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Beyond Cars (4)

  • Try Not To Cry As You Watch This North Korean Soldier Drive A Jeep To Freedom

    To live your entire life under the oppressive North Korean regime must be terrible. To endure the tasks asked of you as a member of the country’s armed forces, to live in poverty conditions, to serve a dictatorial maniac. Years of oppression, even under the threat of death, caused this as-yet-unnamed twenty-something soldier to defect from his post and head due south for the demilitarized zone, and freedom. You can watch the escape as it transpires, thanks to this closed-circuit television foota

    By Bradley Brownell Read More

  • The Secret History Of A Nuclear Warhead Falling 75 Feet Down A Silo In South Dakota

    Fifty-three years ago, at a nuclear silo outside Vale, South Dakota, there was an explosion, the force of which blew the cap off a nuclear missile, sending its warhead falling 75 feet down the shaft of the 80-foot silo. What happened next could’ve been disaster, which was averted, but kept in secrecy for decades. Now, thanks to the intrepid work of a local reporter, we’re learning what really happened.

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Buying (24)

  • Cars Are Meant To Be Driven

    A few days ago, this 1972 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV was brought to my attention. What made the car remarkable wasn’t the fact that Lamborghini made so few Miuras and seeing one in this beautiful color scheme was an absolute treat. No, it was that the seller, Kulu Motorcar Inc., wrote on its listing that it only had 150 miles on the clock.

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  • Here Is What You Can Expect From A $100 Car Air Freshener

    Diptyque, the French scent company best known for its beautiful Instagram-tableau-ready candles that come in scents like Feu de Bois and Feuille de Lavande, released its first car diffuser in September. It joins Diptyque’s line of home diffusers and is the company’s first attempt at finally solving the problem of how to safely keep a lit candle in an automobile. But is it any good, or is it just some stupid expensive piece of shit?

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • There Are Some Really Bizarre Secret Car Deals Happening Right Now

    I like to save a buck wherever I can. I like doing this so much that I cut my kitchen sponges and only use one half at a time to make the pack last longer. My kind and considerate friends say I’m “frugal,” but let’s just call it what it is: I am a cheap bastard and these car deals have me extremely interested.

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  • There Is No Secret Inventory Of Cars For Sale Online

    You scour for hours on every car listing site you can for your dream car that has the perfect combo of options for the right price. Too frequently, what you seek cannot be found, even if you hope against hope that in some secret corner of the internet that car is for sale. I’m here to tell you, that place doesn’t exist.

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  • The Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster And Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster Both Hail From A Golden Age

     “You can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been” is the kind of lame, sing-song fortune cookie saying you get from time to time in lieu of an actual fortune. And while on most days, I think it’s merely a hokey way of reminding people that the past is important, when it involves two very special Mercedes-Benz convertibles 60 years apart in age, it has its place.

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  • The 2018 Ford Mustang Brings A Ton Of Power To The People

    The new 2018 Ford Mustang is the first big update for the model that launched three years ago, and it brings with it a big jump in power, a new automatic transmission, and some minor changes to the exterior like the headlights, which people that post in car forums have said remind them of a turtle. (Or did I say that at some point? Maybe. It’s not a criticism.) Anyway, it’s a good car and also, at times, a beast.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Meet The Die-Hard Enthusiasts Keeping The Nissan 200SX Dream Alive In A NORAD Bunker

    I receive a ton of emails from readers asking me to drive their cars. It’s a good problem to have. But the truth is, while I’d love to say yes to all of them, a lack of time simply prevents me from driving them all. But when a Jalopnik reader from Rimouski, Québec told me that he and his friends, all of whom are proud owners of Nissan 200SX-es, were holed up in an old military bunker just so I could write a story about their cars, I had to find the time.

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  • You Can Finally Get A Great Deal On A Honda Civic Si

    The Civic Si may not garner the headlines like its Type R stablemate does, but it’s still a compelling value. While some dealers subjected this car to Type R pricing strategies, such price-padding in long in this generation Si’s past. The model year changeover means you can start to score some deals.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • Need For Speed Payback Tries To Do Too Much At Once

    The Need For Speed Payback plot, as far as I could tell from the trailers and the pressers that Electronic Arts sent me, would have us crash our way through a very Fast and Furious-style above-the-law campaign where cop chases, heists and wanton street racing were common. And if the game was comprised of just that, it would fine.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • Here Are The Cars Everyone Misspells While Searching The Internet

    Ford Focuss. Chevy Camri. Kneesan Leaf. The internet’s hard, and spelling’s even harder. The automotive industry’s full of funky names, so it’s no surprise that people consistently goof one up in a search engine. And AutoGuide.com’s here to call every single one of them out.

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  • The 2017 Lexus IS 350 F Sport Gets Points For Existing But Doesn't Take The Trophy

    The Lexus IS used to be so cool. It was the car that gave us Altezza lights, which spread like a virus across every even vaguely performance-oriented car in early 2000s high school parking lots. The IS was the little fun Lexus everyone wanted to emulate. But after driving the latest one, I’m not sure who it’s for anymore, and I don’t think Lexus even knows.

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  • Playing Forza Motorsport 7 In 4K Spoils The Hell Out Of You

    Much to my dad’s chagrin, I’m one of those people who has trouble telling the difference between 1080p and 4K. This issue came up again and again when I was helping him shop for his new television. And I think the problem was that we were watching clips of movies in the store and not playing video games. Because playing Forza Motorsport 7 on an Xbox One X in 4K changed my visual standard for video games. I don’t know if there is any going back.

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  • The 2017 Lexus RX 350 F Sport Mails It In 

    Lexus RX crossovers are many. Lexus RX crossovers are legion. You can run, but you can’t hide. Because you will see 12 of them crammed in a 10-spot parking lot, we had to see if the latest one was any good. However, it was weirdly disappointing, and not just because it’s a crossover. After driving one for a week I kind of feel like Lexus has this game figured out and it’s just resting on its laurels now.

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Culture (39)

  • This Is What It's Like To Run With The Real Spies Of Detroit

    Detroit is crawling with spies. Not necessarily the secret-listening-device and the silenced-weapon-type. But you’ve seen their work before. They’re automotive spy photographers, and we got to ride along with them as they shot the hottest prototypes around.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • What's Your Best Story From A Car Meet?

    As a car nerd, going to car meets and Cars & Coffee events are pretty much surefire ways to meet other nerds. They’re great gatherings, usually local, where everyone comes out to enjoy cars. You guys already know this, but car people are a real eclectic and super friendly bunch.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • What It's Like To Drive A Plastic Box That Spins And Pretends To Be A Car

    Most people, no matter how mundane or unimpressive seeming at first glance, have some sort of hidden skill. Maybe the weird pale kid you ignored all through high school wowed everybody on graduation day by biting through a bike chain, or something. The SEAB Flipper is sort of like that: a clunky, sad little car that manages to do one thing better than pretty much any car, ever. Sure, it’s mostly useless, but it’s still fantastic.

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  • Meh Car Monday: Nothing Could Un-Meh The Infiniti G20

    The status of Meh Car isn’t an entirely rational one. Meh-ness isn’t something that you can always engineer out of a car, or something that’s even necessarily based on how the car performs or works. Meh-ness is a more like a mythical, gray mist-dragon of cloudy disinterest, and once it gets its clammy, bland, dull claws into a car, there’s almost nothing a carmaker can do to set the car free. A perfect example of this is the Infiniti G20.

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  • This Is The Strangest Origin Story Of Any Carmaker

    Car companies often have interesting origin stories. Sometimes they evolved from making non-car things to cars, sometimes it was about cars from the start, and sometimes they don’t even want to talk that much about how they started because maybe Nazis were involved. But there’s only one example I can think of where a carmaker was started because a kid wanted to bobsled in a warm climate, and that carmaker is called David.

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  • Cracked Doesn't Understand Driving

    Commercials! They pay the bills for your #content, but it’s OK to still hate them. So, when Cracked ran through “Six Bizarrely Specific Commercial Tropes That Need To Die,” I expected to commiserate over that weird blue goo in tampon ads again and move on. Problem is, the host picks on one of the only things auto commercials do right: scenic open roads.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • Your Craziest Winter Driving Stories

    Winter driving can be risky and sometimes dangerous, but that doesn’t really stop the extremely determined folks, does it? No, some of us see that low-traction powder blanketing the familiar landscape and a newfound sense of adventure washes over us.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • Gas Station TV Must Die

    It was late. I was already having a bad day. Worse traffic than usual caused me to miss picking up the trailer I had arranged to borrow for the 24 Hours of Lemons weekend. Once I found another trailer and secured my race car to it, it was extra late. Then I needed gas, and the world’s worst idea ever ruined that.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • These Are The Most Common Car-Arguments You'll Likely Get Into During Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness for families, where far-flung relatives all come together to interact and share a meal for one time a year. For most families, this is a disaster waiting to happen. If you’re unable to keep the conversation to safe topics like politics, religion, or even tried-and-true safe spaces like abortion, it’s likely the talk will turn to cars, and things could get ugly.

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  • Car Parts That Look More Appetizing Than A Thanksgiving Turkey

    Thanksgiving, I will never understand you. In theory, setting aside a day to give thanks is okay, I guess, even though you should do that every day. In practice, everybody looks like I just told them that I have a rare sexually transmitted disease only found in bears when I say I hate turkey. It’s become a dumb holiday about gluttony that doesn’t even have tasty food.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • Why The Humble Toyota Corolla Became A King Of Drift Racing

    A Toyota Corolla is a safe choice for a car. A boring choice. Reliable, bland, cheap and basic transportation. There is no shame in this. But it makes the Corolla an extremely unlikely contender to be one of the stars of the fastest growing motorsport in America—drifting.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • What It's Like To Drive A Car That Gives Birth To A Motorcycle

    For some reason, just because I always seem to seek out slow, miserable, painful failures of cars to drive on Jason Drives, the idea has gotten around that I like to drive slow, miserable, painful failures of cars. That’s only half true. While I do, perversely, like that, I also like driving things that are, you know, delightful to drive. This week, I’m driving a car that’s a joy to drive, and has another machine that’s a joy to drive nestling inside it: the Honda City Turbo and the Honda Motoco

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  • Meh Car Monday: Don't Pretend Anyone Even Remembers The Saturn L-Series

    Want to make a car enthusiast freeze up for a good 20-30 seconds? Ask them to picture a Saturn L-Series. Most gearheads will cock their heads up and to the side, narrowing their eyes as they try to call the image into their minds. If you look carefully, you can sometimes see rainbow spinning beach balls where their irises were. Then, they’ll give up, because nobody gives a brace of BMs about the Saturn L-Series.

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  • This Is America's Most Embarrassing Automotive Engineering Failure

    America has had an incredible, dynamic, and often quite innovative automotive industry for well over a century, but that rich automotive history also includes many missteps and some outright failures. There’s one engineering failure, though, that makes the Pinto gas tank placement and the Vega’s engine woes seem like mere blips: the persistent and depressing problem of terminal headliner sag.

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  • Show Us Your Sad Project Cars

    Some project cars just look miserable. They have a sad countenance that makes them incite pity in whoever happens to be driving by. I’m not talking about the primered 1965 Ford Mustang you and your dad are working on. I’m talking about the neglected car you have sitting in your driveway that you’ll “get to eventually.”

    By Alex Hevesy Read More

  • How Do You Protect Your Cars?

    Our cars are our babies and they need protecting from the dirt and grit of the outside world. Especially after a natural disaster. In the wake of the wildfires that ravaged California in October, people are finally starting to rebuild their lives. It won’t be easy, especially for those who lost nearly everything.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • This Three-Wheeled Log Cabin Of A Car Was Supposed To Be Everywhere

    The Martin Stationette was pitched as the American economy car of the future. It was supposed to make our lives better, our roads clearer, but only one prototype was ever built. That’s probably for the best. On this week’s episode of Jason Drives (I am writing the post for it because Jason is off doing stupid shit in Mexico) we found out that there’s a lot wrong with the Stationette—and that’s leaving aside that it’s made entirely out of wood.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • An Imaginary Car From An Imaginary Country: 1985 Purismic Commune Transport Pod

    It’s time again for another imaginary car from an imaginary country, and today we’re going on a strange journey to the only absolutely, purely communist sovereign state in the entire imaginary world: the People’s Purismic Commune (PPC). In the PPC, everyone is absolutely equal, and as such there’s only one car for everybody: the incredibly modular Transport Pod. This car is the essence of PPC philosophy, rendered in automotive form.

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  • Take A Moment To Enjoy A Bunch Of Videos Of Headlight Wipers In Action

    This morning a reader named Mustang ‘DontHitTheCrowd’ GT sent me this little video of a 1981 Saab 99's headlight wiper system in action, and I found it so strangely satisfying and delightful that I thought that perhaps you may enjoy a post of nothing but short clips of headlight wipers in action. Because that’s how you are.

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  • Volkswagen Really Wanted To Prove It Could Make A Cab-Over Vehicle Safe-Ish

    I’m someone who absolutely and unironically loves cab-over designed vehicles, which is why I’ve always hated smug clamholes telling me that “the crumple zone is your legs” or other frustratingly accurate comments about the relative lack of safety of such hood-free designs. Volkswagen must have been sick of all those comments, too, because in the ‘80s they had these videos made showing how safe they made their Type 2s vans.

