After having a rough start, McLaren managed to turn its 12C GT3 racers debut season into a success story. Thirteen teams entered 98 races with Woking's best, and the cars added 19 victories and another 19 podium finishes to Ron Dennis's already impressive trophy collection.
Read MoreIf you want a gigantic luxury sedan with V8 power and a performance pedigree, you have a pretty good range of cars from which to choose.
Read MoreI really like the Chevy Volt. I really like the Cadillac ATS. I've tried to force them to mate on my own, but the results have been quite lackluster.
Read MoreInfiniti is getting rid of random letters across their range and replacing them all with the letter Q for 2014 so people aren't confused anymore.
Read MoreGeneral Motors skated through the 1980s by putting out some extremely questionable vehicles. Arguably at the height of their institutional arrogance, GM produced cars that were plagued with shoddy build quality and uninspiring performance. Few of them are considered ultra-desirable classics today.
Read MoreThe first generation Lexus IS SportCross was one of my favorite versions of the car. A good looking wagon — I'm not certain what SportCross means — with rear-wheel drive and super awesome Altezza lights was just what the doctor ordered. It was the first Lexus I actively wanted.
Read MoreThe Acura ZDX is a luxury vehicle with the styling of a sport coupe, the everyday drivability of a family sedan, and the versatility and capabilities of an SUV.
Read MoreOne of the best pieces of news to come out of the LA Auto Show was that the diesel powered 2014 Mazda6 would be making it's way to American shores.
Read MoreThis past October, Ken Imhoff — the guy who spent 17 years building the ultimate Lamborghini Countach replica in his basement — told us he wanted to sell it. Now, it's on eBay, and the bidding just topped $75,000.
Read MoreWhile Volvo has disappointed Jalopnik readers everywhere with their abandonment of modern wagons in the U.S., they did decide to give us a little gift in the form of the C30 Polestar, a hopped-up version of their attractive-but-pedestrian hatchback.
Read MoreIf you buy the 2013 Range Rover, you probably won't be taking it off-road. You probably won't take it to Hog Canyon Trail in a remote part of Utah, where you'd be able take it up a hill and battle rocks, sand, mud, and snow along the way.
Read More(Last week, I reviewed the Mitsubishi Evo MR because my Dad has one and wanted my thoughts on it. Guess what? He didn't completely agree with my assessment. This is his opinion of his daily driver. - T.O.)
Read MoreI had a blast with this Mustang, and so did my kid. This was the first car that, when driven in it, made him actually say VROOM VROOM, loudly and with fist-clenched, drool-spraying glee. His dad was doing basically the same thing.
Read MoreIn the 1990s, Mitsubishi took its economical Lancer sedan, turbocharged it, added four-wheel drive, went rallying, and gave birth to a brand new generation of fan boys.
Read MoreFirst of all, this car has a name. Of course this car has a name. This lovely, citrusy 1972 Volkswagen Type III Fastback is named Edna, after the archetypical Little Old Lady that was the previous owner of the car. That human-Edna sold car-Edna to Joy Ivy eight years ago, when the VW had only an astounding 15,000 original miles. Joy paid $4500 for the car, which, for a car this old and this lightly used, is a steal.
Read MoreDodge has decided the best way to light a fire under Dart sales is to start crowdfunding them. That's why they've started the Dodge Dart Registry, and it's probably the bro-iest idea ever.
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 MoreIt's really quite sad, the demise of the trucklet in this country. The El Camino and Ford Ranchero are long gone, and the Pontiac G8 Sport Truck was euthanized before it could go down with the brand. Even the "small" trucks that Toyota or Ford or Nissan used to make aren't so small anymore, and car-based trucks like the Baja never found a mainstream audience.
Read MoreThe only thing people mentioned about the Bentley Continental GT in 2012 was the addition of V8 power. This was supposed to help Bentley meet incredibly stringent emissions regulation. It also had another byproduct: It took the lackadaisical Conti and made it into a driver's car.
Read MoreNo matter how niche of an interest you might have, there is an area on Reddit to satisfy you. From Top Gear fanatics to comedy lovers and fans of auto shop mishaps to people that really like dogs, there is a Reddit for everything.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
Read MoreThe other day Raphael showed me this old ad for a Lincoln Continental Mark III. It was right after he wrote the article about the lovely and occasionally naked rally driver, Inessa Tushkanova. He was still overcome by all the humid eroticism of all those pictures of her, and felt that a post about what must be history’s Most Schlubbiest Car Model would be a good counterpoint.
Read MoreFinally! Someone did donuts in a chrome Lexus LFA. It was only a matter of time until it happened.
Read MoreSeventy horsepower is considered to be such a low figure nowadays that in some cases, mechanically identical engines can make 70 more or 70 less horsepower depending on how the engine management software is setup. But back in the seventies, cars in Europe were light as a feather, and 70 horsepower could indeed make them fly.
Read MoreYou would think that every car ever made has been in some kind of video game, but Jalopnik readers found ten amazing cars that have never been digitized.
Read MoreNow that the 2014 Corvette has finally broken cover, it can drop all that ridiculous camo it was wearing when it tested on public roads.
Read MoreWho wouldn't want to buy a car with skeedaddle and nickel nursing economy? This series of jazz-infused TV ads for the 1960 Plymouth Valiant uses such schlocky literary zing to sell one of America's first real economy cars.
Read MoreYou thought a Mini Cooper was cuddly? Jalopnik readers are here to make you lose your mind.
Read MoreThese days, you can't just put a few crappy pictures of your car on Craigslist if you want to sell it. You have to get creative, and maybe even a little ridiculous.
Read MoreA great car should tantalize your senses. It should look great, feel great to drive, and also sound amazing.
Read MoreSo I have kind of a bizarre obsession with Daewoo. Not so much their cars, mind you, which were mostly boring economy sedans and hatches made by and for various General Motors brands. No, it's Daewoo's Korean home market TV ads that have piqued my curiosity of late.
Read MoreNext weekend is the biggest advertising event of the year: the Super Bowl. The entire nation will gather around their televisions, split roughly between people watching for the game and people watching for the commercials.
Read MoreThe Jarama is the Lambo we keep forgetting.
Read MoreHoly shit, there are some goddamn adorable cars out there. Which one is the cutest, though?
Read MoreThe McLaren MP4-12C is one of our very favorite cars. It's a technological tour de FAP that's also amazing to drive. Chris Harris's over-steery antics makes him one of our very favorite drivers.
Read MoreMcLaren is having its fiftieth birthday in 2013, and instead of merely stuffing themselves with cake, they plan to celebrate by putting their brand new hypercar into production. The McLaren P1 premiered in Paris last September, and while we got quite a few details and a fantastic 360-degree view of its aerodynamic beauty, lots of tiny imperfections have to be sorted out before the team at Woking can call it ready.
Read MoreHave you ever been talking to someone and wondered "if I start talking about throttle bodies, will this person think I'm insane?" Don't worry, Jalopnik readers have ten sure-fire tips to spot a gearhead, so you never embarrass yourself.
Read MoreIf you're married, getting a new car often requires a conversation with the significant other. On rare occasions that conversation can lead to the purchase of a car.
Read MoreThe Mazda Miata is the greatest car to ever exist. We all know this.
Read MorePeople who are interested in cars enjoy calling parts of a car by their proper names. "Wheel," for example, has such a more refined sound than "roundy roller-maker, what's under the get-inside part." You can usually tell when someone is interested in cars by their use of proper terms, such as the names for the parts of the body that separate the windows in a car and support the roof structure.
Read MoreIt's been six years since Ford stopped making the GT, and forty four since they last won at Le Mans with a car so low most of us wouldn't even fit in it. The original British-American GT40 racecar was good enough to kick Ferrari's ass thanks to Carroll Shelby's ideas, while the modern version was not only a brave answer to the question of an American supercar, but had also proven itself on the racetracks in GT1 and GT3 tunes. Carroll Shelby helped Ford with that as well.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2011, I was having a breakfast with my English friends at a posh restaurant on the bank of the Danube, and we started an argument about cars. That wasn't surprising, since after finishing our coffees, we were about to go on short road trip to Etyek, a wine region not far from Budapest. Two cars were waiting for us at the parking lot: a Maserati Coupé, and a 1974 Aston Martin V8 S3 which I was about to drive.
Read MoreWelcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to the passage of time.
Read MoreWhat's the craziest thing you've ever done on a bet? Shaved your head? Snuck into a party when you weren't on the guest list? Played Russian Roulette with some enforcers from a Mexican drug cartel? (I would advise against the last one, personally. Things tend to go south a lot faster than you might expect.)
Read MoreCovering the Detroit Auto Show reinforced my belief that older cars are generally cooler than new ones. Oh, there were plenty of exciting new concepts and debuts in the Motor City, like the new Corvette and the the NSX concept. I also got to sit in my first Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, which was absolutely sick. But walking around the floor of Cobo Hall, I found myself wishing some of these companies would haul out their historic cars for us to ogle as well.
Read More(Our friends at RIDES have responded to our Donk Guide. Here's their take, and our response. — Ed.)
Read MoreAyrton Senna is widely considered the greatest Formula One driver to ever get behind the wheel. He was ruthless and faster than just about anyone.
Read MoreIt's always a tricky thing to try and pinpoint the first of anything. The first working automobile, the first powered flight, the first beer of the night — all these things are usually surrounded by an impenetrable haze of uncertainty and occasionally, vomit. Often we can make some pretty decent guesses, but this time I feel pretty confident in making an out-and-out statement of what I think is fact:
Read MoreFor over a century now, carmakers have been bullshitting us with bogus slogans and marketing nonsense. Jalopnik readers came up with ten honest car slogans to set things straight.
Read MoreAll of the big debuts from the Detroit Auto Show have now had the literal sheet pulled off of them. Some of them were great, some of them were ok, and some of them weren't good at all.
Read MoreLike many gearheads, going indoors can sometimes be painful. "But my car's outside!" we'll whine, hopping up and down and pointing at the door, as sleet and hail beats against the house. There's a few solutions here, but not all are ideal:
Read MoreThere's a lot to fear when you're in a car as it's a place where many people die. Jalopnik readers admitted their fears and have shared their worst automotive nightmares, where everything that can go wrong on the road, does.
Read MoreIf I were to come up and merely explain exactly what I saw at the Via Motors press conference, chances are you'd take a few cautious steps back and suggest that I seek out my clergyperson. Here, I'll show you! Here's a hypothetical exchange between you and I, sweet, sweet reader:
Read MoreDo not buy a Toyota Corolla. Do not let your loved ones buy a Toyota Corolla. I know you can't stop them. Something about a jelly bean with mediocre performance, outdated design, and crappy features is just too damn appealing to them but you must prevent it. Get them to buy a Mazda3 or a Ford Focus or a Hyundai Accent or literally any other compact car.
Read MoreIn the early 1970s, the extreme left wing Baader-Meinhof Gang terrorized the people of West Germany with a campaign of bombings and assassinations aimed at dismantling a capitalist system they considered no better than the Third Reich.
Read MoreEver been tempted to get your buddies together, split the cost of buying an insanely cheap car, beat said car to death in a parking lot, and then put the whole ordeal on YouTube? Of course you have. Hell, some of you jokers have probably even done it.
