This has to be one of the coolest and the LOUDEST military aviation photos in history. No less than three Tomcats and three Phantoms are headed by an SR-71 Blackbird as they pour on the coals during a high-speed, low-level flyby over NAWS China Lake. The circumstances of how this shot came to be remain a mystery, but I would like to thank it happened because it simply had to.
Read MoreThe Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is the largest western military aircraft ever built, and fully loaded it can weigh nearly a million pounds. One of the most amazing, and troublesome, of its components are its finicky landing gear, especially the twin truck nose gear that kneels so cargo can be loaded via the Galaxy's front door.
Read MoreEither Northrop Grumman or Boeing-Lockheed will win the contract for America's next bomber, known as the Long Range Strike-Bomber. Whoever takes the prize will likely be the last bomber builder for the better part of a century and will almost surely be the last builder of a manned bomber ever.
Read MoreIt is no secret that the AC-130 fleet is changing. Once defined by their bristling cannons, the new breed of AC-130s are all about guided bombs and a slew of smart weapons, with just a single, direct fire 30mm cannon being fitted. Luckily, sharper minds have prevailed at AFSOC and now the AC-130Js will get the massive 105mm cannon they rightfully deserve.
Read MoreThe DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer could very well revolutionize the way the Navy does its surface warfare business. One of its biggest innovations is ditching the cramped, darkly lit Combat Information Center (CIC), a fixture for many decades on past USN combat ships, and replacing it with the state-of-the-art, spacious, Star Trek bridge-like Ship's Mission Center.
Read MoreWhen you're the leader of the free world, you can't just zip around in some crappy Cessna you bought for the price of a Mustang GT. You gotta fly in something nice, something that makes it look like our country still has its shit together. For this reason, the Air Force has chosen the new Boeing 747-8 to be the next Air Force One.
Read MoreShip design is as much a study in proportions as anything else, but sometimes the most ridiculous elements lay out of view, below the waterline. Case in point: the gargantuan brass screws on the US Navy's Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers.
Read MoreYesterday, President Obama was in India for Republic Day, which makes sense since its parade included a C-17 Globemaster III and the P-8 Poseidon, the most advanced maritime patrol and transport aircraft in the world, both imported from the U.S. and flying with Indian flags on their tails.
Read MoreIn what seems like a perfectly coordinated long-range rescue, this Cirrus SR-22 pilot activated the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System after figuring out the plane would not have enough fuel to make it to Hawaii. What happens next is both intense and incredible, as the pilot goes from a long fall, to narrowly escaping their sinking aircraft, to being rescued by a nearby cruise liner in mere moments.
Read MoreFor what it lacks in beauty it sure makes up for it in character, Russia's 100 year old Kommuna is the world's oldest active naval vessel. Launched as a submarine tender back 1915, this pre-Bolshevik Revolution relic continues to serve as a salvage ship and midget sub tender as part of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Read MoreRussian intercepts of Western signal intelligence aircraft isn't anything new. It's been happening going back to the Cold War, and there have even been minor diplomatic incidents over it. But this is a video of it actually happening with an Su-27 fighter jet and a Portuguese P-3 Orion, and it's incredibly tense.
Read MoreUnder budgetary pressure, the Navy is putting forward an incredibly logical concept called "Distributed Lethality," under which it could add more weapons and combat capabilities to existing combat ships, as well as to ones that have never had any offensive capabilities at all.
Read MoreLocated at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in the Yamaguchi Prefecture of Japan, VMGR-152 sits as the most forward deployed KC-130 Hercules unit in the entire USMC. Because of their location and the incredible versatility of the KC-130J Super Hercules, one day they can be delivering humanitarian aid to a tiny island airstrip and the next day they could be refueling thirsty combat aircraft.
Read MoreOn May 20th, 2009 Jordan's King Abdullah officially opened the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), a facility set against a dramatic pocketed plateau on the northern outskirts of Amman. It is called the most advanced special operations training complex in the world and it looks like a life-sized GI Joe dream set.
Read MoreRussia has been on a tear to get new robotic combat capabilities up and running, with big goals slated for its air forces and its ground forces, some of which are already online, including the tracked 'Platform-M.' Yet this gangly, ATV-riding patrol bot isn't exactly setting Russia's hunter-in-chief's heart on fire.
Read MoreOne of the worst conundrums facing modern militaries engaged in asymmetrical warfare is what to do in the event that one of your soldiers was captured. For decades, the Israeli Defense Forces have relied on a still-classified and highly controversial method known as the "Hannibal Protocol." And now a large part of it is illegal.
Read MoreThe United States Air Force has had a strong presence in Japan since the service's founding. Today, USAF operations are centralized among three major air bases in that country: Misawa Air Base in the northern Japan, Yokota Air Base in central Japan, and the sprawling Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
Read MoreNow that's a tight fit! The image above depicts the decommissioned USS Iowa's final transit through the Panama Canal on March 28, 2001. The Iowa Class Battleships were the widest ships to ever traverse the canals, with a beam of 108 feet against the canal's width of just 110 feet, leaving only inches to spare on either side.
Read MoreThis wicked shot, courtesy of Lockheed Martin, shows the F-35 Lightning with all of the weapons that will be tested under aircraft's Systems Development and Demonstration Weapons Suite. This represents a baseline capability that will be expanded with other weapons once the jet is fully operational towards the end of the decade.... Hopefully.
Read MoreThe B-52 has only been able to carry smart weapons on its external pylons, with its internal weapons bay being relegated to nuclear and dumb bombs, as well as some older cruise missiles. Now, the iconic 60 year old Stratofortress is finally getting a new ‘smart’ rotary weapons rack and other upgrades that will more than double its smart weapons punch.
Read MoreSomeone just hacked into the New York Post and UPI Twitter feeds, claiming that China attacked the American Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington. It isn't true (so far as we know), but by and large one of the better hacks we've seen.
Read MoreNavy Secretary Ray Mabus thinks that the Littoral Combat Ships are so ‘misunderstood,’ not for the litany of documented issues, including the ship’s lacks offensive punch, inability defend itself against any robust aerial threat, the fact that it is way behind schedule and has major quality issues or that it is not survivable in combat, but because of its ‘confusing’ LCS moniker.
Read MoreAerial tankers can fuel up hungry jets, turboprops and even helicopters equipped with a refueling probe by trailing a hose and drogue behind them. In smooth air, such a mating dance can be a challenge, in rough air and bad visibility it can become downright scary. A new ‘smart drogue’ system in development may finally help make ‘plugging in’ a less terrifying affair.
Read MoreIn what is a highly controversial move, the US Navy has announced that it will procure tilt-rotor V-22 Ospreys to replace its venerable C-2A Greyhound Carrier On-board Delivery (COD) aircraft. Here's why it's such a terribly bad idea.
Read MoreThis series of awesome photos, said to have been recently released by China's People's Liberation Army Air Force, shows us a rapidly growing air force that is slowly adopting a more westernized 'pilot-centric' concept of fighter operations. Nowhere is this more evident than in China's growing 'Golden Helmet' air combat competition, which you can read about here.
Read MoreNo matter which way you slice it, the new Zumwalt-class destroyer is one of the most futuristic ships in the world. That sort of futurism isn't limited to its operations on water. It starts even while it's being built, as they basically snap the whole thing into place like Lego bricks.
Read MoreSome of the Reddit military forums have been buzzing about the Top Gear Russia magazine showing a picture of a supposedly previously unseen Russian experimental submarine for all to see. So is this really some totally unknown Russian super-sub, or is it just new to Top Gear readers?
Read MoreFrance’s elite counter-terrorism teams are some of the finest in the world and have proven their abilities and bravery over decades of dangerous operations. Most notable of these teams is the legendary Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale which, along with its French National Police counterparts, saw action this week during the horrific terror events around Paris.
Read MoreA group of hackers claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic State group just hacked into the US military's Central Command's Twitter page, and so far it's not looking good. In addition to the twitter takeover, the hackers are also posting names, addresses, and crappy videos to CENTCOM's Youtube page.
Read MoreThe B-52H Stratofortress is a quarter of a million pound aluminum Cold War era pterodactyl, and its durability is as legendary as its striking power. To call the big jet's flight control system precise would be a blatant lie and pilots have told me that muscling the jet around at low-level is the most exciting upper-body workout around, as you can see in the video above.
Read MoreIt is a bitter sweet moment in the annals of US Naval history-the USS Kauffman FFG-59, has set sail on its last cruise, which will also be the last time any US Navy Frigate does so. Once she returns in six months, after almost 40 years of service, the Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigates will be officially retired, signaling an end of an era for US Navy.
Read MoreIt goes by Rainbow or Star Wars Canyon, but it's officially known by those who blast through it as the 'Jedi Transition.' This eastern California canyon along highway 190 is where combat aircraft cut across the Sidewinder low-level training route in exhilarating fashion — and sometimes there is somebody there to take their picture.
Read MoreThe USAF will be pulling out of Royal Air Force bases Mildenhall, Alconbury and Molesworth, among other smaller base closures across Europe. Is it time to stop subsidizing Europe's protection or are we underestimating the threat from Russia?
Read MoreHere on Foxtrot Alpha we mention Forward Arming and Refueling Points pretty often, but describing how a C-130 can turn into a mobile gas station and ammo dump in the middle of nowhere in a matter of minutes and seeing it actually happen for your own eyes are two very different things.
Read MoreThis video of a B-2 Stealth Bomber shot from another aircraft (presumably a blimp) during a flyover for the the 2015 Rose Bowl makes it look like the bat-winged super bomber is making an attack run on Pasadena!
Read MoreThe idea of a Coast Guard is one that has blurred in recent decades, with US Coast Guard vessels serving as far away from home as the Persian Gulf on a regular basis. Still, the Chinese Coast Guard's upcoming 10,000 plus ton super high-endurance cutters are clearly another sign of the country's extra-territorial ambitions.
Read MoreThe Jordanian F-16 pilot who fell into ISIS hands over the terror group's stronghold in Raqqa, Syria is claimed to have been the focus of a daring special forces rescue attempt, although one that failed early on in its execution. So who was responsible for this shadowy raid or did it even happen at all?
Read MoreThe Chinese Navy has put their money where their mouth is when it comes to their interest in the world's largest hovercraft. They have already bought two giant Zubr Class hovercraft from Ukraine, and are building two in China. Apparently four of these mammoths are not enough in the short-term, as China has now purchased Greece's entire inventory of Zubr Class hovercraft outright.
Read MoreDispersed operations from austere locations, once a Cold War necessity, is coming back into tactical fashion around the globe. Some countries, such as Taiwan and Sweden, have continued to train to use long stretches of highway for combat aircraft operations during a time of war, while other nations are beginning to have a renewed interest in the tactic. Belarus appears to be one of them.
Read MoreAs part of its military resurgence, Russia plans on rebuilding its mechanized forces around a single 'Universal Combat Platform' that will replace a whole slew of disparate tracked vehicles, some of which have been in service for many decades. At the center of this one-size-fits-all armored strategy is the shadwoy T-14 'Armata' Main Battle Tank.
Read MoreThe video below takes you on a virtual mission in the F-16IN 'Super Viper' cockpit, showing how some of the jet's amazing avionics and automation work. The Viper has evolved from a basic light-weight fighter into a medium-weight strike-fighter over the last four decades and in the F-16IN configuration it would have been one smart and deadly snake.
Read MoreIf up until this point you thought the BMW i3 was a rather ugly piece of overpriced boredom, please allow me a moment to explain why you've been misled. This rear-wheel drive electric car had a bigger effect on me than a Lamborghini Aventador and has just as much carbon fiber as that Italian exotic and can be had for a fraction of the price.
Read MoreCan you ever really know what happens to your car after you hand over the keys to a valet? Maybe they'll park it carefully and go about the rest of their day; maybe they'll go hoon it into the ground. Or maybe they'll use it to make a bizarre, rambling YouTube "review" that ultimately costs them their job.
Read MoreFor sale: one beautiful, plum-colored McLaren F1. One comedian-owner car. Mostly just driven to the shops. Nearly destroyed only twice, but repaired to perfect condition by the factory. 41,000 miles. Not included: the adoration and love afforded to its original owner, Rowan Atkinson, by the world automotive community.
Read MoreA little over a month ago, I asked you – the dearly beloved Jalopnik reader – to suggest a new car for me to buy and write about. In the days that followed, I received nearly 2,500 replies to my column and over 1,000 Tweets from interested readers — and I pored over as many as I possibly could. As I recall, they ranged from "Get a Tesla!" and "Why not an Audi R8?" to "You don't know automotive perfection until you've driven a 1997 Chrysler Concorde."
Read MoreThe old Mazda 6 uses the same platform as the old Ford Fusion and the 2.3 turbo in the Speed6 GT was built at the same factory as the 2.3 turbo powering the 2015 Ecoboost Mustang. Coincidence? Probably. Still a great car, though.
Read MoreLike the Corvette Z06 but don't want to deal with the crazy stormtrooper looks of America's most badass sports car? How about putting that all in a chic body shell with doors and luxury and stuff? That's the 2016 Cadillac CTS-V and it is delicious.
Read MoreMercedes has a slight, wonderful problem on its hands. Its hot AMG models used to be seriously quick, but lately they've crossed into insanity. Take the Mercedes-AMG C63, for instance, with the 504-horse twin-turbo V8 out of the Mercedes-AMG GT, which is just nuts for a small family car. For the slightly more staid adrenaline junkie, then, there's now the Mercedes C450 AMG.
Read MoreThe Maserati GranTurismo has been around since 2007, which makes it pretty old, as far as new cars are concerned. Why would anyone want one when there's a multitude of competitors that are newer, and objectively better? There's actually a few good reasons.
Read More“Volkswagen doesn’t understand America.” That’s what the critics like to say. It’s what they blame for a lack of cars that can crush it in the mass market and Volkswagen’s slump during the best sales year in a decade. But there is proof that Volkswagen is at least listening to some of us, and the proof is in the all new, 292 horsepower 2015 VW Golf R I just drove.
Read MoreRallying is a nuanced art. It takes years of training to get to the level where you can drive an open class car like this Subaru WRX STI with a sequential gearbox and 500 pound feet of torque. But I didn't have years of training. I had hours. And driving it has warped my brain forever.
Read MoreCar enthusiasts: if we want automakers to keep making great cars like this, you need to start buying them now!
Read MoreAt last, sweet vindication. For years I've been fighting against the myth parroted by terrified industry types and lazy Boomer assholes that young people don't buy cars, don't want cars, and only ride buses and their super-cool Razor scooters. Young people DO want cars! How do I know? Because of a new study by the hip television network MTV.
Read MoreI’m not gonna lie to you: the first time I drove the 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, it kind of scared the shit out of me just a little bit.
Read MoreWelcome everyone to round three of the Car Buying “Great Debate” series. In the party-pooper corner, Tavarish says that leasing a new car is really just a slavery-inducing rental and you are throwing money away. However, if you work the numbers right, leasing a vehicle may be the smarter way to drive a new car.
Read MoreMy favorite driving roads in the Austin area come up after Mopac dead ends into RM 1826 in Hays County. Then you're on some really nice, winding Hill Country roads down by Driftwood, Dripping Springs, and Wimberley. If you've ever heard of or eaten at the Salt Lick, you know what I'm talking about.
Read MoreIf your garage could use a little cleaning, Amazon has a bunch of Gladiator GarageWorks products on sale right now.
Read MoreBefore we get into the opinions about the new 2015 Subaru WRX, let's get some basic facts out of the way. It still has 268 horsepower. It still has full-time all-wheel-drive. And now it has the long-heralded infinitely-geared scepter of driving fun death, a Continuously Variable Transmission. But let me blow your mind, because there is life after death.
Read MoreToday, we're going to kick off a new Friday segment called Letters to Doug. Here's how it works: first, you send me a letter with some sort of automotive query, such as: "Dear Doug: Should I buy a used Saab 9-5 or just eat off my own face?" And then, every Friday, I will choose one letter and reply with a long-winded diatribe that only partially answers your question.
Read MoreThe Z06 is a 650 horsepower Corvette. Six hundred. And fifty. A Corvette that gets to 60 in less than three seconds. A Corvette than can stop from 60 in less than 100 feet. A Corvette that can pull 1.2 G in a corner. And a Corvette that costs less than $100,000. It's an all-American middle finger to every other high buck sports car on the road. Here's how it is to drive.
Read MoreRecently, I've been getting a number of messages from readers inquiring about my next car. Dear Doug, these messages say. When are you going to get your head out of your ass and realize that the Lincoln Mark V is the car for you? Then they send me several grainy 1970s press photos of the Lincoln Mark V, which – for those of you who don't know – is essentially an aircraft carrier with wire wheels.
Read MoreI guess I should start by saying there's nothing wrong with the Lincoln MKC. I had one over the holidays, I drove the crap out of it, and it did its job just fine. My ass and my passengers' asses and our stuff was conveyed from one point to another in ease and comfort. I could easily live with this car. What I don't think I could do is want it.
Read MoreWhen you hear the phrase "digital tire gauge," this is probably the one that you picture. Fantastic reviews, and a great low price today. [Accutire MS-4021B Digital Tire Pressure Gauge, $9]
Read MoreYes, folks, it's already Friday! And that means it's time for everyone's favorite Friday feature, Letters to Doug, wherein you write me a series of complicated, challenging letters that cover a wide range of pertinent automotive topics, and I cherry pick the one that's easiest to respond to!
Read MoreOkay, so it's not actually an EK9 wagon, although that would be really, really cool. This is in fact a marriage of two different Honda vehicles which share parts: a Civic and an Orthia. And despite this being JDM as hell, this actually isn't Japan. It's Hong Kong. Still totally badass. EK WAGON, GUYS. GET EXCITED.
Read MoreRalph Lauren's car collection is very nearly perfect. It holds gems like the 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK "Comte Trossi" (pictured here), a 1955 Jaguar XKD, a McLaren F1 LM, and a Ruf CTR3. So when a lawsuit divulged that he only spends 30 hours a year in his garage, I was weirdly cool with that.
Read MoreI can't believe I never heard of this guy until very recently. I can't believe most of us haven't heard of this guy. Because Willie Perry may just be the closest thing we've ever had to an actual, no-joke super hero. Like Batman, he had no made-up powers; unlike Batman, he wasn't rich. But he had the badass car, and he actually helped people.
Read MoreWhile it's known as the bare bones sports car, the Mazda Miata has come in a staggering array of special editions that ranged from hardcore to posh. Here are all of them.
Read MoreRemember these? When was the last time you saw one?
Read MoreI'm making a pretty big claim in that headline there. There's so many incredible car clubs in the world, but I think if you factor in all the things stacked against Iceland having any sort of viable vintage car scene at all, what these dedicated kooks in Iceland are doing becomes even more impressive.
Read MoreYou could make the case for the automotive scene in the 1990s being the last great analogue moment in mainstream car design. You could also make the case that oh man, teal is a totally rad color for a daily driver.
Read MoreYes, those are factory seats for a VW Golf. They're possibly the coolest, weirdest, wildest seats I've ever seen in a production car.
Read MoreDodge recently put out a video claiming that their Charger Hellcat sledgehammered its way across 204 MPH. The Charger is a bit of a brick, and it's no surprise the car needs over 700 horsepower to hit that speed. Is there a more elegant way?
Read MoreGood news, everyone: I've decided to devote today's column to the most outdated, obsolete, antiquated relic of the entire automotive industry.
Read MoreIt only now occurs to me that the first decade of the 21st century is behind us, and we might as well reflect on its greatest cars now that we have a little perspective.
Read MoreTo qualify as a Real Kid, there are two criteria that are absolutely essential. The first is that you must be a Youth, and the other is that you must have an absolutely obscene and perfect poster of a car on your wall. And some cars are more obscene and perfect than others.
