The Defense Department is developing a new non-lethal direct energy weapon that it claims can stop any vehicle without harming its passengers or causing damage.
Read MoreOn May 1, 1960, as the Cold War was heating up, CIA pilot Gary Powers was shot down flying a U-2C spy plane over Soviet airspace, dropping from 70,000 ft to 30,000 ft before he could safely eject. The United States tried to cover up the mission, but the pilot and his U-2 were both recovered, forcing the U.S. to admit its spying. This was how the legendary SR-71 was born.
Read MoreIt was the worst military aircraft of all time. Developed by a man described as “the greatest charlatan ever to see his name associated with an airplane,” the Christmas Bullet was the rare kind of fighter which had a perfect kill ratio: it killed everyone who ever tried to fly it.
Read MoreTammie Jo Shults, reportedly one of the pilots responsible for landing the Southwest Airlines flight 1380 that experienced an engine explosion earlier today, was also one of the first women pilots in the Navy and one of the first women to fly the F/A 18 fighter jet.
Read MoreEvery couple of years the U.S. Navy conducts a submarine exercise high above the Arctic Circle, known as ICEX. It doesn’t just feature submarines lurking underneath the polar ice caps, as creepy as that sounds. The submarines themselves also punch straight through the frozen landscape. This is what it looks like on the inside.
Read MoreA U.S. Air Force Thunderbird pilot is dead after the pilot’s F-16 crashed during a routine training flight on Wednesday morning at the Nevada Test and Training Range, the Air Force said on Thursday. The crash was the third for the Thunderbirds in two years, following an incident in June 2016, in which the pilot ejected, and another in June 2017, when a Thunderbird jet ran off a runway, injuring two.
Read MoreSandia National Labs is involved in some pretty intense science. Researchers there mainly focus on developing and researching non-nuclear components for America’s arsenal and have been, in some fashion, since Truman was president. They are experts in the delicate art of things that blow up.
Read MoreSince the summer of 2014, one of America’s most prized battlefield weapons, the M1 Abrams tank, has been used by those it was meant to fight. Captured M1 tanks have fought with ISIS and have recently been used by Iranian-backed Shia militias to put down a Kurdish movement for independence.
Read MoreThe 2018 BMW X2 crossover came out to mixed reactions from the enthusiast community, I still think the roundel badge on the C-pillar is a little much. But after doing a few hundred miles in one of these, I’ve decided the X2 is actually kind of awesome if you can appreciate what it is: a faster, fancier Subaru Crosstrek.
Read MoreIn a snap, Ford has decided to kill all of its and sedans and hatchbacks except for the Focus Active. While this may be a smart business move—for now—buyers looking for cheap speed and five-doors will eventually have to go elsewhere. Now seems like a good time to grab a Fiesta ST, Focus ST or Focus RS with heavy discounts.
Read MoreThe 2018 Volvo S90 will make you feel fancier just by sitting in it. Between its clean Swedish lines and ornamental buttons, you may leave this car wondering why any other luxury car exists. If it’s not as fancy as the Volvo, just take it away. It is unworthy of carrying you.
Read MoreAustin, who is surprisingly from Texas, has a BMW that he wants to sell and use the proceeds for something that he can transform into a machine that’s part daily driver and part rally-racer. This is a goal we can all support, so what car should he buy?
Read MoreWe live in some odd times, where an automaker’s best selling and most profitable vehicle is having trouble finding customers. Some of the latest Ram trucks aren’t selling that well, which means some massive discounts for you.
Read MoreHello there, car shopper. Perhaps you are in the market for a sporty sedan. You could buy yourself any number of nice, reliable and sort-of-fun sedans, or you can live on the edge and get something with an Italian flair. That’s because the Alfa Romeo Giulia is already depreciating into tempting price ranges.
Read MoreNot many of us end up spending more on a car than on the typical mortgage, but still, there is no shortage of high performance super luxury cars to indulge every qualified buyer’s tastes. Yet this gives some cars, like the Bentley Continental GT, an air of snootiness—or nouveau riche dipshittery. Trust me, friend. This is the wrong way to think.
Read MoreAlex wrecked his Prius, but he is using this as an opportunity to get what he has always wanted: a pickup truck. The only hangup is that his budget is tight, and we all know finding a good truck for cheap is not easy. What car should he buy?
Read MoreEven with the announcement of an upgraded M2 Competition Package with power coming from the M4, some of us long for a simpler time when it comes to BMW’s M cars. No turbos, high revs. Well, now is the time to get on the V8 M3 train before it goes completely off the rails.
Read More“That thing looks like a fighter jet,” “...spaceship,” “...Cigarette boat.” Few people in the presence of a 2018 Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster can bring themselves to call it a car. It’s the manifestation of immature and indulgent fantasies. And it is magnificent.
Read MoreIt’s easy to get on your high horse and look down on people who have found themselves in a tough financial spot because they didn’t do the math before they bought their car, or because they need a car so badly they had to take on a rough deal. But this loan term on a six-figure Porsche Cayman GT4 reveals that money and experience do not equal financial savvy.
Read MoreWorking with Kia dealers, even in this modern age of car shopping, can be an exercise in futility. Attempting a deal on a Kia Stinger in Florida, a state that is notorious in my experience, for bad dealers, could have been a nightmare. But sometimes things don’t always go as expected. Here’s how I pulled off a deal in two unusual places.
Read MoreGordo has had the trifecta of bad luck. His home was burglarized, his car was stolen, then his house burned down. He has since moved on and is now looking for something to drive to bring him some joy again.
Read MoreI drove the 2017 Cadillac ATS-V so long ago I had to check and make sure the car’s still in production. The six-speed manual, six-cylinder twin-turbo, two-door, rear-drive car has been lauded so much on Jalopnik already I almost didn’t bother writing about it. But! It’s been stewing in my mind since and I can finally articulate why.
Read MoreThere are all kinds of websites, platforms and startups that are supposed be “disrupting” the whole car buying process, yet every day people end up with bad deals. But the most powerful tool is something buyers have had for a while, and they don’t even have to download it.
Read MoreMost people know that expensive cars are also expensive to own. But why is that? You would think that modern manufacturing techniques and expensive testing would make cars more durable. Our friends at Engineering Explained why this isn’t always the case.
Read MorePeople who own and drive Saabs are a unique bunch. But like Shannon, they all face a tough dilemma when it’s time to move on. Her 9-3 is aging fast and she wants something with the same kind of character to replace it. What car should she buy?
Read MoreThe most financially wise way to own a car is to keep it as long as possible. While our friends at Consumer Reports have their predictions as to what models will reach beyond the 200,000-mile mark, a new study from iSeeCars reveals a different list—one that’s dominated by trucks and SUVs.
Read MorePet peeves! Everyone’s got ‘em, so I have doubt that we also have them when it comes to cars. They can be big or small... but come on. It’s us. Of course our automotive pet peeves are big.
Read MoreGetting your foot in the door of the automotive industry isn’t easy. It’s already a small space and it’s extremely competitive. But if you’re talented and you want in badly enough—and you’re willing to gamble anything and everything you have to get it—you just might score that dream job of building race cars, like certified badass Juliann Pokorny.
Read MoreAre you a television set owner/operator and uncertain as to what manner of audiovisual information you should play back through your device? If so, I have a suggestion: on April 30 at 10 PM, there’s going to be a show on the Discovery Channel that, improbably, has decided to feature me and my 1973 Volkswagen Beetle. But don’t worry! There’ll be much better people and cars on there, too.
Read MorePontiac Fiero-based replica cars talk a lot of visual smack with their racy bodywork, but rarely back it up. Fortunately for us all, the current owners of this Fiero-based Ferrari F40 replica did the right thing and took it racing. Hey, replica owners everywhere: put up or shut up.
Read MoreThere is are extremely few circumstances when you should pull the emergency brake on a train. Like, almost zero. We should get rid of it entirely, and replace it with this thing. An emergency handle just to let the train driver know something’s up.
Read MoreFord announced that it’s killing off basically all of its cars in favor of crossovers and SUVs. No more cars, because large numbers of people won’t buy them. Only fat crossovers. Only ponderous SUVs. Because that’s all they want. But they are morons. I stand in objection to this, and so should you.
Read MoreYou could literally see the fall of Mitsubishi coming for like 25 years.
Read MoreI had just gotten my 2002 Lexus IS300 Sportcross, and had been only been driving it for a couple of days. It made it the 800 miles from South Carolina, and a few dozen more around New York, with nary a problem. And then, while sitting and waiting to pick up Raphael Orlove to go on a little trip, the check engine light went on. “CRAP,” I remember shouting to myself.
Read MoreThe letter of the day is F. F is a fantastic letter, but it’s becoming a scarce commodity in the Ford planning meetings.
Read MoreMost of the time, being in a car is just fine. It’s fun, even. Problems arise, though, when you add other people into the mix.
Read MoreI’m a sucker for a good underdog story. Give me the person who shows up to the car show with the rusted Plymouth Valiant with a bog-standard slant-six over the guy with the garage queen Ford Mustang any day of the week. Maybe that’s why I love this story so much—a story that pits a lowly base-model four-cylinder 1961 Pontiac Tempest with an almost hapless driver against the muscle cars of the late ‘60s driven by street-racing gearheads.
Read MoreEven if you aren’t religious and don’t believe in some kind of higher power, you can sometimes still have little automotive superstitions. It’s totally okay! It’s all part of this weird relationship we have with our cars.
Read MoreThere are people out there that think that GM was really starting to “pull it together” in the early 2000s. That its bankruptcy was brought about by nothing but poor financial planning. Rest assured, however, that GM was making cars beyond all reason and comprehension.
Read MoreOf all the General Motors brands that left us too soon, Pontiac is perhaps the one I miss the most. Fortunately, For Sweden agrees with me for a change: all you really need in a car is a Pontiac.
Read MoreSomething we sing and shout about nearly every day here at Jalopnik is that cars are more than just lifeless lumps of metal. Which is why our relationships with them aren’t like ones that we have with our, say, washing machines.
Read MoreThere was a time when the manual transmission was everywhere, enough to be known as the “standard.” Now, especially in the United States, it’s a rare thing that’s only getting rarer. So, for this episode of Tempest, we explore the magic, the mystery, and the occasional misery that comes with learning the manual transmission.
Read MoreSometimes you get away with it. Sometimes you don’t. These are your true, unfortunate, hilarious stories that fall into the latter category.
Read MoreSo, let’s say you try and microwave a sandwich made from a piece of the True Cross, some ham, a fistful of tachyon particles, mustard, all on a bagel, and when you do it causes a severe enweirdening of spacetime so that every car’s front suddenly becomes its rear. What cars do you think will fare best?
Read MoreIf you’re in the U.S. and you’re a fan of fast Subarus, you should consider yourself lucky. Very lucky. If you want a brand-new WRX STI, you can just strut into your local Subaru dealership and buy one—provided you have the money. (Or at least a pulse and a marginally decent credit score. I see how you buy cars, America.)
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we get a lot of press releases, marketing pitches, spam and emails. Most of them I half-heartedly archive, but one caught my eye today: a pitch with the subject line “David Leitch to direct Fast & Furious spin-off starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham.” And I got very excited because I initially and very quickly read that as “David Lynch to direct Fast & Furious spin-off starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham.”
Read MoreCar design can be a surprisingly subtle undertaking. Little details can have effects far larger than you’d expect, and I think that’s what’s happening here. Early prototypes of the Giugiaro-designed Volkswagen Golf had headlights set in a slightly different location, and, at least to me, it looks and feels dramatically different. It’s astounding how much difference a few inches of positioning can make in auto design.
Read MoreGoodyear has been trying to cover up accounts and lawsuits concerning its dangerous RV tire for years. We’re not going to help them.
Read MoreWhen I got an invitation from Yasu-san, a member of the Supercar Club of Japan, to check out “an afternoon of about 100 supercars on Fuji Speedway,” I thought about it. For about one second. How could I refuse an offer like that?
Read MoreIt’s 1981, and a man pulls up to an intersection in his ‘52 pickup. He looks left to check for traffic. All clear. He looks right, but the van next to him is blocking the view. The man driving the van waves him through. The man in the pickup proceeds. Moments later, he is thrown from his truck, his skull cracked on the pavement.
Read MoreNormally, the cars I pick for Meh Car Monday were never originally designed to be meh, as such. Mehness just sort of happened to them. I’m not so sure about the Toyota Avalon, though, since the car seems to have as its main goal an almost funereal quality of nothingness, disguised as “comfort.” The Toyota Avalon isn’t so much a car as it is the automotive equivalent of dying, peacefully, in your sleep.
Read MorePorsche, the team with the most 24 Hours Of LeMans wins, called it quits after 2017, but to commemorate its past, the brand has embarked on a “919 Tribute” tour. Hmm, a tribute to the best team in the world. I wonder what Jack Black would say about this.
Read MoreThe Simpsons has given us a surprising amount of automotive-related cultural icons, including the Powell Motors Homer, the Canyonero, and even Homer’s own Plymouth Junkerolla. My favorite Simpsons car, though, may be the most mysterious: the strange, tiny car from a no-longer-extant country that a man named Crazy Vaclav tries to sell Homer in the famous Mr.Plow episode. No one’s really sure what that car is, but I think it’s high time we really tried to figure out what the story is behind that t
Read MoreI love aircooled Volkswagens. I should—in theory—hate Paul Nelson’s car, but I can’t. It’s a Mazda Miata under a Type 3 body, and I ain’t even mad.
Read MoreCar buyers are swept up in the same trends running through popular culture right now: near-past nostalgia and infatuation with the mundane. Yesterday I was balking at a bidding war over a 1999 Nissan Pathfinder, but it actually makes perfect sense.
Read MoreI was behind a current-gen Porsche Boxster in traffic today when I noticed something strangely familiar about its brake lights. I’m by no means convinced this was intentional, but that brake light pattern sure reminds me of something else automotive-related. Any idea what that is?
Read MoreWith the increasing popularity of hybrid and electric cars, the number of cars that you can buy with two independent motors capable of turning some kind of energy into spinning tires has increased dramatically. Even so, all of these current multiple-powerplant vehicles owe thanks to the addition of electric motors. If you want to talk about cars with two internal combustion powerplants, there’s really only two that were built in any quantity. And you have a right to know what they are.
Read MoreWe’ve been featuring some of the most interesting, fun and wacky builds you people can dream up on the site as our Builds of the Week, and it’s about time we put some on video. Do you live close to New York City? We’d love to come over and check out what you’re doing—on film!
Read MoreAs another day marches on we are once more filled with new pieces of information and insights about the world around us and also hey check out this cool door handle, y’all.
Read MoreIt’s pretty common in our rich, varied community of car-obsessives, to meet people that are really into one particular brand of car. This concept is probably best known through its expression as a hat or a T-shirt that says something like “I’d rather push my [car brand] than drive a [other car brand].” I’m here now to let you know that this way of thinking is absurd; a true gearhead values the car, not the brand.
Read MoreI was just in Amsterdam for a very, very brief trip to see the new Lynk & Co 02, and while I was there I managed to squeeze in a bit of on-the-streets car hunting. And, sure, it’s hard to see the cars through the piles and piles of bikes everywhere, pedaled around by healthy Dutchfolk, but they’re there, and, even better, they’re pretty good. Let’s have a look!
Read MoreSometimes, we get up to no good in our cars, but this isn’t a post about getting away with it. This is a post about getting caught. It happens.
Read MoreA man whose life revolves around automobiles searches for the very first car he ever rode in. It sounds simple enough, but that’s just where this story begins. For this family, the past, the future, loss and joy are all hung together in the present. There’s a stranger, a son, a sibling, a spouse, and a woman who loves to rumble.
Read MoreIt’s an usually warm spring day in Tokyo. After a few days of winter refusing to relinquish the cold weather, we suddenly experienced temperatures in the high teens, or the mid-60s if Fahrenheit is your jam. Either way, I’m standing at an intersection in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo, famous for having the world’s largest fish market. But I’m not here to bid on tuna—I’m here to meet a man called Junya Matsushita and his Subaru. Not just any Subaru, either.
Read MoreThis week’s Meh Car is a little more poignant than normal, perhaps even tragic, since the meh car involved wasn’t always meh. Not by a long shot. The current-gen Subaru Legacy, the sixth-generation of that car, is an example of a car that’s been forced, brutally and needlessly, into a cage made of tempered mehdonium, and will likely die in there. It’s a sad story, but I’m afraid one that must be told.
Read MoreRegret is the worst feeling. It’s the one that sticks a knife in your heart and twists it because you knew you could have done differently. This post will be a painful one because it’s all about your greatest automotive regrets.
Read MoreIf it looks like part of that Lamborghini Huracán was on fire at some point, it’s because it was. Luckily, the fire has since been put out and all is (relatively) right again in the world.
Read MoreWe all know driving drunk is among the things to be considered “Extremely Bad,” but it can be hard to fathom just how bad until you see it up close. But a drunk driver in Britain managed to record her own terrifying drunk ride through a dashcam, and the result will make you never even consider doing it.
Read MoreToday we’re going to learn about the three different stages of “oh, shit” from the new owner of a BMW Z4 and his passenger-friend recording him drive it straight into a wall.
Read MoreSunday morning in Lutz, Florida, a woman trying to park her Tesla Model X to go to a nail salon ended up putting the car into a gym’s wall. No one was hurt in the incident, though one poor guy’s workout was rudely interrupted.
