The 2018 Audi RS6 Performance will be the last iteration of the company’s third-generation “C7” look for the hugely powerful people hauler, and it’s a glorious sendoff. The 597 horsepower station wagon screams.
Read MoreWhen the world does eventually end, it probably won’t be with horses. It’ll probably come in the form of salvos of ballistic missiles, all being launched at once. Thanks to the Russian Navy, we now have a good idea of what that will look like.
Read MoreThe U.S. Army wants to spend a billion dollars on a light tank, a vehicle it doesn’t need, because it already had a vehicle that fit the exact same role. And the Army canned it.
Read MoreThe F-35 Lightning II has gotten a lot of crap all over the world for being both finicky to actually put into combat, and also for having stealth that doesn’t really work all the time. To prove it can both fly in the air and do it over enemy territory without being spotted by radar, Israel just released this photo of one flying over Beirut. All casual-like.
Read MoreAbout a month ago, I went on vacation in Prague and paid a visit to the very lovely National Technical Museum. It’s awesome and definitely worth a visit. Because if you do go, you’ll see a sleek, silver 1937 Tatra 77a parked on the ground floor, which I later learned was actually shockingly good at killing Nazis during World War II. Here’s why.
Read MoreI know that it’s “normal.” I know that it’s something military aviators do every day. Air-to-air refueling, even with helicopters, is vital and necessary and even routine for a lot of operations. But all of those whirling blades and fuel hoses still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Read MoreDolphins are our friends, and that means sometimes they do our evil bidding and fight our wars for us, as friends do. But sometimes, sometimes, they go EVEN FRIENDLIER, by starving themselves until they die (????) because they refuse to fight for Russia (???????????).
Read MoreRelatable: you’re in the U.S. Army, you’re in charge of safely air-dropping the Humvees out of a C-130 Hercules, and every now and then you wonder, “What would it look like if these things just fell without a parachute?” But you’re not supposed to actually do it. That would be bad!
Read MoreA WC-130 Hercules cargo plane from the 156th Airlift Wing of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard crashed near Savannah, Georgia, leaving at least five of as many as nine onboard dead, per officials who spoke with WBTV and an update from the Associated Press. The plane was being used on a training mission. [Update: All nine passengers have now been confirmed as dead.]
Read MoreThere’s a lot that’s big about the 2018 BMW 740e xDrive iPerformance hybrid, including its mouthful of a name. But while the car delivers a huge presence in size and speed, BMW’s ostensibly helpful driving aids fell way, way short of what I expected.
Read MoreWhen you conceive a project that involves the design genius Henrik Fisker, the customization know-how of Galpin Auto Sports, and a car as iconic as the Ford Mustang GT, you’re off to a good start. Even more so when you add a 725 horsepower supercharged V8 engine. On paper, the VLF Rocket—driven heroically by Jeremy Clarkson in the very first opening scene of The Grand Tour—seems like it could be a legend in the making.
Read MoreJason is looking for what he calls a mid-life crisis car to supplement his Jeep Cherokee. The challenge is that it has to be something fun to drive for someone that only has use of their left arm. What car should he buy?
Read MoreCrossovers and SUVs are all the rage—“all the rage” as in the lame way to say they’re what people call cool, and in that their astonishing sales numbers are causing a lot of rage among those of us who still appreciate small cars. But crossovers and SUVs are what sells, and the 2019 Acura RDX will be no different.
Read MoreLike many people, I could never quite understand the BMW X6. And I can understand the BMW X6 M even less. Help me out, friend: do you get why BMW makes an SUV that’s essentially the X5, but with a steep, sloping roof purely for dubious aesthetics, then has the gall to add a twin-turbo V8 engine with 567 horsepower, Brembo brakes, and a supposedly track-ready suspension? Can you fathom why this idea is catching on to other cars? No, you can’t. No one can. You can’t fathom this because it is unfat
Read MoreThe 2019 Subaru Ascent is a car made for the great excesses of America, including our insatiable need for large road beverages. It touts an astonishing 19 cup and bottle holders, some of which are vastly better than the others. I bought a completely ridiculous Double Gulp from 7-11 to find out which ones you really want dibs on.
Read MoreThe 2018 Mazda 6 is a competent and comfortable cruising machine, but the refrain every critic seems to be singing about loudest its praise for its design. It’s a great looking car, and taking a closer look here really let you see what a fresh set of lights and bumpers can do for a car’s design.
Read MoreDue to relentless marketing, a lot of people seem to think that Memorial Day is this massive clearance event for new cars where you can score the deal of a lifetime. But depending on the brand you choose, you may actually be getting a worse deal than you would have at another time.
Read MoreAndrea owned and loved one of the most polarizing cars ever made, the Pontiac Aztek. She ran that car to 350,000 miles and had to part with it. Now she is on the hunt for something with the same kind of “charm.” What car should she buy?
Read MoreFord is done making cars that aren’t the Focus Active and Mustang but claims it will still have affordable vehicles for the masses. To that end, we get the 2018 Ford EcoSport: a one-liter micro SUV shipped from international markets to try and capitalize on America’s lust for tall-looking vehicles and low lease payments.
Read MoreThe 2018 Mazda 6 is prettier than ever, and its top-trim interior is downright elegant. It also finally has the thing we’ve been craving from this sporty midsize sedan for years now—more power. But despite improvements to the suspension and an extra 60-plus horses from a new turbocharger, this 6 feels like a move toward affordable luxury and away from practical performance.
Read MoreIt’s hard to find a modern car that is “bad,” but some manufacturers are better than others when it comes to quality control. iSeeCars.com analyzed some data from the NHTSA and has come up with a list of the cars with the most and the least amount of recalls.
Read MoreYou would hope that after you sign the sales contract that you wouldn’t have to be hassled by the dealer anymore. Unfortunately, some dealers will attempt to pull more money from you by claiming they “overpaid” for your trade-in. This is bunk.
Read MoreSubaru has been winning a lot lately. It’s one of the few brands that consistently delivers positive sales figures while some of the other automakers struggle. So you would think with an in-demand lineup deals would be hard to come by, but even Subaru dealers are blowing out inventory with discounts that you may want to know about.
Read MoreMegan is a full-time college student in Oregon who needs a new ride. All the rational people want her to get a Honda or Toyota, but she wants something quirky and different. What car should she buy?
Read MoreAs someone who grew up in California, I always feel like crazy high gas prices are always just around the corner. Once again it looks like I’m gonna be right, and that might not be the worst thing, because I don’t know if we’ve ever had such an abundance of super high fuel economy cars available to us as we do now.
Read MoreGetting tired or frustrated with the car you own is one of the most dangerous and potentially devastating realizations a person can come to. Like all of life’s struggles, it may help to talk through it.
Read MoreIt used to be with The Cars, you got in, turned the key, and drove, stopping for gas on occasion. You had one driving mode, and life was simple. The 2019 Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid is different. You have six driving modes, and life can be very complicated.
Read MoreNow is a pretty good time to buy a wagon in America, but unfortunately, many of the really cool ones are going to require some serious car payments. But if you’re shopping for a longroof on a tighter budget, you may not know that used Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen and Alltrack models are now getting hit with some sweet, sweet depreciation.
Read MoreVolvo’s new Care by Volvo subscription program is off to a rocky start. This innovative program is an alternative to traditional leasing in that a new XC40, insurance, maintenance, and 24/7 concierge service, among other amenities, are all included for a flat rate starting at $600 a month. And it’s all available at the push of a button from your phone. Easy, right?
Read MoreThe 2018 Mercedes AMG E63 S is wrought from the middle of your Venn diagram of desires. You want a car with power and personality; you need a car that can carry kids and cargo. You want a 600 horsepower hot rod; you need safety and subtly. You like wagons, because you have good taste and are smart.
Read MoreLuke drives a 2016 Mercedes S550, a car that is both fast and luxurious, but like any person with drive and ambition he wants more. I can’t say I blame him, especially since he has a healthy budget to replace it. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe Cadillac ATS had a lot of potential. It was a was an engaging small sport sedan that could give the Germans a run for their money in some areas, but for various and legitimate reasons, it unfortunately never found enough customers. Of course, the best version was the insane twin-turbo ATS-V, and now is the time to grab one with a huge discount.
Read MoreThe Care by Volvo subscription service sounded like a hell of a deal. Pay $600 a month and you’d get not only a brand-new Volvo XC40, but everything from insurance to basic maintenance thrown in with it. No down payments, no extra fees. And it should be a deal—but multiple would-be subscribers say their promised cars haven’t shown up.
