The Audi Le Mans team had a terrifying moment yesterday after their No. 1 R-18 e-tron quattro car was obliterated after it slammed into a wall during practice. Thankfully, and in what can be seen as a testament to the safety of modern race cars, driver Loic Duval was unharmed.
Read MoreLow-level cockpit videos shot from inside F-15E Strike Eagles are surprisingly rare considering that the "Mud Hen" was designed to fly low-level interdiction missions, but the two featured below are quite exhilarating.
Read MoreMarine all-weather fighter attack squadron VMFA(AW)-242 "Bats" took their missionized F/A-18Ds south from their home base in Japan to drop bombs and spar over the Australian Outback. This video is a little taste of what one such training mission was like.
Read MoreIn what was one of the most outrageous Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT) opportunities of the decade, and the first time the F-22 Raptor made a SE Asia international exercise appearance, Cope Taufan brought the US and Malaysian air arms closer together in a wonderfully aggressive manner.
Read MoreThey say Harrier pilots are some of the best in the world as the aircraft is notoriously hard to handle in hover. This video is further proof that this statement is true. Talk about nailing it!
Read MoreIsraeli Military Industries might have created the most extreme wheeled armored vehicle ever with their unveiling of the Combat Guard. This baby packs 54-inch tires, close to three feet of ground clearance, weighs eight tons and can go just about anywhere. Think rock crawler meets Stryker meets Lamborghini LM002 in Halo.
Read MoreAmerica's complex and costly ballistic missile defense programs regularly make the news, and although land based interceptor launch sites or AEGIS equipped Navy ships get the spotlight, few know of the small fleet of highly specialized sensor ships that have made this controversial technology possible.
Read MoreThis is one awesome air show video showcasing what the F-14D could do performance-wise. Not all Tomcat demos were created equal, and this one was very aggressive with even a nice flare release towards the end. The final Tomcat demonstration was flown on September 18th, 2005. A year later the F-14 would be removed from flight duties everywhere in the world aside from Iran.
Read MoreThe A-4 Skyhawk, also lovingly known as the "Scooter," was one cost effective little carrier capable jet that was first known for its ability to haul tons of bombs, and later for its nimbleness in a dogfight. These traits are precisely why Brazil procured it so late in life for its only aircraft carrier.
Read MoreAndersen AFB is located on the island of Guam, about two thirds of the way between Hawaii and Taiwan. Given its location, Andersen is one of America's most strategic outposts, and with it sprawling size it acts like gigantic aircraft carrier and sea base from which the USA can project immense power.
Read MoreA video is making its way around the net right now that featuring an interview with F-16 co-designer and king of the 1970's era "Fighter Mafia," Pierre Sprey. In it he slams the F-35 in almost every way possible. Sadly, about half of what he says is totally relevant, the other half is totally bullshit.
Read MoreDuring the recent air combat exercise known as "Eager Tiger," hosted by the Royal Jordanian Air Force, one of the contests was a race to see who could get strapped in their fighter jet and airborne the fastest.
Read MoreAmerica's air arms are increasingly under the threat of a wide array of surface-to-air missile systems, search radars and electro-optical tracking devices, yet it would take an air armada to move all these separate systems to training locations around the globe. The Joint Threat Emitter takes care of this problem.
Read MoreThe ultimate pit crew? Maybe, as the Slot Check is the last chance deck handlers and an aircraft's crew have to catch something wrong before the plane is hurtled off the deck by a steam powered piston at 200 mph. Check out what it looks like in first person in the amazing video below:
Read MoreThe A-7 Corsair II, known also as the SLUF, as in "Short Little Ugly Fucker," was a conservative balance of economy, persistence, payload, and technology, and its final design evolution, the A-7F, could have been the right fighter for the wars to come in the new millennium.
Read MoreThis video depicts Iraqi Mi-35M "Hind-E" advanced helicopter gunships, of which the Iraqi armed forces only have a handful in inventory, taking the fight to the ISIS in Northern Iraq. A much larger analysis on the events currently unfolding in Iraq will be posted soon. In the meantime, check out this amazing footage shot by another Iraqi aircraft, possibly another Hind-E or one of their militarized Cessna Caravans, of what Iraq is doing to stop the ISIS's push toward Baghdad.
Read MoreThe US Navy's submarine bases are some of the most high-security installations in the world, but one of their most important and shadowy submarine outposts is not located along the ocean, but rather in a lake in landlocked Idaho.
Read MoreIt is really amazing how much tensions have increased among major powers over the last year, and this reality has manifested itself in newsmaking air-to-air intercepts now occurring regularly around the globe. Just last week, three major intercepts made national news, all of which were unique in their own right.
Read MoreOnce again the ex-Commander In Chief, Vice President, CIA Director and TBM Avenger pilot took a leap out of a perfectly good aircraft to celebrate his birthday, of which this is his 90th.
Read MoreCanada's process for selecting a future fighter to replace its CF-18 Hornets has been a rocky one, with the F-35 option doing what it seems to do best: Making lots of controversy. All the while the most logical option, Boeing's Super Hornet Advanced is waiting in the wings.
Read MoreOne of Russia's Sukhoi T-50 prototypes had a very bad day recently, catching fire at the end of a test sortie and the resulting damage is pretty horrific.
Read MoreThe EA-6B Prowler, the last of the true Grumman Navy iron, is currently on its last cruise in the Persian Gulf. She has been almost entirely replaced by the way more modern E/A-18G Growler, although the USMC will continue to fly a couple dozen of these "flying frying pans" until the end of the decade.
Read MoreThe Navy's Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is one hell of a heavy hauling monster. Yet their large size that makes them so effective leaves their operators little margin for error when operating from the well-decks of the Navy's amphibious assault ships, especially at night.
Read MoreI have recently reported on the proliferation of shoulder-fired SAMs among separatist forces in Ukraine, but I have yet to hear of any hard figures as to how many Ukrainian aircraft have been lost as a result, although I think the number is probably well into double digit territory.
Read MoreDetails remain fairly scant at this point, but it appears that Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan has come under terrorist attack by gunmen strapped with explosives. The sky is bright red over NE Karachi and explosions continue to rock the airport's apron area.
Read MoreEveryone loves big planes. The bigger they are the more interesting they become. Famed mammoths like Howard Hughes' HK-1 "Hercules," otherwise known as the "Spruce Goose," and Antonov's gigantic An-225 "Dream" conjure up feelings that man has somehow cheated physics by creating such flying hulks.
Read MoreMan Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), otherwise known as shoulder fired heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, have become prevalent among pro-Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, and their results have been grimly realized over the last few weeks of fighting.
Read MoreIt was 70 years ago today that 156,000 Allied forces began their assault on France's Normandy coast. While the battle for Europe would last for months, D-Day marked the daring and brutal amphibious assault. Today we remember it with these stirring photos.
Read MoreWhen WWII started aviation experts were convinced no one could mass-produce the big, destructive B-24 Liberator bomber. A month before D-Day, a Ford factory was on the verge of producing one an hour. In this chapter from his new book, A.J. Baime explains why it was pivotal to defeating the Axis powers on this day 70 years ago. - Ed.
Read MoreThe electrifying video below depicts the tense moments before, during and after Bowe Bergdahl's transfer between Taliban and US Special Operations and possibly CIA or State Department personnel. Here's a breakdown of what it means.
Read MoreWhen it comes to the small world of aviation photography, José "Fuji" Ramos is notorious for taking fantastic shots, often times from the backseat of a Navy aggressor jet. Here's what he captures.
Read MoreThe fantastic and haunting short story "Superiority," written by the science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke in 1951, warns us about the opportunity cost of getting into a cycle of developing ever more complex and costly weaponry while sacrificing more numerous and proven systems in the process. It is an essay on numerical advantage, over-optimistic design goals, wanting to believe manufacturer excuses and the internal threat posed relying solely on exceedingly complex systems.
Read MoreThe AC-130 flying gunship fleet is one of the most fabled and feared assets in the entire USAF inventory. Known for its ability to unleash a broadside of cannon fire in the dead of night, the newest of the AC-130 lot is more about smart bombs than raining lead and howitzer shells down on the enemy.
Read MoreRemember last year when the Tesla Model S made a huge splash by nailing a near-perfect 99 out of 100 score in Consumer Reports? Now they have a second favorite, and it's the 2014 BMW M235i, a car we like very much as well.
Read MoreThe 2015 BMW M3 and M4 have a new, turbocharged inline six that's more powerful and torquey than the high-revving V8 of the previous M3. But that's not the whole story. They're also lighter, tighter and just as much fun. Here are a few things I learned from driving the two Mers at a spectacular American race course.
Read MoreThink you're committed to your car? You've got nothing on Miami restaurant mogul Gino Gargiulo, who loves his Lamborghini Aventador so much he commissioned a speedboat replica that's so outrageous it lives up to its namesake.
Read MoreRecently we learned that Dodge is seriously upping its muscle car game with the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. The coupe will sport a supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi V8 with north of 600 horsepower. That's the most powerful V8 Chrysler has ever made. Great. Swell. Neat-o. Now bring on the sedan.
Read MoreSo far we've heard the sound of the Mercedes-AMG GT, but we haven't had full details on the engine. Now we do. Meet the M178, a 4.0-turbo V8 that has at least 510 horsepower and will be in everything AMG touches. And yes, that should include Aston Martins.
Read MoreAfter what must've been a long and hard-fought battle to determine the Best of the Best Fiat and Maserati dealers to determine which was worthy of selling Alfa Romeos, the full list of the 86 winners is finally here. And there's some weirdness to it.
Read MoreLadies and gentlemen, I'm moving to Philadelphia. That's right: in less than three months, I'm going to pack up all my belongings and leave a city primarily known for violent crime in order to move to another city primarily known for violent crime, and also cheesesteaks.
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 MoreAston Martin offers a V8 Vantage that costs under $100,000. That means you can cross-shop a new Aston with a Jaguar F-Type R. But is the 2015 V8 Vantage GT a bargain, or a desperate ploy to sell a 10-year-old sports car facing its end times. We found out.
Read MoreThere are only two privately owned SCUD missile launchers in North America. Both of them are nestled in the hills above Silicon Valley and you can own one for a cool $300,000. But if you've got the cash, over 100 other pieces of historic military machinery is going on sale next month, and this is your crib sheet.
Read MoreThe Skoda Yeti is basically a Golf wearing rock climbing shoes that offers more space and slightly better value since it doesn't have a VW badge. But is America missing out on not getting Volkswagen's Czech family car?
Read MoreYou know the car that used to be cheap? Well, if you want to see any of these ten in your garage, you better buy them right now. Or you'll go broke when the time to buy comes.
Read MoreThe Buick Regal GS is a conundrum. It's not luxurious enough to be a Cadillac. It's not cheap enough to be Chevy. It's got big vents up front, but a small noise coming out the back. So what is it?
Read MoreCan you find your inner peace while riding an amphibious vehicle across a lake? I did.
Read More"Stop writing about that car!" you fine members of the commentariat often implore me. "I'm trying to buy one and I don't want the price to go up!"
Read MoreA set of wheels and tires from the factory costs somewhere around the vicinity of $86,000. Seriously. I checked. So that makes this random set of Bugatti Veyron rims and tires floating on eBay a relative bargain, with a starting bid at $30,000. Time to open up your wallets, kids.
Read MoreThe current Chevrolet Camaro has been amazing in its ability to upend the way we view traditional American muscle cars. It's a big, heavy, gas-guzzling V8 beast, but in Camaro ZL1 guise it can slay supercars, and the Camaro Z/28 is emerging as one of the best track-focused cars of our era.
Read MoreRemember the 8C? Neither does Alfa Romeo. That cynical, overpriced attempt at an American comeback was never mentioned while Alfa trumpeted its return to the U.S. And for good reason. The 4C puts that $300,000 hack job to shame in every department we care about, and does it at one-fifth the cost.
Read MoreAnd I'll be blasting a lot of this through its stereo.
Read MoreHow do you write a car review for something like this without resorting to tired, old cliches? I'm not sure you can, but what I am sure about is that this car deserves all of the praise it's been given. If you don't like 911s don't read on.
Read MoreWelcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today, we have reports from Yahoo! Motoramic, Salon and Quartz.
Read MoreSeeing as how today is Father's Day, I figured it's time for something all dads love – practical advice. So far we have determined a Lotus, a Nissan, a Fiat, a Bentley, a Wienermobile, a Ford, a Ford, a Porsche, and a Volkswagen will all Baby to some degree. But is there one car you'd recommend above all others?
Read MoreIt doesn't fly, and by the looks of it back when it hit the auction block earlier this year, it didn't even drive. But Ringbrothers turned that 1972 Winnebago Brave into a tiki-wagon, with an interior inspired by WWII aircraft, in six months. Shut up. Oh. It has a pizza oven.
Read MoreWhat if you got a 1970 Citroen DS21 Pallas in white with lots of chrome, but you don't like white or chrome? You wrap it and go a bit loco in the process.
Read MoreOur friends at Regular Car Reviews have never reviewed a car more simply "there" than the Dodge Nitro. It's a car that could have only existed in it's time, and could have only been created without Lee Iacocca at the helm of Chrysler.
Read MoreSome cars are best left untouched in a garage. Some cars are best when driven but care is taken in their upkeep. But these 10 cars are better when you beat the living piss out of them.
Read MoreLast time I checked, Jay Kay had a collection of about forty cars or so. As it turns out, Jamiroquai's main man has over a hundred in his garage by now, and the latest is a LaFerrari wearing the green of the Italian flag. Or Kermit the Frog, depending on how you think.
Read MoreIt's impossible not to take a second look when you see any Lamborghini. They have so much style, so much aggression, so much charisma, that they seem to shout out you with nothing but their pure visual allure. Even in silver.
Read MoreCompared to most mainstream special-interest sites, I suspect that Jalopnik readers are far more familiar with the Dragons Fucking Cars meme/movement than most. Even so, this is one of those things that you can never know too much about, which is why I was so pleased to see this interview with one of the movement's leaders.
Read MoreFirst, a warning. This article is going to be so geeky, so niche, so insanely VW Beetle-geek focused that those of you not crazily interested in Beetle minutia should probably just close the window now. Really. For those who can hang, get a drop cloth, because minds will be blown, Beetle-taillight-wise.
Read MoreYour son loves DeLoreans. You, his mom, knows this. The world's best DeLorean show is in Ohio. Problem: You live in Russia. What do you do? You go to Ohio, introduce your son to Doc Brown, and reinforce your title as Russia's best mom.
Read MoreRemember when anyone with a few bucks, some fiberglass and a weird automotive vision could start a car company? It happened. You know the big names like Zimmer and Stutz and the small ones like the Leata Cabalero. But do you know the Pegasus?
Read MoreOne of my personal automotive missions is to bring more attention to the very early period of automobiles. As in the hundred or so years before the usual assumed "invention" of the car by Karl Benz. For real automotive firsts, let's talk about Rickett's Steam Carriage.
Read MoreSome of you may recall my attempts to public verify my idiocy by almost wrecking a dragster. Incredibly, drag racing legend Frank Hawley managed to forgive me, and gave me another shot in one of his dragsters. I didn't destroy it, but I did lose a race. By being faster. I'll explain.
Read MoreBel Air, a money-saturated part of the west side of LA, is usually known for lovely, high-maintenance trophy wives driving lovely, high-maintenance cars. What's less common are octogenarian couples flipping Hondas and then posing with them like freaking rock stars, but that's what we have here today.
Read More"That's not the motorcycle I want," you think, about the new Ariel Ace. "That's rubbish, it's got the wrong forks and the wrong seats, and the wrong handlebars, and the wrong wheels. It's wrong, wrong, wrong." Well, good news, because Ariel has another bike for you. And it's also called the Ariel Ace.
Read MoreThis is a four-rotor Mazda 767B. It does not sound like a car. It sounds like if aliens were cutting Earth in half with a giant laser chainsaw.
Read MoreConsidering how much we talk about cars, we don't spend a lot of time talking about how cars are made. Maybe we should. A car is really only as good as the factory it came from and the workers who built it.
Read MoreWhile it doesn't say "Hammer" or "Murder One" on the amplifier, the Alfa MiTo By Marshall it quite possibly louder than a Ferrari FXX Evoluzione.
Read MoreGrowing up in the '70s, I remember hearing a lot about the idea of "pyramid power" — the incredible ability of pyramids to do things like sharpen razor blades, trigger sexual urges, and preserve food. It was, of course, horseshit. But, like anything, it's even better in car form. Like this home-built pyramid car in Illinois.
Read MoreBack in the 1930s, design was totally unrestricted. You want a streamlined motorcycle? No problem. You want the engine mounted in the front wheel? No problem. You want spiral exhausts? No problem. You want all that in one package? With the Killinger und Freund Motorrad, it was no problem at all.
Read MoreHuman sexuality is a weird, weird thing. This isn't news, of course. We wrote about this particular fetish — Pedal Pumping — a long time ago, and what really is striking about it is that it seems almost tailor-made for our particular Jalop community: old, strange cars, pretty girls — why aren't we all wasting hours watching these?