Read MoreThis is a 1993 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 with rear wheel drive and a flat-six 3.6 liter engine that puts out 250 hp, according to Max Daines. He's even given us a little bit of information about the guy who owns it—like how he uses his other 911 as driving school car for his kids.
Read MoreI was just in Iceland, driving the new Land Rover Discovery, a Lada Niva, and meeting with an incredible group of gearheads — all of which you'll hear more about soon. Much more. But for now, let me just show you a little glimpse of the very bizarre and brutal car landscape of Iceland. Also, they have a penis museum.
Read MoreGood news, ladies and gentlemen! It's that time again: the exciting moment each week where I take a well-meaning, intelligently written letter from a reader and respond to it using flawed, manipulative logic that somehow always ends up with the advice: "buy my book."
Read MoreBentley is fond of describing their cars in terms of all their impressive numbers: 505 HP/725 lb-ft, top speed 184 MPH, two integrated-seat iPad holders and keyboards, and, my favorite one, the fact they use 18 or so entire cow hides for the interior. That got me thinking about other numbers they could be using. Burger numbers.
Read MoreTerrible on the road yet shockingly fast on track, your next cheap race car is here.
Read MoreGather 'round, folks, because it's time for yet another installment of Letters to Doug, Jalopnik's most mildly popular column, wherein you write me a letter with some sort of automotive question and I respond with a prolonged tirade that makes you wonder if I've been properly medicated.
Read MoreYou know, your gridlock commute doesn't have to be so bad.
Read MoreThese guys really knew how to use a pencil and paper.
Read MoreJalopnik's first European car meetup got Mr. Okulski behind the wheel of a heavily tuned Lotus Omega and Mr. Hardigree behind the wheel of a ZAZ, of all things. Here's all the action on video straight from the heart of Budapest.
Read MoreFerrari F40? Please. These ten supercars make that piece of junk seem as common as a Toyota Corolla.
Read MoreHarry Metcalfe is here to answer all the questions you had about the Lamborghini Countach, but were too afraid to ask.
Read MoreHere's something sexy to put on your computing machine, straight from the BMW archives.
Read MoreWhen I think of truly great concept car designs, my mind immediately goes to sports cars. But the concept car universe is a wide one, and although it's rarer, pickup truck concepts can push the envelope too. The best example of this might be this amazing Dodge concept from 1967.
Read MoreIf we're going to talk about concept cars, the Bertone Lancia Stratos HF Zero is kind of a basic bitch, pumpkin spice latte choice. Everyone knows it and everyone loves it. I don't even care. It's amazing and I love staring at it.
Read MoreYou know where I'm planning to go soon but have never been? 2015. It sure sounds exciting, right? And while I, in my colossal hubris, think I have a pretty good idea of what the cars will be like in 2015, I've barely been here. But I know what has: Back To The Future Part 2. So let's learn from BTTF2 about what we can expect, automotively, this new year.
Read MoreThe Chevy Volt offered GM a chance to show it was capable of quickly producing a car that was radically different than any car they'd made before. It wasn't a hit. With low EV-only range and a high price, what exactly was the reason to buy it? The 2016 Chevy Volt seems like a better deal.
Read MoreModern cars may be safer and better-built than they've ever been before, but don't think that means it's completely impossible to die in a new one. A new study from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released today dives into the American cars with the highest and lowest death rates.
Read MoreHarry Houdini is alive, people. There's no other way to explain this car crash.
Read MoreI don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that's a Lambo, dude! In Florida this time.
Read MorePouring rain followed immediately by freezing temperatures combined to produce extraordinarily dangerous conditions yesterday, killing three and injuring dozens. But it's one thing to read about something like that, and it's another to look through your rear window and see a skidding tractor-trailer crunch its way towards you.
Read MoreKaleb Whitby ended up on the wrong side of the Saturday morning pileup on Interstate 84, yet he managed to get out of his Chevy Silverado needing only 2 Band-Aids. His pickup seems to be goner.
Read MoreThe first Lamborghini Huracan crash happened in Hungary last September. Now there's video showing how it went down, recorded by the passenger with a mobile phone and released by the police.
Read MoreWhen you're lazily cruising along the highway, the mind tends to wander into nightmare scenarios. Someone veers into your oncoming lane, a nut goes into total road-rage mode, or a wayward tire comes bouncing along and smashes you right in the middle of your face. This video contains the latter.
Read MoreWhen a customer confuses the gas for the brake, allowing them to drive completely straight through your beautiful, expensive car wash, leaving a path of wanton destruction in their wake, you'd expect the proprietors to be upset. Not at the Quick Quack Car Wash. They took the video, set it to music, and perfection was born.
Read MoreFew things are as disappointing or infuriating as finding out someone hit your car and then drove away, without even leaving a note claiming responsibility, like some kind of savage. Humanity is supposed to be better than this.
Read MoreA family in Michigan called 911 yesterday morning to relay about as horrifying a winter driving situation as I can imagine. They were trapped in their minivan, stuck onto the bumper of a semi truck that didn't know they were there.
Read MoreThis is why you should avoid doing anything other than driving while you're actually driving. Especially turning around and filming your kid while they sing a silly little song, because then you get into a massive accident.
Read MoreThere's a right way to explain your car-crunching misdeeds and there's a hilariously wrong way, courtesy of the asshat who launched his BMW M4 sideways over the median leaving Cars and Coffee the other day.
Read MoreThis idiot losing control of a new BMW M4 over a median is why you don't try and show off when you're leaving Cars and Coffee. Actually no, there's an even better reason.
Read MoreDespite all the crap Top Gear's both been through and put itself through, it appears the quickly greying juggernaut can not be stopped. The Mirror reports that Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond are all closing in on a three-year contract extension.
Read MoreWe can't all be astronauts, and not all stars who go on Top Gear can be aces behind the wheel of the reasonably priced car. English singer Ed Sheeran may have just had the worst showing ever on the segment after crashing the red Vauxhall Astra, but I think he has a legitimate excuse.
Read MoreTop Gear's back! Top Gear's back! Almost! Well, we already saw their Patagonia special last month, but the 22nd season starts in earnest this Sunday. To psyche everyone up for it, the three hosts sat down for a discussion and preview with fans, taking questions for nearly an hour.
Read MoreToday's awesome Noble M600 Speedster prototype reminded me that we need more fast British cars in our lives. Specifically, very fast ones.
Read MoreEver since Jason Torchinsky wrote up his piece on the N Box Slash (N/), I've been dying to drive one. Then I noticed that one of the dealerships nearby had one on display inside their dealership, and I knew I just had to give it a spin. Welcome to the very first Jalopnik East review, where I drive shit Torchy can't have.
Read MoreI've been pestering companies to make a useful, small truck every chance I get. Almost every time, I'm pretty much told I'm an idiot. Even Hyundai told me that. But this new Santa Cruz concept is pretty much a small truck, and I think it's great.
Read MoreThere was never any doubt that Ducati would get the Scrambler into the hands of customizers before it even went on sale. This is the result. Let the flame wars and/or lovefest begin.
Read MoreBrammo is now part of the Polaris family. The Oregon-based electric motorcycle manufacturer has been totally consumed by the Minnesota powersports juggernaut in its latest bid to own all the things. But why Brammo and why now?
Read MoreNo, a "naked moped" is not a deviant sexual practice (we checked Urban Dictionary). But actually riding a moped sans-clothing will get you kicked out of Cambodia for violating the country's "beautiful customs and culture".
Read MoreOf all the bikes unveiled last year, one pair of Husqvarna concepts had us throwing our wallets at our computing machine screens. Husky heard the dull thumping of leather smacking against glass and is ready to deliver. The 401 twins have gotten the green light. Hells. Yes.
Read MoreSoft focus. Depth of field. Stirring music. And a beard. That's all you need to make your own bullshit bike build video. Oh, and sparks. Lots of sparks.
Read MoreWe've already established that electric motorcycles don't have to be stodgy appliances, but the problem – as always – is charging and range. So what if you nixed the amount of time it takes to juice up with a ubiquitous infrastructure of swappable batteries? That's what Gogoro is trying to do.
Read MoreKids can be right little pieces of crap, especially when they're bored and when they start chucking rocks at passing bikers. So when this kid chucked a stone at what sounds like a passing Scotsman, it was only right and proper that he gave him a right thorough talking to, in the most Scottish way possible. Which is a math lesson.
Read MoreIf you want to own a decade and a half of Ducati's most sought after superbikes, you could scour Craiglist, comb through eBay, and wade through forums. Or you could just cut a check for $92,500 and get five in one fell swoop. See? Easy.
Read MoreThe feds are recalling another 2.12 million vehicles in the never-ending airbag disaster after it was discovered that the fix originally offered wasn't good enough and airbags were blowing up in the absence of a crash. About half are in a different Takata recall and thus could send shrapnel into the faces of people in these vehicles.
Read MoreMaybe it was my dreams last night. Maybe it was some odd recollection of that melancholy mid winter feeling when the world gets small. Maybe I saw a pine tree and that did it.
Read MoreThere's a valuable lesson here. No matter how dedicated you are to the cause of I Don't Know Shit About Cars, sometimes it doesn't hurt to know just a little. Alternately, you could go full freakout like Jerry Ascione, and make a big deal out of the fact that you didn't know some cars have been getting rid of spare tires for, oh, a decade or so.
Read MoreI have to hand it to Victor Muller. When they were about to get evicted, he said everything will be fine. When Spyker's creditors pushed his company into bankruptcy, he told us it's not over yet. And it turns out he wasn't bluffing. Or at least not entirely.
Read MoreAmerican Canadian hero Deadmau5 isn't going to let a lame cease-and-desist order kill his love for memes, exotic cars, or grating puns. After Ferrari quashed his 458 Italia "Purrari," the EDM artist announced on Twitter he's replacing it with a Lamborghini Huracan in Nyan Cat livery. Not bad!
Read More"IT DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH OF TEH POWER!!!1!" the naysayers will scream about the 2016 Mazda Miata, even though it sounds like an absolute delight as well as a marvel of modern weight-saving in engineering. But for the people who always want more, Flyin' Miata says they'll have them covered.
Read MoreIf you've ever wanted to experience the feeling of gliding on the surface of the water, but don't have skis, a rope, or even a boat, just jump into a Piper Cub, grab a few buddies and get wet with the formation airplane water skiing craze. Watch as this trio of pilots demonstrate how to use hydroplaning to their advantage.
Read MoreHey everyone. Bulldozers are awesome. Here are some awesome bulldozers being awesome.
Read MoreBMW sent a press release out today partially titled BMW Group ConnectedDrive increases data security. This is technically true, but doesn't quite get at the core issue: data security was 'increased' because there had been almost none. The German Automobile Association (ADAC) discovered this when they were able to wirelessly access BMW car systems.
Read MoreWe caught our first glimpse of an unknown Tesla prototype testing at the old Alameda Naval base yesterday, and now we've got video of what could be the Model 3 or the Model X stretching its legs and squealing its tires.
Read MoreContrary to popular belief, many race tracks are still extremely accessible for public consumption, whenever the public feels like it. And that's because these race tracks are actually still public roads. Just, you know, when no one's racing on them. Which is a wonderful thing.
Read MoreReviews are now trickling out of early drives of development prototypes of the 1.5 liter 2016 Mazda Miata, but it appears that the spec of the car that we're getting here in America is also being confirmed: How does 155 horsepower and 148 pound feet of torque sound in a car that weighs around 2,200 pounds?
Read MoreA select number of journalists just drove the 2016 Mazda Miata. Guess what? It's great. WHODA THUNK IT.
Read MoreEither Northrop Grumman or Boeing-Lockheed will win the contract for America's next bomber, known as the Long Range Strike-Bomber. Whoever takes the prize will likely be the last bomber builder for the better part of a century and will almost surely be the last builder of a manned bomber ever.
Read MoreRoy "The Weasel" James could never get enough cash to keep his racing career alive, so the Formula 2 driver took a Hollywood-esque detour that had him as a wheelman in one of the largest heists in UK history. And when he was released from jail, Bernie Ecclestone hired him to make trophies. And it gets weirder.
Read More[The new Ford GT isn't the first time Ford tried to do a radical take on the GT40. This is the quad-turbo V12 GT90, a carbon-bodied, 720 HP concept from 1995. Photo: Ford.]
Read MoreLooks like no one can escape Virginia's justice when it comes to speeders, not even loaded dudes like Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth. Following his December conviction for reckless driving there, Werth today was sentenced to five days in jail. He'll turn himself in on Friday.
Read MoreFor years VW has assumed that anyone that buys its cars uses an iPhone. That's obviously wrong. The proprietary plug VW used was a holdover from the iPod era, but now the boffins of Wolfsburg are finally seeing the error of their ways and will ditch its idiotic MDI in favor of the humble USB.
Read MoreThis might be the first sighting of the Tesla Model 3, the automaker's $35,000 mass-market electric vehicle. Or it could be a strange shot of a Model X prototype. Or a mirage. We're not sure.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model S P85D is already capable of doing 0-60 MPH in 3.2 seconds, but now Elon Musk is promising a software update that will drop that down by a tenth of a second. Because why the hell not?
Read MoreI guess if you're building a car that's, let's face it, boring, one way to advertise that car would be to really crank up the batshit. Like, make ads so full of confusing, improbable horseshit that just maybe you can induce some confused, trance-like state in people so they'll go buy your car. Oh, and maybe suggest destroying a dam, too, because that shit sells cars.
Read MoreThe DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer could very well revolutionize the way the Navy does its surface warfare business. One of its biggest innovations is ditching the cramped, darkly lit Combat Information Center (CIC), a fixture for many decades on past USN combat ships, and replacing it with the state-of-the-art, spacious, Star Trek bridge-like Ship's Mission Center.
Read MorePeople who hang out with me are often surprised when I look past something like a Ferrari 458 to the mint Pontiac Fiero behind it but, like most car enthusiasts, I prize a unicorn over stallion. What car do you never see on the road anymore that you'd love to see in person?
Read MoreIn the automotive world recalls are serious business, except when they're not.
Read MoreFord, like most American car companies, is known for being pretty progressive. It's so progressive, in fact, that it was rated one of the best places to work in 2015 by the Human Rights Campaign. And working in such a place got one guy so upset, he vomited out a disgusting, hate-filled rant for which he was allegedly fired. And now he's suing.
Read MoreWe've longed for the Civic Type R in America for about a million years. We've never gotten it. But today, a New Jersey Honda dealer said on Facebook that the Civic Type R was "coming soon." This is a good thing.
Read MoreTaking pictures is an art - which for some means that it requires a lot of discussing composition and smelling your own farts. For me, it means that there is no right way to do things, and to get great results, one must never stop experimenting. Here are my tips on how to take a good looking night photo.
Read MoreOh, Dartz. Sweet, crazy, Dartz. You do not disappoint. You may remember Dartz as the company that broke new lack-of-taste ground on 6-wheeled G-Wagens or the company that introduced whale penis leather into our collective nightmares. Now they just want some time with your kids.
Read MoreThe Dow Jones Industrial Average is up! The S&P 500 is up! NASDAQ is way up! But none of those have anything on the collector car market, which is nothing short of absolute insanity at the moment. And this chart is proof.
Read MoreI'm not sure why there's such a lurid appeal to reading someone's automotive nightmares, but there is. It's not all schadenfreude, though, there's real sympathy. And if anyone deserves sympathy, it's this Canadian fellow stuck with an unholy 2012 Subaru Impreza that he's claimed, so far, is on its fourth engine. In the past 3,106 miles.
Read MoreGovernments aren't particularly adept at grasping new technology, and Google made that point crystal clear at a meeting this week in California where the safety and regulation of self-driving cars were debated.
Read MoreThis week, we heard that the Mustang GT350R can go around the Nurburgring in 7:32.19. Today we heard that the Corvette Z06 can do the 'Ring in 6:59.13. Both times, these reports have come from a site called Horsepower Kings and both times we were skeptical. Here's the issue: Chevrolet says the time is "not accurate" and "fabricated."
Read MoreForget the three old chaps over at Top Gear, as it is clear now that our very own Chris Harris is the luckiest guy in the world. Here are two Ferraris, two Porsches, an Aston Martin, a BMW and a very special Renault to prove that.
Read MoreAs a stiff wind is disturbed passing over a mountain ridge, the resulting Mountain Wave can cause ripples in the air reaching altitudes up to 35,000 feet. Catching a rising column of air and riding that wave up to the edge of the stratosphere requires supplemental oxygen and a set of large stones.
Read MoreWe've seen more recalls recently than perhaps ever before and while many seem to focus on the fiery death/horrible destruction side of things, there have been many recalls that have been a bit more absurd.
Read MoreThe best car names are the ones that tell you exactly what you need to know about the vehicle.
Read MoreThe McLaren 675LT is coming, and it will be the most track ready 650S you can get. The "LT" stands for "Longtail," (not lightweight, like we thought) and that means it'll be bigger and faster than any 12C, 625C, or 650S that came before it. And it has a long tail HOLY CRAP.
Read MoreI've somehow persuaded Tesla to give me a brand spankin' new Model S. But not just any Model S. The D. And not just any D. The P85D. Yeah, the one that causes mild-mannered grandmas to hurl uncontrolled expletives as their feeble bones take 1 g of lateral acceleration. That one.
Read MoreAccording to the BBC, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has started replacing the state's fleet with white cars last September, and now everybody in the country is being advised to forget about black paint as well, or else. Or else what? Exactly.
Read MoreWhile the Forza guys have the new Ford GT, the team behind Gran Turismo is busy creating more digital cars that know not silly boundaries like marketability or pedestrian safety regulations. Yet, Alpine's latest is the monoposto of our dreams with some hints of what's coming next year.
Read MoreThere's two amazing geographic details to this story: first, it did not take place in Florida, and second, it did take place in Beaver County, PA which should make our audience of 9 year old boys pee themselves. The incident itself involves a car wreck, an inebriated woman, a lack of pants, and a bottle, pressed under some bare buttocks.
Read MoreThey say it's the fastest four-door sedan in production. This is the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat putting its 707 horsepower down on an oval to test its claimed 204 MPH top speed.
Read MoreShip design is as much a study in proportions as anything else, but sometimes the most ridiculous elements lay out of view, below the waterline. Case in point: the gargantuan brass screws on the US Navy's Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers.
Read MoreJust a few weeks ago, we declared nightvision one of the most useless options you can get on a car. And from the outside, it totally appears like that's the case. Thing is, you don't understand just how useful nightvision is until you actually use it.
Read MoreAs many of you know, I am currently importing a 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R to the United States. Well, just to be clear, I am not importing it. That task is being handled by a bunch of sailors, and longshoremen, and dockworkers, and port employees, all of whom are currently taking a union-mandated smoke break.
Read MoreSince using a remote controlled helicopter with video goggles strapped to your face and spying on your neighbors is now a thing, why not populate the surface of mars with buzzing drones? Now NASA wants to supplement the Mars rover with a whirly bird to triple its daily operating range.
Read MoreGood lord, Northern Ireland. One truck, carrying a whole bunch of mackerel dumps the load into the grimy, gross street, and you lot all go running to pick it up like lunch has just been served. It's gotten to the point where your city needed to say something about it. Get it together.
Read MorePhilip K. Dick's The Man In The High Castle has been a masterpiece of alternative history for decades. So when Amazon announced they were going to make a series out of it, many were excited. And sure, it seems promising so far, but how are they doing with the cars?
Read MorePreparing for the storm yesterday, I walked out of my apartment to find a new 911 Turbo S parked right out front. Immediately, my mind went racing with all of the bad things I'd do in the snow if it were mine.