Read MoreWhen buying a used performance or specialty car, a pre-purchase inspection is key. This is true even when you’re working with a legit dealer who makes a convincing argument that their car is top notch. In fact, that’s when your guard should be at its highest. This story should convince you to always get an independent evaluation.
Read MoreNate is only 18 years old and is already living the #drivefreeordie life with a Land Rover and a Saab in various states of disrepair. It’s time to cut some losses on those cars and get something else that will actually work. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThere are a lot of mistakes in online car listings, typically “manual” vehicles that end up having a “PRNDL” by the shifter. But it gets far worse than that, like the fact that the most expensive car listed on Autotrader right now is a nearly $9 million Mazda 3. Yes, it’s a typo, but it’s a glorious typo.
Read MoreAs a lifelong taillight obsessive, I’m sort of appalled at myself that I wasn’t aware that these bits of taillight arcana had an actual name. The things I’m referring to are those reflective panels, made of the same plastics and colors as a car’s taillights, that fill in the rear body section between the separate lights to give the illusion of one long, contiguous taillamp unit. Often the car’s brand or name will be on the panel. These things have an actual name. An actual German name.
Read MoreElon Musk had a rough holiday weekend because he failed to heed Twitter’s one good rule: Never Tweet.
Read MoreWhen it comes to driving, safety is key. But sometimes, when everything else goes wrong, we get lucky and our cars protect us as they were designed to do.
Read MoreHot damn, everyone, it’s that special time again! It the time we display an image of a car’s chassis for you here—via computer—and you use your eyes to send an image of the chassis to your brain—via optic nerve—and then you use your brain to try and figure out what car the chassis is from! Are you ready? Good.
Read MoreMay is one of the most incredible months in motorsport for a lot of race fans. Some of the biggest events of the year take place in May for Formula One, NASCAR, and IndyCar, and it’s the time of year that a lot of us look back on fondly as the first time we really understood the particular thrill that got you hooked on racing. So it seems like a pretty fitting time to get a little nostalgic.
Read MoreYou know a project car is truly insane when swapping the body on another car was described as the “easy route” but that’s exactly what Adam Nonis did with his 1966 Volvo Amazon wagon. The Volvo was too rusty and needed too much work, so Nonis swapped the body onto a BMW E30—all in his own driveway in Seattle.
Read MoreSometimes, a very little thing can have a big impact. What I’m about to tell you about is a very, very little thing. A typo. A silly, one-letter typo, the kind I’ve made millions of myself. The difference here is the typo was reproduced on such a colossal scale and was so obvious that I just don’t understand why it was never corrected. It was also a typo made by a company who prided itself on attention to detail, at one of their most successful points in history. It’s a baffling typo.
Read MoreThe period immediately after WWII was, I think, one of the most interesting for cars, at least in the countries that didn’t come out of the war in such great shape. The lack of almost everything—money, materials, fuel, everything—forced some genuinely creative solutions to the very tricky problem of how to make cars from nothing and sell them to people who have even less. It’s one of these cars, a car called the Flying Feather, that I want to talk about today.
Read MoreSometimes we all should take a step back from our work and view it from a distance—something Ferrari evidently failed to do as it didn’t catch it’s latest bodywork seemingly birthing a muscle car.
Read MoreI was driving around the other day when a car caught my attention, and not in the usual way. Normally, cars catch my eye by virtue of them being interesting or unusual, or compelling in some striking way. This car caught my eye because my brain has been damaged by writing these Meh Car articles for over a year, and now voids of blandness on four wheels can get my attention because they’re so uninteresting. This time that car was a Toyota Solara.
Read MoreCars are designed to protect us in the event of a crash. It’s unfortunate, but it happens sometimes. When did a car save your life?
Read MoreI know it’s been a while, but I think it’s time for another installment of Imaginary Car from an Imaginary Country. Today, I want to tell you about the inspirational people of Golminea, the country forbidden to build cars, and the cars that they built.
Read MoreThe C30 Polestar concept was everything Volvo’s little fun-hatch should have been, with all-wheel-drive and 405 horsepower. But the car buying public only ever got the front-wheel-drive C30, even when Polestar tuned it up. That is, unless you took matters into your own hands and Frankenstein’d an all-wheel-drive C30 from the Volvo parts bin.
Read MoreIn an effort to cut costs, the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was engineered to share over 80 percent of its parts with a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.
Read MoreMinimalism has become, somewhat ironically, a status symbol unto itself. How many painfully self-satisfied articles have you read about rich people “decluttering” and instead just having a few crazy expensive things carefully placed in a stark white loft? Too many, probably. That just shows how far ahead of its time the 2001 Muji Car 1000 was, a de-contented, completely unbranded car you could only buy in white.
Read MoreWhile I know that even the most improbable of cars can have obsessive and dedicated fans, I’d always sort of assumed there was a limit. That there would be some cars that are so free of charm or character or interest that there’s just no way someone could become devoted to them. This week, I learned how very, very wrong I was. This week I met the biggest, most ravenous Chevrolet Captiva fan in the known universe.
Read MoreTraffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
Read MoreIn Japan, the festival for all things cars at the foot of Mount Fuji is quickly becoming one of the must-see events on the motoring calendar, right up there with the Tokyo Auto Salon and the Suzuka Sound of Engine. That event, the Motor Fan Festa, was a lot like last year’s—only a lot better.
Read MoreHere I am, about six months into Nissan Pao ownership, I’m delighted to say that my ardor has yet to cool. I’m still thrilled every time I get into this thing to drive, and I’m pretty convinced that if there was a satellite that could track trails and wakes of atomic joy particles in the atmosphere, it would produce an accurate map of everywhere I’ve been. I’ve learned some more about life with a Pao, so gather ‘round.
Read MorePretty much every time I write a Meh Car Monday article, the following few days are filled with a sprinkling of hurt, angry emails from people who really adore whatever car I’ve just declared meh. They think I’m wrong, I’m a foul monster, and the world would be better off if (1) everyone just admitted that Jeep Liberties or whatever are fantastic and (2) I was dead.
Read MoreToday we wrote about how Dodge’s description of its Journey’s four-speed transmission is literally just the definition of an automatic. That sad but simple marketing got one commenter thinking of a brilliant new way to advertise.
Read MoreHonesty is the best policy, but sometimes little while lies, told for fun, are healthy. I won’t tell you when or how to tell them, that’s on you to decide. But they’re usually always fun to think back on.
Read MoreNot everything that happens to your car over the course of its life is a big deal. Things break over time. Parts wear out. Small things fail. We either ignore and accept them or fix them and move on. But there’s one bit of small-scale damage a car can incur that, while relatively insignificant, makes life awful: the sharp, painful mockery of a broken plastic door handle.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler engineer and passionate car-nut Ben Reedy spends his days engineering new cars, and his nights wrenching on old ones. His latest project involves shoehorning a 485 horsepower, 6.4-liter Hemi V8 out of a wrecked Challenger into his 1983 Jeep CJ-8. The whole thing is truly epic.
Read MoreFor a reason that I haven’t yet surmised, some people seem to think the Ferrari 360 is boring and dumb. I am here to correct those sentiments with a sentiment of my own: The 360 is one of the best Ferraris ever.
Read MoreHeads-up displays, once reserved for fighter jets and vehicles in sci-fi movies, are quickly proliferating in common cars. I’ve now tested BMWs, Cadillacs, Mercedes-Benzes, Mazdas and more with information projected onto their windshields—and I have yet to experience a HUD I like.
Read MorePhotos of the upcoming Rolls-Royce Cullinan leaked today, and while a lot of it was a bit “ho-hum Rolls-Royce we’ve seen before but now an SUV,” we simply could not get over those rear-facing jump seats. But what are they even for?
Read MoreI assume that because you are reading this website you at least have a casual interest in cars. Sometimes your non-car friends ask you about this interest. And sometimes you lie to them about the cars. It’s okay, we’re not judging.
Read MoreI got fed up with keeping spare race car parts in a separate storage unit, so I finally moved to a new place that came with a little storage room. I am cheap to the bone, though, so I moved whatever I could lift in my car, a 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS. I have to say, I’m seriously surprised at how much crap it can hold.
Read MoreLook at this thing. Uber calls it an “aerial taxi.” Our friends at Gizmodo call it a “flying car.” But it’s not. There are airplanes. There are helicopters. There’s no such thing as a flying car, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
Read MoreWalt worked harder than most people, and served his community more than most people do. That’s not a knock against anyone else. It’s just a testament of how tireless the man was. But he wasn’t looking for any special recognition, no grand displays of gratitude or accolades. All he wanted was a ‘55 Chevrolet Bel-Air when he retired. And that’s exactly what he got. But sometimes timing can be tragic.
