Just like the regular Audi A4, the new S4 sedan and S4 Avant models get more edges, more technology, more speed and now the“T” actually stands for “turbocharger.” However, I’m still not sure why you would buy this one over the car it replaces.
Read MoreJoint Base Andrews, the home of Air Force One, reported an active shooter on its Twitter account. UPDATE
Read MoreAn A.I. named “ALPHA,” made by a company called Psibernetix, has apparently impressed the U.S. Air Force by repeatedly splashing a (human) fighter pilot in dogfight simulations. I swear I’m not tricking you into reading my movie script pitch here.
Read MoreThe Navy already has a real attack laser that can burn planes out of the sky, which is terrifying enough. Now they’ve announced they’re going to test one that is five times as powerful.
Read MoreZero-gravity 3D printing is already operating on the International Space Station, but it can only crank out dinky pieces of plastic. Russian engineers think their space printer can do better—by creating viable replacement parts for the station on the station.
Read MoreToday marks the rollout of the first Israeli F-35 and their publicity image is, uh, romantic.
Read MoreTo allow U.S. military vehicles to drive through deep water during World War II beach landings, the armed forces devised a fascinating method of waterproofing involving a goopy putty called “Asbestos Waterproofing Compound.” Here’s a video showing all the steps needed to keep that Jeep moving through the deep stuff.
Read MoreThe United States began its postwar atomic weapons testing program in 1946. Over the following 16 years, hundreds of thousands of troops were subjected to radiation in various experiments, according to this New York Times report. Here are some of their stories.
Read MoreA Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter weighs about 10,000 pounds. A bit less without the rotors, but it’s still an immense amount of weight to dangle off a string attached to another helicopter. Watch this Boeing CH-47 Chinook make light work of it.
Read MoreLast week the Department of Justice announced the conviction of Wenxia Man by a federal jury. The crime? Conspiring to export military jet engines and drones to China. Not plans. Not components. Entire jet engines and drones.
Read MoreWe have this macabre ballet we do in the airport. We stand in agonizingly long lines, winding around stanchions as our boarding times tick ever closer. It’s a routine borne of tragedies that could hypothetically happen, and we have cast the Transportation Security Administration as our stage directors. Airports are miserable not because the TSA is especially incompetent, but because we demanded security theater, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force Inspector General tracks all their investigations on fraud, abuse, and everything else down to office disputes in a database maintained by Lockheed Martin. Now it looks like somebody broke it, destroying data collected since 2004.
Read MoreThe B-21 bomber, which is supposed to be able to drop massive payloads onto America’s enemies in the near future, is still shrouded in secrecy. We don’t know what it can do, how it can do it, and we only have one single, solitary illustration of it. We also don’t know the price, and thanks to the United States Senate, that’s by design.
Read MoreToday is the 72nd anniversary of the Normandy Landings, also called D-Day. To commemorate this historic day, I’m taking a ride in a 1946 Willys CJ2a, a descendant of one of World War II’s most instrumental weapons, the Willys MB “Jeep.”
Read MoreA United States Navy F/A-18 jet belonging to the Blue Angels demonstration team reportedly went down in Smyrna, Tennessee this afternoon. The incident does not initially appear to be tied to an earlier crash of a U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team jet. The pilot reportedly died in the incident.
Read MoreBjarne Winberg was enjoying another quiet evening on the Finnish island of Kamsholmen when he spotted men carrying guns and equipment off a boat onto the dock. He booked it to his own boat, narrowly escaped into the darkness and called the cops. Like you do, when your country is being invaded.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, a friend and Jalopnik reader—I’ll call him “Dave,” because that’s his name—got a new Jaguar F-Type with a stick shift. Naturally, I did what any normal friend would do: I congratulated him on the car. Then I invited myself to drive the car and film a video with it.
Read MoreThere’s always a small lag between when a driver turns a steering wheel and when the car actually responds. This lag causes the person at the helm to make numerous tiny corrections—corrections that Mazda wants to reduce with G-Vectoring Control, a new system that uses clever software to shift weight onto the front tires during turn-in. It works, but it’s subtle. Maybe too subtle.
Read MoreIn the world of track-tuned sports cars, you have a lot to choose from. Do you hoon in a Dodge Viper ACR, a Porsche Cayman GT4, a Porsche GT3 RS, or your high school buddy’s sweet Honda Civic hatch with the “track setup”? And then you have McLaren’s latest offering—the new 570S Sprint.
Read MoreToday I find myself in Aspen, Colorado hobnobbing with millionaires (as I am wont to do) and set to drive the 2017 Jaguar XE sport sedan (which is new to me and America.) I’ll have a review of this thing soon enough; what do you want to know about it?
Read MoreWhen we first heard that the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider would be getting the engine out of the 500 Abarth, we were excited, to say the least. But when we first heard its engine note, we were disappointed it wasn’t as, well, Abarthy as we expected. But it turns out that there’s an Abarth version of the Spider, too, and holy hell does it sound good.
Read MoreYou wouldn’t think that having a lovely, absurdly fit woman shill your car would be a mistake, but the clever PR people at Buick managed to find a way. It’s not really the fault of the spokeswoman or the car, specifically; it’s more because of a trend in modern cars that makes an adult woman in a convertible look like a toddler in a bathtub.
Read MoreLooks like some McLaren owners saw the exposed carbon fiber on the MSO McLaren P1 from this year’s Geneva Motor show and started drooling. So McLaren’s Special Operations division has responded by carbon-fibering the crap out of 25 675LT Spiders.
Read MoreBeing offered a free Lexus GS F for the weekend felt like being offered custody of the child of a distant relative who had just died. Of course I said yes, but deep down I wished it might just get lost before it ever got to me, because I have other things to do.
Read MoreGood day, fellow humans, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly program that involves writing hopeful, exciting, interesting letters to Doug, and receiving rambling, incoherent responses.
Read MoreLet’s be honest: Mini probably isn’t aiming the 2016 Cooper S Convertible at the super-tall, Nürburgring-based professional touring car driver demographic. I tested this car because BMW, Mini’s parent company, combined the launch of this car with the M2 and made us drive it first. That’s how I found myself in Southern California in a Mini convertible, top down, ripping up Mulholland Drive…. and loving it.
Read MoreThe top-rung Mercedes-Benz S-Class has long been the testbed for the latest technology from the automaker; lately, semi-autonomous tech and all. Now Mercedes is trying something different—putting an array of new tech on the new midsize 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class, which will trickle up instead of down. But when it’s not trying to drive itself, the E300 is so aggressive you’ll have to double check that there are only four cylinders under the hood.
Read MoreBack in January, we reported on Ford’s plan to launch a car lease-sharing program in Texas where buyers could “split” car ownership between as many as six people. We wondered if there were going to be any takers, especially since Lyft and Uber later became scarce in that part of the country.
Read MoreDetermining whether a vehicle is good, bad, or something in between boils down to weighing what you get versus what you give up. If you want performance, you’ll have to give up practicality and giving up practicality means giving up usability. And when you give up usability, why have a car in the first place?
Read MoreYou’ve heard the commercials: “We will give you a minimum of $500 for your trade no matter the condition!” This is usually just a shell game to get you to pay more for the car you are buying, and dealers that advertise this way should probably be avoided.
Read More“You’re going to love it, it’s pretty much an F-Type with four doors,” a Jaguar rep told me on the eve of my drive in the all-new 2017 Jaguar XE. I think he oversold it a bit. The XE is a competent and sophisticated sporty-ish sedan with some of the best technology in the industry, but it comes up a bit short on the driving dynamics that could make it a real and credible threat to the BMW 3 Series.
Read MoreJaguar wants you to think it just loves to be bad. It even hung a whole advertising campaign on that notion. So really, the biggest surprise about the new F-Type SVR is not its bewildering aggression, or its newly sharpened handling. The real shock is that it took Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations two years to try and deliver on the implicit promise their name insinuates; to finally produce a special F-Type that doesn’t hold back. An F-Type with no limits.
Read MoreHello, Jalopnik readers, and welcome to Letters to Doug, my weekly column wherein you send me a letter and I provide a very thoughtful, relevant response that may or may not include references to my stuffed anteater, Marvin.
Read MoreThe 2017 Fiat 124 Spider is the best of all worlds; it has Italian design and performance with Japanese engineering. Our man Ballaban says it’s even better than the Miata. But I wouldn’t rush down to my local Fiat store right away, and here’s why.
Read MoreFor a quarter century, the Mazda Miata has been one of the very best cars any enthusiast could buy. It was great. It is great. But it’s not perfect. The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider, which is almost but not entirely like a Miata under the skin, brings it a hell of a lot closer to nirvana. Really.
Read More“We want you to be able to drive 300 km/h (186 mph) and have a conversation with your passenger at the same time,” Nissan’s GT-R guru Hiroshi Tamura said in front of the gathered scribes, journalists, reporters and hangers-on. My mind wandered instantly. What kind of conversation would the average owner have in a 2017 Nissan GT-R traveling at that kind of speed?
Read MoreI recently heard what is possibly the worst piece of car buying advice I’ve ever heard: my father-in-law, who is in the market for a car, was told that rather than get a car loan, he should take a home equity loan instead. Here’s why that is a horrible idea.
Read MoreThe sedanocalypse is upon us. And I’m not really sure I care.
Read MoreAfter driving the all-important, all-new and admittedly all-fantastic Volvo XC90 SUV, I was curious to see whether Volvo could cook up a mid-sized luxury sedan and wagon that can make one forget about the German or Japanese competition. After stepping out of the new Volvo S90 sedan and V90 wagon, I would say the job is done.
Read MoreI was on vacation last week, and I decided to spend it in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where I attempted to find Sasquatches mating for a book of erotic Sasquatch photographs I’ve been planning for decades. I didn’t find any amorous Bigfeet, but I did find a tiny, secret tribute to old Volkswagens hidden along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Read MoreSleeping is good until you realize it’s just practice for the dark nothingness of death. If you fall asleep behind the wheel and crash you may not even feel the difference.
Read MoreThe Austin America is a fascinating car, way ahead of its time. A front-wheel hatchback from 1962 (well, the hatch came in ‘66)? That’s impressive. They’re very rare in the U.S., and seeing one for sale in LA is unusual in and of itself. Seeing a strangely shortened one in a Craigslist ad, however, suggests an unknowable, Lovecraftian madness that threatens to consume us all.
Read MoreLet’s say you own one of the 482,000 diesel Volkswagens and Audis that the automaker has been ordered to buy back or fix. Maybe you even do own one. Either way, you’re getting compensated. But do you fix the car or get rid of it?
Read MoreToday many of us watched a moose die. Well probably most of us, because Michael Ballaban included the GIF of the moose getting hit by the car on the front page, so you sort of can’t miss it. But maybe we should all moosen up about it.
Read MoreA Toyota Corolla is not a car bound for a pampered, garage-kept existence. It is instead a utilitarian conveyance that will live the hardest life possible in the hands of people who won’t be kind to it, precisely because it is a common Corolla—cheap, reliable and robust. So, I wasn’t kind to the Corolla I was loaned either. I took it on a time-speed-distance rally in the middle of winter in the northeast.
Read MoreThe night, I’m told, is dark and full of terrors. That’s why we have lights on our cars. And while lighting is unquestionably better than it’s ever been, ironically, two pieces of relatively new lighting technology actually seem to be making things worse, visibility-wise, partially because they’re too good. Let me explain.
Read MoreThe second episode of the eighth season of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee has Jerry picking up Margaret Cho in a 1967 Mazda Cosmo Sport. The duo chat about comedy, feminism, sexuality, Nazism and rape.
Read MoreDo you remember when the Porsche 997 came out? Do you remember the sense of relief?
Read MoreThe Nintendo 64, the gaming system that blew the doors open to bring 3D graphics to the masses, is 20 years old today. Can you believe it? There were countless great games for the N64, many of them driving games—including all-time best iteration of a game about cartoon characters lobbing turtle shells at each other from go-karts.
Read MoreThis is “The Blackbird,” a battery-powered automotive rig with a fully-adjustable wheelbase, track width, and suspension setup to mirror any car. With it, filmmakers can shoot an entire car commercial without an actual car.
Read MoreThe 15th anniversary of the original Fast & Furious movie reveals how far the series has morphed from street racing to crazy international heists, but the first film had its roots planted firmly in the very real and very illegal culture of underground racing. Specifically, the racing culture that dominated the Uptown Manhattan streets in the 1990s that a VIBE magazine article called “Racer X” brought to light.
Read MoreMost people would back up and come at the garage from a different angle, but I guess that’s not an option when one of your wheels is already broken off. The unlicensed 16-year-old driver was allegedly hiding the car after a hit-and-run, per CTV. So, what’s a few more scrapes on the door?
Read MoreThe Buick LeSabre is not a fast car. It is not a pretty car. It is not a cool car, or a powerful car, or a desirable car. It’s a grandpa car, and it deserves a moment of respect.
Read MoreEarlier today, Jalopnik invited the awesome Maggie Stiefvater to talk about all the reasons why we resident meat-sacks put ourselves in machines and go for a drive—and enjoy it. Some of you chimed in with your own misguided reasoning.
Read MoreThere is no car-filled franchise more widely known, widely loved and even widely reviled than the Fast and the Furious movies. Everyone has seen at least a couple of them. And today, the first film of the franchise celebrates its 15th anniversary. (You can catch it one more time on the big screen tonight.) Fifteen years later, through all its ridiculousness, it has no equal in modern car films.
Read MoreWhen I die, I think this is what my tombstone will say: Here lies Doug DeMuro. Crushed a PT Cruiser with a Hummer.
Read MoreI’m a child, just like you. I like to go sideways, in a plume of my own tire smoke. I enjoy opposite lock, balancing the throttle and brake in a smooth, effortless symphony. Generally I prefer to do this on gravel. Sounds familiar, right?
Read MoreThe Corvette is, as I said earlier, virtually a car without vices. So what’s the problem?
