Designed in the 1950s and still used today, the Lockheed U-2 (nicknamed Dragon Lady) is a super specialized, high-altitude spy plane. It’s light enough to fly at 70,000 feet, but notoriously difficult to operate. Especially land. Landing is a bitch and a half. That’s where a Tesla Model S comes in.
Read MoreThis weekend the U.S. Navy commissioned its latest Arleigh Burke-guided missile destroyer in San Diego, California. The USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), a 9,200-ton warship, will be one of the most versatile in the fleet, able to hunt for submarines, defend against air threats and enemy surface ships and engage ballistic missiles. But the name behind the ship carries a tragic and complicated story of its own.
Read MoreThis past weekend, President Donald Trump attended the commissioning of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier in Virginia. This ship is notable for many things, two in particular: it represents the future of America’s naval defense, and it is burdened with $2.4 billion in cost overruns. Now, today, Trump announced that our military cannot—simply cannot!—afford the hypothetical extra medical costs of troops who happen to be transgender.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy fired warning shots at a patrol boat this morning reportedly belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Persian Gulf. U.S Defense Department officials said the boat came within 150 yards of the USS Thunderbolt, a Navy patrol ship.
Read MoreThe U.S. has been in the habit of sanctioning the hell out of Russia as of late, and U.S. House Democrats and Republicans are set to do it again—this time over something President Donald Trump swears didn’t happen at all, which was meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But regardless of how he feels, Trump has little choice but to sign it.
Read MoreChristopher Nolan’s relentless World War II drama Dunkirk is in theaters this weekend, telling a fictional story of the very real British defeat against Nazi Germany in France and subsequent retreat from Europe at the start of the war. Here’s the history behind what you see, and what you don’t see in Dunkirk.
Read MoreIt shouldn’t take very much to sell someone on the thought of a Christopher Nolan war movie. Dunkirk is about what happens after the clashing of armies, focusing on a British retreat at the beginning of World War II trapped in a battle for time. It’s bleak, it’s beautiful, and it’s one of the greatest war movies I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreThree years late and costing $12.9 billion, the USS Gerald R. Ford finally gets commissioned today at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. The latest aircraft carrier to join the American fleet has been burdened with—and this may shock you, considering we are talking about defense spending—cost overruns and significant delays. Despite being commissioned, it will be at least four years before the carrier will be able to deploy and truly become part of the fleet.
Read MoreIt took President Donald Trump 55 minutes of a one-hour meeting last week to argue with aides that he didn’t want to re-certify America’s nuclear deal with Iran—an Obama-era deal he roundly condemned on the campaign trail—only to capitulate in the last five, The New York Times is reporting. Problem for Trump is that the nuclear deal is actually working.
Read MoreEverything about the aircraft carrier is analyzed these days. How vulnerable they are. How vulnerable they aren’t. How easy it is to sink one with a French attack submarine. How big they should be. How small they should be. Should we even have them at all? Yet most of these arguments have lost sight of the fact that the only reason a carrier exists is to take its air wing into battle.
Read MoreThe Cold War is over. And so is the need for America’s land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Not only are the costs of maintaining 450 Minuteman-III missiles unsustainable, keeping them in the nuclear arsenal is hardly practical. Maintaining hundreds of outdated, budget-draining Minuteman-IIIs when the Pentagon has the more accurate, multi-dimensional Trident II that can be shot from Ohio-class submarines that are virtually undetectable makes little sense.
Read MoreThis week the U.S. Navy published details on what it’s after for its next surface combatant, the FFG(X), or guided missile frigate. This move is designed to shift away from the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) originally envisioned to perform many different tasks and afford the Navy greater flexibility in operations. But the reality that’s emerged is that the LCS really can’t survive most combat scenarios, so here’s what the service needs now.
Read MoreSay you’re bored at the office one day and you decide, hey, let’s make a video where we fire 700 rounds at once through a machine gun with a suppressor and see what happens. You’re really curious to see what red, hot and melted metal looks like.
Read MoreThe Terminal High Altitude Area Defense element of America’s missile defense system successfully shot down an Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile target from Alaska this morning, according to a statement by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. It’s good news, but it’s not a full safeguard against an increasingly belligerent North Korea.
Read MoreA U.S. military aircraft crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday, leaving sixteen service members dead, according to the U.S. Marine Corps.
Read MoreAmid an ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, this weekend it was reported that Donald Trump Jr. and others met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer last summer to discuss, among other things, a 2012 law designed to punish Russian officials after the death of an accountant investigating government officials for fraud. This law is the Magnitsky Act, and this is why Russian President Vladimir Putin is so incensed about it.
Read MoreCommuters on a new high-speed rail line in France got to race a Dassault Rafale fighter jet, which is pretty cool. I would like to snark how American it is of them, but America doesn’t really do high-speed rail.
Read MoreU.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin laid the foundation for de-escalation and a ceasefire in the southwest region of Syria at this week’s G20 meeting, with expressed interest in further cooperation in dealing with Syria’s civil war in the coming future.
Read MoreAs tensions with an ever-belligerent North Korea continue to escalate, the United States is now expected to test its THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile-defense system against an intermediate-range ballistic missile in the coming days.
Read MoreHackers have been targeting computer networks of companies managing nuclear power plants across the United States since May, according to a report from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI obtained by the New York Times. But, supposedly, everything should be OK?
Read MoreThe Israeli military is taking drone warfare to a new level with its procurement of small multi-rotor drones that can carry machine guns and other kinds of weapons. A former Israeli Special Forces veteran and another ex-Israeli military friend are making the drones through their Florida startup, Duke Robotics.
Read MoreApparently, former President Barack Obama’s strategy to take out ISIS leaders is working so well that U.S. Special Forces are running out of targets to kill. And President Donald Trump, who claimed during the campaign to have a secret plan to defeat ISIS, still isn’t happy.
Read MoreYesterday’s North Korean missile launch, confirmed as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), was the culmination of 70-plus years of unresolved conflict between Pyongyang and Washington. But despite tough talk and tougher tweets from the current presidential administration, the U.S. feels like it has fewer options than ever—and that includes with China.
Read MoreThe size of Canada’s military force is minuscule compared to the United States, but one thing our northern neighbors do have is a damn good sniper corps. We found out just how deadly their shooters are last week when a member of the Joint Task Force 2 shot an ISIS fighter in Iraq from more than two miles away, shattering the previous world record.
Read MoreYou’re probably thinking about BBQ and hanging out at the beach instead of the nuclear apocalypse, and why would you? It’s Fourth of July, for God’s sake. But, for fun, let’s take a quick nuclear weapons quiz. Do you live near any nuclear weapons?
Read MoreThe BMW E91 was the last wagon that BMW offered with both a manual and rear-wheel drive for the U.S. market. It was a wonderful car, except for the fact that the BMW 328i wasn’t terribly quick. Some hero solved that problem with a turbo N55 out of a BMW 335i and you can buy it.
Read MoreVolvo’s performance brand Polestar just matched the power of Volvo’s most powerful car ever—the Volvo XC90 T8—in the lighter, smaller XC60. Meet the new Polestar-tweaked Volvo XC60 T8: the plug-in hybrid Volvo guaranteed to scare all the kids on the way to soccer practice with 421 horsepower.
Read MoreHello, my somewhat wealthy friend. You’ve worked hard in your life to earn your riches. You deserve nice things. Things like a 2017 BMW 530i. You’ve earned it. Go on, get it. Oh wait, you’re not somewhat wealthy—you’re stupid wealthy? Well, then. Fuck everyone. Get an Alpina B7. Here’s what $150,000 gets you over $70,000 in BMW sedans.
Read MoreThe Ford Motor Company would have you believe that you need a $60,000 twin-turbo V6 off-roading pickup truck with an aggro name and more cheats than a 12-year-old playing Grand Theft Auto V. Bah, we say! You need this only if you are a tool of the landed gentry. We’re here to prove them wrong with a true car of the proletariat: our 1991 Yugo GV.
Read MoreA story about a young man who strolled into his local Porsche dealership wanting to check out an expensive sports car has been making the rounds. The treatment he received was rude and unprofessional, but it could have likely been avoided with a simple phone call.
Read MoreOnce you’ve driven every supercar, classic and enthusiast-spec vehicle under the sun, you might find yourself a little sad. What’s left, just a viking funeral in your Ferrari? Oh no, there’s a better blaze of glory to go out in. It’s called the Campagna T-Rex 16SP and it’s unlike anything else you’ve driven.
Read MoreIt’s unfortunate that some people get buried in debt. I frequently get emails from folks underwater on their car loans and most are hoping for some solution that defies the laws of mathematics. Here’s the real answer: there is no real answer.
Read MoreNo one expects all-wheel drive to turn the Dodge Challenger into a WRX STI-slaying corner carver. No, the benefit is a little extra bite on slippery surfaces. I’m not convinced it’s superior to a set of snow tires, but it definitely hasn’t lost the personality that makes a Challenger so much fun.
Read MoreBrandon would like to spend his spare time bonding with friends under the hood of a project car. The problem with this plan is that Brandon doesn’t have a lot of experience, but what he and his friends lack in skill they will make up for in determination. What car should he buy?
Read MoreAs far as daily drivers go, what you need is something cheap to run that should last forever. Being able to haul around a dishwasher across town the day you’ll need it the most certainly helps, and if the damn thing can plow its way through a snowbank in winter, that’s an added bonus.
Read MoreThe new Acura NSX is a hybrid, turbo, mid-engine, all-wheel drive, 191-mph jet without wings, with 573 horsepower and (on this particular car at least) a $204,600 price tag. My boss handed me the keys one warm Sunday afternoon with the imperatives “Have fun. Don’t kill anyone.” By the specs alone, I should have been scared.
Read MoreThe moment I really got the 2017 Acura NSX wasn’t when I launched it to highway speed from a standstill in three seconds, egged on by the 573 horsepower soundtrack of two turbos dumping air into a wailing V6 backed by a screaming electric motor whine. It wasn’t the tenth time a pedestrian gave me the thumbs up and told me how awesome it was to look at, and how awesome I was for owning it. (I didn’t correct them.)
Read MoreDodge has a problem. The hilarious 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat is entering its fourth model year, and pretty much everybody who’s willing to spend $70,000 on one has one. And the 2018 Dodge Demon has stolen all the hype. The solution? Giant fender flares and even wider tires, baby. That’ll teach you to say muscle cars can’t turn.
Read MoreBrenden has been driving his Dodge Nitro for the past six years and it has treated him well through college. Now that he is about to enter the real world he needs something more adult. What car should he buy?
Read MoreSay you’re in the market for a secondhand European hot hatchback, but seek something a little more interesting than a Golf GTI or a Ford Focus RS. Your options are scarce. Sure, you could try to import a Renault Clio V6 from France, but do you really want to get yourself into the hassle of importing a French car? And does the Clio V6 even exist outside of Gran Turismo?
Read MoreYou might hear the 2018 Dodge Challenger Demon described “like riding a rollercoaster.” And it is, kind of. So imagine yourself on a 10-second carnival ride, holding a bomb with a 12-second timer, you’ll start to understand the sensation of firing this 840-horsepower fiend down a drag strip.
Read MoreI climbed into the 1980 Ferrari 308’s tight-slipper cockpit with no expectations. Ferrari or not, this car came out at the end of the Malaise Era. Automakers were trying to leave the ’70s behind, but some results were half-baked at best. But nearly 40 years later, the 308 has managed to hang on to some magic, even if you didn’t grow up watching Magnum P.I.
Read MoreFor old school off-road adventure purists, it’s a little sad to watch truck-based SUVs melt away in this era of high-riding hatchbacks we call “crossovers.” But if the main goal is getting out there, the 2018 Subaru Crosstrek is basically a better SUV than your dad’s straight-axle box-frame big rig ever was.
Read MoreAmerican car buyers have been flocking to the crossover body style over the traditional sedan. While car sales are slowing down and automakers are getting desperate to offload their inventory, the deals on quality sedans are absolutely bonkers.
Read MoreBy some miracle, Luke has been daily-driving a 1984 V12 Jaguar XJS coupe on his 70-mile commute. Recently the old Jag has started to show its true colors and it’s time for a replacement. What car should he buy?
Read MoreElectric propulsion has become the new standard for automobiles. Everyone in the industry is collectively working overtime to dish out new methods of sustainable transportation to ensure the survival of our species. The decision is unanimous: gasoline must go. Yet, the Dodge Challenger still exists.
Read MoreGoing car shopping is a pain. And in order to shop smart, you really should communicate with the dealers via phone and email. The problem is once they have this information you are likely to get bombarded with calls and emails—including after you’re done shopping for a car.
Read MoreOnce again, North America finds itself addicted to trucks and SUVs, spurred on by cheap gas. What we lack is a rolling symbol of this phenomenon; the last time it happened, it was without question the Hummer H2.
Read MoreIf the 2017 Mercedes AMG GLS63’s daddy was a muscle car, its mother must have been a private jet. But this high-capacity hot rod conducts itself politely—for the first centimeter or so of gas pedal travel. Press your right foot much deeper and this luxury liner turns into a 5,754-pounds of fat fury.
Read MoreTake a look at yourself in the mirror. You have bad opinions and you only buy massive heaps of dumb shit. You don’t deserve anything good. “But I deserve nice things, I’m a nice person!” No. You’re terrible. You all never bought a Chevrolet SS, and now they’re gone with no replacement. Chevy finally got the thing right, and you’re down to the wire on picking one up.
Read MoreThe 2017 Honda Pilot is just a few body panels away from being a badge engineered minivan, but it has its merits over the Odyssey it shares an engine and platform with. And yes, your son will fit in the third-row seats even after he moves back in after college.
Read MoreThe Nissan Skyline GT-R is one of the greatest performance cars ever built. Almost all generations of Nissan’s top-of-the-line icon have been praised by critics, adored by owners and lusted after by fans outside Japan. “Almost” is the key word here. The porky, blocky R33 Skyline from the mid-1990s is kind of the ugly duckling. But does it deserve to be?
Read MoreTricia bought the car that we recommend to almost everyone: the Mazda3 hatchback. It turns out the little Mazda wasn’t as exciting as she expected and now she is looking for something with a bit more performance. What car should she buy?
Read MoreAmong my many strange, off-putting car fetishes, there’s one that is consistently, creepily powerful: my love for unusual trunks. I’m especially fond of front trunks, or ‘frunks,’ since they tend to be more difficult to pull off well. The Tesla Model 3 has a frunk, and the very nature of that frunk is an important lesson we can all benefit from.
Read MoreLaws are designed to keep the peace, maintain order and establish safety in a society. Sounds good. But sometimes the laws are so illogical that they make no sense at all.
Read MoreDon’t feel bad. Everybody sucks at aerodynamics. Well, I guess people who have actually studied aerodynamics don’t, but as far as us normal, everyday jackasses? We’re terrible. Or at least, I am, when it comes to looking at cars and guessing how aerodynamic they are.
Read MoreCadillac is in a tizzy about having all of these lovely sedans that nobody will buy, and their solution is to cut down a model and jumble up their alphabet. Some have suggested a return to traditional model names, but even that could go too far.
Read MoreI really love seeing fleets of vintage cars in regular use not for nostalgic reasons, but just because they still do their jobs well. That seems to be the case with the fleet of chop-top Volkswagen Beetles used by the Experimental Aircraft Association for transport around their airfield.
Read MoreDriving stick is something my mom said is a nice skill to add to the Toolbox of Life. My blog boss said it’s good to know because, hey, maybe you need to drive the getaway car one day, and in this hypothetical, the getaway car has a manual transmission. But I first learned how to drive stick in the early hours of Nov. 3, 2008, somewhere in Florida, on the way to the airport in Orlando. My teacher? A police officer.
Read MoreWe sparked some debate after saying the 2017 Dodge Challenger V6 AWD feels like a muscle car. Feels like and is are not the same thing, but in today’s era of safety regulations and small-displacement, what really earns the right to be likened to big-block beasts of your dad’s day?
Read MoreIn the race for affordable electric cars, GM has been making a lot of noise about how it was able to get the Chevy Bolt to market before Tesla’s Model 3. Little do people know that this follows a tradition of GM beating Tesla to the punch.
