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  • Here's What The U.S. Military's Nuclear Apocalypse Training Looks Like

    If a nuclear bomb lands on your head, you will not survive. You just won’t. But if you do survive, the military just held an enormous 6,000-person strong exercise, named Guardian Response, on what to do in the aftermath. And the pictures released by the U.S. Army Forces Command perfectly depict your coming radioactive dystopia.

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  • That New Somali Pirate Video Going Around Is More Than Five Years Old

    Though piracy is far down from its early 2010s peak, Somali pirates did recently seize their first ship since 2012. This video “Somali Pirates VS Ship’s Private Security Guards,” currently at 13 and a half million views, seems to show part of a new resurgence in piracy on the high seas. Nope. This vid is a re-up from more than five years ago.

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  • War With North Korea Could Mean A Refugee Crisis No One Is Ready For

    Much of the discussion around North Korea has focused on a nuclear or conventional war between Pyongyang and Washington, but little has been mentioned about one crucial topic: if the Kim regime fails and the country collapses, it will result in an unprecedented refugee crisis. For all of the tough talk by the U.S. as of late, the reality is that South Korea and China—not America—will be left to deal with the human toll of an armed conflict.

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  • What It Would Really Take To Sink A Modern Aircraft Carrier

    The modern aircraft carrier is a global symbol of American dominance, hegemony, peace, even empire. But at over 1,000 feet long, and displacing more than 100,000 tons, is it a sitting duck? Is the massive emblem of American greatness just an obsolete, vulnerable hunk of steel?

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  • No One Seems To Know If This American Supercarrier Is Headed To Korea Or Not

    The USS Carl Vinson is a 1,092-foot long, 101,300-ton warship. It carries 90 aircraft capable of raining down hell upon nearly whomever they feel like. It travels in a pack with at least two 505-foot-long destroyers, one 567-foot-long cruiser, and a submarine that’s over 300 feet long. It was supposed to go to the Korean Peninsula this week. Or not. No one seems to know.

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  • What Happens Next With North Korea

    North Korea had the world on edge last week when it paraded new and improved weapons through Pyongyang right as a new nuclear test was expected, leading to talk of a preemptive strike by the U.S. While the country’s latest missile test was yet another failure, for a time war felt more imminent than ever. Here what happened, and where relations with the belligerent nation go from here.

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  • U.S. Navy: Stop Vaping On Our Ships, Dammit

    Riding aboard a Navy submarine, boat or ship, can sometimes get boring. Books and cards can only take you so far. So, it appears that some sailors have taken up vaping to pass the time and form social bonds. And the Navy is cutting that out quick because there have been... problems.

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  • Pentagon Disputes NBC Report Of U.S. Planning Strike On North Korea (Updated)

    The Pentagon has disputed a report by NBC News claiming the United States is planning a preventative strike against North Korea if it decides to conduct another nuclear weapons test. However, reports early Friday morning indicate the U.S. is in fact assessing military options against North Korea, and North Korean officials have acknowledged the threat of a preventative U.S. strike.

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  • The U.S. Just Dropped Its Biggest Non-Nuclear Bomb On ISIS

    The Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, AKA the MOAB, AKA the “Mother Of All Bombs,” is a 22,600 pound American bomb. It is so huge it can’t be dropped out of a normal bomber or fighter jet, it needs to be tossed out the back of a cargo plane. And the U.S. just dropped it on ISIS in Afghanistan, according to a report from CNN.

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  • The Soviets Made A Real Doomsday Device In The '80s And The Russians Still Have It Today

    You’ve all seen Dr. Strangelove, which means I’m pretty sure you understand the general idea behind a doomsday device: if you destroy us, we destroy you, no matter what. The concept of an automatic system that guarantees nuclear retaliation if a country is subjected to a nuclear attack has been part of the collective nuclear nightmare for decades. It’s not just a concept, though. Such a doomsday device exists, and it goes by the chilling name Dead Hand.

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  • Why Firing Tomahawk Missiles At Syria Was A Nearly Useless Response

    The U.S. Navy has launched 59 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles at a Syrian military airfield Thursday night, in retaliation for a Syrian chemical-weapons attack on its own civilians earlier this week. But make no mistake that this is a political move, not a decisive military one. Tomahawks are not the ideal weapon to do long-term damage to an airfield runway, like the one that launched the planes implicated in the chemical attack.

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  • U.S. Marines Will Keep The Harrier Around Longer As Hornet Fleet Crumbles

    Despite having the highest accident rate of any U.S. Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft, the Marines will keep the AV-8B Harrier around longer than planned. The reason is simple: Marine F/A-18 Hornets are in far worse shape and need to be replaced sooner. In 2014, the Marines were committed to retiring the Harrier earlier than planned and extending the Hornet fleet, however, after an intensive review of the Harrier fleet and the rapid aging of Marine Hornets, the Harrier will be around longer than

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  • National Security Cutter Munro Is America's Real Border Wall

    U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle—America’s maritime borders got a significant patrol boost Saturday afternoon after the Coast Guard officially commissioned the USCGC Munro (WMSL-755), the service’s sixth National Security Cutter. The cutter comes at a very critical time as the Coast Guard is catching record amounts of drugs at sea, but also bracing for budget cuts to fund a planned border wall that is expected to cost upwards of $10 billion.

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Buying (23)

  • This Is Why Everyone Wants An FJ40 Toyota Land Cruiser

    By so many standards, the FJ40 Land Cruiser is the definitive 20th century 4x4. With an international pedigree like a Land Rover, the rugged simplicity of a Jeep and swagger like an old Bronco, the FJ is a greatest hits album of classic trucks. Fun to look at, sure, but driving one will take your appreciation to a whole new level.

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  • When It's Really Worth It To Buy A Certified Pre-Owned Car

    Now’s a really good time to be buying a pre-owned car. For buyers on a budget, a used model will often get you more for your money, but is it worth paying more for a pre-owned model that is “certified”? It all depends on the vehicle and the market.

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  • Not-New Review: The Volkswagen Corrado G60 Is Flawed But It's The One You Want

    If you’re a kid of the 1990s, chances are you’ve got a diecast Volkswagen Corrado collecting dust on a bookshelf somewhere at home; a car which you regard as a unicorn, an artifact you lust over as it reminds you of the days of your tuner youth, modding and street racing Vdubs and Hondas—or wishing that you could live that life.

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  • The 2017 Mini Countryman Is Your Large Adult Mini For Your Large Adult Life

    You there! Yes, you. The Mini “purist.” The motoring “enthusiast.” The person who insists that things should “do what they say on the tin.” The 2017 Mini Countryman is not for you. It’s the biggest Mini yet, and more fun than most small crossovers—as long as you’re willing to understand how low that bar is to begin with.

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  • Here's How You Can Get A 500 HP EcoBoost Mustang For Under $30,000

    A certain Ford dealer in Ohio has become Internet-famous for offering some big power kits on brand new Mustangs for a song, pretty much. Their most recent offering will give you a 550 horsepower EcoBoost Mustang for under $33,000, which is a very nice step up from the car’s stock 310 HP. Here is how you can do it.

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  • 2017 BMW 330e Plug-In Hybrid: The Jalopnik Review

    Plug-in hybrids kick ass for environmental reasons, but unless it’s an $850,000 Porsche 918 Spyder, they tend to suck for people who actually love driving. And as of late most of them look like reject four-wheel Gundams—and somehow not in a good way. The 2017 BMW 330e is here to slap some sense into hybrid cars.

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  • 2017 Genesis G80 RWD V8: The Jalopnik Review

    The 2017 Genesis G80 Ultimate is like upper-management accommodations at a middle-management price. The 420 horsepower V8 makes you a nice shortcut up the corporate ladder, but you don’t have to be a working stiff to appreciate this car.

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  • Pure Speed Isn't Even The Best Thing About The Lamborghini Huracán

    When I was a kid, my dad would build control panels out of cardboard, set them up under our dinner table and made me a spaceship. I spent hours “flying” that heap of recycling and I’ll never forget how fast and futuristic I imagined I could be. The cockpit of the Lamborghini Huricán is the closest I’ve felt to outer space since then.

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  • The World's Most Secret Porsche And The Madmen Who Built It

    It wasn’t long before we crossed what had been the East German border, the prow of our borrowed black Rolls-Royce cutting a clean line through arterial highways out of Berlin. Highways turned into two-lanes, two-lanes into little village streets, until we pulled into an unassuming edge-of-town industrial lot. On a far building, on a corner, stood a little Porsche crest. This is the home of one of the most secret cars in the world, a hidden product of two men in a fit of reciprocating and all-enc

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  • The 2017 Acura MDX Sport Hybrid Really Does Feel Related To The NSX

    When Acura stuffed the NSX’s hybrid system into its three-row MDX people mover, they did what few rarely achieve: they made a big luxury crossover fun to drive. Not only is the MDX Sport Hybrid one of the most fun factory sleepers you can buy, it’s cheaper than most of its cushy hybrid crossover rivals, too.

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  • Here's What A BMW M2 Can Do With $28,000 In Upgrades

    For all the hype heaped on 2017 BMW M2 at its launch, the car sure has flared some nostrils since. “Garbage gearbox,” my colleague said. “Too fast,” another test pilot told me. “The damn diff keeps exploding,” an owner confided. I had a different experience with the M2. Then again, this one was a monster on a tight leash after $28,000 in upgrades.

