http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png http://jalopnik.com http://jalopnik.com This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Jalopnik-5102150 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5102150&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday, we saw the 2010 BMW Z4 from the front 3/4. Now, thanks to a leaked catalog rendering, we can see it from the rear. Visible for the first time are its folding hardtop and shapely haunches.... Jalopnik-5102123 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5102123&view=rss&microfeed=true Our love of Friday Night Lights the television show exceeds our love of the book and movie. We appreciate the way it presents both the way we see Texas (ungodly attractive people fueled by... Jalopnik-5102108 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:30:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5102108&view=rss&microfeed=true Anybody with a set of XY chromosomes dreams of ditching everything after high school or college, and taking an RV with some buddies to travel around the country in a massive road trip adventure. Few... Jalopnik-5101933 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:15:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101933&view=rss&microfeed=true Concept cars, once used by designers to hint at the distant future, are now used mostly by carmakers to preview cars already designed. In order to generate more news coverage most companies... Jalopnik-5102088 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5102088&view=rss&microfeed=true The title of “Most Boring car in England” has historically been bestowed upon the Toyota Avensis. The 2009 Toyota Avensis, which goes on sale next year, looks no different and we'll tell you why. ... Jalopnik-5101254 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:30:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101254&view=rss&microfeed=true Ford's Thai press people apparently took the concept of a launch entirely too literally. Nevertheless, a propane-gas hybrid Escape gondola edition seems to make the perfect "caption this" shot.... Jalopnik-5102011 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:00 EST Andrew Didorosi http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5102011&view=rss&microfeed=true According to GrandPrix.com, Honda may be attempting to sell their F1 team before Christmas. If the sale does not take place before then the team could be dismantled. It's still 4:00 am in Japan so... Jalopnik-5101975 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:55:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101975&view=rss&microfeed=true Since Nissan unceremoniously removed itself from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show last month, we've wondered just how they planned to unveil the Nissan NV2500 concept scheduled to debut there. Now we know.... Jalopnik-5101963 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:30:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101963&view=rss&microfeed=true newVideoPlayer("/electricdrag_jalopnik.flv", 506, 323,""); In what may be the first ever drag race between production electric cars, the geeky Tango electric cruiser edged out the trendy Tesla... Jalopnik-5101766 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:30:00 EST Murilee Martin http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101766&view=rss&microfeed=true The Turbo Buick-powered Fauxborghini Diablo we saw yesterday looked pretty quick, but only 400 horsepower? The real thing came with more like 500 horses, so we had to find a Fauxborghini that could... Jalopnik-5101888 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101888&view=rss&microfeed=true A speeding truck rammed a woman’s sedan at over 100 MPH on a Texas freeway last Friday. Why? According to the Archangel Gabriel/ Michael E. Schwab, a resident of Blooming Grove, Texas, the woman "was... Jalopnik-5101931 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:52:53 EST The Auto Insider http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101931&view=rss&microfeed=true Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images News Jalopnik-5101878 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:30:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101878&view=rss&microfeed=true The reveal of the Volkswagen Scirocco Studie R, celebrating non-violent Italo-Germanic alliances, is a reminder Italian designers and companies have almost made more cars via alliance than through... Jalopnik-5101851 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101851&view=rss&microfeed=true The Booth Professionals and 42" Chrome Rims may have rolled home weeks ago, but the voting for the Mercedes SEMA has just ended. What über tuner swayed the most SEMA fans to their tuned hybrid? The... Jalopnik-5101800 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:30:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101800&view=rss&microfeed=true When you've got a supercharged, tubbed and roll-caged Holden Ute, burnouts, donuts and general hoonulence are inevitable, but this... this is hooning art. It seems you have to go to Australia for the... Jalopnik-5101870 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:15:00 EST Ray Wert http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101870&view=rss&microfeed=true newVideoPlayer("/WagonerVoltCapitol_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); We didn't have the video of Wagoner pulling up in the Chevy Volt mule dressed up in the skin of a Chevy Cruze earlier. Now we do. We... Jalopnik-5101341 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101341&view=rss&microfeed=true Realizing the Italian flag looks better on cars than the German flag, Volkswagen chose the Bologna Motor Show to launch the VW Scirocco Studie R. Essentially a hopped-up version of the standard car,... Jalopnik-5101852 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:45:00 EST Ray Wert http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101852&view=rss&microfeed=true GM CEO Rick Wagoner just showed up to Capitol Hill driving the Chevy Volt mule. No clue where the other CEOs are. We kind of hope the Chrysler Aspen hybrid carrying Bob "The Builder" Nardelli made... Jalopnik-5101291 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101291&view=rss&microfeed=true Zing Shen, 42, a citizen of the People's Republic of China, lost his arms in an industrial accident. But that didn't stop him from driving. It was the police who did that. Authorities arrested the... Jalopnik-5101724 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:00:00 EST Murilee Martin http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101724&view=rss&microfeed=true Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We've seen a few Alameda Cougars so far, including this... Jalopnik-5101793 