If you like the way Audis look and need something bigger than an A4 and smaller than an A8 then, numerically, the A6 is for you. What do you need to know before you buy a An Audi A6 or S6? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Audi A7 is the most beautiful four-door luxury car you can buy at a reasonable price. What do you need to know before you buy an Audi A7? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Audi A8 is the car you buy when all your friends have 7-series or S-classes. What do you need to know before you buy a Audi A8? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Audi R8 is the supercar you can drive every day and it’s finally getting a serious update. What do you need to know before you buy an Audi R8? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreMaster photographer Rich Cooper recently embedded with the 493rd Fighter Squadron “Grim Reapers” based at RAF Lakenheath in England to capture day-to-day operations of the famed F-15C/D Eagle unit. The results of which are the series of haunting photos laid out below.
Read MoreKogalymavia Flight 9268, belonging to a Russian airline known as Metrojet, was an Airbus A321 beginning its route from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg, Russia when it went missing just 23 minutes after departure. The aircraft was flying at 31,000 feet. The weather in the area was clear at the time.
Read MoreAlthough it’s more audio than video, it’s fascinating to hear the tension as a pair F-14 Tomcats intercept and engage a pair of Libyan MiG-23 Floggers over the Gulf of Sidra. Small segments have been released before of the historical 1989 shoot-down, but this release includes the entire intercept leading up to the dogfight.
Read MorePresidential candidate Donald Trump is finally offering some specifics when it comes to defense policy, and on conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt’s program today he floated the possibility of cancelling the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program if he gets elected.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, a pair of Tu-142 Bears made their way toward the USS Ronald Reagan while the carrier was undertaking drills with South Korean forces, and a quartet of Hornets launched to intercept. Multiple communication attempts went unanswered and the Bears ended up roaring over the USS Ronald Reagan at 500 feet with the Hornets in tow.
Read MoreIsrael’s second Blue Flag air combat exercise is wrapping up this week at Ovdat Air Force Base, Northwest of Eilat. The exercise saw USAF F-15Cs, Polish and Greek Block 50/52 F-16C/Ds, along with front-line Israeli F-16Is, F-15C/Ds take on Israel’s famous “Flying Dragon” aggressor squadron in the air and on the ground in a multi-faceted coalition scenario-based war game spread over two weeks.
Read MoreThis image, posted on the Chinese website Weibo, shows what appears to be a Chinese Su-27 Flanker derivative very similar to Russia’s Su-34 Fullback fighter-bomber. The picture coincides with rumors that a new Chinese fighter type flew recently but we have no way to authenticate the image at this time.
Read MoreOne of the two part radar wielding aerostat systems known as Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS, has broken free from its mooring at Aberdeen Proving Ground and is floating uncontrolled over Pennsylvania. F-16 fighters have been scrambled to shadow the blimp-like craft.
Read MoreAfter a maze of programs and initiatives that lasted a decade-and-a-half, the U.S. Air Force has chosen its next bomber. The battle for the contract between a consortium of Lockheed Martin-Boeing and Northrop has been hard fought and comes with huge implication, and Northrop Grumman has been selected as the winner.
Read MoreHours ago the USS Lassen made its way within 12 miles of China’s man-made islands near Subi Reef, part of the Spartly Islands archipelago. During its roughly 72 mile freedom of navigation mission, the American Arelaigh Burke Class Destroyer was shadowed closely by the Chinese Type 052C guided missile destroyer Lanzhou and the Sovremennyy Class patrol destroyer Taizhou.
Read MoreWithin the next 24 hours, the U.S. Navy will execute a freedom of navigation mission in the South China Sea that will put the Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer USS Lassen within 12 miles of China’s man-made islands. Air cover and reconnaissance aircraft will be monitoring the mission nearby in international airspace and waiting to give assistance if need be.
Read More60 Minutes traveled to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to take a brief look inside the 14 month-old air war against ISIS over Iraq and Syria. While this wasn’t as detailed a report on the campaign as many would have liked, the piece did delve into its growing costs for the United States.
Read MoreHelmet-cam video has emerged from what is said to have been the raid on an ISIS prison compound south of Kirkuk last Thursday. The operation resulted in some 69 hostages saved and one of America’s finest special forces soldiers killed. This marked the first official combat death of an American soldier in Iraq since U.S. forces vacated the country in 2011.
Read MoreWith the announcement of who will build the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) seemingly imminent, it is interesting that Northrop Grumman, the builder of the famed B-2 Stealth Bomber, just released this incredible high-definition footage of their legendary flying wing design weaving through the skies gracefully.
Read MoreWith Russia, Syria and the U.S. led coalition striking targets around Syria, the skies above the war-torn country have become increasingly filled with combat aircraft. These airstrikes have become the bane of militant and rebel factions fighting on the ground. Now some of them are trying are using helium filled condoms with small explosives attached in an attempt to down one of these aircraft.
Read MoreThis A-10 gives a couple of light airplane pilots an awesome up-close and personal demonstration while attending the 2011 Toronto Air Show. Maybe the best part of the video is the audio, hearing how stoked those bush pilots are over the awesome ringing sound of the ‘Hog’s twin TF-34 turbofans doing their thing at full throttle.
Read MoreThe Russian Ministry of Defense just released these photographs of night air operations at their outpost airfield in Syria. Just a small portion of the flights, so far, base have been night sorties. But it all may now be changing as Russian aviators become more accustomed to their environment, and Assad’s army and its Iranian-backed fighters push into areas where rebel forces are more heavily entrenched.
Read MoreA trio of Chinese Navy vessels that are making an around-the-world trip will be visiting Mayport, Florida on November 3rd through the 7th. This visit comes as tensions are increasing between U.S. and China over the South China Sea, with the Navy ready to sail within China’s man-made islands claim on disputed territorial waters.
Read MoreLockheed’s F-16V testbed flew for the first time yesterday. This face-lift of the F-16 is almost entirely internal, but it gives the most successful 4th generation fighter a quantum leap in capabilities. But don’t expect the F-16V’s game-changing features to show up on USAF F-16s anytime soon, and that is a major problem.
Read MoreRussia’s love for anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles is no secret and a wide variety of weapons have been developed to service these missions. Yet the RPK-6 “Vodopad,” meaning “Waterfall” in English, also code named the SS-N-16 “Stallion” by NATO, has to be one of the most interesting to watch in action.
Read MoreIt was announced yesterday that Saudi Arabia wants to purchase four extremely up-gunned Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The deal will be worth $11.25 billion including weapons and support. This will also be the first export sale for the troubled LCS program, and these Saudi ships will be far more capable than any version of the LCS the Navy plans on procuring. This fact may present an incredible opportunity for the Navy to get the version of the Littoral Combat Ship they really need,
Read MoreDetails remain very sketchy, but the BBC has gotten confirmation that an American F/A-18 Hornet has crashed about five miles northwest of RAF Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk.
Read MoreWe have heard a lot about near encounters between coalition and Russian aircraft over Syria in recent weeks, and that Russia has shadowed American unmanned aircraft operating over Syria on numerous occasions, yet this may be the first cockpit video of such an occurrence.
Read MoreA small group of pilots from Laughlin Air Force Base were stripped of their wings after an investigation showed that they exchanged personal texts with each other featuring quotes from Miley Cyrus and other pop songs. The text messages were seen by commanders as evidence of illegal drug activity by the pilots, namely the use and distribution of molly.
Read MoreCanada has had its very own F-35 saga over the last decade. In Ottawa, the beleaguered jet is so politically controversial that its procurement has become a major policy differential between the parties. Now, with the Liberals winning yesterday’s vote, it seems nearly impossible for the F-35 to find a home with America’s neighbor to the north.
Read MoreA U.S. Air Force F-16 was struck by ground fire causing damage to one of its horizonal stabilizers during a mission over Afghanistan last Tuesday, according to reports released today. The stricken jet returned to base to make an emergency landing after dropping its external fuel tanks and its air-to-ground munitions as a precaution.
Read MoreHistory was made yesterday as Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the USS Ronald Reagan during Japan’s massive Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Review exercise. It was the first time a Japanese Prime Minister had visited a U.S. aircraft carrier at sea, and is yet another sign of Japan’s changing military stance.
Read MoreMcDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s F-4 Phantom was quickly becoming the do-all fighter by the mid 1960s, able to lug thousands of pounds of bombs on one mission and then strictly air-to-air missiles the next. The potential for evolving the already successful Phantom became especially attractive as high-end combat aircraft programs of the ‘60s began to sputter, namely the Navy’s F-111B. Enter the F-4(FV)S variable-geometry wing Phantom concept.
Read MoreIran recently made headlines when it test launched a new medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, an action that was in clear violation U.N. security resolutions. Yet possibly more interesting was Iran’s state-run news agency showing off massive tunnels built to hide many of its most advanced ballistic missiles stocks.
Read MoreThe mighty Iowa Class Battleships are known for their heavy armor, yet their bank vault-like conning towers were possibly the most blatant example of how over-engineered these vessels were so that they could take a brutal beating and keep on fighting.
Read MoreSeen through the AH-64 Apache’s TADS/PNVS (Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor) located on the nose of the helicopter, a flight of six of the attack choppers cruise around LA, buzzing the Hollywood sign for good measure.
Read MoreMaybe you’ve noticed that in older pictures of the once-budding Space Shuttle Program, the Shuttle’s giant external tank appears brilliant white instead of the rusty orange color we have become so accustomed to over the years. So what caused the tank’s change in color palette?
Read MoreAs China adds finishing touches to many of its man-made islands in the South China Sea, the Obama Administration is mulling over sending a major U.S. Navy surface combatant within those islands’ claimed territorial waters.
Read MoreSmaller, smarter, faster and more automated are the big themes at this year’s Association of The United States Army conference. The arms expo outside of Washington D.C. included a exhibition of the latest and greatest weaponry from defense contractors big and small. Here are seven of the more interesting pieces of new hardware on display.
Read MoreSome of the most incredible military aviation photos taken in recent years have come at a point along the low-level military training route in California known as “Sidewinder” where a deep canyon, reminiscent of those from Star Wars, opens up into a vast dry desert valley.
Read MoreThe first Democractic Presidential Debate was dominated by domestic policy issues, but there were still plenty of opportunities for the candidates to say things that were devoid of specifics or even just flat-out wrong on defense. Foxtrot Alpha will dissect these statements just as we’ve done for the two Republican Presidential Debates.
Read MoreThe USAF has fallen in love with Boeing’s X-37B mini space plane, but that does not mean they have a lock on its mission forever. Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser is larger and potentially more versatile than the X-37B, and if it finally makes it into operation, it could drastically bring down its price and adaptability for Air Force missions.
Read MoreMalaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed into eastern Ukraine more than a year ago. From the very beginning, it was fairly obvious that it was shot down by some sort of ground-launched missile, and it was likely a Russian-supplied type known as an SA-11“Buk.” The Dutch Safety Board, which was investigating the incident, just released its final report, and it’s even more awful than we thought.
Read MoreThe Association of The United States Army throws its big land warfare expo every year, and this one seems to have some interesting trends. Believe it or not, color tones are one of them, and it has a lot more to do with warfare settings changing than you might think.
Read MoreMultiple reports state that the Pentagon air-dropped cargo pallets full of small arms, ammo, grenades and other weaponry to supposedly vetted forces known as the Syrian Arab Army operating in the Al-Hasakah province of Syria. The drop was made via a division of C-17A cargo aircraft flying under fighter cover.
Read MoreThe shoot-down of an F-117 Nighthawk over Yugoslavia, callsign “Vega 31,” is an amazing story unto itself, and it has been claimed that the stealth jet’s wreckage greatly helped foreign countries advance their own stealth technology know-how. It has even led to some unlikely friendships. Now EBay seller “Kols293” claims to have some part of the doomed F-117 in their possession, and it’s for sale right now.
Read MoreSocial media and many not-so-reliable news outlets are running the headline that an aircraft, which many claim was Russian, was shot down after it crossed into Turkish airspace. At this point in time, aside from some Twitter users who supposedly witnessed something exploding near the border, we cannot corroborate these reports and they are more likely wrong than right.
Read MoreAustralia’s Sunshine Coast was surprised yesterday when a pair of RAAF C-17A Globemaster III cargo jets came screaming in low, just off the beach, in a trailing tactical formation. The huge jets approached maneuvering hard and executed a tight turn right over the ocean side town of Noosa before continuing on their way. This awesome moment was caught in the video below:
Read MoreRussia’s Mi-24P “Hind” attack helicopters are now operating over Syria, as clearly shown in new videos. They showed up in force with intermediate level bombing with dumb-bombs and whipping around at a couple dozen feet above the ground, popping flares and firing on, well, something, with rockets and cannon fire.
Read MoreA-10s have been rotating through Europe as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve, making stops in Eastern Europe to train with and reassure our NATO allies of our commitment to their defense and to deter potential Russian aggression. Photographer Gen Vagula took advantage of the A-10s presence at Amari Air Base in Estonia, along with some spectacular atmospheric conditions, to bring us these amazing photos.
Read MoreThe Navy’s MH-53E Sea Dragon, along with their Marine CH-53E Super Stallion cousins, are the largest and most powerful helicopters in the Pentagon’s inventory. This is why seeing one of these beasts hit the brakes and execute a maximum deceleration maneuver, often referred to as a “quick stop,” is so awesome.
Read MoreMaster photographer Gelio Vostok takes us behind the scenes of the assembly plant where one of Russia’s most technologically advanced and capable combat aircraft is built, the charismatic and deadly Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback.
Read MoreYesterday, Russia fired off no less than 26 of its new Kalibr cruise missiles from ships in the Caspian Sea, all were aimed at 11 targets in Syria. Because of their launching location, the missiles had to fly through northwest Iran and northern Iraq to make it to their targets in Syria. CNN reports that a number of cruise missiles belonging to Russia have crashed in Iran on their way to their targets in Syria.
Read MoreThe threat of cyber attack has gone from an obscure concept to household issue just in the last decade, and although this ominous issue has far-ranging impacts from a global to an individual level, the vast majority of people have no idea what cyber warfare is or how it works. Countdown To Zero Day remedies this.
Read MoreDesigners had to get creative in the early days of weaponizing motorized transportation. In one case during the First World War, that meant building a 37mm cannon into the middle of a V8 aero engine.
Read MoreRussia has upped the ante once again in Syria over the last 24 hours, launching cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea at targets in Syria. Meanwhile, information has come to light about a series of intercepts made on U.S. Predator and Reaper drones by Russian fighters operating all over the war-torn country.
Read MoreRobert O’Neill, the self-proclaimed man who killed Osama Bin Laden, has been labeled by ISIS as their number one target in a recent online postings. Not only did a British ISIS agent give instructions on how to kill the ex-Navy SEAL, but also where to find him. This information is said to have been shared many times since originally appearing online.
Read MoreRossiya-24, a Russian state television station, reports the news and weather like any other TV station. But unlike most other demented news and weather shows, weatherperson Yekaterina Grigorova has added the forecast for bombing conditions over Syria to her weather report. Sunny with a chance of cluster bombs over Aleppo, if you will.
Read MoreMore evidence of Russia’s deepening and seemingly erratic involvement in Syria’s civil war has now appeared via movements of parts of its Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean and blatant incursions into Turkey’s airspace by their Syrian-based tactical aircraft.
Read MoreRecent tests have shown that a lightweight F-35 pilot could have his or her neck snapped during ejection from the fighter at certain speeds. These troubling new findings have brought some members in Congress to the end of their rope when it comes to the high-profile and highly problematic weapons program.
Read MoreIt is not every day that you see a 30-ton armored amphibious assault vehicle launch off an elevated concrete pier at high speed into the water, but for the 70th anniversary of the Indonesian Armed Forces, this was apparently part of the spectacle.
Read MoreThe Navy and Joint Strike Fighter team have gone back to the carrier for further test, integration and development flights with the F-35C. Two of the jets landed aboard the USS Eisenhower yesterday for what will be two weeks of at-sea trials. Their arrival was a wet one, a rare occasion for the F-35 which is usually seen flying in fair weather conditions.
Read MoreThe Su-30SM advanced Flanker is getting a lot of press lately as it provides counter-air coverage for Russia’s forward-operating air base near Latakia in Syria. Now Russia is showing off the jet’s most simplistic of weapons, its fire-breathing 30mm cannon.
Read MoreIn Sean Naylor’s new book Relentless Strike: The Secret History Of Joint Special Operations Command previously unknown details about the stealth Black Hawk helicopters that were used on Bin Laden raid in 2011 are discussed. According to Naylor, the exotic helicopters were test articles from a defunct program that has now been reborn in improved fashion following their use during Operation Neptune Spear.
Read MoreRussian news site RT has posted a video report showing Su-34 Fullbacks operating at Russia’s growing airbase located south of the Syrian port city of Latakia. As far as I know, this is the first photographic evidence showing Russia’s most potent strike fighter in Syria, although they were rumored to have arrived last week. This confrimation comes as the U.S. appears to be moving more of its most advanced aerial assets into the region.
Read MoreA C-130 Super Hercules crashed shortly after midnight at Jalalabad Air Base which is located about 80 miles east of Kabul, Afghanistan. On-board were six military crew members and five civilian passengers, all of whom lost their lives. The passengers were all working with NATO’s mission in the country.
Read MoreA gaggle of F-22A Raptors belonging to the 199th Fighter Squadron, which is part of the 154th Wing of the Hawaiian Air National Guard, deployed to the Middle East yesterday. This comes as tensions are hot between the U.S. and Russia over Syria and as the F-22 seems to be in demand around the globe.
