On Tuesday morning (local time), North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan, an intermediate range ballistic missile known as a Hwasong-12, the same type the country threatened to fire at Guam earlier this month. Air raid sirens and emergency broadcasts blared from speakers across Japanese cities warning that a missile was tracking toward north-central Japan.
Read MoreJust days before the USS John S. McCain was involved in the U.S. Navy’s latest collision-at-sea, the Navy released a report on the June accident involving the USS Fitzgerald which caused the death of seven sailors. The report is a supplement to the line of duty investigation being conducted and details the circumstances of the deaths of seven sailors who drowned after the berthing compartment in which they were sleeping became flooded in under a minute.
Read MoreFor the second time in just over two months, a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship in the Pacific region, resulting in casualties. The USS John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC collided in the early morning hours of August 21 east of the Strait of Malacca and not far from Singapore. How did this happen? More importantly, how does it keep happening? Here’s what we can assess so far.
Read MoreAh, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California. Big hats, fake smiles, astronomical yearly incomes and tax evasion of all levels. Basically: my kind of soirée. At least, it would be if I didn’t keep getting asked to leave. Those bitches.
Read MoreFollowing promises of “fire and fury” from President Donald Trump if it continues its belligerence, North Korea released a statement on Wednesday threatening to launch an “enveloping strike” at the island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. Here’s why Pyongyang thinks Guam is a worthy target.
Read MoreRecall the days before Donald Trump was the president. He tweeted a lot. And one of the things he tweeted about was how Boeing’s new versions of Air Force One were too expensive to build and to cancel the order.
Read MoreMary is a cool mom who hustles her three hockey loving boys around in an Audi A6 wagon. Unfortunately, the Audi is getting up there in miles and it’s starting to become too costly. It’s time for a replacement. What car should she buy?
Read MoreThe 2018 Jaguar XE is a fine-looking, super comfortable and well-priced luxury sports sedan that steers into a corner the same way a Wüsthof knife carves its way through a medium rare steak. On paper, it seems like it could be the fiercest assassin of the ubiquitous BMW 3 Series yet, even more so than tough contenders like the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sport, Cadillac ATS 2.0T and Lexus IS 200T.
Read MoreWelcome to a special edition of What Car Should You Buy! Yesterday, Jalopnik was fortunate enough to get an “anonymous letter” from one of the biggest lottery winners in history asking for advice as to what car, or cars, to buy.
Read MoreJoe has had a tough run. Last year, he lost his job and, subsequently, his apartment, along with his car. But things are looking up and he needs an affordable and reliable ride to get him back on track. What car should he buy?
Read MoreNo one wants to buy a used car only to have expensive problems pop up down the road. This is especially true if you’re dropping some serious money on a sports or luxury car with complex and costly components. The best way to avoid such problems is a pre-purchase inspection.
Read MoreDriving a 1978 Ferrari 308 with zero engine noise was weird. Using a regular three-pedal five-speed manual gearbox connected to an electric motor was even odder. But Electric GT’s EV-swapped Ferrari has a distinctive driving experience that, once you wrap your brain around it, is uniquely satisfying.
Read MoreMost know the Mercedes-Benz G-Class as an ostentatious machine that sells for roughly the same price as a small house, drives sort of like a tank and binges on gasoline like a Dyson does on hairballs. But only part of that statement is always true.
Read MoreRic’s Nissan Leaf works just fine for slogging through Seattle traffic, but the EV is having some unseen side effects on his soul, which longs for a vehicle that isn’t just a “transportation pod.” What car should he buy?
Read MoreYou already know that shopping for a car from the comfort of your computer is the most effective way to get the best price. Most dealers have adapted to this method of car buying, but here are some hilarious cases from dealers who haven’t figured out how to internet.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreIt’s August in New York City. The streets smell like trash and pee, condensation drips from window-mounted air-conditioning units and hoards of children in fluorescent summer camp t-shirts press uncomfortably close. These are all things driving a 2017 Abarth 124 Spider makes you painfully aware of because—as long as you have the top down—this is your stage.
Read MoreIn the three decades it’s existed, the E30 BMW 3-Series went from yuppie mascot to irrelevant old coupe to bargain fun car to cult classic to the celebrated standard of practical performance that it is today. We’ve seen plenty of custom E30 builds, but nobody’s created an E30 V8 that really felt like it could have come out of the BMW factory. Until now.
Read MoreKevin has owned more than 55 (!!!) cars and bikes and is constantly on the hunt for something different. Now he is looking for the holy grail: something fast, reliable, fun and unique for under $20,000. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThere is a battle happening on dealer showrooms right now. Right now, heavily discounted new cars are facing off against an excessive inventory of pre-owned models. The winner of this fight could be you, if you play your cards right. In order to help move used cars, automakers and banks are offering incredibly cheap interest rates for pre-owned financing.
Read MoreThe 2017 Lexus NX 200T may look like it’s about to kidnap you and teleport you to a world where giant Gundams rule the Earth, but in reality, it’s as easy to live with as your average Toyota RAV4. It’s just a whole lot nicer to sit in.
Read MoreThe 2018 Dodge Durango SRT truly is a hilarious hot rod minivan, and I love me some screamin’ V8 as much as the next sunburned American. But after herding this 475-horsepower heifer around a race track I think, maybe, the idea of this car is a lot more fun than actually driving it.
Read MoreJoe has been hooning around in front-wheel drive cars for awhile and currently drives the excellent Fiesta ST (RIP FiST). He would like to make a change and get something that sends power to the rear wheels or all four of them. What car should he buy?
Read MoreIf you took Economics 101 in college, you probably at least remember that “supply and demand” is a thing. We can see that most basic of market principles on every used car lot in America right now. The market is saturated with pre-owned vehicles, which means prices are down. As such, it’s not such a great time to sell or trade your car. However, if you’re trying to sell something desirable or unique you may be able to skip craigslist hustle and still get a great price.
Read MoreComparing the the new 2018 Volkswagen Atlas with the former largest SUV Volkswagen made, the Touareg, is sort of like finding an old picture of your dad back when he was cool. Wow, dad, you might say, was that really you? When did you have that sweet neck tattoo removed? And why are you so boring now? Deep down, though, you’re probably aware that he’s a better dad the way he is now, just as the Atlas is probably better for VW right now.
Read MoreLook, here’s the deal: I’m going to be giving a talk at the best automotive museum in America this Thursday at 7 pm, in Nashville, Tennessee, and it’s very, very important that you attend. How important? Well, there will be a Volkswagen Thing, Citroën Mehari, Mini Moke, and Ferves Ranger all around me, so you be the judge.
Read MoreThis month we’ve been celebrating the existence and influence of the Porsche 928. It’s a car you need to know. This weekend’s wallpaper comes from Matt, who saw our video on the 928 and sent us this lovely refreshing picture. Thanks, Matt!
Read MoreI’ve known about Hoonigan Racing, Ken Block’s motorsport team that competes in FIA World Rallycross as a Ford factory backed team. I even saw them compete at Lydden Hill last month. But I never really understood just Hoonigan, which is separate from Ken and Ford and is based out of Long Beach, California. I assumed that Hoonigan was a T-shirt company for Ken Block and the drifters. Every time I see cars destroying their tires, there are people wearing Hoonigan shirts. It made sense.
Read MoreI’m proud to announce that the winner of the 2017 Excellence In Marker Lamp Design award, better known as the ‘Markie,’ has been awarded to the upcoming Kia Stinger GT. The Stinger’s bold, unashamed rear side marker light design is a revelation in the industry, and we’re delighted to give Kia the award this year.
Read MoreIt seems hard to believe today, but once, the very things that made an older Porsche 911 so desirable—the engine in the rear, the air-cooling, the noise, the raw driving experience—were once seen as liabilities. The Porsche 928 was created to fix that. It failed... or did it?
Read MoreOne of the things I’ve learned about myself over my life is that I’m much more interested in cheap crap than nice things. I’m not sure if it stems from some deep-seated inferiority complex or what, but I’m generally more impressed by things made with severe restrictions than unlimited budgets. Maybe that’s why I’m so taken with this 1999 Fiat concept, the Ecobasic.
Read MoreWe can’t help it: sometimes we just hate certain cars. It could be because of the way they look, drive or how they were made. This can happen despite the badge it wears on its nose.
Read MoreChewing gum, zip-ties, cardboard and beer cans: what do all these things have in common? Why, they’re all useful in desperate car repairs, of course!
Read MoreIt’s always been a goal of mine to make Jalopnik the best source for turn indicator-related information and commentary on the internet. That’s why I’m both so impressed at the work that went into this video and a bit ashamed it didn’t occur to me to think this through. Finally, someone has done the math to show exactly how much it costs a driver to use their blinkers.
Read MoreTesla has 500,000 reservations for the Model 3, Chevy has a $35,000, 200+ mile-range electric vehicle, a number of countries in Europe have set timelines to eliminate the sale of new combustion cars, and electric vehicles may end up being cheaper to build than dead-dinosaur-sauce-burning cars. It sure seems like electric cars are here to stay, but the truth is they’re still a pain in the ass to use when it comes to charging. I think I may have a workable stopgap solution.
Read MoreMost of us put a lot of care into the clothes we wear. What defines our style is important to us, so why wouldn’t that same line of thought carry over to the cars we drive? Taste, design and looks in a car are all highly subjective. Nailing down what a customer wants can be a tricky business, because sometimes even they have no idea what they’re looking for. Teresa Spafford has made it her life’s work to create cars stylish enough to wear.
Read MoreThe 718 Boxster and Cayman have taken over as the cheap Porsches of the day, sort of like modern-day 914s. Yet those of us who got into inexpensive classic Porsches another way have been left in the dust. Porsche made brilliant front-engine, rear-transaxle cars in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and they owe us a new one.
Read MoreMazda has managed to make a lot of interesting cars over the years. From their early 360cc Kei-class cars to their dogged loyalty to the rotary engine, to the raw, pure joy of a Miata, and even using such deeply geeky things as Miller-cycle engines, Mazda has a long track record of Not Being Boring. Still, when they made boring a goal, they absolutely succeeded, as the Mazda 626 tepidly proves.
Read MoreBeep Beep. A vroom in the night. It’s your car. It’s time to give it a taste of the road with its tire-feet. Let your car go for a drive. You gotta do it, bud.
Read MoreIf you were to take the collective nuclear anxiety of the world during the height of the Cold War and somehow transfigure that into cold, hard engineering, you’d probably end up with something like this: the supersonic, low-altitude missile known as ‘The Flying Crowbar.’
Read MoreNo clickbait here! This post delivers exactly what the headline promises: five genuinely terrible car names I just made up. Feel free to come up with your own in the comments! It’s surprisingly fun!
Read MoreThe wheeled, rounded-rectangular volumes of space enclosed by a metal shell and propelled by a small engine at one end or the other that we call a ‘minivans’ are some of my favorite vehicles ever. For whatever reason, a lot of companies like to claim to have the first of these: Chrysler likes to say so, as does Volkswagen. The truth, as usual, seems far more obscure.
Read MoreThe base-model Chevrolet Camaro was such a dork for so long. It was weak, slow and generally incapable of eliciting enthusiasm. But now it’s one of those dorks who grew up, sold an app and became a millionaire. The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro 2.0T has taken off the taped glasses and become worthy of your attention.
Read MoreNo, it’s not safe to drive on the roads—not in this condition. And it would take a lot to get it there. But what if you lived in a world without such strict rules? If so, that 2017 Honda Civic Type R, destroyed this summer by a jackass driver who wasn’t paying attention, could be your next salvage race car.
Read MoreThey tried to warn him, and he didn’t pay attention. Somehow I have to imagine it’s not hard for a truck driver to realize his massive truck bed is raised, and that it might cause problems while motoring down the highway. Here’s what happens when the truck driver, uh, doesn’t realize his mistake.
Read MoreIn late May, a yellow Chevrolet Corvette Z06 smashed into a tree in Michigan, leaving an expensive car in utter pieces. At first, it was a bit of a mystery who the driver was, though the car (as we matched up then, via its license plate) was the same car once featured on the YouTube series Vehicle Virgins. Now that Corvette driver is facing serious charges.
Read MoreThe Ford Mustang threat never went away. It just got quieter, as its owners seemingly got more cautious. But at a car meet in California this weekend, the threat returned, and this time the crowd fought back.
Read MoreA man who fled a car crash, taking his pitbull with him, tried to steal another car from the parking lot of a store before a security guard attempted to stop him. Then he stole the security guard’s car and crashed into a pole.
Read MoreYou take great pride in your Mercedes-Benz. So much so that when you see another Mercedes-Benz on the road, you are filled with rage and jealousy. This is not the way to handle those feelings. Please!
Read MoreMan, good track days: nothing like ‘em. You’re hitting all the apexes, really getting into the swing of things. You finish the day without anybody crashing. Life is good. You feel good. But not all track days were created equal.
Read MoreThe woman who fell seven stories in her BMW 4 Series from the Littlefield Parking Garage in Austin, Texas has shared what the terrifying experience was like in a new interview.
Read MoreThe picture really tells it all. Count the number of times I tried to correct a slide, going faster, going faster, going faster until oh shit fuck fuck fuck that’s a pole.
Read MoreOn Thursday, a freight train in Henry County, Georgia, split open a tractor trailer like a well-placed baseball bat to a Pikachu Piñata. The aftermath—buttermint candy littered all over the place—would make any kid ignore their parents’ warnings about playing on train tracks.
Read MorePolice have released video showing the moment a BMW 4 Series fell seven stories after driving off the edge of an Austin, Texas parking garage—the second such incident to happen in less than a year, which is terrifying.
Read MoreAn EF-1 tornado touched down in Salisbury, Maryland on Monday, destroying trees, collapsing a building, and even tossing cars onto their roofs. Here’s a look at some of the carnage.
Read MoreA woman in Georgia has an important message for all of you road-trippers out there trying to get one last long drive in before summer’s end: get your damn feet off the dash.
Read MoreHello, it’s “Russian dashcam night” and tonight’s video features a Kia obeying the laws of traffic and being rewarded with getting t-boned by a giant armored personnel carrier.
Read MoreThis compilation is 13 minutes long and I watched the whole damn thing while roaring with laughter.
Read MoreI am not some sort of finger-wagging ninny, I’ll say that upfront. But I am a human being, and frankly, sir, when I see you riding your motorcycle without a helmet, it makes me nervous as all hell. Stop it. Right now.
Read MoreWhile crashes in motorcycle racing can be spectacular, we love crazy saves the most. Watch Kawasaki rider Anthony West come off his Kawasaki in last weekend’s MotoAmerica race in Pittsburgh and then cling to side the bike while bringing the machine to a halt.
Read MoreLast week we heard Harley-Davidson had completely revamped its core cruiser line with eight all-new Softail bikes for the 2018 model year. I’m riding almost every variant this week with some of the people who made them, so get your questions in now!
Read MoreNo need to swing a leg over the new Kymco Spade—just go ahead and walk up from behind and plop down on the 28-inch seat. Crank up the engine, twist the throttle wide open and let the engine fly through the gears. In your mind you’ll be burning up a race track. In reality, you’ll barely be in danger of breaking the speed limit. What’s not to love?
Read MoreHarley-Davidson has just announced five new Touring bikes and eight new Softail cruisers in a huge revamp of its lineup, along with the demise of the long-running Dyna machines. For those who have been asking how H-D hopes to stay relevant as its core customer base gets too old to ride, here’s its answer.
Read MoreYou know how every army movie has a montage where dudes crawl, claw and climb their way through what looks like the most miserable gym class ever? EnduroCross is pretty much that, on dirt bikes. Racing. The new season kicks off August 19 in Las Vegas. Watch it there, or online right here.
Read MoreThe Tennessee Knockout is billed as the toughest extreme enduro race in America. For good reason. Riders manhandle their bikes up impossibly steep hills, through creeks and over logs and mossy boulders. All at breathtaking speeds. I was exhausted just watching.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of determination exhibited in this video. First, there’s the determination of the driver of that 2008-ish Mercedes-Benz S-Class to be a colossal dick and hit three cars and then take off running, there’s the determination of the biker to not let him get away with it, and then there’s the determination of that S-Class to keep driving with pretty severe damage. That’s a lot of determination.
Read MoreSomebody finally figured out how to set the clock on a VHS player and holy crap, turns out that thing was actually a time machine all along! Also, if summer camp games plus motorcycles sounds appealing, you’re suddenly in luck.
Read MoreHarley is losing it with young people in America, and it’s not because the bikes are bad, as Regular Car Reviews explains. It’s because the bikes are un-ownable. They can’t escape the microcosm of Harley-Davidson the brand.
Read MoreA 1992 Volkswagen GTI was fun and “fast” around the time a lot of us got our driver’s licenses. But it was nothing special, which meant a lot of them were cheap, which meant you or somebody you knew probably had one. And that is why this modest little car is stirring up so much nostalgia.
