This month China tested a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of raining 10 nuclear warheads upon its target at once. The test marks what is likely to be a preamble to a highly unnecessary diplomatic clash between two nations who don’t need any more reasons to fight.
Read MoreSeven Ukrainian troops have been killed since Sunday fighting against Russia-backed rebels in the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka. The deaths are the most on record since December, when 17 soldiers were killed. In total 16 Ukrainian troops have died in combat this month. So why are we talking about lifting American economic sanctions against Moscow now?
Read MoreThe F-35! It’s “not very good!” It’s “out of control!” It’s comes at a “tremendous cost!” It is also a “great plane” now, because President Donald Trump has fixed it.
Read MoreThe fourth Yasen-class submarine, the Krasnoyarsk, has passed critical tests of its structures and pressure hull, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. It’s supposed to be the most quiet nuclear-powered attack sub ever to enter the Russian fleet.
Read MoreDuring his first major TV interview with ABC’s David Muir, President Donald Trump called for “safe zones” in Syria to protect refugees escaping the violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people since the country’s civil war began in 2011. He has requested that the State Department and the Pentagon draw up a proposal within three months.
Read MoreMost media coverage has been trained on Russia’s involvement in Syria, but Moscow is quietly beating America in a turf war on top of the Earth: the Arctic Circle.
Read MoreI know you don’t ever want to think about what will happen if a nuclear weapon heads your way. Pretty much, you’d fucking die. But the kind folks over at AsapSCIENCE put together a handy video of how you’ll get there.
Read MoreIn the thick of the Cold War, the nuclear submarine USS James Madison crashed into a Soviet nuclear sub off the coast of Scotland in November of 1974. It was one of the most mysterious episodes of the Cold War, and now we finally have official confirmation from a declassified memo published in the CIA document dump late last week.
Read MoreOn the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump showed an alarming lack of understanding about U.S. nuclear weapon policy or how devastating the weapons could be if used. Now that he’s in power, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu and Senator Edward J. Markey of California and Massachussetts, respectively, introduced a bill that would prevent the U.S. President from using nuclear weapons first without a declaration of war from Congress.
Read MoreIn a 33-page document blasting former President Barack Obama’s “damage” to the military, Arizona Senator John McCain is calling for $430 billion in additional spending to the defense budget over the next five years. That figure would be more than $100 billion over the current budget cap that the 2011 Budget Control Act allows.
Read MoreDuring the final official battle of the Vietnam War, three Marines went missing. The military officially claims the men disobeyed orders during the battle and were likely killed, but a Newsweek investigation pokes holes in that conclusion. A lot of them.
Read MoreThe Russian Defense Ministry announced that its warplanes have flown its first combat mission in Syria with American-led aircraft, according to the Associated Press. The Pentagon, however, has denied such a mission took place. U.S. Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a coalition spokesman, says the Russian announcement is “propaganda.” Needless to say, the situation is developing, and highly unusual.
Read MoreThe British Royal Navy was conducting a test of one of its submarine-launched ballistic missiles last summer, when the damn thing ended up heading straight for the United States. Not the Russians. Not the Chinese. Not ISIS. But the tea and crumpet Brits almost hit us with a missile.
Read MoreRussia will maintain a military stronghold in Syria for at least the next 49 years, after the two nations signed an agreement allowing Russian ships to port in Tartus. This is Russia’s foothold in the Middle East, and yet another example of how the country is expanding its military power globally.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump took the Oval Office today with the most anti-NATO outlook in recent memory. His previous statements suggest that he might not assist our allies if they came under attack, as required under Article 5 under the North Atlantic Treaty, which has been particularly troubling to America’s European allies. Ominously missing from his speech was Russia, which some critics credit with undermining the election itself.
Read MoreThe Inaugural Parade is an American tradition of high school marching bands, national well-wishers, and some scattered military units. President-elect Donald Trump, on the other hand, reportedly wanted something a bit more Red Square, with tanks and missile launchers.
Read MoreTomorrow, America’s national defense will be taken over by someone who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and has expressed disdain toward America’s intelligence community, which believes Russia is a threat to the nation’s security. But that’s only one of his biggest challenges, and given what he’s said about his defense policy so far, here’s what we can expect.
Read MoreFar-right populism is on the rise all over the globe. Traditional diplomacy is out. Machismo is in. Cyber warfare isn’t just theory, or a joke anymore. Wars are supranational. Nuclear arsenals are expanding, unless they aren’t. All of it needs to be covered, and it needs to be covered better.
Read MorePresident Barack Obama has commuted a large portion of Chelsea Manning’s sentence, the New York Times reports. Instead of having to stay in prison until 2045, Manning will be released on May 17 of this year, just five months from now.
Read MoreA Nigerian fighter jet struck a refugee camp in the northeast part of the country, reportedly killing more than 100 people. It’s the latest tragedy in a religious insurrection beset by tragedies for the country.
Read MoreToday’s Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Retired Marine General James Mattis was probably easier than anyone expected. Top-ranking Democrats—including Hillary Clinton’s running mate—apparently want the Mattis-Trump marriage to succeed, if only for the sake of what they see as future damage control.
Read MoreYesterday, The Intercept published the results of a two-year investigation on alleged war crimes and war profiteering of SEAL Team Six in its rapid expansion of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Among the most disturbing details was that SEAL operatives reportedly started taking inspiration from a book lionizing a fictional Nazi.
Read MoreThe Chinese government has reportedly sent its only aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait, the body of water that separates mainland China from the nation of Taiwan. While no missiles have been launched yet, Taiwan launched fighter jets and maritime patrol aircraft in response.
Read MoreWhat with the Russian president invading his neighbors all willy-nilly and interfering in American elections, and the American president wanting more nukes just as soon as he figures out how to use them, NATO figured this was a good time to remind everyone how to stop a tank that just so happens to be rolling through your backyard.
Read MoreAfter one of its eight engines inexplicably fell off during mid-flight earlier this week, the B-52 Stratofortress was able to land safely. The Air Force said that the engine loss was due to “catastrophic engine failure.” Uh, oh.
Read MoreThe anti-ISIS campaign has hit a bit of a snag around Mosul lately, but the allied effort against the jihadist militant group has an even more basic challenge on its hands. We’re bombing ISIS so much that we need a lot more bombs.
Read MoreThe F-35 is a tour de force of bleeding edge military technology. Also it violently jars its pilots and knocks their displays out of view on takeoff, as a new government report examines. Now the multi-trillion dollar plane needs its landing gear fixed or completely replaced.
Read MoreChrysler tried and failed to field a legit small car competitor with the all new 200, despite the fact that they imported it from Detroit. Now that production has ceased, dealers are looking at a six-month supply of the sad sedans. Would you buy one if the price was right?
Read MoreIt’s been a while since there was an all-new car in the McLaren Super Series. First there was the 12C, and then the 650S, and then the 675LT, and then the MSO HS, but they were pretty much variations on a theme. Enter the McLaren 720S, captured here at a customer event months before the official debut.
Read MoreI was 10 years old, being towed around a grocery store by my mother, when I saw the McLaren F1 for the first time. It was crashing through the cover of the August 1998 issue of Road & Track under the text “217 MPH!”, and I had a new car hero forever. I know I’m not the only one to idolize this car, and its creators have just realized new video showing the climax of its origin story.
Read MoreEverybody has their own idiosyncratic set of criteria when it comes to buying a car. I have a weird space-utilization fetish, for example. If you’re someone who’s really into width, specifically tire width, your next car purchase is already decided. That’s because the upcoming Dodge Challenger SRT Demon will have 315/40R18 tires rear and front, the widest rubber toruses ever stuck on a production car.
Read MoreWhile most people are salivating over newly introduced cars—like the Lexus LC500 or the Honda Civic Type-R—I find myself drooling over used cars at some of the shadiest dealers in town. I’ll drive by Stan’s Stolen Supercars, catch a glimpse of a $35,000 Maserati GranTurismo and wonder when I’ll get the chance to own this five-owner beautiful piece of Italian machinery that is currently home to a spider colony. I dream about used cars the same way normal people dream about a vacation in New Zeal
Read MoreIf you were one of those kids in high school who couldn’t get enough of Mock United Nations Day, or you’re just like me and can’t get enough 1990s aesthetic in your life because yes, you are simple and predictable and trendy, then this 1990 Nissan President Sovereign is perfect for you.
Read MoreClearly not satisfied with the tire-shredding 707 horsepower Challenger Hellcat, Dodge has announced it will summon something called the Challenger SRT Demon at April’s New York Auto Show. It will probably have a billion horsepower and be fueled by the souls of its enemies.
Read MoreAllow me to offer a modest proposal: replace all cars with Lamborghini Diablo GTs.
Read MoreWant a massive, comfortable, beautiful Lexus coupe with a naturally-aspirated V8? The Lexus LC 500 will cost you no less than $92,000. If you’re curious, that’s around $20,000 less than its German rivals.
Read MorePredictably, the Mercedes-AMG GT family is growing and growing fast. Remember when there was only one version? Now there’s the Roadster, the GT C Roadster, the GT S and the GT R. And one more addition announced today: the 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT C Coupe.
Read MoreThe Lexus LS is the OG Lexus, the big S-Class fighting sedan that put Toyota’s luxury brand on the map way back in 1989. Now it’s back for its fifth generation, and while it remains conservatively handsome, it has the biggest change yet: there’s no V8 this time, but rather a twin-turbo V6.
Read MoreThe Kia GT4 Stinger concept from 2014 was the concept car you wished was real, and it lives—it lives quite wonderfully. The production version naturally isn’t as wild as that concept looked, but it does have a bit more power. Say hello to the Kia Stinger GT, Kia’s new rear-wheel-drive sedan with 365 horsepower.
Read MoreHere’s our first official look at the car that will eventually replace the McLaren 650S—well, its carbon fiber under-bits, anyway. Called the Monocage II, this ultra-light, ultra-rigid structure is the key of McLaren’s next-generation “Super Series” vehicles.
Read MoreCars and video games go together like peanut butter and jelly. Indeed, it’s one of the ways us common folk can experience something as exotic and rare as a Lamborghini without owning it. But, in the game developers’ zeal to always deliver to us the freshest and most exciting cars, did Forza Horizon 3 accidentally leak a new, never-before-seen Lamborghini called the Bellissima?
Read MoreI’m conflicted. A few months ago my good friend and fellow Nürburgring resident Dale Lomas wrote a review of the all-new 2017 Porsche Panamera. He said, and I quote, “The truth is that there’s a certain proportion of us who will never, ever, consider buying one. Because it’s not a ‘real’ Porsche, and it’s just not exciting enough to ever be a real Porsche.” Ouch.
Read MoreIt’s 2017 and a car company ‘Murican enough to get its name shouted in a country music song finally sells an all-electric car. Well... again. This time they promise not to snatch it back and crush it. Which is nice, because the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is pretty decent to drive, and it could take electric vehicles mainstream in a way we haven’t seen before.
Read MoreMark is a big guy who now has a really big dog. He needs something more comfortable than his Ford Fusion Hybrid but wants to get decent fuel economy because he drives so much. What car should he buy?
Read MoreAh, the classic “mid-life” update. The facelift. That magical moment when a manufacturer can take stock of what’s working, what’s not, and makes a few choice changes. For cars that are already good—like the Subaru BRZ—the right improvements could make them great. Very rarely does an updated version of an already successful model go wrong. History, and used-car-buying-guides nearly always proves them to the “version you want.”
Read MoreOne of America’s largest retail giants is getting into car sales—except they aren’t, not directly. Despite Walmart’s massive market leverage for inexpensive goods, it has no intention of using that advantage to pass savings onto you the car buyer. All it will do is sell your information to a dealer who may not really save you any money in the end.
Read MoreMore cars we love are going electric, yet the infrastructure needed to support all these plug-ins in is still very much a work in progress. Case in point: my short test of a 2017 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid as an apartment dweller with no plug where I park.
Read MoreThis might not look like a 1999 Miata but it is. It’s a stripped down version of one, only consisting of the bare essentials. This is the Exocet from a company called Exomotive. Starting around $7,000, you can build one yourself by getting a hold of a donor NB Miata (1999-2005), ripping it to shreds and throwing on a tube frame and chassis that’s built by Exomotive. Of course, there’s a teensy bit more to it than that.
Read MoreBrian is 28 and works as an engineer in New York City. He lives the Jalopnik dream with his Mazda Miata, but he wants to get rid of it for something else. Now that may be a strange concept to understand given our readership, but let’s try to be open minded. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe last compact crossover reviewed on Jalopnik, the 2017 Honda CR-V, generated a massive 96,000 views. That’s 66,000 more than the review of that stunning Miami Blue 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera S shot in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Jesus, that’s like the equivalent of an entire city bridging the gap between those two articles.
Read MoreEveryone already knows the Mazda Miata is a glorious instrument for carving back roads, soaking up the sun and restoring that desire to just drive that’s been sucked out of you by bumper-to-bumper traffic. But the question must be asked: how does it do off-road?
Read MoreWe all know used Nissan Leafs are so cheap and so abundant now that Nissan should consider stopping production of new ones. Recently I did a search on Autotrader and found that there were more than a thousand Leafs (Leaves?) for sale nationwide listed for under $10,000. With so much used Leaf inventory everywhere, it’s no wonder Nissan is one step away from paying you to take a new one one off a dealer’s hands.
Read MorePorsches with turbochargers used to be terrifying. So much so that older 911s were frequently derided—or praised, depending on how you look at it—as “widowmakers.” Now, they are the easiest way to go really fast, something that dawned on me as I drove a 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera S with two turbochargers down a twisting California backroad.
Read MoreKaty is a Jersey girl who drives a Mazda3 sedan, a good and fine automobile, but it’s time for an upgrade to a serious luxury four-door. The problem is that Katy is not real keen on most of the luxury marques. What car should she buy?
Read MoreAt a mass-market auto show in America, it’s pretty difficult to find anything that’s genuinely weird in the ways I tend to like: small, strange, slow, and ideally with peculiar engineering. Happily, down in the basement, I found something that came close enough, and took it for a spin: a funny little concept car from, of all places, Shell, the oil company.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that Cadillac has wanted to step away from the old-person car reputation that had built up over decades of bad decisions and somehow land in the cool, hip and high-contrast world of urban-chic luxury buyers. But, you could open any Cadillac review over the past 15 years that way: it seems like the brand is perpetually in comeback mode. Now, the Cadillac CT6—the current flagship—is the car that Cadillac is betting will help truly change its image. And it just might.
Read MoreI never cared much for the old BMW 1 Series. It has almost a depressed look to it, like it’s upset because it knows it looks like BMW haphazardly shrunk a 3 Series in Photoshop, and that it was destined to be overlooked on dealer lots by yuppies dead-set on scoring a good X3 lease deal.
Read MoreDonnie just turned 30 and is an amateur racer. He’s frustrated with the constant glitches in his Ford Fusion that never seemed to be quite right after an accident. Now he’s got $40,000 and wants to upgrade to something bigger with a lot more power. What car should he buy?
Read MoreWhen I informed Patrick George that I would be driving around in a 2017 Honda CR-V over the holidays, his immediate reaction was: “We should review it. Everyone’s buying those damn things.”
Read MoreEveryone is buying crossovers, and folks are spending some good money on fully loaded models that usually max out around $35,000. But a lot of buyers don’t realize there are some great, used luxury models that can be had for that price without giving up much warranty.
Read MoreYou will typically get more for your car by selling privately, rather than to a dealer, but that transaction can get complicated if you still have a balance on your loan. With a little preparation and clear communication with the buyer, you can navigate these extra steps successfully.
Read MoreToday we will discuss the intertwining emotions of spite and acceptance. Also, duct tape.
Read MoreWhile I enjoy Pixar’s Cars franchise, I have some significant issues with the movies and the overall universe that the sentient cars live in. Today I want to address something beyond my well-publicized disagreement over eye placement; this is more philosophical and physiological. I’ve been giving the issue some thought, and I’ve come up with a theory. A horrific, disturbing theory.
Read MoreI feel like most of us have had at least one narrow save in our motoring careers. For a group of people that like exploring limits and taking risks, we also have to be trained and alert for when something goes wrong. Which, statistically, it will.
Read MoreAfter getting over 800 replies on my question to you last week, asking for the worst car advice you’ve ever received, I’m convinced that some people don’t know what they’re talking about.
Read MoreNow we’re used to every new car having an airbag, but back in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, they were still phasing in. As an alternative, carmakers could legally get away with offering another passive system: automatic seatbelts. The ones in a Chevy Lumina, for example, were particularly unreal.
Read MoreHoly crap, the first month of 2017 is almost over and I haven’t even provided you with a new Would You Rather! You must be desperate for one at this point. I’m so sorry. You deserve relief, right this instant, so let’s get right to it.
Read MoreQuick, think of things that are fast! Rockets? Okay. Cheetahs? Sure, absolutely. Bullets? Oh, yes, quite. A piping-hot bowl of rich, creamery soup? Ah, generally, no. Not so much. Then why do we call cars that have been made to go faster “souped-up?”
Read MoreSome disagreement arose in the Jalopnik Slack channel today regarding the looks of the BMW E60 5 Series. For the record, I really like the E60 generation. I find the styling elegant and timeless. Others don’t share my (correct) views.
Read MoreA mysterious, sackcloth-coated vehicle appeared recently with some GM trucks! Is it the mythical mid-engined Corvette? Possibly. But engineers really went out of their way to cover the damn thing up. I’ve never seen camo that aggressive.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen GTI is widely considered the first (well, there were some before it) really popular modern hot hatch as we know them: an economy car tweaked by the factory to be a sports car, of sorts. Interestingly, VW actually played with the idea of turning a cheap car into a sports car the year before the GTI, with what is likely the only factory-built truly performance-enhanced variant of the Beetle: the 1974-1975 1600S Bizorrão.
Read MoreLast month, I visited Hong Kong on a quest to get a taste of the territory’s thriving JDM car culture. In the process, I met Alan Chan, the most badass mechanic I’ve ever met.
Read MoreThe Mazda MX-5 Miata is and always has been a pure manifestation of driving pleasure in convertible form. Yet, there have always been those clamoring for a fixed-roof coupe. Some claim the new Miata RF is a happy middle ground, but perhaps you’ll consider just pretending it is not?