Read MoreI gripped the wheel tightly and steered the Jeep toward the warehouse. My heart was thumping so hard I thought Oleg might be able to hear it in the passenger seat.
Read MoreThe BMW 5 Series is has been the benchmark for big sporty luxury sedans since the dawn of time. What do you need to know before you buy an 5 Series? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreAlpha-N, a tuning shop out of Germany has just shown the world their plans for the recently unveiled BMW M2. And damn do those plans look good.
Read MoreThe BMW 7 Series is car you get when you want the biggest BMW you can buy. What do you need to know before you buy a BMW 7 Series? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreFeel like the M brand is drowning in a sea of crossovers and Gran Coupes? Worried it stands more for “marketing” than anything else? Do you long for the days when an M badge meant the car was built only for the purists? The good news is that BMW is here with a love letter for enthusiasts—a two-character letter spelled M2.
Read MoreI returned this morning from a week-long work trip to New York to find myself in possession of a very unusual vehicle. This is a BMW i3 with a range extender and I’m testing it through next week. It should be a very interesting week.
Read MoreThe Lamborghini Miura is one of the most valuable, iconic, and well-preserved cars in history. They are owned by rock stars. They are not forgotten. Except for one, hiding in a barn in New Jersey.
Read MoreThe Infiniti Q60 is pretty much a coupe version of an old G35. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s due for an update and we think the replacement will be very sexy. What do you need to know before you buy a Q60? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-AMG GT isn’t a Porsche 911, but it is a damn fine sports car. And just look at it. It’s absolutely stunning. What do you need to know before you buy an AMG GT? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Acura RLX is a fine luxury car that’s good at lots of luxury car things, but it just isn’t special enough to command its premium price tag. What do you need to know before you buy an Acura RLX? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Ghibli is Maserati’s secret weapon in their plan to take over the world, but it’s just not ready for primetime. What do you need to know before you buy a Maserati Ghibli? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreI recently had the chance to get behind the wheel of one of the most iconic, legendary, exciting automobiles of our time. I also drove my Nissan Skyline GT-R.
Read MoreThe Mercedes E-Class is a classic over-engineered German sedan, but that’s not a bad thing. What do you need to know before you buy an E-Class? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Dodge Viper will rip your face off and then laugh at you for having the audacity to even look at it. What do you need to know before you buy a Dodge Viper? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Maserati Quattroporte is the pornstar of the luxury sedan world. What do you need to know before you buy a Maserati Quattroporte? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Nissan GT-R is an engineering marvel that almost anyone can get in and drive fast. What do you need to know before you buy a Nissan GT-R? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Jaguar F-Type is the car Steve McQueen would drive if he were still gracing the earth with his badass-ness. What do you need to know before you buy a Jaguar F-Type? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreI recently took my Nissan Skyline GT-R to CarMax for a used vehicle appraisal. This is the least likely place you’d expect to see a Nissan Skyline GT-R, except possibly for the member parking lot at your local VFW hall.
Read MoreEveryone wants a seat at the Cool Kids’ Table that is the high-performance luxury sedan segment and now Lexus is taking a stab at the big, fast sedan game with the 2016 Lexus GS F. Will they get a seat or will they be forced to spend lunch eating with the choir teacher?
Read MoreThe Nissan Altima is the C-list celebrity among mid-size sedans. It’s really good, but it’s overshadowed by giants. What do you need to know before you buy a Nissan Altima? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Kia Optima upholds Hyundai-Kia’s newfound reputation for building solid, feature-rich cars that offer true value. What do you need to know before you buy a Kia Optima? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Mazda6 is the best affordable midsize sedan in America for drivers. What do you need to know before you buy a Mazda6? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreHello everyone, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your weekly Jalopnik column wherein someone submits a letter to Doug, and then Doug responds with helpful, reasonable advice that makes the world a better place.
Read MoreThe car market is more like real estate than a lot of people realize; location has a lot to do with how much you will pay. The good news is if your local market is tough, you can buy a car from wherever you want. How much you can save could depend on how far you’re willing to go.
Read MoreThere’s no Aston Martin you don’t lust after, but there’s only one Aston Martin most of us could hope to afford. What do you need to know before you buy a Aston Martin Vantage? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Lincoln MKS is basically a fancy version of a Ford Taurus SHO, and like the SHO it’s due for a replacement any day now. What do you need to know before you buy a Lincoln MKS? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreFinding a well-kept car on Craigslist isn’t the easiest thing in the world. For that you can probably thank the overpopulation of insanely crappy cars, like these 10 majestic crap-heaps.
Read MoreIf you are buying a vehicle from a private seller, you might be more likely to get the price you want if you bring cash to close the deal. However, if you are getting a car from a dealership, cash isn’t always king.
Read MoreA few months ago I traveled from New York City to Buffalo on a quest for the best chicken wings anywhere. I took a 2015 Lexus RC 350 AWD to get there because I needed something that could gobble up the miles without any drama while being comfortable. The thing is, I didn’t need to go that far. Here’s why.
Read MoreThe Mercedes Benz S-Class is the reason why this class of cars exists. What do you need to know before you buy an S-Class? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreI was 18 in 1989. It was my most formative year on many levels. What I liked then has resonated stronger and longer than any other year. That is the case for music, but even more so for cars.
Read MoreHello everyone, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your weekly Jalopnik column where people send in letters and I openly scoff at them while I bang away at my keyboard listening to Jimmy Eat World.
Read MorePicture this: You’re buying a new car from a Chrysler dealer, and they say you can get another $200 available from the factory on your purchase. Then they ask you to sign a document which contains a binding arbitration clause.
Read MoreThe Chrysler 200 is Chrysler’s first decent mid-sized car in way too long, but it’s up against stiff competition. What do you need to know before you buy a Chrysler 200? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Ford Fusion is the European mid-sizer we demanded, with a snout borrowed from a more expensive car. What do you need to know before you buy a Ford Fusion? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Passat is what happens when Germans beige-ify a mid-size sedan to satisfy the American market. What do you need to know before you buy a Volkswagen Passat? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreGood afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Letters to Doug, a weekly Jalopnik column where Doug sifts through dozens of spam e-mails in order to find a good letter about cars.
Read MoreHello good people of Jalopnik, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly column that involves Doug responding to letters.
Read MoreSometimes when I’m in the club, it’s like, the club can’t even handle me right now. But that woman doing the Trash Dance in the dash cam video from (I’m assuming, let’s be honest it’s probably) Florida? Life can’t even handle her, ever.
Read MoreYou might be able to find one of these things rotting away in your neighbor’s barn, but that doesn’t mean that the original Mazda RX-7 isn’t a true, glorious, flawed masterpiece the likes of which the car world rarely sees.
Read MoreKudos to our friend Adam from Gizmodo for cowboying up and admitting how he accidentally set fire to an old Volvo. Twice, in fact! These things happen.
Read MoreUnlike some other auto shows, the Tokyo Motor Show is a magical place of concept car wonder. So far this year, it’s shown us multiple new models and concepts that are to die for. Let’s take a moment to look back at the most bizarre cars that Tokyo has ever seen.
Read MoreMany car brands have died over the years. Today, none are as dead as Wartburg, the East German automaker that spent decades cranking out brutally simple cars while the capitalist West became ever more high-tech and luxurious.
Read MoreDriving fast is an art. An art that requires the correct amount of skill and the correct precision instrument. Here are 10 cars where you damn sure better have both.
Read MoreCar enthusiasts live for their weekends. Cars and Coffee, drag strip runs, track days, festivals—Saturday and Sunday is when car culture comes alive. For me, this past weekend meant a visit to the BMW E30 M3 heaven that is SIGFest and some Subaru and Mitsubishi rally car hotness on the drag strip.
Read MoreActual car-buying advice, given to actual car-buying people, is a weird thing. Mostly because the people asking for the advice never actually want it.
Read MoreJames Bond finding love, meeting his soon-to-be father in law, studying family history, spending time in the snowy Alps, and gathering around the Christmas tree while being subjected to hypnotism - it must be the James Bond Christmas Special, 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service!
Read MoreLots of things might sound good on paper, like tax plans, on social security reform, or bicep curl technique while wearing a suit. But when you really study them and bother to inform yourself, you realize that all of it is a terrible idea.
Read MoreThe political landscape is gearing up to be the most important it’s ever been, just like it does every four years - but for realsies this time. That’s why I think I should answer the most pressing question of the election season - if the presidential candidates were anthropomorphized automobiles, what would they be?
Read MoreWhen I was studying art history, some of the works I liked best were the ones never really meant to be seen — rough sketches from artists done in early planning stages of larger works, done to get a rough idea of feel or composition. That’s the context I like to view Henry Ford’s first car — a rough sketch. What really makes the Quadracycle appealing to me is that, like many rough sketches, it kind of sucks.
Read MoreCars aren’t perfect. That’s something most of us here at Jalopnik have come to accept. These ten crazy car glitch stories only further support that theory.
Read MoreI think the ultimate way to be a gearhead, no matter what you’re into, is to be an evangelist. Spread the love of cars, of bikes, of racing, of wrenching, of whatever your deal is. It’s what we try to do every day around here.
Read MoreThere are things in life that you enjoy because of a combination of nature, nurture, and good old fashioned conditioning - and then there are the anomalies - things that you simply take as desirable, despite any evidence to the contrary. Modern Ferraris are undoubtedly the latter, and we’ve all been had.
Read MoreThere is some weird shit out on America’s highways and byways.
Read MoreEveryone knows to steer clear of rusty cars. But how bad could things be? As one reader’s story suggests, things can get surprisingly scary awful horrible bad.
Read MoreChances are, you’ve thought about bumpers at least a little bit. Maybe it was when modern, energy-absorbing bumpers saved your ass in a wreck, or when you found a minor scrape to a bumper cover would cost you $1100 to fix. But I suspect that you’ve never thought “Hey, wait a minute. Why the hell aren’t my bumpers were filled with water?”
Read MoreWe all loathe sitting in traffic, but usually there’s no way to get around it. Just be thankful you probably don’t have to spend your time navigating gridlock in one of these ten cars.
Read MoreThis weekend, our featured wallpaper is just plain peaceful — with the photo lighting, can you just imagine driving off into the sunset behind the wheel of this car (at high speeds)?
Read MoreHello good people of Jalopnik, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly column wherein you write letters to Doug and Doug responds to them!*
Read MoreSome general technical descriptions of cars are so associated with a particular company, it’s hard to imagine them existing in any other context. A four-wheel drive wagon with a flat-four front-mounted engine is hard to picture with any badge other than Subaru, right? That’s why it’s so weird this car was essentially invented by a British/Irish tractor maker.
Read MoreI remember the first time I saw one of Baron Margo’s rocketcars. It was parked at House of Pies, a little diner near my old house, and, sitting there between some boring sedans, it felt like that parking spot was a rift between universes. Being a writer, I think I said something profound like “holy crap, look at that.”
Read MoreYou might remember Christopher Brian “Ludacris” Bridges as the best haircut in the early Fast & Furious franchise. He’s also a famous rapper and who apparently keeps it real in a 1993 Acura Legend which just got wrecked. Don’t worry! Good Guy Acura will bring it back to life.
Read MoreNearly all 1,311 Ferrari F40s built between 1987 and 1992 went to their lucky owners from the factory with a stripped out interior and a Rosso Corsa paint job—except for a select few which did not.
Read MoreThe Cadillac Allanté was a disappointment, a ripoff, a setback for two proud companies. But it’s still lovable.
Read MoreA planned heist against Fort Knox, a person named after genitalia, a mute man with a killer hat, a British spy with enough charm to turn a gay woman straight, and a villain obsessed with gold. Here’s the fourth best Bond movie ever made, 1964’s Goldfinger!
Read More“Worst car ever built,” is a phrase that gets flung around with the careless impunity of a toddler with a bag of superballs. Whatever you’ve once called the “worst car” is wrong. A Yugo may as well be a Maybach compared to the Hoffmann, the actual worst car ever built. I know because I drove it.
Read MoreIs Toyota spending so much on R&D that they have no more money to buy rights to letters? If so, that would explain both why their new small sports car concept looks so fantastic, and why they named it by juggling the same letters as in the F-RS. If only having the rights to three letters means more cars like this, then it was the right choice.
Read MoreI was recently invited to the home of a guy who owns two Subaru BRATs. This is like getting invited to dinner with the president: you must say yes, even if it means you have to reschedule your life-saving heart transplant.
Read MoreIt would seem like we have plenty of car makers to pick from, but here in the US, I can’t help but always feel that there’s all sorts of holes left in the market. Most people keep getting shunted to the same half-dozen or so brands, and as a result we end up with streets full of remarkably homogenous cars. Maybe we need a some new players in here, even if they’re not, you know, real.
Read MoreFor the record, I actually kind of like the crazy Nissan Teatro for Dayz Concept. And while I don’t like the idea, I also accept that a “smartphone on wheels” is probably what mainstream buyers want, even if they don’t admit it. But like Jason, I can’t get over the grating, pandering marketing bullshit language Nissan is using to hype it up.
Read MoreAudiences cheered when the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, fully laden with gadgets, reappeared in the James Bond franchise with 2012’s Skyfall after first appearing in Goldfinger. Along with the DB5, SPECTRE will have another automotive connection to one of the best Bond films of all time.
Read MoreI remember driving a car I had never driven before, sideways, through a rallycross course, on two wheels. It felt oddly surreal. Actually, it felt oddly virtual.
Read MoreThe Ford Crown Victoria was a lot of things: tough as nails, practical, great at getting everyone around you to drop down to five MPH below the speed limit. But was it fast?
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreWith all of the people staring at the new Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo concept, I’m sure it whispered, “Take a photo, it’ll last longer.”
Read MoreVolkswagen’s been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, but today our resident Volkswagenophile Jason Torchinsky felt the need to break down the absurd claim that the Beetle was “a Nazi car.”
Read MoreWe’ve been talking about Volkswagen a lot lately, for pretty obvious reasons. And pretty often in all this talking, we’ve encountered a lot of references to VW’s past, specifically the idea that the company was “founded by Nazis. :(” How true is this statement, really?
Read MoreBritain and Russia teaming up to stop an evil megalomaniac anarchist from launching the nuclear holocaust by capturing the superpowers’ submarine fleets in the midst of the Cold War? It can only be the tenth James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me!
Read MoreAfter you drive it once, you know you’ll never be able to think of other cars the same.
Read MoreOur friends at Lifehacker today had a good feature on why being fiercely loyal to any one brand is a terrible idea. They framed much of their argument through the lens of tech and the Apple vs. Android debate. Naturally, I wonder how this applies to cars. How loyal are you to any one specific car brand?
Read MoreWork got you down? Your project car broke again? Your significant other is always nagging you about ‘having a job’ or ‘showering?’ Perhaps it’s time to say “Screw it. I’m getting the fuck out of here!” Good call, my friend. But don’t go rogue without grabbing one of these ten vehicles.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet Corvette is America’s David in a segment full of Goliaths. What do you need to know before you buy a Chevrolet Corvette? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThere are some traffic incidents in which the characters are so bad, we give up on life. And then there are traffic incidents in which the characters are SO bad, that we see a small reflection of ourselves in it. This, joyfully, is the latter.
Read MoreYou know what they say: sometimes, you’ve just got to drive your car onto a roof. And by “they,” I mean “literally zero people.”
Read MoreThe new 650 horsepower Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is a fucking amazing car, but it’s had its share of mechanical headaches for owners. It also flunked out of Motor Trend’s heavily hyped Best Driver’s Car test. Here’s how it went down, according to General Motors and everyone else.
Read MoreWhat’s true for the wealth gap is surprisingly true of traffic deaths – the rich are getting safer while the poor are getting left behind.
Read MoreAs the former Top Gear hosts prepare to make their way into Amazon’s television lineup, Jeremy Clarkson began his company advertising in the most predictable way possible—making jabs at former employer BBC.
Read MoreTop Gear’s tame racing driver, only known by “The Stig,” has been haunting the motoring show since it first aired back in 2002. Being essentially a racing suit that follows people around and has a supernatural connection to cars, The Stig is actually kind of terrifying. Some say...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, long long ago, there was a television show called Top Gear. And on this show, Top Gear, some people in Argentina got pissed off over some stupid license plate. We all thought this whole thing was over by now, but an Argentinian judge wants to put former host Jeremy Clarkson in jail for up to three years over it.
Read MoreWe had to get hold of many things in order to make Top Gear. White coats, spare tyres, enormous plates of meat for some gag involving The Stig. But most of all, we had to get hold of cars. Despite the shouting and falling over and idiotic attempts to run an art gallery, we were a car show after all.
Read MoreOver the years we’ve heard some of the craziest and often terrifying stories said by some about Top Gear’s Stig. For Halloween, how about we round up some of the spookiest, scariest, Stig-iest stories, and try not to wet ourselves.
Read MoreWell folks, it turns out that Jeremy Clarkson is not trolling Top Gear with the name of his, James May and Richard Hammond’s new show.
Read MoreIt looks like for now, Top Gear’s new host Chris Evans is a solo act rather than a member of a power trio.
Read MoreThe new Ford Focus RS Comes with a Stall Recovery feature that will help you look like less of a jackass after you cut the engine out with the clutch pedal, but it won’t stop you from stalling. Here’s how it works.
