Meet the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe — the latest German sedan trying to con us into thinking that a slicked-back hairline can make it into a coupe. But, hey, at least BMW accidentally told us an "M" version is coming. UPDATE!
Read MoreLast summer, Nissan told us they'd donated a 5.6-liter V8 from an Infiniti QX56 to a boatbuilding project. That engine went to Alabama to be marinized. But what of the boat part? It's a 20-foot, wood-hulled 1962 Chris-Craft Holiday, now being refurbished by grizzled boatbuilders somewhere in Maine.
Read MoreIt decorated the walls of a generation car lovers and defined an era of supercar excess. Several decades later the once cutting edge design is certainly dated but is certainly still the stuff of exotic car dreams for many car lovers. Anyone with the means to make their aging supercar dreams a reality would be hard pressed to find a nicer example of a Countach than this 1230 original mile 1987 5000 Quattrovalvole currently listed on Ebay.
Read MoreThe Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup emerged in 2007 as a desert runner, was recast as a Michigan mudder and then as a snowbird-slash-missile-site-transporter. For its fourth phase, Ford is positioning the long-travel-suspension pickup as a rock crawler. Having never scrabbled the Earth's craggy layer in a truck before, I was a natural sucker for Ford's latest demo of the Raptor's abusage cycle in Moab. Who would crack first, the truck's frame or the on-roader's spine?
Read MoreThere's little on the exterior of this 1965 Mustang to indicate it is actually one of three fitted with a Harry Ferguson Research 4 wheel drive system. Amazingly, this interesting prototype has survived the past 46 years in very nice original condition. This unique Mustang is currently for sale in Britain, not far from where Harry Ferguson originally modified it.
Read MoreCar dealerships have a way of testing your sanity, so we asked Jalopnik readers to shed light on the mystery of buying a car and debunk these ten common car-buying myths.
Read MoreAshton Kutcher tried to buy his way out of cheating on Demi Moore. It didn't work. Jalopnik readers think they can do better. Here's your list of ten cars to buy for the woman who suddenly hates you because you're a philandering ass.
Read MoreAlthough we work hard here at Jalopnik to bring you awesome stories every day it's easy to get a little lost in the day-to-day sludge that is commoditized car news. But it wasn't until I took a look through this week's lists of top stories that I realized just how many great exclusives our team put together in 2011.
Read MoreWelcome to Jalopnik's 2011 Showroom Stock Demolition Derby! Only cars (no trucks) made in this past year can be entered. Jalopnik readers picked these ten finalists to drive into the arena, but which one will drive out in one piece?
Read MoreSlice-of-life articles were once a staple of newspaper journalism. Now, hardly anyone reads good stories about how other people live. We're much more likely to hear about how people from some other part of the country are destroying our "way of life." Rough beasts, we seem, slouching toward civil war.
Read MoreThese are not the most important stories of 2011 and they're not the most-read stories, either. These are just our readers' favorites, narrowed down by Jalopnik readers to just ten classic stories.
Read MoreYes friends, Forzalopnik is back! We're pleased to announce that the next car pack for Forza Motorsport 4 will be the January Jalopnik Pack, available for purchase and download on Xbox LIVE starting Tuesday, January 3rd. Here's are the ten cars and all the details.
Read MoreLike a gorilla with no face, a car without any features is very disturbing. We expect cars to come with chrome, trimmings and other adornments, and when not there, a vehicle just doesn't look right. According to Jalopnik readers, these ten vehicular impersonations of a blank canvas are the most barren, unadorned automobiles of all time.
Read MoreLong before fiberglass and carbon-reinforced plastic, wood was the fibrous material of choice for building light cars. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten coolest automobiles made out of wood.
Read MoreAs you may know, it’s Hanukkah time, when Jews all over the world celebrate what may be organized religion’s lamest miracle, and one of the few holidays where we Jews managed to not end up exiled or slaughtered or anything. It’s a holiday with candles, presents, fried potatoes and a kickass story about a tough Jew named Judah the Hammer, so all in all, a pretty good time. To celebrate, I’ve compiled this list of eight (and one extra, the shamash) great Jews of motoring. Most people thought we’d
Read MoreIn the pouring rain on April 11, 1993, Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna raced into history with one of the greatest performances of his career. In treacherous conditions, he held off a spirited challenge from arch-rival Alain Prost to take a famous victory, one of the last he would savour before his tragic death a year later.
Read MoreYou know about Google Books, right? It's an ambitious project by Google to, essentially, scan and make publicly available every known book. I'm guessing the end goal is to put them all onto a chip implanted in Larry Page's brain so he can always beat anyone in an argument, forever. It's a grand, noble idea, and it's made possible via some amazing technical feats, such as scanning 1000 pages per hour via some elaborate scanning setup, which I'm picturing as having dozens of whirling, gleaming met
Read MoreIf you believe the claymation specials, Santa's workshop turns out lovely toys made of nature's steel, aka "wood." Some crazy sorts also use wood as a primary material in the building of cars as well. What's the coolest wooden car?
Read MoreHunting game and racing cars are generally pursued as separate pastimes, but not by Tazio Nuvolari at the 1938 Donington Grand Prix, where, as evidenced by a severed head, he did both with great aplomb.
Read MoreIt's time to delve into the nerdcore world of typeface and logotype and see how just a few letters spelled out in chrome can define how you feel about a car. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten greatest fonts used in or on cars.
Read MoreLet’s face it: sooner or later, you’re going to get abducted. It’s a down economy, there’s lots of increasingly desperate unemployed folks, and it’s a more dignified way to meet new people than, say, Craigslist personals. So, yes, you’ll probably get abducted, but that doesn’t mean you have to like it.
Read MoreIf you have a font geek in your life, you already know Futura was designed in 1927 by Paul Renner, and that the Greek restaurant down the street overuses Lithos. Car logotypes provide a deep well of typeface history too. What's the greatest automotive typeface of all time?
Read MoreSaab, the Swedish automaker born in Trollhättan, Sweden from the jets of Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, built its first passenger car, the Saab 92001 in 1947. After filing for bankruptcy this weekend, almost 65 years later, it now may never build another quirky car again. Let's take a quick look back at some of the best of our coverage of a brand once cherished and loved by thousands.
Read MoreCreative, bored, love cars and living in Rhode Island? Why not weld metal armor onto a Crown Vic cop car, then shoot a movie about post-apocalypse police forces trying to stem a tide of crazies? That's exactly what Jalopnik reader Josh Oakhurst did. Meet Chimera.
Read MoreAs the Dear Leader of an impoverished country, where most citizens are too poor even to afford a bicycle, Kim Jong-Il enjoyed the fruits of his dictatorship to the fullest until his death. Many of those fruits were Mercedes-Benz cars.
Read MoreAs you begin to venture back home for the holidays, you quickly realize it often takes forever to get anywhere in this humongous country called America. We got Jalopnik readers to share the ten best games you can play to keep your sanity while you're eating up the interstate.
Read MoreCar designers aren't the only ones who bring together art and automobiles. According to Jalopnik readers, these are then ten greatest painters, illustrators, and photographers to see a car as a canvas or subject.
Read More"Wipe off that El Camino or something bad will happen." That bizarre suggestion from a friend was enough to set off a major tic for one man with obsessive compulsive disorder. Whenever he sees an El Camino, he's overcome with the need to — HOLY SHIT! THERE'S ONE RIGHT THERE! MOTHER FUCKER! SEE MAN?! — do one of those perplexing, repetitive OCD rituals. Sad, and strange, and yet we totally get it. It's just that our response is, you know, the exact opposite.