Read MoreA lot of cars have names that are total nonsense or don't fit the model they were put on (Chrysler Sebring? How many races did it win?). But other cars have the perfect name for what they are. What is the most accurately named car?
Read MoreHow will Mercedes let the world know about their tire-destroying, twin-turbocharged Mercedes-AMG GT at the Super Bowl? With bad CGI, woodland creatures and one of the most groan-inducing jokes I've heard in a long time at the end.
Read MoreThe huge storm pretty much missed the greater New York City area last night and things turned out to be much less serious on the ground than preached on the airwaves. So here's a guy pulling some sweet T-T-T-Tokyo Dorifto action behind a live news report.
Read MoreLong before starting to badge 6.2 V8s as 6.3s as a ploy to sell more cars by referring back to its past, Mercedes-Benz created the best sedan in the world by jamming its largest engine into its smaller four-door's body. The 300 SEL 6.3 has been Jay Leno's favorite car ever since.
Read MoreYou should know by now that the Tesla Model S P85D is not messing around when it comes to performance. Thanks to dual motor all-wheel drive, 691 horsepower and a zero to 60 mph time of 3.2 seconds, it's one of the most crushingly fast cars you can get in 2015. It's also great for scaring the shit out of your friends and family!
Read MoreSince 2008, the Justice Department has been using license plate scanners to track millions of cars in real-time around the U.S. as part of a massive domestic intelligence-gathering program that's largely been kept secret. It's like PRISM for cars and we have no idea how big it is.
Read MoreHyundai is hopping on the Apple CarPlay and Android Auto bandwagon later this year, and part of that move spells the end of the CD player in the majority of its cars.
Read MoreWatch the above video of Regular Car Reviews' take on the Dodge Challenger SRT8. Notice how the car will not, cannot fit into any kind of modern view on what kind of car it should be.
Read MoreYes, it's Dorian's Alfa Romeo again, but this time, with more of an analog feel thanks to filmmaker Jeff Martin shooting most of his footage on Super 8. They go together like bread and butter!
Read MoreHere we see a weak tiny small little pansy boy-man list six things he hates about the Ford GT, that pure image of big strong manly man's man perfection.
Read MoreHere's the photo that The Weather Channel is using as the background for their winter storm "Juno" coverage. Notice anything wrong with it?
Read MoreHere's what we don't know about the Ford Shelby GT350R: Exactly how powerful it will be, what its zero to 60 mph and quarter mile times are, and how much it will cost. But according to one report, we apparently know it can lap the Nürburgring faster than the Camaro Z/28. And the 997 GT3 RS.
Read MoreIf you eagerly await several feet of snow in New York City for donuts and other hoonage opportunities, be warned: your ass may get arrested.
Read MoreYou don't know about Bob Hoover? Shame on you! No other aviator in the history of powered flight has done more or inspired so many. With the help of Harrison Ford, Bob tells his own story and shares, with his trademark charm, the hard earned wisdom of a life spent pushing the edge of the envelope.
Read MoreFew automakers embody the concept of disappointment more than Nissan does. With the notable exception of the GT-R, there's no real reason to buy Nissan's middling, anonymous, bloated-looking cars over their competitors. Many were hoping the Nissan IDx and Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge would help snap the company out of its coma, but don't bank on that happening.
Read MoreThis is John Lane in his Volvo 262 in Washington State's now-gone Doo Wop Rally back in 2009. It's so rad it's hard to believe it happened in America.
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth II is a royal bad-ass. She drives stick, fixes trucks, and one time she took Saudi Arabia's late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on a joyride that had him begging her to slow down.
Read MoreChevrolet only made three of their first purpose-built racing Corvettes, and nobody seems to know where the third SR-2 'Sebring Racer' is at the moment. If you find it, that's north of $5 million right there.
Read MoreIf you want a chance to drive cars that aren't yours really fast, don't become an auto mechanic. I love to do just that, so I'm an auto journalist, which means the cars I get to clumsily wring out are not someone's personal car. Especially someone's Corvette I'm supposed to fix. A mechanic at RK Chevrolet in Vineland, NJ is being accused of just this, and the owner is pissed.
Read MoreNHTSA is out with its latest recommendations for crash-prevention tech, and it's a clear path to making automatic emergency braking systems mandatory on all new cars sold in the U.S.
Read MoreIt's no secret that the Mini Cooper isn't as small as it used to be, and while the redesigned car is better in a lot of ways, it's not necessarily a better Mini. But a new report says the brand recognizes the need for smallness, and could turn to Toyota to make a new tiny city car. Hooray small things!
Read MoreFormer automotive PR exec Jason Vines is out of the industry and has a new book out, which means that he's spreading dirt on everyone, calling out "prick" New York Times reporters, stupid CEOs, and arguing that Bob Lutz would have been CEO of Chrysler if he'd have kept his big mouth shut.
Read MoreThe thing about good cars is that they're good. They're fun to drive, great to look at, and tick all the right boxes. The problem is that sometimes there are great cars out there that people just aren't buying. What's the best car nobody seems to be plunking down their hard earned dollars for?
Read MoreYou haven't really lived until you've landed at one of these airports.
Read MoreThe big name fight over "Q4" and "Q2" between Audi and Fiat Chrysler continues, and for now it looks like Fiat is the winner. Audi is set to launch a new midsize crossover SUV in 2017, and they've resigned themselves to calling it the TTQ, according to a new report.
Read MoreApart from being more powerful, the McLaren 675 LT is also supposed to be 220 pounds lighter than the McLaren 650S, but it's not a replacement like the 650S was for the 12C because this track-focused car will be limited to 250 units after it debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.
Read MoreFrom Ohio to New York in less than two days? What a road trip for a happy little prototype!
Read MoreTesla's always been for weirdos. For nerds. For technogeeks, and the kind of people that read Gizmodo. For Tesla Man. But judging by the amount of videos we've been inundated with over the past few weeks (at least three or four!), is the Tesla Model S P85D the first electric car ever truly loved by street racing hooligans?
Read MoreThis Wolfsburg-built 1955 VW Type 2 (T1b) Microbus was the first Samba to hit the British shores and is believed to be the sole survivor of the original imports. Now, it's up for grabs.
Read MoreThe next time you need a guaranteed 6-minute trip across New York city, just fire up the Gotham Air app and a beautiful new Bell 407 helicopter will be spooling up ready to take you on a personal flight from Manhattan to JFK, or Newark.
Read MoreInnovative Tesla Man ponders to himself, "hm, how can I combine as many hip startup tech ideas together as possible at the same time? What about AirBnB... Tesla????"
Read MoreAlfa Romeo promised they would return to the U.S. in a big way, and while the 4C is a superb sports car, it's not ever gonna be a volume seller. That honor will hopefully go to their next car, a BMW M3-fighting sedan that will be unveiled in June and go on sale this summer.
Read MoreUsually suspended from the rafters of the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the National Air and Space Museum, safely away from the grubby hands of curious spectators, the trusty steed that delivered Lindberg across the Atlantic on his record breaking solo flight has been lowered for some much needed attention.
Read MoreI think his name was Hans Lehmann. He was the man for whom the dubious job description 'car scoop photographer' was invented, and his ability of snaffle out disguised prototypes as they performed pre-production testing on public roads was legendary. He must have made a small fortune in his pomp, and no one could deny he didn't earn it. I remember the great George Kacher following him for a story in Car, in which I seem to recall they scooped the then years-from-showroom ready E36 BMW 3-Series, a
Read MoreRM Auctions is offering 75 vehicles from the Andrews Collection, including rare American cars like Duesenbergs, a Cunningham and this 1963 Shelby 289 Competition Cobra, which happens to be the first Cobra racing car sold to the public. Somebody call Jay Leno!
Read MoreOn May 20th, 2009 Jordan's King Abdullah officially opened the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), a facility set against a dramatic pocketed plateau on the northern outskirts of Amman. It is called the most advanced special operations training complex in the world and it looks like a life-sized GI Joe dream set.
Read MoreWhen Ford opened up its first Silicon Valley research center in 2012, it was late to the game. Nearly every major automaker had been in the area for years, with BMW and Mercedes staking a claim in the '90s. Now Ford is getting serious, with a new facility and a 125-person team working right down the road from Stanford.
Read MoreBuy this Wirecutter-recommended Bluetooth handsfree kit for your car, and get a free dash mount for your smartphone.
Read MoreAmerica fell pretty far short of President Obama's 2011 call to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. There's a lot of reasons for this, and a lack of charging infrastructure is one of them. So far Tesla Motors has been leading that charge (sorry for the pun) with their Supercharger network, but today BMW and Volkswagen announced they're also joining the fray.
Read MoreAustrian airplane manufacturer Diamond Aircraft have been building well-regarded composite light aircraft and motorgliders for over 30 years. After a failed foray in to the personal jet arena, they've set their sights on a light turboprop design that follows the classic muscle car formula of putting a massive engine into a tiny platform.
Read MoreOne extremely proud automotive enthusiast was not about to let the fierce grip of crushing normality destroy him — he might have been saddled with a four cylinder Toyota midsizer, but that doesn't mean he had to stop living. Nah, this dude modified his Camry.
Read MorePictured above is the runway for the Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica. It barely counts as an airport, but even then, it's an incredibly crucial lifeline for operations on the continent. And that's really because of one simple reason. The entire runway is composed of blue ice.
Read MorePop the hood on your car and there's a decent chance one of these is lurking down there.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-AMG GT S is a different beast than the SLS AMG that came before it. It's smaller, nimbler, lithe-er, and fun-er. It's also less expensive-er, according to an internal dealer document that says it'll start at $129,900.
Read MoreCadillac has big plans to take over the world, and the first salvo in that campaign is the upcoming CT6 luxury sedan. We'll see it in about two months and change, right in time for the New York Auto Show.
Read MoreToday, justice has symmetrical all-wheel drive and a boxer engine. Police in Portland have arrested a man they believe stole dozens of older Subarus and Toyotas in the city over the past few months.
Read MoreAsshats certainly deserve what's coming to them, but instead of vandalizing each others cars, how about using some creativity?
Read MoreIn 1934 Boeing acquired the Stearman Aircraft Company and proceeded to pump out more than 10,000 variations of the iconic Model 75. It was easy to fly and supremely forgiving, which made the Stearman one of the best teachers you could ever have.
Read MoreBecause it's stupid to throw away that kind of brand recognition, the modern Toyota RAV4 is a bloated, anonymous, mall-going crossover. Things weren't always that way. Opponaut HammerheadFistpunch is here to tell you why his first car, the original RAV4, was such a great example of how good Toyota is when they actually try.
Read MoreHere's a little cooking recipe, handed down from my step-uncle's roommate's brother's sister. Take one Mercedes, and completely engulf it in flames. Leave it on top of a big hill. Don't set the parking brake. Add firefighters, a high pressure fire hose, and now water everywhere to reduce the friction. The result is perfect.
Read MoreHere's a funny joke I like to tell about the Shelby Cobra: How do you know if one is real? The answer: It's not real. Actual, honest-to-God, non-replica Shelby Cobras are crazy rare and crazy expensive. And the ultimate Cobra just sold for a nice chunk of change at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale.
Read MoreBefore they became the modern, hot-selling, Volkswagen-crushing mainstream brand they are now, Subaru was a niche brand that mostly appealed to people in states with bad weather. The older ones, being the tough workhorse cars they are, remain common sights in places like Portland, Oregon. That's changing thanks to the work of one mysterious thief.
Read MoreFord just started selling the 2015 Mustang in China and, well, it makes me very thankful of how cheap cars are in the US.
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Read MoreYou'll sneer, you'll gasp, you'll pee your pants, you'll gasp again. Just watch how many consecutive horrific accidents the douchnozzle in this white Honda avoids by millimeters after attempting some seriously reckless overtaking.
Read MoreTo celebrate the first six decades of the largest Porsche club in the world and to add almost $20 grand to the GTS’ base price, Porsche North America put a sexy ducktail on the car and gave it a very nice color too. Meet the GTS Club Coupe.
Read MoreRemember when you were in elementary school and your teacher would always shout that "sharing is caring?" Well, a lot of people in the auto industry took that to heart. What engine has been the proverbial town bicycle?
Read MoreLike everyone else who wants to see Honda give a damn about performance again, I'm pretty excited about the new Civic Type R, and I'm eager to see if it will come to America. Technically it already has; this photo was taken in Marysville, Ohio yesterday, home of one of their manufacturing plants.
Read MoreGreat Odin's Raven. This is the 2016 Ford Focus RS sliding around Belgium and the USA. THE USA. And get ready, because we'll see it in the flesh in just two weeks. GAHHHHHHHHHHH.
Read MoreIt's finally happened. Some enterprising BMW owner has swapped the faux engine noise pumped through the car's stereo and made their M135i sounds like an M4.
Read MoreTeased here as the RND Concept, Toyota will debut a production-ready model next week in the UK that they say has "the potential to transform the look of every vehicle on the road." Holy moly!
Read MoreSorry tech bros, your days of snorting and chortling and calling Lyft "mustache rides" are pretty much over. The pink fluffy 'stache on the ride-sharing service's cars is going away, because who wants to roll up to a date with a crusty Muppet prosthetic stuck to your hood?
Read MoreAs President Obama gears up to deliver the State of the Union address for the sixth time tonight, now's as good a time as any to reflect on the mandates, promises and calls to action from his previous speeches. Here's one: that call from 2011 to have 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015.
Read MoreYou might be familiar with the ultra luxury line of automobiles by Rolls-Royce, and you might even know of the company that is one of the leading manufacturers of turbine engines in the world, but what you probably didn't know was that Rolls-Royce's aviation legacy almost ended before it began.
Read MoreProgressive Insurance offers customers the option to plug a device into their cars' OBDII ports to track their driving and lower their insurance rates. Unsurprisingly, it's about as secure as a Tiffany necklace left on a sidewalk. But that doesn't mean the dongle will turn your car into a killer robot.
Read MoreWith the original British version of Top Gear now being simulcast in the US, BBC America was faced with a bit of a dilemma. Namely, what should they broadcast immediately after it? They didn't have Top Gear USA; that's on the History Channel. So the answer is Mud, Sweat and Gears, a show about building stunt cars and then, well, doing crazy stunts with them.
Read MoreToday's topic is: How to buy a used car without getting screwed. It's brought to you by your old pal Doug DeMuro, noted Jalopnik columnist, who once purchased a BMW M3 from a shady used car dealer whose sales manager insisted that I make out the check to him personally.
Read MoreWith less than a month remaining till the start of the 2015 air race season, Red Bull has released this highlight video of some crazy action as a teaser to get your fast flying juices flowing.
Read MoreIf your car doesn't have Bluetooth, or even USB or an AUX jack to add a basic adapter, this Bluetooth FM transmitter will add hands-free calling and wireless audio streaming to pretty much any car out there. [TaoTronics TT-FT02 Wireless In-Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter with Charging, Music Control, and Hands-Free Calling, $31 with code AZXQA2A4]
Read MoreSo, it comes down to this: the 2015 Corvette Z06, America's hottest new overpowered track darling, in a drag race against the Dodge Viper TA, the competition-focused version of Dodge's V10 monster car. They're close in power and purpose, but only one can come out on top.
Read MoreIn addition to their "transparent" A-pillars and ghost car navigation, Jaguar Land Rover is now also researching technologies that use colors, sounds and touch inside the car to alert drivers to prevent accidents involving bicycles and motorcycles.
Read MoreI have a bit of a problem. The cars I often find most interesting are, at least on paper, the most awful ones. And of all the cars at the Detroit Auto Show, with its Ford GTs and NSXs and all that, and was smitted by this three-wheeled, 500 lb electric shoebox made of styrofoam.
Read MoreThe Tappan Zee Bridge is, and always has been, a bit of a disaster. Built in the wrong spot, way too old, and perched precariously along a major East Coast transportation artery, it was referred to by a governor's aide as the "hold-your-breath bridge." That's how terrible some bridges are in the United States.
Read MoreOn the road, these are some of the best cars money can buy, but on track? Uhhhhh, not really.
Read MoreMcLaren Special Operations built another limited edition 650S, but this one is very, very special as Peter "Lotus, McLaren, TWR, Prodrive, Speeeeeed" Stevens helped them with it.
Read MoreThe United States Air Force has had a strong presence in Japan since the service's founding. Today, USAF operations are centralized among three major air bases in that country: Misawa Air Base in the northern Japan, Yokota Air Base in central Japan, and the sprawling Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
Read MoreThe proliferation of small, relatively inexpensive unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) presents the Federal Aviation Administration with a challenge in identifying people who don't follow the rules of the air or who endanger the nation's airspace. So, the agency is asking law enforcement for help.
Read MoreOkay, so we went out to the countryside to check out the new BMW X6, but luckily, there weren't enough for all of us, so I ended up in the hottest Mini diesel. Here's my very short verdict.
Read MoreI know it's been in development so long it was accused of being vaporware. I know Acura bungled its launch hard over a period of years. And I know it now runs the risk of being "just another" hybrid performance car. I don't care, I'm still excited and optimistic about the 2016 Acura NSX.
Read MoreOverkill? Awesome? You be the judge. [ Ulti-MATE Garage PRO Storage Kit, $1555]
Read MoreNaturally-aspirated engines are soooo 20th century. Thanks to downsizing due to stricter emissions and fuel economy requirements, automakers are all about the turbo now. And now the Porsche 911, famous for putting turbos on most of its top models, is about to go forced induction across pretty much the entire range.
Read MoreYou, as a motorist, should know that really bad things happen when you drive too fast in Virginia. The commonwealth takes speeding more seriously than just about anywhere else in America, and penalties are heavy for those with a need for speed. But a new bill in the Virginia General Assembly could make things a bit more reasonable.
Read MoreA big V12 engine, an enormous board for a wing, and the fattest tires this side of an open-pit mine should make for a fantastic, beautifully balanced track car. Except the Lamborghini Countach was, by all accounts, the complete, total opposite of that.
Read MoreA guy in New Zealand was just sitting in his car, minding his own business, like you do, when three no-goodniks came up and accosted him. He then attempted to drive off, like you do, when he was slammed in the head with an iron bar. Which stayed there. So he did the only logical thing – he drove to a gas station, and calmly asked for help.
Read MoreWhat happens when you take a 2015 Ford Mustang GT and add a supercharger, sticky Michelin tires, racing-grade wheels, a Borla exhaust, a carbon fiber hood and enough Shelby decals and badges to make a Fiat 500 Abarth look understated? You get 627 horsepower and the 2015 Shelby GT. The "GT" here stands for "GoT-damn," I think.
Read MoreHello, my favorite readership! You look great today — did you change your tooth polishing compound? I have a favor to ask you — I'll be in Reykjavik, Iceland this week (thanks, Range Rover), and while I'm there I'd love to find a Lada to do a classic review of. Anyone have a lead?
Read MoreIt sounds amazing, and if Ford's brand new halo car isn't a production ready vehicle as we speak, I'll eat my shorts.
Read MoreSome tea leave-readers were convinced that the next Focus RS was going to debut this week in Detroit. They were wrong. Now we're hearing Ford's turbocharged, all-wheel drive beastie is coming to the Geneva Motor Show, which makes way more sense.
Read MoreYesterday, I was in the local marketplace, with vendors hawking bolts of whaleskin-leather and cast-copper jugs of fermented bat's milk (a local favorite), when I saw a stack of boxes of Westinghouse LCD TVs. They used a car on the fake-screen image, and keeping in pattern, the car is fake, too. But what kind of fake?
Read MoreScion is pulling the plug on the iQ in the U.S. after the Smart competitor racked up a measly 2,040 sales – down 50 percent from the previous year.