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:40:00 EST Ray Wert http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101793&view=rss&microfeed=true The CEOs of the not-so-Big Three made it to DC for committee hearings beginning today at 10:00 AM. According to Bloomberg's sources, GM and Chrysler execs are considering a pre-arranged bankruptcy... Jalopnik-5101797 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:20:00 EST The Auto Insider http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101797&view=rss&microfeed=true There's General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, stepping from a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid last night at his hotel in Washington to the flashing bulbs of the paparazzi after driving from Detroit to testify at... Jalopnik-5101741 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:00 EST Murilee Martin http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101741&view=rss&microfeed=true What's a really cool used vehicle worth? Yesterday, 60% of you opined that 300 grand was too much for a beautiful Citroën DS21 Chapron Palm Beach, so today we're going with another much-beloved, yet... Jalopnik-5101609 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:00:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101609&view=rss&microfeed=true The lack of SEMA-worthy accessories holding you back from purchasing a Maserati? No longer. The automaker will now sell you a carbon fiber bodykit, lowered suspension, carbon mirror covers, a carbon... Jalopnik-5101636 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:40:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101636&view=rss&microfeed=true The song "Leaving On A Jet Plane" may have been made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary but it was actually written by high-like-the-Rockies John Denver while stuck in an airport waiting for his flight.... Jalopnik-5101229 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:20:00 EST Murilee Martin http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101229&view=rss&microfeed=true Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, the Warsaw Pact Hell Truck Projects ran just about neck and... Jalopnik-5101545 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101545&view=rss&microfeed=true The men of Jalopnik are proud of our love for big butts. We strongly prefer hatchbacks to their sedan counterparts; not only do they have more cargo room, but they’re more aerodynamic and better... Jalopnik-5101442 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:30:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101442&view=rss&microfeed=true newVideoPlayer("/Jones-Trucks.flv", 494, 371,""); As the story goes, Toby Jones is an enterprising young rapper who managed to buy a junked-out warehouse somewhere on the south side of Chicago for a... Jalopnik-5101558 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST Murilee Martin http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101558&view=rss&microfeed=true I was scoping BMWs at the Half Price Sale at a local self-service wrecking yard on Thanksgiving weekend, looking for a good long battery cable from a trunk-mounted-battery model (so's I could get the... Jalopnik-5100214 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:30:00 EST Andrew Didorosi http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5100214&view=rss&microfeed=true Our gratuitous burnout ripping the tires to shreds demonstrates this ROUSH F-150 burns petroleum-based rubber. However, this very special pickup doesn't fuel up with pedestrian dinosaur juices like... Jalopnik-5101481 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST Murilee Martin http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101481&view=rss&microfeed=true Just to show that not all Fauxborghinis are Fieroborghinis, we've got another tube-frame, turbo Buick V6-powered machine, from way up north in Alberta. The engine has a claimed 400 horses, feeding a... Jalopnik-5101490 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:20:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101490&view=rss&microfeed=true Following yesterday's hind end reveal of the Fisker Karma Tesla-killer, today we get a low-resolution peek at its nose ahead of an official reveal at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. Again we see the... Jalopnik-5101331 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:00:00 EST Ben Wojdyla http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101331&view=rss&microfeed=true Getting your favorite Ferrari F430 out of the ever-lovin' middle of nowhere in Kyrgyzstan certainly presents some challenges, but anonymous oligarchs cannot be denied their whims. The roads in this... Jalopnik-5101446 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:15:00 EST Ray Wert http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101446&view=rss&microfeed=true Jeff Gilbert with WWJ 950 AM had a chance to talk to UAW President Ron Gettelfinger just minutes ago after a meeting with UAW local heads on reexamination of their contracts (including nixing of the... Jalopnik-5101351 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101351&view=rss&microfeed=true The crew at Automobile's come up with ten cars lawmakers and pundits should keep in mind before letting the Carpocalypse consume the not-so-Big Three — and for once, it doesn't include the Ford... Jalopnik-5101414 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:17:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101414&view=rss&microfeed=true The 2010 Honda Insight has been revealed in production form today with only a few differences like normal tires and the front fascia losing some of the high-cost chrome the Insight was sporting in... Jalopnik-5100961 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST Andrew Didorosi http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5100961&view=rss&microfeed=true newVideoPlayer("/cheesecheesecheese.flv", 576, 336,""); Washington truckers and dairy farmers have come together to attempt to boost winter safety numbers by creating a cheesy concoction combining... Jalopnik-5101376 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:30:00 EST Matt Hardigree http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101376&view=rss&microfeed=true Even when gas is cheap bad things always happen at gas stations. Perhaps it's because they have surveillance cameras, but not a week goes by without a story involving a gas station and the phrase... Jalopnik-5101368 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:15:00 EST Wes Siler http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101368&view=rss&microfeed=true Here is the first picture of the 2010 BMW Z4 hard-top convertible completely uncovered. It was spotted by a forum user over at Zpost.com while being used in a scene for Michael Douglas’s upcoming...