The U.S. Air Force has announced that it is officially moving to retire the MQ-1 Predator drone in early 2018 with the newer MQ-9 Reaper drone to better address its combat needs. The Predator has served as both a vital tool for the U.S. troops and symbol of modern warfare itself, but the drone—and how it was used—drew more than its share of controversy.
Read MoreA key component of America’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system (GDM), which is supposed to stop ballistic missiles from hitting the United States, has a major flaw with its rocket interceptors. But the Pentagon doesn’t see a problem, and is moving forward to expand it anyway.
Read MoreU.S. Army paratroopers parachuted down to Deadhorse, Alaska on February 22nd during a training exercise dubbed Spartan Pegasus 2017 simulated to recover a downed satellite. The video captured of the jump is pretty incredible.
Read MoreGPS is one of those amazing technologies we use every day and kind of take for granted, allowing us to navigate our hometowns and any other destination without really having to think about it. But what many people don’t realize is GPS signals don’t penetrate seawater, making the already difficult act of undersea submarine navigation—and threat-mitigation—that much harder.
Read MoreYesterday U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed that America’s nuclear arsenal must be at the “top of the pack.” For the record, America is already a leading nuclear power, but Trump has made so many ill-informed and flat-out wrong comments about nukes that his words should come as no surprise. The fact is, most nuclear weapons experts will tell you that America’s arsenal is already the best in the world, despite the age of many of the missiles currently deployed and stockpiled.
Read MoreUkraine’s military was already severely overmatched against the Russian-backed rebels it began fighting in the east back in 2014, and its drone forces have proven to be spectacularly subpar. At the beginning of the war, the Ukrainians used Soviet-era Tu-143 “Flight” drones. They were so ancient that they didn’t have motion cameras and only took still shots that had to be processed. Of course, it didn’t take much for rebels to shoot these flying dinosaurs out of the air. Now Ukraine is turning to
Read MoreThe Russian government has been accused of trying to kill another pro-West politician. Again. The most recent almost-victim is Montenegro’s former president and prime minister Milo ?ukanovi?. This latest allegation against the Kremlin is just one of many it has had to defend itself against over the years. Funny how that keeps happening, right?
Read MoreAt a time when Russia is launching cyberattacks against Europe, exploiting the chaos that is President Donald Trump’s first month in office and not backing down in Ukraine, NATO seems to be needed more than it has since the end of the Cold War. Though the tone from the White House suggests Europe is a deadbeat partner not paying its fair share of the rent, the reality of the situation is a lot more nuanced.
Read MoreThe Ukrainian military hopes it can keep more of its soldiers alive when its new unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) hits the battlefield.
Read MoreI can imagine quite a few horror scenarios onboard an airplane. Looking outside your window and seeing fighter jets is definitely at the very top of that list. That was the reality this week for passengers aboard an Indian Jet Airways flight bound for London that lost contact with air traffic controllers in Cologne, Germany, leading German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons to scramble and intercept the plane.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy is nearing the final stages of commissioning the world’s most technologically advanced aircraft carrier ever. Next month, the wildly expensive and yet incredibly awesome USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) will embark on a critical series of trials that will test its navigation, communications, ship handling, habitability, propulsion plant, and damage control, USNI News reports.
Read MoreFormer White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn may have lied to the FBI about talking to Russia’s ambassador regarding U.S. sanctions, possibly breaking several laws that could land him behind bars. Why is that? It all goes back to a law from America’s earliest years as a nation, but the chances that Flynn could actually be prosecuted seem slim.
Read MoreThe Polar Star (WAGB-10), America’s sole remaining heavy icebreaker, is approaching her final years of service and it’s not clear when Washington will allocate the necessary money to replace the aging ship. This leaves the United States Coast Guard praying she doesn’t break down, and the country struggling with one of its least-understood and least-addressed national security needs.
Read MoreDuring a rambling, 75-minute press conference today, President Donald Trump dismissed reporters’ questions concerning his connections with Russia as a “ruse,” and repeated a lie about Hillary Clinton giving 20 percent of America’s uranium to Russia. It never happened.
Read MoreAviation is a field with no shortage of eccentrics and dreamers, a not-insignificant number of whom have willed even the wildest-sounding schemes into reality. But for every Graf Zeppelin, Spruce Goose, or moon landing, there are scores of unrealized aircraft occupying some spectacular yet unfortunately imaginary Air and Space Museum of the unbuilt. Thanks to a report from the consulting firm Wright Williams and Kelley, we can now add a B-21 bomber converted to the president’s Air Force One to t
Read MoreHey, you remember that time when you were 14 and you called up your crush with your best friend secretly listening in so that after they could tell you what to say? President Donald Trump did just that, except with the Air Force General in charge of the F-35 program and the fucking CEO of Boeing in the room listening.
Read MoreOf all the state-sanctioned killings North Korea has allegedly conducted under the regime of Kim Jong-un—and there have been many—probably none are as bizarre or as brazen as the accused murder of Kim’s own half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on Monday. If true this could lead to the U.S. again naming North Korea a terror-sponsoring state, and thus more sanctions, but at this point nothing is likely to stop the state’s pattern of high-profile assassi
Read MoreDespite some hints that the Air Force’s tiny re-usable space plane, the X-37B, would be returning to Earth after a long, secretive mission, it looks like that’s not the case, and the little shuttle will continue to circle the globe, conducting its devious, secret little experiments.
Read MoreFormer White House national security advisor Michael Flynn looks like a Kremlin plant. Russian fighter jets are buzzing a U.S. Navy destroyer at close range. One of its spy ships is hanging out off the east coast. And last night, we learned President Donald Trump’s campaign aides were in contact with Russian intelligence officials last year. But don’t think Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing the U.S. for a fool solely because he despises America—there’s a lot of precedent for these tact
Read MoreChina is mulling a new law that would require submersive naval vehicles to travel above surface and report its movements to authorities and report their movements to government authorities. In other words, it’s asking submarines not to act like submarines, which is hilarious coming from a habitual maritime law violator like China.
Read MoreU.S. government officials said today that they believe Russia has secretly deployed two battalions of the SSC-X-8 cruise missile, which violates a 1987 treaty, according to the New York Times. At the same time, a Russian spy ship, the SSV-175 Viktor Leonov, is now hanging out off the United States’ East Coast. And it could not come at a worse time for U.S. President Donald Trump.
Read MoreBetween the motorcades, airplanes, helicopters and security entourage, travel for a U.S. president is an insanely complex and highly-orchestrated endeavor. Here’s a video detailing all the logistics, as well as the costs to taxpayers; the whole thing is incredibly daunting.
Read MoreLast night, after weeks of controversy over what exactly he communicated to Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. before President Donald Trump took office, retired Army General Michael Flynn “retired” as National Security Advisor after 24 days on the job. This adds to the chaos of the new White House, but the problem goes deeper than that. It serves to fracture national security even further.
Read MoreNorth Korea launched a mid-range ballistic missile this weekend, the first launch of such a missile typically loosed from submarines, U.S. officials said. Once again, world leaders correctly condemned as another provocative action aimed at weakening regional stability. But they’ve said this before, many times over. At this point, the U.S. and its allies have almost run out of options for keeping the Hermit Kingdom in line.
Read MoreThe new presidential administration has a goal to start a shipbuilding boon that would increase the number of Navy ships from 272 to 350, but while all of that sounds just dandy on paper, the human toll of naval shipbuilding is immense, according to a new report.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin signaled that he wanted to help avoid the nuclear apocalypse during his first phone call with President Donald Trump, and Trump reportedly fumbled it—all because he had no idea what the most important treaty between America and Russia was.
Read MoreLast night, the U.S. Air Force test-launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. It’s not an event that happens every day, but it’s done to verify the reliability and accuracy of the weapons system. While it could be seen as a message to a belligerent North Korea, it’s still a test of a system wildly outdated compared to what Russia is arming up with.
Read MoreMore than half of the U.S. Navy’s aircraft can’t fly because there isn’t enough money to fix them, Defense News reports. Aircraft maintenance might not sound as impressive as tons of pointless new ships, but, there it is.
Read MoreAfter President Donald Trump’s first raid ended with at least 30 civilians and a member of Seal Team Six dead as well as a village left severely damaged, Yemen has pulled permission for the U.S. military to conduct ground operations against terror suspects on its territory, according to a report from CNN. That is, in short, not good.
Read MoreThe venerable B-52 may become even more deadly in the future, as Air Force scientists are thinking of ways to arm the bomber with defensive and offensive laser weapons that can incinerate targets in air-to-air and air-to-ground attacks. The age of laser warfare is truly becoming a reality.
Read MoreIt may not get as much attention as Tesla or Google, but defense giant Lockheed Martin is diligently working on autonomous vehicle technology. And while the vehicles can’t yet function entirely on their own, the company says it has developed new capabilities that can ultimately achieve one of the chief goals of AV tech: saving lives. In this case, it’s saving human troops from doing potentially dangerous jobs.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force won’t consider retiring the A-10 Warthog from service at least until 2021, according to news reports. That’s a relief for ground troops who have come to rely on this workhorse of a plane.
Read MoreThree Chinese Coast Guard ships encroached into waters right near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands yesterday, reports CNN. The Japanese Coast Guard says yesterday’s incursion is China’s fourth this year, which puts everyone right on pace to match 2016, in which 36 incidents took place. Monday’s maritime jostle was just one of many face offs between the two regional powers over the chain of islands China claims are its territory.
Read MoreThe U.S. military has been publishing incomplete data on airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan that may date back to 2001, according to a Military Times investigation. And that means thousands of deadly airstrikes may have gone uncounted.
Read MoreFor more than two years, Ukraine has been outgunned battling Russian-backed rebels and Russian soldiers in the country’s east. Given that peace agreements have failed to end the conflict and Russia consistently lies about not helping rebels fight Ukrainian forces, should America give lethal weapons—specifically Javelin anti-tank missiles—to Kyiv?
Read MoreWith Donald Trump in the White House, one big question keeps coming up: how will the new administration handle President Obama’s sanctions against Russia? But while the term gets tossed around in the news quite a bit, what they mean—and what they actually do—often get lost in the noise.
Read MoreMinimal intelligence. Navy SEALs unequipped for the firefight they encountered. Al Qaeda fighters that knew they were coming. An Osprey that hard-landed and had to be destroyed. One SEAL dead along with at least 10 civilian women and children. None of this was supposed to happen.
Read MoreIs a war between the U.S. and China over the South China Sea all but inevitable? Steve Bannon thinks so. In a series of radio shows for his former publication Breitbart News over the past two years, Bannon—now White House senior counselor and President Donald Trump’s closest advisor—made it seem like armed conflict is on the horizon. And that could prove disastrous for both sides.
Read MoreThe Philippines has garnered world attention for its deadly war against drugs that’s left 7,600 people dead in the last seven months since President Rodrigo Duterte took office. Now, the country’s military could join the bloodbath, making the situation all the more terrifying.
Read MoreWhat appeared to be an armored military convoy flying a Donald Trump campaign flag stirred controversy in Louisville this week, leading many to wonder whether the vehicle belonged to the National Guard, the U.S. military or was a decommissioned vehicle owned by area enthusiasts. Now the military says it belonged to a U.S. Navy SEAL Unit and has launched an investigation.
Read MoreA brigade of heavily armed U.S. troops have deployed to Zagan, Poland to show Russia that if it dares to encroach on its territory, it will feel the full force of the NATO alliance. It is the show of defiance against Putin many NATO allies have been waiting for from the Trump administration.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin has long expressed his disdain for NATO, but if the nationalist fervor taking over much of Europe and America continues, he won’t have to do too much dismantle the alliance. To the contrary—all he has to do is sit back and watch nativism and racism convince Europeans and Americans that refugees, not him, are the real threat. And, if necessary, use cyberattacks to fan the flames.
Read MoreBlack sites, renditions, and all those other War on Terror-isms that had supposedly been consigned to an earlier and darker period of America’s counter-terrorism efforts seem to be making a comeback. But they were an absolute horror show the first time around, and here’s why.
Read MoreThe BMW 3 Series wagon is one of the best European cars you can buy for a somewhat reasonable MSRP. Now that last part is important, because I don’t know what this dealership was smoking when it decided to order this wagon and sell it for this price.
Read MoreHey you, the person with luxury sedan desires but a Toyota Camry budget! Forget the out-of-warranty BMW 5 Series and Mercedes E Class. Those are fine cars, but they will cost you in the long run. The Hyundai Genesis is one of best used luxury values on the market, and you should buy one.
Read MoreWhile the absolutely bonkers Mercedes-AMG E63 S wagon is the one you want, but the wonderful E400 is the long roof you need. It’s got a twin-turbo V6, seats seven and comes in brown. What does yours look like?
Read MoreIn a move that will surprise no one who’s been following the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon hypefest, today we find out that the new car will have a “drag mode” with suspension design exclusively optimized for straight line speed.
Read MoreEvidently the 1990s are back. The Acura NSX is back, the Toyota Supra is going to be a thing again, the Mazda RX-7 is about to make a comeback (LOL just kidding that will never happen) and when Lexus wants to make a big dramatic statement, it unleashes a huge luxury coupe with a naturally aspirated V8 engine. Such is the 2018 Lexus LC 500, and I’m digging it.
Read MoreVolvo will sell you a very sleek and stylish 2018 V90 wagon, but you will have to order it. The starting MSRP for some Swedish longroof goodness is just under $50,000, but once you start checking option boxes this can be one pricey wagon.
Read MoreBMW can’t even be bothered to sell any versions of its new 2017 5 Series wagons to us Americans at all, because we are not European scuba divers. But Mercedes is here to save the day with the all-new 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63 S wagon coming to your local dealership this fall.
Read MoreThis latest tenth-generation Honda Civic is a completely different animal than the Civics we’ve become used to throughout its 44-year run. This new one, introduced last year, is considerably larger, heavier, more complicated and refined. However, I reckon this is actually a return to form for Honda’s compact car. And now, the hatch is back! But more importantly, you can now buy all Civic variants with that new 1.5-liter turbo four-cylinder engine and a stick shift.
Read MoreCar enthusiasts love to talk about “purity.” Stability control? For wimps. Massaging seats? Perverse! By that logic driving a 1949 Citroën Traction Avant 15, so manual that you set the engine timing while rolling, was the closest thing to real driving I’d ever done. It was stressful, painful and wonderful.
Read MoreIn the age of internet car shopping, most smart buyers solicit quotes via phone or email and avoid negotiating at the dealership. However, even with electronic communication, some dealers will tell you one price but then change it once you arrive. Here is how to deal with that.
Read MoreRandy is being sent to jolly old England for a few years and he gets to take a car with him. It needs to be practical and reliable, preferably a good representation of the U.S. of A, but not too big. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe 2017 GMC Sierra HD really only gets one fresh feature, but it’s a biggie. The truck’s new 6.6-liter Duramax turbo diesel V8 has a massive claimed output of 445 horsepower and 910 lb-ft of torque. It feels good to drive, too. But this truck’s real value proposition isn’t under the hood, it’s in the details.
Read MoreAdmit it: you’ve done this at least once. Curiosity on Craigslist has led you to search for one of the internet’s most loved—some would say overhyped—used cars, the E30 BMW 3 Series from the 1980s and early ‘90s. And then you found a truly beautiful one. And then you saw that one letter at the end of its numerical name that serves as an instant disqualifier: e.
Read MoreWe were gathered in a conference room, and, honestly, it felt like maybe we were being played. The Hyundai team had not one, but three vehicles with alternative powertrains to show off; with only 3 percent of the U.S. market share controlled by electric vehicles, it seemed like a bit of a stretch. But the new 2017 Hyundai Ioniq is enjoyable to drive, and, with an aggressive sticker price and familiar look, it could transform EV-skeptical consumers into electrified believers.
Read MoreIf there is one thing George Washington would have wanted in modern day America, it would be for everyone to buy a sweet car on his birthday. (Prove me wrong!) Today can be a great opportunity to catch some sales, so here are some of our top tips to score a great deal.
Read MoreAs technology further integrates into the car industry, doing things from the car continues to get easier. You can have Volvo drop off packages, talk to Amazon’s Alexa and all sorts of things. But technology can also allow people to access cars long after they’ve sold them, which is enough to leave any buyer uncomfortable.
Read MoreThe darkness was thick, almost metallic. Even though I had the brights on, their normally powerful light seemed to be completely swallowed up by the shadows on either side of the car. I was driving the Range Rover Evoque Convertible, I could barely see anything, and that’s exactly how it was supposed to be.
