An unexploded bomb from WWII was discovered in the River Thames early last Sunday, which led authorities to cancel all flights Monday out of neighboring London City Airport. Because bombs are not only bad, they are also highly inconvenient.
Read MoreHey, wanna feel old? The B-2 bomber, that sleek paragon of stealth smoothness that still looks like it’s from the future, is getting ready for retirement.
Read MoreThe Russian Tu-95 ‘Bear’ isn’t just a relic of the Cold War, with the potential for a nuclear payload capable of untold devastation. It’s eight contra-rotating propellers also enable to it hold the reputation of the current Loudest Plane In The World. This is what it’s like inside.
Read MoreThere are many grand tourers, but at least in my book, the Aston Martin DB9 is the pinnacle of them all. The design is nothing short of perfection, and the driving experience is unforgettable. Today’s DB11 isn’t half-bad, either. Hearing them sing together is seriously something special though.
Read MoreWell, friends here is yet another topic that I shall file under “things I thought were obvious,” but apparently there are a number of folks who think they have a legal case because a dealer for whatever reason did not sell them a car.
Read MoreHere’s an interesting thing that’s happened lately: for years, we car enthusiasts begged automakers to give us more wagons as we moaned about the dominance of crossover SUVs. Now, thanks to America’s insatiable demand for anything with a hatch, we have more wagons on sale than we’ve seen in years. If cars can feel feelings—and scientifically, there’s no way to prove they can’t—then the 2018 Mercedes-Benz E400 Wagon must be experiencing some smug amusement.
Read MoreThe 1993 BMW 850ci you see here would have cost about $85,000 when it was new, almost $150,000 in today’s money. If you do want one today, it took me nine seconds to find a decent-looking example on Craigslist for under nine grand. There’s depreciation, and then there’s whatever that is.
Read MoreFor the most part, the best affordable cars seem to spring up on Facebook Marketplace, but for whatever reason CL is holding out in Montana. It has one of the most implausibly amazing set of listings I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreI’ve brokered thousands of deals and have encountered a variety of excuses as to why a car’s price was not competitive, but I’ve have never had a dealer say the automaker made them charge more. If the email I just got is any indication of the norm, the excellent Kia Stinger is getting absolutely screwed by its dealers.
Read MoreAlmost by definition, a Mitsubishi Mirage sedan is a sad car. Unlike some, I don’t hate the car, but I feel strongly it should be had in hatchback form to maximize its practicality. This one sedan, though, is special.
Read MoreThe weather is getting warmer and you know what that means: it’s time to get yourself a sports car! If you are in the market for some all-American V8 thunder, there are some crazy good deals to be had on the Chevrolet Corvette, and you’ll even have your choice of three model years. People aren’t buying these things, but you can.
Read MoreNic is a priest who does the Lord’s work by making house calls and shuttling parishioners around, but his big Ford truck isn’t quite suited for the job. He needs something professional, but a bit different and obviously affordable. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe Chrysler 300 has basically been with us since 2005, and it last got an update in 2011. That makes it the car equivalent of half the lineup of the San Antonio Spurs. But people still seem to want them! People like my friend Rich, who I’m writing this review for. Look Rich, and other Richs of the world, here’s what you’re getting yourself into.
Read MoreWhen comparing prices you always want to get a total cost—that includes all tax and fees so you know exactly how much you are paying for your next car. But some dealers are employing a questionable tactic to make their out the door price cheaper than the competition.
Read MoreSince 2018 is predicted to be a slower year for car sales, dealers are pulling out all the stops to get you into the showroom. Presidents’ weekend is usually a big time for car buying, but some of these so-called deals don’t really offer the yuuuge savings you would expect.
Read MoreThe huge V-twin engine up front. The two skinny tires sticking out from the sides. The open top. A body like a fighter plane from a war decades past. Few cars are as instantly intriguing to enthusiasts, passersby and other motorists the way the Morgan 3 Wheeler does. And you can definitely include me in that group.
Read MoreIt’s one thing to read about power or observe it—to understand its nature from a distance. But it’s a completely different thing to wield that power, and to have it threaten your very existence if you misuse it. That’s how the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody made me feel.
Read MoreDan is a drummer on the weekends who has been rocking a 2006 Chevy Malibu Maxx (Google it if you need, we can wait) that is getting old and now missing some beats. It’s time for an upgrade. He wants something that can handle his gear but isn’t expensive or too big. What car should he buy?
Read MoreIn just a quick glance, you can tell that this AMC Javelin isn’t even remotely messing around. A menacing face, a huge hood, and massive fenders wrapped over three-piece HRE wheels. A thousand horses from a 6.2-liter supercharged Dodge Hellcat engine. An opulent gold paint job.
Read MoreSome cars defy rationality with their market prices, yet we consistently seem amazed there are people willing to pony up for them. Perhaps you can’t put a price on dreams. Is there a dream car out there that would make you pay more than you should?
Read MoreThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Subaru in America, and it’s a story any company would be proud of. While the automaker is small compared to the domestic brands and import giants like Honda and Toyota, it has broken into the mainstream with record-breaking sales through a focus on quality and some very clever marketing. But Subaru’s true secret weapon might just be its dealerships.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz S-Class is best known as “the best car in the world.” The Mercedes-Maybach is built off of the regular S-Class, and that presents it with the challenge of making the best car, somehow, impossibly, better. This has made the car quietly one of the most entertaining vehicles ever produced.
Read MoreDerek is from Canada and has a budget that could easily score him a pretty nice new car, but he would rather turn back the clock and get something with style and class from the 1980s or the 1990s. What car should he buy?
Read MoreEveryone knows owning a car involves much more than the purchase price. There’s taxes, insurance, registration fees, gas, and maintenance, among other costs, which means that the price tag for new cars can sometimes be almost beside the point after years of ownership. Kelley Blue Book is here to help, crunching the numbers on those extra costs and declaring some winners and losers.
Read MoreYou know how everybody in the world is an idiot except us? Sure you do. One of the ways everyone’s an idiot is the sad way the auto industry slavishly follows foolish marketing trends, like the current domination of crossovers and SUVs. Take the Kia Niro, for example. Kia keeps calling it a “crossover” which, to my eyes, is a great injustice. Because the Niro isn’t some stupidly tall mall-crusher with an AWD system that’ll never get used; it’s a smart little station wagon, and that’s an uncommon
Read MoreI’ve gotten a ton of emails from you fine readers regarding the new Kia Stinger GT. Most of them go the same way: “Is the Stinger GT worth the price?” When compared to new cars the Stinger presents an incredible value, but if you look at what kind of used hardware you can get the equation changes a bit.
Read MoreThe 2018 Jaguar E-Pace is a noble effort in the quest to make the small crossover SUV/sports car mashup aesthetic work. It’s decent to drive, too. But don’t get too carried away convincing yourself that this is a family-friendly F-Type; the E-Pace’s value proposition is more about style than substance.
Read MoreIn car reviews, recounting how much “better” the Korean automakers are than they were in decades past has become painfully cliché. It doesn’t need to be said that Hyundai and Kia make world-class cars these days and have for some time, except in one area: performance. This is what the 2018 Kia Stinger GT aims to change.
Read MoreI’ve never subscribed to the “always buy used cars” philosophy, but some folks are still convinced that due to depreciation, pre-owned models are the smartest financial purchase. This study from iSeeCars.com reveals for some cars this year, the used version doesn’t save you that much.
Read MoreNathan’s mom is one fast lady, but her supercharged Impala crapped out. They have a Ford V8 and are looking swap it into something affordable but somewhat luxurious—but maybe her desire for a V8 car can be found elsewhere, too. What car should they buy?
Read MoreThe 2019 Infiniti QX50 is as plush as it is pretty. And for better or worse, you’ll never notice that it has an engine unlike anything else on the road right now. In fact, in this crossover, you’ll barely realize you’re driving at all.
Read MoreIf you zoom in on the teaser picture BMW just released, you’ll see that there are lines for two doors. As in, two doors per side. Which means this is most certainly a sedan. Probably the 8 Series sedan. The chances that BMW will call it a “Gran Coupe” seem dangerously high. Can we knock it off with that already?
Read MorePart of the draw of cars for many of us is we know we can fix them ourselves if something goes wrong. It may seem very intimidating at first, but once you realize that cars are just made up of many small parts, it helps you break down what’s wrong in your mind and makes the job easier to approach.
Read MoreSome say cars are lifeless objects, incapable of having personalities. Others say that they are anything but. Personally, I think cars can go either way, but some still manage to hide secret quirks and features from the rest of us that you’d only know if you were intimately familiar with that car.
Read MoreLearning to drive can be a daunting experience. You are suddenly tasked with safely controlling a few thousand pound piece of steel in traffic. Not every car is best suited for this task. A Dodge Challenger Hellcat for instance, is probably the worst possible car for someone who has never driven a car. New drivers need a car that can take safely take a little punishment without losing control.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of ways to make cars. You can stick the engine in the front, middle, or rear, you can drive two or four wheels, front or rear, and all these with all sorts of combinations. Lately, you can shove batteries and motors somewhere, too.
Read MoreBuick’s reputation as being a brand for The Olds is, in my case, less of a stereotype and more reality. My grandpa owned a succession of tan LeSabres. They were the ultimate in luxury when compared to my parents’ rusty Volvos. As a kid, I thought being rich was the ability to buy a brand new LeSabre.
Read MoreAnyone can pick up an old beater Subaru to go rallycrossing. Resurrecting an old muscle car from a goat pen, however, makes you an instant legend. Here’s one of the greatest rallycross builds we’ve ever seen, and not because it’s particularly good at rallycrossing: Dylan Gondyke’s 1969 Mercury Cougar named “Eileen.”
Read MoreYou probably haven’t heard of the the Nostalgic2days show before. It’s not a big international motor show like the Tokyo Motor Show, and it’s not as crazy as the automotive circus that is the Tokyo Auto Salon. Despite flying under the radar for some time, the Nostalgic2days show celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and it’s definitely a must-go if love Japan’s classics.
Read MoreI was thinking about the word “supercharger” the other day—that’s a hell of a word. It doesn’t really tell you exactly how it works, that it’s a belt-driven compressor for the fuel/air mixture, but who cares? Supercharging just sounds like hot shit. It’s a good name for that device. Now, since I have a problem where anytime I think about something good I immediately also think about something terrible, I started to wonder about the worst possible names for car-related stuff.
Read MoreWe’ve all had rough days. The Mitsubishi Mirage has had a sad life. But it can be sadder.
Read MoreNissan the car company never really cared who Uzi Nissan was. Then it decided he had something it wanted very much—the website www.nissan.com, which he created for his small retail computer business in 1994—and it sued him for $10 million. When the two Nissans went to war, Uzi Nissan prevailed in the end, but lost almost everything along the way.
Read MoreNo, this isn’t a post written by someone else. This is me, just me, so hear me out. Here goes: I think, based on Mercedes-Benz’s current lineup, the Maybach variants are too cheap. Mercedes is not charging enough money for them. And it’s not OK.
Read MorePorsche just unveiled the new 911 GT3 RS and, man, it’s hard to care anymore. It’s just yet another fast, track-focused 911 with no manual. Same old, same old. What Porsche needs is something new. It needs something exciting. It needs a fast off-road Cayenne.
Read MoreSince cars span so many eras and were designed, thought up and created by so many different people, it’s inevitable that there would be many little secrets and nuggets of knowledge hidden away in them.
Read MoreLast year, I became a regular contributor to Jalopnik, writing essays about people and their relationships with cars. Some of those relationships were haunting, some were heartbreaking, some were endearing, some were all of those things and all of them were complex. Those are the kinds of stories that move me. They seem to move you too. This year, I’ll continue doing the same. But I’ll also be doing something else: Hosting the site’s very first podcast.
Read MoreEveryone only studies to pass the test, and not necessarily to solve the problems. There may be ways to remedy that, at least in the automotive industry.
Read MoreDespite what we think we know about cars, they can still manage to surprise us with how well they drive. That’s why we shouldn’t be so quick to write one off, despite how it looks on paper.
Read MoreI suspect almost every loyal, sexy Jalopnik reader does this when they (sometimes reluctantly, usually with a lot of complicated explanations) valet their car: check the ticket to see if the little “show damage here” car is recognizable. Sometimes the car is identifiable, so let’s look at some of the more common ticket designs and see what we’ve got. It’s not like you have anything better to do, right?
Read MoreWhile most of the cars we tend to encounter on a daily basis are made by huge, global corporations, it’s important to remember that there’s interesting cars being put together all over the world, including places that one doesn’t normally associate with automobile production. Madagascar is one of those places. As an island with a fairly small population, you wouldn’t think they’d have a completely indigenous and local car industry. But they do. It’s not big, but it is very interesting, and I thi
Read MoreA helicopter traffic camera flying over Los Angeles gridlock found something funny going on. Some motorists, desperate to not be stuck in traffic, tried to drive through a field of sand and a bunch of them got hilariously stuck anyway.
Read MoreWe’ve written about lots of car auctions here, including some that included really unusual and interesting selections of cars. But if your goal is to get the absolute weirdest, most obscure, bonkersest cars possible, I’m not sure there’s ever been a better auction for you than the one the Western Washington University Mechanical Engineering Dept. is planning. There’s some gleefully weird crap that could be all yours.
Read MoreWe live in an era where almost every car takes itself very, very seriously. Crappy Nissan Versas come in serious-business Anthracite Gray and glower at you like they’re BMWs. SUVs and crossovers wear big, serious tires and want you to think they’re tough. That’s why the Yamaha Ami is such a wonderful gift to humanity: it’s the one of the only cars factory-built to laugh at itself.
Read MoreTrim packages are there for that extra little pizzaz on cars. Because why would you want a base Camry like your neighbor’s got when you could get the Camry XSE V6? These packages don’t usually amount to much more than a unique paint and maybe some suspension work and interior features. But they’ve been deemed “special” and must have cool names to boot.
Read MoreThere’s a reason why you never see bats or earthworms or naked mole rats driving, other than because they (generally) have terrible credit ratings and can’t afford cars: their lack of vision. Driving is a very sight-oriented activity, and humans are, of course, very vision-oriented creatures. But what if evolution had taken us down a different, non-sighted path? Would we still have cars? Of course we would. And I think I have an idea what they’d be like.
Read MoreObviously, it’s your car and you can do whatever the hell you want with it, as long as you aren’t endangering anybody. You are entitled to that. But since you bring said car out on public roads where I, a member of The Public, can see it, I am also entitled to this opinion: That all bumper stickers are stupid and should never have been affixed to a car in the first place.
Read MorePersonally, I don’t know when swords became considered tacky, but it’s 2018 and here we are: Having a katana is kinda tacky! Especially when you use it as decoration in a freaking car. But a market exists for pretty much everything. Even swords.
Read MoreSomehow, David Tracy has managed to surround himself with a devoted group of ride-or-die friends. May we all hope to be as blessed as he.
Read MoreWhat have you been working on lately? We’re bringing back Build of the Week, and we want to feature the most fascinating projects out there in the process: wild engine swaps, show cars, race cars, rare cars, and even meticulously well-preserved regular cars no one else has the guts to love. To kick it off, we’d love to feature some of the most enthusiastic enthusiasts on earth: you.
Read MoreSome cars just look better than others on paper. It all comes down to magic words like “manual transmission,” “rear-wheel drive” and “V8.” Kind of like reading a menu. You can assume something looks good, but until you try it, you won’t truly know what it’s like.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreAs I do more and more of these Meh Car Monday articles, I’m realizing there’s a spectrum of meh that these cars fall into. Some are capable, well-made, and functionally decent vehicles, but just lacking any sort of character or soul; that’s about the best a meh car can hope for. At the other end are cars who derive their meh-ness from the incredible, all-consuming lack of giving a shit about the car’s design and construction itself—these are cars that were meh because they were phoned-in, half-a
Read MorePicture this: You’ve got something wonky going on with your car or you just need a new set of wiper blades, or a quart of oil or blinker fluid. Whatever. You head down to your nearby auto parts store, filled with enthusiasm at the thought of solving your problem. Sometimes you’re successful. Sometimes you aren’t.
Read MoreYou know what may be the most misunderstood lamps on cars? The parking lamps. Almost nobody uses them as they were originally intended, and when I accidentally did use them as intended, it turned out to be a disaster for me. Let’s talk about parking lights.
Read More“Where can I see some cool cars without having to go to Daikoku PA or Tatsumi PA”? That’s the question I get most frequently from people wanting to get a glimpse of the best cars Tokyo has to offer. Rather than answering the same question several times, hopefully this guide will help everyone wanting to do a bit of car-spotting while they’re in Tokyo. Also, selfishly, it gave me an excuse to drive an Aston Martin Vanquish S.