Read MoreThe launch of the Polaris Slingshot hasn't gone exactly well. Beyond the legal hurdles of calling a trike a motorcycle and expecting DMVs across the country to be cool with that, Polaris is now issuing a stop sale and "stop ride" because the steering might fail and the roll hoops aren't up to spec. Nice.
Read MoreI know my life as a Jalopnik writer looks pretty glamorous, what with trips to Detroit and getting ignored by some of the biggest names in motoring, but there's actually a lot of humiliation. Like this list of story ideas our Editor-In-Jerk rejected, and then made me write in mustard on my desk. Here they are:
Read MoreUsually when someone says "it's a race car for the street" it's complete and utter bullshit, but not in the case with this insane 500 Abarth. Fiat took the already-crazy standard 500 Abarth and set their insane-o-meter for warp drive.
Read MoreDo you work in an industry that is fundamentally broken? If you do, does it leave you unsettled because you don't know how best to react? That terrible self-pitying need to sit and moan with your colleagues about the desolation of the wider situation set against the exciting knowledge that now is the time you might actually be able to winkle yourself some audience share. It fries my brain.
Read MoreThe 2015 Detroit Auto Show press days are over, and the bars full of free coffee and booze scattered around Cobo Hall have been packed away. Here are the people of the event who caught my eye.
Read MoreEver wondered what's below Dupont Circle? The remains of a Pizza Express, for starters. Plus 75,000 square feet of solid silence.
Read MoreToday the U.S. Justice Department announced that local and state police won't be able use a federal law to justify the seizure of cars, cash, homes and other assets of people if they simply believe a crime was committed. It's a big blow to civil forfeiture, a $2.5 billion practice that has infuriated many.
Read MoreWith the notable exception of the i8, I'm of the opinion that BMW hasn't cranked out a truly good-looking car in a long while. The era of timeless BMWs ended with the E46. And in non-U.S. markets, the 1-Series hatchback was among their chief visual offenders. No longer! With a 2016 refresh, it's far less offensive than it used to be.
Read MoreWe're now in an era where there are very few truly bad new cars anymore. That's a recent development. For years, the auto industry seemed to turn out roughly six to eight turds for every one truly great car. But somehow, some of those turds ended up being pretty good when you put them on a track.
Read MoreMembers of the automotive journalism sphere, already world-renowned for their moral purity and incorruptible sense of ethics, have decided to share their 2016 Acura NSX press kits from the Detroit Auto Show with the rest of the world. All they have to do is pay $250 on eBay first. How generous!
Read MoreAnd if $189,350 for a Maybach-themed living room sounds cheap to you, don't worry, just keep throwing money at it until you get what you like.
Read MoreHey. Would you prefer it if an unstoppable, vengeful robot didn't soccer-kick your wife's head across a room before bathing in your blood? Then thank Elon Musk. He doesn't want that to happen to you, now or ever.
Read MoreBMW released this short, cryptic video that's 90% darkness and headlights, with one brief flash of a little bit of car. They're calling this a "sneak peek," but what do we think it's a sneak peek of, exactly? (UPDATE: It's the new 1-Series)
Read MoreWith the aim of promoting adventure tourism and extreme sports, the Mexican government hosted "State Of Mexico To The Max" this summer, bringing together professional athletes from around the world. This Lear 24 gets festivities started by cutting a rope suspended above a lake held by two bros riding on jets of water.
Read MoreThis is what happens when everyone switches to alphanumeric names for cars. After a while, you start running out of them.
Read MoreMaking new design sketches or even full-sized clay models is relatively cheap compared to the millions of dollars wasted when a carmaker decides to ditch a fundamental part of their already half-developed car, only start all over again. Yet the latter just keeps happening.
Read MoreIf you've got your eye on the awesome new GoPro HERO4 Black or Silver, Amazon is throwing in your choice of free accessories today with your purchase. The starter bundles include a 32GB MicroSD card and a head strap mount, and the power bundles come with a pair of extra batteries and a charger.
Read MoreYou guys ever heard about this thing? The Hellcat, it's called. From Dodge. I think we've written about it once or twice.
Read MoreYou know how some people just sort of, well, suck? On a deep-down, fundamental level? And this basic, ingrained suckitude makes them treat people like crap, needlessly? Well, a group of those people work at a car dealership, and were dicks to a pizza delivery guy. But this time the dickery boomeranged back and bit them on the ass.
Read MoreFew things are worse than getting stuck in a giant traffic jam when you're driving an awesome car. You just want to cut loose and cruise, but you can't, because other people exist. So annoying!
Read MoreRobyn Wilkins, an adult human being with functioning eyeballs and the capacity to reason, somehow actually thinks that school buses around the Memphis, TN area have brake lights designed to promote worshipping the devil. Yes, this woman saw a pattern of LEDs that sort of looked like a pentagram, and is now livid.
Read MoreMcLaren, officially known as the McLaren Group, is now officially known as the McLaren Technology Group. What's in a name? Plenty. And it comes with a new 600,000 square-foot facility to prove it.
Read MoreSo far, BMW has resisted the lure of adding all-wheel drive to their top-performing M lineup like Mercedes has been doing lately and Audi has always done. Expect that to change soon: the all-wheel drive M cars are coming.
Read MoreMost embedded navigation systems suck, so Ford wants to give you a choice: use someone else's. Unfortunately it won't come out until next year and the only mapping app it supports so far is from Alibaba – the Chinese e-commerce company. But there is hope.
Read MoreWell, the 2015 Detroit Auto Show is over. Somehow, we survived, even though it was cold. Really cold. We hope you appreciate our noble sacrifices.
Read MoreAs I was recruited to take some of the pictures for Jalopnik at this year's Detroit Auto Show, I figured I should take some time out and show you what I brought to the nation's largest automotive event.
Read MoreEver wondered what's it like to get a jug of milk at night from the grocery store using a gullwinged Mercedes-Benz C111 prototype? Justin O'Shea has the answer.
Read MoreAfter all the excitement about the new Ford GT going racing as early as this year, how about going back in time by hopping into GT/108, the most original and rarest GT40 in existence for a lap around Willow Springs International?
Read MoreWe're thrilled to bring you another exclusive: a just-released spy shot revealing the innovative carbon fibre chassis at the heart of the new McLaren Sports Series. McLaren calls this a 'spy shot.' This is not a spy shot. This is just a photograph.
Read MoreThough the world has seen it way before Porsche wanted us to, we're still waiting on the official details of why the 2015 Porsche 911 GT3 RS will be so magical. In the meantime, here's some info from Porsche's R&D boss himself, including the tidbit that it may just get a manual yet. Huzzah!
Read MoreI still remember when I first heard that Acura would be coming out with a replacement for the famed NSX sports car. It was 1987; I was still in the womb, and the original NSX hadn't even come out yet.
Read MoreGas is cheap these days, but it'll be even cheaper if you take advantage of this deal. [Buy a $100 Chevron/Texaco Gas Card, Get $10 in Bonus Gas FREE, $100]
Read MoreFile this under things I never thought I'd have to say, but the Honda and Acura lineup could use a serious injection of fun. The 2016 NSX and new Honda Civic Type R are good starts, even if we may not get the latter in America. What we can expect is more turbo engines across the lineup, complete with VTEC.
Read MoreThe Lincoln Mark VIII is the quintessential American luxury sedan. And when it does a burnout, well, it only does it in the poshest of ways.
Read MoreWhen droves of pasty balding middle-managers and their upper-middle bosses descend upon the near cryogenic temperatures of Detroit for the annual auto show, one thing demands their attention above new cars, free booze, and smiling young women with short skirts - Jerry Seinfeld.
Read MoreThe unveiling of the brand new Ford GT presages something more: A Ford GT that will run at Le Mans in 2016 (and just might race this year). Here's a photoshop of what one could look like, and it has a Martini livery.
Read MoreCars are nothing without the people who engineer, build, race and design them. Let's talk about that last one a little bit. Who's the best car designer of all time?
Read MoreWhen we introduced you to the 2016 Acura NSX yesterday, we weren't extremely complimentary to the interior. We should have been, and that's because it's all sorts of terrific. Here's why.
Read MoreWhat do an early Porsche 911 and the original Acura NSX have in common? If you lift off the throttle in a corner, you'll most likely crash, as the editors of Car And Driver found out twice in the 1990s.
Read MoreHey there, Ford. Great new Raptor you've got there. I like it, I really do. Haven't even driven it yet and I love it love it love it. But it's got a really serious problem in its design, and someone needs to say something before this goes any further. Yeah, I'm talking about that junk on the trunk.
Read MoreHow can you keep yourself occupied after raising the bar by some of your work ending up on Mars? Having a fully built 1970 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300 Ti is one hell of a start.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet Bolt is being painted in the press as a Tesla competitor. It's not and Elon Musk agrees. And while GM says its 200-mile EV will be priced at $30,000, there's a big asterisk on that sticker – it includes incentives – incentives that Musk isn't including in the price of the Model 3.
Read MoreA prominent car designer who absolutely shall not be named agreed with what everyone has been thinking, but has been reluctant to say: the newest Audi Q7 is amazingly bad.
Read MoreElon Musk hasn't been in Detroit for two years and Tesla barely had a presence at the show. So Musk did the next best thing: he flew in to tell other automakers they've been slacking off and claimed Tesla will sell "a few million cars" by 2025.
Read MoreWhile everyone was talking about a certain other Ford yesterday, Regular Car Reviews tackled a very different one, a '96 F-150. How does it drive? That doesn't really matter.
Read MoreBesides being amazeballs, the three Ford performance cars that dropped in Detroit yesterday — the Ford GT, the Mustang GT350R, and the 2017 Raptor — all had one thing in common: a very lovely shade of blue paint. Want it on your Fiesta ST? You can't have it. Sorry.
Read MoreIt's no secret - I'm a huge fan of the Mercedes W220 S-Class. With its insane depreciation curve and world-beating ride comfort, driver experience, and unmatched opulence, it becomes a nearly unbeatable value in today's used car marketplace. Today I'm going to show you how to make it the most reliable car you've ever had.
Read MoreAn online car builder isn't enough for Audi. It wants to show you what your new ride will look like in your driveway, driving down your street, and running through your home town. And it's going to do that by strapping a virtual reality headset to your face.
Read MoreDespite repeated claims that 2015 would be the "year of Honda," Honda's press event only big reveals were a couple of claims that they'd have an all-new, all-electric vehicle by 2018, along with a plug-in hybrid the same year. We did get to see their FCV Concept in person for the first time in North America, so that's something.
Read MoreIf you own an older car with an AUX jack and no Bluetooth, you can add hands-free calling and wireless music streaming today for just $23. If you have a really old car that doesn't even have an AUX jack, you could rig this thing with a cassette tape adapter for the same effect. [LOFTEK Ultra-portable Bluetooth 4.0 Audio Music Receiver Hands Free Car Kit, $23 with promo code VDMRM2TU]
Read MoreThe Detroit Auto Show could really be summed up just by repeating Ford GT Ford GT and Ford GT until you run out of breath, but I still think the 2016 Acura NSX is a stunning supercar we should take a good look at now. Can it possibly be as great as the first one?
Read MoreLast month, the New York City Police Department began a low-level crime enforcement slowdown, because someone said something that hurt their feelings. And while that was as good a reason as any other, I'm sure, it couldn't last forever. Sorry, everyone. Your New York City driving playground days are over.
Read MoreYou may think you're hot shit when you roll up to the club in Lamborghini Gallardo, but I don't think you're much to write home about until you do it in a Cizeta-Moroder V16T.
Read MoreBringing back a beloved nameplate is a huge risk, but all of these cars made it look easy.
Read MoreGuangzhou, better known by their Heimlich-inspiring acronym GAC, is tentatively planning to sell their Trumpchi brand of cars in the US by 2017. The first car is likely to be this GS4 CUV, and after looking it over and climbing around inside it a bit, I think they could have a shot, if the price makes sense.
Read MoreBill Harrelson is no stranger to spending alone time in a small plane. He's the current record-holder for distance flown during a flight, having flown from Guam to Jacksonville, Florida, at a distance of 7,051 nm, in 38 hours, 29 minutes in 2013. Now he's trying to fly from pole-to-pole in record time.
Read MoreThe gestation period of the 2016 Acura NSX feels like it has taken forever, but in reality this car has taken just three years to go from concept to production car. That's incredibly fast. Especially considering that the entire powertrain concept changed less than two years ago.
Read MoreA good business plan to follow is the Lotus business plan. Build a car that just a few people want and most people don't want at all. Thankfully, Alfa Romeo has decided to fill this niche as well. Good idea.
Read MoreUnlike some supposed auto journalists, not all of us here at Jalopnik head off to the late evening Detroit soirées we hear so much but never get invited to to suckle at the sweet teat of automaker free booze. Oh no no no. We burn the midnight oil, and then some other things. And tonight we discovered a strange detail while looking at pictures of the new Ford GT. A very curious detail, indeed.
Read MoreThe entry-level luxury market has been completely flooded with itty bitty Teutons as of late, from the Audi A3 to the Mercedes-Benz CLA to the BMW 2-series. And that's a problem for Cadillac, because they want to win the luxury war, and they're haven't been fighting that battle. Yet. And that's going to change.
Read MoreWe've all done some terrible things to our trousers because of the new Ford GT, but there's been one huge unanswered question about the car hanging over all our heads: how is it for large-object cargo-carrying use? I'm happy to say we're the first with the definitive answer.
Read MoreThe Ford GT won't be out until next year, but you'll get a chance to play it in Forza Motorsport 6 before it does. And it will be the game's cover car after all. Good day for Ford, no?
Read MoreLocal Motors is 3D-printing a car on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show right now. That's cool. What's cooler? They're building two new factories that combine a research lab, a manufacturing center, and a retail outlet to put them on sale next year.
Read MoreCarlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan-Renault, is on Reddit right now answering your questions. It's about autonomous vehicles, but he implores you to ask him anything.
Read MoreThe Acura NSX is finally here! Sort of! Not yet! But they've got a production version! And with it, comes a whole host of press photos. Enjoy all your angular Acura-ity (Acuity?) after the bump.
Read More"Rebel green" paint job, black hood stripes, and a crimson roof, brake calipers and mirrors: yep, the 2015 Mini John Cooper Works looks bonkers. Just as it should. And in addition to that radical color scheme, we now have a price tag: $30,600.
Read MoreThe 2016 Nissan Titan is an answer to a question we're not entirely sure needs answering. So we tied the Titan's chief product head to a chair, filled him full of genuine Thai Red Bull, and glued his palms to a laptop to tell us why Nissan's latest foray into the light-duty pickup market matters.
Read MoreScion recently showed the iM Concept, which is convincing proof that Toyota still think Scion as a brand is important to their portfolio. Where does Scion fit into the market? What can we look forward to? Scion Group Vice President Doug Murtha is here to answer all of your questions in the comments.
Read MoreLast year, the Detroit Auto Show was home to the debut of the 2015 Corvette Z06. Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter was kind enough to answer your questions about the car. Now, we've driven the Z06, and once again, Tadge is here to answer your Corvette questions. Fire away!
Read MoreAfter what seems like years upon years, and concepts upon concepts, we finally have a new, real, Acura NSX. And it's Japan's answer to the future of speed.
Read MoreWhen you start up an entirely new car company, you've got to come up with a creative and often-unpronounceable name for your new product, like the Pagani Huayra. But when you've got a long and deep well of history to draw from, you can afford to re-use a name.
Read MoreIn the showroom, these cars stand out like a SR-71 in a hangar of Cessnas.
Read MoreCould be an update or the FF's successor, just a new exhaust system or something different from Ferrari's upcoming V12 stable. Any good guesses?
Read MoreYou sick of the new Ford GT yet? No? Of course you aren't, because that would make you a terrible human being! Now there's video to go along with its debut. Watch it and transform your garbage life!
Read MoreAfter the failure of a third-party component, the crew of this experimental new aircraft design was able to walk away unscathed in the ultimate testament to the safety and strength of a breakthrough composite structural fuselage after a pants staining crash.
Read MoreHey Ferrari, guess what? You just shat your dicks. The Ford GT says howdy from America, you jokers. Prepare your bodies for this insane gallery of official photos.
Read MoreSweet mother of crapulence.
Read MoreWhat, the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 wasn't bad enough for you? It's about to get even more badass. Tell the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 it's on notice, because Ford says this is the most track-capable street legal Mustang ever.
Read MoreIt seems Chevy focus-grouped the crap out of Volt owners to come up with their next-generation, all-electric concept, and what people told them they wanted was a crossover that incorporated design elements from the Renault Avantime, Honda CRX, BMW i3 paint, and some Tesla door handles. And it's $30K! Sort of.
Read MoreWhile the 2016 4C Spider will set you back by $53,900, Alfa's mid-sized sedan is also slated to premiere this summer with the Alfa SUV to follow soon. Marchionne plans to spend an estimated $5.9 billion on Alfa Romeo's future.
Read MoreVolvo debuts three cars at the Detroit Auto Show: the sporty version of the XC90, the R-Design, the crossover version of the S60 sedan, the Cross Country, and the long-wheelbase S60 built in Chengdu, China.
Read MoreBuick gave us all a little surprise when, instead of just showing us the Opel droptop they worked so hard to re-badge, they pulled this lovely and striking concept car out of their ass/Holden division in Australia. It's an impressive bit of design that's already ruined the trousers of one of our writers, but the real story is inside.
Read MoreWhat is the point of Buick? Why does it exist? Just to sell re-badged Opels to the Chinese? Buick must be able to do more than that, and General Motors apparently thinks it can. That's the idea behind this, the Buick Avenir Concept unveiled on the eve of the Detroit Auto Show tonight.
Read MoreNo, you will not be able to buy a diesel Jaguar F-Type in the United States you perverse human beings. You will, however, be able to buy every other Jaguar, Land Rover, or Range Rover with a proper oil-burning engine (and an F-Type with a stick). Not bad.
Read MoreLast year at the Detroit Show, Volkswagen announced that they'd be building a new seven-passenger SUV starting in 2016. That's what we thought we'd be seeing from VW today. But instead, we have the Cross Coupe GTE, a BMW X6-esque coupe crossover sport utility vehicle.
Read MoreYou know how you've always wanted your car to look like the waiting room of a Beverly Hills orthodontist's office, but never thought it would be possible? Well, today is a fantastic day for you, because GAC (makers of the tweeter and sackbut-equipped Trumpchi) are showing the WitStar, and it's got an aquarium.
Read MoreJaguar will be tossing its own effort into the "luxury crossover" segment with the five door all-wheel-drive "F-Pace." It is expected to be similar to Jaguar's 2013 C-X17 concept vehicle. It will be Jaguar's attempt to offer a model to compete in a segment it currently hasn't entered.
Read More2016 Buick Cascada: Because No One Will Sell Me A Solara; 2016 Buick Cascada: I'm Too Straight To Own An Eos; 2016 Buick Cascada: I Have Always Wondered What A Chevy Cruze Convertible Would Be Like; 2016 Buick Cascada: What's An Opel?; 2016 Buick Cascada: I Caught My Husband Cheating On Me, Oh And He's An Actuary. 2016 Buick Cascada: This Club Hasn't Been Restricted For 15 Years, Have You Met The Weinbergs? 2016 Buick Cascada: I've Read Every James Patterson Book On Tape.
Read MoreElio has released their "definitive" 2016 model at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, even though the electric-looking three-wheeler is gasoline powered. Our very own Tavarish spoke to Elio's CEO a few days ago and The Verge's Sam Scheffer took the fourth version of the vehicle out onto the strip for some fantastic video.
