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How Much Would You Pay For An Audi RS2?
What I wouldn't do to live in the UK. I mean, Big Ben is historic and whatnot, but if I were there I could be the owner of this stunning Audi RS2 Avant for 14,000 of my British pounds. Outstanding.
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The McLaren X-1 Concept Is Freaking Insane
Our constant complant about concept cars not being exciting or futuristic enough isn't going to seem as credible in a few hours when everyone sees photos of the McLaren X-1. A prototype based on the McLaren MP4-12C for an unnamed collector, the X-1 is so controversial they haven't even named the designer yet.
Read MoreThis Is The Jeep Israeli Special Forces Would Take To The Negev Desert
"Who Dares Wins," or so goes the motto of Sayeret Matkal, one of the Israel Defense Force's special units. Israeli truck customizer AIL of Nazareth has dared with the Jeep J8-based Storm 3 Type R, and it looks like they may win... a lucrative army contract, that is.
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Buying (17)
The Ten Best Ways To Spend $240,000 On Cars
$240,000 is more money than some people will spend on cars in a lifetime. But what if you had to spend it all at once? Would you buy one car or multiple cars? Jalopnik readers have provided the ten best ways to spend 240,000 dollars on a car or two for the country club set.
Read MoreWhat's The Best Way To Spend $240,000 On Cars?
We just heard how Robert Maduri got snubbed by a Ferrari dealer and is looking at a McLaren MP4-12C instead. Is that the best way he can spend his money?
Read More2012 Nissan Juke: The Jalopnik Review
The first time I ever saw a picture of the Nissan Juke, I thought it was a joke. I figured it was a photoshop and there was no way that it could possibly be a real car. Those headlights, those proportions. Something was all wrong. It looked like an abomination.
Read More2013 BMW Alpina B7: The Jalopnik Review
Legendary wine critic Robert Parker was so enthused when he first tasted the 1985 Sassicaia, that he awarded the vintage a maximum 100-points on his internationally acclaimed ratings system, such was the "surreal" quality of this fabled wine.
Read More2013 Ram 1500: The Jalopnik Truck Review
In the early '70s, just before the oil embargoes kicked off, Americans tended to drive massive land yachts. With the exception that rear wheel drive sedans have largely disappeared from the American carscape, not much has changed. Today, America drives huge pickup trucks instead.
Read MoreThe Ten Best Cars For $500
The average cost of a new car is over $30,000. Why pay that when you can have any of these gems found by Jalopnik readers for half a grand?
Read More2013 BMW M5: The Jalopnik Review
Jason Bourne. Under his white-collar appearance and cool demeanor is a wild animal that — at the push of a button — can transform into a pure, unsavory killing machine. The 2013 BMW M5 is Jason Bourne.
Read MoreThe Ten Fastest Cars For $10,000
Buying new is for suckers. Jalopnik readers are here to celebrate the cheapest, dirtiest speed you can get on four wheels.
Read More1974 Alfa Romeo 2000 GT Veloce: The Jalopnik Classic Review
Some cars are so beautiful that it hits you like a canned ham fired from a cannon. The original Jaguar E-Type is one of those, a car capable of generating spit-takes and the sorts of looks that'll get you kicked out of playgrounds.
Read MoreHow I Settled A Ridiculous Bet By Racing A Pair Of Tiny Cars
Once upon a time Matt Hardigree made a stupid joke about the Chevy Sonic and got into a twitter argument with their PR person. When said PR guy challenged him to a race Matt agreed and, amazingly, he convinced Hyundai to loan us an Accent to take on the little Chevy.
Read MoreWhat's The Fastest Car For Under $10,000
The market is overflowing with fun, sporty cars in the $20,000 to $30,000 range right now, but how much cheap, dirty speed can you get for just ten large?
Read MoreDo Young Parents Really Need A Big SUV?
I love family reunions because some of it involves being near lots of people who know I like to talk a lot about cars and nod politely and pretend to be interested. I need that sometimes.
Read More2013 Audi RS5: The Jalopnik Review
Europeans have been graced with this sporty machine's presence for some time, but now it crosses the pond. Audi fans can rejoice as the Audi RS5 hits US soil. It's our turn to give it a good, old fashioned thrashing, to see how it holds up.
Read MoreChevrolet Camaro ZL1 Convertible: The Jalopnik Review
The Camaro ZL1 Coupe is one of the most surprising cars I have driven. Given its hefty waistline and reputation as a monster muscle car, the handling performance is quite astonishing. So, providing you don't wear a toupee, the convertible ZL1 should be just as impressive.
Read MoreThe Most Car You Can Buy For $20,000
Sure you could get that loaded Honda Fit out at the dealership, but why not go for something a bit more interesting? Jalopnik readers have picked out a small selection of truly classic cars, all for 20 grand or less.
Read MoreCamaro 1LE: Around The Block
Michael Phelps was the undisputed king of the torturous 400-meter individual medley, ready to take his record third straight gold in London this week when he reluctantly had to hand over his crown to America's new ruler of spandex, Ryan Lochte, who thoroughly trounced Phelps.
Read More2012 Volkswagen Golf R: The Jalopnik Review
The Volkswagen Golf GTI has had solid performance credentials for the past 35 years, but it's never been a full-fledged sports car. In 2004, VW decided enough was enough and gave the Golf all-wheel drive, a wider body, and a melodious 3.2 liter VR6. The limited production R32 was born.
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What's The Best Car You Can Get For $500?
America might be the easiest place to own a car. Gas is cheap (you should see what they pay in Europe if you think $4/gal is bad) and there are junky old beaters rusting in every field in the country.
Read MoreTen Ways To Find A Good Mechanic
Dealerships tend to overcharge and chain shops will jerk you around, so how can you know which independent shops won't screw you? Jalopnik readers have ten tips on how to find someone trustworthy to work on your car.
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Culture (37)
Models Of The General Lee From The Dukes Of Hazzard Will Lose The Confederate Flag
Models and toys of the General Lee — the well-known '69 Dodge Charger that starred in and got all the good lines from the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard — will no longer feature a large Confederate flag on the roof. Tomy, who makes the models and toys, has declined to comment.
Read MoreTen Young Car Photographers You Need To Follow
The sad truth is that most of us aren't able to travel to every racing event or see every new car in person. Luckily, Jalopnik readers know ten promising young photographers, whose work allows us to feel like we're there anytime a car does something beautiful or important.
Read MoreIs Apple To Blame For All Those Damn White Cars?
Yesterday, BMW Designworks' lead designer in color, materials and finish Sandy McGill told Motoramic that Apple is responsible for making white the most popular car color.
Read MoreForza Horizon Lets You Drift Like A Mad Man Around Colorado
If you own a video game console, there are only two choices for racing simulations. Playstation people have to play Gran Turismo and XBOX loyalists are all over the Forza Motorsport series.
Read MoreThe Ten Biggest Misconceptions About Gearheads
Online and in the real world there's a thriving, diverse community of self-proclaimed geahreads. But for those not familiar with who gearheads are, Jalopnik readers have provided the ten most common misconceptions about them.
Read MoreThe Time I Drove A Sex-Crazed Cougar's Porsche 911 To Rodney Dangerfield's Widow's House
Having always driven mechanically dubious trucks, muscle cars and other beaters, I'd always wanted to try something faster and more sophisticated. Lucky for me, I met a cougar who owned a Porsche, and ended up getting to tear ass around L.A. in it, stopping by a $5,000 per plate Bel Air mansion party and Rodney Dangerfield's widow's fake polar bear bedecked house in the Hollywood Hills along the way.
Read MorePhotoshop Reveals How All Modern Cars Look The Same
If you've ever thought that new cars all look the same, here's proof. Swap the grills between two different makes (like between a Kia and a BMW) and it's hard to tell which design looks more appropriate.
Read MoreWhat's The Biggest Misconception About Gearheads?
Gearheads aren't always the most social people, and that's given us a bad reputation over the years. We've been misrepresented and we want to clear our name.
Read MoreWhat Is The Point Of The Ford Explorer Sport?
We've known for a while that Ford is unleashing a higher performance version of the Explorer this fall.
Read MoreHow An Angry Truck Owner Used Google And His House To Let Everyone Know 'Toyota Sucks'
Someone really doesn't like Toyota, and wants either God, Google or airplane passengers to know. Possibly all three. Otherwise, why would someone paint "TOYOTA SUCKS" on the roof of their home?
Read MoreThe Ten Most Tasteless Tuner Cars
While there's always something to be said for making your car unique, some people take it too far. Jalopnik readers have come up with the most gut-wrenching, stomach-turning custom tuner cars to help prove this point.
Read MoreHurricanes Suck: A Mental Preparation Guide
With Tropical Storm Isaac forecast to probably become a hurricane and rearrange parts of our coastline, if you're on the Gulf Coast you'll be reading a lot of preparation guides that'll get you ready for physically surviving the storm. Read them. A hurricane can mess your stuff up.
Read MoreWould You Save This Pro Touring '64 Chevelle From Life In A Garage?
Someone is about to give you this pro touring '64 Chevelle SS for free. There is a catch: you never get to drive it. It gets trailered to car shows and garaged the rest of the year. Would you do it?
Read MoreThe Joy Of Daily Driving A Bigass Truck
Whenever I go back to Texas I feel the need to get a car that seems impressively Texan. Last time it was a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 which, with its mix of German and American might, found a place deep in this Texas heart.
Read MoreCOTD: Cars Used To Have Record Players Edition
Back in the late ‘50s and early '60s, if you wanted to pick the music you heard on a drive, you bought an in-car record player. Well, those were expensive, so most people just sang like poor yodelers plucked from the old country.
Read MoreSwan Cars, Abacus Speedometers, And Other Reasons Why Pebble Beach Is A Car Lover's Paradise
Without a doubt, the premier classic car show in North America is the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Each year, 200 impeccable cars descend on the 18th green at Pebble Beach and compete for the coveted Best in Show.
Read MoreThe Ten Craziest One-Off Cars Ever Built
If you have enough money, you can tell a carmaker to build you just about anything you want. Jalopnik readers picked ten unhinged one-offs of the car-styles of the rich and famous.
Read MoreThe Frank Ocean Guide To Affordable Classics
A few weeks ago, we brought you the guide to credibility-challenged rapper Rick Ross' automotive references on his newest album, God Forgives, I Don't.
Read MoreCrazy One-Off Cars Are Why It's Great To Be A Celebrity
There are many perks when you're a star of film, music, sports, and reality television. Chief among them are a lack of people around you willing to say "no" when you come up with new and exciting ways to spend your money.
Read MoreCOTD: The Car Show Wasn't Entirely Terrible Edition
Sure getting trapped in a room with Adam Carolla is my personal hell, but The Car Show wasn't all bad. Here are the guys teaching some ladies how to drive stick on a Viper ACR.
Read MoreThis Is What Happens When A Star Wars Superfan Buys A Truck
Sometimes your car can be a huge time and energy saver. For example, I'm sure Trey Laymon, the owner of this Ford Raptor, finds that his truck saves him vast amounts of time by freeing him from saying "Hello. I adore the Empire from Star Wars more than anything, ever."
Read MoreOur Ten Favorite Hot Wheels Toy Cars
We don't start to love cars when we turn sixteen and get our licenses; we start with little Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Here are Jalopnik readers' favorites.
