(Last year, Jeff Gerner ran a 1992 Audi S4 to a top speed of 242 MPH at the Bonneville Salt Flats. He went back this year to go faster. Our friends from QuattroWorld and eGarage were there and saw the whole thing. - T.O.)
Read MoreIntroducing the Draguar. It's a '74 Jaguar XJ6 with the steam-belching heart of a poorly maintained Chevrolet.
Read MoreMuch as we like reviewing the newest sports cars, we love the classics just as much. Here's one in particular, an absolutely beautiful 1952 Buick Super, shot as the leaves change for Fall.
Read MoreThe compact segment is fiercely contended, with strong competitors coming from every major carmaker. With increasing quality deriving from each geographical location, expectations are rising, and customers are no longer willing to settle for a crappy econobox.
Read MoreExcuse the junior high speech class cliche, but Webster's Dictionary defines a 'coupe' as "a two-door automobile often seating only two persons." Over the last decade, the German automakers have pretty much told Merriam Webster to go to hell. Their model lineups have exploded and they have created classes of cars that never existed before. One of those is the four-door coupe, which was just a sleeker, four-seat version of their mid-sized sedans… and not technically a coupe at all.
Read MoreThe fourth generation Nissan Pathfinder loses its ruggedness for 2013, switching to a unibody from the traditional body-on-frame approach. It looks more like an oversized crossover vehicle than the rock-traversing machine of old. But don't for one minute think this makes the new Pathfinder any less capable.
Read MoreDo Jalopnik readers need any bigger of a sign that the world is ending than the Toyota Prius being a bigger seller than the Camry and the Ford F-series?
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreBack in the good old days, a nickel used to buy you a night on the town with your best gal, including a trolley ride, tickets to the latest Clark Gable film and the post-coital pack of cigarettes. Now it doesn't even cover 15 minutes in a downtown parking meter. How did this change over time? It's all part of the magical and mysterious phenomenon called inflation. Let's learn about it!
Read MoreAlto de la Mina, Colombia — Once upon a time, trucks were trucks. All you got was a metal box with some seats and rudimentary controls; a thing to be battered, broken, and fixed repeatedly. Adding 4-wheel-drive was just a way to abuse these glorified carts in the gnarliest terrain imaginable.
Read MoreEver since the dawn of luxury sport sedan time, the BMW 3-series has been your honors student cousin at the family Thanksgiving dinner. Audi, Mercedes, and, most recently, Cadillac have all tried to beat the 3-series at its own game, but in one way or the other, they have always come up short.
Read MoreMcLaren was predestined to build a version of its MP4-12C for the pate-tanning set. But is the new Spider as good as the closed-top coupe that shares its nerdy alphanumer-name, or is it — like most other convertibles — a tragedy of compromise? Let's head to Spain and find out.
Read MoreHorizon, Colorado — The console racing sim, as we know it, is rapidly approaching its natural limit. You can add more cars, different tracks, and continue to improve tire physics, but those wanting to virtually experience a race are likely to find a better chance at realism using rFactor, iRacing or any number of PC simulators paired with a custom rig.
Read MoreThe most common question we get asked is "what's the best car for a budding enthusiast?" Well, Jalopnik readers know just the right cars to buy.
Read MoreFor a young enthusiast who appreciates all species in the automotive pantheon, how is one to choose a single car to buy? A young community members seeks your advice.
Read MoreThe new Chevrolet Malibu Turbo is interesting mostly because of the "turbo" part of the name. But not for the reasons you'd think. When most of us think of "turbo" we still think of it in terms of fast and sporty, since that's what we grew up with. If a car was turbocharged in the 80s, then it was a sports car that had the word "TURBO" badged or decal'd on it in at least 60 places. Plus, there was that turbo button on our old 486 PCs, and we know how fast that was.
Read MoreNone of Subaru's American PR people or, for that matter, any of the other American journalists took seriously my interest in Subaru's tiny Kei-car offerings, especially the little trucks and vans. It actually became sort of a running joke among everybody. I don't mind, I'm used to that.
Read MoreConvertibles have been a part of Jaguar's DNA since day one. Legends like the XK120, E-Type, and XJS are deeply ingrained in Jaguar's heritage as comfortable tourers with a sporting attitude. The XK continued to hold the candle as the relaxed, sporting gentleman's convertible since it was released in the 1990s.
Read MoreThe first thing you need to know about the Morgan Three Wheeler is, when Alex Roy invites you to drive one of the only ones in the United States you absolutely have to say yes whatever the consequences. There will be consequences.
Read MoreSince it’s Halloween, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on a persistent subculture in the hot-rod community: the coffin car.
Read MoreAudi calls it a "nighttime signature," and they're not messing around with them.
Read MoreHave you ever noticed that the term "import car" doesn't get tossed around like it used to? In these days of Toyotas from California, Volkswagens from Tennessee and Chevrolets from Canada, it's becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between a "foreign" and a "domestic" car.
Read MoreThe most famous automotive murderer is probably a Chrysler named Christine, supposedly the only supernaturally possessed 4-wheeled vehicle. But where there's smoke, there's fire.
Read MoreThis baby boy has the coolest parents ever. For his first Halloween, his awesome parents dressed him up as Marty McFly from Back to the Future and built him a DeLorean push car. Just look at him inside his tiny little DeLorean, it's one of the most adorable Halloween costumes ever.
Read MoreRacing games should be about having a good time above all else, but sometimes you just need need tweak your damper settings to shave .3 seconds off your lap record. Jalopnik readers know the ten most realistic driving sims for you.
Read MoreMicrosoft's Flight Simulator claims to be the best, er, flight simulator out there. But what if you want to stay on the ground?
Read MoreNothing expresses the freedom and the downright awesomeness of cars like seeing them catapulted through the air. Now Jalopnik readers have picked the most defining, unbelievable car jumps ever put to film.
Read MoreTwenty-two years ago, Ken Imhoff started building a Lamborghini Countach, by hand, in his basement. Seventeen years later he was done, and the world watched as he smashed a hole in his house to get it out.
Read MoreSeldom do we all agree. Some like blondes, others brunettes, and some even like gingers. Some people wear tweed jackets, others would burn a man in tweed. I enjoy questionable music, I hate oysters, and I can't understand a bloody word people from Georgia say.
Read MoreWe like to think professors drive odd/cool cars like Saab 900s, but it turns out they really drive dreary boxes like Toyota Camrys and Corollas, as you informed us this week.
Read MoreRight across from the coffee shop I sometimes work from, there's one of those coin-op self-serve car washes. Put in $2 worth of quarters or those stupid dollar coins you can't do anything else with and you get like 3 minutes to rise, soap and rinse your car.
Read MorePalermo, Sicily — My grandfather grew up in Sicily, and I've been listening to his stories about watching the Targa Florio and Mille Miglia for years. I thought those legendary Gran Tourismo races had long ago gone the way of the dodo, but I thought wrong.
Read MoreThere was a time, not long ago, when the jumble of silver numbers and letters on the back of a German car meant something. But nowadays those alphanumerics mean nothing, because marketing has become more important than honesty.
Read MoreThe Monte Carlo Grand Prix is a legend among auto races. What city would also lend itself well to an exciting road course?
Read MoreEarlier this week I was in Yokohama, Japan, at Nissan’s GRANDRIVE test track, when I saw something amazing. An entire new line of cars developed by Nissan, and constructed via a radically new method. We weren’t here to test these cars, but I was lucky enough to snap some photos. As you can see, they resemble current Nissan and Infiniti models, but utilize an incredible super-superleggera pneumatic construction method.
Read MoreI've never been a huge fan of hotels. They're nice and all, and sometimes it's good to have a clean place to sleep and a hot shower when you're on the road. But when I'm away from home, I usually opt for the cost-free comfort of the back of my station wagon.
Read MoreSince the dawn of recorded time, television and the glitterati of Hollywood has brought us legendary cars that have become characters in their own right. Your Chitty Chitty Bang Bangs, your My Mother The Cars, your Batmobiles, and your Arrested Development Stair Cars.
Read MoreCarmakers set aside huge reserves of cash to build monumental headquarters. They serve as representations of the company's spirit, and Jalopnik readers have picked the very best in the world.
Read MorePeople who decry manuals as the only path to automotive salvation are snobby and exclusionary. That doesn't mean there aren't a hundred good reasons why manuals are better than paddle shitters. Excuse me, shifters.
Read MoreCar enthusiasts have been bemoaning the lack of manual transmissions in cars for what seems like an eternity. Every time a new car comes out and it doesn't offer a manual gearbox, it gets shunned by every card carrying member of the enthusiast community.
Read MoreAn automotive manufacturer can make any generation of new car beautiful or interesting (with a little effort), but they've only got one chance in a generation (or a century) to get their headquarters right.
Read MoreProfessors need some way to get from their writer's group meetings to their wine and cheese department parties somehow. Thankfully, Jalopnik readers know just what cars are perfect for a prof.
Read MorePalermo, Sicily — Vintage car racing is, for the most part, a good old boys club; the emphasis being on 'old' and 'boys.' But there are exceptions, and a few popped up at this weekend's Targa Florio vintage car race in Sicily.
Read MoreFor many, myself included, the wounds that appeared to heal have reopened today, displaying a rawness within that still remains. It's been a year since the tragic accident at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that took our friend Dan Wheldon. And while we will never forget that heartrending day, reliving it in memory is something many have attempted to withstand.
