This is Yoshikazu Ono, world famous chef at the greatest sushi restaurant in the world. This bicycle is what he uses to pick up fish from the market. His other ride is a twin-turbo V10 Audi RS6.
Read MoreSwedish freestyle skier Jon Olsson has got himself another four-wheel-drive supercar, but this time it's not a Lamborghini. Or, well, not really Lamborghini. It's a carbon fiber-widebody Audi R8 tuned by PPI with a look as black as Tara Reid's lungs. And you thought your Subaru was the ultimate all-weather machine.
Read MoreThis year's New York Auto Show is quite emotional for me. I'm feeling verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. The BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe is neither a Gran nor a Coupe.
Read More100 years ago today, the Titanic ran into some trouble. Obviously we know the iceberg was the cause, but what exactly did the iceberg damage that caused the ship to snap in half and fall to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean? Turns out, where the ship was hit proved just as important as the fact that it suffered a blow at all.
Read MoreWe already know that Lamborghini is making an SUV, we think it'll be called the Urus, and now Evo Magazine has what looks like the first picture and spec details of the Raging Bull's new cash cow.
Read MoreThe alleged owner of the Lamborghini Aventador that caught on fire earlier today posted this pic of himself posing in front of it as a firefighter hoses it off.
Read MoreThis is the internet, so I'm sure there's someone out there waiting breathlessly for the reveal of the new 2013 Nissan Altima, in the same way I'm sure there's someone out there who gets sexually aroused by crown moldings.
Read MoreWhile some might argue an old Volvo doesn't look quite right unless it has a little rust on it, we prefer the looks of this original 1972 1800E currently listed on Ebay.
Read MoreI like the Audi A7. But I've always felt that although the 310 HP 3.0-liter supercharged V6 engine is more than capable for a highway cruiser, it just makes me thirsty for terrible jokes about how the car could have had a V8. Now there's this — the 2013 Audi S7, a car designed to drive a beautiful V8-engined stake through the heart of every tomato juice joke ever made about its V6-engined brother.
Read MoreA new study about the car-buying habits of men and women from TrueCar shows that, while men tend to buy a mix of foreign and domestic vehicles, only two of the twenty cars purchased by females were from American brands.
Read MoreIf Scion sold cars like drug dealers sold drugs, they'd be giving away little bits of the FR-S in baggies to everyone they see. They'd have local news channels running panic stories on the "Scion FR-S problem." Keith Richards would be trying to snort one off Anita Pallenberg's naked behind. Yes, it's just that easy to get addicted to it.
Read MoreThe Ford Escape has always been the capable compact SUV you never really wanted, but was your go-to response to the question: "I don't off-road. I want an SUV. What should I buy?" The new 2013 Ford Escape is no longer an SUV, but it won't change the answer to that question.
Read MoreBuying a used car can be the best financial decision you've ever made or one of the worst, depending on the car's condition. Here are Jalopnik readers' choices for the ten biggest used-car warning signs.
Read MoreLies, tricks, and chicanery all lead to divorce. Here are ten ways, as chosen by Jalopnik readers, to get the car you want without having to start dating your hand.
Read MoreStand and fight, or run away? That's not a question most of us face each day, but big boy toymaker VWerks wants to make sure you'll have what you need to choose the former. Namely, a flame-throwing Dodge pickup and a .50-caliber-topped 1-ton Jeep. I got to drive both of them.
Read MoreAsk any young boy to name their coolest car, they'll likely pick a Jeep or a truck. There's just something about both that hit all the right Cro-Magnon hot spots in any pre-pubescent boy's mind. But merge them together? Well, then you get possibly the greatest combination of utilitarianism and awesomeness in the world. Jeep's new Gladiator-inspired pickup concept — dubbed the J12 — is just such a machine. And I drove it in it's off-roading debut at the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah earlier th
Read MoreDespite the iconic seven-slot grille, the Jeep Mighty FC Concept is as American as a Katyusha rocket. The retro-fantastic rock crawler shares its design lineage with the Soviet GAZ-66 and the arsenal of atom bombs that terrorized the nightmares of '50s schoolchildren.
Read MoreGuy Fieri, the Food Network's raspy-voiced propagator of unhealthy recipes, was the unfortunate victim of grand theft a little over a year ago. His 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo was stolen from a San Francisco car dealership, leaving the bleach/spike haired chef without the car that completes his caricaturish public image.
Read MoreCars can't fly, but these ten videos chosen by Jalopnik readers show the most daring, most foolish, most memorable attempts to get airborne in ground transportation.
Read MoreWhile there is no shortage of Moskvich/IZh 412s floating around in Russia, one of these compact sedans are an unthinkably rare sight in the US. The seller of this 412 claims it is the only privately owned example of the vehicle in the entire country—a wild claim which we completely believe.
Read MoreI love the passion and skill that goes into making a good papercraft car, so many tips of many hats to Visual Spicer for this remarkable 2.5-foot all-paper replica of the Bugatti Veyron.
Read MoreOn a quiet street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, there sits a dented, scraped and graffiti-covered Chevrolet Corsica, filled from floor to ceiling with trash. How did this car get into this state? Is it some hoarder's final refuge? How does it survive in such a fashionable Manhattan neighborhood?
Read MoreEarlier we told you the inspiring, life-changing story of the Best Craigslist Car Ad Ever, and many of you saw the ad, and had your lives changed forever. Since the article posted, we've been getting the ad sent to our tips line nonstop. Clearly, this is a Big Deal.
Read MoreEveryone knows that Lamborghini was founded by a bitter Ferrucio Lamborghini after being snubbed by Ferrari. Few know that Škoda got its start the same way.
Read MoreI know it's a bold claim, to say you've found the best Craigslist car ad ever. When a site exists where you could likely see an ad offering a 1985 Isuzu Stylus in exchange for a wood-burning set and 20 minutes of fellatio, the bar is pretty high. With that in mind, let's say this is the finest intentionally entertaining Craigslist car ad ever.
Read MoreA Lamborghini Gallardo owner who posts on Luxury4Play had the misfortune this weekend of having his exotic car showered on. Except instead of praise, it was with the urine of a drunk and/or envious passerby.
Read MoreI was out in Vegas this week, driving a certain rear-wheel drive Scion I’ll be talking about in much more detail next week. While there, I had a chance to sit with some product development guys from Scion and Toyota. As I always do in these situations, I took advantage of the chance to tell them about all my amazing ideas. Because everyone loves having a semi-drunk idiot tell them how to do their jobs.
Read MoreWith all of the bad drivers on the road, there are more videos of embarrassing crashes than could ever fit on one list. That said, we managed to narrow down Jalopnik readers' favorites to just ten feats of pure automotive stupidity.
Read MoreThe Ford Mustang has been an essential part of the automotive world for forty-eight years. Not every one of those ponycars was exactly a classic, though. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten worst Mustang special editions or trims.
Read MoreWith today being the 48th birthday of the Ford Mustang — or at least, the anniversary of the production car being shown at the 1964 World's Fair — it seems reasonable to take a look back. While most will focus on the good, it's also important to learn from an automaker's past mistakes. While the original ponycar is a recognized classic, over a long and varied lifespan it's had its fair share of less-than-classic special editions. With recent talk of the next Mustang, let's give Ford a reminder
Read MorePlenty of boys begin lusting after cars at an early age, ready either to dive into a project car or a brand new performance car (depending upon levels of means and motivation). But you don't often hear about those Mona Lisa Vito gals so into cars they can do everything from rebuilding V8 engines to distinguishing the minute year-to-year differences in headlamp bezels. This is the story of one such girl from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She's the girl who played with Fieros.
Read MoreYou've heard of people using rusted-out camper vans and seedy motel rooms as meth labs, but a Cadillac? That one's new to us, too, but it's exactly how someone destroyed this 2006 Cadillac CTS, killing himself in the process, earlier this year.
Read MoreIt turns out that when it comes to cars, style has very little to do with cheating on your spouse. At least according to a completely unscientific survey released by adulterer website AshleyMadison.com, the car most preferred by men who cheat is the beigest brand around — Toyota. But all you cheating guys should rest easy — women aren't any better. Their top brand? Honda. See if your car made the cut below.
Read MoreThink cars and waiting lists and what comes to mind is the months ticking away after the down payment on a 458 Italia—or Horacio Pagani’s little black book. But for communist Eastern Europe’s motoring not-quite-masses, waiting list meant waiting and waiting for your apportioned Trabi. And waiting. But if you didn’t want to wait, there were ways to not wait.
Read MoreI think the biggest thing that kept me from being a preteen girl in the late '90s, other than my age and gender, was an inability to sit through the movie Titanic without retching. Still, there's no denying the impact of the movie, or the pivotal role played by a certain windows-dripping-with-condensation 1912 Renault.
Read MoreNASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. isn't a car collector. He's a car hoarder. Want evidence? Just turn to Google Maps to see the smashed-up race car graveyard on his massive property outside of Mooresville, North Carolina.
Read MoreJealousy. Rivalry. A drunken lack of courtesy. These are trademarks of bad local car shows. We asked Jalopnik readers to list their gripes and then narrowed the list down to the ten most terrible things inconsiderate people do to ruin what should be fun car meet-ups.
Read MoreOver the past five decades, 93-year-old Rachel Veitch has been through three husbands, but only one car. She bought her tan Mercury Comet Caliente new in 1964 for $3,289. Now, after driving it nearly 600,000 miles, she has finally called it quits.
Read MoreWe eat, sleep, and die in our cars. Therefore, the late-night market for "improvements" to our iron horses is understandably huge. These are what Jalopnik readers chose as the ten most ridiculous "As Seen On TV" accessories you can buy for your car but probably shouldn't.
