The world ahead of me is nothing but red dirt and blue sky, bisected by a single snake of pavement. The population of this place is one 2018 Audi RS5, finally coming off the leash after agonizing in city traffic. And with 444 horsepower, you better believe it comes correct.
Read MoreIf you’re going to work on your car, it helps a hell of a lot to have a Haynes Manual. They can be a bible for any shade tree mechanic, and will help you get going again. And now that’s true, even if you’ve got an F-14 Tomcat and you’re idea of “getting going” is smashing through the sound barrier.
Read MoreRemember when we found out the government spent millions of dollars on a program that discovered mysterious inexplicable metal alloys and concluded that aliens were probably real back in a New York Times report from December? If you need a reminder, here’s another UFO intercept video from the Navy.
Read MoreI live about five miles down the road from the oldest U.S. Army proving ground, Aberdeen Proving Ground. Located in Harford County, Maryland, the base is where the Army developed quite a few of the vehicles and weapons deployed in every war of the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s the U.S. Army’s Nürburgring for tanks and armored vehicles.
Read MoreAfter seeing the celebration of France’s military at last year’s a Bastille Day celebration, President Donald Trump decided that he wanted a big parade for America’s armed forces. While the move was panned as being logistically difficult and expensive, we now know there’s one thing this parade won’t have: tanks.
Read MoreA UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 25th Infantry Division was out practicing how to drop supplies from the air yesterday in Hawaii, when one of their drops missed its target, falling on the campus of an elementary school. It’s safe to say they might need more practice.
Read MoreLast week Vladimir Putin, a frequently shirtless equestrian ghoul who also happens to run the Country Formerly Known As The Soviet Union, gave a long, mildly unhinged state-of-Russia speech that made reference to a number of new Russian weapons systems, including an anti-Mar-A-Lago missile system and a nuclear-powered cruise missile. This nuclear-powered missile is interesting because it appears to be a copy of something America thought was too batshit back in the 1960s.
Read MoreFully topped up, the F-22 Raptor can carry a lot of fuel. Even saying it can carry “a ton” of fuel is incorrect, because technically, it can carry nine tons of fuel, or 18,000 pounds, according to builder Lockheed Martin. That means it can take a bit of time to fill up in the sky, so the pilots and the aircrew that fuel them get to talking. Mostly about stars, and cookies, and stuff.
Read MoreBen Cohen, the “Ben” part of Ben & Jerry’s, was arrested on Saturday after he and two other activists drove a truck through downtown Burlington, Vermont, blasting jet noises in protest of a plan to host 18 F-35s at Burlington International Airport. According to NBC5, they blasted the simulated jet noises 13 times before Cohen was put in handcuffs.
Read MoreI was about to call this $98,000 2018 BMW M550i with Dinan’s Stage 1 tune a “sleeper”, but the quartet of fatty exhaust pipes and 20-inch Forgeline wheels will definitely wake you up. It’s a lot more low key than an M5, though, and on the highway it’s pretty much a low-flying private jet.
Read MoreWalmart is expanding their partnership with CarSaver to start selling cars at more locations on April 1st. Which sounds kind of like it should be an April Fool’s Day joke, but is actually true.
Read MoreCJ was fortunate enough to survive getting rear-ended by a big-rig. Unfortunately, his trusty Chevy made the ultimate sacrifice for him. He is on a short timetable as to what get next but he is totally lost. What car should he buy?
Read MoreOn June 19, 2015, Bronx resident Carlos Guerrero-Roa went to an auto dealer in Brooklyn to purchase a 2005 Lexus RX that was being advertised online for $6,900. Guerrero-Roa left with the car that day, only after it was financed with a loan that, according to a lawsuit he later filed, carried an interest rate “well over” 25 percent—a threshold that New York state law deems a felony. But thanks to a loophole in the statute, Guerrero-Roa and countless others in New York end up with auto loans that
Read MoreSeeing a car that once populated my high school parking lot—a 2000 Honda Civic Si—sell for $22,750 is proof that Bring A Trailer is out of control. This is a car that usually fetches sub-five-digit prices, or so I thought. Sure, this one only had 10,439 miles, but it also sold for almost as much as a new Civic Si.
Read MoreBuying a used exotic car is a bit different than scoring a Nissan Altima from CarMax. When you are dealing with a complicated car that is designed for speed, it’s important that you maintain an extra level of diligence to make sure your dream ride is not a nightmare.
Read MoreI know a few good salespeople who would rather lose a sale than put someone in a car that is going to strain the buyer financially. But that level of ethical sales is rare in the industry. There are far too many stores that will do whatever it takes to get you to sign that contract, even it means crushing debt.
Read MoreCar buyers today have it good. They have automaker websites, dealer websites and any number of car-buying tools at their disposal, to say nothing of the tons of buying advice on websites. Back in the 1990s, things were harder. “Research” meant print magazines, newspaper classified ads and just trusting that your salesperson wasn’t a lying, cheating asshole. (Some things never change.)
Read MoreIt looks like any other crossover, so you never know it from looking at it, but the 2019 Infiniti QX50 has a technological marvel at its heart. Beneath that handsome but not especially controversial sheet metal lies the company’s new variable compression ratio engine, a pretty fascinating piece of technology.
Read MoreThe Cadillac ATS-V is supposed to be extremely quick, grippy on the road and track, and, above all else, highly enjoyable to drive. Nearly three years after its debut, we thought it deserved a reevaluation.
Read MoreMaserati, as a brand, is an institution, but Maserati as an everyday luxury alternative to BMW, Mercedes-Benz or Porsche is barely on anyone’s radar. I spent some time playing with the Italian automaker’s mass-appeal options to see what you’re missing.
Read MoreAt first, I was slightly put off that the loaned 2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake S was silver. It’s a really petty thing to complain about, the color of a press car—but after driving it for a weekend, I realized that the more mundane one of these wagons looks, the the more covert you actually feel about driving it. This is a good thing.
Read MoreKerry does standup comedy in Los Angeles. What isn’t so funny is his previous ownership of... let’s say questionable cars from Chrysler and Dodge. He needs some help in selecting a ride that won’t let him down. What car should he buy?
Read MoreWhile leasing is more popular than ever these days, a lot of people still want to buy new cars for the long haul. If you’re planning on getting a new 2018 model year car that you hope to have a long and fulfilling relationship with, Consumer Reports has a few that should be on your shopping list—though none of them are terribly surprising.
Read MoreThe internet has changed the way cars are bought and sold. It’s now a lot easier to figure out who has the best deal on a new car, but used cars are more complex. A lot of buyers get frustrated when they run into walls asking for large discounts on used cars. Here’s why that happens.
Read MoreMike is totally over this whole winter thing. He loves the beach and chases storms, so what he’s looking for a cheap 4x4 just in time for summer. It just needs to take him and his gear through the sand. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe year is 2020. The Earth’s magnetic field has reversed at the poles and the world has mostly frozen over. Everyone is miserable. But you, my friend, you bought an all-wheel drive 2018 Kia Stinger GT with winter tires before the Big Switch, and you’re in good shape. You’re also having the time of your life.
Read MoreEvery moment you’re driving the 2018 Lotus Evora Sport 410 GP Edition you are engaged in motorsport, whether you want to be or not.
Read MoreBuying a car shouldn’t be that complicated. You shop around, you get a quote, and make your purchase. Still, we all know it’s not simple because some dealers will use various deceptive and tiresome tactics to make it seem like their quote is the best when it may not be—including pairing a crazy low price with a bonkers-high interest rate.
Read MoreIt seems many of us aren’t quite out of this winter mess quite yet. So if you are in the market for something fast, luxurious, and Swedish for some late-in-the-year snow hoonage, now is the time to get a great deal on a Volvo S60 sedan or V60 wagon with 300 horsepower and all-wheel-drive.
Read MoreJulian is in the market for his first car and unlike the rest us nutjobs he doesn’t want to buy a $700 Jeep that is two decades old. His goal is to get the newest and safest ride that has some all-weather capability for less than $10,000. What car should he buy?
Read MoreAmericans owe more than $1 trillion in car loans, and we’re borrowing record-setting amounts to buy a car. That’s according to a new report from Experian Automotive, which tracks car loans across the U.S.
Read MoreI’ve brokered thousands of car deals and encountered all sorts of reasons why some dealers refuse to email price quotes. A reader recently reached out to me with one of my favorite bullshit excuses, however: dealers who claim emailed prices are illegal.
Read MoreHello readers, I know you see my name and think “Oh goody, Tom is here to drop some car buying wisdom on me.” And you would be right—while you should pay attention to all that math stuff I keep harping about, my most important tip is that your next car should be green.
Read MoreThe 2018 Buick Regal TourX is the long-roofed wagon version of the Regal sedan, which makes it the first Buick wagon since the ’96 Roadmaster. You can’t order it with wood paneling, but the TourX is a damn decent comeback of the classic American family car.
Read MoreAudrey loves to go camping. He was trying to make it work with his little Chevy hatchback, but he’s ready to treat himself to something nicer, bigger and ready for adventure. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe 306 horsepower Honda Civic Type R was one of the most eagerly anticipated new cars in years. It’s billed as the ultimate front-wheel-drive track weapon, but is it really? This team is building a Type R into a race car to find out.
Read MoreIt’s been a somewhat bewildering week for cars I grew up admiring. First, an automatic (!!!) but super clean 1994 Toyota Supra Turbo seems poised to crack $70,000 when its Bring a Trailer auction ends tomorrow, and then a humble 2000 Honda Civic Si sells for a stunning $22,700 on the same site—nearly as much as a brand new one.
Read MoreYou pay obscene amounts of money just for the privilege of driving your car. But have you ever considered not doing that, maybe by not being a person with 10 points on your license and two DUIs to your name? Have you ever considered, instead, being a 55-year-old married man, with no speeding tickets, living in California?
Read MoreIn a desolate and empty parking lot, two young men work to revive a dead Nissan 200SX. A stranger comes to their aid, then appears out of nowhere again later, offering words of encouragement—and leading to an inexplicable story that both of them would carry for 20 years.
Read MoreRegret is a terrible emotion because it has to do with hindsight. You rationalized yourself not to do something and then the opportunity passed you by. You only realized your mistake after the fact.
Read MoreI’m biased. I grew up with good ol’ American muscle, all bright paint jobs, big tires, and even bigger engines. But that doesn’t mean I’m closed-minded. Very much the opposite. So help me out: how can I also learn to love Japanese cars?
Read MoreThe Nissan RB straight-six is one of the most desirable engines of all time, and America’s Gran Turismo generation fights to get parts for these forbidden fruit motors. That’s what makes Dillon Merkl’s Skyline-powered 1962 Ford Falcon so funny, since he basically it built out of spares and parts other people were throwing away.
Read MoreI’m sort of surprised how rare cartoon-character mascots are for cars. You’d think having some fun, distinctive character associated with a particular model of car would be good for marketing, but it doesn’t really happen all that often. Perhaps it’s thought that cars are too expensive and Serious Business for such frippery. I’m really not sure. What I am sure of is that one company seems to do this far more often than anyone else, so good for them.
Read MoreWe can quantify so many things in the automotive world. Quarter-mile times, points in a race, engine displacements. But how do you measure the greatness of a mechanic? How do you quantify that? Is it how quickly they can fix a vehicle? Is it how many vehicles return to their shop for do-overs or further repair, known as “comebacks”? Is it their ability to bring something back from the brink, even when it’s extraordinarily complex?
Read MoreThe Jeep has one of the most iconic faces in all of motoring. The round lights, the seven-slot grille, the bread-loaf shape, these are all inexorably associated with tough, plucky Jeeps. It doesn’t look like it wants to murder you and dry-hump your corpse, though, and that’s a problem for some people. In trying to solve this “problem,” they make everything much worse.
Read MoreIf you have the chance to experience the magic of Monterey car week in something like a 1972 Porsche 911, it’s best that you take the scenic route.
Read MoreI don’t know if you know this, but people are goofy! We show our asses constantly. The only way to feel better about this is to laugh it off. Which is what we’re going to do this week.
Read MoreSome cars have too many gears, like Ford’s new(ish) 10-speed automatic transmission, which it drops into Mustangs and F-150s. I think we can all agree that’s too many gears. What is the correct amount of gears? After extensive testing, I have determined the answer.
Read MoreI know that by picking a minivan for this week’s Meh Car Monday is going to cause some people to think I’m taking the easy way, because minivans are always meh. I don’t agree with this at all. Minivans can transcend mehitude dramatically! Look at the original Volkswagen Microbus, old Dodge A100s, the Chrysler Town and Country/Caravan, the innovative Previa, hell, even the Ford Aerostar! All of those had something interesting or compelling about them. But not the Mercury Villager. That thing is l
Read MoreThere are many injustices in this world and one of them is being pulled over for something really stupid. It’s frustrating as all hell and inconvenient, too. Not everyone has time to go and contest the charge, we got other stuff to do.
Read MoreI’m sure most of you know that old Volkswagen Beetles would float, at least for an hour or so, but what about the discriminating buyer that wanted to spend a lot of time in the water? Did Volkswagen ever offer any solutions to those wet customers? I’m happy to say, yes, sort of, they did! Once, my friends, you could go to a Volkswagen dealer and order a real, working, VW-powered boat, called a Volksliner.
Read MoreSometimes life gives you the opportunity to choose a difficulty level. It could be in a video game, or it could be which engine you pick from Volkswagen Automotive Group.
Read MoreUg, flying cars. I’m so sick of them. They’re always two years away, they’re always stupid, and nobody is ever going to buy them. They’re miserable teases, and I swore I was done with them. I’d accepted this, and then along come these Dutch bastards with a stupid name, Pal-V, with a flying car they say you (well, rich you) can actually buy and it seems pretty damn cool and now I’m really fucking pissed.
Read MoreA man whose best and worst memories revolve around cars, even as a brain injury makes him lose them. A longshot emergency repair of a Nissan 200SX that may have been overseen by a guardian angel. The magic that happens when you figure out how to drive stick for the first time. Everyone has a story about a car, and that’s what we’re out to chronicle on Tempest.
Read MoreIf you want to travel far off the beaten path, you usually start with a big truck. Not so for Neil Markwardt, who’s slowly been making a 1985 Mercedes 300TD into the ultimate off-roading wagon. Here’s how he did it.
Read MoreWhen McLaren Japan offered me a 570S Spider to drive for a few days, I knew I had to take it somewhere special. This wasn’t some boring kei car—this was a car that needed to be taken on some proper roads. It would almost be blasphemy to only drive in a congested city.
Read MoreWhat’s rarer than a one-of-one exotic supercar randomly getting towed?
Read MoreIf you’re speeding and you get pulled over, that’s on you. But sometimes it isn’t always your fault. Cops are people, too, and occasionally they pull you over for reasons that, uh, aren’t always 100 percent legitimate.
Read MoreWhen most people think about the cars Jeep has made recently, they tend to break down into a few key categories: the iconic Jeep Wrangler, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, maybe the Cherokee, and then a sort of amorphous soup of every other Jeep SUV. These other SUVs, with blandly evocative names like Compass, Liberty, Patriot, and Commander all sort of blur together into a tall, blocky nothingmobile with a seven-slot grille. Let’s pick on the Liberty specifically, though, if we can somehow remember whi
Read MoreAre you guys ready for some truly weird stuff? Because I’ve just spent my morning reading all of your outlandish road trip stories and I feel like I survived through an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Read MoreThe Chevy Citation is a deeply, richly boring car. It’s name is a synonym for a traffic ticket, and it just goes down from there. It may very likely end up on Meh Car Monday at some point (it’s coming back, I promise), but it’s got one strange little design detail I can’t quite wrap my head around.
Read More“What in the hell?” That was 24 Hours of Lemons race organizer and ex-Corvette Magazine writer Nick Pon’s reaction after the series’ first C3-generation Corvette popped its freshly repainted, Warsteiner-liveried hood. Inside was the BMW M50B25 inline-six engine out of an E34 BMW 5 Series. Surprise!
Read MoreIn December 2006, Colorado was buried by two consecutive blizzards, which came to be known as the “Holiday Blizzards of 2006.” I was unaware of the coming historic snowstorms, even as I motored my way up and over Raton Pass behind the wheel of my canary yellow, 1982 Toyota Corolla-Tercel two-door sedan. As the snow began to fall, visibility dropped and all other traffic abandoned the roads. I pressed on through the storm, carried safely along in one of Toyota’s most daring designs.
Read MoreSee that picture up there? It may just look like two starters, one old, one new—and, fundamentally, that’s just what it is. But there’s more revealed in this picture if you know where to look—important revelations about the fundamental nature of humanity. Do you see it? I bet you do.
Read MoreIf you’re like most of our readers, you’ve probably spent more than a few sleepless nights staring off into the darkness, with one haunting question echoing inside your mind: What cars most resemble pug dogs? I’m happy to tell you that you can finally get some sleep, because I have an answer: Lanchesters, specifically from 1910 to 1914.
Read MoreWe’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again; our roads have become far too gloomy and serious. Parking lots are filled with a kind of grayscale sadness thanks to the prevalence of white, black and silver paint on cars. Bright colors are rare, and non-metallic pastels? Forget about it. That’s sad, because this lilac car is the most perfect 911 Turbo I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreIt’s no secret Japan’s supercar owners like to do things differently. Whether it’s sticking riveted over-fenders on Porsches or turning or Lamborghinis into LED displays on wheels, these people have no limits. But every now and then you’ll get someone who tops the rest for sheer ridiculousness, and that’s exactly what Hajime-san and Torako have done.
Read MoreHong Kong has a population of around 7.5 million. It’s one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world, with around 16,948.9 people per square mile. They’ve got a ridiculous tax system on cars and you can’t drive left-hand drive cars on the road unless you have a “special movement permit.” Naturally, it has a pretty interesting car culture, and not just for the notorious junkers—though there’s definitely that too.
Read MoreAs long as there are roads, there will be road trips. There’s just something so great about sitting in a car and watching the miles tumble by. It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey and all that.
Read MoreHere’s some good news: You aren’t always at the mercy of your dealership or auto repair shop. If the repair or replacement is small enough, chances are good that you can probably do it yourself. Just do your research to be sure.
Read MoreCan your Honda Accord go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds? Jim Belosic’s can. Belosic turned a car that he bought as a replica of his high school ride into a rear-wheel-drive Gasser-style electric car using drivetrain bits from a Tesla Model S P85. He calls this roughly 536-horsepower frankencar the Teslonda, and believe it or not, he plans to turn it into a daily driveable car.
Read MoreThe top chassis there was originally designed in 1938. The lower one is brand new, a 2018. There’s 80 years of difference between the two, but there’s an undeniable convergent evolution thing going on as well, right?
Read MoreGM once mocked Ford for attempting a light-weight truck bed, and then it followed up by making something even worse.
Read MoreAn NSX, a Nissan Skyline, an Evo, a Silvia, a Lotus, a Porsche—these cars should be cherished and meticulously maintained. But in Hong Kong, where a parking spot can cost as much as an apartment’s rent elsewhere in the world, they’re left abandoned on roadsides and shipping containers, and stacked up high in junkyards. You won’t believe what is left out to rot.
Read MoreI’ve been wanting to drive a Tata Nano, the Indian city car billed as the cheapest car you could buy new, ever since I heard that a brand-new $2,500 car existed. Somehow, though, the Nano has eluded me; I even spent some time in India, and despite my efforts, I didn’t even get to drive one on its home turf.
Read MoreMuch like all of us would like to do on a stressful day during our 9-to-5 work grind, a Honda Civic rolled into a Florida pool Tuesday afternoon. Who doesn’t love a good dip? Local police said driver of the car didn’t get it into park before getting out, and it rolled into a nearby pool with two passengers inside.
