The A-10 Thunderbolt AKA “Warthog” is a flying farm tractor. Slow, brutish, but reliable as the tide and endearingly indestructible and incredibly effective. Strategists have feared that the jet will be axed in favor of funding the F-35, but the U.S. Air Force recently confirmed that it plans to keep the A-10 flying “indefinitely.”
Read MoreIf you’re getting ready to make a joke like: “In Ukrainian, armored car drive you...” Yeah, that’s exactly what’s happening.
Read MoreThe Nimitz, deployed in 1975, is the oldest U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in service today. Just keeping a small boat alive in salt water that long takes some work, but when the ship is over 1,000 feet long the scale of maintained projects is just incredible.
Read MoreThe American guided missile destroyer USS Mason and the amphibious transport dock USS Ponce came under attack by two cruise missiles fired from somewhere inside Yemen last Sunday. The Mason fired a whole bunch of weaponry at the attacking missiles in response, and it may just be the first time this naval defensive system has been forced to respond in the real world – and it worked.
Read MoreJust after the current-gen Mustang launched in 2014, Ford said it was “developing custom engine calibrations for the all-new Mustang 2.3-liter EcoBoost, with a product expected on the market by the end of 2015.” Well, Ford pulled an Elon Musk and blew right by that deadline, but now the tune is finally here. Here’s how much power and torque the factory-backed calibration gets you.
Read MoreDo you know what helps end civil wars? Peace talks! Do you know what is not helping us try to avoid World War III? Dumb tweets! Truly, a fitting end to humanity.
Read MoreWe knew Chevrolet was turning the Colorado pickup truck into some kind of military test bed, but I was not expecting the thing to look straight out of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Forget a Raptor rival, GM has gone totally Hollywood and I kind of love it.
Read MoreYou’ve seen the BMW 4 Series, which is the two-door version of the 3 Series. You’ve seen the BMW M4, the “enthusiast’s” variant that’s still a little too soft. Now there’s the BMW M4 GTS, which is compromised just enough to finally make the M4 feel like a real M car.
Read MoreBMW followed up yesterday’s leak of the all new G50 5 Series with the full release today, revealing the all-new platform, engines and specs, including the revelation that the new M550i currently beats the outgoing M5 from zero to 60 miles per hour.
Read MoreMazda’s bringing two new concepts to SEMA, both variations and evolutions of cars we’ve seen before. First is a version of the retractable hardtop MX-5 RF, painted in a special matte gray. Even more exciting, though, is an even lighter version of last year’s MX-5 Speedster. This one weighs in under 2000 lbs.
Read MoreIt wasn’t so long ago that a Mercedes AMG was a subtle but purposeful personal transport. Especially the E-Class, which has always been the most correct size a car can be. Well those days are over. The new E63 AMG sits on 10-inch-wide tires and does zero to 60 in the same time as a Dodge freaking Viper.
Read MoreI just got back from a trip to Germany, where I had the pleasure of hooning the crap out of a European-spec Honda Civic Type R, the ultimate forbidden fruit among America’s Honda fans. It was amazing, and I don’t think I’ll ever be the same.
Read MoreNow that the Dieselgate settlement has been approved, current owners of TDI Volkswagens will be hitting the market with a lot of cash to spend. Hyundai hopes to grab a bunch of them with a new program that offers big discounts on their entire lineup.
Read MoreHere’s a question no one has ever asked: “How can I get an enormous van that weighs more than 6,000 pounds, rockets to highway speed in less time than it takes to sneeze, and has enormously silly doors like you’d find a DeLorean?” It doesn’t matter that no one ever asked it, though, because the Tesla Model X is amazing. Even if it is a $150,000 minivan.
Read MoreAmanda is a doctor who has soldiered on with a 2000 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that’s come to the end if its natural life. It’s time for her to treat herself to a nice coupe that can handle long distance cruising, but she doesn’t want a typical “doctor’s car.” What car should she buy?
Read MoreWhen it comes to car buying, the advice of focusing on total cost instead of monthly payments has been around for a while. But people are creatures of habit and get help but get caught up in the monthly payment mindset. There is, however, a right and a wrong way to do this.
Read MoreWhen recommending cars to other people, it’s easy to fall into a pattern and suggest the same old BMWs, Hondas, and Toyotas. The problem with those picks is they tend to carry higher prices due to their popularity. Sometimes the key to finding great values is to look for cars that others forget.
Read MoreThe fully-electric Kia Soul EV is elegant in its simplicity. With huge windows and silent operation, the car feels more like a thing you’re wearing than driving. It’s a comfortable, if slightly sterile, way around town. But without charging infrastructure at your house, getting low on power can be pretty stressful.
Read MoreChase just had to face the ultimate nightmare for any car owner. He went to find his car, only to discover it was gone. The silver lining is that he wasn’t a huge fan of his old crossover, anyway and wants to get something fun that can still handle the snow. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI’ve driven just about all the cars they’ve ever made. I remember flying on the Concorde to drive the 1979 Opel Kadett around Paris, back when automakers knew how to treat real journalists. Some cars appeal to the smart version of myself, which I call “Smart” Cracker. Other cars appeal to my lower instincts. That side of myself I call “Dumb” Cracker. I think the 2017 Infiniti QX70S appeals to the “Dumb” Cracker inside of me!
Read MoreYou might have seen a Mercedes AMG SL63 driving past and wondered if that car is complete piece of cargarbage. Let me tell you, it is not. It is a road cocoon of excitement and comfort. Excitefort. Comfortment.
Read MoreThe Mercedes lineup is crowded with fast convertibles. There’s the S63 and S65 AMG, the AMG GT Roadster, upcoming variants of the C63 AMG and likely a million other models. You might be wondering where that leaves the venerable SL roadster and its amped up Mercedes-AMG SL63 variant, but it leaves it right where it needs to be—right in the middle, where it’s fucking great.
Read MoreWe are starting to look at car sales on Amazon.com as pretty much an inevitability, but a few folks in France can actually do it today. Still more publicity stunt than scaleable transaction facilitator, but hey, it’s happening!
Read MoreAdrian is one of the hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen owners who will be getting a big fat check to get his dirty diesel off the road. But he isn’t interested in getting a Prius—he wants something practical, large, and four-wheel drive. What car should he buy?
Read MoreEveryone from giants like Amazon to startups like Beepi are trying to figure out ways to sell cars online. However, a recent survey suggests that most car buyers aren’t quite ready to abandon the visiting the dealership just yet.
Read MoreMuscle car sales are declining, and for the first time in two years, the Chevrolet Camaro has outsold the Ford Mustang. The primary reason for this apparent bowtie takeover is ridiculous discounts on leftover 2016 model year Camaros as the 2017s come out. Now is a great time to get a new Camaro and save some money in the process.
Read MoreThe first vehicle out of New Volvo was the Volvo XC90, and that was pretty swell. But if we’re going to be talking about traditional Volvos, it’s got to be a big Swedish sedan. That’s what the 2017 Volvo S90 is supposed to be, and already it is very, very good.
Read MoreThe McLaren 675LT was pitched to me as the “practical supercar,” for reasons I tuned out immediately because I was too excited to drive a fucking McLaren. Then I had to put that claim to the test.
Read MoreJon is an engineer in his 20s who wants an engaging car that will take full advantage of the California canyons, but he isn’t sure if he should splurge and get a Porsche or play it safe with something more reasonable. What car should he buy?
Read MoreYou probably think you’re a great driver. Studies show that most people think they are better drivers than everyone else. If everyone is better, than no one really is. Here’s ten techniques to master to make sure you actually are better than average, you special, special soul.
Read MoreI’ll admit that when I first heard of the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Part of me thought that it may be that performance variant of the Prius I’ve been imagining. Another part thought it was just a Prius that can only be divided by one and itself. Both parts were wrong: the Prius Prime is the plug-in Prius designed to sort of quench Tesla-lust for half the price.
Read MoreThere’s a problem that most automotive journalists experience when constructing reviews: few new cars are truly bad anymore. In fact, most are somewhere between “good” and “pretty good,” but that means they have the unintended effect of blurring together until they’re hard to tell apart. Thankfully, Infiniti took their otherwise regular new 2017 Infiniti Q60 coupe and put some much-needed stank on it, to the tune of 400 horsepower. And it is way more than just pretty good.
Read MoreBuying a car in a big city can be more difficult because many dealers don’t care about repeat business and are only out to rip you off. Nine Los Angeles-area dealers are facing fines and legal action for taking advantage of car buyers.
Read MoreThe Ford Focus RS is the new king of hot hatchbacks, and with a starting price of $35,900, it shouldn’t break the bank. But once the dealers add their inevitable markups, its value proposition starts to diminish. However, it is possible to get your RS without overpaying for it, and you might even be able to pick it up at your local dealer.
Read MoreFor years now people call those things behind the steering wheel on manumatic/dual clutch/selecto-shift/tiptastic transmission-equipped cars “flappy paddles.” This is a misnomer.
Read MoreIt’s Halloween! As part of the blood oath Jalopnik signed to promote the Works of the Dark Lord, we’d like to take a moment to help you understand if and how your car may be haunted or possessed by something occult, creepy, undead, or possibly all three. Luckily, there’s some easy clues you can look out for!
Read MoreLast week, I asked you guys for the weirdest, creepiest, spooookiest and altogether most inexplicable stories that happened to you in your car. I think if we all got together, we could definitely write a Twilight Zone spinoff.
Read MoreSure, this wallpaper is cool because it features a Porsche from the 1950s. But what makes it even cooler is that it came to you all straight from Pikes Peak champion Jeff Zwart, a Jalopnik superhero who does wicked-fast hillclimbs and doesn’t put this car away for away for snowy winters.
Read MoreMost new cars come off the factory floor and get delivered to the showroom only to sit for a short time then get taken home by some happy buyer. But some cars just don’t get any love, they sit for months or even years. The discounts come off, and yet, they’re still there.
Read MoreA boat, from Aston Martin. With all the other attributes that come from Aston Martin: Power. Dynamics. Beauty. And British reliability.
Read MoreIt’s Halloween! That one glorious time of the year when we don’t have to hide our perverse Devil-worship and candy-groveling habits! It’s also the time of year when I announce the latest line of Jalopnik Carstumes™!
Read MoreToday we saw the most egregious act of a tow truck driver essentially stealing and joy riding in a disabled man’s GT-R. Now it looks like the tow company is going to be on the hook...for some repairs to that Nissan.
Read MoreI was recently researching electric power steering when I came across the most incredible book I’ve ever seen: the Encyclopedia of Automotive Engineering. It’s 4,000 pages about the science of automotive design and engineering. I really want a copy, but I’d have to sell one of my cars to afford it.
Read MoreCar badges! Useless? For a period of several decades, mostly yes.
Read MoreI suspect that an alarming number of our readers are too young to remember CARtoons, the only magazine in the history of humankind dedicated to goofy comic strips about cars. It was wonderful. It also may have been one of the most accurate predictors of cars of today.
Read MoreThe future is coming, and fast. Some estimates suggests that the future is approaching us at an astounding rate of 3600 seconds per hour. That means we’d better get ready for the car of the future, because it’s on its way. Luckily, we now know the fifteen things people want the least from the cars they’ve yet to buy.
Read MoreCar badges are often meaningless bullshit decorations designed to dazzle buyers and impress onlookers with things that are mostly pretty normal. Some offenders are worse than others, however. Here are some of the ones that really grind my gears.
Read MoreWith Halloween right around the corner, I think this a great time to tell some creepy or mysterious car stories. Like, weird and odd Twilight Zone-shit.
Read MoreThe first car ride I ever took was in a 1990 Plymouth Voyager just like the blue one you see in the picture above. And now, 25 years later, I find myself drooling over the things, which is just not normal for a guy my age. Is it my subconscious yearning to relive its first automotive experience, or are these things just badass?
Read MoreHere is an incomplete list of teams and clubs of buddies drifting in the United States. Their names are truly fantastic.
Read MoreHey plebes! The Camaro ZL1 can trash your dumb car around the Nürburgring. If you own anything other than a ZL1, consider yourself a resident of Lametown, USA. Or, uh, Germany, I guess.
Read MoreThe third season of the acclaimed thought-provoking British series that satirizes and examines our modern technology-marinated lives has just been released on Netflix. The first episode, Nosedive, is primarily a scathing take on social media, but it also describes one of the most plausibly grim futures for cars.
Read MoreFor some reason, a lot of you were super suspicious when I asked you about that time about the time you got away with it last week. I don’t know why! I’m not a cop. I thought we’d established that much by now. But here are your true stories of the times you skated repercussions for something crazy.
Read MoreLast week I was in Berlin, avoiding being creepily spoon-fed at the Lynk & Co launch event, where I learned that new Volvo/Geely car brand Lynk & Co wants to make it easy for people to take your car from you. Now they have a video dramatizing how it’s supposed to go down.
Read MoreThe Malaise Era is often thought of as the worst time period for cars. This is generally accurate. But what car from that era is legitimately worth owning today?
Read MoreEvery reformed brat knows the pain of lame Christmas presents. Like Star Trek toys when you’re really into Star Wars. Or a Sega Genesis game for your XBox One. That’s kind of what the Chevy Cruz SEMA concept feels like.
Read MoreFollowing new car unveilings is and endless series of disappointments in a slow grind into dull, globular sameness until the robots take over. Why put up with all of that? Why not go your own way?
Read MoreI’m here in the home of Volvo, Göteborg, Sweden, to find out what the hell the big secret is behind that new global car brand, Lynk&Co. I did make a bit of time today to do my usual new-city routine: wander around, get very lost, pee on something, sob, and see what the carscape of this lovely old city is like. Mostly, it’s recent Volvo wagons. It’s like the parking lot of an NPR pledge drive out here.
Read MoreI turned to the six-year-old kid standing next to me, reading some book about a white thing that looked like a cross between a hippo and a dropped blob of hand lotion. “Have you seen this shit?” I asked him. “Fuuuuck, look at this fucking thing! It’s goddamn amazing.” I was showing the kid pictures from a book called Halvans 1-2-3, possibly the best car-related kid book I’ve ever seen. The kid just stared at me. Idiot.
Read MoreThis morning, as I do every morning, I took a moment to recognize the subtle, tasteful handsomeness of the 1990s Acura Legend. Like a good Seiko watch, it’s never flashy, but well-built, reliable, and always able to get the job done.
Read MoreWhat was that time you “got away with it” in your car?
Read MoreThis is a 7-year-old boy driving a car on public roads, according to reports. But wait! There’s more! This is also a 7-year-old boy driving with one hand, and he appears to not have a seatbelt on. Parents, don’t let your underage children drive on public roads. And please, please don’t film it to post on social media.
Read MoreThe Apple Car appears to be dead. Is it because making cars is hard? Is it because making phones is just too easy? Or is it something.....deeper?
Read MoreEvery year, the Japanese transportation ministry hands out the Japan Toilet Award to encourage highway service plaza operators to provide the most pleasant defecation experience, reports The New York Times. The goal? To make the potty dance a completely foreign concept at Japanese rest stops.
Read MoreCar Guys and Car Girls of high school: unite! Most high schools had ‘em and I asked you for your fondest memories of them. Heck, most of the time That Car Guy was you. Color me surprised, and by surprised I mean not at all.
Read MoreEven with the aggressive new look of the Mazda Miata, it’s undeniably fantastic and undeniably lovable (well, maybe not for all of us). Here, the car rests on a calm shore just outside of the city, reminding everyone how wonderful life can be. What more could you want?