Read MoreAsk Dax Shepard Anything You Want About Hit & Run And His Car Collection
What's it like to write, direct and star in your own car chase movie? What's it like to do so using your personal 650 HP Lincoln and 700 HP Baja buggy alongside Kristen Bell? The guy who does all that in Hit and Run, Dax Shepard, is live for the next hour in Kinja, answering your questions about anything.
Read MoreThe Dark Knight's Rover Metro Hatchback Rises
Folks, your weekend editor's love of Batman is well documented at this point. That's why I got a huge kick out of this 1980s ad for the British Rover Metro hatchback.
Read MoreThe Sun's Always Shining On An IROC-Z Camaro
Welcome 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 MoreCruising Bob's Big Boy In Dax Shepard's 650 HP Lincoln
Remember that funny looking guy from Idiocracy? No, not the guy with the jaw, the guy with the big nose. That's Dax Shepard. Well, it turns out he's a serious car nut and just made the first-ever car movie that your girlfriend's going to want to watch. The other night, we fired up his 650 wheel horsepower Continental and cruised up to the Burbank Bob's Big Boy to eat burgers and talk about doing your own stunts.
Read MoreHow One Drink Almost Got Me Murdered By A Rich F1 Fan
"You fucking idiot! What the fuck do you think you're doing? Do you like stealing other people's drinks, or what?" Here I am, standing on the second floor of a very loud party, getting flecks of spit on my face, and generally enjoying the unbelievably rich world of Formula One.
Read MoreThe Ten Most Advanced Cars Of All Time
Get out your nerd glasses because Jalopnik readers have put together a list of the ten most advanced cars mankind has ever built. We've come a long way since we invented the horseless carriage over a century ago.
Read MoreHow To Drive A Bad Handling Car Fast
Very rarely have I driven a car that was perfectly neutral. In almost every case there will be an imbalance of either understeer or oversteer — even if it's just by one percent.
Read MoreWhich Brand Should Replace Dodge In NASCAR?
Earlier this year, Dodge's only NASCAR team, Penske Racing, made a shock announcement that they would be defecting and replacing their cars with Fords for 2013.
Read MoreGhost Peppers, State Troopers, And Angry Rednecks: A Porsche 911 Odyssey
The typical press car loan is a week. Because of an ill-timed business trip I've barely driven the bright red 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S taunting me from the parking space in front of my place. I have one day to plan out a road trip worthy of such a car.
Read MoreIs Nissan Ruining Global Taxis With The NV200?
In 2013, the Ford Crown Victoria taxis will begin disappearing from city streets and will be replaced by Nissan's brand new NV200 van. It will be the first purpose built taxi roaming NYC in decades and promises to be the cab of the future.
Read MoreWill.i.am Tries To Explain To Us How His DeLorean Is Not A DeLorean
One of the surprising things about last night's spectacular landing of Curiosity on Mars was the number of famous people who stopped by to watch and hope nothing would go wrong. I wasn't expecting to see Will.i.am there.
Read MoreWe Must Not Let Carmakers Ruin The Shooting Brake
Is there no term the auto industry hasn't ruined? Coupes are now increasingly "four-door coupes," which is a fancy term for less practical sedans. Proper wagons have morphed into either swoopy sportwagons, "touring" models, or cladded and jacked-up faux SUVs. And most SUVs are now crossovers, or elevated cars that would have trouble navigating a polo field.
Read MoreAll We Want To Do Is Play With This Full Scale Aston Martin Model
As children, all of us probably had at least one scale model car that we would pretend to drive around our bedrooms. While that was all well and good, didn't we really want a scale model that was the actual size of one of our dream cars?
Read MoreThe Ten Most Overhyped Cars Of All Time
Each new car is supposed to be the Next Big Thing, but they almost never live up to expectations. Jalopnik readers have collected the ten most over-advertised, over-promised, overhyped cars of all time.
Read MoreOwn A 60s Fiberglass Kit Car Based On Ford's GT40
Mid-engine supercars are out of most peoples' price range. That's why there are kit cars. While many have been Volkswagen Beetle-based abominations, not all kit cars were created equal.
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Fake Bigfoot Accidentally Killed By Motorists In Hoax Gone Wrong
While Bigfoot has been spotted for decades in the woods around the United States, almost every single video has been proven to be a hoax.
Read MoreMeet The Worst Driver In The World
If you get in one accident early in your driving career, you tend to get over it and attribute it to a lack of experience. Get into a second or a third, and you might start to realize that you need some more training or confidence behind the wheel.
Read MoreHow To Completely Destroy Your Impala At A Car Show
Car shows! They're all fun and games until somebody shows up, drives like an idiot, and completely trashes his car in front of everyone.
Read MoreScrew With This Body Shop And They'll Crash Your Ferrari Into A Wall
Some may say that "the best revenge is living well." But, sometimes the best revenge is just straight up revenge. Like when the owner of this Ferrari 360 tried to screw his body shop out of paying for a repair. In return, they crashed his car straight into a wall. Now that's living well.
Read MoreRally Crash Kills Three Spectators In Serbia
Three spectators died this weekend when a Mitsubishi rally car speared off into a crowd on a hill climb up Mt. Tara in Serbia. It is difficult to watch, difficult to assign blame and difficult to find a clear lesson to take away.
Read MoreDrunk Driver Pees All Over Breathalyzer Tests
A 26-year old forklift driver from New Zealand was so drunk he drove right into an elderly woman's home. If that didn't upset the police enough, he then did the other thing drunk people like to do: urinate on things.
Read MoreThis Is Why You Don't Give A Teenager A BMW M3 And A GoPro
Watch this teenager hoon his (or his father's, perhaps) BMW M3 on an absolutely amazing stretch of Arizona highway. We can only guess at why he misjudged that turn and crashed a not inexpensive car (looks like an E46), but the Home Alone hands-on-face action is priceless.
Read MorePolice Officer In Race Car Crashes Into Five Spectators At State Fair
The ex-cop-car "Battle of the Badges" charity race at the weekend's Missouri State Fair was a mess. One car hit five spectators in the infield, two of whom remain in the hospital, and that wasn't the first crash of the night.
Read MoreDealership Reveals Another Scion FR-S Wrecked Within First Month Of Ownership
Mark down Scion FR-S crash number three. This one happened before its owner had even put tags on the car.
Read MoreThis Pickup Driver Screwed Up A Donut And Landed On Top Of Two Boats
The 24-year-old asshat who owns this Ram pickup was arrested in Harrison Township, Mich. yesterday after his truck landed on top of two boats. He had been doing donuts a marina parking lot and lost control of his truck, flying off the dock.
Read MoreWatch This Evo Race Car Fly Off The Road And Roll Down A Mountain
The Devil's Playground corner of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb is well known to Jalopnik readers as the place where cars fly off the mountain. This year an unlucky pair in a Evo took the honors. Thanks to modern safety equipment and a quick response, both the driver and co-driver survived the crash.
Read MorePolice Are Looking For The Oregonian Who Destroyed This Awesome Nissan Skyline GT-R
Before 2007, the Nissan Skyline was an incredibly rare sight on these shores. Getting one would cost you thousands more than the list price and one of your children. And after all that you'd still be sitting on the wrong side of the car. And then your car would get taken by the government.
Read MoreHow To Destroy A $1.4 Million Race Car And Be Rewarded For It
Over the weekend, a Pagani Zonda was running on a Czech race track when a very ill-advised passing attempt on the last lap resulted in one critically injured Zonda GR and a lot of money that needs to be spent.
Read MoreGoogle Street View Camera Car Falls Into A Ravine
Apparently, Google is committed to showing you everything it can on Street View — including the bottom of a ravine its camera car can't escape from.
Read MoreFloridian Man Flips Truck And Then Gets All Sorts Of Naked
Yesterday afternoon, a man crashed through the gates of a draw bridge, flipped his truck after hitting a Ford pickup, got out, stripped naked while bleeding and running, and dashed into a fort nearby.
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Jeremy Clarkson Might Be Heading For Pebble Beach, Approach Him With Extreme Caution
Cantankerous Brit, Top Gear host, and all around automotive badass Jeremy Clarkson is currently on a great American vacation. And while he has been tweeting some of his more negative feelings for our great country, we're willing to bet he's having a ton of fun.
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson Is In America Making Fun Of Us, Find Him
Jeremy Clarkson is known for not having the highest opinions of Americans. He once said that "America's only contribution to Western civilization" is allowing people to turn right on red lights.
Read MoreAsk Top Gear Star Richard Hammond Anything You Want
Welcome to yet another installment of Jalopnik Live, where we let you ask the newsmakers and stars of the automotive world the questions that you really want to hear the answers to.
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A 'Can Do' Gearhead Turned This $100 1981 Honda Accord Into A Gem
We see a lot of awesome rebuilt classics. People take old European sports cars, American muscle, and supercars and breathe new life into them. But this Washington State gearhead showed what can be accomplished with a $100 beater and a few good ideas.
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COTD: If Mom Wrote Pace Notes Edition
Today we asked if you would drive a rally car with your mom as the co-driver. Reader McMike came up with an idea of what the pace notes would look like.
Read MoreIs The 2013 Nissan Sentra Boring Enough To Be A Success?
For its newest generation, the 2013 Nissan Sentra is skipping the facelift and getting the full on Michael Jackson. The all new car has a laundry list of new features, and they stretch from the nose to the tail. It's lighter. It's economier. It's upscalier. It's LEDier. It also looks like the lovechild of the new Altima and a Lexus IS. And it's boring.
Read MoreDad's Wish To Give His Sick Son A Car Show Goes Viral Overnight
Yesterday, we told you that a British father and Subaru owner is facing the very stark and devastating reality that his 11-year old son only has weeks left to live. He posted a note on a British Subaru forum saying he was planning a small car show in a week and would love for some cars to show up and brighten his son's day.
Read MoreThe Deputy Mayor Of Jersey City Is A Gearhead
I'm not rich or cool enough to live in Manhattan, so each evening I slog home from Jalopnik world headquarters to scenic Jersey City, NJ.
Read MoreWhy You Really Shouldn't Run Jet Fuel In Your Car
Most gearheads have probably heard stories about running jet fuel in cars for instant, magical speed increases. If you look online, the question comes up pretty often. The same goes for other exotic fuels, like aviation gasoline and Pegasus urine. So what's the truth here? Is jet fuel a magic speed-serum?
Read MoreHelp A British Subaru Owner Fulfill One Last Wish For His Dying Son
The worst nightmare of any parent is facing the loss of a child. It's an unimaginable tragedy no matter how it happens.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 'E' Is 'Coming,' An Electric Concorde Is Possible, And Other Things We Learned From Elon Musk
Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dropped in to answer reader questions (full interview here) on Jalopnik earlier today and, in the course of about 45 minutes, managed to break some actual news. We're going to bullet point it for you and let you discuss what it means in the comments.
Read MoreIn This Electric Motorcycle Lies The Future Of Hoonage
I've seen the future, and it's a grim place for hoons like you and me. Cameras will monitor our speed. Congestion will reduce our opportunities to drive fast. Our own vehicles will report driver behavior back to the authorities. Hell, it's 2012 and it'd be socially unacceptable to enjoy our vehicles' performance even if we could afford to put gas in the tank. But what if there were a third way?
