Five cylinder engines get no love these days. Long considered an oddball configuration with neither the power of a six nor the fuel economy of a four, the straight-five was only ever really embraced by a handful of carmakers.
Read MoreWhenever I hear someone say "electric cars are the future" I just shake my head and laugh. Sure, all those gas cars, millions of them, along with thousands of gas stations will disappear over night. And all the muffler shops and emission centers, too!
Read MoreWhat is the most idyllic garage you could dream up for a McLaren MP4-12C? If you were thinking of a stunning mountaintop auto fortress, dare to dream, my friends. Go big or go home.
Read MoreCadillac didn't make a station wagon in 1985, but if this coachbuilt example is any indication we think they should have. There's no shortage of custom station wagons built from cars that never left the factory with a long roof option, but few end up looking as good as this Fleetwood Station Wagon currently on Ebay.
Read MoreThe latest iteration of Mazda's KODO design language lands on the refreshed MX-5 Miata, replacing its Derpy smiling face with something slightly more aggressive. This upgrade is only for Japan now, but we're hoping and expecting it'll arrive here for the MX-5's next model year.
Read MoreAbout a week ago, Ferrari hand picked a number of journalists to venture to Italy and have a day with the latest car to come out of Maranello, the F12berlinetta. This is Ferrari's new V12 powered, aluminum bodied top dog. Ferrari promises that this is the fastest road car ever to be adorned with the Prancing Horse badge.
Read MoreSunday marks nine years since Volkswagen rolled out the Ultima Edicion of its famed Beetle. As of today, no car has had the impact on personal mobility that the Beetle did during its 65 years of production.
Read MoreAuto scribes are rarely the creative type and we're all easily led to follow the storyline laid out for us by the car companies. In the case of the Cadillac ATS that story line is "has Cadillac beaten the 3-series?" Go ahead and read some other reviews. They'll almost all start out with a variation on that theme.
Read MoreEven though Seinfeld was typically referred to as a show about nothing, each episode actually had a pointed message and a distinct story line.
Read MoreWhile the BMW M3 was shopping for a new polo shirt at J. Crew and the Audi RS4 was home studying for its SATs, the Mercedes C63 AMG was the car that was hanging out under the bleachers smoking cigarettes and trying to hook up with all the cheerleaders.
Read MoreBentley's seen eights come and go; the 8-litre coach of 1930, the cloth-seated Eight "training Bentley" of the 1980s, the Le Mans-winning Speed 8 prototype of 2003. Two of those even had V8 engines, like the new Continental GT V8. Can the more-fuel-efficient octomill match the mighty W12? Let's find out.
Read MoreSubaru says the buyer of its all-new XV Crosstrek will be relatively young, maybe have a few small children, enjoy hiking, biking, racing triathlons and partake in a multitude of outdoor adventures. A buyer fitting this demographic will be looking for a practical car that presents a cool, hip appearance and is a hoot to drive, they continued.
Read MoreThe Electra King was a line of electric city cars made in Long Beach, CA from 1963-1980 something. There's one in my neighborhood I've always admired, and I finally got the chance to drive it. It's not a "good" car, by any standard, and the score reflects that. But I sure as hell like it. A lot.
Read MoreJaguar's latest XJ is almost too sleek for its own good. A recent redesign tossed out all traces of the iconic XJ of old. But is this iteration an actual Jaaaaaaaag? I logged a ton of mileage in a 2012 XJL to see if a whippersnapper would lust after one before he takes up brandy and cigars.
Read MoreI was just about to give up on Atari's Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends when a mysterious voice beckoned me to pick up the controller and give it one more go. Little did I know I'd find an easter egg in the game that would make the whole experience worthwhile.
Read MoreEver have a really good waiter or waitress? Sure you have. There's a certain feeling you get when you encounter someone doing a really good job at something that maybe isn't the most important or exciting job in the world, but they've brought a level of competence and attention to it that just sort of makes you feel good about the whole experience.
Read MoreMany people need a release from the mundane reality of everyday life. Some enjoy a picnic by the lake. Others escape for a round of golf. Then there are those who take it to the extreme. They enjoy hurling themselves out of an aircraft, with a flimsy-strapped backpack attached to their shoulders. Or risk life and limb by attempting to climb a mountain at an altitude and temperature that no human is capable of enduring.
Read MoreIf you want to show up at your pal's BBQ in a new ride, check out these best and worst 4th of July deals. CarWoo analyzed thousands of transactions from over 70% of US dealerships to see which new cars are getting the biggest, and smallest, breaks off MSRP.
Read MoreNo matter what you do, your car always ends up a mess. Thankfully, Jalopnik readers are here with ten simple ways to keep your car from becoming a rolling trashbag.
Read MoreIn a perfect world, your car would never break, and if it did, magic fairies would fly into your car with a stack of fresh parts and fix it for you. But the world isn't perfect. Your car will break, and if you want to a) save money and b) be awesome, you'll fix it yourself.
Read MoreThough it's one of the biggest financial decisions you will make, buying a new car is a remarkably confusing process. Jalopnik readers know the most important questions you can ask to cut through crap at the dealership.
Read MoreDoes writing whimsical posts about cars qualify one to buy a 17-year-old Japanese car in Eastern Europe? It does not! The true story of a doomed voyage to Armenia and my volatile love affair with a Subaru Sumo.
Read MoreMany amateur racers spend years discussing slip angles and cornering forces, thinking it makes them sound like really, really fast drivers. They proclaim daft statements like, "to truly perfect turn five you must determine the corner radius and lateral load produced, factoring in the desired 12 degrees of slip angle…" blah blah blah. What a load of horseshit.
Read MoreBrand is paramount in the car business, and one bad product can be remembered for generations. Jalopnik readers have picked ten cars that have brought shame to their company's name and helped tarnish, if even briefly, their reputations.
Read MoreEarlier today, Chevrolet announced that the new Camaro 1LE can do a lap around the Grand Course at Virginia International Raceway in 2:58.34.
Read MoreIf you had to pick two extremes for a scale of automotive badassery, you could reasonably peg the low end of the scale with the yawn-generating Chevy Optra, and the high end with a Mustang-based Shelby GT500. That would provide two extremes pretty much anyone could understand. Which is why Big Daddy Custom's conversion of the bad-ass deprived Optera into a famous GT500 is so amazing.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around Town, where we feature cars we find in a city largely devoid of interesting ones because everyone drives Priuses or rides bicycles: Austin, Texas.
Read MoreIf insanity is repeating the same action over and over again and expecting different results, are we insane for always asking if the "next Corvette" will be mid-engined?
Read MoreChoices in the "vehicle with a sliding roof over the cargo area" category are pretty limited. There are only two cars in history to offer such a feature – the Studebaker Wagonaire and the GMC Envoy XUV, but both can be had on eBay for under $14,000.
Read MoreWhen was the last time you saw a Volvo PV544? Unless you're a Volvo mechanic in California, chances are that it's been a while.
Read MoreThe Nissan GT-R has been the last word in Japanese performance cars for ages. The latest generation car, the R35, is a world-beater.
Read MoreAlthough Lindsay Lohan's latest car accident was pretty insignificant by itself, it could, in a more rational world, have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back where her driving privileges are concerned. Do we have to wait for her to kill someone before the Golden State takes away her license?
Read MoreThe whole world changed when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. It changed a great deal for two Germans in particular, who left their country for an 18-month trip around Africa in a Mercedes G Wagen. They've been traveling ever since.
Read MoreJonathan Ive thinks he’s hot feces because he designs sleek laptops that get widely copied and accoladed and all that. That’s great for you, Jonny. But you know what he’s never done? Designed an iconic car. Not even once.
Read MoreNothing's more annoying than a know-it-all who ruins a good time by telling you what words actually mean. Yes, I know parsec is a unit of distance, and the Millenium Falcon couldn't possibly have made the Kessel Run in however many of them, but I don't care. Fine. It's wrong, I'm wrong, Star Wars is wrong, and I heard the Force isn't real, either.
Read MorePeople continually buy the worst cars on sale and ignore the best deals on the market. The problem is mismatched reputations, and Jalopnik readers have found the ten car brands with the most mismatched reputations of all.
Read MoreYesterday evening, NASCAR revealed that Penske Racing driver A.J. Allmendinger is now indefinitely suspended from competition after he tested positive for a banned substance.