Read MoreOne hundred years ago yesterday — December 14th, 1911 — Roald Admundsen and his team of Norwegian explorers became the first humans to reach the South Pole, pulled by sled dogs. But it wasn't until 1963 that the first production car landed on Antarctic shores, a mostly-stock VW Beetle known as "the Red Terror." This is its story.
Read MoreWhether using cars as subjects, in illustrations or paintings, or as a canvas, car artists have been a staple of the post-WWII pop-cultural scene. Some names are iconic — Roth, VonDutch — others are relative unknowns. Who is the greatest car artist of all time?
Read MoreSince it's hard for most people to fit an entire car in your living room, a better way to show off your refined taste in automotive appointments is with an engine block coffee table. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten coolest, classiest, and cleanest-looking engines to use.
Read MoreThe pitchman is an American icon. When we sit in front of the TV, we trust and adore these characters committed to selling us a magical fantasyland during every commercial break. And nowhere is that lie more apparent than in the world of cars. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten best men and women at pulling the wool over our eyes.
Read MoreWhat do we mean when we say Jalopnik is for "auto enthusiasts" and not a boring exercise in new car buyer lead generation? It means we'd never produce the list Edmunds Inside Line cranked out of the "100 Worst Cars of All Time." It's a list so anti-enthusiast it should just be titled "We're going to kick people who love cars in the balls and collect 100 clicks, thanks!"
Read MoreAuto Union's Grand Prix racecars of the 1930s were the greatest the world had ever seen. But few know the story of the road car that shared all the motorsports tech with those spectacular racecars. It was called the "Type 52," and it almost became the world's first modern supercar.
Read MoreBig, brash, fast: these traits define a supercar, but who was the first to put them all together? According to Jalopnik readers, these are history's first ball-busting, mind-bending, paradigm-shifting automobiles.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, this insane creation actually started life as a 1991 Buick Lesabre. As you can see, this vehicle has come a long way from its days as a run of the mill sedan. Now it has the face of a Dodge truck, an additional six wheels out back and one of the crazier body kits we have ever seen. This "80% done" exercise in truly bizarre automotive modification is currently for sale on Ebay.
Read MoreMost of the cars worshipped by the automotive obsessed—Sports cars, Exotic Cars, Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Race Cars—have something in common beyond being glorious machines sought after by a legion of car lovers. They are short on space for passengers. Most have passenger seats and some even have parcel trays that masquerade as rear seats, but few are built for transporting any significant amount of people.
Read MoreIt wasn't ever designed to be more than a disposable people hauler, and the 1959 Oldsmobile is rarely included in a conversation of the most attractive designs the late 50s had to offer. Even so, to us it's hard to imagine anyone would argue that this 1959 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Fiesta station wagon, wearing the same shade of "Russet Poly" paint it left the factory with, is anything but beautiful.
Read MoreWe've just learned that Harry Balz Novelties, the world's largest supplier of auto floor mats, spinners and off-brand feminine hygiene napkins, will finally shift their massive manufacturing might from 'Truck Nutz' — the most profitable product in the company's history.
Read MoreWith nuclear annihilation, Reaganomics and Midnight Oil it's no surprise so many in the 1980s fled to the arcades to live out their F1 fantasies in sparklingly low resolution. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten greatest coin-op arcades of the Me decade.
Read MoreWith the realism of modern car vids boosted by crazy polygon count and complex physics engines, it's easy to forget from whence the genre sprang, and so it's time to revisit the early years. The 1980s was a formative decade for driving games; it began with Rally-X and ended with Out Run. What's the best 1980s arcade driving game?
Read MoreThe same receptors in your brain that recognize human faces recognize faces in cars. Still, it's not just headlights that make a car stand out. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten most iconic design features in the automotive world.
Read MoreThis is the most expensive model car in the world, at least it will be when it sells this month at auction in New York. It's a 1/8th scale model of a Lamborghini Aventador built with gold, platinum, carbon fiber and diamonds by Robert Guelpen, a German car model specialist.
Read MoreCars aren't just about getting places, they're about getting places before the guy next to you gets there. Here are what Jalopnik readers picked as the ten greatest automotive rivalries, both on the track and on the streets.
Read MoreRivalries rage everywhere. Just ask Auburn what it thinks of LSU, or what Pepsi thinks of Coke, or ask your average Hydrox how often it thinks about coldcocking an Oreo. It's the same way in the car world. What's the most vicious car rivalry?
Read MoreWhen I first saw the photo of Santa standing over a wrecked vintage Porsche in New York City (above) I thought it all seemed just a little too perfect. I even assumed it was maybe a commercial shoot. It wasn't. Now Santa's chimed in to explain exactly what happened.
Read MoreThis young handsome beardless Santa celebrated Boxing Day by crashing his vintage Porsche 911 into a traffic signal at the corner of 5th Avenue and 19th Street in New York. What happened here? UPDATE!
Read MoreNew evidence suggests David Dopp, the man who won a Lamborghini Murcielago and then crashed it six hours later speeding on an icy road, had a motive to intentionally crash the supercar. Amazingly, it turns out he asked Jay Leno to buy it from him well before he took delivery of the prize.
Read MoreIt's the kind of story we're programmed to love and report: Man wins Lamborghini Murcielago, man drives Lamborghini, man wrecks Lamborghini six hours later. You'd think he'd be heartbroken, right? He's taking it well. Maybe it's because wrecking the Lamborghini was the best thing that could have happened to him. Could he even have crashed it intentionally?
Read MoreWe don't often post images of crashes where someone died, but there's a lesson in this tragic crash that claimed two young Australian men earlier today about fast cars, young people and alcohol.
Read MoreA poster over at Luxury4Play found out the hard way that teenage girls in SUVs aren't always the most attentive drivers when one barreled into his Audi R8. It hurts to look at.
Read MoreA 20-year-old driver in Santa Fe, Texas had a yeeee-ha moment in a Subaru Impreza STI this past weekend. He missed a turn at 90 mph, ran up a railroad embankment (aka, "ramp"), flew 100 feet through the air, and slammed through the roof of a building.
Read MoreWhen you drive over Russia's ice-caked roads in winter with a camera mounted on your dash it's only a matter of time before you capture a crazy near-accident. Still, who could expect you'd snag something like this amazing Michael Bay-worthy near-miss that happened just last week.
Read MoreThis beautiful BBC image isn't a photo taken from the space station. It's actually a composite showing the location of 2,396,750 road crashes in Great Britain from 1999 to 2010. Each light point is an individual collision which resulted in a casualty. The intensity of brightness shows where collisions are more frequent.
Read MoreA Ford GT sports car apparently belonging to customizer — and serially unfaithful spousal partner — Jesse James landed in his neighbor's yard in Austin, Texas two days ago. What we know inside.
Read MoreA woman in her late 20s ended an evening of car appreciation at a Boston-area Ferrari dealership with car destruction when she attempted to do a little showing off in her yellow Corvette and a mistimed burnout left both the driver and the car upside down and in pieces.
Read MoreBy now you've probably seen the aftermath of this weekend's massive supercar crash in Japan involving eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, and a Toyota Prius — among others — that resulted in what may be upwards of $3.85 million in damage. Here's how it happened.
Read MoreA single miscalculation from a Ferrari driver earlier today in Japan led to a chain reaction that ultimately wrecked or destroyed 14 vehicles including eight Ferraris, three Mercedes, a Lamborghini, a Skyline, and a Prius that was in the right place at the wrong time.
Read MoreThe 300+ horsepower V6 Mustang spelled great news for budget-conscious racers, right? Mostly. A notable exception: Those who've blown their driveshafts doing speed pulls. Why is this happening?
