A single-owner 2006 Ford GT with just 7.9 miles on the odometer hit Bring a Trailer and caused a late-stage, seven-figure bidding frenzy. The auction ended on Tuesday, and it went on for an extra two hours of overtime as the two main bidders refused to let up. After a total of 139 bids — 52 of which were made by the eventual winner — and about 1,700 comments later, the 20-year-old Ford supercar sold for $2,101,000.
For my 16th birthday, my parents signed me up for a day at Skip Barber's new driver school, which I did just a few months after getting my learner's permit. Beyond just being fun as hell, it immediately made me a better and safer driver. I took another, more in-depth course a few years later, which left me even more confident behind the wheel. Professional driving schools are something I recommend to everyone, whether the parent of a teen or an experienced driver, but beyond the road-focused courses there's a whole world of on-track schools too.
If you ever find yourself stuck behind pedestrian traffic on a Greek mountain road in a Ferrari Amalfi Spider, use the moment as an introspection checkpoint. Ask yourself things like "How deep is my capacity to feel?" and "How sharply honed are my emotional antennae?" Cruising behind a tired Seat Ibiza at 37 mph, you can drop the top, flip the manettino to Comfort, and use the Amalfi's cabin as a leather-laden barometer for your self-assessment. If the firm embrace of beautifully upholstered sport seats and the tactile precision of expertly milled switchgear aren't enough to set your dopamine receptors alight, you're probably not living fully in the moment.
Not as favored by collectors as the BMW 2002, nor with the large fan base of the E30-generation 3-series, the preceding E21-gen 320i is an overlooked classic.
This one is unusually well preserved, with an unbelievably low 9000 miles on the odometer.
It's a great enthusiast spec, with a four-speed manual, sport options, and a limited-slip differential.
BMW has produced all manner of special and collectible cars over the years, but the heart of the breed is not really about the M3 and M5 and 2002tii. Instead, it's about how a more ordinary sedan bearing that blue-and-white roundel can make everyday drives feel just a little more wonderful, turning the daily commute into something to be looked forward to. Of course, the problem with cars that are made to elevate daily drives is that they typically get driven. A lot.
Today in tire school, we'll start off by addressing some terms. First, what do we mean by the official tire pressure recommendation? It is not the numeral on the tire sidewall, because inflating to that number is a terrible idea. Usually, those sidewall digits refer to the maximum allowed pressure, and for normal use, you want to avoid that — but, as we'll explain later, normal doesn't mean all circumstances. Instead, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants you to look at your car's B pillar — the junction where the driver's door meets the back of the car – for a placard that lists the correct pounds-per-square inch (PSI).
Even the biggest global companies have an origin story. But few are as much of a testament to resilience as Honda's. At the end of 2019, the Honda Motor Co. celebrated its cumulative global production hitting a grand total of 400 million motorbikes. But rewind 80 years to the company's founding year — 1946 — and founder Soichiro Honda's reality looked very different.
The actual, government-enacted laws covering parking lots can be tricky enough. That's partly because the lots themselves are often on private property, and partly because traffic laws in general will vary from state to state. So it's only natural that the unspoken and unwritten laws can require some explaining as well.
SpaceX already owns xAI, which Elon Musk previously merged with Twitter, but why stop there? Why not squish all of Elon's companies together and have SpaceX swallow up Tesla, too? The rumor's been floating around for a while, but it seems Tesla's operations in China could get in the way of Elon's dream of his no-longer-a-car-company and his rocket/CSAM company joining together in unholy matrimony. According to the Wall Street Journal, though, Musk has a solution — just get rid of the China business.
Good morning! It's Friday, July 31, 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.
