There may be too many Minis. There, I've said it. This is the sixth. But if we must have another, why not a tiny two-seater convertible? It's cold comfort (until you turn on the heater) but at least the new Mini Roadster is heading in the right direction, size-wise, getting ever-so-slightly smaller than the Mini Convertible.
Read MoreRoads only take you so far. There's a lot more of the world out there to see, and sometimes you need a special vehicle to get you there. These are Jalopnik readers' choices for the ten best expedition vehicles.
Read MoreWe exclusively broke the news of Nissan Europe's Juke R project back in September. All we knew then was some strange "super Juke" crossover had been endowed with a GT-R's engine. Since then, we've seen all 11 episodes of its build-video series on YouTube. Now we've driven it. But is it all we hoped for? Let's find out.
Read MoreThe tweaked LSA engine that powers the Chevy Camaro ZL1 produces five hundred and eighty horsepower, about a hundred and fifty more than the previously supreme Camaro SS and about four hundred more than any human being personally needs. But that's what it takes to make the best muscle car Chevy's ever built.
Read MoreDuring a recent stop in Times Square, L.L. Bean let us drive its new promotional vehicle — the Ford truck-powered Bootmobile. What better to strap into on a windy, January afternoon in midtown Manhattan than footwear the size of a UPS truck, right?
Read MoreBuilding a restomod is straightforward: Take the body of a classic car and stuff it full of updated drivetrain and suspension pieces. While most builders start with Detroit products, England's Frontline Developments uses an MGB-GT and calls the stunning result the LE50.
Read MoreThe 50th Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona this weekend was one of the best ever, even if everyone didn't get to go home with a shiny watch. Our friends at MotorSportMedia were there to bring you photos from the race. — Ed.
Read MoreFrance is an automotive paradox: Some French products are the height of fashion and technology, some are deeply eccentric answers to pragmatic questions, some are very rational and normal, some verge on the absurd. Almost all have a weird little spark of "La Marseillaise" to them. What's the quintessential French car?
Read MoreLoving Ferris Bueller's Day Off doesn't make you weird. That's normal for any child of the '80s. Even more normal is feeling pissed off at Honda for its "Ferris Bueller" Super Bowl ad.
Read MoreI was pleased when Fiat announced their return to America, but, now that the brand is settling in, I realized there's an issue. See, any new 500 driver with a flat or a dead battery is now going to have to endure the cries of "Fix It Again, Tony!" — the beloved-by-many-meatheads derogatory acronym for Fiat — from passing motorists, which many Americans have been desperately waiting two decades to once again yell.
Read MoreThere's a lot of buzz right now for the clip above showing Matthew Broderick appearing to be a grown-up Ferris Bueller (bow-bow-chik-chika-chika sound effect included) looking to skip work for another day off.
Read MoreThe Cincinnati Zoo has a traveling version of its Cat Ambassador Program where zoo trainers bring a cheetah and several "smaller" cats to local schools. And that means road trips. But not in a cage. Nope. When these cheetahs go out on the town, they ride shotgun.
Read MoreMark Mothersbaugh, whom we all know from Devo and those orange hats, currently has two pieces of automotive art in a Los Angeles exhibition that carries on one of the oldest car-art traditions, the double-ended car.
Read MoreThe British motor industry produced products that were influential and appealing around the globe, but the best ones still retained the character of the small rainy island from whence they came. Here are Jalopnik readers' choices for the ten most quintessentially British cars.
Read MoreWhen a pair of British-trained Czech and Slovak assassins attacked one of Nazi Germany’s most sinister leaders in Prague in May 1942, they were armed with submachine guns and anti-tank mines. But even these were not enough. To complete Operation Anthropoid and kill Heydrich, Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gab?ík needed a little help from the SS-Obergruppenführer’s favorite Mercedes convertible and the swarm of microbes in its upholstery.
Read MoreEngland is a small nation with a large population that has produced an outsized proportion of the world's great ales, men's clothing, rock bands, and cars. What is the most quintessentially British car to emerge from that scepter'd isle?
Read MoreIt's hard to believe one of the most valuable Mercedes in the world is sitting neglected in a building in South Central Los Angeles, but that's exactly where writer Michael Mraz located Rudi Caracciola's 1935 Mercedes-Benz 500K.
Read MoreThere isn't a whole lot you can do to make a Tatra T603 stranger than it already is. These rare Czech made luxury cars came from the factory with a rear mounted air cooled V8 and a design that is hard to describe. Interestingly enough, the current owner of this T603 managed to do the impossible with the odd addition of large aftermarket wheels and a bumping stereo system.
Read MoreLJK Setright’s last book is 400 pages of dense, hyper-erudite British prose about cars and humans and the ways we’ve come entangled. It’s the life’s work of the smartest motoring journalist who ever lived and if you care about cars, you should read it. Bonus: Tons of Hitler jokes!
Read MoreIt's hard to wrap your head around the size and complexity of the gearhead Mecca, the Nürburgring. Made by the people at Carbuzz UK, this is all the info you need to prepare yourself for your next Bridge-to-Gantry Hajj.
Read MoreSome people appreciate cars for what they are and how they drive; some people just want a rolling advertisement for their net worth that will catch people looking. Here are Jalopnik readers' top ten picks for the showiest status-symbol rides.
Read MoreIn Ronald Reagan's day, it wasn't smart for an American politician to be seen in a Japanese vehicle, but the soon-to-be-President quietly kept a quirky Subaru BRAT at his ranch in California under an agreement that the automaker would get progress reports from Reagan on the little truck's performance. Read about how this strange arrangement came to be in this report from Benjamin Preston exclusively for Jalopnik —Ed.
Read MoreToday is the anniversary of the founding of the Bentley Motor Company, which has made its name providing transportation for the rich and showy from the Bentley Boys to Diddy. What's the ultimate rich-guy showoff car?
Read MoreItaly is the spiritual home of enthusiastic driving. No other nation has such a deep-seated tradition of producing fast, beautiful, soul-satisfying automobiles. Here are Jalopnik reader's choices of the ten cars that best embody that national heritage of speed and art.
Read MoreThere's an estate sale going on in Trollhättan, Sweden. Saab is dead and now they're selling off the 123 vehicles in the Saab Museum. Here's the full list of cars, and the 20 coolest ones you should keep your eye on.
Read MoreThe fact this 1969 Ford Galaxie wagon is a two owner original that is still wearing the original coat of "New Lime" paint it left the factory with is enough to make it a somewhat rare survivor. Although this Galaxies original condition makes the car interesting, what lies beneath the hood makes it even cooler for the sect of car lovers willing to spend time drooling over a long roof land barge from the late 60s—a big block 429ci V8.
Read MoreThese photos, taken in February, 1978, show a Dino 246 GTS being unearthed from the front yard of a home in Los Angeles. The photos have been making the rounds online for years. But what's the real story? How'd the Dino wind up underground, and where is it now?
Read MoreCustomized cars for the rich and famous are nothing new, but recent years have seen a stomach-churning rush of poor taste, superficial flash, and regrettable paint selections. These are Jalopnik's reader choices for the ten worst modified celebrity cars.
Read MoreI want to start by coming out and saying I'm not one of those car luddites who think everything should hover in some magical past; while I'm very fond of old-school cars, there's an amazing amount of amazing new tech in cars, and LCD dashboards in so many new cars here at the Detroit Auto Show are a genuinely great advance. Except for one big issue: Knobs, switches and buttons? They're now officially doomed.
Read MoreCES is happening in Las Vegas at the same time as the Detroit Auto Show, so let's pause a moment to consider the computer specialists and system administrators in our lives. What is the most appropriate car for your office's information-technology staffers?
Read MoreConcept cars aren't just wank jobs of empty, aspirational futurism. They're goal posts. They're psychedelic mind-expanding drugs made from carbon-fiber origami and starlight. They stand as public examples of not just where a car company could go, but where—barring a collective public gasp at an engineer's daydream gone overly onanistic—one of the fundaments of American culture will go as soon as technology and manufacturing capability allow.