Read MoreEarlier this year, the eighth installment of the greatest franchise ever created hit theaters. The Fate of the Furious was fast-paced, grandiose and filled with explosions. Scott Eastwood was in it. He’s in this new movie, too, called Overdrive, which also has cars and explosions but, strangely, seems to have nothing to do with Fast and Furious at all.
Read MoreThe National Labor Relations Board, an independent government agency that seeks to enforce U.S. labor laws, has filed a complaint against Tesla in support of claims of intimidation and harassment of workers by Tesla staff and forcing employees to sign an “overly-broad” confidentiality agreement.
Read MoreMuch of Southeast Texas is under water after Hurricane Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the state in only a short period. Houston has had it particularly bad, so to help, some self-identified “rednecks” in lifted trucks are doing their part. Among their efforts: yanking what appears to be a national guard vehicle out of a flood.
Read MoreRunning from the police is one of the stupidest things you can do. Swimming through deep waters where there are sharks is another one of the stupidest things you can do. This driver did both. On Wednesday afternoon, police in Surf City, North Carolina, pulled over a driver named Zachary Kingsbury on a street that, Google Maps says, is about 200 feet from the beach. After police said they spotted some “illegal contraband” in the vehicle, they asked Kingsbury to step out of the car. He did, and th
Read MorePresident Trump was in Missouri on Wednesday to talk about taxes (and also publish some tweets) which means that his motorcade was also there and a lot of people were out and about filming said motorcade. This included one person who caught a curious sight; around 1:15 into the below video a white car, seemingly out-of-control, emerged from the woods just as the presidential limo pulled into view.
Read MoreSeveral Chicago-area dealerships have made individual agreements with mechanics amidst a now month-long strike over harsh pay structures and treatment, the Chicago Tribune reports. But the negotiations have been collective so far, and, now, the bargaining group representing dealers has accused the technicians’ union of violating federal labor law with the individual deals.
Read MoreSantander Consumer USA, the subprime auto lending subsidiary of the Spanish banking giant, has replaced its chief executive following years of regulatory scrutiny that has mired the company in controversy.
Read MoreThere’s two groups of people who I think know more about cars than nearly any other: the people who work at the Lane Motor Museum and the collective, moist hive mind that is the Jalopnik readership. Incredibly, one of these groups has found something that’s stumping it, and I’m hoping the other group can help. I think you’ll know what group you’re in.
Read MoreThanks to a friend’s Facebook post, it came to my attention that Galaxie 500, the wonderful Massachusetts shoegaze band named after a Ford, turned 30 this year.
Read MoreThere exists a small warehouse in the Zuffenhausen neighborhood of the German city of Stuttgart. It belongs to Porsche, but they don’t like to say where it is. And they rarely open it up to personnel who aren’t employees of the Porsche Museum—let alone outsiders. But I’ve been there. I’ve seen it. They even let me take pictures. And I can tell you it contains some of the rarest and most bizarre creations in the automotive world.
Read MoreThe Chevy Camaro of the ’90s doesn’t get a whole lot of love, does it? Maybe because the Camaro nameplate died on the fourth-gen’s watch, maybe it just wasn’t that great of a car. Regardless, there are still a few out there that have been almost perfectly preserved. And they’re starting to look good again.
Read MoreEx-Lamborghini boss and wearer of impeccable suits Stephan Winkelmann headed up Audi’s fun division Audi Sport GmbH, formerly known as Quattro, for just a little over a year. Now, it appears that he’s moving again, this time to captain Bugatti. That sounds like... trading up.
Read MoreCNN correspondent Drew Griffin was reporting on the impact of Hurricane Harvey in Beaumont, Texas, when a man drove his pickup straight into a flooded ravine right behind them during a broadcast.
Read MoreThe 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT R starts at $157,000 and has a 577-horsepower, 4.0-liter V8 inside, going from 0-60 mph in what Mercedes says is 3.5 seconds. That might not even be the end of it for the Mercedes-AMG GT.
Read MoreI’m not a genius, which will become increasingly clear to all of you, but I urge you to not do at least one simple thing: If an app you’re using to navigate New York City on your bike tells you to take the Lincoln Tunnel, try to resist the suggestion. The Lincoln Tunnel is not for bikes, it is for cars, a fact one poor delivery guy learned Tuesday night.
Read MoreI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you can have all the power and braking in the world, but if your car doesn’t have good tires, then it’s just a waste of performance. Those four (or three, or two) little contact patches on the road surface can make all the difference. Here’s proof that they do.
Read MoreListen, was the Nissan 350Z perfect? Of course not. Was it good in its day? Yes it was. And more than that, it was something from Nissan.
Read MoreNissan, on a mission to end all in-car slap fights, is here to save the day. Never again will you experience slap-inducing rage when a driver stomps the brakes, unless you live outside of Japan or you choose not to buy a Note hatchback. Minor stuff like that isn’t important when you’re ending violence, though.
Read MoreAt first glance, this seems like any other Nissan 350Z you may encounter on the road: it’s silver-gray, it has a manual, and it has a fairly sparse interior. It’s nothing unusual. What is unusual is when it was made. If the VIN is to be believed, this is the very first production 350Z to roll off the assembly line. And it can be yours.
Read MoreFalls Church, Virginia (outside of Washington, D.C.) has the lowest poverty level of any independent city or county in America, as the U.S. Census Bureau found in 2011. But it’s still a surprise that the city got itself a Volvo for a cop car back in the ‘80s. Also, now it could be yours.
Read MoreAs Monterey Car Week began its annual social media takeover, for me, several predominant themes emerged. There was no shortage of stunning supercars skirting the Pacific Coast on famed roads like Highway 1 and 17 Mile Drive. The ornate streets of Carmel showcased some of the finest works of automotive art ever produced. And as is tradition for Monterey, incredible historic race cars were turning laps at the legendary Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Read MoreSometimes, when I’m driving around, my heart is filled with scorn. Scorn for bad vanity plates. Scorn for fake, stick-on hood vents from AutoZone. Scorn for cheap, aftermarket aero bits that do nothing. But here’s the thing: when the big and dumb wing comes stock, then I love it. There’s just something so lighthearted and carefree about them.
Read MorePorsche likes to take their Macan über-grocery getter to the track, but of course they do—they’re a fast-car company that doesn’t want to be called a sellout for building crossovers. Fortunately, owners are now trolling 911s and other like sports cars in a crossover capable of pulling 1.13 G in a corner. It is glorious.
Read MoreEveryone is a critic when it come to other people’s driving, but sometimes, on very rare occasions, someone stopping their car in front of you, exiting their vehicle, and walking towards you isn’t the beginning of a shouting match and fight. Sometimes, like in the case of this young driver in Australia, it’s the beginning of a compliment.
Read MoreAlright, Kia. Sit down. We need to talk. Sure, you’re just getting into the groove of this “cool cars” thing. That’s fine, understandable. But if there’s one thing you don’t do in this realm of “coolness,” it’s tease a beautiful shooting brake and casually mention that hey, you know, it’s probably not coming to America.
Read MoreToday, and, really, for a few decades now, having an automatic transmission is the boring option. But it’s important to remember that this wasn’t always the case. There was a time when automatic transmissions weren’t just exciting for technological reasons, but because there was some real drama to the whole process. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, then you clearly haven’t seen the Electric Hand in action.
Read MoreAn estimated 500,000 Texan vehicles could be totaled and scrapped in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, snowballing into a massive sales wave of new and used cars in the coming months.
Read MoreThe rappers love their Rolls-Royce, but Acura was in their hearts the whole time.
Read MoreMini is getting into the electric game again after a soft approach back in 2008, and while this new Mini Electric Concept is the result of many questionable decisions, Mini going electric just makes too much sense to avoid.
Read MoreThere was a time when if someone said “Bentley” to me, an image of an old man smoking a cigar behind the wheel a big rolling box would come to mind. This, to me, epitomized Bentley. Until now. This is the all-new Bentley Continental GT and it is, in my opinion, the best-looking modern Bentley to date.
Read MoreOne of the best forms of transportation to and from an airport—at least, for the person flying—is by a car that someone else is driving. You don’t have to worry about missing a shuttle, parking fees, hauling bags forever or any of that. But, because we can’t have nice things, a Boston airport wants to mess it all up.
Read MoreIt’s always occurred to me that, of all of the car brands there are, popular songs seem to mention Rolls-Royce a disproportionate amount of times. It sounds like everybody who’s anybody wants to buy a big, blocky sedan with more amenities than your average hotel, and, boy, do they want to tell you about it.
Read MoreThe so-called Cajun Navy, a loose conglomerate of volunteer boat rescuers that first came together in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, was eventually credited with saving some 10,000 people from the ensuing floods. Twelve years later, groups calling themselves the Cajun Navy are in Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. It’s safe to say it’s been a little rougher going.
Read MoreI remember when people thought it was the END TIMES back in 2003 when the first Porsche Cayenne came out. “An SUV, from Porsche?” they cried. “Surely we are doomed!” Well, the apocalypse never came, and the Cayenne earned its respect for being very quick and engaging to drive. Now a new 2019 Porsche Cayenne is here, and it will do what that SUV does best: go fast, and print money for Porsche.
Read MoreThe stop sign was approaching.
Read MoreHurricane Harvey is still running Texas through the ringer, with even more rain expected for Gulf coast states in the forecast. The storm has already dumped 11 trillion gallons of water in just a few days, according to CNN. At least nine people have lost their lives in the storm, and Houston’s mayor fears more may be dead in his distressed city according to the Associated Press.
Read MoreIn recent days, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office has been flooded with complaints of price-gouging, following the wrath of Hurricane Harvey—hotels tripling rates, $99 for a case of water, and fuel as costly as $10 per gallon. On Monday, that already-high price for gas was bested by a Houston convenience store that, according to the AG’s office, was selling fuel at $20 per gallon.
Read MoreWho doesn’t love a Miata? The zippy little car with the happy headlights and grinning grill is a staple of the enthusiast car culture, and has been for over 25 years now. There is one Miata, however, that doesn’t get as much love. Maybe it should. The NC Miata was produced between 2006 and 2015 and it’s not as pure as the original NA Miata nor is it as sharp as the current ND, but it’s still a damn good Miata and quality examples can be picked up for incredibly reasonable prices.
Read MoreHurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc on Texas, leaving at least nine people dead and racking up potentially billions of dollars in damages. Soon enough, federal aid is expected to be issued to help rebuild communities across the state. Under regulations proposed by the Obama administration, any federally-funded infrastructure or buildings would’ve been rebuilt to withstand record-setting flood events. But earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded that regulation, and now Harvey is
Read MoreBecause cars span multiple decades and multiple generations and groups of people, of course there are little bubbles of niche culture-communities within the greater car community itself. Some of them are Very Serious.
Read MoreSome days, it feels like everyone and everything in this world of ours is bad. But if you need a reason to stop being down on humanity, nature and all of the bad things happening on this terrestrial ball, know that a group of people recently spent hours taking apart a car to rescue a kitten and return it to its mom.
Read MoreTalk about going zero to 100: Aston Martin, which today has no hybrid cars, will go fully hybrid across the board by the mid-2020s. But I guess when you only offer about five models at a time, hybridizing all of them isn’t a huuuge task.
Read MoreYou hated the BMW i3. You mocked it. You called it ugly. Over-styled. Too expensive. You didn’t buy it. Now look at what you made BMW do. The old i3 is dead. The BMW i3s is the electric car of your bad dreams.
Read MoreHurricane Harvey has claimed eight lives so far, a number expected to rise. Bill and Paulette Rogers, who live in Port Aransas, Texas—on Mustang Island, just outside of Corpus Christi—are not among them, thanks, in part, to his truck, a white Ford F-250 Super Duty.
Read MoreThe next time a terrifying hawk crosses your path, remember that it will likely injure you, but it also may not. You could also try talking it down.
Read MoreWhen it comes to identifying cars, there’s two very distinct versions of the “what the fuck is that?” feeling. One is the exciting, head-jerking feeling of shock at seeing something delightfully incomprehensible, like catching a glimpse of a Gordon-Keeble in suburban Norman, Oklahoma. The other is sour, empty feeling you get when you see a car so boring, so bland, such a void of interest or character that you realize you have no idea what the hell it is. Guess which category the Chevy Uplander f
Read MoreUnfortunately, my travels and my business usually bring me to New York City a few times a year. I really don’t care for it. Bad smells, democracy and Chipotle are all nauseating to me. Thankfully, though, there’s been an increase in private driveways to sooth my nerves.
Read MoreAs a teen, it’s common to go from one extreme to the next. One day, you feel like the coolest kid in school, by far. The next, you have a giant pimple and your crush saw it, causing a confidence crisis so big that you’ll definitely never, ever forget how you felt that day. That’s kind of how Toyota is acting right now.
Read MoreRecently, in our holographic meeting room high atop the Jalopnik Spire, as I sat discussing important Jalopnik issues with the other shimmering, flickering holograms around me, I came to two startling realizations: a good number of my beloved co-workers harbor an intense dislike for start-stop technology, and, secondly, I think I want them to stop whining about it. I need to investigate these concepts.
Read MoreIn an event called “Car Week,” it shouldn’t come as surprise to anyone that there’s a lot to see. There were so many incredible cars around, driving around the town of Carmel and checking the posh hotels nearby made for a whole car show in itself. You don’t even need to fork over a few hundred dollars for tickets to some fancy shows to see some interesting stuff.
Read MoreNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie is no stranger to controversy—namely, the Bridgegate saga—which means that this latest news will sound a bit familiar: the recently-fired NJ Transit chief compliance officer said last week that he was forced to quit the agency, which he described as “toxic” and full of individuals with ties to the administration who “use that influence to terrorize every other employee.”
Read MoreAs we all know by now, Hurricane Harvey has unleashed its fury on Texas, and cities like Houston are flooded. Like, Biblical-looking flooded. It’s alarming and has sent lots of people looking for shelter, including one Cooper’s Hawk that was like, fuck flying in this shit, I’m getting a taxi.
Read MoreUber has been on the hunt for a new chief executive to run the ride-hailing company, after Travis Kalanick stepped down from the job in June under immense pressure from investors. On Sunday, the company picked Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of travel company Expedia, to oversee its litany of problems, according to The New York Times.
Read MoreOh, my friends. You have such hate in your dark hearts. So much anger for the cars. And I love every bit of it.
Read MoreWhat is the best towing vehicle? Certainly not my 1974 Scout. It’s underpowered, undersprung, and I need something to tow the Baja Pig to desert races like the Baja 1000 which runs the full peninsula this year.
Read MoreGood morning. If you’re driving a Hummer with an empty casket on top, and the fuzz tries to pull you over—mostly because that’s not the way that caskets are normally transported—consider complying. Otherwise, you may end up like Kevin M. Cholousky, 39, who was arrested and charged last week with driving with fictitious tags, reckless driving and fleeing for not, according to ArkansasOnline.
Read MoreThe Woodsman Cup is a motorcycle race that takes place every December at secret location in Northern Florida. It’s invite-only, and the rules change slightly every year. This year there will be no knobbies—not even on the sport bikes. Things have gotten too competitive in recent years and it time for a return to roots.
Read MoreThey’ve placed one of the cars inside the tunnel now. The only thing stopping them is a lot of government permits. Like, seriously, a lot. So much. But now the car fits.
Read MoreThe craziest jump in rally is a big statement. You have the famous jumps in Finland. El Brinco in Mexico. WRC Sweden has an award named ‘Colin’s Crest’ for the longest jump on SS16. These are massive jumps, but they aren’t the largest or the craziest.
Read MoreThere used to be a car called a Pontiac Fiero. It was awful. Like a mid-engined Corvette with half of its cylinders and silly little tires. But it allowed a bunch of really cool kit cars to be built around its mid-engine layout, and some people were foolish enough to swap in V8 engines thinking they had just built a GT40 or Testerossa.
Read MoreDetermining the best Formula One lap ever is answering a big question. One far greater than I have the knowledge for, but maybe one of you might know.
Read MoreA local news team covering the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas managed to save the life of a truck driver stranded in water during their live broadcast.
Read MoreThe red 2006 Subaru WRX only makes a brief but memorable appearance in the opening act of this summer’s hit heist movie Baby Driver, but it would appear it made quite the impact considering the price one of the stunt cars just sold for on eBay.
Read MoreCorvettes are dirty cars. I don’t care how many times they go to LeMans with the Z06, a Corvette will always remind me of Dirk Diggler, the 1970s, shag carpeting, and porn. Even the new ones. Most owners I know embrace their heritage rocking excellent vintage mustaches and jewelry. They learned at an early age that gold goes well with a Corvette. I learned this as a kid too. I also learned that you never button your top three buttons when in the presence of a Corvette. You can’t let it know that
Read MoreChoosing the best motorsport movie is a tough decision as there are so many good ones. Everything from documentaries, like Truth in 24 to biographies on Colin McCrae to movies like Rush. I’ve seen most of them but I keep coming back to The Evolution of Rally: 50 Years of Sideways.
Read MoreStorm chaser Jeff Piotrowski decided to get coverage of Hurricane Harvey as it battered Rockport, Texas from the super sketchy “safety” of a open car wash right on the edge of the eye of the storm, and it looks absolutely terrifying.