Read MoreThe 2016 Ford Focus RS is set to be a drift king—it even has a button for getting sideways. But now we know that to help with the slidey bits, the little but nut will pump out a ridiculous 350 horsepower and 350 pound-feet of torque, which is way more than the initially-anticipated 320 HP, and up even from recent figures of 345 horses.
Read MoreThe Honda Accord has almost always been a sensible, reliable car that actually won’t put you to sleep in the turns. That’s still the case for 2016. What do you need to know before you buy a Honda Accord? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreAs a well-traveled car enthusiast I thought I’d heard of all the greatest roads in North America. I’d driven the Tail of the Dragon and Highway 1. I used to live next to Skyline Drive. It turns out there was a better road, but it was just a secret.
Read MoreThe Sultan of Brunei has what’s considered to be the world’s most insane car collection with over 5,000 rare cars. But there’s a suburban dad from Pennsylvania who puts him to shame with over 30,000 vehicles covering nearly every brand and model. And they all fit in his house.
Read MoreMoto GP racer Marc Márquez was reportedly assaulted by Italian reporters in his garage, who were allegedly mocking him for a controversial crash during the Moto GP race earlier this week.
Read MoreSuzuki showed a turbocharged motorcycle engine. Kawasaki a supercharged bike that’s definitely not the flagship H2R, and Yamaha a leaning three-wheeled trike. But, what’s it all mean? Let’s explore the bikes (and more) of the Tokyo Motor Show.
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 MoreI leave the internet world for three whole days to learn how to drive some formula race cars, and the entire MotoGP world turns into a bunch of catfighting pre-teens. Come on, guys!
Read MoreI spent a lot of time riding Harley-Davidson bikes this year, most of that through the middle west of America. In Illinois, in the tall grass prairie. In the heart of a broad expanse of carefully plotted lands made functional by laying down long, straight, level grids of asphalt.
Read MoreWhile Triumph might be best known for its retro-styled “classics” lineup, they also propagate a weirdly half-naked modern looking sportbike called the Speed Triple. The 2016 version has been spotted for the first time, and reports are saying it’s getting up to 140 horsepower.
Read MoreKawasaki released this terrible, I mean amazing teaser video for their Grom competitor, the new Z125, and they’re gonna hit Honda where it hurts: in the clutch.
Read MoreThe 2016 Triumph Thruxton, Thruxton R sport bikes and Bonneville upright have bowed in London. They’re keeping the well-loved classic looks but getting major overhauls with new suspension, brakes and much bigger engines.
Read MoreRiding or driving off road is unlike anything else you’ll experience on wheels and, thanks to Yamaha’s new YXZ1000R UTV side-by-side, you can go farther, faster, and with a friend. Get ready to destroy some sand, shift some gears and live out your desert speed-dreams.
Read MoreLast week, we told you about how helmet company Bell made the biggest leap in helmet development in 50 years. Looks like it isn’t the only one fighting the good fight. Now, helmet makers 6D have something very interesting on the horizon too.
Read MoreWe told you this week’s MotoGP race was going to be an intense one, and it definitely didn’t leave us wanting. During the race, Marquez and Rossi were battling for third place and things began to get heated when the two collided and Marquez went down.
Read MoreThe romance. The drama. The seriousness. Every single motorcycle film that has come out in the last 3 years reeks of it. That building motorcycles is a metaphysical act that weds the soul of man and machine. That one more epic slo-mo grinder shot will bring you that much closer to douche-ex-machina.
Read MoreBell announced a new helmet called the Pro Star and it is, without a doubt, the most important development in the last 50 years. This helmet doesn’t just protect your skull, it protects what’s inside it.
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 MoreYou may have already heard about the 2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin; an advanced dual sport motorcycle for riding from your house to your office to basically anywhere on Earth. Now Honda’s going all-out on that theme bringing another adventure bike to the US and “aggressively restyling” two more.
Read MoreThis MotoGP season has been one for the record books. It’s had insanely close races, tons of passing, and the overall points standing has been close all year. The only thing it’s been missing is drama - at least until now.
Read MoreMost people who see a motorcyclist riding a sportbike while kitted in garish ICON gear will assume the guy riding is about to get his stunt on. This lady proves that we aren’t all as we appear.
Read MoreDear hipsters, I spent the weekend watching your dads race motorcycles. And it was awesome.
Read More“You race motorcycles?” the guy in the Mopar shirt said, moving away from me as if I were a bearded fanatic in a robe holding a sign predicting the imminent end of the world. “On pavement? You guys are fucking crazy!”
Read MoreI tried to stay out of all of the conversation about that now-infamous crash where a car swerved and hit two people on a motorcycle. I followed along as the comments climbed north of 4,000 between the initial post and news of the driver’s arrest. But this thing just keeps nagging at me.
Read MoreMotorcycle helmets are loud. Like, deafeningly loud. But, thanks to bluetooth communications company Sena and the Noise Control Helmet, they don’t have to be any longer.
Read MoreWD-40 is one of the greatest products on the planet. Seriously, that stuff is like the water on LOST, it fixes everything. That little red straw it comes with, on the other hand, is the absolute worst. Well now it’s time to say goodbye to the straw.
Read MoreThis week’s MotoGP race was one for the record books. The top four riders traded places 53 (FIFTY-THREE!) times during the course of the race, and the ending came down to the last few turns. Here’s a breakdown of why this race was so amazing.
Read MoreWinter is coming. For many of you, including my man Tyrion Lannister, this means terrible things like white walkers or not being able to ride motorcycles. Luckily, Travis Rice and Dan Adams are here to show us it doesn’t have to be all bad.
Read MoreWilliam Crum, the Texas driver who hit two motorcyclists as they tried to pass him in a no-pass zone and whose “I don’t care” statement afterward went viral over the weekend, has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Read MoreA recent Reuters article suggests that it was Apple’s poaching of electric motorcycle manufacturer Mission Motors’ engineering team that did the now-bankrupt company in. I’m not sure if things are quite as clear as that, but it is true that Apple got some electric drive engineers, and Mission Motors is now gone.
Read MoreThe guys over at Kawasaki got so sick of having to wait until the wee hours of the morning to ride their Groms that they went out and made their own. Meet the Kawasaki Z125.
Read MoreRetro styling is superhot in motorcycles right now, but I think Yamaha’s Resonator125 concept might be the first one brave enough to go for actual wood-inlaid-on-chrome. Classy or too far?
Read MoreZero Motorcycles came out swinging this year, with two new motorcycles and a whole suite of updated technologies. For the first time in my life, I can say that the want to ride an electric bike (that isn’t an electric super bike) is stroooooong.
Read MoreAustralia’s Phillip Island race track is one of the most beautiful in the world, but it’s known for having a bit of a wildlife problem. That is, unless your name is Andrea Iannone.
Read MoreA motorcyclist got more than he bargained for while making a pass on a two-lane road on Saturday when a driver swerved and hit the bike, sending both passengers to the ground. The driver’s response to the whole thing? “I don’t care.”
Read MoreWhile there are a lot of exciting bikes coming out this year, none excite me as much as this Husqvarna 701 Supermoto. I dare you to watch this video and disagree with me.
Read MoreAnyone who uses their motorcycle for more than just sport riding knows how difficult it can be to find a good way to take a few items along for the ride. I spent the past few weeks using Kreiga’s new messenger bag to see if it’s up to the task.
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 MoreIf you can ride a motorcycle like somebody’s life depends on it, administer first aid by yourself and watch this video without gasping you might have what it takes to be a motorcycle-riding rescuer.
Read MoreSportbikes always look like they’re made for mischief, but Honda’s working hard to put out small-displacement performance machines that are fun without being intimidatingly extreme. For 2016 the mid-range CBR500R is lighter and apparently even easier to get on and go.
Read MoreThe MV Augusta Brutale 800 Dragster RR is a 140 horsepower three-cylinder monster motorcycle with the body of an evil robot and exhaust pipes like satan’s fingernails. And an even meaner version is coming soon, named after F1 driver and Instagram enthusiast Lewis Hamilton.
Read MoreDucati still have two bikes to release that we don’t know about yet, but they’ve been teasing one with a series of videos. While both videos offer almost zero information visually, this latest had one key phrase that made my heart jump for joy.
Read MoreYamaha knew they had an amazing platform for customization when they released the FZ-07. Under that Transformer looking body work, it’s basically identical to the Ducati Scrambler but just with slightly lower bars. If this concept is a hint at what’s to come with the platform, the future just got a whole lot brighter.
Read MoreI’d been a motorcyclist for one full week when a trip around the corner to get gas resulted in a downed Honda Shadow and $16,000 new right foot. I had taken the MSF course, and done countless laps around a parking lot. Surely I was ready to make a trip around the corner.
Read MoreYou may have seen some buzz going around about a new camera called the L16 by a company called Light. While the photography buffs have their doubts about whether this thing could ever replace the DSLR or mirrorless camera, I think it could be revolutionary for those of us on a bike.
Read MoreAh, fall. The sun is setting early, the rest of the county is cooling while southern California is the hottest it will get all year, and both my fantasy football team and the Niners are sucking. Only one thing could redeem all of this nonsense: Supercross. Consider this your Supercross starter kit.
Read MoreAfter last year’s Kawasaki H2 and H2R, it’s hard to think that Kawasaki already have another supercharged bike up their sleeves, but Japanese magazine Young Machine seems to think otherwise. Please, please, please be right.
Read MoreI thought this would be a contender for nice price or crack pipe until I opened the listing and saw the price. This thing is all sorts of awesome, and for a price that pretty much mean you need to stop what you’re doing and get your ass to Ventura.
Read MoreThe Triumph Bonneville holds a special place in my heart. It was the first motorcycle I bought (that ran on a regular basis), was the first new motorcycle I bought, and was the motorcycle I wrote most of my content around when I began as a journalist. It’s also a bike that’s gotten extremely long in the tooth, but all of that is about to change.
Read MoreShoei has finally confirmed that the Spirit III they announced several weeks ago is coming to the U.S. as the Shoei X-14. A little digging, and a tip from a super secret tipster, have revealed some interesting features that will make this helmet great for all riders.
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 MoreNicky Hayden announced yesterday what many of us have been hoping to hear all season - he’ll be racing World Superbike for the 2016 season. You should care about this news.
Read MoreThe superbike segment was put on notice this morning. Kawasaki may be a little late in the game, but they’re here now and have a bike with world-class technology and 207 horsepower. Because fuckin’ race bike.
Read MoreApparently the big wigs at Honda, BMW, and Yamaha haven’t watched the same documentaries on artificially intelligent system that I have, but Minority Report and Terminator are pretty clear about the results of giving those machine things too many smarts.
Read MoreI wanted to take a minute and apologize to you all. This morning we posted my Ducati Monster 1200 R review which, upon writing it, I felt pretty good about. But then I watched this and realized the error of my ways. I hope you all can forgive me and I vow to do better.
Read MoreWhat was once Ducati’s entry level answer to the Harley-Davidson Sportster is now the Italian firm’s most powerful naked to-date. But have the boys in Bologna added enough power?
Read MoreThe BMW G310 Stunt concept just made its debut at Brazil’s Sao Paulo Motorcycle show, dripping with crazy colors and hooligan farkle. That bling probably won’t see production, but the 310cc engine and frame style just might be the base for an inexpensive BMW bike line.
Read MoreThe Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is a Shriner’s parade in nicer clothes with less Illuminati. You get all dolled up in your Sunday’s best, roll to a spot, and then ride out in a giant pack doing the speed limit while not trying to get ass-packed by a poorly-tuned CB750 ridden by some clown trying to Snapchat his cute helmet/tie combo instead of keeping his eyes on the road. Oh, and it raises funds to fight prostate cancer.
Read MoreIn August, we found reference to a bike called the Yamaha R1S in Yamaha’s CARB filings for 2016. We wondered whether it was a new bike or just a different naming structure. Well, the Yamaha R1S was announced today, and we think it’s the liter bike you should buy.
Read MoreMany custom motorcycles are built to fix something inherently wrong with the appearance of a motorcycle, often sacrificing performance to look cool. Such is not the case with the Ronin Motorworks 47 - this thing was built for speed.
Read MoreIf you’re ever being chased by the police, this guy was kind enough to show you exactly what not to do — video tutorial and all.
Read MoreCARB documents uncovered this week reveal increases in displacement for the entire Ducati Hyper range and baby Panigale. Because more power.
Read MoreThe most fundamental item of motorcycle gear is also, frequently, the most misunderstood. Let’s clear up the conventional wisdom and marketing obfuscation, then put the best, safest helmet possible on your head.
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 director of Black Swan, the writer of The Fighter, and that guy from Magic Mike and 21 Jump Street are teaming up to make a movie based on the life of Evel Knievel. This could actually be fantastic.
Read MoreAs Chris Harris discovered on a lovely day in Northern Italy, driving a Ferrari 488 Spider certainly beats answering emails at home.
Read More“Wait, wait, you’re still in the TREE?” And so, we come to the crux of the greatest weather television interview of all time.
Read MoreI don’t imagine Bugatti is happy about these photos.
Read MoreI know what you’re thinking: the Texas-built Hennessey Venom GT is good and all, I guess, but maybe it’s just a little underpowered? Maybe 1,244 horsepower isn’t quite enough to get the job done? It may be the fastest car in the world, but... ehh? Fortunately Hennessey is here with a solution, and that solution is MORE POWER.
Read MoreMany of you have no doubt seen the 1984 horror film classic Children of the Corn. Many of you haven’t, and for that, you should consider yourself blessed. But after seeing it a few times, I’ve got one question nagging at me. (Okay, many questions from this god awful movie, but we’ll focus on one for a second.) What happened to the kid that was shoved in the trunk in the beginning of the movie?
Read MoreThere are many long-lived military vehicles. Build anything cheap enough and simple enough, and some air force will keep it in use for decades. It takes something special to be magnificently short lived.
Read MoreBeing behind the controls of a moving thing can be an exhilarating experience, if you’re in the right vehicle. In these ten machines, the sensation of fun comes instantly and naturally.
Read MoreSEMA is supposed to be completely ridiculous. The show works best when automakers embrace that idea. It’s not enough to just slap some stickers on a Camaro! No, you have to go big or go home. Thank god for Scion, because they did just that with this hilariously awesome lowrider Scion iA sedan.
Read MoreThe ultra-creative folks over at Wolfe Air have innovated aerial cinematography once again with their recent shoot for the airline Emirates. The crazy footage of the 777 below was captured raw with an iPhone from the cockpit of Wolfe Air’s modified Learjet, but the actual shot will be in super high definition.
Read MoreMazda’s doing the Porsche thing and bringing both Spyder and Speedster versions of the 2016 Miata to SEMA this year. I’m okay with both.
Read MoreRemember Volkswagen? They were supposed to be building a seven-passenger SUV in America, which was part of the “Strategy 2018” to become the worlds best automaker. Then this little scandal called Dieselgate sort of ruined everything. Now they’re trying to get back on track.
Read MoreOf course “the perfect car” is so ambiguous it’s seemingly impossible to provoke any serious thought - but if you thought about a certain car, in a certain class, at a certain time... could you actually come up with one particular perfect model?
Read MoreIn 1953, Ian Fleming published his “spy story to end all spy stories,” which would eventually led to the longest continually-running franchise in the history of film. It took nearly 50 years before it finally got the big screen adaptation it deserved. That would be 2006’s Casino Royale, the best James Bond movie ever made.
Read MoreRecords, as they say, are meant to be broken. I once blitzed across the country in 31 hours and 4 minutes. Ed Bolian beat that run. Earlier this year Carl Reese, Deena Mastracci and a team of their friends set an EV Cannonball record in a Tesla Model S. I have to say then when Team Polizei raced across the U.S. in 2006, I never imagined I’d be doing it again one day in an electric car that would drive itself 96 percent of the time.
Read MoreYou might think it’s impossible to want a Chevy Cavalier, the cockroach of the automotive world, but watch this video and you’ll understand.
Read MoreSubaru claims that this limited-edition Impreza WRX STI S207 “aims to be the world’s most enjoyable vehicle.” What vehicle, exactly, will it have to dethrone for that title?
Read MoreMaybe the whole “driverless vehicle” concept isn’t all bad. Perhaps there are some circumstances where they could potentially make our lives a bit easier.
Read MoreNine days. Nine days until SPECTRE, the 24th Bond film, is released stateside and we finally get to see the Aston Martin DB10, Jaguar C-X75, Land Rover Defender “Bigfoot” and the Range Rover Sport SVR in glorious action.
Read MoreToyota is one of the few still trying to make hydrogen a thing, and nobody really seems to be as interested as with all the electric concepts spewing out of Europe. Toyota’s FCV Plus is trying really hard to change that, offering to not only run itself with hydrogen, but power your home as well.
Read MoreOne of the more seemingly production-ready concepts to emerge from the crazyfest that is the Tokyo Motor Show is the Toyota S-FR sports car. But with the Scion FR-S/Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZ already in the lineup, many have wondered if this sports car is destined to be its replacement.
Read MoreI had a Kia Forte as a rental car once. Damn good little car, the Kia Forte. It wasn’t the fastest thing on four wheels, but it was well-built and a solid value. You know what would make it even better? Big fat offroadin’ tires, fender flares and racing seats. Obviously, because those things make every car better.
Read MoreFirst a Lexus LFA, then a Lamborghini Murcielago, and now this Ferrari 360. Drifting is firmly in its exotic years.
