If Toyota made something clear among the myriad concepts it brought to this year’s Japan Mobility Show, it’s that the company wants to meet people where they are. Take the futuristic, new Corolla concept, for example. It might look like an electric vehicle, but Toyota is confident it can also achieve its silhouette and expansive

Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short. Light, tight, and right TDS gathers the latest automotive news bubbling around the globe and places it in one spot. Stories are summarized in a single, sometime long, sentence accompanied by a link for those seeking more information. It’s almost dinner time here in

You ought to know by now that Ram only does trucks. Well, it also does vans. And soon, it will add an SUV to the lineup, as Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa announced to a room of Wall Street analysts on Thursday morning. This was first reported by Automotive News, which quoted Filosa as saying that

I’ve heard some pretty tall tales about how much car guys have spent on their prized possessions. Depending on the setting, I often don’t believe them. It’s nothing personal—I just have serious doubts when every upgrade has some dramatic backstory. If you’re telling me you have six figures worth of mods on your dyno-verified, 1,000-horsepower

If you’re looking for a clean and classy watch from a solid brand for under $200, this Citizen Eco-Drive Weekender Avion is a great deal during this random Amazon sale. It’s less than half price at $168.74 right now, and there are a few other attractive options on discount, too. A couple of weeks ago,

There’s a pretty neat batch of Nissans at the SEMA tuner show this year. Besides the V8 manual Xterra that Nismo Nick built, the company internally is presenting a cool desert-running Armada SUV, a sweet Saudi-style old-school Patrol, and this delightfully silly “Frontier Rapid Runner” with a river kayaking theme and splashy graphic set. I

Earlier this year, we caught wind of a rumor that Infiniti had plans to get back into the sedan game with a new “Q70S” model packing rear-wheel drive, a powerful engine, and a manual transmission. Guess what? It’s true—well, mostly; Infiniti is not inclined to confirm the model name just yet—and we’ll see it here

We’ve seen our share of off-the-wall concept car ideas, but a six-wheeled minivan from Lexus, of all automakers? Yep, that’s a new one—and with its flagship “LS” nameplate, no less. It’s not quite such a crazy notion in Japan, where vans are held in higher esteem than they are in the United States, but it’s

The West woke up Wednesday to news of a Lexus LS comeback that was announced at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show. However, it’s no longer the flagship sedan we all know and love. Instead, Lexus assigned that name to a weird six-wheeled van concept and a crossover it calls a “coupe.” That just doesn’t feel

Nick Scherr, aka “NISMO Nick,” has finally revealed the one-off modern-day Nissan Xterra he’s been working on for over a year, and it’s pretty cool. Essentially a mash-up of an old Xterra with a modern Frontier and recent Titan, it’s got a V8, manual transmission, and a lot of personality. Scherr has been sharing updates