Read MoreI don’t know if the W8 Passat was as unreliable as everyone remembers it to be, or if it was only that people who expected something approaching Camry-grade reliability from what was a reasonably exotic vehicle got loudly turned off by it. But I just know some of you out there have owned these things.
Read MoreTeal is one of the few colors that is bright and cheerful but calming at the same time. Stare into the blue-green side of the Porsche Panamericana concept, and let the chill need to do something extreme wash over you like the rad burbling rapids it evokes. It’s a shade that reaffirms you. Pumps you up. Makes you cool. Gets you ready to karate-chop the day. It’s time for teal.
Read MoreThe Fiat Chrysler thirst is real. There have been talks with merging with everyone from General Motors to Volkswagen. And after today’s story on the U.S. EPA and emissions tests, reader QuadPole made A Joke:
Read MoreAll of those sounds you hear while you’re driving your car—the engine note, the exhaust, the hum of the road, the murmur of the tires—are only there because a noise, vibration and harshness engineer allowed them to be. Andrea Martin has made it her life’s work to create in-car experiences that range from the mighty Acura NSX to the family-friendly Honda Odyssey.
Read MoreA snowstorm shut down not only Highway 8 running through Sakai City in Osaka, but also the nearby dumpling shop Gyoza No Osho. Not wanting to let the restaurant’s food go to waste, employees banded together to cook up some 500 meals for the drivers stuck in the miles-long traffic jam cutting through the neighborhood.
Read MoreToday Elon Musk fired a Tesla Roadster into space. That’s fun and objectively awesome! He said he’d do it, and he did. It’s better than all this flamethrower stuff lately. Anyway, if you could fire a car into space, what would it be?
Read MoreOne of my favorite car enthusiasts is currently starting a project to put a Toyota 2JZ, the legendary Supra motor, into a 1982 Chevrolet Corvette, and this got me thinking: what GM should do is make new Vettes with straight sixes.
Read MoreIt seems like going to the auto parts store can sometimes be hit or miss. When it’s great, it’s great! But when it’s bad, oh God, it’s terrible.
Read MoreI genuinely wonder if, at any time during the development of the Mercury Milan, if everyone on the team just stopped working all at the same time, and looked blankly out into space as the futility of their task suddenly dawned on them. Perhaps they all shed a solitary tear, in unison, and the collective splash of those tears on desks and drawing boards and workbenches brought everyone back to their miserable, meaningless reality: making the Mercury Milan.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler really got it wrong with its Super Bowl ads this year, specifically the one that mischaracterized a speech by the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man himself was pushing a much different message than what the Ram ad was trying to project.
Read MoreIt’s a cold Monday night at the Tatsumi Parking Area. The flashing LEDs and deafening exhausts that are synonymous with this parking area are nowhere to be seen, or heard. Even those guys have jobs. But sitting there in the middle of the truck bay braving the cold winds is a metallic blue UFO—the ever mysterious Zonda Anija.
Read MoreIt’s hard to nail down something as subjective as beauty and attractiveness, so we all have our own opinions of what makes a car striking to look at or gives it a timeless design.
Read MoreYears ago, I used to have a very lovely yellow 1967 Volvo P1800S. I really loved that car, and one of the things I loved best about it was the placement of the rear-view mirror: right smack dab in the middle of the dashboard.
Read MoreMy 1974 Volkswagen Beetle is, by modern standards, a complete pile of garbage. But every time I get into a car that is up to par for a new vehicle, it feels like trash, and I think my VW is to blame.
Read MoreAfter we wrote about rumors that Porsche may throw the wonderful 4.0-liter flat-six into the next Boxster Spyder, a few readers put themselves into the minds of the company’s German engineers and marketing managers.
Read MoreIf you need a car-related reason to come to Japan for a week or so, the Tokyo Auto Salon is one of the best events to plan a trip around. Not only is it one of the most entertaining car shows in the world, the weather in January isn’t even too bad. It’s certainly better than the horrendously humid summers Japan gets. The other great thing about the TAS weekend is all the events, parties and car meets that represent this country’s wild tuner scene.
Read MoreSometimes, the best way to make your point is to remain calm and guide the other person to a mutual understanding. Other times, you take their Pontiac G5 and you ram it right into a Walmart parking lot barrier over and over.
Read MoreBack on November 9 last year, a bus loaded with 20 people crashed into a traffic light and then a concrete barrier protecting the U.S. District Court building in Springfield, Massachusetts. Now, video of the incident has been released showing the bus wrecking its way down the street as the driver helplessly chases after it.
Read MoreIn an action that a local fire chief called “heroic,” Ralph Gilles, Fiat Chrysler’s Global Head of Design, used his Jeep Wrangler’s bumper to push a burning Ford Edge away from a crashed Ford Fiesta and its trapped occupants, having arrived first at the scene of what was to become a fatal car crash in suburban Detroit, local newspaper Oxford Leader reports.
Read More“It boggles your mind, it happened again, and you just think, you know, how many people are hurt this time?’” State Patrol Spokesman Nathan Ludwig commented to Iowa’s Channel 13 news in the aftermath of a quick blizzard-induced crash on Saturday that claimed as many as 70 cars. It only takes one person to cause a major pileup when there is inclement weather or a suddenly shortened visibility distance.
Read MoreWithin days of picking up a Tesla Model 3, a Reddit user was involved in a wreck that promoted the unfortunate user name Model_3_Crash_Dummy. Fortunately, the driver and the passenger weren’t seriously injured, but the Model 3 is toast. But after the owner of the Tesla noticed a few strange things about the crash, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is promising some tweaks, according to a report by CNET’s Roadshow.
Read MoreSometimes we are drivers in cars, but we are always passengers in life. This means that we should always keep an eye out for anything and everything that might happen, including botched attempts at road rage. Wait, scratch that; especially for botched attempts at road rage.
Read MoreD1GP’s last round in Shenzhen didn’t exactly go as planned. Some attendees report that the event was briefly shut down by Chinese authorities at one point, and that a re-paved section of the track proved surprisingly destructive, as you can see here.
Read MoreOne of the most beautiful off-road-style builds we’ve ever seen is this 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000, which started its new life when it was dropped off a flat-bed trailer. Owners Nikita and Ilya Bridan rebuilt it into an safari-style hoonmobile, which inevitably came to Hoonigan’s yard where it died as it was meant to live: by sending it over a sweet jump.
Read MoreCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s motorcade was involved in a crash, just after leaving an event at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, ABC News reports. The Canadians, presumably, have already apologized.
Read MoreThe snow and ice along I-44 in Missouri was bad earlier this week, as evidenced by an insane video from Monday showing one woman’s attempt to scramble from her car while slipping in the snow as a semi truck crashes into a pileup, just barely missing her.
Read MoreSoutheast Michigan is home of some of the worst, most pothole-ridden roads in the country, and earlier this week, those potholes became canyons—canyons that sent cars sliding out of control on black ice.
Read MoreA Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera wound up wedged underneath a mobile trailer after a suspected drunken crash in California on Saturday, the Costa Mesa Police Department said on Instagram. Not the nose of the car, or even the front half—the entire car got jammed under the trailer’s few feet of ground clearance.
Read MoreSome people really hate birds. One guy hated birds so much, he decided to record himself driving his car at some birds in a parking lot for Snapchat. It did not end well for him.
Read MoreLook, man, I get it: Cars are hard. Driving them especially. And when you put curbs in the way, well, maybe we should all just stay home.
Read MoreTop Gear presenters Chris Harris and Eddie Jordan had to ditch an Alpine A110 on Monday morning after a warning light popped up on the car’s dash, and the vehicle caught fire, British tabloid The Daily Mail reports.
Read MoreI understand that one of the Fiat 124 Spider Abarth/Fiat 124 Spider/Miata’s greatest draws is the ease at which you can put its top up or down, as it is only powered by your arm. But that doesn’t stop me from thinking that the new Abarth 124 GT, with a removable carbon fiber hardtop, is utterly righteous. Clarification: The car is still being offered with a soft top, you just can’t have it up while the hard top is there.
Read MoreI’ve made no secret of my distaste for the McLaren Senna’s looks. Thankfully, McLaren has heard my bellyaching and given us this: the McLaren Senna “Carbon Theme.” It’s not bad! It’s just really freaking expensive.
Read MoreAudi could make its car models distinguishable from each other someday, but it looks like that day won’t come this model year. Here are some leaked photos of what’s thought to be the 2019 Audi A6, which isn’t supposed to debut until next month. We know it’s an “A6” because we looked at the badging on the back.
Read MoreThe new Lexus UX isn’t supposed to debut until March 6, but it appears Lexus is so excited about this crossover—yeah, crossovers! exciting!—that it released a photo an entire week early. Lexus calls the UX its “first urban crossover” and ... wait, holy shit, have you seen those fenders? What exactly is going on here?
Read MoreThat, there. What was that? Did you feel it? A ghost of a breath through the barren trees? A fingertip trailing across a mirror-like lake. Could it be? The 2018 Peugeot 508? Yes, I believe in fact it is.
Read MoreThe what isn’t new: That auto shows, as we have come to know them, are dying. The who, however, is: Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker that might elect not to show up at next year’s Detroit Auto Show.
Read MoreI just spent a week driving a stripper-model 2018 Hyundai Accent, and I must say: I was pleasantly surprised. It honestly might be among the most fun new cars you can buy for just about $16,000.
Read MoreFor years, carmakers have been in the habit of putting some of the technical innovations they’re proud of on the back of their cars via badges. This practice probably peaked in the ‘80s, but it’s still around, to some degree. Today I want to look at a badge that was once quite common to see on car buttocks: a series of letters that read DOHC.
Read MoreI don’t know if you have noticed this but I certainly did when I first moved to Southern California: People insist on adding the definite article “the” in front of major freeways. Turns out, it’s not just some baseless regional slang, there’s a decent amount of history behind it.
Read MoreFor nearly two decades, RV owners have been trying to get a clear answer about a tire made by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. that they say has wrecked countless lives—at least nine deaths, dozens of injuries and serious crashes. In numerous legal battles, Goodyear has been accused of aggressively covering up a defect with the tire, preventing a recall from being ordered. What’s even more shocking, plaintiffs say, is that a crucial piece of testimony by a Goodyear employee that might have served as a
Read MoreOne of the most memorable scenes of the Fast and the Furious movies involves a Honda Civic barely passing under a semi trailer. It’s an incredible stunt even for a movie, and extremely dangerous to attempt in real life. Yet motorcycle vlogger Hammy Moto recreated this scene with his body when he fell from his bike and miraculously lived to post the video.
Read MoreAh, winter. The infamous off-season for many motorcyclists. Even if the icy weather doesn’t allow for riding, I still find myself hanging out with the bikes in the garage anyway. This usually ends up with me identifying something that needs to be fixed. This time around, my focus was drawn to the drive chain on my 1994 Honda CBR900RR.
Read MorePoor Harley-Davidson isn’t starting off 2018 so hot. In addition to falling sales, the company is now reporting a massive U.S. recall that affects potentially 174,636 bikes.
Read MoreVideo showing what clearly appears to be a Florida Highway Patrolman in a Highway Patrol Dodge Charger lining up alongside a Lamborghini Aventador and racing down the road is now under investigation.
Read MoreAs we’ve written about previously in these parts, Johnny Bohmer, like us, likes the cars to go fast. One of his latest runs? A 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach, that he got up to 218 mph, or a hair faster than Porsche says the car should go.
Read MoreWelcome to Jalopnik Movie Club, where we take a look at cars in movies and movies about cars, and you write in with all of your hot takes. This week, we’re reviewing the original The Italian Job—the strange tonal genesis of Austin Powers, Top Gear and the global obsession with original Mini Coopers.
Read MoreIt seems like every other automotive press release is about autonomy or alternative energy. Is every other car an EV or a plug-in hybrid? No, obviously, but this study shows an interesting breakdown of how popular alt-fuel cars really are, and where.
Read MoreOn a miserable gloomy day, stuck in miserable, gloomy traffic, one impatient road-rager got an unfortunate surprise when they tried to pass everybody else very illegally on the right.
Read MoreA new Toyota Supra is just around the corner and it will probably be underpowered, overweight and generally bad. Wait, no, it’s going to be good. Or not. or maybe it will be just like it always has been. Welcome once more to Carguments.
Read MoreParking fines can saddle low-income drivers with a relentless amount of debt and a joint effort from ProPublica and Mother Jones found that thousands are actually going bankrupt in Chicago from the cities aggressive effort to collect on parking fines.
Read MoreBMW’s debuting a new car in Geneva next week, and—based on the automaker’s new teaser image—it will apparently have four doors, and possibly end up being the 8 Series Gran Coupe.
Read MoreThe Austin American-Statesman reports that, according to an arrest affidavit, a man in jail near Austin tried to steal a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt after a confrontation at a stop sign on Saturday. The confrontation apparently involved some yelling, a machete and confusion—confusion about how to drive an electric car.
Read MoreI understand what you’re thinking. You can’t just show a picture of a Subaru Outback and declare it “not a Subaru Outback.” Friend, that’s exactly what I’m doing, because this is, in fact, a Honda.
Read MoreJapan has a delightful selection of impossibly quirky or fancy cars that we, as unworthy Americans, do not get to buy new. The 2008 Toyota Crown is one such fancy car that’s aimed squarely at the working culture of Japan, and Mr. Regular of Regular Car Reviews went all the way to New Zealand to drive it.
Read MoreWhenever I travel outside of the United States, I feel like I’m always seeing various Hondas that, for inexplicable reasons, never made it to this glorious land of near-universal free soda refills. I’m not even talking about Honda’s wonderful Kei-class cars—I mean cars that, really could have been sold here, but weren’t. So now I’m asking my fellow Americans, what denied Honda is your favorite?
Read MoreJoe Girard sold 1,425 cars in 1973, and over 13,000 in an impressive 15-year stretch that later led to a career as a motivational speaker. Ali Reda sold 1,582 cars in 2017, besting Girard by some margin. Girard, initially, was extremely unhappy about this, but now has changed his tune a bit. He’ll accept it, he told Automotive News, once it’s all been audited and verified.
Read MoreThis is the new Hyundai Kona EV, announced today, looking every bit like the kind of car an automaker would be building in this Tesla-versus-everybody world. But wait.
Read MoreA stretch of Interstate 93 in Boston descended into chaos on Saturday after police tried to arrest dozens of motorcyclists and ATV riders who were seen riding recklessly. At some point during the confrontation, part of which was caught on video, one rider was shot by a responding police officer; he later appeared in court with a foot wound.
Read MoreYou may recall that last year we reported on a lawsuit from a longtime Ferrari salesperson that alleged that Ferrari authorized the use of devices that could roll back the odometers of used Ferraris, dramatically (and illegally) increasing their value. Now, according to a report by the Daily Mail, there’s evidence that Ferrari was aware of what was happening, and approved it.
Read MoreFord’s North American president Raj Nair was ousted last week for unspecified “inappropriate behavior,” yet no one at Ford or elsewhere has named any specifics on the record as to what that was. It was a major unplanned departure for one of Ford’s most senior people, and something that stunned the whole auto industry. So, what happened?
Read MoreYou know what the problem with people today is? Total lack of foresight. Everyone’s so focused on what’s right in front of their noses, they’re not seeing the big picture. That’s what separates the real winners from the losers. Now, it’s time to talk about Rolls-Royce.
Read MoreLike most people who saw Black Panther, I thought the views of Wakanda, a wildly-advanced and fictional East-African country, were some of the most compelling and exciting parts of the movie. Of course, seeing Wakanda brought up a lot of questions: What’s the deal with those sand-like 3D display systems they have? How do they make such good holographic images come out of stylish bracelets? How fast do those mag-lev trains go? And, perhaps most importantly, what are Wakandan cars like?
Read MoreI’m a big fan of re-badging cars to something weird or unexpected or unfamiliar. It helps keep the population on their toes, exercises their curiosity glands and their brains. It’s like putting cat treats in puzzling boxes for your cat, only instead of cat treats it’s cars, and instead of cats it’s gearheads. Same idea. Anyway, Chevy seems to have had the same idea as well, for the now-discontinued Chevy SS.
Read MoreIf you ever find yourself disappointed or bored by the current BMW lineup for whatever reason just plant yourself deep in the world of Alpina. It’s busy making crazy BMWs, like the 2019 XD3, which has a quad-turbo diesel inline-six with 388 horsepower and an insane amount of torque.
Read MoreThe 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk makes 707 horsepower thanks to its Hellcat motor. The Tesla Model X gets 259 hp from its front motor and 501 hp from its rear motor, both electric of course. Who wins on the track? The Model X, of course.
Read MoreThe Nissan Terra is a truck-based frame-built off-roadable SUV that actually looks pretty badass. I bet it’d be a solid successor to the venerable Xterra, if only it’d make its way to America. It’s brand new, but it feels familiar.