Read MoreThere tends to be a lot of groupthink when it comes to cars. People buy what their brother likes, what they see all over (so it must be good), or what a coworker has. Nowhere is this more true than in academia.
Read MorePalermo, Sicily — The Targa Florio was one of the world's first car races, and even though it took a nap for a few decades, it's back. Only now, little old ladies and white haired old men can compete in cars that were racing the course when they were young.
Read MoreWelcome 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 importance of the NSX cannot be overstated.
Read MoreMuch of the new time travel/crime thriller Looper takes place in the year 2044, but it's not exactly an optimistic vision of the future.
Read MoreWhen I was but a wee lad, my great grandpa sat me on his knee and gave me words of wisdom I shall never forget. He said, "Boy, as you're going through life, always remember there's a fine line between being classy and being a total fucking douchenozzle."
Read MoreLast week, we explored the phenomenon of "Japandering," whereby an American or European celebrity shills for some product in Japan. While we got to see Michael J. Fox rocking out in an Integra sedan last time, today we'll further dive into Honda's love of using American celebs in their ads, this time with the incredibly lovely Jodie Foster.
Read MorePereira, Colombia — "It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand."
Read MoreNo less than 70% of new cars sold in North America last year were white, black, grey or silver. Jalopnik readers know that's a shame. They picked ten awesome alternatives to boring old grayscale.
Read MoreWe're on the precipice of the Forza Horizon launch and what will almost certainly become an obnoxious shitstorm perpetuated by people who wear racing shoes while playing console simulator racing games. They'll complain about the "physics" and how it isn't "real" enough for them.
Read MoreJust like an awful color can turn you off a gorgeous car, so too can a beautiful one enhance a vehicle's appeal.
Read MoreThere's all kinds of ways to advertise cars. There's ponderously serious commercials, funny ones, cars-drifting-sideways-in-slow-motion ones, and they all have their place, in one way or another.
Read MoreBack to the Future, and especially the time traveling DeLorean, made a pretty big impression on kids and adults alike. One Russian child loved the movie so much that all he wanted for his birthday was a ride in a DeLorean.
Read MoreSometimes, to go fast and look cool, you've got to give up things like fuel economy and space and utility. Jalopnik readers have found the most illogical, dedicated, and impractical cars on sale.
Read MorePersonally, I'm not the kind of person who likes to get a lot of grief from his daily driver. I need it to be something I can depend on. I don't need to be screaming expletives at it when I turn the key. It could be the journalist in me, feeling the need to be ready to run and report breaking news, but I feel asking a car to just um... work, is not a lot to ask.
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreThere's a maxim we have used here at Jalopnik for many years: four wheels good, two wheels bad. Why do we say this? To put it simply: safety. Cars are inherently more stable than bikes, and they offer greater protection to their driver and passengers. That's why the motorcycle crashes that get posted here tend to be spectacular, cringe-inducing wrecks.
Read MoreNearly every car on the road is some boring shade of white, back, or silver. Some carmakers try and break out of the norm with "fun" colors. As Jalopnik readers know, that doesn't always work out.
Read MoreThere's a 1956 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mark II drophead coupe for sale on eBay right now, and if the fact that it's a 1956 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Mark II drophead coupe isn't cool enough for you, there's something that is. Stephen freaking Hawking rode in it!
Read MoreIn case you hadn't heard, last night was the first of three debates for the upcoming presidential election. While Mitt Romney and Barack Obama butted heads over the economy, a very notable quotable came up from Romney regarding government loans to the greener part of the auto industry.
Read MoreMedellín, Colombia — Forbes magazine listed 1980s Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar as the seventh most wealthy man in the world in 1989. Even today, he still stands as one of the richest men in world history.
Read MoreI was just in Tokyo on Important Jalopnik Business, and, as always, I was thinking about you, my readers. Aside from writing "Mrs. Jason Jalopnikreaders" over and over again on my notebook, I made a point to take a stroll through Tokyo so I could give you a glimpse of the very unique carscape of this huge, dense city.
Read MoreAmerica's roads are filled with cheap, rusty cars half-broken and fixed with duct tape. Eventually they have to go into the shop. When they do, they go to the best sub-reddit there is.
Read MoreCities are unbelievably frustrating to drive in. Luckily, Jalopnik readers know ten tricks for enjoying an automobile, even when you're living in urban car hell.
Read MoreAlthough they decrease in number with each passing year, classic cars from the 1950s and '60s are part of America's cultural landscape. They're icons of an time when we had just defeated the biggest threats the world had ever known.
Read MoreDriving on the street is nice and all, but the truest expression of freedom and the automobile is off road. Jalopnik readers know the best dirt, mud, sand, and rocks you can find here in the USA.
Read MoreWith Halloween on the way, let's entertain a morbid thought. What does your car, the one you drive every day, look like in a crash?
Read MoreRecently, we saw a McLaren MP4-12C invade a Toyobaru track day in California. Instead of dominating the day, as it should, the driver put it into a wall.
Read MoreCesarò, Sicily — Another day, another China-related Ferrari accident, this time at a race in Sicily. Not that China and its citizenry have more Ferrari problems than others, but China is flush with new money. That means Ferrari related incidents are an inevitable facet of life there now.
Read MoreIt's been a while since we've heard from the Sunshine State, but authorities there arrested a woman who admitted to drinking three and a half bottles of wine before crashing her BMW on I-75 Friday.
Read MoreThe automotive community in China is still pretty young. Combine that with a booming economy, and inexperienced drivers are getting some pretty fast and tough to drive cars.
Read MoreF1 test driver Maria De Villota lost an eye when she crashed into parked truck early in July. She gave her first interview to Spain's ¡Hola! magazine and she's happy to be alive.
Read MoreWatching NASCAR at Talladega is like watching cars in a traffic jam for three hours.
Read MoreYesterday's McLaren MP4-12C crash at a track day event at California's Auto Club Speedway was perhaps not the fault of the BRZ driver, as originally rumored, but caused by a "reckless" McLaren owner at the track with his buddy in a Ferrari 458 Italia. And that's according to multiple witnesses.
Read MoreWe've seen a lot of dumb crashes when drivers take their cars over crests and enter blind turns way too fast, but this one is in another league.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreOh, you thought you spewed forth snarky vitriol on Twitter? You've got nothing on Jeremy Clarkson, who is unpleasantly announcing to the world that his Mercedes CLK 63 AMG Black won't start.
Read MoreWhen they aren't filming the international super hit Top Gear, hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond take some time to work on their own projects. In Hammond's case, it seems those projects involve putting himself through immense levels of stress for Crash Course, his program for BBC America where he has a matter of days to master some of the most intense jobs in America.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreIn the ranks of embarrassing pictures you could have posted on the Internet of yourself, I’m going to guess this one is close to the top. Yeah, that’s my ass, clearly visible through my shredded Y-fronts, rubbed raw and bleeding from sliding down the road. Those undies provided about as much protection as the Levis 511s I was wearing, which is to say none. This happened at around 35 to 40mph.
Read MoreLast night I set off from my Upper West Side apartment to go see Manhattan blacked out south of 34th street, particularly the East Village where some of my friends live. How would my old stomping grounds look after Sandy put it under water? More importantly, could I find a delicious, hot meal in the dark?
Read MoreMazda Dressed Up These CX-5s For SEMA, Including A 2.2-liter Diesel Dempsey-Mobile
Read MoreJohn Fitch was an incredible man- it's that simple. He was a WWII pilot, highly accomplished racer, first manager of Chevrolet's Corvette racing team, and designed and sold some stunning Corvair variants. When he was 87, he even tried to break some speed records at Bonneville in a 50 year-old Mercedes-Benz Gullwing. On top of all that, the man was a safety pioneer as well, inventing the Fitch Barrier, those yellow barrels full of sand we've all seen on highways and along tracks.
Read MoreLimited service of the Subway outside of Lower Manhattan starts tomorrow morning. The MTA's Twitter feed has a full list of running trains from Governor Cuomo.
Read MoreFirst the DAF Variomatic CVT transmission and now this? Woah, slow down there, Netherlands! The automotive world can only handle so much Dutch goodness! Designer Daan Roosegaard came up with the fundamental concept behind the new road designs, which will incorporate integrated glowing weather indicators, dynamic lighting, and other advanced features. More incredibly, there are plans to actually build these roads starting in 2013.
Read MoreKen Block And Pro Drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr. Thrash Two Hot Hatchbacks
Read MoreSEMA has some pretty good treats this year, like this Camaro Ute. It's quite clearly based on the Holden VE Ute that GM keeps teasing the non-Australian world with but with a slightly tweaked Camaro front end. The body is all Holden from the windshield back, and the official name is "Holden8er."
Read MoreFifth Gear: GM 3rd Quarter Net Income Drops, Europe Looks Even Worse
Read More1st Gear: Fiat Has To Fix Itself Instead Of Buy The Rest Of Chrysler
Read MoreApproximately 16 of the $100,000+ Fisker Karma extended-range luxury hybrids were parked in Port Newark, New Jersey last night when water from Hurricane Sandy's storm surge apparently breached the port and submerged the vehicles. As Jalopnik has exclusively learned, the cars then caught fire and burned to the ground.