Read MoreIt’s cruel, I know, but I think it bears repeating: If you see a small animal in your path while driving and you are traveling too fast to safely slow down or stop, do not, for the love of God, swerve around it. Just hit it. Go through it. It’s safer that way.
Read MoreThe usual ranking of supercar owners goes that Lamborghinis are for show offs, Ferraris are for snobs and McLarens are for the good and honest serious drivers. Not so much with this McLaren 720S driver, showing off for the camera and instantly regretting it.
Read MoreYou’d never notice it driving by, but right in the middle of Echo Park works Baron Margo, one of the coolest car builders in the country. He builds his own retro-rocket-art cars nearly from scratch, and there’s one place he always tests them: Baxter street, one of the steepest in LA. If his cars can survive it, they’re safe to go anywhere. Not safe enough, however, are all of LA’s terrible drivers who routinely crash there because they get sent over by apps.
Read MoreWhile most of us almost compulsively check our fitness trackers every morning before work to see just how poorly we slept, a California couple said they didn’t even wake up when a Honda Civic catapulted into their house early on Tuesday morning. They even said they left their house that day without noticing it.
Read MoreA strong yet beautiful Saab was sadly destroyed early this morning in Philadelphia when a large, oafish, beastly scoundrel of a garbage truck, big and heavy and destructive, unlike an honest and proud Saab, suffered a “mechanical issue” (makes sense for a vehicle that’s not a Saab) and crashed into a number of cars on a South Philly street, including, cruelly, this Saab 9-3 convertible.
Read MoreFor nearly two decades now, the Top Gear test track has been at an old military airfield in Surrey, South East England. But soon enough, the Hammerhead and Chicago turns will be a park, the Bacharach looks like it’ll become some kind of water feature, and a roadway looks to be planned in the Gambon’s place.
Read MoreFollowing on the heels of the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 that we saw at Pebble Beach in 2016, images of the new Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury SUV concept leaked today ahead of the 2018 Beijing Auto Show. And it is large. Massive. Vast. Colossal.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that we love the new Honda Civic Type R around these parts, but the current Civic sure has grown big. What we need is a return to basics, with go-fast bits on a small, chuckable car. We need the Small RS Concept.
Read MoreThe 2019 Jaguar I-Pace is a fairly practical hatchback disguised as an electric crossover, but it has one surprising feature that might be unexpected for a low vehicle powered purely by batteries—it can wade through 19 inches of water. Almost 20, in fact.
Read MoreMy colleagues, as well as much of the car enthusiast community, are dealing with a collective freakout upon learning Ford will be killing off all its sedans and hatchbacks and keeping one real car, the Mustang, in North America. Ford is doomed, they say. But I don’t share that perspective—no one wanted to buy those cars anyway, and this came down to just being a cold, hard business decision.
Read MoreThe 2018 Ford Mustang GT let out a glorious, guttural belch as I rolled into the gas through a long sweeping turn. There was nothing else on the road but tire marks and tumbleweeds until I caught a twinkle in the rear-view mirror: another Ford Mustang GT, this car’s direct predecessor.
Read MoreI was so overwhelmed by the presence of this Montana sky blue 2009 Honda S2000 CR that I first fixated on an oddly trivial aspect—“Is that a yellow trimmed interior?” Yes, and there are a few other details that make this special version of Honda’s roadster pop. But when you’re driving it, it’s still all about the transmission.
Read MoreThe fifth and final Honda Prelude was objectively the best, and this particular 1999 Honda Prelude Type SH with less than 400 miles on its odometer is inarguably the finest left. Its simple design has aged gracefully, and the driving experience makes you realize what cars have lost in the last two decades.
Read MorePeople seem to understand that the 1999 (and 2000) Honda Civic Si is special. In the rare instance that a clean one pops up for sale, these 20-year-old economy cars can sell for close to the cost of a 2017 Honda Civic Si. We drove the nicest ’99 Si left on Earth to find out if it’s really worth the hype.
Read MoreYou’re a gearhead. You know to chuckle knowingly and condescendingly when some dumbass refers to the “V4" in their Honda Civic. You know your stuff. You know what a flat engine is, too. It’s an opposed-piston engine, right? Sometimes they’re called boxer engines, like what Porsche and Subaru use. Same thing, right? Well, not exactly. Let’s clear up this often-confused bit of technical arcana.
Read MoreSurely you knows you’re supposed to follow posted speed limits, but do you know how they’re set in the first place?
Read MoreA lot of street driving novices might try to justify swerving like a maniac all over the road in some sort of effort to hit what they call a “racing line” with their car to be faster. They’re dumb, but the actual racing line is pivotal to get right, and there’s a lot of interesting factors that play into how a racing driver approaches a corner.
Read MoreAlmost every EV in production today has one thing in common—lithium ion batteries, from the Tesla Model 3 to the Nissan Leaf and Jaguar I-Pace. As the EV market gets more competitive, automakers have started benchmarking charge times to only 80 percent. Why don’t they advertise how long it takes to fully charge?
Read MoreYou’ve heard the term compression ratio before, but have you ever wondered exactly what it means? Well, it’s time to explain exactly what compression ratio is, and why every carmaker is now obsessed with it like it was the Holy Grail.
Read MoreI’ve been thinking about tubes. Specifically, the weird black tubes that you often find stretched across a roadway. What are those tubes for? What are they tracking? How do they work?
Read MoreThe 2018 Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled, aesthetically, feels like the ultimate motorcycle for right now. It bullseyes a Venn diagram space between “retro,” “modern,” “performance” and “adventure.” Aimed at established enthusiasts and new riders seeking a kind of hipster aesthetic, it’s torquey and sounds great. But it’s also heavy, a little awkwardly proportioned and expensive.
Read MoreIntense competition among the top-five riders in every practice session and a three-spot grid penalty for blocking Maverick Viñales during qualifying couldn’t slow down Marc Marquez at Circuit of The Americas. Overcoming the odds, Marquez somehow found his way through the field and onto the top step of the podium for the MotoGP race in Austin for the sixth consecutive year.
Read MoreHarley Davidson, a motorcycle company struggling to connect with young people, just announced what sounds like a dream internship for any college student. Eight lucky millennials will get free motorcycles and riding lessons so they can travel around the country social media-ing the shit out of their Harley.
Read MoreThe 2015 Ducati Scrambler raised all kinds of excitment when it came out by pretty much nailing a sweet spot between retro-styling, light adventure capability and the mystique associated with “Italianess” that people seem to find enticing. The slightly meatier ’18 Desert Sled should be all that and a little more rough-road ready. So what else do you want to know?
Read MoreSome of the best memes floating around social media at the moment are the escalating arguments of two gruff-looking motorcycle men on various topics like the Hobbits not using the Eagles to fly to Mordor, self-checkout frustrations and whether or not Garfield is actually good. But the source clip itself is insanely overdramatic.
Read MoreThis motorcycle comes with an impossible to pronounce name, a huge single-cylinder thumper engine, and styling that looks more 3018 than 2018. It also comes with a huge twelve-grand price tag. Is the Vitpilen (white arrow) really worth that kind of money? Well, that depends how much you value style. It’s got way more street cred than your average bike, and riding a quirky non-Japanese marque is sure to get you high fives from hipsters.
Read MoreIt’s just a fleeting moment, but in the first episode of the second season of Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld, there’s a glimpse of what appears to be a Mercedes G-Class bodied boat of some kind. What’s up with that?
Read MoreLast week a 415 horsepower Chevy SS was spotted in New York City with license plates confirming that it belonged to the Australian Consul. Now, the former Australian Consul-General himself has chimed in to tell us a little more about it.
Read MoreAnother camouflaged test car for the new Toyota Supra has been spotted, this time wearing what are likely production-ready wheels that are a ten-spoke, dual-tone black and silver look. How disappointing.
Read MoreI have to admit something to you guys: The Jalopnik staffers were nervous before our Amazon/The Grand Tour bash last Friday night. We badly wanted everyone to enjoy themselves and have a good evening. We didn’t want to disappoint you. But after chatting with you guys and seeing the photos, I think everyone’s evening went just fine. Better than fine.
Read MoreI used to love building models as a kid. And even though I’m a semi-adult now, that love hasn’t gone away. This little wooden model Honda Motocompo is the latest one that’s captured my attention.
Read MoreOver 800 cars showed up to the Detroit Gambler 500—a rally made up of $500 and under shitboxes—and while I only spotted a small portion of that total, what I did see was absolute madness.
Read MoreWe finally have our hands on a 603 horsepower $130,300 2018 Mercedes AMG E63 S station wagon and are here to share as much of it as possible with all of you. Few cars embody the spirit of Jalopnik as much as a fast, fierce and also utility-friendly station wagon. And while we wish it had three pedals, come on. 603 HP wagon.
Read MoreIf you followed the Winter Olympics this year, the name Kjeld Nuis may be familiar to you, as he won a pair of Olympic gold medals at the Korean games. During the Pyeongchang games, Nuis skated as fast as 60 KPH, which was a new record for competition speed. Wanting to up the stakes, Kjeld teamed up with Red Bull and Seat cars to set a world speed record on skates.
Read MoreBack in the 1990s, there was a seemingly endless supply of bonkers concept cars that existed solely to grab attention at auto shows and in the pages of magazines. Some of these concepts were wild enough to end up on childhood bedroom walls, because the street cars weren’t quite exciting enough. When the Mustang Mach III (above) was unveiled, for example, Ford dealerships were still selling Fox-body ‘Stangs.
Read MoreIt took automakers until the 1980s to crack the magic 200 mile per hour barrier in a production car, but hot rodders had been toying with the over-200 arena for quite a while prior. If you’ve ever wanted to get out on the salt flats and figure out what it takes to run crazy fast speeds, this is your ready-made opportunity. It’s always easier (and cheaper) to buy someone’s finished project than to build your own, and this car looks like the perfect definition of that rule.
Read MoreJanelle Monáe dropped a new album, Dirty Computer, this week, and with it a visual accompaniment she’s calling an “Emotion Picture”. In a memory flashback within the film, Monáe’s Jane 57821 drives [flies?] this early 1970s Ford Mustang-shaped flying car, and it’s just too cool. The car is a major part of the stand-alone segment for the song “Crazy, Classic, Life”.
Read MoreWin it or bin it. That’s apparently the Red Bull Formula One team’s motto, as Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen have scored their second double-DNF in the first four races of the season. Ricciardo won two weeks ago in China, and was on a path toward a very nicely placed finish in Azerbaijan until he rear-ended his teammate on a deep-dive pass into the first turn that ended with both of them skidding up the escape road into retirement.
Read MoreThe folks at Race Service (now split off from Donut Media), worked tirelessly at Luftgekühlt 5 to capture all of the footage for this quick video, and have likely spent all of the week between then and now tagging, cutting, and editing footage in order to get this video out. They deserve a quick pat on the back for their efforts, because this is a neat look at how it actually felt to be there. In just one minute, this video packs in so much visual information that it is truly representative of t
Read MoreD-lng Designs in Belgium is custom-crafting brand new sets of custom one-off wheel fans, and I could not be more hyped for it. This is the kind of throwback style that automotive enthusiasts are clamoring for right now, and I absolutely need a set for every car I own. I’ve long believed that the right set of wheels can truly make any car look great, and given the right car, a set of these fans can really set it off. These wheel covers can be built in every fashion from mild to wild. The company’
Read MoreElectric racing is taking over the motorsport world by storm. If you’re not already watching Formula E but are totally interested in seeing a bunch of Tesla Model S EGTs taking each other on, then you’re in luck. The Electric GT Championship, the self-proclaimed first ever zero-emissions racing series, has finally released the schedule for their first ever ten-round season, starting this November!
Read MoreMastering rough roads shelled into near-oblivion, Violette Morris sidestepped the artillery craters on her motorcycle. It was 1916 on the slopes of the Somme in the midst World War I, and Morris, a field nurse, was on her way to the battlefield. The soldiers who righted her bike when she fell weren’t aware that they were helping a woman. With a shapeless outfit and close-cropped hair, Morris could easily pass for a man on the battlefield.
Read MoreBad news for everyone driving a green energy car in Los Angeles County: you’re about to have to follow the same rules of the road as everyone else. (Update: Actually no, just some of the same rules now.)
Read MoreName a more iconic duo than sponsorship and racing. Ever since teams realized they could start selling space on their cars and helmets to make more money, sponsorship has been one of the driving forces between who gets to drive, who gets hired on the team, and who wins a championship at the end of the year.
Read MoreHands up if you weren’t one of the lucky kids who grew up in the presence of a kid-sized electric car, one of those pink Barbie Jeeps or sleek convertibles. If you’re still bitter about not being able to squish your body into a tiny car but aren’t keen on smart cars, then you’re in luck my friend: the world’s smallest roadworthy car might just be right up your alley.
Read MoreSince its inception, Formula E has been known to do things… differently. Being different is not a bad thing—after all, if you’re willing to become the first electric open wheel racing series in the world, you might as well try out things that everyone else is too scared to consider—but… there is a point where it goes just a little too far.
Read MoreIn May of 2017, British “driver” Bhavesh Patel climbed behind the wheel of his white Tesla S 60 and headed off down the crowded M1 highway at about 40mph. Itching to relax, Patel switched on the autopilot function and swapped to the passenger seat for maximum comfort. After kicking up his feet and putting his hands behind his head, he left both the steering wheel and the foot controls entirely neglected.
Read MoreAhh yes, it feels like just yesterday where I could wake up in the morning with a cup of coffee, scroll through my emails, and check to see if a certain infamous Formula 1 driver had crashed yet by heading over to a website dedicated to that express purpose. It was a little sad when Pastor Maldonado took his exit from F1. It felt like we’d all lost something integral, something we could count on.
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 MoreNetflix’s Fastest Car premiered earlier this month and it was a triumph in democratizing speed. It showed that owning something fast wasn’t just limited to wealthy supercar buyers, anyone could build up their car and go toe-to-toe with an exotic. All of that was well and good, the show just got some of the finer parts of car culture wrong.
Read MoreIf you’ve been drowning out the sound of your own tears with Katy Perry’s “The One That Got Away” since one of the auto industry’s most iconic cars, a nearly perfect 1994 Toyota Supra with under 5,700 miles on it, sold to someone else last month, you’ll be happy to hear it’s available again. The sale fell through.
Read MoreCalifornia and the U.S. government are barreling toward a legal battle, after reports emerged that President Donald Trump’s administration will propose revoking the state’s ability to set its own standards for car emissions and fuel economy. Fuel economy targets would also reportedly be frozen until 2026, under the plan.
Read MoreWilliam Friedkin took all of his built up moviemaker credit from doing The French Connection and The Exorcist back to back and made Sorcerer, a movie that was immediately wiped off the face of the Earth because it came out in 1977, right before a little movie called Star Wars.
Read More“Funny” Craigslist car sale ads: overdone? Surely. But every now and then one rises above the rest and becomes a work of literary genius—even if it was pretty obviously created by machines instead of humans.
Read MoreThe sheer number of automotive YouTube channel proves it’s not hard to mount a GoPro to a car and pretend you’re bigger than an influencer with a pocket-sized camera. But for bigger projects, a 610-horsepower, 200 mph Lamborghini Huracan rig is a nice alternative.
Read MoreToday we learned that there appears to be a V8 rear-drive Chevy SS representing the Australian government in New York, and that kicks ass on multiple levels.
Read MoreAt motor shows, though usually in Tokyo, automakers from Toyota to Chevy frequently unveil very tiny concepts that, they promise, will definitely be produced some time in the future. Call them pod cars. And yet we still haven’t seen one.
Read MoreFollowing yesterday’s bombshell announcement that Ford is abandoning its traditional sedan and small car production in North America for a lineup of mostly crossovers and SUVs has now been followed by alleged final production dates for the Focus, Taurus and Fiesta, via Automotive News.
Read MoreThe French. They’ve designed some seriously strange stuff over the years, so it’s no surprise that when PSA Group’s luxury brand let its designers craft their “dream car for 2035,” the scarf-wearing artists came up with something thoroughly wacky. What is surprising is that the brand chose to send 1,360 horsepower to the front wheels.
Read More1. Ford’s decision to phase out nearly all its cars and sedans in North America, save for the Mustang (thank God) and the Focus Active (someone has to fight the Subaru Crosstrek), is a fascinating one because of all of the factors that went into it. One that cannot be ignored is the pressure Wall Street has Ford under these days.
Read MoreDeep down, I guess I knew the day would come when we’d see a 996 Porsche 911 Safari. At first I was afraid, but now I see the light. And not just because this thing has six on its roof rack. This is a galaxy brain Porsche and if you don’t believe that you clearly haven’t seen the seats.
Read MoreCar forums wept this week when pictures appeared of a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R getting towed away by Florida police at a car show in Daytona Beach. In some ways it’s not surprising—that generation of Skyline isn’t really legal to be in the U.S., though some are here under dubious circumstances. But what may look like a typical JDM import gone awry is so much more, now a case involving theft allegations between two longtime dealers and a legendary performance car stuck in a confusing custody batt
Read MoreIt’s extremely hard to be funny in the written word, so much so that you should probably not even try. Which makes this Craigslist ad all the more remarkable, because it is very funny. So much so that we’re contravening an unofficial Jalopnik policy of not posting Zany Craigslist Ads to this website.