Read MoreIf your primary goal in automobile ownership is to cause people who see your car to say something like “the fuck am I looking at?” then boy, do I have a car for you.
Read MoreToday, I became aware of the Suzuki Boosterjet, Suzuki’s name for its line of small, direct-injection turbocharged gasoline engines, first a 1.4 liter last year and now a 1.0. Unquestionably, it’s a wonderful name. But is it the best?
Read MoreI had a lot on my mind when I drove the new 2017 Acura NSX, and what I wanted to say about it. I’m a huge fan of the original, but I wondered how much I wanted to dive into a story that’s so well-told—Ayrton Senna, aluminum, VTEC, all that shit. Doesn’t everyone know that by now?
Read MoreOn July 7, 2017, there was a meetup of Mazda RX-7 owners in New York City. RX-7s on 7/7/17. When I visited Times Square earlier this year, all I got to see was a horse poop as it walked down Broadway. An “army” of RX-7s would have been much better.
Read MoreWe seem to be in a golden age of automotive Lego, with Lego having deals with a number of carmakers, including Porsche, McLaren, Ford, Ferrari—it’s possible Lego has more licenses with automakers than some suppliers that make actual car parts. That wasn’t always the case, though. Decades ago, Lego’s car-based sets had to play things much more coy. Let’s see if we can figure out the cars their first two chassis sets were based on.
Read MoreNew Lotus isn’t like old Lotus. Well, actually, I have no clue what new Lotus is. They keep making special edition cars though, which seem nice! But how?
Read MoreI should be clear here that I’m not an official expert in words; I’m no entomologist. You can tell that’s true because I just typed the word for someone who studies insects, not “etymologist,” someone who studies words. But this hasn’t stopped me from formulating a theory that there’s a large number of people who learned the word “ajar” from a talking car.
Read MoreIt took more than 50 years for Steven Weber’s father to tell his son he loved him. By the time he said the words, Steven’s father was overcome with dementia, living out his final days wheelchair-bound. Yet Steven’s father is the reason he bought the ‘68 Camaro back in 1973. It’s the reason he’s held onto it all these years. And it’s one of the reasons it will be such a momentous occasion when he passes it on to his son, which will be soon—perhaps sooner than Steven had expected.
Read MoreHelp me out here, pals. While I love my co-workers here on the USS Jalopnuts, it has come to my attention that at least two of my co-workers are drooling simpletons who can’t wrap their puny, moist, palpitating brains around the idea that the front-mid engine layout is a thing. They’re idiots, right?
Read MoreFormula One’s announcement to go to the halo shield to protect drivers won’t seem new at all to a select group of people that likely spend more on their gaming setups than whatever car they go pick up Doritos and Mountain Dew in once a month.
Read MoreChina is the largest passenger car market in the world, bigger than ours, even, and yet most of us outside of China know very little about its past. In America, everyone knows about our charming and embarrassing car history, our AMC Gremlins and Cadillac Cimarrons and King Midgets. We don’t usually get to read China’s automotive teenage diary, so let’s try and change that, staring with the Haiyan SW710.
Read MoreIt’s easy to rattle off platitudes about how clean and efficient hybrid and electric cars are. But have you ever really done the math?
Read MoreFrom its best angles, the Tramontana XTR looks like a crazy pod race car from a galaxy far far away, with a see-through canopy and two seats laid out in tandem like a fighter jet. From the side, the proportions are weirdly long, reminiscent of the wacky Youabian Puma, but weird is just what we need in these offensively inoffensive silver-beige times.
Read MoreMy beloved daily driver was hit while parked on my street, so I’ve spent the past three weeks with a Buick Envision rental car instead. It had all the bells and whistles, only it was silver, and I kept losing it among all the other silver crossovers out there. What happened to painting your car a real color?
Read MoreA couple summers ago on a road trip through California, I came across an intersection that had a street with my last name, and also gave me an empire. Because I have an insatiable appetite for dumb coincidences, I got a photo of me standing next to the sign. With this new website Crossing.us, I can now find every Felton Road, Street, or Avenue in the world.
Read MoreI watch a lot of onboard videos, but every once in a while, I just kind of stare at one in awe. The way this Datsun 240Z eats up mileage at this year’s Mt. Washington Hillclimb just completely broke my brain.
Read MoreThe Hummer H2 is somehow simultaneously a vehicle very much of the early-2000's, and yet I could very easily see the company return today with the same bloated, ugly, heavy, faux-military style to even greater success today.
Read MoreYesterday, I wrote about a man who snagged a mint 4,400 mile-on-the-clock Jeep Cherokee from a 70-year-old woman for dirt cheap, only to try to flip it for $15,000. Some readers voiced their disdain, saying the man took advantage of the woman’s ignorance. So that brings us to a question: when is it wrong to flip cars for a profit?
Read MoreSometimes, when I’m on Craigslist or Ebay, I come upon a car whose condition takes my breath away, and makes me wonder how the hell any vehicle could ever descend into such a miserable state. This Jensen Interceptor is one such example.
Read MoreBecause laws are written by people and people are oftentimes strange, it’s of no surprise that the laws themselves can be weird. Especially automotive law. Holy shit do some of them make no sense!
Read MorePorsche understands that, for some people, it’s not enough to just drive a Porsche, because there’s times when you’re indoors, which is terrible, because then it’s hard to let everyone understand that you’re a Porsche owner. Luckily, a little mom-and-pop shop called Porsche Design is there to help, like with these $550 speakers that sort of look like a 911 GT3's exhausts.
Read MoreYou want to know how staggeringly forgettable the Oldsmobile Intrigue is? Listen to this: I was trying to decide between the Oldsmobile Achieva and Oldsmobile Alero for this week’s Meh Car Monday. As part of the decison-making process, I remembered they used an Achieva in episodes of the X-Files. Only I was wrong: the car was an Intrigue. A car so boring I forgot it existed and mistook it for another boring-ass car.
Read MoreOur cars are our metal babies. We pour so much time, effort and love into them to make them run smoothly. We spend sleepless nights fixing them up. We become well-acquainted with sunrises.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreConsidering an influential YouTube car guy was just talking about how underrated the 997 is, and the fact that I only had a grand total of two options to choose from for Weekend Wallpaper this week (so please start sending some to my email), we’re going to grace our screens with a 997 and a sunset.
Read MoreWell all know that automotive awards are bullshit, and the newest list to make the rounds is the Vehicle Satisfaction Awards. Some of the winners are predictable while other are surprising, but it does raise an interesting question, what car gave you the most satisfaction?
Read MoreSelena Gomez is making new music, and the cover for her upcoming single features what looks like a second generation Honda Accord posed behind her and the word ‘FETISH’. Sorry you spent all that money on a Lamborghini or whatever trying to impress her.
Read MoreThe English countryside. An idyllic place to farm sheep and go on jolly picnics. It’s every bit as scenic and tranquil as the Jane Austen novels would have you believe. Except for the four days every year the Goodwood Festival of Speed happens.
Read MoreHappy Birthday, America! Guess what I got you! Give up? Underpants, and this list of the 10 American automakers with the goofiest, weirdest names. Most of these are small, obscure automakers from the beginning of the last century, but it’s still good to remember that once there was far more than the Big Three and poor old AMC.
Read MoreA set of wheels can make or break a car’s looks. The wheels actually take up a pretty decent percentage of a car’s side profile, especially if they are big and the car is sleek. Which is why it’s extremely important to make sure they look good. How do we feel about these?
Read MoreAre you familiar with “restomod” aesthetic? It’s when an old car is restored with modern goodies like power windows and LED lights. In some ways it feels like the 2017 Dodge Challenger, one of the last decidedly retro new cars left, is the ultimate restomod. It’s really just missing a few key pieces.
Read MoreMost of us are at least vaguely aware of “lowriders.” They’re generally old American cars with creative paint jobs and hydraulic systems that move their bodies in all sorts of crazy ways. But you can take a much closer look at them at the Petersen Museum right now, and hot damn, these cars are unbelievable.
Read MoreHave you ever dreamed of cruising under the Tuscan sun, top down on your convertible, with all of your troubles and worries dissipating in the wind? Well, we can’t exactly do that for you, but we can provide you with some relaxing photos of it.
Read MoreOf all the Nissan Z cars, arguably two endure the most today: the original 240Z, and the sleek and twin-turbocharged Z32 300ZX of the 1990s. And the designer of that car, Toshio Yamashita, wasn’t just content to design rad cars back in the day. He’s been helping teach the art of car design to the next generation, so he shared the fascinating process he uses to think about car design and brainstorm new cars.
Read MoreOne-hundred and fifty-one miles. That was all Greg Ellingson got with his brand new 2017 Honda Civic Type R. He flew from Philadelphia to Boston to pick up the car, and not much later on Sunday, he was sulking through a five-hour ride home in a tow truck.
Read MoreHow did it get there? Yeah, I’m asking the same thing. Police in Linden, New Jersey, discovered this 2008 blue Acura dangling off an overpass Saturday morning. It just looks so helpless, like a turtle on its back.
Read MoreSometimes you look at pictures or video of a car crash and you just have to assume the worst, but despite what it looks like, a man miraculously survived after a truck carrying scrap metal overturned and dropped a huge chunk of metal on his head.
Read MoreEverything going on in this dash cam highway pileup crash video probably couldn’t have gone any worse.
Read MoreI don’t know if you’ve ever played this simple game called Rock-Paper-Scissors, but one aspect of it—the paper beats rock part—is infinitely confusing and illogical. How does paper beat rock? In the real world, when you have things like House-McLaren-Fire, it works out much more logically.
Read MoreTop Gear America, formerly Top Gear USA, returns with its three new hosts tonight. The new episode airs at 8 p.m. EST on BBC America. I’ve seen it, and all I really came away with is the knowledge that Bill Fichtner has a lovely voice.
Read MoreTop Gear’s Chris Harris got to spend a lot of time on open roads with the new Bugatti Chiron hypercar, and yet all of that new complicated fussy stuff was no match for an experience that dates back almost 100 years.
Read MoreChris Evans, everyone’s favorite one-season Top Gear shouty man, is getting paid £2.25 million (or $2,932,447.50) by the BBC, according to a report from the British government broadcaster. But the weird thing is, even though it’s not for Top Gear, it’s at least in part because of Jeremy Clarkson.
Read MoreAmazon’s inaugural outing with The Grand Tour wasn’t perfect, but I think there was one thing most gearheads could agree on: we wanted more. Thankfully the streaming TV network/drone delivery service agreed, and the show will be back in October. Here’s our first look.
Read MoreHonda in the United States now sells a fastback Accord and an NSX. WHAT YEAR IS IT?
Read MoreThings felt like they were finally turning around for Aaron Woodrum in March 2015 after several months of unemployment. The 38-year-old had fallen behind on bills, causing his credit score to slip. But, thankfully, he’d secured a new job, bolstering his prospects. He just needed a car.
Read MorePerhaps, as a member of the common folk, my tastes are not quite as exquisite as those of the wealthy. I sometimes pronounce menu items wrong and I often stay away from foods I’ve never heard of, which means I am likely not affluent enough to enjoy the taste of $1,000 gin with motorcycle-engine parts in it.
Read MoreThe looming death-spiral of the motorcycle world and its dire need to lure in millennials has been a hot topic discussion as of late, and the issues are abundantly clear in the industry’s most well-known brand. According to Bloomberg, Harley-Davidson is witnessing a sharp decline in sales of just about everything right now. Jewelry, shirts, do-rags—sales are down across the board, the company’s revenue continues to dip, and now layoffs are forthcoming.
Read MoreThere’s nothing inherently difficult about riding the Confederate P51 Combat Fighter. But the $135,000 price tag that is never too far from your mind as you rev the colossal 2,163 cc V-twin engine. It’s hard to concentrate on much else when you’re repeating a mantra of “Do not drop this bike!” into your helmet.
Read MoreBeads of sweat snaked down my back. It was only 80 or so degrees outside, but clad in thick jeans, boots, a long-sleeved henley, a black motorcycle jacket, riding gloves and a black motorcycle helmet, I strained to balance an unwieldy motorcycle on a blacktop while the sun beat mercilessly down upon me. And everyone said this was supposed to be fun.
Read MoreI never knew I wanted an electric kick scooter until BMW unveiled its new X2City. With a range of up to 21 miles at speeds of up to 15 mph and a folding steering column, you can zip around town and then stow it in the trunk of your car without breaking a sweat.
Read MoreBrazil in the 1970s to early 1990s was a fascinating crucible for the creation of weird vehicles. Their protectionist trade policies forced local solutions to everything, and the results were often fascinating. I’ve covered, at length, the strange Volkswagen variations that bloomed there, and now I’d like to cover one more, one with half as many wheels as what I usually obsess over.
Read MoreHuh. Looks like your bike rides better without you, man.
Read MoreTop Gear America came back last night on BBC America with three new hosts. They drove Baja Bugs, the new Acura NSX, and the new Ford Raptor. Most importantly, they seemed to constantly remind everyone that THIS IS AMERICA.
Read MoreSergio Marchionne, our favorite Guy Who Definitely Has Solid Plans and CEO of Fiat Chrysler, revealed a plan to push his company towards hybrid and fully electric models, which isn’t such a bad idea. The bad news is that it’s been decided Maserati will be the halo brand for this.
Read MoreHistory indicates that this video showing a man repeatedly plowing his automobile into the cars in front of him in assumed outrage but perhaps some other motive may not be unusual behavior in present day Los Angeles.
Read MoreThe Lockheed U-2 is a seriously cool plane. It’s super light and can fly at altitudes of 70,000 feet. And it needs fast cars to help it land and take off.
Read MoreRecently, some fast and debatably desirable cars drove around the famed streets of Monaco. Multiple Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglios joined the fun. None of them appear to break down over the course of this lengthy and challenging city drive, but the video footage is edited and we cannot be sure.
Read MoreDoes it get more cliché than a German doctor with a motto (“let’s do it, full speed”) channeling an unfathomable depth of intensity into restoring and driving classic Porsches? No, but Dr. Erik Brandenburg is our kind of crazy.
Read MoreIn a city like London, where architecture from many centuries past sits among modern skyscrapers, a show like the London City Concours that unites great cars old and new seems perfectly at home. I visited the event this summer on a break from Japan. It was the first event of its kind, and as inaugural shows go, this one was pretty awesome.
Read MoreBMW has been the mysterious half of a long-reported partnership with Toyota to develop a new sports car platform. Toyota’s side of things has been busy, with plenty of teases and looks at what could be the next Toyota Supra. The BMW side has been relatively quiet, at least until now.
Read MoreIf you didn’t get enough of Charlize Theron kicking ass in Mad Max: Fury Road or Fate of the Furious, she’s back in theaters this weekend as a badass Cold War spy driving awesome cars and kicking more ass in Atomic Blonde. Here’s how the movie pulled off some of its unbelievable car stunts.
Read MoreNow that the Tesla Model 3 will begin to slowly roll out to deposit holders, we’re finally getting answers to questions like, “what are the available options?” and, “how much will it actually cost?” and, “how does it actually drive?” and, now, “when will the fast one be available?”
Read MoreNow that the Tesla Model 3 is finally here in production form with the earliest deliveries going out last night, it’s time for the wave of driving impressions. Here’s what people are saying about how the Model 3 looks, feels and performs in the real world.
Read MoreA college student in Columbia, South Carolina was kidnapped by three men at gunpoint. Fearing the worst, she used some Jason Bourne level-problem solving and her manual transmission car to get away safely.
Read MoreTesla rolled out the all-electric Model 3 sedan late Friday, trying to do whatever it could to portray it as an event to remember. But one key aspect stuck out from the brief presentation: The revered, “more-affordable Tesla” isn’t exactly coming out at the price point we’ve been hearing about for months. Only the very leanest Model 3s will ring up at $35,000. Pretty much any option at all, including a color that isn’t black, gets you to $43,000 very fast.
Read MoreAfter six thousand years of hype, speculation and anticipation the very first Tesla Model 3 owners have finally taken delivery of their vehicles. Fans are already calling the event a “historic landmark,” and while I’m not sure we need to go that far, it’s certainly an interesting moment in automobiles.
Read MoreAustralia is taking the electric car revolution one step further by announcing a $3 million super-long electric highway, or a series of fast charging electric vehicle stations.