Read MoreAsk Elon Musk Anything You Want About Nikola Tesla, Tesla Motors, And SpaceX
When everyone was running away from electric cars, Elon Musk invested in them with Tesla. When the government was reducing its commitment to space, Elon Musk started SpaceX. When Nikola Tesla fans said they needed help preserving his lab, Elon Musk stepped up to help. Whatever your opinion of Elon Musk (we've had many), he's undeniably maverick and bold.
Read MoreWho Is The Best Young Car Photographer Out There Now?
There are tons of up-and-coming carspotters and shooters out there, but which one should you keep an eye on, and whose site should you bookmark?
Read MoreHere's Kotaku's Take On Forza Horizon
The next Forza game is set in an open world. Wait, what? Yes, it's an open world modeled after Colorado. And smack in the middle of the game's setting is a racing festival that you will partake in when Forza Horizon releases October 23 for Xbox 360.
Read MoreALMS At Road America: The Über Gallery
The American Le Mans Series went to Road America two weekends back. You've read the recaps, you've watched the epic last laps, now check out the best pictures of the race. There's the new Viper GTS-R facing off against Corvettes, Ferraris, and Porsches.
Read MoreWinston Churchill's Land Rover Could Be Yours
The man who put the "Great" in Great Britain owned a Land Rover toward the end of his long life, and it's going up for auction in October. This one's got a few modifications, as this Brit was great indeed, especially around the waist.
Read MoreLivesketching With Influential Car Designer J Mays
J. Mays is the Chief Creative Officer for Ford, and is the man behind Ford's current resurgence as a design innovator. Mays has been a major force in the world of auto design for many years, creating such modern icons as the new Mustang, the Audi TT, and updating the iconic Beetle to the New Beetle, starting an industry-wide retrofuturistic movement.
Read MoreDoes The Billionaire Chairman Of Samsung Own A Stolen $15 Million Ferrari?
In 1963, Ferrari built four 330 LMBs, a GT race car meant to hit the track at Le Mans. All four still exist and are each worth nearly $15 million.
Read MoreCOTD: The Gearhead's Guide
Cars are supposed to bring us together, yet too often gearheads are at each other's throats about what they drive and what they like. We want to change that.
Read MoreThe Government's Scary New 54.5 MPG Fuel Economy Standard Is Really More Like 40 MPG
Numerous headlines this afternoon are blaring the Obama Administration's strict new corporate average fuel economy standard for 2025. Car companies, the administration says, will have to average 54.5 mpg.
Read MoreWhy The 'Slow In, Fast Out' Technique Is A Myth
I'm sure you have heard — and maybe even been taught — that driving with a focus on being slow into the turn and fast out is the quickest way around a corner. It is one of the most common phrases muttered by instructors worldwide, and yet despite this superlative fact, I am going to tell you why it's wrong.
Read MoreThis iPad Car Holder From Hammacher Is An Exciting New Way To Die In A Car Crash
You know how you've always wanted your mangled corpse to be pried out of the remains of your smoldering car, but have always been too ashamed to make it happen because of the crappy paperbacks and magazines you read while driving? Then, buddy, are you in luck.
Read More2014 Mazda6: Midsize Sedans Don't Have To Be Boring
The 2014 Mazda6 just "debuted" in Russia at the Moscow Auto Show. Everyone's already seen the car so the "debut" is sort of like a born-again virgin having sex again… for the first time! Still, we'd hit that.
Read MoreWhy My BFF Dany Bahar Deserves $11 Million From Lotus
Yesterday, my good friend (and only steady employer for the last few years), Dany Bahar, filed suit against Lotus for wrongful termination. He's seeking $10.8 million.
Read MoreCOTD: The Eternal Glory Of The Miura Edition
Cars are sold on progress. New models! New features! New cupholders! Sometimes, though, there are cars that remain timelessly desirable.
Read MoreHow Ferrari Is Losing A Generation Of Buyers
(Robert Maduri is looking for a new car to add to his stable, but the stodgy and stuffy Ferrari buying experience is making him look at a newcomer to the scene. — T.O.)
Read More178 Tickets Issued For Drunken And Nude Antics At Indiana Tractor Pull
Whenever something that involves drunkenness, nudity, and cars occurs, we tend to automatically assume that the story is coming from Florida.
Read MoreHow To Prepare Your Car To Handle An EMP And Why You Shouldn't Bother
Last week, we were sent this Craigslist ad where someone was trying to sell their old, sitting for "several years," farm use-plated, Diesel Jetta by pitching it as an "EMP Proof" vehicle. First of all, a farm use Jetta? Did the pigs use it to commute to their day jobs telemarketing?
Read MoreWatch A Woman With A Stuck Accelerator Weave Through Traffic At 118 MPH In Her Kia
Hurtling down a northern Missouri interstate at speeds of up to 118 mph, Lauri Ulvestad was convinced that her car was driving itself. She called family, she called 9-1-1, she tried to turn the car off.
Read MoreThe Cayenne V6 Is The Fastest Car Porsche Makes According To Its Website
The Porsche Cayenne V6 puts out 300 horsepower and 295 pound feet of torque. They aren't exactly scintillating numbers for a heavy SUV.
Read More2013 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S: If You Absolutely Think You Need It
Porsche has been stirring the pot of technological goodies this year, creating a 911 Carerra 4S that not only breathes fire, but can mete out that power judiciously to all four wheels for people who think they need that kind of thing.
Read MoreWatch A Merkur Chicken Race Ghostly BMWs, Saabs And Audis
Ah, the Merkur. There aren't many better examples of how poor marketing can kill a decent car. If you're a frequent visitor to Jalopnik, you know this story. But if you're a regular human being capable of healthy relationships with other people, allow me to explain.
Read MoreWarning: This Video Will Make You Want An E30 BMW 3-Series
If Bill Caswell, Frank Ocean, and Chinese Spider-Man can't convince you that you need to put a 1982-1994 BMW 3-Series in your life, then this video might just do it.
Read MoreUsed Car Face Off: Battle Of The Brits
Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreThis Vintage Hipster Ferrari Is Too Cool For School
Welcome to Found Around Town, where we feature cars we find in a city where interesting ones are rare because everyone drives a Prius or rides a bicycle: Austin, Texas.
Read MoreThe Jalopnik Guide To Burning Supercars
Immolated supercars have become a pretty frequent sight here on Jalopnik and in other news outlets. Once, these mighty machines dropped jaws and panties with their stunning looks and obscenely powerful engines.
Read MoreWhich Foreign Car Should Be Imported To Your Country?
We've got a lot of good things going for us here in America, like religious freedom and rap music. But we get cheated out of a lot of really great cars.
Read MoreThese Are The Strange Car Drawings Of The Empire State Building Shooter
This morning, a report in the New York Times shed more light on Jeffrey T. Johnson, the man authorities say shot and killed his former boss near the Empire State Building Friday before he was gunned down by police. Nine others were injured by police bullets.
Read MoreExperience Extreme Longing For The Mazda RX-7
Not gonna lie, sports fans. This ad tugged at my heartstrings. I think the same will happen to you too.
Read MoreCOTD: I Shall Play You The Song Of My People Edition
A person at Red Bull told me (right before giving me earplugs) that while an F1 car is loud, it actually produces noise on such frequencies to give you serious hearing damage if you listen for too long without earplugs. I took mine off anyway.
Read MoreRobert Pattinson Buys Cheap Cars On Craigslist And Goes To Weird Places Just Like You
Robert Pattinson, gazillionaire vampire movie star that he is, buys everything off of Craigslist. His car, for instance, is a $2,500 Chevy Silverado and he took it to weird places just like you do. What weird places? A parking lot where people watch each other having sex.
Read MoreLadies Have Road Rage Because Ladies Have Messy Little Lady Brains
You silly women. Once — just once — would I like to receive a story about you jokers doing something right, but it seems like you're determined to play the wacky haphazard-prone neighbor in this crazy little sitcom called life. "What am I doing wrong now," you ask, in your dumb girl voice with your dumb girl mouth. I'll tell you: You're getting angry. More, specifically, you're getting angry in cars. Cars that you probably don't know how to drive to begin with.
Read MoreThe Saints Of Motoring
The traditional saint invoked to deal with cars has long been St.Christopher, the patron saint of travelers and traveling. There were even relatively popular dashboard medals for the guy. But I just found out that as part of Vatican II in 1969 (my Vatican guy's not really on the ball) St.Christopher's feast day was revoked, and he's not really so big in the saint community anymore. Largely because no one thinks he was real.
Read MoreWorld's Luckiest Cabbie Wins A Lamborghini
The United Arab Emirates is the land of the supercars. They even give them out in malls, as one extraordinarily lucky cab driver found out this week when he won a $ 204,028 (Dh750,000) Gallardo LP550-2 in a local lottery.
Read MoreWhy Won't Anyone Buy This $1.4 Million Mercedes CLK GTR?
We last saw this über-Benz for sale back in February, its 7.3 liter V12 having covered 1,492 miles. Well, it hasn't gone any further since then. What, nobody wants a $1.4 million, 234 mph road-going racecar?
Read MoreThe Ten Best Ways To Keep Your Car From Getting Stolen
You've put a lot of work into acquiring your car and you don't want someone to take it. Jalopnik readers know how to keep it your car in your possession with the ten best ways to fight off potential thieves.
Read More2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion: The Über Gallery
While our man Travis was busy having a crisis in the pits, friend of Jalopnik Brad Fox was on the track taking some of the nicest photos we've seen of this glut of gorgeous racing cars.
Read MoreWhat's Your Best Flyby Story?
I was at the start of the Montreal Grand Prix, and the cars began to rev on the grid. Massive noise, bleeding ears, huge grin. Then we got buzzed.
Read MoreBefore He Wrote Children's Books, Dr. Seuss Drew Ads For Big Oil
Decades before Horton heard a Who and the Grinch stole Christmas, Theodor Seuss Geisel was an ad man. Returning from an aborted post graduate stint at Oxford in 1927, he needed a way to pay the bills.
Read MoreThe First Exhaust Gas Recirculator Was A Lovely Steampunk Looking Thing
Most of us don't think too much about the exhaust gas recirculation systems in our cars, at least not until the EGR light on the dash comes on. The system isn't particularly exciting, since it's mostly for pollution control and doesn't do much for making your car go faster or louder or driftier, or any number of other engaging things.
Read MoreHow Can You Keep People From Stealing Your Car?
People are getting better and better at stealing cars. If you've ever lived in a rough neighborhood, though, you've learned a few tricks to keep thieves away.
Read MoreThis 200 MPH Sports Car Runs On BioDiesel
For a daily driver, diesel powered cars are fantastic. They have gobs of usable torque and return excellent fuel mileage. But now, the crazed Brits at Trident have decided to put a gigantic diesel engine in a sports car. And they say it can go 200 MPH.
Read MoreGuy Will Trade 'Awesome Babe Magnet' Dirt Bike For Samurai Sword
If you have "land, rope swings, samurai swords or any cool shit," this $15,900 dirt bike could be yours. According to the seller, they're "a small price to pay to get fine ass bitches."
Read MoreThe Government Is About To Fly A Gulfstream Jet Into A Tropical Storm
Tropical Storm Isaac is on a direct track toward Cuba and Florida, gaining clout as it creeps closer. But The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has an ace up its sleeve.
