If there ever was one problem with the original Audi RS6 Avant, it was clearly the engine. The twin-turbo V8 only put out a middling 553 horses. That's it. Barely enough to crack 200 MPH. Just awful, really, for a station wagon. That's why the crazed tuners at ABT sought fit to give it an additional 177, for an even 730.
Read MoreWith just shy of 300 horsepower and all-wheel drive, the 2015 Audi S3 and 2014 Volkswagen Golf R are two new performance cars we're quite excited about. But now we have reason to believe these cars might be the latest in a long line of VWs and Audis that get a bit neutered when they come to the U.S.
Read MoreWhile you might have to be a big air freestyle skiing champion to run around in a badass RS6 Wagon, Audi Sweden is giving fifty people the opportunity to get the same look and all-wheel drive with an A4 Avant 2.0 TDI.
Read MoreIn 1994, Audi and its corporate cousin Porsche teamed up to make one of the fastest, nastiest, Audi-est wagons ever: the RS2 Avant. The first ever RS car, it quickly became a legend for being quick as a 911 and capable of hauling all your gear. And now it's back! Sort of.
Read MoreThe Lamborghini Huracan has a hybrid carbon-aluminum chassis, a clever all-wheel drive system that can send all the power to the rear tires, 3 gyroscopes, a dual clutch gearbox and a top speed of 201 mph. A light two-wheel drive version is almost certainly coming, too, but the manual is dead for good.
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS: The McLaren 650S is fast. Like, really fast. Fast enough that it will hit 124 mph faster than your crappy first car probably hit 60 mph. Full performance specs on Macca's new Ferrari-fighter were released this morning and they do not disappoint.
Read MoreNow you've gone and done it, Volvo. Your sequel to the Volvo Concept Coupe and Volvo Concept XC Coupe is so stunning that I will be unable to think about anything else at work today. Set to debut in Geneva next week, this is the Volvo Concept Estate. And it is lovely.
Read MoreEven after watching a half-hour review of the McLaren P1, I still wanted to watch more. So why not watch until I become one with the infinite?
Read MoreI have to hand it to the folks at Benz. Perhaps anticipating that some would dismiss their new front-wheel drive, entry-level 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 sedan as being "not a real Mercedes," they decided to send it off to the automotive equivalent of Ranger School that is tuning by AMG right when it launched.
Read MoreWhat you give up when you buy the kind of crossover or minivan you think you need because you have a kid is a pretty intangible thing. Whatever you end up buying will get you and your kid where you need to go no problem, but it's clear you gave up something. Whatever that something is, the AMG C63 Edition 507 is absolutely drowning in it.
Read MoreTwo doors, 47 Swarovski crystals, a sexy butt and 455 horsepower from a 4.7-liter biturbo V8. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe is here to solve a few problems of the über-rich — with crystals.
Read MoreDo you ever look at your car and think "I wish you were more 'visible', like if you were in a movie or something?" Well, good news! This lovely little 1987 Alfa Romeo Spider Quadrifoglio now for sale on eBay has the solution to your problem. It's recent appearance in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street has made this car a bona fide star.
Read MoreChicago in February seems as good a time as any for the reveal of the 2015 Kia Soul EV, the company's first electric car in the U.S. And the transition to EV suits the Soul well, since its appearance just gets funkier.
Read MoreMaserati's sales are booming, relatively speaking, right now. That's because of all-wheel drive and a less expensive four-door sedan, the 2014 Maserati Ghibli. Watch them really boom now that everyone knows what a Ghibli is because of a certain TV ad.
Read MoreYes, these are actors at the world premier of the new Mercedes V-Class showing how happy a family can be just by owning a Mercedes-Benz V220 with all its accessories. It's a bit ridiculous, but Mercedes has a point. Other premium brands don't have an MPV at the moment.
Read MoreChristian von Koenigsegg is standing next to a 2009 CCXR Edition outside of his factory. We're about to head to his company's runway test track for some photos. He looks at me. "Do you want to drive?" I said yes before he finished saying "do."
Read MoreSome people believe Porsche should offer one car and you get to choose the color. Porsche, well, they don't think that way. And even though the Panamera isn't much of a looker, it's a hell of a driver.
Read MoreHuzzah! It's time again for normal person car-buying Bible Consumer Reports to put out their annual list of best and worst picks for the new year. Tesla Motors is looking good! Ford is not!
Read MoreEvery onlooker gawks with obvious jealousy at the curvy rolling statue Aston Martin created and then, for some reason, loaned to me for a weekend. Jealous of what, exactly? I'm frankly terrified of having to dodge a million ankle-deep potholes and trying not to scratch the carbon fiber bumper against a cab. The Aston Martin Vanquish is art, sure, but no sane person would wear a Picasso sketch as a necklace and then decide to judge a water gun fight.
Read More"It's the sports car in its segment." That's the phrase used to describe the 2015 Porsche Macan by Porsche management. But what, exactly, does that mean? And is this the sportiest crossover you can get?
Read MoreThe big wing. It's the first thing you notice. It's like Subaru mounted a billboard on the back of the 2015 Subaru WRX STI that simultaneously creates downforce and repels women of all ages. No fat chicks, fat downforce. This is not a car that will get you laid, not that it really matters.
Read MoreOh, really, smart guy—you’ve got a horse outside? Let me tell you about that horse. One horsepower. Questionable handling. Beast.
Read MoreThe new Suzuki SX4 S-Cross is a much larger crossover than the versatile but quite underrated original SX4. Since it's built in Hungary, it was my duty to test it for you even if Suzuki has left America, but I ended up with more questions than answers.
Read MoreThe Volvo XC60 and V60 are capable vehicles in both their segments, but having driven both of them back to back and comparing their specs, I can't imagine why one would spend more on the crossover than the wagon. Here lies, in my opinion, a strong business case to consider wagons over crossovers.
Read MoreYou're always told to not judge someone by how they look. They might look anonymous, but they might also be caring, hilarious, or just plain fun when you talk to them. The 2015 Subaru WRX is Droopy Dog from the outside, but Usain Bolt and Jerry Seinfeld under the skin. This is a car you have to know.
Read MoreComedian Bill Hicks once said, "Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski, and you never see an unhappy person riding a jet ski." Mr. Hicks, and most of those who have copied his quote since, never saw someone ride Kawasaki's new 310-horsepower jet ski, the Ultra 310. The rider of this brutish machine may be having fun, but that person, particularly if he or she is a rookie personal water craft pilot, will also be terrified.
Read MoreVolvo's relaunching a wagon in the U.S. just when we're beginning to have heated debates about wagons vs. crossovers. Having driven the Volvo V60 wagon just now, I wouldn't count the wagon out just yet.
Read MoreThe car I got from my dad at the age of 18 was a 1983 Fiat 131 Supermirafiori. It had four doors, a DOHC engine with roughly 95 horsepower, a five-speed manual and rear-wheel drive. And rust. Still, what better way to start driving? Here's ten.
Read MoreEveryone from Kia to Nissan to Alfa Romeo to Fiat to BAIC to Nissan to Mahindra to Suzuki to Ssangyong to Toyota to Troller to UMM to UAZ has built their own version of the great American conqueror offroader. These are the ten weirdest, coolest 'jeeps' that aren't, well, Jeeps.
Read MoreI keep to myself in cabs. But one thing that gets my attention is a driver with a neck tattoo telling me that he just got out of jail after 10 years and that the cop behind is making him nervous. And especially when he starts a police chase while yelling “I can’t go back.” I thought this was the end.
Read MoreThis is Mike 'Mikespeed' Peters in his years with Bubba Drift. This is his ElCo Formula Drift car. It is, in a word, glorious.
Read MoreAnd you thought covering your buddy's car in post-it notes was good.
Read MoreNissan announced an upcoming face-and-asslift for the Juke, and I'm not going to lie, I'm nervous. Unusual looking cars tend to be endangered species; when a car that manages to be unique gets a little bit of controversy or blowback, the first facelift usually spells doom for what made the car cool. I hope Nissan has some nads.
Read MoreIt's funny, but for human pornography, I don't usually seek out copies of Grey's Anatomy. And yet when it comes to cars, some of my most lurid car-porn reactions come from seeing a really good cut-away. Like that Citroën SM up there. Look at that thing. Unnngh.
Read MoreLike many of you on here, I'm thrilled the 2015 Ford Focus is getting a three-cylinder Ecoboost engine in the U.S. It was brave of them to bring it in the Fiesta, but the Focus is a different league and much more mainstream. Now, who's going to actually buy a three-cylinder Focus?
Read MoreToday we lost Harold Ramis, one of the most successful comedy writers and directors of our time who gave us classics like "Caddyshack," "Groundhog Day" and "Stripes." He's also responsible for introducing three of the most popular movie cars into the pop culture universe.
Read MoreThis COTD took a little longer to write because I got this picture of a bunch of Audis and then tried to identify all of them. It's all because of Doug DeMuro. He's right: it's impossible to tell Audis apart these days. Many manufacturers are bad at this, but Audi's range of sedans constantly stumps me.
Read MoreThere are numerous ways of cleaning your car, but when it comes to weirdenss these ten take the crown.
Read MoreWhat do you think people in the early 1980s imagined when they pictured the Car of the Future? Did they fly, making highways obsolete? Did they look like spaceships? Maybe to some, but the government of Germany had their eyes on a far more realistic and ultimately correct goal: fuel economy.
Read MoreThis past weekend, Chevrolet was kind enough to lend us a 2014 Corvette Stingray convertible. Because it was a day that ended in "y" it snowed. Naturally as you might have assumed, your E-I-C and I took it out in the snow with the roof down. For journalistic inquiry, of course.
Read MoreApparently there's concern over Lamborghini being a poster for unsavory behavior. Perhaps the former Harry Potter villain Tom Felton driving an Aventador isn't helping matters. But seriously, are you ever going to take a Lamborghini driver seriously?
Read MoreWe knew Lotus, despite their many troubles, was making a motorcycle, or at least getting someone else to make it while they stuck their name on it. Now we know what it looks like, and it can best be summed up in one word: damn.
Read MoreTorque and rear-wheel drive. It has been the recipe for a century or so, and these ten cars remind us that it should stay that way.
Read MoreA return to the U.S. market is probably the last thing on the minds of Peugeot-Citroen and Renault. There have been no new French cars for sale here in almost 25 years. The companies are still on shaky financial ground. But the cars being pressed with saving them look good, and good enough for Americans.
Read MoreCar designers tend to use a limited number of shapes, but these twenty models bear more than just a resemblance to each other.
Read MoreBack in 2006, I was a weird kid. That's why the special Volvo Ocean Race Editions of their cars somehow interested me. Hey, it was an XC70 with a ridiculous navy blue interior bits, which was odd at the time. But the Volvo V60 comes with a map of the world print, so the weirdness continues.
Read MoreA man walking back to his car, calmly and resolutely facing a giant crab before him, sowing destructing and brandishing a Pontiac Fiero in its terrifying claw.
Read MoreThe Honda Insight was one of the most awaited cars of 2009. It disappointed pretty much everyone and was quickly forgotten about. The Honda CR-Z was one of the most anticipated cars of 2010. It disappointed pretty much everyone and has quietly sat in the lineup ever since. One of these cars is worth another try.
Read MoreJann Mardenborough has just been plucked by Red Bull — the biggest F1 team — to race for Arden International in GP3, which is the most direct line to racing in Formula One. Why's that news? Because this guy learned how to race by playing Gran Turismo.
Read MoreWider is better. Pontiac knew this in the 1990s, and Porsche has known this always. Which is why the Porsche 911 (especially in extra-wide 4 and Turbo forms) has always looked so good from behind.
Read MoreToday, my friend, your diary entry will read: Went on British eBay and then dropped a bunch of money on an Audi Quattro owned by an armed bastard.
Read MoreAs you either already know or are learning just now with a mix of panic and guilt, today is Valentine's Day. Cars and love, are, of course, very intwined, with cars serving as objects of ardor, locations for love-production, and, of course, objects of lust. But as far as I can tell, there's only been one car shaped like a heart.
Read MoreMinivans and large wagons might be asking for it, but these ten cars scream 'get a room' from miles away.
Read MoreOh hey, look. Another day, another news report about a new Mazda RX-7 that's in the works, for real, and is really gonna hit the streets and be sold to actual humans in just a few years. Really. Seriously!
Read MoreIf there's one thing people like to do in cars, other than driving or text and eating, it's got to be vigorously humping. Even if it kills them. And with Valentine's Day approaching, there's going to be a lot of car-humping happening. We've given you a full guide, but now we want to know what the worst car for this is?
Read MoreKnowing about cars is one thing, seeing them in the flesh is another. If you want to get as close to rare and extremely significant cars as possible, these ten places are the best.
Read MoreIf you had a Ferrari Testarossa back in 1989 but wanted the performance and the looks of Enzo's last child, the F40, all you needed to do is ring up Lotec. Those crazy Bavarians could help.
Read MoreA sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum early this morning. A security camera caught the first two losses on video.
Read MoreI'm in a particularly bad mood at the moment, and that makes it a great time to discuss the one thing wrong with the McLaren P1. It has nothing to do with the batteries, or the curvy styling, or whatever else people could complain about. It's the fake side window. UPDATE: See the designer's response below.
Read MoreEver been to an auto show, sat behind the wheel of a car and noticed that shift knobs or radio controls were missing? Sometimes automakers take them out because people steal them. Not all thieves are bold enough to post their exploits online, though.
Read MoreThe BMW M235i. It's fast, it looks aggressive, and it's got M badges all over it. From there you might deduce that it's a proper M car like an M3 or an M5. But it isn't! Here's why, and what that means for the rest of the M brand.