Read MoreFord’s PowerShift transmission has had a rough go of it since being introduced in 2010, mainly for being shitty. It’s also been the subject of lawsuits and, now, a hefty 10 million Australian dollar fine handed out to Ford by the Australian government, which called the way Ford responded to consumer complaints over the transmission there “unconscionable.”
Read MoreEveryone these days, from Tesla to Cadillac to Nissan to BMW to Infiniti, has some kind of semiautonomous system that controls the throttle and steers for you on highways. Most of them are exercises in sheer terror. But even if they were good—especially if they were good—they shouldn’t exist anyway.
Read MoreWhen I wrote my Bumper Stickers Suck take back in February, the only dissenting voice in the office came from Jalopnik superboss Patrick George. Unfortunately, Patrick wasn’t there the day that we were to argue about them, so I thought I was in the clear... until Night Man Justin Westbrook spoke up.
Read MoreMaking a car is expensive, and nobody would want go through the process of building an entire working automobile if they’re not thinking of putting it on sale. And yet here is (or isn’t) the Prodrive P2, an all-wheel drive monster that never even was meant to be bought.
Read MoreIt’s hard to put the success of the Mazda Miata into perspective, a unbelievably huge hit from a rather small company. How small? Small enough that Mazda didn’t have enough money to to put out the Miata and a minivan at the same time, and it chose the minivan first.
Read MoreThe impending second coming of the BMW 8 Series grand touring car will be lead by the (presumed 2019) BMW M850i xDrive Coupe, which the company says will feature four-wheel drive, a locking rear differential (what is this, a dang truck?) and 530 horsepower.
Read MoreThe Ford Fusion, Focus, C-Max, Taurus, and Fiesta—all on the way out in North America as Ford transitions its lineup to one that is all but entirely dominated by SUVs, crossovers and trucks, the automaker announced today.
Read MoreI got quite a bit of my love of cars from my father, but the people his age that I knew never seemed to understand why I loved Toyota Supras, Mazda rotary engines and various examples of how Nissan used to give a damn. But the people who did grow up appreciating these kinds of cars are now after them in a big way, and here’s more proof.
Read MoreOh, Mitsubishi. How can I describe the state of Mitsubishi today, especially its presence here in the United States? Because when I start comparing what I see today with the way it wanted people to see it back in the ‘80s, I get very sad.
Read MoreElio Motors has just pulled its IPO, per SeekingAlpha, a shocking move for, wait, no, a not shocking move for America’s sketchiest car company. It has only been a day since the once-hyped company pivoted to crypto currency and nothing is off the table.
Read MoreIt’s happened again. In Toronto, a suspect used a Ryder van to drive into a crowd, this time killing 10 people and injuring 15 others just trying to get through their Monday routine. It is yet another example of cars—one of the most high-profile symbols of independence and Western wealth—being used as weapons against civilian populations with increasing regularity, and not as bombs or deliveries for explosives, but on their own.
Read MoreIf you had a 450 horsepower 2018 Ford Raptor and a rain-soaked Nürburgring all to yourself, would you try to set a competitive lap time nobody’d remember or hang the tail out and have the time of your life? I think Vaughn Gittin Jr. made the right call here.
Read MoreAudi is issuing a recall for 1.16 million vehicles across the world because of concerns that an electric cool pump can overheat or short-circuit, according to Reuters. The recall covers an array of models, including the A5 Cabriolet and A6.
Read MoreIn the U.S., Ford is debating giving up entirely on the little Ford Fiesta compact car, but in Europe, The Blue Oval has gone all-in with a sweet van version. No, life isn’t fair.
Read MoreThe Polestar 1 is shaping up to be a 600 horsepower hybrid monster that’s kinda-sorta from Volvo. Since most people will just assume it’s a Volvo, how much do you think even the best Volvo would cost? $85,000? $90,000? No. It’ll cost $155,000. And that’s just to start.
Read MoreI love dogs. They’re great in so many ways—loving, goofy, loyal, capable, and so many other ways, in a long, glorious list that definitely does not include driving cars. They’re really shitty drivers. That’s normally not an issue, since they’re also usually too broke to afford cars, but it can cause problems like what happened in Taixing City, China, where a dog drove an electric three-wheel truck right into a mobile phone store.
Read MoreYou might think that street parking in New York City is terrible, and that it should be fixed. Haha. Rookie mistake. It being bad is actually good.
Read MoreHere it is, the 2019 Lexus ES. Of course, Lexus chose to keep the spindle grille and doesn’t seem like it’s giving the look up anytime soon. What’s curious is that the ES is now more conservative in styling than the... Toyota Camry? What a time we live in.
Read MoreSo far the cars from BMW’s electrified i sub-brand have looked like concept cars set loose from some designer’s studio and inexplicably put on the road. But with the BMW iX3 Concept, unveiled this morning at Auto China 2018 in Beijing, BMW’s taking a much more normal-looking approach to electrics.
Read MoreAccording to at least one source, this video was shot near Tilicho Lake in Nepal, in a vast conservation area near the center of the country. Nothing here—not the vehicle, and certainly not the road—seems quite adequate.
Read MoreIf you missed out on Luftgekühlt 5, a glorious celebration of air-cooled Porsches that went down this past weekend, don’t fret. We’ve got some nice photos of all the pretty stuff that showed up.
Read MoreThere will be a new Ford Focus next year, and for now we can also enjoy the Fiesta and Fusion at our leisure. But will any of these cars be sold in the U.S. after 2018? The way things are going, that feels more in doubt than ever.
Read MoreSinger Vehicle Design, the California company that restores and “reimagines” older Porsche 911s to where they’re some of the most desirable vehicles ever cooled by air, just released images of its latest work. And the “Mulholland” car is the wildest one yet.
Read MoreWhile many motorcycle enthusiasts flock to Austin each April for the MotoGP action going on at Circuit of The Americas, Revival Cycles continues to draw quite the crowd for their annual Handbuilt Motorcycle Show.
Read MoreThe 2019 Mercedes Geländewagen, updated recently, is proof that Mercedes isn’t slowing down with G-Wagen production, even though the body’s basic design hails from the 1970s. And if these new rumors of even more upcoming variants are true, then we could soon be looking at a whole family of boxy trucks.
Read MoreTroubled three-wheel car startup Elio Motors netted a $2.5 million lifeline on Tuesday from online retailer Overstock.com—yes, that is still a thing, as is Elio, for now—and confirmed it is indeed going crypto, something we alluded to a week ago. Elio said its “security token offering,” likely to be called ElioCoin, is the “first digital token sale led by a major investment bank.” Things are looking up already.
Read MoreEarly this morning, thirteen truckers worked with the Michigan State police to form a line of semis under a Detroit-area overpass to prevent a man from jumping off.
Read MoreSpeed cameras are an intrusion of a fascistic surveillance state on the motoring public, but perhaps even worse than that, they don’t make roads any safer. They’re just a money grab. But when one heroic British motorist decided he’d had enough with The Man, hooked up a laser jammer and gave those cameras the finger, he was rewarded with eight months in jail for his public service.
Read MoreInternet giant Amazon announced today that it will start delivering packages to certain 2015 and newer General Motors and Volvo vehicles, getting us one step closer to transition into being a modern hipster who wants to live out of a van to save cash.
Read MoreWhat do you call a bite-sized Maybach? The all-new 2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class L Sedan, that’s what. It just debuted at the Beijing Auto Show. It is marvelous. It is excellent.
Read MoreThe Beijing Auto Show is on and that means it’s time for luxury carmakers to do what they do best: pontificate about the nature of luxury itself. Maybach took the chance to make a living room. It’s weird.
Read MoreRestomoded or “reimagined” Porsches with crazy performance are all the rage, as long as you’re willing to shell out ungodly amounts of money. So if you’re a very serious Porsche-driving person with boatloads of cash and a desire to out-do your buddy with a Singer, Canepa’s super limited and insanely fast 959SC is your ride.
Read MoreEvery so often American car enthusiasts mourn that we can’t buy some sort of high-priced European sports wagon or weird offroader. These are fair complaints. But they do not pain me deeply in my heart, not in the way that I yearn for the 1998-2002 Honda Z, the weirdest Honda you’ve never heard of, a midengine economy car for me.
Read MoreAutomotive YouTube is a deep, unseemly pool of hucksters, show-offs and superbrains locked somewhere inside a 25-minute video no soul has ever finished. What’s worse than being an automotive YouTuber, though? Being an automotive YouTuber who also scams old people out of their pensions.
Read MoreFord was out to recapture America’s “love affair” with the Ford Mustang during the development of the fourth-generation model, and it tested some radical design directions in the process. One of them even looked strikingly similar to the fourth-gen Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
Read MoreMitsubishi is out to ruin every ounce of goodwill its fanbase may have left for the company, and the worst part is, it’s completely unnecessary. Not content to drag the good Eclipse name down by slapping it onto a meh crossover, they’re reportedly going to call a new crossover the Lancer, too, sullying our good memories of Mitsubishi rally domination in the process.
Read MoreIt’s one thing to know that, technically, the new MSO Defined Titanium SuperSports Exhaust is a whole five decibels louder than the regular exhaust on a McLaren 570S. It’s another to know exactly how loud that is.
Read MoreTwo months ago, Autoline posted a video in which engineering and manufacturing expert Sandy Munro—CEO of Munro & Associates, a Detroit-area consulting firm that dismantles and analyzes how cars are made—compared the Tesla Model 3's build quality to a Kia from the 1990s. But in a new discussion, Munro has lots of positive things to say about Tesla’s most important new car.
Read MoreNine people are dead and 16 are injured after a white van mounted a curb in Toronto and ran down pedestrians, police said. The driver of the van has been arrested.
Read MoreWe’ve been talking about classic Hondas a lot lately and watching prices on the 1999 (and 2000) Honda Civic Si EM1 creep up steadily, but I think this might be the first to hit the MSRP of a brand new one. We poor folk better start looking at Camrys because old Civics want to go the way of air-cooled Porsches and become heartbreakingly expensive.
Read MoreYes, you read that headline right: An animated Fast and Furious show. Personally, I don’t even need to know what it’s about, nor do I very much care, but I guess I should go ahead and find out for your sake. Since most of you aren’t die-hard fans like I am.
Read MoreTen years after recalls began, thousands of you in the U.S.—or around 62,307 to be exact—are still driving cars with the worst of the Takata airbags, the ones that could explode and kill you or your passenger in what otherwise might be a simple fender bender. This is insane!
Read MoreA United State Court of Appeals in New York just blocked the Trump Administration’s attempt to continue delaying penalties associated with automakers failing to meet federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy targets.
Read MoreAs I have laid out to you before, I hate using public roadways. Not only is the plebish threat of traffic a very real thing, I am also forced to look at the common folk—an event that leaves me with migraines and mild indigestion for hours afterwards. Which is why I was so thrilled when I heard about Volvo’s new S90 Ambience Concept.
Read MoreAt 4:00 this morning I went deep into my garage-bunker to stare at my glittering jewels, as I do every morning. There they sat, all 9,000 of them, each one of them a nearly perfect jewel of a McLaren 570GT. “Nearly perfect?” you ask. Yes, peasant, nearly perfect. Because while the standard McLaren 570 exhaust is quite sonorous, it is not LOUD. But now, McLaren has given us the LOUD.
Read MoreByton, which I used to think was pronounced “bite-ON” but is in fact pronounced “BITE-in,” will be introducing a second car in June in Shanghai at CES Asia, the company said Monday. The car will be a sedan, following on Byton’s introduction of its Byton Concept SUV in January.
Read MoreThe 2019 Aston Martin Vantage made the rounds in the media in a wonderfully eye-searing shade of highlighter green/highlighter yellow possibly named after a cleaning product. That’s fine. Bright colors are good. Do you know what’s also good on this car? This black.
Read MoreI can’t help myself. I love the third-generation Honda Civic, particularly all of its extremely ’80s wheels.
Read MoreThis morning, my favorite coffee shop was closed for remodeling, I got cut off in traffic and stepped on my dog’s tail, all before 11 a.m. I thought nothing could bring my day back around, until Jalopnik Editor-in-Chief Patrick George posted this Craigslist ad for a 1996 Acura Integra into Slack.
Read MoreTwitter is endlessly hilarious and horrible, but every now and then it can be fun and thought provoking. In video-game Twitter, the hashtag #GameStruck4 was this past week. It essentially asked users to list the four video games that were the most influential on their lives, or on their hobby in general.
Read MoreAuthorities charged a U.S. Postal Service employee with detaining and delaying mail on Thursday, according to a complaint in federal court. The complaint said the employee stashed 17,000 pieces of mail because he was “overwhelmed” by how much he had to deliver, including 10,000 pieces in his Nissan Pathfinder.
Read MoreAfter talking to some of the folks who make the annual Sonora Rally happen, I really want to get in on it to try off-roading in a corner of Mexico that’s nothing like Baja. But for now I’m really, really digging the score and aesthetic of the highlight reel.
Read MoreI can hear you from all the way over here. “That’s not a real car, Raph,” you shout at your computer screen. “You made that up. It’s a figment of your imagination!” Hah. I wish. This thing is real as hell.
Read MoreWhat do you do when your husband dies, leaving you a widow at age 27? Do you go racing, compete in motor boating, travel around the world, become a published author, and get involved in a scandal over a nude photograph? If you’re Camille du Gast, you’ll be doing all of those and still find time to go ballooning, become a concert pianist, and become the only woman in the Automobile Club de France.
Read MoreUnder the thick cover of the night on September 6, 1914, a group of Renault AG1 Landalets gathered in near the military complex of the Place des Invalides in Paris. The drivers were agitated, anxious, afraid for their lives and worried about what would happen to them when they reached their destination. A convoy of 250 left the plaza single-file and met up with a second convoy on the way, each taxi carrying five soldiers per vehicle. They were going to war.
Read MoreMotorsport wouldn’t be what it is today without all the off-track drama. And this weekend, we’ve got plenty of bad-mouthing, grumping, and petty jabs running rampant before the racing has even gotten underway!
Read MoreThere’s nothing you can’t find on Craigslist, whether it be an obscure car you’ve been dying to buy, or even just the reassurance that you’re not having as bad a day as someone else. This listing for might tick both of those boxes if you’re in the market for a 1997 Acura TL.
Read MoreThere’s a new trend sweeping through the world of motorsports, and I do not agree with it at all. It is bad. It is embarrassing. It is an attempt to reach The Kids, and frankly, it is probably the worst way to go about it. Yes. For some reason, everyone is deciding that creepy mascots are a Good Thing.
Read MoreThere’s something magical about motorsport in the 1970s. It was an era where “screw it, anything goes” was the mantra for everything from aerodynamics to sponsorship to clear-cut definitions of what actually defines a racing series, and sometimes that was taken to the excess in the most hilarious way. Enter the 1972 Rothmans 50,000, held at Brands Hatch.
Read MoreConspiracy theories are the spice of life. I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t indulged in a theory or two because they’re honestly just a hell of a lot of fun. I had a feeling y’all would have thought up some great conspiracies in the automotive world, and I gotta say—you definitely did not disappoint
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?It’s another busy weekend in the racing world, so if you still need a way to decompress from all that last-minute tax day stress, then you’re in luck.
Read MoreI’m not sure I’m onboard with BMW changing its grille, but I guess sometimes you gotta say... what the fuck.
Read MoreThe 1996 third-generation Ford Taurus was an unfortunate attempt by Ford to redesign the best-selling car in the country to stand out a little more, but an early concept looked much better, because it looked a lot like the Tesla Model 3, if you can believe it.
Read MoreNo, those aren’t weed brownies, you addict. They are brownies of happiness and wholesomeness. Much like today’s COTD.
Read MoreTesla contract workers aren’t receiving legally required overtime pay or mandated work breaks, according to a new lawsuit filed in California state court. The employees faced “pressure” from a temp agency that hires workers at Tesla’s California factory to take a debit card to accept their compensation, rather than a traditional pay check, the suit claims.
Read MoreIf you’ve been hunting around for something to watch on Netflix while your dinner cools in front of you, you might have noticed a new, Netflix original series called Fastest Car. Its eight episodes bring viewers a fascinating exploration of tuner car culture outside of the usual Porsche and Ferrari chatter.
Read MoreGuys, I need help. I heard something highly distressing today about how Jaguar might do away with its lovely, incredible, perfect supercharged V6 engines. I don’t think my heart could take it if it did.
Read MoreThe 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 RS gets 520 horsepower from its naturally-aspirated flat six, which is a glorious thing. It’s no surprise that it’s also a track monster, completing the 12.9-mile Nürburgring in a blazing 6:56.4.
Read MoreThe quickest way by car to Harlem in rush hour from, say, 18th Street in Manhattan, used to be straight up the gut on Sixth Avenue, before you entered Central Park’s Center Drive, which eventually dumped you onto Malcolm X Boulevard. That route, though, was partially banned a few years ago, and, soon will be banned completely.
Read MoreRead car news websites all day and you’ll get the impression that the only cars to ever catch on fire are Ferraris (all the time), Teslas (in wrecks), Fiskers (in your garage) or Lamborghini (when people rev them standing still). This is not the case. All kinds of cars catch fire, like this one right here holy shit look at it wow that is on fire my god.