Read MorePractically every automaker who sells vehicles in the U.S. offers some kind of military rebates for active or retired service members. At first glance this seems noble, but what most buyers don’t know is that these programs often exclude the brand’s most desirable vehicles.
Read MoreAn unwritten rule in car culture dictates that in order for a car to be truly remarkable, it has to have forgivable character flaws that give it a unique personality that allows man to truly bond with tamed machine. It is exactly those traits that make this car, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the best used exotic car value on Earth.
Read MoreClaire is a member of wilderness rescue team and needs a big SUV to take her family out into nature. Despite living in an affluent area, she does not want a status machine. She has up to ten grand to spend on something simple, rugged and reliable. What car should she buy?
Read MoreWhen I look at the Infiniti QX30, I can’t help but remember the awful badge-engineered crap of my youth: the Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz, the Chrysler Cirrus/Dodge Stratus, and damn near everything General Motors sold for three decades. They were just such deeply cynical vehicles, as if carmakers were deliberately telling us they were ripping us off by reshoveling recycled versions of the same awful automobile down our throats with different headlights and grilles, then daring us to buy them.
Read MoreThe Volvo S60 and XC60 will soon be dead and gone, victims to the People’s Most Glorious Revolution over at Volvo. Soon all of Volvo’s seats will be different; perforated and multi-contouring, but in the end, not as good. Let it not be forgotten that for one brief, beautiful moment, Volvo made the best seats the world has ever seen.
Read MoreA Lamborghini Aventador S is a statement car. It’s a statement that you’ve made it, that you’ve got money to burn, that you want a big, bad, impractical supercar and are willing to throw down $420,000 to make that dream a reality.
Read MoreI never understood why there is still such a fierce cult of fascination around the Quattro Audis of the 1980s. Keeping one running is virtually impossible. Fans claw each other for increasingly rare, rusty, temperamental old cars and parts. This weekend I finally drove one and I totally get it now.
Read MoreThe topic of “future classics” comes up all the time in car enthusiast circles, often as we try justifying expensive and questionable automotive purchases. It’s an investment, right? (Not usually.) But the folks at Hagerty Classic Car Insurance have to assign values to old cars all the time, so they know a thing or two about this subject. Let’s have a look at their list new cars that they think will be classics in 25 years.
Read MoreWho says the teens aren’t into cars? Joey is turning 16 soon and can’t wait to get his first set of wheels. He’s got a decent budget of up to ten grand and wants something fun, but it also needs to be safe. What car should he buy?
Read MoreDon’t let the upcoming Challenger SRT Demon tempt you! It may just be a faster, less practical and more expensive Hellcat. The 707 horsepower monster already has more power than you can handle, and now you can score up to $13,000 off the sticker price.
Read MoreLynk & Co’s philosophy is, in many ways, the diametrical opposite of gearheadom: they feel that people who will want their cars won’t care about what’s under the hood, how fast it will go, or even if they’ll actually own the car or not. And now Lynk & Co has said they don’t even want to use model years, so there won’t be, say, a 2018 Lynk & Co 01. Oh good. That won’t make things confusing.
Read MoreI’ve always had a love hate relationship with the Porsche 911. Long before I was old enough to start a 911, let alone drive one, I had dreams about racing them, the monster 935 slant nose turbo ones being my favorite. Years later, driving license in hand, I got a chance to take a neighbor’s water-cooled 911 out for a spin, and... I hated it.
Read MoreAre you a Ford Mustang owner with too much tread on your tires? Has Dodge got you spooked with this Demon business? A Ford dealer in Ohio has your solution; for only $45,000, you can get a new Mustang with more power than a Bugatti Veyron.
Read MoreStop calling a compact luxury sports sedan that isn’t a BMW a “3 Series fighter.” There really are such things as sports sedans that aren’t from Bavaria, and the current Lexus IS is one of them. Here’s why it’s more than just an also-ran, and why its new-for-2017 turbo four-cylinder engine makes it worthy of your attention.
Read MoreTony is an attorney from Philadelphia who has been slogging around in his 2003 Accord with 140,000 miles so he can get his student loans in check. Now it’s time for an upgrade. He needs a good “lawyer” car, but not something too expensive or over the top. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI’ll let you in on a little secret you might not know about: around here, we loooove wagons. We love the styling, the utility, the quirkiness and—most of all—how they break away from the SUV and crossover craze that has consumed American roads. The new Volvo V90 is a lovely wagon, but face it, in the U.S. it’s probably going to get drowned in that SUV tidal wave. Can the lifted 2017 V90 Cross Country split the difference? I went to Sweden to find out.
Read MoreMany of us are fortunate to drive on a nice, open highway or even a winding back road for our daily commute. Unfortunately, most of us seem to be stuck in soul-crushing traffic every day. What is the ideal car for them?
Read MoreLong distance road trips can be expensive, especially in places like Japan where to get any distance in a reasonable amount of time, you have to take tollways. When you add up the cost of hotels and food it can get quite expensive. But there’s a better way: turn your car into a mini-camper!
Read MoreThat new crossover that Mitsubishi has been threatening—the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross—showed its face today. It made me a little sad. Not because there’s now another crossover on the market, but because it’s another sour reminder that Mitsubishi doesn’t really have anything cool to offer right now.
Read MoreSure, people are quirky, but cars are, too! It’s part of what makes us love them so much.
Read MoreIf you actually believe Tupac Shakur died.... you can now submit your information to purchase the BMW he and Suge Knight were shot up in six days before his death back in September of 1996.
Read MoreMan, are you guys a bunch of wrathful bitches.
Read MoreFor the last couple years we’ve been hearing automakers blather on about the importance of “connectivity solutions” and ways to marry your car with your phone, even beyond AndroidAuto and Apple CarPlay. Do you need “achievements” to unlock to enjoy driving? Do you want them?
Read MoreThe bright-orange 1969 Dodge Charger R/T that raised hell on TV in the hands of the Dukes of Hazzard has to be one of the most famous hero cars in fiction, mayeb behind Doc Brown’s DeLorean. This week we got to see it get air one more time, in real life, in the middle of Detroit.
Read MoreAs a person who likes sports cars with vigorous driving characteristics, I often find myself pointing towards closed vehicles. Hardtops. Fixed-head coupés. But I must admit, gazing deep into the deepest corners of my shadowy heart, that convertibles are good.
Read MoreIt doesn’t look like much, but the Subaru Impreza has one of the strongest fanbases and reputations in the internet car world. Drive one hard and you’ll understand why.
Read MoreAs someone who is regularly irritated by random noises, particularly the way my car’s air conditioning sounds like a gale force wind against a metal roof when on moderate settings aimed at my feet, I can relate to somebody driven to madness by a squeak in their car. Luckily some have very good dogs to help them out.
Read MoreOften abused in the car world is the word soul. It’s a band aid over faults in just about any review of an Italian car, and the meaning rarely extends past that. But there’s something deeper about it.
Read MoreWhen the United States was on the bottom rung of The Great Depression, looking for a foothold, desperately clinging onto any shred of hope, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created The New Deal. Hand over hand, rung by rung, we sprung forward with innovative programs like The Tennessee Valley Authority, which still rests in my backyard today. No one got rich working a New Deal job, but it put a dollar in your pocket every day, and gave people a sense of pride. It wasn’t much, but it was yours
Read MoreThe current Lamborghini Huracán is a lovely and restrained design, about as understated as a 200 mph supercar can be. But a 200 mph supercar shouldn’t be restrained, which is why I’m excited to see the mad scoops and wings of Italdesign’s new Lamborghini-based (and oddly unnamed) custom car.
Read MoreToday’s Comment of the Day goes to one of Jalopnik’s most loyal and vocal followers who, today, called for a return of Tiff Needell to BBC’s Top Gear and drew some interesting parallels between the success and failures of the British series compared to the Korean series.
Read MoreThere’s something about seeing something familiar in an unexpected, unfinished form that I’m an absolute sucker for. When that something is old air-cooled Volkswagens, multiply all that by whatever the number equivalent of a creepy moan is. Today I have two larval Type 2 Microbus styling concepts to share with you, because, let’s be honest: I’m crazy about you.
Read MoreAs drivers, we see a decent amount of screwups, mistakes and injustices being committed by our fellow motorists. Most of these people get away with it. Other times, things get more satisfying.
Read MoreAs someone who had never experienced the brilliance of the Mazda Miata, I asked readers last week what I should do with my gorgeous red press car, and the answers all said more or less the same thing: find great roads and drive until you drop.
Read MoreI don’t know what it is—maybe a lethal combination of young teenage blood and some notion that no one can see you when you’re in you car—that makes us commit at least one dumbass act in our cars at some point.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreIf you frequent this lovely car blog, you’ve probably been reading a lot about the Mazda RX-7 lately. But, this time, let’s just sit back and admire one for a bit.
Read MoreI didn’t want this any more than you did, but it’s time for us to face our demons. Despite the Dodge Nitro having aesthetics on par with Lord Voldemort’s, we need to stop referring to it as “That which must not be named,” and just be open about where we failed as a species.
Read MoreWhen my rust-addled co-worker David Tracy described the trip he wanted to take with me, he said there was a guy in Virginia who had “a few Honda Beats.” The inadequacy of this description is like saying that Pol Pot “wasn’t a great boss,” or that having your leg mangled in an escalator “stings.” What we found when we got to that Honda dealership in Christiansburg, VA was so far beyond what I was expecting that it still hardly seems real.
Read MoreToday’s cars are beacons of technological achievement, more powerful, efficient and safe than they have ever been before. So how is it possible that people are somehow driving around at night with their daytime running lights on and nothing else so help me god I will drive us both into a ditch if it makes this madness stop.
Read MoreA thought came to my head today that has nothing at all to do with the new Ferrari 812 Superfast in any way, shape, or form: what is the ugliest car Ferrari has ever made?
Read MoreI’m losing my damn mind with all the Jeep Grand Cherokee ignorance in the film industry; this stops now.
Read MoreI arrived at the 2017 Carroll Shelby Cruise-In on the top level of the Petersen Automotive Museum parking structure expecting to see a big gaggle of American cars. And I did. Cobras, GT350s, Daytonas, lots of sleek muscle. But there was something else, too. Back in a corner, separated from the thrumming V8s, sat something very un-American. And so I met Ben Zinnen standing proudly next to his vintage Renault sedan, something I’d never before seen on U.S soil.
Read MoreCar nerds and trackday bros love to talk about their heel-toe shifting. There’s another way to get the same job done, as it turns out.
Read MoreGenerally, it’s a good rule of thumb to tone down your normal driving style when your parents are in the car, just in the interest of family harmony and overall sanity. Jesse doesn’t seem to give a shit about those things, which is why he’s grounded.
Read MoreNow, again, it’s rumored that General Motors may be selling its German division Opel to Europe’s last-standing collection of automotive fuckups, PSA Peugeot Citroën. This is not a surprise. General Motors spent nearly an entire century—no, I am not exaggerating—running Opel like a crazy person.
Read MoreIt just wouldn’t be Jalopnik without some good old self-deprecating humor. Come on, fess up.
Read MoreTatra is one of my all-time favorite carmakers, and any day I learn about a Tatra I wasn’t aware of is a grand day indeed. Today is such a day, and I want to share it with you. Friends, behold the loveliest, most air-coolingest V8 GT car ever to never be actually made, the Tatra JK 2500.
Read MoreNissan took an L and it’s not about to bounce back.
Read MoreGreen-and-white Volkswagen Beetles are no longer a familiar sight on Mexico City’s roads, and very soon, the Nissan Tsuru—the Mexican-market, early 1990s Sentra that has survived into the age of Twitter fights and organic bacon boutiques because of its cheapness and practicality—will be gone as well. It’s just not safe anymore, unfortunately. But it’s going out fancier than it’s probably ever been.
Read MoreThe Tail of the Dragon is one of the most marvelous roads I’ve ever driven, with mile after mile of beautifully banked curves through pristine woodlands. It’s tight and narrow, and better suited for motorcycles and sports cars than a big truck. That’s why it’s so hilarious to see someone try it in a stretch limousine.
Read MoreWhen I first asked you for your most hellish train or bus tales, I’m not sure why I wasn’t expecting the sheer number of vomit-related stories to end up here. But you just gotta let it out, you know?
Read MoreSometimes we find ourselves spending weeks or months or even years searching Craigslist for the perfect car. And other times, we aren’t looking to buy, but decide to pull the trigger when the right car with the right price—and most importantly, the right balance in our bank accounts—comes along. We’re talking about the latter today.
Read MoreDid you know I love turn signals? I do. I honestly do. It’s a weird fetish, and I can’t think of any four words least likely to get you laid than “I love turn signals,” but I don’t care. And boy do I have an incredible turn signal to tell you about today: it was so misguided and confusing the Ministry of Transport in Britain made them illegal. And they’re named for robots.
Read MoreYou, like many others, probably spend a lot of time drooling over Porsches—new Porsches, old Porsches, rare Porsches, modified Porsches and the whole lot of them. If that’s true, you may also have an idea of which ones are the hardest to get your hands on. These are Porsche’s picks for that title.
Read MoreBack in October we caught wind that Alfa Romeo was going to sculpt the new Giulia into some sort of mystical Italian wagon. It was probably only destined for Europe, and now it apparently isn’t happening at all.
Read MoreAttention, everybody, attention! This is important. I’m using my rarely-exercised Automotive Journailibloggerist power of issuing a Big-Ass Mandatory Edict, the car writer’s equivalent of a Papal Bull or a fatwa or whatever. In this edict, I will be forbidding certain cars from ever appearing on “worst car” lists ever again. I DECREE IT!
Read MoreGetting a car sideways can be tricky and dangerous, but once you master the ability, it’s one of the coolest-looking things you can do while driving your car. Just don’t be an ass, be safe, and know the differences between drifting and power-sliding.
Read MoreIt doesn’t take you long to figure out that the outright fastest person you know is rarely the best driver you know. Usually, you find this out when you get a call about how they crashed into a tree.
Read MoreJordan Hilsenbeck always loved cars and motion in general. In his younger days, he skateboarded, rode bicycles and motorcycles. But, it seemed that he loved his Porsche 911 most of all. And in his circle of vintage car fanatic friends, he wasn’t alone.
Read MoreI still vividly remember being reprimanded for using my left foot on the brake pedal while I was learning how to drive. It was made clear this was Not To Be Done, and I stopped thinking about it. At least I did until I saw how rally drivers use this mysterious trick. As it turns out, it’s not all that strange or scary, and you should know how to do it after all.
Read MoreThere’s few things in this world that are more likely to make me do a delighted spit-take than old, forgotten Volkswagen prototypes and design concepts. This morning someone named Olivier, of the amazing Car Design Archives Facebook group, sent me what’s basically the VW geek’s equivalent of a full shot of deep-fried heroin: pictures of a 1970 VW design study for the Super Beetle. A four-door design.
Read MoreOccasionally, we don’t have access to our car or our friend’s car, so we have to find alternative means of transportation across the face of this great earth of ours. And I don’t mean on a plane.
Read MoreRichard Overton is the oldest living U.S. military veteran in the world, but don’t think having a DOB of 1906 on his driver’s license means he can’t still enjoy the rumble of a great American V8, because Overton still drives his late 1970s Ford truck. Like a boss.
Read More“Code Brown! Code Brown!” screams your internal monologue as instinct takes over and you try to save yourself from the inevitable spin-out/crash. And miraculously, you do. Somehow.
Read MoreEveryone seems quite excited that the Callaway C7 Corvette Shooting Brake is finally happening. One reason is that it’s been in the works seemingly forever. I remember writing about that thing four or five years ago. It nearly got beaten to production by the unicorn-like mid-engined Corvette. But are we really excited because true shooting brakes are so rare?
Read MoreEvery day, my job allows me to spend hours on scouring listings for new and used cars and scouring through dealership websites to find the right car. I’ve noticed that some of these stores have some pretty entertaining names.
Read MoreToday we all figured out why those little black dots are all around the edges of your car’s windows. Then we all stared at somebody’s custom fastback Mazda Miata in the comments.
Read MoreIf you think about it, Toyota has achieved something pretty remarkable here. They’ve taken all the elements you think you’d need for true gearhead appeal: a good looking sportscar that I know handles great, footage of it being driven, hard, on lovely, twisty roads and exciting-looking tracks; and yet, somehow, they’ve managed to miss the point of the appeal of their own car completely. As far as fuck-ups go, this one is impressive.