Read MoreIf there is anything better than staring at a shiny, new Mercedes-Benz in the California mountains, it’s driving that new Mercedes through those California mountains—winding roads, unadvised high speeds and all.
Read MoreI got a suggestion recently from a reader that was brilliant and simple: find out what car Calvin’s dad, the hardworking everyman from the beloved comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, drove. I mean, we have a right to know what he drives, I think, since his son has been seen peeing on so many car windows. So let’s try and figure this out.
Read MoreI never really thought a car as comprehensively and exhaustively explored, scrutinized, and fetishized as the Volkswagen Beetle could possibly have anything that would surprise me here in this futuristic year of 2016, but I was wrong. So wrong. Because I’ve just learned some almost 30-year old VW news that’s blowing my mind-grapes.
Read MoreSo Ballaban and I decided that Berry Gordy’s 1975 Diana Ross epic Mahogany is the best movie we’ve seen in a long time, despite having a bullshit 23 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Idiots. Anything with Billy Dee Williams merits at least an 80 percent.
Read MoreItalian things and American things make for a wonderful pairing. You can find that joyous combination in both the Iso Grifo, with its gorgeous Italian styling and American V8 engine. It is beauty, it is class, it is everything sacred in this world. It is also in the 1975 Diana Ross epic Mahogany, where she and Anthony Perkins—Norman Bates from Psycho—fucking jump one.
Read MoreLast week, we asked readers “What’s the worst you’ve ever gotten your car stuck?” and the responses were absolutely insane. Here are the best ones.
Read MoreI know a big part of my job involves finding interesting things to talk to you about, but this time I’m going to have to do things a little backwards. I’ve found something strange and fascinating, but I need some help to research it further. All I really know is that it’s Brazilian, involves classic Beetles, and is absolutely bonkers.
Read MoreI will never forget the morning I catapulted to stardom, when Jay Leno mentioned my recent Jalopnik column on The Today Show. I was asleep, and I found out about it hours later on Twitter.
Read MoreEvery sanctimonious, godawful car-person-that-gives-car-people-a-bad-name-type posts on some sort of internet car forum. They’re awful and everything that is bad in the world. I should know. I am one of them.
Read MoreAs I look back on the ownership of my Ferrari 360 Modena about a year after I sold it, I think I can finally say that I’ve pinpointed the major reasons why I didn’t like it.
Read MoreWhen you think about the state of the modern automotive industry, I’m sure there are many things you want today’s cars to do better. More power. More electric range. More performance. More autonomous features. And those are all great suggestions. But you know what I want? Sliding doors. I want more sliding doors.
Read MoreI’ve been pretty hard on the use of emojis as a substitute for normal human language, especially when it comes to the marketing of cars, for quite some time. Maybe I’m still bitter because a rebus-talking man killed my sensei many years ago. Maybe it’s just cloying? Regardless, it’s here, so I decided I might as well take a deeper look at the cars of the Emojiverse.
Read MoreA man in Florida has crafted a beautiful sports car out of cannabis hemp, demonstrating the plant’s versatility as not just something that can heal the mind, body, and spirit, but that can also morph into a bright red convertible.
Read MorePrepare your bodies for some very purple Shelby Mustang hotness.
Read MoreA hefty price tag, out-there Giugiaro styling from a small brand known mostly for boxy and conservative cars, a debut during the middle of a recession, and no option of a manual transmission on what was billed as a sports car... what could possibly go wrong?
Read MoreYou would think now that I moved into the metropolitan area of Tokyo and take a 28-minute subway trip from my apartment to my school, that I would no longer want or need my car. Well, this is Jalopnik, so we know that can’t possibly be true. And it sure as hell isn’t.
Read MoreBadge engineering is, for some reason, one of the most absurdly satisfying things about the auto business. It’s often shameless and absurd, sure, but some painfully pedantic part of me always likes knowing that, say, a Volkswagen Taro is really a Toyota Hilux. Same car, different names, and somewhere out there is the most insane dichotomy of names for one given car.
Read MoreMostly thanks to Top Gear, Reliant’s three-wheel cars have become something of an automotive joke. While it’s always fun to watch Jeremy Clarkson roll over in a car, this isn’t really fair to the Robin, which was quite successful at its job. There was once even a short-lived but valiant attempt to bring them to the U.S., which is what I want to tell you about today.
Read MoreMany of us who spend the majority of our non-eating, non-masturbating hours thinking about cars often lament how much alike so many modern cars look. We decry how homogenous the carscape has become, and wish for a return to a mythical past. Sure, lots of cars do look alike now, but the truth is, it’s always been like that.
Read MoreCar theft is the worst. Except in the rare instances when everything bizarrely works out.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been privileged enough to spend time with a horse regularly, you’ll know it’s a bit of a double-edged sword.
Read MoreI found myself one late August evening in 2008 listening to the tick-tick of various components and liquids contracting as they cooled, watching the shimmy of heat coming from the hood of my black on black 2006 Chevrolet C6 Z06 after a thoroughly abusive and soul-releasing drive through the canyons of Manhattan. On that night I was angry.
Read MoreThe new Volvo S90 and its wagon twin are so damn good you need to check them out whether or not you’re bored of German metal. Saying you’d still go with a BMW because of worries over Volvo’s reliability and resale value is sort of a silly thing to worry about.
Read MoreAs a result of a childhood promise I made to legendary funnyman Slappy White, I periodically do my best to make you, our lovely, sun-kissed readers, aware of some very obscure cars. Today I want to focus on a really obscure one: the Starline Sab 25 XL.
Read MoreOpen on an aerial shot of some famous skyline as an orchestral score sets the tone. Intercut dramatic slider shot of the grille and headlights as we hear the rumble of an old Chevy big block. Jump to a dark close-up of eyes as they gaze intensely, ever so slightly off the camera’s center. Engine revs as we see an insert of hands gripping a steering wheel tightly. The orchestra builds to a crescendo, jump cut; gear engaged, foot planted, tires squeal… and it begins.
Read MoreThe nature of the internet is everything you wish would go away lasts forever, and everything you wished would last disappears.
Read MoreAs a car owner, I don’t think there’s a worse feeling in the world than walking to your parking lot and discovering that your car just isn’t there.
Read MoreLast year, owner Mark claimed to have racked up 650,000 miles on his 2000 Chevrolet Corvette. Since then, we’ve started wondering just how far this car would go, and as of June 2016 the original owner of this original-engine 5 appears to be close to 710,000 miles!
Read MoreHello, people of the Web, and welcome to a special version of Letters to Doug, your favorite column wherein you send me a letter with some sort of question, and I post a response with some sort of answer.
Read MoreSometimes concept cars look amazingly preposterous, especially once you see the final production car. But some of them are actually pretty damn nice, and I happen to think this 1999 Dodge Charger concept is one of the nice ones.
Read MoreI recently visited Charleston, South Carolina, so I could finish my latest book. While I was there, I visited Charleston Cars and Coffee and encountered a six-wheeled Land Rover Defender fire truck. It was at that moment when I realized I would have to finish my book later.
Read MoreComing up with simple axioms by which one can live is no easy task. Still, coming up with such axioms is my job, despite what my editor and everyone else tells me. Happily, I think I have finally realized a workable axiom, this one about weird cars and weird bicycles.
Read MoreWhat happens to yellow American school buses after they’re done shuttling around disgusting children has always been a bit of a mystery. Well, most of them probably spend their final days in redneck demo derbies, but the lucky ones go to Central America, where they’re turned into pretty “Chicken Buses” and destined for a life of hard labor.
Read MoreWhile I was at the Indy 500 this past week, I saw all manner of remarkable things: the winning car taking a victory lap on a tow rope, people pretending to find milk refreshing, and acres of vivid sunburned red, sweat-slicked bodies slapping up against one another. But one detail really stuck with me: the push-to-pass button.
Read MoreSince Americans have lost all interest in any vehicle that doesn’t have “King Ranch Edition” in its name, Mini is another brand that isn’t doing too hot right now. That’s a damn shame because they make some of the most fun new cars you can buy. Perhaps the rugged-looking Mini Clubman All4 Scrambler Concept would change our minds.
Read MoreToday we found out that Joshua Brown became the first person to die in a self-driving car, crashing into a truck turning across a Florida highway. At the moment, that’s about all we know. This very well could have been entirely his self-driving Tesla’s fault, just as it could have had absolutely nothing to do with autonomous driving in the least.
Read MoreJust one month before he became the first person to die behind the wheel of a self-driving car, Joshua Brown recorded a video of his Tesla Model S’ autopilot saving him from a crash. At least, that’s how he described it.
Read MoreOne person died in a May crash in Florida involving a Tesla Model S cruising on its semi-autonomous Autopilot mode, as Tesla has officially confirmed. NHTSA is currently investigating the wreck.
Read MoreYou have no idea how many people die from driving tired in this country year after year.
Read MoreToday we celebrate a brave alloy for breaking free from a life—if you can call it that—imprisoned on a stanced Saab.
Read MoreSomething that’s apparently been on his bucket list since childhood, Jay Leno recently hopped into a 2,500-horsepower car that pops up two wheels for show. The problem was, the vehicle didn’t stay on two wheels for long—it went into an wild, unintended barrel roll instead.
Read MoreThe death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, crushed by his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee on Sunday after the SUV rolled backwards in his own driveway, has been deemed a bizarre and tragic accident. Adding another element of tragedy is the fact that despite Fiat Chrysler speeding up its recall for the rollaway problem, the software update was provided to dealers just days before Yelchin’s death.
Read MoreRight now, there are few greater threats to public safety than a Ford Mustang exiting a Cars and Coffee. To combat this national crisis, I recently filmed a video that shows Mustang owners how to leave cars and coffee events in a safe, delicate manner that doesn’t cause any form of ruckus. I did this in an 850 horsepower Mustang that’s painted bright orange.
Read MoreIf I’m ever in an accident, the first thing I do is make sure everyone involved is safe. This does not appear to be standard policy in Russia.
Read MoreIn Minnesota, some poor aloof drivers might have to pick up a new set of shock absorbers—and also maybe a new pair of underwear—after driving their cars off a ramp that was once the left lane of a highway.
Read MoreAn Oklahoma pickup-truck driver severely lost his shit this week, and rammed a car off the road and into a guard rail. Here’s a video of the incident; prepare to witness asshole-ry at its worst.
Read MoreYou probably heard that BBC Top Gear exiles Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have relocated to Amazon.com where they’ll host another car show called The Grand Tour. Now they’ve got themselves a logo that looks like it’s right off the back of your Mitsubishi Starion.
Read MoreTop Gear remains one of the better explainers of what is so good and bad about modern cars. Few others even try to explain how something like a new Rolls Royce or Jaguar fits into our social context. So why can’t the show get old cars right?
Read MoreThe BMW M2, the Audi RS3, the Jaguar F-Type SVR, a couple Rolls Royces and just about every niche weird lightweight sports/track car the UK produces. Not a bad roster for a Top Gear episode, or...?
Read MorePour some out for the American cousin of Top Gear and its affable hosts Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust and Adam Ferrara. Tuesday night’s episode of Top Gear USA on the History Channel will be the show’s last—at least for now, and on that network.
Read MoreMatt LeBlanc threatened to quit Top Gear unless co-host Chris Evans gets kicked off, according to reports from The Sun, a tabloid known for breaking Top Gear drama from various sources. The Sun said LeBlanc is sick of Evans’ “rudeness and frosty attitude” toward the Top Gear team.
Read MoreBritain and the European Union are going through a pretty rough public breakup if you haven’t heard, and fan-favorite personality and British person Jeremy Clarkson has an opinion about it.
Read MoreThis week’s Top Gear got the lowest ratings in the show’s history. C’mon. It wasn’t that bad, was it?
Read MoreOn Tuesday, we wrote that Top Gear was giving friend-of-Jalopnik Chris Harris his own internet show again, and that we expected it to be absolutely awesome. Well, it looks like the new web show will be just like his old one, Chris Harris On Cars, and that’s a damn good thing. Don’t believe me? Just watch this trailer.
Read MoreFalling ratings of Top Gear have prompted the BBC to rethink how much screen time the various hosts get, as an unsourced article from The Telegraph reports. The result should be less Chris Evans and more Rory Reid and Chris Harris. I suppose it’d be more charitable to just say people want more Harris and Reid, but something about Chris Evans makes this headline more appealing.
Read MoreChris Evans getting sick, Matt LeBlanc getting a tour of London in a Hoonstang, Chris Harris finally driving something, Sabine Schmitz finally driving something and Rory Reid finally driving something made for one of the best episodes of Top Gear in years.
Read MoreThe revised Top Gear may have been off to a somewhat rocky start, but tonight YouTube-addicted gearheads everywhere finally getting the one thing we’ve wanted since forever: a fast, drift-filled car test from Chris Harris. And it’s in a Ferrari. A Ferrari supplied by Ferrari.
Read MoreI couldn’t even finish this week’s episode. I just couldn’t sit and watch while you all on screen pretended to be having a good time, making a good show.
Read MoreThe second episode of the new, rebooted Top Gear lost 1.6 million viewers over the premiere episode, but everything is fine!
Read MoreFollowing its season premiere last week, the new Top Gear didn’t have the best reception overall—both in ratings and in, well, viewers’ opinions of it. But we all deserve our second chances, and odds are that at least a few of you tuned into the show again tonight. If you did, let’s talk about it.
Read MoreThe format for The Grand Tour is sort of like old Top Gear specials, where the trio travels across the globe, and the episodes are like their own mini-films. Only in The Grand Tour, the hosts aren’t the only ones traveling, the studio (a big tent) does too. Today, the show announced the first location for its big tent: Johannesburg, South Africa.
Read MoreNo one really cross shops a Ford Fusion and a BMW 3 Series. But now that we know it has a tire stomping 380 lb-ft of torque and costs under $34,000, could this new Ford Fusion Sport be the affordable, German-slaying American sedan we’ve been waiting for?