Read MoreI really like the basic, no-bullshit form-follows-function design of the Bollinger B1 electric SUV, and I sincerely hope Bollinger ignores every inane focus group suggestion to “design” it more, and that it makes it to market just as it is. The space utilization and functionality are possibly the best seen in any production car currently available, and, I’m delighted to note, it has a design concept I published back in late 2013.
Read MoreThe Bay Area seems like a special kind of hell for commuters. The city and surrounding communities are struggling to keep up with the influx of people brought by the tech industry. That means higher rent, fancier restaurants and more time spent on the roads. Much more time, in fact.
Read MoreAfter discovering similar vulnerabilities in the Model S last year, the Chinese security research firm Tencent Keen Security Lab have turned their attention to the Tesla Model X, and have been able to exploit these security holes to remotely do things to the Model X like open its doors, blink the lights, control in-car displays, and, most worryingly, actuate the brakes while the car is in motion.
Read MoreTalk about ways to ruin your day. A St. Louis resident is being forced to pay out of pocket to fix her car, after it was crushed by a city street sweeper in a freak accident of sorts, according to KMOV.
Read MoreEver purchase something above-par—say, a nice pen—and then go on to lose it later that day? Agh, that’s the worst. Ever drop $288,000 on a Ferrari F430 Scuderia and then go on to crash it an hour later? No? That’s what happened on Thursday in the United Kingdom, and, man, I cannot imagine how the driver feels today.
Read MoreThe world’s first electric truck isn’t anything fancy. And that’s the whole point.
Read MoreWe at Jalopnik have screamed to anyone who will listen that the Cadillac ATS and CTS sedans are not only good, but great, especially in their high-performance V versions. But things are tough for sedans right now. That’s a problem for Cadillac, which pinned a lot of its early comeback hopes on those sedans. The solution: more crossovers, and combining the ATS and CTS into just one vehicle.
Read MoreFord has a very big and ever-growing marijuana problem.
Read MoreIt must be incredibly confusing to wake up in the middle of the night to a loud bang only to rush outside and see the damn Earth swallowing your car in your own driveway.
Read MoreIt’s odd, but I can think of at least two things you can bolt onto a car engine that, to non-gearheads, sure seem drug-related. Think nitrous systems, or, as in this case, methanol-injection systems, which gets abbreviated to “meth.” Maybe you see where this is headed.
Read MoreNissan’s upcoming next-gen Leaf will introduce a new feature called the e-Pedal, which will allow for a single pedal to be used for accelleration and braking, allowing people to drive with just one pedal. Many people will already be familiar with this method, as it’s just about like driving one of the Autopia cars at Disneyland.
Read MoreThe eighth iteration of the Rolls-Royce Phantom was rolled out today with a red-carpet launch party and a suitably pompous press release proclaiming the car to have the “most silent” interior of anything on the road. It pretty much looks like the Rolls-Royce flagship you already know, but with a few new technological tricks up its sleeve.
Read MoreI used to call the original Mercedes-Benz C-Class one of the most timeless car designs ever created. Now almost 20 years after its heyday, the car definitely comes off extremely ’90s—and maybe not in a good way. But holy crap, these are some seriously inexpensive cars with awesome engines and interesting historical significance.
Read MoreBack in May, you may have heard, the Skip Barber Racing School filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing at least $10 million in debt and millions owed in rent to various U.S. tracks. That’s Skip Barber Racing School, not Skip Barber, a distinction that apparently went over the heads of many people, because the, uh, actual Skip Barber wants you to know: he hasn’t personally filed for bankruptcy. The racing school, however, is definitely broke.
Read MoreWhen all’s said and done, Volkwsagen’s never-ending Dieselgate saga may be seen as the tip of the iceberg, and not just an explosive revelation from an automaker that explicitly set out to cheat. Several automakers have been ensnared in accusations of diesel cheating and now, in Germany, Porsche has to recall 22,000 Cayennes for allegedly equipping the vehicles with illegal software to skirt emissions test.
Read MoreI always think of NYC as the anti-car city. The traffic is terrible. The roads are terrible. Street parking is a scam and parking garages are too. But some incredible cars hide out here.
Read MoreVolkswagen sold about 480,000 cheating TDIs in the United states between 2009 and 2015. Over the past year, the company has been slowly rolling out fixes for small portions of that fleet. But today VW just declared that it has a fix for 326,000 cars—almost all of the remaining affected 2.0-liters. This is huge news for VW and owners.
Read MoreI believe that it won’t be long before we have fully-autonomous cars, capable of whisking our inattentive asses around in total safety. I also know that we are by no means there yet, as this alarming video of a Tesla driver quickly taking control of the car from Autopilot to avoid a wreck shows.
Read MoreLots and lots of oversteer.
Read MoreOver the past week, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced some solutions to NYC’s subway catastrophe, fixes that include removing seats from trains, making an app and getting Tough On Litter. Now Governor Andrew Cuomo discovered yet another remedy: getting businesses to adopt subway stations.
Read MoreSimon, expected to grow into the world’s longest rabbit just a few short months ago, was found dead after a United Airlines flight from London to Chicago in April. It was very sad and weird. Now his owners filed a lawsuit against United on Wednesday, alleging that the company cremated the rabbit to destroy evidence about how he died.
Read MoreThis is a 900 horsepower Audi RS6 Avant with a turbo that is probably bigger than my face. Please enjoy three minutes of this wagon dominating the drag strip with snarling turbo madness.
Read MoreSecurity footage of a fire that broke out in the service department of a Chevrolet dealership in Sterling Heights, Michigan last week reveals just how lucky the guy buffing the floors is to be alive.
Read MoreEver stand next to someone in an airport security line who takes five minutes looking for all the stuff they need to take out of their bags and put in bins before finally moving down the line? Well, get ready for way more of that since the lovely Transportation Security Administration announced they’ll now require separate screening for electronics “larger than a cell phone.”
Read MoreThe wife of a former United Auto Workers vice president and Fiat Chrysler’s former labor relations chief illegally funneled $1.2 million to union officials for mortgage payments, jewelry and furniture, the feds alleged in an indictment on Wednesday.
Read MoreWhen the robots takeover, nowhere will be safe. Not even car washes.
Read MoreYou’re the best, right? Of course you are. You’ve been to the best schools, know all the best words, and were bred for success like a goddamn racehorse. I get it. So why would you drive some overpriced shitbox that any jackass can own? You wouldn’t, which is why you need to buy this incredibly rare Trump Gold Edition Cadillac Limousine right freaking now.
Read MoreIn between chasing Paganis through the Tuscan countryside and inhaling tire smoke at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, I spent a couple of weeks in London. It’s a city seeping with history and culture—and some very good cars, if you know where to look.
Read MoreIf you think that traffic lights are just another way The Man keeps you in check, like chemtrails but with colored light, then I suggest you watch this terrifying dashcam video of what happens when you run a red light. This wreck involving a red-light-ignoring Lowe’s truck happened in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and you can see why the video is going viral.
Read MoreElon Musk has a grand idea for tunnels—which, contrary to what you might read elsewhere, is far sillier than Tesla or SpaceX—and though he may think a futuristic tunneling system will reduce traffic, it almost certainly won’t. But Musk’s Boring Company has a new update to show off: an elevator. Check it.
Read MoreAn apparent slip-up by the German Volvo Cars website led to a peak of the 2018 Volvo XC40. The photo was taken down quickly, according to Autocar, which suggests it was almost certainly an official Volvo photo.
Read MoreJaguar literally launched its 2018 E-Pace compact crossover earlier this month in London, conducting the Guinness Book of World Records’ farthest production vehicle barrel roll. Lest you think the whole thing was somehow faked, here’s a video showing the lengths Jaguar went to pull it off. And yes, there’s a roofless bouncy castle involved.
Read MoreThe 2018 Ford Mustang promises a bunch of improvements over its predecessor, and now—with Ford’s online configurator up—we can see if those improvements came with a price. In the case of the V8, it seems the answer is “yes.”
Read MoreThis is just one of those subtle things that you can only learn from a lifetime of committing crimes, but as a good rule of thumb for if you want to get away with doing something illegal, you should probably avoid driving filthy, door-poor Lincolns with an axe wedged in the roof. Those tend to attract cops, as a very high guy in New York state discovered.
Read MoreThis time last year, a report suggested that McLaren was working on a three-seater hypercar inspired by the iconic McLaren F1. Now another report, also from Autocar, suggests that we’ll be getting an Ultimate Series McLaren P1 replacement first.
Read MoreAmid a summer where outrage over the busted New York City subway system has rained down like so much filth-water, the state Metropolitan Transit Authority has finally answered riders’ cries with a plan to fix things. Sort of. And they haven’t actually secured funding for it. Hey! Fun times.
Read MoreStart keeping better track of what you leave in your Uber, or else it’ll cost you.
Read MoreNoted space explorer and Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks artificial intelligence-backed robots will one day kill us all. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes they’ll only bring rainbows and butterflies and medical cures. I tend to side with Tesla boy here, even though he has an out most of us don’t have because he can move to Mars whenever he wants.
Read MoreHey, so last night I went to a screening of Atomic Blonde—the stylishly brutal action-packed flick set in 1989 Berlin right before the fall of the wall, in which Charlize Theron plays a ruthless, savage, kickass spy—and there were some really good cars.
Read MoreDon Creery signed up for health care on the Affordable Care Act as soon as it went live. Creery drives for Uber full-time in Seattle, earning $700 a week for 50 to 55 hours of work. With $900 premiums for private healthcare, he said an Obamacare repeal would leave him uninsured.
Read MoreStare in awe at pro drifter Daigo Saito somehow avoiding both the person in the middle of the parking lot as well as the Ferrari that’s oh-so-close to these donuts.
Read MoreOliver Schmidt, the head of Volkswagen’s U.S. regulatory compliance office from 2014 to 2015, is expected to plead guilty next month for his role in the Dieselgate mess, a court official said on Tuesday.
Read MoreI think it’s safe to say there’s no greater rivalry in the history of motorsport than the one between the Fiat Multipla and the Chevrolet Corvette. Finally, that rivalry has been settled, with a battle on the Nurburgring, and, as most of you probably guessed, we have a winner: the Multipla. Specifically, a 1999 Fiat Multipla people-mover with over 160,000 miles on the clock.
Read MoreThe Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is one of our favorite cars of all time for glorious cheap speed. You don’t need a pricey luxury sedan to go fast in a practical four-door. You need an Evo. Maybe not this 2006 Evo IX MR, though. It’s going to sell for six figures because it only has nine miles on its odometer.
Read MoreHundreds of thousands of people plopped down $1,000 over a year ago to reserve a spot on the Tesla Model 3 production list. They were told, upfront, that they shouldn’t expect the car before the end of 2018. And still no one knows when they’ll be receiving their orders.
Read MoreIt seems very likely that the party is over for one of the most fun and affordable hatchbacks on the U.S. market, the Ford Fiesta ST. The current one, soon to be replaced by a new Fiesta that America probably will not get, puts out about 200 horsepower and has a starting price of around $21,000. With rebates and discounts, now you cheapskates can get an even better deal.
Read MoreIt took awhile, but the engineers behind modern sports cars seem to have finally figured out that people like to drive versions of vehicles with the roof down. McLaren was even smart enough to plan ahead for its 570S Spider, which never even needed a roof.
Read MoreJaguar has introduced a new high-performance model of its XJ sedan with the XJR575, which has been painted to look like a submarine. It can now max out at 186 mph in just 44 seconds, which is pretty quick for a submarine.
Read MoreI’m not going to make a dumb Cars and Coffee joke; instead, I’m going to just marvel at the fact that starting this fall, every new base V8 2018 Ford Mustang GT will make 460 horsepower (!!!), and accelerate to 60 in a time that—not too long ago—was exclusively reserved for supercars. Yes, let’s all just enjoy this moment.
Read MoreAmerican roads suck. Our roadways scored a D on the American Society of Civil Engineers annual infrastructure report card because they are “crowded, frequently in poor condition, chronically underfunded, and are becoming more dangerous.” Yikes.
Read MoreI have a confession to make, and it’s one that haunts me even during my waking hours: I am absolutely terrified of Paganis. They freak me out like not much else can. It’s not the price, it’s definitely not the power, and it’s not anything about the general functioning of the car. It’s those damn headlights.
Read MoreBy now everyone in the car world has at least a vague understanding that a turbocharger can efficiently boost power, using otherwise-wasted exhaust gas to force more air into an engine. But it’s still nice to get all of the technical piping and boost management devices mapped out, and it’s cool to see exactly how much power a junkyard turbo setup can make. That is, a lot.
Read MoreThe German auto industry’s still rankled by Volkswagen’s colossal, very purposeful screwup in the form of Dieselgate, and now the nation’s automakers are scrambling to deal with allegations of running a cartel to fix prices as far back as the 1990s. The Financial Times put together a helpful explainer on the situation, and revealed some eye-popping potential fines that VW and Friends could face.
Read MoreEverything’s bigger in Texas, including the Ford F-450 dually drift trucks. Wait, what?
Read MorePerhaps in a very focused effort to prove that not all Canadians are polite, 65-year-old David Fox brutally beat a 74-year-old cyclist with a wooden implement that appears to be a fish club, a small, heavy bat used to kill fish.
Read MoreI can sum up my ownership experience of a 2004 Launch Edition Volkswagen Phaeton W12 exactly the way my friends describe their boats: my two best days were the day I bought it and the day I sold it. That said, the experience was bittersweet, mostly because I had a pretty good handle on the backstory of the car.
Read MoreThe other weekend I found myself at a car show put on by Magnus Walker, with row after row of pristine Porsche 911s, all with engine bays so clean you could eat off of them. It is with those 911s in mind that I ask, which one of you is going to buy this crapheap widebody Porsche 928 for $4,000?
Read MoreIt seems like everyone is buying crossovers, but you, fine Jalopnik readers, aren’t a faceless member of the CUV-hungry hordes. You are a hot-blooded human being. You want a wagon. Something that handles like a sedan, but with enough room to really let your friends stretch out. And if you shop carefully, you can score some big discounts off your favorite longroof.
Read MoreIt’s a question a child might ask, but not a childish question: why is it that only hatchbacks, wagons, and SUVs have wipers for their rear windows, when sedans with trunks almost never do? Like the old saying goes, the rain has no idea how you get luggage in your car. So why should one incredibly common type of car frequently get to enjoy a wiped rear window, while another incredibly common type be denied this benefit? It’s a confounding problem, and I think I may have gotten to the bottom of i
Read MoreThe next-generation Ford Fiesta may not be coming to the United States because you didn’t buy enough of them. Apparently, the seventh generation Fiesta will be developed for Europe, the Middle East and some African countries where it’s actually selling well—but not us. Buy a Ford Fiesta ST while you still can?
Read MoreIt’s been awhile since we’ve done one of these posts about your Cars And Coffee adventures, so let’s do one! Share stuff from your Cars And Coffee, Crapcans and Cappuccinos or whatever meet you’ve gone to recently—we just want to see some cars.
Read MoreThe man in question was Lamborghini’s test driver for 40 years. The car in question is a lovely maroon 1986 Lamborghini Countach QV, built for former Lamborghini CEO Patrick Mimran.
Read MoreAs we recently found out, the 840 HP Dodge Demon lives up to all the hype. Despite Dodge’s best efforts to encourage dealers to sell at MSRP, some dealers are turning to auctions to get top dollar without sacrificing their order timing.
Read MoreA 79-year-old woman in Belgium was ticketed after a speed trap caught her going over 147 mph around midnight in a Porsche Boxster GTS. Her reasoning in court was that she went for a drive because she “could not sleep.”
Read MoreIn news that makes perfect sense, Bugatti CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer has pretty much already confirmed that the next record-setting Bugatti hypercar will have to go hybrid.
Read MoreWell, this would be nutty. German car companies have allegedly been working together in “secret working groups” on suppliers and costs in what may be one of “the biggest cartel cases” in German history, according to news magazine Der Spiegel.
