To kick off the Monterey uber-auto festival, Cadillac unveiled a new concept: the Ciel, named for the French word for "sky" and meant to suggest the next evolution of Caddy's art-and-science design paired with a V6 turbo hybrid. Caddy's going big.
Read MoreNot long ago, the phrase "Lamborghini quality" was as laughable as the phrase "monogamous Berlusconi."
Read MoreThe collector car market may have driven the price of vintage muscle cars into the stratosphere, but there are still awesome classics out there for the budget collector. Here are Jalopnik readers' top ten classic cars for under $5,000.
Read MoreIt's beautiful to look at, stunning to listen to and anointed by Maserati's racing squad. But is the new Maserati GranTurismo MC a true driver's car, or just the latest motoring accessory to tempt the Palm Beach set? Let's find out.
Read MoreMost car lovers will remember the Swedish built Caresto T6 R from the stir it created when it debuted in 2004. Along with becoming the first foreign built vehicle to ever capture Hot Rod Magazine's coveted "Hot Rod of the Year" award, the T6 R captivated the car show circuit. Seven years later this Swedish hot rod is being offered on Ebay by the Coach builder that created it.
Read MoreThousands of college kids (myself included) are headed off in pursuit of higher education. In honor of the trek back to a dorm room or first apartment, we asked Jalopnik readers to share their wisdom and strong wagon bias. Here are their top ten cars for college.
Read MoreExcept for the Porsche 911, no vehicle has preserved its purity of essence like the Jeep Wrangler, an original creation as American as jazz and Kim Kardashian's ass. Now its new Italian don has blessed it with the latest corporate power parts. Could change actually make the Jeep better?
Read MoreThe Honda Civic isn't what it used to be, but in order to keep sisters-in-law happy, you need something reliable and not completely soul-sucking to recommend to them. Yesterday, we asked Jalopnik readers for their new recommended rides and here are their top ten Honda Civic alternatives.
Read MoreThere was a time when you could pick up almost any muscle car (save the rarer-than-a-non-blond-female-anchor-on-Fox-News models) for five grand. These days, not so much. What's the coolest classic car you can buy for less than $5,000?
Read MoreThe Cadillac Ciel concept is a car so breathtaking and magnificent that the only thing that separates it from a Rolls–Royce is the fact that, like the Cadillac Sixteen concept from 2004, doesn’t and will not exist. This is a problem.
Read MoreIt is a rare occasion when you stumble across any 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 Fiesta Wagons, restored or otherwise. When you take into account the fact the beautiful wagon seen here is still wearing the paint it left the factory with 54 years ago, you begin to understand how rare it truly is. This Fiesta Wagon is currently on Ebay and I want to own it—badly.
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Read MoreLife wouldn't be worth living if not for mystery, but there's one I just can't cipher: Why do classic car owners prop life-size dolls of toddlers against their rides at shows? Want to split a Big Gulp of WTF?
Read MorePorsche loves to claim it's the winningest carmaker in history. But that's a lie. Most people now race in video games. And now, thanks to Porsche's absence from Forza 4, most video gamers won't be racing Porsches to victory. It also confirms what we've long known: Porsche doesn't care about video game people.
Read MoreBecause EA is evil, that's why. Kidding! See, EA has the license for Porsche cars, thus, making them available only via a sub-licensing deal. The cars did appear in Forza 3, and featured RUFs, which are tuned, unmarked Porsches.
Read MoreWe received some bad news this week. Mazda's rotary engine died again, while the Toyota Camry just keeps on living. Here's why we should care about the rotary engine, and why no one reads magazines about toasters.
Read MoreIn the greens of metal at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance, one car leapt out at me; a strange red speedster with a Plymouth badge. I had no idea just how strange it was until the owner shared the details of its five-decade journey from speeding around Detroit to dodging mortars in war-torn Beirut. Here's the story of Plymouth's lost jet-age concept car - and its forthcoming digital redemption.
Read MoreSo, I just experienced my first earthquake. According to maps I'm like 50 miles away from the epicenter. As a Texan, I had no concept of how to react to this. I desperately grasped for a firearm so I could shoot at the earthquake and then, finding none, fled into the streets. Not my proudest moment.
Read MoreSome cars lead with their hottest side while others save their best angle for last. We love taillights here at Jalopnik and so do our readers. Here are their picks for the ten coolest taillights ever.
Read MoreThe combination of alcohol and automobiles is never a good one, except perhaps in the case of this custom beer can car. Originally built for the beer company Stroh, this unique can shaped product mobile is currently on Ebay.
Read MoreBack in the early days of the Internet, long before anyone had ever heard of Tay Zonday, let alone gotten a tattoo of him, the online was a largely nerdy place where high-order brains gathered to conduct business in relative secrecy.
Read MoreAs with disco, urban renewal, waxed chests, and adoption itself, a new study suggests that the Gays are now early adopters in the vehicular realm. More importantly, their purchase of a car can be a keen predictor of its ultimate success in the general marketplace.
Read MoreSteve McQueen's status as patron saint of all things automotive has only grown in recent years, but early in his career the actor wasn't above some poser subterfuge — like putting fake badges on an Italian roadster and calling it a Ferrari.
Read MoreYou say a car's headlights determine its personality? What about that red glow haunting every traffic-bound commuter's evening drive? Which car's got the best taillights ever?
Read MoreK-PAX Racing's turned an off-the-line Volvo C30 into a world-beating race car in 60 days. Driver Robb Holland's giving us weekly race reports on Project Grocery Getter. This week they rack up their first win. —Ed.
Read MoreDon't be sad because you can't afford a weekend car for venting your inner hoonage. Be happy you get to drive a hoonmobile every day. Here are Jalopnik readers' ten most hoonable daily drivers.
Read MoreSome cars hit on a winning formula and become huge successes. They inspire imitators, knock-offs, and tributes. We asked Jalopnik readers for their favorite inspirational car designs, and here are the top ten most influential car designs.
Read MoreA step past the quarter century mark tomorrow has this weekend editor with birth days and years on the mind. Some people use impending birthdays as an occasion to get introspective, while others use it as a good excuse to decide which of the vehicles available brand new in their birth year were the most excellent, or least terrible. What was the coolest car built the year you were born?
Read MoreWe aren't sure there is such a thing as a normal AMC Eagle, but we feel safe saying other models of the 4x4 car were a lot less strange than this Sundancer convertible model. These convertible Eagles were offered through AMC dealers as an expensive coach built option for only two years. The Eagle's notoriously rust prone nature combined with the very low initial production numbers makes surviving Sundancers like this one currently on Ebay very rare birds.
Read MoreToday, the California DMV released the following list of 100 banned license plates. The list, accumulated over the past few years, has some obvious offenders. Others, like "3MTA3," are a little trickier to decode. How many of them can you translate?
Read MoreAyrton Senna was a legend. He was one of the greatest Formula One racing drivers in history — that's not my ruling, that's the verdict of 217 world championship drivers. His statistics are legendary: 41 F1 wins, 65 pole positions, three world championships, so on and so forth.
Read MoreThe malaise era was rough, but even in those dark times there were bright beacons of hope. These Jalopnik reader-chosen cars managed to stay at least a little interesting during a time when most cars sucked. Here are their top ten collectible malaise era cars.
Read MoreThe 10 years spanning 1975 and 1985 were abysmal for American-made high-performance cars. And yet, there's a growing, nostalgia-led interest in the vehicles of this era. What's the most collectible car from the malaise era?
Read MoreOnce cool, now legislated out of existence, pop-up headlights were necessary to see the road ahead while maintaining a clean line. Some went beyond necessary to create wonderfully stylish designs. Here are the cars Jalopnik readers consider to have the ten coolest pop-up headlights.
Read MoreWhen we talk about great racing movies, there's one that never enters the conversation: "Bobby Deerfield," a forgotten 1977 bellyflop starring Al Pacino as a Formula 1 driver. Directed by Sidney Pollack, the film's off-track moments are as slow as Italian table service; its on-track footage — featuring the real lineups from F1's 1976 season, including cameos from a Tyrrell P34 and Bernie Ecclestone — tends to focus on the fake wrecks rather than real action. You can watch the whole thing on Ne
Read MoreWas the cause of the London riots police brutality or bored youth? I'm not sure, but I sure as hell know it wasn't the cars, so please stop torching them. People like cars. Set fire to things English people don't like: traffic cameras, toothbrushes, and Rupert Murdoch.