Read MoreThere’s a German car company with a funny little name that often gets brought up. The problem is it has a bunch of letters next to each other that just don’t make any sense in its name, often leading to many lengthy debates on how to pronounce the funny symbols that make up: Porsche.
Read MoreWith the withdrawal of America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Donald Trump’s tough talk on imported cars, and the Japan’s large trade surplus, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is asking the question: how does he get his public to buy more American cars? The answer: he can’t. Because the Japanese don’t want them.
Read MoreI had a conversation with a buddy of mine in the midst of a long road trip, wherein he posited that nobody ends up in Arkansas accidentally. You never find yourself just happening to pass through Arkansas in the way that you sometimes look up and realize ‘oh, this is what Delaware looks like.’
Read MoreChris Brown, noted R&B singer and domestic abuse-enthusiast, learned a valuable lesson in Knowing Who The Hell Has Your Car when his Lamborghini Aventador was found, completely mangled, on a Beverly Hills road early Tuesday morning. Brown is fine, since he was not driving the car. In fact, nobody’s sure who was driving the car.
Read MoreThe first-generations of the Mazda RX-7 and Honda Civic are among the most important cars in Japanese automotive history. But when you buy a $1,500 beat-to-hell, 30+ year-old example of each of those cars, other adjectives start to surface.
Read MoreSome of you may remember a time called the 1990s. Things were better then, I can tell you that. Mariah Carey was on point most of the time, and the video games were excellent. Also, the Ford Aerostar was goddamn everywhere.
Read MoreI saw this today on the wonderful Innovative, Banned, and Unique Racing Cars Facebook page, and while watching it I almost ruptured by mid-abdominal delight gland. That’s a 1928 Frazer Nash known as the Owlet, and watching that tall, skinny thing bob and weave and tear ass around the track is just fantastic.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that I’m a man who loves a novel trunk. I find trunks inspirational, even. Today, I’d like to share with you a trunk concept that’s not just inspirational, it’s flat-out mind-blowing. So get a dropcloth handy. The car is a Ford city car concept from 1980 called the Pockar, and it may have the most novel trunk setup I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreI know it sounds wildly improbable, but a new Netflix series based on a dark series of kid’s books about children in grave danger happens to be the best new show, movie, series, or whatever for interesting cars. Well, maybe The Grand Tour is better, but, you know, it better be. Whatever. A Series of Unfortunate Events has some fantastic cars in it.
Read MoreMost of us don’t associate Mercedes-Benz with tiny city cars, at least not in America, and not before a moment of reflection. Oh yeah, we think, Mercedes makes the Smart car. I always forget that. That skill with tiny-car packaging didn’t come from nowhere—Mercedes has been playing with tiny city cars for a long time. And one of the most interesting is their 1982 NAFA concept car, which reminds me of a Kei-class Popemobile.
Read MoreI’ve been covering Dieselgate since Day One and like many of you, I didn’t fully understand the scope of the cars affected until I read David’s story today about the TDIs stashed in vacant parking lots across the country. Nearly half a million cars is a hard concept to grasp until you see them like this.
Read MoreThis past weekend, I went to a local Volkswagen car show in Raleigh, NC, mostly to hunt for a set of heat exchangers for my car, because I’m so tired of being cold. While there, not only did I get my heat exchangers ($10 each!) I also encountered several things that defy rational explanation. Small mysteries, but still enigmatic.
Read MoreThe new Toyota C-HR is meant to take on the Honda HR-V and other dull little crossover/hatchbacks around the globe. It’s not an interesting type of car, and Toyota must know it—the company modified the hell out of a bunch of C-HRs at the Tokyo Auto Salon this year.
Read MoreAs we already know, internet forums are sometimes the worst places to go when you’re looking for car advice. But bad advice doesn’t always come from strangers on the internet.
Read MoreWe picked on rich people picking on other rich people today. Then you fine readers got real in the comments.
Read MoreWe should all be concerned by President Donald Trump’s unhinged Twitter rants about applying yuuuuge tariffs to foreign-made vehicles. The goal is to boost manufacturing at home, which is indeed a noble goal. But we cannot ignore that protectionist policies have historically produced some of the world’s worst cars.
Read MoreIf you were to ask me, I would say that the worst part about traveling is the actual traveling part. I hate flying. I hate airports and I mostly dislike planes. But if we want to go anywhere in a reasonably short amount of time, flying is the way to do it, I suppose.
Read MoreToday’s Bluetooth-equipped cars handle hands-free phone calls pretty seamlessly, but things were a little different back in 1988.
Read MoreThirty-seven years ago today, Honda brought to us a great and long, and woody, addition the Civic family with the 1980 Civic Country. With its extended hatch and its rolling rows of red, almost four decades later and it would still look perfect on the farm or the ranch.
Read MoreThe Ferrari LaFerrari may be super low to the ground and more than just a little bit difficult to get into, but you don’t have to do that if you’re just looking at a photo—a great photo, too. Isn’t that nice?
Read MoreWhat we have here is the intersection of one of the greatest rock and roll guitarists ever and one of the all-time greatest exotic cars. Eric Clapton was once the proud owner of this 1991 Ferrari F40, and it can be yours for a quite reasonable $1.1 million.
Read MoreDear carmakers, I have listened to many of your latest and greatest twelve-cylinder engines. They are powerful. They are efficient. They do not sound like a V12 should. To set you back on the right path, please listen to the twelve-mouthed gulps of air this Toyota engine takes.
Read MoreKoenigseggs today are alien machines, unearthly in design and engineering wizardry made by a man from the future who builds cars until they are fast enough to take him home. But the first-ever Koenigsegg prototype was not that at all. It was a shoddy thing, looking like it came out of a shed in the 1990s, which it pretty much did. But it did have a stonking big V8.
Read MoreNissan built a rival to the Acura Integra back in the 1990s, but nobody seems to remember it. Part of that, I’m sure, is because the car was never sold in the United States. Another part, I’m also sure, is because the car had absolutely no styling.
Read MoreThe old nightmare came to haunt me again last night.
Read MoreYes, today Jalopnik, the most-read car enthusiast website, ran a review of the Toyota RAV4. I have my reasons.
Read MoreFor those of you who complain that rental car kiosks no longer offer anything more interesting than soon-to-be salvage titled Corvettes, I present you with this flamethrowing 1967 Pontiac GTO, used in the upcoming film, XXX: Return of Xander Cage, offered by Turo.
Read MoreI consider myself extremely lucky because most of my flights have been relatively stress-free and uneventful. Except for that one time—that one time when I realized that there was such thing as hell on earth.
Read MoreBoyfriends and girlfriends sometimes come and go, but you’ll always remember the cars that shuttled them through your life. And in a lot of cases, they’re more memorable than the flings were.
Read MoreIt never could catch a break, the V6 Ford Mustang.
Read MoreNinety-nine times out of 100, when an automaker tries to make “cars for women,” it comes off as clueless, condescending and just plain bad. Here’s that one time out of 100 when it’s OK, and it comes from a brand that’s forbidden fruit in the U.S. these days. Meet the Daihatsu Sporza Revival line, aimed at custom-conscious Japanese women!
Read MoreWith the right analogy, even the most attractive objects can take on a whole new, strange life in your mind—you know, the “can’t un-see” dilemma. It’s really quite odd how that happens, isn’t it?
Read MoreGreat car photos are, of course, great. But great car photos with some humor to go along with them? You can’t beat that.
Read MoreWhat do cars look like? A question a child (who doesn’t get out much) might ask, but not a childish question. Automotive styling, like fashion or diets named after cities, goes in trends. So what are the design trends we’re seeing now? To figure this out, I tried a little experiment.
Read MoreHello, poors. It’s me again, the wealthier and more successful version of you.
Read MoreFor 28 long years, our nation has lived under a dank, heavy cloak of ignorance. Very recently, this cloak has been lifted, and the light of true knowledge shines upon us, burning our sallow, indoors-only skin. This knowledge is that we finally have official confirmation as to what kind of car Homer Simpson drives.
Read MoreWe all work so hard all the time and sometimes we need a break. We need something fun, something to spice up the day-to-day humdrum. So we go on dates.
Read MoreThe iconic and eclectic game pieces of Monopoly are being finally replaced with new ones, which the internet is now voting on. (Shudder.) I know everybody reading Jalopnik always had to be the “race car,” so what do you think should replace it?
Read MoreI may be reading too much into this, but Cars 3 really feels like a movie rallying against Lewis Hamilton.
Read MoreI sometimes wonder if there’s a place where all of the Fieros and Corvair Monzas can drive free, safe from the confused hands of General Motors.
Read MoreThere was something just off enough about the CT6's headlights that I couldn’t put my finger on it. The size? Placement? I had no idea.
Read MoreA car dealership in Minnesota wanted to highlight a few of their new models at a local ice rink. Too bad their polar bear mascot couldn’t keep his footing. While the commercial might not have sold any new Mitsubishis, the outtakes are hilarious.
Read MoreIf you’re a casual Craigslister looking to get ahold of a very interesting and good automobile, what terms can you type into the search bar to cut out all the bullshit—and guarantee only awesomeness?
Read MoreThis is the Nissan Boga. Currently, I am in love with it.
Read MoreToday we talked about the jerks who ruin casual sports with their “participation” and “competitiveness.” But of course there are two sides to every story.
Read MoreYesterday I was walking down a street in Yuen Long, Hong Kong when an obscure Range Rover-ish car came barreling my way. “What is this car?” I asked myself as it drove by, only to learn from the rear spare tire cover that the owner apparently has no clue either.
Read MoreNear as I can tell, most car people go nuts for karting. Especially when you tell them that the karts are gas-powered. Their eyes light up like it’s Christmas. My response is usually a quiet, lonely “Ugh,” so that nobody will hear me.
Read MoreWhile the world may seem like a small place on some days, it’s actually quite a big place! Cars help us navigate to some of the weirder and more remote corners of it.
Read MoreFCA made a van for “millennials.” I hate this word so much.
Read MoreI’m not really great about timing when it comes to giving Toyota much-needed advice about their sub-brands. My big plans to save Scion came less than a month before they dropped the brand entirely, and my latest great idea about the Previa comes a solid 18 years too late. But I don’t care. Because I know, deep down, that if Toyota had spun off their mid-engine minivan into a brand unto itself, it would have been amazing.
Read MoreI was feeling very sad and left out last week when I realized that I didn’t know any good car jokes. So I sent a plea out to the Jalopnik community and you guys more than delivered (as you often do.)
Read MoreIt’s now 2017 and everyone’s talking about the fact that it’s now 2017, so why don’t we throw it back to the 1930s? Let’s do that.
Read MoreI’m not even sure where to begin here. A couple weeks back, 82-year-old Neil Brownell was driving a pickup truck on a upstate New York highway, when he came across a line of vehicles wending down an off-ramp. He reportedly tried to brake, but that didn’t happen. Instead, he punched the gas pedal and flew off the road and landed inside a bus.
Read MoreI can’t think of a better business plan than an auto repair shop that continuously has cars flying off of a highway off-ramp and crash-landing into the parking lot. The only better place to land is probably a hospital.
Read MoreFormer convict Stephen York has been arrested again and charged with fraud and identity theft after a small fender bender revealed that he’d been using a stolen identity during the 40 years since he’d escaped from prison.
Read MoreWhat can I say here? The jokes write themselves. A truck driver lost his marbles Saturday on an Indiana highway, before losing a trailer that went over an embankment and spilled the cargo across the shoulder and median. The upshot? The driver’s fine, and we’re literally talking about marbles. Thirty-eight thousand pounds of them.
Read MoreSome poor bastard in Sacramento was heading home from college only to find his Ford F-150 in the parking lot wearing an enormous Eucalyptus tree as a hat. Fox 40 News says the aforementioned bastard, named Gerogiy Karpekin, then got a ride back to his house, where he found another woody perennial plant adorning the lid of another one of his cars. This poor guy can’t catch a break.
Read MoreThere’s a school of thought that says that perhaps we’d be safer drivers if we were more aware of the inherent dangers of driving, as opposed to being so insulated from it, as we tend to be today. If there’s a symbol of this way of thinking, it’d probably be the image of a steering wheel with a huge, scary spike sticking out of it. That concept actually has a name: the Tullock Spike.
Read MoreBRAVE THROUGH THE TREACHEROUS WEATHER, MANY VALIANT HEROES OF THE GREAT LAND GATHER TO RESCUE THE WEAK COMPACT TRANSPORT FROM THE ICE HILL ROAD.
Read MoreAmerica’s auto safety regulator, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has closed the investigation into the first known self-driving car crash which involved a Tesla Model S in Autopilot last year, reports Reuters citing an unnamed source. No recall was allegedly demanded.
Read MoreApple could face a potential class action lawsuit in California for not using its technology to prevent iPhone users from texting while driving. Apparently since no one can put their phones down when they’re driving, it’s on Apple to make them.
Read MoreSouth Korean musician and actor Ji Chang Son made headlines recently for filing a lawsuit against Tesla after his Model X blasted through the wall of his house when he was attempting to park it. That much isn’t in dispute. What is somewhat up in the air is that Son claims the car accelerated on its own, and that it’s happened to other people, too. I’m not buying it.
Read MoreWhat you’re looking at up there used to be a Toyota Prius, and, yes, it’s crammed into a doorway of a building. The bizarre location for a Prius happened as the result of a crash in Indianapolis, where a teenaged driver ran a red light and crashed into a building. The driver is in critical condition, but responsive. The Prius, less so.
Read MoreAs someone who is already terrified of the size and momentum of semi trucks while driving, seeing this video of one getting blown over by nothing but the wind while barreling down the highway isn’t helping my irrational fears.
Read MoreThe only thing worse than winter driving in a RWD Mustang is probably winter driving in a RWD Mustang that can’t get over the train crossing, when a train is coming.
Read MoreIt should come as no surprise that the purchase price of an exotic automobile is just the start of its inevitable rampage on your wallet. It’s important to have a sizable source of funds or a great insurance policy in case shit runs downhill at an alarming rate. Here’s what happens when you have neither.
Read MoreAs a Top Gear host, Rory Reid must travel around the globe to drive the world’s most interesting cars in its most interesting places. Here’s what that life looks like, through his Twitter feed.
Read MoreZenos gave us Ford engine-packing track day toys. With carbon fiber tubs and aluminum spines, they were stripped out, British and offered a raw driving experience. It even starred on an episode of The Grand Tour. But that doesn’t matter anymore because the company is now bankrupt.
Read MoreThe new BMW M2 is widely acclaimed to be the best BMW M-car currently on the market. Chris Harris is widely acclaimed to be the best automotive reviewer on the market. Top Gear... well, it’s had a few headaches, but it seems to be working on things.
Read MoreMost situations can be made better by the presence of a dog. Top Gear evidently thought so, too, when they brought a dog—christened Top Gear Dog—onto the show nearly 10 years ago. She seemed like a sweet thing, and unfortunately, she has just passed away at the age of 11.
Read MoreYes, the face of the 2018 Ford Mustang looks awfully sad. Is it sad because it no longer comes with a V6 engine option? Who can say. But there is good news: a new 10-speed automatic gearbox, new colors, and best of all, a magnetic ride suspension.
Read MoreA while back, I wrote about the very conflicting story of Violette Morris, a cyclecar racer in the 1920s who was so insanely hardcore she had her breasts removed so she could fit into her cramped race cars better. She’s a fascinating person, but also something of a monster who ended up murdering people for the Gestapo. Not an easy story, but one that’s hard to ignore. And now she’s the subject of the very first video of our new Jalopnik Explains series.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump was set to visit Harley-Davidson’s Milwaukee factory to tour the facility and sign some executive orders this week. But in light of the protests around President Donald Trump’s effort to ban Muslim refugees from entering the U.S, a visit by Trump to the Motor Company is no longer happening, reportedly because Harley isn’t “comfortable” with likely protests there.
Read MoreIn countries where most people commute on scooters or motorcycles, traffic laws seem to be more of a suggestion than a rule. This scooter rider takes on a crazy first person ride that he calls “not that scary” and I almost had a heart attack.
Read MorePictured above is Ken Roczen, supercross rider, in his happy place. He’s on a bike (kinda) and in the air. Pictured below is Ken Roczen in a slightly less desired position. His arm has been opened up.
Read MoreYour next KTM or Vespa could soon get a lot more expensive. And it’s all because Europeans don’t want to buy American beef from cattle raised on growth hormones. Makes sense, right? Welcome to the world of international trade disputes.
Read MoreUp until Saturday night, Ken Roczen’s season in Monster Energy Supercross was going quite well. He won the first two events of the season, and went into the third race in Anaheim, California as the points leader ahead of the dominant defending champion Ryan Dungey. Then, this happened.
Read MoreOur man Andrew Fails makes a compelling argument about why the Suzuki SV650 is the best all-around bike to be had. Only one problem: He’s wrong, at least according to me. I say it’s actually Kawasaki’s venerable workhorse, the KLR650. I know, because I rode one for a dozen years until being seduced by the siren song of a new-to-me Ducati.
Read MoreMarc Marquez is a three-time world champion motorcycle racer, but it takes a special kind of crazy to ride a high-powered racing sport bike up and down ski runs. Especially on the hill “that will rip open your pelvis like a book.”
Read MoreDisplaying an unusual combination of bad judgment and exceptional dexterity, this motorcyclist rear-ends a speeding car in the fast lane of a highway but instead of wiping out, the biker actually hops up on the trunk of the car and hangs on as it carries on at full speed.
Read MoreChoosing the right motorcycle is more of an emotional decision than a logical one. With cars, most of us would love to buy with our hearts instead of our spreadsheets, but concessions have to be made. You might need to carry passengers, to tow and haul, to get good fuel economy, or any other reason why you can’t daily-drive an Ariel Nomad. But in the bike world, there’s one choice that checks so many boxes it’s not even funny: the Suzuki SV650.
Read MoreAt the Detroit Auto Show this month, there were a lot of interesting vehicles, and even more uninteresting ones. But my favorite machine there wasn’t even a car. As we kept running all over the Cobo Center, I kept occasionally seeing these little Urb-E electric bikes zipping around. I was intrigued for two main reasons. One: I’d never seen anything like it in person. Two: I have the stamina befitting a man who writes for the internet, so I’d prefer to ride instead of walk.