Read MoreThis fall, Ford will begin selling the C-MAX Energi, the plug-in version of its hybrid utility vehicle. Ford claims that it will be able to travel 20 miles in electric only mode, putting it ahead of the Prius plug-in and not far behind the much smaller Chevrolet Volt.
Read MoreOn July 2nd, 1937, Amelia Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world came to an abrupt end over the Pacific Ocean. She lost radio contact with Itasca, the Coast Guard ship that was serving as her radio contact, and the plane supposedly went down near the tiny atoll of Howland Island.
Read MoreHaving kids affects, or probably should affect, pretty much every part of your life. Everything from how patient you are to the grade of heroin you use or the car you choose to own and drive. Common wisdom likes to hammer the idea that the only baby-worthy cars are SUVs, Minivans, wagons, and similar vehicles. I don’t think this is always true, and that’s what this new series is all about: finding out how cars work with kids.
Read MoreNo matter how many times they have claimed they had it, Cadillac has never actually made a BMW 3-Series killer.
Read MoreEngine swaps are a common fantasy for gearheads, but this particular alliance is something few outside of a padded room would have ever considered.
Read MoreCuba is about more than just old cars, but the island nation’s adversarial history makes car ownership unique from almost any other place in the world. If you have a car in Cuba, you probably have an old car.
Read MoreSummer may be in full swing, but it's time to start thinking about new fall fashions. Thankfully, Lotus Cars has gotten out ahead by loading its media site with images of belts, leather jackets, polo shirts, and even backgammon boards!
Read MoreJust north of Los Angeles is Sun Valley, a parched, dusty wasteland of scrapyards of all sorts. I love it there. There's some great automotive and aerospace salvage yards, and if you don't mind dust and a hateful, determined sun, you can make some great finds. The other day I was in one of the foreign car junkyards— not a special one, just a good go-to pick-a-part place— and was pleased to see they've kept their Curio Wall.
Read MoreTwo of the most acclaimed cars of the past year have to be the Toyota/Subaru twins, the BRZ and the FR-S. While they aren't the fastest or most luxurious cars on the road, they have a fantastic chassis, great gearbox, and some sublime handling that you can drift at the flick of a wrist.
Read MoreFake carbon fiber, plastic wood, shifter paddles on an automatic gearbox. These are the defining characteristics of the vehicles Jalopnik readers selected as the ten lamest cars you can buy.
Read MoreFrom 1992 until 2009, BMW design was led by Chris Bangle, one of the most controversial car designers of all time.
Read MoreA couple weeks back I asked for people to "go nuts, and then send me some pictures", and the good news is some of you did. The better news is the pictures have so far been of cars and not grainy pictures of genitals, which on the Internet is a big deal. This week I'd like to feature the work of one particularly bonkers car hacker. He's building a twin-engine '86 Ford Escort.
Read MoreOver the last few years, the government has come under fire for extravagant spending of taxpayer funds on various public programs. One such program that went under the knife last week was military sponsorship of sports.
Read MoreAs we reported yesterday, it was revealed that the Nurburgring, which has been in financial trouble for quite a long time, is going to have to enter bankruptcy proceedings. Ill advised investments in a large shopping complex and a dangerous roller coaster are the culprits for the precarious situation.
Read MoreA little more than a week ago, our own Bill Caswell expressed his displeasure at how BMW has been diluting the M brand with special editions that mean nothing and cars that no longer have anything to do with the word "Motorsport."
Read More(Part of encouraging a diverse, intelligent car community is attempting to understand those with alternative points of view. In that vein, I invited humorist, car reviewer, Prius owner, and alterna-human being Neal Pollack to write up an explanation for why anyone might love the Prius.
Read MoreIf you're defined by a highly distinct personal style, there's no reason why that style shouldn't inform what cars you drive. Many celebrities and style icons just end up with the usual rich-person black SUVs or luxury sedans without putting any thought into it, and they may as well be driving beige Camrys as a result. Dita Von Teese Isn't one of those people.
Read MoreIt's three in the morning and you are still glued to your TV screen with your steering wheel on your lap and headphones firmly attached to your ears. Most likely there is a lukewarm beer to your left that you have neglected in your ambition to beat that Finnish sim-racing maestro named Markku.
Read MoreValet parking. The name itself just oozes class, sophistication, and convenience. And the best part is that for a nominal fee, you get to forget about the hassles of searching for a parking spot yourself.
Read MoreAmerica's affinity for small, practical trucks is practically dead. The Ford Ranger and Chevy S10 are gone, Toyota and Nissan's "small" pickups have swollen to proportions approaching those of full sized trucks, and Jeeps are, well, Jeeps.
Read MoreNext week, the long-awaited Batman finale The Dark Knight Rises will drop in theaters across America. Its box office revenues will likely rival the annual GDP of several small countries.
Read MoreWhat would you do if a crazy girl tried to drive your buddy's Z-Car off a pier because it killed her brother, a guy who coincidentally shares the same name as your buddy? Don't laugh. Things like that can really happen. At least they do in Wangan Midnight: The Movie, a live-action adaptation of the famous street racing manga and anime of the same name. Wangan Midnight follows a group of street racers who illegally race each other up and down Tokyo's Shuto Expressway Bayshore (Wangan) Route.
Read MoreLast week, the automotive world lost one of its best and brightest minds as Sergio Pininfarina died in Turin, Italy at the age of 85.
Read MoreAfter earning the unthinkably prestigious title of "America's Next Top Car Blogger" and doing weekends for the last 20 months, I have made the extremely tough decision to leave Jalopnik.
Read MoreThe constant snipe at Gymkhana is that it isn't done in one take; that you see tire marks on the road from past runs ruining the illusion. Today, Brian Scotto, Segway Guy and EIC at 0-60 Magazine explained why that is.
Read MoreMovies and TV shows need money, automakers have it, and producers are typically desperate. Jalopnik readers have come up with the ten worst cases of obviously stuffing your production full of one car just to pay the bills.
Read MoreIf you've ever watched or attended a NASCAR race, you have probably noticed that the diehard fans are an interesting bunch. That's why we almost weren't surprised that a woman in Michigan has been watching races with her dead friend for nearly two years.
Read MoreWowed by sparkling blue paint and a pair of shapely legs protruding from a short skirt (the stack of trophies, not so much), I fell hook line and sinker for this BMW E30 M3 touring custom that showed up on eBay a few weeks ago.
Read MoreMoney is what makes or breaks TV shows and movies. One of the best places to get money is from car companies, who are more than happy to turn your production into a giant ad. Sometimes it's painfully, distractingly obvious.
Read MoreToday, Jalopnik readers give thanks to the most soul-crushing jobs that make cars possible, from manufacturing, to service, to road maintenance. To everyone out there working one of these gigs, we salute you.
Read MoreKilled by bean counters and blind executives, these are Jalopnik readers' ten cars that would have changed the world, if only they had been built.
Read MoreFor ever car you do see on the road, there are a hundred more projects that never quite made it off the ground. Cars that should have been built, cars that were nearly built, but never were.
Read MoreAs his jump-drift of San Francisco rounds five million views, Ken Block needs a new place to shoot his next Gymkhana video. Jalopnik readers picked out ten locations for him, and they must think he has a death wish.
Read MoreBMW's announcement today of the Lime Rock Edition M3 was the final nail in the coffin for me. The company that claims more 24-Hour wins at the Nürburgring than any other manufacturer just launched a track edition M3 that offers no serious performance improvement over the current M3.
Read MoreIt's a ten-round knockout fight as the drivers of the world pointlessly wail on each other in Jalopnik readers' favorite on-road scuffles.
Read MoreHow do you turn an iconic British economy car into a serious FWD performance machine? From the looks of this Mini currently listed on Ebay it appears a very good answer to that question involves stuffing a 170hp engine from a Yamaha R1 underneath the hood of the tiny car.
Read MoreWhen you think of a limited edition luxury car, a Volkswagen Beetle likely isn't the first vehicle that comes to mind. In fact, it might be the last.
Read MoreI've got this sneaking suspicion that the Tesla Model S is a great car. Throw out all of the questions about the car's underpinnings, the conditions of range, and the prospects of selling 20,000 of these a year and it probably is great. I know I'm excited to drive one at some uncertain point in the future.
Read MoreOh Bubb Rubb and your tips of whistling glory. You were one of the first viral videos I ever saw and still among the funniest. But what happened to you? Thankfully, web avenger Daniel Tosh from Tosh.0 caught up with Señor Rubb.