Read MoreThere are an immeasurable amount of books on motorsports. These few are a some of my favorites because they capture the dream of motorsport. Guys like Donohue, Hunt, Hill, Caracciola and Rosemeyer, Buffum, and Perry McCarthy. Guys that weren’t born into a motorsport family. Guys that found racing on their own and did great things with their dreams. So here we go.
Read MoreThe Cobo Center, the Detroit convention center that hosts the North American International Auto Show each year—is named for Albert Cobo, the mayor of Detroit from 1950-1957. Cobo was a racist and a bad mayor, and, today, current Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan urged that his name be removed from the venue.
Read MoreRally racing is unique in the world of motorsport. You race on roads that are normally open to the public but now closed for car racing. What was an intersection with a stop sign last weekend is now a massive jump that lets you clear the whole intersection. You race up mountains and through the woods. You race in the rain, snow, on ice, sand, gravel and tarmac. You race during the day, the night, and in the fog. You race with a co-driver in cars that are street legal. There is nothing else like
Read MoreJames Robert Liang—one of the engineers who helped design the defeat device that fooled U.S. emissions regulators into thinking VW TDIs were cleaner than they really were—is the first VW employee to be sentenced in the U.S. for participating in Dieselgate. And boy is he going to pay dearly.
Read MoreToday, we asked you what car or cars you’d buy if you hit that $759 million jackpot. But maybe we asked you the wrong question. At least, Sergio Marchionne may think so.
Read MoreIt’s Friday. The week is over. Summer is nearly over. But for you, it is about to be the weekend—it is about to be the car time.
Read MoreImagine a Ferrari squeezed down to the dimensions of a Shriners parade car. Now imagine sharing that car’s compact cabin space with another person and a hateful little three-cylinder engine with the raging whine of a vindictive bee swarm. Now you’re driving, baby. In an Autozam AZ-1.
Read MoreNothing matters when you have a rental Camaro. It’s surprisingly fast, sure, but at its heart, it’s still a rental car. Get the insurance? Don’t care. Rev the crap out of it? Don’t care. Accidentally call it a Mustang? Sure enough, don’t care. It’s a car that exists to be beaten on, as Regular Car Reviews explains.
Read MoreThe slightly redesigned 2019 Porsche Cayenne isn’t supposed to make its way before our eyes until Tuesday, but Fridays are more fun anyway. Here, have a look at some recently leaked photos that appear to be it. Stay awhile, if you’d like.
Read MoreGeneral Motors is taking precaution and has begun alerting customers who purchased early-production Chevrolet Bolts that they may experience sudden loss of propulsion in certain low-voltage conditions.
Read MoreAug. 16 was the 40th anniversary of the death of America’s favorite jumpsuit aficionado, Elvis Presley. On that very same day, nearly every Honda or Acura vehicle built between 1999 and 2004 and fitted with a Nav system had their clocks fail to just displaying 0:00. Coincidence? You decide.
Read MoreHand-woven dashboards. Wide hips and wider tires. Explosive exhaust notes. Rebuilt flat-six engines with power to rival modern supercars. Painted any damn color you want. Unless you’ve been under a rock for years, you know Singer Vehicle Design as the company that performs exceptional work in restoring, tuning, customizing, and modifying customers’ older Porsche 964 donor cars. It’s a machine that cranks out another thing as well: hype.
Read MoreWhile on strike this month, Joe Schubkegel saw his $100,000 set of tools pushed outside and left in the rain. Two days before, his health insurance was canceled. Four days after, he was told he’d been “permanently replaced” at work. All he wanted was to be paid for all of the hours he works, not to be shorted by a system that relentlessly chops down payable time.
Read MoreI grew up in Northeast Ohio, where driving, like in most of the non-urbanized and subway-ified world, is just a part of life, like shitting. And—not dissimilar to Midwestern defecation, come to think of it—Ohioans tend to drive very slowly, while honking is mostly unheard of and speed limits are generally abided by. That’s in large part because police at every level of government, with little else to do, enthusiastically police the behavior of drivers, whether for speed, or one’s turn signals, o
Read MoreA couple months ago, hints were dropped that the Transformer known as Bumblebee would return to his original automotive form, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, for the new standalone Bumblebee movie currently in production. Now, we have what appears to be photographic confirmation of this, and, even better, I have determined the year of Beetle that will portray the noted transforming robot.
Read MoreRemember that crazy-ass off-roading supercar concept Audi showed off back in 2013? It was called the Nanuk and had a V10 diesel, and was essentially a lifted and toughened R8 or something. Well now the rumor mill claims the concept has been kicked over to Lamborghini to become a real thing in the form of a Huracan—now called the Safari.
Read MoreFour people have been charged and police are looking for others involved in “stunting” during a friend’s funeral procession in Enfield, Nova Scotia. When I go out, I want all of you to show up and rip sick burnouts in my memory, too.
Read MoreYou can take your BMW M3 and piss right off because this Kia here, this 2018 Kia Stinger GT, looks like it’ll be a right good and proper sports sedan. And for a fraction of the price, too, most likely.
Read MoreThis, right here, is a very rare Ferrari. It’s also a very dirty Ferrari. Its status as a running, driving automobile has likely been questionable for several decades, but it’s expected to sell for more than $2 million at auction next month.
Read MoreApple, a company you may be aware of from their Pippin game console, until fairly recently had some very ambitious autonomous car plans. Ambitious in the sense that they were planning to build a whole car. Last year, those plans were drastically scaled back, and a recent New York Times article gives some interesting insights as to why.
Read MoreI have a great job. I get to make videos with a super-talented group of car fanatics. There is, however, one caveat to this job. I have to commute from an outer borough in New York City into Manhattan. This often means taking the subway, which this summer especially, has proven to be a nightmare. But I have something to suggest: when you can, take the bus, for the bus is good.
Read MoreConsidered by many to be the most famous car show in the world, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the climax of the Monterey Car Week festivities. It’s a show held for charity where both pre and post-war cars are gathered at one of the best golf course in the world. As shows go, the Pebble Beach Concours is about as prestigious as it gets. I just wasn’t all that amazed by it.
Read MoreIt has happened: some of the last great American sweethearts, the Dodge Challenger/Charger Hellcats, are being recalled.
Read MoreGosh those where good times. One of my all time favorite cars that I’ve owned was my 2005 Subaru Legacy GT wagon, I’d even go so far to say that it was one of the best Subarus the brand ever made. Our friend Matt Farah got behind the wheel of one in his most recent One Take video series and he had a few glowing comments as well.
Read MoreRight now, Volkswagen offers three SUVs for the American market: the Touareg (dead), the Atlas and the Tiguan. And as you already know, Americans can’t get enough of these SUV things. So why doesn’t Volkswagen seem like it has plans to offer the new, 2018 Volkswagen T-Roc compact SUV/crossover to us Americans?
Read MoreThe former environmental minister for Germany’s most populous state wanted an electric car while in office, because, well, EVs are “green” and good for our planet while it still exists. But Germany’s truest green boy couldn’t handle an EV as a daily driver, and returned his Tesla Model S over lack of range.
Read MoreWhat’s being called “the Airbnb for classic and exotic cars” is being relaunched with a big new backer. Seems like a great opportunity for some of us to drive interesting and historic cars we wouldn’t otherwise get to. But for owners, I don’t know, would you trust you with someone else’s supercar?
Read MoreThe Nissan GT-R has come a long way since its introduction back in 2007. It’s not only the go-to choice for rich kids buying their first performance car or the one all of the teens like to talk about, but it’s also just genuinely an incredible car that can still throw punches with the newer competition.
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of convertible talk around here lately, particularly about the phases Mazda went through with the latest Miata generation and the introduction of Ferrari’s new entry-level Portofino. Is either of those the best? Is there a better convertible?
Read MorePolice arrested a man while he watching the solar eclipse on Monday because he stopped to look up and was caught next to the car he had recently stolen.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been haggled down from the asking price on a car you were selling, you know what it’s like to feel like you didn’t originally ask for enough. You kind of feel cheated. Turns out there could be a really easy way to trick people into handing you more money than the car you’re selling may even be worth.
Read MoreCar commercials, in general, suck, lavishly and sloppily. So when a series of commercials for a car comes along that exhibits a true mastery of the craft, it deserves to be recognized. That’s why I’d like to invite all of you to experience this series of commercials for a Kei car called the Daihatsu Wake.
Read MoreCan you believe it? Porsche has built one million 911s over a span of 54 years. That is a lot of freaking cars. And, to celebrate, it made the one-millionth 911 a special one. Here are some gorgeous photos of it cruising around Manhattan. The City that Hates Cars looks good on it.
Read MoreI feel a little weird writing yet another Audi-and-numbers story in just one day, but sometimes fate has some funny ideas. Today Audi informed the world that it is changing its vehicle nomenclature system with the addition of a two-digit code that, as far as I can tell, will solve the problem of people not being confused enough about Audi model names.
Read MoreSo far, 2017 hasn’t given us much to look at, unless you enjoy watching protracted dumpster fires. So, of course, the logical thing to do is to look back. Ten years, to be exact, which brings us to 2007 and the birth one of the greatest terrible car movies ever made: Redline.
Read MoreWe like to say that the Mazda Miata is always the answer, and there’s one big reason for that: it is kind of incredible how, in the Miata’s nearly 30 year history, the company never managed to screw it up.
Read MoreIf you were to spot someone furtively stuffing bottles of ammonia, large blocks of Swiss cheese, and an embalmed marmot into a large duffel bag while looking around nervously, you’d probably think that something was up. You wouldn’t really have any idea what, exactly, was up, but it sure as hell feels like some kind of fuckery is going on. That’s the same feeling I get when I read about Audi building thousands of cars with the same Vehicle Identification Number.
Read MoreThe new Honda Civic Type R is a masterpiece of track-ready hot-hatch insanity, but when it comes to simple burnouts, it’s not the best. Even with 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner and ex-Formula One driver Alexander Rossi behind the wheel, the new Civic Type R just didn’t want to smoke the meats.
Read MoreAriel, the British car company known for building what look like roll cages on wheels, has just announced details on project HIPERCAR, which, they say, will be a ridiculous 1,180 horsepower, 1,330 lb-ft hybrid sports car that also promises a 0-60 time of 2.4 seconds. Plus, it’s got a turbine range extender on board.
Read MoreWould you like to talk about cars alongside potentially irritating co-hosts on an original Amazon Prime show? Do you have an unnatural fondness for denim and prog rock, but are too British to be Jay Leno? We found the temp job for you!
Read MoreAnother Monterey Car Week has come and gone. Fortunes changed hands and many resplendent vehicles have found new homes with new owners. It’s a happy time for all.
Read MoreWhile building your own Rolls-Royce in a display room, it has to be pesky not to know how it’ll look outside each of your 20 mansions next to the gold statue of yourself. But, fear not: Rolls-Royce has a lamp that emulates light from all around the globe, so you can see exactly how your paint choices will glisten.
Read MoreI really like using the words ‘entry-level’ and ‘Ferrari’ in the same headline. They sound weird together, but it’s genuinely a thing that exists, like “wheat-free bread” or “sexy Dalek.” Ferrari’s newest bottom-of-the-line car replaces the California, and is a very handsome 598 horsepower V8 2+2 called the Portofino.
Read MoreWalking around New York City, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians engrossed in their phones with naught a care in the world as to what may lay in their path. If they’re lucky, they make it through the day unscathed. If they’re like this scooter rider in China, then they could find themselves falling into a sinkhole.
Read MoreBuilding cars strictly for luxury and not for sport is all but dead. The 1977 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz was the personal luxury coupe’s last grand hurrah before the oil crisis pushed a need to downsize. Doug DeMuro sums this car up best when he says, “I feel like I’m driving a condominium.”
Read MoreA 25-year-old Orlando man was arrested and charged with DUI after allegedly smashing his 2003 Chevy Blazer through the gates of an apartment complex and proceeding to wreak havoc in the parking lot, crashing into 17 cars in what may have been the worst parking job ever.
Read MoreYou know those stupid novelty signs that say things like “Mustang Parking Only” that dorks like to put in their garages? They’re harmless fun, right? Of course they are. But you know, you could make them a whole lot less harmless if you replaced handicapped spots with signs like that, in exchange for money from one particular car brand. You know, like the Calgary Airport recently did with Lexus.
Read MoreThe EPA recently released fuel economy figures for the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel, and at 28 city/39 highway/32 combined, they’re good. Very good. Best In Class Good. But will anyone buy this thing? After running some numbers and looking at specs, it looks like an incredibly tough sell.
Read MoreIn Compton, California, a man stood atop of a tow truck as it dragged a fifth-generation Nissan Altima through the streets, blowing the sedan’s front tires and showering sparks everywhere in a loud, chaotic scene straight out of a Michael Bay film. It’s all very Florida, but in California this time.
Read MoreOut of all the events held during Monterey Car Week, The Quail was by far the my favorite. If you don’t mind feeling like a peasant amongst all the wealthy (tickets cost do $600), you can spend a couple of hours surrounded by some of the rarest and most exclusive cars on the planet.
Read MoreFans of gasoline and loud noises can make their own loud noises of protest all they want but it ain’t changing shit: electric cars are the future. That’s why Mercedes will offer a buttload of them soon and could show off another concept at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, this time an electric compact car.
Read MoreHey, you! You in that white BMW E60 M5 with the single greatest vanity license plate ever. We see you. And we love you (and your car).
Read MoreMike Musto from The House of Muscle, a website and web show devoted to muscle car culture, had his 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo stolen in the middle of the night from the parking lot just outside his house. So if you live in California, or perhaps near a scrapyard in Tijuana, please look out for it!
Read MoreThe Lincoln Town Car is a great classic brougham of style and grace. Who knew this magnificent boat of a vehicle could fly so well?
Read MoreSure, Ken Block’s Gymkhana videos have all of the stunts and precision driving you could have ever dreamed of being able to do and all of the street closures you wish you had the money to buy, but they’ve never been set entirely on dirt—deep, deep mounds of dirt. Well, welcome to “Terrakhana.” Stay awhile.
Read MoreThe British have always managed to pull off aggressive and stunningly stylish cars, and it seems they’re beginning to be appreciated in an all new light. Just a day after the first American-ized McLaren F1 became the most expensive British car ever sold, this 1956 Aston Martin DBR1 beat it out to claim the title for itself.
Read MoreThis mini documentary on Miami’s most powerful speedboats is actually pretty interesting and colorful, but the officially-licensed Lamborghini boat “Raging Bull” is, just, good grief.
Read MoreSomewhere deep in the Earth’s irritable bowels below Los Angeles there lies a parking garage with one spot so gloriously wide, so completely ensconced by paint and concrete that if you can claim it, your chances of collecting new dents in your doors while parked drops to almost zero. Imagine it.
Read MoreIts platform-mate, the BMW Z4, dropped this weekend at Pebble Beach. But where is the new Toyota Supra? It’s out there, away from the glitz and glamour of the Concours, running around with the people, on actual city streets. Just covered in camo. Still.
Read MoreIf there’s ever been a consistent shining light in the Chrysler brand portfolio in modern years, it’s been Jeep. Recognized and admired worldwide, is one of the strongest brands in any industry. But for Fiat Chrysler to give up its star player to a Chinese automaker, as has been suggested by recent reports, would be a supremely boneheaded move.
Read MoreHere it is, officially: the new 2018 BMW M5. The sixth generation of the biggest and baddest M-car sedan doesn’t look terribly different from the F10 generation, but it is, and it’s more powerful and has some fancy drivetrain tech too.
Read MoreA few weeks ago I told you to go find and buy an old Mercedes C43 AMG, a hot little V8 rear-drive sedan from the 90s that still looks sweet and costs next to nothing today. A few days ago somebody took my advice. But maybe they took it a little too far.
Read MoreWhen you think of factory sleepers—cars sold from the factory that look ordinary and boring, but are deceptively fast and badass—the case could be made that most modern ones trace their roots back to the original Ford Taurus SHO. Let Regular Car Reviews explain why it was so cool.
Read MoreThe Woodward Dream Cruise is a celebration of car culture in all of its forms. Because of this, the cars I saw on Saturday in metro Detroit spanned the entire automotive spectrum from gorgeous Italian exotics, to America donks, to classic muscle cars, to shoddily-built homebrew kit-cars. It was glorious.
Read MoreLook, I need to apologize to all of you. Like so many of us, I’ve gotten a bit delirious from the potential of a loss of 93% of my required sunlight for a few minutes today, and as a result I may have pushed the idea that the Mitsubishi Eclipse is named for the astronomic phenomenon we’ll see today involving the moon and sun. It’s not. It’s named for a horse.
Read MoreUber has problems. It doesn’t actually make money, it’s getting sued over alleged tech theft from Google, it’s plagued with a garbage culture and saw the departure of its founder and CEO bro Travis Kalanick this summer. But one early angel Uber investor has a (bad) idea to save things: merge with Tesla! That will do the trick.