Read MoreThe National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that they were opening an investigation into last week’s deadly Model X crash in Mountain View, California. The NTSB said they’ll be looking into whether Tesla’s Autopilot system was engaged at the time of the crash, in addition to a post-crash fire. The NTSB investigation is the second for Tesla this year.
Read MoreOur favorite low-ass bridge is back in the news, boys! Who is the unlucky victim this time? The United States Army, of course. Look, the U.S. Army might be formidable in other parts of the world, but not against this bridge.
Read MoreA 17-year-old taking her driver’s license test in Buffalo, Minneapolis on Tuesday, uh, well... It could have gone better, by the look of things.
Read MoreI have always been wary of those places that will rent you a supercar. Most peoples’ instinct when they get a car that powerful is to see how fast it is when they aren’t used to the speed. This crashed McLaren 650S looks to be the latest victim of one of those situations. Yes, the car is wrecked, but at least it doesn’t seem like anyone got hurt.
Read MorePolice in Tempe, Arizona, have released video of a fatal crash involving an Uber-owned self-driving car that fatally struck a woman on Sunday. The clip includes footage from two cameras attached to Uber’s Volvo, and shows the car’s safety driver looking away moments before the collision. The victim, contrary to earlier reports, isn’t seen darting in front of the car.
Read MoreI wasn’t aware that this needed repeating, but I suppose we all require some common sense brushing up from time to time. Here’s today’s Very Obvious Reminder: Don’t, for the love of all that’s holy, ever cut off a bus.
Read MoreFord Mustangs getting up to no good at car meets have transcended most punchlines and shot straight to international meme-dom, but it doesn’t stop the whole thing from still being funny when you see it fresh. Here’s the latest one.
Read MoreIt’s a crappy situation but it still happens: Someone hits your car while it’s parked and drives off without leaving you a note. Jalopnik Friends, let’s combine our super powers and see if we can identify the kind of car that hit this Tesla Model X!
Read MoreThis Nissan S-Chassis driver down in Orlando was, perhaps, not having the best day already, needing a tow off track. Things got worse when the tow truck showed up.
Read MoreBy a show of virtual hands, how many of you saw the newest Top Gear episode that aired over the weekend? The Japan episode? Was your mind blown? Because mine sure was.
Read MoreChris Harris, as you might know, is a host on a little show about cars on BBC America called Top Gear. And with the show’s newest season set to premiere this weekend, we sat down with him to chat parking tickets, fire and his role on the biggest car show in the world.
Read MoreOne of the biggest appeals of a show like this week’s New York Auto Show is you get to see, touch and sit in supercars you otherwise might not get a chance to experience, like the Ford GT. It just sucks if the cars are painted black.
Read MoreThe 2018 New York International Auto Show is happening right now, so if you’re in town, definitely grab a ticket and head out to the no man’s land of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to see all the cars! Here’s what Jalopnik found while poking around the show floor during the media days.
Read MoreModern Cadillacs have some of the most aggressive and awesome front ends on any car today. They are angular and sharp and mean and wonderful. And then you get to the back of the car and it’s like all the designers just... quit work a little early.
Read MoreYou may have noticed the brand new 2019 Nissan Altima has a befuddling gap between the hood, headlights and front fenders. I double checked with Nissan and, yeah, apparently it’s just supposed to look like that.
Read MoreRimac’s C_Two supercar has an unbelievable 1,914 horsepower that’s sure to leave every competitor at events like the Texas Mile in ruins in the near future. It’s nearly sold out just three weeks after its debut, per Carscoops. Clearly, the world is ready for electric supercars, and all the automakers too timid to build one are being left in the dust.
Read MoreYour new car is going to come with a big infotainment screen. It’s pretty much inevitable. But what we also should be doing is adding more analog clocks to our cars because analog clocks are Good.
Read MoreThe New York Auto Show was pretty boring, but one shining beacon of hope from the industry came from the German automakers, who decided to show up with a surprisingly diverse and exciting spectrum of car colors this year.
Read MoreIt’s always great when automakers show up with some of their heritage models. BMW brought an M1 racecar, and, well, Subaru brought the first four generations of the Forester to introduce the newest one at the New York Auto Show. But they’re cool! And they were a last minute idea.
Read MoreSo, when I drove the Maserati Levante for the first time last month, I thought it was pretty fast. Meaning that, I didn’t feel like it needed any more power. Maserati, clearly, disagrees with me.
Read MoreHyundai finally made Genesis its own standalone luxury brand, and while that will leave a lot of luxury car buyers wondering “What the hell is Genesis?”, it also means the company can do pretty much whatever it wants. One thing I think it should do is build this, the Genesis Essentia Concept, an electric GT car that’s one of the better looking concepts I’ve seen in a while.
Read MoreHey, Volkswagen! If you want us to move past the fact that you pumped a bunch of extra nitrogen dioxide into the air and tried to hide it, we need you to start making cool cars again. Sure, we love the GTI, but we’re talking more cool cars. Like the Atlas Tanoak concept introduced today. That! Build that, but make sure it’s priced so that we can actually justify buying it.
Read MoreIf you’d said a month ago that you had no reason to be excited about a Toyota Corolla, I’d understand. Not anymore. Not since we learned that the 2019 Corolla hatchback with a six-speed manual was coming. Here’s why it’s important.
Read MoreThe 2019 Subaru Forester is here, and it is large. Subaru calls it the roomiest, most capable and quietest Forester to date, in case the children break the noise-canceling headphones they stick in their iPads immediately after getting in. It’s also up a full 12 horsepower from base last year, but won’t come with a turbo.
Read MoreIt seems like every pickup truck has some sort of gimmick these days. The GMC Sierra has the six-way tailgate, the Honda Ridgeline has a cubby in the bed floor, the F-150 has stowable loading ramps, etc. But the new Volkswagan Atlas Tanoak concept, revealed at the New York Auto Show today, has a cool feature unique to trucks that’s been on European sedans forever.
Read MoreIt’s been a while since America’s golden shores have received a Volkswagen pickup. While we pine over the loss of the original Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup, much of the rest of the world enjoys the glories of the Volkswagen Amarok. But today, that begins to change. This is the Volkswagen Atlas Tanoak.
Read MoreWe live in exciting times: The new Nissan Altima is replacing its big 3.5-liter V6 for a 2.5-liter four, and it’s making up the difference not just with a turbo but also with a 2.0-liter variable compression engine.
Read MoreThere’s a new Lincoln Aviator coming and it’s a more interesting vehicle than you’d think. The outside says Range Rover, the inside says Mercedes and under the skin is a new rear-wheel drive unibody we haven’t seen yet.
Read MoreI think a big part of the crossover appeal isn’t that they’re just lifted wagons that are easy to get into, but that they often look rugged and outdoorsy, all about plundering nature on an individual level. They’re not true SUVs, but if they look the part, people can still buy into that image. Evidently that’s the route designers went with the 2019 Toyota RAV4.
Read MoreThe 2019 GMC Sierra is kicking off the New York Auto Show with the debut of its AT4 package, upgrading the new truck for your off-pavement activities while previewing an all-new sub-brand of off-the-lot off-road GMCs.
Read MoreAh, here it is at last, the 2019 Honda Insight. And it’s, uh, fine. It’s just fine. The good news is the fuel economy’s super legit.
Read MoreNissan will follow the trend that it started with its 2018 Rogue by offering another mass-market model, the 2019 Nissan Altima, equipped with semi-autonomous driving technology. Consider it another example of how this stuff is trickling down from luxury cars to super ordinary ones.
Read MoreElectric cars offer a different driving dynamic than their traditional, gasoline-powered counterparts. Their batteries make them heavier and they produce instant torque. At this year’s 2018 Geneva Motor Show, Goodyear revealed a prototype that’s specially designed with electric cars in mind.
Read MoreThe Geneva Motor Show is upon us, which means we get another wacky design by Swiss designer Franco Sbarro’s students at France’s Espera Sbarro school. This year’s model is called the “4x4+2,” and it involves an old Porsche Cayenne, six wheels, and a crap-ton of bumpers.
Read MoreIn the early days of motorsports, when race cars were lithe and elegant slips of steel, it was pretty common to see their racing numbers painted on their front grilles. Today, it’s an underutilized aesthetic. Let’s all paint numbers on our cars’ faces!
Read MoreThe press pics of the Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo are pretty slick. They show the car in a fine light looking all purposeful and Porsche-ish. But in person, here at the Geneva Motor Show, it looks a little more rough than ready.
Read MoreZenvo has been producing evolutions of the same car for the last decade. It’s a big, mid engined supercar and the latest iteration, the TSR-S, produces 1177 brake horsepower from a 5.8-liter tri-supercharged (!) V8 engine. Zenvo says it’ll get from 0-62mph in 2.8 seconds and up to a limited 202mph. It’s a fast, stripped out, hardcore car.
Read MoreAs the sun sets on the Geneva Motor Show press days, I thought I’d take a tour of the show floor and do a different sort of round up. The kind of round up that involves staring (for a bit too long, admittedly) at a bunch of massive wings glued to the back of cars that either don’t exist or I’ll never be able to afford.
Read MoreWe’ve spent years wondering when the new Toyota Supra will finally come out. YEARS! At this point, the idea of a new Supra is older than the junior high kids who need to stay off my lawn. Now a spokesperson for Toyota’s British arm says we’ll have to wait another year to see the production version. Ugh.
Read MoreThe old Rimac Concept One went from zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds. That’s fast. That’s very fast. The new one, called the C Two and unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show earlier today, is supposed to beat that by nearly a full second, which seems impossibly quick in a car that isn’t a top-fuel dragster or doesn’t have a dang jet engine strapped to its back.
Read MoreThe Polestar 1 is a wildly beautiful coupe that, when it first was announced, you couldn’t really buy. All we knew was that it’d be part of Volvo’s “car subscription” program. Now we have more details on how the pricing thereof shakes out, and yes, a confirmation that you can actually buy the car if you want to.
Read MoreThe world of Ye Olde Worlde Cars has been quietly carrying on thanks to Morgan, a company that like to keep things pleasantly old school. Big motors, wood frames, looks from 1950s England, and a healthy dose of good ‘ol Blighty are Morgan’s jam—but taxes and regulations mean it has to change. And without many people noticing, it has.
Read MoreWe’ve been waiting too long for a new Toyota Supra to fill our dreams with visions of Texas Mile domination. Today, we finally saw the Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept, which is the closest thing to a real-life new Supra we’ve seen to date. But how much will the production version cost?
Read MoreOur fear that the new Toyota Supra will not come with a manual transmission has essentially been confirmed, with Toyota’s global chief engineer Tetsuya Tada telling Autoblog that Supra fans don’t really want to row their own gears that badly. Excuse me?
Read MoreThe Aston Martin Valkyrie is set to be among the most capable high performance cars ever put on the road. That’s great. That’s fine. What I’m currently losing my mind over is this track-only version, the 1,100-horsepower Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro. It is so goddamn cool.
Read MoreCroatian car manufacturer Rimac Automobili is perhaps best known for “that car Richard Hammond wrecked in,” when it deserves far more than that. But Rimac could finally leave that legacy behind, because its new car makes enough headlines on its own: The all-electric Rimac C Two is rated at 1,914 horsepower.
Read MoreWe’re big fans of the Subaru Viziv concepts here at Jalopnik. They look like Subarus you’d make from folding paper. It’s no surprise, then, that the new Subaru Viziv Tourer Concept looks awesome, too. And it probably helps that it’s brown.
Read MoreIt’s not every day a new Toyota Supra comes out. But we got one today at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, and it’s looking pretty good, if a little… racecar-y. But at the presser, audiences were told that this concept was a clear signal of intent to build a real, honest-to-God Supra for the road.
Read MoreYou’re probably thinking the car in the picture above is some sort of modified Porsche 911, but then you’d be wrong, because—despite its looks—it’s not a 911 at all. It’s a RUF SCR 2018, and its platform is completely custom-built.
Read MoreI enjoy the looks of the current Range Rover, but I never gave much thought to what it might look like with two fewer doors. Why would I? Even in the current SUV boom, that seemed a bridge too far for Land Rover. Evidently I was wrong. If you have a boatload of cash, you can get the two-door modern Range Rover you demand, and it looks great.
Read MoreEngineered with technology that was way too far ahead of its time, it only seems fitting now that Aston Martin is examining its place in the automotive future with this, the new Aston Martin Lagonda Vision Concept.
Read MoreAround these parts, we are big fans of the Mercedes-AMG GT, because we have eyes and ears and utter contempt for our driver’s licenses. But we are aware of its limitations. It only has two seats and two doors, so the number of folks who can join you for its biturbo V8 shenanigans is just one. Until now. Meet the super-sized 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe.
Read MoreThe Bugatti Chiron was never a car you were supposed to track. It was meant for impressing fellow yachters and high-speed, straight-line runs. Bugatti wants to change that with the new Chiron Sport.
Read MoreYou ever see a situation that’s less than ideal unfolding from afar and then think to yourself, in a really resigned kind of way, “Alright. Fine. Let’s do this thing”? That basically sums up my feelings for the 2019 Lexus UX compact crossover.
Read MoreWe knew it was going to happen, but here it is anyways: the 2019 Lamborghini Huracán Performante Spyder. Yet another version of the good ol’ Huracán, just without a roof and much lighter.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Le Fil Rouge concept is supposed to herald in the car company’s new design direction. The tagline is a little gross (“Sensuous Sportiness”) but the shape is pretty slick.
Read MoreThe Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo is an insult to everything I hold sacred. It is the quintessential compromise car: efficient, cool-looking, fast, multi-terrain capable... hmm, suddenly I’m in danger of talking myself into liking it.
Read MoreMeet the new Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept, the race-concept version of what the production Toyota Supra will be. No, it’s not the production version, but it’s our closest official look yet of what’s to come.
Read MoreThe Honda Urban EV Concept is like the synthwave aesthetic on wheels. Six months ago it had everyone smitten when it was trotted out at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and this week in Geneva Honda’s confirmed “a production version” is really truly in the pipeline.
Read MoreI’m fairly certain that nobody has walked away from a Bentayga purchase because Bentley didn’t offer a hybrid version, but if anyone was on the fence about things, there’s now a Bentley Bentayga Hybrid to soothe your guilt-ridden, gas-burning heart.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s planning a huge “we’re sorry about the diesel thing” onslaught of electric cars, and next up in that is this: the I.D. Vizzion Concept debuting at the Geneva Motor Show. I’m happy to report that the car, aimed to be produced by 2022 “at the latest,” will, initially at least, have a steering wheel after all. It’s also got a giant battery that bests Tesla’s whole lineup.
Read MoreOne of the most prestigious auto shows in the world, the Geneva Motor Show, starts in a few days. That show will have noticeably fewer female booth models standing near cars in heels and tight clothing, according to Bloomberg. Three cheers for not using women’s physical appearance to help sell products!
Read MoreThe 2018 Ford Expedition Platinum 4x4 is almost as big and broad as a half-ton pickup truck, but it really feels more like a station wagon. A station wagon that got a healthy dose of superhero serum and is ready to take your family (or Uber XL passengers) around in far more comfort than they probably deserve.
Read MoreDo you know what an “interference engine” is? While I know a great many of our regular readers do, there’s no shame if you’re not exactly sure. It’s a term that gets thrown around a lot, and is really quite important. In fact, I bet a lot of readers who are familiar with the term are nervously wondering, as we speak, when the last time they changed their timing chain or belt. It’s not hard to understand, so let’s get to it.
Read MoreYou, a human being who we imagine likes to drive cars, are probably aware of the signs posted that state exactly how fast you can legally drive on a given road. But how the hell do those things even get determined?
Read MoreFrustrated up with dearth of passing, confusing rules or just a general lack of excitement in your motorsports series of choice? Then it’s time to check out MotoGP. The new season kicks off this weekend, and all signs point to it being another amazing one.
Read MoreThis video of a motorcyclist riding one long-ass wheelie through St. Louis has been floating around for a day or so. Since the clip opens with the bike next to a cop car, you might think it’s about to be skull-cracking time. But surprisingly the police appear to be uncharacteristically pro-wheelie here.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson has been stuck in a bit of a rut lately thanks to reporting 82 percent less profit between 2016 and 2017, a big recall and the looming threat of tariffs on its products in Europe. In a (likely) attempt to calm its shareholders, the company recently announced an investment in Alta Motors, an electric motorcycle manufacturer.
Read MoreAloha Wanderwell. The name itself sounds destined for adventure, and there was adventure aplenty in the 1920s for a young woman eager to see the world. Back then, before the jet age, the world outside your front door was still shrouded in mystery, more than reason enough for the Winnipeg-born Wanderwell to sign up, at the age of sixteen, for an expedition around the world.
Read MoreLast April, eighteen-year-old Billy Monger lost both of his legs in a tragic British Formula 4 crash, and in March of this year it was confirmed that Monger would be back in the car for a full season of British F3 with Carlin Racing. And at his first race back in the series one step above the series he crashed in with a car designed especially for his needs, Billy Monger has finished on the podium.
Read MoreLast week, we discovered a shockingly pristine Toyota Supra Turbo on Bring A Trailer. Despite three owners, the car only had racked up 5,664 miles, was kept entirely stock, and had about as clean of a record as you could pray a car would have. At that time, someone had already bid $50,000, a pretty standard going price for a Supra. It ended up selling for a lot more, or $80,500 to be exact.
Read MoreToday when we think “lightweight car,” we think aluminum. We think magnesium and carbon fiber. We think higher-strength steel instead of larger quantities of it. We think taking out our rear seats, stripping down the interior, removing the stereo, and shedding extra pounds wherever we can.
Read MoreEverybody has a different story behind why they got a tattoo. Maybe it was borne of passion or is meant to commemorate a first, a last, or a favorite. Maybe you love something so much you want to let the whole world know, or maybe you just thought, “Hell, that would look cool.”
Read MoreFormula E’s new car for its fifth season, the Gen2, was released in January of this year and earned a pretty favorable reaction all across the board. Now, instead of just bodywork, we’re getting our first looks at what these cars will be able to do when they hit the track. One big change: an increase of battery capacity means that drivers are no longer going to have to leap from one car to another mid-race.
Read MoreThe National Labor Relations Board has filed an amended complaint against Tesla, reigniting a fight between the independent government agency and the automaker over alleged workplace violations.
Read MoreYamaha is accountable for some of the greatest road car engines of all time, from the Lexus LFA’s screaming V10 to the Ford Taurus SHO’s snake’s nest V6. As for racing engines, things are a bit less rosy.
Read MoreEver been on a safari? Have you been on one with a cheetah as a passenger? Seems pretty scary!
Read MoreSpotted, Wednesday on Highway 99 in Fresno, California: a man holding onto a tractor-trailer, cruising down the road. This is illegal, of course.
Read MoreThat’s because it’s real. What you’re looking at is the General Electric Propulsion Test Platform, a specially modified Boeing 747-400 used to try out new jet engines. In this case, it’s testing out the huge new GE9X meant to power the next generation of Boeing 777.
Read MoreJust a week after the deadly Uber crash in Arizona, a self-driving car in San Francisco was ticketed for being too close to a pedestrian, according to KPIX, with a witness capturing a photo of the scene. Cruise, for its part, denies the car was doing anything unsafe, and said it has data to prove it.
Read MoreThe pre-war period was a weird time for Grand Prix cars. Engineers had figured out that by cramming more fuel and air into ever more cylinders, you could create vast amounts of power. They hadn’t quite figured out the chassis and tires yet, however, which led to Auto Union’s V16 dually beast.
Read MoreApril Fool’s Day is this weekend, which means that a few automakers will attempt to prank the world with silly jokes and press releases. Normally, I’d ignore such foolishness, but this one from Honda and concerning a fake CR-V Roadster concept really hit me where it hurts.