Read MoreWho is designing the next great automotive masterpiece? It will probably be one of these ten current car designers picked by Jalopnik readers. They're the ones who are working to make your next car look absolutely gorgeous.
Read MoreRegrettably, Andy Griffith passed to the great beyond Tuesday. At 86, he could tally a successful life as one of Hollywood's quintessential nice guy actors and North Carolina's favorite mascot.
Read MoreNino Karotta’s videos have appeared on Jalopnik since 2009. He shaved his head and bore arms to test a Mercedes–Benz S600 AMG, learned to drive a Formula One car and, lately, teamed up with video whiz kid György Szeljak to create the Hungarian Wolverine series, where he drove a BMW M5, his old Renault Avantime and a Honda NSX. Nino is also the man who gave me my break in this business, in 2005, offering me a job at his magazine to write about cars. Love him or hate him for this, he’s here today
Read MoreI'm speechless here. WTF is this? One could assume it's a simple "America, F@#$% Yeah!" perversion, but this goes beyond that, deep into the realm of a troubled human psyche.
Read MoreThe great Sergio Pininfarina has passed. Is there any designer working today who could fill his shoes?
Read MoreWhen you think of a traditional custom car it's hard for anything but a 1949-1951 Mercury to come to mind. Because of their longtime status as preferred custom platform there is certainly no shortage of nicely executed chopped Mercurys from this time period.
Read MoreOne man, Gunther Holtorf, has traveled 500,000 miles around the world over the past 23 years in an '88 diesel Mercedes. Jalopnik readers have picked out ten vehicles they'd take to retrace Holtorf's steps on their own epic journey.
Read MoreKarting is the purest form of motorsports that you can participate in today. There is no ABS, no traction control, and no power steering. Instead, there is a seat (without a seat belt), a small motor to your right, and a helmet on your head.
Read MoreA tanker truck explosion that kills 95 people is a terrible thing, but what sets this one apart as a true tragedy is that abject poverty is what, figuratively, drove these people into the flames. (Warning: Graphic shot of the disaster below)
Read MoreThe Pudong Highway Patrol of Shanghai broke the news of a one-vehicle accident along with a series of instructional image macros on its blog as a GIF. This is road safety for the modern internet.
Read MoreThe driver of a 1969 Triumph Spitfire was burned alive on Sunday in Santa Rosa, CA, an innocent bystander caught up in a real-life car chase. The details of the domestic dispute behind the crash are hazy, but the danger of driving an open-topped sports car is clear.
Read MoreWhat is being reported as a 1966 Ford GT40 crashed on Saturday afternoon during what must have been a harrowing drive through the Tennessee countryside. Was it a real GT40, and how did the accident happen?
Read MoreA FedEx truck driver is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a woman from a car that was about to burst into flames last Thursday.
Read MoreThere's been a lot of buzz lately around the crash of a rare Ferrari 250 GTO owned by American investor Christopher Cox at the Le Mans historic rally earlier this month. I haven't run anything on it yet because this all seems to be based on one English report and no photos.
Read MoreDriving fast requires extreme skill and technique. But no matter how talented you are, if you can't overcome the fear, then you can never take a car to its absolute limit. You'd have to be a complete idiot to do that.
Read MoreWe don't know where or how it happened, but thanks to these pictures found on EnglishRussia we now know exactly what happens when a truck full of crushed stone dumps itself and its weighty contents on your parked car.
Read MoreHighway 29 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin has buckled during the region's heat wave in just such a way that it formed a kind of ramp. Most cars slowed down, but one took it at high speed with disastrous results.
Read MoreOn Saturday night I was due to be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Ball. Oh how excited I was! However, by 7:00 pm I was lying flat on a spinal board with women plucking straw and glass from my noon.
Read MoreJames Garner comes up on this site a fair amount. Some months ago we solved the mystery of the James Garner 4-seat Indy Car, and this past weekend attended the Rockford Gathering, which must be the epicenter of James Garner-related activity.
Read MoreLate last year, a truck driver hauling marijuana was shot to death in Harris County, TX during a hijacking attempt. The driver, Lawrence Chapa, was working with the DEA to help bust drug traffickers coming to Texas from Mexico.
Read MoreKeke Rosberg, the charismatic Finn who won the 1982 F1 World Championship was not suited for endurance racing. This was proven at the 1989 Spa 24 Hour race, when he allegedly left between his stints to go sleep with prostitutes, or so his strange former team owner now claims.
Read MoreI've never been living on the street, wishing I could be at home on a Saturday night. In a similar vein, I've never had a day job where there's a chance someone I'm dealing with will just shoot me.
Read MoreFurther proving the idea that in the future we'll be driving clusters of robots that have grudgingly agreed to drop us off somewhere, Carnegie Mellon University researcher Srinivasa Narasimhan has developed a new smart headlight system that prevents glare in the rain by actively dodging the droplets of water.
Read MoreYesterday, General Motors fired its chief marketing officer, Joel Ewanick, saying he failed to live up to the company's "expectations." Those expectations seem to be related to GM's recent deal to sponsor Manchester United, the world's richest sports team.
Read MoreDriving terribly isn't limited to owners of beat up old Cavaliers, as one Jalopnik contributor found out driving north of Ft. Lauderdale when he spotted a Ferrari F430 swerving in and out lof lanes. Drunk driving or terrible driving? You be the judge.
Read MoreThe other week, the mayor of Logansport, IN created a gigantic reserved parking spot for himself after receiving a parking ticket.
Read MoreThe fire that destroyed a Charlton, Mass.-based European car restoration shop this weekend resulted in the destruction of a dozen cars. Among them were Porsche 356s and 911s, a couple of Jaguar E-types, a 1930s Rolls Royce, and a Mercedes or two.
Read MoreLaw enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run earlier this year.
Read MoreGeneral Motors is parting ways with its Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick, sources tell Automotive News, ending the approximately two-year tenure of the sometimes controversial exec's term.
Read MoreBased on the message at the end and the background music, I'm guessing this vintage Volkswagen ad is referencing The Right Stuff, the 1983 movie about the U.S. space program. But that's only a guess because I haven't seen that movie. However, the ad also reminds me of Top Gun, and I have watched the hell out of that movie.
Read MoreLately, fellow Jalops, your humble author has found himself increasingly perturbed by these constantly rising gas prices. My WRX averages about 21 mpg on premium gas. Not as bad as it could be, but not exactly cheap either.
Read MoreJalopnik has learned some new details on what may have caused the five-alarm warehouse blaze in Central Massachusetts Thursday night that destroyed an auto restoration garage and multiple classic cars inside.
Read MoreLexus showed off a single image of the brand new 2013 LS yesterday as a way to generate excitement for the full unveil of the latest generation LS luxo-liner, scheduled for 11:30 Eastern Time Monday on Facebook.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreNine McLaren MP4-12C GT3 racecars (in six customer-team liveries, including the classic powder-blue-and-marigold Gulf) are competing this weekend at the Belgian bucket-list confab, Spa24. How does the GT3 differ from the road car — and what it's like to drive in an endurance race? Let's query driver Rob Bell.
Read MoreYou're much more likely to get into a fatal crash every time you get into a car than when you get into a plane, but that hasn't stopped us from fearing flight and distrusting every second we spend in an airline's hands.
Read MoreAs with Costco, bulging SUVs, and childhood obesity, toy haulers bother me. They're just too much. I get why someone might want one: comfort + capacity = fun. But I'll wager that many of us could have a pretty enjoyable experience without schlepping so much stuff around.
Read MoreAs the ridiculousness that is American presidential campaigning grinds ever closer to the end of its current cycle, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made a new enemy: Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson.
Read MoreHusband and wife team Amy Lillard and Matt Kling are a rare breed: They're Americans making wine in France. But they've brought a little American ingenuity to the traditional French winemaking process. Their tasting room is a 1979 Citroën HY Van.
Read MoreLenny Robinson, who may be better known as the mysterious Lamborghini Batman, brings joy to countless children each year when he goes to Virginia area hospitals in full Batman gear and visits with some very sick kids.
Read MoreThe Olympics already has yachting, cycling, shooting, bobsled, luge, skeleton, kayaking, rowing, and horse riding. Jalopnik readers think it's time to include cars, and they've picked out ten motor sports to add to the games.