Read MoreSlow cars driven fast are always more fun than fast cars driven slow. Squealing tires, engines bouncing off limiters, dabs of oppo and elbows flying everywhere — it's better when the car's really working at it. Here are Jalopnik readers' ten best slow cars to drive fast.
Read MoreIn April 1947, two wild and crazy Czechs set off from Prague in a Tatra 87 and drove 40,000 miles across Africa and South America. P?es Kordillery (“Across the Cordilleras”) is their book about the middle part of the trip: from Buenos Aires to Lima, across the world’s then-highest road. It is, as one would expect, the holy mother of road trips.
Read MoreThere are cars out there that you completely forget about until you blow by them, parked in a used car lot. After a quick 'aha' moment, they slip back away. Here are the ten cars Jalopnik readers forgot existed.
Read MoreIt looks like one of those plastic parts trees from a model kit, but this is Ayrton Senna's 1991 F1 championship-winning McLaren MP4/6, deconstructed and transformed into a wall sculpture back in the '90s. Now the art piece is up for auction.
Read MoreAugust has turned the corner, as has my first year on the clock at the Jalopnik mill, which put me in mind of this fan-made take on the Hold Steady's productive uses for summer. It also goes well with a long story from COTD pro Desu-San-Desu about getting inspired to do something cool with your life, like stickering the toilet of a late-night talk show host:
Read MoreIf you're ever invited to watch the X Games do yourself a favor and skip the events and just watch them on television. If you're ever invited to an X Games party do yourself a favor and suck down a lot of energy drinks so you can enjoy as many of them as possible.
Read MoreWhen you're ridiculously wealthy a regular old supercar just won't do. How do you keep up with Joneses when the Joneses have 1,000 hp? Here are the ten hypercars Jalopnik readers think will be the most collectible.
Read MoreJay Leno's Garage is the place many of us would build given lots of free time and ridiculous amounts of money. A perfect and pristine Garage Mahal now sullied by a few of my Caswell Motorsports stickers. And I'm not telling him where they all are!
Read MoreThe team at Turn 10 Studios tried to design the best road race course ever for Forza Motorsport 4. The result? The all-new Bernese Alps track. Here's a first look at the track and how they made the magic happen.
Read MoreLet me tell you a little about the truck driver you just flipped off because he was passing another truck, and you had to cancel the cruise control and slow down until he completed the pass and moved back over.
Read MoreThere are two great moments in Argentine motoring history centered around the Nürburgring and then there’s a third, a fourth-place finish at a race you’ve never heard of. Of course it’s the latter that’s the pride and joy of Argentine car enthusiasts: the story of the Torinos at the 1969 Nürburgring 84 Hours.
Read MoreYou know that feeling you get when you look in your rear-view mirror and see something menacing looking back? Here are the ten most intimidating cars to see in your rear-view mirror according to Jalopnik readers.
Read MoreWhen a car connects with the public it usually gets a nickname that reflects its style, demeanor or habit of exploding. Yesterday, we asked Jalopnik readers for their favorite car nicknames and here are the ten best.
Read MoreCheap doesn't have to mean bad as these cars from Land of the Rising Sun clearly show. Here are the ten cars Jalopnik readers identified as the most collectible Japanese econoboxes.
Read MoreIt is easy to mistake this 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu for a nicely restored stock car. Unless you happen to notice the unique "white wall tires" mounted on the stock 15x7 wheels, there is nothing to suggest this car is any different from the average cruise night Chevelle. That is of course until you get a look under the hood and realize this unassuming Chevelle is actually a well disguised twin turbo beast.
Read MoreI can't believe this actually happened. The folks at Auto Buds can eat their heart out because we have a photograph of the rare example of two identical cars crashing into each other. And it happened in Dallas. You don't say...
Read MoreSaturday was just another day on the job for a sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma and his canine partner — until they were hit head-on by a drunk driver in broad daylight. Everyone survived, but as this video shows, it wasn't just a fender bender.
Read MoreLast week's crash of a half-million-dollar Ferrari F40 in Houston was more than just an unfortunate accident, it was, according to exclusive details Jalopnik gathered over the weekend, the result of a mechanic's test drive gone horribly wrong.
Read MoreMore than a quarter-of-a-million people have seen the video of a Corvette ZR1 driver crashing into a Chrysler SRT8 since Jalopnik first posted it. Now we have the video, and story, of what happens next.
Read MoreWe don't have a lot of details on how this Ferrari F40 wound up sans front clip. All we know is it happened in Houston at the crazy, construction-heavy I-610/I-290 interchange. UPDATE!
Read MoreA moment of photographic brilliance and bloodcurdling terror from the 1914 American Grand Prize in Santa Monica shows the sheer violence of the early days of motor racing, which, in this dramatic and fortunate case, did not turn out to be deadly.
Read MoreWhen the Ladd, Ill., fire department called for backup to a highway crash, two firefighters found their route blocked by drivers going the wrong way on the shoulder to escape the backup. Their 21st-century response: Bitching out the drivers on Facebook.
Read MoreFord says it will build only 50 copies of the Mustang Boss 302S, a track-only demon that we've called the greatest track-day Mustang ever. The very first copy off the assembly line met the walls — and hopefully not its end — at the Mid-Ohio track last weekend. UPDATED!
Read MoreRowan Atkinson's wrecked McLaren didn't blow up in a fireball, despite what you may have read in the British tabloids if, like us, you were up reading them until the wee hours of the morning. As this photo shows, it was just a simple off.
Read MoreThe actor Rowan Atkinson, known to most as the clumsy Mr. Bean, apparently cheated death this evening when he lost control of his powerful McLaren F1 (pictured) and hit a tree. The actor escaped the wreckage before the car burst into flames. UPDATE!
Read MoreWhen Jeremy Clarkson hit 207 mph in a Lamborghini Murcielago in the April 2008 episode of Top Gear it wasn't actually Clarkson hitting the number, unnamed sources tell The Daily Mail, but rather Formula 3 driver Aaron Scott. But we thought Top Gear was a documentary!?!
Read MoreDo we pause to take note of Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson calling Detroit a city full of "murder" and "terror"? Yes, yes we do. But do we get angry, upset or lash out? No, we have something better.
Read MoreThe East Coast earthquake may finally have a cause: the unholy union of Jack White, Mozart and Insane Clown Posse. The Detroit duo and uglier half of The White Stripes crafted a bizarro cover of Mozart's "Leck Mich Im Arsch," which in fact is exactly as dirty as it sounds, as you can hear for yourself below. (NSFW! Audible cursing!) Vizzini put together a much more successful remix of a classic today, appropriating John Madden for the military's turducken approach to hauling a damaged F/A-18 hom
Read MoreToday, the top speed limit in the country is 80 mph. By tomorrow, September 1, 2011, the Texas Legislature will have upped the state's maximum speed limit to 85 miles per hour, faster than any other state in the nation. (Note: A more thorough reading of the bill reveals the Texas DOT was granted the option to raise the speed limit to 85 on the day the bill was signed, back in June. The September 1 milestone eliminated separate night speed limits.)
Read MoreSure, we all like a nice, curvy road to mess with for a few hours, but what about roads that are so batshit twisty that they'll shame a plate of fettuccine carbonara. What's the twistiest road in the world?
Read MoreThe problem with creating a hit car is you have to follow it up with an even better new version or risk becoming the Flock of Seagulls of automobile design. These ten reader-chosen cars were sad redesigns of previous generations.
Read MoreAudi's new mid- and full-sized S models have undergone a bit of engine downsizing plus boosting, while gaining in the fuel-economy area. What will the Audi faithful say when they say a twin-turbo eight in place of that lovely V10? Duck and cover.
Read MoreThis is a surveillance photo of a New Mexico State Trooper caught strip-searching a random woman with his penis on the hood of a car. What's even more funny? There's a prairie dog sitting there watching.