Read More“For all you folks who like to drive in the left lane on a divided highway, guess what?” The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Nov. 10 in announcing new legislation outlawing the practice. “You’re breaking the law. The left lane is a passing lane.” And ... guess what? Since then police have pulled over dozens of motorists for breaking the law, not all in situations one might describe as “making sense.”
Read MoreJalopnik, a website of attractive idiots, is occasionally wrong. Already twice this week we have sung the praises of the new Atlas Tanoak mid-size truck concept, when VW has already been making the perfect pickup truck.
Read MoreThe Ford Taurus SHO was an undeniably good car, so it’s no surprise that Conan O’Brien has kept his 1992 Ford Taurus SHO around for so long, even if he still likes to make fun of it on segments for Conan.
Read MoreWe are in an unexpected golden age of wagons. This year alone, your hardworking Jalopnik staff has tested wagons from Volvo, Buick, Mercedes and Jaguar. Wagons are having a bit of a moment thanks to the crossover boom and how Americans are going nuts over anything with a hatch. But now we find ourselves in what may be the wagon apex predator: the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Kona Electric isn’t the first EV to have no grille. It just has the most least of a face of any of these kinds of cars.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt promised to be a mean green movie-inspired machine, but Ford hadn’t nailed down any exact figures for horsepower and torque until today. The newest Bullitt will get 480 horsepower and 420 lb-ft. of torque.
Read MoreFor years, Tesla has been riding high on a combination of venture capital and good old fashioned borrowing, all while losing billions of dollars. But this week, as its stock nosedives and its credit gets downgraded, Tesla might finally be forced to ask itself: What if this, in fact, is entirely unsustainable?
Read MoreLook how happy they look. In most automotive press photos nowadays everyone just looks miserable. I want an MR2. An MR2 would make me happy. An MR2 would make you happy. Get an MR2. Be an MR2.
Read MoreSeveral members of the Mustang6G forums are starting to place their orders for the very rad and very green 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt already, so now we know how much it will cost: the base MSRP is $46,595. They also got their hands on the 2019 Mustang order guide, which spells out exactly what you’ll get for that price.
Read MoreI am a huge fan of all the old cool wheels you’d see on rally cars and touring cars racing from the ‘70s through the ‘90s, and I just assumed that they we all out of production, like all the BMW E30s in heaven right now. I was extremely wrong!
Read MoreA common dream amongst real, normal humans is to drive one of the hulking monsters from pre-war Grand Prix racing. But alas, those things cost millions (if they’re not just considered priceless). The next best thing is to build your own miniature version, completely with a throaty, raspy, buzzy V16 engine in the back. Really.
Read MoreThe electric Jaguar I-Pace has a grille. Why? For air circulation and cooling, obviously. People don’t always understand this. One commenter is here to help.
Read MoreLots of folks are in town for the 2018 New York International Auto Show, so we decided to give them a proper welcome at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Enjoy.
Read MoreMany people have challenged the design team at Jaguar for slapping the corporate face on the innovative new Jaguar I-Pace, claiming it doesn’t need a grille if it’s electric. Jaguar wanted to set the record straight at the New York Auto Show, and it turns out the grille actually serves two vital functions.
Read MoreNobody bought the last Kia K900, but for reasons beyond me, Kia went ahead and made a new one. It’s a full-size luxury car with Kia’s charming 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6 out of the wonderful Stinger. I just still don’t know why.
Read MoreHonda will stop production of the Accord for about two weeks this summer to “focus on aligning production to current market conditions,” a spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. The current market conditions are that no one wants sedans anymore, not even the really, really good ones. We’re all monsters.
Read MorePotholes ruin every car owner’s life, but the ones in Michigan are particularly awful. One pothole was large enough to fit an entire box of Lucky Charms and a whole gallon of milk—which 22-year-old Eastern Michigan University student Andrew ate to our gross-out amusement.
Read MoreI went to the track this weekend, and rode along as a Ferrari 488 Spider reached frightening speeds. And while the acceleration it could achieve over 100 mph was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen or felt in my entire life, what I’m still thinking about three days after are ... the seats, which were just so damn comfortable. Too comfortable, perhaps.
Read MoreIt turns out we solved the problem of “cars” in the late ‘70s. We don’t need more new cars. This is the only car we need.
Read MoreThe Cadillac halo car: It’s coming, guys. It’s definitely coming because Cadillac boss Johan de Nysschen said so. He’s also, uh, been saying so, but that’s okay, too.
Read MoreIt’s evident that Cadillac aims to print money with the new, smallish XT4 crossover, but that’s not because it’s going to be obnoxiously expensive. The car debuted at the New York Auto Show on Tuesday, and Cadillac says it’s starting out at a somewhat unexpectedly low price of $35,790.
Read MoreWe had some qualms with Jaguar Land Rover’s E-Pace performance capability, but the automaker sure seems to have delivered on performance with the new F-Pace SVR, which is debuting at the New York auto show this week. A supercharged V8 is packed under the hood and it’s supposd to deliver 550 horsepower. Alright now.
Read MoreAudi rolled into the New York Auto Show this week with the the RS5 Sportback, and the automaker’s geeked about its performance numbers: 0-60 in under four seconds, in particular. It’s fast, no doubt.
Read MoreWe’ve got a big deal in town at the moment, a little gathering called the New York International Auto Show. And while recent car shows have turned into the autonomous pod showcase, there was a time when auto shows were places to experiment. Take the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show, which featured the first Plymouth Prowler, in addition to the Chrysler Phaeton, one of the more ridiculous concept cars ever made. But you know what else was there, not quietly at all, in retrospect? An omen of our electric fut
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz S-Class has some of the most comfortable and pampering seats on the market today. You can drive around while being simultaneously cooled, heated, massaged and hugged by the active bolsters. But what’s under all that buttery and perforated leather?
Read MoreI am on my way, right now, to Jaguar Land Rover’s big New York Auto Show event, where I will have a brief opportunity to drive the new electric Jaguar I-Pace. Now is the time for questions.
Read MoreBecause the sky doesn’t produce as many shooting stars as the wealthy deserve, Rolls-Royce made the new Wraith Luminary Collection. It’ll have Rolls’ classic starry fiber-optic headliner, blanketing passengers in a mock night sky with an exorbitant price when the real one is just a chauffeur-opened door away.
Read MoreThe 2000 Honda Civic was a good if unsexy car, coming out in the model’s late middle years. Famously reliable, a lot of 2000 Honda Civics are still puttering around, too, like this one in Kalaeloa, Hawaii, that was viciously stolen Friday via a forklift.
Read MoreI can feel the reverberations getting stronger, pulling my hands closer to the keys. Corolla. Model year 1974 to 1985. Sort by: newest. In a flash I am here, 2,800 miles and $2,800 dollars away from this rusty Toyota Corolla SR-5 hardtop. I know must not buy it. Simultaneously: I want nothing more than to buy it.
Read MoreThey did it. Our crazy sons of bitches did it. Project Redwood has arrived in Moab.
Read MoreThe state of Arizona is finished with Uber’s self-driving car test program.
Read MoreThe 18,000-foot Mount Elbrus is a proud mountain, and it recently displayed its natural grandeur in the most appropriate of ways: by dropping an avalanche onto a parking lot and eating a bunch of cars.
Read MoreDespite the onslaught of hybrid and electric vehicle announcements from automakers, they’re still busy squeezing as much efficiency out of internal combustion engines as possible. It’s Toyota’s turn to improve its engines, like tweaking its 2.5-liter inline four-cylinder in the 2018 Camry to be more powerful and thermally efficient.
Read MoreAfter a characteristically bizarre press unveiling in Amsterdam involving some spoon-feeding and a lot of conceptual dancing, Lynk & Co. debuted a new small crossover. But what’s more interesting is how Lynk & Co. wants people to buy it. Or, well, not.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 3 is not only futuristic, it feels surprisingly normal. But what is normal, really? Last time we were only able to drive a Model 3 for a few hours, but this time, we got a whole weekend. So go ahead and ask us anything you want about it.
Read MoreProject Redwood isn’t going down without a fight! Can it make it the remaining 100 miles? I have faith and so should you.
Read MoreFerrari is recalling a batch of 488s made during the 2016 model year, after the Italian automaker discovered a software error may occur if the supercar’s brake discs are worn out.
Read MoreEarlier today, we ran a Countersteer roundup where one unfortunate reader accidentally let a shop towel get sucked into a turbo during a dyno pull. It was bad, catastrophically so. And then I got to see such a thing happen in action.
Read MoreThis is the 2002 Lincoln Continental concept. Yes, you read that right: 2002. It’s still so good that it not only puts the current Lincoln Continental to shame, but Lincoln should seriously just go ahead and put it into production.
Read MoreIf you looked at the test mule above and went, “Oh, that’s just another Porsche 911,” then you’d be right. It definitely is another Porsche 911, but it’s also probably the new 992-generation 911.
Read MoreIn a beautiful example of purely nepotistic synergies, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will drive the Formula E race car of Nelson Piquet Jr. up the West Side Highway in New York City in honor of the New York Auto Show this week. Guess the subway’s gotten that shitty, huh, Cuomo?
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Transportation is currently evaluating a “lengthy series of requests” from major airlines that would allow them to hide ancillary fees for consumers as they’re searching for tickets, according to Bloomberg.
Read MoreTo anyone who has never had something embarrassing happen to them in their car: Get lost. This post isn’t for you. This one is for all the people who have had shameful stuff happen to them in their cars. We are here for you.
Read MoreThe Texas Mile isn’t for people who like calm weekend drives. It’s an event where cars can run flat out for four times the length of a quarter mile, where a 2006 Ford GT went nearly 294 mph once, and where the 200-mph club is an honor. This 2019 Corvette ZR1 apparently hit 190.1 mph there over the weekend.
Read MoreNow that it has the strong-selling Tiguan and Atlas crossovers, and with the diesel unpleasantness winding down, Volkswagen seems convinced it has the best shot at succeeding in the American market since the Beetle had an engine in the back. But there’s one critical area where VW has zero presence: pickup trucks. Apparently, that may start to change this week.
Read MoreProbably the best car that no one is buying is getting even better according to a report from Automotive News: The Lincoln Continental is going to get suicide doors. I am both extremely hyped for this and also simultaneously sad.
Read MoreWith hands burned and blistered by a red-hot steering wheel and a head still reeling from a long night of sex and champagne, former cabaret dancer Hellé Nice won the first all-female Grand Prix at Montlhéry, France in 1929. Thus began a short but victory-filled career wrought with tragedy and controversy in between blissful moments of success.
Read MoreIf you loved Amazon’s Grand Prix Driver, then buckle in because Formula One just announced a new partnership with Netflix that sounds like it could be even cooler.
Read MoreFormula One is off to an interesting start in 2018. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel got lucky and took advantage of the virtual safety car to win the Australian Grand Prix opener, relegating perennial winner Lewis Hamilton to second place amid what Mercedes called a software problem. America’s Haas F1 seemed to be doing okay, until it wasn’t. And then for American fans there was the ESPN broadcast, which everyone agrees was an absolute disaster.
Read MoreThings were looking pretty great for the Haas F1 team during Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix. With both Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean qualifying in the top 10 and moving up to run 4th and 5th at the race start, it was hard not to be somewhat optimistic. If the drivers held those positions, the American team would score its best finish ever, not to mention a whole heap of points, too.
Read MoreNow, I know that as humans we’re bipedal, but when we’re in a car, driving, we’re really being true quadrapeds. All four of our ropy, mammalian limbs are in use. And, in an automatic, its’s just three limbs, which means one limb is just being lazy. There’s a lot to control in a car–should we be giving more for that extra leg to do?
Read MoreClean, unmodified Toyota Supra Turbos have always commanded hefty price tags, but the market is starting to make air-cooled 911s look like Craigslist Honda Civic beaters. As I browse the website where the Jalopnik staff wastes most of its time during the workday—Bring A Trailer—I can only wonder what this ultra-un-messed-with 1994 Supra with just 5,664 miles will end up fetching.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of the fatal crash involving an self-driving Uber vehicle and pedestrian 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Arizona last week, the company has come under extra scrutiny about its self-driving technology and how it’s deployed. Now, a New York Times investigation details just how far behind Uber’s cars were even leading up to the Arizona crash.
Read MoreTo the casual observer, electric cars seemed to pop up out of nowhere in recent years. No one was questioning the down-and-dirty internal combustion engines that have dominated the automotive world for decades. Now Elon Musk is launching a Tesla into space, there are all-electric racing series springing out of the woodwork, suddenly EVs are actually kind of cool. Except people in the 1910s had already figured that out.
Read MoreSubaru of America recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. It might not be the biggest selling brand in the country, but it just closed out 2017 as its best year of sales here ever and its brand loyalty is unquestionable. What you may not know is that this kind of reputation was actually born out of rebelling against a bad review.
Read MoreDoes life imitate art or does art imitate life? Well, when it comes to Fast and Furious movies and the people who love them, the line between movie and reality seems to get a bit blurred. And you know what? I totally get it.
Read MoreThe Formula One season opening in Melbourne, Australia is kicking off with a bang this weekend for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team—quite literally, and way before the race.
Read MoreLove it or hate it, the Formula One halo is here to stay. Unfortunately for the series, a lot of people hate it. And it looks like there’s going to be a whole new reason to keep wishing for the old days.
Read MoreAre you excited for the weekend? Do you have any big plans? Whether or not you do, find time to watch Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie steal cars in the Gone In 60 Seconds remake this weekend for Jalopnik Movie Club!
Read MoreYou might think a guy like Chris Harris, who frequently drives cars engineered to the highest degree of performance, has no patience for anything resembling a people’s car. But as featured in the latest series of Top Gear, he’s absolutely in love with his 1957 Citroen 2CV.
Read MoreNext week kicks off the 2018 New York Auto Show, and there will be some cars. But we love you, the readers, even more than we love (some) cars. So we’re throwing a New York party. There will be beers! Blipshift will also be there. And you should be there with us, too. At a bar.
Read MoreWhen it debuted, Mazda’s K-series engine was the smallest V6 ever put into production. While it was quickly overtaken and then expanded into a more reasonable 2.0- and 2.5-liters (as opposed to a minute 1.8), it remained almost oddly overbuilt.
Read MoreCold weather is not my thing. Ice is not my thing. Visiting the north is definitely not my thing. As a Texan, I like for it to be at least above 80 degrees Fahrenheit, if not in the triple digits. Ice driving and studded tires aren’t exactly my specialty.
Read MorePorsche plans to install fast chargers at every single dealership the automaker runs in the U.S. to coincide with the rollout of its all-electric Mission E, but it won’t take a cue from Tesla and offer free access to owners.
Read MoreWelcome to the world of 2018, where the Toyota Supra won’t get a manual but the new Toyota Corolla will.
Read MoreWe are all saddened to hear that the Audi R8 sports car may not have much life left. Really, it comes as no surprise as Audi focuses on electric vehicles, but the fact remains that despite making newer and faster versions Audi was never really able to top the original R8.
Read MoreOne of my favorite things in drifting is when a car is set up to sort of drive itself. Watch this video to see what I mean.
Read MoreNews of Cadillac’s new 2019 CT6 V-Sport dropped yesterday. And y’all? I am freaking STOKED about it. Keep in mind that I’m generally someone who hates most new cars, too.
Read MoreI cannot envision the world where a movie like Smokey And The Bandit—an action-comedy about a famed local driver and his trucker friend tasked with retrieving 400 cases of outlawed Coors beer in 28 hours while being chased by a Texas sheriff for picking up a runaway bride—can be the second highest-grossing film of the year its release, second only to the Star Wars. Yet that is what happened in 1977, because Smokey And The Bandit is goddamn magical.
Read MoreThe family of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin has reportedly settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Fiat Chrysler over a 2016 rollaway crash of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that killed the 27-year-old in his driveway.
Read MoreAutomakers are preaching the gospel of clean energy when it comes to their plans for electric cars, but when it comes to vehicle emission standards—which are currently being reevaluated—they’ve turned to refuting basic science that’s behind climate change.
Read MoreHere’s a warning: this whole story is absolutely, maddeningly baffling. It’s the story of a man who bought a 1967 Cadillac Coupe DeVille as a project car that he hoped would be a surprise for his dad. It’s the story of truly staggering incompetence on the part of the car haulers, or perhaps a local tow company. It’s the story of a car dumped on its side, on the side of the road.
Read MoreFriends, I am still mourning our loss of the Dodge Viper, a king of the road in its own right. And though the car might be no more, at least its birthplace will be put to good use.
Read MoreThe air-cooled vintage Porsche market is little bonkers lately, with some folks paying upwards of six-figures or more for some rare specimen. Well, if you have a desire for an old Porsche but are working with a modest budget here is your chance, just make sure you get a tetanus shot.
Read MoreIndiana State Police pulled over a 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat for going more than twice the speed limit on a toll road Tuesday, clocked at at 160 mph, as the department said in a statement. The driver purportedly told an officer he was “just trying to get to Maryland.”
Read MoreYou need insurance if you want to drive in public. Everyone knows this except, perhaps, the owner of this McLaren 570S.
Read MoreAn autonomous Uber prototype killed a pedestrian in Arizona, and a recently released video shows its minder being caught completely unaware and the car itself doing seemingly nothing to avert the crash. But when you look at the company’s extensive track record of being irresponsible, exploitative and downright scummy, it’s easy to wonder why anyone is okay with Uber testing self-driving cars at all.
Read MoreWhen shopping for a new car, you first have to decide whether you want to buy new or used. And because cars have steadily been increasing in quality over the last decade or so, buying a car that’s 10 years old isn’t a huge risk anymore. The next step is insurance. What’s cheap and what’s expensive to insure?
Read MoreThis is my first spring as a homeowner, and I have mixed emotions. I don’t like cutting limbs or pulling weeds and fence stain is so expensive I’d rather use my own blood, but, also, seeing plants bloom on my own lot is beautiful. It reminds me how lovely pastel colors are, and how great they’d look on a Subaru BRZ.
Read MoreEvery automaker is desperate nowadays to find new ways of gaining fuel efficiency, especially now that electric cars are beginning to carve out a corner of the market. Some new cars, like the Tesla Model 3, come with cool space-age looking aerodynamic wheel covers to be more efficient—but why doesn’t every new car do the same?
Read MoreYou will never experience first hand what it’s like to pilot the $3 million Ferrari FXX K, but that’s why YouTube exists.
Read MoreCadillac just revealed a new “hot vee” 4.2-liter twin-turbo V8, the brand’s first exclusive engine in 26 years. For now, the engine is only destined for the 2019 Cadillac CT6 V-Sport. That’s nice, but the real interest lies in what else Cadillac plans to do with it.
Read MoreOur pals over at Car Design Archives found this remarkable sketch on eBay, and only just posted it today, making this likely the first time it’s been seen publicly. It’s a sketch of a proposed American-market truck, based on the Renault 12, and dating from 1979, the year Renault bought AMC. What would AMC and Jeep have been like if they embraced more Renault crossover designs?
Read MoreI’m not exactly sure what Mitch Smith Chevrolet of Cullman, Alabama did to piss off the Ice Gods, but, damn, they must have done something. That’s the only way to explain this bombardment of baseball-sized hail beating the crap out of their Camaros and other Chevys.
Read MoreOver the past few years, legacy print magazine Motor Trend has built up a sizable and enviable digital video operation, including 5.6 million YouTube subscribers and an ambitious on demand video network. But earlier this week, in another sign of YouTube’s fading relevance to publishers and the increasing revenue crunch for video creators there, Motor Trend announced its video future will be on its own website, not YouTube.
Read MoreLast night, my coworker Raphael Orlove and I went down to the neighborhood bar for a spot of traditional pub trivia. The kindly quizmaster queried as to who invented the odometer. It doesn’t matter what we responded with, because the “correct” answer—given as Benjamin Franklin—was WRONG. This is a pernicious myth that MUST be corrected. Ben Franklin didn’t invent the odometer at all.