Read MoreEven some employees at a Georgia dealership were surprised at one of its recent used-car listings: a 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, priced at an incredible $499,900. The list price hilariously sits above the Kelley Blue Book estimate for a factory Grand Sport on Autotrader, which is in the mid-$60,000 range.
Read MoreRoundabouts are brilliant bits of traffic engineering that keeps everything moving smoothly, and for that, they’re pretty great. But they have potential for so much more. They don’t just permit traffic to move at greater speed, with better safety, than a stoplight, but with more smoke and more noise. Like so.
Read MoreApproaching the container ship in San Francisco Bay, the tugboat looks like a pit bull puppy chasing an eighteen-wheeler. When the vessels are an arm’s length apart, the ship’s mate throws down a line. Now leashed to the ship, the tug can push and pull it around the bay. Big ships can’t easily slow down or maneuver by themselves—they’re meant for going in a straight line.
Read MoreAmericans have an insatiable, burning appetite for large trucks and SUVs right now, and so dealers are handling it by doling out auto loans with record terms. A record amount of loans have 72-month terms, but now more lenders are moving toward 84-months to keep the sales drive churning, reports Bloomberg.
Read MoreMemminger is one of the best Volkswagen Beetle restoration companies out there. They’re somewhat unique in the vintage Beetle restoration world because they tend to focus on the generally less-loved Super Beetles, but the cars they produce are outstanding. This time they’ve taken things a bit further, re-imagining a Super Beetle as a mid-engined roadster, and it’s pretty fantastic.
Read MoreThe legendary BMW M1 turns 40 this year, which is definitely a cause to celebrate because, arguably, BMW hasn’t made a car as badass or awesome since then.
Read MoreWe can’t stop talking about how great the 2019 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo looks, but we should also be discussing how great it sounds. It is the serous-business limousine with a noise that can strike terror into anyone, and also make them feel that strange, fuzzy feeling in their stomach.
Read MoreIf I want to watch Tom Cruise make himself the center of attention in a super-macho, highly competitive vehicle-related environment with cringeworthy lovemaking scenes and cheesy dialogue, I’ll just watch Top Gun, thank you very much.
Read MoreThere were only 37 Porsche 917s ever built, with the car reaching new heights for Porsche by winning Le Mans in 1970 and 1971, doing exactly what it was designed to do. Something it wasn’t designed to do? Hit the streets. But that didn’t stop Claudio Roddaro from making his 917 street legal in 2016.
Read MoreThe problem of what to do with waste from New York City is just a little too real for the residents of Parrish, Alabama. A train full of human waste from NYC—dubbed the “poop train” by the Associated Press—has become stranded outside their town, blanketing the area with the rancid smell of sewage. [Update: The train is gone!]
Read MoreThere were no good comments today. Nobody wins Comment of the Day. We are very disappointed in you. We spend all day writing for you, and this is the one thing you’re supposed to do for us.
Read MoreWells Fargo, the bank accused of unfairly charging high auto collateral protection insurance to hundreds of thousands of customers, may face a fine of $1 billion from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to the New York Times.
Read MoreFlashy commercials, trendy hashtags and big events in the world of fashion and the arts are just a few of the ways that Cadillac attempted to woo new buyers in the nearly five years that former U.S. Audi boss Johan de Nysschen ran the shop. Yet while these efforts look good in the glossy pages of a men’s magazine or as a subway station ad, they never really translated to sales, and aggressive campaigning couldn’t hide what the brand lacks: a quality, competitive product that can speak for itself
Read MorePolice cars are outfitted with all kinds of crazy shit—push bumpers, onboard computers, and various cameras to name a few things—and all of that stuff is installed aftermarket. Cop shops transform ordinary Chevy Tahoes into terrifying beasts. The Sheriff’s Office in Placer County, California, does all of the retrofitting in four days. Here are those four days condensed into five minutes.
Read MoreI’m supposed to be taking some time off to work on a book, but I’m a very skilled procrastinator, and my procrastination led me to find this video of a little toddler—still pretty much a baby, really—that managed to free himself from being locked in a car with the adorably cute aplomb of an astronaut.
Read MoreAfter six decades of being a racing icon, the name “Brabham” transitioned to something else: a car company. That company has something tangible in the works, too, teasing a 5.4-liter V8 supercar with a wing big enough to pull bar stools up to and use as an eat-in kitchen.
Read MoreThe 600 horsepower hybrid Polestar 1 coupe is an instantly desirable car on looks alone. Now we can see it throw down in its natural habitat: where it is cold as all hell.
Read MoreThe current generation of the XC90 might be the safest car of all time, or at least the safest model that doesn’t come with a roll cage, five-point harness, and racing seats. And according to new research, the XC90 hasn’t killed anyone after 14 years on British roads.
Read MoreI think the 2018 Aston Martin Vanquish is one of the most beautiful cars on the market, but even great things will eventually need replacing. Today, Aston Martin announced that a new flagship is coming, one that will be called the DBS Superleggera.
Read MoreThe term “Evoltis” sounds like it belongs in a commercial with a man reading to a grandchild, a woman taking a deep breath during an outdoor yoga class, and some other person deeply reflecting on life. It sounds like medication with a lot of side effects, basically. But it might be the name of a new hybrid Subaru.
Read MoreFar from the sights and sounds of LA and about 15 wrong turns down dirt roads, you’ll spot a sliver of a karting track paved into the California desert. It was here that drivers from around the world converged to demonstrate a style of driving rarely seen on American shores. Well, that and shotgun beers.
Read MoreCalifornia regulators on Tuesday launched a new investigation into Tesla, a day after the automaker called an investigative news outlet an “extremist organization” for reporting a story on worker conditions at its factory in the state.
Read MoreLOS ANGELES FRIENDS! You demanded and we are delivering: We’re throwing a soirée next week in LA with Amazon and you are all invited to come. All of you. Update: Event is full!
Read MoreYou might have heard that first gear isn’t necessary when accelerating from a stop. You might have heard that you can start just fine in second. Well, it’s okay to do that, but only sometimes. Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained is here to tell us when and why.
Read MoreSpring is here—or at least it is in some places, we’re still freezing our asses off in New York as we approach May—and that means it’s the sports car time. Time for people to put away those winter tires, drop the convertible top, and maybe even make a weather-influenced fun new car purchase. Like a 2019 Chevrolet Camaro, for example. But will the updated Camaro’s controversial new face keep buyers at bay?
Read MoreThe Subaru SVX is one of the looniest cars ever put into production: a flat-six luxury coupe with a fighter jet canopy from a company that mostly just sold plain station wagons. But these two sides of Subaru once collided and gave us the Subaru Amadeus. Or, rather, not.
Read MoreOh, you hopped the curb and parked your too-pristine Wrangler up on a boulder? Let this Pontiac Sunbird show you how it’s really done.
Read MoreAfter nearly four years leading General Motors’ luxury brand, Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen is leaving the company.
Read MoreApparently somebody was careful enough about parking to put a little dangly tennis ball in their garage, but dense enough to run over a can of paint next to an Aston Martin DBS resulting in this messy disaster.
Read MoreWith a failure rate even greater than the infamous Firestone tires of the 1990s and an apparent nine linked deaths, Goodyear’s G159 RV tire has been called “the worst tire in history” by one attorney in ongoing cases against the company. But what did Goodyear’s leadership know about the tire’s problems, if anything? Now documents reviewed by Jalopnik reveal Goodyear’s senior management authorized settlements with victims of the tire, while acknowledging the company’s internal tests showed the ti
Read MoreFord Performance claims its 2018 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet will rocket down a quarter-mile faster than the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon by more than a second, but it won’t be able to taunt anyone past the exit sign to the drag strip. Its monstrous supercharged 5.2-liter Coyote V8 won’t be street legal.
Read MoreV12 engines. Their numbers are dwindling, sadly. And I predict that, in the coming years, they might be phased out completely in favor of smaller but more efficient systems. So, I propose that they go out with a bang.
Read MoreNow that the GS is pretty much dead, the all-new 2019 Lexus ES sedan will likely take its place. Lexus revealed only a photo of it yesterday, so we don’t have many more details just yet.
Read MoreThe 1976 Formula One season is famous for James Hunt and Niki Lauda’s rivalry, which played out across 16 races and ended, dramatically, at the Japanese Grand Prix, with Hunt taking home the championship. British viewers saw almost none of it, though, all because John Surtees’s team’s car was sponsored by a condom manufacturer and the BBC, well, couldn’t abide.
Read MoreThe BMW M2 is dead, but now there’s the BMW M2 Competition, which is better. Better in the sense that it’s the M2 Coupe but with the engine out of an M3 making over 400 horsepower.
Read MoreLexus is reportedly preparing to jump into the compact EV market up against cars like the Tesla Model 3 by reviving the Lexus CT—a hybrid hatchback that didn’t do so hot in the U.S. market.
Read More“How do you fall in love with such a boring, tedious, frustrating pastime???” my coworker Michael Ballaban just asked me, referring to wrenching. He’s no mechanic. Taken aback by the notion that anyone could loath servicing their own automobile, I gathered my thoughts and began writing about why wrenching can, and should, be fun.
Read MoreI know that pretty much all of the brands are trotting out electric SUV concepts, but this new Buick Enspire concept thing actually looks pretty sharp. The only crappy thing about it is its name.
Read MoreWith rotary engines long out of production, the job of building and maintaining them has fallen to individual experts, like wizards of some kind of dark art. But there was a time when things were official, and this is what that factory assembly process looked like.
Read MoreTesla threw down a gauntlet a few months back. It would build a new Tesla Roadster, Tesla claimed, that would go from zero to 60 in less than two seconds. That was such a wild claim that no one has managed to even aim for it. Until now. Pininfarina is entering the mix. Yes, that Pininfarina. But also not that Pininfarina. It’s complicated.
Read MoreIt’s official: the Ford Falcon is completely dead. It’s perhaps best known here as a V8 Supercar, but the last roadgoing Falcon rolled off the line in 2016. Now the Ford Falcon FG X Supercar is joining the road car in burnout heaven, and Ford announced today that its replacement is yet another Mustang.
Read MoreI know it’s “cool” and “rad” to complain about modern cars and their computers and safety systems and fake engine noises, but the fact is that the performance-minded buyer has more and better options than ever before. But who leads the pack these days? If you’re talking about sales—which may be the only metric that really matters—it’s the Ford Mustang, for the third year in a row.
Read MoreOver four years ago, Dubai-based Devel unveiled the Devel Sixteen at the Dubai Motor Show. We were, uh, skeptical that it would actually amount to a real, running car. Mind you, we still are, but there’s a new video that at least shows the thing appearing to run under its own power.
Read MoreThe Toyota Supra is back! And beyond that, we know... almost nothing of substance. We know it was co-developed with BMW and shares a platform and powertrain with the new Z4, that a racing version will also happen, it won’t have a manual gearbox, and it won’t hit showrooms until 2019. And while we also don’t know price, we have one extra clue today: “not cheap.”
Read MoreIn the mid 1950s, airplanes evolved into large jetliners and airports had to find more powerful vehicles to tow them around. In the Soviet Union, one solution was to build a large two-driver sedan-bodied tow car with the engine out of a tank, and it was probably the biggest sedan in the world.
Read MoreOver the past year, as Tesla has struggled to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan, the company has made it a priority to slam news outlets that report on its alleged labor violations and manufacturing woes. On Monday, the PR strategy became utterly unhinged. The implication has become clear to reporters everywhere, one that feeds off the hardcore fanbase’s suspicions: If you’re not a booster for Tesla, you’re part of some attempt to undermine it.
Read MoreYou, a veritable “Genius,” drive on the shoulder of the highway. Everyone else, AKA “morons,” sits in traffic, clearly too dumb to follow your brilliant plan. Until karma and the law blow up in your big stupid genius face.
Read MoreThe Porsche 956/962 was quite possibly the greatest sports racing car ever built, absolutely dominating Group C competition in the 1980s. So why is someone debuting a 962 in 1993?
Read MoreThe cars: we love them! But the world itself often does not, and not all of it is made to accomodate their car-needs. This is a shame and a tragedy, especially if you have a car that’s low to the ground (and not just grounded to the ground, okay?) and a very steep driveway. What do you do in this situation?
Read MorePrompted largely by China, the world’s largest car market, automakers are going big on electric vehicles in the next few years. But besides Tesla, they’ve offered little more than a collective shrug when asked where Americans are supposed to charge these things. Now at least one more automaker, Porsche, plans to step up with at least 500 fast chargers across the U.S. by the end of next year.
Read MoreWhen the third-generation Corvette came out in the late ‘60s, it was a huge departure for the kind of car that it was, a major design departure. When it came time to replace that car all the way in the early ‘80s, there was a huge question about how radical that new design would be. And that meant that there were all kinds of weird alternate proposals that never made it.
Read MoreWhen I opened my laptop Monday, I saw a story on how Bugatti can personally monitor customer cars and fly technicians out on a whim. It reminded me of my Saturday: eyeballing my odometer, deciding I needed an oil change and then cleaning dark, burning gunk out of the cat scratches on my hand for 15 minutes.
Read MoreI sort of always assumed Wiesmann appeared out of thin air when Jeremy Clarkson drove one on old Top Gear in 2005. But it’s older than that. No, it’s older than that, too.
Read MoreThis is what Porsche calls the “Porsche Lego Big Brick 911 Turbo 3.0,” which is based off of a real car and has a name that’s just as complicated as most other real Porsche cars have. Porsche calls this Lego rendition “unique,” but all I can see when I look at it is a homicidal cartoon frog that’s also a battle car.
Read MoreThe last time we checked in with three-wheel budget car startup Elio Motors, it had $4,000 cash left in the bank, and it was attempting to raise $100 million from investors on Wall Street. Adamant that it’s still looking to launch production of the three-seat Elio vehicle in 2019, the company is apparently turning to a new source of very legitimate funding to keep its long-shot dream alive: bitcoin.
Read MoreA Swedish insurance company partnered with a Swedish homeowner’s organization to commission crash tests of a rusted Mazda6 wagon and a rusted Volkswagen Golf to see how badly the corrosion compromised the cars’ structural integrity. Here’s what the study found.
Read MoreTesla has failed to report some worker injuries at its California factory on legally mandated reports, which helped make “the company’s injury numbers look better than they actually are,” according to a new report from the Center for Investigative Reporting’s magazine Reveal. Tesla disputed every one of Reval’s findings, and accused the news outlet of being a tool of an ongoing unionization drive.
Read MoreLast week, a Ford patent application appeared on the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office’s website. It was for an interesting new seat pattern in cars, a circular, completely non-aerodynamic design that would also allow for passengers to be facing each other, as if at dinner. Is this design as crazy as it looks? I don’t think so.
Read MoreIt’s not “feces-covered” cars, but it’s still goddamn ridiculous. Complacent New Yorkers started off the work week dodging a steady stream of rain that fell into what looks like a stop on Manhattan’s west side. Nice.
Read MoreToday I happened upon one of the coolest displays of automotive history I’ve ever seen: An absolutely tiny Trabant museum sitting on the second floor of a vehicle inspection shop near Prague in the Czech Republic. Here’s a look inside the amazing little gem.
Read MoreAlain de Cadenet is a legend around these parts. Not only did he get to drive the cars we wanted to drive, he got to be the person we wanted to be. Even if that meant driving the incredible Jaguar XJ-220, he was always suave and composed. Until he nearly got a haircut from a Supermarine Spitfire. Then it was just “FUCK ME!” a lot.
Read MoreIf you like to hear anti-lag echoing through the woods, clear your calendar next weekend because Ken Block is coming back to American stage rally and he’s doing it in his 1993 Ford Escort Cosworth.
Read MoreTwo doors is the correct number for an SUV. And they should absolutely seat no more than six people. A bench in the front and a bench in the back, plus some room for a fishing pole and maybe a sleeping bag. You don’t need fancy gear or expensive tents, because you’re a tough SUV driver with two doors. The correct number.
Read MoreSomeone—Bird founder Travis VanderZanden, formerly of Uber—decided it was a great idea to litter the streets of San Francisco with tiny electric-driven scooters. He raised $300 million to put these tiny EVs on street corners. Speaking to a friend who lives in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, this was seemingly a surprise to everyone in the city, “I just woke up one morning, and these scooters were everywhere.” I tried it, and if this is the future of mobility, count me out.
Read MoreThe SUV Gods have demanded another sacrifice, and GM announced they would be sending an offering of hundreds of Ohio plant worker jobs last Friday. The Lordstown, Ohio plant where Chevrolet builds the Cruze compact sedan has seen a reduction in worker hours and the cancellation of one of the two remaining shifts in the plant.
Read MoreIt was unexpected, to say the least, to see a series 1 Lamborghini Espada parked silently on a crowded street in Paris. That is a memory that I’ll never be able to push from my brain, it’s indelibly inked. This giant white vintage Lambo would have been exciting to see parked in a private collection, or even a museum somewhere. But the fact that it was sitting there a few inches from the curb, bumper staring down the bumper of a van parked behind, and a large motorcycle ahead, made the experience
Read MoreFor a man who could not seem to find any luck in the early going of this weekend, blowing up a turbocharger in practice, barely making it to qualifying where he had a less than stellar showing, Daniel Ricciardo has come out on top in the Chinese Grand Prix. The Aussie took the victory in large part thanks to a late race full course caution falling his way, and a strategy call tire gamble. He also took a number of risky passes on those ahead of him to move up from sixth with 20 laps remaining to
Read MoreDespite the multiple embarrassingly failed attempts to get Honda’s Singing Road right, a village in the Netherlands tried to find a cultural solution to distracted driving by installing musical rumble strips along a roadway. It only took villagers a couple of days to demand the noise be stopped, labeling it “psychological torture.”