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  • 2017 Hyundai Elantra Sport: The Jalopnik Review

    Hyundai wants you to believe they’re selling you a budget Jetta GLI with the 2017 Elantra Sport. They’re not. But although their fresh-out-of-the-oven compact sports sedan may not yet be as focused as its direct German competitor, it doesn’t stop this hot Elantra from being a fun little car, and a very affordable one at that.

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Culture (65)

  • This Homemade Gymkhana With An Old Subaru Is Downright Incredible

    Ken Block’s Gymkhana series is great. It has the ridiculous stunts, the precision driving and the production quality that can hold someone’s attention for 10 minutes. But there’s always a slight disconnect—shutting down public streets, playing with shiny, nice, expensive cars—from the everyday human being.

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  • Dead: Kia Forte Koup

    Did you know Kia still made the two-door Forte known as the Koup? I had no idea this was still a thing. Apparently, I was not alone, and since no one really bought them, and Kia is axing the Forte Koup for the 2017 model year.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • Comment Of The Day: Manual Good Marketing Bad Edition

    Jason came up with an idea of “saving” the manual transmission earlier today by essentially having you press an endless sequence of buttons on the infotainment screen, which is probably already being discussed in automotive marketing departments worldwide thanks to us. Yea, maybe the manual should die.

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  • Here's A Wild Idea To Keep Manual Shifting Alive

    We all know that manual transmissions are becoming more and more rare, and outside of a few niche cars targeted at archaic oily old bastards like myself and most of our readership, they’ll be gone. That got me thinking about ways that some of the manual-shifting experience may be able to be preserved, and that led me to this idea. An idea that may or may not be terrible.

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  • Not Every Car Needs To Feel 'Nice' Inside

    My favorite cars that I’ve driven share one thing in common: some kind soul ripped out most of the unnecessary bits in the interior, and either sold them to road-going cars’ owners, or put them in the dumpster. If you buy a car to have fun with, all those frou-frou interior niceties are just extra weight.

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  • What Are Some Old Cars That Can Still Compete With Their Modern-Day Descendants?

    Modern cars are better than old ones in pretty much every measurable way. Especially in the last few decades, the industry has seen enormous advancements in fuel economy, acceleration, handling, crash safety—the list goes on. But what are some vehicles that have withstood the test of time, and still compete with their modern counterparts?

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  • I Am Fascinated By This Cadillac Hearse You Can Sleep And Poop In

    I don’t know if this 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood hearse that’s been converted into an RV is someone just making do with what they have or a move so goth, Andrew Eldritch would sneer at it in disdain. All I know is this Caddy for sale on eBay is the most wonderful weird car I’ve seen for sale in a long time.

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  • Jemaine Clement - 'Shiny'

    Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.

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  • There's Actually A Decent Reason Why Germans Will Spend $5,000 To Ruin Their Cars

    If — I’m sorry, when — I give you $5,000 to make any modifications to your car that you’d like, I expect you’ll find all kinds of great things to do to your car to make it better, faster, more unique, whatever. I’m pretty sure you won’t spend five grand to make your car less stable, detune your engine to 20 horsepower, and reduce your luggage space. There are some Germans who will, though, and they even have a reason.

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  • There's A Way To Make Flying Cars Actually Work

    Because this is something that just happens every couple years, like locust infestations, we’re currently in the midst of a new round of flying-car hype. Uber is even having some big flying car event in Texas this week. Historically, every bit of flying-car hype proves to be bullshit. But it may not have to be; I think I have an idea about how flying cars could make sense, even it’s not exactly how Uber is imagining it.

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  • How Did You Get Out Of Your Traffic Ticket?

    It happens to the best of us: we’re driving along, maybe a little too spiritedly, and then the dreaded red and blue flashes light up our rearview mirror like it’s the Fourth of goddamn July. Shit.

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  • Cars With Hams Instead Of Engines

    Okay, I’ll be honest with you: I have no idea why I did this. The phrase “car with a ham inside the engine compartment” popped into my head just now and sat there, tormenting me, until I exorcised it by making these quick photoshops.

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  • Comment Of The Day: Hitching A Ride Edition

    Our friend Mr. Regular needed to put some miles on his rebuilt Ford Falcon, so he spent the summer picking up hitchhikers along the Appalachian Trail. I highly encourage you to read his missive on the whole ordeal.

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  • Here Are The Fanciest And Craziest Cars Registered In Montana To Dodge Taxes

    For years, many exotic car buyers have been registering their cars in Montana thanks to a loophole in the law that allows them to avoid paying sales tax. Now, according to local news site Bozeman Daily Chronicle, that may all come to an end with the “Ferrari Tax.” Here’s a look at the cars that will be affected, as well as the tax they’d have to pay if this bill goes through.

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  • This Is How Japan's Ferrari Owners Do Brunch

    While most people’s idea of brunch typically involves overpriced French Toast at the latest hip restaurant and binging on mimosas, the Ferrari Owner’s Club of Japan have a different idea of the concept. A much louder, much more expensive idea.

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  • Comment Of The Day: Maximum Maxima Edition

    One of Steven Spielberg’s first films is Duel, a made-for-TV movie from 1971 that’s since become a kind of a cult hit. In it, the owner of a very ordinary car squares off against a psychopathic, unseen truck driver who tries to murder him out on the road.

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  • Let's All Remember The Forgotten Porsche 944 Convertible

    The Porsche 944 S2 Cabriolet is one of those often forgotten oddities of the automotive world. The recipe was simple: take the best, most powerful, final non-turbo iteration of the Porsche 944, and ruin it by chopping off the roof. Still, I sort of love seeing these things because they’re such rare, odd cars.

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  • Damn It Plasti Dip, Stop Looking So Delicious

    Look, I have a thing for Plasti Dip. Something about watching the colors get mixed, thinking about that rubberization, oh yeah, I want to lick this chameleon-coloring right off the haunches of this Audi RS7. But seriously, get a load of the color-shift people are pulling off with peelable paint now!

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  • These Pictures Will Make Any Car Lover Cringe

    You’re a lover of cars, right? Of course you are. That means you care more deeply about cars than the average poor, misguided bastard who just doesn’t understand how wonderful cars are. That’s also why each of these images, in their own subtle way, is going to hurt you. Inside. Deeply. I’m sorry.

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  • The Craziest People At The King Of The Hammers Were Grown Men On Barbie Jeeps

    Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing might as well be the Official All-Ages Sport Of Jalopnik. You don’t even need a road license, as the 12-year-old who owns a bunch of men several times his age in this video demonstrates. All you need are more guts than brains and a ride-on kids’ toy. Here’s the showdown from this year’s King of the Hammers event.

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  • Even Hippies Living In Vans Are Shilling For #Brands On Instagram Now

    Once, a Volkswagen van represented freedom, the “open road,” a release from the crushing confines of capitalism. The appeal lives on today. Free love! Damn the man! Live on the beach! Feel the ocean breeze blow through your hair! Pose with a bag of Kettle Chips the #brand sent you to hawk on social media! Wait, what?!

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  • Comment Of The Day: The Secure Password Edition

    I know, I know: online security is a thing we should all be proactive above. But how am I expected to remember 20 different passwords, some of which have symbols and some of which don’t? And if that’s not enough, now there are sites where you can go to check your password security strength that will shame you if you’re too dumb and unoriginal and your password is too easy.

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  • Finally, There's A Car Build Show That Gets Us: The Drift-Tacular Car Saviors

    Television sucks at building cars. Take some hokey manufactured drama, throw in a vintage muscle car to pander to aging baby boomers, and you’ve got yourself a car show. Thankfully, Discovery’s Car Saviors is here for the rest of us. It’s Hoonigan’s take on the build show, and they’re finally having some fun with cars on TV.

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  • This Totally Free Car Theme Park In Tokyo Will Blow Your Mind

    What happens when Japan’s biggest automaker decides to make a car-centric theme park? You get the Toyota Mega Web. No, there aren’t any 200 mph rollercoasters or furry mascots to take selfies with, but there are fascinating attractions devoted to how we get around and plenty of crazy Toyota artifacts to geek out on. The best part? Unlike a real theme park, it’s absolutely free to enter.

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  • Is It Morally Right To Peek Under Someone's Car Cover?

    Here at Jalopnik, we get a whole lot of emails. But a recent message we received raised a good question: As a car person, what is the most appropriate way to respond if you happen to catch someone peeking under your car cover? And, on the other side of that, is it right to peek under a cover at all?

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  • Art Lovers Take Out Their Simmering Wrath On An Innocent Lamborghini Gallardo

    What may look like the aftermath of a Lambo owner’s poor parking job is actually a testament to self-expression in a Danish museum. The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus, Denmark, invited visitors to deface the used Lamborghini as part of its show called “No Man Is An Island - The Satanic Verses.” It’s an apt name. Clearly nothing is sacred.

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  • Don't Ask Your Daughter To Buy 'Blinker Fluid' For The Internet

    “Blinker fluid” is a joke as old as the car itself, used to catch people who aren’t mechanically inclined. It’s pretty funny, that is, until some doofus uses it to embarrass his own daughter on the internet. Way to reinforce every stereotype that will keep your own daughters from being taken seriously in the future, Dad!