Read MoreIt’s possible, if unlikely, that some of you may recall that I ran the world’s most brutal off-road race, the Baja 1000, late last year. I was supposed to have some cameras on the car to record the whole thing, and use that footage to make a compelling, heartwarming video that would change your life. Without cameras, that never happened. Also, it would not have changed your life. So, I did the next best thing: forced a talented animator to work like a dog to make an animation of the whole epic j
Read MoreLearning how to drive is exciting, exhilarating and a little bit nerve-wracking. You’re suddenly in charge of this big, heavy hunk of metal that’s traveling at at least 60 mph on roads with other people who also have big, heavy hunks of metal. At that point in your life, it seemed like all the people you knew who could already drive also had lots of, uh, advice to give, didn’t it?
Read MoreThe Toyota Prius has been written off for years by enthusiasts as too slow and dull to be any fun, but thanks to a Russian lift kit and a can-do attitude, a team who goes by “The Regenerates” finally made theirs fun. They took their Prius to the Gambler 500—the insane navigational rally for cheap, impractical cars—and demonstrated once and for all that their Prius is living its best life.
Read MoreThere was a car dangling off a bridge in Toronto today, and authorities have no clue how it got there. You might say there’s quite a bit of suspense surrounding this mysterious situation.
Read MoreDespite having plenty of written-down laws to dictate how we should drive, we all still have little tricks and methods of our own to stay safe on the roads. Most people do. But when they pass on bad or wrong advice to new drivers, it can become problematic.
Read MoreWith a few exceptions (I’m looking at you A-Team van), the van tends to be just an unremarkable, utilitarian vehicle. Each day the vans of the world drive the city streets and highways while coupes and pickups, SUVs and roadsters, muscle cars and luxury vehicles pass them by, getting most of the attention. To most, a van is, well, just a van. But to a touring musician, a van is so much more.
Read MoreIf you grew up riding around in big, truck-based people movers you’ll feel right at home in the 2018 Chevy Tahoe Z71. The vehicle has all the size, simplicity and off-road pretense we associate with a “classic” SUV. But that doesn’t necessarily make it great.
Read MoreAn arrest warrant for a street racing Ford Mustang driver shows that the driver was going 102 mph before hitting a mother pushing her child in a stroller last week in Tampa, Florida, reports the Tampa Bay Times. The speed limit on the road was only 40 mph, and both the mother and child died as a result of their injuries.
Read MoreSome poor, poor valet in Sydney, Australia somehow managed to stuff a client’s Porsche 911 Carrera under the ass-end of a parked Subaru Crosstrek, creating a lovely mound of boxer-engine goodness.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz has always engineered its Very German Power Saloons, AKA “sedans,” with a balance of luxury and performance, but they’re only as capable as the shoes they wear, as this video of one spinning out on the highway proves.
Read MoreThe self-driving car owned by Uber that fatally struck a woman in March detected her in the road about six seconds before the crash, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, which also acknowledged delayed responses from the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system.
Read MoreJessica Reisinger, 24, was struck and killed earlier today by a street racing Ford Mustang while pushing her daughter in a stroller on Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, Florida, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Read MoreThis world abounds with mysteries. The Yeti, for instance. The fate of D.B. Cooper. Stevie Wonder. Add to the list his McLaren 720S, its roof halfway caved in and much of the car yard sale’d across the desert floor. It’s something of an advertisement for the car’s safety structure but also a bit of a mystery, as the occupants of the vehicle were nowhere to be found.
Read MoreLast month, video footage surfaced of things going instantly wrong for a driver in a McLaren 720S. Basically, the car took off and slammed square into a parked Audi R8. This week, another clip has been floating around, taken from the passenger seat. In case you haven’t seen it yet, here: watch and weep.
Read MoreTwo buses went up in flames in Rome on Tuesday, and they weren’t even the first such incidents this year. Or third. Or fifth. Or seventh. Nope, according to Reuters, the two buses were number nine and 10. Here’s what’s going on.
Read MoreDespite dozens of cities proclaiming a goal of zero pedestrian deaths in recent years, the death toll continues to skyrocket on America’s streets. According to a new study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration pedestrian deaths have shot up 46 percent since 2009, far outpacing the also rising number of car crash related deaths.
Read MoreThe good blue Mercedes Sprinter drifting van was tripped and tipped by the bad, no-good cars that spun.
Read MoreThe internet at large remains obsessed with the big flick reverse entry style of drifting big in Japan with Naoki Nakamura, Team BURST and the little circuit Meihan. It always looks amazing how the cars bush up against the wall, flirting with destruction, looking like they’re about to crash. Here’s what you don’t normally see: the crashing.
Read MoreUh... hm. What was initially described Wednesday by Toronto police as a prop for an authorized movie shoot has since been dialed back to a complete mystery. As of now, no one apparently knows why this burned-out car is dangling from a bridge.
Read MoreThe 24-year-old driver and builder of this 1994 Honda Civic-based kart conversion called his machine the “deathkart,” but unfortunately it cost him his life when he was ejected from it after it was struck by a Pontiac. His home-built cage work was badly mangled in the process.
Read MoreThe 2019 Hyundai Veloster Turbo updates the weird three-door front-wheel drive hatchback, pouring on even more stylish flourish over the first generation inside and out, and laying the groundwork for the upcoming even-hotter Veloster N.
Read MoreI just changed the oil in my Nissan Pao last week, and in doing so I was warned—several times—that my plan to replace the conventional oil in my car with synthetic was a terrible idea. But you know what? It’s not! That got me thinking that maybe a little oil refresher might be of use. Not to you, of course, you know all this stuff. For everyone else.
Read MoreMary didn’t know anything was wrong with her old Ford SUV when it was loaded onto a container ship in Europe in mid-2015. But she found out the hard way when it caught fire below deck, taking $45 million worth of other cars with it, causing another $55 million in damage to the vessel and its cargo, and sparking a legal fight between two car companies and the U.S. Department of Justice that remains ongoing.
Read MoreAs it faces an ongoing federal probe into an allegedly defective RV tire that’s linked to at least nine deaths, Goodyear is now facing scrutiny over a motorcycle tire that experts say should be recalled, due to a number of fatal crashes, according to a report from Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Read MoreJalopnik regularly hears from sterling readers and, on occasion, tipsters by way of tips@jalopnik.com. But perhaps you know something that you want to share with us, but don’t feel comfortable contacting us by way of traditional email. Here’s a few ways you can reach us securely.
Read MoreTyco BMW Superbike rider Dan Kneen died in a crash during Wednesday evening’s practice session for the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, reports Autosport. Kneen was 30 years old, a local to the Isle of Man and had been racing in Isle of Man events since 2008.
Read MoreThere are many types of motorcycles and most are optimized for a specific style of riding. But as far as I’m concerned, a street legal dirt bike is the galaxy-brain solution and so the 2019 Honda CRF450L, with its LED turn signals and big-displacement single-cylinder engine, is about to become the ultimate two-wheeler.
Read MoreMotocross is an intense sport, full of dirt, jumps and the occasional freak crash. But there are people in this world who race motocross with a sidecar attached, and the person in that sidecar isn’t just sitting there hoping it’ll be over soon. They’re hanging off the sidecar like... well, it’s hard to describe what this is like.
Read MoreEveryone hates getting pulled over. Everyone hates dumb driving laws. But you want to know what a world with no driving laws is like? It’s hell. It’s the Purge. It’s New York City. God help us all.
Read MoreA beacon of hope, a true hero of our time, was casually driving her pink bumper car down the street in Guiyang, China when police pulled her over, according to California news station KEYT. What? Is being so cool that you turn entire streets into refrigerators a crime?
Read MoreHyundai has been playing around with the concept of a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive Veloster-based hatchback since at least 2014, but it seemingly fell to the wayside. But the head of Hyundai’s new N performance division hasn’t forgotten, and the concept isn’t dead just yet.
Read MoreThis clip from a 1971 episode of the BBC television show Tomorrow’s World has so many appealing details to me, most notably the featuring of a lovely UK-spec 1962 Volkswagen Beetle, but the true star of it is the remarkably forward-thinking navigation system the Beetle is fitted with. It uses some cutting-edge technology of the era, yet is still quite simple, and it even seems to work, in a limited way. Let’s look at this wonderful and mostly forgotten bit of tech.