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  • Today's Race Car Drivers Have It Easy

    I always thought that early race cars were kind of quaint, slowly belching their way down roads at speeds you’d get on a merry-go-round today. Fuck no. These things were fucking fast and everyone who raced anything like this was a goddamn lunatic.

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  • Here's The Cutest Soviet Car You've Never Heard Of

    I’m not even going to pretend like I’m not a sucker for a cute car. I am, and I don’t care who knows it. Whatever miserable set of bad ideas I have rattling around in my head that define my self-image, they allow me to appreciate a genuinely adorable vehicle, and this VAZ E1101 prototype may be one of the cutest goddamn cars I’ve ever seen.

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  • What It's Like To Drive The Biggest Failure In British Motoring History

    I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me, exactly, but I just love a good, solid failure. And while I’m not sure you can apply the words “good” or “solid” to this thing, you really can’t argue that the Sinclair C5 was anything but a glorious failure. And it’s how we’re kicking off the new season of Jason Drives.

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  • Meh Car Monday: The Plymouth Sundance And Dodge Shadow, The Tedium Twins

    I’ve always been surprised by how rabid a following the Chrysler K-Cars seem to have, but one thing that does not surprise me in the least is how un-rabid a following the K-Car’s follow up, the P-bodies, have. Or, don’t have. The P-body cars were the Dodge Shadow and Plymouth Sundance, the darkness and light sides of who-gives-a-shit.

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  • These Are The Evil Cars That Tried To Kill You

    Ideally, cars are there to make us feel safe. Their metal shells are designed to cocoon us, cloister us from the physical dangers of the outside world while traveling at speed. Sometimes, this doesn’t always happen.

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  • The Honda Collection Hall Is A Salute To Ingenuity And Dreams

    Honda’s always been one to do things differently. Take VTEC as a prime example of Honda’s ingenuity. Whereas other manufacturers went with turbocharging, supercharging, and rotary engines, Honda’s engineers went with a system that changed the cam timing optimized for fuel economy at low RPMs and performance at higher revs.

    By Ken Saito Read More

  • Here's What To See If You Go To The Tokyo Motor Show This Weekend

    It’s been a week since the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show kicked off, and the public days run through this weekend. Japan’s biggest car show is expected to have more than 800,000 visitors this year. You should go some time! If you happen to be in town this weekend, here’s the coolest stuff you should see.

    By Ken Saito Read More

  • It's Time To Feel Good Again Because Jason Drives Is Coming Back Next Week

    What are you doing right now? Stop it. Just stop. Drop that phone, fling that scalpel to the ground, let go of that control yoke, because Jason Drives is coming back, and I want everyone to just take a moment to let the healing begin. I’m excited, and I want you to be, too. Because, let’s face it, I love you.

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  • Japan's Halloween Car Party Is Out Of This World

    Japan on a normal day is crazy and different enough from the rest of the world, but come Halloween and it’s like a whole other planet. There are a few holidays the Japanese take as seriously as Halloween, except maybe for Christmas, New Year’s, and Valentine’s Day. And this one has some fun stuff involving cars.

    By Ken Saito Read More

Concept Cars (1)

  • Honda's 'Baby NSX' Finally Shows Up As A Gran Turismo Car You Can't Own

    For years now—yes, years—we’ve been teased with patents and renderings and mysterious photos that led us to believe Honda was making a new, small mid-engine sports car often dubbed the “baby NSX.” That seemed too good to be true. And it was. We now know it’s a Gran Turismo-only concept, not a real car, and here it is in full. We find ourselves wishing it was real anyway.

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Crashes and Safety (11)

Entertainment (5)

Events (8)

Honda (1)

  • The 2018 Honda Fit Just Works

    The 2018 Honda Fit kind of fits everywhere and everything seems to fit in it. Hmm... is that in the brochure? It’s not a particularly arousing car, aesthetically or architecturally, but it is intuitive. It’s efficient, too. And get a load of that high-mounted cupholder!

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Motorcycles (7)

  • Seeing The Exact Opposite Of Road Rage Happen Will Make You Love Humanity Again

    We’ve basically seen the first part of this video many, many times before, and it almost always ends in behavior that makes you feel a little ashamed to be a human. Dangerous driving mistakes are made, someone narrowly avoids death, and then people, full of insecurity and guilt and wrath and fear, lash out at one another. Not this time. This is one of those rare cases where decent humanity has been caught on camera.

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  • Here's How The Government Should Be Encouraging Motorcycle Use

    The United States is spending billions on highways, railways, and roads to, ostensibly make it easier for Americans to get around. Even with all that spending, our infrastructure is nowhere near where it needs to be. But there’s another cheap solution that could ease traffic, parking, and wear on infrastructure: motorcycles. This country has yet to embrace mass-adoption of motorcycles, but the right incentives might change that.

    By Jason Channell Read More

  • The New Flagship Ducati Panigale V4 Enjoys Twice The Cylinders

    The newest top-of-the-line Ducati Panigale V4 sportbike unveiled at the the 2017 EICMA Motorcycle Show has some familiar features: it oozes with Italian style. It looks fast even when it’s standing still. And it’s red. The sea-change lies beneath the bodywork: The bike is designed around a new V4 engine, a massive break with Ducati’s twin-cylinder tradition.

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News (295)

  • Toyota Would Be Insane Not To Call Its New Sports Car The 'Supra'

    In the sea of crossovers and bad branding that is this year’s LA Auto Show, we had hope of something more—a new Toyota Supra, maybe, a car for people who like cars for their soul rather than for their convenience. But, since everything is bad, we learned instead that the new Supra may not be called the “Supra.”

    By Alanis King Read More

  • A Quantitative Analysis Of The 2019 Subaru Ascent's 19 Cupholders

    Autocar, a publication that can’t grasp the American dream of greatness, asks if the 19 cupholders in the new 2019 Subaru Ascent is “too many cupholders.” Jalopnik, a publication for HEROES, knows that 19 cupholders is simply called “not enough cupholders.” But the joy of so many cupholders is how much liquid it can contain.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Read This To Understand Why The Toyota Supra Became A Legend

    YouTube videos of 1,000 horsepower cars and memes from Fast & Furious movies have clouded our memory of how the last Toyota Supra became the icon that it is. Here’s what the car was like before all of that mythologizing, before it became one of the Holy Grails of tuning.

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  • All The Best Weird Stuff From The Los Angeles Auto Show

    Most of what you see at car shows are new cars from major automakers, or concepts for cars so new they don’t even exist yet. That’s mostly because those new, available models are ones you can actually buy, for currency, which can then be exchanged by the carmaker for goods and/or services. It’s a whole big thing, trust me. But there are a good number of cars and car-like things at the LA Auto Show that don’t fit this mold, and I’m going to show you those now, so prepare yourself accordingly.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Who Is All This Nissan Star Wars Stuff For?

    Nissan makes a crossover called the Rogue. Last year, a Star Wars movie called Rogue One came out. The brand synergy was obvious. (It has to do with the word “Rogue.”) This year, Nissan is again a brand partner of a new Star Wars movie. Why? Who knows.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • The 2018 Nissan Kicks The Juke Into The Grave As Boring Rules The Day

    Confession time: I never thought the Nissan Juke was as good a driver’s car as some people claimed it to be. It was weird and quirky and different, sure, and it came with a manual. And sometimes tuners did weird shit to it, and that was fun. But was it that great to drive? Not... really. Sadly the Juke’s replacement, the 2018 Nissan Kicks, looks neither interesting nor compelling to drive.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Nissan May Have Just Revealed New Droids From The Last Jedi

    Nissan’s booth at the LA Auto Show is essentially a big display of their current line-up of cars in Star Wars cosplay. In the back of their booth, though, they’ve got this fun but strikingly un-car-related VR experience where you get to repair droids in a droid repair shop. What makes this really interesting, at least to hardcore Star Wars droid-geeks, is that a number of new, never-before-seen BB-series droids are shown. Will any of these be in the movie? Did Nissan spill the beans on the bigge

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • This Could Be The Car For Everyone Let Down By Elio

    Before the LA Auto Show opened the doors to the main exhibit halls and let the sweaty, writhing, shrimp-starved mass of auto journalists stumble in, I took a quick look around the outer fringes of the show and saw something interesting: a three-wheeled car that reminded me of an Elio, but without the grim haze of miasma and probable failure hovering around it. It’s called the Sondors Electric Car.

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  • The Three-Row 2018 Lexus RX L Is Here To Print An Insane Amount Of Money

    It’s hard to imagine a luxury crossover more ubiquitous than the Lexus RX. But for years it’s had one fatal flaw that has pushed buyers elsewhere and driven dealers to tears: it doesn’t have a third row of seats. Today at the LA Auto Show, this oversight was corrected, and you can expect the 2018 Lexus RX L to print money for Toyota.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Porsche Still Acknowledges That Human Driving Is Good

    Porsche, my friend, my pal, my comrade in this war against the autonomous machines, I knew there was a reason I named my cat after you. You’re one of the good ones. While other automakers dream of the day there is no longer a driver’s seat, you want to keep that steering wheel as long as possible.

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  • This Alfa Was Dropped By A Tow Truck And Then It Became The Ultimate Italian Survivor

    Standing on the edge of a dry lakebed at 4:30 a.m., stars twinkling overhead, I could hear the sound of a distant engine but couldn’t quite make out from where. Scanning the black abyss that is nighttime El Mirage, a lone distant light was actually moving closer and closer. Out of the darkness rumbled a scene straight from Mad Max. Already looking like it had been through an apocalypse, this little Alfa was a survivor of a different sense.

    By Jonathan Harper Read More

  • The Problem With High-Speed Chases

    Watching a high speed chase can, objectively, be fun. There’s drama. Speed. Excitement. Sometimes, even humor. But they’ve killed more than 13,000 people since 1979, according to The New Yorker. Is that something we can change? Is it even possible to change it?

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Leaked Documents Say The Mid-Engined C8 Corvette Could Make Up To 850 HP

    A Corvette with the engine behind the driver is coming. Finally. Maybe? Probably, as there’s been tons of reports and mules running around that prove the real thing is right around the corner. And according supposedly leaked documents on Corvette Forum, the all-new C8 may have up to 850 horsepower using a twin-turbo V8.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • The Hyundai Veloster Is Coming Back And That Makes Me Happy

    The LA Auto Show is happening now and Detroit is in a little over a month, and that means an endless onslaught of small and medium-sized crossovers with 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder engines. So if you ask me, the world needs more weird and fun hatchbacks with three doors. The Hyundai Veloster is coming back, and here’s a tease of the next generation.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • The 755 Horsepower 2019 Corvette ZR1 Starts At $119,995

    I’m not even sure where to begin here. We’ve reached the limits of hyperbole. We’ve reached the limits of sense. The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 can be yours for $119,995, which is a lot for a Corvette, but this thing has an obscene amount of performance. If you need more, behold the Corvette ZR1 Convertible, a 755 horsepower, 200-plus mile an hour, $123,995 open-topped madness machine.

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  • The 2018 Infiniti QX50 Could Be Diesel's Reckoning

    We’be been making a lot of fuss about new variable compression engine technology from the likes of Nissan and Mazda lately, and now a production version is finally here, all wrapped in the attractive new body of the Infiniti QX50.

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  • Comment Of The Day: Alpha Mail Edition

    Despite multiple reports of quality problems, Motor Trend named the Alfa Romeo Giulia its Car of the Year. Okay. But something still seemed off about the announcement to us. What could it possibly be?

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  • Everything That It Took To Get My Yugo To The Jalopnik Auto Show

    Graunch. GRAUNCH. GRAAAAAAAAAAUNCH. The noise from the right rear wheel wasn’t going away. If anything, it was getting worse. It didn’t help that the engine was going nuclear, either. We were filming the New York episode of Car Vs. America, and my Yugo was going straight to hell.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • Motor Trend Fucks Up Its Own Car Of The Year Announcement

    Motor Trend’s Car of The Year award is very important to people who write press releases, and mostly no one else. You would, accordingly, think that the people and publications who write said press releases would make sure they were extra good and perfect. Not so, for MT’s big video announcement and the Alpha–ahem–Alfa Romeo.

    By Michael Ballaban Read More

  • My $100 Nissan 300ZX Proves Affordable Barn Finds Still Exist

    I got pretty much the same reaction every time I told someone about my newly-acquired Nissan Z. “With the Diablo headlights? Those are looking good.” No. “The sleek ’70s one? Poor man’s E-Type?” Nope. I got the one that looks like an 8-bit alligator. And I still can’t believe how it happened.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Here's How A Major Highway Falls Apart

    If you ever needed proof of how our infrastructure is falling apart, the Wall Street Journal has an exhaustive, thoughtful, extremely well-crafted project out today that does just that. The Journal examined the state of Interstate 95, and, boy, is it Not Good.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Gaze In Horror As The Grand Tour Hosts Become 'More American'

    Top Gear in its prime was fantastic, but it was often full of jabs that went over the heads of non-British audiences. Jokes about cricket and someone named Wayne Rooney and 1980s Vauxhalls, for example. Evidently the producers of The Grand Tour decided (warm) beer guts, bad hair and bad teeth aren’t working for international audiences, so here is the result. The horrifyingly American result.