Read MoreCOTD: Marketing In The Car World Edition
Ever since Chevy started outselling Ford's Model T, automakers have learned you can make a lot more money by marketing trendy products that happen to be cars than you can building the simplest, plainest, most functional automobile possible.
Read MoreI Went Drinking With Playboy Bunnies On A Carmaker's Dime
The daytime during Pebble Beach car week is all about seeing the cars. But the nights are all about exclusive parties and events for well-to-do customers, celebrities, journalists, and other members of the glitterati.
Read MoreWoman Sues City For $1.7 Billion Because Parking Meters Are Screwing With Her Cycle
Denise Barton is suing Santa Monica for $1.7 billion, claiming that the city's new wifi-equipped parking meters are making her sick.
Read MoreThe Ten Ugliest Ways To Configure A New Car
Automaker websites are great tools that allow you to build the car of your dreams, but they'll also allow you to build the car of your nightmares, none more horrifying than Jalopnik readers' custom creations.
Read MoreLeaked Document Shows Fisker Has More Issues Than Fiery Cars
The Fisker Karma is a lovely car. It's long, low, striking, and sort of looks like a couple of mermaids going at it in a sleeping bag. It also costs over $100 grand, and has certainly had its share of little annoyances. Like fires and such.
Read MoreBody Shop Surprises Gay Student With Upgraded Version Of Vandalized Car
Jordan Addison is a college student at Virginia's Radford University, and seems pretty much like any college student: he goes to class, probably drinks, probably has goofy in-jokes with friends, has sexual preferences, and all that good college-era crap. Unlike most college students, though, he has had his 2000 Passat vandalized four times, once with the word "die" keyed into the side, and another time with homophobic slurs scraped into the paint.
Read MoreWould You Drive A Subaru BRZ Across The Continent?
If you hadn't noticed, we're fans of the Subaru BRZ, having given it a 76. But is the down-on-power, corner-carving Japanese car something you'd drive across the continent?
Read MoreThis New Chinese Sedan Is Also A Full-Sized R/C Car
It's pretty rare to see a feature on a car that's genuinely new. Cars are so advanced now, most of the low-hanging novelty fruit has been picked, and much of what we get are advances of things we already know. Like adaptive cruise control, for example. So when a company comes out with something truly new, it's a big deal.
Read More25 Years Ago, Dale Earnhardt Received This Death Threat For His Ornery Driving
On May 17, 1987, Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Bill Elliott swapped paint and made a place for themselves in NASCAR lore. The Winston, a newly created all-star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, came down to a sprint, with Earnhardt and Elliott jockeying for the lead. After bumping and nudging for two laps, Elliott got in behind Earnhardt coming off turn four, sending his Wrangler No. 3 into the infield. Earnhardt somehow maintained control, and came off the grass into the lead.
Read MoreWannabe Gangster Fired His Gun From A Moving Car And Posted The Video On YouTube
Ronnie Michael Wynn, a tattooed 23-year-old who apparently takes gangster rap a little too seriously, was already in jail after crashing what was reportedly a stolen vehicle. Then police found a video of him shooting an allegedly stolen handgun out the window of the car he was driving, posted on YouTube and Facebook.
Read MoreFerrari Driver Stomped For Running Over Cop's Foot Sued By Cop For $10 Million
Julien Chabbott, the confirmed poser boyfriend of Stephanie Pratt who ran over a cop's foot in his Ferrari 458 Spider this month, may have more ass-kicking in his future. The New York Post reports the cop will sue him for $10 million.
Read MoreDear Marketers, Not Every Twentysomething Is A Hipster
This morning, Chevy held a drive event for the Chevy Spark, the latest and smallest car on the market from the automaker.
Read MoreThis Surfing Robot Lets You Track Great White Sharks With Your iPhone
This year's shark week just ended, but why not dredge up another cool shark story? Marine biologists from Stanford University found an unlikely surfer to help them track the migration routes of Great White Sharks: the Wave Glider robot. What will those brainy Stanford Trees think of next?!
Read MoreEven Good Ol' Boys Love Mudding In Subarus
If you think of mudding, you think of country music videos and bro-tastic lifted trucks. Well, Subarus do just fine, thank you.
Read MoreThey Finally Made A Flying Star Wars Speeder Bike!
This is insane. I keep watching this video again and again, and my stupid grin doesn't go away: a live demonstration of a real flying bike! Now we just need light sabers, golden robots with English accent, and hyperspace engines.
Read MoreThe Ten Most Stolen Cars In America And The Three You Should Steal
The National Insurance Crime Bureau has issued its annual "Hot Wheels" list of most stolen cars of the past year and our nation's car thieves prove to have decent taste in automobiles. Here are the three cars worth stealing.
Read MoreThe Ten Craziest Stunts Pulled By Automakers
The modern automotive consumer is a pretty jaded individual. Rebates are old news. New gadgets are available everywhere. Flashy colors and wheels are so passé. When all else fails, your daring automaker goes for insane stunts, and Jalopnik readers have picked the wildest they've tried.
Read MoreHow To Destroy A $200 Mercury Cougar, Part I
There's little doubt that the best thing to do when you're in college is buckle down, study hard, and try to get the best grades possible. For better or worse, I was not one of those focused students at the age of 18.
Read MoreThe Time I Was In A Subaru Ad
We've all seen those television commercials where a studio cast family happily enjoys its life around the family sedan. The ones where guys in hardhats drive through construction sites with manly looking piles of 2x4s stuffed into the back are ubiquitous, too.
Read MoreThere's An Exotic Car Dealer On 'Drifting Street'
Today we discovered that there's an exotic car dealership, Frank Tellermann Exclusiv Automobile, located on Driftenstrasse (Drifting street). Think the owner gets the joke?
Read MoreThis Is Britain's Super Stealthy New Warship
The United Kingdom's Royal Navy has been scheming a new combat ship since the late '90s, and announced this week that it plans to put 13 new ships into service by 2020.
Read MoreSteve McQueen's $11 Million GT40 Is The Most Expensive American Car Ever Sold
This Ford GT40 fetched $11 million on the Pebble Beach Auction block this weekend, making it the most expensive American car ever sold.
Read MoreWhen GM's CEO Says 'Progress' He Means 'Panic'
It's as predictable as snow during the Detroit Auto Show or flight delays from summer thunderstorms. As soon as a company runs into a crisis, the CEO heads for the op-ed page.
Read MoreWatch Stanford's Autonomous Audi TTS Hit 120 MPH
Skynet has become self aware. Well, not quite, but Stanford's autonomous Audi TTS, Shelley, gave several human drivers a run for their money at California's Thunderhill Raceway.
Read MoreWhy Toyota's Brazil-Like Commercial Is The Best Car Ad In Years
The graphics look like something out of an old version of Grand Theft Auto. There are no sexy babes, or dancing hamsters, or dubstep. And yet the newest Subieyota ad is the best we've seen in years.
Read MoreSeven Reasons Why We'll Miss Director Tony Scott
Yesterday, director Tony Scott jumped to his death from a bridge in San Pedro, California.
Read MoreKen Block Suing Co-Producer Of First Three Gymkhana Videos
When you think Gymkhana you think Ken Block. Other people may do variations, and there's that horse thing, but Ken Block = Gymkhana and his videos, which have been viewed more than 160 million times on YouTube, are the public face of the sport. Therefore you might be surprised to discover Block doesn't own Gymkhana.com, Mad Media does.
Read MoreTop Gun And Days Of Thunder Director Tony Scott Found Dead After Jumping Off Bridge
Tony Scott, the director of such beloved classics as Top Gun and Days of Thunder, was found dead today after jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro earlier this afternoon, an apparent suicide. Investigators found a note, which was left in his Prius on the bridge.
Read MoreUsed Car Face Off: K-Car Kraziness
Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreIs The Man Who Crashed This Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder A Lambo Assistant?
The festivities at Pebble Beach have claimed another car, albeit only a $275k Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder Performante and not a nearly priceless Shelby Daytona. And it wasn't on a track.
Read MoreName That Classic Mustang!
Welcome to Found Around Town, where we feature cars we find in a city where interesting ones are rare because everyone drives a Prius or rides a bicycle: Austin, Texas.
Read MoreThis Is The Best Event Of Pebble Beach Car Week
I'm not what you'd call a "concours guy." Don't get me wrong, I love seeing all the incredible cars that are on hand at each show this week. But seeing a car sitting on a golf course just doesn't "do it" for me. I need to see them moving.
Read MoreFisker Recalls All Karma Hybrid EVs Over Fire Risk
Fisker is again recalling the Fisker Karma hyrbid-electric luxury vehicle after the most recent fire was linked to a faulty cooling fan. There are approximately 1,000 of these EVs on the road and two fires so far this summer.
Read More$4 Million Shelby Daytona Coupe Crashes At Laguna Seca
The Pebble Beach weekend brings out some of the most valuable cars in the world and, inevitably, someone stuffs one. Seen here is a crunch-and-munched Shelby Daytona Coupe, chassis #2286, one of the five Cobra Daytonas to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Read MoreSee The McLaren 12C Spider Live At Pebble Beach
Here in Monterey for AWESUM CAR WEEK 2012!!!!!11111!11 (aka Pebble Beach), McLaren popped eyeballs with a raging-PMY-painted 12C Spider. The unveiling happened at a private party for the Gooding Moneybags Car Auction at the Pebble Beach Center For Horses That Cost More Than We'd Make If We Lived To Be 800 Years Old.
Read MoreWhat Discontinued Car Needs To Make A Comeback?
When I do my "Found Around Town" stories, I like to rag on all of the Prius drivers and cyclists here in Austin. Recently however, I've also seen a ton of Fiat 500s driving around the city. That's fine by me. I think it's great to see the 500 back in action, especially in the hopped-up Abarth guise.
Read MoreMcLaren X1: Pure Car Porn
Yes, I've been geeking out over the McLaren X1 all day. The first thing I said to anyone I met at The Quail was "have you seen the Macca? No? Let's go look at it now!"
Read MoreHow To Keep Your Car's Lights Shining So You Don't Get A Ticket
Every day, someone, somewhere gets thrown in jail for hauling bales of uncut cocaine around in their trunk. Why? More often than not it's because they had a tail light out or something dumb like that and the cops pulled them over. Don't let it happen to you!
Read MoreBMW Takes Six Weeks To Chop The Roof Off The Zagato Coupé
Remember a few months back when we wrote about the handbuilt BMW Zagato Coupé? Well, in the three months since then, BMW built another one and hacked the roof off of it. Apparently, Adrian van Hooydonk, Director Design BMW Group, and Andrea Zagato decided the response was so good for the coupé that they needed to make a roadster variant. The goal was to present the convertible at Pebble Beach, which meant they took the car from initial design to finished car in only six weeks.
Read MoreRolls Royce Celebrates Ludicrous Plane Race With Ludicrously Opulent Car
Rolls-Royce must be running out of stereotypically British things to pay tribute to, because now they've designed a line of cars celebrating a cross between Grand Prix racing and Duck Tales, the Schneider Trophy.
Read MoreThe Lotus Exige V6 Cup Race Car Will Be Available In The U.S.
The Exige S is yesterday's news. Lotus will launch a lighter, track-ready version at this weekend's Lotus Festival at Brands Hatch, which is occurring simultaneously with Pebble Beach and Woodward for some reason.