Read MoreGeniuses like Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel came up with the bases of internal combustion and industrialists like Soichiro Honda built whole companies on brilliant engine designs. Still, it's these ten engineers who got the closest to engine perfection.
Read MoreThe Pontiac Firebird was the mysteriously unloved little brother to the Chevrolet Camaro. It’s not that the people who did manage to buy one didn’t like it, it’s that so few people managed to buy one compared to its corporate stablemate. But that didn’t stop Pontiac from advertising it at the Super Bowl.
Read MoreThe sheer volume of things that are measured in terms of the classic VW Beetle is staggering. From whale hearts to heavy artillery, one object is used more often than any other to give a perspective of size and weight. The Beetle's role as a standard unit of measurement is an unsung achievement. Let's take care of that.
Read MoreKeith Moon of The Who was a brilliant drummer but also a man who liked to throw sticks of dynamite into the toilets in hotels or changing rooms. He also managed to total his 1972 Ferrari 246 Dino in less than a month, but this picture was worth it.
Read MoreSnow and ice are the most fun conditions to go nuts in a car. If kids flying around with BMXs can participate in the summer Olympics, these ten car sports should be staples of the winter games.
Read MoreWho remembers the Jack Nicklaus Signature Series Lincoln Town Car? Or maybe the Oleg Cassini AMC Matador? They're both members of the elite club of Signature Series cars — cars tailor-made to the exacting ideals of certain exceptional individuals. And I have some ideas.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Automobile, The New York Times, and The Truth About Cars.
Read MoreMan, people sure do love talking about the new Subaru WRX. And that makes sense, because it's "an Internet car," a car that seems to fit right in with the wants and desires of People Who Comment On The Internet.
Read MoreAll the big, important cars get commercials, but what about the little cars? What about the obscure, forgotten autos? They got commercials, too, you just never saw them.
Read MoreThe McLaren MP4/8B was powered by a Lamborghini V12 and driven by Ayrton Senna in September, 1993 at Estoril after the Portuguese Grand Prix. It was faster, and he wanted to race it in Japan. That never happened.
Read MoreKnowing the usual most expensive, most powerful, most high-speed specifications doesn't make you a car nerd. Knowing these ten superlatives does.
Read MoreCars & Coffee meetups have become a sacred ritual of weekend mornings across the USA, where people come to gather and bask in the mutual glow of the love of the automobile. But drivers like the one at the wheel of this Mustang at the Cars & Coffee meet in Charlotte, North Carolina, are just setting us back.
Read MoreA terrifying wall of snow, wind, and ice tentatively being called a "snowboob" caused 96 cars to crash into each other on Highway 400 near Toronto, yet miraculously only three people were injured. Some of the cars were "nearly torn in half," according to CP24, which makes that figure all the more impressive.
Read MoreA HANS device basically tethers your head to your shoulders so you don't snap your neck in an impact. Watch the difference in this rally crash between the co-driver wearing a HANS device and his driver who isn't.
Read MoreDeeply depressing news out of Berlin this morning: a Ferrari 458 Speciale, that gorgeous and lustworthy red, white and blue speed machine, was demolished in a crash that apparently involved a Smart Fortwo, of all things.
Read More"I bought a dash cam last year in hopes of capturing something cool. Little did I know that my first "catch" would be my car's demise."
Read MoreAs roads are getting safer and safer in rich countries and cities, roads are only getting more and more deadly in the developing world. How deadly? By 2030, they'll likely kill more people per year than HIV/AIDs.
Read MoreA 63 year-old retiree driving a new Tesla Model S last November crossed a double yellow line, drove up a hill, drove down a hill, and finally crashed into bicyclist Joshua Alper, killing him as a result. Now, driver Navindra Kumar Jain is blaming the heady vapors of his car for the accident.
Read MoreYeah, bitch! The star of Breaking Bad and the upcoming Need For Speed movie Aaron Paul will be Top Gear's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on this Sunday's episode, and he's in HOT PURSUIT of the top of the leaderboard.
Read MoreSaddening exactly no one in America, lumpy, grumpy British guy Piers Morgan will soon be losing his primetime CNN show over awful ratings. While he won't be missed by many in this country, few people were happier about this news than Top Gear host and perpetual Morgan enemy Jeremy Clarkson.
Read MoreWhether or not you believe the Daytona 500 is ongoing or just caught up in some rain, you've got some time you gotta kill. So why not kill it with some Top Gear?
Read MoreZenvo is extremely pissed about Top Gear complaining about how their Zenvo ST1 supercar broke down a bunch, caught fire, and then set a lap time slower than a BMW M5. Looks like someone's about to pull a Tesla.
Read MoreEverybody who's anybody has watched the newest episode of Top Gear 16 times in full already, even if that's not physically possible. But it doesn't matter, because it was much better than last week's episode, and that's what we in the business call "great news."
Read MoreTop Gear's back! Top Gear's back! And for all you people that hate football and/or don't ever feel like leaving your house to drink beer with people you only barely have an association with, the first episode of Season/Series 21 is here. Oh goody.
Read MoreThe Super Bowl is today. Who gives a shit? The real thing we're excited for is the return of Top Gear. Here's what to expect from the new season of everyone's favorite motoring show.
Read MoreThere is no race car driver that engenders as much debate as Danica Patrick. She's controversial when she crashes, she's controversial when she finishes. She's talked about on track and off. But is she good or does she suck?
Read MoreTrapster, the popular smartphone app that lets people identify speed traps and road hazards as they drive around, boasts more than 20 million users. How many of them would keep using Trapster if they knew how easy it is for other users to track their movements?
Read MoreIt was a slow death, but the Honda Insight has been discontinued. For the second time in a decade. That's gotta hurt the little hybrid.
Read MoreIt's logical that an automaker's dealers would be thrilled to sell their biggest and/or most prestigious models. That's not happening lately. News the Kia K900 is only being sold at a fraction of Kia outlets sounds strange, but it isn't. It's actually smart.
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga voted not to unionize and become members of the United Auto Workers. So, uh, where are those plant expansion plans Sen. Bob Corker promised?
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from The Economist, Los Angeles Times and Wired.
Read MoreAs owners of 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalts, Pontiac G5s, Saturn Ions and other cars await the recall letters that should start arriving March 10, there is one thing they can do right now to reduce their risk of crashing: lighten their keychains.
Read MoreWhen you really think about it, what state wouldn't want to get Tesla's planned Gigafactory? That's 6,500 high-tech jobs and potential millions of dollars in tax revenue. But the head of the car dealers' lobby in Texas says the Lone Star State shouldn't have to change their laws banning direct car sales to woo Tesla there.
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Read MoreIt's been one of the most exciting and, also, exhausting weeks at Jalopnik. A NASCAR driver kidnapped one of our writers, that same writer brought back the only live pics of a new Swedish hypercar, we launched a new version of Kinja, and John Hennessey showed up to answer your questions in great detail.
Read MoreThis picture of a Subaru parked in the middle of a lake isn't a Photoshop. It's very real and here's how it was done.
Read MoreThe continuous political circus that is Formula One hit a new milestone today, as the once and former Formula One Teams Association is no more. Fraught by bickering, infighting, and a lack of money (of course), the group decided to disband itself today.
Read MoreEveryone is talking about the Scion FR-S like it doesn't offer enough power for the money. Here are ten new cars that may make you rethink that judgement.
Read MoreThe situation in Ukraine right now is clearly terrible, and only getting worse, with gunmen seizing the airport and a coast guard station in the Crimea. What might not make it any better, though, is this veritable armada of helicopters flying overhead. Seriously, it's bigger than most entire air forces.
Read MoreYes, Jeff Gordon scared me to death in the back of a fake taxi. Yes, it was a very well done, very real, very terrifying prank. But his original Test Drive ad from last year is still fake. Jeff didn't do any of the stunt driving in that ad. This new ad does not change history.
Read MoreIt's lean times at Alfa Romeo, what with being down to selling a couple of aging hatchbacks and the very special 4C sports car. That means there's parts sharing going on between the three. Which is great if you're in Europe and want a Giulietta with a lot of turbo boost.
Read MoreIn 1972, environmentalists predicted that cars would become obsolete in the 21st century simply due to the lack of raw materials to build and fuel them. A year later, Porsche's engineers replied with the Forschungsprojekt Langzeit Auto, or FLA for short.
Read MoreRejoice, rejoice, people who have ever used a map! For it is now legal to use said map on that little device that is the new repository for all maps, your cell phone, in California. A court decision just made it legal to use Google Maps or whatever, just as long as you're not talking on the phone.
Read MoreVolkswagen's had its fair share of SUV concepts in the last several auto shows, but their lineup is still limited to the Tiguan and Touareg. The VW T-ROC Concept, debuting next week at the Geneva Motor Show, indicates the Germans want more funky crossovers in the range.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from The Atlantic Cities, Hooniverse and GQ.
Read MoreJohn Hennessey of Venom GT fame, among other accomplishments, stopped by today to answer some of your most pressing questions. Many of those had to do with how terrifying the Venom is to drive quickly, and what he thinks of a certain VW product.
Read MoreThere are a number of steps immediately after you crash your car. Nowhere on that list, though, is "get completely naked, bust out of the car, and start running down an eight-lane highway." But that's what a guy on Long Island (represent) did this morning. For some reason.
Read MoreI have a problem. When I close my eyes, the only thing I see is the Volvo Concept Estate. Maybe it's not a problem. If being obsessed with this beautiful brown shooting brake is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Read MoreFor the low sum of $33 million, you could own this collection of 60 vehicles used in various James Bond films, and when I say low sum, I might not be exaggerating. $33 Million is certainly no small sum, not to mention the additional costs of transporting, storing, and maintaining this veritable armada, but I think there might be quite a bang for your buck here.
Read MoreAfter a childhood spent doing absolutely nothing but watching Back to the Future Part II, you were prepared to be disappointed. 2015 is next year and still there are no hoverboards, no plastic ties, and no flying cars. But that's about to change. The Camaro Z/28 comes with something called "Flying Car Mode."
Read MoreWe don't get Skodas in the U.S., and that's an absolute shame because it's secretly the coolest brand in the VW Group portfolio. Now we have even more reasons to feel stung over the lack of Skoda in our lives: the Skoda VisionC Concept in all its glory.
Read MoreWhat is it about Texas that produces people who look at perfectly fast automobiles and makes them think to add insane amounts of power? Ask John Hennessey, whose Venom GT just put down a world record time on the same runway where NASA used to land space shuttles.
Read MoreEveryone knows about high performance bargains, but what is the cheapest horsepower offered from the factory?
Read MoreThe shadow of old General Motors looms large over the post-bailout company this week as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration begins an investigation into the timing of the recall of some 1.4 million GM cars in the U.S. and Canada following crashes that killed 13 people.
Read MoreInsuring a car in the city of Detroit is ridiculously fucking expensive and it forces a lot of us to drive less-than-exciting vehicles just to get from point A to point B. Rates are among the highest, if not the highest, in the country. Detroit's new mayor is looking to alleviate that.
Read MoreLast week it came out that a top General Motors engineer knew about a dangerous ignition system problem with the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 a decade before a recall notice was issued, and after six fatalities were linked to the issue. Now the government is be investigating why that took so long.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from The Truth About Cars, Autoblog and Petrolicious.
Read MoreMore details about Tesla's Gigafactory were released today, continuing what's been a good week for Elon Musk and his car company's earnings. In short, Musk and Co. are lining up $5 billion to build a factory in one of four states to supply power for half a million electric cars.
Read MoreToday, we looked at some great automotive pranks from history. But while large companies typically have more resources to pull off hilarious jokes, there's something to be said for the ingenuity of individuals – or the cruelty, if you're on the receiving end of things.
Read MoreA woman went berserk and attacked a bus driver this week after she missed her stop. The bus was full of passengers. Did they try and help the driver? No. Did they call 911? No. They recorded the attack on their phones.
Read More"Obsession" can be a dangerous word in the wrong context. It's thrown around too easily in place of "enthusiasm," but witnessing actual obsession gives the term license. At the Recaro factory here in Metro Detroit, you'll witness obsession.
Read MoreIrish budget airline Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary said he plans to offer $10 flights from New York to Europe as soon "as he could get enough planes" in an address at the Irish Hotels Federation conference yesterday.
Read MoreA 1927 Oakland with a Pontiac engine in the hands of a Californian who likes to make period-correct surfboards and use that car as a surf wagon. Call me crazy but I love it.
Read MoreWe love the Porsche 911 Turbo and all its power. We love the Porsche 911 Targa and its amazing roof. And if our source is to be believed, Porsche might unveil a Turbo Targa next week in Geneva. Hol-ee crap.
Read MoreI know it seems like we rag on BMW drivers a lot around these parts, but that's only because they keep giving us reasons to do it. And this 3-Series driver just raised the stupid bar to new heights.
Read MoreMuch to ChryslerCo's chagrin, 'jeep' is something of a catch-all that doesn't just refer to the American offroader. It stands for just about any Jeep-like vehicle and trust me, there are a lot of Jeep wannabes.
Read MoreHow can I describe the Vauxhall Astra VXR Extreme, the latest and craziest iteration of the Vauxhall Astra VXR? It's as if the old Saturn Astra went home to Europe, did a bunch of steroids, won the Olympics, became Batman, and came back to exact revenge on everyone who ever made fun of it.
Read More"Obsession" can be a dangerous word in the wrong context. It's thrown around too easily in place of "enthusiasm," but witnessing actual obsession gives the term license. At the Recaro factory here in Metro Detroit, you'll witness obsession.