Read MoreA slew of recent news related to airline and rideshare companies tapping into biometric identification—like fingerprints, faces, other unique body parts—seems like it just means an easier way to board your flight. But beyond the surface, giving corporations and the government this much access to sensitive data poses a major privacy threat.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the very first production Model 3 on his personal Twitter two weeks ago, and since then we haven’t heard very much about it. Tesla is probably holding out for it’s big delivery event this upcoming week, but a Tesla fan has already managed to get a close up video of the car.
Read MoreWhen your dad reaches out to one of the biggest cities in Canada and describes you as ‘doofy,’ a few things are pretty certain: you fucked up pretty badly, you have a good dad, and the people of Canada are going to do all they can to help. Because that’s just who Canadians are. If you don’t believe me, ask Gavin Strickland, the affable doofus and Metallica fan that lost his car in Toronto.
Read MoreCadillac president Johan de Nysschen debunked rumors about the luxury CT6 sedan being on the chopping block earlier, and said the company is actually reconfiguring its sedan lineup. But it’s the crossovers that are taking over the car market, and de Nysschen said Cadillac has plans for that.
Read MoreWhen Reuters reported Thursday that six General Motors vehicles, including the new, technology-flagship Cadillac CT6, could get axed due to a U.S. sales slump, it came as a surprise to us at Jalopnik. When we asked Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen about it, he said, “That report came as a surprise to me, too.”
Read MoreIn the U.S., diesel engines are often only associated with huge work trucks, whereas elsewhere around the globe, you’ll find the technology in tiny city cars. That might make you wonder: how different are these engine types, anyhow? Here’s Car Throttle with a little refresher to help you out.
Read MoreIt’s a Friday afternoon right and it’s hot as hell out. We’re taking it easy, just like you, and once again we’re blatantly stealing this idea from Deadspin. Come chill.
Read MoreVision is a tremendous help when piloting a car, which is why so many cars employ that big window right above the steering wheel. Our readers not held captive in subterranean research labs with 24/7 fluorescent lighting can tell you that night really restricts vision, and we normally remedy this with headlights. But what if you can’t run your lights, and it’s pitch black out? Can you still drive? The answer is yes, if you have money. Or an army.
Read MoreIn case you ever doubted the greatness of these United States of America, all you need to do is look at one of America’s rowdiest creations holding its own on an autocross course. I’m talking, of course, about the noble Dodge Ram dually pickup truck.
Read MoreThanks to a big sales slump in the U.S., General Motors has a lot of unsold cars sitting around. The slump is extending factory shutdowns, putting jobs at risk, and, now, it’s threatening to take away the car that’s taking Cadillac back to the roots that we all longed for—the new CT6, which is supposed to be a shining light into Cadillac’s future.
Read MoreOf all of the automakers for the ultra rich, Ferrari has to be the weirdest. Not only do potential customers have to win the company’s favor before they even buy a new car—and they’re then “ranked” by Ferrari to decide who can buy what—but the manufacturer usually won’t sell cars to its own employees.
Read MoreIf there’s one car that really, truly got me into cars, it has to be the Porsche 911. I have seen many very good Porsche 911s in my lifetime, but Leh Keen’s off-road-ready Safari 6 911 may just be the best 911 I’ve ever seen. Everything about this build is absolute perfection.
Read MoreI don’t know quite why but I’ve found myself missing my father’s old C5 Corvette Z06 this week. And high-strung naturally aspirated V8 engines in general.
Read MoreAre you excited for a new Honda S2000? Well don’t be, because who knows when or even if that will actually ever happen. Another patent showing off a weird, expensive-looking mid-engine Honda has come up, though, so who knows what this could be.
Read MoreU.S. legislators are in the midst of approving landmark driverless car legislation that would make putting semi-autonomous and autonomous test cars on public roads a whole lot easier. But from an ethics perspective, these rules may be too lax—leading to lawsuits, injury and potentially scaling back innovation.
Read MoreCars won’t just be driving themselves one day—they’ll be communicating things like traffic conditions and the weather with everything else around them. Connected cars will be masses of sensors and outpouring radio signals, but if carmakers aren’t careful, this data sharing will open itself up to hacks and cyber threats detrimental to your personal safety.
Read MoreMeet one of the most insane diesel truck builds we’ve ever seen: Old Smokey F1. In its tastefully patina’d 1949 Ford engine bay lies a beautifully built twin-turbo diesel engine good for 1,233 horsepower at the wheels and 2,000 ft-lbs of torque. Holy crap, that’s a lot of tire-killing insanity.
Read MoreEx-Vine star and sentient dab Jake Paul is, without a doubt, the worst person in the universe, regurgitating played out memes and destroying things in the name of “random.” Unfortunately, one of the victims on his tour of dumb was an E30-generation BMW 325i and we cannot in good faith let that slide.
Read MoreElon Musk awoke on Thursday with the intention of sending Twitter into a frenzy by declaring that he received “verbal govt approval” to build a Hyperloop in the densest part of the United States, between New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. This is dumb, it’s not how things work, and requires, uh, actual government approval. We reached out to the, uh, actual government to see if this is legit.
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo Giulia is heralding the Italian brand’s comeback to America by embracing its heritage: providing an amazing driving experience while managing to have failures on a regular basis. Owners are reporting a multitude of issues online, and it seems like every car that gets sent to a journalist has some type of failure that requires a trip back to Michigan.
Read MoreLotus, the hero of our story barely clinging to a branch over the edge of a tall waterfall, just announced a new (?) car, the Lotus Evora GT430. It’s like the Lotus Evora that debuted in 2009, only this one is not from 2009, it’s a real car made by the still-running car company that is not dead it would like to remind you, Lotus.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, Florida resident Jorge Jove clearly couldn’t stomach the sight of an AT&T work truck parked out front of his house. Naturally, police say, he retrieved a revolver and started shooting out the tires and engine.
Read MoreAs the New York City subway system hurdles toward complete destruction, state leaders are cooking up some creative solutions. You see, allocating emergency relief toward the trains would be too easy.
Read MoreI don’t know why the Lamborghini Diablo had any kind of advertising. The car sells itself. It has the doors. It has the sound. It has the looks. It has a V12 large enough to crush a small home. And yet, advertise it Lamborghini did.
Read MoreLast week, the state of Louisiana fined Elio Motors $545,000, saying the company is operating as a “manufacturer” and therefore should have a license to accept non-refundable deposits for its proposed three-wheeled ride. That’s not great.
Read MoreWhen people talk about Mazda’s 13B twin-rotor Wankel engine, they tend to imagine lowered, twin-turbocharged FD RX-7s with giant wings and huge front splitters. But that 13B engine doesn’t get nearly enough credit for powering what has to be the greatest little bus of all time: the Parkway Rotary 26.
Read MoreThe 2018 Dodge Challenger Demon is an 840-horsepower purpose-built drag racing car that somebody snuck license plates on. But there’s a lot more to this machine than an enormous engine, and the whole package creates one of the most exciting and terrifying ten-second rides you can take.
Read MoreEvery potential bride needs a good inspection, just like a used car—at least, that’s what Audi says with this commercial for China. Branding, folks. Here’s what not to do.
Read MoreIt’s impossible not to love a good onboard video, and Setra Motorsport’s supercharged 2001 E46 BMW M3 will blast your eardrums with pure awesomeness. Let’s ride along with it on the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife, where it laid down a ridiculously quick 7:16.927 lap time.
Read MoreThe last time Buick launched a Regal GS, the brand wowed us all by offering a six-speed manual transmission. Now, for 2018, that option is gone, but there’s more power, more gears, a design that doesn’t look like a fancied-up Malibu, and most importantly a hatchback.
Read MoreI’ll just say up front that I know what I’m feeling here isn’t necessarily rational or reasonable, but I can’t deny what I feel, especially when it comes to vans. In fact, I probably have my most visceral emotions of any kind when it comes to vans, which may be why my reaction to the Nissan NV1500, 2500, and 3500 vans is so intense. They’re just wrong, and I can no longer stay quiet about it.
Read MoreFerrari swore it would never build an SUV, but in the automotive market, that’s a ridiculous problem to make for itself. So Ferrari’s solution is to make an SUV anyway and just not call it one—like any rational, mature automaker would do.
Read MoreI see you. Actually, I can smell you. You smell nice. You’re wearing a little bit of cologne today. It’s not a special day. It’s just a day, and you’re wearing a dash of something nice. Why? Because you understand the importance of quality even in the day to day. You understand luxury. You understand the Infiniti Q45.
Read MoreIt’s been hit after hit for the new Buick Regal. Not only did General Motors get it to look decent and throw in a hatchback, they even managed to get it to us in wagon form. Well, close enough, at least, with the faux-crossover TourX. Now we’ve got what’s probably a preview of the new Regal GS, and yeah, it’s still good.
Read MoreAt an airport, it’s not unusual for rental car companies to leave keys in their fleet of cars. People want to rent a car, scoop it, and go. Anywhere else, though, eh, well? In Chicago, this is an issue, according to the Chicago Tribune. Police in the city say the practice of leaving keys in the car has become a “widespread problem” for dealers.
Read MoreThe New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has gotten more than its share of bad press recently, and here’s more, in bus form. A lawyer alleges the state agency is purposefully covering up bus collisions by sending in “mobile crash squads” that don’t investigate wrecks, but rather conceal evidence.
Read MoreThis past Sunday afternoon, the North Carolina Highway Patrol stopped an alleged street race involving ten BMWs, impounding five of the cars. Troopers allege that five of the cars were slowing down and blocking surrounding traffic while the other five raced at speeds approaching 100 mph.
Read MoreHere’s some people Uber treats badly:
Read MoreThe 2017 Chevrolet Bolt was supposed to be the electric car of the people—around $30,000, about 240 miles of range per charge and decent space in a little package. But nobody’s really feeling that, and the company has such a backlog of Bolts that it had to extend the summer shutdown of the car’s manufacturing plant.
Read MoreIf you ask automakers, the driverless car revolution is hurdling toward mass markets. But the artificial intelligence autonomous vehicles use remains flawed, tripped up simply by large animals, bicyclists and, now, slightly altered road signs.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we are, for the most part, big fans of the Mazda Miata. (You may have heard about this once or twice before.) The current ND generation roadster is arguably the closest evolution of the original NA Miata yet, and you may be surprised to find new and lightly used examples cheaper than you expected.
Read MoreI realize now that the Volkswagen I bought under an oak tree in Sacramento has been here to New York City for a few months now and I haven’t written anything about it. Let me tell you, it is an incomparable joy.
Read MoreRotary engines: for years, it has been prophesied that they will return to deliver salvation to the faithful. One day, it is said, they will be back. Any day now. For real! And we totally believe it. The latest round of rumors out of Japan promise us a new 450 horsepower Mazda rotary coupe by 2019.
Read MoreJames Glickenhaus is fun because instead of just collecting cool old road-legal race cars, he decided to start making some of his own. Now he’s gone from a Miles Davis-rescuing movie producer to an official government-approved manufacturer, and he just priced his Nordschleife-conquering SCG003 at a cool $2 million.
Read MoreTimes have changed in the world of electric vehicles. Tesla’s not the sole standard bearer for EVs anymore. Volvo recently announced each car will be either gas or diesel hybrids or fully electric after 2019. More affordable EVs have begun hitting the market. More than a third of all cars could be electric by 2040. With every carmaker vying for a seat at the EV table, demand for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that go into electric cars is soaring. But whether supply of raw materials that mak
Read MoreTo know if a car is truly and honestly Meh, you have to very carefully gauge your reaction to thinking about the car in question. Specifically, if you have any reaction at all, the car is not a Meh car. A Meh car is an inert, noble gas, like argon, something that accomplishes its fundamental job while affecting almost nothing around it. The third-gen Hyundai XG350 is, in this sense, a truly noble gas.
Read MoreHey VWVortex forum dude, you’ll be happy to know that the automaker is a big fan of your sick slammed Jetta with faux BBS wheels, rolled fenders and fart-can exhaust. But don’t be too happy, because VW is not that big of a fan. It’s only sort of a fan. Like, in the way Detroiters are fans of the Lions—they’ll ditch them as soon as shit goes down.
Read MoreI know I’m getting older because the 2018 Subaru Crosstrek is finally starting to make sense to me. Listen, if you need a small, pragmatic, cheap car with all-weather capability, and don’t require WRX or WRX STI speed, it’s probably a great buy. But for those of us who like the idea of the Crosstrek and would miss all that turbo power, I ask: why can’t we get both?
Read MoreOne of the great things about Maryland Public Television’s Motorweek is that it puts even the least sporty cars through their paces, meaning we get to watch a bunch of shitty Chrysler K Cars try to stop from 55 mph, big AMC SUVs try to make it around a slalom, and old French cars designed in the 1930s try to get from zero to 60 mph. It’s automotive torture, and yet it’s hard not to watch.
Read MoreI’m pretty excited about the movie adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel-length love letter to video games, ‘80s tech and pop culture, Ready Player One. The novel is set in a future where life is essentially divided into two spheres: a utopian online virtual world, and a shitty, grimy dystopian reality. Shooting has started in Birmingham, England, and we got a first glimpse at some of the ramshackle cars of a crappy future.
Read MoreLet’s just be clear here that everyone involved in this incident is awful, with the exception of that dog. It’s not clear what predicated this messy, embarrassing, idiotic and ultimately cruel display of road rage in Montclair, NJ, but it ended with a dog being flung out of a car and possibly injured.
Read MoreWhatever your opinions may be about the residents of the White House, I think we can all agree that we want to play with this life-sized set of Matchbox toys that appear to be parked in presidential driveway today.
Read MoreThis mud hole was far deeper than this Arctic Cat Wildcat Sport UTV rider expected.
Read MoreSomehow I’m not surprised that New York ranked dead last on a new survey of America’s “most courteous drivers.”
Read MoreIt’s unusual to hear about a rash of thefts involving Tesla vehicles—they’re not Hondas after all—but a group of thieves in the Netherlands have managed to steal nearly a dozen of the luxury cars, according to Electrek, and no one’s sure why just yet.
Read MoreThink you know what a crowded subway platform looks like? Think again.
Read MoreCongratulations, Mexican smugglers! You finally found a way to make the Ford Fusion interesting, albeit in the most illegal way ever. Marijuana worth $1 million was discovered in the trunks of new Mexican-made Fusion sedans at a dealership in Ohio, reports CNN. This isn’t the first time this has happened, either.
Read MoreVaughn Gittin Jr.’s Mustang is an oddity in professional drifting; his RTR team sets his car up like a dirt track car, though he runs in Formula Drift. It’s called weight jacking and it produces what you see here. The car basically wants to lift a front wheel. Then it wants to wheelie.
Read MoreWhatever you thought was a shit way to end your week, it probably wasn’t nearly this bad. On Sunday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis resident Bruce Redding returned home from the gym—which he went to, on a Sunday!–to find an SUV lodged into his roof, leaving much of his home in shambles.
Read MoreTesla’s Autopilot is being blamed once again for causing a car crash. This time the driver claims that the vehicle suddenly accelerated in Autopilot mode, causing the car to go off the road and roll over into a marsh.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the very first production car of the new Model 3, on time and on Twitter a week ago. We got two pictures of the exterior of the car and... that was it.
Read MoreIf you ever come across an ultra rare, beautifully insane Ferrari FXX K, you might come away finding the experience electrifying. If you’re not paying attention and go to touch the car, the experience might actually be electrifying.
Read MoreHave you see the new Honda Civic Type R? The amount of fake, solid, cross-hatched plastic doubling for air intakes (and outtakes?) on that thing is horrendous and ungainly. There’s a better way to do it.
Read MorePour one out for the red Lamborghini Countach that burnt to a crisp this past Thursday in San Francisco. Try as they might, firefighters weren’t able to put out the flames until it was too late. The death knell rings a somber echoing bellow.
Read MoreAs somebody that frequently suffers from friends and family that granny shift their manual cars for “fuel economy” or whatever, I’ve come to really appreciate riding the gears and revving until the engine is screaming at me.
Read MoreAn auto-dimming mirror may not sound like the most exciting car part, but call it by another name—electrochromic mirror—and you begin to suspect that there’s actually a bit of nerdiness behind that flat reflective surface. And indeed, there is.
Read MoreWe all know some Honda dealers are taking full advantage of the Civic Type R mania and charging insane markups for the hot hatch. Now it seems some stores are under the impression that Honda fans are willing to pay over sticker for the 205 hp Civic Si.