Read MoreEveryone loves a good conspiracy theory. Whether you actually believe them or not, there’s something kind of satisfying about listening to Giorgio Tsoukalos that the world’s history was dictated by aliens or scrolling through Twitter threads about how Avril Lavigne is dead and has been replaced by a doppelgänger.
Read MoreThe 2019 Aston Martin Vantage is quite a dramatic departure from the relatively consistent styling cues of the last few decades of the company. The new look, especially the new grille, is controversial. But Aston Martin claims it was a matter of weight savings, of all things.
Read MoreHere’s a protip for all you aspiring criminals out there: if you’re going to hand over camera footage to the police, try to make sure that footage doesn’t contain video of you committing crimes.
Read MoreToday, I want to talk to you about the world’s hairiest car.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreFor the past half hour, the Jalopnik main chat room has been full of us talking about East German microtrucks, and that’s probably as good a sign as any that we should all just hang out online.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin reinvention has trickled down to the sporty, entry level car, the Aston Martin Vantage. After the initial shock of its redesign, people are finally driving it, and the results are very good.
Read MoreAre you the bro-iest of Dodge bros? Do you wake up with chest hair growing in a pattern that spells “MOPAR OR NO CAR” and attribute Chrysler-made vehicles’ door handles breaking off in your hands to your PURE BRUTE STRENGTH? Then you should get your MOPAR (OR NO CAR) ready for a road trip, because the last Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and Viper are going to auction this summer.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz S-Class, very possibly the “best car in the world,” is going electric, Mercedes-Benz’s CEO Dieter Zetsche said Wednesday. And not just hybrid, which you can already get with the S550e. No, this will be full-on electric, and a challenge to Tesla, who has recently been beating them on their own turf.
Read MoreI am trying to be as forthcoming as I can when I say that I don’t know much about what the hell insanity led to this moment. But what I can say with certainty is that someone turned a little Fiat 126 into some sort of raging supermutant that now belches fire and beautiful, beautiful tire smoke.
Read MoreWe’re very familiar with seeing how prototypes metaphorically shed their camouflage when they’re revealed as production cars. But rarely do we get to see a pre-production car get fake panels bolted onto it to complete its disguise.
Read MoreI am not exactly an arbiter of what is or is not a bad decision but so help me god I want to drive this thing so bad even though O know it would probably end with me flattened like a pancake.
Read MoreWe at Jalopnik been talking about a possible mid-engined Corvette for an insane eleven years, which is longer than the dinosaurs were around, in internet time. That, however, pales in comparison to how long GM themselves has been playing with the idea. Some recently re-discovered photographs show it’s been on their minds since 1959.
Read MoreThe first Lamborghini Jota was a modified Miura built in 1970 that, just a year later, burned to the ground. The next Jotas were modified Diablos built in the 1990s, which lacked rearview mirrors. What is (probably) the latest Jota? The beast you see above, a modified 2020 Aventador that is intended, like the Jotas of years past, to be a street-legal race car.
Read MoreThe Renault Twingo is a fairly common car around Europe, but with amazing folding seats, an antenna that sticks out of the mirror, a weird hood vent for the HVAC and tons of other quirks, it’s definitely not boring. In fact, I’d say this happy little French compact is one of the weirdest mainstream small cars of the past 25 years.
Read MoreFerrari is making the final tweaks on its new 488 Pista, meaning that test mules are out and about, like this one filmed recently at Germany’s Nürburgring. It sounds good, for a twin-turbo V8, and also, yes, seems quick and grippy, like its 488 predecessors.
Read MoreWhen you’re doing a bunch of yardwork, there’s certain things you expect to find: roots, bits of rock, the remains of your neighbor’s Pomeranian you forgot to feed for a week and told them ran away, maybe some old bottles. What you don’t expect to find are the rusty remnants of a 1949 Daimler Consort, but that’s exactly what this British family found.
Read MoreAbout an hour in I called it quits. I was fairly sure that I knew what most of this car was, but I gave up any hope that I might find out its exact history from googling around. This mystery car, looking like a mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette prototype that never was, had stumped me. At least it had stumped everyone else, too. (UPDATE: We have a lead.)
Read MoreThe Speed Racer movie—inexplicably brought to you by the sibling duo who created The Matrix, of all things—caught a lot of flack when it was released back in 2008. But it’s a visually stunning, overly earnest and straight-up weird movie that’s definitely worth a second chance.
Read MoreI’m not sure there’s a real, existing human being who is completely pleased with the security experience required to take an airplane trip here in America. If there is someone who really loves it, they’d have to be a fetishist who gets off on people not trusting them or just a liar. The standard TSA security line is a pain in the ass. There’s actually one glaring problem with the process that makes everything much worse, but the good news is I think this is a problem that’s easy to fix.
Read MoreThis pup, which appears to be a Shiba Inu (“Doge dog”), was having a pretty regular day hanging out by the boats when a Google Street View car rolled by and absolutely positively had to be chased. The resulting screenshots are pretty excellent.
Read MoreAlfa Romeos are known, chiefly, for their reliability. So it’s unfortunate that, in recent weeks, Alfa Romeo was forced to issue two recalls affecting thousands of Stelvios. One recall addresses the liftgate, which may pop open unexpectedly; the other has to do with corrosion that may cause windshield wipers and head lamps to stop working.
Read MoreIt’s hard to find things to disagree about with my fine coworker Mike Ballaban anymore. We’ve worked together for a few years now, and most of our takes are fairly aligned. Until... I remembered this article I wrote a year ago, entitled “Just Buy A Jeep” arguing that if you want an offroader in the U.S., you don’t need a fancy Land Rover or Land Cruiser. Then the yelling started.
Read MoreOne of the most entertaining drivers in Japan over the past few years has been Kazuya Taguchi, an Up Garage employee (kind of like super Autozone) who also runs in Formula Drift. Now he’s come stateside in this 4.1-liter R35 Nissan GT-R, which makes more power than you’d ever need.
Read MoreThe rise and fall of the DeLorean Motor Company has been well-documented over the years. Almost everyone of a certain age knows it to varying degrees of truth, and will tell you of the stainless steel gull-winged Back to the Future car that made a big splash but died a painful death well before it was in any of the movies that made it truly famous. But what everyone doesn’t know is the far-out plan that almost saved the day for DeLorean, right before the now-legendary, company-killing drug arres
Read MoreToday’s car companies are absolutely gigantic corporate overlords, so it’s interesting when two of the very biggest hit on a problem they feel they don’t have the money to do alone. As such, VW and Toyota are partnering up to develop self-driving trucks.
Read MoreThe Porsche 944 is one of the greatest cars of all time, thanks to its impeccably balanced chassis that is a true joy to throw around back roads and race tracks. Yet there’s something missing from a stock 944—the ability to just run right over whatever you please. This off-road “Forsche” fixed that.
Read MoreThe hyper-luxury class of cars isn’t exactly one we get to play in with a ton of regularity, and why would we? The whole point of these things is that they’re rare. But I couldn’t be happier to be testing out a Bentley Continental GT around Southern California, while also out here to cover the Long Beach Grand Prix weekend. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreI consider myself a fan of industrial designer Raymond Loewy. He basically created the modern concept of an industrial designer. He would drive a dune buggy in an ascot. And he designed some great-looking cars, like the Studebaker Avanti. He also did some pretty horrific things to some lovely Jaguars, too.
Read MoreA drunk driver covered in dog poop was arrested Saturday night in Pierce County, Washington. The source of the poop was (initially) a mystery.
Read MoreTwo separate Florida police departments have reported serious engine problems with more than 75 vehicles, and now testing has revealed it’s likely due to a contaminated fuel source, according to the My Palm Beach Post.
Read MoreEver since GM introduced the model year and America started getting tired of the Model T, new cars have been all about new new new better better better year by year, whether or not the new stuff is an actual improvement at all.
Read MoreI assumed on some level that car engineers think about everything when assembling a car, even things like the proper place at which the ignition switch should start to turn. And yet! It’s fascinating to actually see it in action, like on the 1988 Toyota Carina, which was the focus of Toyota engineers’ ever-loving, intense gaze.
Read MoreIf you’re like most people, you spend most of your nights awake, pacing your home, a quivering, sobbing, obscenity-shrieking wreck because you can’t stop wondering just how the cargo capacity of automobile trunks are measured. That’s why I’m happy to tell you there’s an answer, and that answer involves eight very specific pieces of magic luggage, conjured from the very aether by the wizards of the Society of Automotive Engineers. It’s time to reveal all.
Read MoreOf all cars, the little electric Smart ForTwo does not seem like it would be the most, uh, sporty. But watch this and you may change your mind.
Read MoreAutomakers must feel like they have something to prove with electric cars. Every new concept and production EV we hear about has supercar horsepower, a ludicrous 0-60 mph time and an interior that looks like the H.R. Giger version of an Apple Store. What if I just want something simple, small and easy to navigate a city with that just doesn’t happen to run on gasoline? After driving a very special electric Mini, I have found an EV future I’m quite happy with.
Read MoreSometimes, the collection of interconnected smart-fridges and fax machines we call “the internet” produces something really spectacular, and I think this is one of those times. There’s a car dealership in Iowa selling some really rusted-out shitboxes. That’s not the spectacular part. The spectacular part is the wonderful photos they take to sell these sad, beaten rides.
Read MoreTraffic cameras are bad. They are almost always naked schemes to raise government revenue, as opposed to devices that are intended to improve safety and driver behavior. Sometimes, though, they are bad for simpler reasons, like a traffic camera in New Orleans that has been giving speeding tickets to parked cars.
Read MoreIt’s a good day for Audi news. There is a new A6 Avant (which you can’t buy in America, sorry about that) and we have new information on the better-for-drifting, rear-wheel drive Audi R8 RWS. It’s now the cheapest R8 you can buy new, saving you a hell of a lot of money over the Quattro version. Why would you go all-wheel drive now?
Read MoreWe are rich in wagons these days, and a new 2019 Audi A6 Avant longroof joined in today as well. I should be happy. I should be grateful. Really, I shouldn’t complain. But I can’t help but notice that each A6 gets less wagon-ey with every passing generation.
Read MoreThis week, the FBI raided the office of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, reportedly seizing business records and emails. But the feds have interest in a part of Cohen’s life that hasn’t received much attention publicly: his involvement with a New York City taxi business.
Read MoreIf I have one single complaint about the Lexus GX (and there is ONLY ONE), it’s that it’s too... Lexus-y. Toyota, amazingly, seems to agree with my dumb opinions. That’s why the world now has this thing, the Toyota Land Cruiser Utility Commercial, complete with a diesel engine, a six-speed manual and not much else.
Read MoreFor fans of classy style, speed and hauling things, today’s arrival of the new 2019 Audi A6 Avant is good news. It looks good as one would expect from an Audi wagon. Sadly, we know the A6 Avant won’t make it to America, but Audi’s argument for withholding its long roof goodness is getting weaker.
Read MoreYet another town is enforcing a dumb rule banning people from having inoperable automobiles on their property because some people find those cars “unsightly.” This time, the town that could make life tough for low-income households and car enthusiasts is West Memphis, Arkansas.
Read MoreTesla isn’t even close to putting its recently revealed Tesla Roadster into production and yet there’s already a wave of companies trying to outpace it. On one end, you have Rimac, with a more traditional electric road car, and now on the other end there’s this Taiwanese company called Xing with a cute little off-road thing.
Read MoreThe Seneca Nation has long had a contentious relationship with the state of New York over a tiny stretch of the New York State Thruway south of Buffalo, since part of it runs through tribal territory. The latest (potential) dispute? An off-ramp that or may not be in the process of being built by a tribe member, leading to his smoke shop.
Read MoreLast week, I asked Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. to comment on claims made in a lengthy letter that says the company knew for more than 20 years about failures on a tire linked to hundreds of crashes that have left at least 98 people either injured or killed. I obtained the letter, along with more than 200 pages of exhibits to the letter, from a court in Arizona following a judge’s earlier decision that led the court’s clerk to briefly unseal the records. Goodyear never responded to me. Instead, un
Read MoreWhen I think of New Zealand, I have two cultural frames of reference: it looks like Middle Earth, and Flight of the Conchords is from there. Yet neither hobbits nor folk rap stars swear that much, so I figured Kiwis were the PG version of Australians. I was wrong. That’s apparently not the case when they’re driving through a tornado.
Read MoreWhat do you do with a 2001 Mitsubishi Galant that’s no longer road-legal? Hoon it off-road, of course.
Read MoreWe’ve seen plenty of dramatic and terrifying videos of car wrecks, but this one has to be one of the most fundamentally maddening and frustrating ones I’ve ever seen. There’s really no other way to put this other than these two trucks were wrecked because of the potent presence of a genuine moron on the highway. Watch it, I guess, and you’ll know what I mean.
Read MoreRotary engines, also known as Wankel engines, have some of the most rabid and loyal followings of lovabale nutjobs of any pretty-much-failed technology. I think rotaries are fantastic, but, let’s be honest, they never lived up to their hype. Once, though, long ago, the world was a different place, and if you truly loved the Wankel motor, you could have used one to mow your lawn.
Read MoreThe 1980s weren’t a great time for sports cars, with engines choked with smog equipment, tall final drive ratios killing acceleration, and other questionable fuel-saving equipment making cars suck more than they needed to. The “Doug Nash 4+3,” a four-speed manual on the Chevrolet Corvette with push-button overdrive in the top three gears, is considered by many to be one of those bits of questionable equipment. But it’s still fascinating.
Read MoreFor a long time, economy cars were abysmal-looking penalty boxes; constant reminders to everyone that you were sad and broke. No more! Even if they’re getting eclipsed by crossovers, many of today’s smaller cars look lovely, like the Mazda3 or even the latest Toyota Corolla. But the all-new 2019 Ford Focus may have them all beat.
Read MoreThe freshly redesigned sixth-gen 2019 Chevrolet Camaro was revealed today alongside welcomed news of a 1LE track package for the 2.0-liter turbo engine. To counter this good example of a four-cylinder Camaro, let’s look at the worst example—the third-gen 1982 car with the infamous Iron Duke engine.
Read MoreAnybody could have called the BMW 1M as a future classic, but that future came quicker than I expected. The car’s only seven years old but it’s already trading way above its original MSRP. This one’s not even perfect and it cost more than a 2018 BMW M2.
Read MoreThe 2019 Chevrolet Camaro was revealed to the world today and, well, let’s say reactions were mixed. So we’re take that as our cue and get some strife brewing by asking a potent question: what’s the best generation of Camaro?
Read MoreBuick has an image problem in the U.S., where it’s seen as a brand for The Olds, and where it’s planning to take its own name off of its cars in 2019. But in China, where Buick sold 1.2 million vehicles last year, it’s a completely different story. Electric is also big there, which brings us to the big Buick news of the day: an electric concept for China called the Enspire.
Read MoreAh, the delights of waterfront property. I bet the 19th century Ottoman dandy who built this beautiful mansion on the Bosphorus in Istanbul did not envision the abode would ever be under threat from an immense tanker ship.
Read MoreAlcantara is not just a soft, suede-like material used as a leather replacement in premium vehicles. It’s also the name of the company that manufactures the material, which now claims it can’t currently keep up with the growing demand for the stuff. Oh no, what about my soft cars?
Read MoreIn all things, it’s important to know your own worth. In the case of one guy listing his perfect-condition 1994 Mazda RX-7 on Turo, that worth is just shy of $1000 per day.
Read MoreA camouflage paint job straight from the factory? A camouflage paint job straight from the factory! That’s the 2018 Lada 4x4, which used to be called the Lada Niva, an SUV that is the greatest Soviet car of all time.
Read MoreThis is the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo Concept, an all-electric demo car to serve as a race taxi at upcoming Formula E weekends. It should be so much more.
Read MoreToday’s carmakers are thrilled with all of the new features they can integrate into their digital dashboards but all I can think of is how Toyota put a working TV right in front of your face all the way back in the Bubble Era. Well, not in front of your face exactly.
Read MoreHeads up: if you’re an African American, Asian, or Pacific Islander who bought a Toyota from January 2011 to August 2016 and financed that car with Toyota Motor Credit Company, you might be entitled to a repayment from a $21.9 million settlement fund.
Read MoreThe 2019 Chevrolet Camaro just dropped, and holy crap does it look nuts. But while the headlights and that wild grille are the most obvious alterations from the 2018 model, The General made some hardware changes for 2019 as well, including suspension and brake goodies for the 2.0-liter base motor.
Read MoreIn the wake of the Volkswagen diesel scandal the German government has started planning a potential multibillion euro plan to retrofit diesel cars that would help cut emissions and keep cars in city centers.
Read MoreThat’s a BMW i8 and a Mercedes SLR McLaren covered in dust, squeezed into a tiny shop in Kam Tin, Hong Kong. This is just one of many photos on my brother’s Instagram page showing incredible sports cars neglected in the special administrative region of China.
Read MoreThe new BMW M2 Competition has been leaked to the world, thanks to BMW’s Australian portal releasing the information a bit early, which was picked up by a Slovenian BMW enthusiast site. Not only do all of these photographs depict the new 410-horsepower M4-engine-in-a-smaller-car hopped up M2, but they leaked a few technical specs of the car as well.
