A former intelligence officer who now owns a consumer drone company fears it’s a matter of time before ordinary, increasingly common drones become a weaponized threat to the public unless the federal government acts fast. He knows how consumers are modifying them to work beyond their intended capabilities, potentially making them lethal.
Read MoreThe United States Air Force will keep the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor in service until 2060, extending the life of the aircraft for another 43 years.
Read MoreSomething tragic happened off the coast of Japan on June 17th. It’s not entirely clear how it happened, but seven sailors are now dead. What we do know is that a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a much larger cargo ship. Blame has been placed on the destroyer’s crew, but there’s a lot about this that doesn’t add up.
Read MoreAvailability of spare parts is getting worse. Repairs are delayed. Jets aren’t available when needed and pilots can’t get enough training hours. Surprise, everyone. The F-35 is still a spectacularly inefficient, super expensive shitshow that continues be the national leader in military procurement mismanagement.
Read MoreIn the midst of investigations into Russian interference in the United States presidential election, obstruction of justice, and fighter jet shootdowns, the White House suddenly announced last night that Syrian President Bashar Assad would “pay a heavy price” if it used chemical weapons again in Syria. And it’s been reported that the Pentagon and the State department had no idea about it.
Read MoreA Belarusian military parade will have one less tank after this snafu. One 40-ton tank lost control during a practice run, sending it drifting into a light pole as if it was driven by That Guy leaving Cars and Coffee.
Read MoreAs dangerous as nuclear weapons are, you’d think the management running them would prioritize safety. This is not the case at all.
Read MoreAfter years of delays and cost overruns, the British Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth is set to begin a series of critical sea trails that will help determine if the billions of pounds it took to build her were really worth it.
Read MoreWhen you’ve got a Russian helicopter making multiple passes over the front of your vehicle, you better believe you’re going to be intimidated. Previously undisclosed reports and a number of photos allegedly show a Russian military helicopter flying dangerously close to an American defense attache in northern Russia according to the Washington Post.
Read MoreI know, I know—these types of maneuvers actually have a purpose besides joyriding, like navigation, stress tests and defense tactics. But that doesn’t stop it from looking like a ton of fun.
Read MoreWhile most of the world’s attention has turned to focus on the war against ISIS in Northwest Syria, the civil war in the rest of Syria still rages. Now there’s a report that Israel – still considered a mortal enemy by many sides in the multi-front war – has actually been providing real support to rebels in Syria’s southwest.
Read MoreA Canadian sniper shot and killed an ISIS operative 3,540 meters away, shattering the old record by more than 1,000 meters. The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed the kill Thursday, saying a member of its Joint Task Force 2 made the shot in Iraq within the last month.
Read MoreRussia’s T-14 Armata tank has already made waves for its armor that can reportedly stand up against NATO’s current anti-tank missile systems. Now it’s making news again because it can reportedly destroy targets more than seven miles away, which is more than twice the range of America’s vaunted M1 Abrams tank. The real question, though, is whether any of this will be a game changer in an actual war.
Read MoreWhen you think “air force missions,” I imagine a lot of images pop into your head: jet fighters, missiles screaming through the air, Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise playing shirtless volleyball, and that stock footage of an aircraft being refueled in flight I bet are all in the mix. One thing that probably doesn’t come up are pigs, and their bristly hair. And yet that was the whole point of a Royal Australian Air Force mission right after WWII.
Read MoreA NATO F-16 fighter jet approached an aircraft carrying Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu as it traveled in international airspace over the Baltic Sea in northeast Europe Wednesday, escalating already heightened tensions in the region. Here’s how that went down.
Read MoreSouth Korean President President Moon Jae-in has long voiced a conciliatory tone with North Korea and gone on record saying it is time for Seoul to start saying “no” to Washington. For this reason and more, Seoul has said it will consider scaling back its military exercises with the U.S. in exchange for Pyongyang suspending its nuclear weapons program.
Read MoreOn Sunday a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet took out a Syrian Su-22 after it attacked an area near U.S.-backed fighters, the first such shootdown since America began fighting ISIS there in 2014. Yet Russia, which backs Assad’s Syrian government, has now warned the United States that it would treat any U.S. coalition planes and drones flying west of the Euphrates River as targets.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy has confirmed that the Japanese Coast Guard has been called to aide the USS Fitzgerald, which reportedly collided with a Philippines merchant ship 56 miles off of the Japanese Coast, according to Reuters.
Read MoreJust one week after President Donald Trump accused the country of funding terrorism, the United States has agreed to sell Qatar $12 billion worth of F-15s.
Read MoreThey move at more than five times the speed of sound and can maneuver in unpredictable patterns previously unthinkable at high velocities. They’re nearly impossible to stop. And they can carry thermonuclear payloads. In the relentless global arms race, maneuverable hypersonic weapons look like the next step.
Read MoreOn Friday, the U.S. Air Force cancelled all F-35A Lightning II training flights at Luke Air Force Base just outside Phoenix, Arizona after it was reported five pilots had been experiencing hypoxia-like symptoms since May 2. The one-day pause at the base was to further examine the cause and further educate F-35 pilots on the effects of hypoxia. Officials originally stopped short of calling the suspension of flying operations a “grounding” and fully anticipated returning the jets to flying today,
Read MoreBy now, most Americans are aware of the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election so that it would benefit then-candidate Donald Trump. American experts believe Russian military intelligence agencies deployed aggressive disinformation campaigns via pro-Russia websites and social media—even attempted to hack into polling machines, as we found out recently. Now the Kremlin is honing in on American military personnel.
Read MoreIn May, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson and acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley appeared before a Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to discuss the recently unveiled fiscal year 2018 defense budget and its effects on the Navy. The news was not good about the state of the Navy and where the service is headed.
Read MoreIn a clear show of force, the U.S. is sending two nuclear-capable B-2 stealthb to England on a short-term mission in what a U.S. European Command statement described as “recurring bomber assurance and deterrence operations.” Translation: we’re not fucking around, Russia.
Read MoreIn recent weeks a complex dispute over terrorism, diplomacy, trade, media, and foreign policy has pushed Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to cut ties with Qatar, and expel all Qataris within their respective borders. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have thoughts on the matter.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump made a really, really big deal out of his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, where he announced a $110 billion arms agreement. But the list of weapons to potentially to be sold—it’s not official until the State Department and Congress approves—was not exactly clear and lacking in details. Now we know how much money is being allocated for training, fighter jets, tankers and ships and projected delivery dates for many of these items.
Read MoreAn American F-15E shot down a suspected pro-Syrian government drone in southeastern Syria today after it “dropped one of several weapons it was carrying near a position occupied by Coalition personnel who are training and advising partner ground forces in the fight against ISIS”, according to the CENTCOM news release.
Read MoreNorth Korea’s latest missile test—that of suspected anti-ship missiles that landed in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan— sends a very clear message to America: we’re getting ready for war, if it gets to that point. So far, the North has launched 16 missiles in 10 tests so far in 2017, with Thursday’s launch reportedly designed to show off its ability to hit warships.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump has been extremely adamant that former FBI director James Comey told him on three occasions that he, personally, was not under investigation for collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Comey’s confirming that in sworn testimony today, but the reason is much more complicated than you think, and it has to do with actual espionage.
Read MoreIn the world of U.S. diplomacy, back channels of communication between governments exist for various reasons. But they are more regulated than you may think. Though, it appears that President Trump’s son-in-law ’s meeting with the Russian ambassador at Trump Tower was anything but regulated. And his actions weren’t just suspicious to the average person. Experts who held diplomatic positions with top-secret clearance said all of this looks very bad for Jared Kushner.
Read MoreVirginia Senator Mark Warner said today that Russian military intelligence attacks against the 2016 U.S. election were far broader than what was reported in The Intercept’s devastating story on Russia’s attempts at election-hacking across the United States, a story that detailed cyberattacks on voting machines and election officials themselves.
Read MoreThe A-10 Warthog is the aerial savior for ground troops everywhere, and despite its advancing age and having been in near-constant combat for 15 years now, the recently released U.S. Air Force fiscal year 2018 defense budget once again indicates it will stay flying for some time. But what a lot of people don’t know is that this revered aircraft’s first mission to attack the Taliban over Afghanistan was nearly a disaster.
Read MoreWhen you want to send an international message that can’t be missed, you send an aircraft carrier. When you want to put up a neon sign, you send two. And yesterday, the U.S. Navy did just that, by confirming that the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike groups had joined up off the Korean coast.
Read MoreThe 2018 BMW X3 wasn’t supposed to be in front of your eyes until Monday, but the manufacturer’s local website in Hong Kong seems to have dropped the truly riveting new compact SUV a few days early. Yes, it’s hard to care about, but now the top X3 actually gets a decent amount of power.
Read MoreBy now we all know that the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is an 840 horsepower exercise in mechanical bonkersism, a drag car cajoled into the bare minimum of street legality, available for any dipshit with $85,000 and a functioning metabolism to own. That dipshit with $85K in disposable income will have to sign some important papers for Fiat-Chrysler, though. We’ve got those papers right here, if you’d like to take a look.
Read MoreRaise your hand if somebody you knew had this exact photo as their Myspace background. Raise both and wave them around if it was your Myspace background. Ain’t no shame in that, especially now.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that Cadillac has had a hard time selling their non-Escalade offerings. This results in some serious depreciation in the pre-owned market. Which is good news, if you happen to be looking to buy a 420 horsepower used luxury sedan for less than a loaded Malibu.
Read MoreDoes a project car ever stop being a project? Does an old Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo ever stop breaking down? Can you actually enjoy owning one? The answer to all of those questions, dear reader, is a resounding, “Yes.”
Read MoreHappy almost-Independence Day. We’re celebrating with a real American supercar, the Ohio-built (and largely American-engineered) 2017 Acura NSX. Ask me stuff about it.
Read MoreThe 2017 Volvo V90 R-Design is the midsize station wagon that was sent from the automotive gods to roundhouse kick generic crossovers in the chest. It brings the already-stunning V90 wagon to a new level by adding sexy Swedish design cues and a healthy dose of hunkered-down sports car athleticism.
Read MoreToday I spit my Lucky Charms all over my laptop screen after seeing this bone-stock Jeep Cherokee for sale on Ebay for nearly $16,000. The seller’s reasoning for selling the Jeep at such a lofty price was a typical one: it’s a one-owner car. My thought upon reading this: why should I give a crap?
Read MoreRob loved his Toyota MR2 and then one day a jealous Prius decided that the lovely Japanese convertible had to die. Rob’s car was hit and totaled. Now Rob is looking for something light, fun and cheap that would make for a good replacement. What car should he buy?
Read MoreAutomakers have come up with some creative incentives and rebates in order to make the sale price a bit more palatable. One of the more, uh, interesting ones is a rebate offered by a Fiat Chrysler dealer for having a low credit score. I can’t say I’m surprised.
Read MoreThe Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is a car that drove straight from Japan, through our TV screens, punched the Subaru WRX STI in the face, and quickly disappeared into oblivion.
Read MoreGetting hosed at the dealership is no fun, especially if you don’t catch it until after you’ve made the purchase. It’s a crappy feeling to realize you paid more than you should have, and while there isn’t often much you can do legally, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try something.
Read MoreJeff’s marriage didn’t work out as planned, and now it’s just him and his dog. They want to hit the road with the pup for some adventure. The problem is that his Mini isn’t really big enough for the both of them. What car should he buy?
Read MoreSay you just bought a brand new Aston Martin DB11 and you’re suddenly a little hungry. What do you do? Do you need to spend what’s left of your budget eating at the finest, fanciest restaurants around, or can you slum it eating deliciously greasy french fries coated in gravy and cheese?
Read MoreYou’ve heard “millennials don’t like to get their hands dirty” and “kids aren’t into cars anymore.” But don’t worry—hot rod culture is still alive, but today the greasy tattooed Danny Zuko types build stuff like this 1975 Datsun 280Z with a Nissan Skyline engine swap. And it’s fast, difficult to drive, and just the right amount of janky.
Read MoreFor the better part of a decade, Craigslist has been my go-to source for all questionable automotive purchases. It has served me well for years (I haven’t died once!), but now—even though I remain obsessed with the List-O De La Craig—Facebook Marketplace has become primary junker search site. Here’s why.
Read MoreSay you’re looking for a classic, cheap rear-wheel-drive sports car for cruising in the countryside over the weekend, or even whip out for the occasional track day session. You could get an old British roadster, but the headaches that come with those cars have pretty much turned you off by now. And besides, you’re not a goddamn mechanic, but an average human being with a normal life, maybe a few kids and a mortgage to pay. All you’re looking for is a cheap way to let off some steam behind the wh
Read MoreBuying a new car can be exciting. The chance to score a great deal is especially alluring and right now seems to be the perfect time to buy a car. Car sales are down, incentives are up and used car prices are falling. A good chunk of you should probably hold off for awhile, however.
Read MoreThe police cruiser sidled into my rearview mirror and my hands reflexively tightened on the 2018 Lexus LC 500's leather-clad steering wheel. Shit. I was sure I hadn’t just done anything illegal. Well, pretty sure.
Read MoreEric has had his share of interesting cars, but now he drives a boring crossover that is killing his soul. He needs to get something ridiculous before this whole “being an adult” thing really takes hold. He needs something, in his words, that is “stupid.” What car should he buy?
Read MoreDon’t buy a Mazda RX-8, but if you’re going to anyway, now is probably the best time to do so.
Read MoreI’m not sure what it says about our world that the most objectively rational design for a small, useful car—a box on wheels—is considered weird by almost everyone. Kia sells such a car, the Soul. This version, the Soul ! with that stupid !, adds a bit of punch to the clever design, making a novel, useful little car that you can actually identify in a parking lot.
Read MoreI feel sorry for the Lexus RC-F. When Lexus released this oddly styled coupe in 2015, everyone immediately compared it to a BMW M4, and collectively pointed and laughed at the car for being heavier, softer, and slower than the Bavarian opposition.
Read MoreDave is a physician who has been working and saving for a very long time to finally fulfill his dream of owning a legit supercar. He isn’t too picky except for one key feature: it’s got to have a V12 engine. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe new Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid is supposed to be futuristic-feeling luxury without the scary unfamiliarly of a pure-EV powertrain or a “startup” brand backing it. The execution—even in a brief jaunt—is impressive enough to convert some electric skeptics in the big executive car crowd.
Read MoreThe man who dropped off the keys to a loaner 2018 Audi R8 Spyder at my trendy eighth-floor walk-up on the Lower East Side shuffled away after the transaction was complete, looking over his shoulder longingly at the shining supercar like he was walking away forever from his firstborn son.
Read MoreI met Volvo for the first time in the year 2000. My dad introduced us, both shy and unsure of our futures, on a balmy summer day not long after my 16th birthday. He’d already paid the $500 dowry, and I had little choice in the matter. That rusty 1985 Volvo 740 Turbo would be mine, ’til death do us part.
Read MoreI instantly despised the first Smart ForTwo when it debuted. Smart my ass. No car should try to convince you that buying one was a good decision. However! The car grew on me and I finally drove the new one. Much to my great pleasure, it was a genuinely wonderful vehicle, though one with a few faults.
Read MoreEvery car has a purpose (besides the obvious one, which is to make money for car companies). Some are made for families with multiple children. Some are for convertible fun on a good back road. But the purpose of the Acura Integra Type R was incredibly singular: the business of giant-slaying.
Read MoreNow before you get all riled up, the video below is a parody. The couple had a Tesla Model X for a 24-hour test drive. They thought it was cool, but couldn’t get over the price and ultimately gave it back. But it’s made me wonder something else: do you ever feel bad when people buy something they shouldn’t have?
Read MoreThe woman crossing the street, holding her small daughter’s hand, squinted at the grille of my Genesis G80 while it waited at a red light. Behind the wheel, I watched her face. She wasn’t displeased, exactly—more perplexed. Puzzled at the unfamiliar grille and the winged logo on the nose of the car, flashing the word Genesis in the midday California sun, a word that hasn’t quite become a household name just yet.
Read MoreIf you’re shopping for a new car, some dealers will come up with all kinds of reasons why they can’t offer you a better price. Some of these reasons are legitimate, but saying there are no factory rebates or deals to be had definitely isn’t one of them.
Read MoreI’m about to complain. Not about the 2017 Porsche Macan GTS, that thing is damn near perfect. I’m about to complain about my life, and you’re going to hate me for it.
Read MoreRoman is a filmmaker living in Winnipeg, Canada. He would like to take a trip down to beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina, but he wants to drive and will need a special vehicle to get him there and back. What car should he buy!
Read MoreIf you’ve ever bought a car or had service done at a car dealership, you know that soon after the transaction you’ll get a phone call or an email asking you take a survey about your experience. But if you give a bad survey, can it come back to bite you later?
Read MoreWhen I ask people what’s the point of a Bugatti Chiron, the $3 million engineering marvel with capabilities virtually nobody who buys one will ever remotely tap, I’m usually told the point is “bragging rights,” like that’s not an idiotic thing. The Chiron, though, fails at the most coveted bragging right, so what’s the point? If bragging rights are so important, I have a much better idea for a hypercar.
Read MoreThere is no sillier joy than taking a track car out of its natural habitat and onto the road. Sure, it can be tricky—comfort items tend to be left off for go-fast reasons. But as CarThrottle discovered, you can daily drive a bare-bones track beast like it’s any other car and survive—and maybe even enjoy yourself.
Read MoreFormer Nissan designer Yoshihiko Matsuo is the hero we need right now: a true believer in designing fun cars for the common man. His legendary 240Z went on to spawn an entire lineage of Datsun and Nissan Z cars. Yet Matsuo’s bosses at Nissan corporate thought he was insane for even suggesting a car like the first Z. Here’s how he had to fight to make it happen.