Read MoreA Subaru Impreza owner attempted to race down a challenging rocky path in Miner's Gulch, Colo., only to discover you can't actually drive a lightly, spray-paint modified as if it were a Jeep. Watching it get towed out is amusing and awful all at the same time.UPDATE!
Read MoreRemember that nutcase cop who arrested a bystander for recording a public crime scene? Yeah, that was a violation of the First Amendment, according to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston. This is great news.
Read MoreBy now you know Porsche's offering a 7-speed manual transmission on the new 2012 Porsche 911. It turns out, according to CarEnvy.ca, who somehow were magically able to liberate a photo of the new shift knob, that the shift pattern we first showed you last month is absolutely the correct layout.
Read MoreIllegal street racing is a dangerous hobby that puts participants, spectators and innocent passers-by at risk. Which is what makes Sweden's Stockholm Open — held since 1982, run on public streets with thousands of spectators — all the more astonishing.
Read MoreWe’re back! After a four-week summer break, Formula One has returned to Spa-Francorchamps. And it was overtake city, crazy qualifying and terribly gorgeous drives. Warning: spoilers.
Read MoreThis classic clip illustrates why we don't miss the dark days of active safety, when someone in the auto industry, probably Satan, thought automatic seat belts were a good idea. Also, remember when cars talked to you?
Read MoreThe ability to put power down to all wheels, once the province of trucks and oddities, is now the hallmark of modern supercars. Here's what Jalopnik readers think are the ten ultimate all-wheel-drive cars.
Read MoreEvery year on the third weekend in August a week of high end car shows and auctions on the Monterey Peninsula ends with the beyond upscale and world famous Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. On the opposite side of the country a decidedly less upscale collector car event has been held the same weekend in the small seaside town of Owls Head, Me for the past 34 years.
Read MoreThis impressive Murphy-bodied 1931 Duesenberg Model J coupe owned by eccentric playboy George Whittell Jr. more than doubled the previous record Duesenberg sale ($4.455 million in 2004) when it brought $10.34 million dollars at auction last weekend.
Read MoreWith Hurricane Irene barreling toward New York City, I've decided to stay behind in my Manhattan Financial District apartment — located smack-dab in the middle of "Evacuation Zone A." Keep refreshing this page as I live-blog the storm from my perch above lower Manhattan providing either the first pictures of Hurricane Irene New York City damage — or a whole lot of nothing. (LAST UPDATED - 8:17 PM EST)
Read MoreBelow is a video of WTTG's Tucker Barnes casually giving a live report on Hurricane Irene today from Ocean City, Maryland while drenched in what he described as "organic matter" that "doesn't taste great." I wonder why it didn't taste great?
Read MoreWhat qualifies as a "new car" varies greatly depending on who you ask. Some people think a car becomes "old" as soon as it is no longer showroom fresh. A former co-worker of mine who restored Model-Ts used to tell me he didn't care much for "newer cars" like my 54 year old Plymouth Belvedere. This weekend we want to know about your definition. How new does a car have to be for you to consider it a "new car"?
Read MoreFrom the annals of dumb things people do when scared comes this photo snapped by a New York Daily News reader.
Read MoreMaybe you were out preparing for Hurricane Irene and you couldn't check your favorite Gawker Media sites. Or maybe you're in need of a distraction right now, so you don't have to think about the impending storm. Whatever the case, we've got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched during the week that was.
Read MoreHurricane Irene is churning up the East Coast like an angry 17th-century dairy maid. Obama has canceled his vacation to make us feel safe and evacuations are underway in New York City. Here's the latest news, with updates below.
Read MoreIt's good to know that while the rest of my peers were learning multiplication or the value of farm work, I was embedded by a Hollywood producer's castoff idea, namely "What if we made a terrible cop show out of 'Tron'?" That show: Automan, which went on to puzzle millions of Americans in 1980 with its cut-rate special effects and Lamborghini Countach that could make 90-degree turns, throwing Desi Arnaz Jr.'s mug all over the window. This toadstool of entertainment has weathered in my head for
Read MoreHarry Douglas is a sad reminder of auto-journalism's past. He's a paranoid schizophrenic with a FlipCam and a dream. Canadian journalist Michael Banovsky delves into the strange world of America's worst car critic. — Ed.
Read MoreAll-wheel drive. Before the 1980s, driving wheels at both ends of a car was largely the province Subarus. (Though, the first was the "Dernburg-Wagen" in 1907.) Times have changed, especially for high-performance vehicles. What's the ultimate all-wheel drive car?
Read MoreThere's only so many ways off the island of Manhattan. With Hurricane Irene bearing down on New York, here's seven secret (or at least semi-secret) ways to make like Snake Plissken and escape from New York to the mainland before the storm hits. Also, what to do if you don't have time to escape.
Read MoreWhen a product becomes synonymous with its category, it's a category-killer. You might be familiar with something called an "iPod" — those used to be called "mp3 players." The same thing often happens with cars. Here are ten cars that Jalopnik readers think defined a category.
Read MoreDid you hear? Hurricane Irene is going to slam into New York City like Lindsay Lohan slamming into the sidewalk in front of a nightclub. It's going to be horrible! But we're sure you can make it through if you prepare adequately. Here's how.
Read MoreOk, it's that time of the year again. Read this and go riot before is too late!
Read MoreTime again to mark the birth of one Declan McManus, and note the changes in the musical genius from angry Brit clone of Buddy Holly to rock-'n-roll legend. Being a legend requires reminding those who weren't there at the beginning what all the fuss was about, something Porsche appears to be missing with short-sighted video game tactics, as Adidas notes:
Read MoreYou know it can't be true. Your brain tells you that selling a 2009 Nissan GT-R for $25,500 anywhere outside a salvage yard should raise multiple questions. But you call the number anyway. And that's where things get weird.
Read MoreTonya Harding was the first American woman to nail the triple axel in a figure skating competition, but did you know she's also the first person to establish a land speed record in the Vintage Gas Coup Class? You know Tonya Harding the figure skater-turned-women's boxer. Now meet Tonya Harding the successful vintage race driver.
Read MoreThe Cadillac Escalade continues to be the most stolen vehicle in America, according to the nation's insurance industry. It, and these nine other vehicles, make up the latest list of the ten most likely to be stolen.
Read MoreAs gearheads, it's a struggle we face nearly every day: we know a car's horribly built or neutered by the Feds, but it just looks so good. Here are the ten cars Jalopnik readers think are sexy but mostly crap.
Read MoreWe've long been impressed by the vehicular ingenuity of the Libyan uprising, but as this photo of a dictator-approved Fiat 500 from the compound of Muammar Gaddafi shows, they weren't the only ones into customizing. UPDATE: They're pushing it because it's electric.
Read MoreGood. Lord. 218MPH is fast, like super fast, like suck-the-teeth-out-the-back-of-your-head super fast. And that's world-record setting speed the Lightning Motorcycle SuperBike just pulled off at the Bonneville Salt Flats last week. Why should you care? Because you can now own one.
Read MoreTo Mazda's rotary enthusiasts, the sound of Johnny Herbert tossing the 787B around Le Mans for the first time since it won 20 years ago is pure music. Our post on the death of Mr. Wankel's creation and the rising tide of beige spawned several epic comments. Picking the one by F1_nothing_else_matters doesn't mean you should skip the rest:
Read MoreThe Texas hill country was alive with the sounds of a Formula One V10 this past weekend as racing superstar and F1 commentator David Coulthard shredded tires of the Red Bull F1 showcar on the streets of Austin. Jalopnik had a chance to talk to Coulthard and get his impressions of F1 in the United States and breakfast tacos.
Read MoreThe Pagani Huayra isn't technically legal to drive on city streets in the U.S., but one of the Italian exotics is here for show/testing purposes until it can get around our pesky airbag laws. This didn't stop a cadre of local California law enforcement from stopping the car while being driven by founder Horacio Pagani with AutoWeek's Mark Vaughn in tow.