Read MoreLast week, we told you about the frustrating and confusing case of a minor accident in Orange County, California that turned into 17 cars being impounded for more than 100 days. According to what we’re told happened at the hearing, the cars may have been held for no good reason. Regardless, following a hearing before a judge on Friday, all the cars were released.
Read MoreA minor accident with a bicyclist. A police officer who allegedly lost his memory. Seventeen cars, mostly sports cars including exotics like a couple of Lamborghinis and a Nissan GT-R, impounded for more than 100 days with no explanation given to their owners. It’s a deeply baffling story unfolding in the small town of Orange, California, and so far no one has answers.
Read MoreAfter the tragic death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, who was crushed by his own 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee, all eyes have been on Fiat Chrysler’s rollaway vehicle recall. That 1.1 million vehicle recall was less of a fix and more of a warning to customers on how to use the shifter properly. But now Jalopnik has a document showing an “Auto Park” software update procedure for technicians. Is this Fiat Chrysler’s fix?
Read MoreThe Kawasaki Ninja H2R bowed in 2014 like a nuke in a knife fight. While incredibly, dangerously, unmanageably quick motorcycles make close to 200 horsepower– this Ninja has 300. But would anyone ever be brave enough to try and top it out? Finally, yes.
Read MoreThis motorcyclist learned a painful lesson in not trusting his fellow motorists to secure their cargo properly. Thankfully the biker reportedly wasn’t seriously injured.
Read MoreQualifying is all about speed. In racing, that speed sometimes includes just how fast you can get back to the garage and fetch a backup vehicle. That’s why, when MotoGP World Championship rider Marc Marquez went down in Q2 at the Dutch Grand Prix, he saw a scooter with a key in it and took off toward his garage stall.
Read MoreFor anyone who’s ever felt bored by an Formula One race, motorcycle sidecar racing is a happy alternative. As you can see, it isn’t bound by the strict rules of F1 that ban anything on the car not interacting with the air.
Read MoreOn Monday, June 13th motorcyclist Damian Taylor was knocked off his 1982 Suzuki by an unidentified car, succumbing to blunt force trauma injuries and passing away shortly after. Police were seeking help tracking down the driver involved, and after a few days of searching seem to have done so.
Read MoreIconic American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson has been touting the “LiveWire” electric bike concept around for years. But only recently has the company committed to a timeline on production of anything like it.
Read MoreFor some insane reason, some brilliant mastermind decided to take a 180 horsepower, 400 pound superbike and pit it against a 950 horsepower, 3,500 pound hypercar in the most redneck automotive spectacle ever devised: a tug-of-war.
Read MoreThe Honda Grom created an odd but amusing segment of motorcycling when it was introduced in 2014. Big enough to ride on real roads, small enough to thrash like a borrowed bicycle. Apparently it still has enough fans to stick around, and is getting a few tweaks for the 2017 model year.
Read MoreThe Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is one of the most treacherous races in the world, having claimed two lives this year alone. And yet, Michael Dunlop sped through the Snaefell Mountain Course with a 133.392 average speed to obliterate the old lap records with a sub-17-minute lap. This is that unreal lap.
Read MoreOccasionally, it’s entirely appropriate to drop whatever your holding, look straight into the eyes of whoever’s closest to you, and ask “what the fuck is wrong with people?” This incident between a Mustang and a motorcycle is one of those times.
Read MoreAt the famed Isle of Man TT motorcycle race, the Snaefell Mountain Course claimed its 249th and 250th fatalities in the same day on Monday.
Read MoreDuring this weekend’s Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, Michael Dunlop rode his Hawk Racing BMW to a record-shattering sub-17 minute lap of the 37.73-mile Snaefell Mountain Course not once this weekend, but twice, reports Sport Rider. The quickest of the two laps had an average race speed of 133.392 mph.
Read MoreThe Isle of Man TT races are on, and to honor the madness of the The World’s Fastest Death Cult, we’re giving away ten copies of the definitive short film on the IOM TT. Here’s how to get in on it.
Read MoreIn America, when police pull over a fleeing motorist, they pull out their pistols. In Bavaria, they apparently break out the big guns: ice cream cones.
Read MoreMoto2 SAG Team rider Luis Salom died following a fall in Free Practice 2 for this weekend’s Catalunya Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, reports MotoGP. Salom was 24.
Read MoreRoland Goff is currently recovering after he crashed his Honda VTX1300 motorcycle and was pinned under it for more than a week, living off rain water and “whatever he could reach” to eat.
Read MoreLike many prestige brands, Italian superbike outfit Ducati trades heavily on “heritage.” Their website includes this nice timeline of their heroic motorcycles and riders through history. That history has just been tweaked a little to fit a modern commercial narrative.
Read MoreThe sound of a motorcycle is part of what makes a motorcycle, a motorcycle. It’s a key strand of DNA and if it were to go missing, what would that be like? Is it safe? Would anyone even want one?
Read MoreA “wheelie” is when you pop up the front wheel of a motorcycle and proceed forward with a tire in the air like you just don’t care. Stupid stunt? Maybe sometimes, but the skill can be downright useful and this is the best tutorial I’ve seen yet.
Read MoreFerrari, if you didn’t know, is a special little car company that’s been around since 1947—meaning it turns 70 next year. To celebrate, the special little car company is working on 350 unique special editions for its special customers.
Read MoreThe McLaren P1 LM is basically a road-going McLaren P1 GTR, with the same 986 horsepower but with an even huger amount of downforce. Created by the same company that did the original McLaren F1 LMs, Lanzante, it is a ferocious beast. Here it is storming the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and breaking the record for road-legal cars.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put out an urgent bulletin today asking owners of various 2001-2003 Honda and Acura models equipped with potentially deadly Takata airbag inflators to have their car fixed immediately, as those models pose the highest risk to their occupants.
Read MoreIn approximately four hours, I’ll be leaving on a long road trip to drive my Aston Martin into the Maine wilderness on its longest, most grueling road trip yet. This will be a momentous occasion, as I do not believe my Aston Martin has ever personally met a moose. It will also be a serious, highly important test of the Aston’s endurance capabilities for two reasons.
Read MoreOne of Volkswagen’s lawyers said at a court hearing today that the automaker thinks it has a fix for 85,000 3.0-liter diesel V6 VWs, Audis and Porsches that don’t meet emissions requirements, Reuters reports. The four-cylinder engines are another story.
Read MoreAfter the London-based rich kid who calls himself “Lord” Aleem was pulled over in his new Lamorghini Aventador SV Roadster, the YouTube exotic car guy—you know the type, new Lambos, R8s and Bentleys everywhere—got caught on camera berating the police. Way to look sympathetic!
Read MoreThroughout my career I have raced on what, until very recently, I had considered some of the most batshit crazy public roads in the world: Mt Panorama. Macau. The Nürburgring.
Read MoreThe Bentley Continental GT has never been a Bentley. At the moment it’s an Audi A8 coupe. Before that it was a shorty Phaeton. In the future it will be a Porsche 928, so to speak.
Read MoreFind yourself swimming in pools of money? Concerned about the vast, seething magnitude of your bank account, but don’t like the swoops and sweeps of the leather stitching in modern cars? Don’t worry, Mercedes still makes a car with a button back sofa in it.
Read MoreThe Toyobaru twins were always seen as throwbacks to the days of old AE86s and the drifting manga that made them famous. Now Toyota of the UK is completing the circle with an Initial D-tribute concept car.
Read MoreNorway is basically the land of Tesla thanks to a massive effort by the government to incentivize EV sales, with Elon Musk’s company gladly supplying the cars. But Tesla may have to give something back to its Norwegian customers thanks to a dispute over the Model S P85D’s advertised power output.
Read MoreJoe and Kate bought a Dodge Journey from Fiat Chyrsler of Australia and what followed was three years of torture, according to the couple who made a big, big spectacle out of crushing their “Lemon” with a tank.
Read MoreThe 2017 Porsche Panamera cleaned up so nice that it’s my new automotive crush. That’s the good news. The bad news is I can’t afford one.
Read MoreStop lights and stop signs are normally considered the bane of all car-loving existence. But clearly we need them. The alternative is terrifying, fraught with chaos and also possibly wanton destruction. As the annoying guy shooting the video says, “this is what happens when you let humanity use judgement.”
Read MoreHave you ever stared at an ornamental cactus on your desk and thought to yourself, “Sure, I’d drive that?” Stare no longer. Now you can have a little cactus for a car in the form of Citroën’s new Cactus-airbump-clad C3.
Read MoreRecently retired Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch is living the dream now that he no longer has to plow through defensive lines. Just watch Beast Mode have the time of his life in this hilarious car review video.
Read MoreImagine a future full of electric cars where everyone’s a passenger. Where traffic is not only managed but controlled by a digital network. Where on-demand ride-sharing services have become the norm, and the only human drivers are emergency crews behind the wheel of super-fast vintage “antiques” tasked with taking down AI cars that have gone haywire.
Read MoreAfter an unprecedented $14.7 billion settlement released yesterday, we learned that Volkswagen will offer to buy back nearly 500,000 four-cylinder diesel cars affected by the emissions cheating scandal in the U.S. But what is the fate of the cars once they’ve been bought back? Are they all doomed?
Read MoreA man in Islamabad, Pakistan allegedly tried smuggling two cows in his little sedan, the Daily Pakistan reports. Yes, someone fit not one but two cows in a small car. I’ve got to admit that I’m impressed.
Read MoreNot only is the new 2017 Porsche Panamera impressively pretty with a wing straight out of a comic book, it’s also really flipping fast. According to Porsche, the new Panamera Turbo beat the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio as the fastest luxury sedan to lap the Nürburgring with a time of seven minutes and 38 seconds.
Read MoreFormer NFL running back for the Indianapolis Colts Zurlon Tipton died after accidentally shooting himself while removing a bag containing two firearms from his vehicle at a Jeep dealership in Roseville, Michigan this morning.
Read MoreDoes Captain America work at the Texas Department Of Public Safety or what? Probably, and here’s some solid evidence.
Read MoreThis is better than Gymkhana.
Read MoreToday the world was introduced to the first major redesign of the Porsche Panamera. Nice smooth lines front to back, with a retractable spoiler like a freaking badass robotic razor blade.
Read MoreAs part of the unprecedented $14.7 billion settlement released earlier today, Volkswagen will offer substantial cash payments to owners of the 482,000 diesel four-cylinder cars affected by the emissions cheating scandal. If you own one of Volkswagen’s NOx-spewing machines, here are step-by-step instructions on how you can calculate how much money you’re owed.
Read MoreThe infamous Swedish Moose Test can make or break sales in certain parts of the world. It aims to re-create what could happen if a moose suddenly appeared in your path, and you needed to make an emergency maneuver. We’ve already seen this sort of thing once before, but in case you missed it the first time, here’s another reminder of why it’s so important.
Read MoreVolkswagen has been ordered to buy back any of the affected diesel 2.0-liter four-cylinder cars in the United States as part of its unprecedented $14.7 billion settlement with federal regulators, U.S. Justice Department officials said this morning.
Read MoreIt turns out that the problems with Fiat Chrysler’s unusual and problematic automatic gear shifter are bigger than originally reported. The mushroom-shaped gear shifter on the Jeep Grand Cherokee and other cars—a part being investigated in the death of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin—is now linked to 266 crashes and 68 injuries.
Read MoreBarrett Lyon has owned every model Tesla has ever made; a Roadster, a Model S and, now formerly, a Model X—which he returned to Tesla after filing a lawsuit against the company over the electric crossover’s numerous quality issues.
Read MoreThe Havana, Illinois police department says be careful on the bridge; it’s covered in bugs. As in– six inches deep with mud made of insect.
Read MoreMercedes has introduced a new AMG GT base model in America that’s almost $20,000 cheaper than the initial GT S model. I’m thinking that slides the new entry-level GT into reasonable third-car territory finally.
Read MoreLook at this dog. Just sitting in a car. Living life. Being the best dog he can be. Wind in his face. Wind is his face.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s Dieselgate settlement with American owners of its cheaty diesel cars will cost the company more than $15 billion, or five billion dollars more than was originally reported, according to Bloomberg. More than $10 billion of that is slated just to go to Volkswagen owners.
Read MoreWhen Volkswagen copped to cheating on diesel emissions way back in September, few people expected the mess to drag on for 10 months after that. But here we are approaching July, and at last, Volkswagen’s settlement with regulators should be made public tomorrow. As for how the cheating diesel cars will be fixed, well, that could be another story.
Read MoreSingapore Airlines flight 368, a Boeing 777 flying from Singapore to Milan, was two hours into the journey when its captain noticed an oil warning light forcing him to turn back, according to China Aviation Daily. The raging inferno which you see above is what happened to the plane after it landed.
Read MoreThis is the first heritage edition of the new new Ford GT, and it pays tribute to the black-over-gold original Ford GT40 that came 1-2-3 in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. It’s a bit of a snub, if you think about it.
Read MoreIf you’re a Subaru enthusiast and you weren’t at Wicked Big Meet on June 12th, well, you missed a helluva show. With an attendance record of over 7,500 people, the event continues to be the largest Subaru gathering in the world. But have no fear, because tomorrow is Big Northwest, Subie Events LLC’s West Coast version.
Read MorePeople tend to think of Mercedes-Benz as this brand that’s conservative and staid and boring—the old money of luxury cars. Every now and then they go and do some things so batshit insane that they prove those people completely wrong. Here is more of the 575 horsepower Mercedes-AMG GT R, in all its obscenely green glory.
Read MoreBrexit! It’s a word! And thanks to a vote yesterday, it’s a Thing! Most simply, it means that the United Kingdom is going to leave the European Union. But it might mean a hell of a lot more than that simple explanation for the Britain’s auto industry, and the rest of the globalized car world.
Read MoreThe mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette. It is as mythical and fleeting as a unicorn, or the new Frank Ocean album. For decades now—literally decades—General Motors has flirted with a mid-engined ‘Vette that could really take the fight to European exotics. It has never happened. So why is GM now spending $290 million to upgrade the Bowling Green, Kentucky plant where the Corvette is built?