Read MoreI really love it when something genuinely unexpected comes into our tips email. And I can't think of anything more unexpected than a bunch of pictures from what appears to be a 1912 "Mudguard Contest" in France.
Read MoreYou can see way more of the 24 Hours of Le Mans if you stream it online or just watch it on the TV with a six-pack in the fridge. But if you can, you simply must go there one day. It's just one of those things.
Read MoreGene Winfield is an absolute legend in the car customization business and at 87 years old he's still going. You might not be familiar with him by name, but you're definitely familiar with his impressive body of work.
Read MoreIf you’re not a gearhead, listening to car people talk can be really puzzling. You could easily eavesdrop on a couple of gearheads and hear them talking about how they’re going to drop the Celebrity’s tranny so they can pull the head off the Iron Duke*. And none of that statement is illegal.
Read MoreThe National Automobile Dealers Association is feeling threatened, thanks mostly to the work Tesla has done to set up company-owned stores to sell their cars. That's bad news for independent car dealers, who are now feeling like a cornered animal. Like cornered animals, they're attacking with the tools nature gave them: animation.
Read MoreWhy is it that all the interesting car companies are the ones that always die?
Read MoreThere are faster ones. There are rarer ones and ones that are easier to maintain. But I'm not sure there's a better rally homologation special than the Lancia Delta Integrale.
Read MoreYou know the expression “taking a knife to a gunfight?” This was beyond that. Entering my 1973 VW Beetle in the Optima Ultimate Street Car Competition at Fontana Speedway was more like taking a corn dog to a gunfight. Many cars there had about 10x the horsepower of mine. I didn’t have a chance. And I loved it.
Read MoreYou've heard Weird Al Yankovic's comedic versions of Top-40 songs over the years, but did you know that, as a teenaged accordion god in 1976, he wrote and recorded the best tribute to a car ever put to tape? You do now.
Read MoreJust because it doesn't look like a Ferrari, doesn't mean it won't smoke one.
Read MoreThe Fiat 500 is stylish, fun to drive, great on gas and hilariously easy to park. It's one of the best small cars currently on the market. So why is Fiat continually so bad at advertising it to U.S. audiences?
Read MoreI still remember when the original Mercedes A-Class came out and changed the world as we know it. The year was 1997 – and while I may have been just nine years old, I consumed automotive media back then at approximately the same rate as I consumed fruit roll-ups.
Read MoreAs a European, I must salute you. The two Corvette C7.Rs were simply amazing at Le Mans. And not just because of those burnouts.
Read MoreIt was 20 years ago today that we all stopped what we were doing to watch a white Ford Bronco drive, slowly, around Los Angeles. Out of context it seems absurd, but O.J. Simpson's televised escape, and the subsequent trial, changed how we watch the world. And yet, the most important piece of the chase is gone. Where is that Bronco?
Read MoreThe greatest road trip is the one you dream about taking. But that's kind of hard to explain, so here are ten extraordinary journeys that did actually get past the 'haphazard planning in a bar' stage.
Read MoreThe McLaren 12C has love-it-or-hate-it looks. Not that it's particularly ugly, it's actually a rather handsome car. Some people just compare it to contemporaries like the Ferrari 458, instead of comparing it to, say, a Toyota Camry. But if you compare it to nothing else, it looks pretty good.
Read MoreSeriously, it was a Triumph. Capital-T Triumph. No ifs, ands, or buts about that one. But it might not've been a triumph compared to its stablemates.
Read MoreIf there's an RV more deserving of hugs than this Saab 92H, I haven't met it. This adorable two-stroke Swedish meatball was built in 1963 by Torsten Johansson using the mechanicals of a Saab 92. The Saab 92, you may recall, made all of 28 HP from its two-stroke twin. That's meager for a car, glacial for a rolling house.
Read MoreThe Zündapp Janus is a fascinating car. It's essentially a pair of Isettas joined back-to-back. This general concept had been explored before, but I think only Zündapp was ballsy/crazy enough to actually build one. And this old commercial for the Janus is full of equally crazy stuff.
Read MoreYou know, when you're a specially engineered super-soldier, you have to expect a certain amount of hassle. Like supervillian attacks, secret evil organizations plotting against you, that kind of thing. You probably shouldn't have to worry about a Beetle trying to run you over in your apartment. But Captain America did.
Read MoreBesides the speed, the tenacity of the drivers, and the engineering magic involved, of my favorite things about the 24 Hours of Le Mans is its rich history.
Read MoreI think it's safe to say that we all owe our police officers a huge debt of gratitude. They keep our children safe. They keep our streets secure. They deal with coked-out acid trippers who believe that electronic garage door openers are magic. And now, there's another reason to appreciate our fearless police officers: they've made it incredibly easy to avoid a speeding ticket.
Read MoreWriting about the Lotus Evora is one of those things that reveals how inadequate the written word is. I wish I could just mind-beam you the feeling of driving the Lotus. Or, even better, the feeling you get as a Home Depot parking lot watches you remove your squirmy, giggling toddler from this tiny car.
Read MoreRIP to all this sweet, sweet sheetmetal cut down in its prime.
Read MoreEvery now and then, something surfaces on the Internet that is so amazing, we stop and wonder how we lived our lives before we knew about it. Today is one of those days. Stop what you're doing because it's time to watch "Thunder on the Streets II."
Read MoreOccasionally, I get e-mails from readers with column ideas. A few of the more memorable suggestions include taking my Nissan Cube to a dirt track rally, doing a monster-truck style stadium jump in my SUV, and setting my face on fire so no one has to look at it again.
Read MoreLe Mans is one of the toughest races in the world, with very high speeds held over a destructively long time. It’s been brutal enough to force teams to try some, uh, rather unique designs to conquer the course.
Read MoreWarning: The video you are about to watch will deeply upset your Jalop sensibilities. If you have small children, tell them to go play in another room for a few minutes. They don't need to see this.
Read MoreThe Jaguar E-Type is considered by many to be one of the loveliest cars of all time. That sort of beauty makes people reluctant to modify them. A wrecked one, though, is a totally different story. Maybe that's why when hill-climb racer Jim Thomson wrecked his in 1972, he felt free to go nice and bonkers with it.
Read MoreDo you think you can sell a car just by offering a good price? THINK AGAIN, SONNY BOY.
Read MoreSorry for that click-baity headline, it was too goofy to resist. But this genuinely is a little trick to tell, strangely rapidly, where a photo was taken! Well, only if that "where" is South Africa (from, oh, the 50s to the 90s) and if that photo has cars in it. Still! There's got to be someone out there for whom this is useful.
Read MoreThere's a lot of reasons why I've never had a job as great as this one. Companies give me cars to drive, people let me drive their old cars, I get to draw goofy pictures, on and on. But I think the most unexpected and remarkable part is the amazing community here. The one that's now sending a model of my car all over the place.
Read MoreThe first generation of Ford Mustang is very, very difficult to mess up. Even with subtle additions, it provides a bountiful blank canvas for personal expression. This 1967 example has just the right amount of extra something, putting it into properly gorgeous territory.
Read MoreLook, it's Friday night. We're all pretty much done with rational thought, right? Yeah, fuck it! So let's do something silly and fun. I've got here a few little pictures of very basic car parts, and I thought it'd be fun to stick them on pictures to make non-car things into cars. What could it hurt?
Read MoreWhat does it really mean to be a “luxury flagship,” anyway? For BMW in 1989, it meant this: 12 cylinders, two doors, 300 horsepower, a 4,000 pound curb weight, and an aggressive wedge design. This is the 8-Series, and it is one BMW’s best failed experiments.
Read MoreA misleading article, pure nonsense from some marketing department, or a factoid your dad got wrong back in the day — the next thing you know you're surrounded by automotive misnomers.
Read MoreWell, I can't prove Eduardo Galvani used a secret mind-reading ray to tap into my desire-glands and figure out the sort of odd, van-like, cab-over vehicle I dream about, but it sure feels like it. His Nimbus concept is fantastic, I think, even if it is just a bunch of renderings with no chance in hell of being made.
Read MoreIf you've ever flown First Class on an international airline (which I have not), you'd probably expect to receive some of the best service and dining equivalent to that of a four or five-star restaurant. But would you consider ordering a hamburger from among your dining options?
Read MoreA throaty exhaust isn't just good for making your car faster, but also for waking up the dead. And making them dance. Here are our ten glorious, loud favorites.
Read MoreFrom Doug DeMuro: So I'm walking around cars and coffee the other day, minding my own business, taking in all the sights, checking out a row of Nissan 370Zs that look identical to one another except for the color and placement of their Stance Nation window decals, and that's when I see it: the Jaguar F-Type Coupe.
Read MoreThere was a lot of hemming and hawing over the 2015 Ford Mustang's weight and the "rumor" that it might be fatter, or maybe not. People seem to think this shows the weakness of printing rumors. Those people are very wrong. It shows the importance of doing so.
Read MoreBy now you've probably seen the delightful Japanese Super Mario Bros. ad for the Mercedes-Benz GLA. (If you haven't, you need to watch it.) But Mario and Mercedes go deeper than just that ad: You'll be able to download a GLA to drive in the all-new Mario Kart 8 game.
Read MoreThe Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona is one of the biggest auto sales events of the entire year. For the last decade, it's been about what one man, Ron Pratte, would buy. But in 2015 he's selling every single car he owns at that auction, including a GM Futurliner. And he hasn't given a reason.
Read MoreNot every car community is filled with douchebags. These ten groups of people are as good as auto owners come.
Read MoreI always cheered when I, um, appropriated a Banshee sports car in the Grand Theft Auto games. Nothing gets you to your next heist faster! West Coast Customs liked it so much they made a real one, and now it can be yours too.
Read MoreHere’s something we can file under “extremely tragic”: People don’t talk about the Vector W8 nearly as much as they should. And when they do talk about the early 1990s supercar, they don’t mention its wacko interior. But they should!
Read More1.1 miles up the hill. How hard can it be? Very.
Read MoreWhen a Ferrari Enzo was crashed by two dealership mechanics earlier this week, it could've been caused by a number of things. A mechanical issue. An evasive maneuver. A pelican. Not so, according to the man who pulled them from the wreck. It was just regular old terrible driving.
Read MoreRemember that time an R8 Spyder crashed into Ice-T during the Bullrun Rally? Neither did we. But video of the crash has finally surfaced after three years, which might line up nicely with the statute of limitations for epic asshattery.
Read More"He was driving 70 to 80 miles per hour, and the trailer was waiting for the light..."
Read More"Hello, this is OnStar. We see you just spun your Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 into a wall at Road America. Do you require an ambulance or can we just come by and make fun of you?"
Read MoreWhen we first saw a crashed Ferrari Enzo on I-95 in Connecticut yesterday, we were understandably heartbroken. But today the heartbreak is even worse, since it's now come out that the occupants of the car didn't even include the owner, but two employees of Miller Motorcars, a local dealership.
Read MoreA Ferrari Enzo had a bit of a spin and smashed into the divider on Interstate-95 in Connecticut this morning, thus ruining your commute. But hey, at least you get to stare at a smashed-up Enzo.
Read MoreBoth driver and passenger survived when this Ferrari 360 cut off the road above LA and rolled down the steep embankment.
Read MoreThis dude is either some kind of half man/half cat mutant or he works at Cirque du Soleil.
Read MoreA cop is probably pretty embarrassed and the city of Tucson, Arizona, is probably pretty pissed, after the city council was forced to shell out $43,799 after the cop rear-ended a Porsche Carrera GT. That is what we in the business call Holy Crap That's An Expensive Fender-Bender.
Read MoreWe've shown you crazy Russian dash cams of accidents before, but rarely are they from a first-person view, and sometimes they involve wild animals. Those might not be so easy to relate to, so here's what it's like when someone blasts through a red light, completely crushing the front of your car.
Read MoreWell, this is pretty much as bad as a threesome in a car could go. (There's a video below, but it's NSFW-y.)
Read MoreFifty-nine years ago, the 1955 Le Mans 24-hour race started like any other. It ended with the usual champagne, as well. In the middle as many as 130 died in the most horrific disaster in motorsports history. [Warning: graphic content]
Read MoreRemember that enormous crash today that completely destroyed the No. 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro? The one that made you question life itself? Yeah, driver Loic Duval is apparently pretty much completely unharmed. The dude might as well be completely indestructible.
Read MoreIt's good to have a sense of eagerness when you're in a race car. It's not so good when you're so eager to get out of the pit lane that you then proceed to destroy your race, everyone else's race, and probably the nearest three census-designated places.
Read MoreSad news out of West Virginia's Summit Point Motorsports Park this weekend: A driving instructor was killed at a track day while riding passenger in a car when its driver lost control and went off the roadway.
Read MoreThe Canadian Grand Prix turned into a beautiful spectacle of competition, right up until the very end. An especially epic track battle was occurring just behind the race leader, between Felipe Massa, Sebastian Vettel, and Checo Perez, and it all ended in this absolutely massive crash.
Read MoreThe classic Toyota 2000GT might be valued at over a million dollars, but it really is priceless as an example of art and automotive history. Only 337 were ever produced, but now there's one less in the world thanks to a giant beech tree that came down and smushed it.
Read MoreWas your first day of work tough? Did you become a human catapult? No? That means your first day of work wasn't tough.
Read MoreHere's a Jalopnik Helpful Hint: if you're going to hop into a golf cart, don't crash it. Because it will not end well for you. Your throat will be impaled on a steering wheel, you'll probably snap your neck, and you'll definitely have a face full of glass pebbles. But watching the tests is awesome.
Read MoreIt's a miracle. We've found a Lamborghini that hasn't crashed after reckless driving on the roads or after having rocks thrown at it. This one was being driven hard and fast on track and the driver just lost it. Good for him.
Read MoreLike its predecessors, the 2015 Subaru WRX is fast like a cheetah, devours corners like a lion and can make all your rally champion dreams come true. Including the parts about crashing. (Update: They appear to be crash test cars.)
Read MoreD'awww, puppies! They're so cute when they roll around and wag their little tails and drive your car into a pond.
Read MoreWhen we first heard that the Jim Clark Rally in Scotland was cancelled, many of the details were unclear. We knew some spectators were injured at the very least, and possibly worse. It turns out that it was much worse. Three people are dead, and six people were injured, in two separate incidents.
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 MoreAccording to my Facebook feed, something called the World Cup is currently taking place. While I'm following it even less than I follow other ball-based sports, even I realize it's kind of a big deal — because it's a great occasion to revisit one of Top Gear's greatest hits.
Read MoreGetting 140 horsepower out of Ford's three-cylinder Ecoboost makes the Fiesta Zetec S the most powerful 1-liter road car ever built. Would you like it in red or black?
Read MoreLocal Motors is ready for its next project, and it's exactly what we've been asking for. They want to crowd-source and build a track-focused street car with an engine up front, a manual in the middle, and power to the rear wheels – just as God intended. And like the Rally Fighter before it, we can all have a hand in the development.
Read MoreNot to be left out of the recall news today, Chrysler has expanded a recall from 2010 to include another 695,957 vehicles for an ignition issue that sounds awfully familiar.
Read MoreRemember last week when I told you the sad tale of the ten-year old girl who saved up two grand to buy a '67 Beetle, and then the Beetle was stolen? Well, if nothing else good happens this week, at least we have this: her Beetle has been recovered.
Read MoreThe current scoring pylon at IMS has been in use since 1994. It's time for a new one. Here's the old one just kinda lying there. This is strange.
Read MoreIt's got two turbos and six cylinders all in a row. It has 425 horsepower. It's lighter than the V8 powered car it replaces. But is the all-new 2015 BMW M4 really any good?
Read MoreIt. Never. Ends. GM is recalling another 7.6 million vehicles for six new ignition-related safety defects in models ranging from 1997 to 2014. And according to the automaker, these recalled cars are responsible for seven crashes resulting in eight injuries and three deaths.
Read MoreEvery little bit helps when it comes to dropping the pounds, and it's even more important with unsprung weight. So Audi is nixing ye ol' steel springs for fiberglass on an "upper mid-size model" later this year. Our money's on the new A7. It's the obvious choice.
Read MoreShortly before an aircraft evacuation slide decided to fulfill its mission out of turn last night, United announced that it will be eliminating a couple of the things commonly served with meals in its premium cabins — ketchup and garlic bread.
Read MoreThis huge tool set has great reviews, and breaks the magical $.50/tool barrier. Actually, it totally shatters it. [Craftsman 192 Piece Mechanics Tool Set, $78 after code SAVE15]
Read MoreMore details emerged this morning on General Motors' compensation plan for those whose family members died in crashes tied to the ignition switch defect: the automaker plans to pay $1 million and up for each death.
Read MoreLocal billionaire Dan Gilbert has no tolerance for "degenerates" who trash his city. So he's on the lookout for a trio of young women who spray painted "welcome to Detroit" and some profanities in a Detroit alley recently.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy's biggest destroyer, the Zumwalt, will be the first American Naval ship to run off electric propulsion since a line of escort ships in the 1940s - and it will be powered by engines originally meant for commercial airliners.