Read MoreEveryone knows about Alfas and BMWs and Corvettes, of course. Then there's those machines that just never really took their rightful place in the collective enthusiast memory. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best cars that are undeservedly underrecognized.
Read MoreWhen the Miata was introduced back in 1989, one of the details that got some notice was the Minilite-style wheel design that had seven spokes instead of the traditional eight. The running claim (inside joke?) at the time was that it was a weight-saving measure. Probably not, really, but at least slightly plausible.
Read MoreSome cars are justly heralded and recognized by all. Some are at best known only by a cult of true believers. What's the best car that has slipped through the cracks of the broad enthusiast mindset?
Read MoreAutomobiles are designed by well-trained engineers and tested methodically. Every once in a while, though, some completely ridiculous flaw slips through and makes drivers miserable. What's the stupidest design glitch that ever got through a development process?
Read MoreAs I sift through teaser photos of the 2013 SRT Viper looking for clues before its debut this week, I'm reminded of the words of Chrysler's Ralph Gillies who compared it to "a naked woman on the beach" — mostly because Bloomberg mentioned the nude woman thing in one of their headlines again. Those traffic whores. (Coming from us, that's totally a compliment. — Ed.)
Read MoreBig monster powerful engines usually end up in big monster heavy cars, but there are gleefully loony exceptions to that rule. Sometimes someone sees fit to cram a beastly motor into just enough car to hold the works together. What's the best combination of a tiny car and a big engine?
Read MoreNot everyone wants to — or can — fit into the social order. Sometimes those outcasts drive obnoxious monsters. Sometimes they drive heroic statements that stand outside normal boundaries. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten most blatant and occasionally fantastic violations of proper manners on wheels.
Read MoreChevrolet produced this dealer training video to aid salesman in the unenviable task of trying to convince buyers the El Camino was a better small truck purchase than the imported competition.
Read MoreBehold the world's largest vintage Mustang junkyard—at least that is what we think it is. We certainly haven't ever seen more rusting and decrepit pony cars in one place than this massive junkyard has to offer.
Read MoreIt's original, it's rusty, and to us this barn find 1947 Chevrolet Suburban is undeniably cool. After a few decades spent in a Virginia barn this weathered example of the original SUV has been unearthed and is currently for sale on Ebay.
Read MoreAt first, when Douglas's dad woke him up around 3:00 am to say there was a crash outside their house in suburban Vancouver, it wasn't a shock. More than a dozen cars have ended up in their lawn over the last twenty years. The shock didn't come until Douglas saw the flaming Audi A7 split in half and roasting in a massive fire, then saw the driver sitting on the ground next to it.
Read MoreAccording to a 63-year-old woman who drove her Ford Taurus into a Connecticut liquor store Friday afternoon a combination of Armor-all and Nyquil are to blame for the incident.
Read MoreWhile discovering a 1967 Camaro sitting in your driveway is surely the stuff of gearhead fantasy, as one Florida family learned this past week finding one sitting in your recently refinished swimming pool isn't quite the same.
Read MoreWhat happens when you're wealthy and buy your new trophy stripper girlfriend a car she can't handle? This money bags stripper hound found out, and his exotic dancer's ragged out 2011 Mustang GT 500 was seen in the dealer's lot the morning after she was handed the keys, tattered tires and all.
Read MoreKevin Patrick spent months building his own sports car and was ecstatic at the prospect of finally taking it out on to the open road. The ecstasy lasted all of three-tenths of a mile before an SUV backed right into it. Patrick recorded the whole crash and it may be the most painful thing you'll see today. Making it doubly painful is the fact that the kids walking over for ice cream or something with their grandpa had to hear it. Warning: NSFW Language
Read MoreWe talk about German supersedans as "built for the Autobahn" and other clichés about the country's sometimes-unrestricted highways, and this 2013 BMW M5 proves it after crashing at 186 mph without killing the driver or passengers.
Read MoreThe Ronin Exige, aka the self-proclaimed 'World's Fastest Lotus', is a supercharged and turbocharged 680-horsepower monster. But yesterday morning it was put into the wall of California's 101. Now the owner claims it wasn't his fault — or the car's.
Read MoreWe just received this photo of a Jeep Grand Cherokee, apparently driven by a valet, that managed to vault itself over a Mini and into a Maserati GranTurismo and a vintage Porsche 356 just minutes ago. No one was hurt, but there could be damage to $400,000 worth of cars depending on the specifics of the Porsche.
Read MoreScore one for the fellas in the age old male-female debate over who's a better/safer driver. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report released last month shows that although men tend to drive faster and more recklessly, women are far more likely to cause an accident by stomping on the wrong pedal.
Read MorePart of what makes the Nürburgring so cool is the fact anyone with a drivers license, a car and $34 can take a lap on the storied race track on tourist days. While lapping the Nordschleife at high speeds is surely the stuff of gearhead fantasy, the realization of that dream sometimes turns into a nightmare.
Read MoreA tow truck driver's attempt to remove a snow-bound truck in Norway went very wrong yesterday when both vehicles slid off the side of a cliff. Amazingly, everyone survived.
Read MoreSeeing The Science Museum in London's new exhibit, Making the Modern World, is probably great. But wouldn't it be greater if Top Gear's James May was with you, going on and on why everything there is so incredible? And wouldn't it be even greater than that if he was tiny and you could hold him and turn him all around while he's talking? Well, you pretty much can, thanks to the museum's amazing new augmented reality app.
Read MoreForza 4 is getting ten new cars in the new "Top Gear Car Pack" and they don't just reflect the whole supercars-and-explosions ethos you'd expect from the show. There are a few oddballs.
Read MoreWe can tell you that this is an illustration of a bound and gagged Jeremy Clarkson airbrushed onto the back of a Lada Priora. We just wish we knew who made this beautiful piece of art.
Read MoreEnthusiasts of the big blue oval holding out for the Ford Focus ST will be pleased to discover the global hot hatch will cost only $24,495 ($23,700 MSRP + $795 destination) when it arrives at dealers this fall. GTI who? Mazdaspeed what?
Read MoreThis is a 1957 Ferrari 250TR, chassis number 0666. When it raced in Le Mans with Dan Gurney and Bruce Kessler, it had drum brakes, which had been obsolete for the better part of a decade. Still, it worked.
Read MoreThanks to my not paying attention in my one semester of college French, a nice France-dweller named Jonathan Miller got in touch with me to chastise me about a mistake I made in my graphic for this post a while back. Suitably chastised, Mr.Milller has since given up on the idea I'll ever write even toddler-grade French, and has instead taken many great pictures of some old French iron, including this amazing collection of Citroën H-series vans.
Read MoreEastman Kodak, who filed for bankruptcy in January, introduced Super 8 in 1965. Ten years later, Ford’s sole Liberian dealer used the film to document a country in its last years before its descent into one of history’s creepiest civil wars. These are his movies of driving across Liberia.
Read MoreA Canadian beachcomber made an unexpected find along British Columbia's Pacific Coast on April 18. Debris from Japan's tragic tsunami a year ago have only recently begun washing up on North America's west coast. Like on April 18th, when Peter Mark found a white container with a Harley Davidson inside of it.
Read MoreIn Minority Report, Tom Cruise was served up individually-targeted ads. Now it appears General Motors wants to make this futuristic science fiction technology a reality with a just-published patent for billboards designed to serve up ads targeting a specific car based on their last navigational system input.
Read MoreThe main goal of the new "Boro Taxi" — cabs that'll respond to street hails in the vast parts of New York that aren't Manhattan (the outer boroughs) — is to make it distinct from the common yellow cab. In that respect, the recently unveiled cab color succeeds. It is distinctly not yellow. But why does it have to look like it just downed a plate of listeria-laced shawarma?
Read MoreThe world is full of hidden, forgotten treasures. Like this gigantic bunker excavated in a forest, buried in a secret location. It's full of weapons from the first World War, as well as modern military vehicles. And mushrooms.
Read MoreCertainly it comes as a shock to no one that there aren't many Pre-A Porsche 356s sitting in barns and finding an old Gullwing or 250 GT is a nearly impossible task even if somehow you actually have the money to pay for one. Sometimes it isn't just the most rare and sought after cars that can be tough to find though.
Read MoreIf you missed your chance to purchase the personal Studebaker Avanti of the famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy last December 11th, you'll have another chance next month. It's not the same car, but it is another Avanti owned by the man who designed Studebaker's automotive swan song.
Read MoreWhile an extended state of arousal after a motorcycle ride might sound like typical rhetoric of the two wheel crowd, one man is now suing BMW Motorrad USA and the maker of an aftermarket seat after a motorcycle ride left him with an erection that wouldn't go away.
Read MoreHave you been drinking tonight, sir? Oh. Crap. If you're in a car, that's not a question you want to hear from a man in uniform. And if the answer is yes, you're in for the worst pop quiz of your life: the field sobriety test.
Read MoreChevrolet's Camaro, though it may sometimes be beautiful, has always been more than a little crude, and more than a little heavy. Still, if it's cheap thrills you want, you can always make things work with a Camaro.
Read MoreLast week, we linked to a report that said the Dubai police would auction off an abandoned $1.6 million Enzo. Now Emirates 24/7 has confirmed that the car is not for sale, and its story is more complicated than we thought.
Read MoreWhen Chicago area police caught a man going 110 in a 45 mph speed zone, they naturally wanted to know why he was going so fast. He was speeding to get laid. Why else?
