The 2017 Audi A4 is thoroughly updated from the previous-generation A4, even if it doesn’t look like much has changed. There is, however, one bright and shining ray of hope for all involved: this fall its all-wheel drive Quattro version will go on sale with a manual gearbox. You should buy it that way.
Read MoreIf you want a weird German sedan with worse rear headroom and trunk space, you’ve got plenty of options from BMW and Mercedes. But if you wanted an Audi, you were limited to the big, expensive A7 family. Audi is now fixing that, with the A5 and S5 Sportback.
Read MoreFear of screwing up in front of a very large group of people is a fear that rules most. It must skyrocket during large public displays, like at the Wonsan Air Festival in North Korea earlier this month. Especially if you land your MiG-21 clumsily in front of a group of spectators. And you live in North Korea.
Read MoreIn July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. Today, in their preliminary findings, officials have confirmed that the plane was hit by a missile fired from a village under the control of pro-Russian rebels.
Read MoreBack in the early years of the Cold War, America started construction of a secret underground base in Greenland to house nuclear missiles within range of Moscow, kind of like our cold Cuba. In the 1960s we figured out that it wouldn’t work, so we peaced out without telling anyone or removing any of our nuclear waste, now chillin’ under a hundred feet of ice. Ice that, we now know, will soon melt thanks to climate change.
Read MoreThe United States Air Force is spending over a billion dollars on aircraft maintenance because of corrosion issues caused by tiny organic microbes, Popular Mechanics reports. Here’s how material scientists plan to fight these little pests.
Read MoreA U-2 spy plane has crashed in Northern California in Sutter County, neighboring Beale Air Force Base where the plane launched. Both pilots have ejected, but details beyond that are scarce. (Update: it has been reported that one pilot has died. More information below.)
Read MoreThe bat-winged B-21 will be the U.S. Air Force’s first new heavy bomber in decades. The plane is supposed to complement and eventually replace the B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress and B-1B Lancer. And now it’s got a real name too: “Raider.”
Read MoreAn explosion occurred in Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring 29 people and reportedly causing extensive property damage in the area. While the incident is still under investigation, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it does “not appear to be linked to international terrorism.”
Read MoreThe F-15 Eagle’s main cannon isn’t quite as colossal as the one on the A-10 Thunderbolt, but like the Wu-Tang Clan, it ain’t nothing to fuck with. The 20mm rounds can be kicked out at the ridiculous rate of 6,000 per minute, and it takes a mechanical monster to load.
Read MoreAerial drones are a big deal now, especially the idea of drones potentially getting out of control and causing all sorts of shenanigans, some possibly dangerous. While aerial drone issues feel like a very modern problem, the truth is that airbone drones have been causing mischief since at least 1956. It would be pretty hard to beat the drone cluster-fudge of 1956 known as the Battle of Palmdale.
Read MoreG-LOC, or G-Induced Loss Of Consciousness, can occur when a pilot pulls such a tight turn that the blood drains from their head, making them pass out. In this recent de-classified footage, that’s exactly what happened to one pilot. Headed straight towards the ground at full afterburner, death seemed inevitable – until a new autopilot system pulled him out.
Read MoreOne of the most famous scenes from 1986's fighter pilot and volleyball blockbuster Top Gun is the part where Maverick and Goose get a close-up photograph of a rival MiG—while inverted. It’s an amazing scene from the pre-CGI era of Hollywood and a standout part of the movie. So what would it take do it yourself?
Read MoreI get it. You’ve scuba dived at the Great Barrier Reef. You’ve climbed Mount Everest...twice. You’ve gotten a table at Dorsia on a Friday night without making a reservation, something Patrick Bateman couldn’t even pull off. And now you’ve turned your attention to fighter jets because everything in life is too boring. And too cheap.
Read MoreOn Sept. 11, 2001, an employee working the ticket counter at Dulles International Airport checked two passengers onto their flight. He didn’t know those two men would soon hijack the flight and crash it into the Pentagon, and he certainly didn’t know how much guilt he would carry for years to come.
Read MoreThe Navy’s new immense stealth destroyer U.S.S. Zumwalt successfully navigated around the retired executives and Jimmy Buffett fans to dock in Newport, Rhode Island on Thursday. One of readers got some lovely images of the mighty machine coming in to port.
Read MoreThe MiG-25 Foxbat was an incredible rat rod of a plane—heavy, big and extraordinarily powerful—and it indirectly led to the development of Western planes like the F-15 Eagle. In the 1970s, the United States Air Force didn’t know much about it, until a Soviet pilot named Viktor Belenko decided to defect and landed one in Hakodate, Japan, 40 years ago today.
Read MoreHeated arguments began before President Barack Obama even landed in China for the G20 summit on Saturday, and things just got worse when he did. Two Chinese officials nearly got into a fistfight with each other—yes, each other—and then others royally screwed up his usual exit from Air Force One.
Read MoreThe U.S. Marine Corps is taking a few notes out of Dr. Evil’s playbook and now wants to mount lasers on everything in its inventory—just as soon as they can figure out how.
Read MoreThere were only 40 chassis produced for the BMW M1 Procar Championship racing series between 1979 and 1980, and you’re looking at No. 31. It was a backup race car that didn’t make it to the track, instead living its life as a road car. Now, it’s been restored to its Procar glory—while staying street legal.
Read MoreCadillac gave me an ATS-V for a few days, and I drove the crap out of it. But I also studied it, and was left awe-struck by the cooling system. There are six heat exchangers mounted to the front of the car— three in the center, two outboard, and one even lies flat, flush with the bottom of the car. Here’s how it all works.
Read MoreOnly nine 1997 McLaren F1 GTR LT “Longtails” ever existed, and this one still works for a living. Coming off the track to a different kind of competition on the Concours car show lawn involved the most intense detail job I’ve ever heard of. Watch close, you’ll learn a lot!
Read MoreI just put more than 1,000 miles on a Cadillac ATS-V, driving in a spirited fashion (read: ripping burnouts) around Michigan’s upper peninsula, and maybe off-roading in the forest a little bit. I made the V work hard, but it just laughed at me and begged for more. And I finally answered a burning question we’ve had for months: can it go camping?
Read MoreCadillac gave me a Cadillac ATS-V for a week, and since Jalopnik has reviewed the crap out of the car already, I had to do something different. So I put the bright red sports sedan on a dyno to see how much power it really makes, and boy did it put up some big numbers. Very big numbers.
Read MoreVolvo’s Cross Country models have always been one of the standard-bearers of the hopped-up wagon of suburban yore. Although the SUV-crossover-thing has largely overtaken the style, Volvo’s still plugging away. This is the latest iteration, the Volvo V90 Cross Country.
Read MoreThe 2017 BMW M2 is one of the most important cars to come from BMW in, I don’t know, forever. It’s meant to be smaller, more inexpensive and more importantly, more fun than any other BMW you can buy today with an M badge. That’s why, after five minutes into driving it, I wondered why I was so disappointed. But it turns out I was thinking the wrong way.
Read MoreThe Smart ForTwo Cabriolet is, not shockingly, a Smart ForTwo with a retractable cloth top. It’s intended for hip urbanites who also want to put the top down on nice days and let the city filter in. While that’s a nice idea, sometimes cities smell like hot garbage. And also, the Smart ForTwo Cabrio is only good at about two things total: parking and turning.
Read MoreBecause the 2017 BMW M2 is one of the most sought-after performance cars of this year, we had to put it on track in the capable hands of professional race car driver, Parker Kligerman. After a few warmup laps, Parker yelled to me from the driver’s seat that he was “going to do the next lap one-handed.” My palms began to sweat as I pressed record.
Read MoreForza Horizon 3 gives you the freedom to roam like you were never allowed to roam in previous Forza Motorsport games. It’s exhilarating at first, to be allowed to go anywhere, do virtually anything. In races, you’re allowed to do insane things like launch cars off cliffs and dodge trains. That’s the best part—that racing madness—because after a while, driving from location to location gets tedious.
Read MoreI have a soft spot for the Audi TT RS. And by “soft spot,” I mean I’ve had some of the best race results of my career in the last-generation motorsports version of the car, including nailing the front-wheel drive Pikes Peak record earlier this year. But the racing version of the TT RS had about as much to do with the street car as Kanye West has to do with common sense, and as much as I liked the race car, the last road-going version of the TT RS left me cold, even with its Kanye-crazy 360 horse
Read MoreHere’s a perplexing recipe: take what may be the best all-around pure sports car of the modern era. Add seemingly arbitrary touches, like a thicker steering wheel and new door handles. Give it a turbo engine, but don’t give it that much extra power. Make the suspension a whole lot softer. And make it Italian, but never convincingly so. What you get is the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider.
Read More“We are focused on making things right.” So says Dr. Hendrik Muth, Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategy for Volkswagen of America. As he stands poised to subject the 2017 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack to a room of auto writers—many of whom have spent the last year crucifying VW for lying to, well, everybody—it’s clear that this statement has more than just one purpose.
Read MoreWant a rear wheel drive two-seater Japanese mid-engine sports car? Of course you do. The good part is that criteria singles out the plucky little Toyota MR2. There’s just a few details to go over before you go scouting the high school parking lot for “For Sale” signs.
Read MoreUsed car salespeople get such a bad rap. Sure, they’re sometimes tough and coarse on the outside, refusing to balk from their ridiculous asking prices. But what if their bullshit clichéd lines about “practically losing money on this car” and “I’ve got to feed my kids” were actually true?
Read MoreHoly crap, a 2012 Ferrari FF for only $7500! That’s a steal. It’s got the 7-speed ‘box, and, of course, the FF is a V12. That’s like $625 per cylinder! This is a bargain! Hm. Tires look a little low, though. Let’s get a better look.
Read MoreIf you’re in the market for a Porsche 911 right now, you can only buy one that’s turbocharged, excluding the naturally-aspirated units in the unobtanium GT3 variants. So, what does a new turbo Porsche 911 sound like? I strapped a microphone to the back of a 2017 911 Carrera S while driving through twisty California backroads to find out.
Read MoreJust because something’s not morally sound doesn’t mean that you can’t objectively enjoy it. Just ask Hannibal Lecter. Sure, he was a psychopath with a penchant for the finer things in life; things like illegally poached Beluga Caviar, authentic Paté du Foie Gras and well conditioned human livers. But at least he knew why he was going to hell, and he had fun along the way. And that’s what the all-new 2017 Porsche Panamera is all about.
Read MoreTwo months ago, an angelic deity (or a thirsty headline) prophesied that a new savior—a cheap, fun sedan that some might call the “Audi-Slayer”—would beam down from the Ford heavens, gracing us with tons of power and all-wheel drive. I just drove this chosen one, the 2017 Ford Fusion Sport, and it wasn’t the spiritual experience I expected.
Read MoreScrew you, Oregon Trail, for not coding Dr. Erik Brandenburg’s long-lost American relatives into the game. Let the good doctor show us all how to ford a river in something much less expected than a wagon: a Porsche 911.
Read MoreIt pleases me to no end that I’ve achieved a point in my life where people will notice something weird about an old Volkswagen and decide to ask me about it. That’s probably why I’ve been contacted a surprising number of times to answer just what the hell is going on with all those louvers in Willie Nelson’s Beetle’s hood. I’m here for you. Let’s solve this.
Read MoreI see your Aston Martin Boat and I raise you with my Mercedes-Benz YACHT.
Read MoreFerrari turns 70 next year, and to celebrate, the company will offer 350 special edition cars— five different vehicles painted in 70 liveries dedicated to the most famous Ferrari drivers in history. Here are a couple of those liveries.
Read MoreThe best thing about this car is not that it looks like a 1990s fever dream memory of a 1970s Lancia Stratos. No, it’s that it’s powered by two inline-five cylinder engines joined at a common transmission. This is the 1997 Sbarro Ionos, and I love it and its absurd weirdness.
Read MoreThe sound suggested I’d run over a wheelchair. When it had first begun, the shriek had been too sudden to appreciate any nuance, but now that I’d been living with it for a few miles, I could pick out that specific timbre — a poignant combination of metallic shirring, rubber flapping, and vehicular criminality.
Read MoreCar photography is great and fun because cars can both be moving and sitting still at the same time. Both instances yield great results, and cars won’t complain about you taking too long to set up a shot or fidget or twitch or any crap like that.
Read MoreWe all know air-cooled 911s command obscene prices these days. But we also know that they happen to be fantastic to own and drive, if you’re hard enough to handle what comes up. So what’s the most expensive old 911 you can find right now?
Read MoreI was not particularly enamored with the 1990s while I was growing up in it.
Read MoreAt this point, it’s probably safe to say that labeling cars as being specifically for women is stupid.
Read MoreDon’t lie to me, you want an air cooled 911. Even if you say you don’t, you do. The only reason you would say that you don’t is that you’re bitter about not being able to afford it, or are tired of hearing about how fantastic they are. I know this because I have one. But I got in before the boom, and now I’m stuck with a car I can never sell, as I’ll never be able to afford to get another. I’m just a regular guy with no money who stumbled into a 911. Here’s what it’s really like to own one.
Read MoreOn Friday, I asked you what your worst automotive decisions were. Since I work with David Tracy, I’ve heard and seen some shit. And so I wanted to know what ill luck had befallen the rest of you.
Read MoreThis photo took some major dedication to snap, and it sure was worth it—for both the photographer and the rest of us who get to enjoy it. Just look at that orange backdrop as the sun rises.
Read MoreThere was once a magical time in American culture when, for some reason, almost every television show worth a damn had to have its own signature custom car. There are obvious ones, like the Batmobile, but there were also the Monkeemobile, the Munster Koach, and I bet Bob Newhart had a Button-Downmobile, too. One of the most outrageous of these cars, the Pink Panthermobile, has just been restored, and it’s astounding.
Read MoreRemember the epic rescue of a Toyota 4Runner dangling off the side of an Ausin parking garage? Driver William O’Connor recounted his experience of hanging by mere cables and having to jump out of the precariously-hanging vehicle to the Austin American-Statesman, and absolutely none of it sounds like fun.
Read MoreRemember that time Terry Gross from NPR’s Fresh Air got banned from drag racing?
Read MoreYou may quite enjoy a number of different channels of YouTube programming. No need. All that you must watch is this little show of two dudes messing with a very realistic (surrealistic?), somewhat glitchy graphics engine. Welcome to Car Boys.
Read MoreAs with everything else in life, the narratives of our automotive relationships have ups and downs. We hope that all of our choices will work out well for us, but since we’re not gifted with foresight, we usually don’t know if something will turn out poorly until it’s too late.
Read MoreForty years ago, Evel Knievel strapped himself into a rocket and tried to fly over Idaho’s immense Snake River Canyon. He didn’t make it. But the stunt launched his lunacy into legend and inspired a generation of adrenaline junkies like Eddie Braun—the man who, this past weekend, completed the epic stunt Knievel couldn’t in a tribute to his hero.
Read MoreJohn Bothwell builds brand-new Bugattis to 1927 specifications, right down to the leather engine parts, so you know he’s got style. He also drove one across the U.S., the long way, so you know he’s insane. But after watching his brainchild Bug’ roll around SoCal I’m starting to think he’s on to something.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of things that can shape the design of a car, and very often those things have nothing to do with the needs of the consumer or the best technical solution or the human perception of beauty. Sometimes, a car is shaped entirely by a legal loophole. That’s the case with this car, the Renault 4S Mini.
Read MoreTruly life is an endless stream of garbage rolling through your living room, like a cement mixer pouring onto your feet and you can’t move because this is a dream. Also a dream: the Oldsmobile Toronado, and a brighter future.