Read MoreFerrari Formula One mechanic Francesco Cigorini has been hospitalized with a broken leg. The injury comes as a result of driver Kimi Räikkönen running over his left leg on pit stop release. The Finnish driver is not to blame for the incident, as drivers are told to go as soon as they are released. Warning: the video is graphic.
Read MoreAfter three of years of listening to McLaren bitch about their bad luck with Honda engines, Toro Rosso figured that they could work with the Japanese manufacturer to make their car successful. We all called them crazy when the Red Bull junior team paired with Honda for 2018, but in only the team’s second race with the engine, Pierre Gasly stuck up a (metaphorical) middle finger to the haters. By hauling the car up into Qualifying 3, starting the race in 5th, and racing his way to 4th by the time
Read MoreThe two-class GT car series in Japan is back for a new season of incredible nose-to-tail racing, and thanks to Nissan’s efforts on YouTube, you can watch the whole race for free. The grid is packed with international talent, and the cars are incredibly prepared. With GT500 efforts from nearly every Japanese manufacturer, plus international FIA GT3-spec cars allowed in the GT300 class, this series is arguably better than DTM was in its prime. It’s also the only series you can watch a Prius run fa
Read MoreA good portion of car-enthusiastic folks are serial collectors, myself included. I have collections of car literature, automotive-themed toys and games, and the walls of my office are littered with automotive posters, calendars, and other ephemera. In addition to the collection of busted cars I have in my back yard, I also like to gather large quantities of smaller scale cars as well. I know I’m not alone in this.
Read MoreFor years, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that there really ought to be an annual automotive convention in the same vein as San Diego Comic Con. Like comic enthusiasts, car folks come from all walks of life, have widely varied tastes and like to wear their automotive love on their sleeve. I can stop telling people that now, because that is a thing that now exists.
Read MoreThe sharing economy is taking over. After the success that Turo has had in providing car owners a place to rent out their unused automobiles at reasonable prices, I’m not surprised that someone has found a way to parlay that into the world of motorcycles. That’s the stated purpose of Twisted Road.
Read MoreWEC specification LMP1 Hybrids have been an incredible advancement in motorsport technology over the last decade or so, and Porsche’s 919 has proven so dominant at the formula that they’ve come home with six world championship trophies and three Le Mans victories. It’s been an incredible achievement for Porsche, and has extended the legend of their motorsport provenance. The problem with racing to a formula, however, is that you are given a rulebook and certain restrictions that hinder the car’s
Read MoreLife wasn’t easy for women in the early 20th century and race car driver and motorist Dorothy Levitt knew that for a fact. That’s why she published The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for all Women who Motor or Who Want to Motor in 1909. It tells women how to take care of themselves and their cars, and reminds them to always carry a gun.
Read MoreFord is whetting everyone’s appetites for the new Ford Focus by teasing some of its slick new features ahead of its global unveiling in China and Europe on April 10. And it looks like the Focus is getting a semiformal makeover.
Read MoreIn an era long before women were thought capable of doing much of anything, Dorothy Levitt decided that she wanted to do it all. Avid horseback rider, self-styled motoriste, race car driver, boat racer, journalist and amateur aviator, Levitt was a woman well before her era and, at the same time, exactly what Edwardian Britain needed.
Read MoreLimousines aren’t necessarily known for their subtlety, but there’s always going to be someone out there who looks at a ridiculous car and wonder, “how can I make this even more absurd?” That man was Jay Ohrberg.
Read MoreToday, I made a great decision. Today, I woke up early and I watched Formula 2.
Read MoreBack in the day, Jack London proudly proclaimed, “show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you an interesting past”. I’ve always firmly believed you can tell a lot about someone just by looking at what they choose to put on their body, and that’s why last week I asked to see your best automotive tattoos. I thought y’all might have some really interesting ones, and you definitely did not disappoint.
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 mid-engined “Corvette” (which I suspect will not actually be called a “Corvette” but will be called something else with a much dumber name, fight me) has been an elusive beast for decades now. But it looks like GM is working on a mid-engined twin-turbo V8 something, and this might be a hint of what it sounds like.
Read MoreThat’s uh... that’s not how that is supposed to go.
Read MoreEarlier today, we highlighted the unveiling of a nice looking car. But one of you pointed out that, in fact, the exterior wasn’t all of its charm.
Read MoreThe West Palm Beach Police Department has had to pull 13 of its Ford police vehicles off the road since last week due to reported engine failure, according to WPTV.
Read MoreToday’s cruise ships “make the Titanic look like a kayak” according to this video, and it’s true, by like, a factor of five. The way these massive mobile vacations operate and make money is fascinating, and simplified quite nicely in this animation.
Read MoreThis is certainly not the first time we’ve seen dashcam video of dealership techs doing stupid, embarrassing, or disrespectful things to or with customer’s cars, and I suspect it won’t be the last. Daniel Shiekhan took his Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG in for a transmission service to a Toronto-area Mercedes-Benz dealership, and his dashcam recorded everything, including a run for some Wendy’s Frosties and an hour and a half of labor time that somehow only lasted eleven real-world minutes.
Read MoreLast night in Coral Gables, Florida, on the campus of the University of Miami, a Nissan 350Z ended up in a canal, after its driver tried to, “to cut another driver off to enter a parking space,” according to The Miami Hurricane, the university’s student newspaper. Reader, be careful out there.
Read MoreThere are a lot of things a person could do with $20 million. They could afford approximately seven Bugatti Chirons, buy nearly three of Michael Schumacher’s Formula One cars at a record high price, or run an underfunded race team at the top level of NASCAR for more than a year. Or they could purchase a license plate.
Read MoreOn Friday, Ford announced that a huge number of 2018 F-150s, Expeditions, Mustangs, Lincoln Navigators and some heavy work vehicles are being recalled for appearing to be in park, but actually still being able to roll away after they’ve been shut down.
Read MoreRussell Crowe has divorced his wife of over a decade. Sad! But, as he explained to an Australian television station on Thursday, he’s now trying to create “a bit of clear space.” How’s that? Well, he’s putting hundreds of things up for auction, including a 2001 Mercedes-Benz S500 that dates to his Gladiator days.
Read MoreHere’s the story: a man owns a Fiat Tempra, but finds that the car just isn’t running as well as it should be. Something’s clearly up, so he decides to investigate and give the engine a thorough looking-over. Eventually, he removes the head from the engine and discovers three normal, metal-alloy pistons, happily resting in their cylinders and one, um, other piston. A concrete piston.
Read MoreWorkers at General Motors’ troubled South Korean operations learned this week that no one will receive a bonus due to what Bloomberg summarized as a “cash crisis.” Naturally, a small contingent responded by proceeding to completely trash their CEO’s office.
Read MoreFor months, trade negotiators from Canada and Mexico have been chastising U.S. President Donald Trump’s team for demanding the North American Free Trade Agreement to be amended so vehicles are required to contain a large percentage of U.S.-produced parts. But now, reports the New York Times, the U.S. is pitching an idea that would require vehicles to contain certain components made by workers earning a specific wage.
Read MoreI didn’t see the sagging metal cable stretched across the camp entrance when I went to turn around the $175,000 2019 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo I was driving until it was too late.
Read MoreAmericans don’t get much love in the way of top-level rally racing, and the FIA is making a big move to get those fans more interested. Yes, there has been the Red Bull Global Rallycross for a number of years, and despite its massive growth and sponsorship, the FIA recognizes it has an opportunity to take this form of racing to higher levels of fan participation.
Read MoreHave you ever heard of MW Motors? No, you haven’t. Let me fill you in: MW is a Czech firm that, this week, unveiled what it said on its website was, “Not a concept.” The car, they insist, is “real.” It’s an electric called the Luka EV, and even if this is car is never made, I think it looks good, so there’s that.
Read MoreLast week as David Tracy and I were questing across America in his ‘86 Grand Wagoneer, we met a Jalopnik reader in Colorado with a beautiful old Ford Falcon running steel-and-wood roof racks that were so elegant and artsy looking I was sure they must have been custom made. But, nope, here they are for all of us.
Read MoreIf you separate each element of 2000’s Gone In 60 Seconds, they are all bad. But together, they are a symphony of hilarious scenes roughly compiled to space out the explosions and fist fights with random car trivia, making it somewhat relatable and easy to hate watch.
Read MoreGoodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has reportedly denied allegations of a defect in RV tires which are being investigated by federal regulators. The company’s tires have been linked to scores of accidents that have left at least nine people dead and dozens injured.
Read MoreBrian Casteel was out driving Tuesday night in Billings, Montana, when he noticed two cars revving their engines at a stop light. A few seconds after the light turned green, the cars took off before one of them quickly lost control, slamming into a curb. Five minutes after that, the driver was in handcuffs.
Read MoreEveryone knows what a sedan is, right? Of course you do. They’re three-box cars, often with four doors, and two rows of seats. They’re pretty much the shape of the generic, iconic everycar used to convey the very concept of “car.” Did you ever wonder why they’re called “sedans?” No? Too bad, I’m going to tell you anyway. And, I may as well tell you about where the words “limousine” and “saloon” come from as well, because, why not?
Read MoreVolkswagen has been making little trucks for a long time, but at last week’s New York Auto Show, it teased America with the Volkswagen Atlas Tanoak concept. The big question on everybody’s mind now is whether or not the Tanoak is any good.
Read MoreA video appears to show Tesla’s Autopilot system steering a Model X into the divider where a different Tesla Model X crashed on March 23. The driver in the deadly crash was also using Autopilot at the time of the crash, Tesla later disclosed. The new video, filmed by a Tesla Model S owner, suggests that Autopilot might have a vulnerability in similar situations.
Read MoreA team of Australian urinators/YouTubers have tackled the decidedly non-trivial problem of automotive urine-extraction systems. Having to pee while driving is a genuine safety issue, and I’ve attempted DIY urine management systems myself. These guys have made one very significant improvement that dramatically helps the effectiveness of the system.
Read MoreA Massachusetts subprime auto lender is paying $765,000 to settle claims from the state’s attorney general that it “routinely sold defective and inoperable cars,” according to the attorney general’s office.
Read MoreToyota called it its “finest engine,” ambitious, technologically advanced and, from a modern perspective, impossibly strange. And yet few Americans ever knew it existed: the 1G, a 2.0-liter straight six that’s more interesting than you might imagine.
Read MoreFor most people, there’s a few universally acknowledged tricky parts to your first driver’s test: parallel parking, finding a way to text without the instructor noticing, and, also important, not smashing through the window of the DMV when taking your test. A 46-year-old student driver from Waterbury, Connecticut may have had some issues with that last one.
Read MoreMost car reviewers seemed pretty impressed with the 2018 Subaru BRZ tS when the car was released to test pilots on a closed race track, but I’m on my way to pluck one out of a garage so I can live with it for a week. What do you want to know?
Read MoreGoodyear Tire & Rubber Co. received failure claims over a tire that was installed on thousands of RVs and is linked to at least nine deaths, dozens of injuries, and hundreds of crashes as early as 1996, the first year it was manufactured and installed on motorhomes, according to court documents obtained exclusively by Jalopnik. The documents also show that Goodyear appears to have vastly underreported the number of failure claims it had received over the tire to federal regulators during a previ
Read MoreI’ve always been a little baffled by the intense brand loyalty some people feel for car companies, but I think this particular expression is far more unsettling than any “rather push a whatever than drive a whatever” hat. I’m talking about a very happy Tesla owner who has posted an update to his will (most likely non-binding) on a Tesla forum that would prevent Tesla from being sued in case he’s killed while Autopilot is active. Oh boy.
Read MoreWe’ll never know how far this semi-truck was able to safely travel with its cargo box tilted skyward, but you can definitely see where it stops.
Read MoreThe goofballs at Hoonigan turned an old Volvo V60 (RIP) into what is basically a full-sized Crazy Cart and proceeded to do the tightest donuts physically possible. Or maybe it’s more like a portable Disneyland teacup ride... deathtrap. Looks fun.
Read MoreAn Oakland, Maine high school resource officer had to educate a student about identifying satirical news articles after the teen claimed it was perfectly legal for him to stare the officer in the eyes while ripping a burnout after reading about it online.
Read MoreIn a since-deleted tweet, TVR on Wednesday unveiled a pixelized version of what is a Rebellion R13 LMP1, according to Racer, that it plans to race at Le Mans this year. It’s unclear why TVR deleted its tweet, which promised a proper announcement on Thursday.
Read MoreWaiting for the delivery of a $2.5-million supercar that hasn’t even been unveiled yet is the rich person’s equivalent to staring out the window and waiting for a package from an online order to come, so McLaren is helping future BP23 owners survive their wait with fancy little sculptures to remind them what their car will look like. Eventually.
Read MoreTo spur record sales over the last few years, automakers and dealers have turned to everything from super loose credit to subprime buyers to zero-percent financing. The former is disappearing from the new car market, and now the latter is also going by the wayside, too, according to Bloomberg.
Read MoreAmericans stumble across the landscape in a love-drunk stupor borne out of our archnemesis, the crossover. “Give me unusually heavy and tall wagons that are okay at a lot of things but truly great at not much,” they cry. And because of the insatiable hunger, the Chevy Sonic, the Chevy Impala, the Ford Fiesta, and the Ford Taurus may all die, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Read MoreLook, sure. You need a vehicle with more space. You like to ride higher off the ground, too, because you can see more of the road from there. An SUV is an obvious choice. But if you care about the person in your passenger seat, maybe the 2018 Ford Escape and Mitsubishi Outlander Sport aren’t the way to go.
Read MoreWe all have that friend who is into boring stuff like bird watching or stamps. Usually you want to run screaming into traffic when they say “hey let me show you something,” but don’t. They may show you something like what this hardcore train enthusiast managed to film—a guilt-free video of a CSX train ramming into the side of a 18-wheeler.
Read MoreI thought Dirt was going to be another feel-good, coming-of-age sports movie. And in many ways it is. What I did not bank on was the fact that it kind of turned out to be a walking talking Lucas Oil ad. Which, if you watch the movie through that lens, makes things truly bizarre.
Read MoreI had given up the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ for dead. Oh they’re still in production, and the two tire-slayers are absolute joys to drive even in traffic, but its Toyota and Subaru parents haven’t really done much with them. More power? Nope. Rally version? Not from the factory. But word on the street is, there will soon be a new one.
Read MoreIt is here: the 1050-horsepower drift Corvette. It is the power car. It is the car of great strength. It is ready to tear shit up.
Read MoreAir Force One is one of the most recognizable and most mysterious planes flying today, specifically designed to securely shepherd the President around the world. Things used to be a lot different 75 years ago when Franklin. D. Roosevelt was riding around on a bulletproof train.
Read MoreI know every time we do this, it’s an act of wild optimism, but we have had some success finding stolen cars, so I always figure it’s worth a try, right? This time the stolen car is a beautiful and very well-sorted BMW E39 M5, and it was last seen in Amsterdam. The car was this man’s pride and joy, and his little son is pretty devastated as well. Maybe we can help.
Read MoreSince President Donald Trump’s administration took office, the auto industry has been clamoring to have the strict fuel economy standards set by his predecessor reversed. On Monday, that process began with an announcement by Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency. But the automakers themselves could wind up seriously hindered if the standards are drastically weakened.
Read MoreYo dawg, I heard you like famous cars. Pimp My Ride was one of most whimsical delights to come out of 2000s-era MTV. Now for just $1,400, you can now own a piece of television history in the form of a heavily modified 1998 Plymouth Grand Voyager Expresso. Small catch: it could use a solid re-pimping.
Read MoreThe biggest obstacle for supersonic passenger jets, apart from the cost, is the massively loud and very annoying sonic boom that these ultra-fast planes create as they blast over the landscape. Since the death of the Concorde, endless proposals have been offered over the years with no result. Here’s NASA’s new proposal.
Read MoreBefore the big wings, before the hawk eyes and the blob eyes and the bug eyes, there was the 1992 Subaru Legacy RS Type RA, STI’s first car. It’s still one of the coolest machines the in-house performance arm ever made.
Read MoreLong after the news cycle moved to Russian Facebook meddling or debates on whether we should arm day care workers with rocket launchers, people from the Gulf Coast are still recovering from the effects of last fall’s devastating Hurricane Harvey. That kind of comeback doesn’t happen overnight. Fortunately, a lot of people are still in the game to try and help, and I’m about to join them the best way I know how—with race cars. A salvage-title race car that’s also a local, to be specific.
Read MoreSadly, we still have many years before we can legally import the Audi A2. What ever will we do until then?
Read MoreA Chevrolet dealership in Chantilly, Virginia has reportedly cancelled a planned event hosting EPA Chief Scott Pruitt tomorrow in a claimed effort to avoid the Chevy brand being associated with an expected announcement about the government rolling back Obama-era emissions standards and California’s right to set its own pollution rules, according to the New York Times.
Read MoreIf you were hoping the upcoming revival of the Toyota Supra would get a manual transmission, you are just setting yourself up for disappointment. Either way, a new interview with Tetsuya Tada, Toyota’s Global Chief of Engineering, suggests the new Supra will get a dual-clutch transmission instead.