Read MoreElon Musk, still not yet content to leave our robot-ridden Earth for a safer life on his true home planet of Mars, knows what the future holds. We are barreling toward a future of the robots killing us all, and Musk wants to stop it. So, he and 116 other tech experts are calling for a ban on autonomous weapons—soon.
Read MoreThe wild Lamborghini in its natural habitat is a spectacular and majestic beast. When threatened, though, it can be quite dangerous, often resorting to the traditional Italian Supercar defense of catching on fire. That’s what happened yesterday in Dallas, when a carjacked Lambo burst into flames during a police chase.
Read MoreThe Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance: an annual event where millionaires scowl at each other’s Bugattis on a golf course, and automotive writers put on teal pants to hang out with them for a day. It’s all quite absurd. But! The cars are very good. Here are some of them.
Read MoreFor a car that wasn’t supposed to be seen until tomorrow, according to Autocar, the new BMW M5 has been leaked again and again and now again. This time we’ve got the clearest look yet at BMW’s first all-wheel drive non-SUV M model, and it looks fine.
Read MoreBaby Driver was one of the biggest hits of the summer box office, and now the company that modified the 2006 Subaru WRX that plays the star car for the opening of the movie is looking to sell it off to somebody who needs a car to jam out in while robbing banks.
Read MoreAutomotive pioneer and Tesla CEO Elon Musk invested a lot of time this weekend responding to Tesla owner feedback on Twitter. While the feedback was constructive and will likely quickly result in better cars, the forum highlights issues of customer service for the rapidly growing automaker.
Read MoreA manual transmission, by definition, is a wobbly stick with a lot of choices. Most of the time, you just approach those choices in the order they appear on the wobbly stick, but sometimes you need (or want) to skip around the gears. Here’s how to do it without completely ruining everything.
Read MoreOnce up on a time, Carroll Shelby wanted to kick ass in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. To do it right, he decided to lengthen a Daytona to fit a big block inspired by NASCAR, but the car never made to the race. Now Shelby American is bringing it back for a limited run of heritage cars.
Read MoreThe city council of Alexandria, Virginia unanimously voted to rename Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway and have now set up a survey for public feedback and suggestions for what to rename the road. You probably have ideas.
Read MoreYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Read MoreI always get nervous driving over drawbridges. One family vacationing at the Jersey shore had to think fast and jump their Toyota over a drawbridge because it started to raise while they were on it.
Read MoreAfter refusing to confirm its previous confirmation that a new electric VW microbus would go into production, Volkswagen has re-confirmed that the microbus will indeed be going into production in 2022. Annoyances aside, that’s really exciting!
Read MoreAfter years of sitting in the shallow end of BMW’s lineup as a sort-of also-ran, the German roadster is back with the new Z4, and it’s the most promising sign of life out of BMW since the introduction of the 2 Series.
Read MoreHaving grown up hearing my family talk about what it was like seeing television evolve into what it is today, it must be even more surprising for a 97-year-old to witness the evolution of the car into “the future” we now know as the Tesla Model S.
Read MoreMercedes-Maybach unveiled a cabriolet version of its Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept from last year, all there is to say about it really is that it looks like money. A lot of money.
Read MoreAn absolutely pristine and particularly special 1995 silver McLaren F1 just found its second owner at the Bonham’s Pebble Beach auction for an astronomical asking price, which is fitting because us mere Earthlings are not worthy.
Read MoreYou thought there was an escape from the brands, didn’t you? You thought that somehow, some way, the interstellar regions of our universe weren’t polluted with that kind of earth-like junk, yes? But you were wrong. Oh, were you wrong. The total solar eclipse on Monday is for the brands, and nothing else.
Read MoreYou and your two best mates are driving around in your crappy little Lada whose brakes have always been fussy. And one day they completely shit the bed and you’re left with no brakes in traffic. What then?
Read MoreRace Taxis—mega drivers who offer rides in fast cars around the Nürburgring’s intimidating Nordschleife course—are some of the most fun you can have in the right seat of a car. One lucky rider got to see the Jaguar F-Type SVR Race Taxi make 43 incredible passes in one lap. That’s right. Forty-three.
Read MoreIf you shop smart and qualify for the right rebates you can lease the regular Alfa Romeo Giulia for around $299 a month. But if you are in the market for the Quadrifoglio you could be looking at payments upwards of $1,700 a month, making it one of the worst lease values on the market.
Read MoreIt’s always tricky to really get a good sense of a car’s value from an online auction, but sometimes there’s some hints that can really help. In the case of this 1997 BMW 318TI up for sale over at Copart, there’s a pretty good clue about the car’s value: it’s covered in money.
Read MoreRecently, Parker Nirenstein from supercar YouTube series Vehicle Virgins went to a Michelin press event where there was an autocross. You know, actual hard driving that requires skill and precision, the likes of which we don’t see on supercar YouTube very often. He is immediately called out by Alex Roy. It is hilarious.
Read MoreRecently I got to take Cadillac’s CTS-V all over some of my favorite Texas Hill Country roads. It was great, but that was only part of the story. The real reason I was driving the CTS-V was to test out the $1,600 optional Performance Data Recording system that Cosworth developed for Cadillac. They not only use this in the CTS-V and ATS-V cars you can buy at your local dealer, but they also use this exact software for the IMSA Cadillac Dpi-V.R cars, mind you with slightly fewer telemetry points.
Read MoreThe age of coachbuilding may just be making a comeback. Ken Okuyama, the ex-Pininfarina designer who was responsible for the Ferrari Enzo and Maserati Quattroporte, has created one hell of a follow-up to the polarizing Code 57 unveiled at last year’s Monterey Car Week. I got to see it and shoot it.
Read MoreI was on Craiglsist, as I spend much of my time these days, the other night when I came across language that troubled me deeply. (And no, I wasn’t on the part of Craigslist where you find someone to hurl sexual insults at while they clean your apartment for free. I already got someone for that this month.)
Read MoreBack when Mercedes was using the re-animated corpse of Pablo Picasso as the head of design for the Unimog division.
Read MoreRolls-Royce is known for a lot of things, but daring technological weirdness generally isn’t one of them. That’s why it’s so surprising that they made an engine that, when described, seems like a string of the most unlikely adjectives you can link together: a Wankel with two separate rotors (but not a twin-rotor) Diesel made by Rolls-Royce.
Read MoreWe all like our jobs to be straightforward. Sometimes we even get into a routine, or fall on our own reliance on technology. Maybe that’s not always for the best.
Read MoreEarlier this week, General Motors came out strong against a proposed $15 million settlement for thousands of claims related to the automaker’s ignition switch scandal, a weird scenario that pitted GM against “Old” GM. After duking it out in court, the settlement’s off the table, according to Bloomberg, meaning GM prevented having a provision triggered that would’ve required it to contribute $1 billion in stock.
Read MoreOur friends over at Zelectric Motors, the company that electrifies old air-cooled Volkswagens, including Beetles, Buses, and Things, were taking their lightning bugs out to Pebble Beach when they happened to see this other electron-powered VW: the I.D. Buzz neo-Type 2 concept we saw early this year at the Detroit Auto Show.
Read MoreAfter hearing recent rumors about Chinese companies potentially buying up Fiat Chrysler, a coworker suggested that the move could do a number on Ram, Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep sales (especially truck sales). I disagree; I think the average person won’t really care. And that’s because the idea behind what makes a car “American” is a lot more complex than just who finances the operation.
Read MoreWe all see things while driving that cause genuine bafflement, sometimes. It may be a person driving while trailing a forgotten gas pump hose, or perhaps a person driving while playing a game of dashboard Jenga, or even someone driving one of those Nissan Murano convertible things. This one, though, spotted by a guy named Tony on Facebook, is especially baffling.
Read MoreA van drove into crowds of people at Barcelona’s popular Las Ramblas pedestrian area in what police are describing as a terrorist attack, reports the BBC. Officials have confirmed 13 dead and 130 injured following the attack, per the latest numbers reported. Four suspects have been arrested in conjunction with this attack. [These numbers have been updated as the story developed.]
Read MoreA man driving a stolen Honda Accord (the most stolen car in the U.S.) in California reached the pinnacle of human stupidity when he decided to ask a deputy for directions. The officer obliged, but also ran the car’s tags (because no shit). A police chase ensued (because again, no shit). And the man was arrested (yep, no shit).
Read MoreCurrently I’m in California for Monterey Car Week but with a couple of free days before the main events, I wanted to get a taste of the local car scene here. Naturally that led me to the Sunset Plaza GT meet on Sunday morning. Let’s just say I’m a long way from Japan in more ways than one.
Read MoreThe 1969 Chevy Impala is a gem and, if I owned one, I wouldn’t have the slightest intention of letting someone drive it without me around, save maybe for my mother. For whatever reason, a Michigan man felt differently and, while trying to sell the car to a prospective buyer on Craigslist, let the individual take it for a test ride. Alone. You know what happened.
Read MoreWe’ve seen pictures of the disguised Jeep Wrangler Pickup before, but it’s an exciting thing, so I’m happy to show more leaked pictures of it when we get them. This picture is from inside an FCA facility, which is why I’ve obscured some of the background around the Jeep truck.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Elio Motors announced that it aimed to raise up to $100 million as part of a proposed public offering—and the company’s latest report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows the funding is sorely needed: Elio has $40,000 in cash remaining, according to the company’s semiannual report.
Read MoreBMW broke all our hearts a little bit in 2014 when it said that the sports car market was dying. But with the whole Toyota-Supra partnership and now a sparkling new Z4 concept at Monterey Car Week, we feel some retribution coming for those hurtful words spoken in the past.
Read MoreToday, put some class in your life. Consider selling everything you own to buy a pristine A70 Toyota Supra.
Read MoreThere’s already a small but burgeoning resistance against Mercedes-Benz (and other automakers) filling lineups with ugly melted sloping “coupe” crossovers that don’t make any damn sense. Today there is victory, for Mercedes has ruled out any form of convertible crossover, at least for now.
Read MoreSometimes, I enjoy scrolling down my Twitter or Facebook feed without seeing something sad, repulsive or utterly terrifying. I like to see something happy. And often, cars provide that for me. But no, no, no—not this this morning. This morning, I had to be reminded that the front end of the Sin R1 exists.
Read MoreA car involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Cheektowaga, New York escaped, leaving only blurry video, a small plastic part, and frustrated police. If there’s any group of dorky gearheads that can help, it’s this group, so let’s see what we can do.
Read MoreYou know my thoughts on not feeling bad if your car isn’t the top shelf model. Here’s another piece of advice: don’t be too steadfast in your beliefs. Be open to new experiences.
Read MoreRoy Lunn, a visionary engineer behind the iconic Ford GT40 car that won Le Mans, as well as the Ford Mustang, Ford Anglia, Jeep Cherokee and countless other automotive gems, died earlier this month at the age of 92 after suffering a stroke.
Read MoreNo one, except for white supremacists, seems happy with President Donald Trump’s doubling down on the “well BOTH SIDES were BAD” response to racially-motivated protests and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend. That included business leaders who struggled with how to handle their public ties to the administration. Luckily for General Motors CEO Mary Barra—in a tougher position than most on a White House advisory business council—Trump himself took care of her Trump problem.
Read MoreThe podcast Alice Isn’t Dead almost doesn’t feel like a podcast sometimes—it feels more like a road trip in audio form. It’s the tale of one woman’s search for her wife Alice, where she joins up with a trucking company with bone-chilling supernatural ties. Now USA is turning it into a TV show, and a book deal is on the way, per The Washington Post.
Read MoreHey nerds! A total solar eclipse is headed our way on Aug. 21. Get ready for some sacrificial offerings made to unknown gods and general witchcraft afoot. And if you’re planning on driving around during the big event, here are some tips that’ll help you avoid any mishaps.
Read MoreOf all the insurance companies I can think of—the one with the lizard or that girl or that talking box, or whatever—there’s really only one that seems to give a damn about people’s interest in vintage cars. The company is Hagerty, and, let’s be clear, their interest is in making money by insuring classic cars. Even with that in mind, I’m delighted to see it take real steps to bring classic cars to the people, like this recent event that I attended with my 6-year-old son.
Read MoreFew things are happier than a man and his dog. If that man happens to drift cars, naturally, he’s got to figure out a way to take his dog along for a ride. Behold, pure happiness in video form.
Read MoreThis past weekend, Heather Heyer died after being struck by a Dodge Challenger while counterprotesting white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. That same weekend, in an epic case of unfortunate timing, Dodge tweeted about its big drag racing event in Michigan, “Roadkill Nights,” which drew heavy criticism on social media. Now those tweets are gone, as Bloomberg reported last night.
Read MoreA violent crash caught on a police officer’s dashcam in May 2016 shows the cop’s cruiser barreling into a Smart car at 104 mph, authorities say. And now the officer is facing trial over the incident.
Read MoreOne of my beefs with car culture—parts of it, at least, not all of it—is the way it emphasizes the biggest and the best. Especially in America, where horsepower and quarter mile times are king. Everything has to be SS or M or AMG or V, top shelf, for it to be any good. This is the wrong way to think.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that ride-hailing company Uber has been concerned about its competitors in the race to build autonomous cars. But text messages released as part of Uber’s ongoing litigation with Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo, show the company’s top execs toyed with the idea of surreptitiously going after the likes of Tesla.
Read MoreUnder normal circumstances, a Mazda RX-7 Evo Group B Works car would be absolutely incredible to drive or own. One goes up for sale next month, except it has a unique twist—it’s never once been driven or raced.
Read MoreThe Honda Prelude never enjoyed the prevalence or subsequent nostalgia that makes enthusiast-spec Civics and Acura Integras so desirable today. But it was a damn good car in the late ’90s, it’s a good car now, and as of this afternoon we have a solid yardstick for seeing what a really well-sorted one is actually worth.
Read MoreWhile filming a segment of The Grand Tour in Switzerland in June, host Richard Hammond tumbled off of a hill climb course and the electric supercar he was in wound up in flames. The FIA and others later launched an investigation into the crash, and the findings left the hill climb’s organizers in all kinds of trouble.
Read MoreIn good news that has kept getting better and better, the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Coupe and Volante convertible will now also be joined by a Speedster and Shooting Brake. If you strike gold, don’t stop mining.
Read MoreSo, uh, how was your day today, fellow American citizen?
Read MorePre-production mules are, by their very nature, strange, chimera-like beasts, made from whatever was handy with little regard to how they look. As a result, most look like crap. That’s what makes the test mule used for the Plymouth Prowler/Jeep Wrangler so special—it’s arguably the only test mule that looks better than the production car. It’s called the Prangler.
Read MoreThe overarching problem with McLarens, if you ask me, is that they are simply too fast and too large for children to sit in comfortably. No child is going to be able to see over the wheel of a P1. No child can reach the pedals in the F1. This is a problem and McLaren has just resolved it.
Read MoreThere was so much to love about this summer’s latest Edgar Wright jam, Baby Driver. The stunts! The amazing soundtrack! Kevin Spacey being a weirdo! The charming Baby Driver and his nice girlfriend! But there’s one way to make it better, because it makes everything better: Eurobeat.
Read MorePneumonia is serious business, as poor ex-Top Gear and current The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson discovered. He nearly died from the sickness while on vacation.
Read MorePossibly the most controversial design decision of the Tesla Model 3, even beyond its Renault Caravelle-like grille-less face, is its instrument panel, which consists solely of a center-mounted landscape-oriented LCD screen. This tweeted video showing how the climate-control air-direction system works is one of the first real looks we’ve had at the Model 3's UI, and I really can’t say I’m impressed.
Read MoreThere’s no greater joy than taking a race car out on normal roads. Your car has the power to instantly make someone’s day—well, except the person who calls the cops because it’s too loud. But hey, it’s street legal, right? Pro drifter Ryan Tuerck went out for the day in his hood-less Ferrari 458 V8-powered Toyota GT86 hoon-mobile, and it is wonderful.
Read MoreBMW has famously declared that sports cars are all but dead, but at some point they must have said “fuck it” to team up with Toyota and bring us a new roadster. We’ll see it later this week at Monterey Car Week, but for now here’s a teaser.
Read MoreA controversial bill that would have protected drivers who plow into crowds of protesters will most likely fade away from the North Carolina legislature, a decision most certainly reached after the horrifying vehicle attack on a group of people counter-protesting Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
Read MoreThis is the Porsche 911 Turbo S, which starts at around $200,000 on its own. But buying a base model is for peasants, and you’re not really flaunting what you’ve got until you add a paint job that costs half of what the car did and enough options to never get the chance to use them all. That’s what cars are for, right?
Read MoreSay you’re driving around on a backroad somewhere and suddenly something in your car breaks. A check engine light comes on. You pull over. You don’t have a toolkit with you. There’s no cell service. Or it was that scary time before cell phones. What then?