Read MoreTo be completely honest, I have no idea what this Acura TLX-based prototype is, exactly. All I know is that it’s doing some testing on some of America’s best roads with an NSX and an AMG and it looks completely awesome.
Read MoreBefore today, I had never seen a Cushman like this up close. But, fortunately, on a walk this morning with my dog, just down the street from my apartment, there was this wonderful box situated along the curb. I love it. I need it.
Read MoreThings got weird with Dieselgate when, last month, The New York Times reported that the company tested diesel emissions on ten monkeys. The development was a sad and somewhat ghoulish one and, in the end, pointless, since VW had defeat devices installed on many of their diesels. How did those work, exactly? Let’s go into the details.
Read MoreThe quad-turbo W16 in use in current Bugattis is a real engineering marvel, made of two banks of narrow-angle VR8 cylinder banks and quad-turbocharged. But before it was an ever stranger looking engine: the three-banked W18.
Read MoreSince last fall, police in several states have been looking for a man they believe is using a laminated $20 bill attached to some fishing line to steal thousands of dollars from self-serve car washes.
Read MoreAn extremely naked man was arrested on Sunday in Missouri after he was spotted—and filmed—driving an ATV the wrong way on an interstate.
Read MoreHow hard can it be to send a little red Tesla into space? Armed with a meaty balloon, a GoPro, and a tracking device, the dudes at Donut Media attempted to join the ranks of Elon Musk in miniature by sending a toy Tesla Model X into space. Key word: attempt. Space is hard.
Read MoreOver the last few years, Uber and Lyft have made it abundantly clear they believe ride-hailing services can and will reduce traffic congestion in cities. Private car ownership in cities will all but end by 2025, one exec said. There’ll be “no more traffic in Boston in five years,” another said. But more and more studies are finding the opposite is happening, reports the Associated Press.
Read MoreNot a lot of people know this, but when Jalopnik got started, it was a ‘zine printed in a basement. Its early editors would distribute copies by hand to people’s homes, and then they would hang around until someone paid them to go away. Sadly, in 2018, this model is no longer viable, and that’s why Jalopnik needs a passionate editor to help grow our audience across various social channels. We’re hiring! Come work with us.
Read MoreToday was supposed to mark the beginning of the first trial over Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal. But on Friday, the German automaker struck a settlement with the plaintiff before the proceedings got underway, reports Reuters.
Read MoreIt feels like it’s only going to be a few short years before we’re inundated with all-electric high-performance sports cars from minor to major automakers. As it is, we’ve been waiting for this promise to come true for some time now, as is the case with the 1992 Bertone Blitz.
Read MoreWe remember the Figaro probably best today, but the Nissan Be-1 was the first of Nissan’s Pike Cars, a handful of limited-production retro vehicles of the Bubble Era. It was adorable, down even to the names of its available colors.
Read MoreToday we’re used to seeing completely stripped and caged Ariel Atoms, Exocets and Vette Karts, but it’s still refeshing to see the so-millenial-it-hurts 2000 Lotus 340R, one of the most extreme cars ever put into production.
Read MoreOne thing I always have liked about BMWs is that you can always find them on remarkably cool wheels stock. It makes them all the more appealing when you see them for sale 20 years after they came off the showroom floor and whoa excuse me nevermind look at those AMG five spokes those are clean as hell.
Read MoreOh, what’s that? You’re looking for a fun but affordable, interesting but usable car? You’re going to want to hop right out of that Miata you’re test driving and get your butt into a Suzuki Cappuccino.
Read MoreWhen the twin-turbo Mazda RX-7 got too expensive in the 1990s, Mazda responded by devising the smaller, cheaper, naturally aspirated RX-01... and then never made it. That’s a shame, if you ask me!
Read MoreAlong Mound Road in Warren, Michigan, a very large pothole has been been claiming tire after tire. NBC Affiliate Local 4 was filming the particularly large hole and car after car blew out their tires.
Read MoreDirect injection motors are the new cool kids on the block and it’s becoming more an more common on newer cars. What is direct injection? Should I be afraid of it?
Read MoreSuburban mall parking lots aren’t always home to cars that capture anyone’s attention. Aside from the dad in a lifted F-350 covered in Punisher stickers, none of the cars typically ever stick out.
Read MoreMuch like many rental car companies, airlines are now ending any discounts associated with National Rifle Association membership. In a tweet today, United Airlines announced that their partnership with the NRA will be ending.
Read MoreI love the Fiat 126 in a way that I can’t quite explain. Luckily, I have this excellent video to help me with it, wherein one 126 owner decides to show off his car to his skeptical buddy and breaks down twice before even making it onto the highway.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreAre you excited for the weekend? Do you have any big plans? Whether or not you do, find time to watch 1969's The Italian Job this weekend for Jalopnik Movie Club!
Read MoreStunt driving is an extremely intense, high pressure and dangerous profession, but it’s extremely rewarding for both the audiences that get to enjoy the crazy action on screen and the people that get to do the driving.
Read MoreGeneral Motors may have shuttered the doors of Oldsmobile and Pontiac, but on the internet, the brands can never die.
Read MoreVolkswagen, seemingly unmoved by the extremely divisive and weak-selling Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet, announced plans to introduce a new convertible model based on its recently revealed T-Roc crossover in 2020. That’s right, folks, time is a circle and so we’re doing the convertible crossover thing again.
Read MoreThe roads in Michigan are wildly bad. How bad, you ask? Check out this photo of a pothole that’s so big a cop in Grand Blanc township can easily step inside.
Read MoreThe New York City subway system has continued to deteriorate, rankled by massive delays, misspent funds, and widespread claims of corruption. On Friday, the feds confirmed the corruption part by securing a 46 month sentence for a former employee who promised subway contractors future work in return for bribes.
Read MoreIndustrial designer Josh Tulberg has laser cut, 3D-printed and epoxy’d his way to creating the aquatic equivalent of a go-kart and I think we all need one.
Read MoreIn a world of constant change, the Porsche 911 is our rock. Our foundation. Our guiding North Star as the darkness threatens to surround us completely. No matter what happens, it will always be there to give us premium speed, good noises and a flat-six engine in the back. But as an all-new one looms, even Porsche admits it has to be careful with how much it changes things as the iconic car evolves.
Read MoreAs the name sort of suggests, idiot lights aren’t the sort of thing that gets much respect in the automotiverse. This is understandable; most idiot lights are scattered across a given instrument cluster with the casual abandon of weeds. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and the 1984 Fiat Ritmo Cabrio Bertone shows us how it should be done.
Read MoreGenesis debuted in the U.S. as a separate nameplate in 2016 with the G80 and G90, before unleashing the G70 late last year as they began an aggressive challenge to established rivals like Audi and BMW. On Thursday, Consumer Reports, named Genesis the top brand in the U.S., ahead of Audi, BMW, and everyone else.
Read MoreEnterprise Holdings, which operates major car rental companies in the U.S., said on Thursday that it’ll no longer offer a discount to members of the National Rifle Association, following a mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.
Read MoreEarlier today, we dove into the mystery behind www.nissan.com—a webpage that isn’t owned by the automaker, but instead a man with serious beef with said automaker. The website is one of the odder automotive-related webpages, but there’s more out there.
Read MoreEveryone remembers the DeLorean DMC-12 for its doors, for its unpainted body, for the movie. But it in and of itself was an interesting car design, which you can see pretty well when you lift the whole body off of its chassis.
Read MoreThe Brits, those famous smartphone tech innovators, are at it again. I present to you the Land Rover Explore, a smartphone for outdoorsy types that is something more than just a fancy case but something (far) less than a total rethink of the idea. It’s also somewhat of a solution in search of a problem.
Read MoreThe Lister Storm, which graced the world in the late ‘90s before dying, is coming back, Lister’s owner hinted on Twitter yesterday. The new car will be called the... Storm II. We’ll take it!
Read MoreLast year, the then-unnamed Italdesign Giugiaro Automobili Speciali 200 mph supercar coupe scared everyone at the Geneva Motor Show. Italdesign is bringing it back to this year’s Geneva show, now as a roadster and called the ZeroUno.
Read MoreWe got to spend a few hours with the 2018 Ford Mustang in November. Now we’ve got one all to ourselves for a whole week in an awesome spec: 5.0 V8, six-speed manual, and every performance option you can tick from the factory.
Read MoreThe all-new 2019 Santa Fe has three rows of seats and an available diesel(!) engine. The sacred combination of luxury, torque and efficiency in an SUV is no longer purely the domain of the German automakers.
Read MoreWe all know that electric motors have gobs of torque, and can accelerate quick as all hell. We also know that Tesla is developing an all-electric semi truck. Now we get to see both of those things confirmed, in one simple video.
Read MoreI think it’s safe to say that being taken over by Nazis isn’t exactly something new for Daimler, the parent company of what was once Hitler’s carmaker of choice, Mercedes-Benz. The difference now is that the old Nazis have been dead for decades, and this time no one wants these miserable Neo-Nazis who are reportedly trying to infiltrate Diamler’s works council to do anything but fuck right off.
Read MoreMitsuoka, the world’s leading producer of Nissans re-made to look like sub-scale Jaguar Mark 2s, has just—and I do mean just now—unveiled their new, completely re-designed Miata-based roadster, now based on the latest Mazda MX-5. It’s called the Himiko I think it’s my favorite flavor of new Miata you can buy today.
Read MoreMost people don’t realize just how long unmanned aircraft have been around; basic autopilot technology is well over a century old, and radio-controlled drones pre-date WWII. This exciting picture shows a GM A-1 drone from 1946, being launched by a great-looking car. What is that car?
Read MoreWelcome to Jalopnik Movie Club, where we take a look at cars in movies and movies about cars, and you write in with all of your hot takes. This week, we’re dispelling the myth of 1968's Bullitt and the legend of Steve McQueen, a boring movie starring a boring guy!
Read MoreIf you are lucky enough to own one of the 499 Ferrari 458 Speciale Apertas ever produced, you’re probably familiar with its price—over $650,000. You probably also know that you need insurance to make it legal to drive on most public streets, a requirement that got one 458 driver in trouble in London earlier this month. That driver’s lack of insurance got his 458 plucked right from the streets.
Read MoreThe specs of the Mitsubishi 3000GT read like something new today: all-wheel drive, all-wheel steering, twin-turbo, with active suspension, active exhaust and active aerodynamics. But the 3000GT debuted at the very beginning of the 1990s—when Mitsubishi was rad—making it possibly the most ambitious moonshot car of its day.
Read MoreI love riding around in a loaded Range Rover as much as the next well-dressed fox hunting enthusiast, but there’s something deeply satisfying about watching the humblest of sport utilities stick it to aristocrat of off-roading.
Read MoreRaj Nair, Ford’s North America president and one of its top executives, will depart the company effective immediately. In a statement, the company reports that his stepping down follows a recent internal probe into “reports of inappropriate behavior” and that the “review determined certain behavior by Nair was inconsistent with the company’s code of conduct.”
Read MoreNew Zealand’s auto industry is short approximately 18,000 cars this month after shipments of Japanese imports had to be put on hold because the boats were full of dangerous stink bugs.
Read MoreWhat goes through your head before you try to drive through a train crossing barrier on your scooter? A barrier designed to be easily visible, and more notably, to stop anything from blocking or hitting the oncoming train. Anyway, this person tried and failed horribly.
Read MoreThe Volvo V60 debuted today and already my wagon allegiance is being tested: is it me or is the new midsize Volvo wagon more wagon-ey than the fullsize V90 that came out a while back? I tried my best to compare them and, honestly, I think my initial impression is right.
Read MoreI should come right out and say that I have zero actual evidence to support this wild theory, other than the striking visual similarities you’ll see here. But those visual similarities are really, really hard to ignore, and I just can’t keep quiet any longer. This wild theory is that Ford’s well-known 2004 Bronco concept car did not actually base its design on the old Bronco, but rather on an obscure South African Chevy SUV called the Nomad.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson, as we have assiduously documented, is in trouble. Primarily because their customer base is old and getting older. Now, thanks to the Trump administration, it’s being threatened by a new potential menace that I didn’t see coming—tariffs on its products in Europe, as a trade war between the U.S. and the rest of the world heats up.
Read MoreThe current-generation Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is sold as a 650-horsepower supercharged track weapon, yet that hasn’t been the case for owners who have had the car go into limp mode on track. More Z06 owners have brought a fourth class-action lawsuit against General Motors over this issue, complete with claims that a 2017 redesign didn’t fix the problem.
Read MoreThe famous Disney pantheon of characters—Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and so on—have never really needed to shill for non-Disney products, because, let’s face it, for cartoon characters, they’re all richer than God. But, once, very briefly, this wasn’t the case: Disney characters went out and hustled making commercials for companies, including the lovable underdog of American carmakers, AMC.
Read MoreVolvo just debuted its all-new midsize wagon, the 2019 Volvo V60, and yes, it’s as pretty as we suspected. But more importantly, it offers a 390 horsepower plug-in hybrid powertrain—you know, in case you want to hoon sensibly.
Read MoreTo the Ferrari purists out there who expressed some dismay that the new performance version of the 488 GTB would use the “GTO” moniker, relax: It seems like the car will be called the 488 Pista instead, according to these leaked press images. Update: Yep, it’s official now.
Read MoreWe got a new Porsche 911 GT3, a new GT2 RS, and we’ve come circle back to the new 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which is now the most powerful naturally aspirated road-legal 911 ever painted this alarming shade of lime green.
Read MoreAround 20 drivers in south New Jersey were cruising along Interstate 295 when something suddenly felt a little off. After pulling over, what they discovered was a little horrifying.
Read MoreI don’t know much about this video, except that it appears to have been shot on a bus recently outside of São Paulo, Brazil. It features a bus driver with the daintiest of gear shifts, and I love it.
Read MoreCool Audi RS wagons. A Citroën Cactus. Honda S660s. What do these cars all have in common? They are far too good for us heathens in the U.S. of A and are not sold here until they are 25 years old. Soon to join them as another item we can’t have is a particular variant of the Volvo XC40 compact crossover.
Read MoreYou may have noticed that Lexus has been leveraging the new Black Panther movie to pimp the LS500 sedan and concept coupe that get heroic appearances on screen. There’s another Toyota in the movie too, but it totally misses the perfect chance to show off one of its best features.
Read MoreHere in America, we find ourselves with a sudden wealth of wagons as a nice byproduct of the crossover boom. Well, maybe not a wealth, but there’s more available now than in many years past. Kristen is driving the Buick Regal TourX and just tested a Volvo V90 Cross Country; BMW, Volkswagen, Mini, Audi and Jaguar (!!!) all have wagon options too; and we’re even set to drive the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo in March.
Read MoreI have a theory about modern Nissan, and why its current U.S. lineup is such a lackluster pile of damp stools (no offense): it used up all of its strategic awesome reserves back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In case you doubt me, just think back and remember the daring, charming Pike cars, and so very many incredible concept cars, including this one, the 1989 Nissan Neo-X concept.
Read MoreKoenigsegg set an insane average speed of 277.9 mph in two runs of a stretch of highway in Nevada back in November, potentially making the Agera RS the fastest production car ever, and finally giving the company the opportunity to test at the limit in the real world. Here’s what they learned from that.
Read MoreMost car thefts don’t involve a list of secret supercars and Nicholas Cage hitting jumps in a Mustang. Late-model Toyota Camrys, Nissan Altimas and GMC Sierras are apparently stolen because just a few easily-removable parts are almost worth more than the entire vehicles.
Read MoreIn 1973, Joe Girard sold 1,425 new cars, which according to Guinness is the most cars ever sold in a calendar year by a single human. The tally stood for decades. But a salesman in Dearborn, Michigan, claims to have surpassed that record last year, and Girard, now 89, isn’t too happy about it.
Read MoreLast year the Tesla Model S outsold the Mercedes S-Class as well as the BMW 7 Series in their home turf of Europe. I assure you, the Germans are pissed, and if you listen carefully right now, you can probably faintly hear the screaming of Dieter Zetsche a continent away.
Read MoreArtist and maker of gloriously shitty robots Simone Giertz owns a 1980s Sebring-Vanguard Citicar—a wonderful, slow, little wedge-shaped automotive footnote. Keeping true to her ideals, Giertz’ car is no longer just a little electric commuter vehicle—it’s also the world’s largest and perhaps least-useful computer mouse.
Read MoreIf you have the uncontrollable urge to send it over rad and possibly ill-advised jumps, nothing beats a $300 beater. With one, the Hoonigans made the absolute greatest thing I’ve watched all year: an almost 19 minute supercut of straight-up vehicular destruction that somehow doesn’t actually destroy this Buick.