Read MoreI didn’t think this would ever happen, but we actually have a pretty decent selection of wagons in the U.S. these days. We’ve got wagons from Mercedes-Benz, Buick, Volvo and Jaguar, just to name a few. But samples from Audi’s RS division have been out of reach for us. There could be a light at the end of this dark tunnel, though, with an emphasis on could.
Read MoreBeing a good crew member on an airline requires the patience of a saint. They’re expected to handle everything from unruly passengers to screaming children and turbulence with grace. Fortunately, there’s a place they can hide out on the Airbus A380 if they can’t handle it anymore: the hidden crew rest compartment.
Read MoreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt, declared on Monday that Obama-era MPG rules were “wrong” and ordered them to be revised. Helpfully, Pruitt—who has repeatedly questioned the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-driven climate change—offered no specific guidance on how to reshape those targets, nor what he thinks would be a palatable target.
Read MoreYesterday, I was driving on the highway and saw a flatbed hauling a filthy, rusty old pickup truck. That’s not uncommon where I live. This truck, though, was uncommon: it had a pair of tall exhaust pipes, wood panels on the sides of the bed, behind the big rear fenders, and, on the doors, a big decal that read “LI’L RED EXPRESS TRUCK.” I’ve heard of this thing. The Li’l Red Express was the vehicle that kept muscle cars alive in a time when they should all have died. I’ll explain.
Read MoreThis is a twin-supercharged V12 Ferrari 599 drift car. I’ll repeat: This is a Ferrari 599, twin supercharged, competing in Formula Drift in America this year.
Read MoreA dispatch from the life of a New York City subway commuter this morning: feces.
Read MoreThere are a lot of things to debate in this world, but this is hopefully not one: If a person spends a lot of money on a new car that will depreciate immediately, it should be clean. Right? And if a dealer tries to sell a 2018 Subaru WRX STI Type RA for more than $11,000 over MSRP, it shouldn’t have dirt everywhere. Right?
Read More“This isn’t supposed to be here,” said old-school American Ford Falcon owner Mr. Regular of the 2006 Ford Falcon XR6 BF he drove in New Zealand. “This car doesn’t exist!” But it does, and it exists in the best possible alternate timeline: the one where muscle cars were designed to bring your friends.
Read MoreWhen buying a vehicle with more than a quarter of a million miles, you have to expect it’s going to need a lot of work right out of the gate. When I decided to purchase this 1986 Toyota Pickup Turbo, I may have underestimated how much work that would be.
Read MoreIf you’re going to drive 150 mph, don’t do it on a public road with a bad record of fatal crashes, in the middle of the night, with police lights in your mirrors. And maybe, just maybe, don’t do it in a Ford Mustang. Those things don’t have the best record when it comes to reckless driving, even at slow speeds.
Read MoreThe Mercedes SL roadster has always been a supreme luxury droptop, and the best part was that was the fact that you could have 12 cylinders under the hood if you were willing to pony up the cash. But an admittedly thinly-sourced rumor says this is the last hurrah for the V12 SL.
Read MoreI hope the person riding this motorcycle never decides to play the lottery or go to Vegas or try a handful of unmarked pills because I’m pretty sure they used up all their strategic reserves of luck right here, at the moment you see in that video. I say this because after crashing his motorcycle into the bottom of a flipped Toyota RAV4, the dude managed to walk away, pretty unscathed.
Read MoreDon’t ask me how much they could sell for, but they sure look good here.
Read MoreA couple of days ago, this 2019 Corvette ZR1 was delivered to its new owner. It is allegedly VIN 4, and the first manual ZR1 delivered. That’s the kind of thing that Corvette collectors care about, and it’s good for bragging rights, but not much else. More interesting for the rest of us, however, was that the new owner decided the first trip for the car was to Race Proven Motorsports in New Castle, Delaware for a rip on the Dyno to see how much power it could crank out.
Read MoreEthan Tufts, the host of the Hello Road video series on YouTube is an extremely rad guy. He has built his video channel around his exploits with obscure 80s cars that most people have forgotten, including the late-1980s NUMMI-built Chevrolet Nova Twin-Cam that is the focus of this episode. He drove that Nova from the Los Angeles area up to Sonoma Raceway to attend a Radwood show at HooptieCon.
Read MoreThe Dodge Aspen ‘Street Kit’ (and its sibling, the Plymouth Volare) was Dodge’s effort at implying high-speed prowess in dealer showrooms back in 1978. Their compact car at the time, the Aspen replaced the aging Dart, and the highest performance model available at the time was powered by MoPar’s 360 ci small block V8 with a then-massive 175 smog-choked horsepower.
Read MoreThere is a particular style among Porsche owners, melding race cues with dubious street legality, known as ‘Mulholland Racer’. In the good ‘ole days, a bunch of idiots would gather at the base of Mulholland Drive and see who could get up it the quickest. Perhaps Southern California’s version of Japanese touge racing, or just the wealthy version of street racing, it was ill advised in either case. That street racing scene is thankfully long dead, but it produced some awesome cars along the way.
Read MoreBack in the 1980s, Honda Powersports was really pressing its scooters on the US market, and somehow these smaller two-wheelers were actually selling. Perhaps it was because of the musical star power behind their ads, with Grace Jones, Lou Reed, and DEVO starring in the campaign, among others. Or, perhaps it was because these were quality scooters with cool period features like the Elite 150's pop-up headlamp. To be fair to Honda, that feature continues to inspire me to buy one to this day.
Read MoreStriipe Design (with two i’s for a double dose of hipster) is a brand new sock company selling foot wrappers with automotive pattern design. These were designed with the German car cognoscenti in mind, as the patterns chosen would not be recognized by your average office cohabitant. They’re a semi-secret way to wear your car nerd on your sleeve, but stylish enough that you’ll get compliments on them from people who don’t know the secret meaning behind the pattern.
Read MoreFollowing in the footsteps of Cadillac, Volvo, and Porsche, Lincoln will begin offering cars on a monthly basis through a subscription service. Here comes the twist: they’re all used cars.
Read MoreWith its estimated 173-horsepower, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘Smartacus’ packs about four-times the ponies of a stock ForTwo. Let’s see if this wild custom’s price is also a factor too high.
Read MoreFord’s Mustang has always been a survivor. And, as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mach 1 proves, its special edition models keep coming back in zombie-like fashion. Will this S95’s price however, still prove worth waking the dead?
Read MoreLand Rover has a reputation for being one of the most unreliable brands on the market. And yet, people still drive them like they’re going out of style. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Freelander is a Land Rover that has actually gone out of style, but will its price have you bringing it back?
Read MoreThe nose on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Aston Martin needs a little work. More precisely much of it seems to be missing. While it’s true absence makes the heart grow fonder, will you love this absent nose Aston for its price?
Read MoreYesterday we looked at a well preserved car you might want. With today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pontiac, we give you another that you might not. That might not mean its price isn’t compelling, however.
Read MoreWe all know the mantra that ‘Miata is always the answer,’ but could today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe NA MX5’s price prove that answer to be questionable?
Read MoreWhat to you, qualifies as exotic? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW comes with ten cylinders, six manually selectable gears, and a to-be-seen-in body, all of which support its place in the pantheon of performance machines. Will its price however, prove a little too exotic?
Read MoreHave you ever heard the joke in which a contest’s first prize is one thing and second prize is amazingly two of the same thing? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe duo of Fiats might be a prize you’d want, that is if their price proves to be no joke.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mustang is said to carry the legacy of an ill-fated promotion involving both NCAA basketball and the Uncola, 7UP. Let’s see whether its price proves a slam dunk or a bottleneck.
Read More‘Needs work, but we’ll do it’ isn’t something you often hear from a car seller, but that’s just what the offerer of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Range Rover avers. Let’s see if that suggested work makes the price workable.
Read MoreLong before Porsche built their first production four-door, they helped with the 500E for Mercedes. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe edition is claimed to be the best of that joint parentage, but will its price have you considering its adoption?
Read MoreGarage Baby is how the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MR2 Spyder affectionately describes his car. We’ll just have to see if its price means that this baby’s got backing.
Read MoreNow’s the time to snap up a classic BMW E30s while you still have the chance. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 325is looks pretty swell in its Zender effects, but will that make its price extra chancy?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda Helix has only 171 miles on the clock. It also has a digital dash and maybe, the stigma that almost all non-Vespa scooters carry. Will its price still carry the day?
Read MoreRemember when Volvos were boxy and fast? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe V70 R remembers. Let’s see if this hot box’s price makes it even more memorable.
Read MoreToyota is attempting to spice up its latest Camry with some edgy, aggressive styling. They once did that with cool models like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe AllTrac. Let’s see if this rusty but trusty Camry’s price makes it the spice of life.
Read MoreToyota’s Land Cruiser may get a lot of love, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Trooper proves, there can be a lot to like in these old Isuzus too. Maybe even their value.
Read MoreLook at today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota truck and then look at both its age and its mileage. Yeah, something just doesn’t add up. We’re going to find out if that something, is its price.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s GTI is great, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe R32 proves, sometimes more is better. Will have to see if the over the top nature of this hot hatch includes its price.
Read MoreCrazily customized and Mazda-powered, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cortina obviously isn’t for everybody. Let’s see if its price ensures that it’s at least for somebody.
Read MoreWith its low mileage and seriously good looks, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cayman might make you forget the fact that it lacks an ’S’ on its chest. Let’s see if being ‘base’ makes its price a bitter pill.
Read MoreFor those who say a Porsche 911 Carrera S, GTS, Turbo or Turbo S are simply not enough, there are the GT2 and GT3 models. They’re insane, overpowered, meant for the race track and come with the six-figure price tags to match. And the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, somehow, is on a whole other level.
Read MoreThe 2019 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo is a dream car in more ways than you might think. Of course it’s expensive; something many of us can only fantasize about buying. But it’s also the literal stuff of dreams. Something that shouldn’t exist in real life. Something that feels impossible.
Read MoreYou know that teenage mentality of how cool a band is until everybody finds out about it? Well, Formula One’s doing that to the long-held Australian practice of drinking from a sweaty racing shoe in celebration. After driver Daniel Ricciardo made it cool, F1 trademarked the term “shoey” for use on all kinds of souvenirs.
Read MoreFormula One could host a grand prix in Miami as soon as next year, according to a tweet from Dutch website Ziggo Sport F1. The outlet claims the Miami race could replace the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, known for its great racing and also plenty of controversy about the country it’s raced in.
Read MoreIn 1991, little Mazda stood at the top of the world. It won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its banshee Mazda 787B prototype, and here is the 700-horsepower quad-rotor engine that got it the win.
Read MoreReigning IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship winner Jordan Taylor has a retro alter-ego Rodney Sandstorm, which is one of the most pure and charming things on the Internet. Rodney interrupted an interview with NASCAR’s Brad Keselowski during Fox Sports’ broadcast of Talladega yesterday, to which Keselowski said, “I think you should stay away from my daughter.”
Read MoreIt’s never a good sign when the World Rally Championship feed cuts abruptly to the map after an off, but that’s what happened when then-WRC2 leader Kalle Rovanpera went off on Stage 17 of Rally Argentina today. Fortunately, no one was hurt despite the fact that Rovanpera’s Skoda flipped right over a fan’s tent.
Read MoreOn Friday, NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray apparently blew out his Chevrolet’s left rear tire and lost control in the last practice session before the upcoming race weekend at Talladega Super Speedway. He then collided with another vehicle, went airborne, and tumbled. And then just kept on tumbling. And tumbling.
Read MoreOne of my favorite camera views in racing is the tire view that shows big Formula One tires flex and wobble through turns and over curbs. Thankfully, the amateur version of this is just as fascinating. Look at how much these Oldsmobile white walls flex at an autocross!
Read MoreWe don’t know much about the new Toyota Supra, since the racing version of it debuted in March with a funky livery and approximately zero performance stats. Will it make 50 horsepower or 500? Who knows! But with its Gran Turismo Sport debut, we at least know that the virtual version will be powered by 591 horses.
Read MoreRacing is plagued. For years, if not decades, what were once exciting races have turned into parade laps. Sometimes, if you’re really lucky, you might get an interesting battle for fifth or sixth. “Yay..... I guess...” you say to yourself, while you try to convince your friends to watch a race with you. But it doesn’t have to be this way. It can be better. And it could learn a lot from sumo.
Read MoreOut of all the cars I’ve driven for Jalopnik, the one I wanted to give back the least was the Toyota 86. When Robb Holland asked if I wanted to drive a flooded 86 he was turning into a race car, I jumped at the chance. I’m glad I did, even if I was our slowest driver. It was extremely good before. It’s amazing as a race car.
Read MoreThey learned its style. They recreated it on a skidpad. They played it in driving sims. But NorCal’s Drift Team Animal Style had never physically gone to Meihan, the tiny track in Japan that gave the world the backwards entry and has become legendary in the Internet Era of drifting. This past year, they shipped their cars over and made the pilgrimage.
Read More“But he’s like a six-time national karting champ!” said Robb Holland of our teammate Jordon Musser, whose lap times were a full twenty seconds under mine in the same car. “That’s no excuse!” I said. I’ll be honest: the other cars in our class were raining shame down on my times as much as the pros were, anyway.
Read MoreIf you want a practical old sports sedan, preferably with rear-wheel drive, your car search will take you first to BMW and then probably no where else because you have already gone ahead and bought an E30. But now, take a look at this brick of a Volvo and tell me you don’t feel a pang of doubt.
Read MoreVolkswagen wasn’t kidding around when it said it wanted to take on the record for fastest electric car on the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb—that was obvious when it showed renderings of its “I.D. R” race car. But now the real car is ready to go, and Volkswagen said it’s faster than a Formula One car.
Read MoreFor the sixth straight year, Circuit of The Americas is hosting MotoGP, and this year there’s a bit more tension leading into round three. Yes, Marc Marquez has won on this track each and every one of the five previous years in Austin, but this year’s MotoGP season is off to a rocky start for the Spaniard, and the first two races at Qatar and Argentina have been won by Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow, respectively.
Read MoreWomen in motorsports are accomplishing a lot, like racing against adults before they’re even teenagers and topping the charts in test sessions in series on the Formula One development ladder. Here are some more of the incredible things women in racing are up to lately.
Read MoreThe idea seemed simple: we find a Toyota 86 that damaged in Hurricane Harvey, and then do whatever it takes to transform it into an endurance race car for a charity event aimed at helping the city’s residents get back on their feet after last fall’s devastating floods. But as with all my ideas, the execution itself was far from simple. Here’s how we pulled it off.
Read MoreFollowing endurance racing on American television became a tedious chore in recent years, riddled with odd channel changes and unplanned interruptions. Fox was especially heinous about preempting their scheduled race coverage for seemingly anything else. So, the World Endurance Championship left this year for Velocity, reports Racer, and I can’t say I blame them at all. [Update: But we can blame them for geoblocking ad-free stream in the United States as part of this deal. See note below.]
Read MoreWhat is the key to happiness? I don’t know, but my best guess is that it would involve vintage rally cars, like the Group A Ford Escort Cosworth Ken Block plans to rally this season. I can’t get enough of this car, and now there’s footage of it blasting down stage roads. Really good footage.
Read MoreUnpaid bills. Allegations of abusive treatment. Explosive text messages. Car companies leaving for a competing series. Once, Red Bull Global Rallycross seemed like a bright spot in the racing world: action-packed events popular with young fans where Subarus, Volkswagens and more flew across dirt and asphalt courses. Now GRC’s future seems in doubt, and according to lawsuits obtained by Jalopnik, participants and former employees alike are left with little more than a bad taste in their mouths.
Read MoreAmidst lawsuits, money owed to venues, a rival racing series coming into the fray and canceled events, America’s main rallycross series for the past seven years could be done for. According to a statement from one of its former venues, Red Bull Global Rallycross is ceasing operations for 2018.
Read MoreNASCAR has a lot of problems these days. It can’t get its diversity program right. It can’t detach from Trump. It has to remind drivers to take a breath between thanking sponsors because they keep passing out in post-race interviews. I’m not here to fix those problems. I can only address the biggest issue at hand. The cars.
Read MoreWhen NASCAR visits its shortest tracks like Bristol Motor Speedway’s half mile, credit for a good save usually can’t go to just one driver—everyone’s so close to each other that a save is a team effort. That’s what happened when Kyle Larson wrecked from the lead Monday, and a huge chunk of the field had to dodge him.
Read MoreThe best racing passes are the ones where someone just whooshes through their competition like a magical curvy lane through appeared for just them. You stare at the pass and can’t fathom how the driver made it work without hitting anything. Let’s savor this insane IndyCar pass from the Long Beach Grand Prix in all its nutty glory.
Read MoreAn older BMW 3 Series can be driving bliss, but if you’re not a German car stan, you may not know your E30s from your E36s. Lucky for you, the Team O’Neil Rally School is here to help with this super detailed guide to the most popular 3 series generations for racing and what you need to look for when you buy and fix one up.
Read MoreChances are, if you’ve ever tuned into a Formula 1 race broadcast, read a Formula 1 article, or popped onto Twitter during a Formula 1 race, you’ve heard someone out there lamenting that the series is not what it used to be. It was better back in the day. The 1980s and 1990s—that was the pinnacle of the sport, and it’s been a downhill spiral since then. Any recommendations on how to fix the sport lie in recreating the past. That’s how we’ll make Formula 1 a good series.
