Inspired by contemporary, progressive Scandinavian lifestyle and design as well as iconic elements from the past, the elegant new Volvo Concept Coupé is the first of a series of three concept cars that reveal the design possibilities created by the company’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA).
Read MoreWell, hello gorgeous. Aren't you a nice surprise for our Wednesday night! Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Volvo Concept Coupé, whose design previews where the Swedish brand is going.
Read MoreWhen we last heard from ElectricFederal, they were showing us the history of the Mini. Now, though, they show us what its like to own one of the OG's of the 80s, the Mercedes 560 SEC AMG.
Read MoreBefore I begin my rant, let me preface by saying that I know there are a lot of Dodge Neon fans in the world. Yes, you sir and/or madam, you are acknowledged. Now on with the show.
Read MoreIt's sometimes hard to understand why automakers announce engines before it's put into whatever new model it's intended for. Since many new engines are put into facelifted versions of older models, it's kind of like saying, "Don't buy this car yet, because it's about to get more powerful and more fuel efficient."
Read MoreThis is the Cadillac Elmiraj concept. It's the 500 horsepower, 21st Century American luxury coupe you've been dreaming of.
Read MoreDespite eventual replacement by the new Infiniti Q50, it turns out the current G37 will soldier on longer than planned. The G37 sedan will continue on with its current form and name alongside the Q50 until 2015, Infiniti says. Here's why you should buy the G instead.
Read MoreCheck out video from this recent track event. You have all the usual suspects, like an Audi R8, a Porsche 911, a Ferrari 348, and of course, an Isdera Imperator 108i. Duh! Can't have a track day without one of those.
Read MoreI'm proud to be one of the few people to have have tracked a stock Nissan Leaf. This is sort of like being proud to be one of the few people who've entered a Pomeranian in a dog fight — at best, people may look at you with disgust. But now I've driven the Leaf NISMO RC, and I know a track-worthy Leaf is possible.
Read More"This feels like my wife's eight year old car! Like her ten year old car!" The journalist driving with me (who would probably rather not be named) has had a few Corollas in his garage, and the new 2014 model is surprising him with its familiarity.
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 MoreAmerica used to be the land of big rear-wheel drive sedans, coupes and wagons with V8 power. That isn't the case anymore. But it's part of what makes the current Dodge Charger so unique; it's one of the last large, unapologetically old school V8 sedans left on the market.
Read MoreI admit it. I'm a Miata fanboy. Publicly, I won't admit that the car has any faults. It's perfect. But friends, in private, I think it has quite a few. I'm going to let you in on what needs fixing. And why the Super20 fixes all of them. And more.
Read MoreIt is possible to drive the Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio like a normal, sensible person. It is possible to shift gears at a rational 2,500 RPMs so you can avoid blasting pedestrians with its obscenely loud baby Ferrari exhaust like you’re Maverick buzzing the tower in Top Gun.
Read MoreIf a car spawns a coupe and a convertible, there are typically two truths. The coupe comes first. The convertible second. The coupe is inexpensive. The convertible is expensive. The Cayman is the opposite. And it's an even better car.
Read MoreI'm against modifying supercars. I always have been. If they wanted it to have more power, different wheels, or a different suspension, it would have come that way from the factory. Hennessey just turbocharged the Ferrari 458 Italia and let me drive it before anyone else. Can a Ferrari with Texan blood change my mind?
Read MoreJaguar's one-upped its already elegant and well-sorted XFR sports sedan, to create the sharper, more aggressive and very limited-production Jaguar XFR-S. But does the S stand for aweSome, or just window dreSsing? We found out.
Read MoreWe all have different visions of a Ferrari. For many of us, at least those of us who have reached a certain age, our first experience driving a Ferrari came in the Sega classic Out Run. But Ferrari has a new and different vision for us. And that's this: The all-wheel drive Ferrari FF I had the chance to drive.
Read MoreWelcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!
Read MoreThe first thing you need to know about the all-new 2014 Infiniti Q50, the eventual replacement for their G37 sedan, is that they got rid of the clock.
Read MoreThe historic Mercedes-Benz 300SL is in such high demand that the manufacturer goes out of its way to destroy replicas. Luckily, for people who want a lot of the look but don't have the millions for a 300, there's always the 190SL. And it's beautiful.
Read MoreIt's time to climb into the Jalopnik Dimensional Fold-O-Tron, our patented device that allows us to travel to alternate realities (it's still in the beta stage, so don't blame us if you get stuck in the one with the Lizard Men) and explore some Ford Mustang concepts that never happened. Onward!
Read MoreThe roads are full of dangerous idiots. These are ten of the worst, in action.
Read MoreIrwin Fucking Fletcher! Why do I have to keep writing this? Didn't we go through this with the New York Times already? Dear Associated Press and anyone else writing an automotive trend piece: Commuting Culture does not equal Car Culture.
Read MoreThere are some cars that you love desperately. You will do anything to keep them alive, completely ignoring social conventions, shame, and financial reasoning.
Read MoreWe have classic Opels around here, but no Vauxhalls apart from a friend of mine with a Viva which has no rear brakes for burnouts. Shame, as this competition-spec Vauxhall VX4/90 from the sixties is something I could really get used to.
Read MoreHipsters: they don't buy new cars because that's so mainstream, but they want to go camping surrounded by vintage upholstery. It's a tough call, but our readers believe they've identified the ten ultimate hipster rides.
Read MoreAuto journalists have been kind of hard on what they see as faults of the upcoming 2014 Toyota Corolla. We said that Toyota screwed it up. Except they didn't. Toyota did everything right.
Read MoreLast week, I got everyone's underpants all nice and restrictive with some hardcore engine porn. This time, I want to stay inside the car, but focus on the bits that we get most intimate with when driving: the dashboard. And there's some incredible ones here.
Read MoreWe all have our dreams cars, but more often than not, we've never even seen them in real life.
Read MoreThe funny thing about Toyota is that every now and then an incredible performance machine pops out of their endless sea of beige cars. The 2000GT, the Celica GT-Four, the GT86 and the Lexus LFA are just a few examples. But I would argue none have ever been as lust-inducing as this: the fourth generation Supra.
Read MoreThe most powerful car I've ever driven had 547 horsepower. I can't even begin to imagine having over double that on tap, and at a certain point you have to ask why bother?
Read MoreThe all-new 2014 Toyota Corolla is by no means all-new. It's an updated version of a car that's already eight years old, with Stone Age suspension design, low-power and relatively low-MPG engines, obsolete drum brakes, and a transmission familiar to any car buyer of the 1980s. That's bad.
Read MoreIf you're in the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area and you like cars (of course you like cars, that's why you're here, right?) then you owe it to yourself to check out Katie's Cars and Coffee. A group of Jalopnik and Opposite Lock readers met there this weekend, and we were blown away by the lineup.
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 MoreNational Electric Vehicle Sweden, the group that bought the Saab factory and production rights to the Saab 9-3 after the Swedish automaker's second collapse in 2011, would like to think time has stood still. It would really help as they prepare to start production of the new 9-3 – which is a lot like the old 9-3.
Read MoreI'm a fan of pretty much any Lemons-related event, and the Concours d'Lemons that's held as a much-needed counterpoint to the late-Bugatti valve-stem-cap-orginality-debaters over at Pebble Beach is a great show. After a morning of looking at cars with vastly better earning potential than you, this gathering is a much-needed reality hoagie.
Read MoreSports cars are a pretty simple classification, right? In today's world of grancoupes and front-drive fastbacks and 3,200+ lb Ferrari two-doors, things are getting a little complicated.
Read MoreMotor Trend recently completed it's annual greatest driver's car competition, and the winner, the Porsche 911 Carrera 4S is not surprising. What is surprising is what came in last: The SRT Viper.
Read MoreEconomy cars: they're cheap, they're omnipresent, and most of all, they're cheap. That means that it's very easy to buy one on the low and turn it into something unhinged.
Read MoreGale Banks is one of those people who's well-known in certain specialized circles, but still not as recognized as he deserves in the general auto-adoring population. Banks has a great many claims to fame, and vast, complex articles could be written, but let's start with this batch of remarkable achievements.
Read MoreWe won't always know what a car will look like two years in advance. That's when speculative renderings and lots of Photoshop action based on gossip and spy photos comes in handy, but more often than not these speculative renders have little relation to reality.
Read MoreHere's something I've been wondering about for years: why does every Japanese car, even ones never intended for export, have their name badges in English? Why don't any Japanese cars have chromed Japanese characters spelling out their names? Tonight, finally, I found out why.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Karmann Ghia prototype was shown internally in 1953, on the occasion of the Paris Motor Show. With production starting two years later, 450,000 of these luxury Beetles were made until production ended in 1974. What a beauty.
Read MoreBMW only built 254 507 Roadsters between 1956 and '59. Two of which were prototypes. Some were turned into race cars, but three chassis were transformed into something completely different. This is one of those.
Read MoreFrom lemons to wild claims and everything in between, these creative print ads sold us cars. Millions of them. These are your ten favorites:
Read MoreLast week we asked you to show us the funniest racing videos of all time, in honor of poor Samir and his co-driver who couldn't seem to get it together. These ten videos are a monument to screw-ups and general hilarity.
Read MoreLincoln is not the only brand to make use of designer labels to make certain models seem more special or tasteful or sale-able. But it’s still surprising (maybe a little disappointing) that they decided to be very unimaginative when they announced their new “designer” trim level of the new-for-2013 MKZ sedan.
Read MoreThough some of the younger whippersnappers among us may not remember it, the Porsche 962C was one of the winningest race cars in all of the 1980s. It absolutely dominated. And with this beautiful picture of what appears to be a modified version of the Rothmans livery, it can dominate your heart as well.
Read MoreThe car world is always changing, with prices rising with currency inflation and bodies growing with, uh, human inflation. Sometimes, it's not as easy to compare old vs new as you'd think.
Read MoreBugatti's got a rich history and a recurring desire to make special editions of their already pretty special Veyron, a combination that gives us things like this: the Jean-Pierre Wimille version of the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, based on the 1937 LeMans-winning Bugatti 57G Tank and named for its winning driver.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Ate Up With Motor, Hoopty Rides, and early '90s-era Rolling Stone. Actually, all of these are sort of old, but what the hell, right?
Read MoreThere's something strange going on in car advertising. Something I don't believe we've seen before. It's a recent trend in car advertising to portray car salesmen as weak-willed, easily cowed, broken men, and customers as gleeful, sadistic exploiters of other people's fear. The more you think about it, the stranger it gets.
Read MoreI like to think of cars not as machines, but rather a collection of various individual machines that all work together. But those components break down and we have to fix them, and some are more serious than others.
Read MoreIf you want comfort, get an S-Class Mercedes. If you don't insist on much practicality, choose one of these...
Read MoreEvery time car nerds scream out that they want a car (ex: rear-drive diesel wagon!) nobody ends up buying them (ex: BMW 328d wagon). Surely there must be some car that is such an enthusiast-only car that it would finally satisfy the lust of car nerds everywhere.
Read MoreAs you all know, I'm an idea man. That rarely equates to good ideas, but still, I'm trying. Recently, I has a strange idea for an auto roof design, something that would sort of fill the gap between a convertible, hardtop, and a jolly. So I drew some quick sketches and then had the head designer over at Jaguar take a look.
Read MorePicking out a red Ferrari is one of the most boring, cliche'd choices in the world of cars. Maybe that's why I can't stop drooling over this achingly beautiful green 458.
Read MoreMost cars on the road are designed to take you and your things from place to place in relative comfort. But then some cars seem to forget that is part of what they should do. What's the least practical car ever sold for road use?
Read MoreSome say that rotary engines are unreliable because the entire burden of their development lay only on one or two carmakers. Nope. Time to bust this pirate's chest of truth wide open and plunder its veracity booty.
Read MoreWhat's it like to own a vintage car in Manhattan, the most car-hating section of the most car-hating city in the country? Not so bad, actually.
Read MoreThere was a time when — because racecar — everything was allowed. Sure a lot of cars got banned, but the world was briefly graced with such spectacular weirdos as these.
Read MoreThe Subaru SVX remains one of the most distinctive Subarus ever built, and was full of exciting details that made it seem a bit like someone stole a little commuter spaceship from the year 2163. But how much of that look is original, and how much came from a 1985 concept car?
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of LeMons is known for its crazycars, but this one may take the cake. It's a Ford Festiva/Chevy Camaro monster mashup, and yes, it's upside down.
Read MoreWelcome to Jalopnik Obscura, where we highlight the whacky, wonderful, and downright weird automotive videos from around the web. Watch and prepare to bathe in the madness.
Read MoreA Big Wig. A Head Honcho. Man On Top. All of these have nothing on being a Very Important Person. But in the Far East, a VIP means something very different. But what does being a VIP have to do with cars? And how does Japan figure into this? It's time for another part in our ongoing series – allow me to explain.
Read MoreThough today we talk about selling Ayrton Senna's cars, back in the day Senna wasn't above selling a little motor oil. Especially if it was in Japan, and especially if it was completely, utterly, out there.
Read More"Boy, Kia sure has come a long way!" - so starts just about every lazy Kia review you read today. Well, what were they like before their quality revolution?
Read MoreWhat if I told you that for well under $20,000, you could get yourself an import car with two doors, four seats, a stick shift, a 6.0-liter V8 with 400 horsepower and a legendary nameplate attached to it? Meet the Pontiac GTO. No, not that one, the under-appreciated one from the 2000s.
Read MoreThe freedom to design a car totally from scratch can often be intoxicating. It doesn’t happen all that often, and even when it does the end result is usually far more conventional than the initial sketches. But those first brainstorming sketches can be truly amazing, like this one by Dick Teague in the early 70s.
Read MoreIf you watch the awesome AMC original series Breaking Bad you know that the last episodes launch this Sunday, and that cars are as much a part of the series as the actors. Finding such perfect cars takes not only the business acumen of a car dealer, but the eyes of a casting director. Dennis Milliken is that guy.
Read MoreHey, speaking of cars famously associated with Ayrton Senna and used Acura NSXs, a true gem just popped up on eBay — if it's the real deal, anyway. A seller in Portugal is offering what he claims is a Honda NSX owned by Senna himself. Could it be for real?
Read MoreThe cool thing about luxury cars is that their features eventually trickle down to regular cars. The problem with luxury cars is that once their features have trickled down, they're not so special anymore.
Read MoreThere are more than a few automotive photographers that deserve more recognition for producing absolutely stunning photos. So I've put together a list of my favourite photographers whom I think you should follow.
