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    2009 Mercedes McLaren SLR Stirling Moss

    The most exciting car to debut at the Detroit Auto Show this January could well be the 2009 Mercedes McLaren SLR Stirling Moss. Hit the jump to see this beast in our gallery below.

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    Dodge Sidewinder Concept

    The Dodge Sidewinder Concept was built for the ’97 Sema show to explore the design language for the next-gen Dakota pickup truck and featured a 604bhp Viper GTS-R race motor under its bright orange clamshell hood. If you squint your eyes, you can almost see the Chevy SSR in its design, a similarity we’re sure isn’t purely coincidental though the Dodge was a real sport truck contender.

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    1978 Dodge D150 Power Wagon

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today's Truck Monday with a 1978 Dodge Power Wagon pickup.

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    1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a type of car I've been hunting for since this series began, a machine so 80s it's like Ollie North in pink leg warmers: the Dodge Daytona Turbo Z! We've seen some members of the extended Chrysler K Family (such as this Aries and this Reliant), but now it's time to see one of the sporty Ks (technically a G, but close enough).

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    Top 11 Jalopnik Reviews Of 2008

    We wrote 159 reviews during 2008. While culling the best for this list of the top 11, one thing became abundantly clear: America is making good cars again.

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    2009 ROUSH Mustang Blackjack: First Drive

    Driving the 2010 Ford Mustang GT, we discovered it was basically a tuner version of the old model. So how does the latest ROUSH Mustang Blackjack stack up to the factory version? Let's find out.

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    2010 Ford Fusion: First Drive

    According to Congress, Detroit doesn't know how to build cars that the majority of people want to drive. The 2010 Ford Fusion comprehensively proves that it can.

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    2010 Ford Mustang: First Drive

    The 2010 Ford Mustang is, more or less, the sum of its parts. Luckily those parts are much better than you think. Especially the GT's optional track pack.

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    2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid: First Drive

    By now, you've probably read about our journalist-leading, Camry Hybrid-beating 43.8 MPG fuel economy figure for the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. The thing is, you won't be able to replicate our lofty number.

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    MINI E: First Drive

    I first drove the new all-electric MINI E at the LA Auto Show, but didn't have much time with it. That all changed when I spent time behind the wheel here in New York.

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    STaSIS Signature Series Audi S5 Challenge Edition: First Drive

    The last time I blew past the limits of my driving ability in a big howling V8 and hooned into a turn way too fast, I was at Altamont Speedway and I spun out in a most dramatic fashion. Now I'm in a car worth 110 times as much, leadfooting it down the hill at Infineon, right at the Chute, and I'm totally into that mighty V8 scream, and… oh shit! Brake! BRAAAAKE! And damn if the brakes on this thing don't get the job done. This experience pretty much sums up what the STaSIS S5 Challenge is all ab

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    ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive

    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 gas or diesel. Instead, it's powered fully by propane, the same thing powering a backyard grill.

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    Charles Barkley Nabbed For DUI

    Charles Barkley, former basketball star and future Governor of Alabama, was arrested on suspicion of DUI after running a stop sign in Gilbert, Arenas Arizona.

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    1919 Ford Model T Touring

    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're going to end 2008 with the oldest DOTS car yet.

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    Commenter Of The Day: The Hampster Dance Edition

    Those who came to the Internet after 2001 may not realize "The Hampster Dance" was once a fad and therefore not grasp the sensitivity an entire generation of people who once possessed Geocities accounts and Gateway computers have to the sped up version of "White Stop" from Walt Disney's Robin Hood. But there it is. A tribute to how easily amused we all are. The site was designed as part of a competition between Deidre LeCarte and others to create the most-trafficked website. Deidre, obviously, d

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    The Ford Taurus SHO Is Back!

    These exclusive first shots of a SHO-badged dashboard in testing outside an unknown location are the first piece of evidence portending the reawakening of the Ford Taurus SHO with the 2010 Ford Taurus.

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    New BMW Z4 Marks End For 6-Cylinder M3 Engine

    It’s time to say goodbye to one of the smoothest, most driver-friendly engines of all time: the E46 M3’s 3.2-liter straight-six. We’re paying our respects Jalopnik-style with a mega-gallery of straight-sex.

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    An Ode To Pickup Trucks In A Post-SUV World

    Despite lower gas prices in November, demand for SUVs has faded while sales of pickup trucks have rebounded strongly. Somehow, the spike in gas prices didn’t make pickup trucks uncool. Why? Utility.

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    2010 Ford Taurus

    The 2010 Ford Taurus has been spotted around town wearing next-to-no camo. We've pulled the sheet entirely off with these exclusive renderings from KORSdesign of the new Taurus to be unveiled officially in Detroit.

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    Commenter Of The Day: Ernie Hudson Edition

    Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Ernie Hudson has had an interesting career. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Hudson became the resident playwright at Concept East in Detroit. While at Wayne State University Hudson formed the Actors' Ensemble Theatre where black writers and actors were able to workshop and produce their plays. He later studied and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. Despite his extensive stage training, he's best known for his tv work on the HBO show Oz and film work

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    1981 Datsun 810, Aka 1981 Nissan Maxima

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today we've got Exhibit A in the Datsun/Nissan Rebranding Story.

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    Commenter Of The Day: Anne Heche Is Crazy Edition

    Anne Heche has admitted to a fractured past which contributed to psychological issues including multiple personality disorder. She claims an alien and/or a reincarnation of God named Celestia would speak through her, but in a different language. She was gay but then, apparently, she wasn't gay. As opposed to just being bisexual. She named her kid Homer. She's a bit hard to follow, but Barbara Walters attempted to understand her and Celestia in a confusing and bizarre interview. It was one of tho

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    2010 Ford Taurus: First Look Inside!