Read MoreIt’s been about six years since old-school Volkswagen Beetle taxis were made illegal in Mexico City, it’s been about 15 years since the last air-cooled Beetle rolled off the line, and a staggering 80 years since the basic design of the car was set. These cars shouldn’t still be doing anything, by any conventional, rational measure. But the Beetle’s never been all that conventional or even always rational, so it’s still going, doing real work for real people.
Read MoreLotus, bless its heart, has debuted yet another new car, the 3-Eleven 430. Supposedly it is the new fastest road car the company has yet produced. I’m more impressed that the company has made a new car at all.
Read MoreHearses are undeniably cool, but there’s something that they didn’t even know they were missing: an exhaust loud enough to wake the dead.
Read MoreAn Instagram post from a user named ninastegmaier (since deleted) appears to show what sure as hell looks like the next-generation Porsche 911, the 992. Like all 911 revisions, the aesthetic changes are fairly subtle and evolutionary, but this is clearly not the current 911.
Read MoreAm I allowed to say that I like the Lexus LX 450 a little bit more than the Land Cruiser? No? Ok, never mind then.
Read MoreRust sometimes makes a car look just a tad better. It gives the car a bit of personality and this 1968 VW Type 2 pickup on Craigslist is no exception. I think it’d actually look a little more mundane if all the paint was in order.
Read MoreThe Daytona 500 didn’t go too well for quite a few racers yesterday and it also did not go well for Fox Sports’ new tethered camera drone. During one of the many crashes a piece of debris smacked the drone right out of the sky.
Read MoreEric Gearhart, a car photographer from Washington, flew down to Missouri to pick up a 1999 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS from a friend. The Subaru was destined to be raced in rallycrosses and hillclimbs. On his way back to Washington, Eric stopped in Portland for the night. In the morning he found that it was stolen.
Read MoreToday is President’s Day which marks the birthday of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I’m honoring our nation’s past leaders in the only way I know how, blogging about cars on the internet.Everyone knows that George Washington probably would have driven a big American SUV or muscle car. He just seems like that kind of guy.
Read MoreWhile they may be on their way back, the United States doesn’t really deserve Citroen. We have sinned too much as a nation for their line of joyous and weird cars. But for a little while, Citroen sold some cars in the United States like the DS but not in huge numbers. The Citroen CX, however was never sold here in North America. As a result, seeing one this side of the Atlantic is a rare occasion. A CX showed up to the Jalopnik Hurricane Relief Car Show last year and it made my entire week.
Read MoreHonda is taking a page out of Porsche’s book and cramming every single option they can think of into the 2018 Honda Odyssey Elite. The base model of the Odyssey costs $29,990 which puts it in line with most minivans. The very subtly named “Elite” trim starts at $46,770 which is nearly three times the price as a base Honda Fit or about 17 times the price of a 2018 Honda Ruckus scooter.
Read MoreThis President’s Day, indulge in the true luxury of the Lincoln Mark VIII, just like the man who invented it—Abraham Lincoln.
Read MoreIn Japan there is a man who sells roasted sweet potato treats from the back of his NC-generation Mazda MX-5 and advertises on Twitter, because of course there is. The Yokohama native, who goes by Eroko-san, is incredibly proud of his city, and uses his nights promoting young folks to come out and enjoy the city’s shopping and entertainment offerings.
Read MoreFor years, Toyota has been the staid and reasonable choice in the hatchback market. They’ve dipped their toes in the water in the past to create what amounts to lukewarm hatches. In the cold light of history, the Matrix XRS was probably their best effort, and it was lackluster compared to the competition. This new effort, the supercharged and track-focused Yaris GRMN, has the weight of the world on its tiny little shoulders. This shining review from Auto Express seems to indicate that it’s done
Read MoreThe internet has been crafting explainer videos and quippy analogies about how to explain the difference between an engine’s horsepower and torque figures. According to Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained you’re still just not getting it. You’ve likely heard the explanation “horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, and torque is how far you drag the wall with you.” I’ve been around cars a long time, and I’ve heard it a bunch. Nah dude, SCIENCE.
Read MoreIn the late 1950s, there were all kinds of low-production shoddy-built sports racing cars available for the average sportsman to purchase and set immediately to the race track. The Kellison J4-R you see here is perhaps one of the better ones, fitting a lightweight chassis with Chevrolet’s venerable small-block V8 and a fiberglass body structure. Only about 500 Kellison J4 coupes were sold, and of those only few dozen were of the R persuasion.
Read MoreHave you ever been down at the pub with a few empty pints littering the table and come up with the best idea of your entire life? I’m sure that’s the beginning of many million-dollar-ideas, the genesis of many short-lived bands, and the starting point for many road trips. Ben Coombs’ pint-fueled idea was to drive to another pub to get another pint. A lot more pubs and a lot more pints.
Read MoreTime and space have seemingly been bent, and it was a small engineering firm in Japan that made it happen. Until today, the idea of a sub-2-second 0-60 time in a street-legal hypercar seemed the impossible barrier to break, but with the recent accomplishments of the Aspark Owl, announced yesterday, it is starting to seem like it could happen.
Read MoreA freak helicopter crash in Mexico killed 13 people Friday after they sought safety in a field following a 7.2 earthquake. The Associated Press reports a military helicopter surveying the damage from the earthquake crashed into a field of people who set up camp to avoid being inside should the shaking restart. Overall 13 people were killed on site and 15 were injured.
Read MoreHey, you look like a confident and fashionable person looking for only the best in luxury and style. Have you taken a look at Cadillac lately? Now, you may be thinking that Cadillac is an old persons’ kind of stylish. Well, take a look at the newest lineup for 1990. It’ll have you wanting to show off your Cadillac Style the second you see it.
Read MoreGerman traffic patrol is about to get a touch more refined and luxurious. According to CarScoops and a press release by Daimler, Mercedes is set to unveil their new line of European police cars at the General Police Equipment Exhibition and Conference in Frankfurt later this month.
Read MoreSitting in traffic is one of America’s pastimes. Everyone has to sit in a sea of stationary cars on the highway from time to time whether it’s on I-95 going down to Florida or the I-5 at the beach in California. Luckily, some cars have ways of entertaining their occupants or at least keeping them placated until traffic gets moving again.
Read MoreBefore the Mazda RX-8 came onto the scene and reminded the entire automotive world of the existence of triangles, we had the little RX-7. The Mazda RX-7 has become an “internet car.” Currently, YouTube is full of theoretically infinite videos of highly modified RX-7s of all generations with far too many angry rotors buzzing under the hood. There is absolutely nothing wrong with an RX-7 equipped with a hornet’s nest of spinning triangles in the engine bay.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreWhat makes a car an “old money” car? It’s hard to come up with an exact set of qualifications, but you know one when you see it, as two Londoners explain on tour of the city’s more—ahem—established neighborhoods in a very “new money” Bentley Bentayga.
Read MoreJames Bond and Aston Martins go together like peanut butter and jelly. And Daniel Craig, who plays Bond, has an Aston Martin. Craig has also expressed some serious distaste at continuing work in the Bond universe in the past, but I guess he still likes Aston Martins? Anyway, his will be up for auction soon.
Read MoreWhen one grown-ass man apparently spits in another grown-ass man’s face, and the spat-upon grown-ass man then rolls his own SUV onto its roof in an enraged attempt at retribution, you know the human species needs some work.
Read MoreI knew my $100 1984 Nissan 300ZX was going to cost a lot more than $100 to actually restore and run on a regular basis. But after three months with this thing I’m starting to learn the special frustration that comes with caring for a car that’s worth so much less than the sum of its parts.
Read MoreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under intense pressure to resign following a recommendation of indictment by Israeli police on multiple allegations of bribery. The claims include a failed plan to build a Tata Motors production plant in a newly established free trade zone.
Read MoreGot any adventures planned for the long weekend? Projects you’re finally going to tackle? We’re online, you’re online, why don’t you jump into the comments and hang out with us?
Read MoreThe Thunder Child, built by a company called Safehaven Marine, is meant to be nearly unsinkable. That means it’s not supposed to go down, even if it completely capsizes. And there’s only one real way to test that. You gotta flip it and see what happens.
Read MoreA Japanese magazine seems to have published a two-page spread of what looks like the new Toyota Supra, done up in the livery of its Gazoo Racing arm. It’s hard to say if this is legit at this point! We still haven’t seen the real Supra yet, but it’s existed in mule and leak form for so long we basically know what it really looks like.
Read MoreDrifting started in Japan, but it went international a long, long time ago. That said, there is still an obsession with the style of driving first made popular there, and it doesn’t take long to see why.
Read MoreWhile some of us think the weakness in Subaru’s lineup is a lack of a five-door WRX, the vast majority of buyers were clamoring for a bigger Outback with three-rows of seats. The 2019 Subaru Ascent is here for that, and it’s also here to print money.
Read MoreThe 2018 Dodge Demon’s top speed is, we have been told, 168 mph. But Johnny Bohmer, who likes the cars to go extremely fast, told Jalopnik that he recently got one to go 203 mph, with only a few minor modifications. And he’s got video to prove it.
Read MoreIt must be Christmas in February, because the new Volvo V60 wagon has been revealed ahead of its Feb. 21 debut and it looks stunning.
Read MoreStorage units are great for all of the stuff you should get rid of but can’t because it’s sentimental, or all of the stuffy furniture and decor you’ll definitely display once you’re able to afford a mansion with three living rooms. Storage units are not great for a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 that’s barely driven 700 miles.
Read MoreDyson is mostly known as a prominent manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, and that’s fine. But in September it announced it wanted to get into the electric car business, and it had $2.8 billion with which to do it. Now the Financial Times has got more details on how it plans to do it, and how it just might work.
Read MoreIt would appear that while the Ford Motor Company gave the new diesel Raptor Ranger a 10-speed automatic gearbox, it also examined some more extreme options. Like 13 gears! Can you imagine? Let me be clear here that I believe 13 gears is too many gears.
Read MoreAs hype over all things air-cooled consumes the car community like a zombie virus, it’s hard to get a decent deal on any old Porsche. Even the 914, a car that was once little more than a source of shame, is starting to get some love. And it looks like, with the right setup, these things can actually rip.
Read MoreThere’s another car-themed boat, everyone. Because you know as soon as we saw the 1,000-plus-horsepower Mercedes-AMG Project One, there was someone already in the wings, dreaming up a boat version of it. And here it is: the Cigarette Racing 515 Project One. It has 3,100 HP.
Read MoreMark your calendars, friends, because it looks like Ford Focus RS production at the Saarlouis, Germany, plant is ending on April 6. At least in the U.K., you’ll get an orange special edition to set things off.
Read MoreTwo men, apparently not on drugs, stole a school bus early Wednesday in Trotwood, Ohio, eventually leading cops on a pursuit that got to 54 mph, according to police. It all started as a trip to Walmart.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump’s administration is currently trying to raise $200 billion to fund a vague, almost-certainly troubled infrastructure package, and as part of that Trump has reportedly expressed interest in raising the federal gas tax for the first time since 1993, by 25 cents. While a regressive tax by design, there’s inherent problems to hiking the rate, but it may be one of the only ways forward—at least for now.
Read MoreCraigslist, for all intents and purposes, is a great place. It’s where you can find sketchy new roommates, put out feelers for used vacuum cleaners and perhaps flip that lawnmower you stole from you neighbor for cash real quick. And, apparently, it’s a place where you can find used Porsche 959s!
Read MoreAlfa Romeo has a colorful history of making some beautiful coupes and sedans, but in 2018 the automaker knows what sells, and that’s crossovers. Of course, a modern Alfa buyer doesn’t want just any crossover—they want one with 505 furious horsepower, so the top-shelf Stelvio will set them back some serious coin.
Read MoreHere’s a familiar tale if you’ve followed the current administration in the White House. Former President Barack Obama tried to close an absurd loophole in federal law that would allow certain trucks to vastly (and we mean vastly) exceed emission standards. Current President Donald Trump—thanks to political gamesmanship and potentially shoddy academic work—is keeping the loophole alive.
Read MoreJust two weeks after pleading on Netflix that he’s being unfairly maligned for his business of issuing extremely deceptive payday loans to unwitting consumers, former race car driver and convicted felon Scott Tucker has learned he might be on the hook for $3.5 billion as part of his sentence for his illegal scheme.
Read MoreThere it is. The button. The button. Red. Round. On the center console of your 1997 Bentley Continental T. Touch it. Touch the button.
Read MoreAlfa Romeos still break down. It happened to us and it’s happened to others. So what? Maybe it happened again. OK, apparently it has happened again, this time with what appears to be a pre-production Stelvio Quadrifoglio crossover, right in the middle of Sunset Boulevard.
Read MoreMovies have been around just about as long as the motorcar, so it’s only natural that there would end up being a lot of cars in a lot of movies! We at Jalopnik love arguing about cars, and we love arguing about movies. So, we figured it’s about time we started arguing about cars in movies.
Read MoreRolls-Royce, like most major companies, has a site where it posts press releases to keep media up to date with the goings on in its diamond-encrusted hallways which are spritzed hourly with the milk of a sparkly unicorn, also made of diamonds. They read like the diary of a billionaire’s child who can do no wrong, and it’s lovely.
Read MoreOkay, everybody, you’ve been warned: Vilner, the tuner company who decided to put more hair into a Mustang has set their sights on Mitsubishi, and are teasing something they’re calling “Mitsubishi Allroads Ronin” before its release at the Geneva Auto Show. If you miss that ex-roommate who hung a $25 fake katana he got from a mall kiosk over his bed, this may be the car for you.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, pro wrestler John Cena filed a motion to dismiss Ford’s lawsuit against him for reselling his one-of-500, $463,373 Ford GT before the 24-month no-resale period was over. While Ford has documents that Cena signed that say he agreed not to resell the car, Cena hopes to dismiss the lawsuit because he claims that stipulation was not put into his final buyer’s agreement.
Read MoreThe 2019 Hyundai Veloster N is about to be a welcome addition to the affordable performance car club. Whether or not it will be a success remains to be seen, but it doesn’t have to wait to be heard. Open up your earholes for what I think is the first Veloster N exhaust clip.
Read MoreThe 2019 BMW X4 doesn’t look like a revolutionary departure from the outgoing car, but I might finally be falling under the crossover spell because this thing actually seems kind of nice.
Read MoreThere aren’t terribly many wagons on the current market to choose from, but thankfully, there’s this one from Buick: The 2018 Regal TourX. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreIf you want to drift the crap out of your sad little wrong-wheel drive hatchback, the ticket is apparently PVC piping. Just watch Alexi from YouTube channel Noriyaro learn how to turn kei cars with PVC wrapped-tires into tail-happy drift machines.
Read MoreHappy Valentine’s Day! Regardless of your relationship status, you’re probably sick of hearing that. It’s wasteful and annoying for couples, and if you’re single, every frilly red heart and well-intentioned candy box is just another dirty finger gouging at the already festering wound that is loneliness. We’ve all been there!
Read MoreA guy driving a 2003 BMW X5 rode nearly 50 miles on Monday at speeds over 100 mph after he claimed his gas pedal got stuck, at which point he told police, who went to quite some lengths to stop him.
Read MoreWe live in a sad world where automakers only care to make new crossovers that look like their existing crossovers and patent convertible concepts for SUVs. But! Every once in a while, something good happens. A new Lancia Stratos is one of those things, until you find out you’ll need a Ferrari and $615,000 to get one.
Read MoreDrinking and driving is illegal so that fewer people die every year, which is a social good. Are DWI laws discriminatory towards alcoholics, who have a higher tolerance for high levels of alcohol consumption? The answer’s no, but that didn’t stop one Texas man from making the argument in court recently.
Read MoreIt’s incredible to consider that, in just about 100 years of modern transportation, we’ve managed to establish global shipping networks capable of getting a package across the world in just one night—all thanks to a complicated and highly sophisticated process involving planes, vans and people.
Read MoreIf you, like me, are a massive fan of George Carlin, one of the greatest comedians to ever have lived, then this is an opportunity of a lifetime: Carlin’s 1996 BMW 850Ci has come up for sale.
Read MoreThe older my mom gets, the more she reminds me that you can’t take money with you when you die. She’s right, but that didn’t stop her from demanding I give her at least $7,000 for her 2008 Mazda Miata. She’s happy to let me inform you that she got her price, and rolled home in a 2017 Miata with 52 miles on it.
Read MoreYesterday we reported on a still-unsolved issue with the UConnect infotainment system found in most recent Fiat Chrysler vehicles. The issue causes the system to reboot every minute or so, which is incredibly annoying, to say the least. This temporary work-around will at least keep the system from rebooting, if nothing else.
Read MoreAn elk brought down a helicopter yesterday in Wasatch County, Utah, escalating the long and bitter war between elks and helicopters. How, you ask? With a jump, authorities said.
