F-150 Production Halted, Ford Temporarily Lays Off 9,700 Workers
Welcome to a new week! It’s Monday, February 5, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one …
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VinFast Has Accepted Its Fate, Offers The Cheapest Lease In America
VinFast, a small automaker from Vietnam, faces an uphill battle to establish a foothold in the American car market. An unknown name with less-than-stellar product reviews and a reputation for …
Tesla reveals target date for new electric vehicle launch
Tesla is targeting 2025 for the launch of a mass-market compact crossover, with speculation growing that it could be the automaker’s best-priced vehicle yet. Following Wednesday’s publication of a Reuters …
Ford Dials Back F-150 Lightning Production To Scale Up Bronco And Ranger
Happy Friday! It’s January 19, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here …
Tesla Buyers Are Much More Likely To Crash, And The Repairs Are More Expensive
If you’ve never driven a Tesla before, it’s something of an immediately alien experience. The tip-in acceleration isn’t like any gasoline-powered car on the market, because it doesn’t need to …
BMW Is Edging In On Tesla’s Creepy Robot Game
Happy Thursday! It’s January 18, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here …
VinFast, Maker Of A Bad Crossover, Wants To Make A Pickup Truck
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz/Jalopnik VinFast is, by all accounts, not a particularly serious automaker. Sure, many of its cars are genuinely nice-looking machines, but that curb appeal starts to wear off …
VinFast Will Try And Sell Its Tiny VF3 SUV In The U.S. With 125-Mile Range For Under $20,000
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday embattled Vietnamese car company VinFast brought the Jabbawockeez dance crew onstage to unveil its new pickup truck, the Wild. While …
VinFast’s Plans For 2024 Involve Everything But Making Good Cars
Photo: VinFast The VinFast VF8 is a bad car, and with a base price of nearly $50,000, you can’t even make the argument that it doesn’t need to be fancy …
VinFast Reportedly Called The Cops On Another Critic And Got Him Arrested
Photo: VinFast VinFast has a problem. The VF8 isn’t very good. In fact, it’s quite bad. That’s made it hard to convince actual people to buy its cars. If you …