    Here's the clearest shots yet of the exterior and the first shots of the interior of the 2010 Ford Taurus, expected to be revealed next month at the Detroit Auto Show. Full gallery below.

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    Commenter Of The Day: Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth Edition

    History has given Henry L. Ellsworth a bad name. We were reading a book of Harry Truman's speeches from the 1948 campaign when we noticed a reference to the commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office who, essentially, said the patent office didn't need anymore money because everything had already been invented. This is because, in a report before Congress, Ellsworth said "The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human im

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    Shirtless Hoon On A Motorized Beer Crate

    Motorized beer crate on public roads in Germany; No helmet, no shirt, Tevas, and a shit-eating grin, we suspect this video was immediately preceded by the German equivalent of "Hey guys, watch this!"

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    1971 Volkswagen Beetle

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. How about another Beetle Day today? As I've mentioned before, Alameda has sufficient air-cooled Beetles parked on the street for me to do a solid couple of Pure Beetle DOTS. I'm not going to do that, but I've owned a few Type 1s and I still like these rackety little machines… which means I'm going to sneak in a DOTS Beetle every so often.

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    Commenter Of The Day: His Girl Friday And The Metafilm Edition

    The film His Girl Friday, Howard Hawkes' adaptation of The Front Page, is a film known for innovation. Ignoring the replacement of a woman as the reporter character, the film was one of the first examples of Hawkes' signature dove-tailing style of dialogue, which has characters beginning lines as another finishes one, a style now much replicated. Even more interesting was the use, mostly in ad-lib, of references to the construction of the film itself. Often called metafilms, films like 8 1/2 and

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    Commenter Of The Day: Screw In A Light Bulb Edition

    When Thomas Edison invented the first modern incandescent light bulb (sort of), he inadvertently created the light bulb joke. You've heard them all before. A person is asked how many of a certain type of individual are required to screw in a light bulb. Unless the proper answer is given, the questioner explains X number of people are needed because of the shortcomings of the particular people mentioned. For example, you may wonder how many Texans it takes to screw in a light bulb. We can tell yo

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    400 Old Cars And Trucks Down On The Alameda Street

    The streets of Alameda, California, never seem to run out of surviving vintage machinery, and we've got the proof right here. That's right, the 400th street-parked classic Alameda vehicle was featured in this series last week, and that means it's time to see 'em all!

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    How To Get 35 MPG In A Porsche 911

    The masochistic Germans have been at it again, driving a 345 HP 2009 Porsche 911 efficiently enough to return 35 MPG (US). Did they drive it slowly? No, not really.

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    Acura NSX Canceled Due To Carpocalypse

    Honda Chairman Takeo Fukui has announced the cancellation of the V10-powered Acura NSX effective immediately as a result of the Carpocalypse and a desire to focus on green technologies.

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    Jaguar XJS

    We’re really not sure what was happening the moment the guys at Hesco Inc. decided to put a Viper crate motor into a mint, 14k original mile, V12 Jaguar XJS, but we’re betting it had something to do with mass quantities of booze. They purchased an 8.0L V10 from the Mopar catalog and from the looks of it, leisurely dropped in into the engine bay of the Jag. Some may wonder why you’d do a swap like this, we offer this suggestion – the original 6.0L V12 was a stout unit producing 314 bhp, but the V

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    Defender

    In what should have been a hint to NBC on why not to produce a new Knight Rider series, the Viper TV show was just slightly cooler by featuring a morphing ’92 Dodge Viper. Set in the “near future,” an elite government taskforce used the Viper as a front for the much badder-ass silver Defender. Designed and built by Chrysler, the Defender was essentially the first Viper coupe as it made its debut in the 1994 pilot episode while the GTS appeared two years later.

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    Sniper

    Unveiled at the 50th anniversary party for Hot Rod magazine, designed by Chip Foose and built by Troy Trepanier, the Sniper was introduced as the “crowning achievement of fifty years of Hot Rodding.” The Sniper started its life as a 1954 Plymouth Belvedere “Savoy” convertible and was radically modified with the help of Tom Gale, Chrysler’s then Chief of Design, who donated a Viper GTS to the project. The Viper was chopped up to provide the Sniper with its drive train, suspension, wiring, gauges

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    Decoma PT/10

    Here's the ultimate in sleeper transportation and the top in our list for baddest-asp Viper powered rides. As you all know, here at Jalopnik, we love anything El Camino or anything that’s been El Camino-ized and when you mix it with a 500bhp Viper V10; how can you go wrong? While we admit, it’s still a PT Cruiser, we still get a little tingly down there at the thought of running up and down Gratiot Ave in this thing. The look of horror on the face of your opposition would be priceless and is mor

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    Commenter Of The Day: Crazy Ivan Edition

    In the film adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October, Jack Ryan has to convince the captain of a U.S. submarine not to fire on the eponymous Red October based on Ryan's knowledge of the Red October's skipper. He does this by guessing, correctly, the Red October would "crazy Ivan" to starboard at the bottom of the hour. This established, the captain agrees to try and make contact with the Red October with the hopes the ship's crew is attempting to defect from the Soviet Union and not,

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    Commenting Via Facebook: A Primer

    On Friday we introduced you to Facebook Connect, the feature allowing you to leave Jalopnik comments via your Facebook account. Click through for a quick primer in Facebook commenting and remember to sign up!

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    New BMW Z4 Brochure Scans Leak

    What look to be brochure scans of the shark-nosed 2010 BMW Z4 have hit the web courtesy of BMW Blog, and it looks consistent with previous leaks.

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    1974 Chevrolet Impala

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today's car is a great big moldering slab-o-Malaise iron, which I found parked- strangely enough- on Bay Farm Island, a part of the city built up with new, garage-equipped tract homes and thus not a great hunting ground for vintage street-parked iron (though BFI does have some pretty good vintage BMWs).