Read MoreDubai announced new plans to raise fuel costs, parking fees, and insurance prices on cars and well, some people ain't too happy about it, with one website dubbing the plan 'Operation Fuck the Poor.'
Read MoreThe production version of the Maserati Levante, formerly known as the Maserati Kubang, is still going to be a thing. Back in 2011 at the Detroit Auto Show, plenty of people were up in arms about the prospect of a Maserati SUV, let alone one that would share pieces of Jeep Grand Cherokee and be built in Detroit. A lot's changed since 2011.
Read MoreIn tonight's round of Small Hatches Not Offered To Americans, Volkswagen presents the updated Polo, set to be shown next week at the Geneva Motor Show. Like a lot of companies fielding these small hatches, VW is bring out a turbocharged three-cylinder gas engine.
Read MoreBack when Mini first launched the Clubman, we heard it would have five doors. Unfortunately, they put two in the back for the cargo area and a relatively useless rear-hinged one on the passenger's side. Thankfully for the new Clubman based on the 2014 Mini, they've reconsidered.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from The Atlantic Cities, Vanity Fair and UBM Future Cities.
Read MoreFarmers, at least the ones who really know, will tell you that bulls both big and small smell like heavenly nectar. Notes of sandalwood, leather, lilac, and other lovely things abound. Oh wait, no. They smell like literal crap. Which is why I'm sure Lamborghini's newest offering, a cologne, will smell fantastic.
Read MoreMost crapcan racecar builds involve some form of shared shop space, be it with other teammates or with other amateur racing types who have a shop. Here's some advice on how to finish your car while keeping your (and their) sanity intact.
Read MoreI'm such a fan of GM's Fiat 500-fighting Opel Adam that I even devised a genius plan on how it could be sold in the U.S. Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to China first. As a Buick. The Buick Adam, they're calling it. The Buick Adam.
Read MoreThe defining characteristic of the Nissan Juke has been its insane face. Some love it, some hate it, but the great thing about the Juke's styling is that you can form an opinion about it. That's rare among crossovers. Will Nissan screw it up with the 2015 Juke?
Read MoreAs you may have noticed, things look a bit different around here. The next iteration of Kinja and webchats is live on Jalopnik for you to play around with. Many of the changes will be minor and seamless, a few are more structural and obvious.
Read MoreBack in 2009 as the Carcopalypse raged and Detroit melted down, President Obama ordered the Big 3 to drop their sponsorship in NASCAR altogether. Or at least, that's what an embarrassingly large group of people believed.
Read MoreIf your plane gets delayed due to weather, that's bad luck. If it's a mechanical issue, you start worrying. If it's because of some lazy people, you're angry. But here are ten delays worse than all of that.
Read MoreFormula 1 team Marussia lost a day's worth of vital on-track testing after its servers were struck with a computer virus. So what would it take to hack their car?
Read MoreBehold perhaps the dumbest feat of towing captured on video: two guys try to pull their Lada along with an unsuspecting bus, and oh, that's not gone well.
Read MoreWith 550 horsepower and 501 foot pounds of torque from a supercharged 5.0 V8 and 59 cubic feet cargo space, the XFR-S Sportbrake is your classy alternative to an E63 AMG or an RS6 Avant. It's a big, ballsy pussycat.
Read MoreThe '84 Manx Rally is still interesting for the variety of cars up for contention. There's an Audi Quattro, sure, but there's everything else from an AE86 Corolla, a couple Opel Mantas, and a V8 Rover Vitesse. I'm not sure there's been a bigger top-level rally car in the past three decades. But it's the roads that make the Manx so good to watch.
Read MoreI had a few requests for the people developing the next iteration of Kinja (called 'Tiger' internally) before I agreed this site over to it, based on a mix of my own experiences and on your responses to Nick Denton's product posts. I'm happy enough with the results to probably flip the switch tomorrow morning.
Read MoreIt's undeniable that the current Hyundai Sonata has been a hit for the company, propelling itself from an also-ran to a mainstream midsize sedan. But apparently it's come at the price of Hyundai's advancing reputation for reliability.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from The Weather Channel, Autoweek and The Paris Review.
Read MoreWe've seen exploding manholes before, but those were the puny affairs of a dying superpower. For a big boom, you need to go to a place that is bursting with national pride and economic enthusiasm. A place like China. Where a few people can basically destroy a street with just a little explosive encouragement.
Read MoreIf you were driving home and a cop ordered you to park somewhere, and then someone from the government asked for your saliva or blood while secretly testing you for alcohol use, would you feel like your rights were violated? Many Americans did when it happened to them, according to documents from a Freedom of Information Act request by Jalopnik and a closer look at the program's methods.
Read MoreAs storms over the past few weeks battered already-soggy southern England, rivers burst their banks and floodwaters began to rise. At least two people have been killed by the wind, water, and waves, so the British military decided it needed to do something. Specifically, it needed to bring in the Royal Air Force.
Read MoreWhat has been developed for the electric i sub-brand is now on the edge of becoming an option for regular BMWs too. EU bureaucracy is the biggest obstacle standing between you and carbon fiber wheels, but not for long. BMW needs to make some of its investment back.
Read MoreI'm no stranger to the sting of a stolen Beetle and the joy of recovery, but I'm sure happy I didn't have to wait 40 years to get mine back like Tennessee resident Joseph MacDonald did. His Bug was stolen in 1974, and Border Control found the car in Michigan, on a railcar to Canada, from where it was going to Finland. Finland?
Read MoreLast summer, I told you that the Golf GTD is coming to America in 2015. A quick update on that: It's still coming, just on its own schedule.
Read MoreHow much track do you need to become the 'fastest production car' in the world? If you're behind the wheel of the Hennessey Venom GT going 270+ mph you have to go where NASA landed freaking space shuttles.
Read MoreAir travel on its own can be pretty painful, but few things are worse than being trapped on the plane as it sits on the tarmac or getting stuck at the airport. Those are the kinds of things that happen in hell.
Read MoreMuch to the chagrin of rental car customers in Florida who want a droptop but are too cheap to spring for the V6 Mustang, the lovely new 2015 Chrysler 200 will not come in a convertible variant.
Read MoreOne of the biggest defenders of the American auto industry, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), is retiring after 58 years of service in Congress. Beginning his career as a House pageboy during WWII, Dingell has amassed 29 uninterrupted terms in Congress.
Read MoreThe current Ford Focus ST is one of the very best hot hatches ever made, but even it cannot match the sheer madness of the old Ford Focus RS. The good news is that Ford may just be cooking up another Focus RS that's even more powerful than the last one.
Read MoreThe Hennessey Venom GT hit 270.49mph at the Kennedy Space Center on February 14th, thus becoming the fastest production car in the world by beating the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport's previous record of 269.86 mph.
Read MoreAfter a bit of a ridiculous start to the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, we finally have a winner of the Daytona 500, just ten hours after it started. And for the second time, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., is the winner. Congratulations, Dale!
Read MoreThe 2014 Daytona 500 is either suffering from a constant torrential deluge, or already over, depending on who you ask. But you can't keep racing fans down – with the help of copious amounts of alcohol, they tend to find something to do no matter what is going on. Even if that something is just getting soaked in mud. Which can be fun.
Read MoreGrowing up I always wanted to be a captain on a ship. Wear a white hat, have a great big gray beard, hold a pipe but never actually smoke it, all those fun things. After seeing what massive storm swells look like off the south coast of Ireland, I might want to rethink that.
Read MoreFord's SYNC infotainment system is alright, I GUESS, as wonky automotive infotainment systems go. But apparently The Masses don't like it very much, so Ford is planning to dump the Microsoft Windows system on which it's based, for one based on a platform from BlackBerry. This should go well.
Read MoreRacing brawls are nothing new. You've seen fights break out between pit crews, you've you've seen Kyle Busch put people into the wall, we've even taught you how to win a good scrap. But this seemingly unprovoked cheap shot from Mike Alessi on Brock Tickle at the Atlanta Supercross race is just all kinds of stupid.
Read MoreSay what you will about NASCAR, but one thing that is beyond a shadow of a doubt is that its flagship race, the Daytona 500, always has racing up until the very end. And now you can watch every single finish from the past 34 years, all in one handy video.
Read MoreThe Jaguar XFR-S is a fantastic car. That much we know. But we all know what would make it much MUCH better as well – if it came in a wagon version. It looks like our prayers have been answered by the British boffins, but only if you don't live in America.
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 MoreUsually the worst that happens most times with road rage is that some guy yells at you from behind his steering wheel, and maybe he makes faces, or displays some obscene gestures, but that's all fine because nothing ever happens. This is not one of those times.
Read MoreLast week our EIC, Matt Hardigree, and his Editorial Fellow sidekick, Chris Perkins, decided that it was a good idea to take a Corvette Stingray Convertible out into the middle of a goddamn snowstorm. As much of the country is on schedule to get more snow this week, we should probably think about that topic.
Read MoreAs the civil unrest in Ukraine comes to a head, protestors claim to have taken President Viktor Yanukovych's private estate, and with it, his personal car collection. Using state funds to maintain a fleet of old Soviet runabouts? Along with everything else the protestors have endured, that's not going to go over well.
Read MoreThe British accent has the potential to be disconcerting. I'm not talking about the average coal miner from Yorkshire, or the hilariously unintelligible peoples of Basildon, but rather the strangely urgent tone usually heard when a 1970s movie needed a villain. Which is exactly what Volvo used for this ad.
Read MoreThe government in Beijing has done more than almost anywhere else in the world to encourage people to buy electric cars and still almost nobody is buying them.
Read MoreFor every Subaru there is out there, blasting sideways on some uncleared forest road, there's a half-dozen more sitting under piles of snow. Not cleared out the first big snow, not getting cleared out until the final melt.
Read MoreThe history of carmaking in The Netherlands is can pretty much be summed up by one acronym: DAF. They built some interesting cars before that division of the company was bought by Volvo. But that DAF plant in Born has turned out an odd string of vehicles for almost 50 years.
Read MoreDown in my home state of Texas, our elected officials aren't afraid to tackle the tough issues, like sexy cheerleading or noodling. Now, one Texas Legislature hopeful wants to make it legal to gather roadkill so you can eat it. Finally!
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Business Insider, Playboy and Speedhunters.
Read MoreYour car is collecting a lot of information, much of it about you. What's being done with that information isn't exactly clear. That's more unsettling, even if it's great if your car is finally able to recognize your voice when programming the navigation system.
Read MoreA couple months ago I reviewed a remarkable-sounding product called the Fuelshark, a simple plug-in device for your car that claimed to improve gas mileage. I did some tests, took it apart, and found their claims to be bullshit. Well, the Fuelshark people finally got around to reading it, and they're pissed. They want me to apologize.
Read MoreIn the next development in the UAW-Volkswagen episode, the union today filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board and called for a new vote from workers free of "intimidation" from third-parties.
Read MoreThis week, an Ethiopian Airlines flight was hijacked by its own copilot who was seeking asylum in Switzerland. Italian and French fighter jets responded, but the Swiss didn't. And that's because the Swiss Air Force was closed.
Read MoreOne pickup driver in Thailand recently got a lesson in why you don't block the fast lane for multi-axle truckers, ever, ever.
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo 4C has just hit the streets and already Hyundai has a concept to attack the mid-engined Italian, which is a Porsche Cayman rival. Boy, those Koreans are fast.
Read MoreI don't know about you kids, but thanks to this never-ending East Coast winter, my ride is looking pretty nasty lately. I'm looking forward to the day when it stops snowing and I can manage to keep it clean for more than just a couple days at a time.
Read MoreWar doesn't last forever. These ten buildings seem to.
Read MoreYou can probably do that now. But Volvo is very excited to announce what they call "roam delivery," meaning anything you order can be delivered to your car, wherever you are. This is probably why they've decided to make a big deal about reintroducing the wagon to the U.S.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Automobile Magazine, DieCast.org and Road & Track.
Read MoreOh, Bernie Eccelstone. That zombie-Warhol-looking bastard. What'd the F1 Supremo do now? Oh, he said he "completely agrees" with Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal anti-gay rights stance. As Putin's policies on his own gay population has led to widespread oppression and violence, this makes Bernie an asshole.
Read MoreYesterday, we learned that certain dealers are saying "no thanks" to the Cadillac ELR on the grounds that the premium plug-in hybrid is a tough sell in some markets, plus potentially expensive retrofits and training. Now it turns out BMW has their own electric dealer woes.
Read MoreIn quite possibly the worst flight delay in history, passengers of Ryanair (big surprise) Flight 8347 had to call the police on their own plane after being stuck onboard for four hours without food or water. [UPDATE: Ryanair responds.]
Read MoreEurope is the home of the supercar. They're built there. The roads are built for them. But if you could only visit one factory, which would it be?
Read MoreFor some people, cycling is a healthy way to get around. For others, it's a thinly-veiled excuse to act like a self-righteous, affronted jackass as much as possible. I think this Chicago woman who lashed out a car commercial shoot partially in a bike lane falls into the latter camp. Worse, she did it in the lamest way possible.
Read MoreOf course you remember the Scion FR-S. It and its Subaru BRZ twin were all we were talking about in 2012. Well, based on comments from Toyota people and the sales figures, seems like we might've forgotten.
Read MoreIts bonnet is sealed shut. So what? The Alfa 4C is still your mid-engined Italian carbon fiber sex bomb, with performance to match. Keep your Cayman, I'm sold on this.
Read MoreIn yesterday's earnings call from the fourth quarter of 2013, Tesla Motors announced that their net income of $46 million late last year came without selling any Zero Emissions Vehicle credits. That's a pretty big deal, and here's why.