Read MoreWhat is this huge old car with giant wheels and a Spongebob paint job? That’s what we call a donk, the most hated kind of car in the world right now. Why do people hate them so much? Allow me to explain.[jump]
Read MoreCar forums should be about lending a helping hand to fellow car enthusiasts as well as the uninitiated. Jalopnik readers found that they're sometimes just about the most mindless places on the Internet.
Read MoreWhen my valet came by with the big stack of printouts of my emails (that's the only way I read them — he also types in all my articles from my recordings on an old reel-to-reel tape deck) I almost slapped him with delight at seeing the pictures of the weird homebuilt car Jalopnik reader Tom M sent us. Eventually, I ended up slapping my valet out of sudden realization: this strange vehicle, though seemingly the one-off project of a dedicated kook with a vendetta against style and comfort, was act
Read MoreThanks to my adventurous parents, the first time I saw Knight Rider, I was a kindergartener in Mexico. The year was 1991, I was almost five, and while back then I didn't realize how funny a Spanish-speaking car really is, I was fascinated by that black Trans Am.
Read MoreSo you may have heard that the tubby little robber baron that runs the Monopoly franchise, Uncle Pennybags, has decided that one of the iconic Monopoly game pieces will be retired and a new piece will take its place.
Read MoreThis is the Bricklin SV-1. It was one car importer's supercar dream of the late ‘70s and it was a miserable, if spectacular failure. Surprisingly, a few served police duty, but that didn't pan out very well either.
Read MoreLet's face it: racing is expensive. Many people can't afford to purchase a car, make it race-ready, and then proceed to crash it every weekend. Indoor go-karting, therefore, may be the most cost effective way to express your inner Jeff Gordon.
Read MorePublic records are a funny thing. With just a little time and research you can find out nearly anything you could ever possibly want to know. Sometimes those records will incite anger when published for public viewing.
Read MoreThere is not a single car enthusiast in the world who doesn't boast a little too much about their ride, but there are those among us who take bullshitting to the next level. These are Jalopnik readers' favorite big mouths.
Read MoreIt's hard to believe that in the 1950s, there were actually people who believed that cars with those Star Wars Imperial battle cruiser-style open reactor power plants jutting out the back would be a good idea. But hey, what's sexier than a radioactive blue glow emanating from your tailpipes?
Read MoreEberhard Schulz started his car designing career by building a Ford GT40 replica in 1968, powered by a 420 hp V8 from Mercedes-Benz. He called it the Isdera Erator. Mercedes rewarded his choice by hiring him as a design engineer, so he could come up with a successor to the fantastic wankel-powered supercar, the C111. The result was presented in 1978 as the Mercedes CW311. This wedge-shaped supercar also came with gullwing doors, the bigger, 6834cc version of the monstreus M100 engine, and the be
Read MoreFun little auto design Easter Eggs are, sometimes, one of the best reasons to flush the pills down the toilet and give it a try for one more day. And now, thanks to tipper and Corvette enthusiast Jeff Port, we know about another great one:
Read MoreJalopnik readers might just be the most knowledgeable car nerds on the Internet. We asked them to tell us something we didn't know, and they inundated us with totally awesome automotive trivia. Here are our favorite factoids.
Read MoreWelcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to the passage of time.
Read MoreToyota! We give you guys shit for being beige sometimes, but I have to admit that when you get it right, you really get it right. And by "it," I mean performance cars. You've got a fantastic sporting heritage that no one can argue with.
Read MoreLet's journey back to a time before Land Rovers were offered with front-wheel-drive and had special editions named after the wives of rich professional soccer players. A time when they were rugged beasts, not far removed from military vehicles, capable of taking you where no other truck could go. A time when Land Rover was your go-to when you needed to slaughter endangered animals for sport, not when you want make the other parents jealous when you pick up your kids from orchestra practice.
Read MoreSome movie stars always end up in the coolest cars in their movies. Jalopnik readers know the very luckiest movie star drivers of all.
Read MoreAs you probably all heard by now, Nissan announced last March that it will reintroduce the long gone Datsun marque in emerging markets like Russia, India and Indonesia as a budget brand. With 43.4% of their shares at Renault for more than a decade now, one could only wonder where they got the idea from. The new Datsuns will be based on the Lada Kalina's platform, but use different bodies and interiors, with the first ones going on sale as soon as next year.
Read MoreOn New Years' Day I decided to ask the Jaloposphere for a name for the goofy little car I've been drawing for a number of articles. Commenter 62ImperialCrown suggested "Utopian Turtletop," which was a rejected name created by poet Marianne Moore for the Ford Edsel.
Read MoreLosing a daily driver is a lot like losing an old friend. That's why we're sad to report that the world's highest-mileage Lamborghini Murcielago has been totaled after a high speed crash with 258,098 miles on the odometer — an higher even mileage than Richard Jordan's Lamborghini Gallardo before it was destroyed.
Read MoreA Nissan-owner in Stoneham, MA got the rare chance to feel like a movie terrorist or a mob boss when her car's remote key fob acted like a bomb detonator. The owner, Jackie Sugrue, was approaching her car when she clicked the button to open the trunk. When she did, the trunk did open, but only because the trunk lid was blown over several other rows of parked cars from the force of the explosion.
Read MoreIt was less than a year ago that we reported a serious crash at the bottom of Vancouver's Cambie Street after a utility pole in seemingly the worst place split an Audi in half without killing anyone — the latest accident in the same spot where more than a dozen cars have crashed since the early '90s.
Read MoreA Norwegian tunnel turned into a mouth-watering hellish inferno of flavor and terror this past Thursday when a truck carrying 27 tons of Brunost burst into flames in the Bratli Tunnel at Tysfjord, Norway. Brunost is caramelized brown goat cheese, a Norwegian delicacy that apparently is also incredibly flammable, as the fire burned for five days.
Read MoreWe all got a really good laugh this weekend out of the E30 3-Series BMW that crashed into a light pole, even if it did mean the very unfortunate demise of one of our favorite cars.
Read MoreI don't think there's a better example of good, clean, wholesome fun than driving around an empty parking lot at speed. You can do it in any kind of car, and you can even get your friends and family involved for extra good times.
Read MorePolice in Johannesburg, South Africa are investigating a bizarre crash from Thursday that claimed the life of an Audi R8 driver and a police officer who was also inside the car.
Read MoreThis might be the most destructive powerslide of 2013 so far. One Audi Ur-Quattro rally slides off course and manages to chop a telephone pole in half.
Read MoreAs we've said here before, the Dakar Rally is one of the most dangerous motorsports events on Earth. This became especially evident yesterday evening after a rally support vehicle was involved in a crash with two taxis, leaving two people dead and seven others injured.
Read MoreMotorists in Florida had a strong showing in 2012, and now it looks like they're off to a strong start once again in 2013!
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 MoreThere are only two ways to watch the original Top Gear in America: Download it illegally or wait about 17 years for it to air on BBC America.
Read MoreSeason 19 of Top Gear premieres in just one week on the BBC2. I've been going through withdrawals like a seasoned heroin addict, so this is a very good thing.
Read MoreAs if it wasn't already clear, the three men atop American-flavored Top Gear are in love with cars to an unhealthy degree. Tanner Foust once offered to race our press Lincoln MKT and Rutledge Wood, of course, sold me his damn car. They are like us, the only question is to what degree?
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 MoreIt's hard out there for Captain Slow and his buddies at Top Gear. Every season, they try to dazzle us with insane new stunts and ridiculous road tests. The problem is that in recent years, their antics end up posted on YouTube or on Facebook or on auto websites months or weeks before the episode airs. We've done it; hell, we've even encouraged it, and we've helped fans meet the guys.
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 MoreJalopnik this morning has learned from insiders how Top Gear's upcoming 19th season is set to go down, and we can tell you that it is loaded with tests of some of our favorite cars, crazy exploration missions, car rugby, supercar adventures in the U.S., and wagons galore.
Read MoreIf you woke up from a bender in Ford's press event this morning, you'd have seen a large scaffold full of buff men in construction outfits spraying showers of welding sparks and pounding large hammers into girders with rippling muscles glistening with sweat. And, based on this and the loud, blaring industrial music, you'd probably think you were in a gay dance club. But you'd likely realize you were wrong when the large truck was lowered from the ceiling and then mobbed by men far too poorly dre
Read MoreAmerican V8s are pretty awesome. They've been the muscles of U.S. car culture since Bonnie and Clyde first floored their Ford Model B. They're the ultimate answer in the eyes of the costumers when it comes to the question of performance.
Read MoreIs there anybody who doesn't, at least a little bit, long to look up and see a sky filled with languid, elegant zeppelins and blimps and airships silently crisscrossing overhead? That always seems to be a hallmark of some amazing future that never quite happened. Luckily, it seems like I'm not the only one having these daydreams. My old pal the US Military has been having them, too. And, say what you will about good old US Military — sure, sometimes they're a pretty mean drunk, but when old US M
Read MoreWhile we may give Porsche some flack for building an SUV, the Cayenne is rather good at everything it's supposed to be good at.
Read MoreOne of the more bizarre weapons in military history was the Great Panjandrum, a huge rocket-powered spinning wheel of explosives designed to take out Nazi defenses along the Atlantic in WWII.
Read MoreThe 2014 Corvette Stingray is, for lack of a better term, damn good. I saw it in person at the Detroit Auto Show, sat in it, grabbed the wheel and rocked from side to side while I made engine noises with my mouth, and walked away impressed. It looks and feels like a great American car, and I can't wait to actually drive one.
Read MoreA week ago at the Winter X Games, 25-year-old Caleb Moore was in the midst of a stellar run. The three-time medalist was putting on a clinic in the finals of Snowmobile Freestyle. He was landing flips and body varials, and he seemed destined for the podium. Then everything went wrong.
Read MoreOther than the fact that Ferrari's Enzo successor, the F150, will be stealing a name from America's best selling truck, we could only speculate about what would be under the carbon fiber body. Now we have a better idea. At a not-so-top secret viewing in Maranello, potential customers apparently got the skinny on the new ultra-Ferrari's performance stats.
Read MoreIf you're like us you've been playing a lot of Forza Horizon in those hours when you're not sleeping or pretending to work, but perhaps you've felt something was missing from the experience. Specifically, you've felt like you've been deprived of the retro Japanese, vintage Italian and classic American wagon-y goodness that makes life worth living.
Read MoreEver gone through a state and wondered "what is shoved up the asses of every cop here?" Jalopnik readers know where the absolute worst traffic cops reside.
Read MoreHey, weren't we just talking about traffic cops? The cops in Minnesota really seem to have it in for 49-year-old grandmother Lorretta Lacy, who got nailed with four speeding tickets in about three hours recently, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Read MoreWoking had a party today as the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team revealed its newest Formula-1 car, the MP4-28. They even fired up some of the old race cars in the house, which is always nice to see (and hear). Next to McLaren's star driver Jenson Button was young Sergio Perez instead of Lewis Hamilton, who was quick to assure everybody that his only goal is to become World Champion in the 2013 season... you hate to see an athlete with such small ambitions.
Read MoreLove. It makes you do crazy things, like follow a pop star on tour across 50 different cities because you're sure that she's actually singing to you, even if your stupid psychiatrist says she isn't, and you need to tell her how much you love her, no matter what the stupid police tell you with their dumb restraining orders.
Read MoreWhen we ran the Volkswagen "Get Happy" Super Bowl Ad featuring non-black people speaking in a Jamaican accent there was a voice in the back of my head that asked "is this racist?" Racism brings in eyeballs and every editor/producer/writer gets a little media stiffy anytime they find anything remotely racist. Sadly, my racism detector didn't go off.