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    Commenter Of The Day: VESC Edition

    The Volvo Experimental Safety Car was a safety concept car developed by everyone's favorite Gothernburg-based car company. Introduced at the 1972 Geneva Auto Show, the VESC was a test bed for safety equipment we've become familiar with including crumple zones, rollover protection, ABS, backup camera and automatic seat belts. Much of what was learned on this vehicle was poured into the 200-series and other models associated with the Swedish automaker's rep as a maker of exceptionally safe, if not

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    PCH, Twin Turbos Versus Twin Frenchmen Edition: Twin-Turbo Ford Falcon Or Two Peugeot 405 Mi16s?

    Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, the Humber Super Snipe got out-prestiged by the Aston Martin DBS, according to the Choose Your Eternity poll, and you'd think we'd follow up Britain-on-Britain and Italy-on-Italy matchups with a matchup honoring the other PCH Superpower, France. Instead, we're going to make PCH Supergalactic Megapower France do battle with lowly PCH underdog America today, a

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    Commenter Of The Day: Escape Edition

    "Escape" (a.k.a. The Piña Colada Song) is one of those strange songs you can't get away from. It's a staple of classic radio and coastal stations with people often requesting the tune thinking it is a song by Jimmy Buffett when it is actually by composer and playwright Rupert Holmes. Not to spoil the ending, but it's a three-part song about a (we suppose) middle-aged man who sees an ad for a lady seeking a gent that likes the coconutty drink. Though currently in a relationship, he replies to the

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    24 Hours Of LeMons Coming To Buttonwillow, Reno-Fernley, Nelson Ledges In 2009!

    As the economy continues to take kidney punches, more and more once-exclusive tracks have decided that it's OK to allow the caddies into the pool, and thus it has come to pass that Nelsen Ledges in Ohio, Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Southern California, and Reno-Fernley Raceway in Nevada will be holding 24 Hours Of LeMons races in 2009! Jump away for the full schedule.

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    Assemble A Winter Survival Kit

    If you’re going to be traveling in an area where you’re at risk for severe wintry weather you should always travel with an emergency kit. You never know when telephone service will get knocked out and you will be left stranded. Here’s what a kit should include:

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    Chok Em!

    What's more bizarre? The idea of someone buying a license plate encouraging the choking of someone, or that this Hawaiian license plate is on a Nissan Titan parked in front of a Physician Center? [Natuba]

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    Check Your Windshield Wipers And Washer Fluid

    There's nothing worse than getting out on the freeway, getting slammed with a giant bug, and then flipping on the wipers only to have them spread what remains of the bug over the windshield. A good wiper blade with a full tank of washer fluid should fix this problem.

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    Check Your Antifreeze

    Antifreeze is fairly sweet because it keeps your coolant fluid from overheating and from freezing. As with most motor repairs, make sure you're not doing this while the car is still hot (otherwise you'll end up with a face full of hot stuff, become the Joker and terrorize Gotham City).

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    Inspect Belts And Hoses

    A modern automobile engine features a large belt to power car accessories and keep important features like power steering and A/C running. To keep the engine running long enough to let you charge your iPod there are also a number of hoses providing coolant to the engine.

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    Check Your Car's Brakes

    Checking the brakes isn't a complicated job and, if you have the right wheels, you may not even have to take anything off the car. This mini guide assumes that you're not having trouble with your brakes. If there's an issue stopping your car then yes, you probably have a brake issue. There are three areas you need to check and we'll explain how below.

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    Dubai Prince Gifts Island To Michael Schumacher

    Are you having a tough time this Christmas season picking out the perfect gift for that special someone that has everything? Well, instead of heading down to the local Neiman Marcus store, or even buying a mere skyscraper, Dubai’s crown prince bought the retired Michael Schumacher his own island.

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    PCH, Caning From The Stern English Headmistress: Aston Martin DBS Or Humber Super Snipe?

    Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We went for a Lambo-on-Lambo matchup last time, with the Espada taking the win over the Murcielago, and that means we need to give equal billing to Italy's rival PCH Superpower, Great Britain. And, just to make things more interesting, we're not going to have any British Leyland products!

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    Commenter Of The Day: George Clinton Edition

    They say George Clinton may be the most-sampled musician ever, quite the achievement given his fame is nowhere near the level of other highly sampled artists such as Michael Jackson and James Brown. This is a testament to the original and catchy brand of funk music he's produced throughout the decades. Despite his funk background, Clinton actually got his start as the singer in a doo-wop group called The Parliaments, which was never successful. In fact, the band was known for not being able to m

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    Seven Vintage Machines Down On The Edinburgh Street

    This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Today we've got seven machines shot by Battles in his hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jump for the gallery and Battles' descriptions.

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    The Ten Small Cars Of The Future

    Years after being promised smaller and more fuel-efficient cars the next generation of diminutive autos is finally on its way. But these new "small" cars aren't as small as you might think. In order to provide a point of comparison, we've compared the length of these cars to a Ford Super Duty Crew Cab pickup truck. At 21.8 feet long, the long-cab's one of the longest production cars in recent history. So how do the ten upcoming new small cars for North American stack up? Let's find out.

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    AutoLabo Creates Aero Package For Toyota Prius

    Here's an interesting new body kit from AutoLabo for the Toyota Prius taking a different spin on customization. The package ekes out every last possible trick of aerodynamics from the little multi-drived Toyota. It's got rear wheel skirts, a neat little element in the front wheel well to reduce turbulence, a reshaped rear diffuser, lower side skirts and a newish refreshed nose.

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    What's The Best Use-Phamism?

    Those of us you who, like us, spend hours trolling Craigslist and eBay for the perfect used car have likely come across your fair share of cleverly deceptive ways to describe car problems. What's the best used car sales euphemism?