Read MoreIt is a bitter sweet moment in the annals of US Naval history-the USS Kauffman FFG-59, has set sail on its last cruise, which will also be the last time any US Navy Frigate does so. Once she returns in six months, after almost 40 years of service, the Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigates will be officially retired, signaling an end of an era for US Navy.
Read MoreIt seems that General Motors has a couple electric surprises in store for next week's Detroit Auto Show. In addition to the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Volt extended range plug-in hybrid, they're also cooking up a pure electric crossover aimed right at Tesla Motors for a fraction of the price — and it's called the Chevrolet Bolt.
Read MoreIt's January again, and that means that the world's bravest, smartest, thirstiest, most upstanding human beings — its automotive journalists — will venture to a frigid land known as Detroit in search of shrimp cocktails, free booze, and the promise of dream cars yet to come.
Read MoreWe've had a dalliance with the surprisingly dangerous beast that is the 11-Foot-8 bridge before, but got-damn, I have never seen a bridge just peel a truck completely open like a can of sardines.
Read MoreWay way back in 2008 — a magical time of fauxhawks and purity rings — we had a How Jalopnik Is Your Car quiz. And we want to update it and bring it back, with exciting new technology! And we did! Sort of. I'll explain.
Read MoreIt goes by Rainbow or Star Wars Canyon, but it's officially known by those who blast through it as the 'Jedi Transition.' This eastern California canyon along highway 190 is where combat aircraft cut across the Sidewinder low-level training route in exhilarating fashion — and sometimes there is somebody there to take their picture.
Read MoreOil is too cheap now for it to be profitable to pull oil out of your backyard. Fuck that. Plundering nature on an individual level is basically the founding myth of America.
Read MoreAccident investigators at the site of the Air Asia 8501 crash site say they have discovered tell-tale "pings" believed to be coming from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders of the downed Airbus A320. And while they have been tracing the pings for a couple of days now, the boxes have not been located.
Read MoreWe've known for a few weeks that an automaker would be holding an event with Microsoft at The Detroit Auto Show. We then learned, courtesy of Ford, that it would be them. Everyone believes a new Ford GT is coming to the Detroit Auto Show. Combine the two bits of news and we arrive at this plausible conclusion: the new Ford GT is the Forza 6 cover car.
Read MoreThis is the third handheld car vacuum I've owned, and the only one I've liked. It's $15 from Sears today with free in-store pickup, or $6 shipping. If no nearby stores have it in stock and you have to pay the shipping, you're still saving about $4 off the usual price. [Armor All 12V Wet/Dry Car Vacuum, $15]
Read MoreWhen it comes to driving, Russia is like the physical embodiment of chaos, an insane and dangerous place where anything can and will happen on the roads. The nation is trying to cut down on its vehicular mayhem, but it's doing so in a deplorable but increasingly typical way: penalizing transgender people and other individuals deemed to have "sexual disorders."
Read MoreThe Enthusiast Network, owner of noted magazine Motor Trend shot a 22 minute image movie about the Viper for Dodge that happens to be sensuously overdramatic... and a world class example... of hyperbole... that... could take on the best in the world.
Read MoreToday, the idea of having a 'corporate face' and common familial 'DNA' for all the car's in a company's lineup seems more important than ever. And yet, almost every company still seems to have one black sheep, one car that just doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the family. Which company has the most divergent one?
Read MoreIf any self proclaimed "expert" tries to tell you any of these are true, block your ears and slowly back away.
Read MoreThe Jalopnik satellite in geosynchronous orbit over the COBO center in Detroit sent us a very interesting image tonight: a plan of the layout of Ford's booth, which includes a large display area for Ford performance vehicles, and at the center is a car named Phoenix. Right next to it, in a smaller area, is the Hummingbird. What are they?
Read MoreFord managed to group together 50 years of the best stripped, tuned, restomodded Mustangs in the country, handed the keys to some of the best stunt drivers in the world and, well, here's what happened.
Read MoreYou know that scene in Goodfellas after the airport heist where Robert DeNiro tells his guys not to buy anything with the money, lest they be discovered, and then one of them runs out and buys a new pink Cadillac for his wife? That just happened in England, except with a Ferrari. And the criminal in question is a police officer.
Read MoreWell, ladies and gentlemen, the year is over. The holidays are behind us, the decorations are coming down, the eggnog has been consumed. And that means there's only one thing left to do: make fun of Volkswagen's sales figures.
Read MoreFacebook, taken as a whole, is like having some pushy friend who has to give you advice on everything, then show you stacks of pictures of his lunches. And lately, that pushy friend has been telling you not to bother warming up your car in winter, and posting many articles explaining why. Should you believe him? Or look at his lunch pictures?
Read MoreThere is much confusion and misinformation surrounding the actual definition of the phrase 'pure-joy.' To many it is a pallid cliché constructed around what they perceive as being their perfect pastime – their moment of uncontaminated joy. But I can now de-bunk this nonsense, for 'pure-joy' is actually not a perfect cappuccino or Olivia Munn lending manual assistance as you knock-out a sub seven-minute Nordschleife lap in a LaFerrari.
Read MoreNeed more storage space than your trunk can provide? This Thule MOAB (Mother Of All Baskets) can carry an extra 150 pounds of gear. Amazon has never had it cheaper. [Thule 690XT MOAB Basket (King Rack), $285]
Read MoreThe Ballion collection recently discovered in France is basically like if the Sultan of Brunei's insane supercar hoarding was done in secret in an open barn only to to be found fifty years later. Now, here are all those derelict wonders as they were discovered.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Transportation went hard on General Motors last year, and now it's Honda's turn. The Japanese automaker today was fined a record $70 million for failing to report more than 1,700 claims of injuries and deaths in their vehicles, as well as failing to report some warranty claims.
Read MoreIt's that time of year where it's cold as balls in a pretty huge swath of the country, and that means we've hit peak stupid when it comes to our cars.
Read MoreThese features made cars better back in the day, and we want them back!
Read MoreA 24-year-old Pennsylvania man identified as Matthew Cash aimed an Audi A8 at two NY NJ Port Authority police officers at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel earlier this evening while exclaiming that he wanted to 'take out' a police officer. The officers were not hit, but one police car was badly damaged.
Read MoreFor the first time in their vast, dozen-year history, Scion will offer a — get this — sedan. Yes, Scion will make the bold, reckless move of offering what is possibly the most common body style of car in automotive history. That crunching sound you hear is new ground being broken. With a glowing blue mallet.
Read MoreWhen the Scion iM concept was first displayed back in November, we had a hunch that what looked like a gussied-up production hatchback would probably become a less-gussied production hatchback once it, you know, actually reached production. Turns out we were right.
Read MoreRight now in Stuttgart, the Porsche Museum is running an exhibit that comes straight out of our wildest gearhead dreams. It's called Project: Top Secret! and it hauls a bunch of their old concept cars, prototypes and development mules out of the vault for the public to see.
Read MoreThis video of a B-2 shot from another aircraft (presumably a blimp) during a flyover for the the 2015 Rose Bowl makes it look like the bat-winged super bomber is making an attack run on Pasadena!
Read MoreHow many USB ports do you need in your car? The choice is yours.
Read MoreI finally got around to playing Forza Horizon 2 recently after one of my nephews got it for Christmas, and I can tell you that it lives up to the hype. Now its already great car list is about to get even better with an expansion pack that includes every car you'd ever need. Ever.
Read MoreFor many years, only one flying example of the B-29 Superfortress has been worthy of soaring above the clouds. The B-29 is the same plane type that effectively ended World War II on the Pacific front by dropping atomic bombs on Japan. That single flyable plane, known as "Fifi" is about to be joined by her sibling, "Doc."
Read MoreBecause Ford's new CEO Mark Fields loves us and wants us to be happy in life, the new Ford Focus RS is coming to America. But we're still left with more questions that answers, for now.
Read MoreCars are subjects to trends and fashion, just like any of us. And while most of those trends just end up embarrassing us later (like those harem pants Travis still wears) some are genuinely missed. Cars have seen a lot of novel designs and technical features come and go — what do you miss most?
Read MorePicture this scene: William Shatner at home, suspended in his plexiglass pleasure-pod. He's finishing the last of his tiger steak, and is getting a little drunk on Skrot, a fermented spider's milk liquor from Tibet. He has an idea. His fundamental essence, as a motor vehicle. It's a trike, it's a V8, it's a steel serpent, and it's happening. It's called Rivet.
Read MoreThe production version debuting at the Geneva Motor Show will have a massive rear wing as well as the widebody aimed right at the brand new Porsche GT3 RS. That, and a 600+ horsepower V12.
Read MoreOnce you drive with any one of these, you'll never want to go back.
Read MoreWe've been hearing for nearly two years now that BMW's ostensibly small car brand Mini is planning on paring down its huge range to focus on a few strong-selling models. Now it appears that is finally happening, and the casualties are the Mini Paceman, Roadster and Coupe.
Read MoreAs the first big snows of winter start falling in much of the United States, it's time for another reminder that not even your precious all-wheel drive will save you from the devil that is Summer Tires in the Snow, and his minions Understeer and Pole. UPDATE
Read MoreFlight attendants have a job that holds a lot of prestige in the eyes of most travelers, and they get called a lot of different things while doing their jobs — waitress, m'am, hey you, miss, air hostess, and trolley dolly. But one moniker that has pretty much gone out the emergency exit door is "stewardess," and here's why.
Read MorePeople who are too wimpy to skydive will often invoke a defensive phrase that goes something like, "Why would I want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" But in New Zealand on Wednesday, one of those skydiving planes was not good at all, and forced all of its occupants to bail out in a moment of despair.
Read MoreWhen BMW brought iDrive into the world it was shunned. Then every other German automaker hopped on board the control knob bandwagon. Now we're in an era of touchscreens, with BMW and Audi holding out. And then there was one.
Read MoreRenovo has been busting hump since its big debut in Pebble Beach, with the team behind the all-electric Shelby Coupe forming a partnership with Brembo, gearing up for production, and now showing off a high-tech interior to match its electric drivetrain. Oh, and it's quicker now, too.
Read MoreAre you one of the millions of people who has looked at your BMW M4 and said, "This is good, but it's just not TRON enough for me"? Then BMW has a luminous solution straight from their high-tech i8: laser headlights.
Read MoreA 16-year veteran of the Boston police department seems to have had a pretty exciting off-duty Sunday morning, with highlights including some racial slurs, a little bit of fisticuffs, and stealing an Uber driver's car. Say what you will, this guy knows how to keep things exciting.
Read MoreI'm coming to you live from inside a 650 horsepower weapon from Bowling Green. What do you want to know?
Read MoreThe 1965 Ford GT40 with the number P/1027 was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soon after it was displayed at the 1966 Brussels Motor Show to be used as a high-speed camera car. But what happened to it afterwards?
Read MoreIf you've been putting off upgrading your stereo to get in on that sweet Android Auto or Apple CarPlay integration, your wait is officially over.
Read MoreYesterday the world got a premature look at the CNN apocalypse video, cable news' very own requiem for Planet Earth. There's been some curiosity over how seriously employees treated the tape, but according to former employees, an ex-CEO, and a CNN archivist, they've all been trained to use the tape.
Read MoreAudi is showing off the 2016 Q7 next week in Detroit, but to milk the hype of its new essyouvee, it trotted out a mock-up of the interior for the throngs at CES. And it's as daunting as the Q7 is massive. What's it got? A virtual cockpit AND a dash tablet. Screens everywhere!
Read MoreSometimes you have to take a step back and slow things down to really appreciate the finer things in life. When we rush to make a connecting flight or cuss the long security line we overlook the technological marvel that aviation is. This video will help you appreciate the wonder of flight.
Read MoreI've driven the new Jeep Cherokee, and while I liked the car, its possible I may have mentioned in passing to a Jeep engineer that it'd be nice to have an option to have the car burst into flames a day or so after you got it. For, you know, that exotic Italian car feel. Looks like maybe someone took me seriously.
Read MoreYou can never have enough USB chargers lying around, so be sure to stock up today with these 2-for-1 deals on Amazon. You have four different combinations to choose from (including one with a smartphone dash mount), and each has a different promo code, so just be careful when you check out.
Read MoreA lot of people loved the Infiniti G35/G37/Q60 coupe, but it always struck me as kind of a poser car for $30,000 millionaires whose idea of fun was slamming back Jägerbombs and grinding on women they referred to as "slampieces" in some horrid West Sixth Street bar. (Google it.) But the concept that likely previews the next one is a win in my book.
Read MoreFord CEO Mark Fields took to the stage of the Consumer Electronics Show to give a buzzword-laden talk about mobility and where Ford fits in. Its big ideas? Parking apps, parking snitch apps, and lots of car sharing.
Read MoreSubaru WRX hoon doing snow donuts on the news, I salute you.
Read MoreThere's an old pilot joke about cockpit automation that says the ideal flight crew is a pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the pilot if he touches anything. Getting closer to that reality, NASA is studying flying airliners with only one pilot, and I don't like the idea. Here's why.
Read MoreHere's the 2016 Lexus GS-F, and here's some perspective for when your buddies call it a BMW M5 rival.
Read MoreNow that we're done hating on all the useless stuff you don't need in your car — like Twitter integration, for the love of God — let's talk about the cool stuff that might prove unexpectedly awesome.
Read MoreDetroit Electric continues to promise that it really is making the totally-not-Tesla-Roadster-inspired SP:01. It's not doing it in Detroit, as promised. And it hasn't arrived in 2014, as promised. But it's coming. Really. They swear.
Read MoreModern technology has given us many great things in the automotive world, like a 450 HP Corvette that gets 29 MPG. It has also given us this crap.
Read MoreIt's not every day you get a chance to buy a brand new Vector chassis from 1978, but a W2 prototype's most important part just found its way to Ebay. Just think of the possibilities for a second!
Read MoreBesides an obscenely overinflated cost of living, pretension, restaurants that are middling at best, high taxes, and its proximity to Virginia, the worst thing about Washington D.C. is its traffic. And today, on this snowy January morning, it is especially horrible.
Read MoreAsk a dozen people to define "luxury" and you'll get a dozen different answers. Maybe even more than that. But at its core, luxury is about having the means to do what you want, when you want. That's what Mercedes-Benz is attempting to deliver with its fully-autonomous F 015 Luxury in Motion concept.
Read MoreWe'll actually have a full review of the 2015 Lincoln MKC coming up very soon, but it's nice to know that one of the things we found most inane is actually bad enough for an honest-to-Ford recall. The start button and transmission select buttons in the MKC are so bad that people are shutting their cars off by accident.
Read MoreChrysler's UConnect is one of the best systems from a domestic automaker. It's not pretty, but it gets the job done with quick responses and a simple UI. Now it's finally get a few features to bring it up to par with the competition.
Read MoreToyota wants to spur hydrogen fuel cell adoption, just like Tesla wants automakers to develop electric vehicles. Tesla released its patents to the world and now Toyota is doing something similar with the release of 5,680 patents it used to develop the Toyota Mirai.
Read MoreI guess Chevy won't need a better advertisement for the Corvette Z06 than Mr. Denim Shirt himself getting pulled over in the canyons.
Read MoreThere's been a roadster-sized hole in our hearts since the Honda S2000 went to the big racetrack in the sky, but now Honda is cooking up something that could fill that hole. Or not, because it's considerably smaller, less powerful, and probably not coming to the U.S.
Read MoreEscort is out with two new radar detectors and an update to its smartphone app. The hardware looks nice, but the updated Escort Live app is what's interesting, including a new feature that tells you when the long arm of the law is patrolling the skies.
Read MoreYou might not think you need a non-contact thermometer in your tool box, but they're a ton of fun to mess around with, and can really come in handy for everything from cooking to home energy savings. If you want one for yourself, or you just want to start your holiday gift shopping,you can order one today for just $12. [Non-contact Infrared Thermometer, $12 with code 83805OFF]
Read MoreWe love Dutch crazy car maker Donkervoort here at Jalopnik, and their latest limited edition might just be their most delightfully absurd vehicle yet. Start getting mildly scared.
Read MoreThirty-four years ago, at the launch of Ted Turner's Cable News Network, the founder made a grandiose and specific promise about his newly created round-the-clock operation. "Barring satellite problems, we won't be signing off until the world ends," Turner declared. And in anticipation, he prepared a final video segment for the apocalypse:
Read MoreSpurred by a recovering economy, easy credit, cheap gas prices and other factors, 2014 was a year of surging, record-breaking new car sales. There were a lot of winners there, including Chrysler, General Motors, Subaru, and now even Mazda.
Read MoreMaybe it's just because I'm cheap, but I'm consistently amazed at how expensive new cars can get. Especially the ones us auto writers get to test, because they tend to be loaded. I mean, $70,000 for an Audi S5 Cabriolet? Good gravy.
Read MorePorsche is looking forward to the official launch of the 2015 911 GT3 RS, likely after stuffing car writers with so much wine and shrimp that they think going automatic-only makes sense. Screw that. Here's how the car looks in the raw, unfiltered wild.
Read MoreDear automaker naming departments – here are ten animals that are in desperate need for cars named in their honor.
Read MoreThat's a ridiculous amount of money, not a ridiculous amount of drool. Though the latter would totally be forgiven, as this is an incredibly rare Lamborghini Miura SV Jota. How rare? Well the total number of Lamborghini Miuras comes out to somewhere around 740. And only somewhere around five bore the name Miura SV Jota.
Read MoreWhen Yvonne Cunha applied for flight school in 1969, she was told they were only accepting applications for stewardess training. But she didn't let that stop her, and went on to become the world's first female 707 jet pilot, fulfilling a childhood dream.
Read MoreFirst of all, I don't understand what's difficult in pronouncing Jaguar. It's the same as the animal, only with more horsepower. Get over it!
Read MoreIt's time for our annual reader meetup/race for the Detroit Auto Show at Kart 2 Kart in Sterling Heights this Saturday night. Care to race us? Click below for details.
Read MoreAudi is embarking on a 550-mile trek from San Francisco to Las Vegas to prove that its "piloted driving" system is ready to tackle the soul-sucking journey through Central California and Nevada.
Read MoreA start-up car rental company called FlightCar rents out privately-owned vehicles while their owners travel. Who wouldn't like to make a few extra bucks while they travel, but would you feel comfortable letting a complete stranger drive your car for several days?
Read MoreWhen somebody loses control and totally ruins someone's house, it's usually not very hard to find them as they tend to still be an unwanted guest in the house. But one person in Ottawa, Michigan managed to get away, and it's up to us to help find them – with nothing but the parts they left behind. UPDATE!
Read MoreI'll start this concept car story off with a question: Do you consider the Lotus Esprit to be a supercar? Applying the supercar label is always a contentious process. We could literally sit here all weekend long fighting over what is and isn't a supercar, and why.
Read MoreYou there! Yes, you, the one in the battered Jeep Cherokee, old-ass Miata, or Toyota Corolla that you lie and say is a GT-R when you post online! Do you have a clean driving record and a pulse? Then you can drive in a van in the motorcade that protects the most important man in the free world!
Read More"It was about the 80s, the sexy 80s. It was about excess. Far too much money. Shoulder pads and big hair."
Read MoreIt's 2015, and an airline is reportedly considering segregating its passengers by gender. And while I can't claim to to know anything about the cultural practices in Saudi Arabia, this outrageous policy would fly in the face of decades of progress made for women's rights around the world.
Read MoreKat's on vacation and I'm running the show today, so that means your Saturday will be full of bizarre and wonderful concept cars. Let's get warmed up with that time Ford thought about doing a mid-engined Mustang.
Read MoreBut it was Italian, and could do 220 mph. Any guesses?