Read MoreSome automakers like to use their dynamics or power as publicity for their cars. Chevy used animated dwarves and an association with Disney's new MGM Studios as its promotional tool.
Read MoreA woman allegedly robbed a bank while on a test drive this week. Supposedly she did it by tricking an 83-year-old man into being her getaway driver, just to get the money to buy his car.
Read MoreWe live in a time of rampant horsepower overkill. Why does the family sedan need 300hp? Why does Timmy's first car need 260hp?
Read MoreRay LaHood announced this week that he won't continue on as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation for President Obama's second term, taking the most aggressive campaign against distracted driving ever put forth by the government with him as he departs.
Read MoreIf you were worried that the fifth Fast And The Furious movie was going to be the last, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Read MoreHeights scare me. I tend to think most reasonable people get a little put off by being in a situation where one small slip could lead to certain death.
Read MoreAnother day, another Super Bowl car commercial that has been pre-released on YouTube. Fabulous.
Read MoreAs you probably know, I'm an owner/operator of a two-year-old human being. Having one of these has made me appreciate all manner of larval people. They're generally a pretty fun, energetic, earnest group, even if their decision-making skills are pretty lacking and they're more willing to shove things in their mouths than society normally tolerates.
Read MoreThe American suburbs: where old people get trapped, all the houses look the same, and you have to drunk-drive to get home from parties. Or is it not so bad?
Read MoreIf you didn't know already, Inessa Tushkanova is a professional rally driver who likes to get naked in front of cameras. Yes, this is the best thing to happen to you in your life.
Read MoreWe're no strangers to motor vehicle departments restricting certain words from personalized license plates. Typically, genitalia, other sex themes, and things related to fecal matter and racism (same thing, really) are verboten. But what about words like PITA, SCOTCH, and RAIN?
Read MoreWhile Europeans got themselves some fantastic bubble cars after the war, the Japanese did something very similar with the introduction of the kei car category. The difference is that while the old continent switched to Mini's and Golfs pretty soon after things got back to normal, the Japanese kept their superminis under 660cc all along.
Read MoreEver wondered what happens when a professional racecar driver steps out of his car during a race weekend? You might imagine a mass of flashing cameras, adoring fans, and servants delivering gallons of caviar to $2 million motorhomes. But that, unfortunately for racers, is not the case.
Read MoreWhile they were certainly nowhere near the 200 mph mark, Hoon of the day could just as well go to BMW Classic this time, who brought multiple motorcycle world champion and touring car champion Johnny Cecotto to the ninth Historic Ice Trophy accompanied by his son, the promising Venezuelan talent who you might know already.
Read MoreWe've been hearing a lot about how Katherine Bigelow's movie, Zero Dark Thirty, is being seen by some as an endorsement of torture. Which is, you know, generally frowned upon. What most people don't realize is that the late Plymouth Motor Company, part of Chrysler, once openly endorsed torture in their mid-1930s era film, "Trial By Torture."
Read MoreEver wondered what it's like to launch from 0-200 in the 1,244 horsepower Hennessey Venom GT? Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire found out.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy has come up with a plan for the minesweeping ship grounded Jan. 17 on a biologically sensitive coral reef offshore from the Philippines. It will cut the 224-foot-long Avenger-class ship into chunks which can be carted away.
Read MoreIt's easy to take interstate highways for granted these days. Sometimes we even associating them with traffic, ugly construction, and even lower quality of life. But there was a time when the lack of a freeway system kept people and things from getting where they were supposed to go.
Read MoreWalking, floating, flying cities always seem like a good idea, until someone has to live there. Jalopnik readers know ten amazingly cool-looking future cities that are actually pretty awful.
Read MoreBMW Welt is something between a museum, a factory tour, and an amusement park. Now several Detroit businessmen think Motor City should have something like it.
Read MoreSino-Swedish automaker Volvo has apologized on behalf of the engineer who attacked a spy photographer in a story we brought you first last week. Volvo was quite friendly about it and everyone seems happy with the outcome.
Read MoreWe have seen Diablos, Murcielagos and Gallardos pushed to their limits on the racetracks thanks to German-based Reiter Engineering for more than a decade now, and since 2007, the team scored 199 victories and 350 podium finishes for Sant'Agata's glory.
Read MoreA BMW-powered car won the Daytona 24 this weekend and BMW had little to nothing to do with it. Why?
Read MoreLotus unveiled the first 2013 F1 car today, their E21. As you can see, it still has the duckbill nose. More importantly, it has the best steering wheel in the world.
Read MoreThe government auditors responsible for monitoring the Trouble Asset Relief Program (i.e. TARP) say executives at three companies received pay that was "excessive" given the guidelines outlined in the program, including employees of GM and Ally (formerly GMAC).
Read MoreAfter the shakedown in December, Peugeot continued the testing of its newest rally car, the 208 Type R5. During a four-day session, Peugeot Rally Academy driver Craig Breen had the opportunity to develop the car after Bryan Bouffier had his fun last month.
Read MoreThe Woods Motor Vehicle Company was dead and gone by the end of WWI, but they were oddly prescient with many of their ideas. For example, they had a gasoline/electric hybrid vehicle way back in 1914, the Dual Power Model 44. This wasn't the first hybrid ever, but it does show that they were seriously experimenting with the technology.
Read MoreWheels are fairly important when it comes to cars, and after taking care of the four on the outside, our attentions can finally shift to the one in front of us.
Read MoreIt's not unusual to see advertisers — car companies in particular — pull out all the stops for Super Bowl advertising. It's a time when the millions of viewers with eyes glued to televised gridiron action can typically expect nothing less than creative genius from those who make the ads.
Read MoreNo one seemed terribly happy with the guys who stopped traffic on an Oakland highway and then posted a video of it to Facebook, least of all the real police and the Internet police, both of whom are trying to track down the people involved.
Read MoreAfter their first win in 2011, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates won the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona with its #1 TELMEX/Target BMW Riley prototype, powered by a Dinan Engineering tuned BMW engine.
Read MoreMost of our American readers probably know Kia's hatchback as the C apostrophe D, Top Gear's current reasonably priced car. While that was probably chosen to make sure there isn't enough power to kill any of the brave celebrities on BBC's watch, the new GT version that is coming to Geneva won't be able to promise the same.
Read MoreWelcome to Forgotten Cars, where we highlight fascinating cars and engines that are obscure, unrecognized and lost to the passage of time.
Read MoreBits of rubber and gravel rocks are pelting me. The January cold is mercilessly whipping me from head to toe. Tears are streaming down my face. All of the sudden, that Top Gear episode where Clarkson has his face ripped off by an Ariel Atom is profoundly less funny. I'm riding shotgun in one of the wildest vehicles you'll ever see, and my only thought is one usually reserved for triathletes and WWI fighter pilots: "Damn, I really wish I would have worn goggles."
Read MoreLast week when I was looking at 90s coupes, I came across one that Americans never had the chance to get – the Opel Calibra. A successor to the Opel Manta that Americans once got through Buick dealerships, I began to realize it was a shame we never got to have this. Weirder, considering it shares a lot of underneath pieces with the second-generation Saab 900.
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 MoreMy usual qualifier for a good car is whether or not it constantly puts a smile on my face. This means I like a lot of cars that are, on paper, bad choices. A Nissan Altima has never made me smile, nor has a Chevrolet Cruze –- yet both are cars I'd recommend to people looking in those respective segments if they want quiet and comfort in a car. Why do you think I feature such lunatic, unreliable, impractical cars on Used Car Face Off every week?
Read MoreListen: I love doing donuts. Lord knows I love me some donuts, man! I look at a vacant parking lot with no law enforcement around not as a blight on the landscape, but as an opportunity for fun. A playground, if you will.
Read MoreIs there anything we car enthusiasts hate more than car thieves? Don't be fooled the mainstream media, which portrays them as heroic cool guys out to rescue their little brothers from the mob and then hook up with Angelina Jolie afterwards. Make no mistake — car thieves are assholes.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreWe have a truly sad and horrific story out of Dallas today as police continue to search for a car that struck and killed a 6-year-old boy earlier this week and then drove away.
Read MoreAir — it's not just for breathing anymore!
Read MoreKids! I don't have 'em, but I can only imagine how hard they are to keep track of. One minute they're with you, and another minute they're off sticking metal objects into the electric socket to see what happens. It's why my parents kept us locked in the basement most of the time. I think that's why they did it, anyway.
Read MoreI was on my way back to Manhattan with Mike Spinelli from the official US launch of the $1.8m Zenvo ST1, explaining the car's price to the two guys piloting the cross-Hudson ferry. "One point eight million dollars?" He asked. "If it can't suck my dick, there's no way it's worth one point eight million bucks!"
Read MoreWhen the video of a guy talking about filming a naked "gorilla" man is as entertaining as the video of the naked "gorilla" man itself, that's how you know you're in Philadelphia, city of stars, cast of lunatics.
Read MoreThe Nissan GT-R was the ultimate bargain supercar when it hit the USA. A 2008 GT-R had a sticker price of just $69,850.
Read MoreInjuries and the X Games tend to go hand-in-hand. The risk of injury at the Winter X Games increased about 600 percent a couple of years ago when they added freestyle snowmobile stunts to the roster.
Read MoreOne of the greatest episodes of The Simpsons is, without a doubt, "Marge Vs. The Monorail." The Conan O'Brien-penned episode has everything you could ever want.
Read MoreFirefighting vehicles all seem to follow the same formula: big, red trucks that all looks the same. Jalopnik readers found ten blaze-extinguishing rigs that don't quite fit the mold.
Read MoreHollywood loves to disguise Budapest by adding a few extra Ladas parked on the streets, with fake communist monuments in the background and blue street signs everywhere to make it look like Moscow. Since it's a much nicer experience to shoot a movie here than over in Russia, that's exactly what they did once again last year for A Good Day To Die Hard — the latest film in the John McLane-attracts-danger franchise.
Read MoreIn case you were thinking that being a wildly famous millionaire is a joyless, arduous prospect you're happy to avoid, here's something that may change your mind: Jay Leno got to be the first non-GM employee to drive the new 2014 Corvette Stingray.
Read MoreHey... it's me Focus ST. Remember? Hah... Yeah, see... You know I woke up this morning, and there was this image of you, of us... the fun we had. I hope this is not inappropriate I just want to talk.
Read MoreOkay, Jalops — prepare to set your faces to stunned.
Read MoreFirst of all, I need to make sure my two-year old son Otto never sees this amazing electric car an engineer dad built for his son. While I'm sure Otto's childhood will involve some sort of home-built go-karts and things like that, whatever I make is going to look like it was carved from a lumpy hippo turd next to this sleek beauty. And mine will come with lots of warnings about not to touch things that will make the whole thing explode.
Read MoreThe Mercedes SLS AMG Black is the Four Loko of supercars: A hyped up adrenaline beast that will definitely kill you if you use it incorrectly.
Read MoreOne of the most evocative pictures of a garage in the past twenty years is that of a classic Porsche on a hydraulic lift in a diminutive two-car garage. Here's the story of that car.
Read MoreThis is the O.S.I. Silver Fox from 1967. The Italians wanted to go to Le Mans to score a speed record with it. Sadly, they didn't, but their attempt is worth noting for its pure batshittery.
Read MoreMost of us have wasted a day (or more) here and there sitting in city traffic. It' terrible. It makes you feel angry, violated, defeated, or some combination of the three.