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  • Bobcat Survives 50-Mile Trip In Car's Grille

    Cars, sadly, hit all kinds of animals on the road, and usually it doesn’t end very well, though sometimes our furry friends survive. A couple of months ago, for example, a coyote somehow survived the collision. And last week in Virginia, a bobcat also escaped death, while getting a free 50-mile ride in what must have been an extremely uncomfortable position.

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  • Here Are Some Handy Tips For Securing A Christmas Tree To Your Car

    Now that Thanksgiving is over and done with, most of us can focus on the next big hurdle: Christmas. And since all retail stores collectively have started playing Christmas music on repeat until the holiday is over, I guess we can start thinking about Christmas trees and ensuing tree transfer, too.

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  • We Have Reached The Best Era Of Japanese Imports In America

    Thanks to America’s arbitrary, dealer-imposed car import laws and a lack of political will to change them, the enthusiasts of our nation—despite being the “most free” and “best” one in the world—are barred from bringing in cars younger than 25 years of age. This is a shame, but as we edge closer to 2018, an interesting overlap between the 25-year ban and our collective Japanese car nostalgia seems to be taking place.

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  • Using A Flamethrower To Set Your Car On Fire Is Bad

    You know how, sometimes, you want to get rid of something and you daydream about setting it on fire? Oh, you don’t do this? It’s just me? Oh. Well, I think this goes without saying that you should not ever light something on fire—like your car—and then falsely report it stolen to the local police. That’s very Bad Behavior.

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  • Here Is Your Gigantic Jalopnik Hurricane Relief Car Show Photo Gallery

    We were worried no one would come. It was right after Thanksgiving, at the end of a cold month, and it had already been rescheduled. But I should have learned by now that the Jalops always come through. Thanks to you, our hurricane relief charity car show in Newark on Sunday was an overwhelming success.

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  • Quick Question: Do You Look Into The Window Of The Car Next To You?

    I’ve noticed there’s something I seem to instinctively do as I drive, and I don’t think I’m alone. I don’t know why I do it, and I don’t really have a sense of how common it is, so consider this article my first attempt to learn more. Here’s what it is: if I’m stopped at a light, or keeping close pace with a car next to me, I find that I’ll often take a quick glance over into the other car, to see the driver. Who else does this?

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  • BMW’s late-80s king of the high-speed sports-touring bikes, the K1, is the most rad of all the motorrad. This one, with a giant rectangular headlamp, ABS, and a ketchup-and-mustard paint job, is the embodiment of rad motorcycles. Ya dig?

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  • Carroll Shelby Once Peddled A Minilite Replica Wheel For Saab Owners

    There are not many people that embody the abstract ideal of “America” more than Carroll Shelby. Following his quite successful racing career, Shelby was the consummate salesman, constantly on the hunt for some business opportunity he could slap his name on. We all know about his successful foray with Ford in the 1960s, but he also pushed everything from deodorant spray to chili powder under the Shelby trademark.

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  • You'll Go Like Wildfire In This 1950s American Kit Car

    The unique car you see in these photographs is a Woodill Wildfire, the 1950s brainchild of onetime Willys dealer B.R. Woodill. This design is the “series II” bodywork, which certainly hosts some strangeness in its proportions, but it’s not quite all the way to ugly. The fiberglass body plays on sports car themes of the era with thin hips and a wide nose. I see a bit of Jaguar XK120 in the design, a bit of contemporary Ferrari, as well as a lot of Kaiser Darrin.

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  • How Would You Configure Your 2018 Kia Stinger?

    The rear-wheel-drive Kia Stinger Sportback is the first vehicle to challenge some of the sport sedan badge snobbery from Kia, historically an automaker more known for budget cars than fast ones. How would you spec yours?

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  • How The Tesla Roadster Might Pull Off Zero To 60 MPH In 1.9 Seconds

    Though a battery researcher told me he thinks Tesla’s performance claims for its new Roadster are plausible, there are many other factors besides batteries that affect acceleration. So let Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained walk you through the basic physics of how Tesla might pull this off.

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  • Four Teslas Stolen In Bizarre Heist

    Some weird news out of Utah today as four suspects were arrested after allegedly breaking into a Tesla dealership and stealing some of the inventory. What’s strange is that the suspects claimed that the cars were given to them by a man named Tesla as KSL reports. Unless Elon Musk changed his name or everyone’s favorite Serbian scientist started a car company, I’m not sure that’s accurate.

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  • Nissan Is Manufacturing R32 Skyline Parts Again

    You Skyline’d your Skyline GT-R too hard and smashed into the back of an unoccupied Italian food truck. It happens to everyone but now you need to replace some parts on your precious Mecha-Godzilla. I guess it’s off to eBay to find some parts for your car.

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  • One Last Reminder: Our Hurricane Relief Car Show In New Jersey Is TOMORROW

    It’s finally happening. The internet tells me it’s going to be sunny with clear skies and about 50 degrees, so no chance of rainout this time. If you’re in the greater New York/New Jersey area and want to hang out with some good people and cars for a great cause, tomorrow is your chance. We’re holding the Jalopnik Auto Show in Newark for hurricane relief, and you should come.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Here's The Scientific Difference Between Summer And Winter Tires

    We’re in it. The time is now. The scary time. That time of year when it’s just a little too cold for summer tires, but just a little too warm for winter tires. You know that one is way better than the other in the cold, but it’s so much more than a tread pattern. Here’s Engineering Explained on why.

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  • The FBI Investigated Sports Car Legend Preston Henn To Block The Film Deep Throat

    In the 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation futilely expended significant resources to block the landmark porn film Deep Throat from being shown. The name, of course, would become even more famous for its later involvement in the Watergate cover-up. As part of the feds’ sweeping probe, it turns out, the feds interviewed sports car legend and flea market mogul Preston Henn, according to newly-released files obtained by Jalopnik.

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  • Netflix's Wheelman Is An Intriguing Experiment And The Cars Are Great

    If you’ve got some time this Thanksgiving weekend and you’re not interested in participating in the gross consumer-capitalist feeding frenzy that takes place on the following Friday, then maybe give Netflix’s Wheelman a shot. Surely you’re still using your ex’s dad’s wife’s login, right?

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  • Why Planes, Trains And Automobiles Is The Definitive Thanksgiving Movie

    John Candy was only 43 when he died of a heart attack in 1994 on the set of a truly terrible movie called Wagons East!. I was young, but I remember his death being met with something like unsurprised shock. Candy had, after all, been quite overweight for years; he also drank and smoked. I can think of many actors, though, with much longer careers, who never came close to striking a note as sweet and pure as Candy did in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

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  • Gifts For The Person Ruining Your Property Values With Junkers

    If you’re one of those people who fertilizes their lawn, trims their hedges, and looks with contempt upon a neighbor’s collection of rusty junker cars that are ruining your property values, the holidays are the time to act. Giving that crap can-owning neighbor these gifts will keep your blood from boiling every time you look out of your window.

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    Show this picture to your family members. If they can tell that these are two different cars, you my friend have found yourself a fellow gearhead. Then you can bond over that instead of having to talk to your racist uncles. It’s that simple!

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  • How To Find Your Favorite Automotive Fonts

    Many typefaces in your favorite car badges, gauges and advertisements are instantly recognizable. Now if you want know what those word-designs are actually called and how to download them, we’ve got you covered.

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  • Here Are Five Great Winter Driving Tips

    The temperatures are dropping, snow will start to fall and soon, seemingly everyone on the roads will collectively forget how to drive in the first storm, even though they were perfectly fine at the end of last winter. Here’s how you can avoid that pileup.

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  • Horrifying LA Traffic Jam Once Again Creates Beautiful Holiday Light Display

    This happens every year in Los Angeles (and maybe every night): a total jam on the city’s highways, thanks to Thanksgiving travel. The funny part is either that all these drivers thought they could escape the traffic by traveling a day early or that all these drivers thought they could escape the traffic in LA at all.

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  • It’s not the holiday yet, but we’re always thankful for the Triumph TR7!

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  • I Need An Old Volkswagen GTI And So Do You

    I know you’re in pain. Years of indignities, losses, betrayals and broken promises have left you empty and wondering if there’s anything left to be hopeful about. I feel much the same. But come with me. There is a better way. We can find peace together, in an old Volkswagen GTI.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Four Reasons To Be Skeptical That Hennessey's Venom F5 Will Break The 300 MPH Barrier

    For a while now, the next big goal in the never-ending quest for speed has been to hit 300 mph in a road car. The race to break that barrier has been heating up lately, with Koenigsegg’s average 278 mph record-setting run in Nevada demonstrating just how close we are. Bugatti might have something to say about it too. But Texas car tuner John Hennessey is predicting that his latest supercar, the Venom F5, will hit 300 mph. There’s four important reasons why it may not: the tires.

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  • Car Gifts You Can Say Are For Your Kid But Are Really For Yourself

    I’m really, really lucky, because just this year some switch flipped in my little boy Otto’s head and now he adores cars. He liked them okay before, but like he liked a lot of other things. Now, he draws pictures of tiny Peel P50s and Jaguar E-Types and loves every single car toy he gets or steals off my desk. That means I have a real excuse to buy way too many car toys. I know this isn’t always the case, but I have some ideas.

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  • Why The Best Time To Travel For Thanksgiving Is Always Thanksgiving Morning

    When I was a child, on most Thanksgivings, my parents and my brother and I would get in our car very early on Thanksgiving morning to make the three-and-a-half hour drive from our house in Kent, Ohio, to Clarksburg, West Virginia, to see family. The roads were always empty, which I took as I sign that we were doing something wrong. In fact, we were doing something very right.

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  • The 2019 Aston Martin Vantage Doesn't Settle For Anything

    My one major critique of the Aston Martin Vantage over the years was that at first glance, it always looked a bit too hard to tell apart from its DB-series big brothers. The Vantage is meant to be the smaller, more sporting, more entry level (if there is such a thing) Aston Martin. Now there’s a new Vantage and it stands out even more from the DB11, and it does it with 503 horsepower.

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  • In Praise Of Coveralls

    It didn’t take me long in my days of wrenching on a shitty, terrible, always-broken old Volkswagen before I realized that I was quickly running out of junky clothes. Too many of my pants and too many of my shirts retired to running duty were getting greasy beyond use. I needed something.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • Honda Is Using Facebook To Find Owners With Defective Takata Airbags

    Defective airbags from Takata have been linked to 18 deaths and hundreds of injuries, but more than 10 million vehicles still remain unrepaired at this point, according to a report issued Friday. It’s an unfortunate situation—one that Honda’s now trying to reconcile by tracking down affected owners through Facebook.

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  • Gifts For The Car Enthusiast Who Is Permanently Stuck In The 1980s

    Everything, it must be said, is currently terrible. This naturally leads to a feeling of nostalgia among people. Perhaps someone in your life pines for a time when cars had pop-up headlights, unhinged turbo engines and stereo equalizers with sliders; a time when big hair and shoulder pads ruled the day, when people listened to synth music without irony because it was just music; a time when Donald Trump was merely another dipshit New York real estate developer and not the person with the nuclear

    By Patrick George Read More

  • You're Coming To Our Hurricane Relief Car Show THIS SUNDAY In New Jersey, Right? RIGHT?

    What could you possibly be doing the Sunday after Thanksgiving? If you’re like me, you’ll spend most of the day finding some creative and exciting way to consume turkey leftovers. But there’s a better way to live. Come to our rescheduled hurricane relief benefit car show in Newark. Bring the cars, bring the family, and bring the cash because it’s for charity.

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  • How A Film Car Company Got Tom Cruise A Saleen Mustang From Across The Country In One Night

    Hollywood is still a place where magic can happen, but only thanks to the hard work of people like John Ficarra. Ficarra says he used to own a company that, in 2006, helped give Tom Cruise a vehicular smorgasbord to drive through New York City to promote Mission: Impossible III. Included in that smorgasbord was a Saleen Mustang S281, which had to be shipped from California to New Jersey in a single night. Here’s how Ficarra made that happen.

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  • This Is How You Protect Your Cars

    Our metal babies are great at getting us from place to place, but as inanimate objects, they aren’t the best at self-defense. That’s why it’s up to us to protect them from bad weather and bad people.

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  • This Texas Event Has An Absurd Name But It Means Air-Cooled Porsche Heaven

    Fact: all generations of Porsche 911 are good, but the 964 is epic, and anything air-cooled offers a brilliant sound and driving experience that can’t be replicated with a water-cooled model. As it turns out many people agree with my wisdom, and they gather each year in Houston for an event called TejasTreffPunkt to admire these wonderful rear- (and sometimes mid-) engined automobiles.

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  • Ford Reveals Its First Plug-In Hybrid Cop Car

    Earlier this year, Ford unveiled the Police Responder Hybrid Sedan and F-150 Police Responder; pursuit-rated cars that, while not being as fast as some of their fully-gasoline-powered counterparts, still beat the hell of a Crown Vic. Today, Ford revealed a new offering for police: its first plug-in hybrid, which the company says can go 21 miles without burning a drop of gas.