Read MoreJames May is one of few people in this world who can simply stand behind a workbench, put a bunch of parts together for a half an hour, and be genuinely entertaining all the while. Here he is assembling a Honda Mini Bike in a way that only the lovable James May could.
Read MoreYes, it basically feels like 21 Jump Street on motorcycles. But I’m completely OK with that.
Read MoreVictory Motorcycles, an Iowa-based American motorcycle company best known for making classic cruiser-style bikes, is ceasing production immediately. It had an 18-year run under corporate overlord Polaris.
Read MoreI generally like to err on the side of safety while riding, but it feels like there’d probably be something extra comforting about having a computer in your jacket running 1,000 calculations a second about whether you are in the process of being launched off your bike.
Read MoreMore than a decade ago, Ducati made a radical addition to its lineup of sporty and sport touring models: The Multistrada, a high-performance upright bike with good wind protection, long-travel suspension, and wacky styling. The most recent iteration combined huge power—160 horsepower—with state-of-the-art electronic aids, and was the fastest bike available when it came to real-world conditions.
Read MoreEverybody on the internet seems to think Brooklyn’s all about expensive coffee and Instagram posing. But there’s still serious hot rodding going on out there. Step in to Tim Harney’s Bushwick motorcycle shop with us to see for yourself.
Read MoreAs I write this, I’m still feeling the effects of learning the basics of motorcycle control on dirt. Just four hours with American Supercamp and I’m more obsessed with two-wheel death machines than ever before. Sure, some of my muscles feel like I’ve been on the Zac Efron ‘Roid Rage workout regimen for a few weeks straight, but the soreness only serves as a reminder of how much fun I had, and motivation to get back out there to further strengthen those muscles.
Read MoreThe all-new 2017 BMW 5 Series sedan debuted a couple of months ago to remind everyone that Clive Owen isn’t in enough movies anymore, and now here’s the wagon, or “Touring” variant. But you can only get it in Europe. And you apparently have to scuba dive. Sorry.
Read MoreBack in the 1990s, quite possibly the best road car engine ever made was installed in quite possibly the best road car ever made: the S70/2 BMW V12 found its way into the middle of the McLaren F1. Now the two companies are back together working on engines for the future.
Read MoreTesla has been very tight-lipped regarding the continued development of their upcoming mass-market electric car, the Model 3. We got a good look at a pre-production prototype a while back, but it didn’t seem to be quite finished, especially in the interior. Now we’ve heard something interesting about the interior that will make the new Tesla unique among pretty much every car you can buy today.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger SRT Demon will have more power and will save about 200 pounds over the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. How do they save all that weight, you think? Exotic materials, maybe? High technology, possibly? Nah. Dodge is ripping out the seats.
Read MoreWhat happens when your nation is going through an oil crisis, but you want to keep building big-ass land yachts? You just crush up some of America’s plentiful coal supply, and use that to move the barge down the road, I guess.
Read MoreThe new 2017 Chevrolet Bolt could be the car that finally launches an EV revolution, but in the meantime, the automaker unceremoniously announced it’s going to discontinue the Bolt’s sibling, the also-sudden-flash-of-something-named Spark.
Read MoreNow that there is a mid-engined Corvette on the horizon, all our long-awaited, long-rumored and long-demanded sports car dreams seem on the table. Even Honda might be jumping on the bandwagon of making things happen that we never thought would happen by reviving the S2000. Some sources that claim the roadster will have a 320 horsepower twin-charged four-cylinder. I, however, remain skeptical.
Read MoreIt turns out Toyota rules the world, Russians are in love with Hyundai, Honda has Canada on lockdown, and Mini’s real big in Southeast Asia.
Read MoreI don’t know if you know this, but despite his existing horde of barely-running Jeeps, our man David Tracy is dreaming of first-gen RX-7 ownership. I’ve been subtly trying to push him over the edge and buy one. Care to join me in this?
Read MoreAn investigation into the failed attempt at bringing IndyCar to Boston dropped a majority of the blame and a lot of the financial burden on Boston Grand Prix CEO John Casey back in July. Casey—who is managing his own defense in court, which always ends well—is now claiming he was subjected to extortion and FBI wiretapping.
Read MoreVariable-length intake runners aren’t a particularly new concept, but Ferrari’s system in its LaFerrari is next-level fascinating. Let Engineering Explained give you the rundown.
Read MoreGeneral Motors and Honda are partnering up in an $85 million joint venture to mass-produce cheaper, smaller hydrogen fuel cells in Michigan—fuel cells expected to make their way into the two companies’ future products. More importantly, the two companies say they’re working towards fixing that critical “infrastructure” issue.
Read MoreGot nothing going on in October? Want to see a car that will most likely look like the one we’ve already shown you a picture of? Then you’ll want to hop on a flight to Japan to attend the Tokyo Motor Show because that’s where the new Toyota Supra will reportedly make its debut.
Read MoreJoey’s a big guy. Nobody is questioning that. What Joey is questioning is why Hyundai is refusing to fix a broken part of his 2015 Sonata under their five-year warranty, and why Hyundai feels that reminding him he’s “large” is justification for not repairing his car. Oh, and they think he gets out of his seat wrong. Let’s look at what’s going on here.
Read MoreFord announced today that it opposes Trump’s Muslim immigration and refugee ban, a huge reversal for the company that has cowered and bent to Trump in favor of access and an ear for deregulation.
Read MoreMid-engine Corvette, mid-engine Corvette, the chants drone on and on. And like how pictures of Bigfoot keep turning up every so often, so do photos of the mid-engined wonder. Except this time they look pretty legitimate, especially since it was playing with a bunch of other Corvette prototypes.
Read MoreThis weekend, in the face of the White House’s executive order barring entry to anyone from seven Muslim-majority countries, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance stopped fares at John F. Kennedy International Airport, bringing attention to JFK just as thousands of other residents streamed in to fight the ban. It was a small but visible piece of protest that culminated, thanks to work by the ACLU, with the courts issuing a temporary stay on Trump’s edict. Here’s how they did it.
Read MoreThere’s a new Jamiroquai song out. It’s weird, which is typical, but can it pass the most important test? We’re speaking, of course, of the Will This Jamiroquai Song Make Me Subconsciously Accelerate To Speeds Exceeding 200 Miles Per Hour In My Lamborghini test.
Read MoreDaimler’s car-sharing subsidiary car2go, known for its fleet of tiny blue and white Smart ForTwos, is jazzing things up a bit with an announcement Monday that its members will soon have access to a fleet of Mercedes CLA sedans and GLA crossovers. At last, members won’t be limited to just the tiny two-seat city cars anymore.
Read MoreI like Fox-body Mustangs, I’m an advocate for Fox-body Mustangs, but you have to admit some of the coupes were weirdly, aggressively beige.
Read MoreA big truck gets stuck only to be rescued a mighty (and most-certainly modified) Suzuki Samurai. It makes sense. The mini-SUV is just following the Samurai code.
Read More#DeleteUber is trending on Twitter after the notoriously scummy ride-hailing app broke a strike and undercut taxi drivers’ protest of President Trump’s refugee-detaining executive order. Once more, Uber reminded the country that it’s a scum company.
Read MoreThe New York Taxi Workers Alliance has announced on Twitter that it is halting passenger pickups at JFK airport in protest of the dozens of people detained under President Trump’s Muslim immigration ban.
Read MoreJust a few months ago it seemed like the straight-six engine was all but dead. Abandoned by the Germans and Japanese for stuff like, well, a V6 engine. Jaguar and Mercedes are saving the straight-six this year, so now is a perfect time to go over the all of the differences between six-cylinder engines.
Read MoreSaab, which is now owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (which sadly can’t use the Saab name anymore), is slightly off track but seemingly still on the way to producing electric not-Saab 9-3s for the Chinese market later this year, thanks to new approval from the Chinese government.
Read MoreVolkswagen has shifted its focus to electric vehicles. Now the automaker plans to use one of its most beloved performance nameplates, the GTI, to lead the charge with EVs. But the rumor is that they’ll start with a hybrid first.
Read MoreThe 2017 New York International Boat Show is different from the New York International Auto Show, in that no actual news or reveals take place during the five days it occupies the Javitz Center during late January. But that didn’t stop us from going to find cool stuff anyway.
Read MoreWe may not realize this, but the fuel nozzles found in millions of filling stations around the world are actually beautiful mechanisms based on old-school mechanical principles. Here’s how they work.
Read MoreThe state of self-driving cars on the road at the moment is we have some semi-autonomous systems that can get flustered and require human intervention. Not only is this the most critical feature of semi-autonomous cars, humans are really, really bad at it, as a new study finds.
Read MoreThe presidential administration of Donald Trump came up with a brilliant idea to pay for the Mexican border wall yesterday. Instead of having Mexicans pay for the wall, he’d have Americans pay for the wall, through a 20 percent border tax on imported goods. And wouldn’t you know it, a lot of cars are imported from Mexico.
Read MoreI am told that after a driver samples the immense personal luxury of the Mitsubishi Galant Lambda Super Touring, no other car will do.
Read MoreAs you may know, I feel a certain obligation to try and help people with stolen cars when I’m able. This one struck a particular chord with me, not just because it’s a lovely 1972 BMW 2002, but because the owner’s had this car for 17 years. I know exactly how this feels, and I know that sometimes miraculous things can happen.
Read MoreIn what I can only liken to some sort of a dystopian horror scenario for cars, one of the best accounts on Instagram posted a video of a tow truck driver having no qualms whatsoever about dragging a helpless Mercedes out of the Tesla Fremont parking lot at an, um, uncomfortable angle.
Read MoreTesla has sued former Autopilot program manager Sterling Anderson, alleging that he stole company information and tried to recruit other employees to join a competing venture in collaboration with Chris Urmson, the former head of Google’s self-driving car project.
Read MoreVolkswagen is offering to buy back nearly half a million 2010 to 2015 2.0-liter diesel cars that cheated emissions tests, and now owners of those vehicles are turning in some total beaters. Here’s a look at two examples that are definitely what I’d consider “aesthetically challenged.”
Read MoreSam Snow looks the part of a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan. But when the cab driver picked up a group in Washington D.C. last week, he let it slip that he thinks John Elway is the greatest NFL quarterback of all time. Unbeknownst to him, Elway was in the back seat.
Read MoreJust when I thought automakers weren’t paying any attention to the needs and desires of the true enthusiasts, we get this incredible sign (a literal sign, even) that, yes, at least one automaker still cares. What you’re seeing here, in a picture taken just today, is a billboard on the I-294 near Chicago’s O’Hare airport. A billboard for a Ford Probe GT. Hot damn.
Read MoreFrank Honsowetz of Ed Pink Racing Engines doesn’t even consider himself a “Porsche guy,” and specializes in building drag racing motors. But he is the only man that Singer Vehicle Design trusts to assemble their drool-worthy flat-six motors.
Read MoreThe new Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is like a Hellcat, only wider, faster and with more power. How much more power? Well, that license plate teased by Dodge might have the answer.
Read MoreTake time today to appreciate the understated beauty of the first Mitsubishi Eclipse, which was not a crossover.
Read MoreA woman dropped her car keys when she was attacked outside of an Atlanta, Georgia gas station by somebody trying to steal her phone, and then some bystanders walked up, grabbed her keys and stole her car.
Read MoreElon Musk got angry in Los Angeles traffic last month and promised to start a ‘Boring Company’ to begin digging tunnels. He even added it to his illustrious Twitter bio. Now he’s direct-messaging The Verge about it on Twitter, so you know, taking it one step at a time.
Read MoreAt the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s typical for an incoming administration to implement a realignment of sorts—with some grants or contracts, for instance, being frozen temporarily—but a decision by President Donald Trump’s staff to order a total media blackout, as well as ban any new spending, has left some employees rattled.
Read MoreThe original Dodge Viper was hailed as a concept car for the road, a 1960s throwback with 1990s performance. But there was at least one little detail that didn’t transfer from concept to production.
Read MoreThe sixth-gen Ford Mustang was the first truly “global” pony Ford ever released, making its way to 140 markets and even stealing the sports coupe sales crown in Germany. But while selling globally means more sales, it also means passing crash tests around the world, and, based on these new European NCAP crash results, the Mustang seems to be struggling.
Read MoreNaoki Nakamura is a legend among drifters, having win the D1 Street Legal series with his insanely aggressive style. When a group of Americans invited him to our shores to throw an event in his honor, he put on a master class in Japanese-style drifting with the insane finesse American drifters often never learn on our wide-open tracks.
Read MoreCorazon isn’t a well-known player in the Japanese aftermarket world, but the Subaru parts company brought the glitz and glimmer to Tokyo Auto Salon. Not content to just add aero features and ground effects to their show pieces, they gave them the appearance of etched stainless steel. The effect looks like it just flew off a Cylon BaseStar from Battlestar Galactica.
Read MoreThe word “Gazoo,” from what I can tell, means one of two things to people: a floating green alien who was friends with a fictional caveman, or the name of Toyota’s official factory racing team. But I think this report from Autocar is really stretching when it says the new Supra will form the basis of a new Gazoo performance sub-brand. (Also, that Supra will be a hybrid, which is more plausible.)
Read MoreWHAT IS THIS? A DRIVER WITH POWERS BEYOND THAT OF MERE MORTALS? A “SUPER-MAN”, PERHAPS? ARE OUR HIGHWAYS NO LONGER SAFE?
Read MoreAnytime we asked Ford for definitive specs on the new Ford GT, we were always met with vague answers. “More than 600 horsepower,” it was said. But now we know the exact figures – 647 horsepower and 550 pound-feet of torque out of its twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6.
Read MoreZoom! Hey, check this out. It’s rained so much in California, you can actually take one of those friggin’ Jetski Sea-Doo things right on down the road.
Read MoreLove is over. Hope is dead. Mitsubishi may revive the name of its beloved Eclipse sportscar to slap on yet another dull crossover, reports Autoblog. Nothing even matters anymore. The world is pointless. Every day is silent and grey. Come Armageddon, come.
Read MoreActor Tom Hanks posed for photos next to some old tiny cars while filming in Hungary, tweeted them, and now some Polish people are trying to ship him a car.
Read MoreCar enthusiasts may not dig talking about it, but the Environmental Protection Agency plays a significant role in how the auto industry functions. Just this month, against the automakers’ wishes, the agency moved to lock in regulations for vehicle efficiency standards. But things appear tense at the EPA, now under the new administration of Donald Trump.
Read MoreRunning a car company means depending on outside suppliers and contractors. No car company can make all its own components or run all its own events. Even a fledgling auto startup like Faraday Future may rely on hundreds of other companies for parts and services to put its car together. This is why you never, ever see a car company start a public fight with a contractor like Faraday Future did earlier today on Twitter.
Read MoreThis morning, a pair of burglars in Highland Park, Michigan straight-up jacked a Dodge Charger Hellcat right off the showroom floor, pushed the car outside by hand, and used a Dodge Caravan to ram the 707-horsepower beast down the street and onto a tow truck, CBS Detroit reports.
Read MoreGeneral Motors was certain the V8 engine would go the way of the dodo in 1990, according to Hot Rod. So, we almost got a mid-engine Corvette decades ago, only this version also would have had another engine in the front. Best of all, the test mule for this wacky twin-engine Corvette was a humble 1985 Citation X-11.
Read MoreToday we found out that the paranoid tech billionaires of the Silicon Valley are planning to get the hell out of America and right on down to New Zealand. Here’s the thing—you should probably move there too, for the cars alone.
Read MoreWhen the Dieselgate emissions scandal broke, Volkswagen put a stop sale on TDIs and eventually started buying back hundreds of thousands of affected cars from customers. Hundreds of those cars now sit in the abandoned Detroit Lions stadium parking lot, others are rotting on a decommissioned California Air Force base, and thousands are being held at a port in Baltimore. The photos of these oceans of cars are a sad sight.
Read MoreEvery year at Tokyo Auto Salon, the students of Nihon Automotive College build some pretty crazy customs. And one of the things they seem especially good at is making tiny cars into versions of other cars that weren’t originally so tiny. This year, a Suzuki Cappuccino became a mini Mazda RX-7.
Read MoreAnd remember: proper ute-hoonage is your responsibility, no one else’s. You must hoon your ute daily and aggressively for best results.
Read MoreElon Musk is busy venturing out into literal Outer Space and developing one of the most rapidly-advancing autonomous vehicle systems, so he doesn’t have time to worry about his faster-than-rail moonshot hyperloop idea. That’s why a company called Hyperloop One is doing it. Now they want to take the cars, and put them in the tube.
Read MoreOn any trip to Tokyo, there are plenty of spots for the Nippon-phile to hit. For those of us who are Japanese car fans, the MegaWeb Toyota City Showcase has to be on our list. Crawl all over about just every vehicle Toyota has made in recent years, and then top it off with a test drive around the showcase!
Read MoreI’m all for doing idiotic experiments with cars. I think it’s a fantastic use of one’s time and resources, and furthers the advancement of humanity in general. I’m not even sure I’m kidding. Here, we have a valid experiment – what happens if you jam your car into reverse while driving – I’m just not certain I’m down with the methodology.
Read MoreI have a friend who is unusually good at salvaging crap. Just this weekend he found, in an abandoned house, a perfect rear bumper (and brackets!) for my Beetle. That’s amazing enough, but he also found a set of NASA documents from the 1970s. Surprisingly, one of those volumes had, of all things, some fascinating information about a largely forgotten NASA electric car project. Reading about that car, it’s amazing how far the technology and the perception of electric cars has come.
Read MoreSince the fully-electric 2017 Chevy Bolt was announced a little over a year ago we’ve been debating the merits of its concept, price point and design. But this week we’re finally going to drive the thing. Imagine that! What do you want to know about the Bolt?
Read MoreMy fellow Bugatti owners, it has come to my attention that there is some egregious confusion afoot: People are actually confusing us for Bentley owners. I know. It’s something that I’ve long suspected, what with the cars both having four wheels, an engine, a name beginning with the letter “B” and Volkswagen ownership. But the clearest example of this came to a head when I was approached by a little boy as I was leaving the valet car park.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump spent Monday morning signing a flurry of executive orders, including an expected decision to withdraw the nation from his predecessor’s signature trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The move certainly won’t have as significant of an impact to the auto industry as withdrawal from NAFTA could be, but the ramifications it could have for automakers are difficult to unpack.