Read MoreIt’s possible that some of you may recall that last year noted painter of tinkering Christopher Walkens and improbable lunchboxes Brandon Bird revealed his plans to create a Jerry Orbach-themed art car. Those dreams are now a reality, as ORBACH1 is now complete.
Read MoreLike many gearheads, one of my earliest, formative experiences that established my lifelong fascination with cars involved a sentient 1963 Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie. The original movie, The Love Bug, was a really a big mash note to cars and grassroots racing. Later sequels got worse and worse, and what Disney’s planning now for a reboot is an outright travesty. We have to do something.
Read MoreI happened to see someone’s happy birthday post on Facebook that featured a remarkable Toyota Crown cake. This thing was the Finnegan’s Wake of automotive cakes. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a better car-cake. Curious, I found out who made it, and, oh boy, if car-cakes are your thing, put down a dropcloth to catch all of the blown-mind chunks you’re about to deal with.
Read MoreLong before everyone had machines on their desks, laps, and in their pockets capable of providing them with pornography from a global pornography-distribution network, people had to distribute hardcore pornography on celluloid film, like animals. The earliest example seems to be a 1915 movie that revolves around a car.
Read MoreMake: Wienermobile. Model: NPRHD. Year: 2012. This one’s name? OHIWISH. The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile randomly stopped outside our office today, and this is its VIN plate.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been moderately upset about something arbitrary—like, say, the lack of pop up headlights on modern automobiles—then prepare to be ever so slightly vindicated.
Read More“Yeah!” you think one day. “I’ll do it myself! I’ll replace the whole front end! Then I’ll drop in a new engine. And then get to the bottom of that electrical gremlin that’s been triggering my windshield wipers on odd-numbered days.”
Read MoreIt is very hard to find fault with the modern Chevrolet Corvette. It offers performance and capability that many six-figure exotics can’t even touch, and as an added bonus it’s no longer made of cardboard. So why do so few of them get driven?
Read MoreGenerally, the ads in car magazines tend to be pretty predictable: cars, parts for cars, liquids you pour into various holes in cars, and those big rubber floor mats that want to rescue your pants. In an old 1968 issue of the British car magazine Autocar, though, is what I think may be the least-expected car-magazine ad, ever.
Read MoreWhen Stephan Winkelmann, ex-Lamborghini CEO and wearer of impeccable suits, assumed the head of Quattro GmbH early last year, I was incredibly excited. He would be, it seemed, the shot of drama and life-blood Audi so desperately needed in its lineup. But in a new interview, he appears to be most interested in... SUVs? Goddammit, not you, too, Audi.
Read MoreHaving your car die on you is a pretty major inconvenience. Having it die in a place where it’s nightmarishly difficult to pull over or fix it is even worse. Quite a few of you have had this happen. I’m so sorry.
Read MoreCars are made to be driven. Now, if you are some ultra-rich collector and you’re going to drop a several million on a Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic to keep as a museum piece, that’s understandable. But for some reason, people are buying common Corvettes just to occupy a parking spot.
Read MoreHave you ever wished that you could enjoy some tasty cookies and pay homage to your favorite Japanese street racing anime, all at the same time? Someone in Japan must have decided that this market exists, because Initial D cookies are a thing and they’re everything we dreamed of and more—except for the cookie part.
Read MoreIt’s not widely known, but for a very brief period in the early 1950s, the Cold War was being fought with massive, bulbous slabs of cyclopean automotive futurism: the first concept cars. Before the Space Race got started, America and the Soviet Union squared off behind panoramic windshields and huge steering wheels. Let’s meet these first Cold Warriors.
Read MoreSEAT may be one of the biggest carmakers that’s almost unknown in America. They’re sold pretty much everywhere but America, and as a result even American gearheads who are aware of Citroëns and Skodas often forget all about Spain’s biggest carmaker. That’s probably why no American automotive journalists have ever visited SEAT’s wonderful historic collection. Until now, bitches.
Read MoreThe people just want a car—who needs all this dumb, driver-assisted tech? The constant warning chimes, my god, make. it. STOP. A new study said drivers aren’t digging the semi-autonomous features on new cars as of late—and if I had to guess, the main problem people have is that all of those nifty safety features come equipped with constant signals to get your attention.
Read MoreOr, rather, Ferrari has this really, really antiquated and very dumb, stick-up-the-ass view of itself that hasn’t matured or grown up to figure out how a flighty thing like image is cultivated in 2017.
Read MoreSometimes the drone crew in a video looks like they’re as big of a bunch of hoons as the people they’re filming. Here’s some absolutely stunning footage from East Coast Bash where the crew from RC Flying Cameras got to get up close and personal with a bunch of drift cars.
Read MoreFor the record, I’m not talking about funny Blipshift stuff or whatever. I’m talking a T-shirt with a Lamborghini splashed across the chest. A polo with a Ferrari’s prancing horse climbing up its sleeve. How acceptable is it to wear something like that?
Read MoreWhen a car-loving Canadian police officer pulled over a group of exotic supercars on a road rally, he didn’t write a ticket, reprimand anyone, or even give out a warning. To thank the cop for his kindness, a Lamborghini Huracan owner let the officer take the supercar around the block; the resulting video will make any car-nut’s heart melt.
Read MoreWe put a lot of love and good faith in our cars, but sometimes they can’t help but shit out on us. It’s easiest if that happens at home or near a shop, but then there are always those other times where help and resources are far away.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreI think the fundamental, pureéd gruel-like blandness of the Dodge Diplomat is probably best summed up in how this promo movie describes it’s size: “between a compact and an intermediate!” Somehow, Dodge’s engineers have managed to invent a size of car more boring than “mid-sized.” Kudos, gentlemen.
Read MoreThe Trans-Canada Highway is a highway that, naturally, goes across Canada. It’s 4,990 miles long (or 8,030 kilometers, in Canadian), and it took more than two decades to complete it. This guy believes he found the last paved section, and boy howdy is he jazzed about it.
Read MoreBlood Drive is a new TV show on Syfy which is essentially based on the premise of a world where cars are fueled by blood, and not petroleum, because blood. We had some questions about how such a transportation would work, and now, we have answers. And one of them might be pointing straight at the Homunculus Theory.
Read MoreThere’s a good reason why so many events happen at Fuji Speedway. It’s one of Japan’s biggest and most famous race circuits. Its close proximity to Tokyo helps too; if you’re lucky you can get there in an hour and a half or so. Plus, it provides a beautiful backdrop. So I’m not going to complain when the Ferrari Club of Japan’s annual track day is held here and not at any of the other tracks in Japan—especially when it was this much of a spectacle.
Read MoreUsed cars can always be fun because you never know what went on in the car before it ended up on your driveway. Most of the time it was nothing. Nothing. But then there are the other times.
Read MoreJust imagine you lived in a world where you were still you — a gearhead, devastatingly sexy, lover of cars, charming — but there were no interesting cars for you to buy, at all. What would you do? C0mplain? Punch a wall? If you were like this group of Soviet gearheads in the 1960s, you’d build your own damn car.
Read MoreCar enthusiasm has a tendency to be driven by nostalgia. It’s why Baby Boomers lust after Pontiac GTOs at car auctions and why people my age are so amped about the new Honda Civic Type R. This is inevitable. But when it comes to love for cars from the 1990s (and the ’80s as well) there’s more to it than that.
Read MoreAlmost nothing makes me happier than a brightly painted car. Too many of them on the roads these days are white, gray, black or beige. Give me candy-apple red. Electric blue. Honeyed gold. Screaming tangerine. And then give it to me as a nail polish so I can wear it around everywhere.
Read MoreSometimes it’s not easy being an ’80s and ’90s car enthusiast. Many car shows still cut eligibility at 1973. Cars and Coffees often devolve into supercar one-upmanship and dyno sheet saber rattling. Aftermarket support for restoration varies while available modifications often erase all vestiges of period correct character, turning the car into something entirely different.
Read MoreAs much as our readership likes to dislike Priuses, you have to admit that there is always going to be a need for a really efficient, environmentally-friendly car. The path the Prius took to these goals isn’t the only one, though. Volvo solved the same problems in a different and arguable much more fun way back in 1983, with their LCP2000.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet Corvair has to be one of my favorite American cars. It was bold and innovative, remaining America’s only real mass-produced rear-engined, air-cooled car. Oh, and also America’s only mass-produced horizontally-opposed engine. Michael McKeel must agree, because he has hundreds of them, which his neighbors aren’t too crazy about.
Read MoreFinally making the brave and valiant choice to cater to such an underserved market in the realm of car publications, Automobile magazine will “relaunch” in August with a goal to cater to the “modern-day car guy.” This magazine should go a long way to increase representation of men in media.
Read MoreWhat we have here is the ultimate fusion of two of the most popular modified cars: the Toyota Supra and Jeep Wrangler. If you ever wanted a rear-drive Jeep with the most legendary turbocharged six cylinder ever to come from Japan, now is your chance.
Read MoreHorn etiquette is pretty bad these days. Most people just lay on the horn and scare the crap out of everyone else on the road—this is not cool, so YouTuber Mark Rober devised a contraption that nice-ifies the horn-beeping process. Here’s what he did.
Read MoreSomebody finally figured out McLaren’s model nomenclature and it’s just sick owns.
Read MoreAfter hitting up the STi gallery in Mitaka and seeing all the magnificent things that can happen to ordinary Subarus there, the next place to visit is Spoon’s Type One showroom a few train stations down to see what kind of magic can happen to Hondas too.
Read MoreUnless you’re buying new, used cars can come with colorful histories. Sure, the seller can clean them up as much as possible before taking the photos to send to you, but sometimes the past can’t be erased.
Read MoreOne of my favorite parts of this job is that I’ve gotten to come close to classic sports and racing cars I previously though were utterly inaccessible. Vintage Alfa Romeos. Nazi Mercedes Grand Prix cars. Cisitalias. This has also gotten me close to the mechanics who keep these things running. They are universally interesting people.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we try to use our own original photography as much as possible. For many of us, taking pictures is fun and we feel that it adds to the overall story we’re trying to tell. There are times, though, when we just need to use a press photo. For me personally, sometimes this becomes problematic.
Read MoreRight on the outskirts of Tokyo, roughly an hour away by train, you can find in an unassuming and quiet suburb the headquarters of one of the most revered three-letter combinations in all of motoring: STi. For any diehard Subaru fan, a pilgrimage to the gallery at their headquarters in Mitaka is a must.
Read MoreSure, having a car can be better than walking or taking your city’s woefully inept public transit system. But that doesn’t feel like the case when you own a car that inspires nothing but hatred and animosity.
Read MoreCar companies and industry analysts often refer to cars as “units” when discussing things like monthly sales, assembly plant capacities and dealer inventories. It is the most boring, emotionless term ever used to describe automobiles, and I can’t stand it.
Read MoreAutomakers love to name cars after things we humans eat, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Read MoreMan, this was hard. Cars are named for lots of things—animals, cities, letters and numbers jammed together, stupid made-up focus-group non-words, emotions, planets—but one category of thing they’re almost never named after is food. Or beverages. But I like a challenge, so I tried to find every car named for something you can eat or drink. Here’s the menu.
Read MoreAir-cooling was a hallmark of Volkswagen since it began in the late 1930s. Throughout most of the 20th century, VW was motoring free from the cruel, wet tyranny of water—heavy, leaky radiators, and winter’s cold, looming threat of ice. The whole atmosphere was coolant for a VW, and all was good. Until it wasn’t. Right at the very end of the air-cooled era, VW made one last air-cooled car: it’s barely known in the U.S., and has a tricky-to-Google name.
Read MoreDo you remember the Nissan IDx concept? Actually, try not to. It’s too sad.
Read MoreToday’s comment of the day is the very best.
Read MoreSome of you out there might be wondering what, exactly, a car is. Scientists might waffle on you as to a strict definition, but I in my professional opinion can state as an example that this, the Plymouth Satellite, is a car.
Read MoreThe Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 Twin Turbo is absolutely a fascinating car. Rare, too! A car way ahead of its time, full of advanced electronics and four-wheel steering and two whole turbos. It’s amazing! Is such a remarkable car worth $500,000? Only if it has an original Banksy in the trunk, or you’re as deluded as this Detroit-area Craigslister.
Read MoreLook, the simple fact of the matter is that life doesn’t always work in ways that we want it to. Unforeseen things happen and we just have to deal with them.
Read MoreHave you ever bought vintage car parts online only to find that, when the package arrived, they have zero dead reptiles inside? It’s terrible. Thankfully, it seems that companies are following the will of the consumers, as evidenced by this Volvo PV544 gas tank that arrived with a prime, well-crushed dead snake. That’s quality.
Read MoreComment of the Day is awarded not just because of witty quips, sharp takedowns, and genial banter. It’s also bestowed due to advanced insights and engineering wisdom. Even if it’s not correct and makes no sense whatsoever.
Read MoreUnless you are The One True God Nicolas Cage, you have no way of telling what the future holds. This includes future car ownership. Many of you people have ended up with truly perplexing vehicles and have wonderful stories to go with them.
Read MoreSometimes when I go car hunting for someone, I’ll forget to put a budget cap on the search and I’ll see all the really expensive cars in a certain area. It’s fun looking at listings for cars that likely cost more than your house, so what’s the most expensive ride near you?
Read MoreAs I’m sure you’re aware by the confident, patriotic gleam in everyone’s eye, today is National Doughnut (or Donut) Day. Donuts and cars have many areas of delicious overlap, but today I want to get your opinion on a tricky car/donut question: what’s the proper way to make a donut-car?
Read MoreAuto designer legend Tom Tjaarda died at 82 today, and even if somehow you don’t think you know who he is, trust me, you know who he is. It’s almost certain that at some point you’ve seen a stunning car that’s taken your breath away, and there’s a decent chance that Tom Tjaarda had a hand in its design. Tjaarda was a legend, and it’s sad to see him go.
Read MoreToday feels like the kind of day that should end with something richly, deeply stupid. Something stupid in a vapid, good-natured way. Not evil-stupid, just dopey, dipshitty, almost soothingly stupid. Involving dogs and Volkswagens, ideally. This clip right here is just the thing, from a 1978 episode of The Bionic Woman.
Read MoreDriver: Parallel Lines, the fourth (and arguably best) installment in the Driver game franchise, had a perfect soundtrack.
Read MoreThe utter pervasiveness of smoking in the past is something I think we have trouble really understanding today. Smoking was the one expected vice, so much so that cars came standard with equipment to make smoking easier. I mean, sure, we have more cupholders now, but it’s worth noting that while nobody offers a coffee or grape Fanta dispenser in a car, there was a time when you could get a car that actually gave you cigarettes.
Read More“But putting your car on a ferry is so fun!” some say to me. “It’s so novel and thrilling!” others exclaim. Both of those statements are false. For me, cars on boats are a dreaded combination and preferable if avoided at all costs.
Read MoreFifty strangers were lined up to spray paint my car.
Read MoreNormally, I think Nürburgring lap times are silly and shouldn’t be taken seriously, but the time that the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE just set is so insane that I’m going to tell you about it anyway. It involves good, wholesome American manual gearboxes kicking the crap out of fancy soft European dual-clutch transmissions.
Read MoreThe Goodwood Festival of Speed is going on right now, which means we get to watch some tasty, tasty delights race up a British driveway. One of those delish numbers was supposed to be a Ford RS200 Evolution 2, until it crashed directly into some hay bales.
Read MoreA motorcyclist kicked the side of what looks like a Nissan Sentra on a major highway in southern California, starting a chain reaction that ended with a truck on its roof and the Sentra in a mangled, leaky mess.
Read MoreWhile sitting in traffic, you can feel your temper inexplicably rising. You hate the car in front of you. You hate the cars next to you. You hate what’s causing the delay. And you hate the motherfucking shoulder passers.
Read MoreIt’s happened to all of us: we’re driving along, minding our own business, obeying the traffic laws, heading through that green light when suddenly we hear the sirens and see the lights and there’s the cop screaming through the intersection! Brake! Brake! Brake! Avoid the accident—if you’re lucky.
Read MoreThe Grand Tour host Richard Hammond is in the hospital after a big, fiery wreck. Jeremy Clarkson is holed up rewriting scripts for a quickly approaching second season. James May is in a “hell hole” of an airport traveling to a shoot that Hammond was supposed to do. You could say things are a bit chaotic over there.
Read MoreThat is a car, on fire, in metro Detroit. Open another tab to get a clearer glimpse of the images below because, damn, that is intense. Remarkably, according to local TV stations in the area, there are no injuries to report.
Read MoreA doctor driving what looks like a Mazda hatchback in Japan somehow launched his car over a divider and directly into a tour bus, killing himself and injuring 45, Japan Times reports. The video of the crash looks like something out of an action film. It is terrifying.
Read MoreRichard Hammond was airlifted to the hospital after a serious crash in an electric Rimac Concept One supercar while filming season two of The Grand Tour, and is said to have luckily suffered “no serious injury.”
Read MoreWow, cool Mercedes you’ve got there, guy. Is it new? Can you do any tricks with it?
Read MoreThe best part of this dashcam video isn’t the karma served up to this Chevy Camaro driver brake-checking another car three times in a row then losing it in an intersection and crashing up a pole. It’s watching the car flail aimlessly, more upright than desired, in reverse with no wheels on the ground.
Read MoreAt the wheel of that Toyota Supra is one Mike Perez, one of the more wild drivers in the American drift scene. How wild? Watch him drift over another car in one of the more manic crashes I’ve seen in a while.
Read MoreRandy Tompkins seems to be the kind of person most of us like to imagine ourselves to be in self-aggrandizing daydreams we don’t tell anyone about. On Friday, in Dixon, Illinois, Tompkins jumped through the open window of a moving car to potentially save someone’s life. And it’s all on video.