Read MoreThe family of Nino Welcome, a seven-year-old boy with Lesch–Nyhan syndrome, awoke just after 3 a.m. to neighbors alerting them that their son’s cherished 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 was engulfed in flames.
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but when I see a lawn and some really expensive cars parked on it, my first instinct is to hoon my Mercedes CLK GTR. You get me, right?
Read MoreThe 1970s ‘Kenmeri’ Nissan Skyline holds a very dear place in my heart, nestled in between the first tree I ever had a crush on and the time [REDACTED] while the music played in the art studio. Here is one with a Mazda 13B rotary swap. Its sound brings me great joy.
Read MoreHere’s one positive blip on the radar for Faraday: The all-electric Formula E racing series heads this weekend to New York City, and ahead of the event, it wasn’t clear if Faraday Future’s money problems would impact the Dragon Racing Team. According to Faraday and the boss of the Formula E team though, that’s not the case.
Read MoreA man in Des Moines, Washington allegedly lured in potential buyers with a Craigslist ad for a 2003 Toyota Echo, got them to pay cash, and then left them out in the cold empty handed. Luckily, according to King5 News, police staged a sting operation to take the him down; it didn’t end so well for the Echo. Or him.
Read MoreGoddammit, do you see this bullshit? Do you see it? Are your eyes perceiving it? Fuck this unscathed triangle of rainwater.
Read MoreFormula One cars may be the pinnacle of motorsport, but thank goodness, their drivers capable of hooning it up like a Camaro kid with an empty parking lot all to himself when given the chance. This week’s F1 Live show ahead of the British Grand Prix was that chance, and it was glorious.
Read MoreJonathan Corbett from New York loves his Subaru WRX STI. But he loves his daughter more. In what comes off at first as a typical Craigslist ad, he closes by mentioning the car for sale is to raise money for stem cell therapy that he hopes will help heal his 5-year-old daughter’s brain, which suffered damage during birth.
Read MoreListen: the coupe market isn’t what it used to be. Hell, the sedan market isn’t even what it used to be. If the four-doors can’t stop getting creamed by the crossovers and SUVs, what hope do the two-door cars have? The latest victim of this: the Honda Accord Coupe.
Read MoreThis is my first time in the big city, NYC, and I’ve learned a lot about actually using public transit over the past few days. But just as I was getting better at it, I saw this video of a large accordion bus casually splitting in half. Everything is fine, really.
Read MoreThis is new. Beachgoers in South County, California, soaked up more than sunshine and sand on Wednesday, when a man led police on a wild car chase across a number of beaches along the Pacific Ocean. And then, police say, he ended the scenic chase by running into the water.
Read MoreHot off the news that Polestar would be spinning off into its own performance brand free of the Volvo badge, Autocar reports that we might be getting a Polestar coupe debuting later this year. Close your eyes and enjoy this moment of fleeting hope before reality sets in.
Read MoreAustin Police Sgt. Zachary LaHood told CBS News he’s “lucky to be alive” after experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning from a leak in his Ford Explorer. Six other Austin police officers have also been treated for carbon monoxide exposure in the last week, so the department has taken 37 of its Ford Explorer Police Interceptors out of service.
Read MoreThe Federal Communications Commission just quintupled the allocation of the radio spectrum for motor vehicle use, a move paving the way for advanced, self-driving car innovation, Reuters reported. But what do driverless cars have to do with radio frequencies? A lot, it turns out.
Read MoreUhhhhhhhhhhhhh ... what. is. THAT. Why are these cars covered in slime? Eels, reportedly? Why are the eels ... there?
Read MoreSince summer is hot, just like your brakes while trying to stop a Mustang from fast approaching the nearest curb, there’s now an ice cream to match the color of the car. But it isn’t just cool looking. It has a very practical function: allowing you to tell everyone that, yes, you did eat something other than a wall today.
Read MoreI’m close to accepting the crossover takeover. I’m close. Like with the revival in high-waisted pants, I’ve accepted that I have no control over the matter. But damn do cars like the 2017 Jaguar E-Pace make it hard.
Read MoreGet on Craiglist right now. Click the word “post” at the top right of the screen. Then choose “for sale by owner” followed by “general for sale - by owner.” Put your cursor in the title box and type “LITERALLY EVERYTHING I OWN” in all caps, and get ready for the cash—which you’ll need to buy this amazing 1990 Renault Alpine— to come pouring in.
Read MoreWho doesn’t love to start their day by waking up, drinking a fresh cup of coffee, and looking outside to find their vehicle completely covered in bird shit. Like the vehicle you see above. It’s drenched. Yuck.
Read MoreA Michigan lobbyist is trying to prevent the release of his emails that pertain to the state’s anti-Tesla law, passed in 2014 by purported free-market capitalists who, coincidentally, received a significant chunk of campaign money from the auto dealers who supported the legislation. The lobbyist says he has already been on the receiving end of some colorful hate mail—“you’re lazy, incompetent, self-serving pieces of shit”—and he’s trying to stop the release of any additional communications, sayi
Read MoreLast night, the Autobahn Indoor Speedway in West Nyack saw a karting smackdown of epic proportions. Readers went toe-to-toe against Jalopnik writers and Formula E race car drivers. It was nuts, and we can’t thank you all enough for coming out to be a part of the noise.
Read MoreBONG BONG BONG. The dashboard had lit up like a Christmas tree. Power was gone. The whole car started shuddering. We were in a 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia with just barely 1,709 miles on the odometer, and it was already breaking down.
Read MoreAt some point, installing sturdier railing might be a good idea for Austin’s Littlefield Parking Garage. The same garage we live-streamed less than a year ago as a car was dangling from its side just had a BMW fall from its seventh floor, reports the Austin American-Statesman. The driver was taken to a local hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries from the fall.
Read MoreTourists flock to Princess Juliana International Airport on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten to catch a glimpse of jets nearly skimming the beach on their ultra-low takeoffs and landings. Numerous signs warn the tourists not to get too close, lest they get blown to their deaths by the landing jet’s air blasts. Guess what happened yesterday?
Read MoreHyundai has built tons of hatches over the years, but not many that really count as true “hot hatches.” Now, finally, the company is building a powerful hatchback called i30 N, and we should all be excited. Except those of us in the U.S., because we may not be getting it.
Read MoreDespite very little suggestion that Tesla is anywhere near developing a second generation Tesla Roadster anytime soon, a new feature on Tesla’s owner’s app proves the company will one day be willing to hand the new Roadster out for free, but there’s a really big catch.
Read MoreA high school teenager was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky for recruiting a gang of juveniles reportedly responsible for the theft of at least 23 cars, according to WHAS11. Pretty sure we’ve found a real life Baby Driver here, except he’s not nearly as fun.
Read MoreHave you ever seen one of those adorable videos where, like, a baby goat is raised by dogs and starts to act like a dog. I think Honda is having that same issue with its new HondaJet.
Read MoreHello, out there. Do you like having things such as money, stability, or all of your limbs attached to your body? This car is not for you.
Read MoreIt’s happened again. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s annual ‘Hot Wheels’ report, the 1997 Accord was the most stolen car in 2016, making a 90s Honda the most stolen vehicle in America four years in a row. What is it about these simple sedans that make them irresistible to less savory types?
Read MoreWhat makes the Subaru WRX so magical? Is it symmetrical all-wheel drive? Turbocharging? The flat-brimmed hat that is required to operate one? All of those things are true, but one of the most unique things about this sport sedan is its special heart: the horizontally opposed “boxer” four-cylinder engine. Let’s learn how it works!
Read MoreVenezuela’s economy has been rankled by a years-long, sky-high unemployment which appeared to claim as a victim a General Motors plant that hadn’t produced a car since 2015. Workers at the factory, about 2,700 in total, were allegedly laid-off by text message. But Reuters dug in and discovered there’s more to the GM saga—and, ho boy, is it an interesting tale.
Read MoreThe W211-generation Mercedes E55 is one of those cars you’d like to be chauffeured in. It’s a big behemoth of a comfortable automatic sedan. It’s not a car you usually associate with sweet dorifto action. So, drift it anyway! I’ve never heard tires scream in terror quite like this before.
Read MoreManhattan sunlight streamed in through the blinds, lighting up the small flecks of glitter still dancing in the air from the night before. Someone was knocking at the door. Tap tap tap.
Read MoreFor the past few years, Genesis has been Hyundai’s venture into luxury sedans. The company slapped a new logo on the car, attempting to put it on the same level as the Lexuses of the world. But while Lexuses are selling by the thousands in the U.K., Hyundai’s killing the car off after only selling 50 since 2015.
Read MoreYou see that? The flattened, levitating vehicle of sorts, flying down a tube. That’s the future, folks, operated by Hyperloop One, which announced on Wednesday that it had completed the first full systems Hyperloop test.
Read MoreHello. This is the Aston Martin Valkyrie. It doesn’t have doors. It has a circular hatch, and I have no idea what anyone’s supposed to do with it.
Read MoreAt this current juncture in history, Americans cannot get enough of the large SUVs. They have become more precious to us than food, or air, or the well-being of our pets and children. There is one glaring exception to this trend: the Volkswagen Touareg, which is too small and too expensive to be a real competitor. And so it is dead in America.
Read MoreSometimes this sad, sad world doesn’t give us the cars we really want. And while most people just sit there and cry to the unjust car gods, one man decided to break out the welder and become a car god himself.
Read MoreAston Martin has updated its insane V12 Valkyrie hypercar design with some new interior details and some body modification to make it even more aerodynamically efficient while adding even more downforce, and apparently the company isn’t even finished making changes.
Read MoreFormer CEO of Anheuser-Busch August Adolphus Busch IV was arrested earlier today after attempting to take off in a helicopter from a public parking lot in Swansea, Illinois and failing a field sobriety test. I wonder what cheat code he used to spawn that in?
Read MoreMany words are written about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and how there are lots of crazy rally cars and trucks and whatnot flying up a hill. But I just want to appreciate this 1927 Bugatti Type 35B, which was absolutely flogged around the track like it should be.
Read MoreHe’s all over YouTube: the bro with a handheld camera and a “crew” who makes a channel where he ogles supercars, including the ones he inexplicably owns, and then racks up the views and the followers to a pumping soundtrack of bad electronic music. How can you follow in his footsteps?
Read MoreThe new Honda Odyssey comes equipped with a tech-forward feature that lets parents spy on their kids—in night vision, too! I guess that would’ve been a handy asset for early buyers, because the minivan’s entertainment system literally offered a range of porn, including titles like “Gladiator Eroticus,” “Kinky Kong,” and “Lord of the G-Strings.” Woops.
Read MoreHonda just confirmed that in June of 2016, someone died while fixing a 2001 Honda Accord after a faulty Takata airbag went off. The company says it’s the 11th confirmed death in the U.S. associated with Takata’s defective inflators. It’s also a reminder that working near airbags—particularly those known to violently explode if they’ve been exposed to humidity—is incredibly dangerous.
Read MoreOn Friday night, something bizarre and very nearly catastrophic happened: an Air Canada flight, descending into San Francisco International Airport, tried to land on the taxiway instead of on the runway, where four other fully loaded planes sat.
Read MoreHere’s a teaser photo of the upcoming Apollo IE (pronounced, I think, as “eye-ee” and not “ee”). It will apparently have tons of carbon fiber, which we all know makes a car Very Fast! Consider me teased, tickled and thoughtful.
Read MoreYou know how a small dog reacts upon getting let off of its leash near a body of water? How the dog will do that excited little run-hop thing before leaping just slightly in the air and landing on its belly? Well, a Toyota Supra did that recently—except it landed in a ditch instead of a body of water. That’s not as fun.
Read MoreHave you ever felt the need to add some pizzazz to your car on its way to wreck out of Cars and Coffee, even if that style will get all bent up sooner or later? Do you ever wish your Mustang had that little extra style element to denote that it is, in fact, the crash missile in the group? Then the updated Pony Package is for you!
Read MoreThe New York Metro Transit Authority sent millions to three upstate ski resorts last year instead of allocating that money to repair a subway on the verge of collapse. Because, priorities.
Read MoreHey, where will you be Wednesday night? If you live in the New York area and the answer isn’t “karting with Jalopnik and Jaguar at Autobahn Indoor Speedway”, we can’t be friends anymore! I’m about to give you even more reason to come. RSVP here!
Read MoreNew York City commuters lost pay, missed doctors appointments and even got fired due to subway delays, a new survey finds.
Read MoreRemember over the weekend when you heard the deafening squelching sounds of thousands of eyeballs being rolled at once? That was thanks to this vlogger, who was getting rid of his Tesla Model S because the rear tires were completely bald. Well, good news! He’s now got a Tesla Model X!
Read MoreOur pals over at Top Gear got first dibs on a teaser picture of TVR’s upcoming V8, carbon-fiber chassi’d, 0-60 in under 4 seconds sports car. I think it looks pretty good, and feels like a modern TVR.
Read MoreThe world of Game of Thrones is very nearly unfathomably huge, so it makes sense that everyone drives cars there. But what cars do they drive?
Read MoreLate last week, a number of rulings came down in the case between Uber and Google’s self-driving car subsidiary Waymo, which accuses the ride-hailing giant of stealing a number of trade secrets. Among the orders, Waymo has to disclose details of a deal it struck with Lyft, Uber’s main competitor, to work on self-driving cars. In the high-stakes race to build and bring autonomous vehicles into the mainstream, the decision is an obvious sore spot for Lyft, as it doesn’t want any information that c
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger Demon basked in wall-to-wall coverage over what seemed like a 10-year tease-out as the crazies behind the Challenger Hellcat promised us, well, the same car. But more. Now we know the Demon is a 840-horsepower street-legal drag strip weapon, and more importantly, I finally get to drive it this week.
Read MoreIf Nürburgring lap times are a thing you care about, then the 2018 Lamborghini Huracán Performante is something that matters. At the very least, this is notable because it means a fairly conventional 631 horsepower exotic was able to beat the million-dollar hybrid monster that is the Porsche 918 Spyder, and fast enough to start conspiracy theories that the time was faked.
Read MoreNew Yorkers: if you commute through Penn Station, get ready for eight weeks of extensive train delays, cancellations and rerouting starting today.
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo Giulia is a sexy and fast sports sedan that has been off to a bit of a rough start in the U.S. Given Alfa’s history of unreliab—er, quirky cars, the only way many of you would consider one is going the lease route. For less than $300, that Giulia might now be pretty tempting.
Read MoreYou’ll excuse me for assuming that billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk would just inherently be getting the very first production Model 3, well, because he’s the CEO, but that wasn’t the case. Somebody else reserved it and decided to gift it to him.
Read MoreAfter teasing his Twitter followers earlier this evening, Tesla CEO Elon Musk delivered the first look at what he says is the first production model of the the Tesla Model 3.
Read MoreThe all-new Kia Stinger GT is shaping up to be a serious contender as a legit sports sedan. The Stinger will have similar power and style like the Audi S5 Sportback but come in at a much lower price. By the looks of this video, it seems like the Kia would be more fun too.
Read MoreScanned images from an alleged catalog for the upcoming 2018 Ford Mustang refresh have been leaked, and among the updated factory-installed options are many new looks which mostly just include graphic stripes.
Read MoreConcepts, renders and spy shots of the fabled 2018 Toyota Supra get us more excited than ants drowning in Mountain Dew. But this picture, of a test pilot taking what is almost certainly a new Supra prototype toward the beautiful Pacific Coast Highway, is enough to make anyone jealous.
Read MoreI’m honestly baffled here. Can this guy really be this much of a dummy? It’s certainly possible he’s not, and just doing something insipid because he knows it’ll get views; if that’s the case, mission accomplished. I do have to admit, he sells the idiot angle very well in this video, so, props donated to him for really committing.
Read MoreThe “Cuyama Historical Car Garden” isn’t exactly a junk yard, but it’s got to be the biggest tract of land littered with cars that anyone’s ever called “art.”
Read MoreOn this day of our Dodge 7/07, we gather here today to celebrate all 707 horsepower of the mighty Hellcat engine along with its V10 friend in the Viper. Let us turn to the book of Toby, verse Keith: “This burnout shall be brought to you courtesy of the red, white and blue.” Amen.