Read MoreThe relationship between spy photographer and prototype engineer is something akin to hunter and prey. Engineers often do their best to evade the prying lens by fleeing but will, on occasion, try to attack the photographer.
Read MoreCurrent dragon and former Jalopnik Editor-in-Chief Ray Wert is moving on from his position as Executive Director of Content for Gawker Media to form his own company, Tiny Toy Car, which will "provide online publishers and their automotive agency clients with customized, branded advertising content designed to entertain, inform and engage car shoppers and automotive enthusiasts."
Read MorePretty much any vehicle can be called into firetruck duty, but what's the strangest one of all?
Read MoreIf there is one constant motivator for innovation, it is finding new and exciting ways to kill people. Among other things, this leads to some strange tanks. Jalopnik readers have found the ten strangest.
Read MoreThe Monte Carlo Rally last week was the festival of beautiful, tortuous oversteer that we all expect it to be. Now it just looks a thousand times better with drones.
Read MoreNew Yorkers might know the name of Gustav Lindenthal for designing the Hell Gate Bridge on the East River, but this great gentleman from the Czech part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also responsible for the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon. The problem is that 1925 was a long time ago, and the bridge's concrete approaches started to crack, meaning that the weight limit on this narrow bridge had to be lowered from 32 tons to 10 tons in 2004. Something had to be done.
Read MoreSir Patrick Stewart is apparently a huge racing fan and made a documentary about one of the greatest racing drivers of all time, Sir Stirling Moss. Watch it, because it's the best thing ever filmed.
Read MoreThough history will probably remember Richard Dawkins as the activist who spearheaded a new atheist movement, there is something far more famous and important that he invented — and few people know it. He is the guy who first popularized the idea of the meme, way back in the 1970s. That's right. Dawkins is indirectly responsible for every fruit-adorned cat, weird Japanese mashup video, and animated gif from Harry Potter fandom that has spurted out of the internet and into your face.
Read MoreGood designs are able to stand up to the worst kinds of abuse. And you can trust bored and imaginative car drivers to dish out the worst abuse imaginable.
Read MoreEver have those nights when you're really hungry and wish there was a taco cart next to your house where you could buy delicious, delicious tacos to feast upon at 3 a.m.? Sure. we all do.
Read MoreA little bit ago, we ran an article about the idea of Peak Car, and that led to discussions about share cars like Zipcar, and that led to this comment from reader Max_Plays_Music:
Read MoreYou guys know what's great? Driving! You know what else is great? Drinking! But they should never be done together. That's just dangerous, irresponsible, and also illegal.
Read MoreRemember that kid in the second grade? Stomach crammed full of paste and boogers, cruel little beady eyes always scanning for the slightest transgressions, and a big stupid mouth that would go blabbing to the teacher any time you even thought about doing something fun? Well, that little fuck now drives a Pontiac Grand Am outside of Pittsburgh, and is still trying to get you in trouble.
Read MoreImagine 400 horsepower, 1,000 pound V8 racecars running a quarter mile dirt track, indoors. This is the Chili Bowl, and it's unbelievable. Here's why nobody even had a chance to watch it.
Read MoreDrivers are constantly taking their eyes off the road to read text messages, check GPS, or use increasingly common touch-screen controls. Hyundai's newest concept car shows a way forward, and it uses the same kind of technology as your Xbox Kinect.
Read MoreNissan has made some pretty big investments in the Infiniti brand in the last year. They poached Audi man Johan de Nysschen, are revamping the entire vehicle lineup, and have goals of selling 500,000 cars a year starting in 2017.
Read MoreKen Block has been running the familiar green, black, and white Monster livery for years now. To go along with his team's name change to Hoonigan Racing Division for 2013, there is an all new livery for Block's fleet of Fiestas.
Read MoreIn the process of innovation, there are always design dead ends. None are weirder than the ones you get in the military.
Read MoreEveryone involved with the General Motors turnaround seems to think it's important to note that they were the ones who actually saved GM, even though the company is still far from being a model of business success. Today's turn comes from former AT&T CEO and very very interim GM CEO Ed Whitacre in excerpts from his new book "American Turnaround" on Fortune this morning. There's a lot to swallow from what sounds like an auto-hagioraphy.
Read MoreElectric cars: some people love them and others hate them, but it's generally agreed upon that they pollute the air less than Hummers. But a proposal from Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell could have less people buying electric cars.
Read MoreAfter giving the world (and us) a brand new Vanquish, Aston Martin's continued by facelifting its four-door wonder, the Rapide. And it just got better. And mouthier, which you may or may not consider better.
Read MoreFast cars, smooth criminals, and exotic locales: Porsche has all of them at hand, and it just needs one thing to turn its current legal dramas into a multi-million dollar international summer smash.
Read MoreWhen Austin's Circuit of the Americas was being planned and built, many people wondered how it would be sustainable if it only hosted a Formula One event, some track days, and a handful of other races every year.
Read MoreWhen Lotus was under Dany Bahar's leadership, they did all sorts of weird things. They inked a deal with noted automotive maverick Swizz Beatz. They also introduced about 37 cars that Lotus was planning on building in the coming six years. But one smart thing they did was get Bob Lutz, everyone's favorite auto exec, on board as a consultant.
Read MoreWhen you hear the words "Rolls-Royce Myth" chances are you imagine stories of engineers flown out to remote deserts to effect repairs on Rollers before their wealthy owners' caviar-cones melt, or perhaps tales of the fairy genocide that was the result of the systematic capture and metal-casting of fairies to make Rolls hood ornaments. What you probably don't think of is a small car.
Read MoreFour years ago, one of my colleagues at the Santa Barbara Independent took the train from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Chicago, and on to Washington, D.C. to watch Barack Obama's first inauguration. It sounded fun. There were lots of people on the train and everyone was excited.
Read MoreI remember when I got my Power Wheels Jeep as a kid. It was one of the happiest moments of my childhood. Photographer Robb Sutton recently got a similar electric Viper for his son. Sure, his son is two years old and can't reach the pedals, but it was too good a deal to pass up.
Read MoreWould-be bounty hunters take note: There is now an active arrest warrant in India for Porsche CEO Mattias Müller, as well as eight other Porsche executives.
Read MoreAlternadriver and wheel destruction fetishist Ken Block's renaming his Monster World Rally Team the Hooningan Racing Division and moving the company into a new HQ in Park City, Utah constructed of recycled shipping containers and designed to look like the set of a '90s Nickelodeon sports-themed game show. In a good way.
Read MoreThe Internet makes it easy to identify yourself by your preferences. You can "like" Fords on Facebook, retweet Audi's official account incessantly, and post pics of your Oldmobile V8-powered Chevy truck in #oppo. But how do you do the same in real life? How do you spot another gearhead?
Read MoreAerospace engineers have come up with some revolutionary forward-thinking amazing straight-up insane designs. Sometimes these dreams never make it off the drawing board, but sometimes—some wonderful times—they become real. And when these alien bodies lift off into the firmament, it's like watching a spaceship transporting the human race directly into the future. Check these amazing planes out:
Read MoreAlternative-fuel cars are usually exceptionally boring. Jalopnik readers know ten bizarre attempts to outdo gasoline that definitely didn't suck.
Read MoreIt seems like CAR Magazine has managed to get some crisp images of the brand new 2014 BMW M3 before its "concept" version premiers at the Geneva Motor Show in March. While this very yellow car could be just a very good rendering, the fine folks at GT Spirit who snagged an early copy of the magazine think it's real.
Read MoreRolls-Royce is coming out with their most powerful car yet, the Wraith, and they've been testing it on the ‘Ring. No. Rolls-Royce, you're doing it wrong, and this grumpy cat and I will explain why.
Read MoreWe say that racing is all about cheating, but is it? What if the greatest cheats, weren't even breaking the rules at all?
Read MoreWe've seen the new Corvette Stingray indoors, but this is the first time we're seeing it on the road, in the real world. Does it look…better?
Read More"You bend it, you mend it," right? That's the basis of a lawsuit by famous racing driver David Piper against a car journalist who blew the engine on Piper's $2 million Porsche 917.
Read MoreLast year, the U.S. imported 40 percent of its crude oil. But not as much as you might think comes from the Middle East. Most of it comes from Canada, and a good amount from Africa.
Read MoreThis past Saturday, as you may have heard, the original Ford Futura showcar that was modified into the first Batmobile sold for a Bruce Wayne-wealth-worthy $4.2 million dollars.
Read MoreIf you've been so busy making tender love to your fake girlfriend and you've been unable to catch the news let me fill you in: Lance Armstrong admitted to cheating. Many of us did know that Lance Armstrong doped throughout his career, and a few nights back, he finally fessed up. Cheating in sports is unfortunately far more common than most realize. Usually, it's only those with an intimate knowledge of the sport that truly know, and they often ignore it in an effort to avoid alienation from th
Read MoreWe train ourselves to spot the headlights of Crown Vic cop cars from a half mile away, but how do we ID unmarked vehicles? Jalopnik readers are here to help, and they think they've found the stealthiest cop cars of all.
Read MoreIt seems that today we, as a country, will be inaugurating a President. It's the same President we had before, so it should go pretty easily, seeing as how he already has all his stuff in the White House and all the radios preset with his chosen stations. Still, it's a big deal, since we only do this once every leap year or something like that, so it's worth taking the time to see how cars fit into the whole thing.
Read MoreA brand new Chinese manufacturer will have its first premier at the Geneva Motor Show in March. The Qoros GQ3 is a compact sedan penned by Gert Volker Hildebrand, the guy responsible for the first model change after Mini's revival in 2000. It is due to be launched in China in the second half of 2013, with the first cars arriving in Europe later in the year. But who will buy them?
Read MoreEveryone has been hearing that the Hennessey Venom GT would be the fastest production car in the world before one was even built... perhaps to the point of annoyance. But with 1,244 horsepower to carry just 2,743 pounds, there was little reason to doubt that the car would be very, very fast.
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 MoreThe G37-supplanting Infiniti Q50 was shown at the Detroit show this week, and for the first time, there's a hybrid version of the brand's BMW 3-series fighter. Like its bigger brother's M35 hybrid (or Q-something hybrid starting next year), it has a big honkin' 3.5-liter V6 tied to an electric motor.
Read MoreHave we hit "Peak Car" without even noticing? And is that really a bad thing? It might be if we lose automakers to things that make appliances with four wheels.
Read MoreI'm going to appeal to your sense of decency today, Jalops. Most of you are kind, generous and giving people. That's why I'm asking you to give a certain car a good home.
Read MoreCan you buy a car in 140 characters or fewer? I mean, the last time I bought a new car, it took weeks, if not months, to decide on a car and a color and then about four hours to drive and sit down with a grinning salesman before a deal was struck. It wasn't like I could just see a tweet and click.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreHoly insert clever auto auction pun here, Batman! The original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series was sold tonight at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction for an insane $4.2 million.
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 last year, among others.
Read MoreEvery now and then, I find stuff on Craigslist that really throws me for a loop. Take this ad for a 1998 BMW 528i. Looks like a decent used car deal with the kinds of goodies we like on our BMWs — sport package, BBS wheels, manual transmission, sun roof, nice audio system and "no check engine light" on the dash. That's always a good thing when you're dealing with an older Bimmer.
Read MoreI don't know if you heard about this at all or not, but this week was the Detroit Auto Show. We were there. We wrote some articles and did some tweets and even engaged in some go-karting.