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  • Brazil's Depression Created Some Of The Most Stripped-Out Cars Ever Sold

    I don’t want to alarm anyone, but Brazil was going through some very difficult economic times during the period of 1962-1968. While I’m sure things were deeply crappy for Brazilians at that time, the economic situation did cause the development of some really fascinating cars, including what might be the most stripped-down, bare-bones Beetle ever built.

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  • One Of Our Readers Pixar-Ized Our Cars!

    One of the biggest perks of this job is interacting with our readers, who are always amazing. How amazing? This amazing: one of our readers, named CJ, went through a considerable amount of trouble to Cars-ize the cars of some of us writers!

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  • This Poor Bastard Got Hit In The Face With A Drift Car's Wing

    Photographers at motorsports events often seem to take a perverse delight from placing themselves in what looks like eminent car-induced peril. We’ve seen photographers hit by cars, seen them leap out of the way at he last minute, seen near scrapes, but this is the first time I think I’ve ever seen a car slap a photographer across the face.

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  • Your Ridiculously Awesome Aston Martin Vulcan Wallpaper Is Here

    Last week, the wonderfully talented Kurt Bradley and I got to go out to Circuit of The Americas and hang out with a few Aston Martin Vulcans. They put the V12 Vantages to shame on the front straightaway, and they were about as beautiful as a powerful, growling beast of a track car could ever hope to be.

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  • Fuck This Honda Ad

    Look, I totally get the message Honda is trying to convey in this commercial. But it’s just not landing. Not at all. In fact, I’m actually very pissed off right now because I’ve watched this commercial.

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  • In Defense Of Testing Everything (Yes, Everything) On The Nürburgring

    I’m not sure which one is worse: the hyper-insane cult of the Nürburgring lap time, or the backlash against it. While it’s only healthy to be skeptical of every self-announced manufacturer ‘ring time, I’m all for track testing cars that aren’t meant to go on track if we’re serious about this “fun to drive” thing.

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  • Comment Of The Day: Jet Fuel, Not Even Once Edition

    You might think you’re getting more power out of your 1.8T Jetta by using the low-lead jet fuel you manage to snag from the graveyard shift of your local airport, but you are actually likely doing very bad things to your car and getting nothing in return.

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  • What Car Would Make The Best Spaceship?

    A while back, I wrote about what spaceship would be best to convert into a car. Somehow, we’ve never managed to bring up the equally-important inverse of that question: what car would make the best spaceship?

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  • Mighty Car Mods Went Down To Cuba And It's Incredibly Perfect

    Recent political changes in Cuba, including expanded accessibility to personal transportation and loosening restrictions of trade and tourism with the U.S., have put a fresh light on the country’s car scene. Popular YouTube channel Mighty Car Mods just released a beautiful documentary on the culture, the people and the cars of the communist state.

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  • Comment Of The Day: We Need To Go Deeper Edition

    How big do you need a car to be? I’ve moved across the country in a second-gen Mini Cooper and I regularly cram people and dogs and groceries into an E30 coupe, plus my website advocates for the purchase of Miatas above all other vehicles so I’m gonna go with: not much.

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  • Your Car Is Probably Too Big

    I have a real beef with the way we define practicality as a society. Why is there this universal idea that more space automatically means a car is more practical? If you rarely transport other people or large things, admit it: you’d probably be a lot happier in a smaller car.

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  • Here's Every* Car That Shares A Name With A TV Show

    Once again, while I was researching something more important, the well-muddled collection of ganglions and gelatin that forms my brain managed to send me down an unrelated tangent once I happened to find that Canada had a version of the Geo Metro called the Pontiac Firefly. That name got me thinking: how many cars share their names with a television show?

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  • You Aren't Prepared For What You'll See At Japan's Craziest Parking Lot

    What happens when you have a city of 13.6 million people on one side and a city of 3.7 on the other? It means at least some of them are bound to be into cars, and some of those people are going to need a place to come and meet. Luckily for them, there’s Daikoku Futo, quite possibly the most famous parking lot in Japan.

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  • Stop Making April Fools' Day 'Jokes' You Should Actually Build

    April Fools’ Day is dead. You, PR flacks of the world, all killed it with joke announcements and fanciful products you’ll never build. It’s become more of a nuisance than a source of amusement. The most frustrating gags of them all, however, are the actual good ideas that sneak into April 1 announcements.

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  • We're Off! My 1948 Farm Jeep Begins The 1,800-Mile Journey To Moab

    I’m tired. More tired than I’ve ever been. Turning a rusty hulk of poorly maintained metal into a running, driving vehicle without breaking the bank has worn me out both physically and mentally. Half of my body is covered in oil, my hands are pierced with metal shavings, I’ve gotten more chunks of rust in my eyes than I care to think about, and I’ve broken so many bolts, I nearly went out and found a therapist.

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  • The 460 HP 2017 Ford Mustang RTR Is The Most Rational Way To Own A Complete Lunatic Car

    My foot’s jammed down on the pedal that tells the 460 horses to get going, and I’ve been in this thing trying to manage a basic, drifty donut. While I’m making plenty of tire smoke, I’m failing miserably. Still, this may be the most fun I’ve had failing at anything, because failing in the Mustang RTR is almost more fun than than succeeding a lot of other stuff.

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Hyundai (1)

  • There's Nothing Wrong With The New Hyundai Sonata

    I’m not ashamed to say that the current Hyundai Sonata has caught my eye on the street a few times, mostly just because I’m not used to a Hyundai looking that normal yet and I need to process what I’m looking at. This new 2018 Hyundai Sonata is also not bad. There’s nothing wrong with it.

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News (224)

  • United's PR Nightmare Means You Can Fly Internationally For Cheap

    The United Airlines nightmare began with a bloody passenger dragged from a plane, was made worse with a wedding-bound couple kicked off of a flight, and, most recently (maybe, United has done a lot lately), continued with the death of a giant rabbit. But if you’re still willing to fly with these folks, it’s getting cheap.

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  • Chinese Hackers Show How To Steal Your Car With $20 Of Hardware

    I’ve never really been crazy about proximity keys, mostly because I’m a scatter-brained fool. The overall car industry loves them, though, and most new cars use these types of keyless entry systems. A team of Chinese researchers have figured out a very clever and cheap way to hack the passive keyless entry system and actually drive off in people’s cars.

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  • Cat Asserts Its Dominance Over The Philadelphia K9 Unit

    This is a cat on top of a police car. But it’s not just any police car. This anarchist cat decided to hop onto a car belonging to the Philadelphia Police Department’s K9 unit, ignoring the cautionary “police dog” warning letters as aloofly as a cat could—because cats rule and dogs drool, if you missed this feline’s memo.

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  • McLaren Says No T-Tops On A 720S For Any Price

    McLaren is building some of the most impressive performance cars on Earth right now. And if you’ve really got bucks, McLaren Special Operations offers “almost limitless customization” for your new machine. But sawing a 720S into a high-rent Burt Reynoldsmobile is apparently a line that shall not be crossed.

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  • School Bus Driver Ignores Road Closure, Drives Kids Through Floodwaters

    When you put your kids on a bus with a stranger, you hope that they have enough sense to at least follow the rules of the road. But according to local station WECT, school bus driver in North Carolina was fired for driving a bus full of children through a flooded road that was closed by local authorities.

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  • How Do You Prevent Sweaty Hands While Driving?

    Look, this is a little uncomfortable for me to just come right out and say, but I seem to rather frequently perspire on the palms when I drive around, and it makes me uncomfortable. Anybody else? Is there an easy fix for this?

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  • Elon Musk Just Teased The First Image Of The Tesla Semi Truck

    We’ve known for quite some time that Tesla has been working on a big rig truck. It’s a very logical progression from their core automotive business, and an excellent space to develop autonomy and possibly even battery-swapping technology. We’ve had no idea what the thing might look like so far, leading to speculative Photoshoppery like what I did up there. Now we’ve got our first hint.

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  • This Is How You Sell Your Old Car

    Don’t just throw some cell phone pics on Craigslist and call it good. What you need is action, drama and possibly a, well, I don’t want to spoil it.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • What General Motors Did To Flint

    FLINT, Mich.—Before its faucets ran brown, before its residents were poisoned by lead, before it was Murdertown USA, Flint, Michigan was Vehicle City.

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  • This Is What Porsches Do To Your Brain

    Mr. Regular of Regular Car Reviews swung by Fabspeed and saw several good Porsches, including a 993 911 RSR clone, a Boxster Spyder and a Cayman GT4. It’s a fantastically weird video, but he somehow captured the reaction we’d all have to a great car if we had zero shame. Ohhhhh. Ahhhhhh. Yessssss.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • Porsche Patent Shows Research On An Active Rear Diffuser

    Porsches have had active aero elements since 1989, when the Porsche 964s were equipped with an electrically-activated rear wing, a feature nearly all 911s have had since. A new patent suggests that all those bits under the bumper may be getting jealous, as the patent covers an active rear diffuser setup.

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  • Are you planning a weekend beach getaway in your Mercury Cougar XR7? I am.