Read MoreJoshua Vides is an artist best known for making real things look like drawings. He’s likely best known for his sneakers, which sure as hell look like drawings of sneakers. He’s also done porta-potties, street signs, rooms, and more, changing the look of reality into drawings. He’s got an exhibit at Los Angeles’ Seventh Letter gallery now, and the centerpiece of it is this incredible wrapped NSX.
Read MoreI don’t consider myself a Serious Car Person in the slightest, but I can’t help but to roll my eyes when people decide to take certain liberties when pronouncing the name of a certain German automaker. Raphael believes differently.
Read MoreThe 1993 Cadillac Allante roadster debuted the 4.6-liter Northstar V8, otherwise known as the last exclusive Cadillac engine. Now, after 26 years, Cadillac gets its own V8 motor again, in the form of a twin-turbo 4.2-liter V8 on the 2019 Cadillac CT6 V-Sport, the company announced today. The engine will be a “hot vee,” another first for Cadillac and GM as a whole.
Read MoreThe German automakers are rushing to catch up with those infernal Americans at Tesla who think they know better, and now we have a clearer look at how at least one other carmaker is planning things out: BMW is going crossover, crossover, sedan.
Read MoreWhat do we have to look forward to in our far-flung future year of 2018, besides the sweet release of death? Nothing. To find happiness again I will take you back—back to a time of unbridled optimism, of cheerfully bizarre niche vehicles, of turbocharged world-conquering performance, of gull-winged kei cars. Let us take a video tour of the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show.
Read MoreNo, this isn’t the same Subaru WRX stunt car from Baby Driver that we wrote up over the summer. While that car had been converted to rear-wheel drive, this one is all-wheel drive.
Read MoreDavid Tracy has been called a madman, a snappy dresser, and a not-so-great neighbor. He’s also a goddamn miracle worker, as anyone who follows his Moab builds can attest to. His power is so righteous, in fact, that it seems divinely inspired.
Read MoreWe, humanity, have not done enough good in this world to deserve a single offroad Bentley. When we saw one for sale six months ago, we declared ourselves unworthy. We were simply blessed to see it. But now there’s another one. And it’s for sale, too.
Read MorePolice in Lancashire, England, recently pulled over a Vauxhall Signum that was, uh, missing its passenger-side front tire. It’s very understandable, as these things are easy to overlook and hard to notice. The driver was thoughtful enough to use a turn signal when changing lanes, though, in video captured by a witness.
Read MoreIf you’re anything like me—and heaven help you if you’re too much like me—buying tires for your car is a tedious chore you’d rather get over with as quickly as possible. It must have shown on my face then, recently, when the guy behind the counter at the tire store said, “And you’ll want those new tires siped, right?” Huh?
Read MoreEven the most novice trails look impassable in a supercar that’s slammed to the ground, but that didn’t stop this ultimate driving ninja from taking his McLaren 720S off the pavement. This may just be one of the most nerve-wracking things we’ve seen in a while.
Read MoreThe original Audi R8 debuted with eight little diamonds arranged in a vee behind the driver. That singing 4.2-liter naturally-aspirated V8 begat a bigger V10, and now it seems pretty clear that a new twin-turbo 2.9-liter V6 will slot into its place. I’m not cautiously optimistic. I am extremely pumped for this.
Read MoreMagna Steyr is one of the biggest unseen car makers out there, working tirelessly in the shadowy parts of Austria to make some very noticeable cars: they’ve been building Mercedes-Benz G-Wagens since 1979, and they’ve been building BMW’s 5-series cars and the Jaguar E-Pace since last year. They’re a major automotive manufacturer but not a brand, and according to Automotive News Europe, they’ll soon be building two new very important cars, the co-developed Toyota Supra and the BMW Z4.
Read MoreAnother week, another series of rumors and ambiguous reports about a new Nissan Z. See, now that a new Toyota Supra is really happening, everyone’s rightfully wondering if Nissan has what it takes to shake out of its CVT-Rogue Sport-Monday Night Football-Star Wars-March Clearance Deal malaise and offer us something that’s actually worth a damn to drive. Here is the latest story making the rounds, but let me be the first to raise the bullshit flag.
Read MoreToday may be the Spring Equinox, but every devote of Detroit steel knows that March 20 is just a date on a calendar. It’s not really Spring until the cars can return.
Read MoreKia is keeping its dreams of selling more than a few dozen super premium sedans alive with a replacement for the K900. Now it’s the 2019 Kia K9, and Auto Evolution managed to find a bunch of leaked images from what appears to be the new K9's brochure ahead of the car’s official debut.
Read MoreVideo from the Karachi port in Pakistan shows one cargo ship crash into another docked cargo ship earlier today, dropping 21 shipping containers into the ocean as the workers suck their teeth at the mess being made.
Read MoreBeing an automotive designer is probably a fairly stressful job. All of these strict measurements, weight restrictions, materials properties, regulations, etc. It might be good to let the designers get out off the office more, as they occasionally can seem extremely naive.
Read MoreThe Concurs d’Lemons is one of the best motoring events out there, I think. It’s hard to think of any particular group of people that need more making fun of than hardcore concours-level automotive obsessives, and the Concours d’Lemons does just that, celebrating, as they say, the “oddball, mundane, and truly awful.” This year, the featured marque is the Italio-Americo Cadillac Allanté, and, shockingly, Allanté owners generally don’t seem too pleased with this honor. Huh.
Read MoreFor years I have been obsessed with the Toyota Cressida, the easily-forgotten straight six sedan that we got in America up until the early ‘90s. Did you think the Cressida really went away? Hell no. It packed it up and stuck to Japan, and now all the cool straight six ’Yotas are trickling back into America, finally legal to import.
Read MoreA video posted yesterday is getting a good bit of attention online because it shows a late-model Cadillac sporting wheels that have massive protruding spikes looking like they came off the chariot race scene in Ben-Hur. What are these things? Are they legal? It’ll be okay. We’ll explain.
Read MoreKneading is great, sometimes, like when it has to do with massages, the baking of bread products and cats getting comfortable on your lap. Kneading isn’t great when it comes to a Ferrari 458 Spider and a crane, which crumbled this car up like a paper love letter with too many embarrassing words scratched out.
Read MoreThe “seeking gourmet donuts” crowd and the “needing to get my car washed and detailed next to the highway” crowd don’t overlap much in Manhattan, which I imagine is why so few people I talk to have been to Underwest Donuts.
Read MoreAston Martin seems to think that, largely, the business, sale and naming of electric cars is a confusing matter. So, it’s going about things a bit differently by possibly just creating a standalone electric brand for itself.
Read MoreUber has halted testing of its self-driving cars after a deadly accident involving one of them occurred late Sunday in Tempe, Arizona. An Uber vehicle traveling in autonomous mode struck a woman crossing the street. She died after being taken to the hospital.
Read MoreI made an idiotic error the other day while trying to get my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer ready for its 3,000+ mile off-road trip. And instead of hiding my shame, I’m here to share it with you.
Read MoreSubaru showed off the handsome VIZIV Tourer Concept at this year’s Geneva Motor Show, hinting at a future WRX wagon. The level of excitement was appropriate, but there’s already a WRX wagon of sorts for sale today—the Subaru Levorg. Well, for sale if you live in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa and parts of Asia. I’m here to find out what you Americans are missing out on.
Read MoreIt is common for automakers from Europe, the U.S. and other parts of Asia to have cars specific to China’s fast-growing market. What’s not common, however, is for those cars to make it over to America. But that’s what Volkswagen is doing to satisfy our endless craving for crossovers soon, and when it debuts it’ll be Volkswagen’s first vehicle designed in China for the Chinese market to make its way to America.
Read MoreThat remarkable and somewhat confusing photo up there was taken yesterday, at Gatornationals, when Robert Hight and Matt Hagan’s funny cars both exploded on the dragstrip, launching their fiberglass bodies high into the air. Happily, no one was hurt, and we got this amazing photograph.
Read MoreIt’s Monday, everyone, so welcome back to productivity, to honest work, to getting shit done. Just like these hard-working Americans are doing in their Chevy trucks and—wait.
Read MoreThe A20-generation Toyota Celica is one of the coolest cars Japan ever built. Styled to vaguely ape the proportions of early 1970s American pony cars, the first-gen is often referred to colloquially as the ‘Mustang Celica’. It’s a great shape that looks even better in these awesome photos from Derick Yan.
Read MoreI really hate discussing Balance of Performance in motorsport, but it’s a fact of life these days, and it’s an integral part of the endurance racing subject. BOP is effectively the means by which the series officials try to level the field on lap time; adding ballast, adjusting pit stop refueling times, and fitting various diameter engine air restrictors. In a pro racing, as IMSA’s top flight Prototype class, the point of BOP is to make the race about things like strategy, driver capability, and
Read MoreMost automotive enthusiasts are familiar with Volkswagen’s long-lived VR6 engine. It is a 6-cylinder engine with fifteen degree offset cylinder bores so that it is more compact than a traditional inline six engine and less expensive to produce than a V6 engine (thanks to a shared cylinder head and manifolds). This engine has a unique sound, a unique power-delivery, and has served a long list of Volkswagen AG cars. You may not have known, however, that Volkswagen built a 5-cylinder version of thi
Read MoreLast week, we featured Gary Zimet, the guy whose gonzo memorabilia business Moments in Time is trying to sell the cars in which hip-hop artists Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. were murdered. He has some other weird, morbid shit too, like the hearse that transported Martin Luther King Jr.’s body and an authentic copy of Schindler’s List. But it turns out there’s more of a dispute over who actually has the BMW than anyone expected.
Read MoreWhile Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Tesla, and even Chevrolet are rushing to build battery electric super car, The U.K.’s premier supercar manufacturer, McLaren, says they definitely will not, according to this report from Bloomberg.
Read MoreThere is something incredibly awesome about a relatively boring compact car, like this Toyota Starlet, transformed into a high-revving pocket rocket with a motorcycle engine swap. In this case, the KP61 Starlet seen here is powered by a 200 horsepower Suzuki Hayabusa 1.3-liter screamer. That’s the kind of thing this world needs more of.
Read MoreWith temperatures hovering in the mid 30s Fahrenheit, and a thin sheen of snow blanketing the grass around the circuit, vintage racers braved the weather at Goodwood to participate in the 76th annual Member’s Meeting vintage races. It’s always risky to take an expensive vintage race car out on the circuit, but this seems to raise the stakes a bit. Besides that, racing an open-cockpit car in those kinds of temperatures sounds just plain uncomfortable. The racing continues through today, and the
Read MoreThe British, against all odds, have traditionally been pretty great at building gorgeous sports cars. We have them to thank for some particularly great Jaguars, basically everything Aston Martin ever built, some Lotuses, and even a fair few MGs, Triumphs, and Austin Healeys. Their hit-to-miss ratio is better than Germany, to be sure. One of those far flung British misses, however, the outlier that proves the theory, has to be the Daimler SP250. Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly an interesting s
Read MoreWhen Jeep first debuted the new 2018 Jeep Wrangler last November, the brand showed off a sexy red two-door Rubicon with strange half-doors that had holes in them. If you actually liked those, I have some bad news: those doors aren’t happening.
Read MoreYouTuber Samcrac is well-known for having rebuilt a totaled example of Domino’s amazing oven-containing DXP delivery car. But now, he claims, people affiliated with multiple pizza franchises are trying to force him to give the Chevy Spark-based pizza-carrier back, or to have its Domino’s-themed exterior markings and hardware removed.
Read MoreAs Fiat Chrysler rolls out a new Ram pickup and a host of new Jeeps, it is worth looking at the lineup of Dodge cars, a lineup that is older than you think it is. No. It’s even older than that.
Read MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a stop to all “doors-off” helicopter tours nationwide following the crash that killed five people last Sunday in New York City.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreThe old Lincoln Aviator, produced from model years 2003 to 2005, was a miserable failure. Lincoln’s bringing the nameplate back for 2019, though. Might this one fare better? Maybe! Today, Lincoln confirmed it would preview the new Aviator at the New York International Auto Show later this month. Aviator? Aviator!
Read MoreThis is a Ferrari F2003GA, with a 3.0-liter V10 that can howl to 19,000 RPM and, as far as this new 1:01.2 lap record of Road Atlanta suggests, bend the fabric of spacetime.
Read More[Every so often, Kavi Reddy, Gizmodo Media Group’s ever-so-cromulent attorney, has Good Car Takes. This is one of them.]
Read MoreI don’t know how or why this happened—maybe automakers are making so much money off gray, white and silver crossovers that they just said “fuck it, why not”—but green is having something of a renaissance right now. We’ve seen more green options on new cars than we have in many years. If you ask me, the green comeback has now been firmly cemented by the 2019 Ford Mustang.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times just published a feature on the history of SoCal street racing. It’s not a wistful look back at leather jackets and hot rods. It’s about young kids being killed, lives being wasted and families being destroyed for nothing.
Read MoreThe appeal of accelerated bridge construction—where precast parts are pieced together and within hours installed over a roadway before being tested and reinforced for weeks—is that it minimizes road closures. The downside is that the smallest mistakes can lead to disaster. This method, used to build a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University that collapsed Thursday and killed at least six, is now under more scrutiny than ever.
Read MoreI know, you forgot about the W12 Audi A8, too. I don’t blame you. I actually forget that Audi A8s are a thing in general on most days. But the the W12 option made them cool, even if you couldn’t get the current-generation A8 with one here in the U.S. But it seems like that’s coming to an end anyway.
Read MoreCars can be full of mysteries, especially if you’re not the first owner. What’s that smell? That noise? Why is it like this?
Read MoreThis is Matt Farah’s L.A.-canyon-spec Fox Body Ford Mustang, about as perfect as a 1980s Mustang can be. As is only appropriate, here it is shot by the inimitable Larry Chen using film equipment of the day.
Read MoreA.J. Foyt is a tough son of a bitch who is probably too mean to die. The latest evidence is a bee attack he endured Wednesday at his Texas ranch. He was hospitalized overnight, but released on Thursday, according to Racer. That’s when he used 15 gallons of diesel to let the bees cook.
Read MoreOne of the best parts about the Austin Healey Sprite is the styling feature that gives the car its famous nicknames: Bugeye or, in its British homeland, Frogeye. These names, of course, come from the distinctive upright headlights of the car. But what if, instead of those simple headlights, you could have something wildly overcomplicated? Wouldn’t that be much better? Of course it would.
Read MoreFirst of all, this is almost certainly staged. The car that gets angle-ground is an old, bumperless Lada, the most likely sacrificial car of the ones seen in the video. Even with that in mind, this is still a nice and ridiculous thing to actually see happen, as it pretty much realizes a fantasy all of us have had when encountering some jackass who’s parked diagonally across two spaces.
Read MoreEveryone knows about the Concorde, which shot across the Atlantic at over twice the speed of sound for decades. But it wasn’t the only supersonic airliner. For a little while there was one more, and most people have never heard of it. It was the Tupolev Tu-144, it was Soviet, and it was loud as hell.
Read MoreLast month, I lamented about how a Mercedes-Maybach just wasn’t good enough for the idea it was supposed to bear. An insulting second-place prize for what indisputably should have been first. But I now know what first place looks like: The Mercedes-Maybach Pullman.
Read MoreA college baseball team desperate to play ball had no problem lifting a double parked car blocking the street out of the way.
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 last year’s Logan Lucky, a heist movie full of good cars and centered around a NASCAR race that doesn’t feature a single dang car chase.
Read MoreNearly four years ago, Honda’s Mean Mower went an averaged 116.57 mph, setting the record for world’s fastest lawnmower that has since been eclipsed. Now, the company says, they’re trying to reclaim the record, with a beast they’ve dubbed the Mk. 2.
Read MoreFord managed to pull off the Fiesta and Focus ST, two sporty and fun hot hatchbacks that this world needs more of. Then it brought an Edge ST to the Detroit Auto Show and we all let them get away with it. We shouldn’t have, because the company just confirmed the next generation Explorer will also get an ST trim.
Read MoreThe other day we saw an interview in which Cadillac CEO Johan de Nysschen pointed to the Youths and infrastructure as some of the reasons for the shift away from sedans and performance cars crossovers and SUVs. We disagreed, so we wrote it up. And then de Nysschen called us to explain a bit more. In the process, we discussed how Cadillac’s adaptation to a changing and very global luxury market has been a challenging one.
Read MoreAmid the big announcement about SUVs, more SUVs and hybrid cars in Dearborn today, Ford gave us REAL CAR-DRIVIN’ PEOPLE what we all really wanted: our first glimpse at the new 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. Prepare to be on notice, Chevy!
Read MoreThe main span of a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University constructed as recently as Saturday has collapsed, reportedly leaving “several” people dead and crushing cars underneath.
Read MoreFord just announced that it will build a new small off-road vehicle in addition to the Ford Bronco, in an attempt for The Blue Oval to “reclaim [its] rightful place as the off-road vehicle leader.” Yes, the off-road wars have begun.
Read MoreNow is not a good time for sedan sales as crossover madness pervades the market. Even the excellent 2018 Honda Accord is having trouble finding customers. But the segments’ losses could be your gain. The new 2018 Mazda6 is here with a punchy turbocharged engine, and it looks to be a killer value.
Read MoreFew automakers have pursued technology that allows cars to communicate with surrounding road infrastructure like Audi. On Wednesday, the automaker announced the latest development in its Traffic Light Information system, which lets select models communicate with traffic signals, saying it’s now available for use in the nation’s capital.
Read MoreThirty-seven horsepower in the 1,400-pound Tata Nano is fine. Over 200 horsepower is better.
Read MoreYes, that image above of the Audi e-tron GT is just a heavily shadowed teaser. But it looks cool, has four doors and is all-electric. And Audi said today that it would make it happen.
Read MoreYesterday, in a speech given to donors in Missouri, President Trump had something to say about cars. And Japan. And bowling balls. Specifically, he suggested that, in Japan, they like to drop bowling balls on cars. I wish I was making this up, because it’s comedy gold. But it’s real, and the President really suggested that bowling balls are being dropped on car hoods in Japan, on purpose.
Read MoreA plane in Russia carrying $378 million worth of gold, platinum and diamonds lost its cargo on Thursday after its door broke off upon takeoff, according to The Moscow Times. I’m sure the pilot feels great today.
Read MoreAudi’s head of research and development announced that there’s no new Audi R8 in the works to replace the current one when it phases out in 2020. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that the R8 is dying, and I don’t think things look good for it.
Read MoreTo add insult to injury, the 2018 Ford Fiesta ST, which probably won’t make its way stateside, is actually packed with a bunch of cool enthusiast stuff that any American would love to have IF THE CAR WOULD JUST COME HERE.
Read MoreIn these dark times, I find it is helpful to submerge myself in a bath of liquid car-nostalgia. I forget my pain and my troubles by going back to an era when people wanted nothing more than two doors, a silky smooth inline-six engine, plush leather seats, and extremely questionable business models. Friend, let’s go back to Japan’s Bubble Era for a moment.
Read MoreJeep is busy dominating the global market, and when it comes to new models specifically tailored for other countries, it would seem its not too shy about its prototypes. Here’s what’s most likely the new Jeep Grand Commander for the Chinese market.
Read MoreI’m currently working on a project about the “Bubble Era” of the Japanese auto industry the period from the mid-1980s into the early ’90s when the Japanese economy boomed, and Japanese carmakers rode the explosion like an ’80s action hero. It’s hard to generally describe how nuts the whole time was, so I’ll highlight a few specifics, including the wonderfully-named Mitsubishi Minica Lettuce, a real car sold to very real people for a totally nuts reason.
Read MoreLet’s take a quick break from cars and focus on the more important topic of whether or not extraterrestrials exist. Do you believe in aliens? I do, and I have concrete evidence.
