsible for some pretty impressive engineering in its century of crafting cars. The General diluted the brand until it stood for nothing, but it has a history of doing cool shit, and for that it should be remembered fondly. - Bradley Brownell Read More

There are tuner cars, and then there are tuner cars built on the bones of 1980s Italian supercars. The Reagan deficit spending boom from ‘82 to ‘87 saw scores of newly-minted yuppie millionaires looking for ways to shovel their windfall gains into the furnace of conspicuous consumption. German tuning house Koenig Specials GmbH — and founder Willy König — was more than happy to help them accomplish their goals. - Bradley Brownell Read More

The actor currently in Hulu’s ‘We Were The Lucky Ones’ recalls the unique way he acquired his 1960 Rover P4.

Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. - Owen Bellwood Read More