The Ten Worst Automaker Websites
These automakers don't inspire a great first impression on websites alone, since so many of these feature dated website UI and design features.
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The Ten Dumbest Automotive Design Mistakes
These engineering decisions and design flops ranged from inconvenient to downright dangerous, causing a plethora of problems for drivers on the road.
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Ten Car Repairs Better Left To Professionals
There are almost no repair jobs a gearhead with the right tools and instructions can't do in his or her own garage. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for those ten repairs best left to the pros.
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COTD: Broadcast News Edition
Anniversaries of one sort or another are a constant thing, but giving another nod to something good never hurts: 2012 marks twenty-five years since the release of Broadcast News, James L. Brooks's deadly takedown of big television media. If you haven't see it, you must; you'll never miss the subtleties of a news show again.
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Audi RS Q3 Concept: A Little Trouble In Big China
Audi's managed to make their small Tiguan-based Audi Q3 luxury crossover interesting with this RS-prepped concept it plans to show at the upcoming Beijing Motor Show. A tiny Quattro 360-hp car is so strange it makes perfect sense.
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What Car Repair Is Best Left To Professionals?
Working on one's own car is a point of pride for many owners. Doing-it-yourself is both rewarding and a way to prevent someone else from mucking things up. Inevitably — for even the most hardcore gearheads — there are certain tasks best left to people wearing ASE badges on their sleeves. What repair or maintenance tasks are best handled by trained professional mechanics?
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The Ten Worst Special Edition Ford Mustangs
The Ford Mustang has been an essential part of the automotive world for forty-eight years. Not every one of those ponycars was exactly a classic, though. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten worst Mustang special editions or trims.
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COTD: Porsche 911 Rear Window Edition
Some people gripe about how the 911 has stayed true to form for the better part of half a century. Personally, I'm very okay with that slow evolution. Let's go further: I think it's wonderful. In a world of passing fads, this kind of organic change is something to be celebrated.
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What's The Worst Special Edition Ford Mustang?
With today being the 48th birthday of the Ford Mustang — or at least, the anniversary of the production car being shown at the 1964 World's Fair — it seems reasonable to take a look back. While most will focus on the good, it's also important to learn from an automaker's past mistakes. While the original ponycar is a recognized classic, over a long and varied lifespan it's had its fair share of less-than-classic special editions. With recent talk of the next Mustang, let's give Ford a reminder
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The Ten Best Used Cars To Buy With Your Tax Refund
The average US tax refund in 2012 will come in at $2899. That's enough to score a set of wheels that will stave off the emotional death of carlessness. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best cars to nab with that refund check.
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COTD: Decisions, Decisions Edition
An automobile is a consumer item. Inevitably, it comes with a price tag of some sort. An automobile is also the culmination of one person's desires and situation and necessities and character, and who knows what all else. It is peculiarly wonderful in that way, being both a mass-market item and a totem of individuality and opinion.
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What Car Would You Buy If You Received The Average Annual Tax Refund?
Tomorrow is Tax Day. This year's average tax refund is $2899 — approximately what most people use for a down payment on a new vehicle. But that doesn't make sense, especially when there's still so many great used cars out there. Assuming you received the average tax refund — and you didn't have anything else to spend your refund on — what's the best vehicle you can buy?
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Top Ten Warning Signs A Used Car's A Terrible Deal
Buying a used car can be the best financial decision you've ever made or one of the worst, depending on the car's condition. Here are Jalopnik readers' choices for the ten biggest used-car warning signs.
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COTD: Volvo 240 Edition
Enough with the Koenigseggs. Yes, they're fantastic creations, all monster power and scarcely believable speed and Spaceboy Stan styling. But for most of us, life as a gearhead is about something else entirely. It's about what's real, what's good, what makes cars matter to us.
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What's The Biggest Used Car Warning Sign?
A new car is not for everyone. It may be a matter of taste or circumstance, but sometimes a trip to the used lot or through Craigslist-land is necessary. A preowned ride naturally deserves serious purchaser diligence and concern, but some things stand out as causes for concern. What's the scariest warning sign for a used-car shopper?
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COTD: NYIAS Edition
So the pros pack up their laptops and cameras and drift off, and the general public gets its shot at the New York International Auto Show starting tomorrow. For two weeks a year, the place where a car is officially Not Necessary gets its turn as a gearhead hotspot.
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Ten Best Cars That No One Remembers
Everyone knows about Alfas and BMWs and Corvettes, of course. Then there's those machines that just never really took their rightful place in the collective enthusiast memory. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best cars that are undeservedly underrecognized.
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COTD: Seven-Spoke Wheels Edition
When the Miata was introduced back in 1989, one of the details that got some notice was the Minilite-style wheel design that had seven spokes instead of the traditional eight. The running claim (inside joke?) at the time was that it was a weight-saving measure. Probably not, really, but at least slightly plausible.
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2013 Mercedes GL: As Big As A German Castle
Need to tow a horse trailer or vintage racer or a fair-sized boat? Think a Suburban is utterly déclassé? Mercedes has you covered, good sir! The refreshed 2013 GL-Class supersized SUV bowed today, offering exactly zero surprises and likely causing ripples of civilized excitement among upper middle class and lower upper class households.
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What's The Best Car No One Remembers?
Some cars are justly heralded and recognized by all. Some are at best known only by a cult of true believers. What's the best car that has slipped through the cracks of the broad enthusiast mindset?
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What's The Dumbest Car Design Mistake?
Automobiles are designed by well-trained engineers and tested methodically. Every once in a while, though, some completely ridiculous flaw slips through and makes drivers miserable. What's the stupidest design glitch that ever got through a development process?
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Ten Tiny Cars With Big Engines
Big powerful engines are great. Big powerful engines in small light cars are much, much better. Why fight inertia when you don't have it in the first place? These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the most motor in the least car.
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COTD: Times Of Rejoicing Edition
For two of the three great Abrahamic religions, these are celebratory days. The children of David will observe Passover starting Friday, and the followers of Yeshua of Nazareth are looking forward to Easter this coming Sunday.
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What's The Least Car With The Most Horsepower?
Big monster powerful engines usually end up in big monster heavy cars, but there are gleefully loony exceptions to that rule. Sometimes someone sees fit to cram a beastly motor into just enough car to hold the works together. What's the best combination of a tiny car and a big engine?
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The Ten Most Socially Offensive Cars
Not everyone wants to — or can — fit into the social order. Sometimes those outcasts drive obnoxious monsters. Sometimes they drive heroic statements that stand outside normal boundaries. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten most blatant and occasionally fantastic violations of proper manners on wheels.
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COTD: Wine And Cheese Edition
Certain things in life are made for each other. You have the essential match of wine and cheese. You have your peanut butter and jelly; you have your peanut butter and chocolate. Words and guitar, Bogey and Bacall, Senna and Monaco: harmony is a wonderful thing.
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Watch 'Lamborghini Batman' Get Pulled Over On The Way To The Hospital
By now you're familiar with the story of Lenny Robinson, the 'Lamborhini Batman' who spends his free time making the day of sick kids in DC-area hospitals. The man is so nice, he's even nice to the Montgomery county cops who pull over his Gallardo as he was dressed like Batman.
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