Read MoreSad news out of Pikes Peak this weekend: 54-year-old motorcycle rider Bobby Goodin, who was airlifted to a hospital following a crash Sunday, has died, according to reports.
Read MoreNews broke on Twitter tonight, as United Airlines flight 1463 from Chicago O'Hare to Santa Ana, (Orange County) California had to make an emergency landing. One of the evacuation slides somehow deployed while the plane was cruising along at 38,000 feet.
Read MoreBoeing's CEO of Commercial Airplanes, Ray Conner issued a "pardon our dust" apology of sorts to Ray Stephanson, the mayor of Everett, Washington last week. While building the new composite wing factory its new 777X, Boeing will dispatch six dump trucks per minute, around the clock, for four straight months.
Read MoreI've got a rather interesting question for you that I bet you haven't thought of before: what is the best car for a harpist? My nomination goes to the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Wagon, but I'm more interested in what you think.
Read MoreYou might think it's a lifelong party here at Jalopnik. I drive Buicks. I ride in RVs. I am clearly semi-retired. But NO. I work hard, damn hard, slaving away in the mines all day. So why the hell does Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse's dog, Dallas, have more Twitter followers than me?
Read MoreIf you're anywhere in the U.S. watching Audis take the checkered flag, you'll probably find Brad Kettler and his crew. We caught up with him over breakfast to get a preview for today's Tudor USCC Six-Hour race at Watkins Glen, which starts at 11:15 AM this morning, to get a preview of the race.
Read MoreBoeing delivered its 1,500th 747 to Germany's Lufthansa Airlines today at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. No other widebody aircraft has reached this milestone. It's a 747-8i model, the longest passenger jet in the world. This aircraft, registered D-ABYP is the 14th 747-8i for Lufthansa's fleet.
Read MoreAshley Freiberg is working her way up through the racing world, currently racing for Fall-Line Motorsports in the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. She's 22, so please hold back on the BMW driver jokes.
Read MoreWhen Yu Xinquan took delivery of his Tesla Model S, he promptly grabbed a wrench and bashed in the windshield to make some kind of point. Yes, this is actually a thing in China.
Read MoreGreenpeace, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) flew a 135-foot airship over the NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah on Friday morning, carrying a giant banner which read, "Illegal Spying Below."
Read MoreGM has just announced four more recalls of a total of 428,211 cars for a myriad of safety issues. Will it ever stop?
Read MoreAccording to a report from Bloomberg, Mercedes-Benz plans to release an embiggened version of it's flagship S-Class, and it might be called Maybach. Mercedes will also release a Pullman edition of the S-Class which will be a whopping 21 feet long.
Read MoreThis Bluetooth OBD II scanner is only $7 right now on Amazon. It's compatible with the Torque Android app (and those like it), so you can turn your smartphone into a massively-powerful, car-monitoring computer.
Read MoreIt's hard to tell if this video is depicting a real event, or a strange little work of theater made just to generate views. This showed up on CarScoops, who were skeptical, and, frankly, we are too. Still, it's possible this strange altercation in Fultondale, AL actually happened.
Read MoreWe all know that, especially in our broke and ignorant youths, sometimes we end up with cars that weren't exactly our first choice. Or second. Or thirtieth. But we have to make do, even if we resent the car. And mistreat it. But for some cars, it's that period of mistreatment that makes the car shine. What are those cars?
Read MoreI hadn't been at Watkins Glen for more than a few minutes before a nice women told me to park the RV I'd been driving on the side of some random road and get in her car. Then someone handed me a racing suit and I got in a Daytona Prototype. This is going to be an awesome weekend.
Read MoreYou probably didn't want to learn about a very odd car-themed sexual fetish today, but oh my, you are going to learn quite a bit right now. Heed the lessons from a Michigan man whose political ambitions may be impeded by an activity known in some circles as "cranking."
Read MoreThe 2015 Ford Focus ST primarily gets cosmetic and handling-related tweaks for its mid-cycle refresh, but that's okay because it was already awesome and didn't need much. But the biggest change is an all-new diesel version with all the torque you're gonna need.
Read MoreWith improved cooling and aero, more comfort for the driver and the option for existing 12C GT3 owners to upgrade to the new technology, the 650S GT3 shall be at a race track near you very soon. And it could be winning.
Read MoreSure, owning a race-winning race car would be great. But you know what would be even better? Owning a dryer that helped win that race! Everyone wants the car. But it takes a special, higher-level connoisseur of precision racing machinery to appreciate the sweet, hot performance of a race-team's dryer. Now it can be yours.
Read MoreHydrogen might be the fuel of the future – and always will be – but that hasn't stopped Radical Sportscars and the Cranfield University from envisioning what a hydrogen racer would look like.
Read MoreA nip here, a tuck there. The 2015 Ford Focus ST is still the ST you've come to know and love, just sharpened. Which means it's probably still awesome.
Read MoreIt seems nobody was really a fan of Matt Lauer's interview of General Motors CEO Mary Barra on The Today Show this morning, which closed with him asking her if she can really be an executive and a mom at the same time. Lauer responded to the criticism, but no one is buying it.
Read MoreWe've had some successes before finding stolen cars, but I'm really hoping we can do some good for this one. Partially because it's a Beetle, and partially because the owner is a 10 year old girl from a family of gearheads who saved up to buy the car she loved. This girl and her Beetle need to be re-united.
Read MoreThe Corvette Museum sinkhole may be one of our nation's greatest tragedies, but it's had a strange unintended side effect: attendance and sinkhole-related merchandise sales at the Bowling Green, Kentucky museum have risen sharply. As such, the museum's board has decided to keep it around.
Read MoreI looked over my shoulder and all there was was darkness. Sheet rain was falling and the road was only slick where it wasn't flooded. I was just cresting a mountain up on New Hampshire state highway 16, and Death was riding in the passenger seat.
Read MoreOwning a Prius C costs third of what running a GMC Yukon does, you can save at least a hundred bucks a year by checking your tires properly and overall, ten percent of your income will be spent on you ride college boy. Here's all you need to know about the statistics.
Read MoreYou're going to need a new set of wiper blades eventually, so stock up now while they're 50% off. There are tons of styles available, and a compatibility check tool to make sure you get the right ones. [50% off Valvoline Wiper Blades]
Read MoreIt is becoming more and more clear that a new Ford Focus RS is coming soon. Camouflaged prototypes of what appears to be a hotted-up Focus ST have been spotted doing track testing. According to the latest reports, the same engine that powers the upcoming 2015 Mustang EcoBoost. So much for that five-cylinder.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what it's like to take one of the fastest race cars in America on to one of America's greatest tracks? Wonder no more thanks to our friends at /DRIVE, who bring you this bonkers helmet-camera video of Jordan Taylor testing at Watkins Glen.
Read MoreThey say your first million is the hardest to get. But spending it is very easy, especially if you love cars.
Read MoreProduct placement apparently moves faster than the speed of light. Within days of the first electric Harley-Davidson, dubbed Project Livewire, being revealed to the public, it's already clear that the bike will star in next summer's Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Read MoreCompetition brings out the best in all of us! Not to be outdone by the 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost, the next-generation Chevrolet Camaro might get a turbocharged four-cylinder engine of its own. And sexy retro 1970s looks.
Read MoreIn the first televised interview with General Motors CEO Mary Barra since the ignition switch recalls were announced in February, The Today Show's Matt Lauer made sure to ask her the tough questions. Like, can she be a mom AND a CEO?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe JDM van is a MasterAce, or if you were to take those words at their literal meaning, a master at being an ace, the best of the best. We'll just see if its price is equally masteraceful.
Read MoreThe company claiming to give us the world's fastest electric sports car also says they will hire eighty people by the first quarter of 2015. Hmmm... I wonder why we're skeptical. It's a mystery.
Read MoreIf you think about it, we're surrounded by all kinds of energy, just waiting to be harnessed. That dog that just walked by, wagging his tail — think how many iPhones that tail's kinetic energy could be recharging! Audi's finally getting wise to this, and is working on harnessing the energy from suspension motion.
Read MoreGeneral Motors' long stream of recalls and safety-related issues continues, and has now spread to its current small car lineup, after the company told its dealers to stop selling 2013 and 2014 Chevrolet Cruzes because of a potentially defective airbag yesterday.
Read MoreShelby American just moved. And they're doing what all of us do when we move: getting rid of a bunch of stuff they don't need anymore. But instead of dumping crappy old IKEA furniture they bought in college, they're selling off some of their best concept cars and prototypes.
Read MoreIf you're a taxi driver, how do you generate sympathy among the public when you feel your business is threatened by ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft? Do you A.) Get better about showing up on time, B.) Make a ridiculously useful app of your own, or C.) Create a massive traffic jam in a city already notorious for gridlocks?
Read MoreThis futuristic wrench incorporates an LCD display to give you real time foot/pounds or torque measurements while you work. [Craftsman Dr. Digi-Click Torque Wrench, $60]
Read MoreIs there anything more subtly perfect than a Silver Porsche 356? It might not possess the visual drama of a Jaguar E-Type or a Ferrari Lusso, but there's something that's just so right about a 356. There isn't a single detail that's out of place.
Read MoreI just got into a Mercedes-Benz SLK, set the navigation to home, and it turned on the heater in my house. This is the first step on the path to the future we were promised in all those GM Motoramas so many years ago.
Read MoreIt's auction season again (and always, it seems), which means it's the time when we see people fork over crazy cash for rare makes. It's also LeMons season, when we see hundreds of people spend relatively little money on crap. What's the most best way to spend $1 million on cars?
Read MoreRemember that crazy Swedish guy who tried to sell his 1993 Volvo 245GL with a crazy YouTube video advertising its "spinsy-winsies" and "oblong chrome nipples"? Volvo responded by sending him a 2015 Volvo V60 Sportback. What he came up with is fantastic.
Read MoreWith 16 victories to their claim, Porsche is the single winningest manufacturer in the history of the 24 Hours Of Le Mans. While their race cars were designed solely to win, they turned out to be spectacularly gorgeous in the process.
Read MoreOh, you have a McLaren 650S Spider? How nice for you, I suppose. But for those of us who aren't on food stamps, meet the McLaren Special Operations 650S Spider. You can't even handle how bespoke it is.
Read MoreWith Toyota lunching a fuel cell vehicle next March, Honda and the government jumped on board in order for Japan to become the leading force behind hydrogen power in the next 20-30 years.
Read MoreDartz, the Russian car company made from the chemically distilled, depraved desires of Russia's wealthiest degenerates, is at it again. Previously known for using whale penis leather in their SUVs, they're now leveraging the appeal of another colossal dick: Vladimir Putin.
Read MoreOk, so maybe 51-year-old Craig Gallo deserves to lose his motor vehicle and boating licenses for crashing his fishing vessel into the runway approach lights at Laguardia Airport. But at least he had a good reason.
Read MoreWe got our first eyeful today, and now it's official. Jaguar is going to build a limited run of 250 F-Type Project 7s, and with 567 horsepower, it will be the quickest, most powerful road-going Jag available.
Read MoreOh, FAA. Why do you have to ban everything fun? First convertible jumbo jets, then the Sex Blimp business, now this. Tucked away deep inside a document titled Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft there's a chart, and on that chart is the end of Amazon's skybot-delivery plans.
Read MoreAfter years of development and painstaking, life-defining engineering battles, Ford has debuted a new Edge. It, uh, looks like a car.
Read MoreJay Leno calls the De Tomaso Pantera "one of the most misunderstood and undervalued" cars of the 1970s. I think he's right.
Read MoreYou people. You just weren't satisfied with the fact that the Fiat 500 Abarth only came with three pedals and stick, were you? You had just had to go and demand an automatic. Well, here it is, new for the 2015 model year. I hope you're happy.
Read MoreGran Turismo 6 has become the first racing video game to be officially certified by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the leading governing body of autosport events. In fact, it's probably the first video game of any kind to receive this certification, since I don't think Mr.Do was ever officially approved.
Read MoreWe all want different things from our infotainment systems. But there's been one resounding request from almost everyone: make our smartphones play nice with our dashboard, no matter what device we use. Well, it's here. It's awesome. And, per usual, automakers are stalling.
Read MoreIt's never a bad idea to have a gallon of antifreeze handy, especially when you can get it shipped to your house for so cheap. [1 Gallon Prestone 50/50 Antifreeze, $10]
Read MoreVictor Muller is the man behind such incredible cars as the beautiful Spyker C8, and the soulful B6 Venator. Seriously, he's the guy. He not only designed them himself, he's also the Spyker Cars CEO. And now he's here to answer your questions.
Read MoreThis morning, the National Transportation Safety Board released their findings compiled from flight data, voice recordings, and interviews for the 2013 crash of Asiana 214, a Boeing 777-200ER, which resulted in the loss of three lives.
Read MoreIf you see a Google Street View car, you can get a bit more creative than just showing them your butt.
Read MoreRegular Car Reviews once pondered whether the Subaru BRZ would be the car to save us all. And now, like Jesus, it may have to die for the sins of others. In this case, the sins of Toyota and BMW.
Read MoreLast year Jaguar introduced a concept called the Project 7 at the Goodwood Hill Climb. It was basically a D-Type homage in an F-Type frock. Of course, it was just a concept. Jaguar wouldn't ever build something like that. Or would they? Because holy shit this looks like a production version. (UPDATE: It's real!!)
Read MoreYou have your dog with you, but you have to run into the store. So you leave him in the car with the window cracked, expecting it to be cool as a freezer in there. The problem is it's still hot as hades in there. And your dog will still die. The same for babies, children, and the elderly too.
Read MorePretty much what you'd expect. I'm guessing the reporter confused him for fellow Mercedes AMG driver Lewis Hamilton? All those racing drivers look alike to lots of people.
Read MoreDoes this count as an autonomous car? It's driverless, and, you know, moving. And, like a computer, it can be stuck in an infinite loop. This old news report from Eugene, OR about a '73 T-Bird stuck in reverse and doing autonomous donuts is very telling from what it doesn't talk about.
Read MoreWhen we first saw the Beetle Dune concept at the Detroit Auto Show early this year, I generally liked the idea, but was lamenting how unlikely it was to be built. Well, as part of VW's multi-year plan to make me look like an ass, the Dune could be edging to actual production, and they even had one driving around.
Read MorePrepare yourselves: lower speed limits and a bunch of a bunch of speed cameras are most likely about to hit NYC.
Read MoreI'm about to make a bold claim that will probably send some of you into a fit of Internet-screaming: the C2 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray is the most beautiful American car ever made. Prove me wrong, children!
Read MoreLast week, several Detroit residents called out The New York Times for a recent check-in on the city's health but not featuring any representation of color. Today, NYT public editor Margaret Sullivan and NYT travel editor Monica Drake have a response.
Read MoreAntony Reid has a bit of history with fast Volvos, and he thinks the V60 Polestar will be supercar fast at the Goodwood hillclimb because it's stable as s*** at speed.
Read MoreI recently learned that Mercedes-Benz, official automaker of drivers who put tissue boxes on the rear shelf, has updated the CLS for the 2015 model year. This is great news, and I invite you all to join me in expressing our collective excitement by asking the following question: They still make the CLS?
Read MoreThe world has been cheering for Michael Schumacher to wake from the coma he's been in since his December skiing accident, but that hasn't stopped some unscrupulous people from taking advantage of the situation. News reports say Schumacher's medical records have been stolen and put up for sale.
Read MoreRemember MonkeyParking? It's the app that lets you auction your parking space in San Francisco to the highest bidder. We called it a dick move, and the SF City Attorney agrees. They just sent the app's creator a cease-and-desist.
Read MoreThe Ford Focus ST has been in the habit of kicking the asses of all the other hot hatchbacks in its class as of late. It's powerful, it handles exceptionally well, it's practical, and it can be had in a very appealing shade of orange. Can it get any better? It might this weekend.
Read MoreYep, that's right. As far as I can tell, this incident where a Brazilian auto journalist was shot at while taking some spy shots is the only time a carmaker has actually employed potentially deadly force against a journalist. Even though I may have tempted some. The car is the VW Brasilia, and I think it's great.
Read MoreAnyone with a spacious garage and a penchant for DIY will love this deal. $62 for this rolling cabinet alone would be a steal, but they even toss in a tool set for good measure. [Stanley Rolling Tool Chest with 88 Piece Mechanical Tool Set, $62]
Read MoreEmma Czornobaj could face a lifetime prison sentence after being convicted of "criminal negligence causing death" and "dangerous driving causing death." She'd parked her Honda Civic in the left lane of a Quebec highway to round up some ducks when a motorcycle carrying two people plowed into the car.
Read MoreA Luftwaffe Eurofighter jet collided with a Learjet over Oslberg, in Northwest Germany today. Photos shared to Twitter show the burning wreckage of the Learjet on the road and hillside.
Read MoreAs a guitar player, and a former Alfa Romeo owner, there's never been any one object that has fused these two of my great interests. Well, that used to be the case, because Harrison Custom Guitar Works in the UK is now building handmade Alfa Romeo guitars. Huzzah!
Read MoreThis is a great little tutorial about going from a rough hand-sketch to a clean, finished-looking rendering. There's a number of good tips in this, though I think the best one is the way everything gets organized and masked from the very beginning, before any actual rendering even starts.
