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It’s bad enough when you hit a wild animal large enough to total your car. It’s even worse when you’re allowed to claim the carcass for meat, but someone else swipes it before you have the chance. That’s what happened to Tim Wyland after he struck and killed a moose with his VW Passat, reports Cowboy…

Do you love the look of the Morgan Plus Four, but wish those unique looks were backed up with a more powerful drivetrain? Well the mad geniuses over at Morgan have your number, because they’ve loaded their fastest four-wheeler up with nearly 400 horsepower. That ought to be enough to make the new Supersport 400 drive…

For decades, Formula 1 has claimed to be the height of motorsport. It has the most advanced cars and the most glitzy proceedings; its drivers are fashion models, businessmen, knights, and dating Kardashians — and those are the multitudes contained in just one guy, Lewis Hamilton. Formula 1 understands this, of course, and prices its…

Developer Polyphony Digital has been pretty good about regularly adding new content to “Gran Turismo 7” through monthly updates, some of which add a couple new cars and race events while others are a lot more major, adding entirely new tracks, game modes and more. The April 2026 update is now upon us, and while…

Mark lives in Pittsburgh, and with the kids leaving the house, he will no longer need his minivan. He wants something electrified, either PHEV or full EV, that is good for local errands and campus visits. With a budget of up to $60,000, what car should he buy? (Welcome back to What Car Should You…

Remember those halcyon days when SpaceX believed it was on the cusp of transforming humanity? It feels like only just this year that SpaceX was filing to launch one million AI data center satellites into orbit, something it claimed would be “a first step toward becoming a Kardashev Type II civilization.” I am even old…

With Newark-Liberty International Airport suffering a 90-second radar and communications blackout last year, it became clear that equipment at many air traffic control facilities was desperately in need of replacement. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced on Tuesday that he’s asking Congress for an additional $10 billion to modernize the country’s air traffic control infrastructure, lowering…

As it is now late April, a lot of folks are walking around flushed with their own money that the government kindly gave back to them — thank you, overlords! That is why I asked you what car you could conceivably buy with this year’s windfall. Many of you rushed to explain that “uh, actually, if you…

Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 23, 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, Elon Musk is talking…

Young, dumb, and completely incapable of driving mistake-free. We’ve all been there, some of us more recently than others, a new driver with a set of keys to ourselves for the first time. Whether you were 16 or 30 when you got behind the wheel for the first time, there’s no amount of preparation that…