Read MoreTop Gear America, the franchise’s second swing directly at the U.S. market, officially airs next month and the first trailer is finally here. The good news is that it looks like Top Gear. The bad news might be that it looks like Top Gear.
Read MoreOther than host reactions and a short clip of what happened, we haven’t gotten much information on The Grand Tour host Richard Hammond’s huge, fiery crash during filming. But Hammond recently sat down to give the details, saying the crash “was like being in a tumble dryer full of bricks going down a hill.”
Read MoreTop Gear has a long and storied history of pissing off other countries, and the new hosts seem to be continuing this proud tradition. Evidence isn’t on the show’s side this time as speeds well over the limit—more than 150 mph in one case—were captured in Norway’s Atlantic Ocean Tunnel on Wednesday during the filming of the show.
Read MoreThe Grand Tour host Richard Hammond hasn’t said much about the specifics of his terrifying crash during filming, other than he’s OK and getting work done on his busted knee. But co-host Jeremy Clarkson detailed the whole thing from his eyes, and said he “genuinely thought [Hammond] was dead.”
Read MoreThe Grand Tour host Richard Hammond had an ugly, fiery crash while filming for the show’s second season in Switzerland, resulting in an airlift to the hospital shortly after he climbed from the car with a busted knee. But, straight from his hospital bed, Hammond wants everyone to know that he’s not dead.
Read MoreI always liked the Ferrari FF for being about the weirdest car on sale. I don’t mean the weirdest Ferrari on sale; I mean that the two-transmission’d FF was one of the odder cars a person could buy, cost no object. This year it got what I thought was a pointless facelift. As Chris Harris explains, it’s more than that.
Read MoreIf the re-rebooted Top Gear still wasn’t your thing and you’re still hungry for more of Clarkson, Hammond and May, the second season of The Grand Tour will hit Amazon Prime this October.
Read MoreChris Harris revisited the Nissan GT-R nine years after he first drove one, and despite its timeless sensation, its over-engineered driving mechanics have always been a trick to master when pushing it.
Read MoreThe Ford Focus RS will be ending its production run soon with the model year 2018 cars, and Ford is sending it out sideways with some upgraded equipment. At $41,995, the updated model will be quite a jump over the 2017 RS, but don’t fret—it packs a hell of a value.
Read MoreThere have been a ton of numbers flying around the 2017 Honda Civic Type R lately—its specs and power ratings compared to other sport compacts in the market, its crazy-high dealership prices doubling MSRP and the like. But if you want some real numbers, here’s the power the Type R makes on the dyno.
Read MoreIf you thought the $33,900 base price for the 2018 Honda Civic Type R was a bit steep for a front-wheel drive hot hatch, you ain’t seen nothing yet. That’s because some dealers aren’t going to let the limited-production Hondas go for anything less than $15,000 over MSRP. And I spoke with one dealer who’s charging an absurd $30,000 over sticker.
Read MoreNow that the Honda Civic Type R is available in the U.S., everyone’s curious how Japan’s forbidden fruit will compare to what’s currently on the U.S. market. We’ve now got our first taste thanks to Motor1's comparison between Honda’s little front-wheel drive beast and the Ford Focus RS.
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter what you think of the 2017 Honda Civic Type R’s outlandish, almost Gundam-like looks, or the fact that it’s a Honda Civic, or the fact that it’s front-wheel drive. Once you’re strapped into the driver’s seat you’re going to give this car a chance. If you’re already feeling its vibe, just wait until you get a hand on that prime shift knob.
Read MoreThe Honda Civic Type R has been out of reach for American car fans since, well, forever. The legendary king of sport compact cars has taunted us from the far east, illegal to import stateside since it came out. But this year, that changes. And soon, we finally drive this thing.
Read MoreIt’s springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, learn how things work under the hood, or just spruce up your daily driver.
Read MoreI’m sure anyone who’s ever jump-started a car, replaced a car battery, or built a small 12V DIY nipple-torture device has seen this: a powdery, white and blue and maybe sometimes green substance on battery terminals. What exactly is that crap? What causes it? Can you spread it on crackers and eat it? Let’s figure this out.
Read MoreLast month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents raided All JDM Motors, a Japanese car import and parts shop in South Carolina, and seized computers and documents after authorities discovered a 1996 Nissan R33 Skyline GT-R hidden within a shipping container destined for the dealer. That car is banned under U.S. import laws and shouldn’t be for sale—but there’s another way these illegal cars do get sold, and it could victimize unwitting buyers.
Read MoreIt was heartbreak in Assen, Netherlands for Dutch rider Bo Bendsneyder as his 10th place finish was given a DNF. A last lap kurfuffle with another rider on the final chicane resulted in Bensneyder being ejected from his bike as he slid across the finish line. Apparently this is against the rules. Lame.
Read MoreThis motorcyclist was caught knocking off mirrors, supposedly speeding at over 100 mph, and has pending charges of driving recklessly on a California highway. Unfortunately for him, his hooligan antics were caught by a CHP helicopter leading police units on the ground straight to his home.
Read MoreFor a while, we’ve heard talks about Volkswagen selling Ducati, in part, to help pay for the financial drain resulting from Dieselgate. Now, according to Reuters, companies are preparing bids for the Italian sport bike company, and American juggernaut Harley-Davidson might just be a suitor.
Read MoreIf you had a choice you probably wouldn’t choose to ride in extremely hot weather. But you don’t always have the option, like when you’re out on a road trip and need to be home sooner than later. Assuming shedding layers of protective gear isn’t an option—and for purposes of this discussion, it isn’t—how do you keep your cool when the very pavement you’re riding on is melting?
Read MoreThe FIM Superbike World Championship race was in its final corners Saturday when leader Chaz Davies wrecked and fell off of his bike. The rider racing for second was right behind Davies, and didn’t have time to avoid running over him as he crashed. A local hospital diagnosed Davies with multiple injuries.
Read MoreJames Hillier looked like he was headed for a fifth-gear wipeout at the deadly dangerous Isle of Man TT when his bike got sideways on a jump early in the race. Incredibly, Hillier was able to hold on and steady the wildly bucking motorcycle (extra points for the leg wave) and continue on its way.
Read MoreDutch rider Jochem van den Hoek, 28, died Wednesday morning following a crash on the first lap of the Superstock race at Isle of Man TT, race organizers confirmed in a statement. An average of more than two competitors die each year in the race, and Van den Hoek is the second in 2017.
Read MoreEnglish rider Davey Lambert, 48, died Tuesday evening of injuries he sustained in a crash during the Isle of Man TT race over the weekend, race organizers confirmed. With Lambert’s death, the total fatalities toll on the race course run by Isle of Man TT is nearing 300.
Read MoreLongtime Road Atlanta volunteer Hazel Harrell died from injuries sustained after being struck by a motorcycle on Saturday, reports Roadracing World. Harrell was volunteering there as a corner worker at Road Atlanta’s Turn 7 during the WERA Cycle Jam racing event. She was 60.
Read MoreThis rider made it out of this crash ok, but it could have gone a lot worse. You don’t want to be taking a hit to the dome at 140+ mph.
Read MoreA man allegedly photographed riding a motorcycle with a toddler in his lap not wearing a helmet has been arrested for an unrelated traffic violation in Cleveland, Texas, according to KHOU.
Read MoreRace cars exist for two reasons: to go fast and to make exciting noises for us all to enjoy. Please take in the wonderful turbo chirp on this classic five-cylinder Audi S4 GTO from 1992.
Read MoreLiving in paradise is not without its challenges. Take, for instance, when your luxury vehicle ends up infested with cockroaches. That’s what happened to a Hawaiian man’s BMW last week after he parked it for a few days under a tree at Kona International Airport.
Read MoreA small plane carrying two passengers has crashed onto the busy 405 freeway by Irvine, CA earlier today, severely injuring the two passengers of the plane and shutting down southbound traffic on the freeway.
Read MoreA Texas woman says she got an unwanted surprise after putting a deposit down for a new Honda Civic Type R, as the dealership allegedly regrets that they charged her no markup on the hot new car. Now she says the dealership wants to use it as a show car for three months before she can take delivery. [Update: The dealership gave her the car Friday.]
Read MoreTo combat rampant street racing, the city of Los Angeles installed rumble strips on a popular road in the neighborhood of Chatsworth on Wednesday, Fox11 reports. Two street race spectators died near that area in 2015, but because people are idiots, that hasn’t stopped the street racing.
Read MoreLexus plans to introduce an experience one can only describe as solitary confinement on new RX crossover models later this year, according to Japanese magazine Mag-X.
Read MoreUp until now, if you’ve wanted to smoke your Ford Mustang’s rear tires without roasting your rear brakes, your best bet has been the V8 GT. But now for 2018, Ford is making the Line Lock (“Burnout Mode”) feature standard across the Mustang range. Which is kind of absurd, if you think about it. But in a good way.
Read MoreBeing pregnant, I’m told, sucks. At least that’s what my wife says. Perhaps that’s why this pregnant Asheville, North Carolina, woman decided to run over the jackass who broke into her Ford Explorer and stole her purse. After an exhausting day of pregnancy, maybe running the alleged thief over seemed like a pretty good idea.
Read MoreThe 2017 Dodge Challenger GT AWD has been out for some time now, but this week I finally wrangled one into Jalopnik’s California garage and am heading to the mountains to find out what this giant two-door 4x4 is really made of.
Read MoreRest assured, New York City subway riders — Governor Andrew Cuomo has been listening to you! On Twitter. In his bedroom. Curled up in a ball. Crying.
Read MoreHmm... that couldn’t be the GT2 RS, could it Porsche? The car you wouldn’t acknowledge existed?
Read MoreI don’t really understand why we will willingly watch things that frustrate us to the degree that your blood pressure gets so high all it makes your blood filler cap pop off. This video of a person trying to parallel park a Honda Accord into a generously-sized space is one of those things.
Read More“That escalated quickly.” I know it’s a cliché, albeit a fitting one for a hill climb race. But it’s all I could think about after our car—a salvage-title C7 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 street car transformed into a race car in just a few desperate weeks—not only survived the Pikes Peak Hill Climb but finished just one short step off the podium.
Read MoreBaby Driver is the latest film by cult movie director Edgar Wright, who gave the world Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. The one’s a heist-thriller quasi-musical love story that’s, oddly enough, easily Wright’s least energetic film with disappointing action and a story that makes a lot of noise but doesn’t really take you anywhere.
Read MoreHaven’t you heard? Well, no, you probably haven’t if you’re a peasant. But if not, you’ve probably heard this tip making the rounds in the elite circles: Changing clothes is for the poors, and having a suit that can handle every weather condition that this unfair life throws at you is the new thing.
Read MoreI know DMVs aren’t necessarily staffed with gearheads or even anyone who necessarily gives a rat’s rectum about cars, but you’d think there’d be some people with at least a familiarity of car terms. You’d think, but it seems you’d be dreaming, based on this rejected personalized plate from the California DMV.
Read MoreI’ve heard of flight delays for stuff like bad weather and air traffic but admittedly never for ‘luck.’ But these unfortunate passengers in China sure have.
Read MoreWe have a thing about ragging on Camrys here at Jalopnik—sorry to hurt your feelings, Toyota—but not today. Today, let’s celebrate a group of total strangers buying a man a car after discovering that he walks three miles to and from work every day.
Read MoreAgitated, sweaty and perpetually late subway riders have had enough of New York’s disintegrating transit system and plan to protest outside of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s city office tonight to give him a piece of their mind. Will he fix the trains after this? Probably not, but it’s something.
Read MoreBMW is looking to save some cash as it invests in electric, hybrid and autonomous vehicles. To do so, Reuters reports, the company is going to drop manual variants of the BMW 2 Series, one of Jalopnik’s favorite cars—which seems like the opposite of getting their mojo back. But BMW’s U.S. spokespeople dispute the report and say that at least for now the 2 Series in our market will keep the manual.
Read MoreDepending on your sense of history, you might remember when Volvos were deemed “boxy but nice.” Maybe even farther back you recall the sleek P1800. But no matter what era you’re from, you almost certainly equate Volvo with safety. And believe it or not, Volvo’s advertising hasn’t followed the plot in a long time, and through the disaster that was Ford’s ownership the brand is still trying to claw back to what it once was. Volvo’s advertising highs and lows are a direct window into how that happe
Read MoreSay what you will about DARTZ, but you can’t deny that the Latvian maker of fever-dream-opulent armored SUVs is possibly the least risk-averse carmaker in the world. Whether it’s using unexpected skin from animals and animal parts for seat leather or, as they’re doing now, becoming the first carmaker to sell their cars for cryptocurrency, the gang at DARTZ will seemingly try anything.
Read MoreIt’s easy for us Americans to forget that the 2017 Honda Type R traces its roots all the way back to the early 1990s. In nearly all iterations, the basic ingredients were the same: great lightweight chassis, excellent shifter straight from the car heavens, bright red heavily bolstered seats, and a hilariously peaky engine. This review of five old Type Rs will make you thirst for some Type R goodness in your life.
Read MoreA man walks into a bar... after he was just hit by a double-decker bus. This is not a set up to a joke. This is a thing that actually happened.
Read MoreThe 2017 Buick Regal TourX gives us some hope for the future of wagons, and today it brings even more good news. Buick says the car will come standard with a 250 horsepower turbo motor, all-wheel-drive, and a starting price that seriously undercuts other luxury wagons.
Read MoreAt a hearing today, Republicans in Congress made clear they want to drastically increase the number of semi-autonomous and autonomous cars tested on American roadways. It’s a proposal that should make driverless car developers giddy but could potentially pose safety risks if not done correctly.
Read MoreThe Jaguar XE is a pretty good, competitively priced compact sedan. Give it to Jag’s Special Vehicle Operations and you get a limited edition 600 horsepower compact sedan that costs a whopping $192,200.
Read MoreIf you really can’t stretch the $16,000 difference, Aston Martin has developed a second DB11 model with only a 4.0 liter V8 and a cheaper starting cost of just $198,995. Don’t feel bad, it’s still a thing of beauty.
Read MoreThe question of whether or not you can damage a car that asks for premium gas by using regular gas is one that never seems to die. I’ve seen this question tear families apart, with sobbing and recriminations—it’s not pretty. That’s why I reached out to an actual fuel systems engineer to get to the bottom of this eternal question, once and for all.
Read MoreMichelin is showing off a concept tire they’re calling VISION, even though it’s really a concept tweel, if we’re being technical here. Michelin also says the tire is “rechargeable,” whatever that means in this context, and also “breaks with the codes of a tire,” whatever the hell that means. Oh, and their promo video of it seems to take place in a pristine Earth where humanity is almost extinct.
Read MoreAirport security is a weird, weird thing. Leave your water and your regular-sized shampoo bottles at the door, but by all means, if you’ve got a big lobster that’s still alive, come on down. Bring that sucker right through security and onto your plane as a carry-on item or a checked bag, because claws aren’t dangerous, just delicious.
Read MoreTwo cars of a packed southbound A train jumped from the track and collided with a wall between 135th Street and 125th Street Tuesday morning. No deaths were reported, but over two dozen people sustained minor injuries.
Read MoreThe 2017 Mazda Miata is pretty much perfect, but it does feel like it’s missing something. Someone just gave their Miata that missing ingredient, the one feature the car needed to achieve supreme automotive excellence.
Read MoreI’m talking about those things that are tall like an SUV, have big wheels like an SUV but are not SUVs. They are Sport Activity Coupes, or Sport Utility Coupes, whichever acronym you prefer. And if you thought there were just some dumb fad, they’re not. They’re catching on and people seem to love them enough to keep buying them.
Read MoreAll of you muscle car fans out there can take another swig of Bud Heavy because there’s a new extra beefy Hellcat from Dodge: the Dodge Challenger Hellcat Widebody. Don’t overthink the name. Dodge didn’t. This is like a Hellcat, but wider.
Read MoreThe new Acura NSX is a car too fun for its own right, constantly begging you to hoon it through its mere existence. Fortunately, there is an easy surefire way to get your need for noise and revs out: donuts.
Read MoreThe best gifts to the man who raised you should be thoughtful, kind, and cutting and grim reminders of dead cars they loved and held near and dear. NASCAR driver and Friend of Jalopnik Parker Kligerman gave his dad just that kind of perfect gift this past Father’s Day, with a framed chunk of the engine piece that grenaded his dad’s Porsche.
Read MoreWho’s up for a scavenger hunt? There’s only one thing to find, and it’s big and yellow. It’s a Porsche 911, and it’s in some parking garage near the Empire State Building. I have a hunch, if anyone can find it, it’s Jalopnik readers, because they have a history of finding yellow rear-engine cars.
Read MoreBuicks aren’t all boring, and they’re not just for the elderly. This youthful little kitten found one roomy enough to climb up in, and a local dealership had to pry the sweet thing out of there after the car’s owner—and other folks at stoplights—heard some loud meowing coming from somewhere near the wheel well.
Read MoreFrench cars, love them or hate them, are very rarely boring. Renaults, even when they’re designed to be utilitarian or cheap, somehow manage to have a certain interesting flair: look at the Renault 4 or Dauphine or Twingo: all cheap, basic cars, all somehow charming in their own way. Not so with the Renault Alliance, the successful experiment to see if you could make a Renault really boring.
Read MoreAston Martin has been teasing an electric version of its Rapide four-door sports car for years. Now, Aston’s original partner on the project—the deeply troubled LeEco—has backed out, but the RapidE will still get a limited production run of 155 cars set for sale in 2019.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration may kill a regulation that ensures often-silent electric and hybrid cars make noise when driving at low speeds, a rule heavily supported by advocates for the disabled—and anyone who’s found themselves almost run over by a Prius.