Read MoreTo the average person, a BMW i8 has a unique enough look on its own to get extra attention. But an i8 with a bunch of Pokémon on it—that’s getting into territory that requires the driver to either look good every day or get some dark window tent. You can’t escape the attention, or the smartphone cameras.
Read MoreAfter the Beetle and the Microbus, the svelte, feline Karmann-Ghia is probably the most recognizable car from Volkswagen’s past. The Beetle got a rebirth as a modern car, and Volkswagen has teased a new Microbus with concepts for years and years. So why not a reborn Karmann-Ghia? While VW seems oddly uninterested, their partner (now subsidiary) Karmann has actually given it a go. More than once.
Read MoreThere are a great many things that this beautiful country, America, has created that we no longer need. Jello salad from the 1950s, for instance. It’s fine to acknowledge it as something that happened, but you don’t need to preserve any of it for later generations. So why the hell does this 1981 Chevy Impala with only 31,000 miles exist?
Read MoreThis is Lamborghini. A certainty. A possibility? Perhaps more. Could it be more? Maybe it could be more? Or.........less.
Read MoreWhat happened to poor Kyle Prescott is every car enthusiast’s nightmare.
Read MoreYou all know who I’m looking for, fess up. Nobody from high school knows your usernames anyway, so tell me: who was “that car guy” (or car girl, let’s be equitable here) back when you were coming up? And what sorts of crazy stories do you still tell about them?
Read MoreIf there’s one thing the internet has gifted humanity, it’s so many more opportunities to feel that remarkable sensation of complete and utter bafflement. This video of a Montana car wash is an ideal example. How did this happen? I mean, I get that understeer is a problem for many cars, but this is absurd.
Read MoreOne of my weird automotive fetishes is the very, very early history of automobiles. I’m talking early, like 50 years or more before Karl Benz’ Patent Motor-Wagen. There’s a lot of interesting developments early on, but the absolute earliest development is very much a mystery. If it’s true at all, it could put the history of cars back as far as 1479.
Read MoreEarlier today, nefarious miscreant and Jalopnik “writer” Kristen Lee slandered the good, hard working, salt-of-the-earth people who happen to own BMWs. Apparently there is a stereotype out there that they are not the kind, courteous drivers that they really are. Many of you agreed with her, as you are all unwashed peasants who do not understand greatness.
Read MoreWhile Hurricane Matthew was raging, you may have seen some delightful pictures on the internet of a lovely BMW E30 M3 sitting, warm and safe, inside someone’s house, to better be protected from the storm. Those photos weren’t staged. There actually was a guy who drove his car into his living room to protect it, and we talked to him.
Read MoreLast week, I was on a hunt for stories about you and that one relationship the car got in the middle of. Friends, siblings, parents, relatives, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives or personal chefs—all of those relationships were fair game.
Read MoreLast night, as we all endured the pain of a dark, mean-spirited presidential debate, there was a ray of light that emerged to remind America that everything’s going to be okay. A beacon of hope in a bright red sweater, brandishing the first disposable camera you’ve seen in a decade. A beacon of hope with the amazing name Ken Bone. So what does Ken Bone drive?
Read MoreNo matter how you feel about the BMW M3s of the 1990s—especially if you’re in the U.S., since Europe got the better version—there’s no debate that the car is charming. Doesn’t that shiny, beautiful blue just put a smile on your face?
Read MoreThe news of Brock Yates’ passing this week hit me hard. Many lost a family member, a friend, and even a partner in crime. I lost a hero.
Read MoreConcept cars are supposed to be fun and exciting design studies, unconstrained by annoying things like laws or focus groups or physics. They can fly! They can be powered by nuclear reactors! Or they can just be the 1997 Volkswagen Coupe Design Study CJ.
Read MoreAccording to all the computations I’ve been running on this Kaypro I found in the wreckage of a 1983 business jet, it seems that it’s been a while since the last automotive Would You Rather. Let’s take care of that, pronto. And pronto is now.
Read MoreThe question wasn’t if his car would get impounded. We knew was going to happen the moment we saw the police cruiser follow his Honda S2000, slammed, on chrome, into a gas station off Ocean City’s main drag. The question was how.
Read MoreOf course you’ve wondered what a 1980s lust-child of a Bentley Turbo R and a Saab 900 would look like – you’re human, aren’t you? The big Brit and big Swede going at it, metal creaking, rubber squeaking – it’s an achingly beautiful thought. Thankfully, we can get a pretty good idea of result of such a mating, and it’s called the Bentley Turbo R Empress II by Hooper & Co.
Read MoreMost of the time, spats between friends, family, significant others and neighbors involve money, kids and poor attitude. But, because I’m writing this to address us nerds, I’m fairly certain that we’ve all had that car that has caused some strife in relationships.
Read MoreSome people that are cooler than all of us hung out together at a racetrack in eight beautiful examples of the Lamborghini Countach, driving around, revving in tunnels and sharing stories of trolling Coutach kit car competitions with their real Lambos.
Read MoreCars and photography usually go hand in hand, because cars are just so damn pretty.
Read MoreThere’s just something about seeing fast cars in such a serene environment. It’s even a good metaphor for life—when your workweek sends tasks flying at you at the speed of light, chill out and remember that even fast things can be serene.
Read MoreIf you’re curious what a 1986 Nissan Sentra looks like after sitting in a river for a really long time, check out this video of thick-accented Bay Staters pulling a dilapidated hunk of metal from the Merrimack River.
Read MoreA 19-year-old Texas A&M student was arrested after rear-ending a stopped police car while trying to take a topless selfie.
Read MoreOld cars are the best! They’re so mechanical and analog and involved and wonderful... until you hit something, and then you start to see the value of things like airbags, stability control and automatic braking systems.
Read MoreWhen you’re driving alone, there’s nobody stopping you from singing loud and singing proud. Until of course your car hydroplanes. Then all hell breaks loose.
Read MoreI recently found myself browsing IIHS looking at crash tests of old cars, trying to find the worst ones (because I’m a sick, sick man). Then I found this: a Chevrolet Astro, a van dear to my heart— the setting of many road trips for our family of eight. But its crash test video is horrifying.
Read MoreEvery car has hazard lights. They’re useful for not getting run over when your car’s dead on the side of the road, or alerting other motorists that you’re in distress. That’s because they get attention. So why don’t we make them come on during hard braking too, just as an extra precaution?
Read MoreA BMW Police wagon started vomiting flames out of its grilles in what looks like a scene from a horror movie yesterday near Ashford, in Kent, in England, in the United Kingdom. The devil hath taken this poor F31 Bimmer, and will not rest until the wagon is a large pile of Melted Driving Machine.
Read MoreDanny Lin, 25, a reckless driver who killed a pedestrian while speeding through Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 2014, has been sentenced to up to five years in prison. Ironically, he also has what sounds like a truly terrible and toolish arm tattoo with a Paul Walker quote that reads, “If one day speed kills me do not cry because I was smiling.” Update: this does not appear to be an actual Paul Walker quote.
Read MoreHow this Nissan Skyline wound up crashed into the side of someone’s garage, we do not know. What we do know is that the 17-year-old owner bought the car just an hour before slamming into a house, bringing instant shame upon car people everywhere—just like a Mustang at Cars and Coffee.
Read MoreI’m not exactly sure what either party was trying to accomplish in this dashcam video of a traffic cop desperately clinging to the front of a car as it speeds away. I’d imagine it’s not the best idea to bring a cop along when trying to evade the law, though.
Read MoreYou are in a truck. Stuck on the tracks. The truck is stuck! And there is a train. It is also stuck on tracks. But the train is moving very fast. You are immobile like a beached whale. STOP THINKING GET THE HECK OUT OF THERE.
Read MoreI have no idea how this could have happened.
Read MoreHere’s a pretty wild Russian dashcam video with a surprisingly informative takeaway about physics and, maybe unsurprisingly, traffic safety.
Read MoreShh! Do you hear that? Feel it? Whispers in the night, a chill in the air. Must be the spirits that haunt Ghost Bridge in Arapahoe County, Colorado.
Read MoreA Mustang did that thing Mustangs do again. After spinning and endangering a large crowd that thankfully knew to run away at the sight of a Mustang leaving Cars and Coffee, the driver emerged from the vehicle, waving either to let said crowd know he was OK or to acknowledge that he is, in fact, that guy.
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond brought car culture into millions of lives with over 20 seasons of the BBC’s Top Gear. Now the trio’s taking their antics on the road‚ driving, flying and grand touring with a massive Amazon budget on The Grand Tour. We caught up with two of them in Hollywood to check in.
Read MoreUpon hearing of the ex-Top Gear trio’s new show, most of us were likely excited to see how it would compare to the old one. But to avoid possible legal action by the BBC over the format, the trio had to be incredibly tedious—they even made sure to call African scenery “shit” because they said it was beautiful on Top Gear.
Read MoreThe old Top Gear trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are finishing up their traveling tour that makes up the studio element of their new Amazon Prime show, The Grand Tour. The good news is that once that’s finished, they’re going to immediately jump into the second season.
Read MoreWe’re a month and a half out from the launch of The Grand Tour, and it doesn’t just look to be filled with incredible supercars, but also traditional hijinks, shenanigans, and Rumspringa. Here are all the neat little things you might not have picked up in your first watch.
Read MoreThe boys are back in the first trailer for Amazon’s The Grand Tour, starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Goatee and James May in a bunch of stunning looking scenarios that are “just like that Tom Cruise movie.”
Read MoreWhy would Chris Harris want the new Porsche 911 R to fall flat? Perhaps it’s because his Top Gear co-host Matt LeBlanc got to drive it for the show before him. Perhaps it’s because of the ridiculous hype surrounding the car. Well it’s too bad, because it turns out not even a dogleg manual 7-speed V12 Aston Martin can stop the 911 R from being brilliant.
Read MoreJames Corden, host of The Late Late Show and the war criminal who unleashed those awful “Carpool Karaoke” videos on the world, may have redeemed himself. He interviewed the three stooges from The Grand Tour as they blasted around Willow Springs Raceway competing for the best overall score. This is why we missed these guys.
Read MoreThe opening scene to Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s new Amazon show The Grand Tour will be so big and ridiculous it’s been reported to be the most expensive scene ever shown “on the small screen,” according to The Sun. Ever!
Read MoreI know, I know. I got as excited as you did. Probably even more so, because I like clicks, and Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s new Amazon program The Grand Tour brings in that sweet sweet traffic. But as jazzed as we all are for the show, this clip making the rounds is not from that.
Read MoreAfter a few almost-but-not-quite-there performance cars, Hyundai is finally getting serious about offering something that can really light your face on fire. The automaker recently formed its own N-brand performance division and the first car will gun for the Focus RS and Civic Type R.
Read MoreRoger Corman’s 1966 classic Wild Angels defined the formula for a new genre called the “Biker Flick”, and it opened the floodgates for a deluge of good, bad and downright cringeworthy films that capitalized on the public’s fear of outlaw motorcyclists.
Read MoreThe first day of practice at this year’s MalaysianGP did not go great for British rider Sam Lowes, who wiped out in turn 14, got back on the track and immediately got wrecked up by another rider. The guy was just not meant to get around that corner.
Read MoreThe BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100 concept motorcycle is designed to show us what a 2116 model year motorcycle could look like. It’s a dream. It’s pretend. That’s why it does not have to conform to strict rules about “viability” or “safety” or “roadworthiness.” But let’s walk through its fantastical features and evaluate what might actually work, and what this bike says about the future of riding.
Read MoreThe BMW K1600B is a two-wheeled road couch with exhaust pipes off a big rig and the luxuries of a business class airline seat. The battle for the mid-life crisis motorcycle market is on all over again.
Read MoreLeonardo DiCaprio visits Elon Musk. One says something about saving the planet, and the other agrees.
Read MoreRyan Tuerck fired up his Ferrari 458-swapped Toyota GT86 for the first time Friday night, and now it’s back, and it’s doing donuts around none other than a Ferrari 458.
Read MoreAfter decades as a mainstay in Mexico’s taxi fleets, Nissan announced the Tsuru—a new 1992 Sentra, basically—will cease production after a dismal zero-star crash test. Just how bad was the Tsuru, especially compared to a modern car? This bad.
Read MoreHenrik Fisker’s car, the EMotion, is named—I think—because it’s supposed to be an electric car that will move. And also will probably make you feel things. It’s Fisker’s first official stab at re-entering the market after the Fisker Karma, and his to-do list sounds oddly similar to another startup electric carmaker’s.
Read MoreHow good is the 2017 Acura NSX? Apparently good enough to get named Performance Car of the Year by our old pals over at Road & Track. You should check out their full test.
Read MoreBurnouts rule: fact. Take solid items—tires—and turn them into smoke through the joy of spinning wheels and friction. Add an anti-lag system to the mix and burnouts turn to fiery, popping madness. Let’s savor this gorgeous Toyota Supra showing off at an event at New Jersey’s Old Bridge Township Raceway.
Read MoreJust a couple of decades ago, silky-smooth inline-sixes purred under the hoods of our cars, and the world was a great place because of it. But those glory days are over, and package-friendly, boring V6s have taken over. Except now, thanks to the car gods, Mercedes is officially bringing its inline-six back, and with a lot of horsepower.
Read MoreVolkswagen has struggled with the American car market. That’s something that has been true for decades, maybe dating back to the end of the original Beetle. Then Dieslegate happened, and it set the world’s largest automaker even further behind. Now VW finally has one product that should resonate with American car buyers—but there is only one way the Atlas can carry the brand.
Read MoreH2O International is a gigantic annual car show in Maryland that’s known for three things: 1) the world’s lowest and most ridiculously built show cars all in one place, 2.) hoonage and debauchery that makes a frat party look tame, and 3.) more ticketing and impounding by Ocean City Police Department than you can ever imagine.
Read MoreChinese car company Haima needed a name for their electric compact. What would give that current vibe? I know, an @ sign.
Read MoreMaryland police arrested an Uber driver Thursday on charges of kidnapping and assault of an unconscious female passenger, the Washington Post reports. The passenger’s friends called an Uber to take her home after an alcohol-induced blackout, according to records, but the driver took her to a motel instead.
Read MoreOh, normal Florida residents. We’re sorry that your state has such a strange reputation. But when you’ve got people like this Orlando man, who fell out of a truck on the way home from the strip club, ran over his own leg and then ran off after the truck crashed into a house, there’s not much we can do to help you.
Read MoreA man who fell in between a subway platform and a train and was crushed 167 times by the platform extender was granted $10 million by a jury yesterday.
Read MoreThe Tesla and SolarCity marriage is real, as Elon Musk just revealed a new lineup of solar-electric roof tiles alongside an updated Tesla Powerwall energy storage pack, turning what was just your electric car into an entire electric lifestyle.
Read MoreFamed hacker George Hotz pulled the plug on his Comma One autonomous car project today after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wrote him a letter asking to learn more about it. He said that there was a better use for his time than dealing with rules. But you know what? The NHTSA was completely within its rights to be asking Comma.ai the questions that it did.
Read MoreAudi launched its updated 2017 Audi S3 this week in Durham, North Carolina, claiming that the new car would be a little more playful in the corners. When pressed on whether or not the brand would ever consider a full-on “Drift Mode” for its cars, well, don’t get your hopes up.
Read MoreVictims of a deadly Amtrak derailment which killed eight people and injured over 200 more in Philadelphia last year have reached a $265 million settlement with the railroad service.