Read MoreThere’s three important questions when it comes to picking the right car for use as a baby/kid hauler: Is it engaging to drive? Is it reasonably capable of hauling my kid and related kid crap? And, finally, is it shaped like a colossal sausage? I finally found the car that meets these criteria: the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
Read MoreDoing a burnout is the most idiot-proof way to show off your car's power. My grandma could do one, it's so easy. There is positively no way to mess up a burnout...
Read MoreYour eyes glaze over. Your hands get clammy. You shift your weight uncomfortably. Yes, someone is explaining how their car works and you have no idea what they're talking about.
Read MoreThe next time you think of going to a no-name shop to get work done on your car, take a look at these legendary tuning fails that have popped up online and maybe reconsider.
Read MoreTop Gear, Fifth Gear, it seems like all car shows are obsessed with speed. Well, there's something better that we're missing.
Read MoreThe other night, Subaru unveiled the first teaser images of the upcoming tuned variant of the BRZ sports coupe, but it isn't the STi we hoped. But what would you want in a full-bore BRZ STi?
Read MorePrepare yourself for the most over-the-top examples of the film industry's most over-the-top trope: the car chase.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
Read MoreIt used to be that you could buy a Chevy Impala and do you know what it said on the trunk? Nothing. Nowadays end-of-car real estate is jam packed.
Read MorePaul Aitken has a collection of exotic cars that would make anyone jealous. His current stable includes a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, a Ferrari California, a Lamborghini Diablo, and a Rolls-Royce Ghost. But none of them are Aitken's — they're just biding time in his high-end pawn shop.
Read MoreSpaceships, flying cars, and rocket boosters: these are the craziest designers in the history of the auto industry.
Read MoreWelcome to Little Car in the Big City, where I highlight fascinating cars I found walking around a town that is known for being bigger than everything else, but where every car is fighting to stand out: New York, New York.
Read MoreRagging on GM for their decades of lackluster efforts at making compact cars is such a popular activity that it may as well be an Olympic sport. Lately, they've done a great job with the Cruze, but it's not the best compact they've ever made — the Cobalt SS is. Here's why.
Read MoreTwo legends in the making. James Glickenhaus' P4/5 and the P4/5 Competizione. They are together for the first time, in Glickenhaus' immaculate New York garage.
Read MoreOn one end of the motorsport scale is Formula One. On the other is a lot of cheap beer. It looks like the cheap beer side is winning.
Read MoreAs I sat in traffic on a grey, cloudy day, I noticed that most of the cars were barely distinguishable from one another—primarily due to their color. Most were hues that blended in with the scenery: white, silver, beige, the usual. The few that stood out were red. This is why you need a car in an obnoxious color.
Read MoreOld cars are wonderful. I own one, and I highly recommend buying one yourself. That said, they're far from perfect.
Read MoreThe world of motorsports is supposed to be a rich man's fancy - Formula One, Le Mans, they're are filled with gentleman drivers. Not all car races are cultured, though.
Read MoreYou don't need to be a car person to understand and appreciate great design. The following ten automobiles will put a smile on your face if you're a gearhead or not.
Read MoreShaquille O'Neal, who I believe is an Irish sporting icon, says that the scariest thing he ever did was try and become a race car driver. I thought it would be trying to shoot a free throw. Zing!
Read MoreThe Baltimore Grand Prix of the American Le Mans Series is underway, though it's not off to a great beginning with eight cars being taken out before they even crossed the start.
Read MoreIt's a VLN race at the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife and a Honda Civic spears into the grass, then spins when it gets back on track. Only "milliseconds of luck" save two Porsche drivers from getting caught in a wreck.
Read MoreThe Nissan Juke-R is one of our favorite things, because, well, it's a Nissan GT-R in crazy Juke clothing for a crazy price. What's not to love? Well, one thing not to love is the Juke-R crashing into a wall. Shit.
Read MoreDutch rally driver Rob de Vos and his co-driver Marcel Benning were killed yesterday while racing in a historic support exhibition for the WRC Rallye Deutschland. This simple tribute video is a fitting testament, in that it shows them doing what they loved – rallying.
Read MoreTwo people, including a co-driver in a historic rally car and a spectator, were killed at the Panzerplatte at a support race for the WRC round in Germany.
Read MoreHere we see what appears to be a minor car crash in the former Soviet East, caused by a driver on their cell phone. And then the offended driver reaches into the distracted driver's car, grabs their cellphone, and smashes it on the ground.
Read MoreI don't ride a motorcycle because I know I'd get hurt or die within minutes of being on one. And that's because your fate is even more out of your hands than in a car. Anything can cause an issue. Like bears.
Read MoreThe NHTSA ranks crash safety on a scale of one to five, with five stars being the best, one star being the worst. The Tesla Model S just scored 5.4 stars. Yes. It broke the scale.
Read MoreYou're watching spectator drags at Riverhead Raceway in Long Island. It's a Buick vs. Buick showdown and, uh, things don't go very well for the leading car.
Read MoreAnother day, another Russian dash cam video. This one has explosions. Like, a lot of explosions. It is, as one astute YouTube commenter wrote, "what Michael Bay's dreams look like."
Read MoreA recent article from WND asked "Did an angel save this car-crash victim?" Perhaps the more accurate question would be "Did an evil ghost priest cause this near-fatal car crash?"
Read MoreA woman who allegedly ran a Boston Globe truck off the road while under the influence decided it would be a good idea to call a cop racist, threaten him with a voodoo curse, and show off how she was cheating the welfare system. Smart.
Read MoreIt's one of the most stressful moments in anyone's life: The drive to the hospital as your wife goes into labor. One man's wife couldn't make it to the hospital, and she started to give birth on the passenger seat. It was so distracting the man flipped his car four times.
Read MoreOne motorcycle squeezed between two trucks makes a motorbike sandwich.
Read MoreA Queens woman is in custody on murder charges after police say she sped around New York with her husband clinging to the hood of her SUV before it crashed into another car and killed the man.
Read MoreAfter seeing an out-of-control semi truck fly across an overpass and spark a massive, pink-colored explosion, I'd say this guy's reaction is pretty appropriate.
Read MoreIt is with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to Top Gear's Season 20 (or Series 20, if you're a Brit or you insist on Brit-ish-ness), but luckily, it's not a half bad episode. It should be just enough to warm the cockles of our hearts through the long winter ahead.
Read MoreThe Ford GT was pretty damn close to automotive perfection. Now Galpin Auto Sports gave the last GT a new body, two turbos, and a grand total of 1,024 horsepower. What is this GTR1, the pluperfect?
Read MoreThat sounds like a shameful confessional, but let me finish: this is no ordinary Fiesta. If a regular Fiesta is your dog, then this Fiesta is like if Ford engineers kidnapped your dog and did terrible things to it with turbos until it could run from 0-60 in 1.9 seconds.
Read MoreMan, I hate writing these posts. I'm glad to help, of course, but I hate that there's still people out there stealing beloved vintage cars. Lately, we've seen a lot of old Beetles stolen — I got lucky, of course, but let's see if we can help again. This one is a teal blue '66, stolen from Hawthorne, CA.
Read MoreYou ever see those signs that say something along the lines of "Watch Out for Falling Rocks" and you scoff and wonder who would care about a few pebbles? Yeah, this giant goddamn boulder that almost completely crushed a car in Taiwan is what that sign is talking about.
Read MoreAmerica has already staked its claim on the Greatest License Plate Ever Of All Time Forever, but a challenger has arrived. In the opposite corner comes Great Britain, with this absolutely gorgeous JA10PNIK plate, stuck on a Jaguar F-Type S.
Read MoreToday is International Bacon Day, and what better way to celebrate than to go on a bacon tour of New York in a car wrapped in bacon? There were four stops, a billion milligrams of sodium, and way too many bacon-topped cupcakes, but it was just OH SO DELICIOUS.
Read MoreGumpert, the German maker of insane road racers with a flair for aggressive design, is no more. With the passing of Wiesmann last week, this is the second German automotive death in just the month of August.
Read MoreEight bus drivers in the South American nation of Paraguay have crucified themselves after being fired two months ago. They say they were let go after demanding better pay and conditions, and have remained nailed to their crosses for at least two weeks.
Read MoreBack in the 1950s, everyone was optimistic. "We'll soon be able to go to space! We'll soon eradicate polio! We'll soon nuke the Russians," the People would say. Even the French were optimistic, though in their case that meant selling a small, rear-engined car in a sea of big chrome.
Read MoreI have a small bladder. Maybe not Jason Torchinsky small (he rolls with an empty jug marked "WARNING: TEPID URINE"). But small. If I'm empty I can do two, maybe three hours tops. I bring this up for a reason.
Read MoreMalta, like much of Europe, is full of little, narrow streets. In fact, it's a little island, one of the most densely populated countries in the world. You'd think if you worked at the American Embassy there you'd know this, and not have a fit of the hissy variety when you encountered another car on the road, like this numbnuts.
Read MoreGuess how many paragraphs it takes for this Slate article "made possible by Statoil" takes to dismiss electric cars and hybrids? I'll give you a hint, it's less than four but more than two.
Read MoreWe've done new cars, we've done SUVs and crossovers, so now it's time for a flowchart of my favorite huge category of cars: Classics. In some ways this was the hardest one to make, because there are way more cars on here I give a brace of people scats about. You know how to use these by now — give it a try!
Read MoreNext week, I'm going to a wedding for one of my best friends from college. I want to show up in something insane when I get there that'll make everyone say "who the hell is that guy? I need to talk to him!" What car would you drive to make that happen?
Read MoreWe've known for some time now that Toyota and BMW are teaming up for a high-tech new sports car, but now we're seeing a few very interesting rumors eke out into the German press. Namely they're reporting a new BMW, possibly called the Z5, could share a platform with a revived Toyota Supra. Say what?
Read MoreThere's something wonderful about being able to fit everything you need for a massive road trip in one ingeniously designed camper van.
Read MoreMunich. The new BMW X5 is due to arrive in the showrooms on 16 November 2013. The launch of this third generation of the most successful Sports Activity Vehicle in the world will also introduce the BMW M50d M Performance Automobile. Boasting the world’s most powerful six-in-line diesel engine, suspension technology with hallmark M precision-tuning and aerodynamically honed exterior features, the BMW X5 M50d combines superior dynamics on the road with unimpeachable traction off the beaten track.
Read MoreMunich. The new BMW X5 is due to arrive in the showrooms on 16 November 2013. The launch of this third generation of the most successful Sports Activity Vehicle in the world will also introduce the BMW M50d M Performance Automobile. Boasting the world’s most powerful six-in-line diesel engine, suspension technology with hallmark M precision-tuning and aerodynamically honed exterior features, the BMW X5 M50d combines superior dynamics on the road with unimpeachable traction off the beaten track.
Read MoreMunich. The new BMW X5 is due to arrive in the showrooms on 16 November 2013. The launch of this third generation of the most successful Sports Activity Vehicle in the world will also introduce the BMW M50d M Performance Automobile. Boasting the world’s most powerful six-in-line diesel engine, suspension technology with hallmark M precision-tuning and aerodynamically honed exterior features, the BMW X5 M50d combines superior dynamics on the road with unimpeachable traction off the beaten track.
Read MorePresented at the 2013 Caravan Salon in Dusseldorf, a European show dedicated to what Americans call camper vans, the latest Westfalia "Nugget" gives an alternative to those who don't want a giant RV. It's so damn cool.
Read More(Crewe/Stockholm, 30 August 2013) Bentley today announced the opening of a new dealership in Stockholm, expanding the luxury British marque’s presence in the Swedish market.
Read MoreToyota believes the Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle offers the best solution to the challenges of energy sources and emissions, with hydrogen as an ideal, ultra-clean fuel. At the 2013 Frankfurt motor show (from 10 September) it will demonstrate how it has overcome some of the historic barriers to developing a marketable fuel cell vehicle and how it is closing in on its goal of achieving a driving range and performance comparable to conventional petrol and diesel engines, but with no harmful tailpipe e
Read MoreOSLO, Norway, August 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Tesla offers Model S customers free, fast charging for convenient long distances drives
Read MoreWe knew this was going to happen sooner or later, and now here it is: the face-off between the 2013 SRT Viper and the 2014 Corvette Stingray. But I have just one big question. What's the point?
Read MoreMcLaren Automotive has officially opened its doors to the Nordics, with the official opening of McLaren Stockholm. The latest retail location for McLaren, being operated by sports car specialists Autoropa, was announced last year and marks the continued expansion of the European sales network for the British brand.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Forbes, GreenCarReports, and Road & Track.
Read MoreSurprising absolutely no one, Al Arabiya reports that armored car sales are booming in the Middle East. And where are they getting these cars from? America.
Read MoreLuton – With a top speed of 170mph and power output of 325PS, the new Insignia VXR SuperSport remains the UK’s fastest car you can buy under £30,000.
Read MoreSay, have you ever had a driver behind you lay on his horn because you stopped for pedestrians who had the right of way as required by law? I have. Many times, in fact, because I live in Washington D.C.: Home of the absolute worst drivers in America.
Read MoreRuPaul Drives is basically Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. Just without comedians. Or coffee. And instead of lighthearted jokes, there's some dark, serious conversation. And apparently RuPaul and Henry Rollins are friends. My brain just exploded.
Read MoreI just got back from a little event to promote the film Getaway, opening Labor Day. Here's what you need to know about the movie: it was inspired by the incredible, nearly plotless Claude Lelouch short, Rendezvous. Like Rendezvous, it uses no CGI or green screen, and the plot is pretty much worthless.
Read MoreBy now, everyone should know that texting while driving is a horribly stupid thing to do. But what if you send a text to a person who happens to be driving, and that person crashes? Could you be held liable in court? A New Jersey appellate court just said yes.
Read MoreEver since I rode in my friend's 2.0 liter V8 Ferrari, I have been utterly obsessed with small-displacement V8 engines.
Read MoreDespite having come under considerable fire and having handed out no money since 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will revive its beleaguered "green car" loan program in earnest soon. They have $15 billion they can give to automakers. Here's how they can make more Teslas than Fiskers this time.
Read MoreOne day, when humans are extinct and an advanced alien race looks back on the records of our civilization, they will marvel at how we allowed just about any idiot off the street to operate what are essentially 3,500 pound (or more) land missiles that can exceed 100 mph.