Read MoreI won’t believe the long-rumored mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette is actually happening until I see it, but Car And Driver has a roundup of new supposed details of the next generation car, including no manual option and a 1,000 horsepower hybrid trim level.
Read MoreI’ve seen normally friendly and warm Jalopnik writers come to clumsy, ineffective blows over the concept of car engine location. I came this close to poisoning another writer’s coffee after I heard them say something disparaging about rear engines, for example. It seems that the world of airplanes has some similar issues! There’s two major places airliners place their engines, and this video is one of the best explainers of why.
Read MoreDodge said that it would only build 3,300 2018 Challenger SRT Demons (3,000 for the U.S. and 300 for Canada) and video captured the last one just rolling off the line yesterday at the automaker’s Brampton, Ontario plant. This marks the end of an admittedly short era.
Read MorePresident Donald J. Trump has gotten angry and decided to take his toys and go home, unleashing tariffs Thursday on metals that will inevitably raise the price of cars. Mexico and the European Union announced retaliatory tariffs almost immediately.
Read MoreThings haven’t been great with the “C” in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for some time. Chrysler, a storied American nameplate, now only sells two cars in a handful of markets. So when Automotive News reports it’s heard a rumor that the Chrysler brand may get “whacked” on Friday, it’s not implausible. But for now, an FCA official denies it’s the case.
Read MoreSome sad news for those who, like us, thought the reborn Top Gear was really hitting its stride lately: Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc, who has been a presenter since 2016, is leaving the show after its next season.
Read MoreSummer is upon us once again, which means that I will have to travel to the disgusting cesspool of New York City at least a few times to check on some... investments. Transportation there has always been tricky, but luckily I have come across what I understand the proles refer to as a “city car.”
Read MoreWe’re living in dark times, my friends, dark times. What do I turn to to make things a little more bearable? Gin, for one. And a giant punch bowl of spaghetti. And maybe 400 horsepower in the form of the 2020 Volkswagen Golf R, if this rumor is true.
Read MoreCar buyers are taking out loans with exceptionally long, record-setting terms—in some cases approaching 96 months—and yet that still hasn’t stopped average monthly payments from continuing to grow. Now, CNBC reports, the typical loan payment for new cars has reached a record $523 per month. Wahoo.
Read MoreThere’s something strange and wonderful about this little video, this little glimpse into the life of Doug, his friends, their boat, and an ever-present pixie called Chaos. Everything goes wrong here, suddenly and decisively, but it didn’t have to. It was sort of commanded to. Watch and you’ll see what I mean.
Read MoreJust in case you weren’t of the opinion that, at least automotively, Europe is a bizarro, Mirror Universe version of America, this document, smuggled from the United Kingdom, should help. It’s an instruction sheet from a rental car company with detailed instructions on how to drive an automatic transmission.
Read MoreWhile enjoying a typical, romantic Friday evening with a bottle of automatic transmission fluid, a few lit MAP torches and my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle’s owner’s manual, I discovered something amazing: a stain-removal table, which includes information on how to clean various fluids including “vomitus,” blood, “catsup” and urine.
Read MoreToday, Land Rover declared that it’s developing “off-road self-driving SUVs” to which I snorted and prepared a squinty-eyed shakey-head “why?” GIF. But after thinking about it for a few more seconds, this actually makes a lot of sense.
Read MoreFor reasons beyond my comprehension, stock photo service Shutterstock offers this footage shot in Slovenia and in Austria early in 2017 of a Tesla Model S on Autopilot in traffic with no one at the wheel, as well as with an actor texting while driving and “falling asleep” in the driver’s seat. Please, take it in.
Read MoreMy 2002 Lexus IS300 Sportcross isn’t anything crazy, as used cars go. It’s nice, sure, but it’s got scratches. It’s got dents. The driver’s side seat bolstering is a little wrinkled. The dash is scratched. There’s dirt on it. The windshield has a chip. The rear ashtray is missing a piece. The check engine light is on. You get the idea. So naturally, it needed to to be entered into the crucible of concours-style judging.
Read MoreOn July 23, 1997, blackjack dealer Mark Blackburn was found dead in an empty Arizona desert from injuries stemming from an apparent explosives accident. Police left his 1980 Datsun B310 at the scene, and now, 21 years later, Mark’s son, Michael, and his daughter, Lalani, are on a quest to find and recover the car. With the help of one Facebook group for mechanics, the two might just pull it off.
Read MoreFord announced last month that it’s phasing out small cars and now, probably not surprisingly it looks like Fiat Chrysler will take a similar path. Soon-to-retire CEO Sergio Marchionne apparently will cut down on the small cars and go in big on the large and luxurious ones. That means less Fiat and less Chrysler.
Read MoreThere was a time when, if pressed, I would say that the most beautiful car ever made was the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale. I think a big part of it was how rare they were, how hard it was to find even pictures of them, nearly impossible to find video. And that’s what makes this such a treat, getting to hear the car’s eight velocity stacks breathe in to a little 2.0-liter V8.
Read MoreLast week in Lakewood, Washington, a guy driving home from work saw a black object in the air, heard a thud, and kept on driving. When he finally stopped at a gas station, he found a pistol lodged in his front bumper.
Read MoreLow-mileage examples aren’t that unusual on car auction website and perennial Jalopnik staff time-waster Bring A Trailer. It’s pretty typical for you to see some mid-2000s Mercedes with 45,000 miles pop up on the front page. But this 1975 Honda Civic is truly something else.
Read MoreCalifornia has approved the biggest innovation in license plate technology since science figured out how to trap wild letters and numerals onto a plate of metal: the electronic license plate. The state claims they could save up to $20 million per year on postage, but there’s some pretty huge questions about that, as well as about security, cost, durability and pretty much everything.
Read MoreThe 2019 Jaguar I-Pace is set to begin deliveries to customers by the end of the year, and now that there’s already the eTrophy racing version, the speculation for an I-Pace SVR has begun—but the humble planners at Jaguar think it could be too quick for people to handle.
Read MoreHonda’s line of private jets have always been technological marvels, and their latest revision is no exception. The new HondaJet Elite increases fuel range over the original, is quieter, and has upgraded sound and avionics systems. The big news, though, is the HondaJet Elite’s fully-enclosed lavatory, which has a toilet with full seat belts, allowing for the no-compromises defecation needs and HondaJet’s clientele demands.
Read MoreVilla d’Este brings up all those romantic images of Italy. The villa itself is 145 years old and surrounded by a private park and overlooks Lake Como—you know, the place where George Clooney has a house. It’s all very fancy like and the perfect place for a “competition of elegance,” a Concours d’Elegance, if you will.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk is a billionaire. He has access to a private jet. It was a holiday weekend. Faced with similar circumstances, he could’ve done literally anything the human mind could conjure up. Instead, he spent the weekend tweeting, getting caught up with Actual Nazis, and then tweeting some more. This is a play in three acts.
Read MoreWhen most of us think of wagons, a few things come to mind: happiness, joy, manual, maybe brown and diesel, bliss, and, usually, not available in America. The newest version of the Skoda Superb wagon is all of that and then some protection from gunfire and bombs.
Read MoreThere’s a Plymouth Colt that lives in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. The name alone should tell you how old it is, and what it is—a miserable shitbox of a car from the 1980s. I don’t know how long it’s been living there, since at least 2003, I’m told, but one thing is for sure: it’s a survivor.
Read MoreMost of the time when you see a development mule, a preproduction prototype for a car in the works, it looks basically like the finished product with some extra cladding screwed on. Often, that’s exactly what you’re looking at. But sometimes you get to see the really early stuff, and it is weird.
Read MoreThe Dutch company RemetzCar has some history modifying Teslas, making an elegant hearse that was allegedly the first stretched Tesla ever. Now, by commission from “Dutch collectioneur Floris de Raadt” (what the hell is a “collectioneur?”) they’ve made what they’re calling a Tesla Model S Shooting Brake, even though this thing is clearly a wagon and not a shooting brake.
Read MoreIn 1970, science fiction was real. We had just landed on the moon, the first Oil Crisis hadn’t hit yet, and it seemed like, just maybe, anything was possible. That’s the world in which the Lancia Stratos HF Zero debuted, the lowest, widest, wildest future-wedge of all. It looked unreal at the time. It looks wilder now.
Read MoreWelcome back to working life! Please feel re-energized by the sight of these two humans who, based on their size relation to that Triumph, have to be some of those exotic 2/3-scale humans the British were developing in the 1960s.