Read MoreTaking a page out of BMW i’s book, Mercedes-Benz might create a separate brand just for its electric vehicles. These cars would reportedly come from an existing Mercedes plant, and if everything moves along smoothly, the company could give this decision the green light by as early as next month.
Read MoreAre you having a rough time out there? Worried about the state of things? Does the likelihood of economic collapse and resource wars within the next few years keep you up at night? Do not worry, for in the meantime, we have this two-tone Mazda Miata with a denim interior and it’s really neat.
Read MoreThe Brits leaving the EU is really a strike against global harmony in favor of fear and nationalism. It sucks. But! Cars.
Read MoreNo, not that GT-R. This GT R (no hyphen) is the 575 horsepower top-rung super performance version of the Mercedes-AMG GT. It’s quite green.
Read MoreFollowing the super low-volume Aston Martin One-77 and Vulcan, Aston has a new ultra-rare and bespoke model to showcase: the Vantage GT12 Roadster. And before you reach for your checkbook, don’t bother—this is a one off for a very wealthy customer.
Read MoreGreat Britain became a part of the European Union in 1973. Despite almost leaving immediately, it’s been a member-country since. But today Brits are once again voting on whether or not to leave, and several automakers have made statements expressing their opinion on the political matter.
Read MoreSomeone may have been going just a tad too fast through an Italian town near the Dolomites when they beached their LaFerrari right on top of a rock outside a restaurant. That’s right: on top. However this wreck happened, that’s just impressive right there.
Read MoreIt was so hot in Arizona an area man was able to cook steaks in the street while simultaneously baking cookies on the dashboard of his Lamborghini.
Read MoreIf you’re in the Far East and want to combine a two hour flight from Japan, an amazing trafficless tropical drive, and a ton of World War II history, then get yourself to the island territory of Guam and your ass in a rental car. You won’t be disappointed.
Read MoreSecurity at this year’s NY Heritage of Pride Parade will come with a strong display of solidarity with the LGBT community. It’s nice to see the police lead with an inclusive example, and frankly, the car looks good this way.
Read MoreIf you are one of nearly half a million Americans with diesel Volkswagen, you may be entitled to up to $7,000 in cash straight from VW, as Automotive News reports. As for how you get your grubby hands on your money, well, that might not be so simple.
Read MoreThe Fast & Furious franchise has evolved way past highway hijinks in Honda Civics. We’ve known the 8th movie is shooting on location in Iceland and Cuba, but these behind-scenes clips give us a good idea of just how much they’re actually blowing up. Spoiler alert: a lot.
Read MoreThis is not an ordinary Ford Focus RS. It is, though, one mean-looking hot hatchback prototype.
Read MoreJalopnik’s first ever 25-hour party went off without a hitch, which is more than I can say for Toyota. The LeManstravaganza, presented by Porsche, brought hundreds of people together to watch the festivities and a surprising number actually stuck around for the whole damn thing. Here’s what you missed if you weren’t here.
Read MoreAs we get ready to say goodbye to the Dodge Viper (again), it’s fun to remember that the original 1989 concept had a V8 instead of a V10.
Read MoreHave you ever woken up in your penthouse suite, glared out of the window down at the peasants of Manhattan and thought, “I can’t get far enough away”? Worry no more! Boeing now offers you the highest penthouse suite in the world—in the belly of a 787 private jet.
Read MoreThis is a 53,000 megapixel photo of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It’s also a promotional photo for the Bentley Mulsanne.
Read More“Take it down before I get in trouble,” 23-year-old Darran Anderson reportedly commented on a video of him in his BMW cutting through traffic on New York’s Long Island Expressway. That didn’t really work out for him.
Read MoreI never imagined what our world would be like with more than one Jeremy Clarkson. The thought itself seemed too vulgar; too dangerous. That is until RamblinRover posted a video skit featuring an entire island of Clarksons on Oppositelock today—and then Road & Track picked it up.
Read MoreWe dole out a lot of advice on what makes a good first car, or cheap car, or any car for people under 24. But what are young people actually buying? This big list of used car registrations breaks it down for 2016, and the results are... uh, surprising.
Read MoreWhile we don’t yet know the Bugatti Chiron’s top speed, we now know this: At the hands of Bugatti boss Wolfgang Dürheimer, it hit 236 mph during a lap of the track during pre-race festivities at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this past weekend. That is very fast.
Read MoreUber hasn’t exactly had the easiest of times in Africa because, like in the U.S. and Europe, it disrupts local taxi businesses. In Nairobi, Uber cars have been set on fire. In Johannesburg, drivers have been attacked. Can a more localized approach make things work better for one upstart ride-sharing company?
Read MoreIs this the most equipment and manpower a law enforcement agency has ever devoted to a meme?
Read MoreIrish soccer fans are the loudest, most obnoxious, most perfectly and wonderfully boisterous partiers on the entire planet. Fact. So when they messed up the roof of a French car while celebrating whatever the hell the UEFA Euro Cup is (a boxing match? A game of Monopoly?), they immediately started fixing it. Right there and then.
Read MoreThe ravishing Aston Martin Vanquish as rebodied by the Italian dreamweavers at Zagato bowed at the Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza last month as a showpiece. As in “look, don’t touch” forever. But today it’s been confirmed that a few lucky owners will be able to take one home and get their grubby mitts all over it.
Read MoreThe Nissan IDx, that awesome little upright sport coupe concept we got so excited and immediately heartbroken over, will be immortalized in awesomeness in Fast & Furious 8. Looks like it will join a downright decent looking crew of other cars, too.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG is one of the most imposing vehicles that a person can interact with on the road. It’s all big grill and V8 and leather-lined status. What’s that like in the real world? Watch us explain that, live.
Read MoreFaraday Future’s vision for the future of cars falls right in line with everyone else’s: electric and autonomous. But the car it showed off at CES was a bit too smoke-and-mirrors for us to give it much cred. Now approval from California for Faraday to test their cars on public roads might just give the company the opportunity to show us what they’ve got.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 3 should start deliveries some time in the next mid term election cycle, but at least one prototype is out on the road, doing testing and looking good.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler has been in the news lately, and not for good reasons. Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was killed this weekend when his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee—a vehicle among a recall of more than 1.1 million cars for a rollaway problem linked to the gear shifter—reportedly rolled down his driveway and crushed him. As investigators work to determine if the shifter contributed to the incident, I found a Jeep with one to examine the issue.
Read MoreFor anyone who’s ever surveyed their Viper and wished that it just looked a bit more ostentatious, Dodge has an answer. To celebrate the big and nasty car’s 25th anniversary, and probably its final year, the company will produce the Viper Snakeskin Edition GTC. According to Allpar.com and confirmed by Fiat Chrysler today, that means a snakeskin green color and a custom snakeskin-patterned SRT stripe.
Read MoreAnyone who has been away from their car for a while knows the joy of being reunited with it. The familiarity hits on all of the senses: the scent of the interior, the feel of the wheel, the sound of the engine. Even the radio station you left it on, if you’re prone to that, which I am. Some people are more possessive about their cars than others, but most people agree on the sentiment: “My car is my car.” That’s true even in New York, the city that apparently hates cars.
Read MoreA 44,000 deadweight tonnage shop ran aground in Mauritius last Thursday night after the crew got into a fight in the engine room.
Read MoreIf you can find the time to spare to go an hour from Tokyo into a sleepy industrial part of Yokohama near Shin-Koyasu station, you will find the original factory of Nissan Motors. Inside are a plethora of Nissan engines, and a very friendly curator who will walk you through the automaker’s history.
Read MoreLast month we reported that Kip Ewing, one of the top people responsible for the Ford GT, had dipped out of the program, but we didn’t know where he was headed. Now we know that he went to rebuild Fisker at a company now called Karma.
Read MoreWould America have all the problems it has today if we had gotten the FTO instead of the Eclipse? Who can say.
Read MoreSaudi Arabia’s government bans women from driving. But Saudi Arabia’s women have found a way around it: bumper cars.
Read MoreEver since I started filming Formula Drift races, my mother, Amy Werman from our Worst Car Stories series, always joked about getting a ride-along with a professional drift racer. Here’s what happened when I got her one.
Read MoreA Fiat Chrysler spokesman said today that the automaker will investigate Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin’s fatal accident, which occurred after his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee pinned him against a mailbox in his driveway. That model of Jeep was among a wave of recalls for a gear shifter involved in numerous rollaway accidents.
Read MoreIn this weekend’s Elon Musk Says Some Wild Shit news, the guy claimed that the Tesla Model S can float and, apparently, function as a boat.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the car that rolled into and killed Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee, a model that Fiat Chrysler recently recalled after its unconventional gear shifter led to several documented rollaway accidents.
Read MoreThe ‘90s to ‘00s Corvette is, in many ways, a car without vices. It drives well, it handles well, with a V8, a stick shift, and rear-wheel drive. It even has pop up headlights. And yet.
Read MoreEarlier today, we learned about the tragic death of Anton Yelchin after the Star Trek actor was found pinned between his car and a mailbox. Now news from TMZ indicates that Yelchin’s car was a Jeep Grand Cherokee, leading us to wonder whether it was among the 1.1 million cars recalled in April due to a confusing shifter that owners often inadvertently left in neutral instead of park.
Read MoreThe whole “buy a car and get a free gun” schtick is nothing new. Dealers have been doing this for years, but one dealer in New Hampshire is facing criticism for giving away a rifle similar to the one used in the tragic killing of 49 people in Orlando last weekend.
Read MoreWithout a bit of help or guidance, there are a lot of us who probably wouldn’t have ended up so fascinated with cars. In many cases, the love for cars probably runs in our blood. So, let’s celebrate Father’s Day by sharing stories about a person who likely had a lot of influence on us visiting this website today—dad.
Read MoreOn Thursday, I boarded an airplane in hopes that I would have a easy, worry-free flight back from my first press drive as an automotive writer. Actually, I didn’t even consider that the flight would have the potential to be a chaotic mess. Like most of us, I figured that kind of thing wouldn’t happen to me.
Read MoreNot only did the driver of this absolutely mangled Ford Mustang survive plowing through six cars and several front yards, but apparently he or she ran away and are still at large.
Read MoreDown in Texas, in a large, overcrowded city by the name of Austin, there is a person who spends the day tossing rocks at cars on Interstate 35. Perhaps it’s jealousy of expensive Teslas, or perhaps to eliminate some traffic. Either way, the police finally found a suspect linked to nearly 100 rock-throwing incidents.
Read MoreA total of 140 drivable cars from real life and fantasy. Miles of paved and dirt track. Incredible physical realism and a dazzling sensation of speed. Is there any way that the best part of Gran Turismo Sport could be the freaking photography simulator sub-game? Yes.
Read MoreThe Infiniti Q50's signature party piece is its electronic steering system, which can adjust things like steering ratio and feel on the fly. There’s a redundant mechanical system backing it up in case it all falls apart, but what would really suck is if there was some sort of software flaw which could make the whole thing stop working properly, and the mechanical system didn’t engage. Which is exactly what Infiniti just admitted could happen in a recall.
Read MorePorsche is planning on taking the fight to Tesla with the upcoming production version of the gorgeous Mission E Concept, and they’ve officially started the smack-talking.
Read MoreThe greatest party to occur within the bounds of the explored universe is this weekend. That’s right, we’re hosting a 25-hour party to celebrate the 24-hour of Le Mans and showing the whole damn thing. Schedule here. Menu here. Important details below.
Read MoreHello and welcome to the latest round of Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly Jalopnik column that involves both a) letters, and b) Doug.
Read MoreIf you’ve got an older Tesla Model S, and you don’t want your neighbors scoffing at you for not having the latest and greatest, there’s a company in California selling the new 2016 fascias for a cool three large. Now you can drive slowly down your block and show off your “new” (but totally not new) ride. Your life is a total lie anyway, so why not keep up the trend?
Read MoreI don’t care that all of Singer’s reworked 911s all look the same. I would buy one in a heartbeat if I got some massive windfall of money. And for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Singer has a new addition called the “Newcastle” that is both gorgeous and wicked fast.
Read MoreI like to imagine this bear thinks it’s opening the office refrigerator. “Leftover dad, eh. Mmm, hey, anybody’s name on those screaming kids in the back?”
Read MoreWe know the Porsche Cayman GT4 is one of the best track-ready cars that money can buy. It’s got the big motor, a stick shift, and GT3 components all packed into a mid-engine platform. But how does it compare to the actual race-car version, the GT4 Clubsport? We joined our friends from CJ Wilson Racing at Willow Springs to find out.
Read More“It’s no secret that the future belongs to self-aware, autonomous vehicles,” Rolls-Royce writes. So forget your frets about the next 100 years, the 103EX has a plan for us. And also the closest thing to “square wheels” of any car ever.
Read MoreI’m here at Local Motors’ new National Harbor Facility just outside of Washington, DC, where Local Motors is introducing their new autonomous people-hauler, named Olli. Olli is a big, friendly-looking box, and, to a space-utilization fetishist like myself, that’s a good thing.
Read MoreBMW turned 100 this year, and to celebrate, the company has cooked up some concept cars from the stable of all the brands it owns, many of which are not actually named “BMW.” We’ve already seen the BMW Vision Next 100 Concept, but now there’s a Mini concept, and it makes the future of car-sharing seem awesome.
Read MoreGuðni Th. Jóhannesson, the current frontrunner in Iceland’s polling for its presidential election later this month, has campaigned with only an $82,000 budget operating out of a borrowed Škoda Favorit.
Read MoreServing in the military is no picnic for anyone (even for our nations’ elite Outdoor Dining Corps) but it can be especially difficult for women, who still have to deal with jackasses that just can’t wrap their brains around the idea of a woman soldier. A grocery store parking lot effectively demonstrated these difficulties in Concord, North Carolina recently.
Read MoreTesla will be opening a “Design Studio” gallery featuring a Model X parked right the middle of the Nordstrom clothing store in L.A.’s The Grove mall. What’s next, a Subaru in a Whole Foods?
