Amber DaSilva

2 weeks ago | jalopnik.com | Amber DaSilva

Friends, I have a problem. The other day I spied a dust-covered 1971 or 1972 El Camino SS sitting outside a local store, and I was enraptured by its siren song. It put a deep need to own a muscle ute in my very soul, which is where the real problem started: El Caminos on Facebook Marketplace are cheap. You can get one for less than the cost of my motorcycle, and it'll fit my bike in the back — it's maybe the platonic ideal of four-wheel transportation.

2 weeks ago | jalopnik.com | Amber DaSilva

Happy Monday! It's June 9, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. This is where you'll find the most important stories that are shaping the way Americans drive and get around. In this morning's edition, we're looking at the fallout of China's ban on rare-earth magnet exports and the United States' tax on vehicle imports.

2 weeks ago | jalopnik.com | Amber DaSilva

It's 82 degrees here in Brooklyn, which means it's summer regardless of what the calendar says. With hot weather come dreams of top-down cruising, the sun on your face and the wind in your hair, but there's a problem with that dream: Some cars on this earth aren't convertibles. I know, I know, it doesn't make much sense to me either, but automakers keep putting out these vehicles with "fixed rooves" like that's something anyone would want.

2 weeks ago | jalopnik.com | Amber DaSilva

Watching a cruise ship come together is incredibly cool, but having to actually go out and cruise on one is another story entirely. Every cruise ship is a small tourist-trap city, packed to the brim with the most entitled and sunburned people you'll ever have the misfortune of meeting. And now, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the cruise experience is only getting better: A number of popular cruise destinations are facing outbreaks of dengue fever.

3 weeks ago | jalopnik.com | Amber DaSilva

Ever since Backcountry Discovery Routes released the Southeast BDR route back in March, riders have awaited a full-length documentary film showing all 1,300 miles of the nonprofit's latest ride. Rather than the full-length video the group usually releases for a new route, the debut dealer tour showed an abbreviated doc — one that missed the last few sections of the route due to damage from Hurricane Helene.