Read MoreThe 2017 Kia Soul is a compact family car before it’s anything else. But with 201 horsepower, a legit dual-clutch seven-speed transmission and red accents all over it, the Turbo “!” trim sneakily tries to say it’s sport compact car. So we let it stretch its stubby legs in the California canyons to see how it’d hang.
Read MoreNow that i think about it, I’m not sure I fully understand the premise of 1980's hit television sensation, Turbo Teen. Like, I accept the premise that he was both a car and a Cool Teen. That I’m fine with. But was there anything he could do as turbo teen that he could not do previously as just… a teen with a car?
Read MoreOh, Alfa. You’re like some beautiful and brilliant but wildly self-destructive friend who can’t seem to ever let themselves succeed. They ace a job interview, and then show up for the first day of work drunk and with taquito vomit down their shirt. That’s sort of how I feel about the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio after seeing this video from PistonHeads.com.
Read MoreIf you didn’t already know, the highlight of the Goodwood Festival of Speed is to watch professional drivers drive as quickly as they can from the bottom of the hill to the top of the hill. Behind the wheel—the right-hand wheel, mind you—of a Subaru WRX STI, I did this myself and managed to not kill myself or anybody else. Success!
Read MoreLast week hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Chichester, England, to attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Judging by the sheer size of the crowds and how many acres the Festival spans alone, setting up and breaking down everything must be a logistical nightmare. This year, however, Festival employees discovered something extra left behind on the estate when the crowds finally dispersed on Sunday.
Read MoreNew York’s subway was a modern marvel 100 years ago, but these days it has become a disgusting choose-your-own-adventure of unfortunate experiences. Today’s chapter includes an downpour of rank city water on to hapless riders waiting for a train near Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District.
Read MoreYou should never, ever, ever drink and drive. But has anyone ever thought of giving the car a drink and then driving it? These clever, thinkin’ men in Scotland sure did.
Read MoreToyota’s relocation of its US headquarters to Plano, Texas, is a move three years in the making, driven in part by former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s decision to shower the automaker with $40 million in public funds. This week, the new digs officially opened—and it turns out Toyota lost 25 percent of its American workforce in the process. Who’d of thought.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of LeMons shitbox racing series is, arguably, one of the three pillars of modern society, along with the Kiwanis Club and our nation’s easy and ready access to taquitos. One of the icons of LeMons is a mysterious figure named Speedycop who always manages to build some genuinely insane cars. The Speedycop team has a new car ready for the next race, and it looks nice and nuts.
Read MoreA female Uber driver accused an Oklahoma Republican state senator of forcefully grabbing and kissing her as she was dropping him off at a hotel last month, BuzzFeed News reports.
Read MoreEvery so often there comes a rumor that Ferrari is building some sort of crossover/SUV thing, and the inevitable response is something about Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne’s dead body. It’s another day on Planet Earth.
Read MoreTwo people are driving along a road in Alaska. La de da. Hm, look up ahead. It’s a bear. Daw, cool. Let’s stop and stare at it, they say. No thanks, the beautiful bear responds, I’m gonna run straight at you. Ha ha.
Read MoreThe Audi R8 e-tron has been haunting the halls of Audi for nearly a decade, and now the company’s new development boss is talking like we’re about to get a third attempt at an electric Audi supercar.
Read MoreAs per usual, National Geographic has a baby animal story that’s an emotional roller coaster, this time involving a baby wildebeest that started chasing a blue Hyundai Tucson after it was separated from its herd in Africa. Somewhere, a Disney writer is taking notes.
Read MoreCapitalism, a bankrupt economic ideology which rests on the notion that the outright theft of the product of others’ labor is morally right and just, has produced a car company called Porsche, which makes cars primarily for those who benefit most from that ideology. Twelve of those cars were burned last night.
Read MoreDo you remember Charles Williams? To us, he seemed like the ideal neighbor: he had his own garage, complete with lifts, and was always happy and willing to help out a friend work on their cars. Unfortunately, Charles’ own neighbors were the worst neighbors this side of a manure incinerator, and spent countless hours and dollars trying to make him stop. Well, I’m happy to say that Charles has finally, completely, won.
Read More“Suspension... but for boats” sounds like the sort of thing you’d imagine when under the influence of the devil’s lettuce. But one company is actually making boats that can absorb the punishment of an angry sea, and it looks like the idea might actually work.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin Valkyrie will be one of those über expensive race car toys that super rich people buy and then Instagram. You know the deal. You’re probably also familiar with the people who get in line to buy these kinds of cars first and then flip them for astronomically higher prices for profit. Aston Martin doesn’t want this to happen and has threatened to punish people who do with a kind of... non-punishment?
Read MoreNew York’s subway is hot garbage that’s getting hotter and garbagier by the day. So why don’t the people who oversee the system realize this? That is because those government employees, who are partially responsible for its impending breakdown, don’t actually ride it.
Read MoreThis morning, Tesla Daddy and the One True Starboy Elon Musk took to Twitter to express an Opinion, as he often does. This time, it was about the world’s population.
Read MoreThe engine in your car is much like you: quite fussy about what fluids go where. Just like you’d freak out if, say, your tear ducts became full of urine or blood, you average engine doesn’t want, say, washer fluid where oil should go. Which just happens to be what happened to this poor, now-disgusting Mini.
Read MoreThe Internet is a vastly strange and fascinating place. It’s a place for merchants, artists, philosophers, gods and, of course, women. It’s a place where a woman can learn to dress, to date, to pick viable life partners and, of course, to drive.
Read MoreWell you weren’t going to buy one, and neither was I nor anybody else at this point. The last time we wrote about the Hyundai Azera we boldly predicted it wouldn’t be forgettable. That was back in 2011.
Read MoreTerrafugia is that flying car company you read about every sixth months or so that continually disappoints you by remaining Just A Thing On The Internet, and not actually a thing in the real world. But now, in a strange turn of events, The South China Morning Post says Volvo’s parent company Geely has bought the flying car company. I have no clue why.
Read MoreClassic car sales website Hemmings has used its immense archives to show us all which classic cars are most popular in which state, and the results are hilarious. We American classic car buyers are basic as hell, there’s no way around it.
Read MoreNow, I can’t prove that Kim Jong-Un’s goal was to target me and Tesla when North Korea launched their new ICBM, but that’s exactly what happened. And I’m not fucking happy about it one bit.
Read MoreDiesel Volkswagens. For years we automotive writers lauded their fuel economy, their prodigious torque, and how they didn’t pump our air full of toxins. Turns out everyone was wrong on that last part! But now the diesel VWs have been fixed, allegedly, and you can own one. Should you? That’s what I just spent $22,500 to find out.
Read MoreI can’t think of a single modern car that uses pop-up headlights still, but that doesn’t mean the collective automotive lighting fetishistic community doesn’t long for them, every day. That’s why I’d like to take a moment to share with you the patent for pop-up headlights, filed for patent 83 years ago last month.
Read MoreVolkswagen is still working to repair its shattered public image following the revelations of its scandalous Dieselgate saga, but now internal auditors at the company have apparently uncovered a new, terrible thing: The automaker’s French division lied about sales figures for years in an effort to make its performance look better, according to Reuters.
Read MoreYou probably thought things were bad when Chevrolet’s oblivious marketing team decided the company’s awful “Real People. Not Actors.” ads wouldn’t be going away anytime soon. But the world has a funny way of making bad things worse, and now Mazda has started doing the same style of commercials.
Read MoreAt least one person was injured at an explosion at General Motors’ assembly plant in Hamtramck, Michigan earlier today.
Read MoreIndia’s roads are absurd. Let’s just get that out of the way now. Lanes aren’t really a thing, humans cling to trucks going 50 mph, motorcycles are for carrying families of six and roadkill works the other way around.
Read MoreIt’s pretty remarkable how context and nostalgia can make almost anything tolerable. I’m sure if you grew up with a parent slapping you with a dead sturgeon every night before you went to sleep, you’d be pretty okay with an occasional fish-slap today. That’s the only way I can explain the appeal of the Japanese-market Toyota AE86's “speed chime” to fans of the famous street-racing anime and manga, Initial D.
Read MoreBesides just sitting and looking pretty, here’s a practical reason for legendary race cars and sports cars alike to show up at the Goodwood Festival of Speed: there are a number of events and attractions to participate in. For anyone who is critical of the cars being locked away—un-driven, in a museum—this is the place where they can come out to stretch their legs.
Read MoreAir conditioning is one of those modern marvels most of us have grown used to by now—perhaps too used to. Believe it or not, people survived in the days before reliable, widely-available aircon, and you can, too. Here’s our guide on how to embrace the sweaty life without dying.
Read MoreSince 1993, England’s Goodwood Festival of Speed has celebrated all eras of cars and racing, usually during the days between June and July. It’s a wondrous and high-spirited event, with spectators sharing space with pit crew members and race car drivers alike. I just went to see it for myself and holy shit, it was indeed good.
Read MoreIf you need a vehicle for moving the family, the minivan is simply the superior tool. But if you think getting a minivan means dooming yourself to three rows of slow, uninspired driving, the current crop of vans could probably dust the sport compact you had as a teenager.
Read MoreBefore last month, it had been more than a year and a half since I’d been on an ultra-long road trip across Texas. But, as I said, I unfortunately broke that dry spell recently for a big event in another state. I spent seven hours in the car, which isn’t long at all in the realm of road trips, but it almost broke me.
Read MoreAmerica’s National Rifle Association has been getting a lot of attention thanks to strange and divisive recent promotional video that’s been generating a lot of controversy. After watching the video, I saw another similar one, where I was struck by one notable detail: the NRA seems to have no idea what kind of cars are in “bad neighborhoods.”
Read MoreLast year, the Tesla Model S P90D shot up the 12.4-mile, 156-turn Pikes Peak International Hill Climb course in well under 12 minutes and set the record for the fastest “production” electric vehicle on the course. But this year, the long-doubted Faraday Future destroyed its time by more than 23 seconds.
Read MoreLike most Jalops, I regularly wake up in the middle of the night in a panic, drenched in sweat, screaming the phrase “save the manuals.” It’s an issue that I’ve been working on with my therapist for months, but I think I’ve finally cracked it—I’m now done worrying about manuals going extinct.
Read MoreA friend of mine recently got a 1991 Toyota MR2 imported from Japan. And yes, while it is glorious to drive and fully mad tyte JDM, there’s only one thing I can’t stop thinking about in this car. It’s the floormats.
Read MoreLots of cars these days come with dozens of speakers to pump music into passengers’ ears. But those speakers are heavy, and take up lots of space. That’s why Continental just devised a speaker-less audio system that actually uses your car’s interior trim panels to make sound. Here’s how it works.
Read MoreThe assertion that Tesla’s Autopilot features reduces airbag deployments by 40 percent, made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration back in January, may use faulty data and cannot be replicated by researchers, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday claims.
Read MoreTravel anywhere in the world, and you’ll probably run across a Jeep. And if you don’t, you’ll find a vehicle that has been influenced by the Jeep. The history of the brand is rich, and the worldwide following is enormous. And yet, somehow, there’s no proper museum for the World War II hero. It makes no sense.
Read MoreIf you are a fan of GM rear-drive sedans that come from the Land Down Under but don’t quite have the cash for the Chevrolet SS, now is the time to scour your local listings for a Caprice PPV and turn it into a sleeper sedan project.
Read MoreThere’s been something on my mind for a few days now, and I need to pass the burden on. It isn’t fair for me to shoulder this alone. The Aston Martin Vulcan, the 800-horsepower, V12 track-only monster, has a new performance package to add even more track fury. It makes the car look like it has winged eyeliner.
Read MoreIt is increasingly clear that America is not good enough for the like-an-Alfa-4C-but-livable Alpine A110. Damn it. Damn it to hell.
Read MoreThe other day, my fiancé and I were going through papers and textbooks we didn’t need in preparation to move into our new house. He picked up an open envelope that had “something about a Honda Civic recall” in it, and mumbled that he was recycling it as he walked out the door. “Stop!” I said. “STOP!”
Read MoreAfter much denial of its existence, the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS finally, officially dropped on Friday at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Read MoreThe idea of a “Hot Rod Lincoln” was once so popular that it was even immortalized in song. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MK VIII is pretty hot, but let’s still see if its price tag can also bring the heat.
Read MoreAs bad as it is to call a four door automobile a “coupe,” today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW 650i is a rather fetching car. It comes with low miles and a noteworthy price, but as you will see there’s also a catch.
Read MoreThe seller claims today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe CSX is the first one ever, and has a dash plaque to back it up. Let’s see if this hot Dodge will have you backing up a trailer-full of cash.
Read MoreWhen You think of ’93 VW Bus, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe T2 is probably not what comes to mind. If you’re from South America it sure does, and we’ll have to see if this border-crossing bus comes with a price that you don’t mind.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corvair says it was once owned by the former wife of heavyweight boxing champion, Buster Douglas. We’ll have to see if its price makes it a total knock out.
Read MoreIf you look back on the cars we lost when GM killed Pontiac—including examples like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe G6—do you ever wonder if perhaps they offed the wrong brand?
Read MoreCan you think of any car more elemental than a Citroën Deux Chevaux? Well, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Méhari is a 2CV stripped of all pretensions, and you’ll now have to decide if its price should have someone paying that stripper.
Read MoreJust like mama bear in the Goldilocks tale, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX7 is just right—old enough to be a classic, but not too old to be a pain in the ass to drive. Let’s see if its price is fair to middling too.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Samurai represents an enigma. Derided and devalued for its on-road hijinks when new, these cars are now coveted for their prowess off-road. Let’s see how covetable this 12A-powered convertible is.
Read MoreIt’s not uncommon for a car to derive its name from its impressive engine engine displacement. That’s just what today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes 6.9 represents. Let’s see if this restored executive sedan’s price is a number that also impresses.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo 264 claims it was once a special order diplomat car. We’re going to have to see if he’s presently being diplomatic about its price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subaru is named for the Baja peninsula, and has seemingly everything you could want. Let’s see if this odd car/truck is priced to make you want to make a run for the border.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Beetle is without question one of the world’s most historically significant cars. Let’s see if the price on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bug means that it’s history.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe F350 has a Trump 2016 license plate on its front bumper. It is about the most stereotypically old school all-American thing you could buy, but will its price eventually also trump all?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Rabbit pickup says he doesn’t need your money. Why he’s then advertising the truck is beyond me, but he does say it’s the cleanest you find. Will its price tell yet another story?
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW 530iT notes that its paint is in fact a red vinyl wrap. Audiophiles may like vinyl, but will you auto-philes like the price on this vinyl’d and five-speed equipped wagon?
Read MoreJohn Greenwood liked to race Corvettes. When he wasn’t racing them he also liked to make street ‘Vettes that looked like his racers. Today’s Nice Price or rack Pipe Greenwood GT is just such a car, and it comes with a price asking a lot of your green.
Read MoreDwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) is a big guy who often dresses with class. Similarly, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer is an M5 dressed in 7-series clothes. You’ll need to decide if its price puts this mad mashup in a class of its own.
Read MoreConcept cars are often visions of a what-could-be future. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom VW BeTTle is a concept from the past that you actually can have right now, that is, if its price is worth your time.
Read MoreTomorrow being Independence Day here in the U.S., what better car to critique than this Nice Price or Crack Pipe AMC Eagle? Let’s see if this AWD wagon’s price makes it a total star spangled winner.
Read MoreAfter a few days of not officially confirming a car that everyone knew about, Porsche dropped the curtain on the 700-horsepower 2018 911 GT2 RS, the most powerful 911 ever made. It’s pretty likely that these cars are already sold out, but what would yours look like?
Read MoreFernando Alonso isn’t quite living his best life, but he did have his best finish of the season so far at today’s Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix, clinching the fastest lap of the race and embracing his iconic meme.
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 rumors are true. Porsche, which stormed back to the the FIA World Endurance Championship’s top class in 2014 to earn two constructors’ championships and three victories in a row at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, will exit this storied series to focus on the electric upstart that is Formula E.
Read MoreEver since announcing that “halo” cockpit protection would be mandated for the 2018 season, Formula One and the FIA haven’t taken a break from bragging about how useful it’ll be on F1’s historically open cockpits. What they can’t brag about is how ugly the thing currently is, which the FIA said it plans to fix.