Read MoreThe great thing about Norway's Arctic Circle Raceway is the perpetual daylight that exists in certain seasons means you can theoretically run a 24 hour endurance race entirely under lighted conditions. None of this explains the existence of a Ford Focus converted to RWD and powered by a Supra 2JZGTE engine running the track, but it's an amusing factoid. Watch it take down a Skyline GT-R.
Read MoreAmericans build roads to our greatest attractions — like the Grand Canyon — and build attractions for our greatest roads — like a giant cheese castle. Here's what Jalopnik readers consider America's ten most awesome roadside attractions.
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Read MoreToday's 5.9 magnitude earthquake was felt throughout the Mid-Atlantic, but its epicenter—a small town in Virginia—took the brunt of its wrath. What if it had started in NYC instead? We may find out sooner than you think.
Read MoreVerily, the seed of the bull is treated with reverence while the seed of man is spilled upon the ground. Dealkiller's description of the aftermath of an unfortunate bus accident also calls for some musical accompaniment:
Read MoreThe roads surrounding the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance are the only place in the world where you can get jaded by the sight of a mid-'60s Ferrari in a matter of days. Here's the best of what I saw this weekend.
Read MoreWhat's the next best thing to owning a Ferrari 458 Italia? Forget it, you can't afford her. But a few things down from that is this: a replica 458 Italia steering wheel for XBox.
Read MoreThis is it. The newly-redesigned 2012 Toyota Camry. And yes, even in red, it's still just as beige as you'd expect it to be.
Read MoreDrivers over an on-ramp to I-65 just south of downtown Nashville called police after smelling an extremely foul odor wafting into their cars around 6 a.m. today. When police and fire officials arrived, they discovered four unmarked, steaming canisters on the ground — and an unpleasant odor wafting from them. What was it?
Read MoreNewly released development plans of Apple’s proposed corporate campus, which will look like a galactic portal and will be bigger than the Pentagon, hint at the company’s peculiar indifference to cars.
Read MoreYes, it's true. Those pics you saw of the 2012 Porsche 911 are the real deal, as Porsche confirmed this morning. With that confirmation comes copious new details on the new, 991-model Porsche, the most comprehensive update to the rear-engined classic in decades.
Read MoreYes, kids, it's back-to-school time. Time for maxing out mom and dad's credit card at Target, Best Buy and the local dispensary. And a car? You need a low price, lots of cargo space, above-average reliability and hoonability. What's the best college car?
Read MoreToday, Ford and Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding for a collaboration on new rear-wheel-drive hybrid technology for trucks and SUVs. Yes, that's right, rear-wheel-drive.
Read MoreEdmunds.com released a list of the 100 greatest cars of all time this past week which gives the 1932 Ford top honors. Their list is an interesting read and is by their own admission "a biased list in favor of cars that enthusiasts love" with historically important models mixed in.
Read MoreThe golf courses surrounding Pebble Beach flood with Bentleys and Jaguars and exotic Italian cars every August, but there's only one Baja racer driven by Steve McQueen. And thanks to new owner James Glickenhaus, it's been upgraded to 100% street legal.
Read MoreA 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa prototype sold for $14.9 million at the Gooding auction in Pebble Beach, Calif., tonight. Adding in the buyers' premium, the final price is $16.39 million, setting a record for the most expensive car ever sold publicly. Congrats to the new owners of a vehicle that's burned twice and looked like this at the 1958 24 Hours of Le Mans:
Read MoreThe history of all Ford V8 hotrods traces to Edsel Ford himself, who built this two-seat roadster in 1934 dubbed the Model 40 Special Speedster. After being hidden for 41 years, then restored by the Ford family, it's debuting at Pebble Beach this year. Here are the first live, gorgeous pictures.
Read MoreThe path into the world of automotive obsession is usually a long and strange one. Often it is an infatuation with one particular car that pushes us towards a lifelong love of most things automotive. It could be a car you spent time around growing up, the first or fourth car of your own or perhaps even a car you saw only in magazines or on TV. Whatever it might be, chances are you remember it. What car made you love cars?
Read MoreMaybe you were out enjoying the summer weather all week and couldn't check your favorite Gawker Media sites. Or maybe you're leaving town for the weekend and want one last distraction before you hit the road. Well, whatever the case, we've got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched during the week that was.
Read MoreThe Woodward Dream Cruise on Metro Detroit's historic Woodward Avenue is one of the top ten greatest car events in the world. Each year, Jalopnik picks a special car as its staff cruiser.
Read MoreA Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder wound up in a sand trap after the driver took a wrong turn leaving the Concorso Italiano event in Monterey near the Pebble Beach festivities last night. Mulligan!
Read MoreWe've told you to see "Senna." Our readers have told you to see "Senna." Now a Los Angeles woman who'd never heard of Ayrton Senna before the movie is giving away 100 tickets. There's no excuses left.
Read MoreJacob LaDuke served with the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan in 2002 as an A-10 crew chief. Here, LaDuke explains one of his first nights at Bagram AFB and his near fatal brush with a big ol' Canadian transport. — Ed.
Read MoreMost of us have to drive every day to get to work, but our commutes would certainly be better if we were behind the wheel of one of these cars. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten craziest daily drivers.
Read MoreConsidering today's Question of the Day, jpech took issue with the use of the word "crazy" to describe people who drive "exotic, or antique, or minimalist, or otherwise abnormal vehicles." They are not the crazy ones, he says, and then elaborates eloquently.
Read MoreJalopnik commenter CaughtYouLooking was so inspired by Asif Kapadia's Senna documentary that she (yes, she) got "Senna" tattooed, semi-Ozzy-style, across the tops of her fingers. It's no henna Senna, either — it's the real deal. We'll let her explain.
Read MoreMorgan Motor Company may be steeped in the dusky liquors of the old world, but it's been making moves toward next-level thinking. Take the company's hydrogen fuel cell LifeCar project, and now its all-electric +E program. Part Caterham, part Nissan Leaf?
Read MoreIndyCar driver Will Power was not pleased with race officials this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and vented his frustration with two glorious, flaming birds of obscenity. And thus a meme was born. TO THE PHOTOSHOPS!
Read MoreTraffic’s somehow bearable when you consider that, without it, there would be no need for the warm smile of the always curiously attractive TV traffic reporter. According to Jalopnik readers, here are the ten hottest TV traffic reporters.[jump]
Read MoreIt's the billion-dollar question for offshore drilling giants: Could the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been prevented? Researchers at MIT's Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory may have found at least a partial answer—the same kind of computer modeling that predicts whether car components can hold their own in a crash could also forecast whether pipes will fracture at offshore drilling sites. A fractured pipe can mean the difference between a stable operation and a massive oil spill.
Read MoreThe Cadillac ELR is the more expensive luxury coupe version of the Chevy Volt formerly known as the Cadillac Converj, now officially green-lit for production with its lame three-letter name and not-so-lame sharp-edged design.
Read MoreTwo unidentified individuals recently flogged a dealership-fresh BMW 1M at high speeds on residential streets. One of them caught it on video. That video wound up on YouTube. You can guess what happened next.
Read MoreIt never occurred to me that I should follow the Twitter account of hot F1 spawn arm-candy Tamara Ecclestone until the folks at the unaffiliated and way more European AutoBlog.gr pointed out she was posting pics of herself running around Greece.
Read MoreFor 11 years, a battered green Honda Civic, bursting at the seams with books, has been parked at the corner of Columbus Ave. and 68th St., in the middle of Manhattan's fancy Upper West Side. What is this strange car? More importantly, how, given New York City's draconian war against cars, has it managed to remain in seemingly the same spot for 11 years? Here's how.
Read MoreThese appear to be the first photos of the 2012 Porsche 911 (Codename: 991), the new, 400-hp generation of Porsche's famous ass-engined sports car.
Read MoreHave you ever noticed that TV traffic reporters are always female and almost always insanely attractive? We examine this phenomena in QOTD. "Who's the hottest TV traffic reporter?"
Read MoreNASCAR's current lineup of Chargers, Fusions, Impalas and Camrys is getting stale. Newer, interesting cars are needed to liven things up. Here are the ten cars Jalopnik readers would like to see in NASCAR.
