Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 20, 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.
Whoever modded today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercury Sable wagon by incorporating features from a ’50 Ford should receive an award for audacity and kudos for the quality of the conversion. Let’s see if the price tag is equally admirable.
Around 13,000 UAW members went on strike against all of the Big Three automakers Friday, shutting down three plants in the Midwest. One of the first plants to go down is Ford Assembly in Wayne, Michigan, where Jalopnik spoke to strikers about their hopes for their historic collective action.
Ford just revealed the 2024 F-150, and while it’s not the most extensive mid-cycle refresh that we’ve ever seen, the new F-150 now includes the 2.7-liter turbocharged V6 as standard instead of the old 3.3-liter naturally aspirated V6. Plus there’s a fancy new tailgate with a little door built into it that Ford says…
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, September 13, 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.