Read MoreSwinging by the Los Angeles Times office for an interview this week, General Motors North America president Mark Reuss gave a statement that may cause some Corvette purists to keel over instantly: Don't laugh at the idea of a Corvette Stingray hybrid.
Read MoreThe first illegal, dangerous, record lap of Manhattan we know of was Alex Roy's 27 minute run in 2001. In 2010, a group called CBC broke that with 26:03. Now a new driver claims 24:07. But what exactly is a lap of Manhattan, and how do you set the record? UPDATE: We have spoken with the driver.
Read MorePSILANTI, Mich., August 28, 2013 — Want to save money and gas? Toyota plans to help consumers do both. Promising continued gains in fuel economy, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) Managing Officer Satoshi Ogiso outlined the launch of a new era in hybrid technology with the arrival of the next-generation Prius, while Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) Senior Vice President of Sales Bob Carter issued a challenge for the industry to significantly step up its commitment to hybrids as a core technology. As a b
Read MoreWhitley, 29 August 2013 – Demonstrating Land Rover’s legendary capability, its latest model, the Range Rover Hybrid is being put through its final engineering sign-off drive on a gruelling 9,950 mile endurance expedition.
Read MoreAfter leaving others to continue their groundbreaking Deltawing project, Nissan has turned its attention towards building the world's fastest "Zero Emission On Demand Race Car" for Le Mans. And they just started putting it together...
Read MoreKia has confirmed that its dramatic new European concept, to be unveiled at the 65th Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) in Frankfurt, will be called the Kia Niro.
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif. - Construction of the first Nissan ZEOD RC chassis is nearing completion, and the ground-breaking car that will "electrify Le Mans" is set to hit the track for the first time in the UK in early September.
Read MoreSAN DIEGO, August 28, 2013 – Entering San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter, drivers are greeted by the city’s iconic “Archway,” a luminescent preview to the Victorian buildings and vibrant nightlife found within this Southern California waterfront gem. Surrounded by universities, San Diego is home to nearly 65,000 college students and is the perfect locale to showcase the all-new 2014 Kia Soul. The Soul’s urban DNA shines in the city’s 16-block downtown area, and improvements to the suspensio
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif., August 28, 2013 – Kia Motors America (KMA) is pleased to announce pricing for its iconic urban passenger vehicle, the all-new 2014 Soul. When it goes on sale during the fourth quarter, the Soul will be offered in three unique trim levels: Base, Plus and Exclaim, with the Base trim starting $14,700 MSRP, not including destination charges of $795. Since going on sale in 2009, the Soul has become one of KMA’s top-selling models and the all-new Soul is poised to continue its sales su
Read MoreIRVINE, August 28, 2013 – Kia Motors America (KMA) and DonorsChoose.org today launched a Back-to-School giving campaign to raise $3 million of support for high-need public schools across the country. For the second year in a row, KMA will make a matching contribution for each donation to eligible DonorsChoose.org projects during the month of September, empowering “citizen philanthropists” to make a difference in the lives of students who need it most. Building on the success of last year’s inau
Read MoreAuction sites are supposed to be sacred sites where car lovers come to make their dreams come true. But sadly, police are investigating the thefts of three classic Chevrolets from two auctions during the recent weekend of festivities at Monterey.
Read MoreDo you want to see Ron Howard's new F1 epic RUSH before anyone else? What about the rally documentary Easier Said Than Done? Do you want to play Gran Turismo 6 early? Then I'm excited to announce you'll be able to do all that and more at the first ever Jalopnik Film Festival, presented by Gran Turismo 6.
Read MoreIf you don't look at this and involuntarily say "holy crap," then you should probably contact a physician and ask him why you're so dead. This Mercedes V12 replica was designed by artist Eric van Hove, who broke the Benz V12 down to 400+ constituent parts and contracted artisans all over Morocco to duplicate it.
Read MoreToday's supercars are probably all too fast for any of the roads you want to drive them on. So could you have just as much fun driving a family MPV on the limit as you would in a supercar at barely half that?
Read MoreDigital cameras are very close to becoming standard on cars, and I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t have at least one of them snuck into something, not even counting actual digital cameras. The first digital camera you could buy, incredibly, didn’t use some experimental image sensor. It used a quirk of computer memory chips.
Read MoreFifty years ago in June, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. practiced the now-legendary "I Have a Dream" speech in Detroit before taking it to Washington D.C. a few months later, which is why we're talking about it today. Detroit's role in the groundbreaking address is something we're pretty proud of here.
Read MoreThe great thing about buying a modern car is that you have a lot to choose from, and these days, most of them are pretty decent. But what would things look like if just 100 existed in the entire world?
Read MoreThe folks at Ford sent us this infographic this morning that explains the many similarities between restomod Mustangs and hipsters. It's surprisingly accurate.
Read MoreSan Diego, Calif. (August 2013) – HRE has long been known as a performance-driven company where strength, lightness and superior engineering have forged some of the most iconic wheel designs of the past three decades. Inspired by its best-selling three-piece Series S1 line, HRE has now launched a Monoblok interpretation of these three Forged wheel designs to create the Series P1.
Read MoreWed, Aug 28, 2013 - Cypress, California - Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) and the H360 Group have teamed up to create a pair of custom sport-utility vehicles designed for today's active professionals who prefer to get their exercise in the great outdoors, any time of year.
Read MoreWhen it comes to flying, it's not easy to please us. We want safety, comfort, accuracy and good service at a low price while jet fuel and taxes are getting more expensive for the airlines.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz is launching ‘Style Pit Stop’, a series of online fashion films that supports the brand’s involvement with fashion and style.
Read MoreNew York, 26 August - Ferrari hosted over 60 owners and admirers of its mythic sports cars on a rally from New York’s Battery Park to Bridgehampton on the East End of Long Island, with the ultimate destination being the Bridgehampton Polo Club to celebrate the season closer and the gathering of these exceptional Ferrari models. The rally began on the southern most tip of Manhattan and took a northern route through the city, Times Square, Central Park South and over the Queensboro Bridge before p
Read MoreDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 27, 2013) – It’s not unusual for cameras to follow Patrick Dempsey’s every move, be it in his “day job” as an actor, his personal life or his racing pursuits.
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif. – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that the company will be ready with multiple, commercially-viable Autonomous Drive vehicles by 2020. Nissan announced that the company's engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from the world's top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo.
Read MoreWith a 5.7-liter V8 cranking out 400 horsepower, the first generation Cadillac CTS-V was nothing to mess with. Now, using their new twin-turbo V6 engine with even more power, the 2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport has managed to best that car's Nürburgring time by a whopping six seconds.
Read MoreThere are some strange, probably murderous people out there on Craigslist, but this ad for a BMW E36 part out in Jacksonville, Florida will have you question your faith in humanity. The car is stacked on a pile of logs. I almost have no words.
Read MoreCOLOGNE, Germany, 28 August 2013 – Ford of Europe has revealed the new Ford S-MAX Concept, a sport activity vehicle that takes the style-without-compromise ethos of the popular current S-MAX to new levels with a sharper design, advanced technology and premium craftsmanship.
Read MoreDEARBORN, Mich., Aug. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Bacon has been a cornerstone of cuisine since ancient Rome. In recent years the cured meat has transformed from a food to a lifestyle – inspiring everything from medical supplies to plush toys. Now, with International Bacon Day just around the corner, Ford is savoring the salty side dish with the introduction of what is believed to be the first bacon-wrapped car – a 2014 Ford Fiesta.
Read MoreThere's a brand-new Toyota Corolla coming out soon, and... well, you know, it isn't terrible looking. But the rest of it is completely lackluster, as Raphael recently discovered. We tried hard to come up with the perfect way to say that in a headline.
Read MoreNASCAR is famous for being the sport whose fans revel in antics like crashes and driver fistfights. What they have no patience for is swearing and TV commercials about erectile dysfunction. An open records request filed by Jalopnik has revealed that fans filed a whopping 18,359 complaints about NASCAR coverage to the FCC over the last three years.
Read MoreThe Jaguar XJ220 - briefly the fastest car in the world, and possibly the most elegant supercar ever designed. And here it is shooting flames and powersliding offroad.
Read MoreYesterday we started to scratch the surface of dissent and anger inside the Viper Club. Now, we've received emails from people who claim to be past and present Viper Club members, and they all echo the sentiments that we've heard. This is the Viper Club in their words.
Read MoreThe DMV used to be the worst place in the world, but a lot of them are trying to get better, including Delaware. Nevertheless, the Delaware DMV has made it clear that they will not suck their customers' dicks in the greatest DMV Tweet ever Twitted.
Read MoreThis is a Puma. A fiberglass sports car built in Brazil based first on the Karmann-Ghia's (then on the VW Brazilia's) chassis. So yeah, basically, a fancy Beetle.
Read MoreWe've got us a new Batman, and it's Ben Affleck. Like any good Batman, he's gonna need a badass set of wheels. Any ideas?
Read MoreA rare gathering of nearly 100 Supras met on Sunday to mark the mighty muscle car’s 20th anniversary in style. The Toyota Supra Owners Club hosted the birthday celebration, supported by Toyota GB, at the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon. The line-up ranged from cars in original UK specification to highly modified machines, including some of the finest examples in the country.
Read MoreThey’ve done it! Suzuki is pleased to announce that Les Carvall and his team have reached North Bergen on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States having completed their 18,478 mile Global drive which began from Southampton on Easter Sunday. The cars have now been loaded for the crossing over the Atlantic Ocean and will reach Southampton again in late September for a big homecoming celebration.
Read MoreThis is a long-distance rally Toyota Landcruiser looks like on a proper gymkhana course. Suddenly, your local autocross seems a little boring.
Read MoreDETROIT – Painting a new vehicle is not just part of the manufacturing process - it is an intricate chemical operation requiring constant scientific monitoring. Trained experts, members of General Motors’ “Blue Suit Crew” follow elaborate precautions to ensure that final vehicle paint finishes are pristine.
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27, 2013 - car2go North America LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler North America, will launch its unique point-to-point carsharing model in Minneapolis on Sept. 14, making it the first Midwestern city to feature car2go. A network of 300 car2go edition smart fortwo vehicles will be available for shared use in the metropolitan Minneapolis area, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Registration for membership opens today at Minneapolis.car2go.com. car2go's revolutionary model
Read MoreHong Kong – Infiniti has provided a first look at the Q30 Concept which will have its world premiere at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show as the next step in Infiniti's foray into new premium segments.
Read More(MAHWAH, N.J.) – August 27, 2013 – On Wednesday August 21, the Land Rover Expedition America team successfully reached the Pacific Ocean at Port Orford, Oregon after covering over 4,300-miles in 27 days. The expedition used Land Rover LR4 vehicles for this landmark off-road drive.
Read MoreTORRANCE, Calif., August 27, 2013 - The all-new 2014 Corolla will offer its dramatically elevated design, efficiency and renowned Toyota quality, at an extremely attainable price. The world’s most popular compact sedan will remain a legendary value in the segment. The 2014 Corolla is available in four distinct grades: L, LE, S, and the new LE Eco grade. The Corolla lineup offers a vehicle for broad range of customers, from the familiar value-minded to shoppers seeking a more premium compact car
Read MoreFlying is amazing, but it's also the worst. Like, everyone hates it. Which airline engenders the most hatred in you?
Read MoreIndustrial disasters. Bad design, lack of maintenance, human error, mother nature, bad luck, or some combination thereof. Here are the ten worst in recent history.
Read MoreTRIER (Germany) – Dani Sordo was the World Rally Championship’s ‘nearly’ man after 34 podiums from 106 starts. However, the 30-year-old Spaniard came good to beat Thierry Neuville by 53.0sec following a gripping final stage showdown that was only settled when the Belgian went off the road 3km from the finish.
Read More"Chum," the unusually large cat seen roaming around Detroit's northeast side, was shot and killed, the Detroit Free Press reports this morning. Welcome to your new clusterfuck of animal affection, defense of self of property and a further muddling of the image of a troubled city's residents.
Read MoreIf you watch one thing today, watch this. You'll fall in love with airplanes. I guarantee it.
Read MoreVIN #8MA512 is the seventh De Tomaso Mangusta chassis built. It's also a one-off prototype presented at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show by Ghia, with Giorgetto Giugiaro on the receiving end of all the props.
Read MoreLate last week, a letter appeared online from Chrysler to the Viper Club of America. In it, Chrysler basically said they're tired of the Viper's largest fan club, which they contend is actually a business. They're not alone. Viper enthusiasts are complaining about banned members, shady accounting, and preferential treatment.
Read MoreAnd now, a dispatch from the Potentially Upsetting News Department: a recent Nissan trademark application may indicate the GT-R could go hybrid in the future.
Read MoreRichard Rawlings and Aaron Kaufmann star on Fast N' Loud, which is an inside look at the Gas Monkey Garage and their insane creations. These are the guys that made the Ferrari F40 of your dreams, or nightmares, depending on your personal tastes. And now they're here to answer your questions.
Read MoreDEARBORN, Mich., Aug. 21, 2013 – Entrepreneurs and businesses that want to develop the ultimate “billboard on wheels” now have access to Ford’s redesigned custom vehicle graphics site, http://www.fordcommercialgraphics.com/.
Read MoreSANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — California's oldest driver, 105-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier, received a big surprise when she was gifted a brand new car from an anonymous fan.
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif., Aug. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Production of the Nissan NV200 Taxi – New York's "Taxi of Tomorrow" – is now underway at the company's assembly plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Read MoreMunich / Honolulu. Seven models here, six major islands there. Exemplary low-emissions engines on one hand, relentlessly fuming volcanos on the other. At first glance, the British car brand MINI and the Pacific island group of Hawaii appear to have nothing in common - yet both have a fun and quirky charm. MINI is to its worldwide fan community what Hawaii is to the USA: an expression of the pure joy of living. And they happen to celebrate an anniversary at almost exactly the same time: on August
Read MoreIn a world-first, BMW is employing artificial intelligence to promote its ground-breaking new electric cars through an automated information service for UK customers.
Read MoreDisasters don't just destroy human lives - they destroy the built-up worlds around us.
Read MoreWe all know Patrick Dempsey as McDreamy, obviously. But did you know that he also dabbles in auto racing? He does! And he wants to answer your questions. Fire away.
Read MoreEconomy cars. They are compact, therefore they are light. They also have enough space for a bigger engine if you are willing to sacrifice some practicality. Or, in some cases, all of it.