Read MoreThere's a car driving around your neighborhood with a camera on top of it. How can you not screw around with it?
Read MoreThree would-be teenage car thieves were foiled at their attempt to carjack a 70-year-old woman when they found out her Kia Spectra had a manual transmission, something none of the scofflaws knew how to use.
Read MoreMalaysian investigators have disclosed that files recovered from the Captain Zaharie Shah's flight simulator show its most recent path was set toward a small island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Read MoreOne child was rushed to a hospital in Texas by helicopter after a drunk mom drove a grand total of six kids home from the pool on the roof of her car.
Read MoreWhat makes rally so interesting it that the cars you see in competition are all street legal, and built up off what’s on the showroom floor.
Read MoreThis is the Nissan R90CK that set pole for the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans. And it posted the third highest speed at the 2014 Le Mans event. Wait, what?
Read MoreWhat happens when you hit the wall at a short track going the wrong way around the circuit? Uh, it's not great.
Read MoreThe Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina is one of the most incredible custom Ferraris ever created, but it sits in an even more incredible stable created by collector James Glickenhaus. And here you can take a tour of its most beautiful pieces, courtesy of Fast Lane Daily, with the man himself.
Read MoreIn a land where labor unions strike more often than matches, the two French Air Traffic Controllers unions (SNCTA and Unsa-ICNA) have voted to stage a six-day strike next week between June 24th and 29th.
Read MoreWatching someone's dreams, someone's tangible proof of accomplishment, completely go up in flames is always a Sad Thing. But that doesn't make it any less hypnotizing to watch, as the unstoppable onslaught of fiery destruction totally consumes this guy's yacht.
Read MoreStephanie Kwolek, the chemist who invented the incredibly tough fiber known as Kevlar, died yesterday at the age of 90. She was definitely a "true pioneer for women in science," as DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman noted, and her contributions to engineering and life-saving technology will ensure her memory lives on.
Read MoreI see your internal Rolodex spinning right now. "EL... EL.... I know there was an Acura CL, the TL, and the RL, but no EL. That's poppycock! Hogwash! Tomfoolery!" Well that's because there wasn't an EL where you live, Mr. and/or Ms. Poppycock. But there was an EL in Canada.
Read MoreIt turns out that even while in space, the six inhabitants of the International Space Station have a way to tune into the World Cup that doesn't involve looking out the window as they pass over Brazil. So how do they, along with NASA, make it possible to watch the games live?
Read MoreOh, Jezza, Jezza, Jezza. I think I see what you were trying to do there. Mix it up a bit, keep things interesting, and you know what, I bet you did. Still, it may not have been such a hot idea to ask Mandela if he's ever had a lap dance, as Mandela's former PA claims Clarkson did when the two met in 2010.
Read MoreThe Seat 1200 Sport was nicknamed Bocanegra, which translates to "black mouth." It was called that because of the distinctive black plastic surround for the whole face of the car. Black plastic is often derided in auto design circles, but I think it really made this car.
Read MoreLate last night, a bill was introduced to the Senate that would open up the wireless band reserved for vehicle-to-vehicle communications. This is an epically bad idea. By allowing other devices to play in those airwaves, one of the biggest safety innovations this side of autonomous cars is under threat.
Read MoreToyota had remarkable pace at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, but one mysterious retirement lost them the lead and the race. What's almost heartbreaking is how close Toyota came to beating the problem.
Read MoreThe Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is where some of the finest European and American vintage cars are showcased and auctioned to the world's elite. But what if you're a fan of cars from the Land of the Rising Sun? If so, you're in luck this year.
Read MoreFor a town that hosts one of the most incredible racing events in the world, Le Mans is short on places to stay. The places that are nice are far away, the places that are there are crappy and expensive. So what do you do for the race? You build your own hotel.
Read MoreFord is trying all sorts of crazy stuff out with the 2015 Mustang. Independent rear suspensions! Turbo fours! European sales! This approach extends to safety, too: they're trying something completely new with the passenger-side airbag.
Read MoreHere's the thing about the Jaguar F-Type Coupe: it looks so good, it casts some sort of eerie field that makes even troglodytes like myself feel attractive when in it. And for this car, that may be the most important thing. It also drives incredibly, though to make it do so does entail some odd compromises.
Read MoreSince joining the industry in 2007, Virgin America has filled their trophy case with awards from the likes of Conde Nast, Travel + Leisure, and Zagat. They have a young fleet of Airbus planes, equipped with WiFi and "mood lighting," and a staff of attractive, friendly employees. So why is this well-loved airline having trouble making money?
Read MoreWe received a variety of responses to our open call for stories about what it's like to work at General Motors. Two of them stood out, both because of their detail and because of how different they are.
Read MoreIf you own a car, and a smartphone, here's a pretty insane deal combo. Just add this windshield smartphone mount and this dual USB car charger to your Amazon cart, enter code MCOVCDOW, and you'll get both for $11. [Smartphone Car Mount/Charger Combo, $11 with Code MCOVCDOW]
Read MoreThree Ford GTs, six Corvettes, a plethora of Mustangs and Thunderbirds and more hidden gems were just uncovered by one very lucky individual in a place doesn't exactly spring to mind right away when we think of American muscle: Canada.
Read MoreWhen you board a plane these days, the availability of WiFi connectivity is something we're beginning to expect, right along with the TSA full-body rub down and the fussy toddler kicking our seat for four hours. But while it's becoming common, the complexities of inflight WiFi and the variety of connection options are downright staggering.
Read MoreRenault is so hot right now. Just a few days ago their Megane RS 275 Trophy-R just set the Nurburgring record for a FWD car at 7 minutes 54 seconds, and now they've dropped this bomb. They're launching a 500+ horsepower race car called the Renault Sport Trophy. So hot.
Read MoreMotorsports are the heart and soul of the auto industry. Besides the obvious PR benefits of kicking ass in racing, it's where new technologies are developed and tested before they often make it to our street cars. Clearly, though, some folks are better at it than others.
Read MoreDriving isn't rocket science, but these ten test questions suggest the intelligence level of dead sheep.
Read MoreLet's establish some facts on the ground first: I have never been to Australia. I do not know if it has its own version of Reno 911. And I had to ask our resident Australian, Andrew Collins, what a "bogan" was. But the end result of this video is all of those things, and it is hysterical.
Read MoreThe bitchin' Camaro got swapped out for this. But hey, life isn't always fair. (I'm kidding! The Jetta is a fine little car.)
Read MoreI'm not sure what the opposite of a sore loser is, but Porsche nails it. It's just a shame they used the same voice-over guy as Spottswoode from Team America.
Read MoreLook at that — Tesla is using us for their interior decorating ideas. And who could blame them? As far as I know, we're the automotive website most consulted for home/office decor ideas. Tesla's using that famous meme image we modified on their "patent wall."
Read MoreEveryone loves how '80s F1 cars shot sparks like they were decoy flares, and F1 wants to bring them back.
Read MoreFerrari is a byword for style and beauty in the car world, but they don't always come out with winners.
Read MoreThis is a quest — a quest to find the most absurdly '80s car representative of that painfully tacky decade.
Read More"I think I must've counted every single shift that I did for the last two or three hours of the race."
Read MoreBack in April, a boneheaded 14 year-old girl from the Netherlands cast out a threatening tweet to American Airlines, who promptly responded by turning her IP address over to Dutch authorities. Now, the Supreme Court will review whether tweets and Facebook posts fall under genuine threats, or are protected as free speech.
Read MoreAudi may finally be getting serious about its EV game. Reuters is reporting that not only will the R8 e-tron go on sale next year, but Audi is putting together a comprehensive line up of EVs that include everything from a Tesla-fighting sedan to a Model X competitor.
Read MoreJust how bizarre is General Motors' much-maligned "culture"? Ask an engineer who worked there for nearly a year right before the company went bankrupt.
Read MoreIf you don't like how the fabric feels on your current seats, or you just want to protect them from messy kids (and friends), these faux leather seat covers actually look pretty good, and only cost $33 for a complete set. [Seat Cover Set, $33]
Read More"Transformers: Age Of Extinction" will likely beat "Roger & Me" as the most GM movie ever made. With an onslaught of product placement, scenes shot at actual GM workplaces and employees making cameos, it seems designed to help get the troubled automaker some temporary goodwill as it slogs through an inescapable public crisis.
Read MoreThere's a lot to know about Sarah Jessica Parker. She was in Sex And The City. She's married to Matthew Broderick. And apparently she's a huge fan of old American cars, wagons in particular. Somehow she's one of us.
Read MoreI'm not a rider, but even I know that you shouldn't have another bike on top of you. Like, on top on top.
Read MoreGlobal RallyCross is coming to our nation's capital this weekend, and to celebrate, Red Bull Hyundai driver Rhys Millen decided to use D.C.'s famous landmarks as a backdrop for some serious hoonage.
Read MoreWill Harley-Davidson riders really warm up to the concept of an electric motorcycle? Harley's bikes are about as old-school (and just plain old) as you get, and that's how its customers like it. But now Harley wants to know what the faithful would expect from an electric bike. That's what this motorcycle is for.
Read MoreYo, Dean Baquet, can you help a brother out? Seems your paper sent another reporter (again) to write a story about Detroit's Corktown (again) and Slows Bar B Q (again) and leave out the minorities (again).
Read MoreAutomobile's Georg Kacher just dropped a ton of information on the future of Ferrari, and that includes both turbocharged V6 and V8 versions of the 458, a fire breathing F12 replacement, and a drop-top LaFerrari. So let's grab a shovel and get dug into the speculation salt mine.
Read MoreIn his investigation into why it took more than a decade and 13 deaths to recall the Cobalt and other cars, GM's hired muckraker Anton Valukas routinely slammed a "culture" where safety wasn't taken seriously, effective communication was scarce and everyone failed to take responsibility for problems.
Read MoreYou know what the young Youths these days love? That's right, soccer. And you know where they live? That's right, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. And you know what they drive? The Audi A8, with a base MSRP of $75,100. So Audi just installed a giant scoreboard made up of 28 of them in (where else) Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Read MoreHarley fanatics are about to lose their collective shit. The crew from Milwaukee is going to show off its first electric motorcycle tomorrow, causing scads of chap-wearing dentists to revaluate their alternative weekend lifestyles.
Read MoreThe LAPD just added another electric motorcycle to its two-wheeled stable, and it's the same Zero MMX model designed for the U.S. Special Operation Forces. Baddies beware.
Read MoreAssuming it's legal in your state, this $280 refurbished radar detector sells for over $400 new, and has great reviews around the web. [Escort Passport 9500ix Radar and Laser Detector, $280]
Read MoreEveryone was all excited over Deadmau5's Purrari 458 being sold on Craigslist for big bucks. Apparently "everyone" doesn't include the trolls that infest the internet and click the spam button daily. Enter Autotrader to save the Nyan Cat day.
Read MoreIt's a tough day to be working for General Motors, and it just got a little tougher. The troubled automaker just got sued for $10 billion, or possibly more, for lost resale values of their recalled vehicles.
Read MoreKRON, a local TV station in San Francisco, was just doing its normal local TV thing, in this case, catching people being jerks in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. And then one biker really decided to be a jerk, and that's when it turned into a tidal wave of sweet, sweet justice.
Read MoreLet's perform a little thought experiment: you're a mad scientist, and have developed a lightning-powered system to re-animate dead car brands. They all said you were crazy at the institute, but you'll show them! So, which dead car brand are you going to send your hunchback'd assistant to dig up?
Read MoreOnce again, General Motors CEO Mary Barra is getting hauled before a Congressional subcommittee, this time to answer questions about the damning internal investigation about the ignition switch recall.
Read MoreWhat is it about putting a big V8 into a tiny car that makes a grown man giddy like a school girl? It's the unexpected noise. The thrill. Whatever it is, the awesomesaucity of this BMW 135i with an M3 V8 is off the chain.
Read MoreIt's already been well-established that the whole "speed kills" myth is just that – a myth. So what the hell is this clustercrap of insanity the Northern Irish government just decided to unleash on the world? I mean, this guy pulls a handbrake turn and just kills everyone, like grapes. SPLAT.
Read MoreA transgender teen was told he couldn't have his driver's license photo taken while wearing makeup at a South Carolina DMV. They said he couldn't wear a "disguise."
Read MoreYou may think being a Rich Kid of Instagram is an easy life, but it's not! Sure, sometimes you get to drive crazy exotic cars, but then people set them on fire when you aren't looking. Rich people have problems, too!
Read MoreToday at Advance Auto Parts, get $20 off $50 with code TRT25 or $40 off $100 with code TRT41. Larger orders can opt to use Code MISSUF42 for 35% off as instead. The deal is available sitewide, so if there are any accessories or tools you've had your eye on, this is a great chance to pick them up. [Advance Auto Parts]
Read MoreTake a look at that Bentley Continental GT3-R. Despite losing 100 kilos from the standard Conti GT, the GT3-R still weighs slightly less than a house.
Read MoreGeneral Motors CEO Mary Barra says her company is changing in the wake of the ignition switch defect fiasco. Can she convince Congress, and the world, that it really is?
Read MoreJumping a car ain't easy, but these ten daredevils perfected it even if one of them broke his back in the process...
Read MoreThis looks like a Volkswagen. It says Volkswagen on the back. But it's a Nissan.
Read MoreLast week, the Huffington Post, The Daily Mail and some other sites posted stories that read something like this: "Here's what flying will look like in 2050." Most of the concepts shown are complete fantasy, just like the flying car concepts shared decades ago, and for similar reasons: Human beings are frail, greedy and make bad decisions. But there's still some hope.
Read MoreRemember that time at Silverstone when the Bentley Continental GT3 race car mopped the floor with various Ferraris, Aston Martins and McLarens? Yeah, good times. Now Bentley is offering a limited edition Continental inspired by that car so you can do some supercar hunting of your own. (Maybe.)
Read More[A stunning new grid of racing supercars from the nineties is the latest addition to the incredible on-track action at this summer's award-winning Silverstone Classic (25-27 July). The inaugural 90s GT Legends line up stars a mouthwatering field, topped by Ferrari F40s, Jaguar XJ220s, Lister Storms, Porsche GT1s plus no fewer than five fabulous McLaren F1 GTRs including at least one of the ten 'Longtail' versions, each valued at more than £3m. Photo credit Newspress]
Read MoreTeam USA just played one hell of a match against Ghana in the World Cup. So Delta Airlines paid homage to these wonderful athletes with a Statue of Liberty and a giraffe.
Read MoreCitizens of the post-Soviet East are crazy about dashcams because it helps them stay safe on dangerous, insurance fraud-filled roads. One Californian found his dashcam similarly useful.
Read MoreI'm not sure what's the best part of this story — that Deadmau5 is selling his Nyan Cat Ferrari 458 for $380,000 or that he's doing it on Craigslist.
Read MoreGeneral Motors just announced that it's recalling another 3.16 million cars for "ignition" problems, which will raise their total number of vehicles recalled in the United States to above 20 million cars. They've basically recalled everything and it's cost them $2 billion.
Read MoreI could stand you right in front of the very first really mass-production capable hydrogen-powered vehicle and say "Look at that car. That's a hydrogen car that could be the future of motoring." And you would say "What car? What are you pointing at? Behind that white SUV thing?" Then maybe we'd kiss.
Read MoreUsing a smartphone to get directions while driving currently falls into a legal grey area. The feds want to change that. A proposal by the Obama administration would require restrictions on how apps can be used and even force changes if NHTSA thinks it's unsafe. This will not go well.
Read MoreI'm guessing Optimus Prime has just fired his lousy accountant, because even though he has a new movie about to come out, regular unwashed bastards like you and me can ride in Optimus Prime (in semi truck cab form) by simply hailing him through Uber. Well, so long as you're in one of these three cities.
Read MoreToday only, Best Buy is offering a great price on this Alpine 1100 watt car amplifier. Alpine is one of the most trusted names in car audio, so this is a great chance to upgrade your sound system without breaking the bank. [Alpine Amp, $150]
Read MoreWell that was quick. Word got out that there were a bunch of videos floating around of a stupid/nutty/crazy/moronic/other derogatory adjectives person driving straight onto the Brands Hatch circuit in the middle of a race, and now he's been arrested by the local police. Good. Harumph.
Read MoreIf you're ready for an Android-powered infotainment system, the wait is almost over. At next week's Google developers conference, The Big G will show off an auto-focused version of its mobile OS in the first real bid to compete with Apple's CarPlay system.
Read MoreWe should've learned from OutKast that you can't just attach Rosa Parks' name to something all willy-nilly. But alas...
Read MoreBack in March, the Seat Leon Cupra 280 became the front-wheel drive car to shatter the eight minute lap time at the Nürburgring. Its victory was short-lived. Renault announced today that their Megane RS 275 Trophy-R destroyed that record by a whole four seconds. Sacrebleu!
Read MoreLate last night we saw an old BMW soar through the air, as if Icarus himself decided he liked some Bavarian sheet metal. It was mesmerizing, it was moving, it was soul-stirring in the way it broke the dirty, rusted chains of mere gravitational laws. We should see more like that.