Read MoreIf you were looking for a sports car in the early 1960s it appears Coyle-Hampton Motors in El Cerrito, Ca wouldn't have been a bad place to start. We can't find one item on their lot that wasn't a little bit interesting or exotic even when it was a used car.
Read MoreSeveral years before the 4runner was introduced to the world an odd collaboration between Toyota and Winnebago produced a little known compact SUV conversion called the Trekker.
Read MoreAs gay men and lesbians get closer and closer to the mainstream they've often traded in their image as the queer radicals who started the Stonewall Riots for the milquetoast assimilationists who want to get married and have kids and put HRC bumper stickers on their cars. That doesn't mean we're still not queer radicals. It just means we're hiding it from you.
Read MoreElectric cars are terrible. They just are. They're a solution for a problem we don't have. Or rather, they're a solution for a problem we aren't about to change: our sprawling, big-ass cities filled with things we can't afford to buy yet must haul around. (Like kids.)
Read MoreThe CTS-V Sport Wagon is often thought of as the first modern American high-po wagon, but the Magnum SRT8 from Dodge deserves credit as well. A 425-hp Hemi V8 stuffed into a RWD wagon? Hard to believe they went bankrupt.
Read MoreThe body style we in the US call a "station wagon" seems to have more variants on what to call it than almost any other body style, with manufacturers often using their own idiosyncratic names, much more so than they do for, say, a coupé or a sedan/saloon. But why?
Read MoreWhether you think classic cars should all remain stock as the day they rolled off the assembly line or you love all things custom, this custom 1960 Cadillac convertible is almost guaranteed to leave everyone who sees it with something to say.
Read MoreOn this day in 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded. For the past 124 years the Society has traveled and mapped the entire planet. Given the urge to explore is far from satisfied, what's the ideal vehicle for an expedition into the unknown?
Read MoreTwo months ago we brought your exclusive first renderings of the 2014 Chevy Corvette. Those images, in ZR1 trim, were based off our first-hand look at the new sports car. As you'd expect, they ignited a firestorm across the automotive world, with many believing what we showed you were fake. Hell, even GM — an automaker who claims they never comment on future product — issued a weak-ass denial of the authenticity of the images.
Read MoreAn axiom of supercars appears to be that the more wonderful and rare it is, the more likely it'll be crashed. The wonderful Pagani Zonda F is certainly rare — just 25 built — and now one's been crashed in Hong Kong. For the second time. And our tipster thinks it might belong to an exec at fashion house Dolce & Gabbana. UPDATE!
Read MoreA South Carolina man (not pictured) has been awarded $7.5 million in damages after a motorcycle accident causes his penis to be shortened by 1.5 inches. Since the crash, 27-year old Matthew Wall has both divorced and retired from The Navy.
Read MorePolice and firefighters were frustrated in their attempts to rescue a mom and her two daughters when their 3-series careened off the side of a bridge along the California coast. After hanging there for an hour, who happens along? A couple of SeaBees (Navy Engineers) with just the right forklift for the job.
Read MoreMassive component failures in race cars are thankfully rare, because when they happen at speed the result can be brutal. Just ask Pete Tryce. Or, better yet, watch him flip his kit-car Cobra at 130 mph early this month at Willow Springs.
Read MoreWe're not sure how this Lada 1200/VAZ-2101 ended up at the bottom of this hill in a drainage ditch but after staring at the pictures for a little while it's hard not to come up with a few theories of our own.
Read MoreA mixture of snow and black-ice caused major accidents across the Mid-Atlantic yesterday, including a 30-car pileup in West Virginia. This dramatic video from a GoPro-enabled Mitsubushi Evo driver shows exactly how this accident (and accidents like it) happen. Warning! Completely-understandable NSFW language inside.
Read MoreI like reading repair manuals, even if it's for something I don't own. I have a copy of "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" even though I've never owned a Beetle. During my temp stints at publishing houses I've loaded up on books about turbocharging, metalworking, all kinds of stuff I'll never do in this apartment — but maybe someday....
Read MoreFollowing up Jalopnik's own car pack, Forza Motorsport 4 is announcing their February DLC pack centered on sports racing cars. You can download it on Xbox LIVE starting on Tuesday, February 7 and we have the details on the ten cars getting released.
Read MoreHas John Hennessey ever found a fast car he didn't think he could make faster? His next target is the McLaren MP4-12C, which he's planning to turn the power dial up to a stonkin' 800 hp. Better reach for the fireproof suits, boys, because the flames are comin' this way!
Read MoreEditor's Note: This is the first of a new Jalopnik series called "Objects In Motion" where we pose car-related questions to our on-call physicist, Dr. Stephen Granade. This week we're asking him how to convert a car to work on the moon. —Ed.
Read MoreAutomotive advertising is a black art and sometimes an ad perfectly captures what a car is supposed to be. These are not those ads. These are the letdowns and head-scratchers Jalopnik readers identified as the ten most disappointing car ads of all time.
Read MoreDespite some advances in design, the intransigence of China's copyright enforcers means the country's car companies still ripoff popular designs with glee. The new JAC 4R3 pickup is obviously a copy of the American Ford F-150, but it's not a bad one.
Read MoreJust because you're behind the wheel of a $1.7 million supercar doesn't mean you know how to drive it. Watch as the driver of this Aston Martin One-77 repeatedly stalling on the streets of Paris.
Read MoreBefore the green flag waved over the big enduro race, cars from the Continental Tire series hit the track for the BMW Performance 200. Our friends at MotorSportMedia were there to bring you photos from the race.
Read MoreThese pictures, published in the appropriately-titled Italian magazine Quattroruote, claim to reveal the new Lamborghini SUV concept. Aventador styling on a tall Audi platform? Maybe. One thing's for certain, this ain't no rough-and-ready LM002.
Read MoreWhat you see here isn't just some crappy homebrew Batmobile parked on a random sidewalk. This is either a real art deco "Keaton" Batmobile from one of the Tim Burton films or an excellent reproduction.
Read MoreBadge engineering has been part of the auto industry ever since someone figured out the magical mix of calculus and alchemy that somehow makes money by selling the same car under different names. I've never been entirely sure how this actually works, but it must — because automakers continue to do it.
Read MoreAnd the battle of the sexes rages on: a previous study had shown that men were better at parking than women, but new research indicates ladies may actually out-park dudes. When will this all-important issue be resolved?
Read MoreLast week the world wondered what Matthew Broderick was up to in a short ten-second teaser clip on YouTube where he appeared to be playing Ferris Bueller, the character from his famous flick "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
Read MoreHyundai made a big splash at the Super Bowl three years ago with the mid-financial-crisis "Hyundai Guarantee." This year their big game strategy is more funny than financially sound motoring purchases.
Read MoreThere is nothing monstrous about a stock Fiat 126. This 126 left the factory in 1989 with a tiny 24 horsepower engine and took a painful 33 seconds to go from 0-60. As you can see from the above video, this Fiat has been "slightly" modified from its stock form.
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency are certainly an unlikely owners for one of the ultimate muscle cars ever made, but that is exactly who purchased this 1970 Plymouth Superbird in 1972. The EPA decided they needed a car for emissions testing and purchased this car—then an Alpine White example with a 440 and automatic transmission.
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson has famously contended that you cannot be a true "petrolhead" until you've owned an Alfa. For those of us in America, this presents an issue as old Alfas are increasingly few and far between. We've found one automotive answer to this problem that although strange should be expected—a Miata.
Read MoreAlthough we're only a little over 5 weeks into a rather mild winter our hibernating project cars and a lack of garage space mean we're already starting to go a little stir crazy.
Read MoreThe 1932 Ford V8 or Model 18 has significant engineering advances over the previous Model A and the first mass market V8 to thank for its desirability in early hot rod circles. 80 years later, the '32 Ford is still the ultimate hot rod—growing only more popular with each passing year.
Read MoreJust in case your special app that immediately reports breaking Fran Drescher news to you failed, I'm going to go ahead and let you know that, apparently, when Fran Drescher was younger, she was driving in a car with her father and was abducted by aliens who implanted a chip of some sort in her hand. Oh, and the exact same thing happened to her ex-husband.