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif. (August 23, 2013) – With Nissan LEAF sales in the United States up by 335 percent year-over-year since launching the enhanced 2013 model in March, Nissan is seeing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) expand significantly outside the traditional West Coast stronghold to “New Wave" markets across the country.
Read MoreMotor Trend knows how to go big. Evidence? Here's a 12 car drag race at an airstrip.
Read MoreThe 2014 Subaru BRZ will cost you $100 more next year with a starting price of $25,595. That's much more reasonable than what Nissan does with the 2014 GT-R, which goes up from $96,820 to $99,590. Ouch!
Read MoreIf you're ever wondering what a pit stop should not look like, here you go. IndyCar driver Scott Dixon managed to drive into a rival team's mechanic while shooting out of his garage.
Read MoreThis phenomenon of LED lights is one of my least-liked in current car design. Part of it does come down to the execution, and I can think of several cars that look as though designers were given a crate of stick-on LEDs from a craft store on Friday and told to come up with something interesting by Monday.
Read MoreWhile Hurricane Sandy raged over the New York metropolitan area, the underground infrastructure of the city began to flood. Now Amtrak is revealing that they could have let Penn Station flood instead of the Hudson River tunnels, using a long-forgotten barrier designed to protect the city during World War II.
Read MoreFormula One has had its own share of ups and downs, like any recurring television show entering in its 63rd season. There are always laments about the "good old days," when everything was better, but I'm willing to contest that we are currently in another golden patch thanks to today's race.
Read MoreWelcome to Little Car in the Big City, where I highlight fascinating cars I found walking around a town that is known for being bigger than everything else, but where every car is fighting to stand out: New York, New York.
Read MoreAlright, so it's more of a go-kart than a Power Wheels, but even that comparison doesn't do it justice. It's what a fabulously wealthy Pee-Wee Herman would drive, if Pee-Wee Herman had nothing but impeccable taste (I'm not saying he didn't). And this Pocket Classics AC Cobra is just gorgeous.
Read MoreToday we learned that there are still some dreamers in the world. Some people who see something that is wrong, and they fix it. Some people who hear the pleas of the bothered, and become their savior. For only $14, it's now possible to have some semblance of peace on a plane, in Asia.
Read MoreCrowdfunding is all the local rage these days, so here's the latest effort you should check out: A move to restore part of the historic Ford Model T plant in Highland Park, a suburb within the city of Detroit.
Read MoreKids. Love 'em love 'em love 'em. They are, I've been told, The Future. Except when they're on a plane, and they're screaming their heads off because they can't vocalize that their ears hurt. Two airlines in Asia have heard the pleas of the childless, and are now offering baby-free seating. Finally.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from The Wall Street Journal, Japanese Nostalgic Car, and Hooniverse.
Read MoreIf you were excited about the Detroit Electric SP-01, the claimed world's fastest pure electric car set to be produced right here in America, then here's some bad news: Production was supposed to begin this month, but that seems to be on hold.
Read More"There are bike lanes all over New York," they said. "It's cheaper than driving and nicer than the subway," they said. What they didn't say is that it's pants-shittingly terrifying. They should.
Read MoreWe were all rightfully impressed by the 2014 Corvette Stingray's quoted power claim of 460 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque. But how much power is the new Corvette really puttin' down? Turns out quite a bit, Edmunds found out.
Read MoreYou might remember New York real estate mogul Peter Kalikow's name from seven years ago, when he ordered himself a custom 612 from Ferrari called Kappa. Well, back in the late sixties, he went further. Meet the Momo Mirage.
Read MoreAudi has a bone to pick with you, Mr. Luxury Hybrid Car Shopper. They know you want fuel economy, but they think you're looking in the wrong place. They want you to consider their revised 3.0-liter V6 turbo diesel instead, and they invited a bunch of journalists to drive it and prove how efficient it could really be.
Read MoreThis is a supposed concept that has been popping up places over the last few hours. We have no clue what it is. Do you?
Read MoreEvery few years F1 says that it is going to race near New York City. It's actually supposed to happen in 2014. I have always maintained that this race will never happen. Guess what? Yeah. It ain't happenin'.
Read MoreOh, car thieves, why do you suck so very, very much? As you know, Pebble Beach was last week, and many car lovers came out with their beloved cars. One husband-and-wife team came out to the area (Pacific Grove) with their lovely '62 Corvette that they've had for 20 years, and found it stolen right from their B&B parking area.
Read MoreI'm not sure what it is about cars that make writers and researchers so excited to try and find causalities between being an asshole and the car you drive. There's plenty of anecdotal stereotypes we have, but I believe that our ethics are not defined by what we drive. This MIT/Berkeley study says otherwise.
Read MoreAround this time last year, the clutch belt went out on my WRX. It was well out of warranty by then so it wasn't a cheap fix. I wish I had known about KaleCo Auto back then. I could have gotten the clutch belt, a new radiator insulator and some headlight fluid for really cheap.
Read MoreAl-Jazeera America, the network that was supposed to save cable news from the spiraling abyss of substituting punditry and showboating for actual journalism, is off to quite the lazy start. At least when it comes to Detroit matters.
Read MoreWhat you have in a helicopter is a stick for control, two (or more) very fast moving rotors around you up in the sky, and a cabin offering as much protection as an eggshell. But 'copter pilots aren't faint hearted. These are the ten of their most skillful maneuvers caught on video.
Read MoreHamsters Hit the Gym to the Sounds of Lady Gaga’s New Single “Applause” for a Makeover that Mirrors the Newfound Refinement of Kia’s Second-Generation Urban Passenger Vehicle.
Read MoreArtist Simon Claridge and Italian car brand, Alfa Romeo, have teamed up to create London’s most stylish parking spaces in the heart of the city’s world famous Oxford Street shopping district.
Read MoreChinese government authorities have approved Volvo Car Group's (Volvo Cars) establishment of manufacturing plants in Daqing and Zhangjiakou. As a result, Volvo Cars' full Chinese industrial footprint, including Chengdu, has been approved.
Read MoreDUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The Nissan Patrol Challenge reached its grand finale today with a new Guinness World Record set by the unstoppable Hero of All Terrain. In the presence of His Excellency Dr. Ghanem Alhajiri, Chairman of Sharjah International Airport, Nissan Patrol became the holder of the "heaviest object pulled by any production vehicle" Guinness World Record and notched up another historic milestone for illustrious heritage. The event, held at Sharjah International Airport, United
Read MoreDETROIT – Chevrolet’s small and compact car sales are up 229 percent year over year, from the second quarter of 2010 to the same quarter this year, evidence of the brand’s continuing success in attracting buyers of all ages including millennials, whose purchase priorities include advanced technology, fuel economy, functionality and affordability.
Read MoreFiesta was first of a wave of new global products from Ford that has helped the company turn the tables on imports in the United States, with increasing sales and a pace of millennial market share growth that soon could make Ford the top auto brand for young buyers.
Read MoreHaving tasted success in the sports car game with their GT86/Scion FR-S, Toyota has apparently developed an appetite for even more sports cars. Specifically, a family of three rear-wheel drive sports cars with the Toyobaru in the middle in terms of size and price.
Read MoreForget about the stupid name! Yeah, they should fire the guy already, but as long as the engineering team comes up with a 458 like this, they can even call it the Ferrari Fiero as far as I'm concerned.
Read MoreTesla has been trying to lock down the trademark to its name in China for ages. The problem is that a man named Zhan Baosheng owns the name. Tesla has offered him $326,000 for the name. He wants $32 million. That's not gonna work.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Road & Track, MotorSport, and MotherBoard.
Read MoreLast week, I was with the Jalopnik crew at Pebble Beach and the Monterey Historic races at Laguna Seca. Everywhere you looked were stunning cars, and that means that right inside those cars were stunning engines. I took pictures of some of my favorites, so let's look at them, why not?
Read MoreThat Bloomberg piece you've been sharing all over the Internet about 50,000 wild dogs roaming the oh-so-bankrupt (we know!) streets of Detroit is likely hyperbolic bullshit. So here's some insider insight.
Read MoreThe word on the street is that the 2014 Corvette Stingray is an amazingly good car. Like the second coming. But has it lost all its crudity and burnout capability? No. No it has not, as Matt Farah demonstrates.
Read MoreToday, the City of Detroit is putting on a bit of a show downtown: A press conference is being held near Hart Plaza to unveil the first batch of new police cars and ambulances that's part of an $8 million initiative fueled by donations from guys like Roger Penske and more.
Read MoreThe Nissan Juke-R is the company's tiny little Juke crossover stuffed with the powerful guts of the Nissan GT-R — one of the fastest cars on the planet. Here's the story of how a bunch of lunatic Nissan engineers quietly and secretly built the most audacious production car in a generation without anyone finding out.
Read MoreThe 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 might lose the manual gearbox, but it gains a 9,000 RPM redline, a retuned PDK, and rear-wheel steering. People I know that have driven it say it's the best car they've ever been in. But how does it compare on road and track to the McLaren 12C and Nissan GT-R? Let's find out.
Read MoreAs you know from today's TMS, Ford is using high-res photos and 3D imaging in their Dearborn and Kentucky Truck Plant to make sure the F-Series', the Expedition's and the Super Duty's paint job is a joy to look at. But what about your Mustang or Focus?
Read MoreThe small town of Metropolis, Illinois actually came before the Superman comic. This didn't stop city leaders and DC Comics executives from dreaming big about using the town as a massive tourist attraction. Here's how the idea came about, and how the '70s oil embargo acted like kryptonite on the whole super idea.
Read MoreThose of you who like to stay up late to get all informed before bed may have spotted me on Nightline's segment about electric cars, Elon Musk and Tesla. I shot with Nightline for a whole day of talking and driving, and the tiny bit you see there is what wasn't edited out. Which is sort of a shame, since there was some good stuff.
Read MorePeople seem entranced by this video of a fire-fighting helicopter expertly snagging water from a pool. Helicopter piloting is a special skill usually used to help people. What's the best example of helicopter jockeying caught on video?
Read MoreWhat do you do when you're fighting a fire with your helicopter but aren't near any lake or river? Easy, you just dunk your bucket in a nearby pool and head back to the fire. This pilot is amazing.
Read MoreFRANKFURT – At the 65th Frankfurt Motor Show, Chevrolet will debut the new Camaro convertible and coupe. Featuring a fast, low-slung silhouette and Chevrolet's new MyLink connected radio, the latest edition of the famed American muscle car represents the most significant redesign since the introduction of the fifth-generation Camaro as a concept car in 2006.
Read MoreSunderland (August 22, 2013) As a toddler in the 1980s, Chris Pickbourne donned a set of specially-made overalls to star in a recruitment campaign for Nissan’s rapidly-growing operations in the UK.
Read MoreLast week, numerous vehicle recalls were issued, the largest pertaining to Hyundai models that are regularly driven in regions where road salt is used to combat icing on roads. For all of the details on this recall and others, presented in alphabetical order, continue reading below.
Read MoreHere’s the dirt on Ford’s new paint technology: There isn’t any.
Read MoreMunich. The new BMW X5 raises efficiency to another new level in the world of the luxurious Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV). BMW is using the 2013 Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA) to present the logical next step towards landmark efficiency in the SAV segment.
Read MoreDale Earnhardt, Sr.'s death at the Daytona 500 in 2001 marked the last time the iconic number 3 appeared on a race car at NASCAR's top level. Next year, Austin Dillon will be moving up to Sprint Cup, and the number 3 will almost definitely come with him.
Read MoreLexus is trying to blur the line between selling things and selling an idea with the launch of their coffee shop/store/PR machine in Tokyo’s Aoyama district on August 30, 2013.
Read MoreMexico City, Mexico, 21 August 2013 – As a result of its highly successful world public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where a complete car and separate chassis were displayed and a further example was demonstrated on the hill by Mexican F1 rookie Esteban Gutierrez, the innovative V?HL 05 is due to enter production this November.
Read MoreWant to know how to make your sources, God, and everyone else in your city hate you as a journalist? Park your news van in front of a fire hydrant during a 5-alarm fire at a church.
Read MoreEver since BMW stopped making the their original M-car, the racing-bred, mid-engine M1 supercar, fans of the car have been clamoring for a successor. Now you can drive a sort of neo-M1 for the modern era, provided it's in Gran Turismo 6.
Read MorePeople have been predicting a lot for the successor to the BMW M3 Coupe, the BMW M4. Early numbers had power as high as 450. Power that would be linked to a manual or dual-clutch transmission. Rumor has it that none of this is true. UPDATE
Read MoreUnadulterated luxury is delivered with even more élan and even greater efficiency in the new generation Audi A8, which makes its debut at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show. The latest flagship combines revisions to its weight-optimised, predominantly aluminium body with a raft of technological advances including new MatrixBeam LED headlights and an upgraded line-up of EU6-compliant engines.
Read MoreStuttgart/Frankfurt. The third hybrid model of the new S-Class, the S 500 PLUG-IN HYBRID, sets new benchmarks with regard to efficiency as well as drive-system and climate comfort.
Read More(Whitley, 21 August 2013) High-adrenaline sports in some of Europe’s most scenic locations are featured in a new series of Jaguar films depicting the Jaguar XF Sportbrake as the perfect car for those with an active lifestyle. Each short movie showcases the skill, speed and daring of some of the world’s leading athletes in their chosen sport, supported by the dynamic and versatile XF Sportbrake.
Read MoreWhitley, UK, August 21 2013 – Land Rover is launching its first-ever hybrid models – the Range Rover Hybrid and Range Rover Sport Hybrid – which will deliver outstanding fuel economy, significantly lower CO2 emissions and retain Land Rover’s renowned capability and performance. Order books in the UK will open from September 10 with first deliveries in early 2014, the two all-aluminium models are based on Land Rover’s Premium Lightweight Architecture and share an identical powertrain. They are t
Read MoreI decided to venture from Budapest to the sunny island of Krk in Croatia for a holiday weekend. That's 330 miles of highway and steep hills in a 48 hp Italian supermini using early seventies technology. It sort of worked...
Read MoreThese days, McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray is working on a project that is remarkably different from the supercar that made him famous. It's a pair of city cars called the T.25 and T.27, and he recently announced they will hit the road in 2016.
Read MoreThis is a Mitsubishi Evo VI "Tommi Mäkinen Edition." It featured a different front bumper, red/black Recaro seats, 17" Enkei white wheels, a leather Momo steering wheel and shift knob, a titanium turbine that spooled up more quickly, front upper strut brace, lowered ride height and a quicker steering ratio.