Read MoreAmerica’s proudest moment as a country came in 1967, when Carroll Shelby’s team of A. J. Foyt and Dan Gurney sent Ferrari’s team home crying into their spaghetti bowls at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That day, the Ford GT40 was cemented as a racing legend and America looked cool as hell. Now, to celebrate that kickass moment, Ford has dressed up its new Ford GT in some heritage colors.
Read MoreThe 550 Maranello was Ferrari’s answer to the insanity that was the Diablo over at Lamborghini. Where the Diablo zigged, Ferrari zagged, developing a front-engine, clean looking sports car with a beautiful new V12. So what the hell happened to it?
Read MoreI choose to believe that inside every junkyard or scrapyard there lives at least one Junkyard Chimera, a wonderful, mythical beast improbably crafted from parts of other cars, and now forgotten, abandoned, a confusing corpse that suggests a fascinating, if usually unknowable story. I believe I found such a Chimera at a junkyard in Winston-Salem, NC.
Read MoreThe wind hushed through the trees. It was quiet—peaceful, even. But not for long.
Read MoreA reader named Matthew with a rich Australian friend sent us these pictures of a Rolls-Royce in his rich friend’s luxury apartment complex. What makes these pictures notable is the thick, creamery irony they’re saturated in, involving a protective Rolls-Royce cage, and how that cage itself proved the car’s greatest enemy.
Read MoreThe 1974 Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia is beautiful and flawless in every single way. Especially in this blue. My God, the blue.
Read MoreDoug and Roberta have never driven their 2003 Mercury Marauder on public roads. They flat-bedded it from the dealership in July of 2002, and stored it in a heated garage for 15 years. Now the car is for sale, meaning someone out there can buy what looks like a brand spankin’ new, V8, body-on-frame, rear wheel-drive old-school American sedan.
Read MoreLast week Germany’s titans of industry held a huge summit to try and convince European cities and the rest of the world that despite negative press from Volkswagen’s global cheating scandal, diesel passenger cars do have a future and should not face bans. But even Germany’s leader concedes she’s not optimistic about diesel cars moving forward.
Read MoreI happened to be at a junkyard this past weekend, doing my court-mandated community service, when I happened to notice this handsome vehicle nearby. It had a bit of body damage, so I was having some trouble identifying it. Think you can figure it out?
Read MoreHere’s a story that sounds very 2017 for you: General Motors is set to fight General Motors in court. To the untrained eye, that may seem strange, but the scenario is a byproduct of the automaker’s bankruptcy nearly a decade ago, and GM’s deadly ignition switch scandal that later followed, leaving almost 125 people dead. Here’s why GM is looking in the mirror.
Read MoreThere are certain things in life you shouldn’t cut corners on. Surgery comes to mind. Tattoos: another good answer. Absolutely for toilet paper and sushi. But you don’t need to pay top dollar for some of the things for your car.
Read MoreHey! Who wants a grilling tip before summer’s over? This one’s great: for best results, when transporting your grill, make sure the gas is off and for the love of anything, don’t light up a freaking cigarette in a closed car with the gas on. And, yes, this happened in Florida.
Read MoreWe, as a population, give Toyota a hard time. We call it boring, we’ve made the beige Camry the industry leader in blah, and we’re mean about the common dent patterns in its cars. But let’s put that aside, because Toyota just filed a patent of dreams: a device to catch all of the stuff we drop between the seats.
Read MoreSadly, it is Monday again. What can you do? Drive to work in the opulence of your Lincoln Continental Mark VI like this nice couple here, I suppose.
Read MoreAs if our world wasn’t as messed up as we already know it to be, NYC’s Transport Workers Union is claiming that the MTA stores dead bodies cleaned up off of subway tracks in worker break rooms. You thought you had it bad when somebody heated up their fish?
Read MoreSometimes I just have to wonder how somebody could let a particular car go, and then I remember that I’ve never seen more than four figures on a check written to my name. But now the only remaining Ford GT40 Roadster is for sale, and I’m not sure anything short of a fortune would settle it this time.
Read MorePorsche has settled a class action lawsuit out of court from a bunch of owners claiming they had to go and buy polarized sunglasses because the dashboard trim in their car was blinding in sunlight. Owners with the affected cars can get up to $175 in compensation. This is all hilariously insane.
Read MoreThe B8 Audi A4 Avant sold in America from 2008-2012 was the last true Audi wagon to make it our shores before it got a lift, some cladding and was renamed the Allroad. These cars still look incredibly good and prices have now dropped to fairly affordable levels.
Read MoreLeave it to a tiny car company like Mazda to pull off something the big players have been trying to figure out for years. That’s the deal with the new “SkyActiv-X” series of engines, which use revolutionary technology to achieve diesel-like fuel economy with gasoline. If you want to see how it likely works, Engineering Explained is here to help.
Read MoreTop Gear’s Chris Harris stepped out of a loaner Porsche 911 R to kindly review the new 911 GT3 for us, so when he claims that the GT3 is one of the best cars on sale today, we’re just going to have to believe him.
Read MoreAnti-Fascism and anti-racism protests that began in response to an alt-right rally near the University of Virginia campus last night has resulted in violent clashes, with the latest reports and video showing a car plowing through a crowded street of people.
Read MoreAn auction just ended for a twin-turbo (come to papa) six-speed manual (mmm) targa-roof (aw yea) essentially stock (unnnf) mint-condition 60,000 mile 1997 Toyota Supra ([panting]) in freaking factory green-on-tan and some lucky bastard now owns it for about $1 per mile on the odometer.
Read MoreWe all remember the glory days of racing, back when real men and women sat in thin metal tubes operating insanely fast machines. The days when the Mille Miglia was a sport, not a parade, and everybody wanted to die going fast. Infiniti remembers those good ol’ days—wait what?
Read MoreI don’t know if you are aware, but Dodge apparently made this muscle car called the SRT Challenger Demon. They really should have done a better job getting the word out, but it’s now for sale! How would you spec yours?
Read MoreElon Musk, hellbent on progressing the technological feats of humankind including artificial intelligence, would like you to know that artificial intelligence poses a greater threat to your fragile existence than threat-of-the-week North Korea.
Read MoreThe California Highway Patrol is scouring the streets for this dickbag who was caught ramming their Infinti G37 into a BMW, sending it careening under a semi-truck. Nobody was hurt, but the sooner this dangerous asshole is removed from our roads the better.
Read MoreToday we got to talking about 90s and 2000s nostalgia, and the relentless extreme-lifestyle optimism that came with it. And also, cars that tried so aggressively to be cool that they achieved perfect lameness.
Read MoreA meme about whether an airplane can take off on a treadmill has been going around social media lately, tearing friendships apart with its divisiveness, ruining families and sending the world further into chaos. But now it’s time to put an end to the madness. Let’s look at the science!
Read MoreHi! It’s Friday. A summer Friday, no less, and nobody really does any work during those. It’s time for you to slack off with us and talk about the cars, and anything else that’s on your mind.
Read MoreWe say we like weird cars around here. But how weird are you really willing to live with? If you’re up for living in the strangest form of opulent Franco-Italian luxury there is, consider the Citroën SM. You have no idea how great this thing is.
Read MoreThe ill-fated Fisker Karma hybrid car is getting a new lease on life, of sorts, resurrected under new ownership as the Karma Revero. The Revero is fundamentally the same as the old Fisker Karma but with minor updates from some new hardware and software. But an even smaller company in the world of electric cars claims that it’s actually responsible for this tech, that Karma obtained it in secret and cloned it. Following down a rabbit hole of lawsuits, forum posts and counter-suits, things only ge
Read MoreThis week our new friends at The Onion’s A.V. Club are looking back on 1997, a year that included possibly the worst two weeks in musical history and proved that stuffing modern CGI graphics into old movies could be a horrifyingly effective way to jump-start a film franchise.
Read MoreBANG! Like lightning, it appears, electricity crackling through its wheels as it speeds around the Nürburgring and makes the good noises in the process. It’s the new Acura NSX, a car we like! But is it... more than that?
Read MoreFerrari is apparently still arguing with itself over bringing back the Dino as a new entry level sports car, but there’s hesitation over brand image. They don’t want to start to look cheap, you know, like Porsche.
Read MoreThis charming little 1956 cartoon commissioned by the Automobile Manufacturers Association is interesting because it seems to have, at least according to some sources, lead to the development of the famous mid-century-future cartoon series the Jetsons six years later. The similarities are pretty striking, and the voice of George Jetson himself is even in this cartoon. Mostly, though, I’m interested in the cars here.
Read MoreGood news, kids! You’ll now be able to forever enjoy the brightness and pleasure of the Honda Beat, because the company just announced that it will begin to produce new OEM replacement parts!
Read MoreWe had some interesting amateur engineering dialog over what Toyota was trying to accomplish with its strange “assisted manual transmission.”
Read MoreWe did it, internet! With your help, we successfully tracked down the last 12 unsold, brand-new Lexus LFAs. Here are the cars we found. Also, guess what? There are more than 12.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure that none of our readers who drives a car with a manual transmission has ever looked down at their shifter and exclaimed “I sure wish this was a hell of a lot more complicated, needlessly!” I’m pretty sure. I can’t say the same for some Toyota engineers, who have patented an electronically-controlled manual transmission that I have no idea who would want.
Read MoreAcura sold just 64 RLX sedans across the entire United States last month. The car either needed to be dragged out back and put down or dosed with some of that steroidal energy the NSX has been suckling on. Well, the 2018 Acura RLX has landed and it really wants you to take this “Sport Hybrid” thing seriously.
Read MoreLook at this sad, lonely 2017 Honda Civic Type R, in what looks to be a nice neighborhood in suburban South Carolina. But not everything here is nice. No, in fact, this neighborhood houses the tale of the poor hot hatch that came home with a new companion, only to be listed for sale a few hundred miles later.
Read MoreThis video gets uncomfortably close to the chemical processes at work during a comprehensive re-paint of a Porsche 911. And man, it’s stranger to watch than alien eggs hatching. Even if you already know how filthy and laborious car painting is, these guys take detail-work to another level.
Read MoreIn a city that prides itself with harmonizing modernity and tradition, there are few opportunities for the classic car enthusiast in Tokyo to get up close and personal with rare and interesting older cars.
Read MoreYou’ll perhaps be as surprised as I was to learn that Volvo offers a car for sale that is over $100,000. But here we are! The XC90 T8 Excellence racks up at $105,895. It seems the brand overestimated the market for a six-figure Volvo. The company is now offering a rebate of over $23,000 to move some units.
Read MoreWe know a pretty decent amount about the Tesla Model 3 so far, but until just recently we didn’t know a ton about what kind of batteries those cars will pack out of the gate. Now we do! Elon Musk let it slip during a conference call that the new electric sport sedan comes in 50 kWh and 75 kWh flavors.
Read MoreIt’s not a good idea to ride the fuel tank down to empty, and yet I’ve gone on half a dozen food trips over the span of a week with the little light on before, each caloric quest inching up my anxiety but having no effect on my laziness. If this Car Throttle test is anything to go by, get an old Honda Accord and you won’t even need to be anxious.
Read MoreElon Musk is a busy billionaire who you might imagine has a lot of people working for him to keep all of his various projects afloat, but Business Insider brought up an anecdote from a biography of Musk today about how he once fired his long-time assistant for asking for a raise. (Update: Elon Musk has denied the biography’s account on Twitter.)
Read MoreWhen you’re looking for a good project car, it’s easy to get caught up on the little things that are wrong. Sometimes, too much focus on the details can keep you from snapping up a really sweet deal. Take this 2015 Corvette up for sale on Copart right now. Sure, you look at that picture and you can see that it’s missing some side marker light lenses and a lot of the rubber will need to be replaced, and there’s some discoloration of the paint. But look past that, and what do you see? A Corvette,
Read MoreI’ve loved goats ever since I saw that Taylor Swift “I Knew You Were A Goat” video from a few years back. They seem to be some of the most vocal and inquisitive creatures out there. Things like police cruisers ain’t nothing to a goat.
Read MoreThe office was talking about the Fast & Furious franchise earlier today (we recast the first one with our staff), we all realized how much it would suck to have been Jesse, who got killed off before the franchise went out to be one of the biggest in the world for some reason.
Read MoreCats love warm places to lay—like your arms, hint hint—but not all of them have those to lay in. So, they sometimes end up finding warmth under the hood of your car, or wherever your engine happens to be. That can mean bad things if you don’t check to see if they’re in there before you start it up.
Read MoreI’ve watched the first Fast and Furious movie enough times now to basically know it line-for-line. And so the next logical step for this level of fandom is to recast the movie to include myself and my coworkers.
Read MoreCurrently, if you buy a Mercedes-AMG model, you can get it in the 43, 45, 63 or 65 trims. But by as early as next year, Mercedes could be adding another engine to the AMG lineup. An inline-six one.
Read MoreOur fellow Supra-arrival-breath-holders over at Supramkv.com have posted an alleged leaked, internal BMW document that shows a huge list of BMW internal model codes, and some crucial specs. The document lists a huge number of BMW models, including the J29 platform ones that we’ll know as the Supra. Sadly, a manual transmission doesn’t seem to be on the list.
Read MoreAn apparent self-driving Ford Transit Connect confused quite a few people last week as it drove through Arlington, Virginia. Then folks got even more confused when that “self-driving car” ended up being a guy dressed up as a car seat. Now we know that all of this was just part of Virginia Tech’s transportation research.
Read MoreJesse was such an underrated character in the first Fast & Furious movie, spouting such gems as “overnight parts from Japan” and his prayer to the car gods. Sadly, he didn’t survive to the sequels. But a shop in Canada recreated his car, and the stoke is strong with nostalgia all around here.
Read MoreCountry Classic Cars in Staunton, Illinois, is a well-known seller of vintage cars, with an inventory of over 600 cars, primarily American, ranging from the ‘20s to well into the Malaise Era. Unfortunately, one of their warehouses had a colossal fire yesterday, involving nearly a dozen fire departments and destroying a huge number of cars.
Read MoreYou’ve worked hard your whole life, or you made your money the American way, by inheriting most of it. You like speed and deserve nice things. But the idea of a new Porsche 911 bores you, and buying a used one is for plebes—no matter how good it is. You need something better, more special. So you turn your eyes to Singer Vehicle Design and their reimagined 911s. Good news! Their stuff is even better now.
Read MoreCraig Jerkins is finally getting behind the wheel of a Dodge Challenger Hellcat. Or is it a Demon? “I’ve never actually driven one of these so I’m pretty excited. But my mom used to have a PT Cruiser convertible, so I’m pretty familiar with the Mopar family.”
Read MoreThere’s an awful lot of nuclear saber-rattling and dick-measuring going on right now between the United States and North Korea. A nuclear conflict between the two countries would do no one any good. Well, almost no one.
Read MoreComedian George Wallace took delivery of his new murdered-out Tesla Model X today and subsequently tweeted about the experience.
Read MoreAs other automakers and electric-minded newcomers continue to take a swing at replacing the everyday commuter car with something powered solely with batteries, Nissan seems to be interested in staying in a smaller part of the slowly-growing EV segment with its upcoming next-generation Leaf.
Read MoreHave you ever been out cruising in your Volvo, windows down, arm resting on the door, wishing you had the perfect album to just fucking crank? Of course you have; you’re human. You’re not just human, you’re a very lucky human, because Volvo once released an entire, 14-track CD of sweet, sweet Volvo-sounds.
Read MoreDARTZ, the company best known for turning whale penises into comfortable seating, has announced their head-of-state-ready edition of their new wildly overdone vehicle, the Black Alligator. To prove the Black Alligator’s worthiness as a head-of-state car, suitable for presidents, prime ministers, sultans, and dictators alike, DARTZ has issued a challenge to the current American Presidential limo, the Beast: bring it.
Read MoreMazda’s powertrain team has brewed up a fancy new engine that, like a diesel, uses compression to activate the combustion process. In a press release on the new tech, Mazda tells us just how staggering the benefits of this “world’s first” technology might be.
Read MoreGuys. GUYS. Hollywood/Silicon Valley’s hottest couple has split. They’re done. Kaput. The end. Shit.
Read MoreWhen it comes to seeing dead things in our daily lives, the streets are likely the most common place we encounter carcasses. Dead squirrels, birds, possums, armadillos, cats, dogs—the roads we travel are full of dead things. Dead people, thankfully, are a rarity, which is why everyone’s so freaked out by the corpse that was dumped onto a street in Olympia, Washington.
Read MoreThrough general agreement, us Jalops came together yesterday and decided that tires are one thing that you should definitely not go cheap on. This makes sense, as they are the only bit of the car that touches the road. You don’t have to go tippy-top shelf, but you probably shouldn’t be buying a set for 50 bucks, either.
Read MoreWells Fargo is already facing a blitz of litigation and regulatory scrutiny after the bank announced it would reimburse $80 million to 570,000 people who may have been unfairly charged high auto collateral protection insurance. Now, Wells is facing a new inquiry for failing to refund insurance money as required to people who paid off car loans early, according to The New York Times.
Read MoreWhen the oceans start flooding up land from ice caps melting, good luck using a plane to GTFO.