Read MoreIf you love cars, the chances are good that you’ve seen the BMW Films “The Hire” series from the early 2000s. They were BMW advertisements, sure, but they were so good that you didn’t have to be in the market for a BMW to get them. You didn’t even have to like BMWs! And now it seems like they’re coming back with an episode called, “The Escape,” according to this sneak peek.
Read MoreThe weird stuff people do in their cars is well cataloged on Jalopnik, but now we want to know what’s the oddest thing you’ve ever used your car for.
Read MoreSaleen claimed to unveil a 1000-horsepower S7 today, and while that’s all fine and dandy, we guess, we were more intrigued by the sheer hilarity of the image they sent out to go with it. It was enormous, it was stitched together, it was bad. But after hearing from a commenter claiming to be a “former employee,” it all makes sense now.
Read MoreIt was August 1980, in Jesolo, Italy. Ayrton Senna, aged 20, lay in a deck chair by the hotel pool—steely-eyed, angry. He had been beaten the day before in one of the world’s most prestigious karting events, a race he had dominated until the final lap.
Read MoreThis week marked the 40th anniversary of the Skoda Type 762 series of cars: The Skoda 105, 120, 130, 135, Rapid and so on. Though pretty much unknown in America, these were very popular in Eastern Europe, especially what’s now the Czech Republic. They’re among the last of the general-use rear-engined cars developed, so they have a special place in my rear-engined heart.
Read MoreMy brother is the unfortunate owner of a Dodge Caliber, a rolling symbol of American industrial decline. And it’s not just any Caliber, it’s a high-mileage, poorly-maintained former rental car. Plus, it’s from the first model year of Calibers. Unsurprisingly, I was scared shitless at the prospect of road tripping the thing.
Read MoreThere are many times I find myself behind the wheel of my ‘73 Volkswagen, no GPS, no radio, no air conditioning, not even a fan, and earplugs in because the car is so loud at this point, and I look at other drivers in their Honda Accords and wonder what it would be like to comfortable. But I also wonder if there’s someone on the road even more miserable than I am.
Read MoreYesterday, after geeking out about some modified Peruvian Beetles, a reader sent me a picture of a car that I can’t believe I wasn’t aware of. It’s a humble vehicle, a workhorse, but it’s so goddamn clever in design it makes me want to squeeze something. Hard. It’s a Fiat Panda Van.
Read MoreLet’s say there’s a supercar. It fits all the iconic supercar ideals: dramatic styling, huge mid-mounted engine, fast as hell, dramatic, all that. There’s one big difference, though: you drive it in a position with your feet above your hands. Would you drive it?
Read MoreGood people of the Jalopnik community, we need your help. Tom, a reader, is expecting a baby boy with his wife at the end of the year. Yay! Problem is, they are having trouble deciding on a name. Being a person who enjoys the cars, Tom thinks that an automotive-based name would be neat.
Read MoreIf there’s anything that can put you in a better mood going into the ever-dreaded Monday, it’s the chance to set this photo as your desktop wallpaper. Honestly, aren’t you Jalopnik readers just so talented?
Read MoreI don’t want to alarm anybody, but the Jalopnik house is divided, on the verge of tearing itself apart. I’m worried, hurt, and confused. Within our own ranks, I find a frightening division. We’re on the verge of finding Slack plug-ins that let us punch faces over the internet. The root of this evil? What do you call the bit of glass at the rear of your car?
Read MoreSome say the BMW M3 of the 1990s was a bit of a crap can, impure and unworthy of the “///M” badge. I happen to think it’s a handsome looking car but any way you slice it, there’s no denying the European spec version was superior. This video breaks down how.
Read MoreSee that car there? It was funded by British money, but was built in Liège, Belgium, starting about 1921. Other sources say it was built between 1914-1920. Whatever. Point is, it shares a name with a famous Star Wars-universe animal. Who wants to guess what it is?
Read MoreI’ll be the first to admit that I’m most nervous about Jason Drives episodes that don’t put me in some tiny, miserable piece of crap that’s likely to kill me. This is one of those episodes. This car, the Runge Frankfurt Flyer 004, while tiny, is about as far from being miserable as you could imagine. It’s rolling art, and a blast to drive. Even in refrigerator-interior temperatures.
Read MoreThis Uber is going to listen to Christopher Cross and it’s going to like it.
Read MoreEarlier this week, Industrial Light and Magic released a little VFX trailer revealing how every single frame of Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes an insane amount of work. In doing so, they revealed some of the hidden methods behind the magic, including the chassis that Rey’s speeder actually drove on. Now I want to know what that is.
Read MoreMy brother is obsessed with cars, but he’s stuck in one of the least car-friendly cities in the world: Hong Kong. So, to satiate his primal automotive needs, Mike just takes pictures of the coolest cars he sees, and as it turns out, there are lots of cool cars in Hong Kong. Many of them are abandoned.
Read MoreGerman is a language with a lot of dialects, with different spellings and accents and incomprehensibilities. Germany is a young country, and its language has strong regional distinctions. Also Texas.
Read MoreThe whole point of the evergreen Porsche 911 is that it provides the performance of a rarified exotic car, only at a lower price with more usability and reliability, too. But now here’s an air-cooled 993 GT2 selling for $2.4 million, and what’s even the point anymore?
Read More“Cute.” “Awesome.” “Practical.” “So tiny!” These are the things I hear regularly when people describe Kei-cars, the minicars sold almost exclusively in Japan. Their funky designs, so different from what people outside of the country are used to, generate lots of love and envy among gearheads around the globe. But what’s it like to live with a typical Kei-car?
Read MoreLabor Day is here, and I know everyone is excited to get out their fun cars and really enjoy one last drive of summer. But there’s always that Labor Day question: how can I keep my car from being completely covered in thick, viscous fluids? Worry no more, because we have seven surefire tips that will help!
Read MoreSouth African music weirdness Die Antwoord consistently has the best cars in all of music. In a day and age when Frank Ocean can show up with a McLaren F1 GTR Longtail, they just raised the bar with this funky as hell Subaru WRX STI art car.
Read MoreIt seems like all automakers are throwing “sport” badges on the trunks of their cars, even if the cars navigate corners like Nimitz-Class carriers. Does that word “sport” even mean anything anymore?
Read MoreThe global automotive market is ripe with strange spellings, foreign words, and non-words for us to verbally trip over. But there are other words that are fun to purprosely get wrong.
Read MoreI think one of the most shocking things about the Acoma Mini Comtesse is that if you were to call it “a ridiculous cheap tiny shitbox,” you’d be wrong. It’s actually a “ridiculous, overpriced tiny shitbox,” because one of these new in 1975 actually cost almost twice as much as a new Volkswagen Beetle. There’s a reason why, but it’s not a good one.
Read MoreWhat have you done with your truck lately, bro? That “Trail Rated” badge doesn’t mean jack if the wildest place it goes is the Whole Foods parking lot. Here’s a dude tackling the Hell’s Revenge trail in Moab in a lightly modified Subaru Legacy. Weep in shame at his mad skills, mall crawlers.
Read MoreEllen Sager of Howell, New Jersey was headed home when she struck a deer with her SUV. After pulling over to check on the animal, the wild beast charged at her, attacking Sager in the driver’s seat and reminding me of that time I installed a really weird mod pack in Grand Theft Auto.
Read MoreAn Interstate Batteries van gussied up in a NASCAR-themed livery based on the company’s sponsorship of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team collided with one of them fancy-pants Google self-driving Lexus cars in Mountain View, California according to 9to5Google.com.
Read MoreFerries are big boats that often transport people and cars across large bodies of water. It’s important to note that it’s best to wait until the ferry docks again before trying to exit.
Read MorePolice in Florida say they suspect a matching set of yellow cars—a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Porsche 911 convertible—were speeding in Delray Beach on Wednesday when the Lamborghini crashed into a Buick Enclave driven by an elderly Uber driver. The crash claimed the Uber driver’s life.
Read MoreWe should all observe a moment of silence for a fallen F40, one of the most legendary supercars in history. This one in the UK just burned to the ground shortly after being fully restored, according to a post on Ferrari Chat, making this owner the unluckiest bastard on earth. Worse yet, the car—one of only about 1,300— may have to be crushed.
Read MoreWANTED: EIGHT LEGGED HAIRY MONSTROSITY.
Read MoreRemember those episodes of now-old Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson explained that a Mitsubishi Evo or Subaru STI could take any corner at any speed thanks to all-wheel drive grip? Yeah, that’s all wrong.
Read MoreHere’s a tip that will take you a long way in life: don’t hit a plane with a van. The plane will nearly always win.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin’s “favorite chauffeur” was reportedly killed in a head-on collision in Moscow.
Read MoreA bespoke Koenigsegg CCX supercar recently listed for sale at a Texas dealer was completely torn apart after rolling at high speed just a few miles into Mexico earlier this week, according to local reports.
Read MoreMy ideal GPS system would be James May sitting next to me, politely telling me which way to go and also providing stimulating conversation about how variable vane turbochargers work. Him as a SatNav voice would be the next best thing.
Read MoreI was one of the lucky few to attend the filming of The Grand Tour’s opening sequence and launch party. Little did I know that I would have multiple conversations with Clarkson, Hammond and May, and I’d bear witness Jezza’s legendary lack of patience when things aren’t perfect.
Read MoreFollowing Chris Evans’ departure from the re-launched Clarkson-less Top Gear last July, the host’s role on the show has remained empty. There was strong speculation that Matt LeBlanc, the second-in-command, would step up and take his place. Today, that news is confirmed.
Read MoreFirst thing (Pacific Time) Monday morning, I’ll be sitting down with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond as they promote their new show The Grand Tour to talk about... well what should we talk about?
Read MoreWhile Netflix tends to dump entire seasons of its original shows online at once so you can sit through the whole thing in one filthy, enormous sitting, it looks like Amazon Prime will try and string you a long a little longer with a piecemeal release for its not-Top-Gear show Grand Tour.
Read MoreClarkson, Hammond, and May are finally returning to the small screen now that their The Grand Tour has an official launch date of November 18th. And wouldn’t you know it, you can actually see a bunch of hints about what’s to come. Here’s what we see coming down the pipe.
Read MoreWe’ve known for quite a while about the ex-Top Gear trio’s new Amazon show, The Grand Tour. We’ve seen clips, we’ve read about it, we’ve enacted possible episodes with puppets. Now, thanks to an eagle-eyed reader, we know what appears to be the start date: November 18.
Read MoreWhen Aston Martin dropped the manual from its V12 Vantage in 2014 leaving only a seven-speed automated manual, the world became a darker, sadder place. Then Porsche showed us an automatic-only GT3 RS, and all hope was lost, sending car enthusiasts around the world searching for therapists.
Read MoreThe old Top Gear trio has been busy working on their new Amazon Prime show, The Grand Tour, while “developing” a new website for their mobs of fans called ‘DriveTribe.’ Now they’ve begun developing the ‘tribes,’ and I have no clue exactly how it’s all going to work.
Read MoreNormally, when you want to tear down a house, you call in a good bulldozer. A wrecking ball. You know, normal house-razing hardware. But if you’re Jeremy Clarkson, you instead opt for some explosives to blow it all to hell. You can’t see it, but I’m wearing my surprised face.
Read MoreIt’s not clear to me why Ford continues to make fun cars. Is fun really part of the company’s brand identity? Does it help them with market share? Does every car in the lineup need, like, multiple halo versions? What is happening here?
Read MoreDear America: when was the last time we actually woke up to good news? I think for me it was sometime last year, when Martin Shkreli got arrested. At last we finally have something good to wake up to and look forward to in the future: this is what the next Honda Civic Type R will look like. And holy crap, it is delightfully crazy.
Read MoreThe internet is chockablock with “crash porn” and disaster scenes of motorcyclists eating shit. Yes, riding can be dangerous, but maybe a lot less so if you take a second to take some advice on what to do when someone goes down. And you don’t have to be a doctor to be helpful.
Read MoreA lot of us aren’t badass enough to ride kick-start motorcycles, so when the battery dies we’re not going anywhere. Usually you can get a bike going by push-starting it, but some machines are just too heavy to make that realistic. That’s when this “pull-start” method might come in handy.
Read MoreDefeat hurts, but this looks pretty bad too: while celebrating a win in an FIM Motocross of Nations race on Sunday, the bike of a lapped rider came flying toward Jason Anderson and smacked him in the head. Video of the incident looks brutal, but Anderson’s race team later reported that he is OK.
Read MoreMotoGP World Championship riders recently got a set of new rules and fines for hand gestures on track, which governs them all like a bunch of middle schoolers with access to adult TV and money. As Honda rider Cal Crutchlow said, “You’re not allowed to stick fingers up, wanker signs, nothing.” Terrible.
Read MoreI know there’s a lot of development happening for autonomous cars, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what’s going on here. A black Harley with no rider cruising along down a long, lonely highway? That’s not science. That’s ghosts. G-g-g-ghosts.
Read MoreOh, moms. They’re always there for us, worrying about our diets, speculating on our lack of sleep, and, of course, smacking our motorcyles out from our crotches with the front of their Hyundais. Like this mom did to her son a few days ago in Washington state.
Read MoreHere’s a thing not to do: don’t try to surf along the side of a container ship on your jet ski.
Read MoreLast year Kevin Scott set the world record for speed on a motorcycle. Well, a motorcycle with one wheel. This month Guinness caught up with him for a quick interview to find out what makes such an innovative lunatic tick.
Read MoreA turbocharged street bike is pretty cool. Two of them is cooler. Two of them drifting at full-noise within a few inches of each other and concrete walls? Ice cold.
Read MoreEasily one of the most badass vehicles in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy was the Batpod, the crazy motorcycle that came shooting out of the wrecked Tumbler after the Joker shot a bazooka at it. And now you have a chance to bid for it.
Read MoreEvery year hordes of motorcyclists descend upon Sturgis, South Dakota to “get together, get naked, party, [and] get drunk,” according to this guy who was there. Those elements are time-honored tradition. So is Shakespeare, of course. But not usually in the same context.
Read MoreI am a man of many vices, and near the top of that list is torque. It’s why I love V-twins and electric motors, and it’s also why a kind gentleman from Harley-Davidson had to give up his pants at a gas station.
Read MorePersonal watercrafting is an expensive niche hobby loved by lake-dwelling rednecks and largely under-appreciated by the rest of us. Now that Yamaha has just released two new PWCs, a cheap one and a high-performance one, it seemed like a good opportunity to find out what this sport is all about.
Read MoreIn the last century, Zagato has put some of the prettiest custom redesigns on performance cars. And this year, their designers finally gave us a motorcycle. Behold the MV Agusta F4Z Zagato.
Read MorePolice in Ottawa, Canada were able to track down a woman caught texting and driving based on this motorcyclist’s helmet camera video, but they’re not happy about the rider playing vigilante traffic cop either.
Read MoreI’ve never seen anybody so happy to get passed on a mountain road as this motorcycle rider laughing as a bicyclist speeds past at a good 50 mph.
Read MoreIf you’re like me and have thoroughly enjoyed at least one of the soon-to-be five movies in the Transformers franchise, you probably know that all of the gritty explosion-ness and car flipping is mostly done for real, just minus the giant robots. But how do they convincingly get all those cars to flip?
Read MoreRenault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, in response to a question from Roadshow, claimed that sports cars are still important despite sinking sales because “they are a testimony of technology and of the brand.” It’s a nice sentiment, but it rings hollow considering Nissan’s current lineup of outdated sports cars and terminated concept cars.
Read MoreNotorious late man and former President Bill Clinton won’t be hurried by a waiting Air Force One or even the commands of the Commander In Chief of the United States.
Read MoreForza Horizon 3 has us pretty fired up over photorealistic graphics and its extensive list of cars. But to get a really direct comparison of how it visually stacks up to other driving games, you’ve got to try the same car and conditions in each virtual world back-to-back-to-back.