Read MoreA new hero emerged today, or at least a new personal mentor to me; a woman screaming at all the other people slowly meandering off of the plane burning on the tarmac at Chicago O’Hare today.
Read MoreAmerican Airlines flight 383 had to abort takeoff at Chicago O’Hare this afternoon due because of a blown tire, according to multiple reports from the scene. Images uploaded to social media show the plane catching fire on rollout—and flames were hot enough to melt its wing.
Read MoreSix top staffers have left the Chinese-backed, Silicon Valley-based startup car company Faraday Future in recent months, the automaker confirmed to Jalopnik following an inside tip. The alleged reason for their departures does not look great for the mysterious company attempting to make a billion-dollar foothold here in America.
Read MoreKah Chuan Hoong is living the dream. He’s driving one of the quickest cars ever built on a road trip from Singapore to Mount Everest base camp and back. Just look at these incredible photos of that GT-R off-roading through the picturesque terrain.
Read MoreHoly crap, look at this turbodiesel-swapped Trabant 601 Deluxe. I don’t know if I’m listening to a car or an army of angry tractors bulldozing my house.
Read MoreI was reading an interesting patent for a possible Tesla battery-swapping system, when I had a moment of realization. “Battery swapping has to happen, but easier, cheaper, and better,” I shrieked, flipping over my table at the Arby’s. I seized a passing child by the shirt, lifted him to my face, and whispered “battery standardization needs to happen.” His tears told me I was right.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure the largest demographic group in the city of Portland is the community of Subarus. Portland is lousy with Subarus, which is why it may be the only place in the U.S. where hearing that one was accidentally stolen, then returned, with gas money, actually makes some sort of sense.
Read MoreAre you so excited for the Alfa Romeo Giulia? Do you dream of hearing its 503 horsepower twin-turbo V6 put spicy Italian noises in your ear-holes as you row through the gears of its six-speed manual transmission? Scratch the last thing off your list if you’re an American, because it ain’t happening here.
Read MoreiPhone and PlayStation hacker George Hotz showed off the Comma One at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF, a device meant to be an affordable car add-on kit that could access a car’s existing hardware and give it autonomous driving capabilities. After a letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, however, Hotz is pulling the plug on his kit.
Read MoreIndiana Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence’s campaign jet skidded off a runway tonight at LaGuardia Airport after landing.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger is built on the same heavy bones as its Charger sibling, and has even received all the same engine options. But the Challenger has never felt the sweet, sweet love of powered front wheels, meaning all across the great white north, the big coupe has been relegated to dark lonely garages during winter time. But this stops now.
Read MoreIn 2012, Hyundai and Kia were found to have been overstating fuel economy on over a million model year 2011-2013 vehicles by between one and four MPG combined. After many lawsuits and hundreds of millions in fines, the Korean automakers are finally putting this issue to rest. Again, expensively.
Read MoreVine’s six seconds of fame are up. Only one man truly made the most of those six seconds. His name was ConnerO_Malley, and we can only hope his Vines find a new place to live for eternity.
Read MoreIt was a sad day indeed when Gumpert, the maker of, er, eccentric-looking supercars, went bankrupt. The resurrected company, Apollo Automobil, showed off a rather pointy Arrow concept in March. Who else is going to have a hand in making that car? None other than the space-time-ripping racing barons at Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus.
Read MoreHello there. Cars. You like them. You like to see them. You like to hear them. Perhaps this BMW M6 drift car, complete with a wailing V10 engine, might be relevant to your interests.
Read MoreYou wouldn’t think this needs to be said, but if your job is to tow a car to a repair shop, that doesn’t mean you get to take the car to your house and drive it like a maniac. The same way the pizza delivery guy doesn’t help himself to a slice or two of your pizza. Someone may need to explain that to the guy who towed Brian Montgomery’s Nissan GT-R.
Read MoreIs the BMW 8 Series making a comeback? Yes. Maybe? We don’t know. If it does, you can expect it to be expensive. After all, isn’t it the same as a Rolls-Royce Wraith?
Read MoreThe $14.7 billion Volkswagen Dieselgate settlement received final approval on Tuesday, meaning TDI owners can finally get their money. But not everyone is happy with the settlement, and the courts know this, so they brought in a law professor to answer VW owners’ top complaints.
Read MoreThe late 90's Dodge Viper GTS, the most Viper of all Vipers, was rated to 11 MPG city and 21 MPG highway by the arbiters of efficiency ratings at the EPA. Let’s see how hard it is to actually hit those numbers in one of these cars today.
Read MoreThe Porsche 911 is possibly one of the most delightfully stubborn cars ever. Porsche has retained the 911's rear-engine layout since it evolved from the KdF-Wagens back in the 1930s. As much as I love an ass-engine, there are times when it may not be the best solution, and now even Porsche seems to agree, at least on their new GT racer.
Read MoreWhen I was in Mexico I would only flag down Nissan Tsuru taxi cabs. I couldn’t speak the language, but I felt a bond with the driver that chose such a pure and simple car. Nissan will soon cease production of the Tsuru, aka the Sentra from the early 1990s, due to growing criticism about its safety.
Read MoreI don’t know exactly who or what pissed into the 2017 Mini Countryman’s cornflakes, but whatever it was, it had a bladder full of redolent, dark urine. There’s just no other way to explain why Mini would design a car that looks so miserable and disgusted as the new Countryman.
Read MoreLook. We Americans really, really, really like our garage space.
Read MoreCould this be the world’s worst stanced Mopar? Could this be the work of Detroit’s worst alignment shop? Or could this actually be a prototype of Dodge’s new widebody ADR Challenger Hellcat?
Read MorePolice opened fire on a semi-truck in a high speed pursuit near Hammond, Indiana after the truck refused to stop, according to Fox 32. We now cut to footage recorded on the scene from two bros totally losing their minds, dude.
Read MoreModern cars are equipped with all sorts of fancy new safety equipment. A side-effect of all those automated braking systems and other goodies is that your car might freak the hell out in an automated car wash, kind of like trying to get a dog into a bathtub.
Read MoreTrue fact: drift teams have the very best names. But what is the name of your drift team?
Read MoreIn case you or someone you know doesn’t quite understand what the big deal is about staring at a tiny screen full of tinier words while piloting several tons of metal at speeds of around a mile-a-minute, maybe show them this. It’s a dump truck driver causing a huge pileup outside of London, because the dummy was staring at his phone.
Read MoreApple totally has a car program you guys. Stop teasing it. It’s just in, uh, Canada. And it’s not like how it was before.
Read MoreIt’s been over a year since Volkswagen was caught cheating on emissions tests with its 2.0-liter diesel cars, and over four months since the U.S. Justice Department revealed VW’s $14.7 billion settlement—a settlement that has just now been granted final approval by the court. Here’s what that means for TDI owners.
Read MoreYesterday, a sort of legend died: Jack Chick, wildly prolific maker of tiny, usually unintentionally hilarious evangelical comics, went to go meet his faceless god at the age of 92. Chick made comics warning about the spiritual and real-world dangers of Halloween, Rock and Roll, Catholics, Jews, gay people, pretty much any secular interest, and, yes, he even had at least one comic about cars.
Read MoreDo you have a BMW 340i or an Audi S4? You better keep an eye out in your rearview mirror. The 2017 Acura TLX GT is coming for you, and it’s bringing the rest of the alphabet with it!
Read MoreMonths after Toyota killed off youth brand Scion, the name got picked up again by none other than brilliant businessman and in-no-way-a-failure Donald Trump. He’s using it for his new line of youth-oriented hotels.
Read MoreAt least two suspects are still at large after shooting 14 rounds at a police car in a high speed pursuit. All this was witnessed by the cruiser’s dash cam and a ride-along passenger, who was reduced to tears as she was hit with windshield glass broken by bullets.
Read MoreAn absolutely unbelievably perfect blue 2002 Subaru WRX was stolen from Brooklyn, New York City this morning after years of maintenance, tunes and modifications from a loving owner. If looking into those sad bugeyed headlights makes you angry cry at the thought that someone could snatch it from a loving home, help us get this car back to its owner!
Read MoreThe Honda Fuel Cell Clarity sedan has a 366-mile range! Hooray! In other news, I also have one hundred million Italian lira stashed in a shoebox under my bed in Brooklyn. Both are about equally useful.
Read MoreIn case you weren’t able to make it, we held our Are You Faster Than A Jalopnik Writer karting event yesterday evening at the Autobahn Indoor Speedway in West Nyack. It was terrific fun and the turnout was incredible!
Read MoreRemember how we could barely believe that a car company could emerge from the ether and start construction on a massive Nevada production facility? Guess what! Faraday Future’s $21 million behind on construction payments.
Read MoreDid you know that Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, started a highly secretive flying car company? Actually, that’s not exactly right. That cash-gorged bastard started two flying car companies. Now it looks like one of the prototype flying things has finally been seen in the wild.
Read MoreMan, the Ford GT. People love this thing, and only a few lucky bastards will get the chance to buy one. There was some saltiness over the whole ordeal. And it’s kind of merited, too—because we just got a look at the exclusive brochure Ford sent to accepted customers, relaying the next steps of how they are getting their GTs.
Read MoreThe 2017 Chevy Camaro ZL1, with 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque, just set a time of 7:29.6 on the Nürburgring. It sounds damn good, but to most people who don’t care about some random track in Germany, that’s sort of meaningless. So here’s a list of cars it just beat:
Read MoreHow do you slay tires and hearts at the drift event? Bring a car that’s not your standard drift missile and leave a gargantuan trail of smoke and rubber behind you. I am in love with this ludicrously sideways blank white Porsche 944 Turbo.
Read MoreFisker is back with a car they are extremely adamant is not an updated version of the car that put them out of business years ago. Fisker’s old cars might have been flawed, but they were gorgeous. We all wanted them to be good. The new one is, hm, less so.
Read MoreAirbus’s new Silicon Valley-based technology and business innovation team, called A³ (“A-cubed”, isn’t that cute?) has got some wacky plans up its sleeve, releasing new details for an autonomous personal aircraft it plans to show off in 2017. That’s not a lot of time, especially once you hear all that A³ has planned for this machine called “Vahana.”
Read MoreIf you were into cars around 2001, you probably remember how BMW commissioned famous directors and actor Clive Owen for The Hire, a series of action-packed web short films starring its cars. Fifteen years later, the BMW Films are back. This is “The Escape,” and it’s awesome.
Read MoreThis is the Mercedes-Benz CLK-Klasse Glass Roof Experimental Car and the only thing I know about it is I want one.
Read MoreCarMax bills itself as being better than your average used car dealership thanks to a “125 point inspection” said to ensure quality. But after one buyer bought what he considered a lemon from CarMax, a California court has determined that their inspection process isn’t all that thorough.
Read MoreAn Australian surfer is claiming his car was scorched after his brand-new iPhone 7, which was wrapped up in some clothing in his car for a few hours, spontaneous combusted, according to a report from Yahoo News.
Read MoreAll of you Saab people, all you want is to talk about Saabs, and talk about Saabs, and moan how you can’t buy new Saabs. Well, here’s a picture of a Saab for you all to stare at if it makes you happy.
Read MoreI like planes, but we have only ever had a very casual relationship. Commercial airline stuff. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that a press drive tangentially involving Bentleys would also mean flying in a jet trainer at 4 Gs, redefining my perceptions of gravity—and astonishing me with the ends the brands will go to for good press.
Read MoreI’m sure wheels being stolen off of dealer lots happens often. Especially when they are the pretty and expensive rims like the ones that were on this Audi RS7.
Read MoreYesterday this video popped up, showing a ‘mystery EV’ tearing across the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife, completely undisguised but utterly unrecognized. A little digging and I’ve pinned down what it is.
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again in Austin, Texas! The time of year when we all put aside concerns about allergies, traffic and the slow but steady encroachment of Californians to celebrate the world’s top racing series in our town. I’m talking about the United States Grand Prix this weekend, and Jalopnik—and hopefully you—will be there to hang out.
Read MoreDon’t be fooled by that cute little fluffball in the picture; mention the word “Marder” to any German, and you’ll send shivers down their spine. Marder is the German word for Marten, a little furry animal that crawls into cars’ engine bays and wreaks havoc on coolant hoses, spark plug wires and more, causing tens of millions of euros in damages each year. Tens of millions! Here’s what’s going on.
Read MoreThe early 2000s were a bleak time for concept cars. This is the Kia Slice concept. It’s ugly as hell.
Read MoreThe first installment of the promised virtual reality version of Ken Block’s hoontacular spectacular Gymkhana Nine video is finally here. If you were wondering how some of the crazier stunts were done, Gymkhana Nine VR is your chance to stand right in the middle of the action and find out.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has confirmed the eleventh death caused by an exploding Takata airbag. A 50 year-old woman died from her injuries following a collision while driving her 2001 Honda Civic on September 30th.
Read MoreUnusually for a car company, the Lynk & Co 01—the Volvo/Geely joint-venture SUV from an all-new global car brand—itself isn’t the most important part of what they’re trying to do. They want it to be a “smartphone on wheels,” and while that sounds like bad marketing hype, there’s truth to it, from how the cars will be financed to how they’re always connected to the internet.
Read MoreHenrik Fisker, from whose pen flowed the beautiful lines of the Aston Martin DB9 and V8 Vantage, the BMW Z8 and the Fisker Karma (RIP sorta), announced earlier this month that he would start up a new electric car company. Today, he took to Twitter and showed us this sleek profile of a car with up-swingy doors.
Read MoreWhat kind of secrets lurk within the Porsche Museum warehouse? Probably timeless classics, bizarre one-offs and priceless treasures.
Read MoreEvery year, the car aftermarket descends upon Las Vegas for SEMA to show off the most customized vehicles possible in an effort to self-advertise their products. I say this just so you get a sense of how hard Chevrolet phoned it in with their display.
Read MoreA man in St. Louis, Missouri was held up at gunpoint by the worst car thief in history: one who can’t drive a manual transmission, KMOV reports. When will these thieves learn? (hopefully never).
Read MoreIf you begin to feel an intense and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept of the BMW E46 Compact, don’t be alarmed. That indicates only that you are still sane.
Read MoreYou’re a nice person if you stop for people waiting to use the crosswalk. Typically it is not nice to honk at them, but this case was an exception.
Read MoreAll current Tesla models that will be produced in its Fremont, California factory will come with self-driving hardware built-in capable of Level 5 autonomy going forward, including the upcoming Tesla Model 3, the company announced tonight. The goal is fully-autonomous capability by the end of 2017.
Read MoreThe Secret Service let Vice President of these United States Joe Biden drive his 1967 Corvette when Jay Leno turned up, and the first thing he does is a glorious American burnout.
Read MoreI’ve been wondering just what Lynk & Co, the Geely-Volvo joint venture to start an all-new car brand, was going to be, and I half got my answer today. That half was the car itself, imaginatively named 01. What’s unusual about Lynk & Co, though, is that I don’t think the half with the car is going to be the most important part of what Lynk & Co is.
Read MoreYou’ve probably seen the quote before: “If one day speed kills me, don’t cry because I was smiling.” I know I have. It’s been attributed to the late Paul Walker—who was killed in a fiery Porsche Carrera GT crash in 2013—by many people and news outlets, including us. But in reality, there is no evidence that Walker ever said it.
Read MoreBack when the Tesla Model 3 was first unveiled in March, company CEO Elon Musk said that what we saw then wasn’t quite the production model. Musk said that things were going to change, especially on the inside. We might learn what’s changing tonight.