Read MoreA Southwest flight into Houston had to divert and land at another airport after a passenger reportedly tried to open an emergency exit mid-flight, according to the Dallas Morning News. Witnesses told the newspaper that she acted erratically before the flight, claiming that the government experimented on her.
Read MoreRemember, back in the late ‘90s-early 2000s, the X-Files was on this big ‘black oil’ overarching storyline, where there was some weird alien black virus goop that would pour out of infected people’s eyes? Well, Rolls-Royce seems to have decided that this is just the thing to sell incredibly expensive cars.
Read MoreThe world’s most powerful production car, the nearly $3 million Bugatti Chiron, has been out for almost a year and a half now. But we still don’t know its top speed, and we won’t for a while—a Bugatti test driver said the closer the car gets to 300 mph, the less likely it is that modern tires can handle the pressure.
Read MoreMonday mornings suck. The only thing that makes returning to work mildly tolerable is sweet, life-sustaining coffee. However, corporate employees at Ford were forced to ask “what fresh new hell is this?” when their coffee failed to deliver its much needed jolt this morning. Ford North America Product Communications Manager Mike Levine soon figured out the problem and says he’s now banned someone from their coffee maker after finding a bunch of soggy whole beans in there.
Read MoreWe’ve known since the beginning of the year that there’s going to, finally, be a new Ford Ranger coming to the U.S. market by 2019. The Ranger has been alive and well overseas, but that’s not the one that will be coming here. We’ll be getting an all-new Ranger, and, based on what we can tell from these spy photos, there will be a Raptor version of the Ranger as well.
Read MoreAn AirAsia X flight from Perth, Australia, to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, encountered some sort of technical problem yesterday, which made the plane start to wobble and vibrate for over an hour. Faced with such a dilemma, the pilot, normally a calm, collected voice over a loudspeaker, asked everyone to pray instead. Twice.
Read MoreI have watched this clip a dozen times and I still do not understand how this is physically possible.
Read MoreThe famed 11foot8 bridge claimed yet another victim this past week, a rental truck failing to heed its many warnings. When will people learn? (Never.)
Read MoreThe Bugatti Chiron doesn’t operate like other cars. It’s on a different plane of speedxistence. So it’s funny to see one testing on the Nürburgring, as funny to see as it is wonderful to hear.
Read MoreThe Ferrari 488 has been in production for two years now, and if this spy video is to be believed, a hybrid version on its way. A Ferrari 488 spotted on the Nürburgring may be one such car, with larger bodywork both front and back.
Read MoreYou wouldn’t think the Chevrolet Bolt could compete against the Volkswagen GTI, but they’re more similar than you maybe want to believe. The Fast Lane Car answered the question of which is faster off the line: all-electric or powered by plain old gasoline.
Read MoreJust 1.8 liters, four cylinders and 252 horses don’t sound that impressive by modern standards. But when you remember that motor has been massaged by RenaultSport, and that it goes in the reborn Alpine A110, you know you’ve got something good going on.
Read MoreHere’s our man Robb Holland’s finished Pikes Peak salvage Corvette Z06. We’re disappointed he went so conservative on the front splitter, but otherwise it looks incredible.
Read MoreIn case you thought Volkswagen executives were past the Dieselgate arrests, they’re not. After international arrest warrants were issued for five former VW managers Thursday, Automotive News reports that a former VW engine chief was told not to leave Germany to avoid the risk of being detained.
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I never tired of “watch X car beat a Dodge Hellcat in a drag race.” It’s even more satisfying when the winner is an “old” car like a Ford GT40, something that was never intended to be a quarter mile competitor.
Read MoreMini is apparently finally out testing the long-rumored hot-hatch with over 300 horsepower on the Nürburgring, and it sounds great. It seems we’ll be getting Mini’s answer to the Focus RS soon enough.
Read MoreLet’s be honest: the Transformers series of movies are pretty awful. Even if we accept that a movie about space-robots that turn into cars and trucks isn’t the sort of framework that’s going to beget Citizen Kane, they’ve still been idiotic. But at least one good thing is happening: in the upcoming standalone Bumblebee movie, it looks like the titular Autobot will regain his original car-form, a Volkswagen Beetle. Like robo-god intended.
Read MoreHonda, a company best known for producing oddly-styled crossovers and front-wheel drive economy cars, may have once also sold an exciting rear-wheel-drive two-seater sports car, according to some historical documents and contemporary research.
Read MoreYet another member of Tesla’s self-driving executive team left the company in recent months — this time to join a competitor. The past seven months alone have seen three different heads of Autopilot, plus departures from other key leaders.
Read MoreThe popular radio talk show Car Talk came to an end in 2012 when the two hosts retired to “smell the cappuccino.” But that didn’t mean we couldn’t still get our fix, because NPR continued making episodes out of old recordings. Those edited and enhanced recordings will continue to be available for public radio stations, despite what you may have heard from other news outlets.
Read MoreWith reports of the feds making arrests in restaurants, courthouses, and even on their way to prom, undocumented people can have nowhere to feel safe. But for those living around San Francisco, they shouldn’t have any trouble from train cops.
Read MoreLittle kid brains are amazing things. I’ve worked with one for some time now, and am always amazed how good they are at data storage, and how terrible they are at making decisions that don’t end up with liquids flung around a room. This little guy here, though, is a great example of how incredible kids are at visual identification. In this case, the best kind of visual identification: cars.
Read MoreThe 2018 Nissan Leaf is coming in hot, and the automaker has been revealing little nuggets of information on its website to remind us. Nissan’s newest revelation: the new Leaf will get a semi-autonomous function called “ProPILOT.” But it won’t quite compete with Tesla’s Autopilot—at least not initially.
Read MoreAfter getting incredibly excited to hear Volkswagen Chairman Herbert Diess confirm production of an all new electric Microbus, I decided to ask around at the Tiguan drive event this week—only to be told that VW won’t confirm or discuss it now. That’s pretty standard, if just a bit odd considering the chairman’s recent comments, and here’s why it’s likely VW will make a new Microbus anyway.
Read MoreCelebrity-endorsed and backed JetSmarter, touted as the “Uber for jet planes,” allegedly owes its workers tens of thousands in missed overtime fees.
Read MoreYou’d think that, even without signs or cones or big yellow flashing warning lights, you’d be able to tell if you were parking in wet concrete because, well, it’s wet. That wetness didn’t seem to stop a DeKalb County, Georgia, woman from doing so with her BMW, and she’s claiming there was no signage warning her the cement was wet. The county disagrees.
Read MoreBefore you pass too much judgement on the designer of this deeply bonkers automotive chimera, I want you to keep in mind one thing: he did exactly what the client asked for. The client wanted an unholy mashup between a Mustang and a Ram 4x4, and, well, that’s pretty much what he got, with a bit of something like an Auburn Speedster mixed in, because, fuck it.
Read MoreAn integrated Exhaust Manifold, or “headifold,” is an exhaust manifold cast into an engine’s cylinder head and cooled by antifreeze. This type of design, where the exhaust manifold is no longer a separate part, is becoming a lot more common in the auto industry (see 2017 Honda Civic Type R). Here’s why.
Read MoreSome children dream of Lamborghinis, Aston Martins or Ferraris. Not Mr. Regular. He first saw a Toyota MR2 when he was a boy and has wanted one ever since. Now he has one.
Read MoreYou know that sound a helicopter makes when it gets too close to you? The roaring whirr that makes you pause and try to figure out why it is a helicopter’s hovering nearby. Does it make you nervous to approach one? Maybe don’t watch this clip then.
Read MoreYou know the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS? The one that’s supposed to be the most powerful 911 ever? Apparently it’s sold out, but if you ask the folks at Porsche, they won’t say. In fact, they won’t say anything. Porsche has yet to even acknowledge the new GT2 RS’ existence.
Read MoreA Chinese bike-sharing company, Wukong Bikes, had to close up shop because, according to the BBC, 90 percent of its bikes went missing in the first five months of operation. Why that happened shouldn’t come as a surprise when you hear that, remarkably, Wukong didn’t put GPS systems on the bikes. Oops.
Read MoreUber’s ex-CEO Travis Kalanick recently quit while the company he built churns through the news like a flash flood through a waste treatment plant. How did Uber’s corporate culture get so bad? What kind of boss runs a shop like this? Someone who, apparently, can sit in a hot tub for eight to 10 hours.
Read MorePremium gas runs about 50 cents more than regular these days, and you may have noticed that this seems to be much more expensive than it used to be. You’re not crazy, as the U.S. Energy Information Administration would like you to know.
Read MoreIf the youth haven’t told you lately—it’s not cool to talk to adults, after all—little devices called “fidget spinners” are all the rage right now. And because it’s a sensation that’s sweeping more than just this nation, our friends from the land of wacky dash-cam videos decided to weld three cars into a giant spinner.
Read MoreStudents at the University of Michigan this fall will be the first ever to go to a school with a driverless bus system.
Read MoreFormer Apple guru and Tesla’s Vice President of Autopilot Software Chris Lattner left the company Tuesday after only six months with the automaker. Lattner is the third key member of Tesla’s self-driving team to leave the company in the last six months.
Read MoreThere was a run of a driverless MTA bus in Brooklyn at about 12:30 am this morning. Instead of using the usual set of sensors, cameras, and computers to produce a driverless vehicle, this bus was rendered driverless when the driver exited the bus and forgot it was in neutral, sending it careening down the street, backwards, hitting cars and ending up in a church fence. Oops.
Read MoreThe list of ride-hailing companies that are run by people who aren’t total assholes keeps shrinking.
Read MoreIt’s been a sort of open secret for a few years now that you can hack the infotainment system on some 2014 and up Mazdas with the right software on a USB drive. What is new, though, is that now the software required to do this is freely available on GitHub. What’s also interesting is how this security flaw has been turned into a valuable customization tool for tech-saavy Mazda owners.
Read MoreIf you were stuck in traffic yesterday, don’t worry, it may have been because of The Rock.
Read MoreBetween getting caught on video berating a driver, his deputy obtaining a rape victim’s medical records in a possible attempt to discredit her, getting ridiculed after his “sex guide” for employees resurfaced, embroiling the company in a stolen tech dispute with Google, and generally overseeing an operation plagued with constant scandals and emblematic of everything wrong with Silicon Valley’s dudebro-asshole culture, the question has long been: when will the investors at Uber grow a spine and f
Read MoreSmallish vehicles with SUV pretenses and hatchback heritage, which we know and love as “crossovers,” are printing money for automakers and Jaguar wants in. Behold the 2018 Jaguar E-Pace, which appears to be like a Porsche Macan, but British.
Read MoreI know as much about Sumo wrestling as you do- two large men in small loincloths slowly try to push each other out of a circle. I would have expected the same looming, deliberate pace from Robot Sumo. But no, these mean little things are terrifreakingfingly fast.
Read MoreHey! Did any of you go to the Electric Daisy Carnival the other night? It was at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, if that helps? Did you go with a car, but come back without one? Did you maybe, somehow, manage to park your car on a rock? If so, the Nevada Highway Patrol wants to help.
Read MoreAt a time when some dealerships are charging nearly double the MSRP for a certain other low-production car, Fiat Chrysler has its own plans for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon—and, basically, the buyers who pay the most over MSRP will be last to get the car.
Read MoreThe regular 2018 Lincoln Navigator is what many would consider a large land vehicle. But not large enough for some! Some want more! Want bigger! Want want want!
Read MoreUber will add an in-app option to tip drivers, a bandaid PR fix to its catastrophic amount of company problems, ranging from sexual harassment to intellectual property theft that have led to a massive exodus of company executives within the year.
Read MoreThis is only going to get more common thanks to climate change.
Read MoreYou probably don’t need a parts car for your three-year-old Dodge Challenger Hellcat yet. But if, for some reason, you do (insert FCA quality joke), there’s a completely destroyed 2015 model available for sale right now on copart. And the pictures will make you cry.
Read MoreFor the past 20 years, Goodwood’s Festival of Speed has shown what they call the ‘Central Feature’ in front of Goodwood House. Usually, it’s a colossal, dramatic sculpture, and it’s almost always breathtaking. This year, the feature will be based on Bernie Ecclestone, so get ready for something sublime.
Read MoreAs Americans, we’re obsessed with the forbidden fruit of cars we don’t get here, like the Audi A1 and the BMW 1 Series. But now there’s word that Mercedes-Benz could be bringing the spunky little A-Class stateside.
Read MoreThe air-cooled Porsche market is bonkers, with pristine examples going for big money. But if you prefer something with a bit more flair and, well, big ass flares, then this 1991 Carrera 2 Targa by RWB is for you.
Read MoreSome of the most obnoxious bleating I hear from my New York staffers is in regards to the state of the public transportation system. “It’s so laaaaate,” some bawl. “It’s so haaaaawt,” others lament. Why don’t you just drive, then! I swear to God, sometimes the easiest answers are right in front of us.
Read MoreThe 2017 Honda Civic Type R is full of funky styling and harsh angles, to the real annoyance of lots of folks out there. But the strange three-exhaust-pipe layout on the back of the car actually serves a purpose, and it could be more useful than you thought for touring your Type R around on longer trips.
Read More[Every so often, Kavi Reddy, Gizmodo Media Group’s ever-so-cromulent attorney, has Good Car Takes. This is one of them.]
Read MoreI’m not really sure if I can let myself believe this, since I’ve been hurt so many times before. But here goes: Volkswagen’s Head Volk, Herbert Diess, told the UK’s Auto Express at the reveal of the new VW Polo that Volkswagen will actually produce a new version of the iconic Microbus, based on their ID Buzz concept car. Don’t chicken out, again, VW.
Read MoreThere are so many questions that come up when you read that someone broke a world record by drifting for nearly six hours straight. How bad were the hand cramps? Was there an urge to pee at all? Did the driver pee? Did the people officially witnessing it have to take a witness break to pee?
Read MoreYesterday was Father’s Day, so, Prestone, one of the leading makers of coolants, antifreeze, radiator flushing compounds, and other car-juices, put up some sentimental pro-dad content on their social media accounts. There was just one problem: the car they chose was one of the few that has no need for the products they’re best known for.
Read MoreAirbus has made it abundantly clear that it would like to build a flying car-taxi-helicopter vehicle, despite the exceedingly slim possibility of one ever being used by the masses. This week, ahead of the Paris Air Show, Airbus subsidiary A3 released a video to demonstrate how this dream could work.
Read MoreLyft is testing out a new service called Lyft Shuttle, which runs at a lower cost than its usual it’s-not-a-taxi app, but runs on a preset route picking up at preset stops. You may be familiar with this concept already, as in other parts of the world that are not Silicon Valley, this is known as a “bus.”
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo Giulia was supposed to herald the triumphant return of the legendary Italian brand to the American market. Unfortunately, Alfa’s plan to shake up the luxury car game isn’t working out.
Read MoreThings have been a bit crazy with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and you might not have shaken yourself awake to say hi to dad yet, but don’t feel bad—it’s better late than never, just like this blog. So, if you’re feeling sentimental today, tell us a story about your dad. We’d love to hear.
Read MoreIn a very real way, I hope this video was staged. If it’s not, then this has to be the most crappily-installed wheel since the Enlightenment. Were they using lug nuts, or just shouting the word “LUG NUT” to each stud? That poor 240SX.
Read MoreHave you ever screwed something up, and then realized that since you’re already boned, you may as well finish the job and just really, really screw things up so it’s a total shitshow? I know I have, and I suspect that was the line of thinking in this Mercedes’ ECU when it somehow caught on fire in the middle of a damn flood. Good job.
Read MoreThe legendary Civic Type R is finally in America, and while it might not be the same car we drove in Gran Turismo, it’s pretty awesome. Honda is reportedly planning even more variants including a harder one, a softer one, and maybe one that will send power to all four wheels.
Read MoreA restructuring plan under consideration for longtime Japanese auto supplier Takata, responsible for the largest automotive safety recall ever, would make the company stop producing airbag inflators, sources told Reuters. Takata has had to replace more than 100 million defective inflators worldwide.
Read MoreAudi development boss Peter Mertens said diesel is never coming back stateside and it’s all America’s fault in an interview with Car And Driver during last weekend’s Formula E race. Alright, then.
Read MorePicture this: you’re optioning out your new car and you get down to the tires and wheels part of the build. You have the option of 17-inch, 18-inch or 19-inch wheels. Which do you choose?
Read MoreFirst, let me get this out of the way: I didn’t wish for the for the BMW to explode, I was only expecting it to and was disappointed when it didn’t after everyone cleared out of the way. Because I was apparently raised on Michael Bay movies. Does that make me an asshole?
Read MoreA mere two months after Volkswagen was exposed as cheating emissions tests with scores of diesel cars, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also suspected some of Fiat Chrysler’s diesel vehicles were exceeding legal emissions limits, according to emails obtained by Jalopnik.
Read MoreWe have often theorized that a major use of autonomous cars could be as delivery vehicles. Now it seems at least one startup is trying to put that idea into practice. Will it work here?
Read MoreOoh-aah, the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The big, scary fast 911 to end all 911s. Just unofficially, for now.
Read MoreIf you saw this old guy in his little white Focus driving by, it’s possible you may wonder why he has one of those sports-eyeglass headband things on. Does the poor fella lose his glasses a lot? No, motherfucker: he needs those because he headbangs to Metallica like an absolute madman.
Read MoreFor years, us Americans dreamed of all-wheel drive Nissan Skyline GT-Rs, cars that we’d only see in Gran Turismo, banned from our roads. But now that more and more Skylines are legal under the 25-year import rule, we’re getting more and more of these things, including the non-AWD models.