Read MoreDame Helen Mirren, a strong contender for the title of Greatest Actress Of All Time, has joined the cast of Fast and Furious 8. Nothing about that is a joke.
Read MoreLow-number license plates are a major status symbol in the UAE. Wise to this, the state auctions them off and the third-largest emirate Sharjah just sold “1” for 18 times its reserve price.
Read MoreA few days ago, we posted a disturbing video of a cyclist getting mowed down by a Ford Mustang. The alleged driver, Misty Lee Wilke, was the cyclist’s girlfriend and had just learned that he was HIV-positive, reports King 5. The man was left injured from the impact, as the Mustang sped away.
Read MoreHey car-loving Onanists! I have exciting news: finally, you can combine your love for cars with your love for self-love, and have it pay off, bigtime. That’s because wank-fodder giant YouPorn is running a contest where you can design a wrap for their Lamborghini, and win a trip to London.
Read MoreVisitors to many popular car, sports and tech websites including VWVortex, The Truth About Cars, Pirate 4x4, Focus Fanatics, EvoXForums, and AutoGuide should change their passwords ASAP, reports ZDNet. 45 million accounts hosted on VerticalScope’s 1,100 sites have been compromised by hackers.
Read MoreWe here at Jalopnik frequently post wild videos captured from dash cams or surveillance cameras. It’s usually silly stuff like cows falling out of trucks, or fights between crazy Russians. Well, looks like Cadillac wants to give us more crazed internet fodder, as they’ve thrown a surround-vision video recording system on their CT6. This should be good.
Read MoreIrish rock singer Bob Geldof and British right-wing nutjob politician Nigel Farage have clashed on the waters of the Thames, with rival flotillas of boats locked in loud and absurd protest.
Read MoreThe Dubai Police have reportedly knocked down their local hooligans a peg, seizing 81 vehicles allegedly involved in street racing. And we’re not talking about clapped-out Civics; cops say some cars were clearing 180 MPH on public roads.
Read MoreLike many of our readers, I have an unhealthy fascination with rotary and other non-reciprocating piston engines. In fact, that very first sentence right there probably alienated most of our saner readers, but I don’t care, because a new type of rotary, non-reciprocating combustion engine was just tested on a kart for the first time, and it seems pretty fascinating.
Read MoreThere’s nothing wrong with building a car for a specific, niche market, especially if that market has money to burn. Sbarro, for example, has the wealthy falconer market all wrapped up. This heavily customized Volkswagen Microbus, though, is targeting a market I wasn’t aware existed: wealthy Back to the Future fans who feel the DeLorean should have been a VW Bus.
Read MoreYou love your car? You can’t help but pose in front of it? This praying mantis knows how you feel.
Read MoreA few days ago around Portland, OR, someone driving what appears to be a 2005-2009 Lexus RX 330 ran another driver off the road on NW Thompson at Skyline. It’s not really clear why the Lexus swerved across the double yellow, but the driver kept on driving, so we know that, on some level, they suck.
Read MoreAll 40 Lamborghini Centenario LP 770-4 hypercars have already been sold, but the car made its first U.S. appearance June 11th at Los Angeles’ the Petersen Auto Museum and to celebrate, some of the hottest supercars in the city showed up and took over the parking garage.
Read MoreYou may have heard that Cadillac is having a difficult time convincing customers to buy one of their cars that is not an Escalade. That sucks for them, but it could be good for you if you would like a nice American luxury sedan for up to $17,000 off.
Read MoreI know Elon Musk thinks that we’re most likely living in some advanced simulation, but if that’s the case, why can’t we all tear ass across a beach in Australia in an unreleased Lamborghini like a deranged billionaire? This suck-ass simulation we call “reality” won’t let most of us do that, but it looks like the new Forza Horizon 3 will.
Read MoreWhen we said we were planning a 24-hour party for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, we didn’t just promise to show you the race. We promised to feed you. It’s going to be insane.
Read MoreWhat happens when you combine the Japanese engineering tendency to miniaturise with Japan’s society-wide obsession with cuteness and apply it to electric cars? The Rimono: a plush body electric car a fourth of the size of a regular car which still seats two adults comfortably.
Read MoreMy friend Tom was driving around in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles yesterday, and spotted this well-disguised mule. No badges were visible, of course. Well, none on top. Below, it’s full of Hyundai-tagged bits, and this seems to be the next Elantra GT.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreIt would seem that for your next track day, illicit drag race against a Camaro or powerslide into a crowd of people outside Cars and Coffee, the 5.0-liter V8 Ford Mustang will be the best way to go.
Read MoreWhen it comes to iconic movie cars, the 1980s were a goldmine: Back to the Future’s DeLorean, Sixteen Candles’ Porsche 944, and of course: the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Thirty years ago today, Cameron’s dad’s untouchable, rare Ferrari hit the theaters.
Read MoreA recently released commercial about a retired gentleman in some future year getting a drive in the production model of an autonomous vehicle concept prominently shows the man as part of an interracial, perhaps international, family, thus recognising and normalising the increase in mixed families in Japan.
Read MoreA car called a Suzuki Splash drove into a pool. Is that what’s called “irony” or just a live-action pun?
Read MoreI can’t stop thinking about Mark Higgins lapping the Isle of Man TT course in just 17:35 earlier this week. Subaru ran another attempt today, so we’ll see if they’ve managed to beat their own record again soon. In the meantime, show us some decent car GIFs, because they don’t get better than this.
Read MoreEverybody loves a good “Ford Mustangs eat people” joke, but holy hell this hit-and-run is disturbing.
Read MoreElon Musk has broken his Twitter silence over the recent claim that Tesla attempted to cover up owner claims of suspension issues on the Model S, suggesting that fraudulent claims of similar issues indicates a larger conspiracy.
Read MoreSame old story. Someone steals a truck and makes a break for it on the highway. Unfortunately this time the following PIT maneuver sent the stolen vehicle flying down a drainage ditch, causing a separate crash in the oncoming on-ramp.
Read MoreMost Mazdas tend to be among the best corner-carvers in their classes, but they don’t necessarily cradle drivers in swaths of comfort. Mazda must know this because, according to Autocar, they’re adding fancy new tech to keep drivers feeling fresh even after long, winding road trips.
Read MoreShots were fired early this afternoon near the baggage claim area at the Dallas Love Field airport after a police officer intervened when a man was assaulting a woman, according to news reports. Access to Love Field was shut down following the incident.
Read MoreMuch to the chagrin of haters everywhere—whom I fully expect will cry themselves to sleep upon hearing this—Jalopnik continues to exist today despite a bit of news you may have seen. And we’re not going anywhere.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model X’s enormous windshield looks cool, but it’s been the source of a few headaches, from “double vision” at night to drivers apparently getting blinded by intense sun rays during the day. Here’s the fix for the latter: free sunshades!
Read MoreLast weekend the L.A. Summer Concours put about $50 million worth of exotics on the pavement outside Los Angeles’ Staples Center. For $250 a ticket you could walk among them and eat some fancy food, but if you missed the shindig you can still drool on the cars in this little gallery.
Read MoreSometimes movies give us a glimpse into an alternate reality or some possible future. Even the worst of these movies typically offer a look at what the people of these worlds drive. Sometimes the cars are cool, and sometimes they’re a Lexus concept you forgot about in 2002's Minority Report.
Read MoreMcLaren has been designing its Formula 1 racing efforts and sports cars using a virtual reality simulator, and now it’d like to think it could market this to the rest of the automotive industry. That doesn’t mean your next car will drive like a McLaren, though.
Read MoreAmerica’s auto safety watchdog, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, slammed Tesla Motors today for apparently asking customers to sign nondisclosure agreements after repairs that seemingly bar them from discussing potentially serious safety issues with regulators, Automotive News reported.
Read MoreThe Dodge Hellcat’s red key unlocks the car’s full 707-horsepower of fury. The red key in a Mustang Boss 302 activates an asphalt-eating “TracMode.” The Volvo XC90 has a red key, too. It does what you think it does when you think about Volvos.
Read MoreA Cirrus SR20 small plane crashed into a parked car near Houston’s Hobby Airport, leaving 3 people dead. All 3 of the deceased were onboard the plane when it crashed, and no other injuries were reported.
Read MoreLast week German luxury brand Audi—noted purveyor of automobiles with the reliability of a heroin-addicted parent—revealed the all-new Audi A5. And the automotive enthusiast world eagerly looked on, and examined the design, and feasted their eyes on the A5’s sensual curves. And then they asked: That’s it?
Read MorePresident Barack Obama was in New York City this week to join Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. Moments before his motorcade cruised across Park Avenue, some apparently oblivious or brazen bicyclist thought they could “make the light” and cross before POTUS. The cops were not having it.
Read MoreYou hear the horn. You see the wayward pickup truck. You hear a window roll down. And then... nothing. Well, not nothing. But it’s at that point you expect an old-school royal rumble to break out. And it just doesn’t. In fact, the opposite happens, and it’s almost like I don’t know what to make of it.
Read MoreWay, way back, in a glorious old year known as 2015, in an era when people were fascinated by ambiguous dress colors, Tesla sold a car known as the Tesla Model S 60. The Model S 60 has been gone for some time, leaving the most Americans miserable, broken husks. Until now.
Read MoreEarlier this year Aston Martin and Red Bull announced a Formula One partnership, and with it a new F1-inspired hypercar for the road designed by ace racing engineer Adrian Newey. Everything else about the car is a secret—until now, thanks to a tipster in the know who claims a lightweight 1,000 horsepower beast is on the way. Here’s what we’ve heard.
Read MoreCops, panicked, jog by. A Range Rover swerves through an alley, screeches to a halt and backs into a police car. Metal crunches, glass shatters, and in the background a familiar accent is shouting for the cops to “shoot him! Shoot him!” This isn’t a movie. It’s just another Monday in New York City.
Read MoreFor years I’ve gone on about how cool Toyota Previas are, with their midengine/rear-wheel drive platform tucked under an egg-shaped minivan body. But it turns out Toyota wasn’t the only one to follow this formula.
Read MoreI’m not going to try and add flare to something so particularly special, so just watch EVO’s Henry Catchpole hit 200 mph in a brand new Porsche 911 R on the Autobahn and try to imagine what it feels like.
Read MoreAs the Baja gets reassembled, I can’t help but get pumped to drive it up to Wicked Big Meet this Sunday. This will be my third year going, and this time I’ll be covering the event for Jalopnik.
Read MoreOn this day 25 years ago, the Buick Reatta had been out of production for 28 days.
Read MoreSergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chyrsler, recently sat down with CAR Magazine to talk about the automotive industry over some lunch. A snippet of the chat revealed that, despite Tesla’s recent success with the Model 3 reveal, he doesn’t think electric cars will pan out in the future.
Read MoreWatch a man confidently drive his car into a deep water puddle, only to quickly—and hilariously—see the error of his ways.
Read MoreWhen you picture the boxy-yet-oddly-sleek Volvo 850, usually a wagon, it’s easy to forget just how radical it was 25 years ago. Volvo was actually quite specific about how radical it was at the time, saying it was, and I quote, “A dynamic car with four world firsts.” So there you go: it was quadra-radical.
Read MoreSubaru has been owning the Isle of Man TT car lap record for years, recently setting it in an almost-stock WRX STI. Now they’ve beaten the record again, twice, with driver Mark Higgins behind the wheel of a heavily-modified WRX STI.
Read MoreA man took his 12-year-old son for a ride in a 700 horsepower Camaro when the fuel system failed and hell decided to take up residence in the car’s interior.
Read MoreMercedes showed off its new sexy wagon lineup today, but we only mentioned the E400 because, right now, that’s the only one to be sold in America. But, having stared at it long enough, the E43 AMG is worth talking about.
Read MoreIn the future, there’s no getting away from computers ratting you out for your human mistakes.
Read MoreAutonomous cars are coming. In some ways, they’re already here. And as anyone who has watched a video game avatar run at full speed right smack into a wall can tell you, computer systems are not infallible. Right now, when there’s an issue in a near-autonomous car, the car cries to you for help. This is a bad solution, and I think there’s a better way: human drivers on call to take over via remote control.
Read MoreThe BMW 2 Series is pretty much perfect, except for those of us who need to get children get in and out of the back seats. BMW reportedly will solve that problem with the upcoming 2 Series Gran Coupe. And yes, there supposedly will be an M version too!
Read MoreAll the cool kids know that the best brand in the entire Volkswagen Group isn’t Bugatti, or Lamborghini, or Porsche, or those diesel-stained jackwagons at Volkswagen. No, it’s Skoda, the Czech subsidiary that makes surprisingly great cars like the Superb at shockingly budget-minded prices. But could Skoda make it in the U.S.?
Read MoreThat 1980s Caprice you saw drive past you on chrome wheels, polished to a mirror finish? Here’s why it looks that way, as explained in the most thorough set of interviews possibly ever recorded on the subject.
Read MoreEver had a strange desire to get stuck on a floating metropolis with a television personality? Would you jump at the chance to meet Richard Rawlings, a rhinestone-studded Miller Lite can in human form? Well, have I found the cruise for you.
Read MoreA lot of us have been thinking about Muhammad Ali since we learned he died last week. Ali wasn’t, of course, primarily known for things automotive, but there are some good stories there, including this one, about the boxer and a car powered by a boxer motor.
Read MoreGiven that 88 mph is 141 KMH, it’s really no surprise that Doc Brown and the legendary time-traveling DeLorean were “pulled over” by Japanese traffic police in a Skyline GT-R in a traffic safety demonstration put on by the Yokohama Toyota dealer network.
Read MoreWith autonomous technology gradually making its way into passenger vehicles, the new methods of transport will likely warrant new regulations. In attempts to work toward those road regulations, Electrek reports that Tesla Motors offered to share all of its autopilot data with the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Read MorePlatinum is worth about $1,000 an ounce. Did you know you can sweep some of that right off the side of a busy highway?