Read MoreThe subject of whether or not to warm your car up in very cold weather has proven to be a far more contentious subject than I’d ever have imagined. Because of my radical warm-it-up-for-a-minute-or-so views, I’m no longer invited to some family holidays. But that’s okay, because finally someone has pointed a thermal camera at an engine so we can see what the hell is going on.
Read MoreDiscard those angry email drafts, and put the torches and pitchforks back in the shed. Aston Martin is not—I repeat, not—changing their iconic logo, per Aston Martin president and CEO Andy Palmer himself. Our circular nightmare is over, guys. We’re finally home safe.
Read MoreLast year at Tokyo Auto Salon, Lexus had a pretty large booth that mimicked some kind of Nordic dance club bar one might see in Oslo or Stockholm, all white and glass and steel, with flashing lights, dancers, and Lexus staffers in thin, crisp reflective suits. This year? Carbon fiber race cars. That’s it.
Read MorePorsche already improved the Panamera from a fast and capable but awkwardly styled four-door into a stunning sedan. Of course, every sedan is automatically made better if it becomes a wagon, and the Panamera Sport Turismo “shooting brake” (wagon) is coming soon.
Read MoreA piece of history that never fails to entertain me is that the most powerful engine to ever race in Formula 1 was a small BMW four-cylinder engine, one that happened to be turbocharged beyond the limits of sanity. Here is one such motor getting built using raw German skill. (This consists of un-ironic mustaches and beer bellies.)
Read MoreAs a professional car shopper, I spend hours upon hours every day on various listing sites searching for cars. Sometimes I stumble across some really weird listings. Apparently, there are some brand new cars that have been sitting around for awhile.
Read MoreThis may not surprise anyone, but with the incoming administration looking to implement “dramatic” cuts to federal spending, one budget blueprint calls for for federal subsidies for Amtrak to be slashed. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
Read MoreThe world is quickly turning towards an era where nothing stands to survive traumatizing, unexpected change seemingly for the sake of change. For some damn reason, the Aston Martin logo design, the most inconic of which a winged beauty that has graced time unchallenged, is seemingly at risk.
Read MoreToday’s story on “here’s all the shit that makes starting a car company more of a pain in the ass than you imagined,” we have possibly the dumbest trademark spat I have yet seen: Pirelli shot down Faraday Future from owning the word ‘ZERO.’ Man, Faraday Future can’t catch a break.
Read MoreCar design is an incredibly competitive field. The jobs are hard to get, the work is intense, and it takes years before that first idea actually becomes part of something real, something drivable. On top of all that, the work is pretty anonymous for most, and it’s hard to get any sort of direct feedback from people who appreciate the work. These are all part of why something like SketchBattle exists: it’s a way to turn auto design into a real-time competition, an underground battle, and, yep, a
Read MoreSilicon Valley and skeptics in the auto industry waited with bated breath for the mysterious Chinese-backed auto startup Faraday Future to show its autonomous, electric FF 91 production car. But what about normal people, the people who might actually buy the thing? Not so much as Business Insider reports only 60 people actually put money down for a reservation. Faraday Future, vaguely, denies this claim.
Read MoreEarlier this month, the 2015 model year diesel Volkswagens were approved by the EPA and California Air Resources Board for an emissions software modification. Those fixes have now begun rolling out to customers, and while some first impressions by forum-goers indicate that the repair may make the cars more sluggish, overall sentiments actually seem pretty positive.
Read MoreDriving on snow and ice covered roads can be treacherous enough, but throw in a heard of moose in your path and that is a recipe for code brown. This Canadian driver is either a master at snow driving or really lucky—probably a bit of both.
Read MoreA recent lawsuit filed against Tesla made an excellent case for why human-controlled driving is still exceedingly important, but it turns out Tesla itself seemed to have that on its mind while designing its famed Autopilot function, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report that cleared the automaker in a fatal 2016 crash.
Read MoreThe Checker Marathon is best known as the iconic New York City taxicab. It’s also one of the cars that saw the least changes in its lifetime, with a 1960 model looking just about identical to the last ones made in 1982. And Hemmings reports that now it’s coming back, but not in the old, expected, four-door sedan/taxicab form, but as a six-doored limo and an amazing Checker pickup truck. A Chekechero? Checkermino?
Read MoreFord unexpectedly took the cover off of the 2018 Ford Mustang convertible today (once more not at an auto show), showing what the drop-top version of the refreshed model looks like. It’s lovely and I don’t care what anyone else says.
Read MoreTrade. It has a nice connotation: You give me this, I’ll give you something of equal value in return. When it comes to trade deals—the North American Free Trade Agreement, in particular—the connotation isn’t so pleasant. Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump went after it heavily this during the election cycle. But what is NAFTA, and why does he want to kill it, or at least significantly rework it?
Read MoreDashcam footage recorded in Singapore witnessed a mythological siren of the streets, as a woman likely having a lovely evening riding on top of a moving SUV embraces the breeze and whatever possible drugs she may be on.
Read MoreFinally, after five concept cars, a ton of screaming and stress tears, and plenty of stagnant potential, Volkswagen seems interested in bringing the latest I.D. Buzz bus concept to production by 2022. You can’t tell, but I’m definitely cautiously squinting right now.
Read MoreSo, you know how we’ve all seen pictures of the new Presidential Limo in its testing camouflage, and news reports have said that means we’d see the new “Beast” at the Inauguration of President Donald Trump tomorrow? Well, it’s not going to happen. No new Beast. Sad.
Read MoreIt seems that there’s been a presidential election recently, and that tomorrow is the Presidential Inauguration? Why wasn’t the news covering this? This seems important. It also seems that tomorrow the newest version of the Beast, the custom-built Presidential Limousine-State Car will be revealed. That made me wonder about other Presidential Limousines, which led to the mess to follow.
Read MoreI know way too many people who stay home from the track when it’s wet. Why? That’s when it can be the most fun. Watch this Mazda Miata play around and get sideways, and you’ll understand.
Read MoreThere are certain little weird bits of knowledge that float around the collective unconscious of gearhead-dom that we just assume everyone knows about. Like how there’s a snake eating what might be a baby on the Alfa Romeo badge, or that Trabants were made from old Soviet underpants. Sometimes, though, it’s worth looking at some of these bits of arcana, which is why I thought we should do a quick explainer about why one of the most famous makers of supercars sticks a little ghost on everything.
Read MoreWell, the stupid 0-60 mph wars that Tesla brought to the electric car world are heating up as a guy in a Tesla P100D on the new Ludicrous+ setting posted a 2.389 second 0-60 run, faster than the Faraday Future FF 91 that isn’t even out yet.
Read MoreOne shtick that seems to work for Dodge is its habit of dropping stupid huge engines with obscene power numbers in its cars. First they came out with the 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat, and now it’s promising something even crazier, the Dodge Challenger Demon. And this might be it.
Read MoreWhen you want to sail your fancy yacht someplace far from home, but don’t feel like driving it yourself, you can put your boat on a bigger boat that’s basically a bus for boats. The scale of this logistical operation is insane.
Read MoreThe maniacs at Dodge continue to fuel their hype game with another teaser of the upcoming Challenger SRT Demon. The most recent trailer shows the Demon shedding some pounds, but there’s no front differential in sight. If that is true, it means rear-drive burnouts, baby!
Read MoreSometimes movie trailers really do provide enough information to warrant skipping the actual movie, and beyond the heart-wrenching Paul Walker send off at the end of it, I’d say Furious 7 is one of those movies. Luckily, that means replacing the trailer footage with The Little Rascals makes it easier to imagine those adorable twerps in a feature length action movie.
Read MoreIn general, when you modify a car to make tons of horsepower, you want to beef up the drivetrain. You know, so you don’t leave shredded gears and oil all over the road after a launch. But Nissan technician Matthew Parris from Massachusetts is going to risk it by shoving 500 ponies through a standard Juke SL’s CVT transmission. Pray for him.
Read MoreDeveloper Bruce Makowsky’s $250 million Bel Air estate is supposedly the most expensive “house” to ever go on sale in the United States. It comes with everything your house has, like a bowling alley and $200,000 worth of candy, but it also includes a $30,000,000 car collection and the helicopter from Airwolf.
Read MoreAs you may know, the CIA just recently made over 12 million pages of de-classified documents available online. As you can imagine, dorks like me felt like kids in a declassified-candy store, and I immediately started poking around for interesting car stuff. I think I found something good, and it involves Volkswagen Beetles, digging machines, and the Cold War.
Read MoreYou would think after seeing a replica Ferrari 250 GT California fall in the woods in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferrari would have developed the latest in car flight technology, but no! A Texan allegedly driving under the influence learned the hard way that his $385,000 Ferrari could not fly after falling down a 40-foot ravine.
Read MoreShe wasn’t young anymore, but still elegant. And finally taking that breath of fresh air she’d been craving so long. When her big city shoes couldn’t keep up with the pace of her soul-searching she slipped, right into the arms of a strapping young cowboy. Could this be what she was looking for all along?
Read MoreOne of these days we need to do a rundown of all the weird Dodge concepts from the 2000s that never happened, like the 2002 Dodge Razor. Also, how much Limp Bizkit do you think that guy listens to? My guess is a lot. All of it.
Read MoreRemember this day, everyone. This is the day they came for our WETFARTs, and we did nothing. Today is the day that freedom died, in a moist burst, one last, damp eruption from our nation’s beautiful rectum of freedom. Yes, the state of California has recalled the legally-issued license plate that reads WETFART, and inside, we all die a little.
Read MoreA reader recently inquired on the initial Tokyo Auto Salon 2017 post about if any vendors from China were present, and if so, how bad were they? Well... the answers are “yes” and “pretty pathetic.”
Read MoreGood news; if you liked the style of the current BMW 4 Series you’re going to love the new look of the facelifted 2018 model, because you probably wont even notice a difference on the street.
Read MoreThe 2017 Mini Countryman just might be the angriest (and potentially ugliest) little car ever mass produced, so at least now there’s the John Cooper Works Countryman to make it much more fun to drive.
Read MoreThe 3.5 liter, 640 horsepower Mercedes ‘M291' 180-degree 12 cylinder engine died twice: first when it repeatedly failed on the race track, and second when the entire racing series it was designed for came to an end.
Read MoreThe 2018 Ford Mustang’s newly-revealed facelift has stirred up some disagreements here at Jalopnik’s lovely HQ on the lower decks of the container ship MV Mærsk Sea Dipshit. Our own Justin Westbrook called it “sad,” but I think it’s a pretty nice evolution of the design, and what the hell does Justin know, anyway, right? Still, it’s a subtle update, so let’s try and take a closer look at it.
Read MoreWho uses Crackle? Exactly. So rejoice, for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee is moving the Netflix, according to New York Times media reporter John Koblin. Can someone say binge-watching?
Read MoreUberEats says it’s able to deliver you “the food you want” at “Uber speed.” On Sunday, Florida police say a driver for the ride-hailing service added drive-by shooting to that equation: he reportedly shot up a pizza place in Tampa with a BB gun after getting into an argument with the restaurant’s owner.
Read MoreI just got back from a trip to Hong Kong, where I laid eyes upon some of the most incredible Japanese cars in existence. Here’s what I saw in just 20 minutes one night in Yuen Long.
Read MoreWe have no idea what Faraday Future’s first car, the FF 91, will cost here in America, but we just got an official estimate of its pricing in its not-quite-home market of China of under $300,000. As it turns out, this is more economical than it might sound.
Read MoreStudents are warned against using Wikipedia for term papers because any yahoo could go on there and edit the page. If you took a look at Mitsubishi’s page around 9:45 a.m. EST today, it seemed like that was most definitely the case. Unless, you know, the Mitsubishi Wiki page editor was demonically possessed over the weekend. Or something.
Read MoreAfter three years of looking and with no real results, the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been suspended. The Boeing 777 vanished from radar on March 8, 2014, and except for a few pieces washing up on African beaches, no trace of it has been found.
Read MoreIs the 1995 BMW Z18 concept really any more ridiculous than, say, an X6M? He looks like he’s having fun.
Read MoreThe facelifted 2018 Ford Mustang has been revealed, and, um?
Read MoreAfter months and months of sleeping in, I finally returned to Cars & Coffee. It was mostly just to decide if I actually wanted to sell one of my camera lenses or not.
Read MoreDo you need to transport eight of your closest hacker buddies to the nearest totally “underground” techno rave in the deep warrens of the city’s industrial district? Do you still live in the mid-90s? Do you love glow sticks a little bit too much? Well, just for you, Honda introduces the Freed Active!
Read MoreThere’s Japanese Domestic Market, then there’s JDM. Just because something is made for the Japanese market doesn’t mean it fits with JDM style. Given the severe modifications in many sections of the Tokyo Auto Salon, it was heart-warming to see students of Toyota Automotive College produce a prime example of JDM: the Toyota Starlet KP61 STREET.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever seen Goldfinger or basically half of the James Bond movies, you’ve probably thought about how neat the rotating license plate gadgets on the British superspy’s cars were. Too bad it doesn’t work out so great in the real world.
Read MoreTaking risks in life can sometimes lead to great things. If you took those risks and they made you rich enough to buy a Porsche 911 R, congratulations. I’m just not sure the risk of drifting that 911 R on a snowy mountain road is worth it, though.
Read MoreThe Rimac Concept_One has been taking down some of the quickest hypercars in drag races and now it has turned its sights on the Bugatti Veyron. The result is a demonstration on how we are entering a new age of performance cars powered by batteries instead of pistons.
Read MoreWould you care to take on a weekend project? Here is the twin-turbo 5.2-liter V12 from the Aston Martin DB11, completely disassembled. How hard can it be?
Read MoreThe 2017 Corvette Grand Sport is the Corvette to own, but you’re “only” working with that 460 horsepower 6.2-liter LT1 V8. This means, on paper, the Hellcat twins have you beat with their stupidly-powerful 707 horsepower outputs, at least until now.
Read MoreMaaco, “America’s Bodyshop,” is one of the cheapest places to get a car painted. It’s also notorious for invoking the adage “you get what you pay for.” But overspray on a car’s seats? That’s got to be a new bar for bad work.
Read MoreMugen, Honda’s little-brother modification company for Honda products started by a Honda family member, has a long history of “classic” JDM design modifications. For Tokyo Auto Salon 2017, Mugen threw all of that right out the window for its S660, which looks like it belongs cruising the Death Star or Imperial Coruscant.
Read MoreHave you noticed that “poking things with a hot knife,” is a trendy thing to put on YouTube right now? I don’t get it either. Actually, I find it offensive to knives. And heat. Especially when they’re used to violate this most sacred car—an E39 BMW M5.
Read MoreWhen president-elect Donald Trump begins his inauguration parade on Jan. 20, the world of license-plate collection will meet a sad (Sad!) fate for the first time since the late 1920s: it looks like Trump will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to decline the production of special plates for his inauguration. UPDATE: Actually, there will be one after all now.
Read MoreIn 2016, Jalopnik East covered the S660 Neo Classic prototype concept. It was the concept we wished was real. Well, now, its creators have stepped up the game for 2017, and I’ve never considered Grand Theft Auto so much in my life. Stripe game and color scheme on point.
Read MoreAnother year of Jalopnik brings you another year of Jalopnik East, and coming off Detroit, we’re once again back at the Tokyo Auto Salon for 2017, bringing you all the JDM goodness from Nissan, Subaru, Honda, Toyota, Daihatsu, Suzuki, and a bunch aftermarket manufacturers. Turn on some Eurobeat and let’s hit the floor!
Read MoreWe’re all familiar with badge engineering, right? It’s the magical process by which a carmaker can make a whole new car just by changing the car’s name, badges, maybe lights, and bits of trim and possibly a body panel or two. While this works for many cars, there’s some that seem to be badge engineering-proof. I think I found the hardest modern car to badge engineer, and I think I found a way to do it.
Read MoreHello from Detroit, home of Motown, the U.S. automotive industry and, perhaps the most innovative development in this town’s history, a combination Applebee’s-IHOP. These are exciting times to live in the Motor City; nothing gets residents’ adrenaline pumping like the lingering concern of their cars are being broken into while sharing a plate of polenta at the fifth gastropub to open this month.
Read MoreWe have been hearing for awhile that Jeep wants to take on Land Rover’s Range Rover line in the upper luxury segment and the brand recently confirmed the upcoming Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer models. It seems that Jeep’s new luxury SUVs will be priced like Rovers as well.
Read MoreSometimes all that stands between you and certain annihilation is the ability of an out of control driver to hold a vehicle sideways for just long enough.
Read MoreAutomakers in the U.S. seem anxious—eager, perhaps?—for Donald Trump to take office, especially with still-looming questions over fuel economy and emissions regulations set by President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. Today the EPA settled one of those issues: Vehicle efficiency standards will remain unchanged for cars and light trucks through 2025, which the agency says will result in fuel economy sticker values of 36 mpg, 10 miles above the current average.
Read MoreNick Stafford had 300,000 pennies and retribution burning in his soul. He was getting even with the Lebanon, VA Department of Motor Vehicles.
Read MoreAll good things come to an end, like when Tesla broke the news that its growing global network of Supercharger stations would no longer be free. Today, Tesla has announced some specifics on how much you’ll be charged for charging, and when.
Read MoreFor some, man buns are an expression of freedom and individuality. They are purposeful things, meant to celebrate life and all its choices. This is not one of those times.
Read MoreA Jaguar F-Type R Coupe, a Focus, a CTS-V, shit, even the FF 91. One of these doesn’t belong. If you guessed Focus, great, you probably understand it’s an economical car—not known for speed—that’s designed to go from A to B. Suspect Benjamin Henke apparently does not.
Read MoreAfter the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today accused Fiat Chrysler of having “defeat devices” for emissions in diesel Jeep and Ram vehicles, company boss was adamant that Fiat Chrysler did not cheat like Volkswagen, calling such a claim “hogwash.” That may be a bit far, but after carefully examining everything, I’m not sure it’s apples-to-apples with VW’s Dieselgate, either.