Read MoreOne man in Florida was surprised when a six-foot snake emerged from his Hyundai’s hood during rush hour on U.S. Highway 19, reports WTSP. Surprisingly, that car is not on fire at the bottom of a ravine (like it should be), although consider this my request to nuke it from orbit just to be sure.
Read More“LeEco” has been called “the Chinese Netflix” because it operates one of the country’s largest video streaming services. Today we learned it also wants to make your car, your phone, your “content,” and sure why not– your bicycle, too. If it added anything about the actual viability of said plans, I couldn’t find it in the full toilet of corporatespeak the company tried to flush down our throats today.
Read MoreThe LeEco car, the car from the Chinese Netflix, the backers of the mysterious Californian Faraday Future, is finally getting its U.S. debut on a live stage. Except it’s not.
Read MorePart of what sucks about flying is checking your bag. Aside from paying the stupid bag fee, part of what sucks about checking your bag is the very real possibility of the airline delaying or losing your bag. So, not only did you pay, but you paid for a poor service. Well, the Obama administration says that it’s time to start changing that.
Read MoreIf your deepest desire ever was to own a brand-new DeLorean, your chance just arrived. In January, DeLorean Motor Company said that it would start making brand new DeLoreans again. This week, it started accepting applications for the new DeLoreans, but with just one tiny catch: the cars don’t exist yet.
Read MoreThe 2017 Ford Fiesta ST doesn’t get much in the way of changes other than a new orange paint job. However, Ford is throwing in free training at their Octane Driver’s Academy with every ST purchase.
Read MoreEven though it’s almost a decade old now, few cars at any price point can take down the Nissan GT-R. But now Honda, with its highly anticipated new NSX, wants to pull ahead of Nissan. And based on this Motor Trend test, it looks like it has done it. But not by a whole lot.
Read MoreSee that massive, gaping cavity up there? The one in the back of the joint Aston Martin-Red Bull Racing joint venture, the AM-RB 001? The place where it’s missing a whole lot of car? Apparently that will help the track version make a mind-melting 4,000 pounds of downforce. Oh, and four g of lateral acceleration at speed, like a Formula One car.
Read MoreCower in fear, for the moosepocalyse is upon us. One moose walking onto Interstate 86 in southeastern Idaho caused a three-vehicle collision, sending two people to the hospital, reports KBOI. That’s right: one single moose.
Read MoreEconomists and reporters have been saying that electric cars could actually kill the oil industry for a little while now, but it hasn’t made a lot of real-world impact so far. But now Fitch, an enormously influential financial ratings agency, is issuing dire warnings over electric cars.
Read MoreWondering if you’re faster than a Jalopnik writer? (You probably are.) But remember, you can come find out in person at our next Are You Faster Than A Jalopnik Writer? karting event (RSVP here) at Autobahn Indoor Speedway on Sunday, October 23rd. It’s for a great cause!
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Read MoreWhen German Jalopnik reader Andreas (TheSafetyEngineer) told me he knew a guy near Nuernberg who hoarded Mitsubishis, I figured he was talking about someone who was in over his head with maybe five or six Lancers pouring out of his driveway. Boy, was I wrong. It turns out the ultimate Mitsubishi stash isn’t in Japan, but Germany.
Read MoreHere you can see not one but two camo-wrapped Chevrolet Camaro mules. Could they be the new Camaro Z/28? Probably! Maybe! Sure looks like it!
Read MoreShouldn’t driving a manual be a prerequisite for the leader of the free world, anyway? I mean, what if you’re being chased by a herd of evil robot Pomeranians controlled by Dr. No and your only getaway car is a 1979 Yugo? You have to think of these things when you’re president, you know.
Read MoreVirginia senator Tim Kaine may have the “inoffensive affable dad” vibe locked down as Hillary Clinton’s pick for vice president, but at least one person eyed for the gig was far more interesting and deeply tied to the automotive world: Mary Barra, the current CEO and chairwoman of General Motors.
Read MoreIf you make yourself more than just a car, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely... a Legend.
Read MoreI still can’t wrap my head around exactly how all this transpired, but a Missouri man is facing several charges for allegedly conning various women into buying him sports cars of which he sold and kept the cash.
Read MoreLast week Mercedes got a lot of attention—and not necessarily the good kind—after one of its managers said that in the future, the automaker’s self-driving cars would prioritize the safety of occupants over pedestrians. Now Mercedes is walking that back, and hard. Apparently doing so would be unethical, unacceptable, and also illegal.
Read MoreYour life might be a ceaseless conveyor belt of misery taking you to a much-too-late grave, but there’s at least one thing you should drag your sorry ass to just this one time to get a glimmer of joy just this once: Amtrak’s bubble top train, here on the Adirondack line.
Read MoreThe Nürburgring is on nearly every gearhead’s bucket list, but this man went to far more incredible lengths to do it than most do. Jae Yeong Lee rode his 110cc, eight horsepower Honda Super Cub scooter approximately 11,200 miles from Seoul, South Korea, to do two laps of the Nürburgring.
Read MoreCurrently, you can get an Uber in more than 65 cities in Latin America. Uber wants to double that amount by the end of 2017. It also wants to push the carpooling UberPOOL in Mexico City—which is the company’s busiest city in the world—with drone advertisements aimed at the poor souls stuck in traffic. Really.
Read MoreAudi really likes its “e-tron” name. For years it’s been used to designate hybrid cars like the current A3 e-tron, as well as more experimental endeavors like the electric R8 e-tron that was just quietly killed off. But the name’s biggest deployment to date will be on Audi’s first all-electric crossover, with no other numbers or letters attached.
Read MoreSometimes, when babies want to come into this world they don’t wait until you get to the hospital. In a perfect example of that, a Florida couple ended up delivering their newborn in the lot of a used truck dealership in Jacksonville.
Read MoreWithin moments of arriving in Germany to spend some quality time with my family, my parents had to tie me up with rope to keep me from blowing all my cash on junkers from Germany’s amazing version of Craigslist, Mobile.de. It is filled with every Jalop’s wants and needs. And I am too weak to resist its lure.
Read MoreSpy photos and videos suggest that some new Chevrolet Corvette, perhaps the 2018 C7 Corvette ZR1, has a massive rear wing that you could practically eat dinner on. We’ve shared a video of what appears to be this same pack of test mules before, but this one gives a real close-up of the three.
Read MoreIn case you hadn’t noticed, clowns are terrifying pretty much everyone. Clowns in the woods, clowns threatening schools—you get the idea. But this clown is straight out of a horror plot, hanging from the back of a vehicle like a true menace to society. We can’t run anymore. The clowns are mobile.
Read MoreRecalling just a handful of cars more than BMW did for risk of fire earlier in the week, about 350,000 Honda Civics are on the recall list for problems with the car’s electric parking brake. So, if you see a 2016 Civic rolling down a hill toward you, please to not assume that someone is controlling it.
Read MoreThe new BMW M2 is awesome and already an enthusiast favorite. The comparison of the M2 as being a “spiritual successor” to what “the M3 used to be” has been played before, but what about the E36 generation M3 that nobody really seems to care about?
Read MoreOne benefit to being the second-largest automaker in the world is that you have a lot of money, and having a lot of money comes in handy when you have to pay your problems away. And where there are problems and money, there are lawyers.
Read MoreGo home, Associated Press, you’re drunk. The proofreader already called it a day. It’s a Friday. Pack it in early.
Read MoreOur siblings in oil-stained hands and carbon-monoxide breath over at Street Rodder magazine need our help, because their 1966 Ford Fairlane Road Tour car was stolen a couple of days ago in Bakersfield, CA. I know first hand we may be able to help. Let’s see what we can do.
Read MoreVacuums are utterly wonderful, brush-filled devices full of enough staticky dust, fuzz and debris to make your hair stand on end. Naturally, you do not want to suck a flammable substance such as gasoline into that potentially spark-filled environment. One woman at a Florida gas station learned that lesson the hard way. The explosion-ey way.
Read MoreThe future of the car is centered on autonomy, electrification, technology and the broad umbrella of “mobility.” But what does all that mean for the people who love to drive? Maybe your work can help us answer that question. Come work with us and find out.
Read MoreTen days ago, we told you about a new global car brand Chinese automaker Geely is planning to announce next week. The brand, cringingly called Lynk&Co, is making big claims about being something revolutionary. So far, it seems to be a Volvo-platform SUV with some possible bike-sharing stuff? And a cloud?
Read MoreA New Jersey Transit crash that occurred last month, which killed a woman and injured more than 100 people, drew national attention to the commuter railroad and raised questions about its safety. And according to federal safety data, the NJ Transit is falling behind other railroads in terms of safety. Like, really far behind.
Read MoreHurricane Matthew was a devastating storm, flooding entire communities and claiming the lives of hundreds. But amidst the chaos was a shining light named Tavis Jimmy Simpson, who graced the world with this hilarious video about a man and his beloved Volvo taking on the impossible.
Read MoreAtieva, the California-based EV maker backed by the Beijing Electric Vehicle Company, is best known for their bonkers test-mule van named Edna that’s spanked a BMW i8 and Dodge Viper. They’re planning a Tesla Model S-fighter named the Atvus, and now we know what it’ll look like.
Read MoreElectric versions of existing sports cars aren’t exactly hot sellers at the top of the market right now, what with the death of the $1 million Audi R8 E-Tron. But someone out there wants to sell you an electric, 200 mph Corvette for close to that price. Maybe it’s no surprise, GM isn’t the one.
Read MoreThe GTS is the sweet spot in the 911 range. Not quite as bonkers as the Turbo, more practical than the GT3. For the first time, the GTS will come with a turbocharged engine, and maybe (?) possibly (?) conceivably (?) the same gearbox from the 911 R.
Read MoreA house? An apartment? Only a fool chooses those. The Mitsubishi Delica 4WD, with its center-mounted cassette deck and drink holders, is all the home I need.
Read MoreIt’s no Dieselgate, but it’s still pretty embarrassing—BMW has filed a recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for just one BMW X3 for risk of fire in the electric power steering system, which “may not have been welded properly.”
Read MoreThere’s a wheelchair-using gearhead that built an amazing garage, with lifts and everything, so he and his friends can work on cars. Three of his neighbors are suing him to make him stop and tear down the garage, and they’ve even suggested that Jesus will kill him with his breath. It’s maddening, but I’ll try and explain.
Read MoreWhat do you do with a two-ton, Old-Lady-Of-Porkinham-spec Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow? Build a drift car out of it, duh.
Read MoreToyota just recalled 340,000 examples of its questionably-styled new Prius because the cable-controlled foot-brake might not work. And that’d be a big problem on an incline, where the little sedan’s low rolling resistance tires and slick drag coefficient would turn this thing into a rolling hybrid of destruction.
Read MoreWith scoops and flares all over the damn place, the new Honda Civic Type R is a sight to behold. Especially when it’s moving.
Read MoreHere it is: the fifth generation 2017 Honda CR-V. Get used to the look of this car because you’ll soon be seeing them everywhere. Everywhere, I tell you! At the YMCA, at Trader Joe’s, in your living room, at Islanders games. This is the crossover everyone buys.
Read MoreI’m not exactly sure what made this particular car in Turkey so delicious to this pack of feral dogs, but holy crap do they go to town on it. The pack of dogs manages to pull off the whole front bumper cover, along with some of the lights and other trim. Does the owner wax this thing with a chunk of ham?
Read More“There’s no replacement for displacement,” morons say. “Slap a turbo on it,” is the mantra of cretins everywhere. “The future is electric propulsion,” insist socially awkward futurists that no one likes to eat lunch with. None of these people are smart. True connoisseurs love pistons.
Read MoreThe best looking model out of the new Audi R8 lineup, the e-Tron, has been terminated after a production run of just under 100 cars, according to a report from Car And Driver.
Read MoreI’m not sure if its just a frustrated childhood desire to live with R2-D2, but I’m a firm believer that autonomous cars will prove to be the first real, personally-interactive robots that humans will deploy in large numbers. Which means we need to stop thinking of them just as cars. There seems to be at least one engineer who agrees, and he’s building his own experimental car called “Atticus.”
Read MoreKen Block, the man who drifted his way into our hearts forever with the Gymkhana videos, is now completely off the reservation. He already hacked up a 1966 Ford Mustang and threw in a 845-horsepower 410 cubic-inch V8. But now, he’s added even more power via methanol injection and gigantic turbos. Ken is legitimately scared.
Read MoreAs part of our Are You Faster Than A Jalopnik Writer? karting event (RSVP here) at Autobahn Indoor Speedway on Sunday, October 23rd, we’ll be giving the profits from the event to the RPM Foundation to help one of three worthy students devoted to automotive restoration. Help us pick which student to support below.
Read More“Rawr!” bellowed scary nasty Hurricane Matthew.
Read MoreCars are meant to be driven and enjoyed. If you’re fortunate enough to buy the delightfully insane Porsche Carrera GT—the very car known for frightening racing legend Walter Röhrl and whose V10 evolved from a stillborn Le Mans racer—you must not let it gather dust in some collection. Go drive it.
Read MoreEBay user jester944 thinks the Tesla Roadster represents the beginning of a new era of electrification, and is therefore going to be a priceless collectable gem in just a few short decades. It’s so valuable, in fact, that his Buy It Now price on validation prototype number 00032 is a lofty $1,000,032. Yes, those commas are in the right spots.
Read MoreI think the Dodge Viper (RIP) V10s, all versions of them, are some of the coolest engines ever made and nothing anybody can say will make me think otherwise. You can stick one in your lawnmower, or your 1968 Camaro, and you won’t hear a peep out of me.
Read MoreI just returned from a vacation in southwest England, where the motorways taught me a cruel lesson. Those harsh streets made me realize that I am a weak man with a fragile heart, a flappable soul and a frail spirit. I may never recover.
Read MorePhotos of the upcoming next generation G30 BMW 5 Series have found their way onto Germancarforum, and now here! And, well, yea. That’s a BMW that looks somewhere between the 3 Series and 7 Series, I guess.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been sick after traveling, you know how hard it can be to get on plane and try to ignore all of the smells, drafts and feelings you get from sitting in a tube full of other seemingly gross people. The good news is that the plane is not actively blowing germs around the cabin.
Read MoreSales of the Ford Mustang are down here in the United States of America. Good.
Read MoreThe roadgoing version of the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG003C race car is here! Kind of. But it’s already claimed to pull 2G’s in a corner.
Read MoreI saw this image on the OppositeTalk Facebook group, where it seems to have originated from a Canadian auction site. I’m sure anyone looking at this picture for more than a few seconds will see that there’s something deeply puzzling going on. The question is why? And maybe how?
Read MoreReducing traffic? Fighting the scourge of private ownership? Nah man, there’s something better about autonomous cars, and you can leave it to the Aussies to get it so right.
Read MoreNot even the highest posted speed limit in the United States could woo drivers to take the long, long, long way around Austin—particularly through the southern end of the Texas State Highway 130 toll road. The entire road seems to have been built on high hopes instead of actual research and data.
Read MoreMy family had a big, warm, dry weekend down in San Antonio, Texas for my sister’s wedding. Meanwhile, in our hometown of Sanford, North Carolina, this guy was having an even better time riding out Hurricane Matthew in the streets on a jet ski.
Read MoreThe web show featuring Jerry Seinfeld staring blankly at other comedians over coffee is “on the market” to switch distribution from its current home at Crackle, according to insiders blabbing to The New York Times.