Read MoreCuba feels more in flux now than it has in decades. Fidel Castro’s death, the repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy and eased restrictions on capitalism mean rapid changes for a country distinctly shaped by a Cold War that ended decades ago. At the same time airplanes full of tourists are landing in Cuba on direct flights from the U.S. for the first time in decades, opening up a floodgate of incoming dollars. So where does that leave Cuba’s eclectic assortment of cars?
Read MoreFans of the Nissan Skyline are familiar with the RB series of straight sixes, now legendarily powerful engines never sold here in the United States. But there was an RB engine that stands above them all, an incredibly rare one, all because Nissan never built it.
Read MoreHave you seen these shoes before? I’m sure you have. Who wears them? People who really, really, really want everyone to know they do driving and are good at doing driving? Good, yes, I’m glad we’ve gotten that straightened out.
Read MoreBeyoncé has taken the traditional route to announcing her pregnancy with twins: by posing atop the usual Porsche 914 converted into a planter.
Read MoreIn my advancing age, I’ve come to appreciate the front-engined Ferraris. They’re gentleman’s Ferraris, Ferraris for people with class and taste who don’t need the boorish howling and race car looks of their mid-engined cousins.
Read MoreI thought I was nice. I thought I was a kind, friendly face around the office. A generous boss as No. 2 at Jalopnik. I thought these people were my friends. I was wrong, and I know that because I am now the proud owner of a 1991 Yugo GV Plus.
Read MoreI never liked the Ferrari 550 very much when I was growing up. I should have. It was a powerful, stylish, front-engined not-quite-supercar with a gated manual transmission, a V12 and, unbeknownst to me at the time, one of the most pointless and luxurious options a sports car can have.
Read MoreChevy’s ZL1 is already a total monster on the track, but now the brand is offering a 1LE performance package which could very possibly mean we all need to brace ourselves for the beastliest Camaro to ever hit the streets.
Read MoreAn 18 year-old driving a stolen Toyota Tacoma running from the police in Webster Parish, Louisiana hit a set of spike strips going 115 mph, subsequently barreled off of the road and into a drainage ditch, launched the truck into the air and landed on a car parked at a restaurant.
Read MoreA 24 year-old allegedly lost control of his speeding Porsche on a motorway in Greece yesterday and crashed into a mother and her 3 year-old daughter sitting in a parked car. Four people, including two in the Porsche, were killed in the crash and subsequent explosion.
Read MoreA truckload of brand new Corvettes still in their packaging wrap was involved in a minor rub with a dump truck in Alabama today, tearing into at least three of the cars, one of which appears to be a new Z06. Are those blood stains? Do cars bleed?
Read MoreNear Munich, Germany, a man in a Tesla Model S saw a Volkswagen Passat swerving erratically on the Autobahn, slamming against a guardrail multiple times. When he noticed that the person behind the wheel was unconscious, the Tesla driver sprang into action.
Read MoreCarolina Panthers Quarterback Cam Newton fractured two bones in his back in 2014, when he was involved in a crash in one of Charlotte’s most treacherous intersections. Two years after he and hundreds of other residents called for it, it’s finally getting a traffic light.
Read MoreLet’s talk Aston Martins for a second. They’re beautiful cars, right? So they should be treated with the utmost care, right? We’re all in agreement. Did no one give the shipping company this information?
Read MoreA client at a track-day experience in Las Vegas apparently lost control and crashed a Lamborghini into a wall on Sunday, killing himself and the driving instructor in the passenger’s seat, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Read MoreA tipster sent in some pictures of a 2005 or 2006 Ford GT getting towed out of a ditch, and I just kind of stared at them for awhile pondering the cruelty of this universe and the perverse need for me to write about such things.
Read MoreAutódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, a Formula One Grand Prix track in Mexico City, was the site of a nice track day for a bunch of BMW drivers—until someone’s brakes decided to go out. That’s when the “nice track day” became not so nice.
Read MoreAfter watching this Mustang freak out at the last second while being driven into a trailer, like a dog violently refusing to go into the bathtub, I’d like to officially declare that Mustangs are cursed.
Read MoreDashcam footage captured a Toyota Hilux run a red light, get T-boned and dramatically roll over, all hilariously to the tune of “It Wasn’t Me,” the 2000 hit from Shaggy.
Read MoreTuro: the company that lets you rent your personal car out for money. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? But then there’s always the question of what happens when someone crashes your car. Turns out, if you own a supercar like an Audi R8, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to clear up.
Read MoreThis Subaru owner thought he was doing everything right. He had a nice all-wheel drive Forester, he was adjusting his tire pressures for better traction and he figured he was as ready for the snow as anyone could be. But the snow had other ideas and sent a van crashing into the side of his car.
Read MoreExtra Gear was the Top Gear spin-off that just felt like a breath of fresh air. It was the more relaxed, more fun, nerdier and behind-the-scenes goodness that we actually enjoyed more than regular Top Gear. And now it has a new host.
Read MoreSay what you will about Jeremy Clarkson nowadays. He’s too bombastic, too silly, too formulaic – but it’s a formula that works. If you don’t believe me, just watch his very first Top Gear appearance, and watch his own face as he sees it. Fair warning, the clip from the original show is deeply strange.
Read MoreBeing excited for a new season of Top Gear is very much like being excited for the holidays: you know great stuff is coming your way, you just aren’t quite certain of what it might be. This new Top Gear trailer makes me feel exactly that way.
Read MoreTop Gear returns next month, rejuvenated again, again, and there’s more good news—that silly ‘Star in a Rallycross Car’ segment is dead. It’s been replaced with a Toyota GT86. Things sound good.
Read MoreThe Grand Tour launched with huge anticipation; veteran entertainers returning with the backing of Amazon, a company with a new-age digital strategy of distribution, without the rules we’d find on public broadcasting. Amazon made a show that is bringing a large existing audience through the pay wall, but did The Grand Tour’s quality meet the standards expected of a paying buyer?
Read MoreThe revived version of the BBC’s Top Gear without its old trio, whose new show got its own mixed reviews, had a tough time leading up to and throughout its return season. But with Chris Evans gone and trailers showing Chris Harris and Rory Reid taking bigger roles, this may be the revamp we’ve been waiting for.
Read MoreAfter almost forgetting about the season finale of The Grand Tour last night, I yet again slipped into the altered state of life where there’s no new episodes of old-Top Gear content or new-Top Gear content and my mind wanders, at times dangerously, adrift. And then Chris Harris was spotted in a Bugatti Chiron.
Read MoreWhile everyone else is talking about the cars, exotic places and jokes on The Grand Tour, I’d like to take this opportunity to express my undying admiration for the things James May wears on set.
Read MoreYou may not have forgotten that tonight is the 13th and final episode of the premiere season of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s Amazon Prime show, The Grand Tour. I almost did forget. And I haven’t yet seen the 12th episode. Nor the last 20 minutes of the 11th.
Read MoreFord just released pictures of their new Ford GT Competition Series, a lightweight, track-focused version of their already bonkers supercar, and it looks every bit as purposeful and menacing as it should to sway the minds and wallets of the fickle supercar buying public.
Read MoreIf you have about $32,000 to spend on a sedan and wanted a little bit of power, you could take the easy route and grab a V6 Honda Accord or Toyota Camry. Or, you could get a 365 horsepower twin-turbo V6 sedan that will fly under the radar, and leave more than a few other cars in the dust if you so choose.
Read MoreI went to The One Motorcycle Show in Portland over this past weekend so you didn’t have to. Actually, you should have, because it was awesome. More than 120 bikes on were on display, ranging from the pristine to bizarre. Plus, lots of beer and food, live music and more stickers than you could possibly use.
Read MoreI’m going to Portland this weekend to check out the unveiling of Alta Motors’ Redshift ST, a lightweight electric motorcycle that is touted as the perfect tool for a flat track race or tackling your urban commute. And you should ask me what you want to know about it.
Read MoreRiding motorcycles may be the only sensible way to get around Los Angeles. It’s either ride or go insane, as I would if I drove a car the 40 miles it takes to get to my office each day. On a motorcycle, it’s about 45 minutes. In a car, two to three hours depending on the wind, angle of the sun, or for some reason, how LL Cool J is feeling that day, because there’s no rhyme or reason to any of it. So, when Yamaha offered to let me test its newest naked superbike, the 2017 FZ-10, for three traffic
Read MoreSand dunes are the perfect place to go hog wild on your dirt bike or 4x4. Hysterically fun terrain, jumps for days and all the room you could ever need to spread your wings and stop worrying about traffic. I mean, you’d have to have seriously bad luck hit somebody out there. Like this guy, apparently.
Read MoreWhile you were out drinking last night, about 90 lunatics on dirt bikes were going to war with each other over ridiculous terrain in the pitch-black Mojave desert. Just... just watch.
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio is a perfect car in my dreams. In this perfect dream world, Alfa claims the Quadrifoglio boasts 505 horsepower from its twin-turbo V6 and max torque of 443 lb-ft out of the box. But how does it hold up in the real world?
Read MoreThe roll out from Tesla Autopilot 1.x to 2.0 has been, uh, less than smooth. The program is still very much in beta, and out of the car’s eight cameras in its new hardware suite, only one actually gets used in the new Autopilot software, as one intrepid owner armed with painter’s tape discovered.
Read MoreWhile we all know that a project car is a source of peace and comfort for many, it can also be a salve for PTSD. Especially if it’s a 1991 Audi Coupe Quattro turned up to 650 horses.
Read MoreIt hasn’t been a stellar month for Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, between the sexual harassment allegations at Uber HQ, the generally precarious state of the company’s finances, and a lot more. But an in-car video, obtained by Bloomberg, is a solid black eye for the 40-year-old CEO. The six-minute clip captures Kalanick arguing with an Uber driver over falling fares.
Read MoreFord has made it clear it’d like for urban cores of the future to be armed to the teeth with high-tech gadgetry, and while that seems highly implausible for now, the automaker’s self-driving delivery concept is certainly interesting. Called “Autolivery,” the idea involves self-driving vans and drones to make it easier to snag anything from groceries or medicine.
Read MoreThe venerable 6.75-liter V8 will surely be in production in some Bentley or another until we’re all crusted over and dead, but that’s not the future of Bentley as a whole. The future of Bentley is electric as hell, and it’s probably going to be an EV baby Bentley SUV.
Read MoreThe Lexus LC is already a vision of excellence, the most badass Lexus since the LFA, the car we willed into existence, a Japanese Aston Martin. Now we can expect it to get even better, as Car and Driver reports. Twin-turbo F version 600 horsepower better.
Read MoreHey, look, Alpine’s back! For real. The famed French sports car brand now under Renault’s wing is set to debut an all-new sports car, which we now know is called the A110, and we’ll see it in about a week at the Geneva Motor Show. It’s not bad at all.
Read MoreGetting stuck in traffic for hours really sucks, but it definitely sucks less if you have access to some carne asada tacos with fresh lime.
Read MoreOne day I would like to own an R107/C107 Mercedes SL or SLC. Ideally this one, but I can settle for another.
Read MoreAt one point, the narrator in this 30-minute secret pre-release promo film for the Edsel says “Edsel: the car that’s already making automotive history for the Ford Motor Company!” That’s a very prescient statement. The Edsel absolutely made automotive history. Just not really the way Ford wanted.
Read MoreIt isn’t exactly earth-shattering news that automakers were well-aware that Takata airbags were a disaster waiting to happen. But a court document filed on Monday illustrates the extent of how much—and how long—four automakers knew.
Read MoreWhat ghosts? Who knows! But they seem to be there. The first trailer for the eighth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, The Fate of the Furious, revealed that Dom Is The Bad Guy. Why? We didn’t know. This new international trailer sheds some light on things.
Read MoreFerrari’s relationship with the concepts of “truth” and “fairness” has occasionally been a bit like one of their cars on a set of bald tires: fast and loose. Now, in a lawsuit from a longtime Ferrari salesperson, the company is accused of authorizing the use of devices that allow used Ferraris odometers to be rolled back, sometimes all the way to zero. That, of course, is very illegal.
Read MoreAmid the fallout from Uber’s sexual harassment scandal, a new headache has emerged for the company: Recode is reporting that Amit Singhal, senior vice president of engineering at Uber, has resigned because he failed to disclose that he left Google a year prior after an internal investigation at there found a sexual harassment claim filed against him to be “credible.” That is definitely not the look the company needs right now.
Read MoreAs car companies log more and more miles on self-driving prototypes, we’re quickly finding out that there’s not much middle ground between humans driving cars and robots driving cars.
Read MoreThe 2017 Aston Martin DB11 emerged one year ago exactly, and since then we’ve decided on only one thing: people sure do like to argue over the design. I’m finally driving it tomorrow and hanging out with the team that made it. Quick, get your questions in before I hit the road!
Read MoreQuick—which side of your car is your fuel filler on? No running outside to look, that’s cheating, and you might get hurt pulling your pants on. Chances are most of you at the very least had to take a moment to think about this. I suspect you won’t think long about what side your steering wheel is on. That’s because, unlike other crucial parts your car, there is no standardized place for what side you pump fuel into your car. Why not?
Read MoreThe Suzuki Mighty Boy is a teeny-tiny pickup made for Japan’s super-small Kei class of cars. What do you get when you swap an LS V8 engine into one? Burnouts! Burnouts for days.
Read MoreThe real struggle with electric cars at the moment is how to put them into production at a sufficiently low cost with sufficiently long range supported by a sufficiently fast and available charging network. The performance side of things has largely been covered. Still, it’s pretty awesome to see a modified Chevrolet Corvette break 200 mph on electricity alone.
Read MoreAs an attentive driver in America, there are certain sets of headlights you learn to look twice at when you see them in your rear-view. Crown Vics, Chargers, Caprices and these days, you better keep the Ford Explorer in mind, too.
Read MoreWhy buy a Bugatti Veyron when you can have a fancy Beetle with green stripes and half the power for the same price? Just when you thought the 911 R pricing reached its most ridiculous point, a dealer down under has one listed for 1.19 million AUS (aprox. $920,000 USD)
Read MoreIn case you’d forgotten—or were in a different generation of school children than I was—Crazy Taxi was likely the first thing on your mind when a teacher rolled in a cart of the bulky, solid-white MacBooks of years gone by. And I can confidently say, as an adult, that the game is as great as it ever was.
Read MoreThe build of a new RAUH-Welt Begriff Porsche makes for some of the best video around, especially in 4K. But this video is a bit different than your typical build documentary—you don’t get to watch just one RWB Porsche. You get to see a bunch of them. It’s lovely.
Read MoreWhether it’s used to melt ice on the road or comes in on the ocean breeze, every car owner knows that salt is the enemy. Salt is where rust comes from, and rust is a killer of cars. Road de-icing methods alone cause $3 billion in rust damage annually, as AAA notes. But why is salty slush so much worse than plain water? Blame electrolytes!
Read MoreLet’s meet Oli Wardrope. That’s him wrestling a six-foot python out from under his family’s truck casually before he has to head to school.
Read MoreIf there is one quote that sums up the ethos of Uber, it might be this cut from the company’s firebrand CEO Travis Kalanick: “Stand by your principles and be comfortable with confrontation. So few people are, so when the people with the red tape come, it becomes a negotiation.” But after a month marked by one disaster after another, it’s hard to see how Uber’s defiant, confrontational attitude hasn’t blown up in its face. And those disasters mask one key, critical issue: Uber is doomed because i
Read MoreThe Ford Fiesta ST is one of our most beloved hot hatches, which makes sense because it is Small and Quick and Good. Now Ford is attempting to make it even Gooder, with an all-new ST based on the seventh-generation Fiesta that is less small than before but promises to be even better. Also, it’s down to three cylinders instead of four.
Read MoreAs I’m sitting here, cautiously enjoying the freakishly warm February in New York City, it’s easy to forget that it gets, like, properly cold in other places. Places like Russia, where even a poor little Lada can’t escape the murderous ice.
Read MoreI tried drawing rough renditions of some cars off the top of my head in this internet image generator based on 2,000 images of cats and accidentally opened a portal straight into nightmarish hell.
Read MoreFirst, let me just say that the town of Guildford here in Surrey, part of the Greater London Built-Up Areas, is lovely and charming. But I have to admit, after a little bit of auto-snooping around, I’m saddened and confused because the car-scape of this place is so aggressively, relentlessly boring. I’ll back this up with photographic evidence.
Read MoreThe Audi R8 is now a stable member of the not-quite-supercars club, so it’s heard to really remember just how bizarre it looked when it went on sale a decade ago.
Read MorePromising one seat, fat tires and a “drag mode,” here is the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon in all its glory.
Read MoreIn an attempt to control, survey and keep track of the movements of the population in Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, the Chinese government has ordered every single car in the region to install a GPS tracker.
