The new Audi S4 replaces the old model’s supercharger for a turbo, gains 20 horsepower to reach 354 HP, and gets a cool new dash. It loses, however, one of the most standout features of the model: the dual clutch transmission is gone.
Read MoreIt was just a matter of time before Russia’s new expeditionary pocket air force in Syria began its bombing operations. Over the last few weeks Russian drones have been flying missions out of Latakia Air Base looking for targets. Now the first Russian shots have been fired in what could be a very long battle to secure their interests in Syria.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy is looking at ways to make their surface combatants less expensive to operate, and in the case of those stationed in Rota, Spain, more capable of defending themselves. One solution will be the installation of hybrid electric drive systems across the newest portion of the Navy’s destroyer fleet and the SeaRam point defense systems for destroyers stationed in Spain.
Read MoreIf you have ever visited the Vatican, you have seen the stoic guards that look like they missed the bus to the local Renaissance Festival. The truth is they are a high-end military force made up of top ex-Swiss soldiers. And don’t let those spears fool you, they can shred you to pieces with them. If that doesn’t work, they have one of the finest firearms collections on the planet to finish the job.
Read MoreWith President Xi Jinping in the U.S. for a state dinner, hardcore diplomacy is underway trying to solve some very big problems — one of them relating to the sometimes dangerous intercepts of American surveillance aircraft operating in international airspace. Now, it looks like Beijing and Washington have come up with a way of potentially stopping such incidents in the future.
Read MoreOn the 5th of September, 1983, 4 USAF F-4E Phantom jets were flying over the Atlantic en route to Europe along with the support of a KC-135 known as “North Star.” These five aircraft were part of a larger number of Phantoms and tankers on a routine trans-Atlantic flight. To make the crossing, the Phantoms would need to tank a total of 8 times to fill their thirsty engines.
Read MoreAs if they suddenly came to an epiphany, the United States Air Force brass is now admitting what many of us have been screaming about for so long: We didn’t build nearly enough F-22s, and the F-35 cannot simply pick up the slack. So why aren’t those who pushed so hard to cancel the F-22 program being held accountable?
Read MoreIt has served the Navy for 56 years, the vast majority of those years working as the service’s intermediate jet trainer. Thousands of Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers were introduced to jet operations in the T-2 over the years, with many pilots making their first carrier landings in the jet. Now, with just a few remaining in service at Naval Station Patuxent River, the T-2 Buckeye is finally leaving the inventory once and for all.
Read MoreA pair of VH-3D “White Top” helicopters, referred to as Marine One while the President is on-board and used exclusively for White House executive airlifts, moved the Pope from JFK International to the Manhattan’s Wall Street heliport early this evening.
Read MoreThe 391st Fighter Squadron, a.k.a. the “Bold Tigers,” based out of Mountain Home AFB in Idaho, took their F-15E Strike Eagles on detachment to the Pacific Theater, providing multi-role fighter support for Pacific Command. While whipping around the Ring of Fire the Bold Tigers had GoPros rolling, and the outcome was awesome!
Read MoreThe Russian-French Mistral Class helicopter carrier saga has been a long and rocky one. Originally the two amphibious assault ships were built for Russia, with many Russian combat systems installed, but France denied delivery after Russia seized Crimea a year and a half ago. Since then, many potential customers have been identified for the ships, but Egypt appears to be where these powerful ships will call home in the not so distant future.
Read MoreAs President Xi Jinping arrives in the U.S. to court American tech titans in Washington State and readies for an official State Dinner at the White House, reports of a Chinese JH-7 fighter executing a dangerous intercept on an American RC-135 electronic surveillance aircraft last week over the Yellow Sea have surfaced.
Read MoreFor years, all the aviation world knew about Boeing’s secret stealth project from the 1960s was limited to a name and a single mysterious photo. It seemed like a relic out of time, possessing many stealthy design features that wouldn’t exist until decades later, and even then, only in highly classified black projects.
Read MoreNew satellite imagery shows that Russia’s air combat power in Syria has exploded over the last 48 hours, with 12 Su-25 Frogtfoots adding to the four Su-30SM Flankers and about a dozen or so combat helicopters already stationed at Latakia Air Base in Syria. A dozen Russian Su-24 Fencers are also said to be on the ground there now as well.
Read MoreThe Syrian puzzle has officially become more complicated. As reported on Friday, fighter jets have arrived at Russia’s burgeoning airbase outpost south of the western port city of Latakia in Syria. New satellite images unveil exactly what type of fighters Russia has deployed: four advanced Su-30SM Flankers.
Read MoreThe F-35A has just begun training flights at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The event was celebrated with a tower flyby which resulted in some awesome shots of the jet against Ogden’s high terrain in the background.
Read MoreAn exercise dubbed “Centar 2015” is said to be Russia’s largest set of war games of the year, with tens of thousands of soldiers, thousands of vehicles, and hundreds of aircraft participating from multiple locations within Russia’s vast central territory.
Read MoreIt’s official, Russia has deployed tactical fixed-wing jets, supposedly Su-27s Flanker derivatives, along with attack helicopters, to Syria as part of its rapidly expanding outpost there. Meanwhile the chief of the U.S. Air Force in Europe wants a permanent F-22 presence in the region.
Read MoreWe were upside down in an F-14D Tomcat, climbing through 10,000 feet on the second half of our dirty double Immelman when the Ft. Lauderdale airshow boss called out traffic on our east side. I looked over and saw a Southwest Airlines 737 jet passing the opposite direction and probably a mile away. I checked our navigation page to confirm we were still in the airshow box.
Read MoreThis awesome video explains moment-by-moment what is going on as a Royal Air Force Hawk T2 crew rips through a low-level route in the UK. It is fascinating to hear all that goes on in the cockpit during what looks like just a couple fighter pilots having a ball flying around down in the weeds.
Read MoreThe second Republican presidential debate was a very long and chaotic affair. Foreign policy and the military were hot topics this round and everyone wanted to chime in. Although much of the discussion was filled with the same re-wrapped, hyperbole-filled position statements, let’s see where the candidates failed when it came to the details.
Read MoreAs usual, the cable news networks were waiting with baited breath last night for what was touted as a foreign policy speech, with details, by Donald Trump on the deck of the Battleship USS Iowa. Well, that didn’t happen. Instead we got the usual mix of talking points, although he did briefly mention that he wants to recommission the ship he was standing on. Would that even be feasible?
Read MoreThere have been rumors floating around that Russia’s only operational Typhoon Class ballistic missile carrying nuclear submarine, the largest submarine in the world, Dmitri Donskoy, was deployed to the Mediterranean, or more specifically, to sit off the coast of Syria. Here’s why that’s highly unlikely.
Read MoreLockheed’s initiative to create an optionally-manned alternative to the U-2 Dragon Lady and RQ-4 Global Hawk has taken a “tactical” turn. Skunk Works has morphed its philosophy into what appears to be an unmanned stealthy aircraft dubbed the Tactical Reconnaissance-X.
Read MoreNo less than 15 Russian An-124 Condor cargo flights have landed in Syria in recent days. This is in addition to a steady stream of Russian cargo ships arriving at Syrian shores, some of which dropped off T-90 main battle tanks, artillery pieces and dozens of armored personnel carriers.
Read MoreThe Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has a damning report on the F-35B’s shipboard “Operational Test” trials that occurred last May. It paints a dismal picture of an aircraft that is so far from being “operationally capable” it’s almost comical at this point. As a result, it proves what many of us already know: the Marines’ declaration of F-35B initial operational capability made this Summer was a farce.
Read MoreThe Pentagon’s bleeding edge technology development office, DARPA, and Georgia Institute of Technology are working on a way to solve one of the biggest limitations of helicopters: landing on grades and rough, uneven or even moving terrain.
Read MoreWhat could be the defining image of American naval power at the tail end of the Cold War, this photo of Battle Group Echo, taken while cruising the Arabian Sea, includes some of the most famous ships of second half of the 20th Century.
Read MoreThe annual Air Force Association conference will kick off outside of Washington next week, where Boeing is putting its latest and greatest combat aircraft developments on show for industry and Washington power brokers. This includes new F-15 configurations that allow the 43-year-old design to lug 16 air-to-air missiles into combat instead of the standard eight it carries today.
Read MoreTwenty years ago, Cessna gave birth to a military jet trainer that had wealthy private pilots with fighter jock dreams licking their chops. Here’s the story of how Cessna ended up with their promising design and why they walked away from it.
Read MoreMany lessons were learned the hard way on 9/11, but one of the biggest was just how unprepared our defenses were for an internal attack. While the Federal Aviation Administration did an incredible job landing all planes, the problems with communications and decision making and lack of flexibility in procedures when it came to intercepting aerial threats inside the country were disastrous.
Read MoreThere are just four S-3 Vikings plying the skies these days and none of them are executing the mission they were designed for. This may be about to change as South Korea is reportedly moving forward with a plan to return a dozen of the maritime patrol jets to service.
Read MoreGerman aerospace firm Dornier has made some amazing aircraft over the last century, the DO-24 flying boat included. Today, only one flying example exists, the DO-24ATT, and it is truly a melded masterpiece of past and present aircraft technologies. Yet even this amazing machine can’t escape the realities of operating an aircraft from a liquid medium.
Read MoreThere has been a sudden wave of speculation and fragmented reporting on the possibility that Russia is becoming a more active supporter of the embattled Al-Assad regime in Syria. What could Russia possibly want by deepening its involvement in such a complicated and bloody conflict?
Read MoreWhat happens when you park a derelict Kitty Hawk Class supercarrier a couple miles off the coast of where an adventurous flight instructor plies his trade? This awesome and unlikely photo of a Piper Cherokee lining up for a “trap” aboard the USS Constellation.
Read MoreThe images above provide an interesting comparative study of the nose sections of Northrop’s YB-49 circa the late 1940s and present day’s Northrop Grumman’s B-2A Spirit stealth bomber. Jack Northrop (and Nazi Germany to some extent) was way ahead of his time when it came to envisioning flying wings as the future of air combat. The fact that the USAF didn’t buy into his vision was a frustration he carried with him heavily for the last half of his life.
Read MoreWhat do you get when the Soviet Union wants a jet airplane purpose-built to service its massive farms and agricultural collectives? Well, according to Poland, you get the demented looking PZL M-15, nicknamed “Belphegor,” which means a hideous mythical demon who tricks people into thinking they have an invention that will make them rich!
Read MoreWe just reported on what appears to be an exotic stealth Super Hornet test article stored at the USAF’s Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Group’s boneyard in Arizona. Due to limited photographic evidence we could only theorize that article in question was a fully formed concept, not a much more conventionally configured testbed with a missing nose section as reported by Aviation Week. With new oblique images brought to our attention from a Foxtrot Alpha reader, our original conclusions appe
Read MoreOne of our readers, Gareth Webber, pointed out a strange looking aircraft stored at AMARG, the Pentagon’s aircraft boneyard in Tucson, AZ. I immediately noticed it from an article that ran a year and a half ago in Aviation Week about a stealthy F/A-18 Hornet concept that was photographed sitting along the AMARG fence-line. The article’s analysis was spot on given the limited visual information available, but new satellite photos may tell a very different story.
Read MoreA small group of Chinese Navy ships showed up near Alaska earlier this week during President Obama’s visit to the northern state, mostly as a “we’re here” message. But then, as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army marched in a Beijing parade, someone simultaneously put out this completely nuts video of a naval attack on an American fleet, and on an American base that looks suspiciously like the one on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
Read MoreUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) has returned to sea after spending 23 months in dry dock getting upgrades and repairs totaling 1.2 million man-days of work. Now the ship and her crew are getting their sea legs again, and part of the process is pushing the carrier to her max, which includes high-speed maneuvering.
Read MoreYesterday morning at 6:18 a.m. EST an Atlas V rocket with a cutting-edge Navy communications satellite onboard was launched out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lighting up the sky in a most otherworldly fashion. People in Miami in particular got an amazingly surreal view of the launch, with the videos below to show for it.
Read MoreThis is the story — kept secret at the time, still largely unreported today — of how the most infamous disease in history broke into New York City in the midst of World War II. This is the story of the ominously-named “Wyoming matter,” and how it took me months to track down evidence it ever happened.
Read MoreThe 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in WWII, a conflict that took some 14 million Chinese lives, was celebrated in grand fashion this morning in Beijing. Yet the fact that high-level American and European dignitaries were nowhere to be found was a clear sign of the times as tensions in the South China Sea and East China Sea, along with seemingly constant cyber espionage incidents, have chilled relations between the U.S. and its biggest trading partner.
Read MoreWarships of the Chinese Navy have been spotted in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, around the Aleutian Islands to be more exact, but there’s probably no reason to panic. Yet. And here’s why.
Read MoreRussia’s biennial super air show and arms bazaar wrapped up last weekend and the highlight of the show wasn’t Russia’s newish stealthy fighter, the Sukhoi T-50. Instead it was the breathtakingly maneuverable ultimate version of Sukhoi’s renowned Su-27 Flanker series of fighters, the Su-35S Super Flanker. Watch what it can do.
Read MoreThe BMW M4 is a perfectly lovely machine. In stock form, its 3.0-liter, six-cylinder, twin-turboed engine makes 425 horsepower and 406 foot-pounds of torque. With a base MSRP of $62,400, that’s a ton of speed wrapped in a beautiful package – far more car than the price tag would suggest.
Read MoreThe 2016 Mini Clubman is almost fourteen feet of CompactPremiumFamilyCar, and I know what you’re thinking. It’s huge for a Mini. But hell, it’s also a proper wagon with enough space for five people. And it happens to be pretty good.
Read MoreJaguar reestablished itself as a car company worth caring about with the F-Type sports car and the upcoming XE sport sedan. Now they’re trying to turn that sparkle into real money by making the larger 2016 XF sedan distinctive, but practical enough to be a real rival to the Germans. I think it’s close.
Read MoreBad news for walls, telephone poles, and other solid objects — the new Volvo XC90 looks like it can crush you into oblivion.
Read MoreIt’s not every day that you get to test the veracity of a dubious automotive claim made by an entire nation of car companies for more than a decade. For me, that day was last Tuesday.
Read MoreThe Jeep Grand Cherokee is a swanky off-roader that looks just at home in a farmer’s field as it does in front of a country club. What do you need to know before you buy a Jeep Grand Cherokee? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Nissan Pathfinder is a car with the name of an off-road SUV but the body of a crossover. What do you need to know before you buy a Nissan Pathfinder? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Nissan Murano is a supremely comfortable and radically styled, but the driving experience is still 100 percent CUV. What do you need to know before you buy a Nissan Murano? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Nissan Juke is one of the weirdest cars on the market, but it’s also way ahead of its time. What do you need to know before you buy a Nissan Juke? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe entire subcompact CUV segment owes its existence to the Buick Encore and it’s still one of the most popular cars in the little world it created. What do you need to know before you buy a Buick Encore? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreAmerican cars used to be rear-wheel-drive and have V8 engines, as God and Ronald Reagan intended. The Chrysler 300 is the last American car that follows this format. What do you need to know before you buy a Chrysler 300? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreTrue to GM products of your, the Buick LaCrosse is like a fancier version of the Chevy Impala. What do you need to know before you buy a Buick LaCrosse? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Nissan Maxima is a handsome, sporty car that Nissan calls a “four door sports car.” It’s not, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t the most exciting car in this class. What do you need to know before you buy a Nissan Maxima? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreFlooring it in a 550 horsepower, all-wheel drive Jaguar F-Type R is hard to describe, what with your brain pressing against the inside of your skull, your eyes bumping up against their sockets.
Read MoreNow that internet car shopping has become more commonplace, some dealerships are doing everything in their power to avoid giving you a written quote. One of the newest tactics is requiring you to submit a credit application in order to send you a price. Don’t fall for this.
Read MoreGood day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your ninth favorite weekly Jalopnik column that you read on the train when your Kindle is out of batteries.
Read MoreI got an email from a gentleman who had a dealer try to jam some stuff down his throat while buying a new car. I had a dealer do the same thing to me, and it might have happened to you too. Let’s discuss these dealer “add-ons.”
Read MoreThe BMW M3 is faster. The Mercedes-AMG C63 has over 150 more horsepower. And yet, all I would ever really want is a big, bright blue, absurdly wonderful Volvo S60 Polestar. It’s the car that left every racing pretension back at the track, and finally remembered what fun is.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen GTI is a fun little economy car that you’ll actually like owning even after you turn 30. What do you need to know before you buy a GTI? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreFor many enthusiasts, ease-of-wrench is one of the most important factors when buying a new or newer-ish car. Which modern cars are the easiest to work on? We have the answers, thanks to our readers.
Read MoreIn the briefest of moments, while while firing off a gear change at 9000 RPM with the banshee-like V10 wailing in my ears, I caught a glimpse of that L-shaped Lexus logo on the steering wheel. And as I gripped the wheel to wrest the car through the winding road, I wondered if I had somehow woken up in a parallel universe that morning instead of my own.
Read MoreIn some parts of the country, Craigslist is only useful for finding a crappy $250 riding mower or an old stained couch. But not all of it is like that! Fortunately with these 10 Craigslist sites, you’ll be covered for most of your automotive needs.
Read MoreI recently took my Hummer to CarMax for an appraisal, which was carried out by several helpful, perky CarMax employees who clearly thought I was certifiably insane.
