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February 29 is a weird day. It comes around once every four years, bringing with it questions about if we should be paid extra for the day, if it’s good or bad luck to get engaged on the sacred day and guesses as to whether fancy watches…

Photo: Yamil Lage / AFP (Getty Images)The Cuban government has announced that it will be raising the country’s fuel prices by over 500 percent in February. Pump prices will spike from 25 Cuban pesos to 132 pesos per liter, according to…

Good morning! It’s Monday, December 11, 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.Walter Isaacson On Elon…

Photo: Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpres (Getty Images)If you’re a big oil company like Shell, you want to present a good face to the world. After all, you’ve got a bad rep — you want people to think you’re doing the right thing now, that you’re…

Everyone’s had a bad dealer experience. Maybe you showed up to see a car that was already sold, or you were blindsided by a massive dealer markup. Or, if you’re recent Kia buyer in Concord, New Hampshire, maybe you had a dealership tell…

A Chinese-backed nickel refinery has taken over a chunk of a major island in Indonesia, and is wreaking havoc on its ecosystem. In less than a single decade, the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) has released enough pollution…

Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP (Getty Images)A Texas man named Eric Dion Warren, 50, may have just discovered one of the wildest forms of non-traditional car financing you could imagine. He borrowed a BMW from a dealership to take it for a…