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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…

It’s been nearly a month since President Trump decided to put a stop to opening another crucial crossing for trade between the U.S. and its second largest trading partner, Canada. In this latest chapter of the ongoing Gordie Howe Bridge saga, it appears the man whose job it is to iron out the details plaguing…

The old Mercedes-AMG CLA45 was primarily known for having a hilarious amount of horsepower for a compact sedan, and the new generation of CLA is carrying on that mantra into the electric era. AMG unveiled the new CLA45 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and it uses three electric motors to deliver 671 horsepower. That’s…

Class is a funny thing in the U.S. I’m an affluent, out-of-touch coastal elite because I blog about cars on the internet and leased an electric vehicle after seeing it advertised for $159 a month. The fact that I live in Georgia, don’t make anywhere close to six figures, and buy groceries at a Kroger…

According to Fiat, suburban sweet life is slowly cruising around small quiet streets, preferably near the ocean, in your adorable Topolino, while silently judging your neighbors trying to look as cool in their golf carts. OK, so maybe I added the last part, but relaxed driving in a small coastal town is the dream that…

Thanks to ongoing public-awareness campaigns, most people nowadays realize that leaving your children in a hot car can quickly have fatal results — not that the knowledge has ended the practice. In fact, another 37 children died just last year as a result, bringing the death toll since 1990 to at least 1,172. And while it doesn’t…

The internet may have torn us apart more than it brought us together, but it also gave us Car YouTube and the opportunity to form parasocial bonds with famous people we’ll never meet. Then again, once celebrities began using social media, we started to see more of who they really were than we did back…

Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 9, 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, a bipartisan Senate committee…

Design trends are fleeting. Remember when skinny jeans and ankle socks were all the rage among the Young And Hip? Now it seems as though you are criminally chopped and unc if you even have either of those outdated accoutrements in your wardrobe, but at least those baggy jeans you have buried in your drawers from…

On June 26, a two-seater light aircraft crashed into Citic Tower in Beijing, China. The pilot was killed, and 13 others were injured. Immediately afterwards, the Chinese government told us… virtually nothing. In fact, China went the other direction, pulling down any reference to, video of, or post about the crash. The government scrubbed the…