Read MoreYesterday, SRT president and designer Ralph Gilles stopped by Jalopnik to answer some questions. When asked what inspired the design of the new Viper, his answer was simple: "Halle Berry."
Read MoreI've always loved the vast, majestic sperm whale. I don't know if it's because they're the largest toothed predators in the world, of if it's just because I like Moby Dick, but either way, it has made me hate giant squid.
Read MoreIf you were born a gearhead, Ralph Gilles is essentially who you wanted to be when you grew up. Like most of us, Ralph started drawing cars when he was young, unlike most of us he turned that passion into a job at Chrysler where he became a break out star following the design of the company's extremely successful Chrysler 300. From there they promoted him a few more times to his current job as President and CEO of the SRT Brand and Motorsports as well as Senior Vice President of Product Design f
Read MoreIn 2010, NASCAR introduced a new car for their minor league Nationwide Series and encouraged the manufacturers to use muscle car bodies.
Read MoreAs the CEO of Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn leads one of the world's largest car manufacturers. A business world superhero, the Brazilian-French corporate Titan saved Nissan Motor Company from near bankruptcy in the 90s. His fluency in French, Portuguese, English, and Arabic help him navigate the waters of international trade.
Read MoreToo many racers have put themselves in embarrassing, illegal situations. Now we at Jalopnik have a twelve step program to help them save themselves and their public image.
Read MoreThe beauty of being the mayor of a small town is that you can find a way to easily get around any laws that you don't like.
Read MoreNext to drinking a beer in the Talladega grandstands, autocrossing has the lowest physical risk in motorsports. If you go off, you'll just squash a few orange cones. But the lower risk can actually make winning an autocross harder.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, the economy seems to be on its way back up. That means people are buying more things that need to be shipped here and there. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that it will mean a 20 percent growth in the demand for truckers over the next eight years.
Read MoreSteve Wozniak is, of course, one of the two Steves that founded Apple, and the one that did all the technical work. The guy that soldered a 6502 and a bunch of other chips together into a computer that essentially started the personal computer revolution. More recently, he's known for his love of Segways and his generally being a Good Guy in an industry that doesn't always reward that.
Read MoreAt the 2010 Paris Motor Show, Lotus went nuts and introduced five new concept vehicles that were supposed to be introduced over the next six years. And at the 2011 LA Auto Show, Lotus announced they would enter IndyCar in 2012 as a new engine supplier.
Read MoreYou know what the Olympic Marathon event is missing? Cars. Cars would really add that extra oomph to the event. This glaring omission hasn't always been the case, though: in 1904, a runner named Fred Lorz used one to ride about 11 miles of the marathon.
Read MoreYou see your life flashing before your eyes and then, all of a sudden, you're fine! Jalopnik readers found ten of these moments, when sheer luck kept a seemingly-inevitable crash from happening.
Read MoreThere are a lot of video games out there and a lot of ways to buy them. But you don't have bottomless pockets of money and you might be unsure about which games to get, whether you really should download them or go to a store and... is it really necessary to pre-order? And don't these games ever go on sale?
Read MoreAudi just revealed the new look for their sexy flagship 2014 Audi R8 supercar. While only a refresh, the company has managed to render into metal the best of Ingolstadt's new design language. God, it's beautiful. Just look at it.
Read MoreIcelandic car culture isn't just about Formula Offroad trucks, but they're pretty damn important to Icelandian car nuts. But fish-pickling and banking collapses aside, Iceland's car culture has a lot more going for it than the uninitiated might think.
Read MoreA few months back Sauber F1 showed off an F1 car cut in half. That project took two years, but they didn't have the rights to show off the BMW drivetrain. Now they do.
Read MoreOther than when it turns into a driveway, when does a car stop being a car and turn into something else? When does a car become a toy?
Read MoreFerrari, which has been out of the hypercar game since the Enzo went out of production, is once again out and testing the mule for the legend's replacement.
Read MoreResearcher Catarina Esteves of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at TU/e (you know, the Technical Universtity at Einddhoven, Netherlands) has developed a coating who's self-healing properties could mean never needing to wash your car again.
Read MoreCzech artist David Cerny has managed to make an object that, when you look at it, immediately conveys the concepts of "London" and "athletics." Which is handy, since he made it for the London Olympics. The sculpture, a full-sized '57 Austin Roadmaster double-decker bus outfitted with huge red arms, is currently outside the Czech Olympic HQ in Islington, London.
Read MoreIn Chicago, if you park your car where city workers have a job to do, it might get moved somewhere other than where you parked it. The only problem is that you might not know which parking spots are off limits or where your car has been moved.
Read MoreDear Lifehacker, I'd like to integrate my smartphone into my car, but it's a pretty basic vehicle that's a far cry from technologically advanced. What can I do without paying a fortune to make my car and smartphone work well together?
Read MoreIt's good for a Craigslist seller to advise potential victims customers of any problems there might be with the car that's for sale before it's been sold.
Read MoreI drove Ayrton Senna's legendary McLaren MP4/4. The car he drove to victory in the 1988 Formula One World Championship. Ok. Let me just clarify. I didn't actually drive the real car. I drove the virtual car on the online racing simulator, Simraceway.
Read MoreA class action lawsuit was just filed in Northern Georgia against Mercedes-Benz alleging that the 2003-2009 E-Class sedan suffers from a substantial issue with the fuel tank.
Read MoreWell, it's not always easy, as one of our readers pointed out when we named his job one of the best in the business.
Read MoreLenny B. Robinson is the "Maryland Batman" who made headlines earlier this year when he was pulled over — while in costume — by state troopers in his Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. Robinson, who dons the batsuit when he visits childrens' hospitals, has ditched the Lambo and picked up a custom-made, down-to-the-last-detail Batmobile.
Read MoreWaffle House is known for a number of dubious things, but a gourmet, expensive menu is definitely not one of them.
Read MoreTruck nutz are one of the most asinine things to be found anywhere, and there are many people who would argue that the Toyota Prius is equally worthless (although some would resolutely disagree).
Read MoreYou've always dreamed of getting into the car industry, but you don't know where to start. Jalopnik readers have found the ten greatest car-related jobs you should kill to get.
Read MoreAt the German Grand Prix yesterday, McLaren pulled off the fastest pit stop in competition history, swapping the four tires on Jenson Button's car in just 2.31 seconds. Button didn't lose a single place on the grid.
Read MoreYou there! Are you feeling bored? Tired? Weary of the daily grind and life's constant stream of little, soul-killing indignities? What you need is more adventure. And according to this craigslist ad, Adventure Car is what you need to make that happen.
Read MoreIf you're in need of definitive evidence that human civilization is on a downward spiral, look no further than this.
Read MoreIt doesn't get nearly as much attention in Western news media as it should, but the Syrian uprising is still underway as rebels from the Free Syrian Army work to push the military regime out of the country. And the rebels here seem to be relying heavily on motorcycles as a way of transportation.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around Town, where we feature cars we find in a city largely devoid of interesting ones because everyone drives Priuses or rides bicycles: Austin, Texas. This feature may sound familiar to you.
Read MoreWhen Citroën unveiled the DS in 1955, they did so before a Paris Motor Show audience who found their jaws on the floor. With its sleek, futuristic styling and laundry list of advanced technological features, the DS quickly became the most impressive car in the world.
Read MoreForget Ken Block, his 600-horsepower Fiesta and San Francisco. That guy's old news. This insanely reckless Saudi Arabian driver is the future of Gymkhana.
Read MoreLike any profession, there are good and bad mechanics out there. The worst experience I've ever had with one was when I paid a shop to change my transmission fluid. The only problem was while they took the old fluid out, they didn't put new fluid in. (It happens way more than you think.)
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreEarlier this month, a man lent his BMW to a pair of strangers he met at a Hooters on the promise they'd return it in a day. Eleven days later, it was found untouched with all of his valuables inside.
Read MoreWhen I was growing up my dad named each car we owned by their color. There was the red car, the white car, the yellow car (above), and finally the blue car. This year I finally found out the reason why.
Read MoreRecently, Russian custom officials prevented 300 Japanese cars from entering the country because they were believed to be irradiated from the Fukishima nuclear power plant disaster. This made me wonder two things: first, can I get an awesome deal on a slightly radioactive FR-S, and second, how does a car actually become radioactive?