Read MoreFord Honors Carroll Shelby With This 850-HP Shelby GT500
Like a chainsaw made of bacon, the 2013 Shelby GT500 is magnificently batshit and distinctly American. In honor of the late Carroll Shelby, Ford, Friends of Carroll and Shelby American just released a one-off 850-hp version of the GT500 at Pebble Beach.
Read MoreThe McLaren X1 Is The Most Ridiculous Car Ever, Probably
Earlier today, we said that the McLaren X1 was freaking insane from the press pictures.
Read MoreTexas Dealership Selling BMW That Someone Appears To Have Just Had Sex On
Sometimes you see a car at a dealership and say to yourself, "Wow, that is one sexy ride!" But if you think it's sexy enough to have sex on top of, you should make sure you clean up the evidence once the deed is done. Or at least before you take pictures of the car to sell it.
Read MoreTen Cars Julian Assange Should Use To Escape London
Julian Assange is stuck in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the UK won't let him leave. He needs to race to the airport and Jalopnik readers know just what cars are perfect for the job.
Read More2014 Chevy Corvette: First Video
We were so early with the first images of the 2014 Corvette that some refer to the design of the next generation C7 sports car as the "Jalopnik Corvette." Of course, GM designers deserve all the praise (or criticism).
Read MoreCOTD: Escape From New York Edition
Isaac Hayes' character in Escape From New York was far from positive, but you root for him from the moment he comes onscreen. Why? Chandeliers.
Read MoreMeet The Man Who Built A Racetrack In His Front Yard
You remember Alan Wilzig, the guy who built the sick racetrack in his front yard (or back yard, if you hear him tell it)? Now you can meet him and get an exclusive and private tour Wilzig Racing Manor. On video, at least.
Read MoreThis Tire Fights Back If You Stab It
Did your mother ever tell you not to mess around with bees when you were a child? That's because even though it will die in the process, it will sting you.
Read MoreElon Musk Pledges To Support Nikola Tesla Museum Project
It was brought to my attention last night that The Oatmeal was trying to help turn Nikola Tesla's lab into a museum. At one point The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman tweeted Elon Musk — Tesla Motors CEO and Tesla fan — asking him if he'd like to help.
Read MoreWill.I.Am's $700,000 DeLorean Found In What Sounds Like A Publicity Stunt
Will.i.am has a new album coming out. At a party for the launch of said album his custom DeLorean he says isn't a DeLorean but really is was stolen. He made it sound like the valet took it but we were able to contradict that story and now we hear he's got his car back.
Read MoreIs The Toyobaru As Awesome As A Used Porsche Cayman S?
Of course, you know by now the Toyobaru/Scion FR-S is the second coming of every svelte speeder that ever slew a sports-car circuit sideways on a Sunday. You know that because, well, it is. But how does it fare on the goosepimples-per-dollar scale?
Read MoreThis Is The Best Rant About An 8-Bit Racing Game Ever
Remember the very early '90s? It was like the late '80s, but for some reason everyone started thinking about Seattle. Many of us still had our Nintendo Entertainment Systems, and some of us may have been lured into playing the game based on the Tom Cruise NASCARvaganza, Days of Thunder. You know, Top Gun in racecars.
Read MoreNow You Can Own A Car That Larry King Once Crashed Into
On Seinfeld, George Costanza spent a lot of time bragging that he purchased a car once owned by John Voight. Of course, it wasn't Jon Voight the actor, but John Voight the periodontist.
Read MoreWhy A Rental Car Is The Fastest Car You'll Ever Have
The next race of the season was taking place at Sebring Raceway in Florida. It was five in the morning. I brushed my teeth and readied myself for a big day on track. But when you are staying in a hotel full of race team members — all driving rental cars — the battle to the racetrack can sometimes be fiercer than the actual race.
Read MoreIf You Leave Your Maserati Running In Times Square It's Your Fault If It Gets Stolen
Whenever I see a car idling on the side of the road with no driver in it, I instinctively yell "free car" and imagine jumping in and driving off. I've never actually acted on it, but the thought has occurred to me.
Read MoreHow A Reddit Detective Out-Sleuthed TV's Smartest Spy With The Help Of Google Street View
The Google Street View cars have caught some crazy scenes over the last few years. They've fallen into ravines, driven on race tracks like Indianapolis, and one even witnessed a birth on the street.
Read MoreThe World's Most Adorable, Badass Jeep Is For Sale
This might be the coolest Jeep ever built. It has eight-wheel-drive, a rear-mounted V8, and of course it has a rifle. Somehow, it is both for sale and startlingly adorable.
Read MoreWhat's Your Favorite Matchbox Car?
We already know that Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars are one of the best means of teaching your kid the gearhead way, but which one is best?
Read MoreMcLaren 12C Can-Am Concept: Let's Race
The McLaren MP4-12C remains the highest rated vehicle we've reviewed for one major reason: it was built with the driver in mind. This new Can-Am Edition racing "concept" seems to be built with the gentleman driver in mind. We like.
Read MoreTanner Foust Describes His Ideal Cop Car
Top Gear USA is starting their new season tonight on HISTORY and it looks like the boys will be hooning some cop cars. Since we learned almost nothing from Adam and Rutledge we went to RallyCross champion and Top Gear cohost Tanner Foust all about it. The man had lots of interesting things to say. Read on!
Read MoreCOTD: Why We Build 500 Horsepower Mustangs Edition
Fast cars, like roller coasters and dive bars, are all about risk. We like to feel like we're toying with something dangerous.
Read MoreThe 2013 Range Rover Loses 700 Pounds
The new 2013 Range Rover drops roughly 700 pounds for the US market. That kind of weight loss isn't healthy for most humans, but it's just the kind of development we like to see in cars.
Read MoreCreepy-Looking Crocs Co-Founder Blames His DUI On 'Girlfriend' Taylor Swift
When Boulder, Colo. police found him passed out at the wheel of his Porsche Saturday night, Crocs co-founder George Boedecker, 51, was anything but cooperative.
Read MoreRelax, The Valet Had Will.I.Am's $700,000 DeLorean The Whole Time
The "will.i.am possibly stolen DeLorean saga" has taken another turn. Apparently, the singer's car was more "misplaced" than "stolen."
Read MoreBarack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Both Wrong About Dog-Powered Windmill Cars
Today, President Obama was in Iowa, talking about his energy policies, including wind power. He reminded the crowd that Republican candidate Mitt Romney said of wind power "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it," and then Obama used that to get in a little zinger, saying "I don't know if he's actually tried that. I know he's had other things on his car," a reference to Romney's questionable practice of hauling his dog Seamus on the roof of his car.
Read MoreThe Ten Biggest Land Vehicles Ever Built
Ever wondered to what lengths humans will go to munch up the Earth and transport bits of it from one place to the next? These are our greatest instruments. Jalopnik readers found the most massive land vehicles ever built, largely made for mining and the occasional war.
Read MoreWill.I.Am Desperately Wants Someone To Return His Stolen DeLorean [UPDATE: He Got It Back]
Black Eyed Pea, entrepreneur, fashion dude, and possible "automaker" will.i.am's custom DeLorean, which he at one point claimed was his own design, has reportedly been stolen.
Read MoreIdentify This Car And Help Boston Police Catch A Murderer
Law 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 MoreFisker Assures Us They Have No Idea Why Their Cars Keep Catching On Fire
Fisker took time to respond to the Fisker Karma fire we exclusively first reported this weekend. They agree with our analysis that the fire probably wasn't battery related.
Read MoreBugs In Austin Won't Stop Pooping On People's Cars
Car owners in Austin, TX have noticed a strange occurrence in the past few weeks. Their cars (and really any outdoor surface) have been covered with a sticky, amber-tinted substance that many have assumed is just tree sap.
Read MoreMy Civic Wagon Is Kind Of Cool...
It's got a B18b engine swap out of a '96 Integra, a killer paint job that's Nissan D-12 tank green off of the Xterra, and some sweet Enkei 92's with Yokohama S drives for some old school flavor but new school handling. It also has a set of Recaro's from an old Volkswagen GTI.
Read MoreHow JFK Airport's $100 Million Security System Was Defeated By A Jet Skier
Daniel Casillo started last night by racing some friends on jet skis near JFK airport. His night ended in custody, having easily broken through the airport’s $100 million, state-of-the-art security systems. Strangely, the airport couldn’t be happier.[jump]
Read MoreThis Creepy Pop-Up Camper Is Apparently 'Where Girls Become Women'
There's nothing wrong with driving a windowless van or pulling a battered camper, per se. It's when you scrawl things like "Free Candy" and "Where Girls Become Women" on them that they become genuinely creepy.
Read MoreJay Leno Once Got Pulled Over In A Wooden Car That Uses Fire As Fuel
When people aren't hating on Jay Leno for the late night wars, they're gawking at his awesome garage full of sweet rides.
Read MoreWhat's The Biggest Land Vehicle Ever Built?
We are concluding the age of miniaturization. Our technological progress has been in making computers smaller and smaller, until they fit in our hands and we pretend they're phones. The time has come to celebrate big things.
Read MoreThe Ten Craziest Automotive Mashups Imaginable
All carmakers have a "secret menu" of parts they could cobble together into a double-double cheeseburger of awesome. That's how Jalopnik readers came up with the ten craziest engine/chassis combos that need to get built, now.
Read MoreRhys Millen Sets Pikes Peak Record With 9:46 Climb
That Rhys Millen screamed past the 14,000 foot mark to the top of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in less than 10 minutes is a major milestone for the nearly century-old race. But although he was driving a 700-hp Hyundai Genesis racecar, let's not forget that this is also the first year racers are driving on a fully paved course.
Read MoreSupercharged Limited Edition Jaaaaaag Makes Strange Craigslist Find
Jalopnik readers already think Craigslist is a great place to find a used car. A lot of people pick it because it's cheap, and I find tons of great stuff there, some of it pretty rare and interesting.
Read MoreHelp Find This Rare Porsche Stolen At The Nürburgring
Earlier this weekend, 66-year-old Thorkil Simonsen of Denmark brought his Porsche 356 to a classic car race event at the Nürburgring. Unfortunately, he didn't leave with the Porsche — someone stole it, and now Simonsen and other enthusiasts are seeking the Internet's help in getting it back.
Read MoreUsed Car Face Off: E30 Showdown
Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreQuestion Of The Weekend: What's Your Craziest Road Rage Story?
People are nuts out there, man. A driver's license doesn't guarantee someone isn't a total psychopath. Jalopnik editor-in-chief Matt Hardigree got a taste of that when he ran into a pack of angry Virginia rednecks while roadtripping in the new 911 Carrera S.
Read MoreMr. Ed Sells SVT Mustang Cobras To Generation X
Here's the situation: You're an ad executive for the Ford Motor Company in the mid-90s. Your goal is to sell the latest generation of V8 Mustangs to the apathetic, too-cool-for-school Generation X, a group now awash in money thanks to the awesome 90s economy. (Remember that?)
Read MorePaul Ryan Used To Drive The Wienermobile
You're going to be hearing a lot about Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan when he's picked as Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential candidate later this morning. Here's something they may not tell you: he used to drive the Wienermobile and sell meat products for Oscar Mayer in the upper-Midwest.
Read MoreExclusive: Fisker Karma Hybrid Sets Itself On Fire And Burns While Owner Gets Groceries
A Fisker Karma hybrid-electric luxury sedan set itself on fire earlier this evening as the owner went to purchase groceries, Jalopnik has exclusively learned. The cause of the fire is unknown but photos show extensive damage to the front left quadrant of the car.