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    Audi R8 V10: Full Details, More Images

    Let all the hearsay and rumor cease, the puppet masters at VW have released the complete details on the Audi R8 V10 just in time for Christmas the Detroit Auto Show. The R8 V10 is a 5.2-liter affair generating officially, 517 HP at a heady 8,000 RPM and 390 lb-ft of torque at 6,500 RPM. All that grunt serves to deliver a 0-to-62 MPH time of 3.9 seconds with a top speed of 196 MPH. But the engine isn't the only place getting enhanced. More details and the press release below.

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    Consumers Pick White As Most Popular Car Color... Again

    North American car buyers again chose white as the most popular new car color for 2008, besting silver for the second year in a row in DuPont's study of color popularity with 20% of car purchases. Is this mere color preference or pointing to a deeper trend?

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    2010 Dodge EV

    Chrysler shocked us in September with an electric program appearing from nowhere. The centerpiece was the Dodge EV — a plug-in electric sportscar. Sources tell us the little electric's been caught testing around Detroit sporting some fascia changes. We've asked KORSdesign to provide us with a gallery of illustrations of what the Lotus-derived EV looks like with out the camouflage below the jump.

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    1956 Lincoln Continental

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. It appears that we have a new Ultimate DOTS Neighborhood in Alameda, one that's provided us with the '67 Imperial, the '69 Volvo P1800, the '67 Olds Vista Cruiser, the '70 Lincoln Mark III, plus several cars you haven't seen yet… all in a one-block area! Some are clearly owned by the same lover of old iron, but the whole neighborhood seems to be infected by

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    Five Possibilities For National "Car Czar"

    An agreement on the shape of a rescue plan for the not-so-Big Three automakers appears close. Included in oversight will be a federal "car czar" to oversee the rescue package. Here's a look at five possibilities for the position.

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    The Five Emotional Stages Of The Carpocalypse

    As is true for all tragedies, the Carpocalypse and subsequent failure of the U.S. automakers has encouraged a wide array of reactions ranging from overwhelming patriotism to over-exaggerated panic. We look at the five most common responses below.

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    First-Ever LeMons Junkyard Scavenger Hunt Won By Huey Newis And The Lose!

    What could be more fun than spending a Sunday afternoon digging through the contents of junked cars in a search for heavy metal cassettes, silverware, Magnetti Marelli electric motors, V12 intake manifolds, or pornography? Searching for those things (and even more harebrained items) in order to win a Gerald R. Ford Memorial Pardon Certificate for your 24 Hours Of LeMons team, of course! That's what happened at a certain East Bay self-service wrecking yard yesterday…

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    Backyard Ferrari Of The Day: 1980 Crypto-Porschrarri Dino

    You Ferrari fanciers have no doubt been pointing and hooting at the Fauxborghinis of last week's Backyard Lambo Of The Day series. Not so fast, signore! We're going to follow up that series with some Fauxrraris, cars that offend the purists just as much as they impress the rest of us with their low-buck (and sometimes not-so-low-buck) ingenuity. Today's car is a sort of Mystery Fauxrrari out of Washington state…

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    Automotive X Prize Contestant To Build Hover DeLorean

    Remember the 2004 movie I,Robot starring Will Smith, a bunch of crazy Apple-inspired robots and the spherical drive-equipped hovering Audi RSQ? Now there's a company trying to bring that to life, building a hover DeLorean as an entry for the Automotive X prize.

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    IIHS: Ten Most Stolen Vehicles For 2008

    Despite allegedly having problems building the cars Americans want to buy, the not-so-Big Three are building the kind of cars American thieves want to steal making up 90% of the list of the most stolen vehicles list for 2008.

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    Audi R8 V10: Two More Cylinders For Detroit

    After revealing the R8 LMS GT3 racer last month, Audi felt we've been good enough to get our first gift of the holiday season — the production Audi R8 V10. The new engine makes it Audi's second most powerful production car ever.

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    1984 Toyota Land Cruiser

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Should the early-to-mid-80s Land Cruisers qualify for this series? I've been seeing a few of them around town, and they always struck me as belonging a bit more to the Maximum Cup Holder Comfy SUV Era than to the Unkillable Warlord Grade Toyota Truck Era. But the RHD Troop Carrier Land Cruiser was made in the 80s, and I noted un-cupholder-esque details such

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    2010 Shelby GT500

    It was only a few weeks ago we brought you the reveal of the 2010 Ford Mustang, and today, we're the first to bring you the almost totally undisguised shots of the 2010 Shelby GT500 convertible, because we're the ones who took 'em.

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    2009 Honda Accord Sedan, Tourer Unveiled For JDM

    After nearly a year of sales as the Acura TSX here in the states and after teasing us at the Frankfurt Auto Show with the Accord Tourer Concept, Honda of Japan is finally giving the JDM market the controversially-designed new car in both sedan and wagon flavors. While we've seen the sedan before, thanks to these press shots from our friends at TOV, we're able to show you the Tourer — a wagon that's really blowin' our skirts up.

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    Massive Secret Mustang Junkyard Found In Rhode Island Forest

    Imagine a secret junkyard frozen in time somewhere around the 70's with every bit of vintage hardware stretching for hundreds of acres. Classic Mustangs, Camaros, Cadillacs, Hemis; you name it, it's here. But not for long: The law man's saying to crush 'em. Massive mega-gallery below along with the location and what you can do to save them.