Read MoreThe Kia Sorento, like much of the modern Hyundai-Kia stable, is a lot of car for not a lot of coin. What do you need to know before you buy a Sorento? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreWith less than a lap to go I can see the tail of the brilliant red Ferrari at the end of the Mulsanne Straight from the windshield of my GT40 MK II. Moments later the Ferrari scuffs the brake zone at Arnage and I pass him. I’ve just achieved a great moment in motorsports history, courtesy of Forza 6. I also feel like I’m about to barf.
Read MoreLabor Day weekend doesn’t just mark the end of summer (except here in Texas, where that usually drags on to mid-November) and the start of fall, it’s also one of the best times of the year to buy a new car. You or someone you know might be doing that this weekend, and if so they might be considering leasing.
Read MoreFrom time to time I hear from someone who is so fed up with their car they’ve decided to stop making payments and “walk away from it.” I always tell them, DO NOT EVER do that voluntarily. It is always the worst option available.
Read MoreWith so many dealerships to choose from, it can be difficult to decide where to spend your energy to get your deal. There are many good dealers who will give you a great price with little stress, and then there are the others, whose only goal is to take every dollar possible. Here are some clues to pick out a “stealership.”
Read MoreThe Jeep Renegade is the small, fuel efficient, manual 4x4 wagon(ish) the world has been yearning for. What do you need to know before you buy a Jeep Renegade? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreDo you live in Vermont? If you do you might be surprised to learn you already own an XV Crosstrek. Why do Vermonters love the XV Crosstrek? What do you need to know before you buy one? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Mini Countryman is neither small nor a man of the country, but it is a popular and premium small crossover. What do you need to know before you buy a Mini Countryman? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Dodge Charger can either be a reasonable V6-powered rental car or the most powerful production sedan in the world, depending on how you option it. What do you need to know before you buy a Dodge Charger? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Jeep Compass only exists because Chrysler has paid for all the tooling and every one they sell is pretty much pure profit. It’s a pretty poor excuse for an automobile. What do you need to know before you make a huge mistake and buy a Jeep Compass? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreClank, clack, whoosh — here’s a guide to 10 ominous, common sounds coming from your car and what causes them.
Read MoreAbove is a Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black. It was a cut-from-stone widebody twin turbo V12 monster, with more power, torque, aero, and aggression than made sense. It was too much car.
Read MoreThere are two reasons why today is a momentous day in the history of my used Range Rover. Number one, because its famous CarMax warranty is now officially half over. And number two, because it is currently broken and sitting at the dealer awaiting repair work.
Read MoreToyota just announced that the Scion xB is finally ending after a run of a dozen years. To anyone that really appreciated the xB, though, this is no big deal, as the car has really been dead since 2007, when the second generation was released. But it’s still worth taking a moment to appreciate what this underrated car was.
Read MoreI’m out here in LA this week getting ready for the life-changing Jalopnik Film Festival, but I wanted to take a moment to be sure everyone had an opportunity to do some intense, important car-related thinking, via another Would You Rather. So let’s get to it.
Read MoreStrip clubs aren’t really my thing. If that’s your scene, no judgements, but I prefer to keep my money in my wallet, my motorcycles not knocked over by crazy people, and my cars not riddled with bullets.
Read MoreSome cars were just never meant for American consumption.
Read MoreWe had a great slate of 11 shorts selected by our jury for inclusion in the third annual Jalopnik Film Festival presented by Mazda, but only one could win the coveted Audience Choice Award and it was “Building Your Dream Ferrari is a Beautiful Thing” by our friends at Petrolicious. See it below.
Read MoreYou’ve seen these types of cars driving around everywhere – the low-riding cruisers, the lit-up rides and all the rest – but the real question is whether or not you know where they came from. Or, when they came from.
Read MoreStealing someone else’s quote is never cool. It’s not original, it’s not smart, and it pisses a lot of people off. But if you get caught doing it in the vaunted, professorial ivory tower known as the realm of Internet comments, you might as well go out with a bang and be the biggest jerk in the world.
Read MoreIn the stale air of a AAA office, I looked up from a poorly-cut paper pamphlet to the dead eyes of the old man handing it to me. “This can’t be legit,” I said as I flipped through my newly-minted International Driving Permit. Yet, incredibly, it was. Here’s your definitive guide to the absurd (but real) IDP.
Read MoreThe brown-gold Citroën SM you see in the photo above belongs to one Alex Roy, and I had the extreme pleasure of driving it earlier this year. It is an unfathomably wonderful machine in every way. It was also a complete and utter failure in America.
Read MoreCars are born to be driven, this much is the Gospel Truth. Sometimes that means a “full repair” just constitutes a good, solid drive. Especially after it’s been sitting a while.
Read More“Loud, obnoxious, rowdy cars are inherently fun,” Tony Angelo tells me. “Doesn’t matter what it is. Doesn’t matter what year it was made. It doesn’t matter if it’s fuel injected or carbureted.”
Read MoreI recently spent a weekend walking around Washington, D.C., where I discovered a vehicle that had both historic license plates and dual airbags. For the very first time in my life, I felt like an old person.
Read MoreAmid the VW dieselgate shitshow we wondered about the other automotive cheaters who nearly got away. Thankfully, you, our readers gave us the answers. Why take the long way around when you could cheat your way through?
Read MoreFor years, when people told me they were thinking of getting a Toyota Prius, I told them to consider one of Volkswagen’s Clean Diesels instead. Torque, efficiency and cleanliness — what’s not to love?
Read MoreVW’s use of a secret cheat code to skirt US emissions regulations on their small diesel cars is pretty ingenious. But is it the most ingenious cheat in automotive history?
Read MoreSick of Vanilla, Fresh Pine or Frozen Ice? Give these 10 scents a try!
Read MoreHere’s the tale of Luke, his imported 1986 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.0 and some weird German stuff like a headlight level thumbwheel.
Read MoreI think it’s safe to say most of us are primarily land-car drivers. There’s just something about dry land that’s great for driving — the existence of roads, the difficulties of drowning or plummeting — I’m a fan. But a car that can go on land, and, say, water, that’s amazing. A car that can fly — also amazing. One that has done all three? Astounding. And a Beetle.
Read MoreEvery so often I wake up and remember that I once bought a Lexus for $600, fixed it up, then almost immediately destroyed it with 48 hours of rallycross.
Read MoreWe saw a ton of interesting technology at the Frankfurt Motor Show; some of it conventional, much of it not. I’m fascinated by Mercedes’ transforming tail on the Concept IAA.
Read MoreConcept cars are one of the first steps for an automotive designer to turn their dream from a sketch to something consumers can live with every day. Some concepts make it, but many more don’t. These are the 10 greatest concept cars that never saw the green light.
Read MoreWhen Bugatti’s creative team got the opportunity to design a race car for the virtual world, they engineered one that could actually work in real life too. Explaining that to me was a guy wearing a Metallica tee, unsurprisingly.
Read MoreI can’t believe this is something that actually has to be said, but there’s another situation where an innocent kid is paying dearly for the ignorance of others, and on behalf of all tinkerers and lovers of machines, I want to re-iterate: there are things that use electronics that are not bombs, morons.
Read MoreBack in the rear-engine/air-cooled Golden Age of Volkswagen, since they kept with the same basic models so long, they amused themselves with special editions. One of these, the GT Beetle, I love for many reasons, but maybe most so because of one line in the brochure. About taillights.
Read MoreMercedes has already done an impressive job turning their once appealing and utilitarian G-Wagen into a leather-slathered, overdone block of idiot, but it takes the real magicians over at Brabus to push the Mercedes-Benz G500 4x4² to the true limits of stupid.
Read MoreThe Lexus LFA isn’t really a car you can make sense of. I learned to just sit back, enjoy its many talents, and be glad that such an unusual vehicle even exists at all.
Read MoreA James Bond flick is all about great cars and SPECTRE doesn’t look like it will disappoint. On a visit to Williams Advanced Engineering, I got to speak to the people who built the stunt Jaguar C-X75s that might just be the most beautiful villain car ever made. Here’s everything you should know.
Read MoreTime for another automotive Would You Rather! You must be very excited. And, you should be, because this week’s edition involves both Sasquatches and very low-output engines.
Read MoreI’m a fairly car-obsessed 20-something. When I’m not researching ways to fix my own cars, I’m watching videos about cars. I’m no stranger to a shop and I find fart humor quite refreshing, pardon the pun. I’m exactly the demographic that networks want when they launch new car shows. Why, then, do I think they all suck?
Read MoreThe first production Lamborghini featuring carbon fiber components was the Countach Quattrovalvole in 1985. eGarage shows how three decades later, Lamborghini’s Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory is still busy making everything lighter and stronger right here in America.
Read MoreWas the Volkswagen Phaeton an abject failure in the U.S. marketplace? Absolutely. But that’s no reason to hate one! I suspect, given what we know about repair bills, that if there is Phaeton hate it involves some degree of self-hatred.
Read MoreYou may not realize this, but the Mad Max you grew up watching was likely the American-dubbed version and not the Aussie original. At the Jalopnik Film Festival later this month in Los Angeles we’ll be presenting the Aussie version. Just watch these two clips and you’ll see why.
Read MoreWho needs a heavy-duty dually pick up truck?
Read MoreThe wet slap of a raw steak smacking a human face echoed across the courtyard as the constable made his way to Max Hardigrew’s estate, a rambling collection of 70 or so old Winnebagos connected via ramshackle wooden hallways. The constable needed Hardigrew’s help now more than ever, though he was never fond of visiting the brilliant recluse.
Read MoreThanks to Alex Roy, we had a great discussion today on the future of driving as cars become autonomous. It is, I hope, the first of many in-depth looks you’ll read here on the equally scary and exciting future that awaits us.
Read MoreHave you always admired the giant sheepdog van from Dumb and Dumber, but felt as if the Mutt Cutts Shaggin’ Waggin could be improved somehow? By, perhaps, chopping off the roof and adding a loud sound system? Dream no longer. It’s real, it’s spectacular, and it’s for sale.
Read MoreThere are few things automotive that get me more excited than Volkswagen’s vintage prototypes and design studies that ended up going nowhere. I’m not sure why, but I find these bizarre stillborns wildly engaging, and this one — one I never heard of before — may be the most incredible one yet.
Read MoreGood news, everyone! Today is Friday, and that means it’s time for Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly Jalopnik column wherein you ask me a question and I tell you the answer in a highly questionable way.
Read MoreThe third Jalopnik Film Festival will open with a party and a screening of Adam Carolla’s Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman on September 25th in LA, followed by a full-day of films and panels on September 26th that include Ronin, Being Evel, and Havana Motor Club and Steve McQueen: The Man And Le Mans. Get your discounted early tickets now. [UPDATE: We’re not sold out yet, there may be some errors in the ticketing page. Please try again or call 888-929-7849]
Read MoreI’ve been preaching a lot about inclusiveness lately, and that applies to how Sean is doing Lanesplitter too. He’s not a Harley or a cruiser guy, so he asked people who are to explain why they love what they ride.
Read MoreHey, why are you reading this website right now? Haven’t you heard car culture is dead? America’s love affair with the car is over, according to the ultimate arbiter of culture in this country, The Washington Post, and the Cialis commercial extras they asked about it.
Read MoreNew Singers are about as rare as flawless emeralds, and even more beautiful. So when this awe-inspiringly green car, officially known as the “‘Manchester’ 1990 Porsche 911 Coupe modified by SVD” showed up, we’ll admit we spent precious minutes just drooling over it. Now it’s your turn to drool, too.
Read MoreI recently had the opportunity to spend an evening with several of the fine men of southern New Jersey law enforcement. This is because I was pulled over by the police twice in the span of 10 minutes last week while I was driving my imported Nissan Skyline GT-R.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of sadness in the classic VW community tonight, and especially the Herbie-the Love-Bug-loving subset (which is a pretty large subset), because the man who played Herbie’s racing-driver owner, actor Dean Jones, died today at the age of 84.
Read MoreAnything with a crazy paint job, a monster engine, and lots of weird vents will register as a Lamborghini to the casual observer. But not all cars that Lamborghini built fit their stereotype.
Read MoreI’ll be the first to admit that I am lightyears away from being any Ernest Hemingway. My thoughts are often jumbled, which means that I need approximately a billion words to get them all out. But every now and again the avatar of Hemingway shows up in the form of a commenter, and they say exactly what we all believe, deep down inside.
Read MoreAston Martin is great. James Bond is great. Combined, they make for the worst, most godawful, shameless branding exercise we’ve seen this side of a Bill Blass edition Lincoln. The new Aston Martin DB9 GT James Bond Edition is a travesty, and James Bond would never drive it.
Read MoreTime and time again, planes, trains, cars and other vehicles go missing and leave nothing but a mystery to follow. These 10 are the eeriest vehicular mysteries, as chosen by our readers.
Read MoreThis new Bugatti won’t even cost an entire Lamborghini more than the Veyron, mostly because it’s not real. Yet they will build a Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo show car for Frankfurt, and it’s the Veyron race car we’ve always needed. And I want to poke it.
Read MoreYou’d think some summer-blowout ad for the Acura TLX would be the usual, ignorable car-on-winding-road-with-VO boringness we’ve all grown the special ability to tune out. Acura has cleverly combated this by making their ads so full of subtly inane horseshit that it forces you to pay attention. To the stupid.
Read MoreIf Raphael were here, he’d ask: Many cars were made in the ‘90s. But what ‘90s car is the most ‘90s?
Read MoreWhen I finally get my stupid time machine working (it keeps liquefying the squirrels I use to test it) I think one of my first post-Hitler-murder trips will be to Volkswagen in the 1970s to convince them to build an version of the Type 181 (we called it the Thing) that can go in the water. Let me explain why.
Read MoreIf nothing else, The Garage will be about keeping your automotive dreams alive as long as possible. Sometimes that comes from unexpected places.
Read MoreA short while ago I mentioned that the signage accompanying the Turbine Car display at the Gilmore Car Museum was in error. Well, wouldn’t you know they read my piece and asked me to help with a new sign. So, here it is. This one is spot on!
Read MoreMazda’s been on something of a roll lately. They have some of the most consistently fun to drive cars in the entire industry, from the new 2016 Miata all the way up to their crossovers and sedans. You have Dave Coleman to thank for that, and now he’s here to answer all your questions for the next hour.
Read MoreThis is a Nissan 240SX with the retro Plymouth Cuda-lookalike Rocket Bunny Boss kit, lifted and turned into a prerunner. It is blowing my mind right now.
Read MoreChevy just released the performance specs for the new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, and it seems that their very back-to-basics plan — add power, remove weight — is working, with the car shedding 390 pounds and going from zero to 60 MPH in four seconds. Those numbers are for the 455 HP 6.2-liter V8 SS model (on 20-in. RF4 tires) with an automatic.
Read MoreIn its long lifespan the Chevy Impala has gone from one of the finest American sedans you could buy to one of the worst you could rent back to a car you should definitely consider. What do you need to know before you buy a Chevrolet Impala? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreAt every major auto show, fancy concept cars are shown on fancy displays, next to fancy booth professionals, covered in fancy lighting. Sometimes they’re a look into the cars of tomorrow, but sometimes — sadly — they’re just eye candy.
Read MoreFetty Wap, a rapper primarily known for his hit “Trap Queen,” was reportedly hit by a car while riding his motorcycle in New Jersey on Saturday. More as we have it.
Read MoreSelfie-sticking is not for the weak. It’s an activity left to only the burliest, toughest people on earth. The guy driving this jacked-up Jeep Wrangler, though, is not among them, because his self-sticking ineptitude wreaked havoc on his Jeep.
Read MoreIt’s recently come out that a law firm Jeremy Clarkson has worked closely with in the past has trademarked the name “Gear Knobs.” Will this be the name of the old Top Gear crew’s new Amazon show? Maybe? Does it actually mean “gear penises?” It’s kinda looking that way.
Read MoreThe Frankfurt Motor Show is so massive (12 huge buildings spread over a large chunk of Frankfurt real estate) that Jalopnik sent both Máté and I to double team it. Máté is covering all of the big reveals and serious stuff leaving me to go on the hunt for everything else that makes Frankfurt one of the must see shows.
Read MoreEven though we haven’t driven it yet, we’re already falling in love with the 345-horsepower Ford Focus RS, mostly because of its DRIFT MODE button. But here’s something else to make you fall in love with it. It’ll get to highway speeds in 4.7 seconds, according to Ford, and will keep going all the way to 165 MPH.
Read MoreThe Ford Edge is car. It does car things. What do you need to know before you buy one? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Ford Explorer is the best selling SUV in its class and older models stand up well to dinosaur attacks. What do you need to know before you buy a Ford Explorer? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Ford Taurus is the Brett Favre of sedans: It used to be one of, if not the best — and we respect that — but it’s getting a bit old. What do you need to know before you buy a Ford Taurus? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreYou can count the number of modern factory six-cylinder motorcycles on one hand. Of those, Honda’s CBX is probably the most legendary. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe X is a Super Sport, and it could be yours if X marks the spot when it comes to its price.
Read MoreThe Honda Pilot is the car you buy when cramming your teenage kids into a CR-V just ain’t happening. What do you need to know before you buy a Honda Pilot? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreWith the HR-V, Honda wants to make car buyer’s in the subcompact CUV segment feel at ease by offering the reliability, resale value, and efficiency that defines the Honda brand. What do you need to know before you buy a Honda HR-V? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Santa Fe is a versatile CUV that won’t destroy your pocketbook. What do you need to know before you buy one? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreI’ve never had much of a paternal instinct. Never saw myself with a big family or missing the bustle of a busy house. That all changed a bit last night.
