Pickup Sales Fall As Buyers Move To Smaller, Cheaper Cars
Good morning! It’s Monday, April 8, 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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Chevy Cuts Silverado EV RST By $10,600 Before It Goes On Sale, Still Costs Nearly $100,000
Image: Chevrolet After some fiery growing pains, Chevrolet finally announced pricing and another trim for the Silverado EV First Edition RST on Wednesday. Excluding destination charges, the Silverado EV First-Edition …
Canoo Spent Double Its Revenue On CEO’s Private Jet
Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 4, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
TikToker’s $1,400 Chevy Tahoe Payment Is Better Than Her Husband’s $1,600 GMC Sierra Payment, At Least
2020 GMC Sierra AT4Image: GMC The dark underbelly of car buying that is un-affordability and bad financial decisions is always with us. Car payments are still at all time highs, …
Consumer Reports’ Best Cars For Tall People (Plus Three Of My Own Recommendations)
Photo: Lotus For those who don’t know, I stand at a 99.9th percentile height of 6’8” tall. For a pair of long pants to fit me properly, they need a …
Naturally Aspirated V8 Powered Cars Are Almost Gone
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 …
The Pickup Truck No One Needs But Everyone Wants
There’s a particular genre of auto enthusiast that absolutely despises the luxury pickup truck. They’re going to tell you that trucks are for work, that no one actually needs a …
These Are GM’s Previous Attempts At Selling Hybrids
Image: Chevrolet GM wouldn’t start offering hybrids in its vehicles until 2004 with its GMT800 platformed pickups. The first was the Chevy Silverado Hybrid. Compared to hybrids today, the hybrid …
GM Delays Flint Truck Plant Shifts So Workers Can Watch The Detroit Lions Play
Image: General Motors It has been 32 years since the Detroit Lions last went to the NFC championship game back in 1992. The team has won twelve games so far …
Small Crossovers Are Catching Up To Big Trucks In The U.S.
Full-size trucks have been the best-selling vehicles in the U.S. for decades, but a crossover came close to unseating one of the pickups in 2023. Among the top ten best-sellers …