Read MoreThere are exactly two types of TV shows about cars: sensationalized “build” dramas set to slow-motion footage of sparks, and Top Gear knockoffs. The latter “boy’s trip” motif tends to be a little more bearable so I’m excited to see what my friends have in store for the third season of /Drive on NBC Sports.
Read MoreTesla just capped off its best quarter yet, delivering 8,700 Model X crossovers to customers and a total of 24,500 deliveries for the Q3 of 2016. Apparently that wasn’t good enough to keep the 60D trim of the Model X around, because Tesla just killed it only three months after introducing it.
Read MoreIf you’ve never seen Naoki Nakamura drift before, prepare to see some things you didn’t think were possible.
Read MoreLook, I’m not going to bullshit you: the world has agreed that BMW drivers are pisslords. And this video of a BMW i8 road rager who stopped on a public road is a perfect example of that.
Read MoreGoofy YouTube supercar goofball Salomondrin decided to pit his own 887-hp Porsche 918 Spyder with the lighter, meaner Weissach Package against a 1,088-hp Rimac Concept One in a drag race. The all-electric Croatian car made the hybrid German look obsolete.
Read MoreWhile everyone else with morals and reason was asleep, unknown vandals forkjacked a forklift and went on a rampage in Brooklyn Bridge Park this past weekend. One Nissan Leaf was tragically lost in the incident, may it forever RIP In Peace.
Read MoreI’m not saying I don’t understand the basic urges here. Empty, wet roads are seductively inviting to the donut-doer and power-slider within us all. But doing them during a hurricane-mandated curfew and in front of a news crew just isn’t smart. Now the guy that did them has been arrested.
Read MoreThe new Aston Martin DB11 starts at around $212,000 here in the United States. Any guess on how much it costs in India? No. More than that.
Read MoreLamborghinis are all the same. Fast. Loud. Also quite fast. Or are they?
Read MoreOn this blog, we’re big fans of showing you cars that you could one day buy testing at the Nürburgring in Germany. If you haven’t noticed, we really like when they’re fast. That being said, here’s a video of what appears to be the new Mercedes-AMG C63 R out there tearing things up. It looks pretty good, too.
Read MoreDiesel-powered pony cars—so perverse and unnecessary that I have to admit I’m intrigued. The real question is, what’s filthier: the fumes pluming out of these exhaust pipes or the grandiloquence coming out of this narrator’s mouth?
Read MoreGermany’s Bundesrat, the legislative body of the federal states in the country, passed a resolution in a recent meeting calling upon the European Union to ban anything but zero-emissions vehicles on EU roads within the next 14 years. It has no legislative effect on its own, but hey, it’s what Germany wants.
Read MoreMaserati is “working to be ready” with an electric vehicle that it hopes to show off by 2020, the company’s engineering boss said in a recent interview with Car & Driver. He also said that electric-car maker Tesla is “not the best,” and that making a Tesla rival probably isn’t a good idea.
Read MoreThis is the real world; it’s not just fantasy. If you open your eyes and look up toward lot 608 at Barrett-Jackson in Las Vegas next week, you may just make yourself into a poor boy (or girl), because the recently restored 1976 AMC Pacer used in Wayne’s World is up for auction.
Read MoreThis week marks the end of an era– the last Ford made in Australia was, fittingly, a blue Ford Falcon XR6, according to CarScoops. Ford is auctioning off its four last saleable cars to fund student robotics programs, so they may do epic burnouts for good.
Read MoreAfter decades of being teased by the cheap thrills of American pony cars, Europeans can finally buy brand new Ford Mustangs of their very own. Great news for fans across the Atlantic! Except their version isn’t quite as good. Or affordable.
Read MoreI’m sure everyone here remembers the classic cult film Death Race 2000 remarkably well. It was the heartwarming tale of a dystopian America and the massive, homicidal transcontinental race that took place every year to act as an opiate for the debased masses. Now, Roger Corman himself is doing a remake, and based on the trailer, it looks like it’ll be as bonkers as the original. Now let’s really check out the cars.
Read MoreOne might be wondering when the cars are. Well, friend, now! It’s the car time.
Read MoreSure, Hurricane Matthew seems like it will be pretty scary. But it’s got nothing on the gravest threat facing our great nation’s safety right now: evil clowns. There’s an evil clown infestation happening all over America, and it’s time that we look the threat right in its filthy rubber nose and take action. With our cars.
Read MoreYou, too, can be Hoon of the Day. You! Yes, you! All I’ve ever wanted to be is Hoon of the Day, and one way is to go drifting and get gloriously sideways. Drifting is a wonderful fit-for-YouTube motorsport, and here’s how YouTuber Chris Fix finally got a car together and went drifting.
Read MoreWhat part of evacuate don’t you understand, people?
Read MoreWhat do you think of when you think of a Caterham? Bare bones and lightweight sports car, right? An engine strapped to a seat with some tires and a steering wheel. And a famous department store, probably.
Read MoreI have to admit that I’m a sucker for any car company that references R2-D2 in their press release, but I think I’d be a fan of the new Rinspeed Oasis concept even if they released a totally droid-less statement to the world. That’s because this car shows they understand the coming autonomous world better than almost anyone.
Read MoreLocal news in Florida caught a driver in a truck attempting to pull off some sweet powerslides and donuts right in front of them, the American people, and the manifested wrath of god that is Hurricane Matthew.
Read MoreWe’ve thrown down the gauntlet. Again. We’ve challenged you, the readers, to come out and see if you can out-kart the Jalopnik staff, an elite squad of hardcore racing gods who think Ariel Atoms are fit only for hospital patients.* It’s time for you to come and see: are you faster than a Jalopnik writer?** RSVP here to find out.
Read More“Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in,” said a dumb kitesurfer quoting Point Break before deciding the Florida coastline about to be brutally pummeled by Hurricane Matthew was a great place to try some new tricks, probably.
Read MoreWhen I first saw this picture of the 1960 Mercedes-Benz W118 prototype, my first thought was how much it looks like a Mercedes-built BMW 2002. And while the BMW Neue Klasse of cars may have been influenced by this prototype, what I didn’t realize was that this charming little car held the future of post-Beetle Volkswagen. This Benz prototype is really the seed of modern VW. I’ll explain.
Read MoreWe’ve known that the blessed, blissful Ferrari gated manual was on its way out. Everything has to be paddle-shifted for performance, you see, but maybe it was possible to get one on special order. But no, you won’t even get those anymore. The Ferrari gated manual is officially dead.
Read MoreDo we know if the upcoming Lexus LC 500 drives better than a BMW M car? No. Do we know if it rides better than a BMW M car? No. Do we know if it sounds better than a BMW M car? Hell yes we do.
Read MoreAs you know, signing on with prestigious tech companies usually means a very handsome signing bonus. But sometimes a fat check just isn’t good enough. Sometimes, a Tesla Model 3 becomes in the incentive.
Read MoreVolkswagen has spent the past few years teasing similar-looking large crossover SUV concepts with names like CrossBlue and CrossCoupe GTE, but when that crossover goes to production it will apparently get a much more realistic name: Atlas. It’s a fitting name, too.
Read MoreThere is a frankly perfect episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in which the gang finds a brilliant way to end the gas crisis – door-to-door gasoline sales. Trust me, it makes sense. It makes sense to Bentley, too, because that’s exactly what it’s now offering.
Read MoreApparently the Grossglockner High Alpine Road is great for testing cars before they’re released, because our reader inconsistentlybad saw a whole murder of exciting cars full of testing equipment on that road. And, even better, he took a lot of very high-res pictures.
Read MoreI’m a Big Wheel owner. Usually, my kid drives it, but I can say it’s a vehicle with some really great attributes: light, simple, easy, and it has little spring-loaded clackers. What it’s not good at is driving on any sort of highway. Someone should tell this Philadelphia Big Wheel-like driver that, because this motherfucker on Interstate 76 is riding a fucking Big Wheel.
Read MoreI personally lose things all the time. My sunglasses. That shirt I used to have with Yosemite on it. A $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador. Wait, no, that wasn’t me.
Read MoreOne is a modern Japanese front-wheel-drive hot hatch. The other is a German rear-wheel-drive sports car. Which does better, a new Euro-spec Honda Civic Type R or a 20-year-old E36 BMW M3?
Read MoreBrock Yates, the larger than life veteran of numerous automotive publications, creator of the original Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, and a man whose life and prolific body of work symbolized the pursuit of speed, died Wednesday, according to news reports. Yates was 82.
Read MorePolice K-9 dog death rates have increased this year, along with pedestrian dog and child death rates, because the pups in blue are being left in super hot squad cars. You would think cops would pay more attention to the loyal partner they’ve known since it was just a puppy.
Read MoreStarting next week, on October 10, Uber will subsidize rides for residents living in Summit, New Jersey, from the local train station to their homes. This move, the result of a partnership with the town trying to deal with a parking problem, is just another way the company is attempting to expand into the suburbs.
Read MoreMany modern track cars are offered with a dual-clutch transmission, but not the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350! No, only a 6-speed manual has been good enough for the GT350. At least until Ford dropped a 7-speed DCT into the new Ford GT and then (reportedly) got an idea.
Read MoreDonald Trump regularly says dumb shit about Mexico and the people of Mexico and American corporations working in Mexico, most prominently Ford. Well, Ford met with Trump and totally bent to what the dingus hair man said.
Read MoreMost road-rage dash cam videos we see tend to be boring affairs, with someone bonking someone else on the head and everything is silent. But when delivered by someone screaming their head off the exact way you would, it becomes greatness.
Read MoreIt looks mean, it looks nasty and we’ve been waiting for it: this camouflaged Corvette prototype with a massive stinkin’ wing just could be the new C7 Corvette ZR1.
Read MorePrepare yourself, because you’re about to see a metric shit ton of crashed AMGs. Yes, Drift Mode is coming to Mercedes.
Read MoreI’ve just learned of some truly distressing news. Porsche North America is recalling 243 2017 Macans over some potentially faulty front anti-rollbar links. The fear is that these links could cause the cars to “oversteer.” Shit!
Read MoreA 32-year-old Will County Sheriff’s deputy in Illinois currently in the ICU wing of the hospital as a result of injuries sustained when an SUV stopped in front of his patrol car, causing the officer to swerve, lose control, and crash into a telephone pole. Police need help identifying the SUV, so let’s see what we can do.
Read MoreThomas Flessner was hired as a materials engineer at Tesla’s Fremont factory back in 2012, and was let go in February of this year. He’s now suing Tesla for age discrimination, claiming that he was frequently isolated by his coworkers and bosses for his older age, which ultimately led to him being fired.
Read MoreHenrik Fisker, the famed automotive designer behind the gorgeous lines of the BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9 and V8 Vantage, and the late Fisker Karma, is going to take a stab at the luxury electric vehicle market—again. Let’s all just wipe the slate clean and start fresh, because you can do that when you’re a rich, famous designer.
Read MorePerhaps the lone upside of the new Fiat 124 Spider feeling about as Italian as an Edamame Soybean Kit-Kat is that it will inevitably benefit from the ridiculously extensive Mazda MX-5 aftermarket. Naturally, that includes Flyin’ Miata’s V8 conversions. Why? Because tires are evil and must be punished, that’s why.
Read More2017 is the final year of Dodge Viper production, the end of an era of snap-oversteer madness. And one dealer is looking to cash in on that by buying almost all of the remaining unsold Vipers from Fiat Chrysler, according to the blog entry on its website. Want a new Viper? Talk to these guys.
Read MoreGeely, owner of both Volvo and the company that makes London Black Cabs, is already a major player in China and around the world. They’re about to launch a new global car brand, called Lynk & Co, and so far I’m pretty baffled at what this new brand will be. So let’s make some guesses.
Read MoreIf you’re thinking about doing some towing, and you also think that all the concern over weight distribution on the trailer is a load of crap perpetrated by the weight-distribution lobby, then I really suggest you watch this little video. Because what’s funny with toys is terrifying in reality.
Read MoreYes, it’s a big day for speculative renders. But this one comes from patent drawings, and it may show where BMW is taking its electrified i-series next. Is this the BMW i5 sedan? Looks like it.
Read MoreThe new Toyota Supra. Not since the C7 Chevrolet Corvette has there been a sports car enthusiasts have been more excited to see uncovered. And like the C7 Corvette, we think we can show you before anyone else what it’ll look like.
Read MoreThe tip for this post was “Mustang Driver - New” and I immediately knew what it was without having to watch. This was the second time this happened this weekend. Mustang drivers are a scourge.
Read MoreThe owner of this STI engine-swapped Subaru Forester doesn’t have the use of his legs, but he still hustles his car around canyons and track days. Watch him explain how it’s done, and see well-practiced car reviewer Matt Farah give the hand controls a shot for the first time.
Read MoreIn the first season of BBC’s hit show “Who Do You Think You Are?”, Jeremy Clarkson discovered he was the great-great-great-great-grandson of John Kilner, a very successful 19th century bottlemaker. He also discovered where his inherent hatred for environmentalism was founded.
Read MoreNeodymium is basically the strongest magnet you can get without your own metallurgical laboratory. Just one piece the size of a skateboard wheel could have 80 pounds of pulling force. That doesn’t exactly get you a hoverboard, but maybe a gravity-resistant one?
Read MoreSubaru is recalling 592,647 cars for melting windshield wiper motors, which I can only assume the automaker sourced from the Wicked Witch of the West.
Read MoreThere’s no convertible hardtop Mazda Miata like last time, and no full-on fixed roof coupe either. (We’re waiting, Mazda.) But soon there will be the 2017 Miata RF, which uses a trick folding targa rooftop to give you wind and sun when you want it and something solid over your head when you don’t. Here’s what it will cost.
Read MoreWe were all very sad when Jaguar announced that it would be giving up on wagons to focus more on the SUV market. Now it seems Jaguar isn’t out of the longroof game quite yet! The brand plans on launching an all new XF Sportbrake sometime in 2017.
Read More“This is one of our most stupid things that we have ever done,” the kindly Finnish man who runs the Hydraulic Press Channel says before smushing a spring out of a Toyota Corolla. “Do not do this at home or anywhere else. This is fucking stupid.”
Read MoreThe Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is one of the most dangerous courses in the world, featuring over 200 unforgiving corners and ludicrous top speeds, often with walls or curbs where purpose-built tracks would have runoff zones. So, of course, Dougie Lampkin set off to ride it all on one wheel in under two hours.
Read MoreHow many Russian dudes can you fit into a beat-up GAZ 31029 Volga? Answer: a whole lot. And also a guitar and an accordion.
Read MoreEver wonder how much air vents cost on a Honda versus a Toyota, or how much a horn bracket weighs on a BMW? Unless you’re the most deeply obsessive car enthusiast in the world, probably not. But automakers care, and they’re always trying to figure out ways to outdo competitors—even at the tiniest level. Meet the company that tears down entire cars to help do that.
Read MoreMany of us are quite excited about the new Honda Civic Type R: the latest incarnation of the unhinged, raw id of the Civic. There have been Civic Type Rs for 20 years now, and watching how they’ve developed gives a pretty remarkable look at how car designed has evolved. I’m not exactly sure where it’s going, but it’s getting there fast, on fire, and screaming.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever spent some time in the greater Los Angeles area, you’ll notice that exotic, rare, and otherwise unobtainable cars in the rest of the country are the norm, which means that if you want to be noticed, you’ll need something that takes people utterly by surprise—something like this bone stock Ford Escape with a vinyl wrap. No, I’m not kidding.