Read MoreAs another year draws to a close, we want to know what happened in your part of the automotive world over the past 365 days. Whether you bought or sold a car, finally hit the track, made big progress on your project cars or just did what you could to keep your daily driver running— we want to know about it. What were your personal automotive accomplishments in 2011?
Read MoreNot wanting to be left out of the end of the year list fun here at Weekend Jalopnik we put together a list of our favorite posts from 2011.
Read MoreHow do you develop a nation's motorsports culture? Let a bunch of promising drivers race each other in Radical SR3s. How do you promote such a backwater series? Let a bunch of old F1 drivers race with them — for a total assload of cash.
Read MoreGuns? Who needs guns when you've got the buisness end of a Mig jet engine mounted on your tank's turret? That'll show those land mines who's boss. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the oddest armored vehicles to ever grace the battlefield. Looking for more absurd armor? Check out these 12 pink tanks, some armored trains, and these armored face masks.
Read MoreIf you purchased a 2012 Chevy Sonic you might want to check and see if the car's brake pads are all there as GM now admits they may have shipped as many as 4,296 of them without them. Also, they're not notifying anyone until mid-January. Happy New Year!
Read MoreIn a late bid for 2011's award for Most Brazen Act of Chutzpah, a Denver cop who was kicked off the force for doing 143 mph in a 55 zone while intoxicated is appealing his dismissal on grounds that the penalty was too harsh.
Read MoreIn what's being treated as a metaphor for the fruitlessness of the War on Drugs itself, New Jersey cops caused over $12,000 in damage to a BMW 325i, tearing it apart in search of marijuana. After tearing apart the dash, doors, seats and prying off exterior body panels, what'd they find? Nada.
Read MoreThe appeal of the Bugatti Veyron is it's so fast and so well-engineered any obscenely wealthy person can hop into it and be faster than other, poorer, people. Not this guy. He appears to not understand how the vehicle's launch control works and sits there, lamely, as the guy in the GT-R blows him away.
Read MoreIf you've lived in the Big Apple for any amount of time, you've more than likely taken the Subway. You've also probably wasted plenty of time staring at the map. Our video editor Matt Toder threw together a video of the Subway map's evolution, beginning with a map crafted 100 years ago.
Read MoreOur pals over at Make posted this article about Will O'Brien, and how he took an old iPhone, an Arduino, and a handful of electronic crap and made a remote starter for his Subaru Outback that lets him start his car with a text message. The link to his site gives a full schematic of how it was done, and he's made the software source code available to whomever wants it as well.
Read MoreThe US military is serious about reducing its dependence on traditional fuel sources. Case in point: the FED solar and hybrid Humvees that will burn 70 percent less fuel than traditional armored troop transports.
Read MoreNASCAR driver Kasey Kahne has apologized for a Twitter rant he made against public breastfeeding yesterday. It escalated into an all-out tweet-flame war when a woman, offended by his comment, tweeted that he was a "douchebag." In response, Kahne called her a "dumb bitch." And that's when shit got real.
Read MoreDude runs up to a fellow motorist's ride with anger in his soul. The video, it doesn't show what precipitated confrontation on what's possibly an Ottawa street. Maybe he stopped short. Maybe other guy hit him unexpectedly.
Read MoreQatar's recent National Day parade was like that in many other countries: it featured military and police vehicles. Unlike those other countries, Qatar has cash to burn and a sultan's taste for the good life. The vehicles of choice? Porsche Cayennes and Panameras.
Read MoreRobots can't have feelings. But humans develop feelings for them. You know, like R2-D2 in Star Wars. Or like Scooby Doo, a real life small robot that saved the day 19 times. This is his single-tear story.
Read MoreThe cost of producing expert-looking car videos is decreasing with advances in technology, but it still takes teamwork and some specialized knowledge to make something of near-broadcast quality. Here's how one director did it, with a little tech knowledge and a much littler budget. — Ed.
Read MoreThe death of the Ford Crown Victoria was one of the most important car stories of 2011, and we choose to remember the 32-year-old Panther platform with this video of the Ford's sister car, the Mercury Grand Marquis, taking to the track.
Read MoreHere's the story of how a BMW owner spent the better part of a year driving around with license plates assigned to a Honda last registered in the 90s. He'd still have the "stolen" vanity plates — sent to him by the New York DMV — if it weren't for two run-ins with Johnny Law.
Read MoreWe've debated which car stories of 2011 were the most important. But the most important story may not have been the one that grabbed you the most this past year. What was your favorite Jalopnik story of 2011?
Read MoreIt was a tumultuous year for the auto industry and for American car enthusiasts. We watched new cars rise, old companies fall, and heroes pass. These are the ten car stories that Jalopnik readers thought defined the automotive world in 2011.
Read MoreFor a dictator whose country has never been on particularly rosy terms with the United States, North Korea’s recently departed Dear Leader was allotted a rather peculiar hearse after a life of Mercedes-Benz fetish. That's totally an old black Lincoln.
Read More"For me, a car is like cooking," says the Italian chef who covered the interior of this one in Penne. "It is a discovery, a movement, a journey to other people." In addition to this pasta car, there's one that's been filled with Louis XIV furniture and one that's been made into a library.
Read MoreChina is now one step closer to become the top economic and military superpower in the world: their Beidou geo-positioning system is now fully armed and operational.
Read More"Clean diesel" cars are cheaper, more readily available and more accepted in the market than hybrids or electric cars, according to a white piper published by former Secretary of Transportation, Norman Mineta. Holy crap, car enthusiasts have been trying to tell the world that for a decade.
Read MoreWhen Elizabeth LeFevre went into labor around midnight last Tuesday morning, the drive to the hospital was complicated by one serious problem: Interstate 25, which runs between the family's home near Cañoncito and Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, was shut down by a snowstorm.
Read MoreStarting in Spring 2012, six Nissan Leaf electric cars will begin service as regular cabs in New York City, bringing all-electric driving to the busy metered masses of Manhattan. It's part of a test program to see how all-electric vehicles fare as taxis with further electrification of the New York City taxi fleet to follow.
Read MoreBack in the 80s, the United States Navy wanted a stealth aircraft to replace the A-6 Intruder. McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics came up with an ultra-secret flying wing design, an alien-looking aircraft called the A-12 Avenger II. It never flew.
Read MoreIf you own a television, chances are over the past month you've seen at least one commercial showing someone waking up Christmas morning to be surprised with a brand new car. This weekend we want to know if you think this scenario actually plays itself out in real life on a semi-regular basis or if it is mostly just a marketing myth dreamed up by people who work in advertising.
Read MoreA few months before General Motors killed Pontiac, Pontiac killed our dreams when they announced the cancellation of plans to bring the Holden Commodore Ute to America in the form of the Pontiac G8 Sport Truck. Almost three years later the sting of being denied access to the ultimate parts hauler after being told the G8 Sport Truck was on its way is still there.
Read MoreNot all comments have to be Snark-O-Matic masterpieces. Sometimes, especially around the holidays, with 2,700 calories' worth of full-power eggnog down our gullets, we like to read personal car stories from the Jalops around us. This is one of those times.
Read MoreI normally drive a manual transmission, and generally prefer to, but I'm not blind to the charms of an automatic. Shifting your own gears — what are we, animals? Sure, I get why people want it. And I imagine everyone who's spent any amount of time in an automatic must have wondered, at least once, why PRNDL?
Read MoreOur resident racer Robb Holland keeps some pretty interesting company, so when he said he had video of a young woman hooning a Lamborghini we said "gimme gimme gimme."
Read MoreOf all the despicable things we've seen this Christmas, topping the list is probably this new "environmentally friendly" Evos sleigh from Ford, which the company admits will force many a reindeer into an early "retirement" and "dramatically downsize" Santa's organization. Poor Rudolph, he never saw EcoBoost coming.