Read MoreFamed modern day philosopher Jeremy Clarkson once noted that "You can't be a true petrolhead until you've owned an Alfa Romeo." That's probably true, but it's a bit of a tall order for us Americans, since Alfa Romeos haven't been sold here since the mid 1990s (save for a few 8Cs here and there.)
Read MoreWe give Florida a lot of shit around here, mainly because they seem to have the market cornered on vehicle-related redneck shenanigans. But when it comes to the televised police chase, there's one state in this great union of ours who does it better than anyone: California.
Read MoreI'm pleased to report a happy ending to the tale of the 8-second Toyota Supra that was stolen from Florida swimsuit model and noted gearhead Jess Barton a few weeks ago.
Read MorePoor little Ford Fiesta. It's a perfectly competent and attractive compact car, but it just can't seem to get any respect. Now the little car finds itself embroiled in some drama involving English actor Jeremy Irons, William Shakespeare, and Downton Abbey. Wait, what?
Read MoreDuring our five-day stint in the Motor City covering the Detroit Auto Show, your Jalopnik staffers noticed no less than 15 Pontiac Azteks on the road — more than 20 if you count its sibling the Buick Rendezvous. What gives, Detroit? Why were so many of these ugly things still running around? Did the city give them away at some point as part of a bailout raffle or something?
Read MoreThe Subaru SVX is one of the most interesting cars to come out of Japan in the 1990s. It was Subaru's first and only low slung sports coupe with massive expanses of glass and crazy styling. Very cool.
Read MoreBack in the first few decades of the automobile, the only car executives were car enthusiasts, and they were usually pretty hardcore guys. For the most part, those days are gone. Why?
Read MoreIn perhaps one of the most Bidenesque moments ever, the Corvette-loving real Vice President of the United States Joe Biden called out the fake Trans-Am-loving version of himself from The Onion, who at this moment is giving a real fake iAMA on Reddit. If you're from 1990 and are browsing Jalopnik through a wormhole on your Gateway computer that last sentence makes no sense to you.
Read MoreEvery nation is proud of its highway network, whether it is called Autobahn, freeway, interstate or autópálya. They are not easy to build. Lack of space or difficult geographycal conditons ask for creative (and expensive) solutions, including blowing up half a mountain, digging a tunnel or pulling down a whole neighbourhood.
Read MoreAs we watch this intrepid hoon launch his beater Chevy Corsica high, so high over a minivan we have to ask ourselves, what is this guy doing so very right?
Read MoreAutomakers give out free cars to magazines and some websites for as long as a year. They call them long-term testers.
Read MoreBeryozovo is a relatively peaceful village located on the Ob River far away in the Ural Mountains in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a federal subject of Russia. It has around 7,000 residents, one of which just got a nasty surprise thanks to a local mechanic.
Read MoreCop cars are all about hiding in plain sight. So what would be the stealthiest cop car imaginable?
Read MoreThis year's Detroit Auto Show was all about Acuras instead of the core brand, but the Japanese clearly didn't want to leave North America without giving us a new Honda. They choose the Montreal International Auto Show for their premier, so go ahead and blame Canada for getting the first peek at a future we hope Honda embraces.
Read MoreIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, manufacturers weren't putting ugly plastic covers on top of their engines. That's what is so lovely about the Taurus SHO: You're allowed to see the unequal length tuned intake runners. They really catch the eye.
Read MoreIt's no secret that President Barack Obama and his Washington, D.C. neighbors are tight. With a population that's more than 50 percent black and a median age of 33, the President's more or less liberal reputation sits cozily within the city's demographics.
Read MoreI've been to a few car shows now and I've rarely seen as happy a group of booth professionals as the ones I saw at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this week.
Read MoreI was at the shop getting my car a NY State inspection and I finally realized why, dammit, I just need to learn Spanish already.
Read MoreMany of us have gone on long road trips, but usually over the summer. The air is warm (sometimes, stifling hot), the scenery is green (or gold in dry places), and the roads are busy with vacationers eager to see the world's largest ball of twine or whatever.
Read MoreBritain has given the world more Formula-1 World Champions than any other nation. The list includes Jackie Stewart (3), Jim Clark (2), Graham Hill (2), Mike Hawthorn (1), John Surtees (1), James Hunt (1), Nigel Mansell (1), Damon Hill (1), Lewis Hamilton (1) and Jenson Button (1).
Read MoreAt the Detroit Auto Show and other shows like it, automakers tend to invite journalists to over-the-top dinners and events so they can schmooze and build relationships. Sometimes there are bands, other times celebrities, and there is always excellent food. Automakers have pampered us for so long that it is now expected everywhere we go.
Read MoreEveryone knew that the interior of the old Corvette was holding the car back. You knew, I knew, Chevy knew. So they made the new Corvette Stingray's interior better. How much better?
Read MoreCairo, Egpyt is notorious for its horrible traffic. Roadways are packed solid and anarchy reigns over intersections. But on rare occasions, even the worst gridlock can be a good thing.
Read MoreRemember the guy who swapped an old phone for a Porsche? Well, this is another shining example of marvellous business talent involving phones and Porsches: I give you the Panamera key shaped mobile straight from China!
Read MoreIt's not just poorly translated Chinese company slogans that make no sense; all car companies these days are guilty of bullshitting you with nonsense. We think you can do better.
Read MoreThe Mexican state of Guanajuato just boosted its tax revenues this Tuesday, when the 100th Volkswagen factory worldwide was opened in the city of Silao. The new unit will build up to 330,000 TSI engines annually to supply Volkswagen's North American vehicle plants in Puebla, Mexico and Chattanooga in the US.
Read MoreThere's no doubt that people will do just about anything to make it big on the internet. But there's normal anything and then there's Florida anything, which is living proof that videotaped pranks can run afoul of the law when they involve giving random people wedgies.
Read MoreAmidst all the hoopla surrounding Chevrolet's release of the 2014 Corvette Stingray at the Detroit Auto Show this week, we must take a moment to observe Corvette's 60th birthday. Happy birthday Corvette! You're now old enough to enjoy the senior citizen discount at Shoney's.
Read MoreScarcely has the 2014 Corvette been revealed and yet already we're seeing photos of what some are claiming is the new Corvette Convertible, which isn't supposed to even be produced until 2014.
Read MoreThere is no other way to put it: This is the most reckless drift video I've ever seen outside the Arabian Peninsula.
Read MoreWere you inspired by Lance Armstrong? How about now with those "Tour de France titles being stripped," "lifetime cycling ban," and "confession to using performance enhancing drugs things?" Maybe just him being an asshole is enough to turn you off.
Read MoreIt's pretty much a given that if you want to win in Formula-1, you get Adrian Newey. Not Vettel, not Alonso, not Jesus, Newey! His cars won five championships for Williams, one for McLaren, and so far three for Red Bull.
Read MoreWhat makes Jimmie Johnson so much better than Dale Jr.? Why can Felipe Massa never keep pace with Fernando Alonso? What is it that makes the top drivers stand tall above the rest? Is it purely a greater dedication to the cause, or maybe they're just braver? Perhaps it is simply a matter of genetics?
Read MoreElectric cars are really still in their infancy. And, like infants, they've been really terrible about picking coherent standards to do things as a collaborative whole. Put any group of babies together and ask them to establish norms for, say, a standard unit of density, and what do they do? Wet themselves and shove things in their mouths. Way to go, assholes.
Read MoreSometimes Google's Street View cars return some pretty astounding pictures. Like yesterday when a picture appeared on Reddit of a donkey that commenters thought Google ran over and left for dead.
Read MoreI'd say at least 50 percent of the readers on this website are humans. And as humans, we all have fears, some of which are rational and some of which aren't.
Read MoreForget the new Corvette Stingray. Forget the holograms or Tesla's sweet gull-winged Model X. Forget the Chinese cars in the lobby, the BMW 4-Series concept, or any of the fancy electric or hybrid cars on display throughout the Cobo Center.
Read MoreDear Guangzhou Automobile Group,
Read MoreOn Saturday 9th March, a car thought to be the sole surviving Morris London Taxi will make the journey to Brooklands for the Historics' auction. You should get it, it seems to be a great grocery getter. It also comes with a great deal of history.
Read MoreThis year's Detroit Auto Show was the Golden Corral of car shows; a giant spread of Asian, European, and American offerings designed to offer something at least palatable to nearly everyone in attendance. And when we say everyone, we honestly and truly mean every single person on planet Earth.
Read MoreWe've already shown you that a Tesla Model S will smoke the new BMW M5 in a drag race, and that's no small feat. It should also come as no surprise. Say what you want about Tesla or their long-term viability as a company, there's no question that their cars are fast.
Read MoreIs Nissan intimidating the employees of its Canton, Miss. plant out of voting to unionize their workforce?
Read MorePardon me for making the same point people have been making about Kia for the past however many years, but I remember when their cars were plasticrap and now they're making a flagship sedan? Insane.
Read MoreIn feng shui, "Chi" is the universal energy field that surrounds each of us. "Trump" is a wealthy buffoon who, by all appearances, is the product of an intimate encounter between a Connecticut WASP and an errant Homo erectus. The "Trumpchi," is a car by Chinese automaker GAC. Got it? Not yet, you don't.
Read MoreWhile every other publication has totally ignored the 2014 Corvette, we've been covering this lesser known debut at the Detroit Auto Show. But so far we've only seen it in grey and red.
Read MoreThe Detroit Auto Show is always a lot of fun, but in this era of spy photos and leaks, there aren't many real surprises. One huge exception we encountered here was this, the Shelby Ford Focus ST covered in a bright orange tarp just outside the media center. For days we've been wondering what kind of magical mysteries were hidden underneath that tarp.
Read MoreAcura's marketing VP Mike Accavitti this morning said that the Acura MDX Prototype is "the star of the show today" for his brand. With all due respect to Mike, I'll have to disagree.
Read MoreI've watched MotorWeek — the finest car show on public television — since I was a little kid. Even though my daily MotorWeek Theater posts are a tad tongue-in-cheek, I'm actually a fan of the show.
Read MoreI am a Lexus hater. Much as I like the original LS400, everything else they make just seems so willfully bland, inoffensive, and characterless. And then there's this new 2014 IS, and…and I think I like it.
Read MoreBentley sure isn't afraid of color lately. The new 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible was draped in a silky, vivid purple tarp right before its unveiling, the car on display was a rich, bold blue, and the video shown behind it was $200,000 worth of Fanta Grape-colored car. They're pretty bold, attention-hungry colors, the kinds of things you can only get away with at the really low end or really high end of the market. And it's pretty goddamn clear which end the Continental GT Speed C
Read MoreAudi just dropped the 2014 RS7 on us here at the Detroit Auto Show. I'm now trying to figure out how I can afford one.
Read MoreI've read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete lack of attention. Her actual destination was only 90 miles away.
Read MoreLike many of its potential buyers, the E-Class has gotten a facelift. Most cars go through this sort of mid-life crisis refresh, and many would argue the old E-Class needed one particularly, with a somewhat fussy trapezoid-ish quad headlight setup and four more round driving lights below.
Read MoreCarmakers spend millions developing perfect ad campaigns for their cars, yet the ads you actually end up seeing are made for ten bucks by your local dealer. As Jalopnik readers know, the local spots are usually better.