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  • BMW Doesn't Think Diesel Is Dead In America

    Just when you abandoned the idea of buying a German car with a diesel motor, BMW will bring over an oil-burning version of the recently updated 5 Series. When? We don’t know. Which one? That’s a bit clearer. It will not be the awesome quad-turbo M550d xDrive, but rather most likely be called the 540d.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • Okay So Now The U.S. Is Not Leaving NAFTA After All

    The North American Free Trade Agreement is one of the United States’ most critical trade deals for the car business and other industries, but it’s also one that candidate Donald Trump lambasted as “the worst deal ever” on the campaign trail. He’s president now, apparently. So is America in or is it out of NAFTA? The answer is in, today, unlike the maybe out we situation we had earlier this week.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Wagons! Yes, wagons. Wagons.

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  • Blood Drive: I Have Questions

    There’s a series coming to Syfy this summer called Blood Drive, and it has a relatively simple premise. The world has run out of oil so cars are fueled, naturally, with blood. And while I get that it’s supposed to be intentionally absurd and campy, I’m concerned about the premise. I got questions.

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  • Toyota Will Never Do A Turbo 86 But A Used BMW 2 Series Is Cheap As Heck

    Hello there, relatively young millennial with your first real job looking for a sporty coupe! You might have had your eye on a Subaru BRZ or Toyota 86 for the “balance” and “handling.” Forget that noise. What you need in your life is a lightly used BMW 2 Series coupe, which are incredibly cheap at the moment.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • The U.S. Might Be Leaving NAFTA After All Now Because What Is Truth Anyway

    Back in January, we were left to speculate: Donald Trump hates the North American Free Trade Agreement, and he wants to pull the U.S. out of it—so what would happen? Then last month, a draft plan to seek only “modest” changes to NAFTA leaked—and god, wasn’t that so funny? What happened? I thought it was the Worst Deal Ever, Donald. Now, this: Trump’s administration is reportedly crafting an executive order to pull out of the deal altogether. Huh.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Michigan Raises Speed Limits Because Our Speed Limits Are A Joke

    Michigan has some of the fastest-driving traffic I have ever seen in America, and now some of its speed limits are rising to reflect it. Some 600 miles of rural highways are going up to 75 mph, 900 miles of smaller roads are going up to 65 mph, and the state is looking to see what else can get a bump.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • We Will Hit Peak Oil By 2030 But It's Not What You Think

    Economists and geologists and everyone and their oilman has been telling us that one day, we will hit Peak Oil. One day, we will keep looking for oil, but we won’t find anymore. One day, the demand would greatly outpace the supply. But now one of the biggest oil companies in the world is saying that’s backwards.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Talking About How Traffic Light Timing Works Will Get You Fined $500 In Oregon

    I’m not sure what happened to make the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying so insecure, but whatever it was, it must have been bad. That’s the only way that the board’s reaction to a man’s study of yellow traffic light timing makes any sense at all. Maybe the board was bullied by bigger zoning boards when they were young.

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  • I Figured Out Which Demon Dodge Summoned For The Challenger SRT

    We’ve been covering the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon a crapload here, like every car-freak website out there: how crazy fast it is, why it’s banned by the NHRA, why it makes people soil their underbits, and on and on and on. Enough already, right? Wrong. There’s one big question no one has answered: exactly what demon is the Dodge Demon demon?

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  • They thought buying an Oldsmobile Firenza would save their marriage. And you know what? They were right.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • United Airlines Reviewing Death Of Giant Rabbit

    A three-foot continental giant rabbit named Simon allegedly died in the cargo hold while traveling on a United Airlines flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport—the same airport where a United passenger was violently dragged off of an overbooked flight earlier this month.

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  • Car Bad

    It has come to the attention of this august body, the Jalopnik Editorial Board—the second-most respected editorial board of any publication in the world—that the Fiat Chrysler company is releasing an 840 horsepower version of the Dodge Challenger. After careful evaluation, this editorial board has decided this is bad. The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is bad. Car bad.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Candy-Ass Automotive News Calls For Ban Of The Big Bad Dodge Demon

    Amidst the sea of crossovers and SUVs that flooded the show floor at this year’s New York Auto Show, the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon stood alone and self-assured in its 840-horsepower drag strip-slaying abilities. Voices from all across the automotive media industry sang praises. All except one.

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  • Here's What 220 PSI Does To An Old Tire

    The typically recommended tire pressure for most of us is between 30 to 35 PSI. Of course, we’ve all wondered what would happen if we just kept filling up the tire and didn’t stop until something happened.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • Tuesday got you down? Friend, you need five cylinders of Vigor in your step!

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Meh Car Monday: Let's Try To Think About The Mercury Tracer For A Minute

    If you were kidnapped by some deranged psycho who tied you up, threw you in the back of his Mercury Tracer, drove you around for weeks doing terrible things to you while chanting “My car is a Mercury Tracer!” I bet that if you were asked, after the ordeal, what car your kidnapper drove, you might say “Um, maybe it was a Civic? Maybe a Chevy Cavalier? I’m not sure.” That’s how memorable the Mercury Tracer is.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • What Do You Want To Know About The McLaren 720S?

    Is it 45 better than the 675LT? Did the original Ford GT40 call and ask for its roofed-doors back? What’s a supercar supposed to do with a damn drift mode? These are some of the questions I have about the 2018 McLaren 720S. And since I’m driving it this week in Europe, I want to hear your questions too.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Someone Buy This E39 BMW M5 Wagon Conversion Before I Do

    BMW has made some wonderful wagons, and a good many of those never made it to America. Some hero took an E39 540i Touring and did a full M5 engine swap, and it is currently for sale at Bring A Trailer. This is the longroof that my dreams are made of.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • Cops Pull Over 12-Year-Old Kid Who Drove 800 Miles Across Australia

    Do you remember being 12? I sure do. I seem to recall having a pretty good time at 12, and while there were things I was good at, I can’t say I would have trusted myself to drive a car for 8 feet when I was 12. Just picture your 12-year-0ld self in your head while you take in this information: Police in a remote Australian mining town stopped a 12-year-old boy in an SUV and found he’d been driving for over 800 miles. Damn.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Time to fire up your Rover SD1 and make magic happen!

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    This is what Mercedes-Benz calls “color” for the 2017 S-Class. Only five almost-indistinguishable blacks to pick from? This palette looks like the rainbows you see in the People’s Republic of Imgonnafuckingkillmyselfistan.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Bill Nye On Elon Musk: 'Go Elon!'

    Bill Nye, a dapper lanky guy whose TV program in the 1990s made science seem really fun to six-year-old me, recently took time to answer questions in a Reddit AMA, and he was asked about Tesla founder and space dude Elon Musk. What’s Nye’s take on Musk? He thinks he’s just great.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Come Watch Us Yell About Autonomous Cars At The New York Auto Show

    The future is here! The future is here! Hey everyone, we’re being told the future is here!!!!!!!! Or at least it will be, with cars that drive themselves and automotive enthusiasts that are dead. We’re going to be yelling about that and other things today at the New York Auto Show, and you should see it.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Heroes Close Four Lane Highway To Rescue An Adorable Little Kitten

    If this was a different life, and I worked as an emergency responder, here is the kind of report that would easily send me dashing out the door: A tiny, adorable kitten, stuck on the highway. The kitten can’t escape because of traffic congestion. That exact situation played out in Abu Dhabi this week.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Volkswagen Hit With $2.8 Billion Criminal Fine For Dieselgate Emissions Cheating

    Volkswagen pled guilty last month to conspiracy to commit fraud, obstruction of justice, and entry of goods by false statements after independent analysis caught VW cheating on emissions tests in 2015. Friday, a U.S. judge ordered the automaker to pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty as a part of a deal with the Department of Justice, the LA Times reports.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • Runaway Wheel Hunts Down And Attacks Guy In Office

    When you watch this video of a loose tire in Turkey’s Adana province bounce out of nowhere, roll through the entrance of a pharmacy, find its way into a back office and slam right into one of the men seated there, you realize one thing: that wheel knew exactly what it was doing. Look at the focus and precision here. This was no accident; this was a hit.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Michigan Court Issues Absurd Ruling Against Man Ticketed For Warming Up Car In Driveway

    Michigan is cold as all hell. And if you’ve got an older vehicle that doesn’t have a remote start feature, and you don’t feel like freezing your butt off in a frostbite-inducing interior, the traditional solution is to quickly start your car up, and leave it idling for a bit. But in Michigan, one man received a $128 ticket for doing just that in his own driveway, and yesterday, The Detroit News says, that man tried challenging the citation. In a total bullshit ruling, he lost.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • If the American Motors Corporation were around today, it would want you to get out there and drive like a champion.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • McLaren Considering New Model With Pointless Back Seats: Report

    McLaren is reportedly considering a new GT model with not two seats, not three seats (which happens sometimes), but four whole butt planters. Of course, those two extra seats will likely just be a glorified grocery bench, just like every other 2+2 model ever developed.

