Expensive trade wars, who the shorts REALLY want to win, and burning BMWs. This is the Morning Shift for October 23, 2018. President Donald Trump started a trade war with China and seemingly the rest of the world, and he began the war by hiking up tariffs on steel and aluminum. While the intended purpose was to “bring steel back” or somesuch, the market forces at work are vastly greater than any mere tariffs that can be thrown at such a globalized commodity.

Ashish Kulkarni, 36, still remembers. In 2006, newly-married and in his first job, he bought his first car — a Hyundai Santro. It was a step-up. “We both love driving. We were excited,” he says, referring to his wife Swathi. The Santro made their daily commute comfortable in Bengaluru. In 2018, some things have changed and some remain the same. He is older and richer, father of two children and remains passionate about driving.

Hey, it's the future. We're supposed to have flying cars, right? Well, here's your flying car, sort of and again. It's slated to go on sale in 2019. It's called the BlackFly and the company manufacturing it, Opener, is backed at least partially by Alphabet's Larry Page, who's been rumored to have been tinkering with such craft for a while, working with a few partners. Alan Eustace, who's been on Big Think, is an Opener technical advisor.

Ford has decided not to bring the Raptor variant of the new Ranger pickup to the United States. Hermann Salenbauch, who is the new vehicle line director for Ford Performance, spoke to journalists about Ford Performance today in Las Vegas. Among the topics that came up was the Ford Ranger Raptor, and he had bad news for American fans of the off road Ranger: despite America’s love of Raptor pickups, Ford has no plans to bring it to the United States.

Topline: Audi will bring just 10 of the special-edition R8 V10 Plus Coupe with the Competition Package to the United States. What's New: Every one of the 10 cars bears identical Suzuka Grey paint with the black exterior detail package, which trims the grille and vents with black outlines. Leather adorns the interior, where bucket seats with red stitching cup the driver in place, and a 13-speaker, 550-watt Bang & Olufsen stereo system does its best to drown out the R8's 5.2-liter V-10, which is nearly identical to the one found in the Lamborghini Huracan.

This 1988 Ford Mustang LX began life as a Special Service Package coupe that was reportedly used by the California Highway Patrol from 1988 until 1994. Extensive modifications have been added by the seller, Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire, since his acquisition in 2014. Wide-body fenders were installed along with a Saleen lower front air dam, and a repaint was also performed in the current shade of black.

I'm guessing you are scoffing in disbelief at the very suggestion of this article, but bear with me. A growing number of tech analysts are predicting that in less than 20 years we'll all have stopped owning cars, and, what's more, the internal combustion engine will have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Yes, it's a big claim and you are right to be sceptical, but the argument that a unique convergence of new technology is poised to revolutionise personal transportation is more persuasive than you might think.

Since March, when an autonomous vehicle killed a pedestrian in Arizona, forecasts for AVs have been decidedly less optimistic. But autonomous vehicle promoters are undeterred. AI entrepreneur Andrew Ng contends that self-driving cars will be safe for pedestrians when walkers and cyclists conform to their limitations. “What we tell people is, ‘Please be lawful and please be considerate,’” he told Bloomberg.

Mazda pledged that its next generation of petrol-engine vehicles will be cleaner than electric cars due to the use of efficiency-boosting compression ignition technology - and it'll boost that promise in 2021, when a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) drivetrain will join the range.

Nissan is recalling roughly 166,000 vehicles due to an ignition switch issue that could cause the vehicle’s engine to shut off while driving. The automaker said 153,000 of the recalled units are in the United States, with another 13,000 in Canada.

The 1965 Pontiac GTO Chief Camino is a one-off vehicle that should almost certainly have been built and offered for sale by Pontiac in the mid-1960s. It never was, but this is probably due to the fact that there’s no indication Pontiac even considered building it. The car you see here wasn’t built by them, it was built as a prototype by a man named Ron in his garage over a period of 10 years – using an original Pontiac GTO as the starting point.

Kawasaki Jammu: J&K's First Superbikes Showroom Kawasaki Jammu is the very first superbike's showroom in the state of J&K. Kawasaki Jammu was started by S.S Randhawa on 10th of May. When it comes to Kawasaki bikes nobody

Autonomous vehicles are no longer the stuff of science fiction, and so the chances of them occasionally failing and crashing are very much real—and so are the liabilities. Who will pay? Who will get sued? What causes of action will be alleged?

Remember Face Swap? Y’know, the 2016 app that had every man, woman and dog in the land swapping faces for Whatsapp group chat lols? Well, this is what happens when cars get in on the act.Recently, those crazy cats at Liberty Walk took a tiny Daihatsu Copen and, with the magic of determination and an angle grinder, managed to graft a squished Nissan GT-R’s face and backside onto it.

Its now official, the 2019 Porsche Taycan will get a 600hp electric motor with 500km range.

The Microlino, a front-loading super compact vehicle from Swiss mobility company Micro, has just been approved for European streets. The mini electric vehicle is smaller than a Smart Car, and comes with a rechargeable battery that works with any standard European electricity outlet. The automobile i

I hear you engineers out there, yelling about how automatics are faster and better at shifting than us mortals. But, as we’ve explained time and time again, they don’t make driving much fun. Thankfully, BMW says that it will keep putting manuals in its cars. As long as we buy them, of course.

The legendary automotive executive died following severe complications from surgery three weeks ago, the Agnelli family, which founded Fiat, confirmed Wednesday.

They rumble. They roar. And when a heel stamps on the gas pedal, they overtake. Weeks after the government lifted its longstanding female-driving ban, Saudi women are embracing not only driving, but driving fast, and loudly. “They don’t expect to see me in this car,” said Samia Weheba, 23 years old, as she zipped past...

Even though the next-generation GT-R sounds like it's still a ways away, one Nissan exec is already talking up the R36's supposed capabilities. Speaking to Autocar at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Nissan's Senior Vice President of Global Design, Alfonso Albaisa, says the company's upcoming Godzilla replacement will be nothing short of a game-changer, going as far as saying it must be "the fastest super sports car in the world." Big claims for a car that hasn't even found a powertrain style, apparently.