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  • This Sure As Hell Looks Like A New Bentley Mulsanne Convertible

    Only 19 Bentley Grand Convertibles By Mulliner will be built. This bespoke beast for billionaires is based on the Mulsanne Speed, packing the same 6.75-liter twin-turbo V8. That 530 horsepower and 811 lb-ft of torque is put to luxurious good use in this huge convertible. All for just around a very frugal $3.5 million each.

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  • Your Old Honda Really Needs A Rad Set Of Mugen Wheels

    The Mugen CF-48 wheel is not a particularly rare design. You can pretty much always find a set for sale. It’s not necessarily the prettiest wheel, either, more function than form. Yet this wheel has risen to near-legendary status in the Honda community on a wave of vintage JDM cool that you just can’t get from anything being produced today.

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  • The Devel's Manic 4500 Horsepower Engine Now Has Even More Power

    Four years ago Devel debuted their wild pie-in-the-sky 16-cylinder quad turbo hypercar, allegedly with 4,500 horsepower, at the Dubai Auto Show. That car was mostly a styling exercise, and it looked manic; less like an actual car and more like something Hot Wheels would make to go fast on little orange tracks. Two years ago they finally had an engine to show off, shown to make 4,500 horsepower. Today it has more power.

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  • What Do I Do With This Dumb $300 MG I Bought?

    This is not the first awful British car I have ever owned; I once had an awful Triumph TR7 Fixed Head Coupe that tried to kill me twice. You’d think after that experience that I would have learned a lesson (any lesson) and steered clear of these loathsome automobiles built by awful men who prefer warm beer.

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  • Put Your Pinky Rings Up With This 24-Karat Magic Austin Healey

    In general I tend to live my life opposed to wretched excess, avoiding conspicuous consumption wherever possible. Buyer’s remorse is a familiar feeling, and occasionally I even feel it over something as innocuous as a bag of potato chips. I’m not sure I can explain, then, why I’m giddy over this gilded Austin Healey, but nevertheless here we are.

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  • This Toyota Van Is Your Ace Up The Sleeve

    It’s no secret that I like vans. I once wrote several hundred words about a friend’s minivan just because I liked it so much. Imagine how delighted I was when my mom called me and said, “There’s a big stupid blue van parked near the thrift store. You should come see it.”

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  • Here Is Your Racing This Weekend

    Welcome 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?

    By Alex Hevesy Read More

  • This Tesla Pickup Truck Concept Looks Ridiculous

    Between the hoopla surrounding Tesla’s new all-electric semi and a super-fast revamped Roadster, CEO Elon Musk spent a few minutes to muse about a pickup truck concept that resembles something like a Unimog that has the appearance of a toy.

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  • Man Finds Car 20 Years After Forgetting Where He Parked It

    One time in Brooklyn I walked to where I thought I’d left my car only to find that the street was empty and that every car had been towed for a film shoot. About 15 minutes into an angry conversation with the police, I found it; the car was sitting where I’d actually left it, about 100 feet from where I thought it was. “Officer, you won’t believe this, but I’m dumbass,” I explained. This is nothing compared to this guy in Germany who forgot about and lost his car for 20 years.

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  • The New Tesla Roadster Isn't Actually A Roadster

    Despite the fact that Tesla is still trying figure out how to mass produce a regular car, Elon Musk, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to take on the project of making a semi-truck and a Roadster. I’ll save the hot takes about the truck for someone else, but even if the Roadster actually gets made, it won’t be a roadster.

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  • Nissan Made The Accurate Boring Car Of The Future Way Back In 1983

    I love old concept cars because it’s fun to look at the crazy ways designers and engineers imagined our future. Very rarely, however, do automakers glimpse into the world of tomorrow and actually get it right. But that’s basically what Nissan did in 1983 with the NRV-II concept. It’s just like the cars we drive today—normal, boring and full of screens.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Please Give Us A Nuke So We Can Test Tesla's Semi Claim

    Nukes are the most unforgiving, most horrifying specter of death that humanity has ever devised. Virtually nothing can survive their vaporizing combination of heat, blast effects, and gamma-ray radiation. Nothing, that is, except the windshield of a Tesla Semi. We’d sure like to test that.

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  • Really Radical Ranger Raptor Render

    An off-roadified Ford Ranger Raptor has already been promised, at least to Australia. All we’ve officially seen of it is a quick teaser video, but the artists over at Ranger5gforum.com have cooked up a pretty sweet render of what its final form could look like.

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  • Brave Man Tries To Roll Himself Over In A Corvair And Miraculously Lives

    The Corvair is sadly best known for the chapter dedicated to it in Ralph Nader’s pearl-clutching automotive safety tome Unsafe At Any Speed. Nader criticized the rear-wheel drive compact harshly, calling it a “one-car accident.” So, Hagerty’s Larry Webster set out to try to roll one on its roof—and lived.

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  • Police Stop Driver With Tablet And iPhone Attached To Steering Wheel

    Earlier this week, we brought you the story of a driver in Vancouver who was fined 368 Canadian dollars for playing Pokémon Go while driving. Three’s a trend in journalism, so we’re not quite there yet, but Vancouver police now at least have back-to-back hits this week, thanks to this driver whom they stopped with a tablet and iPhone strapped to his steering wheel. It’s not illegal?

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  • CarMax Actually Bought That Viral Honda Accord For $20,000

    A week ago, CarMax, the used-car dealer who says they’re better than other used car dealers, posted a video on YouTube offering $20,000 for Max Lanman’s fiancée’s 1996 Honda Accord, including $5,000 for the cat in the video, whose name is Papa Puff Pants. Now, CarMax says, they’ve made good. And to think CarMax could’ve had the car for just $499 before.

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  • Now Dyson Is Suing Its Ex-CEO For Allegedly Sharing Electric Car Plans

    Earlier this month, a weird, long-running legal battle between Tesla and vacuum cleaner maker Dyson emerged. Dyson had tried to stop Tesla from hiring an engineer who, Dyson said, told the automaker about its own plans to build an electric car. Now, Dyson’s going after its former CEO, reports Bloomberg, after he allegedly revealed confidential company information, including Dyson’s electric car project.

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  • Tokyo Train Company Issues Apology For 20-Second Early Departure

    This will certainly blow the minds of American mass transit riders. On Tuesday, a train on the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company’s Tsukuba Express line in the Tokyo-area, left a station 20 seconds earlier than it’s supposed to, according to JapanToday.com. So Tsukuba Express management issued an apology. No, really, they were deeply sorry.

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  • Some people do not believe the Jaguar XJ220 was “good.” When I’m in charge, those people will be put into labor camps.

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  • Why Police Departments And Taxi Drivers Loved The Ford Crown Vic

    When Ford finally phased out the Crown Victoria, police departments stockpiled as many of these cars as they could. At first, it’s difficult to see why: at the end of its life, the Crown Vic was as creaky, old, and as obsolete as cars got. But there were a few reasons why these sedans were (and still are) so beloved.

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  • Our Savior Mazda Thinks Big Screens In Cars Are Bad

    It has been said on this very website that big, dominating infotainment screens are terrible, ugly and a pain in the ass. They effectively block your view and the design is usually lazy: stuck on top of everything like an afterthought. Mazda is sick of this shit.

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  • Foo Fighters Drummer Still Cruises Around In His High School Ride

    Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for 90s rock band Foo Fighters since 1997, seems like a pretty chill dude. He once said a U2 album sounded “like a fart any way you listen to it,” which I am sure got a laugh out of somebody. We’ve also learned that, despite being worth millions of dollars, the cars he keeps are fairly humble.

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  • Allegedly Drunk McLaren Driver Arrested For Going 155 MPH

    Early on Sunday morning, a police officer was on patrol in Alpharetta, Georgia, when a McLaren drove very quickly by. The officer chased the zooming car, starting a five-mile pursuit that saw the McLaren top out at 155 mph. Finally, the McLaren pulled over and stopped, its brakes smoking. You might be surprised to learn that the driver had been drinking, according to police.

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  • Jaguar Land Rover Parent Company Denies Investing $900 Million In Faraday Future

    Well, that ended quickly. After Faraday Future spent last week firing the first shots in an unusual spat with its now-former chief financial officer, rumors emerged that Jaguar Land Rover parent company Tata Motors had invested $900 million in the electric car startup. The timing seemed highly suspect, and now Tata is out with a statement calling the news “not true.”

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  • Tesla Acknowledges Alleged Racist Behavior At Company While Defending Elon Musk

    On Monday, a Tesla worker filed a lawsuit against the company claiming that black employees were subjected to a “hotbed” of “racist behavior” at the company. The suit also quoted a May email from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who told employees, among other things, to “be thick-skinned.” Late Tuesday, Tesla fired back in a blog titled “Hotbed of Misinformation.”

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  • The Mazda6 Is Finally Getting A Turbocharger

    The beloved Mazda6, beautiful and elegantly styled as it is, needed a little more power in its currently generation. The 2.5-liter four-cylinder just didn’t give the car enough grunt. Now, it seems like Mazda’s flagship sedan will finally get some extra love in the form of a turbocharged engine.

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  • Baja 1000 Race Prep Is Insanely Complex And I'm Probably No Help At All

    Just to give you some perspective, the level of planning that seems to be going on as part of Wide Open Baja’s effort to run twelve cars in the Baja 1000 seems to be somewhere between a quinceañera and the Invasion of Normandy. Closer to the Normandy side. It’s a huge, complex effort with many moving parts, and I’m just hoping I don’t do anything to screw it all up.

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  • Here's How The Jeopardy! Dude's Road Trip Around The World Could Work

    Austin Rogers, the New York bartender now becoming ever more famous thanks to his exploits on Jeopardy!, outlined what he planned to do with his winnings on a broadcast this week. They included a 1991 Mercedes-Benz W124 300TE 4MATIC wagon and a trip around the world. How far would he go and how much would that cost? Let’s do the math.

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  • This Veteran Is Trying To Track Down The Original Japanese Owner Of His R32 Skyline GT-R

    When you’ve pick up a car used, have you ever wondered about the life it had before you? Sometimes you can gather scraps of information from the car itself (a leftover CD or impressions in the upholstery from child seats), but unless you have a contact, a lot of it becomes speculation and guesswork. One GT-R owner is looking half a world away to find the first owner of his beloved car.

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  • Our Favorite Future Classic Cars

    There’s more to becoming a “classic car” than just getting old. And even though today’s vehicles might not seem as regal and timeless as ones from decades past, you better believe we’ll be looking back longingly at some modern machines someday. Here are some of our current favorites.

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  • The Subaru WRX STI Seems Dead In All Of Europe Too

    The Subaru WRX STI’s end in the U.K. seemed like a one-off thing—a decision by the importer to stop carrying the car, OK’d by Subaru because the company thought it was a good idea to “allow WRX STI’s heritage to inform future developments rather than being continued.” But it might be more than that.

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  • It's Time To Make A Case For The Lexus IS F

    I think about cars a lot, as it is my job. But I’ve found that I think about this car more than I do most: a 2008 Lexus IS F. I think about this Lexus roughly twice a week, which is a lot for a car that’s 10 years old. But with rear-drive and a dirty V8 bark, how do you not think about it?

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  • The old Corollas are good.

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  • The Smart Car Is Eventually Getting Phased Out Of Car2Go In America

    Much of the time in America, when you see a Smart Fortwo zipping around your city, it’s in the blue-and-white livery of Car2Go. The Daimler-owned car-sharing service has been around in this country since 2010, and it’s long relied solely on the tiny Smart and their ease of parking as a selling point for city drivers who maybe don’t want to own a car. Perhaps somewhat sadly, the days of the blue-and-white Smarts are coming to an eventual end.

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  • A 2007 Lexus IS350 Is A Sleeper That Won't Kill You

    Remember these? Mr. Regular does. The late-2000s model Lexus ISes? Perhaps when you try and recall one in your brain-space, you cannot, for these cars blended so perfectly with their suburban environments that only a blank swatch of pavement at the parking lot of a Whole Foods turns up in your mind’s eye. Ah, but this is where the IS350's power lies.

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  • Watch How Far An Audi SQ5 Can Drive With A Fuel Range Of Zero

    Many drivers switch to the “range” indicator once the fuel needle has come to a rest on E—you know, just to see how far they can really make it before having to tank up. Well, it turns out that, like the gauge, the range figure can also be very conservative, as two comedians learned by driving an Audi SQ5 until it sputtered to a halt on the freeway.

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  • Here's More Of What May Be America's New Mail Truck

    Some big, mean “sports car” debuted Sunday, with 750 horsepower and a large rear wing. We Americans feel obligated to care about that kind of thing, since it has a Chevy badge and eats asphalt for a snack. But we know what you’ve really been looking forward to: the next USPS mail truck. Here’s what may be it.