Read MoreKimi Räikkönen’s Ferrari team didn’t have the best weekend at the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix, since a mishap during pit stops left a team mechanic with a snapped leg and Räikkönen out of the race early. Ferrari and did an investigation into what happened, and it turned out to be a system failure in the team’s pit.
Read MoreThe worst part of caring about sporting events but not TV programs in general is that if you want to watch Formula One, you usually have to pay for 10,000 channels and the drama series where Chad and Susie are on again, off again. Not anymore, because you can stream all the F1 coverage you want starting in May.
Read MoreIf you watched the Top Gear episode on American V8 muscle and left turns and decided to put the race track the hosts visited on your bucket list, you should hurry up with it—Rocky Mountain Raceways, which will forever be the place where Sabine Schmitz terrified Chris Harris for life, will close after this season.
Read MoreAfter the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday, every driver who qualified for the second-tier series’ “Dash for Cash” races came into the media center and said almost the exact same thing: “I just really appreciate Xfinity and Comcast for giving us the chance to race for $100,000.”
Read MoreNASCAR’s All-Star Race is, in general, not great. It’s meant to show off the best drivers in the sport, but the problem is that the race happens on one of the most boring tracks on the schedule. NASCAR tries a new, odd format to make the race interesting every year, and it almost always backfires—but this year, it may not.
Read MoreGoing to a NASCAR oval race to feel a full field of 40 earth-shakingly loud V8 engines rumble your very bones is a near-religious experience if there ever was one. Unfortunately, it doesn’t translate all that well on television. This is a much better dub if there ever was one. Listen, and enjoy.
Read MoreDrag racing seems simple at first, but the more you look into the sport where whoever crosses the finish line before the other wins, the more complicated and fascinating it becomes. One such example is called “spindle stagger,” or why top cars in drag racing don’t have front wheels that line up exactly.
Read MoreThe absolute worst part of being a motorsport fan in the United States is the constant interruption of racing action for commercial breaks. When will the beast that is capitalism be satisfied? Yet ESPN heard our complaints about how their treatment of Formula One this year, though, and will now air F1 for the rest of the 2018 season commercial-free.
Read MoreSince 2016, the Ford Mustangs running in Formula Drift have had one of the most wonderfully bizarre suspension setups I’ve seen. It’s back again for this season and I am still obsessed.
Read MoreDuring lunch, my husband and I went from usual the topic of race cars and shells for sale online to the idea of turning a Late Model into a street car—a lifted battle car for the apocalypse, even. That’s when I found this video of a street-legal Dirt Late Model, which is now the only future I envision for myself.
Read MoreBecause rules ruin fun and Porsche’s Le Mans prototype group doesn’t have to adhere to rules anymore, the company took one of its Le Mans racers out to Spa-Francorchamps. But the car went out there unrestricted, not a care in the world about series rules, and lapped the circuit faster than a Formula One car.
Read MoreWhile his Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel won the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix over the weekend, Kimi Räikkönen’s race turned nightmarish just over halfway in. A mishap during pit stops led Räikkönen to snap one of his mechanic’s legs, and F1 handed the team a huge fine for it.
Read MoreThe twin-supercharged, 900 horsepower V12 Ferrari 599 has been the most anticipated car to come to Formula Drift in years and, well, things didn’t go great on its debut. On its first round in its debut competition, it burst into flames.
Read MoreCars are good, especially when they’re loud and fast. And, believe it or not, us car bloggers actually leave our computer screens occasionally to go look at real, live cars. That’s why Jalopnik will be at Texas Motor Speedway for the NASCAR races this weekend, ready to soak up the noise of loud V8s making big circles.
Read MoreA lot of things are great about Formula One. A lot of things in Formula One are also absolutely garbage. F1's still (relatively) new owners, Liberty Media, want to change all that, by making it cheaper, louder, fairer, and hopefully more fun.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, a post popped up on a Facebook group for regional Porsche Club of America members saying Texas World Speedway, a near place of pilgrimage for amateur racers slated to become a neighborhood, wouldn’t be bulldozed for housing after all. The developer would not confirm or deny this to Jalopnik.
Read MoreLikely in an attempt to distract from their trash racing and lack of passing, both the Russian Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix plan to have grid girls this year despite Formula One deciding it wouldn’t use them anymore. The deputy Prime Minister of Russia justified it by saying Russia’s “girls are the most beautiful.”
Read MoreBritish automaker TVR has a long history at Le Mans, but hasn’t actually been in motorsport for more than 10 years. That streak of inaction will end this season, since TVR announced that it’s back to race Le Mans once again—and not just Le Mans. Its car will race the entire World Endurance Championship season.
Read MoreUnder the guise of a bunch of cars burning tires, Formula Drift quietly built up the most powerful road race cars on the planet, and Fredric Aasbø’s new 1,000 horsepower rear-wheel drive Toyota Corolla hatch is one of the most extreme yet. We got an in-depth look and trust us, it’s batshit.
Read MoreFormula One drivers are more likely to run into each other on the race track if they’re similar in age, social status and competition results, according to a new study that looked at five decades of crashes. It’s like a big game of “I’m cooler than you are,” funded by teams with annual budgets in the $500-million range.
Read MoreThree-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart has agreed to settle with the parents of Kevin Ward Jr. five weeks before the wrongful death lawsuit over Ward’s death was supposed to go to trial, reports ESPN. Ward died after being hit by Stewart’s car at a race during the Empire Super Sprints race at Canandaigua Speedway in on August 9, 2014.
Read MoreEveryone who’s ever been on a race track is familiar with the waiver you sign releasing certain legal rights in case something serious goes wrong. Yet that waiver wasn’t enough to keep motorcycle track day organizers Keigwin’s At The Track from being sued for a crash at one of their Laguna Seca events, and it has racing and track day event organizers everywhere a bit worried.
Read MoreBritish driver Flick Haigh was the only woman in the field when she drove in the first race of the British GT Championship season on April 2, but she didn’t need to be picked out of a crowd of cars—she and her co-driver were out front pretty much the entire time, from winning the pole to finishing the race first.
Read MoreThe 2018 Subaru BRZ and its twin the 2018 Toyota 86 have been go-to picks for “fun and affordable” forever. After a week in the limited production range topping $33,000 2018 Subaru BRZ tS, I’ve made some realizations about this car.
Read MorePractically every major automaker has some sort of plan to develop an Uber-like service of the future, and if a report from Reuters is accurate, Volkswagen has a massive project of its own in the works. VW plans to form a joint venture with China’s largest ride-hailing company that would involve developing vehicles specifically for the taxi service, according to the report.
Read MoreElectric car startup NIO is flush with cash and is riding high right now, having just launched its first crossover in China in December. If all goes according to plan, NIO intends to start selling a car to the U.S. by 2020, but that won’t happen through a dealership network. It wants to sell to customers through a smartphone app, reports Automotive News.
Read MoreNot that we should be surprised about Mister Flint having a poor grasp of public safety, but Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recently spoke out on testing autonomous cars—something that’s relevant to his state—and he was completely and utterly wrong.
Read MoreFederal lawmakers have been toying with proposed legislation to oversee the deployment of autonomous cars for months now, but that effort is appearing to stall out, following two recent crashes involving an Uber-owned self-driving car and a Tesla Model X.
Read MoreNissan is looking to introduce a flurry of new electrified vehicles in Japan by 2022, with plans to roll out three all-electric cars and five hybrids, according to Automotive News.
Read MoreCalifornia regulators are investigating an incident at Tesla’s factory in the state that involved a subcontractor who broke his jaw after getting struck by a piece of factory equipment. It’s the second probe announced by the state this month, and came just days before Tesla vigorously defended its safety record.
Read MoreAs part of Volkswagen’s continued effort to seek repentance for the Dieselgate scandal, the German automaker is investing billions into electric cars. That includes a new announcement Wednesday that it’ll install “ultra-fast” electric vehicle chargers at more than 100 Walmart stores in 34 states, by mid-2019.
Read MoreTesla will operate its assembly plant in California “24/7" as part of an effort to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan to 6,000 units per week by June, CEO Elon Musk told the company Tuesday, in an email obtained by Jalopnik.
Read MoreTesla is known to issue extraordinary press releases, but this one could take the proverbial cake. On Thursday, in response to the National Transportation Safety Board’s formal announcement that Tesla had been removed from a federal probe of a fatal Model X crash, the automaker accused the investigators of being “more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety.”
Read MoreLate Wednesday, Tesla said it withdrew from a formal agreement with the National Transportation Safety Board over a provision that says it can’t release details of a fatal crash involving a Model X traveling with the vehicle’s Autopilot system engaged. But today, Bloomberg reports that, in fact, the NTSB kicked Tesla off the probe.
Read MoreBarely a month removed from a jarring incident that involved one of its self-driving cars striking and killing a pedestrian, Uber’s new CEO said Thursday that autonomous driving technology needs more time because, right now, self-driving cars are just “student drivers.” Uh.
Read MoreTesla has released a statement blaming last month’s fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X in Autopilot mode on the driver who died in the incident following news that his family is exploring legal options against the automaker.
Read MoreTesla is struggling to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan, but that’s not stopping the automaker from thinking about its next vehicle, the Model Y crossover. And if a report from Reuters is accurate, Tesla wants to start production on that vehicle by 2019. In the same California factory as the Model 3. Which is supposed to be at capacity by then. Aaaaalrighty then.
Read MoreDoesn’t a lazy drive sound nice? Forget all your cares and watch the hills roll pleasantly around you, then above you, then around you again, then above you once more. As the car slides to a rest in the medium, take a moment to really appreciate your new perspective. Exhale!
Read MoreA month after an Uber-owned autonomous car struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, the ride-hailing giant is stepping back into the limelight to announce it wants to be everything. No, really. On Wednesday, the company announced it’s expanding a newly-acquired bike-sharing service, launching a new car-sharing service, and planning to let Uber users buy public transit fare through its smartphone app.
Read MoreThe fledgling autonomous car industry is facing intense scrutiny right now, after two crashes last month involving an Uber-owned autonomous car and a semi-autonomous Tesla Model X ended with fatalities. Nevertheless, California is laying out a framework for companies to legally pick up passengers in driverless cars—without a safety operator behind the wheel—and ferry them around.
Read MoreYou know how race cars make that satisfying clunk as they go into gear? How they whine as they fly by? Well, now you’re gonna see and understand exactly why that is.
Read MoreEveryone seems to be rolling out a subscription service these days. But $3,700—a month? That’s how much BMW thinks it can get out of drivers for the BMW M-level tier of a new U.S. subscription pilot it’s starting this week in Nashville.
Read MoreCars are more sophisticated than ever before. They are also more confounding! The explosion of technology in vehicles we’ve seen over the past decade has made it trickier than ever to just “get in” and “drive,” if your car offers customizable settings that can change its behavior on the road. So what’s the best way to set those up? I am here to help.
Read MoreIn January, Tesla projected it would make 2,500 Model 3s per week by the end of the first quarter of 2018. When the automaker reports delivery totals to investors this week, it’ll fall short of that amount, based on an email from CEO Elon Musk, who told employees in a companywide email Monday that Tesla just passed a rate of 2,000 per week.
Read MoreFederal investigators looking into a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X said on Sunday they were “unhappy” with the automaker for releasing information in a blog post on the incident late last week.
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, just in time for you to sound important in all your friends’ group chat. 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 the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that your favorite auto exec is probably feverishly double-checking right this second.
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 MoreAbout 50 miles from nowhere and four hours to daybreak, I squinted through the steep windshield into a soup of sand and fumes while our 2018 Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road Premium plowed across open desert. We were hunting the horizon for adventure or trouble and rest assured, this truck loves to find both.
Read MoreIf bringing our childhood Hot Wheels toys to life is the true goal of custom car building, Miles’ Isuzu Box Truck wins, air bag’d and decked out to match his 3SGE-powered AE86 Corolla.
Read MoreToday, after almost 12 years in production, the final Jeep Wrangler JK will roll off the assembly line in Toledo. And while this may not seem like such a big deal in the wake of the excellent replacement model, the JL, we shouldn’t forget how important the JK was. This is truly the end of an era.
Read MoreMuch of the idea of pickup trucks being performatively macho and aimed at cowboys and construction workers is thanks to marketing, rather than how a lot of trucks are actually used by everyday people. But the automakers work hard at those ideas, like how Fiat Chrysler apparently used six different types of hammer to inspire the trim options for the 2019 Ram 1500.
Read MoreA prototype Jeep pickup truck passed through the city of Morgantown, West Virginia today. Why do I know this? Because the people of Morgantown, West Virginia emailed over the thrilling news.
Read MoreI recently spotted for the first time a Land Rover Series III “Lightweight” in Nuremberg, Germany, and now I’m stuck in a deep rabbit hole learning about this incredible machine. So I’m bringing you down with me.
Read MoreFord says it has received official EPA fuel economy numbers for the new 2018 Ford F-150 3.0-liter Power Stroke diesel, and the figures are good if you get the 4x2. But if you want power to all four wheels and you’re not a fleet customer, the numbers are much, much lower.
Read MoreMost wild monster truck tricks have already been done. The first car crush was decades ago. They’ve been doing backflips for a while. But a front flip? Behold, in all of its violence, extravagance, and glory.
Read MoreEver since spotting a strange, single-passenger pickup with the engine on right side of its cab in Prague, I have been having dreams. Weird ones involving an America filled with the cute trucks it deserves, like the Multicar M22, which amazingly has a payload rating higher than that of a Ford F-250.
Read MoreThe second-generation Dodge Ram established the big, macho and iconic look that continues to define truck design today, and it pushed the truck segment beyond the boring and square sedan-inspired aesthetic for good. But it almost didn’t happen.
Read MoreIt’s time to learn about one of the weirdest SUVs ever: the Ford F-Series-based “B-100.” Made only in Mexico, the giant rectangle on wheels has two doors on one side and one on the other, plus barn-doors out back and three sets of bench seats. Three. This may be the greatest SUV ever.
Read MoreYes, it is possible to screw up off-roading so badly that the axle on your brand-new Toyota Tacoma actually gets ripped right out from under the truck.
Read MoreChevrolet just released a teaser showing its new Chevrolet Silverado HD, which is set to launch in 2019 as a 2020 model. Like all heavy-duty trucks these days, it looks mean. Like, really mean.
Read MoreMore than two years ago we were introduced to the Sherp–a heroically unstoppable 4x4 tractor thing from Russia with 63-inch tires. I sort of figured it would be relegated for official use only. But don’t worry, some mud-bogging boys got ahold of one and plopped it into a pit of Texas clay.
Read MoreThe new-for-2019 Volkswagen Jetta is good example of a car type that’s unfairly falling out of favor: the practical, everyday, compact non-crossover four-door sedan. Also, it’s one of the few cars like this you can still get with a manual, and that feels good.
Read MoreI recently decided to do something outside my normal routine: Restore a vintage nitro-powered remote control car. I learned a lot more about vehicles than I expected to.
Read MoreLooking for a good SW20-generation Toyota MR2 on Craigslist is a tough job, as it’s a virtual minefield of failures and sadness. But this bright blue one built by Prime Driven isn’t. It’s a little gem with 270 horsepower at the crank, and here’s how they did it without blowing up.
Read MoreLast summer, I drove eight hours to pick up a Jeep that a reader named Matt had offered me for free. But after fixing the boxy SUV, I didn’t have the heart to take it from the college student. A few months later, Matt blew up the engine, but planned to install a new one. Sadly, now he’s got even more problems.
Read MoreIf you’re one of the six people who has wondered what would happen if you replaced your car’s motor oil with Coca-Cola and Mentos, prepare to be enlightened. That’s because one brave Russian decided to find the answer; it was not good.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I took a rusty Jeep named Project Redwood on a 3,500 mile road trip to and from the off-road Mecca of Moab, Utah. While the aim of the trip was to show that grand off-road adventures don’t have to be pricey, I did end up spending quite a bit more than the $800 I initially put down for the junker.
Read MoreA Russian YouTuber machined four pistons for his VAZ-2106's 1.6-liter inline-four engine, installed them, and tried to run the engine. It goes about as well as you might expect.
Read MoreYou found out the ONE TRUE WAY to protect your car from pot holes NOW?!?!?!?!?!?! Check out your custom-built VARIABLE-WHEELBASE machine!!!!!!!!! You spent HOW MUCH on a SUPRA?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! Okay, so that last one wasn’t featured on the Red Green Show, but the whole thing did seem like a send-up of present-day Car Youtube.
Read MoreLast week David Tracy and I drove 3,500 miles from Michigan to Moab and back, including two passes over the Rocky Mountains and a little off-roading. It’d have been a fun road trip in a normal truck. But we didn’t do it in a normal truck. We did it in an $800 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer that we resuscitated after 12 years of neglect.
Read MoreBack in 1976, I used to beg my mom each morning to get me to school early, just so I could play an insane inner-city game called Suicide. I was 10 years old, and while the St. Anselm nuns copped a smoke next to the rectory, trying to steady their nerves for yet another day without debauchery*, 50 testosterone-filled boys gathered to throw a raggedy tennis ball against the church wall. The object of the game was simple. Catch the ball without fumbling or the mob pummeled you. It was the greatest
Read MoreRussian YouTube channel Garage 54 exists in a magic place somewhere between Mythbusters and The Red Green Show, where cars are subject of delightfully sketchy experiments. Take this attempt to run concrete instead of air in their tires, for example. I mean, roads are made of concrete. Why not tires?
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