Read MoreIf you’ve noticed an uptick in disgruntled Facebook posts from your New York City friends, you’re probably not alone. The NYC subway system has been getting worse for years, and a few recent horror stories—like when a 45-minute delay in a crowded, dark, sweltering line caused passengers to literally disrobe—are signs that the situation is only getting worse.
Read MoreWhat would you do with $664,000 to spend? Buy a house on a quiet property along a lake somewhere? Take an extended trip to Antartica? Buy an expensive parking space? If you’re Kwan Wai-ming, you’d buy the primo parking.
Read MoreSupercars are, by their very nature, impractical. They’re dramatic, fast, have doors that open in delightfully baffling ways, and if you take one to a hardware store all you’re coming home with is a fistful of drywall screws. But, once, long ago, Ford decided it didn’t have to be like that.
Read MoreInitial buyers to Tesla’s most anticipated model yet, the $30,000 Model 3 that’s supposed to bring Tesla to the masses, may be getting cold feet. One eBay seller has chosen to sell their reservation to the highest taker.
Read MoreRide hailing apps across the country appear to be competing to see who can engage in the most detestable corporate behavior.
Read MoreAn elderly Houston man filed a lawsuit for more than $1 million against United Airlines last week alleging an employee pushed him to the ground at an airport in 2015, according to Houston outlet KPRC2. The station recently obtained video of the incident, and, two years later, United apologized for what happened.
Read MoreIf you’ve looked at the McLaren lineup recently and felt disheartened that you couldn’t afford any of the Spider versions, then listen up: the new 570S Spider is here and. It. Is. Cheap.
Read MoreMaybe, just maybe, the U.S. government found its compassionate side and decided to think about our on-flight sanity before enforcing a sweeping laptop ban on incoming flights from other countries. According to reports, the U.S. could back off if international airports beef up security screening.
Read MoreAre we entering a new wagon renaissance? Probably not. But Volvo, Buick and now Jaguar still believe in the longroof, and if the new 2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake drives half has good as it looks, it should be a winner.
Read MoreYou may remember last week’s saga about a woman named Natalie, her BRZ, and the Vancouver-area dealership that briefly held her car for ransom because they found Facebook photos of her car at a track. I’m happy to report that things seem to be working out, but less happy to report that dealership employees have been receiving threats.
Read MoreThe 2017 Honda Civic Type R sucks and slices every air molecule in its path with the ravenous maw of aerodynamic architecture that makes up its front facia. Every hole and slot serves a purpose, even that random little one hidden next to the passenger side fog light.
Read MoreSo just now here at bustling Jalopnik HQ, we had a little disagreement over our long-distance video-fax units. One of our writers maintained the BMW 5GT up there is significantly uglier than the sedan. I know many agree with him; what I want to know is why.
Read MoreQuick cuts, fast shifts and engines at full chat: it’s not hard to make a slow car look fast. I swear this is how they do it in movies. Just ask Car Bros.
Read MoreThis past Friday, Jayson W (he requested his last name be removed) and his wife were heading to Chicago’s Spring Awakening Music Festival in an Uber when their driver began to convulse. Things got worse from there, as the incapacitated driver slumped onto the accelerator pedal, sending the car crashing into another car about a block away.
Read MoreThe BMW 640i xDrive Gran Turismo is the latest attempt at getting people to like the idea of a Gran Turismo body style. This is perhaps BMW’s best attempt yet, but it still doesn’t look quite right.
Read MoreDrive down any major interstate in the U.S., and you’ll see big blue signs decorated with business logos near most exits. Here’s who decides which businesses make it on the signs, and how much it all costs.
Read MoreAston Martin has sunk unknowable amounts of money into its F1-car-for-the-road project, the Valkyrie. Nearly a full year ago the company first showed this car with bleeding-edge suspension, aerodynamics and hybrid drive. Now it has finally tackled the greatest engineering challenge of all: putting on headlights.
Read MoreHere is a new crossover that debuted earlier, which you are reading about on this website solely because it is a new car and at least a few of you will angrily email our tips line to tell us that we missed important news if we don’t write about it. This blog is a preventative measure.
Read MoreAhead of the announced findings of an internal probe into Uber’s workplace culture, the company’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, reportedly told employees that he’s temporarily stepping down to grieve for his mother. Amid the sea of scandals that has shaken Uber for months, Kalanick’s mother tragically passed away last month in a boating accident.
Read MoreWith the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, of course everyone has the new Ford GT on their minds—but let’s not forget the original revival of the Ford GT name. Holy crap, it is a glorious burnout machine and God bless the chill owner who was cool enough to enter it in a burnout contest. This burnout is delicious.
Read MoreBlue, spunky and Swedish: these are the things I love about Polestars. And now I’m hearing that it could start making electric performance cars? You have my attention.
Read MoreDespite some solid products, Cadillac has struggled to get traction in the sedan market. But people are crowding the showroom to see a car prominently featured in the automaker’s ads: the Escala. The only problem is the Escala is not for sale.
Read MoreAfter conducting independent testing, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave the Tesla Model X five stars in its three crash test categories: frontal crash, side crash and rollover. And these crash test videos show just how well it can hold up.
Read MoreThis month, Elio Motors had a whopper of a deadline: have a manufacturing facility developed in Shreveport, Louisiana, that employs at least 1,500 people, or face a significant financial penalty. Yet with $376 million needed to begin production on its three-wheeled vehicle, even the company’s founder knew that was impossible.
Read MoreA fast car, a track star the Porsche 911 GT2 RS is. A fast car, a rockstar, the fastest 911 there is.
Read MoreHyper-realistic graphics and mechanics have always been Forza’s big selling point and it doesn’t look like the upcoming Forza Motorsport 7 will disappoint.
Read MoreOperational heads at Uber seem to be in competition with those in the White House on who can jump ship quickest. With news of the departure of the ride-hailing company’s senior vice president of business Emil Michael, Uber has seen a mass exodus of at least 14 top executives within the past six months.
Read MoreYou know those sketchy emails that promise buckets of money, beautiful Eastern European brides and vastly enlarged penises? Do not click them; they are all traps. I know this from experience, and yet, when I received an email offering something far superior than even the finest of penis-extenders, I clicked it. Am I doomed?
Read MoreAnyone familiar with the New York City subway system knows that it is woefully ill-equipped to handle the throngs of regular rush-hour use. As the system itself is not about to improve enough to match demand, the MTA is now seeking to address the other side of the equation. That is, it’s telling New Yorkers to, uh, just avoid the subway if at all possible.
Read MoreWhen I think of an Aston Martin, I think of flowing lines, timeless elegance and the highest quality craftsmanship. Bespoke coachwork. Brogue interior detailing that would make you feel guilty for sitting in and dirtying up. And sneakers. I definitely think sneakers, too.
Read MoreEver since the once-bankrupt hybrid sports car maker Fisker announced its comeback last year, the company has promised a fully-autonomous, all-electric 400-mile range sedan. We’ve seen plenty of teasers over the past few months, but now we have the final design. And it looks, well, like a Model 3. Except uglier.
Read MoreEvery year, innumerable wealthy Americans descend upon the Pebble Beach golf course happily believing that they’re at the most expensive, luxurious, glamorous car show in the world. Bah. They’re all wrong. The real action is at Villa d’Este on Lake Como.
Read MoreNot at an auto show, not a special event, not at a concours: E3 is where Porsche dropped the 2018 911 GT2 RS, an absurdly ferocious-looking machine touted as the most powerful 911 ever. Why E3? Because it’s the cover car for the new Forza Motorsport 7.
Read MoreImagine being a Formula One driver during a Grand Prix race. You’ve worked your way through the qualification session and managed to secure a respectable starting position on the grid. Miraculously, the engine in your car held together. (For the sake of this exercise, you don’t drive for McLaren-Honda.) You battled it out on the track, experienced extreme G’s, and sweat out most of the water in your body. You’re exhausted, dehydrated, completely stressed out, but you made it: You won first place
Read MoreMore than any other superhero, Batman is known for his car. In fact, he’s one of the few major superheroes to even have a car worth a damn, anyway. I think I once saw Superman parking a Geo Prizm. That’s why the Batmobile is so important, and why there’ve been so many of the things.
Read MoreThe man behind Google’s self-driving car project thinks he’s funny.
Read MoreFormula Drift Japan is this weekend at nowhere else but the legendary Ebisu circuit. That means Mad Mike is there, and that means that we get to bask in the sights and sounds of a four-rotor Mazda RX-7 doing backwards entries and shredding eardrums.
Read MoreFor the past two or three decades, you had a choice when you bought your midsize sedan: you could go with the four-cylinder and sip gas but be relegated to appalling right-lane submission to faster cars, or you could spend a bit more and get six glorious cylinders and a more premium feeling of thrust. But the V6 engine’s heyday is over, and the latest victim of this is the Honda Accord.
Read MoreA group of state attorneys general told President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to expect a “vigorous” legal fight if he rolls back vehicle emissions standards set by his predecessor.
Read MoreSo, this Lexus. It’s a car. A big car. A cool car. A loud car. A V8-y car. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreHere’s a car with an engine that is loud. In addition to being very powerful, putting some 2,700 horsepower to the rear tires from its whipple screw-supercharged 540 cubic inches, it is very loud. Of all engines, this is one of the louder ones.
Read MoreIt seems like it was only yesterday that the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation listed the first-ever U.S. Honda Civic Type R for auction on Bring-A-Trailer, well, because it was only just yesterday. We’re bringing it back up because the bidding just jumped up to $200,000.
Read MoreAs we slog through another miserable day, it’s not hard to look around and wonder what good there is left. What light remains upon this troubled Earth? Does not an ever-gloomier cloud cover the sky above? Perhaps. But things aren’t all bad; the Lotus Elise exists.
Read MoreFront-wheel drive gets a bad rap with car enthusiasts. You’ve heard about torque steer and “wrong-wheel drive” and might write it off as being for grocery-getters, not real performance cars. But here’s a professional stunt driver, racer and rally expert who says differently. And he has some advice.
Read MoreElon Musk hates traffic, I’m sure you’ve heard. So he wants to dig tunnels, a fairytale project that won’t help alleviate congestion and probably can’t reach the scope Musk wants. And now, local government officials in California are saying as much, reportedly calling it an “absurd pipe dream.”
Read MoreI know you’re doing critically important things right now, but I’d like to put a stop to that, just for a while. So, hang up that phone, put down that scalpel, let go of that control yoke, and drop that cutting torch, because we’re going to browse some weird cars on a vast, strange website.
Read MoreAmerica’s best-selling car, the Mazda RX-8 has been recalled (again) for some fuel system and suspension weirdness. It’s a really strange thing to hear about since the cars are basically the most reliable and bulletproof things ever made.
Read MoreIt’s here. It’s finally here. The first Honda Civic Type R to legally hit our shores is here. And it’s up for auction.
Read MoreSpeeding cars and groups of motorcycles just kept on terrorizing Jean Brooks’ neighborhood: the families, the kids and herself. “Neow, neow, neow,” they would echo as they sped by. It had to stop, she said, to keep the children safe. So, she got her trusty hairdryer and she took up a post at the fence corner.
Read MoreThey all said I was crazy to ask the real questions. When I proposed theories, they called me a madman and pelted me with rocks and garbage. When I took my questions right to the top levels, I was told to let it go, already. Now, it seems, I’m not alone at all. And I will never let go trying to get to the truth of the Cars universe.
Read MoreUnless the owner brought in this Porsche 911 Turbo to test out the aftermarket rear quarter deflector shields, I don’t think this Russian mechanic’s test drive was all that successful. Especially since, according to several sources, it ended in him destroying a $220,000 Porsche. Oops.
Read MoreTesla had its big annual shareholder call today with plenty of confirmations for things that were expected to be confirmed, but one little surprise was this sneak peek at the Model Y crossover.
Read MoreThis is something you’d see happen to, like, Wile E. Coyote or something. Except the tree would say “Acme” on it. And it would happen in Arizona, not North Carolina.
Read MoreOne of the strange things about this job is that we often get to drive cars 100 times nicer than our own. In my case, that figure is probably closer to 1 million. Yesterday, when I stepped out of my beat-up 1992 Jeep Cherokee and into a 2017 Acura NSX, I had to recalibrate my mind.
Read MoreIt’s a tale as old as time: man loves sweet new truck, man drives truck off a jump, relatively stock truck breaks on impact. Stock trucks really aren’t made to jump off dunes. Here’s another example of what happens when you try it anyway.
Read MoreYou would think an owner like Natalie is exactly the sort of person Subaru would want for the BRZ. She clearly adores the car, and hers is modified, personalized and prominent on her social media accounts. Plus, it’s actually used in the way it was designed to be used. So why did her dealer attempt to hold her 2015 Subaru BRZ for ransom?
Read MoreIt’s 2017 and the number of cars that come with a manual transmission is falling by the wayside. There’s also a new Toyota Supra coming—which will most likely only have an automatic. You didn’t think there would be a manual offering, did you? Oh, you did. That’s sweet.
Read MoreSan Francisco ordered an investigation into whether Uber and Lyft are “public nuisances,” which makes them sound like the college kids next door. But it’s way worse than that—the investigation is not only into whether the companies’ drivers create road hazards, but also into their service of the poor and disabled.
Read MoreTotal darkness. Dwindling supplies of air. Temperatures said to feel over 100 degrees. The New York City subway has been a nightmare lately, but tonight, riders may have stared into the scorched depths of commuting hell itself.
Read MoreApple has been under fire before for not stopping its users from texting while driving. It is a little ridiculous to expect Apple to take responsibility for what is clearly a user error, but such is the way of our times. And now Apple will add a Do Not Disturb feature to the iPhone to stop people from becoming distracted while driving.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump announced a plan today to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, saying it “will you get you where you need to go more quickly.” Sounds great. But—surprise—the issue’s not as cut and dried as the president would make it out to be. Here’s what’s going on.
Read MoreHello, friends. Blessings upon you all. I trust that your summer is off to a wonderful start. Mine? Not so much, and that’s because I desperately want to get out there and make more Jalopnik videos. But we need your help to do it! Come work with us.
Read MoreAston Martins are known for being timeless and achingly beautiful grand tourers. You’ll find most of them with their engines in their noses. But now there’s talk of a mid-engined Aston coming to slay Ferraris? We’re gobsmacked.
Read MoreWe’ve been talking about a rebirth of British sportscar legends TVR for, what, four years now? Two years ago we learned it would have a design by McLaren F1 (and nifty city car) designer Gordon Murray, and last year we learned it would be made of carbon fiber using Murray’s iStream novel carbon fiber construction system. Now, finally, it looks like we have a date for the reveal: on September 8th, at the Goodwood Revival.
Read MoreI hate cooking. It’s tedious, and requires a finesse beyond “make sure this bolt is torqued to this exact amount or your timing belt will come loose and your engine will explode.” I follow the directions in recipes to the letter and still fail, every time. But I might be convinced to enjoy cooking if I had a tank.
Read MoreRight around the time Toyota asked everyone to stop calling it boring, the company gave a startup called Cartivator more than $350,000 for its “flying car” that’s supposed to be commercialized by 2020. But the flying car is actually more like a drone, and it, um, doesn’t work very well so far.
Read MoreI remember the first time I saw a YouTube video Daniel Jovanov making car sounds on Australia’s Got Talent. It was the wackiest, weirdest, coolest talent I’d seen on one of those talent shows—until a chicken played America the Beautiful on a keyboard last week. But Daniel still rocks. He is much cooler than I am.
Read MoreThe Honda Civic Si got a turbocharged engine for the 2017 model year, which a lot of us expected to have a horsepower number slightly closer to that of the ridiculous Type R. But it disappointingly had the same HP as the car it replaced, and Honda engineers said there’s a reason why the number is what it is.
Read MoreThe worlds in which we inhabit on the internet are largely Star Wars compactor-esque rooms of filth that crush you to death if the garbage monsters don’t get you first. There are small oasis of joy, though, and few are more joyful than this tour of a Japanese tuner car lot filled with vehicles of astounding design.
Read MoreThis, if you weren’t able to tell, is heavy machinery dumping a bunch of water onto a burning car. It isn’t a fire truck, unless the local fire departments are going really incognito these days. But it sure does do the job.
Read MoreOmaha police said a Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 driver leading a chase that reached 132 mph crashed into vehicles twice along the way. Police said the driver, who posts what appear to be street racing videos on social media accounts, kept driving with parts strewn from the vehicle after the first crash. Great job!
Read MoreBMW has seemed pretty determined not to show anyone the 2018 BMW M5 until the Geneva Motor Show later this year, but it appears that someone may have forgotten to mention that to EA, who seems to have put the car right on the cover of the latest Need For Speed game.
Read MoreWe know Volkswagen lied and cheated. The U.S. government believes Fiat Chrysler skirted emissions laws. Today, we can add Porsche to the list of carmaker’s accused of using emission-cheat software.
Read MoreFerraris are expensive, in case you weren’t aware. This one here is currently on sale in Québec for $1.6 million. Tabernac de crisse de calisse de ostie!
Read MoreThe little country of Denmark should have some of the strongest electric car sales in the world. It’s easy to get around, it’s all relatively affluent and it has plenty of clean electricity from wind power. But Danish electric car sales have faceplanted down 60.5 percent so far this year compared to last. All that’s changed is that the country killed one of the biggest tax breaks in the world for EVs.
Read MoreIf there’s anything that deserves to be cross-stitched into the great Throw Pillow of Justice, it’s probably the phrase Drive What Thou Wilt. Unless it’s dangerous or somehow really impairing someone else’s freedom, everyone should be free to drive whatever they damn well please. This is a lesson that the Canadian town of Rothesay, New Brunswick really needs to learn.
Read MoreAfter decades of secretive, painstaking research hunkered down in an underground lab, Toyota scientists in 1999 pushed the taillight to its absolute peak with their patented Altezza technology. The world has never been the same since.