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    Matte Black Rolls Royce Phantom: Darth Vader's New Ride

    What's more menacing than a Rolls Royce Phantom? How about a Rolls Royce Phantom that's been covered in a matte black paint job? This Phantom menace wears the tough-guy paint scheme magnificently well — even the hood ornament, the Spirit of Ecstasy, is blacked out. Inside the black theme is carried throughout the entirety of the interior, but with a glossy piano finish to contrast the matte finish outside. Below, we've got a Streetfire video of the darkest Phantom on the planet. Lord Vader wou

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    French Prankster Makes Real Life Mario Kart

    Admit it, you've had the idea to make a real-like Mario Kart in the past. But, unlike you, French performance artist/prankster Remi Gaillard didn't stop when the brownies wore off (or maybe they haven't worn off yet). He got a go kart, a bunch of bananas and took to the streets of France complete with an N64 soundtrack. Hilarity ensued.

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    Nissan NV2500 Concept Wireless Workstation Is Both Futuristic And Comfy

    One of the most intriguing features from yesterday's Nissan NV2500 Concept, aside from the origami-like folding doors everywhere and fold out steps aplenty, is the central workstation, featuring a striking and Jetsonesque laser keyboard. While not new, laser keyboards haven't had the market penetration their inventors hoped for yet and public awareness of the product like this one from Celluon makes it seem like a whiz-bang feature from a Buck Rogers future.

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    Formula Junior BMW To Be Brought Back To Life By Restorer Of Eddie Griffin Enzo

    In addition to fixing celebrity-bashed Enzos and running a pair of Neons at LeMons Texas, Matt Groner also has this seriously cool vintage-racer BMW project. It's a race car built in the early 60s, based on a BMW 600 chassis, powered by a motorcycle engine, and set up for Formula Junior racing. Allegedly, the thing is good for 120 MPH, and I've been offered the chance to be the daredevil to see if that claim is true. Jump away for the rest of the photos and Mr. Groner's description.

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    British Man Cobbles Together Last Jaguar E-Type From 31-Year-Old Factory Leftovers

    At the end of a production run of cars, there are inevitably bits and pieces left behind which aren't assembled and have to be taken off the production line in the boxes they came in. When production on the Jaguar E-Type ended at Browns Lane in 1974, just such a thing happened, and a Jag fanatic picked up those truckloads of leftovers and kept them — for 31 years. When he got tired of being their steward he sold them to an enterprising fellow who thought of another Jag fanatic who might be able

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    What's Your Favorite Non-German German Car?

    Yesterday, we used the reveal of the Volkswagen Scirocco Studie R to ask the question: "What's Your Favorite Non-Italian Italian Car?" We were pleased with the answers. So why not the inverse? What's your favorite non-German German car?

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    Save The Not-So-Big Three...With T-Shirts!

    The "Save GM" t-shirt went over so well, we decided to expand the not-official Jalopnik store offerings to now include the rest of the not-so-Big Three with Save Ford and Save Chrysler t-shirts plus an exclusive Save Detroit t-shirt. In these trying times, one needs to be sporting a kitschy t-shirt and frankly, because once you're let go from your job, you'll find more time to wear them. Buy all four and be instantly transformed into Captain America!* But get 'em now below the jump before Ford,

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    Audi Pulls Out Of 2009 American Le Mans Series

    Audi will cease to compete in the 2009 American Le Mans Series despite winning every LMP1 championship since 2000 with their R8 racer and R10 TDI racers. The company claims they'll instead focus on European racing.

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    1960 Cadillac Sixty-Two Hardtop Coupe

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The distribution of Cadillac model years seems a bit strange on the island; today's car is our third 1960 Cadillac coupe (after this gold one and this red one), but the rest of the decade of the 1960s isn't represented until we get to 1969 (which is represented by four cars: this one, this one, this one, and this one). Where are all those 1961-68 Cads?

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    Japanese Two Story Transforming RV Takes Road Trip Across Japan

    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 follow through on this dream of dreams, but these guys from Japan decided to build a two story, fully outfitted, transforming masterpiece of travel to do just that. The whole story and a video of the transformation below.

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    11 Easy Steps To Design A "Concept" Car

    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 "disguise" the final model with a few predictable alterations to make the "concept" seem futuristic. As a PSA for automakers, here's eleven steps to follow to turn your new model into a "concept car."

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    2009 Toyota Avensis Revealed

    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.

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    Nissan NV2500 Concept Revealed Live

    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. We're here at Nissan's Farmington Hills, MI design facility where the curtain was just publicly dropped on the heavy duty industrial-style truck van hybrid which features a fully mobile office and enclosed cargo area. This concept forecasts Nissan's intent to enter the commercial vehicle market in t

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    Tesla Schooled By Tango In Electric Car Drag Race

    In what may be the first ever drag race between production electric cars, the geeky Tango electric cruiser edged out the trendy Tesla Roadster electric sports car. How fast were these electron-fueled warriors going when they crossed the finish line?

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    Blown Holden Ute Does Double Roll During Burnout, Crowd Goes Wild!

    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 real high-proof stuff, as this starts out simple and safely enough with a gross display of horsepower at a sanctioned local race track, but then the driver decides on a donut, and things go horribly, awesomely wrong as the car flips on it's side — twice — and then drives away to the roar of the crow

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    VW Scirocco Studie R Celebrates Historic German/Italian Alliances

    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, it features a 270 HP version of the 2.0-liter TSI turbo-four sending its power through a 6-speed DSG gearbox. All the other additions are largely cosmetic, but are executed to an unusually classy standard. Aggressive air intakes and a carbon front splitter fill out the front of the Scirocco, while in

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    1969 Mercury Cougar

    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 '67 (which later turned up in the wrecking yard), this '68, this '73, and this '75. Now we're going to look at a first-gen Cougar that's lived in the same neighborhood since I was a kid.

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    Report: GM, Chrysler Consider Bankruptcy For Federal Bailout Loan

    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 (which we've already said is a good thing) as a last-resort of getting a multibillion-dollar government loan.