Read MoreThe thing with engineering riddles is that the theoretical ones are just as effective as the real ones, so hardly anyone ever fact-checks to see if the scenario ever really happened. Even Snopes tried to chase down the story of the Vanilla Ice Cream Conundrum, and still couldn't prove its veracity. Its effectiveness, however, is undeniable.
Read MoreLast year's Gymkhana 3 freestyle drifting antics were watched by 35 million kiddies on YouTube. Today he tries to top that last performance by tearing up the Universal Studios Backlot. It's got Block crashing through a building, a gorilla on a Segway, Epic Meal Time, construction equipment, explosions, Sasquatch, and merchandising. Behold the Hollywood megamercial!
Read MoreAdam Carolla isn't known for being smart. That's not to say he's stupid — only that he's built his reputation on other things, like his spotless "bro" credentials, his penchant for adolescent humor (despite being 47 years old), and his unabashed love of women (or portions of their anatomy).
Read MoreTwo weeks ago we told you about a growing number of Hyundai Sonata owners who say their cars had a tendency to wander at highway speeds. Yesterday, Hyundai told us it has issued a service bulletin to fix those Sonatas.
Read MoreSeeing this plane in the skies above you generally means you're about to have a really shitty day. It's the Spooky, a close air support variant of the Lockheed AC-130 Hercules aircraft.
Read MoreIt's only right the Hennessey Venom GT — a monster with a 1,200-hp American heart — should finally find an American owner. And it's "P***Y Magnet" yellow to boot, though we're sure the owner isn't Nick Hogan.
Read MoreHow did three unaffiliated car magazines all end up with the same cover? Who's copying whom? Is there some, secret collusion among the US's Automobile, the UK's Car and Germany's Auto-Bild: Sportscars? Nope. It's just business.
Read MoreShots of an oddly chopped-and-bedded Audi Q7 have been circulating, leading some to wonder if it's truly a partially-decapitated SUV, or a VW Amarok pickup fitted with an Audi's front clip. Either way, it's been confirmed Photoshop-free, for what that's worth.
Read MoreA massive wall of video screens displays real-time images from a network of cameras, while employees look at a million points of data on their own computers. It's Houston's other mission control, and they've now got a new tool to combat congestion: your Bluetooth device.
Read MoreCar dealers, like other businesses, are now a target of overseas hackers looking to make quick money. Why? They're easy prey.
Read MoreIn the past few decades, the U.S. Air Force has spent untold billions researching and developing a family of stealth fighter jets that are supposed to be generations ahead of any dogfighters in the sky.
Read MoreWhen owning a second car dedicated to epic hoonage isn't an option, one needs a single car that can handle both commuting and executing smoky, four-wheel drifts on weekends (or on the way home). What's the most hoonable daily driver?
Read MoreLand Rover says a new, cleaner diesel engine for the Defender is EU5-compatible. This means that, while the long-awaited, all-new Defender has yet to emerge, the current model's won a short-term fight for survival — at least in Europe.
Read MoreMost car manufacturers state that paper air filters should be changed every year or 15,000 miles, whichever comes first. This is an extremely easy maintenance task that anyone can DIY instead of overpaying the tech at Jiffy Lube.
Read MoreWe've seen quite a few weird automotive modifications in our years of automotive obsession, but the two front end treatment on this 1971 Chevrolet Kingswood is easily one of the weirdest. The more you look at the two way Chevy, the stranger it becomes.
Read MoreLike the El Camino, Tom T. Hall was a versatile hybrid, a singer and songwriter who put together some of country music's greatest ditties. There's no replacing an original, only coping with its absence, as zacarious highlights in his post about Holden tempting us with a Ute:
Read MoreJack Rebney's bad day was nothing but backroom lore until the web made him Winnebago Man, a.k.a. the angriest man alive. Director Ben Steinbauer tracked down Rebney for the documentary "Winnebago Man," which we're featuring as our first Gearhead Film Friday feature.
Read More"Oh poop! It's dark, and everything's all weird and blurry. What are all these signs doing there! Oh no, scary detour! Those aren't taillights of other cars are they!?"
Read MoreWhat kind of man turns his BMW dealership into a ghost store of never-sold cars for a decade, maintaining the building like it could open at a moment's notice? A car guy, or so he says.
Read MoreYou know the often-botched phrase: "Imitation is the sincerest of flattery"? (Thanks, Charles Caleb Colton.) It doesn't just apply to hair metal, prop comics and energy drinks. It's also prevalent in the automotive world. What car inspired the most imitators?
Read MoreThere comes a point in the life of most cars when the effort/money/time required to keep the car alive exceeds any real or emotional value. Here are the ten signs it's time to let your car die, according to Jalopnik readers.
Read MoreJay-Z and Kayne West's epic "Watch The Throne" duet album has spawned a car-based collaboration — between a Maybach 57 and a Sawzall. Watch the two turn it into a flame-shooting quasi-rat rod in this video for "Otis."
Read MoreWhat better way to explain the benefits of a guppy-shaped car to a populace rebuilding after war than with a cheery cartoon, as BMW attempted to do with this 1950s ad for the Isetta. For the BMWs still waiting to be sold after a few decades in a Canadian dealership, I is Guacamoles has a more involved story:
Read MoreIf you'll recall, Jim Glickenhaus's Ferrari P4/5 Competizione made its racing debut at this the Nürburgring 24 hour earlier this year. Since then, we've seen a few video clips, but this long-form video wrap of the event contains some never-before-seen racing footage. Jim, you've done it again.
Read MoreThis Chevy Camaro put on quite a drifting demonstration at a Michigan dragstrip last weekend. Right up until its side air bags decided they'd had one too many donuts and spontaneously deployed, slightly burning a passenger. UPDATE
Read MoreIn the small town of Oakville, Ontario there sits a BMW dealership, abandoned for almost a decade. Inside the doors sit, frozen in time, two 20-year-old BMWs in seemingly mint condition. What happened?
Read MoreEven with the world's most powerful computers, there's only so much the brains of the U.S. military can learn about flying at 20 times the speed of sound — 13,000 mph — outside of a real test. That happens today, when the Falcon HTV-2 launches. UPDATE: Anyone seen a hot arrow-shaped plane?
Read MoreA 600 cc, two-cylinder 2CV kitted out with sheet steel panels bolted together and called the Baby-Brousse is less ridiculous than it sounds. Leaving behind their humble origins as French peasant cars, these little Citroëns rode in 1973 from Paris to Abidjan, on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, to shame all future Paris–Dakar wannabes.
Read MoreA 43-year-old dentist from the Chicago area, William Anthony Howe is recovering in the hospital after he crashed head-on into another car on the interstate last Saturday. Howe was going the wrong way and the two people in the car he crashed into are dead. And it gets worse: A witnesses told the Chicago Tribune that Howe "was rifling around his passenger seat and picked up a handful of cash and threw it out the window." Several cars pulled over to grab the money. Shockingly, Howe was driving a re
Read MoreThis is what happens when Delahaye USA, a company from New Jersey, attempts to build a replica of one of the most esteemed and sophisticated classics ever, the Bugatti 57S. Might as well call the carbon fiber "Bella Figura" the "57S Atlantique City."
Read MoreEnthusiast Xou Vang spent this last weekend bidding for a used Nissan GT-R on eBay and, at $55,100, thought he'd gotten a fair price for his dream car. The dealer, Honda of San Marcos, thought the deal was too fair and reportedly said they'd refuse their deal unless he coughed up a few grand more. UPDATE: The dealership's caved under your pressure and Xuo Vang's getting the car at the initial sale price!
Read MoreSnakeskin leather accents? No, not the devil's guitar case. It's the 2012 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150, which gets a bit of snake action on the inside and out (interior accents and snakeskin texture graphics). Because bikers and snakeskin go together like shins and bruises.
Read MoreThe Pagani Huayra, the insanity-squared Italian supercar with a catfish front-end, a 700-hp twin-turbo V12 engine, and an unpronounceable name has now joined a distinguished group: Cars blocked by the United States government from being sold on these shores. The reason? Air bags for kids.