Read MoreThe top seller of the high dollar automotive spectacle that is Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale was a beautiful blue 1948 Tucker Torpedo.
Read MoreThis weekend marks the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona and Jalopnik is again teaming up with MotorSportMedia to bring you the best video and photography from the week of events. First up we've got photos from Thursday's practice. — Ed.
Read MoreSome things are best at their cleanest and most straightforward. Purity and simplicity are universally valued traits. But the world is a complex place, and combinations and permutations are normal. So are cases with near-random things that somehow get weirdly whirled together.
Read MoreSix months before Saab the car company went under the last time, Apple, in complete secrecy, bought a futuristic mapping spinoff from Saab the defense contractor. The secret is now out and maps on mobile devices will never be the same.
Read MoreRecently, this Reddit thread had the picture you see above of a very official-looking Crown Vic bearing the "Soul Patrol" livery, and operating under the jurisdiction of the "King Christian Center."
Read MoreBMW's M division is one of the oldest and most revered of the European in-house tuners, but the launch of the BMW M Diesels and M SUV/CUVs left many thinking either BMW had lost its way — or maybe it hadn't.
Read MoreThe adult world gets to be a tiresome place sometimes. Yes, there's definitely the upsides (a driver's license is but one) but for the most part the responsibilities and cynicism and existential grinding can make life feel like a burden.
Read MoreThis is the Toyota Le Mans prototype pulling out of the pits in hybrid mode before then exploding with a mighty V8 roar. It might sound like something out of Star Wars but it's the future of racing.
Read MoreIt's like the shot of the Vette towing the mini-Vette, but more quirky.
Read MoreWhat you're looking at is the extinguished engine bay of a Lamborghini Gallardo that caught fire outside the Portland Auto Show yesterday. Supercars sometimes burst into flames unexpectedly, but this was no random accident. This was the work of complete idiots.
Read MoreThis week's launch of multiple M-branded diesel-powered cars now gives the BMW M brand an even larger footprint within the company. It also gives more ammo to those M fans who think the company is diluting the mighty M. Who is right? Who is wrong?
Read MoreDriving fast can be a difficult task that requires tremendous skill. Sometimes it seems that driving very very slowly and stopping can be just as stressful and dangerous. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten worst parking jobs ever caught on video.
Read MoreBMW is launching a new high-performance, 3.0-liter inline six for its M cars. No surprise yet. It also has three turbochargers, produces 381 hp and 546 lb-ft of torque, and only revs to 5,400 rpm. Ruh Roh. Yes, it's a diesel.
Read MoreI moved to New York City back in 2002 hoping to find my place in the cultural core of America. Turns out I was a few decades late. Dylan and Warhol and Jeff Buckley all left town a while ago, and what's left is...not the same.
Read MoreThe Lockheed U-2 was designed to keep tabs on the Soviet Union over half a century ago. The RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was designed to replace this 50s antique. But how strange you are, fate! The U-2's replacing its successor.
Read MoreOh… Canada. The Japanese will fly around with an albatross lodged in airplane's nose, but you let a cute little kitten take over the cockpit of one of your airliners and ground the plane for four hours.
Read MoreThe Virginia Department of Transportation has put three large collections online of archival photographs detailing life and work on Virginia's roadways. We picked out the nine best photos to give you a sense of the years the state spent adjusting to mass motorization.
Read MoreNew York City is proud of its six upcoming Nissan Leaf cabs, but more than a hundred years ago an all-electric fleet of taxis served the city using technology that even today would still be considered cutting edge.
Read MoreThe 50th running of the Rolex 24 Hours kicks off this weekend at Daytona, and the field is going to be so packed with sports prototypes, Porsches, Audis and Ferraris that you'll want this spotters guide to keep track of everything.
Read MoreGoogle is already testing its autonomous cars on the roads of California, and plenty of other manufacturers are starting to muscle in on the act, too. But when they hit the roads, how do you go about policing a city full of self-driven cars?
Read MoreLook at that picture up there. Let's break down what's going on there: the scene is a blistery, snowy day in brutal winter, somewhere Spokane, Washington.
Read MoreCollaboration is a wonderful thing. Consider baseball defense: Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker were both individually great ball players, but together they were the best double-play combo of all time. Each was terrific, but the two together defined the idea of teamwork.
Read MoreLast week we told you that all the valuable vehicles in Saab's museum were for sale, but now Autocar reports that the collection of over 120 quirky historic cars has been bought up as a whole and will be preserved.
Read MoreTrying to get excited about brand specific models of modern NASCAR stock cars is a lot like trying to get an erection from a female Lego minifig. Both acts require you to pretend that what you're lusting over isn't just an identically-produced plastic shell with fake headlights painted on. The 2013 Ford Fusion-based Sprint Cup car may finally change all of that.
Read MoreHere's the scene. A few snowmobilers out enjoying a weekend trip on the side of a mountain. One rider falls. Another rider drives above him and triggers an avalanche, quickly consuming the man. And then the rescue begins. Movie? No, real life — and it's one of the most heart-stopping videos I've ever seen.
Read MoreYou know how ladies don't know anything about cars and need a man to help them through even the simplest purchase? Surprise: this is bullshit.
Read MoreA ski trip isn't just about driving through snow; it's about getting into the mountains and skiing and drinking and eating good food and maybe hooking up and enjoying life, man. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ideal ski vacation ride.
Read MoreYou're driving home from work one day when the car owner's worst nightmare happens: the check engine light pops on. It comes without warning and with no explanation. For most drivers, this means a trip to the mechanic, but it's not difficult to diagnose (and sometimes fix) yourself.
Read MoreAt 12:30AM Sunday, I thought the reason I wasn't getting home as early as planned was that piece-of-shit L train. Seven hours later I found out it was because, among other things, of a severed head.
Read MoreWhen was the last time you sat down and willfully read a work of classic literature? Not however long ago in some classroom someplace, but on your own and just because a book was interesting and worth a bit of time and concentration?
Read MoreFiat's disastrous Jennifer Lopez ad campaign just got worse. A political group's claiming that, in addition to pretending to go home in a car that kept breaking down, J. Lo indirectly supports Iran's nuclear ambitions and human rights abuses. Just watch the video.
Read MoreI think there's been some sort of unspoken, secret agreement between car designers and automotive engineers where designers get all the celebrity and coffee table books about them, as long as they leave space on the cars to stick badges explaining all the technical stuff the engineers worked so hard for. Maybe there's a backrub exchange as well. That's really the only way to explain the sorts of arcane and frankly, ridiculous badges found on many cars.
Read MoreWinter has forcefully arrived in most of the northern US. This is not the time to hide inside. Get out, face the cold, and feel the excitement of sliding down a mountain with two narrow boards attached to your feet. What's the ideal ski-trip car?
Read MoreAlmost every car sold has four wheels, some seats, an engine, and doors. How to differentiate a vehicle without changing the formula? Special features. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten weirdest features available from the factory.
Read MoreThese are the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS John C. Stennis, two of the ten nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft supercarriers in service with the United States Navy. The Lincoln just arrived to the Strait of Hormuz as tension keeps mounting up in the area.
Read MoreWith NHTSA's closure of the investigation into the Chevy Volt, General Motors is now trying to rebuild the plug-in hybrid's image. But a new stumbling block has appeared on the road to higher sales — dealers turning down Volts from GM.
Read MoreMichael Jackson's not dead, his soul's alive and well and possessing the body of this awesome Filipino traffic cop.
Read MoreFor years if you needed a part or just wanted to wander through a field of aging Volkswagens, Sunray Bugs in Dade City, Florida was the place to go. Now the owner has until February to finish clearing what's left of the 800 or so old VWs left on his property.
Read MoreWhat do you do when the trusty 5 cylinder diesel in your 1981 Mercedes 300TD finally requires a replacement? While most people would probably find another Mercedes diesel and enjoy several hundred thousand more miles of relatively trouble free driving, the builder of this unique Benz had an entirely different idea.
Read MoreThe company Neil Young founded to create his hybrid electric 1959 Lincoln Continental is being sued for property damage that occurred when the car set itself on fire in 2010. Unigard Insurance Co. is suing Lincvolt LLC. because they believe the company's conversion of the vintage Lincoln into a Hybrid was a negligent act.