Read MoreCars aren't like the other big things we buy in our lives. Nobody tears up when they get rid of an old refrigerator or washer, but I know non-car people who have gotten downright weepy when giving up a beloved car. Artist Donnie Molls understands this, and that fundamental understanding of the special connection people and cars have is evident in the work shown in his new show, Disposable Culture.
Read MoreThe Spanish Automobile Federation is planning to hold a 48-hour GT endurance race next March. The Maxi Endurance 48 would be the longest continuous car race in the world, but not the longest ever held. Not even close.
Read MoreA former employee of Porsche Cars North America is taking questions today in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything." Redditor Analytic_Geek is answering a number of questions on the innerworkings of the sports car maker from Stuttgart, and there were a few that caught our eye.
Read MoreThere's an important lesson in this story. The story itself may seem trivial, but the moral of it is timeless and vastly important. It starts, like so many stories do, with a pretty girl. And ends with a stain.
Read MoreIt was bound to happen sooner or later, and the winner of the I-don't-care-about-the-warranty-and-want-more-power-now contest comes to us from Toledo, Ohio. Accelerated Performance, an import tuning shop there, outfitted a brand new Subaru BRZ with a custom turbo.
Read MoreWhen he started a business selling trailer hitch locking devices, Karl Pratt was just a regular schmo whose boat trailer had once been stolen. The theft had cost him $1,500 and months of trailerlessness.
Read MoreOh, do I hate piranha salad bars. I walk up and I never know which piranhas to choose. Are the red ones going to taste good with the little yellow ones? Can't some chef sort this out for me?
Read MoreThe first Batmobile debuted in a 1939 Batman comic, and over the decades, the cars have become more and more complex and fantastic.
Read MoreAftershocks from Japan's 2011 earthquake continue. Today, Russian customs officials stopped nearly 300 Japanese cars believed to be irradiated from last year's nuclear meltdown at Fukushima.
Read MoreA couple of Canadians Texans on supermotos are plowing down a rural road when an F-150 inattentively pulls out in front of them. The first rider barely pulls up short, hitting the Ford. What follows isn't what an American would expect.
Read MoreMcLaren is more than a carmaker. They've created a temple for the world's best engineers, designers, and problem solvers. The new factory where they build the MP4-12C is a technology advanced, 344,445-sf automotive nirvana tucked away in the English countryside.
Read MoreThe Bushmaster M4 is a 3-foot rifle capable of firing thirty 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and used by spec ops forces throughout Afghanistan. It's a serious weapon. But in the Internet's darkest black market, it's all yours. Who needs a background check? Nobody.
Read MoreHiriko is a city car concept developed by MIT and named after, predictably, the Basque word for "urban." With "robot wheels" at each corner incorporating independent motors, suspension, and control systems, the car has more in common with the Mars rovers than conventional cars.
Read MoreSure, we have the X-Games and X-treme Cheese Nachosplosion Doritos now in our modern age, but the extreme skateboarders and snowboarders and parkourists and whomever aren't fit to boil parrafin for the extreme sportsmen of a century ago. Take these fellows here, who, as a 1912 copy of Popular Mechanics tells us, rode railroad tracks down a freaking mountain at 120 miles per hour.
Read MoreSome cars try really hard to be cool. Sometimes this works (hi, 500 Abarth!) and sometimes it fails spectacularly.
Read MoreWe've grown pretty familiar with daily heinous-crime reports in Philly of late. But every so often, along comes a story that shatters any desensitization. Wednesday offered one of those stories.
Read MoreThe young man who suffered a weeks-long coma after he was punched in the head outside a bar has returned home. Doctors' hopes for 22-year-old James Foster were initially pretty dim, so they were surprised by his "miraculous" recovery.
Read MoreE60 M5, you were so hideous. Bulges and creases and you were so loud, and so stressful with your tiny gas tank. And now your smoother, better, lovelier replacement has me missing you.
Read MoreWeddings are complicated, expensive affairs. As a thirty-something whose friends are dropping like flies from the world of singledom, it's plain enough to see that planning a wedding takes a lot of time and mental energy for most of the happy couples involved.
Read MoreFurther proof that people buy eco-friendly cars for their luxury and not for their economy came today when the Embassy Suites hotel in Nashville, Tennessee started to run their eight-passenger Nissan Leaf shuttle. Granola-crunchers, your limo has arrived.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Type 2 Kombi, known to many as the Microbus, Bus, Hippiebus, and many other names if you're stuck behind one, is one of the oldest automotive survivors. It's long run looked like it was nearing its end, as new legislation in Brazil mandates airbags in all cars by 2014, and the old bus didn't seem a likely candidate to get them.
Read MoreMeet Two Face the Camaro. Can you tell which is the good half and which is the bad on this '68 convertible?
Read MoreWhen Shell announced that they would be exploring opportunities to drill for oil off of Alaska's coast, a grassroots movement of bad publicity was started. First there was the mini oil rig explosion in early June and then there was arcticready.com, a purported Shell social media contest gone horribly wrong.
Read MoreBuying a new car is one of the most expensive financial decisions you will make, yet it's in no way simple, clear, or direct. How can you cut through the crap?
Read MoreRental cars are your one chance to go burn rubber in something that you don't own. Jalopnik readers are here to maximize your holiday horsepower intake with the ten fastest rental cars available from the major companies in this country.
Read MoreIn the PBS Frontline documentary that airs tonight, a group of kids from a gritty urban high school in west Philadelphia are talking trash. They've built two hybrid cars designed to get 100 mpg and compete on the track, something they say automotive engineers haven't done so much of.
Read MoreWhat can brown do for you? Well, track down and monitor a wandering Alzheimer's patient, for starters.
Read MoreThere's a spectacular history of gambling in the automotive world. Many remember that in 1930 one of the Bentley Boys bet 100 he could beat a train from France back to England. Still, that's not my favorite historic bet.
Read MoreOver the weekend, writer (and Jezebel founder) Anna Holmes was using car-sharing service Zipcar, as many New York dwelling, car-less people do, when she discovered the last driver had left a notebook in the car.
Read MoreThere are many levels of heartlessness. They're difficult to define. Kind of a know-it-when-you-see-it type thing.
Read MoreA 72-year old Minnesota woman driving a 2006 Impala down Highway 72 crossed the centerline and briefly drove through the rough shoulder and into a ditch. She exited the ditch and continued driving, not realizing she had ejected the 15 year old girl asleep in the back seat.
Read MoreThe Delta-flagged jet that ended up in a ditch today wasn't a prank but, instead, an attempt by a fugitive wanted in connection with a murder who managed to break into the plane and managed to pilot it as far as the parking lot before crashing.
Read MoreIf your car spends most of the week sitting in a driveway or parking garage, why not defray some of the cost of owning it by renting it out? That's the thinking behind RelayRides, a company that connects renters with the owners of idle cars.
Read MoreI got a note the other day that Valentino Balboni would be in town this week for an annual Lamborghini rally with Gotham Dream Cars. The note also asked if I'd like to meet Valentino.
Read MoreIf the fastest car is a rental car, that would make the fastest rental car the fastest car in the world. But which one is it?
Read MoreMurphy's Law of rental cars states, "anything that can go wrong with your holiday hire car, will go wrong." These ten horror stories from Jalopnik readers only prove the maxim.
Read MoreI've always fostered an irrational hate for the barren wastelands that we call Canada, what with their maple syrup, moose, and curling. Scratch that, curling and moose are awesome.
Read MoreThe problem with the DeLorean was that it was never tall enough to be a successful off-roader. Solution? Just add a lift kit and 44" swampers and go crush some Fezzas!
Read MoreHave you been thinking about buying an electric car, but find them too assembled for your tastes? Then boy are you in luck: a Japanese company called Modi-Corp has released a new, assemble-it-yourself electric car.
Read MoreThe modern Tesla is known for making modern electric cars, but the truth is the original Nikola Tesla made an electric car — and he did it all without batteries, way back in 1931. Since it was the man's 156th birthday earlier this month, and since that man essentially created the modern world as we know it, we kind of owe it to him to look at his car.
Read MoreIn a freak testing accident about two weeks ago, Marussia F1 test driver Maria De Villota collided with a truck in a Formula One car. She suffered head injuries and the loss of her right eye.
Read MoreWith the exception of Germany, the citizens of most countries take a sick sort of pride in having terrible motorists. Here are the countries where Jalopnik readers agree the drivers are insanely bad.