Read MoreSo, there I was, just scrolling through the internet, right? I see an interesting headline about some bear accidentally rolling a manual Subaru down a hill in Colorado, so I click it. Almost immediately, my eyes are drawn to this: “Two or three bears get stuck in cars each week in the area, officials say.”
Read MoreDepreciation hits used Mercedes AMGs like an anvil coming down on Wile E. Coyote. So you’ve got to imagine that once an AMG’s odometer his a ridiculous 402,292 miles it’d be totally worthless, right? You can decide for yourself after seeing how much power this well-loved 2003 Mercedes E55 AMG is still making.
Read MoreValley Glen, Los Angeles, what is the deal? Frappuccinos not cold enough? Coffee too hot? Your breakfast sandwiches taste rancid, or something? Whatever’s going on, the Starbucks in town has become a local hot spot for cars, and by that I mean the cars are literally driving into the coffee shop. For the second time in three weeks, the Starbucks in Valley Glen has been struck by a vehicle, according to a local ABC affiliate.
Read MoreNow, I can’t say that our audience has exactly been hounding us for images of the upcoming redesigned 2018 Nissan Leaf, but leaks of yet-to-be-seen are always exciting in their forbidden way, so we may as well have a look at this one, which is unusual in that it seems to be a leak right from the factory.
Read MoreAn enterprising couple from the South Bay was just able to purchase a neighborhood street from an online auction because of an accounting error, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. Now the neighborhood is worried about the ways the couple might try to cash in on the purchase.
Read MoreWhen I was living in Detroit, there was an intense debate over where to place the tracks of a new streetcar on Woodward Avenue in the city’s downtown. Running them along the curb of the road presents more of a risk to bicyclists, one line of thinking went. It’s not fun traveling over rail, and a new study—and video—shows exactly why.
Read MoreMost of the time, the extent of my talking about cars with casual friends is, “Yes, I travel places and drive cars for a job.” Outside of your little circle of enthusiast friends, people often get bored when you get too into talking about your passions. That’s an unfortunate thing.
Read MoreIf you really, really want an electric car but you’ll be damned if you’ll pay more than the price of, say, a really fancy watch, then boy are you in luck. well, if you live in China, at least, because that’s the only place the SAIC-GM-Wuling-joint venture car, Baojun E100, is sold. Don’t be upset! You can always move, right?
Read MoreNew York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, is expected to announce on Monday a tax on the wealthiest residents in the city to pay for much-needed improvements for the city’s deteriorating subway system, according to multiple reports. And unless you’re a millionaire who thrives on the misery of the poor or whose life would be debilitated from—maybe!—having one less extreme fine dining experience per month, this is good.
Read MoreIt’s easy to get lost in the appeal of a convertible. The wind in your hair, the openness of the experience and the smell of the fresh air are all tantalizing possibilities when you put the top down. Of course, it’s not always all sunshine and smiles.
Read MoreOne of the best things about the car scene in Japan is no matter where you are, if you’re bored there’s usually a car meet happening somewhere at any given time. While most meets tend to happen at night, primarily at the Daikoku and Tatsumi Parking Areas, it’s also worth stopping by during the day.
Read MoreYou are awoken by the distant sound of a low, confident horn. The time is earlier than you normally get up in the morning, but you are calm and surprisingly clear headed, not upset. The air is cool and damp, and something draws you out into the street. You look down the foggy road, the blue light of morning not yet bringing the day to life, and then you spot it on the horizon waiting for you.
Read MoreFormer Top Gear and current The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson has been hospitalized for pneumonia while on vacation, marking the second time one of the show’s hosts has been delayed from filming for health scares this year.
Read MoreRemember when Elon Musk claimed he was so busy with space and cars that he was willing to hand over developing a “Hyperloop” vacuum-sealed high speed train to everyone else—and then he went and started a tunneling company? Well guess what, he might go back and make his own Hyperloop after all.
Read MoreBaja racing is a nuanced spur of motorsports that combines adventure travel, extreme endurance, and hundreds of miles of high-stakes problem-solving down Mexico’s western peninsula. Here’s a look at what the Baja 500 really looks like from a small family team’s perspective.
Read MoreFerrari has reportedly lost the rights to use the Testarossa name after a German court ruled in favor of a toy company that wants to use it for bicycles and shavers. I’m not sure what the “red head” translation of the name has anything to do with bikes, but I could see the argument for trimmers.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin Vantage replacement is set to be revealed this year, but new images tease what looks to be essentially a production version of the DB10 Aston Martin designed “exclusively” for the latest James Bond movie, Spectre.
Read MoreThe Fisker Karma went through hell and is now back again, this time spun off separate of its designer’s company as its own thing called Karma Automotive. It was bad before, and reports indicate it is, yeah, still bad.
Read MoreA hotly contested motion to unionize a Nissan production plant in Canton, Mississippi has failed, according to the United Auto Workers, by nearly a 2-to-1 majority. In the weeks leading up to the vote held Thursday and Friday, tensions were fierce and testimonies showed a divided workforce that ultimately voted 2,244 to 1,307 opposing unionization.
Read MoreUnlike some other hatchbacks that will be departing the U.S. market, I don’t predict anyone pouring one out for the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The automaker announced it will discontinue the electric vehicle due to slow sales.
Read MoreOur excellent Canadian test pilot said the all new Elantra Sport sedan is a pretty damn good car with a helping of fun, especially for its price point. Well, if you wanted the same goodness but with a more practical body, Hyundai will now offer the Elantra GT hatchback.
Read MoreToday, Volkswagen’s former head of U.S. regulatory compliance, Oliver Schmidt, pleaded guilty for playing a key role in the Dieselgate emissions scandal. We knew the 48 year-old German native would take a plea deal, but now, thanks to Reuters, we know the approximate damage.
Read MoreNearly 2,000 mechanics in the Chicago area have been on strike since Tuesday over work hours. Letters allegedly sent by more than one dealership informed employees of the “consequences” of striking: a discontinuing of their health insurance, hiring ads for their jobs and, in one case, tools being put outside.
Read MoreI wasn’t aware of who Laura Loomer was until we were emailed links to this Twitter-based tire-related mess by a number of readers, but it appears she considers herself an alt-right ‘guerrilla journalist’ and believes she had a tire slashed by some ne’er-do-wells who don’t like her. The problem is that her tire appears to be a poor, dry-rotted beast that died of neglect. Hence the shitstorm.
Read MoreOhio’s banking on a $218 million “driverless car” highway to get techies out of sunny California and test their autonomous tech alongside cornfields, cows and Cedar Point.
Read MoreAs Tesla prepares to ramp up production of the new Model 3 to reach a target of 20,000 a month by the end of the year, the automaker’s reconfiguring options and, it turns out, pricing of the more-expensive Model X. The price for the all-electric crossover is now $3,000 less, according to Electrek.
Read MoreDid you wake up feeling different this morning? Like your alarm buzzer’d been replaced by a chorus of singing angels? That wasn’t in your head, it was coming from Japan, where Mazda has announced it’s going to start officially restoring first-gen Miatas.
Read MoreThankfully, there are still good driving roads that exist in this trash world of ours. They are one of the last places where we can go and enjoy our cars without signing up for a track day. But because they are public roads, safety is key. Especially on the Tail of the Dragon.
Read MoreWhat would you call a set of new 1.2- and 1.5-liter economy car engines? Pipsqueak? Whiskers? Nah. Ford went with Dragon. Very Game of Thrones, no?
Read MoreI’m not really one for superstitions or auspicious number sequences, but they stopped the Lexus LFA’s production in December 2012 and we learned earlier this week that there are 12 unsold ones floating around in dealerships across the U.S. Twelve, 12 and 12. This deserves some digging.
Read MoreThe German auto industry—and Germany at large—is desperately trying to convince local and national governments that diesel vehicles aren’t always dirty, and that they have a place in European cities. To do this, BMW, Daimler, VW and many politicians met in Berlin Wednesday to try to stop the bleeding that is Europe’s mistrust of Germany’s diesel vehicles.
Read MoreA 17-hour test flight where you end up right back where you started is probably pretty boring. Any way to spice things up is probably welcome, which is likely why Boeing test pilots used their long, boring test flight to draw a massive outline of their plane all over America’s beautiful face.
Read MoreDiscovery Communication’s Velocity has been coupled with TEN: The Enthusiast Network in a new joint venture, bringing together brands like MotorTrend and Roadkill, notable for nearly being all the way up the ass of Fiat Chrysler, with the TV network’s existing properties in a new massive automotive media empire.
Read MoreWe’ve been covering the upcoming world’s first giant robot mega-battle since American colossal-robot-fighting-suit-maker MegaBots threw their big, mechanized gauntlet down and challenged Japan’s giant fighting robot-makers to throw down back in 2015. The fight is supposed to happen next month, and now we have our first really good look at America’s Best Robot-Fighting Hope in action.
Read MoreDriverless cars promise to save lives by driving better than constantly-texting, easily-distracted, sometimes-even-intoxicated humans, but—like any married couple knows—the cars can’t reach their true potential if they don’t communicate with each other.
Read MoreAside from its lovely makeup skills in performance trim, the 800-horsepower, $2.3-million Aston Martin Vulcan is actually quite fast at running laps around a racing circuit. Who would’ve thought, right? Here are some of those laps to remind you that you’ll probably never have enough money to make them.
Read MoreEmployee mistreatment and corporate scandals have become the norm for ride-hailing companies. Uber faces numerous well-documented harassment allegations, claims of data stealing and a massive executive exodus, but other ride-hailing companies have issues up top as well. Lyft opposes driver unionization efforts, the supposedly “driver friendly” app Juno got sued by drivers for making empty promises and the women-only service Safr’s CEO was arrested for fraud.
Read MoreEveryone has that one road they drove over and over again as they learned how to drive and love cars. Formula Drift’s Matt Field made the pilgrimage back to his boyhood road and took his thousand-horsepower pro car with him.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered why Subaru uses flat-four engines while everyone else has inline-fours, let Engineering Explained use a pair of lovely 3-D printed models to break down the pros and cons of each engine layout.
Read MoreA lot of people have been trying to bring guns on planes lately. Loaded and chambered guns.
Read MoreOkay, admit it—you sometimes skip the seatbelt in an Uber or Lyft. Not many buckle up when they’re hitching a ride, it turns out. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, that found the majority of people who don’t always use seat belts skip out on ride-hailing services.
Read MoreLast month, an Air Canada flight nearly ended in catastrophe, when the aircraft’s pilots descended less than 60 feet above other fully loaded planes on a taxiway at the San Francisco International Airport. Photos released by investigators on Wednesday show just how low the plane descended before pulling up to avoid the crash.
Read MoreRaise your internet hand if you’ve been driving down the highway at a brisk-but-not-quite-speeding pace, everything’s going swell until you come up on some slower traffic. No worries, you pop into the left lane to pass and try to get your groove going again when suddenly you’re snapped out of your good space by a goddamn slowpoke hogging the lane. Do you see red? Because I see red.
Read MoreElio Motors, hamstrung by repeated delays to deliver on a longshot bid to produce a futuristic three-wheeled vehicle, is looking to raise up to $100 million, according to a proposed public offering filed on Thursday. The filing revealed the company has again delayed when it expects to produce and deliver the car by another year, to 2019.
Read MoreIn what was supposed to be a heartwarming story about a 10-year-old orphan fulfilling his dreams, Algerian news channel El Bilad’s short film resulted in two pilots getting suspended for letting the youngster manipulate controls during a commercial flight, The Telegraph writes citing local news reports.
Read MoreDo you like Ford’s SVT Raptor pickup but feel that the available Supercab or four-door body styles might just set off your agoraphobia? If so, have a look at today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Roush Standard Cab. Of course it’s price might have you staying indoors too.
Read MoreI wouldn’t normally get excited about watching a commercial airplane unload luggage, but how often do race cars roll down that conveyor belt into baggage claim?
Read MoreHundreds of engineers and investors around the world collectively sighed in relief today as Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that he has decided against spending too much time and money on developing a new platform for the company’s next car, and will instead use the one they just finished developing.
Read MoreLast week, Wells Fargo announced it would reimburse $80 million to 570,000 people who may have been unfairly charged high auto collateral protection insurance—and as many as 20,000 people lost their car as a result. Expectedly, given the egregious conduct at hand, regulators are trying to figure out what happened.
Read MoreLet’s be clear: it straight up sucks that this guy’s Lamborghini is on fire. Nobody deserves that.
Read MoreI used to sit in my grandpa’s Mercedes, draining its battery blasting tunes while sitting static in his driveway. I never got brave enough to start it, but if I had been, and also my friends were famous athletes, I’d like to think my day could have pretty much gone down like Macklemore’s “Marmalade” video.
Read MoreYou already know VTEC is the reason any Honda Civic is just one exhaust upgrade away from being fastest car on Earth. But, what is it actually?
Read MoreThe 627-horsepower McLaren F1, the best thing to ever come out of the ‘90s, remains one of the most astounding production cars in automotive history no matter how many years go by. But for most of the world, the car is simply a distant, legendary masterpiece that we’ll never get our hands on.
Read MoreI just returned from Romania, where I fell in love with the country’s tough, squared-off workhorse, the ARO 24 Series. I also developed deep feelings for the Dacia 1300 series, as well as for a bunch of Russian sedans. Here are the machines that stole my heart.
Read MoreAlready rankled by allegations of running a cartel and the never-ending Dieselgate fiasco, Volkswagen learned on Tuesday that it has also been barred from receiving research financing from the European Union, according to The New York Times. The decision from the European Investment Bank couldn’t come at a more inopportune moment for the automaker.
Read MoreUber and Lyft’s efforts to keep drivers from unionizing faced a setback when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that would have ended a ride-share driver union in Seattle.
Read MoreThe Lexus LFA had a good run. Lexus built a total of 500 worldwide. They were upsettingly expensive. One hundred seventy-eight came here. And in the December of 2012, production ended. Lexus sold each and every one of them, right? Or did they?
Read MoreUndersteer is the enemy of any driver, with the front of the car simply refusing to turn no matter how much you angrily saw at the wheel. Many people think it’s just a problem for front-wheel drive cars, but it’s just as bad for anyone with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. Luckily, the technique for beating it is the same for all platforms.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been to the Motor City, you’ve probably gotten yourself lost. That’s because roads often turn at weird angles, stop and restart blocks away or unexpectedly dead end into freeways. Even lifelong natives can get completely turned around in the sprawling, tangled mess. How did a city, home to the mass produced automobile which boasts the first stretch of paved road in America, become such a headache for drivers?
Read MoreLittle Lego engines with actual pistons and crankshafts that turn and move are one of the true simple joys of human life in the modern era. So, it just stands to reason that the best way to maximize that joy is to rev the crap out of these Lego engines until they blow apart. That’s how you get the most joy out of everything.
Read MoreItaly. A country of great food, great culture, and great driving. Well okay, two out of three isn’t so bad. In the five days I spent in Tuscany I fell in love with the country that gave us gelato, bolognese sauce, and of course, some of the best dream cars ever made.
Read More“Porsches are fast,” they say. “Porsches are refined,” they claim. “Porsches have great handling,” they allege. Well, I just drove a Porsche for the first time, and I can say unequivocally: Porsches are none of those things. I’ve been living a lie.
Read MoreIn California, the highways have special lanes for High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV). The definition of ‘high occupancy’ to ride in those lanes is two, the smallest possible plural number. A Miata could be an HOV. The Californian idea of what is an HOV is soundly mocked by the existence of this car, a Honda Civic that, after a wreck, was found to have nine passengers.
Read MoreAll Bryce Steven Boos wanted was a little financial compensation for returning to a dealership some car keys he found on a sidewalk. That’s all. Is that so much to ask? When the dealership declined a financial reward, Boos did the only rational actions possible: punch a car and then reach into his pants, extract some anus-fresh feces, and smear it on the car. And now everyone’s all worked up. Typical.
Read MoreA scream of a V8 (or a V6) echoes down a street lined with spectators. A Mustang fishtails into view, smoke billowing from its rear tires, its driver fighting madly for control. The car flicks and people dive out the way.
Read MoreToday I regaled you with a story of a shockingly complex “quick fix”, and of course, somebody came swinging through the comments with a way better solution.
Read MoreCar meets are wonderful places where the atmosphere is relaxed and there are a plethora of enthusiasts and owners to geek out with. Everyone brings their best manners and it’s generally a good time.
Read MoreHello my darlings. I have returned after a fortnight of gallivanting around the Northern Hemisphere and I have some fresh grievances to bestow upon you regarding a place colloquially known as “Europe.” It was terrible.
Read MoreFor decades, the most extreme cars you could buy from Italy came from two companies: Ferrari and Lamborghini. And they’re still incredible, no doubt. But these days one upstart automaker makes cars so insane they make the old guard look like they’re cranking out economy cars. Welcome to a rally for Pagani owners.
Read MoreEarlier this week, we heard about an unfortunate accident where somebody crashed into a guy’s brand new 2017 Honda Civic Type R while he was on his way home from the dealership. Fortunately, the replacement parts appear to be available already so the car should be repairable. This gave us an idea—what would it cost to make a regular old Civic LX Hatchback look like the Type R?