Read MoreOLATHE, Kan./ August 20, 2013/Business Wire—Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced VIRB, its first true HD 1080p action camera series.
Read MoreTORRANCE, Calif., – August 19, 2013 – The all-new 2014 Lexus IS sport sedan is getting closer to making its grand entrance this November at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas.
Read MorePuebla, Mexico / Herndon, VA - On August 13, Volkswagen celebrated the production of 10 million cars at its Volkswagen de México manufacturing facility in Puebla, Mexico. The 10- millionth car was a Volkswagen Beetle GSR®, a limited edition, 1970s-inspired Beetle that goes on sale in the United States this month. “This is an important milestone and symbol of Volkswagen’s long-term commitment to the North American market,” said Jonathan Browning, President of Volkswagen of America, Inc. “It’s
Read MoreMunich. 15 years on from the launch of the celebrated Gran Turismo gaming franchise for PlayStation®, BMW Group Design has conjured up a futuristic virtual concept car exclusively for Gran Turismo 6; the BMW Vision Gran Turismo will make its virtual debut in this latest incarnation of the racing simulation.
Read MoreTokyo, Japan, August 21, 2013—Lexus International will open the first INTERSECT BY LEXUS luxury brand experience space in Tokyo’s Aoyama district on August 30, 2013 as part of its AMAZING IN MOTION endeavors. INTERSECT BY LEXUS are unique-luxury spaces where people can experience Lexus without getting behind a steering wheel. Neither a dealership, nor a traditional retail space, guests are able to engage with Lexus through design, art, fashion, culture, film, music and technology. The Tokyo
Read MoreWhitley, UK. 20 August 2013- One of the most successful Land Rover vehicles ever made, the Range Rover Evoque, makes a further leap forward with the introduction of a host of new technologies.
Read MoreHonda today announced the 2014 Accord Coupe will go on-sale tomorrow followed by the Accord Sedan on August 22. Featuring the award-winning Honda Earth Dreams Technology™ powertrains, the Accord lineup includes a direct injected 4-cylinder engine and a powerful and fuel-efficient V-6. A sporty CVT (4-cylinder models only) and a 6-speed manual transmission are also available. A new 2-motor Accord Hybrid, built1 with the rest of the Accord lineup in a Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, will debut la
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif. — Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. is marking its 80th anniversary with "Nissan 360," a month-long showcase of the latest breakthroughs in vehicle technology, sustainability and market expansion by one of the world’s leading automotive groups.
Read MoreSANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The coming weeks should be a sweet spot for shoppers looking for the best deals of the year on a new car, advises Edmunds.com, the premier resource for car shopping and automotive information. The reason, says Edmunds, is that dealers generally accelerate sales of 2013 model-year inventories around this time of the year to make way for 2014 models.
Read MoreLONDON, August 20, 2013. Mazda UK is renewing its annual partnership with Britain's fastest race track for the ninth year in a row, supplying a trio of cars to Thruxton Racing Circuit for use during the venue's popular 'Experience Days'.
Read MoreBRENTWOOD, Essex, 19th August, 2013 – Ford Kuga sales remain strong with over 7,500 already sold year to date. The appeal of Kuga’s exciting line-up is to be further enhanced with the debut of a new luxury, feature-packed Kuga Titanium X Sport series, priced from £28,345.
Read MoreThe most sophisticated car in the world has been introduced to the engineers at AMG in Affalterbach to create the new, 585 hp, S 63 AMG – set to arrive in the UK in November priced from £119,565 OTR.
Read MoreVolkswagen do Brasil has announced the Kombi Last Edition, a special commemorative series of one of the most successful Volkswagen models in Brazil and the longest produced model in automotive history.
Read MoreCaptivating, capable and connected – the all-new Mazda3 will be the star attraction of Mazda’s exhibition at this year’s Frankfurt International Motor Show. Although it won’t go on sale in the UK until January 2014, the all-new Mazda3 has already attracted high praise from motoring media and is currently proving itself on the road during an extreme 9,300 mile ‘Mazda Route3 Hiroshima-Frankfurt Challenger Tour 2013’ endurance test from Japan to Germany.
Read MoreLuton – Vauxhall’s new Insignia is not only the lowest CO2 emitting car in its sector but now also the most streamlined vehicle in the world in its class.
Read MoreWe all miss the Ford Crown Victoria, but it looks like police officers have finally found a viable replacement that can meet their needs, and it's not a sedan.
Read MoreFord invited members of the automotive media to take a first ride in the new Ford F-150 Tremor at Michigan International Speedway. They even invited professional wheelman and 2012 Sprint Cup Champ Brad Keselowski to hoon us around a bit. They should have done this before lunch.
Read MoreLast fall, I walked out of the door of my then apartment in Jersey City, NJ, probably to get coffee or something. That's when I spotted something. A Subaru Impreza with a camera on top. It was the Google car. I had to be near it.
Read MoreAs car journalists, we love to speculate about the future of cars using limited details and lots of Photoshop and imagination. There is no penalty for getting it wrong, but I think we should at least acknowledge who is the greatest distance from reality.
Read MoreListen: Sometimes, a one-man marijuana and ecstasy-fueled foam party in your underpants just has to happen, even if that means it happens on the official plane used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Read MoreCarmakers love creating special editions, almost as much as they love giving them ridiculous names.
Read MoreOn July 4 in Los Angeles, an as-of-yet unidentified person pulled this pit bull out of the bed of his pickup truck, strapped fireworks on his body, set him ablaze, and then left him to die in an alley.
Read MoreSpecial FX professionals charge actual money to stage those elaborate and cliché explosions where someone presses a button and an entire car explodes into a massive flame ball. A Virginia Beach contractor was able to duplicate that at a much lower cost with a leaky acetylene bottle, an F-150, and a remote start key fob.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Forbes, Hemmings, and The Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreThere's an ongoing joke around here that Elon Musk is a supervillain, with his money and his private space program, who cleverly adopted the image of saving the world. Today's Tesla Model S crash results only further this belief and Travis referred to him as Hank Scorpio, although some wonder if we have the right character.
Read MoreIf you're gonna get a big pickup truck, get a diesel pickup truck. And if you want the badass-iest of the badass diesels, you get a truck with a Cummins diesel. And now you can do that in a Nissan, since the next Titan will have Cummins power.
Read MoreIt's always incredible to see truly vintage cars in person, to feel how different the scale of everything is, the different sorts of materials used, the unusual smells, everything. It's visceral. That's why when you actually get to see something truly archaic running, it's a very special treat. Like this 1906 White Steamer.
Read MoreConstruction workers in Michigan have potentially blown the Oakland County Child Killer case wide open after unearthing a blue AMC Gremlin while they were digging out a basement in a subdivision. The serial killer was suspected to have driven a car matching that description during his spree in the late 1970s.
Read MoreOur friends at Mustang6G have the first shots of the new Mustang's front end. Looks aggressive. Head over there to see them all.
Read MoreA silver Ferrari Enzo is a rare thing indeed... and one with unmuffled tailpipes is, if nothing less, decidedly YouTube worthy. This might be NSFW.
Read MoreAutomakers frequently add names to cars in order to make a special edition. A lot of them have really, really, really dumb names. What's the dumbest?
Read MoreFlying a plane looks pretty easy when you're miles off the ground. But flying one near the ground is almost a superhuman act of precision. Here are the 10 most pants-shttingly terrifying low flybys ever caught on camera.
Read MoreEveryone asks this every year, but maybe it's time to have a serious conversation about it: Why hasn't the Woodward Dream Cruise been extended to the Motor City?
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Petrolicious, The Washington Post, and The New Republic.
Read MoreOne of the US' ultra-expensive B-1B not-quite-stealth bombers crashed in rural Montana this afternoon. AP reports that the four crew members ejected before the crash and survived with some injuries.
Read MoreOne of the redeeming qualities of the GT500: Max AC. Much appreciated.
Read MoreIt turns out that residents of West Texas aren't exactly warming up to Playboy's "art installation" just outside of the small town of Marfa, which features a 1972 Dodge Charger on a hollowed-out concrete block next to the famed bunny logo. Here's why.
Read MoreThe Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is the highlight of a long weekend of events designed to celebrate the art of the automobile. It's also an opportunity for the wealthiest and most particular car enthusiasts in the world to show off their opulence. Being neither wealthy or even that particular, we did our hilarious best to fit in.
Read MoreRemember Guy Newmark's daily-driver 1964 Porsche 356C with close to 1 million miles? Petrolicious did a feature on it in June, which was highlighted by us on an installment of Must Read. We have a very sad and infuriating update to that story — the 356 has been stolen.
Read MoreThis year's Best In Show at the Pebble Beach Councours d'Elegance was a A 1934 Packard 1108 Twelve Dietrich Convertible Victoria. While this is no doubt an incredible car, it's also a bit of a safe and predictable choice. The 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis Boano Coupe, on the other hand, would have been an inspired choice.
Read MoreSo while the rest of Southeast Michigan was engrossed in the Dream Cruise, some Formula D drifters snuck into town and were hooning all across the grounds of Michigan Central Station, which some of you non-Detroit residents might recognize as this hulking monolith.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz tuner Brabus has revisited the AMG trims of the ML and GL SUVs to add more power, more swag, and — well, you know how these things turn out.
Read MoreHere it is: the Subaru BRZ tS, the car we were kind of hoping would be some sort of insane turbocharged BRZ STI. Actually, it was developed by Subaru’s STI division, but more power isn’t on the table.
Read MoreFlying a jet fighter thousands of feet in the sky isn't easy. Flying one a few feet off the ground is a lot harder.
Read MoreMcLaren, the iconic British sports car brand, has introduced three retro-styled fashion collections inspired by cars, drivers and the most exhilarating moments from its 50 years of race-winning history.
Read MoreMunich. The upgrade for customers marks a significant expansion of the brand’s internet-based services, allowing drivers and passengers to remain in touch with the wider world when in their MINI. Owners of an Apple iPhone can acquire the new MINI Connected ready Apps from the Apple App Store and install them in their car via the smartphone. Once installed, operation of the new apps is intuitive using the MINI joystick, steering wheel buttons and high-resolution colour display of the on-board mon
Read MoreYOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Nissan Motorsports International Co., Ltd. (NISMO) today unveiled the new-for-2014 rules' compliant GT500-class spec SUPER GT machine, the "Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500.”
Read MoreWith the new B63S - 700 performance kit BRABUS significantly upgrades the potential of the 5.5-liter V8 Biturbo engine in the ML 63 and GL 63.
Read MoreGaydon, 16 Aug 2013 - The first car to complete a zero- CO2 emissions lap of an FIA-sanctioned race - Aston Martin’s revolutionary Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S - will make its UK competition debut this weekend (17/18 August) when it enters the historic Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in Worcestershire.
Read MoreEarlier this month, in an effort to showcase previously failed "good-intention" initiatives for Detroit, all pegged as game-changers for the city, The Washington Post mentioned The People Mover, an elevated 2.9-mile *rail line that circles the downtown business district "that hardly anyone rides today."
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 MoreYou ever meet two people, and it's like, "oh hey you two look just alike, let's hope you're not adopted and secretly siblings because that would be weird LOL," and then you carry on with your day? Yeah, sometimes cars are like that too.
Read MoreSaleen is starting up a Heritage Collection with the George Follmer edition Mustang, named after a successful road racer from the 1970s. George Follmer was known for his appearances in Formula One, Can-Am, and Le Mans, so this car should basically be like the cars from that type of racing, right?
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 MoreAnother shady bus company has been shut down by the Feds after dumping its passengers at a Virginia truck stop and leaving them there for 24 hours. Weirdly, a company with the exact same everything including owners, drivers, and buses was already shut down by the Feds last year. Weeeirrrd.
Read MoreFrank Stephenson has gone down a career path that most of us only wish we could have done. He's designed some of the most amazing cars ever, including the Ferrari F430 and the McLaren 12C. And now he's taken some time from his schedule to talk to you, the Jalopnik readers. Have at it!
Read MoreI'll let you guess, but it's a great reason. Very steam punk. Story coming next week.
Read MoreThese days it seems like everyone and their mom is coming up with ways to improve our crappy commutes. Hyperloop! Monorail! Golden Dolphins! It makes sense though, some commutes are just really, incredibly bad.
Read MoreAbsolutely insane, transverse mounted transmission with a boat motor connected by chain to the rears. No suspension. All balls.
Read MoreThere isn't really a louder car on the road than the Jaguar F-Type V8S. It's so loud you might almost think it's broken. The Project 7, which is based on the V8S, is tuned to be even louder on purpose. This is Jag at its best.
Read MoreDutch racing driver Junior Strous has been arrested in the Netherlands for stabbing a friend over a matter of 3,000 euros. Strous was arrested after fleeing from the Hague, but only made it to Rotterdam before the cops caught him.
Read MoreI know now it's become an internet cliche, but I really can't stop looking at the BMW M4 concept. BMW showed off the concept — which will arrive as the M4 — today at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering.
Read MoreAston Martin's Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S has become the first car to complete a full lap of an FIA-sanctioned race without emitting any CO2 emissions. The car achieved this when qualifying for the Nürburgring 24 Hours, running pure Hindenburg-juice through its 6L, twin turbo V12.
Read MoreYesterday, we showed you some pictures of the new Cadillac flagship concept, the Elmiraj, which in my head I keep wanting to type as 'Emoji.' It's a handsome, striking car, but many people are fixated on how the wreath is gone from the stretched logo. Seriously, they are. But they shouldn't be, and here's why, in chart form.
Read MoreI'm sure for many of you, the real news here is that the old bread-loaf-shaped, rear-engined hippie wagon is still being produced at all. Well, it is, in Brazil, and will be ending its 56 year run in that country with a nostalgic final "Last Edition," of which 600 will be built.
Read MoreThere's been a lot of talk of the 2014.5 Mustang dropping about 400 pounds of weight to something around 3,100 lbs. Surprisingly, that's not particularly light, even for a Mustang.
Read MoreThe Deltawing has only one party trick, right? Wrong. There's more to it than the bizarre shape. It sounds absolutely unreal.
Read MoreWelcome to Pebble Beach (aka Monterey Car Week), the time of the year when exotic cars both old and new descend on a small ocean town and fill the air with the stench of opulence and the glorious burble of engines. Here's how you can follow along.
Read MoreWhile we've moved on to flashy digital ads (watch Ray Donovan!) and great commercials, there's still the allure of print advertisements. The simplicity creates a necessary cleverness. Which is the best?