Read MoreThe new BMW M6 convertible must be a lot of fun to drive, because one auto journalist from the Pacific Northwest managed to hit 136 MPH on a public street during a vehicle launch in California last month. We have a record of this not because the journalist admitted to it in an article, but because he got popped by the California Highway Patrol.
Read MoreI somehow missed this news note Friday night because, well, it was dropped late on Friday night. Car And Driver is reporting that Lotus is pulling out of the Paris Motor Show in 2012. This is significant because the show is where Dany Bahar tried to kill the brand in 2010.
Read MoreSo far this season, the Global RallyCross Championship has been more notable for seriously injuring its competitors than giving them a chance to race. One race featured more red flags than a Chinese military parade and others notably few chances to pass.
Read MoreAccording to Southampton Town police, Jason Kidd was arrested early Sunday morning (during the midnight shift) for alleged drunken driving.
Read MoreSaturday's Nationwide Cup race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway was loaded down with drama after Kevin Harvick blamed his late-in-the-race second place finish to Brad Keselowski on a rookie driver.
Read MoreTomorrow, the acclaimed "high school chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin" drama Breaking Bad returns for its final stretch of episodes. But at the San Diego Comic-Con today, the show's cast and creator Vince Gilligan were on hand to answer io9's most quasi-pressing questions. Here's what we learned.
Read MoreWhen we go have to go shopping for a new or used vehicle, most of us end up doing it on the weekend. If that's what you're doing today, then GREAT NEWS! Have I got a deal for you!
Read MoreOh Bob Lutz, our man crush on you borders on the weird and this isn't going to help. We get a little tired of having to call out the media for their ridiculous articles about Tesla, so we're glad you could carry the load for a bit in calling out this nonsense with a simple response like this.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreLike most car guys, I have a wildly overestimated faith in my car-identification abilities, especially at night. Ever since I was a kid, bouncing around in the luggage well of my dad's '68 Beetle or the family's vast '73 County Squire, I loved trying to identify cars by just their headlight/running light patterns at night. I suspect this is something most of us still do.
Read MoreAs we told you on Monday, NASCAR Sprint Cup Driver AJ Allmendinger was temporarily suspended from competition after he failed a mandatory drug test before Saturday's Coke Zero 400 in Daytona.
Read MoreBicycles are useful for all sorts of things — namely transportation and exercise. But in Brazil, enterprising prison officials have figured out a way to use them for electric power production.
Read MoreThe McLaren F1 is the holiest of holy enthusiast models and wrecking one is a crime against carmanity. If you do it you better have a damn good story. To Elon Musk's credit, it is kind of a damn good story.
Read MoreIt's time for another addition of Jalopnik Live, where we bring today's newsmakers into Kinja to answer your questions. Today we've got a double dose of hoon with both racer Ken Block and Gymkhana 5 producer/Segway Dude Brian Scotto answering your questions about WRC, Gymkhana, Hooning, 0-60 Mag, Global RallyCross, and fashionable eyewear.
Read MoreYou get off the plane, acquire your rental car and then holy hell, you can't believe how terrible the drivers are in this godforsaken excuse for a country.
Read MoreJames Glickenhaus, the Ferrari collector behind hits such as the P4/5 and P4/5 Competizione, used to direct films. We assume it was to feed his car loving habits.
Read MoreWe're getting reports via Twitter traffic tonight of suspicious wires found in luggage or possibly in the lavatory on Delta Flight 126 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Reports indicate that there's a person being held for questioning by Air Marshals on board the plane with the FBI bomb squad en route.
Read MoreIntricate airbrush strokes, metal flake details and the whine and thump of air pumps bouncing wheels and suspension parts have been a signature of the lowrider culture for decades. So have scantily clad women, lounging seductively against the fenders of these lavishly decorated cars.
Read MoreThis week on Car Hacks I'd like to talk about an idea that I've had banging around in the empty vastness of my head for some time. I usually have this idea when one of my old cars leaves me stranded by the side of a busy highway.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy has already spent $12 million on 450,000 gallons of biofuel for this summer's Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) fleet exercises. Its $27 per gallon cost caused a row among Republican lawmakers in Congress, who aimed numerous barbs at what they said was the Obama Administration's misplaced priorities.
Read MoreFirst off, let's just get this out of the way right now: this happened in Florida. Of course this happened in Florida. You guys should have that Bugs Bunny GIF ready on your desktops by now. In the future, stories about any fucked-up thing a human being does will just be assumed to be Floridian unless stated otherwise.
Read MoreDUI suspects are typically arrested, booked, photographed in a more or less rumpled state, and then released as long as they didn't kill anyone.
Read MoreYou could see this one coming for months, but today, General Motors made it official. Karl-Friedrich Stracke, who had the thankless job of trying to lead GM Europe and Opel/Vauxhall, is stepping aside to take on "special assignments" for GM CEO Dan Akerson.
Read MoreNot many people are inclined to let random strangers borrow their cars. It's a terrible idea.
Read MoreOlympic shooter Kim Rhode is into shiny things, but not how you might think. Her shiny things include the barrel on her Perazzi shotgun, the shimmering medals she's picked up at the last four Olympic games, and the polished stainless steel on the Shelby Cobra kit car she hand-built herself.
Read MoreAs we waste away our lives in traffic, let's wonder about how people are all going to fit on the roads as the global population continues to soar, especially in places like Calcutta, where this picture was taken.
Read MoreThe mother of a member of The Car Lounge car forum died from skin cancer back in 2002. Her favorite car was an orange 1973 Super Beetle, which was sold a few years back. Now the member, Watsonst04, wants to find the car and buy it back.
Read MoreLast month, a Dallas area Paratransit driver didn't even attempt to stop and plowed into an entire line of cars that were waiting to get off at an exit. Multiple cars were totaled and one man is still in the hospital with a fractured skull, broken hip, and almost a dozen broken ribs.
Read MoreNot since Bill Gubelmann raced a Ford Capri in 1975 has there been an American in the British Touring Car Championship. Colorado-born Robb Holland will be racing a Honda Civic S2000, taking the fight to the Brits.
Read MoreJay-Z's seminal rap hit "99 Problems" was largely a list of personal gripes with an arresting hook, but a small vignette in the second verse focuses on a traffic stop between the song's hero and the police.
Read MoreA freight train carrying flammable chemicals derailed near Columbus, Ohio early this morning, causing several of its cars to explode. Authorities evacuated nearly 100 homes in the area as fire crews battled the blaze.
Read MoreOn Monday, we posted pics of the nose and rear of the still unreleased 2014 Corvette. The company who accidentally released those images, supplier Omega Corp., further screwed GM by confirming our exclusive renders and is responding by making a big public apology.
Read MoreAfter a meteoric rise domestically, Chinese automakers are plotting an invasion of foreign markets. The stakes are incredibly high as they prepare to enter America, where Warren Buffett-backed Chinese carmaker BYD has been promising to sell an electric vehicle for a few years.
Read MoreI helped my sister move into her dorm in San Francisco the better part of a decade ago and I only packed two CDs with me: Harvest by Neil Young and Paul's Boutique.
Read MoreEveryone agrees that minivans are lame. Anything associated with suburban child rearing tends to get that stigma. But Ford's Euro spec Transit Custom and Tourneo Custom will look pretty awesome to someone who has to schlep around a lot of gear or people.
Read MoreIron Man gave up his trademark R8 for an Acura NSX droptop in The Avengers, and it looks like Audi feels bitter about it. Why else would they diss the fictional character's ride on Twitter?
Read MoreWhen New Jersey mechanic Zenop Tuncer took delivery of a $180,000 Mercedes 320 that he purchased for a client, he thought he had been ripped off. What was described as a two door convertible arrived as a four door with no roof.
Read MoreYou know how you're not dead? Specifically, I mean you know how you haven't been killed by a huge truck barreling down the highway and crushing you to custard?
Read MoreThe video of Ken Block tearing up San Francisco in an insane Ford Fiesta — better known as Gymkhana 5 — was a creative success for a brand that's constantly having to one-up its own crazy adventures. We can now report it was a viral marketing success as well, with approximately 5.1 million views in just 24 hours.
Read MoreAre you tired of showing up to a party with 23 of your closest friends in a cliche fancy black bus with leather seats and strange porno type lighting? Then have we got the ride for you.