Read MoreIn case you weren’t aware, Rolls-Royce’s online configurator is the planet’s best online configurator. If you’re sick of the miserable, grayscale “rainbows” of non-color offered by lesser makes like BMW or Mercedes, the dazzling array of options available to the discerning Roller buyer will delight you.
Read MoreI see you there, sad and despondent because your Porsche 959 has, like, a broken release lever for its clutch or something. You have all the money in the world, for, indeed, you own a Porsche 959, but none of that makes a difference now because no one on earth has a replacement lever for you anymore. Or do they?
Read MoreThis stretchy Ferrari 360 Modena has been a ray of sunshine in my life during these long, dreary, overcast months of winter. Everything is gray and cold. This Ferrari limo is not. I really can’t understand why no one bought it on eBay.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump has been toying with the idea of rolling back fuel economy standards set by his predecessor since taking office, a short-sighted measure that’d appease automakers who were totally fine with the targets even just a few years ago. But the reported justification being offered by Trump’s administration is even sillier than I could’ve expected.
Read MoreThe previous G63 on full acceleration felt like being in a house falling off a cliff and it did 0-60 in 5.3 seconds. The new 2019 Mercedes-AMG G63, with 577 horsepower from AMG’s ubiquitous 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, does the run in 4.4.
Read MoreAfter a comeback as a standalone brand in the Daimler family, these days Maybach exists as a high-trim, extra-roomy version of the Mercedes S-Class. This is fine, even though it looked virtually indistinguishable from its cheaper base model at a glance. That has all changed: two-tone is back, baby.
Read MoreRecently I put together an article about the VW W8 Passat, a car so needlessly complicated and expensive to operate I was sure it was the most infamously unreliable Volkswagen in modern history. Then the V10 Touareg showed up and blew my mentions into smithereens.
Read MoreInternet friends, the time has come yet again for you to flex your powerful sleuthing muscles. This time, the Bellevue, Washington, Police Department needs your help identifying a car.
Read MoreI’m not a motorcyclist, but I try to be an advocate for them. When I’m out driving I respect bikes and give them a safe distance. I don’t tailgate or change lanes around them suddenly. It’s the least I can do for our friends on two wheels. This is doubly true for owners of the Suzuki Hayabusa: if I see you on one of those, I absolutely will do whatever it takes to stay the fuck away from you.
Read MoreYou know what I hate about YouTube videos? You go on to try and learn about something, and so many of them utterly ruin the experience by playing some kind of obnoxious intro or loud music. Not these guys. Not this in-depth video of an engine block.
Read MoreOh, hey, who’s in the mood for some Toyota Supra news? Because Toyota just tweeted out this photo and we’ve got some questions.
Read MoreThe New York City subway is inundated with 13 million - 13 MILLION – gallons of water a day. Every day. Every dry day. If it’s raining, it’s full of even more water. And it turns out a big part of that is because our great forefathers before us had absolutely zero clue what they were doing.
Read MoreIf you’re bored and, inexplicably, decide to do a search on Twitter for car infotainment systems, when you get to checking out Fiat Chrysler’s UConnect system, things will start to get exciting. Not in a good way, though—exciting in the sense of many, many angry Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep owners complaining about how they’ve lost all their radio, navigation, rear-view camera, and more features without warning.
Read MoreTesla has come a long way since it sued Top Gear over Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the Tesla Roadster in 2011. After swearing off Teslas for years, Clarkson gave in and decided to review the Model X for his new show The Grand Tour, but this time he decided to play it safe. Extra, extra safe.
Read MoreAs a country, we here in America are doing better about getting very fast and awesome foreign cars than we were, say, 10 or 20 years ago. You can buy a Ford Focus RS and a Civic Type R here now. This wasn’t always the case! Wind the clock back and you’ll find one of my favorites pieces of forbidden car-fruit: the sixth-generation Toyota Celica GT-Four.
Read MoreMost of us know that the CAN Bus is the nervous system of a modern car. It’s the network that all of a modern car’s many computers communicate through, and understanding this network is crucial to understanding modern cars. Sadly, usually to understand it, you need to read lots and lots of tedious words, like some filthy, literate animal. But don’t give up hope! This video is surprisingly simple, informative, and watchable!
Read MoreYou may think all the best forms of racing have already been invented. I am here to tell you you’re wrong. I have created the best new form of racing.
Read MoreFord introduced the latest edition of its Bullitt Mustang inspired by the 1968 Steve McQueen classic cop flick at this year’s Detroit Auto Show, the first of which went to auction and sold for $300,000. But there was a fast, cooler car in that movie—the 1968 Dodge Charger that’s also in the famous chase sequence. And now one in a similar spec is up for auction.
Read MoreA reader named Frank sent me an email a few days ago, drawing my attention to a vehicle that I never knew I needed: a 1991 Ford Aerostar. With a stick.
Read MoreFewer than 300 Virage-based Aston Martin Vantages were ever built between 1993 and 2000, and one of those 550 horsepower monsters was delivered new to music legend Sir Elton John in 1997. That car is now up for auction, and my god is it lovely.
Read MoreOver the past few years, we’ve seen the prices of the first BMW M3 rise to ridiculous, nearly air-cooled Porsche 911 levels. I’ve had the privilege of driving one, and it’s indeed very good, but I often wonder if it’s really worth those insane asking prices. Here is an E30 that is worth selling your kids’ organs for: the BMW 333i.
Read MoreListen, it’s okay. You can admit. Your biggest childhood fantasy. You know the one. I know the one. We’ve all had that one. You always dreamed of having the singular, awesome ability to punch straight through glass like a total BAMF. Apparently, with just a bit of freezing rain and your car window, dreams can come true.
Read MoreBack a few weeks ago, I wrote a brief piece about Rod Millen’s Pikes Peak-winning Toyota Celica, and how it would be running again at this year’s Leadfoot Festival, a vintage hillclimb event hosted by Rod himself. The driveway to Rod’s ranch in New Zealand serves as the Goodwood-esque hillclimb venue, and it seems to have grown exponentially year on year.
Read MorePorsche has stuck with a rear-engine bias for their 911 sports car for decades. Originally a carryover from the days of the 356 (and by extension the Beetle), Porsche’s 911 has had the engine slung out behind the rear axle since its inception, with two motorsport-induced exceptions: The 911 GT1 of the late 1990s, and the current 911 RSR, both mid-engine layouts.
Read MoreIf you thought last weekend’s Autobianchi Bianchina was a microcar, just take a gander at the micro-est of micro, Inter’s 175A Berline. This 1+1 seating fold-over top car looks like the creation of my last fever dream in spectacular robin’s egg blue. It wouldn’t fare well on today’s roads, but for tut-tuttering around your private estate, or perhaps even the grounds of a racetrack on a vintage race weekend, it’d be hard to beat.
Read MoreOn Thursday evening at around 8:30 PM, certified master car thief 37-year-old Edward Wilson found an unlocked and running Jeep Grand Cherokee in the parking lot of the Sartell, Minnesota Walmart. Being the incredibly talented thief that he is, Wilson opened the door, stepped on board, and piloted the Jeep more than an hour away. At around 10:30 that same night, the rightful owner of the Jeep received a phone call requesting assistance getting the car running again.
Read MoreJeep, which is a car company, ran an ad during the Super Bowl which showed one of its Jeeps driving across a stream. Now, the fish people are mad. Really mad.
Read MoreToday I accidentally posted about Buick too many times. I apologize and I’ll never do it again. Here is the opposite of a Buick, a Nissan Skyline.
Read MoreSubaru has been around in the United States for 50 years and they’re celebrating with a very limited anniversary trim on their lineup. But who cares about some trim? Not you! What’s more interesting is the story of Subaru.
Read MoreIt’s not often that we get to see exactly what an Indycar driver sees when they’re driving at over 200 mph. Fortunately, through the magic of the internet and a video by RACER, can get a glimpse of what it’s like to drive an Indycar.
Read More1989 was a great time for American sports cars, from the Mercedes SL to the Cadillac Allante, nearly every manufacturer seems to be making sporty two-seaters.
Read MoreOutside of a funeral procession and a few rockabilly hot-rodders, seeing a hearse in the wild isn’t that common. I was very surprised when I came across this Buick Roadmaster Hearse parked in front of an apartment complex in Bel Air, Maryland.
Read MoreI don’t think I’ll ever forget the day that I got my driver’s license. It was a disgustingly hit day in the middle of July and I was nervous as hell. I’d already failed the driving test once on the parallel parking segment and I was worried I was going to fail again. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on who you ask), the test instructor and the state of Maryland decided that I was worthy of having a driver’s license.
Read MoreOver the summer, some folks got together an attempt to set a privately sponsored Nürburgring lap record in a Dodge Viper ACR. They wanted to give the car a proper send off before it was retired permanently. Here’s how they did it.
Read MoreGoogle has published its first-ever trend report for the automotive industry, highlighting the interests of consumers and their search queries in the U.S., Germany and Japan. It turns out people are turning away from fuzzy steering wheel covers, and instead they want ways of recording what’s going on in and around their car, and things to protect their pets.
Read MoreTesla’s Model 3, is delayed again, thanks to production hell, which everyone knows about. Still, production goes on, and the company’s on track to deliver its 200,000th car in the United States probably sometime in early summer. This is both an achievement and, for Tesla, a bit of a pickle.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-AMG Project One isn’t a head-turner, unless you pull a double take because it looks like a mutated fish. But that doesn’t mean it’s not effective. No, no, no, this car isn’t meant to look good. It’s meant to go fast and glue itself to the ground, which is why AMG claims it makes NASCAR levels of downforce.
Read MoreSubprime auto lending has faced intense regulatory scrutiny over the past year, and one name that’s consistently part of that focus is Credit Acceptance, a Michigan-based lender that’s known as the pioneer of financing vehicles for people with shaky credit. Here’s a fact I learned about Credit Acceptance today: every year, it expects to repossess 35 percent of the cars it finances.
Read MoreLike almost every carmaker, Volvo has its own set of typefaces, logos, badges, and other aesthetic bits that contribute to its identity as a brand. One of their most iconic details is their diagonal grille bar. That bar has a history and origin story that’s so mundane, it’s actually interesting again. Want to hear it? Too bad, I’m going to tell you.
Read MoreEvery so often in this trash world, we get to wake up to some good news that’s like a ray of sunlight on a gray and stormy day. Today’s breath of fresh air concerns the New Stratos, which apparently has finally been greenlit for production. Update: The New Stratos will still use Ferrari F430 underpinnings.
Read MoreWe see all kinds of car-selling scams on Craigslist, and some are clever, some are just confusing, and some are even subtle. Not this one. This one seems about as subtle as a cinder block wrapped in strips of pink, fresh Nova Scotia salmon.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I went to the amazing Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Indiana, where I learned about an axle that has not just one gear ratio like in pretty much all modern cars, but two. Here’s how this fascinating contraption works.
Read MoreIf you have a hankering for a Fiat 500 with the 1.4-liter naturally aspirated engine, you’d best act fast. Natural aspiration is soon going to be a thing of the past once the 2018 Fiat 500s start hitting the dealerships.
Read MoreWell, that was fast. Not even a week into a high-profile trial between Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo and ride-hailing company Uber, both sides said on Friday that a settlement has been reached, bringing the year-long dispute to an abrupt end.
Read MoreThere’s nothing better than sweet confirmation from your peers. Yesterday we were singing praise for the Chevrolet LS7 7.0-liter naturally aspirated V8 and today we’ve got a very famous television star affirming it.
Read MoreOver the summer, a McLaren F1 with 9,600 miles on the clock sold for $15.6 million. I, a person who has no concept of money above about $1,000, thought this seemed like a lot. The thing is, that probably isn’t even where F1 sales will probably top out at, either.
Read MoreThe New York City subway, it’s widely acknowledged, is terrible compared to what it used to be. The basics—rails, signals, the system itself—are all fundamentally broken. Nevertheless, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo plows on with massively overdone capital projects. And his shining centerpiece is broken, too.
Read MoreDrowsy driving is bad! But you knew that. Part of it what makes the problem a bit vexing though, is that no one intends, exactly, to be drowsy behind the wheel, which is probably why drowsy driving happens a lot more than we tend to think. How much more? According to AAA, it plays a role in one in 10 crashes. That’s a lot!
Read MoreHey there, hope your day’s going alright. I have a quick question for you: are you gonna buy a 2019 Volkswagen Arteon? I don’t mean to pry or anything, I’m just curious.
Read MoreEver since the Playstation Generation was allowed to legally import R32 Nissan Skylines under the 25-year-rule, we have seen scores of them wash up on our shores. That’s great. That’s fine and wonderful. Soon, we estimate 30 percent of all cars on American roads will be Skylines. But also, like, you know you can import the TVR Griffith too, right?
Read MoreI interrupt our normal programming with a somewhat batshit story about an airplane, a college student from Florida, and her dwarf hamster, which was named Pebbles. Pebbles is no longer with us, because, the college student says, Pebbles was flushed down a toilet on the advice of a Spirit Airlines employee after Pebbles was refused entry on a flight.
Read MoreThe new Corvette Z06 has been tearing ass around the tracks for the past couple of years. And with a supercharged V8, 650 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, it’s doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. But this isn’t exactly new behavior for a Corvette Z06.
Read MoreMark your calendars, friends. A brand new Top Gear season 25 trailer dropped today, and not only do we now know when it’ll air, we also now know that they somehow managed to get some space between the wheels and the road in an Aston Martin.
Read MoreFor years, the Texas Relays Car Show and Donk Contest in Austin brought a passionate but sometimes misunderstood car culture into the spotlight around one of Texas’ biggest track and field events. But this year, the show’s fate is uncertain after its organizer apparently invested funds in what turned out to be a scam cryptocurrency platform—and then went missing.
Read MoreI don’t know anything about this three-wheel, dually work truck, but ever since my brother and I spotted it in Taiwan in December, I’ve been struggling to get the bird-like machine out of my head. It’s just amazing.
Read MoreThe mysterious cars discovered last month within a once state-of-the-art robot parking garage in Scotland for 15 years are still there, except now they’re being accidentally set ablaze.
Read More“Structural blue does not contain any blue material. It looks blue only because of the interference of light.” So begins the explanation of how Lexus created a color known only as “Structural Blue.” It’s almost like a zen koan, and I’m still not sure I understand it.
Read MoreFour Dallas police cars and eight Dallas Marshal’s Office cars were damaged early Sunday after a man armed with a sledgehammer gained access to a station lot and came out swinging.
Read MoreHey there bud. How goes? That sounds good. But it’d be better if you plopped down about $7 million (5.8 million Euros) for this 1997 Porsche 911 GT1. I know, it’s a lot. But this was the car that killed the greatest supercar racing era in Le Mans history. You can swing it.
Read MoreThere are people who wash cars, and then there’s Larry Kosilla, who nerds out on the intricacies of detailing harder than anyone I’ve ever seen. Watching him comb through anything is interesting, especially if it’s a $500,000 Ford GT.
Read MoreThe third-gen Kia Ceed is coming, and while it isn’t available in the U.S. market, us Americans should still care about it.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger Hellcat may make 707 horsepower, but on a casual drive through the city, the amount of power it actually uses tops off at Honda Accord numbers. We set out to test how much of the car’s 707 HP a driver actually uses, thanks to a handy meter on the dash.
Read MoreA Washington car collector named Ralph found a lot of five Daimler SP250s at an estate sale, and now those cars—which had been stored on shelves in a warehouse for quite some time—are for sale on Craigslist.
Read MoreI’m not sure if this is common, so forgive me if that’s the case, but there’s apparently a very thoughtful thief—or group of thieves—loose in Niagara Falls, New York, taking cars from a Ford dealer and then returning them after a joyride.
Read MoreThe delightful nuts at YouTube’s Shifted Interests channel swapped a 1000 cc Yamaha FZ1 engine into a Smart Fortwo, more than doubling the horsepower and making it a whole lot rowdier. What do you do with such a delightful build in the winter? Snownuts, duh.
Read MoreIt’s wearying pointing out every obvious thing on a daily basis, but people, thank God, still try. Consider these Girl Scouts in Georgia, who are campaigning on a simple message—maybe we shouldn’t name our bridges for notorious racists.
Read MoreApparently bored with hawking flamethrowers, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful currently operating rocket into space yesterday with a Tesla Roadster as its payload. It’s an impressive breakthrough in science for sure. But the Bugatti Chiron can hit an impressive speed milestone even quicker than that rocket.
Read MoreVisually, the new McLaren Senna is a lot to take in. I distinctly remember grimacing when I first saw the press photos of it, but now that I’ve actually taken a longer look at it, I appreciate it a lot more. I still don’t find it attractive, though.
Read MoreThe Jaguar D-Type of the mid-1950s, easily one of the most beautiful metal skins ever wrapped around four wheels and a frame, is back. Jaguar is building 25 brand new 2018 D-Types, exactly as they were made over 60 years ago, for some very lucky and wealthy customers.