Read MoreThe Sauber Formula One team, which currently runs Ferrari engines and is only a mere three points ahead of McLaren-Honda in the standings, was supposed to switch to Honda F1 engines in 2018. For reasons I cannot grasp, the series announced Thursday that Sauber called off the deal.
Read MoreBack in 2012, Americans Chris Duplessis and Alex Kihurani made it to Finland to run the round of the World Rally Championship. To everyone in the U.S. rally community, it felt like a victory in and of itself. Watch this video and understand why.
Read MorePorsche will announce the shutdown of its top-class 919 Hybrid Le Mans Prototype program in the next 24 hours, according to multiple publications and industry sources cited by Sportscar365. This will leave the World Endurance Championship’s top LMP1 class with only one team and an uncertain future. [Update: Porsche confirmed they would continue competing at Le Mans somehow, but declined to comment on the LMP1 withdrawal rumors. See below.]
Read MoreDuring last week’s blazing hot Pirelli World Challenge test day at Circuit of the Americas, one guest was a bit hairier than all the others, and much happier if you scratched behind his ears. Meet Turbo, a stray dog who the RealTime Acura team just couldn’t leave in the heat even though they, too, were far from home.
Read MoreLike most other old men who haven’t raced competitively in decades, Autoweek reports that former Formula One manager Daniele Audetto said the sport is losing its “essence” as it gets safer. Audetto, Niki Lauda’s Ferrari team boss during his almost fatal 1976 crash, said drivers have to accept the risk of F1.
Read MoreFor years now IndyCar has competed with a spec car that looks like it’s wearing bloomers, a too-big, low-fi, Playmobil version of what an open wheeler should look like. I have tried to care about it. I have failed. But hey, for the first time in years, there’s an IndyCar that actually looks good.
Read MoreMercedes, one of the three marques that defines the current era of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters alongside Audi and BMW, is quitting DTM in 2018 to join Formula E with a full-time works effort in the 2019-2020 season, reports Motorsport.com. Both of Mercedes’ DTM rivals are already involved in Formula E.
Read MoreNASCAR’s most popular driver for 14 straight years and soon-to-be retiree Dale Earnhardt Jr. signed onto a multi-year deal to join NBC Sports’ NASCAR commentary team in 2018, the network announced today. Look, we all knew this was going to happen. The people need—no, demand!—more Earnhardt.
Read MoreMost of us can agree that Formula One needs some sort of cockpit protection on its historically open race cars. But after two years of development, not everyone agrees on the “halo” F1 decided to go with. So, the FIA decided to enlighten us with all of the reasons why it chose this strange, wishbone-looking thing.
Read MorePolish racing driver Robert Kubica still hasn’t given up his dream of returning to Formula One after a rally crash in February 2011 almost killed him. Now Renault is giving Kubica a chance to test a 2017 Formula One car in Hungary, Sky Sports reports. After this test, the team says they’ll know what it would take for Kubica to come back to F1.
Read MoreNASCAR wants its races to end under full-speed green flag conditions so badly that they instituted the overtime system to restart races after big wrecks. Tonight’s Brickyard 400 took two overtime attempts before it was ended with a crash, but it sure took officials a while to throw the last yellow flag.
Read MoreNASCAR’s top Cup Series was at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Brickyard 400 today, where Kurt Busch’s race came to a halt with a hard hit with only 10 laps let in the race. Holy crap, the view from Busch’s helmet is intense.
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 MoreTexas’ Circuit of the Americas is painfully hot this time of year. Merely going outside for a while is enough to make you dehydrated. If you want to see how your race car performs in extreme conditions, this oppressive heat is perfect. Several Pirelli World Challenge teams were in Austin this week to do just that.
Read MoreI know Australian Supercars haven’t always been V8 Supercars. I know. I know! But darn it if listening to the new twin-turbo V6 Holden Supercars engine leaves me with a big sad hole in my heart to the tune of some less impressive higher-pitched V6 noises.
Read MoreNo matter how many weird rituals or blood sacrifices Junior Nation has done to prevent the retirement of NASCAR’s favorite son Dale Earnhardt Jr. at the end of the season, it’s happening. And as of Wednesday, his replacement is officially lined up: 24-year-old Alex Bowman will drive the No. 88 car in 2018.
Read MoreAbandoned race tracks are some of the most eerily mesmerizing things there are. In a way, it’s beautiful to see the earth reclaim something its inhabitants couldn’t keep alive. But you know that not even the eery beauty will last forever, because eventually, there won’t be anything left.
Read MoreNo one really likes Formula One’s halo, meant to prevent driver head injuries. Nine of the 10 teams voted against the halo as well, per sources who spoke with Autosport. It’s being pushed forward on safety grounds, regardless.
Read MoreIn the highest levels of NASCAR, where pretty much every track is asphalt, being told to “race cleanly” usually just means “don’t wreck anybody if you can help it.” But when it’s time to run dirt, clean racing is something totally different—basically, bust out your nearest duster and get to it in the middle of the race.
Read MoreNASCAR usually runs on relatively tidy paved ovals, but not tonight. It’s time for the Race I Will Always Call The Mudsummer Classic To Annoy Baseball Hosers where the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series runs on Eldora Speedway’s dirt oval. It’s a whole race of NAS-trucks sideways on dirt, and it is wonderful.
Read MoreWhen the dominant Audi Sport Team Joest Le Mans prototype program closed last year, it left only two teams in the world’s top LMP1 class of endurance prototypes. Now Team Joest is partnering with Mazda in a smaller regional series, which would be a step down if LMP1 was thriving. But LMP1 isn’t, and Team Joest’s move is the biggest sign yet that LMP1 must make hard changes in order to survive.
Read MoreFormula One has been testing out different ideas for shielding drivers’ exposed heads for a few years now. Today, F1 announced it’s going with a halo and not a windshield, as NBC Sports reports, coming next season.
Read MoreAs the cars shot off from the grid, we wondered when they’d reach our seats. We kept looking, waiting. They went by so quietly we almost missed it, prompting myself and the Jalopnik staff to crack up laughing. When I realized the lack of noise likely made us sound obnoxious, I looked around. Everyone else was laughing, too.
Read MoreMazda has been the lovable failsquad of the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship for several years, trying so hard for years to get their top-class prototypes merely working reliably in between bursts of promising speed. If there’s anyone who can make it work, it’s the team who gave Audi years of domination at the 24 Hours of Le Mans: Team Joest.
Read MoreOne of the drivers’ favorite cars up the Mt. Washington Hill Climb this year was Mikko Kataja’s 4AGE Toyota Starlet shipped over from Finland wailing up the hill at 11,000 RPM. We had no idea how the narrow, frost-heaved road didn’t buck him straight off the mountain. Watching the onboard now, you can see it nearly did.
Read MoreFormula One driver Daniel Ricciardo’s “shoey” may be over, because, in a weird “not everything is as it seems” type of way, this enthusiastic, peer-pressuring Aussie sounds tired of the whole deal. Health concerns and fans asking him to do shoeys literally anywhere are some of the reasons why, he said.
Read MoreMercedes’ young wonder-Finn Valtteri Bottas has been kicking ass this year in Formula One, but was originally signed on as a one-year replacement after Nico Rosberg left. Fortunately, now team Executive Director Toto Wolff admits Bottas should stay, reports Motorsport.com. Wolff’s question now isn’t if, but how long.
Read MoreWe love supercars for their mind-bending performance, but there aren’t many places where you can experience the incredible speeds they were designed for without getting arrested. But you can drive them flat-out on a race track, and the Scuderia Society of supercar owners descended upon Circuit of the Americas this weekend to just that.
Read MoreI’ll be honest, I was genuinely scared to be the navigator for Bill Petrow’s Broken Motorsports Nissan 240SX, racing in the Mount Washington Hill Climb. And then my worst fear was realized. Well, not my worst fear. Nobody died. But we did do a 360 spin off of the mountain.
Read MoreWhile it was clear that Lewis Hamilton would likely end up winning his fourth-straight British Grand Prix pretty early on, it really didn’t help that all of Ferrari’s tires decided to explode in the final lap of the race.
Read MoreFormula E may be known for racing on street circuits, but that’s mostly because they want to host races in the middle of cities. They really prefer close-in locations that allow them to race without shutting down city streets. One such spot that was briefly considered for New York City’s first-ever ePrix was none other than Central Park itself.
Read MoreThere’s plenty of racing this weekend, but sadly, not enough of it is on dirt. If you can’t wait for more dirt, this completely ridiculous highlight reel from Rally Poland should suffice.
Read MoreJust two years after Lewis Hamilton was barred from viewing the Wimbledon final from the prestigious Royal Box for his attire, former teammate Nico Rosberg almost met the same fate because he left his nasty sweaty pegs sockless.
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 electric cars of the FIA Formula E Championship are coming to New York City (the only Real City, they keep telling me) for the first time, and, if you’re one of the 8.5 million people here, you may be going. Here’s everything you need to know about the race and details you might have missed, like the fact that you can’t drive a car to the car race this weekend.
Read MoreFormula One’s latest attempt at protecting the cockpit seemed promising. It looked good, it’s a step in the right direction and it wasn’t nearly as dumb-looking to the car as the halo was. But Sebastian Vettel practiced with it on Friday, and it made him so dizzy he took it off before the session ended.
Read MoreFormula One is testing their new debris-deflecting shield for the first time during practice today on Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, but Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is SO not on board with it. F1's answer for head protection is a wrap-around windshield that looks suspiciously like the idea Red Bull had last year.
Read MoreIn pre-race scrutineering for the Formula One British Grand Prix, FIA scrutineers deemed the Carlos Sainz Jr.’s No. 55 Scuderia Toro Rosso race car unsafe over what they say is an damaged wheel tether, reports Motorsport.com. Per a tweet by F1 journo Chris Medland, Toro Rosso says the part came like that.
Read MoreUh-oh: someone forgot they were logged into the official, corporate IndyCar Series account. Worse yet, they mentioned the son of the United States’ preeminent Twitter troll in the process. Ohhhh nooooooo.
Read MoreMail services are great at a lot of things—namely, never delivering your money-filled birthday cards, bending important documents that say “do not bend” and giving a neighbor’s mail to you. But in perhaps the epitome of postal misfires, Nico Rosberg’s Formula One championship trophy got lost in mail for five days.
Read MoreThe most powerful Men in open-wheel racing have told us time and time again that women don’t belong in Formula One, but Renault Sport couldn’t take their word for it. (Shouldn’t everyone take former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone’s word for it, on everything?) So, they put 79-year-old Rosemary Smith into a car.
Read MoreIn a move that’s shocking (ha! a pun!) to no one, BMW announced Wednesday that they were joining Formula E for the series’ fifth season in 2018-2019 as a manufacturer, reports Motorsport.com. MS Amlin Andretti will become the new BMW works team in the series, building off the technical partnership BMW has had with the team since season two.
Read MoreAfter about two weeks of searching and a lot of sad tweets, Canadian esports commentator Matthew Trivett found the custom BMW E46 M3 GT3 race car he said was stolen in Nova Scotia. He tweeted that he got the car back Wednesday, not in perfect condition and minus about $15,000 in spare parts and tools.
Read MoreThis might be the gnarliest thing that Travis Pastrana has ever done. The Mount Washington Hillclimb runs up one of the steepest, narrowest, bumpiest roads in the country, next to thousand foot drops. Pastrana broke his own record with a 5:44 run, half off the mountain itself.
Read MoreSilverstone Circuit became the full-time home of the British Grand Prix in 1987, but may not be for much longer. The British Racing Drivers Club, who owns Silverstone, initiated a break clause in their contract to stop hosting F1 after 2019, reports the BBC, citing unaffordable hosting fees.
Read MoreMy big gripe with open-wheel race cars is that they are so far removed from any car that I would ever own, drive or interact with that they bear little relevance to my life. Which is why Subaru’s WRX STI Type RA was so cool: it started out as a normal STI that you or I could buy. But then Prodrive got their hands on it.
Read MoreAmerica’s fancy-Honda brand Acura is getting back into racing prototypes with a two-car Team Penske IMSA DPi effort, Team Penske announced today. Acura last raced a purpose-built racing prototype when the American Le Mans Series was still a thing at the start of this decade, but those cars were later rebranded as Hondas.
Read MoreIf you’re worried that electric cars will ruin racing, let me kill that thought once and for all. I got the rare chance to do something usually reserved for ex-Formula One and Le Mans drivers: drive a Formula E car. I stepped out of the car laughing like a madwoman because it was that much fun to drive.
Read MoreReports of a lawsuit alleging that former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle hid cameras in private areas of his family home came out last week, but details were vague. Jalopnik now has a copy of the lawsuit, and the allegations—including 24/7 DVR recording and his race team having access to the feeds—are incredibly bizarre.
Read MoreGet ready for another round of Formula One’s “looks vs. safety” debate—if you can even call it a debate—because the FIA recently shared photos of its newest idea for cockpit protection: the shield. It’ll be tested at the British Grand Prix Friday, and the Verizon IndyCar Series is already looking at something similar.
Read MoreBeing inverted is pretty sweet in Top Gun, but sucks hard in a race car. Sunday’s WeatherTech Sports Car Championship race at Mosport ended with this topsy turvy crash. The No. 52 Ligier LMP2 of PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports slid off track, into a tire wall and bounced back out onto its roof.
Read MoreToday’s WeatherTech Sports Car Championship race at Mosport was pretty well behaved until the last 22 minutes of the race or so, with the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R getting tangled up in a high-speed collision that utterly destroyed the front of the No. 4 Corvette it made contact with.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, Red Bull Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo had to be talked into doing a shoey—the celebratory chug out of his shoe—by podium interviewer du jour Martin Brundle. Ricciardo finished third at the Austrian Grand Prix. But the first and second place winners—Valterri Bottas and Sebastian Vettel—really weren’t feeling shoe-funk for a sip.
Read MoreWe all know about Fernando Alonso’s abysmal luck this year, with a trail of broken engines left wherever he seems to race. Max Verstappen is certainly Alonso’s bad luck buddy, as he’s retired five times in the past seven races. Verstappen and Alonso both got taken out at the first turn today at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Read MoreFormula 4 driver Sophia Flörsch had the scare of a lifetime Friday at Ochlersleben. Flörsch barely missed an SUV that was driving across the track to retrieve a stopped Formula 4 car.
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 MoreTrans Am driver Mel Shaw died Sunday afternoon after his TA4-class Chevrolet Camaro crashed head-on into a concrete wall at Brainerd International Raceway, reports the Duluth News Tribune. Shaw’s car crashed at Turn 3 of the 2.5-mile Brainerd’s Competition Road Course, at the end of the track’s fastest straight.
Read MoreThere’s a thing southern folks like to say, and surely you’ve heard it before: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s what NASCAR did by making “overtime” rules at the start of the 2016 season, and it’s gone about as well as enrolling a cat in swim lessons. And maybe, just maybe, NASCAR’s starting to realize that.
Read MoreA home’s location is key. It’s the reason why I pay a painful premium not to live in beige suburban hell, and why lake frontage and mountain views are pricey. Forget mountains—the ultimate location is at the track. Now some lucky track rat can buy the house on Michigan’s Gingerman Raceway.
Read MoreAre you faster than a Jalopnik writer? Usually, yes. But are you faster than one of Jaguar’s Formula E drivers? We’re teaming up with Jaguar so you can find out next week at Autobahn Indoor Speedway (AIS) in the Palisades Mall outside of New York. RSVP here!
Read MoreIn this photo here, you can see Formula One legend Niki Lauda on one knee, hands pressed together as if in infinite gratitude, before former troll-king of F1, Bernie Ecclestone. It was part of an Ecclestone-honoring photo collage at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed and I just have so many questions.
Read MoreFormer NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law filed a lawsuit against him that alleges hidden cameras and peeping inside of his home, according to WSOC-TV. The local station reports that the lawsuit alleges there were secret cameras in the master bedroom, bathroom and guest bedroom.