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  • Smoking Weed While Your Tesla Drives On Autopilot Isn't Advisable Just Yet

    Here’s a video of comedian Lil Duval reclining and smoking what appears to be a decent-sized joint, while his Tesla drives on the highway in the vehicle’s Autopilot mode. It’s unequivocally chill! A wonderful glimpse into the future! But, at the risk of being a total fun-killer, this makes for a good moment to remind all you would-be semi-autonomous car owners of something very important: getting groovy while behind the wheel still isn’t advisable!

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  • I'm Going To Drive In The Baja 1000 And I Was Told To Plan On Pissing Myself

    I’m leaving in just a few hours for Mexico, where I’ll be part of Wide Open Baja’s team to run in the 50th anniversary Baja 1000. To say I’m woefully underqualified and unprepared would be the highest compliment you could give me. I’m a bit nervous, since I was unable to make it out to prerun the course, and have never done any off-roading of this level. I was also told that I’d need a catheter to so I can urinate while I’m driving, which makes exactly one thing I feel prepared to do.

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  • Here Is Why '90s German Cars Had Stubby Passenger-Side Mirrors

    This weekend I was doing a few minor repairs to my 1995 Audi S6 in preparation for Radwood next month. One of those involved replacing the 22-year-old self-dimming mirrors, which had discolored and separated a bit from their backing. I bought a set of European-style convex “blind spot” mirrors to fit for maximum rear visibility (and VAG-bro street cred). While the job was a simple five-minute in and out task, I was reminded that my car features a passenger’s side mirror that is much smaller than

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  • Vintage Borbets Are Some Of The Raddest Wheels You Can Stick On Your '80s Car

    I’m an absolute sucker for aftermarket wheels, and most especially those from the 1980s and ‘90s. Prior to that era most aftermarket wheels were designed for motorsport prowess, but by the ‘80s, wheel designers seemed to be allowed to design primarily for style. The market for items to provide a unique look exploded to fit individual preferences, and wheel options along with them. Designers were throwing new wheel designs at the wall just to see what would stick.

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  • Extremely Corvette Man Donates 733,000 Mile C5 To Corvette Museum

    People often say that Corvette owners don’t ever drive their cars. Mark Blackwell is here to make sure you know that’s bullshit, because he’s racked up the equivalent of 277 LA-to-New-York road trips in his Corvette. This man is a real Corvette lover who just donated his 773,000 mile C5 Corvette to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY.

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  • Lewis Hamilton's Team Was Robbed At Gunpoint, Shots Fired

    The 2017 Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton spoke out on Twitter about the poor state of security during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend. Apparently, some members of his team were held up when they left the circuit following Friday’s practice sessions.

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  • The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: Meet The Fastest And Most Powerful 'Vette Ever

    The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1—Chevy’s latest contender in the battle for performance supremacy—is finally here after months of teases and leaks. From the most recent leak, we already had a pretty good idea what this car would be: basically a Z06 with a huge wing and 750 horsepower thanks to a larger throttle body, bigger supercharger, better cooling, and more potent fuel injection system. This uprated version of the “plastic fantastic” is so awesome that IT. SPITS. FIRE.

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  • Here's Why The New Honda Civic Type R Doesn't Suffer From Torque Steer

    We harbor a love for Honda’s new front-wheel drive monster with the famed Type R badge. One of the reasons Honda got the 2017 Honda Civic Type R right; engineers completely reworked the car’s front suspension in an effort to eliminate torque steer. We hate torque steer, so that’s a very good thing.

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  • This Bonkers French Grand Prix Car Just Sold For $7.25 Million

    This car has some strange history as a Grand Prix racer turned Indianapolis 500 winner—except that it isn’t. As part of Bonhams’ Bothwell Collection sale yesterday, this 1914 Peugeot L45 Grand Prix Two-Seater ranks among the most expensive French cars ever sold (some Bugattis and Talbot-Lagos have exceeded this number), and among the highest we’ve ever seen paid for an Indianapolis Roadster. If there was a car to throw that kind of money out for, it might be this one, due to its historical signi

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  • The Next Volkswagen Beetle Could Go Electric And Rear-Wheel Drive Again

    The case could be made that the original Volkswagen Beetle is the most iconic car ever made. Its modern versions, well... not so much. But as part of its big diesel emissions cheating penance, Volkswagen is making a massive push into electric cars. And that could return the Beetle to its roots in an unexpected way.

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  • Treat Yourself To The Best Version Of The Worst Ferrari

    Ferrari’s 400i is a mess of a car from a design standpoint. Its front-engine proportions are about as inelegant as cowboy boots in a ballroom. The gaping grille is too low and too wide, and the giant slab of a hood is bigger than my dining room table. Even the pop-up headlights— and we love pop-up headlights here—are laughably incongruous.

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  • Beep! Beep! It’s a Dodge Neon! Drive into the rest of your weekend in confidence and style!

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  • This 1971 Jensen Interceptor Could Be Your Next Chrysler Powered GT Car

    In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s the engineers at Jensen decided to follow the trend of putting American engines in British cars. It worked for the AC Cobra, maybe, they thought, it would work for them. This gave birth to the Jensen Interceptor, a grand touring car with a big ol’ Chrysler V8 under the hood.

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  • What's Your Boring Dream Car?

    Fast and flashy cars like Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens are undoubtedly desirable. Decades old muscle cars still fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. I’d love to see a Plymouth Superbird in my driveway one day. It will probably never happen but it’s one of my dream cars. But dream cars don’t have to be coach-built Italian masterpieces of design.

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  • Front-Wheel Drive Into Luxury With An Oldsmobile Aurora

    Oldsmobile’s product lineup was pretty drab in the 1990s. There was the ubiquitous Cutlass Ciera, the Blazer-based Bravada, the last gasps of the Toronado and a litany of forgettable luxury cars that are forever lost to the sands of time. Finally, in 1995, Oldsmobile introduced a new flagship intended to take the world by storm. Enter the Oldsmobile Aurora.

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  • There Goes The Neighborhood

    As of this afternoon, 3,300 2018 Dodge Challenger Demons are officially being shipped to dealerships. That means it’s only a matter of days before they’re delivered to customers, and that many casual motorists are cut loose on public roads with 808 horsepower. God help us.

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  • Comment Of The Day: Wrenching In Texas Edition

    I’m going to be freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off as I try to wrench on my Jeep Grand Wagoneer in an uninsulated suburban Detroit garage. But at least one Jalopnik reader doesn’t have that problem.

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  • Off-Road Videos Are My Kryptonite

    This may surprise you, but I wasn’t always the slick-hair, leather-jacket wearing cool guy you see today. No, believe it or not, I didn’t go out much in college. Instead, on Friday and Saturday nights, I sat in my dorm and watched off-road videos for hours. I couldn’t help it.

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  • Possibly Coming Soon To A Ford Plant Near You: Bionic Workers

    You’ve probably heard by now that robots are definitely coming for your job, but what if you could become part machine while doing your job? For that, you’d need an exoskeleton, like the one above. Developed by a company called Ekso and now being tested at Ford plants, the skeletons make workers bionic, allowing them to hold things like wrenches longer and without strain.

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  • Electric SUV From Cash-Flush Chinese Startup NIO Spotted On Road Before Its Reveal (UPDATED)

    While driving on California’s 880 freeway near Tesla’s Gigafactory, reader Fernando happened to see an unusual SUV with an unfamiliar badge, so he took a few pictures. It turns out that SUV is actually Chinese startup company NIO’s electric SUV, the ES8. We’ve seen the concept version of the SUV before, and the production version is supposed to be released mid-December. I guess we just got to see it sooner.

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  • Passengers On Double Decker Bus Scream For Driver To Stop As It Plows Into Cars

    Incredibly, only two people suffered minor injuries as these two stories of red iconic London bus plowed into cars, all while passengers inside the bus were yelling for the driver to stop. The number 254 bus was on Lower Clapton Road in London when it drove into the back of a small SUV, which it proceeded to push into at least two other cars.

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  • What Do You Want To Know About The 2018 Kia Stinger?

    Everything is terrible all of the time, but there are moments when rays of sunshine briefly poke out to make our miserable lives a bit more bearable. Case in point: you can soon buy a Kia with rear-wheel drive, a twin-turbo V6 engine, performance optimized for the Nürburgring and a price tag that far undercuts the European and Japanese luxury sport sedans. The 2018 Kia Stinger sounds great on paper, but is it any good in reality?

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  • Thank You Lotus

    The Lotus Exige Cup 430 is another fantablous-looking car with a jaw-dropping spec sheet and just enough creature comforts to be street legal somewhere. If there was ever an ode-to-stuff-fanboys-like, this is it served up on a carbon fiber platter.

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  • The Story Of That Used Honda With The Amazing Ad Gets Weirder As CarMax Offers $5,000 For The Cat

    Remember about a week ago when we showed you that incredibly well-done ad for a used 1996 Honda Accord? Then remember yesterday how we told you the price got so crazy high on eBay the auction was cancelled? Well, the auction was cancelled again, CarMax made a bonkers video offer, and the guy who’s selling the car was on Good Morning America. Ours is a strange world right now.

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  • Out-Of-Control Lincoln Driver Simply Cannot Be Stopped

    If you want to disprove the existence of Karma, this video might be just the thing. A man from Perth, Australia went to visit a friend in the hospital, by any definition an act of kindness. How was his good deed repayed? A nearly century-old man in a Lincoln drove over his car. See, that just doesn’t seem fair.

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  • If you have to drive to work today, do it with some class.

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  • Here Are Two Autozam AZ-1s You Can Buy Right Now

    We have a soft spot for bizarre kei cars here. Nearly a month ago, we noted a 1992 Mazda Autozam AZ-1 for sale, which later was purchased for the low price of $18,277. If you missed that, we found two more Autozams for you to buy. One is even better than the rest, by virtue of the fact that it was the fifth AZ-1 to roll off the production line, according to the listing. It’s also cheaper.

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  • No One Wants To See Your Feet On A Flight

    I flew back from California to New York yesterday, and sat next to a woman who, functionally, was an utter disaster. We’ll call her Stella. Stella helped me gather the courage to give you this important take: do not take your shoes off on a flight, because that is gross.

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  • The 750 Horsepower 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: This Is It (UPDATED)

    I’m not sure if this “leak” was meant to happen or not, but the cover for the December 2017 issue of Car and Driver is making the rounds on the internet, and with it comes our first official look at the new Corvette ZR1. And the power rating. It’s 750 horsepower now. So, uh, a lot. Update: More details on the car below.

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  • A New Nissan GT-R Is Cheaper Than It's Been In Years

    It’s old. It weighs as much as an apartment building. It doesn’t have the fancy badge that usually comes with its price tag. Despite all that, the Nissan GT-R is still—still!—one of the fastest cars in the world, capable of beating giants in the six- and even seven-figure price range. It’s not cheap either, but for 2018, it can be had for a bigger discount than we’ve seen in years.

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  • Look at that! A perfect car.

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  • The City Of Ensenada Is Embracing Its Image As An Off-Road Racing Capital

    The City of Ensenada is a vibrant port town a couple hours south of the U.S. border that derives a lot of commerce from two things: visiting cruise ship guests and off-road racers. This week, the city has apparently deepened its relationship with the racing community by setting up a Hollywood Stars style “walk-of-fame” with the names of victorious drivers and riders laid into the city’s very infrastructure.

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  • Any Advice For A New Drone Pilot?

    The unmanned aerial vehicles, quadcopters and/or aerobats we all call “drones” have become so commonplace that you can pick one up in a drug store along with your toilet paper and candy. I have big dreams of flying a fancy one, but today my quest begins modestly.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Comment Of The Day: It's Always The Quiet Ones Edition

    The Nissan Leaf doesn’t get a ton of respect. Despite being one of the first modern mainstream electric vehicles, it’s effectively had its thunder stolen—seriously, pardon the pun—by everything from the Tesla Model S to the Chevrolet Bolt. Not to mention it’s routinely ignored by nearly all car enthusiasts.

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  • Please Buy This Beautiful Toyota Corolla So I Don't Have To

    In the warm light of spring 2016, I flew to Sacramento, opened up Craigslist in the airport, and owned a 1970s Volkswagen two days later. It was a beautiful experience, and one that I should probably not repeat. With this in mind, please buy this beautiful Toyota Corolla before I buy another plane ticket.

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  • Singer And Williams' 500 HP Air-Cooled Flat Six Sounds Amazing

    One of the few good things to happen this year was Porsche perfectionists Singer teamed up with William Advanced Engineering (yes, the Formula One Williams) to make a new air-cooled, naturally-aspirated, 9,000 RPM, 500-horsepower 4.0-liter flat six. Finally, we can hear it yarp.

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  • It's Not A Good Idea To Sell Cars By Getting Your Head Stuck In Them

    A good car salesperson knows how to demonstrate the key qualities of a car just enough to convey the ideas to the potential buyer, but not so much that there’s any chance of failure. For example, you can talk about crumple zones without driving into a wall. Similarly, you can probably get the idea of anti-pinch sensors across without getting your head stuck in the car like some drunk toddler. Sometimes, though, things don’t work out like you planned.

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  • Here is a very nice FD Mazda RX-7, for no good reason at all. Enjoy.