Read MoreWe’ve heard about the risks of cars. They pollute the air and can crash into each other, which is dangerous and obviously unhealthy. New research shows cars may be killing us by making too much noise, too.
Read MorePerhaps the original Jeep enthusiast, Francis ‘Jeep’ Sanza—the mechanic who drove General George S. Patton Jr. around during the final year of World War II—died last Tuesday at age 99, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. Here’s a look at the man’s incredible story.
Read MoreOne person’s journey to source a new 2006 Honda Accord exhaust led them down a dangerous and dark path, and consequences they should have predicted if not blinded by desperation.
Read MoreSometimes, for whatever reason, people abandon cars others can only dream of owning in the first place. That was the case with this 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2 and 1967 Shelby Cobra 427, left to become nothing more than housing for nearby mice after the only mechanic the owner trusted to work on them died.
Read MoreThe brands are fucking up this week. Fiat Chrysler took a pummeling for choosing to using a speech from Martin Luther King Jr. to sell some trucks in a Super Bowl ad. Now Mercedes-Benz is hitting the apology circuit, after the German automaker quoted the Dalai Lama on Instagram.
Read MoreThe Philippines has had a bit of a problem with people smuggling cars into the country without paying taxes. So to make a point, it just crushed a whole bunch of confiscated cars by driving over them with a bulldozer.
Read MoreJay Leno’s Garage is a YouTube channel, a TV show, and now a brand of car cleaning products. Turns out the latter are actually pretty good. And one of the folks who helped create them showed me some tricks that even made my 200,000-mile Nissan 300ZX look decent.
Read MoreThe 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe will be the first of the crossover SUV’s fourth generation, making its official premier later this month. But as you can already see, it’s adopted the serpentine squinty-eyes of the rest of the company’s lineup.
Read MoreAn Amtrak Acela train headed toward New York City’s Penn Station at 125 mph literally broke apart and separated as it was heading through Maryland on Tuesday, according to a report from the New York Post. Nonetheless, it’s the latest in a dreadful string of accidents for Amtrak, including a crash just two days ago in South Carolina that left at least two people dead and 70 injured.
Read MoreOver the weekend, The New York Times shared actress Uma Thurman’s accounts of abuse from producer Harvey Weinstein and her hospitalizing car crash from the Kill Bill series in a Karmann Ghia she called a “deathbox.” Director Quentin Tarantino, who told Thurman the road she had to drive the car on was straight and that it would be fine, responded to the story by saying: “I don’t know how a straight road turns into an un-straight road.”
Read MoreIt has come to our attention that Chevrolet is off to a booming start this year in the United Kingdom, where it reportedly sold a total of one—yes, one—car last month. Notably, that’s one (1) more than its U.K. sales a year prior. Not bad!
Read MoreIf this were news about another inevitable Mercedes-AMG SUV, I’d roll my eyes. But it’s not: This concerns a potential AMG version of the new, 2019 Mercedes A- Class sedan, and I am absolutely stoked for it.
Read MoreTurbochargers are good and nice, but they’re everywhere these days, from humble midsize sedans all the way up to the supercars. That’s what makes the Porsche 911 GT3 RS so special: it puts out a certifiably insane amount of power from just six cylinders, all with no turbos. Now for 2018, it’s getting what we all craved most: slightly more power!
Read MoreWill we ever get tired of cutesy design elements hidden in the corners of new cars? Of course not! At least, I certainly won’t. Even if only for an excuse to say something about a modern crossover besides “competent, boring.” Anyway, check out these artistic details cooked into the 2018 Jaguar E-Pace.
Read MoreBMW tried to spice up its electric i3 city car with a new sport model, but it’s not quite the EV hot hatch that’s going to convince us to give up anything.
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe, but a Mustang has been booked. Twenty-nine year old Shelby Mustang Gt 500 Miller was arrested in Baxter County, Arkansas on Friday, Feb. 5 and released on a $450 bond.
Read MoreThe trailer for Mission: Impossible Fallout, the sixth (sixth!) installment of what’s become a body horror franchise, dropped during the Super Bowl last night and it exclusively features Tom Cruise continuing to prove to all of us his crazy personal hobbies have made him invincible by doing his own stunts.
Read MoreSpeed cameras are a fact of life these days, and are generally accepted as such, even if they are annoying and probably dangerous, since they are a superficial solution to a complicated problem. They are also prone to abuse. Like in New Miami, Ohio, where the cameras were so blatantly rigged that a judge ordered the village to pay back $3 million in fines.
Read MoreI know the whole Ford vs. Ferrari story has been done to death already, but if it’s James Mangold at the helm, then I might actually give this new movie a watch.
Read MoreRecords for World’s Trustiest Bluetooth Connection or Least Likely to Switch Drive Modes Randomly, if they existed, don’t sound flashy or exciting. It makes sense that BMW would rather put the energy into pulling off an eight-hour drift than focus on those silly details, but sometimes details end up being important.
Read MoreYou and your best friend do everything together. Go to the movies together. Go on vacation together. Read the same books. Watch the same TV shows and hit the same mileage milestones in your awesome Acuras. Friendship is a miracle!
Read MoreTaylor Congleton grew up on the water, in South Hero, Vermont—an island in the midst of Lake Champlain, tucked quietly away between upstate New York and the Quebec border. Nowadays he raises three majestic hound dogs who occasionally inspect his work. On the weekends he sails a hydrofoil catamaran painted with Flying Tigers livery, a tribute to his World War II veteran grandfather. He has the tasteful trappings of Range Rover life. And within the cramped blue walls of a 1,600 square-foot shop in
Read MoreThe BMW E36 generation of 3 Series is one of the most affordable, desirable cars on the used market today and there’s very little reason not to buy one. I say this because I have been bewitched, bewitched by this comparison test involving the top three British touring cars of 1992, some furious shifting and a lot of teal.
Read MoreOn Friday, Volkswagen asked a court in Virginia to delay for six months the first of a series of consumer fraud trials after an attorney representing TDI owners apparently drew a parallel between VW-funded monkey experiments and the Holocaust, Reuters reports.
Read MoreNormally, when I talk about the cars in a Star Wars trailer, I’m messing with you, like some big jerk. This time, though, I’m not really kidding, because the just-released trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Movie effectively starts with what is, really, a car chase. Sure, they have no wheels and they’re technically landspeeders or whatever, but translated from Star Wars, that means cars. And, more importantly, I think there’s an Easter Egg there for us gearheads.
Read MoreRam debuted an ad at the Super Bowl last night featuring the appropriated words of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If you haven’t seen it, it was bad and dumb, and has been derided pretty much across the board. But it’s not just the use of King’s words to sell trucks that got it wrong—it’s what the rest of that exact sermon said about car buying, and capitalism itself.
Read MoreTo the great shock of Jalopnik’s staff, there are more than 368,000 Mitsubishis from recent model years in America. We know because that’s how many have been recalled for major issues recently, which is a unique way to get the word out. Oh, and, by the way, your Lancer’s sunroof could fly off at any moment.
Read MorePhiladelphia’s Super Bowl win ended predictably with rowdy fans pouring out onto the streets to celebrate. We celebrated with them when they destroyed an upscale hotel awning, got engaged among the madness, and even took away common traffic devices. But then they came for the cars.
Read MoreThe Super Bowl! It’s the big football game when all the brands try and make you feel deep feelings in hopes you’ll buy their dumb shit. I don’t want to speak for the man, but I’m guessing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wouldn’t have been a great fan, seeing as how he once said “the evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” That didn’t stop Ram from using an excerpt from one of his speeches in tonight’s Super Bowl ad, and it’s got a lot of people pissed off
Read MoreThe British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin first announced a plan to offer full electric cars back in 2015. Last summer, they got a bit more serious about advancing that cause, vowing to sell only electrified cars, either hybrid or full EV, within 8 years or so. Aston CEO Andy Palmer also believes that full electric vehicles will account for about twenty-five percent of their total sales volume by 2030.
Read MoreNissan has said that the Z car is here to stay, but has given no indication of when the current already-long-in-the-tooth 370Z will end production or be replaced. As the two-seater sports coupe doesn’t really garner attention for the brand much anymore, they’ve had to spice it up a bit in order to get people into their booth at the highly-attended Chicago Auto Show.
Read MoreAfter two years of development, crash testing, and design changes, Indycar’s new windscreen is finally hitting the track for some real-world tests. On the 9th of February, four-time series champion Scott Dixon will test the new piece, ostensibly intended to improve driver safety, at ISM Raceway (formerly Phoenix International Raceway). This will be conducted as a four-hour test during part of the preseason open test.
Read MoreAn Amtrak passenger train collided with a CSX freight train on Sunday in South Carolina, killing two and injuring at least 70 more, according to news reports. The collision occurred at around 2:45 a.m. local time, and the Amtrak was traveling southbound from New York to Miami. This is the company’s third lethal incident in under a month.
Read MoreThis weekend I saw the Volkswagen Scirocco above, and it momentarily convinced me that the Compomotive TH1580 is the coolest wheel in history. I snapped out of that relatively quickly, but it’s still certainly on the list of Very Cool Wheels. It didn’t hurt that this old-school ‘Rocco was a rare 16v model, still owned by the original owner, and carrying original paint.
Read MoreIt’s a question that comes with a heavy connotation in the car world. If you can choose one way or another, it feels like picking sides in an age old debate. Do you want your increased engine horsepower to be linear and immediate, or efficient and a bit laggy? In an effort to prove which forced induction provides a better driving experience, Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske dives into the pros and cons of each type.
Read MoreUsing the frumpy Bristol 404 as a starting point, Chicago auto importer Stanley H. Arnolt requested Bertone to style a curvy roadster with a very form-over-function shape. This is an oddball car with an American progenitor, a British chassis, and an interesting Scaglione-penned Italian body. Arnolt had hired Bertone to build 200 bodies, though only 142 were ultimately built.
Read MoreThe Volkwagen Cabriolet is the perfect car for someone who wants an old Volkswagen Golf, but doesn’t want a roof.
Read MoreSince the outpouring of incidents of sexual assault and harassment by movie producer Harvey Weinstein sparked a massive backlash against the abuse of women in Hollywood, one of the most anticipated voices has been that of actress Uma Thurman, who worked with Weinstein on a number of high-profile movie projects. And today in the New York Times, Thurman recounts not only her own abuse at Weinstein’s hands, but also a horrifying car crash during one of the most iconic moments in Quentin Tarantino’s
Read MoreA lot of families have a noble steed that everyone piles into every summer for vacation at Grandma’s. It’s also the same car that made the school runs every morning as well as hauled the groceries, and took dad to the hospital when he accidentally nailed his thumb to the wall with a nail gun.
Read MoreSoviet-produced cars under the Volga brand tried very hard to emulate the style of American luxury vehicles from nearly the entire length of the Cold War. Everyone likes the look of a classic Cadillac, but if someone actually drove an ElDorado through Red Square during the Cold War, they might as well hand in their Party membership card start wearing an “I Love Ronald Reagan” shirt. Nobody wants to do that.
Read MoreFor years, we’ve heard criticisms about Tesla’s fit and finish, but now Sandy Munro—CEO of a Detroit-area consultancy that tears apart and studies automobiles—has seen a new Model 3 up close. His thoughts: “I can’t imagine how they released this.”
Read MoreIt’s Friday afternoon, so we may as well get everyone worked up into a stupid debate before the weekend starts, right? For some reason, I was considering doing a post called Friday Forklift Freakout, which would have been just forklift videos, but then I started thinking about the status of forklifts, so I arrived at this: are forklifts automobiles?
Read MoreSales of the 2018 Lincoln Navigator, a rather attractive vehicle that replaced the terrifying, haunt-you-in-your-dreams outgoing generation of the Navigator, are up. Like any good automaker capitalizing on the sales rise, Ford is fawning over itself and how it just can’t make enough Navigators to go around.
Read MoreA year after regulators first revealed that it believed Fiat Chrysler had equipped “defeat devices” for emissions tests in diesel Jeep and Ram vehicles, the U.S. government has reportedly offered to settle its case against the automaker, so long as it pays a major fine and recalls every affected vehicle.
Read MoreIt’s the Friday afternoon after our best month of all time. It’s time to rest on some god damn laurels.
Read MorePoor Mitsubishi just can’t really catch a break can it? Yesterday we celebrated because it managed to sell over 100,000 vehicles in the U.S. last year and today we’ve got some recall news for you. You win some, you lose some.
Read MoreI know when we tend to write about awful HOAs and their often very anti-gearhead rules and restrictions, a common refrain in the comments is that people who want to work on cars shouldn’t live in places with HOAs. Fair enough. But this time, it’s not a neighborhood association with the anti-automotive rules, it’s an entire city, and it’s very bad news for people who love cars.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz A-Class is the littlest Benz hatchback, and while in the past it’s had a three-pointed star, it’s never been all that... well, great. Evidently Mercedes is trying harder this time, as the new one that dropped today sure looks a hell of a lot more sophisticated.
Read MoreDecember 15, 1973, was a chilly and cloudy day in New York City. The city’s fortunes had already begun to take a downturn. A single dump truck, overloaded with more than nine tons of asphalt, rumbled down the old elevated West Side Highway, which promptly collapsed. And in a moment of almost hilarious corruption that typified the highway’s brief existence, that very truck’s construction company won a no-bid contract to clean up the wreck.
Read MoreThe subject line of the email read, “VIP INVITE - Toyota Winter Olympics Travel Experience.” And upon reading the body, Toyota was clearly serious about the VIP treatment. An all-expenses paid, 10-day trip to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, plus fun perks, but not for private guests or friends—for journalists. A vacation, essentially, for hardworking reporters!
Read MoreThe Kia Stinger is one of the more interesting cars to come out in recent years, and it needed some good photos to go along with it. Luckily Jalopnik has Kristen Lee, who shot the actual review, leaving me free to snap some extras on medium format film just for the hell of it.
Read MoreA Seattle radio station, KIRO, found surveillance footage yesterday that showed a stunningly inept attempt to break into an employee’s Toyota Tacoma. With a mop. And the attempted auto-thiever somehow ended up unconscious at the end. Even better, they had a sportscaster give the whole thing a play-by-play.
Read MoreBack in November, Matthew Schaefer found himself down on his luck, forced to sell his home—a Toyota Land Cruiser—after a breakup with his girlfriend, tough times finding a job, and bad weather left him feeling hopeless. But after we shared his heartbreaking Craigslist post, Jalopnik readers stepped up to give him a hand.
Read MoreThe easiest car in the world to start is a Tesla. Hop in with the key in your pocket, push the brake pedal, and away you go. But this is about the opposite of that. This is about the first car ever made, the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, and just getting it going would make me claw my own eyeballs out.
Read MoreATTENTION PORSCHE OWNERS—how dare you imagine for even a moment the precision engineering of a Porsche product was imperfect. Your complaints about brake squeal are invalid. You should know brake squeal is actually good. Since you do not, Porsche has prepared a video to educate you so that you stop calling.
Read MoreRules enacted last season have made the cars of the World Rally Championship delightfully extreme, wider, more powerful and more wonderful than they have been in years. Please watch as Jari-Matti Latvala absolutely hucks his Toyota Yaris sideways in a test session in Sweden as a demonstration of what I mean.
Read MoreNot a single sports car finished this year’s Rallye Monte Carlo, which is a bummer. Sports cars belong in rallying.
Read MoreThe Alfa Romeo Giulia is simultaneously one of the best and worst cars currently on sale. But a new way has been discovered to make it even bester. Yes, BESTER. All it needs is an aftermarket exhaust.
Read MoreYesterday, in Augusta, Georgia, a man and his motorcycle were felled by a sinkhole that opened up outside of a shopping center. This is just the latest sinkhole for the city, according to The Augusta Chronicle, which also saw one swallow a garbage truck last May.
Read MoreAs environmental regulations get stricter and stricter, automakers have turned to increasingly more creative ways to make their cars more efficient. One of these methods is to simply add more gears. Trouble is, these are always found in automatic transmissions, not manuals. What gives?
Read MoreDespite its very sad booth at this year’s Detroit Auto Show, Mitsubishi actually managed to move a decent number of cars in 2017. I have no idea who is buying them, but somebody sure is!
Read MoreWe know that a major Chinese automaker, the Guangzhou Automotive Co. Group (or GAC, yes, seriously) has big plans to come to the American market in 2019. That’s great, we welcome them heartily, but I do have a bit of advice, GAC: spend the money on some real English-speakers for your website, because as it stands right now, it’s too much fun.
Read MoreBeing born in the late ‘80s, I watched as colors washed out of new car lots, fading from reds and forest greens into an endless parade of silvers and grays. This may be why I get excited about even the most mundane new tones on cars today, like this slate blue.