Read MoreThe celebration of Festivus involves gathering around an unadorned aluminum pole. As Seinfeld's chief Festivus adherent, Frank Costanza once said about the reasoning: "I find tinsel distracting ... [I]t's made from aluminum. Very high strength-to-weight ratio." What's the most unadorned car?
Read MoreWhat did we do before the internetz? I remember something about Metallica and a short italian guy with a mustache that jumped on mushrooms. Right. My cousin Anthony. Nowadays, though, LOLs come like tommy-gun fire, and schadenfreude is tempered by being a quintillion bits removed from actual bad stuff happening.
Read MoreTittenhurst Park was John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 72-acre estate in Berkshire county in the South of England. According to a book on Lennon's life, he often raced over the "hilly greensward" with his son Julian on an Amphicat six wheeler.
Read MoreFormer Secretary of State Colin Powell was the third person to get a Fisker Karma luxury hybrid (behind Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore), but he has the honor of being the first person we've seen to park it like an asshat. Congrats!
Read MoreChristmas dreams for a Pep Boys regional accessory manager aren't about sugarplums or shiny bicycles: they're about taking an underadorned car and putting things right. Which means plastering a serious pile of cheap plastic crap onto something like a defenseless Miata.
Read MoreThe total amount of state and federal subsidies for each Chevy Volt sold is as much as $256,824 per vehicle according to a fiscal analysis by Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy. All for a car that only costs $39,828.
Read MoreMore evidence that a manual transmission is not merely a means to greater car control and a better driving experience: Like a similar case late last month, a shift lever and clutch pedal have prevented yet another carjacking.
Read MoreHere we see Peter "King of the Mountain" Brock as he manages to give a comprehensive run-down of how to take a lap of Australia's infamous Mount Panorama Circuit. Periodically he takes a break to, you know, laps some other cars and make his way up the field of one of the toughest endurance races in the world.
Read MoreWe like cars. We don't like chintzy automotive products that are somehow tangentially related to cars. Jalopnik readers have picked out these ten examples of the very worst stocking stuffers you could dump on a car nut.
Read MoreThis may be the most unbelievably heartwarming thing you'll see today. 59-year-old Brenda Hewlett had never held a hockey stick before last Friday night. She could barely walk on the ice but she needed a vehicle to replace her failing truck.
Read MoreOur former philosophy of traveling can easily be understood in this photo. When you take to the air you want the best technology and the fastest trip so you take the supersonic Concorde. Why rush when you're on the ground? Take it easy in a luxurious and fun DS. Oh how times change.
Read MoreThere's nothing worse for an educated consumer than to hear a company blame the end-user for a product malfunction. Yet, Ford's kind of done that with its Mustang transmission issues. How might such a scenario play out? Let's look and see.
Read MoreWho's officially on the record backing what could be the worst thing to ever happen to the internet? All of these companies listed below. Don't take our word for it—this list comes straight from Congress. Just FYI.
Read MorePeering out across a wooden platform at the end of what's supposed to be Turn 1 it's difficult to believe this muddy collection of roads will soon be a world-class Formula 1 circuit (slightly less difficult to believe than two weeks ago). Yet the crews are on-site and construction of the Circuit of the Americas (CoTA) in Austin is underway. I saw it with my own eyes.
Read MoreEarlier this year, after Jalopnik pointed to a tide of transmission complaints from owners of 2011 Ford Mustangs, Ford identified several issues with the car's Chinese-built Getrag MT82 six-speed, and issued a pair of service bulletins. Now, the Feds are done poking around. The verdict? No recall. The transmission's safe as milk. The problem was "abusive" Mustang owners.
Read MoreOr at least, this is the crappy image of the Lexus LF-Lc we have to show you thanks to Road & Track being incapable of keeping the concept car in their pants until the embargo officially breaks ahead of its reveal at next month's Detroit Auto Show.
Read MoreIn addition to being a horrible thing to happen to someone in real life, being locked in a car trunk has been a movie device going back to the dawn of cinema. Well, maybe not the dawn, but — at the very latest — the 10:45 am of cinema.
Read MoreWhat you're looking at is the drawing for the world's longest and heaviest float, currently under construction in preparation for its debut at the Rose Bowl Parade. When complete it'll host the world's fastest skateboarding dog riding on a surfboard. No, you're not on drugs.
Read MoreA leaked document has revealed that the asshattery of BMW drivers may be more than coincidence. Failing to use turn signals, cutting off other drivers, tailgating, flipping the bird and other affronts to road civility have become indelibly associated with the Bavarian Marque. Why? According to the document, it's all part of a totally illegal customer loyalty scheme.
Read More"Two guys don't usually do this stuff at home," justified a man caught engaging in a sex act with the local sheriff, as to why they were performing said sex act in a 1994 Ford Escort station wagon parked behind an Irish bar.
Read MoreThis video shows the aftermath of the plane crash that has just occurred on New Jersey's Interstate 287, near exit 35 in Morris Township. At least five people have been killed, several news outlets report.
Read MoreSaab owners will now feel the fallout from the Saab bankruptcy as the company announced it will cease warranty coverage for cars sold in North America. Everybody is getting börked. UPDATE!
Read MoreA tuned Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 that can get from 0-60 in 3.1 seconds? Indeed, it's a Texas thing. It's the 800-hp HPE800 Twin Turbo Jeep by Hennessey Performance. The price is oilman-rich too: It starts at $235,000.
Read MoreBack in October I called the North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) award — an annual prize presented at the Detroit Auto Show and determined by a 50-person jury littered with jurors relevant only for being a juror — a joke for the laughingly obscene choice of the Mini Countryman as a nominee for "Truck of the Year." Last week, the three finalists for both "Truck of the Year" and "Car of the Year" were announced. And guess what? Despite the Mini Countryman not making the final cut — t
Read MoreIt's time to get revenge on all the boring history classes you sat through and start messing with the people of the past. Here are ten cars Jalopnik readers picked to exploit and terrify the great men and women of history.
Read MoreJeepers cripes! Ain't we got a bunch a' edumacated folk commentin' on this here web address? Why just this past week, we had someone talkin' about fissix! Now, someone's talkin' about po'try? This is umpossable.
Read MoreWith news that Saab has finally declared bankruptcy and is now as close to being officially börked as it's ever been, many might question whether they should buy one of the more than 1,600 new Saabs for sale at dealerships across the United States. Should you? No. At least not yet. Here's why.
Read MoreI've logged a lot of hours playing flying simulators and raced around in a doorless Gyrocopter, so I thought I had a decent concept of what it's like to to be in cockpit of a fighter jet. This GoPro video from the inside of a Navy F18 shows just how wrong I was. It's so much better.
Read MoreDecades ago, there was a lot of pressure on the cars of the future. Would they go 1,000 mph? Get 1,000 mpg? Would they fly? Didn't quite work out that way, did it? What car would you take back to the past to freak everyone out?
Read MoreIt's a strange phenomenon, but it seems old rare cars are always able to attract more of their kind whether the owner is conscious of it or not. Sometimes it takes a few years, but usually similar old rusty project cars have a way of attracting others of their breed. Somehow this trio of Hillman Imps, currently listed on Ebay, found each other at some point. Accordingly it seems only appropriate they are all being sold together.
Read MoreNot wanting to be left out of the factory spec drag racing game by Ford's Cobrajet and Dodge's Challenger Drag Pack, Chevrolet debuted their own strip terrorizer—The COPO Camaro concept— at last month's SEMA show.