Read MoreCARMEL, Calif. – Cadillac today revealed the Elmiraj Concept, a grand coupe expressing the pure enjoyment of driving and exploring new dimensions for Cadillac’s ongoing expansion. The Elmiraj Concept showcases a new vision for luxury driving and the top of the brand’s expanding range.
Read MoreROCKLEIGH, N.J. (Aug. 16, 2013) — With the introduction of its new, innovative engine family, Volvo Cars ushers in a wave of transformational change.
Read MorePebble Beach/Munich. On 15 August, surrounded by both current and historic BMW models, BMW M tonight offered a first outlook on a high-performance sports car of tomorrow – the BMW Concept M4 Coupe. The car was unveiled at the BMW opening media reception for the iconic annual Pebble Beach/Monterey automobile weekend.
Read MoreWoodcliff Lake, NJ / Carmel, CA – August 15, 2013 . . . BMW announced today the BMW Individual DesignworksUSA Consultation Program, a new program where clients work directly with a BMW Group DesignworksUSA designer to commission their very own BMW.
Read MoreIn the new Audi A8, the turn signal light consists of lighting elements that illuminate in a defined sequence; this makes it easier for others to perceive the driver’s turning intentions, even under difficult conditions.
Read More(MAHWAH, N.J.) – August 15, 2013 – Jaguar proudly announces its most dynamic North American lineup ever for 2014, with the all-new F-TYPE sports car joining the family as the heir to the Jaguar sports car legacy.
Read More8/7/2013 3:42:00 PM Honda Performance Development... is continuing its commitment to customer LMP1 endurance sports-car racing with the 2014 introduction of an all-new, turbocharged V6 engine, to be followed in 2015 by a range of bespoke energy recovery options, for FIA World Endurance Championship competition.
Read MoreDETROIT – The advanced cluster display in the Corvette Stingray can provide up to 69 unique sources of information, ranging from an interactive performance timer to a tyre thread temperature display.
Read MoreStuttgart. Progressive in design, versatile and with impressive off-road capability: the Mercedes-Benz GLA has been unveiled, aiming to set new benchmarks in efficiency as it mixes practicality with surefooted 4MATIC capability.
Read MoreMISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug. 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Subaru Canada, Inc. (SCI) is pleased to announce the release of the 2014 Subaru Impreza WRX STI.
Read MoreMunich. Developed from motor racing expertise, perfectly tailored to the model in question and designed to be combined according to individual preference - this is the BMW M Performance Parts program.
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA (August 1, 2013) – When Singer Vehicle Design (SVD) displays the latest handcrafted masterpiece it has restored for a customer at the 2013 Quail Motorsports Gathering on August 15th, it will note a series of “firsts” while continuing to salute the genius of Porsche and the 50th anniversary of the original 911.
Read MoreHerndon, VA (August 13, 2013) – In celebration of its 50thAnniversary, Lamborghini will host the North American debut of its ‘one-off’ Veneno show car and a rare display of its first-ever prototype, the 1963 350 GTV, for enthusiasts next week during the annual Pebble Beach Automotive Week.
Read MoreAnother first for Callaway, the specialist manufacturer has just developed a new version of the service-proven Eaton TVS supercharger for the 2014 Silverado/Sierra 5.3L.
Read MoreATE Super Blue Racing Fluid has been on the market for 15 years, but only now is it being banned...for being blue.
Read MoreYesterday we saw the U.S. Customs and Border Protection release a photo of them crushing a VIN-swapped, illegally imported Land Rover Defender near Baltimore. Here is the video of the brutal execution.
Read MoreDo you think that the best small cars ever made came from the late '80s and early '90s? Mitsubishi has a car for you! It's the 74-horsepower, five-speed, $12,995 Mirage.
Read MoreHonda has unveiled the NSX Concept-GT, a racing machine they're going to enter into the GT500 class of the 2014 SUPER GT Series in Japan. It still looks badass and makes us want the 2015 Acura NSX that much more.
Read MoreWiesmann, the German manufacturer of bizarro sports cars often based on BMWs like the Wiesmann GT MF4 Clubsport, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy. The world just got a bit less crazy.
Read MoreI hope everyone bought stock in the Bugs-sawing-off-Florida and various facepalm GIFs, because they're about to be all over this page. The Mayor of St.Petersburg, Florida had to pause in the middle of a forum about crime to remind everyone not to leave their damn keys in their cars.
Read MoreU.S. Customs and Border Protection officials crushed a Land Rover Defender on Tuesday after it had been seized at the Port of Baltimore in April.
Read MoreMine? My Autobianchi A112 of course, with its mighty 965cc four-cylinder engine and 48 horsepower attacking the 145/70 tires. What a shame it's not the Zagato version!
Read MoreJust try and picture a world without these two things: white bathtubs and boattail Rivieras. Now, please, stop, just stop. That world, with its iron-black bathtubs and no distinctive-reared classic American coupés is just to horrific to imagine. Now we need to take a moment and thank David Dunbar Buick.
Read MoreThe other day I was a big jerk and pointed out that CNN doesn't seem to have any idea whatsoever about how turbocharged engines work. Or, really, engines at all. Possibly any moving objects. CNN must have listened, because now they're really sorry about that.
Read MoreNow, all you have to do is use them while blasting down the Autobahn at a limited top speed of 155 mph.
Read MoreWhile New Yorkers enjoy the last few rides in the city's fleet of trusty Ford Crown Victoria taxis, the production lines are running for 23 hours six days a week in Mexico making "the Taxi of Tomorrow." Don't worry, it comes with USB chargers for your phones and other devices.
Read MoreIt's called "12 O'Clock Boys," and it's the documentary I'm most looking forward to seeing next year.
Read MoreWell, that didn't take long. After a grainy photo leaked onto the web last night, the full shots of the BMW M4 Coupe Concept have made their official debut. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the M take on the BMW 4-Series.
Read MoreThe current Ford Mustang GT packs a ton of power, but at 3,600 pounds, it's far from being a lightweight. But that may change with the all-new 2015 Mustang, which is reportedly going to cut out the carbs and hit the CrossFit gym a lot harder than its predecessor.
Read MoreHey, it wouldn't be Jalopnik if we didn't try to improve something you already thought was working well. Amirite? In this case, we've reacted to a few complaints you've had about page density, ad units, and other little things. Let us know your thoughts below.
Read MoreThe Internet in the 1990s was kind of a bare bones, Wild West sort of place full of tiny pictures force-fed into your computer through slow, beeping phone-based modems. It's a ton of fun to go back and see what they looked like in those days, especially for automaker websites.
Read MoreExcited about the upcoming Rush movie? So are we! And this vantastic Renault Estafette from the set can be yours even before it hits the screens.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from the New York Times, Petrolicious, and The Truth About Cars.
Read MoreA federal appeals court ruled today that a 1929 Michigan law prohibiting panhandling in public spaces is unconstitutional, saying the legislation "simply bans an entire category of activity that the First Amendment protects," The Detroit News reports.
Read MoreThe NART Cadillac Zagato was the most awesome Eldorado Mark VII ever built. Here's what happened.
Read MoreRota Wheels do not enjoy the best reputation among tuners. While they do have some defenders, there's one thing about the wheels that's universally recognized: Rota designs are imitations. Now, in kind of a hilarious twist, it looks like they're battling copycats of their own.
Read MoreI love that scene in the 1989 Batman movie where the eponymous hero runs out of the museum and we see his car for the first time. It looks violent, mean, and downright terrifying, even if probably scrapes on speed bumps. Now you can own your own, as one seller in a Houston suburb has a "Batcar" for sale.
Read MoreIn the romantic comedy that is Russian vs. US relations, we're finally getting the will they/won't they kiss - the two aging superpowers are going to face off in tank competition.
Read MoreWe've established how awesome and carefully chosen the cars from Breaking Bad are. Now, as the series draws to a close (sad face!), you have the chance to own one of its more notable cars. The money will go to a great cause, too.
Read MoreI'm sure all of us have let maintenance on our cars slide sometimes. I've had a fan belt that was so worn looked like it was made of woven vines break on the road, and I felt a little ashamed as I replaced it on the shoulder of the 5. But this worn brake rotor is just terrifying.
Read MoreI'd just taken over as Tesla's PR guy and had been contacted by old friends at Microsoft Game Studios about including the Tesla Roadster in Project Gotham Racing 4. Darryl Siry, my boss, took me into Martin Eberhard's (Tesla's Co-founder/then CEO) office to broach the topic. That's when it went very wrong.
Read MoreThe call it a towing contest, but it's really a tug of war between a Range Rover and a Ford Raptor - who wins?
Read MoreThere's a lot of weird shit on Google Street View. So much weird shit that we no longer even bat an eye when something happens. But when a man stands under a clown's head and moons a police van as a Google car drives by, well, you have our attention.
Read MoreA bridge to the moon or just a train ride that doesn't take forever? The last two centuries were full of fantastic ideas for mass transportation, but some just couldn't be turned into reality.
Read MoreBasically everyone has a favorite car to emerge from Maranello. What is the one that makes you shudder every time you see it?
Read MoreA few weeks ago we reported on the garage in Valencia, Spain that was raided by police after it was found to be producing fake Ferraris and other exotic cars. Now the Spanish National Police have released video of what that garage looked like, and it’s quite a sight.
Read MoreAugust 13, 2013 , Auburn Hills, Mich. - In Italian, “Cattiva” can describe a person or situation that is naughty yet cool. With that inspiration in mind, FIAT designers developed a standout, factory-customized Cinquecento with a “blacked out” look and an aggressive demeanor: the Fiat 500 Cattiva.“The FIAT brand is all about personalization and self-expression,” said Jason Stoicevich, Head of FIAT Brand for North America, Chrysler Group LLC. “Now, Fiat 500 customers have a chance to showcase a d
Read MoreThere's a new Mini Cooper on the horizon, and we're set to see exactly what it will look like in November. Until then, spy photographers in China have snatched the best look at the car's interior to date, and it looks like it may be losing its famous center-mounted speedometer.
Read MoreI think this has happened to everyone at least once: You get into a new car, and you don't know what some crazy-looking switch, dial or button actually does. But Audi has a brilliant solution to this problem that involves your smartphone, augmented reality, and ditching the owner's manual for good.
Read MoreAfter last night's leak, Mercedes-Benz released the full array of photos of their new urban crossover SUV, the 2015 GLA. Here's all you need to know about it.
Read MoreEarly this morning, a large UPS Airbus A300 cargo plane crashed just outside the Birmingham, Alabama airport. Only the pilot and copilot were involved and their condition is unknown.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz GLA is the Mercedes CLA-based crossover set to compete with the Audi Q3, BMW X3, and all other soft roaders that look vaguely tough but will almost never be taken offroad.
Read MoreThe original NA Mazda MX-5 Miata was a fantastic sports car bargain in its day, and it's become an ever better used car buy for enthusiasts on a budget. Sadly, it's getting hard to find ones that haven't been beat to hell. But here's a "barn find" 1990 Miata with just 27 miles on the clock.
Read MoreThe guy who invented the rotary engine was a Jew-hating militaristic Nazi who was so ardently fascist he got thrown out of his own party, twice. Yes, Felix Wankel was a Nazi nutjob.
Read MoreYour dog can roll over, but what is he going to do when your WRX rolls over? That probably wouldn't end too well for old Fido. Luckily, Subaru is throwing money into improving car safety for our four-legged friends.
Read MorePebble Beach, Calif., August 12, 2013 – Hyundai’s innovative and tech-laden HCD-14 Genesis Concept, which received international acclaim at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show, will again be center stage on the prestigious Concept Lawn at the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The HCD-14 Genesis Concept joins a handful of other futuristic concepts from the world’s leading manufacturers, including Aston Martin, Bentley, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz and BMW.
Read MoreThe 750-horsepower, $3.9 million Lamborghini Veneno is one of the most outrageous cars of all time. The only real problem with it is that there is only four of them, making ownership a pipe dream — unless you get with Refined Marques, who say they can hook you up with one. Here's why you shouldn't trust that claim.
Read MoreThe end of this week also marks the beginning of the glitziest week in the auto world: Pebble Beach Car Week. We're road tripping up the California Coast in style, and we want to know where you want us to take pictures.
Read MoreWe're fortunate in that we have a real physicist, Dr.Stephen Granade, on call to answer both my inane questions and sometimes more important stuff. This time we have something in the latter category. I sent him Musk's Hyperloop PDF and asked for his assessment. Here's what we got.
Read MoreRolle, Switzerland (August 13th 2013) Car buyers with a creative streak now have the perfect canvas on which to bring their visions to life. Following its successful launch in 2012, Nissan is further expanding its innovative personalisation programme for Juke.
Read MoreThere's been an influx of articles penned about what caused Detroit's troubles since the city succumbed to the woes of a potentially long municipal bankruptcy proceeding, but plenty of stories streamed out of here long before! Why not take a look at some?
Read MoreWe have long ragged on BMW drivers for their terrible parking skills and general assholery, and Toyota Prius drivers for their holier-than-thou smugness. Now, it has been confirmed — through the miraculous power of science — that their owners are, in fact, terrible and inconsiderate motorists.
Read MoreHey, you know how it is. One minute you're walking down a London street, minding your own business, when you accidentally step into a police call box and all of a sudden you're inside the TARDIS and the Doctor has enlisted your help fighting aliens. I hate when that happens.
Read MoreThe world has continued to evolve and, in a few places, gay people can have public, legal marriages. The country is generally more open and accepting. So why aren't there more openly gay race car drivers?
Read More18-year-old Alyssia Akers was one of three Detroit students featured in "True Life: I'm Saving Detroit" but she hasn't stopped chasing her goals since the cameras stopped filming.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Slate, TechnologyReview, and Bloomberg.
Read MoreAfter months of speculation, the plans for Elon Musk's Hyperloop Alpha finally hit the web this afternoon. What's this thing really about, anyway? Here's what we now know so far.
Read MoreWe just got Elon Musk's PDF describing the Hyperloop, and a quick initial read shows the key factor that makes the system more likely to work: overcoming the Kantrowitz Limit. Don't feel bad if you have no idea what that is — I didn't either, but once I found out, it makes so much sense.
Read MoreThis is that time of year where we, and other news outlets, remind you of the fatal consequences that occur when you leave your kids or pets in hot cars. But two Ohio parents now face charges after their baby died during a hot drive through Oklahoma.