Read MoreThe answer: 1,648 horsepower. Or only around 800 HP if you just want to crack the double-ton. If you want to hit 190 MPH in a 1986 Mitsubishi Mirage you'd have to boost that little 1.6-liter to 410 HP. On the flip side, it only takes 21.5 HP to get a Vector M12 to hit 70 MPH. Here's how I know.
Read MoreLike many classic car owners, I have a number of boxes of miscellaneous parts around in sheds and closets. It's not the best way to store parts by a long shot. But I think it may be better than having them crammed into my arm, like Arthur Lampitt did for 51 years with a Thunderbird turn-signal stalk.
Read MoreThe video below takes you on a virtual mission in the F-16IN 'Super Viper' cockpit, showing how some of the jet's amazing avionics and automation work. The Viper has evolved from a basic light-weight fighter into a medium-weight strike-fighter over the last four decades and in the F-16IN configuration it would have been one smart and deadly snake.
Read MoreSince last year's endless parade of automobile recalls appears headed full steam ahead into 2015, let's kick off the new year with a recall that comes way out left field: Suzuki is recalling nearly 61,000 Kizashi sedans due to a transmission defect.
Read MoreIf you're in the venn diagram overlap of Android users, smartwatch owners, and Hyundai drivers, a new app coming next year will let you do everything from finding your car and flashing the lights to remotely starting it and unlocking the doors.
Read MoreWheels and tires – the sizes, the way they look, the way they fit – have always been key to car-style subcultures. Just look at Donks, stance, jacked-up monster trucks, etc. That's why I think this coming year will finally see the biggest stylistic wheel-and-tire leap of all: the subculturization of the tweel.
Read MoreAlfa Romeo USA has a new ad out for the Alfa Romeo 4C, and it gets straight to the point: fucking. It's all about fucking.
Read MoreEver wondered why everyone loves these little four-wheel drive sedans? Watch this video and understand.
Read MoreSome of the best car names are animal names. Many iconic cars have been named for animals — Mustang, Jaguar, Beetle, Barracuda, Sting Ray — but there's still many, many high-quality, high-profile animals out there with crappy agents who need cars named for them. Which would you pick?
Read MoreWe all know that a sporty Volvo coupe won't be coming as soon as this year or the next, but there are many other things we would like to see from carmakers in 2015.
Read MoreWhat's the finest car to drive on the highways of Europe to then drift around a race track? Why, that'd be the V10 powered BMW M5.
Read MoreForty-four years after its first attempt at developing a commercial jet, China finally has a home-grown airliner — the Comac ARJ21-700. The new regional finally received certification on Tuesday, after twelve years in development, with six of those years spent in flight testing. Let's have a look.
Read MoreThe Fiat Multipla is oddly beloved around these parts because it's a complete mutant of a spaceship, and because it's so insanely practical. Maybe for both of those reasons, it's kind of looked at with disdain in its original home of Europe. So when Richard Hammond was in middle school, he took a bizarrely hard look at it.
Read MoreTom Petty says that you don't have to live it like a refugee, but then he probably hasn't ever seen today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 928, in which an SBC has taken refuge. Will that and its price have you saying, there goes my girl?
Read MoreDo you want that poster child Countach to get off of your wall and into your life? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 'Lambo' may not be the real deal underneath, but is its price a real steal?
Read MoreIt may not seem like it today, but there once was a time when Lincoln and performance were not mutually exclusive. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe MK VIII is an example of that era, but will its price have you singing happy days are here again?
Read MoreDo you remember the movie Ronin and how crazy everyone drove in it? For reasons that will become evident, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe S8 is emblematic of both that film and the lone warrior mythos. Will its price however, prove more of a bonin'?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is a slab-side Cobra replica built by a Copenhagen Volvo dealer and powered by a turbo red block. If that doesn't blow your mind, maybe its price won't either.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to go back in time? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo is so blessedly original and low mileage that driving it would be the next best thing. Is its price however, worth turning back the clock?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Tacoma rocks a turbo 2JZ from a Supra, among other go-faster mods. Will those improvements be enough to ensure that its price doesn't put prospective buyers in a coma?
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is a one-off Toyota called an Opendeck that's like an Avalanche for Lilliputians. It's super rare, but you'll need to decide whether or not its price is totally the poop deck.
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender will require some fancy footwork owing to its six-speed stick. You'll have to decide if that rare option, and its relatively low miles, ensures its price isn't the same old Saab and dance.
Read MoreThe seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Tiger claims to be Sunbeam rich and cash poor. Let's see if you think his asking price on this classic cat is worth reversing that situation.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ultima is claimed in its ad to be faster than a Bugatti Veyron, and in fact the fastest car... in the World. This one’s also about 2.5% of the Bugatti’s price new, but you’ll still need to decide if that price will have it going fast.
Read MoreAudi never made a V8-equipped edition of its B5 S4. 'Tis sad but true. The builder of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '02 sought to remedy that oversight, and now you can decide if this custom's price is the remedy for ADWS (Audi Do-Want Syndrome).
Read MoreToday's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes was originally built in two factories, and hence took more than two weeks to complete. You'll need to decide if this Deutschland Dominator is another too, as in too expensive.
Read MoreDid you know that the AMC Pacer was originally designed around a GM engine? The mill in today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pacer wagon is from the General, but not the Wankel originally envisioned. Could it's price however, be something you could see paying?
Read MoreIn Greek mythology a phoenix is a bird that is cyclically reborn. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Phoenix is a VW Bus reborn as a plan-built gull-wing camper, a rare bird indeed. Will its price however, prove worthy to let it take wing?
Read MoreDo you have an exit strategy? How about an xiT strategy? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW E61 might make any exit more fun, but will its price have you saying, exit, stage left?
Read MoreJust as you may never discover how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, no one may ever learn just how long a Volvo 200-series can really go. It's like the Viagra of cars! Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 244 looks like it's going in style, but does it also come with a price that can't be licked?
Read MoreThey say go big or go home, and today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dodge Van is so deeply in character as a ride for the walking dead that you might just believe it's real. You'll have to decide however, if paying for it takes… brains!
Read MoreIs there any more blood chilling statement for the auto enthusiast than 'project Alfa Romeo?' No? Well then let's see if today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Alfetta can scare up some interest for its asking price.
Read MoreThey say there's no business like snow business, or something like that. The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subie says it's right for either snow or dirt, but has he priced it to be right in your book?
Read MoreIt's the first Nice Price or Crack Pipe of 2015 and to celebrate, we're going to Jolly Olde! That's were this MR2 got its Audi V8, and you get to decide if it and its in-pounds price are a quid pro-go!
Read MoreI know you're probably thinking, why is he comparing a car and an airplane, that's apples and oranges, and it doesn't matter anyway because I'm not even a pilot. In truth, there might be more similarities than you'd imagine. Here's how this beautiful Cessna Skyhawk 172 holds up against Ford's new venerable V8 fastback.
Read MoreHigh in the plateaus of the Sierra Nevada, internal combustion engines struggle for breath in the thin mountain air. Where the landing roll is short, but takeoff distance is eternal. Follow a group of modern day trailblazers on a high flying expedition to a giant sandbox for pilot's.
Read MoreLong before electrical systems, in a time when airplanes were simple and so were the pilots that flew them, a technique was used known as "hand propping" to get the engine started. This poor man demonstrates perfectly how dangerous a skill it is in five easy steps.
Read MoreApparently, there's a Renault Avantime in Farmington, Michigan that can be yours for $11,500. But how do you register such a car without waiting until 2026 to do so?
Read MoreEveryone knows that the only gauge that really matters in a race car is the tachometer, so why not remind yourself not to be an idiot right on the gauge? Let's be honest, the temptation for full-on stupidity is real in the heat of a race. This reminder is far more relevant than it may seem.
Read MoreSome endurance racing series are now requiring air conditioning as a way to prevent driver fatigue. How do these systems work? In the Nismo GT-R GT3 car, one pipe goes into the helmet, one goes into the seat and the other pipe goes wherever the driver wants to stick it.
Read MoreIndyCar has been sent scrambling for a make-up race after their season opener at Brasília was unexpectedly called off, and it sounds like Circuit of the Americas may be in the running. Excellent.
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 MoreNBC just put out a brilliant ad for NASCAR that is the perfect ultra-'Murican celebration of everything hilarious and rad about the sport. However, the Internet Offense Squad got so up in arms about the ad's line about gluten that they're now petitioning for its removal.
Read MoreWant to own a true piece of history? How about one of the karts that got Ayrton Senna into racing? Bonhams has one of Senna's karts up for auction soon, a 1981 DAP kart, chassis number DAP BH 33. According to the listing, it's the last kart Senna ever drove in competition.
Read MoreTurns out, the Wayne Taylor Racing team actually did go over the maximum time allowed for team member Jordan Taylor to drive in the last hours of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. IMSA announced today that they will move WTR to last place in the Prototype class results for the violation.
Read MoreWhile many other Formula One teams this year are content with thinking "50 Shades of Grey" is a design mantra, Sauber does it right and gives us a car that's in a color! An actual color! Here's Sauber's cheerful blue and yellow 2015 car, sure to conjure up images of cheap furniture and köttbullar.
Read MoreYou ever see a photo of a pair of Aston Martin race cars screaming down the track, and you wonder "how did they get that shot? Did they strap a guy to the wing of a third race car? Is that definitely what happened?" Well, no. That's not what happened. But they do let a guy hang out the back of a minivan at 120 MPH.
Read MoreScuderia Ferrari launched its SF15-T, which team principal Maurizio Arrivabene describes as "sexy." Somehow they've managed to make sharp looking vents and gills look incredibly sexy, indeed. And look, an Alfa Romeo logo on a Ferrari!
Read MoreThe future of the World Rally Championship just got brighter as Toyota announced it will enter the 2017 season with the Yaris WRC, challenging Volkswagen on two fronts in motorsport.
Read MoreAccording to USA Today, IndyCar's season opener at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Brasília has been canceled. Brazilian reports suggest that the government agency that owns the track itself and was funding the event pulled out at the last minute, leaving IndyCar's March 8 opener without a home.
Read MoreOh, you got to sleep in a nice warm bed during the Rolex 24? That's nice. When did your car break? In overnight endurance races, if your team isn't awkwardly passing out in the paddock, there's a good chance that you've already lost. Here's our mega-gallery of folks who couldn't make it back to an RV.
Read MoreWhat you're watching is not a young Robby Gordon, taking a break from a little racing at the 1997 Indy 500, just to frolic in the grass. What you're watching is Robby Gordon fighting desperately to save his own life, as his car burst into searing hot flames. Except a big problem is that the fire is completely invisible.
Read MoreRay Bellm ordered a McLaren F1 road car soon after the premier in 1992, but while he was racing Porsches, he realized an F1 race car could dominate everything. The problem for Ray is that McLaren wanted $1.5 million for a one-off race car.
Read MoreThe latest article I came across on #millenials at Refinery 29 had a curious statistic: it now costs over $245,000 to raise a middle-class kid to the age of 18. That's an interesting number because it only costs $243,273 (before tax) to buy a new 991-generation Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
Read MoreI was having a wonderful time shooting pictures of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, perched on the side of the berm beside the International Horseshoe for the fireworks show. That is, until I hit my eyeball with my camera. Contact popped out. Lots of pain. Oh, cool, I only have the use of one eye.
Read MoreEveryone loves the Tesla P85D. Two motors. Lots of instant electric torque. Room to terrify the whole family. But you know what's cooler? A 1980s Porsche. That's right. This Porsche 944 is faster than everyone's favorite modern tech wonderboy.
Read MoreNASCAR, in spite of its Bud Lite gut reputation, is actually kind of fun these days. NBC hired Nick Offerman to make an ad for their coverage of the series and well, it's fantastic.
Read MoreI just had the chance to drive the 2014 Subaru WRX STI Rally America car with champion David Higgins riding shot gun. I thought I was fast. Then I rode with David in his 2015 car. I wasn't close to fast. This is another angle of that run.
Read MoreTeam owner Wayne Taylor told Sportscar365 today that he'd forfeited the automatic 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 entry that Wayne Taylor Racing won from their TUDOR United SportsCar results last year. Preparing a class-legal LMP2 to run would spread the team too thin when they're focused on this year's TUSC season.
Read MoreWhen it rains it pours — about 24 hours after our little amoeba friend appeared on the 'Net showing the Nissan GT-R LM LMP1 going through its testing cycle at the Circuit Of The Americas, thanks to diligence on Jalopnik's behalf, more images, vastly more descriptive ones at that, pop up. It's an information bonanza!
Read MoreBrian Vickers has to sit out the first couple races of the NASCAR season to recover from heart surgery. How does he feel about this? "Quite frankly, it sucks," he explains to WDBJ 7. Vickers has been cleared to return to his NASCAR drive at Las Vegas in March—three races in to the season.
Read MoreThis is how some sideways-crazed Finns turned an Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 road racing car into a stage rally monster. Yes, it's still rear-wheel drive.
Read MoreGetting a yellow flag right when you need it and charging back from behind is the ultimate moment for a driver, and that's maybe what would have happened at Daytona this weekend if a simple miscalculation hadn't forced a leading team out of contention for the overall win in the last twenty minutes of the 24-hour race.
Read MoreWhat did you miss early this morning? Sportscar365 featured this handy recap, just in case you also finally passed right out after watching fourteen hours straight of racing. Enjoy.
Read MoreSeveral racing drivers at the Rolex 24 at Daytona this weekend, such as Magnus Racing's Andy Lally, care deeply about animal welfare. Of course, Andy's the one who hits a possum with his team's #44 Porsche 911 GT America. [Fair warning: race car roadkill below.]
Read MoreFollowing up on his winning performances in previous years, Volkswagen's Sebastien Ogier has prevailed in the Rallye Monte Carlo, the 2015 WRC season opener. It is a strong starting point to defend his crown as the WRC Driver's champion.
Read MoreThere is but one driver who can make the press room (well, the better chunk of the press room that follows V8 Supercars, anyway) giddy, and it's Shane van Gisbergen. Best of all, he'd like to come over to the United States to do more sportscar racing, and may do some more racing with the Blancpain series, too.
Read MoreThat's not smoke. That's a busted radiator letting loose a cloud of radiator steam. The "Coffee Rocket" Porsche may be done, but hopefully they caught the leak before it did major damage.
Read MoreHey, guys, do you like watching motor racing? On TV? When the schedule says there's going to be motor racing? Too bad, there's college basketball or something else to show. Hey, this sounds familiar.
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 MoreLove the beastly sounding BMW Z4s that run in United SportsCar? We've got two of the guys who drive them in the GT Le Mans class for BMW Team RLL, ready to answer any and all of your questions: Graham Rahal, who usually runs with the team in IndyCar, and sportscar veteran Bill Auberlen.
Read MoreWhat are driver rankings, and why have they become such a controversial subject? In order to keep racing fair, the FIA created a system that's so unfair to some drivers that they fight to be ranked lower than their skill, which explains how a guy who won the Rolex 24 twice in a row could be classified as an "amateur" in that same race.
Read MoreRemember that wonderful Mazda6 diesel race car? Mazda carried over the development from that car into a wonderful diesel-powered prototype racer. We've got Jonathan Bomarito and Tristan Nunez who are racing that prototype at the Rolex 24 here to answer all your questions. What do you want to know?
Read MoreVW's top rally driver Sébastien Ogier is the reigning double world champion, so he's the first driver on the road at today's Rallye Monte Carlo. Here's the sneaky trick that lets him pull.
Read MoreFerkel the Nein-11, a Volkswagen-diesel-powered Porsche 911 that competes in the 24 Hours of LeMons, seems to be a constant source of amusement. In this case, the team provides us with a gentle headbutt for our review and amusement. This, ladies and germs, is the peril of working in a tiny space.
Read MoreNine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb is making a one-off return to the WRC in 2015 for the season opener Rallye Monte Carlo. He crossed the finish line of the first stage only minutes ago and, uh, holy crap.
Read MoreFour time Sprint Cup champion and my own personal demon Jeff Gordon will retire from full time NASCAR racing after the 2015 season.
Read MoreThis weekend is the legen— wait for it—dary Rolex 24 at Daytona, and I'll be there covering it for Jalopnik. Fifty-three entries will be battling for wins in four classes, with 196 drivers from 27 different countries—and that's just in the feature United SportsCar race.
Read MoreThumb nose? Naw, brah. It's a tongue nose, according to Formula One's Most Amusing Social Media Team. The Lotus F1 Team recently took photos of the leaked Williams to task for being perhaps the most protrudey of the 2015 probosces and won the Internet by comparing it to cute baby animals.
Read MoreThis is your every nightmare about brake failure realized in one flat out crash. Unbelievably, this driver survived.
Read MoreLamborghini presented its new Huracán GT3 race car at its headquarters this morning, and it looks like Lambo's serious effort at racing is really paying off. Look at this car. Look at it and try to argue that it won't kick sand in your face and take your lunch money. Then cry when you fail.
Read MoreYou know all the really cool motorsports that we don't really see on TV right now, like the World Touring Car Championship and the World Endurance Championship? That's all about to change: European-based Motors TV is looking to expand into North and South America.
Read More2015 will be the year of the "thumb nose" per the teams' new interpretation of the FIA's crash structure rules. Oh, and Force India, I am disappoint. This is their 2015 livery, and gone are the unique green accents that set it apart from all the other black and silver cars on the grid.
Read MoreIt's not like Lamborghini gave us the world's most obvious teaser or anything. Here's a video clip of that "new visionary year" thingamadoo they were on about.
Read MoreWhat you're looking at is former F1 driver Robert Kubica testing out the damper setup on his Ford Fiesta WRC car before the upcoming Monte Carlo Rally. I have watched this a hundred times and I still can't get over the speed.
Read MoreWell, that didn't take long. We mentioned that Chili Bowl winner Rico Abreu would be going places, and lo and behold, Abreu announced today that he will be driving for HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks for the NASCAR K&N Pro East series.
Read MoreDrivers who don't currently have a ride for the Rolex 24 at Daytona often hang around the paddock looking for open seats. There's a decent chance of this being successful, too, given the fact that drivers are totally human and get sick, come up short on funding, have family emergencies to tend to, and the like.
Read MoreIf you're wondering what your new Subaru should look like, here you go. This is the factory-backed 2015 WRX STI that Subaru will run in this year's Rally America championship.
Read MoreAt first glance, this looks like a delightfully even match: Dodge Challenger Hellcat vs. Tesla Model S P85D. Old-school V8 muscle versus new electricity. Problem is, one of these cars sets a quarter-mile record at this drag strip, and the other has a sad, dismal failure of a run. Everybody point and laugh at the Hellcat driver.
Read MoreAccording to RACER, embattled former American Le Mans Series champion Scott Tucker has settled a case against his payday lending companies by the Federal Trade Commission for a record $21 million.
Read MoreSome people who hate fun say it's time for everyone to stop fawning over retro liveries. Maybe that's true. But when a legendary race car like the Ford GT is reborn for 2015, it's only natural to wonder what it would look like in classic Gulf Oil colors. Wonder no more!
Read MoreHere's the Le Mans race car that everyone is talking about in the carbon-fiber nude. The Nissan GT-R LM Nismo had largely been kept out of public view until a group of traveling fans saw it turning laps at Circuit of the Americas yesterday. Now we have clearer photos and video of Nissan's wild new car.
Read MoreThis year's Chili Bowl Nationals had a record number of flips. Sixty-one flips, to be precise. Didn't have time to watch the whole event? Here's a montage of all of the gnarliest flips from the week leading up to the feature races. Check out how much air these cars get!
Read MoreWho is Rico Abreu? Well, he's the winner of the 2015 Chili Bowl Nationals, for one, which is the single most important dirt track race in the world. More importantly, he's a young four-foot, four-inch barrel of awesome who you should get to know now because he's inevitably going to pop up elsewhere soon.