Read MoreAfter the debacle surrounding the fake JFK 1963 Pontiac Bonneville ambulance at last year's Scottsdale auction it appears Barrett-Jackson is going to try selling another professional car linked to the late president. The big difference? It is well documented this hearse actually transported JFK's body.
Read MoreBefore many collector vehicles were collector vehicles, they were just used cars. Besides obviously rare and exotic cars chances are there was a time when someone thought the collector car of your dreams was just a cheap old car. With this in mind we want to examine the cars that are currently just old cars but will be desirable collector's items in the future. What currently affordable car is a future collector vehicle?
Read MoreThe combination of a fast car and the unlimited speed limits of the German autobahn are surely a slice of gearhead heaven if ever there were one. Luckily for those of us on the wrong continent and lacking the right car for the job someone who didn't face either of these obstacles recorded these two videos of a few high speed runs on the autobahn.
Read MoreOne apparently erroneous digit in an eBay classified listing for an Audi S4 has set off an online feud between a used car dealer in Pennsylvania and the car's would-be buyer. Both claim the other is being unreasonable and neither side seems willing to yield. Here's what happened.
Read MoreLebanese terrorist organization and sometimes political party Hezbollah used the purchase of used cars in America to traffic money between West Africa, the United States, Canada and Lebanon, according to a suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. As much as $480 million was transferred in the scheme, going back to 2007. Here's how it worked.
Read MoreEarlier this month, NATO lost a spy drone in Iran. Initially NATO admitted that its pilots lost control of the craft, but new reports claim that the Iranian military hacked its GPS systems.
Read MoreMaking sense of a story that pivots on a he-said-he-said moment can be vexing. But, as Donald Rumsfeld said, "if you have a problem, make it bigger." Would turning to a hard-to-explain bit of quantum physics theory for an answer qualify as making the problem bigger? Certainly it qualifies as "making it funnier."
Read MoreDrawing on familiar media representations and cultural histories for the sake of building a female gangster actually seems pretty difficult.
Read MoreA relic from the early days of using planes as weapons of war, this 11.8-liter WWI-era Hispano-Suiza engine has a 37mm cannon mounted directly between its cylinder banks. In other words, it is perhaps the most badass engine of all time.
Read MoreA late night sorority-sponsored party at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky ended in gunfire when a man was willing to get shot, tasered and pepper-sprayed all for the right to play a song. Must have been one helluva song.
Read MoreThe National Transportation Safety Board has voted to recommend that states ban the use of cellphones while driving. This controversial decision has some people upset and others pleased, believing that banning the use of cellphones will reduce the risk of accidents. We believe that cellphone use can absolutely pose a risk to safe driving, but that it doesn't have to. Through a mix of studies, statistics, and often-ignored common sense, we can help you drive safer without giving up the use of you
Read MoreWhen the modern world gives you weird, swirly, digital lemons, each with the face of that angry meme wolf, you hand it back a glass of lemonade poured from a pitcher shaped like an ass-kicking. That's my advice, son.
Read MoreMatthew Barnaby, the ESPN hockey analyst who promptly got canned after his DWI arrest earlier this month, pleaded guilty and apologized for "bad decisions" in court yesterday. There were reportedly some repentant tears to go along with it.
Read MoreIf the Internet is good for anything, aside from hate-filled comments and rage comics, it's good for bringing people together with cars they never though they'd see again. This feel-good story from the awesome Bring a Trailer may restore your faith in our ubiquitous "series of tubes." — Ed.
Read MoreYes, those are blue Lamborghinis going down 5th Avenue in Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie "The Dictator." Also, yes, gold-plated Dartz SUVs rumbling through the desert.
Read MoreApparently you can make enough money selling WoWBots to buy a tuned, carbon-fiber-laden Nissan GT-R for $150,000. That's what one 18-year-old Zilvia.net forum denizen says he did, and now he's selling the car on the board. Naturally, everyone else thinks he's trolling.
Read MoreMaking an engine block into a coffee table isn't new, but it is a growing niche among furniture. Of course, you won't find one of those things at Raymour and Flanigan; you'll either have to pay big bucks or make your own. What's the best engine for a coffee table?
Read MoreThe most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier.
Read MoreAs if the song American Pie needed any more pop-cultural props; here we go again. This time, however, that hackneyed ditty's been recast to capture the melancholia of a forgotten, stillborn super-sports car and a towering Grand Prix driver cut down in his prime. And yet, its up-tempo chorus offers hope for rebirth and renewal.
Read MorePC racing simulator iRacing is for people who find the Forza and GranTurismo games too arcade-like. This dude's five-screen setup for a digital race at Mid-Ohio is so realistic he's wearing gloves to drive it.
Read MoreImages of a Magic Hat Brewery bottle cap with the slogan "Condoms prevent minivans" have been floating around the Internet for a while so I decided to track down the story behind this insightful slogan. It turns out a mom came up with it!
Read MoreChrysler announced today that it'll officially reopen the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit, MI in late 2012 to build the 2013 SRT Viper. The real news, however, is that when it slithers out of its old skin it'll also shed the Dodge moniker with it.
Read MoreDespite several states already banning use of personal electronic devices like cell phones while driving out of fear of people tweeting, texting and Facebooking, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board today is taking things one step further. The safety board's now calling for a nationwide federal ban. And how'd they tell us? Well, they tweeted it.
Read MoreThe new 2013 Dodge Dart compact sedan teaser campaign continues ahead of its official unveiling at next month's Detroit Auto Show. Today, we get a sneak peak at the interior.
Read MoreIf you haven't read The Basketball Diaries, you have no idea how artfully a 15-year-old heroin addict can put words to a page. If you haven't heard the album Catholic Boy, you have no idea how ethereal (and sometimes uncomfortable) the intersection of punk rock and gritty urban poetry can be. Thank the late Jim Carroll for both.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz Manhattan's 330,000 square-foot dealership is a model of quiet efficiency. Towering windows cast golden afternoon sun serenely across acres of luxury cars. Attentive greeters, trained by Ritz Carlton, greet customers from behind a hotel-like concierge desk. Every touch-point inside the $30 million facility is welcoming and helpful. Outside? Local residents say it's a train wreck.
Read MoreMost time-lapse videos work by capturing an object from one vantage point as the world changes around it. This remarkable time-lapse of the traffic in Ho Chi Minh City by photographer Rob Whitworth moves along with the Vietnamese city. And that — along with a roundabout that seems to beat like the heart of the city — is what helps to make this the most amazing time-lapse video you'll see today.
Read MoreA new Acura NSX Concept is coming to the Detroit Auto Show next month and today Acura confirmed it'll be the Tony Stark car-esque AWD Hybrid we told you about two weeks ago. Sometimes we wish we were wrong.
Read MoreLulled into stupor by your in-car DVD player and automatic butt massagers, you may not have noticed, but cars have gotten really, really boring in the last two decades. Sure, they're faster than ever — a 2011 Toyota Camry makes 21 more horsepower than a 1991 Porsche 911 — they're safer than ever and they're more luxurious than ever. But all the above have removed the whole purpose of cars: The driving itself. But change could now be on the horizon. Could a new product from the most beige of auto
Read MoreThe same part of the brain that recognizes faces in humans recognizes the faces of cars. That's why we remember cars by their fronts. Now it's time to give the rears some love. According to Jalopnik readers, these are the ten cars that look better from the back.
Read MoreConsidering the assortment of strange vehicles that came out of Soviet Russia, it shouldn't come as a surprise some of the promotional pictures used to advertise these cars were also a little weird.
Read MoreWhat Comic-Con is to comic book nerds, RENNSport Reunion is to Porsche racing geeks. Every conceivable racing Porsche is represented. Take this photo of a 906 being closely pursued by a 908. Seriously, take it. It's wallpaper.