Read MoreThirty-two years ago at Watkins Glen, two Group 5 Lancia Beta Montecarlos held off 11 of Porsche's all-conquering 935s for an epic 1-2 victory. It was a classic moment in sports racing history, echoed in last weekend's six hours of Grand-Am road racing.
Read MoreI've always loved Clifton Chenier. My mom used to put his records on when I was little, and my fascination for the "King of Zydeco" has never waned.
Read MoreThe Hennessey Venom GT could be the most insane vehicle every to qualify as a "production" car. Twelve-hundred horsepower, 2,548 pounds and 100% batshit. But who knew that years before John H. deconstructed, then reconstructed his magnum Lotus, Lotus built something eerily similar. The Lotus Elise GT1.
Read MoreDespite top notch safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a Swedish car magazine found the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee to be somewhat lacking in the rollover safety department.
Read MoreWhile Papa John used his ample means to find his beloved and long lost Camaro Z28, a much less well-to-do man found his pride and joy after an incredibly lucky session on eBay.
Read MoreJill Colter had barely been back to work at Clay Nissan in Norwood, Mass. for three weeks when she was fired with little explanation. Still in the throes of stage 4 cancer, she had been on medical leave for two months, after receiving radiation treatment and chemotherapy for a brain tumor.
Read MoreWe make fun of the UK's Daily Mail not because it's easy to do, but because it's really easy to do. This time someone at the aggregator saw a photo of a black Porsche with Lohan and assumed it was a 911. It's not only not a 911, it isn't even a coupe.
Read MoreIt looks like Gymkhana 5 is finally here, with all the San Francisco-shredding goodness we expected. Jump drifts? Check. Cable car drifts? Check. Travis Pastrana drifts? Check.
Read MoreBlame it on our love of all things station wagon, but after stumbling across this custom Cadillac station wagon we couldn't stop thinking about the wagons that should have been.
Read MoreLately, I've been seeing this commercial for the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class an awful lot, and it's kind of been haunting me. And not just because the disembodied voice of Don Draper is telling me, calmly but firmly, how awesome the new car is. There's something profoundly disturbing about this ad, and I want to get to the bottom of it.
Read MoreYou've probably heard the old adage: The fastest car in the world is a rental car. Well, someone took that standard and applied it to free dealership loaners, too.
Read MoreWhen you think about automotive safety the occasionally explosive Ford Pinto is hardly the first vehicle that comes to mind. Having said that, a stock Pinto in decent condition would be infinitely safer than the destroyed Ford seen here.
Read MoreIt turns out that the same part of your brain that you use to recognize human faces is what you use to recognize the front ends of cars. To your gray matter, headlights really do look like eyes and grills really do look like mouths.
Read MoreJust days after announcing a technological tie-up with hybrid-king Toyota, BMW announces a new hybrid version of the 3er. Is this a slap in the face of "the ultimate driving machine," or is it finally a hybrid we can love?
Read MoreA new writer for the internet-darling show Community has found himself transplanted from New York to Los Angeles. He needs a car, and he wants Jalopnik's help to pick it. He's here to talk about it with us— let's see what we can do.
Read MoreThe history of technology is littered with failed starts and aborted prototypes. Jalopnik readers know that none are more strange than those machines built to help us kill each other, as these ten bizarre vehicles demonstrate.
Read MoreThere has been an unusual spike in the number of BMWs stolen in the UK this year, with some sources suggesting the number may be 300 cars or higher. The cars are being stolen without activating car alarms or immobilizers.
Read MoreThe unquestionable height of endurance racing was from 1964 to 1973, not only for the fierceness of the Ferrari-Ford, Ferrari-Porsche, and Ferrari-Matra rivalries, but also for the deadly beauty of the cars involved, like 1967's Lola T70 Mk. III.
Read More"Man, people sure drag a bunch of stuff they don't need up the Dalton Highway," IM'd a friend, once he was back from his adventure up there. That's funny, because he'd been planning on packing his Ram so full of survival gear, you'd think he was visiting the apocalypse, not Alaska.
Read MoreOverly serious car nerds can criticize games like Super Mario Kart for not being "authentic" or "representational of actual physics in any way," but sometimes life imitates art. The crash-bang-boom Australian Grand Prix this year doesn't look very different done up like the Nintendo classic.
Read MoreLast fall, two months before he died, I sat on a bench, awake for two days, and cried, thinking of Sergio Scaglietti. He was a relatively obscure racing car designer who imagined the most beautiful Ferraris of the 1950s and hammered them into aluminum.
Read MoreNo road trip in the Andes is complete without encountering a terrifying mountain road. Bolivia’s North Yungas Road, known from Top Gear and the adventure tales of your backpacker friends who’ve ridden bikes down its suicidal curves, is probably the most famous. If you don’t want to drop dead either of a heart attack or, literally, of a 2,000-foot drop, Argentina offers a gentler alternative. The road from Humahuaca to Iruya is gorgeous, long, terrifying and it won’t kill you.
Read MoreThere’s a guy in a suit who appears at the end of each Grand Prix, much like the G-Man in the video game Half-Life, and hands the drivers various items before the podium ceremony. Long-time Jalopnik Formula One correspondent Natalie Polgar loves him for his cool. —Ed.
Read MoreNot long after something happened in the hot, violent, drugged-out summer of 2002 that made me get hooked on cars, I began taking photos of them.
Read MoreWill space humans float their hovercars down Interstate 90 to have space coffee next to Mount St. Helens in the year 4000? It's a little early to tell but you can do something very similar today. Go for a long drive in Italy!
Read More(Our own Peter Orosz has been promoted up the Gawker ladder so, in honor of his service to the site, we're giving him the Fourth of July to post whatever he wants. He's been a great addition to the site and we're glad we're keeping him in the company. Having him work on American Independence Day is not random, but rather a sign of gratitude to Hungarian patriots like Colonel Michael Kovats, who died fighting for the American cause. Thanks Peter! — Ed.)
Read MoreWe're late to the news that both Grand-Am and Nascar visited Road America the weekend before last, but we're going to drool over the right-turning, road racing action shot by Trevor Andrusko and Halston Pitman of MotorSportMedia anyway.
Read MoreCare to dip your toes into America's twisted, over-litigated journey of automotive safety regulation for a moment?
Read MoreNothing is more rewarding to a driver than the sweet sound of that perfectly timed blip of the gas pedal, effortlessly matching the revs to the wheel speed, and downshifting crisply into the preceding gear. It's the sound of a true professional.
Read MoreBecause July 4th falls on a Wedneday, a lot of Americans will spend a five-day weekend traveling and drinking. It's pretty common to misplace a wallet or a purse on that kind of vacation. And getting on a return flight without a valid ID, as you might imagine, is not easy. But it can be done. Here's how to work it with the TSA.
Read MoreA St. Lucie County, Florida man was caught masturbating while driving yesterday, and employing a toy gun in novel ways.
Read MoreHere we see two funny cars line up on New Jersey's Atco Raceway for what might be the best use of drag racing cars ever devised: a tug-of-war.
Read MoreThe story of how newborn America won its independence from England, the greatest superpower of the era, is wonderful. It's got a great underdog to root for, noble and lofty ideals, and a trio of corners for every hat. But for a tale about war, it could use a little something else.
Read MoreIt's been a busy year for passing automotive legends. Not long after the passing of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche and Carroll Shelby, Sergio Pininfarina, a man known for brilliant coach design over the past five decades, died in Torino at the age of 85 on Tuesday.
Read MoreCelebrities are just as bad behind the wheel as anyone else, but they tend to destroy nicer cars. Here are the beautiful people Jalopnik readers are keen to not see behind the wheel anymore.
Read MoreWe weren't wrong when we said the McLaren 12C Spider will go 186 MPH with no roof, but we could have been more right. The roof-less MP4-12C will actually keep going and hit 204 MPH.
Read MoreSpanish race car driver Maria de Villota, whom many hoped would be the first woman driver in a modern F1 car, sustained "life threatening" injuries in her first test in the Marussia car earlier today in England.
Read MoreYou would think that high tech safety options like automated low speed braking, adaptive headlights, and lane departure indicators would make cars safer to drive.
Read MoreAre you still haunted by the memories of September 11? Do you have a vague, yet constant sense of unease about your own security and safety? Well, you're in luck: the 1973 Volkswagen Beetle with half-tracks and missile launchers that has kept America safe for years is now for sale.