Read MoreAs an engineer, I am naturally drawn towards shiny, complex car parts. So at this year’s Paris Motor Show, I went around to every pavilion and took pictures of beautiful transmission, engine and other car part displays to share with you, Jalopnik’s illustrious readers.
Read MoreSeveral outlets are reporting that Buick is seriously considering offering some kind of wagon variant of the Regal for the American market and a possible launch in 2017, but the circumstances surrounding such a vehicle are a little confusing.
Read MoreRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign bus from the Iowa caucuses went on sale last year for $15,000. I didn’t know who bought it, but it turns out a couple of Republican policy-criticizing artists called t.Rutt did. And they’ve turned it into an anti-Trump installation piece called T.RUMP.
Read MoreWe oohed and aahed ourselves stupid over the lovely Buick Avenir Concept in 2015. It was absolutely gorgeous and its proportions were effortlessly good. And now it’s coming to the market—sort of.
Read MoreIt’s already Friday night in Jakarta, Indonesia, which means they’ve already had a very exciting Friday afternoon. I can say that it’s been an interesting end-of-week for them because of all these Tweets showing hardcore porn playing on a billboard on a busy South Jakarta street. Even better, this was right by the mayor’s office. Oops.
Read MoreAt the core of Telsa’s business model is the fact that everyone pays the same for their cars. But now some Tesla stores may be pulling off old dealership tricks, giving discounts to hit sales quotes. And Tesla worries that could become a problem for the brand.
Read MoreAs our society of humans progresses in the twenty-first century, our need for fast WiFi is almost as great as our need for clean air and drinking water. Especially when we get on planes. As it stands, airplane WiFi still isn’t the most reliable or fast, but airplane Wifi provider Gogo wants to improve things... in 2018.
Read MoreWhy yes, I have spent hours each day ogling that giant gallery of BMW M3s we posted earlier this week. Don’t judge me. But it’s also got me wondering this: just how cheaply could one pick up an E30 M3 if they wanted?
Read MoreStanding in line; what’s up with that? Nissan is not up with that, instead deciding to be down with self-driving chairs. WALL-E was an animated movie about a robot judging people in chairs, uh, basically. Those people are us now.
Read MoreIf you make your living by betting people what the largest (by number of bricks) Lego structure is, then I’m sure you know that the record goes to a colossal X-Wing fighter, made from 5,335,200 bricks. Well, did go to. It’s time to revise your data, because Land Rover has beaten that X-Wing with a Lego Tower Bridge that’s the new World’s Largest.
Read MoreManhattan’s Penn Station is gross, smells like shit and is the armpit of the city. New York State Governor Andy Cuomo agrees. Which is why he’s super enthusiastic about renovating the James A. Farley Post Office Building, across the street from Penn, into a “magnificent” train hall.
Read MoreWhen Mercedes unveiled its new AMG Formula One hypercar project, they said it would have the drivetrain from its F1 car. We were skeptical, as that would just be absurd. But Mercedes says it’s being serious – it’ll have a 1.6-liter turbo V6 screaming to over 10,000 RPM in a street-legal car.
Read MoreI’m at the Paris Motor show, so I’ve spent the past hour simply sitting next to the Honda Civic Type R and drooling. I also took a break from my salivary activities to take a couple pictures. Check them out.
Read MoreHyundai’s brand new N-division seems to be honoring the secret request of every hoser who’s mispronounced the marque’s name as “Hoon-day.” Their new racing-focused concept isn’t just a preview of N-cars to come, but a caged track beast with Lambo doors that I would spend many days hooning if given the chance.
Read MoreJust look at this thing. Take your eyes, and look at it. Because it is marvelous.
Read MoreFor some reason, BMW has decided the world needs a car between its X1 small crossover and its X3 Also-Small Crossover. So here’s another small crossover for when a small crossover and a small crossover just aren’t enough. It’s the BMW Concept X2, and it looks angry, like it wants you to die.
Read MoreA New Jersey Transit commuter train smashed through a wall at the Hoboken Terminal train station in Hoboken, New Jersey. One person is confirmed to have died, and at least 100 people have been injured, according to the local ABC affiliate.
Read MoreMercedes wants to be at the very top of the luxury electric vehicle category by 2025, so today, it showed the world a zany looking crossover that will form the foundation of a new brand called “EQ.” The thing looks bonkers, but I don’t care because just look at the power and range numbers.
Read MoreWhen Audi debuted the new five-cylinder RS3 hatchback, we had but one question: “When’s it coming to America?” And Audi said it more than likely would, just not in hatchback form, because us Americans just don’t buy those fancy luxury hatches the Europeans love. Here’s the one we are getting, for sure and officially: the RS3 Sedan.
Read MoreSome dumbass teenager somehow managed to get a blue Dodge Neon up to 146 miles per hour, and then got caught by police. He went to jail, but the worst punishment came from the police department posting about it on their Instagram.
Read MoreGas has been relatively cheap for a long, long time now. Ever since the global economy collapsed in 2008, it hasn’t reached the same stratospheric heights. That looks like it will change soon, as the AP reports that OPEC has reached a preliminary agreement to cut production.
Read MoreAfter filming his 5-year-old son doing a burnout in the driveway, 9News reports that police towed an Australian man’s car away on Saturday. The man cheered his son on and told 9News that he “knows a hell of lot” for being 5 years old, but really, is a kid even supposed to be in the front seat at that age? No.
Read MoreFun fact: these are all actually from just one quarter-mile drag race.
Read MoreLooks like it’s happening: Mercedes just confirmed that it will build the AMG F1 hypercar today during a press conference at the Paris Motor Show. The Germans are saying it will actually be inspired by Formula One, and that it’s not just some marketing bullcrap. In fact, they’re saying it will use the whole powertrain from Mercedes’ current F1 car.
Read MoreRide-hailing company Uber wants to be able to fly you to work and back—or anywhere else in the city—within about a decade. The company is researching how to use helicopter-like aircraft to pick customers up, with landing pads potentially on top of buildings. This will definitely work without a single problem. Totally.
Read MoreVolkswagen spent years trying to make diesel as big in America as it was in Europe and other markets. Then it got caught cheating in a very big way. Wracked by scandal, fines and lawsuits, the German automaker is now trying to chart a new way forward. This is the rolling electric symbol of that new way, and it’s called the Volkswagen I.D.
Read MoreHello, fellow Wealths. I see you’ve done well for yourself, what with capital gains and all, moving beyond horse dancing and into rhino waltzing. I, too, have moved on to stratospheric new heights, ditching my Aston Martin car for peasants and poors. I am in my new Aston Martin boat. That is a picture of me.
Read MoreCan we all just take a minute to appreciate how wonderful and crazy and un-Mercedes-like the A45 AMG is?
Read MoreLike Invisible Touch, the M3, a vehicle made by the Bavarian Motor Works company of West Germany, turns 30 this year. I would argue that it has aged better than that album, and this massive photo gallery of M3s—including weird-ass one-offs—is proof of that.
Read MoreA Kiwi man decided to celebrate his 81st birthday by hopping the fence of a bull pin to save his Ford Ranger “ute” from Rex, the raging bull.
Read MoreCarolina Panthers player Mike Tolbert apparently got so pissed at his mechanic that he had the cops called on him by the shop, and passive-aggressively retaliated by paying his $3,900 bill in coins.
Read MoreForza Horizon 3 is officially available to the public today, so I expect to see a lot of you online and playing this game where rules aren’t real and gravity is only marginally a factor so you have no excuses. There are over 350 different cars to drive and explore, and here are all of them.
Read MoreHumanity as we know it is doomed. Giant creepy dealership inflatables have figured out how to come loose from their ominous perches on lots everywhere. No one is safe, as October Sales Events everywhere are looming ahead on the calendar. Lord have mercy on us all.
Read MoreWhat happens when racers need a big van to haul bikes, parts and spares? They start racing the vans, too, of course. Japan’s Dajiban scene evolved out of motorcycle racing into its own delightful world of modified vans, track days, drifting and racing.
Read MoreEarlier this year, police tracked down and jailed the driver of a wannabe-gymkhana Beetle tearing up the streets of San Diego. It was not difficult for them, as the city attorney now notes, because the driver put the whole thing up as a viral video. “It gave us everything.”
Read MoreRepublican Presidential nominee Donald Trump continued to voice his concern and disdain for Ford’s movement of its small car production from the United States to Mexico shortly into Monday night’s debate. The automaker took to Twitter to defend itself.
Read MoreThe official Honda Twitter account (@Honda) threw its support behind Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for a few short moments during the the debate Monday night, and then quickly deleted the tweet.
Read MoreTesla’s recent Version 8.0 upgrade to its Autopilot system is designed to improve upon the system and its relationship with the driver. Here’s your punishment should you fail to listen to the car when it tells you take back control.
Read MoreMonster Trucks is a movie that isn’t scheduled to debut until January, but already it’s forecasted to lose $115 million. You may be wondering how that is possible, even when considering that the concept for it was created by a four-year-old child, but somehow it is!!!!!!!
Read MoreHip-hop producer and husband to Alicia Keys Swizz Beatz has been sued for $42 million over allegations of civil racketeering involving a scheme of shilling leased supercars to third parties for a profit, according to news reports.
Read MoreThe Danville, Virginia Police Department is under a great deal of scrutiny after going viral for appearing to have popped the hoods of cop cars in order to block their dashcam views. Police officials have issued a denial, claiming that their cars merely got too hot and needed to cool off, but that explanation is also a perplexing one. Update: Danville police say they’ve ended this practice, and elaborated on their explanation below.
Read MoreHow is it that the longer I stare at R33 Skylines the more they look like alternate universe Mustangs?
Read MoreThe third-generation Toyota Supra is not a particularly beloved car, especially with an automatic transmission. Anyway, here’s one doing 196 mph.
Read MoreEarlier this month, this little egg-shaped carbon fiber bicycle set a new record World’s Fastest Human-Powered vehicle at 89.59 miles per hour. That’s fast, but I’m more interested in its energy efficiency, operating at 9,544 MPGe.
Read MoreThe city of Jilin in northeast China was pretty clear about announcing that it was starting construction on a new road last week. It seems like everybody got the message, except for one particular Audi driver.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Golf R400 is dead, though it was still officially ambiguous as to whether or not it’s 395-horsepower, 2.0-liter motor would live on in something else. But now it’s official. That’s dead too.
Read MoreLast week we dealt with the bizarre news that Apple—which has reportedly been working on its own electric car—was in talks to buy McLaren. McLaren denied the chatter, and I think it’s because it was secretly working on this thing and it didn’t want Apple’s paws on it. Meet McLaren’s first electric car. It’s on the compact side.
Read MoreFor the owner of a Lamborghini Huracan, a $300 ticket sounds like something that can just be brushed off. But when an Australian Huracan owner got a ticket for unnecessary noise last year, he didn’t let it go. Sometimes, he said, “it’s not about the money—it’s about making sure that you stick to your principles.”
Read MoreSure, parking is a real hassle—especially in the city, where paranoia about getting a ticket sits in the back of your mind no matter where you park.. But if there’s one place you should never get it ticket, it’s in your own driveway.
Read MorePeople often forget this, but the original Nissan GT-R wasn’t just a giant-killer: it was a hell of a bargain. When the car launched in 2008 (yes, it’s been on the market almost a decade now!) with a base price of $69,850, it could shame vastly more expensive cars in a way that made a Corvette look like a Cavalier. Over the years it’s gotten a lot more expensive, never more so than with the new GT-R Nismo.
Read MoreIf you wanted a fun manual hatchback for your daily commute but didn’t need a performance car like a Focus ST or GTI, there was really only one option: the Mazda3. Honda will now get a piece of the action with the all new Civic hatchback.
Read MoreVerizon IndyCar Series team owner and former Indy Racing League driver Sam Schmidt, paralyzed from the neck down in a test crash in 2000, will reportedly receive a license next week to drive a street car with his head. Schmidt will use head movements, breathing and voice commands to control the car.
Read MoreThe Toyota commercial with the “Prius Four” outlasting the police has always been silly, especially when the cops agree that “to catch a Prius, you’ve got to be a Prius.” No, you won’t catch many people—like the people two Prius drivers tried to pull over in California, they may think the cop car is fake.
Read MoreHere it is again: the Toyota Supra mule, now spotted testing at the Nürburgring.
Read MoreBugatti is in the midst of launching the Chiron, a new car set to be the fastest in the world, a shining beacon of engineering prowess. But Bugatti won’t do a speed run in the car until 2018. The company said that everything is going according to plan, but I’m a little skeptical that things are perfectly fine behind the curtain.
Read MoreVolkswagen has been teasing the crap out of us with its impending electric car. First, they showed us the boxy little BUDD-e concept. Then the company told us it would debut an EV in Paris based on that car, and that it’d get up to 373 miles of range. And last week, we got three teaser photos. Finally, today we get a look at the entire exterior, but in sketch form.
Read MoreBugatti set themselves up for this one. They built their brand as the Very Impressive Builders Of The Fastest Cars In The World and now they got swept into the news that anyone buying their new car won’t go as fast as the last one. Earlier this month we, and the rest of the automotive blog universe, reported the new 1500 horsepower Chiron could do about 285 mph; we now know that’s not the case, and it’s a bizarre blow to the $2.5 million car’s primary selling point right out of the gate.
Read MoreGiven the right conditions, you can absolutely drift a tank. Jason recently drove one and did some donuts. This cold-weather test of American and Norwegian tanks got sideways enough that someone set it to Initial D-style Eurobeat.
Read MoreSmart announced that it will be selling electrified versions of the ForTwo Coupe and the ForTwo Cabriolet by next spring and summer, respectively. That’s a grand idea, and in doing so, Smart will effectively make the regular, gas-driven Coupe and Cabrio completely useless, and here’s why.
Read MoreThe Ig Nobel Prizes are comedic awards that love to award scientific nonsense and unusual research. The group awards research that makes you “laugh, and then think.” So, of course, Volkswagen’s workaround for its dirty diesel engines won an Ig Nobel this year. Goodness knows, they’re still thinking of a solution.
Read MoreThere’s a maybe-supercharged V8 explosion coming from the southern shores of wonder, a ZR1-familiar LS9 stuck nose-up into the front of a Holden Commodore, which is Australian for “Chevrolet SS.” It’s the big boom time now, maybe, baby.
Read MoreThere are so many Corollas out there we don’t even know about. Corollas we don’t even want to know about.
Read MoreI’m not going to lie. I was really excited when I got the email from Brandon Bird today. Brandon Bird is one of the masters of a peculiar subset of pop art, one that incorporates a specific yet ineffable type of famous person in an unlikely situation. I got even more excited when he I learned he wants to make a lowrider featuring late great Law & Order legend Jerry Orbach.
Read MoreIt seems that when Yahoo got rid of its Yahoo! Autos section, they really went all out and made sure nobody they had on staff knew shit about cars, ever ever again. Maybe they had to perform lobotomies to be sure. That’s really the only explanation for this article, which talks about how Apple is going to buy McLaren, the company that made the time-traveling car in Back to the Future. Holy shit, this is amazing.
Read MoreIn 2014, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a law that blocks the direct sales model that Tesla uses, which stopped the carmaker from selling its cars in the state. General Motors was in support of it. And now Tesla is suing the state in federal court because of it.
Read MorePart of the beautiful insanity that makes up modern America is the fact that anyone with a metabolism and some cash to throw around can get inside a genuine, no-joke tank and go on a glorious rampage of curated destruction. It’s fun and cathartic, and the magnification of your physical effect on the world is like an intoxicant. No wonder Godzilla did what he did: it feels good.