Read MoreThere’s so very many flooded cars listlessly bobbing around the streets of the Northeast Megalopolis , it’s really just a matter of time before a good number of them start showing up for sale. Some may be sold with full transparency, and you’ll be aware you’re looking at a car that was once a submarine. But not everyone’s going to be so forthcoming. This is a guide to those cars.
Read MoreHere are the live photos of the VW Vortex 500 HP Super Beetle. Did we mention it was also AWD? One of our favorite cars from SEMA in a delightful matte blue.
Read MoreToday's been full of destruction and floods and all sorts of unpleasantness. So let's have a look at some other, much more fun unpleasantness, like this wildly-girlie Suzuki Kei Van done up to look like an old VW Microbus soaked in candy estrogen.
Read MoreThe flooding and destruction seen in New York are terrible, but there's another, lesser scourge that has been brought on by Snor'eastercane Sandy. Airport gridlock. You hear about it every year, whenever there's a big storm somewhere: thousands of people stranded at airports in London and Paris.
Read MoreWe have very capable scientists who are very good at figuring out the potential risks of involved in natural disasters. The trouble is in communicating that information to the people, and the people aren't always listening.
Read MoreHow would you impress a man used to the endless vistas of Texas and, er, Virginia, if he were to show up in Hungary in desperate need of a drive? A loopy French executive hatchback on greater Budapest’s best driving road may not be the worst place to start.
Read MoreFloridians and residents of the Gulf Coast are probably laughing at us like how I laugh at southern cities that completely shut down and declare states of emergency the second a snowflake touches the ground. Let's meet this natural disaster's Frankenstorm of jerks.
Read MoreWe already have a good idea what the 2014.5 Mustang will probably look like, with a faster roof and a longer nose. Now we see a test mule that's similar to the current model but is hiding something else unexpected.
Read MoreFor years Scion has brought cars to SEMA, but they've always been blobby xBs with turntables in them or whatever. Now they have the FR-S, and we actually care about their three newest tuned cars.
Read MoreNew York City's public safety officials are actually worried that food trucks could be a breeding ground for terrorist activity.
Read MoreSandy is here, and like many of you, we have no idea what that means in scientific terms. All we know is that it's windy and rainy and we just blew all of our money on batteries and booze, so this better be real.
Read MoreHurricane Frankenstorm Sandy is currently heading towards the New York City metro area and people are freaking out. It's rare a storm like this heads up this way, so locals tend to overreact.
Read MoreChevrolet unveiled the Hot Wheels Edition Camaro at SEMA this week, giving Hot Wheels geeks the world over a chance to own a lifesize Hot Wheels car.
Read MoreThe 16-member crew of the HMS Bounty, a replica vessel modeled after its 18th century namesake, was forced to abandon ship after a collision with Hurricane Sandy off the coast of Cape Hatteras caused the ship to start taking on water at an uncontrollable rate.
Read MoreAs your house gets flooded by Hurricane Sandy's storm surge, it's hard to know which luxury superyacht would make the best home-away-from-home. Thankfully, Jalopnik readers know the ten best yachts on sale today.
Read MoreOne of the quirks of modern safety preparation and advanced storm warnings is that, while people still die in hurricanes in the U.S., many of the deaths occur after the storm has passed. And those deaths are often avoidable with just a little safety consciousness.
Read MorePeople that have cars with an automatic gearbox tend to not use the parking brake because they think just putting it in park is enough.
Read MoreAt this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, there was an LMP2 car badged as a Lotus, but it was actually a Lola with Lotus plastered on the side. Now, a car that is kind of actually a Lotus could be on the track in 2013.
Read MoreHere they are, the finalists for the honor of 2013 Green Car of the Year.
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreThe garbage truck celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. I know, you're thinking Jalopnik should have thrown it a real bash and we're so irresponsible for glossing over an incredibly important milestone like this. Apologies, really.
Read MoreThe league of extraordinary meteorologists are extraordinarily pissed off at the National Hurricane Center for their pedantic warnings for Frankenstorm Sandy. Specifically, they feel that the NHC's wonkiness led them to not issue Hurricane and Tropical Storm Warnings when the conditions will be hurricane-like.
Read MoreHere's what I need you to do right now, Jalops. I need you to click on over to ESPN.com and read Marty Smith's heartbreaking but extremely well-written story about former NASCAR driver Jerry Nadeau, who was injured in a racing crash nearly 10 years ago.
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreIn case you haven't noticed, our freedoms are under attack every day in this country, including our right to consume disgusting, diabetes-causing giant sodas and our right to use firearms irresponsibly.
Read MoreJust two weeks ago, I was rejoicing over the fact that Bimmer Jesus heard my prayers for a slightly larger version of the BMW 3 Series that is inexplicably called a coupe despite having four doors. The result is the forthcoming 4 Series Gran Coupe.
Read MoreIt's late October here in Central Texas, which means that the temperatures are (eventually) dropping to their winter levels. Since we spend months on end dealing with 100 degree weather, this is the time of year we get really excited about.
Read MoreI'm not going to lie to you, friends. When I first saw this listing for what appeared to be a Nissan GT-R wagon, I started screaming and squealing like I did at my first One Direction concert like a 13-year-old girl at her first One Direction concert. Then I started thinking of all the ways I could line up the financing so I could buy it for myself.
Read MoreHave you ever had the chance to just completely lose your shit on a police officer, and then be allowed to walk away like nothing happened? Most of us will never experience that, but this dudebro pulled it off after two police officers on scooters nearly hit him on the Old Dominion University campus in Norfolk, Virginia.
Read MoreNow that the weather has cooled off considerably down here in Texas, it's that time of year where we Texans get together and do what we do best: drive insanely overpowered cars extremely fast in a straight line.
Read MoreOkay, enough with all of that Japander crap we've had on Classic Ad Watch the last three weeks. I'm tired of those no-good furrin' cars, coming over to America and stealing our jobs and marrying our sisters with the help of Eddie Murphy and Michael J. Fox.
Read MoreLast night, a new car club in the Pacific Northwest called "Team Innovations" popped up on the internets.
Read MoreEvery time I see a car decked out with stick-on port holes and other tacky adornments, I do what I can to check the inevitable wave of nausea that comes with beholding such a sight. Worse yet, these flashy plastic bits are typically stuck to the most miserable shitheaps imaginable.
Read MoreI'll be honest, I had a lot of personal investment in Snor'eastercane as the name for the incoming storm Sandy. The NWS and everyone else seem to be committed to the admittedly more elegant Frankenstorm. Oh well.
Read MoreOur tips line often gets filled with images that make healthy people want to lavishly vomit, but it's usually the result of a garishly customized Bentley/Hyundai sphinx-thing or something like that. This time, though, the disgust was from real, genuine gore. So, yeah, thanks for that, Andrew Scott of Australia. Thanks a lot.
Read MoreAs we're all in a financial position to go yacht shopping, let's get down to brass tacks and figure out which one you should actually buy.
Read MoreToday we saw a Nissan GT-R getting towed on its wheels. This will likely cause damage to the car, but is the owner responsible for the repairs?
Read MoreTaillights are a great part of a car to customize and play with. They're highly visible, distinctive, and everyone has to have them, anyway. I came up with an idea on how to make some extremely dynamic light units for not much more than the cost of some tacky, over-chromed aftermarket ones.
Read MoreWhile I was in Japan investigating many of Nissan's new science projects, one of the highlights of the trip (aside from seeing entire stores of claw machines) was a trip to the Nissan Heritage Museum, located on the grounds of Nissan's Oppama Motor Plant. The collection, also known as the Nissan DNA Museum, must be where they drag designers to help them recover from their comas induced from working with Altimas and Versas all day.
Read MoreSince the GT-R is both all wheel drive and a delicate flower of a supercar that is ruinously expensive to repair, you should tow one with all four wheels off the ground. Apparently this tow truck driver didn't get the message.
Read MoreIf there is one country that is famous for copyright infringement and knockoffs, it's China. That means that the Chinese patent office is not the place to put something that you want to keep secret.
Read MoreWhat started out partially as a joke about the fear-mongering over potential Snor'eastercane Sandy has turned out to be less humorous as the most recent official forecast from the National Hurricane Center now follows the European model guidance and shows it landfalling on the East Coast between North Carolina and Cape Cod.
Read MoreGod Bless Texas. Land of the free, home of the batshit crazy. Crazy like John Hennessey who took his 1,226 VR1200 Cadillac CTS-V to test the 85 MPH highway's tag systems at higher speeds.
Read MoreForza Horizon, which released yesterday, introduces a "car club" concept to the game, and it isn't just a leaderboard of your friends. You may share your best rides with anyone else who joins up, and they may take those cars out on the open road of Forza Horizon's Colorado.
Read MoreOn February 15th of this year two military personnel an Italian Navy vessel shot and killed two approaching Indian fisherman near the coast of India. This sparked an international incident still under investigation.
Read MoreWhen it was released in the mid-1960s, the Ford Mustang became an instant canvas for tuners to extensively modify. Any of you ever hear of Carroll Shelby?
Read MoreIt was the 1966 Sebring 12 Hours. Ford GT40 drivers Ken Miles and Dan Gurney were dicing for the lead, coming dangerously close to knocking each other out of the race. Team boss Carroll Shelby tried to send the message to the drivers to stop racing each other, but neither would listen, so Shelby decided to intervene. With a hammer.
Read MoreRemember when we did a bit of premature fearmongering over soon-to-be great halloween storm Sandy? Turns out, it wasn't that premature, and we have a name for it courtesy of the Wall Street Journal: Snor'eastercane.