Read MoreHere is something you will not hear come out of a black person's mouth: "That 2012 Toyota Prius? I need that." I hate to generalize but think about it, when was the last time you heard any one of your black friends hype up a Prius, a Nissan Leaf or any other environmentally-safe automobile? You haven't.
Read MoreYou've heard the axiom: "It's better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow." Yes, but which slow car? Brush up on your fun-to-drive sloths. What's the best slow car to drive fast?
Read MoreEarlier this year we told you about a rising number of Ford Mustang owners complaining of faulty manual transmissions that Ford can't seem to fix. Now U.S. safety regulators have opened a defect probe into 26,000 cars.
Read MoreOne of the 35 Ferrari 750 Monza Spyders built will cross the block at RM auction's upcoming Monterey event.
Read MoreLong before Volkswagen started advertising the Beetle's ability to float, they built a vehicle meant to swim. It was called the Schwimmwagen or Type 166 for those who speak Volkswagen. Most of the approximately 16,000 amphibious Schwimmwagens built by Porsche and Volkswagen in the 1940s were destroyed in WWII, making this example currently on Ebay very rare and accordingly very expensive.
Read MoreOver the years car manufacturers have made some interesting choices when it came time to pick paint colors. Which choices were good and which choices were bad varies greatly on a person by person basis. This weekend we want to know which color is the worst to ever appear on a production vehicle. What is the worst car color?
Read MoreLarry Chen at Speedhunters recently uncovered the unbelievable "brand new" 25 year old AE86 Toyota Corolla seen here on a trip to Belgium. If you've ever wondered what a perfectly optioned AE86 would have looked like fresh from the dealer's lot, wonder no more.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that a Chinook helicopter carrying 31 US special forces troops and 7 Afghan troops was shot down last night by a Taliban insurgent's missile. The crash killed everyone onboard.
Read MoreThe mysterious cache of exotic cars collected by the Sultan of Brunei has been hidden from public view for many years — until this week, when 21 popped up for sale for as much as $2 million. The worst news? The sultan never drove most of them.
Read MoreOnline configurators can not only be great timewasters, but give us a glimpse of how desperate a brand can be for its customers. Why else would Bentley let you stamp obscenities on the door sill of a Mulsanne?
Read MoreLife in the Second World means learning how to deal with bizarre taxes. One of the ways to get around the extortionate vehicle import duties common in many post-Soviet countries is to have your car chopped in half. An Audi sliced clean down the middle is suddenly not an Audi but two heaps of parts.
Read MoreAlthough most of us have been absorbing car knowledge since before we could read, sometimes certain models just slip from our imagination. Then, with a visual jolt, we're reminded. What car did you forget existed until you saw one on the street?
Read MoreToday's Dukes of Hazzard-esque lowlight was missing only two things; a pause mid-jump and commentary delivered in Waylon Jennings' gravelly voice. Luckily crank-o-tron stepped to the fore:
Read MoreNext time you're sitting in an airport waiting out a weather delay caused by a light sprinkle, just sit down and watch this video of Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan, as they fly jets in and out as a typhoon rages behind them.
Read MoreThis morning a young Australian woman had a bomb strapped to her freaking neck in what seems to have been an extortion attempt. Terrifying. Luckily the bomb squad saved the day. But how exactly do they safely kill bombs dead?
Read MoreThrough the first seven months of 2011, Hyundai and Kia have sold more vehicles to Americans than all European automakers combined, and are growing faster than any other automaker. Here's how South Korea's automakers have the rest of the world on the run.
Read MoreChina may be the world's fastest-growing automotive market, but so far homegrown Chinese car design has proven unimaginative at best. The generic econoboxes and clones of aging Audis are the result of years of knock-down kits, alliances with Western automakers and an automotive market where few ordinary Chinese could participate until recently.
Read MoreA flight crew testing the new Boeing 747-8F cargo plane had 17 hours to kill during a max endurance test last night so they decided to graffiti a message across the Western United States.
Read MoreThe 2010 tally of the most-stolen cars from the National Insurance Crime Bureau suggests that America's car thieves still watch "Friends" reruns and write in Bill Clinton on every ballot.
Read MoreThree years ago, a pair of Ohio men saw a Hummer H3 burning at the bottom of an embankment after running off a road. Rushing to the truck, they pulled a woman from the flames. Now they're suing her for damages from the injuries they suffered saving her life.
Read MoreSome cars just look more sinister when they're behind you, flashing their high-beams. In the left lane. On the autobahn. In the rain. With Michael Schumacher at the wheel. What's the most intimidating car to see in your rear-view mirror?
Read MorePassengers on an Iran Air flight learned the hard way why you should keep your seat belt securely fastened while taxiing after their plane collided with a truck loaded with jet fuel.
Read MoreFormer Carroll Shelby employee Angelica Smith filed a lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior Court alleging she was groped by the automotive legend, forced to bring him pornography, raped by another employee at his home, and finally fired by Shelby for complaining about the assault according to TMZ. UPDATE.
Read MoreLike Ron White's rich vein of comedy struck by his experience with a tire service at Sears, the story of a run-in with Firestone's mechanics opened a wellspring of mechanical horror stories, many from national chains. Turbolence's had not just the typical gory details, but some insight into a coping strategy:
Read MoreThe new Honda Civic is so mediocre even Consumer Reports, long a cheerleader for the Japanese econo-cruiser, dropped the redesigned 2012 model from its "recommended buy" list after the new model sunk to a rating of just 61 points on the magazine's 100-point scale. That means the newly-redesigned Honda Civic scored too low of a rating to even be recommended.
Read MoreThere really is nothing like the glory of changing weather conditions for sprinkling fairy dust on a Grand Prix. A shot of rain on a cool day was enough to turn the tedium of the Hungaroring into a sparkling race to remember. It also didn’t hurt to have the sultan of capricious weather on the grid, hungry for a win. Warning: spoilers.
Read MoreThe mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania was so upset with luxury cars parking in the city's bicycle lanes he held a demonstration to express his displeasure — using a troop carrier to crush a junked Mercedes W140, just like the Soviets used to. UPDATE.
Read MoreAfter hijacking an airplane and extorting $200,000 from the FBI, DB Cooper calmly made a daring escape via parachute. Forty years later, new evidence suggests law enforcement may finally be hot on the trail of America's most elusive fugitive. But what is this new evidence?
Read MoreToday, Nice Price or Crack Pipe goes continental with a Dusseldorf-donked Rolls Royce Kombi Estate. Roller wagons are rarer than non-kinky German sex, and while this car is claimed to be a working girl, its price may just kill the mood.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is rarer than an honest politician, more international than Angelina Jolie's adopted brood, and has an interior with more leather than Sturgis in August. All good things those, but is it's price also more than you can take?
Read MoreWhile Hurricane Irene has brought a world of hurt to the eastern seaboard this past weekend, not all storms are as disastrous nor expensive. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is a Cyclone named Cale, and while it's more NASCAR than FEMA, will its price rain on your parade?
Read MoreAs one of the original, and most successful of invaders of the American auto market, the VW Beetle literally arrived here by the boatload. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Custom Chop Top Woodie Beetle looks to be ship shape, but will its price sink the deal?
Read MoreThe latest Civic hit the market with a kind of a thud, leaving everyone wondering, what the hell happened, Honda? Fortunately, there's still a few cool Civics around from when Civics were cool, and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '89 wagon isn't just cool, it's intercooled.
Read MoreSome things just go together - peanut butter and chocolate, beer farts and giggles, and, adding to that list, hair shirt British roadsters and BMW M-series sixes. As representative of that last category, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe restored TR6 begs not the question of should you, as its concept is near perfection, but of could you, as its price might stand improvement.
Read MoreWith real Bugatti 57s fetching literally millions on the auction block, it's unreasonable to consider one as a daily driver. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Repligatti could get you to and fro without fear, but is its price too much to throw at a fake?
Read MoreDespite a longstanding relationship with Pininfarina, Ferrari awarded the design of their first mid-engined V8 car to cross-town rival Bertone, a decision that Pininfarina then, and many since, have rued. The seller of today'sNice Price or Crack Pipe 308 GTB4 has tried to rectify the styling, but his price might also wreck-tify it for you.