Read MoreLancia, once a rally-dominating carmaker that Top Gear once declared made the most great cars out of its whole lineup, has slowly faded into a sad shell of its former glory. But its old cars are still an enticing, expensive spectacle, such as this 1989 Lancia Thema 8.32 wagon. It has a Ferrari motor, unlike, say, your wagon.
Read MoreYou know what’s a good engine? That 4.0-liter naturally aspirated flat-six in the current Porsche 911 GT3, the one that screams all the way to 9,000 RPM. Mm. Yeah. If Porsche took that and stuck it in the upcoming 718 Boxster Spyder, that’d make my year. And it’s only February.
Read MoreJ.D. Power, a market research company that has managed to make car manufacturers grovel for their awards for many years now, was sold in 2016 to a Chinese firm for $1.1 billion. Which was all fine except, according to The Wall Street Journal, no one at J.D. Power seems to know who funded the sale.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Evora follows Lotus’ long-standing tradition of anointing its cars with names that begin with ‘e.’ Let’s see if this 2+2’s price evokes another word starting with ‘e,’ that being, easy.
Read MoreIt’s hard to imagine, but minivans didn’t always have two back doors. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Vanagon comes from that era, but still sports four ports. It also has a Subaru six, and a price tag we’re going to judge.
Read MoreThe GTA in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Trans Am GTA stands for Grand Touring Americano, not the more common usage that’s also the title of a popular video game. Let’s see if this ‘Bird’s price makes it that other kind.
Read MoreAlfred Hitchcock may have wanted you to Dial M for Murder but if the price is right you might just want to dial up today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Z4 instead. It’s been M-massaged, but is it too murdered out for your tastes?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Nissan is JDM which of course makes it RHD. That’s about the only hardship you’d face in this rolling living room, as its also 4WD, and comes with a clean California title. Perhaps its price will prove a nasty sort of parlor game?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Spider proves that at one time Fiat didn’t need Mazda to help it make super sexy sports cars. The seller of this one however, is going to need to prove all that sexy is still worth a sack of cash.
Read MorePerhaps the most decadent embodiment of conspicuous consumption is the yacht. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Eurovan has been converted by a yacht maker, but will its price prove that only 1-percenters need apply.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe C4 makes for that most daunting of decisions, a nearly out of warranty modern day Alfa. Let’s see if its price might make it worth rolling the dice.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Storm is pretty unique in that it represents not just one but two dead brands here in the U.S.—Geo and Isuzu. Let’s see if this little RV tagalong’s price is at all worth waking the dead.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Chevy B-series takes a school bus and turns it into a cool bus. It’s still priced to sell because its brakes are dragging, but could that price itself be in need of a break?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Solstice has done just 25 miles over the course of its nine years of life. That makes it practically new, but does it also make its price practically a steal?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ACR says it’s been “enthusiast owned.” That’s sometimes code for “hung out and wrung out,” but will it also make this low mileage SRT4’s price a code that no one will want to crack?
Read MoreIf today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda were to break down, would that then make it a deadbeat? We may never know the answer as it’s said to run just fine. It’s price? Well, we’ll just see if that lives up to expectations.
Read MoreWith a six cylinder engine and a five-speed stick, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes R129 is a rare bird indeed. We’ll have to decide if this lower-spec’d roadster’s price make you want to flip it the bird as well.
Read MoreIt once took three whole companies to bring the engine in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corvette to life. Let’s see if this red rocket’s price tag will mean there’s still some of that life left in it.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subaru talks the rally car talk, but doesn’t really seem to walk the rally car walk. Would that failing have you walking away from talking up its price?
Read MoreDoubling down is a risky move in blackjack, but one that could result in twice the payout. That same strategy might be applied to today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe brace of Saabs. We’ll have to see if their combo price stacks the deck against them.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe S13 claims that the car has never-ever strayed from its Southern California home. Let’s see if this local yokel is priced to now see the world.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 325Xi has over 281,000 miles on the clock. That’s farther than a trip to the moon, and this Bimmer doesn’t have Mission Control backing it up. Maybe the price will make it worth lighting this candle.
Read MoreHonda named their del Sol for the Spanish phrase meaning ‘of the Sun.’ Let’s see if the price on today’s Nice Price of Crack Pipe VTEC edition is a complementarily bright idea.
Read MoreThese days, if you happen to be fortunate enough to own a 964 or 993 generation of Porsche 911, and are sitting on a heap of cash, you have tons of customization and restoration companies that can make your car more unique and more powerful. Between Singer, Accumoto, RWB and more, the space seems quite packed. So why should we care about the latest player in this space, Gunther Werks?
Read MoreFormula One’s winter test day at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was snowed out this morning with no cars on course until the afternoon. For once, we’re not super jealous of the F1 drivers. Open cockpits are awfully drafty. Clearly, the driver sent to do reconnaissance laps had the better job today.
Read MoreFor years, all Formula One fans have wanted is a live stream of the races, and we’re finally getting it in the United States in 2018. It’s called F1 TV, and it’s how we’ll finally get to stream F1 legally without commercials. Support series will be on the platform as well, and monthly pricing for the live stream is only set to be between $8-12.
Read MoreThe current road-going Honda Civic Type R looks like teenage anger bottled up into a car body, leaving people split on how they feel about its looks. But it didn’t take a new generation for the Type R to put on some adult clothes. It just took making it into a race car.
Read MoreFor the past five years, Williams has had one of the only good looking Formula One cars on the grid. Their main sponsor has been Martini, who dressed up the car in their classic, aesthetically pleasing stripes. Sadly, Martini will step away from F1 entirely after the 2018 season is done, so no one can have the stripes.
Read MoreImagine, for a second, being so famous and talented that at 80 years old you have so many trophies and collectables from the highest level of a sport that you just have to have a yard sale. That’s the situation NASCAR legend Richard Petty is in right now.
Read MoreDrag racing legend John Force crashed hard Sunday evening after his engine blew up and sent his Funny Car out of control into Jonnie Lindberg’s car at the NHRA Arizona Nationals, reports USA Today. Force was immediately taken to a local hospital for evaluation, but was released later that night.
Read MoreToro Rosso, the development team for Formula One’s Red Bull Racing, has a beautiful race car these days despite it hanging around out of sight near the back of the field most of the time. But looks can be deceiving, and this poor, pretty soul has the plague of a Honda F1 engine in it this year.
Read MoreFormula 1's new Halo for driver protection still looks about as dumb as conceivably possible from the outside, but finally there’s POV video to show what it’s like from the driver’s perspective. Watch and judge for yourself, but this doesn’t look too bad.
Read MoreLife is full of disappointments, but not many have been as crushing as the story of the McLaren Honda Formula One team. The return to that partnership conjured images of the Senna-Prost glory days, but it mostly meant DNFs, engine failures and Fernando Alonso’s sad, dead-looking eyes. But for 2018, things will be different! Hopefully.
Read MoreStare deep into the red abyss that is the new 2018 Ferrari SF71H Formula One car. Fall deep into every shiny red curve of its shape. Lose your mind in the madness that is its incredibly rosso corsa wings. Ferrari’s new car is extremely red, as if they’re out for blood after a 10-year championship-free streak in F1.
Read MoreGotta take the kids to school? You should stop at the track first. A collection of madmen from Honda’s Alabama plant built a humble Odyssey into a race car, and I see absolutely nothing wrong or sacrilegious about this plan. Come to think of it, every minivan would be better with a roll cage inside.
Read MoreThe current hybrid V6 era in Formula One has been defined by one thing above all: getting real damn tired of seeing the Mercedes car up front, week after week. Last season was better, but Mercedes unveiled their 2018 W09 EQ Power+ F1 car and I’m already bored of it.
Read MoreA 2016 lawsuit alleging that NASCAR racially discriminated against the efforts of Terrance Cox III to start a race team and other diversity-oriented efforts has been dropped, reports ESPN. Cox promoted himself as a diversity guru who wanted to increase black participation in NASCAR, but his relationship with the series soured to the point where Cox began organizing protests against it.
Read MoreColin’s Crest is one of the most delightful parts of Rally Sweden. Every year, the organizers have a mini competition on the Vargåsen stage as to who jumps the farthest over one particular crazy fast jump. Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville didn’t win the Colin’s Crest Award, but his jump was insane for other reasons.
Read MoreRally Sweden was a winter wonderland this year, but not for the drivers who went first. The first cars on a snowy stage inevitably act as snowplows for everyone behind them—and those later competitors then go faster on the clearer roads. One driver at Sweden had enough, so he arrived late to one stage, breaking the rules on purpose to avoid going first.
Read MoreTeenage race-car driver Billy Monger lost both of his legs in a horrific British Formula 4 crash last April, but it didn’t take him long to get back to professional driving. Now Monger is back to driving a single-seater race car like the one he crashed in, and adjusting to using mostly hand controls at 150 mph.
Read MoreFor the first time in decades, Alfa Romeo’s famous Quadrifoglio lucky cloverleaf badge will grace the side of an Alfa Romeo-badged Formula One car. This time, it’s aboard the new Sauber C37, which was unveiled today with a big ol’ Alfa Romeo graphic on the side. Alfa’s finally back in F1.
Read MoreToday Red Bull and Aston Martin unveiled their new Formula 1 car, the RB14. Decked out in very cool blue digital camo and sporting the Halo, this car might be a serious competitor for the 2018 F1 season. I quite like the look if I’m being honest.
Read MoreThe iconic No. 3 car won the Daytona 500 on Sunday, with 27-year-old Austin Dillon behind the wheel. Dillon was in second on the final lap, when leader Aric Almirola spun into the wall in front of him. With NASCAR’s new championship format, Dillon will automatically be in the playoffs if he passes inspection.
Read MoreDanica Patrick announced last year that she’d end her racing career with one more attempt at each of America’s biggest racing events, the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. A wreck just over 100 laps in at Daytona sent several cars spiraling, and eventually knocked Patrick out of her final NASCAR race.
Read MoreNASCAR announced Saturday that its biggest event, Sunday’s Daytona 500, is sold out for the third year in a row. This also happens to be the third Daytona 500 since Daytona International Speedway finished a multi-year renovation that took out about 50,000 of the nearly 150,000 seats it used to have.
Read MoreAt the end of Sunday’s Daytona 500, there will most likely already be a driver in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. How, you ask, could someone be in the postseason playoffs after the first event of the year? Thank NASCAR’s complicated new championship format, which we’re here to help simplify.
Read MoreRejoice! NASCAR’s regular season is back, ready to fill that empty hole in your heart with cars once more. You know, much like how their second-tier Xfinity Series filled the entire width of Daytona International Speedway with crashed cars this afternoon. The race ended after five overtime restarts in a photo finish and set a new record for the most cautions in a Xfinity Series race at Daytona.
Read MoreRally is the fine art of blasting down narrow stage roads as fast as possible, and cars are usually spaced pretty far apart to allow that to happen. As such, the World Rally Championship can go years without anyone crashing in a pass, but it happened at Rally Sweden.
Read MoreAfter constant overhauls with the rules in recent years, NASCAR isn’t the same NASCAR as it was a few seasons ago. If you want to tune into the Daytona 500 on Sunday and start following the rest of the 2018 season, you may need a refresher course first. Welcome to class.
Read MoreMost racing fans aren’t huge fans of the aesthetics of the halo—Formula One’s new cockpit protection device which envelopes a driver’s upper body in a big flip-flop-looking thing. But they’re so here for the classic livery of Williams’ main sponsor Martini. Friends, this is what I call a missed opportunity.
Read MoreEveryone in the Canadian rally scene is familiar with Crazy Leo and his, uh, enthusiastic driving style. To wit: he and his codriver Alex Kihurani went careening into a snowbank at around 85 miles per hour, blew out a window, filled the car with snow and continuing on through the rest of the stage.
Read MoreThe IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge is an underrated gem, full of gutsy drivers looking to move up in the world. However, the video for their Rolex 24 support race is wonderful for another reason: the mics were still recording during breaks in the broadcast, and IMSA left that in when they uploaded the race to YouTube.
Read MoreA team in the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series has a new sponsor this season, and it announced Wednesday that the payment was done in cryptocurrency—cryptocurrency that’s only existed for a day, apparently. What could possibly go wrong, yeah?
Read MoreMighty Car Mods is one of the best do-it-yourself tuner channels on YouTube, having built a collection of lovable misfits that includes a Daihatsu Mira and an LS-powered Mad Max-style car. Clearly, there’s no better way to test their work than by drag racing their cars against an Australian V8 Supercar that produces over 600 horsepower in race trim.
Read MoreHaas skipped all the silly teasers other teams have been doing and surprise-revealed their entire new VF-18 Formula One car for 2018 this morning. It’s the first F1 car unveiled of 2018 with the newly mandated halo to better protect a driver’s head and upper body in the car. It looks shockingly okay.
Read MoreThe best track car is often someone else’s car. You don’t have to do the work to get it ready. You just show up and drive. If you’d like to drive Circuit of the Americas without worrying if your brakes will work after that long straight, there’s now someone else’s Audi R8 V10 Plus waiting for you at the Audi Driving Experience. It’s a fun time.
Read MoreIf you’re not a person who mutes sports commentary because you could totally do better, you’ll either be pleased or rather annoyed that America will get a U.K.-based Formula One broadcast next year. Perhaps the British will use this platform to tell thousands of Americans how bad we are at roundabouts.
Read MoreI’ve never felt that that motorsports really belong in the Olympics. Motorsports and the Olympics are good enough at being endless controversy factories on their own without combining forces, thank you very much. That being said, I’d love to see a Formula One car hoon down the Olympic ski slopes between races, as Red Bull did back in 2016 with one of their cars at Kitzbühel, Austria.
Read MoreA driver at a Porsche Club of America high performance driver’s education event at Roebling Road Raceway died Saturday after crashing just before the first turn, reports the Savannah Morning News. His instructor was also seriously injured in the crash.
Read MoreIt isn’t 2021 and therefore Formula One’s rules for louder and cheaper engines aren’t in effect yet (because F1 is silly and announces new rules four years in advance), but the engines are still decently loud up close. Here’s what the series-dominating Ferrari and Mercedes F1 engines will sound like this year.
Read MoreCurrent NHRA Top Fuel champion Brittany Force was taken to the hospital after a brutal crash in Sunday’s first round of eliminations at the NHRA Winternationals, reports Speed Sport. Force showed no major injuries beyond bruised lungs, however, she will remain in the hospital overnight for observation.
Read MoreCanada isn’t just for chuggling maple syrup on a snowmobile while pretending to be the God of Snow. It also hosts incredible rallies, including some utterly brutal snow rallies. The only thing missing is the present-day World Rally Championship cars, and fortunately, the Rally Promoter Association of Canada announced that they have a five-year plan to bring them back.
Read MoreFormula E: Home of the suspiciously slow electric race cars, and, apparently, suspiciously high levels of hypocrisy. After welcoming Formula One “to the 21st century” for removing grid girls, something Formula E claimed to have already done, the series’ CEO basically just said, “Nah, just kidding, we’re keeping them.”
Read MoreEver watch a video and wonder how on earth that close call didn’t turn into a crash? Here’s a whole bunch of World Rally Championship clips like that for your viewing pleasure. You’re welcome.
Read MoreThe 2018 “Nitto King of the Hammers Powered By Optima Batteries” is upon us, and that means that thousands of people have been camping, racing and generally going nuts for all things off-road out in California’s Johnson Valley this week. Today’s the title event, and you can watch it from wherever right now:
Read MoreThe FIA World Endurance Championship officially changed its 2018 schedule, moving the 6 Hours of Fuji back a week. The changes conveniently came after Formula One star Fernando Alonso announced he’d race the entire WEC season that didn’t conflict with his F1 schedule, and Fuji conflicted with his F1 schedule.
Read MoreToyota is the last car manufacturer standing in the World Endurance Championship’s LMP1 class, where they’ll get not one, but two shots to win Le Mans. WEC is calling 2018-2019 their “superseason” as they transition to a calendar that ends at Le Mans. Here’s the TS050 Hybrid they hope to do that with, unveiled today in a roundup of Toyota’s motorsport activities for the year.
Read MoreMost teams who show up to race the 24 Hours of Daytona are big-budget efforts staffed by a host of professionals. Not the Honda of America Racing Team. They’re an all-volunteer team of regular Honda employees recruited mostly by word of mouth for one purpose: racing the cars Honda makes.
Read MoreBehold my latest nightmare fuel: surprise cows.
Read MoreThree-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Hurley Haywood has always been very private about his personal life, but one personal secret was widely known within the racing community: Haywood is gay. Haywood not only confirms it in his new autobiography, but hopes that being open about it will help others accept who they are.