Read MoreFormer Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s final days before his hanging on December 30, 2006 were surprisingly whimsical, according to an account from the New York Post. One wild anecdote describes Saddam’s maniacal punishment for his son shooting a bunch of people.
Read MoreOn May 13, in South Carolina, the AP reports that a prison inmate, out for a hospital visit, attempted to escape by trying a GTA-style driver-yank-and-carjack on a nearby car. Things didn’t work out so well for 18-year old Ezekiel Stevenson, the wannabe carjacker, because the driver of the car had a tiny advantage: the key fob.
Read MoreAuto journalists are currently making rounds to figure out what carmaker CEOs think of President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. We’ve already heard from Elon Musk. Now, General Motors CEO Mary Barra has weighed in, and, what the fuck is this shit?
Read MoreTesla founder Elon Musk confirmed he’ll indeed step down from the president’s economic advisory council, after President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords. This comes months after Trump regularly boasted of his contempt for fact-based science, and signaled from the outset of his campaign nearly two years ago that he’ll gladly take advantage of dupes.
Read MoreThere are faster roads. There are more famous roads. But I don’t think there are outright cooler roads than this one, the Strada della Forra, so very close to fame.
Read MoreA chaotic scene broke out Tuesday at a Nissan dealership in Texas when two bounty hunters discovered the fugitive they were tracking inside, according to news reports. A brief scuffle inside a glass office between the hunters and the fugitive led to a shootout, leaving all three dead.
Read MoreIf “Ocean’s 11 but rednecks and NASCAR” sounds appealing to you, then you’ll be interested to find out that the director of Ocean’s 11 is making Logan Lucky, another heist movie but with dumb, slightly offensive southern stereotypes plotting to rob Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coca Cola 600.
Read MoreWas the Volvo C30 the best Ford Focus ever made? There’s the Focus RS, but really, you want the C30.
Read MoreThe crossover craze isn’t going away and if you’re going to jump on board you’ll want to do so with something interesting. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Touareg is just that, but will its price prove it to be all that and a bag of chips?
Read MoreYou may have noticed my recent fascination with defunt marques, an enchantment that extends to today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Firebird. Pontiac may be dead, but you’ll need to decide if this restored big block is priced to bury the competition.
Read MoreIf you have the need for three rows and getting places quick as heck, then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Benz R63 may be the car for you. That is if it doesn’t also require three rows of cash to buy.
Read MoreIf you take one look at the garage where today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 356 clone lives you may not just want to buy it, you may want its seller to adopt you. We’ll have to see if this Faux-orsche’s dowery is worth paying
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Celica is a rare USGP edition, and a car that apparently has had its entire service history documented in detail. It’s in great shape too, but will its price prove to be one record not worth chronicling?
Read MoreThe Olds Cutlass was once America’s #1 selling car. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe edition hails from well past those glory days, but maybe this droptop’s price will prove just as glorious.
Read MoreDinosaurs like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds 88 once ruled the earth, or at least the North American continent. Today, they’re all extinct, but relics like this drop-top still turn up from time to time. Let’s see if you’d be digging this one’s price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chrysler/Maser TC has a tenuous connection to hijacker D.B. Cooper. More importantly it has the rare Cosworth/Maserati twin-cam head. Maybe that, and not the famous airplane robbery will make it worth its asking.
Read MoreMaybe if Mark Shields had taken the name of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ford Maverick to heart he’d still be running the show over at the Blue Oval. You could run this bit of the company’s history, if its price makes you feel like taking a chance.
Read MoreMercedes has long be a purveyor of pillar-less coupes and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 230CE seems a fine example of the breed. It’s what’s under its hood, not its roof, though that might have you putting it on a pedestal.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted a Corvette but found it lacking in luxury appointments and saddled with too plebeian a brand? Well then, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caddy XLR-V might just be the car for you, that is if its price isn’t found to be wanting.
Read MoreWith its supercharged 3.8-litre motor, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds minivan could be the ultimate people mover. That is if you all are moved by its price.
Read MoreThe sides of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Grand Wagoneer have gone from mighty oak to faded driftwood. That’s just part of the patina that covers this classic 4X4, let’s see if its price makes lifting the veil worth the effort.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Bus is a model once associated with hippies, but which is now just hip. This one has a GM Ecotec in its butt, let’s see if that, and its build will make you hip to its price.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW M Coupe says it’s one of only 678 offered with the S54 powerhouse. Let’s see if that, its seemingly immaculate condition, and its price has you saying send in the clowns.
Read MoreLike the Shelby Cobra, there are more Lotus 7 replicas in the world than there are the real deal. Cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Triumph-based 7 give much the same visceral experience at a fraction of the cost. We’ll have to decide if that’s still too big a fraction.
Read MoreAre you ready for summer? The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 380SL says it certainly is. Let’s see if its priced to let someone have some fun in the sun, or to take you to the dark side.
Read MoreIf you’re a prepper AND a car nut then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe… er, chimera, is the… um, car/house/garage for you. The question is, will the upcoming apocalypse break the bank?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subaru is just like Anne Boylen, an old girl who’s had her head chopped off. Lucky for us, this aftermarket beheading hasn’t meant the Subie’s demise. We’ll have to see if its price kills it for you, however.
Read MoreIt goes without saying, in light of the recent terrorist attacks there, that we stand with Great Britain. Similarly, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jag XJS stands as one of that nation’s most laudable automotive achievements. But will its price stand up to scrutiny?
Read MorePorsche long ago switched their lineup from air-cooling to that by water. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 914 is playing catch up, but does that catching up come at too high a cost?
Read MoreDo you remember the Hyundai Tiburon? I sure as hell don’t. Still, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GT looks like a pretty sweet car. Let’s see if its price makes it all the more memorable.
Read MoreJapan’s late-Eighties Bubble Era produced some of the most extreme and extraordinary cars to ever see public roads. The triple-rotor Mazda Cosmo grand tourer and the gullwing Autozam AZ-1 city car spring to mind. But there were many others that didn’t quite make it, including the Group C-for-the-road Jiotto Caspita.
Read MorePorsche finally officially unveiled the car it refused to acknowledge, the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS, with official claimed specs: 211 mph top speed, 700 horsepower and (naturally) rear-wheel drive. Also it will be more civilized than its predecessor. Wait, how?
Read MoreSome very official-looking photos of Porsche’s most powerful 911 ever* have leaked onto the internet. If you can’t wait for the cover to be taken off of the “mystery car” at Goodwood, look here now. Here’s a better look at the new 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS—the terror-Porsche of all our hopes and dreams.
Read MoreContrary to Porsche’s official hum-hawing about whether the new 2018 911 GT2 RS will exist in real life outside of Forza Motorsport 7, someone on Bloomberg Posh claims to already have an allocation—and wants to sell it for $160,000 over what Porsche is charging for the car. Terrifying speed doesn’t come cheap. [Update: Allocations for the GT2 RS have not gone out yet in the U.S., per a dealership source. See below.]
Read MoreThe Cayman R is a true automotive delight that lets you get away with feeling like a total hooligan even at parking lot speeds—so much so that Mr. Regular feels guilty about it. It’s so good that it whisked him away to another world, free of self-consciousness and woe. But that’s what cars should do. There’s nothing to feel guilty about here.
Read MoreThe best Porsches are the ones that truly want to kill you. More power. Less weight. Exponentially less mercy. They’re the most desirable among a certain set of the Porsche faithful because they’re seen less like a car and more as a wild beast to tame. In other words, it’s about time they brought back the 911 GT2 RS.
Read MoreHonestly, the only thing that kept me from buying the Porsche 911 Turbo S was that fact that it was too cheap. If anything was going to ferry my ass around, it would have to be so exclusive that I would actually want to change pants before I got into it. Porsche hooked me up.
Read MoreI know that question up there may sound a little, um, unsavory, but it’s a pretty fundamental question that I’m not sure has ever really been asked: when it comes to dashboard controls, do you prefer to grab or twist or poke things on the dash, or do you prefer to manipulate parts of a stalk?
Read MoreFriday’s Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race at Watkins Glen had to be halted and abandoned after a massive pile-up involving at least nine cars sent four drivers to the hospital, per IMSA. The crash happened in the fast esses of the track on the second lap of the race.
Read MoreRon Dennis, the man who was once synonymous with McLaren after leading the team to seven constructors’ championships and 10 drivers’ championships, is now completely done with all of McLaren, per WTF1. Dennis just sold his remaining shares in the company and gave up his position as director of the McLaren Technology Group and McLaren Automotive.
Read MoreThe Force India Formula One team may be rebranding itself as Force One, reports Autosport. This is probably wise, given that India has charged Force India’s team owner Vijay Mallya with $1.4 billion in fraud over money they allege hasn’t been paid back to state-run banks from his Kingfisher Airlines venture.
Read MoreMitch Evans is a guy with a pretty sweet gig. At 23, the New Zealander is a racing driver for one of the world’s most storied manufacturers, Jaguar, and he’s a key part of what the racing world hopes will be the next big thing—the electric series Formula E.
Read MoreFox Sports, a media group that presumably covers sports, will eliminate about 20 writing and editing positions in order to focus on video, reports Bloomberg. The reason? Actual sports reporting is hard.
Read MoreAfter ramming each other behind a safety car at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel didn’t sleep it off. In fact, no one in the Formula One universe really did. Hamilton wants to settle things outside of the car, and everyone else seems to be freaking out because there was a skirmish.
Read MoreThe World Rally Championship visited Sardinia earlier this month, a rough, high-flying event that ate at least one drone. Here’s the (non-crashing) footage that made one drone’s demise worth it, at least in my eyes.
Read MorePetty business transactions happen in more than just stuffy corporate offices. Sometimes, they trickle down to our beloved race tracks. Two years after a new owner took over a 4.5-mile road course in Utah, the track will go up for auction again thanks to a lawsuit from a bidder that wanted to put housing near it.
Read MoreIt’s only the third year the World Touring Car Championship has raced at Vila Real, but track safety is once again in question after a freak accident. During free practice Saturday, a mechanical malfunction saw driver Tom Coronel’s car lose control and slam straight into the side of a parked ambulance.
Read MoreGo to a window. Look outside. Make sure it’s not raining upside down or gravity hasn’t stopped working, because the podium at Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix is one of the weirdest Formula One has seen in a long time: Daniel Ricciardo won over Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas and known crash machine Lance Stroll.
Read MoreJust as the safety car was being deployed to clear up some debris on the track, Formula One’s points leader Sebastian Vettel drove right into the back of his closest rival Lewis Hamilton, claiming that Hamilton brake checked him. Check it out for yourself.
Read MoreSometimes NASCAR’s race cars get into collisions that put them out of operation for good. But what becomes of these retired pieces of potential NASCAR history? JR Motorsports dropped a video this week showcasing how Dale Earnhardt Jr. situates some of those wrecked cars into his wooded “NASCAR graveyard.”
Read MoreAt the Baku City Circuit, FIA officials went out and made changes to the Castle Corner’s narrow kerb by shortening the raised kerb and opening up the corner on the other side by realigning the track edge. It’s good to know at least some things can be fixed in Azerbaijan.
Read MoreThe Pikes Peak International Hill Climb makes its return this weekend and if qualifying is a preview of what’s to come, it looks like records will be broken once again. The action kicks off tomorrow morning, so here’s how to watch.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreRussian IndyCar driver Mikhail Aleshin is stuck in France after competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans due to unspecified issues with his visa to enter the United States, his team announced this week. Canadian driver Robert Wickens, who has a full-time ride in the touring car series DTM, will fill in for Aleshin during Friday’s IndyCar practice sessions at Road America.
Read MoreThe official paid live stream of this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans was unusually bad, blacking out for chunks during the race. Fans unhappy with the stream’s quality were advised to request refunds, but many were initially denied. Thankfully, it sounds like they’re finally making good on users’ refunds now that the dust has settled—and no user information was compromised.
Read MoreThe stodgy old French types at the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile want to make themselves more relevant to young people. Thank goodness they’re actually doing something cool instead of patronizing us all about dumb food trends or Instagram. They’re going drifting!
Read MoreOn June 20, Bob “Weatherman” Steinberger passed away after a long battle with cancer. To off-road racers, Weatherman was an arbiter, a messenger, and sometimes, a life saver. But even more than that; Weatherman invented backcountry communication decades before cell phones and GPS, and helped make some of the coolest racing happen hundreds of miles from nowhere.
Read MoreToyota’s Le Mans prototype team, who previously called hybrid technology “the main reason for Toyota to participate” in the World Endurance Championship, is having to eat those words a bit. Even they told Motorsport.com that hybrid tech in the top LMP1 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans wasn’t quite ready to race through an entire day at once.
Read MorePractice runs for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb are already producing some intense Code Brown action. When you’re racing up a bumpy mountain road with no guardrail to keep you on said mountain, things get pretty intense.
Read MoreThe idea seems straightforward enough: promote women in racing by creating an all-new series, just for women. A plan for one landed in the inbox of several pro drivers this week. But it’s instead been called out by those who see deeper problems here, tugging at the core of these women’s very desire to race.
Read MoreMonisha Kaltenborn, the first and only female team principal in Formula One, has left her post at Sauber, according to the BBC. Kaltenborn had been Sauber’s team principal since 2012 and reportedly left after a disagreement with team owners Longbow Finance over the running of the team.
Read MoreWhen it comes to motorsports, the average person might not think of Acura first and foremost. But the truth is, Acura has a long and successful history in racing, winning 17 manufacturer championships in various series across 29 of its 31 years of existence. That strong legacy still hasn’t done much to quiet the haters of the latest Acura NSX.
Read MoreMcLaren-Honda’s Formula One team is bad, and it’s not because of the drivers. It’s because the team’s car tends to break and its engine tends to fail. But not to worry, friends and fans of Fernando Alonso—reports are that Honda will bring a slightly less miserable engine to the upcoming Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Read MoreThis was supposed to be Toyota’s year at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a great start to the season and a record-setting pole run for the race. But fate wouldn’t have that, and a bizarre, poorly placed thumbs-up said to be for encouragement eventually led the dominant car to have race-ending mechanical problems.
Read MoreThe No. 13 Vaillante Rebellion LMP2 team, which finished third overall at this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, fixed their car’s starter problems by hitting it with a hammer. Today, the team was disqualified after they were caught red-handed trying to cover up the hole they’d made to hit that starter faster during pit stops, as the hole wasn’t allowed by Le Mans’ regulations.
Read MoreRobby Gordon is one of the most talented drivers actively racing today. He’s made a mark in NASCAR, IndyCar, Baja, and lately, his own Stadium Super Trucks series. Whatever he’s driving, Gordon is known for his aggressive style and showmanship. Which an Australian judge, apparently, had no sense of humor about at all.
Read MoreThis is the Green4U Panoz Racing GT-EV, an all-electric race car that wants to go longer than any EV has dared to run before thanks to one key trick: swappable battery packs. It’s racing legend and American Le Mans Series founder Don Panoz’s dream project, and one that he’s put aside everything else to achieve.
Read MoreThis year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans wasn’t just incredible for being unusually carnage-heavy on its flagship prototype class. The LM GTE Pro class full of production-based race cars was anybody’s game until the very end, with the most insane final laps I’ve seen all year.
Read MoreOne class at Le Mans came down to an absolutely nail-biting finish: LM GTE Pro. No. 63 Corvette Racing driver Jordan Taylor was playing a successful game of keep-away from the No. 97 Aston Martin of Jonathan Adam—only, Taylor threw that lead away when he short-cut a chicane and damaged the Corvette.
Read MoreAt one point in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, the No. 2 Porsche 919 was stuck in the garage for 65 minutes replacing hard-to-reach hybrid components. Every single car in its top LMP1 class either retired or suffered devastating mechanical problems, but of the LMP1 survivors, Porsche’s problems showed up first.
Read MoreOne of the front-running LMP2-class cars—who was briefly in second place overall—found racing’s ultimate catch-22. How do you serve a stop and go penalty when the starter that makes your car go doesn’t work?
Read MoreWith three hours and 47 minutes left in the race, the last of the fastest LMP1 cars that hadn’t retired or had a major mechanical failure has come to a halt on track. The No. 1 Porsche 919 suddenly slowed with no oil pressure with André Lotterer behind the wheel. Lotterer had a 13-lap lead over the entire field at the time of the failure.
Read MoreRacing interviews are usually too polite and vague. Not so with No. 62 Scuderia Corsa driver Townsend Bell. Bell told Fox Sports all about his thoughts on the huge LMP2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year. Spoiler alert: he’s not fond of how some of them drive.
Read MoreIf you’re going to lose your lead, at least do it in an amusing fashion. Despite the lack of drama left in the 24 Hours of Le Mans’ top LMP1 class, the LM GTE Pro class battle is as hotly contested as ever. No. 95 Aston Martin driver Richie Stanaway lost his lead, but gains my nomination for Almost-Save Of The Year.
Read MoreDid you get suckered into doing other things during the past 15 hours besides watching the 24 Hours of Le Mans? Are you looking at the timing screen wondering why we’re down to only one working Porsche 911 RSR and one Toyota TS050? We’re here to help. Here’s the rundown of retirements so far.
Read MoreThe official paid live stream for one of the biggest events in motorsport—the 24 Hours of Le Mans—has been uncharacteristically bad this year, affected by occasional outages and periods of poor picture quality. The World Endurance Championship (of which Le Mans is a part) says they’ve been cyberattacked during the event.
Read MoreThe No. 9 Toyota TS050 was the lone Toyota that hadn’t had a lengthy repair still on track as the team’s dominant No. 7 ground to a halt on track. Sadly, a puncture that badly damaged the rear of the No. 9, forcing it to retire less than an hour after the No. 7.