Read MorePeople can claim cars and car enthusiasts are dying out, but Aston Martin is surging ahead with its recent revitalization with plans to offer not just the Valkyrie hypercar and upcoming mid-engine Ferrari 488 rival, but also yet another million-dollar mid-engine hypercar to take on whatever McLaren plans to do next.
Read MoreGrab a box of tissues, because you’re about to witness 14 amazing sports cars—including a BMW Z1, Porsche 911 GT3, Mercedes SL55 AMG, Opel Manta and BMW Alpina B12—get smushed into thin sheets by a bulldozer and a backhoe. It’s not pretty.
Read MoreSad news, friends. The new Lincoln Continental—the lovely, languid blueberry of a vehicle—isn’t selling well. And as a result, there are now rumors that Ford might just kill it off after this generation.
Read MoreSome 20 Cizeta V16Ts—the 16-cylinder supercar made by ex-Lamborghini employees with the help of, bizarrely enough, legendary composer Giorgio Moroder—have been completed in the past 30 years, all under the watchful guidance of mechanic, eccentric, and friend to many a celebrity Claudio Zampolli. Now, thanks to Hagerty, comes the delightful news that Zampolli is still around, and still taking orders for a Cizeta, if you’re interested.
Read MoreTravel Oregon, a tourism agency that was created by the state government, released a video this week in an effort to boost tourism to the state. It’s completely animated and makes the state out to be a Studio Ghibli fantasy land. If I rent a Fiat 500 in Oregon, will I be able to drive it to the Castle of Cagliostro? My gut says yes.
Read MoreYouTuber Warped Perception built a transparent Wankel rotary engine in his shop, and the resulting footage of the combustion process is absolutely stunning.
Read MoreLast month, President Donald Trump signed a budget passed by Congress that ended a brief government shutdown. As part of the 652-page budget bill, Congress extended several temporary car-related tax breaks, which The Center for Public Integrity highlighted in a massive investigation published Wednesday. You will probably care about some of this.
Read MoreEverything is cooler in off-road trim—even the 420,666,069th Mazda Miata you’ve seen on the internet, or a Porsche 912 that was already cool. The masterminds behind the Gambler 500 recently dropped by Hoonigan for a good ol’ fashioned hoon-off, and needless to say, everybody wins in their battle of cool cars catching sweet air.
Read MoreThe 2018 Kia Stinger GT might be the best new car to seemingly come from nowhere, as entertaining a sports sedan as anything else on the market. But can it out-run the other GT you can buy, the Ford Mustang? As it turns out, hell yes it can.
Read MoreI mean, if you think about it, this should make complete sense. The cold never bothers Elsa, anyway. Even so, pushing a stuck Boston police truck out of a snowbank in a blizzard is no picnic, especially in a full gown. Despite the difficulty, this 37-year-old man dressed as a Disney ice princess did manage to get the police truck unstuck and on its way. All it took was some pushing and, um, knowing when to let it go.
Read MoreTimes are tough for the sports cars. We know that. As sedans and SUVs and trucks have become faster and more powerful, the buying public has shifted away from dedicated two-seaters, convertibles and coupes. So to make the economics work, automakers are looking toward joint ventures, like Toyota and BMW did with the new Toyota Supra and Z4. Here’s a wild idea: what if the next Nissan Z gets built with help from Mercedes-Benz?
Read MoreFord Motor Co. is recalling an estimated 1.4 million Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ vehicles in North America because the steering wheel is at risk of detaching from the steering column.
Read MorePerhaps the best part of the Lamborghini Huracán is that it’s still powered by a naturally aspirated V10 engine. Once plentiful, naturally aspirated engines have now become a rarity. Will the Huracán’s replacement keep to that idea? Sure, if Lamborghini gets its way.
Read MoreAfter a recently successful effort to raise money by selling hats, Elon Musk, founder of purported public transit entity The Boring Company, is reportedly backing a secret humor publication project that involves several former staffers of satirical news site The Onion.
Read MoreWinter is finally abating, and soon all of our pristine, rust-prone old cars will be back on the road again. Except for all of us who do drive our cool old cars through the winter anyway, like this guy and his Ferrari F40.
Read MoreIf you have a dog, or just love dogs, this story may be hard to read, because it’s all about a cruel, idiotic decision that resulted in the death of a beloved family dog. The incident happened on United flight 1284 from Houston to LaGuardia, where a flight attendant insisted that a TSA-approved pet carrier containing a dog be placed in the overhead baggage bin for the flight. By the end of the flight, the dog was found dead.
Read MoreEvery country has that one regular little teen car. It’s usually somewhat forgettable and always cheap. However, the 2004 Nissan Micra—New Zealand’s version of the teen runabout—is adorable. Regular Car Reviews discovered youth in car form—and sadly not a version of youth the U.S. will ever accept.
Read MoreIf you crash your 1990 Ferrari F40 into a lamppost, like one Vancouver neurosurgeon did back in 2012, I think a little bit of embarrassment is just part of the deal. A little humility in a powerful car like an F40 is a good way to avoid crashing into lampposts. This view is not shared by Dr. Navraj Heran, who is demanding British Columbia’s public auto insurance company pay $982,000 (Canadian, so about $758,000 in real dollars) because the absence of the car is “embarassing.”
Read MoreWhat do you do when you spill gasoline in your car, and the smell is making everyone gag? You Ask a Clean Person for help!
Read MoreI always thought it was silly that cars are so heavily targeted at little boys in toy stores. Cars are pretty much the best things rendered by the hand of humankind, and should be enjoyed by all, right? And while toy stores tend to be the most aggressively gendered stores around, I’m glad to see some hard-core gearhead-ness permeate into the traditional girls’ aisle, like with what’s going on under the hood of this very archetypically girly ride-on car.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz Classic has arranged for the original supplier of the 1950s Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing’s awesome checkered wool upholstery to re-issue the fabric in the original specification. So if you’ve been yearning for one of the coolest car seat patterns ever, you can now buy it. But it won’t be cheap.
Read MoreNobody came to the office this past Friday except Patrick and I. It was miserable. To enhance our misery further in this lousy world, we decided to have an argument about cars. A cargument, if you will. Because food in cars is disgusting, and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Read MoreIf anything could challenge the mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette for the “Most Speculated About” award in the automotive industry, it’s talk of a new Toyota Supra. And now that the new Supra is here, kind of, its lead engineer wants to apologize to everyone for taking so long to bring the famous car back.
Read MoreThe New York City subway’s array of problems—dysfunctional signals, relentless delays, overcrowded trains—is well-known, but the Village Voice has another premise to add to the list, and it makes a whole lot of sense: the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the system, is literally running the trains slower.
Read MoreY’all got some of that LSD? The limited-slip differential is perhaps the best drug known to hoon-kind. It’s the trick tech that keeps your burnouts from being sad one-tire fires. Once you drive one, you’re hooked. The Hoonigans released this absurd, nearly 45-minute megacut of their best burnouts, donuts and stunts, which rubbed salt right in one of my oldest car wounds: I need an LSD.
Read MoreA new Toyota RAV4 is coming out this month at the New York Auto Show. I know you’re as thrilled as anyone to see what your next Uber ride will look like, but do we really need to “tease” it out over a series of weeks? Of course not! But here we are.
Read MoreSome people think that when you start doing something new, you should start with the easiest aspect of it as possible. Not true. If you start on Level 10, you become an expert that much faster. Which is why I commend soon-to-be member of the British royal family Meghan Markle on her decision to both learn to drive stick and do it in a right-hand drive car.
Read MoreIt’s not hard to find carspotters armed with cameras chasing after Bugattis and Paganis on the streets of London or Monaco when the weather gets warm. But this might be the single wildest street discovery in years. If you recognize this car without having to Google it, I applaud you. This thing is rare.
Read MoreDo you wish gasoline—all gasolines—had more octane, here in America? Do you believe that it’s the peoples’ right to fill their cars up with a potent brew of at least 95 RON octane? If so, you should probably hang out with GM Vice President of Global Propulsion systems Dan Nicholson, because I can tell you two will get on just famously.
Read MorePorsche followed up its hit Mission E electric sedan concept from last year with a lifted wagon version at last week’s Geneva Motor Show. While only the sedan is confirmed for production next year, it could lead to more variants including a coupe and convertible.
Read MoreCadillac is, quite possibly, the most hapless carmaker at the moment. When its competitors are making huge strides, Cadillac feels like it’s always playing catch up to what everyone else was doing five years ago. And finally, Cadillac has figured out the culprit: it the Youths and their damn infrastructure, clearly.
Read MoreHybrid cars. They really are the way of the future, especially if you want to keep making massive amounts of horsepower and performance while also complying with emissions standards, something that a company like Ferrari is definitely interested in. And it seems like a Ferrari hybrid V8 is just around the corner.
Read MoreIt’s sort of a glum Monday afternoon across the world, so let’s inject a little excitement into your day. Let’s play Guess That Engine! I have a good one for you here today, an engine I happened to encounter last week.
Read MoreIn the future we will live in Mega Cities labeled by number. Also, cars will have tires filled with moss which is foretold to save the planet. Goodyear is putting itself forward as the purveyor of said saviors as it’s come up with its new moss filled tire, the “Oxygene.”
Read MoreThree teens were taken into custody by Florida police, after they allegedly stole 46—forty six—cars across three cities, police said on Monday. The arrests followed an apparently hectic effort to track down the thieves.
Read MoreFor years, the aftermarket has been supplying turbocharger setups and engine swaps for the Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ/GT86, satisfying those who wanted more than the car’s stock 200-ish horsepower. It all seemed odd. Toyota could meet that demand, right? Well, the car’s chief designer claims that it can’t, and that it’d need a whole new platform. His justification is, uh, dubious.
Read MoreBack in January, a drifting enthusiast, Ernesto Aguilar Gonzales (Fred Lump Lump on Instagram), was reported missing after he missed his flight home from Mexico to LA. Nearly three months later, he has been found.
Read MoreRemember those “That’s not a Buick” ads from a few years back? They must have been a subtle foreshadowing, because reports are that Buick plans to pull name badging off of its cars starting with the 2019 model year. The move is, surprisingly, about more than getting away from the brand’s own reputation.
Read MoreAn Infiniti QX70 driver in Miami crashed into a bunch of cars, and then apparently tried to escape. But a group of angry citizens ran him down, and wrecked his already-crashed SUV, with one guy using a sledgehammer to inflict the karmic, vigilante justice.
Read MoreIt seems that one of the most important pieces of equipment for a dealership’s service manager should know how to use is a telephone. If the service manager at Titan Ford in New South Wales, Australia, was able to properly hang up his telephone-machine, then a pretty colossal mess involving a Focus RS head gasket recall could have been avoided. Of course, it wasn’t, which is why we’re here.
Read MoreMustangs were first produced in 1964, and they were almost immediately modified, with the Shelby version being the most famous. But countless other variants also were built, including the California Special, which Ford dealers actually had to petition the company to build. And now, the 2019 Mustang, the California Special is back.
Read MoreAround 7:15 p.m. this evening, a Eurocopter AS350 crashed into New York City’s East River, according to eyewitnesses and reports. Video from a bystander shows the helicopter going into the water and starting to sink. A spokesman for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that two died in the crash. Update 7:30 a.m.: More people are reported dead in the crash.
Read MoreImagine being Robert Wickens. You’ve taken the pole position for your debut IndyCar race, and you’ve lead nearly the entire race with smooth driving and good strategy. You’re taking the restart in the lead with just two laps remaining, and all you have to do it make it through the first corner and you’re basically home free. Then, Indy 500 champion Alexander Rossi makes a hail Mary move down the inside into the braking zone, gets loose, and Forza-Onlines his car directly into your right hand sid
Read MoreThere are myriad issues with the way DOT rated helmets are tested for minimum safety standards, not least of which is the fact that the standard (FMVSS 218) was written in 1974. A DOT rated helmet does not have to be tested for visor impact, rollover, or even the strength of the chin bar. Not only that, but helmets are self-tested and self-approved by helmet manufacturers, which means some manufacturers selectively test, and some will outright lie about their product passing. Motorcyclists could
Read MoreDuring Gooding & Company’s collector car auction at Amelia Island this week, this particularly low-mile Zambezi Green 1974 Porsche 914 2.0-liter sold for a massive $93,000 hammer price. This is an unfathomable price for such a car. A well-kept 914 is an incredible car, perhaps still one of the most underrated cars of its time, but there is no universe in which it provides $93,000 of enjoyment. This inflated Porsche value madness has to end!
Read MoreThis 1700-pound Lotus Exige-shaped race car is among the fastest hillclimb cars in South Africa, having set a record-blazing run up the Knysna Simola Hillclimb course in late 2017. The car was once a road legal Lotus, but every component in the car has been modified in the pursuit of ever-faster sprint times. The chassis was replaced by a lengthened tubeframe to improve aero and weight balance, and the engine was replaced by a Honda K24 with a huge turbocharger, which is backed up by a proper mo
Read MoreAston Martin has not installed a 6-cylinder engine in any of their cars since the death of the DB7 in 1999, even though the company was, for decades, synonymous with inline-six touring coupes. Thanks to the British sports car maker’s partnership with Mercedes-AMG, inline-six power could be back on the table again, in the form of the 429-horsepower 3-liter turbocharged and mild-hybrid unit just launched in the AMG 53.
Read MoreAudi’s newest SQ7 is powered by a 4.o-liter twin-turbocharged V8 diesel engine with a third compressor powered by a 7kw electric motor, running on a separate 48v system. Large turbochargers create more power by flowing more air, but they take longer to spool up. By adding in this electric supercharger, Audi is able to provide boost as soon as you step on the throttle. It’s a clever solution to an ages-old problem, but it’s not exactly the simplest system ever invented. Allow Jason Fenske of Engi
Read MoreThough season two of The Grand Tour just ended, and season three has yet to begin production, Amazon has allegedly decided that the car-shenanigan trio of Clarkson, Hammond, and May will not return for a fourth season. According to The Daily Mail’s sources, the show’s leading men will all be looking for work in the near future. (Update: Amazon won’t comment, but another source cast some doubt on the report.)
Read MoreMazda’s Miata is often considered the gold standard of lightweight two-seat roadsters. There were some sports car traditionalists, however, who shrugged the car off as too large and heavy. In the 1980s, there was nothing available to match the sports car pedigree of a Lotus 7, Austin-Healey Sprite, or Ginetta G4. Enter the Maxton Rollerskate, the Colorado-built kit-car that used a square-tube-frame and Mazda RX-7 parts to build what could be one of the most underrated sports cars of all time.
Read MoreThe Buick Roadmaster proves that the rear-wheel drive wagon we desire was in our hearts all along.
Read MoreIs Jerry Seinfeld responsible for the Porsche 911 R? Maybe? According to The Drive on an episode of Spike Feresten’s Spike Car Radio podcast, the comedian said that he went to Grant Larson, a Porsche designer, and some of the top brass at Porsche with an idea for a new 911 R.
Read MoreThe BMW E30 M3 is the darling of BMW fans. It’s boxy, fast and has a powerful inline-four under the hood. They’re sought after by everyone and prices are only getting higher. BMW enthusiasts often call it the best M3 that’s ever been made.
Read MoreIf societal norms and insurance costs didn’t exist, my garage would be pretty wild and stupid. Im sure many of you are in the same boat. Everyone has that car that the dream about but for whatever reason, they can’t buy one just yet. Homeowner’s Associations, plain ol’ reason and more can get in the way of automotive dreams. It’s probably for the best.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever driven through Arizona between Tucson and Benson, you might have noticed a strange sight: Nearly 300 yellow Union Pacific locomotives are lined up neatly, end-to-end, on the tracks, stretching on as far as the eye can see. They’re not abandoned. They’re just... waiting.
Read MoreThe 2018 BMW M550i is sort of a quieter alternative to the hot rod M5. It’s still plenty fast, just a little more low key. But what if you threw a bunch of parts and power at this thing? We might have an unstoppable sleeper on our hands.
Read MoreI’ll just say it: The LVCHI Venere might be the prettiest electric car I’ve laid eyes on. Hell, it’s one of the prettiest cars I’ve ever seen period. Look at this motherfucker.
Read MoreYouTuber Real Engineering says that your chances of dying flying in a commercial jet operated by one of the “top 30” airlines are 1 in 20 million. That’s generally considered the safest way to get around, thanks in large part to how far flying technology has come in the last 100 years.
Read MoreThis is an odd little period video clip: it’s from Southern Methodist University’s collection of historical local news footage, and features a very, very 1970s researcher of some sort speculating about what sorts of people drive specific kinds of cars. Then it’s mostly quiet, with a lot of great 1976-era car footage.
Read MoreLast year, Lamborghini broke down and joined most of the automotive world in catering to the public’s unrelenting obsession with large vehicles that’s choking other segments of the car market. It did that by debuting the Urus SUV, which, in the most shocking news ever, apparently has “terrific” sales so far.
Read MoreNo, really, tell me how to feel about it, because when I laid eyes on it, I stopped feeling anything at all. I don’t know up from down anymore, right from left. Good from bad.
Read MoreI was having one of those mornings where the coffee was weak, the office was empty, and I had stayed up too late last night watching private jet flights on YouTube. I needed a pick-me-up, something to inspire me to do the work that I do here—which is try to get you all to click on The Cars Blogs on Jalopnik’s Facebook and Twitter (please, friends).
Read MoreThis 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is for sale in Norway for 890,000 kroner, or around $113,000. If I had the money, I would buy it. As the description says, the Rolls will help you “wake up the madness of life.” I believe it.
Read MoreThe number of cars with manual transmissions is dwindling to the point where they are like a small oasis in a dry and cracked desert of automatics. But through the dust emerges a new hero: The 2019 Genesis G70, with an option of three pedals instead of two.
Read MoreThe nostalgia peddler who’s been attempting to sell cars in which Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. were shot hasn’t been having much luck in moving them on the open market. Pitchfork spoke to Moments in Time founder Gary Zimet about his service, which acquires and resells “original historical materials,” and how he hasn’t gotten anyone to bite on the two murder cars.
Read MorePeople love to customize their cars, and they absolutely should. If changing something about your car or adding something to it makes you love your motion-driving machine more, then have at it. That said, I have no idea why you’d want to make your car look like it was bleeding from its taillight sockets, but, in case you do, there’s a cheap and easy way to make that weird dream real. Weirdo.
Read MoreSubaru wants to have the safest cars in the world and the manual transmission, the one good thing left in this world, is holding that up, according to a report from AutoExpress. That led an executive at Subaru U.K. to give us all a big scare, with ideas of a future where BRZs and WRX STIs all shift their own gears.
Read MorePolice in Metro Detroit are trying to locate two cargo vans that were stolen from a dry cleaner in Detroit—and the vehicles had some notable belongings inside: dozens of police and firefighter uniforms. Whoops!
Read MoreDifferent models sharing platforms across brands is a common practice among big automakers like Volkswagen Group. It saves them the time and money instead of making new platforms for cars. And starting in 2022, it seems like all-electric models from Bentley, Audi and Porsche will share a platform.
Read MoreEarlier this week we learned that the upcoming three-seat McLaren BP23 will be crazy fast—faster than even the legendary McLaren F1 was. Now the mad scientists from Woking have unveiled two important numbers: 243 and 106.
Read MoreSee that face? On the guy there? That’s the face of a man who parks his Cordoba wherever the fuck he wants.
Read MoreYou guys. I’m so salty over the new Toyota Supra reveal. We didn’t get the real thing, so we didn’t get any specs. We only got a race car, and a concept one at that. WHATEVER. IT’S FINE. At least I have this Toyota promotional video to cheer me up, where you can see the car without the stickers on it.
Read MoreThe 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL has only been on the market for a few months, and yet the price is already increasing by a whopping $750. That’s on top of the fact that the new Wrangler already costs about $3,000 more than the outgoing JK.