Read MoreThe U.S. law allowing the importation of grey-market cars that are 25 years old or older will stand. A petition to get the government to shorten the waiting period to 15 years failed to attract the necessary 25,000 signatures.
Read MoreIn August, Keanu Reeves gave his seat in the subway up to some lady with a bag. Now the internet is awash in praise.
Read MoreFifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell nearly lost an expensive Swiss watch to a trio of muggers. That is, until a five-foot-tall — 5'5" in stilettos — blonde packing a sharp heel and fists of fury stepped in. Lindsay Orridge, a marketing manager for Ford Motorsport, attacked the muggers and sent them scurrying, saving Tiff and his watch.
Read MoreThe chilling transcripts from Air France 447 reveal the central conflict dooming the 228 people aboard the plane was not between two inexperienced pilots, but between a pilot and the technology that was supposed to keep him safe that he didn't understand.
Read MoreFrench philosopher Henri Poincare said, "It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance... that permits us to... comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details." Yet in the car world, symmetry between front and back sometimes fails. Sometimes, in fact, it's even the exact opposite of what you'd expect. What car looks better from the back than the front?
Read MoreYou know how much gas is in your car, your average miles per gallon, and your road speed. And you want to get from your home to your destination as quickly as possible, as efficiently as possible. Does speeding actually work?
Read MoreThere's something about holiday songs that tickle one's tingly places. No, not those tingly places, sicko, I mean the ones that make you do seasonal things, like make snow angels or buy your spouse a Lexus with a bow on it, when what she really wanted was that tennis bracelet from Zales, idiot.
Read MoreA Boeing 787 Dreamliner — the sixth 787 Boeing's made so far — took off from Boeing Field in Seattle in December 6, 2011. Yesterday, it landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, having flown 10,710 nautical miles to set a distance record for a commercial jet of its weight. It's also a victory, of sorts, for carbon fiber.
Read MoreHas the King of Pop's tragic passing ever been better memorialized than as this disturbingly detailed mural of Michael Jackson's life on a highly-modified Nissan GT-R? Prepare yourself for a moonwalk through insanity.
Read MoreA dealership in Michigan has finally caved to Internet pressure and repurchased an SUV they sold a woman that had a "dead body smell." But now there's a new twist. The dealership tells Jalopnik it now plans to resell it once they get it back.
Read MoreWith Jaguar teasing its XF Sportbrake in a cheeky Christmas card, we wanted them to know exactly why America deserves a shaggin' Jag wagon for Christmas. People who obsess about station wagons are disconnected from the car-buying public, you say? Who cares. Dead horse, prepare for another beating.
Read MoreIsn't the 2012 Nissan GT-R already track-ready? Sure. But Nissan's new Track Pack, a 10,000-quid option for UK buyers, makes a track-day beating a bit less taxing on the GT-R's bits and a little more rewarding for whoever's driving.
Read MoreJust when you thought no one was celebrating or remembering the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, there's this: a Navy veteran spray-painting "12-7 USN" on a Japanese car, like a racist jerk, and then two young men beating the crap out of him on camera, like roid-raging jerks. America!
Read MoreThe Ford Econoline wasn't just a van, it was America's draft horse. It was how Americans got stuff — building stuff, delivering stuff, repairing stuff — done. Now it's going away, to be replaced by the Ford Transit. But the Econoline was more than just a work truck. It was freedom in a box.
Read MoreFord announced today that the evergreen E-series Econoline will be replaced in 2013 with the European Transit van. The new full-size vans will be built in Ford's Kansas City plant, and will possibly debut at the Chicago Auto Show. Say farewell to the E-Series — the era of the T-conoline is now upon us.
Read MoreThis thing? I found it inside an abandoned square-mile Soviet-era military factory in Siberia. It would have worn a gas mask to help illustrate to workers proper safety protocols upon nuclear war with America. Now, it's just another artifact of the USSR's once mighty military machine.
Read MoreAptera, the California electric vehicle startup that once hoped for ten thousand sales of its futuristic three-wheeled 2e per year, ceased operations on Friday after failing to secure needed funding. As you can sadly see in these videos, in the wake of the collapse, the company's now-unemployed staff went on a rampage, destroying every prototype car they could get their hands on.
Read MoreSorry, Lexus. If you really want a December to remember, stick a bow atop this gold-plated, ruby-encrusted Mercedes SLR. It's the dream car of Swiss club owner and Thai-food impresario Ueli Anlicker, who built the "Red Gold Dream SLR." And it's $11 million.
Read MoreOnce upon a time, car designers created special styling cues that endured as car models evolved. Even today, designers recall those cues in modern versions of enduring models, while creating new elements they hope will last. What's the most iconic car-design element?
Read MoreA road across the Bering Strait and an interplanetary gravitational highway are just two of the wild "Highways of Tomorrow" proposed by futurists. With the help of Jalopnik readers, we looked past the hype and picked out these ten mind-blowing highway designs of tomorrow.
Read MoreAccording to a Jalopnik commenter claiming to be his 14-year-old son, Jesse James did crash his Ford GT this weekend. Also, his father was behind the wheel of the 1,000-hp modified supercar when it crashed.
Read MoreFrom dead in the water to fit as a fiddle in a single stroke of a pen, Circuit of The Americas management says the track and its United States Grand Prix are now a "go" for 2012.
Read MoreThe team at legend-disproving show Mythbusters busted more than myths yesterday while filming a scene at a Northern California bomb-disposal range. Their homemade cannon launched a projectile past the range, through someone's house, and finally into a minivan.
Read MoreAt the best of times, pulling together a de facto endurance-racing team is like ushering cats into a bath, but what if the team leader is a bit of a knob? Yes, the whole rudderless production can go to hell in an instant.
Read MoreIn a bizarre convergence of Planelopnik and Daily DUI, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has been placed on leave following an arrest for driving under the influence near his Fairfax, VA home. This is probably the first DUI arrest of which President Obama was immediately informed.
Read MoreA year before he became BMW’s test driver in Formula One, Sebastian Vettel raced for the Spanish team Racing Engineering in the Spanish Formula 3 Championship. Team owner Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón has recalled for us meeting the young man who would become Formula One’s youngest world champion. – Ed.
Read MoreIn a heartwarming tale of practicing what you preach, a 58-year-old holy-rollin' woman ran into a high school student with her '96 Accord, then threw a Christian pamphlet at the kid before driving off.
Read MoreThis morning in New York City, fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti unveiled the 2012 Pirelli calendar — the limited-edition corporate gift for top clients, published annually by the tire brand, that just happens to double as one of modeling's most prestigious gigs. The Pirelli calendar is to the girlie calendar in the employee bathroom of your local auto shop as the New York Review is to Reader's Digest.
Read MoreHow do you transport a giant Panda from China to the United States? Why, business class on China Airlines, of course — if this picture weren't a hoax.
Read MoreA Subaru WRX owner went to sleep at this weekend's 25 Hour of Thunderhill race with a complete car. This is what he found when he woke up a few hours later. Resident racer and gearbox theft-culprit Robb Holland explains why you shouldn't trust a racing team with your car. — Ed.
Read MoreAPR Motorsport has already committed to racing the Audi R8 LMS in the 2012 Rolex Grand Am series. But this is the first actual photo of the Grand Am prepped car, on track at today's test session at Daytona.
Read MoreEven while Ford unveiled something that goes very fast in a straight line, the 2013 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet, it was quietly showing something new that goes around corners too. MustangsDaily reports that this 2013 Boss 302SX is a halfway house between the Boss race car and a Boss road car, developing more power, fitted with adjustable suspension and stripped of its interior. Production? Maybe.