Read MoreThe Toyota Prius, while boasting capacious cargo space and better than decent fuel economy, is not the sort of vehicle American consumers have been trained to think of as a tow rig. But some folks are willing to take a different tack and try something new.
Read MoreAlmost all the analog instruments on your car's dashboard– speedometer, gas gauge, tachometer, temperature gauge– rely on a fundamental concept known as the number line. We're so used to the concept of a series of numbers regularly mapped onto a space (linear or otherwise) that the common thinking is that it's just built into our brains. But a new study with an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea suggests otherwise.
Read MoreNot every effort to clean up car emissions and cut down on gas guzzling is a painful compromise. Jalopnik readers picked out ten clean car technologies that most definitely didn't suck.
Read MoreAn Oakland-based Burning Man vet is selling this absurd "Mutant Vehicle/Art Car," on Craigslist—fashioned in the likeness of a milk carton and cereal bowl—and has chopped down the price in hopes that some ambitious soul will buy and haul it over to Burning Man this year.
Read MoreMaking exotic automobiles appears to be the domain of the emotional, the romantic, the irrational. One manufacturer stands against this ethos with an unbelievably nerdcore hypercar, Roland Gumpert's Apollo. It's not pretty, but it's fast.
Read MoreIt's a well-established fact that big NCAA programs mean big money. For coaches that often means big perks, too. And while it's wrong to give would-be players free cars, there's no such hesitation on the part of colleges to hand out keys like candy to coaches.
Read MoreAs far as can be told, the Virginia DMV personalized license plate division seems to be staffed by Puritanical orangutans with shame-addled filthy minds. They've had many grand victories in the past, from the simply humorless to actively calling a soccer mom a disgusting pervert. This time, they're taking Rick Sander's personalized plate after seven years with no known complaints.
Read MoreBefore Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom came under pressure from the feds he shot this video of himself and partner Finn Batato racing Germany's famed Nürburgring racing circuit in three of his crazy cars with F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen. According to Dotcom the final edit was "seized by the FBI."
Read MoreIn the past four decades, cars have grown significantly cleaner and more fuel efficient, but it's been a bumpy road getting there. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten most expensive, inefficient measures to make cars "green."
Read MoreAlright Jalopnik gumshoes, the police again need your help. This time it's identifying a car involved in a hit-and-run accident in Indiana earlier this week. The last time we did this you were "critical" in helping I.D. a murder suspect, so let's keep it up. UPDATE: The driver turned herself in.
Read MoreFerrari won't be building Italy's newest high speed train, but the company's chair is holding the reigns on the sleek "Italo" train. You think it's a coincidence it's bright red with a prancing animal — a hare — on the side?
Read MoreWe know that Grand-Am left Daytona for the Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park almost a month ago, but we don't mind; the best races are timeless. Watch as every kind of sports racing car dukes it out on this track in the Southside.
Read MoreFerrari President and Chairman Luca di Montezemolo sat down with Apple's CEO Tim Cook for an exclusive meeting of the minds earlier this week. The Ferrari chief, in the San Francisco Bay Area for the season opener of Stanford University's View From The Top lecture series, gleaned insight from Steve Jobs' successor and found shared values between the two brands.
Read MoreArvin's 1993 Mazda RX-7 is a work of art. A brilliant tangerine example of one of the loveliest Japanese cars ever built. It's why he invited Ronnie Corado to photograph it for StanceNation.com. It's a good thing Ronnie got some nice shots before the burnout portion and the resulting unintentional fire.
Read MoreAll season radials are pretty versatile tires, but let's face it, they aren't necessarily all that great on snow and ice or off highway. A team of German scientists developed new technology they hope will allow motorists to use the same tires in all conditions.
Read MoreThis truck carrying 1,000 gallons of sulfuric acid crashed in Bartow, Florida, spilling its cargo over State Road 60. The driver was burned, people and animals have been evacuated, and a hazardous materials team in on the scene. But my question is: if sulfuric acid drops on a road, would the road melt?
Read MoreThis is the story of a good son who wanted to buy his mom a car for her birthday. This son won the vehicle of her dreams on eBay, but then things turned south when the dealership hemmed and hawed and sold the car to a local buyer as if the eBay auction were just another circular they could drop their ad in.
Read MoreIn the face of smog, soot, and global warming, governments have been trying to regulate cleaner cars for the past fifty to sixty years. What was their most pitifully unsuccessful attempt of all?
Read MoreOur roads are clogged with distracted, drunk, texting people pretending to drive but really just aimlessly pointing their vehicles. You don't have to be one of them. Jalopnik readers picked out ten things you can do to become safer and faster behind the wheel.
Read MoreA Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan man decided to jog down Mack Avenue Monday evening, but aside from a pair of socks, he was stark naked.
Read MoreLife without Facebook is probably a wonderful place where your mom doesn't know you got drunk last night, you don't have to hear your old schoolmates' terrible opinions on everything, and you're blissfully ignorant of birthdays. The rest of us, though, desire a modern life and thus are forcefully sucked into the Facebook vortex.
Read MoreEvil Genius Racing is a shop in West Sacramento that specializes in building Spec Miatas and has some fame for preparing a good number of LeMons racers. The evil genius himself, John Pagel, is worth a story or two.
Read MoreIf you're a true gearhead, at some point you've been looking at a beautifully built engine, when a sudden pang of disappointment hits you. "Why can't I eat that?" you think, shedding a solitary tear. Well friends, your world just got a lot brighter, thanks to this. No, that's not an LS1 engine — it's a cake.
Read MoreLacking a large supply of true military vehicles, rebels in Libya largely used trucks with improvised armaments as "technicals" instead. Some of these were Toyotas and Fords, but most were Chinese-built knockoffs of Toyotas and Fords.
Read MoreYou probably shouldn't honk your horn if you're stuck behind a MiG-29 in traffic as it's one of the fiercest fighter jets in existence. But you'd never find yourself behind one in traffic, because that would just be silly, right? Unless you happened to be in Slovakia. And no, this isn't a photoshop.
Read MoreThe early 1970s in Formula One may have been weird but they were nothing compared to the 1982 season. A confluence of regulation changes, technological advances, outsize personalities, political- and fistfights, fatal accidents and feuds turned it into a cauldron of weirdness. And it was won by the unlikeliest character, Finland’s Keke Rosberg, after he won his first Grand Prix. Thirty years later, at the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix, his son Nico took the first victory of his own. Here’s why history
Read MoreA divorced mother of two from Long Island has filed a complaint with her state's Human Rights Commission claiming her former boss only hired her to gain access to her kidney.
Read MoreState Police in New Jersey are investigating the police escort provided to a super car club in 2010 after this video of about a dozen cars going over 120 mph with trooper protection surfaces. This follows revelations of a similar escort requested by NFL running back Brandon Jacobs.
Read MoreOur roads are filled with terrible drivers and the driving test isn't helping anyone driver safter, better, or faster. What can you do to make yourself better behind the wheel?
Read MoreYour car is your pride and joy. Don't cover it in tacky crap. To help you avoid disaster, Jalopnik readers picked out the ten worst products that you might mistakenly purchase at your local auto parts store.
Read MoreAn Indiana university student found out that although you might be able to survive a tour in Iraq, you won't make it out of a Chicagoland train station alive if you pee on the tracks, and then fall on the third rail.
Read MoreThe Mercedes S-Class has long been a leader in the car world, introducing new features that eventually trickle down to the ordinary, affordable family cars we buy. There's a problem with this system.
Read MoreA British expat fled Dubai last year, leaving his $1.6 million Ferrari Enzo behind to gather dust. On Wednesday, it will go up for auction in what might be the most expensive police sale in history. Why did he abandon the car in the first place?
Read MoreAs a lifelong urinator, I like to keep up with all the latest innovations in the field. That's why I was excited to see one of 2011's Ig Nobel awards went to Dr. Peter Snyder, VP of Research at Rhode Island Hospital, and author of an important study called "The Effect of Acute Increase in Urge to Void on Cognitive Function in Healthy Adults."
Read MoreToday at the Beijing Motor Show, Nissan unveiled the Sylphy. But don't be fooled by the name; this is the US-bound 2013 Nissan Sentra in disguise.
Read MoreSasha Baron Cohen's new flick The Dictator features the titular character driving around in a gold-plated armored SUV built by the Vodka enthusiasts at Latvian truck-maker Dartz. To celebrate the tie-up, Dartz announced a $750,000 version of their battle truck called the "Gold Aladeen Edition" after Cohen's fictitious dictator.
Read MoreAn unidentified senior in Sante Fe, New Mexico, apparently fed up with the city's unmanned speed camera truck, decided to take action and fired half-a-dozen rounds from a handgun into the vehicle's windshield. As it was 1:20 in the morning, the man was wearing a flowing white nightgown.
Read MoreEvery NAPAutoZo'ReillyBoys is a treasure trove of tacky crap you can buy for your car. What's the trashiest product that comes from your local auto parts store?
Read MoreAs President-for-Life of your independent "Democratic Republic" you've tried to be just, but now your subjects voters want blood. Here are the ten vehicles Jalopnik readers think are best equipped to get you through the rock-throwing throngs as safely as possible.
Read MoreNew 49ers running back Brandon Jacobs loves him some fast cars. His collection has been featured in auto magazines, and after being booed by Giants fans in October, he responded "I've got nothing positive to say. The most positive thing: I got family at home and I got a fast-ass car being delivered on Tuesday. That's it."
Read MoreA Baltimore City Councilman wants to put advertisements on the city's fleet of fire trucks in order to ease their massive debt. Self-aggrandizing alternative ad agency People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) wants to help by buying the first round of ads. Of course, since it's PETA, there's a mostly undressed girl involved.
