Ford Slashes F-150 Lightning Price To Reignite Sales
Good morning! It’s Friday, April 12, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
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People Want EVs They Can Actually Afford, Not Massive Expensive Pickups
Two facts about the automotive world are immutable: Americans love pickup trucks, and the future requires drastic reductions in the environmental harm caused by passenger cars. Automakers, seeing these two …
The 2024 Ford Ranger Raptor Is Exactly What You Want It To Be
Two, maybe three times in the lead up to driving the new Ford Ranger Raptor, I heard it compared to a rally car. This something that car companies have been increasingly …
Ford Explorer Sport Trac Was An ‘SUV’ With Soul Of A Work Truck
The Ford Explorer Sport Trac is possibly one of the most forgettable vehicles that Ford has ever made. The Sport Trac was only around for two generations, and there was …
At $3,500, Is This 2002 Ford F-150 A Darkly Good Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice F-150 looks like it’s straight out of a Mad Max movie and is claimed in its ad to have “unique performance and needs.” Let’s …
2001 Ford F-150 Opened The Floodgates For Double Cab Trucks
The Ford F-150 was the best-selling vehicle in America last year and the year before that. And the year before that. You’d have to go back decades to find a …
What Car’s Design Has Aged The Worst?
Has this design aged like a fine wine or three-day-old smoothie? Photo: Ford Just this week, it was announced that a road-going version of the stunning Jaguar CX-75 had finally …
A Tesla Cybertruck On Treads Is Unfortunately Very Cool
Anyone with eyes who has looked at the Cybertruck (and isn’t an Elon Musk bootlicker) probably has come to the same conclusion I have: This thing is butt ugly and looks …
Don’t Expect To See The Ford Bronco EV Or Maverick EV Until The 2030s: Report
Image: Ford Ford’s struggles with the EV side of its automobile business — which the company calls Model e — is no secret. Even though it still has big EV …
The Pickup Truck No One Needs But Everyone Wants
There’s a particular genre of auto enthusiast that absolutely despises the luxury pickup truck. They’re going to tell you that trucks are for work, that no one actually needs a …