Read MoreEarlier today the U.S. Army’s JLENS radar blimp broke loose, and it’s currently floating somewhere over Pennsylvania with fighter jets in tow. It’s a sad, comical development for a program that showed much promise but has lately become yet another costly defense boondoggle. From the Foxtrot Alpha archives, here’s how the damn thing was supposed to work.
Read MoreWhat has McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray been up to these days? A couple cool things, like designing new TVRs and developing tech to make city cars better. Also, this sports car concept from Yamaha, which I really want to happen.
Read MoreThe Tokyo Motor Show is Toyota’s chance to show how much the company is betting on hydrogen, all the way up to their flagship American model, the Lexus LS. This Lexus LF-FC previews what a no-gasoline S-Class rival could look like.
Read MoreWhile the world was drooling (or seething) over the Mazda RX-Vision Concept’s Tokyo Motor Show debut, Subaru dropped something much more pedestrian. Behold the next Impreza, in concept form. It is slightly more interesting-looking than the current Impreza!
Read MoreAfter years of bad magazine rumors, false starts, hand-wringing and broken dreams, Mazda is finally—finally—back with a concept they say has an all-new rotary engine. Meet the Mazda RX-Vision Concept.
Read MoreLast week, I passed a Tesla Model S with the personalized license plate “0 EMISSN.” It was the eighth Model S I had seen that day, and the third with some sort of tedious Tesla-related vanity plate proclaiming that the car doesn’t emit anything, except for the owner’s smugness.
Read MoreGeneral Motors just recalled more than a million vehicles for an oil leak linked to fires. Your car with an annoying defect hasn’t been recalled yet. Why do some vehicles get recalled while others don’t?
Read MoreThe Tokyo Motor Show is where you find the strangest concept cars anywhere on this planet, stretching the imagination of the Japanese auto industry and what a car can be.
Read MoreThe Tokyo Motor Show kicks off this week and all eyes are on Mazda, anticipating the sports car concept they’ve been teasing with a shadowy image for weeks now. And guess what? Despite our (completely justified) initial skepticism, the car will indeed have a rotary engine after all. Holy crap.
Read MoreLook, we all know it’s inevitable. Cars get old, develop issues, (or don’t make it beyond the test facility) and eventually the love is lost. Watching these expired models slowly get gutted, drained, torn apart, and crushed, however, is still depressing for some reason.
Read MoreThe McLaren 570S is the most important car built in Woking since Gordon Murray’s F1. Seriously. And as they discovered that less grip can equal more fun, not only did it turn out to be beautiful, but also bloody fantastic to drive. It’s a proper supercar for normal humans who want to go very fast without breaking a sweat.
Read MoreFor Mr. Regular, the Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 brings back memories of drivers’ ed, visor-mounted CD sleeves, and Rita’s Italian Ice. Oh how those days aren’t missed.
Read MoreI figured the crowdfunding campaign to make a sequel to the stoner classic cop movie Super Troopers was some kind of terrible, torturous prank. But they made more than twice their dollar goal, and here the actors are with cars and costumes filming for real!
Read MoreCrappy cars are awesome. There’s nothing like beating on a car and not having to worry getting dents or scratches in the body. It’s freeing, in a way. But sometimes you come across cars that are a bit too crappy. Like fear-for-your-life crappy. We want you to show us some of these shit-boxes.
Read MoreNew York Times journalists Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lehren talked to community members, law enforcers, and pulled police records from all over the country to break down how the color of your skin dictates what will happen at a traffic stop into comparable statistics. The results are powerful.
Read MoreSt. Maarten is known in the aviation community as one of the best plane viewing locales in the world. Watching landing jets scream just feet overhead while you wade in the Caribbean’s warm turquoise water is just about as good as it gets. Takeoffs are usually a different story, but when the winds are just right, some equally as crazy low-flying moments can be had, as seen in the video below.
Read MoreWhat’s your car good for; 130 MPH? Maybe 150? Whatever, it’s pretty much all the same until you clear 1,000 and for $185,000, this fifty-year-old slab of Soviet metal will get you to the speed of sound. I mean as soon as you figure out how to fly it.
Read MoreSo we have Peugeot’s new hot hatch, the 308 GTi, running from a fleet of bad guys in American cars chasing our assumed heroes, a man and his monkey, as they jump parking decks and.. slap the Yakuza?
Read MoreSome people think the color of a car shouldn’t hold too much merit, but often enough companies show off their new designs and you can’t help but wonder why they got lost somewhere between yellow and green, and decided to go with it.
Read MoreAfter all the stolen Camaro stories, we thought we’d written our last. But now there’s a story of another owner who was reunited with his stolen Camaro after decades of grief.
Read MoreSee that tractor right there? See the one spittin’ hot fire? With all the smoke and the steam and the iron making great big heaps of noise? See the guy sitting atop it all, just living life? That’s me. In my dreams.
Read MoreMost modern cars have systems to keep you from skidding into a ditch at speed, while others throw caution to the wind. These adrenaline-administering thrill machines exist for no other reason but to reassure you that not only does God exist, he’s very angry.
Read MoreA pretty car doesn’t have to have a huge stance, crazy-aggressive design lines, or vomit-inducing colors. Unfortunately, the designers of these cars didn’t seem to get that memo. These are ten cars that most people think are pretty, but are not.
Read MoreNow we know why Fiat Chrysler had a tough time with their union vote. It wasn’t two-tier wages, as widely reported, it was the Dodge Viper! I’m not sure what FCA gave them to approve their contract but it wasn’t worth it. STRIKE!
Read MoreMini finally has a convertible version of the redesigned Mini Cooper it introduced back in 2014, and if it means I get a better chance to hear the fantastic noise of the John Cooper Works, it was worth the wait.
Read MoreNASA’s Morpheus vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) craft fulfills many science fiction dreams of the last 60 or so years. Maybe one day a scaled-up cousin of it will be able to service extraterrestrial bodies in our solar system. Until then, it is just really cool to watch this thing takeoff, pick a landing spot all by itself and execute a vertical landing safely all on rocket power alone.
Read MoreWe’ve always found that voice control systems in cars are a bit pointless, since virtually every one is crap. (No, we don’t want to go to Ottawa, we want to turn on the radio. NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO OTTAWA.) But it turns out that if you do use a voice control system in your car, it could be incredibly distracting.
Read MoreNHTSA just released lab-test footage of a violent Takata airbag deployment. That reminded us of one of rural-America’s most cherished pastimes: blowing up microwaves with airbags.
Read MoreWhat you’re looking at isn’t some craft plying the wastes of the outer planets. It isn’t a particularly confusing sculpture a billionaire has commissioned. What it is, rather, is a particularly confusing megayacht a billionaire has commissioned. Please welcome Sailing Yacht A.
Read More29-year-old Fort Worth attorney Bryan Wilson AKA “The Texas Law Hawk” is blowing up YouTube with spectacularly terrible ads full of explosions, motorcycle stunts, waving flags and of course; hawk screeches. It’s totally working too.
Read MoreRemember when the long-dead German car company Borgward came back? Yeah, well, as this New York Times profile reiterates today, it’s actually Chinese.
Read MoreIt’s a new Ferrari! It’s red! The engine is in the middle! That means it’s pretty, right? Nope.
Read MoreAudi is known, at least in Europe, for its incredibly overpowered all-wheel-drive wagons that are closer to the category of “hard drugs that you need to seek help for” than the category of “cars.” So with that in mind, please welcome the Audi RS6 Performance.
Read MoreAston Martin unveiled a fully electric Aston Martin RapidE - capital “E” for electric, or something - just in time for the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London.
Read MoreLots of kids who like Ferraris and also money have wondered how much it would take to buy up Ferrari. Not a Ferrari, all of Ferrari. (Alright, weird kids.) The answer to that question was a mystery for almost all of Ferrari’s history. Until today, as Ferrari just closed its first day on the public markets.
Read MoreIf you’re in London, get used to this car. You’ll be seeing plenty of them around.
Read MoreSo, we all know it’s Back to the Future day, and we’ve had plenty of content about DeLoreans and the movie’s predictions from 30 years ago. But now it’s time for some fresh new predictions for what we can expect, automotively, 30 years from now. Many of these used a remarkable new process called “making shit up,” and I think you’ll be pleased with the results.
Read MoreDomino’s Pizza has created their own trim level of the Chevy Spark; the “DXP.” It’s a single-seat pizza deliverymobile with an oven where the rear window was. I can smell the singed cardboard already!
Read MoreI recently spent an afternoon mired in the kind of fear that only really comes when you believe you’re staring down the barrel of certain death. It happened a few weeks ago, when I took my Hummer off-roading with a Jalopnik reader named Phil.
Read MoreCars! They’re so full of technology these days. It’s crazy! But sometimes that stuff just doesn’t work like it’s supposed to.
Read MoreIf you go to Ford’s website today and then try to build-and-price a Focus or a Fiesta, you’ll notice that Ford is offering an pretty significant upgrade: an integrated Flux Capacitor system for time travel. Adding a whole other dimension of travel to a car is a hell of an upgrade, but the power requirements are steep and it’s not actually available.
Read MoreYou can now add seat belts to the list of counterfeit items you should look out for when you’re shopping for your car. And holy crap should you look out for this stuff because it’s terrifying.
Read MoreThe McLaren 570S has an incredible 570 horsepower twin turbo V8 engine mounted between the rear wheels. Want to pop the hood back there to check it out? Not gonna happen!
Read MoreThe latest chronicle in the history of the Saab 9-3 would sound crazy - if it wasn’t for the already ridiculous game of Saab-potato we’ve seen since GM ditched the Swedish car brand in 2010. And yet the 9-3 will live on - as a Turkish Cadillac of sorts.
Read MoreJust last week two Reno Gazette-Journal staffers were arrested after allegedly sneaking onto the grounds of Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory and tangling with corporate security. Tesla said the journalists attacked their guards as they tried to escape, but an attorney from their paper, not surprisingly, has a different side of the story.
Read MoreBefore the Mitsubishi Evo, before the Subaru Impreza, before the Audi Quattro there was the Ford Escort MkII. Now Kenneth H. Blockenstriker has one for some hectic Gymkhana action.
Read MoreI recently spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out what vehicle blends in perfectly in every single situation. This is the kind of thing I do on a Friday night when my girlfriend is out of town.
Read MoreConsumer Reports, who just over a month ago broke their own rating system because they just loved them so damn much, has now pulled their recommendation for the Tesla Model S after they found it to be ‘below average’ on reliability.
Read MoreWinter is coming, there’s no doubt. Don’t you worry though, insane snowfalls won’t stop us from experiencing a full roster of exceptional automotive events. These ten great winter events will keep our wheels turning all the way into Spring of 2016.
Read MoreI believe the first production car to break the 186 MPH (or 300 km/h) barrier was the Ferrari 288 GTO in 1984. Three decades later, a damn Boxster can do the same.
Read MoreAn employee of a car model factory in China understands the sorts of things gearheads like, because the unknown employee just leaked a photo of a model of the 2016 Volvo V90, Volvo’s return to the sort of premium wagons they’re known for. It looks pretty good! Actual size is expected to be much larger than handheld.
Read MoreSo far it’s not clear if this is a mistake, a deliberate Easter Egg left in by JJ Abrams, or what, but in at least one of the trailer’s scenes on that desert planet that’s not Tatooine or Arrakis, there definitely appears to be a partially sand-covered Subaru Brat. You can see it up there on the right in that little GIF clip.
Read MoreThe Need For Speed video game franchise has a “completely rebooted” installment dropping November 3rd, and they’ve announced all 51 cars coming available upon release.
Read MoreOslo, the capital city of Norway, has announced plans to permanently cut almost 350,000 motorists out of the center of the city by 2019, while increasing public transport and restructuring to better accompany cyclists and pedestrians.
Read MoreIf you had to guess what the first really successful Matchbox toy vehicle was, the one that convinced them there was money to be made cranking out tiny toy cars, what would you guess? An E-Type? A Model T? A tank? Nope, nope, and nope. The one that convinced them had a pair of disembodied shins. Were you going to guess that?
Read MoreI stepped into Sir Frank Williams’ complex expecting to see Felipe Massa’s Formula One car in bits and pieces, but my visit revealed that their engineering department would make Tony Stark run for his money.
Read MoreWhile the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Union, and Volkswagen leadership themselves claim to be shocked—shocked!—by the diesel scandal that continues to necrotize its way through the company, one small group of people says they’ve been talking about it for years. It’s just that nobody was listening.
Read MoreThe C111 development prototypes are unlike any other Mercedes-Benz, and lucky devil Jay Leno got to drive the one that blew his mind as a teen back in 1970.
Read MoreNot all rally cars are AWD Subarus and Mitsubishis. Some of them are 1800cc, 10000RPM, RWD Toyota Starlets.
Read MoreYamaha has an extremely diverse portfolio of products for sale. You probably know they make motorcycles but they also do pressure washers, guitars, generators, water pumps and pianos, which actually makes sense as every last one of those things is a musical instrument. This month they’ll show us their idea of a sports car.
Read MoreIf you were in the Northeast this past weekend like me, you were probably freezing your butt off. Better get ready folks: winter is coming. Time to dig out those snow tires and start planning for the war on massive snowfalls.
Read MoreIf you bought a McLaren P1 in order to have the fastest road-legal track car money can buy, we’ve got bad news, buddy. The Radical RXC Turbo has it beat for way less.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe G-wagen is said to have been imported and Federalized by none other than Tina Turner for her own personal use. Now it could be yours, if only you find out what’s money got to do with it?
Read MoreNo, pilots aren’t just drinking coffee and checking their e-mail the whole flight — when called upon, they earn every cent of their paychecks. This video of a pilot fighting to put an Embraer E-190 safely on the runway shows that even the most modern airliners still benefit greatly from a highly trained and experienced pair of hands on the controls.
Read MoreNot much is known about this crazy clip, but let’s just hope that helicopter is filming some awesome video footage for Emirates Airlines or Airbus’s A380 program – which they almost certainly are.
Read MoreEver seen a Chemex coffee maker? It’s a lovely thing. Looks like an hourglass made from scientific glassware. It’s in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, even. Ever wonder how the person who designed that would have designed a car? No? Well, too bad. Because he did, and here it is.
Read MoreWhen it was revealed that VW had installed cheating devices on diesel vehicles as far back as 2008, it was played off as a mistake unknown to most of the company. But back in 2008, VW’s marketing enjoyed exploiting the performance of the illegal technology, bragging that vehicles outperformed EPA testing in the real world.
Read MoreI think, over the course of a number of posts, we’ve established a few crucial things: first, my bowels are so regular the atomic clock people at the US Naval Observatory occasionally use them for calibration, and second, I have a huge stack of ‘60s era Popular Science magazines by my toilet. These two facts conspired to let me discover gems like this: stop/start technology may have been invented by some nobody in Brooklyn.
Read MorePerhaps you remember last year’s introduction of Jalopnik’s line of Hypersexy Superhot Halloween Carstumes, and how it changed your life so dramatically. Since insipid sexificated costumes don’t seem to be going anywhere, we decided to make a tradition of it, so I’m happy to present our 2015 line!
Read MoreIdeally, every experience behind the wheel would involve a never-ending winding back road with no speed limits, no other cars, and no police. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t work that way.
Read MoreMight. MIGHT. I’ve been burned before on this one, so I’m having a hard time believing it. But Australia’s Motoring, citing reports and the rendering you see above from a Japanese car magazine, claims the mysterious concept sports car Mazda will unveil at the Tokyo Motor Show could have a rotary engine after all.
Read MoreOh hey, Steve. Can I call you Steve? I’m assuming that’s alright, as we hang out late at night together. No? Not okay? I AM SO SORRY MR. COLBERT I AM YOUR BIGGEST FAN AND I’M KINDA JUST MELTING INSIDE RIGHT NOW AAAHHHHH THIS IS SO COOL.
Read MoreYesterday morning, a driver in Fontana captured an insane accident on his dashcam as an out of control truck struck another car, sending the car into a spin and the truck flying over an embankment, landing in a car dealership lot. The driver who got the video thinks it may be a road rage-related incident. Yikes.
Read MoreRemember that ATV that could turn into a jet ski? That’s called the Quadski and it’s made by Gibbs Technologies. Those same guys just posted videos of an amphibious motorcycle, a tricycle, some kind of quad/snowmobile hybrid, and even shots of their old water-going car I’d never seen.
Read MoreA charming sociopath, an ordinary Soviet girl, a murder on the Orient Express during a long journey, all wrapped in a tense thriller with the players all after the same MacGuffin. It’s not an Alfred Hitchcock movie - it’s 1963’s From Russia With Love!
Read MoreIf there were ever a World Championship for Things People Think Used to Be Better, Acura would finish in second place. America would, of course, take the top spot.
Read MoreArtist Max Siedentopf prowls the streets of Amsterdam at night, armed with masking tape and cardboard. He waits. He watches. When he sees his prey, he springs into action. His prey are boring cars, and his action is making them into supercars.
Read MoreRemember earlier this year when we told you about professional skier Jon Olsson’s super awesome Audi RS6 Avant? Well, we’ve got some bad news. Following a truly bizarre series of events, that car is now a fiery heap of ashes, and it’s not because someone crashed it.
Read MoreConnected cars! Autonomous cars! Cars as rolling cell phones! Apps! Snapchats, tweets, iMessages, texts, sexts and emails! Sometimes, the noise of modern living just gets to be too much.