Read MoreThis past Friday, April 20th wasn't just a day to sit around, pluck an out-of-tune guitar and get stoned. It also marked the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the beginning of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the worst spills in U.S. history, its impacts are still felt today as fishermen haul in mutated fish and workers continue to clean up tourist beaches.
Read MoreIran claims that their engineers have reverse engineered the secrets of the American stealth spy drone RQ-170 Sentinel that went down in their territory last December. To prove it, they have made public some of the encrypted information stored in the plane. If confirmed, it's very bad news for the United States.
Read MoreIt's traditionally believed that a good compromise is one where neither side is completely happy, but what fun is that, especially when it comes to automotive enjoyment?
Read MoreA driver of a modified Ford GT died earlier today at a standing mile event at California's Mojave Air & Space Port, according to a Ford GT forum. The driver, known as "Jack," drove off the track at approximately 210 MPH before flipping and crashing. UPDATE
Read MoreIt might just look like another old Mini in need of some love, but this particular tiny Brit is actually the eighth of the million+ cars built over the models 41 years in production.
Read MoreIf a bulldozer and a chopped up pickup truck had a bastard child, we are pretty positive it would look like this oversized hot rod currently listed on Ebay. Although this massive truck of unknown origin looks like it could fit right in on a construction site or in a post apocalyptic wasteland, one place this beast certainly doesn't look like it belongs is on the open road.
Read MoreWhile any act of automotive vandalism is senseless, we've heard of few more pointless acts of vehicular destruction than what happened last weekend outside of the Canadian city of Edmonton, AL. Sometime between last Saturday and last Sunday vandals broke into the barn where Don Keltie kept his car collection and the automotive carnage seen here is the terrible result.
Read MoreA majority of the automotive obsessed population of the world would love to drive something rare, flammable or ultra fast every day, but many of us have logged the most miles behind the wheel of cars that are a little more accessible—even if they aren't any more reasonable.
Read MoreWatching a high horsepower dragster tearing up the strip isn't exactly groundbreaking material—even if it is pretty awesome. That is of course unless the straight line racer in question is powered by a diesel engine you'd normally find in a school bus or a delivery truck with three turbos approximately the size of a human head attached to it.
Read MoreAlthough we'd argue every Duesenberg ever made is in its own way unique, the speedster bodywork of this particular Model J makes it truly stand out. This car will be wearing its bullhorns when it crosses the block at Worldwide Auctioneers Houston event next month.
Read MoreWatch Lizzy Musi (who I'm not afraid to say I have a humongous crush on), the daughter of Pat Musi, veteran NHRA Pro Stock, IHRA Pro Mod, and street car championship racer, as she goes airborne and take out a camera in the process as she hits the wall.
Read MoreA California woman was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon Thursday after she bit another woman in an altercation started over a parking space (shown above). The arrest was made after police discovered multiple bite marks were found on the chest and arm of 32-year-old Sara Gillian's unidentified victim.
Read MoreLamborghini has been building the same car for the past four decades. You can read a road test of the Countach and one of the Aventador, and you'll hear the same things: big, loud, fast, brash.
Read MoreAir travel is miserable. You're herded, shouted at, hemmed in, and—if lucky—placated with sugared water and the cheapest feed available in mass quantities. Even the corn syrup that once "honey-roasted" your peanuts is too exotic for your airborne enjoyment these days.
Read MoreCancel the order for the Veyron and put your money on this Monza, Spa, Barcelona, Interlagos, and Silverstone-winning 2007 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP. RM Auctions lists it at a reasonable $1,981,600 - $2,378,000 (1.5m - 1.8m Euros). Is it worth it?
Read MoreThere comes a certain age where your wits have started to leave you, but your money hasn't. And that's the perfect time for ripoff artists to strike. Like the story of this elderly couple, whose only stated income was $2,600 a month in Social Security benefits, got talked into, and approved for, a 2011 Cadillac STS with payments of $2,300 a month. Fantastic. Guess now you'll have a really fancy place to eat your cans of dog food in.
Read MoreHave you been jonesin' for a new Toyota GT-86? Can you wait no longer to get your hands on the diminutive sports car? Well, your troubles are over, if your raging desire for Japanese automotive fun can be assuaged by a very detailed paper model Der Spiegel found on the internet.
Read MoreOne well-meaning but clearly off-her-rocker Texas mom has spent at least $1500 on newspaper ads, fliers, one of those customizable outdoor display signs at a local taqueria, and — the pièce de résistance — a "pink rotating outdoor" billboard advertising her daughter, Brandy Day, for prom queen.
Read MoreNew York City's newest toy, a 110-ton, 300-foot-long Caterpillar boring machine named "Pat," will soon spearhead a $250 million water tunnel project. Digging a 12-foot diameter tunnel almost two miles long, Pat will create the replacement for two other, shallower tunnels currently in the way of expanding the port city's shipping capacity.
Read MoreThings are heating up in Bahrain as Formula One cars begin to take to the track for Sunday's Grand Prix. Should things go pear-shaped, what vehicles should the teams pile into to stay safe from less-than-peaceful demonstrators?
Read MoreThe hacker collective Anonymous has taken down the official Formula 1 website with a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack. The group claims it is in response to increasingly violent protests in Bahrain ahead of this weekend's Formula 1 race.
Read MoreLast month, Justin Bieber got this Fisker Karma as a $100,000-plus 18th-birthday gift on the Ellen Degeneres Show. Now he's given the car a chrome wrap and a few other modifications that should have him watching out for more than just the fashion police.
Read MoreWhat makes James Bond movies great isn't that they're timeless; it's that they are so much products of their time. Movies like Goldfinger and Dr. No appeal to us because they show off so much of the ‘60s we idolize.
Read MoreAccording to reports, the unconscious pilot who crashed into the the Gulf of Mexico earlier today was Dr. Peter Hertzak, 65, an OB-GYN and plastic surgeon from Slidell, Louisiana. The Coast Guard watched the plane sink, so it's all but certain that the pilot died.
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Read MoreGermany's Polizei are wishing they could cancel their $32.8 million order (25 million Euros) of new Opel Insignias (read: Buick Regals) because they can't fit into their seats. Have the cops been laying too heavily into the Brühwurst?
Read MoreToday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and we wanted to pay homage to those who suffered, died, and yes, the fortunate few who escaped the Nazis' vice-like death grip. On June 20, 1942, Kazimierz Piechowski, two other Polish political prisoners and a Ukrainian mechanic escaped from Auschwitz in a fast car they stole from the camp's commandant. Here's how they did it.
Read MoreThis invitation to the unveiling at the upcoming Beijing Motor Show provides definitive proof that the much-discussed Lamborghini SUV — possibly named Lamborghini Urus — is really happening.
Read MoreThe FAA lost contact with a Cessna 421 shortly before 9AM this morning. The pilot, it turns out, was unconscious, and the plane ultimately slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 135 miles off the coast of Florida. The pilot has been identified as Dr. Peter Hertzak.
Read MoreAs far as embarrassing accidents go, it's hard to top Eddie Griffin crashing an Enzo into a wall during a PR event for the quickly-forgotten Redline. What's the most embarrassing car accident you've seen on video?
Read MoreIt's pretty widely accepted that you shouldn't text and operate a vehicle. Especially when that vehicle is a commercial aircraft. Apparently one pilot, though, hasn't taken that advice to heart. And he almost killed a few hundred people because of it.
Read MoreEarlier this month we asked our commenters to assist the Waynesboro, VA Police Department in catching the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident by identifying a part that came off the suspect's car. Within minutes, our amazing commenters identified it as coming from the grille of an early 2000-era Ford F-150 pickup, which was exactly the vehicle police found when they followed a tip yesterday to nearby Rockingham County.
Read MoreWith winter out of the way for half the world e you might be considering getting all that winter gunk cleaned out of and off you car. You could take it into a special shop and spend a bunch on a deep clean and detail, or you could just follow Popular Mechanics simple guide to do it for yourself.
Read MoreAnniversaries of one sort or another are a constant thing, but giving another nod to something good never hurts: 2012 marks twenty-five years since the release of Broadcast News, James L. Brooks's deadly takedown of big television media. If you haven't see it, you must; you'll never miss the subtleties of a news show again.
Read MoreAudi's managed to make their small Tiguan-based Audi Q3 luxury crossover interesting with this RS-prepped concept it plans to show at the upcoming Beijing Motor Show. A tiny Quattro 360-hp car is so strange it makes perfect sense.
Read MoreLuxury automaker Acura has apologized for the "language" used in a casting call for their Super Bowl ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld that specified they didn't want a black actor who was "too dark" in the description. Nowhere in their apology do they seem to offer a mea culpa for wanting a light-skinned actor, just for stating it that way.
Read MoreAfter weeks of rumor, VW announced moments ago that it has agreed to purchase Ducati for something in the neighborhood of $1.12 billion through its Audi brand. But why does a gigantic auto conglomerate want a tiny bike manufacturer? What will VW do with Ducati? And, what does the deal mean for that most evocative of bike brands?
Read MoreA casting call notice for this year's Acura Super Bowl Ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno obtained by TMZ indicates Acura's agency wanted an African-American actor for the role of the dealer, so long as he was "Not too dark" and "Nice looking, friendly." UPDATE!
Read MoreAl Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. It's unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen.
Read MoreThanks to AutoBlog.rs, the first photos of the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe — the preview for the upcoming four-door CLC Class coupe — have hit the web ahead of its expected unveiling in Los Angeles at this month's Transmission LA culture festival.