Read MoreMaserati is a venerated name, built on both street and track. They have also had, over their 96-year history, a string of owners, each of whom has had a different vision for the company, and as proven by today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '84 Biturbo, sometimes that vision has been somewhat clouded. It's up to you to see if its price makes it a clearly good deal none the less.
Read MoreWe've seen slant nose Porsches here before. And we've had Renegade V8 editions too. All those pale, however, in the presence of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe crazy-custom twin-turbo SBC, speedster-bodied, TV in the dash, massive scoop-wing'd Miami Vice drug dealer's car of a 912. And it's up to you to decide if its price is equally over the top.
Read MoreHere in the states, the El Camino and Ranchero battled for decades as car-based pickups. Australia is much like the US, only upside down, and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Falcon XF Ute might have required a bed cap to keep everything from falling up when down there. Now that it's here, that's not a problem, but is its price?
Read MoreThe volcanic islands of Hawaii have been pushing forth from the sea for centuries, the lava flows expanding their footprint on the surface. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Passat wagon looks like it's been covered in lava, but would its price make you blow your top?
Read MoreFrustratingly, Australia has some wildly great cars that never make it to the US. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ford Falcon did make the trip however, and that means you don't have to get mad, you can get Mad Max.
Read MoreEponymous car makes and gull-wing doors seem to go together like Charlie Sheen and crazy. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bricklin is ready to spread its wings, but will you find its price to be bird brained?
Read MoreThe Eagles once advocated in song to take it to the limit, one more time, while guitarist Joe Walsh - in his solo days - lamented that having done so one too many times ended his Maserati driving days. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Maser Spyder offers the chance to be like Joe, but is its price way over the limit?
Read MoreCadillac touted the 1976 Eldorado as its last convertible product ever, causing speculators to rabidly snap them up. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1984 Eldo ragtop may have been Caddy's way of saying just kidding, but should its price be taken seriously?
Read MoreWhether you are Mr. Bond, or Mr. Bean, the Aston Martin has always been a ride of choice for the well heeled Brit. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1991 Virage could be your choice, but will its price make it more of a mirage?
Read MoreThe Bentley Arnage is a stately ride, and is usually reserved for the most discriminating of automobile owners. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bentley homage Town Car may be for those without a single discriminating bone in their bodies, but is its price still biased?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate is all about the even numbers. It has twelve cylinders, six speeds, it's a four-seater, and the model is an eight-series. All that means the price must also be even-steven, right? Well, it's up to you to find if that's the case, or if it is just plain odd.
Read MoreVega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and is the second brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cosworth Vega may not have shined as brightly as intended, but it was still the star of the marque. Right now it's up to you to determine whether this one's price is down to Earth, or astronomical.
Read MoreFord's F-series Pickup has been the best selling vehicle in America for more than two decades. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe F-100 Super Cab is evidence to that longevity, but could its price be described as the best?
Read MoreIt is said that, in conflict, to the victor goes the spoils. Italy may have lost the war, but today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lancia can not only be considered the spoils thereof, but is also be-spoliered, its price however, might just spoil it for you.
Read MoreFollowing the effeminate 924 and the etherial 944, the epoch-ending 968 seems to have become the forgotten Porsche. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cabriolet might just jog some memories, but will its price make you say fuggedaboutit?
Read MoreWhen is a $50 part worth more than a billion-dollar styling refresh? Probably never, if we're honest. But considering the 10 coolest taillights ever, PhilaDLJ recalled an apt quote from Bob Lutz emphasizing the high perceived value of seemingly small items.
Read MoreSome owners of rare, ridiculously fast, enormously expensive or otherwise difficult-to-own but cool vehicles keep them on a shelf like Hummel figurines. Others use them as actual transportation. What's the craziest daily driver?
Read MoreSo not every ambulance driver tries to break up a crosswalk full of nuns like Bill Cosby's character in "Mother, Jugs & Speed," but the real-life exploits of an EMT can be just as bizarre, as Jstas shared iin an epic thread spurred by the firefighters who took wrong-way drivers to task on Facebook:
Read MoreBack in the old days, the DOT required all headlights to be round. That made car designers miserable, but did lead to a creative solution: concealed (or pop-up) headlamps. What's the coolest looking car with pop-up headlamps?
Read MoreIn the comment storm generated by the question of why black Americans seem to shun hybrids and electric vehicles despite the trailblazing leadership of Chad Ochocinco, LastActionZero came up with a nuanced take:
Read MorePeoples' nicknames are owed to a good, obvious rhyme, a characteristic trait, a bit of irreverent wordplay and, bam, a lifetime saddled with a second name. Cars are the same way (e.g., VW Cabrio "bitch basket.") What's the greatest car nickname of all time?
Read MoreThe 2011 Belgian Grand Prix was somewhat special for Formula One’s old man from Germany. It was here, 20 years before, that Eddie Jordan gave the young Mercedes–Benz sportscar driver his first chance in F1.
Read MoreMcLaren may not have won the F1 constructors’ championship for 13 years, but it’s certainly not for the lack of young talent. Pictured here is a pedal car race for the children of Formula One people from 1969, and the girl in the top car, team founder Bruce McLaren’s three-year-old daughter Amanda, had serious competition.
Read MoreYou'd think that the tradition of spraying a bottle of champagne from the winner's podium after a race was as old as sports itself. It's not. It didn't start until 1967 when Dan Gurney did it for the first time after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This was the bottle he used.
Read MoreFor those who believe Bugatti creates expensive pieces of furniture masquerading as super cars, this will only add to their fire: The Bugatti L'Or Blanc, a partnership with a Berlin porcelain maker to create the world's most delicate Veyron.
Read MoreConfirming what was already well known, General Motors said today it would add two new Cadillac models next year — the big XTS and the small ATS, a 3-Series fighter whose profile was shown in this chiaroscuro teaser.
Read MoreAmerican drivers, like cigarettes, are immoral — waiting to kill us like cancer, and should be replaced by cars that drive themselves. So says Netscape co-founder and self-styled techno-futurist Mark Andreessen.
Read MoreThis photo of what looks like a minor case of Prius-on-Prius vehicular violence may actually be a piece of automotive history: the first accident caused by Google's self-driving car. Whose name should the cop write down on the ticket? UPDATE!
Read More1st Gear: Ford Evos points toward the future Ford's Evos concept is just that — a pure concept with no chance of production. What it's meant to do is show how Fords around the globe will look, especially in the front, with its narrowed headlamps and single Superman grille opening. It's also sporting some raft of Skynet-like technologies that could supposedly let you sleep in late while mapping the route to Dunkin' Donuts. Ford execs will explain what "visual premiumness" means, likely with maxim
Read More1st Gear: August Auto Sales Up In The Air Automotive stocks could get a needed boost when August sales figures for the U.S. are released on Thursday. Citi Investment Research analyst Itay Michaeli said sales won't be as bad as expected despite some notable headwinds: car buyers anxious about stock market volatility; continued shortage of models because of the Japan earthquake; and automakers' reluctance to offer discounts. And after nearly three years of the Federal Reserve's easy-money policy d
Read MoreThis 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?