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    Maserati Launches MC Sport Line In Bologna With Special Edition GranTursimo S

    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 steering wheel, and carbon side skirts straight from the showroom. We’re actually digging this white and black Maserati GranTurismo S, but we’d probably say “no thanks” to the tacky carbon bolt-ons.

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    Commenter Of The Day: Leaving On A Jet Plane Edition

    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. It was such a hit for PP&M some people believe the John Denver version is the cover and not the other way around. After writing the song he named it "Oh Babe I Hate To Go" but that name was mercifully changed by one of his producers. We always took Liz Phair's "Stratford-on-Guy" from Exile in Guyvill

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    PCH, Don't Settle For Imitation Lambos Edition: Wrecked Murcielago Or Long-Dormant Espada?

    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 neck, with the trio of Romanian AROs beating the Soviet GAZ-69 in a 51:49 split. Today… well, after looking at all the backyard Lambos I've found lately, it seems like a good idea to have some real Lamborghini Hell Projects. Most of the time, it's tough to find a Lamborghini that isn't in great shap

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    2010 Mazda3 Hatchback Shows Off Sexy New Rear Live In Bologna

    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 looking to boot. While we were stuck with the reveal of the 2010 Mazda3 sedan in LA, Bologna’s been blessed with the live unveil of the 2010 Mazda3 hatchback, its 5-doors making the most of the new global platform. Click through for full details, straight from Mazda’s smiley new mouth.

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    Jones Big ASS Truck Rental And Storage

    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 dollar and now he's willing to store your junk for unheard of prices! Have you got a clapped-out Firebird cluttering your driveway? Are you in need of bus or elephant storage space? Would you like to take advantage of a drunken businessman's genius marketing plan? At Jones' Big ASS Truck Rental and Storage, do all this and more!

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    Fisker Karma Gets A Starting Price Of $87,900, We Get First Front Shot Of Tesla-Killer

    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 production-intent car mimics the concept car almost identically, though the grille is revised nicely for a much sleeker look. But what of the details of this unique luxury automobile?

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    Automobile: Detroit's Ten Most Relevant Products

    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 F-150 or Chevy Corvette.

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    2010 Honda Insight: Production Ready

    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 concept mode. Honda's new Prius-killer is expected to retail for around $18,500, massively undercutting the $22,000 Toyota Prius. Expect full details at January's Detroit Auto Show even if Honda won't be unveiling it at an actual press conference. The press release and a high-res picture follow the jum

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    What's Your Worst Gas Station Experience?

    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 "You won't believe this video."

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    Miles Highway Speed: The Silent Yet Violent Electric Vehicle

    Thousands of inches of print and webspace have been dedicated to electric cars like the Tesla Roadster and countless more opining on hybrids and near-electrics like the Chevy Volt, but what about the Miles Electric Highway Speed? If you've never heard about it before, don't worry, we hadn't either.

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    Grading The Not-So-Big Three's "Bailout" Plans

    We spent the night reading the the not-so-Big Three's business plans presented yesterday to Congress and after we graded them below, we've one huge question. Given the Carpocalypse, what's with the overwhelmingly optimistic sales projections for the next three years?

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    1986 Toyota Cressida Pizza Deliverator

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a car that should be recognizable to anyone venturing to Alameda's main downtown strip during business hours: an '86 Cressida that lives in a yellow loading zone in between pizza-delivery runs. And, having put in my time as a pizza deliverator myself (hat tip to Neal Stephenson for hardwiring that term into everyone's brains), I have nothing but resp

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    2009 Audi A5 Convertible Pictures Leak Out Ahead Of Official Unveil

    The 2009 Audi A5 Convertible, the latest in a long line of four-seat Audi soft tops, appears to have gotten a bit of an early unveil thanks to a photo leak onto the net. The most notable feature is the canvas roof, bucking the hard-on-top trend made popular by Mercedes, BMW, Lexus IS250C and Infiniti G37 Convertible by going soft up top. This means less weight, less complication and more trunk space. But it's not this model we're excited about. No, we're excited because there's a 2009 Audi S5 Ca

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    PCH, Ceau?escu Versus Krushchev Edition: Three ARO 244s Or One GAZ 69-M?

    Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time, the '72 Stutz Blackhawk blackjacked the Buickborghini and stuffed it in the trunk, for disposal in a hole in the desert later on (the way so many Blackhawk owners in Vegas solved their problems back in the day), according to the 71% of you who voted that way in the Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're going to go with a couple of choices that allow me to u

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    Commenter Of The Day: Road Till The Casket Drops Edition

    All day we've been banging to the sounds of the Clipse mixtape for their upcoming Till The Casket Drops and enjoying the numerous references to cars, clothes and just about every product you can imagine. One of the bloggers over at the Sound of the City compared it to William Gibson's post-Web 2.0 sci-fi book Spook Country, which is notable for its many shout outs to niche clothing brands as well as to the sexy and stealthy understated luxury of the Volkswagen Phaeton. It doesn't hurt the band i

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    Fisker Karma Previewed Ahead Of Detroit Reveal

    If we take out our crystal ball and look forward two months, the big three will have their precious loans in hand, Barack Obama will have solved global warming and given everyone a puppy that craps rainbows, and the 2009 Fisker Karma will be fighting the 2010 Toyota Prius and the 2010 Honda Insight for bragging rights as press darlings of the 2009 Detroit Auto Show.

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    November Auto Sales Prove Scared People Don't Buy Cars

    November car sales numbers are coming in and they’re what you expect them to be — horrendous. Ford is down 31% month-to-month with last year. Toyota fell even further at 33.9%. That's successful compared to GM's 41% drop. Even Honda is down 31.6%. What's going on?