Read MorePerformance tricycles are a strange segment. The Can-Am Spyder proved halfway decent to ride but embarrassing to be seen on. The Polaris Slingshot is polarizing, though we love it around these parts. Now Honda presents the Neowing concept; which of course they say does it all without compromise. What do you think?
Read MoreThese scrambler-style 50cc Honda Grom scooters won’t be very fast on-road. They won’t be motocross competitors. But holy crap do they look like fun. And since that’s the whole point of motorcycling, this might secretly be the ultimate bike.
Read MoreOh, the joys of buying a brand new motorcycle. You just spent seven hours signing paperwork in a dealer and having some greasy salesman tell you how you’re going to be the coolest and fastest guy around, and now it’s finally time to leave on your new stallion.
Read MoreWhen they wanted to sell gear to women, manufacturers used to just toss a pink butterfly on a small men’s jacket and call it a day, but companies are finally starting to realize women riders deserve gear that looks nice and protects them well too.
Read MoreIn the interest of motorizing my fellow Americans, I asked our readers: what would increase the mass-appeal of motorcycles here? We got a heap of (generally intelligent!) responses, here are the ones we kept circling back to.
Read MoreListen up, you turkeys, those trails we all love riding don’t cut themselves. I don’t want to hear any of your whining or excuses – if you dickheads have time to ride, it’s time to drop the throttle and pick up a shovel.
Read MoreIn many countries around the world, motorcycles are much more than a toy. They’re regularly utilized as general transportation because many people recognize their efficiency. Not really the case here in America, though. Why do you think that is, and what could be done to change it?
Read MoreThe warehouse crew were good guys, but too fond of practical jokes. So when I glanced over at the lot where I’d parked my bike that morning and saw the empty space, I thought, Those meatheads better not have scratched it. But nobody fessed up to moving it, and a search of the warehouse––including that corner way in the back where they held Friday-night short-track races with forklifts –– failed to turn up my bike. That’s when I knew I’d been ripped off.
Read MoreOnly a few years ago. You’d be hard pressed to find fashionable motorcycle gear with actual armor. Sure, there Vanson and Schott, but many of their options had blocky cuts, a severe rockabilly vibe, or lacked actual armor.
Read MoreYou know what I do when I need to take a quick break from writing about motorcycles? I sit back and scroll through Instagram pics of motorcycles. Chances are, you do the same, so here are some accounts you should make sure you’re following.
Read MoreThe nice man from Sea Doo told me the 2016 Sea Doo RXP-X 300, with its all new supercharged 300 horsepower engine, would provide one G of force under full acceleration. I ride the fastest motorcycles in the world, I should be fine... right?
Read MoreThis Sunday, over 30,000 well-dressed gentlefolk from over 400 cities in 79 different countries will ride to help fund a cure for prostate cancer. If you have a cafe, scrambler, bobber, or just want an excuse to dress up and ride for a good cause, you should join them.
Read MoreThis is the Shoei X-Spirit III, the newest iteration of the company’s X-Spirit race helmet. And as we’ve seen in the latest race lids from AGV, Schuberth, Arai, and ICON, aerodynamics is the name of the game. In this case, your head is about to grow wings.
Read MoreI flew across the pond to wear a bowtie, pretend it’s 1950, and ride some new bikes that look a whole lot like old ones. They’re from a company called Royal Enfield, and they happen to be fantastic.
Read MoreDear Ducati and Kawasaki, we hope you you’ve enjoyed yourselves, but fun time is over. We’re coming back to WSBK, bringing our R1, and taking aim at the title. Sincerely, Yamaha.
Read MoreEver dreamed of having all the freedom of a Ford Focus, while enjoying the sweet system from a Honda Goldwing? I know, the number of times it’s kept me up at night is too many to count too. Well, now you have your chance...if you can outbid me.
Read MoreWith the right knowledge and a little bit of forethought, the first person on the scene at a motorcycle accident can make the difference between life and death. I just wish I’d thought about this stuff before I found a rider down, trapped under his own bike on a desolate road. Here’s what happened.
Read MoreDid you know that the world record for riding a snowmobile on something that isn’t snow, but is rather melted snow (water), is an actual thing??? Well, it is a thing, and Norway’s own Morten Blien just rode his ‘mobile on water for damn near four hours. Here’s video of the entire thing, in case you didn’t think it was real.
Read MoreSnow is sort of like dirt right? Anyone with a dirtbike who lives somewhere it snows has wondered if there was a way to ride their bike in the snow, and now that dream is finally a reality.
Read MoreThe Polaris Slingshot and Dennis Rodman are a lot alike. They’re both a little odd looking, both flashy, they both love to party, both love to make a highlight reel, and both love donuts.
Read MoreStop motion artist PES just released Paper, a short film turned ad depicting just some of the iconic vehicles throughout Honda’s history. How many of the motorcycles, cars, boats, and planes can you name?
Read MoreDon the tweed and pomade. The Goodwood Revival is a living exhibit of Britain’s motoring past, but is this a positive for mechanical culture going forward, or an anchor keeping us navel gazing into the past?
Read MoreLive in Europe and want to test ride a Harley-Davidson? Doing so could now win you a free motorcycle, customized to your liking.
Read MoreHave a Mercedes-AMG GT but just can’t seem to find the right bike to park next to it in the garage? Times are tough out there, I totally get it. Luckily, the nice folks at MV Agusta do too, and they’re stepped in to lend a hand.
Read MoreWhen you trace any of the extreme sports from the X-Games back, almost all roads lead to this man: Evel Knievel. He was the original dare devil - a man made famous for having no fear and taking no caution. Being Evel dives into his past, what drove him to pursue one more jump, and everyone he touched along the way.
Read MoreThis week was the first time Honda allowed any journalist aboard their new MotoGP monster turned production bike, the RC213V-S. The first of the reviews are going live and it seems as if one single ride has justified the whole thing.
Read MoreMarc Marquez is a mutant child who is good at everything and Joan Barreda is a Dakar stage winner and off-road bad ass. Honda had the wisdom to shoot a video or three of these two giving the upcoming Africa Twin the business.
Read More300 horsepower Kawasaki H2Rs are cute and all, but Kawasaki hasn’t even managed to break the 220 mph mark yet. This turbocharged Hayabusa was hitting those speeds in its preteen years and is now chasing the glory of that elusive 300 mph club.
Read MoreWhile the 300 horsepower Kawasaki H2R was great for headlines and internet buzz, the Suzuki Recursion Concept is the forced induction bike we want to ride. This month, that dream got one step closer to becoming a reality.
Read MoreLast week, Jalopnik posted a question of the day asking for suggestions on the best surprisingly effective tow vehicle after I was talking with some of them about needing something to tow motorcycles around. In true Jalopnik fashion, all of the answers were funny, but none were helpful. So now I’m asking you to help me out.
Read MoreWhen Polaris asked me if I wanted to drive a Polaris Slingshot for a week, I knew the answer was yes - I just didn’t know why.
Read MoreDucati pulled the wraps off their new Ducati Monster 1200 R, which they’re calling the most powerful naked they’ve ever made. More power, better components, and less weight? Yeah, thats sounds like the sorta thing we could be into.
Read MoreElectric motorcycles are supposed to be a huge part of the future of motorcycling, and Mission Motorcycles was at the forefront of the technology development and performance achievement... until they filed for bankruptcy this past week. Hopefully none of you guys had a deposit down.
Read MoreDo you ride a supermoto and wish you could have all those glorious jumps without having to deal with the dirt section? The answer is only a plane flight away.
Read MoreGuy Martin is a man unlike other men. He’s had some of the most epic crashes in road racing history, including this recent one from the Ulster GP on August 6th. Now, just a few weeks later and with a few more pieces of metal in his body he’s up, he’s back at work, and he’s alright....really.
Read MoreWe’re massive fans of everything that comes out of the Huge MOTO Design. Their latest bike, the Huge MOTO ‘Black,’ which was released last night at Piston & Chain in San Francisco, California, is our favorite to date. The best part? Now you can own one for $3,000.
Read MoreThe KTM Duke 690 is one of the best nakeds on the planet when it comes to canyon carving. For 2016, the Duke is getting some great updates to bring about more power, more refinement, and less vibrations. This little scalpel just got a bit sharper.
Read MoreThis weekend, I’m getting my full retro-immersion on to check out some British motorsports history, and modern reinventions of it. Period appropriate garb, British Racing Green, pomade, and the full line of Royal Enfield’s revised motorcycle lineup are on the menu at the 2015 Goodwood Revival.
Read MoreYou get one of two things when you combine a car and a motorcycle. Your first option is a massively heavy, chromed out two-wheeled cruiser. The other option is a four wheeled, lightweight, open-air kart with a superbike motor under the hood. One is a pleasant way to ride across the country; the other is the Honda 2 & 4 Concept, one of the few things that might give the Ariel Atom a run for it’s money.
Read MoreIf the BMW S 1000 RR and the R 1200 RS had a baby, it would be this BMW R 1200 S from Wunderlich Design. It’s the perfect mix of BMW’s boxer motor characteristic paired with German sportbike sensibilities and refinement. What’s even better, is that many people think we’re about to see the real thing.
Read MoreThe Harley-Davidson Street 750, a bike created to bring new riders into HD’s aging ownership group, just failed a very basic braking test conducted by a major riding magazine. The magnitude of this braking failure could call into question the safety of every Street 750 on the road.
Read MoreDucati is finally sharing the first official images of the first of their new 2016 models and think they have something special with the new Ducati Monster 1200 R. If you were looking at buying a KTM Super Duke 1290 in the next few weeks - I might advise you to hold off.
Read MoreYes, you read the correctly. The film Outlaws is part American Horror Story, part David Beckham being awesome (and handsome), and part motorcycle movie - and it’s all to get you to buy a $2,000 leather jacket. It’s also likely leaking the new 2016 1,100 cc Triumph Bonneville. Confused? Welcome to the club.
Read MoreOver the Fourth of July weekend in 1947, the American Motorcyclist Association Gypsy Tour rolled into the sleepy farming town of Hollister, California. By the time it rolled out, nothing would ever again be the same for motorcyclists, who the non-riding public would forever afterward see through a lens clouded with black leather, big Harleys, beer, and bad behavior.
Read MoreICON released a new helmet this week that they think is about to take the gear world by storm. The new ICON Airframe Pro was built with one mission in mind: be the best helmet that ICON, or anyone else, has ever made. While that sounds like quite a challenge, keeping the weight of a medium down to 1450 grams is one hell of a start.
Read MoreOregon is an absolutely underrated state for awesome motorcycling. Outside of Portland you have canyon carving, an FIM road racing circuit, trail riding, and Instagrammable beach routes about an hour each way.
Read MoreOkay people, it’s time to have a little talk. I’ve come to realize that, despite my best efforts, I just don’t get the cruiser thing in the way that so many of you (like, millions) do. So I’m going to need to you explain it to me.
Read MoreThat’s right boys and girls, put those checkbooks away - you stayed on the fence too long. All those countless hours spent comparing the Honda RC213V-S and Honda CBR600RR online (sure one has more horsepower, but the other one is super rare!) have gone to waste. Someone, or 220 someones, have made your decision for you. The RC213V-S is sold out!
Read MoreYamaha’s newest SxS, the YXZ1000R, is not for everyone. It’s not for the faint of heart. Not for the timid. Not for the weak. It is for those of you (us) who want to go really fast, really far, and who want to jump not just some things, but all of the things.
Read MoreThe Nickelback Paradox: How can something be so unpopular on the internet, but so commercially successful? It’s a real thing, and it also applies to Harley baggers.
Read MoreThe Africa Twin name is a legendary one in the Honda stable. The bikes dominated the Paris-Dakar Rallies in the 1980s, and now they’re back in high-tech modern form. And priced to compete, too: Honda announced today the new CRF1000L Africa Twin will start at $12,999.
Read MoreThis week, I learned one very simple rule. Open air, light, moderately powered cart-thingies are shit tons of fun. I’ve been driving/riding/piloting a Polaris Slingshot, easily the worst of the cabinless cart options, and even that thing is impossible not to have fun in. Take that, add another wheel so it handles properly, give it the engine from Honda’s new 230 horsepower MotoGP-bike-turned-production-model, and you have something more bonkers than a 15-year-old on Molly at a spring formal.
Read MoreNormally airline advertisements try to hook with you with Great Deals™ or an awkward rendition of your grandpa’s favorite song. Not Delta’s latest advertisement. This Delta ad reminds us of the miracle of flight, and opens our eyes to our potential.
Read MoreWith SPECTRE releasing worldwide in just over two months, 007 and Aston Martin are flaunting the star of the film, the Aston Martin DB10. Video-geniuses XCAR, as well as new Top Gear’s Chris Evans managed to get exclusive looks at the bespoke Bond car.
Read MorePrince Michael of Kent is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. And despite me driving on the wrong side for only the second time in my life, I found myself chasing him and his guards with an SUV. As you do.
Read MoreThere used to be a plug-in hybrid car called the Fisker Karma made by Fisker Automotive. Then there were some battery fires, a recall, lots of wasted, misused tax money, and finally, bankruptcy. Now to break from all that bad stuff, the new owner has changed Fisker’s name to... Karma. That’s odd.
Read MoreEccentric billionaire, space privateer and auto manufacturer Elon Musk has felt it necessary that his new car, the Tesla Model X, come with protection against a bioweapons attack. And so it does.
Read MoreA few years from now, civilization has come to an end. The environment has been ruined. Even the most basic resources are scarce. Law and order come from the barrel of a gun. Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the other important world leaders have absconded to Mars, leaving us here to rot. And you need a ride.
Read MoreThis is H2Oi, where stanced car owners converge on Ocean City, Maryland, where they know they will be viciously and aggressively fined by the local police. The most ridiculous ticket-fest in the country has begun.
Read MoreShould this be the next Mazda RX-7? Yes, based on its size alone, it really should be. But we’ll have to wait until the Tokyo Motor Show next month to learn what exactly Mazda has in mind this time.
Read MoreWe got our first look at Tesla’s new Model X last night, and in a pretty dramatic change from their 2013 Detroit Motor Show design prototype, the Model X has no silly fake grille-like thing on its face. Just a nice, clean front end, a bold move in a world where a prominent grille has become a design crutch.
Read MoreYesterday we got a tip about a note reportedly left on a Volkswagen Jetta TDI from a wise-ass Portland resident, informing the owner about his cute, deadly, Fascist car. And guess what? It’s real. Unfortunately.
Read MoreDammit, NASA. Here we are thinking the arid, cold wasteland of Mars would be a perfect place to one day store and enjoy all our vintage cars, free of all the old-car hazards of earth, and then you had to go and find salt water, of all things. That’s going to destroy all our old shitboxes.
Read MoreGoogle has been successfully testing their fully-autonomous cars for a while, and now they’re ready to give them a big behavioral upgrade. So what are they changing?
Read MoreToday Audi announced which of its models feature the same cheating device used by Volkswagen to pass international diesel emissions standards. Included is none other than the 2010 Green Car of the Year, the Audi A3 TDI.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model X has some cool-ass doors. Just watch those falcons soar. But there is one car that’s got even better doors and it’s this old ass Lincoln. Get on it, Musk.
Read MoreThe 2016 Mini Clubman is just the first in a line of new Minis, so can you guess their next five moves?
Read MoreFiat Chrysler has had a rough go in the safety department lately, or at least in how they’ve clashed with America’s safety regulators. Now, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced Fiat Chrysler had a “significant” under-reporting of deaths and injuries in their cars, as required by law.
Read MoreIt is very important to me that I, Doug DeMuro, get to the bottom of every issue, and also sometimes to the top, especially if that issue is a scary-looking spider on my ceiling. This is why I’ve decided to devote today’s column to uncovering the giant marketing scheme that is Ford EcoBoost.
Read MoreWell, thanks for reminding me again, dear Petrolicious.
Read MoreAs Haas makes the jump to Formula 1, it’s a good time to look back on America’s most legendary, defiant, maybe even successful racing teams of the past.
Read MoreThe 2016 Tesla Model X is set to have its grand debut in California tonight. But ahead of the company’s “official” announcement, we’re getting an official range rating from the Environmental Protection Agency. Clocking in at 257 miles, the Model X’s electric range is just shy of the original Model S’s.
Read MoreTrack days are the go-to events to test the limits of your car and improve driving skill. But they don’t always end well. These are your 10 worst track day experiences.
Read MoreIt has been our genuine pleasure here at Jalopnik East to cover the many developments of the Char Anzable Gundam Auris. The vehicle has been popular enough in Japan that seeing one on Japanese roads really isn’t that surprising. Maybe owing to its actual profitability, Toyota has released a new animated commercial for the anime inspired Auris.
Read MoreNearly two years after Paul Walker’s fatal crash riding passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT, the actor’s now 16-year-old daughter has filed a lawsuit against the automaker claiming the Carrera GT is “a dangerous car that doesn’t belong on the street.”
Read MoreAccording to Reuters, Volkswagen’s freshly appointed CEO Matthias Müller has announced a “comprehensive recall and refit plan” to fix all 11 million TDI diesel cars caught cheating on emissions.
Read MoreA look back at the history behind the Lamborghini Huracan - a car that only wants to push you forward as fast as physically possible.