    By Justin T. Westbrook Read More

  • California Is Going To Test Power-Generating Roads

    Many find the idea of generating electricity from our roadways very appealing. People went nuts over the idea of solar roadways, even though that’s a singularly terrible idea. There’s actually a much better way to extract energy from roads, and California state officials agreed last week to provide $2.3 million for two test projects that will use piezoelectrics embedded in roads to turn the passing of cars on the road into power.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • 'Dirty Car Art' Is My New Favorite Form Of Automotive Expression

    Cars are dirty. Especially ones that spend a lot of time outside and not a lot of time at the car wash. More often than not, you’ll see these cars riding around with the grubby words “WASH ME” traced on their rears. And that seems to be the best that anyone’s come up with. Until now.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • GM Shuts Down Operations In Venezuela As Government 'Illegally' Seizes Plant

    In case you didn’t know it, Venezuela is a country in turmoil at the moment. The country is in the midst of a years-long brutal economic depression, their currency is nearly worthless, unemployment is said to be as high as 25 percent, and violent protests have broken out as a result of these things. Now General Motors’ Venezuelan factory is caught in the turmoil too.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • One day I’m going to do a roundup of early 2000s sport compacts for a massive video comparison test. One day. In the meantime, here comes the Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V!

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Even Your House Isn't Safe From Ford Mustangs

    A wild Ford Mustang attack was thwarted by a brick house in London today. No word yet on what happened to the other two little pigs though, police are still sifting through a bunch of wood and straw. Just kidding, but the car did make a $40,000 mess of an elderly couple’s house.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Dear Lord I Hope Qoros Makes The Model K-EV

    This Qoros Model K-EV Concept is a good reminder of why concept cars are awesome. They look absolutely insane and their performance figures are as well. How much of that actually makes it to production is anyone’s guess, but the fact remains that they are an exercise in imagination and creativity. We need more of that.

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  • You Aren't Doing Enough To Keep Your Pet Safe In The Car

    Eleven years ago I was in a head-on collision on a dark country road. I came around a blind corner and suddenly there was a pickup truck coming at me in my lane. I swerved onto the shoulder, and so did the truck. The ensuing impact triggered the air bag and shortened my Honda Civic by three feet. Fortunately, my two dogs were home, waiting to see what I brought them from the dinner I’d been to.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Hero 12-Year-Old Stops Carjacker Because She Knows Cars

    If you think you can just hop into a car and drive off while 12-year-old Maddie Weiler is in there, think again, motherlumper. Maddie Weiler doesn’t have time for bullshit; she has to get to Busch Gardens with her 7-year-old sister and her mom, and that means that if you try to carjack her mom’s Toyota minivan, it’s not going to work, because Maddie will beat your ass and use the car’s own transmission/starter lockout to foil the heist.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Toyota's Secret Project To Make A Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Big Rig

    If you’ve been shooting conspiracy theory YouTube videos about Toyota’s secretive Project Portal and how it’s likely an grand experiment to develop a hybrid that runs on our precious bodily essences, I’m sorry to say you’re wrong. Project Portal is a secretive Toyota project, but it’s focused on developing a hydrogen fuel cell-powered big rig truck.

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  • Here Is A Batshit-Crazy Eight-Second Mitsubishi Evo

    I’m beginning to think that there isn’t anything the little Mitsubishi Evo X can’t do. It’s fun, it grips, it’s loud, it’s super old and they’re still selling it! In 2017 they are still selling a 2015 Evo. That’s so novel!

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  • The man’s always one step ahead of you.

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  • Help Police ID This Car To Catch A Sexual Assault Suspect

    Fairfax County, Virginia police are looking for a man who robbed and sexually assaulted a 40-year-old woman in March of 2016. This guy dragged the woman into a dumpster. To help find him, they’d really like to be able to identify this car. I bet we can help.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Our pals at Car Design News are at the Shanghai Auto Show, and they found that Chinese car names that are more cryptographically secure than most of your passwords.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Mercedes Declares The 'Time Of Creases' Is Over With The Concept A

    Mercedes made a pretty bold stylistic pronouncement at the Shanghai Auto Show, where it presented a new concept car: a sleek, compact sedan it calls, imaginatively, ‘Concept A Sedan.’ The car is nicely proportioned and attractive, but to Diamler AG Chief Design Officer Gorden Wagener it seems to represent a larger movement.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Start your Tuesday off right with a drive in America’s E30, the Chevrolet Celebrity Eurosport!

    By Patrick George Read More

  • No, The New Buick Regal GS Probably Will Not Get The Chevy Camaro's 335 HP V6

    The recently introduced 2018 Buick Regal Sportback and TourX (wagon) are lovely Buick machines, and it didn’t take long for word to slip of a possible continuation of the Regal GS model. The question then became how far GM would take it, and some have answered “335 horsepower Camaro V6!” and that answer is probably wrong.

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  • Here's Your 2017 Guide To Cop Car Headlights So You Know When To Slow Down

    I know all of you are upstanding, law-abiding citizens. I know the very idea that you would violate the sacred trust that is known as a ‘speed limit’ is barely possible to comprehend. I get that. Even so, I suspect you might find this chart of police car headlight patterns handy, for, you know, purposes of general edification.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Couple Says United Got A U.S. Marshal To Kick Them Off A Plane To Their Wedding

    Right now, United Airlines seems to make any decision that could affect their public image by asking themselves “what would a Nazi pedophile do?” Their most recent alleged act of image self-immolation involves kicking a honeymooning couple off a flight for switching their seats. Or maybe the destination-wedding couple actually was terrible? Who the hell knows, anymore.

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  • Watch This Hellcat Bless An Entire City Block With Its Burnout Smoke

    Have you heard about this new car, this 2018 Dodge Challenger Demon? It has over 9,000 horsepower and everyone who drives it dies immediately, except for Richard Rawlings. That’s quite a machine! Amid all that hoopla, it’s easy to forget the humble Dodge Challenger Hellcat and its paltry 707 HP. This video will make you remember the Hellcat can still hang.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Lynk & Co's New Concept Car Is This Strangely Thick-Looking Sedan

    Lynk & Co, the Geely venture involving Volvo-built cars that are always connected to the internet, you unlock with your phone, you can somehow share with strangers and a bunch of other buzzword-slathered and perhaps not completely thought out ideas, has a new concept car. It’s a sedan this time, and, keeping to their minimal naming convention, is called the 03.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Get ready to maraud your Monday!

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  • The Last Jedi Trailer Adds Weird New Vehicles To The Star Wars Universe

    The first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released today, which means that it’s now vitally important that I scrutinize it looking for new vehicles, because so far nobody has told me not to. From what I can tell, there’s two new vehicles shown in the trailer. Time to scrutinize the crap out of them.

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  • The Only Surviving Example Of The Volkswagen Beetle's Forgotten Ancestor Is Going To Be Restored

    I’ve written before about the fascinating and sad tale of Josef Ganz, the Jewish engineer who designed much of what would become the Volkswagen Beetle before being erased from history by all those unpleasant Nazis. Now, the lone surviving example of a car that’s the most direct VW Beetle ancestor, the Ganz-designed Standard Superior, is going to finally be restored. Well, if they get the funding.

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  • What Do You Want To Know About The Callaway Corvette AeroWagen?

    It’s 2017 and you, yes you, can buy a professionally-built current-generation Chevy Corvette hatchback. Or “shooting brake” or little bitty station wagon, if you like, for the price of one C7 Corvette plus $15,000. We’ve got our hands on one until lunchtime, so what do you want to know?

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Corona Never Paid To Be In Fast And Furious

    If I were to ask you what the Fast and Furious beer is, you’d all chant back in unison, “Corona.” And you’d be right. But, as it turns out, Corona’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, never actually paid to have the beer appear in the films.

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  • Lucid Motors Just Fell Another Step Behind Tesla

    Yesterday Lucid’s CTO admitted that his company didn’t have enough money (yet) to start building its proposed factory. Lucid will face a delay until it raises more funds, which is a worrying part of the tortoise versus the hare side of the electric car world.

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  • Beep beep! It’s Celica Man’s favorite One True Celica, the 1989 All-Trac Turbo. FWOOM!

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  • The Best-Dressed Of The 2017 New York Auto Show

    From the outside, attending the press days at an auto shows may seem like fun (to some, anyway.) And while it’s a nice break from all day every day at the office, you have to remember that we’re spending up to two to three days in musty convention centers for you. You, the readers, whom we work so hard to inform.

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  • Renault Accurately Reads Consumer Demand, Builds Car That Writes Derivative Novels

    What’s keeping electric cars from just taking over the entire automotive industry? Driving ranges that still generally lag behind combustion car ranges? A lack of quick and omnipresent charging stations? The inability of most electric cars to write stories in the style of Jack Kerouac? Renault thinks it’s the latter, and has decided to do something about it.

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  • The Nismo Omori Factory In Japan Is The Ultimate Nissan Candy Store

    If you’ve been keeping up with this series, you know it’s mostly looked at the various meets held at parking areas in Tokyo. As fun and interesting as they all are, they’re far from the only things you can do in Japan if you’re car-crazy. There are several shops and factories you can visit as well. Here’s something that should be on every gearhead’s list: the Nismo Omori Factory near Yokohama. Bring your camera, and if you own a Nissan, bring your credit card.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Cadillac's New In-Car Software Updates Aren't Threatened By Your Android Auto Or Apple CarPlay

    Infotainment systems are tricky little things to design; most customers won’t notice when it works well but will definitely notice when it screws up. And Cadillac’s CUE infotainment system has had some tough critics. At this year’s New York Auto Show, I sat down with Brian Ullem, the product head of global infotainment at General Motors, to find out how Cadillac plans to right this wrong.

