How To Deep Fry A Turkey With An Engine Hoist
Fried turkey, the official food of Thanksgiving hoons, only gets better when prepared with an engine hoist. Here’s Mike Bumbeck’s holiday classic on how to dunk your bird in boiling oil properly. — Ed.
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Lincoln Monster Truck-Amino-Limo Wants To Haul Your Assets
When I retire at 80, and take over some family land outside of Branson, I'm going to open a museum dedicated to American consumer innovation. It'll have fill-your-own Combos machines, a video tribute to Billy Mays and this Lincoln monster truck-amino limo, with nothing but Lee Greenwood on the stereo.
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How AutoTrader Uses Hot Girls To Sell Cars
There's never been an appreciable audience for online video reviews of appliance cars. That hasn't stopped AutoTrader from making dozens of drowsy vids spiked with enough hot actresses and models to fill a Hummer limo. Because when the cars are boring, people will still check out the pretty faces, right? Right? Here's a look at the girls of AutoTrader.
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How Fisker Got $500 Million In Government Loans For A Fuel Economy Flop
When Fisker Automotive won heaps of praise from Vice President Joe Biden and a $529 million loan from the U.S. government, officials touted the Karma luxury sedan as getting up to 100 miles a gallon, going 50 miles on a full battery charge and offering "supercar" performance. None of those targets were met — but Fisker's moving ahead, your tax dollars in hand.
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COTD: A Trip Through Dirk Pitt's Garage Edition
Author Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series doesn't just draw from Cussler's own imagination, but also his garage — a sprawling antique car collection that includes such notables as the ever-lustful Cadillac V-16. MaxxCravesTheOldGizmodo will never earn enough to buy even a Caddy V-16 badge off his Jalopnik comments, but this one about Russian truck racing is still worth remembering:
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COTD: Hanging It Up Edition
I promise that after today, our comments of the day for the rest of the week will be as un-serious as possible, but for today the best conversations still involved Dan Wheldon, including Armchair Racer's reaction to The Booth Babe's post on life as a racer's spouse.
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Fisker Finally Gets EPA Approval, Sells First Karma
After years of delay, Fisker Auto has cleared one final hurdle with the achievement of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions approval, and the first cash for a Fisker Karma has traded hands. How much gas those wealthy Karma buyers will save is still a mystery, but not for much longer. UPDATE Mystery over.
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The Post Wherein Hyde Says CUL8R To Jalopnik
After 14 months and a couple thousand posts, this is my last week at Jalopnik. Hand over your yearbooks for a minute, and I promise to keep my pen drawings safe for work.
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COTD: The Downside Of The Uphill Climb Edition
Seeing a twin-turbo sand rail turn into a human rock tumbler on the side of a dune can trigger some doubts about why people go racing at all. If so, Menacho_ can restore that faith in this comment on Lotus' foray into karting:
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Awesomest Craigslist Ad Ever For Used Skyline Spits Awesomeness
Every so often, from deep within the bowels of Craiglist's car ads emerges a pitch written above a grade-school level. This one from Vancouver for a 1990 Nissan Skyline embraces the awesome potential of the drift day special it's hawking. We. Approve.
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Walmart Ships Free Forza 4 Copies After Whiffing Limited Edition
There are two ways to let customers who have ordered a limited-edition version of Forza 4 know that you can't deliver it. One is to apologize and try to keep as much of their money as possible as Best Buy did. The other is to make them happy with a free copy of the game, like Walmart is doing.
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Lawyers Plot Lawsuit Over BMW Nav System That Skips Their House
Normally the travails of two lawyers with a minor defect in their BMW 1-Series wouldn't be enough to even lift our fingers from the Xbox controlers, but when you're threatening lawsuits because your navigation system doesn't show your house, it's time to press pause.