Read MoreThe Fisker Karma has died and been reborn as the Karma Revero. But design legend Henrik Fisker and longtime auto exec-slash-fighter jet enthusiast Bob Lutz remain committed to ripping out that hybrid engine and shoving a supercharged Corvette engine inside, as well as bringing us the wildest-looking Viper ever. Here’s what’s going on with VLF Automotive, their new new Michigan-based supercar company.
Read MoreVolkswagen finally figured out how to sell a wagon to Americans! Maybe. Granted, Subaru solved this problem with the Outback a long time ago and has been selling boatloads of their lifted wagon. Now VW’s trying something from the same playback. But despite the initial positive reviews, the 2017 Golf Alltrack might not be the sales savior that VW is hoping for.
Read MoreIt’s a rite of passage for every car enthusiast to experience the sheer thrill of going full throttle in the land that time forgot, also known as the Bonneville salt flats. However, since most of us have things called jobs and responsibilities, we’ll have to live vicariously through the antics of one quirky automotive journalist and his used Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
Read MoreIn February, Ferrari unveiled the facelifted FF in the form of the 2017 GTC4Lusso, an all-wheel-drive grand tourer with a name that looks more like a hashtag than anything else. That car had the big nasty V12 engine, but today we’re getting something new. A Ferrari shooting brake with rear-wheel-drive and a smaller V8.
Read MoreIt’s worth noting right up front that, incredibly, the driver survived this wreck unharmed.
Read MoreThe kids, they sure do like the BMW M2. Considering how popular the car is (and how it’s crazy expensive and hard to buy), it only makes sense that there’s reportedly a more powerful edition looming on the horizon.
Read MoreLast year Honda released a turbocharged three-cylinder baby basket called the S660 in Japan. With an engine that would be considered modest on a motorcycle and the curb weight of a shopping cart, we could only pray one would come to America. Well one has arrived, but it’s got a different look. Very different.
Read MoreWe have consistently argued that the slower a car is, and the sillier a car is, the faster a car is. This sounds counter-intuitive, but it makes sense. Caterham was clearly listening and took our advice, creating this, the Caterham 7 Sprint. But unfortunately for you it’s already sold out.
Read MoreAudi and Volvo—with Allroad and Cross Country, respectively— already know they can get away with throwing lifts on wagons and selling them as new models. Now Mercedes has hopped in on the fun with the new E-Class All-Terrain. It’s macho and burley and totally not the same as the wagon. Nope, not at all.
Read MoreCops from three different law enforcement agencies came down on a crew of 2017 Ford GT prototypes Tuesday morning for doing more than double the speed limit on Interstate 70 in Colorado. The test drivers will have to come back to serve court summonses according to Avon, Colo.’s police chief.
Read MoreToday we were all pretty surprised to hear that Apple is in talks to possibly buy supercar maker McLaren. Then we were even more surprised to learn McLaren was calling bullshit on it, even though the newspaper that broke the story is standing behind their reporting. But once an idea gets jammed in your head, it’s hard to free it. So let’s think about why an Apple-McLaren partnership might actually be a good idea.
Read MoreLook at you, sweet and innocent Mitsubishi Eclipse. You had no idea, did you?
Read MoreFor a guy who’s only real experience behind the wheel was the occasional “high-spirited” driving on the roads of Long Island, drifting is one helluva sport to jump into. Combine that with the fact that the only real mechanical background I have thus far is what some would consider to be that of a “Subie Destroyer,” and you have a recipe for disaster.
Read MoreWhat do you get when a women’s magazine like Cosmopolitan wants to create a car for women and teams up with Spanish automaker Seat? You get the Seat Mii by Cosmopolitan, and these are the features that the magazine and Seat decided were necessary: purple or white exterior paint, champagne colored wing mirrors, headlights with an “eyeliner shape,” jeweled wheels and ease of parking. Great work!
Read MoreBurnouts never really get old, but they could use some variety every now and then. One way to improve upon a theme is to slap eight colossal tires on your mud truck. Watch this truck produce a burnout as big as a house as it spins four monster truck wheels at once.
Read MoreEarlier this morning, the Financial Times reported that Apple was in talks to buy McLaren, citing three different unnamed sources. But we just spoke with officials at McLaren, and they claim none of it is true. At all.
Read MoreYou may have heard that internet jewelry company Apple is in talks to buy McLaren, a car company. What is McLaren? Car and racing fans have known about the company for decades, but despite making incredible machines, it doesn’t have the name recognition that Ferrari and Lamborghini command.
Read MoreApple, the computer company, is in talks to buy McLaren, the supercar and race car company, according to a report from the Financial Times. Apple has been attempting to develop its own car for a while now, and this would appear to be a huge change in its direction.
Read MoreThis man has been touched. By God, maybe, but also when his head was clipped by the wing of another airplane. Getting rear-ended as you taxi out onto the runway by another, landing airplane is much, much worse than any automotive fender bender.
Read MoreMini has introduced the 2016 John Cooper Works Mini Clubman—that’s the big boaty wagon Mini, but now it comes with the most torque out of the lineup. It’s also green and red with flashing lights on the inside. We’re still in September, right?
Read MoreThere’s not many things that leak out of your car that you can consume safely. Most people just accept this as a sad quirk of reality, but not Doug Martin. Martin is a Ford engineer who’s developed a system to collect A/C condensation and let you drink the resulting water from a tap right on the dash. Pretty cool.
Read MoreA couple weeks ago, you may recall that I drove a really lovely hand-built mid-engined aluminum roadster, all made with Chris Runge’s two hands, some hammers, and a big-ass English wheel. The very act of how the metal gets shaped to the body is fascinating, so we thought you might actually like to see how that works.
Read MoreWhen you think of a subway map—almost any subway map—you think of neat, orderly straight lines, usually running north to south or east to west, with other lines running in the primary intercardinal directions. But in reality, geography rarely behaves so well, so a geographically accurate subway map actually resembles a handful of spaghetti that’s been thrown on the ground and stepped on, for good measure.
Read MoreThe upcoming, much awaited Toyota Supra was captured for the first time on video entering and leaving the BMW M Test Center at the Nürburgring, and it sounds absolutely delightful.
Read MoreI’m sure the biggest question on everyone’s mind when they’re watching one of Ken Block’s Gymkhana videos is always the same: how would this be different if he was driving a shoddy British three-wheeler? Thanks to remarkable advances in computerizated synthetic reality, we can finally know.
Read MoreI can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard these two things during my time at Jalopnik: “When are you going to start selling t-shirts that my loved ones and I can wear?”, and “Sir, you are no longer welcome at Belle Isle.” At last, I have good news on that first question. We are finally launching an online store full of swag for you to buy with your money.
Read MoreUsually, I’m against automotive-themed clothing due to my dislike of screaming labels, brand badging and whatnot, but this BMW i3- and i8-inspired dress is actually pretty cool. Probably because it doesn’t have a massive logo on it.
Read MoreIf you’re like me, you probably think somebody stood at the very point of Earth’s North Pole like, a few hundred years ago, or something. But you’d be wrong! Many people have claimed to grace the Pole, but the first indisputable trek didn’t happen until 1986.
Read MoreTHE BEZOS CONTROLS ALL. #BRANDS #SYNERGY
Read MoreBeetles are known for being many things, but fast typically isn’t one of them. This new Beetle, dubbed the “Beetle LSR” for “land speed record” just went out to shatter that perception. It got up to a blistering 205.122 mph during Bonneville Speed Week this year.
Read MoreI think these are cool and I want a “covert” detective model one day with the big cheese-grater-like wheels. Then I’m definitely going to be “that guy” who “pulls over” the “Corvettes” at Cars & Coffee. Try and stop me.
Read MoreAfter Paul Walker’s death in the middle of filming Furious 7, we were left with a tribute to the actor at the end of the film. It was understood that that was the goodbye. But it now seems like his character, Brian O’Conner, could make a reappearance at some point in the franchise.
Read MoreIt’s Monday, another dumb jerk is trying to blow everyone up, the Dodge Dart is dead. We all could use a little cheering up, so watch this video of a family surprising their patriarch with a Mercedes 450 SL. Grandpa’s got tears of joy and everything is wonderful and perfect.
Read MoreI’m not necessarily proud to admit this, but the first thing I noticed in that picture of the capture of the suspected Manhattan bomber was that bright green 1976 Volkswagen Beetle in the background. That’s because the takedown happened in front of Pegasus Bugshop of Linden, New Jersey, and the owner told me he’s relieved the chase ended when it did.
Read MoreIt’s been ten days since an investigator discovered a pipeline that carries some 40 percent of the East Coast’s gasoline had burst in Alabama. A quarter million gallons of leaked gas later, the South is still stuck in a fuel shortage. Towns run dry. Prices through the roof. Empty Camaros strewn across the land. Well, here’s what’s going on now.
Read MoreIn May, EgyptAir Flight 804 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo. All 66 people on board have been presumed dead, and causes of the crash are still being investigated. No group has yet claimed overt responsibility for the crash, but investigators just found explosive residue on the wreckage.
Read MoreEarlier, we reported about Saleen’s announcement that they’ll be making a 1000HP version from their 16-year old S7 design. We’re a bit skeptical, considering all of Saleen’s financial woes. It also doesn’t help that the promo image they made for it looks like it was made by a chimp wearing mittens.
Read MoreIndonesia is taking the 1980s antihero approach to the twin issues of overfishing and foreign encroachment in its waters: there’s no problem that can’t be fixed with explosions.
Read MoreNew Jersey State Police and the FBI are searching for Ahmad Khan Rahami, a suspect in the Manhattan bombing explosion from Saturday night. Authorities believe he’s driving a blue 2003 Honda Civic with New Jersey plate no. D63EYB.
Read MoreIn the long ago time of the year 2000, Saleen unveiled the S7. It was fast, gorgeous, expensive, and it had rumors swirling around it regarding its origin. And now, inexplicably, Saleen has announced that it will create seven limited edition S7 models called the S7 LM.
Read MoreOn Sunday, the president of ride-hailing company Lyft, John Zimmer, blogged a prediction that private car ownership would essentially be over in U.S. cities by 2025. The end of private ownership in cities is part of how he and the company view the future of U.S. transportation, and it sure sounds optimistic.
Read MoreIn India, southeast Asia and Far Cry 4, the three-wheeled rickshaw taxis known as “Tuk Tuks” are considered as perfectly normal means of conveyance. As far as I’m concerned, it looks like a damn deathtrap. And a lot of fun.
Read MoreIn attempts to prevent children or other unattended passengers from being left in hot cars, some newly proposed U.S. legislation could require automakers to add warning systems to new vehicles telling occupants to check the back seat.
Read MoreAn ad for the latest smartphone? Not relevant until it’s time to upgrade anyway. One for the newest computer? Yeah, OK. A concert coming to town? Forgot the band as soon as the poster was out of sight. But wait, are those cat photos plastered where advertisements should be? Those are cat photos!
Read MoreA major East Coast pipeline leaked around 250,000 gallons of gasoline, or roughly 6,000 to 8,000 barrels, in Alabama last week and is expected to raise the price of gas by five to ten cents in the surrounding states, according to local CBS station WIAT.
Read MoreA category 5 typhoon called “Meranti” just pummeled Taiwan and is working its way into mainland China, and this guy thinks it’s a good idea to take the scooter out. Nature’s reality check was right on the nose.
Read MoreOn September 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that using an illegal “defeat device,” Volkswagen’s diesel engines were emitting far more pollution than is legally allowable under federal and state regulations. A year later, few things are resolved. Here’s what owners of these cheating cars need to know.
Read MoreSome of my favorite bad and dumb movies are the Fast and Furious films. They don’t take themselves too seriously, and the plots are so easy to follow that you don’t really even need to know how to speak English to enjoy them. Fast and Furious also introduced me to nitrous oxide, or NOS (though that’s technically a brand owned by Holley). I didn’t know how that worked. But then I learned and now I’m showing you.
Read MoreVolkswagen, eager to get away from anything with any emissions whatsoever, has released a teaser image of a new all-electric concept car they plan to show at the upcoming Paris Motor Show. They’re calling it an “iconic design study,” which is carmaker-talk for “the production car won’t look nearly as cool.”
Read MoreGood friend of Jalopnik and NASCAR crasher Parker Kligerman applied to be in on this whole DriveTribe thing that the ex-Top Gear guys are doing. Kligerman said he’d report on the goings-on of American motorsports. Clarkson, Hammond, and May were perhaps less than charitable in their assessment of this position.
Read MoreWhen it comes to American cars designed to tear ass, the three biggest camps are arguably Camaro, Mustang, and Corvette. For decades these three factions have been locked in eternal struggle. But there’s hope, in the form of The One Who Is Them All. Behold the Corvamarostang.
Read MoreThe [actual really this time] very last Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution sold at a charity auction for $76,400. It was the last of 1,600 Final Edition cars with a five-speed manual and 303 horsepower. Until the next reunion tour?
Read MoreLexus is so proud of their Kinetic Seat Concept that they’re giving it its own spot at their Paris Auto Show display. Think they actually built it, or just pulled a prop out of the Zoolander 2 set and hit it with a few Lexus stickers?
Read MoreIt’s funny how new technologies can have a sort of intoxicating effect on people. There’s a strange, almost irresistible urge to incorporate the latest technology into everything. Remember internet-connected refrigerators? Back in 1930s France, the latest and most exciting thing was the airplane, and the urge to put plane tech in cars was intense, like the urge to stick a web browser in a fridge. In this case, though, it was even more terrible and dangerous than reading web pages on fridges.
Read MoreEveryone loves the Carrera GT because it got its engine out of Porsche’s last Le Mans racing project. Well, BMW did the same thing, only with a single, not-for-production X5. Then the got it to do 192 mph on the Nürburgring.
Read MoreA reader named Michael was riding his bicycle–I Googled that, it’s like a motorcycle that uses a human as an engine– over Monarch Pass in Colorado, when he saw this: a pair of Ford GTs in the wild, matte grey, involved in some sort of testing.
Read MoreThe author of The Art of Racing in the Rain didn’t show up to our meeting in a boring car. He couldn’t. After Garth Stein arrived, we shook hands and he motioned to the beautiful coupe behind him poking its nose out into the morning Washington sun. “It’s a 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000, finished in Faggio,” he said. Not bad.
Read MoreA man out for a jaunt in his DeLorean was clocked by local police for excessive speeding by going 89 mph. Impressive as this is in a DeLorean—and we all know it’s good to give your Flux Capacitor a nice workout every now and then—we’re more perplexed as to what he is still doing in this part of the spacetime continuum.
Read MoreIt seems this long-awaited mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette really will be designed to run with high-end European exotics. And by that, I mean you’ll more than likely be shifting the gears with paddles, not three pedals and a stick.
Read MoreDonald Trump, a janky Lamborghini Diablo made entirely out of cheeto dust in human form, once owned a Lamborghini Diablo. Now it’s for sale, uh, again.
Read MoreIn another crazy chapter of the “conspiracy” against Tesla, as the real Elon Musk often likes to frame it, the company has filed a lawsuit against an oil industry executive, accusing him of creating a fake Yahoo email address to impersonate Elon Musk and acquire confidential information from Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer.
Read MoreHaving to sit at a red light is a miserable experience. There you are, trapped with your thoughts, staring at an inanimate light you let dictate your daily life. How sad is that? What are some other sad thoughts? How can I make this light turn green and escape this introspective hell? Is that guy picking his nose? He totally is.
Read MoreMotor Trend just did a comparison between the two cars at the very top of the hot hatch totem pole: the Ford Focus RS and the Volkswagen Golf R. And the car site drove the cars hard—so hard, in fact, that the Focus’s brakes caught fire.