Read MoreIf you look at the front and rear bumpers on many new cars, you’ll notice little squares and circles about the size of potato chips sitting right there in the plastic bumper covers. Don’t feel bad if you don’t know why they’re there! I’m about to tell you.
Read MoreThe new Ford GT, America’s most anticipated new supercar, has just become a contender in the lightweight super-exclusive market that has, until now, been dominated by the likes of the Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. And from the looks of things, the competition has a lot to be afraid of.
Read MoreEver wanted to run a car magazine? Ever wondered what it’s like and what it takes? Now’s your chance to ask the guy running Autoweek, Rory Carroll, anything you want. He’s here in the office and happy to answer your questions.
Read MoreThe Mazda Cosmo of the 1980s was notable for offering a choice of a gasoline four-cylinder, a diesel, or a rotary engine. But if you ask me, there’s only one way to go.
Read MoreTwenty years ago, if you had said that Porsche would make an SUV, people would’ve laughed in your face and chased you out of the bar. Now, it’s 2017, Cayennes dot our streets and Suicide Squad became an Oscar-nominated film. Anything can happen, it seems! But what about the companies that haven’t made an SUV yet?
Read MoreIn a conference call to discuss Tesla’s fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, the automaker’s co-founder, billionaire and aspirational Martian Elon Musk continued to push back on reports of an ongoing unionization effort at the company’s California factory. Musk said there’s “obviously quite a strong effort” by the UAW to unionize Tesla, but he thinks it wouldn’t benefit his workers.
Read MoreA casual look through car renting service Turo yields some pretty sweet and unusual stuff. Why rent a Nissan Sentra at the airport when you can rent some local enthusiast’s Porsche instead? It’s easy to get wrapped up in fantasies of having rare and cool cars to drive for a weekend, but how does the reality insurance for everything work out? What happens if it’s your car up for rent, or you’re renting someone else’s vehicle? I spoke with Turo to find out.
Read MoreHarrison Ford, carpenter, actor and plane man, was involved in a “potentially serious incident” last week when he landed on a taxiway instead of a runway at John Wayne Airport here in Orange County, flying right over a passenger jet. Now we have video to show how close he got.
Read MoreKong, a large inflatable gorilla, was stolen from a Texas car dealership this weekend. His handlers, Corpus Christi Fiat, are concerned that if he is not returned home he may pose a danger by offering HUGE SAVINGS to those that may not qualify for such discounts.
Read MoreMy family and friends don’t understand why I buy rusty, dilapidated vehicles. “Why not purchase something that doesn’t look like it just came out of a junkyard?” they ask. The answer to that question is complex, and requires an examination of what it is that makes a car beautiful.
Read MoreYou are not imagining it: you are getting older. Your metabolism is slowing down by the hour. Your wrinkles are showing. You’re not sleeping enough. And your commute to work is genuinely getting longer.
Read MoreIf McLaren is going to hop onto the Drift Mode bandwagon, they have to test it out somehow. Perhaps the most enviable man in the world is McLaren Automotive Chief Test Driver Chris Goodwin, who gets to use sweet sideways action to shake down McLaren’s newest offerings, including the upcoming 720S.
Read MoreLast week, I was on a flight to California, flipping through the various movies I could watch on the headrest. Boogie Nights was available. Great movie! Thing is, more than a few parts of it might have made the family sitting next to me a little uncomfortable.
Read MoreYou can expect a few things from car documentaries: vintage racing footage, statements from legends and incredible car porn. The new McLaren film seems like it will promise all three.
Read MoreThe Infiniti G20 probably wasn’t a great car. But it was a good car. And I’m always kind of happy to see decent ones running around.
Read MoreTo be fair to BMW, California doesn’t usually get this much rain. Audi’s social media team isn’t here to play fair though.
Read MoreYou can take your League of Extraordinary Gentleman and your Knights of the Round Table and whatever other groups with cool names and banish them from the kingdom or whatever, because there’s a new angry little Toyota Yaris and it’s built by the Gazoo Racing Masters of the Nurburgring.
Read MoreLending subprime auto loans to drivers has reached its highest point in a decade, and U.S. auto debt hit a record $1.16 trillion in 2016. This spells bad news for automakers, who may soon be the victims of their own generous deal-making in the next financial crisis.
Read MoreHey America! It’s our birthday, friendly neighbor! Care to come along for the party? We’re turning 150, but our Prime Minister is young, hip, and sexy. And possibly high. We’re having a kickass auto show in Toronto to celebrate. Come on, it’ll be fun! We’ve got truckloads of poutine for y’a and we’re paying for the Labatt 50.
Read MoreIt’s easy to understand the appeal of crash tests. They look incredible in that I-can’t-look-away trainwreck sort of way, and it’s easy to rank them when you’re off looking for a new car to buy. But the crash testers at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety outlined a simpler way of cutting fatal crashes in half: wearing your damn seat belt.
Read MoreSo, apparently there’s a car show going on in Canada this week. By now, you’re all aware that it’s the place where you’ll find the most stunning new cars in North America, not crossovers and robots. It’s also the place where Aston Martin promised us the future of cars won’t suck with their insane AM-RB 001 hypercar. As far as cars go, the Canadian International Auto Show is kicking ass this year.
Read MoreTiff Needell is no ordinary driver, but then a Vauxhall Maloo VXR8 is no ordinary ute. The former has raced in Formula One, the latter has a supercharged Chevy LSA V8 good for 537bhp. Together they’re good enough to pass nearly everything else on track.
Read MoreToday, traffic app Inrix published the results of a massive year-long study of traffic around the world. At the top of the list is that beacon of automotive paradise, Los Angeles. This should come as little surprise to anyone who has ever driven in LA, mostly because they are probably reading this article on their phone while stuck on the 5.
Read MoreTesla founder Elon Musk’s fascination with building a tunnel under Los Angeles has captured the fawning attention of the tech press. Between boring profiles and inside looks at Elon’s Tunnel, no one asked: Has this thing even received regulatory approval? Nope, says LA Weekly.
Read MoreSometime back in 1977, what is generally remembered to be a white Jeep Wagoneer was parked in a garage in Truro, MA, near the tip of Cape Cod. That Jeep and the garage it was in were filled and covered in sand from a shifting dune, and have remained entombed, like the great Pharaoh AMCenaten, for four decades. On Friday, though, it will finally be free.
Read MoreIf you were disappointed in the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, and its focus on the new Toyota Camry and promises that cars were really, really built in America, you weren’t alone. But this week is the 2017 Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto, Canada, and it may be the best place to find incredible new cars in one place in North America right now.
Read MoreI am not above temptation. I too sometimes think of throwing it all away for Volkswagen Corrado ownership.
Read MoreThe Ferrari LaFerrari is no doubt a stunning machine, but if you were worried it looked too, uh, traditional for whatever reason, it looks like Ferrari’s Special Projects division is cooking up something weird enough to suit your needs.
Read MoreFor every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So it stands to reason that for every 911 that Singer has meticulously “re-imagined” there is another craftsman who takes a classic Porsche and goes in a completely opposite direction.
Read MoreHello, my darlings. How are you? Have you been driving like champions every day, like I humbly suggest to you on a regular basis? It’s been so long since we’ve talked, you know, just you and me! I wanted to let you all know about some changes and openings around here at Jalopnik. Perhaps you’re even the person for the job.
Read MoreThe 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, a 650-horsepower Camaro, will max out at 198 miles per hour. Yes, a stock Camaro will do nearly 200 miles an hour. Two. Hundred. Miles. An. Hour. Camaro.
Read MoreAre sports games not your thing? Or, perhaps, are you too disappointed with the world around you to even pay attention to them—or anything else, really? This guy, too. Things appear to be so bad, in fact, that he deliberately brought in the owner’s manual for his Volvo and read it during a basketball game.
Read MoreHow bad were the recent storms in Southern California? Ask the owners of the cars that fell into sinkholes—including a fire truck—as rain pummeled the area’s roadways over the past few days.
Read MoreSomehow, despite our obsession with its delightful insanity, all we’ve seen of the 2018 Honda Civic Type R thus far has been a prototype. But that will all change soon, as Honda announced that the production version of the U.S.-bound Type R will roll on into the Geneva Motor Show next month.
Read MoreI previously wrote about my confusion over Lotus dredging up a one-off Lotus Evora ‘themed’ around the famous Esprit that everyone loved from 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me. I said the Evora itself was good. I also said that such a tribute right now would not make any sense.
Read MoreDodge has been teasing the Challenger SRT Demon for months now, and all we know so far is that it will suck a lot of air, have some wide-ass tires, and it can be ordered without the back seats or the passenger seat. Yep, one seat. Anyway, this might be it.
Read MoreLately I’ve been depressed at the kind of future we’re heading into: cars that will drive themselves, simulated engine noises, the disappearance of rumbling V8s and natural aspiration, crossovers, climate change, fake news—it’s all going straight to shit, isn’t it?
Read MoreThe Iraqi military, backed by a whole bunch of allies, have been fighting ISIS to reclaim Mosul, in the north of the country, for months. The city is still embattled, but a few determined individuals are bringing car culture to the streets anyway, with an impromptu drift show and video.
Read MoreOh, hey, look: it’s the BMW M2. You’re aware of this car, yes? A rear-drive, two-door and 365-horsepower sporty thing for tracky stuff. You get nice creature comforts inside, but BMW is now pulling a Porsche and taking them away and then selling that simplified version of the car to you for more money.
Read MoreI have a confession to make: I’ve always hated how my Mercedes-AMG GT R was confined to solid ground only. There are so many new and undiscovered places to explore when you can cross the seas. Places like the Dominican Republic. Honduras. Venezuela. Cigarette Racing came to the rescue.
Read MoreNew Miami, a tiny town in Ohio with a population under 2,500, has been absolutely raking in the cash with its traffic cameras, citing over 45,000 people in just 15 months for a total of $3 million according to local news channel WLWT5. But after a recent class action lawsuit, the money from those citations is going back to the people. Viva la revolución.
Read MoreEver get your car stuck in the snow? It’s no fun. And getting a car unstuck from snow is often a messy, difficult affair that often doesn’t even work at all. Still, no matter how stuck your car is, having the end result of your attempts to free your car be that you get locked out of your running, in gear car, and that car is now a smoldering wreck would suggest that you’ve done everything profoundly and dramatically wrong. Like this guy did.
Read MoreThe eighth season of Archer, called Archer: Dreamworld, is completely redesigned to be set in a 1947 noir-style detective story, which is likely the product of whatever coma Archer is probably in after the ending of last season. Because of course he’d be a detective in a noir story.
Read MoreWhen I first learned of the Bugatti Chiron, the Veyron successor, my immediate thought was that it would probably be a really slow car. Thank God a tweet helped me turn that ass-backwards belief around.
Read MoreThe National Safety Council’s annual report on traffic deaths estimates that 40,200 people died in U.S. car crashes in 2016, which is up six percent from 2015 estimates, and a total increase of a terrifying 14 percent in just two years.
Read MoreNames are important. Names represent you and they stand in for you when you’re not around. Some names sound great when they’re in Italian, but don’t always translate well to English.
Read MoreOne reason that Dodge is unleashing the Challenger Demon upon us could be because of situations like these, when a Hellcat lines up against the Tesla Model SP100D and not only does the Dodge lose the race, but also its drive-shaft all over the track.
Read MoreHow do fistfuls of duck calls hold up to an 841-horsepower Corvette’s exhaust? What about the oversized pipes of a modified Ram 1500 truck, or a supercharger’s blow-off valve? Behold, all that is quack.
Read MoreRecently I came across this ad for a Volkswagen Iltis, the interesting VW jeep that was the starting point for Audi’s legendary Quattro all-wheel drive system. While I was sliding down the Iltisian rabbit hole, I learned about something really odd: there was a version of the Iltis badged as a Citroën. From there I learned about a whole bizarre trio of badge-engineered cars, all of which owe their origins to politics and national pride and other related nonsense. Join me in this tedious voyage of
Read MoreAre you an astronaut? I didn’t think so. Because unless you are trained to strap your ass on a rocket and go into outer space, you aren’t ready for the incredible launch force of the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.
Read MoreGood morning. It has come to my attention that Ferrari has released a new car called the 812 Superfast. It has also come to my attention that one of our staffers is skeptical of the name, calling it “silly.” This is incorrect.
Read MoreThe rugged men and women of the American Southwest will tell you: no car will do but the 1978 Plymouth Sapporo.
Read MoreFerrari has replaced the F12 Berlinetta, a car with a name that’s both cool and beautiful, with the new naturally aspirated V12 Ferrari 812 Superfast. Why did we bring that name back up?
Read MoreA regional jet struck a very unlucky deer during takeoff out of Charlotte, NC, springing a fuel leak in the right wing and forcing the plane to return for an emergency landing. Birds? That makes sense. But a deer?
Read MoreBeing a huge James Bond nerd, this latest teaser for whatever Lotus has planned for the upcoming Geneva Motor Show next month should have me very excited. Except I’m not, because if it’s what I think it is, it’s practically irrelevant already.
Read MoreThe first John Wick movie was about a retired hitman for a mob-like society losing his wife and then having his car stolen and his puppy killed. John Wick: Chapter 2 is about him getting his car back, coming out of retirement and keeping his new puppy safe. It’s better! Everything is better, and there’s so much ass-beating along the way.
Read MoreThe German Tesla owner who sacrificed the rear bumper of his Model S to bring an unconscious man’s runaway car to a halt will get free, expedited repairs thanks to the kindness and generosity of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk. And probably also his P.R. team.
Read MoreWe know that the Ford Mustang GT350 is a fire-breathing monster of a muscle car producing 529 horsepower from a flat-plane crank V8 and a remarkable 8,250 RPM rev limit. But did you know it has holes in the exhaust tips? If you’re thinking they’re for exhaust gases or fluids or even for a thermodynamic function, you’re wrong. It has nothing to do with the engine whatsoever.
Read MoreI’ve bought a number of cars on Craigslist, and while generally it’s worked out, dealing with almost any transaction on Craigslist comes with a certain amount of trepidation. That especially goes for what might be the most expensive car ever to be offered for sale on Craigslist, this $1.2 million Bugatti Chiron, brand new with eight miles on the odometer. Scam? That’s what I think, and here’s why.
Read MoreHow many times have you driven across a bridge and thought, “What are the chances that this just collapsed under me?” And then you gave yourself a shake and then thought, “Nah! It’s probably structurally sound!” Well, maybe. Maaaaybe.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, America’s auto safety regulator, issued a recall of Lamborghinis earlier this month because a faulty fuel system could potentially lead to a fire. In other news, water is wet and the earth is round.
Read MoreOne of the interesting things about McLaren’s current lineup of street cars is that all of them use the same 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 engine. It’s tweaked in various ways for the 650s, 675LT and even the P1, where it gets a hybrid system for crazy power. But for the McLaren 720S, McLaren’s packing an all-new V8 to go with it. Will it be fast? Yes. Answer’s yes.
Read MoreI still really dig the first Lexus IS, especially in SportCross form. Can we forgive it for the silver taillights it foisted upon the tuner world for the better part of a decade? I say yes.
Read MoreTo mine own dearest Nissan Rogue,
Read MoreIn a move that I can’t say I’d have predicted, PSA Peugeot-Citroen is buying the Ambassador name and related branding and trademarks from Hindustan Motor’s parent company, C K Birla. What they’re planning to do with the legendary (well, in India) Ambassador name hasn’t been revealed, but, of course, we can guess.
Read MoreThe death of Ku Klux Klan leader Frank Ancona in Missouri has been a bit of a problem for a Honda dealership in Kansas due to an unfortunate coincidence.
Read MoreRoughly two years after he crashed a plane on a golf course, NBC is reporting that Harrison Ford was “involved in a potentially serious incident” on Monday while cruising in his single engine Husky. Harrison!
Read MoreThe unsung heroes of any over-commercialized Hallmark holiday like Valentine’s Day are the delivery guys who get stuck hauling all those tacky pink gifts to your door. It’s a stressful job this time of year, which is why we’re glad to see this mailman blowing off some steam with some donuts.
Read MoreIt’s not yet March nor is it the Geneva Motor Show, but here is the new Pagani Huayra Roadster before us. Its silky curves emboldened by that familiar carbon-fiber pattering, drenched in an inky blue. Its roof now cut and open so you can show yourself wearing your Roadster with pride.
Read MoreIf you want to buy a car from a company that actually, genuinely seems to give a damn about you, then I think Suzuki may have just proved themselves to be worthy of your business. I say this because it appears that Suzuki has issued a recall for a minor issue affecting some of their 1996 Cappuccino roadsters. And by “some,” I mean “one.”