Read MoreThe third week in January means wealthy car collectors from around the world flock to Arizona for a week of car auctions, the most notable of which is Barrett-Jackson's massive 6 day auction in Scottsdale. Chances are if you're reading this the closest you are getting to the 1000+ car event is watching it on television (or on the free live-stream here) but that doesn't mean we can't drool over the amazing lineup of cars from the comfort of home.
Read MoreFor the past two weeks, you've delighted us with your flash fiction pieces about dead (and undead) giants and disembodied brains that surf the web. This week, your inspiration is a bit of otherworldly car trouble. As always, post your story in the comments.
Read MoreEurope's collaborative nEUROn drone may be late to the invisible death from above party, but it sure is compensating with some scary looks. Check out the Cylon mug on this puppy as it greets the world for the first time.
Read MoreThe Camaro ZL1 is built to be run hard, no doubt about it. "Track-ready" is the word of the day from the engineering team. (And we're out at Bondurant to prove it., more on that later) But it takes an extra-large bucket of stones to use a competitor's owner's manual against it.
Read MoreWe lost a good one today. R&B legend Etta James died in Los Angeles from leukemia. She had a long and immensely influential musical career, but will be best remembered for one song that fuses carnal and emotional fulfillment into something almost divine.
Read MoreIt is extremely important for Simone Origone, the world record holder for speed skiing at 155.9 mph, to absolutely minimize drag. When he needs to test how cleanly he cuts through the air, he goes to the wind tunnel at automotive design house Pininfarina.
Read MoreRemember when the Nissan GT-R was considered a budget super car? Yeah, not anymore. The 2013 Nissan GT-R's price has ballooned to $96,820 for the base GT-R Premium model and $106,320 for the Black Edition. That's a 35% inflation in price since this model of the car first went on sale for $69,850 back in July 2008. Godzilla's now got a price to match its girth.
Read MoreA pair of Pennsylvanians got a little trashed one night earlier this month and attempted to beat the crap out of a Ford Fusion. When they realized their fists and feet could only do so much damage they then tried to blow up the car. With tampons. Sadly, it didn't work.
Read MoreIn 2011, Williams finished ninth in the Formula One Constructors’ Championship, their worst result since 1978. Two months before the new season kicks off, the team have unveiled a rather unorthodox aspect of their efforts to return to their glory days in the ’90s: they’ve hired ’90s track god Michael Johnson to train their pit crews. Yes, that Michael Johnson.
Read MoreCarmakers face an eternally changing and demanding market. In the process they occasionally take side trips to the Land of the Odd for ideas about product specifications. What car had — or has — the weirdest feature included as standard equipment?
Read MoreJapanimation and manga revolutionized the art of comics and integrated much of car culture into its youth-oriented, often tech-heavy dramatic fantasies. Most famously, "Initial D" profiled a drift-happy tofu delivery guy and his black-on-white Toyota. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for ten other vehicles that deserve to star in their own manga/anime series.
Read MoreConsidering how many gaming apps are published each week in a mobile gaming gold rush that shows no signs of slowing, finding one that is simply average feels almost like a win. Streetbike: Full Blast, the latest excreted onto the iTunes app store, will suffice at a buck.
Read MoreSharing site MegaUpload was shut down by the feds earlier today and its founder Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz was arrested over allegations that his site hosted pirated media. Schmitz also had over $6 million in luxury cars seized. Cars with extremely conspicuous plates proclaiming him, among other things, a "God." Or "The" God.
Read MoreYou might not realize it when you've been trapped behind the same red light for five minutes, but traffic lights, when they're timed and tuned correctly, are actually pretty good at making traffic move. Really.
Read MoreAside from the one commenter who called me a "whiny retard" who hates human joy and another describing a scenario that basically had me killing my mother, my call to ban the check engine light inspired thoughtful and insightful comments. But there were several commonly-occurring threads throughout your comments that I feel are worthy of addressing.
Read MoreNew York City enforces its street cleaning day rules with the power of shame, plastering impossible-to-remove violation stickers onto every mis-parked car. The stickers' reign of terror is now a thing of the past as The New York Times reports the city council banned them yesterday.
Read MoreA pair of animators in Portland made their Italian Greyhound "Bones Mello" famous when they dressed him up as an AT-AT last October. So when we saw the Volkswagen Star Wars barking dog Super Bowl commercial preview last night we assumed the pup dressed up as an AT-AT was him. The animators, however, say it's not. Now we're left to wonder if VW ripped off their idea.
Read MoreLast year Volkswagen won The Super Bowl commercial battle with their little kid dressed like Darth Vader ad. This year they're returning to the Star Wars theme as teased in this super cute commercial with a pup who appears to be Bones Mello the AT-AT Dog we first showed you in October.
Read MoreIt's been a busy day in the world of Le Mans. Peugeot is out. Toyota is in with their hybrid prototype. And Mazda took to their Facebook page to remind us of their great Mazda 787B racer. So sexy.
Read MoreIf you spent time around an engineer in the Eighties, you probably saw that person using a Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. One of these sits next to a pad of graph paper and a few mechanical pencils in my eternal memory of Dad's briefcase.
Read MoreAnyone who saw Revenge of the Electric Car knows the only aspect stranger than Ray Wert's man-crush on Bob Lutz was Tesla-founder Elon Musk's marriage to actress Talulah Riley. And now it's as dead as the Tesla Roadster.
Read MorePardon me if you're feeling oversaturated with news of the wreck of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Giglio, Italy—and I do mean directly off the coast—but I'm endlessly enamored of ship wrecks.
Read MoreThe ongoing battle between Audi and Peugeot at Le Mans and in other international endurance events has defined the sport, but the company says they're ending the program effective now. This means no 2012 Le Mans showdown.
Read MoreYour iPhone is a better entertainment device than anything you're going to get in a car stereo without spending big bucks. Snapping in an aux cable is a janky solution; the specialized iPod connectors in glove boxes aren't much better.
Read MoreIt's been said before, but it's still true: Books for little kids can be some seriously messed-up violent nasty pieces of writing. Alice is on drugs. Grandmother is now a wolf. Death lies around every corner. Think twice about gingerbread.
Read MoreIt's one thing to keep a single example of a desirable car in as-delivered condition in hopes of cashing in after production winds down. It's another to have fifteen pristine brand-new copies of the fastest cars Ford ever sold become available all at once.
Read MoreWould you believe that a MINI won the Dakar rally this year? Perhaps a car brand that's as far from its roots in purposeful simplicity is a fitting metaphor for a rally named after a place in Africa that, for the first time this year, entered Peru.
Read MoreWhat makes owners of cars with zero winter prep want to commute in the snow, on a hill, is beyond me. Seattle drivers apparently can't be bothered to... umm... is that someone putting chains on the REAR TIRES of a FWD Toyota Corolla?
Read MoreIt's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is. I suppose if you thought that the cause of smoke coming from under your hood had something to do with the floor mats, then, sure, the "check engine" light is handy, but beyond that, it's useless. But that's not the real problem. The real problem is that the "check engine" light is a tool for the propagation of consumer ignorance about their cars. Which is why it needs to die. Now.
Read MoreTim Tebow was the NFL's biggest story this season, but it seems like plenty of folks are ready to see him go away for a while. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for where Tebow should go during the offseason.
Read MoreReal racing fans know race day is the culmination of extensive prep work. Teams from around the world met in Florida this weekend for the 'Roar Before The 24' event before the Daytona 24-Hour race. Here's a full gallery of hardcore racing porn created exclusively for Jalopnik by MotorSportMedia. — Ed.
Read MoreSomewhere outside of Atlanta, there is a Corvette with a trailer hitch towing a mini-Vette. Drivers beware, as its intense cuteness could lead to dangerous distraction, crashes, or the overwhelming desire to get one yourself.
Read MoreRauno Aaltonen drove a Mini Cooper S to the model's last victory in the 1967 Monte Carlo Rally. It was a stunning victory, but Aaltonen's been harboring a secret. How he actually won. Here, he shares that secret with Autos.Sympatico.ca's Matt Bubbers. —Ed.