Read MoreIt’s time to face the music folks. Soon enough, fossil fuels will be gone. We need to find something that can continue to give the magical rolling metal orbs we call “cars”, power and life. Don’t fret! Maybe these ten strange energy sources have some promise.
Read MoreThe Fairlady 240Z. Do you know what a 350Z is? Do you know what a 370Z is? THIS is where it all started. This super hipster “period modified” car.
Read MoreFord should have no concern for demand of their new super-hot hatch 2016 Focus RS. According to UK pre-orders, the company has sold over 1,000 models since the car’s unveiling just last month. That’s what happens when you fit a button labeled “Drift Mode” to a car.
Read MoreThe Dieselgate scandal knocked Volkswagen’s power structure on its ass, seeing CEOs ousted and veterans of the company shift into newly designed positions. Yet just two weeks after being handed the restructured North American region for VW, former Škoda boss Winfried Vahland quit - because his wife refused to come with him.
Read MoreSeeing a fast car driving slowly can be irksome. I mean, what’s the point of doing 55 MPH in a car capable of so much more? Still, even if it makes you roll your eyes, chances are you don’t think it’s a capital offense. There seems to be at least one trigger-happy idiot in a Mustang who disagrees, since he reportedly shot at a Corvette driver in Georgia.
Read MoreThe snarling, brutal, uncompromising fury of the current Dodge Viper makes it one of our favorite sports cars currently on the market. Unfortunately, the market has not been kind to the Viper. In news that’s probably not a shock to anyone, the snake could bow out in 2017—with no replacement in sight.
Read MoreVolkswagen has admitted that it knew Dieselgate was coming as far back as the Spring of 2014. But a new report from the AP says that despite all that, Volkswagen has now additionally confirmed it was getting ready to ship its 2016 diesel models with an “auxiliary emissions control device” software, completely separate from the already-existing defeat device software.
Read MoreToyota says they want to all but eliminate gasoline-powered cars by the year 2050. They see electrification, brought about by hydrogen fuel cells in particular, as the way forward. Are gasoline’s days really numbered? Down the road, it eventually might be.
Read MoreThe Nissan Axxess may have only been brought to the United States for one year, but its relative rarity hasn’t discouraged its owners from making the most ingenious mod ever to the back hatch. That’s right: there’s a toilet.
Read MoreJohn Green, famous YouTuber and author of popular “young adult fiction” novels-turned-movies The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns recently went for a go in a dirtmod-ish racecar with absolutely no experience. He crashed and caught on fire.
Read MoreVehicle inspections are necessary for ensuring that every car on the road is held to a similar standard of reliability and safety for everybody. But perhaps one traffic cop in Fairfax County, Virginia takes traffic enforcement a little too seriously.
Read MoreWhen I moved to North Carolina about a year ago, I never once dared to dream that it could possibly challenge Florida for batshittery. Looks like I may have been wrong, thanks to the efforts of this clearly disturbed circular-driving and cop-car-ramming enthusiast.
Read MoreThe fact that Volkswagen will still try to sell you the fastest production car in the world without delaying it after its announced $1.1 billion cutback is most likely due to the fact that the Bugatti Chiron should be almost ready by now.
Read MoreIf you own a Volkswagen TDI diesel, I bet I know two things about you: you’re really sick of people asking you about your car, and you recently received an apology letter from VW CEO Michael Horn.
Read MoreA photographer with the Reno-Gazette Journal was arrested last week and charged with a felony after police say he and another journalist from the paper were caught trespassing at Tesla Motors’ Gigafactory. And when they were busted, the journalists ran down security employees with their Jeep until the local cops arrested them, police say.
Read MoreBeing any sort of emergency dispatcher, but especially one for the New York City Fire Department, has to be a rough job. A dispatcher known as “Eddy-O” in Queens worked on the job for 32 years, however, and he loved it. So when he tearily signed off for the last time, it was pretty sad. But then every single fire company in Queens responded.
Read MoreThe BMW 1M Coupe was one of the greatest and most-loved M cars of all time. Now BMW aims for a hardcore, high-performance repeat with the new 2 Series. After almost two years of anticipation, this is the new BMW M2.
Read MoreLike most people, I’ve always felt the Ferrari F12berlinetta (I didn’t forget a space, that’s how they like the name) was a little too tame. I mean, only 740 HP? Acceleration that only slams your brains mostly out the back of your head? We deserve more. Happily, Ferrari listened, and now we have the Ferrari F12tdf.
Read MoreFerraris are red, Lamborghinis are ugly, and diesel, manual wagons are brown. The color of a car can say a lot about its owner - what does the color of your car say about you?
Read MoreParamount Pictures has already scooped up a proposal for a film on the recent Dieselgate scandal, said to recount the events of the drama at Volkswagen Auto Group following the discovery of its cheating on EPA emissions regulations.
Read MoreWhen you want to buy shares in a company and you don’t want to sound like a doofus, you use the ticker symbol that it’s listed under. Ford is simply F, Microsoft is MSFT, and a random French bank is CRAP. When Ferrari goes on sale on the New York Stock Exchange in just a few weeks, it’ll be under RACE.
Read MoreTwo young men, both high, were killed when their wildly speeding Renault Clio hit a church wall and crashed. The whole incident was recorded by the passenger, and was released at the request of the young mens’ families. It’s sobering and disturbing.
Read MorePerhaps surprisingly, I was an Art History major in college. And while the massive ‘curator boom’ never really seemed to happen, I don’t regret my choice of major, and even find it coming in handy. Like today, when I get to share with you what may very well be the first POV painting from inside a car.
Read MoreThe open road rules, but what really makes a great road trip is a good companion or two. If you could take any human, alien or anthropomorphic animal character on your next overland adventure, who would it be?
Read MoreDesign cues that recognize an automaker’s past can be found on cars all over the industry. Some are small easter eggs and some are obvious enough to slap you in the face. These are the ten coolest design details that serve as throwbacks to a past car.
Read MoreAmidst all of the Dieselgate scandals, it’s great to know that some people aim to reduce future emissions by choosing to drive electric cars. They sure do know how to treat the environment.
Read MoreMuscle cars have plenty of ride height, beefy tires, and plenty of rear-drive power. Sounds like a perfect rallycross car to me.
Read MoreSuper-rich-dude Paul Bailey submitted his Holy Trinity of hypercars–the Ferrari LaFerrari, Mclaren P1, and Porsche 918 Spyder–to a track comparison at Silverstone. We assume this happened before he crashed his 918 into a crowd of people a few days ago at a Malta car show.
Read MoreOh, Volkswagen. Volkswagen, Volkswagen, Volkswagen. What’s up? Look, you’ve been caught. That means coming clean with everything. It’s just going to be worse if the EPA or anyone finds more defeat devices, you know, like suspicious coding in the engine controls. Just fess up already, to everything.
Read MoreThe Lincoln Continental was meant to be a rejuvenation of the brand. A return to style, and a return to proper substance. I’ll withhold proper judgment until we drive it, but Lincoln has just telegraphed its first disappointment. Unlike its rivals, the new Continental will be all-wheel-drive or front-wheel-drive. Only.
Read MoreAirbus made a startling patent filing this week showing a new interior configuration with a mezzanine level of seating. This stacked concept would have fully-reclining chairs and be able to accommodate more passengers in the same amount of space. But will commercial airliners of the future have this confusing layout?
Read MoreThere are few cars more poorly executed than the Cadillac Allanté. With bodies built by Italian factory workers, then shipped over to Michigan to be finished by 1980s GM factory workers, and with a name selected by computer, it is the epitome of a very certain idea of “luxury.” And now American Apparel, a bankrupt company with ugly products founded by a human toilet, is giving one away as a contest prize.
Read MoreHow much acceleration and how many MPGs would Volkswagen’s cars really lose without their infamous cheat code? The vehicle-testing gurus at Consumer Reports are here to answer that, and for owners, the answer is not pretty.
Read MoreThe point of an emissions standards is to reduce emissions, but as a new report from The Guardian notes, the tests used to enforce those standards are doing next to nothing for keeping our air clean.
Read MoreRacing game Assetto Corsa’s Dream Pack 2 of add-on content is pretty special: not only does it include the Circuit of Catalunya, but now you can race a car with the Jalopnik bump, right there, in the game. We’re right there on the Scuderia Glickenhaus SCG 003’s rear fender.
Read MoreFloyd Mayweather is a man of means, and he likes to spend his means on a collection of uninspired expensive cars he doesn’t drive. Sadly, his Rich Basic Dude car collection is down four members after last night following a trailer fire.
Read MoreNobody likes getting pulled over for speeding, but at least when you are pulled over, you know exactly what happened, why, and the cop who pulled you actually knows who you are, regardless of what you’re driving. None of these things can be said about Officer David Carter’s methods, which involved his own private car and tickets in the mail.
Read MoreCar designers like to give little retro throwbacks to legendary designs of the past. Which one is your favorite?
Read MoreWhat’s the only thing cooler than auto racing? Auto racing in the 1960s and ‘70s, that’s what. And that era of Can-Am racing produced some of the most memorable events and cars the world has ever seen. Now McLaren has a 650S that salutes this era, and I want one.
Read MoreUnlike some other manufacturers I could mention, Toyota’s concept car team is really bringing it for this year’s Tokyo Motor Show. Yesterday we talked about the S-FR baby sports car, now I find myself really taken by the Kikai, a 3-seat, center-drive, mid-rear little machine that looks like a car-Terminator with its skin burned off. It seems very cool.
Read MoreHong Kong is Minivantopia. There’s no denying it. I flew to Hong Kong a few weeks ago and saw the coolest, most pimped-out minivans I’d ever seen.
Read MoreHere’s everything we’ve learned from Volkswagen USA CEO Michael Horn’s Congressional testimony on Dieselgate so far.
Read MoreSubaru has been on-fire (figuratively) for years now in U.S. sales growth, and they’re looking to grow even further by showing off concepts for a new Impreza wagon and full-size SUV at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show.
Read MoreIn his testimony to Congress earlier today, Volkswagen USA CEO Michael Horn revealed that the company has pulled back on its current EPA certification applications for 2016 model year diesels, delaying sales of new models indefinitely.
Read MoreOh hey, remember when BMW released the track-ready, water-injected M4 GTS Concept? Wow, what a neat concept that was. Just a concept, though, of course. SYKE! They’re actually building it, and just calling it the BMW M4 GTS. We never ever never ever ever saw this coming. Amazing, BMW.
Read MoreIt’s Wednesday, and we’re getting bored. We want to race cars, but unfortunately, we’re still locked in an office. But there is Another Way. We’re still going to race cars, we’re just going to do it virtually. We’re having a Forza 6 tournament, right here, and we want you to join in the fun.
Read MoreThe genesis of the whole Volkswagen Dieselgate thing actually began in 2014, when a West Virginia University study found a discrepancy between the emissions VW diesels put out in EPA tests and what they put out on the road. And in testimony he’ll deliver to Congress tomorrow, Volkswagen USA CEO Michael Horn will detail how long the company has been dealing with this problem, and how long it took them to act.
Read MoreEarlier this week, Callaway Competition showed off its Corvette C7 GT3-R at the ADAC GT Masters Season Finale at the Hockenheimring in Germany. It’s got a huge wing, tons of carbon fiber, a sweet ducted cooling module and vents all over the place. This thing oozes with engineering goodness.
Read MoreThe new car show on Amazon starring Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond, just began its full day of shooting, and it’s looking to be a modest affair. There appears to be just barely over 50 people participating. Oh, and also a Ferrari LaFerrari, a McLaren P1, and a Porsche 918.
Read MoreLast month, we caught the first glimpse of what was probably the world’s first Lamborghini Aventador Roadster fire in Dubai from cell phone shots and a faraway video. Now, we have a much better look at how this went down, and it ain’t pretty.
Read MoreThis tiny video brings up so many more questions than it answers. It appears to be some sort of Russian security camera footage, but the car appears to be right-hand drive? I think? And, more importantly, what the the hell is wrong with this guy?
Read MoreThe pilot of American Airlines Flight 550 from Phoenix, AZ to Boston, MA passed away during the flight on Monday. According to a medical examiner, Captain Michael Johnston, who was 57 years old, died of natural causes. The aircraft’s co-pilot declared an emergency and quickly diverted the Airbus A320 to a safe landing in Syracuse, NY.
Read MoreIt’s really just a shorter clip from a longer video about the elimination of pink bollworms, a type of moth, that feed on cotton crops. And that’s kind of boring, to me! But instead just imagine your face positioned right behind that irradiated moth cannon, and then imagine all the nightmares you’ll have from that image.
Read MoreNissan’s latest concept car for the Tokyo Motor Show appears to be a quite nice and rational update of a car they didn’t make, which was then slathered in some of the most potent, weapons-grade marketing horse-, bull-, and batshit we’ve seen in a good while. Seriously, get a vomit bag ready and keep it close.
Read MoreAfter considerable thought, I have decided to devote today’s column to the second-most annoying issue that affects our society today: getting gas in New Jersey. Number one will always be people who clip their toenails on airplanes.
Read MoreThe 1990s Mercury Cougar was maybe not the most important car ever made, or the most beautiful, or the most beloved. But it could do a burnout, and that’s what counts.
Read MoreThe forgettable Malibu doesn’t stand out in the mid-size class, but it’s due for a refresh that promises to bring more excitement to Chevy’s mid-sizer. What do you need to know before you buy a Chevrolet Malibu? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Sonata stands out in a hotly contested class by being good at everything and bad at nothing. What do you need to know before you buy a Hyundai Sonata? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreMy Aussie friend Dave is a real muscle car fanatic who doesn’t take kindly of some electric car claiming to be the fastest sedan on the planet. To prove Elon Musk wrong, he went for a drag race between a Tesla and a V8 Supercar.
Read MoreThe last airworthy Avro Vulcan flying over one of the ultra-limited edition Aston Martin Vulcans. Pictures don’t get any louder than this.
Read MoreJust your average 911. Except with all-wheel drive. And more power. And more expensive. And with the coolest roof on the planet.
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, Flight Club brought you video of an Emirates Airbus A380 landing in a crosswind in Düsseldorf, Germany. Now we’ve got another Emirates A380 landing at the same airport, but this time filmed from the rear. Watch how much that enormous rudder pivots to align the massive jet with the runway.
Read MoreTesla seems happy to talk about the new Model X as an SUV. It’s been called a crossover, too. But is it either? Did Elon actually just make a minivan?
Read MorePicturesque Ocean City, Maryland. Home to a lovely boardwalk, fine dining, and of course, the stanced car fest H2Oi, infamously also the most-ticketed car show in America. This past weekend’s H2Oi 2015 was no exception. Journey with us through Instagram as we see the crackdown on stance.
Read MoreWe had a ton of entrants in this year’s Jalopnik Film Festival short film contest and, if you were lucky, you saw them out in Los Angeles. However, if you missed it you can see all the films here.
Read MoreVolkswagen is in some deep stuff right now. So deep, in fact, that they just deleted diesels from their website.
Read MoreTwenty six people sustained injuries following the crash of a Porsche 918 Spyder supercar into a crowd at the Paqpaqli ghal-Istrina motor show in Malta, according to reports from the Times of Malta.
Read MoreTwo highway travelers carrying cocaine in the airbag compartment of their vehicle died following a car crash in Mexico, according to a press release from the National Security Commission in Mexico City.
Read MoreWe’re always told not to dwell on the past, but sometimes it can be kind of fun. Paying tribute to the Checker Motor Cars cab is one of those times.
Read MoreThe September Bloomberg reports show that Subaru is still putting the U.S. sales pace of every other manufacturer to shame, and the company has been for quite awhile now — years, actually.
Read MoreSome sort of massive, international Volkswagen recall is coming over its #dieselgate #cheating #scandal. But in the #United #Kingdom, you won’t actually be penalized if you don’t feel like bringing your car in for whatever fix VW offers, mostly because it’s not really your fault, according to a report from the Telegraph.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s up the creek with their Dieselgate fiasco. They created a “cheat” calibration meant to trick the EPA into thinking their cars are cleaner than they really are. But there might be a quick fix. Question is: how much will this fix cost you in performance?
Read MoreAward-winning twin-turbo V8 or not, a Ferrari V12 will always sound better. One the plus side, the P1 GTR will make it outside the track while all FXX K stay locked up at Ferrari’s.
Read MoreI know you’re losing sleep at night just aching to find out when’s the next time we’ll drive a crazy drift car through Manhattan, see which of Doug DeMuro’s three button-down shirts he’s wearing this week, or wrench on an old Scout. The answer is not for a while!
Read MoreWe just can’t get enough of this car.
Read MorePart of the fun of selling a car through classifieds is interacting with the very strange strangers that come your way. Trust me, it can get weird. These are your 10 weirdest car-selling stories.
Read MoreGriff Tannen’s hover-converted BMW 633 CSi was actually a non-running 1976 model the film crew purchased for about 400 bucks from Germany. Today, she stays in first gear around Connecticut.
Read MoreMy automotive existence is a constant state of wrestling with an often-broken car with not very much space. This might be why I start drooling when I see Suzuki’s new van concept.
Read MoreWe’re still in the throes of Dieselgate, that smoky, messy tale of Volkswagen’s disturbingly clever gaming of the EPA’s testing and emission regulations. But it’s not Volkswagen’s first time playing fast and loose with claims about emission controls, as we learn in two examples from the 1960s and ‘70s.