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  • A Guide To A Bunch Of Weird Chinese Car Brands You've Never Heard Of

    I was in Shanghai, China, recently to report on Volvo’s new electron-slathered premium/performance brand, Polestar. Even though I was only there a short time, I wanted to be sure I captured what the general carscape of Shanghai is like, because it’s bewildering. And now I want to bewilder you, too.

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  • Ocean City Proposes Having National Guard On Standby For H2Oi

    A Stancepocalypse came raining down on the quiet beach town of Ocean City, Maryland this year. It is in ruins, its main strip and side streets laid to waste by a swarm of illegally low cars. The city is not sitting idly by! It demands a return to order. It demands respect. It demands pickleball, and/or the National Guard.

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  • The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Concept Is Lambo's Electric Sci-Fi Future

    You can always count on Lamborghini to make a batshit concept. Look no further than its latest example: the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio, which means “third millennium” in Italian. It’s here as a stunning (and stationary) idea for now, but one that the Italian automaker hopes will set the stage for the supercars of tomorrow.

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  • The Awesome Sunbeam Lotus Was Weirder Than I Thought

    These days the Ford MK2 Escort has been making the news, what with Ken Block ripping around in one lately. That’s great! And it reminded me of another old, little rear-drive rally car that sounded incredible: the Sunbeam Lotus. And that idle brain wander had me realize that the little Lotus was weirder than I thought.

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  • Super 16mm Is The Best Way To Salute Future Classic Cars

    It’s not inaccurate to say the car video space is awfully crowded these days. It seems like everybody with an iPhone, a Reddit account and a pipeline for cars is out to make it big on YouTube. So much so that it’s rare to see anything truly original anymore. Enter Future Classics, a new video series shot on Super 16mm film. I’m liking what I’m seeing so far.

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  • Texas Is Revoking Titles From Dune Buggies And Kit Cars For No Good Reason

    Hey, Texas, what the hell did a dune buggy ever do to you? Dune buggies like the legendary Meyers Manx have been happily and legally driving America’s (and Texas’) streets for decades, but now the Texas DMV has started to revoke titles, according to Hemmings, even for vehicles that have been legally driving for decades. What’s going on?

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  • Trump Absurdly Tells Japan To Build Cars In The U.S. 'Instead Of Shipping Them Over' (UPDATED)

    U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting Japan right now, and as he is wont to do, took a moment to drum up some foolish statement about the auto industry, which he objectively does not understand. Speaking to a group of business leaders in Tokyo, Trump reportedly said: “Try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over. That’s not too much to ask. Is that rude to ask?”

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  • This Is What Koenigsegg's Record 278 MPH Nevada Speed Run Looked Like Behind The Wheel

    On Saturday, the mad Swedes at Koenigsegg did something truly remarkable: in an Agera RS, a factory driver achieved an average speed of 277.9 mph during two runs on Nevada’s Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump. This may make the Agera RS the world’s fastest street legal production car. Now you can see what those runs looked like from the driver’s perspective.

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  • Carry Your Troops With This 1964 Jeep FC-170 M677

    Everyone loves the Jeep Forward Control. It’s a cabover lil’ truck thing with that iconic Jeep grille on the front and it’s adorable. Our friends over at Barnfinds have found a military spec crew cab version of everyone’s favorite stubby Jeep truck.

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  • A Nevada Highway Is Shutting Down For Koenigsegg's Attempt At A Speed Record (Updated)

    If you live in Nevada and were planning on using Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump this weekend, TOO BAD. Important things are happening that trump your need to buy groceries or go to the hospital or whatever. Koenigsegg, the hypercar company owned by a Swedish scientist from the future, is using a section of that highway for a record speed run. Update: Average speed for the runs was 277.9 mph today, so they may have pulled it off.

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  • Volkswagen Says No Plug-In Hybrids For America

    As part of its post-Dieselgate penance, Volkswagen is making a huge push toward electrification. But don’t expect plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to be part of that plan, at least not here in the United States.

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  • Hyundai's New Ad Campaign Is Based On The Illusion That Nightmares Sell Cars

    I’m not sure what the ad agency Hyundai hired to make ads for its N-badged performance car range is smoking or snorting or injecting, but whatever it is I want it the hell away from me and back into whatever underground chemical weapon bunker it came from. I say this because the commercial made for the Hyundai N brand is fucking terrifying.

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  • The Subaru WRX STI Still Matters

    Maybe it’s because my parents brought me home from the hospital in an ’84 GL wagon (in a snowstorm, of course) or because my first car was the same kind of Legacy that Colin McRae used to destroy rally stages, but I’ve always maintained a fondness for Subarus. At the top of the mountain sits the Subaru WRX STI. But it’s had a bit of a tough road lately—and not the usual kind Subarus take on.

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  • How Need For Speed Payback Moves Beyond The Crazy Crashes

    If you want a hyper-realistic driving game, you sit down and fire up Forza Motorsport or Gran Turismo. If you want something slightly more colorful and with an actual campaign, then you need to look elsewhere. Electronic Arts’ newest installment of the Need For Speed franchise, Need For Speed Payback, won’t merely be the crash-y arcade game of versions past. This version will include a bunch of features that even car enthusiasts can get behind.

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  • What Do You Want To Know About The 2018 Ford Mustang?

    I’m going to Malibu, California, on Monday to drive the updated 2018 Ford Mustang. And while I’m plenty curious about it myself, I really want to know what you, our dear readers, want to know about it. Send me some questions! I’ll do my best to answer them while I’m there!

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Tesla Shipped Cars Without Seats And Digital Displays: Report

    Tesla’s off to a rocky start with the production launch of the new Model 3 sedan, spurred in part by the company’s unorthodox approach to making cars. On Friday, the Financial Times revealed another unusual method to production: In numerous instances the company “shipped cars from the factory that lacked key parts,” including everything from digital displays to seats.

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  • Rolls-Royce Is Too Good For Your Silly 'Driverless' Technology

    Autonomy and electricity are the future of the car industry, but not for Rolls-Royce. See, Rolls-Royce customers should not have to sit in a driver’s seat and tap a steering wheel to tell a car they’re still awake. The thought of it is absurd. They have chauffeurs for that, so long as future generations learn how to drive.

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  • This Homemade Ad For A Crappy Used 1996 Honda Accord Is Astoundingly Well Done

    It’s easy to take things for granted, and that’s a mistake. The world we live in right now, with all of its problems and concerns, is also an astounding one in many ways. One of those ways is producing car commercials that would have required a team of professionals just a couple of years ago is now in the hands of individuals. I know this because this guy made an incredibly professional-looking commercial to sell his girlfriend’s 1996 Honda Accord.

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  • The 2011 Mercedes Benz Silver Arrow Concept was... interesting! It’d make a much better Batmobile than the Gran Turismo car that’s in the upcoming Justice League movie. That is... if it comes in black.

    By Justin T. Westbrook Read More

  • Our Parents At AAA Have Some Daylight Savings Driving Tips For Us

    Hey teens! Guess what happens on Sunday, Nov. 5? If you guessed Daylight Savings, then you’d be right! It’s the one day of the year I looked forward to in school because it meant I got to sleep in a little bit. But it also means that we’ll be spending the next few months wandering around in the dark like zombies, so there’s that.

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  • The Man Who Designed The Look Of Star Trek And Blade Runner Once Tried To Design A Soviet Car

    Syd Mead is something of a legend when it comes to designing how the future will look. From the grim, cluttered dystopia of Blade Runner to the well-cushioned and clean office-spaceships of Star Trek to the cybernetic metropolises of Tron, Mead is perhaps the best-known designer of the future. What he’s much less known for is an attempt to design a Soviet car that ended up as a knockoff of a French car. I’ll explain.

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  • Comment Of The Day: Sedan Edition

    Earlier today we published a blog, as we frequently do on this website. That blog asked you, the readers, if you were tired of the SUV boom. Some of you were.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Let's Really Look At The Taillights And Turn Signals Of The 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL

    Jeep finally released official pictures of the 2018 Jeep Wrangler we’ve been seeing in very mild camo for months and months now, but at least now we know officially what’s going to make it to the showrooms and muddy fields of America and what isn’t. Which means this is an ideal time to give some uncomfortably close attention to the indicators and taillights.

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  • The Subaru WRX STI: Not Actually Dead

    If you got bored at work and googled “Subaru WRX STI” to look at photos of Subarus like, you know, a normal person, you might have been alarmed to see “The Subaru WRX STI is dead” in headlines. It is not dead everywhere.

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  • Not sure what happened exactly, but all of a sudden everyone’s as excited about Astros as we are. And we’re loving it.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Elon Musk Just Yelled 'SHAME' At A Bunch Of Journalists

    Tesla’s had something of a rough go lately. Long the disruptive darling of both the automotive and tech worlds, the automaker has struggled to ramp up production of its new Model 3 sedan to meet its self-stated targets, and in addition to facing numerous worker lawsuits over alleged discrimination, it is now facing questions and criticism over the allegedly performance-related firings of hundreds of employees. As to how that last point was reported in the press, CEO and founder Elon Musk did not

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  • Comment Of The Day: Price Hike Edition

    I nearly got a D in Intro to Economics in college (thank you curve!) but even I understood the law of supply and demand. Here’s how it works as applied to the Ford Focus RS.

    By Kristen Lee Read More

  • Bus Company Boss: 'Fuck It'

    Hundreds of passengers no longer have a bus line to rely on, and several drivers are without jobs after a bus company in England abruptly shut down Sunday. The shutdown followed an internal memo from the company’s boss, who said, “There comes a time in any relationship when you just have to say ‘Fuck it.’”

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  • Dad Wins Car-Halloween With This Fantastic BMW Costume For His Kid

    It’s funny, I just sketched something like this out to make for my kid on Halloween, but, crucially, I didn’t get around to doing it. Clay Weiland, however, is a much more together person, because he did follow through and make a fantastic kid-in-car costume for his son on Halloween. Even better, it’s an old BMW 1600.

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  • This 600 HP Toyota C-HR Is Quicker Than... Well, Almost Everything

    You thought crossovers were lame. That’s what they wanted you to think: that they’re boring, bland, and just useful enough to make almost the entire human population flock to them and dump out loads of cash. While you were fooled, these crossovers were training to take on your beloved supercars.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • The Grand Tour: Season 2 Launches Dec. 8 And Here's The New Trailer

    Season one of The Grand Tour had its highs and its lows, but in the end it mostly delivered on what we all wanted without taking too many radical risks with the formula: Clarkson, Hammond and May doing stuff in cars for our amusement. It’s coming back in a month and here’s what we can expect.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Electric Car Charging Cables Only Need One Thing To Be So Much Better

    There’s no question that electric cars are becoming more and more common, and even without a mature charging infrastructure or swappable batteries it’s likely we’ll see EVs commanding a significant percentage of vehicles very soon. All of this just makes this question all the more relevant: why don’t any electric cars have a retractable charging cable?

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  • Jim Nabors Was Always The Best Part Of The Indianapolis 500

    Jim Nabors died today at the age of 87, his husband said, after being in declining health for a year. And while he became famous as Gomer Pyle, the good-natured blockhead from The Andy Griffith Show who later joined the Marines and got a show for himself, he was known to racing fans for “(Back Home Again In) Indiana,” which he sang at dozens of runnings of the Indianapolis 500 beginning in 1972.

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  • Sure Hope The 2018 Mazda RT24-P Is As Fast As It Is Gorgeous

    One of the most-hyped teams in motorsports right now is the return of Team Joest—the team who helped Audi completely dominate Le Mans for years. Joest is now helping Mazda’s struggling IMSA team get it together, and this is their gorgeous car for next year, the revised RT24-P. Three words: it better deliver.

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  • Alfa Romeo Is Back In F1 With Sauber

    Few car companies have more motorsports history than Alfa Romeo. Enzo Ferrari actually got his start running its racing team in the 1930s, and even today Ferrari’s Formula One cars still carry the Alfa logo. But for more than 30 years now, Alfa’s been absent from the top tier of open-wheel racing. That’s kind of sad! But it changes next year with the Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team.

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Stop Trying To Make The Women-Only F1 Series Happen

    Here’s some more exhausting garbage about women in motorsport to ruin your day: organizers are still trying to make that ridiculous all-women Formula One series happen in 2019. They’ve scrapped the goofy “SHE Championship” name, but it’s still the same infuriating, patronizing idea that no one really needs.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • Reigning Five-Time WRC Champ Will Keep Racing With Rally's Biggest Underdog

    Normally, Dominant Rally Man Stays With Winning Team wouldn’t be much of a story, but when that team is the only non-manufacturer squad in the World Rally Championship, it’s an off-season miracle. Lovable rally underdogs M-Sport announced today that five-time WRC champ Sébastien Ogier and his codriver Julien Ingrassia will keep driving with the team for next year.

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  • Race Car Crosses The Finish Line On Fire After Big Dumb Pile-Up

    The Toyota 86 Racing Series’ Race 1 at Newcastle Street Circuit this weekend went out with a big bang. The safety car pulled back in to let the race restart with only one lap left. That ended exactly as poorly as it usually does for a large chunk of the field who got caught up in a big ol’ crash.