Read MoreTim Tebow has been the biggest story in professional sports this year, but his season is now over. It's time to hit the road and think about things. Where should Tebow go in the offseason? And what should he drive there?
Read MoreApple made its reputation on industry-changing computer products and has expressed little interest in producing cars, but people love to speculate. Here are Jalopnik reader's picks for ten things to look for in an 'Apple Car' if Apple is ever crazy enough to jump into the market.
Read MorePeople scared to fly didn't like the video of the crazy crosswind landings at Düsseldorf. This one doesn't show any extreme situation, just beautiful landings and take-offs in Brazil, from an Airbus A320 cockpit. Still, it may cause some vertigo.
Read MoreHoly crap, is that an excavator excavating a 12 story building out from underneath itself in China?! Yes, but it's probably not quite the terrible, ridiculously unsafe idea that it seems to be. Here's why.
Read MoreChances are pretty good that if you pick a random weekend, somewhere in America there is a collector car auction. These events range anywhere from a piece by piece outdoor sale of an old Midwestern junkyard to the bright lights and ultra high dollar insanity of a Barrett-Jackson event.
Read MoreRather than risk missing out on the 2012 Superbike season, Suzuki rider John Hopkins decided to have one of his fingers amputated. While this may seem like a sad story, Hopkins is surprisingly upbeat about the whole affair—in our minds further proof Motorcycle racers are all more than a little bit crazy.
Read MoreWhile we don't know exactly why this 1964 Chevrolet Corvette decided to set itself on fire, these pictures tell a pretty clear story of what happened after it did. Currently for sale on Ebay, this charred 'Vette is being offered as a parts car or a pretty serious project.
Read MoreThe 984-foot-long cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on the island of Giglio, Italy, killing at least three people. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated, but 50 are still missing. The night photos remind me of the sinking Titanic.
Read MoreReal racing fans know race day is the culmination of extensive prep work. Teams from around the world met in Florida this weekend for the 'Roar Before The 24' event before the Daytona 24-Hour race. Here's a full gallery of hardcore racing porn created exclusively for Jalopnik by MotorSportMedia. — Ed.
Read MoreIt's been a warm January so far, but it's looking like that's changing in a serious hurry. Winds are picking up, temperatures are dropping, snow is imminent if it's not already pouring down. (Drive safe, Great Lakes folks.)
Read MoreScion hoped to capitalize on the buzz over its new Scion FR-S sports car by offering the first cars to 86 randomly selected individuals who applied at a Scion website. Great idea… except the winners still know nothing about the car they're buying.
Read MoreThe Tokyo Auto Salon is like the Japanese version of SEMA, the auto aftermarket parts show, only it's a million times cooler. Exhibit A: This Lexus LFA Roadster and Toyota GT 86 go full Cool Ranch Dorifto in the exhibition area outside.
Read MorePininfarina describes the Cambiano as a "luxury environment-friendly sport sedan" which likely means that it's a) going to be either a plug-in hybrid or full-electric b) it's going to have four doors and c) it's going to be super sexy. The Italian design house knows how to make a nice concept car.
Read MorePictured above is Noor Daoud. She was born in Texas, likes fast cars, but also was on an Olympic swim team and on the Palestinian national soccer team. Right now, though, she's focused on racing Formula 3. According to reports, Daoud is the first Palestinian, male or female, to participate in and win an Israeli race. And she's not alone:
Read MoreOne of the quieter introductions at the Detroit Auto Show was Buick's new mini-crossover, the Encore. It's not an enthusiast vehicle, but it is an interesting take on Buick's ongoing effort to break its reputation as a brand for "the olds."
Read MoreOne of the greatest automotive films is Claude Lelouch's C'etait un Rendezvous, a nine-minute high-speed run through the streets of Paris ending with the hero getting the girl. French rally driver Jean Ragnotti paid tribute with his own drive through Paris, only with a slightly different ending.
Read MoreI'm sure whatever booth Robbie checked out at CES is great, but the best booth at CES didn't come from an ultrabook or smart TV manufactuer. Nope, it came from Audi. I am steadfast in my belief that it is BETTER. Like OMGDONTEVENTRYTOARGUEWITHME better. What makes it so great, exactly? Um, have you looked at the photos yet?
Read MoreThe introduction of the first BMW 3 Series in July 1975 marked the beginning of one of the most remarkable success stories in BMW — and general automotive — history. It was the launch of a new, sporty car with compact dimensions. Now, three and a half decades later, the face of the 3 Series — and its iconic snatched-from-the-five-series kidney grille — has evolved into the new F30-platform 2012 BMW 3 Series. Let's take a look back.
Read MoreWinter weather is causing traffic mayhem in many areas today, proving that not everyone's prepared for winter driving. Here are what Jalopnik readers suggest are the ten best ways to prepare for driving in the ice and show.
Read MoreWhat you're looking at is the deck of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan covered in the vehicles of Navy Sailors heading to Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington. At a cost of about $4.5 billion this is probably the world's most expensive parking lot.
Read MoreReal racing fans know race day is the culmination of extensive prep work. Teams from around the world met in Florida this weekend for the 'Roar Before The 24' event before the Daytona 24-Hour race. Here's a full gallery of hardcore racing porn created exclusively for Jalopnik by MotorSportMedia. — Ed.
Read MoreI'm typing this at 4:55, trying to get this done before five. It's a push. Producing a high-quality product (or a website for a bunch of gearheads) seems to suck up every available scrap of time before — and sometimes well past — any set deadline. (AOTD today? Yeah.)
Read MoreContrary to its depiction as a backward desert full of terrorists, Pakistan is home to beautiful scenery and a few free-spirited travelers who explore the country in 4x4 vehicles. Baber Khan, editor of the car website PakWheels.com, shares his story and amazing photos. — Ed.
Read MoreAmerican Ex-NASCAR driver Robby Gordon was killing it in the opening days of the grueling Dakar 2012 race in South America until a run-in with French favorite Stephane Peterhansel. Then the French-based governing body disqualified Gordon while letting Peterhansel get a pass despite nearly running over a motorcyclist.
Read MoreIt's easy enough to tell what car an interior belongs to if you see the whole thing; there are usually a ton of badges, especially on the wheel.
Read MoreIt's sometimes hard to see a bright side when something truly terrible happens, but for a bereaved Florida family the surprising return of their pet dog has helped ease the blow of a violent tragedy.
Read MoreIt's gotta better power-to-weight ratio than a Porsche 911 Turbo S. It charges to 60 mph in just 3.8 seconds from a dead stop. It's gotta big ol' LS7 V8 under-hood. It's the 2013 Chevy Corvette 427 Convertible, the fastest convertible 'Vette ever sold with the bow-tie badge.
Read MoreWe'd just finished wiping the drool off our chins from the 2013 Porsche 911 Cabriolet reveal earlier this week at The Detroit Auto Show when ze Germans rolled out the all-new 2013 Porsche Boxster.
Read MoreWe want to be happy. We want life to go well. Even with reality's complexity and frustration and even real pain, we are programmed to think that things will get better. We want to see the bright side of our time on this Earth.
Read MoreIt's easy to assume that this epic burnout to end all epic burnouts was what got an infamous burnout king banned from one of Australia's biggest car shows, but the reality is hidden somewhere behind the field of tiresmoke.
Read MoreWhen your company's own press release refers to a car as a "rolling showcase for the latest Mopar exterior parts" you can be pretty assured you're not going to be seeing anything revolutionary. And, in that context, the Chrysler 200 Super S certainly delivers.
Read MoreAfter watching the new They Might Be Giants music video you may have been overcome with an irrepressible urge to go out and make a pink Cadillac hearse monster truck. Here's how to do it.
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to a lighthearted jab at a pop-culture stereotype: The IT professionals of America came out of this great nation's server rooms to let me know what they like to drive. This is a good thing.
Read MoreRolls-Royce — the luxury car brand that makes all other luxury carmakers feel young, vibrant and West Egg-ish — saw a seemingly astounding 31% increase in sales in 2011. Rolls sold 3,538 Spirit of Ecstasy-ornamented barges of bountiful bank accounts — making it the best year of sales in the brand's 107-year-old history. Wait, does this mean those poors whining about the 1% are right?