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  • Here's A Video Of A Lucid Air Prototype Going 217 MPH

    Lucid Motors showed it wanted to be taken serious last month, when the start-up announced the base model for its electric sedan will have a starting price under $60,000. To coincide with this week’s auto show in New York, the company unveiled the Alpha Speed Car prototype of the Air—and this thing can move: 217 miles per hour.

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  • Wooosh! Here it comes, it’s the Ford Mustang! Are you ready?

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  • The Luxurious Genesis GV80 SUV Concept Runs On Magic Or Some Shit

    Why buy a Range Rover, or a Bentley Bentayga, or a Jaguar F-Pace, or a Rolls-Royce Mullinan, Porsche Cayenne, or whatever crazy beast Lamborghini cooks into an SUV in the near future when you can say you drive the GV80 magic SUV from Genesis, a car brand that sounds made up!

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  • Cops Pull Over Tercel And Find Logs Used In Supsension

    This is one of those times where I find that my gut instincts are dead wrong. My initial reaction to the Quebecois owner of this 1999 Toyota Tercel that has a rear suspension setup that utilizes logs and chicken wire is one of a certain, perverse respect. I know that’s wrong—the guy is really closer to an idiot endangering everyone–but I just can’t help admiring this sort of caveman ingenuity.

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  • These Graphics Chart The Decline In Street Races And NOS In Fast And Furious Movies

    As is common every few years, a new Fast and Furious movie is upon us. The new one seems to be about explosions and car hacking and another absurd vehicular heist, based on the trailer. This is a far cry from the Fast and Furious movies of my youth, which were mostly about NOS and gear shifting and tuna sandwiches. Why did this happen? More importantly, how did it happen?

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Here's The Bugatti Chiron's Tacked-On American-Market Bumper Lumps

    Bugatti is taking part in an old and beautiful tradition for European supercars, where the versions that get sold in the United States get adorned with massive black chunks of rubber. This has been happening since the mid 1970s, and it’s touching to see the practice continuing to this day. We finally got to inspect the Chiron’s U.S.-only bumper tumors in person, and it’s humbling.

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  • Headlights Are Too Damn Expensive But I Have A Solution

    If you own a fairly new car, chances are you’ve got an absurd amount of liability hanging right on the very front of your car: your headlights. Modern headlights, as beautiful and amazing as they are, are incredibly expensive parts, with many light units costing $2,000 or more. Each. That’s insane.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Russian Mayor Does Ferrari Donuts In Mall 'For A Joke' Sure Why Not

    Wanna hear a joke? A former Russian mayor wanted to show off his new Ferrari, so he drove it into a mall and did a series of donuts around bumbling security guards. No, you’re not laughing? Weird... Alexander Donskoy, the driver, former mayor of Arkhangelsk, Russia, thought it was hilarious.

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  • Lawmaker Wants An Investigation Into Elio Motors Deal

    The last time we checked up on Elio Motors, the automaker with hopes of producing a weird three-wheeled street car with a ridiculously low selling point, it was staring down a $123 million deficit with only about $100,000 in the bank. But it hasn’t built a single car yet. So a lawmaker in Louisiana, which facilitated a deal for Elio to setup shop in a shuttered General Motors plant, is calling for an investigation into why Elio was chosen over over two separate manufacturers.

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  • This Bespoke Aston Martin Vanquish Is The Badass Jet-Inspired Car You Actually Want

    We’ve seen “airplane-inspired” special editions before. Usually they have a new paint job to look like an old-timey World War II plane, it’s photographed in front of another plane, and that’s it. Everyone calls it a day. Not Aston Martin. With the Aston Martin Vanquish S Red Arrows edition, Aston Martin went nuts. Especially on the inside.

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  • This 1991 Nissan Cedric V30 Twincam Turbo Gran Turismo Ultima not only has the best name the world has ever seen, it also has four-wheel steering. Not even my Yugo—built in the same year, and hopefully going to be at this year’s New York Auto Show, if it makes it—has that.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Entire Country Of Italy Bans Uber

    No longer are mere cities banning Uber (hi Austin!), now the entire country of Italy has banned the ride-sharing app following a court ruling that it constituted unfair competition to the country’s existing taxi associations.

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  • BMW Teleports Into Wall

    What you see above is a BMW 1 Series coupe neatly implanted into the side of a factory in Banbury, England—and, no, this wasn’t captured during the filming of a movie stunt or something. I’m trying to decide if it was a crash or some kind of teleporter mishap.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Why The Volkswagen Corrado Failed

    “The European sports car with the Volkswagen difference.” That was the tagline for the Volkswagen Corrado, the replacement for the beloved Scirocco, a car that Regular Car Reviews likens to the works of Henry David Thoreau. All but ignored in its time, but recognized as notable and even influential today. So why did the Corrado fail in the 1990s?

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Ford Will Now Help You Get Pulled Over More Efficiently With The First Hybrid Police Car

    We’ve known since early this year that Ford is committing to hybrid vehicles across the board, with hybrid F-150s and Mustangs in the works, as well as police vehicles. The first of their hybrid cop cars is now available, with the catchy name of Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan. That’s just the cop-talk name for a hybrid Fusion with steelies and two-tone paint.

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  • Crazy Rumors Say The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Has Up To 1023 Horsepower

    The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon has to surpass the 707 horsepower Hellcat somehow. All the tricks like anti-wheel hop and no passengers seats and a crazy cooling system aren’t enough—the people demand numbers. We don’t know those numbers officially yet, but the word going around is that the Demon’s most powerful mode is good for 1,023 horsepower.

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  • Dodge Challenger SRT Demon: This Is Apparently It

    Sometime around 2005, I think, Dodge started teasing us with video previews and tidbits about the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon. Now, finally, 12 years and more than 4,000 videos later—again, I’m estimating here—we will see the Demon in all its glory at the New York Auto Show this week. And this is apparently it.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Making Fun Of Tokyo Drift Is Low-Hanging Fruit

    Without a doubt, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift (or, for the simpler fans, Fast and Furious Three) is the best film of the franchise. So, when I came across this Honest Trailers video about the movie, I was perplexed. How does one hate upon the most perfect film ever made?

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  • The Atlanta Airport Is Apparently Still A Huge Mess

    The nightmarish delays that started Wednesday at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport apparently aren’t over after nearly four days, as reports of long lines and more flight delays popped up on Saturday morning. Doesn’t this really make you wish you could drive everywhere?

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  • These Photos Of Seattle's Big Bertha Are Glorious

    The story of the world’s largest tunneling machine, Big Bertha, is filled with hiccups and missteps along its nearly two-mile journey under the city of Seattle. On Tuesday, Bertha saw light—and there’s pictures to show for it.

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  • Why Is Audi Doing This

    Audi, for reasons beyond my comprehension, is testing the Q8 full-size SUV fastback thing, which is bad enough as it is, and it’s doing it on the Nürburgring.

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  • The New Volvo Rider Is A Freaking Packaging Nightmare

    Volvo’s latest model introduction is just as sleek and modern as the rest of its rapidly updating lineup. Thor’s hammer in the lights, sophisticated bodywork, satisfying ergonomics—it’s just too dang bad there’s no place to put your stuff.

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  • More Than 8,000 Uber And Lyft Drivers Failed New Background Checks In Massachusetts

    Background checks have been a major sticking point for Uber and Lyft. Both, for instance, dropped serious loot to spike a law in Austin. They also threatened to leave Maryland over a proposed fingerprint background check system. If laws there had gone into place, you might’ve seen more stories like this: more than 8,000 drivers for the ride-hailing services failed new background checks in Massachusetts—reportedly including 51 sex offenders.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Here's Every Hyperloop One Route Proposed For The U.S.

    Hyperloop is still exactly what it was when Elon Musk revealed the concept several years back: an idea. But one of the main companies involved in making that idea reality—Hyperloop One—announced its vision for the U.S. and detailed 11 proposed routes on Wednesday.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • This Is The Weirdest Dang Helicopter I Have Ever Seen

    This has to be, hands down, one of the weirdest flying machines I’ve ever seen. This is almost certainly some sort of alien craft. This is the Kaman K-Max, and it looks like it’s getting into a flappy hand battle above its own head.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Here's The Story Of Franz Ferdinand's Supposedly Haunted Vehicle

    Events are taking place across the U.S. today to mark the centennial of the nation’s entry into World War I. There’s plenty of interesting bits to read about the war in our archive, but there’s one story we haven’t delved into before: the rumor of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria’s vehicle being haunted.

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  • This Is The Tesla Model 3 Way Before You're Supposed To See It

    The Tesla Model 3 is supposed to make or break Tesla, and it’s supposed to go into production in just three months. But the weird thing is, no one’s seen a clean shot of a release candidate yet (save for a crappy, brief clip posted last month). Until now. This is a prototype just spotted running around, and if Elon’s right, that means it’s damn near production-spec.

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  • Remember the GT-R concept from 2001? I’m kinda glad it didn’t go down that road.

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    I was going through AP’s “Today In History” image segment earlier and came across this photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger debuting the Hummer H2 truck back in 2001. What a time.

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  • The 'New Chevrolet El Camino' Is A Lie

    You may have seen renderings of a ‘new Chevrolet El Camino’ based on the Chevy Camaro popping up in your internet feeds. That shit’s fake. It’s all lies. This is your warning.