Read MoreHARK! A sound doth bellow across the horizon! Is it the glorious bellow of a PRV V6, wheezing out the back of a DeLorean? NAY! It is the call for writings. Your writings, specifically. Rather than having you scramble for ideas, we’re going to give you some of our own. And we’re paying.
Read MoreSelling a car is hard. Well, ‘hard’ isn’t the right way to put it. ‘Filled with skeezballs and weirdos’ is more accurate.
Read MoreTo be fair, so can your car, and it doesn’t even have to be an Aston Martin. But it sure as hell won’t do it this gracefully.
Read MoreA Chimera is a mythical beast that’s both one thing and another. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercury is a car that’s an example of ‘70s fanciness and of that era’s performance potential, truly a chimeric mix. Let’s see if its price doesn’t make it just another crazy mixed up kid.
Read MoreAre you a disappointment to your elders? Maybe it’s the car you drive. Buy today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caprice and make a connection with the oldsters, that is if they don’t think you paid too much for it, kiddo.
Read MoreHere in the U.S., when you’re under 25 it’s tough to rent a car. It’s even tougher to import a foreign car here that’s under 25. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW is over 25 and that’s why it’s here. Let’s see if its price makes it worth keeping around.
Read MoreTwo stroke bikes are bad for the environment, but good for the fun-vironment. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RD400 might be a bit dirty, but will this restored bike’s price prove a low down dirty shame?
Read MoreVW never officially sold the Vanagon-based Dokas (Double Cab) in the U.S., but like so many forbidden fruits today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender proved desirable enough for somebody to do it on their own. Will its present price prove equally desirable?
Read MoreYes, most of the pictures of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe NSX appear to have been taken in Texas, but to buy this hot Honda you’ll actually have to catch a plane to Honolulu. Even if if the car proves unworthy of its price, that’s not a half bad deal, right?
Read MoreWhen life gives you lemons you‘re supposed to make lemonade, and when it gives you Corollas, you should definitely make something like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe SR5. We’ll just have to see if its price is a sour note.
Read MoreMontgomery Ward was founded in 1872 as a mail order retailer. Nearly 100 years later one of the things you could mail order from the company was an Italian bike like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Riverside. We’ll have to see if this survivor is worth saying, the check is in the mail.
Read MoreIf you want to go rock hopping then you’re probably going to want a torque monster for an engine, not a screaming mimi. Our Nice Price or Crack Pipe 4Runner goes the screamer route, but is its price a screaming deal as well?
Read MoreIt’s described as an unfinished project, its interior is out of Mad Max, and it’s from a company currently tainted by corporate criminal behavior, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe V8 GTI is so batshitcrazypants that you just have to wonder - is it cheap enough that I won’t get thrown out of the house if I buy it?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Seville has baroque details like opera lights and claims to be an Elegante model. I don’t know about that last bit, but let’s see if its price has what it takes to get the fat lady singing.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda has pipes like Veronica Lake (as your gramps) had hair. We’ll see if this claimed all-original, low-miler has a price that’s totally tubular as well.
Read MoreRed Bull may not literally give you wings but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota Sera will. Those butterfly wing doors are sure different, but will its price make it seem fly by night?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Delorean says he needs to be rid of it ASAP due to his impending divorce. Let’s see wether or not his price for the car shows he’s already divorced from reality.
Read MoreI’m shocked that today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe EXP still even exists. Let’s see if this rare Coelacanth of the car world is also priced well enough to stick around.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe LTD describes it as a “four-door Mustang GT” and that’s pretty much what it is. You’ll have to decide if its price makes it a four-door deal as well.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Beemer is claimed in its ad to be “almost ready to go.” We’ll have to see if this presently non-running R90 is also priced to make it worth staying.
Read MoreVW may have cheated on their emissions tests, but you can still get your diesel on with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW. It’s claimed to have a clean California title, but will its price dirty up the deal?
Read MoreIf the foreigners that Donald Trump want to kick out of the country include cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lancia then he must be defeated at all cost. In the mean time, let’s have a look at this immigrant’s cost.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda is brought to you by the latter “S” and the number 3,000. It’ll be up to you to decide if that’s how you get to Sesame Street.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ur Quattro represents the homologation of the marque’s initial entrant into Group B rally racing. It’s pretty rare, undeniably cool, and its performance has long been eclipsed by lesser cars. Let’s see if it’s still something that you could rally around.
Read MoreThis video of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration P-3 Orion clawing its way through the eye of Hurricane Patricia was supposedly taken yesterday during the crew’s second center fix on the storm.
Read MoreThink turbulence is bad on a 767? Imagine soaring through the skies with nothing but a prop engine between your legs or a couple of jets strapped to your back. These are the 10 smallest manned aircraft that have ever seen flight—whether they were good ideas or not.
Read MoreUnmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are all the rage these days. You can make one the size of a bug, and it’ll still fly around. That’s impressive, I suppose, but it’s not nearly as impressive as getting a real tiny plane to fly with a person still inside.
Read MoreThe Porsche Boxster is not a 911, but it’s so damn good and so much cheaper, there really is no Porsche that offers a better value. What do you need to know before you buy a Porsche Boxster? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreIf you want to take your Porsche to the track as often as you have to take it to work you’re probably buying a Cayman. What do you need to know before you buy a Porsche Cayman? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreThat shape. It’s what your grandfather dreamed about. It’s what your father dreamed about. It’s what you dream about. What do you need to know before you buy a Porsche 911? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreLet’s say you have a Porsche 910, one of the fastest, greatest, and loudest prototype racers of the 1960s. Lucky you! The only problem is you can only drive it on a car track. Well, unless you make it street legal, as this video demonstrates.
Read MoreYou know what time it is, don’t you? That’s right! Even though I’m traveling and recovering from debilitating racetrack shame, I figured I should take some time to do another automotive Would You Rather. Because, dammit, it’s important. So let’s do it.
Read MoreLet’s face it, driver’s ed in America is a broken system. It’s a true, cold hearted fact that car accidents are the leading cause of deaths for teenagers ages 15-19. After reading these ten awful driver’s ed stories, it’s not too difficult to understand why.
Read MoreThe very concept of drivers’ education is completely mind boggling. Take three or four of the worst, most inexperienced drivers. Give them raging teenage hormones. Now stick them in a car with an instructor who probably doesn’t care, and just wants to escape with their life.
Read MoreWings, front splitters, wide sticky tires, low ride height— all of these things communicate “fast,” especially when coupled with a hefty sticker price. But sometimes a car’s styling makes promises its powertrain cannot keep.
Read MoreManor Marussia Formula One team president and sporting director Graeme Lowdon and team principal John Booth have annouced that they will be leaving at the end of the year—and sources have told BBC Sport that they likely won’t be the only ones.
Read MorePoor Jenson Button. He already accrued a fifty-place grid penalty for doing two engine swaps in his McLaren Honda Formula One car over the course of the Mexican Grand Prix weekend. Now one of them has an issue they couldn’t diagnose before qualifying. Not that it matters. He’s starting from the back anyway.
Read MoreRacing has never been a cheap endeavor, and that goes for the venues that host racing as well. One day a race track can be home to cars thundering down the asphalt before thousands of cheering fans, only to turn into an abandoned, weedy eyesore when their fortunes change for the worse. These are the stories of some of America’s ghost tracks.
Read MoreWhile Formula One Mercedes AMG teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are busy throwing hats at each other and upping their rivalry on track, boss Toto Wolff is basically sitting back to enjoy the show.
Read MoreThe absolute worst-kept secret in motorsports was confirmed Friday evening, as the Haas Formula One team confirmed that Ferrari test driver Esteban Gutiérrez would be their second driver alongside Romain Grosjean.
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 MoreAustin-area residents living near Circuit of the Americas awoke to tornado warnings this morning. If you thought it was bad last weekend and openly wondered, “How much worse can it get?,” congratulations: we’re all blaming you. COTA was so inundated with storm water that parts of it flooded today.
Read MoreLet me guess, fellow member of the racing community: you didn’t buy a Halloween costume, so you’re going out in your racing suit? That’s going as yourself, buddy. The whole point of Halloween is to dress up as something you’re not, but that’s a level of slacking off that I can appreciate, if not encourage.
Read MoreNissan announced this morning that Global Motorsport Head Darren Cox will be leaving the company today. While Cox’s full title is Global Head of Sales, Marketing and Brand, he’s most known by us for his involvement with Nissan’s motorsports programs, including GT Academy and some unique Le Mans cars.
Read MoreAston Martin is settling a deal with Force India to put its name back in Formula One for the first time in over 50 years, better positioning the British brand against rivals like McLaren and Ferrari.
Read MoreThe Texas Mile is a speed demon’s paradise, where standing mile races are held to answer one question: how fast can you go? And what’s more demonic than speeding through the night? Facing similar conditions to Austin’s Formula One race last weekend, The Texas Mile opted to run when it was dry—in the dark.
Read MoreBetween getting hit with torrential downpours and Formula One’s decision to host the Mexican Grand Prix only a week later, Circuit of the Americas chairman Bobby Epstein told the Austin-American Statesman that the United States Grand Prix was “a financially devastating weekend for the company.” Ouch.
Read MoreBecause that’s apparently how much the most hopped-up, race ready Porsche Cayman GT4 will cost you. At least before you start adding options, anyway.
Read MoreNo matter how much track day, autocross or driving school experience you have, your first time doing actual wheel-to-wheel racing will be an entirely different animal.
Read MoreAt Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500 race at Talladega Superspeedway, a shady move by one driver caused a domino-effect crash that wiped out half the competitive field. And here I thought people watched NASCAR just praying for a pileup, but the fans are furious about this one.
Read More2015 World Drivers’ Champion Lewis Hamilton was especially ruthless to teammate Nico Rosberg during today’s United States Grand Prix. Hamilton pushed him wide on the first corner of the race to get in front. Needless to say, Rosberg didn’t like Hamilton tossing him the second place hat.
Read MoreIf there’s any race weekend where Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton had really had to earn a win, it was this year’s United States Grand Prix. Everything came down to an insane last-lap battle between his teammate Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel, who clawed his way up to a podium finish.
Read MoreThe businessman running F1 known as Bernie Ecclestone held an impromptu roundtable for journalists at the rain-soaked U.S. Grand Prix yesterday. There are still no solid plans for more racing in America, and the Red Bull team might not even run next year.
Read MoreAfter the most exciting thing we saw on track at Circuit of the Americas yesterday was a couple of school buses due to rain, Formula One finally got most of a qualifying session in and Mercedes is on top with Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.
Read MoreI looked up and there it was, an Acura Integra pointing straight at me—spun out, stalled right on the exit of a corner. If I had a half second longer I would have remembered to relax, to curl my arms, to prepare for the impact. As it was I just closed my eyes and took the hit, 80 MPH right into to my door.
Read MoreWhile many of us were huddling for warmth in the main grandstand, some people took the United States Grand Prix qualifying session that never happened yesterday as an opportunity to do something hilarious. These are the real winners of Saturday “Qualifying.”
Read MoreEvery position matters when you’re coming down to the wire in a close, hard-fought season like this year in MotoGP. When Marc Márquez went alongside championship leader Valentino Rossi at Sepang today, Rossi just plain kneed Márquez out of his way. [See update below.]
Read MoreSomething that may or may not come into play today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway is the ending to last week’s race. Driver Matt Kenseth is still adamant that Joey Logano spun him out intentionally when he was in the lead, and being quite vocal about that fact to anyone who will listen.
Read MoreSeems like everybody knew this was coming but now it’s official; the Formula One sanctioning body is bumping qualifying for the 2015 United States Grand Prix to 9AM CDT Sunday, October 25th. This will be the first time F1 has qualifying and racing on the same day since 2013.
Read MoreThe United States Grand Prix is wet. And windy. Like, soak-through-my-clothing wet and turn-my-umbrella-inside-out windy.
Read MoreLotus announced yesterday that they will be bumping test driver Jolyon Palmer up to a full-time race seat, which is great for the 2014 GP2 champion. It’s also a little hilarious that he’s paired with pay-driving crashbot Pastor Maldonado, given his thoughts from last year.
Read MoreIt’s so miserable outside for Free Practice 3 that Circuit of the Americas told fans not to show up at the circuit until noon. The FIA decided to run Free Practice 3 at 10:00 a.m. as planned, however, and it’s going about as well as you’d think.
Read MoreWell, shit. Bad news from Mid-Ohio. An early crash put an end to our dreams of curbstomping Road & Track at this weekend’s American Endurance Racing season finale.
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 MoreFormula One isn’t scared of a little rain, but a lot of rain — well, that’s a different story.
Read MoreThe Red Bull Formula One team hasn’t had much luck in their quest to ditch their faulty Renault power units after this year. Now they’re being linked to an engine manufacturer whose cars have been even slower than the Renaults this year: Honda.
Read MoreEvery time there’s a major race in Austin, someone always questions why. Why are we going here? Why didn’t we go somewhere else that lives and breathes motorsport instead? Thus, I feel somewhat compelled to stand up for this place and say nah, we’re awesome, and you’re nuts if you haven’t been here.
Read MoreMathematically, Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton could clinch a third world driver’s championship this weekend. Because one of the key players in that equation will take a grid penalty for this weekend’s United States Grand Prix, Hamilton’s job just got a bit easier. Here’s why you should watch anyway.
Read MoreI may be the last person you’d ever want on your endurance racing team. Success in motorsport comes with talent and and experience, and while I’m no stranger to the track—not always in good ways!—I’ve never done any actual wheel-to-wheel racing before. So when I was tapped to race Road & Track at Mid-Ohio with American Endurance Racing, I knew I had to prepare the right way.
Read MoreWhat is there to do in Austin when the track goes cold and you’re no longer trying to use the Mullet of the Americas as shelter from the rain? A ton of things, actually. Here’s our list of the Formula One-related events taking over Austin this weekend.
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year again, which means that many of you will be descending upon Austin to watch the Formula One United States Grand Prix. This Friday evening, you should come party with us at Posse East. The queso is warm, the beer is cold and perhaps most importantly: the patio will be dry.
Read MoreFormula One fans, I have some good news and some bad news. Bad news: if you’re coming to Austin for the United States Grand Prix, you better pack a poncho and take your best muddin’ vehicle to the track. Good news: rain is delicious chaos, and we may finally see wet F1 racing on Circuit of the Americas.
Read MoreLast month, Lime Rock Park filed a motion with the Litchfield Superior Court asking for more reasonable usage restrictions. As a result, a local zoning commission is trying to take control of the facility away from the state and the courts. That zoning decision will not happen this week.
Read MoreWhile the racing world will no doubt have its eyes turned to Austin, Texas this weekend for the Formula One United States Grand Prix, those in the know will tell you the real action will be at Mid-Ohio! It’s where members of this esteemed publication (and one recurring character) will match wits with the guys from the highly successful Kinja page, Road & Track, for the American Endurance Racing Enthusiasts’ Cup.
Read MoreCrap excuse for a deranged mutant and head honcho of Formula One Bernie Ecclestone now says that it’s possible for Red Bull to be sued if they choose to depart from the sport, according to a report from The Independent. A contract Red Bull signed to participate in the sport until at least 2020 is at the heart of Ecclestone’s threat.
Read MoreThe Triple Crown of Motorsport consists of the three most prestigious races in the world: the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Juan Pablo Montoya won Monaco in 2003 and the Indianapolis 500 twice, but still needs Le Mans. Looks like Porsche may step in and help with that.
Read MoreTo say it’s been a good year for Manor Marussia Formula One driver Alexander Rossi would be an understatement. He’s currently second in the GP2 Series standings, and at long last and after years of false starts, Manor Marussia gave him an F1 race drive through the end of 2015. This week, we’ll finally see an American race in the United States Grand Prix.
Read MoreMatt Kenseth and Joey Logano had been dicing with each other all throughout the Hollywood Casino 400 and Kenseth going into the last few laps of the race. Kenseth tried to block and keep Logano behind him with five laps to go, and that’s when Logano got into Kenseth’s back end and spun him out.
Read MoreWhen Fredric Aasbo came to the U.S. from his native country of Norway to pursue a drifting career, he didn’t exactly scream “Formula Drift Champion” — but, his team saw something in him.
Read MoreOtt Tänak had some epic jumps during the World Rally Championship’s Rally Poland — especially this romp through a forest crowd that took out the cameras that were just a little too close to the stage road. Come, let us adore them.
Read MoreSubaru driver David Higgins and codriver Craig Drew got exactly what they dreamed of today: a perfect, undefeated Rally America season. They’ve been untouchable all year, but how? Being able to swap a host of borked parts in a ten-minute service probably has something to do with it.
Read MoreI know I’ve written about fingernails a lot this week, but if you’re a nail biter (gross), prepare for the entire ends of your fingers to be completely annihilated after you watch the last laps of this year’s British Touring Car Championship.
Read MoreWe’ve all seen eleven trillion billion laps of the Nürburgring Nordschleife, but they’re all usually in the same direction. What does it look like in the other direction? Participants in a special stage of the Rallye Köln-Ahrweiler got a chance to find out.
Read MorePoor Kevin Magnussen. After being strung along for far too long at the end of last year by the McLaren Formula One team, he was finally hired as a test driver for 2015. McLaren not only passed on the option to renew his contract for 2016, but the team principal’s assistant let him know via email on his birthday.
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 MoreFormula One is among the top sports in the world, and it is headed by demented flop-haired muppet and megalomaniacal billionaire Bernie Ecclestone. Today he took some time to stand up for ex-FIFA head Sepp Blatter. And for raw, uncut corruption.