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 boring 2003 remake of The Italian Job, a movie that strips most of the style, flair and humor away from the original and replaces it with Marky Mark.
Read MoreToday Mercedes looked upon its own works and despaired, recognizing in a brief moment of self-awareness that, hey, maybe having 40 models is enough. Or if it’s not enough, it’s pretty damn close. Bah! BAH. It can do more. It can do so much more.
Read MoreElon Musk is a man who President Donald Trump says is a person “who’s using our wonderful space facilities and did a great job.” Elon is also an American citizen, and did his patriotic duty by tweeting at the President. Trump then read those tweets aloud at a press conference. But, because this is Trump we’re talking about, our president cherry-picked a bit and took out the context.
Read MoreRon Dauzet, the Michigan man whose township is forcing him to sell 20 of his cars per month in order to comply with a “blight ordinance” tells me he’s still working every day to get rid of his vehicles. And unfortunately, he’s had to send a whole bunch of good cars to the crusher. At least 75.
Read MorePresident Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that imposes new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The tariffs will almost certainly raise prices on new cars. But Trump swears—swears!—he’ll be “very flexible” and consider exemptions for countries that are big importers of steel and aluminum. Interesting!
Read MoreOn the heels of my widely-discussed and widely-shared ranking of all of New York City’s parkways and highways, I present the only correct ranking of the bridges of New York, of which there are 39 that matter, and thus are worth ranking.
Read MoreMercedes is not content with stretching the definition of what a coupe or a sedan is, and is now stretching the definition of what a car is itself. The Mercedes-AMG GT four-door is not, in fact, an AMG GT stretched to fit four-doors.
Read MoreThe roomy rear of the Tesla Model S sure looks like a cozy place to camp out, but the floor might be a bit uncomfortable even with the seat folded. Fortunately, Dreamcase makes a bed for the hatch of the Model S, but as Brooks from DragTimes demonstrates, you should really only use it while parked.
Read MoreThe new Mercedes-AMG GT four-door is a style-conscious four-door coupe for those wanting a bit more than the usual E-Class. But that’s a car that Mercedes already sells: the CLS. Now that it’s doubling up on specialty cars, you have to wonder if Mercedes has run out of niches to fill. Amazingly, Mercedes kind of thinks it has.
Read MoreBack in 2003, as part of an effort to plug a budget hole, Michigan’s then-Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm passed a law that implemented extra fees for driving offenses committed by people with at least 7 points on their driving record. Hundreds of thousands of drivers, unable to pay the fees, had their licenses suspended as a result. In total, $637 million is currently owed by drivers—but, finally, Michigan’s forgiving the fees, after properly being shamed for trapping countless drivers in
Read MoreHappy motherfuckin’ International Women’s Day, friends! Here’s some wonderful news for today: Women, who will finally, legally be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia in June, are signing up for their first-ever driving lessons to prepare for the event.
Read MoreYou may or may not have noticed that, oftentimes, diesel engines produce more torque than regular gasoline engines. What gives? Here’s why.
Read MoreNobody set foot on Antarctica until 1895. Over a century later, the immense landmass is still hardly populated and not officially owned by any government. But paperwork and map lines aren’t what makes flying and driving there so hard. It’s the ridiculous, relentless cold.
Read MoreThey built a new stretch of highway in the Canadian province of New Brunswick recently, and while new stretches of highway are generally good, this one might be bad, since, drivers say, the highway’s signs are confusing, such that some people are having trouble leaving the province at all. It’s a bit like that Eagles song about a “hotel” in California.
Read MoreI am nothing if not a fair, honest, and gracious (and beautiful, too, why not) journalist. That’s why when I review Minis, I try to do so from the deranged standpoint of someone who might actually buy them. But the truth is, I hate them for a ton of reasons. Patrick George, who is wrong, thinks I’m wrong. Welcome back to Carguments.
Read MoreAs you can probably tell by their groans of pain and how they corner passers-by, begging them for the sweet release of death, the Grumman LLVs (Long Life Vehicle) currently in service as U.S. Postal Service trucks are at the end of their long lives. There’s an intense competition to find what will be the next postal truck, and here’s an entry we haven’t spotted before: the Turkish Karsan USPS prototype.
Read MoreIf you’re the kind of person who likes truly unique fast cars and procreation, your options can be limited when it comes to combining your two passions. Yes, you can get M cars, RS cars, and AMGs, but they’re all faster versions of already existing cars. Maybe you want something that was designed from the off as a fast car and adapted to suit your needs, not a slow car turned fast. You’re in luck with the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe then. I’m a fan, and evidently I’m not alone.
Read MoreLawmakers are currently debating whether to appropriate billions for a new rail tunnel that would connect Manhattan and New Jersey, a connection that’s key to one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product. Reports have suggested that despite initial enthusiasm President Donald Trump now wants nothing to do with the project, and on Tuesday, his transportation secretary admitted he personally intervened to kill it.
Read MoreToyota Supra, I know this is your week, your week of return after so many years away. But please, I have to admit that there is another six-cylinder high-power sports coupe in my heart. It is the Nissan 200ZR, the last inline-six Fairlady.
Read MoreIf you’ve been paying attention to Volkswagen’s lineup of concept cars lately, this really isn’t too big a shock—in fact, we’ve been speculating this would happen since 2015—but now it’s official: Volkswagen will not be bringing back a new version of their modernized icon, the Beetle, next year. Don’t be too upset, though; we’re getting a new Bus, instead.
Read MoreAt a motor show you get cars you want to drive, cars you can afford to drive, cars you hate, and concept cars: full-sized glimpses designed by car companies to show you what might happen one day if the stars align, you hop on one foot, and chant the name ‘Francis of Rome’ (the patron saint of cars) ten times while blinking ‘help me’ in morse code.
Read MoreHot off the heels of launching a super hardcore version of the Senna, the Senna GTR, you’d expect McLaren to want to take a bit of a break. Not so! Now it’s here from the Geneva Motor Show with some news about the upcoming F1-style three-seater BP23: It’s going to be fast. Very fast.
Read MoreHey cool teens, don’t go to work! Just go rollerblading and check out the 2000 Pontiac Piranha Concept!
Read MoreIt took far too long for the Jaguar XJ6 to be appreciated as a prime candidate for restomodding. For years we could have been enjoying cars as cool as Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain’s ’84 Jag. But you know what? Don’t waste your time searching for all those wasted years. Face up; make your stand and realize you’re living in the golden years.
Read MoreDespite Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Power Plant undergoing a complete nuclear meltdown and explosion 32 years ago, work continues on cleaning it up. That work means a lot of trucks are involved, which become highly radioactive in the process. That means they need to be cleaned up, and this is not your average car wash.
Read MoreHello, human reader who presumably enjoys reading about cars and, on occasion, fighter planes! Like you, we think constantly about the future, and now we need your help figuring out what’s next for our publishing and commenting platform Kinja. If you’re selected to help out, you even get paid.
Read MoreGeneral Motors builds lots of “incomplete” commercial vehicles that can be outfitted by fleets to be turned into things like limousines or moving vans. Now it’s doing the same for the Chevrolet Bolt, making for an electric vehicle that will become the smallest and most efficient member of this commercial family.
Read MoreLocal news out of Hazleton, PA shared a few pictures this week of what appears to be a very sad and cold McLaren 650S caught in a snow storm and apparently waiting to be carried home in the protective clutches of a flatbed like a big, beautiful baby.
Read MoreSeriously, that’s not me saying that. That’s BMW saying it in the very first line of their press release for the BMW M8 Gran Coupe, which is a four-door sedan based off of the new M8:
Read MoreThe McLaren Senna is a divisive car. It’s light, powerful, and not all that pretty. Some people hate the looks, others like it because it’s going to be so freaking fast. McLaren wasn’t done when it made the road car though. It decided to see what would happen if it didn’t have to worry about safety regulations, emissions, and other such frippery. It made the Senna more extreme.
Read MoreDid you enjoy our review of the original 1969 The Italian Job last week? Well, good news! We’re watching the 2003 remake this week, which is also called The Italian Job despite being mostly set in Los Angeles.
Read MoreApollo, the company intent on making a hypercar that’s both hugely powerful and delightfully old school, is in Geneva for the auto show. But it’s not actually in the show. Why? Apparently it wants people to see its car on the road, in real life.
Read MoreSeems like the tornado of hype surrounding the 2017 Tesla Model 3 has calmed down a little. But even after all the test drives and build-quality inspections we’ve seen, I haven’t been able to find any instances of the compact EV being pushed to its limits on a race track. Until now.
Read MoreThe founder and chairman of China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. has global expansion on his mind. Last week, Li Shufu succeeded in becoming Daimler’s largest single shareholder. But before that he made a play for Fiat Chrysler, and today, we may know more about how that went down.
Read MoreFor many of us, myself included, Top Gear was the mecca of car shows. Not only was it funny and entertaining, but it also widened the appeal of cars to our friends and family who wouldn’t have otherwise cared in the slightest. By 2015, the show claimed more than 350 million viewers worldwide. That’s a lot of weight on your shoulders to reboot. Here’s how the new crew pulled it off.
Read MoreA state representative in Rhode Island wants to get rid of speed cameras entirely after municipal courts were flooded with hundreds of motorists protesting tickets issued by new school zone speed cameras in Providence, reports the Associated Press. Rep. Anthony Giarrusso introduced legislation last week that would remove all speed and red-light cameras in the state.
Read MoreRobert Bobroczkyi is 17 years old and already speaks three languages fluently. He taught himself to play piano purely through videos on Youtube, and he’s get a predilection for magic tricks. He’s also 7-foot, 7-inch, an inch taller than Yao Ming, and this is how he gets into a car.
Read MoreWhen you think of Mercedes-Benz, you think of many things. Luxury. Opulence. Stateliness. Power. Probably the best interiors anyone is making right now. But when you go to Europe and get a 2019 Mercedes A-Class, and check none of the boxes, you get none of these things. And it’s delightful.
Read More“Now, if you owned a classy car like that, I might consider marrying you,” my father-in-law’s future bride said to him as the pair walked by his gleaming red 1954 MG TF Midget. About half a century later, the car’s still in the family.
Read MoreMercedes just updated the C43 AMG to give its 3.0-liter V6 larger turbochargers, more boost and more power. Things are up 23 horsepower to a total of 385, which basically makes this the sports sedan you wished you could buy a decade ago from Audi.
Read MoreRimac’s announcement that it’s newest supercar could (mostly) drive itself to the track probably isn’t that interesting to people who like fast as hell cars. But how’s this? New tech aside, Rimac’s not holding back in performance, as the car—dubbed Concept Two—is reportedly able to push out nearly 2,000 damn horsepower.
Read MoreThe “everyday supercar” thing can be bandied around as often as you like, but something super powerful, rear drive, and very expensive shouldn’t really be on your list of cars to take out when snow starts falling. I mean, why would you do that? However, if you absolutely must get from point A to point B and have, say, a McLaren (or seven) to do it in, you absolutely can if you’re properly equipped and/or are a bit unhinged.
Read MoreThe Hoonigans bought a lousy $200 Miata with questionable mods and history, but never quite fell in love with it. It wasn’t fun to rip around their yard and took too much time away from their first love, a beat-up $350 BMW E36 named Shitcar. So, they made it into a “deathkart,” which is the most delightful revenge you can get against a car you hate.
Read MoreCan it be true, that Jalopnik has had the good fortune of having four (four!) wagons in a span of a mere three months? It is indeed, and this is the latest one: the 2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake S. What do you want to know about it?
Read MorePresident Donald Trump wants nothing to do with a new rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey, telling congressional leaders as recent as last week to refuse appropriating funding for the crucial project. That’s important because, as Bloomberg points out, failing to address the current, crumbling link could derail the national economy.
Read MoreHere’s a little reminder from Singer Vehicle Design that pre-production development mules are the coolest cars in existence.
Read MoreThe Nissan R383 was an astonishingly compact and advanced aerodynamic sports car built to conquer the 1970 Japanese Grand Prix, which was classified to the same international Group 7 ruleset as Can Am at the time. After having won the JGP in 1968 and 1969, Nissan was confident that their new 6-liter V12 sports prototype would demolish the field in 1970, continuing that trend.
Read MoreWhile plebeian workaday cars can be transported on an open trailer exposed to the elements, high end automobiles have to be cosseted in an enclosed climate-controlled hauler to keep them safe from the prying eyes of Joe Q. Public. In the case of this particular haul, these cars were exposed to much more than wind and sunlight, as the too-tall trailer smashed headlong into a railroad trestle and ripped the top off like a can opener.
Read MoreMazda is giving you an opportunity to win a brand new MX-5 Cup race car, and it’s all for the support of the Lemons of Love charity, which works to brighten the day of cancer patients everywhere.
Read MoreSetup has begun for the Geneva Motor Show, which opens in four days, and Toyota has rolled in its newest iteration of what we suspect will be the Supra. This car is clearly being shown in race-car form, with a Gazoo Racing livery and center-lock wheels and sticky Michelin slick tires. Is it possible Toyota is entering this car in international GT3 regulation racing, or will it be a Japan only Super GT formula? We’ll have to wait and see.
Read MoreAt first glance, this seems like a terrible idea, but I’ve come around to the prospect of a 1988 Fiero GT serving as a daily driven battery electric vehicle. The seller, an avid Fiero enthusiast, built this car as his own zero emissions commuter in late 2011, and has racked up 63,000 electric miles since, proving that it is not only a great platform, but perhaps more reliable than the Fiero would otherwise have been. Now it’s on eBay for you to live out your electric sports car dreams.
Read MoreThe esoteric Italian wheel company Antera opened its doors in 1991, and set the aftermarket wheel world on fire with a slew of funky new-age designs. While most other companies were sticking with the tried and true, Antera’s goal was to create a shake up, and they sure did. With very of-the-era rounded spokes and oddball shapes, Antera soon became a household name in the business. The most famed iteration, the Type 109, is the three-spoke wonder you see here.
Read MoreIn a tweet today, President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on European cars in an escalation of rhetoric that, in recent days, has made the prospect of an all-out trade war more and more of a possibility. Trump’s tweet came after he said Thursday that he planned tariffs on steel and aluminum, which prompted European officials to put Harley-Davidson in their sights.
Read MoreLast month we posted about a 1999 Subaru Impreza RS 2.5 that was stolen near Portland, Oregon right after photographer Eric Gearheart bought it. Anyone with an ounce of humanity shed a tear for Eric and his poor Subaru.
Read MoreBarn find cars are the archeological expeditions of the car world. Instead of a fedora, whip and Harrison Ford, these digs often involve standing in a shed and googling “Mustang VIN decoder” while a pigeon silently judges you from the rafters.
Read MoreI was at the Detroit unveiling event of the Mahindra Roxor yesterday, and, like many people, I was pretty delighted with what I saw. I was delighted because the Roxor isn’t like the usual plastic-bodied side-by-side little off-roader; it’s a real... Jeep. There’s no other way to put it. The Roxor is an old-school Jeep. Which may lead you to wonder: how can Mahindra build a Jeep? Can’t only Jeep build Jeeps?
Read MoreA terrifying crash in Washington involving two logging trucks left one driver seriously injured Thursday morning, after giant logs flew off one truck and through the entire cab of the other. Somehow, the driver with all the logs lodged into his truck reportedly escaped uninjured. The driver carrying the logs, meanwhile, ended up in the hospital.
Read MoreBeing from Detroit, I’m accustomed to dealing with unbearably cold winters. But I understand how annoying it can be for auto journalists and industry folks who have to travel every January to the frozen tundra of Michigan for the North American International Auto Show. Well, in what amounts to at least a temporary cure for seasonal depression around the Jalopnik office, the Wall Street Journal reports that organizers of the show are considering moving it from the frozen month of January to the l
Read MoreIt’s been a rough week for everyone. Truck sales are crashing. Everything’s a rainy, soggy, windy mess. But driving the cars? That’s still good. So is talking about driving the cars.
Read MoreAt this point in the game, it seems highly unlikely that the famed Mazda rotary will return as a standalone engine. Sorry about that. But as a range-extender in a new electric car? Maybe!
Read MoreThis year’s annual “Are You Faster Than Jalopnik?” kart-a-palooza in Sterling Heights, Michigan did not disappoint, and, now, we have video to prove it. The setting was a frigid evening in mid-January, when Jalopnik staff and over 100 readers descended upon Kart 2 Kart ahead of the Detroit Auto Show.
Read MorePaul Walker starred in most of the Fast and Furious movies until his shocking and untimely death in a fiery crash in 2013. Today, he’s remembered as a dedicated member of the F&F family, as a father, and as a deeply enthusiastic car guy when the cameras were off. Those aspects of his life will be the subject of a new documentary called I Am Paul Walker.
Read MoreI just bought another 1980s Toyota pickup, making me living proof that you should never say “never.” Oops.
Read MoreBack when Cadillac was digging in on its product offensive with new, world-class sedans like the CTS and the ATS, what outsold them? The old, weak SRX crossover. It’s what people want, and it’s what Cadillac is now giving to them, including a new, smaller XT4.
Read MoreThere’s miserable weather in Scotland right now, which is making driving conditions pretty terrible, which is what caused this absolutely insane near-miss between a double-decker bus and a stuck car. Incredibly, the only accidents reported are the ones that likely occurred in every pair of pants in all vehicles involved, thanks to the remarkable bus-drifting skills of the driver, Charmaine Laurie.
Read MorePolice in the SoCal city of Santa Ana report they were tracking an individual named Antonio Padilla this week when he appeared to carjack an Audi, crash into a curb and take off on foot. Multiple cop cars and a helicopter were involved in the pursuit, but a flying dog named Puskas shut it down.
Read MoreAn intense snowstorm hammered the United Kingdom on Wednesday, leaving hundreds of helpless drivers in Scotland stranded on a roadway overnight.
Read MoreDespite Dodge’s best attempts to prevent dealerships from drastically marking up its Dodge Hellcat and Dodge Demon cars, Carolina Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Lugoff, South Carolina is charging a $75,000 market adjustment, marking up the price of the car to a whopping $175,656.
Read MoreAbout a year ago, we reported a lawsuit that accused Ferrari authorizing a Florida dealer of illegally rolling back odometers on its cars. Now, this week, Ferrari admitted to knowingly allowing its dealers do this for certain owners, which is highly illegal and could screw the entire used Ferrari market. Here’s what we’re looking at.
Read MoreHoracio Pagani confirmed that a new Pagani is in the works for 2025 that will be all electric, reports Spanish-language site Autodato. Pagani already breaks our brains with supercars that look like the lovechild of an Le Mans prototype and a UFO from Planet Fancytron. Now they’re going to zap those brains to mush with lightning-fast electric torque.
Read MoreEarlier this week, The Detroit News published a mostly glowing review of the Tesla Model 3. The newspaper, apparently super jazzed about the take, decided to give it prominent real estate, on the front page and above-the-fold. After the story was published, someone went into the online version and made a change to its characterization of the sedan’s much-criticized body panel fit. But the News won’t say why it happened.
Read MoreThe Mazda Miata’s never been known for outright power, and at 155 horsepower and a much lighter weight than its predecessor, the current one moves just fine. But who are we to say no to more? And more could be what we’re getting soon.
Read MorePresident Trump said today he would impose a 25 percent tariff on foreign steel, and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum, in an effort to revive the American metals industry. This is bad! Let’s count the ways this is bad.
Read MoreThe new all-electric 2019 Jaguar I-Pace, not to be confused with the new internal-combustion E-Pace crossover, will go on sale in the U.S. later this year with a range of 240 miles and good enough looks to actually be interesting.
Read MoreI’ve been complaining about the glum, pervasive monochrome-tyranny of car colors in America (and much of the world), and just when I’ve almost given up hope that my son will ever see a modern car in some color other than Totalitarian Gray or Ennui White, the 2018 BMW M5 gets a whole candy-coated wonderland. Hot damn.