Read MoreInstead of waiting for a similar series to emerge and become the semblance of environmentally friendly rallycross in the world, the FIA World Rallycross Championship is reportedly going all in on green technology—soon. According to Motorsport.com, an unnamed source said World RX will go all electric in 2020.
Read MoreVic Lee Motorsport was the most infamous teams in the British Touring Car Championship in the early 1990s. But Vic Lee himself had a little problem: sharing room with the race cars in his team’s haulers was a whole lot of cocaine. What’s poetic is what tipped off the authorities: the team’s oddly international testing schedule.
Read MoreLess than a week after confirming that it would no longer use grid girls at races, Formula One announced they’ll be replaced by grid kids starting with the 2018 season. The grid kids will be actual children—and the children are our FUTURE—not adult women whose very being is lessened by others repeatedly referring to them to as “girls.”
Read MoreAustralia’s Mount Panorama Circuit is known as of the toughest places in the world to race. This weekend, more than 50 cars will make laps out there for a full 12 hours. You should tune in.
Read MorePut a note on the calendar to change the Sunday alarms on your phone and get ready to sleep in a little later, because Formula One’s new bosses aren’t done changing things up yet: A day after announcing grid girls would no longer be used at races, F1 confirmed it’s moving back start times as well.
Read MoreA new all-Tesla race car series has been officially sanctioned by the FIA, giving the go-ahead for races to start in mid-2018. Will it be slow and boring, or a touring car-style renaissance for EVs?
Read MoreScaled Composites’ Stratolaunch is the largest airplane in existence by wingspan, which is an insane 385 feet. It needs to be this big because this twin-fusalage’d aircraft isn’t really an aircraft at all—it’s an airborne rocket launching pad. This taxi test of the plane gives a good sense of just how huge this thing is.
Read MoreElon Musk shot his own personal Tesla Roadster into space, and it was Good. Wait, no. No it was Not Good. It was a giant ad for a billionaire and his empire and it’s all downhill from here. Or it was inspiring and beautiful. Or it was bad. Welcome to Carguments.
Read MoreBillionaires are taking to space the way wistful young men take to the sea in 19th Century novels. Last week, Elon Musk launched his Tesla Roadster at the astroid belt using the world’s most powerful rocket currently in operation. Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen also has a big plan (and a big plane) for going to space.
Read MoreThere’s a really, really rich guy named Kris Singh who loves to buy very exclusive, very expensive cars. This is a guy who dropped $4 million on a Lamborghini Veneno before he even saw one, and he’s the only guy who owns a Koenigsegg Agera XS. Also, he’s about to acquire an Aston Martin Valkyrie, which he plans to cover in moon dust, as one does.
Read MoreTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, better known as the world’s one true Space Boy, spent Tuesday afternoon shooting a Tesla Roadster into the deep abyss of the universe in a rocket. It was very strange and questionable! So many people questioned the issue, in fact, that it wound up on fact-checking website Snopes.
Read MoreWhile there may now be a car in space, and the core of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched it may be a bit worse for the wear, the twin Falcon 9-based boosters that helped make it all happen are safe and sound back on Earth. And not only did they look good, they made two big bangs doing it.
Read MoreHe did it. Holy shit he did it. Elon Musk, the One True Star Boy, launched a fucking car into space.
Read MoreAfter toying with us, the world, by first claiming he was going to launch a Tesla Roadster into space, and then saying he was just kidding, Elon Musk now seems to be genuinely planning to launch his red Tesla Roadster into space as payload on SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket.
Read MoreLet’s play a game of call and response. I say “Ford Mustang”, you say “Cars and Coffee mishaps.” I say “Tesla Model 3,” you say “panel gaps.” But if I say “Subaru BRZ,” you’re most likely going to first give a knowing nod of appreciation but then lament “needs more power.”
Read More“Not a chance.” That’s how most of you will react when reading the headlines talking about the $50,000 Subaru WRX STI Type RA. Before slamming your fingers onto your rage-spit-covered keyboard and typing out your 2,500-word magnum opus of hatred, allow me a few words to explain how this is basically Subaru’s own Camaro Z/28.
Read MorePorsche has been teasing plans for its all-electric Mission E, expected to pack as much as 670 hp, with hyperfast charging times to boot. On Wednesday, the automaker ramped things up a notch, announcing plans to install fast chargers at every single Porsche dealership in the U.S. Porsche’s EV chief also reportedly took a moment to take a swipe at Tesla.
Read MoreIn early 2016, 48-year-old Gao Jubin had high hopes for the future, with plans to ease up on running a logistics company and eventually turn over control of the business to his son, Gao Yaning. But his plans were abruptly altered when Yaning died at the wheel of a Tesla Model S that crashed on a highway in China while the car—Jubin believes—was traveling in Autopilot, the name for Tesla’s suite of driving aids. Now, Jubin says, “Living is worse than death.”
Read MoreCalifornia motorists could be sharing the road with fully driverless cars as early as April, under new regulations announced on Monday by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Read MoreEvery day, automakers and tech companies test self-driving cars on California roadways. Starting in April, remote-controlled autonomous cars could join them on public streets, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Read MoreNew cars are coming equipped with more and more sensors that are, ostensibly, designed to help drivers stay safe. Some autonomous cars currently being tested have bulky LIDAR domes to help “see” the road. All of this makes a regular car wash nearly-impossible, and as CNN reports, that means automakers have to take a lot of extra precautionary measures to keep their robot cars clean.
Read MoreUber, Lyft, Google’s Waymo—much of the auto industry’s shown a recent interest in launching taxi services of their own, with the hope of one day operating fully-autonomous cars without a driver. Next month, Nissan joins the crowded field, as the automaker plans to launch a taxi business in Japan it’s calling Easy Ride.
Read MoreWhen it comes to cars, it’s easier to fall into the trap of blind nostalgia perhaps more than any other kind of consumer good. So many enthusiasts look at the machines we have available today and think of them as boring and anodyne; they write them off for not being as interesting or edgy or dangerous as the cars they grew up idolizing. This is the wrong way to think. Have you taken a look around and realized how good we have it right now?
Read MoreAutonomous and super-connected cars of the future are going to collect a whole lot of data on passengers inside the vehicle—and then, of course, they’re going to monetize what they learn about you and I, in what could end up being a $33 billion industry, according to a new study.
Read MoreLate last month, the seemingly incapable-of-escaping-trouble electric car startup Faraday Future filed a lawsuit against a new rival helmed by its former chief financial officer, Stefan Krause. This week, Krause’s company fired back, and, consequently, revealed just how much top FF execs earned while the company circled the drain.
Read MoreThere’s been plenty of chatter about delays to the production schedule for Tesla’s Model 3, but the automaker’s also reportedly facing a backlog with the more expensive Model S and Model X. For current Tesla owners, that means if you placed an order today, you could get a Model 3 sooner, reports Electrek—so long as you’re willing to shell out the loot for the all-electric sedan’s more expensive trim.
Read MoreVolkswagen spent 2017 rolling out concepts for its new I.D. lineup, including a new Microbus, finally, and now it’s introducing one more called the Vizzion—a fully-autonomous, all-electric sleek sedan with no steering wheel or pedals.
Read MoreTesla’s slow start to launching production of the Model 3 sedan has been subjected to intense scrutiny for months, with the company saying just last week that it’s planning to start making 2,500 per week by the end of March. Now, thanks to a helpful interactive feature from Bloomberg, Model 3 reservation holders and Tesla fans can keep track of the automaker’s progress to achieving that goal.
Read MoreThis video might be hard to watch, so if you want an easy start to the middle of your week, move on. But thankfully, the couple aboard this SkyRunner flying car/dune buggy thing survived a completely startling crash.
Read MoreLate last month, Croatian car startup Rimac teased out images of its new electric supercar, and disclosed it’ll be faster, costlier, and more grandiose than its first, the plainly called Concept One. There’s a new wrinkle to add, courtesy of Autocar, and I imagine it’ll make some of you groan: the car should be able to drive itself.
Read MoreTesla missed a deadline to send a car on a cross-country autonomous trip by the end of 2017, but the automaker says it still intends to accomplish the feat at... some point. Tesla reiterated the goal in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, only describing the trip as “upcoming.”
Read MoreThe electric car startup would-be Tesla-killers of the world may soon find themselves facing stiff competition from a well-established player in the luxury automotive world. Porsche said this week that it’s doubling its previously announced investment in hybrid and all-electric cars to $7.4 billion, according to multiple reports.
Read MoreAfter a year of legal jockeying, a high-profile trial between ride-hailing company Uber and Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo is finally kicking off Monday. The case centers on whether Uber advanced its self-driving car program by relying on autonomous tech files allegedly stolen from Google. Here’s what you need to know.
Read MoreBlockchain, a digital lender of sorts that’s known for tracking transactions of totally real cryptocurrency, could also be used for something that isn’t dumb and fake: to help ensure child labor isn’t being used to mine crucial minerals for electric car batteries, according to a report from Reuters.
Read MoreTesla’s all-electric semi came into this world to great fanfare, but little has been said about how the automaker plans to start making the vehicle. But now we have some insight, thanks to a new report from Reuters, which says Tesla’s collaborating with major companies to build charging stations for the semis.
Read MoreJoby Aviation, a startup that aims to build a flying taxi that looks just like a small airplane, has raised $100 million from the likes of Toyota, Jet Blue and Intel, according to a statement from the company on Thursday. Amazingly, people are still at this idea.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles released its latest annual reports from companies who test self-driving cars in the state. The filings offer some of the best data for the public to scrutinize to better understand how far along AV tech has come. But companies have serious wiggle room when it comes to how they report crucial data. That’s a problem.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know. And just a heads up, there are a lot of multi-million dollar settlements and fines raining down on the auto industry today.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know. Consider them your “desert island” stories, should society collapse in the imminent future.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that you’ll be able to text to your friends to prove how smart you are.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreOnly a handful of Americans will buy a 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser. But ask anyone who knows this vehicle and they’ll talk about it with the kind of mystical reverence usually reserved for reciting folklore. So I threw this $87,000 legend off its laurels and into a sand storm to see how much heat it could really take.
Read MoreBy the time January rolled around, I had been begging to drive a giant, 12,000-pound Monster Jam truck for six months. When someone finally gave that idea the go-ahead, it was surreal. As if the reality of my longstanding request hadn’t hit me before then, I realized that I actually had to drive one of these things.
Read MoreThe tiny racing truck tore back off into the night, and we were left looking at each other. Jams and Boothe had caught up to us, being chauffeured in a chase truck by another friend. They looked brain-dead; I recognized their exacerbation from the last time I ran this race. They’d be human again in a few days.
Read MoreLast week Toyota announced its revised 2019 TRD Pro lineup which basically puts better suspensions on the venerable Tacoma, Tundra and 4Runner. All three will come in a color we haven’t seen since the FJ Cruiser, and the 4Runner gets one more carryover from Toyota’s beloved but abandoned Wrangler rival.
Read MoreSo much of truck-bragging is done backwards, I think. Most truck owners, if inclined to brag, like to talk about how big their engines are, how many cylinders, and so on, as though the sheer size of the numbers they’re spewing makes them tough. I maintain the opposite is true; doing a job with as little as possible is what makes one really tough. That’s why I’m so taken with this one-cylinder Mahindra pickup truck that, in at least one very, very specific comparison, beats a Ford F-150 in terms
Read MoreThe 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser is the most expensive vehicle in Toyota’s lineup by a massive margin. This model’s sales numbers are so low that it’s unlikely you’ll ever see one in person in America. And yet, it still exists. This week we’ll find out why. Or, at least, whether or not it deserves its strange invincibility.
Read MoreI missed the Super Bowl last Sunday because I made a terrible decision: I used a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk on all-season tires to tow my new 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle from Ohio back to Michigan through an ice storm. It should have been a four-hour trip, but it became a harrowing 12-hour ordeal that nearly ended in disaster.
Read MoreYou can do a burnout with a 707-horsepower Hellcat-engined Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk. You can! Believe! Also, hold the truck back with a meaty tow rope. But search for the one true spirit of four-wheel burnouts deep within your soul—you know it to be true! You can truly smoke all of those thick meats!
Read MoreDIESEL. VAN. Did you hear that, kids? The 2019 Ford Transit Connect Wagon is a diesel van. Ford can call it whatever it wants, but it’s a freaking van. If your parents (or you) buy this, you are automatically the Cool Family on the block.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ford Ranger Raptor has finally been revealed in its final form, and even though we don’t have a full spec sheet yet we can compare quite a few metrics between this and its big American brother the F-150 Raptor.
Read MoreAlright so I guess the 2018 Chevy Traverse RS is a thing, now, too.
Read MoreFACT: more pickup trucks should have performance versions. And while other automakers lack the COURAGE and MORAL FORTITUDE to offer us true Raptor competitors, Ford is giving us MORE RAPTORS. Meet the 2019 Ford Raptor Ranger, the truck that brings factory off-road awesomeness to Ford’s smallest truck. And the one we’re finally getting, too.
Read MoreToyota has coyly confirmed there will be “new” 2019 TRD Pro off-road models, plural, teasing this picture of a Tacoma with a factory snorkel(!) and implying that the 4Runner and/or Tundra will get some new off-road goodies soon as well. As ever, I’m tentatively intrigued.
Read MoreDo you like comfort? Do you like utility? Do you like comfortable utility with ample room and packaging? Well feast your eyes upon the third-generation Sprinter van, now with a gasoline engine for us Americans and a lower starting price.
Read MoreI’ve got a $99,965 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk sitting in front of my house right now, and let me tell you up-front: it’s total mechanical madness. But aside from from that, what else were you wanting to know about this 707 horsepower, 6.2-liter supercharged V8 Jeep?
Read MoreOff-roaders around the world are always trying to fit the biggest tires under their rigs for added ground clearance, traction and also for bragging rights. But sometimes doing so requires irreversibly damaging iconic SUVs—and that bothers me deeply.
Read MoreVolkswagen really needs to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. Or gets out of a financial and regulatory prison sentence, I guess. And the new 2018 Volkswagen Arteon sedan has somehow emerged as the poster boy for this problem.
Read MoreTo Detroiters hunting for a car on Craigslist, consider this a warning: The phrases “no rust” and “a little rust” do not mean what you think they mean. But fear not, for today I shall decode the special language used among Motor City automobile sellers.
Read MoreI knew my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle was cool, but it took finding this original AMC window sticker for me to appreciate the extent of my latest project’s awesomeness. Just look at how this old Jeep was originally configured when it was sold in December of 1978.
Read MoreIt’s true some people believe that there is no replacement for displacement, but that’s honestly a mindset that is becoming more and more obsolete with how good and easily tune-able turbocharged cars are. The latest is the 2018 Honda Accord with the turbocharged 2.0-liter engine.
Read MoreThe Moab Easter Jeep Safari is in five weeks, and there’s still a crap-ton of work to do on Project Redwood, my rusty 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Here’s all the wrenching I have cut out for me.
Read MoreOwners of first-generation Volkswagen Touaregs have been noticing sloshing noises while driving their SUVs, only to find a crap ton of water stuck in their rocker panels. Just watch how much these owners drain from their cars’ side sills.
Read MoreIn this week’s installment of “All The Craigslist Shitboxes Readers Have Been Tempting Me With Lately,” we begin by looking at a 1993 Plymouth Voyager that’s missing a bit of thorax.
Read MorePutting a project car together or keeping an old car running can get overwhelming. In the quest to restore my 1975 International Scout, it seems like every time I start something I end up half-starting 10 things and finishing nothing. So I’ve devised a simple system to stay focused and organized.
Read MoreWrench on cars long enough, and you’ll learn not only the “right way” and the “wrong way” to get a job done, but also a path in the middle—one that means getting the car back on the road, even if the fix isn’t exactly pretty. I took that middle path yesterday after my friend showed me her car’s rusted-out radiator support. The result may make you cringe.
Read MoreWhy the hell do people buy old-ass cars from the 1960s? They cost too much, for one thing. They’re unreliable to operate as a daily, with their pesky two and four barrels. They stop like shit. And most of the time, they smell like a Shell station. Designed by guys who fought Hitler and Tojo with a half smoked Lucky Strike in the corners of their mouth, these automobiles do their damndest to proactively kill us with their oh-we-didn’t-know-that-crush-zones-were-a-thing-but-look-at-how-pretty-our-
Read MoreAfter picking up my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle on Sunday (you’ll hear more about that later), I’ve now got eight aesthetically-challenged vehicles titled in my name. And yet, the readers keep sending me links to tempting shitboxes like the awesome hacked-up Ford F-350 in this picture.
Read MoreThe 2018 Easter Jeep Safari—a big off-road fest in Moab, Utah—isn’t far away, and I’ve still got tons to do to get my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer ready to tow another Jeep 1,700 miles, and then go rock-crawling on some of America’s most arduous trails. The good news: after 12 years, the Jeep finally lives!
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