Read MoreAbandon all faith, ye who read this post. The Mitsubishi Eclipse name is, in fact, returning—as a crossover called the Eclipse Cross, per Automotive News. It’s an Eclipse I wish was a mirage, but not a Mirage, because for the love of all things holy, don’t do this to the Mirage nameplate, too.
Read MoreOne of the most hated design “features” of the 996-generation Porsche 911 was its soupy-egg-yolk headlamps, borrowed from the original Porsche Boxster. Judging from these spy shots of the 2019 Bentley Continental GT, Bentley saw the 996 and demanded MORE SOUP.
Read MoreThis whole Volkswagen/Audi diesel cheating debacle has been a whirlwind for current owners trying to figure out which is the best path to take. The choice is especially tough if you are struggling to make the payments on your car—but don’t want to sell it and miss out on the restitution check.
Read MoreMuch as they try, it is impossible to kill the Mitsubishi Lancer. Everyone’s favorite long-in-the-tooth economy compact lives on after all, but only in China and Taiwan as a new Outlander-nosed refresh called the “Grand Lancer.”
Read MoreThere’s a new used car sales “startup” company and their gimmick is to have you buy the used car online and then come pick it up out of a vending machine.
Read MoreThe Great North American Mustang is a beautiful, powerful, but voracious beast. Normally, crowds at American Cars and Coffee meetups are enough to sate their crowd-hunger, but it now appears they have expanded their hunting grounds South of the U.S. border. Specifically, into the city of Rio Bravo, in Mexico.
Read MoreYou may recall the story of one Long Island man’s struggle to keep his small plane in his driveway. In that story, I was very pro-guy-with-plane, and I still am. Sadly, though, the town of Oceanside, Long Island, ended up being quite anti-guy-with-plane, and recently his plane was dismantled and removed.
Read MoreWhen you see a Ferrari or a Lamborghini drive by, rarely do you think, “That’s probably fake.” Believe it or not, sometimes they are, and once again a shop in Spain is set to pay the price.
Read MoreLook, we’re all wondering what the 2018 Toyota Supra will look like, scrutinizing the pictures of the camouflaged test mules and commissioning renderings with money from a paper route we took just for this purpose. Sometimes this eagerness makes us do foolish things. Things like our friends at Motor1 saying that an allegedly leaked brochure is the “real deal.”
Read MoreRather than your typical “Hi, welcome aboard United Airlines Flight whatever, remember to put your oxygen mask on before assisting others” greeting, a pilot in street clothes welcomed passengers aboard Saturday with a rant on politics and her divorce. Just another reason why it’s always fun to fly the friendly skies!
Read MoreUpon buying a new Lexus in November, a Houston man dropped the car off at a local repair shop for some repairs. But when he stopped by the shop recently to make one of his biweekly payments, a local news outlet reports that it had an eviction sign out front and all of the cars were gone—including his.
Read MoreWe have seen some absolutely mind-boggling acceleration times from both hyper-exotic sports and fully electric cars. But where is the limit? This video uses some complex equations to give us the answer.
Read MoreSure, the Tesla Model S can somewhat drive for you, but it has more talent than that. This thing could practically enter an Olympic figure-skating contest.
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year: local news stations everywhere are sending poor meteorologists out into snowstorms to discuss hazardous road conditions. Luckily for all of us, a WWLP reporter from Springfield, Massachusetts, got some help from a leafy man-creature lovingly dubbed “Pot Sasquatch.”
Read MoreThe Weather Channel just pulled off some weird 3D magic trick right there on the computer screen to prove how important it is to clear the snow and ice completely off of your car before driving. The future is informative and weird.
Read MoreFew things are as awkward as getting into the wrong car with a random stranger at the wheel, and few things are as scary as some random person yanking on your car doors. But it’s happening all around the country, The Wall Street Journal reports. And it’s all thanks to ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft.
Read More“How are you getting home?” Freddy Hernandez, my esteemed colleague and terrible gift-giver asked me, after gifting me a dilapidated Yugo. “The regular route, on the highway,” I told him. “I wouldn’t do that,” he told me. “Really wouldn’t do that.”
Read MoreLet’s pretend the writers here at Jalopnik all lived in Oregon. Let’s also pretend the Oregon State House decided they wanted to bankrupt all of us. This recently proposed bill, HB2877, would probably be a pretty good way to get that done. Essentially, this bill proposes a tax of $1,000, payable every five years, on all cars 20 years or older. I’ve never been happier to not be in Oregon. Update: It’s dead, we won!
Read MoreWe didn’t send anyone to the Chicago Auto Show because, well, frankly, what’s the point? Detroit was just last month, we’re all still cold from that, and no automakers are revealing anything of substance in the Windy City. Well, almost nobody! Volkswagen may have revealed their fifth reborn-Microbus concept at Detroit, but Chicago has an amazing reveal, too! A Lego VW Atlas!
Read MoreWe recently caught a glimpse of the Lucid Air cruising about the streets of San Francisco, but the Californian start-up automaker offered up something far more visually pleasing: a cut of its sleek sedan drifting through the snowy roads of Minnesota. These guys have the right idea.
Read MoreAirless tires have been getting lots of press over the last few years, with Michelin’s “Tweel” being touted as the most amazing bit of tire tech since the invention of the radial. Except that it really isn’t, because a very similar airless-tire concept was under development in the 1930s and ‘40s.
Read MoreAt the same time as a worker at Tesla’s California factory is going public with concerns of an alleged litany of “preventable” work-related injuries, the automaker is quietly challenging citations and fines for alleged workplace violations at the company’s west Michigan tool and die plant, according to records obtained by Jalopnik.
Read MoreWouldn’t you love to skip out on tolls? Some cops in New York City apparently sure do! A new investigation by Inside Edition found officers were avoiding toll and traffic cameras using illegal flash-reflective plastic covers on their personal license plates, according to a summary of the probe by the New York Post.
Read MoreYou may have been looking for me. I am not there. I am away, here, secluded at my Space House living on the Ghia Planet.
Read MoreWe aren’t following the Chicago Auto Show too closely because it’s basically a showcase of “special edition” cars with new paint packages. However, Chrysler debuted the new BraunAbility Chrysler Pacifica, and believe me when I say it’s big news for drivers or family members with disabilities.
Read MoreTrying to figure out the ‘first’ of anything is a tricky business, and is rarely as simple as it seems. And yet I keep finding myself drawn to things that may be automotive firsts. I won’t say that this ad for a Ford dealer confusingly named “Ferraris” is the first animated car, but it’s likely pretty close.
Read MoreA Chinese court has acted with “leniency” and jailed former FAW chairman and party secretary Xu Jianyi for 11 and a half years on corruption charges, Reuters reports. He ran China’s second-largest car company, one with ties to both Volkswagen and Toyota.
Read MoreThe updated 2018 Ford Mustang: is it good or is it bad? I can’t say. I haven’t seen it in person. But it’s on display at the Chicago Auto Show, and from that we got our closest look at the car yet. You decide whether it’s an improvement over the old car or not.
Read MoreA man claiming to be a Tesla employee raised concerns today about working conditions at the automaker’s only plant, saying workplace injuries have been persistent problems, claiming workers are underpaid compared to counterparts in the rest of the industry, and while dedicated to Tesla he feels he’s working “for a company of the future under working conditions of the past.”
Read MoreOver the weekend, an ad popped up on Craigslist, as they often do, of a man looking to sell his Saturn. That in itself isn’t terribly remarkable. It’s the scene that he’s leaving behind that piqued my interest.
Read MoreThe next time you walk down a sidewalk and come to a street crossing, you may notice some strange bumps and patterns in the concrete. I always thought these were for water drainage or extra traction. I was wrong! The real reason is much more complex and fascinating.
Read MoreDo you have a car that’s a popular target for thieves, but have avoided installing any sort of theft-prevention devices because you can’t find anything that resembles a 19th-century anti-masturbation device to suit your tastes? Well, thanks to an ingenious Russian inventor, your problems are solved.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is going to suck, like really suck. It will have largest cold-air intake ever installed, appropriately called “Air Grabber.” Does that mean the Demon will make a lot more horsepower? Who knows! But suck it will.
Read MoreI’m not saying the Alfa Romeo Carabo is the best concept car ever. I’m merely saying the case could be made.
Read MoreMcLaren claims the P1's carbon ceramic brakes can stomp from 124 mph to a dead stop in 4.5 seconds. Just thinking about that makes my lunch feel loose. But the car also uses its brakes in another interesting way, as our friend at Engineering Explained breaks down.
Read MoreWhen Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced the Model 3 concept in March of last year, he promised that early production would begin by July 2017 as long as suppliers could keep up. Tesla has now reportedly informed suppliers it will be retooling its factory for a test assembly of the Model 3 on February 20th.
Read MoreFirst, I just want to go on record stating that I love front trunks, or, as Tesla likes to call them, ‘frunks.’ Despite my love for frunks, I have to admit that a frunk that’s not really able to be securely locked isn’t that useful a trunk. And it appears that all Tesla frunks from 2014 on are not secure, so be careful what you put in there.
Read MoreThe main issue around Dieselgate for most people is how are all of VW’s cheater cars going to get fixed, but there’s a second question of when VW’s executives found out about the cheat and if there was an internal coverup. New news on that front involves backstabbing, lies and a former ambassador to Israel.
Read MoreIf we were to fall through the ice, the Swedish instructor said, we should flash our lights so that people on the shore would be able to see us.
Read MoreIf you live in the northeastern U.S., get ready. Old Man Winter has unleashed Winter Storm Niko, and Niko has just filled up a sock with snowballs with rocks at the center and is about to give the whole upper right corner of America a brutal, protracted beating. But that doesn’t mean you and your car have to just take it! You can still drive, if you follow some of our sage advice.
Read MoreBuick, the marque responsible for one of the most incredible beater jumps ever caught on video, has delivered once again. This time, a Buick Century hits a snowbank and gets ridiculous air, leading to a truly insane landing. How does this car not flip over? Watch and see.
Read MoreYou can have your AMG GT sports cars and their silly alphabet iterations, your insanely opulent Maybachs, your hulking G-Wagens. I say the 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63 S wagon is the best car in the Mercedes lineup. It’s coming to America and it sounds glorious.
Read MoreOne of the biggest unanswered questions about Mopar’s latest demonic-spawnmobile, the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, is just how many angry devil horses will be snorting fire under that hood. We’ve established that 757 horsepower would be a letdown, because don’t riding mowers have that much now? A picture posted to Instagram suggests 900 HP, which would be suitably unholy.
Read MoreI have never heard of the Zagato-designed Perana Z-One, but one is for sale now. I have seen its guppy-looking face and it’s lovely two-tone curves and we’re going to talk about it.
Read MoreThis is an official Alfa Romeo photo and I swear their photographer is trolling them and made the headlights look extra huge and bulgy.
Read MoreJust when you thought the action couldn’t be bigger, the sounds couldn’t be louder and the explosions couldn’t get explodey-er, the Fast and Furious franchise will take on its biggest obstacle yet: real life.
Read MoreSomebody buy Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller a sandwich. Volkswagen allegedly is planning to cap its chief executive pay at €10 million (approximately $10.7 million), reports German publication Handelsblatt, citing an unnamed source.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Group’s most bonkers and opulent division is hoping that their Bugatti Chiron hypercar can surpass the status of the legendary Veyron. While we won’t know the full performance potential of the Chiron until someone tests it, a look inside the factory that builds these amazing machines reveals an incredible attention to detail.
Read MoreVintage good looks and three-wheeled goodness are some of the most defining aspects of a Morgan. And Morgan delighted us further by making an all-electric model, the EV3. But there was one problem: it was for adults only. Not anymore!
Read MoreI’ll get this out of the way right now; this is not a real ad for Lamborghini. They don’t do commercials for obvious reasons. This is supposed to be some sort of spoof, and while the production looks convincing, I’m not sure I can find the humor in it.
Read MoreAfter a timid response to growing opposition against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries from CEO Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX have finally joined an amicus brief filed by 96 other companies last night.
Read MoreSafety I do not desire. Mileage is my master. Where then, I ask, where have all the horrible hoopties gone?
Read MoreJump seats in the back of a station wagon used to be pretty common. I grew up facing backwards out of the window of a Ford Country Squire, for example, and these sorts of seating setups were common in all sorts of cars, even diminutive ones like the Saab 95. If just a few more people remembered these wonderful seats, a Tesla owner in Santa Clarita may have been spared a gun to the face.
Read MoreEvery decent living mammal on the planet knows that if you hit a car with your car because of some mistake you made, you pull over. I think this basic idea is carved into the Hammurabi Stele, even. That’s not what happened at all here, as a terrible Toyota Camry driver hits a Subaru BRZ, tries to run away, and learns about understeer.
Read MoreLet’s be honest, the Tokyo Auto Salon isn’t exactly known for its high number of classic vehicles. Instead it’s known for all the utter insanity of its modification. When a classic shows up, it sticks out. And the WWork rich blue Triumph TR3A is a Rembrandt at a hipster modern art gallery.
Read MoreIt’s cheap. It will last forever. It’s reasonably fun to wring out. It’s modular in design, with shocking levels of room for all your stuff. It gets great fuel economy. Is the mid-1990s Honda Civic hatch the only car you’ll ever need? The case could be made.
Read MoreEarlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement for owners of about 80,000 Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche 3.0-liter V6 diesel vehicles that cheated on emissions tests. Here’s everything you need to know about that settlement.
Read MoreGeneral Motors’ European branch just revealed the 2017 Opel Insignia Sports Tourer, the same wagon that we spotted cruising around Los Angeles a while back. Why was this gorgeous European long roof in California? Because chances are very good that this is our next Buick Regal wagon.
Read MoreI need my coupes huge, opulent, powered by V12s, and with check engine lights that never ever go away, no matter what you fix.
Read MoreFaraday Future hasn’t had the best start. It’s displayed shells of cars, had major monetary issues and, most recently, cut the size of its planned factory by nearly 80 percent. But when Reuters reported plans for a huge cutback in its lineup, the company wanted us all to know: they are definitely not doing that. Nope.
Read MoreNissan has had a great history with its iconic Z sports car. After the excellent 300ZX was discontinued in 1996, and before the 350Z was introduced in 2002, Nissan came up with an odd and underpowered concept that thankfully never made it to production.
Read MoreRon Hackenburger has been collecting cars for about 50 years. He’d always wanted to make his own automotive museum, but things didn’t quite turn out that way. Even so, his collection is wonderfully diverse and full of all kinds of great, interesting cars, many of which may end up in museum collections after all.
Read MoreBack in 2013, tuning company Callaway Cars promised us that it would soon begin making shooting-brake conversions on C7 Chevrolet Corvettes. Soon didn’t exactly come soon enough, but here we are, nearly four years later, staring at the face of Callaway’s Corvette wagon. Just look at this beauty!
Read MoreThere are some people that are scared of driving a small car, especially on our highways filled with trucks and SUVs. While physics might not be on your side, modern safety features mean that your ability to survive a wreck in a small car is exponentially better than in the past.
Read MoreU.K. resident Peter Maddox, 84, just wanted to park his car at his village home, and he told The Sun locals supported him parking it outside—there is no other place to park, he said. But visitors didn’t like a yellow car in their Instagram shots of the village, and somebody busted out its windows to let him know that.
Read MoreIf the answer is always Miata, has anyone ever asked which Miata?
Read MoreSteve McQueen’s car chase in the 1968 movie Bullitt is still reckoned to be one of the most epic automotive action moments of all time. It also made McQueen’s dark green fastback the most famous Mustang in Hollywood, save perhaps Gone In 60 Seconds’ “Eleanor.” Now it looks like Ford might be planning a new commemorative edition of the car for the near future.
Read MoreEven today the McLaren F1 is one of the most stunning cars on Earth, jaw-dropping in the way it binds its huge top speed and price tag in such a small jewel-like design. But watch a husband and wife take delivery of one and you’ll see how wild these things were when new.
Read MoreThieves reportedly made off with a haul of engines worth $3.7 million from Jaguar Land Rover’s production facility in Solihull, England. They allegedly cruised right by by security cameras in two trips, using a stolen big rig. The thieves are apparently still at large and the parts unaccounted for.
Read MoreI lived a deprived childhood in which my parents never allowed a gaming console in the house. It wasn’t until high school that I was even able to pirate some bootleg copy of Need for Speed 5 onto our old desktop. My experience with racing games, then, is mostly defined by desire. I’ve spent most of my life wishing to be playing something else. That is, it was until recently.