Read MoreFor once, Donald Trump’s public rambling and nonsense has led to a good thing: a chairman for Ford’s union confirming production of the revived Ranger and Bronco, which will move into the manufacturer’s Michigan factory when its small-car production goes to Mexico.
Read MoreThe ramifications of Volkswagen’s diesel cheating scandal have been wide-ranging. On Friday, three months after a $14.7 billion settlement with U.S. regulators, the automaker confirmed it will settle with its U.S. car dealers as well to the tune of $1.21 billion, and that settlement provides further evidence of the end of Volkswagen diesel in America.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe F-150 truck calls it a sleeper. Seeing as it’s a red and raised Lightning that’s kind of a stretch. Let’s see if this custom truck is worth lightening your wallet to the tune of its price.
Read MoreGetting a flat while driving is bad. Driving a flatbed truck can be sinfully good. Let’s see if today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy flatbed comes with a price that makes up for its plethora of sins.
Read MoreFor some people an autograph book is good enough. For those for which it is not, I present you today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Camaro, which has the signatures of its modder and its famous intended first owner. Let’s see if that all makes its price worth signing up for.
Read MoreWhile there has perhaps been no more contrarient car name than the Chevy Celebrity. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe four-speed sedan nonetheless might be paparazzi worthy. That is unless its price means it can’t get arrested in this town.
Read MoreThere are many geographic locales named for the explorers who found them. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ford Explorer could help you reach some of those, owing to its Roush-improved motor and AWD. That is, if its price doesn’t put you off the Trac.
Read MoreFor a while VW named a lot of their cars after winds—Passat, Bora, Scirocco, etc. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom classic Jetta is in fact named for the Jet Stream, but will its price have you thinking the seller is just blowing up your skirt?
Read MoreAt one time, Ford owned Britain’s Aston Martin. That makes today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mustang look perhaps a little too incestuous, but will its price have you wanting to add it to your family?
Read MoreDo you know how long it’s been since Cadillac built a convertible? The last one was the XLR more than half a decade ago. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cimarron is unexpectedly topless, but will that make it worth its asking price?
Read MoreCan’t teach an old dog new tricks? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi would beg to differ. It may look old school but its mechanicals are mostly all new rule. Let’s see if its price has you thinking it’s pretty trick!
Read MoreIf you have one of those shirts that says “Injection is Nice, But I’d Rather Be Blown” then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer might just be right up your alley. That is, if its price doesn’t first blow it.
Read MorePeople love the VW Caddy, but at here in the States that means living with a car that’s at least 32 years old. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Jetta is only a fraction of that age, but does it come with a price that’s just as lovable?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW estate is said to have started as a 320, it’s listed as a 325, and it’s rocking a 350. That may all add up somehow, but you’ll still need to decide its price does too.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Legacy says that it’s “the grown up STI you are looking for.” Let’s see if this rare Subie’s price doesn’t make it a groan up as well. (Wow, that was bad.)
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Suburban is cosplaying as a bad-ass SS and is killing it. Let’s see if that, and its price, might make it a screaming deal, just be-cos.
Read MoreDo old Hondas actually ever die? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Prelude is an old Honda, and it looks like it has a lot of life left in it. Let’s find out if its price will make that a life worth living.
Read MoreBefore BMW chopped the top off the E30 for reals, Karroserie Baur made some into nice framed-window targas. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Top Cabrio 2 is one of the model’s second generation, but will this Euro-spec car’s price have you second guessing the seller?
Read MoreWhat’s the one word that can cause a sad trombone for a car buying experience. That’s right it’s RUST! Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Saab looks great, but its ad says its got the car cancer in places we just can’t see. Could its price will make it worth enjoying at least once before it dies?
Read MoreIf you can’t wait for the rumored new Ford Bronco—whatever that may actually be—then take a gander at today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe classic XLT. It’s pretty much everything we hope a new Bronco might be, but we’ll still have to see if this one’s price has you saying no bucking way.
Read MoreIt may come as a shock to many snooty U.S. Acura owners, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe NSX proves, their cars were nothing more than Hondas in a lot of other markets. Let’s see if this JDM NSK with its right-hand drive is also right-ly priced.
Read MoreNormally, you would give a wide berth to any car whose claimed abuse is equitable to a cathouse mattress. We’ll have to see if today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW, which is so described, comes with a price that might make it the singular exception to that rule.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Datsun is a throwback to a simpler, and perhaps more aesthetically adventurous time. Let’s see if its interior alone is worth the price of admission.
Read MoreThe last spot on the podium for the Formula One Mexican Grand Prix must be a revolving door instead of the usual step. First, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen lost third place for taking a shortcut to keep his position, giving the podium spot to Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel. Hilariously, Vettel later lost third place for violating the new “Verstappen Rule.”
Read MoreThe future of Volkswagen’s insanely successful World Rally Championship team will be determined at a meeting in Wolfsburg tomorrow, reports Autocar. Could Volkswagen Motorsport’s rally effort be the next program after Audi’s Le Mans team to be axed in light of Dieselgate’s rising costs?
Read MoreA 2005 Chevrolet SSR, of all things, struck a crowd of pedestrians when trying to pass a Jeep Patriot in the parking lot outside Martinsville Speedway last night, WSLS reports. Crowds in the parking lot were leaving the NASCAR race at Martinsville.
Read MoreAfter blocking Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel from third position despite even his own team telling him to move over, Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen waltzed into the pre-podium room to celebrate. That’s when Verstappen, who has a history of blocking, found out he wouldn’t be getting third place.
Read MoreRemember grade school, when you got behind the line leader and stayed there? Well, a late caution in NASCAR’s Martinsville race was like picture day in grade school, when you had to confusingly line up by height. Not even officials knew where drivers were supposed to be, and they ran 30 laps trying to figure it out.
Read MoreWhile working on his Ford Fiesta RS during the FIA World Rally Championship’s Wales Rally GB on Friday, series co-driver Ola Floene believes he was bitten by a snake on the left hand. He didn’t realize at the time that he’d been bitten, and continued to compete through Saturday with a giant, swollen hand.
Read MoreAccording to reports, two men robbed a member of Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes AMG F1 team at gunpoint prior to this weekend’s Formula One Mexican Grand Prix. The robbery occurred while in stationary traffic on Wednesday, and the team member chose to remain in Mexico for the race weekend.
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 MoreFinally, someone’s finally answering one of the critical questions we’ve had about electric vehicles: can we jump them repeatedly like maniacs without electrocuting ourselves in spectacular fashion?
Read MoreIf there’s one thing that shouldn’t be in the same sentence as “showbiz,” it’s Formula One crashes, where the cockpit is exposed and cars reach ludicrously high speeds. Despite this, F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone suggested building walls closer to tracks to up the danger factor—it makes a better show!
Read MoreIf you get half an hour of free time today, do nothing but spend it reading this amazing NASCAR profile from Sports Illustrated. It’s one of those rare instances in which someone writes about NASCAR with context—not just a young and up-and-coming driver, but the vast institutional failures that are leading to the long, slow suicide of the sport.
Read MoreThese are the motorsports Audi has been reduced to after Dieselgate, folks. Actually, we’re pretty okay with this one.
Read MoreWithout question, the modern era of the most famous race in the world—the 24 Hours of Le Mans—has belonged to Audi. That comes to an end this year. This is the way things had to go.
Read MoreAudi announced this morning that they will end their participation in the series it spent a decade dominating, the World Endurance Championship—including the 24 Hours of Le Mans—to shift their focus to the all-electric Formula E championship instead at the end of 2016. It’s one of the biggest shifts the racing world has seen in some time.
Read MoreYeah, so this is terrifying. Watch how fast a fuel leak in Ben Waddell’s Miata turns the car into a cage of fire.
Read MorePerhaps Taylor Swift saved Formula One in America after all. Or great weather did. Either way, this weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin was a smash success, the most attended race of the five times it’s been held.
Read MoreActor Gerard Butler handled the post-race interviews for the Formula One United States Grand Prix, and of course, Red Bull driver and third-place finisher Daniel Ricciardo handed him a shoe to toast. Butler doesn’t drink alcohol, but Ricciardo was more than happy to fill it with Red Bull instead of champagne.
Read MoreIf we’re honest, Formula One races these days aren’t exactly a toss up. Without unforeseen circumstances, like, oh, the two Mercedes teammates wrecking each other on the first lap, one of them will likely win. I groan every race, hoping for things to be less predictable. So, I decided to how predictable things actually are.
Read MoreMartin Truex Jr., winner of two races in this year’s NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup and a title favorite, was minding his business at Talladega Superspeedway. That’s what you have to do, because avoiding wrecks is key. But engine issues sent him to the garage, potentially knocking him out of the Chase.
Read MoreDuring a long break in track action at the United States Grand Prix on Friday, my colleague Stef Schrader decided it was a good idea to tell me, a crazy cat lady, that there may be about a dozen feral cats at Circuit of The Americas. Drop the laptops. Drop the blogs. We had to go find the cats.
Read MoreFew things are more clichéd and less insightful than interviews with racing drivers, particularly in Formula One. And this year’s American F1 race is set to be an extremely predictable one, barring any disastrous upsets. In response to both, we have crafted a drinking game that you should never, ever do, as you’ll probably die. Yes, even if you’re Finnish.
Read MoreFormula One teams transform their garages into exceedingly tidy apartments for each race, with storage space for items you’d never think to give its own little cubbyhole. We walked through Williams’ space, and here’s how they explained their garage/suite works on a race weekend.
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 MoreWelcome back to Texas, Formula One. Admittedly, we’ve complained that this season is too predictable, but does it matter? Not really. It’s a party regardless, and this race in particular seems to invite chaos and decide championships. Here’s why you should care about F1's lone stop in the United States.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever seen me tweet or blog about Formula One these days, you know I feel like things are, uh, predictable. Without divine intervention, one of the two Mercedes F1 teammates will win. In an effort to either prove myself very wrong or very right, I’m going to try to predict the U.S. Grand Prix this weekend.
Read MoreAussie Formula One driver and honorary shoe-booze chugger Daniel Ricciardo loves Texas so much that he’s actually become a Texan, trading one endearing accent for another less endearing one.
Read MoreNot a day goes by that I don’t see a comment or email from a reader pontificating about how excellent small, diesel-powered pickup trucks are. You still can’t buy enough in the U.S., but at least next year you’ll get to see them on race tracks!
Read MoreFormula One is back in Austin, and with hundreds of thousands of people flying into the land of breakfast tacos and tourists in cowboy hats, you may be wondering what to do when the festivities at Circuit of the Americas end and you’re left to your own devices to amuse yourself. We’ve got your back.
Read MoreYou guys, did you hear? Tay is totally gonna be in Austin, TX this weekend! She’ll be performing at the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas and I. Cannot. Wait.
Read MoreAugust 1st in Fiorano Modenese, Italy marked a new chapter in Pirelli’s Formula One story. Around 8 a.m. that morning, four time World Champion Sebastian Vettel took to Ferrari’s private test circuit to test the new generation of F1 tires that will debut next year. The new tire will not only be wider, but also a completely different construction to handle the higher levels of downforce expected to be produced by the next generation of cars while also offering better tire life so drivers can, the
Read MoreRon Dennis, a man synonymous with McLaren itself, may lose his role as CEO of the McLaren Technology Group in a row with McLaren’s investors, reports the UK’s Telegraph. Dennis has been involved with the team since 1980, taking it from a struggling Formula One team to a world championship winning technology powerhouse and supercar builder.
Read MoreMost racing press conferences are pointless. Drivers rarely say anything more detailed than “our car feels really quick,” or “we have a five-place grid penalty, but we’re going to make the most of it.” We here at Jalopnik get bored of them, too! Here’s how we would handle the monotonous task of giving vague non-answers to questions.
Read MoreSports car racing today is in a wonderful spot, with Fords, Ferraris, Porsches, Lambos, Bentleys, McLarens and all kinds of road-going sports cars battling on track. And off to one side away from the action was this Renault. Well, not anymore.
Read MoreOne of the characters in the upcoming Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will be none other than three-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton. Because when I think of first-person shooter military action, I totally think of someone who probably spends more time on his hair than I do.
Read MoreFormula One and Le Mans icon Mark Webber’s recent announcement that he’ll retire at the end of this 2016 season felt like a bit of a surprise. He gets along well with his team and his teammates, and he’s still at the top of his game. What brought him to leave his sport? One brutal crash from two years ago.
Read More“The Race of Gentlemen” is like cosplay for reliving the early days of motor racing– primitive engines powering tin can cars and clattery motorcycles, on the beach, driven full-noise by greasy mustached caricatures having the time of their lives.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen factory rally team will be entering three Polo WRC cars in the Dayinsure Wales Rally GB, from October 27-30. But there’s also another, slower Volkswagen entry in that race, a 1958 Beetle named Bertie.
Read MoreWell, this is certainly the most audacious, bodacious, extraordinary in top-tier motorsports so far this year. It’s also a good reminder that rallycross is incredible.
Read MoreThe team behind Roborace, the planned support series for the FIA Formula E Championship that’ll race electric self-driving cars, scheduled its car’s debut for Formula E’s season opener in Hong Kong last weekend. But the car didn’t make it to the track, and the team documented all of its struggles on video.
Read MoreMost of the drivers who qualified for the Chase for the Championship in each of NASCAR’s top-three series have had terrible luck since the Chase races started. Seriously. With this kind of bad luck, it’s surprising that they qualified for the championship races in the first place.
Read MoreAudi Sport Team Joest is the team whose rumors cried wolf. For the past few years, rumors about the Audi Le Mans prototype team withdrawing from the World Endurance Championship inevitably appear as the season winds down. Groan. At this point, I won’t believe it until I hear it straight out of Audi spokes-Scot Allan McNish’s very own mouth.
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 MoreThe 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and guy who probably deserves a better Formula One drive Nico Hülkenberg will move from Force India to Renault in 2017. Renault’s struggling team currently sits in ninth place out of eleven teams in the constructors’ championship, but, at least they’re a works team?
Read MoreAfter allegedly kidnapping the mother-in-law of Formula One head Bernie Ecclestone, seven people including Ecclestone’s own former helicopter pilot now must face their accusers in a São Paulo court. Ecclestone doesn’t get mad, Ecclestone gets even.
Read MoreAudi’s factory Le Mans Prototype effort dominated endurance sportscar racing for years—well, until Volkswagen Group sister-brand Porsche entered the mix and the diesel became a four-letter word. Now company insiders suggest that Audi could be dropping their Le Mans program entirely after 2017.
Read MoreMark Webber has long been at the top of the racing world, going from an insane rivalry with then-teammate Sebastian Vettel in Formula One to racing the Porsche 919 LMP1 car in the World Endurance Championship. Today, Porsche announced that Webber will retire from racing after the 6 Hours of Bahrain.
Read MoreI’m not that familiar with this particular race – a hillclimb event known as the Course de Côte Turkheim - 3 Epis – but I’m pretty sure I want to buy it expensive lotions and stalk it like a creepy ex. Mostly because of the incredible variety of cars this race has. Here, watch:
Read MoreWhat’s binaural audio? It’s the trick of recording with microphones at ear-distance apart to simulate the effect of listening through human ears. The end result sounds so realistic, it must be turned up to 11 to be believed. Grab your headphones. Let’s walk around a few Italian tracks to soak in the noise.