Read MoreIn the 1990s, designer Gordon Murray and the team at McLaren conquered the world with the McLaren F1. Today he's focused on revolutionizing the way we drive with tiny, ligthweight, efficient city cars. So is he a fan of McLaren's new hybrid halo car, the P1? Not really.
Read MoreOne of the worst things you can do in the world is to interfere with any serious, ongoing competition. One of the most dangerous things in the world is to get anywhere near a pack of race cars when you have no reason for doing so. This guy did both.
Read MoreNissan has lifted the red sheet off their mysterious Gran Turismo car, and it looks like what you get when you cross a GT-R with a Koenigsegg. This is the Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo, and I think it looks pretty badass.
Read MoreThe last bit of news regarding Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident was slightly positive, and now we have definitely good news from his family’s spokesperson: “He is not in a coma anymore.”
Read MoreNissan's addition to the Vision Gran Turismo line, already composed of some of the swoopiest supercars ever to see both real life and virtual life, just debuted. And though they're not confirming it yet, the Nissan Vision Gran Turismo might just be the basis for the next Nissan GT-R.
Read MoreBack in February, the Lotus F1 team's often irreverent Twitter account shot out a tweet pronouncing its support of gay athletes at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The tweet was deleted, and Lotus apologized for the "unauthorised" tweet. Now its former brand director is saying he was fired for it.
Read MoreYou know how sometimes you're just driving along, and you get a little lost, and you make a wrong turn, and then suddenly you find yourself in the middle of the track during an endurance race at the famous Brands Hatch Circuit? No? Well, that's what this guy did in a Volkswagen Polo. Supposedly.
Read MoreThe No. 2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro, piloted by Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer, and Benoit Treluyer took the checkered flag in the world's most grueling endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Congrats to the entire team.
Read MoreLucas Ordóñez was the first winner of the Gran Turismo Academy racing competition. Today, he just took the first all-electric lap at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Let that sink in.
Read MoreChevrolet is leaning hard on product placement in Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction to get the Chinese market fired up about their product. But it's not the Camaro they're expecting to get the most mileage out of; it's their new micro SUV the Trax.
Read MoreHad you heard about the absolute disaster that revolved around the 2010 Adidas Jabulani soccer ball, used in that year's World Cup? Yeah, me either. But professionals used words like terrible, disaster, and catastrophe to describe its performance. How has Adidas changed the ball for this year's Cup?
Read MoreHow do you get the attention of Carlos Ghosn? Buy a 3/4-page add in The Tennessean – Nissan North America's hometown newspaper – accusing the company, its leader, and its motorsports arm of stealing the design of a race car that's about to take to the track at Le Mans.
Read MoreHow does one of the world's most well-known, respected, and frequently-flying women pack her suitcase? Former First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shares her technique, from her decades of experience in public service.
Read MoreJesus, Russia. You've really gone and done it this time.
Read MoreAs we've continued our coverage of the vehicles being sent in to fight the Ukrainian government and aid the glorious Russian soldiers of Novorossiya Ukrainian rebels, some commenters have cast doubt on that narrative. Today, that narrative was proven right. By the US government, of all people.
Read MoreThe thing about auto writers is this: we can't all be Chris Harris. (I certainly know I'm not.) Sometimes the powerful cars we test can get away from us. Case in point: two brand-spankin' new BMW M3s apparently destroyed during the recent press drive at Road America.
Read MoreDiesel is overrated by the gearhead community. There. I said it. Here's why.
Read MoreThe Porsche 962C. The rotary-powered Mazda 767B. The Sauber C9. The race at the 1989 24 Hours Of Le Mans was a legendary one filled with cars we still dream about today. Jalopnik reader Alan Dahl was there. Here's his take on an unforgettable race. - P.G.
Read MoreLuca di Montezemolo is pissed. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal's Dan Neil in Maranello, Ferrari's head honcho didn't mince words. "Formula One isn't working," he says. And that could mean ditching F1 for endurance racing, which lines up nicely with tomorrow's announcement at Le Mans.
Read MoreEarlier today General Motors announced they will recall all the 511,528 current-generation Chevrolet Camaros on the road because they say a driver can inadvertently switch the car off by hitting the key fob. It turns out I have a 2014 Camaro SS press car in my garage right now, so I went out to see if I could duplicate the problem.
Read MoreToday on Amazon, pick up a 6-quart case of Penzoil motor oil, and they'll toss in the filter for free. [Free Filter with Oil Purchase]
Read MoreWhat you see here is Le Mans on a Thursday afternoon. Tea time with Group C cars, basically. And it will make you wish it was 1989 again... acid wash jeans and all.
Read MoreCanada's low-cost airline WestJet has created another heart-warming video, this time featuring an employee who took over another man's job for a week so he could visit his sick son in the hospital. Watch this and see if you don't tear up.
Read MoreIs this whole "best Craigslist ad ever" trend finally played out? I think it might be. That's why it's nice to see a good, honest, down-to-earth ad every now and then. Like this fellow in Denver, who's selling his car and plane-eating robot dinosaur. It's as straightforward as sales pitches get!
Read MoreThere are road trips, and then there are road trips. The road trips where there are no actual roads, and they are not so much as a trip as an adventure, a journey, an expedition. The ones few can manage to endeavor, and even fewer manage to return from.
Read MoreEver since Jaguar started making cars like the Jaguar XFR-S and the XKR-S, an R-S version of the sublime F-Type was a bit of an inevitability. Now the people at Touriclips captured one pounding around the Nurburgring (of course), and it looks like Jag's trying to glue it to the road. With air.
Read MoreYou're a motorsports fan and you need to watch Audi, Porsche, and Toyota duke it out at this year's 24 Hours Of Le Mans, where do you turn? Fortunately, there will be a variety of great viewing options to satisfy your needs.
Read MoreFirst Class on domestic flights can be a bit of a joke, offering luxury commensurate with what regular passengers used to get. This Sunday, jetBlue will change the cross country long-haul game with the launch of their new Airbus A321. It's cheaper than most first class trips and, as I found out, nicer in many ways.
Read MoreGM just recalled every single current-generation Camaro – that's 511,528 of them – because of an extremely similar problem to the one that has already killed more than a dozen people in Chevy Cobalts and other small cars.
Read MoreYesterday, we got introduced to the Circuit des 24 Heures by the fantastic John Hindhaugh, and after getting passed by Mark Webber on a bicycle, we had to make a stop at Loic Duval's crash scene. Shattered fragments of his car were still on the tarmac.
Read MoreBack in the 1990s, the McLaren F1 was so good that its racing variant, the F1 GTR, was able to mop the floor with dedicated prototype cars at Le Mans. Now they're doing something similar with their new hybrid halo car, the McLaren P1. That's right: There's gonna be a McLaren P1 GTR.
Read MoreWe know how much it weighs, but we still don't know how much power it puts out. Regardless, the 2015 Ford Mustang configurator is somehow online, and your Ecoboost dreams can become a reality starting at $25,170.
Read MoreEV fanatics and the muscle car crowd don't agree on anything, and this 1968 Mustang fastback isn't going to help matters. It's not here to save the world, but it will drill down to the Earth's core with a claimed 1,800 pound-feet of torque. That's not a typo.
Read MoreOkay, it's not called the Awesome Division, but JLR's Special Operations unit will have a team of 150 specialists committed to restoring vintage machinery, tailoring one-offs for customers, and making more stuff like the F-Type Project 7. They'll also be doing "branded goods". So... three out of four ain't bad.
Read MoreThe scandal known as "2015 Ford Mustang Weightgate" is over. Thanks to a Ford dealer in Florida who exclusively supplied Jalopnik with the 2015 Mustang's Dealer Source Book, we know the actual weight of every model of the new 'Stang.
Read MoreThe self-propelled goiter in glasses and a cheap Andy Warhol wig that was given the power of speech by a magical Amalfi-area sea hag that we know as "Bernie Ecclestone" has a pair of daughters, and one of those may buy the old Walt Disney Estate in Holmby Hills. That's the neighborhood the Playboy Mansion is in.
Read MoreHere's the thing about the Audi R18 and all the other 2014 LMP1 prototypes: they're tiny.
Read MoreDo you own a hybrid Ford or Lincoln? Are you not getting the mileage you expected? Then get excited for some swell news — you're about to get paid!
Read MoreFrom Truck Yeah!: The Chevrolet Suburban has been the quintessential American SUV since forever. It departs from its truckly origins a little more with each generation, but longtime fans of the franchise will be plenty happy with the new model.
Read MoreShop-Vacs are a must-own tool for anyone who does a lot of work around the garage. Assuming you have space to store it, $36 for this 10 gallon, 4 horsepower model is an absolute steal. [10 Gallon Shop-Vac, $36 with promo code 47000LOWES2836S]
Read MoreTesla Motors just went "open source," at least in spirit. CEO Elon Musk announced this morning in California that the nascent electric car company will open up all its patents "for the advancement of electric vehicle technology." And he did it with a meme, which is awesome.
Read MoreTry and count all the vehicles in the President's motorcade! You can't. There are too many. It's impossible.
Read MoreIt's easy to forget just how extreme flying used to be.
Read MoreThe owners of Michigan Central Station, the hulking, abandoned train station that is synonymous with Detroit's decline and has been empty for 30 years, have applied for permits to do construction on the building. What? This can't be right.
Read MoreWe get a lot of flak at Jalopnik for sometimes ragging on Honda and Acura because their cars aren't quite as enthusiast-oriented as they were in their 1990s and early 2000s heyday. I'm about to rag on Honda for an entirely different reason: the music at the Honda Civic Tour has been, and continues to be, terrible.
Read MoreYou know how Volkswagen recently had Tanner Foust hoon a 2015 GTI covered in GoPros? That was cool, but do you know what's cooler? Justin Bell thrashing a 1996 McLaren F1 GTR at Mid-Ohio, with some GoPros attached.
Read MoreThere are a few photos of Detroit blight going around that a few of my colleagues at Gawker Media couldn't resist posting because displays of the city's ruins are easily shareable. Except these photos are incorrect and misleading.
Read MoreIt turns out that choking traffic from London to Berlin isn't the best way to get your message across to customers – even when striking is practically an EU-recognized sport.
Read MoreIn case you've forgotten about Iraq, it is still A Country That Exists with 36 million people living in it. And the biggest northern city of Mosul was just completely overrun by extremist insurgents, whose first order of business seems to have been to burn anything that has wheels attached.
Read MoreAutotrader decided that they needed to target the habitual cop-fleer and haystack-leaper vintage muscle car market and convince them to modernize their rides. To get that idea across, they secured the Duke boys and their famous whip, the General Lee. But it looks like they're avoiding a certain detail on the car.
Read MoreThe verdict is split on the styling of Google's self-driving techno-koala. Some of us love it, some of us hate it, but mostly it's been met with a resounding "meh". Chris Bangle takes it a step further, saying the "'face' is supposed to be cutesy but is awful weak."
Read MoreWith Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld has done what few of his generation have: He’s adapted what he does (comedy) for the web. He’s also done it cleverly and in a way that makes money. In a talk with David Letterman this week at the Paley Center he gave away some of the secrets.
Read MoreThe most frustrating aspect of what we do as auto writers is the boilerplate response we get from car companies when we ask about future cars. That wasn't the case with Infiniti CEO Johan De Nysschen, who essentially had this to say about the rumored Infiniti version of the Juke: "Hell yeah, it's ours, and it's going to be awesome."
Read MoreThe last time we heard from Polish supercar maker Arrinera, they may or may not have been a scam, but either way, a journalist was getting sued for calling them that. But I suppose that's all water under the bridge now, because Arrinera's car, the Arrinera Hussarya, finally has a timetable for production.
Read MoreOne of the criticisms lobbied at GM — and really, almost any car company — is what it chooses to share publicly. So despite indications from top brass that the automaker would be more communicative, why are there still measures to keep media from disseminating information to the public?
Read MoreLet's just go down the list: Dutch, mid-engined, amphibious, double-ended, drivable from either end, four-wheel steering, four-wheel drive. Ok, it's not rotary-engined, or air-cooled, sure, but it's not bad. It's the DAF-139 prototype.
Read MoreSick of losing things under your car seat? The Drop Stop is a universal seat gap filler that will solve your woes forever. [Drop Stop 2-Pack, $21]
Read MoreThis picture was taken a few moments after we parked our Arancio Argos Lamborghini Aventador with all its 700 horsepower in front of an unsuspecting Italian family’s home. They didn’t speak English (or Magyar) and I didn’t speak Italian, but Lambo’s V12 speaks an international language everyone understands.
Read MoreWhile the Nissan Leaf is fine at putting around town on electric power and making you feel like you're saving the planet, it's not exactly what you'd call badass. But it can be if it's given the right purpose. Fighting giant monsters in Japan, for example.
Read MoreThe No.1 Audi R-18 e-tron quattro piloted by Loic Duval at Le Mans practice just went airborne, slamming into a wall backwards, and nearly completely destroying the car. Duval is out of the car and talking, according to his race team.
Read MoreEarlier today we showed you a video of an angry wife destroying a Miata to spite her husband. In order to make it up to you, we're going to show you... more videos of people destroying cars. Yay!
Read MoreHere's a tip for aspiring creatives in Detroit: If you're planning to open a business that may not be totally legit, don't tell the New York Times about it, as one goat farmer has learned the hard way.
Read MoreIt's not often that a company like Porsche is the underdog. But as they gear up for the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, that's exactly what they are. Returning to the race for the first time since the late 1990s, they're up against far more established teams, most notably corporate cousin Audi. How can they possibly expect to win?
Read MoreI got an email from Bradley Farrell of Inside Project M fame and he dropped some interesting news about super friend Jim Glickenhaus. They’re working on a show called “Return To Desire” to educate people about buying classics.
Read MoreA few months ago we heard that Infiniti was planning to offer their own version of the popular children's cartoon character/car known as the Nissan Juke in China. Now a few teaser images have popped up that lend some credence to that rumor. Is this it? And if so... why?
Read MoreOh man. Some poor bastard's probably been fired over this by now. Especially since it looks like a simple length of chain could have prevented all this from happening. That's a Seat Leon Cupra race car, and it's been dropped about two or so stories. Oops.
Read MoreSo here I am reading through a rather lengthy debate on whether or not Amarillo is in West Texas or the Panhandle, and I wonder if it's really so hard to define a geographic region as simple as "West Texas."
Read MoreTravis and I are on our way to Le Mans, and here's a bit of why it's worth the flight from anywhere on this earth.
Read MoreThere is something lovely that, sadly, most racecars lack. It's called an emergency brake and mastering the use of it will make you a master driver. Here's how to do it. And as an added bonus, here's what happens when you put a NASCAR driver in a rally car.
Read MoreI do not hail from a state that gets a lot of hail (get it? It's a pun, sort of!), but something about completely crowding underpasses to the point where every last bit of traffic gets jammed up behind you does not seem necessary or safe.
Read MoreYou read that right. On the Atlantic cruise from Modena, Italy to the U.S., the 4C tacked on 342 pounds, and it wasn't from the all-you-can-eat steak and shrimp buffet.
Read MoreThis Ford Focus ST owner is concerned about his paint, so much so that he has wrapped his front car in painters tape. Is he insane?
Read MoreOne of the best things about taking Amtrak, America's Rail System That Is Woefully Inadequate Compared To Europe, is that it the trains have free wifi. The downside is that the free wifi is hilariously terrible to the point that it's nearly unusable. But that might change soon!
Read MoreThis MTX car amplifier normally sells for $40 more, and has never been this cheap before. [MTX 1000 Watt Amp, $310]
Read MoreA home costs around $500,000. A nice boat costs around $500,000. A Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead costs around $500,000. You have the money to buy one. Which do you get?
Read MoreYou're unlikely to ever see one in the U.S., but for decades Japan's domestic market minicars have provided drivers with efficiency, practicality, ease of parking, style, and even fun behind the wheel. Today, the kei car has never been more popular. So why do Japanese automakers want to wean buyers off of them?
Read MoreThe upcoming racing game Driveclub for PS4 is boasting exceptional realism in vehicle renderings and a unique scoring system that "doesn't revolve around coming in first," along with a central social element to cooperation and competition as showcased in this trailer.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of Le Mans starts this Saturday, and it's the ultimate test of endurance and speed. It's also a test of which fuel is the best: Diesel or gasoline. So we're having a little race of our own to Le Mans to settle the score. Will V10 muscle or V6 thrift win the day?
Read MoreI love the 24 Hours of Le Mans because unlike other racing series, the cars are all different. Sports cars run with prototypes and everybody has something unique to bring to the table. And sometimes, it's where automakers show off their weirdest cars.
Read MoreIt's been demonstrated that most speed limits are arbitrary and kind of pointless beyond fueling a money-making scheme, so it's nice to see that Britain is doubling down on them. Actually, they're quadrupling down, by raising the maximum speeding fine to £10,000. That's almost $17,000, in American.
Read MoreIn less than 15 minutes, a round of critics questioned General Motors CEO Mary Barra's sincerity, feminism and morality. This is round one of predictably many protests against the automaker in the wake of several controversies.