Read MoreBut is that a bad thing, necessarily?
Read MoreOkay, quick quiz: you stop at a stoplight when a screaming weirdo punches you through your car window, then threatens you and your family with a gun. What do you do? If you’re Zach Waring, you just drive over the guy’s car in your lifted F-150. There. Problem solved.
Read MoreIn 2016, it was disappointing to see the very few Honda vehicles at Tokyo Auto Salon. And, it has to be admitted, I still have a great deal of disappointment that so few ‘90s Hondas like Civics, CRXs, and Preludes showed up at 2017, too. However, a number of modified S660s, Honda’s tiny kei car roadster, were everywhere.
Read MoreDespite protests driving Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to back out of President Trump’s economic advisory council following last weekend’s hasty Muslim immigration ban, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, will ignore overwhelming pressure to do the same and instead voice his objections directly to the President.
Read MoreThe past week brought a crush of protests across the U.S. in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump that effectively banned Muslims from seven countries from entering the U.S. Against this backdrop, on Saturday, ride-hailing giant Uber—valued at an insane $69 billion—entered the picture.
Read MoreThere is a rumor floating around that the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon will make a measly 757 horsepower. If this is true, this would be a huge letdown given the amount of hype Dodge has been generating for this car.
Read MoreFacing intense criticism over his link to Donald Trump and his company’s reputation for doing utterly shitty things, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Thursday stepped down from the president’s economic advisory council.
Read MoreI was both blessed and cursed yesterday, as my co-workers thought it would be hilarious to gift me a $1500 1991 Yugo GV. As it is a cheap as hell 26-year-old Yugo, there are some things wrong with it. Wait, no. Scratch that. There a lot of things wrong with it. Here’s everything I could find.
Read MoreTata is best known globally for their remarkable $3,000 car, the Tata Nano. Tata isn’t crazy about being so synonymous with ultra-cheap cars, which is partially why they’re launching a new performance-oriented sub-brand called Tamo, presumably from Tata Motors. Or maybe Talking Mongoose? It’s not clear. They’ll be showing their first concept at the Geneva Motor Show this year.
Read MoreWhen Joshua Brown was killed last summer after his Tesla Model S in Autopilot mode crashed into a tractor trailer, the incident was compounded by the claim that he was watching a Harry Potter film at the time. But a new report says police found no evidence that’s true, according to The Verge.
Read MoreAfter people stripped down their 2.0-liter Volkswagen diesels before turning them in for the buyback, the court decided to add a ton of verbiage in the new 3.0-liter Volkswagen settlement to forbid such tomfoolery. Here’s everything it says people cannot do to their cars.
Read MoreAt times, Tesla’s ceaseless quest to secure legislative approval for its preferred method of selling vehicles comes across as exceedingly quixotic, but the company on Thursday secured a minor victory in Indiana: Legislators passed a bill that bans the direct sales model in the state — except for Tesla.
Read MoreThe last Holden Commodore ever, like everything else from Australia, is seemingly out to kill you.
Read MoreRemember the Lykan Hypersport, the strange car that we first saw in the Furious 7 trailer? Well, here are some gorgeous photos of it frolicking in the UAE.
Read MoreWhile we’re sitting around and drumming our fingers, waiting for the McLaren 650S replacement next month, we’ve also learned of some news: McLaren is jumping on the bandwagon and will offer a Drift Mode in the upcoming supercar. Are all the things getting Drift Moded? It would appear so.
Read MoreAnyone who’s ever browsed the internet has probably come across a video in which someone (a Ford Mustang driver) spins out somewhere (outside a Cars and Coffee) and crashes into something (a crowd of teenage YouTubers). Sure, the drivers of these Mustangs are being idiots, but I also want to point out that it’s really easy to lose control of these cars. Too easy.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s buyback offer to owners of cheating diesel vehicles is a generous one, including payment of the vehicle’s pre-scandal trade-in value plus a hefty cash payout of between $5,100 and about $10,000. Now, some “hoarders” say they’re using this deal as a way to make some serious coin, so they’re out rushing to buy up every TDI they can get their hands on.
Read More“What’s so bad about a little broken suspension?” you ask. This. This is what is very bad about broken suspension.
Read MoreOne of these days I’m gonna buy that SVT Contour, and you bastards won’t be able to stop me! Just you wait!
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Puma says he’s just too big for the small car. Let’s see if the big dog’s price for this little Brazilian cat might still be just right.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy C/K was customized to be even more visually entertaining than the Ferrari it once towed. Let’s see if this Truckarossa’s price is something equally entertaining.
Read MoreWhen most people get to a point in their lives where they feel they deserve a car like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW 740i it’s because they want to be swaddled in luxury, not have more work to do. That makes this car’s six-speed conversion kind of a puzzle, but will its price make everything fit?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Acura CL has a six-speed manual which is good. It also has almost 300K on the clock, which is not so good. Let’s see if its price tag balances out those two extremes.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s original Scirocco was admittedly not a perfect car, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe edition might just be its most perfect example. That’s only if however, its price makes perfect sense.
Read MoreWhen you really want to get out of town—and right now, who doesn’t—you could do far worse than to do so in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe International C-120 camper. That is of course, if its price hits home.
Read MoreWhile not everybody will agree on who should run their particular country, I think all nationalities can get behind today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Nissan President. That is of course, if this rare-in-the-U.S. JDM executive ride’s price doesn’t demand a recount.
Read MoreAccording to its ad, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche 911 has had “thousands in upgrades.” Some of those are under the radar—including a radar detector—but could they all add up to you seeing fit to pay its asking price?
Read MoreJust like a now sober but formerly wild college roommate, Toyota Corollas used to be fun. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 4A-GE wagon harkens back to those days, but does its fun come at too high a price?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota Land Cruiser has rust, enough that its seller warns that if you’re afraid of the creeping crud to stay away. He also says he’s priced the car accordingly. We’ll just have to see if there are holes in that assertion too.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche calls it “probably the most significant 914-6 find in recent years.” He’s certainly priced it as such, and we’ll now need to decide if we find that price to be too significant.
Read MoreFor those of you too impatient to wait for the next horsey Ford, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bronco is a nice blast from the past to tide you over. However, will this clean truck’s price have your enthusiasm ebbing?
Read MoreA Porsche executive was once asked why his company didn’t offer an entry-level car, to which he responded “we do, it’s called a used Porsche.” Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 944 is a used Porsche, but will it’s price let it level up?
Read MoreMercedes sedans are all about stately comportment. Corvettes are all about getting your Ya-Yas out. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes 250SE might be the best of both, that is if its price seals the deal.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Scirocco claims the model is the working man’s Porsche. That’s an interesting assertion considering the Scirocco’s history, but will this 16V’s price mean that it’s just too much work to buy?
Read MoreIt sure seems like Russia has been winning a lot of late. If you want to get on that winning team then maybe today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lada VFTS will be the way to go. That is, if its price isn’t a loser.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda RX4 says it has been in storage since all the way back in 1982. Let’s see if its present condition and price are enough to warrant waking up Rip Van Wankel.
Read MoreWhether it’s rabbit season or duck season, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Rabbit is one loony car-toon. Let’s see if the price on this bold mashed-up mid-enginer could make you even carrot all.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick Regal is described as a one-owner car, a pretty amazing feat for a 40-year old ride. Let’s see if you could be anywhere near as devoted to its modern-day price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercury Capri is a McLaren, but not THAT McLaren. Still, it’s pretty unique and historically relevant, so let’s check it out and see if its price makes it the Mac Daddy.
Read MoreIf you thought cars were an expensive hobby, check into the operating costs of a used prop plane. (It’s a lot.) Unless, apparently, you whip up your own aircraft from some plans drawn up about 90 years ago like the guy in this video.
Read MoreIn Porsche’s 911 lineup, the Turbo S is the quintessential everyday supercar, while the GT3 RS is the focused track weapon. Both have similar prices on paper. However, supply and demand economics makes the RS much more expensive. Is it really worth it?
Read MoreOn Sunday, Jalopnik posted a guide on how to understand NASCAR and the Daytona 500 under the sanctioning body’s new, complicated rules. The views on that post shot up and down in an almost unprecedented way during the race, plotting an astonishing graph of exactly when and how confused people were.
Read MoreI can’t think of a sport where rules are molested with as much glee and abandon as they are in motorsports. That’s part of what makes racing so great: the devious and clever ways that teams will attempt to squeeze out some kind of advantage are a fascinating part of the sport.
Read MoreAutonomous car racing is real and happening soon. From a technological standpoint it’s all quite impressive, but there’s one big problem: it sounds boring as all shit to watch. How do you make autonomous racing interesting? The answer is pretty clear: they need to blow each other up.
Read MoreAutonomous racing series Roborace finally showed off its first racing car—the appropriately named Robocar—at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We’ve seen the design in renders before, but they finally built a working car to behold. It’s looks a bit sharper all around than the renders and—dare I say it—much cooler in a proper racing livery.
Read MoreGood news, people who use technology like real-life 21st century humans: you’re finally going to see more Formula One content on your social media. F1 teams have been allowed to post short videos from the first week of testing. Best of all, this relaxed attitude towards mundane technology is expected to stay around.
Read MoreLeading a single-file line of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race cars across the finish line after a wild amount of lead changes in the final laps, Kurt Busch won the 2017 Daytona 500 for Stewart-Haas Racing. He then proceeded to do a celebratory burnout across the infield grass, tearing it right up.
Read MoreAfter a string of two crashes in a row, the Daytona 500 has done it again with 59 laps to go. Jamie McMurray is involved once again, turning the car of Chase Elliott into Michael McDowell, causing a gigantic pile-up on Daytona International Speedway.
Read MoreHere’s what happens when NASCAR’s Cup Series tries to go four-wide at Daytona where there’s only space for three cars abreast: one huge crash.
Read MoreAfter the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stage break of 2017, I just feel robbed. The first stage of today’s Daytona 500 ended on lap 60, and the second stage went green on lap 68. The caution break between stages eats up laps that count towards the race distance, which is a ridiculous waste of everyone’s time. Give us those eight laps back, NASCAR.
Read MoreAfter more than a stage and a half of racing in the Daytona 500—that’s 105 laps in new-NASCAR talk—a tire went down on Kyle Busch’s car and spun the No. 18 around, collecting bunch of cars and tearing them up. Afterward, Busch blamed and served a major burn to NASCAR’s “official” tire. That’ll be a nice fine.
Read MoreNASCAR CEO and chairman Brian France, who usually doesn’t publicly comment on competition issues in his sport, uncharacteristically instructed drivers not to block at the Daytona 500 drivers meeting, reports NBC Sports. The problem is, you have to keep the other drivers behind you somehow in order to win at a restrictor plate track like Daytona International Speedway. That’s...blocking.
Read MoreThe day is here: glorious, high-speed American stock-car racing is back for a new season. But that new season comes with a lot of changes, from a major rules overhaul to alarming driver swaps over the offseason. Let’s get you caught up on everything you need to know before the Daytona 500.
Read MoreThe biggest day in American stock-car racing is here, and you may have noticed that it’s going to look a whole lot different—and more complicated—this time around. Luckily, we’ve got your back. Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know about the Daytona 500 and the 2017 NASCAR season.
Read MoreEver since we’ve had both Red Bull and Scuderia Toro Rosso sharing the grid, it’s been hard at times to tell them apart, especially when they’re further away. They’re usually both dark blue with a red bull, although Toro Rosso’s has been a more stylized illustration of Red Bull’s logo-animal. This year, they’re thankfully very different.
Read MoreWe’ve seen the other nine teams’ Formula One cars for this year, so where is Scuderia Toro Rosso’s new STR12? Its launch today has been delayed slightly due to a problem with the Renault power unit on the team’s filming day, reports Motorsport.com. Uh-oh. Here we go again!
Read MoreAfter a couple photos of the real, in-the-flesh 2017 Haas Formula One car leaked yesterday, the team’s livery renders look sort of familiar. Now we know once and for all: this is the Haas VF-17 car that the first American F1 team since 1986 will use for their second season, and it looks pretty rad.
Read MoreJust 23 laps into the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway, a massive wreck collected nearly half of the field. That isn’t anything new at Daytona, but what is new is that NASCAR changed repair rules for the season—meaning a lot of those cars could be out of the race.
Read MoreIf you’ve watched any American stock-car racing lately, you might have noticed a few changes in NASCAR for the 2017 race season. But Circuit of The Americas chairman Bobby Epstein wants things to get even weirder in the future, because it sounds like he really, really wants NASCAR to come to Austin.
Read MoreFormula One is a sport of function over form if there was one, and the form Force India’s new VJM10 Formula One racer certainly could’ve turned out better in the front—or maybe not, according to Autosport. The VJM10's unique bump in its nose had to be there in order to exploit a certain part of the suspension rules.
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 MoreMatt Crafton was leading tonight’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race until a last-lap crash sent him flying through the air, letting Kaz Grala through to win the race. Eighteen-year-old Grala now becomes the youngest winner ever at Daytona in any of NASCAR’s national series.
Read MoreIf Cars 3's grim reminder of your slow descent into old age in trailer form didn’t already convince you that this is the must-see kids’ movie of the summer, maybe its cast will, if you’re a NASCAR fan. NASCAR announced that legends Richard Petty and Jeff Gordon will be voicing anthropomorphized cars in Cars 3, along with other current drivers and personalities.
Read MoreOne thing I dearly miss in the offseason is the roar of Formula One cars. While they’re not as loud as the V8s or V10s of eras past, the V6 turbo engines have slowly upped the volume back up to an acceptably rowdy level. Here’s what this year’s Ferrari SF70H sounds like. It’s finally decent again.
Read MoreOnce more, the much heralded 2017 Formula One season has not even started and already we have a question of which team came up with which loophole not-cheat first. A day after Mercedes showed off its how-many-wings-was-that car, Ferrari has shown its new racer with a very similar rear setup.
Read MoreHave you been kvetching over the lack of orange on a McLaren Formula One car for the past few years? Talking endlessly about how McLaren needs to have more than just a thin orange stripe? Speaking at length not about McLaren’s lack of performance, but about how you wish they would paint their car in the team’s iconic orange?
Read MoreThe Daytona 500 isn’t until Sunday, but Denny Hamlin and pole-sitter Chase Elliott already lead the points standings in the the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. That may sound odd, because this is the first time since 1971 that drivers have received points in qualifying races prior to the show on Sunday.
Read MoreThe 2017 Formula One season has not even started yet and already it looks like top team Mercedes has found a loophole in the new regulations for the year.
Read MoreThe Mercedes Formula One team has won an incredible 51 out of the past 59 races since 2014 by nailing the switch to turbocharged V6 hybrid engines and forcing everyone else to play catch-up. But did they also nail the 2017 F1 spec? Here’s the most anticipated new F1 car of 2017, complete with the name of a vacuum cleaner: the Mercedes W08 EQ Power+.
Read MoreWinning is great and all, but what you really want is to win with some style.
Read MoreI am unable to agree with Raph’s rant about the lack of beautiful Formula One cars from the other day. Complicated, intricately curved and folded aerodynamic bits are entirely my jam. Then Force India whipped out its new VJM10 with a penis-nosed front end that is truly the ghost of ugly F1 cars past. Oh, no. Bless their hearts.
Read MoreThis is the 2017 season Renault R.S.17. On the face of things, it replaces the 2016 R.S.16, but in a way it’s finally a successor to a car that made its debut five years ago.
Read MoreOn Sunday, a sprint car competing in the World of Outlaws DIRTcar Nationals race at Volusia Speedway Park flipped over the catch fence at Turn 2 and into the stands, injuring three. This is the second car to have flipped over the fence at Volusia in a span of four days.
Read MoreI rarely think of a Volkswagen GTI as a dirt monster. It’s a car that always comes up in the context of tarmac shenanigans—track days, autocrosses, and general acts of on-road hooliganism. This assumption—fed by the low-profile tires and big, pretty wheels—is wrong. It’s downright amazing on dirt.
Read More“Just drive on through the car wash,” he said. “It will be fine,” he said.
Read MoreEvery once in a while, you come across someone in the background who totally steals the show. Sometimes a photobomb is so good, it’s practically elevated to an art form, and one of the best examples I’ve ever seen wasn’t done with a person, but with a big flag and a car at this year’s 24 Hours of Daytona.
Read MoreFormula One fans have been waiting breathlessly for this year. Finally, we get bigger tires, bigger wings and a return to classic looks from bygone years. Or, uh, not.