Read MoreAn Aer Lingus passenger plane made an emergency landing at Kennedy Airport Monday evening after reporting hydraulic failure. The landing gear reportedly ignited into a fire, but all passengers are said to be safe.
Read MoreJust a few days from the sixtieth anniversary of James Dean’s death on September 30th, 1955, we may have our greatest clue to finding the location of the infamous Porsche he fatally crashed in, long-rumored to be cursed.
Read MoreFull disclosure, I have no clue if this is legit or not. But I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it turned out to be real, because Portland.
Read MoreTrack days are amazing! Track days don’t always end well!
Read MoreFiat is taking the already-outstanding 2016 Mazda Miata, adding some turbocharged Italian power and mixing in some tasty retro throwback looks for good measure. Everyone, meet the new Fiat 124 Spider.
Read MoreAudi says 2.1 million TDI engines put into their A1, A3, A4, A5, A6, TT, Q3 and Q5 models feature Volkswagen’s emission decreasing software, but only about 13,000 of those units made it to United States.
Read MoreAmid the ongoing Dieselgate situation at Volkswagen, the company announced the launch of it’s new “diesel information” website, containing new statements from company officers and a FAQ page containing more regrets as well as a few answers.
Read MoreNASA is planning a huge Mars announcement tomorrow, widely presumed to be related to water on the Red Planet. Evidence of water would be a big indicator that life existed on Mars (or still does) so the implications of the announcement are far-reaching.
Read MoreAs Volkswagen continues to look into the roots of its Dieselgate scandal, Reuters cites two German newspapers in reporting that the company and one of its suppliers received warning years ago about software designed specifically to cheat emissions testing.
Read MoreA Michigan man set a gas pump ablaze while attempting to kill a spider with a cigarette lighter last week, Fox 2 Detroit reported on Friday.
Read MoreThis might be the ultimate schadenfreude of VW’s diesel cheatery — the US government paid $20.7 million to help Americans get behind the wheel of these NOx-barfing Volkswagens during the Cash for Clunkers program.
Read MoreNorth Swindon police had to apologize after using their sirens on a residential street to settle a debate among 4-year-olds over the sound their sirens make, The Guardian reports.
Read MoreChinese President Xi Jinping made a big trip to the U.S. this week, making a first stop in the Seattle area to visit Boeing. During his visit, Boeing announced two major developments. The first of these was a Chinese order for 300 new jets, including 250 737s, a deal worth $38 billion. The second announcement pertains to a new 737 delivery and completion center in China, which will cause some work normally done in the U.S. to be shifted overseas.
Read MoreThe era of the pop up headlight is over, long since replaced by LED eyeliner. And that gives us time to reflect on the most ridiculous variations of the flip up lighting theme.
Read MoreMINI’s completely redesigned big-ass model, the Cooper Clubman, will go on sale in January as the brand emerges into the “luxury compact” segment.
Read MoreThe Airbus Perlan 2 glider made a successful first flight on Wednesday, paving the way for a promising future of high altitude soaring. The manned aircraft was towed to an altitude of 5,000 feet before it was released from its tether, but next year the Perlan Project aims to break records by sending it nearly 20 times higher.
Read MorePerhaps the biggest question to arise from Volkswagen’s Dieselgate cheating scandal has to be: “Who else is doing this?” The Environmental Protection Agency said today that they intend to find out. But even if they crack down on VW, how much will the automaker really pay?
Read MoreWhen German car magazine Auto Bild said yesterday that the BMW X3 diesel produced more than 11 times over the legal emissions requirements in Europe, they didn’t want us to think BMW was circumventing any sort of test. Oh no no no. There was no evasion on BMW’s part intended, they want us to know.
Read MoreNews appears to be finally trickling out of the Volkswagen Group’s big board meeting in Germany today, and as expected, Porsche chief Matthias Müller has been named VW’s new CEO, according to news reports. (Updating...)
Read MoreVolkswagen’s deception of the American EPA did not stem from Volkswagen’s American operations alone — VW’s cheats went all the way back to headquarters in Wolfsburg, according to a new report citing sources within the company.
Read MoreWhen flying commercially, outrageous charges are virtually unavoidable. These ten are the most annoying out there.
Read MoreIt’s the greatest day of the year! The third annual Jalopnik Film Festival presented by Mazda starts today with a party and screening and continues through Saturday with a full day of screenings. Here’s everything you need to know if you’re going to either or, hopefully, both.
Read MoreCan you spot what’s wrong with this render?
Read MoreA story centered around captured orbiting spacecraft, James Bond turning Japanese (?) and getting married, a finale that take place entirely in a volcano, and at long-last, the reveal of Blofeld! You Only Live Twice takes the Bond franchise to a whole other level.
Read MoreBetween the A-Team, Miami Vice and Knight Rider, the 1980s was a classic era in television for people who love cool machines. But the short-lived Airwolf was my favorite 80s show of all because it featured a secret “stealth” and “supersonic” helicopter based on the Bell 222. Now, 30 years after the show was on the air, you can buy your own Bell 222 for about the same price as a new Lamborghini Aventador.
Read MoreThe biggest carmaker in the world today, Volkswagen, cheated to comply with strict EPA emissions regulations. Back in the 1970s, the biggest carmaker in the world, GM, had a different strategy: claim the EPA’s standards could not be met. It looked like it would work, until little Honda stepped in with one of the boldest challenges to the status quo in the history of the automotive industry.
Read MoreWhile Volkswagen’s cheating on emissions tests is pretty much common knowledge at this point, a whole bunch of questions remain unanswered. One of those is how long the company’s been doing it, and how long it planned to do it. Thanks to a German minister’s interview with Reuters, we now know that the answer is somewhere along the lines of “a long time.”
Read MoreWhat if you don’t have the flame-spitting, huge horsepower car of your dreams? What if you’re stuck driving your mom’s minivan? Can you still do a burnout? Uh hell to the yes you can.
Read MoreBy now the full gravity of Volkswagen’s cheating the EPA’s emissions testing systems is out in the open, and while, sure, I’m appalled and disappointed, a perverse part of me is also kind of impressed. It’s a pretty clever cheat! But like all cheaters, VW got caught because they got lazy. I think I know how they could have pulled it off.
Read MoreAs has been expected all week, Porsche CEO Matthias Müller will take the top spot at Volkswagen, replacing Martin Winterkorn amid the diesel emissions cheating scandal, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Read MoreI would imagine running an airline is very easy — buy some planes, fly them to popular places with better service and/or lower cost than your competitors, and make millions. This does not appear to be the case!
Read MoreAs we’ve seen with VW’s recent scandal, when the public finds out about how badly a corporation screwed up, somebody has to take the blame. Unfortunately for the high-up executives and decision makers, that usually means them. These are the ten biggest automotive scandals that have caused an executive to find the door.
Read MoreThe Pope, AKA Pope Francis, AKA “Cool Pope,” is a heavenly man. But since he’s visiting New York, he will officially make travel here a living hell. Thankfully, a helicopter service in New York will raise all of our cross-town travels a little closer to God, as they’re offering the low-low rate of $95 just to go from east to west across Manhattan.
Read MoreThe German trade magazine Auto Bild reports that road tests conducted by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) found the diesel BMW X3 20d Xdrive guilty of emitting more than eleven times more NOx gases than the limits of Euro 6, Europe’s latest diesel engine emission legislations. Oh boy.
Read MoreNow, I know what you’re going to say: “PG, did you write this just to post that sick .GIF up top?” And the answer is yes (kinda)! But the video that goes with it is great too because it’s a battle between the new Euro Honda Civic Type-R and one of Honda’s fastest bikes.
Read MoreWhen Audi launched the R8 it helped pull the brand up to become just as powerful as the other two German luxury juggernauts. Mercedes has long used AMG for their sportier models, leaving BMW looking like it had a missing link at the top of the range. Well not anymore! Maybe.
Read MoreThe Bloodhound SSC landspeed racer is what happens when the people who build the car that broke the sound barrier try to build a car that beats 1,000 MPH. It’s already the most powerful land vehicle with over 135,000 thrust horsepower.
Read MoreFerrari 250 GTO replicas are usually based on the four-seater Ferrari 250 GT/Es. But what do you do with an empty shell once they’re done with the gutting in Italy? This. You do this.
Read MorePope Francis arrived in the U.S. yesterday for a six-day multi-city historic visit aboard an Alitalia Airbus A330, at which point he transferred to a Fiat 500L. But the Holy See of the Catholic Church will be flying aboard a chartered American Airlines Boeing 777 throughout his tour of America, an airline which a Pope hasn’t flown since 1993.
Read MoreThe Pope is coming! Everyone get ready, and if you’re in NYC, make sure to stick anything you don’t want all holy in a plastic bag, or at least cover it with a tarp. The Pope will be in NYC soon, and he’ll be riding in the latest Popemobile, a modified Jeep Wrangler. But is this really the best possible Popemobile?
Read MoreRacing was banned in Cuba when Fidel Castro’s fighters took control of the country and the sport was labeled as elitist. More than half a century later a group of enthusiasts in race cars made from recycled ‘50s American iron are fighting to bring the sport back, as chronicled in Havana Motor Club: a new documentary we’ll be showing at the Jalopnik Film Festival on Saturday.
Read MoreVolkswagen admitted to cheating on emissions tests with 11 million TDI engines worldwide, but are they alone in this? That’s what regulators and NGOs around the globe are trying to figure out at the moment, and at least one European group fears BMW, Mercedes and General Motors are doing the same kind of thing.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to test the drag racing capabilities of an 8,000-pound vehicle that’s shaped like a file cabinet? I have. And that’s how my friend Matt and I ended up spending last Tuesday night drag racing my Hummer at Atco Raceway in suburban New Jersey.
Read MoreI wanted to chat about the future of electric mobility with the man who knows about it all: Henrik Wenders, Head of BMW’s i division. He turned out to be a down to earth guy who believes cities without noise and air pollution is a vision worth working for. Talk about being at the right place!
Read MoreWhat’s the fun in ripping around on your favorite backroads if you have to fill up every at every pee break? These are the 10 most fuel efficient fun cars.
Read MoreMartin Winterkorn has stepped down amid the Dieselgate cheating scandal that is currently rocking the automotive industry and, in particular, his company. He claims he needs to “accept responsibility” although he claims he’s not “aware of any wrongdoing” on his part.
Read MoreOn today’s Cars of the Ku, we have a Citroën 2CV6 which is currently all the way up in Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Since I happen to be in New Mexico this week, our French friend comes from sometimes tipster Luda-Sensei who snapped these pictures at a local art show.
Read MorePope Francis just rolled up to America in a black Fiat 500L. Well.. he flew here, and then hopped in the stubby little Italian car. Look at him - he loves it!
Read MoreFollowing the VW Dieselgate clusterfuck of a situation - where Volkswagen intentionally duped the EPA on emissions tests - the company has stepped up to support its dealer network in the U.S. by paying for the now-illegal unsold vehicles, and offering worker incentives to try to keep sales afloat.
Read MoreVolkswagen certainly has done a dazzling job of turning their entire line of TDI diesel cars into a steaming, heaping pile of beaver shit with their duplicitous emissions fudging-system, but it’s nice to know this isn’t the first time diesels have bitten them on the ass. The first time was, of course, much simpler.
Read MoreAt any big, flashy new car release, you expect to be accosted by public relations people all wearing name tags. “How do you like it?” they normally ask, or “Isn’t this exciting?” After I spent a few minutes milling around the entrance to the unveiling of the Volkswagen Passat last night, a security guard walked up to me. “Are you supposed to be here?”
Read MoreAgustaWestland’s new AW609 tiltrotor aircraft is still at least two years away from entering service, but we now have a better idea of just how fast this transformer for civilians is going to be. On a “point-to-point” journey from Yeovil, UK to Cascina Costa, Italy, the AW609 traversed the 721 mile route in 2 hours 18 minutes.
Read MoreNissan issued a press release explaining their crossover testing methods, and all I can say is that the Juke is tougher than me. Or you.
Read MoreI kid you not, this is an official product built to order by the Briggs Automotive Company. A salt-proof Mono for half a million pounds, designed exclusively for use on your yacht. Because you might as well!
Read MoreThe diesel engines found in Volkswagen products since the 2015 model year are not the Type EA189 TDIs that admittedly have the emission cheating software installed, but VW still can’t sell you the newer Type EA288 TDI engines in 2015 and 2016 model year cars either. Why? We’re not sure yet.
Read MorePeople often describe Ronin as “the car chase movie.” Yes, it has great car chases. It probably has the best car chases ever committed to celluloid. But to only remember it for that reason is to do the rest of the film a major disservice. Here’s why it remains one of the best action movies ever made.
Read MoreMartin Winterkorn, reigning double-breasted deity of Volkswagen, apologized for his company’s diesel crisis. He did not, however, resign.
Read MoreSo you bought a TDI Volkswagen because it was fun and got great mileage, and now you’re worried you’re killing the ozone layer and giving asthma to all the babies. You’ve come to the right place!
Read MoreBy now you’ve probably heard Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions regulations with their TDI diesels on millions of cars worldwide. For those who own one here in the U.S., here are some initial thoughts from a consumer protection attorney’s perspective.
Read MoreAnthropomorphized Commedia dell’arte mask/Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn brought the restyled 2016 Nissan Altima to Bloomberg HQ for Matt Miller to stand next to. Matt Miller is very tall. (Updated with Matt Miller-less official pics.)
Read MoreOn the heels of this morning’s news of Dieselgate going international, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is out at Volkswagen and has been replaced by Matthias Müeller, the current CEO of Porsche, according to a report in German magazine Der Tagesspiegel that remains unconfirmed.
Read MoreThings just went from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission test cheating engine management software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide. They also say they’ll set aside $7.2 billion in just the third quarter to cover this mess.
Read MoreSpeaking just before the unveiling of the 2016 Volkswagen Passat at an event in New York, President and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America Michael Horn made a short statement on Volkswagen’s recent diesel cheating scandal: “Our company was dishonest; we screwed up.”
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Passat, long-time title holder of America’s Most Meh™ Sedan, get’s a sleek new refresh for 2016. Following an awkward announcement on the blooming Dieselgate scandal, we got our first look and fresh details of the refreshed ride.
Read MoreConditions in Düsseldorf, Germany (DUS) were windy and wet over the weekend, making for a crazy-looking maneuver as this Emirates Airbus A380 (the world’s largest passenger airliner) returned to terra firma. Watching the giant aircraft’s weight transfer to its wheels somehow actually makes the superjumbo appear small.
Read MoreVolkswagen faces a maximum fine of $18 billion for having diesels that are much dirtier in real world driving than during the EPA’s mandated tests. But how does a car know it is being tested? Consumer Reports explains that the method is simple and uses a feature common in modern cars — but VW is in hot water over how they exploited it.
Read MoreFresh off admitting that it cheated on Environmental Protection Agency tests of its diesels, Volkswagen will now be the target of Congressional hearings into its misdeeds.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s current diesel disaster is not the first time the Environmental Protection Agency has discovered that a vehicle manufacturer had been cheating on their diesel emissions tests. Here’s how the U.S. government won $1 billion from diesel cheaters nearly two decades ago.
Read MoreWe’re showing Ronin as part of our Film Festival in Los Angeles this week (tickets still on sale here) and before we screen it we’re going to have a panel with automotive bon vivant Alex Roy, drifter Tony Angelo, stunt driver Sera Trimble, and hollywood carfinder Josh Hancock to talk about the film. It should be fun.
Read MoreIn a move that seemed like an inevitability at this point, the United States Department of Justice is said to have opened a criminal investigation into Volkswagen’s admission to cheating on diesel emissions tests, a report from Bloomberg said.
Read MoreGood reporting is often just aggressive skepticism, and so my goal for this column was to do the Slate-ian thing of finding reasons why Dieselgate may not be so bad for Volkswagen. I can’t. This is about as bad as it gets for a car company.
Read MoreWe’re having a big party in Los Angeles this Friday at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar to kickoff the Jalopnik Film Festival, which will include a chance to drive the new Miata. Because we ran out of spots so fast we just opened up some more. RSVP here for the rides and RSVP here for the party. [UPDATE: We just added some more!]
Read MoreNASA wants to chip off a big piece of a near-earth asteroid so that it can send a manned mission to retrieve samples without having to fly outside the moon’s orbit to do so. The only problem is that they need to know composition and strength of what they are about to chip away. This is where Honeybee Robotics thinks they have a solution with their “Space Shotgun.”
Read MoreYes, it’s a catastrophe. There’s no other way to describe the allegations from the Environmental Protection Agency that Volkswagen cheated on their emissions tests with nearly half a million TDI diesel cars. What’s at stake here? Potentially billions in fines, criminal prosecutions, VW’s reputation, and maybe even the future of diesel in the U.S.
Read MoreWhile it’s just talk for now, news from Autoblog indicates that Mercedes-AMG reportedly has a new sports car in the works — and a very powerful and very high-end one, at that.
Read MoreA lot of people are very upset about Volkswagen’s ongoing diesel emissions cheating scandal: the EPA, TDI owners, and VW officials themselves. But likely no one is as outraged as the Führer himself.
Read MoreYesterday was a great day, starting with the Greensboro, North Carolina Cars & Coffee event and leading to the discovery of a great road in the Uwharrie Mountains, just outside of Charlotte.
Read MoreFollowing the government investigation of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions, The Detroit News reports the automaker ordered its U.S. dealerships to halt sales of new 2016 and remaining 2015 TDI car models with 2.0-liter diesel engines.