Read MoreIt’s the fifth suicide in five months. Yu Mein Chow, a 56 year old living in Queens, was found dead in the East River on May 11. Having spent $700,000 on the coveted medallion that would allow him to operate a cab in the city, he found that he just couldn’t make enough driving his cab to make it worthwhile. With no other options, he chose to end his life.
Read MoreNorway’s adoption of electric vehicles is miles ahead of any other country. As of right now, electric vehicles overtook combustion engines in the market, with 52% of cars sold being EVs. Now, it’s looking like that might have a pretty big impact on the oil industry.
Read MoreFor being the crown jewel of the Formula One season, the Monaco Grand Prix… usually leaves a little left to be desired. It’s one of those races that usually isn’t too exciting unless someone crashes because after the first lap, there’s not much action to be had. Racing isn’t what it used to be back in the day; it might be time to start looking at a different way to keep Monaco the edge-of-your-seat challenge it used to be.
Read MoreWe can all make plenty of jokes about Mustangs eating pedestrians at your local parking lot car party, but this one is a bit more special. For just today, I get to test out the Mustang-based, 725 horsepower, Henrik Fisker-designed VLF Rocket V8. It’s got a supercharged 5.0-liter Coyote V8, the body is redone in carbon fiber, and it’s impossible not to stare at.
Read MoreThe world can be a dangerous place. You never know what’s in store for you any time you walk out of your front door. Terradyne Armored Vehicles understands that concern, so they started producing the Gurkha to make sure that you’re ready for battle as you go pick up your groceries.
Read MoreSince Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, I started thinking about beach cars. A good beach car doesn’t need to be fancy or fast, but they should be fun, right?
Read MoreThe Petersen Museum in Los Angeles has just opened an exhibit showcasing some of the prettiest and most interesting ancient Japanese cars I’ve ever seen. I’m not talking about modern classics you still see on the road–some cars in this collection date back to the 1940s and earlier. You might only see some of them once in your life.
Read MoreScreaming “I won it” to his wife Liz, the look on 37-year-old Australian Will Power’s face so filled with emotion. He is a racing driver that wears his emotions on his sleeve, and is well known for flipping a few birds, and it feels good to see him finally win the 500. He’s won damn near everything else in North America’s top flight open-wheel series, but he’s wanted to take home this win since the start of his career. With Roger Penske and the might of Team Penske backing him through 30 series
Read MoreThe car that can’t die, Dodge’s iconic monster car, the Viper, could be coming back for a second time, according to this report from Car And Driver. The Viper that was killed in 2017 wasn’t really viewed as the beast it once was, because, even though it had V10 power, it was overshadowed by the more powerful Challenger Hellcat and Demon. Dodge claimed at the time that the Hellcat’s supercharged Hemi wouldn’t fit in the Viper’s engine bay, due to height. Talk that the Viper might be coming back i
Read MoreIt seems like every car person in the world has at least a passing interest in the mechanical and stylistic choices that watches can bring. Unfortunately, as I tend to spend my money on project cars and a parts habit to support them, I don’t have the thousands of dollars required to get one you might find on the wrist of a Le Mans winner, or James Bond.
Read MoreWith an International-Harvester Scout like this Winner Boats-built Camper model, you’re free to live out your hipster overlanding fantasies in something distinct and unique. If you’re the winning bidder on this Bring A Trailer auction, you can go see the world. You can live in WalMart parking lots and KOA campgrounds all over this great nation. Head down Mexico way and spend a few days exploring oceanside beaches. Adventure north to the Arctic circle just because you can. This is the kind of tru
Read MoreDaniel Ricciardo has never won in Monaco, and he’s never won a race from pole position, either. That is, until today. The Australian ace absolutely dominated the streets of Monte Carlo all weekend, leading every session and every lap of the race to come across the finish line several seconds ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, with Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton rounding out the podium. It wasn’t all easy going for Daniel, however, as he ran at least two thirds of the Grand Prix with a hybrid
Read MoreWhile the BBS mesh wheels were perhaps more representative of the era, the MOMO 6-spoke centerlock race wheel was a more attractive, and certainly simpler design. Inspired by this design, MOMO worked closely with Porsche guru Rod Emory to develop a road-going wheel for era-appropriate sports cars to provide similar visual cues. If you have an 80s-era Porsche, BMW E30 M3, or really any motorsport-adjacent car from that time, you need these wheels. They’re calling this new design the “Heritage 6”
Read MoreGas stations are empty. People are stealing gas from one another. Flights are grounded. Surgeries are cancelled. Supermarket shelves are barren. All because truck drivers have gone on strike.
Read MoreThere’s something incredibly satisfying about flying past a race track in an airplane and actually being able to sneak a picture. But I think astronaut Drew Feustel just one-upped all of us.
Read MoreIt’s graduation season, which means it’s time for students to bust out their eleventh hour creativity. For some, that means trying to snap their fingers to turn that questionable grade into a solid A during the last week of classes to make sure they won’t have to have an awkward conversation with the parents about why they need a summer semester to actually get their degree. For others, like two students at the University of Texas at Austin, that means making the coolest Formula One graduation
Read MoreThe only thing cooler than old concept cars is old concept cars that get a second life. The Lamborghini Marzal is one of those cars, and it took to the track on May 11-13 for the Monaco Historic Grand Prix for the first time since its sole outing in 1968 at the actual Monaco GP, driven by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace.
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 MoreI don’t have a problem, fundamentally, with the Prius. It does what it sets out to do, I guess. But it’s far from perfect. It can be improved. You can, for example, stuff a 800-horsepower supercharged V8 out of a Dodge Challenger Hellcat in there, making it fast enough to pretty much rip your face off.
Read MoreThis convertible 2019 Nissan Leaf is what a weird electric vehicle should look like. It’s so good.
Read MoreYesterday was a special day because yesterday, we learned about the amazing Honda Civic Type R pickup truck. Is this the truck that could save the world? All signs point to yes! Let’s take a closer look.
Read MoreCall me crazy, but I believe if you’re going to do a long road trip, you should do it in some style. So I’m driving this tastefully touched-up Porsche 964 from Austin to Los Angeles this weekend. I’m going to enjoy it immensely.
Read MoreJust look at this incredible almost-jump. This UTV rider definitely had a landing, but I’m not sure it’s the landing he wanted.
Read MoreTwo and a half decades is a long time. It also happens to be the same amount of time since the brakes on my old 1994 Honda CBR900RR were last touched. I figured it would be a good idea to refresh the inner-workings of one of the brake system’s most critical components: the brake calipers.
Read MoreA motorcyclist was hit by a car Wednesday night in McAllen, Texas, and police would like some help identifying the car. Hell, identifying cars is what most of us do for fun, anyway! So let’s see if we can help.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler announced today that it’s recalling 4.8 million cars because a short circuit could cause cruise control to accelerate the vehicles without drivers being able to cancel the function. Fiat Chrysler is telling customers to stop using cruise control until the cars are fixed.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Autocar reported that Ford’s upcoming Mustang-inspired electric performance SUV for 2020—a real thing, yes—will be built on the new Ford Focus platform. But! A source with knowledge on the matter told Jalopnik this may not be the case after all.
Read MoreFast And Furious director Justin Lin has directed a pilot for a reboot of Magnum P.I. and the trailer looks, uh, very destructive.
Read MoreThe other day I was walking around town handing out flyers trying to convince people that yes, the Earth is flat, but it’s wrapped around a spherical core, so it just seems round. There’s a difference. While I was out I saw something that stopped me in my tracks: a first-generation Toyota RAV4. I haven’t seen one just around in quite a while, and now that I have, I find my self smitten. And a bit sad, since I know what the RAV4 has become.
Read MoreApple’s new deal with Volkswagen to build some self-driving shuttle vans for its employees marks a severe departure from the tech company’s initial ideas for the car of the future, the details of which don’t really seem as revolutionary as many people initially wanted to believe.
Read MoreIt’s a beautiful day here in Manhattan, Memorial Day is right around the corner and I’ve got a shiny 2018 BMW M240i Coupe to kick off this happy time with. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreCharaf-Eddin Ait-Tales is the kind of Formula One fan who knows most of the turns by heart, and is so into it that he’ll shut down his physio practice just to catch the press conferences. He’s been a fan his whole life, even after he went blind at the age of 20. F1 surprised him with a ride-along in their two-seater at the Spanish Grand Prix, and...is someone cutting onions in here?
Read MoreThe wingspan of the upcoming versions of the Boeing 777 series commercial plane is so big it can’t fit at a standard airport gate, so the company had to get special approval to engineer wing tips that can fold up after landing.
