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Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 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, Tesla is probably wasting…

Electric motors don’t make the neat sounds that engines do, but they also don’t need gasoline to run. Which can come in handy when your president starts an illegal war with Iran that sends gas prices through the roof, destabilizes the global economy, and creates a giant mess in the Middle East. Of course, as higher…

While it looks good, the seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Jag XE describes it mechanically as only fair, specifically in need of a serious brake job. That’s expensive at the dealer, but probably doable in the driveway. Let’s see if this cat is priced to make us want to roll up our…

When engaging four-wheel drive, you’ll need to choose between high or low on the transfer case. The ability to select these modes manually is just one of the differences between four-wheel drive and all-wheel drive. High and low modes operate at vastly different speeds, gear ratios, and torque output levels. Unfortunately, using the wrong one…

With gas prices soaring to heights we haven’t seen since the last time a country launched a pointless war in 2022, now seems like a great time to find one of those really cheap used electric vehicles we’ve all heard about. Some of the biggest concerns for folks who are considering buying a used EV,…

In a standard rack-and-pinion steering setup, the steering wheel is bolted to a steering column. When you turn the wheel, a pinion gear moves over a horizontal rack, which pushes the tie rods to turn the front wheels. It’s a simple setup that has largely remained unchanged, even with new technologies like hydraulic or electric power…

In February 2024, when I went to South Carolina for the groundbreaking of Scout Motors’ brand new factory, the Volkswagen-owned automaker said production of its upcoming truck and SUV would start in 2026. Eight months later, when the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup were unveiled, Scout said the production models were a bit delayed, set…

2026 is a big year for SpaceX’s Starship, the biggest and most ambitious rocket ever built. The third version of the still-in-development launch vehicle will debut soon (maybe), which will be the version that will go to Mars (maybe) and take astronauts to the surface of the Moon (maybe). And that third version will, appropriately,…

You should already know that internal combustion engines do not like cold weather. There are some cars that had such a hard time getting started on cold mornings that it feels like you’re resurrecting the dead when they finally cranked over. While that can often be attributed to the effects cold weather can have on…

The senseless war that President Donald Trump chose to start with Iran has wreaked havoc on gas prices across the globe, but you already knew that. What has received less media attention, and something you may not be aware of, depending on what kind of vehicle you drive, is the even-higher price of diesel fuel.…