Read MoreCOTD: What's Good For GM Edition
No head of GM ever said the famous line, "what's good for GM is good for the country." It's a popular misquotation, perhaps more true than what was really said.
Read MoreAsk American Robb Holland Anything You Want About Racing In The British Touring Car Championship
Robb Holland will soon be the first American driver in the British Touring Car Championship in 37 years. This is a huge challenge and his first race is this weekend at Snetterton. As prep for his race he's answering your questions, live, right here.
Read MoreThe White House May Waive The EPA's Ethanol Requirement
The news isn't official yet, but MSNBC's Chuck Todd tweeted an hour ago that the White House hinted that because of this summer's drought, it's considering waiving the ethanol production requirements the Environmental Protection Agency imposes on corn growers.
Read MoreAdd Tech From The Mars Curiosity Rover To Your Old Car
Would you really like to take your old '76 Vega Kammback on the HOV lane, but you just can't convince anyone to ride with you? And, are you sick of the way that tired old engine sucks gas like it's gin in my uncle's secret Thermos? Sure you are. If that Vega was a hybrid, you could solve all these problems.
Read MoreEven The Jaguar F-Type's Taillight Is Alluring
After engineers and computers spent millions of hours analyzing the design, the new Jaguar F-type is finally ready for unveiling at the Paris Motor Show next month. Clad in sexy aluminum skin, the convertible model takes to the automotive runway on Sept. 27.
Read MoreThe Ten Cars You're Most Likely To Do Something Stupid In
Hold on, is that guy texting and putting on a tie, and eating a cheeseburger? Want to guess what car he's driving? Well, Jalopnik readers probably know. They've identified the ten cars people are most likely to be driving while engaging in idiocy.
Read MoreCOTD: The Informative Function Of The Automobile Edition
Automobiles are not a mode of human transportation. They are a mode of information transportation.
Read MoreWatch A Nitrous-Equipped Mustang Explode In A Street Race
As soon as this Mustang street racer hits the gas, he experiences a nitrous blowout. It's powerful enough to blow the top half of the intake manifold straight through the hood and even pop the Mustang logo out of the grill.
Read MoreWe Solve The Mystery Of How A Ferrari Ended Up Buried In Someone's Yard
The detective eased himself down into the freshly dug trench. The guy who'd been driving the skip loader hovered nearby. A few helpers leaned on their shovels, waiting for the detective to finish his work. His work was to check the car for corpses.
Read MoreWired Editor Uses Yoko Ono Lyric To Compare Cyclists To Oppressed Black People
Ha ha ha! Here we go again. This kind of language pops up every once in a while for different reasons, I suppose, and it really has to stop.
Read MoreOf Course Those German Minis At The Olympics Are Advertising
No advertisements or logos are allowed in the Olympics, yet big-time sponsor BMW gets to hustle Minis all through the throwing events with their R/C retriever cars. The Olympic Committee claims this isn't advertising, which is total bullshit.
Read MoreI Lived In A Van Down By The River And It Was Rad
When most people think of someone living in a van down by the river, either Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker or some dude whose biggest accomplishment was going to every Dead show between 1976 and 1994 are invariably the sort that come to mind first.
Read MoreOwner Of Deadline.com And IndyCar Team Busted For Breaking Into Yacht Club With Brother [UPDATE: Jay Penske Peed On Someone]
Detroit mogul, race team owner, and billionaire Roger Penske has a squeaky clean, no nonsense, business first image.
Read MoreAston Martin Confirms V8 Cygnet With Their Denial
Yesterday, we received a tip from a reader named Dan that Aston Martin was planning to shoehorn their big V8 from the Vantage into their Toyota/Scion iQ-rebranded and upgraded city car, the Cygnet. I was very excited by this news. So excited that I did some quick speculative drawings of what such an insane pocket-beast might look like. Only after I got nice and worked up did we contact Aston Martin.
Read MoreHow GM Kills Innovation
When GM canned its chief marketing exec Joel Ewanick, there was much buzz about his controversial sponsorship deal with the Manchester United soccer team and its $560 million price tag.
Read MorePolice Release New Photos Of A Pick-Up Truck Connected To Hit-And-Run Which Killed 19-Year-Old 'Total Sweetheart'
Law 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 MoreWhat Happens When You Abandon A $342,000 Maybach For Four Years?
This is the "Rich Bitch" Maybach 57, MSRP of $341,750, abandoned in a garage in Cannes for four years. Look on my chrome, ye Mighty, and despair!
Read MoreReddit Is OK With Rapists But Not Used Car Salesmen
One of the most popular features on the main Reddit pages, other than memes and puppies, are the "Ask Me Anything" forums where anyone from a Porsche employee to various self-admitted rapists come and answer questions.
Read MoreFirst Turbocharged Subaru BRZ Boosted To 278 Horsepower
Toledo, Ohio's Accelerated Performance created a stir last month with the first turbocharged BRZ. When they popped up on the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club forum last month, John Visconti had squeezed 54.5 extra horsepower out of the Subaru BRZ's stock 2-liter engine.
Read MoreHow Chrysler Is Using A Meth-Cooking Murderer To Sell Cars
The main character in AMC's show Breaking Bad is Walter White, a formerly mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher turned cancer patient turned meth cook and ruthless murderer. No matter how much of a badass he is, he isn't exactly someone we'd consider an ideal role model or a good "get" for a product endorsement.
Read MoreTen Ways To Turn Your Kid Into A Gearhead
Schools are shutting down shop classes across the country and it's up to parents to raise the next generation of car nuts. Don't worry, because Jalopnik readers have ten surefire ways to convert your children into total gearheads.
Read MoreThis Is The First Missile Launch From An F-22 Going Faster Than The Speed Of Sound
You know about the F-22 Raptor, the newish cutting-edge fighter being continually developed, right? Perhaps to celebrate that they've figured out how to keep the planes from suffocating pilots, today was the first time a missile has been launched at supersonic speeds.
Read MoreCOTD: The Torture Of Car Advice Edition
Have you ever tried giving a non-enthusiast advice on what car to buy? It's torture.
Read MoreDriving The Ferrari 458 Spider On One Of The World's Curviest Roads
(Once upon a time British motoring writer Jethro Bovingdon crashed a Ferrari FF into a low stone curb. When we found out he'd then taken a brand new Ferrari 458 Spider to the Stelvio Pass — a place that's basically all low stone walls — we thought it only fair to give him a chance to gloat if he got the Ferrari out unscathed. He did.)
Read MoreAcquaintance Confirms The Ferrari Driver Stomped By Cops Is An Obnoxious Poser
If you watched Julien Chabbott, internet entrepreneur and boyfriend of Hills star Stephanie Pratt, get taken down for running his Ferrari over a cop's foot while trying to dodge a ticket, you probably thought, "I bet that guy is a thundering douchebag." According to our source, you would be completely correct.
Read MoreThe Ten Worst Things You Can Say To A Cop
It's hard to know how to talk to a cop, especially when you're late for that flight/wedding/anger management meeting. Thankfully, Jalopnik readers have ten things you can remember to never say to the cop who's pulling you over.
Read MoreHow To Turn Your Five-Year-Old Into A Gearhead
In an age when teenagers are forsaking cars for smartphones, it's encouraging to see that some people have the right idea and are getting their children hooked on motoring at a young age.
Read MoreWatch Someone Drive A Car That's Been Chewed
There's something almost charming about this video. It's pretty simple: a man driving a car on the highway. The hook, of course, is that the car looks like it's been masticated by Godzilla.
Read MoreHow To Read The Landscape From Your Airplane Window
Do you ever wonder what you're seeing when you look out of your airplane window and spot bizarre red pools or strange green circles on the ground below? You're not alone. We talked to Gregory Dicum, author of the incredible aerial landscape guide Window Seat, about the weirdest and most beautiful views from an airplane. We have a gorgeous gallery.
Read MoreCOTD: Nationality And The Toyota Celica Edition
The second generation Toyota Celica was the first car designed in California's groundbreaking Calty Design Research Incorporated facility. Though it was built in Japan, is the 1978 Celica a Californian car?
Read MoreAsk Nitro Circus 3D Stars Travis Pastrana And Jolene Van Vugt Anything You Want About Living Dangerously
What's it like to face possible death and frequent injury? We'll get some insight into that when Nitro Circus 3D: The Movie premieres this week, but in the meantime we have broken bone enthusiasts Travis Pastrana and Jolene Van Vugt for the next hour, live, in Kinja answering your questions about anything.
Read MoreThree Cheers For The Great AE86
In America's backwards calendar days, it is 8/6/12, a perfect day to honor the trusty steed of the budget racer, rally driver, and drifter for the past few decades. In three videos, let us celebrate its drifty goodness.
Read MoreA New Yorker Just Had A Full Fledged Funeral For His 30-Year-Old Honda Civic
Cars in New York City that aren't lucky enough to spend their days in a $600 per month garage see a lot happen on these mean streets.
Read MoreWhy American Taxpayers Are Paying For The Big Mess In Europe
If you've only been paying casual attention to the problems General Motors is wrestling with at Opel, this might make you sit up and pay attention.
Read MoreBoss Mustang Drivers Refuse To Race In Protest Of The SCCA This Weekend
At this weekend's Pirelli World Challenge GTS race at Mid-Ohio, drivers of the Ford Mustang Boss 302 race cars staged a protest against SCCA rules by parking their 'Stangs in the pit lane after the initial formation lap.
Read MoreWhy The World's Deadliest Race Could Never Happen Again
Try and guess the deadliest motorsports race in the world. Was it the German Grand Prix when it was held on the Nurburgring Nordschleife? Not even close. The Dakar Rally? You're still way off. The World Rally Championship, particularly the fatality-prone Group B series? Think again.
Read MoreA70 Supra Turbo Recalls Toyota's More Sporting Days
Welcome 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 MoreWatch A Ferrari 458 Driver Run Over A New York Cop's Foot And Get His Ass Kicked
Here we see an asshole get into his $257,000 Ferrari 458 and try and drive away from a ticket. The cop writing the ticket blocks the way and the driver pulls up onto his foot. He will regret that decision.
Read MoreUsed Car Face Off: Diesel Duel
Welcome to Used Car Face Off, a new feature where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreThe Rick Ross Guide To High-End Automobiles
Earlier this week rap impresario, luxury goods enthusiast and former prison guard Rick Ross dropped his fifth studio album, God Forgives, I Don't.
Read MoreQuestion Of The Weekend: What's The Greatest Car You've Ever Driven?
It's a simple question that gets a different answer from everyone: What's the greatest car you've ever driven?
Read MoreWeekend Motorsports Roundup: August 4-5, 2012
Welcome 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 MoreAmazing Danish Auction Is Amazing
Car auctions, outside of local municipal ones that offer up Saturns with mild vomit-staining and months of meth-urine saturation, tend to have pretty desirable vehicles. This particular one, from the Aalholm Automobile Collection and set to take place on August 12, has an eclectic and varied array of cars for sale.
Read MoreTen Mad Ways To Make Your Commute Bearable
Today we ran ten helpful tips in how to make your ordinary commuting life less hellish. But what if you're not ordinary?