Read MoreThe latest Dodge (née SRT) Viper is one of the most visceral and memorable performance cars I have ever driven. It's loud, angry, unbelievably fast, and completely worthy of the Viper name. There's just one big problem: not a lot of people are buying it. And now I wonder if the 2015 Corvette Z06 is about to finish it off.
Read MoreEveryone has been wondering what Nissan is hiding under that red sheet. Is it a Gran Turismo Vision Concept? Is it the next GT-R? From what we hear, it might be both.
Read MoreMany cars that are lowered and stanced have hydraulics in the suspension, to help them get off the slightest of curbs. This one doesn't. There's nothing like waking up in the morning to a nice hot cup of "SCRAPE CRUNCH CRUNCH SCRAPE CRUNCH" to start your day.
Read MoreThe current Lotus F1 team and the historic Team Lotus have basically nothing to do with each other. But that doesn't matter when cars like the 350 horsepower Lotus Exige LF1 exist in all their black and gold glory.
Read MoreIf you could have your car in a racing livery from the factory, one of the classiest — and only — choices you should make is the Martini livery. And now Porsche is offering that very livery on 911s. Holy guacamole, Green Lantern!
Read MoreWhile I desperately try to think of a story idea about the Fiat 500 Abarth that isn't just me writing "ohmygoditmakesmesohappy" a thousand times, The Powers That Be have deigned it appropriate to cleanse my pallette with this, a 2014 Buick Regal GS. And yes, it's got three pedals and a six-speed.
Read MoreYep, that's what he said. The CAD data they get from car companies is usually pretty unusable for the making in-game cars. And, even more telling, Forza developers never trust the manufacturer specs for HP, weight, etc. They do all their own dyno testing, and part-weighing. So turn on your Xbox One for accurate car specs.
Read MoreJay Leno joined a protest at the Sultan of Brunei's Beverly Hills Hotel last month, aimed at raising awareness of the Sultan's repressive new laws that act as a basic insult to humanity, and punishing him where it hurts in the wallet. And it just so happens that the punishment is working.
Read MoreFrom Truck Yeah!: People did amazing things to get their mail before we could send messages with a few buttons... like put off-road tires on wooden-spoked wheels. Here's the (mostly) complete and fascinating history of an "off-road snowmobile coupe", as told its by owner/seller who knows of "at least three" in existence.
Read MoreThere are a lot of driving laws I don't agree with, starting with 55 MPH speed limits. But one that is definitely not enforced enough is the prohibition on texting while driving. It's such an absorbing distraction that comes on so quickly that it genuinely is incredibly dangerous. And Volkswagen demonstrated just that.
Read MoreThe LMP1 class at Le Mans has seen a huge resurgence with Porsche, Toyota, and Audi competing. Nissan is joining them in 2015. And if reports are to be believed, a prancing horse might join the fray in the near future. Helllllllz yeah.
Read MoreWe can all agree that Buick has made great strides in revamping its image as a grandpa's car to more of a cool uncle's car. But that pesky average buyer's age isn't quite low enough, so Buick — like everyone else — is turning to social media to drive it down. Specifically with a series of well-choreographed Vines.
Read MoreHow do you know if you have more cash than sense? You buy a trio of BMW i8s – one for each house you own.
Read MoreCreate your own deal with this $100 Lowe's gift card, available now for only $90. That's good for a $10 savings on any tools, home goods, garage accessories, and more at your local Lowe's. [$100 Lowe's Gift Card, $90]
Read MoreWith Red Bull's chief genius expanding his role beyond F1 and into "technology projects", the world is Adrian Newey's oyster. So what if he designed a road car? Say, ripping the X2014 out of Gran Turismo and into reality.
Read MoreAs the Gumball 3000 commences the European leg of its 2014 tour, one car that generated a considerable amount of hype and press for the event is conspicuously absent: the Tumbler Batmobile replica. The car's inability to run in the rally has created a very public rift between its builders and the team running it.
Read MoreTalk about extremes. How does a family end up with such a disparate driveway?
Read MoreGetting you to actually go out an buy a new car is really quite tricky, what with cars costing all that money and everyone hating the process and all. So car dealers tend to resort to using some outlandish methods to get people in and car-buying. What are some of the goofiest ways they do it?
Read MoreThe moment you buy a home and start its restoration, you realize how cheap and easy it is to own and operate a car. So why not just forgo the whole house thing and get a car instead?
Read MoreThe average per capita income in Cambodia is $1,000. A Rolls-Royce Phantom is 470 times as much. Would it be smart for Rolls-Royce to open a showroom in Cambodia? Yes — and there's a reason why they're doing so.
Read MoreSome of the greatest performance cars are born when engineers take plain old ordinary family cars and suit them up for racing duty. Two of Ford's offerings from the 80s and 90s, the Sierra RS Cosworth and Escort Cosworth, illustrate this point better than almost anything else.
Read MoreA few weeks back, we wondered aloud if the Detroit automakers would throw some change in the collection plate for the Detroit Institute of Arts, which was in trouble due to the city's bankruptcy. They have, donating enough to buttress an already strong safeguard against liquidating the museum's assets.
Read MoreThe past few Formula One races have been a bit boring. One of the Mercedes drivers, either Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg, would end up on pole, and one would end up winning. It was neat at first, but then it grew a bit stale. The Canadian Grand Prix looked like much of the same, until it all went to hell.
Read MoreGood news: Ariel will show off its long-awaited motorcycle at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Bad news: It won't be anything like the two-wheeled Atom we expected. Worse news: Automatic transmission.
Read MoreWhen four-time AMA champ Eric Bostrom isn't running his fire-breathing Kawasaki in AMA Superbike, he's racing a Brammo Empulse R. With one foot in the past, another in the future, and nearly two decades of racing experience, he's a perfect arbiter of performance, and when it comes to electric bikes, he's sold.
Read MoreAdrian Newey has re-upped his contract with Red Bull in a new multi-year agreement. But the world's most successful F1 designer and the genius behind the team's four consecutive double world titles is moving beyond F1. But for what?
Read MoreThe Swedish Moose Test is infamous for finding stability issues in cars. It sounds silly on first hearing, but it actually makes a lot of sense. And this video, fittingly from Sweden, shows why it exists. Warning for the squeamish readers of the world: it's a graphic shot of a flying moose.
Read MoreEveryone loves big planes. The bigger they are the more interesting they become. Famed mammoths like the Hughes HK-1 "Hercules," otherwise known as the "Spruce Goose," and Antonov's gigantic An-225 "Dream" conjure up feelings that man has somehow cheated physics by creating such flying hulks.
Read MoreRacing bigwig Gene Haas is getting all his ducks in a row in preparation for the 2016 launch of his new Formula One team. One of those ducks he needs in a row is two drivers. And to that end, he just said he thinks Danica Patrick is a "great candidate" for one of the two seats.
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 MoreSometimes when a submarine goes wildly out of control, it sinks to the bottom. Sometimes when a sub goes wildly out of control, it go straight to the surface. When the USS Chopper lost control, it did both. At tremendous speed. Terrifyingly.
Read MoreIf Portland's going to totally rip off "Keep Austin Weird," I'm going to put a bird on things. Rally Chicken, to be exact. And by "things," I mean the entire Global Rallycross paddock at the X Games. Rally Chicken's a dirty, dirty bird.
Read MoreThe great philosopher known as Andre 3000 once brought up an important and salient point of modern life – that which is cooler than being cool, is known as "ice cold." The air conditioning unit in this Chevy Equinox clearly agreed, because it started spitting flakes of the frozen stuff.
Read MoreSpeedVision, later known simply as SPEED, before completely mutating into the Fox-owned sports channel FS1, always seemed to be staggering on back in the day. Full of potential for maximum joy among the car enthusiast, it never quite realized it. And maybe this commercial can help explain why.
Read MoreSo tonight while researching old driving games for that big poster, us Jalops were looking at some of the box/cabinet art for the famous game Spy Hunter. Specifically, we were looking at the car, which I always assumed was just made up for the game. But something clicked for Raph.
Read MoreOh, Wall Street Journal. You cross-hatched-portrait-loving kook. One of your writers, Joseph White, just wrote something about how GM's troubles could be solved if they did one thing: banned PowerPoint. I have one comment about that idea:
Read MoreIsle Of Man TT videos are losing their shock value. Yes, it's fast. Yes, it's dangerous. Yes, we're in awe of their two-wheeled talents. But this run by TT legend John McGuinness is different. He's on an electric bike setting a new world record. And it's an odd combination of tranquil and terrifying.
Read MoreDan Neil's review of the Range Rover LWD is out. There's nothing particularly noteworthy about the car or the write-up, beyond a solid assessment, a few smart turns of phrase, and the odd opium joke. But one confession caught our eye. His wife wants a classic Range Rover. We should help her with that.
Read MoreI think I've said before that of all the technological promises from my youth, the only thing to really exceed my expectations were video games. We have no jet packs or pizzas-in-pills, but our games look fantastic. Let's look at when they didn't, with a big goofy poster!
Read MoreThe Buick Verano is dropping its manual transmission for the 2015 model year. I know what you're all thinking right now: "Buick offered the Verano with a manual?!"
Read MoreOkay, this isn't strictly car-related, but I bet there's some car parts in there somewhere. See, a friend of mine does set dressing, and she's working on Andrew WK's new kids' show (!), Meet Me At The Wreck. There's an alien in the show, and to dress up his "lab," I gave her a bunch of crap from my shed.
Read MoreAfter hitting an elk crushed his Saab, one Canadian was faced with a choice — take a hopelessly long Greyhound bus ride home, or buy a $500 Audi and drive there. He made the right decision.
Read MoreThis JL Audio car amplifier has great reviews, and typically sells for $30 more, so grab one before they're gone. [JL Audio Amplifier, $140]
Read MoreWhen the Nissan GT-R-powered Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge dropped earlier this year, many of us assumed it was their long-awaited BMW M3 fighter. It's probably going to be a lot more expensive than that, and a lot more exclusive.
Read MoreAs a present for retiring from a long career of military service, Lt. Col. Joe Pagnotta bought himself a Ferrari F430 F1 from a luxury car dealership in Munich and decided to have it imported here. But when the car arrived in the U.S., it was seized at a port by customs officials. Here's why.
Read MoreTwo months ago, Tesla Motors lost one of the battles in their state-by-state fight against car dealers. The battleground was New Jersey, where a dealer-backed initiative led the state's motor vehicle commission to halt Tesla's car sales on April 1. Good news for electric car fans: As of yesterday, that ban moved to closer to being over.
Read MoreWhen WWII started aviation experts were convinced no one could mass-produce the big, destructive B-24 Liberator bomber. A month before D-Day, a Ford factory was on the verge of producing one an hour. In this chapter from his new book, A.J. Baime explains why it was pivotal to defeating the Axis powers on this day 70 years ago. - Ed.
Read MoreTraffic cops aren't usually the most popular figures on the road, but these nine people (and one robot) aren't your usual traffic cops.
Read MorePorsche has won Le Mans 16 times. Audi has won 12 times. Porsche hasn't won since 1998. Audi has only lost twice since 2000. Porsche is returning to the top class this year and Audi is welcoming them back with a taunt made of tire smoke.
Read MoreMark Higgins wasn't satisfied with his previous record set on Wednesday, so he took out his 2015 Subaru Impreza WRX STI again around the 37 mile TT course and set a new one at 117,5 mph.
Read MoreThe 2015 Volkswagen Golf R has 290 horsepower. The 2015 Volkswagen Golf R 400 has 400 horsepower, and here's how it sounds.
Read MoreSeventy years ago this week, Jim "Pee Wee" Martin was among the thousands of brave young men who parachuted down over Utah Beach into Normandy, France with the 101st Airborne Division — beginning the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. On Thursday, at 93 years old, Pee Wee jumped once again.
Read MoreThis is Crossroads Speedway, a karting track in, surprise, Florida. Or maybe Oklahoma? It doesn't really matter. What matters is that wherever it is, a pocket of raw chaos just collided with it, causing near record-levels of apeshit as a guy flips a kart with a driver in it, and starts a huge melée.
Read MoreIn announcing the findings of an internal investigation about the ignition switch defect that affected 2.6 million cars, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said the company did not conspire to cover up the problem. Instead, the investigation reveals an organization mired in bureaucracy and unable to take responsibility for its mistakes.
Read MoreHate the X6? BMW doesn't. The misshapen X5 that ripped the "utility" out of SUV has sold a quarter-million copies around the world. Some were sold in the States, but the other 243,000-or-so became the de facto ride of the Russkaya Bratva that couldn't afford a Cayenne. So it's no surprise that the new X6 is debuting in Moscow.
Read MoreOne of my favorite parts of my job is finding cars I can successfully schlep my toddler around in. I've done it plenty in my old Beetle, but I've never done it with the sort of carefree whatthefuckitude shown here in this amazing article.
Read MoreThe Greenwich Concours d'Elegance isn't exactly your run of the mill cruise night where a bunch of guys get together in a parking lot and sit around a handful of muscle cars while a DJ plays 50's Rock & Roll–this is something much different.
Read MoreToday we're used to seeing knockoff cars from China, but back in the early decades of the automobile, some of the (now) most established names in the industry stole from one another. This is the case of the Opel Tree Frog.
Read MoreIf you ever leave your car untended for an extended period, you'll want a good battery charger to make sure it starts when you get back. This one usually goes for about $20, but it's only $15 today. [Black & Decker Battery Maintainer/Charger, $15]
Read MoreCancelled car projects are sort of like the Ark of the Covenant — they make a huge initial impression, melt a few faces, and end up in some dusty warehouse, almost totally forgotten. Chrysler's innovative plastic developing-world car of the 1990s, the CCV, was a project like this.
Read MoreIf you have a 30-year-old and rather rare Italian supermini that's not really worth any money, a crash leaves you with two options. I went with the more expensive one. That was the right thing to do.
Read MoreWith Jalopnik, it's easy to know. Jason has the Bug, Raph has a higher Bug, Patrick rocks a Mini, Travis jams himself into a Miata while I have an Italian exotic. But let's see what moves Evo's crew!
Read MoreNot surprising: Chevrolet Cobalt owners traded in their cars in huge numbers in March, April and May in light of the ignition switch recall affecting 2.6 million cars. Maybe a little more surprising: nearly half of them bought new General Motors cars instead.
Read MoreDubai’s Bugatti Veyron-driving police officer doesn’t feel like a rockstar, but he really should because he drives a Veyron. And there’s more.
Read MoreTop Gear's Richard Hammond is glad his brand-new 911 GT3 had to be recalled because other GT3s were catching on fire. And maybe Porsche should be, too.
Read MoreWe've already tested the Fiat 500 Abarth a few times, but we love it so much we seem to have obtained one just for the pure joy of it. And now it's my turn.
Read MoreGeneral Motors CEO Mary Barra addressed reporters this morning as part of a full day of briefings and announcements related to their own internal ignition switch defect investigation. Here are the three biggest takeaways.
Read MoreF1 ratings are down and Bernie Ecclestone — the greedy billionaire muppet who runs the sport when not on trial for bribery or crushing beetles— doesn't care, and doesn't want to do anything about it because he's still getting paid reports AUTOSPORT. Asshat.
Read MoreWhat happens when a bear gets trapped inside a Honda? This. And no amount of expletives could possibly describe the damage done to this poor little Civic.
Read MoreBack in 2011, Chrysler announced they'd be making over a dozen plug-in hybrid Ram 1500s. Since then, I haven't heard a word of news on these trucks.
Read MoreAll that energy we waste screaming at the screen when our favorite racer gets passed on the final straight is about to be put to good use. It's called "tweet to boost" and I'm not sure if it's brilliant or blasphemy.
Read MoreIf you aren't happy with your current tool situation, 309 pieces ought to be enough to get you started with a new one. [Craftsman 309 Piece Mechanics Tool Set, $200]
Read MoreUnsure of what to do after his girlfriend died from an overdose of oxycodone in Arizona, a Michigan man searched online for tips and decided the best solution would be to take the woman's corpse back to his home in metro Detroit for further instruction.
Read MoreFrom Foxtrot Alpha: When it comes to the small world of aviation photography, José "Fuji" Ramos is notorious for taking fantastic shots, often times from the backseat of a Navy aggressor jet. Here's what he captures.
Read MoreWhen Ariel dropped its cop-spec Atom, no one seemed to mention the bigger news: Ariel is finally going to build its long-rumored motorcycle in a return to its two-wheeled roots.
Read MoreThe 2014 round of the 24 Hours of Le Mans starts next weekend, and it will bring Porsche's return to the legendary track. While I haven't seen their latest poster yet, in the meantime, here are the ones from 1970 to 1998.
Read MoreIt's possible the most contested real estate in the entire world is broken up into two-inch wide strips, upholstered, and then placed between seats on airplanes. The armrest. The precious, precious armrest. But who gets to use it? You, or that bastard to your side? This extremely clever design solves this problem.