Read MoreI think CNN must be hiring Amish kids on Rumspringa for its motorsports writers. That's really the only way you could explain the rich, lavish ignorance of how cars work as demonstrated in this article about turbo engines returning to F1.
Read MoreWe're all a little hyperloopy right now, with just a few hours to go before Elon Musk finally tells us what the hell he's been going on about with this whole shooting people in tubes from LA to SF thing. Since he stayed up all night like a crank-addled college kid, the least we can do is read up a bit about it all.
Read MoreThis 22-year-old college graduate in Chongqing, China, parked her mom's $327,000 Maserati in the middle of the street. You won't believe the reason she gave for why she did this.
Read MoreWagons are fantastic, we all know that. But which one makes you scream shout up and take my money the most?
Read MorePeople revere Kanye West like he's the second coming. These people, it seems, also scare him. So much so that he bought two Dartz Prombron armored SUVs from Latvia. Is Yeezus scared?
Read MoreScrew you, Elon Musk! Car dealers are important. They do all kinds of useful things, like offering rust proofing and paint sealant and marking up the cost of exciting new cars by $20,000 or more. And the latest target of their awesome practices is the 2014 Corvette Stingray. Get out yer checkbook!
Read MoreThis weekend almost saw the DeltaWing pull of a surprising victory at Road America, with the phallically-shaped race car pulling away from its twice-as-powerful competitors in the wet. It would have been the first victory for the weird race car.
Read MoreIt's not just the gas prices that are higher these days, the tickets are going up as well. Welcome to our world of extreme speeding tickets.
Read MoreAround these parts, we like to say two wheels bad, but where does that leave vehicles with only one wheel? If we're talking about the SBU V3, the lithium-ion battery powered unicycle that can balance itself, then I say one wheel alright.
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 sad, but there's already a generation that has only a vague idea what a drive-in movie theater is. For something so commonplace in 20th century American culture and a product of our love of cars, the drive-in is very much on life support these days. So Honda's coming to the rescue.
Read MoreI never thought I'd actually say this, as "two-wheels-bad-four-wheels-better," but this kind soul of a Canadian rider proved that there truly is good in this world. And it comes on two wheels.
Read MoreHere's a reminder that AMC debuts "Low Winter Sun" at 10 p.m. tonight after some other show about a teacher that operates a mobile math lab? To spread the goodness of math, I presume? I don't know what the kids are watching these days.
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 MoreWith Ron Howard's new movie, Rush, about the 1976 Formula One season, coming out next month, we're starting to learn more about the characters behind the film. And trust me, they really were characters.
Read MoreThis is what it looks like when lightning strikes your car – a big flash, an even bigger boom, and a golden shower of sparks.
Read MoreOne of the joys of growing up is learning how to drive and completely ignoring any and all instructions we're given. Usually this sort of thing occurs in a parking lot, and not a rally special stage. When it does occur on a rally special stage, though, the end result is absolutely hilarious.
Read MoreA lot of little inventions had to be created to get the car you drive now. Fire, the wheel, the internal combustion engine. All of those are lauded, though. We love fire, and engines. Everybody knows what they are, and what they do. What about our unsung heroes?
Read MoreAn alert tipster passes along word to Jalopnik Detroit that Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh, who has not been seen in the city since June but was last spotted in Seattle, is currently roaming about New York City.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Forbes, Quartz, and Automobile Quarterly.
Read MoreThis particular stolen car tale hits pretty close to home for me: it's a vintage Beetle, and the owner had had for most of his adult life. It was stolen from in front of his California home, and he really wants it back. Let's see if the amazing Jalopnik community can pull another miracle out of their tailpipes.
Read MoreSure, lots of people think their workplace sucks. The coffee tastes like rat-shampoo rinsewater, the guy in the cubicle next to you won't stop singing Tainted Love, we get it. But chances are you're not being repeatedly tasered like Bradley Jones was at Fred Fincher Motors.
Read MoreSome time ago, I noticed that I had many, many photos of cars. Fast cars. Rare cars. Shiny cars. Racecars. Odd cars. I needed something to set my amateur-hour photography apart from the rest. I needed...a bunny. Meet Fluffy Bunny, Eater of Souls.
Read MoreA study by Saurabh Bhargava and Vikram S. Pathania of Carnagie-Mellon and the London School of Economics, respectively, seems to demonstrate that talking on your phone while driving does not make you more likely to crash. Unless you close your eyes to talk or something.
Read MoreYou might think there's nothing worse than getting ticketed for a totally minor infraction, like five or ten over on the highway. Trust me, it could be worse.
Read MoreIf your car has been sitting for a while, it might smell a bit musty. So you open the windows and driver around a bit, get that stank out. But you don't need to go 148 MPH to do it.
Read MorePaul White of Ham Lake, Minnesota is a lucky fellow. On August 7, he became one of three people nationwide to hit the Powerball jackpot, getting his share of $448 million split three ways. What he plans to do with that money should make any Jalopnik reader stand up and cheer.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from SportsBusinessDaily, Foreign Policy, and AutoWeek.
Read MoreA lot of magazines and TV shows have long term fleets these days. But MotorWeek are OGs. They had a Peugeot 505 STX. Best longtermer ever.
Read MoreMy mom's visiting this week, pretending like she's mildly interested in me even though we all know she's only interacted with my 2-year-old Otto since she's been here. Still, she did do one very motherly thing for me: she brought me my old Tonka Super Beetle, the toy that made me love cars.
Read MoreIt's hard to believe now in this age of lane-departure warning systems and radar-guided automatic braking, but once upon a time, safety in cars was kind of an afterthought. Volvo built their reputation on selling safer cars, but they gave away the most important safety device ever invented: the three-point seat belt.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of a massive fire that gutted the main hall of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday, officials are investigating whether the airport was looted by first responders. Worst firefighters ever? Maybe.
Read MoreBMW's i3 is an interesting car for a lot of reasons. It's BMW's first rear-engine mass production vehicle since the 700, it's the smallest BMW-badged vehicle we've seen here in a while, and it's a great lesson on why batteries still kind of suck today.
Read MoreWe've hung out with you readers in NYC, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, and a bunch of other places. But now we're doing a little bit of the old "westward ho." Come hang out with us on 8/14 at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. Please? We need you. Yes, you specifically.
Read MoreRemember last week when infamous Detroit erotic-art extraordinaire Jerry Vile put a giant can of Crisco in front of the Joe Louis fist? You can buy the can now — "fist not included," Vile warns.
Read MoreAs we've all heard by now Elon Musk, un-contented with running an electric car company and a spaceship company, will be announcing plans for a 30-minute round trip LA to SF transit system. Luckily, someone has shared this lovely infographic with us showing everything we know so far.
Read MoreIt is an M1 Abrams tank stuck in the mud. It attempts to claw its way out. It is awesome.
Read MoreHave you been holding your breath waiting for a production version of the eye-searingly beautiful Subaru WRX Concept? Then get ready to hold it longer. The current WRX will continue on for 2014, and it will get slightly more expensive.
Read MoreI'm a big fan of the last-gen Pontiac GTO, the boring-looking Australian captive import with a not-at-all boring pair of LS V8 engines. That one only lasted from 2004 and 2006, and it was never replaced. But it almost was, according to Bob Lutz!
Read MoreFormer Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe hopes to be the next governor of Virginia, but first, he may have to contend with a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into GreenTech Automotive, a startup electric car company he co-founded and previously ran.
Read MoreThe people of Russia are proud to debut the latest advancement in Russian dash cam technology: multi-angle traffic crash footage. Let's take a look at how this went down, Rashomon-style.
Read MoreA speed trap at the end of June in Australia netted 987 tickets in about one hour. That's a 32,930 percent increase over normal. There has been a huge mistake. And now good guy Australia wants to refund everyone.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Automotive News, Airline Reporter, and Slashdot.
Read MoreThis is the video I've been searching for. MotorWeek reviewed my car. Literally. I'm so giddy.
Read MoreIf you don't live in America, you are spoiled for choices when it comes to hot rod wagons. And two of the best are the Mercedes CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake and the Audi RS 6. But which is the one to have? Let's have Chris Harris find out.
Read MoreLet's say you're a stunt plane pilot and your friend tells you he's afraid of flying. What do you do? Obviously, you scare the living shit out of that friend.
Read MoreLast year, Jim Glickenhaus had a charity auction for a trip to the Nurburgring 24 to see the P4/5 Competizione in action. I immediately decided to win that auction at all costs. I did, and this is the adventure I went on. It was more amazing than it looks.
Read MoreThere's a Ford Explorer Saleen XP8 for sale. Let that digest a little. A Saleen Explorer. That's a weird tuner project, but it's far from the only one.
Read MoreBurnouts are supposedly so simple. But so many people get them wrong. Who got it the wrongest?
Read MoreThe BMW i3 electric city car uses some fascinating new technology, but early reviews have said its sporting credentials aren't quite up to snuff. BMW says that won't be the case with their upcoming BMW i8 sports car. Here's the glorious powertrain along with some new specs.
Read MoreIt's almost safe to say that barring any legal challenges or any other sudden opposition, Mike Duggan, a former county prosecutor and hospital-system CEO, is going to be Detroit's next mayor come January, a feat we all saw coming.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Wired:Autopia, The New York Times, and AutoWeek.
Read MoreDetails remain fairly scarce about the new Acura NSX supposedly headed to production next year, but we now know one thing from its recent showing at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course: it should be faster than a Honda Accord.
Read MoreIf I wore a hat, it would be off to Dr. G. Mustafa Mohatarem, the chief economist for General Motors, who is one of the first people in the auto industry to use common sense when talking about why kids aren't buying cars.
Read MoreJapan just unleashed one of its largest warships ever. Dubbed Izumo, it's a flat top destroyer that Japan says isn't an aircraft carrier. But look at it. One of its main duties is to "carry aircraft." You sly devils you, Japan.
Read MoreThere's probably only one place in the world where a valet could end up parking ten Bugatti Veyrons in a single night. Monaco, of course.
Read MoreBy all accounts, the Tesla Model S is a fantastic engineering accomplishment and also great to drive. And now Tesla is looking to expand to cooler, snowier climates with the addition of a Model S with all-wheel drive. Watch out, basically everybody.
Read MoreThe saying "just like riding a bike" has been around for ages. It refers to doing something that's easy to understand. But there's irony in that: Physicists have no clue how bicycles work, making them some of the most complicated things in the world.
Read MoreWhen you buy a new car, you generally know what you're going to get. When you tune that car, things can be a bit more of a mixed bag.
Read MoreThe Texas Department of Public Safety, already well-known for law enforcement slam dunks like shooting cars from helicopters and never finding the person who burned down Rick Perry's house, now faces criticism and lawsuits over traffic stops from women who say state troopers illegally probed their nether regions.
Read MoreMercedes has been developing a new car to fight the Porsche 911. We know this. But is this what it will look like?
Read MoreAnother day, another "Why Aren't The Millennials Buying Cars?" trend piece. Sigh. This one comes from Bloomberg, who report that aging baby boomers are buying more cars than their kids. At the risk of giving ourselves a headache, let's take a look.
Read MoreAfter I move the status of this rambling from "Draft" to "Now" and hit "Publish," I'm going to walk up to my polling place (St. Paul AME Zion Church on Dexter Boulevard), stand in line with everybody else in my neighborhood and vote in the Detroit primary.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Speedhunters, BBC News, and Flipboard.
Read MoreThe Nissan GT-R is obscenely fast even when it's stock, but there are ton of people out there willing to pay big bucks to make it even faster. Unfortunately, one New Jersey GT-R owner recently paid $18,100 and says he got a ruined engine full of broken, damaged parts held together by twine and zipties.
Read MoreThe future does not look bright for the two-seat Mini Coupe, which looks like a Mini Cooper wearing a backwards baseball cap for some reason, or its hatless brother the Mini Roadster. Will anyone miss them? I'm thinking they won't.
Read MoreDespite rosy reports today on the partnership between German transmission company ZF and Chrysler, the unspecified "powertrain" issue impacting the 2014 Jeep Cherokee and delaying its launch is, predominately, an issue of getting the 9-Speed automatic transmission to actually use all nine gears properly according to sources.
Read MoreThe Toyota Prius and Tesla Model S are similar in theory: They're alternative energy cars meant to help the environment. But their fans are totally different people. Prius fans love Tyler Perry, Tesla fans can't get enough of that sweet sticky icky.
Read MoreHey kid. Yeah, you. Want to make a cool half-mill? Well, there's a car covered in dust and chiaroscuro dongs sitting out in the open on a college campus. A very valuable car; a GM EV1. One of the ones that was supposed to have been destroyed. All you have to do is go to Rolla, Missouri and grab it up.
Read MoreLast night we got all excited about the Subaru BRZ STi. Like really excited. But what if we prematurely shot our wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, and now we have something of a mess on our hands? What if this isn't the STi we're looking for?
Read MoreWhile at Ford's GRC press event, I had the chance to talk to Tanner Foust, and, like any time I get to talk to anyone important, I asked a bunch of inane questions. Fortunately, Tanner had some really good answers for me.
Read MoreWarning: This is one of those stories that will be disgusting, but also kinda fascinating. Tune in at your own risk. Municipal officials in London say they have removed the largest lump of fat ever recorded in Britain from a sewer under the city. It is the size of a bus. A bus!
Read MoreCar chases are usually among the most true-to-life segments of Hollywood cinema. Wait, no, that's not right. They're explosion-filled fantasies that could never happen.
Read MoreIf there's one word I could use to describe nomex suits, it'd be "awkward." You're wearing a fireproof quilt, for Pete's sake. You ain't gonna look like Fabio. So, if you're looking to grab attention in such an item, you must make silly poses in it.
Read MoreIt's finally been confirmed, at least in a semi-official way: the Subaru BRZ STi.
Read MoreLegendary Sprint Car driver Kramer Williamson died this evening after injuries sustained last night in a crash during a qualifying race at Lincoln Speedway in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania.
Read MoreYazeed Al-Rajhi is the Saudi chairman of a real estate investing company, because Saudi Arabia, and a racing driver in the WRC-2 rally championship. He had a bit of an off at the Rally Finland this weekend, but his crash is even weirder than the one Robert Kubica had.
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 MoreWhite used to be the color of appliances. Of refrigerators, of microwaves, of things you used that have a utilitarian purpose, and nothing more. Now though, things are different. White is the color of supercars and hypercars, of showing off and looking oh-so-good.