Read MoreHave you ever seen small children drift, flip and hammer dents out of a DAF 66 sedan? Have you ever seen a bunch of BMW-swapped Volvos go toe-to-toe with a 1940s DeSoto and a BMW engine-swapped Toyota Supra on a giant frozen lake drift-course?
Read MoreThere’s a book I’ve been reading from 1958, written by a man named John Keats (not this one), and called The Insolent Chariots. At its core, it’s a guy bitching about the absurd excesses of the American automotive industry in the 1950s, along with some wonderfully unhinged illustrations from Robert Osborn. But at this moment, I just want to point out something incredible about this book: it predicts the modern SUV with chilling accuracy.
Read MoreI do love old BMWs, but in case anyone asks I am very solidly on Team Monoblock AMG Wheels.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Smart says it’s for off-road use only, but that he really doesn’t care what you do as long as he gets his asking. Let’s see if he’s asking too much to look the other way.
Read MoreYou may not like the idea of the Russians influencing the elections of other nations, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lada may prove, you can still be down with their versions of other nations’ cars.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe electric E46 refuses to sell it to anyone who can’t prove they can handle the volts. Let’s see whether or not this conversion’s price means he’s not likely to sell it at all.
Read MoreIn general terms, to say something is limited implies constraint, either in availability or capability. In the case of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe LTD Interceptor, that limit is your imagination, and maybe, its price.
Read MoreLet’s be clear from the start, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Z3 is NOT the car from the movie Goldeneye, it just looks a lot like it. We’ll have to see if that familiarity, along with its price, has you shouting action!
Read MoreIt’s hard to go wrong with what you don’t have, and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Aspen doesn’t have a lot. What it does have is a price tag, and we’re going to see if that has what it takes.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Brat says he doesn’t know why he’s even trying to unload it. Let’s check out the custom Subie’s price and see if we can help him figure it out.
Read MoreJeep sourced the diesel engine in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Grand Cherokee from then daddy Benz. That makes it relatively unique, as do the owner-added mods. Could it’s price make it both unique and special?
Read MoreWhile Discotheque music may be long dead, hopefully there’s plenty of life left in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Land Rover Disco. It’s price might even have you shouting, let’s dance!
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate is a Volkswagen I’ll bet you forgot ever even existed, even though it’s only been out of production a couple of years. Let’s see if this Eos has a price that’s worth remembering.
Read MoreYou better live in a good neighborhood as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Probe has no locks on its doors. That invitation to invasion may be alarming, but when you look at the car’s cost, it might be you doing the stealing.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bronco says its laudable condition is the result of its long being garage kept. We’ll see if that shape, and its price, are enough to let this horse run free.
Read MoreAs we all know, old is the traditional gift for a 50th anniversary. Despite that, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 9000 anniversary edition is black on black. We’ll just have to see if the real gold comes with the price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lexus is like Joseph Merrick—better known as the Elephant Man—in that an unattractive exterior masks the true beauty inside. Let’s see if that’s enough to make us also look past its price.
Read MoreI spotted today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ferrari for sale right out on the street like nobody’s business. Mondials do always stand out, but could this silver Quattrovalvole’s price also be outstanding?
Read MoreThe Holy Grail is how the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Fiero Formula describes the car. It may have all the right kit, but does its price have what it takes to push it over the edge?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW is a partial countdown of a car. That’s because it’s a Seven with a six and a five, meaning six cylinders and five speeds. Let’s see if its price makes it ready to launch.
Read MoreThe exhaust on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe S30 is a sight to behold. The turbo V8’s piping runs every which way but loose, but will its price also loosen your pursestrings?
Read MoreWhen you take a look at today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jetta you might be impressed by its overall condition, its BBS wheels, and its VR6 engine swap. You might then look at its price and wonder, what the hell’s going on here?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Range Rover Classic says it’s a unicorn owing to its diesel engine and manual transmission. Those are admirable features, but are they enough to justify its uncommon price?
Read MoreI highly recommend not messing with the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe G37, since it looks like he has an open gun case on the seat in one of the pics in his ad. That doesn’t mean we still can’t check out its price and see if he’s a straight shooter.
Read MoreNamed for one of the best race courses in the world, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Yamaha is in fact not all that much of a performer. It’s still interesting, and likely fun, but is its price?
Read MoreWinter in Canada makes you think pond hockey, hot chocolate or maybe... not going outside at all. But if you have a 2018 Porsche 911 C4S and a frozen skidpad to yourself, trust me, it’s worth braving the cold.
Read MoreFew things sound as awesome as 12,000 RPM wailing out of a little car.
Read MoreWomen in racing do a lot of great things, and people aren’t great at recognizing them for it. From Iran’s barrier-breaking racer Laleh Seddigh teaching other women to race to Danica Patrick showing her car for her last Indianapolis 500, here are some of the incredible things women in motorsports are up to lately.
Read MoreFireworks shot into a crowd reportedly injured at least two spectators at the annual Monster Jam World Finals in Las Vegas last week, according to witnesses who spoke to TMZ. The outlet said a man and a woman were “badly” burned by the fireworks, but that their two children were unharmed.
Read MoreA 75-year-old driver died in a crash at 100 mph Wednesday night during one of Sonoma Raceway’s weekly drag-racing events for hobby racers, according to a Twitter post from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. The track said this is the first on-track death in the 30-year history of its weekly drag program.
Read MoreAll forms of Mazda Miata racing are known for one thing: a good number of drivers who, as Ken Block would put it, just ain’t care. Add fresh rain into the mix and you get the first time I’ve laughed out loud at the delightful nuttiness of a race in a long, long time.
Read MoreGo ahead and toss out all of those early 2000s posters with dramatic speed lines trailing out from behind an overly geometric Gallardo, because Lamborghini has a new race car for teenagers to plaster all over their bedroom walls: the Urus. Yep, Lamborghini wants to race its new $200,000 SUV.
Read MoreOne of the fastest cars in the world at the moment is a Chevrolet Corvette with a V6 under the hood. Which V6, I wondered, like so many of you at this very moment. As it turns out, it’s a unique one, one with a bit of story behind it.
Read MoreFormula One driver Kimi Raikkonen is more than a national treasure. He brings chuckles worldwide, courtesy of his grumbling, hushed demeanor and leave-me-alone-I-don’t-want-to-be-here-anyway attitude. That’s why I’d like to cordially invite him to celebrate all of my major life events from here on out.
Read MoreThe NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway ended nearly two days after it started on Monday, thanks to NASCAR’s first snow delay in nearly three decades. But it was worth the wait, because with a few more feet of racing, the win probably would’ve been decided by a photo finish.
Read MoreAn interesting landmark was passed during the Pirelli World Challenge GTS SprintX round this afternoon at Circuit of the Americas: two women led their respective classes on track at the same time. One of those women, Aurora Straus, went on to win the GTSA-X class in the No. 36 BMW M4 GT4.
Read MoreTom O’Gorman wanted a Jalopnik sticker on his Tomo Racing Honda Civic Si the second he saw me at a pre-race party, but I thought I was all out. Then we found a couple more at the bottom of Kurt’s bag, and gave O’Gorman the bump for today’s Pirelli World Challenge TCA race at Circuit of the Americas.
Read MorePirelli World Challenge’s rad cheap hatchback B-spec class, TCB, officially fizzled out this year. I thought I would be at a loss for good small car action this weekend, but no! TCR is here, complete with unobtanium hatchbacks we don’t get as road cars in the United States, and it is my new race car best friend.
Read MoreThe Jalopnik Bump isn’t just our blessing to go forth and dominate. It’s known to propel racing teams to a decent result, if not an outright win*. If you’re tuning in to Pirelli World Challenge this weekend, pay close attention to the K-Pax Bentley Continental GT3s and the Team HMA Civic Type R.
Read MoreThe Formula One season starts Sunday, just at ungodly hours for some of us in the Western Hemisphere. Whether you’re waking up early, staying up all night or casually turning on a TV at noon because you live in a better time zone, there are a few things you should know about F1 this year. We’ll make sure you do.
Read MoreSometimes there’s a video so insane that I find myself involuntarily holding my breath while I watch it. This is one of those videos.
Read MoreBefore 2011, the Brickyard 400 race was just that—the Brickyard 400. NASCAR made it into an iconic name, its annual trip to Indianapolis’ famous yard of bricks, to go along with the often boring show by stock cars on a track made for open-wheel racing. But for nearly a decade now, the race name has been a mouthful.
Read MoreCosts in NASCAR are a murky thing. The sport stopped publicizing prize money in its top series in 2016, teams often shy away from budget talks and a common belief is that younger drivers will make less money than the older ones. But one team had to disclose how much it spent to make it through the 2016 season.
Read MoreNo other professional racing series in the United States has a more delightful variety of cars than Pirelli World Challenge. Year in and year out, we see an utterly insane variety of cars, from Bentley Continentals and Mazda MX-5s to more obscure fare like the Sin R1, and we’re here for it all over again all weekend at Circuit of the Americas.
Read MoreNASCAR has many terrible things associated with it, but it has committed perhaps no higher crime than its deep-seated affectation for nostalgia. “Oh yeah, back in the 1950s it was guys in STOCK CARS RACIN’ ON DEERT!” This is dumb, because we still have this. It’s called the World Rally Championship.
Read MoreFormula One is starting to grasp the wonders and advantages of the internet, but maybe not fast enough. Motorsport.com reports that the streaming service we’ve all wanted won’t be ready by the start of the season this weekend, and that F1 delayed the service’s rollout and gave no official date for when it will be ready.
Read MoreIt was obvious from the widespread media coverage of former Formula One development driver Carmen Jorda’s comments earlier this month that some women in the motorsports industry are far more recognized and talked about than others, for whatever reason. It’s about time we change that.
Read MoreMV Agusta Racing UK rider Joe Francis unveiled his new livery for this year’s British Supersport season with a racier sponsor than usual: PornHub! You know what? This is a pretty good fit. Both motorcycle racing and sexy time involve a whole lot of activity between the legs. Also, both can also be extremely dangerous if you’re not wearing the right protective gear.
Read MoreWhether you need this information for the entire season or just that big race in May, all IndyCar coverage will move to NBC next year—practices, qualifying, Indy Lights races and IndyCar races. That includes the Indianapolis 500, which, after the 2018 running, will have been broadcast on ABC for 54 straight years.
Read MoreFormula One’s new American broadcaster ESPN just released their broadcast schedule for 2018, Racer reports. Whether you’re using F1's streaming platform or not, you’ll have to stream some F1 sessions next year. Nearly every race except the Monaco Grand Prix has at least one practice session on ESPN’s streaming platform ESPN3.
Read MoreFormula One is taking on a new face now that its new bosses are settled in, and it’s mostly good: the improved online presence, live streaming, the end of grid girls, a look into better racing and the like. But someone messed up badly in the design aspect—like, worse than the people who use Comic Sans professionally.
Read MoreAnother day, another reminder that our future is straight out of a sci-fi movie. This Volkswagen race car looks beamed in from a not-so-distant future where the rich zoom from place to place in electric supercars with glowing company logos while the rest of us choke on the air quality left by the gas guzzlers of generations past.
Read MoreOutside of really catastrophic things that result in people getting hurt, this may be the worst way to lose an endurance race.
Read MoreThe No. 22 Tequila Patrón ESM team felt untouchable in the last moments of today’s 12 Hours of Sebring with known madman and 2016 Sebring winner Pipo Derani driving their car to a win. Yet it was last year’s winners Wayne Taylor Racing who stole the show at the end. Team owner Wayne Taylor was so excited that they nursed a water-belching car home to second place that he dropped the good ol’ f-bomb on Fox Sports’ live broadcast.
Read MoreEven though it’s all tightly regulated under the GTE race car spec, Porsche really doesn’t like to show off the rear end of its mid-engine 911 RSR race car. Fortunately, all it took to get a good look today was driver Gianmaria Bruni running the No. 912 Porsche wide off one of Sebring’s curbs, ripping the rear bodywork off the 911 RSR for all to see.
Read MoreHere in America, we’re annoyingly used to advertisements breaking up the racing action on television, but this caution-causing ad smack that happened in the 12 Hours of Sebring is a next-level nuisance. IMSA loves to put physical trackside ads out for its races, which the drivers sometimes like to collect like power-ups in Mario Kart.
Read MoreWelcome to Sebring! The field didn’t make it through the first corner before the front runners ran into each other. Then just 20 minutes in, there was a rollover, making this race about a wild as you would expect from the land of the Florida Man.
Read MoreThe fastest ever year of the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship’s fastest Prototype class continues, this time, with a new Prototype class lap record at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Tristan Vautier will start Sebring out in front after claiming pole position with a 1:47.432 lap time in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Cadillac DPi-V.R.
Read MoreRoseanne’s return to television is getting promoted in an unlikely place: through the naming rights of Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race in Fontana, California, reports Business Insider. Yes. You read that right: Roseanne. Welcome to the National Association for Stock Car Auto Roseanne.
Read MoreOne of America’s most infamous endurance races is this Saturday: the 12 Hours of Sebring. It’s half as long as the Rolex 24 but just as crazy; run on a former airstrip-turned-race track that’s so bumpy that teams use it for shakedown tests (and we do mean “shake”). Here’s our guide to what’s important and how to follow it.
Read MoreIt looks like Formula One’s new halo is a big step forward for safety in the sport. Also, it looks hideous. But at least McLaren is embracing that their once-lovely F1 cars have giant protective flip flops on them, by partnering with a flip flop company for charity.
Read MoreTrack events are a staple for performance car manufacturers, and many of them offer racing car services for clients. Aston Martin, Mercedes Benz, BMW, and others host hospitality days and racing for their clients and club members at big circuits regularly, providing another level of service and brand excitement. But Ferrari probably does it bigger and crazier than everyone.
Read MoreSince the 1980s, Ferrari has had veto power in Formula One—if it doesn’t like a rule the series or its governing body, the FIA, wants to implement, the team can step in and stop things. FIA president Jean Todt thinks Ferrari should lose that ability, which brings up the question of why the team has it in the first place.
Read MoreA new “Americas Rallycross” is launching this season and taking some of the main teams from Red Bull Global Rallycross, which has been the top rallycross series in the U.S. since its first 2011 season. But, uh, about this new “Americas” series—the start of its season is in Britain.
Read MoreSometimes, it’s nice to walk around and think we aren’t living in a dystopian robot sci-fi movie. Sometimes, it’s nice to think the technology isn’t watching us at every turn. But it is. Even video boards at NASCAR races are scanning your face. You thought you were looking at them? This is incorrect. They are looking at you.
Read MoreCMT is in early talks about producing a show featuring spouses in NASCAR, a source with knowledge on the potential show told Jalopnik on Monday. As the series loses its only full-time woman driver, this doesn’t look like a step forward.
Read MoreFew people reach such a status that others would pay tons of money for clothing they wore in hours-long, sweaty athletic events, and, when phrased like that, it sounds weird regardless of whose clothing it is. But Formula One legend Ayrton Senna reached that status, and one of his race suits is up for auction soon.
Read MoreSébastien Ogier isn’t just a ludicrously fast man. He’s also a good dude to our four-legged friends. Five-time World Rally Championship winner Ogier nearly lost his chance to beat the WRC’s other fast Seb, nine-time WRC champ Sébastien Loeb, at Rally México. Ogier had to risk his own finish to avoid hitting a dog on the stage. (Again!)
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 MoreWhile driving on an island in Western Australia, WAtoday reports that Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo’s parents and their friends claim they found a 132-year-old message in a bottle they originally thought was litter. But not everyone believes them, and some think it’s just an elaborate marketing plan.
Read MoreNASCAR driver Matt DiBenedetto, the guy whose last name usually gets replaced with “DiBurrito” online and whose reaction to finishing sixth at Bristol in 2016 got us all teary, tweeted video Tuesday saying he was unsponsored for the race this weekend. Eight minutes later, his competitors started pitching in money.
Read MoreThe finale of the Formula One season last year was a hard one for me. It was the end of a long, one-sided relationship I’d held with the McLaren-Honda F1 team partnership, in which the Honda engine miserably failed and I made constant, possibly annoying jokes about it. I really enjoyed the bond we had there.
Read MoreAfter former Formula One development driver Carmen Jorda undeservingly made news in handfuls of languages when she said it would be easier for a woman to drive in Formula E than F1 because the car is “less physical,” the Sauber F1 team announced Tatiana Calderon as its newest test driver.
Read MoreWhile most of us don’t enjoy daylight saving time or the sadness that comes with it, not practicing it when everyone else does sounds just as bad. Most of Arizona doesn’t honor the changing of clocks, and that means this weekend’s NASCAR races will happen in more than one time zone—at the same race track.
Read MoreWhen a person like former Lotus Formula One development driver Carmen Jorda talks about how women are less capable as racing drivers than men—and she does, a lot—there’s an urge to treat it as an offhand comment with no merit. That’s particularly true when the person has a history of not helping the people they’re speaking about.
Read MoreWhen Formula One mandated the halo cockpit-protection bar for 2018, a lot of people saw it as a rushed, unappealing and ugly solution to a safety issue drivers have been asking the series to solve for years. But after all of the apprehension and complaining, it sounds like the halo isn’t too terrible from the cockpit.
Read MoreA complaint filed with a U.S. District Court in Florida accuses former NASCAR driver Rick Crawford of trying to pay for sex with a minor, a fictitious 12-year-old girl used in a police investigation. Crawford was taken into custody upon arriving for the encounter, where he thought he was meeting the girl’s father.
Read More“I was this close to telling him [the course] turns right,” Valor Racing co-driver Josh said, recounting this crash at the 2018 Parker 250. “And that’s when I look up and the ground disappears and we go sailing off.”
Read MoreDear sweet, cuddly infant Lord Baby Jesus, the newest owner of Ricky Bobby’s monstrous lakefront mansion from Talladega Nights thanks you and your tuxedo T-shirt for blessing them with the $4 million it took to buy the thing.
Read MoreI am neither proud nor ashamed of my coffee habit. I learned to drive in the Seattle area as Starbucks was well on its way to world domination, so I knew from an early age that a cupholder is one of the bare necessities a car must have. Even my race car! Adding a cupholder in my Porsche 944 is the best $3 I’ve ever spent. In fact, it may have even saved my engine.
Read MoreIf you scroll down the “Speed Champions” motorsports section of Lego’s online shop, you’ll see far more plastic facial hair than ponytails or lipstick outlines. The ones with feminine features don’t tend to be in the starring role as the driver. That’s until you get to a red Ferrari with a wing that looks bigger than the driver figurine itself.
Read MoreI’m not ready to call the 2019 Ram 1500 the best half-ton pickup truck, but I think it’s my new favorite. Even after the novelty of the 12-inch touchscreen wears off, the cab is so comfortable and well organized that I felt like I could live in it. Or, at least, truck off on a 1,000-mile adventure in it.
Read MoreSpace meteorologists are warning that the sun, the very thing that gives us light, warmth and life, could interfere with GPS systems and cause a lot of problems for the current crop of self-driving cars in development. You may have to start checking space forecasts before leaving for work in the morning.
Read MoreJust a little bit ago, President Trump, in a speech given to Marines in San Diego, described the need for a new military branch called the “Space Force.” He made it sound like this was an idea he just had, out of the blue, sort of like a joke, but, hey, it’s kind of awesome and we should really do it, right? Well, sure. The truth is we have been doing things like this, and planning this sort of thing for quite some time. Only it never sounded quite so stupid.
Read MoreTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk launched a car into space in February, acting on something most thought was a joke. But less humorous are potential impacts the car could have on a planet, should it crash into one. Professors at Purdue University said the car could end up being a biological threat—or benefit.