Read MoreThis Asshat Just Drove Off With A Flat Tire In His $300,000 Ferrari
If you'd paid $300,000 for a V12 Ferrari 612 ($100-180K if you bought used), you'd change the tire if you got a flat, right? Not this New Yorker, who drove from Brooklyn to Manhattan on a torn up Pirelli and showed no signs of stopping.
Read MoreFiat Writes A Poem And Overestimates Shakespeare's Vocabulary
Fiat UK recently cleared 30,000 fans on its Facebook page, and someone in their marketing department figured it was a good number to celebrate. But first they had to figure out a solid hook for the number 30,000.
Read MoreAsk A Veteran New York City Cab Driver Anything You Want
If you think it's daring to be a race car driver, then you have never actually watched someone drive a New York City taxi. Every day is a stint in an endurance race where things are constantly going wrong. Add in the fact that you have to pick up customers that complain about everything and constantly forget things in the vehicle, and it can become a nightmare.
Read MoreIs This The Most Redneck Driver On The Roads Today?
He's drifting an ‘80s V8 Capri on the street while smoking. I can't tell if this is the most redneck driver on the roads, or just the most irresponsible.
Read MoreHow To Buy A New Tesla For Half Price Without Having To Wait Forever
If you wanted a Tesla Model S but couldn't afford the sticker price (or bear the long wait), now's your chance. Well, sort of. Tesla shared its guts with Toyota, who stuffed them into a RAV4, and now the car's going on sale.
Read MoreTen Ways To Make Your Commute Bearable
Much of America was built so that people live far away from where they work. This means commuting by car. Thankfully, Jalopnik readers know ten ways to keep you sane in your twice-daily hell.
Read MoreHow To Watch Rally In The United States
WRC Finland is this weekend and it's the rally of all rallies. Sure there are more epic ones in length or difficulty, but nothing matches the speed and jumps of Finland! When one dreams of being a rally driver, it's on the stages like Ouninpohja.
Read MoreWould You Drive The '66 Mustang Shelby GT 350?
Big muscle isn't for everyone, but those who are fans of lazy V8 power tend to like their cars fast in a straight line and little else. For many, this leaves the Shelby GT350 out in the cold, but would you drive it?
Read MoreGrand Am Goes To Indy: The Über Gallery
The Grand-Am Brickyard Grand Prix was last Friday and Trevor Andrusko and Halston Pitman were there for MotorSportMedia to capture all of the road racing glory we've come to expect this season.
Read MoreCOTD: What The Hell Is Carrot Top Edition
As far as I can tell, Carrot Top is some kind of ancient wizard whose spell of eternal youth has worn off and he remains alive only by sucking the souls out of unsuspecting tourists in Las Vegas.
Read MoreThis Car Hack Came To Me In A Dream
I suspect I'm not alone when I confess I occasionally have car-related dreams. This past week, I woke from a very vivid dream, though I could only remember one part of it clearly. It was a dream about a car, a BMW 2002.
Read MoreA Guy Just Drove A Tractor Over Seven Cop Cars In Vermont
A Vermont resident just took to a farm tractor and ran over seven police cruisers. We spoke to police and they currently have "no idea why" this happened.
Read MoreHow Two Guys Spent $1 Million On Cars In Manhattan
The story of how the co-owners of Classic Car Club Manhattan populated their garage of quirkpot classics is part of Jalopnik lore. Thus, their story — including how they keep all those temperamental bastards running well enough to drive every day — is a natural for the premiere episode of Jalopnik on DRIVE.
Read MoreTalk To The Man Who Drives The $2.6 Billion-Dollar Mars Curiosity Rover
Matt Heverly has one of the coolest jobs in the Solar System: he drives rovers. On Mars. He drove NASA's Opportunity rover for four years and now he's getting ready for the biggest mission in the history of NASA's planetary exploration—driving the $2.6-billion car-sized Curiosity rover after it lands this Sunday (I will be covering this amazing event live, crossing my fingers, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California).
Read MoreMeet The Ultra Badass Qatari Skeet Shooting, Olympic Medal Earning, Dakar Rally Winning, Handsome Devil You Wish You Were
Nasser Al-Attiyah isn't a name known by millions of adoring fans. People don't scream when he gets off a plane in a new city. He has an Olympic medal but his poster isn't on the walls of children everywhere. He doesn't have the paparazzi following him everywhere he goes.
Read MoreHow To Find The Sweet Spot When Booking A Vacation
Conventional wisdom says booking a vacation yourself will save you a lot of money—but conventional wisdom isn't always right. New (and old) methods of booking travel can save money in ways that weren't possible just five years ago, so we decided to find out: In 2012, what's the cheapest, most efficient way to book a vacation.
Read MoreThe First Person Killed By A Car Was This Very Impressive Woman
For most people, being the first to do something is all the achievement they'll ever need. My cousin Carl, for example, claimed he was the first person to masturbate while eating a taco, and it was on the strength of this triumph that he was almost accepted to a community college. Other people, however, can have a lifetime of achievement overshadowed by one particular act at which they happened to be first.
Read MoreHow Do You Make Your Commute Bearable?
Until we all live thirty feet away from our daily productivity pods, we'll have to suffer through some kind of commute, and in the US that means a couple of hours in a car a day. How do we stay sane?
Read MoreInsane Latvian Car Company Invents Totally Insane New Class Of Insane SUVs
Dartz, probably the best of all the Latvian car makers, has made some of the most epic armored trucks — and movie posters — of the last decade.
Read MoreJeep Grand Cherokee Fails Evasive Maneuver Test, Again
A month ago, Swedish car magazine Teknikens Värld tested the Jeep Grand Cherokee with its famous "moose test," an evasive maneuver simulation. The SUV failed miserably, standing up on two wheels as it negotiated a tight turn.
Read MoreDaughter Lifts 3,500-Pound BMW Off Her Father
Lauren Kornacki walked out into the garage to find her dad crushed under his 525i after a jack slipped. Screaming, she hurled the car off her dad, but he still wasn't breathing. Good thing she'd taken a CPR refresher course two days before.
Read MoreWatch A Smart Car Lead Texas Police On The World's Most Adorable Police Chase
Houston area police were involved in the cutest police chase ever this morning when a Smart Convertible led cops around the highways outside the city.
Read MoreIdentify This Car And Help Catch A Hit-And-Run Driver In Kansas
Law 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.
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Nice Price or No Dice (23)
For $7,500, Is This Westfalia Worth Falling For?
Last year a 1963 VW Microbus sold at auction for more than two hundred thousand dollars. Not only is today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Westfalia lots cheaper, but it packs a little bit of Henry in its butt.
Read MoreFor $11,500, Grab A Not So Grand National Cavalier
Starbucks has a shitload of sizes for your caffeinated consumption, including Short, Tall and Venti. Slotted between those last two is Grande, and that could be the size of the engine in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cavalier. But is its price sufficiently demitasse?
Read MoreFor $29,995, Fool Absolutely No One, Eh
Like Rodney Dangerfield, Pontiac's Fiero never seemed to get any respect. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Canadian Fauxrarri isn't going to change that, but does this one at least come with a price that's respectable?
Read MoreFor $5,000, Is This Fiat Bravissimo?
Fiat is now back in the US market with the diminutive and sassy 500, but most people buying those are probably too young to have experienced why the company had to leave in the first place. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '79 Brava might just offer a taste, but only if its price proves worthy of its sticking around.
Read MoreFor $1,500, Charge It!
Carroll Shelby passed away this year, meaning no future cars affixed with his name will have actually been blessed by the legendary builder. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dodge was so anointed, but will its price have Shelby hitting the rev limiter in his grave?
Read MoreFor $5,000, It's A Total Eclipse Of The Donk
An eclipse is when one celestial body enters between two others- one of those typically being the Sun - partially or totally obscuring one from the other. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Eclipse may itself be obscure, but despite its wide-orbit turning circle, is this donk a star?
Read MoreFor $16,500, Get Custody Of The Mini
Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender was used in the owner's wedding, and is now being cast off due to its being a grim reminder of that event after his statistically unsurprising divorce. They apparently couldn't stick it out, but will this Mini's price make you want to say I do?
Read MoreFor $19,500, This E60 Demands High Ballers
For some, BMW's E60 looks a little too close to Dame Edna for comfort, but it's undeniable that, visuals aside, it's an all around great car. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe E60 is apparently a lot of great cars all rolled into one, but does that make its price worthwhile when considered as a package deal?
Read MoreFor $2,500, Get The Fastest Third Row In America
Rip Van Winkle was a sleeper, as apparently are certain cells of creepy terrorists. Neither of those however, is as sleeperiffic as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Taurus Wagon with an SHO motor. But will its price prove worth losing sleep over?
Read MoreFor $25,000, Pickup A Cadillacamino
There are plenty of open-bed Cadillacs out there, mostly designed as funeral procession flower cars. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Caddy on the other hand, is a full-on pick-em-up truck. It's also claimed to be a barn find, but is its price too hay lofty?
Read MoreFor $6,000, Move To Cougar Town. '60s Week
The sixties are history and so is Ford's once upon a time brand, Mercury. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cougar lets you relive both - plus it's a stick- but does its price mean it should have stuck in the sixties?
Read MoreFor $15,000, Look At That 3.8S Car Go! '60s Week
The sexual revolution of the sixties was a bold and sloppy reaction to the staid and puritanical fifties, and no car brand better revolutionized sex in the ‘60s than Jaguar. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 3.8S would have been great if the sex was for groups, but is its current-day price a total turn off?
Read MoreFor $2,500, This Oughta' Be Your Siata. '60s Week
We're kicking it ‘60s style all week here on Nice Price or Crack Pipe, and today we're also going with a classic Italian. But does this Siata come with a price that you'll think is worth springing for?
Read MoreFor $7,000, Is This A Fairlane Or A Greatlane? '60s Week!
It's all ‘60's all the time this week on Nice Price or Crack Pipe, but that doesn't mean our contenders — like today's '66 Ford Fairlane — can't take advantage of more modern means to their performance ends. That mix of old and new might make this a Ford that goes fast, but will its price make it go likewise?
Read MoreFor $18,000, This 2000CS Leads Off '60s Week
It's ‘60's Week on Nice Price or Crack Pipe, and to kick things off we have a black plate Bimmer. This old school 2000CS is an excellent representative of the Neue Klasse, but does its price have you giving it a failing grade?
Read MoreFor $4,000, Don't Get Bogged Down.
Did you know that 25 U.S. states allow cousins to legally marry? Legend says that's wrong because the combined gene pool would be wading-depth only and might result in such inbred offspring as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jimmy-maro. That bog monster may be all in the family, but is its price relatively normal?
Read MoreFor $3,500, Impala To The People
Like any good scientist, Goldilocks famously sampled all three options before settling consistently for the middle of the road choice. With its 327 and pillarless four door body today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Impala also stakes out the middle ground, but is its price fair to middling?
Read MoreFor $4,400, Won't Someone Please Think Of The Children?
The artist formerly and currently known as Prince may have wanted to party like it's 1999 but today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe phone booth Ford will let you Festiva like its 1991. Turbo'd and flared, do you think this lime-colored custom is worth its asking price in green?
Read MoreFor $8,500, Giddyup
The Mustang is a horse of the American Southwest, where also there exist Rancheros who might ride said Mustangs. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is a Mustchero, and as American as apple pie, but does its price make it a must-have-o?