Read MoreHow do you hide an airplane behind a bird? Very skillfully. Lt. Col. William B. O'Connor (ret.) flew the F-117 Nighthawk during the Bosnia Conflict, and in Stealth Fighter, he explains the history, operation, and soul America's most advanced stealth jet.
Read MoreWhat you spy here is the still-not-quite-for-Americans cargo twin of the Ford Tourneo Custom shown earlier this year in Geneva. It's for moving stuff. Lots of stuff. Why do you have so much stuff? You must be a hoarder.
Read MoreSome people gripe about how the 911 has stayed true to form for the better part of half a century. Personally, I'm very okay with that slow evolution. Let's go further: I think it's wonderful. In a world of passing fads, this kind of organic change is something to be celebrated.
Read MoreMany have assumed that Pinterest merely serves as an online stomping ground for wedding planning. As the U.S. Central Command's presence on the social network shows, that assumption is patently false. In fact, Pinterest is more than just Tumblr for ladiez, it's Tumblr for WAR DOGS.
Read MoreThere's nothing like a little police brutality — real or perceived — to ignite controversy. Obviously there's no call for police striking anyone prone on the road, but the question it raises is, who was the bigger douche? The cop who punched a prone man in the face or the drunk guy tearing around Milwaukee in his friend's black Lamborghini?
Read MoreThis weekend's Lamborghini Aventador fire wasn't just remarkable for being the first for the bull-badged brand's new supercar. Nor was it because of the speed with which the $374,000 supercar went from hero to charred zero. Rather, it was for the quick birth of a meme based around the casually-dressed man posing nonchalantly next to the melted exotic.
Read MoreWith gas prices peaking this time of year, the idea of picking up a rewards credit card to help you save some cash might seem pretty appealing. Consumer Reports took a hard look at these cards and found that they're actually not a very good deal at all—even if you do buy a lot of gas.
Read MoreThe average US tax refund in 2012 will come in at $2899. That's enough to score a set of wheels that will stave off the emotional death of carlessness. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best cars to nab with that refund check.
Read MoreIt seems like everyone wants to get to space these days. Even NASA, who had their budget slashed, wants back up in the sky. So how do rocket scientists fund space exploration? Probably the same way you would. A bake sale and car wash.
Read MoreAn automobile is a consumer item. Inevitably, it comes with a price tag of some sort. An automobile is also the culmination of one person's desires and situation and necessities and character, and who knows what all else. It is peculiarly wonderful in that way, being both a mass-market item and a totem of individuality and opinion.
Read MoreThe early 1970s were quite possibly the craziest years in Formula One and not only because of the mammoth sideburns. These were years of wild experiments in fields as apart as aerodynamics and sponsorship structures, and they produced fascinating evolutionary dead-ends like the Lotus 56, a turbine-powered, four-wheel drive Indy 500 car driven by Emerson Fittipaldi in the 1971 Italian Grand Prix.
Read MoreCalifornia is broke. The national debt continues to spiral out of control. So, it's perhaps a little bit of a surprise that the California Department of Transportation, along with some help from the federal government, spent $205,000 in 2010 to move a shrub that's available at nurseries for about $15. Even the Knights who say Ni would find that too expensive. UPDATE.
Read MoreWith the Southern Hemisphere fall on and most of the tourists heading up north, it’s time yet again to head as far south as aeronautically possible, get a car, and do some driving in Argentina on some of the world’s emptiest, most gorgeous roads. Like the one that takes you along the Quebrada de Cafayate, northwest Argentina’s acid trip canyon.
Read MoreTomorrow is Tax Day. This year's average tax refund is $2899 — approximately what most people use for a down payment on a new vehicle. But that doesn't make sense, especially when there's still so many great used cars out there. Assuming you received the average tax refund — and you didn't have anything else to spend your refund on — what's the best vehicle you can buy?
Read MoreRemember Hyundai's Super Bowl ad featuring a guy playing with a Louis Vuitton-monogramed basketball? The fashion house didn't like it, taking the Korean automaker to court and winning in a verdict that looks to have far-reaching effects on free speech, as Andy Sellars from Harvard's Citizen Media Law Project explains below. — Ed.
Read MoreWhen encountering a tricky problem, it always pays to play to your strengths. Like a scientist from UCSD who was issued with a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. His response? A four-page paper describing how the ticket defied the laws of physics.
Read MoreGoogle has added another family member to its autonomous vehicle program, and an eagle-eyed reader in Southern California caught the Big G's Lexus RX450h out and about during testing.
Read MoreAfter sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but in 1985 its watery tomb was finally breached by another marquee vessel—the crown prince of HOVs.
Read MoreA lot of the appeal of project cars that are far beyond saving to any rational human being is they are usually pretty cheap to buy—even if ownership quickly becomes expensive.
Read MoreAs defined by the most important document of the internet age, the Ten Commandments are "a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship". This weekend we want to know what rules you hold sacred when it comes to the ethics and worship of all things automotive.
Read MoreA black Lamborghini Aventador burned itself up like a protesting Buddhist monk this morning in Southern California according to a poster on Luxury4Play. And here we thought self-immolation was a Ferrari trademark. UPDATE!
Read MoreGoggomobils were among the most popular of the variety of odd little vehicles built during the German microcar craze of the 50s and early 60s. While we would like to attribute this popularity to the fact they were sold with one of the coolest names ever given to an automobile, something tells us it took more than that to sell the 214,313 Goggo sedans built between 1955 and 1969.
Read MoreEnough with the Koenigseggs. Yes, they're fantastic creations, all monster power and scarcely believable speed and Spaceboy Stan styling. But for most of us, life as a gearhead is about something else entirely. It's about what's real, what's good, what makes cars matter to us.
Read MoreBeing rich can be very difficult. Do you choose to ride around in a limo, drive a super car, or go for something rare and vintage? Now, thanks to Becker Auto Design's $400,000 JetVans, you have a new choice. A custom Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van filled with mobile Bond-villian grade levels of technology and luxury.
Read MoreTraffic police 2nd Lt. Nguyen Manh Phan ordered a bus driver to present his papers on Monday, in Hanoi. The driver instead tried to flee, and the traffic cop leapt onto the front of the bus, holding on for half a mile.
Read MoreWhat do you do if your name is Mike Eiskant and you're a policeman in Santa Fe, New Mexico? Masturbate in your car, of course! While talking to pictures of big-breasted women and recording everything on your dashboard camera—for ten minutes, as this video shows.
Read MoreMelissa Mansfield, 31, was literally caught by police with her pants down, having been spotted earlier this week by a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper moving her bowels while shielding the deed with the door of the car she'd apparently stolen.
Read MoreA new car is not for everyone. It may be a matter of taste or circumstance, but sometimes a trip to the used lot or through Craigslist-land is necessary. A preowned ride naturally deserves serious purchaser diligence and concern, but some things stand out as causes for concern. What's the scariest warning sign for a used-car shopper?
Read MoreIf your first car is fast and expensive. Like, say, a BMW M3, you significantly up the possibility that you might crash and die. Seriously. But, sort of as a public service announcement, Jalopnik readers have come up with these ten cars that are even worse for a new driver.
Read MoreLast week at an after-party during the New York Auto Show, a long-time automaker PR professional uttered a maxim of automotive spin I've heard so often it feels like a Tantric mantra: "The cars are the stars." Every time I hear it, I shake my head — because if there's one phrase that sets us apart from every other automotive outlet — that's it. At Jalopnik, we've always believed that the cars aren't as important as the stories about the good people who love them, build them, buy them and drive
Read MoreButt dials are annoying, especially when your phone randomly dials 911 for no good reason all the time. But if you find yourself prone to that predicament? Think about leaving your phone at home when you go out to plan and execute multiple car thefts.
Read MoreOur old expletives are far from adequate to properly address the reality that is this Chevy Camaro on 32-inch wheels. We shall have to invent new ones. Flurgle this! Who the shmezzle would put 32-inch wheels on a glarking Camaro???
Read MoreWhen you're wildly stomping at the pedals of your car in a panic, there's really only one outcome you're looking for: Stop. That's why, for 99.9% of drivers and driving, the mandatory brake override system proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a good idea.
Read MoreWe understand automobiles as machines that carry us around with our stuff. The definition necessarily involves some degree of practicality. Koenigseggs have hardly any space for people inside, let alone luggage. How do we make sense of them as cars?
Read MoreWoody Allen famously said that "Eighty-percent of success in life is showing up." Apparently, it's 100% when you're the undemocratically-elected President of a small oil-rich Central Asian country as President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov proved when he showed up to Turkmenistan's inaugural race in a Bugatti Veyron, asked if he could join the field, and promptly won the whole damn thing.
Read MoreFixing a hole in a road should be easy—but the fact that our nation's highways are littered with potholes is testament to the fact that it's not quite as straightforward as it sounds. But a new solution, inspired by silly putty, could make our streets much smoother in the future.
Read MoreIt's done. We did it. Find someone around you and give them a big hug and a high-five. We've picked an ultimate Muscle Car in our March Muscle Car Madness bracket, and it's the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429. For those of you without any strong religious convictions, you may wish to try praying to it.
Read MoreMatthew Johnston is making the first feature-length documentary covering rallying in America. He's two years and $10,000 into the project and he's looking for $47,630 more. Ford or someone really needs to sponsor this guy — but they haven't yet. You can — and here's why he might be worth it.
Read MoreThe process of parsing Bobby Petrino's phone records continues, and another interesting number has popped up on our radar. In fits and starts, Petrino exchanged nearly two hundred text and picture messages with a Little Rock cell phone registered to one Alison Melder, whose LinkedIn profile lists her as a senate assistant with the Republican Party of Arkansas.