Read MoreThere is no cooler car on the planet right now than the World Rally Championship Toyota Yaris. Ever since it Toyota’s maddest peanut started testing, there’s been a sick, all-encompassing need among rally fans for an overpowered hot hatch Yaris that we common-folk can buy. Praise be to Toyota—they’re actually making it.
Read MoreSpeaking with reporters following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s allegation that diesel engines in Ram and Jeep models were cheating emissions, Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said the idea that his company intended to cheat was “unadulterated hogwash” and there’s “nothing in common between the VW reality and what we are describing here.”
Read MoreThe screaming V8 in the E90/92/93 M3 was an aural drug for many. As much as the new M3 and M4's engines are more efficient and powerful, nothing can quite replace an 8,400-RPM redline.
Read MoreIn a conference call with reporters Thursday morning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says an investigation has revealed that diesel V6 Jeep and Ram vehicles made between 2014 and 2016 have “at least eight auxiliary emission control devices” that were not disclosed to the agency—an allegation of cheating that not only seems similar to what Volkswagen did but may have been caught because of the German automaker.
Read MoreHonestly, I didn’t expect VW Wondered Aloud If Diesel Cheating Would Lead To Indictment would be topped, but the wonders of subpoena power are vast. The U.S. government managed to dig up some eye-popping shit to build its Dieselgate case, much of which was revealed when indictments against six high-level employees were unsealed on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today accused Fiat Chrysler of violating the Clean Air Act by “failing to disclose engine management software” in the 2014-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500 trucks equipped with the 3.0-liter diesel V6 engine.
Read MoreLove it or hate it, you kind of have to admire the intricacy of the Lexus spindle grille, like how it is on the 2018 Lexus LS.
Read More“Bad welds,” he says. “Too easy to not wrap around a telephone pole,” he says. This is the last, most extreme version of the Dodge Viper we’re talking about here! Somebody shut this geezer up and make him show some respect!
Read MoreVolkswagen was clearly out of their minds when they developed and produced the 261 mile-per-gallon XL1, a spaceship-like diesel hybrid that looks like a Roswell file photo featured on Ancient Aliens, but without all of the crazy eyes. It’s the greatest modern Volkswagen that didn’t wear an Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bentley or Bugatti badge.
Read MoreUsually, when something ends up in a museum, it is expected to be treated with the utmost care. Unluckily for Craig Breedlove and his famed and historic Spirit of America turbojet car, this apparently wasn’t the case.
Read MoreThe Department of Justice announced its settlement of Volkswagen’s dieselgate criminal case today, which will require the car company to pay $4.3 billion. In addition, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the indictment of six Volkswagen high level employees.
Read MoreThe swan ride is one of the most romantic slow rides at the amusement park. Just you and your special friend, slowly cruising on the back of a swoon-worthy bird boat. Why not bring some of that sophistication to the esteemed pastime of muddin’?
Read MoreOkay, so the 2017 Detroit Auto Show was kind of an endless parade of Toyota Camrys, boring crossovers and empty corporate patriotism. I didn’t care. I take the pictures and I managed to find some great stuff anyway. Take a look at a metric shit-ton of shots I took Monday and Tuesday.
Read MoreMmm... routine municipal work. I don’t know about you, but when I’m looking to decompress for a few minutes during a stressful day, I like to pour a fresh cup of coffee, sit back and soak in basic tasks carried out on a day-to-day basis, like a new road being built.
Read MoreThere were a lot of cars at the Detroit Auto Show but our man Kurt spent an inordinate amount of time ogling this 911 by Singer, for some reason.
Read MoreThe Toyota Camry is the fourth best-selling vehicle in America. Toyota sold more than a third of a million of these sedans in 2016. So why does its face look like that?
Read MoreLook, I’ve got an engineering background, and I love nerding out with other TI-89 totin’, khaki wearing, pocket protector-having math geeks. And yet, I knew the best way to explain Infiniti’s Variable Compression engine would be to talk with one of their engineers. Well, there wasn’t one around, so here goes nothing.
Read MoreVice President Joe Biden just can’t quit endearing himself to the American people. When asked what he will do after leaving the vice presidency later this month, he said he’d like to buy America’s greatest rip-snorting V8-powered sports car: a Chevrolet Corvette.
Read MorePrince died in April and it does not appear that he left a will. An inventory of his estate was submitted to a probate court in Minnesota earlier this month, revealing millions of dollars’ worth of real estate—and a very impressive collection of cars and motorcycles.
Read MoreFor me, the biggest news of this year’s Detroit Auto Show was the latest Volkswagen Microbus concept that will very likely never appear and send me into a foul, black mood that leads me to attempt to punch a horse and end up in jail. Today, I went back to ogle the Bus a little more, and I saw that VW had made a secret, dramatic modification!
Read MoreWinter has not been kind to Turkey as of late. Heavy snows and freezing temperatures have been especially disruptive to planes attempting to take off and land.
Read MoreJoe Biden only has about a week left as Vice President of the United States. So what’s a hardcore car guy like him supposed to do before he leaves office? Go to the Detroit Auto Show and sit in all the really fast stuff, naturally.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Atlas is the mid-size SUV that the brand should have sold in the US over ten years ago. Instead, we got the overpriced Touareg. Volkswagen hopes to avoid the mistakes of the past by pricing the upcoming Atlas in-line with other mainstream crossovers.
Read MoreFormer Senator Al D’Amato started a revolution last night. A small one. One against other airplane passengers. One that got him kicked off his flight.
Read MoreNewsflash: McLarens are expensive. They’re made of carbon-fiber and moondust or some shit. And once you get into the options? Buddy, you are in for a treat.
Read MoreWhen I first found out during the LA Auto Show that the 2017 Cadillac CT6 in the Platinum trim came with onboard WiFi, two back seat monitors, an HDMI port and a household outlet, I immediately thought that this would be a perfect place to hook up a gaming console. Turns out I was right, and here’s what happened when I put this to the test.
Read MoreMuch as I am annoyed by Audi’s endless parade of crossovers and SUVs, and Audi’s lazy new styling and Audi’s not-totally-unraveled involvement in the Dieselgate scandal, Audi sure as hell knows how to make pretty paint. Here’s an Audi R8 in Riviera Blue. This is good.
Read MoreFirst off, I just want to say that even though a glovebox handle broke off in my hand in a sharp fracture of plastic, I think GAC’s line of cars is essentially good enough for the American market. I’m pretty sure that handle thing was an anomaly, or the result of the freakish, uncoordinated strength of my weirdly monkey-like hands.
Read MoreMichigan is cold as hell. It’s colder than hell. Michigan is where icy, frozen hell goes to cool off. So it’s easy to empathize with the plight of 24-year-old Nick Taylor, a poor Roseville, Michigan jamoke who received a $128 ticket from a soulless cop for literally warming his car up in the driveway.
Read MoreThere’s a reason the Maserati GranTurismo has looked the same for the past decade: because when you have a design that sexy, you don’t screw with it. Jaguar’s F-Type is in the same boat with its gorgeous profile, gaping wide grille and sleek headlights. But Jaguar has updated it for 2018, also with a more powerful engine. Luckily, they didn’t screw up.
Read MoreCold days suck. Sure. Cold days suck more when your car doesn’t have heat. You know what’s not a good solution to that? Putting a lit propane torch in your back seat.
Read MoreVolkswagen may be out of the small car diesel game, but Chevrolet looks to fill the gap with the upcoming Cruze Diesel. The automaker is hoping to surpass the efficiency of the TDI models with a 50 MPG rating from the EPA.
Read MoreParis Mayor Ann Hidalgo has really gone and labeled personal vehicles ‘archaic’ with the announcement of plans to ban cars on one of the main roads through city center, as the city’s efforts to pedestrianize its streets and limit pollution expand.
Read MoreAutonomous driving is the future, and automakers are trying to barrel toward it as quickly as possible. But how the technology will function for everyday consumers, not just Tesla enthusiasts, is more of a question mark right now than the technology itself. Volvo wants to change that.
Read MoreWell, maybe “worried” is a bit of a stretch. My personal welfare, and that of most of my friends and loved ones, thankfully does not hinge on the success of the 2018 Kia Stinger GT. But here’s the kind of car that enthusiasts have been after, the kind of car internet commenters say they’ll buy, and I’m not convinced anyone’s going to buy it.
Read MoreThe Nissan V-Motion 2.0 Concept, shown off at the Detroit Auto Show today, isn’t supposed to be the next version of any particular model. It’s more of a harbinger of Nissan’s upcoming design strategy in general. And it looks like a lot of hard lines with a “floating” roof you’re not supposed to see.
Read MoreThe Honda Odyssey has been one of the best-selling minivans in America since it was introduced in 1994, and as such it’s become just part of the visual background static of almost, well, everywhere. You may not really notice this new, redesigned Odyssey if it pulls alongside you, but it’s a machine that knows exactly what it needs to do, and it does that very, very well. And now, it’ll even let you spy on your kids, with night vision!
Read MoreThere’s a new Ford Bronco, rejoice! While we all celebrate the news let’s all try avoid making the same joke. Helpfully, here’s a list of all the jokes already made.
Read MoreWith today’s news that the Chevrolet SS is laying down its final set of elevenses into the sunset after this year, we felt it appropriate to celebrate the true life and times of the Chevrolet SS—in tire smoke.
Read MoreThis is the 2018 Toyota Camry’s braces-filled face of your next taxi and/or Uber. You don’t like it. We don’t love it, either, for obvious reasons. But it’s going to be everywhere soon. Possibly with dents. Get used to it.
Read MoreVolkswagen just revealed its fifth concept car based on the idea of modernizing the iconic Type II Microbus. Let that sink in a moment: it’s had four other (well, five other if you count the two-tone version of the T6) Microbus-like concepts, including one from almost exactly one year ago. This latest one, which it’s calling I.D. Buzz, I’m really, really hoping is the one that finally makes it, because I think it’s finally the right car at the right time. In fact, we’re at a point where I’m not
Read MoreVolkswagen executives, apparently in preparation for a July 2015 meeting with regulators over the brewing emissions scandal, prepped a chart that suggested if there was no explanation for what was happening with its diesel engines, it could lead to an “indictment?” Yes, an actual question mark. How portentous.
Read MoreOne of our favorite cars that no one bought, the Chevrolet SS, is no more after 2017, General Motors North America President Alan Batey told WardsAuto today at the Detroit Auto Show. This coincides with GM ceasing its manufacturing efforts in Australia, where the SS is made, at the end of this year.
Read MoreAs Volkswagen attempts to steer public opinion toward its electric future at the Detroit Auto Show, it must deal with another high-profile reminder that the Dieselgate scandal is not yet over. According to a report in the New York Times, the former head of VW’s U.S. regulatory compliance office has been arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiracy to defraud the country.
Read MoreWaymo, the new identity of Google’s self-driving car program, now says that it has cut the costs of LIDAR by 90 percent. This is a critical sensor array in making self-driving cars feasible and affordable.
Read MoreVolkswagen has now made a half dozen retro microbus concept cars in my life span and the newest is the electric, autonomous I.D. Buzz with 270 miles of range that debuted tonight. If VW has any sense, it will build it as soon as possible.
Read MoreThe Amazon Echo is like a fancy Siri for your home, answering to “Alexa” and fulfilling your commands. Soon, Alexa will be in Volkswagens, too—assisting owners and giving updates on the status of the car from wherever. So, does that mean it’ll tell you if your car is cheating emissions regulations?
Read MoreLike all humans, I’m sure you like a nice helping of schaden with your freude, right? I’m not proud of it, but there it is. And a great way to get your daily helping of schadenfreude is to watch this dumb ass total a rented Ferrari 458 Italia by driving like an idiot.
Read MoreOnce again, our annual pre-Detroit Auto Show karting battle royale at Kart2Kart in Sterling Heights was a huge hit. Maybe our best one yet.
Read MoreElio Motors, the company that keeps delaying its three-wheeler street car with a price so cheap it’s almost too good to be true, may never get one of those cars on the market. If that doesn’t come as a surprise to you, this may: Elio says it has about $100,000 in the bank and an over $123 million deficit.
Read MoreOh god, Jackie. Jackie. No. What have you done. What the hell am I watching.
Read MoreMaybe it was a move that started out with the best of intentions. I’d like to believe that, anyway. But this Chinese city’s attempt at helping women park more easily by giving them larger parking spaces doesn’t come off as anything but ridiculously patronizing and possibly dangerous.
Read MoreTo start off on the right foot, yes, the 2018 Volvo V90 will be available in the United States. But the only ones Volvo will keep in stock on U.S. soil will be the lifted version of the wagon with plastic cladding adorning its body. If you want a wagon like the one above, you’ll have to custom order or fly to Sweden.
Read MoreFaraday Future continues to have some very concerning issues, but what saved its second CES performance was the technology it brought to the show, which popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee got to take a closer look at.
Read MoreDriving the low and light Subaru BRZ is truly blissful. Predictable steering, great balance. But for the years the car’s been out, we’ve been hearing the same chief complaint from enthusiasts across the board: where are the birds?
Read MoreIn a scandal that came with what feels like a never-ending aftermath, at least a few thousand vehicles affected by Volkswagen’s Dieselgate emissions cheating will have a fix approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But don’t sigh in relief just yet—only a few select cars qualify for this one.
Read MoreNothing will ruin your commute like a highway shut down because a calf got loose. When the little cow decided to take a detour and avoid the cops on a Tennessee motorway, one brave cowboy mounted a cop car and roped it in.
Read MoreA number of executives from the highest levels of Faraday Future have voluntarily left the company in recent weeks, the latest of them is Greg Adams, Head of Corporate Strategy, as multiple sources close to the situation confirmed to Jalopnik today.
Read MoreI won’t lie: the CT6 was a hard car to photograph. Its lines didn’t inspire me to leap around it and madly snap pictures of it. I still think it’s a handsome car, but once you get the front, the rear and the sides of it, that’s pretty much all you need to see. Still, though, I parked it in some pretty places, sometimes got in real close.
Read MoreIf conditions aren’t warm enough for your summer tires, why not just attack the road with propane-fueled flames?
Read MoreWhy buy a Chevy Spark when you could buy this used Dodge Viper for less? Usually, it’s because “cheap supercar” really means “immediate and immense repair bills.” But if you get lucky, know what you’re doing and where to scrounge up parts, you might be able to squeeze some decent power out of a fifteen-year-old V10 yourself.
Read MoreI have bad news and good news: which do you want first? (Waits patiently) Okay fine, the bad news is our annual pre-Detroit Auto Show karting tournament at Kart2Kart in Sterling Heights is now all full up. Unless some folks who RSVP’d don’t show, you can’t race. But come hang out anyway!
Read MoreSadly, the Mitsubishi Lancer will end production this summer, Mitsubishi’s North American division chief told Autoblog. We’ve already seen the Lancer Evolution cease to be. Now, the regular Lancer that Mitsubishi’s rally car for the masses was based on will join the Evo soon. That’s a shame, because it’s truly been the best car in the world.
Read MoreIn the woods of northeastern Texas lies a mud pit so diabolical that it’s called the Pipeline From Hell. It features over 100 yards long of completely obscured holes and murky water. It takes a special truck to make it across, so here’s some thoroughly insane footage of all the impressive builds that can’t.
Read MoreIt might be a bit silly to criticize an insanely expensive Bentley coupe. After all, those aren’t exactly “rational purchases.” In an effort to keep relevant the what looks like the same car from 2003, Bentley decided to add more power, which is great! And then they ruined it with a stupid rear wing.
Read MoreIs that so much to ask?
Read MoreDonald Trump is angry on Twitter at an automaker again, calling out Toyota earlier today for building a new plant in “Baja, Mexico” to manufacture the Corolla sedan. He probably meant the new plant actually being built in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Read MoreFaraday Future, once the most secretive car company in the auto world, finally got to show the car it hopes to put into production, the FF 91, already opening up to reservations online. Faraday Future was happy to say it got 64,124 reservations. These are $5,000 spot-holders for a six-figure car, so the company has made hundreds of millions, right? Not quite.
Read MoreThere should never be a moment in the day preventing you from spending money, so Ford and Amazon’s Alexa web-connected, cloud-based personal assistant are hooking up to offer in-car Amazon ordering, because what if you forget that thing you remember you needed while driving before you get home?
Read MoreFor over a decade now, Subaru WRX and WRX STI drivers have gotten into their cars, glanced at the ceiling, realized it was made entirely of used wet cardboard, and entirely didn’t care because the car went like hell and was stupid levels of fun. Now Subaru’s gone and made the thing even faster, but with more sound deadening and “comfort.”
Read MoreSo it begins. Now that Porsche is free from its exclusive contract with Electronic Arts, its cars are starting to appear in other video games—sometimes even unannounced! Now Porsche is bringing their cars to a sim racer beloved for its obsessive attention to realism and detail: iRacing.
Read MoreDonald Trump, polarizing showman that he is, proved that he won’t wait until inauguration day to start his politically charged quest to Make America Great Again, whatever that means. However, political optics aside, his interventions and deals with large companies, and car companies in particular, are scaring the shit out of me.
Read MoreImagine you are walking past that swanky Cadillac dealership and you see the new CT6 you’ve been hearing about. And then you see salesmen inside leering at you, ears perked up, ready to pounce. You hurry away, intent on avoiding the dealership interaction, but you’re still curious about the Cadillac. What do you do to drive one?
Read MoreThe most hotly anticipated Japanese hot-hatch, the new Honda Civic Type R, is the car that we all hope will be the answer to our enthusiast prayers. A huge wing. Awesome, puffed up Japanese looks. Coming to America! And now we’re hearing that it will also get a CVT option. Wait, what? What? (Update: It seems we jumped the gun and Honda has confirmed no CVT will be in this Type R.)
Read MoreWe’ve seen what could possibly be a new Corvette ZR1 or some other big-winged performance variant running around for months, and it would only make sense for General Motors to reveal it in full at the Detroit Auto Show next week. But nope.
Read MoreMcLaren Special Operations built just 25 MSO HS cars by request when a customer wanted an even more ‘roided-out car than the 675LT. It was weirdly secret when it debuted, but thanks to the miracle of YouTube we can all now take an ungodly close look at it.
