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Ford Receives $9.2B Government Loan for EV Battery Production
Good morning! It’s Thursday, June 22, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Adventure Bike Reaches 1M Units Made
Back in 1980, BMW’s engineers had an idea. What if they built a bike that could handle rough off-road terrain just as well as long highway stretches and twisty back roads — to their eyes, a sort of two-wheeled Land Rover? That bike was the R80 G/S, its Gelände/Straße name referring to both the overland and street…
Top 10 Ugliest BMW Cars Ever
BMW. These days, it’s regularly inflaming extremely online car fans with new design after new design, which pretty much seems to be the goal. But with every other recent model being hoisted up as the worst looking of them all, it gets kind of hard to keep track. So today we’ve assembled a list of the Bimmers you think…
Lexus GT3 Sports Car: Three Years to Launch
Toyota really wants to build a kickass GT3 race car that will spawn a production counterpart. However, we’ve heard little about the effort in the year-plus since its announcement. No news isn’t always good in this business, and sometimes plans change. Perhaps Toyota shelved the road car; it’s not like it doesn’t have…