Read MoreOne of the biggest stories of last year’s NASCAR season wasn’t on track, but rather, about who was missing: Dale Earnhardt Jr. sat out the last half of the season recovering from a concussion. Unlike other series whose sports rhyme with “schmootball,” NASCAR actually beefed up their concussion protocol after last year’s string of concussion-related headlines.
Read MoreWhat a day this has been. When the leaders wrecked out on the final lap of the rain-postponed Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, NASCAR let the other cars race to the line rather than ending under caution. Watch the wild finish below.
Read MoreWell, that’s a strange omen. At just 17 laps into the unofficial start of the newly renamed Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, the first caution of the year was an ugly wreck by, oddly, the Monster Energy-sponsored race car of Kurt Busch.
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Read MoreRacing for an entire day is hard enough on its own—you don’t get regular sleep, and what little you do gets interrupted by your next stint to drive, or time to work. This gorgeous film from this year’s 24 Hours of Daytona perfectly demonstrates everything that makes it such a grueling race.
Read MoreWelcome to the ARCA Racing Series season, and racing season in general for stock cars in America. A massive wreck at Daytona International Speedway just collected nearly a dozen cars, leaving a handful on fire and others completely clobbered from contact.
Read MoreI love surprises. Underdog stories. The unexpected. It’s part of why sports are good. That is, unless I picked guy-who-wins-too-much Sébastien Ogier in The Rally Takeover’s Fantasy World Rally Championship game. Then don’t surprise me, or I’ll get mad when lesser-known drivers actually make things interesting.
Read MoreThe past few weeks, for me, have been full of researching and interviewing people about an old short track that used to draw crowds to southeast Austin every Friday night. My research has left me search for other closed tracks in Texas, and I’ve realized that they’re a lot harder to find than I thought.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWe like to associate rally with the phrase “flat out,” because rally legend Colin McRae wouldn’t have it any other way. What you may not know is that rally has a long history of imposing speed limits for stages—and it’s a rarely-imposed recommendation that canceled one stage of last weekend’s Rally Sweden.
Read MoreBehold, our very first look at one of the 2017 Formula One cars. This is the 2017 Williams Mercedes FW40, named after its the team’s 40th year in Formula One, per Autosport. Naturally, it’s a looker, given the team’s sharp Martini livery and the car’s new wider tires.
Read MoreNissan’s North American motorsport efforts in 2016 were marked by a renewed focus on production cars: vehicles like the GT-R that they could point to and say, “We sell that!” Problem is, Nissan’s factory effort in Pirelli World Challenge, called Always Evolving, will be losing their factory support for 2017, according to a Nissan employee whose comments were seen by Jalopnik. And it may not bode well for the brand’s other racing endeavors.
Read MoreHow much does your favorite Formula One driver make? Answer: a lot. Even the series’ lowest-paid driver—Sauber’s Pascal Wehrlein—still makes $150,000 in 2017, per Fox Sports’ list of drivers’ salaries. Meanwhile, McLaren’s Fernando Alonso will make a whopping $40 million, making him F1's highest paid driver.
Read MoreMeet the new Spark SRT05e, the concept for the next generation Formula E car set to debut in 2018. It looks badass, it’s safer than the current car and best of all, it incorporates a bigger battery to kill off the confusing, goofy mid-race car swaps once and for all. Formula E may finally be worth watching.
Read MoreIf you’re still patiently waiting for the racing season to be back in full swing, that’s totally understandable. Most of us are. Let this wonderful photo from the Rolex 24 get your through your tough times.
Read MoreWith a driver from the formerly dominant and now nonexistent Volkswagen team behind the wheel, Toyota just won its first FIA World Rally Championship event since the manufacturer last competed in 1999. That’s right, Toyota hasn’t raced WRC since the year SpongeBob SquarePants premiered.
Read MoreOver the past few days, the Verizon IndyCar Series has been out testing for the upcoming season at Phoenix International Raceway. The G-forces on the cars are insane enough to put a hurting on a GoPro in under three minutes on track, and this video lets you see just how intense it is to lap an oval in an Indy car.
Read MoreSad news, lovers of fast Volkswagens that were completely innocent in the whole Dieselgate scandal: no one will be able to run Volkswagen’s 2017 World Rally Championship Polo, per NBC Sports. Instead of letting the new Polo WRC just sit, I will generously offer to hoon it. Please?
Read MoreEvery year, the World Rally Championship’s trip to Sweden is a real treat. This year, it’s back to its usual Hoth-like form, covered in glorious snow and ice that allows the cars’ studded tires to reach ludicrous speeds on the stages. Let’s gaze in awe at the jumps from this year’s Rally Sweden—including the mega-jump known as Colin’s Crest.
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 MoreDrunken awkwardness is why we love karaoke bars and why we love Finnish Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen. Bless us each and every one, Autoweek reports that we’ll get to experience the two together. Kimi is opening a karaoke bar in Helsinki.
Read MoreHey, remember when McLaren showed up to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the 1990s with some F1s and cleaned house? Good times. Now McLaren’s new head honcho Zak Brown says he’d like to take the marque back to the storied race. While nothing is in the works yet, this is exactly what we want to hear, isn’t it? I think it is. Do it, McLaren.
Read MoreThere’s a heap of huge days on the calendar of off-road racing, like the Baja 1000, Mint 400, Mexican 1000 and Dakar Rally. But as it stands, none are as easy to watch than the King Of The Hammers. Witness it right now, from the comfort of your own computer.
Read MoreA three-year deal was struck between the local Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) and Monterey County that settles the financial disputes between the two and keeps Laguna Seca controlled by the local group which built the track, reports Racer. It’s the end of a long, nasty fight over control of one of America’s most famous race tracks.
Read MoreOfficials behind the Mexican Grand Prix and driver Sergio Pérez have apparently had enough of U.S. President Donald Trump’s demonization of their country and his carping about an America-Mexico border wall, and they aren’t afraid to get vocal about it.
Read MoreLike an impending dentist appointment on the calendar, I’ve been trying to forget about NASCAR’s upcoming changes to its race day format. If I don’t think about it, maybe it will go away! But no, it’s become all too real now: NASCAR has announced how they’re chopping the Daytona 500 into three “stages.”
Read MoreChevrolet showed off its latest racing tribute to the Dead Milkmen and the gods of speed today, and it looks so good. The new Camaro GT4.R is based on the 2017 Camaro ZL1 road car, per IMSA, and it packs a gigantic 6.2-liter LT1 small block V8 engine that can roast tires on demand when the race is over.
Read MoreNASCAR, a series that adores bunching all its cars up for contact-prone restarts, just announced a new Damaged Vehicle Policy in the name of “safety.” What it also does is make it easier than ever to wreck your nemesis out of the race.
Read MoreThe 2017 King Of The Hammers event is raging all week in Johnson Valley, California. If you’re anywhere near it, you should get your butt out here to see the races for yourself! Then again, the quality of this livestream broadcast is absolutely unreal. Check it!
Read More“Is that a stock car?” the Tim Hortons server asked, which seemed a perfectly reasonable thing to say when a race car comes to a drive-thru in Kentucky. The little rally 944 wasn’t, but it was thoroughly awesome to make his day, regardless.
Read MoreBMWs are not known best as rally cars. Honestly, BMWs are probably best known as suburban commuter cars at this point. Regardless, here’s a rally BMW to remind you what a BMW ought to sound like.
Read MoreFew remember the 712 Can Am. Why should they? It never won a race and barely competed in two seasons of competition here in America. It does, however, have one thing going for it: the largest engine Ferrari ever built.
Read MoreThere’s a lot more to Vermont car culture than rusty Subarus. Barre, Vermont’s Thunder Road SpeedBowl is no Daytona, but it’s been a staple of American auto racing for half a century. Here’s a really cool look at what that means to the people who live there.
Read MoreWe’re in the throes of King Of The Hammers Week 2017, where all kinds of motorized mayhem is going down in the harsh wasteland of Johnson Valley, California. Tonight, scratch-built 4x4s are clawing up paths that would make mountain goats nervous in the Vision X Shootout, which you can watch in real time from the comfort of your computer! What a time to be alive.
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 MoreAustralia’s Mount Panorama Circuit is one of the greatest tracks in the world. Watch this howling Audi R8 LMS take it on and you’ll understand why.
Read MoreI know, I know: it looks like the Aston Martin is wearing lipstick, or is perhaps dressing up like a vampire for Halloween. But that’s nothing new, and the look is a lot more classy now than it was before.
Read MoreIf you are going car shopping this President’s weekend and have a hankering for a V8-powered muscle sedan, this will apparently be the last month your local dealer will be able to order you a Chevrolet SS before time runs out.
Read MoreWhen it comes to all-wheel-drive traction in German luxury cars, Audi’s legendary Quattro system has been proven itself by dominating rally circuits. Meanwhile, BMW’s xDrive has become a worthy challenger and a very popular option. But which system is better?
Read MoreNASA is considering launching a living, human crew on the first integrated flight of the new Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft currently scheduled for late 2018. While most of NASA’s crewed spacecraft have had their initial launches unmanned or with (adorable) non-human animals, this is not unheard of, as the Space Shuttle Colombia launched with a crew of two for its maiden flight in 1981.
Read MoreThe Tesla battery pack is something of a triumph of packaging. The battery pack is integrated into the skateboard-like chassis of the car, making a self-contained drivetrain-and-energy-storage unit that allows for really flexible body packaging. It’s like the GM Hy-Wire concept, only with the mild benefit of existing in reality.
Read MoreThey might not have those wonderful seats any longer, but Volvo said this week that the new 2018 XC60 is going to boost the Swedish automaker’s standing in the self-driving tech field by equipping the SUV with some serious autonomous gadgets to, ostensibly, make drives safer.
Read MoreSomeone’s Autopilot woke up on the wrong side of the bed. A video by a Tesla Model S owner that was uploaded to YouTube shows his vehicle, equipped with the latest hardware and Autopilot 2.0, struggling to stay in a lane, despite what appears to be pristine driving conditions and clearly defined roadways.
Read MoreThe NIO EP9 electric supercar wasn’t content with merely entering the never-ending vehicular stat war—it recently set a couple of lap records at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, including one for the fastest production car ever to run there. In case that wasn’t enough, it set a driverless lap record for the track, too. The startup automaker now claims that it is the fastest electric autonomous car around.
Read MoreDespite being a refreshingly simple and useful interface compared to most in-car infotainment systems, which tend to be horrible, Apple CarPlay has long been quite annoying for one thing: you need a cord to plug it in. Now, there’s a solution. Supplier Harman has announced that it’s going to offer a CarPlay integration system that is wireless. This is good.
Read MoreEvery automaker and car start-up is currently working on the same technology, and now two tech behemoths are pitted against one another. Waymo, the self-driving car project of Google, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Uber that alleges one of its former employees stole the proprietary design of Waymo’s self-driving car system.
Read MoreAutomakers and lawmakers are trying to figure out to implement some level of oversight of autonomous vehicles, but in the meantime some robot cars have already hit the road. For example, there’s college student Jorgen Brevenson’s Honda Civic, which he outfitted with autonomous gadgetry for just $700. Seven hundred dollars!
Read MorePhew! Uber probably thought things were turning a corner after founder Travis Kalanick pledged to address a rampant culture of misogyny that was described in a now-viral essay by a former engineer. But hey, when it rains it pours, and it’s pouring at Uber’s HQ. I mean, goddamn. Two early investors wrote an open letter to the company and said, “We feel we have hit a dead end.”
Read MoreThe Tesla P85D was an absolute monster when Dragtimes strapped it to their dyno a couple of years ago, cranking out a staggering 864 lb-ft of torque. But now the YouTube channel and blog has hooked up a brand new P100D with Ludicrous Plus mode to their dyno, and the results make even the toughest heavy-duty trucks quake in their boots.
Read MoreWhile David Tracy and I were driving up to a stunning secret car collection, I managed to take a curve sort of wide and run over some rumble strips. That got us thinking about rumble strips, which got me thinking about the various musical highway projects, where grooves in the road make music when driven over. And from there I started to realize that grooves in highways can store data, which is where I’m heading here.
Read MoreSay you’re Uber. You’ve just had a month drenched in bad PR, and over 200,000 people recently ditched your service. What do you do? Continue the trend of bad PR, duh. The ride-hailing company on Thursday held a public question-and-answer session with Uber President Jeff Jones, ostensibly for drivers to ask questions. It ended up more like a public airing of grievances.
Read MoreHave you ever noticed cars shutting off one of their front lights to activate a blinker? Well, I certainly have, so to find out why I see awkward one-eyed vehicles signaling turns at seemingly every intersection, I decided to dig into it.
Read MoreOne of Faraday Future’s most vocal critics, Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz, has regularly used a word to describe the start-up automaker’s $215 million tax incentive deal to build a new factory in his state: confidential. As Jalopnik reported in December, when the Nevada legislature approved a bill to secure Faraday’s footprint in the state, neither Schwartz nor lawmakers reviewed any proof of the company’s financial viability. Though this doesn’t look smart, it’s completely legal.
Read MoreThe most vexing point when it comes to autonomous vehicle technology is how it’ll perform in the rain or the snow, which serve as one of the environmental scenarios that can stymie how a robot car performs. That’s why a new video from AV system startup Drive.ai stands out as exceptionally notable.
Read MoreIf you fall down the Internet rabbit hole looking into autonomous cars, eventually you’ll arrive at Francis P. Houdina. Yeah, Houdina—not Houdini, but we’ll get to that a minute. Why’s Houdina relevant? He tested out a driverless car. In 1925.
Read MoreAfter years of setbacks, Google’s self-driving car project finally seems to have a path to commercialization, but that long road has come at a pretty big cost, we’re now learning: According to Bloomberg, the company lost several employees because of a weird compensation system that doled out millions of dollars of bonuses, based solely on the project’s value.
Read MoreTesla founder Elon Musk, a man whose history is peppered with promises and goals he failed to meet, offered up a doozy on Monday about our tech-heavy future: nearly all new vehicles will be capable of full autonomy within 10 years. But even if that’s true, we’re nowhere close to figuring everything else out that goes along with that.
Read MoreUber’s silly dustup in December with California’s DMV over its self-driving pilot program turned on the ride-hailing giant’s refusal to pay $150 for a permit that would’ve legally allowed it to use autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. A new document suggests Uber’s self-driving truck company, Otto, may also be willfully violating the state’s law.
Read MoreWill troubled automotive start-up Faraday Future really begin the next phase of constructing its factory this year? It doesn’t sound like Jia Yueting, the Chinese billionaire behind the company, thinks so. Instead he said it depends on whether or not the company receives enough funding to continue construction. No shit.
Read MoreWhen Tesla revealed the Model 3 last year, reports suggested it would have a claimed range of up to 300 miles on an 80 kWh battery pack. Now we know why the sedan won’t have the larger 100 kWh battery pack available on Tesla’s Model S and X: it’s too small.
Read MoreVast scourges of seagulls routinely wreak havoc on coastal families, beach gatherings, and happiness in general, but apparently they’ve found a new target to annoy the shit out of: our future fleet of robot cars.
Read MoreFor whatever reason, the amount of time it takes for a car to go from stationary to a-mile-every-minute is a big deal. We obsessively keep tabs on the 0-60 mph speeds of almost every car, whether or not that car is even designed for performance. Electric cars are currently engaged in an all-out 0-60 war. That got me thinking: what’s the quickest possible 0-60 dash before the acceleration kills you?
Read MoreAs more autonomous vehicles hitting our roadways, they’ll be carrying with them an extra load of sensors and radars that, as it turns out, could be a problem for astronomers, according to a new article from Science Magazine.
Read MoreContract disputes? Sure. Missed rent payments? Yeah. An asinine squabble over the name and web address of your company? That’s the story of yet another bizarre and oddly fascinating legal dispute for startup automaker Faraday Future that, given its relatively small amount of at least $210,000, could point to rumored financial struggles. (UPDATE: The case has been settled.)
Read MoreUber is having such a great time implementing a self-driving car program, so the ride-hailing giant decided to up the ante and hired a NASA veteran to develop flying cars, because that’s an outstanding idea.
Read MoreAh, what a pleasant scene: It’s a sunny day—maybe 65, 70 degrees out—and you’re getting luxuriously chauffeured about town in your fancy robot car. All the sudden, a band of armed hooligans surrounds you! Oh no, the car doesn’t know what to do—it doesn’t want to hit the people in front of it—so it just sits there, while the masked bandits demand all of your stuff.
Read MoreIf there’s one certainty about autonomous vehicles, it’s that they’ll save lives and also kill people in new ways. It’s the latter that concerns Ford CEO Mark Fields about the technology’s future success.
