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It’s been a few months since Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s wife Rachel Campos-Duffy randomly brought up PornHub while promoting the reality show the two former reality show cast members filmed with their nine kids over seven months. It was weird at the time, and it’s still weird today, but there was always the possibility the…

I love car design, but not every design is actually good. Worse than being outright bad and ugly, though, is when part of a car’s design is annoying. Earlier this week I asked our readers to tell me about one particular car design detail that really annoys them, and boy did y’all deliver. Your answers ranged…

Good morning! It’s Friday, June 10, 2026, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. This is where you’ll find the most important stories that are shaping the way Americans drive and get around. In this morning’s edition, Volkswagen is staring down…

I don’t know if it’s something in the air (like the humidity), but I’ve been feeling extra annoyed lately. It’s like every little thing is just ticking me off — especially cars on the road and drivers behind the wheel. Of course, some cars and their drivers tend to be repeat offenders, and that got…

Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cyclone is a rust-free, factory-engined, almost-all-original survivor. Or so the seller says. Let’s see what such a find might just set someone back. In the film ‘Forrest Gump,’ the beloved titular character played by the even more beloved actor, Tom Hanks, liked to run. This predilection earned him a…

The average price of a new car in 1970 was $3,543. Don’t get super excited. Thanks to inflation, that really means $31,411.13 (those 13 cents are very important). But compare that to 2025, when the average price passed $50,000 for the first time. Or last week when it ballooned to $51,974 — yet the market is still…

There’s so much happening these days, it’s almost impossible to keep up. But before high-speed internet became ubiquitous, things really did feel like they moved at a slower pace. Americans got their news from the same newspapers, watched the same nightly TV anchors, and actually had time to talk about current events before the news…

McLaren is bringing something special to the Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 9, but it isn’t some rebodied hypercar that uses sentiment to sell overpriced collector’s items to tech bros. Instead, the McLaren Special Operations (MSO) team went digging through its own archives (I’m imagining a warehouse like the one at the end of Raiders…

Red Bull Racing is finally ready to run its production hypercar in anger over four years after announcing the ambitious project. The championship-winning F1 team’s RB17 made its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday, with the 1,267-horsepower track-day monster roaring up the estate’s famed hill climb during the Supercar Shootout. Over the course…

Specialty auto parts retailer O’Reilly Automotive has floated a $10 billion bid to purchase the Napa Auto Parts brand, among others, from Atlanta-based Genuine Parts Co. While consolidation seems to be the name of the game in retail these days, a merger between two of the largest auto parts sellers would likely mean less choice…