Read MoreToday marks the first “LA Summer Concours” event in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Since only a few hundred folks were allowed to buy $250 event tickets, we’ll take you on our own little tour of the $50 million showroom.
Read MoreThe late Muhammad Ali was not a guy who lived a quiet life, and a car of his was certainly a reflection of that. Ali once drove—and got driven around in, when he felt like it—a 1959 Mercedes-Benz 220S encrusted with hundreds of precious jewels and gold accents from bumper to bumper.
Read MoreAfter finally saving up for his dream car, a first-generation Acura NSX, Fred Plan wasn’t about to let it sit idle in some garage. He ended up putting a whole lot more mileage on the car than he’d planned, but his story’s a great example of “if you treat a car right, it’ll be good to you right back.”
Read MoreIt’s National Donut Day. While most of the country is celebrating a dessert, let’s celebrate the tire-burning ritual of enthusiasts everywhere.
Read MoreAutodromo just came out with an updated version of their Group B watch and, like the cars it uses for inspiration, they’ve called it the Evoluzione. Naturally, they got a Group B rally car along for the promo work.
Read MoreRemember when the Nissan GT-R had an MSRP of less than $70,000? That was 2008; Flo Rida and T-Pain were getting low, Katy Perry had just kissed a girl. Nine years later, Nissan still makes much the same GT-R, only with a current asking price of $111,585. What’s weird is that Nissan functionally saves you $4,680. Here’s how.
Read MoreThis week London police reportedly pulled over a Lamborghini Huracan, impounded it on the basis of being uninsured despite the owner’s pleas to the contrary, and proceeded to whip it around town at double the speed limit.
Read MoreWhen answering a question on some of Tesla Motors’ delays in production at the Code Conference, Elon Musk mentioned one particularly unusual delay: a shootout on the Mexican border. “Things move as fast as the least lucky and least competent supplier,” Musk explained.
Read MoreElon Musk sat down for an interview during Wednesday night’s Code Conference to chat about how life is just a simulation, the Apple car, and the government of Mars. Maybe he’s an alien himself. But he also hinted about what’s in store for Tesla later this year.
Read More“At the time it was a gang,” says Romano Artioli, the man behind the brief revival of Bugatti in its modern form in the early 1990s with the quad-turbo EB110. He claims that rival carmakers shut him out of business. “The Mafia was a troop of boy scouts in comparison.”
Read MoreIt all comes down to the cheap explosive, one that even Takata itself reportedly knew was going to get people killed.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of Le Mans is soon upon us and we’re throwing an all-day, all-night LeManStravaganza party in our New York office from June 18th to 19th complete with food, trivia prizes, games, drinks, food, prizes, food. RSVP here, details below.
Read MoreRight now there are some rumors floating around about a possible Buick Regal wagon for 2018. I know we all love wagons here and want more of them, but I wouldn’t get too worked up just yet.
Read MoreLast month Florida attorney David J. Maloney, locally famous for an aggressive anti-DUI attitude, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. Now the state attorney’s office has decided to dismiss the case because they couldn’t find enough evidence that Maloney was actually impaired after all.
Read MoreIt sounds very straightforward when he describes it. There was no good road leading from his town to the nearby border; he was a retired builder; he sold everything he had to build the road himself, building it where his government would not.
Read MoreA blind Louisiana man is suing for for the ability to use McDonald’s drive-thru windows, reports the Austin American-Statesman. A lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court on behalf of Scott Magee alleges that McDonald’s vehicle-only drive-thru policy is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Read MoreYes, that is a half-nude woman with wings and a gigantic baby head performing at the opening ceremony today for Switzerland’s $12 billion, 35-mile Gotthard rail tunnel, the longest in the world.
Read MoreToday marks a big day for Switzerland, and for Europe as a whole: the 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel, the largest rail tunnel in the world, is finally complete after 17 years and over $12 billion.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Big Bimmer claims it to be near perfection. That’s pretty hard to achieve, and so let’s see if this silver bullet’s price lives up to that purple prose.
Read MoreCadillac claimed their Allante had the world’s longest production line, stretching 3,300 miles from Italy to Detroit. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caddy hasn’t done all that many miles since, but will you find its price worth going the extra mile?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Contour is an SVT, and that makes it a Special Vehicle indeed. The question is: will the price on this seemingly well-kept and customized Ford make it even more special?
Read MoreLet’s check off the bonafides of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota truck, shall we? It’s a 4X4, it rocks the turbo 22RE and a five speed stick. Lastly, its a rare and funky Custom Cab, making it one long truck. Let’s see if its price has you longing for it to be cheaper.
Read MoreTwenty six miles across the sea, Santa Catalina is a waiting for me… Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Catalina is patiently waiting for a new owner. Let’s see if its price is sinking its chances.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW is a turn-key classic convertible ready for summer fun. Will its price however, have you pining for winter?
Read MoreWhen it comes to VWs some people think diesel engines are a gas. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corrado is perhaps one of the least expected of oil-burner conversions, but will its price be low enough to convert you?
Read MoreThe new Fiat 124 Spider is really a Miata in disguise. If you like your cars out in the open then maybe this Nice Price or Crack Pipe original 124 project will be more your cup of tea. That is, if its price isn’t hiding anything.
Read MoreToyota’s given up on both the Celica and Supra these days. The used market means you can still have them, and in fact today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is both! Let’s see if its two-models-for-one-price makes it the ultimate single-car package-deal.
Read MoreMazda has given up on the Wankel and so has the seller or today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX-7 as it rocks SBC power. Let’s find out if this heart transplanted droptop’s price can get your heart beating.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corolla says the pictures in the ad are a year old, but that the car currently presents much the same. It’s not a car you see at all much any more so let’s find out if its price is what makes it a real looker.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 280Z says he’s moving out of town and can’t take the car with him, leading to his description in the ad of it being a fire sale. Let’s see if his price on this weird custom is a deal, or if he just wants to see the world burn.
Read MoreThe later model C3 Corvette hasn’t yet reached its stride when value comes into play. This Nice Price or Crack Pipe ’75 has a stick and some Centerlines going for it, but is that enough to make its price feel like it’s got it going on?
Read MoreThere have always been fancy trucks and working trucks, almost for as long as there have been trucks at all. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep is definitely a working truck, but will its price end up being something you might fancy?
Read MoreSurrounded on the lot by far more plebeian fare, today’s dealer-offered Nice Price or Crack Pipe Viper is nonetheless just another used car. Let’s see if this one’s oddly low price might make it a true impulse buy.
Read MoreHave you ever been told that you’re not living up to your potential? I know I have. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corolla has a ton of potential, but you’ll just have to decide if its price is worth living it up.
Read MoreA mule is the sterile offspring of a horse and donkey, and is a testament to making a marriage work. Likewise, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Probevette seems the child of many parents. Let’s see if its price means the seller is shooting blanks.
Read MoreYou know that whatever happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, right? Today’s Vegas-located Nice Price or Crack Pipe FJ might just let you take your experiences outside the city limits. That is, if its price and condition aren’t too much of a gamble.
Read More‘If you build it they will come’ is the most oft-quoted line from the movie Field of Dreams. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 540i had to be built, as the factory never offered the body/drivetrain combo it possesses. Will that, and its price, make you come running?
Read MorePresaging modern trends, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 2000 Audi A6 offered a smallish engine with big turbo dreams to power the executive class saloon. Let’s see if this rare six-speed edition’s price has also kept up with the times.
Read MoreThere are cat people and there are dog people, and then there’s the pan-animal that like ‘em both. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercury is a cool cat, but will its newly lowered price still make you think it’s a dog?
Read MoreIf you can’t afford a trip to the French Riviera then maybe the Mexican Riv will do. If even that is too dear then perhaps you’d just be content to ride around in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick Riviera.
Read MoreThe Porsche problem child once known as the four door, long-in-all-the-wrong-places Panamera has been revamped, restyled, and re-engineered for the 2017 model year, but you knew that already. What you might not know is how it will rightly smash your organs into dust when you hit the go pedal in anger, because holy hell, is it fast.
Read MoreThe other day, for the millionth time, I had to help someone get their car unstuck from a mud hole. That got me thinking: I wonder how many awesome stories Jalopnik readers have on this topic. Let’s hear your stories about the worst you’ve ever buried your cars.
Read MoreThis week, I discovered that everything I thought I knew about life, the universe, and high-performance driving might well be backwards.
Read MoreYou would think a 10,000 horsepower funny car drag racer would be fast. But only when you put it up against an 850 horsepower trophy truck offroader do you realize how unearthly fast it actually is my god in heaven.
Read MoreThis is the most impossibly perfect comparison of how different rally cars behave around a corner I have ever seen. And I do mean impossible.
Read MoreUnless you’re a podiatrist, or perhaps one of those people who revels in seeing gross stuff on the Internet, you might not want to look at this tweet by NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick. With that disclaimer, your own morbid curiosity is going to get the best of you and force you to look, right? Right. Here we go!
Read MoreSubaru’s factory-backed driver and madman Mark Higgins broke the Isle of Man record this year for four-wheeled vehicles not once but twice in one week. The lovely folks over at Subaru had me out to the Isle of Man to take a close look at the car. I can tell you they didn’t just build a car—they built a weapon.
Read MoreIn all my years at racetracks around the world, there’s one button I’ve never pressed. But this weekend, I pushed it, and I pushed it, and I kept pushing it until I could push it no more.
Read MoreVolkswagen is about to have a lot of its diesel cars sitting around after the massive buyback, and naturally, one wonders what to do with them. I have an answer, and it’s the same answer I have to most things: just take them racing.
Read MoreWhen Porsche announced its new racing 911 last month, they curiously didn’t take any photos of the side profile. Now that side profile photos have leaked from a test day at Monza, eyewitnesses told Sportscar365 that the car isn’t just rear-mid-engined, but also likely turbocharged.
Read MoreBlake Fuller’s Tesla Model S is being called “the fastest production electric vehicle” to ever race the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb after finishing the event with an impressive sub-12 minute time. I’m not sure if it’s really “production” at this point, but it’s undoubtedly quick.
Read MoreI don’t even want to try to parse out who was at fault for this wreck. That’s not really the point.
Read MoreI’m what you might call a “self-taught racer.” My first wheel-to-wheel racing experience was behind the wheel of a Mk III Jetta, made up to resemble a tiki hut. And while I’ve done hundreds of laps on some of America’s greatest racing circuits, it’s mostly been a trial by fire, and lately I noticed I wasn’t getting faster as much as I wanted. I felt like my skills had kind of hit a wall—until a weekend in Las Vegas spent at the EXR Racing School, followed by a real test of their crazy car at Lag
Read MoreDespite a massive crash that left him with fractures in both his collarbone and hand, Verizon IndyCar Series driver Josef Newgarden isn’t going to sit out—a mere two weeks after the wreck, Newgarden is back in the car at Road America. Not surprisingly, he said he “feel[s] the pain in the hands everywhere.”
Read MoreEarlier this month, Subaru driver Mark Higgins set a blazing average speed of 128.72 mph at one of the most treacherous race courses there is at the Isle of Man TT race. The record-shattering lap was fun enough to watch from outside of the car, but now there’s footage from inside—narrated by Higgins himself.
Read MoreThis weekend is the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and there’s no shortage of cool stuff going on. One stunt featured a driver turning donuts in a legends car, but he didn’t leave it at that—the guy hopped out, grabbed an audience member’s cellphone while the car kept spinning and got right back in the car, filming it all.
Read MoreThe shock! The horror! The surprise! Eh, this turning in both directions thing happens a couple times a year, when NASCAR visits the road courses of Watkins Glen and Sonoma Raceway. I’m here checking out the race, which rules, because road courses are always some of the most fun NASCAR races to watch.
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 MoreIf you don’t know 18-year-old Koyama Miki (????), you’re far from alone, but it’s definitely ignorance you should correct. She’s in the Japanese Formula Four Championships and, like a lot of young racers, she’s gunning for a slot in F1. She’s good enough that Honda just let her thrash an S660 in a brand new commercial.
Read MoreA defective connector on the air line between the turbocharger and the intercooler on the No. 5 Toyota TS050 was to blame for one of the most gut-wrenching losses in 24 Hours of Le Mans history, per a team statement. The technical defect caused a loss in turbocharger control.
Read MoreSwiss student motorsport club Academic Motorsports club Zurich (or AMZ for short) smashed the Guinness world record for acceleration in an electric car with a 1.513-second zero to 60 mph run today. Holy crapping crap, I’d say the future of motorsport is in pretty awesome hands.
Read MoreI just got back from the Lucas Oil School of Racing’s two-day basic course at Lime Rock Park. While I have transformed into a driving god (I think), I am exhausted, banged-up, and broken. These are the bruises incurred, and I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
Read MoreFour tires in 1.92 seconds is ludicrous even by Formula 1's madcap standards of speed.
Read MoreThe 2017 Acura NSX is finally in production. But not like this.
Read MoreJust because you schedule a regular-season Formula One race over the end of Le Mans doesn’t mean that F1 drivers aren’t going to ask about the result. Fortunately, Ferrari driver and four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel thought to ask what happened to the Toyota Le Mans team in the middle of F1’s post-race press conference for Baku.
Read MoreFerrari spoiled Ford’s ideal 1-2-3 finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Ford tried to get back at them, protesting the rival team in the last hour of the race. Ferrari counter-protested and now both teams have penalties. Nice try, guys.
Read MoreRace car driver Joe Ryan Osborne was arrested on Saturday night after a crash on track appears to have led to a violent reprisal in the pits.
Read MoreWith 384 laps lodged in the 24 Hours of Le Mans live timing screen just like the winning No. 2 Porsche 919, many were wondering where the No. 5 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050—the one that led much of the race only to encounter trouble in the final heartbreaking minutes—was on the podium. We can all blame Le Mans’ fittingly unforgiving rules for not allowing the No. 5 to at least claim second place.