Read MoreToday at the official press introduction of the 2015 Porsche Macan, we learned Porsche's future product plan for their new baby SUV. And it includes electricity, oil burning, and fewer cylinders. Get ready for the variants.
Read MoreHow fast could a car go around the Nurburgring Nordschleife if it was unimpeded by racing regulations, or by g-forces acting on the driver? About 3'38.031, as this Red Bull X2014 Fan Car did in Gran Turismo 6.
Read MoreThis is the former Soviet nuclear submarine base in Balaklava, Ukraine. It was so secret that the USSR took Balaklava off the map after its construction. And now it offers guided tours.
Read MoreAnd that'll solve everything! Okay, no it won't. But seriously, the city of Detroit has another big problem to deal with, and that's collecting on overdue parking tickets totaling $82 million.
Read MoreIn a confusing decision, a German judge ruled that F1's King Wizard Nymph Bernie Ecclestone did indeed bribe a banker to the tune of $45 million for the sale of broadcasting rights. However, the judge ruled that it was all fine and dandy.
Read MoreAs General Motors recalls almost 780,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s over a faulty ignition switch blamed for engine shutdowns and six crash deaths, court statements have come to light that indicate a top engineer knew about the problem years before the recall was issued.
Read MoreYou know how we all know and revere Michael Winslow as a national treasure? Wait— you don't know who the hell I'm talking about? I'm stunned. The guy who made all the sounds with his mouth in the Police Academy movies? Well this guy is sort of like that.
Read MoreWe now know for sure that the all-new 2015 Audi TT will make its debut in a few weeks at the Geneva Motor Show. Why? Because Audi says so! And to prove it, they sent this nifty sketch of what it will look like.
Read MoreDan Gilbert owns all of the things in Detroit. And he's reached a point where if you live here, you probably can't go an entire week without throwing some money toward his massive empire. In due time, Detroit's two papers of record will be among Gilbert's debtors as they move into one of the several buildings he owns downtown.
Read MoreThe UAW stinging from being unable to convince workers to unionize at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant is one thing. There's hurt over in Germany within VW's labor side over whether to even continue investment in Chattanooga.
Read MoreLots of internet was spent wondering if there would be demand for a Ram 1500 with a diesel engine. I mean, we say it's a great idea, but truck buyers could've There's no need to wonder anymore, because the whole first run of Ram EcoDiesels sold out in less than three days.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Los Angeles Times, ASME and HitFix.
Read MoreAfter Kevin and Linda Helmintoller watched the video of eight rare Corvettes falling into a sinkhole at the Corvette Museum, they jokingly say they went into denial mode.
Read MoreWe're just parsing Tesla's fourth quarter 2013 earnings report but, overall, they're doing well. Their earnings-per-share beat estimates, net income was $46 million, and they sold and delivered a record 6,892 vehicles.
Read MoreI'd never been so scared after checking my Kinja notifications as when I saw "Terry Crews replied to you" in my dropdown menu. Turns out, the real Terry Crews indeed read my post about his Toyota Highlander/Chrysler Town & Country debacle. Am I going to die?
Read MoreA section of 6th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is currently closed for drivers and pedestrians because 'stray voltage' could electrocute you from a subway grate or a doorknob.
Read MoreCNET believes modern cars with automatic transmissions are complicated and that's why they had Brian Cooley go make a "how to" video about driving a "modern automatic transmission." It's so poorly done you may actually forget how to drive an automatic transmission after using it.
Read MoreAttention, owners of the tiny, furious Italian speed-egg that is the Fiat 500 Abarth: You now have no excuse not to get to a race track if you haven't done so already.
Read MoreAs you may have heard, it's Winter Blowout Time over at Bugatti, since they have to move 40 convertible Veyrons before they'll even think about making any more. It looks like they're using the Special Edition ploy to move cars, as evidenced by the new Lang Lang Edition Grand Sport Vitesse, named after the famed Chinese pianist. Seriously.
Read MoreCadillac has 940 dealerships in the U.S., but nearly half of them have said "thanks but no thanks" to the hybrid plug-in Cadillac ELR. It's not because they don't want to deal with rich guys in shorts who run around their mansions yelling about how the French get too many vacation days.
Read MoreAmerican Idol is probably a really stressful experience. Thankfully, if contestants are under duress, there's someone they can talk to: Billy Mauldin, the CEO of the Motor Racing Outreach ministry. FYI: American Idol is not a motorsport.
Read MoreOnce again, a license plate is responsible for controversy in the South, but this time it's not over a clever joke in Virginia. This time it centers around the darkest chapter in American history and the ugly legacy it brings up.
Read MoreAh, burnouts — so stupid, yet so satisfying. Just about every car can do them, but some are better than others.
Read MoreIt had to happen right? There's a cabrio version of the 2015 Audi A3. There's the monster 300 horsepower powertrain of the 2015 Audi S3. Let them get nasty together and the 2015 Audi S3 Cabriolet is what happens. We have more photos but still no answer as to whether or not it's coming here.
Read MoreWhat happens when you put a Google Street View camera on a Prius? Mostly just shots of the plain world around us, sometimes punctuated by extreme badasses and ravines. Put it on the new Mercedes F1 car and you can see what Lewis Hamilton sees.
Read MorePut a Ferrari test driver behind the wheel of a LaFerrari, and it's an exercise in control. Put Kimi "Leave me alone I know what I'm doing" Raikkonen behind the wheel, and you have a spinning, tire smoking, flame spitting monster that sounds like the God of war.
Read MoreIt's Ecoboost or nothing for the 2015 Ford Expedition, which gets MyFord Touch for the first time and a fancy Platinum edition to go with the fact it loses V8 power in favor of the 3.5-liter Ecoboost V6.
Read MoreTimes are tough over at PSA Peugeot Citroën. They've been burning through billions of Euros in cash over the last few years and have struggled to sell cars in the weak European economy and have stumbled abroad. But a new savior appears to be in the form of Chinese automaker Dongfeng.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Texas Monthly, The Truth About Cars and Car and Driver.
Read MoreSocial scientists have evidence that violent crime increases as the heat rises, but this brutal, endless winter isn't exactly bringing out the best in us. Case in point: a Michigan man likely to face charges for shooting at a snow plow driver.
Read MoreThe 2015 Audi S3 is a landmark car for us Americans. It's our first-ever S3, and since it's a sedan now like its baby brother the A3, we might actually buy it. But how much will it hurt our wallets if we do? Apparently, $41,100. Not bad!
Read MoreI'm not sure anyone under 70 really understands just how much America used to love smoking. The fact that cigarette lighters became standard in cars is a pretty big clue, but I think even more telling is the fact that it seems people would work smoking into anything they could. Like testing airplane cockpit integrity.
Read MoreThe benefit of having a huge network of commenters and contributors like Kinja is that the talent has a hard time hiding, which is why so many Jalopnik writers and editors got their start in our comments. Gawker has a plan to make this process even easier and I'm proud to announce Doug DeMuro will be our first experiment.
Read MoreLightness! SkyActiv engines! Ovals! The next-generation 2015 Mazda Miata is said to be getting all of these things when it becomes a reality sometime next year. Here's the latest.
Read MoreRather than summarize this video, I'm just going to give you the play-by-play commentary I screamed into my computer as I watched it.
Read MoreSamuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher was just an ordinary guy living in Toledo when overnight he became the darling of the GOP after sparring with then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama in 2008. After riding a gravy train of Fox News appearances, stumping and a political run of his own, he's now back to being an ordinary Toledoan — working at Chrysler.
Read MoreLast week we learned BMW has at least five front-wheel drive models in the pipeline based on a new platform used on the BMW 2-Series Active Tourer and the 2014 Mini Cooper. Up next on that list: the next generation of their smallest crossover, the X1.
Read MoreHere we have a lovely Battle of the Beige: Toyota Highlander vs. Chrysler Town & Country. If you need the versatility, you'd probably go with the T&C. But if you're being paid to advertise the Highlander, you probably shouldn't go with the T&C.
Read MoreWhat might look like cutting edge technology today will be gone from our cars before you know it. It all starts with these ten recent innovations.
Read MoreIf you've got, I don't know, a couple months nine years to kill with nothing else to do, start following @555uhz on Twitter. That person will let you watch Top Gun for free, just as long as you don't mind watching it without sound — and about a frame at a time.
Read MoreDoes a municipal bankruptcy make things better or worse? Here in Detroit, we're finding out firsthand that things are actually getting better in some aspects.
Read MoreCongratulations, Tesla. You've arrived. One of your cars has now been done up by insane Swiss tuner Rinspeed, whose previous efforts include a submarine Lotus Elise. And their tweaked Model S does not disappoint.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Car and Driver, The New York Times, and Forbes.
Read MoreIn Consumer Reports' reliability study that came out a couple months ago, the Honda Accord V6's reliability was slammed. But it wasn't particularly because of the mechanical pieces of the Accord V6, just that all top-level Accords with V6s got an especially troublesome touchscreen radio. So the Accord V6 is basically not recommended because of a terrible radio.
Read MoreAston Martin is currently recalling two-thirds of all of their cars it's made in the last six years over 'counterfeit plastic' in their throttle pedals. The general manager of the company Aston blamed is now all like 'say whaaaaaat? Oh no you didn't."
Read MoreNokian Tyres has built a concept tire that James Bond has had in his arsenal since 1987. Meet the world's first non-studded winter tired with studs that can be deployed by the push of a button.
Read MoreOne of the perks of working for one of the leading name-brand automotive websites are the great emails we get in our tips line. Often they're full of great tips from readers, but this particular email was different. Partially because of the hearbreaking earnestness, and partially because it's for Top Gear USA, and not us.
Read MoreIncreased complexity always frightens car enthusiasts, thinking at the newest crop of tech-heavy cars may be much less dependable in the long-term than their predecessors. A new JD Power survey might justify that fear.
Read MoreFan-kids of two of the most rabid and dedicated types, Apple and Tesla, must have experienced some swimsuit-area tingling Sunday, when SFGate revealed that the two were in talks last year. Of course, this caused many to speculate on Apple buying Tesla and the release of the mythical iCar, but I don't think that's what's going on here.
Read MoreI had a friend in college who used to roll in a used 1990s Mercedes S-Class. That's a cool car in any era, but hers was even cooler because it had a carphone. That's right, plebs: a phone in your car!
Read MoreSome cars are meant to be low-volume products. Others are just utter sales disasters.
Read MoreGM's brand new Ecotec engine promises superior fuel economy and smoother running than any three-cylinder on the market today. It's just like the V8 wars of yesteryear, only much much smaller.
Read MoreWhile gracing their newest car with the front of a P1 and the back of an 12C might feel like a lazy move, the McLaren 650S Coupe and Spider will hit the road with 641 horsepower, giving it a top speed of 207 mph and a 0-60 time under 3 seconds.
Read MorePorsche has reportedly halted sales of the 2014 911 GT3 after a person driving one noticed an unusual noise, and then some smoke, and then some flame, and then his car completely destroying itself in Switzerland, according to the local cops. That's not what we in the business call a Good Thing.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreThe leaked images of the McLaren 650S started in dribs and drabs, as they tend to do, but now those leaks have turned into a virtual flood, with this walkaround video that gives you the clearest, most comprehensive look yet. And the McLaren 650S looks like the 12C you always wanted.
Read MoreToday we bring you a dashcam video from a far off land, called "America." And what it shows is an airbag randomly exploded right into the middle of some guy's goddamn face, without the driver destroying the car first. Ouch.
Read MoreRichard Petty is a very famous, very successful, and very old NASCAR driver. So when he said a stupid thing about NASCAR driver Danica Patrick last week, we all let out a collective "ugh" and shook our heads. Just so we know, though, Richard Petty is NOT a sexist. In fact, Richard Petty loves women. A lot.
Read MoreWatching NASCAR you expect to see smoke, you expect to see flames, you expect to see all manner of conflagrations occur on track. But one car is expected to be old reliable, to never have a problem, or at the very least not to completely nuke itself – the pace car. Until that, too, goes up in flames.
Read MoreThe new McLaren 650S will officially debut at the Geneva Motor Show in a couple of weeks, but here it is nice and early and looking like a P1 crossed with a 12C.
Read MoreWe've seen plenty of scary crosswind landings, but this one may just take the cake. The plane doesn't just go sideways, it looks like it actually drops about 100 feet before slamming hard into the runway and bouncing back up. Holy crap.
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers union is hopping, steaming mad over the fact that it lost the vote to unionize workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee plant last night. So mad, in fact, that they're blaming nefarious outside forces.
Read MoreThe American two-man bobsled team didn't do so hot on the track at the last Winter Olympics. While the four-person crew took home the gold medal, the shorter sled only came in sixth. And one reason was because their sled was nearly two decades old.
Read MoreA casual, innocent, totally-not-heated at all disagreement between two grown men, in Russia (sarcasm, no such thing exists), devolved into a completely nuts Wild West-style shootout, because Russia. And somehow, nobody got shot. Jesus Christ.
Read MoreThe seemingly never-ending saga of the bankruptcy and subsequent sale of Fisker Automotive looks like it finally has an end. After 19 rounds of bidding over two days, dark-horse suitor Wanxiang Group has acquired the destitute hybrid auto maker.
Read MoreChevys (Chevy's? Chevies?) have come a long way since back in the day. Now you can get them with all sorts of fancy gizmos, like magnetic ride control, plug-in hybrid systems, and heads-up displays. But in 1971, you'd be ever-so-grateful that your Chevy Monte Carlo came with a proper entryway.