Read More1st Gear: Will Power's Double-Barrel Salute Earns Him $30,000 Fine To say Will Power was incensed at officials' decision to restart the IZOD IndyCar Series MoveThatBlock.com Indy 225 is an understatement. Power's reaction — caught live on ABC by the almost gleeful producers — was an instant hit in the social media world and for fans throughout the series who thought the decision to restart the race was a sham. However, most knew that Power would be hit as well, in the form of a fine or public re
Read More1st Gear: Hyundai Is The New Honda Detroit's automakers are finding it hard to dislodge the Asians from the top ranks of the compact sedan segment, according to a new comparison test by Kelley Blue Book. Except now, instead of the Japanese, it's the Koreans they're sucking wind behind. In a test of comparably equipped Hyundai Elantra, Honda Civic, Ford Focus and Chevrolet Cruze sedans, the Civic and Elantra tied for first place, the Focus was third and Cruze fourth. "If this were a beauty contes
Read More1st Gear: Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Is The New DBRS9 This is the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 — set to take over from the Aston Martin DBRS9 as the Gaydon-based marque's customer-orientated racing machine. Featuring a modified version of the six-liter V12 powering all of Aston Martin's V12 road cars, the car's dry-sumped engine is expected to produce around 600 bhp and 500 lb-ft of torque and will be mated to a semi-automatic Xtrac six-speed sequential paddleshift gearbox via a carbon-fiber p
Read More1st Gear: Mazda stops building RX-8s, whither the rotary? Mazda has stopped production of the RX-8 sports car, citing falling sales worldwide, and now the company that built its image around the rotary engine has no vehicles driven by it. Mazda has said it was only "pausing" production of rotary engines while it focuses on its SkyActiv engine tech for traditional piston-powered cars — but given the massive head start those engines have on tougher fuel economy and emissions standards versus Mr. W
Read More1st Gear: This Is The Most Expensive Car Ever As we reported Saturday evening, a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa prototype sold for $14.9 million at the Gooding auction in Pebble Beach, Calif., tonight. Adding in the buyers' premium, the final price is $16.39 million, setting a record for the most expensive car ever sold publicly. Congrats to the new owners of a vehicle that's burned twice.
Read More1st Gear: While I'm unveiling the official "Jalopnik Staff Cruiser" tonight ahead of tomorrow's Woodward Dream Cruise, our own Justin Hyde is out at Pebble Beach chronicling the latest and greatest in pretentious luxury offerings (like the just-revealed Cadillac Ciel concept). All weekend, while I'm cruising down Metro Detroit's M-1, Justin will be out at Pebble. Follow him here and me here. Also, if you want to see our "Staff Cruiser" unveiled in person, sign up to come out to the Jalopnik Detr
Read More1st Gear: Come To Jalopnik's Woodward Dream Cruise Meetup Tomorrow! The Woodward Dream Cruise is Saturday, and as we've done at Jalopnik in years past, we'll have an official "Jalopnik Staff Car" to cruise down Metro Detroit's M-1. In year's past we've had a "Bumblebee" Camaro and the GT500KR from the new-and-recently-departed "Knight Rider" re-make. This year we've got another car with movie star pedigree. You might see it yourself on Saturday, but if you want to see it unveiled in person a day
Read More1st Gear: Ford F-150 EcoBoost Pickups Make Their Own Movement Ford's created a new Fiesta Movement-like challenge for the F-150 EcoBoost-powered pickup truck, kicking it off today on Facebook. Drivers in eight cities will put EcoBoost-equipped Ford F-150s in fuel efficiency challenge tests and community projects. So what will the winning driver get? Well, rather than a new truck, they'll instead get a year's supply of free Shell gasoline. But they'll also be representing their city — giving the
Read More1st Gear: Are Buyers Losing Interest In Chevy Volt? USA Today's Chris Woodyard reports this morning that interest in buying the $39,995 Chevy Volt plug-in car is starting to taper off, not only among "early adopters" but among other buyers, as well, reports CNW Marketing Research. Considering that the Volt has some of the hottest technology going, that's a disturbing development for the bowtied-Chevy brand. But according to CNW, in March, more than 21% of early adopters said they were very likel
Read More1st Gear: Will Power's Double-Barreled Bird Flip IndyCar Series driver Will Power was just a wee bit ticked off Sunday when race officials restarted late in the New Hampshire Motor Speedway race — with the track still wet. The result? A spin by Danica Patrick that took out several other drivers, including Power. Livid, Power offered the above gesture to race officials in the scoring tower — and was admonished for it by IndyCar. But what about ABC? As you'd expect, they issued an apology to viewe
Read More1st Gear: This Is The Tuatara-ra-ra-ra-ra Shelby SuperCars publicly dropped the cloth on the unfortunately-named SSC Tuatara for the press for the first time yesterday in Shanghai. In attendance was Jason Castriota, the designer behind not only this new SSC, but also the Stile Bertone Mantide, the P4/5 Pininfarina, Maserati Birdcage, the Saab PhoeniX, and defender of design decency, attended the event and answered media questions alongside Jerod Shelby, SSC Asia President Don Xu, and SSC Asia Co
Read More1st Gear: New BMWs Only Cost One Buck More Than Used Record-high prices for used luxury automobiles are driving more buyers to new-car lots, according to Bloomberg this morning. BMW's 2011 3-Series compacts and M3 sedans now cost $34 more a month than one-year-old used models. General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet Corvette is about $12 a month cheaper to buy new than used, according to searches on a variety of auto-pricing websites. There is an industrywide shortage of used cars in the U.S., the produc
Read More1st Gear: Ward's Auto reports that after 44 years, the future of the rotary engine at Mazda, the last mass-market auto maker to produce the piston-less mill, is now in doubt. The engine has been offered on the Mazda RX-8 since its introduction for the '04 model year. But the sports car is being discontinued following the '11 model year. Although several reports suggest research on a next-generation rotary is ongoing, with a new version to debut in coming years, perhaps as early as 2017, Kiyoshi
Read More1st Gear: On a day when stocks on Wall Street plunged with their sixth-largest one-day point drop, the auto industry wasn't spared and, in some cases, fared worse than market indexes. Investors shed auto stocks as Standard & Poor's decision on Friday to downgrade the long-term U.S. credit rating, compounded with sluggish unemployment figures and potential increases in interest rates, may slow the industry's recovery, analysts said. As the markets closed, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummete
Read More1st Gear: Automotive News reports this morning on the state of Ferrari's model lineup, saying they plan to replace two of its five core models, the 430 Spider and the 599 GTB Fiorano, in the next two years, while adding a sportier variant to its best-selling model, the 458 Italia. Along with that sportier variant, expected to be called the 458 Scuderia, that will hit the streets in 2013, would also be a 458 Spider which should be shown at the Frankfurt show in September. But first, in 2012 Ferra
Read More1st Gear: General Motors has reclaimed the title of the world's largest automaker, based on production through the first half of 2011. Thanks to claiming the top sales spot in North America, China and South America, GM built 4.54 million vehicles through June. That compares with 4.13 million cars and trucks at second-ranked Volkswagen and 3.71 million units for earthquake-struck Toyota, including its luxury Lexus marque and affiliates Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors. Even though Toyota expect
Read More1st Gear: General Motors said today it earned $2.5 billion in the second quarter, an 89% increase over its results in the same period a year ago. The nation's largest automaker reported that revenue for the period increased 19% to $39.4 billion. The results were driven by strong sales in G.M.'s core North American market, where the company earned $2.2 billion compared to $1.6 billion during the second quarter of 2010. "G.M.'s investments in fuel economy, design and quality are paying off around
Read More1st Gear: Bloomberg's reporting this morning how Audi plans to introduce its top-of-the line sports cars in the U.S. to enhance the brand's image and charge higher prices as it bids to narrow the gap with luxury-car leader BMW. Audi's 340-horsepower TT RS will go on sale in the U.S. next month, while the 78,000-euro ($111,000) RS 5 coupe, which competes with BMW's two-door M3, will hit showrooms next year, sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer said in an interview. Audi has a goal of doubling U.S. sa
Read More1st Gear: Toyota reported a quarterly operating loss today due to Japan's biggest earthquake on record hammering production and the yen's rise hit profits on exports. The automaker made an operating loss of 108 billion yen ($1.4 billion) in the April-June quarter, compared with a 211.7 billion yen profit a year earlier. The result was better than the average loss estimate of 190 billion yen in a survey of six analysts by Thomson Reuters.
Read More1st Gear: Toyota and Nissan, Japan's two biggest automakers, led a 27.6% drop in domestic vehicle sales, the 11th straight monthly decline, after the nation's March 11 earthquake disrupted production. Sales of cars, trucks and buses, excluding minicars, fell to 241,472 vehicles in July, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said in a statement today. Sales at Toyota, Japan's largest automaker, declined 37% from a year earlier to 101,790, excluding Lexus-brand cars. Toyota, Nissan and Honda ar
Read MoreToday's word of the day: "de-engineered." It's when someone uses a complicated and/or dumb fix to avoid a simple solution — like the Arizona pickup owner who cools his cab with a room-sized air conditioner duct-taped into the rear window.
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