Read MoreEveryone was prepared to welcome Toyota as only the second Japanese manufacturer ever to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans when the worst possible outcome happened: a mechanical failure forced the No. 5 to stop on its final lap. One team insider believes it may have had a turbo failure, per Daily Sportscar.
Read MoreWhile leaving a Rascal Flatts concert on Friday, three men reportedly assaulted NASCAR veteran Mike Wallace. Per FOX Sports, Wallace’s daughter took kicks to the ribs in attempts to shield him from being kicked while unconscious. Police arrested the men over the weekend, all released on bonds of around $1,000.
Read MoreEighteen months ago the automotive world was filled with skepticism over rumors that Ford would resurrect the legendary Ford GT, let alone take it racing. It’s now June 2016 and that car is not only very real, one of them just beat Ferrari to win its class in the the 24 Hours of Le Mans 50 years after the original GT40s did the same.
Read MoreWith three minutes and 21 seconds to go, the leading No. 5 Toyota TS050 that was on pace to take the win came to a halt in front of the pits, ceding the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans lead to the No. 2 Porsche 919. It’s an unbelievable end for a car that was so reliable for the other 23 hours and 50 minutes of the race.
Read MoreIn an incident Williams head of performance engineering Rob Smedley called “a shitty set of circumstances,” Valtteri Bottas’ Williams F1 car kicked up a drain cover at the new Baku track. The cover damaged Bottas’ car during the final practice session for the race and sent debris flying towards nearby marshals.
Read MoreThe No. 6 Toyota TS 050 has had some trouble while in third place overall that it had to briefly go into the garage to fix. Mechanics quickly made some repairs to the back of the car and got the TS 050 back out on the track.
Read MoreWith ten cars retired now out of sixty 24 Hours of Le Mans entrants, it’s time for our yearly reminder that Le Mans is an utterly merciless place on cars and drivers alike. Here’s how Le Mans is sending teams packing early in 2016.
Read MoreThose of us hoping for one of the privateer LMP1 cars to crash the overall podium party as they did at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps had all of our hopes and dreams crushed overnight at Le Mans. Meanwhile, LM GTE Pro remains a fierce battle between two Ford GTs and a Ferrari 488 GTE.
Read MoreAt least Fox Sports gave us more notice than usual that their schedule of maddening channel changes for the 24 Hours of Le Mans would be changing mid-race yet again, but yes: they’re changing it again. Does no one at Fox know how to plan for things, ever?
Read MoreThe first chunk of this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans was so wet that it had to start behind a safety car, however, the race afterward has been a relatively clean fight. It’s as if the drivers realize that they have to make the cars last for 18 more hours or something, but it’s just good fun to watch.
Read MoreIf you thought it took talent to stay up all hours of the day and night for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the guy who built one of the competing Ford GT cars out of Legos will probably make your accomplishment feel slightly less special.
Read MoreFox Sports, in an effort to anger as many viewers as possible, pushed the start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans to its unobtanium-tier Fox Sports 2 in place of its widely advertised air time on Fox Sports 1. Reminder: Fox Sports does this all the time, because they suck at actually broadcasting sports.
Read MoreThe Formula One race in Baku, Azerbaijan, is officially being billed as the “European Grand Prix.” Baku, Azerbaijan, is not in Europe.
Read MoreOne of the most-watched cars at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year encountered problems before the race even began. The No. 67 Ford GT—one of four Ford GTs at the race—didn’t get to take advantage of its fourth-place starting position in LM GTE Pro due to a gearbox pressure issue.
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 MoreFrédéric Sausset is a quadruple amputee, but that won’t stop him from racing in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Here’s how he’ll pull it off.
Read MoreAre you on the fence about camping out in front of the television for an entire day? Do you think you have better things to do than watching the greatest race in the world for 24 hours straight? Don’t be! The hot new cars for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans may resemble regular cars instead of low-flying spaceships, but there’s already no shortage of drama surrounding the latest GT cars. Here’s why you should watch all 24 hours.
Read MoreGran Turismo Sport, the latest in Sony’s epic racing sim series, is supposed to take multiplayer gaming to a new level with FIA-sanctioned online racing available to everyone. So how do you keep things civil and competitive?
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of Le Mans is a must watch, featuring some of the bravest and most talented drivers on the planet in some of racing’s most advanced machinery. But it lasts for an entire day, and we’re all crazy for even trying to watch it. Here’s how to curbstomp your drowsiness and keep going anyway.
Read MoreIf you’re unfamiliar with Ford’s history at Le Mans, you may be wondering why we care so much about a new Ford GT. We don’t soil ourselves over any other GTE-class racers, so why does this one matter? Sure, the top P1 class is nice, but GTE puts Ford directly up against their extremely bitter old rival: Ferrari.
Read MoreFor the first time in recent history, 24 Hours of Le Mans race organizers have forced several cars to adjust their weight and other specs just ahead of the big event to try and even the playing field. That means the blisteringly quick Ford GT and Ferrari 488 teams weren’t showing their true pace before qualifying began.
Read MorePractice during 24 Hours Of Le Mans got a bit wet Thursday night, sending the Audi R8 safety car into an out-of-control fishtail. Except by “out-of-control fishtail,” I really mean “perfectly controlled full-oppo drift.” It was epic.
Read MoreSay it with me now: U-S-A! U-S-A! In its first ever running at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the all-new Ford GT will start on pole and in second in the LM GTE Pro class.
Read MoreBernie Ecclestone, Formula One chief and trash person, just said that North America—the entire continent— was a “shit hole” compared to the grand ex-Soviet backwater of Baku, Azerbaijan, where torture is a fact of political life.
Read MoreIf there’s one name that’s all over open-wheel racing lately, it’s Alexander Rossi. Not only was he the first American to race in Formula One in years, but this year, he won America’s most famous race: the Indianapolis 500. So, of course, Rossi’s here with us live now to answer all your questions.
Read MoreThis story is one of the strangest and most debatable in Ferrari’s history. It’s not clear if Ferrari was once about to dump Formula One in favor of America’s greatest race, or if the company was so petty that they built an entire car for a bluff.
Read MoreFerraris are a mainstay at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but only in the GT classes now. You can’t blink at La Sarthe without accidentally nudging a 458 with an LMP1. (Sorry Jeff!) Let’s ride on one of Ferrari’s older Le Mans prototypes at Road America, then: the cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs flat-12 Ferrari 312 PB.
Read MoreFifty years after the Ford GT40's original 24 Hours of Le Mans win, there’s a Ford back at the top of its class. Ford GTs were the two fastest cars in the LM GTE Pro class for the first of three Le Mans qualifying sessions. Two LMP1-H Porsche 919s qualified the fastest overall.
Read MoreFormula 1 is a strange sport, strange enough that the number of engines in the cars themselves could be a matter of debate.
Read MoreThis week on Top Gear, Chris Harris called the V12 engine the heart and soul of Ferrari. Listen to this engine and you will not disagree.
Read MoreIf there’s anyone who knows his way around a fast Ferrari, it’s Jeff Segal. So, because it’s the week of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, we’ve got him with us live from Circuit de la Sarthe. What’s that like? Do the teams bring extra-strong espresso? Ask anything you want right now!
Read MoreThe unfiltered sound. The re-contextualized speed. The seagulls.
Read MoreFor the first time ever at Perris Auto Speedway, a race car flipped up and over its catch fence. Austin Williams’ sprint car slid sideways into a bump that sent him spinning over 22 feet in the air. Miraculously, the driver was okay and able to get out of the car under his own power.
Read MoreHyundai Motorsport was fined €50,000 (approximately $56,540) from the World Rally Championship for accidentally using the wrong rear side windows on their car. They didn’t just grab the wrong ones for one event, either. The wrong windows have been in use for all of 2016.
Read MoreFans got to watch 71 laps of IndyCar racing at Texas Motor Speedway today after a rain delay pushed the race from Saturday night to this afternoon, and then a torrential downpour ensured that this race wouldn’t be finishing this weekend. In fact, it will now be finishing on August 27 instead.
Read MoreAt today’s IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway, Conor Daly’s car got loose and snapped into Josef Newgarden’s car when he tried to correct it, catching Newgarden’s car and pushing it into the SAFER barrier, top-side-first. Newgarden’s roll hoop punched a hole in the SAFER barrier on impact.
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 MoreMy camera and I have been to the best races on the planet. We’ve had full accreditation for Formula One, MotoGP, the World Endurance Championship and many others. But there was one photo that had a prominent place on my bucket list—the “milk shot,” the photograph of the Indy 500 winner drenched in milk after taking the checkered flag.
Read MoreThere are bad judgement calls, and then there’s hiding in a hole so a race car will drive over your head.
Read MoreFew things are more dangerous in racing than your car dying on track in the middle of a turn. You’re probably going to get hit unless the car starts right back up. It’s just a matter of when and how hard. I took a hard hit in February and then spent three hellish months recovering from a concussion.
Read MoreRepresentatives from Sport for Rights held closed-door meetings with the FIA this week over Azerbaijan’s numerous human rights issues ahead of its new Formula One European Grand Prix, reports Motor Sport. Additionally, the group is encouraging celebrity guests to withdraw from the race.
Read MoreNASCAR Sprint Cup driver Brad Keselowski isn’t happy about his retired competitor’s on-air portrayal of yesterday’s pit stop snafu at Pocono, reports Racer. Keselowski lashed out at Fox Sports commentator and recently retired Sprint Cup racer Jeff Gordon for allegedly being biased.
Read MoreStadium Super Trucks driver Matt Mingay underwent surgery to insert a prosthetic chin earlier this week, per the latest report from the driver’s Facebook page. A crash at Detroit’s Belle Isle street circuit peeled open the top of his truck, leaving Mingay with severe facial injuries.
Read MoreBrad Keselowski’s car was held in the pits longer than his crew would have hoped at Pocono Raceway this afternoon thanks to a fender slam by one of his crew members that got caught by NASCAR officials. NASCAR told them to put the fender back, and the crew was just like, “What? No.”
Read MoreIs a Chevy Impala with a blown Hemi a good tractor? Not really, but one gave the job an unintentional shot over the weekend.
Read MoreWith ambient temperatures reported at 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the 48th Baja 500 off-road race has already been called the most brutal of all time by veteran competitors. It may also be the most lethal, claiming the lives of two motorcycle racers and one spectator in three unrelated incidents.
Read MoreAt the race track, it doesn’t take much to tell competitors apart in the crowds. Just look for the sponsor-laden—hopefully, in the driver’s case—fire suit, and you’ve found your person. But, back in the early days, competitors simply wore their street clothes—and they were at a much higher risk because of it.
Read MoreThe Verizon IndyCar Series is on the street circuit at Belle Isle for the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit this weekend, and the second race of the doubleheader starts up in about an hour. It’s always fun to get to see a race course from the viewpoint of the competitors, and this track makes for a rough ride—virtually, too.
Read MoreHere is your 60-car grid for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. The big test day before the 84th running of the race kicked off Sunday, giving teams a chance to shake down their cars on the full 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe before the race in two weeks.
Read MoreAustralian driver Matt Mingay went to the hospital in critical condition after a wreck in the Stadium Super Trucks race on Saturday, according to reports. His condition has since been upgraded to serious but stable, but Mingay reportedly suffered facial injuries during the rollover.
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 MoreContrary to what might sound logical, four-wheel drive is not ubiquitous in off-road racing. In fact most of the super hot race winners at an event like the Baja 1000 are rear-drive. But that might be starting to change, as builders are figuring out how to match 4WD systems with today’s epic long-travel suspension.
Read MoreAt the Indianapolis 500 last weekend, we asked a bunch of IndyCar drivers how they would make the sport more popular. “Produce the same kind of race as always,” driver Ed Carpenter suggested. “The product speaks for itself,” Marco Andretti said. This year’s Indy 500 produced the third-lowest television ratings in 30 years.
Read MoreDaniel Ricciardo was doing so well at the Monaco Grand Prix. He claimed Red Bull’s first pole position since 2013, and his first at Monaco. He managed to keep his lead for much of the Monaco Grand Prix itself, where the narrow street circuit makes passes extremely hard. Then he got hosed by his own pit crew.
Read MoreDrones will revolutionize everything, we’ve been told. But one of the best things that’s undergoing that revolution right now is the world of racing – and there’s no better place to see it that change coming than in the World Rally Championship. Because it looks drop-dead gorgeous.
Read MoreAfter years of waiting for a Porsche Panamera that’s not ugly, here we are. This is the new Panamera in all of its 4.0 liter glory.
Read MoreHave you seen the new Prius? Have you forgiven yourself yet? I haven’t. Can somebody explain to me why the redesigned Toyota Prius looks like a hairless cat while this Australian Corolla Hybrid looks like that perfectly respectable Business Cat meme?
Read MoreI get it. You need a car that can move the whole family, but you can’t stand the thought of a minivan and don’t want to be a crossover-buying sheep. If you have the cash, the all new 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class wagon might be the perfect 7-passenger car.
Read MoreAudi just showed the world its all-new 2017 A5 Coupé at its headquarters in Ingolstadt, though if you’ve seen the 2017 A4 upon which its based, you probably won’t be surprised by its specs.
Read MoreJust a couple of days ago, the first inflatable space station module was attached and successfully inflated on the International Space Station. It’s called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which sounds a little like the place where astronauts will play kickball, but it’s really a bold experiment about the future of space habitats. Surprisingly, it’s not the first inflatable module to go into space or even house a human.
Read MoreYou aren’t ready for all the massive performance upgrades to the base 2017 Subaru BRZ. So unless your last name is Röhrl, there is no way you will even be able to handle the BRZ Series.Yellow, because Subaru just sent Porsche packing with this special edition.
Read MoreThe biggest downside to electric car ownership for the average person is typically range anxiety. In a gasoline-powered car you can just stop at one of the thousands of thousands of gas stations worldwide—which is what makes a gas station the perfect location for Tesla’s growing Supercharger network.