Read MoreI'm no engineer, but I know this: If personal electronics could bring down a plane, Al Quaeda would just assign a pack of assholes to send simultaneous text messages from the next flight out of Jerusalem.
Read MoreThe reason anyone gives a stainless-steel crap about the DeLorean isn't because of how it drove, or how fast it went. It did neither very well. No, it was because of those beautifully angular time machine looks.
Read MoreThe NSX may be older than the Czech Republic and have a fraction of the horsepower of a whopping 945 hp compared to the Ring’s latest darling, the 1,200-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R, but here’s what it can do in capable hands and under capable feet: a 7:56 lap.
Read MoreNo matter what you get, your first car is a twenty-seat minivan, an off-roader, and a racecar all at the same time. With this is mind, what's the worst car for someone who is just starting to drive?
Read MoreYour car's safety and fuel economy isn't just something printed on a spec sheet. How your car works depends on you. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten things that even your know-nothing, non-gearhead friends need to know about their car.
Read MoreNot that you have ever, ever overindulged on alcohol, but if you had, you'd know that it can result in some serious pain the next day. Fortunately, a company in Las Vegas is pioneering a new, extremely convenient way to help you recover quickly from your retched suffering. Hangover Heaven promises to rid you of your suffering in just 45-minutes. How do they do it? Well, they have a fancy bus on which they give you "IV hydration, and IV vitamins in a proprietary blend to drive the toxins out of y
Read MoreIt's National Pet Day on Wednesday, and to celebrate, let's take a look back at how the death of the running board spelled a better motoring life for our canine readers.
Read MoreIn the annals of corporate history, I doubt any company has ever flipped their shit more completely than Lotus just did in this Facebook post. Meant to be a response to media reports about the automaker's financial problems, management instability, and one mostly harmless joke, it quickly became the ultimate example of how not to engage in public relations on social media.
Read MoreWith every new model year, cars become increasingly complicated and increasingly difficult to understand. We need to turn this trend around, starting with the drivers themselves. What do you think every non-gearhead needs to know about their car?
Read MorePerhaps the biggest shortcoming of Detroit "ruin porn" is it inherently ignores the very real people who still live in the city. Now there's a convergence — the amazing story of Allan Hill, the man who legally lives inside the city's abandoned Packard Auto Plant.
Read MoreWXYZ, the local Detroit ABC affiliate, reports that there has been an explosion at a battery lab facility on the campus of GM's Technical Center in Warren. Two people have been injured and were taken to nearby hospitals and all employees have been evacuated from that building.
Read MoreFuel continue to be the largest operating expenditure for airlines and is expected to cost them an extra $40 billion this year. So, MIT's developing a new style of aircraft that could run on as little as 30 percent as today's 737's.
Read MoreA South African man (whose name has not been released) got a lucky break on Sunday, when his kidnappers stuffed him into the trunk of his car with his cell phone, which he used to send a text to his girlfriend, Lynn Peters. What Peters did next ended up saving his life.
Read MoreBy all accounts the LiveWire NavGenius is your typical gray-market GPS navigation device, with touchscreen functionality and basic mapping software. But tucked away inside is an extra bit of hardware that lets the unit remotely tattle on its location.
Read MoreWhiskey's for drinkin' and water's for fightin' over. As it turns out, gasoline's also for drinking, according to one petroleum-swilling teenager. The girl, interviewed recently for the TLC show "My Strange Addiction," has consumed more than five gallons over the last year.
Read MoreFerrari is celebrating its 20th anniversary in China with 20 commemorative custom 458 Italias. With "Marco Polo Red" paint and a golden dragon on the hood, have they made a proper tribute, or just a stereotype?
Read MoreToyota's Scion brand posted a series of videos to their official YouTube page last week featuring groups of people — dudes, babes, and cops — eating donuts and getting covered in gratuitous amounts of milk as the crappy small car they're in does donuts in a parking lot. UPDATE!
Read MoreYou really want a two-door sports car but your S.O. wants a four-door sedan. What do you do to get your special someone to agree on the car you want?
Read MoreThere’s a dearth of tasteful intermingling between motor racing and fashion design. Albert Kriemler, designer of the Swiss couture house Akris, is looking to change that. His latest spring/summer collection is all about Formula One—specifically, about John Frankenheimer’s 1966 movie Grand Prix.
Read MoreBetty Wheeler was killed last Saturday when a driver in an unknown vehicle struck her as she walked near Route 340 in Waynesboro, Virginia. Police say the driver fled the scene but left this part behind.
Read MoreA 21-year-old Redditor named Devin says that her house was destroyed by the horrific F-18 plane crash on Friday. That circled wreckage above? Her crib. She took it upon herself to start an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit to share her crazy and disturbing story.
Read MoreKoenigsegg is a new money supercar, sold to growing markets that are easy to view with suspicion. The cars are just cars, but you can't help but associate the hyper-exotic machines with money and politics.
Read More"Buy a Corvette" was a line item on this guy's bucket list. He'd been pining for the car since he was a child. Then came his diagnosis of cancer with the face and it was time for him to start crossing items off that list when doctors surgically removed part of his jaw. He walked into a Chevy dealership to try to buy his dream car, only to have his dreams dashed.
Read MoreAccording to his Twitter account, Bubba Watson, recent winner of the Masters, is a Christian, a husband, a daddy, a pro golfer, and the owner of General Lee 1. He bought the car in January at the Barrett Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale Arizona, shelling out $110,000 for the car form the iconic jump scene featured in "The Dukes of Hazzard" intro.
Read MoreEver upgrade your computer with new system software? Has it always worked perfectly, every time? Didn't think so. Would you like that same experience brought to your car — only with the added nervousness that comes from having it do it automatically without your input? You're in luck if you buy a new Mercedes-Benz!
Read MoreThe man in the image above is a "saboteur" — not a pro-democracy protester.
Read MoreMost of us ignore those skeevy ads in the back of magazines that promise readers mass amounts of weight loss, ecstatic sex, and bountiful heads of hair in exchange for a few bucks plus shipping and handling. But at least one ad deserves our full attention.
Read MoreWhether you're trying to track down a bad driver or someone who keeps leaving their car outside your house, you can often find out who they are and how to contact them from their license plate number and a simple Google search. Security expert Brandon Gregg explains:
Read MoreEvery town has its own Cars & Coffee now. They're pretty civil, except for the asshats who do shitty burnouts in the street and get the whole thing cancelled. What's the worst thing that people do to screw up a local parking lot concours?
Read MoreAnother day. Another Barrett-Jackson controversy involving a president. This weekend the famous classic car auction helped raise $950,000 for a Marine veteran's project for wounded warriors. The only problem? The money isn't going to the highly-regarded charity, the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP).
Read MoreChrysler's Mopar aftermarket division is now the first automaker to offer in-vehicle wireless charging for your mobile devices. Yes, for just $199.99 (plus installation cost), you can get something like a Powermat for your car.
Read MoreTwo-time American Le Mans Series Champion Scott Tucker and his team Level 5 Motorsports turned a small fortune into checkered flags, but now the Federal Trade Commission is investigating the deceptive business practices that funded his racing dreams.
Read MoreMost hybrid buyers — almost two-thirds — don't end up buying another hybrid, according to a recent study R.L. Polk. Yet more evidence that hybrids are more about marketing hype than hyper-miling for the masses.
Read MoreAlthough this 1944 newsreel presents the bizarre ten passenger "Super Jeep" seen here as the next incarnation of the already popular Jeep, judging from the relative obscurity of these long vehicles they never got too far out of the testing phase.
Read MoreIf the first thought that comes to mind when considering a vehicle once rated "unacceptable" by Consumer Reports because it "rolls over too easily" is not lifting it up in the air and adding twenty gallons of highly explosive gas to the passenger compartment, we certainly don't blame you.
Read MoreA 1,200-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R topped out at 249.54 mph (401.6 kph) on the main straight of the Nürburgring Nordschleife at yesterday's Gran Turismo Nurburgring supercar meet-up. No, it wasn't a video game, and yes, it is insane.
Read MoreSquirrels are terrible at burying acorns. California's Western Scrub Jay, on the other hand, is surprisingly careful with its food, much more than the fluffy rats your see people feeding in Washington Square Park.
Read MoreWe just saw the 2013 GL at the New York Auto Show, but it looks like Mercedes prematurely leaked three pictures of the upcoming AMG version before anyone was supposed to see it.
Read MoreOkay, it's not technically a spaceship, but it sure looks like what I wish spaceships looked like. It's actually very much a machine designed for use in an atmosphere, since this 1914 Castagna A.L.F.A. 40/60 HP Aerodinamica is the first real example of an aerodynamic passenger car.
Read MoreI lived on 20th Street in Virginia Beach for about three years — about a quarter of a mile from the beach and less than three away from Naval Air Station Oceana. I also lived in the Friendship Village Apartments, not far from where a Navy F/A-18 crashed into an apartment building this morning.
Read MoreIt's here. The final Round of our March Muscle Car Madness. We're down to our last two contenders, and, of course, There Can Be Only One, though I bet many would argue there only is one already. That's because our two finalists are essentially brothers — only one year apart: The 1969 Boss 429 Mustang and the 1970 Boss 302 Mustang.
Read MoreReports are coming in that a Naval FA/18 Hornet jet fighter crashed into an apartment building in Virginia Beach, Virginia near Naval Airstation Oceana. A traffic cam video from a local news station shows smoke coming from off-camera near I-264.
Read MoreThe things we take for granted about cars today almost all started out looking a lot weirder than they do now, and often come with even stranger backstories. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the strangest starts of all.