    By Justin T. Westbrook Read More

  • Celebrate Citroën's Iconic Van's 70th Birthday By Putting A New Citroën Van In Costume

    The Citroën H Van is an automotive design icon. It’s sort of like the equal and opposite reaction to a design like the Lamborghini Miura; where the Miura is a lithe, elegant, obviously beautiful-looking car, the H van is like a corrugated garden shed on wheels. All utility, no style, and, as a result, is somehow full of style. Now, for its 70th birthday, there’s a way to make a modern Citroën van look like one.

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  • It amazes me that some people, like, own Lagondas. Like that’s the car they choose to own and drive and presumably maintain.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Storm Chasers Are Pissed These Idiots Drove Into A Tornado

    Chasing storms is dangerous and getting increasingly reality-TV-esque, as chasers get closer and closer and closer to tornadoes for the viral thrill. But there’s push-back within this community of weather/adrenaline junkies. They’re pissed that one car full of chasers went driving straight into a tornado.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • Here's How To Use A Roundabout And Not Panic

    Driving in a circle to improve traffic flow may seem a weird, European concept for the uninitiated, so Michigan police are encouraging motorists to get on board and understand how to tackle them.

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  • Here is the only photo of the Toyota Corolla FX16 you will ever need.

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  • Meh Car Mondays Begins! Let Us Salute The Chevrolet Corsica

    We got a suggestion recently to try a regular feature that brings some likely-unwarranted attention to some really mundane, forgettable cars. Cars you couldn’t give a shit about even if the shit-donation foundation showed up at your door with promises that every shit you give will save the life of some poor, shitless child. We’re going to start Meh Car Mondays with a truly ignorable car: the Chevy Corsica.

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  • These Are The Most Expensive Ways To Cross America

    Have you ever gotten in a cab and wondered how much it would cost if you just had the driver keep going until they ran out of land? Of course you have. If you live in America, I’m sure you’ve either crossed the country at some point, or at least wondered about it. Have you ever wondered what the most expensive way to do that would be? I sure have, which is why I made this chart.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Onlooker To Faraday Future Prototype: "Is That The Model 3?"

    Like pretty much every other carmaker, Faraday Future tests their pre-production mules out on city roads, where they can be in full view of the public. Two members of the public saw this Faraday Future FF 91 mule out for a drive in Los Angeles (right by Trashy Lingerie, even), and their reaction was one that will make Faraday Future marketing people weep a little bit at their desks today.

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  • We were all rooting for you, David.

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  • Is There A Car You Wish You Still Had?

    The topic of future classics is an interesting one, especially when it involves an expensive purchase you may or may not be trying to justify in your own mind. But of course, any car enthusiast’s guess about what cars will be hip and cool decades in the future is just that—a guess.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • Do You Take Photos In Traffic?

    Traffic sucks, but sometimes there are interesting cars. If I’m at a dead stop, I occasionally grab a photo. I may wait to post them until I’m out of the car, but I’m not going to speed into a bus full of innocent kindergartners taking a quick pic while stationary. What about you? Do you take photos in traffic? Why or why not?

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  • This Resto-Mod Mini Is Almost $90,000 Of Amazing

    We’re in a bit of a golden age of resto-mod cars right now, with firms like Singer and ICON reworking icons like Porsche 911s, Land Cruisers, and Broncos into vintage-looking, but mechanically modern masterpieces of style and craftsmanship. Finally, the trend is making its way to iconic everyman’s cars like the legendary BMC Mini.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Behold The Unfathomably Gorgeous Spectacle Of An Aston Martin Vulcan Track Day

    If you’re cool (and rich) enough in Aston Martin’s book, you can get invited to purchase the limited edition faster toys they offer. We all saw the Vulcan launched in 2015 as a sign that Aston Martin wasn’t going to go all hybrid on us to achieve a proper track machine, and did so with over 800 horsepower from a 7.0-liter naturally-aspirated V12 and a sound that makes us weak at the knees.

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  • Here's Some Of The First Pictures Sent Back From The Cassini Spacecraft's Dive Between Saturn And Its Rings

    The Cassini spacecraft has been studying Saturn and her moons for nearly 20 years, and is now finally running out of fuel. The Cassini mission is set to end this September, but not without a big finale. It’s a Grand Finale, even, and it’s going to end with Cassini plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere. Before that though, it just went between Saturn and its rings for the first time ever, and we have the very first images.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • China Launches Their First Robotic Space Station Resupply Ship

    Earlier today, China took a huge step forward in their quest for a continual human presence in space: they launched Tianzhou-1, an unmanned resupply ship that will dock with their space station, Tiangong-2. I’d also like to add that I predicted this would happen back in 2012, when I claimed that their first space station, Tiangong-1, was actually a prototype of a resupply ship. I think I was right!

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Mesmerize Yourself For Hours With NASA's Gigantic New Image Library

    Anyone who has ever navigated a government website knows that most of them are, for lack of a better word, utter shit. They are janky and disorganized. But NASA, in an effort to do away with that, just pulled all of its incredible images and videos together in one place. Get ready to lose hours of your life gazing at all the pretty, pretty pictures.

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  • Car Designers Need To Quit Hiding Radar Emitters In Grilles Because It's Not Fooling Anyone

    Have you looked at the grille of a new Mercedes-Benz S Class? At first glance, it looks essentially like the modern version of the iconic Benz grille, Until the light hits it just right, and you see a weird, shiny rectangular block right in the middle, attempting to camouflage itself into the rest of the grille. It looks weird. It’s the car’s radar emitter, and it’s a great example of why trying to hide these things in grilles doesn’t work.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Faraday Future Is Even Getting Sued By A Bicycle Company

    A couple months back, we had a funny story about a lawsuit filed against Faraday Future for allegedly failing to pay a broker it hired to coordinate a $1.5 million sale of the website ff.com. Faraday, an electric vehicle start-up with known financial struggles, couldn’t even pick a name without landing in court. Here’s the punch line to that joke: The name Faraday is already used by an electric bicycle maker, which accused FF on Wednesday of trademark infringement for using ‘FARADAY’. Oops.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • The Biggest Fleet Of Autonomous Cars Ever Will Soon Be Open To The Public

    Google’s self-driving car project, the wonderfully named Waymo, took time out from a high-profile autonomous tech lawsuit against Uber to announce on Tuesday that it’s launching a public testing program for hundreds of families in Arizona. Along with that, it’s expanding its fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacific Hybrid minivans from 100 to 600, which would make it the largest collection of robot cars around today. (Sorry, General Motors.)

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Tesla Is Doubling Its Charging Network

    Good news for electric road trippers and people still suffering from range anxiety: Tesla announced today that it plans to double the size of its Supercharger network, with some sites being constructed along busy routes to accommodate several dozen Teslas charging simultaneously.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Baidu Open-Sources Its Software To To Speed Up The Development Of Autonomous Car Tech

    Baidu, China’s largest search engine, said last week that it’s opening up its self-driving technology to drive the development of the budding industry. At the Shanghai Auto Show, according to the Financial Times, the company said the project would provide an “open, complete and reliable software platform for its partners in the automotive and autonomous driving industry to develop their own autonomous driving systems.”

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Self-Driving Chevy Bolt Spares Adorable Raccoon's Life

    General Motors has been pretty up front with releasing raw (sped-up) footage of its autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs driving around town. The latest clip released this week shows a close-call with the car and a risky raccoon looking to get across the road.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • 'Uber Is In Reality A Socialist Project Of Sharing Aimed At Providing Ordinary People With More Economic Opportunities'

    If you have even a rudimentary grasp of Uber’s history, you probably know the ride-hailing service as a start-up with a history of rebuffing regulations as much as it possibly can. This is literally an ideal of its CEO, Travis Kalanick, who once quipped “When the people with the red tape come, it becomes a negotiation.” So... I’m wondering who wrote its Policy Vision For Slovakia, a document that apparently circulated around the European country’s parliament in 2015.

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  • Uber Is Being Sued For Alleged 'Predatory Pricing'

    Uber revealed on Friday that its business more than doubled in 2016, but a pair of fresh lawsuits filed in California say that significant growth is due to a business model that relies on “predatory pricing” to drive competitors out of business.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Apple's Self-Driving Car Program Is Legit

    Apple’s secretive car program came grinding to a halt last year, but the tech giant never gave up on the self-driving car race. And now it’s taking a step forward, with California regulators announcing Friday that Apple has received a permit to test autonomous vehicles on state roads.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • GM Is Getting Serious About Autonomous Cars

    The main General Motors-related headline blasting around the Internet today is that it’s aiming to hire 1,100 people to work at a new research and development center in Silicon Valley to focus on the automaker’s self-driving car efforts. But journalist Mark Harris at IEEE Spectrum has an even more interesting scoop that shows just how serious GM is getting about self-driving cars: It’s gearing up to launch the largest fleet of autonomous cars across three U.S. cities.