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UAW Workers Balk At Ford, Obama Exports From Detroit And Toyota Comes Back To LeMans
This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
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COTD: Drifting The Hillclimb Edition
Norwegian drifting champ Kenneth "Fastkenny" Moen has quite the following in Europe and stateside for his handling skills, which is what makes the combo of a drift and hillclimb so appealing. A mountain is about the only thing missing from Alan Wilzig's personal track, one Jstas could easily imagine as his home drift center:
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COTD: The Farmer And The Cowman Should Be Friends Edition
Thousands of Americans who danced on stage to this song in high school stagenasiumaterias may suffer a momentary reverie/seizure at hearing this melody and the messages it carries about comity with neighbors, grammar and horticulture versus animal husbandry. In much the same vein of bridging what divide us, WarShrike put on his own Rogers and Hammerstein version of why the cyclist and the driver should stick together:
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Accused Saudi Assassin Was Dumbass Texas Used-Car Dealer
The U.S. government revealed Tuesday it had stopped a plot by an Iranian agent to assassinate Saudi Arabia's U.S. ambassador. The suspected mastermind? A failed Texas used-car dealer who dubbed his mission "Chevrolet."
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GM Apologizes For Saying Bikes Suck
Bicycling enthusiasts across the country started shouting at General Motors on Monday over this ad in several college newspapers pitching GM discounts as a way to avoid the suckitude of biking places. Within hours, GM apologized and promised changes. Here's why it's so sensitive.
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Meet The First Woman Engineer To Win Le Mans
Audi's win over Peugeot in this year's 24 Hours of LeMans wasn't just another brick in Audi's wall of dominance in endurance racing. It was also the first time a LeMans-winning team has been headed by a woman.
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COTD: Slamming Your '61 Suburban Edition
For the past decade, the Chrome Czars car club of Chicago has held an annual show dubbed "The Hunnert Car Pile-up" to appreciate street-driven hot rods, like this slammed 1961 Suburban. This year's show was the last, not for lack of participation and apparent success at getting people interested in home-built rods. Mazarin argued in today's comment that boosting Nascar would require something else to disappear — Darrell Waltrip's signature catchphrase:
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Watch A Nascar Legend Freak Out In An Australian Supercar
Darrell Waltrip won Nascar's Winston Cup three times and stands fourth in race wins among all Nascar drivers. Yet it only took half a lap in an Australian supercar around Mount Panorama to unleash his inner Snagglepuss. NOT THE CORKSCREW!
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COTD: Don't Feed Them After Midnight Edition
Matt Jordan's exploration of how many ways his teenage self attempted self-murder through hooning spurred many great comments, including this one from Jude Butler about one man's respect for the AMC Gremlin:
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How I Survived Being A Stupid Teen-Age Driver
Not that long ago, American teen-agers were handed the keys to two tons of trouble and loosed upon on the roads. This is one man's story about the fun he had not getting killed despite himself. — Ed.
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Japan's Automakers Get Edgy, Nardelli Walks Back And DC Cuffs Drivers
This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
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Original K.I.T.T. From "Knight Rider" Goes Up For Auction
If you're a child of the early '80s, there are two cars that sprung from the cathode TV sets and permanently lodged in your little brain. One was the General Lee, and the other was K.I.T.T. — which can now be yours for the right price.
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Racer Pulls Competitor From Burning Wreck On Track
Earlier this week, we ran a piece asking whether safety at local race tracks and drag strips was up to snuff. One thing many tracks lack: a heroic driver willing to risk himself freeing a competitor trapped in burning wreckage.
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Volkswagen Recalls 170,000 Diesels For Mysterious Fuel Defect
Volkswagen said today it would recall nearly 170,000 diesel-powered Golfs, Jettas and Audi A3 to fix a fuel line that could leak. What makes it more interesting is just how hard VW had to work to find the defect.
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An Electric Racer That Goes Like The Devil
Many people equate electric vehicles with glorified golf carts, and I've long considered it a professional duty to prove them wrong. It's rather addicting, especially when it means driving something like the Yokohama HER-02 EV Sports Concept. Holy hell, this little rocket goes like the devil.
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