Read MoreIn what has to be one of the dumbest cases of car thefts I’ve ever heard of, police in Mashalltown, Iowa, caught a suspect driving a stolen Ford GT40 replica that had been painted black—likely to disguise what has to be the only example of such car in the small city of 30,000 residents. Who did this guy think he was fooling?
Read MoreSummer is in full swing and there’s no better way to enjoy it than with the top down in a convertible. Enjoying the warm and sun-filled winds as they tangle your hair into a wild and carefree rats’ nest is a thrill unique to rag tops.
Read MorePlenty of manufacturers invite folks out to play with their cars. The usual experience typically involves a driver briefing, a product walk-around, then a few lead follow laps before cutting loose with an instructor in the right seat — with a bit of babysitting and not a lot of truly hard laps. BMW does things a little differently, as I learned on a recent track day at Circuit of The Americas.
Read MoreSo... did they just find this Subaru 360 frolicking wild in the marshlands? Are they really that tame in the wild? They’re not poachers, are they? I hope not. If I recall, the 360 shares its habitat with the rare Japanese bifurcated swamp hippo.
Read MoreIf you’ve always dreamed of “going on a commando mission” then you just might want to check out today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep. We’ll check out its price and see if the objective is really worth it.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 323ci is claimed to be the car upon which tuner F2/Autolife developed their E36 suspension package. That might make its low stance acceptable, but what about its price?
Read MoreThe typical answer for all questions automotive is Miata, but what if you seek something with a little more provenance in the response? In that case, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 944 might just do, that is, if its price proves above question.
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson once sagely opined that Alfa Romeo ownership was the mark of the true auto enthusiast. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GTV6 could just be that opportunity. That is, as long as its price isn’t truly too high.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Monte Carlo is for all intents and purposes practically brand new. Let’s still see if the price on this Aero Coupe ensures that it gets old fast.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe AR80 represents a rare one-year only model here in the U.S.. Let’s see if this tiny two-stroke’s price makes that the year of living dangerously.
Read MoreI’m going to go out on a limb here and state that I think the Pontiac Fiero is a national treasure. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe V8-Archie edition is even more so, but we’ll have to see if its price is asking for too much of your treasure.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chrysler Executive has an extended wheelbase and a dashboard that talks. Let’s see if this rare K-car also has a price that speaks to you longingly.
Read MoreIn honor of today’s big solar eclipse, were serving up a classic Celica Sunchaser for our Nice Price or Crack Pipe challenge. Let’s see if its price can send you over the moon.
Read MoreYou could buy a Dodge Challenger Hellcat for about $70K, or you could save thirty grand and buy today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe SRT8, which is also supercharged but features nitrous to boot. Let’s see if the car is up to the price’s challenge.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 323 GTX is said to need some work to turn you into the next vintage rally champ. Let’s see if the cost of entry for doing so would make you a chump.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Camaro is V8 powered, manual equipped, and turbocharged, and just like Julie Andrews sang, those are a few of our favorite things. Let’s see if this super clean SS’s price can be added to that list.
Read MoreThe 348 may just be the cheap Ferrari two-seater of the moment. That makes our Nice Price or Crack Pipe Spider worth a look, if at least to see if it’s worth its asking.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe DeLorean has twin turbos on its rear-mounted PRV V6. We’ll have to see whether or not its condition and price means the seller’s also blowing smoke up our collective ass.
Read MoreOn a dollar per horsepower basis, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe XJR might just be the bargain of the century. We’ll still have to see if this blown cat is also a bargain overall.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chinook camper is offering it for sale WHILE IN THE MIDDLE OF USING IT FOR A VACATION. Let’s see if that, and its price, means he needs a little more time off.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 240GD is a rare long-wheelbase soft top edition that is said to have been recently restored. Let’s see if its price restores your faith in the value of the long-serving off-road Benz.
Read MoreQuite remarkably, the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 124 Spider says it was her DD while she was preggers. Now that her kid needs a seat of her own it’s up for sale, but will its price have you saying, oh baby?
Read MoreCar makers love giving their wares nothing names that still sound important. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Integra is a prime example. Let’s see if its meaningless name can overcome a meaningful drain on your bank account.
Read MoreLong before there was the Ford Flex there was today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe limited edition Funkmaster Flex Expedition. It’s still fresh, but will its price have you saying in Flex we trust?
Read MoreIf you like E30s and LT1s the way a fat kid loves pie, then you’ll jones on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer 325i. We’ll still have to see just how big a slice its price will take from your wallet.
Read MorePolestar is not a name you generally want to see associated with your mom, but you do when it comes to your Volvos. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe C30 is just so imbued, but will its price make it worth the dance?
Read MoreThat headline was mean. I’m mean. I’m sorry, I don’t know why I’m like this. Maybe someone teased me too much as a child. This video showing how Lego built a life-size replica of a Ferrari Formula One car isn’t even that great, I just wanted a chance to be mean. I’m sorry, again.
Read MoreHere’s a look at MSR Houston from this week, a road course south of the city that has hosted most of the 24 Hours of Lemons races I’ve done. Much of it is underwater.
Read MoreThings aren’t looking great for the FIA World Endurance Championship these days. Rising costs in endurance prototype racing have all but killed its top class for the 2018 race season, and a new, thinly sourced report claims that the series may chop a third of its schedule and shift to running in the winter months.
Read MoreNow is as good a time as any to remember when the McLaren F1 went to Japan in 1996 and ran the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. Unsurprisingly, it cleaned up.
Read MoreAt 13 years old, Aurora Straus enrolled in racing school. Things weren’t going well early on, so an instructor offered extra help. He soon declared to her that it wasn’t Straus’ fault she was developing a little slower than others—“because [she] was a girl,” he said, she’d never be as aggressive as she needed to be.
Read MoreIt’s common sense to move your valuables to higher ground when floods threaten your home, however, we’re not sure jack stands, garden blocks and a trailer are what they mean. Regardless, one Texas man had the foresight to raise his two BMW E36 M3s and one BMW X5 just enough to stand above the floods brought by Hurricane Harvey.
Read MorePoor Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has had the worst luck with his car this year, but his teammate Daniel Ricciardo claims to have the answer. You’ve got to sweet-talk the car a little. Be gentle. Massage it a bit. Erm, are you sure we’re still talking about racing a car?
Read MoreA “phantom debris caution” is what NASCAR fans call a late-race yellow that feels bogus, or for the sole purposes of entertainment when a field is spread out. But Lewis Hamilton must think NASCAR waltzed over and coughed on Formula One, because he accused his own series of calling phantom debris.
Read MoreNASCAR Xfinity Series driver Jeremy Clements had an unlikely first win in more ways than one. Clements had never won in his 256 Xfinity Series starts. When his No. 51 car spun out into Matt Tifft’s No. 19 car on the penultimate lap of Sunday’s race at Road America, the race still wasn’t over. Clements kept going to nab the win.
Read MoreThe battle for third place at today’s WeatherTech Sports Car Championship got intense with just under 13 minutes left in the two-hour, 40-minute race at Virginia International Raceway. The No. 66 Ford GT and the No. 4 Corvette crashed each other battling it out for that sweet final podium spot.
Read MoreSage Karam really wanted to keep his position ahead of Katherine Legge during today’s WeatherTech Sports Car Championship race at Virginia International Raceway. So much so that he not only bump-blocked Legge as she tried to pass, but brake checked her twice, causing an incredible hood failure.
Read MoreFormula One is back! One of the hottest silly season rumors to come out of F1's first weekend back racing is that Williams might offer bad luck man Fernando Alonso a seat, reports Auto Motor und Sport. Williams! A team with a functional engine! Holy crap, please let this be true.
Read MoreTravis Tollett was amazing. I met him my first year at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 2010 and we have been friends since. He lost the ability to walk in a racing crash, and when he realized he couldn’t drive anymore, he started co-driving for his friends. At least he still went to the top of the mountain on raceday and got celebrate with the other racers. But Travis never gave up his dream of racing himself.
Read MoreFormula One mid-fielders Force India have been hilarious to watch for all the wrong reasons, as drivers Esteban Ocon and Sergio Pérez simply have no love for each other. The teammates had been up in each others’ space since the very start of the race, ultimately resulting in them hitting each other on lap 30.
Read MoreRed Bull Formula One driver Max Verstappen’s home race at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps just ended in heartbreak after only 8 laps. Verstappen is the only driver whose bad luck comes close to McLaren’s wasted talent Fernando Alonso’s, as Max has now had to retire from half of his races so far this season.
Read MoreIndyCar driver Will Power got the ultimate open-cockpit racing scare tonight at Gateway Motorsports Park: a view of the underside of Ed Carpenter’s car.
Read MoreFormula One driver Sebastian Vettel just signed a new three-year contract to stay at Ferrari, reports NBC Sports. Ferrari made the announcement after the final practice session for this weekend’s race at Spa-Francorchamps, confirming what we all expected to happen after Ferrari announced they’d be keeping Vettel’s teammate Kimi Räikkönen.
Read MoreTo no one’s surprise, this year’s faster, crazier Formula One cars smashed the track record at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton claimed pole for tomorrow’s race with a 1:42.553, setting a new track record and matching Michael Schumacher’s record number of 68 pole positions claimed in F1.
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 MoreAs we’ve said many, many, many, many, many times before, the McLaren-Honda Formula One team is not good. The “Honda” part of it is usually what makes the team so catastrophically bad, and the team may get rid of that in 2018 by using only the second-worst engine supplier in F1: Renault.
Read MorePorsche 919 driver Neel Jani is one of the drivers who seemed to be out of luck after Porsche announced they were closing their World Endurance Championship program after this year. Now Faraday Future Dragon Racing announced that they’ve hired Jani to drive before Porsche even gets their Formula E team up and running.
Read MoreIndyCar racer Sébastien Bourdais was expected to sit out the rest of this year after fracturing his hip, pelvis and two ribs in a violent Indianapolis 500 practice crash last May. However, after being cleared by doctors to race again last week, Motorsport.com reports that Bourdais will return to racing this weekend at Gateway Motorsports Park.
Read MoreRally Poland, the second oldest stage rally in the world, just lost its spot on the World Rally Championship calendar, reports Motorsport.com. The rally had issues with spectator safety for four years in a row, so the WRC will not renew their contract with Rally Poland that ends this year.
Read MoreOh, bless Stoffel Vandoorne’s heart. Objectively terrible Formula One team McLaren confirmed today that the long-suffering driver will come back for another year with the team as planned, reports Motorsport.com. Please keep him in your thoughts, as there’s simply little hope in sight for that team.
Read MoreWe get it: you’ve seen every stage of Initial D 42 times and can quote it ad nauseum with the best of ‘em, but there’s far more racing anime than just one series. If you’re short on things to watch, Donut Media put together a list of their ten favorite racing animes—including a few I’ve never heard of before.
Read MoreCongratulations, fans of mumbling weirdo in Formula One: Kimi Räikkönen is staying at Ferrari, reports Racer. Ferrari announced hat they would be keeping the 2007 F1 world champion today, and while they didn’t expressly say that they would be keeping his teammate Sebastian Vettel, it’s a good hint that Vettel’s probably staying, too.
Read MoreI’m a big fan of today’s eclipse. It hit my little patch of land during the brightest part of the day, partially obscuring the sun and providing very welcome shade. But our sadly partial view of the natural eclipse was not as cool as the world’s fastest Mitsubishi Eclipse, which has over 1,200 horsepower.
Read MoreNASCAR crew chief Frankie Kerr was underneath a 3,300-pound race car Friday evening after it fell on him. ESPN reports that the crash broke his shoulder blade and severely bruised his sternum and ribs. The very next day, Kerr, 56, strolled into Bristol Motor Speedway in a sling to work a 500-lap race.
Read MoreFormula One just announced its very first ever eSports world championship using its F1 2017 game, reports ESPN. So, good news for everyone who wasn’t gifted a go kart at age two: you’ve finally got a shot in F1 (sort of) if you’re good at its video game.
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 MoreHonda just can’t find another willing guinea pig for its genuinely abysmal Formula One engine. The latest “thanks, but no thanks” comes from Red Bull’s de-facto feeder squad Scuderia Toro Rosso, reports Motorsport.com. This is after a deal with Sauber fell through, and pervasive reports that McLaren wants anyone else’s F1 power unit for next year so long as it merely works.
Read MoreNASCAR driver Brad Keselowski has said more than once that his lower-level Camping World Truck Series team loses about $1 million annually, but that he keeps doing it because the team is what’s “in [his] heart.” But after this year, Keselowski said the team will be no more “for a number of reasons.”
Read MoreWhen Acura announced earlier this summer that they were returning to prototype racing with a two-car Team Penske-led IMSA DPi effort, we couldn’t help but to be excited about it. Now Acura unveiled the car that Penske hopes is made out of 100 percent pure domination-anium, the ARX-05.
Read MoreThree cars became a giant, nightmarish wall of fire at a Washington short track Saturday, which the Seattle Times reports track announcers said was “one of the scariest” in its 63 years. The Times reports that everyone was OK, and the driver who had to be hospitalized was at work the next day preaching in a local church.
Read MoreFor the 2017 Baja 1000, which is being recognized as the 50th anniversary of the event, race sanctioning body SCORE has created two new classes for period-correct race vehicles built before 1992. It’s going to be old-school cool fender-to-fender all the way down to La Paz, baby!
Read MoreMemo Gidley was in one of the scariest 24 Hours of Daytona crashes ever in 2014, where Gidley hit a slowing Ferrari at speed, ripping the top off of his Daytona Prototype. But he never gave up on his dream of returning to the sport. Three and a half years later, Gidley is finally returning to racing in a Pirelli World Challenge car.
Read MorePro racing drivers compete on circuits all over the world, and World Rallycross driver Andreas Bakkerud definitely makes the best of it with his too-delightful “Snakkerud” vlogs. He’s so dedicated to snacking, he makes a point to try local treats whenever possible, and the food reviews are a joy.
Read MoreJalopnik’s Deputy Editor Michael Ballaban: Journalist. Lover. Patron of the arts. Anchovy syrup enthusiast. Above all else, driving god. But how did he get that way? Are heroes like Mike born, or are they made? It’s definitely the latter, and in our latest video, you’ll learn how by seeing what really happens at a racing school.
Read MoreWhile us normal people like to hang out and maybe sleep a bit after we shatter a bone, pro drivers tend to ask how quickly they can get back in the car they likely got injured in. For Sebastien Bourdais, who fractured his hip and pelvis in a huge Indianapolis 500 qualifying wreck, the answer was less than three months.
Read MoreStruggling electric car startup Faraday Future entered one of the fastest-growing world championships in racing—Formula E—through a partnership with Dragon Racing last season. Now The Verge reports that the cash-strapped company may have to get out of Formula E to save cash.
Read MoreLast month, a week-long feud between two people ended in a shooting at Texas World Speedway during a non-racing event. The event promoter, local station KBTX reports, didn’t apply for the proper permits and resulting law enforcement to hold it. A county judge believes he did so to save money, KBTX reports.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of design and engineering freedom in Formula One, making cash flow incredibly proportionate to performance. That leads to teams being almost in different zip codes from one another on track each race, and results being rather predictable. But it sounds like the new F1 bosses want to change that.
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 MoreIf someone deserves an award for simply living life as the Good Lord intended, it’s NASCAR’s Clint Bowyer. He’s the most unapologetic country boy there is, and his views on Formula One, that series with them Eu-ro-peans over there driving spaceship cars that aren’t even V8s, are amazing.
Read MoreIt’s a summer Friday afternoon and I’m the mood to play a game. A poster on Craigslist needs help identifying a car and he’s offering a cash reward to the person who can do it. Money, people! There’s money in this!
Read MoreBefore the season began, Honda had goals for the very bad engine it makes for the McLaren-Honda Formula One team. But Honda couldn’t keep the engine working long enough to meet them, and when it did work, it didn’t work well. But, rejoice! After 11 races, Honda finally met its pre-season performance goals.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet SS was never a best seller. It was barely a seller at all. But it had the deep, niche, Australian roots that could make any car enthusiast smile to see it in NASCAR’s top level. The SS’ production and racing death at the end of 2017 will be a sad time fo... wait, hold up, that Camaro ZL1 is its replacement?
Read MoreIf things go to plan, Irwindale Speedway won’t be around long enough to see its 20th year in operation. Like too many other tracks in California, the speedway will become the state’s newest 700,000-square-foot mall after it closes on Jan. 31, 2018. Employees at Irwindale weren’t expecting it to happen so soon.
Read MoreA few weeks after winning one of NASCAR’s biggest races, the Brickyard 400, 37-year-old Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne got booted from one of the series’s best teams a year early. His teenage replacement in 2018 is William Byron, who’s only been in a real race car for four years—total.
Read MoreDale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR’s most popular driver for the past 14 years in a row, announced a few months ago that he’d retire at the end of the season. Hearing that—that the end of an era was on its way, basically—was depressing enough in itself, but things just keep getting worse as the year goes on.