Read MoreWe'll discuss what this all means for the United Auto Workers and Volkswagen in the coming week, but in the meantime the word from Reuters is that workers voted against the proposed Works Council 712 - 626. Obviously, this is extremely bad for the UAW.
Read MoreSpurred on by an idea that came from an American automotive journalist, Mazda spent the better part of the 1980s trying to cook up the perfect revival of the classic British roadster, the MX-5 Miata. But that road had a few interesting detours along the way.
Read MoreThere's going to be another round of BMW Films and that's fantastic. In an age where 30-second car ads are rather polished, can you envision how great BMW could make these new films?
Read MoreYou know that Cadillac ELR ad with that smug jackass who struts around his house braying about how hard America works before insta-changing into a suit? Then he unplugs his ELR and climbs in to go to work in the Smug District, where he's VP of InsuffraDouche, LLC? That stupid ad revealed the Achilles' Heel of EVs: cords.
Read MoreFile this in the "rumors that make us giddy" department, but there are people saying that the next 911 GT3 RS might have a third pedal for your shifting enjoyment. That's right, a clutch pedal. For shifting. Gears. Manually.
Read MoreReason 8,598,477 to lose faith in humanity: A man once woke up in the morning and said to himself, "Today I'm going to give my Lotus Elise a paint job with flaming electric blue playing cards."
Read MoreIn the early part of the last decade, the BMW Films rewrote the book on how to do automotive advertising. Even today, no one has topped them — but it looks like BMW is about to see if they can.
Read MoreWell, it happened again. Reports today have surfaced about another fire involving a Tesla Model S sitting in the garage of a home, this time in Toronto.
Read MoreSome cars are all over the place. Then there are cars, like the Mitsubishi Diamante, that were supposed to be all over the place but aren't. What's the worst selling volume car ever?
Read MoreThe 2015 Subaru WRX is fan-freaking-tastic. And at just $26,295, it's a steal. Well, if you want a faster, wing-ier WRX,the new STI will set you back $34,995. That's the same price as the old car.
Read MoreIndyCar driver and total badass Simona de Silvestro has signed on with Sauber F1 as an "affiliated driver." Here's what that means, for her and the sport.
Read MoreBarely two months after Tesla Motors scored a legislative win against car dealers in the Ohio, a new bill comes to the Ohio State Senate that will ban Tesla's direct sales model for good. And guess who's behind it? The same guy who was behind the last one, state Sen. Tom Patton. Here's why he's so against direct sales.
Read MoreWe've already made a lot of fun of the BMW 2-Series Active Tourer. It's the Ford C-Max with a posh badge. That's not the biggest deal, though. This is the first front-wheel drive machine with a BMW logo on the front. Take a deep breath.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Automobile, BBC News, and Petrolicious.
Read MoreAmerican muscle cars are great in a straight line, but they're ass in the corners. Right? Everyone says that, so it must be true, right? Not necessarily. Meet a car and its owner eager to prove that adage wrong.
Read MoreAudi is getting rather serious about carbon neutral synthetic fuels nowadays and to prove how much they believe in this technology, they put the Audi A3 g-tron on sale in Germany priced at €25,900 ($35,407).
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Golf GTI doesn't need to be the fastest or best-driving hot hatch out there. What a successful GTI needs to be is all the car you could ever possibly want. And this video from XCar is yet more confirmation the Mk 7 is a successful GTI.
Read MoreI'm all for a local success story, so this is pretty big. Gibbs Amphitrucks, a small manufacturer in Auburn Hills, is partnering with a Singaporean manufacturer to mass-produce Humdingas, a half-car, half-boat used for emergency transport and disaster relief. But they look amazing, and we can't wait to drive one for ourselves.
Read MoreOne day, four carts, three guys, one 1973 Volkswagen Baja Bug: it was a quest to find the best halal cart chicken and rice in New York City.
Read MoreAnd now for some news that might send at least a few old-school Bimmer enthusiasts crying into their beers: BMW says they are planning at least five front-wheel drive cars, starting with the new 2-Series Active Tourer. The age of the FWD BMW begins in earnest.
Read MoreThis is a Ssangyong Turismo. Because it looks like a moving van, it's presumably good for moving people and things around. This is what a Korean automaker with a lot of consanants sells in other countries. And that company wants to sell cars in the U.S. now.
Read MoreThe Bowling Green, Kentucky area where the Corvette Museum is located sits in what is known as a karst area. This is an area where water slowly dissolves the native bedrock—usually limestone— in the subsurface. Once the bedrock is dissolved to a point, it is no longer structurally sound to support the weight of what is on top of it, it fails or collapses.
Read MoreThis is probably what the third-generation Renault Twingo will look like when it's officially revealed next month at the Geneva Motor Show. In keeping with Twingo tradition, it looks silly and fun. But in a twist, it's now a rear-wheel drive, rear-engined, five-door hatch. Crazy, right?
Read MoreFabricating your own shopping cart sled and going for a ride tethered to your buddy's Nissan GT-R: good idea, or great idea?
Read MoreThe Winter Olympics in Sochi have been full of all kinds of ugly realities. But there's been one deeply ugly unreality there as well; a white behemoth that's been prowling around the Olympics. This colossal, bizarre-looking RV. What the hell is it?
Read MoreGood news! No, seriously, good news in Detroit. The city is installing brand-new LED streetlamps to replace aging or completely nonexistent streetlights, meaning that in due time, the entire city will be lit up as it should.
Read MoreOne of the greatest race liveries of all time is set to return to F1 this year — Martini is coming back, running full colors on the 2014 Williams.
Read MoreEverybody got a huge kick out of the Audi Sport quattro Concept that debuted in Frankfurt last year. But with a 700 horsepower hybrid V8 drivetrain, it seemed unlikely it would be come real. Now Audi says that it might — but with some tweaks.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Curbside Classic, The Detroit News, and Motoring Con Brio.
Read MoreThis still from one of the many r/c helicopter videos of the Corvette Museum sinkhole is possibly the most hearbreaking shot yet.
Read MoreTurns out the most controversial thing about the McLaren P1 now is not the performance or the tech, but the carbon fiber panels that look like windows.
Read MoreAnother week, another Southern snowpocalypse. Anyone else sick of this winter yet? This time it's poor North Carolina's turn to get obliterated by snow... and they're not reacting well.
Read MoreThe C7 Corvette is officially on sale in Europe, and the team at Goodwood thought it would be a great idea to race it against an Aston Martin V12 Vantage S and a Jaguar F-Type V8S around the estate.
Read MoreI got a chance to hang out with a Product Specialist (colloquially known as a"booth babe" or "booth professional") off-duty at the Chicago Auto Show, and learned why a good sense of humor is as key to her job as a great smile and a whole lotta vehicle knowledge.
Read MoreThe Honda Civic Si is a quick car, but it's also stuck with a puffy face and a bunch of other tacky add-ons. And it's not a hatch. The Honda Civic Type R Concept solves that. Except for the fact it's a concept. And history tells us we're not getting the production version. So it's not quite problem solved.
Read MoreHi, welcome to our new subsite, Us Weekly Jalopnik, where we provide you the latest in celebrity hookups and dustups in the automotive world. Today in scandals, is Fiat caught in the middle of a torrid love triangle involving new spokesperson Diddy and former spokesperson Jennifer Lopez?
Read MoreLisa Dalisa, aside from having a fun, rhyming name, seems to have two big loves in her life: her husband and Trans Ams. It seems both of those loves met in a shower of cutting torch sparks last Christmas, and the result was what may be the only back-half-of-a Trans-Am swing in the free world.
Read MoreA sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum's most historic collection room and now, after consultation from structural engineers, the at-risk cars are finally coming out.
Read MoreIf there's ever proof of what a V8, 4lo, and a very good attitude can do, here it is.
Read MoreWith the troubling news of a sinkhole eating eight of the best cars in the National Corvette Museum, I think it's a good time to reflect on the best car museums out there.
Read MoreWhatever car you think the 2015 Subaru Legacy looks like, there's no question it will remain a totally competent competitor to other family sedans. What it doesn't look like is an exciting car to drive. That could change if Subaru decides to drop a turbo in the thing.
Read MoreSome day we might consider a clean, un-scraped 2003 Subaru WRX to be worth almost $24,000. That day isn't today, however, so anyone trying to sell a decade-old WRX at that price must be crazy. Or in no mood to sell.
Read MoreEight vehicles, including two Corvette ZR1s, were swallowed by a sinkhole opening up under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky this morning.
Read MoreMeet the McLaren 650S. Since the 3.8-liter V8 is tuned to 616 horsepower in the 12C and 727 in the P1, this new McLaren (known as P15 so far) presumably has around 650 horsepower to play with. That's good.I'll go with that thought since McLaren won't say more at the moment. If I'm right, that figure puts it below the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta but as we've seen before from McLaren, weight can be on their side.
Read MoreMeet the brand new Ferrari California T. As in turbo. A 560 horsepower 3.8-liter twin-turbo to be exact!
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Ad Age, The New York Times and Road & Track.
Read MoreIf you meet the love of your life on an app made for airplane hookups, that's fantastic. No really, I commend you. I'll visit your Crate and Barrel registry and buy a $30 vase. Something tells me I'm going to be paying for a lot of vases all of a sudden.
Read MoreIn 1938, Rudolph Caracciola drove a 5.6 liter, 753 horsepower Mercedes streamliner to 268.8 mph (432.7 km/h) on a public road, no less. Back in 1991, this bizarre Ferrari set out to beat that run.
Read MoreLike many automotive-news outlets, our reporting of the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupé makes a big deal out of the car's lavish 47-Swarovski crystal headlights. They're much easier than using a bullhorn to yell "I'M RICH!" at everyone, and they help with night driving a bit. Too bad they're not really what they seem.
Read MoreThe mystery car Audi teased us with last week has been revealed in all its glory, and it is the 2015 Audi S1 Quattro. It looks psychotic and cute at the same time!
Read MoreIt's just about two weeks since the team caring for Michael Schumacher stopped administering sedatives in order to allow him to emerge from the pharmacologic part of his depressed consciousness. Where are we now?
Read MoreOk, let me be honest right up front, I haven't raced at the Daytona 500 yet and therefore I haven't won it yet. However, I have a pretty good record on the super speedways of NASCAR, including a win in the Truck Series at Talladega, so I'm sure that I can explain to you how drafting works and, in doing so, how a race car driver like me attempts to win one of the world's most famous races. Also, if I do win the Daytona 500 this year this column will seem that much more impressive.
Read MoreEver try using a "dating app" on a plane? You can now that there's wi-fi, but why would you? Don't you just want to go to sleep and not bother anyone? I do. But for those who just have to meet someone on a plane, there will soon be a solution called Wingman.
Read MoreBeing charged with careless driving implies you're a licensed driver. That's not the case, however, if you're 10 in Colorado and crash through a place where you get a driver's license.
Read MoreEveryone knows Ferrari has two unrevealed front-engined custom cars in the works, the SP FFX and the SP Arya. Now they're teasing a new reveal tomorrow. Oddly, it doesn't look like these match up.
Read MoreAfter suffering through another facepalm-worthy quote (this time from Richard Petty) about Danica Patrick only getting attention because she's a woman, it seemed like a good time to go over the most successful women drivers in auto racing history.
Read MoreSimple, clear, no-nonsense laws should be the norm for rough weather driving. These seven rules, though, may hurt more than they help.
Read MoreWhile the Ambassador tends to wear the mantle of the iconic car of India, the car that put Indians on the road was the Suzuki Maruiti 800. Derived from the '79 Suzuki Alto, the 800 has been in production since 1983. To outsiders, it's just an anonymous econobox. To vast numbers of Indians, it was freedom. And now it's done.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Car and Driver, The New York Times, and The Truth About Cars.
Read MoreMercedes has a new sports car in the works that's being called a "replacement" for our beloved tire-slaying Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, but it's supposedly much closer to a Porsche 911 in price. And it gets a neat hatchback for all your stuff!
Read MoreThis is Jalopnik. It's a site for car enthusiasts. That's why one of the cars we're most enthusiastic about is the Mazda Miata. You may not think it's the right car for you, but you'd be wrong. It isn't peer pressure, but there are plenty of people here who can explain why it's the perfect car for every occasion.
Read MoreThere's only so far you can go with the underdog angle in ads. It worked for Chrysler after the bankruptcy. It works for small companies like Mazda sometimes. It's a little harder to go attacking other countries when you used to call yourself "The Standard of the World."
Read MoreRight around the corner from my house, Dumb Starbucks opened up. And it's practically all I've heard about all weekend. This was a bit alarming to me, as I'm accustomed to being the subject whenever "dumb" was discussed in my neighborhood. Like most people, I think there's a lesson here for Chinese carmakers.
Read MoreApparently responding to last week's criticism that General Motors CEO Mary Barra will make less than half what her predecessor Dan Akerson made, GM today released the details of Barra's compensation about two months early. Turns out she'll do a lot better than Akerson did.
Read MoreThe United States wanted Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai for a connection to the al-Qaeda bombings of multiple US embassies in East Africa in the 1990s and possibly to a planned attack on the Libyan embassy in 2012. Here is video of US commandos abducting him in almost exactly 75 seconds.
Read MoreNow that you have the right car for your crapcan racing project, you need other people to drive and/or work on it with you. Choose wisely, or you'll be at each others' throats.
Read MoreHere's the thing: If you happen to have an estate deep in the woods there probably aren't any sewage pipes around. So you bury a massive tank and call a vacuum truck twice a year to take care of its content. But what if you could have your own vacuum truck?