Read MoreOn a dark night in northern France near the English channel, a Polish truck driver is doing his normal run. Sigala’s “Give Me Your Love” blares out of the stereo. Out of the darkness, what looks to be a massive tree branch is strewn across the road, and it’s surrounded by men holding what look like weapons. It looks like a normal, criminal stickup, but it’s way more complicated than that.
Read MoreExcuse me while I narc on all the dudes smuggling coke in their Porsche Carrera GTs running the Gumball Rally—the car has a smuggler’s door!
Read MoreThe crash thought to be the very first fatality involving a car driving semi-autonomously may have actually been the second. The first is alleged to have happened in January of this year, when a Tesla Model S reportedly in Autopilot mode ran into a street sweeper at full speed outside of Hong Kong, killing the occupant.
Read MoreDo you have external genitals? Are you Danish? If so, Opel has been thinking about your junk an awful lot, and it’s concerned. It seems that a study found that Danish men have declining levels of testosterone, and Opel is afraid that may keep men from buying their new Astra Sports Tourer wagon. So, to fix everything, it’ll send you some special underpants.
Read MoreThe crazy VW BUDD-e concept above was the first showing of VW’s Modular Electric Platform, a platform that Autoblog reports will be used for a 2020 production car that could travel up to 373 miles on a charge. That’s a very big number.
Read MoreTrain rails are joined together via a seriously awesome process called exothermic welding, which basically involves lighting off a chemical called Thermite and sending molten iron into a sand mould. Here’s how the fiery process works.
Read MoreAlfa Romeo’s upcoming crossover, likely called the Stelvio, is supposed to have a big reveal party at this year’s LA Auto Show in November, and yet, here it is—leaked in a factory tour video from Alfa Romeo themselves.
Read MoreEver wonder what people are saying about you behind your back? Of course you have; you’re human. One handy way to find out is to take a car in for a trade-in appraisal, and leave your dashcam inside! Then you might be as lucky as this guy who brought his BMW to be appraised for a trade-in on a new Ford Focus RS. Spoiler alert! They’re not so nice to him.
Read MoreIn 1845, Royal Navy officer Sir John Franklin set out with two ships—the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus—and a crew of 129 to explore the Northwest Passage. But after three years of travel, the ships got trapped in thick ice and were never seen again. The crew abandoned the vessels, but nobody survived the harsh conditions. Now, after 168 years, the Terror has been discovered in “perfect” condition in the Arctic Ocean near Canada.
Read MoreIf you prefer your Volkswagen GTIs the old-fashioned way, with just two doors and offering a challenge for anyone who wants to get into the back seat, you better act now. The two-door GTI is about to be discontinued in the U.S.
Read MoreThis video isn’t exactly exciting, but it has a certain weird draw to it. I don’t think either participant comes off very well, and there’s a certain uncomfortable tension throughout. So why do I keep watching it?
Read MoreBob Lutz is an American hero for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that he used to fly himself to work in his own personal helicopter. Last week, I asked Bob about a helicopter-related rumor that had been circulating around the Fiat Chrysler offices when I worked there.
Read MoreAriel built a fan car! This is not a car powered by fans, this is a car that uses fans to suck the car to the ground. It’s an old trick borrowed from 1960s Texan race cars and the banned Brabham F1 car from the ‘70s.
Read MoreThe electric car range-wars just got interesting with the EPA’s announcement last night that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt will go 238 miles in combined city and highway driving. That makes it the only electric car under $40,000 to have an over-200 mile range, and not only gives it better range than a base $66,000 Tesla Model S 60, but it also beats Tesla’s announced Model 3 range of 215 miles. For now.
Read MoreOne 600-horsepower, rallycross-spec, Zubaz-stripe-liveried Ford Focus RS RX. The rust-scarred locale of Buffalo, New York. Many, many abused tires. You know the formula by now. Feast your eyes on Gymkhana Nine.
Read MoreNew spy shots of the famed and elusive “Mid-Engine” C8 Corvette popped up today, but maybe it’s actually just an old Lamborghini Gallardo?
Read MoreNormally, when you think about a body kit for a car, the goal usually seems to be seeing just how many plastic fake vents you can cram on a given vehicle, or how you can half-assedly make it look like something exotic. But it doesn’t have to be that way! A reader sent in pictures from Peru of a Beetle with a body kit that can only be described as practical.
Read MoreBallistic Fabrication isn’t a standard performance shop: it begs its customers to come by and rip epic burnouts out front so the shop can post the videos on its Facebook page. Unsurprisingly, neighboring businesses are pissed.
Read MoreOne of history’s greatest missing person mysteries surrounds Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, whose plane was lost somewhere in the Pacific near Honolulu in 1937. A bunch of people calling themselves The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery now says it has more evidence supporting the claim that she wasn’t immediately killed after her plane went down.
Read MoreYou’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. We’ve all seen it. Fiesta STs, swarms of them, driving vigorously and intensely on the roads of the world, carving corners left and right. Now one has threatened to take out a Ferrari 458 Speciale. When will the ST’s reign of terror end?
Read MoreTomorrow the world will bear witness to Gymkhana Nine, Ken Block’s latest video extravaganza of tire smoke and high-speed hatchback tomfoolery, much of it set against the lush and exotic backdrop of Buffalo, New York. But there was a location even more picturesque than Buffalo in mind originally, if you can believe it: Sydney, Australia. That didn’t happen, and here’s why.
Read MoreWhen Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving system, known as Autopilot, was getting a major update, he also made a point to suggest that he believed that the new version 8.0 of its system could have prevented the first fatal crash of a semi-autonomous car. I’m not convinced, at least not yet.
Read MoreIf you love your car, there’s a good chance you get really particular about food and drink inside said car. I mean, that’s how you get ants. So, to prove why he doesn’t allow his kids to eat or drink in the car, this Tesla Model S P90D owner makes his point with the fun pedal and crap-tons of torque.
Read MoreThat rule about Ferrari not letting people take their XX cars home isn’t real, which is a relief. Still, Ferrari mandates that owners subject the cars to a Ferrari-approved check up before hitting the track. I thought this to be silly, oppressive and spontaneity-murdering and I said so. But then, Google executive Benjamin Sloss, whose Instagram post originally debunked the XX myth, wrote to me to explain the benefits of the requirements.
Read MoreYellow flags on a track, while undeniably festive, have a very specific and important message: slow the fuck down. The yellow flags were out on this section of the Nürburgring, and a driver that ignored them came so close to killing a guy you’ll soil yourself in empathy.
Read MoreChanting for the Ford Focus RS has grown quite loud over the past year or so, and now that people are finally starting to take delivery of the cars, the next thing we want to know is how it is to live with.
Read MoreThe Fisker Karma looked like a car that had everything together, which was a facade for terrible build quality and impending bankruptcy. The company that bought Fisker Automotive vowed to keep the look of the Karma, and they did with the slightly updated Karma Revero. It’s just a lot more expensive.
Read MoreA Tesla Model S driver became the first human to die in a vehicle driving semi-autonomously this past May when it struck an 18-wheeler with its Autopilot system enabled. In a press conference on Sunday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company believes its new Autopilot update would have saved the driver’s life.
Read MoreJoshua D. Brown was killed earlier this year when his Tesla Model S, cruising on Tesla’s Autopilot system, crashed into the broad side of a truck after confusing it for a road sign. With Tesla’s newest update of its system to version 8.0, the company aims to change that sort of outcome with radar and machine learning.
Read MoreRemember the awesome Nissan Sentra SE-R from the 90s? It was plain and unassuming, but that badge on the back and a stint behind the wheel revealed something much more fun. Nissan hopes you forget about that car with the 2017 Sentra SR Turbo.
Read MoreThe Oak Ridge National Laboratory is charged with applying science and engineering for the U.S. Department Of Energy. That work includes transportation research, and as of last month, making the biggest-ever 3-D printed thing.
Read MoreAnytime people dress up old timey and show big guns around, I get nervous.
Read MoreWith the potential for leaking brake fluid to increase risk of fire, Nissan recalled about 134,000 vehicles on Friday. Most of the cars are located in the U.S. and Canada, and in some cases, owners are “advised to park the vehicle outdoors away from other vehicles or structures and to not drive the vehicle.”
Read MoreWhat seems to start out as a fairly controlled dispute between a guy on a sportbike and dude in a sedan devolves into combat when the biker smashes the car’s window with his helmet, and the driver goes after him with a hammer.
Read MoreApple is seriously rethinking its self-driving car plans and is laying off “dozens of employees,” according to a report from The New York Times.
Read MoreThey got the hee haw with the yee-hay, California boys taking it up in Oregon-land, big beard bashin’ and mashin’ with the fast car that does the burnouts and the sound stuff, not quite a mega boom but a little rip snort kapow. It’s the Roadkill show in the Internet, beaming to our eyes and earholes.
Read MoreNever a dull moment in Austin, Texas.
Read MoreThe McLaren 650S has been around since 2014, but it was based on the McLaren 12C, which came out in 2011. I know. So long ago. It needs a replacement soon. And this is that replacement.
Read MoreThe Porsche 918 Spyder is capable of reducing a grown man to giggles when it’s hooned around an open runway, but is it faster than a Red Bull Air Race plane? German television show GRIP put the 887-horsepower hybrid hypercar up against a Zivko Edge 540 V3 racing plane to see which was the fastest.
Read MoreThe Bugatti Chiron is a $2.5 million dollar, 261 mile per hour hypercar, unless you pay even extra, in which case Bugatti will deem you worthy of doing 285 mph.
Read MoreIn the court documents charging Volkswagen engineer James Robert Liang with fraud for developing VW’s diesel emission cheat, exists a small section about a software update in 2014. It alleges VW made its cars even more harmful to the environment just so the company could save on warranty costs.
Read MoreWhat do you do with a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer that’s bound for the crusher? You do everything within your power to destroy it further, that’s what. Blast over rocks. Jump it. Run into a tree. Shoot, get out some explosives and blow it up. The Lancer will just laugh at your feeble human attempts to destroy it.
Read MoreEverybody is celebrating Star Trek’s 50th anniversary this week, and since I hate being out of the loop, I decided it made sense to bring some much needed attention to the only non-human built but still recognizable car ever shown on Star Trek. Even better, that car is pretty fascinating, and kind of a gearhead’s dream in how it’s made. It’s called the Jupiter 8.
Read MoreA Volkswagen engineer pleaded guilty today after being indicted for creating a defeat system for the 2.0-liter VW diesel engines that cheated federal emissions regulations, Automotive News reports. It is the first criminal charge handed down as a result of the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into VW.
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo Giulia QV once lapped the Nürburgring in an unofficial seven minutes and 39 seconds, making it quite possibly the quickest production sedan to lap the Green Hell. And then a Porsche Panamera beat it. Not by much, but numbers are numbers. And now it seems like the Giulia QV just stole the title back.
Read MoreFor those still dragging their feet, bemoaning that a hybrid car is synonymous with the boring, loveless existence that is a Toyota Prius, the new 2018 Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid is here to change their minds. And it’s got 462 reasons right off the bat.
Read MoreThere will be a maximum of 150 examples of the Aston Martin AM-RB 001, the hollowed-out hypercar with the name of an industrial process robot. Which is really, just incredibly tragic for at least 300 rich people, who will not be able to buy one until they come up used.
Read MoreI love crazy engine swaps, even if they turn a car from daily-drive-able to totally useless. Here’s a Porsche Cayman—a car normally fitted with a mid-mounted, low-slung flat-six— but with a big 5.0-liter Coyote V8 swapped in. It may sound like blasphemy, but just watch how much power this thing makes on the dyno.
Read MoreIn the 1940s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory helped create nuclear weapons. In 2016, Oak Ridge National Laboratory made this video. As far as I am concerned, they are equal in the pantheon of human achievements.
Read MoreFailed GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s former PR person Amanda Carpenter got trapped in an Amtrak elevator at Baltimore-Washington International Airport this past February. She tweeted at Amtrak saying that she was stuck, pleading for help. Amtrak’s official Twitter account came to the rescue—a mere eight months later!
Read MoreThe Pagani Huayra is powerful, fast, a work of art—and not immune to recalls, either, as it turns out.
Read MoreA big rig chock full of pennies crashed into a barrier, caught fire and dumped hundreds (thousands?) of dollars worth of the coins all over I-95 in Delaware at around 2 a.m. Thursday. The driver apparently escaped with “minor injuries” but it sure made for a lot of sweeping.
Read MoreThe new iPhone 7 costs $649—that’s more than a running, driving Jeep Cherokee off Craigslist. So really, you should probably not buy one (a new iPhone, that is. You should definitely buy an XJ). But there are still a lot of new features this iPhone offers over its predecessors that gearheads might find incredibly useful.
Read MoreThere’s an awful lot of ways to configure that box of metal that surrounds you and an engine, and there’s an awful lot of names for the various shapes that box takes. Why don’t you join me and my whiteboard in an interactive wondersploration of car body types and what we should call them? It’ll be freaking magical.
Read MoreI have complicated feelings about Elio, the company that’s working to bring a mass-market three-wheel car to American drivers. I love the idea of cheap, three-wheel cars with innovative designs. I also don’t have much confidence in how Elio can accomplish this goal. There is one thing I think Elio could be doing very well, but it’s not something they want: opening this segment to cars from India.
Read MoreMost people know the Porsche Cayenne Turbo as the scourge of school drop-off zones and Starbucks drive-thrus everywhere. Finally, people are taking these things off the pavement and into what should be their natural territory: mud! Muck! Dirt! Grime! YES.
Read MoreLexus has been going strong with its “angry Cylon” styling for a few years now, and it hasn’t exactly been celebrated. But what if it was taken one step further? What if “angry Cylon” didn’t just apply to the face, but to the entire thing? This is the first “leaked” photo of the Lexus UX concept, and I’m not complaining.
Read MoreThat’s right: Ken Block is still making viral-style Ford commercials. This one features his new Focus RS RX rallycross car, and many, many tips have been sent in about it hooning around the exotic locale of Buffalo, New York. Let’s enjoy a small teaser of the action until then, shall we?
Read MoreLook—we all know we’re weird. Some of us are just easier to group than others. It can be pretty hilarious watching just how accurate a basic list of your stereotypical car guys can be, from the guys perpetually shopping for a sweet Z to the one who thinks his Mustang is special.
Read MoreChinese outbound tourism has been skyrocketing in recent years. For many, these vacations are their first trips abroad. Air China has taken it upon itself to give its passengers some travel advice when adventuring in new cities. Though, its recent message revealed some nasty racism.
Read MoreThe idea is simple: instead of using a rare or priceless car on a film shoot, you use a blank model of a car and render the desired vehicle on top of it in post production. It’s called the Blackbird, and thanks to Top Gear, we know more about how it works.
Read MoreThe 3.5mm headphone jack is a decades-old standard on all sorts of audio-transmitting gadgets, so lots of our devices—including our cars—are made to accommodate them. But now Apple is getting rid of that ubiquitous jack on their iPhone 7, and that’s a big deal. Here’s what that means for your car’s audio system.
Read MoreI watched the big Apple Event today, just in case they said anything about an Apple Car. They didn’t. Because of course they didn’t. Nobody thought they would, right? Well, now we know for sure: no car. So we can all rest easy.
Read MoreMost of us know Steve “Woz” Wozniak as the guy who took advantage of the NTSC color burst signal as a way to get cheap color computer graphics. Oh, also, he founded Apple. Woz has been a very visible owner of a Tesla Model S, but it now looks like he’s considering switching to a Chevy Bolt, according to his Facebook page.
Read MoreTrees, schmees. This Volvo running in Sweden’s Snapphanerallyt doesn’t care.
Read MoreAn AirAsia pilot who was supposed to be flying directly from Sydney to Malaysia mistakenly entered the wrong coordinates and ended up flying 6,000 kilometers (that’s 3,728 miles) out of its way.