Read MoreMost of the stunts cars pull in movies would result in absolutely catastrophic damage in real life, yet they mostly just drive away. Who cares? They look cool, bro.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to hoon the crap out of a 411 hp Ford F-150 Raptor in a 900-acre desert offroading park? You can in the Ford Racing Raptor Assault program. Even if it wasn't your dream before, it probably is now.
Read MoreEarlier we reported on a tale of a man, a Mustang, and a broken wheel. The wheel maker's shady actions after the wheel failure (most notably alteration of their warranty after the fact) didn't exactly earn them much sympathy in our comments, though there was plenty of speculation if the painting process (not powder-coating) affected the wheels, as well as the wisdom of taking such thin-spoke wheels on the track in the first place. Neither of which changes the fundamental impression that these wh
Read MoreFerrari isn't going to offer manual transmissions on its new cars. Would you give them up for a 458 Italia?
Read MoreApple announced a bunch of new products today, including a redesigned iMac that brings us a step closer to humanity's dream of a desktop computer thin enough to chop onions. The new iMac is aluminum, and traditional welding methods won't really work to join panels for such a thin (5mm thick) enclosure. To get around this, they're using a method known as Friction Stir Welding.
Read MoreToday we saw Toyota joking that its GT86 doesn't care about dodging moose. What if you didn't want to dodge a moose but drive completely under one?
Read MoreIt looks like a toy car, but has the heart of an econobox. This is the Nissan EXTREM, an "urban sports" concept car built for Brazilians of modest means who are sick of driving bland, gutless economy cars.
Read MoreBack in 2009, Barack Obama made a gutsy move at the beginning of his presidency. He used his political capital on an $82 billion gamble to put General Motors and Chrysler through bankruptcy, and deal with a bunch of collateral issues surrounding the auto industry.
Read MoreOutside of Detroit last week, one driver attempted to pull over a cop for not wearing a seatbelt. Watch as the cop just laughs it off.
Read MoreI don't know if this was clever planning by someone at Apple, or just happy chance, but it looks like that new iPad Mini we're all so excited about (sort of like how the world lost its shit at the release of fun-sized Oreos) is almost exactly the right size to fit into many car's dashboards easily.
Read MoreWhen you throw a 411 hp 6.2-liter V8 into a light duty pickup truck, amazing things are bound to happen. That's why Ford gave us the F-150 Raptor.
Read MoreWhen the Jeep Grand Cherokee failed the Moose Test, a minor scandal arose. This time, a recreation of the famous Swedish road maneuver trial with a Toyota GT-86/Scion FR-S is actually funny.
Read MoreKermit the Frog famously stated, "it's not easy being green." He was, of course, not referring to airplanes, because everybody's sick of boring white jets.
Read MoreNothing is better than getting a good parking space, but could there be a greatest space? Jalopnik readers think they've found the ten coolest parking spaces imaginable.
Read MoreBy choice, I live in New Jersey. I grew up there, it's familiar, and the commute from my Jersey City apartment is barely 30 minutes to Manhattan.
Read MoreFor ten hours in Georgia, the greatest GT and prototype race cars in the US battled for the final win of the American Le Mans Series season. It was the Petit Le Mans and as you can see, it was utterly fantastic.
Read MoreWe're not massive fans of electric coal-powered cars here on Jalopnik, but that's mostly because electric cars are usually flimsy, slow commuter vehicles. There is a huge potential for electric cars, though, and it's in your hands.
Read MoreWhen we think of the Toyota Prius the first words that come to mind are... well, let's not kid ourselves. We don't often think of the Toyota Prius.
Read MoreIf you're buying wheels for your track car from a company that says things like "they're at home on the boulevard or on the racetrack" then it's reasonable to assume that the track is one of the expected places you'll be using those wheels. That means if the center of the wheel busts out while driving, you wouldn't expect the company to deny your warranty claim because "our products are designed for street use."
Read MoreWith cars getting generally better and better all the time, the things that automakers seek to improve become more and more subtle. Like how everything feels. Up until fairly recently, the only concern about how interior materials interacted with your hands was basically just making sure they didn't lacerate you too badly.
Read MoreMI6 has a French agent being chased by five enemy operatives. Her only chance of survival is you, and your only method of communication is a command line chat window. Can you somehow guide her away from danger and capture the enemy operatives for interrogation?
Read MoreBuilding upon their already notorious hipster netting campaign, Chevrolet is taking its sales tactics to the floor of the SEMA convention this week. Aimed at Millennials, the Spark Sinister and other mass-customized Sparks and Cruzes will be shown off.
Read MoreIt's been a busy hurricane season so far, but I wouldn't blame you for not being aware of that fact because most of the stronger storms have avoided landfall in the United States (with the exception of Isaac). Alas, another system lurks in the Caribbean ready to attack the East Coast with the fury of an angry God. Or not. It's way far out there.
Read MoreThe sad fact of the matter is that the vast majority of a car's life is spent parked. You might as well put it somewhere cool, no?
Read MoreThere were two events of note in Elroy, Texas on Sunday afternoon: the FM 812 Outdoor Flea Market, and the opening day and ribbon cutting ceremony at the Circuit of the Americas race track where Formula One will be held in just a few weeks.
Read MoreUsing what I can only describe as something that sounds like fucking magic or something, a British firm this week unveiled technology that they claim can synthesize gasoline just from air and electricity.
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreRace tracks: They're not just for racing and drinking beer anymore!
Read MoreGot a ton of money and like BMWs, but feel like they don't offer enough power and luxury even in M guise? That's a nice problem to have. And if you have it, Alpina has your back, just as they have for many years.
Read MoreOh, Hollywood. You give us a great film that people come to love and adore, and then you wait a few decades and think you can do it better. Then you fail miserably. The Italian Job, Planet of the Apes, Death Race 2000 and The Day The Earth Stood Still are just some of my favorite films victimized by a horrendously awful remake.
Read MoreAsshats! Like their cousins the douchebags and the dudebros, asshats have a tendency to ruin everything they're involved in, from outdoor music festivals to the simple act of parking.
Read MoreWalt Kowalski, the grumpy, rifle-toting Korean War veteran played by Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino has a great line when he confronts some creeps who have been harassing his neighbor: "Ever notice how you come across somebody, once in a while, that you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me."
Read MoreAlright, Jalops and Jalop-ettes. I wasn't planning on posting a classic ad featuring the "Japander" phenomenon, where a Western celebrity stars in absurd Japanese TV commercials, for the third week in a row.
Read MoreFerrari claims that the 458's 9,000 RPM limit is "a first on a road car." We hate to break it to you Ferrari, but Honda beat you to it with the S2000. By over 12 years.
Read More"Howdeeeee folks. Welcome to the State Fair of Texas!" Visitors to Dallas' Fair Park have been greeted by the booming voice of a 52-foot-tall statue at the state fair for the last 60 years. But the Lone Star State icon leaves some giant boots to fill—today Big Tex met a tragic death in a purported electrical fire. There's nothing left but his hands, feet, and metal frame left to fill the world's largest body bag.
Read MoreHave you ever though about what would make the ultimate pizza delivery vehicle? Something that would match Neil Stephenson's The Deliverator. Dominos did, so they teamed up with Local Motors and sponsored a design competition to come up with something better than that miserable, rusted out beater that brought pizza to your apartment last time you got the late night munchies.
Read MoreHalf a century ago, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy squared off in a battle over the balance of world power that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. How close did we all come to dying?
Read MoreYou don't have to torture yourself and buy a Prius if you want to see high MPGs. Jalopnik readers have ten tips for getting better mileage in the car your already own.
Read MoreAs the Syrian Civil War rages on, rebels still appear to be mad as hell at the Bashar al-Assad-led Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party government. This attack on a Syrian military Mi-8/17 Hip gunship helicopter is just latest public example.
Read MoreWe were pulled over on the side of a desert road somewhere out in Utah, I think. My dad had just been stopped for doing 90 on this four-lane highway. The cop was walking over and my dad says, "those flowers outside are beautiful."
Read MoreDreadlocked Magnus Walker does not fit in with Porsche's modern image. Neither do his cars. He has one of the greatest collections of classic air-cooled 911s there is, and he's sharing them with the world in one short film.
Read MoreYesterday, Green Hornet Racing Porsche driver Peter LeSaffre bashed Gunnar Jeanette in the unique DeltaWing off the track and into the air. Moments after the crash, LeSaffre driver flipped Jeanette the bird. Well played.
Read MoreWhat do you get when you combine cheesy corporate pop stardom with a big box store and a NASCAR entry? A Taylor Swift race car, of course
Read MoreWith gas prices on the rise, everybody would like to get a few more miles out of each gallon. But not everybody has the drive or the means to replace their car.
Read MoreWe've seen Mazda's Kodo design language in the Mazda6 and the CX-5, and going by this supposedly leaked image it looks like they're going the same route with the Mazda3.
Read MoreYesterday, the DeltaWing was flipped off the track by a Porsche during ALMS testing at Road Atlanta. Now we have the onboard video, and it's kind of hilarious.
Read MoreThe DeltaWing has crashed again, this time testing for the American Le Mans Series. This is a damn shame, and we'll explain why.
Read MoreWhen a Lexus dealership owner and an Eclipse business jet pilot start exploring possibilities, interesting things happen. As happens so often with these things, what started out as some friendly trash talking turned into a full-on bet, and a race.