Read MoreKamui Kobayashi, the driver of the No. 7 Toyota TS050 who obliterated the all-time track record of Le Mans in qualifying, dropped out of the lead after encountering an gear selection issue on track. The No. 7 was eventually switched to electric power only to try and limp home, but ultimately stopped on track. Kobayashi walked away from the car, confirming its retirement.
Read MoreFord GT driver Harry Tincknell just one-upped even the 24 Hours of Le Mans watch parties with the best snacks by stripping down to his nomex undies and hopping into a kiddie pool earlier in the race. This is how I’d want to enjoy Le Mans. You win, man. Regardless of how the race plays out, you win.
Read MoreHeartbreak strikes again for the Toyota TS050 team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. No. 8 driver Sébastien Buemi started noticing a sound that kept getting louder throughout the eighth hour of the race. Then the No. 8 burst into flames when he finally brought the car into the pits.
Read MoreThe No. 98 Aston Martin Vantage had been an unstoppable force in the LM GTE Am class, leading much of the race. Unfortunately, its front right tire just plain done blow’d up, taking out the entire front right corner of the car and took it from the class lead straight into the pits.
Read MoreIf you thought you could take a break from the cruel, unfair realities of this world with a nice day of racing, just remember: Everything is terrible, and there is no justice or fairness in this world. Case in point, the No. 82 Risi Competizione Ferrari just got taken out of Le Mans by an absolutely stupid avoidable crash.
Read MoreMonster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch, known to take little kids’ lunch money in the lower Xfinity Series, started on the pole for Saturday’s race at Michigan International Speedway. He didn’t stay up there for long, as contact with close friend Brad Keselowski sent him straight into the infield grass.
Read MoreBilly Monger, the teenage British Formula 4 driver who lost both of his legs in a horrific crash into a stationary car that he couldn’t see in April, vowed to race again right after it happened. He plans to deliver on that promise in November, and wants to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans just a few years from now.
Read MoreOne of Porsche’s flagship top-class LMP1 cars just went into the garage and onto the High Jackstands of Doom after only about three and a half hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The No. 2 Porsche 919—the same one that had a mechanical failure in final qualifying—just lost its front axle drive.
Read MoreBefore the No. 88 Porsche tragically became the first retirement of the race, the No. 9 Toyota gave us this perfect moment of cross-team zen. Driver Nico Lapierre channeled his inner Jari-Matti Latvala to ride over some bumps for an insane pass around the outside to get around a herd of slower GT cars.
Read MoreThe No. 88 Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR just became the first retirement from this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Porsche was hit by the No. 26 G-Drive/TDS LMP2—a car that had started the race from pole position for LMP2 and that was already in trouble for making a slightly out-of-bounds entry into pit lane.
Read MoreWhile it’s nowhere near as dramatic as the move last year to try to slow down the race-leading Ford GTs and Ferrari 488s, the 24 Hours of Le Mans once again is handing a last-minute tweak to try and figure out how to make a new car competitive. Only this year, the new Porsche 911 RSR was too slow.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreThe Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced the next set of rules for the top class of Le Mans prototypes in the world: LMP1. Big changes on the way include active aerodynamics, various cost-cutting measures and perhaps most interestingly, quick plug-in hybrid system charging.
Read MoreJeff Westphal did the unthinkable when he won pole position at this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours. He became the first American in the race’s 45-year history to win pole position and he did it with an American-owned team, in a car dreamt up by an American. All while competing against teams supported by major manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes.
Read MoreOnce again, it’s time for one of the most legendary races on the planet, where the world’s best sports car racers battle it out for an entire day: the 24 Hours of Le Mans. If you’re hum-hawing about the idea of tuning in to a 24-hour race, don’t be. Here’s how you can watch the race, and why you’d be crazy to miss it.
Read MoreOne team at Le Mans has a huge bone to pick with last year’s results. Toyota’s car broke down from the lead last year right before its final lap, causing it to not even get classified as a finisher. This year Toyota brought three cars, one of which set a new lap record in qualifying. That new record gave their No. 7 pole position for this year’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Read MoreToyota ran so well this year coming into Le Mans that they no longer feel like the underdogs, but a hiccup during the second qualifying session has us a bit worried. We are still heartbroken over last year’s devastating last-minute failure, where a simple connector failure cost the leading Toyota the race on its last lap.
Read MoreToyota driver Kamui Kobayashi set a new all-time 24 Hours of Le Mans lap record in the No. 7 TS050 with an unbelievable lap of 3:14.791. Incredibly, this was Kobayashi’s out-lap, going out on fresh medium tires but taking full advantage of the lack of traffic in front of him to set an unbelievably fast qualifying lap.
Read MoreWhen you’re switching drivers in the middle of an FIA GT Series race, you don’t have time to deal with setbacks. But back in 2013, during the series’ first year with its new name, Sergio Jimenez from Brazil had a major problem. How to quickly deal with a broken latch on his team’s BMW Z4. And the answer was through hilarious use of brute force.
Read MoreMy plan for this series was to break down the build of a Pikes Peak race car and make it nice and orderly. It’d start with buying a salvage donor car, designing a roll cage, then go through making carbon fiber parts and finish up with engine and performance upgrades before the race. Well, any plans of nice and orderly went straight out of the window this week and we’ve had one issue after another kicking us straight in the tender bits. Progress has been anything but orderly.
Read MoreOh no. Porsche is now rumored to be thinking about a Formula E program. On its own, that would be rad. But combined with the rumors that Porsche is also shutting down its Le Mans prototype program and I start getting bad flashbacks to Audi’s withdrawal from Le Mans’ LMP1 class to go to Formula E. Formula E is fun, but could this be the worst timing ever for a rumor about a marque joining?
Read MoreThis year’s going to be extra tough at Le Mans, and we’re not just talking about the competition on track. No! All five top-class LMP1-H cars are white with reddish and black bits on them. Fortunately, Andy Blackmore put out his invaluable Spotter Guide for Le Mans again so we can tell all 60 cars apart from each other.
Read MoreMcLaren is prepared to pay $99.3 million in order to rid themselves of Honda’s unreliable Formula One engines once and for all, reports The Daily Mail. McLaren hopes to reconnect with Mercedes for an engine supply because Mercedes’ engines actually work on a regular basis.
Read MoreThis year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans is shaping up to give us one ultra-close fight between Toyota and Porsche. First, Porsche was fastest in the first free practice session of the weekend. Now, Toyota went the fastest in the first night qualifying session. Less than a second separated the fastest Toyota from the third-place Porsche in qualifying.
Read MoreAs if 2017 couldn’t get any worse, one of the precious few joys in life—top-class Le Mans prototype racing—may lose one of its biggest names. Porsche denied ongoing rumors that they may drop their 919 Hybrid program at the end of this year to Sportscar365, however, industry sources told them that Porsche may reevaluate their involvement this summer.
Read MoreEveryone wants to know more about the circumstances surrounding Richard Hammond’s crash in Switzerland—even the racing governing body FIA, who believes the crash “tainted the reputation of motorsports,” reports Motorsport.com. Hammond crashed Saturday during the Hemberg Bergrennen hillclimb while filming the upcoming season of The Grand Tour.
Read MoreDrones produce some cool aerial footage, but there’s a good reason why most racing events tell you to leave them at home. This is what happens when one flies directly into a car’s path on a World Rally Championship stage. It doesn’t end well for the drone.
Read MoreThe current Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is a supercharged monster, a 650 horsepower nightmare aimed at dominating the track in a way that shames Hellcats and Porsches alike. But it has a well-documented problem with overheating. Now Z06 owners have filed a class-action lawsuit against General Motors today, alleging that GM’s top-tier trackrat doesn’t deliver the performance they were promised.
Read MoreWhile his Formula One team continues to carry the Force India flag, owner Vijay Mallya may get forced back to India soon. Mallya, accused by Indian authorities of fraud and owing $1.4 billion to banks, could face even more charges than he did upon arrest and possible extradition from Britain to India.
Read MoreA bus inadvertently demonstrated the effectiveness of the gravel traps along the 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit today by getting mega stuck. Fortunately, most of today is the quiet before the race, with events like autograph signings and exhibitions. Even then, having to fish out a bus from the course is certainly inconvenient.
Read MoreSaturday’s IndyCar race had so much crash damage, only six of its 22 cars finished on the lead lap. Wrecks racked up an estimated $1.8 million in damage across the field, per Racer—and that’s a conservative estimate. That works out to about 180 gently used Spec 944s, or five beige McMansions in the Ft. Worth suburbs—except in car damage. Yikes.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of car stuff out there on the Internet today. Turn your attention here, though, to this MkII Ford Escort RS2000, with a uncorked Pinto engine screaming up a hillclimb. Let me tell you, this is the good stuff.
Read MoreFor just under two decades, the roaring noise of race cars rang out from Central Texas Speedway in rural Kyle, Texas. Today, the only sounds coming from the track are that of the bulldozers.
Read MoreRacing’s fanbase seems to shrink every year, and I can only take so many stories about lower television ratings and lagging ticket sales before I wonder if we’ve lost the plot. Pandering solely to the base isn’t working when that base keeps eroding. Motorsports has to try something new in order to evolve and survive for many years to come.
Read MoreAs we said while trying to hold back gags on Sunday, Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo is great at celebrating his podium finishes with a drink from a sweaty racing shoe. Star Trek star Patrick Stewart happily agreed to join along after the Canadian Grand Prix, and F1 put the video on YouTube for us all to... enjoy.
Read MoreThere’s something so dark and mysterious about this photo, which, you know, could make you seem like quite an interesting person as the wallpaper on your computer. (Who are we kidding? You’re all interesting enough on your own. We’re just adding to the intrigue.)
Read MoreBritish Mercedes pilot and Formula One podium frequent flyer Lewis Hamilton has won the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix, having run what looked like an incident-free race. He led the pack for all 70 laps. A giant carbon fiber maple leaf trophy will be on his mantle by the end of the weekend.
Read MoreAs part of the makeover Liberty Media is giving Formula One in its first year of ownership, the company recently said it wants to majorly expand the schedule. Champions Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton don’t seem to like that much, agreeing that they’d consider leaving if the number of races got too high.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, Formula One ne’er-do-wells McLaren finally, finally, finally won something. The series resurrected the F1 Raft Race for the Canadian Grand Prix, and McLaren proved once and for all that they’re the fastest at something. It was on water, but it’s something.
Read More“The Big One” involved nine cars at once after James Hinchcliffe got pinched in between Tony Kanaan and Mikhail Aleshin with nowhere to go. This started a huge chain reaction that left only 11 cars in the race—only half of the 22 that started the race.
Read MoreFormula One has released a video of the driver briefing from the Monaco Grand Prix, and for the first time in decades we get to see everything the drivers have to whine about.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreTonight’s NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series race at Texas Motor Speedway ended in total chaos one lap earlier than expected as a big wreck sent Timothy Peters spinning on his roof. Meanwhile, still on track, they had to figure out who was ahead when the now-race-ending caution flag was dropped for the crash.
Read More“Terrify me,” I told Stadium Super Trucks’ founder Robby Gordon. “It’ll make a better video.”
Read MoreProfessional McLaren Formula One sad man Fernando Alonso told Autosport that McLaren needs to start winning races by September for him to stay. Given that it’s more likely for space cats to discover unobtanium on Saturn by then, I think this is a nice way of telling everyone that he’s available for hire early on in the season.
Read MoreMercedes Formula One team executive director Toto Wolff refuted claims that Mercedes would drop its F1 team in the most hilarious way—by accusing ex-F1 team owner and current Top Gear host Eddie Jordan of partying a bit too hard over the Monaco weekend when he said them.
Read MoreThis year, McLaren-Honda has been bad. Very bad. The worst in F1, actually. But it was fun to watch, as you knew McLaren was going to stick through it and maybe the two icons in racing would work things out. Well, McLaren just said “we’re near our limit” and may really cut things off.
Read MoreAlmost universally, modern race cars are more capable than their predecessors. Almost.
Read MoreThe Subaru Impreza WRC97 driven by rally legend Colin McRae in preparation for the 1997 FIA World Rally Championship season went up for auction recently and, as expected, commanded a pretty legendary price.
Read MoreRacing cars in Mexico is fun, it’s exciting, it’s hard work, and sometimes it burns so badly it’ll leave you sobbing in a bathroom begging for death. And I’m not talking about the Montezuma’s Revenge—or at least not just that.
Read MoreDo you spend most of your life dreaming about the places you’d rather be? Do you, sometimes, choose to sit in a lawn chair and reflect on how every part of life around you is failing, failing, failing, and you’re just there to deal with it all? Then this Fernando Alonso figurine is for you!
Read MoreIn the United States, 1.53 million people got up at 8 a.m. ET to watch Formula One cars parade around Monaco, making it the most-watched F1 race since NBC took over F1 broadcasts in 2013, reports WTF1. It’s a pleasant surprise among the usual news of motorsports’ shrinking audience. Somehow you cared about the Monaco Grand Prix this year.
Read MoreThe hulking industrial giant of Toyota has produced some of the most beloved engines of all time, like the unkillable 22R or the overbuilt 2JZ straight six. A cool one that you never hear about is this, the R36V.
Read MoreSome of you have become complacent in your dislike of McLaren’s unreliable Honda Formula One engines. Let’s fix that. Here’s a video that will make you seethe with rage all over again. F1Board has a video of every mechanical failure since Honda reentered F1 in 2015.
Read MoreI love a good onboard racing video, but when you give me all 360 degrees around the car to watch, I can easily kill a whole afternoon. I want to know where all the other cars are, how corners get taken, and even take a closer look at all the things I need to fix on my own car. Surely I can’t be the only one.
Read MoreAlt-right troll Jack Posobiec took a break from pushing debunked conspiracy theories to make a very stupid tweet. While he posted several photos from this weekend’s NASCAR race at Dover International Speedway, he clearly didn’t read the track’s policies on firearms.
Read MoreThe new bosses at Formula One, Liberty Media, already have former F1 tyrant Bernie Ecclestone in a fuss about how much they’re using this “social media” stuff. They now want to expand the F1 schedule, which would maybe, just maybe, wear ol’ Bernie out enough to keep him from talking so much.
Read MoreFernando Alonso’s run in the Indianapolis 500 keeps paying off in juicy, tender beef. Not with Alonso—he was pretty chill. No, it’s between three-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, who keeps talking shit about IndyCar, and that series’ drivers. There’s only one way to settle this: put Hamilton in an IndyCar.
Read MoreNearly three years after drunk NASCAR fan No. 1 climbed the catch fence during a race at Richmond International Raceway, it happened again Sunday. NASCAR never even threw a caution for this guy, and USA Today reports that local police said he “kicked an officer in the knee” while being taken into custody.
Read MoreNASCAR is the butt of many jokes over the fact that they won’t run any of their ovals in the rain. But NASCAR will run on a wet road course. The perfect combination of a soaking wet track and ludicrously powerful stock cars is more fun than anyone deserves to watch, and this Mosport battle is one of the best I’ve watched all year.
Read MoreThere’s just something about a mean-looking race car staring you right in the eyes. Meet the Ferrari 488 GT3 racer from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, which finished second in its class at the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic in Detroit over the weekend.
Read MoreOver the years, BMW’s art cars have been... interesting. For instance, last year’s car had images of itself all over it in a strangely narcissistic, minimalist way. The most recent didn’t even have art on it. But this art car from Team Larbre Competition for the 24 Hours of Le Mans just blew BMW out of the water.
Read MoreExplosions usually aren’t great, especially when they happen behind the wheel of a car. But NHRA explosions are their own wacky, terrifying thing. Just watch that car go boom at more than 330 mph! That does not look like an ideal Friday evening.
Read MoreUnless you get mesmerized by the fact that they’re hustling über-expensive, state-of-the-art formula cars inches away from every barrier, the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix can be a dull parade. But not in vintage cars. They’re narrow enough to pass on Monaco’s twisty roads and holy crap, they sound awesome.
Read MoreGood morning race fans! The 2017 Baja 500 is underway, motorcycles are storming the course and the fastest four-wheeled vehicles will be following close behind soon enough. We leave the starting line around mid-day. Meanwhile, here’s where to keep tabs on the action live.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreLamborghini isn’t particularly well-known for racing so much as it is for revving loudly in front of nightclubs, so it’s easy to forget that the little company out of Sant’Agata ran a Formula 1 engine program from 1989 to 1993. It was glorious in the way only a Lambo could be.
Read MoreAnyone who’s ever spent a while on track has inevitably growled “I will have you, Nemesis!” at the schmuck in front of them. That all comes back to this classic video of a Porsche following a Ford Mustang on track, growling at it in the most metal way possible.
Read MoreBMW somehow managed to one-up the artists who put images of the race car on the race car with an even wackier art project. The art on the 18th BMW art car—an M6 GT3 set to be driven by Augusto Farfus in the FIA GT World Cup in Macau this November—can only be viewed in an augmented reality app.
Read More8-year-old Max Gordon plays with trucks just like we did as kids. Except his are life-sized racing vehicles and he can actually drive them like a boss. Being raised by one of the greatest racers of all time has its advantages.
Read MoreRight in the middle of all the GT-Rs, Porsches and Lamborghinis that showed up to the Heuberger Subaru Pikes Peak Air Strip Attack at Colorado Springs Airport earlier this month was a seemingly humble 1994 Acura Integra driven by one Myles Kerr. But this is no ordinary Integra.
Read MoreA few months ago, Aston Martin and I got into a little tiff. I didn’t tell you about it because I didn’t want you to worry.
Read MoreWe’ve known the 2019 Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar was going to be an insane car for almost a year now, but the extent of the insanity was only known to those with the job titles or bank accounts to get close enough to it. But if this latest report is accurate, the Valkyrie will be properly insane.
