This is going to sound more and more obvious the more I get into it, but you’re going to be hearing a lot of even dumber stuff about the mid-engine 2020 Corvette in the coming days and weeks. People will argue about its power. People will argue about its handling. But there’s only one thing that will make or break the…

A new dawn breaks. The world is as it was yesterday, and yet, not, for there is more Big Speed, and sideways action, bristling with electricity and noise. Here, now, take in the thundering wild of rally, Rally Estonia, Finnish driving, sideways driving, all wheels sliding with all-wheel drive.

For oh so many years, the V6 was simply the not-V8. It was a lesser. “V6 I never bought,” as Gucci bragged back in 2008. But the layout is having its moment in the sun these days, powering everything from F1 cars to an increasing count of supercars. Let’s hear how they sound.

If you thought this was painfully obvious, well, you would be extremely right, as one guy quickly found out with a BMW E36.

This is going to sound extremely alternate-universe for a second but in the midst of the 1970s, Americans bought more Oldsmobile Cutlasses than anything else, and more coupes than any other body style.

In the case that you thought anyone wasn’t taking the transition to EVs seriously, go ask Harald Krüger, out of the job as BMW CEO. All that and more on The Morning Shift for July 8, 2019.

The Icelandic Drift Championship ran on the Fourth of July back in 2015 and one very appropriate car rolled up to the line: a 1994 super-aero Pontiac Firebird. It ripped.

Keep it brilliant today.

Yoichi Imamura may be a familiar name to you. He was a champion in the early days of D1GP in Japan, and it was he who ran the Lexus LFA with a NASCAR V8. Now he’s running an even more sacrilegious exotic in the same series. This is a Ferrari 550 Maranello with a V6 out of a Nissan GT-R bursting out of the hood.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MARK, STOP SHOOTING THE LANCER.

War has begun, and it’s against “completely over-engined tank models,” as members of the German government put it. There’s war on the horizon, and it’s against SUVs. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, June 25, 2019.

Today we saw a moment of innovation, the likes of which had not been seen since some BMW engineers chopped up an M3 into a pickup, or maybe since people in the ‘70s put Rolls-Royce grilles on their Volkswagen Bugs. We got a Tesla pickup truck! There was only one problem: the name.

BMW doesn’t appear to want to even bother making a M version of the new front-wheel-drive/all-wheel-drive BMW 1 Series, as a new AutoExpress report claims.

This year’s Le Mans marked a Celica-filled win for Toyota overall. It was a historic back-to-back victory (one in which I lost $1 betting on Kobayashi to beat Alonso), but it was also one executed against no other factory-run race teams in the top prototype category. It was not always this way.

Please do check in on your 1993 Range Rover’s air suspension from time to time, and do try to keep that inside-mounted spare tire clean.

I would say that today is Tuesday, June 11, 2019, but it appears that if you’re a major automaker or automotive researcher, apparently it’s the mid 2000s. I guess everyone woke up this morning and realized that electric cars are a thing. Maybe they’d been napping! I don’t know. Let’s get into that and more in The…

The Audi E-Tron electric SUV is off to a great start with, wait, no, actually it is already getting a recall and it’s for potential battery fires. Nobody has been hurt with the roughly 540 cars sold in America thus far, and there have been no actual fires in the hands of customers, Audi says, but it’s not a good look.