Read MoreFor all intents and purposes, the Subaru 2018 Levorg is a WRX wagon. It’s built on the same platform as the WRX, shares the same 300 horsepower 2.0-liter turbocharged flat-four engine, has the same all-wheel drive system and is available with the same Lineartronic continuously variable transmission. Yet unlike the WRX, the CVT is the only transmission option here.
Read MoreThe 2018 Subaru WRX STI Type RA executes exactly what we’ve fallen in love with Japanese performance cars for: Spider-Man cornering grip, endearingly immature looks and a ridiculous turbo surge. This is easily one of the most fun things I’ve driven and it’s absolutely worthy of its exclusive status.
Read MoreWhether you celebrate or not, there’s something pretty satisfying about hunting down Easter eggs. But instead of plastic eggs full of candy, we’re bringing you some of the coolest hidden features hidden in the design of cars that you might have missed.
Read MoreA Tesla Model X owner had the vehicle’s Autopilot system engaged when the all-electric SUV crashed on a California highway, Tesla confirmed on Friday while alleging the driver who died in the crash missed key warnings to take control of the car.
Read MoreThe New Yorker has a very long profile out today on Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, that focuses on his effort to transition the company away from the unseemly culture fostered by its previous leader, Travis Kalanick. Way at the bottom is a mention to this month’s terrible story involving an Uber-owned autonomous car that fatally struck a pedestrian. In response, Khosrowshahi offers up a wild admission that’s really worth considering.
Read MoreSeveral Chinese-backed electric car startups are vying to sell vehicles in the U.S. by 2019—and on Wednesday, another named SF Motors joined the fray, introducing what it says is a 1000-horsepower all-electric crossover that it expects to take preorders on by the end of the year. What it’s doing to stand out is interesting.
Read MoreThe family of Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old killed by an Uber-owned autonomous car in Arizona, has reached a settlement with the ride-hailing company, according to Reuters.
Read MoreThis week, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ordered Uber to stop testing self-driving cars in his state, after one of the company’s cars fatally struck a pedestrian, the first known pedestrian casualty to involve an autonomous vehicle. But that abrupt decision followed years of Ducey actively courting the company—so much so, he even let Uber secretly test autonomous cars without telling the public as far back as 2016, according to emails obtained by The Guardian. Ducey’s already pushing back on the repor
Read MoreIf you already thought the future was going to be weird, with autonomous cars possibly taking to the streets in droves, it could be even stranger, now that BMW and Daimler have decided to put their rivalry aside—to an extent—and partner up to create a sort-of mobility behemoth.
Read MoreThe fallout for Uber continues. After a fatal crash involving one of the company’s self-driving Volvo XC90's, Arizona’s governor banned Uber from testing autonomous cars in the state. Now the company says it won’t renew a permit to test robot vehicles on California roads.
Read MoreWhen it comes to autonomous driving, car enthusiasts are first in line to nix the idea. There’s a bit of an overarching fear that, one day, human drivers could be rendered unnecessary and manually controlled driving is banned altogether. But even the CEO of the company with the most advanced autonomous driving fleet on the road today believes humans will always have the choice to take the wheel if they please.
Read MoreEver since Uber’s autonomous Volvo XC90 test car fatally struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last week, many people familiar with modern car technology have asked this: why didn’t Volvo’s own automatic braking or crash avoidance systems kick in? Now we know. According to one supplier, Volvo’s standard systems were disabled for the Uber cars.
Read MoreGoogle’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, is partnering with Jaguar Land Rover to build an autonomous version of the automaker’s new all-electric I-Pace, with the goal of deploying the vehicles on Waymo’s soon-to-debut commercial ride-hailing service sometime in 2020.
Read MoreThe head of Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, said on Saturday that his company has “a lot of confidence” that its self-driving car technology would’ve safely handled the situation that confronted an Uber-owned autonomous car last week when it fatally struck a pedestrian.
Read MoreInvestigators examining this week’s fatal crash involving a pedestrian struck by a self-driving Uber are scrutinizing the vehicle’s automated driving technology, and why it didn’t register a pedestrian in the middle of the road before the collision. On Friday, Velodyne, which makes LIDAR sensors used by Uber, said its technology isn’t at fault in the crash.
Read MoreVideo released this week of a fatal crash involving an Uber-owned self-driving car showed the vehicle’s safety operator was distracted in the moments prior to the crash. Safety drivers are a common feature of self-driving car tests conducted on public roads today, but the fact Uber had an autonomous car deployed with a solo operator appears to be unorthodox.
Read MoreA big looming question over this week’s news that an Uber self-driving car fatally struck a pedestrian is who should be held liable if an autonomous vehicle kills a person. If a new study by J.D. Power is any indication, many of us really have no idea.
Read MoreTesla shareholders on Wednesday approved a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could net him close to $56 billion, so long as he meets incredibly ambitious milestones. The pay package was approved by a “wide margin,” according to reports, despite pushback from some analysts.
Read MoreYesterday’s news that a self-driving Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona made it clear that Silicon Valley has succeeded in setting impossibly high expectations for autonomous driving technology. That needs to change.
Read MoreA video from an Uber-owned self-driving car that fatally struck a woman on Sunday shows that she abruptly moved in front of it, police told the San Francisco Chronicle, a factor that could play into the investigation of the crash.
Read MoreUnder an executive order signed this month by Arizona’s governor, Uber could be held criminally liable for a fatal crash involving one of its self-driving cars that struck and killed a pedestrian Sunday.
Read MoreAutonomous cars, if they do in fact one day takeover the roads, will someday hopefully eliminate the need for a driver at the wheel. In that future scenario, German auto parts supplier Kiekert believes traditional door hatches also won’t be necessary. Apparently future humans will struggle with opening doors.
Read MoreRide-hailing company Lyft is testing out a new monthly subscription model—a la Spotify or Netflix—that would provide passengers a set number of rides for a fixed cost. For now, it seems, the terms may vary, depending on the customer.
Read MoreFord unveiled a host of new tech features today that will be standard on all of its models by 2020. They’re calling the whole thing Ford Co-Pilot360. The important base set of features lets the car brake for you in emergencies and keep you in your lane. But that co-pilot name implies much, much more. Sadly, Ford Co-Pilot360, as currently constituted, isn’t a particularly good co-pilot.
Read MoreAutomakers have been urging Congress for months to pass legislation that would pave the way for autonomous cars to be deployed in droves. But consumer advocates are warning that the legislation, as it’s currently written, would prevent consumers from being able to hold manufacturers accountable in litigation, according to CNN.
Read MoreEarlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested the automaker would build a 1950s-themed Supercharger station that included a drive-in restaurant with staff on roller skates. Now, it appears that plan is coming to fruition.
Read MoreLast month, Arizona officials OK’d a plan by Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo to operate the first driverless ride-hailing service in the U.S. Now, the company’s showing off what the passenger experience will be like when that service launches later this year. It’s a small, wild glimpse of the future.
Read MoreRide-sharing services pose a threat to the viability of public transportation systems, but one Texas town doesn’t seem to mind, becoming the latest city in the U.S. to ditch its bus service for an Uber-like setup.
Read MoreWhen we caught up with Faraday Future at this year’s CES conference, the electric car startup said it planned to build its first production cars by the end of 2018. Surprisingly, after a rocky three-year start, the company appears on its way to making that happen. There’s a caveat, of course.
Read MoreA fight over President Donald Trump’s massive tax cuts—which primarily benefitted the wealthy and corporations—nearly killed the federal $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles. Automakers lobbied to keep it in place, successfully, and now General Motors wants to see it expanded, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreA Grammy-nominated producer claims he successfully got a traffic ticket dismissed by arguing his Tesla Model S was operating in the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot mode at the time he was pulled over in Los Angeles, according to reports. But a spokesperson for the Los Angeles court system says the case was dismissed because the responding police officer didn’t show up.
Read MoreOne of the benefits of California’s autonomous car regulations—though they could be vastly improved upon!—is that collisions with a robot vehicle must be reported to the state’s department of motor vehicles, even if they’re incredibly minor. That’s why we now know that, of the six incidents reported so far this year, two involve humans approaching robot cars and literally attacking them.
Read MoreIn January, Tesla proposed a new compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could end with him earning anywhere from $0 to $55.8 billion. Tesla’s investors still have to approve the pay package at a shareholder meeting later this month, and one major analyst is encouraging them to reject it.
Read MoreFrench automaker Renault has made its intentions with the autonomous driving world well-known, and at the Geneva Motor Show it showed how it might proceed into the future with an electric autonomous car called the EZ-GO.
Read MoreOver the weekend, Uber criticized a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on ride-hailing driver wages as “deeply flawed,” after the paper found 75 percent of drivers for Uber and Lyft earn less than minimum wage. One of the study’s co-authors has responded and said an “initial assessment” that uses guidance from Uber still finds that about 50 percent of drivers earn less than minimum wage.
Read MoreUber and Lyft drivers earn $3.37 per hour on average, while nearly 75 percent of drivers earn less than minimum wage in their state, according to a new study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Already companies have criticized the findings, with Uber calling the methodology “deeply flawed.”
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 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 all the stories that everyone else will be talking about over the tire-balancing machine.
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 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. There’s a new Toyota Supra at the Geneva Motor Show, but you should divert your gaze momentarily to these other important stories from around the world that 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 MoreA charitable description of the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime’s performance would call it a “momentum car.” Precious speed must be preserved, because accelerating takes forever. On the other hand, I could not get this car to dip below 50 MPG no matter how hard I flogged it, which is downright miraculous.
Read MoreThere are some who are into cars for the wrenchin’. The idea of spending time, money and sanity resuscitating an old Willys Jeep speaks to them. But some of us just want to drive a working vehicle. If you want classic CJ looks without having to keep an old Jeep alive, the Mahindra Roxor was made for you.
Read MorePickup trucks! They carry a lot of people these days. Just look at the Volkswagen Tanoak concept. It seats two up front and three comfortably in the back. That’s a lot of people! What is the correct amount of people? Don’t worry, after much science I have come to the right number.
Read MoreI’m wrenching like my life depends on it right now because today, I’m supposed to begin a 1,700 mile trip to Utah in my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer with a Willys CJ-2A in tow. How that’s going to happen when I still have so much work to do is absolutely beyond me.
Read MoreIf you’re wondering how overboard you can go modifying the new Jeep Wrangler, the answer is: extremely. To demonstrate this, Jeep has revealed its new Sandstorm concept, which has been turned into an absolute off-road monster thanks to crazy suspension mods.
Read MoreI have to admit, I thought the Jeep 4SPEED concept would invoke the creaky, primitive four-on-the-floor experience I have in my ’75 International Scout but it’s really designed to be just the opposite. Jeep meant “For Speed” and we’re not mad I guess, because it has another cool party trick.
Read MoreThe Easter Jeep Safari concepts just debuted at the brand’s headquarters in Auburn Hills, and the star of the show—by far—is this 1965 Jeep Wagoneer with a Hemi V8 and the most beautiful and tasteful modifications ever done to an old SJ-platform Jeep.
Read MoreThe Jeepster concept we’ll meet at the 2018 Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah next week takes a new Wrangler Rubicon and loads it up with OEM off-road upgrade parts. But the coolest part is the raked windshield and roof, which look straight off the ’66 Jeepster.
Read MoreFor all you Bentley Bentayga owners out there, Mulliner can now fit a bio-metric security storage box in your car. To be fair, it’s a very cool idea because, as you know, I love little compartments inside cars. It really sounds like some science fiction stuff.
Read MoreIn 1955, one brave Frenchman’s thirst for adventure took him on an epic 25,000 mile road trip through Africa that would test his wrenching abilities to their fullest. Stranded in a 120 degree barren desert, the options were: wrench or die. He chose to wrench.
Read MoreThe 2018 King Of The Hammers went down in February, on the rocks and open lake beds of Johnson Valley. It could just as easily be Mars, though. And you get a great perspective of what a rock-crawling desert race is like from these drone shots.
Read MoreThe Jeep Grand Cherokee has been around for 26 model years, and of the many millions built, only a few hundred came with manual transmissions. One of them can be seen in this 1992 episode of MotorWeek, so get ready to feast your eyes on the greatest Grand Cherokee ever.
Read MoreA few days ago, Ford showed the silhouette of the 2020 Ford Bronco, and the crowd went wild, in part, because of what looks like a rear-mounted spare. It’s exciting news in an era when most automakers have their spare-tire placement all wrong. The rear door is indeed where the thing belongs.
Read MoreFord just released a teaser image of the 2020 Ford Bronco, and it looks boxy and upright, and there appears to be a spare tire on the back. Just as the off-road gods intended.
Read MoreThe Ford Raptor is one of the most creative and successful vehicles in recent memory, a joyous interpretation of what a performance car is. But as second generation Raptors now prowl our nation’s highways and byways one shortcoming (lol) has become clear: The Raptor is too big.
Read MoreWhen the Corvette first debuted with a seven-speed manual transmission, the chattering classes cried out “too much!” But big rigs have more gears. Way more gears. As in, 18 gears. This isn’t your simple clutch-and-stick affair. Here’s how you row your own, 18 different times.
Read MoreIf you like doing things in your life like eating food and owning objects, then chances are really, really good that you owe trucks a big thank you. Trucks very literally make our economy and modern lives possible, so we were happy to get a chance, thanks to our pals at Volvo Trucks, to really spend some quality truck-time with some quality trucks. Last time, we showed you how trucks were built; this time, we’re going to drive them.
Read MoreHoly crap. Like most Americans, I’ve been rendered into a state of near-constant excitement by the drama unfolding around the selection of the next-generation postal truck. Yesterday, we thrilled to the sight of a brutal-looking Turkish behemoth, the Karsan USPS prototype, and today, we have a surprise: unknown to anyone before, Ford appears to be in the game, too! Hot damn, now we have a fight.
Read MoreYou know how Land Rover ads are usually set in some locale that looks like an Indiana Jones movie set? In real life, the most perilous place you tend to see one is a “compact car only” parking space. So we had to find out if the new Land Rover Discovery could hang on an epic expedition across Peru.
Read MoreI love my Jeep Grand Wagoneer. I think it’s one of the most soulful, charming vehicles ever built. But this old episode of MotorWeek made me snap out of my Woodie trance for a second and realize that maybe my beloved SJ isn’t as perfect as I want to think it is.
Read MorePeople say that the self-driving cars of the future will be just living rooms on wheels. But those people are fools, because they underestimate how easily you can already live in a car—especially if that car is huge. We know this. We’ve slept in vans before, but we’ve never experienced any mobile lodging as grand as this Volvo Trucks 18-wheeler.
Read MoreMahindra just launched its new Roxor, a side-by-side that looks incredibly similar to an old Jeep. But it’s not just the looks; the hardware is very Jeep-ish, too. Let’s take a look.
Read MoreIndian automaker Mahindra just unveiled a new off-road vehicle called the Roxor, and it not only looks like an original Willys Jeep, but it’s also got the hardware (and the history) to back it up. Better yet: it’s for sale in America and it was built right here in Detroit.
Read MoreOn Thursday in Detroit, General Motors unveiled the new 2019 GMC Sierra, a truck whose craziest feature by far is the “MultiPro” tailgate that can be set into six different configurations. Here’s exactly how it works.
Read MoreThe 2019 GMC Sierra’s carbon fiber cargo bed and crazy six-way tailgate are the real headlines from the truck’s debut, but for a small group of particularly particular people, the new truck’s steering wheel is worth getting excited about too.
Read MoreThe 2019 GMC Sierra is, as ever, an upscale variant of the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado. Today GM announced what’s in the latest version, and more interestingly, how it’s different from its Chevy counterpart. Actually, it’s got one thing that makes it different from every other pickup ever.
Read MoreThis little Toyota Hilux barely makes any power, and yet it can still climb a steep obstacle on the Rubicon Trail with ease. That’s because the ultimate solution for a lack of grunt is gearing. Let’s go over how it all works.
Read MoreAfter driving my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer 1,700 miles from Michigan to Utah, I finally got a chance to take the big Woodie off-road. And my god was it glorious. Much more so than I expected.
Read MoreDavid Tracy’s $800 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer survived the 1,700 mile drive from Detroit to Moab and even a day of light off-roading. Now it’s time for us to head back to Michigan, and we’re planning to make Denver by tonight. If you’re in town, come say hey. [Update: This meetup is canceled, as the Jeep is stuck on the other side of a mountain. See note below.]
Read MoreProject Redwood—my $800 Craigslist Jeep Grand Wagoneer that hadn’t run in 12 years when I purchased it—just drove 1,700 miles from Michigan to the off-road trails of Utah almost flawlessly. I say “almost” because in the middle of nowhere, Colorado, the big Woodie left me and my copilot stranded.
Read MoreAfter sitting abandoned for 12 years, my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer began its 1,700 mile journey to Moab with a few new parts, some thorough safety checking, a prayer, but almost no pre-trip testing. And yet, yesterday, Project Redwood somehow drove 700 miles from Michigan to Missouri with zero problems. Zero.
Read MoreAn ’86 Jeep Grand Wagoneer is still a prime bad-weather, rough terrain road trip machine. I know that because I just spent a day driving David Tracy’s $800 Jankmobile through the worst weather I’ve seen since Winter Storm Nemo and it doesn’t even have a working four-wheel drive system.
Read MoreI built two two extra days into my 1,700 mile Michigan-to-Moab expedition to give us some leeway in case of breakdowns. I’ve now used those two days before ever leaving my driveway, thanks to my 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer’s copious brake problems. Now the Jeep is ready, but there’s no margin for error. If the Woodie dies en route, we’re going to miss our deadline.
Read MoreThe mad scientists at Hoonigan are big fans of caster-wheeled Crazy Carts—the cool little toys made for drifting—but Crazy Carts just don’t have enough power. So, they’re taking a front-wheel-drive Volvo V70, hacking it in half and making their own giant Crazy Cart for lunatic grown-ups.
Read MoreLook around you, look at all the unhappy people with their tiny engines. Cadillac CT6s and Subaru BRZs with their pathetic little 2.0-liter four bangers. McLarens running around with puny 3.8 liters, an insult to the V8 configuration. No, my friend, what you need is DISPLACEMENT. Only then will you achieve TRANQUILITY and INNER PEACE. What you need is this naturally aspirated 7.0-liter, modified LS7 crate engine from Mercury Marine.
Read MoreI need more space for my cars. I’m tired of renting a storage unit for parts, storing my Porsche 944 race car in the opposite direction from said unit, and still having more parts in my living room. I need a garage at home, or at least a carport with a storage area attached. Yet there’s no easy way to search for a home by the size of its garage like you can for the number of bedrooms or bathrooms. What gives?
Read MoreHere in the U.S., car parts stores rent out specialty tools for free, making wrenching accessible to the masses. It’s wonderful thing, especially since there are so many amazing tools to choose from. Here’s a look at some of the hardware you can borrow from your local auto parts retailer without spending a penny.
Read MoreWith only 10 days left before my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer has to drive 1,700 miles from Michigan to the off-road trails of Utah, I’ve been desperate for wrenching help lately. Luckily, this past weekend, some friends noticed this desperation, and helped me defeat my arch nemeses: electrical gremlins.
Read MoreMinis! They’re fun cars, but please miss me with that British kitsch—they’re BMWs now and we all know it. So, why not stuff a BMW V8 in the front?
Read MoreEver just look out at your Volvo 240 in the morning and think, “it’s gonna take a lot to take me away from you?” You should consider swapping your car’s grating door chime for something a little more appropriate.
Read More“That’s it! This has to stop!” my neighbor yelled as he marched into my yard, a vein seemingly ready to burst from his forehead. I was in my backyard innocently trying to push a Kia Rio out of a mud pit with my Jeep, but he was having none of it.
Read MoreUnlike last year’s project, this year’s $800 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer hasn’t required a transmission or engine rebuild (yet), and because of this, I’ve been procrastinating big time. And that’s a problem, because I’ve still got a crap-ton of work to do.
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