Read MoreThey say that you can't drift an all-wheel-drive car. Just to prove the doubters wrong, Kenneth Blockenhammer blew through the entire course at Formula D Irwindale, including its car-killer banking.
Read MoreWe have been amped about Forza Horizon here for a few weeks. It may not be a sim racer in the truest sense of the word, but does that matter when a game is this much fun?
Read MoreFor someone who won the Indy 500, Dan Wheldon was a supremely friendly guy. He had every reason to act like hot shit, but he didn't, as one of our readers found out.
Read MoreThere have been a lot of questions about the upcoming open world Forza Horizon and what it means. Some are excited, some are disappointed, while others seem borderline suicidal.
Read MoreHome Improvement may be gone, but its legacy apparently lives on. Tim the Toolman Taylor's credo that adding a powerful motor will make anything better showed up in England of all places, where Colin Furze added a 125 cc motorcycle engine to a previously boring, leg powered baby carriage.
Read MoreHave you ever wished that you had an ATV, but held off on pulling the trigger because you wanted to buy a jet ski, too, but couldn't have both at the same time?
Read MoreHere we see a BMW parked in its native habitat. See how it perfectly spans two parking spaces. Beautiful.
Read MoreA123 Systems, the company that builds the batteries for the Fisker Karma and for the upcoming Chevy Spark EV, has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection, according to court documents. This is a major blow for the Obama administration, which has invested heavily in green energy with other companies like Solyndra that have gone bust.
Read MoreMuch as we love the F40 and the F60 Enzo, the F50 was the ultimate expression of F1 tech for the road. Here's a dude doing a burnout in one.
Read MoreLast week, we received word that SPEED had lost the rights to Formula One to NBC after having the series on the network for 17 years. Parent company FOX said that SPEED made a "fiscally responsible" bid to keep the series for 2013 and beyond. But today FOX announced they extended their NASCAR coverage for eight more years at a cost of $2.4 billion.
Read MoreWe often lament that 99% of SUVs will never go off-road. But if one is so inclined to take theirs out in the mud: where's the best place to have some dirty fun?
Read MoreWelcome 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 MoreLast week, I pitted two Q-cars against each other and determined Mercedes was the first of the Germans to nail the recipe for a sedan that looks boring but packs a punch. The 300SEL 6.3 was the beginning, but the W124-based 500E was a high-water mark.
Read MoreAt this moment, we're excitedly waiting for the winds to die down so that professional badass Felix Baumgartner can ride a balloon to more than 20 miles above the earth's surface, then jump out, breaking the sound barrier in the process. Watch the Red Bull space jump live here.
Read MoreListen: dealing with children is hard. I don't have any kids myself, but from what I've seen with my friends who do have them, they can go from charming and adorable one minute to tiny little terrorists the next minute. Also, they have sticky hands.
Read MoreLaw enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run earlier this year.
Read MoreLast week, Red Bull had to cancel the Stratos Space Jump to set the record for the highest and fastest sky dive ever attempted when weather intervened.
Read MoreWe've got some sad news coming out of the Saab community today. Police in a suburb of Boulder, Colo. are trying to find out why a man shot and killed an employee of an independent Saab repair shop on Friday.
Read MoreYou know, I consider myself a pretty lucky guy overall. I have this sweet gig at Jalopnik, an awesome dog, and I live in a city where breakfast tacos are readily available. But lately, I can't shake the feeling that something is missing in my life.
Read MoreLadies and gentlemen, this is a great time to be a resident of Austin, Texas. When I say that, I'm not talking about the plethora of delicious food trailers around the city, or the fact that it's ACL weekend and the Texas heat is finally gone for a few months (although that's all great too.) I'm talking about the Circuit of the Americas, the racetrack southeast of the city that's set to host the U.S. Grand Prix Formula 1 race in about a month.
Read MoreI'm not saying this is a good thing to do, or even something you should even consider at all. But for some of us, there may come a time in our lives when we need to stuff a living person in the trunk of a car. Sometimes things just escalate, okay? You've just gotta be cool and roll with it and then make sure your accomplice, er, friend keeps their mouth shut never talks about that night ever again!
Read MoreAt approximately 10:25 AM yesterday, a plane originating in Dallas landed in Philadelphia and delivered an undisclosed number of $100 bills that had not yet been put into circulation. Between the time the plane landed and the money was supposed to arrive at the Federal Reserve Building in East Rutherford, New Jersey the money disappeared. Now the FBI wants to know what happened to it.
Read MoreToday we met a besoffener bayerischer man, who finally got his car back two years after losing it on a bender. That's pretty incredible, but we think you've done worse, er, better.
Read MoreLast Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez (pronounced Violent-Acres).
Read MoreIf you read The Onion as your only source of news, you'd be under the impression that Vice President Joe Biden is a Coors Light-drinking, Trans Am-driving, Dave and Buster's-banned, womanizing former Senator from the great state of Delaware.
Read MoreLaw enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run earlier this year.
Read MoreEarlier today, we learned the SPEED will be losing coverage of Formula One next year after 17 straight years of bringing the races to America.
Read MoreWe're all pretty excited about the Red Bull-sponsored supersonic, stratospheric jump that Felix Baumgartner will be making this weekend. And while Baumgartner will likely be setting all sorts of man-outside-of-an-airplane speed records, it's worth looking back at the man who did it first, back in 1966. Even if doing it was probably the last thing he wanted to do.
Read MoreA lot of people love the Porsche Cayenne. And a lot of people love to hate the Porsche Cayenne. But no matter your feelings, you cannot deny how outstandingly it drives. Even the diesel model is an above average performer.
Read MoreSome people have cool jobs. And then there's Scott Maxwell, who has one of the best gigs on two planets. He's one of the people who drives the Curiosity Rover on Mars. How do you get that job? What's it like? And how does it compare to all the sci-fi and video game fantasies we've all had about this kind of thing?
Read MoreOpel has been the focus of a lot of squabbling inside GM as of late. The brand is underperforming and proving to be a pretty gigantic money pit. Analysts are telling GM to get rid of it as soon as humanly possible.
Read MoreGearhead channel SPEED has been under a lot of scrutiny lately as people speculate that Fox will turn the all car channel into a general sports channel called Fox Sports One next year.
Read MoreWhen I think of the Kia Optima, the first things that come to mind are crime fighting, yellow neons, Batarangs, and the defense of Gotham.
Read MoreWe all know the horror stories of amateur drivers crashing their cars on the Nordschleife, but, like goldfish, we forget it all in an instant. We still want to go run the ‘Ring.
Read MoreYesterday, we told you about one Russian mother who was working to make her Back to the Future DeLorean-obsessed son's seventh birthday truly amazing. She's already gotten Russia's only two DeLoreans to commit to coming and has gotten him a flux capacitor and some awesome cakes.
Read MoreOne of the largest manufacturers of convertible tops, the Haartz Corporation, has recently shown off new technology that allows complex patterns and imagery to be woven into the fabric tops. As a paid PR hack kindly emailed us:
Read MoreLeave it to SEMA to cough up normal cars that have been rendered through the fantasy mill. We've already admitted that we like the Ford Fusion and our prayers for someone to tune a manual transmission model and bring it to SEMA have been answered
Read MoreRecently, several readers pointed us to some forum posts that chronicled a high school kid converting a Honda S2000 to electric power. Oh, and with 700 electric ponies of electric power. Electrically.
Read MoreEvery single brand has its fanboys and fangirls, but some enthusiasts stand out from the rest. Jalopnik readers think they know who loves their brand the most.
Read MoreThis is Stijn Oom, a 14-year-old kid from the Netherlands. Stijn started to play with Lego right after he was potty trained (literally).
Read MoreThe debate over how far you can drive in an electric car is one that will likely take years to resolve, if ever. Think of it as a modern day equivalent of the '60s horsepower wars, or the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race — only not that badass.
Read MoreOn Monday, we brought you the tragic story of Susie Ko, the 55-year-old mother of four found slain in her Hercules, Cal. home. The only information police and Ko's family seemingly had to go on was the fact a 2011 Subaru Outback was missing from the scene.
Read MoreThanks to cheap cameras, it seems like every inch of road in the former Soviet East is being recorded. We've seen car after car after car crash into each other, and something needs to be done.
Read MoreA company you've probably never heard of has been resurrected and it has designed a car that will almost certainly never get made. Meet the new ATS.
Read MoreJoseph Morning parks his covered motorcycle on the street outside his North Carolina home every single night. But one morning, his girlfriend walked outside to find it gone.
Read MoreIt's not an ad for the BMW E30, it's lightsaber-wielding viral brilliance. BMW wishes it could come up with a campaign this cool.
Read MoreLotus F1's young driver Romain Grosjean crashes into other drivers a lot, like when he executed a perfect PIT maneuver on Marky Mark Webber at the recent Japanese Grand Prix. Let's make fun of him for it.
Read MoreI know that without him crying on our televisions, many of us have sort of forgotten about Glenn Beck. But he's not gone! He's still out there, ranting on the radio, and sliding unmanned Ford Expeditions down slippery hillsides.
Read MoreIf you survive the fiery window switches of doom you're only buying time until you crash and a counterfeit Chinese airbag doesn't explode, thus ending your life prematurely. Or worse, rather than not exploding, it blows up in your face like in the video above.