Read MoreYou know that feeling you get when you’ve set your ex’s car on fire, only later to learn that the car wasn’t your ex’s? Yeah, neither do I. But a 19 year-old Floridian caught on surveillance video might know that feeling all too well, WFTS Tampa Bay reports.
Read MoreThis is the new 2017 Bentley Flying Spur W12 S, which will hit a factory-claimed 202 mile per hour top speed. Bentley says it’s their first four-door that can do so.
Read MoreRemember that Super Bowl commercial that aired in 1990 with the silver Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo that was directed by Ridley Scott? Whatever happened to that car?
Read MoreAs if there weren’t already enough AC Cobra restorations and copy-jobs running around the universe, AC Cars is planning to produce nine new, factory-original cars in their original 1962 specification, for around $670,000 each.
Read MoreThere’s a Tesla-branded pill reportedly getting around the club scene spreading from the UK to Germany containing 240mg of MDMA, and that’s a potentially deadly strength.
Read MoreOne of the easiest ways to get an engine to make big horsepower is to hook it up to a bottle of Nitrous. But with great power, comes great responsibility—you can only spray so much of the good stuff into an engine before it blows up, and David Freiburger at Motor Trend found out exactly how much that is.
Read MoreFormer CEO of Bentley and Bugatti Wolfgang Schreiber is suing Volkswagen for hundreds of millions of Euros in royalties, which he thinks he deserves for having played a key role in developing Volkswagen’s ubiquitous DSG transmission, Der Spiegel reports.
Read MoreI’m not exactly sure what kind of totalitarian hellhole modern Australia is, but apparently a person’s freedom to drive using cookware is not considered a human right there. Perhaps I’m wrong, but that’s what it seems like, based on this report of South Australia Police arresting a man who was using a frying pan as a steering wheel.
Read MoreWe have known since April that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were developing a new car website called DriveTribe in addition to filming their Amazon show The Grand Tour. Financing came from the trio, producer Andy Wilman and tech entrepreneur and DriveTribe CEO Ernesto Schmitt. And now it seems like they are also getting a fat check from 21st Century Fox—but we still don’t know what the platform will do.
Read MoreWhat’s a better go-faster accessory for a big, stinkin’ wing than an Alfa Romeo 4C? Nothing, that’s what.
Read MoreMaybe too many of them ended up in ditches. Maybe too many owners complained they couldn’t drive them half the year. But the Dodge Challenger, ever-popular for despite its age and outweighing its competitors, is apparently due to send power to all four wheels. (Update: See below.)
Read MoreThe 2016 Ford Focus RS has a “Drift Mode” feature that sends more power to the back wheels and softens the dampers so you can more easily catch the slide. The results, however, are not guaranteed, as you can see in this video.
Read MoreGenerally, people you meet on Craigslist don’t enjoy the most stellar reputation. Most people treat any in-person transaction with someone from Craigslist with the same caution you’d normally associate with gorilla inseminators. But there’s a woman in Virginia who handed over her beloved Super Beetle to a stranger, and that stranger restored her car. For free.
Read MoreIf given the option, it can be hard not to connect your smartphone to a rental car—especially when that’s what you’re used to in your own vehicle. But doing so could give others access to enough of your personal information to track you down at your own home and tell you what you did all week.
Read MoreWho says you need a big 4x4 to climb a mountain on muddy Nova Scotian roads? Nah, man, you need something you don’t care about—like an old Corolla. Make that two old Corollas.
Read MoreHarry Donovan is a 95-year-old World War II veteran who flew more than 20 missions over Germany. Now living in Indiana, he had a 1967 Mustang that he paid someone $10,000 to restore. That never happened because Donovan was scammed out of his money. But some gearheads came together to help him out.
Read MoreTransformers: The Last Knight, set for release next summer, is currently filming near Detroit, so fansite Seibertron.com took the opportunity to grab a close-up video walkaround of some of the cars appearing in the video. They are all absurd. Every one of them. And yet, the kid in me kind of digs them.
Read MoreThe Cadillac ATS-V and CTS-V are two of the best performance bargains on the planet, and the deal’s about to get even better. Cadillac is ramping up its V-Performance Academy, but unlike anytime before, now it’s free.
Read MoreThe Bugatti Veyron is well known by high-school supercar fanboys worldwide as being “the fastest car in the world.” Here’s a fact that’s even cooler: its top speed of 254.04 mph is just about as fast as it takes to literally think.
Read MoreAlright, look, everybody, shut up, shut up. This is important. I realized something big yesterday. BIG big. About Star Wars, and droids, and how painfully misguided so many people are. Yesterday, when I posted about Rogue One’s new astromech droid, C2-B5, it became clear how misguided people are about droid names. Let’s get this sorted out. Now.
Read MoreThe first luxury cruise ship to pass through the Northwest Passage stopped at a remote Canadian beach town this week and was surprised, for some reason, to find that all the ice had melted. “Makes you think more about the global warming,” one Texan tourist on the ship remarked. Indeed it does.
Read MoreA big mean cruise ship physically crushed a sweet and fine marina of lil’ boats in Messina, Italy recently, totally sweeping it over with its propeller wash alone.
Read MoreYes, there’s no question this 1964½ Ford Mustang made of Legos is remarkable. From a distance, it could easily pass for a well-kept but oddly matte-finished vintage Mustang. Up close, it looks like you’ve been transported to an alternate lo-res reality. It’s astoundingly good. But it is hiding a secret.
Read MoreThose Ferrari XX stripped-out track day cars are expensive, rare—and thought to be part of this weird deal where even if you bought one, Ferrari wouldn’t let you keep it anywhere except at its factory Maranello. You could go and drive it there. But that isn’t true, as it turns out.
Read MoreFollowing the SpaceX explosion from this morning, which destroyed the satellite that was supposed help beam down internet and Facebook from space, Zuckerberg voiced his displeasure at the incident at SpaceX. And indirectly-but-kind-of-really-directly at Elon Musk.
Read MoreDowntown Reno is bleak. It calls itself the “Biggest Little City in the World,” a name left over from a different legal and moral era, when the economy rode high on gambling and out-of-state travelers seeking divorce. That fortune has long since ebbed, and on Virginia Street, Reno’s main drag, the casinos keep company with pawnshops and liquor stores. The pawnshops generally seem to be doing better than the casinos.
Read MoreThe garages of Beverly Hills are pretty much all full of fabulous cars all the time. But only one is LeMans-themed, and has hot rods, motorcycles, a 1929 Bentley, and a wooden speed boat.
Read MoreThere’s no need to visit some fancy car auction website or go to some high-falootin’ “dealership” where a man in a suit is going to judge you for all your unpaid credit card bills. Craigslist, that’s where it’s at!
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bentley is named for the color of the sky (or of my dreamy eyes). That’s pretty fitting seeing as it’s a droptop, but will this butch Brit’s price have you saying the sky’s the limit?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep says it needs a few incidentals. He doesn’t go into what those might be so you’ll have to decide if you’d be willing to go as far as paying his asking price.
Read MoreDespite what legions of well meaning but ultimately soul-crushed women may say, size matters. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick brings the size, but will its price end up being its biggest deal?
Read MoreThe VR6 in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Passat has a reputation for silky smooth power delivery and an exhaust note of which you should take note. Let’s see if that engine makes this wagon worth its asking price.
Read MoreUpon its founding, Maybach Motorenbau built diesel engines for Zeppelins. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Maybach 57 represents from the brand’s turn of this century rebirth, and is one of the most luxurious cars of its era. Will that keep you from exclaiming “oh the humanity” over its price?
Read MoreDo the words Ford Racing pique your curiosity? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe FR200 was built by the company’s racing arm, but never really turned a tire on the track. Let’s see if this one-of-three parts bin specials comes with a price that might have you even curiouser.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche is #525 out of 911 (isn’t that clever?) special edition “911s for the New Millennium.” It may have been the 911 for the new century, but is it’s current price a throwback to Porsche’s past?
Read MoreThe say somethings are as easy as falling off a bike. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Saab is a special edition honoring mountain biking legend Gary Fisher. It’s lost its accompanying bike and roof rack, but will it’s price make it an easy decision?
Read MoreJimmy has long been a nickname for GMC trucks. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe K5 Jimmy could earn the additional endearment “sweet” owing to its condition. That is, if its price doesn’t have you calling its seller all kinds of dirty names.
Read MoreWith it’s rear-mounted engine and sporting pretensions the Alpine A310 has long been considered the Gallic 911. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe edition has been modded by the tuner Fleismann, but will its price have you modding your appraisal of its desirability?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes W203 features not just one but two tuners modding it out. We’ll see if all that adds up to a price that has you tuning out.
Read MoreWhat is it they say, the second time’s a charm? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GTI is a MkII and with its seemingly solid body and 16V engine it seems all kinds of charming. Let’s just see if its price makes you do a double take.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe FFR GTM says it’s being sold AS IS. That AS IS seems to be pretty desirable, but we’ll still have to see if its price has you saying AS IF!
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda was called the 626 here in the U.S. while it went by Capella in other counties. This one is nicely kitted with a turbo and a five speed stick. Let’s see if that and its price has you singing ”Ah, Capella.”
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lotus says NOT to buy it if you’re married and weak willed. That’s because he suggests you will get propositioned in it unceasingly. Let’s find out if you’ll have no problem saying no to this little troublemaker’s price.
Read MoreIf you were to picture the perfect factory Fiero what might that look like? An ’88 with the uprated suspension? V6 power and a five-speed stick? Maybe the T-tops to let the sun shine in? Well, you just described today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe car. Now let’s see if it’s also perfectly priced.
Read MoreThe Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge held its final race of 2016 today at Road Atlanta, finally deciding a close-fought season championship. The two race winners turned out to be the season champions themselves and came together at the end to smoke some tires.
Read MoreFree Practice 1 for the Malaysian Grand Prix was red-flagged this morning for fifteen minutes after Kevin Magnussen’s Renault caught fire as it was being pushed into the garage.
Read MoreMany of you have begged for a chance to destroy your favorite Jalopnik contributor in a head-to-head race but have been unwilling, for some reason, to travel to Detroit in January. Great news! We’re having a kart race October 23rd at Autobahn Indoor Speedway (AIS) at the Palisades Mall outside of NYC. RSVP here, race us, support a good cause. Details below.
Read MoreHyundai showed off an “interim” version of their 2017 World Rally Championship competitor at the Paris Motor Show knowing that they’re still tweaking everything from its powertrain to its aerodynamics, but it’s still among the hottest of all hatches to behold. Drool with us at the close-ups.
Read MoreSo much work goes into each part of a Formula One car that it’s a little mind-boggling when you start to think about it. Even the mundane parts you rarely think about have to come from somewhere. Case in point: the life cycle of a seemingly ordinary suspension bolt.
Read MoreHot on the wheels of Audi’s announcement of the fast, quintuple-banger RS3 sedan, Audi has just revealed the RS3 LMS racecar based on the new RS3 sedan. It looks like the RS3's evil supervillian version, and, at around $110-$130,000, it’s one of the cheapest ways to get into a genuine racecar.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing to bring us together as a species, it’s the delight we feel in a sharable and relatable experience. Car people in Lesotho have the same desire to see interesting automobiles drive fast as those in Gordonsville or even in Beirut. A secondary common experience might be the secret enjoyment many feel when watching rich people bend their pricey cars.
Read MoreWe already have Formula E and now we have this: the Electric GT Championship, which is the self-proclaimed first-ever zero-emissions GT championship. The first season will start in 2017, with the series launch and Tesla Model S EGT race car unveil taking place in Ibiza today. And you can totally apply to be a driver in the series.
Read MoreIn NASCAR, and in the rest of motorsport, there’s a huge gap between the top teams and underdogs. But while underfunded teams don’t get much attention for running at the back—and retiring after a few laps just for purse money, in some cases—far more work goes into their operations than the results tell.
Read MoreThe green flag just dropped on the first race of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ inaugural Chase for the Championship, but there hasn’t been much race-paced chasing yet. Drivers hadn’t finished two laps before a caution came out, and the yellows kept on coming, oh, a couple of minutes apart.
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 MoreWhile Greg Maffei, CEO of Formula One’s new American corporate overlords Liberty Media, says that expanding F1 in North America is a long-term project, they are looking at expanding the schedule, reports Fox Sports. Two possibilities? Miami and Las Vegas.
Read MoreFor those of us bored in the drought of no rally left after Rally China was cancelled from this year’s World Rally Championship schedule, Volkswagen has a peace offering. Their Polo WRC car was spotted testing in Portugal, and my stars, it’s loud and fast.
Read MoreThe Nürburgring Nordschelife has close walls and no mercy. Tourist drives on the famed track are taken at your own risk, and that risk is “you might end up with a crumpled wad of metal after this!” This may be the world’s luckiest BMW owner after his car doesn’t become a giant green pinball after losing it on track.
Read MoreProtests in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina over the death of Keith Lamont Scott at the hands of police turned violent this evening, with several businesses including the NASCAR Hall of Fame reportedly being looted in the process. Scott was a father of seven who was shot and killed in a confrontation with officers on Tuesday. [Update: Looters failed to make it inside; see below.]
Read MoreFormula E only chooses city circuits to host its races, and it will finally hold a race in New York City next summer, something Formula One hasn’t yet been able to do. And it’s in the hip neighborhood full of all the good and beautiful young hoverboard people with social media jobs, Brooklyn!
Read MoreThe bizarre saga of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch and Patricia Driscoll has become even more perplexing.
Read MoreNASCAR fans are a bit outraged at the fact that the series swore they’d crack down on Chase for the Sprint Cup competitors who failed the post-race technical inspection, and Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr.’s car failed after that anyway. But it’s by such a minuscule amount that NASCAR may not even bother, and I can’t even care.
Read MoreSeven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher still can’t stand up or walk on his own after a December 2013 skiing accident left him with a cerebral hemorrhage, reports The Telegraph. Schumacher’s condition was disclosed in court proceedings for an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by the Schumacher family.
Read MoreOpen-wheelers are really having trouble starting a race today, it seems. Tony Kanaan and Mikhail Aleshin made contact on the first lap of today’s IndyCar season finale at Sonoma Raceway, spinning Aleshin the wrong way around in one of Sonoma’s tight hairpin turns.
Read More“America.” Can you just hear it ringing from this photo? Good, because it is.
Read MoreFerrari Formula One team principal Maurizio Arrivabene spent six hours in custody after throwing a cigarette butt in the street, reports The Times of Malta. It’s a weirdly fitting thing for Arrivabene to get busted by The Man for, given that he came to Ferrari from tobacco company Phillip Morris. [Update: A Ferrari spokesman has since denied this happened. See note below.]
Read MoreIf you haven’t heard, Nico Rosberg won today’s Formula One Singapore Grand Prix. But no one needed to tell you that, because you knew it would either be him or his teammate, Lewis Hamilton. The universe just won’t have it any other way!
Read MoreDrivers piled up behind a slow-starting Max Verstappen all crashed into each other at the very start of the Singapore Grand Prix. Force India driver Nico Hülkenberg spun into the wall, bringing out the safety car immediately.
Read MoreThe World Endurance Championship’s lone round in the United States was briefly pushed off of U.S. cable entirely, off of already-rarely-carried channel Fox Sports 2 to online only. In its place was UFC, which had been pushed off Fox Sports 1 for extra baseball innings in a cascade of multiple-channel suck.
Read MoreThere were two things No. 8 Audi R18 driver Oliver Jarvis wasn’t quite fond of in Mexico: the tequila, and the contact-prone nature of the Extreme Speed Motorsports LMP2 cars. We picked the brains of Jarvis and racing legend Allan McNish on who to watch during the 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas, and here’s what they had to say.