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  • Here's How Shady The Google VS. Uber Case Is Really Starting To Look

    The main issue in the high-profile case between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, is whether Uber is using Waymo’s allegedly stollen intellectual property to build its autonomous driving system. But the backstory of the engineer at the center of the case, Anthony Levandowski, is utterly convoluted—evident by yet another revelation on Wednesday: Uber discussed purchasing Levandowski’s self-driving truck start-up, Otto, just two days after he resigned from Google.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Is Uber Really Helping Traffic? San Francisco May Sue California To Find Out

    There’s a tendency to think that ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft will help seriously reduce congestion in major cities. If that’s the case, San Francisco hasn’t seen it. City officials are now reportedly considering “legal action” against the state of California to obtain location data of records of tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers that, according to the San Francisco Examiner, “may help planners alleviate traffic congestion.”

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  • The Sad Nissan Leaf Is Beating The Chevy Bolt In Sales Somehow

    Picture yourself as an environmentally-conscious citizen, one who wants to Do Your Part by purchasing an electric vehicle to reduce your annual fuel consumption. You go to the dealer. They offer you two options: a Nissan Leaf for about $30,000 and a range of up to 107 miles on a full charge, or a Chevy Bolt for a similar sticker price and a range of 238 miles. Faced with these options, more people—for now—are picking the Leaf. What gives?

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  • Should Autonomous Cars Be Forced To Save Lives In An Emergency?

    We’ve discussed the need for a coherent set of ethics for autonomous cars before. After all, these are really 3,500-pound robots that will be roaming all over our cities; we need to decide what acceptable and predictable behaviors will be for these machines. But lately I’ve been wondering something else about autonomous cars: should we force them to save lives?

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Faraday Future Should Make The FF 91 Look Like This

    Electric autonomous vehicle start-up (cripe that’s a mouthful) Faraday Future hasn’t had the kind of start to 2017 that it probably expected after debuting its flagship vehicle, the FF 91, at this year’s CES conference. It’s been... rough. But we’ve caught FF 91 prototypes moseying about town in recent weeks, and the start-up showed off a new one with a slick matte black finish at Mother’s Car Corral that took place at the Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach last weekend, according to Electrek. It

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • GM Muscles In On Tesla's Autopilot With 'Super Cruise' Tech On New Cadillac CT6s

    Cadillac is taking direct aim at Tesla by announcing that the 2018 CT6 sedan will be General Motors first vehicle to come equipped with the long-awaited Super Cruise, the semi-autonomous highway driving feature that GM has been working on for years. Cadillac calls Super Cruise the “industry’s first true hands-free driving technology,” which is a polite way for GM to say to Tesla founder Elon Musk: Come At Me.

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  • Uber Shoots Back At Google: Our Autonomous Tech Isn't The Same As Yours

    Uber admitted in court filings today that its in-house self-driving car technology isn’t ready to hit the road, and denied accusations from Waymo, Google’s driverless car project, that it’s using stolen tech designs. It’s a surprise move for the ride-hailing giant, said to be worth close to $70 billion, to admit it’s second-best in the race to develop a functional autonomous vehicle.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • The Engineer In The Google Vs. Uber 'Stolen Tech' Case Might Be An Evil Genius

    Anthony Levandowski is the key player in the unfolding legal fight between his former employer, Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo, and Uber, where he now runs the startup’s self-driving program. To put it lightly, the case has shown the dude has some seriously deep—but, crucially, alleged—conflicts of interest. The latest court documents filed this week by Uber to try and move the case to arbitration rather than a trial add another layer of questions to the story. But the documents only seeme

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Tesla Is Now Valued Higher Than GM Because It's The Future® I Guess

    You see that? The minimal interior, the whopper of a monitor slapped in the middle, the tech-forward aura of it all? That’s the future, presented by Tesla, which is now the most valuable car company in the U.S., according to the stock market, despite not having produced a single Model 3 sedan, the car viewed as the “make or break” model for the automaker.

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  • How My Rusty 1948 Farm Jeep Challenged $50,000 Wranglers On The Trails Of Moab

    From day one, all cards were all stacked against this idea. Pretty much every major mechanical part on this 1948 Willys CJ-2A was broken in some way, I had little money and even less time, and the weather in Michigan made repairing anything in my garage total misery. The prospect of getting the Willys worthy for a 2,000-mile trek to Utah seemed almost impossible. Preparing it for the gnarly off-road trails of Moab? Pshh, that was a pipe dream.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • What's The Best-Worst Car You've Ever Owned?

    There were days when I would walk out to my car, key in hand, filled with joy and anticipation for the drive to come. There were also days when I wished I would walk out and find that my car had been crushed by a meteor and I’d never have to deal with its bullshit again.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • This Manual AWD Turbo 1998 RAV4 Will Make Your Subaru Cry

    Ryan Shaughnessy is a huge fan of both the Toyota RAV4 as well as the Toyota Caldina GT-T—a mad station wagon made for the Japanese market only. So he swapped a 256-horsepower Caldina GT-T 3S-GTE engine into his 1998 RAV4. The best of both worlds makes for some great snow-conquering hoonage.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • This Quest To Build A 1989 Chrysler Conquest Show Car Is All You Should Watch Today

    Wekfest is a car show that started a decade ago in San Francisco and quickly spread to places like Japan, Chicago and Hawaii. When tuner Noel Panganiban got an invite to the latter, he knew he had to do it. But what car to build and bring? He weighed his options and decided on his Chrysler Conquest, the twin sister of our beloved Mitsubishi Starion, but had only had a little over two months to do the build.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Here's What It's Really Like To Buy An Old British Sports Car

    It was one of those scorching-hot May afternoons when the air conditioning might as well just give up, where a slight breeze is the only break from molasses-thick humidity. It seemed far-fetched at the time, but tucked away in an unsuspecting backwoods Missouri lake house resided a four-wheeled curiosity: a Triumph Spitfire. It’s about as close to the archetypal British roadster as you can get, and after three hours of traveling, we weren’t going to turn around because of a little discomfort.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • I Finally Figured Out Why My 1948 Jeep Died

    My 1948 Willys—nicknamed Project Slow Devil—has been dead since its engine lost all compression on a rural Kansas road. Time of death: Saturday morning, 1 a.m. Ever since, I’ve struggled to get even a wink of sleep as I tried diagnosing the problem. But on Monday, after having a second look at the innards of the Go-Devil motor, my coworker Freddy and I finally found the culprit.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • Here's How To Keep Your Car Clean And Actually Looking Like New

    Handwashing your own car can be one of the most therapeutic activities you engage in. Which is why, when cleaning expert and advice columnist Jolie Kerr invited me to join her on her podcast Ask a Clean Person to discuss exactly that, I wasn’t about to pass it up. Chat about car detailing for an hour? Yes, please!

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • My 1948 Jeep Finally Died After 1,300 Miles Of Glory

    I never expected my 1948 Willys CJ-2A to make it 1,300 miles; the thing started out as a pile of rusty garbage, and if I’m honest, remains in that state on the back of a trailer after losing its engine last night near Sharon Springs, Kansas at 1 a.m.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • No, David, no! After 1,300 miles, this can’t be!

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  • How To Make Your Car's Face Pretty Again

    It’s nearly impossible to keep your car’s paint looking perfect when you use it every day. It seems no matter what you do, highway debris, parking lot mayhem, and the sun’s UV rays do their fair share of damage to your pride and joy. Nothing short of a trip to a professional’s paint booth seems like a viable solution to the weathered appearance of your car.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • My 1948 Jeep Off-Road Project Made It 1,000 Miles To Kansas

    My Willys CJ-2A farm Jeep—a junker whose rust brought me to the brink of insanity, and arguably beyond—continues to blow my mind. At 40 miles per hour, the 1,800 mile trot from Detroit to Moab, Utah is set to be a long one. The good thing is: I’m over halfway there.

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  • Here's Exactly What It Cost To Turn The World's Least Reliable Car Into An Off-Road Beast

    The Audi Allroad has become a running joke as possibly the least reliable car ever made, and for pretty damn good reason. Between the notoriously finicky 2.7-liter twin-turbo V6 engine (same as in the vaunted B5 S4) and the early 2000s air suspension (read: terrible), there is just way too much crap to go wrong —Often to the point where most owners just can’t keep up with the maintenance and sell them off for cheap once the repair bills start piling up. Here’s where I come in.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • My 1948 Farm Jeep Made It 300 Miles To Indiana

    With its seemingly endless mechanical and electrical faults, I was convinced my 1948 Willys CJ-2A off-road project had lost all will to live. But apparently, there’s some life in the little Jeep yet, because Project Slow Devil just drove 300 miles in a single day in the first leg of my 1,800 mile journey to Moab.

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  • Here’s David’s Project Slow Devil, having made it 300 miles from Detroit to West Lafayette, Indiana. He might just pull this off.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • It's Easier Than Ever To Daily-Drive A 50-Year-Old Car

    A half-century ago last week, a BMW 1600-2 rolled off a Munich assembly line, freshly bathed in an off-white paint color called Chamonix and assembled by what I can only assume were meticulously trained German craftsmen, peering down their noses through reading glasses as they expertly cinched down every nut, bolt, and screw on the car.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Cobb's AccessPort Vape Would Be The Perfect Gift For A Subaru Owner

    April Fools’ products are often dumb and bad, but this year we saw several fakes that we desperately wish were real, like systems to get slow drivers out of the fucking left lane and racing helmets for cats. But Cobb Tuning outdid them all yesterday with something that would make a ton of money if it were real: an AccessPort vape.

    By Patrick George Read More