Read MoreMcLaren, yes that McLaren, has a catering division. Or rather it had a catering division, as it announced just this morning that it sold it. First, the company ousts longtime CEO Ron Dennis, and now this? That icy breeze you feel is not imagined. It is the cold grip of the apocalypse.
Read MoreBy now we’re pretty used to the shape and design of how Tesla builds its battery packs: like a flat battery brick under the floor of the car. It’s a simple and straightforward shape, but there’s a different way to do it. And that way, the way nascent startup Lucid Motors does it, is quite excellent.
Read MoreDon’t wait until Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! to watch this epic retro highlight reel of monster trucks, insane dragsters, dirt bikes, chaos, destruction and all that is right with the world. It’s so rad that I just grew a Miami Vice ‘stache just thinking about it.
Read MoreSome parking garages are a confusing maze of drab concrete and flickering fluorescent lights. Whenever I park in one, I double- and triple-check that I know the section and row that I’m parked in. Sometimes, I even take a picture. I’m terrified of losing my car in one of those things. And then there’s this guy, who actually did lose a car.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure that almost any kid looking for discarded piles of porno magazines in the forest (the woods were the leading distribution system for smut in the pre-internet era) has found old, rusted-out, abandoned cars wedged improbably in the woods. While I’d always wondered what it would take to actually get one of these old heaps going again, one guy actually went and did just that, to a 1955 Volkswagen Type II van, and it’s amazing to watch.
Read MoreAt 8:30 a.m. this morning, a Long Island Railroad train derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. One hundred and six suffered non-life-threatening injuries, reports the New York Times.
Read MoreGet ready, America, because a hybrid Ford Mustang is comin’ for ya in 2020. This is a good thing. A good thing! It’s about time some automaker has done what Ford’s about to attempt.
Read MoreWhat ambitious but troubled startup Faraday Future showed off in Las Vegas will be, if it reaches production, one of the most advanced personal vehicles the world has ever seen. But that’s a huge if, just as it’s highly questionable whether its wonderful features like LIDAR and self-parking and supercar-slaying speed will ever become a production reality either.
Read MoreThe Faraday Future FF 91 supposedly has 1,050 electric horsepower. It can go 378 miles on a charge. It can hit 60 miles per hour in 2.4 seconds. It can juice up faster than any electric car on sale today. It should actually be pretty good—if Faraday Future not only doesn’t implode first but can make anything even close to what it touted at CES tonight.
Read MoreFaraday Future hasn’t had a great year, and any hope for a successful 2017 comes down to this, the reveal of its flagship car live right now at CES.
Read MoreUber driver Keith Avila overheard two passengers giving some alarming directions to a young girl en route to a Holiday Inn in Elk Grove, Calif., last Monday, so he called the police, according to the Washington Post. The girl, a 16-year-old runaway, was safely reunited with her family and three were arrested on prostitution and pandering charges.
Read MoreFerries are cool, they are boats for cars because most cars can’t drive on water. An Australian couple on vacation saw first hand that their rented SUV doesn’t swim well after it took a dive off the back of a ferry. You had one job, ferry!
Read MoreThis morning, when Chrysler unveiled the design for its futurist box-shaped concept car called the Portal, the vehicle stood out for the simple fact that, coming across as a mobile room, it really makes sense for how an autonomous car should be designed. When the automaker took the stage at CES today, it came across more as an attempt to pander to millennial stereotypes than any sort of transportation revolution.
Read MoreThe tech industry’s auto startups play themselves as the visionaries behind the car of the future. Thanks to one video sent to Jalopnik, we can see that the future envisioned by LeEco CEO Jia Yueting—the man backing electric startup Faraday Future—is straight up dystopia, with parents held back from their families, never-ending office work and apps that dominate your entire life. Also, he thinks he’s Batman.
Read MoreSince Donald Trump’s campaign for U.S. president began, the real estate mogul has been intensely critical of Ford and its plans to shift all small car to production to Mexico after 2018. So, within days of Trump taking office, it was striking that Ford CEO Mark Fields announced Tuesday that his company will actually cancel plans for a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, and instead invest $700 million in Michigan as part of a huge electric vehicle push.
Read MoreI’m guessing our audience may not be in the demographic that keeps up with the latest developments in the world of hot yoga, but this particular development actually has something to do with cars. Forty-three cars, in fact, very expensive ones, and no one can find them. Cars that were once owned by accused dirtbag Bikram Choudhury, who gave the world the hot-room yoga called Bikram Yoga.
Read MoreOne of my favorite displays at auto shows are the engine cutaways. I love seeing how the parts move together and what does what. Imagine my delight when I saw this video of a working, 3D printed General Motors LS3 V8 engine.
Read MoreDrifter Jef Groff encountered one of the worst-case scenarios in motorsport: his back wheel dropped off the edge of the pavement just enough that it dug into a shallow impromptu ditch that had formed there, flipping his car over. Luckily, a big group of those around helped push him back on his wheels again.
Read MoreIn a move all but guaranteed to ruin many, many monitors via surprised spit-takes, Ford has announced that there will be hybrid versions of some of their most iconic cars, including a hybrid Ford Mustang and a hybrid F-150. These would have been punchline-grade ideas in the very recent past, but Ford seems committed to electrification across the board.
Read MoreIn what will likely be touted as the biggest win yet for President-elect Donald Trump’s America-first economic plans, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced this morning that his company will cancel a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and instead invest $700 million in Michigan to create 700 new U.S. jobs, according to news reports.
Read MoreSome people say the media should only cover what President-elect Donald Trump does, not what he says. But today he let loose another tweet that indicates he hasn’t forgotten his vendetta against the North American Free Trade Agreement, and that has huge implications for automakers—and your choice in what cars you can buy.
Read MoreSure, people gawking over your flashy, expensive vehicle can get annoying sometimes. Just ask our pal Doug DeMuro about his Ferrari 360 Modena, if you’re curious. But when you get attention from a kid like this, a kid willing to crash his bike for a photo of your car before you drive off—nothing beats that.
Read MoreMy obsession with Subaru’s failed F1 engine, a flat-12, has gone on for years, and I had often heard that the motor nearly went on to power Koenigsegg’s first supercar. Now I’ve finally heard the full story.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds wagon describes it as “fast as hell” and a sleeper owing to its appearance and hot-ass 442 under its expansive hood. Let’s see if that combo, and its price, are worth staying up for.
Read MoreWould You rather have a classic car that’s too nice to drive hard, or one that you could still drive the crap out of? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 280Z may be ratty as hell, but will its price have you saying what the hell?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW is a rare turbo six and is said to have even rarer water buffalo seats. We’ll have to decide if its price and condition will have us all buffaloed.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe two-tone Bertone says he’ll take cash for the car, or a trade of light armament. We don’t do guns for butter here, so we’ll have to see if his cash offer is a-okay, or if he’s just shooting his mouth off.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer pushes a lot of the right buttons. Let’s just see if one of those is the sold button.
Read MoreWhen you were a kid did you play cops and robbers? Which side did you choose? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caprice lets you roll like the Po-Po, that is, if its price isn’t criminal.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MG is about as elemental a car as you could find, lacking roll-up windows or top that doesn’t require getting out of the car to erect. Perhaps making up for that it has a Wankel engine. Let’s see if its price is pretty elementary too.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimota is a best for racing bike that’s never been raced. Let’s see if the price tag on this rare bird should at least have buyers racing for their checkbooks.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 300E says he’s selling it because he has too many Mercedes! We should all have such problems, right? Let’s see if “too many” also describes the digits in his price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MR2 has one thing in its demerit, and that’s its lack of a third pedal. Let’s see if its price more than makes up for that omission.
Read MoreThey say time heals all wounds. Time also eventually brings former range-toppers like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe C215 Mercedes into the realm of affordability. We’ll just have to decide how wide that realm really is.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Suzuki says you need to do homework before buying it. That’s owed to it being a JDM import, which means the test will be given at the DMV. Let’s see first if its price gets a passing grade.
Read MoreWould you pay extra for a car with an extra motor? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Subeetleru has both a boxer in front and one in the butt. Why would you do that? I don’t know, but you’ll have to decide if its price makes this two-for-one a real deal.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep rocks a Chevy V8 and is named for a Native American Nation, you just don’t get much more American than that. Let’s see if you’d be willing to spend a chunk of American money to buy it.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe E30 M3 needs some lovin.’ That’s because it’s had four owners and 190,000 miles in its past, and it shows it. Let’s see if this worn-in classic has a price that you could love as well.
Read MoreNormally you’d expect to buy your Ferrari from some chichi showroom, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 308 is offered by a Porsche parts palace. Maybe that means they’ll part with it for a song!
Read MoreThe fact that today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi is a manual is important, not just because we like manuals, but because its driving dynamics are appreciably different from the auto version. Let’s see if its price has you shouting vive le différence!
Read MoreGeneral Motors used to stand Vegas on their noses to transport them by train from the factory to the dealers. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Rally model sits properly, but will you still find its price to be on the nose?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy Van is mysteriously badged as a GMC Handi-Van. That’s okay because it rocks Scooby and the gang on the side and they’ll get to the bottom of this. We’ll still have to see if its price is top form.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds represents a model once made famous in the movie Get Shorty. This one’s painted more for Star Trek, however transmission troubles mean it’s not ready for a staring role yet. Maybe its price will prove the big break it needs.
Read MoreMichigan may be out this year when it comes to college football, but with today’s Kalamazoo-located custom 240SX offered up for Nice Price or Crack Pipe consideration, it’s still in the game. Let’s see if this “Boss” comes with a price that’s large but still in charge.
Read MoreWith 415 rear-mounted horsepower, optional enormous ceramic brakes and a list price of over $100,000 the 997 Porsche 911 GT3 was a certified supercar when new. Ten years later it’s still the stuff of dreams for most of us, so I was pretty jealous to find out somebody’s owned one for less than a cost of a Chevy Volt.
Read MoreLast year the base Porsche 911 debuted with what was, to Porsche purists, a menace. To everyone else, it was a turbocharger on a Porsche 911 that was not labeled “turbo.” It turns out the world didn’t end, and now the next half-step up in the 911 line, the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, is getting one too.
Read MorePorsche 911 specialist Willi Thom is one of the most elusive men in the world. It took the car-crazed filmmakers of Studio Kippenberger four years just to find Thom, as he has no phone, email or website. This teaser for Kippenberger’s latest film offers a rare look in Thom’s shops.
Read MoreAs snow falls outside my window, now is a good time to remind you all that there is a right way to drive a Subaru: on the limit at all times, sideways.
Read MoreIn digging through the results a bit further, one surprise sticks out: the brand-new Acura NSX did something that Ford—with their mounds of effort and cash—couldn’t do with their new GT last year. The NSX GT3's first race ever—the grueling 24 Hours of Daytona—ended with an incredibly respectable finish after relatively minimal drama.
Read MoreAs a sign of the variety and manufacturer support of current sports car racing, I would like to point out that to win the top GT class at the 24 Hours of Daytona over the weekend, Ford had to beat teams from Porsche, Ferrari, Corvette and BMW. And that only accounts the top of two GT classes.
Read MoreThe 2017 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona was my first time covering a 24-hour race. A massive field, a giant track, 20 cautions, and a million pit stops. Endurance races are not for the weak, whether you’re on a team or covering it.
Read MoreOn Friday afternoon, Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Many, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., are speaking out against it.
Read MoreThe anti-submarine belt (or “crotch belt,” since it goes between your legs) tops of the list of car parts I hope never, ever become sentient. Yet someone made a Twitter account for exactly that part of the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 over Daytona weekend. I’m disturbed, but...weirdly entertained?
Read MorePorsche has been extremely guarded about what’s behind the black louvered panel that hides the new 911 RSR’s engine bay. Under that panel, Porsche made the best use of the 911's meager backseat space by stuffing in a 510-horsepower endurance racing flat-six engine to make the RSR they use for legendary races such as Daytona and Le Mans.
Read MoreCadillac’s return to prototype racing was indeed triumphant, with Cadillac DPi-V.Rs taking first and second place at Daytona. First place went to none other than the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing team who invited retired NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon to race with them this year at Daytona.
Read MoreThe NSX GT3 made its international racing debut at the Rolex 24, but the No. 93 NSX was lacking a fender and a hood and kept going anyway. It looked like a magnificent beast rolling along missing vital parts. Sadly, now it will become a source of total mayhem, having died in the last half-hour of the race.
Read MoreIt appears as though Mazda didn’t solve all of their reliability problems with their new RT24-P endurance racer. Between today’s oil fire at the Rolex 24 and the fuel injector-caused fire at Petit Le Mans, this is the second race in a row where a Mazda prototype has had burst into flame during a race.
Read MoreCertainly, I can imagine a lot, but when you have Formula cars, drift cars, and home-built race tractors, you’ve really stretched the bounds of my brain.
Read MoreThe embattled No. 8 Starworks Motorsport Prototype Challenge car, whose color was deemed “Please Don’t Hit Me Pink” by owner Peter Baron to Sportscar365, crashed again. However, it hasn’t been hit so much as it’s done the hitting. Most recently, it ate a barrier under a yellow flag, where traffic should (in theory) be slowing down for poor conditions.
Read MoreWe’ve given glorious, questionable advice (the best kind!) on how to stay up for an entire 24-hour race before, but that’s not necessarily the best plan for everyone—especially the drivers. How do they survive these long, grueling weekends? We asked Corvette Racing’s Mike Rockenfeller how he copes.
Read MoreMarcel Fässler’s drive in the No. 4 Corvette C7.R was abruptly interrupted by a complete electrical failure. The car shut off and Fässler had to pull off to the side, almost being taken out by the race-leading Cadillac DPi-V.R of Max Angelelli in the process.
Read MoreJeff Gordon had just gotten into the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac for the first time in today’s 24 Hours of Daytona, only to accidentally pit maneuver the No. 70 Mazda RT24-P that was coming out of the pits. OOPS!
Read MoreThe No. 24 BMW M6 GTLM got stuck in pit lane about thirty minutes in to the 24 Hours of Daytona—just not in its own pit stall.
Read MoreNASCAR superstar Jeff Gordon came out of retirement to drive this year’s Rolex 24, trading his iconic but cheerful Rainbow Warrior for the sinister-looking Cadillac DPi-V.R of the Wayne Taylor Racing team. Here’s a closer look at everything that makes the new-for-2017 Cadillac work.
Read MoreWe wanted to find out more about Mazda’s brand-new RT24-P race car, so we handed a mic to Mazda North America Director of Motorsports John Doonan to explain everything that went into it. It’s a completely new car from last year’s prototype, and we got up close as the team was assembling their two cars for today’s Rolex 24.
Read MorePerhaps my favorite quote of the weekend is from Porsche Vice President of Motorsport Frank-Steffen Walliser on the new Porsche 911 RSR. The engine is in between the axles now, but calling it “mid-engine” is just a step too far.
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 MorePoor, poor-’Vette can’t seem to live down its recent fires. For two years in a row, Corvette Racing’s No. 4 car has caught on fire during the Roar Before the 24 test day for Daytona. Now even Ferrari folks—people well versed in spontaneous vehicular combustion—are having a chuckle at their expense.
Read MoreDoes having an off-season Jalopnik feature on your team count as the Jalopnik Bump? That’s exactly what happened with the Mini JCW Team, whose No. 73 car finally got the team’s first win this afternoon in its first Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race of 2017 at Daytona.
Read MoreIn news that probably surprises no one, the Manor Formula One team will be shutting down. Funding they hoped to raise to participate in the 2017 season never materialized, per Road & Track. Workers have been sent home and the team will cease operations by the end of the week.
Read MoreOne of the dumbest yet most brilliant ideas humanity has ever had is the day-long motor race. Cars have to run almost flawlessly all day to even sniff the podium. The teams are all ragged and delirious at the end, but they made it, man. Is there any prouder feat? Of course we’re going to watch that, and you should too.
Read MoreSleep? Sleep is for the weak. There’s an entire continuous day of racing to enjoy known as the 24 Hours of Daytona, and we at Jalopnik are going to be around to soak in as much of it as humanly possible. We can all sleep when we’re dead. There’s 55 cars set to start, including some new ones we’re really excited about.
Read MoreWe’ve been waiting for months to discover just who exactly is the fastest out of all the brand-new prototype racers for 2017—in a true qualifying scenario, with all the sandbags (real or imagined) out of the car. Qualifying for this year’s Rolex 24 just wrapped up, so now we know: it’s the Cadillac!
Read MoreThere are so many cars that run in big, multi-class endurance races like the WeatherTech Sportscar Championship’s upcoming 24 Hours of Daytona that it can be hard to tell them all apart. Fortunately, Andy Blackmore has his annual Spotter Guide out for the Rolex 24 so you can tell them all apart.
Read MoreNo generation falls for the same cars as their parents. Wagons and minivans fell out of favor as soon as the children of those eras grew up. No luxury buyer is after a giant land yacht these days. Cadillac wants you to think of it as more than just your grandma’s big, lazy brougham, and that’s why this race car is more that just a race car: it’s a statement piece.
Read MoreEveryone’s hopping on the bandwagon of roasting the Trump White House’s ham-fisted public-facing staff—even German Formula One drivers. Current Renault F1 driver and 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Nico Hülkenberg is the latest to leak some “alternative facts” about his new race car.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of Daytona hasn’t even started yet, and there’s already been a crash. Extreme Speed Motorsports had an extreme whoops this afternoon, as Sportscar365 Editor-in-Chief John Dagys reports that their No. 22 Nissan DPi racing prototype had a fender-bender during an on-track photo shoot.
Read MorePorsche 911s are known for being good in foul weather thanks to the weight of the engine pressing down on its rear drive wheels. However, that unusual engine placement also makes the car one big pendulum that wants to go butt-forward all the time. Here’s how tough it was to drive on the ice of this year’s Rallye Monte Carlo.
Read MorePerhaps one of the most widespread critiques about NASCAR is that “something has to change.” The races are “too long” or “too boring,” and all they do is “make left turns.” But if you look back on the last few years, too much change has occurred—and it’s been more of a plague than an improvement.
Read MoreOnce again, it’s time to hear the too-polite way of saying “you weren’t doing your job well enough.” This time, deposed Formula One Chairman Emeritus and deranged muppet Bernie Ecclestone is on the receiving end. New F1 chairman Chase Carey said Ecclestone simply wasn’t growing the sport, hence the decision to replace him.