Read MoreThe last thing you want to happen in a two-hour, 40-minute race is to be robbed of a good finish at the last minute. Sadly for the No. 23 Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R—the only full-season 911 left in the GT Daytona class—they ran out of fuel on the last lap from second place today.
Read MoreThe No. 4 Corvette and the No. 67 Ford GT are neck and neck for the championship lead in the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship, which means no body panel on either car will be spared in the quest for more wins.
Read MoreMagnus Racing broke their usual jolly character after Virginia International Raceway to point out how asinine it was that they were excluded from the race results. Part of their car was bent just 1 mm too hellaflush after contact with another car and they lost a third-place finish over it. PSA: they’re still unhappy.
Read More“Well, that didn’t go as planned.” Jay from Real Street says as he hopes his 1500 horsepower beast of a drag-racing Supra isn’t on fire in this video. Fortunately, driver Jay is calm incarnate and delivers the best rolling commentary of a fire ever. “Are you on fire right now?” Jay asks. “I hope you’re not on fire.”
Read MoreAfter watching two NASCAR drivers brawl following the messiest trucks finish ever, it’s almost more surprising when a driver gets in trouble for acting out than when they don’t. Risi Competizione Ferrari driver and part-time DJ Giancarlo Fisichella was placed on probation for his post-race temper tantrum at Virginia International Raceway, per an IMSA press release.
Read MoreFormula One’s Singapore Grand Prix has a bit of a reputation for unwanted beings making their way onto the race track, and we’re not talking about the dominant Mercedes F1 drivers. This year, the unwanted being was a giant lizard in the middle of the track during a practice session.
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 MoreWhen I first saw the Fiat 124 Abarth R-GT rally car, I figured it was another one of those concepts that’s a makeup-and-stickers fantasy. The sort of thing a car company does when it wants to say “we could do this if we were awesome, which we are not.” But holy crap, it’s real. It’s been testing. And it is glorious.
Read MoreOnce again, all of the magical sportscars have descended upon Austin for Lone Star Le Mans. We know a lot of y’all (yes, y’all) are also floating around this weekend, so let’s get together. Back by popular demand, we’ll have a meet-up TONIGHT at 8 p.m. at Posse East, just north of the University of Texas campus.
Read MoreI’ll be honest: I usually don’t care about iOS updates until apps break or I get tired of dismissing reminders to update. However, this latest update allows me to communicate entirely with car stickers, so I can’t hate it. Why write words when I can get the same point across with a 356 or a 919? Also, my own race car is in it, so I’m clearly biased.
Read MoreNASCAR and Baja racing legend Robby Gordon spoke to the press today about the tragic and sudden deaths of his father Robert “Baja Bob” Gordon and stepmother Sharon. The story surrounding the incident is still incomplete, but Gordon is maintaining “the truth will come out.”
Read MoreThe new Ford GT is perhaps best known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year. It was built for Le Mans and it did well there. But it’s less than ideal for some of the other circuits on its schedule, and its American team must make the car work after being slowed down to be competitive with other teams—teams that have caught onto its ways.
Read MoreThe poor No. 55 Mazda Prototype had a master cylinder issue that left it stranded on Circuit of the Americas’ pit straight. Normally, this would be a quick retrieval given that everyone’s right there staring at the car, but it triggered a 28 minute red flag as the car was too low to get it off the track. CamberGang has nothing on this.
Read MoreThe Orange County coroner confirmed this morning that the two people found dead inside a Southern California home owned by racer Robby Gordon are Gordon’s father and stepmother, reports USA Today. The cause of death has still not been determined.
Read MoreNo. 67 Ford GT driver Ryan Briscoe had one of the best suggestions I’ve heard on how to improve the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship: let the all-pro GT Le Mans class go faster, for the good of both the cars and the series.
Read MoreWe know that asking NASCAR not to cheat is like asking an old Volkswagen not to drop oil, but a new ruling means that the series (and this comes as a shock) may now actually strip the benefits of winning from rule-breaking cars. You know what this means? Teams will just have to cheat harder.
Read MoreAlex Zanardi has repeated his 2012 Paralympic gold medal victory in the hand-cycling time trial today, just before the fifteenth anniversary of the horrific CART series racing crash that amputated both of his legs.
Read MoreIf there’s anyone who knows his way around the highest levels of motorsport, it’s ex-Formula One driver and current Le Mans prototype driver Anthony Davidson. Davidson’s No. 5 Toyota TS050 team was the gut-wrenching headline of Le Mans this year, and he’s here with us now to answer your questions.
Read MoreIndicted former American Le Mans Series champion and payday lending mogul Scott Tucker will no longer be able to tap into his frozen assets to maintain his lavish lifestyle, reports The Kansas City Star. How lavish? Tucker has been living off of $99,000 in the last five months for their many “spa, steakhouse, country club and liquor purchases.”
Read MoreSidelined NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. spoke during NBCSN’s pre-race show last weekend on his continued recovery. Earnhardt has been sitting out since July due to concussion symptoms. The worst part, for someone whose life revolves around racing, has been the lack of purpose.
Read MoreA Dirt Late Model driver died from injuries sustained in a crash on Saturday night at Eldora Speedway, a half-mile dirt oval in Ohio. The event continued after the wreck, as the driver was transported to the hospital for severe injuries at the time.
Read MoreDefending Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton is good friends—if you can call it that—with a tiger, and had playtime with it recently. Not through glass like us common folk do at the zoo, but, like, actually in a cage with it. If that doesn’t sound lethal enough, he decided to make an instructional video on “how to scare a tiger.”
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 MoreDespite a series of recent announcements of new works teams in Formula E, the series didn’t do so great in its first year. It posted a loss of $68.4 million for its inaugural 2014-2015 season, per Sports Business Daily. Ouch!
Read MoreWhile some familiar gnome-like faces are sticking around for now, Formula One is about to have some new owners in the form of Liberty Media. While the sport is no doubt lucrative and poised for expansion, it needs more than just a small tune-up.
Read MoreThe University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech have apparently been trying to arrange a football game at Bristol Motor Speedway, located between the schools, for some 20 years. Now it’s finally going to happen, after 19 days of intense preparation. Which you can watch here in about six minutes.
Read MoreFormula E is a recent addition to the world’s motorsports scene, an electric counterpart to the gas-guzzling established series. It does a lot right, but still nobody really seems to know what it is, what’s it’s up to, or why it’s important. Here are three things the series could do to right itself and no, they’re not gonna be cheap.
Read MoreIf you hoped that the sale of Formula One would mean that troll-king Bernie Ecclestone would retire to the bridge from whence he came to a nice life of bribing the Billy Goats Gruff, I’ve got some bad news. Ecclestone will remain the chief executive officer of F1, per Autosport, sharing duties with a new chairman.
Read MoreWhile NASCAR won’t penalize any drivers in Mosport’s blatant wreck-to-win race ending or the fight that happened afterwards, they will at least penalize something. No. 21 Wood Brothers driver Ryan Blaney was fined $1,000 for driving without gloves in practice.
Read MoreLiberty Media, the company controlled by John Malone and which owns the Atlanta Braves, has purchased Formula One, reports CNBC. Liberty will be officially purchasing an 18.7 percent stake to start with, which will eventually become an outright acquisition.
Read MoreTurns out, you can totally turn into your opponent and drag them along the wall to take a win. Who cares about racing fair, or even racing? NASCAR won’t penalize you for it. Or for tackling a dude, even though they probably had it coming.
Read MoreThere’s a saying among track geeks when you suck: “other sports beckon.” In the case of IndyCar driver and Andretti family tree misfit Marco, maybe it’s “other drives beckon?” Listen as former IndyCar driver and series commentator Paul Tracy delivers the on-air burn of the year during the Watkins Glen race.
Read MoreAfter owning a host of the usual track rats, including an Elise, an Exige, an Atom, and a Westfield kit car, Dennis Palatov figured that he could improve upon the superlight track-warrior. So, he started making his own kits, including one Pikes Peak-worthy beast that accelerates from 0-60 mph in 1.8 seconds.
Read MorePro drifter Daigo Saito has obliterated the tires on some of the most intense machinery on the planet, including a ludicrously overpowered Lexus SC430, a 1,000-hp Nissan GT-R, a Lamborghini Murciélago and a Ferrari F430. That’s right: Saito’s had more than one drift Ferrari.
Read MoreThe now-V8-optional Virgin Australia Supercars Championship will feature one more big change next year: the addition of a woman. Swiss former IndyCar driver and F1 hopeful Simona de Silvestro signed a three-year agreement to become the first woman to race full-time in Aussie Supercars, starting in 2017.
Read MoreFlop-haired muppet and dictator aficionado Bernie Ecclestone has controlled Formula One for decades now, and for decades now the sport has been regularly wracked by turmoil. But the traveling F1 circus might finally be sold from his grasp. And that might be the thing that saves it.
Read MoreI’m not sure what’s more insane about the end of today’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Not only was the race decided by a nose—specifically the nose of a truck that was pinning another truck into Mosport’s outer wall—but it was capped off by a crazy fight along the pit straight.
Read MoreIndyCar’s lovable Canadian and future “Dancing With The Stars” participant James Hinchcliffe was one of four drivers penalized for interfering with another driver’s qualifying lap at Watkins Glen. Even after an appeal, IndyCar stuck to their ruling that Hinchcliffe impeded Will Power’s lap. Now he’s really mad, eh?
Read MoreIf you didn’t see, Nico Rosberg predictably won Sunday’s Formula One Italian Grand Prix and ahead of Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton. But you wouldn’t know if you caught the broadcast right before the podium ceremony, because Sebastian Vettel ran around in the first-place hat for a good few minutes.
Read MoreEven if a Formula One race turns out to be as dull as watching paint dry, we can always still rely on something going wrong with Fernando Alonso’s McLaren to entertain us. Let’s savor these moments of Alonso misery just in case he rage-quits McLaren and gives Jenson Button a seat back.
Read MoreLewis Hamilton may have owned qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, but he totally screwed the pooch at the start of the race. Mailed it in. Fell asleep. Something. (Something not good.)
Read MoreJust 90.004 seconds separated the top four overall cars of today’s 6 Hours of Mexico. The winning No. 1 Porsche 919 had a significant lead over the No. 7 Audi R18, but had the No. 1 car’s last-minute off-track adventure been just a hair worse, the win could have gone to any of the three other LMP1-class cars.
Read MoreNo. 7 Audi R18 driver Marcel Fässler was left in a dead car on the pit lane during today’s 6 Hours of Mexico race.
Read MoreAs predicted, IndyCar broke its track record around Watkins Glen yet again today, with Scott Dixon’s pole-sitting time of 1:22.5259 taking the new record. Dixon’s lap was good for a blistering 147.008 average speed around the best little road course in New York. Holy crap, that’s nuts.
Read MoreA driver from the development ranks will take former Formula One champion Jenson Button’s seat next year, but he is definitely, definitely not retiring. Since Button apparently missed out on 17 years of adult life thanks to his F1 career, he made it clear that “Jenson Button’s going to do what he wants in 2017.”
Read MoreThank goodness for race workers, as they often sit in relatively unprotected stands right next to the action. It’s the best view in the house, but you definitely hope all the stands are in locations where no one will hit them. This British Touring Car Championship crash is everyone’s worst nightmare turned up to 11.
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Read MoreHoly crap, this weekend’s IndyCar race is going to be fast. IndyCar is back at a track they never should have left in the first place—Watkins Glen—and that track has a nice, fresh repave that’s apparently good for multiple seconds under IndyCar’s previous track record there from 2009.
Read MoreToday, Hendrick Motorsports announced that driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be out for the rest of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Doctors have not cleared him to return to racing due to his symptoms. Drivers Alex Bowman and Jeff Gordon will continue to split fill-in duties for Earnhardt in the No. 88 Chevrolet.
Read MoreFor years, only a few hazy images existed of the car Porsche never showed to the world. It could have taken Le Mans, but it died, and its V10 heart was given to the Carrera GT. Only now, 16 years after when it could have debuted, Racecar Engineering and Mulsanne’s Corner can show the car in full.
Read MoreOne of the longest-running drivers in Formula One announced his retirement today ahead of the Italian Grand Prix. Williams driver Felipe Massa will be moving on at the end of 2016. The 35-year-old won 11 Grands Prix in his career. The season finale at Abu Dhabi will be his 250th and final F1 race.
Read MoreThe Monterey Motorsports Reunion had some amazing machinery. Take, for example, this onboard of a 1969 Porsche 917K. Listen to it. Listen to it now.
Read MoreMore than anything else in the world, I hate not being able to feel the wind in my hair when I drive my Ferrari LaFerrari. Hate it! I wrote a bunch of angry letters to Maranello on my personal stationery, yelling about my displeasure. I pressed very hard into the paper to make a point.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-AMG GT is a luxurious yet delightfully hardcore model in its own right. What happens when you cut the top off and give it a whole heaping of more power, and make it launch to highway speed 3.7 seconds? You get this, the Mercedes-AMG GT Roadster. And it comes in two flavors.
Read MoreThis week electrovehicle and space transit magnate Elon Musk unveiled his master plan for the human race to become “a multi-planetary species”, starting with travel to Mars. But while I know it’s an act of remarkable hubris for me to even say this, I believe SpaceX’s plans for their Interplanetary Transport System have some pretty glaring flaws. The good news is they are flaws that are easily corrected by applying some decades-old solutions from the American and Soviet space-faring experience.
Read MoreMars has been the vague next big goal of NASA’s manned space exploration since the 1970s, but a real, concrete commitment never quite seemed to happen. Until now. A bipartisan bill passed yesterday in Congress authorizes a new $19.5 billion budget for NASA, and an official mandate to send a crewed mission to mars within 25 years. Oh boy.
Read MoreTiangong-1 was China’s first manned space station, and it’s been a success. It was operational two years longer than planned, hosted three missions, and operated unmanned for the past three years. Unfortunately, its career may end with a literal bang, as it’s currently unresponsive and will make an uncontrolled return to Earth next year. Uh oh.
Read MoreAn enormous, fake inflatable moon unleashed its fury on the city of Fuzhou, China yesterday, and it was clearly out for blood. The big bubble attacked bicyclists and absorbed entire automobiles into its celestial belly.
Read MoreA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reportedly exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Read MoreInfiniti showed off a slightly updated Q50 yesterday at the Paris Motor Show, but nobody gave a damn because right next to it was this: the first ever production-ready variable compression-ratio engine. Here are some new, highly pornographic photos and additional details on this marvelous piece of machinery.
Read MoreLet’s make one thing clear: despite what you may have in your head, Tesla’s recently updated Autopilot can not safely navigate a highway off-ramp for you – yet.
Read MoreTechnology company Nvidia developed a system that allows a car to learn how to drive itself by essentially being a working, thinking passenger to a human driver, according to Tech Crunch. Cool technology. Great. But did anyone listen when the Terminator movies warned us not to let machines learn things?
Read MoreA heavily camouflaged prototype has been spotted driving around California, looking a little like a blend of Tesla Model X and Toyota Venza. Prevailing speculation is that this is the automotive product shadowy autonomous EV outfit Faraday Future plans to market.
Read MoreMore than 30 people have died this year after being left in hot cars. That’s a very serious problem, to use a bit of understatement. There’s been a kind-of sort-of solution from the Toyota Prius before, but Tesla may have finally found a way to stop it.
Read MoreToday is an important day in the development of autonomous cars, because today the National Highway Safety Administration published the Federal Automated Vehicles Policy, a 116-page document that you can read here designed to establish an actual Federal-level policy and safety standards for self-driving vehicles.
Read MoreThe Obama administration is trying to check as many policy boxes as it can on the way out of the door, and today it finally announced a flexible framework for companies and governments involved in developing self-driving cars.