Read MoreIf you want a fast Mercedes-Benz don’t bother with any of their road cars. What you need is something from that so-called “pinnacle of motorsport,” Formula One. Mercedes just listed their 2013 W04 F1 car for sale so you—yes, you, mere mortal with way too much cash—can own Lewis Hamilton’s race car.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever flown to a track weekend on a commercial airline, you know the paranoia of which I speak: no one really trusts baggage handlers, especially with vital items like helmets, which are supposed to protect your head. I don’t want a safety item like that to be accidentally mangled en route and be rendered less effective when I need it.
Read MoreThe week began well for the No. 88, the beacon of all light and hope for NASCAR fans. Racing demi-god Dale Earnhardt Jr., who will usher in the end of life as we know it when he retires this year, qualified it first at Daytona. Then, he wrecked it. Then, he wrecked it again. Then, someone in England wrecked it, too.
Read MoreA week-long feud between two individuals in the College Station, Texas area ended in a shooting at former NASCAR facility Texas World Speedway, local police said. The shooting happened during a trail ride at the track, and police told Jalopnik they do not believe any racing was going on at the time.
Read MoreAfter a months-long build to make his BMW E46 M3 into a custom GT3 race car, Canadian esports commentator Matthew Trivett shared a video of his “first full race” in the car on May 30. But just over a month after that, he claims the car was stolen along with his race trailer overnight.
Read MoreA big crash among the front of the field at tonight’s NASCAR Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway sent Kyle Larson’s No. 42 car up into the air at 190 mph. Eight cars got caught up in the chain reaction of wreckage that followed, forcing the race to be red flagged for cleanup with only six laps to go.
Read MoreDale Earnhardt Jr. was fighting his way back up to the front during tonight’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway. He was already back on the lead lap after hitting the wall near the end of Stage 2, but then a big crash in Stage 3 put him back into the wall and ended his race tonight for good. Ouch.
Read MoreDale Earnhardt Jr. came into today’s Coke Zero 400—his final race at Daytona International Speedway—as a favorite to win, starting from pole position. Then he hit the wall at Turn 1, damaging the right side of his car extensively. Now he’s got to fight his way back up from two laps down.
Read MoreThe NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway has been kind of like a two-day marathon, but not in the Rolex 24 Hours way. Rain just keeps washing out the race, so much so that you get psychologically conditioned to think that every caution is for a damp track. But this one wasn’t, for once.
Read MoreWhen NASCAR Peak Mexico Series driver Santiago Tovar lost his brakes in a race last week, he told Motorsport.com he “became a passenger in the car” that drove him straight into a crowd. Spectators were reportedly treated for minor injuries, but wreck footage makes things look like they could have been much worse.
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 MoreRemember the Simpsons episode where Homer was sent into orbit? It had Buzz Aldrin and James Taylor as guests, and gave the world the Overlord Meme. The episode was titled Deep Space Homer, and I have some serious questions and theories about the spacecraft featured in the episode, a strange spaceplane called the Corvair spacecraft.
Read MoreYesterday, the big joke involved a picture of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, full-palm touching an Orion spacecraft part that was clearly labeled “DO NOT TOUCH.” It’s a hilarious image, but what exactly is that untouchable thing, and what does it mean that Pence pawed it? I am here with answers.
Read MoreWhen Tesla chief executive Elon Musk handed over the first 30 Model 3 sedans to reservation holders last Friday, he warned employees they’ll be in “production hell” for the next several months. It was a curious remark, as Tesla employees have been voicing concerns about workplace injuries since earlier this year. Employees reiterated those points in a letter to Tesla’s board Monday, and demanded answers to questions about pay transparency and safety.
Read MoreLawmakers in the U.S. Congress are working on legislation to regulate the testing and deployment of autonomous cars and trucks across the country. Last week that bill passed a crucial benchmark, receiving unanimous approval in a U.S. house committee. But the measure leaves out large commercial trucks, and that’s probably a foolish thing to do.
Read MoreWaymo, Google’s driverless car developing unit, conducted an “emergency vehicle testing day” in the city of Chandler, Arizona last month to help driverless cars better understand the sights and sounds of police cars and fire trucks. Now, documents and interviews with the city and Waymo reveal Waymo did not pay Chandler for using four of its emergency vehicles, and the parties did not sign a formal agreement that would hold Waymo liable in the case of an accident.
Read MoreOn Friday, Tesla is set to publicly reveal the $35,000 all-electric Model 3 sedan, the culmination of intense buildup and speculation that began a year-and-a-half ago, when the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced the vehicle. The company’s handing over keys to the first 30 customers, to mark the occasion. There’s still a number of questions about the car, so here’s some things to look for tomorrow.
Read MoreOur self-driving car future may be farther away than the hype suggests. Besides Tesla, self-driving car developers depend on an expensive piece of technology called LIDAR, a laser-based radar that allows an autonomous vehicle to see the road. There are cheaper options, but the MIT Technology Review explains that these more-affordable solutions won’t deliver the kind of data that’s necessary for self-driving cars to operate at highway speeds.
Read MoreMany Tesla Model 3 reservation holders are looking for guidance on when they can expect the car to be delivered, as a Bloomberg report today showed. More info is expected at a Tesla event on Friday, but several who’ve paid a $1,000 deposit for the car offered Jalopnik varied opinions about the car’s delivery date. What’s clear is that Tesla has been virtually radio silent since reservations first became available in 2016.
Read MoreParking is a tedious task, and frankly most humans just aren’t very good at it. Thankfully, Daimler and Bosch are working together to take this task out of humanity’s very flawed hands. The two companies debuted a service on Monday that takes a stab at what such a system might look like, calling it Automated Valet Parking.
Read MoreToyota has tossed around a lot of money in the name of hydrogen, most recently with a project to build a fuel cell-powered big rig truck. But the Japanese automaker has also been trying to boost sales in the U.S. for its car of the future—the Mirai. But as Bloomberg reports today, sales are sluggish, and it should come as no surprise why: there’s barely any infrastructure to support the car.
Read MoreLyft has been trying to gain momentum on the incessant slip-ups of its main competitor Uber, and this week it took another step to gain some ground: The company says it’s going to develop its own self-driving technology, following a string of announced partnerships to focus on bringing autonomous cars to the public.
Read MoreAndrew Kouri was a member of Tesla’s Autopilot team when the owner of a Model S sedan, Joshua Brown, died in a Florida crash in May 2016. Brown’s car had been in Autopilot, the vehicle’s semi-autonomous mode, at the time. Kouri didn’t take the incident lightly.
Read MoreExpect autonomous car testing and manufacturing to ramp up significantly across the country, as the House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday morning to put 100,000 autonomous and semi-autonomous test cars on public roads.
Read MoreFor months, startup Lucid Motors has been up front that it’s looking to raise extra money to move forward with plans for a factory to make its all-electric vehicle, the Lucid Air. Behind the scenes, the fledgling automaker has also been seeking out a possible buyer, according to a new report from Bloomberg, which says that Lucid approached senior management of Ford about a possible sale.
Read MoreTesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature caught flak on Sunday, as it appeared a driver had blamed the system for causing his car to suddenly accelerate, head off a road, and roll over into a marsh. On Monday, his story changed. It wasn’t Autopilot’s fault, he said, it was his own.
Read MoreA story from Bloomberg this morning details one of the myriad issues that need to be addressed before driverless robotaxis can be deployed by the likes of General Motors and Uber: how to clean up a passengers’ puke. A start-up in San Francisco offers one idea—a 24/7 cleaning service—but I think there’s a much simpler solution.
Read MoreAuto and tech companies are feverishly working to develop and perfect self-driving cars, but in due time, the industry’s going to turn into a raging bloodbath, according to a new study, with “billions and billions” of dollars wasted on boneheaded moves that go nowhere.
Read MoreIn order for driverless cars to work, they’ll need to be able to do tackle a bevy of ordinary tasks that motorists perform each day: navigate roadways, stay within a lane, stop for pedestrians who unexpectedly cross their path and successfully pull over for police cruisers or fire trucks needing to speed by. Google, through its self-driving car subsidiary Waymo, has been working on the latter task, and recently teamed up with a local Arizona fire and police department to conduct its “first emerg
Read MoreThe 2018 Audi A8 is here, and like all German flagship sedans it looks like it will be wildly over-engineered. Among the endless luxury features in the new sedan, one stands out: Traffic Jam Pilot. Audi says this semi-autonomous mode actually lets drivers screw around and watch television instead of pay attention to the road.
Read MoreLucid Motors doesn’t have the money yet to build a factory and make the Air, an all-electric luxury sedan among many considered to be potential Tesla-killers. But the nascent automaker has shown it’s at least capable of producing a car that goes super fast: A video released on Monday shows an Air prototype flying around a racetrack at 235 mph.
Read MoreAmbitious but troubled startup automaker Faraday Future said today that it’s officially halting efforts to build a $1 billion factory in Nevada, as its billionaire financier Jia Yueting deals with significant money problems. The move comes just days after Faraday officials told Jalopnik that Jia’s financial woes will have “no impact” on Faraday’s day-to-day operation and goal of producing its flagship vehicle, the FF 91, by 2018.
Read MoreA flurry of legal filings went public on Friday in the battle between Uber and Waymo, Google’s self-driving car operation that says Uber schemed with a former engineer to steal trade secrets and thousands of proprietary tech files to bolster its own autonomous vehicle project. But this one is rich: Uber now says Anthony Levandowski, the company’s former self-driving car guru at the center of the case, stole the files.
Read MoreElon Musk has said he has no idea why Wall Street values Tesla so high, but he doesn’t have to think about it any longer. The automaker is no longer the most valuable car company in the U.S. after a disastrous week on Wall Street that brought its shares down a reported 15 percent, due in part to the company’s disclosure that it has experienced a “severe” shortfall in production of 100-kWh battery packs.
Read MoreA Chinese court this week froze $182 million in assets of Jia Yueting, the billionaire founder of tech giant LeEco and main financier of self-driving car start-up Faraday Future. But the company says that Jia’s financial woes will have “no impact” on FF’s daily operations and actually “aligns” with its immediate goal of getting its flagship vehicle, the FF 91, on the road in 2018. Okay, sure.
Read MoreFrance—particularly, Paris, with its dreadful air quality—has staked a battle against cars over the past several years, with car-free days, older-car bans, and diatribes against owning a personal vehicle. Now, the government of France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, wants to ban the sale of all gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040, saying it’s a “veritable revolution” to “fight air pollution.”
Read MoreThe idea of a fully-autonomous vehicle entails removing the driver from the equation entirely. In the trucking industry, that scenario’s expected to happen sooner than we’ll see a majority of driverless cars on the road. But one group of Swedes wants to build a truck that doesn’t even have room for a driver.
Read MoreWorking conditions at Tesla’s California factory have garnered significant attention in recent months, with some employees going public with allegations of sexual harassment and excessive workplace injuries, including in a number of new lawsuits. According to Tesla founder Elon Musk, it’s “obviously not cool” for employees to file suit. Huh.
Read MoreRemember the Chinese traffic-straddling bus? The bonkers is-it-a-bus-or-a-train invention that was aimed at alleviating traffic? That weird looking thing that seemed like a total scam? Turns out, it was bogus after all—and now 32 people have been arrested for their role in creating it, according to the New York Times.
Read MoreTesla founder Elon Musk confirmed late into the night Sunday that production on the automaker’s less-expensive Model 3 sedan will begin on time, in what’s tantamount to a bizarre attaboy for the most valuable car company in the U.S.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know, which will help you survive today and move into the next and before you know it, the weekend will be here.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Read MoreTake a look at this. It’s a Toyota Sera. You might think it’s a fantasy car that fell out of one of your brain folds. Nope! This is a real car, a car that exists, a car that was sold to you, a member of the public. Well, sort of.
Read MoreWhile your head’s probably still spinning from trying to count all the heated surfaces in the 2018 Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII that came out today, one of our readers grabbed our best look yet at the company’s enormous upcoming SUV.
Read MoreWhile using a tractor to adjust the ATV and dirtbike jump in his backyard, a gentleman from Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma discovered a low-mileage 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer buried underground, KFOR NewChannel 4 reports. Unsurprisingly, the SUV, which allegedly still has the original factory tires, is completely toast.
Read MoreBRO DO YOU THINK THE 2018 JEEP WRANGLER CAN BE STOPPED? NOT EVEN CLOSE, JUNIOR. WATCH IT COME BLASTING ACROSS THIS BARREN LANDSCAPE IN AN UNPRECEDENTED ACT OF EXTREME OFF-ROADING.
Read MoreDespite one of America’s top generals calling the World War II Jeep “America’s greatest contribution to modern warfare,” the little 4x4 wasn’t perfect. In fact, it rolled off the assembly line in 1941 with a terrible design flaw that could have sent soldiers barreling into oncoming traffic.
Read MoreThe biggest trend in the auto industry right now is that the used car market is oversaturated, and now is the time to get a deal on a pre-owned model. Of course, the exception to that rule is the Toyota Tacoma, and it boggles my mind what people are willing to pay for these.
Read MoreFord has been extremely rude lately developing a new generation of police pursuit vehicles, and now it’s introduced the F-150 Police Responder. It’s getting really hard to keep track of everything I’m supposed to spot from a mile down the road.
Read MoreLast year, a Mercedes engineer named Jürgen Eberle got ahold of a Mercedes E-Class All-Terrain, and let his childhood off-road fantasies run wild, installing portal axles and monstrous meaty tires to create what is now called the E-Class All-Terrain 4x4². It’s pure madness.
Read MoreThe 2018 Mercedes-Benz X-Class pickup truck has finally, for real, landed in its final form at a blowout shindig in Cape Town, South Africa. Today, the world meets the mid-sized Mercedes luxury truck it’s been waiting for, I guess.
Read MoreRenault’s resurrected performance brand Alpine may be most associated with classic sports cars, but sadly, sports cars just don’t pay for themselves like they used to. So, Alpine’s taking a page from Porsche with a plan to build a performance SUV to rival the Porsche Macan and more importantly, make bank.
Read MoreThere is no shortage of craziness on the roads.
Read MoreA Jalopnik reader from Long Island just bought a 4,400 mile Jeep Cherokee from an older owner in Queens in what is perhaps the greatest Jeep XJ barn find of our time. Prepare your feeble minds for photos of a factory-fresh Jeep Cherokee.
Read MoreAncient velociraptors probably couldn’t swim very well, and the modern Ford F-150 that shares the name is apparently no different—a hypothesis tested by a Raptor driver in San Diego Friday afternoon.
Read MoreWhile we can all extol the economic and environmental virtues of electricity over diesel, just look at this. This is the insane difference between electric and diesel acceleration, and it will revolutionize the way other drivers interact with trucks.
Read MoreIt’s been twelve months since I finally got the vehicle I’ve wanted forever: a 1975 International Scout. It’s taught me a lot. Well, mostly it’s taught me that the cool old truck you’ve had your eye on can cost as much to run as a supercar.
Read MoreLearning from past experiences is how we grow as individuals. So, “How?” you may ask, did I end up with yet another Triumph Spitfire? Well, let’s just say that this time around, I wasn’t looking to explore the values of classic British car ownership. This time I was hunting for a profit.
Read MoreGenuinely, I think the toughest part that these two had in fixing up this ‘69 Mach 1 was not getting hantavirus. This car was filled with shit, literally. I assume the poop was why such a desirable car had sat in a Colorado junkyard all these years.
Read MoreFew subjects are as sore among the Porsche faithful as the company’s refusal to put a manual transmission in the current 991 generation of their mad track weapon, the 911 GT3 RS. Now one heroic owner is doing what Porsche should have done from the factory by putting a manual transmission into his own 991.1 GT3 RS.
Read MoreSummer is officially here, which means you have even more of a reason to go outside and detail your car. While detailing the exterior is always important, not everyone remembers to do the engine bay. Here’s how you do it.
Read MoreWhen you want the utility of a truck, the park-ability of a car and would like to attempt to remain financially responsible, you may find yourself looking at used compact pickup trucks. Anyone who has ever considered looking into the market of practical-size used trucks knows that there is one model that tops the list every time: the Toyota Tacoma.
Read MoreIt’s nearly summer, meaning thousands of Americans will start to drive cross-country. And many of us will wind up on the shoulder of the road next to a car with steam billowing from its hood. If you’re one of these sad bastards, here’s what you do.
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