Read MoreStrangely, Honda just debuted the Honda Civic Type R Pickup Truck concept, a clearly one-off, hacked-away version of its Big Wing-Having, 316 horsepower, front-wheel drive rocket. Now it has a practical bed for storing boxes of overnighted parts from Japan. The vehicle is pretty pointless, and by “pretty pointless,” I mean “awesome.”
Read MoreIf you were wealthy, like Moonlighting residuals and Fifth Element merchandising-revenue wealthy, wouldn’t you want to build your own airport? Of course you would. Well, Bruce Willis is precisely that level of wealthy, and he’s building an airport in the middle of Idaho. But it’s also going to be a lot bigger and busier than most people originally thought.
Read MoreGotta love the 2008-only fascia on this Dodge Magnum SRT-8. The poor Magnum’s life was cut short after only four model years, while the 300, Charger and Challenger with which it shared a platform have continued on. This is your reminder that life isn’t fair.
Read MoreEarlier today, President Donald Trump met with the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to discuss opening an investigation into the impact of imported cars and car parts and “their effects on America’s national security.”
Read MoreThis’ll impress virtually zero of you, especially routine two-wheel commuters, but I have delightful news to share. I recently retrieved my bike back from my hometown in Michigan, more than a year after moving to New York City, and I used it this morning to commute to work. I didn’t die, and it was rad.
Read MorePhones are less expensive than a car, I get that, but here’s another bullet point to help illustrate the fact that more people are struggling to make their auto loan payments: Americans are prioritizing their phone bill over the car, reports Bloomberg.
Read MoreHave you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, how would an axe murderer outfit a fine German drop-top sportscar?” Thankfully, the Porsche 718 Boxster configurator is here for you to answer that question and any others you may have over and over again to your heart’s content.
Read MoreElon Musk, of Tesla fame, is back on his bullshit about the media today. The latest idea—from the man who just recently invented the subway—is this: a website where the public can rate the credibility of journalists and publications. Cool.
Read MoreBuilding cars is hard, as we all know (some more than others). There’s a lot more to the process than just slapping something together, handing it off to a guy in an ugly polo shirt who says things like “What’s it gonna take for me to get you into this today?”, and and calling it a day. Bugatti, which is no stranger to building cars, recently celebrated making its 100th Chiron, Good going, guys!
Read MoreIn a fit of boundless national optimism, Peugeot and Renault (and a few years later Volvo) teamed up to make a new V8 for good power and performance. But that’s not what the world got. We welcomed in the PRV V6, a cut-down compromise engine that for decades powered more amazing and amazingly bad cars than you would ever imagine.
Read MoreHello, devout Jalopnik readers. I’m sure by now you’re well aware that Elon Musk, the Tesla/Space X billionaire bro, the big kid with an even bigger wallet, is dating Grimes, the Canadian indie musician/producer/critically acclaimed weirdo, born Claire Elise Boucher. But who are these people? What does it all mean?
Read MoreI once got a Subaru Legacy wagon re-named the Space Shuttle because it caught so much air. Frankly, every Legacy wagon should enjoy the same fate. Here’s your daily moment of wagon send zen.
Read MoreFor those of you who enjoy hands-on arts and crafts, I have something awesome to show you. It’s a full-scale BMW M10 engine, made completely out of cardboard. And the details on the thing are staggering.
Read MoreIf you haven’t spent a lot of time in the city, you might not think that a lot of cars would turn up for a car show in NYC. You certainly wouldn’t expect a multi-million dollar 1956 Maserati race car to roll out on a quiet Sunday morning in the middle of Brooklyn.
Read MoreI am sorry to say it, but I have been overwhelmingly unenthused with new Ferraris lately. They all look vaguely the same to me, with different holes and vents cut into their faces and trailing headlights that look like a person pulling their eyes up at the corners. But this new one-off Ferrari SP38? This is something I’d like to see more of.
Read MoreMy little boy is sick today, and is in that awful state where he feels like he has to puke but just can’t quite do it. It’s awful. So, to help him out, I think I’ll show him some pictures of the first-gen SsangYong Rodius. That always works for me.
Read MoreSilver is a universally appreciated car color. As a result, it’s also kind of a lame one because pretty much every other car buyer picks it. I still like silver paint jobs though, except for one in particular: McLaren’s “Blade Silver.” I straight up lose my shit for it.
Read MorePeople who live near bears also have a bad habit of not locking cars, somehow managing to forget that bears can open door handles, get stuck inside of cars, then, angry and confused, destroy said cars. Perhaps this is not surprising for people who choose to live near confused bears that can open car doors.
Read MoreMarci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot?
Read MoreHey, so, you know how the 2018 Ford Fiesta ST (THAT WE WON’T GET HERE) has launch control? Do you know how freaking awesome that is? Do you know how mad I am?
Read MoreThe 2019 Mercedes-AMG E53, with an inline six-cylinder engine mated to a 48-volt electrical power boost system, is breaking new ground for sport sedans. Mercedes announced the “53” range of mild hybrid AMG cars back in January and today it’s officially unveiled this version of the E Class.
Read MoreI have a new appreciation for the Carlisle Import and Performance Nationals, a combo show for vintage import cars and modern tuner cars all sharing the same fairground in Pennsylvania. Expect to see a V8-swapped Mazda RX-7 with a rear wing as big as a tea table next to a classic Land Rover and an actual tea table. We made it out this year and found some very Good Cars.
Read MoreWhen Ford first announced a new electric performance SUV at the Detroit Auto Show in January, a teaser video showed the Ford Explorer and Ford Mustang as its inspirations. Ford even nicknamed it the “Mach 1” as an ode to the Mustang. But Autocar reports that the new SUV will be built on the new global Focus platform.
Read MoreI won’t lie–car journalists are lucky. And generally pretty spoiled. And sometimes insufferably entitled. So much so that Richard Porter, a Top Gear veteran and current script editor for The Grand Tour, has created a character who is the ultimate car reviewing hack, who is both hilarious and horrible.
Read MoreFollowing a Consumer Reports story yesterday, where the publication said it found “big flaws” with the Tesla Model 3's braking distance, touch screen and ride quality and thus denied it an official recommendation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded last night via Twitter that the car will get some updates. Update: Those update will include ABS calibrations.
Read MoreTesla tweeted out a video Sunday morning of its Tesla Model X rolling over after being shoved onto a sandbox by a sled. But even if the tweet read “...the first and only SUV to achieve a NHTSA 5-Star safety rating in every category...” this rollover isn’t the test conducted by the U.S. government, it seems to be a “Soil-Trip” rollover test done internally. Here’s how it works.
Read MoreLate last year, pro wrestler and actor John Cena went from one of the few handpicked by Ford to buy its limited-run Ford GT to party in a lawsuit over it. But just over a week before Ford sued Cena for selling his car against a customer agreement, the automaker also went after the dealer that bought the car in a rushed attempt to prevent a resale.
Read MoreYou have pined your entire life for a poster featuring a 1989 Toyota Corolla All-Trac. But you also have a thing, weirdly, for the Scion xD, a car nobody ever loved. And a Lexus SC300. And a Toyota Prius Prime. And a brand-spanking-new Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro. But no one was able to give you all of these things, on a poster, together. Until now.
Read MoreDoing donuts in a car is one of the highest forms of humankind’s interactions with the physical world. It’s a delicate dance of form and shape, of machine and biology, of rubber and asphalt. That said, if you do them in the middle of a busy bridge and cause an enormous traffic jam, you’re a jackass who’s going to ruin it for everybody. Like these dipshits in (of course) Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Read MoreAfter recently driving and enjoying the new 2019 Hyundai Veloster last week, one of the many things I couldn’t stop thinking about was whether or not the complete lack of electric seats mattered on the fully-loaded Ultimate trim. I’ve settled my thoughts. Electric seats should always be an option.
Read MoreSaab was one of those idiosyncratic little carmakers that inspired intense loyalty among its fans, thanks to some genuinely novel engineering, engaging cars, and some charmingly strange quirks. When the corporate giant GM bought out Saab in 2000, it made at least some attempts to keep the Saab spirit alive. One of those attempts, though, may be one of the most cynical things GM has ever done.
Read MoreI have a thing for road cars turned race cars. They’re like the ultimate form of what you see in dealerships and on the street. They’re like as good as the basic car design can be. And that’s what makes this BMW M8 GTE interesting. Inside every 8 Series road car we can expect to see soon lives this version that sounds like a V8 falling down a flight of stairs.