Read MoreTo all of the parents who say that those dern video games (shakes fist) exist just to turn their kids’ brains to mush, talk to Dave Carapetyan. He turned a passion for rallying in the gaming world to a real-life motorsports career and his own school for rally racing down in Austin, Texas.
Read MoreTell the truth: if you were a Floridian with a Mercedes, a handgun, and an assault rifle in your car, what would you most like to do with your time? Drive like a dick and terrorize families in other cars? Of course! How about shooting yourself in the leg? Why not — according to NBC-2 in Florida, this guy did!
Read MoreBMW and Toyota have been collaborating on what has long been rumored to be a new sports car for each brand. Well it’s been three years since they started working together, and it turns out Toyota hasn’t decided whether or not to actually go into production.
Read MoreGot a garage full of car stuff and also some swimming pool stuff? This is why you want to keep all of that stuff separate.
Read MoreClub Concorde, a group of ex-pilots, maintainers, engineers, airline execs and Concorde enthusiasts has unveiled a plan that aims to put a Concorde back in the air by 2019, and supposedly they have a pile of cash to see their plans through to fruition.
Read MoreGood afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your weekly Jalopnik column where you write me letters and I attempt to respond in the only way I know how: an obscene amount of lies and deception.
Read MoreDevastating news for Volkswagen diesel fans broke earlier today that the company was reportedly cheating on its Environmental Protection Agency smog tests of nearly 500,000 cars. But they’ve been touting their supposedly “clean” diesel tech for awhile. So why and when did they delete all their diesel ads from YouTube?
Read MoreWhat do you do when your $1.5 million car is caught on video terrorizing a residential neighborhood, then you further piss everyone off by saying you have diplomatic immunity when you really don’t? Simple: you get the fuck outta Dodge.
Read MoreThe New York Times reports Volkswagen has been ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to recall 482,000 diesel cars in the U.S. over software they say was intentionally designed to circumvent smog regulations. (See updates below, but no recalls yet.)
Read MoreOur pals over at CarNewsChina led us down a very degenerate path today by introducing us to a previously-unknown car accessory: the inflatable car mattress. On its own, it just seems like a clever, practical device so you can comfortably sleep in your car. But the advertising tells a different story. A clumsily Photoshopped sexy story.
Read MoreI remember hiking in Yosemite in the summer, putting my nose up to every tree I passed. They were Jeffery’s Pine. The bark smells like vanilla, only richer and woodsier. One of the guys I was hiking with swore that if anyone made a Jeffery’s Pine cologne, they’d be rich.
Read MoreWe’re going to have a DJ as part of our bigass party in Los Angeles at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar next Friday, September 25th (RSVP here). And not just any DJ, we’ll have music by DJ Tay James. What do you want to hear?
Read MoreBeing in SPECTRE is a huge deal for both Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin, and both companies did their best to supply the producers with the most amazing vehicles James Bond has ever seen. But they are for your eyes only.
Read MoreNeed to push back a blockade of riot police and armored vehicles? Tired of getting pepper sprayed and beat with a club? Grab the John Deere and PUNCH IT.
Read MoreA world without a Soviet Union, the economic boom, the personal computer and the introduction of the internet! It’s the 1990s, baby, and Bond is back with a new actor, a female boss, and questionable relevance. Oh boy, does GoldenEye manage to juggle a lot.
Read MoreWe somehow made it to day two with out getting kicked out of the Frankfurt Motor Show despite what I can only describe as a Lederhosen/Wienerschnitzel incident at the BMW party. Bill Caswell would have been proud. (Bill Caswell probably would have gotten us kicked out had he been there, but that’s another thing entirely).
Read MoreI’m not sure if you’ve heard, but the Chrysler 200, which is a car that is “imported from Detroit,” is supposedly imported from the faraway land of Detroit. But pretty soon it’ll be imported from another faraway land – Mexico.
Read MoreThe compact family/grocery/guy in a cheap suit/whatever you throw at it-hauler Opel Astra is that brand’s most important car, and this K-generation had better sell like hotcakes now that General Motors is down $900 million. But why wouldn’t it?
Read MoreKYB, the company that makes the shock absorbers on my car (and quite possibly on your car too), just plead guilty to fixing prices of shock absorbers here in America. They will pay $62 million in fines. Also, the way it all went down was kind of old school.
Read MoreBeing a Youth induces all sorts of wonderful logic. Brian will kiss you if you do a power slide, Lorraine will laugh at you if you ask her to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. And also, if your bus is completely destroyed by a train, there will be no school ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read MoreThe official death toll from GM’s faulty ignition switches that it knew about but failed to recall stands at 124, with many more injured. News came out last night that GM would settle with the government for $900 million in the criminal case, but it also just agreed to settle for a further $575 million in the civil case with 1,380 victims.
Read MoreSince we’ve been all about self-repair lately, let’s talk about what you can learn from the way your car sounds.
Read MoreFord’s new delightfully bonkers 345 HP, Drift Mode-having hottest hatch now has its configurator available, so it’s time for all of us to pretend we have around $37,000 to unload and start putting together our cars. We want to see yours!
Read MoreAfter selling more than three and a half million of them, for next year, Toyota felt it’s time to go weird with the Prius. And it works!
Read MoreHonda is taking ANOTHER another crack at their Honda Civic, which looks just like those leaked renders we saw a few months back, and now with a turbo option!
Read MoreGeneral Motors is going to pay a $900 million fine and be criminally charged for hiding a defect from regulators in order to end a federal investigation, according to sources who spoke Reuters. That’s less than the $1.2 billion Toyota paid, but it’s still a massive fine.
Read MorePolice officials in Beverly Hills investigating the LaFerrari and Porsche 911 GT3 drivers who tore through a neighborhood at excessive speeds say that the parties involved do not have actually have diplomatic immunity like they claimed.
Read MoreBrabus, responsible for some of the most aggressively ostentatious tuner cars, has passed its brush over the Tesla Model S. And it’s almost elegant! Is nobody brave enough to put some offensive flaps and stance on this car?
Read MoreYou know how the three German premium manufacturers don’t just have stands at the Frankfurt Motor Show, but their own buildings? Well, the Alfa Romeo Giulia didn’t need to be that shouty. Everybody knew where to find her.
Read MoreI’m proud to announce the names of the short films selected by our esteemed panel of judges that we’ll screen during our day of films on Saturday. Definitely buy a ticket now for your chance to see the best filmmakers of the present and future on the big screen.
Read MoreHey, remember way back in 2013 when Hyundai said they were going to launch a performance sub-brand one letter of the alphabet down from BMW’s? You don’t? Well they are. And at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week, they reaffirmed their commitment to performance brought to you by the letter N.
Read MoreThe Focus ST is a magical european machine that actually makes front-wheel driving a genuine joy. What do you need to know before you buy a Focus ST? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Fiesta ST is about the most fun you can have in a car the size of a washing machine box. What do you need to know before you buy a Fiesta ST? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Golf R is a genuine performance car built on an economy car platform. What do you need to know before you buy a Golf R? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Veloster is a weirdo, but it wears its quirkiness with confidence. What do you need to know before you buy a Hyundai Veloster? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreDo you want an Italian car that sounds as gnarly as a Ferrari but you can park at Trader Joes? Enter the Fiat 500 Abarth. What do you need to know before you buy a Fiat 500 Abarth? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Mini Cooper isn’t for everyone, but it’s not supposed to be. If you can deal with the cutesy-retro looks and the relatively small size, you’re in for one of the most fun and surprisingly practical motoring experiences around. What do you need to know before you buy a Mini Cooper? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreAs some of you may know, I have been busy for just about the last year keeping up with all the crazy automotive mayhem going on with the upcoming Bond film, SPECTRE. Well folks, this is what it has all been building to.
Read MoreLet’s count out 14 seconds: one, two, three, four, five, six, (bored yet?) nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. That’s how many seconds faster the new Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio is around the Nürburgring over a BMW M4.
Read MoreThe new no-dual-clutch Audi S4 debuted today, and Audi released a customary video to show the car in motion, with some lifestyle scenes and shots of its features. Also, it has the worst music ever put to a car video.
Read MoreNow that September is in full force, we can take a moment to reminisce on August, which is yet another month when Volkswagen tried to make the Golf seem more successful than it really is.
Read MoreBMW has given us a glorious double-whammy of M6s and red and blue stripes as they finally showed their M6 GT3 race car and the similarly-livried M6 Competition edition, available to us mere mortals. Well, mortals with money. These are both fantastic-looking cars.
Read MoreWhy do we explore space when it’s so expensive and challenging? Well, besides the fact that we need to get off this rock someday after we inevitably ruin it, we get a lot of cool technology from space exploration that ends up in our everyday lives.
Read MoreThe third Jalopnik Film Festival presented by Mazda will open with a party, a chance to drive the new MX-5 Miata around an airport, and a screening of Adam Carolla’s Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman on September 25th at Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar. RSVP here for the party, full details below.
Read MoreEveryone thinks Porsche’s Mission E could be the next electric Panamera. But it’s smaller than that, which means you might be looking at the next 911 instead despite the four doors. No luxurious rear seats, but speed and beauty this time with an exciting concept that we’re hoping hits the streets by 2019.
Read MoreYou’ve probably seen the viral video where a LaFerrari and a white Porsche 911 GT3 blast through residential streets in Beverly Hills, scraping their bumpers, blowing past stop signs and grenading one of their engines. And you may have wondered, “Where are the cops in all of this?”
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz Concept IAA is pretty far from what we would call a production-ready concept, but since active wings became a common thing, this transforming active tail might just be the next step towards improved efficiency.
Read MoreBMW CEO Harald Kruger collapsed onstage while speaking during BMW’s Frankfurt Motor Show press conference earlier today. Watching the video, he becomes unstable and falls, appearing disoriented and confused. The press conference was cancelled, but happily Kruger is said to be stable and recovering.
Read MoreI was afraid of the Nissan Gripz concept. I didn’t want to believe in a Nissan Z crossover. It went against the beliefs I held near and dear. But now that I’m seeing the finished product, I’m a changed man. This actually looks pretty kickass.
Read MoreOur more astute readers may have noticed this interesting fact already: chess pieces and Hot Wheels (or Matchbox, or similar) cars are both small, solid objects that can be held easily in one hand. I’ve confirmed this with a double-blind study. This fact leads to one question: what cars would be what chess pieces?
Read MoreThe heyday of the concept of ‘morphing’ in popular culture probably happened in the early-to-mid ‘90s, when it was hard to avoid a music video or movie without something transforming into something else. Now Mercedes has picked up the idea for their Frankfurt Motor Show concept car, the body-changing Concept IAA.
Read MoreAt this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, the Volkswagen Group showed the world that they’re going big on electrification. In addition to the Volkswagen Tiguan GTE plug-in hybrid and stunning please-build-it Porsche Mission E concept, they also unveiled an Audi crossover concept that runs on sweet electricity.
Read MoreA rare and valuable 2014 Nissan Sentra was involved in a 3-car accident on Houston’s Southwest Freeway, suffering fairly serious damage. Luckily, no one was seriously injured. Oh, and the other cars were a Rolls-Royce Wraith and a McLaren 12C.
Read MoreFollowing the success of Bullitt, a film about the world’s most famous endurance race with Steve McQueen as its star should have been a hit. It wasn’t. Worse, making Le Mans cost McQueen his family, his company, and many of his friends. John McKenna, director of Steve McQueen: The Man And Le Mans, which will be shown at the Jalopnik Film Festival in LA later this month, explains how it went so wrong.
Read MorePorsche’s Tesla-fighter is real. At least, it is in very sexy concept form. This is the Mission E Concept and we’re in love.
Read MoreI’ll say this for the Bugatti Veyron: it was an unparalleled masterwork of engineering, but not an especially pretty one. Sure, a Veyron will catch your eye if you know what it is (or what it costs), but it’s no classic beauty. Now we see the approach Bugatti is taking to future designs, and pretty’s not the word I’d use there either.
Read MoreThe Ariel Atom is a super-lightweight, scaffolding-constructed, 365-horsepower turbocharged animal. I am generously described as “bookish,” and my track experience is pretty limited. But somebody decided it was a great idea to mash the two of us together, and now I think I’m in love.
Read More“Modern cars suck, you can’t work on them!” shade tree mechanics everywhere like to lament. And they’re definitely right, just not in every single case.
Read MoreYou might remember the Lexus LFA in Japan that was rescued from a flood and given a Toyota NASCAR V8 heart transplant. Here it is tandem drifting through the forest.
Read MoreOkay, we get it. Cars are fun, the suburbs are boring. But these two pinheads are driving recklessly, almost ruining two beautiful cars, and not even really looking that cool doing it:
Read MoreIn a move that will push America even closer to fully-automated vehicles, ten automakers will make emergency braking standard on their U.S. models, according to Reuters. Experts hope this will reduce the incidence of rear-end collisions, and a recent report indicates it can reduce injury by 35 percent.
Read MoreANA has been pumping Star Wars fans up for three airliners in Star Wars-themed liveries for months now, and the moment has finally come to see the first!
Read MoreThe naturally aspirated 911 Carrera is dead, and you know what? I ain’t even mad. I would be quite happy with 420 horsepower of turbocharged goodness from the 3.0 liter engine. What would yours look like? The configurator is right here.
Read MoreIt seems like everyone’s talking about that woman who fired up her Difference Engine and keyed in a long, self-satisfied story about how she and her husband live like it’s 1880. That’s fine by me. But, while reading more about them, I found references to a “truck.” That just won’t do. But I’m not here to judge — I’m here to help.
Read MoreOur ‘Ring-going friends at Bridge To Gantry got extremely lucky when Alfa Romeo decided to take the new Giulia out onto the Nürburgring during amateur hour. Luckily for us they already had a camera set up, and the ability to keep up.
Read MoreHolyrood Palace is is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland, and Her Majesty The Queen suggested that this year, the Concours of Elegance should fill its lawn with the most beautiful cars in the world. So they did.
Read MoreDodge revealed their new 2016 Charger Pursuit police car today, and the big takeaway is: it gets an enormous screen so you can keep your chunky computers in the trunk.
Read MoreThe Nissan Z crossover is happening. Well, kind of. Today Nissan teased a concept coming to the Frankfurt Motor Show called the Gripz, and it takes cues from one very famous older Z and... bicycle racing?
Read MoreIf you ask Jaguar, they say the C-X75 is still a no go. If you ask the people who actually designed and built the car, they say if anybody, Agent 007 just might be able to push it into production. Take your bets!
Read MoreParked in the middle of Ann Arbor like it’s any other normal old Honda Civic is the all-new 2016 Honda Civic, but someone over at the CivicX.com forum figured out what it is and snapped some photos. What do you think of it?
Read MoreI think I know the best local Craigslist region in the country, as far as buying old cars is concerned.
Read MoreWithout a proper exhaust sound, many cars would lack the unique experience that they are known for. These are the ten best sounding highly-tuned exhausts.
Read MoreAbout half a century ago before they went under, Borgward was a middle class German carmaker, something similar to a current Audi. Now they’re back with funding from a Chinese firm and they’re making something, uh, more than a little similar to a current Audi.
Read MoreLike our previous two entries in our Bond countdown, 1981’s For Your Eyes Only manages to tick all of the boxes of the typical Bond film. It has the gorgeous Bond girl, a plot of revenge, an appearance by Blofeld, car chases, ski chases, underwater fights - everything. It’s the reality check Bond needed after the space laser battles at the end of Moonraker.
Read MoreUnited Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek resigned abruptly yesterday amid allegations of wrongdoing in his dealings with David Samson, the former agency chair of New York City-area airports. And the best part of this new scandal is that it can trace its roots back to last year’s bridge closure scandal in New Jersey!
Read MoreUPDATE: Chadwick’s car has been found!
Read MoreNot surprisingly, we are sold out of the $50 early bird VIP tickets for the Jalopnik Film Festival. If you’re in Los Angeles on September 26th the $75 regular VIP passes and the $25 general admission passes are still for sale. Buy them here. You’ll never see more great car films in person for less money.
Read MoreAudi likes to present their cars in a very chic, slick, silver these days. This is a mistake. Audis look best in red.
Read MoreFrom the Lexus LFA to the BMW i8 and now to the refreshed Porsche 911, it seems as if all sports car manufacturers feel the need to manipulate the sound that their engines produce. So which carmaker does it best?
Read MoreThis is the first we’re hearing of the new, 420 horsepower, twin-turbocharged 3.0 liter Porsche 911 Carrera S with its optional, center-exit sports exhaust. And it sounds broken.
Read MoreThe Jaguar XJ220 is one of the greatest cars ever built. At the time of its debut, it was seen as one of the most disappointing. It all has to do with the cutaway above.
Read MoreCadillac has teamed up with Public School New York, a clothing fashion company, to premiere the new XT5 crossover, which will replace the SRX.
Read MoreThere is a very particular terror you find sideways, on the edge of a ridge, in the dirt, in a $76,000 carbon fiber sports car you do not own.
Read MoreIf you know you’re not in a condition to drive, it’s best to, you know, stop driving. Of course, this doesn’t mean you should just stop in the middle of a road and let your Hyundai just sort of roam free like this woman did. That’s actually probably worse than driving impaired a few seconds longer to get somewhere safe. Just a thought.
Read MoreDid you have a good Labor Day this year? No. You did not. You did not jump a flaming Suburban into a lake.