Read MoreTo say that a professional race-car driver running out of gas in a street car is like an NBA star missing a layup would be somewhat inaccurate. It’s more like an NBA star missing a layup on a four-foot goal with bright, illuminated signs all around the rim saying “BALL GOES HERE.”
Read MoreConsidering he almost severed an arm in a horrific 2011 rally crash, it would’ve been easier for former Formula One regular Robert Kubica to leave “former” in his title. But Kubica, who entered a race before he even regained full mobility in his arm and won it less than two years after the crash, isn’t that type.
Read MoreMcLaren-Honda’s had a triumphant few weeks. Driver Fernando Alonso scored the team’s first points of the Formula One season at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in June after a mere eight races of going scoreless, and he even set the fastest lap time at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Things are looking up.
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Read MoreA recent meeting in a small-town California city hall had residents lined out the door, most there to voice unhappiness about a proposed $300 million race track. But the head of an almost nonexistent—in terms of records and online presence—startup proposing it didn’t show, and even the mayor thinks it’s fishy.
Read MoreManor Formula One racing team recently sold off a bunch of its crap in an auction, and YouTuber Peter Bjorck managed to snag a bit of advanced Ferrari engine tech: namely an intercooler he planned to install into his Lamborghini. Here’s a look at the innards of that liquid-to-air Masterpiece Of A Heat Exchanger.
Read MoreEffective immediately, NASCAR’s “overtime line,” which dictates the end of a race should the race go over the race’s scheduled distance, will move from an arbitrary point on the race track to the start-finish line. This is a very, very good thing, and will hopefully result in slightly less screaming at the television nationwide.
Read MoreFormula One has long needed some type of cockpit protection and even drivers called for it, but the “halo” device F1 chose isn’t everyone’s favorite. Drivers reportedly voiced that in a press conference last week, but you wouldn’t know it if you watched online. Reports are that F1 edited the halo negativity out.
Read MoreThis year’s Indianapolis 500 had a huge global presence, was impossibly tense and had a storybook winner. But the big news the next day was that the race “delivered the lowest national ratings in the 31 years [it] has been broadcast live,” as the Indianapolis Star reported. The problem is, ratings aren’t the real story. Finding out the numbers behind them is, and this year’s Indy 500 can tell you a lot about how they actually work.
Read MoreFor the past few years, racing fans who tuned in to the FIA World Endurance Championship could watch Porsche, Audi and Toyota duke it out in the series’ top LMP1 class—a class that featured the most advanced race cars in the world going at it in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and some of the best tracks on Earth.
Read MoreOne corner at Rally Finland last weekend seemed committed to catching out and rolling as many cars as possible. (Count 10 rolls and five other crashes.) But the rally fans watching from the side of the road had other plans.
Read MoreTop NASCAR drivers are great at waltzing into lower levels of the sport and beating everyone so badly they’re almost in another zip code. NASCAR made rules to cut down on that last year so the series could actually be competitive, and the sanctioning body announced Tuesday that it’s cutting down even more.
Read MoreJust when you think you can’t be more of a basic, average, uninteresting human being, you scroll through your basic, average, uninteresting internet-enabled device and read that Formula One drivers do, in fact, drink celebratory podium champagne from carbon-fiber bottles. Cool deal.
Read MoreIf you live on the West Coast, the company Tesloop can give you a ride if you’re traveling around California. As you can expect, the company’s cars accrue serious mileage in a short timespan—and indeed, Tesloop says its first car, a Model S, just rolled over 300,000 miles on the odometer. Here’s how it held up.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz has received some shit lately over the new Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Cabrio, which doesn’t jibe well for the tiny car subsidiary, which intends to sell only electric vehicles starting in 2018. But electric Smart cars make perfect sense—they’re meant for cities after all—and a new autonomous all-electric Smart concept shows how they can work in a future robotcar-dominated world.
Read MoreAs far as I can tell, there’s no definitive data on how often someone’s pulled over by a fake cop. But it’s not unheard of for some moron to put flashing lights on their car and arrest someone! So, when Google revealed last month that it tested how its self-driving cars will respond to emergency vehicles, I had a thought—however seldom this may occur: What happens if a robotcar is pulled over by someone impersonating a cop?
Read MoreWith Tesla purportedly gearing up to introduce an all-electric semi next month, diesel engine supplier Cummins took some of the automaker’s buzz away on Tuesday, revealed an all-electric prototype truck of its own.
Read MoreWaymo, the self-driving car project launched by Google, has been at the forefront of developing autonomous technology, having rolled out an immense test fleet earlier this year while inking a partnerships with ride-hailing company Lyft to deploy robotcars on the road. Part of the company’s effort development efforts also relies upon testing autonomous cars in a virtual world created by one of the company’s engineers, according to a report from The Atlantic.
Read MoreWhen Ford parted ways with CEO Mark Fields earlier this year, part of the reason had to do with how he positioned the automaker for the future—particularly in autonomous cars. Fields’ replacement, Jim Hackett, is spending his first 100 days trying to assess his shop and get a grasp on where he wants to take it. While Ford may be behind competitors in the race to develop robotcars, Hackett showed a willingness to be realistic about the fledgling technology.
Read MoreA commonly held view toward self-driving cars is that, once the vehicles become fully-automated, a steering wheel and pedals are no longer be needed. Ford appears to be taking an interesting approach to the idea, with a new patent that allows for removable parts that could be plopped back in with ease.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk has made it no secret that he’d like to “anti-sell” the Model 3, as a way to tamper high demand and perhaps avoid siphoning off interest for the company’s more expensive and more profitable vehicles, the Model S and X. Well, it seems some of the automaker’s sales staff took that to heart, as Model 3 reservation holders have reported being pressured to buy a Model S instead.
Read More“You park it,” the brusque, fifty-something attendant told me as he stared down a Tesla Model S. As far as I could tell, this Brooklyn parking garage had a simple protocol: drivers leave their keys with the attendant on-duty, thereby allowing them to find whatever spot fits into the Tetris-like equation that New York City garages compute on a daily basis. Not this time. I was driving a $140,000 Tesla Model S P100D—and, clearly, the car was still a novelty for him as much as it was for me.
Read MoreIn recent months, Lyft has unveiled a multi-pronged approach to self-driving cars. There’s a new division in the company that’s expected to focus entirely on developing self-driving tech for Lyft; a number of partnerships with tech giants and autonomous vehicle developers are aimed at bringing robotcars to Lyft’s ride-hailing network in the near-future. But Lyft says there’s one element of the network that isn’t expected to go away any time soon: humans.
Read MoreUber has long been criticized for lending practices designed to reel in prospective drivers to the ride-hailing company, particularly their program to push people into subprime auto loans. Now, facing significant losses, the company’s planning to wind down the lending business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreWeeks after Faraday Future announced it would halt construction of a $1 billion factory in Nevada, the company said on Monday that it has a new lease on life, after securing a facility in California to continue efforts to build an all-electric autonomous car.
Read MoreMazda may be well on its way to introducing a new Mazda3 already, and reports indicate the new model may be bringing along an all-new, sparkless ignition gasoline engine with it.
Read MoreA week before ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski allegedly stole self-driving car trade secrets from the tech giant, the ride-hailing company Uber had drafted a term sheet to acquire what appears to have been his future autonomous vehicle project, Otto, according to court records filed Friday.
Read MoreIn Harry Potter, the wand chooses the wizard. In the future, the car might choose the driver.
Read MoreAh, man, you see that up there? The Volkwsagen autonomous concept caterpillar called Sedric? Imaging hitting the road in this adorable little guy someday. The Future’s going great and you’re relaxing in Sedric while it carts your non-driving ass around town. Life’s peachy. Sure, that is, if you enjoy being held captive for a horror show of ads. That’s the dystopia outlined in a new robot car study from Forrester Research.
Read MoreFormer Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is reportedly engineering a bid to reassume power at the ride-hailing giant, but a new report could derail his effort before it really gets off the ground: Uber knowingly leased defective Honda Vezels to prospective drivers without getting the necessary repairs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreDo you love that sensation of suddenly being hurled forward when you have to abruptly slam on the brakes? If you’re in a self-driving car, the effect’s apparently even more dramatic, researchers from the University of Michigan announced Thursday. People have a tendency to jolt forward as much as 8 inches when the vehicle abruptly slams on the brakes, according to the Detroit Free Press, and that amount of movement presents a number of implications for automakers developing automated technology l
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Read MoreTwo days ago, my life was nothing—26 years of pure and utter emptiness. But yesterday, that all changed when I set my eyes upon the hilariously quirky Mazda Pathfinder XV-1. It’s an off-roader built specifically for the Burmese market in the early 1970s, and my god is it wonderful.
Read MoreIt’s 2017 and everyone and their mom is making an SUV. Lamborghini’s making one. Ferrari might make one. Even Rolls-Royce is making one, though the company has stubbornly refused to call it that. I totally get why now.
Read MoreIt’s tempting to dismiss the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk as simply a Grand Cherokee with a big Hellcat engine under the hood (because that is, in essence, what it is). But shoving 707 horsepower into a Grand Cherokee takes a lot more engineering effort than you might think.
Read MoreJeep has been throwing high-horsepower engines into Grand Cherokees for longer than you might think. Even the world’s most brilliant scientists don’t know exactly why, but nobody’s really complaining about it either. Especially not me, now that I’ve driven the ludicrous 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk.
Read MoreWe’ve been waiting around for the 2018 Jeep Wrangler for what feels like a really long time. But! There could be light at the end of the tunnel. A light shining brightly from a time not too far from now called November.
Read MoreWe’ve seen an awful lot of Jeep Scrambler stuff lately, so I’m hoping you’re not sick of it yet and are willing to endure a bit more, because this is interesting. A reader and motorcar-pilot named Angelo sent me this video of a Scrambler and another truck (a new Ram?) engaged in some sort of testing involving some odd trailers.
Read MoreI’m headed to Portland, Maine, today to drive a Jeep with 647 more horsepower and an infinitely faster 0-60 time than my 1948 Willys CJ-2A. Jeeps have come a long way.
Read MoreEverybody must be really excited about the upcoming Jeep Scrambler pickup because leaked details are gushing out quicker than piping-hot, redolent urine from a racehorse’s majestic meatus. Don’t believe me? We just got this CAD image of the full body of the new JT Wrangler pickup.
Read MoreWe’ve known that a Jeep pickup was coming for some time, and we’ve seen it, in disguise, testing in the real, filthy world. Now, we even have some leaked CAD files showing the new pickup’s frame and axle, and what seems to be confirmation for a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V6. Plus, it’s got a historic name: the Jeep Scrambler.
Read MoreYesterday, much of the country came together in awe to witness a cosmic phenomenon. Today, we can come together once more and bask in the most glorious small-truck news in recent memory: the Hyundai Santa Cruz is for sure coming to the U.S. market!
Read MoreThree years ago, I dropped $1,000 on a lift kit for my daily-driver, a 1992 Jeep Cherokee. And while I initially loved the way it turned out, I’ve grown to detest almost everything about my new suspension. Lifting my daily driver was a dumb idea.
Read MoreTo assert the legitimacy of its off-roadiness, the Chevy Colorado ZR2 is going to take on the grueling 550-mile Vegas To Reno desert race this weekend with its stock engine and transmission. And license plates; this competition truck is totally street-legal, according to GM.
Read MoreMost off-road vehicles have crawl ratios—extra gearing to increase forward thrust—between 30 and about 100. But the Mercedes Unimog, with its “Super Crawler” gear, has an absurd crawl ratio over 3000. That means two things: unstoppable crawling power, and a hilariously low top speed.
Read MoreBreaking news: the 2018 Jeep Wrangler looks like... a Jeep Wrangler! This should surprise literally no one, but it’s now confirmed in what appears to be a shot of the new “JLU” Wrangler at Jeep’s Toledo plant. It comes to us by way of our friends at the JL Wrangler forums.
Read MoreThe 2018 Ford F-150 is a facelifted version of last year’s truck, except under the aluminum sheetmetal, there’s more horsepower, more torque, and more gears. That all sounds good, but how does it actually feel? Here’s what I thought after driving much of the new F-150 range near Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Read MoreIf you like your bombshells small and gentle, then boy are you in luck, because Ford has just announced some changes to the 2018 F-150 that are so understated and mild, they’ll blow your goddamn mind, in a subtle way. These improvements come to fuel economy across most of the available engine lineup, and a decent increase in towing capacity for the 3.5-liter Ecoboost V6.
Read MoreWell, the 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk didn’t turn out to be cheap at all, did it? With the pricing on the 707 horsepower Hellcat-Jeep, Fiat Chrysler’s SRT division further cements itself as America’s AMG, but that power has a high price tag.
Read MoreWhether you like it or not, the Rolls-Royce Cullinan is coming. Just don’t call it an SUV. And don’t compare it to a (gross and lowly) Bentley Bentayga.
Read MoreIt’s one thing to build a Jeep Wrangler up for the rigors of extreme off-roading. But getting one ready to survive serious use at the ham-fisted hands of rental car customers? Sounds like a tall order. Doing it cost-effectively seems even harder, but apparently it’s not impossible.
Read MoreNot every part of making loads of money is pleasant. You have to do things you don’t like, things that aren’t comfortable in your soul. Take Land Rover’s design head, who thinks it’s a shame so many cows have to be killed for seat leather. But that’s just how the sad, sacrificial cookie that is capitalism crumbles.
Read MoreIn 1945, an American soldier gave my Grandpa—who was then an eight-year-old living in Southern Germany—a ride in a World War II Jeep. That short trip changed my grandpa’s life forever, beginning a chain of events that led him to vow never to drive an automobile for as long as he lives.
Read MoreIf you’ve always wondered which of the current crop of SUVs is best off-road, Autocar did a head-to-head comparison between the Jeep Wrangler, Land Rover Discovery, Mercedes G-Wagon, Toyota Land Cruiser, Dacia Duster and a modified Isuzu D-Max. So get ready for some off-road goodness.
Read MoreThe often-fruitful JL Wrangler Forums has gotten its hands on what sure look like screenshots of a Jeep dealership’s internal computer system. If they’re real, the images reveal a whole lot about what options and configurations the new-body-style 2018 Jeep Wrangler will be getting.
Read MoreEvery fiber of my being is compelling me to buy this giant pink dump truck I found on Craigslist for five grand and, please, I can’t afford to make this mistake.
Read MoreMy life changed this morning when I discovered for the first time that a brilliant two-stroke, 4x4 Kei Car is actually available on America’s very own Craigslist. It’s called the Suzuki Jimny LJ20, and I’ve found multiple examples online that I’m having a hard time resisting. Please help?
Read MoreIf you’re a sentient semi truck that lives/works in Minnesota, you should be aware that there’s a long tunnel in Minneapolis called the Lowry Hill Tunnel that you’re too large to fit through. Knowing this may help you prevent your driver from doing what this trucker did. He drove through the too-small tunnel, smashing 47 lights in the process.
Read MoreThe 2017 Ford Raptor is all big turbo engine, enormous body, and the beefiest Fox Racing shocks this side of a baja truck. That suspension is damn near all the fun in the Raptor, and this what it looks like when it’s actually being put to work.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia is slow, not particularly fun to drive, handles like an intoxicated dullard and isn’t even all that reliable. Yet, it’s one of the most popular vehicular fashion statements on this Earth. Why?
Read MoreAs cars change over the years, so do the skillsets of mechanics who work on them (just try finding someone who can rebuild a carb or an old generator). Perhaps one of the most fascinating skills that’s on its way out is a bearing-pouring process called “babbitting,” as Road & Track describes in this excellent article.
Read MoreHave you ever heard one of those stories about a surgeon leaving a sponge or something inside a patient? What happened to a Jalopnik reader and 2006 Mitsubishi Evo MR owner is essentially the same idea: he opened up his engine, and found a forgotten socket inside.
Read MoreCall it a guilty pleasure if you must, but there is just something about the second-generation Dodge Ram that won’t let my subconscious rest.
Read MoreMost car shows on TV revolve around some kind of “race-against-time restoration” and the internet is overstocked with amateur mechanics dispensing DIY advice. George Karellas’ “Soup” series has a little bit of both, but with visual twist I really like.
Read MoreThanks to miracles of modern science, the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter has become a reality, and some genius YouTuber has decided—for whatever reason—to use it to tear down a 1.6-liter B6ZE Miata engine. Either that, or this amazing video is just stop-motion—it’s not entirely clear.
Read MoreLike you, I love a good bargain. If I can get something for less at at least the same or slightly worse quality, I will generally go for the cheaper option. Haircuts are a great example. Tires? Maybe not as much.
Read MoreDo-it-yourself’ing isn’t for everybody. Even a job as basic as changing a car’s oil is sometimes better left to a pro if you don’t, I don’t know, ever want to be dirty. There are some “repair jobs” that really are as easy as snapping to Legos together. Somehow, I have been vexed by one of those jobs for half a year.
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