Read MoreFerrari may not be unveiling anything at the Detroit Auto Show again this year, but there is this Falcon F7, a sorta "Best Of Ferrari Design" — 288 GTO, 355, F50, F40 — that houses various LS motors in a race-proven aluminum monocoque chassis. Is this Michigan's exotic supercar?
Read MoreA record-breaking cold snap has left the remote town of Nome, Alaska, dangerously low on fuel. But the Russian tanker ship "Renda" is carrying 1.3 million gallons of gasoline and diesel through the frozen Bering Sea in a path carved by a Coast Guard icebreaker.
Read MoreWe're finishing up here at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show so now it's time to take a look back at the good times, the bad times, and all of Jason Torchinsky's awesome livesketches.
Read MoreAre you a six-foot-plus human being? Do journalists comparing the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S to a Mazda Miata send you into a claustrophobic panic? We sent Editor-at-Large/Large-Editor replica Joel Johnson to find out.
Read MoreI've done a horrible thing. Sometimes I forget my words have power. My words can hurt. I said a few critical things about the Lincoln MKZ Concept and now the damn thing set itself on fire.
Read MoreThe Toyota NS4 concept isn't too bad looking, if a bit tame for a concept. It has some striking lighting approaches, a very appealing interior and glassed roof treatment, and pleasing proportions. I wish I could unread what I read in Toyota's marketing materials so I could try and appreciate the vehicle, but, sadly, that's just not possible.
Read MoreThis is life as lived inches away from the triple exhaust of a Ferrari F40 LM, driven to death at Lime Rock Park. Whatever you’re doing on the internet right now, stop. Just stop. And listen. And watch this.
Read MoreAlthough still calling it a "concept," we got a skosh more information about Maserati's Kubang sport SUV—including a promise, however vague, that the engines might be something special. (Sorry, though, Chrysler fans: That thing ain't got a Hemi.)
Read MoreHonda barely pretended their 2013 Honda Accord Concept is anything but a minimally adorned version of the production car that'll debut and go on sale later this year. Like Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen, there are subtle differences, but so subtle you don't actually care.
Read MoreI've loved They Might Be Giants for over a decade. And I'm not some bandwagon Tiny Toons fan — no, "Particle Man" and "Istanbul" were seared into my brain well before that. So now I'm pleased to bring you this — the new music video set to their latest awesome track "When Will You Die?" — exclusively here on Jalopnik. It's not only car-related — it's epic.
Read MoreThough they had one of the most sadly unadorned booths on the Detroit Auto Show main floor, nobody really cared, as Shelby introduced three new 50th anniversary cars today: the GT 500 Super Snake, the 50th anniversary edition GT350, and a 50th anniversary edition GTS.
Read MoreThe 2012 Bentley Continental GT V8 offers a moral hazard for foolish plutocrats—and not just by dint existing in the first place. Nope, it's the new twin-turbo V8 engine (which lives a less glamorous life in an Audi S8) that's a puzzle box for the moneyed ego: Do you buy the W-12 version, with slightly higher horsepower but lesser gas mileage and greater weight; or do you do the smart thing and get the wildly more fuel-efficient V8 engine despite its smaller displacement and mathematically indis
Read MoreI was certain when I sat down at the Lincoln press conference this morning I'd focus on the fact that the car looks like John Wilkes Booth. And then I saw the mimosa station and realized I was wrong. The story here is Lincoln is so desperate to pretend they're a luxury manufacturer they've got a mimosa station. And a live rock-classical fusion band.
Read MoreJust in case you missed any of our day one coverage of the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, here it is — all zipped up into one big post for your pleasure.
Read MoreAcura knocked the room for a loop with a haymaker called NSX. Here's the other end of the Acura excitement spectrum. It's the ILX, a car with which Acura hopes to attract younger buyers; older, downsizing urban dwellers, and those for whom a doctor has prescribed the avoidance of excitement of any kind.
Read MoreMarketers the world over would have you believe otherwise, but life is about aging. We grow, we gain experience, we watch the world change and maybe change it ourselves. Time passes, and that realization sometimes liberates as it aches.
Read MoreAcura lifted the sheet off their new Acura NSX Concept and it's definitely a Tony Stark-esque all-wheel-drive hybrid. Just like we told you. It'll be designed in the United States, built in Ohio, and go on sale within three years.
Read MoreIf you're a die-hard inline-6 aficionado, and are looking for something to finally replace that aging AMC Hornet, you're in luck, as the new 2012 BMW 3 Series looks to be an engaging new way to drive around behind a sextet of lined-up cylinders.
Read More"Technically they didn't serve the sushi in the bus," laughed a man who attended a party thrown by Ford in the Henry Ford Museum last night. "But you could have carried the sushi up there."
Read MoreThis is the "truck" that will save Smart in America. Stop laughing. Yes, it's just a concept car, but the Smart For-Us stands to recast the American standard pickup truck as an urban, green vehicle for fun couples. Seriously, stop laughing.
Read MoreIt's noon here in Detroit and we're taking a 15-minute breather. While we catch our breath, enjoy our full 2012 Detroit Auto Show coverage — every reveal and lifted skirt — below.
Read MoreEngineers and designers spend their working lives ensuring that bridges are safe. Your brain doesn't always appreciate this, however, and sometimes for very good reasons. These are the ten scariest bridges in the world as chosen by Jalopnik readers.
Read MoreDodge has taken the Charger R/T and, to use a verb coined by Mopar CEO Pietro Gorlier, "Moparized" the hell out of it. The result of this brutal Moparization is, in its most-Moparized form, a 590 hp monster that's not street-legal.
Read MoreFord kicked off its 2013 Ford Fusion press conference in Detroit by referring to the midsized-sedan market as a "battleground." Sleepiest battleground ever, you say? Perhaps not if Ford brings out an ST version (hinted in a quick image flashed on the Huge Press Conference Screen).
Read MoreThe world's first introduction to the Dodge Neon was a simple TV commercial that exclaimed "Hi!" Our introduction to the 2013 Dodge Dart at the Detroit Auto Show was an admission that, since the Neon's introduction, the company hasn't done much in the compact space to get excited about.
Read MoreChevrolet claims these two concept cars — the Tru 140S and the Code 130R — based on the eager yearnings of the youth of America and unveiled here moments ago at the Detroit Auto Show — are the future of Chevy small cars. If this is our future, somebody needs to please shoot me now.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz is celebrating 60 years of the SL badge with the overhauled 2013 Mercedes SL, the first built almost entirely from aluminum. Let's call it Aluminum und Se… oh, wait... it's not an Audi.
Read MoreCars aren't just about the cars. They're about the colorful characters that buy them, customize them, and drive them.
Read MoreThe Detroit Auto Show is the mother of all car shows. But, although the official press days begin today, you may have missed a lot if you weren't around last night — or, to be fair, during the middle of the day.
Read MoreThe many great Itailan-Americans who helped build this country would be furious to discover that their culture is now represented by the cast of Jersey Shore. Perhaps the 2013 Dodge Dart and its combination of Italian and American influences can undo some of the damage with what's possibly the best mixture of the two cultures since hamburger pizza.
Read MoreHere in Detroit, Volkswagen is setting up to reveal its long-awaited entry in the gasoline-electric space. That's the Jetta Hybrid. Indeed, later this year, the company will introduce a hybrid version of its Jetta sedan.
Read MoreAmongst Ford's numerous powertrain choices for the 2013 Ford Fusion is the the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, a vehicle that may actually be the world's most fuel efficient car. WIth an anticipated EPA mileage of more than 100 MPGe it will be more efficient than the Volt and potentially even the Prius plug-in hybrid. It also looks like a real car.
Read MoreTaking a page from Ragu, Ford is giving buyers of the 2013 Ford Fusion more choices than they can probably comprehend. Five different powerplants (three gas, hybrid, plugin-hybrid), two transmissions, and FWD/AWD options. They call it the "power of choice" and we agree it makes Ford the most "pro-choice" automaker.