Read MoreColorado has faced its worst wildfire season in history and three fires continue to rage: The High Park fire in Ft. Collins, the Flagstaff Fire in Boulder, and the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs.
Read MoreWhoops. Driving a Gumpert Apollo is no picnic, as BTCC driver (and former cage fighter) Tony Gilham found out this past Saturday at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, when he slid one into the hay during a hillclimb attempt. Gilham's ok, as is his passenger, who spent some time at a local hospital.
Read MoreIf you are in the market for a hideous car made even more hideous by a custom paint job, today is your lucky day. Drew Hooper, who can only be described as a Thunder super fan, decided to spruce up his 1996 Suzuki X-90 in really the only way a 1996 Suzuki X-90 can be spruced up: he painted Thunder players' faces on it.
Read MoreA nine year old Swedish boy armed with an Airsoft gun stole an electric car this past week in the Gothenburg suburb of Kortedala. According to witnesses the young boy yelled "It's Loaded" and pointed the gun at nearby adults during the car theft.
Read MorePrince Albert II of Monaco announced his decision to "reorganize" the massive 100+ car collection his late father Prince Rainier III amassed over the course of his life. Evidentially this reorganization involves sending 38 of the cheaper and less desirable cars to auction with No Reserve.
Read MoreFrom the Porsche-designed Kübelsitzwagen to the Baja Bug, the inception of which is generally attributed to Gary Emory of Parts Obsolete, VW has had a storied off-road carrier. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '73 Bug resting on a Geo Tracker platform adds to that legacy, but is its price not just off road but off the chart?
Read MoreYour present car probably still carries a spare tire, one of the last vestiges of parts redundancy maintained in case of in-service failure, although even that is fading from common usage. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '61 Rampside takes redundancy one step further having a second engine powering the truck. Will you find calling it Nice Price is equally redundant?
Read MoreCreepy vans carrying offers of free candy may be an Internet stereotype, but today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe General Lee Chevy van does make the idea of the Duke Boys seem wildly inappropriate. Will you think its price is too?
Read MoreThe Indian company Mahindra & Mahindra recently dropped plans to sell their mini pickup in the U.S.. That's a crushing blow to those eagerly awaiting the little hauler, but perhaps they could find solace in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe survivor Hilux. That is, if its price curries favor.
Read MoreIn Greek mythology the Chimæra was a monster made up of all the scariest parts of other monsters. Similarly, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom MGB is comprised of different makers' parts, but will its price scarily prove to be more than their sum?
Read MoreBack in the ‘60s, most American compacts were simply smaller renditions of larger cars, shrink-i-dinked to take up less space and at a lower cost. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cutlass takes that concept to inverse extremes, but is its price still disproportionately too large?
Read MoreIf you consider Drag Racing to be a family sport, and Station Wagons to be family cars, then you'll probably find today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Fairmont dragin' wagon to be all in the family. Will its price however also in the family way?
Read MoreIf you're Swedish and are planning to attend next year's prøm, then you'll definitely want to roll in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe stretched S90. That is of course if you can afford both its price and the cost of a chaufför.
Read MoreCustom paint on a car is nothing new, and custom under-hood colors are more common today than ever. It is strange however that the customizer of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW R32 decided to go with a mountain cabin motif for its engine bay. Does its price however, warrant getting your pines in a knot?
Read MoreDino was the birth name of Ratpacker Dean Martin, who was famous for both his baritone and his boozing. The 3-litre V8 in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dino 308 GT4 probably also makes beautiful music, but will the car's price drive you to drinking?
Read MoreIn Web parlance using all-caps equates to yelling. The ad for today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Celica GT ragtop is caps locked and loaded, but is its price anything to shout about?
Read MoreIf you're even half-way good looking, going topless in public is bound to cause a stir. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Monte Carlo is both damn-fine and topless, but will its price leave you unstirred?
Read MoreOriginally called the Carryall, Chevy's Suburban has been a part of the brand's catalog since the thirties. Today's Nice Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘68 three-door represents the marque's seventh generation, but while its name is long serving does its price come up short?
Read MoreIf you've ever seen a toxicology report on the passenger seats of taxis (taxicology?) you'd probably spend a lot of time walking. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Checker Marathon Wagon and a bottle of bleach will take a load off your Hi-Tops, but will its price have you asking are you talking to me?
Read MoreBarn find is the phrase typically applied to vehicles that show up - Marty McFly-like -years past their prime and apparently in tip top shape. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe middle child Datsun is just such a find - albeit from a garage and not a barn - but will its price prove something that'll keep ‘em down on the farm?
Read MoreFor his Otis video Jay-Z (along with Kanye West) messed up a Maybach, which he then went on to sell for sixty grand at Barrett Jackson. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW 330ci has also been altered up by a JZ, but does that mean its price needs to be Auto-Tuned down?
Read MoreToyota's Tercel represented the company's first, tentative step toward front wheel drive. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1984 Tercel isn't just a back step, it's a moon walk onto a rear-drive Cadillac frame. Will its price however be a step in the right direction?
Read MoreOver the years, Ford's Courier moniker has adorned a number of disparate vehicles, all with similar intents made obvious by their name. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '80 Courier's intent is purposefully murky, but is its price too much for this Courier to carry?
Read MoreRitmo in Italian means rhythm or beat. In any language, Abarth means fast. Put them together and you've got today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 130TC. That sings a rare tune in any language, but will its price make it even rarer in your driveway?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lotus Esprit is claimed to be like the one James Bond piloted as a submersible in the flick The Spy Who Loved Me. While this one's not ready for water sports, does its project status and price mean the seller's all wet?
Read MoreIt's hard to say what a mint julep would taste like if constructed with warm sake, but it probably wouldn't ring any southern belles. Today's equally incongruous Nice Price or Crack Pipe Tennessee Toyota is unquestionably tasty. The question is, is its price as well?
Read MoreNo longer content simply driving over rooftops in his car, Batman takes his war against crime to the air in The Dark Knight Rises with his baddest vehicle yet: a heli-tank his gadgetmaster Lucius Fox dubs "The Bat."
Read MoreMany proud automakers have gone out and produced some of the worst cars ever built. It's just so easy to slip into a comfortable and destructive malaise.
Read MoreYesterday we learned how Gunther Holtorf has spent the past 23 years driving 500,000 miles in an '88 Mercedes G Wagen diesel. In what car would you do such a trip?
Read MoreEveryone seemed to have a pretty good time with last week's headlight quiz, and many of you said you'd like to see more quizzes.
Read MoreFrom overworked mechanics to desperate car salesmen, there are a lot of terrible, terrible jobs in the world of cars. Which one is the worst?
Read MoreA couple weeks back ex-Jalop legend Murilee Martin was judging the Buttonwillow Lemons race, when he texted me some sad news. The car I helped build and run back in '08 finally met its end.
Read MoreCan motorsports be too awesome? Jalopnik readers have found ten racing series that were so amazing, they had to be cancelled.
Read MoreMuch as it seems car-related, motor racing is all about the money. Sometimes this makes even the best racing series completely miss their mark.
Read MoreA cardinal rule of racing is to never celebrate before the race is over, no matter how far ahead you are.
Read MoreOne of GM's Tier 1 suppliers, Omega Tool Corp., made a video to show off how well they could mold complicated plastic body panels. Only they chose the still-secret 2014 Chevy Corvette instead of the outgoing C6 Corvette. Oops.
Read MoreIf there's anyone reading this who hasn't pretended their car was a spaceship on a long, boring night drive in the middle of nowhere, then click that close box now. A dark road, the glow of your instruments, stars in the sky — why wouldn't you pretend to be in a spaceship?
Read MoreWe love our supercars to death. We obsess over their top speeds and great power. But what is it like to actually use one? Over 500 miles of European motorway, we discover an inconvenient truth.
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read 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 MoreYour car has four tires, and they all wear at different rates. To get the most out of them, it's a good idea to rotate them every few thousand miles so that they wear more evenly. I try to do mine every 6,000 miles or so.
Read MoreTake a look at the front of your car. If it's a few years old, there's a good chance that those cheap plastic headlamp lenses the manufacturer slapped on there are starting to look as yellow as a heroin addict's teeth.
Read MoreCarl Rice was given a 2001 Chrysler Sebring by his grandfather, which I think may be the most common way anyone ends up owning a Sebring. An accident on one of California's Hobbesian freeways led him to converting it into a post-apocalyptic survival machine.
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