Read MoreThe cops in Dubai might have Bugatti Veyrons, McLarens, and random assorted Lamborghinis and Bentleys. But they have nothing on the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, who can now lay claim to the title of nuttiest police vehicle in the world. Because they just got an Ariel Atom 3.5R.
Read MoreDetroit's Belle Isle, an island park that sometimes doubles as a track, is in the center of controversy because of increased police presence on the island. The number of arrests on the island have gone up in recent months — including one bizarre incident involving a woman speeding to a baby shower with a half-pound of marijuana.
Read MoreIn quite possibly the best prank to ever hit this new digitized map world, a Scottish mechanic and his buddies staged a fake murder on Google Street View. It took longer than you might think for people to figure out what they'd done.
Read MoreRoboCop Day was all day in Detroit yesterday — a success in some aspects, a disaster in others — and concluded with the crimefighter tossing out the first pitch at the Tigers-Blue Jays game last night. And it was awful.
Read MoreMan, is there anything that makes a person feel as fundamentally good about the collective experience of humanity than a really well-designed Lego model? I doubt it. This model of an original Mini may be Lego's best iconic vintage car set yet.
Read MoreSixteen-year-old Amber Marie Rose died in 2005 after her Chevy Cobalt struck a tree. Rose was one of 13 victims identified by GM as crashing due to a faulty ignition switch. Last week, her mother received two recall notices to fix both that and the power steering system on the Cobalt that claimed her daughter's life. Jesus GM.
Read MoreWow. I had no idea buying a car was this unpleasant to so many people. Edmunds.com did some huge survey about how Americans felt about buying a car, and the answers weren't pretty. Like give-up-sex and sit in a middle airplane seat. Come on, really?
Read MoreWhat you're looking at is a Ford Fusion. It looks like perfectly average, mid-sized sedan on first glance (albeit with silly graphics), but what it actually is, is the future of driving for the average American family. And that's because Ford managed to put it on a diet, to the tune of a massive 800-pound weight loss.
Read MoreThe Tesla Roadster was a product of its manufacturer's infancy, and while it drives okay, even the company admits it was a bit of a hack job. In an effort to remedy that, the little convertible is going to receive an upgrade later this year, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Read MoreTimes are tough over at Scion. As much as we love the FR-S, the rest of the cars in Toyota's supposed "youth" brand are aging and largely uncompetitive. But badly-needed new products may be on the way in the form of an all-new sedan and an imported hatchback and wagon we're rather fond of.
Read MoreIf you aren't all caught up on Top Gear, Amazon has five seasons of the UK version available for just $12 each today.
Read MoreTesla dropped its trademark for the Model E, and the reason was two-fold: It was originally a joke and Ford threatened to sue them. Yes, Ford tried to kill SEX. Bastards.
Read MoreLike the 7th-generation Corvette, do you? Think it's really nice? Just put a down payment on one? Well TOO BAD, SUCKERS, THERE'S GONNA BE A NEW CORVETTE SOON ANYWAYS, HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Read MoreWhat could possibly go wrong when you're trying to erect a 10-foot bronze statue of a fictional movie character in a city with a massive amount of logistical problems that make even the smallest task a headache?
Read MoreHere's a fun fact: a standard, WWII-era Willys army Jeep can withstand a drop of 7.7 ft without sustaining any damage. How does someone find this out? A 12-pack and a broken guard rail? Maybe. Or, you could be British Aerospace engineer Raoul Hafner, and you're figuring out how to airdrop Jeeps.
Read MoreJaguar absolutely threw down at this year's Mille Miglia, inviting many celebrity drivers to pilot some serious cars, including denim enthusiast Jay Leno and Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum who had the keys of a Jaguar XK120 race car.
Read MoreA man nearly had his day at the beach ended all too abruptly, as a Piper PA-28 Archer II (D-EIGL) passed just inches over him while approaching a seaside airport in Heligoland, an island north of Germany, followed by smashing through a flimsy fence at the airport perimeter.
Read MoreThe irony of this is just too much. Here we have a Lada Riva falling into a river after a hilarious horrible drifting accident.
Read MoreStep 1. Cover the 2015 Volkswagen GTI in dozens of GoPro cameras. Step 2. Give it to Tanner Foust. Step 3. Profit, I guess? Or just sit back and watch the crazy video that results.
Read MoreWe post a lot of videos around here of cars singing their operatic notes at full song. Screams, bellows, fluttering pops and crackles, and rampaging elephants all make the cut. But only one car on sale sounds the best.
Read MoreTo many of us who grew up in the 1990s, the McLaren F1 is the holy grail. Faster than anything else by leaps and bounds, more powerful than anything else by leaps and bounds, and as rare as a unicorn, it represented the ultimate car. So here's 18 of those unicorns, all driving together.
Read MoreThere have been a few trend pieces hinting that the Motor City could go the way of San Francisco because we attract a lot of people who want a startup culture without the startup cost of living. Now, at least one Bay Area authority is conceding that maybe it's true.
Read MoreYesterday we saw an incredibly odd press release from Ferrari, ostensibly having to do with the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix. It referred to the "penetration" of Gilles Villeneueve, the "dribble" of Jean Alesi, and also a possible shapeshifter. It turns out that that press release just might have been auto-translated.
Read MoreApart from the different daytime running light layout, the 2015 Audi RS7 also gets an upgraded infotainment system, improved fuel economy and air boxes that are "even sharper and more distinctive".
Read MoreThough information has been slowly trickling out of Ford since December of last year, there's still a lot we don't know about the 2015 Ford Mustang, like exactly how much power it has or the official price at various trim levels. But the talk of the day has been the car's weight, and now we hear it will, in fact, be heavier than its predecessor.
Read MoreYou know it's a good time to burn your car to the ground when you find a GIANT SPIDER IN THE HEADLIGHT. I REPEAT: GIANT SPIDER IN THE HEADLIGHT.
Read MoreDid your car's engine just explode? Did your truck have a critical axle failure? Don't worry, as the world's greatest mechanic, I can repair it. Why? Because I just fixed my car's headlight, ALL BY MYSELF.
Read MoreThis extremely highly-rated fuel system cleaner is backordered, but you can lock it in at $6.50. This item rarely sells for under $10, so it's worth the wait. [Chevron Fuel System Cleaner, $6.50]
Read MoreSome people broke into Miley Cyrus' house and stole a bunch of things and also a Maserati, according to TMZ. Oh, the horror! Oh, the shame!
Read MoreFrom Foxtrot Alpha: The AC-130 flying gunship fleet is one of the most fabled and feared assets in the entire USAF inventory. Known for its ability to unleash a broadside of cannon fire in the dead of night, the newest of the AC-130 lot is more about smart bombs than raining lead and howitzer shells down on the enemy.
Read MoreThe runway for the Helgoland airport off the coast of northern Germany runs right up to the beach. Here's what happens when a plane comes in for a landing a little bit too low.
Read MoreThe other day we reported on a rumor from Ford tuner Steeda, which said that the 2015 Ford Mustang would actually be gaining a few hundred pounds over the last generation, contrary to Ford's pronouncement of a weight loss. Now it turns out that rumor might have been full of crap.
Read MoreThis is not your average car tattoo.
Read MoreEverything that Ferrari does is Italian. Switches in their cars often don't make sense, but it doesn't matter, because it's got passion and other cliches besides. That same line of thinking extends, apparently, to their press releases, the most recent of which remembers an event much differently than everyone else.
Read MoreMcLaren's entry-level supercar will go on sale in September 2015, aimed against the most powerful Porsche 911s, the Audi R8 V10 and the Ferrari California. Here's what we know so far.
Read MoreWhile many of us were asleep, the Solar Impulse 2 completed a successful maiden flight, after having been unveiled on April 9th. Flown by German test pilot Markus Scherdel, the solar-powered plane departed from Payerne Airport in Switzerland at 5:30AM and landed at 7:50AM local time.
Read MoreIf I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: The police have a different word for your sick GoPro video that shows you outrunning cop cars on your motorcycle. They call it "evidence."
Read MoreThe best video game of 2012 that focused on music festivals and street racing set in Colorado had to be Forza Horizon. It was so popular that there's a follow up coming for XBOX ONE and XBOX 360. Except this time they're going to France. What's the festival scene like there?
Read MoreDownsizing! All the cool kids are doing it, even Porsche. We've heard Porsche plans to debut new turbocharged flat four-cylinder engines in the next few years, and today we have some possible details on how big and powerful they will be.
Read MoreThe Fiesta ST is fun but small. The Subaru WRX is old school but not a hatchback anymore. The Golf GTI? Not fast enough. The Golf R? Could be more fun. America is clearly missing out.
Read MoreDave Zien is a Vietnam vet and former Wisconsin state senator who really likes riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles. So much so that he put over a million miles on one. But now Harley is denying his warranty claim for a new clutch, because he also really, really likes flags.
Read MoreThe safety of operating drones of any type in commercial airspace has drown a lot of attention and criticism of late, but the biggest threat remains other planes flown by humans. The FAA has a plan to improve operations and safety, but they haven't found a way to cooperate with Congress to finalize and implement it.
Read MoreYesterday's Tudor United SportsCar Challenge race in Detroit featured some good racing, as usual, but the final lap was incredible. It was a true brawl for the lead, with banging, bruising, a broken tire, and even a drift or two. You should watch it all right now, starting at 1:38 in the video above.
Read MoreAs the recall fiasco that killed more than 13 people, and has consumed General Motors, marches on, one question that weighs heavily is whether or not GM will be forced to pay for it. Not with its tiny $35 million fine, or with civil penalties, but with consumers. And these charts from ALG may give us some answers.
Read MoreWhen it comes to S30s, the 260 is sort of the anti-goldilocks as in many ways it's considered 'just wrong.' Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '74 has a vinyl roof, which we know can make up for a myriad of sins, but does it also have a price that's bearable?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Bus is cool enough that you might just want to see it arrive at your Bus Stop. Of course, if the fare's too high, you might just want to let it pass.
Read MoreGetting a D in school is bad, but getting a D in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe old-school Mercedes might just be a good thing. That is of course, if its price rates a passing grade.
Read MoreIn the 1990s, Ford never made a 4-door Bronco, which left the door open for the aftermarket to fill that need. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe diesel Centurion is just such a beast, but will its price close the door on the deal?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Skoda 135 package deal is claimed to represent 50% of this model's known population in Canada. Should that claim, and the price have someone gladly saying the Czech is in the mail?
Read MoreIf you want a Bricklin with a stick, then today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe gullwing might just be your plastic fantastic. That is if its price doesn't spoil the fantasy.
Read MoreWhen the shit goes down the only things left will be cockroaches, Donald Trump's wig, and cars like today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo. Of course if society is on the brink of collapse you'll need to decide if this car's price is worth paying considering that you could just loot it later.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe GMC van is said to be a former Southwestern Bell service truck. It rocks a V8, and that fact might just help you decide if its price is worth accepting the charges.
Read MoreYou Spin me right round, baby. Right round, like a record... Today's nice Price or Crack Pipe is something a little different - an Autogyro - about the most basic way to fly short of jumping out of a window. You're going to need to determine if its price is sky high.
Read MoreThe Datsun 620 is arguably one of the best-looking mini trucks there ever was. Go ahead, try and argue it! Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '73 is restored and looking all the sweeter for it, but is its price equally pleasing to the eye?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX7 is supposedly hiding an asp under its hood. Hopefully its price wont also come up snake eyes.
Read MoreThe work of the design house Zagato is usually noted for the company's iconic double bubble roofs. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lancia Zagato has a different kind of roof, but are you willing to burst the seller's bubble when it comes to its worth?
Read MoreThe Rolling Stones famously sang, you can't always get what you want, and what Porsche originally wanted was to call their six-cylinder car the 901. Peugeot but a stop to that, and hence we gained the venerated 911. We'll have to see if the price of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 911 has you singing that Stones' song to its seller.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Diplomat will let you play Joe Friday even if it's only Tuesday. But before seeing if its worth its asking, you better get nothing but the facts, man.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe military-grade ambulance is based on Jeep's Gladiator pickup. You'll need to decide if its price and condition will make a new owner glad-he-bought-her.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe FJ55 may surprisingly wave the stars and stripes under its hood, but will its price be low enough for you to want to start waving the Benjamins?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate is… are you ready for this… a horse, snake, and a fox all rolled into one. You'll need to decide if this seemingly fabulous Ford is worth opening up your bank roll.
Read MoreCanada's all about the maple leaf. It's on their flag, their money, and even on many of the nation to the north's trees. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe one-year only Canadian Ford is pretty leafed out - or maybe it's worn out - but will its price make you want to join the Canadian club?
Read MoreChevy's Corvette and the Shelby Cobra spent much of the sixties duking it out on both street and the track. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corv-bra tries to bring the two warring factions together, but will its price be worth the fight?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pontiac Firefly rocked three-cylinders before rocking three-cylinders was cool. You'll need to decide if this Canadian import's price is equally rocking.
Read MoreA while back, I invited readers to submit the aviation-themed photos that you've shot and are proud of, and you met my request with enthusiasm! So for this episode of Plane Porn, we'll take a look at what you've sent in.
Read MoreGeneral Electric aerospace engineer Todd Wetzel and comedian Baratunde Thurston take us through the process of how an aircraft works, boiled down to the easiest-to-understand terms: suck, squeeze, bang blow.
Read MoreFlying was once just about the most bleeding edge, almost recklessly dangerous form of travel. I mean, you didn't even get free peanuts.
Read MoreLater this month, Amelia Rose Earhart will circumnavigate the globe to raise awareness for the Fly With Amelia foundation, which provides flight school scholarships to high school-aged girls. She talked to us about the challenges of flying around the world and what it's like to be a female pilot with a famous name.
Read MoreBeing in a metal tube sky high at incredibly speeds should be exciting enough as it is, but as always, there are some people who push the envelope further. Here are the ten best pilots caught on video.
Read MoreWith an air-cooled Porsche 911 Turbo at night. Duh!
Read MoreEarly Porsche 911s became notorious for their wayward handling characteristics with all of their weight hanging in the back – add a primitive turbocharger to the equation and you get this, the "widowmaker."
Read MoreSummertime is here, summertime is great, summertime is fun. And since it's summertime, that means there are plenty of neighborhood classic car shows going on. But if you had to bring one new car to a classic car show, which would you bring?
Read MoreToday's column is devoted to a rousing round of Automotive Would You Rather?, featuring the following scenario: Let's say you have eighty grand to spend on a performance car. Would you rather buy a modern, mid-engine sports car with a long warranty, tons of comfort and convenience features, and all the latest gadgets? Or an old one that catches on fire?That's right, folks. I've decided to compare my Ferrari 360 Modena to the all-new 981 Porsche Cayman S, generously loaned to me by a Jalopnik r
Read MoreWhat you see above is a diagram of a four-cylinder engine. It is not a V4, it is not an H4, it is not a Z4. I-4, inline-four, or even simply a "four-pot" is just fine. Those four pistons are all in a row. So the next time someone calls it a V4, I'm just going to punch myself in the head.
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 MoreFrom the great names today to the forgotten marques of the past, these ten carmakers have more history in competition than any others.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what's going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWhat happens when you put a 2015 Subaru WRX STI with a three-time British rally champion on the most dangerous race track in the world and tell him to set a word record? You get a world record. It may sound simple, but having seen it first hand I can tell you it's anything but.
Read MoreI recently had the opportunity to take my Range Rover off-roading. Real off-roading, I mean. Not typical Land Rover off-roading, which is what happens when you park your Evoque on the grass at a Sting concert.
Read MoreYou give Aston Designer Marek Reichmann a pencil, an order to design a car for a video game, and some peyote. What you get in return is the DP-100. It's unlike any Aston you've seen before, and that is totally ok.
Read MoreI recently had the opportunity to drive my Ferrari in a highly competitive, precisely timed, serious automotive racing event. It was a quarter mile drag strip located in the kind of place where fishin' is an acceptable destination for a honeymoon.
Read MoreFerrari's been on a tear with custom, one-off models lately. There was Eric Clapton's achingly beautiful SP12, the SP Arya, the SPFFX, the P4/5, and probably a bunch more we don't know about. Like this incredibly pretty targa-roofed coupe that appears to be a topless F12 Berlinetta.
Read MoreThe last two days have been big news days for the hotly-anticipated 2015 Ford Mustang. We found out how much it will really weigh, and we even uncovered a strange beta-like online configurator. Now you can know everything the car dealers know about the new 'Stang.
Read MoreQuite possibly the most beautiful, stunning sports racing cars in history were the Group C Le Mans cars of the 1980s and early '90s. So what if you took that kind of design, stuffed in a modern 602 horsepower V12, and lined the cockpit in leather?
Read MoreRemember when we said that GM didn't have exact power figures on the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06? The guesstimates were around 625 horsepower and 635 pound-feet of twist. Nope. This leaked SAE dyno chart shows the supercharged V8 putting out 650 horsepower and 650 pound feet of torque. 'Murica!
Read MoreWhen driving around in your Mini Cooper, do you ever find yourself thinking, “This is great, but it needs another set of doors!” What’s that, you say? No? Well, too bad. Five doors is what you’re getting, and this is it.