Read MoreAfter brief opening remarks from General Motors CEO Dan Akerson, head of design Ed Welburn, and President of GM North America Mark Reuss at the College for Creative Studies, America's biggest automaker dropped the sheets off the Cadillac of compacts — the 2013 ATS ahead of tomorrow's Detroit Auto Show.
Read MoreThe most common complaint about the much-loved Hyundai Veloster is its relative lack of power. No more. Behold the Hyundai Veloster Turbo, which now offers 201 horsepower and 195 lb-ft of torque from their turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine. Mini, they're coming for ya.
Read MoreThe Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill currently before the U.S. Congress that would limit free speech online under the guise of protecting copyrights, which "is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age." Strangely, one group supporting this legislation is the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, heavily represented at the Detroit Auto Show starting tomorrow.
Read MoreBased on the 2012 Beetle, the E-Bugster pays tribute to the Volkswagen Ragster concept that debuted exactly six years ago here at the Detroit Auto Show — by chopping three inches from the roof. That's half of the six inches the Ragster concept lost six years ago.
Read MoreIf you've never heard of an Isuzu Bellel, don't worry you're in good company. Although these little Isuzus were the first diesel car in Japan and sport one of the coolest set of taillights we've ever laid eyes on, they were never officially imported to the US. Accordingly not many people have ever seen or heard of the handful of Bellels that made it over here back in the 1960s.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has done a stellar job of bringing the Cadillac brand back from the brink of death. The Art & Science design language — now ten years old — still seems fresh, new and young in an absolutely American way. The upgraded interiors finally make you feel like you might actually be sitting in a real luxury vehicle.
Read MoreThis is it — the 2013 Dodge Dart, the new Alfa Romeo-based compact car that'll say arrivederci to the Caliber when it's fully unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in just two days. But we knew all that. What we didn't know is what it'd look like. Until now.
Read MoreI wanted to give today's COTD to this comment, wherein TheKlic nails the Australian accent at its parodic best, á la, Paul "Crocodile Dundee" Hogan on The Arsenio Hall Show. And it almost happened; except at the last minute, I stumbled on another comment. Sorry, Klic.
Read MoreAirborne drones are set to revolutionize car videos in the same way they've revolutionized remote bomb dropping. Here's what the Nurburgring looks like from a drone's perspective.
Read MorePolice clocked a "Dukes of Hazzard" style Dodge Charger at over 110 miles an hour in Houston, leading to a high speed chase at times topping 120 miles an hour. The chase didn't end at the side of the road, but in the suspect's apartment, with him hiding in the shower.
Read MoreA Chicago-area Audi dealer has pulled off the rare hat trick of combining a manufacturer ad, a public-service announcement, and some serious ego gratification for an R8 GT customer by putting up this billboard.
Read MoreWe travel over them every day, but although they're built using similar principles, some bridges are just freaking scarier than others. Ridiculously high? Rickety-looking? No guardrails? Suspended with sketchy rope? What's the scariest highway bridge in the world?
Read MoreThe car forum can be a safe haven for sharing helpful advice about automobiles or it can be a place for newbs to dwell and repeat the same inquires ad nauseam. According to Jalopnik readers, here are the ten most common questions you should find at these sanctuaries of enlightened discourse, broken down by type.
Read MoreLike a skeevy dude trying to pickup women at a wake, GM's decided to poach customers of the now dead Saab with a remarkably weak incentive offer. Oh, and did we mention the skeevy dude also helped murder the deceased?
Read MoreIt was a day of great, reasoned discussion on the Jalop. Just go back through the threads on Joel Johnson's bold electric-car jeremiad or Jason Torchinsky's madcap art-slam challenge.
Read MoreLast month when Steve Rock saw the warning lights on his BMW 335i suddenly light up he quickly called his BMW dealership, who informed him he should bring his car in immediately. Once there they dismissed the warnings and sent him on his way. Two days later the steering in his BMW failed and he crashed off the road.
Read MorePretend mogul Will.i.am used The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to show off his vision for a new car company, IAMAUTO, based around the vehicle above, which he claims is a custom design based on new Chrysler parts. It almost certainly isn't. In fact, it's a DeLorean. So why lie about it?
Read MoreThe Transportation Security Administration has released a list of the worst/best/most crazy things caught by their airport agents in 2011—including a whooping 1,200 loaded firearms. I picked my favorite top ten because theirs is not right.
Read MoreOkay, Jalops, hear me out; I have an idea here I think we can all have fun with, and I'll need your help. What I'd like to do is, every week I'll draw a hypothetical car, a car from an alternate reality, that you, the Jalopnik commenters, come up with. I know it's probably hard to hear right now over the sound of thousands of minds being blown, so I'll clarify:
Read MoreA Chicago-area woman's suing a Stickney, Illinois police officer who used information he gathered from giving her a $132 citation to track her down and ask her out. It would maybe be cute except for it being the creepiest thing ever.
Read MoreAfter a Chevy Volt caught fire after being left outside in a parking lot in Minnesota three weeks after it was crash tested by NHTSA, GM has announced some changes to make sure this won't happen again.
Read MoreAssuming the Mayans were right and the apocalypse is going to happen at the end of 2012, these are the ten cars Jalopnik readers would want to drive for their remaining 351 days on earth.
Read MoreBlack Eyed Peas leader Will.I.Am apparently went on The Tonight Show last night and launched a new car company he's calling IAMAUTO. This is apparently the first horrible product of that new venture. UPDATE: Or is this a custom DeLorean?
Read MoreSo we know that GM has some kind of a "surprise" concept they're bringing to next week's Detroit Auto Show. We're pretty sure it's a Chevrolet. But what else can we guess?
Read MoreLast December, Lockheed Martin assembled the last F-22 Raptor ever. It's the USAF's one and only fifth generation fighter*. It has never seen combat. It spent part of its life grounded. Now they want to sell you a new one.
Read MoreMobbed-up Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa's final resting place has sparked cocktail-party conversation since 1975, when he "disappeared" from a Michigan restaurant. For most of the past 25 years, we assumed he was buried under the end zone at the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Now, maybe not.
Read MoreWhen Boris Yeltsin became president of Russia he mothballed the stale Russian-built ZIL limousines and upgraded to an armored Mercedes S-Class and the country's leaders have never looked back. Until now. A Russian-designer's been tapped to design a new version of the ZIL limo and it looks like it's from an alternative dimension where the Soviet Union survived the cold war.
Read MoreThis churning seascape off the coast of Antarctica, not a place you’d think of as the hotbed of car culture, shows in fact an undercurrent of automotive nomenclature: the katabatic wind. Blowing from the Aleutian to the Adriatic, katabatic winds have inspired a wealth of car names over the past 50 years, names of cars both great and not so great.
Read MoreIn a new book by journalist Adrian Humphreys, Jimmy Hoffa's onetime driver Marvin Elkind claims that the Teamsters boss was buried in Detroit in the foundation of its most iconic building — the Renaissance Center, current world headquarters of General Motors. The book is called "The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob" — and here, for the first time, exclusively, is that full, chilling excerpt. —Ed.
Read MoreYou've got the inside track on the apocalypse. Maybe the Mayans buried the key to the end of civilization in your yard, and you're the only one who knows. What car would you buy if you thought the apocalypse was coming in 352 days?
Read MoreYou already know how Kia and Hyundai turned South Korea into the emerging automotive powerhouse of 2011, but the field for the future is wide open. We asked Jalopnik readers to pick the ten countries who may be the big auto producers of the future.
Read MoreFord's unveiled the next-generation EcoSport mini-crossover at the New Delhi Auto Show. The Fiesta-based soft-roader is intended mostly for emerging-market countries like Brazil and India, where the need for basic transportation is rapidly being overtaken by a desire to show some style.
Read MoreWhether you loved or hated Wes Anderson's movie "Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," there's no doubt you left the theater humming Brazilian singer Seu Jorge's version of David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel." In today's COTD, we get a similar flavor from a longtime Jalopnik local.
Read MoreThe company behind the re-imagined New Stratos confirmed in an email today what we first reported back in July: Ferrari won't let them build it. But, they also hinted at a new, more French direction for their next car.