Read MoreLook at this! A new start-up automaker’s vehicle—on actual streets! It appears someone has captured the Lucid Air moseying about the streets of San Francisco, in what Carscoops suggested could be a “promotional video shoot to be used at a later date.” And that’s cool.
Read MoreThe supposed argument for autonomous vehicles is that they will cut back on fatalities stemming from car crashes by over 90 percent. That cheery-eyed view masks an important point: It’ll be a long time before—if ever—that roads will be totally dominated by robot cars. For a while, it’ll be a blend of manually-operated and autonomous vehicles. And according to a new study from the Governors Highway Safety Association, that’s a problem.
Read MoreEvery year, companies testing autonomous vehicles on California roadways have to submit a report on how many times a driver took control of the self-driving system, known as a “disengagement.” The 2016 reports are now out, and man, does General Motors have some superb names for their AVs.
Read MoreLast fall, Samuel Schoemann was between jobs at a commercial production company, so he did what seemingly anyone with a car does nowadays if they’re in need of quick cash: he started driving for Uber. Then, he did what probably any Uber driver has thought about doing: film his interactions with passengers.
Read MoreWhen it comes to autonomous vehicles, oftentimes you’ll hear about Mother Nature posing some of the biggest problems to the technology’s future success. But wobbly two-wheeled cyclists might be the most difficult task for robot cars to handle.
Read More1st Gear: Takata Goes Ahead And Pleads Guilty, Will Pay $1 Billion In Deal
Read More1st Gear: Nissan Promotes “Le Cost Killer Deux” To CEO
Read More1st Gear: Ghosn Gone, But Not Far
Read More1st Gear: I Don’t See What The Problem Is?
Read MoreYour hardworking Jalopnik staff is mostly off for the President’s Day holiday today. But don’t worry—we’ll be back in full swing tomorrow, and in addition to the Morning Shift, we have a day’s worth of new stories for you that, in my opinion, are very not bad.
Read More1st Gear: Driverless Cars Are Already Putting Us To Sleep
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read More1st Gear: Always Gotta Have A Backup Plan
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read More1st Gear: Invincibility Will Have To Wait
Read More1st Gear: We Can Crush You Like The Ants You Are
Read More1st Gear: You Mere Mortals Are Powerless To Stop Me
Read More1st Gear: What Did You Think Would Happen?
Read More1st Gear: Fiat Chrysler Spent Millions Introducing Alfa Romeo To Americans
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreWe’ve known that Range Rover has been planning to resurrect the name of their original 1969 prototype, Velar, for their re-skinned Jaguar F-Pace that’s going to slot into the Range Rover line just above the Evoque. We’ve seen teaser pics before, but now, one day early, we get to see the whole thing, thanks to this Spanish website. It’s sleek!
Read MoreI... uh... hm. Yeah. Here’s the new 2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. Oh, God, this is it.
Read MoreFirst generation Chevrolet Silverados and GMC Sierras, built between model years 1999 and 2007, are plagued with a terrible disease: their tailgate handle linkages are made of the cheapest plastic known to humankind, and as a result, thousands of these trucks drive around with gaping holes in their rear ends. It’s driving me mad.
Read MoreRemember this thing? The Nissan Patrol that wrecked the Porsche 918 in the final episode of The Grand Tour?
Read MoreSometime around 1977, a classic Jeep Wagoneer became entombed after a sand dune in Truro, Massachusetts shifted and engulfed a garage. Now, after four decades, the Jeep has been removed from the garage, and holy shit, does it look terrible.
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a cheap, small, relatively fuel-efficient crossover that can hold its own on and off-road, the 2017 Jeep Compass is the Jeep to get. Yes, more so than the Renegade. The Compass looks great, offers a roomy and comfortable interior, and goes a long way to healing the shame we all felt for the original Compass, a car that was objectively bad.
Read MoreThe 2017 Ford Raptor is an amazing piece of engineering. But as powerful as the truck’s twin turbo 3.5-liter V6 is, the sound just isn’t as boot-shakingly badass as the last generation’s V8. I thought a MagnaFlow exhaust might change that but, well, why don’t you listen and decide for yourself?
Read MoreLand Rover has officially resurrected the “Velar” name, which is what the OG Range Rover prototype was called back in 1969. The 2017 Range Rover Velar will be a little bigger than the Evoque, a little smaller than the Sport, and ostensibly essentially a different take on the Jaguar F-Pace.
Read MoreWe’ve been drooling over the second generation 2017 Jeep Compass ever since we first set our eyes on some spy shots last fall. But today, Fiat Chrysler flew me to San Antonio, Texas to drive (on and off-road) the little crossover. While I’m here, tell me what you’ve been aching to know about Jeep’s newest compact crossover, and I’ll make it my mission to get you the answers you deserve.
Read MoreEven as immense as the 2017 GMC Sierra HD Diesel is, its fart cannon tailpipe looks as comically oversized as the one on your high school buddy’s mad tight Honda Civic Si hatchback. As you may know, a high-flowing exhaust helps a turbocharged engine make power, but the tips on this particular truck are extra large for safety, not style.
Read MoreCompact crossovers: practical, affordable... not all that inspiring. But what if you slap a black sticker on the hood and raise the suspension a few fractions of an inch? Eh? Seemed to work for the Jeep Renegade Trailhawk, and Toyota noticed. And now we’re getting the 2018 Toyota RAV4 Adventure.
Read MoreGM added two significant items to the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD for 2017: a more powerful 6.6-liter diesel engine and a giant flared nostril of a hood scoop that feeds it. So how does that thing work without drowning the truck every time it rains? Check out what’s underneath.
Read MoreOh, hello. It’s your rich alter ego checking in. I must confess that despite my extreme optimism about the economy, I’ve had something on my mind.
Read MoreThe GMC Sierra is an upmarket version of the ubiquitous Chevy Silverado. The Sierra Denali is the varsity version of the Sierra. And the Sierra Denali Heavy Duty, well, my friends, that thing’s badder than Snoopy in a leather jacket. At least that’s what the brochure seems to indicate. I’m test driving it this week, so what do you want to know?
Read MoreFirst, I just want to point out how vastly better this demonstration is than the other video we had of someone jamming their car in reverse at speed. Mostly because something actually happens in this one, and I’m a sucker for things actually happening in videos. I’m just not sure I’d have guessed that this would be the particular thing to happen.
Read MoreThe Mercedes G-Wagen is a ridiculous vehicle even in its lowest, base trim. Nothing else gives you the feeling of being above everyone else like an overpowered G-Wagen, like a semi-truck, inexplicably clad in soft, supple leather. In “it’s about friggin’ time” news, here is the Mercedes-Maybach G 650 Landaulet, the first Maybach version of a G-Wagen.
Read MoreWind has the power to ruin a lot of things. It can ruin your good hair day, it can ruin your umbrella and leave you soaked with cold rainwater, it can ruin your golf shot and it can ruin your... oh, ouch, it can definitely ruin your police car.
Read MoreFor every car that exists, there’s a shotgun blast of marketing hype to make it sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. When you try to chuck that nonsense across cultures and languages with an instrument as imprecise as Google Translate, hilarity ensues. Actually, you might call it poetry, and the new Ford Raptor proves it.
Read MoreToday it is the elements that have fought back against our nation’s craftiest. I believe she has the strength to endure, as she always has.
Read MoreYesterday, the world saw for the first time the totally insane 2018 Dodge Durango SRT, a 475-horsepower behemoth that does wicked all-wheel drive burnouts. One claim I saw in the press release, though, needs to be cleared up, because it’s a classic example of intricate word-choice used by marketers.
Read MoreThe 2017 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2, an off-road version of the brand’s standard mid-size truck (with an available diesel!), just got a price tag, and it ain’t cheap. But it doesn’t have a ton of competition in this segment.
Read MoreThe original Toyota Land Cruiser you know as a rugged adventure icon is called the FJ40, or “Shorty Forty” because of its relatively short wheelbase. Since then there have been many Cruiser variants over the years, but the 40’s big brother the FJ45 is one of the coolest and least-appreciated. This restored and upgraded example is particularly lovely.
Read MoreFord’s new, fourth-generation Expedition is going to be made of boron steel and aluminum, built on a modified half-ton F150 chassis, and, according to these Ford videos posted here, will look like this. Looks like our predictions that the new Expedition will share a face with the F-150 were completely, utterly wrong.
Read MoreWe get it Dodge, big engines in everything. The company started committing this schtick when it revived the Charger a decade ago and frankly, I’m surprised it took this long to make a monster version of the Dodge Durango. But here we finally are: six seats, 4.4 seconds to 60 mph. Get ready to clean a lot of Cheerios off that back window.
Read MoreWe’ve known Maybach’s next project would be a super-lux SUV, and that Mercedes is planning on revealing a new variant of the mighty G-Wagon at this year’s Geneva Auto Show. It all makes sense now: it’s the same vehicle, and it’s a beautiful chariot of brash eminence.
Read MoreThe 2017 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Recon is now officially the most off-road capable Jeep you can buy off the shelf. It’s not a massive upgrade for the lineup, but there are a few significantly beefier parts and hey, is that red interior trim I see? Oh yeah, now you know it’s fancy.
Read MoreAs of the past few days, the 2017 Ford Raptor is the first Ford F-Series truck to be officially exported to and sold in China. Aside from the price, which has not been announced yet, there’s really only one distinctive difference between American and Chinese-spec models: the headlights. The other unique features for China are much harder to find.
Read MoreThe first month of 2017 is done and the truck sales scoreboard is running. So far the decade-old Nissan Frontier is outselling the all-new Titan, the Tacoma still rules small trucks and the Ford Raptor is allegedly outselling the Corvette. Here’s a breakdown of what all that really means.
Read MoreThe 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor isn’t exactly the first choice for drag racing, but what better way is there to illustrate how the new turbo Raptor stacks up against the old-school V8 Raptor? The result is that there is, indeed, a replacement for displacement.
Read MoreAbout a year ago Nissan launched the completely new Titan XD pickup truck to attack the utility segment anew. The truck isn’t selling that well compared to its rivals, but the company hasn’t lost its sense of humor–they went ahead and stuff its diesel 4x4 drivetrain into a cargo van, awesomeness ensues.
Read MoreTruck makers are deeply entrenched in a step-battle the likes of which you haven’t seen since Stomp The Yard. (Yes, I am extremely proud of that one, thanks for asking.) Here’s a look at General Motors’ latest patent for a deployable tailgate-integrated step. Prepare your mind for some super advanced Formula One-style stuff, on your truck.
Read MoreThe 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro is Toyota’s toy for the off-road enthusiast. Big bouncy Fox shocks, armor plates underneath, CRAWL-control mode and even a built-in GoPro mount. So we chased a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon into the mud to find out what all those accessories are really worth.
Read MoreRejoice, rich people yearning for first-generation Range Rovers! Land Rover’s new “Range Rover Reborn” program means you can buy a completely restored version of their classic SUV for a Ridiculous But Who Cares Because You’re Rich price. Now you can own an essentially brand new example of perhaps the greatest SUV of all time.
Read MoreEver since the latest Volkswagen Golf R launched in America, I’ve been consistently getting emails from customers asking me to work my deal-making magic on this hottest of hatches. But for a long time, for various reasons, it could not be done. Now that inventory has reached almost 1,000 units, some dealers are offering great prices on the Golf R.
Read MoreBefore Lamborghini made cars with angles sharper than Wendy’s twitter responses, the Italian automaker made cars that were unquestionably timeless works of art. With examples of Lambo’s vintage roots becoming harder to come by, cars like the ones for sale by comedian Adam Carolla should light fires under the asses of any gearhead with a big enough bank account.
Read MoreSharing a bond with an automobile can be a beautiful thing, but it’s not all jellybean raindrops and unicorn farts. Sometimes it straight up sucks to be the person that takes an interest in cars. My question to you is, what’s the worst thing about being car-obsessed?
Read MoreLately, I’ve noticed a faint high-pitched squeak at low speeds coming from my beloved companion in life: my daily-driver, a 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS. I hear it loud and clear, like a piercing shriek from the world’s smallest Dino-Roar. But no one else seems to hear it. I’m not crazy, I swear. There’s definitely a noise, and I don’t know what it is.
Read MoreCars don’t have to make sense to everyone, but at some point they have to make sense to at least someone.
Read MoreHave you ever had a wish so improbable that merely mentioning it to people would get you weird looks and at-you-not-with-you laughter? Well, come on in, because at the risk of me being scarred for life by the comments, I’m curious to know what your wildest, most unrealistic automotive fantasies are.
Read MoreI’ve only got about a month to prepare for my trip from Detroit to Moab’s Easter Jeep Safari, but I’ve still got about a decade worth of wrenching to do. I really didn’t think those whole project through, but screw it, it’s too late to turn back now! Here’s the approximate route I’m taking. If you live anywhere along it, I might need your help. Also, prepare for a cloud of rust and oil to envelop your neighborhood.
Read MoreVelocity stacks may not be the absolute coolest thing you can put on your car, but... actually, you know what? They are the coolest thing you can put on your car. Here’s what they do, how they work and why everyone goes nuts over them.
Read MoreYou know, $18,000 will buy you a lot of car. You could get yourself a reasonably well-equipped new Nissan Sentra, if you hate yourself and hate driving, or any number of nice older used cars. But none will be as good and nice as this car, because it is a Porsche 911 Turbo. A 911 Turbo, for under $18,000! The mileage is... a bit high, but it’s been taken care of, allegedly.
Read MoreWhen automakers get desperate to satiate the car buying public, they sometimes take chances on unconventional models that are great in their own right. However, sometimes they just create automotive monstrosities that serve only as thinly veiled tax write-offs. Your challenge this week is to find the latter - those pointless fool’s gold nuggets in the automotive coal mine known as eBay. Good luck.
Read MoreNothing may be as deeply satisfying as watching an old, pressed-in bushing slowly pop out of its hole thanks to a clever use of a drill.
Read MoreA lot of people regard Cubans—who have mechanical ingenuity bred from decades in a closed economic system—as the best wrenchers on earth. I think that title belongs to the mechanics of Hong Kong, because they do their wrenching on the streets.
Read MoreHere in Japan I drive a Honda Logo, a supermini that was kind of a precursor to the Fit you’re familiar with. Honda, unfortunately, never made a Logo Type-R, but I’m getting close with a few simple and affordable interior swaps. I used factory parts, just never in way the factory imagined.
Read MoreYou can’t understand the shame I’ve felt for the past few years. I never told you this, but despite being an auto journalist—and one who works at Jalopnik—I had never driven a Mazda Miata. Ever. My colleagues would rave about how it’s the benchmark for all things fun and cheap, but I’d sit on the sidelines with my deep, dark secret. But now that’s over, because I have a Miata in my driveway! What should I do with it?
Read MoreVintage Jaguar engines have such a reputation for breakdowns that it’s not uncommon to see ones with engine swaps. Most people go with brutally simple American V8s in their place. One shop in the UK decided to go in the opposite direction.
Read MoreIn the used car market there are automotive bargains, and then there are cars priced so heavily out of anyone’s comfort zone that you wonder if they’re really trying to sell the car at all, or just look like they are to placate a furious partner who wants their garage back.
Read MoreWell, turns out buying a rusted-out 69 year-old barn find Jeep as an off-road project was a major mistake. The car is in shambles, my garage is in shambles, even my house is in shambles. As for me, I’m struggling to keep it together mentally.
Read MoreSometimes those sleep deprived, middle-of-the-night Craigslist spelunking sessions end in the discovery of a true unicorn—something that appears to be perfect and pristine on the outside, an ideal fit for your garage and your dreams. But even if you hit on such a vehicle, it can hide dark secrets within. This was one of those times.
Read MoreIt’s springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, learn how things work under the hood, or just spruce up your daily driver. All month, we’ll be looking back at our best informative, maintenance and DIY articles from Jalopnik’s near 20-year history to get your ride ready for the road. Welcome to the Jalopnik Spring Tune-Up.
Read MoreI’ve never painted racing stripes on a car myself. But man, watching this video is right up there on the scale of satisfaction with hitting an exact increment at the gas pump or pulling a crusty booger out of your nose on a cold day.
Read MoreIn a quest to witness and explain the magic that lies inside the air-squeezing contraption called a turbocharger, I headed to my local junkyard to grab those slimy snails and tear them apart. Here’s what I found in the first installment of our new video series, David Dissects.
Read MoreIt’s one thing to know where bargains sleep at night, but it’s another to realize that there is no logical reason why a car still commands most of its asking price ten years down the line, despite not actually being very good. This week, your challenge is to find the most hilariously overpriced cars on eBay. This should be good.
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