Read MoreYou know how it is. You gotta go the Walmart, pick up some lettuce and Duck Dynasty-branded control top pantyhose, and then oh hello, there's a 2015 Corvette Z06 prototype just hanging out in front of God and everybody like it's no big deal.
Read MoreVolvo is set to deploy their first car in the Australian V8 Supercars series in just a few weeks, and based on the way their new 650 horsepower Polestar V8 sounds, their competitors should be afraid. Very afraid.
Read MoreI'm sure we've all been, um, inexplicably aroused at certain inappropriate times, and that causes us to make some bad decisions. Like hitting on third cousins at your great uncle's funeral or something like that. But I'm not sure I've ever known inappropriate, aggressive horniness to cause a plane to land. Until now.
Read MoreThere's been a lot of hype and panic about cars being hacked and terrorist teens on laptops in desert bunkers taking over your Toyota, and up to now it's been mostly all just fodder for your crazy aunt to email you about. Now, however, a first viable general-use car-hacking tool has been developed that's also cheap.
Read MoreSo, it's been snowing nonstop across the United States for like three years now and that means police officers nationwide are burdened with clearing up more accidents and other traffic mishaps. But are drivers being stuck with the costs afterward?
Read MoreWhen the Tesla Model X first showed up in concept form in 2012, I think everyone looked at it and said "Those crazy DeLorean-style doors are neat, but there's no way they'll be on the production car." Turns out everyone was wrong!
Read More"It's like making out with a high school girlfriend and going for second base, only to suddenly realize — she isn't stopping you this time. Why isn't she stopping me? She always stops me."
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 9:30 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 MoreRule changes for the sake of "improving racing" tend to be the worst. They usually make cars slower, they usually make drivers slower, they usually make everything slower, and when anything slower it is definitively less fun. So that's why it's always a pleasant surprise when the opposite occurs.
Read MoreYou there! You, the converted professional non-van ram man who bought a Ram Promaster to become a pro-Promaster Ram van pro master-man, may have a slight issue on your hands. Your gas pedal might stick, leading to unintended acceleration, which will lead to a crash, which will lead to fiery death. Oops.
Read MoreParking is the worst, most boring part of driving. Especially when it's in a multi-level parking garage, and you have to be slow, and careful, and hate your life, because you can't find anything. But stomping on the loud pedal and elegantly drifting all the way to the top would be so much better.
Read MoreWe know a lot of things about the Toyota FT-1 Concept for sure. We know it was designed by the company's CALTY design studio. We know it would have 485 horses. We know it looks pretty swell. What we don't know for sure is if it is indeed the next Supra. But some people are claiming for sure that it is.
Read MoreSometimes, you just can't stop you now. Because you're having a good time. Yes, you're having a good time. You don't want to stop at all. You don't want to stop at aaaaaaaaalllllllllllll.
Read MoreThe 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have been a bit, shall we say, expensive. The equivalent of $51,000,000,000 in public funds was spent to make sure that everything went off without a hitch. This includes the most expensive road in the world. But if you want to get from the opening ceremony to the ski slope, it'll cost you. A lot.
Read MoreColin's Crest is a jump at the Rally Sweden, specially built to honor the late Colin McRae. Though it may not be the biggest or fastest jump in WRC, it's certainly pretty, and if you jump the furthest you get a little trophy. Sebastian Ogier might need a big trophy though this year, because he just crushed the record.
Read MoreYes, we stopped MotorWeek Theater a few months ago. But we had to bring it back for this. One entire hour of car information from the people at MotorWeek and Cars.com.
Read MoreEdible cars could solve a lot of the world's problems. We can't make space for more cars. They pile up in junkyards when we discard them. And there are many people going hungry.
Read MoreI'm not exactly sure what it says about modern humanity, but I'm genuinely surprised that there's no record of a person eating a car. Logically, this shouldn't even be a question worth asking, but most people I talk to are pretty sure someone's done it. But I don't think that's the case, which means a huge opportunity for you.
Read MoreEvery single time a new Corvette is released, we hear how it'll be the standard of the world. The same has been said about the 2014 Corvette Stingray. But is that true? Let's find out.
Read MoreAutomotive awards are so damn boring. I can't remember which car company won the WAPOW or the NECTARINE, and which one had the magazine ad with the trophy in it. I'm too busy with my ADD and this copy of Entertainment Weekly.
Read MoreThree years ago last month, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head during a mass shooting in Tuscon that left six others dead. Giffords' recovery since then has been arduous, with the now-former politician having to undergo several procedures and re-learn basic skills — including driving, which she did for the first time since the incident this week.
Read MoreAfter numerous complaints about the bad state of a South African road, some members of Parliament decided to give an inspection to see if it was as accident-prone as suggested. And then this happened.
Read MoreTaxis are OK for getting across a city. But if you have to leave the state, that's what buses, planes and trains are for. Especially when you're trying to get from New York to a suburb of Boston.
Read MoreDaimler may have given its investors a sneak preview of a new coupe due out this year. By power of deduction, it's likely this is the 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe. In a change for Mercedes, this coupe appears to have only two doors.
Read MoreKinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, isn't a great destination for orderly-traffic fetishists. Generally, it's chaos. But, if you happen to be a much more exciting giant robot fetishist, it's a great place, all thanks to inventor Isaie Therese and her 8-foot tall traffic control robots.
Read MoreSpecial editions have long been a sign of laziness, a way to make people think a car is new when all it has is a chrome badge and two-tone paint. Unless it's a Signature Series, like Jason suggested. Then it's something that'll be hilarious 20 years from now, if not today.
Read MoreFellow Millennials, we’re back in the news again, and this time it isn’t for being a bunch of layabouts with degrees in Interpretive Dance who refuse to buy cars because we hate cars. No, this time, it’s because we suck at fixing our cars, apparently.
Read MoreThe car you drive likely weighs something around 3,000 pounds. The Citroën C4-Cactus is just as big and as roomy as yours, only it weighs about a thousand pounds less and gets twice the gas mileage.
Read MoreYou know how you and your wife got all that plastic surgery so you'd look just like Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson circa 1988? And you know how it still doesn't feel quite right? Then boy are you in luck, because your answer is right here. You need the Burt and Loni motorized wedding stagecoach.
Read MoreHoward Stern is one of the most interesting — and peculiar — men in show business. That's why his entire time with Jerry Seinfeld is like a trip to some very strange therapist's office.
Read MoreWelding the diff: the mythical car ruiner/drift potential unlocker that mystifies the misinformed of the multitudinous manifestations of car culture. Well, humans, it can be done right!
Read MoreThe Subaru WRX is one of those wonderful "do everything" cars. It's fast, it handles well, it can go anywhere, and it's tough as nails — all while being superbly practical. Here's something else it can do: pull cop cars out of Michigan snow.
Read MoreHow do you skate justice after you kill four people and injure two others in a car crash because you were drunk three times past the legal limit and hopped up on Valium? That's easy! You just need super-rich parents. They can simply pay for your rehab so you don't go to prison.
Read MoreGeorge R.R. Martin lives a more humble life than you might imagine. Parked outside his Santa Fe home, right next to his castle-shaped mailbox, is a first generation Mazda RX-7.
Read MoreGM CEO Mary Barra has only been on the job about a month, but she's had a good run so far. She sat next to Michelle Obama at the State of the Union address and was even named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine today. Does that make her feel better about getting paid less than her male predecessor?
Read MoreAfter Subaru discontinued the wild turbo manual versions of the Legacy, there weren't many reasons to buy one. The 2015 Subaru Legacy, however, makes a compelling case for most buyers in this class: It gets 36 highway MPG even with standard all-wheel drive.
Read MoreThe car world is a confusing place, where Aston Martin will sell you knockoff Chinese plastic and BMW will sell you a four-door version of the two-door version of their four-door. These ten cars are the most existentially troubling of all.
Read MoreHeroin! Last week we weren't talking about it at all, today it's a global pandemic. The latest in white-horse escapades went flying down Woodward Avenue yesterday and culminated in the arrest of a father, mother and son.
Read MoreWhen was the last time you saw a second-generation BMW X3? Are you sure it wasn't an X1? Unless you live near BMW offices or factories, the X3 has gotten a little lost in the category it helped invent: The compact luxury crossover. The 2015 BMW X3 xDrive28d could very likely change that.
Read MoreThe Bugatti Veyron, once the most expensive, fastest car in the world, is dolled up like a patrol car in Dubai. That's it. It's finally happened.
Read MoreIn the World Rally Championship, a Volkswagen Polo is the weapon VW deploys to annihilate the competition. But for Global RallyCross, they're about to unleash a nasty beast of a Beetle that no one will be making flower vase jokes about.
Read MoreIt's hard to imagine there's a lucrative business in making fake plastic for faulty accelerator pedal arms in Aston Martins, but it appears we've been proven wrong.
Read MoreWhen it comes to asshat parking jobs, there just seems to be one kind of driver who does it more than most. And people in Russia have way less patience for that shit.
Read MoreThe rich of the world are gathering in Paris for another glut of extraordinarily expensive classic cars up at auction, this time from Bonhams. What makes this auction different is that it's in Le Grand Palais in Paris and holy shit is it gorgeous.
Read MoreNo one can say that 19-year-old Max Wade lacked determination. In order to steal a Lamborghini that belonged to celebrity chef and human cheese fry Guy Fieri back in 2011, Wade rappelled into a San Francisco car dealership, cut the locks, and drove away. Now we have video.
Read MoreIn further evidence that Chief American Gearhead Joe Biden is becoming indistinguishable from his Trans Am-loving persona in The Onion, the Vice President took time out of a speech to the UAW to stress one thing: how awesome the 2015 Corvette Z06 is.
Read MoreRemember the Volkswagen Taigun? A few years ago, VW showed us this cute-ute concept with lots of promises of fuel efficiency. Now we've got a revised concept with... a wheel on the back? Cool, I guess.
Read MoreSad news today for fans of Regular Car Reviews and the Toyota Echo (though I'm sure there are more of one than the other): our faithful reviewer's 2002 five-speed Echo was in a devastating crash. Now he's wondering where the popular YouTube show goes from here.
Read MoreOn today's Answers of the Day feature, one of the obscure car commercials you found was for the Cadillac BLS. And seeing the BLS in motion horrified me on a very fundamental level.
Read MoreAudi came out with a new teaser video today that indicates they have something interesting up their sleeves, but they aren't saying what it is. They did drop a few clues that make us think it's probably the 2015 Audi S1. Here's why.
Read MoreAre you in the market for a second-gen four-door Chevy Blazer with decent miles, four-wheel-drive and enough cargo room to carry around dismembered body parts? A charity lot in Detroit has just the one for you!
Read MoreCitroën has always been one of boredom’s most dedicated foes, and the leaked images of their new C4 Cactus reveal a car very well equipped to do battle with ennui. Who else but Citroën could get away with naming a car after an immobile desert plant with spines and fill it with shock-absorbing body panels?
Read MoreWe don't really see Protons much here in America, and by "much" I mean "absolutely never at all ever ever." Like many things foreign and unseen in the US, they don't really enjoy a very good reputation. But maybe this car will open some minds.
Read MoreAll carmakers, feel free to give up now, you'll never beat these press pics for the 1989 Nissan Pao.
Read MoreJoel Highsmith built a Dodge Challenger with the goal of breaking the 200 mph barrier at events like the Mojave Mile. Now that dream is shattered because the car has been stolen. Let's see if we can find it.
Read MoreIf you do it right, an advertisement can tell a story just as effectively as a book, a movie, a TV show or anything else. And for the past four years Chrysler has been selling us a story of an economic downturn, a city and a nation in crisis, and now, a big comeback. So where does it go next?
Read MoreI've been thinking pretty sentimentally about dogs recently, but I suppose I have that luxury because I've never had one of my dogs eat my Aston Martin. I don't actually own a dog-eaten Aston Martin, but Royston Grimstead of Somerset, UK can't say that, unfortunately.
Read MoreSince first stepping in a go-kart at age 13, it's taken me exactly ten of the most nerve wracking, disorienting and exciting years of my life to reach the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Through those ten years, almost $10 million dollars of funding has been spent by sponsors, investors and owners on me.
Read MoreBMW drivers get accused of being dicks probably more than any other group of motorists, so critics of a popular Russian satirist may have found the most BMW-appropriate form of protest ever. Russia, everybody!
Read MoreThere's very little about most top-tier motorsports that resembles the kind of driving ordinary people do every day. Except for the Monte Carlo Rally, and that's what makes it the most realistic (and challenging) rally in the world.
Read MoreNot since Schaefer and Elrick blew the lid off the Kilpatrick scandal by obtaining all those salacious text messages has the Detroit Free Press delivered a hard-hitting story sure to impact the lives of Metro Detroiters for generations to come. The Freep has just now uncovered that Lupita Nyong'o's rack is awesome, but Lena Dunham's isn't.
Read MoreOh, Nissan. Why do you tease us so? First you taunt us with your lovely but frustratingly not-yet-available prototypes, and now we find that the picture of a man holding your new 400 HP, 3 cylinder Le Mans engine is heavily photoshopped? Come on, Nissan, stop jerking us around and just find someone who can actually lift the damn thing.
Read MoreHaving sex in a car is nothing new. You just need to do it in a secluded spot. A Pennsylvania couple parked in a garage to do it, but didn't turn the car off. That proved to be a fatal move. They both died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Read MoreIn typical Subaru fashion, it's not as wild and angry as the Subaru Legacy Concept from last year, but it looks decent overall. Ladies and gents, meet the 2015 Subaru Legacy. Not bad, right?