Read MoreYesterday at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, British Airways Flight 2276 bound for London’s Gatwick airport experienced an engine fire during its takeoff roll. More than a dozen people were injured in this horrific-looking incident. Here is a recap of everything we know about the situation so far.
Read MoreThe Dodge Journey is the cheapest 7-passenger CUV you can buy, and that’s really the only reason to even consider it. What do you need to know before you buy a Dodge Journey? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreAny time I get to ride a 1960s-era Budd R32 subway car here in New York I am reminded that I get to use one of the modern world’s most antiquated transportation systems. What about what the shiny clean future-is-now that other people use?
Read MorePolice in San Francisco this weekend arrested a bicyclist for attacking a ZipCar with a u-lock during a Critical Mass ride. Watch the below video of the attack, feel its seething and pointless rage, and witness what may be the most stereotypically San Franciscan crime of recent memory.
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Read MoreYup. That’s it. That’s the new Prius. It has.. a design, and a combined power output with the 1.8L four cylinder and hybrid setup of 150 hp, about a 15 hp bump over the outgoing model. Yes, a car.
Read MoreA Cadillac-Buick-GMC dealer was the unfortunate victim of a rogue milk truck last Sunday after the truck driver choked on a nice refreshing Dr. Pepper beverage.
Read MoreThe Jeep Wrangler is the most off-road capable production vehicle on earth that normal humans can afford. What do you need to know before you buy a Jeep Wrangler? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreRemember when Bentley made an ugly SUV concept? Remember when they backtracked and said they wouldn’t make it ugly anymore? Well they lied. Here it is: the still-ugly 2017 Bentley Bentayga.
Read MoreA British Airways 777 caught fire at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport this evening. Reports state the fire began in one of the engines but that can not be confirmed at this time. All 159 passengers and 13 crew onboard are reported to have successfully escaped from the aircraft.
Read MoreI held off on reporting this batshit crazy rumor from the UK’s Autocar, mainly because it seemed way too out of left field to possibly be true and also because I don’t want it to be true. But now that Nissan has released this shadowy teaser image, I think I have to take us to a potentially uncomfortable place.
Read MoreMany new cars have a system where you can hand-write on a touch screen and the infotainment system will read the letters. The new Rolls-Royce takes this to a new, globalized level.
Read MoreI recently attended the launch of the all-new 2016 Lexus RX in Portland, Oregon, where I discovered a new way the federal government is keeping down the little guy: by standing in the way of turn signal coolness.
Read MoreI hear from used car buyers who discover something wrong with their car after they had made the purchase. But what upsets them is that the manufacturer “knows” about the problem and is doing nothing about it. Sorry, but this one’s your problem most of the time - not theirs.
Read MoreWe have this idea in America that to tow anything, you need a Ferd F-Teenthousand Super Crew King Cab Bacchanalia Ranch Ultra Duty 3500 Dually. This is a lie, perpetrated upon you by car companies desperate for their truck profit margins
Read MoreWhy waste your pennies going road racing when you could try your hands at these ten bizarre sports?
Read MoreHavana Motor Club. Ronin. Steve McQueen The Man And Le Mans. In addition to being the greatest car film event on Earth, ever, the third annual Jalopnik Film Festival in Los Angeles will bring you a full-day of 21 car films (both short and long) for $25. Buy your tickets right here. The value!
Read MoreTraditional handbrakes are disappearing from cars even faster than manual transmissions, and since all upcoming Koenigseggs will come with electronic parking brakes as well, I asked Christian von Koeningsegg why we won’t be doing handbrake turns in the future.
Read MoreI’m just going to say right up front that while I know what this guy did is wrong, I admire his cheapskate ingenuity, and I think it’s too harsh a penalty to take away his Geo Metro. Here’s the guy’s crime: he rigged a license-plate flipper to avoid paying tolls. In Canada.
Read MorePatent number US20150246720 was published yesterday, from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America. It’s a design for a wing system for a potential flying car. And not just any wing system — it’s a stacking one that looks like an 1898 flying machine contraption. Go home, Toyota, you’re drunk.
Read MoreReports out of Dubai mean this could very well be the first Lamborghini Aventador SV on fire on the planet. It happened on a stretch of the Dubai Marina and apparently started in the engine before gobbling up the rest of the supercar.
Read MoreNo more naturally aspirated engines for the ordinary Porsche 911.
Read MoreHow many of you are going to a Cars & Coffee event this weekend? Today was my first in the foggy city of Charlotte, NC. I had a blast.
Read MoreIt’s not just the trains that are decrepit in the New York City subway system, it’s the stations as well. But everything is surely fixable, right? Well, a new report from the Citizens Budget Commission, a non-partisan non-profit, says that really, it is totally fixable. Though at current repair rates, it will take 52 years.
Read MoreIf you’re a Star Wars fan and an Uber user in New York City, you’re in luck. Get ready to pull out your phone and wait reluctantly by it for a #branded Dodge Charger Hot Wheels Storm Trooper Hellcat Uber to come your way.
Read MoreWe told you most of the details of the third annual Jalopnik Film Festival in LA yesterday when we put tickets on sale, but because of a computer issue it appeared to some that our discounted VIP tickets were sold out. They’re not. Buy them here (or call 888-929-7849) and see Ronin, Steve McQueen The Man And Le Mans, Mad Max, Being Evel and a bunch of other films with one ticket!
Read MoreWe love motors. We love sports. We love motorsports. And of course, we’re always on the lookout for things that are strange and interesting, particularly if it’s a hilarious competition that we could enter or watch.
Read MoreWith some types of car ownership, you’re just asking for trouble. These ten types of car owners don’t have any right to complain for their flawed purchases.
Read More“Hello, yes, is this Mercedes-Benz? I’d like a million S-Classes please. Wait, no. A billion. A billion S-Classes. In black. Identical. Put whatever wheels you want on them. And make sure they got good suspension because they’re going on a plane.”
Read MoreTake your bets now! I only drove her from the airport to the airport hotel’s parking lot here in Birmingham so far, but the next time I jump in it, I’ll have to take her to Edinburgh. Everything is on the wrong side, I can’t see out of it, 380 horsepower. Yep.
Read MoreSo apparently there’s a bunch of super cool people with a junk yard. Not only that, but these particular super cool people film themselves going absolutely demolition-derby-dooda on some cars, mainly behind the wheel of an unstoppable Volvo wagon.
Read MoreIt’s sometimes reassuring to know that substances like peyote can solve any problem you may have. Ford needed some sort of van-based show car in 1970, so they just (this is speculation, of course) applied liberal amounts of peyote to their Econoline design team and whammo, out screamed the Econoline Kilimanjaro. All hail the Kilimanjaro!
Read MoreThe fourth James Bond movie in the franchise, 1965’s Thunderball, was the biggest yet with the best soundtrack, greatest sets, classic style, the loveliest Bond girls, a great performance by Sean Connery, and possibly the slowest, most anti-climactic ending to almost any other Bond film.
Read MoreEveryone loves to talk about cars made by plane companies. Saab never let us forget about Born From Jets. But what about planes made by auto companies? Which planes were Born From Cars?
Read MoreMore boring corners of the Internet are going nuts over a bunch of tweets that Elon Musk sent out last night. Tesla’s entry-level electric car, the Tesla Model 3, will sell for $35,000 (we knew this), it’s going to be unveiled in March, which means it’s delayed (we know Tesla does this), and production will start in 2017 (we’ll see about that).
Read MoreNapoleon Bonaparte was one of the most brilliant military leaders the world has ever seen. He was victorious in nearly every campaign he ever led and succeeded in shaping world affairs in a way that few individuals ever do. But in spite of his brilliance, after escaping from Exile on an island, even he met his end at the Battle of Waterloo.
Read MoreThe new TVR company led by British entrepreneur Les Edgar took more than 250 deposits for its Gordon Murray-designed and Cosworth-powered sports car that will debut at next year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. That means if you want one, you’ll have to wait until 2018 now.
Read MoreA $10,500 price tag, a Can Am race car chassis and a 375 horsepower turbine engine. That’s all they had in 1967 to throw against the Ford GT40 and the rest of the best. And the Howmet TX spools up just fine to this day, as Petrolicious will tell us.
Read MoreNot surprisingly, there’s a strong connection between famous musicians and private jets. From Carly Simon caroling about a mystery man flying his “Learjet up to Nova Scotia” to Elvis Presley’s well-known affinity for aircraft, singers seem to love airplanes (we certainly can’t blame them!) But pop princess Taylor Swift, who has a pair of Dassault Falcon jets, may be one of the current rulers of the charts and the skies.
Read MoreCitröen is going to show off a new two-door Cactus M Concept, which is perfect if you are European and live an active, beach-going lifestyle and always wanted a Citroen Méhari.
Read MoreGood news, citizen! Remember how we all were sad with the news that the trusty work horse that is the Ford Crown Victoria was ceasing production? Worry no more, as Detroit has a new plan to keep their cruisers-a-cruisin’.
Read MoreA study of over four million instagram posts over a span of four years has concluded that BMW is the most popular automotive brand photographed on the social imaging app Instagram - an app mostly used by Vine users and celebrity public relations managers.
Read MoreThese are The Four Horsemen that lead the design of Bugatti’s all new Vision Gran Turismo Veyron concept. To at least one of them them, it’s all about Fighting (virtual) Fire With Fire, and Nothing Else Matters.
Read MoreYou know you love the humble pineapple when you begin your local transit welcome message with an ode to it. I mean, that’s really the only explanation I’ve got for it.
Read MoreI think it’s time to address a problem that’s been plaguing car shoppers with eyes for more than a decade now. And that problem is: dealers who don’t take pictures of the vehicles they have for sale when they list them online.
Read MoreSometimes cars can break in bad ways, forcing you to gird your loins and make major repairs. I’ve been there. In fact, I’m in the middle of such a repair right now. In the spirit of our new blog The Garage, how about you?
Read MoreAfter weeks of speculation and thorough review, authorities have confirmed that the flaperon recently found on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is a part of MH370. The part’s serial number, which has been the focus of intense scrutiny, has been confirmed to have originated on the doomed Malaysian airliner.
Read MoreAdam is in the U.S. Navy, stationed in Hawaii. Adam, like many of us, had a car he really and truly loved: a 1969 Mercury Cougar. Unfortunately, Adam had a moment of responsibility/foolishness and sold the car back in 2002 or 2003. Now he wants it back, and needs our help.
Read MoreOld couches generally don’t rank to high on the Fun Potential Scale. They usually get dragged to the curb, or gradually get moister and grosser until they’re a smelly colony of rapidly-evolving funguses, one of which just figured out how to tame fire. But add an ATV and some tow rope into the mix, and it all changes.
Read MoreThere’s a new Chiron coming, of which we got some deets; Bugatti will raise the price, with the old one’s cost to beat. Ferrari, McLaren, and Porsche raised the hypercar status, which Bugatti now has to meet. Get your wallet out and get on your feet, because the Chiron is going elite.
Read MoreA good concept car should really push the limits of what’s possible with regard to design and materials, and ideally leave you feeling just a bit uneasy, but in a good way. It needs to push boundaries and ideas, and I think Peugeot’s managed that with their Fractal concept, even if the name sounds right out of 1994.
Read MoreThe swamp muck tourist trap Times Square is unquestionably the most crowded, busy, garbage place to take a car just about anywhere in the world. So we took this 500 horsepower “street car” built by professional drifter Ryan Tuerck there to see if it could handle it.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model X is on the way, and though the electric car company hasn’t “officially” released any information yet, a huge amount of news just dropped courtesy of the Tesla website. It’s going to get 240 miles on a charge, hit 60 MPH in 3.2 seconds, and come with those sweet, sweet doors.
Read MoreThe Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 case got even weirder last week, as the wing segment that was supposed to lead us back to the missing plane turned out to be incredibly mysterious itself. But that’s not the only weird vehicular mystery out there.
Read MoreWe’ve seen what adaptive cruise control and other crazy safety technologies are capable of, so why stop there? Come on auto engineers, let’s get on with these 10 new and unheard-of safety features.
Read MoreThe Chevy Trax is the second small CUV from General Motors and offers many of the advantages of the Buick Encore at a lower price. What do you need to know before you buy a Chevrolet Trax? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Infiniti Q30 is the small, Mercedes-based small hatchback that anyone who cares about the brand has been waiting for and it looks quite similar to the concept. Could this be the car that makes people care about Infiniti?
Read MoreThey say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe F100 has been absent on the road for twenty-eight years. It still looks pretty sweet, but will its price have you saying what the eff?
Read MoreWhen off-roading, 4X4 is where it’s at, right? Well, not when you only have two wheels, and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Rokon Trail Breaker is in fact a 2X2. Will its price however, prove to be five by five?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lancia Zagato was called the Spyder in Europe, spelled with a “y.” This one’s got low miles and a new top, but will its price have you asking why not?
Read MoreWouldn’t you like to have a car that was specifically designed for “all roads?” Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi has that assertion built right into its name, as well as some other additions. We’ll have to see if its price makes it all that and a bag of chips.
Read MoreWhat is a sports car? Is a Ferrari Testarossa a sports car? What about a sport utility, what’s that? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda is a custom ‘light utility truck’ with Testarossa dreams, does that make it the ultimate sport utility? Does its price make it the ultimate deal?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Yamaha features a big single - so big in fact that you’ll also need a big leg just to kick it over. Let’s see if you get a big kick out of its price as well.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corolla really checks all the boxes. It’s a wagon, a manual, and - praise all that is holy - metallic brown. It’s also imbued with a Mazda 12A which the seller hopes will check the box next to screamin’ deal.
Read MoreThe naming convention of the German auto maker Audi has always been all about the numbers. That’s the case with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe S8 which just like certain Sesame Streets is brought to you by the number “six” - as in speeds. We’ll see if its price “brings it” as well.
Read MoreMore so than even the Parthenon grille of Rolls Royce, no other icon of automobilia engenders as much lust and envy as does Ferrari’s Prancing Horse. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mondial lets you join the horsey set on the cheap, but it’s up to you to say if it’s cheap enough.
Read MoreSeeing as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pinto wagon has been turned into an open bed pickup you might feel the urge to quip, baby ain’t got back. That totally works but will its custom work and price have you also saying it better get back jack?
Read MoreFerrari’s 246 Dino only came with six cylinders, which isn’t all that many if you ask me. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Kelmark GT rocks two more than that, and it’s about the tenth the cost of the real deal. Will that make its price seem like it’s a deal too?
Read MoreThe original Volkswagen Type 2 gained the nickname “Splitty” for its aerodynamically intended split windshield. Our Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender panel carries that sobriquet, and a lot more, but would you expect its price to make it sell lickity split?
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi says it’s one of only 53 originals and that it could be one of the only ones left. That makes it a survivor, but will its price prove it to be the eye of the tiger?
Read MoreCelebrity-owned cars can command a premium for their provenance, that is when the celebrity isn’t found out to be a dick. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Gallardo is celebrity-owned, but is it one worth celebrating?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Deux Chevaux has upholstery made out of denim. That means every trip is going to be by the seat of your pants, but will its price make this Ctroën haute couture?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW is offered with an iPhone thrown in, for the chance that, if you can’t come, you can call. That, and its six-speed stick shift should entice, just as long as its price doesn’t mean a busy signal.
Read MoreHow do you pronounce Renault - Ray-Know or Reh-Nalt? No matter how you say it, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GTA spells fun as it’s described as a turn-key SCCA F-SP racer. Will its price however, spell value?
Read MoreBack when it was new, ads for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Granada equated its looks to a Mercedes Benz. There’s no mistaking this Granada for what it is currently, which is totally awesome. Hopefully for the seller, so is its price tag.
Read MoreWhile not universally loved, Chevy’s HHR was a competent hauler, and in SS form it hauls ass too. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Heritage High Roof rocks a five-speed for added to fun, but is this one’s price as high as its roof?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW alludes to electrical issues that are perhaps common to these cars, but obliquely says that for the most part they can be ignored. That’s pretty weird but it’ll still be up to you to decide if there’s anything shocking about this big coupe’s price.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Escort says it has a clean California title, and that’s where it is being Craigslisted. Some of the pictures in the ad however, have a real Harry Potter/Privet Drive vibe to them, which might just put a spell on its price.
Read MoreThe Vision SF50 from Cirrus Aircraft, which has been in development for the last decade, has renewed interest in the Very Light Jet market, thanks to its itty-bitty size and single engine. But beyond the aircraft’s eye-catching V-tail and top-mounted jet engine, the Vision SF50 will have a very futuristic cockpit with no less than five (FIVE!) displays.
Read MoreThe 2015 fire season has been brutal so far, and relief for many parts of the U.S. can’t come soon enough. Last month, the National Preparedness Level for wildfires was elevated to Level 5, which is the highest possible rating. One of the most effective weapons against Mother Nature’s fiery wrath comes from firefighting aircraft, also known as air tankers and water bombers.
Read MoreLet’s call the Chase for the Sprint Cup what it is: a playoff. When you’re closing out the season, that’s the worst time to start enforcing rules more strictly. After an unusually strict restart penalty, Brad Keselowski called NASCAR “an entertainment sport” as opposed to a “fair” one, questioning NASCAR’s credibility over their change in enforcement.
Read More“Next year will be my last year in the Sprint Cup series,” NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and team owner Tony Stewart said in a press conference this afternoon. “It was a choice that was 100 percent mine. I think deep down, you know when it’s time to do something different.”