Read MoreThe 2017 Honda Civic Type R officially goes on sale today, which means it’s finally earnestly going toe-to-toe with the Ford Focus RS, Volkswagen Golf R and Subaru WRX STI in the battle for U.S. sport compact supremacy. Here’s how they compare on paper.
Read MoreThe House Armed Services Committee has formally proposed the formation of a ‘Space Corps’, which would act as a distinct branch of the U.S. military under command of the Air Force, similar to the way the U.S. Marines operate within the Department of the Navy. Whom among us is ready to be a Space Marine?
Read MoreChina is planning to land people on the moon by 2036. If China does this right, then at least one of those people will be a woman. Objectively, it seems absurd that this needs an explanation, but we know what the world is like. So here’s why.
Read MoreThings got a lot more exciting in the Earth-moon neighborhood late last week, as Yang Liwei, the first Chinese person in space and now deputy director general of China Manned Space Agency, announced that “preliminary preparations” had already started for a Chinese crewed moon landing. The landing is planned to take place 67 years after Americans set foot on the moon; let’s see how the Chinese mission will be different.
Read MoreConcept cars are fun, but they’re not really meant to be taken as something that will actually be produced. They exist to get attention, push a new design direction and act as a vanguard for new ideas. They’re exciting. That’s pretty much what was shown at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday: a concept car for Mars.
Read MoreSubaru spilled all the oily beans today about two new enthusiast-targeted cars, the BRZ tS and the WRX STI Type RA. While some may be disappointed by the lack of a power bump to the tS (remember, tS stands for Tough Shit if you wanted a turbo) both cars do seem like a hell of a lot of fun. Here’s what we know about them:
Read MoreAfter some teasing about a possible Subaru BRZ STI—perhaps even the hopped up, turbocharged BRZ everyone has been asking for—the automaker has officially confirmed U.S. spec version of the BRZ tS on Twitter. It might just be one of the best handling cars for the money, but forget the turbo.
Read MoreWaymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle division, confirmed that it’s developing self-driving long-haul trucks earlier this month. Now we know what they look like.
Read MoreRental car companies have done virtually nothing to adapt to a changing future of car ownership, yet tech companies seem to think Avis and Hertz hold the keys to driverless car success.
Read MoreThe Swedes, geniuses that they are, have long led the world in conquering the moose test. But here’s one thing they don’t seem prepared for: the kangaroo test.
Read MoreResearchers find that Americans are particularly skittish about giving up control of a vehicle to an automated system, but a new study says car buyers are now simply fed up with semi-autonomous features like lane-departure assist and adaptive cruise control, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Read MoreTesla aims to rollout a Supercharger network that’s double in size later this year. It would be a sorely needed investment for electric vehicle infrastructure across the U.S. Now, the company is once again floating the possibility of opening up the network to other automakers. And it should.
Read MoreJoshua Brown, the Tesla driver killed last year while using the semi-autonomous Autopilot mode on his Model S, received several visual and audio warnings to take control of the vehicle before he was killed, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board. Despite the warnings, Brown kept his hands off the wheel before colliding with a truck on a Florida highway.
Read MoreLater this year, the electric revolution is coming to Sacramento—in the form of an all-electric garbage truck, the first in the state of California.
Read MoreUber is facing a new lawsuit from a woman who was raped by her Uber driver in December 2014, after it was revealed that a high-level exec at the company had obtained her medical records and suggested internally that the case was a conspiracy orchestrated by a competitor.
Read MoreCongressional hearings tend to be dull, but it’s encouraging to see lawmakers actively approaching how to create legislation for self-driving cars. And while there’s considerable debate on how to do that, one industry panelist at a Senate hearing Wednesday offered a welcomed reality check: it’s going to take decades for the driverless car revolution to completely unfold.
Read MoreAudi has always had a strong billboard trolling game, and now the automaker’s poking the bear of electric vehicle makers, Tesla. In an ad to promote the upcoming all-electric e-Tron Sportback, Audi wants to let you know its a “Musk-Have.” Har-de-har.
Read MoreA trio of U.S. senators from both sides of the aisle took a theoretically important step in addressing the big issue of how government will regulate a road full of self-driving cars, recommending ways to write related legislation. It’s a step, but as you might expect, it’s nowhere near close to answering all our questions about autonomous vehicles.
Read MoreFor a company that’s said to be worth almost $70 billion, an internal report on Uber’s workplace culture depicts the eight-year-old company as a disorganized mess—one haphazardly concocted and operated as if inside a frat house—than the high-tech mobility and transportation company it purports to be.
Read MoreBack in April, General Motors quietly disclosed that it had plans to put together a large fleet of self-driving Bolt EVs to test in California, Arizona and Michigan. On Tuesday, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed that’s all going forward, and that GM has produced 130 autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs at one of its assembly plants. With that, Barra made a fairly bold claim.
Read MoreIn the brief history of autonomous cars, Google’s self-driving-koala-pod is probably the most recognizable of its kin. Introduced back in 2014, Google named it the Firefly, and on Monday, the tech giant announced the fleet is being retired. Google’s self-driving car project, now called Waymo, will focus entirely on integrating autonomous tech into vehicles like the Chrysler Pacifica minivan.
Read MoreA report on Uber’s workplace culture is expected to be delivered as early as tomorrow, with recommendations that were approved by the ride-hailing giant’s board of directors on Sunday—including, reportedly, firing the top deputy to Uber’s firebrand CEO Travis Kalanick. But after a year in which the company has been consumed with self-inflicted scandals, there is a reason why Kalanick most likely hasn’t been shown the door just yet.
Read MoreGeneral Motors’ new Bolt EV was set to be rolled out for sale nationwide in September, but the automaker decided to push that date up by a month, according to Automotive News. The move coincides with Tesla’s planned date to start production on the Model 3 sedan, widely seen as the Bolt’s biggest competitor.
Read MoreTragedy struck the bumper of an autonomous Chevy Bolt late last month, when an unassuming bicyclist ran into the back of the vehicle on a San Francisco street. The Bolt, according to a report, suffered “a minor scratch.”
Read MoreHere’s a line you’ve heard before: It hasn’t been a good week for Uber. And now Recode’s got a hold of an internal 2013 email penned by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, in which he advised employees on how to have sex with colleagues. Guidance for this sort of thing can be good, as our friends have demonstrated wonderfully before, but Kalanick’s memo is as terrible as you’d expect.
Read MoreWe’re barely a year removed from the fatal crash that killed Tesla owner Joshua Brown, whose semi-autonomous vehicle was traveling in its hands-somewhat-free Autopilot mode at the time of the accident. And still misleading bullshit about the current capability of autonomous tech continues to be floated: on Wednesday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee decreed that the technology behind autonomous vehicles is sound. Foolproof, he says.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, it emerged that an Uber exec had obtained the victim’s medical records of a passenger raped by an Uber driver in December 2014. Uber execs believed that Ola, the ride-hailing giant’s rival in India, was behind the incident, in an attempt to frame the company. Ola has since fired back, calling Uber “despicable” and “low on morality.”
Read MoreStartup automaker Faraday Future hired the best, as it often did, when it needed an audit of its finances to help secure vital fundraising and government loans. But what auditor KPMG—one of the world’s biggest and most well-regarded auditing firms—walked into when it agreed to look at Faraday’s books was a company with no coherent corporate structure, financial statements in complete disarray, and a $60,000 per month lunch bill, according to internal emails seen by Jalopnik.
Read MoreWay back in the spring of 2016, Tesla announced that it had 373,000 reservations for the Model 3, which requires a $1,000 deposit form every prospective buyer. Ever since, the automaker has refused to officially give an updated tally. What gives?
Read MoreFisker has released three teaser images of its real $130,000 electric car called the EMotion, and it’s definitely a tamer look than the Hot Wheels concept car from a few months ago. It looks like an alien ship from Independence Day disguised as an early-2000s Japanese luxury car.
Read MoreUber’s internal probe of sexual harassment has led to the firing of more than 20 employees, Bloomberg reports. Investigators already needed extra time for a deeper probe of Uber’s work culture, and of the 12,000 full-time employees there, Bloomberg reports that more than 200 claims were investigated.
Read MoreElaine Chao, the U.S. transportation secretary, hasn’t displayed a cunning grasp of autonomous vehicles or where the technology behind them stands today, yet on Monday she implored Silicon Valley to “step up” and explain robot cars better to the public in order to assuage any fears people might have.
Read MoreNational insurer AAA said it’s raising rates for Tesla Model S and X vehicles, due to a high frequency of claims and costly repairs, according to Automotive News. Tesla decried the move in near Trumpian-fashion as being based on an analysis that’s “not reflective of reality.”
Read MoreMaybe free frozen yogurt wasn’t enough. Tesla has been under fire in recent months over working conditions at the automaker’s California factory. To make amends (or a publicity stunt), Elon Musk says he’ll now jump in and work the line to perform the same tasks as every employee who’s injured on the job.
Read MoreVehicle-to-infrastructure tech (V2I) is a tool often touted by some automakers as being key to making the roads safer by allowing cars to communicate with traffic signals and the like. Late last month, General Motors and the state of Michigan announced they had taken tiny, but crucial, steps on the V2I front, with one of the first infrastructure projects of its kind in the U.S to make that sort of communication a reality.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that will make you slowly sink into a deep, dark depression about the state of the universe. Right before a cheerful holiday.
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Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Ultimately nothing matters because we’ll all be dead eventually, but until then, stave off the inevitable with the most important auto-related stories of the day.
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Read MoreYou know I think Toyota may have started to take all those ‘grounded to the ground’ jokes a little personally, because the all new 2018 Camry is faster, more powerful, more fuel efficient and, for some reason, it looks like it’s ready for combat sports.
Read MoreNostalgia is a hell of a drug and our favorite poison is Japanese sports cars from the ‘90s. But with high demand, and low supply, comes high cost. One Japanese legend stands above them all—the Toyota Supra. A dealer in Connecticut has a bone stock, turbo Supra with only 14,000 miles on sale for a whopping $125,000.
Read MoreEarly Range Rovers have managed to stay stately looking no matter where automotive design trends go. Over in England, you can find really old ones with just two doors that are especially cool. And if you look hard enough, you just might find one with royal blood.
Read MoreEverybody knows a significantly revised Jeep Wrangler is coming in 2018. Every Jeep fan knows that Moab, Utah, is hallowed ground for these vehicles and that its most capable equipment is tested there. So I’m not surprised that the next-gen prototypes are running around out there. I am, however, officially stoked.
Read MoreWhen a Hellcat dies, I don’t think it goes to heaven. But if it gets lucky, its 707-horsepower engine will live again in another machine. Like this old Jeep Grand Cherokee, which, I think, is one of the first of its kind to make a quarter-mile pass with Hellcat power and all-wheel drive.
Read MoreRemember car camping with your family? Most of us have trucked a Volvo/Ford Explorer/Chevy Tahoe from the ’burbs to a designated parking space in the woods for a few nights of bug bites and bonding time. The EarthCruiser takes that idea way, way further off the grid.
Read MoreI remember it like yesterday: 2004, when Ford was in the midst of its retro spree, showing off a gleaming, aluminum-skin look of the future. It was the Bronco concept, and the world needed it. But we’ve been waiting.
Read MoreThe refreshed 2018 Ford F-150 will offer a new engine, more horsepower and torque from existing engines, and more gears in its transmissions. Here a breakdown with the numbers.
Read MoreA man in Alabama allegedly stole a Kenworth T-300 flatbed truck, and led police on perhaps the most pathetic police chase in history. All because he didn’t know how to operate the manual transmission.
Read MoreSometimes you just see a vehicle that’s so gloriously silly and impractical that you must have it. Here is a Lincoln Town Car limousine called “Mud Force One” that’s been lifted for one glorious purpose: ultimate mud domination. It’s such a rolling contradiction that I’m in love.
Read MoreNope, it’s not a “Colorado-inspired” body kit wrapped around a space frame. Well, actually, it pretty much is at this point. But this seriously extreme off-road truck started life as a regular-ass crew cab Chevy Colorado.
Read MoreIn the crowded metropolis of Hong Kong lives a man who knows more about off-road vehicles than possibly anyone else on earth. He has raced the Dakar Rally, torn apart priceless vehicles just to see how they work, written a book called The 4x4 Bible, and taught off-roading skills to locals. His name is Victor Ma, and while you may not have heard of him before, he is the King of Off-Roaders.
Read MoreThe rumors are true: Los Angeles is a city of angry drivers. And none of them have much patience for a 40-year-old truck lumbering through life in the slow lane. But I think I’ve finally figured out how to pacify all the hard-honking boneheads who keep threatening to kill me.
Read MoreThe mighty Russian work truck outfit Kamaz has been winning the world’s toughest races in downright ridiculously large vehicles for what feels like forever. Here’s a close look at one of these snow monsters in action.
Read MoreThis past weekend, my friend and I drove 4.5 hours (one way) to attend the Willys Jeep Rally in Ohio. There, we saw vintage Jeeps operating all sorts of farm equipment, and we even got to operate a backhoe on a Jeep CJ-5. It’s the only such event in the world as far as I know, and it was incredible.
Read MoreThis video is pretty much a PSA on “great ways to hurt yourself,” but uh, somehow this heavily modified Chevy Silverado manages to survive driving off a loading dock at speed. Do not try this in your stock Raptor. Or anything else, for that matter.
Read MoreHere is another Lamborghini. Probably one that will happen very soon. But it’s definitely more than what we’re used to. Much..........more.
Read MoreNo diesel engine on earth is as legendary as a 12-valve Cummins. Not only is the inline-six known for its awesome stock torque figures, but the 1,100 pound iron hulk from Columbus, Indiana has a reputation for being almost literally unkillable, even after it’s been modified to produce prodigious power figures. The “five nine” is a tough sunovabitch. Perhaps the toughest of all sunovabitches
Read MoreThe veins in his biceps bulged but he was only halfway through the set. Pump, pump, pump. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Switch the weight to the other hand. Repeat.
Read MoreThe all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan is an attractive, spacious crossover, compact in name only, with a wide range of options and, thankfully, at least one fun color choice. That’s pretty much where the car’s personality ends, but I still found a lot to like about this thing.
Read MoreThe all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan is less powerful than the outgoing model, but has grown to be considerably bigger than the small, expensive crossover it’s replacing—a model that was considered a flop in the U.S. until sales skyrocketed last year. You’ve got questions and I’ll try to get answers.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s new CC-replacement, the Arteon, is very nice. I just hate what it makes my mouth do.
Read MoreAmong other things, the internet is really good for pictures of cats, fast dinner recipes and answering questions you were too embarrassed to ask a real person. Especially if that question has to do with how a car works or how to start modifying it. Enter a video series put on by Cobb Tuning called Cobb University.
Read MoreYou finally have a reason to care about the Acura ILX: at least one of them has survived the crucible of 200,000 miles of usage, and we have painfully detailed notes on its maintenance to see what it actually took to keep this little car running for so long over such a short period of time.
Read MoreUnable to resist the lure of a free Jeep Cherokee, I drove to Columbus, Ohio this weekend to meet up with a totally random reader who—I was convinced—had plans to harvest my organs. Now I’ve returned from my trip, and while I didn’t have to endure horrifying surgery from a crackhead with a rusty steak knife, I also didn’t come back with a free Jeep.
Read MoreI have spent most of my career helping to develop racecars. I have helped develop racecars for several manufacturers and top race teams. This, by far, has been the hardest, most stressful project I have ever done. The first challenge is the insanely short timeline to complete the build before the race. The second is the incredible difficulty in working with modern cars and their ever-present electronic overlords.
Read MoreFew terms spell death for an engine quite like “seized” and “threw a rod.” Now, thanks to the magical technology known as an angle grinder, we can see what those two terms truly mean. Watch through a hole in the side of the engine as the thing seizes up and then throws a rod.
Read MoreThe 2017 Honda Civic Type R lands in the U.S. this week and after 20 years of waiting for it, American enthusiasts can finally feel the fury of Honda’s international hot hatch. But as good as it is out of the box, this car was born into tuner culture and it’s hard to resist fantasizing about modifying it. So I will.
Read MoreJamie Orr decided he was going to save this ultra-rare Volkswagen Golf Harlequin from a junkyard. One of the most beloved cars that VW ever made, the Harlequin deserved better. The only problem was that it was 3,000 miles away. Well, that wasn’t the only problem.
Read MoreI am idly contemplating a racier set of seats for my sweet, sweet Volkswagen. Something comfy for a road trip but with enough bolstering so I’m not bracing against the door in corners. I have a variety of options, none of them seem ideal.
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I spend a good chunk of my free time daydreaming about cars with rotary swaps. All kinds of cars: Camrys, M3s, Corvettes. And then these guys came along with the idea for a quad-rotor Lamborghini Gallardo, which essentially sounds like automotive perfection to me.
Read MoreI’m sure you remember the mighty Mercedes G500 4x4² we took to the Mint 400 with the $20,000 Hochglanz-Elektrolichtstrahl paint job I dragged through the Nevada desert. Well, if you went as crazy for that color as I did, you might want to check out this cheap version.
Read MoreLast time you saw me, I had just picked up a brand new, salvage-titled Corvette Z06 and had less than three months to turn it into a Pikes Peak Hill Climb contender. I know you are all chomping at the bit to hear about all kinds of engine mods that will make 80 gazillion horsepower, but I have something more crushing to address.
Read MoreHere’s a question: Would you ever buy a crucial suspension part from Ebay that costs one-tenth as much as a similar piece at the parts store? Many of you would answer “no,” because something just doesn’t feel right about it. But it’s easy to understand why so many people do buy these parts when there’s little indication of any reduction in quality. At least, until something goes wrong.
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