Read MoreBMW has been making Vision Next 100 concepts all year long for their 100th birthday, and they’re delightfully bonkers. They didn’t just make a regular car with an alternative powertrain and impractical seats. They went full kook with crazy shapeshifting bodywork and even a car built for sharing. Best of all, we know exactly where kookiness is encouraged: the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Read MoreWith a nasty crash on the Pirelli World Challenge season’s first weekend and a team withdrawal that forced him to switch teams mid-season, Patrick Long has had absolutely terrible luck all year long. Sadly, that luck continued on his very last lap of the season.
Read MoreAre you the aging oligarch of a major racing series? Are you tired of seeing cars qualify on ovals one at a time? Have you grown bored of qualifying formats that people understand? Are you looking to spice things up for no reason? The backwards slalom is the answer.
Read MoreA car racing in the beloved Rallylegend event in Italy this past Sunday struck people standing in a spectator area adjacent to a stage, reports The Sun. One died and eight more were injured in the crash.
Read MoreThe 2016 Rallye du Maroc was this diesel buggy’s last race. Oh, not because it got wadded up like an empty beer can at a frat party. The thing went on to win the last stage after getting turned into this trash heap by some sand dunes.
Read MoreThe “Big One” is NASCAR a term typically only used at car-eating tracks like Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. But the Chase for the Championship thus far has been cruel to drivers going for the Sprint Cup Series title, and this huge wreck in Charlotte collected half of them.
Read MoreWith Nico Rosberg winning the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix and Lewis Hamilton fighting back to third place, Mercedes finally got the constructors’ points they needed to reaffirm the fact that they have the best car on the grid for 2016. I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
Read MoreBathurst 1000 race leader Jamie Whincup had been crushing Mount Panorama Circuit lap time records throughout the race in his No. 88 Red Bull Racing Holden, but then he caused an insane crash that led to the race being won by a car that never led a single lap all day.
Read More“They said I could be anything, so I became a rocketship.” - this Supercar, probably. James Moffat’s No. 34 Volvo had an unexpected engine failure that resulted in a big engine fire on lap 109 of today’s Bathurst 1000.
Read MoreThe right front brake rotors of the No. 14 Freightliner Racing Holden VF Commodore erupted in flame on lap 54 of today’s Bathurst 1000 when brake fluid spilled on the hot rotors. Normally, that’s a sign that you shouldn’t put the wheel back on just yet, but one determined crew man popped it on regardless.
Read MoreEverything about the current V8-powered Australian Supercars is pretty extreme. The components on the car have to be pretty meaty to handle all the power and the door-to-door banging around these cars do. So, then how does a big fat transaxle linkage just snap in half mid-race?!
Read MoreI honestly can’t tell you what’s going on in this video from NASCAR’s Facebook page, other than it recaps the first three Chase for the Championship races and that the drivers look like a bunch of Power Rangers running around. What I can say is that it is truly, honestly, the most entertaining thing I’ve seen all day.
Read MoreHurricane Matthew hit Daytona Beach, Florida hard, flooding streets and pulverizing structures with wind. The hurricane killed six in Florida after causing hundreds of deaths in Haiti, per ABC News. Daytona International Speedway was right where Matthew made landfall in Florida, and it received moderate damage in the storm.
Read MoreUpset that reporters at the Japanese Grand Prix wrote “disrespectful” stories about his bored Snapchats during a Thursday press conference, Lewis Hamilton decided he wasn’t going to answer their questions at a conference on Saturday. Then, without a single Snapchat to document it, he walked on out of there.
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 MoreOne of the most brilliant, insane and unbelievable races of the year puts crazy overpowered sedans to battle around Australia’s Mount Panorama. The Bathurst 1000 starts tomorrow night, and it’s still disappointingly not broadcast on American television. It’s the last time we’ll get to see an all-V8-powered field, though, so it’s worth watching. Here’s how.
Read MoreAustin Self, a driver in the NASCAR Truck Series, and the team he races for, AM Racing, jointly announced their endorsement of pus-filled cheesecloth Donald Trump on Thursday. The team especially noted his push for “godly values.” In an unrelated story, video emerged today of Trump saying he likes to grab women “by the pussy.”
Read MoreFormula 1's triple world champion Lewis Hamilton had to apologize for being a human being today, after he Snapchatted through a pointless, boring, dull, boring press conference before this weekend’s upcoming race.
Read MoreThe latest angry little peanut to break cover ahead of next year’s World Rally Championship season is the Ford Fiesta RS WRC. So many wings! Wings off wings and canards and flares with more flares! (Needless to say, I like how it looks.)
Read MoreAustralia has given the world many wonderful gifts over the years. Kangaroos. Bathurst. And now, the “shoey” toast where you drink out of a shoe. Sadly, the Malaysian Grand Prix didn’t appreciate nine scantily clad Australians who stripped down to do shoeys for Aussie F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo’s race win.
Read MoreIt’s easy to assume the worst when you hear that NASCAR is getting sued for racial discrimination, given the organization’s Deep South roots and its persistent lack of diversity. But when Terrance Cox III made big headlines by filing a $500 million discrimination lawsuit, it was the latest salvo in a more personal war—a running antagonism between one man and NASCAR, involving a string of protests and discontinued self-organized philanthropies.
Read MoreBefore the Mazda Prototype retired in a ball of flame and completely shook up the end of Petit Le Mans, the two Turner Motorsport BMW M6s were in third and fourth place, which would have been a respectable result at the grueling Petit Le Mans. Then the cardinal rule of “never hit your teammate” got broken.
Read MoreA federal judge ruled on Friday that former American Le Mans Series champion Scott Tucker, whose indictment said he extended payday loans at interest rates as high as 700 percent, and others involved in the scheme owe the Federal Trade Commission $1.266 billion for systematically deceiving customers.
Read MoreMark Webber played along in Belgium, but he apparently learned his lesson about the “shoey”—a celebration done by drinking out of a shoe. Winning Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo convinced several others on the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix podium to do a shoey, but Mark’s reaction was the best.
Read MoreAlert! Warning! This is not a drill! Something unexpected happened during a Formula One race! Lewis Hamilton retired from the lead of the race after his oh-so-reliable Mercedes power unit started belching big flames. Hamilton’s engine was blown, coming to a halt on lap 42 of 56.
Read MoreContact at the first corner of the Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix between Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Rosberg, sent Rosberg—the other Mercedes battling for a world drivers’ championship—spinning out of the front of the pack.
Read MoreAll of the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship’s Prototype-class cars are being retired after this year in favor of the new DPi spec, so why not go out with a bang? Besides, well, the total heartbreak of losing an almost certain podium for the unluckiest team on the grid.
Read MoreIf you race a Ferrari, the entire Internet will swear that you’re playing with fire. Fortunately, it looks like the Scuderia Corsa No. 68 team has plenty of experience with fire, as they just put out a very stubborn pit lane flambé with ludicrous speed and sent their seared Ferrari 488 back out like it’s no big deal.
Read MoreRule number one of endurance racing: keep turning laps, whatever you do. Unless you’re pretty sure whatever problem you’ve discovered is going to kill you or the car, stay out there as long as you can. Sometimes that means your bodywork keeps flapping in the wind until your team is ready for a quick fix.
Read MoreWith a 32-point lead coming into Petit Le Mans, all Christina Nielsen needed to do was meet her minimum drive time at the Petit season ender today to become the first woman to win a major present-day North American endurance championship. All we have to say is: it’s about time, and it couldn’t happen to a better person.
Read MoreWhat do you do when you’ve got a lot of state pride and a lot of race track? You drive around that race track waving the glory of the red, white and blue—the Lone Star one, of course. Everything is bigger in Texas, y’all.
Read MoreA Mustang driver at the Sports Car Club of America Runoffs went full Cars and Coffee with one of the most egregious revenge-seeking moves I’ve seen in ages. Never go full Cars and Coffee. Never, ever go full Cars and Coffee.
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 MoreWe finally got to see what the next-generation BMW 5 Series would look like this week, first in a leak, and then followed by BMW showing everything but the upcoming M5. Oh, wait—the BMW M5 may have now been leaked, too. That didn’t take long!
Read MoreWe’re all thankful that the Ford Focus RS, an overpowered all-wheel drive hot hatchback with “drift mode,” even exists. But I know I’m not the only one who’s wondering how close its actual wheel horsepower is to the factory claim. And while we’re on the subject—how much power can you make with modifications? These dyno runs have some insight.
Read MoreOn Sept. 1, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded dramatically on the launch pad during fueling operations as the rocket was being prepared for a static firing test. The actual cause of the explosion is not yet known, but there’s a lot of speculation flying around now about possible sabotage. That’s certainly attention grabbing, so let’s poke at it and see what oozes out.
Read MoreWe all know that Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. That’s great! NASA wants to go to Mars as well, and even has a deadline of 25 years to get there. Now Boeing’s CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, has come out not just saying he wants to build the craft that take humans to Mars, but that he’s going to beat Musk there.
Read MoreWith its heaven-reaching doors closed and the dark shadows removed, this is what Henrik Fisker’s new car looks like. It’s supposed to be all-electric, so they’ve named it the, uh, EMotion. At its heart is supposed to be a nanotechnology that is yet to be seen in cars.
Read MorePeople of color have been dealing with racist cabbies for decades, and according to a new study, that discrimination is alive and well in the world of ride-hailing apps. Not only are black people more likely to wait longer or have their ride cancelled, women in general also are getting taken for a ride—to either boost the fare or flirt.
Read MoreHenrik Fisker uploaded an image of a swing-uppy doored car last week, followed by another image of the car: a swollen-cheeked mystery vehicle with an allegedly front-facing radar and camera. What for, pray tell? Autonomy, of course.
Read MoreCamshafts are great because they’re simple and mechanical and well-proven after many, many, many, many, many, many years of engine production. But there’s a better, newer way that runs an engine without them, and here’s how it works.
Read MoreLast night, Elon Musk gave a surprise lecture in media ethics to the gathered reporters in the midst of a Q&A with reporters about Tesla’s new autonomous driving technology set to be deployed on its cars from now on. If you’re skeptical of self-driving technology, Musk said, “you’re killing people.”
Read MoreTesla took an extra two days to prep a video of their new self-driving tech navigating a “complex urban environment,” to prove how good it is. What we got doesn’t exactly match up.
Read MoreChinese tech mogul YT Jia may have ran into some very unfortunate problems getting his company’s futuristic Tesla-fighter actually onstage today for its American debut, but he did drop a bit of news about another Chinese-backed company looking to make inroads into the U.S.: Faraday Future. Thanks to Jia, we know when we might see a car from them.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s head of design, Klaus Bischoff, recently claimed that autonomous cars would be the beginning of the end of the current SUV and crossover trend, according to AutoExpress. It’s a surprising statement to be made this early in the autonomous evolution, and he just might be wrong.
Read MoreWhen turning on a Tesla, like many cars with infotainment systems, the screen reminds drivers to pay attention at all times—even when using Autopilot. The warning is continually reiterated, but German authorities who call Autopilot a “traffic hazard” sent letters to owners to remind them again. Authorities also raised concern about Autopilot’s name.
Read MoreFor years now carmakers have been avoiding addressing the Trolley Problem. In the event of an imminent crash, who does your car protect: you, the occupant, or a pedestrian?
Read MoreAn internal report from Germany’s Transport Ministry refers to the Autopilot system on the Tesla Model S as a “considerable traffic hazard,” according to a report from Reuters. Researchers reportedly had a number of criticisms after testing the driver-assistance system.
Read MorePittsburgh is Uber’s self-driving-car testbed, hosting the company’s “Advanced Technology Center” and dozens of its self-driving “pilot program” Ford Fusions. Now, according to website Quartz, there are reports of these self-driving cars causing all sorts of ruckus in the PGH.
Read MoreThe closer we get to fully autonomous car technology on the market, the more questions we seem to have. Recently, they’ve been morbid: if a self-driving car is in a fatal wreck, how does it decide who dies? Well, now you can understand just how hard those decisions will be to program—hypothetically, of course.
Read MoreNew California draft regulations released on Friday would allow approved self-driving cars to drive on state roads without a human in the car. The drafts also include rules about not advertising semi-autonomous cars as “self-driving” or “autonomous,” because we all know that nonsense needs to be reeled in.
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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 MoreFord’s already put the 2017 Raptor through some significant off-road races this year, but next month it goes to the big show: the 2016 Baja 1000. This might be the closest-to-stock vehicle that’s ever braved the crunchy dustball race, and it’d better finish or that “Baja Mode” button is going to be a lot harder to sell.
Read MoreThe aptly named Volkswagen Atlas is here, and it’s the seven-seater SUV that we’ve been expecting, right down to the engine options (no diesels).
Read MoreHere we see a scooped, caged Jeep Grand Cherokee rolling on manufacturer plates down some Detroit area byway. It’s definitely something, but is that supercharger whine or just wind noise I hear?
Read MoreDo you compost? Rinse and separate your recycling? Yeah, getting rid of garbage is a pain. Unless your garbage is nuclear waste. Getting rid of that is apparently a production of epic proportions.
Read MoreWe see Mercedes G-Wagens parked in the city ever day. Incredibly capable off-road machines forced into a life of slavery; shuttling pretty people between appointments in offices. Behind that chrome facade is heart of sadness. Set your G-Wagen free. Send it to this place.
Read MoreIn Colorado Springs, some disgraceful human being decided to steal a woman’s beloved Jeep Cherokee Sport while she was inflating her tires at a gas station. But the thief didn’t get far thanks to the heroic efforts of a selfless 4.0-liter inline-six.
Read MoreBacking up a trailer is one of the most ceaselessly counter-intuitive procedures in the world of trucks (or at least everyone else tells me it is), but not if you have an F-150 equipped with Pro Trailer Backup Assist. At least, that’s what Ford told me when they lent me this $67,270 optioned-out pickup. I borrowed a friend’s snowmobile trailer and hooked it up to see if it actually works.
Read MoreThe Toyota Hilux is supposed to be right behind cockroaches and John McClane on our comprehensive list of “hardest things to kill.” But looks like we might have finally found this supertruck’s kryptonite: evasive maneuvering.
Read MoreMercedes unveiled their new pickup truck today! They call it the X-Class, and our own Andrew Collins said it looks sleek. He’s right! It does look sleek. Like a sleek robot pig.
Read MoreMeet the 2017 Mini Countryman. Mini’s had this thing running around in mule form since forever, and now we finally get to see how it’s gone from cute to butch. And Mini desperately needs you to buy it.
Read MoreWe just got an email from an anonymous tipster who works for a Volkswagen dealership that included super duper top-secret, highly classified information about the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas’s engine options, options that—after spending hours decrypting the complicated security code using my own personal Enigma machine—I can show you now.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz mid-sized pickup truck is really happening, and will look like a combination of the two “near-production” concept vehicles that were revealed today. Here’s a breakdown of the stats, specs and everything else you want to examine on the X-Class.
Read MoreLast March Mercedes-Benz announced that they were going to mock up a mid-sized pickup truck with more payload capacity than any American-market equivalent. Now we know what they’ve been hyping: it’s a truck for Mercedes customers, not the other way around.
Read MoreIt’s begun, everyone: the world’s first commercial shipment via driver-free truck has just been completed. The cargo? Well, a human staple, of course: beer. 51,744 cans of Budweiser, to be exact.
Read MoreWe may never know why the person couldn’t stop when they lost a tire, but I’m pretty sure they made the wrong choice.
Read MoreThis colossally smokey burnout looks like a bad bout of road rage. For the first few seconds. Then the little yellow truck proceeds to roast its rear tires, using another car as a brake, until onlookers actually break the window and wake the driver up.