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    Ford Ranger Max Concept Inspired By Power Tools

    At the same time Ford is unveiling a US plan for profitability packed with cars that we don't want, it’s showing off simple, practical, affordable, utilitarian vehicles elsewhere in the world like this Ford Ranger Max concept.

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    Backyard Lambo Of The Day: The Missouri Olds Toronado-Fied Countach

    Nobody seems sick of this series after one repetition, so we're back for more homebuilt Lamborghini glory today! What we've got here is not a Fieroborghini; much like the Indiana Turbo Buick Countach, this Fauxborghini is based on a tube-frame chassis. The best part? The powerplant: a torque-brute 425 engine and front-wheel-drive transaxle from a 1960s Oldsmobile Toronado, installed amidships just like a real Lambo! Unlike a real Lambo, it's a 3-speed automatic, but gear selection is pretty much

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    Nissan Ninja Hauler Kicks Ass And Takes Names Silently

    Take caution before reading this Craigslist posting, otherwise the gushing torrent of testosterone contained within this buffet of manliness will give you washboard abs and an unstoppable craving for beef jerky faster than you can say Chuck Norris.

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    GM To Get Rid Of Their Planes

    GM announced today they will close their air transportation service center at Detroit Metro Airport, sell four of their planes and transfer whatever plane/s they decide to keep to another operator in order to at least appear frugal.

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    December 7th, A Day Which Will Live In Infamy: The LeMons Junkyard Scavenger Hunt!

    With the 2008 Arse Freeze-A-Palooza 24 Hours Of LeMons race coming up in just a few weeks, all 100 or so teams are fully locked into total panic final-stretch mode, frenziedly thrashing working on every last goddamn thing a few final details to get their iron heaps steeds ready for racin' action. Naturally, all the teams will be spending a lot of time at self-service junkyards, scrounging up bargain-priced components in a hopeless heroic attempt to meet the deadline, and so LeMons Chief Perpetra

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    1968 Mercedes-Benz 230

    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 saw a pretty nice 1968 Mercedes-Benz 280SL about a month ago, so I figure it's time for another '68 Benz. This time, though, we'll be looking at a solid-citizen sedan instead of a rakish roadster, with this 230 I found parked pretty close to the Evil '77 Camaro.

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    Ford CEO To Drive To Washington, D.C. For Not-A-Bailout Hearings

    Finally aware of how bad the not-so-Big Three looked for flying to D.C. for the previous round of "bridge loan" hearings in fancy corporate jets, Ford promises CEO Alan Mullally will be taking a car for the eight-hour trip to Washington, D.C. for the next round of talks. There's no word yet on which Ford product he'll drive, leading to the inevitable question: what will Mullally drive to D.C.?

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    Backyard Lambo Of The Day: The Redding Fieroborghini Murcielago!

    I found so many backyard-built Fauxborghinis while trying to find a suitable opponent for the '72 Stutz Blackhawk in last Friday's PCH that it seems a shame not to share some of the better ones with our readers (no, I'm not going to do a whole week of Fauxborghini PCH challenges). Hence this new (and no doubt short-lived) series: Backyard Lambo Of The Day! Today's BLOTD hails from the woods of Northern California, where the availability of good cheap beer from the nearby Sierra Nevada brewery se

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    Commenter Of The Day: Tulip Time Edition

    Before there was Pets.com and the dot-com bubble burst there was an even stranger financial boom and bust centered around the trading of tulips in mid-17th century Holland. As the flowers, especially rare breeds, became popular the market for the Tulip bulbs increased dramatically with contracts being traded on the future growth of flowers that were, essentially, futures. The prices became insane and, eventually, everyone wanted to get into the Tulip market. Then a group of traders at an auction

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    You Missed The Chance To Own A 1993 Ford Pirate Ship

    If you live in Lyndhurst, New Jersey and have a 1993 Ford Explorer with 249,911 miles on it, the only reasonable thing to do is convert it into a pirate ship. That solid logic coupled with the lure of cash-money from a Halloween costume contest led its creators to build this masterpiece. We were heartbroken to see this swashbuckling creation went for only $499, it would have made a wonderful Jalopnik staff car for our New York division. The only problem would have been the inevitable Ninja attac

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    Canadians Start 28,000-Mile Voyage In Veggie-Fueled Van, Attempt World Record

    A pair of Canadian environmentalists have embarked on a four-month journey to break the Guinness World Record for "longest journey by a car using alternative fuel" by traveling 45,000 km (27,961 miles) across North America in a Japanese-import Mitsubishi Delica 4x4 van converted to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO/SVO) while doling out green wisdom to school children. The current record is held by an all-German team and their natural gas-powered Volkswagen Caddy, which traveled just 23,697 miles

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    Artist Creates Wireframe Lamborghini Countach

    What you're looking at above is not a computer generated drawing, it is a full scale wireframe representation of a Lamborghini Countach created by installation artist Benedict Radcliffe. The car is the latest in a series of wire cars Radcliffe has completed. It's likely the most ambitious, painstakingly crafted from 10 mm steel tube welded together into that familiar shape we all know and secretly love. Upon close inspection you see fine details in the wheels and the intake gills, even the let

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    Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America

    You see these bogus "Worst Cities In America" lists all the time, and usually the accompanying photo shows a vacant lot covered with weeds and broken Olde English 800 40-dog bottles, with a gutted '85 Cutlass or '79 Corolla in the foreground and a bullet-riddled abandoned apartment building in the background. This shot of Youngstown, Ohio, follows the script pretty much to the letter… except for the car, which happens to be a Lancia Scorpion!