Read MoreThe 2012 Dakar kicked off to a dramatic start Sunday as Argentina's coastal dunes overtaxed several trucks and even a quad, resulting in multiple fires. The rally is now on its third of 14 stages, covering over 3,000 miles off road in Argentina, Chile and this year, for the first time, Peru.
Read MoreHere's a video of two Utica, N.Y. police officers searching a car during a traffic stop. At 1:02, one officer pulls a small baggie of something out of his pocket and ducks into the car; at 1:31, he emerges again, holding the same baggie. Oops! (Update: Police have responded, saying that the full video shows the officer had previously found the baggie on the suspect and placed it in his pocket.)
Read MoreThe other day I posted about why we call station wagons “station wagons”, and in the comments I noticed a fair amount of discussion in the comments about whether or not certain cars were officially wagons, or just hatchbacks. Sure, it’s a question a child might ask, but it’s not a childish question.
Read MoreBelgian automotive journalist Michael Cornette was killed in a test drive of the Ariel Atom — a street-legal track car — yesterday. The 35-year-old writer for the newspaper Krant Van West-Vlaanderen was killed when the sports car lost control and crashed into a silo.
Read MoreThis isn't a movie set. This isn't a drawing. This isn't heaven. No, it's actually the tunnel entrance to what may be the world's most secret supercar garage. OK, so maybe it is heaven.
Read MoreMy goal this year is not to be killed in a fiery crash. Others have more ambitious plans. Here are Jalopnik readers' ten best automotive resolutions. May your new year be filled with tire smoke and motor oil.
Read MoreThis starts out looking like a nightmare: an out-of-control truck on the verge of swinging itself into the roadside weeds. But then it keeps being out of control, and then you realize it's very much in control.
Read MoreA set of photos showing the epic unboxing of a Lamborghini Revento?n have popped up on Imgur and reddit in the past 24 hours. Here's the story behind this amazing set of four-year-old photos of a rare supercar being delivered — and why we're worried about where it is now.
Read MoreSomeone's torched more than 35 cars over the last three nights in Los Angeles area and everyone wants to know why. Are these bored kids? A sophisticated criminal? Or, as one mayor offered, is this an act of domestic terrorism?
Read MoreThe Gemballa Mirage GT took Porsche's audacious Carrera GT and gave it more of everything. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Gemballa-aping Boxster also has more — more fiberglass, more inches between the wheels — but does it come with a price that should be less?
Read MoreVolvos and V8s go together like Ikea furniture and orthogonality. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe trumped up 240 is probably pretty good on the straights, but will its price throw you for a curve?
Read MoreFor more years than can be counted on both one's finger and toes, Ford's F-150 has been the best-selling new vehicle in the US, making them pretty ubiquitous. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘93 attempts to stand out from the crowd, but does it cost an arm and a leg?
Read MoreMercedes' W123 is famous for its bank vault build quality and classic styling. Add to those attributes a 5-speed stick and some AMG bits, as on today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '82 280TE, and you may have a winning wagon. That is, if its price doesn't require too much bank.
Read MoreOver the course of its existence Jeep Brand ownership has been like a game of hot potato while the trucks themselves have seemed almost like go anywhere time capsules. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1998 Grand Cherokee is from the Chrysler era, and sports that make's rabid 5.9 V8. Its price, however, might make you drop it like a... well, you know.
Read MoreToyota's JDM EXY10, better known as the Sera, was named after the French word for will be. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Sera will be a rare sight here in the US, and it will be a freakin' challenge to get registered here. But, the biggest question will be, all things considered, does it cost too much?
Read MoreBlah, blah blah, Ranchero, Yada, yada, yada, El Camino. Let us not get into a debate over the merits of car-based pickup trucks, let us only bask in the awesome possum that is today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe SHO Taurus truck, the only debatable element of which may be its price.
Read MoreGrammatically, pirates use ‘Arr' as an indefinite article, as in Arr, ‘tis a fast car, I seek*. Ford's SVT team used ‘R' to denote their most venomous of Cobras, and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe snake is definitely a desirable article, but is its price too much of a pirate's booty call?
Read MoreAre you tired of cookie-cutter tract housing? Does your van down by the river look like everybody else's? Well, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Commer Caravan will ensure your home stands out, but only if you find its price outstanding.
Read MoreThe Pixar film Cars is a story of redemption and personal growth about, well cars. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1996 Dodge Avenger has been given new life as a homage to that CGI flick, but is there anything redeemable about its price?
Read MoreThey say the best defense is a good offense. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Land Rover Defender 90 looks pretty good, but is its price offensive?
Read MoreHigh-end off-roaders prove that even the monied enjoy roughing it - as far as the lodge that is, where hopefully a hot toddy is waiting. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes 280GE comes from a line of just such 4x4s for the filthy rich, but does its current price mean it cleans up nicely?
Read MorePeople like to accessorize themselves, a habit that goes all the way back to humanity's formative days. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo S40 is decked out like it's a Suicide Girls pin-up, but is its price one adornment that's too much?
Read MoreAs illustrated in The Prince and the Pauper there's a yawning chasm of difference between royalty and commoner. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 350-powered Bertone Volvo 262C attempts to bridge that gap, but does its price make it a royal pain?
Read MoreCitroën's 2CV is so basic and elemental, it's hard to imagine it could be deconstructed any further. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mehari does just that, being little more than a plastic dog dish on wheels, but will its price bowl you over?
Read MoreThe Mercury Grand Marquis may have put the aunt in the Panther platform, but today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe three pedal special may just erase that octogenarian image. But, will its price make it old news?
Read MoreThere is a form of plankton known as Corolla calceola or sea butterfly, that is a truly beautiful gastropod. The turbo 4AGE in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota Corolla will ensure it's not a snail, but will its price make you want to slug somebody?
Read MoreAccording to la biblia, it took but a simple apple to get Adam and his girlfriend evicted from their garden apartment. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Group B Ford is a far, far more desirable forbidden fruit, but will you find its price is rotten to the core?
Read MoreWhile the bitchin Camaro still lives, its cousin, the Pontiac Firebird has long been pushing up daisies. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe off-roader f-bird would more likely tear up those daisies, but does it come with a price that's pushing it?
Read MoreLike a Lovecraftian horror, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender - dubbed the Vipette - defies description. Its price on the other hand, is relatable, but will it give you nightmares?
Read MoreThe Jeep Grand Wagoneer has such a cult forllowing you might expect ownership to require the ritual sacrifice of a virgin. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '89 doesn't demand such lengths, but even with its Corvette motor, is its price too great to give up?
Read MoreSecret agents are cool. They travel the world stopping evil geniuses and wooing attractive members of the opposite sex. They're well dressed, clever and they usually have a pretty badass car at their disposal.
Read More"It's better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow"—chances are if you're reading this you've heard this statement before. Whether you believe this is just a stupid generalization dreamt up by people who drive slow cars or the focus of your automotive obsession revolves around a similar concept, almost all car lovers have had some fun behind the wheel of a car with less than impressive straight line performance.
Read MoreIn a recent post, a denizen of RoadRaceAutoX.com riffed on car-brand owners' stereotypes by writing fake forum questions (note, they've since changed what we link to. Still kind of funny so we're keeping the link) loaded with character development. For example: Bentley Forums — I used the ash tray today. How do I replace it? What's the most stereotypical question a forum fanboy would ask?
Read MoreSmall-hatch fans take note: An anonymous tipster has forwarded photos of Hyundai's upcoming Elantra hatchback to Jalopnik. The compact five-door was caught in the open wearing Michigan manufacturer's plates and not one bit of preproduction camouflage.
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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 MoreYou say your road-trip games have gotten a bit stale? Need a convenient way to hustle gas money on the go? Afraid of losing your touch while on vacation? The answer, according to California's Triangle Billiards, is the Pool Table Car.
Read MoreWhen I was sketching the Ram Box, the little storage boxes on the sides of the bed of Chrysler's pickup truck, I noticed the little glowing handle one usually finds when trapped in a trunk (not that any of us Jalops need that).
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