Read MoreVolkswagen is a hulking automaton of a carmaker at this point. Want proof? They're showing off a seven seat SUV based on the same platform as the Golf. And they're making it a diesel-electric hybrid.
Read MoreYesterday night, General Motors made sure to keep everybody as excited about the new Corvette Stingray as the people involved in the project were. The countdown on Youtube looked like we were about to send somebody to Mars, but it worked: even I stayed up here in Budapest (what's 7:00 pm for you is 1:00 am for me) to watch the car being unveiled.
Read MoreWe now know that the new Corvette is going to be called a Stingray, in a nice nod to Corvettes past. They've even got a nice little stingray badge on the side there, and the steering wheel center has a stingray motif center.
Read MoreOur intrepid photographer Brian Williams, clad in his usual photography ghillie suit, snapped some photos of Rev. Jesse Jackson at the Detroit Auto Show today. That in itself isn't too unusual; the Detroit show frequently brings well-known people out. In fact, I think I saw William H. Macy scrutinizing the glove box size in a Fiat 500L.
Read MoreI must admit, although we have seen it already, the new CLA is a much more exciting car than what I was expecting from Mercedes. In my opinion, it's not only better looking than a BMW 1-series, but also quite a bit smarter. Of course the best news is that it's coming to America.
Read MoreToday BMW officially unveiled the car formerly known as the 3-Series coupe, and it looks even better in person than it did in the photos. Behold the BMW 4 Series. Pricks never had it so good.
Read MoreWhen Mercedes brought out its not-too-big SUV/Crossover, people went apeshit for it. Here's the Lincoln MKC, the brand's attempt to catch the same market.
Read MoreLove the Fisker Karma but hate saving the environment? Love the Fisker Karma but hate the risk of a possible fire burning your garage in the night? Love the Corvette ZR1 but wish it had two more doors?
Read MoreWe're not yet sure whether BMW will unveil their new X5 at the Detroit Auto Show, but photos of the car have surfaced early over at the Malaysian website Cars, Bikes & Trucks this morning.
Read MoreNo matter that the Corvette ZR1 is faster than an Enzo and a 911 around the 'Ring. No matter that a Z06 regularly spanks BMWs at track events. No matter the growl of a Corvette V8 always turns heads, whether you're in Athens, Georgia or Athens, Greece.
Read MoreThere was once a time when there was scarcely a Chrysler product that wasn't a Jeep Wrangler or a Ram worth recommending to a normal person. And then the new Grand Cherokee debuted. An immediate hit with an exterior that was Jeep-tough yet refined with performance to match. For 2014 there's no dramatic redesign, just a slight improvement to keep it fresh.
Read MoreIn a move that will in no way come off as creepy, awkward, or stupid at all, VIA Motors' press conference tomorrow will feature ex-GM frontman Bob Lutz having a conversation with a reanimated Thomas Edison. VIA Motors puts electric drivetrains in GM vans, trucks, and SUVs, and this will be their first big auto show press conference.
Read MoreGM hopes the 2014 Corvette will be the star of a new product renaissance they keep pretending is happening six months in the future from any point. Yes, you've seen glimpses of the new Corvette already, but in just a few short hours you'll see the whole thing live right here.
Read MoreHave you ever said, "What I should really do is take out that stupid engine in my Mark 2 Golf GTI and shove in lots of batteries instead"? Well, this guy did and now his creation is for sale.
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 MoreIt's safe to say we talk a lot about things we can't have on Jalopnik, and many of those things include wagons. We don't get a lot of the cool load-luggers Europeans get and that's truly a tragedy, since they include some powerful, attractive and bizarrely cool models we will never get to buy new.
Read MoreNo one would ever go to Beijing for its crisp air and clear skies, but smog problem in China's capital has, evidently, gotten way out of control.
Read MoreOur rollout of Detroit Auto Show reveals continues tonight with the Lincoln MKC Concept, which previews what is sure to be the brand's next small crossover SUV. (I needed to post this tonight because I know how passionate you all are about small crossover SUVs.)
Read MoreThe Detroit Auto Show is often attended by a ton of famous celebrities, like the Jalopnik staff and some other, less important people. But at least one celebrity has come to Detroit to stage a protest outside the big show, and that's Danny Glover, the star of the Lethal Weapon movies.
Read MoreAre you the kind of person who only purchases gasoline and neither pays for nor consumes any other goods? If so, we have excellent news for you today: gas prices in 2013 are expected to decline, even though the cost of just about everything else is going up.
Read MoreAmerica's Greatest State had a banner year in 2012 for crazy vehicular crimes, and it shows no signs of slowing down in 2013. The latest example of Florida's winning streak comes in the form of this trio of jokers, who were arrested after police say they tied a man to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him half a mile down the street.
Read MoreWhile you were busy ogling the pretty pictures of the new Corvette on the covers of Automobile and Road & Track we scored for you yesterday, you may not have noticed one interesting detail: both publications say "Stingray Returns" on the cover. Could this mean that the storied "Stingray" name could be making a comeback on the new 'Vette?
Read MoreOur own Zac Estrada penned a great article last weekend about the Rover SD1, the final Rover-branded car to be sold in America. But while that may have been the company's last hurrah under their own name, the storied British marque had one last go of the Colonies in the late 1980s and early 90s. And it was not pretty.
Read MoreThe problem with the Veyron is that no matter how powerful your car, you can only go as fast as the road permits.
Read MoreThe curvy strip of tarmac at Monza is famously fast and dangerous, but the hardcore action doesn't stop at the barriers of the track during race weekends. Instead, it spreads to the spectator's camps, where supporters of different teams are having a killer time in such a spectacular way that could even teach Kimi Räikkönen a few new things about partying.
Read MoreAfter years of waiting we can finally show you a good chunk of the 2014 Corvette — the new Corvette that's supposed to change everything. Camaro-esque taillights, a new, bolder look. Yes, it looks familiar, but this is really it.
Read MoreGeorgia! It's a bastion of decency and morality nestled deep within the Bible Belt. And for that reason, state officials can't let people drive around with whatever they want on their vanity license plates. Of course not! Such brazen displays of impropriety could upset people and cause them to riot in the streets.
Read MoreSo you already like Jalopnik on Facebook and enjoy receiving various and sundry tweets on the Twitter regarding our stories. Good for you! But you've always been longing for more. Well, long for more no, umm, longer.
Read MoreThe Dakar has made its way into Chile, proving itself to be as grueling and even as deadly as you'd imagine.
Read MoreOccasionally, after a day immersed in reading about cars, writing about cars, driving in cars, sobbing in cars so no one can see my shame, and generally having my brain defined by cars, I'll have to step back and remind myself just why we even have cars at all. To get our asses and our information from one point to another.
Read MoreWe have more unfortunate news to report from the 2013 Dakar Rally as a French motorcycle competitor was killed earlier this morning in Chile after he crashed into a police car.
Read MoreToyota brought ten models to this year's Tokyo Auto Salon, including two racecars, four FR-S/GT86 concepts, two rebodied JDM cars and two racecar wannabes.
Read MoreThe car industry claims to be based on change. There's always a new model, a new brand, a new fastest car. At a certain point, you realize that some things never change.
Read MoreCongress loves to spend taxpayer dollars. That's part of the reason why the federal debt is nearly $16 trillion. Since 2001, more than two billion of those dollars have gone into renovations to the controversial Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba.
Read MoreAt CES every year, we cover hundreds of products. They're usually only barely differentiated from previous models. But sometimes, companies trot out devices and technology that could bring something new and wonderful to the market—it's just too bad the odds of this vaporware ever being for sale are slim to nil. Here's the best fantasy tech that wowed the gadget-lusting masses in 2013.
Read MoreIn the future computers will rise up and enslave the human race. We all know this.
Read MoreElon Musk wants to take people to Mars. He's made no bones about it. That's really cool.
Read MoreCar forums can be a great source of the specific details on your car you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else, like "which sex toy works best as a replacement for the pinion ring on my Baja Bug?" Whether as a troll or as well-meaning attempt at aid, you'll also hear some of the worst possible ideas for your car online. What's the worst advice you've ever heard on a car forum?
Read MoreThese myths have permeated among car drivers and the industry at large for decades, many of which have been unshakable, yet untrue stories about cars.
Read MoreA new study of questionable scientific rigor says you're safer listening to Coldplay and Norah Jones than M.I.A. or Johnny Cash when you drive.
Read MoreIf you like the power of the new 2014 E63 but don't find the design sexy enough for your tastes, Mercedes has another option to get you interested.
Read MoreTwo days after seeing the first photo of the all-wheel drive E 63 AMG coming next year, Mercedes-Benz was kind enough to give us all the details about their newest muscle cars. Yes, we appear to be getting the wagon.
Read MoreThere's a saying, coined by Daniel Tosh, that goes roughly thus: Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jetski, and you don't see sad people on jetskis. Well, my friends, I'm here to tell you that the same holds true for snowmobiles. They are awesome.
Read MoreThis week marks the beginning of U.S. production for the 2013 Nissan Leaf electric vehicle, something the automaker excitedly announced in a press release today. But while workers in Smyrna, Tennessee gear up to make the cars and their batteries, a group of owners in Arizona say they're still angry with the way their Leafs handle the heat — and with how Nissan is handling the situation.
Read MoreIt was probably the cocaine that turned the performance oriented tuning scene of the seventies into something very different a decade later. Or David Hasselhoff's hairy chest.
Read MoreHigh on the list of things you should definitely read today is this piece by Automotive News' Mark Rechtin detailing just how Honda managed to turn the much maligned 2012 Honda Civic into the it-could-have-been-worse-because-it-was-worse 2013 Honda Civic, which has Honda execs explaining the way its efficient system allows it to unfuck itself so quickly.
Read MoreNASCAR CEO Brian France was on Motor Racing Network's "NASCAR Live" last night and he was taking phone calls. One of those calls was from a man named Jeremy Mayfield.
Read MoreCar owners, like pseudo Mayan archeologists, sometimes tend to exaggerate fact. This leads to confusing, hysteria, and eventually insanely untrue myths about their vehicles that some confuse with the truth. What's the most ridiculous of these car myths?
Read MoreThis morning, Chrysler announced that their new Ram 3500 Heavy Duty is so good at towing, it makes all other trucks look like weak little girlie trucks suitable only for feeble people who live in nursing homes. Why? Because it can tow 30,000 goddamn pounds, that's why.
Read MoreNovember's Formula One race at Austin's brand new Circuit of the Americas was a success from nearly every perspective. While some of the facilities weren't totally complete and the track was slick, the circuit ended up with praise from drivers, teams, and the 117,000-plus fans that attended.
Read MoreI'm not sure what was the greatest moment in my life as an intern. I went through a few unpaid desk gigs, rubbing shoulders with important New York City architects one summer and moving museum cars another. Driving a Jaguar XKR convertible was definitely a high point, though.
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 last year, among others.
Read MoreWhenever someone brings up a coupe that's just a two-door version of an existing sedan, my impulse is to immediately criticize the vehicle and then make snap judgements about the life choices of anyone who's bought one. They are completely useless.
Read MoreI'm moving. Again. But before I cart my belongings from Colorado east to the land of bad summer and winter weather, I need to figure out the cheapest way possible to do it.
Read MoreMany years back, I had, for a brief time, an ill-fated turbo'd 240sx. It attracted a lot of attention, as a very obviously tuned car. I constantly had people trying to get me to street race — not my thing, thank you. Most of them were from the usual suspects, like Civics, Mustangs, etc.