Read MoreIt's just been a terrible time for old taxis. Icons like the London taxi are struggling to stay alive, while others like the Ford Crown Victoria and Lincoln Town Car were unable to stave off death. You can add the Premier Padmini to the soon-to-disappear list, now.
Read MoreI'm speaking from personal experience only, but the New York City Subway can be a pretty terrible place to be. It's smelly, noisy, and the stations are often damp and boiling in the summer. It doesn't have to be that way though. It can be better. It can change. And the fixes aren't difficult.
Read MoreAudi is still on a roll however you look at it. In the US alone, they're bragging about their 31st consecutive month of record sales. Globally, they're well on track to beat their goal of selling 2 million cars a year by 2020. But there's one big hurdle Audi hasn't conquered yet: The Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
Read MoreWe've already seen pictures of the Banks Pikes Peak Freightliner, but to see it in action is a patriotic thing of pure joy.
Read MoreThe Mazda RX-4 was never really known as a sports car, especially here in the United States. It was a weird little Japanese coupe with a weird little Japanese engine, and that was that. A weird car for weird people. That is completely not the case with this 813 WHP six-rotor beast.
Read MoreRobert Kubica is probably the single driver with the most incredible comebacks to his name by sheer numbers, so he's not going to let a little bitty crash like this one in the Rally Finland slow him down. Not even if he needs to take out half the goddamn forest.
Read MoreA possible hit-and-run at the world famous Venice Beach Boardwalk in California has injured at least 12 people, including two of them critically, according to the AP. Multiple witnesses reported that the driver appeared to be in control of the vehicle at the time.
Read MoreWelcome to Jalopnik Obscura, where we highlight the whacky, wonderful, and downright weird automotive videos from around the web. Watch and prepare to bathe in the madness.
Read MoreIn case you haven't yet heard of Atlanta-based rap group Migos, you will soon, after the booming success of the new remix of their song Versace with former Degrassi star Drake. And, in a typical move from Southern rappers like Rick Ross, they're introducing themselves by way of their taste in cars.
Read MoreEverybody poops. It's a fact of life. A Qantas flight from Santiago, Chile, to Sydney, Australia learned that the hard way this week when everybody pooped, for 13 hours, in a near-constant stream of bodily discharge when 26 of the passengers came down with a stomach bug.
Read MoreNobody really ever expects an advertisement to tell them the whole truth, whether it's for laundry detergent or criminal defense attorneys. When it comes to 1980s car ads though, a new dynamic comes in to play.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Motherboard, BBC News, and Automobile.
Read MoreHave you seen the British police procedural 'Luther' on the BBC? Idris Elba, who stars, is great. Ruth Wilson, who tags along as the charmingly sociopathic Alice Morgan, is a delight. It has some of the best production value of any BBC show. Yet, if I'm being totally honest, it's not that great.
Read MoreThis hack right here has to be the greatest level of difference between the sophistication of the physical racing sim setup to the actual sophistication of the game its designed to work with. It's a full sit-down racing cockpit for Activision's 1983 4K racing masterpiece, Enduro.
Read MoreCar Wars is where we pit some of today's hottest cars against each other and then, in a commenting fight to the death, decide which one we'd buy. Today we have two eco BMWs for about the same price.
Read MoreWhile I was at California Auto Club Speedway for Ford's Fiesta ST WRC presentation (more on that soon) I saw a familiar yet unexpected shape trundle onto the hot tarmac: a VW Type III Fastback. Of course, I was drawn like a VW-loving moth to a VW-shaped flame.
Read MoreCar designers usually have their hands tied by engineers and the bean counting department. If they don't, beautiful things can happen.
Read MoreIn the most stunning development in Franco-German relations since Hitler's forces crossed the Maginot Line, the French government has moved to halt sales of some new Mercedes-Benz models in their country. Zut alors!
Read MoreIn the Wild West days of early automotive history, you had to be crazy to innovate in car design. Of course history remembers many of these groundbreaking weirdos.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-AMG Formula One team released a video showing a simulation of their 2014 car — powered by the turbocharged V6 — at full throttle. I'm afraid it's bad news.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Speedhunters, The Truth About Cars, and Hemmings.
Read MoreA 104-degree track, a booze-cooled audience, screaming V8s with Mercedes-AMG at its best and the GP2 paddock, where everybody wants to upgrade their ride. Here's what it's like backstage at the Hungaroring.
Read MoreDo you regularly wake up in the morning and turn to the significant other, dog, or random stranger in bed next to you and say, "Today will be the day I own the first production Pontiac Aztek!"? If so, then today is the day you've been waiting for.
Read MorePoor Detroit. In addition to facing bankruptcy, the possible sale of the art in their museums, and the ire of pundits all over the world, they also dealt with a giant cloud of petroleum coke this week.
Read MoreWho has the best job in the world? If you guessed Ken Block, a man who travels the world racing and drifting around things, you'd be correct. Ken is getting ready for the X Games right now, but is around to answer your questions for the next hour. Have at it!
Read MoreThere's a rumor floating around various automotive websites that Porsche will unveil a surprise eco-friendly 911 at the Frankfurt Auto Show called the 911 Blu Edition. Porsche hasn't commented on it yet, but it has to be bullshit. Right?
Read MoreThe 2015 Ford Mustang promises to be a huge departure from the car we've seen over the last decade. Ford is trying really hard to keep it under wraps. But here are a few in Arizona, along with a diesel van, new pickups, and a mystery crossover.
Read MoreWhen we last saw Spanish racing driver Mark Gené, he absconded with a random fellow he met on the streets of Madrid and took him out for some hoonage in the Alfa Romeo 4C. Here's what we didn't see.
Read MoreI've seen a lot of engine fires in my day, and I've seen plenty of burnout-related engine fires. I've just never seen a burnout-spawned rotary engine explosion before.
Read MoreIt's getting real out here in these Southwest Detroit streets as not one, but several "no-hipster" tags are popping up all over that part of town.
Read MoreJason Joel, the co-owner of Mall of Georgia Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Buford, Georgia, is getting really sick of people stealing cars off his lot. After the latest one was taken on Monday, he's offering a reward for its safe return, and even more if the info leads to a conviction.
Read MorePolice in Valencia, Spain arrested eight people and seized 19 fake Ferraris and Aston Martins this week when they busted a gang that was producing imitation exotics. I think the Toyota engines were what gave them away.
Read MoreWhen you were a kid, did people ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Tercel - yeah, that’s a Tercel - knows what it wants to be, but does its price match its lofty aspirations?
Read MoreYou wouldn’t order dinner at a five star restaurant and then not eat it would you? That’s an allegory of what the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MX5 did, and now you need to decide if its price makes it worth waiting for.
Read MoreWhat was once old is new again, and in the case of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep, its been brought back supposedly better than ever. Still, will its price prevent this Cherokee from being part of a new owner’s future?
Read MoreBack in the ‘80s Chrysler didn’t just pop out K-car derivatives, they minted a buttload of L-body Omni/Horizons too. Even with all of those, they never built one like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Charger, but will its price make it one of a kind?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda is named for the Sun. This one’s supposed to be pretty hot too, owing to its B18b swap, but you have to determine if that makes its price a bright idea.
Read MoreTesla may have made electric cars cool, but they still cost a lot of cold hard cash. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe CRX will let you rock down to electric avenue for a ton less, but is its price low enough to prevent a chilly reception when you get there?
Read MoreI’m going to start right out here and say that today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Comanche is not for you. Not in a million years. But, that doesn’t mean you still can’t pass judgement on its asking price.
Read MoreOriginally called the Neue Klasse, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW brings even more neue with its rev-happy Honda mill. Will its price however make you want to tell it to blow it out its klasse?
Read MoreWith its two-doors and removable cap today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 4Runner brings the old school SUV style. You’ll still need to decide if this low mileage four by four’s price will send it to the head of the class.
Read MoreCorrado isn’t a Spanish word, but it does sound like cerrado, which in Spanish means closed. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Corrado is in Spanish speaking Mexico, but will its price cerrado the deal?
Read MoreGeorge Barris has been anointed - by none other than George Barris - the “King of Kustomizers.” Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Titan is one of his rare road-going cars, and may have once been owned by Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr. You’ll have to decide if it’s rat packing too heavy a price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep is named for the proud people of the southeastern US - whose land many consider to have been stolen from them. It’ll be up to you to determine if this supercharged Cherokee’s price is also a steal.
Read MoreIn Shelley’s Frankenstein the eponymous doctor brings his monster back to life with unfortunate results. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Trans Am is a car also brought back from the dead, but will its price make you want to get out the torches and pitchforks?
Read MoreBMW and Toyota are usually on polar opposites of the excitement scale. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate however is so wild a mix of those two makes that its hood can’t even contain it. Will your excitement over its price be equally unbridled?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW is nicknamed the Thunderbug. That’s due to its turbo T-bird motor, and not because of any sort of bowel reaction it induces. At two grand do you think it will sell as fast as lightning?
Read MoreIf you’re a fan of the Cleveland Browns, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cadillac won’t just show your team spirit, it’ll carry off the corpse of your hopes as well. That’s only of course if its price doesn't send it into sudden death overtime.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 323 GTX stems from a model line that once was boasted as being a Great Little Car. It’s up to you to determine if this potentially rabid rally car - and its price - lives up to the hype.
Read MoreIn the 1880s Oklahoma’s Cimarron Territory was the scene of a flood of squatters, each seeking to claim land prior to local enactment of the Homestead Act. In contrast, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cadillac Cimarron is a car that typically few want to claim, but perhaps this one’s price will make it squat-worthy.
Read MoreFencers typically begin a match with the warning en garde. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche 944 is in Guards Red, and will foil pretty much any Épée. It’s up to you to determine whether or not its price will have you sitting on the fence.
Read MorePorsche named their first-ever SUV after a hot-ass pepper, but that model's reception from the brand purists was lukewarm at best. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom turbo edition might just spice things up, but will its price leave you cucumber cold?
Read MorePorsche’s 928 is best known not for what up top, but for its Sir Mix-A-Lot worthy rump. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe edition has “dat ass” but as an added bonus, it goes topless. You have to determine if its price is also in top form.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Alfa is a Furgone F12. It’s rare but also pretty rusty, so it’ll be up to you to say if it’s too damn far gone for its price.
Read MoreAtlanta. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, based in Stuttgart, has developed a new tire for the Carrera GT in partnership with tire manufacturer Michelin. The new tire once again noticeably enhances the handling of the 1,270 versions of the super sports car built between 2003 and 2006.
Read MoreI've recently met parents who feel paralyzed about making decisions for their child. Which school should they go to? Should they eat all-natural, or only organic? And is Dora the Explorer evil? But the biggest decision of all you can make for them is the name they are bestowed with.
Read MoreIgnore these ten things on your car, and you endanger your car, yourself, and others. Jalopnik readers point out the key items you need to check on your car.
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 where you can 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 where you can 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 where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the question on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers?” Actually, there are more than you think.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreRed Bull holds the record for the fastest F1 pit stop at a barely-believable 2.05 seconds. Here's what that kind of stop looks like in real time, and below is what that looks like in gloriously detailed slow-mo.
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 where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreYou might not realize it, but BMW basically has two tuning companies. M gmbh makes the hardcore performance cars you love while Alpina fine tunes BMWs for understated performance on the road. But is the new Alpina B3 also an M3 killer? Let's have Chris Harris find out.
Read MoreWhile the McLaren P1 isn't even technically in production yet, it's already a marvel of engineering. It's also a marvel of speed, noise, beauty, and sheer awesomeness. And this is what it looks and sounds like from the inside, with Formula One racer Jenson Button at the wheel.
Read MoreLast week's test of an Orion space capsule splashdown recovery got me thinking. Surely not every time someone comes down from space it's not going to go according to plan, right? It turns out, it definitely hasn't.
Read MoreHumanity's next trip to the Moon is going to look a lot like it always has, with a bunch of people in a capsule rather than a Space Shuttle, and with a watery splashdown at sea rather than a smooth landing on a runway. NASA got back into the groove this week by sucking its Orion capsule into the bowels of a ship.
Read MoreA New Zealand man says that he saw a UFO last night that had landed on a road and then flew into space. He says three other people in cars saw it too. They haven't come forward yet. Hmmm, wonder why that is?
Read MoreOkay, I added in the "jive" part. Because that's really all anyone wants out of a talking space robot, right? The robot, Kirobo, actually speaks Japanese, and was developed by Toyota as part of their research into human-machine interactions. Oh, and because it's Japanese, the robot is adorable.
Read MoreNissan just announced that by 2020, they'll be ready to sell you an autonomous, self-driving car. And I believe them, since I've just ridden in one of these robo-cars. You want to know what it's like to ride in an autonomous car? Boring. And that's exactly what they want it to be.
Read MoreIRVINE, Calif. – Nissan's engineers have been inspired by the animal kingdom as they develop new technologies that will shape the future of mobility. One of Nissan's longer term R&D goals is to achieve virtually zero fatalities and serious injuries among occupants of its vehicles. Toru Futami, engineering director of advanced technology and research, said that studying the behavior of animals moving in groups helps engineers understand how vehicles can interact with each other for a safer and mo
Read MoreAccording to this article in the Daily Mail, urban alterna-taxi service and annoying fashion-shoot-looking-website Uber will be purchasing 2500 of Google's new self-driving cars, the GX3200. This data comes by way of a TechCrunch story about the first-of-its-kind fleet. Too bad it didn't actually happen.
Read MoreThough the Porsche 911 kinda, sorta, maybe looks like its original progenitor (okay it looks exactly the same), it doesn't function exactly the same. Part of the reason why Porsche 911s are no longer free-wheeling death machines is because of their aerodynamics, and the way they all move about these days.
Read MoreWhen you trying to take care of you, you might use an app like Runkeeper, which can track your own exercise and consumption levels. What if you wanted that on your car, though?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThe Golf R seems to be hit or miss. The first R32 was loved by basically everyone while the second car was panned by basically everyone. And the last Golf R was, well, it was kind of forgettable. But now there's a new one, and if it's as good as the new GTI supposedly is, it'll be amazing.
Read MoreThis is also not how you want to find out that your car didn't have proper safety glass that breaks into nice chunks.
Read More"Oh shit, you broke a tie-rod." The man sitting next to me is Formula Drift professional Ryan Tuerck, and he's staring at the right front wheel of my 1973 Volkswagen Baja Bug. We just flew sideways off the road, through a field, and over some huge rock. "Oh, no wait, you're good. You can keep going."
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