Read More“Is he running out of gas?” the ABC7 news anchors wonder, as the black car comes to a casual, comfortable stop at a mini-mart. “What would they do here if he’s pulled into this... Oh. Oh dear. We might have the wrong car, Colleen.”
Read MoreAh, the Dodge Demon. It’s all the angst of internet memedom distilled and tamped down into an 840-horsepower Challenger. A street-legal superlative. Only two questions remain: Who’s buying it and what’s it for? Mr. Regular might have the answer.
Read MoreI don’t want to imply that we are living in an era of quitters, but having come across this given up upon PT Cruiser in the U-Pull-It yard, I wonder—is gumption a goner?
Read MoreFinding your stolen car is not exactly common, but it does happen. Sometimes it’s through considerable effort, and very rarely it’s through sheer dumb luck. A cyclist in Venice, CA, over the weekend fell into the dumb luck method when he happened to spot his wife’s stolen Mazda CX-5 driving around. The person driving the car then decided to go for a little jog.
Read MoreThe Rolls-Royce Cullinan will be the hero of every parking lot. Even the sort of underwhelming grocery store parking lots, the kind that make you go, “wait, why is that here?” But if you want the peasantry’s next question to be “and who the hell would make it look like that?” then surely you need the Rolls-Royce Cullinan configurator.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 3 has been billed as Tesla’s mass-market, affordable electric sedan, but with a bunch of fancy options, the car can easily get into the high $70,000-range. Even then, Consumer Reports found some issues with it that keep it from earning a Consumer Reports recommendation. However, Tesla claims that its braking figures aren’t as bad as the famous publication says.
Read MoreIf we’re going to be talking and thinking about autonomous cars, self-driving cars, robo-cars, drive-o-droids (copyright pending) or whatever the hell we want to call these things, we should get a sense of exactly what they do and how they do it. How do they know what’s around them, and how can they potentially be better than human drivers?
Read MoreIt’s been said before, but should be repeated often and loudly, that there needs to be more motorsport involving small, underpowered cars with little to no aerodynamic aids. Canada’s Nissan Micra Cup series fits the bill to a T. These cars are essentially showroom stock buzz boxes with just over 100 horsepower and tiny tires with little grip. Until this weekend, we’ve lamented that the series does not have any kind of video streaming package. Now, thanks to Nissan’s NISMO TV YouTube channel, yo
Read MoreThis turbocharged diesel Skoda Octavia has been through over 400,000 miles of daily-driven torture. Heat cycles, explosions, long hauls, short trips, and years of wear and tear have taken its toll on the car. This Skoda cost 200 pounds. It’s dirty, dusty, grubby, and rusty, plus it’s a bit broken. Given all of that, it still runs great. So what does the inside of this original turbo engine look like? That’s what this video from Car Throttle intended to find out.
Read MoreFord GT no. 48 was sold Saturday at Mecum’s Indianapolis sale for an incredible $1.65 million after a frenzied bidding war that progressed quite rapidly. Crossing the dais in under two minutes, the bidding started rapid fire in Mecum’s traditional livestock auction-style cattle rattle, and nearly as soon as it started, it was over.
Read MoreTwenty years ago today, on May 20, 1998, a new Godzilla movie graced our screens over Memorial Day Weekend. On paper, Godzilla was just another blockbuster monster movie. Yet, in reality, it was clearly a critique on governmental incompetence. And the true hero of the film was the 1992 Chevrolet Caprice taxicab that helped lure Godzilla to his death.
Read MoreWith a 1.5-liter 3-cylinder turbocharged engine producing nearly 200 horsepower, launch control, a trick new rear suspension design, sticky tires, and a 2500 pound curb weight, this isn’t just a good hot hatch, it’s among the best of all time. The newest update of Ford’s Fiesta ST is significantly improved, and finally offers a proper Quaife limited slip differential, to boot. This new model is a little larger, a little safer, and the interior is more upmarket, providing a whole lot of bang for
Read MoreLast week Japanese wheel manufacturer SSR launched a new 3-piece wheel design they’re calling Formula Aero Mesh, a variant of their existing Formula line of track-oriented wheels. The Formula Mesh wheel design has been modified to accept an aero-style wheel center for smoother airflow over the wheels, as well as total throwback good looks. This might be the most exciting new wheel design to be released in years.
Read MoreTwo all-wheel drive variants of Tesla’s Model 3, including a normal model and a performance model, are set to open for orders next month with deliveries beginning in July, according to CEO and product architect Elon Musk. Last night in a series of Tweets, Musk released information on the two new Model 3 dual motor models, including performance, pricing, a new service module, and a few new options. The news comes as little surprise, given he has been teasing the AWD model for months, claiming a J
Read MoreThis is either the best or worst deal of all time. I can’t quite decide, but I do know that there are six Ford Festivas listed on Craigslist for a mere $900 if you’re out near White Plains, Maryland and can’t get enough of the Festiva.
Read MoreWhether you like it or not, the Royal Wedding has been pretty much inescapable on every form of media—social or otherwise. We’re not going to talk about princes and princesses and fancy castles, though. We need to talk about their reception car.
Read MoreEvery so often, there’s a car so wild and such a hilarious failure that history tries to dance around it. The records of these automotive mishaps are skimmed over with little more than an awkward, “yeah, um, also we kinda messed up—but look at the good things instead!”
Read MoreEveryone gets annoyed. We all have things that just rub us the wrong way. Last week, I asked y’all what car trends really grind your gears, and you delivered. I should have been surprised to see how many of you were absolutely positively passionate about things that should never ever be on a car—but I gotta say, the responses? Incredible.
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 MoreMany months ago, I met a Jalopnik reader whose love for the Pontiac Vibe has no bounds. He was part of an owner’s group, his Facebook profile was filled with pictures of his Vibe, and he just kept talking about how great the little hatchback was. At first, I thought this was a bit odd, but now I’ve realized that he has a point. The Vibe is good.
Read MoreBy now, we know that there are more accurate ways to pronounce the names of Japanese automakers than the ones that we dumb Americans have been using. Mazda, for instance, is pronounced “Matsuda” in Japan. But did you know that there are also very fascinating historical and cultural reasons behind some of these names?
Read MoreThe introduction of Formula One’s new halo cockpit design was extremely controversial, despite the drivers slowly warming up to having the new protection. Aesthetics be damned, the new halo has already probably saved at least one driver during a Formula 2 race last weekend.
Read MoreI just got off the phone with Jeopardy champion Austin Rogers, and learned some fantastic news: He’s an avid Jalopnik reader and his plans for his new TV car show are absolutely brilliant.
Read MoreI thought I had a good understanding of how rusty cars are in Canada, then I saw this Nissan 240SX held together with little more than hopes and dreams.
Read MoreA former Tesla employee has sued the automaker, claiming it fired him last fall in retaliation for telling supervisors about a colleague that was stealing company-owned auto parts and because of his race and ethnicity. It’s at least the fifth lawsuit filed against the company over discrimination allegations dating back to last year.
Read MoreAre you really really rich, but also something of a moron with terrible taste? Is it difficult and exhausting to explain both how wealthy you are and how bad your decisions are to people you meet? I’m delighted to say that there’s an answer: the Aznom Atulux, the vehicle that answers the question of how to spend $300,000 on a Ram 1500 Crew Cab without having to buy ten of them.
Read MoreIt’s happened again: A Japanese train left its station earlier than expected and the company has apologized for the inconvenience it’s caused. Twenty-five seconds earlier, to be exact, which is an utterly unacceptable figure.
Read MoreI have no doubt that BMW’s design team is one of the best in the world, given the best training and equipped with the best tools. But when your design brief is to make the 5 Series into the hulking quasi-crossover BMW 5 Series GT, there’s really nowhere to go but down.
Read MoreAustin Rogers, the New York City bartender who famously won 12 out of 13 Jeopardy shows and took home over $400,000 in winnings, then hatched a plan to travel the world in an old Mercedes wagon, is in the process of starting a car show for the “every man,” TMZ reports. Among the cars allegedly pitched: the Subaru Brat and some kind of 1968 Honda. This should be good.
Read MoreOne of the great things about having kids, I’m told, is that you get an excuse to buy all the cool toy cars you miss from your own childhood. That’s fine and nice, but I’m here to help you justify buying more miniature model cars regardless of your family situation.
Read MoreWith gas prices hitting a three-year high and projected to keep rising, we Americans are going to take a hit every time we fill up our flashy new SUVs and crossovers we’re all buying. But there’s a counterargument that today’s vehicles offset rising gas prices with higher fuel efficiency. But are they efficient enough to “break even” with more expensive gas? We did some math to find out.