Read MoreAt this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF, PlayStation and iPhone hacker George Hotz showed us the Comma One, a car add-on kit that will tap into a car’s existing hardware and give it an autonomous driving setting.
Read MoreYou probably know Grand Theft Auto V isn’t the kind of video game that encourages adherence to posted speed limits. Actually I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to play without committing multiple virtual felonies in the time it takes to load the title screen. So why is it being used as a training platform for autonomous cars?
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreI thought Toyota dumped all their “youth marketing” energy into Scion sticker kits and mix CDs in 2005, but apparently I completely missed the manual-only “performance-spec” Corolla XRS. Watch this thing haul-ass around canyons and make supercar pilot Matt Farah crack up.
Read MoreI don’t know if I’m ready to live in a world where the Toyota Supra is coming back oh my god I’m hyperventilating please yes I am painfully excited for Toyota’s idea of a world-conquering sports car to return.
Read MoreNight falls, drawing yet another day of the fighting to a close. You lean your head back against the Ram Rebel TRX Concept’s headrest and close your eyes, lulled by the engine’s grumble. You loosen up the six-point harness slightly. It’s safe, but it makes it hard to reach for your gun.
Read MoreYou like blades and edges and that crazy Predator grille? That is literally what the Lexus UX Compact Crossover is made of. What a scary machine! I am deeply afraid of this car.
Read MoreThe neon-colored explosion of bad taste known as the SEMA show in Las Vegas is just around the corner, and so are the legions of absurd and delightful tuner cars that will be showing off alternate-universe versions of actual cars. Like, you know, this 1,040 horsepower rear-drive Hyundai Santa Fe.
Read MoreWe all thought the new 2017 Land Rover Discovery was going to be a suburban yuppie-mobile with weak, sad off-roading abilities. While the first part of that clause is undoubtedly true, Land Rover has dropped the full details on the new Disco, and it looks like off-road capability is going to be more than just “okay.” The new Discovery has the specs to be an absolute monster.
Read MoreLooks like General Motors accidentally posted some specs on its new heavy duty pickup Duramax diesel engine over the weekend, and it’s got five horsepower on Ford’s Power Stroke. If these numbers are accurate Ford will hold the line on peak torque, but Chevy will still be making a big step up on stock output.
Read MoreAdam Savage is one of my favorite lunatic engineers, so I was a little surprised when he took on a project as basic as putting an inflatable movie screen in the back of a pickup. But damn that is one seriously sweet chair-holding cargo box.
Read MoreWe only saw the front of the new Land Rover Discovery and nothing else at the beginning of this month, but new leaked photos now show the rest of the car. And it looks...fine? It looks fine.
Read MoreWith a fresh design revealed last night, the 2017 Jeep Compass just vaulted from C-squad rental fleet car to decidedly decent looking crossover SUV. So far Jeep has been coy with details in the U.S. but our friends in Brazil already have details on dimensions and off-road angles.
Read MoreIt’s pretty obvious what the design mandate for the 2017 Jeep Compass must have been: “make it look like a little Grand Cherokee.” And it worked. It really worked. One of the least-relevant nameplates in SUVs has a whole new lease on life going into next year.
Read MoreLast weekend a Jalopnik reader ran into a team of engineers field testing the redesigned and repowered 2017 Ford Raptor off-road. Thanks to their GoPro we finally get a little peak at the truck’s experimental phase from something besides a Ford press release.
Read MoreBentley has unveiled the diesel variant of its new Bentayga SUV, and it sure seems like this thing will haul some serious ass. It has two turbos, a supercharger, tons of torque and it’s here to burn all of the oil.
Read MoreThe Chevy Equinox—wait, keep reading! It happens to be the second-best selling General Motors product so far this year, right behind the unstoppable Silverado. And if it really can hit GM’s claim of 40 MPG now with your family and all the shit they need to carry, it suddenly seems a lot more interesting.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s been releasing lots of plans for electric vehicles lately, no doubt because they’ve been forced to invest in EV infrastructure to help mitigate the damage they did with Dieselgate—it’s part of the company’s settlement agreement. So here’s a new electric van, complete with a press photo next to a renewable energy source.
Read MoreLook, your $70,000 Big Horn Lone Star King Ranch ‘Merica-edition pickup might be the biggest, worst, coal-rolling-est thing on the road, but when it comes to off-roading, it will get embarrassed by little baby Suzuki Samurais. Don’t believe me? Just watch this Ram try to get up this grade.
Read MoreIn its last major corporate update Fiat Chrysler announced it would replace the Jeep Compass and Patriot with a new “C-Segment” SUV this year. Officially, we haven’t heard much about that since. But some spy shots from Brazil seem to give a pretty clear indication of what Jeep’s up to with their next smallish 4x4.
Read MorePrepare to be mesmerized watching a man use both hands to shift two sticks through nine gears—while double-clutching— in an old Mack Truck. This guy is a boss.
Read MoreWe’ve been hearing that the next-gen 2018 Jeep Wrangler will have aluminum body parts to cut weight down. Today a report floating around the forums gives us a better idea of what that means exactly.
Read MoreWe’ve known for some time that Mercedes-Benz will be building a mid-sized pickup truck in the near future. Or at least, they’ll rebadge a Nissan. But this week somebody seems to have actually spotted the thing cruising around Germany.
Read MoreRemember the new Ford Ranger pickup truck? Of course you do. You probably clicked on this article to drop “Why don’t they sell it in America?” into the comments. One of the reasons I’ve heard is “it’s too close in size to the F-150” but you never really see both trucks in the same place. Now you can.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure the “hardcore off-road Subaru” scene is getting ready to blow up. We’ve already seen how cool the current Outback looks with big tires and tube bumpers, I think the look ports pretty well to the little Crosstrek too.
Read MoreAbout two years ago Ford executive Raj Nair said the 3.5 liter turbo V6-powered 2017 Ford Raptor would have 450 horsepower. Over the weekend some dealer documents made their way onto forums and Facebook chats confirming the same, along with torque and towing figures.
Read MoreRemember the Nissan Xterra? It was a cool looking off-roading SUV based on the Frontier truck, and it rocked some people’s socks for its fifteen long years for sale here in the U.S. It was axed in 2015, but Nissan is back testing a new truck-based SUV. Can we have it?
Read MoreIf you’re not familiar with the off-road vehicles Australians consider “iconic,” here’s your chance to see how well four of the all-time greatest hold up against the outback. And if you do know these trucks, you know they’ll be fun to watch.
Read MoreThis is pluck and determination, writ out in thin steel and all-wheel drive.
Read More“Don’t park like an asshole.” Yea, well, dragging a parked car across a parking lot when it’s not in neutral is also being an asshole. In this video, anarchy prevails.
Read MoreA Rolls-Royce SUV doesn’t make any damn sense. And you know what? Even Rolls-Royce agrees.
Read MoreThis week Volkswagen Truck & Bus announced a $256 million spend for 16.6 percent of the United States’ heavy-truck outfit Navistar, which make International Trucks and IC Bus. The plan is ostensibly for VW to help Navistar comply with diesel emissions regulations. No, really!
Read MoreToday in Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled their new concept “van of the future,” the all-electric Vision Van. The van is being presented as a delivery/cargo solution with some novel advances in connectivity and automated cargo management, but if they have any brains, we’re also looking at the future of their luxury cars.
Read MoreI didn’t know what my life’s true purpose was until today, when I saw this video.
Read MoreThe remarkable OX is the first full-scale, usable truck that can be shipped flat and assembled by hand in about 12 hours. It’s designed to be a tough, usable, easy-to-make workhorse for the developing world, and now the latest prototype, the XP3, has been revealed in London. Now the company behind it, the Global Vehicle Trust, just needs to raise some cash to make it happen.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s upcoming big, three-row SUV seems to have been leaked, from a Chinese publication called Autohome. The big MQB-platform’d SUV looks to be clearly based on VW’s CrossBlue concept from 2013. Oh, and it appears to be named a Latin-ized version of “Earth-mountain.”
Read MoreWell, it kind of has the face of a Range Rover Evoque. Meet Land Rover’s new seven-seat crossover.
Read MoreThe driver of a big rig in Texas felt a bump and thought he had blown a tire, as KHOU News reports. As it turns out, he had crashed into a Hyundai and was dragging it (and its terrified driver) down the highway.
Read MoreA stand-in for crumpled Whataburger wrapper Donald Trump gravely intoned on television last night that if Hillary Clinton wins the upcoming election, there will be “taco trucks on every corner.” And as delicious as that sounds, according to the Washington Post it may also be economically sound.
Read MoreFarming isn’t easy. It means long hours, taxing physical labor and harsh conditions. Some farmers don’t even have employees to help get everything done. Autonomous tractors could be a solution to many problems.
Read MoreThere are two things Americans primarily get vocal about: their right to own guns, and the way the front of the Jeep Wrangler looks. Don’t worry, the updated 2017 model has the same face you love—just with brighter optional LED headlights.
Read MoreI’m barreling down Interstate 35 just south of Austin, Texas in a sand-colored 1969 BMW 1600, headed for a long weekend of questionable choices and hazy recollections on South Padre Island. I had only owned the car, my first old BMW, for six months or so, and I was still getting to know the eccentricities, but the tinge of burning oil seemed a bit distinct among the other odors that come with a car that had been on the road a full decade before I was born.
Read MoreIf you’re not familiar with Adam Carolla, he’s the comedian, director, and rich-as-all-hell car guy that apparently has a soft spot for old Lamborghinis. Well, had, as he’s now selling his entire collection to anyone with a spring in their step and pockets deeper than the Marianas trench. You probably can’t afford this.
Read MoreThe Fast and Furious franchise would have you convinced that slapping a turbo onto your engine is easy. You just buy the turbo for some trivial amount of money, bolt it on, and away you go. But Hot Rod found out that when you purchase one of those cheap bolt-on kits from Amazon, it doesn’t go exactly as planned.
Read MoreHaving a daughter is a great, life affirming experience. Having a daughter sometimes means buying a more practical vehicle than you’d ever wanted. Now that Mike’s daughter is getting her license he’s ready to have a new life affirming experience with an automobile. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI recently bought a 1948 Willys CJ-2A Jeep only to learn the transmission had been obliterated by severe corrosion. I was convinced that this budget off-road project was dead in the water, as parts for that gearbox were prohibitively expensive. Then I completely rebuilt the trans in one night for less than $100. Here’s how.
Read MoreThere are loads of guides for DIY car painting floating around the internet. But like all complex processes distilled down to something you can “learn” in ten minutes of YouTubing, it doesn’t always look as shiny as you might have hoped. So how do you fix it? But seriously, I need help.
Read MoreNormally people swap out the rotary engines in their Mazda RX-7s because they want something more simple. A nice chassis, a beautiful design, no more worrying about apex seals. This guy did just that, except the opposite, because he did swap in a conventional piston engine, but he supercharged and turbocharged it.
Read MoreWhen Freddy “Tavarish” Hernandez moved from New Jersey to Florida, he selfishly wanted to burden one of his readers with one of the most unreliable cars ever made by giving it away before he left. As luck would have it, I am that reader.
Read MoreLast week, I took the leftover junk metal parts from all of my car projects to the scrapyard to make a few bucks. Unsurprisingly, there was metal on the ground, and a small shard sliced a hole right through my beloved Jeep’s tire (note to self: don’t drive in a metal scrapyard). But I fixed it in a couple minutes for less than $5. Here’s how.
Read MorePushing the limits of what’s possible is exactly the point of modifying your car. However, at some point, the law of diminishing returns comes into play, which kicked in for this determined Miata owner the second he realized that his home-made hella-stance kit was a little too much for his rented U-Haul trailer to handle.
Read MoreSome guy on the YouTubes looked at the creek flowing through his property and said, “I wanna get some use out of that water, and I’m gonna make me some power.” In what can only be described as pure genius, he cobbled up an alternator, a wheel bearing, a wire spool, a bicycle wheel and a few other things, and built his own hydroelectric power source. He is my hero.
Read MoreIt took me and a friend of mine five days to get a motor out and back into my ‘70s Volkswagen. These guys swapped out and re-assembled a turbo V8 in less than a day at the track.
Read MoreIt’s a car-nut cliché to be in love with the early Porsche 911. Before we even start talking driving experience or historical significance, just look at it. Today these cars are an endangered species, and you can’t exactly build a “new” classic. Except now it looks like maybe you can.
Read More“It’s stupid,” CJ Wilson Racing driver and part-time lumberjack Danny Burkett told Jalopnik of his recently purchased 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. “The most stupid decision I’ve ever made, but the best.”
Read MoreJoe turns 40 next year. He clearly has a predilection for fun, stylish and maybe even unconventional choices, which is why he has a 2016 Cadillac ATS Coupe. But he turns that lease in next winter, and now he’s looking for his last car—ever. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI stand looking at the 4.0-liter engine I’ve just spent hours installing, sweat and grease dripping from my face. After sitting for nearly a year, my once-hydrolocked Jeep XJ now has a new engine, and it’s all hooked up. But I’m not happy, because on the crankshaft damper sits a breaker bar that will not budge. The motor is seized. I am defeated.
Read MoreThis Canadian redneck’s incredible YouTube channel narrating the dismantling and analysis of tools is hilarious, educational and my new favorite thing on the internet.
Read MoreUsually, you just hear about the possibility of a car through word of mouth, with no promise of an actual, tangible automobile. Someone’s grandmother dies, or your college roommate’s neighbor is cleaning out their garage, and someone thinks to tell you about it because you like cars. You’re not sure what to think, and if you’re smart, you don’t ask too many questions before going to check it out in person, all the while keeping your skepticism or excitement to yourself.
Read MoreFour years ago, the Internet gazed upon the glory of a BMW Z4 getting a Viper V10 pulled from a Ram truck crammed up its nostrils. But back then the car was a work in progress. Now the car is complete, and it’s for sale, too.
Read MoreHave you ever considered renting an ‘affordable’ exotic car for a day but haven’t pulled the trigger because you’re one frivolous purchase away from a messy divorce? Well, don’t consider it a lost opportunity just yet, because if this heavily abused rental Ferrari 458 Italia is anything to go by, then consider it a bullet dodged.
Read MoreFor the second time this year, we’re seeing a C4 Corvette gutted and perverted into something terrible. I mean, terribly awesome. Are we at the early stages of a Vette rat-rodding trend?
Read MoreIf you’ve ever messed around with a car’s electrical system or fitted toys like auxiliary lights and winches, you may be familiar with the art of soldering– splicing wires together. It’s not hard, but there are a lot of tricks to learn to perfect the art and this video seems to cover every single one.
Read MoreWhen people talk about what they’d hypothetically do in an extreme situation, it’s almost always bullshit. Panic is a powerful thing. It can’t be accounted for. That’s why, instead of me harping on about how my cross-country S-Class towing-a-trailer experiment went swimmingly, I’ll share the panic-filled tale of how it came to a screeching halt.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure throwing a gallon of black paint into a gallon of yellow paint would just leave you with... two gallons of black. Not so with this removable coating stuff though– it turned into a pretty fantastic copper/brown/dirty gold I’ve never seen before.
Read MoreMmm, two-stroke engines. You’ve seen them in weedwackers, but you probably haven’t realized how beautiful they are, offering tons of power in a very small package. Here’s a close-up look at the combustion chamber of such a beast, through the lens of a see-through cylinder head.
Read MoreMany of us have a long weekend ahead, and that means only one thing: wrenching. Lots of wrenching. Show us the daunting projects that await you in the coming days.
Read MoreAndrew is a Captain in the United States Air Force, and when he’s not serving our country he’s futzing around on Jalopnik and Bring A Trailer looking at cars that are more fun to drive than his current hand-me-down Lexus. What car should he buy?
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