Read MoreLast week, I spent a few days driving the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Its semi-autonomous capabilities led to some discomfort—not due to their functioning, but due to the fact that I was behind the wheel of a car driving itself. It felt odd and futuristic, but, as it turns out, this movement started way back in the 1920s.
Read MoreWe can ponder about the future of the steering wheel or talk about the timeline for autonomous cars actually being commercially viable, but one issue not being discussed is how we have all the technology we need to rescue ourselves from the road-trip bathroom emergency situation.
Read MoreGoogle’s self-driving koala car doesn’t have one. Recent concepts from Mercedes-Benz and Volvo have ones that retract when they aren’t needed. But for now, nothing is more intrinsically tied to the act of driving than the steering wheel. Does it have a long-term future?
Read MoreOwners of 2014-2016 Lexus vehicles and 2016 Toyota Land Cruisers were experiencing a nationwide blackout on their nav systems yesterday. Fortunately, dealers have a fix in the form of a hard reset. Errant traffic and weather data that the head units didn’t know how to process was the cause of the issue.
Read MoreAcross the nation, and also on Twitter, Lexus owners say the navigation systems in their luxury cars suddenly stopped working today for some as-of-yet unknown reason.
Read MoreA professor Audi dubbed an “innovation expert” may not have the highest opinion of America’s big players in autonomous car tech, but he’s right about one thing: the Google car just ain’t a looker. And now, through the miracle of German humor, it has a nickname it won’t be losing anytime soon.
Read MoreMitsubishi may have needed to cut some corners recently, but one odd decision the nice folks of the diamond-star made has left a huge security hole. The 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV plug-in hybrid’s mobile app talks to the car over regular WiFi, and security researchers found that to be a big problem.
Read MoreGoogle just released a monthly update on its self-driving car program discussing how its cars will communicate with human drivers in other cars to make sure they don’t kill themselves. The strategy: teach the autonomous cars how to honk at us flesh-bound mortals.
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 More1st Gear: They’re Reportedly Just Thinking About It For Now
Read More1st Gear: That’s Not A Lot, In The Grand Scheme Of Things
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 More1st Gear: Well That’s Not Good
Read More1st Gear: But It Still Won’t Be A Tesla Model 3 Competitor
Read More1st Gear: Well That’s A Bit Of A Contradiction
Read MoreSome days, man. Forgot the milk. Garage door opener doesn’t work. When is it all going to turn around?
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what would happen if you bought the biggest tires at the shop? Well first you’d have to make them fit on your truck, then you could have a lot of fun. Dirt Every Day’s Fred Williams and Dave Chappelle (no, not that guy, another one) show us how to do both both.
Read MoreFace it, the hipsters won. All things quaint and ironically archaic are now universally cool and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. Case in point: this tin Toyota is the sexiest thing you’ve ever seen.
Read MoreWeeks ago we heard reports that Fiat Chrysler might make the next-gen Jeep Wrangler with an automatic transmission only. As of today that looks less likely– spies have posted pictures of a 2018 Wrangler development mule with what is definitely a stick shift.
Read MoreOn a little stretch of road in Sweden, cables have been strung up about 18 feet over the asphalt to feed trucks with electricity. While connected, the trucks will run off the grid instead of their own engines.
Read MoreThree people were busted in New York’s Holland Tunnel today after cops somehow couldn’t help but notice their pickup truck, decorated in a ludicrously charming “hillbilly teens playing Army” motif, was allegedly packed with loaded guns, combat equipment, body armor and drugs. Why? Rescue mission, obviously!
Read MoreThe “Battle Of The Bastards” on Sunday night’s Game Of Thrones was one of the grandest sword-swinging, blood-spilling throwdowns ever seen on television. Here’s how filmmakers turned 100 people into 1,000, “crashed” horses together without hurting them, how a sweet Land Rover camera rig captured the action.
Read MoreYou may know that the El Camino style car-with-truck-bed (“ute”) is the unofficial national vehicle of Australia. It’s common to see Ford and GM variants dialed in for huge performance. It’s not common to see a Suzuki Mighty Boy at all, let alone one this... angry.
Read MoreThe Ram Rebel is only a minor tweak on Chrysler’s popular four-door, short-bed, half-ton pickup truck platform, but it sure is a whole lot cooler. At least Chrysler hopes you think so. And in a few decades, you probably will.
Read MoreYou’ve got your classic Toyota truck. You’ve got your swamp tires the size of weather balloons. Almost nothing can stop you. Almost.
Read MoreJeep’s Grand Wagoneer from the 1980s and early ‘90s got the nickname “woody” for its vinyl faux-wood side panels, but this awesome Willys CJ-5 is the real woody. The whole body and interior are made of real, actual wood!
Read MoreIn the pickup truck world, one thing is certain: there’s the Ford F-150, standing head and shoulders above the rest in sales, marketing, and good old American heritage, and then there’s every other truck on the market. That’s the rule. Now let me introduce you to the diesel-chugging, earth-moving, miniature American flag-waving exception: the new Nissan Titan XD.
Read MoreThe 2016 Nissan Titan XD’s Cummins diesel engine weighs about 900 pounds. That makes this one hell of a trustfall for the ICON’s new suspension system here. We’re waiting to hear how it looked after landing, but I’m just stoked somebody had the balls to get hangtime in this monster!
Read MoreAbout a month ago the Nikola Motor Company popped up out of nowhere claiming it will build an electric-natural gas turbine hybrid big rig that’s claimed to be faster and more efficient than any other truck. Now they say more than 7,000 people have plunked down deposits and given the company a tremendous amount of cash. What’s going on here?
Read MoreGeneral Motors will start delegating construction of Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans to heavy truck outfit Navistar in 2017. GM says they want more room in their own factories to increase production on Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks.
Read MoreJaguar and Land Rover have been one company for years, but the division of design has always been pretty simple: Jaguar does luxury cars, Land Rover does luxury SUVs. The line started to blur with the intro of the F-Pace, and it looks like that trend is going to continue.
Read MoreIt looks like 2016 will be the last year of the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport; a compact SUV with an aggressive look, nice paddle shifters and wheezy little engine. I’m driving one all week and I actually like it more than I thought I might. Give me some questions so I know what to look for!
Read MoreOf course it will baby. It’s a GMC Yukon. It’s designed to move children and all their things around with minimal effort and slightly-less-than maximum consumption. Yet, what makes the car good for suburban parents of older children actually makes it less effective than you’d think for carrying a newborn around the big city.
Read MoreThe Mercedes G500 4x4², a rolling caricature of a car built as a monument to what’s possible when engineers develop a sense of humor, will soon be for sale in the United States. Finally, a few wealthy Americans will able to express their extroversion more acutely than they ever thought possible.
Read MoreFor about a year now, General Motors has been boasting the advantages of its steel-bodied Chevrolet Silverado over the aluminum-bodied Ford F-150 in TV ads. Now a new set of “aluminum versus steel” ads is here, purporting to show the F-150's bed cracking under pressure. GM swears the ads aren’t an attack on aluminum itself, but that’s bullshit—again.
Read MoreBetween this third generation Ford Mustang on an International Scout frame and the Geo Metro skin on Jeep Wrangler bones we saw earlier, I think it’s safe to say America has gone mad. But in a strangely brilliant way.
Read MoreChinese automakers taking heavy “inspiration” from other companies’ designs is nothing new, but we almost never hear about those automotive plagiarists facing repercussions. Jaguar Land Rover might have had about enough of that nonsense now.
Read MoreAre you ready to accept a turbo V6 as the lord and savior of your sandbox, or will you miss the old Ford Raptor’s big honking V8?
Read MoreHeavy-duty 2017 Chevrolet Silverado diesel trucks are getting a new air intake system, fed largely by this big badass hole in the hood. Too bad nobody will tell us if it actually adds any power.
Read MoreThe Mercedes G-Class is The Simpsons of cars– built on great bones, but surviving so long it’s evolved into a caricature of itself. Well wallow no more hardcore G-fans: the 2017 G350d Professional is wiping the slate clean (and muddy) and starting over. The G just got great again.
Read MoreIf you really need one truck to go prerunning, overlanding, mud bogging and rock crawling... you’re going to have to get creative. Or crazy.
Read MoreEngineers designed the JK Jeep Wrangler to ford water up to a depth 2.5 feet. Yesterday, in New Braunfels, Texas, one Wrangler looks to have exceeded that rating big time after being swept away by a raging torrent. It was all caught on video, so if you’re a Jeep lover, prepare to weep.
Read MoreStudies reveal that millions of Americans every month waste time at work on Jalopnik. So where do Jalopnik writers waste their time at work? Bring A Trailer, of course. And when I took a break to ogle this gorgeous 2002 BMW M5, ex-Jalop supremo Matt Hardigree showed me how I can do one better: a Euro-spec 1993 BMW M5 with a V12 engine.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I decided to give back to my readers by announcing that I’d be giving away a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta VR6 to the starry-eyed dreamer that gave me their best and most insane project ideas for the car. It was tough, but I’ve finally managed to narrow it down to 10 finalists. Your butts—hold on to ‘em.
Read MoreMany of us spend hours, months and even years working on our cars to get them looking and working the way we want them to. But sometimes, the cars say no more.
Read MoreWisdom is a product of age and experience. When you get older, you tend to be better at judging something on its merits, rather than your emotional attachment to it. That’s why a while back, after losing money on cars that I initially intended to sell, I vowed never to invest my time, money, and sanity into a vehicle that wouldn’t give me an adequate return on my investment. As you might’ve deduced by now, I am horrible at following my own advice.
Read MoreEveryone knows that the best things in life are usually in your rose-tinted memories. Your first kiss, that time you found $100 on the ground, and the first time you did a standing burnout in a Wal-Mart parking lot will never be beat in terms of sheer awesome, but they may be forgotten over time.
Read MoreWe may have found the ultimate Saab Slaab right here. This Brooklyn seller is letting go of his or her 1991 Saab 9000 Turbo. The price is fair, just $1800 for a nicely styled, nicely trimmed, nicely driving car. It has high miles (200,000+ on the odo), but it’s a manual with a lovely interior and what sounds like a well-maintained drivetrain. The only scary points are some rust on a shock mount, a busted muffler, and the aforementioned mileage.
Read MoreEarlier this year, I used junkyard parts to build up a rusty $600 Jeep Cherokee, which I then took off-roading at the Easter Jeep Safari. That Jeep kicked butt, outclassing much newer rigs, but now I’ve got a new off-road project, and it’s even rustier than the last. Much rustier. And older. In fact, I think I may have gone overboard with this one.
Read MoreIt’s good to know where your standards lie. Otherwise, we wouldn’t know the difference between Mega Blocks and LEGOs. That’s why I asked you all to provide me with cars that you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole, much less your bank account. This might hurt.
Read MoreThere are few better ways to learn about how certain car parts work than to actually watch them function, but some parts are hard to see. So here’s a video showing the innards of one bank of cylinders as the other does all the heavy lifting.
Read MoreIn my article “How To Work On Cars And Not Kill Yourself,” I discussed the importance of using jack-stands when working on a lifted vehicle, because jacks alone can fail. And now, thanks to Hydraulic Power, we can see how such a failure might look in slow motion.
Read MoreI glanced down at my phone to double check the directions Google was giving me and I looked up, at highway speed, and the road in front of me disappeared. I didn’t even have time to shit myself.
Read MoreLots of “quick oil change” joints like Jiffy Lube have pits in their floors so they can work on your car without lifting it. That’s all well and good until they actually do need to use the lift, and somebody royally screws it up.
Read MoreAlright, I’ve just got to get this off my chest. My blood is boiling, and my brain is fuming with rage. This 1995 Honda Accord, which I’ve owned for only seven months, is destroying my life.
Read MoreI’m giving away a car to the person that sends me the most interesting project proposal. Will that person be you? Not if you don’t contact me by 5 PM EST tonight. Tick tock, you moochers.
Read MoreThe Ford flathead V8 is perhaps the most iconic V8 engine ever built. Its launch marked the beginning of affordable V8s in America, and ultimately helped spawn hot rod culture. Here’s a gorgeous time lapse showing the magnificent contraption getting a full rebuild.
Read MoreOver the last six or seven years, I’ve been wrenching on cars almost non-stop. But since I don’t have any formal training, I’ve hurt myself quite a few times. I’ve cut myself on rusty sheetmetal, squirted battery acid in my eye, and set lots of stuff aflame. All of these mistakes are common—but they can be avoided.
Read MoreThanks to the miracle of the internet, traditional, old-school car enthusiasts can now put all of their rusty gold online for the world to ogle and bid up to ridiculous prices, leaving virtually no more rare barn finds for the people who prefer to shake hands instead of texting. As it turns out, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Read MoreThings are weird in the land of two-seater convertibles these days! We’ve Mazdas running around dressed up as Fiats, Japanese cars with turbocharged Italian engines, black is white, up is down, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! It makes me long for a simpler time.
Read MoreThis is a Geo Metro body on a Jeep Wrangler TJ frame—a Jeep-nut’s worst nightmare. I get it, the cars have the same wheelbase, but just because it can be done, definitely doesn’t mean it should.
Read MoreSometimes you have to know what you don’t want in life in order to know what you actually do want. That’s why, this week, I challenge you to find me the cars on eBay that you wouldn’t buy for any price. Welcome to hell.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever dreamed of a project car, but for whatever reason haven’t had the resources to get one off the ground, this may be your lucky day. Because I’ve apparently lost my mind, I’m about to give away a Volkswagen Jetta with a VR6 engine that you can modify in any insane way you want.
Read MoreJames May is a weird dude, but he’s also a brilliant entertainer. Just watch this video of him assembling an old lawnmower. He somehow manages to make a boring situation—an old man quietly putting together a mundane gardening tool—entertaining.
Read MoreThings were much simpler when you were a little younger, a lot more naïve, and you thought the only criteria for buying a car was how cool it looked. That’s why last week I asked my readers to find their childhood hero cars for less than a $15,000 budget on eBay, and my inner child is grinning ear to ear.
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