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  • Faraday Future Is Out Of Formula E: Report

    Cash-strapped automotive startup Faraday Future has ended its partnership with the Dragon Racing Formula E team, according to Autosport. Dragon Racing had already dropped Faraday Future from its name on the 2017-18 season entry list, but now it’s reported that Faraday Future won’t be involved with them at all.

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  • Meet America's New Hope For Domination In The World's Toughest Rally Race

    Three years ago I ran into Red Bull-backed off-road racer Bryce Menzies in a bar in Iquique, Chile. He was scouting the Dakar Rally- the 5,000-odd mile endurance challenge named after a place in Africa hosted by a French outfit in South America. Next year, he’s finally getting into the pilot’s seat of an X-Raid Mini.

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  • Get Ready For 360-Degree Views Of Formula One Action In 2018

    In addition to the ‘Halo’ driver safety cage, Formula One cars will have another new design element for the 2018 season; a golf ball-sized 360-degree camera. It would seem F1's new owners are interested in delivering a better fan experience, which is a fresh change from those who owned the sport prior. Additionally, the camera will allow for better perspectives to review when steward interaction is required.

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  • NBC Sports Formula One Broadcasters Sign Off In The Best Way Possible, With A Shoey

    Signing off of their final broadcast as the commentary team for US broadcast of Formula One on NBC Sports, Leigh Diffey, David Hobbs, and Steve Matchett gave us one last fantastic moment. Formula One is switching to ESPN next year, and will use the world feed’s native commentary team, thus rendering Hobbs and Matchett unemployed for the moment. (Diffey will continue working with NBC on the Olympics and IndyCar next season.)

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  • Original Badass Stig Blomqvist Had To Rally His Porsche In Reverse For 7 Miles

    Day 3 of the East African Safari Classic Rally was not kind to Stig Blomqvist. He’d built up a healthy lead in his Tuthill-prepared Porsche 911 on days 1 and 2. At the start of the third day he was forced to change an engine, which the Tuthill team accomplished in just 12 minutes. Thinking his problems behind him, he set off, only to have his transmission get locked out of gear with almost 7 miles of stage remaining. Devastation.

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  • Formula One Has A New Logo And It's Boring

    Now that the 2017 season has ended, Formula One can look forward to 2018 with a new look. The old “flying one’ design was adopted in 1987, and throwing that symbol in the trash marks the most visible change since Liberty Media took over the sport last year.

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  • Valtteri Bottas Leads Mercedes 1-2 In The Final Formula One Race Of 2017

    Sure he didn’t win the championship this season, but sitting on three victories, Valtteri Bottas is one of only five racers to win a grand prix this season, and one of only seven drivers to land on the podium in 2017. While his Mercedes teammate Lewis was off scoring the championship laurels by winning 9 out of 20 races this season, Bottas was playing the part of the Mercedes second driver, scoring points in every race this season (except Spain where he suffered retirement).

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  • Toyota Will Keep Racing Its Le Mans Prototype Next Season

    Porsche may have dropped out of the World Endurance Championship, but Toyota is here to stay as the lone LMP1 class manufacturer left. Toyota announced that they will stay for the series’ odd transitional 2018-2019 season at the annual WEC awards ceremony that followed the 6 Hours of Bahrain.

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  • Behold The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Seen On A Rally Stage

    A few fans at Rally Australia got way too close to the action on the Welsh Creek stage. One even actively cheated death by crawling into a ditch right next to the stage road. Worse yet, it was the perfect kind of ditch for a driver to drop a wheel into to ditch-hook the car around the corner. Good thing the driver wasn’t feeling that.

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  • Dive Into The Dumbness Of Macau 2017 With 20 Full Minutes Of Silly Crashes

    The fact that there’s 20 full minutes of lowlights from one racing weekend should tell you that maybe a certain “historic” racing venue is a tad sketch. That’s what the 2017 Macau Grand Prix weekend gave us thanks to the mad genius behind CrashRacing. My only beef is that it’s not set to “Spanish Flea” or the Benny Hill Show theme.

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  • Porsche On Porsche Carnage Takes Porsche 919 Out Of Leading Its Last Race

    Porsche’s attempt to end their Le Mans prototype program with a win like their sister-marque Audi did last year isn’t going so hot. The No. 1 Porsche 919 LMP1 collided with the No. 86 Gulf Racing Porsche 911 in LM GTE Am, taking it out of the overall lead and handing it right away to the No. 8 Toyota right behind it.

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  • Huge First-Lap Pile-Up Consumes Most Of The Macau Grand Prix Field

    Somewhere a beaver is looking at this ridiculous Macau Grand Prix pile-up and thinking, “man, I wish I my dams were that effective.” All but four cars in the FIA GT World Cup qualifying race got crammed into one corner after a crash near the front of the field acted as an impromptu car-dam, blocking all exits.

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  • Auto Racing Has A Big Sponsor-Driven Broadcast Problem

    This will be Fox’s last year broadcasting the World Endurance Championship for now, as even the series is tired of having Le Mans coverage unexpectedly swapped for golf highlights. While the WEC has given fans the live stream we want for years, the biggest problem is that auto racing’s sponsors haven’t caught up with them on the idea of streaming yet.

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  • Danica Patrick Will Retire From Racing In 2018

    NASCAR’s Danica Patrick will retire from racing next year after giving the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500 one last shot, reports the Associated Press. Patrick recently lost her NASCAR Cup seat at Stewart-Haas Racing to Aric Almirola for the 2018 season.

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  • This Nissan Serena Drift Van Is Our Favorite Way To Haul Your Eardrum-Rattling Bike

    Any event that attracts a team called “Super Loud Noise Problematic Racing,” was clearly made for us. Mobaru Twin Circuit’s Baridori event—“bari” from the “baribari” sound of loud bikes, and “dori” from “dorifto”—is a special place for Japan’s rowdiest grassroots racers to compete, and one man can do it all thanks to a wonderful drift van.

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  • Watch The Historic 50th Baja 1000 Live Right Now

    I get so freaking fired up about the Baja 1000 every year because it’s the perfect beautiful blend of adventure, competition and amazing acts of automotive innovation. 2017 marks the race’s historic 50th anniversary, and live coverage should be better than ever.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Formula E May Leave Britain If Brexit Taxes All Their Sponsorship Cash Too Much

    The racing world’s young hotness of a series Formula E may leave Britain if Britain goes ahead with Brexit without a deal on taxes and employment, CEO Alejandro Agag told Reuters. As a global series employing many non-Brits and sponsored by many European companies, Agag says they may have to move to the European Union if Brexit makes it too expensive for them to stay.

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  • A 1978 Oldsmobile Holiday 88 Autocrossing Is Both Glacial And Palatial

    Even if your car isn’t competitive, you should whip your ride around an autocross course at least once. Test its limits in a safe, open lot! Anyone can show up in a Miata or an S2000, but unlikely autocross cars are often the most fun to watch, as this 1978 Oldsmobile Holiday 88 demonstrates in the broughamiest way possible.

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  • When You Run A Car Company You Should Take Your Cars Racing Yourself

    Few executives wouldn’t be caught dead fraternizing with employees lower on the totem pole. With many car companies you picture the corporate heads as elite members of society who are better at wearing fancy suits and pleasing shareholders than they are at being common fans of cars and racing.

    By Kurt Bradley Read More

  • The 24H Series Better Keep Coming To COTA For A Long Time

    America has been known to only feature one important 24-hour race series: The 24 Hours of LeMons. Yes, we have a major 24-hour single event here too, but IMSA doesn’t do mega duration events for their whole series. The Creventic 24H Series runs a slate of endurance races each season, and the shortest race you’ll see from them is a 3x3 hour setup, but that’s considered a support race for their 24-hour races. Your typical 2 or 3 hour race format bores them. The focus of this series is on amateur a

    By Kurt Bradley Read More

  • Pirelli Cancels F1 Tire Test After Multiple Robbery Attempts In Brazil

    The McLaren-Honda Formula One team, in its final weeks with that terrible “H” word tacked onto the name, planned to stick around after the Brazilian Grand Prix for a Pirelli tire test during the week. But after several robbery attempts on teams in Brazil over the weekend, the test got canceled.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • Formula One Just Won't Give Up On Its Stupidest Idea Yet

    The worst thing about Formula One right now is its policy on grid penalties for using extra engine components in a season. The solution isn’t to make the problem worse by dropping the number of allowed engines per season from four to three, but the BBC reports that F1 is still considering it anyway, despite the fact that anyone with a brain is can see that they’re wrong.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • Brittany Force Becomes First Woman To Win NHRA's Top Title In 35 Years

    Brittany Force, one of only two regular female competitors in NHRA’s highest class, isn’t just “one of the best women” in the field. (That’s one we hear all too often as women!) She’s the best out there, period. Force won the Top Fuel title on Sunday, becoming only the second woman in history to do so.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • Vettel Wins In Brazil, Gets Overshadowed By Hamilton Recovery To Fourth

    Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel has not won a Formula One Grand Prix since July when he took the trophy in Hungary. That changed today in Brazil when he slid down the inside of polesitter Valtteri Bottas lap one turn one, and kept the pace to fend off all attacks for the remaining laps. Ultimately his gap to Bottas in second at the checkered flag was 2.7 seconds with teammate Kimi Raikkonen nabbing third.

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  • Here Is All The Racing To Watch This Weekend

    Welcome 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?

    By Alex Hevesy Read More

  • I Am A Whale And 1980s Rally Videos Are My Krill

    I venture out and into the realm of online, generally beset with emails I should respond to, tweet replies I shouldn’t, and bits of news I wish I hadn’t seen in the first place. And then I find myself slowly ambling back to 1980s rally videos.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • Formula One Car Improved By Giant Image Of Lewis Hamilton On Its Side

    Formula One has been slowly trying to make it easier for fans to tell its cars apart, mandating easy to see name abbreviations and bigger numbers. However, you still kind of have to squint to see those at speed. Clearly, what F1 needs are giant pictures of the driver on the side, because that actually kind of rules.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • This Is What Vintage Car Racing Heaven Looks Like When It Comes To Texas

    Since 1981, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association has toured America with a damn cool selection of classic racers for fans to enjoy. One big advantage of this series, aside from the stack of vintage race cars bumping and rubbing over the weekend, is the fact that the entry is as cheap as $10 per day, complete with an open paddock for fans to see the cars up close.

    By Kurt Bradley Read More

  • Take An Up-Close Look Into All The Inner Workings Of A NASCAR Infield

    It’s hard to explain how experiencing NASCAR’s infield can completely change a person’s understanding the sport. The garage and pit road transform from areas that were once shown in passing by television broadcasts and squinted at through binoculars, to privates window into the inner workings of racing.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • Volkswagen Is Doing Desert Racing Right This Year

    The 2017 Baja 1000 goes down next week. And this year being the 50th anniversary of the race, it’s going to be a big one: over 380 vehicles are already registered. Volkswagen will officially be on the starting line and in the mix, too. With a 1970 Beetle.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Felipe Massa Is Actually Retiring From F1, Like, For Real This Time

    In November of 2016, Williams Formula One driver Felipe Massa walked to pit lane with his home flag draped on his shoulders during a rainy Brazilian Grand Prix. He’d just wrecked out of his final home race, and cried as the crowd and other teams honored his retirement. He was back in an F1 car two months later.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • Matt Kenseth's Break From NASCAR Could Last 'A Month Or Forever'

    Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Matt Kenseth, the guy who went full WWE on another driver a few years ago and who’s been looking for a 2018 ride for what seems like ages, will “step away” from NASCAR’s top level next year. Unless the car fairy shows up to give him a competitive ride, you won’t see him.

    By Alanis King Read More

  • Enjoy Some NASCAR This Weekend

    Welcome 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?

    By Alex Hevesy Read More

  • Formula One's New Budget Cap Could Start As Early As 2019: Report

    Formula One is considering a budget cap to level the playing field among its big-budget and smaller teams, and leaked details obtained by Auto Motor und Sport show exactly how they might do it. F1 wants to start testing out the cap in 2019. Notably, drivers’ and top managers’ salaries and marketing expenditures won’t be limited by the cap.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • How To Get Sponsors To Pay For Your Broke Ass To Go Racing

    I’ve been racing cars professionally for almost 15 years now, and as soon as people find out what I do, the questions start coming in hard and fast. Questions like “What’s the fastest you’ve ever gone?” and “Have you ever had a bad crash?” and so on. But the two I get asked the most often are these: “So you race NASCAR?” and “How do you get sponsors to pay you?”

    By Robb Holland Read More

  • Why Ferrari Is Threatening To Leave Formula One

    Formula One’s new American owners Liberty Media have big plans for broadening the sport’s appeal, but Ferrari isn’t quite sure about where this is going, reports ESPN. Now Ferrari chairman and CEO Sergio Marchionne is threatening to quit if they change things too much and Ferrari doesn’t like it.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • Watching A Non-F1 Driver Wheel An F1 Car Is Incredible

    It’s hard to tell exactly what is so entrancing about watching a non-Formula One driver in an F1 car. Maybe it’s the Woah, can a person who’s never driven one of these things do it well? Without wrecking? thought, or the fact that the closest most of the human population gets to this view is an online racing simulator.