Read MoreIntroducing The Camry Effect; a beige firestorm sure to leave you yawning uncontrollably for the rest of the afternoon.
Read MoreGot your eye on a sweet used '59 U-2 spy plane you saw on Craigslist? Would you go ahead and take the plunge if you just, you know, knew how to fly it? Then boy, are you in luck.
Read MoreWell, my job is now obsolete. It was nice while it lasted. But I can see the writing on the wall, or, in this case, the pictures on the XBox. See, why am I running around like an idiot trying to drive and evaluate and think about actual cars when I can just pop Forza into my XBox and do it all virtually like I'm in the Matrix or this "cyber-spaces" I've heard so much about?
Read MoreAudi has made a new toy for the Detroit Auto Show. When we first saw the SQ5 we noted it was the first S model with a diesel engine, which means we'd probably never get it. Now Audi's gone and made a new version for America with a free-revving supercharged V6 with two intercoolers. Sounds good already.
Read MoreWe were disturbed to hear the famous Supra belonging to gearhead model/host Jess Barton was stolen last week in Florida. Now we are sad to report the car appears to have been stripped of all the go-fast parts that made it an 8-second quarter-mile monster. There's now a $6,000 reward for info leading to the capture of those involved and the return of the parts.
Read MoreWhile the multi-class merger between America's top two GT racing series was making our heads spin, the cars were whipping around the track in the shakedown for the 2013 Grand Am season and looking absolutely amazing.
Read MoreThere big file in my brain labelled "Things I Are A Sucker For" is a large, sloppy thing, with photos of weird cars and bits of hot dogs and brochures for old '80s computers falling out all over the place. Also crammed in there, between torn-out photos of girls in long athletic socks with those three stripes and half a tomato sandwich is a bunch of animation from the 50s-60s.
Read MoreParking must be really bad in Houston, because they're giving out tickets to cars parked on walls now. At least that's what happened at 3303 Kirby Ave in Houston, where the City posted a red tag on the building demanding "Remove car from front." Why don't they just put a boot on it if they're so angry?
Read MoreDo you like bottle service at clubs? Do you like to keep an expensive bottle of Cristal with you at all times? Do you consider yourself a baller? Do you also like to act like you're saving the environment?
Read MoreGenerally, we think of dashcam footage is a relatively recent phenomenon. Recent and overwhelmingly Russian. But the reality is, technically, dashboard cameras could have been at least possible from some of the earliest days of motoring. And at least one example has surfaced: an incredible bit of footage from the dashboard of a fire truck, in 1926.
Read MoreWhat would you do if you were riding an escalator and it suddenly switched directions? Common sense says that you would stop moving and go with the new found flow of the escalator.
Read MoreI came across this video on Reddit of some kid boasting about his V6 Mustang. Obviously, the V6 Mustang is a great first "new" car for an aspiring gearhead… although we'd say you should go used for your first car. This young man, however, is completely talking out of his ass. It'll be super-turbo-charged, running 18 pounds of boost, and hit a 1/4 mile in the 12-second range without blowing the driveshaft through the footwell.
Read MoreA fire has reportedly started inside a Japan Air Lines Boeing 787 Dreamliner which is currently at Boston's Logan Airport.
Read MoreIn 1990, the Jaguar XJ-S was already on sale for sixteen years. That didn't stop the British from making it for another five, but for the nineties, they upgraded the whole thing to keep it attractive for the lords. They also got rid of the hyphen, so it become the XJS. That's more or less five extra horses right there!
Read MoreEver wonder what's being said over an intercom during a rally? That strange language in the background of rally videos? The instructions are known as "pace notes" and they are read by the co-driver from a book while the two drive as fast as possible through a closed section of road called a "stage."
Read MoreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out on Friday with some pretty sobering information about people falling asleep at the wheel that indicates about 4 percent of drivers have admitted to dozing off while driving, and experts say the real percentage is much, much higher. More than 300,000 crashes in 2009 were linked to driving while drowsy.
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 MoreRemember "Cash for Clunkers," that program implemented in 2009 where the federal government was giving people money to buy shiny, fuel-efficient new cars if they traded in their old gas-guzzling clunkers? It was supposed to be a win-win situation for both the environment and America's struggling economy.
Read MoreWarning lights have never been the most helpful thing in the world. They're there to tell you when something's about to go wrong, but without giving you a good estimate on how severe or how soon things are going to get really screwed up. A warning light just tells you to be a little more on edge.
Read MoreIn a hilarious case of mistaken car identity this week, police in Ontario, Oregon say they recovered a car thought to have been stolen from a supermarket after it was accidentally driven home by an elderly couple who thought it was theirs. Oh, old people.
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreOn a recent sunny day in Australia, a group of people got it into their heads that they should attempt to shatter the current world record for cars doing burnouts at the same time. This is because Australia is perhaps the last place on Earth where this kind of behavior is acceptable, and even encouraged. (We know it probably wouldn't go over too well in London.)
Read MoreHey, Internet people! Yes, you. I have a bone to pick with you. Somehow, in your busy day of posting rage-filled comments on the websites of your local newspapers and looking at pictures of cats, you missed out an amazing opportunity.
Read MoreBeing a gearhead tends to be an inherited trait. There are tons of car guys and car gals out there who learned to love driving, engines, and racing thanks to their fathers or mothers or some other significant person in their family.
Read MoreIt's 2013 now! Doesn't that sound so futuristic to you guys? We'll be the age of flying cars, time machines and laser weapons before you know it. Nothing will be boring in this insanely high-tech age we're about to enter — not even our roads.
Read MoreWe all spend hours dissecting the great sports cars, sport sedans, supercars and hypercars that are out there hooning about and causing trouble.
Read MoreWhat's the most clever excuse you've ever used to get out of a traffic ticket? Have you faked being sick, or said that you were on your way to the hospital to see a dying relative, or insisted that your car was a victim of unintended acceleration?
Read MoreI unfortunately have never been to Paris, but if it's anything like New York, I can imagine it's a tough town to own a car in. You've got lots of traffic, narrow streets, scores of pedestrians, and parking that is both expensive and hard to find. The only difference is that in Paris, your car stands a good chance of getting torched on New Year's Eve.
Read MoreNow you too can watch "Millionaire Boy Racers," the documentary we covered earlier this week about the rich Arab tourists who invade London every summer and terrorize local residents with their Ferrari, Lamborghini and GT-R shenanigans.
Read MoreNo, it's not a Photoshop, this Virginia plate reading "RU 18YET" is real. We checked.
Read MoreIn the early 2000s, Shane Hmiel was a promising racing driver in some of NASCAR's lower tier racing series. He was a front runner and race winner.
Read MoreMulti-class sports car racing is already incredibly confusing. Many of the cars look the same and are only differentiated by varying tire compounds and engine specs.
Read MoreYesterday, the annual numbers for car sales in the United States came out, and for the most part, there was plenty of reason for people who make and sell cars to be happy and tip big. Sales were up, overall, by 13%, with nearly 14.5 million cars sold. That's a lot of cars.
Read MoreBesides stealing nuclear secrets or talking in a movie theater, I don't think there's a bigger dick move on the planet than tire slashing. That's exactly what this former Congressional candidate in New Mexico is accused of doing. Repeatedly. Oh, and stalking. Not cool, bro!
Read MoreCars. Car history. Car people. Car culture. Huge topics that are ultimately unmasterable. Whenever I start to think I know every car in existence something like this pops up in #Oppo and I have to add another layer onto my understanding of the automotive universe.
Read MoreTuner cars are typically very polarizing. Take anything from Mansory, Gemballa, or others, and the reactions will either be pure disgust or unabashed adoration.
Read MoreJust three weeks after the new E-Class sedan and the estate came to light, Mercedes-Benz also presented the coupe and convertible members of the family. First thoughts? Well, after calling the sedan dull, I'm happy to say that the two-door/chopped roof treatment made the refreshed design look quite a lot better. They just have to keep at it and make a E63 AMG Coupe, and everybody will be happy. Except for the polar bears. Sorry.
Read MoreThe GM Shreveport Assembly and Stamping Plant in Caddo Parish, La., once happily churned out Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon trucks. Then the Carpocalypse hit and General Motors went bankrupt, causing them to give up the facility as part of their reorganization.
Read MoreIt's fast, it's expensive, and it's amazing to drive, but it's a new Ferrari so it's overplayed.
Read MoreWhat is it with Bentleys trying to drive through floods? This is the second time we've seen this in the past few months, and we're starting to think Continental GT drivers are idiots.
Read MoreWhile we use it everyday now, the word "automobile" had to start somewhere.
Read MoreIf for some strange reason you get your news from places other than Jalopnik (why would you?), you may be outraged over the millions of dollars in federal assistance NASCAR is reportedly getting in, thanks to a rider that was tucked into the fiscal cliff bill.
Read MoreDon't put in that order for a Ford Fusion just yet — for the same money you can get an equally sexy 2014 Mazda6 that gets the same MPG! Wait, hm. This is going to be tough.
Read MoreWe all know that London has become a hotbed for supercars in recent years, particularly those owned by summer vacationers from Arab countries who essentially have more money than God.
Read MoreOur favorite automotive heir and drag queen enthusiast Lapo Elkann was robbed this week in Uruguay, losing around 3.5 million Euros in jewels belonging to his billionairess girlfriend and see-through-clothes-afficionado Goga Ashkenazi. Who did he call for help in this moment of need?
Read MoreStephen Becker, owner of Planet Cobra, an authorized reseller of those "new" Shelby Cobras old rich accountants love is alleging Shelby American engaged in numerous unscrupulous and underhanded practices with its dealer network in a lawsuit obtained by Jalopnik. The lawsuit also reveals just how much dealers pay for the Cobras they sell to customers seeking a piece of Shelby history.
Read MoreDriving isn't a privilege, it's a right. Jalopnik readers know the worst places in the world where this right is denied to women.
Read MoreWhen we exclusively reported on dozens of Fisker Karmas being destroyed by water and flames during Superstorm Sandy, we didn't yet have a full picture of just how bad the damage to the luxury hybrid brand was.
Read MoreThe car industry has its giants of Toyota, GM, and VW, but there are still plenty of little manufacturers that outperform their budgets and our expectations. Which is the greatest David in the car industry, competing against its established Goliath?
Read MoreYou know what's entirely overrated? Snowmobiles, that's what. They think they're so freaking great, cutting through snow and ice at high speeds. Supercars can do it just as well, even if the cost of entry is just a tad bit higher.
Read MoreA good old Pantera with a blown Cleveland V8, right? Well, not quite, as Alejandro de Tomaso had something much more economical on his mind in 1982. The answer to the Oil Crisis was nothing less than a turbocharged, Bertone-bodied pocket rocket they simply called the De Tomaso Turbo. Oh, and it had a three cylinder engine from the Japanese, just to be safe...
Read MoreUnless you've been nursing a hangover so intense that it has kept you away from the news in recent days, you probably know that the U.S. House voted late yesterday to approve legislation that would avert the so-called "fiscal cliff." The bill was sent to President Obama today for his signature.
Read MoreThis is the year it all finally happens. This is the year where we cross the trips off the bucket list and get the project car running. This is the year that has Jalopnik readers delivering on their promise "next year, in Monaco!"
Read MoreBentley's newest Continental GT Speed Convertible is not only the worlds fastest four-seat convertible, but it's also something you can get in garnet. That great news for all the pimps Union College Dutchmen out there, but let's hope the heads at Crewe will choose a different color for its international debut at the Detroit Auto Show later this month.