Read MoreYou knew this was coming. Last night on "Conan," O'Brien presented an "extended cut" of Bob Dylan's Chrysler 200 Super Bowl ad, with a usual bit of sly commentary that pokes some holes in the "America's Import" balloon.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Curbside Classic, Racer and New Republic.
Read MoreForget all those bullshit Guinness records about drifting. This is what real, mad powersliding (for just under nine minutes straight) looks like.
Read More"Every time a Volkswagen hits 100,000 miles, a German engineer gets his wings." We'll ignore for a second some of the sexism inherent in that Super Bowl ad and look into what Volkswagen really revealed with it.
Read MoreThe car only shows up in the last ten seconds of this video, but some of you will recognize it long before then.
Read MoreWhen we discovered that you can get the BMW 320i with a manual transmission and sport package, we heralded it as the best 3-Series money can buy (and the unofficial "Jalopnik Edition"). But don't just believe us, take Chris Harris's word for it.
Read MoreThis past weekend, I had to put my 14+ year old dog, Virginia, to sleep. She had a pretty aggressive cancerous tumor in her mouth that was bleeding everywhere and getting too big to live with. It was time, but it wasn’t easy.
Read MoreDuring the Super Bowl, Volkswagen attempted to convince America that their cars no longer need to be dumped the second they go off warranty by showing all the German engineers who get their wings when those cars hit 100,000 miles. So, uh, where are the ladies?
Read MoreWhile electric hybrids are one way of going forward, Audi is also experimenting with e-ethanol and e-diesel at its research facility in New Mexico. This image taken by a high-speed camera shows fuel shooting into a pressure chamber at up to 15 bar and 662 degrees Fahrenheit.
Read MoreHey. That's my car. Bet you didn't know it had a rotary engine. ROTARY ENGINE. TRIANGLES.
Read MoreThe best Super Bowl ads are the surprising ones these days. Not surprisingly bad or the surprisingly long-lasting, but the ones that aren't teased or too buzzy ahead of time, just the ones we least expect. This year, Maserati (of all companies) was so close to hitting the mark perfectly with the Maserati Ghibli it's worth discussing how they did it.
Read MoreNo one can put wraps on their cars anymore. That trend is officially over now. Canadian dance music producer Deadmau5 just dropped the mic on car wrapping for good with his wonderful Ferrari 458 Italia Nyan Cat wrap. Nothing can top this supreme auto troll.
Read MoreIf you were distracted by Bob Dylan's surprising clarity or the pointed message of Chrysler's Super Bowl ad, you probably didn't see that the "Imported From Detroit" tag was dropped in favor of "America's Import." But the 200 commercial was still chok-full of Detroit goodness.
Read MoreIf the last Chrysler 200 was imported from Detroit, the new Chrysler 200 is nothing but USA, USA, USA. If this ad is all about what America does right, then this ad is all about patriotism done right.
Read MoreThe Super Bowl ad for the Maserati Ghibli blew the doors off of everybody, mostly because car nuts weren't expecting it and most Americans hadn't heard of it. But after that one ad, everybody's now looking up Maserati's entry offering. And as the Maserati site is currently down, this is your Maserati Ghibli explainer.
Read MoreWe're fans of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, thus we're pleased to see the secret reunion project that had George Costanza (Jason Alexander) and Jerry Seinfeld at Tom's restaurant was for the web series.
Read MoreWas not expecting that. That's a Maserati Ghibli on a Super Bowl ad. Chrysler made everyone think they were doing an ad for the 200 there and, BOOM, it's a Maserati ad — something as unlikely as a safety on the first play.
Read MoreWelcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Read MoreThe European Union is secretly developing technology that would be fitted to all new cars that would enable police to remotely stop any vehicle they want just by pressing a button, according to a report from The Telegraph. Either this is a huge advance in policing or a massive invasion of privacy. Or potentially both.
Read MoreFor years, I have been saying that while the BMW 3-Series Coupe and its successor the 4-Series are great, an extra set of doors would make them way more practical. It seems BMW has listened to me, because here is the 2015 4-Series Gran Coupe in full.
Read MoreThere was an old anti-piracy ad that said something completely inane like "you wouldn't download a car, so why would you download music?" It was ridiculous and everybody laughed mercilessly. Except now, Honda is actually letting – nay, encouraging – you to download their cars. Or 3D models of its cars, at least.
Read MoreThe 2014 Winter Olympics begin in Sochi, Russia this upcoming week, and still, despite my constant stream of strongly worded letters, they've ignored all of my pleas to include some car-based events in the festivities. Clearly, this is an outrage that should not stand.
Read MoreTomorrow marks the start of the only truly American holiday, besides Christmas, which is the Super Bowl. Vast quantities of chips, dip, 19-foot-long sandwiches, and various other culinary accoutrements will be consumed, while we all watch wealthy men with an undeniable preference for the Cadillac Escalade hurl themselves at each other with terrifying speed. But, while we're with friends, why don't we all admit what the game is really about?
Read MoreThere's a famous scene from the movie Hot Fuzz where the characters fear that an old sea mine will detonate, so they run about 20 feet and jump over a low wall. Lucky for them, it doesn't explode, but after seeing this World War II sea mine explode on the beaches of Katwijk Aan Zee, Netherlands, I think they'd be very, very dead.
Read MoreA man attacked a used car dealership in England with an axe and a knife this week, after it sold him a car that he no longer found satisfactory, ten years ago. Because that makes a lot of sense.
Read MoreIn 1967, a Chevy Caprice was feted as the 100-millionth GM vehicle built in America. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caprice wagon wasn't that car, but you'll still need to decide if the rarity of its specs will make its price one for the record books too.
Read MoreCelebrity cars carry a certain cachet, with the exception of course of the Chevrolet Celebrity. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes is said to have had none other than Tom Cruise's ass in its driver's seat, and do you think that will make its price worth celebrating?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Summit is an Eagle whose turbo twin cam will likely let you soar. Will you find its price however, keeps it firmly grounded?
Read MoreWhen it comes to news outlets you don't get much more conservative than FOX. In a similar vein, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi Fox is a pretty traditional take on the family sedan, but will you find its price to be fair and balanced?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds is named for a small sword that was once considered to be the sailor's weapon of choice. This Cutlass wagon's weapon happens to be a Buick V6, but will its price prove it to be a good choice as well?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '78 Cedric is claimed to be the only one in the United States, that's it, no mas. Coincidentally, there's an old song by Harry Nilsson that claims that one is the loneliest number. Will the numbers in this Nissan's price ensure that it's the lonely one?
Read MoreThe Terminator is a killing machine sent from the future to wear sunglasses and eff shit up. In contrast, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe T3 Tundra is a special edition from one of the turdier of the Terminator movies. Does its price however, still make it a killer deal?
Read MoreLet's face it, the appearance of Alfa Romeo's Milano is an acquired taste. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Verde however, makes up for its looks - and honestly this one's not that bad - with a sweet 3.0. You'll need to decide if this one's price however,makes it worth acquiring.
Read MoreAMC is presently where you watch the Walking Dead, but for those who remember it's also a long-dead automaker. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe AMX may need to be brought back from the dead, but based on its price, will you recommend potential buyers should just keep on walking?
Read MoreBMW hasn't offered a manual in their U.S.-bound 7-series for years. That wasn't always the case, and in fact today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 733i comes from an era when the big Bimmer still let you row your own. Will it's price however, make you reject it automatically?
Read MoreDespite its fervently religious livery, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe HiJet doesn't require an act of faith to appreciate its cuteness. It's price on the other hand may need divine intervention.
Read MoreThe Marlboro Man died of lung cancer, how's that for a non-ironic passing. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Marlboro Syclone doesn't need a Surgeon General warning, but will its price still prove bad for the heart?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda has less miles than the worlds worst jazz collection. Does that lack of use however, make its price a deal by a country mile?
Read MoreIn the 1975 film of the same name, Dustin Hoffman's character paid dearly - or was it toothily - to be the Marathon Man. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Checker Marathon is a lot easier on the teeth, but is its price still too dear?
Read MoreCombo meals can make fast food ordering even easier and more economical. Likewise, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe combo Sebring/Blazer means never having to decide between fun in the sun and 4x4 git 'er done. But will its price make this combo worth ordering?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe jet-powered go kart - yes, that's right, jet-powered go kart - even has a second seat for someone to be goose to your maverick. Is its price however, cleared for takeoff?
Read MoreWhile the K70 was officially Volkswagen's first FWD car, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '73 presently has its engine in the rear. You'll of course need to decide if that makes its price something not worth getting behind.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe VehiCROSS represents not only the most audacious vehicle Isuzu ever marketed in the U.S., but also one of the most visually distinctive products ever to come out of any manufacturer. You'll need to see if its price appears as arresting.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Opel is in Decatur Illinois and is claimed to have fewer than 40K on the clock. You'll need to decide if that low mileage is an indicator (see what I did there?) of its five-grand price being a deal or not.
Read MoreThe seller of today's FJ60 describes it as one of a kind, owing to its well-considered modifications. You'll need to decide what kind of price it is: Nice Price or Crack Pipe?
Read MoreThere are two constants when it comes to the history of the Italian vehicle industry – beauty, and speed. Unfortunately those two aspects don't always come with a third characteristic, reliability, but sometimes, the thing looks just so perfect and so blazing fast sitting still that none of that matters. This stream-lined, winged, and finned contraption is the prettiest plane to never make it into the air. This is the Piaggio P. 7.
Read MoreLong before Igor Sikorsky emigrated to the US and started building helicopters, he was a pioneer of early aviation in Russia. And looming large among his early accomplishments was the development of the first multi-engine aircraft, The Grand, which nobody thought would fly. Oh, and it had a balcony.
Read MoreHave you ever seen a photo of a bunch of people, and picked yourself out in it, only to find out it's not you, just some creepy dude/she-dude that looks just like you? Sure you have. This happens with cars, too, sometimes. So what are your favorite two cars that, sharing no common development, end up remarkably alike?
Read MoreThe more you learn about race cars, the more you see the same names pop up when it comes to engines. For instance, just one man headed Porsche's race engine development from the late 1950s through the 1990s.
Read MoreEveryone knows the Porsche company's origin story, right? He designed a "People's Car" for that guy everyone gets compared to on the Internet, a racing version was made before WWII but never used, and then after the war he built the first real Porsche sports car in a Austrian garage. But something's missing in the middle there.
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 MoreAll lovers of all things that are great, rejoice! Rejoice! For there is finally justice in the world. Celebratory donuts are now permitted in the mercurial realm that is Formula One. But only for the race winner.
Read MoreThere's petrol power, there's turbo power and there's girl power. The following ten women taught the most lessons to all the men clogging up the racetracks.
Read MoreCheapo beater endurance racing series such as the 24 Hours of LeMons and ChumpCar are a great chance to do wheel-to-wheel racing for a relatively small price. In these series, the first decision you make is often the one that can make you a racing hero or destroy what's left of your sanity. So how do you pick the "right" car?
Read MoreJust this morning, I found myself wondering when a pic of the all-new 2015 Audi TT would leak out before next week's Geneva Motor Show. Lo and behold, here it is! Meet the next generation of Audi's sport coupe.
Read MoreThe Hennessey Venom GT just hit 270 MPH on a runway. The Koenigsegg One:1 thinks that's cute. And that's because it should be able to hit 280 MPH. Oh, and it can go around corners like mad. Welcome to the new king. This is our behind the scenes look at the world's new mega car.
Read MoreFord's loving its new Aston-ish corporate grille so much that it's taken delight in slapping it on everything they make. It began with the Fusion, carried over onto the Fiesta and the 2015 Ford Mustang, and now here it is on the facelifted 2015 Ford Focus.
Read MoreSpecial edition cars can be pretty hit or miss. They can either offer features you really want or be completely and utterly ridiculous. This new special edition Aston Martin V8 Vantage falls into both those categories — but in a good way.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Scirocco R is a very exciting sport coupe. We do not get it in America. Now, Volkswagen has upgraded its engine to make it the most powerful Scirocco ever. It will be an extremely awesome car for us to never drive.
Read MoreWe saw the first picture of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe the other day, but it was all weird looking because it was ripped off of a presentation of financial information, and those things are always distorted. Now here's the first shot in its pure, full glory.
Read MoreKoenigseggs are not for children. They're for hairy chested adults (men or women, doesn't matter, just need hair on the old chest) who don't get terrified easily. The new One:1 will make a lumberjack out of anyone.
Read MoreMaybe it's been the exciting, messiah-like death-and-rebirth of China's lunar rover, Jade Rabbit, but I've been thinking a lot about robotic space rovers lately. There haven't really been all that many — just eight have actually made it to either the moon or Mars. And now, for your use, are all eight collected on this handy chart!
Read MoreChinese Lunar Rover Death Watch, Day 17: It turns out the beleaguered Yutu, aka Jade Rabbit, may not be going gently into that good space-night. Hang in there, little dude!
Read MoreBackup cameras are increasingly popular options on new cars, and there's a good chance they'll be standard equipment for safety reasons in a few years. So why are we still using a piece of glass to see behind us most of the time?
Read MoreMarc Ackerley had a problem. He claims women were overcome with lust when they saw him driving around in his Ferrari F430, but they had no way of contacting him for a date or possible bang session in said Ferrari.
Read MoreAs we drive down the road, Christian von Koenigsegg laughs. "A GM engineer said we'd never have an engine without a camshaft a few years ago. We were driving in a car without a camshaft at the time, so he must have been wrong." Welcome to the future.