Read MoreLand of the free, home of the brave, and birthplace to some of the most legendary racing organizations the world has ever seen. These are the 10 greatest American racing teams.
Read MoreSébastien Loeb just helped Citroën retain its WTCC title in Shanghai over the weekend, only to announce after that he will jump into the Peugeot 2008 DKR16 next year as well.
Read MoreThe Team Formerly Known As Renault is finally going back to being Renault’s works Formula One effort. The struggling power unit supplier intends to buy a controlling stake in the struggling Lotus F1 team, which oddly, is the team Renault sold its stake in after the 2010 season to Genii Capital.
Read MoreThings got a tad heated — both physically and verbally — between NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers Brian Scott and Darrell Wallace Jr. on Saturday night, as the two didn’t exactly agree on how a late restart went down in the race at Kentucky Speedway. Somehow a “C-word” was involved, but as of yet, we still have no idea what.
Read MoreIf there’s one great thing about Porsche’s numerous Carrera Cup series, it’s the close racing that comes from having everyone in the same car. For Joffrey De Narda at today’s Carrera Cup France race, perhaps it was a bit too close, as Jules Gounon’s 911 ramped right onto the roof of his 911.
Read MoreI know that’s not what literally happened here, but it’s been so long since we’ve had an American in Formula One — indulge me, okay? Look at this pass and tell me that the Statue of Liberty herself isn’t weeping as we speak. It’s beautiful.
Read MoreMcLaren Formula One team boss Ron Dennis just dropped a bomb on British broadcaster Martin Brundle after the Japanese Grand Prix. When Brundle asked, “Are [Jenson] Button and [Fernando] Alonso in your primary two cars next year?” on the Sky Sports broadcast, Dennis responded “Yes!”
Read MoreSilver Arrows? Perhaps Silver Huevos is a better name. Here’s Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg outbraking Williams’ Valtteri Bottas at the chicane during today’s Formula One Japanese Grand Prix. You’re welcome.
Read MorePoor Carlos Sainz Jr. Not only did he whack into the pit entry cone as he pulled into the pits, but he locked up his tires trying to slow down down to pit lane speed in time. This looked like the worst last minute pit call ever, but the upside is that the pit entry cone is worth ten imaginary bonus points!
Read MoreContrary to earlier reports that McLaren Honda driver Jenson Button was certainly announcing his retirement from Formula One ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix, we’ve heard nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nope. Not a peep about Jenson’s future. Not even about his post-race dinner plans. Noooooope.
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 MoreFormer World Rally Championship driver Gigi Galli will be returning to FIA World Rallycross this year with his own team, competing in a car usually referred to as “my rental” or “my parents bought me this:” a Kia Rio. Holy crap, it actually manages to look really awesome in World Rallycross trim.
Read MoreVolkswagen isn’t the only entity caught with stuff on their cars that violates the rules this week. The number 15 Michael Waltrip Racing car of Chase for the Sprint Cup participant Clint Bowyer was found with improperly installed parts found during the opening day inspection last week at Chicagoland Speedway.
Read MoreUp in smoke, that’s where my money goes — or so said Red Bull Formula One team principal Christian Horner to NBCSN about Volkswagen’s plans to buy the Red Bull F1 team. Volkswagen faces a possible $18 billion fine for the dieselgate scandal, wherein a system was installed on its diesel road cars to cheat emissions tests.
Read MoreWhen the French and Americans come together on things, they tend to have good results. The Statue of Liberty. Pork roll on croissants. And now, Autosport reports that Lotus Formula One driver Romain Grosjean will drive for the first American-based F1 team in ages: Haas.
Read MoreDespite the fact that motorsports are expensive, F1’s biggest cheerleader in the Volkswagen Group — Martin Winterkorn — has resigned, and Volkswagen will likely spend at least $7.2 billion on the “dieselgate” scandal, the Audi to F1 rumors just won’t die. Car Magazine says that they could even run the program at zero cost.
Read MorePorsche would like you to know that if you have one of their historic Le Mans racers, they’ll be happy to restore it for you from now on. Personally, I just want to post many pictures of this Porsche 917K.
Read MoreMax Verstappen’s refusal to follow Toro Rosso’s team order for him to let teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. pass has been vindicated after the fact. Not only was Sainz not anywhere close to Verstappen’s car, but both team principal Franz Tost and Verstappen’s dad and ex-Formula One driver Jos Verstappen say Max made the right call.
Read MoreDriver Jenson Button is expected to announce an end to his sixteen-season career in Formula One sometime before this weekend’s race at Suzuka, reports The Telegraph. Button had been in negotiations with McLaren, but will likely bow out instead of spend another season in the uncompetitive car.
Read MoreYesterday’s Formula One Singapore Grand Prix wasn’t just bizarre because a Mercedes didn’t finish. No, some idiot who thought it would be cool to walk across an active F1 track stole the show. Now he’s been arrested.
Read MoreWalking black cloud/pay driver Pastor Maldonado seems to have lucked out for 2016. Despite a looming Renault purchase of the struggling Lotus Formula One team, they still need money. Fortunately, they know just the fellow who can bring the cash: current driver Pastor Maldonado.
Read MoreLike the changing colors of the leaves, children returning back to school and the three-tailed flying dung-birds returning to roost in Capistrano or something, certain events mark the start of a season. NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup doesn’t seem official until grown dudes are shoving each other over race cars.
Read MoreAs a result of an apparent medical problem sustained following the race, police say that a 63-year-old stock-car driver died while while making a victory lap at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vermont on Saturday night.
Read MoreFerrari’s Formula One race mechanics rushed into a closed off parc fermé area after the Singapore Grand Prix, prompting them to see the stewards after the race. Those stewards have now mandated that Ferrari apologize to the race officials and security staff, per Autosport.
Read MoreWhether you love or hate team orders, you have to empathize with the poor driver who gets one. Scuderia Toro Rosso’s Max Verstappen — perhaps following in Red Bull teams’ alumni Sebastian Vettel’s footsteps — decided that he wasn’t going to take it, and called out “NO!” over the radio.
Read MoreThe NHRA Carolina Nationals event wraps up at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte, North Carolina today, and John Force is coming in hot.
Read MoreAs the Sky Sports announcers said themselves, this season of Formula One has often been a game of who can finish third behind the Mercedes cars. Not so in Singapore this evening, where a chaotic race gave Ferrari their first double podium of the season and plenty of memorable moments.
Read MoreCan you not watch racing that’s less than an hour long? You’re in luck, because not only did Lone Star Le Mans cram together all the American series plus the World Endurance Championship, but F1 is running long in Singapore and the Blancpain Endurance Series is on at the Nürburgring now and we’ve got a stream. Rejoice, no tape delay!
Read MoreTragedy struck Porsche’s number 18 919 in the last hour of the World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas. Number 18 was leading both the top LMP1 class as well as overall when an electrical issue was detected with about 40 minutes to go. Fortunately for Porsche, this only gave the win to their other car.
Read MoreToyota Gazoo Racing can’t seem to catch a break this year. At today’s 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, the number 2 TS 040 LMP1 tried to get around an Aston Martin at Turn 11, but crashed out instead. Here’s how it happened.
Read MoreIf there’s ever a good time for a bro-hug, it’s when your teammate ensures that you get your sixtieth ever win in top-level North American sportscar races. Scott Pruett increased his record number of wins today at Circuit of the Americas and proved that his once problematic car was now right where the team wanted it.
Read MoreWeather-postponed races are never ideal, but who can complain when this many GIF-worthy moments occur once the action does get underway?
Read MoreWe’ve covered the saga of the DeltaWing rather extensively, but have somehow glossed over the point: it’s a race car, dang it. What is it like to actually drive? So, we asked the pair who will be racing the car at Circuit of the Americas. Interestingly, both drivers swear the funky looking car is actually pretty normal to drive.
Read MoreLight crowd numbers and restraints on large-scale events plague Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, causing the speedway’s potential success to fall back on hopes of attracting a new management company. But with the withdrawal of a proposal from the candidate with perhaps the most proven track record (no pun intended), the future of the raceway remains unclear.
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 MoreTelevision, schmelevision. Liam Dwyer was done with clothes after being lifted out of his car during today’s Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at Circuit of the Americas. It’s hot and humid and let’s be honest, if the rest of us thought we could get away with that, we’d be down to our undies, too.
Read MoreVolkswagen is closing in on a deal to purchase the Red Bull Formula One team to enter as a full works entry with VW power units in 2018, per BBC Sport. We’ve all been wondering why the Volkswagen Group keeps hiring personnel from Formula One, and I guess now we know.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing that’s great about the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, it’s that they run a variety of otherwise normal cars that were prepared for race duty. This Bodymotion Racing Porsche 911, for example, still has its road car key to prove it.
Read MoreWhat is is like to drive for one of the most dominant teams in sportscar racing? Here’s your chance to find out. We have Porsche World Endurance Championship driver Neel Jani here for the next thirty minutes or so to answer any questions you have about anything — from ChampCar to the Porsche 919.
Read MoreWhen the FIA’s new Verstappen-proof superlicense rules came out for Formula One, America felt just a little shafted. Not too many of the series that go towards superlicense points even run here. Fortunately, the Sports Car Club of America’s Pro Racing arm is about to change that: we’re getting a Formula 4 series!
Read MoreAnthony Davidson has accomplished more than most racing drivers can ever hope to do. He’s been in Formula One. He’s been to Le Mans. He currently races with the Toyota Gazoo Racing team and commentating on Formula One for Sky Sports. We’ve got him here for the next thirty minutes to answer your questions. Go!
Read MoreThis weekend, an insane amount of lustworthy race cars descends upon the town where I live: Porsche GT3 Cup, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, United SportsCar and the World Endurance Championship. Here’s some of the cars I saw running practice laps last week. Come drool with us.
Read MoreAn American driver is back in Formula One, and that driver is Alexander Rossi. According to The Daily Mail, the California native will race with Manor F1 for almost all the remainder of the season.
Read MoreOne overwhelmingly awesome weekend of sportscars is coming to Circuit of the Americas in Austin, and we’ll be there. So, by popular demand, we’ve decided to have a get-together this Friday after the track goes cold at 8 p.m. at Posse East, right north of the University of Texas campus.
Read MoreWith Porsche’s World Endurance Championship team looking so good at Le Mans and the Nürburgring, everybody’s wondering: what are the other LMP1 teams doing to match that pace? We asked Audi Sport Head of LMP Chris Reinke at the WEC’s last round at the Nürburgring to find out.
Read MoreIs historic motor racing the best? Yes. Yes it is.
Read MoreThere were two main contenders for the Pirelli World Challenge GT championship: Cadillac’s Johnny O’Connell and R. Ferri’s Olivier Beretta. Beretta was a highly controversial figure this year, with his rough racing style prompting a podium walk-off at Long Beach. Now he won’t get a championship, either.
Read MoreSometimes, the vehicles off-course are almost as cool as those on-course. This is Todd Roberts’ pit bike from this year’s SCCA Solo Nationals, which features an animated woodcut dolphin which you can majestically ride upon as it bobs up and down.
Read MoreChanging weather conditions mixed up the MotoGP race at Misano today, with the track going from dry to wet and back to dry again. Championship hopeful Jorge Lorenzo wiped out switching back to dry tires, sending him off track and severely hurting him in the points.
Read MoreEveryone was gathered around the Sprint Cup championship trophy for his win at Richmond International Raceway to celebrate getting into the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and poor Clint Bowyer gets a ball tap from Kyle Busch.
Read MoreMultiple sources who have gotten their hands on the iOS 9.1 beta are now reporting that Apple included its most important emoji additions yet. Not only are track-ready snacks such as tacos and burritos part of the release, but rejoice, motorsports PR wonks everywhere: there are finally “racing car” and “racing motorcycle” emoji.
Read MoreHere’s a video that’s so insane, it’s been compared to driving Forza on Easy mode with all the assists on. It doesn’t look real, but it’s what happened when Jono Lester restarted in 32nd position at the Australian GT Championship’s first race of the 2015 Clipsal 500 weekend. Watch this, and I’ll even offer to help pick your jaw off the ground.
Read MoreThe 2016 World Endurance Championship regulations allow for significant aerodynamic changes, including an expanded rear diffuser and splitter, per Fox Sports. If the new Aston Martin Vantage GTE looks like it’s farting out a trumpet, that’s the point. That magic butt trumpet means that this car is even quicker for 2016.
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 MoreWyoming-based Center Point Management LLC has filed a lawsuit against Tooele County and likely buyer Mitime, alleging that the parties broke the law in allowing Mitime to purchase Miller Motorsports Park for a lower bid than Center Point offered.
Read MoreNASCAR’s Denny Hamlin tore his right knee’s anterior cruciate ligament (more commonly known as an ACL, or HOLY CRAP THAT HURTS) Tuesday night playing basketball. Today? He’s back in the car for Sprint Cup practice like nothing even happened. Dude is a beast.
Read MoreIndianapolis Motor Speedway announced today that MotoGP will not be returning there for 2016. Per IMS, it was a mutual decision with MotoGP rights holder Dorna Sports. Changes to the series schedule and sanctioning fees essentially priced IMS out of hosting the race.
Read MoreWith the addition of an American team to the Formula One team, everyone was hoping there would finally be an American driver in F1. Nope! According to Haas F1 team principal Günther Steiner, there are no American drivers currently under consideration for 2016.
Read MoreWin on Sunday, sell on Monday? That’s close enough to Audi’s plans, with their bonkers R8 LMS GT3 racecar winning overall at the Nürburgring this year. Now they’re selling 45 of the new R8 race cars just in time for next year’s season.
Read MoreFor the average person, the easiest way to track a supercar is through a “supercar experience”-type program. Many of these let you loose on a real track in a supercar for a set number of laps. I tried out Xtreme Xperience’s Ferrari 458, and I’m not sure I wanted to let them have it back.
Read MoreCitroën Racing’s World Rally Championship driver Mads Østberg and his co-driver Jonas Andersson will not be participating in this weekend’s Rally Australia. Why? They are suffering from minor injuries after hitting a truck.
Read MoreNASCAR’s throwback theme for the Southern 500 is one of the best one-offs I’ve ever seen in racing. Fans love the look back at the sport’s history, and it’s even prompted us to go down a rabbit hole browsing old photos of cool race cars. If this isn’t already going to be a yearly tradition, it should be.
Read MoreAfter tires popped at Spa, Formula One and Pirelli instituted limits on tire pressures. The minimum allowed on any car at Monza was 19.5 psi. To enforce this, an FIA delegate measured left rear tire pressures on the four front cars on the grid and found that both Mercedes’ tires were below the minimum pressure.
Read More“If you take Monza away from the calendar for any shitty money reasons, you are basically ripping our hearts out,” Vettel said after the Italian Grand Prix. Can I get an amen? Aaaaaaamen. Preach it, Brother Vettel. Preach.
Read MoreHeartbreak in unlikely cars today: Nico Rosberg’s supposedly more reliable Mercedes engine blew right up with two laps to go at the Italian Grand Prix. While it looked like it was powered by jets for a second, this meant that Rosberg had to retire out of the race. Now the team’s been called to the stewards. Huh?
Read MoreA record 168 grid penalties were assigned in total for today’s Italian Grand Prix starting grid. One hundred and sixty eight. Seven of the twenty drivers were affected. Manor Marussia’s Will Stevens now starts 13th, for Pete’s sake. Is this season over yet? Here’s the shakedown of who got penalized for what.
Read MoreSix spectators including a pregnant woman were killed at the A Coruña rally in Spain after a driver lost control of his car, per The Guardian. Among the dead were four women and two men. Additionally, sixteen spectators were injured, per the latest report from the BBC.
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 MoreNASCAR is hosting a theme party at this weekend’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway this weekend, complete with old logos and Anchorman-grade suits for the television broadcast. Check out some of the cool retro liveries that will grace the cars this weekend.
Read MoreMartinsville has its hot dogs. Road America has its brats. Texas Motor Speedway just keeps trying to kill us. And the Nürburgring (as well as most of Germany) has glorious, glorious currywurst. It is my solemn duty to you, the reader, to eat this currywurst.
Read MoreRacing takes years to master. Only the best and most skilled drivers can advance to the highest levels of motorsport. The track isn’t a place for fools. Unless of course we’re talking about the gentleman racer series known as the Ferrari Challenge, where any monied jackass can buy their way in and then crash into everything like real life Mario Kart for one-percenters.
Read MoreA couple of sneaky YouTube users recently caught footage of the opening and closing of the new Tesla Model X hot gullwing (or as Tesla calls them, “falcon”) doors. As our narrators instruct us, “Be jelly.”
Read MoreWhen you talk about a car’s noise, usually you’re thinking of the exhaust. But do not forget the distinct sound of the engine’s intake. Here’s a perfect example of what that’s like.
Read MoreWhen you’ve imagined a small, Infiniti-badged premium hatchback, as you do nearly every night before taking a warm bath and having some furtive ‘me time,’ chances are you likely thought of it based on some Nissan platform. Well, you’re wrong. It’s here, and the Infiniti Q30 is a Benz.
Read MoreThe new Rolls-Royce Dawn is a convertible. Does it have a retractable hard top, the supposed high point in convertible technology? Hell no! it’s all fabric, because soft tops are true luxury.
Read MoreAs everyone in the has-swum-in-a-pool-of-money community knows, Bugatti is currently developing the successor to the Veyron supercar, which will be known as the Chiron. At great expense in blood, in money, and in dignity, we have managed to learn 10 key facts about the new car. Here they are.