Read MoreI have some unfortunate news to bring you today. Connor Harrison, the terminally ill 12-year-old boy whose dying wish inspired thousands of people to put on a massive car show in September, passed away in Britain about a week ago.
Read MoreWe've got some crazy news coming out of Los Angeles this evening: TMZ is reporting that a paparazzi photographer was killed in a crash while attempting to snap photos of Justin Bieber's Ferrari.
Read MoreWell, I'm glad we were able to start 2013 with an asshat BMW parking job. It just wouldn't feel right if we didn't, you know?
Read MoreSanta Marta, Colombia — Cars are pretty expensive to buy in Colombia, so a lot of people take cabs and buses. As a friend of mine always told me, wheels beats heels, and by that logic catching a ride in someone else's car works for me.
Read MoreMy very first Jalopnik post, just over a year ago, included a number of illustrations. In those, standing in as a sort of generic everycar, was a funny little dumpy-looking sedan. In a number of later posts, I brought that same basic car back, now correctly anthropomorphized, where it has acted as a sort of unofficial Jalopnik mascot — it stands in, humbly, for all the cars we've known and loved or whatever it is a mascot does, exactly.
Read MoreTrips to Las Vegas rarely go how you expect them to (well, unless you're a boring person who doesn't take chances, then they do). Once in a while, though, the unexpected is ridiculously good.
Read MoreI'm only about 120 years late to the party on this one, which really isn't too bad, since I wasn't alive for most of that time. Now that I am (more or less) alive, I don't have that excuse anymore, so I need to do what I can to right this wrong: the front-engine/rear-drive layout that is named after René Panhard should really be named after Amédée Bollée. This is important.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 240SX may be that marque's most nondescript body style, however what it's packing below the bonnet is anything but. The question is, will its price prove contrastingly ostentatious?
Read MoreThey say it's not the cough that carries you off, but the coffin they carry you off in. You wouldn't have to be coughin' up too much dough for today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caddy hearse, but even for that price is it dead to you?
Read MoreTrack and Field has for a long time been a popular part of the Summer Olympics. After seeing today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Celica however, the Olympic committee might just want to change that to All-Trac. That is of course, if its price isn't too far afield.
Read MoreIt has been said that love is a many splendored thing, and likewise that it makes the world go around. Owing to its 327 V8 and topless nature, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy is a LUV you might love, but will its price prove LUVable as well?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Range Rover once represented the epitome of luxury off-roading. It's now priced like an off off brand, but is it still cheap enough to get you off?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lancia Delta appears to be the proverbial diamond in the rough. The question of course is whether one needs to be Diamond Jim Brady to buy it.
Read MoreIf your dad BUILDS you a car, the least you could do is hold down a simple 9to5 to make the old man happy. Of course, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Hollow Kitty Miata is no ordinary car, but will its price have you thinking about making it part of your family?
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo 75 (Milano in the US) was so named in celebration of the company's 75th anniversary. It was also, coincidentally the last model released before Alfa was absorbed by Fiat. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Milano is only 26, but is its price still worth celebrating?
Read MoreIn the Mr. Peabody's Improbable History shorts, the eponymous dog and his boy Sherman travelled back in time, resulting in hilarious conclusions. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Canadian Sherman can let you pretend to time travel all the way back to WWII, but will its price be a cold dash of present reality?
Read MoreFor today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe we're going to the Land of the Midnight Sun — Sweden to be exact — for a blown Saab that might just blow your mind. That is of course, if its price doesn't simply blow.
Read MoreAs of this year's Detroit Auto Show the 3-series coupe is effectively no more in the US. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe E30 represents one of the most beloved 3-series coupes, but is its price a coup de grâce?
Read MoreSo, do you like the new 2014 Corvette Stingray? Or, do you miss round tail lights and the rest of the marque's classic lexicon? Well, if you do, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '68 drop top should push all the right buttons, even if its price is Mako break it.
Read MoreDetroit is the most American of car shows, but one American car company that sadly won't be there is American Motors. To make up for that, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe AMC Rambler has plenty to show, but will its price make you want to ramble on?
Read MoreStrewn like Charlie Sheen's myriad coital conquests, the globe is filled with cars we in the states never get. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe E100 Corolla is one of those that miraculously now happens to be available. Will its price however, turn off even Charlie?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe London Cab looks to be in fare condition, but will its price have you wanting to keep the meter running?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe AE86 is proof positive that the Toyota Corolla hasn't always been as dull as a kiss from your sister, but will this one's price dull your ardor?
Read MoreAnthony Colin Bruce Chapman sure had a hell of a lot of names for someone who advocated simplicity and parsimony in design. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Locost is a homage — not to Chapman's name, but his ideology — but will its price prove too heavy a burden to bear?
Read MoreBeing a dead sub-brand of an also dead brand is a daunting stigma to overcome. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Merkur Scorpio has risen from the grave, but will its price make it dead to you?
Read MoreJohn the Baptist, Ann Boleyn, Goliath's biblical coup de grâce - head-chopping has been a popular form of punishment for millennia. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Datsun 510 has been so chopped, but will his asking price also mean heads should roll?
Read MoreIf the VW Beetle was Susan Boyle, then the Karmann Ghia was her lovely voice. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe drop top Ghia is said to have had its own makeover, but will its price have you saying aww, come on, Ghia?
Read MoreHybrid cars didn't always mean ICE/electric drivetrains, that term was previously applied to furrin cars with American thumpers. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Intermeccanica is a prime example of such a hybrid, but is its price too high to warrant a bid?
Read MoreBMW have always produced sporty cars with a nod towards luxury, while competitor Mercedes Benz have staked their claim on luxury cars that're just a little bit sporty. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe L7 once tried to out Mercedes Mercedes, but will you find its current price to be simply outrageous?
Read MoreWelcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.
Read MoreWe've seen a number of matte-black camera cars before, but never a Panamera. This one even has a little tail gunner hatch in the back and we can't get over how cool it is.
Read MoreIt seems that nobody is blase about police in their area. They are either great or they're the worst, there is no middle ground.
Read MoreIf you haven't already heard, the next DLC for Forza Horizon will be the Jalopnik pack, debuting next week. As you might expect it'll be full of Jalopnik-appropriate cars. We'll be dropping clues here as blips and Turn10 will be leaving them in the Forza forums over the next week.
Read MoreRecently, I had the pleasure of watching the movie Drive again, where handsome Canadian sociopath Ryan Gosling does awesome getaway driver stuff, assaults people with hammers and stares at women for long, awkward periods without ever talking to them. It's pretty badass.
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 MoreTomorrow at 3:30 PM EST, the second biggest international endurance racing event of the year begins. For 24 hours teams will fight for every position on every lap, in a full day sprint in and around the Daytona International Circuit.
Read MoreSure, bump drafting was a staple at Nascar's Daytona 500 (before the new Gen-Six cars), but for Daytona 24 qualifying? Won't those high-falutin' sporty-car drivers spill Beluga caviar all over their kid-skin driving gloves?
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 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 MoreThere are still some people out there that don't believe motor racing is a real sport. Jalopnik readers know ten tests of man and machine that should set them straight.
Read MoreThe other day I was about to call the Dakar Rally the toughest race in the world, but then I realized I didn't really have any proof for the claim. There must be a harder test of car and driver, no?
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 MoreHow does one prepare for the deciding round of the Formula One World Championship? If you're 1976 World Champion James Hunt, you embark on a rampage of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine. You might also have sex with 33 flight attendants in two weeks.
Read MoreEarlier this week I showed you images of what looked like the 2014 Corvette Convertible that popped up in a couple of places, just after the reveal of the 2014 Corvette last Sunday. Were they real? Were they fake? I've got a little more insight this morning.
Read MoreTired of hearing about the new Corvette Stingray yet? Didn't think so. Major redesigns for the Corvette come so rarely you could have been born when the last one debuted and be allowed to legally drive today.
Read MoreChevrolet says the new, 2014 Corvette Stingray shares only two parts with the current model: the cabin air filter and the discarded Cialis packets on the floor. No, it's the roof latch.
Read MoreWe’ve received this image of an advance copy of the upcoming Road & Track issue, and guess what? It has an even better view of the 2014 Corvette’s nefarious smile.
Read MoreThe Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ have gotten far more than their fair share of praise during the last 12 months. Most of it is deserved, but now people are running out of ways to heap good mojo on the car.
Read MoreIn Paris, Lexus showed off the LF-CC coupe concept. We immediately knew and said that it was a thinly veiled concept version of the upcoming 2014 Lexus IS.
Read MoreOne unfortunate side effect of the increase in technology on automobiles is what has happened to engine sounds.
Read MoreAston Martin's flagship hypercar wasn't just expensive and rare, it was also totally off limits for the press. When Ferrari shuts you out for doing what journalism is about, it's not that big a deal. You either borrow the impressions of your colleagues, or simply go and buy one you can review. But with a 1.3 million pound hypercar built for only 77 carefully selected individuals, it's a tougher challenge.
Read MoreLast year, we taught you exactly how to steal the Space Shuttle should you find yourself inclined to do so. But a recent development at NASA has made it so that theft may not be necessary — now, you can just straight up buy their stuff if you want it.
Read MoreRight before 2012 skidded to a halt last week, Russia's space agency's main contractor, RSC Energia, announced that they had completed designs for a new spacecraft to replace the venerable Soyuz, and they'd start test flights in 2017. For space geeks like me, this gave me the warm, welcome feeling of something comfortingly familiar. Familiar, and with a pretty good chance of never gonna happen.
Read MoreOh, Japan. Is it not enough that you have robot butlers and creepy maid cafés, but do you have to be the only market to have these great track-friendly, well-loved sports cars, too? The Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S/Toyota GT86 are respected all over for their handling, fun, and back-to-basics sports car feel, and it's all but assured these will become track-day toys as well as daily drivers for many people. In Japan, that job's been made much easier thanks to the Subaru BRZ RA and the Toyota GT86 RC.
Read MoreBack in the early days of automobiles, when you had to be I-have-three-footman wealthy to own a horseless carriage, the way most cars were sold was in two distinct parts: an automobile company would sell you an engine/rolling chassis unit, and then you'd have a body built by a coachwork company.
Read MoreGoogle got approval to run its driverless cars within Nevada last year, but now the state has allowed Audi to run its driverless cars on the streets as well. This marks the first time an established carmaker has been given the authority to test its driverless cars on public roads.
Read MoreThere's actually a number of new cars at the Detroit show that I like — I think Chevy did a fine job with the new 'Vette that we've been carefully ignoring, and that Audi RS7 is really impressive. But the only one I sat in and genuinely felt like I was in something really new and different was the Tesla Model X.
Read MoreI think each and every one of us has lusted after a classic SUV like a Ford Bronco or an old-school Jeep or Land Cruiser at some point. They're only about a billion times cooler than the cushy, leather-filled, automatic climate control-having soccer mom mobiles that pass for SUVs today.
Read MoreIt’s springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, discover what everything is under the hood (and how it works), or just spruce up your daily driver. All month, we’ll be looking back at our best informative, maintenance and DIY articles from Jalopnik’s near 20-year history to get your ride ready for the road.
Read MoreEver wondered what the automotive version of Siamese twins would look like? Wonder no more – here's a pair of Jeep Wranglers welded together, and it's real.
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