Read MoreWith today's news of the Dodge Dart's return in 2013, we think it's appropriate to take a look back at the history of this Mopar small car. Who better to take us there than David Zatz and the Allpar team. Here's their annotated history of the little Chrysler that could. — Ed.
Read MoreDodge will resurrect the Dart name for its new Alfa Romeo-based compact car, set to debut at next month's Detroit Auto Show. The Dart will be the first Alfa Romeo-based Chrysler production car introduced in the United States. Arrivederci Caliber!
Read MoreThe Cadillac CTS-V Coupe posts impressive numbers: 556 horsepower, a 0-to-60 mph time near four seconds, and top speed around 190mph. Also impressive is the car's ability to make a passenger go from restrained and controlled to squealing and cursing and giggling in well under four seconds.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crashed a Chevrolet Volt back in May, the car's lithium-ion battery burst into flames in June, and the agency acknowledged the fire to the public and launched a safety investigation in late November. Why the six-month time-lapse?
Read MoreAccording to Motor Trend editor-in-chief Ed Loh, Subaru has confirmed it will build a turbocharged version of its Toyota-direct-injection FA20 engine (the one in the Subaru BRZ). That's great news, right? Well, yes. Kind of.
Read MoreFrom the "latter-day kshatriya warrior" section of the WTF? file comes a parking-lot chase and arrest scene from this year's Bollywood production Singham, which gives an audacious Mahabharata-grade boost to a dated action-flick cliche and looks oddly like the new Hawaii 5-0.
Read MoreEveryone wants to help you get the best deal on a car. And you've got all the information the internet can endow — dealer-invoice pricing, scam-avoidance tips, even an entire psych workup on salespeople's use of light-trance techniques. But it's not all perfect. What's the biggest car-buying myth?
Read MoreAlthough it's not yet up online, thanks to the continued inability of ink-and-paper publications to time when they can shoot their story load on the public, we've got the Car & Driver's 2012 10Best list before it's even up on their website. The winners will likely not in any way shock and/or amaze you.
Read MoreThe Generally-obsessed fan-boys at GMInsideNews have finally analyzed every frame of the second video detailing the journey of the BMW 3 Series-fighting Cadillac ATS from concept to reality.
Read MoreBecause of their rare and desirable nature most 1969 Ford Boss 429 Mustangs have been transformed from track terrorizing beasts into high dollar perfectly restored show cars. Usually there is little left to indicate the gritty lives these cars led on the street and race track when they were new. Much to our amazement and delight this Wimbledon White Boss 429, currently listed on Ebay, is completely original and looks like it is still ready to race.
Read MoreKen Block's Gymkhana videos are proof of the amazing tributes to hoonage that can be created when you have a full race team, a professional camera crew and plenty of money from your sponsors to throw around. We're pretty sure this Polish hoon fest was created without any of these things, but it came out pretty cool anyways.
Read MoreAlthough we know you didn't need another reason to continue seeking out the dwindling supply of cars with manual transmissions, we're giving you one anyways. A Florida man and woman still have their car because a pair of carjackers didn't know how to drive a stick.
Read MoreMaybe you were swamped at the office this week and couldn't check your favorite Gawker Media sites. Or maybe you're about to go back to work and could use one last distraction. Whatever the case, we've got you covered. Here are some of the best videos we watched during the week that was.
Read MoreMost new car model names suck. There— we said it. We once lived in a world of cars named for exotic locales and badass living creatures. These days we're lost in a sea of letters, numbers and words that require a dictionary or an marketing degree to make sense of to identify new cars.
Read MoreUnfortunately you can't buy a HZJ76 Land Cruiser in America, but you can in other parts of the world like Africa and the Middle East—where this 2011 model came from. As you can see from the pictures this truck's journey to America wasn't without incident.
Read MoreWrapping one's head around what it's like to be a successful Formula One driver is like sussing out how autistic savant Daniel Paul Tammet makes huge number calculations in his head by imagining each number as a landscape painting. It pretty much can't be done.
Read MoreIn 1942, Nazi engineers devised a plan to build a 1,500-ton supertank. The P1000 Rat, or "Land Cruiser," was to be the largest and fiercest industrial-age ground weapon the world had ever seen. In 1943, the project was cancelled. So how did its massive gun turret wind up on a coastal hilltop in Norway?
Read MoreA Saudi Arabian cleric has warned his fellow countrymen against lifting the country's ban on allowing women to drive, asserting that letting ladies take the wheel will lead to a complete extinction of virgins within 10 years. Because everyone knows that ladies will only use their newfound freedom to cars to drive directly to a dick.
Read MoreJust how is it that a single driver with less than five years in Formula One was able to dominate the field in such a devastating way in 2011, a field which includes drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso? It’s his brains.
Read MoreLike all racing accidents, the most horrific crash in the history of motorsports happened in a single, chaotic sequence. When Jaguar driver Mike Hawthorn dove unexpectedly into pit lane, Lance Macklin swerved his Austin Healey into the trajectory of Pierre Levegh's Mercedes 300SLR.
Read MoreJourno-tweets from the Subaru BRZ's Japanese launch are offering up new insight on that half of the Subyota equation. Most specifically, pricing and options. The BRZ will reportedly start at around $24,000 and rise to $27,000 for the Limited model.
Read MoreA woman and her daughter is suing American Airlines and flight catering company Sky Chefs for one million dollars, claiming that their airplane food killed her husband. I would sue Sky Chefs for crimes against humanity and good taste.
Read MoreBack in July, I rolled a Ural sidecar into a ditch off road and pretty much snapped my left wrist in half. Last week, I rode one for the first time since that accident. In Siberia. In the snow. In sub-zero temperatures. Was it scary? Absolutely. But no other vehicle could have gotten me here.
Read MoreReplacing a key fob usually involves contacting your dealership who then needs to place a custom order. But the K2 fob works like a universal remote for vehicles, requiring just their make, model, year and about five minutes of programming.
Read MoreForza 4 continues to drop new vehicles into your digital garages, with ten new cars coming in next week's December DLC pack. In addition to the Ford SVT F-150 Raptor, it also includes the Monster Suzuki Pikes Peak special and eight other vehicles.
Read MoreSince 2005, the various iterations of the Nissan Pivo have been capturing the imaginations of people who find parking incredibly difficult by promising to do what no car has done before — rotate its wheels to crab into a parking space sideways, under automatic control. This Pivo 3 is the first concept to remotely resemble something that could actually go on-sale. Are you ready for the era of the sideways-driving car?
Read MoreImagine boarding a tram in Manhattan, which then leaves the city to connect with a high-speed train. You leave the tram for the train, and next thing you know you're in downtown San Francisco...all without ever stopping at a station.
Read MoreAccording to an Acura dealer national meeting attendee's furtive report from the Aria hotel in Las Vegas, the new Acura NSX that'll reportedly be shown at next month's Detroit Auto Show will look extremely similar to Tony Stark's car in the upcoming Avengers movie. But wait, there's more.
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Read MoreHate him for poaching Lewis Hamilton’s drivers’ title or love him for his bottomless Scandinavian cool, 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen is back in Formula One, after signing a two-year deal with Lotus Renault. It’s time for embarrassingly cool moments at Grands Prix yet again, like his classic line about a pre-race bowel movement at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Read MoreThe New York City Department of Transportation got a new street safety campaign yesterday, putting 12 signs with graphics and haikus up at crosswalks across the five boroughs. Here's how to find them.
Read MoreToday, Ford Racing unveiled the 2013 Cobra Jet Mustang at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show in Orlando, Fla. The new Cobra Jet, designed for NHRA Stock and Super Stock competition, features two new 5.0-liter TiVCT engine options.