Read MoreEver since America escaped the tyranny of the round and rectangular sealed beams, there's been continuous and determined progress in the field of seeing at night with your car. We've gone from incandescents to halogens to HIDs to LEDs, and now, finally, we're going to have lasers. Like a pair of Death Stars at the front of your car.
Read MoreImagine a world where everyone's cars are in constant communication with one another so they can act in an emergency to prevent a crash. That's what the federal government said they want today, with a "moonshot" goal of preventing up to 80 percent of crashes.
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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 9:30 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 San Felipe 250 will pit trucks, bikes, and ATVs against each other and the desert tomorrow, kicking off a five-race championship off-road racing series.
Read MoreJacksonville, Florida Councilman Reggie Brown thinks food trucks are coming up a little too fast in his town. He wants to tighten regulations on mobile food vendors to create a "level playing field" in the town's food-purveying industry. Food truck owners adamantly disagree.
Read MoreYou read that correctly, Brabus has informed us that their new Mercedes-Benz G65-based "800 iBusiness" can apparently do anything.
Read MoreI'm here in Tahoe to drive the new Suburbans and Tahoes and other massive SUVs, but of course all I really care about are very small trucks. And, finally, it looks like I'm not alone, because I believe GM has a very quiet program to make a new small truck similar to the old Chevy Luv.
Read MoreYesterday the first batch of 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel trucks began shipping out to Ram dealers from Chrysler's Warren, MI Truck Assembly Plant. The wait to see how America's new diesel-powered half ton performs in the field is almost over!
Read MoreWhether you drive the same truck your grandpa did or you're the only pickup owner on your block, Truck Yeah! wants to know which pickup truck badge you stand behind and why.
Read MoreLoud and proud luxury tuner Brabus has a new widebody kit for the 2014 Range Rover Sport through their subsidiary STARTECH, which drops and stretches the SUV into a performance hatchback look. I dare say, I think they're pulling it off.
Read MoreFord is decreeing today the 80th anniversary of the Australian-invented car-based roadgoing pickup known as the 'ute,' and in recognition we found a bit of backstory on the practical utility cars so beloved in the Land Down Under.
Read MoreGM has been boasting about a "10% improvement in fuel economy over the outgoing models" for the 2015 Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade. The EPA has now released the figures to substantiate that claim.
Read MoreFrench authorities have made "one of their largest cocaine seizures in years" finding 1.393 tons of the drug in plastic bags hidden in the tires of an 8x8 Dakar support truck belonging to the Spanish Epsilon Team.
Read MoreSome 13,000 2012 to 2014 Nissan Frontiers are being recalled due to a circuit that was installed backwards, resulting in an overheat and potentially causing a fire.
Read MoreAs recently as last month I would have considered myself a stark opponent of on-road biased pickups. I'm still not in love with the idea, but a few days in a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado High Country taught me to stop worrying and accept the glam truck for what it is— an ostentatious luxury car with a hose-out trunk.
Read MoreTesla might want to reconsider shunning that electric pickup truck idea after they see this kickass Prius pickup conversion.
Read MoreThe owner of this Jeep Wrangler TJ Unlimited probably didn't imagine he'd be the one getting rescued if he ever hooked up his winch to a compact Acura Integra. But alas, it appears a little parking lot snowbank was too much for his truck. Cue the wave of Wrangler-owners facepalms.
Read MoreFord has gone to great lengths to ensure that the 2015 Ford F-150 can handle stereotypical pickup truck drivers: big ass'ed American men.
Read MoreThe Local Motors crew gave me a sparkly Gazoo helmet and promised me a good time if I'd just shut up and climb in one of their Rally Fighters for a "trip around the block," which included hitting the jump in their parking lot and sliding around a dirt course for half an hour.
Read MoreWe all love automotive art, and I'm especially excited to report that some good old everyman trucks have finally been selected up as the subject of artistic rendering!
Read MorePresident Barack Obama delivered an address today at a Safeway grocery distribution center in Upper Marlborough, Maryland describing what he wants from future commercial trucks.
Read MoreSome of the top off-road racers in UTVs want to tell you why their wacky mini-buggies are awesome, and they might convince you to pay attention to their class next time you're following a desert race.
Read MoreI spotted this mid-90's Honda Odyssey in the taxi stand of the Nassau airport and thought I might have discovered an uncelebrated Bahamian tuner minivan culture. But no, apparently the second generation Odyssey everywhere outside America kept conventional doors and got a little sporty.
Read MoreThe Australian car industry might be running out of juice, but Down Under military machine manufacturer Thales is still determined to represent what the country can do in manufacturing.
Read MoreThe 2014 Australasian Safari route will enter some particularly hot and rocky terrain known as the Pilbara, home to temperatures up to 120ºF and some of the Earth's oldest rocks.
Read MoreToyota just issued a brake-related recall on the 2012 RAV4, 2012-2013 Tacoma, and 2012-2013 Lexus RX350. Looks like a buildup of oxide film in a brake actuator terminal can render Vehicle Stability Control, Traction Control, and ABS inoperative.
Read MoreA Wisconsin Ford dealership's idea to make an "Aaron Rodgers Edition F-150" wasn't bad per se, but their execution was lacking. The metaphors, they write themselves.
Read MoreThe 2014 King Of The Hammers race had 159 entrants, and 126 DNFs. When you watch this video, you’ll see why— it’s a whole new level of hell on equipment. The action starts about a minute in.
Read MoreA trucker who attempted an irresponsible pass that nearly caused a catastrophic semi-truck pile-up on Ontario Highway 11 is now facing severe criminal charges.
Read MoreI recently got to experience the OnStar-based eNav "GPS lite" that GM offers to customers too cheap to order the proper map-based navigation. Those people may have saved a few bucks at the dealership, but they're going to pay for the duration of their vehicle ownership with pain and suffering.
Read MoreRumors are circulating forums that a suspension lift on the 2014 Jeep Cherokee is not possible. A reputable shop currently developing parts for the new Cherokee has determined that while it may be possible, "it is definitely not feasible." UPDATED
Read MoreThe AEV Brute is the modern Jeep Wrangler pickup enthusiasts crave but Chrysler denies. For those who want a little more luxury with that look, AEV has teamed up with fancy L.L. Bean-type company Filson for a special edition of the truck.
Read MoreTruck Yeah: 1, Snow: 0. WCNC staffer Jeremy Markovich caught this F-150 SuperCab going rogue to get out of gridlock in snow-sieged Charlotte, North Carolina. Carrying a quad for extra badassity, no less.
Read MoreBetween 6:15 and 7:00 this morning, a black GMC Syclone pickup and black GMC Typhoon SUV were stolen from 19th Ave & Pacific Ave in Venice, California. If you're in the area, keep your eyes open for these iconic sport trucks and let's rack up another rescue by the Jalopnik readers!
Read MoreTrevor Gordon's surfing trip in his Jeep Comanche camper captures the emotions of independence, isolation, and adventure so well I can almost feel the sand under my boots and cold mist on my hands watching this.
Read MoreThe 5.0 Cummins turbo diesel we're waiting for in the 2015 Nissan Titan is likely to show up in a competitor's truck as well— the 2016 Toyota Tundra.
Read MoreThe Land Rover Discovery II had a facelift for 2003 and 2004, the last years it would bear that badge in the US. Though notoriously troublesome to owners, these were some of the handsomest SUVs ever.
Read MoreI had a chance to climb around a redesigned 2015 Lincoln Navigator at the Chicago Auto Show, and it's so nice to sit it that it might be a more viable competitor to GM's full-size SUVs than we originally thought.
Read MoreThe Big Three have been in something of a Mexican standoff regarding pickup tow ratings since the SAE started developing a "standard" in 2009— nobody wants to conform first. Now Ford has taken the initiative with a promise to adhere with the 2015 F-150, which could be the catalyst to standardize towing capacity claims.
Read MoreThis 1974 Dodge D800 Truck Factory Oleynik Race Car Transporter is one of the few relics I've ever seen from the support side of racing to survive outside a museum.
Read MoreIt's generally believed that the 2014 BMW X5M will be released late this year, but to hold the fans over they've just dropped the M Performance accessory line that adds a little balls and a lotta bling to the SUV they annoyingly classify as an "SAV."
Read MoreIf you occasionally need to move a ton of small things (or just one very large thing) there are numerous companies who will rent you a trailer. But how can you make sure you won't screw up? I went to U-Haul's test facility in Arizona to learn both the right and wrong way to tow a U-small trailer.
Read MoreThe mighty self-promoting PR machine that is Red Bull whipped up a mini-documentary about their "Frozen Rush" event at the Sunday River ski resort in Maine. This one includes some more great drifting shots and conversations with the drivers about the challenges of racing below 32º.
Read MoreHere at Truck Yeah!, we want to be taken seriously. Kinda. Ok, just a little. But we do endeavor to bring you accurate, unbiased evaluations of trucks, SUVs, vans, and maybe other stuff in a format that will give you everything you want to know, and do it better than the other guys.
Read MoreRemember that guy who plowed his driveway with an S4? Apparently he's into documenting his vehicle's feats of strength, and has now delivered pretty impressive footage of his 2000 Dodge Dakota V8 recovering an eighteen wheeler from a snowbank.
Read MoreThe center console of the 2014 Volkswagen Touareg is dominated by a golfball-sized knob with two settings: "On Road" and "Off Road." I had a feeling the inquiring minds of Truck Yeah! would be keen to know what it really does, so we had our test Touareg out in the muck for a spot of hooning and an off-road review.
Read MoreDue to hydraulic fracturing bringing the price of natural gas down, GM is launching a line of Silverado 2500HD and 3500HD pickups that can run CNG to pass the savings on to YOOOUUU!
Read MoreFord confirmed that the exterior styling and construction materials will remain unchanged for the 2015 F-250 Super Duty, and adamantly maintained that there is no diesel F-150 on the horizon. At least, not yet.
Read MoreThe bright-yellow F-150 emblazoned with TONKA logos at the Chicago Auto Show was hard to miss, even though it was wedged behind Ford's main display in the commercial truck section. The style's not for everybody, but the build quality was impressive.
Read MoreIt's an exciting time to be talking about trucks— every automaker is bending the throttle on innovation in the utility segment and it's all-out war to be king of every comparison. GM impressed me with their intelligent cruise control, but Ram's Nick Cappa wanted to address some things I might have missed.
Read MoreGM was officially first to launch a 2015 heavy duty pickup, and it doesn't suck. The redesigned 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 and 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 are not without fault, but they offer a significantly better towing experience than what the rest of the segment can offer. For now.
Read MoreI finally saw the Chevrolet Silverado Reaper beyond the confines of a Photoshop-scape yesterday at the Chicago Auto Show, and learned a few things about it that might make you reconsider writing it off over that wacky face.
Read MoreThe rest of the Jalopnik crew made fun of me for going gaga over the 2015 Chevrolet City Express van's cargo management features. Whatever, I say OEM cargo shelves are kickass and I don't care who knows it.
Read MoreThe freshly-unveiled Nissan Frontier Diesel Runner embodies some great ideas that really gets me fired up about the future of trucks: it's small, it's focused on efficiency, and it's being designed with off-road usage in mind.
Read MoreToyota's TRDPro Tundra, Tacoma, and 4Runner trucks just strutted their stuff on Toyota's Chicago Auto Show test track. Despite rumors that this was going to be Toyota's truck to challenge Raptor, that "stuff" is basically a cool FJ40-style grille badge and a few small tweaks.
Read MoreNASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using the SUV-sized rover called "Curiosity" to "assess ancient habitable environments and major changes in Martian environmental conditions." But it might get the chance to huck a sand dune in the name of preserving tires on the way to its next waypoint.
Read MoreRam beat everybody to a half-ton diesel pickup for the US, and their EcoDiesel V6 2WD just claimed top honors for fuel economy in the segment with 28-highway MPG and 420 lb-ft of torque.
Read MoreVW solidified their bid to be the official vehicle of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics five years ago, and have spent the time since assembling a 3,000 vehicle fleet that includes some insane Volkswagen Amarok monster trucks.
Read MoreThe Ford Raptor has pretty much owned the off-road oriented truck market since it was introduced a few years ago. That might change on February 6th, when Toyota drops their TRD Pro Series Tundra and 4Runner at the Chicago auto show.
Read MoreFord announced last week that it's planning for 11 weeks of downtime at its Dearborn Truck Plant and two weeks at their facility near Kansas City to retool for 2015 Ford F-150 production.
Read MoreThe latest in army truck awesomeness from the US Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin makes real-life Transformers look plausible— their new Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System (AMAS) brings fully robotic functionality to the US military's largest land vehicles.
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 MoreFollowing on the success of the new Golf GTI and GTD, Volkswagen is introducing an electrified version called the GTE. With a 1.4-liter 148 horsepower TSI engine and a 101 hp electric motor, it gives you a combined power of 201 hp and 258 lb-ft with remarkable mileage.
Read MoreAs an automotive buyer's consultant I have dealt with a lot of salespeople. Most of them are good, some of them not so good. One of the best salesmen I ever met didn't sell cars; he sold knock-off purses and wallets at a bazaar in Kusadasi, Turkey.
Read MoreCongratulations on your purchase of a hopeless project car, be it a crapcan racer or some other monstrosity that "ran when parked." Here are the tools you need to source to keep it from becoming a permanent piece of landscape art — especially if you don't usually do this sort of thing.
Read MoreMost car buyers focus all of their defensive negotiating strategies with the salesperson. Once a price has been decided on they think, “Whew, the hard part is over, now I just have to sign the papers.” If a buyer lets their guard down at this point, they can really get taken for a ride.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Petrolicious, the New York Times, and Hooniverse.
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