Read MoreGood news, Honda! You're no longer that special. The FIA decided in favor of the new Formula One engine supplier's proposal to allow them to develop their engine throughout the 2015 season just like everybody else.
Read MoreOne of the toughest races in the world lived up to its reputation this year, with only 216 of its 420 competitors making it to the end. For the winners, nothing could be better than seeing the end of Stage 13.
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 MoreUsually the term for a steep ledge you're likely to fall down is "exposure." Codrivers shout that out to let drivers know not to drive off the mountain. This part of the Rallye Monte Carlo had a little weak stone wall that didn't do much to hold Roman Kresta's car on the road. It's not really an exposure, so maybe it's a trollsposure?
Read MoreFlying Lizard is making a long-awaited return to running Porsche 911s, only it's not where you'd expect. In addition to announcing a third customer McLaren 650S to run in Pirelli World Challenge today, Flying Lizard said that they will field a two-car customer effort in the Pirelli Porsche GT3 Cup.
Read MoreAuto Motor und Sport reported today that Porsche came extremely close to signing Fernando Alonso to run their third car at Le Mans, but Honda blocked the pick at the last minute.
Read MoreThe Porsche 919 Hybrid received some minor upgrades in the offseason, and the new car hit the test track in Weissach this month to test them out. Here are the first photos of the LMP1 car Porsche will be using in the World Endurance Championship for 2015.
Read MoreBack in 2011, Mikko Hirvonen was thisclose to catching up to the Citroëns ahead of him at the Acropolis Rally of Greece. Thisclose, man. So, he started pushing it through Stage 10—perhaps a bit too hard. Here's the onboard view of the greatest save of all time.
Read MoreFor the past few years, Hockenheim and the Nürburgring have agreed to alternate hosting the Formula One German Grand Prix. 2015 should be the Nürburgring's turn, but the new owners don't have a contract with F1, so the grand prix goes to Hockenheim this year instead.
Read MoreIt's widely accepted that Ford has taken the 3.5L turbo V6 from the Chip Ganassi Daytona Prototype and stuffed it in a road car to make the Ford GT. Chief Engineer Jamal Hameedi admitted as such yesterday. So, here's what the Ford GT would look like in Ganassi's DP livery.
Read MoreAll the non-Mercedes-powered teams in Formula One breathed a huge sigh of relief over a loophole which allows them to keep developing their 2015 engines throughout the year—except Honda, who actually had a named due date for their design. Now the FIA is looking to let Honda develop their engine all year, too.
Read MoreRemember that crazy-sounding testimony from NASCAR driver Kurt Busch's domestic assault protective order hearing that stated that ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll is a trained assassin? Busch and several others backed up that story this week in court, with Kurt referencing specific "missions" where he claimed Driscoll came back bloodied and bruised.
Read MoreHow determined is Lexus to their sparkle-motion RC F GT3 race car? Pretty determined. Currently, testing is underway to run a car in the FIA GT3 series and a to-be-determined series in the United States in 2016. Rejoice! We could finally see evidence of Lexus not being an utter snooze close to home.
Read MoreThe Ford GT is the star of the Detroit Auto Show this year. But what wasn't announced is when it'll hit the race track. What we can now reveal is that Ford is planning to race the GT this year. In 2015. Yes. You heard that right.
Read MoreThe latest Chris Harris on Cars tackles a subject very near and dear to my heart: 997-gen Porsche 911 Cup cars, built for the World Rally Championship's RGT class by the universe-saving heroes at Tuthill Porsche. It's a filthy, sideways good time.
Read MoreThe new Ford GT was revealed today at the North American International Auto Show with a 3.5L twin-turbo V6 EcoBoost engine. The specifications for the World Endurance Championship's LM GTE class give turbo engines a maximum 4.0L displacement. Coincidence? I think not.
Read MoreForget everything you think you know about the FIA's all-electric race series. Forget the lack of noise and the whole-car-switchovers for a sec, and take a look at the season so far. If close racing and total chaos is up your alley, you should be watching Formula E.
Read MoreThe Porsche 962 is one of the most iconic race cars to come out of the 1980s, with versions competing in both IMSA GTP and the World Sportscar Championship's Group C. However, race cars typically need some cajoling to get going properly. Here is the list of start-up procedures for the 962.
Read MoreIt's the middle of the race, and the battle for the lead is heating up. Oh my gosh, the leader takes a hit! Aaaaaand it's time for a commercial break. HUH?!
Read MoreThe DeltaWing was running consistent times at the top of the lap time charts all during the TUDOR United SportsCar Roar Before the 24 practice weekend only to have its time at the event cut short because of damage sustained in a crash.
Read MoreEarlier today, the #50 Highway to Help Riley-BMW Daytona Prototype flipped into the catch fence, halting the morning practice session at the Roar Before the 24. Here's a video of the crash to show you just how violent it really was, and how lucky driver Byron DeFoor was to escape unharmed.
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 MoreAs far as worst case rally scenarios go, getting arrested in a foreign country lies just beneath unrepairable failures and spectacular race-ending crashes. Two riders at Dakar found out the hard way that the route exists for a reason: so you don't go over an archaeological site by accident.
Read More"It just sounded like power." Jacques Lafitte's Ligier-Matra would proudly shout over modern-day Formula One cars with its deep, growling V12. This car is one of the angriest things ever to wear French racing blue, and here's wonderful vintage onboard footage of it running at Monza.
Read MoreThe car above is Mazda's last prototype to race at Le Mans. Only it wasn't just a Mazda. It was a Jaguar. Only it wasn't a Jaguar, it was a TWR. Only it wasn't a TWR, it was a Porsche. This is the strange story of the orphan prototype that won Le Mans twice in a row and nobody seems to remember it existed.
Read MoreMiss racing season? Specifically, endurance racing? The Roar Before the 24 is nice, but it is just a test weekend. Luckily, the 24H Series has their flagship 24 Hours of Dubai event all day today. Better yet, you can watch the entire thing on the 24H Series site starting at 4:30 AM EST.
Read MoreOne of the satirical cartoonists killed in yesterday's Charlie Hebdo shooting, Georges Wolinski, also applied his skills to several racing art cars throughout the years. The most famous of these cars was this Porsche 911 GT2 campaigned by Elf Haberthur Racing.
Read MoreToyota shocked the racing world when they announced their 2014 TS040 Le Mans made 1000 horsepower, a couple hundred up on its rivals. Well, the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO might make that not sound so impressive anymore.
Read MoreNASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France aired quite a bit of interesting information in his annual preseason radio appearance Tuesday night on the Motor Racing Network. In addition to addressing the Busch trial, he also reiterated that criticizing NASCAR's racing product will (still) not be tolerated.
Read MoreThe investigation into ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll's allegations of domestic abuse against NASCAR driver Kurt Busch has concluded, but what would possible charges mean for Busch's career? According to Autoweek, charges filed could mean consequences not only from his teams and sponsors, but NASCAR itself.
Read MorePoor K-Mag. Maybe it's because McLaren is so focused on getting the new Honda power units down right, but test driver Kevin Magnussen won't be participating in Friday practices like the other test drivers in Formula One.
Read MoreToyota built a Group A Mk III Supra and ran it in the toughest World Rally Championship event on the planet! Here is the car's very much forgotten story.
Read MoreMax, baby—uh, wait, that's not what we mean—it's not that we don't love you, it's just that there are some concerns about your age and experience level. The FIA released more stringent criteria for earning a Formula One Superlicense today, which fans have unofficially dubbed the "Verstappen Rule."
Read MoreYou would think that a 1000 horsepower Formula 1 engine would get a bit more press than this.
Read MoreSurprise! Turner Motorsports announced today that they're now going to run a full season in TUDOR United SportsCar. The Z4 GT3 that they run just got a rather favorable Balance of Performance adjustment. That may or may not be related, but we're glad Turner's back, anyway.
Read MoreNow that Dakar is in full swing and the Roar Before the 24 is coming up fast, it's time for us to post a friendly reminder: there is no such thing as a "spoiler" in motorsports. We're not going to give you "spoiler warnings" on races because that's not a concept that applies to live news.
Read MoreLast year's Formula One noses were enough to give you nightmares of being attacked by a phallic object that has absolutely nothing to do with King Missile's body of work. Fortunately, the FIA agrees: no, the Easter Island nose treatment wasn't actually safe, and has been banned in 2015 per the rules.
Read MoreEx-Matra and BRM Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise passed away from a stroke while on vacation in Dakar, Senegal, according to reports. Beltoise's career in racing started in Motorcycle Grand Prix, went to F1, and included fourteen appearances at Le Mans. He was 77.
Read MoreAnyone who loves seeing those classic red and blue stripes got a boatload of sadness last year when Grand-Am team Brumos Racing decided to sit out the first year of the TUDOR United SportsCar series. Brumos might not be back as a team per se, but Dempsey/Wright Motorsports will bring back that livery.
Read MoreYour fancy-schmancy Caterham, TVR or even Miata won't do you any good when the heavens open up and the clouds take a big wet dump all over your race track. You need something with more traction. An engine over the drive wheels, perhaps. You need a front-wheel-drive hatch.
Read MoreEven if you primarily do other forms of racing, autocross can be a great place to shake down a car. You get to toss the car around at its limit like a total hooligan in the company of other car geeks. If things go wrong, you're in good, knowledgeable company. Oh yes, things went wrong when I autocrossed my 944.
Read MoreEveryone has those "Initial D" fantasies of touge domination, only the fact that it's highly, highly illegal to race on public roads gets in the way. Motorhead Magazine shut down approximately five miles of the Mazda Turnpike up Hagone Mountain to whet that appetite legally. Turn up the volume, and enjoy.
Read MoreToday is Michael Schumacher's 46th birthday. It has to be a better birthday than last year for the seven-time Formula One world champion and his family; he spent that one still in a coma in the wake of his terrible winter skiing accident. As he recovers, let's pause to remember one of the greatest moments of his career.
Read MoreHere's another piece of amusing speculation plucked straight out of the rumor funbag: according to Italian racing pub Omnicorse, Lotus may have appeared as a tentative entry on the 2015 Formula One entry list due to a possible team name change. Uh-huh. Yeah, sure.
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 MoreBad news if your team is running Mercedes power in Formula One: the FIA admitted that there's no hard date in the rules to submit a final engine design by for homologation, thus allowing mid-season upgrades. Even worse if you're Honda: your date was listed as Feb. 28, so no upgrades for you.
Read MoreJust when you give up all hope of hearing SRT's wonderful V10 monster on a race track, an enterprising privateer swoops in to save the day. According to RACER, Riley Technologies wants to bring the ex-factory Dodge Vipers to the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year.
Read MoreFranck Montagny, Andretti Autosport's Formula E driver, had a drug test after the Malaysian round of the series. He tested positive for cocaine, and was suspended by the FIA. And, amazingly, he's admitting that he did it.
Read MoreJust because it's called a "safety car" doesn't mean it's always 100% safe. Any time you stick a slower vehicle out in front of faster-moving traffic, you're going to have trouble if everyone isn't paying attention. Here is a collection of pace car fails from over the years.
Read MoreMichael Shank Racing just released the livery of their new United SportsCar P2-class Ligier Honda race car. I asked for cool new livery designs, and they delivered. This copper prototype is so shiny, all I want to do is spend an afternoon making silly faces in the side of it.
Read MoreThe best part is that the 6.2 Chevy V8 is mated to a gated six-speed manual, because why the hell not?
Read MoreFord did it. They actually went and did it. It's been rumored about and speculated on for months, but now we know it's real. This is it: the new Ford GT. Ford just dropped a bomb on the rest of the world, and it's got a 600 HP twin-turbo V6, if you can believe it.
Read MoreWhile most Jalopnik readers are more likely to lower their cars, the buying public demands sedans with all-road capability, and Volvo is here to answer their prayers with the S60 Cross Country.
Read MoreAnyone who's been around cars long enough has likely encountered a certain kind of curvy, exuberant cartoon car, seemingly made of rubber and teenage boy sweat. They're something we all know when we see them, and we've always been pretty sure they don't exist in reality. Well, don't be so sure. This is Ron Berry's Surf Seeker.
Read MoreVolkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have made it clear that they don't want to rely on Google or other companies to develop self-driving technology or the data that's involved, and now the German government is stepping in to facilitate things with a plan to establish a section of the autobahn for autonomous vehicle testing.
Read MoreMicrosoft showed off a new faceputer today, and while I could quibble about the real-world usability of strapping a honking piece of plastic to your head or the misuse of the word "hologram", I'm way more intrigued with the possibility of someone telling me how I'm screwing up my suspension rebuild in real-time.
Read MoreSelf-driving cars have to be easy if they're going to catch on. Yes, they have to be safe, but they also need to be approachable. Tony Fadell – the creator of the Nest thermostat and one of the guys behind the iPod and iPhone – might be the man to make that happen.
Read MoreThey may not look like neon silver bean-eggs like the Mercedes F 015 concept, but the autonomous cars are coming, and they're coming soon. How soon? If Bosch gets their way, then cars will have full autopilot by 2025.
Read MoreNow that everyone's getting on the autonomous car bandwagon, each manufacturer needs its own angle. Audi takes its cars to the track, Mercedes makes its cars look like an egg, and Google's cars just have a weird face. Nissan, however, has gone with the betterment-of-humanity route, and just teamed up with NASA.
Read MoreAudi's autonomous A7 Sportback named 'Jack' has successfully completed the 560 mile drive from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Audi tried last year to have a robot car drive to CES in Vegas, but a driver was forced to take over. This year, however, the car pulled it off and is now in Vegas, likely cheating at blackjack.
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 MoreI don't have some grand statement on the future of Jalopnik at the moment, mostly because I'm pleased with the way things are going. If you want to know why just check out our favorite stories from the last year.
Read MoreHere in the US, we've got some pretty great pickups and 4WD vehicles to choose from. We've also got plenty of cool communities to go on off-road adventures with. But after a month of driving trucks around South America, I'm starting to think they do trucks even better. Here's why.
Read MoreRumors of GMC doing a Wrangler rival have been floating around for months. GM's apparently just polled dealers about whether such a vehicle would sell, but nobody at the company will admit to new product plans. Others have tried and failed to beat Jeep at making Jeeps (Toyota, Suzuki) so what would GMC need to succeed?
Read MoreWe'd only been in rough stuff for a mile or so when the crashes started. "Can't carry on mate," my friend coughed as I unearthed him from a sand pit. "Welp hop in the truck, big guy," I offered with a smile and a backslap "And hangonta that roll bar like your life depends on it 'cause it's about to!"
Read MoreNo automaker has fanboys like Land Rover. You've seen those dorks walking around with "LANDROVER" tote bags and tennis sweat bands. But then you've got to see the 2014 Range Rover because it's perfect, it can do anything, and you are no match for its powers of seduction.
Read MoreThe 2016 Nissan Titan XD's 5.0 Cummins diesel V8 is designed for longevity and low-noise output. But the M² "two-stage" two-turbo setup is where that beastly 555 lb-ft of torque figure, and theoretically robust powerband, come from. Here's how it works.
Read MoreThere's so much incredible driving talent and off-road action to watch at the Dakar Rally, and the three-week event is really undersold by a few "best of" clips... But you want to cut straight to the best passes and crashes anyway, don't ya?
Read MoreYesterday Edmunds.com gave their pristine 2015 Ford F-150 some enthusiastic thwacks with a sledgehammer, putting two dimples in the quarter panel and cracking the taillight. Today they got the bill, and they're saying it cost four times as much to repair the aluminum bed versus old-school steel.
Read MoreThere's something pretty magical about finding yourself, just one hour off a plane, two hours' sleep stored in your body, behind the wheel of an SUV with studded tires, driving blindly into a white wasteland where you can't even discern the divide between sky and land. The SUV is the Discovery Sport, the land is Iceland, and I'm me.
Read MoreThe editors of Edmunds.com have finally posted what skeptics of the aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F-150 have been demanding: An independently sanctioned bludgeoning of the truck's quarter panel. Here's how it held up.
Read MoreIf you're still a little bummed that the Ford Raptor's V8 is getting replaced by a twin-turbo V6 that's nearly half its size when a replacement arrives for 2017, maybe this number will make you feel better: 450 horsepower. Yeah, that'll do.
Read MoreSo we've got a beautiful Chevrolet Camaro clawing at the beach like some kind of shipwreck survivor, a Jeep Liberty with hopelessly overinflated tires hooked up to it via "tow strap," and what looks like a U-Haul trailer floating out to sea in the background. Grab your popcorn, kids.
Read MoreIf any automaker is going to inject some enthusiasm into the clinical appliances that pass as small CUVs it's Jeep. Who else would make a passable off-roader with not one, but two removable roof panels and then slap a freaking yeti on the trunk lid? Jeep would, because Jeep people are kinda nuts. And nuts is what the world needs.
Read MoreLooks like the 2015 Jeep Renegade's official price tag has leaked with the base Sport trim starting at $17,995 and the Trailhawk ringing up at $25,995 before options. 4WD is worth $2,000; that means you'll be able to get a three-pedal four-wheelin' version for just under twenty grand.
Read More"The return of a legend." That's what the teaser image says, with the image of a distinctly SUV-like vehicle sitting atop a sand dune. What else could it be besides the Montero, the rugged sport utility vehicle from the days when Mitsubishi's lineup was actually kind of awesome?
Read MoreWell of course I get weirdly aroused by a beautiful automobile, just like any other red blooded bastard. But the 2014 Range Rover Sport Supercharged is the first thing I've driven in a long time that I'm pretty sure is going to get me arrested one way or another.
Read MoreThe BYD Tang 542 has just arrived as the most powerful plug-in hybrid SUV in the world. 505 horsepower, 530 ft-lbs of torque, starting price of about $48,000. Sounds like it's going to move quick, even though "542" has nothing to do with displacement.
Read MoreCalling it right now: this is the towing fail of 2015. And we're not even done with January yet. That, or it's just a cruel and trollish joke.
Read MoreI've gone from sea to shining sea in a high-powered convertible. I've crossed amber waves of grain from an empty train car and seen fruited plains from the back of a plane. But nothing made me feel the brotherhood of America more than the solar-powered, private-jet-like Mercedes-based Airstream Interstate.
Read MoreRacing legend Robby Gordon has had hard luck at the Dakar Rally; being plagued with problems and generally spending more time repairing than racing. But after a major mechanical setback in Stage 2, Gordon beat everybody on the last day and wound up in 19th overall.
Read MoreThis drunk monster truck fan is my every love for cars and car racing and life itself all in one interview.
Read MoreSince I (allegedly) won't fit in the 2015 Ford F-150 Power Wheels, I roped my cousin's kid into helping me review it. He rated its attributes on a numerical scale; Looks? "Nine. Actually, 90." Functionality? "F150." Ok, I see what you did there you cheeky little bastard... this isn't going to be easy.
Read MoreThe Golden Gate Bridge just got the new median it so desperately needed to prevent head-on collisions, but one neat feature about it is that it moves. Well, not on its own. It needs a truck to do that, and specifically, it needs what's known as a "zipper truck." And it's called that because it makes the median actually look like a big zipper.
Read MoreThis dashcam footage from a semi-truck rolling down Michigan's I-94 shows how ominous last week's massive highway pileup looked on a sleet-soaked horizon. The wreck almost appears out of nowhere, and all hell breaks loose almost as soon as the camera truck comes to a stop.
Read MoreI don't know if it was luck or if automakers are getting better at security, but this Detroit Auto Show was shockingly leak-free. We got some great surprises like the Buick Avenir Concept and the Ford GT that we didn't see until they debuted at the show. I was kind of hoping Lincoln would do the same.