Read MoreThere's two little design easter eggs you might miss on the new SRT Viper if you don't look carefully — maps of two famous racetracks that have been lovingly tattooed like a tramp stamp onto the new 640 HP supercar.
Read MoreSo the pros pack up their laptops and cameras and drift off, and the general public gets its shot at the New York International Auto Show starting tomorrow. For two weeks a year, the place where a car is officially Not Necessary gets its turn as a gearhead hotspot.
Read MoreFerdinand Alexander Porsche, the designer of the iconic 911, has died aged 76. The grandson of company founder Ferdinand Porsche and son of Ferry, Ferdinand Alexander — nicknamed "Butzi" — was heavily involved with the German automaker's road car and racing programs during the 1960s.
Read MoreThe star of the New York Auto Show is the new Viper. Everyone's talking about it — even more than the new Nissan cab, if you can imagine that. But what's less realized is that there's lots of stuff called "viper" that aren't even cars! Get this — they even named a snake "viper!"
Read MoreFor an auto show in New York, it makes sense that one of the cars everyone's most interested in is a cab. Specifically, the Nissan "Taxi Of Tomorrow" re-revealed yesterday. And while the design is novel (at least from the perspective of the old Crown Vics), almost everything in it is immediately understandable to cab riders. Except for that little UFO on the roof.
Read MoreIt's nice to know that there's still car customizers that will make a new model just because. No focus groups, no careful studies, just the very basic idea that some things would just be cool to do. Like making a 1000 HP car that's not a Veyron. Mostly because it's only $250,000.
Read MoreFor enthusiasts of the cars-you-kind-of-forgot-about segment, today's a big day. It's the day Toyota unveils the 2013 Toyota Avalon, and its all-new design. From the side, it's clean, sleek, and reasonably handsome, though in almost the exact same ways every new mid-size sedan is clean, sleek, and handsome. Right down to the long graceful arced roofline, pretty much like everybody's. Would it kill any of these guys to throw a big Tatra-style dorsal fin or something on one of these cars? Just so
Read MoreAll I've wanted to do all day is stare at the 2013 SRT Viper. To lick its shimmering curves and caress its glorious carbon fiber details. But I'm busy and you're not here. That's what we've sent our photographer to capture every fapworthy detail.
Read MoreGet yourself a pair of Zubaz, because Acura's bringing back the early ‘90s all over again with the RLX — a big, V6-engined all-wheel-drive sedan concept with four-wheel steering.
Read MoreA 23-year-old City Councilman from Riverbank, California was charged with a litany of offenses after crashing his Corvette into a parked car, while drunk, with his four-year-old kid strapped into the car. Councilman Jesse James White then proceeded to leave his bleeding son in the car as he ran away, only to be "tackled and held by bystanders" until the police arrived.
Read MoreElectric cars run nearly silent, which is great for minimizing noise pollution, but bad for pedestrians who can't hear a vehicle approaching. So Audi is developing an electronic engine roar so the company's e-Tron vehicles can still be heard.
Read MoreAccording to the accurate-looking window sticker, this 2012 Acura MDX with special tactical packages for S.H.I.E.L.D. gets an impressive 234 MPG city/304 MPG highway mileage, though this is running on Palladium. It's a fuel which, apparently, costs a daunting $448/oz. But that's actually cheap. Because the car itself costs just under $6 million.
Read MoreVisually, the 2013 Ram 1500 has few visual changes from the outgoing model. Mechanically, however, they've finally brought Chrysler's big truck into the 21st century with a new ZF eight-speed transmission, adjustable air suspension, and a V6 that doesn't suck.
Read MoreThe Lamborghini SUV is coming. We know this. The exotic Italo-Teutonic already said they'd show one at the Beijing Auto Show, but it's still nice to get confirmation from World's Most Stereotypical Lamborghini Owner, who claims on his Facebook page that he's seen it.
Read MoreNeed to tow a horse trailer or vintage racer or a fair-sized boat? Think a Suburban is utterly déclassé? Mercedes has you covered, good sir! The refreshed 2013 GL-Class supersized SUV bowed today, offering exactly zero surprises and likely causing ripples of civilized excitement among upper middle class and lower upper class households.
Read MoreWhile Nissan happily trumpets their taxi-selection victory inside the Javits Center, just outside Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate for the City of New York, held a press conference decrying the selection. The reason? Nissan still does business in Iran, in violation of U.S. sanctions.
Read MoreAutomakers dictate that you have to be punished with a boring car if you want a midsize sedan. Nissan has done everything they could do to interest you with a lighter, more efficient 2013 Nissan Altima. Well, everything but change anything important.
Read MoreThere are off-roaders, and then there are military-grade, eight-wheel-drive off-road titans. This Tatra 813, powering out of a potential rollover at the 2011 Mohelnice Grand Prix truck trials in the Czech Republic is the latter.
Read MoreCorvette beware. Viper is back. BMW beware. Viper is back. Ferrari beware. Viper is back. The 2013 Viper GTS-R will make its factory-backed reincarnation later this year when it battles in the GT class of the American Le Mans Series.
Read MoreIf we haven't hit peak oil yet, surely the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG V12 Roadster will lead the parade into a lawless hellscape where you'll sell your children for a jerry-can of premium. It'll be worth it, trust me. Take my hand and follow the sweetly resonant thump-thump-thump of an AMG 6.0-liter V12 and its 738 lb-ft of gravity twisting torque to the Thunderdome.
Read MoreI'm a sucker for flying cars, being part of the list of things the future owes me (also, jetpacks, pizzas in pill form, and quality sexbots).
Read MoreAs we told you earlier this morning, for almost 20 years the Chevy Impala has been synonymous with "rental" — a car more "Jackalope" than the southern African antelope it's named after. They've been boring and they've been beige — well, with the exception of a few years of the "SS" badge anyway. Until now.
Read MoreFisker's long-awaited follow-up to their more-than-a-$100K sports sedan is finally here. At least the promise of the follow-up to the Karma is finally here. Well, as a concept anyway. The Fisker Atlantic plug-in hybrid design prototype — once called the Nina — finally made it's debut last night here ahead of the New York Auto Show. This is it.
Read MoreFor almost 20 years, the Chevy Impala has been synonymous with "rental" — a car more "Jackalope" than "Antelope." They've been boring and they've been beige — well, with the exception of a few years of the "SS" badge anyway. Until now.
Read MoreThose things flying are tractor trailers, lifted several feet up in the air by the extremely strong tornadoes in Dallas County, Texas. It's an emergency situation down there right now, and it seems it's not going to stop any time soon.
Read MoreWe're here: the Final Four. Out of the 64 original muscle car contenders, we're down to this quartet of survivors, 75% of which are Ford Mustang variants. So I either hope you like Mustangs or really, really like Oldsmobiles, along with lots of your friends. Here's how the Elite Eight broke down, giving us our Final Four:
Read MoreThe no-longer-Dodge 2013 SRT Viper has slithered out more than a day ahead of its New York Auto Show debut, revealing every angle of the gorgeous new America supercar. The feds may insist on giving it traction control, but they can't take away its voluptuous snakeskin, seen here courtesy of what appears to be Forza 4 screenshots (thus please forgive the quality) from a video we desperately want to see.
Read MoreNew York's Taxi of Tomorrow was revealed in production form today, although you'll likely have to wait until next year to get a ride in it if your last name isn't Bloomberg. This 2014 Nissan NV200 doesn't have the regal name like a Crown Victoria, or the iconic style of a Checker, but it has airbags. Oh so many airbags.
Read MoreDon't drink and drive. That's stupid. Also, don't tweet out that you're going to "see how many shots of tequila get me twisted" before you hop in a car, lest you should end up in a tree facing a drunk-driving rap and talking incessantly about tequila to the arresting cops.
Read MoreIt was 50 years ago, in April of 1962, that primitive lego-cave-dwelling minifigs first developed the wheel. This ranks among the greatest milestones in Lego history since early minifig society first figured out how to smelt raw plastic ore into Lego bricks.
Read MoreBig powerful engines are great. Big powerful engines in small light cars are much, much better. Why fight inertia when you don't have it in the first place? These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the most motor in the least car.
Read MoreIn a story that we thought we'd be reading in the Onion rather than the BBC, officers with the Nottinghamshire Police smashed their way into a motorist's parked car to "save" a toy stuffed dog.
Read MoreFor two of the three great Abrahamic religions, these are celebratory days. The children of David will observe Passover starting Friday, and the followers of Yeshua of Nazareth are looking forward to Easter this coming Sunday.
Read MoreNot content to allow College Park Hyundai — of College Park, Maryland — to slink back into the cave from whence it came up with the idea for exorbitantly-priced $1,495 door guards ($8 each in store price), commenter Snabb-SAAB decided to take the fight against stealerships directly to the source with some expert trolling of the online sales team. The following conversation is yet another example of why I love the Jalopnik nation.
Read More"The 2013 SRX illustrates the Cadillac philosophy of never leaving well enough alone," said Don Butler, vice president of marketing for GM's wreath and crest-festooned proto-luxury brand. We couldn't agree more. Because somehow they've managed to take the attractive Art & Science exterior design philosophy of the Cadillac SRX and made it look like a up-chromed Chevy.
Read MoreI've always thought that flying cars were similar to videophones; people have been demoing them since the middle of last century, but they never really managed to catch on. Then I realize I use a videophone all the time on my computer, and all of a sudden flying cars don't seem so impossible. Especially with new designs like the Dutch Pal-V which just completed its first flight tests.