Read MoreMost car companies have a small band of ultra-devoted customers watching their every move: the people that can tell a 2003 from a 2004 because of the interior ceiling lights. But which company's fans are the most insane?
Read MoreAs Felix Baumgartner steels himself to jump out of a capsule 23 miles above the ground, Jalopnik readers put together a reminder to him. These are his idols, the greatest daredevils of all.
Read MoreAs we told you earlier, Toyota is recalling 7.4 million — with an m — cars due to a problem with the power window switches. They stick, and when certain lubricants are applied to remedy the situation, they may start smoking and catch on fire.
Read MoreCar brochures today have all sort of covergently-evolved into a certain bland sort of slickness. Sure, there's some minor typographic differences and photography, but one's pretty much like the other. But this wasn't always the case. Back in the day, if you weren't selling something fast or sleek, you had to find other ways to make it appealing. Like using illustrations and weapons-grade charmonium, as seen in this brochure for Honda's tiny pickup, the T360.
Read MoreWhat would the world be like if SPEED, the all-motorsports channel, were converted into another all-general sports network. I haven't even included a question mark on that sentence, because we all know the answer: It would be a little more lame.
Read MoreThe new M5 weighs two tons. The 3 Series is the size of a proper 5 Series. BMW, like every other carmaker, sells heavier cars, but it's their vehicle lineup that has ballooned more than anything else.
Read MoreWhen it comes to automobiles, the conventional wisdom is you need four wheels or more. So why are there cars driving around with three wheels? We'll take a look at the science (and the economics) of tossing out one of your wheels.
Read MoreThe Lamborghini Countach is too low, too wild to be built today. For an owner, though, is it too much to live with?
Read MoreNo matter what you think of Tesla, you have to admit that the Model S is a ballsy, ground breaking machine. It is pretty much the first electric car that could be considered an almost viable alternative to a traditional gas powered car in terms of refinement and range.
Read MoreData-logging is without question the fastest way to improve your driving. The reams of information these systems provide can help a driver evaluate his form and identify areas to improve. For racecar drivers, data-logging is as vital as stock reports are for investors.
Read MoreYou know what's great? You. I mean it— this is not my usual sucking up to the readers before I squeeze out another lame idea I desperately want approval for. By "great" I really should be more specific. I mean "great at identifying cars."
Read MoreMcLaren, the proverbial new kid on the block in terms of supercars, has made a pretty amazing splash over the last couple of years.
Read MoreDiesel is cheaper than premium in most places, and not far off from regular gas. Now that you're lusting after an oil-burner, Jalopnik readers know the ten best diesel cars and trucks you can buy new or used.
Read MorePorsche announced last year that their new North American headquarters would be built in Atlanta, on the site where a Ford Taurus assembly plant used to reside, cranking out Taurii. Though not much has happened so far, the situation is changing, as reported to us by reader Jim Mitchell. It looks like along with some road construction and gas line installations, there's going to be another change as well. As Jim tells us:
Read MoreWe remember car dealerships of the past as high-income family or local businesses that supported community schools and clubs. Now we think of dealerships as a new level of hell. What if you could sidestep the whole system?
Read MoreThe national average gas price is $3.805-per-gallon according to GasBuddy, which isn't catastrophic but is a huge pain in the ass. We paid more last week to put regular into a car in New York. Since gas prices are regional and gas tanks vary in size, we're curious what you paid this week.
Read MoreSo what is the baddest ass new police cruiser on the market? While we all decry the passing of the beloved Panther, it was a bit past its prime. So which cars are cops going to want in the future?
Read MoreWhen is it okay to spoil a movie? When does trolling become art? One artist asked these questions by spoiling the ending of Looper to anyone who happened to drive by. SPOILERS AHEAD (duh)
Read MoreThis July, Yolina (not her real name) was giving a language lesson to one of her students over the phone when he said he had something to tell her. She hadn't always taught over such long distances before—she was in California, her student in the Midwest—but after being laid off from her 14-year job as a community college language instructor last year, she's taken odd gigs whenever she can get them.
Read MoreA cab driver in Las Vegas discovered a laptop bag in the back of his cab at the end of his shift. No big deal. But then he opened it and got the shock of his life.
Read MoreThis TEDx Dublin talk from Aris Venetikidis is pretty fascinating, especially to the design geeks out there. In the talk, he covers how the maps we build in our heads are usually pretty wildly different than the actuality of the terrain, simplifying streets to be straight, turns to be 90° or 45°, and attaching emotional importance to locations along the way.
Read MoreEven though Audi has been the dominant name at Le Mans for the last decade, the undisputed king is still Porsche with 16 overall wins.
Read MoreAside from Walter White, who is mythical, people involved in methamphetamine production aren't known for their smarts. But if you're going to go ahead an become one of the special few who cooks meth, don't write "Meth Lab" on the back of your truck like this genius.
Read MoreLaw enforcement agencies and others 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 MoreDealers across the country, perhaps afraid money-losing Tesla is somehow a threat, are trying to get the company's stores knocked down as illegally operating outside the cartel-like, protectionist franchise system they helped put in place.
Read MoreWhen you take your car to get serviced, how do you know the mechanics aren't driving it like it's a getaway car in a heist movie? This 2010 Camaro SS driver figured out one very clever way: he placed a voice recorder in the car to capture the dealership employees driving and working on the car.
Read MoreSometimes, two things that are really awesome on their own don't mix together very well. For example, sex and driving.
Read MoreFor those of you who feel we're too hard on Ferrari and Lamborghini drivers who crash their cars, then today is your lucky day. If you're a big McLaren fan, well, not so much.
Read MoreMercedes popularized the sleeper performance car, or Q-car, by sticking massive engines into innocuously styled sedans. The normal 300SEL of the 1960s was a nice luxury limo of its time, but it wasn't exactly a barnstormer. Stick a 6.3-liter V8 in it, like Mercedes did in 1967, and you have the stuff legends are made of. Imagine, a neatly styled German sedan with the power to scare hooligans in GTOs.
Read MoreEarlier this week, we reported that Acura's flagship sedan, the RL, was outsold by some pretty exotic metal including the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, the Audi R8, and the Nissan GT-R.
Read MoreThe original Datsun 240Z is considered one of the most iconic and important sports cars ever made. The two-seat coupe offered great performance, exotic looks, a reasonable price tag — and it didn't leak oil on the showroom floor, unlike some of its European competition. The car hammered its British and Italian rivals and helped to truly put the Japanese auto industry on the map.
Read MoreEver read up on Corvette history? It's actually pretty fascinating. While the modern ZR1 is considered by many to be the last word in American performance, the 'Vette wasn't always that way.
Read MoreWhen you think of an activity that's beloved everywhere by safety advocates, law enforcement and parents' groups, what immediately comes to mind? That's right: illegal street racing. Of course. Nothing bad ever happens when you do that!
Read MoreLast week, I got a hugely positive response to the Found Around Town feature from last weekend on the '68 Rolls-Royce with a Chevy 350 V8. Most of you folks were all for putting an American V8 into an old-school British luxobarge if that's what it takes to keep it on the road.
Read MoreIf the obscene revenue taken in by The Dark Knight Rises this summer was any indicator, lots of people love Batman. But how much do you REALLY love Batman? Are you hardcore enough to drop $31,000 on a Ford Bronco made over in the Caped Crusader's image?
Read MoreEver hear the term "Japander"? It's when an American (or European) celebrity heads off to Japan to shill for some product in TV or print ads that rarely show up in their home country. It's a great way for these actors or musicians to make some money without cheapening their image in the U.S. There's even a website dedicated to the phenomenon — which may have even coined the term — but it hasn't been updated in forever, sadly.
Read MoreSupercars go too fast for the public roads. The only place to enjoy their real performance is on the track. So why do people still buy supercars.
Read MoreNothing says "awesome Hawaiian vacation" like renting a V8 convertible and blasting around Hawaii's cliffside roads.
Read MoreToyota's new ad campaign "The Camry Effect," features Romeo Sandoval and his purple '92 Camry donk. Will its gullwinged donktasticness give Toyota the youth edge it needs?
Read MoreLindsay Lohan seems to be on a Porsche crashing hiatus, so it's time to pick on another Hollywood starlet. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, and this time, someone got killed.
Read MoreAt a glance, the environmental benefits to electric vehicles seem obvious. No exhaust pipe means no harmful pollutants, right? Well, wrong, of course. It's well known that where the electricity comes from to power the car is a huge factor, and the manufacturing of electric cars is more environmentally taxing than producing conventional cars as well. In fact, a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology investigates just this idea, and finds, among other things, that electri
Read MoreThe current iteration of the Nürburgring is a largely sanitized space that's been safely reshaped thanks to years of crashes and accidents, thus making our constant references to the "Green Hell" slightly hyperbolic... with the exception of public tourist days. That shit cray.
Read MoreThe Prius is basically the poster child for beige motoring and smug pseudo-environmentalism. Would you be caught dead in one for ToMoCo's most amazing creation?
Read MoreI slowly make my way down a hallway lit only by the glow of a few TVs strewn about the floor. As I creep forward, so does a figure on the screens. The footage is a live feed of myself projected onto each television. But I can't focus on that now, because my bare foot just stepped on what feels exactly like a condom. Yep, it's a condom.
Read MoreThis Grand-Am season had its final race last weekend and while some people came first, we all lost. The tube-framed, flame-spitting, rotary powered Mazda RX-8s are dead. RIP.