Read MoreRally co-drivers have to be tough. Climbing into a vehicle and trusting someone else to maintain control as you fly down a twisty stage road is even beyond my personal capacity for vehicular lunacy. Here’s co-driver Paul Nagle showing just how hardcore he is with the calmest reaction ever to an imminent crash.
Read MoreNASCAR likes to pretend it’s a ball sport, having gone to the playoff-style “Chase” system to attract more attention to the end of the season. Tonight’s announcement revealed NASCAR will be interrupted after periods of time, like quarters in a football game. Stranger yet, championship points will be awarded after each segment during the race instead of only at the race end in order to encourage on-track action to heat up earlier.
Read MoreWhile it’s highly tempting to say “good riddance” to Formula One’s infamous loose cannon autocrat-gnome Bernie Ecclestone, we probably wouldn’t be arguing about F1 at all had he not been there. Ecclestone was instrumental in saving the sport in the 1970s and making it the international business powerhouse it is in the process—no matter who he burned along the way, including the fans.
Read MoreLongtime Formula One impresario Bernie Ecclestone has been forced to resign from his leadership position over by the sport’s new owners Liberty Media, reports Auto Motor und Sport. New F1 chairman Chase Carey has taken over his former responsibilities. [Update: F1 has confirmed Bernie is out. See below.]
Read MoreEstonian rally driver and sometimes diver Ott Tänak was in trouble. He was about to lose a podium spot on the last stage of Rally Monte Carlo and his Ford Fiesta WRC car was running on two cylinders. There was only one thing to do: drive flat out.
Read MoreSebastian Vettel may have to settle for third all too often against more dominant cars in Formula One, but give him an equal playing field and he can destroy the field—by himself. After a fellow German had to retire from team competition, Vettel single handedly won Sunday’s Race of Champions Nations Cup in Miami.
Read MoreLikely by accident, and likely about 10 years later than he would have wanted, now un-retired Brazilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa discovered the best possible way to live out an F1 career: just keep retiring. If didn’t notice, the retirement gifts in F1 are a little better than your standard fruit basket.
Read MoreA gnarly Polaris Slingshot flip during Saturday’s Race of Champions left Formula One driver Pascal Wehrlein with enough “mild discomfort” that doctors advised him to sit out today’s Nations Cup rounds.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet SS was always an odd choice for Chevy’s entry in the top division of NASCAR, seeing as nobody—seriously, almost nobody—in the U.S. bought the thing. But it was a nice enthusiast car to have in NASCAR, racing alongside the vanilla Fusions and Camrys of the world. Sadly, this will be its last year.
Read MoreKris Meeke had to retire from the World Rally Championship’s Rallye Monte Carlo for an incredibly stupid reason: his Citroën C3 WRC got hit by another car when it wasn’t even racing, reports Autosport. This is Meeke’s second crash of the weekend after breaking his suspension Friday after skidding off the road.
Read MoreRally legend Michèle Mouton helped start the Race of Champions in 1988 to determine the best rally driver in the world, and it’s grown to include all kinds of racers. We should care about it, but it still feels overshadowed in the United States by the defunct International Race of Champions. Why? IROC had a car.
Read MoreFormula One boss Bernie Ecclestone wonders a lot of things. He wonders if the sport would be more interesting if drivers got seriously injured. He wonders why North America is such a shit hole. He wonders why all of the drivers in his sport are such “windbags.” And now, he’s wondering if he’ll keep his job.
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 MoreMany of the 1.5-mile oval tracks on NASCAR’s schedule have an unfortunate nickname: “cookie cutter.” They’re not known for the most interesting racing in the world. However, most do have an alternate, often unique road course layout that other series use. Why doesn’t NASCAR race there instead?
Read MoreA spectator struck by the No. 4 Hyundai i20 WRC of Hayden Paddon during the World Rally Championship’s season-opening Rallye Monte Carlo has died, the WRC confirmed today.
Read MoreJust 18 hours before I had been sunning myself on a beach in Miami. But now, on precious little sleep, I found myself north of the Arctic Circle, frozen and staring at a gnarly, hulking, carbon-fiber-and-kevlar Dakar-racing Mini Countryman that cost over a million dollars. “What the hell am I doing here?” was the only thing I kept thinking.
Read MoreThe first stage of the faster, much anticipated 2017 World Rally Championship season at the Rallye Monte Carlo was cancelled after Hayden Paddon’s brand-new Hyundai oversteered on the icy edge of the road and crashed into a cliff. It rolled over, blocking the stage road. One spectator was injured in the incident.
Read MoreThe Federation Internationale de l’Automobile unanimously approved the sale of Formula One to Liberty Media at a World Motor Sport Council meeting today, reports Racer. Why wouldn’t they approve it? As a shareholder in Formula One Group holding company Delta Topco, the sale gives the FIA a nice paycheck.
Read MoreIt’s midnight and it’s freezing. The tiny industrial park is dead and empty, save for one open garage bay. Bathed in harsh lights and fatigued by 48 hours of continuous work, six guys are dirty and bloody trying to turn the husk of an old BMW into a race car. They don’t have enough time. They don’t have the right parts. But they’re working for Bill Caswell, and he wasn’t about to be discouraged by such trivialities.
Read MoreWhere is your range anxiety now?! For the first time ever, an all-electric vehicle finished one of the most grueling races on the planet: the Dakar Rally.
Read MoreYou probably think the Tesla Model S P100D is quite a fast car, and that’s for a good reason: It is quite a fast car. It accelerates faster than gravity, if you want to get specific. But the racing spec of the car is even faster, with 778 horsepower and a 0-to-60 time of two seconds flat. Get the Dramamine.
Read MoreBeing the first Mexico-born driver to win a NASCAR national series race and title, as well as the first Mexican driver to compete full-time in the top level of NASCAR, Daniel Suarez is making history almost by the day. But, naturally, Suarez is getting some flak for English not being his first language.
Read MoreYet again, race cars hold the answer. This time, it’s with an aesthetic grievance: Lexus’ creepy hourglass grilles. While impressive in their complexity, the end result on the road car looks like some kind of unsettling alien web meant for trapping possums on the road and shooting them into an alternate dimension.
Read MoreThe international nightmare is over; the crisis has been solved. The Mercedes F1 team, whose newly crowned champion retired days after winning the Formula One title, will add Williams’ Valtteri Bottas to its lineup. Taking Bottas’ seat will be Felipe Massa, who retired from Williams less than two months ago.
Read MoreOne of the most extreme and dangerous racing events around, the Dakar Rally, concluded its 2017 edition on Saturday after bad weather cut out major portions of the race’s 12-stage route. And while actually finishing the rally is a feat of its own, some people actually manage to win it.
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Read MoreToday’s Stage 10 of the Dakar Rally has been especially hard on motorcyclists. In addition to Simon Marcic, who collided with Stéphane Peterhansel earlier today, two riders have withdrawn from the rally due to injury—both of whom were among the top three riders of the rally.
Read MoreStéphane Peterhansel, a man synonymous with the Dakar Rally from winning it twelve times before, collided with KTM motorcycle racer Simon Marcic 51 miles into today’s Stage 10 of the Dakar Rally, per a tweet by the rally’s official feed. Marcic is now under the care of rescue workers, who took him from the stage.
Read MoreThe Mercedes Formula One team confirmed that their technical-side Executive Director Paddy Lowe will be leaving the team after three and a half years. His likely (though still unconfirmed) destination is Williams, reports NBC Sports. Williams has to receive someone in exchange for letting Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas go, and many are saying Paddy is it.
Read MoreYet another stage of this year’s Dakar Rally has been cancelled. Today’s 607-mile Stage 9 from Salta to Chilecito has been cancelled due to a landslide blocking the route, according to Mini. A whopping 42 percent of the Dakar Rally route has not been run due to inclement weather.
Read MoreNASCAR fan favorite Carl Edwards announced he’d be stepping away from full-time racing today, and made sure to note that he wanted to do so while he still has his health.“I don’t like how it feels, the hits that we take,” Edwards explained during today’s press conference.
Read MoreOne fast Mexican has become NASCAR’s reminder that driving talent knows no borders. This year, Daniel Suárez became the first Mexican driver to win a NASCAR national series race, and later the first foreign-born driver to win a NASCAR national series title. Now he’s riding that wave of firsts into a top-tier Cup series drive.
Read MoreOne of the gimmicks Formula E uses to try getting fans more involved is Fanboost: fans vote for their favorites to give them a boost in-race. During the series’ first-ever eRace that pit Formula E pros against professional gamers, however, the controversial gimmick had perhaps its biggest failure yet.
Read MoreIMSA’s big test weekend ahead of the 24 Hours of Daytona, the Roar Before the 24, was this weekend. Videos from the Roar have been trickling onto the internet, showing those of us who weren’t there all of the sweet new endurance cars that will try to win one of the most grueling endurance races in the world.
Read More2017 is already the year of the surprise retirement after Nico Rosberg quit Formula One after finally winning the championship. Now it’s reportedly NASCAR’s turn to see their perpetual contender and runner-up Carl Edwards to peace out, per Fox Sports. Sadly, Edwards won’t be retiring with any titles to his name, but rather, after a year where his championship hopes ended with a heartbreaking crash.
Read MoreWhile we’re probably not going to see the latest, greatest street Corvette revealed at the Detroit Auto Show this week, Chevrolet still unleashed their 2017-spec Corvette C7.R race car on Daytona International Speedway for the Roar Before the 24 test weekend. Well, they did until it went down in flames.
Read MoreIn 2012, British rally driver Louise Cook won the two-wheel-drive FIA Production Car Cup title, and became the first woman to win an FIA rally title. After sponsors backed out days before the Rally Sweden deadline, Cook put the trophy on eBay to raise the entry fees, reports Racer. Man, that’s dedication.
Read MoreThis is Toyota’s new 2018 Camry Monster Energy NASCAR Cup car, complete with “sporty” XSE trim-level badges and the new insectoid face based on that of the brand-new roadgoing Camry. NASCAR announced today that the new Camry will debut to give us strange racing-themed nightmares starting in the 2017 season, ahead of the road car’s release.
Read MoreThe Dakar Rally is known for being one of the most extreme races in the world, but it apparently doesn’t mesh well with extreme weather. After part of Friday’s stage being cut short due to the conditions, organizers scrapped the entire sixth stage of the rally on Saturday when the weather didn’t lighten up.
Read MoreLet’s play this year’s round of “who wants to buy a struggling Formula One team?” Manor is in desperate need of saving again, as they’ve put the company which runs the operations of the F1 team, Just Racing Services Limited, into administration, reports Sky Sports. Administration is Britain’s version of Chapter 11, so needless to say: it’s not good.
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Read MoreNote to spectators: on a curve on the edge of an exposed ravine isn’t the smartest place to stand when attempting to watch one of the most dangerous rallies on the planet.
Read MoreThe Fiat 124 Abarth R-GT rally car is happening, you guys. It’s practicing for the Rallye Monte Carlo right now! This the new 124 worth drooling after: the obscenely quick rally car version with 300 horsepower with an exhaust note made of 100 percent pure rumblesnortanium.
Read More2016 couldn’t end on a quiet note. No, it had to go ahead and give us another solid candidate for Save of the Year.
Read MoreOn January 21st Miami, Florida’s Marlins Park will be lit up by The Race Of Champions. It’s like an all-star dunk contest, but with some of the world’s most talented racing drivers wielding big horsepower on a stadium-sized track. And if you vote, your favorite grassroots goofball and $500 Craigslist BMW rally hero Bill Caswell might get in the mix this year.
Read MoreSlovakian rider Ivan Jakes was struck by lightning in the Salar Centenario area on the third stage of the Dakar Rally, reports Motorsport.com. Of course it didn’t stop him. Who stops for a pesky little nuisance like lightning on the Dakar?
Read MoreGinetta, a British marque so semi-obscure that you may have forgotten that people still race Ginettas all the time, announced its plan to add teams in the World Endurance Championship’s LMP1 privateer class starting in 2018. That’s good, because there’s only one entry in LMP1 privateer this year. Sad!
Read MoreWe may have finally seen Faraday Future’s sort-of-working cross between a Toyota Venza and a robot suppository, but we’re still waiting for the most anticipated car news of 2017 to break. And waiting. And waiting. Come on, Mercedes: tell us who your new Formula One driver is, already.
Read MoreLook, the rest of the car—I can take it or leave it. Just attach the tow hook to the bumper. That’s all I want back if I get stuck out on track.
Read MoreI’m not sure I’ll ever be able to divine the regulations of hillclimb events, or lack thereof. It seems to be the last bastion of “nearly anything goes” in terms of power and aerodynamics. Do I care about what those specific rules are? Hell naw. Here’s a cracked-out and roided-up Alfa Romeo 4C storming up a mountain.
Read MoreWhen a race goes through sand, mud, and painful silt, has both freezing temperatures and grueling heat, climbs to elevations of nearly 15,000 feet above sea level and ends near sea level, you know it’s going to attract some of the most talented and downright crazy individuals on the planet. Welcome to Dakar. Here’s how to follow along.
Read MoreWhen Dieselgate ended up killing off Volkswagen’s World Rally Championship program, one man—one lone hero—stepped up to try and save it. The rally world rejoiced when two-time Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah said he aimed to rescue the Polo R program, but now we start the new year off with some bad news: it’s not happening quite yet.
Read MoreNew year, new Formula One, it looks like. According to reports, the series’ new owner, American company Liberty Media, has plans to overhaul competition in hopes of boosting sponsorship and the U.S. fanbase. In those plans, an executive uttered the words “Super Bowl.” Oh, no. Not that “ball sport” rhetoric again.
Read MoreIn ruling that Chinese film The Autobots was an illegal copy of Disney and Pixar Animation’s Cars, a Shanghai court fined the movie’s producing and distributing companies $190,000 and ordered them to cease the copyright infringement. But even now, The Autobots’ director continues to say he’s never seen Cars.
Read MoreThe Ferrari F40 is one of the wedgiest supercars ever made. It doesn’t look so much like a car as it does a red piece of cheese that happens to do 200 miles per hour. But remove its thin kevlar bodywork and you can see the turboguts that make it go.
Read MoreI mean, it’s fast. Duh. But like, you don’t get how fast it is. It moves your grey matter. Seriously, it feels like your brain sloshes back inside your skull when the Faraday Future FF 91 takes off, 1,050 horsepower spinning all four wheels on launch.
Read MoreFollowing a disappointing introduction at last year’s CES and a full 12 months of reports of organization dysfunction, financial mismanagement, factory construction delays and key staff departures, Faraday Future has finally presented the world with its show-stopping autonomous electric car.
Read MoreIt’s a generally accepted rule of thumb that if you do something and it explodes into a colossal fireball, it’s best if that doesn’t happen the next time you try. My grandma has that cross-stitched into a pillow. It’s also the situation that SpaceX finds themselves in tomorrow, when the first Falcon 9 launch since their rocket exploded last October. They have to get this one right.
Read MoreA study last week helped cement something we’ve been well-aware of for some time: humans can be quite inattentive behind the wheel, and that poses a challenge when it comes to self-driving vehicles. We need to be able to quickly take over an autonomous vehicle when prompted, in order to avert any potential accident or issue when driving. And even when we’re not sexting or eating tacos or whatever, we’re bad at that.
Read MoreTesla owners, depending on where they live, may have to drive hundreds of miles to reach a service center for their vehicle, but the company is reportedly working on a program to allow owners to access repair manuals and perform their own maintenance.
Read MoreAs the presidential inauguration was taking place in Washington D.C. last week, protesters demonstrated outside the headquarters of ride-hailing giant Uber, whose CEO has happily befriended President Donald Trump. But not all of Uber’s executive staff is on board with the new administration.
Read MoreWhen Tesla announced last fall that an updated Autopilot was set to roll out, company founder Elon Musk turned heads when he said new vehicles would be equipped with fully-autonomous hardware. The update’s here, but it’s being implemented with less-pizzazz and more caution; Tesla enthusiasts may be wondering what’s going on. Only a 45 mph max for Autosteer? Here’s what’s going on.
Read MoreWhether or not you believe Uber should be allowed to classify its drivers as independent contractors or full-time employees, a report from Bloomberg today shows a new consequence of Uber’s low-pay, hands-off policies: After working gruelingly long shifts, many drivers find themselves sleeping in parking lots. Constantly.
Read MoreA visual effects company has claimed in a lawsuit that Faraday Future owes it $1.8 million for a graphic presentation that was designed to promote this month’s launch of the automaker’s first production vehicle.
Read MoreTesla is continuing to roll out its updated Autopilot software to Model S and Model X cars build since October, the company’s founder Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend, and that includes a speed-limited version of the Autosteer function.
Read MoreRide-hailing giant Uber has agreed to pay $20 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it exaggerated how much drivers could earn on its website and through Craigslist job postings.
Read MoreWhen Faraday Future showed off their FF 91 at CES earlier this year, there was really only one number they cared about: 2.39. That’s got nothing to do with the car’s range or anything like that. It’s how many seconds it takes to get to a-mile-a-minute. Lucid made a big deal that their Air could get to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds, and now Tesla says they can do it in 2.389 seconds, a solid thousandth of a second faster than Faraday Future.
Read MoreYou soon may be able to ask Amazon’s Alexa a question in your car, but if a new patent revealed this week is any indication, the tech behemoth is also working on how to make autonomous vehicles function smoothly.
Read MoreTall TV man Conan O’Brien last night dished about the self-driving revolution that’s ostensibly before us, with a particular focus on Google’s self-driving project, Waymo. Google has assured the public that “all the kinks” of the autonomous Chrysler Pacificas have been worked out, O’Brien says. Or have they?
Read MoreIn December, amid mounting concerns about the viability of the electric-car startup Faraday Future, Nevada’s governor and the mayor of the city of North Las Vegas slammed the car company’s naysayers, saying taxpayers in the state are “fully-protected” from the potential ramifications a $335 million incentive deal for FF if it failed to spend $1 billion to construct a factory in North Las Vegas. The pair perhaps forgot to add a caveat: citizens are protected, but only for now.