Read MoreThere’s something Citroën got right with wacky plastic body cladding on the C4 Cactus that the likes of Pontiac didn’t: it wasn’t just a styling cue. No, these plastic “airbumps” are right where people are most likely to ding your doors, and made of plastic specifically designed not to even care. That’s brilliant.
Read MoreMercedes plans to raise the roof at the Frankfurt Motor show this year with the drop-top, super-hot S-Class Cabriolet.
Read MoreHello everybody and welcome to Letters to Doug, everyone’s favorite weekly column that involves writing letters to Doug.
Read MoreDespite what you may have heard, Virgin Galactic isn’t entirely about getting into the space tourism game. A lot of the real money lies in unmanned satellite launches, and the company’s commercial LauncherOne system relies on this beautifully powerful rocket, which just underwent tests in the Mojave desert.
Read MoreThe aerospace and aeronautic fields use some of the most insanely futuristic technologies known to man. Thankfully, some of those technologies go perfectly hand in hand with car tech. These are the ten coolest space tech that have trickled down into the world of cars.
Read MoreAs the world continues to grow, transportation infrastructure and country-country travel are forced to rapidly improve. But what’s at the top of the game?
Read MoreAs much horsepower as you can get out of a Subaru boxer in a mid-engined car that weighs just 1,800 pounds. Factory Five is doing this so right.
Read MoreWe know Apple is working on an autonomous electric car. We don’t know pretty much everything else about it. But now, according to a Wall Street Journal report, we know its “target ship date” is just four years away.
Read MoreAs the Frankfurt Motor Show dies down and we all sleep easy at night with dreams of a Montecarlo Blue Alfa Romeo Giulia, I thought we could process some of the big ideas a lot of automakers hinted at with this year’s show.
Read MoreIntel, the manufacturer of the majority of chips and processors included in most personal computers on sale today, have now started investigating and developing new methods of hack-proofing automobiles.
Read MoreElon Musk believes in it. So does Uber’s Travis Kalanick. The Autonomotive Singularity is inevitable. It is the enemy of enthusiast car culture as it stands, but only as we know it. If we come to understand it, it might just be the best thing ever for car enthusiasts. Might.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreThe Toyota Highlander is the Camry of mid-size SUVs, meaning it does everything well enough and with a minimum of fuss. What do you need to know before you buy one? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Toyota Venza is a bloated Camry. What do you need to know before you buy a Toyota Venza? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Toyota 4Runner is one of the toughest, most reliable SUVs of all time. What do you need to know before you buy a Toyota 4Runner? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreSee the Toyota Avalon in the topshot? It’s beige, both literally and figuratively. But that doesn’t make it bad. What do you need to know before you buy a Toyota Avalon? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe “Falcon Wing” rear doors on the Tesla Model X are pretty sweet. Everyone is amazed they actually made it to the production car. But what happens when you’re in a tight parking space with only a few inches of room?
Read MoreThe first owners are finally taking delivery of the gull-door’d electric crossover they’ve been waiting about three years for: the Tesla Model X. Here’s what we learned from a close look and a quick spin around the parking lot.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model X has been teased in concept form for years, but as the first six vehicles finally make their way into the hands of owners tonight we’ve got more info on Falcon Doors, mono-post seats, and the SUV’s bioweapon defense mode.
Read MoreTonight we get close look at (and quick drive in!) the Tesla Model X, which is being delivered from the factory for the very first time tonight. Anything in particular I should be peeking around for?
Read MoreThe big news for Infiniti’s 2016 QX50 crossover is an extra four inches of legroom in the back. With rear-wheel drive and terrible fuel economy, but more advertised horsepower than a rival Acura or Lexus. it’s billed as “the driver’s crossover.” In reality though, it’s no poor man’s Porsche Macan.
Read MoreMore shots of the 2016 Chevrolet Silverado were posted yesterday from the State Fair of Texas, along with confirmation that the truck will run apps straight off your phone through Apple or Android’s car connectivity programs.
Read MoreTo prove the 2017 Ford Super Duty’s brand new steel frame is super-strong, Ford did exactly what you would do. They strung up a crane with about 9,000 pounds of steel cable, and dangled nine F-150s and a dump truck from it.
Read MorePlease believe I intend no sarcasm whatsoever when I say that the lockable, collapsable, under-seat storage box is one of the most useful innovations on the 2017 Ford Super Duty. Even if you don’t have a gun to put in it.
Read MoreFour people are dead after an amphibious Duck Tour truck in Seattle slammed into the side of a coach bus on the Aurora bridge in Seattle, Washington. Two passenger vehicles were also involved and several others are said to be critically injured.
Read MoreThe last time a new Ford Super Duty design was released, engineers were freaking out about losing their work to Y2K so we’re pretty excited that the trucks are (almost) all new for 2017. So far we know a little about materials, tech features, and of course– the look.
Read MorePhotos of the Ford F-250 Super Duty already leaked out a few months ago, but we caught more of a glimpse of it today from a now-deleted YouTube video about the truck’s frame. Here it is, in all its screencapped glory.
Read MoreI’m about to put the Infiniti QX50 medium-sized crossover through the ringer; shuttling my make-believe family, running errands, and navigating the drive-thru. Want to hear about something specific? Let us know!
Read MoreFollowing the introduction of Bentley’s new super-luxury Bentayga SUV at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, executives at Cadillac and Mercedes-Benz are now licking their lips at plans of pushing their SUVs into the same segment.
Read MoreThe Jaguar F-PACE is finally here to do what Range Rovers do so well: be bigger and sell like hotcakes. It’s spacious alright, but is it as sexy as a proper Jaguar should be? Let’s chat with the guy who designed it.
Read MoreFor the man who has everything, including enemies that want to take it all away, behold the Range Rover Sentinel. Available from the factory with all the usual luxury trim plus resistance to armor-piercing incendiary bullets, DM51 grenades, and TNT.
Read MoreWhile the public expected a decision from Mercedes-Benz on whether its pickup truck will be sold in the U.S. by the end of the year, it appears the manufacturer will need a little longer to weigh its options.
Read MoreThe 2016 Dakar Rally, an extreme off-road endurance challenge spanning multiple countries and thousands of miles, was supposed to start in Peru. But weather there’s predicted to be so bad that the entire race had to be changed. At least the new route looks somewhat spectator-friendly.
Read MoreThe latest from Sant’Agata, the Huracan LP 610-4 Spyder, has got a soft top and a loud V10. It’ll be great. Now let’s just move on, because the Urus SUV is set to be ready in 2018 to most likely be their first turbocharged and hybrid car. And here’s why building it will be Lamborghini’s biggest challenge yet.
Read MoreWhen Ryder turned this Volvo big rig into an enormous remote-control vehicle, I thought they were gonna give us an autonomous trucking demo. Nope, it’s something way more fun to watch!
Read MoreWe can talk about how bad we all want a Jeep Wrangler pickup, how insane it is to spend $178,000 on something just a few short years ahead of a horse-drawn carriage, or we can bask in the glory of what may be the most beast modern Jeep on Earth.
Read MoreWe know the 2017 Ford Raptor will have a 3.5 twin turbo V6, ten-speed automatic transmission, and of course the new F-150’s aluminum body. No real claims have been made on the truck’s power or weight, but Forza 6 has numbers. Think they mean anything?
Read MoreYou have to respect Land Rover for daring to dream up so many cool car toys: invisible hoods, remote driving, really good speakers in the Autobiography. One of those ideas, which is effectively “off-road cruise control,” has become a reality. I tried it on the new Range Rover Diesel. And I hate it.
Read MoreThere are three key selling points for the Bentley Bentayga: Expensive stuff at the back, more expensive stuff at the front and the most expensive grill this side of a Rolls-Royce Phantom. Let’s break them down.
Read MoreMeet Jaguar’s foray into the crossover market. It looks pretty much exactly like the C-X17 concept from 2013, as predicted. I do not think that’s a bad thing.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Tiguan is kind of a rolling symbol of Volkswagen’s troubles in the U.S. It’s too small and too expensive to be truly competitive in one of the most important segments in the game. VW knows this, and their secret weapon is their new MQB platform. Meet the totally redesigned 2017 Tiguan.
Read MoreA 12V Cummins diesel is an amazingly mechanical motor, and all it takes to get big power and bigger torque is some hardware changes. This video walks you through the simple (and not so simple) steps of the process.
Read MoreWe all know the idea behind the Range Rover. It’s elegant, capable, something something fish and chips. So let’s focus on what’s new for 2016: off-road cruise control and the perfect engine, a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V6. At last, a diesel Range Rover for America!
Read MoreIsuzu published a number of photos of an Isuzu Trooper in a stream. Here are several of those photos.
Read MoreWhile I might not know what color the boathouse is at Hereford, I sure as hell drove the only Land Rover that was good enough for Judge Dredd. And the military-only 101 Forward Control delivers, up to two tons!
Read MoreWe hear it with every auto sales report: Trucks are so hot right now you could slap a 1” lift on a picnic table, call it a compact pickup, and lease it to somebody for $400 a month. And yet, not every automaker even has a truck. Which car-only companies should try their hand at making a truck?
Read MoreHere’s the first official naked picture of the 2016 Jaguar F-Pace. Could you possibly imagine a car more completely defined by What’s Hot Right Now?
Read MoreThe idea is simple: take the bad motor (a shakey gas big block) out of a good truck (a ‘73 Dodge D200) and swap it with a good motor (a 12 valve Cummins diesel) out of a bad truck (a junked ‘95 Ram). How hard could it be?
Read MoreFinally — FINALLY — Jeep is reportedly set to give the masses the Wrangler pickup truck they’ve been screaming for for years. That’s according to a new dispatch from Automotive News, which also reports Wrangler production will stay in Toledo, Ohio where it belongs.
Read MoreUncovering long-lost treasure is the hope of any budding car enthusiast, although some would say those days are all but gone. But we know better. I present to you a rust-free Datsun 240z that could just be the start of something beautiful.
Read MoreOne of the things I love about writing for Jalopnik is that readers tell me stories - which are true and yet unbelievable. Like this auto repair contract, sent to me by Jeff in New Jersey. It is the worst. Contract. Ever.
Read MoreHey, everyone! Remember when we all agreed that the best material for car interior would be insanely expensive, impossible to clean, look like a dirty sandbox on its best day with the texture of pubic hair stubble? Neither do I.
Read MoreWhen someone tells me how unreliable used German cars are, I refer them to my daily driven Mercedes S-Class and the German cars I’ve owned in the past year. Then I’d refer them to this amazing Mercedes E55 AMG to show them that financing a Hyundai is never the way to go.
Read MoreI’m not a gambling man, but I do have certain vices, all of which have to do with automobiles. I have a knack of seeing cars for what they can be rather than what they are. That’s why this rough Bentley Continental GT is so enticing, because I think it can, and should be saved.
Read MoreBe it a barn find or just something you left in storage for one too many years, Hot Rod Garage’s Tony Angelo is here to show you what needs to be done with a car before you’re back on the road again.
Read MoreWe all know that cars are more than just mere forms of transportation and can start fantastic relationships, if only to break the ice. That’s why this week, your challenge is to find the car that would surprise a first date, under a $15k budget. I’ll pick you up at eight.
Read MoreDo you remember when the housing bubble burst, but you read stories about people making millions betting on losers? Well, it turns out you don’t need a fancypants cubicle and a $600 suit to make some money from a corporation’s billion-dollar screw-up.
Read MoreHave you ever had that neighbor that just leased a Corolla and insists on telling everyone that it’s a Corolla S with the convenience package? That’s who I’ll be today by presenting the 10 rarest regular cars you picked for under a $15k budget. Don your smug hats, everyone. This is gonna be good.
Read MoreThere aren’t many problems in life that can’t be solved with more power. Got a spider in your house? Nuke it. Need quick dry-cleaning? Flamethrower. A short grocery run? Blitz that shit with this Dodge Viper SRT-10 that can eat a Challenger Hellcat’s lunch any day of the week.
Read MoreIt’s not hard to impress me. I’m still astonished at the fact that I can check my email without the use of my house phone line. However, some things are just objectively impressive, like this opulent Lexus LS460, which parks itself better than you can, at a price that rivals the cheapest of the cheap.
Read MoreIt’s all too common for an automotive journalist to proclaim that something is “insane”. Simply put, it’s often a go-to, all-filler buzzword that jazzes up a headline. However, this Maserati Quattroporte GTS fits the insanity bill quite nicely, and here’s why.
Read MoreIt’s springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, learn how things work under the hood, or just spruce up your daily driver. All month, we’ll be looking back at our best informative, maintenance and DIY articles from Jalopnik’s near 20-year history to get your ride ready for the road. Welcome to the Jalopnik Spring Tune-Up.
Read MoreI get asked from time to time about the so-called Montana License Plate Scam: Can you safely register your vehicle in Montana and drive it in your non-Montana home state? There are a couple problems which might crop up if you give it a try.
Read MoreBuying a modified sports car is kind of like buying a cockfighting rooster. While it might look unassuming, it was made specifically for doing something highly illegal and it probably wants to kill you. But this Porsche 911 Turbo is so damn cheap, you may just rethink your priorities.
Read MoreIt’s one thing to own a Volkswagen Golf, but it’s a whole different animal to own a Volkswagen Golf R32 with a 6-speed manual. This week your challenge is to find the rarest version of regular cars on eBay, for under a $15 grand budget. This may not be easy.
Read MoreIt didn’t take me long to realize that driving a car I actually like through a Michigan winter is a recipe for heartache. My poor XJ still has scars from last year’s salty mess. After months of soul searching, I have no choice but to drive a car I don’t like. And boy does that suck.
Read MoreWhat’s important to you in a car? Is it comfort? Fuel efficiency? Speed? How about prestige and overall experience? Well, it better be one of those things because this Maserati Granturismo S, is the best possible mix of everything you need in a car- for a price of a lightly used SUV from CarMax.
Read MoreYou’ve saved up your nickels to buy the car you’ve been lusting after - a shiny, unmolested, perfect low-mileage example of your dream ride. Not so fast - here’s why buying a museum-grade car can be a colossal mistake if you enjoy driving.
Read MoreLots of folks out there want to learn to fix cars, but don’t know how. Fear not, clean-handed folks, for we have the answer to how you can get greasy and smelly just like us!
Read MoreA fender bender is what happens when the two cars unsuccessfully fight the laws of physics and try to occupy the same space. Here’s how it happened to me and how I fixed it without the use of a body shop.
Read MoreMaybe you can’t afford a car that “runs” or “starts” like some fancy millionaire. Maybe you just like the way a jalopy can take stains and scratches without raising your blood pressure. But the novelty wears off when your slab doesn’t start, so here are some easy items to pack as beater-car life support.
Read MoreFor the very special final episode of What Car Should You Buy, we’re featuring Doug DeMuro’s very own Nissan Skyline GT-R. Think of it as the video version of Doug’s more thorough post on how to legally import a car. What would you import under the 25-year rule?
Read MoreAs you all know by now, I wrench 12 hours a day (the other 12, I surf Craigslist). As such, you’d think I’d have made tons of progress on my Jeep J10 since I first showed it to you three weeks ago. And I’m happy to say, I’ve taken two steps forward. And maybe one step back.
Read MoreOften to save a couple dollars, driveway mechanics and DIY-ers attempt to tackle a relatively small project or mod on their own. Sometimes they bite off more than they can chew. These are the 10 worst automotive repairs you, our Jalopnik readers, have attempted.
Read MoreJust in case you haven’t spent two painful minutes talking to me, I should probably come out and admit that I’m a huge dork. As a huge dork, I have hugely dorky interests, like woefully obsolete display technologies and woefully primitive cars. It seems like the right thing to do would be to combine these interests. Luckily, I have a plan.
Read MoreNo, this isn’t some salvage titled fixer upper plastered together with bondo and sold at the nearest Buy-Here-Pay-Here-Surprise-Repo lot. This is a MKIV Toyota Supra with a twin turbo 2JZ-GTE and a manual transmission, way less than any others on the market - because it may need a few small things.
Read MoreLED headlights throw extremely intense light with very little draw on your car’s electrical system. Now that they’re trickling down to the aftermarket, you can buy a simple plug-in “LED retrofit kit” that straight swaps your halogen bulbs. We installed a set to see if that’s actually a good idea.
Read MoreMy Honda Logo, which is a so-called “Super Mini,” is small. Really small. Despite the car having four doors, it’s honestly a struggle to fit four full sized adults in the GA3. I’ve done it twice, and nobody enjoyed the experience. I almost always had the seats down. So, I decided to double my hatch space and reduce my weight with a false floor.
Read MoreThere’s a saying: money isn’t made when you sell, it’s made when you buy, meaning that it pays to get something cheap if that thing carries future value. This notion also presents a very unique problem in that parting with said cheaply acquired item can be excruciating, especially when it’s a Caracas Red 1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4.
Read MoreThe way you build a hot rod, so we’re told, is nothing but a couple months of grunting and beer drinking and then a T-Bucket magically materializes in your garage. What’s the reality?
Read MoreHumanity’s greatest strength as a species is our willingness to challenge the impossible. To see a towering mountain as merely something that has yet to be scaled. To look to the stars and dream of going there. To convince ourselves that a $500 Alfa Romeo Spider on Craigslist is not only a fantastic idea, but a necessary one.
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