Read MoreMost race weekends end on Sunday, making events at Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park somewhat of an anomaly. Currently, they are prohibited from racing on Sundays at all. However, upon petitioning to amend this, the local community fired back by demanding that they take over the regulation of Lime Rock’s activities.
Read MoreWhen most people who’ve been blessed enough to drive Formula One cars get out of their first ride, the immediate thing they note is the massive power of the carbon brakes. In the middle of a race, F1 drivers can expect to experience up to 5G under braking. This is how Brembo tests those brakes.
Read MoreVolvo’s back in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and they’re back with a bang. Is this new S60 Polestar TC1 race car the most badass-looking Volvo ever?
Read MoreNASCAR tested out a couple of different rules packages for their cars this year, and to many, there was a clear winner that produced fun racing to watch while rewarding driver skill. NASCAR just did everybody a solid and released a new low-downforce base rules package for 2016, which should be an utter riot.
Read MoreI love racing cars and working on them, but it sort of prevents me from enjoying certain things—like fingernail polish. I can’t get a manicure without it chipping immediately. So, I tried out a ridiculous manicure that had to be baked on like automotive paint to find out if pretty nails could finally hold up to oily goo and vehicular muck.
Read MoreWas the 2016 Formula One calendar specifically set up to spite the World Endurance Championship, or do the different FIA championships totally neglect to talk to each other? Either way, it’ll be hard to see many F1 crossover drives next year in WEC, as six of its nine races conflict with F1 dates. Ugh. Why?
Read MoreStewart Friesen stepped onto the winner’s podium at the New York State Fairgrounds last Sunday, taking the checkered flag after 200 laps in a big block modified. He was the last person who ever would. They’re tearing down the mile track at Syracuse, and no one is happy about it.
Read MoreRed Bull Racing’s Daniel “Honey Badger” Ricciardo is one of the most lovable goofballs in motor racing. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look he gave French broadcasters Canal+ into the Formula One paddock at the Russian Grand Prix wherein he messes with anyone and everyone he can, because he can.
Read MoreNASCAR’s Bank of America 500 brings us a most confusing Tale of Two Kyles. One Kyle wants to pit. One Kyle might not want to pit. Both end up in a hit. It’s Kyle-on-Kyle action, but not the kind you’d expect from terrible NASCAR fanfiction. No, this was from today’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Read MoreThere’s good reason why cheap fix enthusiast Red Green wasn’t appointed as a Formula One safety expert on the multi-year run of The Red Green Show. Cheap fixes aren’t always the safest, which is why repairing a barrier hit by Romain Grosjean with duct tape is the worst idea I’ve seen during a grand prix yet.
Read MoreBefore today’s 6 Hours of Fuji, KCMG sat in the lead of the LMP2 class of the World Endurance Championship, ahead of G-Drive’s number 26 car. KCMG was on target for a podium finish at Fuji, but a punt from G-Drive’s number 28 car prevented KCMG from finishing, giving number 26 the championship lead.
Read MoreToday, Craig Lowndes claimed his sixth ever Bathurst 1000 win with help from codriver Steven Richards. It was also a thirtieth win for Holden at the Australian endurance classic, and it came after an unbelievable six-car melee for the lead at the end. How is this man so fast? Let’s hop onboard his car and see.
Read MoreIf you missed the very start of the 6 Hours of Fuji, you didn’t miss much. It was so wet that they left the cars to circulate behind the safety car for about forty minutes. If you missed any part afterwards, you’re missing pure, unadulterated wet weather insanity. Marvel, for example, at this graceful twin pirouette.
Read MoreTonight, thanks to the Bathurst 1000, the World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Fuji and shortly afterwards, the Formula One Russian Grand Prix, you can watch racing all night long. What’s it like to run in the fastest car from qualifying at Fuji, you ask? Ride along with the #17 Porsche 919 and find out.
Read MoreScuderia Toro Rosso Formula One driver Carlos Sainz Jr. had the brownest of code browns this morning in Free Practice 3: he hit a wall, sending him into and under the barriers at the end of the track at Sochi Autodrom. Miraculously, Sainz was fine after the crash and has been cleared to race tomorrow.
Read MoreNASCAR Xfinity Series driver Austin Dillon received a surprise firework from above, as though magical sky-beasts rejected NASCAR’s pre-race show and opted to light a fire under his butt instead.
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 MoreAdrian Flack nudged his brother Damien Flack on the ultra-fast Conrod Straight in an Aussie Racing Cars support race for the Bathurst 1000. Damien’s car flipped end over end in a massive aerial crash, leaving Damien with broken ribs, a punctured lung and a race car on fire, according to Fox reporter Chris Stubbs.
Read MoreThe existing pair of SCG 003s will keep racing at the Nürburgring while Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus gets closer to readying its road car and racer in the top class of the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, LMP1. Here’s what they have in store.
Read MoreA track vehicle leaked diesel fuel onto the racing surface in sector two of Sochi Autodrom this morning, per ESPN. Formula One shortened Free Practice One at the Russian Grand Prix by 30 minutes as marshals tried to clean up the spill.
Read MoreDriver Chaz Mostert lost control of his car after tapping a wall during qualifying for the Bathurst 1000, hitting a marshal stand and ripping open the side of his car. Mostert was airlifted to a local hospital with a fractured left femur and fractured left wrist. Five marshals were injured in the crash. [Updated]
Read MoreSimona de Silvestro and Renee Gracie are sharing a Prodrive Racing Ford Falcon at this year’s Bathurst 1000, making them the first all-female team since 1998 to compete there. That’s great! V8 Supercar driver David Reynolds called it a “pussy wagon” in in a post-practice press conference. That’s um...not so great.
Read MoreRemember the 1967 Porsche 911R? It’s was a stripped-down, lightweight 911 with racing in its name, and rumor has it Porsche is celebrating the model’s 50th Anniversary by selling a limited run of throwback-styled 911s - and they’re already sold out.
Read MoreMarc VDS Racing is, or rather, was, a race team competing in various forms of GT racing over the years. They just quit doing all of that, ostensibly over some sort of financial issue, but the way in which they did it was spectacular: an insanely-written press release where president Marc van der Straten basically called out all his lackluster employees, haters, nay-sayers and enemies of the great nation of Belgium.
Read MorePorsche took the already awesome Cayman GT4 one step further by developing a full on racer Clubsport version. Gone is the manual gearbox, but those paddle shifters will only make it faster around the track.
Read MoreAlong with the new 2016 Mazda Miata comes a new spec racing series, and now we know how much it’ll cost to get the car. The Global Mazda MX-5 Cup starts up in 2016, and Mazda Motorsports recently announced that drivers can grab a race-prepped vehicle for an introductory price of $53,000.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of LeMons endurance series is out at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah today for the Return of the LeMonites race, and there’s an onboard view from one of the fastest cars there streaming online for your viewing pleasure.
Read MoreEvery year, an Arizona farm (wait, there’s more than just desert land there?) crafts its own corn maze dedicated to a certain celebrity. This year, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Joey Logano had the honor of being etched in corn.
Read MoreNick Tandy won Le Mans earlier this year in a Porsche prototype, which makes sense because prototype cars win these races. Nick Tandy just won a rainy Petit Le Mans in a Porsche 911 GT car. That’s not supposed to happen. In fact, it’s the first time it’s ever happened.
Read MoreDuring his college years, now-professional driver Tanner Foust’s career plan was for people seeking medical attention to line up in his waiting room. Life didn’t exactly go that route.
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 MoreAfter Volkswagen was caught cheating its emissions tests with trick software, another rumor of Volkswagen cheatery popped up in motorsports. Could the Volkswagen team be using traction control to win at Global Rallycross, where driver aids such as traction control are expressly banned?
Read MoreThere’s an old saying: “If at first you don’t succeed, quit and give up entirely.” The folks at Nismo do not believe in this philosophy! Despite struggling at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the bonkers front-wheel drive Nissan GT-R LM Nismo will return to the FIA World Endurance Championship next year — but not any sooner.
Read MoreJenson Button just confirmed what Ron Dennis already told the press last weekend. Instead of retiring, he will indeed stay with McLaren-Honda alongside Fernando Alonso for the 2016 season.
Read MoreYes, I put a frowny face emoticon in the headline. I apologize for nothing. I am deeply saddened by the current state of Mitsubishi in the U.S. market, as well as the fact that the legendary Lancer Evolution X has no successor in sight, despite wild reports to the contrary over the years. For those of you who would like to buy one new, this is your last chance. Ever.
Read MoreI’m a huge fan of the concept behind Factory Five’s Subaru-based 818 roadsters and coupés, but what if you want to get more out of your already awesome Mazda roadster? Enter: Flyin’ Miata.
Read MoreI’m sure there’s going to be lots of people who disagree with me on this. Sure, TIE fighters look cool, I get that. And this isn’t about politics — I’m not an Empire-voter, but they did at least provide a good system of academies, for example. This is about the TIE fighter being a stupid design, even in the fictitious reality of the Star Wars universe.
Read MoreWhen your mission is to explore the realms beyond earth, sometimes things get weird. Really weird. Like, lawsuits over Mars and conspiracy-feeding video mistakes levels of weird. Welcome to the stranger side of NASA.
Read MoreIt’s probably best if we all just come clean and admit that we’ve all thought about this at one time or another: if you were floating weightless, could you fart yourself into motion? I mean, your butt is basically just an integrated bio-ass rocket, right? As you’d expect, it’s more complex than you think, and real astronauts have tried it.
Read MoreOur space programs are presented as standing for the good of mankind, peaceful missions of research and exploration. But not everyone sees space as a nonviolent zone. Especially weapon developers.
Read MoreWithout major gravitational forces or oxygen, racing in space sounds near impossible, in theory. But with these ten concepts, we could probably figure it out.
Read MoreNASA is best known for its work with space-faring vehicles, including some very cool space cars. But the agency has a rich history of unique vehicles here on Earth, too, including many important contributions to the automotive industry. Here are the Earth cars of NASA.
Read MoreI’m absolutely smitten with the idea of space travel and, by extension, a total sucker for almost any space hardware. Of course, the most exciting bits of space hardware are actual crewed spacecraft. So far, humanity has produced, by my count, ten separate spacecraft to carry us into space. Here’s a chart of them all.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of batshit crazy technology in the field of aerospace research, and not all of it sees the green light. These are the ten most insane space programs that never happened.
Read MoreMost of the time, we think of space-faring rockets as being launched from the ground. As demand for satellite launch services rapidly increases year-over-year, interest in air launching rockets is returning to a growing market of lighter-weight payloads. And those might want a mothership.
Read MoreGetting into space isn’t easy, and for every proposal that has made it off the ground, there are more proposed solutions, false starts, and batshit crazy ideas that didn’t.
Read MoreThe sacrifices involved when exploring the great beyond are almost incomprehensible by us mere earth-walking mortals. These are the ten most most incredible space badasses known to our world.
Read MoreEarly this morning, the U.S. Air Force tweeted that today marks the 50th anniversary of their first orbiting satellite being launched into space. The satellite referenced in the tweet, known as OV1-2, carried a suite of instruments to better understand the space environment. But was it really the Air Force’s first satellite?
Read MorePretty much the entire history of the space program has been filled with heroics, of life and death hanging by a thread in the void.
Read MoreThe Apollo missions are NASA’s gift that just keeps on giving. America’s civilian space agency just released a veritable treasure trove of high resolution scanned images from the Apollo archives, many of which have never been seen before. Below are a few highlights of these incredible moments in human history.
Read MoreHumans have managed to put a whole bunch of stuff in orbit around the Earth, and keeping track of it all is a serious endeavor. Visualizing the sheer number of objects we’ve managed to send into space also helps us appreciate just how vast space really is. These amazing maps illustrate the cloud of man-made objects encircling our blue marble.
Read MoreBased off of the WRX STI, Subaru is producing 400 units of a limited-edition model they’re calling the S207, which is so good the company is claiming it the “world’s most enjoyable vehicle.” It looks as much!
Read MoreThere might not be much of a craving for an ultra-luxurious WRX here in America, but it appears that Subaru’s home Japanese market is just the opposite. This is Subaru’s new Japan-only WRX S4 trim, but with a little helping of eclectic Italian opulence.
Read MoreNeed a midsize sedan with all-wheel drive? Turned off by SUV-like Subarus that are selling like hot cakes across America? Don’t care if your car puts you to sleep? Have we got the ride for you! We’ll tell you everything you need to know about the Subaru Legacy here in our Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
Read More“Would you like to come along and set another Cannonball Record with us?”
Read MoreWell, I’m not sure I’d call that unit a steering “wheel,” but Nissan does on their new autonomous driving concept, the IDS. If you’re going to ride around in a car that drives itself sometimes, I guess it had better be interesting, right?
Read MoreYou may remember Carl Reese and Deena Mastracci, two members of the team who drove from Los Angeles to New York in a record 58 hours and 54 minutes in April. You may also have heard of Alex Roy, no stranger to records himself and someone who’s been very interested in autonomous driving lately. Those worlds just collided with a new coast-to-coast record using Tesla’s new Autopilot function.
Read MoreIt’s likely you’re getting sick of all the Back to the Future-related content today, but I promise you that this one is a little different, since the chunk of electronics added to a DeLorean is real and actually works. Even better, it really does make this 2015 feel like an imagined future 2015, and most importantly, it involves donuts.
Read MoreWhen will fully Autonomous Driving become a reality? That’s the trillion dollar question. It may come down to which company is willing to offer it first, but there are some very clear hurdles to that.
Read MoreWinter is coming for car manufacturers. An Autonomous Winter, without end. If you’ve seen what Tesla is doing with Autopilot, and all they plan to do with it, you’ve already seen the future. Now it’s up to automakers to figure out what they want to be in this new world as quickly as possible.
Read MoreBy the end of the evening, Tesla will start remotely update all its customers’ cars with the first draft of its autonomous driving software. With that, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says they’re “less than three years” from a car than can drive us in our sleep.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model S isn’t the first truly autonomous car on the road and available for sale to the public. We’re not there yet, just as a society. But it is the first car with what Tesla’s calling its “Autopilot” system. And if this is the future not of driving, but of sitting in traffic, then please sign me up.
Read MoreThe version 7.0 update of the Tesla Model S’s running software will use the car’s large suite of sensors to help it automatically steer, switch lanes, parallel park, and help keep you from crashing. The instrument cluster will be updated to include a real-time visualization of the road.
Read MoreCars without drivers. Drones with cars. Both with autopilot features.
Read MoreAs the future of driverless cars pedals (itself?) onward, one person in the business wants to slow the process — at least, until all of the bases are covered.
Read MoreAutonomous cars are an inevitability, which we’ve known for a while, but the remaining questions we’ve had for a while doesn’t concern the technology, but rather the regulations. Rather than wait for the government to say something, it looks like manufacturers are just saying “screw it” and stepping up to the plate themselves.
Read MoreTiltrotors seem to be all the rage these days, with the first civilian example moving steadily closer to production. Even the White House is using them! And now, Austrian manufacturer Diamond Aircraft has announced plans to bring a hybrid electric tiltrotor to the civilian market, and they’re already teasing us with what could be some very cool new technologies.
Read MoreWhat if I told you the biggest contributor to death and pollution in the United States wasn’t cars or cancer or clickbait, but rather cheeseburgers and other foodstuffs? Yes, we love food, but if we we really care about the world we’d ban eating.
Read MoreA couple of days ago, a Buzzfeed writer got a ride in one of Google’s autonomous koala-cars and got an erection so powerful that it drew enough blood from his brain to cause him to have a mild stroke that turned him into some sort of inane troll. At least, that’s the only theory that makes sense.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model S is the trendiest car in America. It’s also just a fine piece of American engineering. What do you need to know before you buy a Tesla Model S? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in the Ultimate Buyer’s Guide.
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 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 S-FR Forums site has received the supposed specs for Toyota’s upcoming little Miata-fighter, the S-FR, and even if you’re turned off by the big lamprey-mouth, I think you have to admit it looks like it’ll be a fun, inexpensive enthusiast’s car.
Read MoreThe Toyota Camry is a sensible, drama-free mid-size sedan that’s at least trying to appear “sporty.” What do you need to know before you buy a Toyota Camry? Don’t worry, we’ll tell you everything right here in our Buyer’s Guide.
Read MoreMonster truck “racing” technically includes a contest of who can get to the finish line first, but really this sport is about showmanship. And when Grave Digger’s signature red headlights come on. you know you’re about to see something amazing.
Read MoreRural Australian drivers don’t really have to worry about psychotic motorcyclists as much as Mad Max you lead you to believe. But they do have a scourge far more deadly; evil beasts called kangaroos. Volvo’s tech to deal with them could be a huge leap in collision-avoidance.
Read MoreIs a new Jeep Cherokee KL as capable off-road as Jeep’s best-selling SUV of all time, the boxy old Cherokee XJ? Seeing as how I bought a 1995 Cherokee for $600 off Craigslist recently, when I got ahold of a $36,000 new Cherokee, I had no choice but to try and find out.
Read MoreThe Tokyo Motor Show is here, and you know what that means: automotive blue balls! That’s right, it’s the time when we get to stare at sweet concept cars that won’t make it to our roads until they’ve been sucked dry of every ounce of soul and character! Awesome!