Read MoreCars used to have amazingly over-the-top names. The Mercury Turnpike Cruiser and the Desoto Firesweep Sportsman come to mind. Sadly, these have been made obsolete by ruinous alphanumerics.
Read MoreRecently, two Mustang owners claim they got to see the 2014.5 Mustang in the flesh at a consumer clinic. They've leaked everything they know about the upcoming car and a lot of what you've heard so far may be wrong.
Read MoreAs Mark Twain once noted, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Statistics are what this report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council is based upon, although by changing their analysis of numbers, NRDC came up with different results regarding which U.S. counties drive American dependence upon fossil fuel.
Read MoreThe last time Keio University was in the news it was for a prototype wearable cloaking device developed by a team of researchers at the school. A decade later you still can't go out and buy one, but the research has inspired another brilliant use for the technology—invisible car interiors that let you see everything outside when backing up.
Read MoreI know when most people read the phrase "Star Wars-themed food truck" the first thing that pops in their minds is "At last, a convient place to get blue milk!" That's not really the case with the Grillenium Falcon, which, while Star Wars themed, seems to serve normal Earth food.
Read MoreAs the world's finite gas supply continues to dry up, automakers are continuing look to other sources to power their cars. Hybrids and batteries have been popping up all over the place.
Read MoreWe've all seen those signs in shop windows that snarkily remind us that all sales are final. If you decide you don't like the color or something, tough titties. You bought it, now it's yours.
Read MoreSitting through a long red light is one thing. Jalopnik readers know some truly terrible traffic signals that make your commute seem easy.
Read MoreThe Art Deco movement produced some pretty stylish buildings and objects in the 1920's and 30's, a period long before the advent of mobile phones. Would you trade your celly for some of that old school style?
Read MoreWelcome to Jalopnik's open thread for the first of the three presidential debates. All throughout the campaign, you've heard the auto industry alternatively kicked around and cuddled by Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama. Tonight, starting at 9 pm ET in Denver, it's bound to happen again.
Read MoreOn Sunday, Ken block is celebrating victory at the Olympus Rally. On Friday he's practicing for Global Rallycross in Las Vegas, and he's got a few hundred extra horses to play with. How did it all happen?
Read MoreWe had a pair of scientists here answering questions about crashing a plane on purpose for Discovery's new show, Curiosity. It wasn't just about awesome explosions; we actually learned a few things about air safety.
Read MoreAyrton Senna is arguably the greatest racecar driver to ever walk this planet –- and neighboring planets too — but he will always be the undisputed rain master. When the heavens opened he was unbeatable, showcasing his prowess in a way no other driver could match.
Read MoreChris Snow bought his son a '66 Mustang as a 16th birthday present. He and his son worked on the car together. Now it's been stolen and he is offering no less than $10,000 to get it back.
Read MoreWhat's going on in the Middle East and Central Asia? According to The Aviationist, that's the sort of question that comes to mind when you see a bunch of A-10 attack aircraft normally stationed in Arizona sitting on the tarmac at a Massachusetts air base.
Read MoreAside from pumping fresh, piping-hot pornography right into your home, you know what else the Internet is good for? I mean, other than Jalopnik?
Read MoreThere's nothing as satisfying as hitting a nice long run of green lights. Contrariwise, there is nothing quite as frustrating as sitting through a baffling interlude of red light hell.
Read MoreEating big meals on road trips weighs you down and makes you sleepy. That's why snacks are better, and Jalopnik readers know the very best driving foods of all.
Read MoreThis year, Discovery's show Curiosity is going to show something that hasn't been done in nearly 30 years: An actual plane crash test.
Read MoreNobody's that crazy about riding in a Camry, but I'm pretty sure no one's had a worse ride than the dog that spent an eleven-mile ride from Taunton, MA to Providence, RI crammed in a Toyota's lower grille.
Read MoreThat rule that you can only bring three ounce bottles through airport security is really annoying, but it's been a fact of life for years now. So what do you do with a 1.75-liter bottle of Smirnoff vodka you've "forgotten" to remove from your carry-on luggage?
Read MoreToday's the first of a series of big days for the Bloodhound Supersonic Car; a rocket-powered car designers hope will break land speed records by going 1,000 mph. Today, the Bloodhound SSC team is testing the car's 12-foot-long, 18-inch diameter rocket engine at an airfield in rural Southwest England.
Read MoreSaab (rest in peace) always used to tell us that they were "born from jets." But would you give up jets to drive this Aero-X concept everywhere?
Read MoreToday we got a look into the hellish mire that is Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulation that significantly contributed to the downfall of station wagons and compact pickups. There must be something better.
Read MoreEvery year I look forward to the North American Car And Truck/Utility Of The Year (NACTOY) Awards list to come out, because every year it is utter nonsense shit and I get to make fun of it. Seriously, every year this happens.
Read MoreModern day alchemists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are figuring out how to use chemistry to turn seawater into jet fuel. By pulling carbon dioxide from seawater and using it to produce hydrogen, they hope someday to shift the Navy's fuel demands from foreign oil to alternative sources.
Read MoreIn Discovery's upcoming season of the show Curiosity, they crash a Boeing 727 into the desert.
Read MoreThis is supposed to be an era when car companies don't build vehicles unless they have customers to buy them. You don't tie up money in inventory that's just going to sit there, gathering dust. To make the most money, you want one fewer vehicle available than you have buyers for.
Read MoreA racing fuel warehouse in Winnipeg exploded last night. No one was hurt in the fire, but it caused an estimated $15 million in damages and rained down ash on an entire neighborhood.
Read MoreGeorge Orwell wrote in 1984 that "the only hope for the future lies with the proles." Nissan Motors might agree with that sentiment, and has planned accordingly to build really cheap cars for the developing country masses by resurrecting the Datsun nameplate.
Read MoreIn 2009, a Bugatti Veyron was crashed into a Texas lagoon at the hands of Andy House, who at one point said that a low flying pelican had distracted him and sent him off course. What he didn't know was that the whole thing was caught on film, and the pelican is suspiciously absent.
Read MoreAfter a fun and sun-filled trip to Miami, photographer Douglas Sonders is back from the Land of Lebron. The occasion: He used Gizmodo's Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge to shoot some of the flashiest, fastest, ultra-sleek cars he could get his lens on. And although we can only assume he's still nursing some sort of peel-tastic sunburn, he's graciously agreed to hang out in the comments below in order to answer any and all questions you have about dem cars, his shooting technique, the
Read MoreFor a truly efficient road trip, you've got to cut down on stops. When you get hungry, you should have a pick-me-up ready in the car.
Read MoreClose your eyes and imagine it's 1979. A first-term Democratic president struggles with unemployment, malaise, high energy prices, and embassy trouble. The landscape of today looks like the landscape of then, but there's one important thing missing: The compact pickup. Where did they go? The small pickup was an indelible symbol of America's lowered expectations in the Seventies and Eighties. Now that crappy times are here again, where are the paper-thin truck beds and wheezy-but-indestructible f
Read MoreCosworth is a legendary name in performance cars, and now Hyundai has contracted them to tune up their Genesis Coupe. With 389 horsepower and 325 lb-ft of torque, the numbers gains aren't outlandish, but the package looks just right.
Read MoreWe quietly launched an exciting new feature at the Paris Motor Show so you can experience it like we do. We're calling it "360 Mode" because it allows you to view the car from every angle using your mouse.
Read MoreInfinitis have become more and more curvaceous over the past few years and the next G37 looks like it is sticking to the squiggles-upon-squiggles trend.
Read MoreIf you have an XBOX and you're on this website, there's a good chance that you've played a game with the word Forza in the title before.
Read MoreOne of the stars of the Paris Motor Show was the long awaited Jaguar F-Type. The two seater roadsters are some of the most beautiful cars we've seen in a long time.
Read MoreLiving in cities is fun, and so is driving. But the two go together like oil and water. How do you enjoy a car living in an urban area?
Read MoreOur roads are clogged with tired, inexperienced, and distracted drivers, but there are a few people who know what they're doing. Jalopnik readers know how to spot those good drivers from a mile away.
Read MoreThe Lamborghini Gallardo has now been soldiering on in various forms for nearly 10 years. The looks have changed a little and the engines have been upgraded, but it is still the same basic car.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom GMC Suburban show truck is so freaking long its bumpers might have different ZIP Codes, but will its price have you saying so long truckah?
Read MoreWhile potentially as much Ford as Jag, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe supercharged S-Type R is still a hot enough kitty to make nearly anyone purr with delight. But, is its price as well?
Read MoreThe Dutch film The Human Centipede is (SPOILER ALERT) the ultimate in left-wing liberal recycling propaganda, but it never answers the question, how do they get around? Well, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Checker 8-door may be the answer, but will its price leave you with a shit-eating grin?
Read MoreIf it were a finely sculpted horse rearing on its badge rather than a stylized airplane propeller, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender would be a hands down winner. As it is, this V12 super coupe comes with the badge with the prop, and that means its price is currently up in the air.
Read MoreYou've no doubt heard of turning a sow's ear into a silk purse, and as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dodge Daytona Shelby proves, no one took that metaphor more to heart than did Dodge and the late Carroll Shelby. This coupe's K-car origins are well masked, will its price require the seller to wear a mask as well?