Read MoreAfter Pagani moved on to making the Huarya, everyone thought they were done with the original Pagani Zonda. Then they come out with the Zondas F, R, UNO, Cinque, 750, 760RS, HH, and on and on forever. So here is another, last, final Zonda: The Pagani Zonda 760 X.
Read MoreI'll be honest — this is not the post I wanted to write. When NASA released their new renders of a hypothetical future faster-than-light spaceship, I wanted to believe that such a craft was mere decades away from reality. Then I made the mistake of asking someone much smarter than me about it.
Read MoreWho remembers Vector? Back in the 90s, they were creating some angular and outlandish super cars , and somehow they're still around today, likely performing all manner of unholy mechanical experiments. How else can you explain these massive parts of a something in their back yard?
Read MoreGoogle just delivered what we've waited for. A comprehensive redesign of the Android operating system designed for your ride. And unlike the handful of automakers that Apple has on board for CarPlay, Google is boasting over 40 automaker partners at launch, with the first cars hitting showrooms this year.
Read MoreIf you're unwilling to wait for Google or an automaker to bring an autonomous vehicle to market, Cruise will sell you the privilege for $10,000. The start-up says it can retrofit your ride with cameras, sensors, and computers to enable semi-autonomous driving. But it's only for Audis and it's not fully baked.
Read MoreAnyone that's traveled to Vegas in the past decade has seen them. Trucks carrying massive billboards for gentlemen's clubs, shooting ranges, and way-off-the-Strip "services". Now remove the driver from the situation. Yup. It's spam IRL.
Read MoreThis year's J.D. Power Initial Quality Study™ is out, and people love their Porsches. What they don't love are the clumsy, hacked together attempts at integrating tech into cars.
Read MoreOn this date (June 18th) in 1914, autopilot was demonstrated for the first time on an aircraft, becoming one of the most important innovations to the cockpit in history. Its inventor, is also known for founding a "club" that many have aspired to join over the past century, as well.
Read MoreEver wish you could give that asshat who cut you off on the freeway more than just a honk of your horn? General Motors' Chinese R&D division is working on an app that lets you scan other people's license plates and then send messages to their phones.
Read MoreSteve Dinan really wants to tune the BMW i8. He and his team sat down to hatch a plan, but it was scrapped in short order. By turning up the electric wick on BMW's hybrid super coupe, the life of the battery would be decimated. And that's a problem when the 7.1 kWh pack costs upwards of $10,000.
Read MoreYou could argue that the most terrifying weapon of the post-modern era is the car bomb, delivering explosives anywhere, at any time, and hidden in plain sight. The only weapon that's possibly more piercing into the collective unconscious is drones, and the Google Car could very well combine the two.
Read MoreHow well does the Lexus LS 600h's Active Pedestrian Detection System work? Allow Consumer Reports and its levitating test dummy "Steve" demonstrate.
Read MoreFord and Samsung showed off a prototype for a lithium-ion battery that could finally spell the death of ye ol' lead acid brick for good. And it's about damned time.
Read MoreIt's been nearly a year since Tesla showed off its hugely hyped 90-second battery swap for the Model S. Elon Musk said on stage that the first station would be operational by the end of year. Six months later, nothing. Then we heard that it was happening in the first quarter of 2014. Still nothing. So where the hell is it and why is Tesla stalling?
Read MoreThe initial WWDC deluge is over and the one thing missing – aside from Dr. Dre playing out the keynote – is CarPlay. Any mention of Apple's push to make its way into your dashboard was notable in its absence, and the primary problem is that app developers just don't care.
Read MoreThis is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 every weekday morning. 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 MoreRemember that 2008 Ram 2500 diesel that slammed into a rogue Hyundai Veloster piloted by a zero-fucks-giving fourteen year old? Well the Ram driver is getting his truck fixed and upgraded for free, because a shop owner so appreciated his efforts.
Read MoreThis trucker, with a Guy Fawkes mask strapped to the passenger seat of his Navistar semi-truck, is not about to let police privilege-abuse go down on his watch. Apparently this Illinois state cop blew past time with his face in his phone, so the trucker flagged him down and gave him an earful.
Read MoreWhat could only be a Ford Everest in camouflage was spotted this morning at Mt. Evans, Colorado by two different readers. We reckon it's only here for high-altitude testing, but it's possible the off-roadable SUV might be headed to the US. Or, perhaps, its cousin and perennial Jalopnik favorite: the Ranger.
Read MoreSo there I was, standing at the SEATAC airport with one thumb up on my iPhone and the other proverbially up my ass, nauseated by the feeling of failure and flailing for a backup plan. Another International Scout had just slipped through my fingers.
Read MoreMaybe your little angel looks at the Power Wheels Corvette and says "That's for punk-ass bitches. I want a truck!" Now you can make their truckin' dreams a reality because the rumors are true: The 2015 Ford F-150 Power Wheels truck is real.
Read MoreThe Australasian Safari is (was) an absolutely epic seven day off-road navigation rally spanning some of Australia's meanest terrain. It was one of the only major multi-day challenges available to enthusiasts Down Under, and this year's event will be the last.
Read MoreMitsubishi is throwing down with a 2015 Outlander PHEV in the "Electric Class" of the Asia Cross Country Rally this summer, which will take the plug-in and competitors from Thailand to Cambodia.
Read MoreIt looks like an "Opening Edition" of the 2015 Jeep Renegade2015 Jeep Renegade will be available, at least early on in the little SUV's production run. A silver grille and orange interior plastic seem to be the most obvious attributes that make it "special," your speculation is welcome on what else it might get.
Read MoreA Houston-area doctor was riding home with his daughter at the wheel of their Audi when they witnessed presumed burglars leaving their home in a red Ford F-150. The pair gave chase, leading to a Hollywood-style car fight resulting in two wrecked vehicles and one proud dad.
Read MoreVolvo is nearly done constructing a 1.1 mile "Customer Experience Track" at their New River Valley manufacturing plant in Virginia to showcase the abilities of their Class 8 (very large) commercial trucks and articulating dump-trucks for prospective buyers.
Read MoreForget the tacked-together aftermarket garbage, Land Rover has just confirmed they're introducing a new Range Rover Sport variant with "More performance [added] to the mix. A lot more." Truck SUV YEAH!
Read MoreJ2807 is an independent standard for truck towing capacity developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Ford, GM, and Ram have promised to adopt this standard for the 2015 model year and GM's just made good; announcing revised ratings for the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado and 2015 GMC Sierra.
Read MoreThe maximum-claimed towing capacity of most pickup trucks is bullshit. Those numbers are created by manufacturers and vetted by no one. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) wants to change that, with a standard test for measuring truck towing capacity called "J2807."
Read MoreApparently some nutter hopped out of his Ford F-150, set it on fire, and danced around it blocking four lanes on the San Francisco Bay Bridge this morning.
Read MoreEarly this morning a Freightliner fire truck hit some barriers and flipped over en route to an apartment fire in Flemington, Australia. But I had to watch this newscast three times to figure it out, and not just because I had to look up what "bollard" means.
Read MoreA Jaguar XJ with the cargo capacity of a pickup truck just might make a complete trip. You know, because you can carry all the spare parts you'll need? Zing. Regardless of reliability, this luxury sedan-turned-truck is actually pretty fetching.
Read MoreI'm trying to buy a $2,000 truck on the other side of the country. This has proven an exceedingly difficult exercise, not only because the truck I want is hard to find... but nobody I talk to believes I'm for real.
Read MoreFord's prototype people have heard all your yammering about their refusal to do a small pickup for the US market. They heard it so hard the freaked the heck out and went right off the deep end. You want small? You'll get small. Really small. YOU WON'T EVEN FIT.
Read MoreThe 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and 2015 GMC Canyon dealer ordering guide has come out, revealing a bump in horsepower for both gasoline engines and a higher torque rating for the four-cylinder. Plus, the full list of all possible option combinations.
Read MoreFor the 2015 Jeep Renegade to be a hit, Jeep knows how important it is for the micro SUV to look the part of a fun-loving off-roader, even if it's destined to spend most of its time on pavement. The design has already been well received, and it looks like the color selection is going to be awesome.
Read MoreThe ubiquitous Ford E-Series van is finally bowing out to the 2015 Ford Transit, synchronizing Ford's van lineup around the world. The new Transit is a great hauler, but don't be fooled by the car-style dashboard, it's a van alright. We know, we autocrossed it (Sort of).
Read MoreYes, as a matter of fact there is a land-speed Ram pickup. And Kaylin Stewart will climb behind the wheel this summer for a shot at being the 24th female to go 200 MPH at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Just as soon as she gets her license printed.
Read MoreI got all fired up when I saw "Range Rover To Add 'Stealth Pack'" in my inbox this morning; hoping for a kickass security-spec variant or something. But nope; the special edition Range Rover that will be on display at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed is just a regular Range Rover with some extra AutoZoney accessories.
Read MoreThis 2015 Jeep Renegade commercial focuses on pretty people looking cool, but they've snuck in the only action-shots of the SUV I've seen outside a car show!
Read MoreWhen a freak storm blew a gigantic tree on this guy's Toyota 4Runner in the middle of nowhere, he didn't just sit around and wait for a tow. He drove the thing right into town.
Read MoreI thought John Deere tractors pretty much sold themselves on brand-reputation alone, but obviously their marketing game is on point. This video does a great job making the tractor-assembly process entertaining and suddenly I'm pricing out a new lawn mowing machine.
Read MoreIf you've ever been gripped by the burning desire to turn an idillic golf course into a dirt track and ensure you never get that country club membership endorsement, this officially-licensed Ford Raptor golf cart is your weapon of choice.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet Suburban has been the quintessential American SUV since forever. It departs from its truckly origins a little more with each generation, but longtime fans of the franchise will be plenty happy with the new model.
Read MoreBob Hegbloom, Director of Ram Truck Brand and Mike Cairns, Director of Ram Truck Engineering answered questions in an open Google+ Hangout on June 12, 2014. Here's the interview recording, and their most important answers.
Read MoreBen Oude Kamphuis is a big Dutch soccer fan with a big heart. In January he took a break from his job helping disabled kids to drive his ancient pickup from San Francisco to Brazil and just made it, spreading his positive attitude the whole way down.
Read MoreRumor has it that the 2015 Nissan Frontier may not share a design with the new Navara as it always has in the past, but actually be based on the Mexican-market NP300 pickup truck— which is essentially what Americans will recognize as a 1990's Frontier.
Read MoreA Jaguar XF owner in Ahmedabad, India was dissatisfied with his vehicle so he did what any rational adult would do; brought it back to the dealership, hooked up some donkeys, stuffed the windows with hay, and made a sign declaring the vehicle inferior to a donkey-drawn cart.
Read MoreNissan Executive Design Director Mamoru Aoki and product planner Keno Kato have a lot of interesting things to say about the 2015 Nissan Navara (which I still think is the new Frontier). But the background music in their video sounds exactly like a modernized remix of The Safety Dance. Am I crazy?
Read MoreWe teased Local Motors about the retro styling of their Cruiser bike, but I can't deny I had a great time riding it when they gave me the chance. Now "Vintage Electric" shows up with their interpretation of the same idea and just like that, "hipster-style powered bicycles" is suddenly a competitive market.
Read MoreThe 2015 Nissan NP300 Navara, the company's global-market moniker for the Frontier, has officially landed. The shape, which will undoubtedly be shared by the long-awaited 2015 Nissan Frontier; is a tidy porting of Nissan's corporate design language to the pickup truck shape, and the interior is heavy on car-style comfort.
Read MoreThe fun police, and also real police (Department of Homeland Security) are fed up with pranksters turning boring, practical information signs into sources of amusementturning boring, practical information signs into sources of amusement. That's right; DHS knows how to change the default password on their signs now. Laughing Time Is Over.
Read MoreChris Short, Domenic Senger-Schenck, and Laurence Cameron are en route from Afghanistan to West Sussex, England. They're trying the 4,600 mile journey with a 1993 Toyota Land Cruiser and Honda Varadero 1000cc motorcycle, both heavily modified
Read MorePeople did amazing things to get their mail before we could send messages with a few buttons... like put off-road tires on wooden-spoked wheels. Here's a the (mostly) complete and fascinating history of a "off-road snowmobile coupe", as told its by owner/seller who knows of "at least three" in existence.
Read MoreWe were all really looking forward to watch Dutch Dakar racer Gerard De Rooy hustle his giant Iveco Powerstar race truck through the 2014 Baja 500, but unfortunately his attempt was cut short when he was overcome with pain cause by a swollen appendix, turning around at mile 37.
Read MoreThe Brits had a riot racing Bowler-modified Land Rover Defender 90s this weekend, because of course they did. They've now successfully carried out three rounds of Rover racing, with four to go, championship honors are still wide open!
Read MoreThe 2014 Baja 500, Round 3 of 5 in the SCORE World Desert Championship, wrapped up yesterday with only 126 vehicles completing the 447.86 mile race. 232 had started, and even Gerard De Rooy was unable to cross the finish line on account of illness.
Read MoreFor one reason or another, off-roading never really appeared on my automotive radar –I've always held more fascination sports and racing cars and never really understood the appeal of a Jeep or a Land Rover. The closest thing to off-roading I ever got into was rally.
Read MoreThe nickel-metal hydride battery packs in Toyota Camry hybrids lose their viability as automotive power supplies after some time, but with the help of solar panels they've still got enough juice to power the Lamar Buffalo Ranch at Yellowstone National Park.
Read MoreRound 3 of the riotous "Defender Challenge By Bowler" Land Rover rally is going down June 7th at Southwell Racecourse; featuring 44 stage miles in Sherwood Forest.
Read MoreErik Jonnaert, Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA), is proud to announce revisions to mandates for commercial truck design in Europe. The organization thinks extending the maximum allowable length for semi-trucks will help move more goods on less fuel.
Read MoreFront and rear photos of a completely uncamouflaged, obviously new, small Nissan Pickup are making their way across the internet via the Nissan Navara Club Thailand. It sure looks like the genuine article and I dare say, Nissan has done a nice job porting their swoopy styling to a pickup truck.
Read MoreMercedes isn't about to just let the 2015 Ford Transit upstage their beloved Sprinter van, so in response to the ultra-lux Ford Skyliner, Sprinter is collaborating with American RV icon Airstream to build their own mobile living room— the Autobahn.
Read MoreDespite all the nose-thumbing we enthusiasts do at Acura these days, there is one thing they remain very, very good at: selling SUVs. Specifically, this SUV, the Acura MDX. They sold some 53,000 copies of the MDX in 2013, and they continue to fly off dealer lots this year. Many of you may read this and then wonder: Why?
Read MoreI love this guy. I can tell this without even watching the video, and justly looking at that de-padded dash, those gauges crammed into the dash holes, and, most importantly, those three wall-light switches screwed into the dash. Those three switches and the guy's brain are now the computer that shifts the car.
Read MoreWith its mainstay customer base dying off (literally) Lincoln desperately wants to be cool again. You're right to be skeptical of a brand attempting metamorphosis, but the 2015 Lincoln MKC makes a pretty strong case for a second coming of Ford's luxury line.
Read MoreWith May 2014 sales numbers freshly published, Ford F-Series lead the month with 68,520, GM nipped at their heels with 64,974 total full-sized truck sales and Ram was down at 37,131.
Read MoreIf you made a list of all the American classic cars we'd like to see resurrected, the classic Ford Bronco would rank pretty high up there. Troller, a division of Ford, just debuted the most desirable neo-Bronco I think I've seen yet. Too bad it's not headed our way.
Read MoreA 14-year-old kid commandeered his grandfather's Hyundai Veloster on Saturday, blazing through a park full of children and generally terrorizing Syracuse, Utah. His reign of mayhem was only reeled in when a citizen plowed into him with a Ram pickup. Miraculously, everyone walked away uninjured.
Read MoreVolkswagen Beetle RSi, you've officially been out-crazied. Volkswagen's Global RallyCross Beetle is, at least in my book, the most extreme Beetle ever.
Read MoreA mostly complete guide on purchasing the Ultimate Driving Machine. Don't Panic.
Read MoreMario Caperon bought himself a 1963 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible in 2011 with the goal of restoring his car with his teenage son. Two years and $15,000 later, they and a friend brought it back from a decrepit, wrecked state. And then the state of Arizona seized it.
Read MoreFollow my train of thought: In a local supermarket, walking through the dairy aisle after picking up a pack of mozzarella slices and whole wheat bread, I wondered how universal my mundane grocery-getting adventure was. Then, I thought about how most car enthusiasts, rich or poor, wanted the same thing for the most part: a thrill. That brought me to ponder what the most thrilling car was for the least money, and that led me to the EP3 Honda Civic Si. I had to have one.
Read MoreAs we read yesterday, a good portion of the population would rather give up sex or do all kinds of unpleasant things rather than negotiate with dealerships to buy a car. With this type of aversion to the auto purchasing process it is no wonder Tesla's direct sales model has struck a chord with consumers, and faced so much resistance from dealerships. People want a better way. But why is car-buying such a stressful process? It all comes down to how our brain handles these types of interactions, b
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