Read MoreThanks to one trucker’s dashcam, we can see how another painfully avoidable wreck happened from start to finish.
Read MoreThis 2016 Ford F-150 XLT got dropped off at a dealership like every other, except it inexplicably had one sweet upgrade– the high-performance driver’s seat from a Raptor. Gift from the truck gods or somebody’s wacky off-the-menu order?
Read MoreEven knowing the Mercedes-Benz pickup truck is be based off the somewhat-sleek Nissan Navara, I thought the company would line it up aesthetically with the brickish style of its commercial vehicles. Looks like I was very wrong– squint at the right spot and you might mistake this thing for a sports car.
Read MoreLeaked photos of teaser images of the next Ram truck’s front and rear ends have been circulating, and I finally realized what the headlight design reminds me of– it has the same LED accent-pincher as the current Dodge Charger.
Read MoreThis week Ram announced it will more than double its lineup of half-ton trucks in the Middle Eastern market while adding a completely new one: the Ram 1200. It’s a rebadged Mitsubishi L200/Triton Ram’s calling “a metric ton” pickup truck. Mitsubishi and (Fiat) Chrysler are at it again!
Read MoreShelly Shields from Alberta, Canada just dropped some big coin on a new Ford F-450 King Ranch, only to learn that the thing shoots flames out of its tailpipe like a rocket ship. What’s going on?
Read MoreThis month Toyota registered a trademark for “FT-4X” as a name for a car or truck. In Toyota language, “FT” (Future Toyota) identifies it as a concept vehicle. As for “4X,” what else but four-wheel drive? Perhaps, if we follow this trail of crumbs, the company is reconsidering its position on an FJ Cruiser-style recreational truck.
Read MoreI know I’m late to the party on this one, but how did I not know this glorious thing existed? Just look at it. It’s like Go Go Gadget HEADLIGHT WASHER!
Read MoreA new Range Rover-rivaling Jeep Grand Wagoneer has been teased and rumored for some five years now. But today we finally have a glimpse of what Fiat Chrysler’s ultra-lux SUV will actually look like: chunky, mean, and much larger than the Grand Cherokee.
Read MoreHigh on the list of “cars nobody wants messed with” is the Jeep Wrangler. These images show the new-for-2018 redesign of the iconic off-roader won’t change the formula too much.
Read MoreI see you out there. You’re like me, spending all your free moments—such as they are—browsing the Craigslist, looking to cheat some fool out of their Acura Integra or Stutz Bearcat for a song. But here is a vehicle you should actually buy for the next time you are “on the road again” (pun very much intended): the Willie Nelson Family Band tour bus.
Read MoreThe all-new Jeep Wrangler isn’t due out until 2018, but a hood sent to a customer earlier this month could a give us a better idea of what the new Jeep will look like.
Read MoreOf course you’re always careful and sober when you make that summer trip across state lines to pack the trunk of your car with fireworks. Doesn’t stop you from wondering– what if they went off in here? Here’s that idea taken way too far.
Read MoreMinnesota-based powersports outfit Polaris has been around forever, but hit serious paydirt recently with the immense success of its RZR UTVs. The vehicles basically blazed a trail into an entirely new motorsport segment that’s blowing up. Now it looks like the company’s planning an even bigger takeover of the off-road industry.
Read MoreIn 2015, automotive journalist Pablo González got a Jeep Renegade to lock its brakes so hard the rear wheels lifted off the ground. Jeep told him that car was broken, and he wasn’t able to repeat the problem with other Renegades. But now it’s starting to look like the issue might not be so isolated.
Read MoreI’ll be the first to admit that I’m not entirely rational when it comes to DARTZ. They’re about as far from what I normally like in cars as you can get, yet, somehow, the gleeful absurdity and fierce notgiveashittery manage to win me over. Yes, they make absurd vehicles. But at least they go all out when they do it. And now they have two new models, named after helicopters, and crammed full of alligator skin.
Read MoreThe F-150 pictured above costs $67,270. It has a number of options including, but not limited to, multi-contoured massaging seats, which help explain the ridiculous price tag. There are a few expensive features, though, that are more than just frivolous—they’re actually incredibly useful.
Read More“Because apparently nothing’s sacred these days.”
Read MoreThe 2017 Ford F-150 will pair a brand-new 10-speed automatic transmission to the truck’s top engine option: a revised version of the 3.5 EcoBoost twin turbo V6. Ford claims this will allow the 2WD truck to hit 25 MPG on the highway. That’s actually a lot for something with this much mass and power.
Read MoreEver ever heard “when in doubt, throttle out?” Sure you have. Probably from a guy crushing a can of Bud Light on his forehead right before rolling his Jeep backwards down a hill. That said, there is truth to this ethos. As you’ll see here.
Read MoreFred Williams’ annual “Cheap Truck Challenge” is ostensibly designed to show us how to have the most fun off-road for the least amount of money. But it tends to devolve into a demolition derby pretty quickly. Oh, I’m not complaining!
Read MoreLast week United Auto Workers union chairman Bill Johnson told The Detroit Free Press that a Ranger and Bronco would soon be made in Michigan. As a result, folks got all riled up over the idea of a hypothetical retro-futuristic off-roader and it’s still trending, like six days later!
Read MoreLast week United Auto Workers union chairman Bill Johnson told The Detroit Free Press that a Ranger and Bronco would soon be made in Michigan. As a result, folks got all riled up over the idea of a hypothetical retro-futuristic off-roader. I think you’re all going to be disappointed.
Read MoreThe online configurator for the 2017 Ford F-150, including the long-awaited Raptor off-road variant, is finally online. And weren’t you just looking for some place to procrastinate?
Read MoreWhen Ford started with its now-popular Police Interceptor Utility, a Ford Explorer police vehicle, it was easy to spot one from a quarter mile. You could then slam your brakes, get down to the speed limit, and goose it as the car faded in your rearview. But now Ford has new LED lights that make it damn near impossible to spot police versions, meaning only one thing: Explorers are not to be trusted.
Read MoreThe original International Scout was a pig, a pile of iron propelled by about 90 horsepower moving through an unsynchronized three-speed transmission. So what happens when you drop in a 570 horsepower LS V8? No, seriously, I’m dying to know too, now that I see somebody has done it.
Read MoreThe “off-road caricature car” look is so hot right now you could pretty much take a wood-paneled PT Cruiser, slap some tractor tires and a spacer lift under it, show up at SEMA and watch the Instagram likes roll in. But as far as bullshit builds go, this filthy perversion of a BMW is actually pretty righteous.
Read MoreWhether it’s your favorite French pastry or a pair of shoes, the fact that something is handmade usually means that it’s more exclusive, but likely won’t last as something made by an uncaring robot with no emotions or a chance of making mistakes. Here’s what happens when the effects of time, coupled with 60,000 hard miles are applied to a hand made sports car.
Read MoreTonight, millions of American kids will knock on random strangers’ doors begging for those sweet, tooth-eroding monosaccharides. But none of those children will have the gall to knock on my door, because out in my driveway sit monsters that breath fear into even the bravest of souls: electrical gremlins.
Read MoreRyan Tuerck fired up his project car to end all project cars tonight: a Toyota GT86 with a Ferrari 458 engine mounted up front. With a ton of custom parts and clever modifications making it work, we couldn’t wait to hear this one, either. Fortunately, the wait is over. Listen to the glorious noise.
Read MoreWe Jalopnik staffers spend our days looking at cars one the internet: new cars, old cars and, most worryingly, cars for sale. If you’re curious what cars we keep double, triple, quadruple checking on Craigslist, fantasizing about what our lives would be like with them, writing their names next to our in little cardboard hearts, well, here they are.
Read MoreIt was a clunk, then loud banging from behind me, and then the engine cut off. Any other time before and I would have been in a flash of panic, checking and forcing a restart and I don’t know what else. This time, man, I just put it in neutral and coasted ahead into the night.
Read MoreIt’s an undeniable boost to your ego when someone compliments car you’re driving, but there are certainly times when all you need is something low key, where you - and no one else - knows its true potential. That’s why last week, I asked you to give me the best under-the-radar cars for a $10k budget, and it almost seems like you all know what you’re doing. Almost.
Read MoreI just bought the cheapest Porsche 911 I could find, a manual 1999 Carrera with 243,000 miles. But naturally I had to know how much power it puts down, and that meant taking it to the absolute limit on the dyno. My inaugural test of this car starts with a bang, a roar, and some really odd facial expressions.
Read MoreMost people make sleepers out of cars that are already somewhat inclined towards performance modification. Old trucks, old American sedans, that sort of thing. Nobody crams an LSx into a 2007 Kia Sorento.
Read MoreI’ll go out on a limb and say that no one wants their hand built sports car to blow up in their face, which is why having a warranty is so common on cars not exactly known for their ability to fend off calamity. However, I’m here to tell you what it’s like when you don’t have that important safety net in place, because I willingly threw mine in the trash.
Read MoreYes, I bought a Range Rover and it has problems. This story may sound familiar, but not at the absurdly low price I paid for my Rover, and how cheaply I am able to repair the issues.
Read MoreBack by unpopular demand is a juicy new PSA, or “Pile of Shit Announcement.” My inaugural post described my intention make amends after several years as a shady used car dealer, retiring my gold chains and hair gel to start caped crusade preventing the readers of Jalopnik from buying a lemon. Here’s one to avoid: the 2012 Hyundai Genesis 5.0 R-Spec, on which many owners report having excessive oil consumption.
Read MoreYou don’t need a comprehensive understanding of how a car works to enjoy one. (Though I think it does help.) Anybody can make their car a lot safer and likely longer-lasting by paying attention to just a few key things, as this video runs through.
Read MoreThe sonorous roar coming from the back of a performance car as it straddles the upper registers of its RPM range is most of the reason people buy the damn things in the first place. Here’s how I made my otherwise timid Aston Martin into the snarling beast I imagined it to be, without spending a cent.
Read MoreTim Mings, possibly the only full-time Honda N and Z600-mechanic left on Earth, spent a good chunk of this year restoring the very first Honda in America after realizing Serial Number 1000001 was sitting on his lot. Now we finally get to see the finished product.
Read MoreRidiculously bright flashlights are cool and all, but if you can make one fly you’ve basically got ceiling lamps anywhere. That, or a terrifying impersonator of a spaceship or police helicopter. Here’s what a humble drone can do 1,000 watts of LED lighting power.
Read MoreAs far as simple ways to put you and everyone in your immediate proximity in extreme danger, using a floor jack to replace two of your car’s wheels is tough to beat.
Read MoreEver seen “will trade” in a used car ad? I know I have, and I wondered: does anybody seriously swap cars with total strangers? Turns out they do. I did, and rolled away with my dream car. (And possibly tetanus.) Here’s how I traded my Toyota pickup truck for a rare old 1975 International Scout.
Read MoreRecently I dazzled you with advice on why you should never buy a 2007 Mercedes-Benz S550. My pithy commentary and artful use of .GIFs had the unintended effect of making me seem like the anti-Tavarish, someone who advises against buying a daily-driver European luxury car for less than a Japanese econobox. Sorry to disappoint, but I’m just as crazy as anyone here, if not worse. Exhibit A of my reckless disregard for any sense of financial security is my new purchase: this 1999 Porsche 911.
Read MoreIt’s one thing to have a great looking, sounding, and performing that gets plenty of compliments. It’s quite another to fly so low under the radar that no one noticed that you’ve beat everyone to the destination by an hour. That’s why it’s your job to find great cars that people simply don’t notice in their commute, for a budget of less than $10,000. Make yourself heard, or not.
Read MoreToday on the Oppositetalk Facebook group, someone shared a post by Kyle Prescott, a guy who had just been crushed and nearly killed by a car after it fell off its jack. I just talked with Kyle over Facebook; his story is truly terrifying. Warning: pictures of a very injured man lie ahead.
Read MoreWell, at least most of it is for sale. We don’t know what happened to the rest.
Read MoreAs with so many things in life, the line between "stupid good fun" and "stupid expensive mistake" is narrow, and worth balancing on.
Read MoreYes, this bright orange Lamborghini Murcielago lived a glorious life racking up an unfathomable 258,098 miles. Unfortunately a high speed crash turned it into an exotic paperweight in 2012, but after months of labor and a ton of money it’s now better than new. Want to guess how much?
Read MoreYes, believe it or not, the question is regarding my bagged 2005 Subaru Baja Turbo, the one I had the audacity to compare to a 2016 STI. It’s a truck, kind of—less so since I got my hands on it—but can it tow stuff? Specifically, can it tow my drift car?
Read MoreA wise man once said, “Don’t talk about it, be about it,” which is a phrase that has the ability to both motivate people and trigger drunken fistfights at sporting events. This saying is also the main reason I just bought a used Aston Martin V8 Vantage for less than the price of a brand new, mass-market family sedan, with zero regrets. Well, not on my end, at least.
Read MoreI just came back from England, where I spotted this incredible 23-foot tall sculpture made of all sorts of junk parts. I need one of these on my front lawn right now. Take a closer look at all the junk that make up this amazing beast.
Read MoreMany, many, many years ago I turned down a beautiful old 140-series 70s Volvo selling out of my buddy’s neighbor’s driveway for $500. Will that regret haunt me forever? Probably! Anyway, please buy this Volvo so I don’t go broke.
Read MoreIt’s common knowledge that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Apparently, so is the illusion of wealth, because last week I asked you frugal freaks to find me cars that would fool your neighbors into thinking you’ve hit the lottery, and deliver you did. Clear your schedules.
Read MoreA Cummins diesel in a clapped-out old Cadillac? At first I thought, surely, Roadkill is just bored at this point. And they might be, but they’re still putting on a hell of a show. Watching this terrible car turn fuel into noise is way more fun than it should be.
Read MoreThe Dodge Viper is one of those cars with an appeal that far exceeds its shoddy build quality and boorishness. Or maybe those things are just part of what makes it so freaking awesome. These days, you can get one for incredibly cheap. But should you?
Read MoreCaveat Emptor is something the Romans never imagined would apply to purchasing motorized horseless chariots, but the famous Latin phrase meaning “buyer beware” should be at the forefront of everyone’s mind when shopping for a used car.
Read MoreOne of the biggest reasons people buy expensive cars is status. The ability to distinguish yourself among your peers as an elite is worth a boatload of cash to some people, but what if you’re high on ambition but low on funds?
Read MoreCar battery dead? No jumper cables? Too weak to push-start? Don’t worry, you’re not completely out of luck yet. You just need some rope.
Read MoreAbout a year ago, I blew up my Jeep’s engine trying to drive through a deep mud pit. The next day, I bought a motor that had been sitting in a field for $120. Well, I just plopped that literal lawn ornament into my Jeep XJ. Here’s how that went.
Read MoreA car you can use every day should be something that you can depend your livelihood on; a mode of transport that is ready to be overworked and underpaid. If you’re a car enthusiast, it should also reflect a bit of your personal style and deliver an experience that you can look forward to at the end of a long shift at the office. Here’s how I plan to create that ideal in my $3000, 17-year-old Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
Read MoreCraftsmen are a dying breed these days, now that seemingly everything can be automated using fancy software and robotics. Still, in the dark dungeons of YouTube lurk some truly skilled artists. Just watch this guy make body panels by hand for an old Willys CJ-3B Jeep.
Read MoreYou know a drill really only has one job–make a hole. But what you’re making a hole in dictates the type of drill and bit you actually need. Watch my favorite Canadian mechanic break down the which, what and why of every drill type you’ll ever mess with and some you’ve probably never seen.
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