Read MoreToyota's long-missing sports car was just revealed moments ago in Los Angeles for a crowd of journalists and enthusiasts. But they're not calling it a Toyota, they're calling it the Scion FR-S and they just announced it's going on sale next spring. UPDATED!
Read MoreThe seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Chrysler 300 Coupe claims it was built for MLB Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn. It's up to you to determine if its combination of unique style and price hits it out of the park.
Read MoreToday, most cars are front wheel drive, but decades ago, such a feature was revolutionary. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Citroën isn't just a Traction Avant, it's avant-garde. But will you find its price Gaul-ing?
Read MoreThe C4 Corvette breathed new life into the brand, however for some that wasn't enough. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe stroker droptop goes over the top and breathes through a supercharger, but will its price take your breath away?
Read MoreTomorrow marks the end of Hanukkah, the traditional Jewish celebration of one-night's worth of oil burning for eight. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Autocars Sabra roadster comes from the traditionally Jewish State of Israel, but will its price light your fire?
Read MoreWith Saab almost pushing up daisies - or whatever it is they push up in Sweden, it's prime time to grab a sweet Swede before they're all gone. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1997 900 has a claimed 400bhp, meaning that grabbing it will require fast hands, but will its price grab you?
Read MoreBMW drivers are sometimes accused of using their cars to compensate for other, very small, things. Despite being covered with BMW-ness, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe very large Thing doesn't seem to be compensating for anything. However, will you find its price too much compensation for such a thing?
Read MoreThey used to say the sun never sets on the British Empire. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Custom Country Squire appears to be another British conquest, but has its price been set empirically too high?
Read MoreIf you like German cars and El Caminos, you're pretty much going to have to either pick up a Sawzall yourself or buy something someone else's home-built pickup. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe der Straße is the latter, but does its price make it more BM than MB?
Read MoreAudi's badge is four interlocking rings, which represent the quartet of makes that combined to form the Auto Union. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe S4 may not carry that badge on its nose, but is it also saddled with a price that will make it hard for the seller to lock up a deal?
Read MoreThere's an old maxim - practice makes perfect - that suggests it's worth doing something over and over until you finally get it right. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Maserati 430 is hopefully the result of following that dictum with the company' s Biturbo line. But, does it's price make it practically perfect?
Read MoreRemember Top Gear's convertible Renault Espace? The guys who built (un-built?) today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Eurovan Cabrio sure do — but will this topless VW's price make you say forget it?
Read MoreIn October of 1947, Chuck Yeager piloted the Bell X-1 rocket plane through the sound barrier and into the history books. While not quite that fast, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe SBC-powered Suzuki X90 should be just as scary to drive, and its price may prove a substantial barrier.
Read MoreIn the 1992 movie Sidekicks, an asthmatic kid learns karate in the hope of meeting his hero, Chuck Norris. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Sidekick has an industrial diesel - which is likely pretty asthmatic as well - but will its price make it something even Chuck would kick to the side?
Read MoreThere's an old saying about things difficult to categorize being neither fish nor fowl. Exemplifying that maxim, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Civic is neither wholly Honda or BMW, but will you find its price is completely foul?
Read MoreAston Martin made so few of the outrageously styled Lagonda sedans it's hard to believe there still some unaccounted for. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Series II is claimed to have been found hiding in, of all places, a barn, but does that make its price farm fresh?
Read MoreIt's not the Bluesmobile, nor does it possess the bloated orca-like visage of Caprice cop cars of the past. But while neither of those things, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caprice PPV presents an interesting opportunity for the individual who can swing its purchase requirements, one of which being its price, which might seem a crime.
Read MoreToday is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and in honor of that, our Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is about as Yankee Doodle Dandiest, all-American a car as you can get, American Motors that is. Its price, however, may live in infamy.
Read MoreOld Range Rovers are relatively light due to being clothed in aluminum, but that’s not to say they couldn’t be lighter. In seeking that goal, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe rock crawler has been denuded to its skivvies, but it also comes with a price that might mean the buyer might just be taking it in the shorts.
Read MoreThe era of grandiose American luxury coupes is long gone, and those who still jones for a big two-door boat from the past have to put up with their utter lack of modern amenities. That is unless they buy today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom '71 Grand Prix, which has been modernized. Its price however, has also been updated.
Read MoreWhether you love it or hate it, there's no denying that the U.S. edition of Top Gear has one thing going for it and that's resident beard-wearer, Rutledge Wood. Now, it's rumored that today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘96 Roadmaster is the Rutster's, so it's got that going for it, but does its price give you wood?
Read MoreDid you ever jones to buy a brand-spanking new C4 Corvette ZR1 but for whatever reason could never pull the trigger? Well, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe never-been-kissed Corvette ZR1 will give you another chance, while its price may feel like you're the one getting spanked.
Read MoreCar configurators are one of the all-time great online time-wasters. If you want to dream bigger, though, Boeing will let you (virtually) paint a new 787 Dreamliner.
Read MoreNow, think about this carefully. It's not just the 2011 model you'd most like to see destroyed in a demolition derby, although that might guide your decision. It's which one you would take into battle. What 2011 car model would you enter in a demolition derby?
Read MoreHowever we feel about automobile emissions and fuel efficiency, mapping out a way forward hasn't been easy. That's largely because we can't agree on what about gasoline-powered cars we're willing to give up. Diesel? Hybrid? Hybrid diesel? French fries? Huh?
Read MoreLast year, a number of people inexplicably began experiencing "unintended acceleration" in their shit boxes. TV news sensationalized, mothers worried and even Congress got involved. The cause of all that? As it turned out, people had been lulled into such a state of stupor by the shear beigness of their Toyotas that they'd totally forgotten how to drive. Well that and some guy faked it.
Read MoreHigh speed runs atop desert sands, over mountains, and through jungles are the type of tracks built for the heavyweights of the automotive world — racing trucks. They can dominate any terrain — whether they be on track, drag strips, hillclimbs, and rallies, and now here — where Jalopnik readers have chosen the ten toughest race trucks of all time.
Read MoreJuan Manuel Fangio’s epic win at the Nürburgring in 1957 is perhaps the greatest race in the 62-year history of Formula One. After fifty years in a drawer, an American Private’s Kodachrome slides of the race have been published, and they are utterly breathtaking.
Read MoreWatching an F1 car devour Eau Rouge, it's easy to forget racing was born from utility vehicles. It was farmers pitting their horse-drawn implements against each other for agri-bragging rights. Sure, we still have tractor pulls, but what about their larger, road-going cousins. What's the most badass racing truck of all time?
Read MoreThe year 1918 doesn't seem all that far away, all things considered. And yet, futurists of the time thought some day we'd be traveling through space at the "terrific" speed of two miles a minute. That's 120 mph. To the moon in 83 days? Preposterous!
Read MoreGoogle won a U.S. patent for its autonomous-vehicle system, paving the way for us dumb meat pods to be eliminated from the driving process. The patent applies to how the system switches from person control to machine control using "smart" parking spaces.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MoreCar repairs can drain your pocketbook fast, but you can do a wide range of repairs yourself, regardless of your technical skill. We're not just talking oil changes; provided you can hold a wrench, you can fix everything ranging from fuel filters to alternators. We'll detail the tools necessary for your DIY toolkit, where to turn to for help when you're making the repairs, and how to tackle some of the most common car problems yourself.
Read MoreIf your car is starting to show its age, one way to breathe a little cosmetic life into a new vehicle is to give it a new paint job. At the same time, a good paint job can cost thousands of dollars. Over at Instructables however, a full-vehicle paint job only has to set you back about $75.
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