Read MoreFor $450, Czech Mate!
Czechoslovakia once had an illustrious and enviable reputation for automotive engineering and construction. As in most industries, the nation's communist takeover snuffed that out, leaving cars like today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Škoda 120 to do the country proud. Is this rare and rusty rear-enginer also priced for pride of ownership?
Read MoreFor $9,500, Would You Like A T For Two?
The ‘60s were rife with wacky customized hot rods that flowed from the pens of designers like Dean Jeffries and the self-proclaimed King of Kustomizers, George Barris. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW-Based T is like a page ripped from that era, but is its price also far out man?
Read MoreFor $500, You Could Buy This Hole Jeep
The price limit for the venerated racing series known as the 24 Heures du LeMons is five Benjamins. That doesn't allow for the accouterments that define a team's theme, however today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep already has that covered. But is that LeMons-worthy price still driller killer?
Read MoreFor $54,900, Could This BMW Be Z1 For You?
In German, Zukunft means future, and that's what the Z in BMW's sports cars points to. Surprisingly, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Z1 arrives from the past. Not only that, but it comes with a price that may make the future of its buyer's wallet a lot lighter.
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This Scary First-Person View From A Plane Crash Will Make You Never Want To Fly Again
Hearing about a small plane crash is nothing new. Having the crash on video is a bit rarer. But having two angles of the crash video from inside the plane? That's extremely rare and gives insight into why these types of crashes happen so frequently.
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Racing (4)
Weekend Motorsports Roundup: August 25-26, 2012
Welcome 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 MoreWeekend Motorsports Roundup: August 18-19, 2012
Welcome 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 MoreHow Pikes Peak Became The Most Dangerous Place I've Ever Raced
By my count there were eight red flags, three life flight helicopter trips, five ambulance trips, over a dozen driver visits to the hospital, and at least one injured spectator at this weekend's Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Why?
Read MoreWeekend Motorsports Roundup: August 11-12, 2012
Welcome 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?
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This Is Ferrari's Beautiful One-Off SP Arya
When you daily drive a 599 GTO and there's an F40, and SA Aperta, and a 599XX in your garage, what do you buy next? You get Ferrari to build you a one-off, of course.
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Neil Armstrong, The First Man On The Moon, Dead At 82
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, passed away earlier today. He was 82. The cause was complications from heart surgery three weeks ago.
Read MoreHow To Use Rockets To Make The Ultimate Handling Car
There's been a number of rocket-powered cars, and while they're all pretty fun, they're basically only good for one thing: going fast, in a straight line.
Read MoreHow To Build A Car On Mars
I'm pretty sure we're going to have a Mars colony one day. In fact, my retirement plans kind of hinge on it. I'm not so deluded that I think I'll be able to ship my beloved Beetle and Scimitar over with me, so I'm going to have to pick up a new car when I get to Mars.
Read MoreThese Are The Space Cars Of NASA
Cars –- they aren't just for Earth anymore! Proving that America still has mad space exploration skills, NASA sent a highly advanced roving vehicle to Mars last week to research conditions on the Red Planet. But while the Curiosity has gotten a great deal of attention in the news lately, it isn't the first time we've sent a car-like vehicle to another world.
Read MoreNASA Prototype Lander Crashes Like A Drunk Robot, Then Explodes
As a nice counterpoint to the Curiosity landing, NASA today demonstrated they have the capacity to fail spectacularly as well. A prototype lander, Morpheus, designed as a testbed for greener fuels, crashed today during a test flight.
Read MoreThe Man In Charge Of Moving The Shuttle Through LA Once Rolled A French Car
On September 20th, the 26th and final mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour will be a perilous journey to that most strange region of space, Los Angeles.
Read MoreThese NASA Video Games Are Pretty Damn Good
If there was the fun, cool uncle of government agencies, NASA would have to be it. Not only does he have an amazing job (landing robots on Mars), but Uncle Nasa also gives us cool gifts. Not like stupid Uncle Department of Agriculture, who's always trying to pawn off corn husk dolls and garden trowels. Uncle Nasa gives video games.
Read MoreSeven Reasons Curiosity Is The Baddest Rover Ever
While Curiosity was still flying through space, way before it landed on Mars, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were busy working with a clone rover back on earth. In a simulation area called the Mars Yard, scientists put the duplicate Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) through a series of experiments to perfect the rover's software and reevaluate its capabilities. The tests answered critical questions, such as: Can it go over that big rock?
Read MoreWhy It's Great We Send Robots To Mars And Why People Should Follow
While I was live-blogging the spectacular landing of Curiosity on Mars last night, I knew in the back of my head at some point there would be a particular comment posted. It's a comment that gets posted any time there's an article about space exploration anywhere. It may be trolling, but it's consistent and common enough to address.
Read MoreLive From NASA: Blogging The Curiosity Mars Rover Landing
We're hours away from humanity's most advanced robot explorer ever landing on another planet. Curiosity, the car-sized, six-wheeled mobile laboratory, will very soon slam into the Martian atmosphere, then be placed on the surface of the planet in a way never before tried. This rover has the potential to change everything we know about Mars, and give us the first real understanding if Mars could have harbored — or could harbor— life. It's a big deal for science, for technology, and for anyone who
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Leaked Brochure Scans Reveal McLaren's Project Alpha
There is no doubt that the McLaren MP4-12C is one of the top performing cars on the road. But many have criticized the styling as a bit too boring to be on a supercar.
Read MoreRobot Google Cars Will Kill You Old Lady — A Florida Political Ad
Now that Mitt Romney has picked his Weinermobile-driving running mate, election season is in full swing.
Read MoreHow Magnets Make The Camaro ZL1 Dance Around A Race Track
Like America's national treasures, the Insane Clown Posse, I don't have a clue how magnets work. But I became determined to find out after reading about how Magnetic Ride Control helps the new Camaro ZL1 handle so well.
Read MoreWhat's The Most Technologically Advanced Car Ever Built?
The automobile itself is a technology, and an amazingly advanced one at that. But what automobile is the most advanced of all?
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The Morning Shift (23)
VW Tests 261 MPG Diesel Hybrid, GM Wants A Paint Shop, And Clint Goes Rambling
This 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 MoreDodge Dart Sputters, Mercedes Citan Could Be Coming, And Paul Ryan Is Head Shaking
This 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 MoreToyota GT86 Goes Squealing, Cadillac Gets Ambitious, And Tesla Gets A Present
This 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 MoreGM Suspends Volt Production, Toyota Gets Hacked, And Golf R Cabrio Is Coming
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Read More2015 Mercedes C-Class Is Spied, Mazda Waves Goodbye, And Hertz Finally Is Buying Dollar/Thrifty
This 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 MoreBMW Sues Saab, VW Eyes Small SUV, And GM Workers Unstitch
This 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 MoreVW GTI Concept Is Coming, MyFord Touch Is Smelling, And GM Is Going Cruze-Ing
This 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 MoreBMW Wants Scooters, DOT Wants Talking Cars, And Prof Wants GM To Decentralize
This 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 MoreVolkswagen Eyes F1, Honda Builds The 2013 Accord, And Toyota's Auris Is Aur Matrix?
This 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 MoreJapan's Domestic Market Headache, BMW's RWD X3, And RIP Tony Scott
This 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 MoreMercedes Axes Maybach, Akerson Auctions 'Vette, And Ryan Running In Circles
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Read MoreLexus Plans LF-LC, Mercedes Nabs Federer, And GM Workers Stitch Up Their Faces
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Read MoreAudi Looks Backward, BMW Counts Loaners, And Toronto's Mayor Eyes Papers
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Read MoreHyundai Chases BMW, GM Peddles Junk, And Bailout Bill Grows
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Read MoreBMW Has Hot New Police Cars, Chrysler Has Eyes On UAW Stock, And GM Has Lots Of Jobs Overseas
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Read MoreGM Says Leaks Are Treason, Honda Thinks It Can Build A Better Civic, And Would You Stay At A Toyota Hotel?
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Read MoreMysterious Jeep Looming, Toyota Sees Consumers Worrying, And Spring Hill Is Blooming
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Read MoreBMW Repulses With New M3, Consumer Reports Reviles, And Morgan Stanley Recoils
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Read MoreAston Martin Vanquish Goes To Monterey, BMW Goes South, And Ford Wants To Go Cheap
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Read MoreGM's Man U Tab, Fiat Can't Chrysler Tap, And TMS Floors It
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Read MorePorsche 918 Peek, Toyota Comeback Speak, And Chrysler's Total Recall Reeks
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Read MoreGM's Euro Smash, BMW's Elusive Hatch, And Toyota's Skidding RAVs
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Read MoreBMW Goes Front-Wheel Drive, Drivers Go For Sticks, And Toyota Goes For The Gold
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The Ten Coolest Trains Ever Built
Held to the ground by rails (and a lot of gravity), trains are some of the fastest, most powerful land vehicles humans have ever built. Jalopnik readers have found the ten coolest trains of all time.
Read MoreWhat's The Coolest Train Ever Built?
Much as we love cars here, you're not a true gearhead until you can appreciate the hulking monstrosities that ply the rails. We're talking trains, and they're awesome.
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Trucks (1)
What Do You Get For Winning A Truck Driving Championship?
The 75th annual National Truck Driving Championship won't feature a race. There will be no drifting. If you come looking for Peterbuilt wheelies, you won't find them in Minneapolis, where the competition will be held.
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The Super Hacky Oil Pan Emergency Repair Fix
Out of the four cars I own, there's only really one that can be considered "modern," and next year it'll be old enough to get Bar Mitzvah'd. Still, I have a kid now, and that means I really should have at least one car with some airbags and actual room to haul him and his stuff around. That car is a 2000 VW Passat wagon, the V6 AWD one, and generally I quite like it.
Read MoreHow To Adjust Your Driving For Rear-Wheel, Front-Wheel, And All-Wheel-Drive Cars
If you can morph into the chameleon of racecar drivers, chances are you will be successful in whatever you decide to drive. And that's good, because as Ricky Bobby said, "if you ain't first, you're last." The obvious question is how your driving should differ based on the car's configuration. Honestly, it's simple stuff.
Read MoreHow To Do Your Own Frame Repair And Why You Probably Shouldn't
Fender benders are an unpleasant reality of motor vehicle operation. Sometimes, when the damage goes deep enough, it can render your car unusable. But even though some crash damage can't be fixed without major repairs — or at all — some can be fixed using a bit of good old fashioned ingenuity.
Read MoreHow To Build A Car Horn Organ, Part One: The First Part
As I've mentioned here before, cars are incredible mobile colonies of amazing parts that can be repurposed for any number of uses. One of those uses can be annoying people in an entire neighborhood at once, which I suspect will be the main result from this week's project: the car horn organ.
Read MoreThe Nerd's Way To Bring A Car's Crapped Up Paint Back To Life
Did you know you can bring a car's paint back to its original color and lustre with a little skill, knowledge, high-tech gadgetry and elbow grease? Paint correction is one of the most difficult, but most satisfying detailing skills to master. Especially on a 1958 Porsche Speedster.
Read MoreHow To Make Pulling An Engine Fun
Removing an engine from a vehicle is hard work, particularly on bigger cars and trucks. But that doesn't mean that it has to be unpleasant. It can actually be pretty fun if you include enthusiastic people who like solving problems and don't mind getting dirty.
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