Good morning! It’s Thursday, March 28, 2024, 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.
Reader, I missed you last week. Yes, you, specifically, the girl reading this. I was off gallivanting through Sweden, skidding cars across icy lakes, but my thoughts were back here with you. Were you missing these slides? Were you reading my excessively overthought Dune slides instead?
Happy Friday, friends. Has this week been as long for you as it has for me? Sometimes it just feels like every conceivable event is happening at the same time, always, forever. Life is just hectic like that.
Despite 2023 being a weird year for car sales with high interest rates, global shortages, shipping delays, and reduced inventory, Volkswagen and Toyota were locked in a tight race to deliver more cars than ever before. Both the German giant and the Japanese behemoth were aiming for the global sales crown, and 2023 saw…