Read MorePorsche GTS trims tend to be S models with some additional hotness thrown in for good measure—in this case, performance goodies. So it’s nice, then, that Porsche just announced their new Macan GTS at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Read MoreYes, you read that right. If, for whatever reason, a Volvo XC90 leaves the Earth and comes crashing back down, perhaps Dukes of Hazard style, Volvo has designed a way for it to take the impact just like the UH-60 “Black Hawk”helicopter.
Read MoreJoel Ramer and his girlfriend got stuck off-roading this old Jeep Cherokee on a powerline road in Walpole, Massachusetts last week. Seems egregious that he was arrested for trespassing and disturbing the peace, but the $48,000 recovery charge is downright offensive.
Read MoreThe Bulldog 4x4 Extreme Firefighting Brush Truck can carry 2,000 gallons of water or foam way the heck off the beaten path, and then blast it onto a blaze without anybody getting out of the cab. And visually, it’s pretty much the rolling incarnation of your childhood vehicular dreams.
Read MoreIn 1967 the president of Pontiac was shown this LeMans Concept Sport Truck; a 350 V8-powered El Camino with the interior and front end of a Pontiac LeMans. He didn’t like it enough to build it, but at least somebody preserved it.
Read MoreHonda is returning to off-road racing at the Baja 1000 next month, and will bring their off-road rig to the SEMA show in a little over a week. That means we’ll finally get to peep at least a strong hint of the styling on the production 2017 Honda Ridgeline very soon.
Read MoreThe new Fiat Toro compact crew-cab pickup truck has been revealed for the Brazilian market. While official details on the vehicle’s architecture haven’t been confirmed, local reporters in Brazil seem to think it shares at least part of the Jeep Renegade’s “small-wide” platform.
Read MoreMulti-country military team NATO is in the middle of a mock-war right now called “Trident Juncture.” Air, sea and land vehicles were all looking totally badass on this beach-storming mission until it was time to roll out the Humvees, which immediately got bogged.
Read MoreTwo years ago XP1K opened our eyes to how insane a modified Polaris RZR could be. Then the same crew got one to jump further, go faster, and slide harder in XP1K2. On October 31st XP1K3 is going to, well, why don’t you just watch the trailer.
Read MoreHey, check out that four-by-four! (Get it? Get it??? That’s the line Marty McFly, the star of the Back to the Future, those movies about the car, says when he sees a Toyota truck that’s just staggeringly beautiful, in the movie.) Anyways, it was such a great truck that Toyota decided to make another one, this time based on a 2016 Tacoma.
Read MoreA prototype of the next-generation Ford Expedition has been spotted near the company’s development center in Michigan. It’s got the face of an new F-150, most likely an aluminum body, and an overall awesome look reportedly slated for 2018.
Read MoreAn educated full-time employee of a extremely high-paying company would rather live in a ten-year-old van in his office parking lot than pay San Francisco rent. How’s your apartment hunt going?
Read MoreIt looks like His Majesty Ibrahim Ismail Sultan of Johor is One Of Us (ONE OF US). If it’s got wheels or an engine he’s into it, and he’s just set a new Mack Trucks record for “most expensive rig” they’ve made for anybody, drenched in an epic paint job of Malaysian patriotism.
Read MoreToyota is milking all the marketing they can out of Back To The Future right now, including making a fake ad for the dealership in the movie. Corny, but cute, and oh my god is that a black 2016 Tacoma with KC lights and a roll bar!?
Read MoreThis morning some kind of monster left a Mocha Almond turd on the road in front of my house. Naturally I went rooting around to see if it had eaten anything interesting, but I ended up inside a spectacular cavern of quilted leather and soft wood.
Read MoreThis 2016 Hyundai Tucson customized by Rockstar Performance Garage looks pretty cool: “Softroad” SUV with a solid but subtle stance, meaty tires, LED bar. You’re looking at exactly What’s Hot Right Now in off-road aftermarket pimping.
Read MoreAbout 310 trucks from the first batch of the new 2016 Toyota Tacomas are being recalled because the factory might have used the wrong bolts to attach an air bag module. That’s not a good look.
Read MoreThe Cougar 6x6 MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) military truck weighs about 35,000 pounds when it’s intact. Even with a chunk missing it still takes an epic tow truck, a specially-built towing tank, and one seriously beefy big rig to haul off.
Read MoreI woke up naked and freezing, stretched around a heater like some desperate, heat-starved lizard with a headache so strong I was sure I’d been put to sleep by a frying pan to the face. A typical morning—until I noticed the Rocky Mountains instead of my Babes & Big Rigs calendar in the window. Welcome to van life.
Read More“Diesel Chevy truck” sounds as American as John Wayne watching Jackass on a phone while he’s eating a hot dog and picking a fight at a baseball game. But even though the four-cylinder Duramax rumbling in the new Colorado and GMC Canyon has been around since 2011, it wasn’t actually fit for the U.S.A. until now.
Read MoreWe’ve just managed to snag our first example of the new Volvo XC90 stateside, and already I think I’m feeling the heady vapors of that which the Swedes would call förtjusning. Well, that what Google Translate says it’s called, anyways.
Read MoreWhat Americans might vaguely recognize as an Infiniti QX80 is sold in the U.A.E. as the Nissan Patrol, and it’s one of the most popular SUVs in the region. So to pimp their Nismo performance brand in Dubai, Nissan decided to pass on another sports car and slap some splitters on this behemoth.
Read MoreThe night started innocently enough; bunch of dudes getting wasted up in Australia’s Northern Territory. Someone says “let’s cut the roof off Darren’s Land Cruiser!” Someone else produces an oxyacetylene torch. Next thing you know there’s a flaming chariot of doom is bounding down the street. Oops!
Read MoreDust To Glory is ten years old now, but it’s still considered the definitive Baja racing movie. Before everyone had GoPros and iPhones, director Dana Brown told a story that inspired a whole new generation to get into off-road adventure. And next year, they’re doing it all over again.
Read MoreLast month, a group of flat-fender Jeep enthusiasts decided to bring their old MBs and CJs out to Colorado to wheel. The pictures are awesome.
Read MoreJeep XJs are some seriously capable vehicles able traverse some gnarly terrain without breaking a sweat. But with great capability comes great responsibility. What happens when you forget to take your XJ off-roading? It goes off-roading anyway.
Read MoreA dash-cam video captured a large explosion on the New Jersey turnpike after a tanker truck rolled over, avoiding mattresses that fell off of another vehicle. The driver of the tanker swerved to avoid other motorists, dying in the resulting crash.
Read MoreHere in America, “diesel pickup truck” means world-lapping longevity and enough torque to nurple Paul Bunyan. Most everywhere else, diesel trucks are simply designed for economy. The 2016 Chevy Colorado Duramax is a little bit of both, and a whole lot of awesome.
Read MoreJosh Commons likes his Toyota FJ40 for its unapologetically utilitarian nature. Just about every old truck fan can see the beauty in that. But what makes this one even cooler is the fact that it still gets put to work on the trail.
Read MoreIt appears that the U.S. Treasury is officially asking Toyota why their trucks keep showing up on CNN carrying ISIS radicals and machine guns all over the Middle East. Poor Toyota, all they did was make a great desert utility vehicle and the dang terrorists had to go and make them look like an official sponsor of evil.
Read MoreFord’s chief truck communications man just coyly shared some pictures of Troller 4x4s stomping around in the Brazilian sand. To respark rumors of the Bronco’s return? Nah. Why would somebody go and do a thing like that.
Read MoreWondering if Land Rover will shill the Evoque convertible as an actual off-roader? Let yourself be baptized in the muddy puddle this hellbaby can solider through and realize; yes.
Read MoreThe landmark Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement got signed today and it could mean the end of the most restrictive tariff in the American auto industry. But it’s only the start of a difficult and secretive process.
Read MoreThe first Tesla Model X full-electric SUVs have hit the road this week, and we got a a little time to shake it down all the way to 80 MPH in the company parking lot.
Read MoreWatching this B-roll of the 2017 Ford Raptor doodling around Michigan’s Silver Lake sand dunes we realized; this must be what every car commercial looks like before it’s tuned up with sweet jumps and sound effects.
Read MoreA 3.0-liter twin-turbo inline-six in a BMW M4 Coupe produces 431 horsepower, as it should in a proper M car. Since the new X4 M40i isn’t actually a proper M car, you only get 355 horses from its 3-liter twin-turbo inline-six. Will that do?
Read MoreLet me paint the scene for you at the press launch of the refreshed 2016 Volkswagen Passat. Journalists went to dinner with the Volkswagen folks and stood around with wine glasses while well-dressed people offered us hors d’oeuvres. I was talking to a product planner when it happened: time slowed down, the room went quiet, everyone turned toward me as I mumbled the word “diesel.”
Read MoreReliability is one of those things that seems downright boring when you think about it. It’s regular to a fault. It doesn’t break. It’s routine. Yet it’s one of the most important things we look for when buying a car. How much normal can you get for less than 10 grand?
Read MoreThere’s nothing better than working on a car. Well, there are a few things, but this isn’t that kind of website and you’re not in incognito mode. However, not everyone is born knowing how a mechanical fuel pump works, and that’s why I’m here to help you on your greasy journey of mechanical knowledge.
Read MoreWhile most people are perfectly content with driving the aesthetic equivalent of a rolling dishwasher, car enthusiasts are the wonderful outliers. That’s why last week I asked you to find the most beautiful cars under a 10 grand budget, and deliver you did. Oh my.
Read MoreWhen one looks for project cars, it’s fun to peruse the classifieds - not only to find a deal on something you’ve been looking for, but to test the limits of your imagination. A car like this ridiculously cheap 2011 Porsche Boxster would work those brain muscles indeed.
Read MorePossibly the most bizarre application of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act finally got the exemption us car enthusiasts have deserved.
Read MoreI’m pretty conservative when it comes to the aesthetic appeal. For me, the simpler a design is, the better it tends to be. That’s why it pains me to see when car manufacturers jump through hoops to make their cars look like their sole purpose is to have a starring role in the next five Transformers movies. Today, I ask of my audience: What car company has the ugliest cars in its lineup?
Read MoreAs a car enthusiast, I live on Craigslist. I’m always looking out for great deals on cool cars. I’m an addict. But in spite of what we recently decided on Answers of the Day, I think Michigan might be the single worst place to buy a used car on Craigslist. Here’s why.
Read MoreThe Audi Allroad - specifically the 2004 Audi Allroad - was the only car in the world that carried the name “Audi Allroad” in 2004. No other car came close.
Read MoreOpulence comes in many forms - a cushioned toilet seat, peanut butter and jelly in the same container, and this Rolls Royce Phantom, which may need a little bit of work to be fighting fit and exactly why it’s the cheapest one you may ever find.
Read MorePhotographer Freddy Fabris specializes in images of cars and people. When he stepped into one particular auto shop and inspiration hit him to take a new spin on an old theme, and it’s pretty awesome.
Read MoreWhen I had a lawn, I didn’t used to bother mowing it because the grass just kept growing back. But for those of you who are into your property management, and have a bunch of little gas-powered lawn care tools taking up space, the Honda VersAttach actually looks kind of sweet.
Read MoreBeauty is in the eye of the beholder. But if we all agree, then it becomes law. That’s how facts are born. This week, your task is to find the best cars that give you the warm and fuzzies every time you see them for less than $10,000 on eBay.
Read MoreThere are certain people that look at the Sistine Chapel and say “there really needs to be more chrome in it. And lasers.” That’s exactly the mentality of the owner of this Lamborghini Diablo replica, because it started life as the most desirable Japanese sports car in the last 20 years.
Read MorePorsche is either the dumbest smart company in the world or the smartest dumb company in the world. They made cars like this cheap Porsche Cayman better than their 911 in almost every single way, and they still call it their entry level car. It’s a great thing we’re smarter than they are.
Read MoreCan you do serious off-roading in Moab with a $600 Jeep? Next Easter, we’ll find out.
Read MoreEven as the year comes to a chilly end and the roads become less appropriate for sticky summer tires, it’s not too late for one or two jaunts to the further end of the proverbial speedometer. But how much fast can you get if you also want reliable? Here are 10 answers.
Read MoreIn my 24 years of practicing law, I have spoken to thousands of consumers who were ripped off when buying used cars. There are a few themes I hear over and over again. I’ve condensed what I have seen to a few simple rules which will help you if you follow them.
Read MoreWell, the Baja’s broke again. But after so many breakdowns, this one doesn’t even bother me. Let me tell you why.
Read MoreThe car that started the stratospheric rise in prices for ‘90s Japanese nostalgic classics was the Acura NSX. After two decades, it still kicked ass and took names, even if the names on that list have thinned out a bit over the years. Here’s one that is still affordable, but is it worth it?
Read MoreOne of the biggest factors driving an appreciating car market is nostalgia, and the ‘90s was chock full of car worthy of donning the proverbial rose-colored spectacles. Namely, this Toyota MR2 turbo that’s quite rare indeed and sure to pay for itself over time.
Read MoreOnly a couple centuries ago, if somebody claimed they could hold lightning in their hand to fuse steel, they would stand a pretty good chance of being burned at the stake for witchcraft. Luckily, things have changed.
Read MoreWhen you’re scrolling through your local classifieds and you spot a Japanese gem, the last thing you’ll have to worry about is reliability or build quality. But how much speed does Japan have to offer for less than $10,000 on the used car market? That’s this week’s eBay Challenge.
Read MoreMost automotive journalists are convinced that their opinion carries weight, and they’re right—but only if they influence the thoughts of their readers effectively. That’s why when it comes to the polarizing counter-cultural scene known as stance, I’m actively seeking the naysayers, conscientious objectors and haters so that we can chat about why you’re so very, very wrong.
Read MoreOne story I hear from time to time is that the dealership refuses to repair something under warranty. Their excuse? They say the consumer abused the vehicle and caused the problem. Luckily, the story doesn’t have to end there.
Read MoreGerman cars have a knack for being some of the best performers bar none, with a very light sprinkling of soul to make every car that much more unreliable special. That’s why I asked you to find the fastest German cars for a $15k budget, and deliver y’all did. Achtung!
Read MoreLast night, I’m driving down the dark, two-lane Highway 54 back to my home. I have my wife, Sally, and four-year old boy, Otto with me. Sally mentioned that there were a lot of deer around, so I was going a bit slower than normal, and trying to be alert. It didn’t matter at all. I hit a deer.
Read MoreThis life-sized Hot Wheels looking thing is the Hainan Xiaohuohua. It may not be as fast as it looks, but some dude and his dad knocked this thing out with about a year of work and $5,000 of parts. And hey, it drives!
Read MoreHaving nice things make no sense if you don’t use them. That’s why I don’t get summer homes and yachts - 90 percent of the time, they’re unused and essentially useless. Not so with this relatively cheap Lamborghini Gallardo, which has more miles than your Uber-moonlighting neighbor’s Prius.
Read MoreDangeous cars exist in many forms - from the innocuous Jetta TDI, any car with Takata airbags, or Ralph Nader’s nightmare, the Chevrolet Corvair - but those cars are accidentally dangerous. This Porsche 911 GT2 was made as a branded widow maker on purpose. Sounds like a great plan, eh?
Read MoreIf you want a cheap desk that you can build yourself, find a Swede. If you want the best risotto, you’d better hire an Italian. If you want fast luxury, look no further than any German automaker. But what’s the fastest German car for under a $15k budget? Go forth, and answer.
Read MoreDating used to be simple. You’d ask someone out, pick them up, then have an anxiety attack when you got to Makeout Point. Now there’s something involving swiping right, or something. That’s why I posed this question last week: Why not let the car do the talking instead? Well, here are 10 pretty great answers.
Read MoreYou could make a strong argument for Southern California as America’s capital of car culture. Since moving there I’ve learned most apartment garages forbid automotive maintenance and it damn sure ain’t allowed on the street. So where’s a propertyless cretin like myself supposed to do an oil change?
Read MoreGM’s LS engines are ubiquitous in the world of performance here in America. These modern V8s get swapped into everything from Dodge Vipers to Mazda RX-7s. Why? Why are they so good?
Read MoreValue is a hard thing to define, especially in cars. What represents a giant money pit to one person can be another person’s best-case budget. That’s why this time, I’m presenting you with this Mazda RX-7, a car that may be worth getting even if it costs more than you think you should pay right now.
Read MoreWhenever I introduce the idea of buying a depreciated car over a new one, I get a perfectly timed, not-at-all novel response of “It’ll cost an arm and several legs to keep on the road!” That got me thinking - what’s a reasonable threshold to maintain a car on a road for a year?
Read MoreWhen we’re comparing values of two cars, it’s always best to compare like for like. That’s why if you’re in the market for a new BMW M6, it’s my civic duty to present you with this twin turbocharged Audi R8, which is just better in every conceivable way.
Read MoreAn extensive job like a clutch replacement on a Porsche 944 requires research, patience, money, skill and hope. We had next to none of these.
Read MoreWe here at Jalopnik believe that, with a bit of determination, anyone can wrench. We’ve given you pointers on how to learn to fix cars, but now it’s time to give you some advice on which tools to buy to get you started.
Read MoreWith cars, sometimes we pay for performance, quirkiness, prestige, or rarity - but we always pay. I’ve encountered plenty of people that have said “I’d never pay that much for a car,” so as a thought experiment, what’s your automotive budget hard stop?
Read MoreIn the apocalypse, it’s likely that resources will be scarce, mechanics will be long gone, and your car will be on its last legs. Stay prepared with these 10 steps!
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