Read MoreThe auto shows this month may have been nothing short of a driverless-tech wonderland, but carmakers have to participate in trust falls with consumers, or some sort of icebreaker, if they’re serious about bringing about an autonomous revolution: The findings from a new Deloitte study suggest nearly 75 percent of the U.S. doesn’t believe self-driving cars will be safe. Damn.
Read MoreWhat’s that? Airbus is doubling down on its promise of a flying car? Cool! Just what 2017 needed: Yet another wishful plan in the near 100-year quest to make flying cars a reality. Will it happen? (Probably not.)
Read MoreWaymo, the recently-unveiled name for Google’s self-driving program, has reportedly planned to launch a ride-hailing service with Fiat Chrysler as early as this year, and a new patent that could connect driverless cars to people who would like to use one suggests it’s serious about developing an autonomous ride-sharing network.
Read MoreWith each passing year, new cars get more complicated and high-tech. The new higher power requirements associated with these advancements—along with ever-stricter emissions regulations—are why 48-volt electrical systems are spreading like wildfire, with experts expecting the tech to make its way into one-fifth of all cars sold globally by 2025. That’s a huge figure, but this technology isn’t exactly new. Here’s how it works.
Read MoreAfter a recent update to make its Autopilot feature follow the speed limit on the roads and non-divided highways, Tesla is partly rolling back the restriction, according to a report confirmed on Twitter by Elon Musk today.
Read MoreJust days after Tesla announced 1,000 owners can use the latest version of the automaker’s Autopilot feature, the company said Wednesday that it poached an Apple veteran to head the Autopilot engineering team, and he’s tasked with “accelerat[ing] the future of autonomous driving.”
Read MoreIn what has been otherwise a tremendously boring confirmation hearing, Elaine Chao—President-elect Donald Trump’s designee for U.S. transportation secretary—said the incoming administration’s job will be to better familiarize and comfort citizens about the effect autonomous driving technology may have on society.
Read MoreBesides the bonkers official announcements from Ford about a new Bronco and Ranger, the automaker made waves at this week’s Detroit Auto Show with a TED talk-like event about how to transform cities of the future with the technology we’re enraptured with today—electric and autonomous vehicles, all that good stuff. But without a significant influx in infrastructure investments, the warm and fuzzy picture of a Smart City is a pipe dream.
Read MoreFaraday Future’s car failed to park itself on stage at its big debut at CES last week. Oddly, at the same event, the much-anticipated FF 91 successfully parked itself outside the event building. As it turns out, the car inside was up to something different, as explained by the car’s engineers.
Read MoreAn Uber driver refused a ride to a New Jersey man before dragging him out of a car and severely beating him, according to a lawsuit filed last week, the latest in a string of allegations levied against drivers for the ride-hailing giant.
Read MoreIn partnering with technology company Nvidia—the company that taught a car how to drive from scratch—Mercedes-Benz announced at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday that artificial intelligence will be the future of its vehicles. Mercedes also said it will have AI technology on the market in a year.
Read MoreI think what’s most outstanding about Divergent’s 3D printed car tech is that it envisions a future that I would want to live in.
Read MoreThe new 2017 BMW 5 Series will be like what the new E-Class is for Mercedes, and not just a midsize luxury sedan. The new 5 will be the platform in which BMW will test a ton of new autonomous gizmos. To show everyone what to expect, BMW brought an automated prototype to CES that’s pretty much capable of driving itself.
Read MoreFaraday Future showed up to CES this year with a real car that seemingly actually exists, claiming some absolutely absurd performance figures during its hour-and-a-half long presentation. Riding along in such a quick car looks pretty terrifying.
Read MoreAutomakers rebranding cars as “mobility products” that make driving more like surfing the internet was the story of last year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Doesn’t look like that’s changed in 2017, but the Toyota Concept-I takes the idea of a car as a “companion” a little further. It’s... conversational.
Read MoreIn a Reddit As Me Anything session with outgoing US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, it was revealed that an advisory committee is being formed to help determine the liability of software-driven autonomous cars under our nation’s laws.
Read MoreBill Strickland had a long career at Ford and Fiat Chrysler before jumping ship last fall to Silicon Valley electric vehicle startup Faraday Future. And before Tuesday night’s extravagant but imperfect reveal for FF’s production vehicle, he chatted with us about his experience so far and why he feels the company is committed to pulling off this vehicular revolution.
Read MoreFor a company that’s been criticized often for setting goals it doesn’t meet, Tesla hit the mark on Wednesday with its enormous plans for the Gigafactory: production has begun inside the currently-1.9 million square foot facility on Tesla’s first battery cells, which will power everything from its energy storage products to the Model 3 sedan.
Read MoreOy. During a seemingly interminable presentation for the big Faraday Future reveal of its data-point named first production car, the FF 91, the company’s senior vice president of R&D and engineering, Nick Sampson, appeared on stage with the company’s main financier, Jia Yueting. Sampson asked it to park itself. It did not.
Read MoreOnce moist, meaty humans are no longer expected to be performing the actual task of driving, the fundamental way cars are designed can be changed pretty dramatically. For an autonomous car to really make sense, it needs to become a mobile room. And that’s exactly what Chrysler is showing with their concept car for CES: a futuro-box called the Portal concept.
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Read MoreI am of the philosophy that every car is made better when transformed into a rally car. Go ahead think about it and challenge that assertion. You can’t. You can’t! Further supporting my theory is this TRD-tuned Toyota C-HR in rally gear set for the Tokyo Auto Salon.
Read MoreThe Land Rover Defender is an archaic, slab-sided agricultural work truck. Yet people are paying $200,000 for custom versions with extra layers of leather inside and outrageously overpowered engines. I’ve driven a lot of steroidal trucks, but East Coast Defender’s Chevy V8-swapped Land Rover was definitely one of the most... dramatic.
Read MoreYou could argue that the entire Jeep brand is built around the face of the Jeep Wrangler. Can you think of an automotive design more distinctive? With a redesigned 2018 Jeep Wrangler on the horizon, we’re all keen to see the new grille. And it looks like we might have our best look at it yet right here.
Read MoreSo, here’s a little tip for drivers of 4x4 pickups with lift kits and big tires: while your trucks are rugged and capable of traversing all sorts of terrain, they’re still land vehicles. Well, unless they’ve been really extensively modified. That’s why when there’s warnings about surf reaching 27 feet in height, It’s worth staying away from the water. Just like this guy didn’t.
Read MoreThe desperation for a new Ford Bronco is running dangerously unchecked. Enthusiasts are huddled around rumor scraps and wacky Photoshop renders while body shops are committing unspeakable acts of perversion to bring the Bronco back. Or at least, something resembling the idea of it.
Read MorePart of me sympathizes with this guy– I always wish I could take the mountain home with me after a day of skiing, too. But please don’t carry a car-size slab of snow onto the street. Even if it looks like a hilarious Pope hat on your vehicle.
Read MoreToday, Automotive News broke a story saying the new Ford Bronco and Ford Ranger will each be the lucky recipient of a solid front axle, an ingredient that I think is necessary for the Bronco to truly compete with the mighty Wrangler. I’m just not buying it yet.
Read MoreLet’s face it, the Trans-Pacific Partnership was doomed no matter who won the presidency. That lady, the orange guy who won, hell, even that other guy—they all pledged to get rid of the trade agreement. Sure, there’s a number of ways that our withdrawal from the TPP will affect the auto industry, but one of those ways is that the Chicken Tax is here to stay. And that’s a shame.
Read MoreYou probably figured the 550-horsepower Range Rover Sport SVR could make a quick 0-to-62 time on pavement. But what about snow? Or the beach? Land Rover was curious too, and proud enough of the results to share them with the world.
Read MoreThe man who casually walked off with an 86-pound bucket of gold flakes was caught in his native Ecuador yesterday. And so ends the saga of one of the luckiest, most brazen thefts to capture our collective imagination in some time.
Read MorePeople keep telling me there’s more to Canada than just Timbits and arctic wasteland, but then I see a snow plow truck get slammed by the fury of a stormy sea and I think yeah, no, the weather doesn’t mess around up there.
Read MoreEach year, CES in Las Vegas is filled with a bunch of unnecessary tech—skinny televisions, smart refrigerators and that doesn’t include the really sad booths. But there was one demo that finally struck me not as something I wanted, but something I needed—a fully simulated big rig.
Read MoreMonster trucks crash as part of their performance and they’re built to take a beating. That’s why it’s so unsettling to hear Dennis Anderson, creator of Grave Digger and arguably the sport’s most famous driver, was hospitalized after flipping his rig in the middle of a performance.
Read MoreIn 2011 the Ford Ranger got a sweet new design. Unfortunately, it also got discontinued in the United States. But now that we know the truck’s coming back in 2019, forbidden fruit will be tasted! Watch us take a quick spin in the 2016 Ford Ranger that visited California recently, and get an idea of what the truck’s been up to in its absence from America.
Read MoreThe Jeep Wrangler is a very unique vehicle, in that it somehow manages to convince nearly 200,000 buyers a year to drop serious coin on a car built on 1950s tech. And really, it’s got no rivals. The question now, with a new Ford Bronco finally official, is what does that have to do to compete with Jeep’s off-roading juggernaut?
Read MoreUtah DOT driver Terry Jacobson is miraculously alive after his highway plow truck got checked into oncoming traffic and off a cliff by a semi-truck trying to pass him.
Read MoreCatastrophic brake malfunction, or sweet-ass semi-truck driftooo? Both, actually.
Read MoreSince the Ford Ranger disappeared from the U.S. market in 2011, it’s been remembered by many as the quintessential “honest truck.” Cheap, lean, purely utilitarian. In 2019 it’s coming back, ostensibly on the same platform used by the current Ranger abroad. So we spent some time with a 2016 truck it to get an idea of what our “new Ranger” might be like.
Read MoreContrary to what was said by an alleged Ford employee in an unsanctioned and unconfirmed Reddit AMA earlier this week, Ford executive vice president and CTO Raj Nair confirmed to Autoline that the new Ford Bronco will be a completely different vehicle from the global market body-on-frame Everest SUV. Get excited.
Read MoreEveryone knows about ICON, right? On the off chance you’re reading this and somehow aren’t aware about the glory of ICON, they’re a small company that manages to make some of the most amazing SUVs in the world, as well as resurrecting old basket case cars and turning them into astounding retro-modern loud, rolling art. They’re great, and now they need our help.
Read MoreThat glorious red vehicle you see above was a school bus in its previous life. Now it is a snow plow called “The Red Bull.” I find this to be absolutely badass.
Read MoreOnce the Bentley Bentayga came out, I figured a Mercedes-Maybach SUV was inevitable. But now we have confirmation that it’s happening from Mercedes chief Dieter Zetsche himself. And it’s going to be enormous.
Read MoreSomeone claiming to be a designer at Ford has been answering questions about the next generation Ford Bronco and Ranger in a Reddit AMA. In it, the alleged designer claims the 2020 Bronco and 2019 Ranger will be basically refreshed versions of the Ford Everest and Ranger, an SUV and truck sold in other markets. The Ranger news is not a surprise, but if the Bronco is an Everest, it won’t look as rugged as we all seem to want it to.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler Automobiles has big plans for its Jeep brand. (Still.) But after announcements about new factories and models, there seems to be some confusion about the Wagoneer, and whether or not it’s “Grand.” The answer is, yes, there is a plan for a new Jeep Grand Wagoneer. And a Wagoneer.
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Read MoreToday we’re all going nuts over news that the 2019 Ford Ranger pickup truck is coming (back) to the U.S. market. But for the rest of the world the truck never went away, so it’s significant that Ford has stated the American version will get its own “front styling, engines and features.”
Read MoreThe 2018 Chevrolet Traverse just showed its face at the Detroit Auto Show, and aside from a new 2.0-liter turbo inline-four and nine-speed automatic, it’s exactly what you thought it would be. America’s most bloated Minivan With Doors is all-new for 2018, and, well, it’s a car. That you can buy starting this fall.
Read MoreLots of enthusiasts are worried that the newly announced 2020 Ford Bronco, will be a soft crossover with a Bronco badge and no real off-roading abilities, not a legit Jeep Wrangler competitor. But Ford just confirmed that this thing will have a good old fashioned ladder frame just like the off-road gods intended. Here’s why that matters.
Read MoreFor every cool Audi that you see on the road, Audi must also sell 1,489 (estimated) basic and vanilla-ass crossover-type shoe-shaped things to keep the sweet stuff rolling out. This is what I understand the 2018 Audi SQ5's function to be, anyways.
Read MoreAmerica’s demand for large luxury SUVs seems all but insatiable, and while Lexus is hoping some people still want sedans, Audi knows what’s up. Meet the Audi Q8 Concept. It’s exactly what the market demands.
Read MoreIt’s happening. It’s really happening. After years of speculation and customer demand, the new Ford Bronco and Ford Ranger are back. Ford confirmed as much today at the Detroit Auto Show, saying both trucks are on the way in a few short years. Holy crap.
Read MoreOnce again, an automaker is rethinking the way people interact with their automatic transmission. Hopefully this works out better for the 2018 GMC Terrain than it did for the Jeep Grand Cherokee. The new Terrain comes with funky buttons that control its transmission. That’s right: buttons!
Read MoreYou Americans love your SUVs and crossovers, huh? You wouldn’t buy Volkswagen’s sedans and Beetles and demanded their precious diesel Golfs be sent to regulatory jail? Well, Volkswagen has got something in store for you, and not just the huge new Atlas: it’s a new Tiguan, like the one the Europeans get, except huger. Happy now?
Read MoreCiting increased demand, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles just announced that it will add 2,000 jobs and invest $1 billion into factories in Michigan and Ohio in order to produce new Jeep vehicles. FCA also confirmed production of the ultra-luxury Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
Read MoreFord just revealed the upcoming 2018 F-150 and among the powertrain upgrades, the F-150 will get a diesel option. The automaker didn’t release any specs on the new oil-burning powerplant, but some clues can be found under the hood of Range Rovers.
Read MoreThe Ford F-150 is getting a facelift for 2018 with a new front bumper, headlight and grille design. But the goods behind it are a lot more interesting: the base 3.5-liter V6 is being replaced with a 3.3, the 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 and 5.0-liter V8 are upgraded—and there’s a brand new 3.0-liter Power Stroke diesel in the mix.
Read MoreWhat’s that, you say? You’re looking for an engine that can vary compression? In a super high-tech Infiniti SUV concept? Then look no further than the Infiniti QX50 Concept.
Read MoreBuilding a project car with limited money and skills forces you to find creative solutions to basic problems. But sometimes finding the dumbest “solutions” end up making me feel like a goddamn genius.
Read MoreI love driving—and occasionally fixing—my 32-year-old BMW. The various flaws and quirks it has picked up over the decades are part of its charm, its character. But like any old car owner I often wonder what it was like when it was brand new, shining and pristine. One Jalopnik reader just found out by buying a 2006 BMW 325Ci with just 4,768 miles on the clock.
Read MoreWrenching on cars as a hobby requires that you come to terms with the fact that unless you’re Tony Stark, you won’t have equipment that matches your ambition. However, spending the equivalent of a used Honda Civic on one piece of kit can bring you one hell of a lot closer to being the master tinkerer you always dreamed of being.
Read MoreAmazon wants to ramp up its car parts business to compete with the big boys like O’Reilly Auto Parts, Autozone, Napa Auto Parts, and Advance Auto Parts, the New York Post reports. Will we all soon be buying even more of our parts from Amazon instead of the box stores?
Read MoreLast week we mourned the death of the V6 Ford Mustang, one of the all-time great accessible enthusiast cars. The Mustang has a long and rich history of six-cylinder motors, all the way back to inline sixes in the original one. That’s why Beau Miklethun’s 2JZ-swapped Mustang is shockingly appropriate.
Read MoreWhen the paycheck can’t come fast enough, it’s good to know that the cheap cars we drive won’t give up the ghost and destroy whatever hope we had of making ends meet. That’s why I asked you cheap bastards to choose the most reliable cars for less than a $2,000 on eBay, and to be honest, I couldn’t have done any better if I tried. Bravo.
Read MoreFew car nerds get as pissed about a digression from tradition as Corvette fans, which is why I absolutely adore this pristine 1968 ‘Vette with a Cummins 6BT diesel swap. Also, it rips.
Read MoreThe concept of a free lunch is an impossibility in nature. You need to put energy into a system to see it come out. However, used Porsche 911 prices, as we all know, don’t obey things like the laws of physics, and therefore sometimes present the market with world-beating cars for the equivalent of loaded minivan money. It ain’t free, but it’s close enough.
Read MoreOil is the lifeblood of every gasoline and diesel-burning automobile engine. It flows through the components, keeping them cool and lubricated. Without it, the engine would just seize up and fry itself. But apparently they can keep on churning for longer than I expected.
Read MoreYou might think there’s nothing refined about gasoline being pumped into your car’s engine to create big, loud, hot explosions. But one look at those gorgeous explosions and you might think these dirty gas engines are a bit more sophisticated than you gave them credit for.
Read MoreGetting into your car, turning the key and hearing... nothing is one of the biggest bummers of automobile ownership. Here are some tips on what to do if it happens to you.
Read MoreFace it, sometimes you just need adequate transportation that will get you to where you need to go without blowing the hell up and making you regret not taking an Uber. That’s why this week, it is your duty to find the most reliable cars on eBay for under a measly $2,000 budget. I’m not sure this is even possible.
Read MoreFor those following the economy, you’ll likely have noticed a steady trend towards a general market downturn. Having said that, I asked you forward-thinking bunch to find the exotics that would once again be affordable to those smart enough to convert their money into Bitcoin before everyone’s 401k got flushed down the toilet. Here are the ten best. Brace yourselves.
Read MoreThe Ferrari F355 is a beautiful car, and for those of you with exotic dreams but modest means you can have one in your driveway for as little as $60,000. But depending on the condition, you may need a hefty savings account just to keep it on the road, as these fellows just found out the hard way.
Read MoreSomebody on YouTube has cut a clip show of what sure look like some interesting car engines being used to power boats. The speed is impressive, the sounds are downright evil.
Read MoreWe already know which one is supposed to be more “fun”, but what do the innards of manual and automatic transmissions look like? How do all the parts to together?
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