    By Alanis King Read More

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  • Demand For Electric Cars May Be Just What We Need To Get Back Into Space

    Yesterday, we reported on an alarming development for the future of electric cars: we may not have enough of the crucial minerals needed for their batteries to meet the expected demand. Supplies of nickel and cobalt are going to be needed in far larger quantities than ever before, and it’s looking like we may not have the necessary resources. Though, it’s worth mentioning that this is only a problem if you have what the intergalactic call a “planetary mindset.” There’s plenty of what we need jus

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Technology (37)

  • How To Drive In A Future Where Driving Is Banned

    I know this is weird to talk about for car enthusiasts, but the U.S. Department of Transportation says it wants to move the nation toward a Zero Death Future, where traffic fatalities become relegated to history. In theory, this sounds nice; in practice, it’s probably impossible—unless there’s a ban on driving. So how could the pleasure of driving be upheld in such a world?

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Okay Sure: Elon Musk Also Wants To Build A 'Loop' In Chicago

    In Elon Musk’s version of a high-wire juggling act, there’s a new semi to build, a new Roadster, the Model Y, a Hyperloop system on the east coast, tunnels in LA, a space company to run, and 450,000 orders for the Model 3 to fulfill. On Wednesday, the Tesla CEO added another item to the list: a new high-speed transit system to connect the City of Chicago with O’Hare Airport. Why not.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Chris Bangle's New Car Is This Radical City Electric

    A few months back when Chris Bangle took a moment to shit-talk to his competitors, the former BMW design chief drummed up anticipation for a new car he’d been working on, saying the design was so “liberating” it made one of his designers physically ill. This week, Bangle introduced that car, called REDS, and he really wasn’t kidding around. Look at this thing.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • What If Autonomous Cars Just Never Happen?

    More and more semi-autonomous cars cruise on the road every day, and yet the more time I spend testing these driver-assisted vehicles, the more I think that full autonomy may never, ever happen.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • Apple's Secretive Car Program Might Have A Way For Autonomous Cars To Spot 3D Objects

    Apple spent most of 2016 coming to grips with the reality that it couldn’t build a car, but this year, the tech conglomerate showed it still has ambitions to develop autonomous driving technology. Now, a layer of the company’s famed secrecy has been peeled back, as Apple researchers have published a paper on how it believes self-driving cars can better spot cyclists and pedestrians with fewer sensors.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Here's How Uber Wants To Prevent People From Barfing In A Self-Driving Car

    Barf is one of the many problems that need to be addressed before driverless robotaxis hit the road, and Uber—which just placed a massive order for 24,000 autonomous cars—recently laid out plans for a system aimed at preventing you or I from getting motion sickness while being ferried around in a self-driving car.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Please Do Not Try To Fly The Tesla Roadster

    On paper, the new Tesla Roadster is a tour de force with a claimed range of 620 miles, a 0-60 time of 1.9 seconds. It’s seriously impressive, but if you take Tesla CEO Elon Musk at his word, a “special upgrade” package for the car could allow it to fly. I thought Musk was kidding. Apparently some of you think he’s serious.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Uber's Buy Of 24,000 Autonomous Volvos Doesn't Seem To Reconcile Its Inability To Turn A Profit Yet

    Uber’s announcement on Monday that it’s set to purchase 24,000 autonomous cars from Volvo is a big deal—for one thing, it’s the first mass order of robotaxis, another sign of how confident the auto industry and Silicon Valley feels about self-driving technology. But for a company that considered driverless cars “existential,” the news doesn’t seem to reconcile the fact that Uber still hasn’t figured out how to turn a profit.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • 'Accidental Billionaire': How The Outlandish Ambition Of Faraday Future's Financier Brought The Startup To Its Knees

    In Rancho Palos Verdes, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, there’s a 7,800 square foot mansion that sits atop a picturesque bluff, offering sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. Across two stories, the home contains six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a three-car garage, and privacy. Google Maps doesn’t offer a streetview of the site. For the city it’s in, the property isn’t unusual. What’s unusual is who owns it: Ocean View Drive Inc.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • All The Questions Tesla Has To Answer Now

    Tesla introduced a new show-stopper on Thursday in the form of a colossal big-rig electric semi. It’s carrying hugely impressive specs, too. But what Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered up on Thursday was nothing short of a high-flying reveal party for a couple of concepts. Here’s why.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Tesla's New Semi Truck Might Be Its Biggest Challenge Yet

    As it continues to grapple with a serious production logjam for the Model 3 sedan, Tesla is set Thursday night to reveal its long-awaited, supposedly “unreal,” all-electric semi truck. There’s a number of questions surrounding the vehicle: How far can it go on a single charge? Where, and when, will be it produced? Does it have automated tech? But while Tesla’s truck has garnered outsized attention, other manufacturers have stepped up with electric semis of their own. More: Does the trucking indu

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Jaguar Land Rover Parent Company Won't Say If It's Investing $900 Million Into Faraday Future

    After launching a very unusual public spat with its now-former chief financial officer, Faraday Future has reportedly received a $900 million lifeline from Indian automaker Tata Motors, which perhaps most famously now owns Jaguar Land Rover. The timing of such a significant investment from Tata would be stunning enough as it is, but the unconfirmed reports out of China don’t offer details of the purported deal. And neither side is talking.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Elon Musk's Alleged Response To Tesla Racism Complaints: 'Be Thick-Skinned And Accept Apology': Report (UPDATE)

    Another former Tesla employee is seeking permission from a judge to sue Tesla for racial harassment on behalf of over 100 affected African-American workers, according to a report from Bloomberg Technology. The complaint, Vaughn v. Tesla Inc. in the Superior Court of California, alleges that Tesla workers, including supervisors, regularly used derogatory and discriminatory language against black workers.

    By Justin T. Westbrook Read More

  • Will The Autonomous Car Revolution Leave Poor People Behind?

    Depending on whom you ask, our driverless car future will happen in five or 10 or 20 years, but no one is certain exactly what that future is going to look like. It may have us all owning cars that pilot themselves; it may eliminate car ownership altogether and shift to an Uber-style on-demand model, or some combination of the two. The goals behind this are inherently noble: to end traffic deaths and crashes, all while solving congestion and easing air pollution. But I keep wondering if this saf

    By Patrick George Read More

  • Airbus Plans To Test Its 'Flying Car' By The End Of 2017

    Among the myriad hurdles that need to be cleared for so-called flying cars to start ferrying passengers through the sky, some tests actually need to be conducted. Airbus, one of several companies trying to launch vertical take-off and landing aircrafts, says it’ll be able to do that by the end of the year.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Faraday Future Accuses Ex-CFO Of 'Malfeasance' During His Tenure In Bizarre Statement

    The saga of would-be world-beater electric car startup Faraday Future got weirder than usual this week, and this evening it escalated further. Just hours after FF’s ex-chief financial officer Stefan Krause confirmed he quit in October, the startup publicly accused him of “malfeasance” in a bizarre statement and claimed it’s pursuing legal action against him.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Faraday Future's CFO Actually Resigned On Oct. 14 (UPDATED)

    On Thursday, Jalopnik reported that Faraday Future’s chief financial officer, BMW and Deutsche Bank veteran Stefan Krause, appeared likely to leave the company in the coming days. As it turns out, we have since learned Krause is already gone. His resignation was effective immediately on Oct. 14.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Chinese-Backed Electric Car Startup NIO Raises $1 Billion

    The Chinese-backed electric vehicle startup NIO raised more than $1 billion in its latest fundraising round, Reuters reported on Wednesday, breaking away from a crowded field of young Chinese-funded car firms who’ve notably struggled to raise money for their own ambitious endeavors.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • This Weekend's NYT Magazine Is All About The Future Of Cars

    Though they’ve only taken center stage in the transportation debate a few short years ago, everyone is beginning to realize autonomous vehicles are A Thing. Lately we’ve seen outlets from Car and Driver to Automotive News roll out packages that assess the future of driving. Now The New York Times Magazine  is spending this week publishing stories about cars and how we’ll get around. You should read it.

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  • Uber Teams Up With NASA To Build A Flying Car By 2020 Which Is (Looks At Watch) TWO YEARS Away

    Completely focused and scandal-free ride-hailing giant Uber said it struck an agreement with NASA today to develop a new traffic control system for the company’s “flying cars,” which are more accurately Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles. By 2020, Uber plans to start testing the vehicles—which currently don’t exist—in Los Angeles; by 2028, it’ll perform “tens of thousands” of flights per day across the city.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Faraday Future Says Someone Faked Documents To Suggest It's Planning Bankruptcy

    The saga of Faraday Future is full of weird twists and turns—and the last several weeks for the company have been no different. In the last month alone, FF has reportedly taken steps to prepare to file for bankruptcy, and has also scaled back its product plans from six vehicles to just one, the futuristic electric autonomous FF 91. But according to FF, nothing’s changed. And more weirdly, the company says the bankruptcy “plan” wasn’t created at all by FF.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Waymo Is Launching A Fleet Of Actual Driverless Cars In Arizona

    Waymo, the self-driving car project launched by Google, spent last week showing off the company’s autonomous vehicles to reporters. Now, Waymo said Tuesday, it’s deploying driverless cars for testing in Phoenix as part of a pilot program. Cars without actual people in the driver seat. Driving people around. It’s wild to watch.

    By Ryan Felton Read More

  • Tesla's Director Of Battery Engineering Is Out

    Tesla is currently working to address manufacturing issues at its Gigafactory in Nevada, which led to a three month delay in the production schedule of the Model 3 sedan. At the same time, Jalopnik has learned the company’s director of battery engineering left the company in recent weeks.

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  • Tesla's 'Hell' Threatens Its Future

    In August, after Tesla got production underway for the Model 3 and made first deliveries of the new mass-market electric sedan to employees, CEO Elon Musk said there should “absolutely” be “zero concern” about the automaker’s ability to increase production to 10,000 cars per week at some point in 2018. This week, that confidence vanished.

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  • This Volkswagen Beetle Engine Rebuild Time Lapse Makes It Look Way Too Easy

    I return to you people from air-cooled Volkswagen Project Car Hell, only to find Hagerty’s video of a Beetle engine getting re-built. It looks so simple! It’s such a tiny engine! Everything fits together like Legos! HA! The camera lies. Either way, watching this engine get completely torn down and rebuilt is weirdly satisfying.

    By Stef Schrader Read More

  • How To Do Your Own Alignment With Some Angle Iron And Two Tape Measures

    Like many of you, doing my own car maintenance is a big part of my life. Not only does it offer some financial advantages, it also gives a little relief from, well, everything else. Call it automotive catharsis. Some jobs, though, I always left to the pros—until recently, when I decided to give a front-end alignment a stab. I figured, how hard could it be?

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Here's How To Replace The Worst Type Of Ball Joints In The Automotive World

    If ball joints are allowed to degrade to the point of failure, it can lead to a wheel separating from the vehicle while driving. That is... not good. The Dodge Ram that I bought a few months back ended up having some loose joints up front, and I certainly didn’t want a nightmarish scenario like that to unfold. Here’s how I fixed it.

    By Peter Monshizadeh Read More

  • I'm Heading To Mexico On A Quest For Redemption

    Five months ago, my friends and I got worked over in Baja something fierce. Our car crashed and crushed our dreams as it collapsed onto the dust 45 miles into a 500 mile race. This week, we’re back with a vengeance.

    By Andrew P. Collins Read More

  • Show Us Your Winter Wrenching Setup

    It’s 24 degrees in the godforsaken wasteland that is southeast Michigan, so it’s a good thing I’ve got all my winter projects in a nice, warm, insulated garage. (I do not).

    By David Tracy Read More

  • This Obscure Nissan Engine Is Where Modern Japanese Performance Cars Began

    Back in the 1970s, Nissan was sort of stuck in a rut. The gas crises had ballooned the profits and export sales of the Japanese auto industry as a whole, but Nissan had lost its edge against Toyota and even the young upstart Honda. Particularly bad was Nissan’s prestige model, the Skyline, which had gone from a world-beating performance car with its own dedicated, high-tech engine to a soggy luxury coupe, heavy and bloated with an engine designed in the ‘60s.

    By Raphael Orlove Read More

  • Here's Everything Wrong With My $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Off-Road Project

    When I bought my 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer a few weeks ago, I’ll admit that I didn’t really look at it very carefully. “Frame doesn’t have holes, engine isn’t seized—I’ll take it,” I decided in desperation after failing to find a project for months. Now I’ve had some time to look the Woodie over, and, well, it’s not great.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • Here's Why You Never Want To See Your Old Vehicle Again

    If I just hadn’t gotten on Craigslist today, my conscience would have been fine. I would never have known the tragedy that had taken place to a machine I once held dear. So much time and effort was put into that bike. My poor, helpless Kawasaki. What happened to you?

    By Peter Monshizadeh Read More

  • Here's Exactly What Makes The 2018 Honda Accord And Civic Type R Engines Different

    The 2018 Honda Accord ditches the V6 in favor of a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder as its most powerful engine option. It’s been heralded at many outlets—including admittedly this one—as being an Accord with the Civic Type R’s engine. While it is based on that motor, the newly released parts catalog reveals many significant differences that go beyond early reports of a smaller turbocharger and less aggressive tune.

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