Read MoreThe Ram 1500 EcoDiesel was already the most efficient half-ton pickup truck with a 28 MPG highway rating. For 2015, they've managed to squeeze out a best-in-class 29 MPG in the most hilarious way possible.
Read MoreYes, it looks the part, but the 2015 Ram 1500 Rebel is not a Ford Raptor fighter. It takes the tried-and-true half-ton pick-up, adds some beefy body work, a new schnoz, uprated tires, and a tweaked air suspension to appeal to buyers wanting to look like they're ready to tackle Mojave but never will.
Read MoreThe Dakar Rally is an unparalleled spectacle of elite off-road driving. Parking lots of the spectator areas are unsupervised clusterfucks full of jabronis who couldn't tell you where their drive wheels are, but reckon they can keep up with Robby Gordon soon as they seem him fly by. Hilarity ensues.
Read MoreFor years Toyota has been able to sell the Taco on the back of its history building simple, indestructible trucks. They still do, owning a huge portion of the midsize truck market with a great product that essentially is sold with no engine. That's going to change, with the 2016 Toyota Tacoma getting the new direct-and-port-injection V6 it needed.
Read MoreThe ultimate off-road runner is back, with the all-new 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor. A twin-turbo Ecoboost V6 engine. A 10-speed transmission. And it's six inches wider than the standard model. This is the one truck everyone will have a burning, yearning desire for.
Read MoreThe 2016 Nissan Titan is an American-built truck with an American-built turbodiesel Cummins 5.0-liter V8, giving consumers a chance to own a V8 diesel in a light-duty truck. It'll tow 12,000 pounds and do it while saving 20% of fuel relative to other V8s they said.
Read MoreThe 2015 Dakar Rally and its hundreds of vehicles are raging across South America right now. Racers, support crews, logistics teams... and my diesel, manual, 2WD support trucks being bludgeoned within an inch of existence but simply refusing to die.
Read MoreLincoln has been going through what has been called a "brand renaissance" since sometime around when the real Renaissance actually ended. And while we've been mostly disappointed, the 2016 Lincoln MKX is easily the most promising model in the Lincoln fleet.
Read MoreThe Dakar Rally is at full speed with some crazy machines fighting the sand with us chasing them, and here are the shots that will take you in the middle of the action.
Read MoreThis morning Toyota figured out how the Internet works and released the non-embargoed official photos of the 2016 Toyota Tacoma out to the world. Here it is, in all its trucktacular, Texas-built glory.
Read MoreFord's been making a huge deal out of the turbocharged "Ecoboost" engine in its new F-150. And its been making an especially huge deal out of the EPA-verified 26 miles per gallon figure they've been citing. So Ward's Auto went and tested the claim, and found it all kinds of "disappointing." But that might not be the full story.
Read MoreThis is the new 2016 Toyota Tacoma, with a new look after its first major redesign in almost a decade. It definitely has a Tundra-like vibe, but also is similar to more European/Japanese offerings in profile. What do you think?
Read MoreThe Land Rover's story started in Red Wharf Bay in 1947 when Maurice Wilks drew his first sketch in the sand with his brother. His car's story ends after 68 years with the Defender's finish this December, but before that, Land Rover is giving us 3 stunning cars with a wonderful farewell in the sand.
Read MoreThe 2015 Detroit Auto Show is going to be a mega for trucks. At least two hugely important new pickups will be revealed, but there are a few other interesting rumors interesting rumors we might see fulfilled at this month's event
Read MoreThe 2016 Toyota Tacoma has been dispatched to stop the company's mid-size truck market share from being lost to GM, who now offer many variations of a comparably sized pickup (the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon). Here's what we know about the new Taco before it bows in Detroit this month.
Read MoreWhat can possibly be more entertaining than an Ariel Atom? Well, maybe one covered in mud. The new Ariel Nomad is just that, and here's everything you should know about it.
Read MoreYou want the capability of a truck but can’t be burdened with something you need an air-traffic controller to help park. Your “mid-sized” truck options may be limited in the US, but they’re about to get a whole lot better. Here’s a roundup for what’s out there now.
Read MoreA Japanese automaker taking on The Big Three wouldn't be a big story in any market, except trucks. The completely redesigned Cummins-diesel powered 2016 Nissan Titan is posturing to really shake up the American truck market. Here's everything we know about it so far.
Read MoreSorry to say we don't have the budget to fly you down here for the 2015 Dakar Rally, but for all you superfans (hi mom) here's how to track me and the Outback Adventure Treks expedition within three meters of accuracy as our nine-motorcycle two-truck squadron follows the race.
Read MoreThe 2015 Dakar Rally will be running from Buenos Aires, up to Iquique, Chile, into Boliva, and all the way back down to the starting line from January 3rd to January 17th. 70 TV stations will be broadcasting the event. Here's where to watch, and a by-the-numbers breakdown of how the coverage is coming to you.
Read MoreHere's the complete rally stage schedule for the 2015 Dakar Rally, as provided by Robby Gordon's Speed Energy race team. This'll let you know exactly where the competitors are battling it out, and help give you an idea of the event's massive scale.
Read MoreWhat happens when you want great fuel economy, rock solid reliability, and don't want to sublet a kidney for it? You buy a four-cylinder, that's what, jabroni. This week's challenge is to find the absolute best four-cylinder cars money can buy for less than a $4,000 budget on eBay. Bonus points if they're all one color.
Read MoreRecently, we posted about great cars that no one was buying. At number four was the Chevy SS, with a 415hp LS3 V8, rear-wheel drive and mag-ride suspension; it is a modern day E39 M5. The reason for such lackluster sales isn't because people don't want them, it is because they can't have the one they want.
Read MoreThe thing about the Delta HF Turbo is that Martini livery or not, you want an unmolested car. A friend of mine went all the way from Hungary to the Netherlands to get one without any "upgrades," but even that couldn't be as clean as this time warp, headed for auction with just 31 delivery miles.
Read MoreEveryone forgets that BMW made an all-wheel drive E30, even in straight six spec. Here's one for sale with a snow plow.
Read MoreElio Motors has a weird reputation. The company is a social experiment that has convinced people to give millions of dollars towards what amounts to a cool idea. As they pushed pack the release date again, Elio's reserved customers – essentially its investors at this point – are quickly running out of patience.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen TDI Sportwagen due to hit US showrooms sometime soon has everything a car enthusiast could want in a wagon package: manual, diesel, available AWD (although not all three together). The problem is it's not really a "performance" car. Here's the solution.
Read MoreIn Pretty Woman, Vivian Ward had a checkered past that led her down some very dark alleys in life until she discovered someone that turned her life around. This MKIV Toyota Supra is exactly like that iconic character - you know it's been through some shit, but you just might be willing to take a chance on it.
Read MoreTaking pictures is an art - which for some means that it requires a lot of discussing composition and smelling your own farts. For me, it means that there is no right way to do things, and to get great results, one must never stop experimenting. Here are my tips on how to take a good looking night photo.
Read MoreRight now we are seeing record low gas prices, with less pain at the pump many car buyers aren't seeking maximum fuel efficiency. Since diesel can be a tough sell, fans of oil burning cars might worry that their options could be limited. BMW has announced that they are staying in the diesel game in the US for awhile.
Read MoreWith V8s going the way of Friendster, six-cylinder cars are quickly becoming all the rage, as the #millennials so often say. Last week I asked you bargain-seeking bunch to find the best cars for sale on eBay for less than a $6,000 budget, and here are the ten best examples you found and voted for.
Read MoreThere are a lot of conflicting ideas going around about how dangerous and dramatic winter driving can be. So here's a clear, simple guide for what to do when you find yourself lost in the snow.
Read MoreAs gear-heads we are ingrained that when an issue pops up with our car, we consult the owner's manual. That book that sits lonely in the glove-box only to be used by a select few. My 2010 Mazda3 had a problem the other day, and my owner's manual failed me. So I started to wonder if these books should even exist anymore.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Golf E is a very nice hatchback that sips no fuel, but some of us want to be both mean and green. Not for U.S. consumption is the Golf GTE. It is a plug-in hybrid with a 148hp turbo and many of the suspension components from the GTI and it may be quicker than it's hot-hatch brother.
Read MoreA dealership in New York charged car-buyers $295 for a "theft protection" package that turned out to be bogus. A lawsuit says over 5,000 car buyers were "robbed" of their money for protection that didn't exist; now the dealer has to pay. Irony: Defined.
Read MoreThe Scion FR-S was built to excite the kinds of people that make a holy pilgrimage to SEMA every year and never leave the house without their Hot Import Nights wristband - the same people that would soil themselves when realizing that this supercharged BMW M3 could've been purchased for less money.
Read MoreWhen is it justifiable to leave a rare French classic practically abandoned in the woods to rot? The answer is how dare you. This absolutely lovely 1968 Citroën DS is one of the most beautiful and comfortable cars ever built. Now it stands as a project that you can have, for less than a month's worth of work at minimum wage. Caution: I may be bidding.
Read MoreAs car manufacturers shy away from the old eight-cylinder engines of yesteryear, more and more of their top model trims will come equipped with a high strung six-cylinder powerplant. Based on that sobering fact, how much of that more-than-four, less-than-eight power can you get on eBay for less than $6,000?
Read MoreA 2012 survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, revealed that women alone or jointly with their husbands, make the decisions on seventy-five percent of the major purchases. Nissan understands that car buying in Japan is not just a man's game and aims to cater to this powerful demographic.
Read MoreEven in the age of internet car shopping, I still hear stories from people who spent half their day at a dealership to purchase a car. Cars are one of the few purchases that take a marathon to buy. According to a recent study, once a customer is at the dealer longer than 90 minutes, satisfaction rapidly declines.
Read MoreThere's a certain point in life when you're ready to join the more-money-than-brains club, if only it weren't for the annoying fact that you have no money. It's when your modus operandi seems to be comprised completely of knee-jerk bad decisions, like this one, where I bought perhaps the nastiest example of a Lexus SC in existence.
Read MoreCar dealers often make big deals out of leasing. On its face, you can get a brand new, warrantied car that no one but the service tech had farted in for a price that rivals a value meal at McDonald's, per month. It's a win-win. But before you run to the ATM, let me explain why it's not the best fit for car enthusiasts.
Read MoreNew car sales had a record year in 2014, this also means that dealers were taking in more trades than before. Now used car inventories are piling up and dealerships are looking for ways to put budget minded buyers in more expensive pre-owned cars. According to a recent survey, we could see the rise of pre-owned leasing.
Read MoreIf you're not a professional mechanic, odds are you don't have a four-post lift in your garage. In fact, you probably don't have a garage at all and need to work on things in the driveway or supermarket parking lot. Fortunately, these jack stands convert any space into a makeshift workshop in about five minutes.
Read MoreAt what point to you quit faking it 'til you make it and proclaim that you've in fact made it? Personally, I think that point comes right after you buy a hand-built boutique sports car with a Ferrari V8, like this beautiful Maserati Coupe, now yours for the price of a used base model Toyota Camry.
Read MoreOur collective reaction to Volkswagen's R400 reveal at the L.A. Auto Show was something along the lines of, "That's great, thanks for teasing us with something we can't buy." But ultra-bonkers hot-hatch fans shouldn't give up hope quite yet. VW's still making the case on whether or not to send the R400 to our shores.
Read MoreA lot of my advice has focused on how not to get ripped off when buying a car, but I also get asked from time to time what advice I have for individuals who are selling a used car to another individual. Here's what you need to know when selling a car.
Read MoreSo the Focus ST might not be the best car to take to the track, but that doesn't mean it isn't a killer hoon machine for everyday driving. With the upgraded 2015 ST about to hit the lots, dealers are slashing prices on the previous generation. That is good news for you.
Read MoreWhen it comes to number of cylinders, more is better. That's a fact. It's why I asked you to find the best 8-cylinder cars on eBay for less than $8,000, a feat you power-hungry lot blew out of the water. Here are the ten best cars you chose.
Read MoreHand-made. Mid-Engined. Italian. These are things that would normally be reserved only for those with 5-figure dinner bills and 7-figure incomes. Fortunately, this Ferrari F355 Spider is here to deliver those same unobtainium thrills, without you having to go broke in the process. Depreciation is a wonderful thing.
Read MoreWith fuel prices in decline, it's more affordable than ever to own a car with a ridiculously large 8-cylinder engine and a raucous exhaust note. Your mission is to find the best cars with 8-cylinder engines for less than an $8,000 budget. Remember, there is no replacement for displacement.
Read MoreBMW announced that all-wheel-drive versions of their M cars will be available in the near future. What will most likely not be available with these all-weather performance machines, is a manual transmission. That is because BMW won't sell you what may be their best car in the lineup with 3-pedals and AWD.
Read MoreTo those of us who consider driving a spiritual experience, the idea of losing the privilege of driving is unthinkable. So, to help you retain your legal ability to operate a motor vehicle, I will now list for you the most common ways people lose their driving privileges. Don't do these things.
Read MoreWith an estimated 550hp and a price of $150,000 the new NSX has the potential to be a serious supercar, but it seems like it took forever to get the car ready for production. If you tired of waiting, or not real keen about having some electric motors with your VTEC, this 1995 race spec NSX-T can be yours.
Read MorePorsche purists are the kinds of pedantic people that will only date someone if they can name every '70s 911 model in chronological order, and pronounce "Fuchs" without giggling. Clearly to them, this Porsche 911 Targa project would be a nauseating sacrilege. But we know better. What would you do with this cheap Porsche roller?
Read MoreElon Musk announced yesterday that the upcoming Model 3 would be priced at $35,000 before any incentives. This is a tall order and I am skeptical if Musk can actually deliver, but if he does, he will drop a bomb on the highly competitive entry level luxury lease market. The Model 3 may even be the cheapest luxury car you can lease.
Read MoreIt's no secret - I'm a huge fan of the Mercedes W220 S-Class. With its insane depreciation curve and world-beating ride comfort, driver experience, and unmatched opulence, it becomes a nearly unbeatable value in today's used car marketplace. Today I'm going to show you how to make it the most reliable car you've ever had.
Read MoreDodge hasn't had it easy selling Vipers. First they had to discount them by fifteen grand, then the Hellcats stole all the thunder, and now the Z06 is at the top of the American sports car food chain. But if you want a customizable, hand-built, 645hp sports car for under $100k, you can have it with the Viper GTC.
Read MoreIn the mid '90s, Japanese car manufacturers were embroiled in a battle royale, trying to make the most exciting, affordable sports cars in existence. At the top of the boy-racer wishlist was the second generation Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX - something that became nearly impossible to find in stock form. Until I bought one.
Read MoreWhether or not you put any credence in those COTY awards from various publications — and you shouldn't because they're stupid — this year the VW Golf/GTI did quite well, snagging everything from Motor Trend's golden calipers to the North American Car of The Year. So Volkswagen, in their infinite wisdom to increase sales did the sensible thing, and raised the price.
Read MoreThere are certain things in life that indicate that you've arrived. Playing golf with the President. Hiring Beyoncé for your child's birthday party. Driving anywhere in this spectacular Audi R8. Fortunately for us normal people, you can enjoy the thrilling last part for the price of a moderately equipped BMW M3.
Read MoreI've mentioned before my limited disdain for the Subaru Outback, because it essentially killed the Jaloptastic Legacy wagon. The Levorg is supposed to be a blend between the Legacy touring and the old WRX sportwagon. At the Tokyo Auto Salon, Subaru revealed the Levorg S Concept, with even more go fast goodies.
Read MoreWhen you go shopping for a new or used car you expect to see a few things: window stickers, signs promising "Huge Savings!," perhaps an inflatable Gorilla. What you don't expect to see is a couple making sweet, sweet love on top of a car you may want to take for a spin.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger Hellcat is the most powerful production car ever made by the American manufacturer, and it currently commands quite the premium at dealerships - but what if I told you that you could save tens of thousands on a bona fide Dodge muscle car that had more power potential for less money?
Read MoreLast month in America, Mercedes-Benz sold 5,119 copies of their E-Class sedan, according to GoodCarBadCar. BMW moved 5,517 5-Series sedans. How did Cadillac do? They only sold 2,652 CTS-es. This happens every month, and now Cadillac is taking steps to try and fix it.
Read MoreIf being understated is an art, then this BMW M3 is Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Paper Magazine condensed into a little silver metal-and-carbon-fiber box. Not only does it break the conventional mold by beating its coupe doppelganger in usability, but it's available for the price of a base model Toyota Camry SE.
Read MoreYou bring your car to a dealer for repair and when you pick it up it has a dent in it. The manager tells you to file a claim with your insurance company because he does not know what happened to your car. What do you tell him?
Read MoreIf you want the quickest electric supercar on the block you would have to pony up about $120,000 for a Telsa P85D. While most of us don't have that kind of cash to live the dream, our toddlers can for less than 1% of the Tesla's price. Forget the Power Wheels, your little one needs a Broon F870.
Read MoreThere isn't much that needs to be said about the Camaro. It's an iconic muscle car with aggressive retro-styling and crazy horsepower potential. But what if you didn't want to use GM's stock powertrain and wanted to make your own insanity-fueled dragster from scratch and on a budget? Friend, you've come to the right place.
Read MoreElio Motors wants to be the next forward step in automotive evolution, offering a slim three-wheeled hyper-miler that's cheaper than any car on the market today with Prius-killing fuel economy. I've expressed my concerns about the idea, which culminated in a lengthy conversation with the start-up's CEO, Paul Elio about his ambitious and optimistic project.
Read MoreThe haters wanna hate, hate, hate on the fourth-generation Chevrolet Corvette, but I think it's actually a pretty interesting machine, and one that successfully moved a legendary nameplate into the modern era. And of all C4 Corvettes, none stand above the mighty Corvette ZR-1.
Read MoreSome would say that having a powerful vehicle is pointless in this day and age. We know better. Last week I asked you horsepower freaks to find the cars on eBay with the most power under the hood, on a budget of $10,000. Here are the ten most popular choices you suggested. You may now cancel your plans for the rest of the day.
Read MoreFull disclosure, I'm posting this for entirely selfish reasons. Not to help me, though, to help somebody else. Gawker Media employee Kanwar Kultar Gill is getting married soon and needs a cool vintage car for his wedding. Can we help him out?
Read MoreThe Scion FR-S (BRZ) has been an incredibly popular choice for Jalopnik readers. Just head on over to our Oppositelock page and see how many fans actually bought one. Now that Ford has introduced the the Mustang EcoBoost for 2015, will it challenge the Toyobaru? Car Bros digs deep to find out.
Read MoreUnlike the American car market that has been red hot for 2014, China's auto sales momentum has begun to slow down. While Chinese government imposes restrictions on car sales to reduce pollution and congestion, automakers are building more factories. This is putting the dealers in a tough position, and many are taking heavy losses.
Read MoreSay you are an avid skier or snowboarder and need a vehicle that can get you to the mountain and still haul all your gear. But you don't want to be boring and get an Outback like all the other powder heads. What you need is a sinister looking, AWD, supercar with some extra cargo for your skis or boards.
Read MoreThis is a Porsche 911. It has a 3.6 liter naturally aspirated engine. It also has all-wheel-drive and a 6-speed manual transmission. It's has all the look of a Turbo, without the complexity of forced induction. It's also immaculate with low miles, and thanks to sweet, sweet depreciation, it's available for the price of a fully loaded Ford Focus ST. Oh. Yes.
Read MoreAbsolute power corrupts absolutely - but can cheap power corrupt cheaply? This week's challenge is to find the car with the most horsepower on eBay for less than a $10,000 budget. Let's start the year off right, with a celebration of inexpensive yet satisfying tire smoke. Go!
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