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    Ford Taurus SHO Wagon Pops Up On eBay

    As if we're not already overly inclined towards the first or second generation Ford Taurus SHO, an audio company made a rare SHO Wagon and that vehicle is now for sale on eBay. Rather than dropping the SHO 3.0-liter Yamaha V6 and manual transmission into a donor wagon body, this is an original SHO with the wagon body dropped onto it. Stacked with audio equipment and for sale with bids in the low $2,000-range, this could be a steal for someone in the Midwest area. Of course, it needs new paint, h

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    Thirty Vehicular "You're Doing It Wrong" Moments

    Now that everyone is familiar with the glorious art of automotive FAIL, it's time to introduce FAIL's kissing cousin to the automotive world: The "You're doing it wrong" internet meme. Let the good times roll below the jump.

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    Who Should Buy Volvo?

    As we reported earlier today, Ford is officially looking to sell Volvo, the last piece of the Premier Auto Group. In a better economy we suspect parting with Volvo wouldn't be so easy, but the $4.4 billion the company is probably worth is a nice chunk of much-needed cash for the automaker and, equally as important, it would be beneficial for Ford to subtract Volvo's losses from their overall quarterly performance. Who could buy the Swedish brand? Chinese company Chery expressed interest but may

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    Ford Kuga Gets Fuel Sipper And Fuel Guzzler Options

    If you happen to live in a part of the world where buying a Ford Kuga is an option, you're about to get the choice of better fuel economy speeding towards a stop light or a speedier sprint going away from one. The latest Kuga includes the option of stripping out the all wheel drive for a front-wheel-drive powertrain operated by a fuel sipping 2.0 liter TDCi diesel with either a manual or auto transmission. If you're interested in speed rather than frugality, go for the 197 HP, 235 lb-ft 2.5 lite

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    2010 Nissan GT-R Spec V Specs Leak, Will Cost $160,000

    Ever since the Nissan GT-R had its ass handed to it on the Nurburgring by the Corvette ZR1, anticipation for a lighter, faster Spec V version has been rampant. Now, it appears that official specifications have leaked. How much faster is it? Not much. Read on for details.

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    Ford Officially Looking To Sell Volvo

    Ford announced today it is officially looking to sell Volvo, the premium Swedish automaker that the company acquired in 1999 and made an important part of its Premier Auto Group (PAG). Oh what a difference a decade makes. Ford paid $6.45 billion in 1999 dollars for the automaker in a fierce bidding war with Volkswagen AG and Fiat. In preparation for a sale Volvo will be made more of a stand-alone company. Volvo was the last of the PAG brands left after Land Rover/Jaguar were sold to Tata and Ast

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    1963 Chevrolet C10 Pickup Truck

    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're starting off the new month on a Truck Monday, and we might as well get right back to pickup basics here, with a good ol' Chevy half-ton that lives in the heart of Alameda's downtown.

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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: World's Nicest 1981 Chevette For $8,995?

    The overwhelming majority of voters thought that the Callaway '83 Porsche 944 was reasonably priced at $45,000; not bad for a Late Malaise Era machine. Today we're going to ponder a car from the same era, and it may be even more rare than the Callaway 944: a really straight, all-original Chevy Chevette!

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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $45,000 Callaway Porsche 944?

    Only 23% of you felt that Barack Obama's Chrysler 300C was really worth $100,000 yesterday, and value calculation really is a tough call on a presidential car when the ex-owner isn't even president yet (and there are no photos of him actually driving the thing). Today we're going to explore the concept of rarity; here we've got a seriously rare high-performance car, modified by a highly respected company better known for its work with Chevrolets than with Porsches…

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    Never Mind The Callaway Porsche 944: 1982 Callaway Scirocco!

    UDMan is writing for the CarDomain blog these days, but he's been kind enough to share some of his latest finds with us. The '83 Callaway Porsche 944 we saw earlier today got us in a German Callaway sort of mood, so let's check out this super-rare '82 Callaway Volkswagen Scirocco that UDMan spied while covering a Callaway event:

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    1970 Datsun 510 Station Wagon

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The Datsun 510 is a rare sight on the street these days, and we've seen just one (this '71 sedan) in this series prior to today. Now we're adding another, and a wagon at that!

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    Bristol Fighter T

    We never claimed it was beautiful when we first showed you the “batshit-mad,” Viper-powered Bristol Fighter T in 2006. Using twin-turbos and twin intercoolers attached to the 8.0-liter V10, the Bristol makes an astonishing 1,012 bhp and 1,036 lb.-ft of torque at 4500 rpm. The Bristol uses this power to reach 60 mph in less than 3.5 seconds and an estimated top speed of 270 mph, though it’s limited to a more than exhilarating 225 mph. The chassis is 30% stiffer than its predecessor, the Fighter S

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    1985 Toyota Corolla Hatchback

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Remember when four-door hatch versions of small Japanese cars were commonplace?

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Trucks (3)

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    Dodge Ram VTS

    Released in 1996, the Dodge Ram VTS Concept was merely a design study featuring Viper GTS-inspired bumpers, mirrors, 17-inch wheels, Blue Paint, dual white stripes and Viper GTS sourced 415bhp V10. While we never got to see a Viper powered Ram in this generation, it paved the way for the 500bhp Ram SRT10 that Chrysler built from ’04-’06.

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    1973 Volkswagen Type 3 Squareback

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. There's no end to air-cooled VW Beetles and Transporters in this series, but the Type 3s have been quite rare; in fact, so far we've had just this '73 Squareback and this Karmann Ghia Type 34. Now I've managed to add another '73 Squareback, and this one has the rare automatic transmission.

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    1962 Jeep CJ-7

    A 1962 Jeep CJ-7 wouldn’t be our first thought when trying to find a donor vehicle for a Viper V10, but we’re sure glad this guy did. The CJ-7 body panels were replaced with aluminum pieces and the suspension was revamped to harness the power of the V10 beast under the hood. We’re sure this would make for an impressive rock crawler if it wasn’t for the $12k paint job that screams trailer queen.

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