Read MoreReader Darrell was shopping recently for a new car and snapped a picture of the College Park Hyundai dealership in Maryland that's charging $1495 for dealer-installed door edge guards. "They were on every car on the lot," wrote Darrell. And at that price point, they better be filled with pearls and caviar drenched in panther blood.
Read MoreThis weekend Game of Thrones came back for season two, and like a vast number of watching stuff enthusiasts, I'm pretty excited. The series took the fantasy genre to new, more adult levels of character and tone (and threw in plenty of HBO-grade nudity), and it's no surprise it's a huge hit. Except for one huge flaw: There's no cars. Let's fix that.
Read MoreEither someone just attempted the subtlest of jabs at our nation's force of uncomfortably invasive rent-a-cops or the recruiters at the Transportation Security Administration need to invest in a better thesaurus. A job posting on the Ann Arbor, Michigan Craigslist invites would-be screeners to "[b]e part of a imperious security team protecting airports and skies as you proudly establish your future."
Read MoreNope, it's not an April Fool's Day joke. Steve Saleen announced today that he's regained control of the Saleen brand, five years after "retiring" (a move seen by many as more like "pushed out") from the eponymous company he founded and which filed for bankruptcy protection just a few years later.
Read MoreWhat is the worst thing that could happen to your recently acquired ultra-rare 1937 Mercedes 500 K Roadster while bringing it to a foreign country to show it off? While fire and theft certainly top the list here's one we imagine didn't immediately come to mind—getting your car seized by police officers from the foreign country in question.
Read MoreInstead of wowing you with our story about the return of the Pontiac Aztec for 2015 or reporting this time the El Camino is actually returning to the US for real (we would never actually joke about such a thing) this April Fools Day we want to hear your idea of the perfect fake automotive story.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will announce a formal investigation later today into the Jeep Wrangler fires we first reported on in March, Jalopnik has exclusively learned.
Read MorePersians make some awesome stuff, like rugs and cats, but did you know they also built cars? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Paykan is comes from Iran, but will its price rock your casbah?
Read MoreIn Spanish Espada means sword, a reference to the weapon with which bullfighters deliver the coup de grâce to their bovine opponents. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 400GT is a graceful coupe, but does its price make you think its seller is full of bull?
Read MoreA palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same both forwards and backwards - for example never odd or even. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe E21 is novel in the U.S. as its a 323i which is both even and odd as well as palindromic. The question is, which way will you go on its price?
Read MoreFor someone whose mantra was adding lightness to make his cars go faster, Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman sure was weighted down by his hefty moniker. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe home-built homage goes simply by Seven, but does it carry a price tag that's way too heavy?
Read MoreA couple of years ago Top Gear attempted to kill a Toyota Pickup through a series of challenges worthy of a James Bond Villain, but ultimately failing to do so. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe factory turbo Hilux also looks to have plenty of life left, but is its price a death blow to buying it?
Read MoreThe MX-5 is generally considered to be the conclusion people jump to when the question of sports car offers the best bang for your buck is raised. However, if the question at hand is what's a Miata that can jump, then perhaps today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe General Lee-homage would be the answer. That is, unless its price is too many bucks for the bang.
Read MoreThe original Civic Si was Honda's entry into the Hot Hatch market, a class that defined '80s cheap seat performance. Finding an unmolested edition like today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is rare indeed, but will its price make this a Hot Hatch you're cool with?
Read MoreFrom the French L'Acadiane is derived Cajun, and from that is derived tasty southern cookin'. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Citroën Acadiane could cart your crawdads, but will you find its price palatable?
Read MoreMinivans may not be the most exciting cars around, but as exemplified by today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dodge Colt Vista, they don't have to give up style for capaciousness. The question is, will you find this one's price to be too much to give up?
Read MoreOver the course of its service to the RAF the Supermarine Spitfire carried both Merlin, and later, Griffon engines by Rolls Royce. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Triumph Spitfire carries an engine from a less illustrious marque, but will its price tag carry the day?
Read MoreThe third-generation Accord was the first Honda production car to employ double wishbone suspension both front and rear. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe AeroDeck is a not for US model you might have cracked a wishbone over, but will its price make that wish come true?
Read MoreThe new Jeep concept FC is Mighty, but unlike the Bosstones it's not Mighty Mighty. You can't buy that dream truck for all the rubies in the Rubicon, but you can buy today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘64 FC170. That is of course, if you think its price is mighty fine.
Read MoreThe great thing about a WRC rally-bred car is its all terrain-ability- the only thing able to slow it down being deep powder. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subie WRX has even that surface beat, but will you find its price to be a big snow job?
Read MoreThe seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe AMG-powered W124 says it's unfit for soccer mom duty until Danica Patrick starts popping them out. Misogynistic rabble aside, its C36 drivetrain should make this wagon entertaining, but will you entertain its price?
Read MoreWhile venerated, BMW's E30 M3 did lack certain features possessed by its later, and better performing, brethren. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe E36 for example offers both a drop top and an. . . automatic transmission. Will that second item guarantee its price needs to down along with the top?
Read MoreIf home invader Goldilocks had decided to also steal one of the Bears rides, she might have found Mamma Bear's minivan to have too many wheels, and Papa's Harley to have too few. If da' Bears also owned today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Willys home-built, she might have found it just right. Will you find its price equally so?
Read MoreSweden and speedin' go together like girls and dragon tattoos, and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo 850 is a velocity-empathizing example of that company's Stockholm Syndrome. But while it's built to go fast is it priced to be passed?
Read MoreYou can't just stick a two-story wing on any Mopar product and call it a Superbird, that dog won't hunt. Despite that, as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe dragster Dodge proves, you can drop in a massive mill and call it a day. But will its price turn this ‘bird' into a dog?
Read MoreIf your tastes tend towards Teutonic tow trucks then today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe be-hooked 3-Series Bimmer may be a winner, but will its price be a deal wrecker?
Read MoreThe W126 Sonderklasse was the last big Benz not to feel the competitive influences of insurgent Japanese luxury brands. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 560 SEL still exudes klasse, but is its price a little too sonder?
Read MoreFerrari's are wickedly expensive and are known to be finickier than Goldilocks, while Toyotas are typically bland but reliable. The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Modena-bodied MR2 Spyder may have found the best of both worlds, but will you find its price out of this world?
Read MoreThe inevitable spread of Porsche 911 variants is underway, with new 991-spec models filling out the lineup like infantry divisions following Guderian into France. Here is the Carrera 4S, and everything we know about the upcoming four-wheel-drive 911.
Read MoreAlthough we think discovering any old rusty vehicle that has spent several decades idle is a lucky score, tracking down a Pre-A Porsche 356 Cabriolet goes a bit beyond the "average barn find".
Read MoreFor his James Hunt/Niki Lauda biopic, Rush, director Ron Howard appears to be recreating a 1970 F3 race that helped shape the legend of Hunt, the mercurial 1970s Formula One champ and shag-o-lator. Of course, Hunt's arch-rival Niki Lauda was there too. Or was he?
Read MoreWe live in an age of unparalleled technical refinement and capability. Still, we can count on our forbearers to draw up some absolutely unhinged machines. Disgruntled Titty Sprinkles SnapUndersteer understands this and has a little history lesson for us all.
Read MoreWhen the original Jaguar E-Type was first released in 1961 Enzo Ferrari called it the "most beautiful car ever made"—certainly lofty praise from the direct competition.
Read MoreRallycross takes competition rally cars, adds a ton of power, and puts them in wheel-to-wheel racing. It is a videogame come to life. Thus we're excited to see SRT Motorsport's new 600-horsepower, four-wheel-drive rallycross Dodge Dart in the flesh and with Travis Pastrana at the wheel.
Read MoreMopar's supercar may have shed its Dodge skin for the SRT brand, and forced into watering down some of its hallmark crazy by federally-mandated nanny systems, but one thing's for certain — the SRT Viper looks gorgeous. Here are the first pictures and details — straight from the New York Auto Show floor.
Read MoreToday between 10:30 am and 11:30 am the Space Shuttle Enterprise will make its final landing at New York City's JFK Airport, but first it's going to circle Manhattan.
Read MoreOur leaders may be faltering when it comes to sending men into space, but the youth know what's up. Specifically, they know how to get objects like Camilla the solar radiation-measuring rubber chicken up into the stratosphere.
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 MoreBecause of our first drive review of the Scion FR-S running at midnight-plus-one last night and I'll be travelling today we won't be running a full version of The Morning Shift today.
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, rather than read this, 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 MoreStatic electricity and several propane tanks combined this past week with fiery results at a McDonalds drive-thru in Coachella, Ca. According to MSNBC.com the driver of the truck was in the process of investigating a hissing sound when a propane tank in the truck exploded in flames.
Read MoreMany of their utilitarian designs have certainly aged well, but styling was often at best an afterthought for many of the original hard working pickup trucks. Style is however something this rare 1937 Studebaker J5 truck that is currently listed on Ebay has no shortage of.
Read MoreWhile Volkswagen is content to show off the Volkswagen Passat Alltrack as a production car in Tokyo, the German carmaking giant deigns us fit to get the Alltrack as a concept. What, nobody here likes a good longroof?
Read MoreThere are almost no repair jobs a gearhead with the right tools and instructions can't do in his or her own garage. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for those ten repairs best left to the pros.
Read MoreWorking on one's own car is a point of pride for many owners. Doing-it-yourself is both rewarding and a way to prevent someone else from mucking things up. Inevitably — for even the most hardcore gearheads — there are certain tasks best left to people wearing ASE badges on their sleeves. What repair or maintenance tasks are best handled by trained professional mechanics?
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