Read MoreHave you ever looked at your car and thought, I can do better that that? The owner of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 280ZX must have, as this turbo ZX has been customized from stem to stern. Does its price however, have you saying, you can do better that that?
Read MoreYou're in the Nice Price or Crack Pipe army now, you're not behind a plow. You wouldn't need to be rich, to buy this Dodge with a hitch. You just need to vote right now.
Read MoreDo you remember the round-cornered scissors you were given in kindergarden, the ones that would snip but couldn't stab? Well, while today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Mustang has been similarly blunted, it'll be up to you to determine if its price manages to make the cut.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW E30 spins all its wheels all the time, but will its price also leave you reeling?
Read MoreIn home décor parlance, furnishings that are supposed to look kind of ratty are called distressed, while when the same is done to something that has four wheels and flies, it's called a Rat. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy S10 has been majorly ratted out, but will you think its price is too much cheese?
Read MoreIn Great Britain the word Moke is derived from an archaic term for Donkey. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mini Moke may seem kind of archaic, but would paying this zebra-painted car's price make you look like a total ass?
Read MoreWhile Mercedes has officially offered the G-klasse here in the US for more than a decade, that's only in pimped-out gas V8 form. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '91 is far less ostentatious, and an oil-burner to boot, but will its price have you saying diesel do nicely?
Read MoreNaming your car brand after the planet Saturn means that its products better run rings around the competition. The Honda engine in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Vue Red Line may make that possible, but does its price mean the seller can kiss Uranus?
Read MoreOne of the common euphemisms for level of drunkenness is to be three sheets to the wind. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Camaro is unique in that it's two seats to the wind, but will you find its price to be sobering?
Read MoreFor some strange reason, people love turning E30 Bimmers into pickups, it's like a fad. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe El Bimmino looks like one of the more professional jobs, but will its price put the deal to bed?
Read MoreThere are 98 naturally occurring elements that we know of. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda Element — despite its name — is actually made up of quite a few of those, but would paying its asking price be elementary?
Read MoreDino Martin used to play straight man to the wacky Jerry Lewis in many a film. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Fiat Dino similarly once played second fiddle to the like-named almost a Ferrari, but is this one's price simply whacked?
Read MoreThe seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe British roadster feels it necessary to note that his TVR is not the visually similar and reputationally marred Triumph TR7. Of course, it's up to to you to correctly identify this rare Brit's true value.
Read MoreBack when your mom was a total Betty the Platters reached number one on both the R&B and pop charts with The Great Pretender, a song about feigning not to care about a spurned love. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe SLX is a Trooper pretending it's an Acura, but will you spurn its five thousand dollar price? Ooh-ooh.
Read MoreThe national chain, Casual Male XL specializes in clothes for the amply framed dude, while on the other hand today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe limbo-low 911 Speedster does not. And at forty grand does its price needs to be chopped like its roof?
Read MoreCrazy motor transplants are nothing new, but replacing one great engine with another pretty much is. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe E30 rocks a Skyline's heart, but will its price make yours skip a beat?
Read MoreMost airlines just deck their planes out in all-white with a few stripes. Jalopnik readers know ten commercial jets that should convince other airlines to splurge on a good livery.
Read MoreYou can pack strategically, you can unfriend everybody but your closest companion, and you can tell yourself the tradeoffs are worth it. But no matter what you do, there are some cars that are just hopelessly impractical.
Read MoreA beautiful car should be able to rock any color. But there are some offenders out there that will make almost anything homely.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MorePurpose-built race tracks are great, but they'll never have the glamour of circuits cutting through urban streets. Jalopnik readers know ten cities that are dying to host motor racing.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreSo yesterday, we had a bit of a tiff over manual and automatic transmissions. It resulted in a lot of tears, a lot of death threats, and a lot of nervous laughing.
Read MoreThe machine you see here is Nico Rosberg's 2012 Mercedes AMG F1 W03, a carbon-fiber monster with a naturally aspirated 18,000-rpm V-8 producing over 700 bhp. Amazingly, that engine isn't the W03's most impressive feature. Like all modern F1 cars, the Mercedes is both defined and dominated by its aerodynamic aids.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreInternational sports car racing is unbelievably confusing, with a half dozen classes that all look the same and have nearly the same names. Here's a simple guide that unravels the whole tangled mess.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreNinety one wins. Sixty eight pole positions. One hundred fifty five podium finishes. Seven world championships. No matter how you look at it, Michael Schumacher is the most successful driver to ever participate in the Formula One World Championship.
Read MoreWhat’s it like to campaign single-seater cars on the doorstep of Formula One and watch the teenagers and young men who may turn into racing legends down the line? Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, owner and president of the Spanish GP2 team Racing Engineering, has seen it all, and he will be here for the next hour, live, answering your questions about anything.
Read MoreBefore he becomes a globe-trotting racing god, the modern Formula One driver competes in GP2. It’s a racing series removed from the madness and attention, created to breed talent for the ultimate challenge of F1. We spent a Grand Prix weekend in GP2 to see the lives of Formula One’s future stars.
Read MoreAs we have all heard ad nauseum, there is going to be a new 2014 Corvette debuting next year. But we haven't heard full details on what sort of engine is under the all new hood.
Read MoreEver since there have been Vipers, John Hennessey has been tuning them. Sometimes, it seems like his tuned cars are on the street before the production cars, if that's at all possible. And they were always incredibly bonkers.
Read MoreBack in the days when NASA was in its infancy, its engineers and pilots tried lots of new things to see what worked and what didn't. Take this June 1966 water egress practice at what looks like a country club pool near the Cape Canaveral Space Center, for example.
Read MoreNow that everyone's over the initial awe that comes from watching someone do something as crazy as jumping out of a balloon at 128,000 feet and plummeting toward the Earth at supersonic speeds, it's time to find out what practical application can be had from it.
Read MoreSo, great news for all of our readers with massive reusable spaceships taking up valuable space in your driveway or sitting on your lawn, under a tarp: you can tow it! Toyota demonstrated this nice and dramatically by successfully hauling nearly 300,000 pounds of shuttle orbiter and towing rig across the 405 overpass.
Read MoreYesterday, Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a Red Bull sponsored capsule 24 miles above Earth. He broke the speed of sound. He didn't disintegrate or die.
Read MoreRed Bull's amazing 24 mile plus Stratos Space Jump just came to the exact conclusion that everyone wanted.
Read MoreSo, as many of you likely know, Toyota is planning to tow the Endeavour for the last portion of its trip to the California Science Center. This is a great publicity stunt, and I'll be there to cover it, but I'll admit, I suspect that what we'll be seeing isn't the full story.
Read MoreIt's late and I'm on a cold, wet hillside pressed up against a chain-link fence with a whole bunch of other tired, cranky photographers and journalists. But I don't mind one bit, because seeing the Space Shuttle Endeavour in person, up close is an incredible sight.
Read MoreRed Bull athlete Felix Baumgartner is getting set to jump out of a balloon from 23 miles above Earth.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, October 9th, Felix Baumgartner will participate in the final stage of the Red Bull Stratos project, the highest sky diving mission in history.
Read MoreYesterday morning I was at the California Science Center’s press conference outlining their plan to drag a massive spaceship across Los Angeles. It was one of those times where logistics can make even the most outlandish plans seem boring, as they went over schedules and road closures and the like. While they were describing the locations where Endeavour would be stopped for viewing or technical reasons, I realized that this was the most exposed this priceless spaceship will ever be. Which, of c
Read MoreWe've seen the Space Shuttle Endeavour flying home to Los Angeles in still photos and in video, but we've never seen it like this: from the cockpit of one of its F/A-18 escort fighters.
Read MoreEven if you're not directly in the path of Superhyperthunderricane Sandy, there's still a vast number of people who may be affected by losing electrical power. And, as we know, living without electricity means you're about six hours away from reverting to cannibalism, wearing skulls, and building a Thunderdome.
Read MoreThe whole point of Nissan dragging my pale, pale ass halfway across the world was so they could show off a bunch of new tech they're developing. And show off they did, with prototypes and inflatable cars and cutaway engines and all sorts of good stuff like that.
Read MoreThe Detroit News says Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne says the company has a plan to fix the struggling Italian auto company. But to do so, Fiat will have to use the cash it was going to spend on acquiring the rest of Chrysler. ”“Building things is a lot more exciting than retrenching into defeat,” Marchionne told analysts and reporters during a conference call Tuesday. “I think we need to come out fighting.” As part of its new plan, Fiat will scale back the poorly performing Lancia brand to one mode
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreAcross the globe from America's biggest cities to small villages in India, buses are absolutely vital to how people get around. But sometimes, things don't work out as planned. Due to driver error, bad roads and bridges, poor weather or any number of other factors, buses can experience sudden changes in altitude that can leave their passengers badly wounded or even dead.
Read MoreAs you know, I like building dumb projects using junkyard parts, particularly when they're all about safety! This tale of building your very own Skull Brake Lights has more than the usual twists and turns, so buckle up!
Read MoreWhen the raspy belch gurgling from your car's leaky exhaust is about to become the final slight pushing you at last into complete insanity, here's an easy way to make exhaust pipe holes the least of your worries involving an empty beer can and some ingenuity.
Read MoreThe Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ twins have been some of the most acclaimed driver's cars we've seen since the original Mazda Miata hit the road. We know people love carrying kids in them, drifting them, and then, unfortunately, crashing them after drifting them.
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