Read MoreThere are no details about a pocket Bible left in one of eight Ram trucks stolen from a Warren, Michigan assembly plant this month, other than that the Detroit Free Press reports it’s been preserved for DNA testing by police. But, because there has to be more to this story, we’re going to imagine how it got there.
Read MoreFord shut down production of the F-150, its best selling vehicle, on May 2 after a magnesium fire at a supplier caused a parts shortage. But just two weeks later it’s going back online after the automaker moved 87,000 pounds of equipment to England, hiring one of the world’s biggest cargo planes to do it.
Read MoreLast year, off-road accessory outfit American Expedition Vehicles brought a heavily modified 2017 Chevy Colorado ZR2 to the SEMA aftermarket show in Las Vegas. Soon after that, we started seeing similar-looking ZR2s in prototype camo. Now we know what they were up to: this sweet snorkel and wheel kit.
Read MoreThere’s no question housing prices in California are over the top, and that must be giving car sellers ideas. Someone there has a used 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon listed online for $550,000. That’s a whole new level of Demon markups—like, the level where you fight the boss and the boss always wins the game.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been curious to know how hard it would be to power your car with your own legs via bicycle pedals, Russian mechanic and YouTube star Vlad is here to show you with his VAZ-1111 “Oka” hatchback.
Read MoreAnger-honking is the bane of my existence! It’s not effective, and it’s never anything more than obnoxious. But some disagree, and that’s the subject of this week’s Cargument.
Read MoreSometimes, I have moments where I feel like a badass because I regularly drive some pretty old cars. But like every moment where I feel like a badass, it’s very short-lived, because I remember that people like Jim Eby exist. He’s about to drive a 99-year-old air-cooled Franklin on a massive trip all over the country.
Read More“Coner” is what hip, young squirrels call their pine cone-obsessed peers; if you’ve ever spent any time in the tree branches of America’s forests and suburbs, this sort of branch-slang is probably familiar to you. Hardcore coners often do some crazy shit, like this Michigan-area conehead squirrel who crammed some poor bastard’s car with over 50 pounds of primo pine cone.
Read MoreIt’s once more time to bless your timeline with a Retro Car Bot, a bot that tweets out retro cars and information about them. That’s it. It’s so great.
Read MoreI know I’m speaking with a huge audience of people looking for Rolls-Royces on the same site you go to find a “rust free” Geo Metro with a rebuilt title, but be wary about this red and gold knockoff, for it is not the opulent British luxury sedan you seek. It is an imposter.
Read MoreToday we confronted a political attack ad making some bizarre claims about Volkswagen’s apparent attempt to “dump cheap German cars” on the American market. Seeing as how nobody will sell me a goddamn Up! GTI, I think we can all call B.S. on this one. But it begs the question—what even is an American car these days?
Read MoreA silver 2017 Ford GT with black racing stripes is on the front of the Mecum Auctions website as of this writing, with a “main attraction” banner across its photo. But that auction could be a breach of Ford’s customer agreement on the GT, which got pro wrestler John Cena into an ongoing Ford lawsuit last year.
Read MoreBro, get your shit together and buy this turbo, narrowbody, purple Mitsubishi Starion. Each passing minute is as sand in an hourglass, only once all the sand is down at the bottom, instead of an hour having passed, it is your life that has passed you by, your Starion Life, your life of turbo boosted speed.
Read MoreOkay, everyone, everyone, stop what you’re doing. Pilots, put your planes on autopilot. Surgeons, drop the scalpel and crank the anesthetic. Drivers, pull over. Everyone just get somewhere safe where you can concentrate, because we’re going to be identifying the van used on Target’s shopping cart return corrals. Try to remain calm.
Read MoreThe 755-horsepower 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is great for the dyno. It has a monstrous factory power rating, but losses in the drivetrain mean that number isn’t what ultimately goes to the wheels. The dyno helps find out how big that power loss is, but it can also make a person lose control of their limb.
Read MoreChad and his coworkers left their mark in street tar in Walker, Michigan, WZZM reported on Tuesday. It’s always Chad.
Read MoreIf you’re a fan of exciting speculative fiction, there’s a short video circulating right now from an allegedly non-partisan group called CASE for Consumers that describes an incredible alternate reality where Angela Merkel is masterminding a plan to dump cheap German cars on the American market. Cheap German cars! In America! Today! What a dazzling world that would be.
Read MoreNew York City got battered last evening by severe weather, and as a precautionary measure, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority closed train lines that head north out of the city. This promptly turned Grand Central Station into, well, this.
Read MoreUpdate: Spec Miata continues to be a popular racing series throughout the U.S., but nobody has taken me up on my Spec Sebring idea yet.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 3 has a lot on its shoulders, facing delays, struggles with build quality and, most importantly, how neutral its handling is on Mid Ohio, one of America’s best road courses.
Read MoreReachNow was BMW’s attempt at launching a car sharing service in Brooklyn to rival Mercedes-Benz’s Car2Go and the independent ZipCar. I saw “was,” because it is now (mostly) dead with the service saying it is “pivoting” from 250 free-floating cars to six cars. All parked in one apartment building.
Read MoreEarlier today, we posted about a mystery McLaren. Penrob had a good riposte.
Read MoreAn Arizona mechanic named Nick Dawson just scored the “barn find” of the century: a 1993 Toyota MR2 Turbo with less than 1,500 miles on the clock. But getting the car wasn’t easy, because it had been stolen from the dealer 25 years prior.
Read MoreAfter a prolific career that included works like The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New Journalism pioneer Tom Wolfe died yesterday at 88. But before New Journalism was a thing, in November 1963, Wolfe wrote a lot of words in Esquire for the first time, about George Barris and the custom-car scene in California, which Wolfe thought was elevating the practice to high art. He was right!
Read MoreThere are a lot of great movie cars. Fast and Furious helped make the Toyota Supra an icon, the Ford Mustang from Bullitt hasn’t left the spotlight since 1968, and Aston Martin is almost synonymous with James Bond for those with casual knowledge of either. But none of those are my favorite. Not even close.
Read MoreThere’s a giant go-kart track coming within driving range of Detroit next month, meaning my childhood dream of Mario Kart racing in real life might actually come true.
Read MoreGraduation season is upon us. Across the nation, countless hungover students are sitting through long and drawn-out speeches that stress the importance of working hard, integrity... blah blah blah. And dotted throughout the sea of monochromatic graduation caps and gowns, bright spots of color catch the light like stars in a velvet sky—personalized graduation caps that tell America no, dammit, you will not break my soul and force me into conforming to your soulless and corporate ways.
Read MoreIf you’re like me, an idiot with ten grand to blow on a dream of dying in the stupidest way possible, then you owe it to yourself to check out Hammacher Schlemmer’s latest rich-dumbass gift: a $9,990 electric three-wheeled deathtrap that can go 75 mph!
Read MoreThere’s a big cryptocurrency conference raking in about $3,000 a ticket in New York City this week (we’re totally going, obviously) and, as prices indicate, there’s a lot of show to go with it. Take the Lamborghinis parked outside of a hotel used by the conference, which Bloomberg reports were rented by a crypto exchange to add some false glamour.
Read MoreLet’s check in on Harley-Davidson, shall we? Last we heard, the iconic American motorcycle maker was very much in trouble, thanks to an aging consumer base. But the company is still alive, and had its annual shareholders meeting last week. Reporters, naturally, were banned from attending.
Read MoreOur own Kristen Lee took a trip to Prague earlier this year, where she presumably danced around on cobblestone streets and said “woo woo look at me, I’m Kristen!” and slapped waiters with cold cuts or whatever the hell it is Kristen does to relax. She won’t tell me. But, she did show me some pictures she took at the Czech National Technical Museum, and one of those pictures featured a car that I find fascinating and a bit baffling. Now I want to show it to you, so we can try to figure out what t
Read MoreBack in September 2015, when Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal came to light and shocked the automotive world, Fiat Chrysler chief Sergio Marchionne lambasted a company spokesperson for saying the company didn’t equip vehicles with illegal software to skirt emissions tests. In Marchionne’s words, he asked: “Are you out of your goddam mind?”
Read MoreThe 2019 Subaru Ascent, Subaru’s largest SUV to date, became instantly famous for one statistic: 19 cupholders, which works out to nearly 2.5 cupholders per seat. It’s as if they know us! They really, really know us. One Big Gulp is not enough for America. Heck, 19 Big Gulps may not even be enough, but it’s a start. I’m off to test those cupholders and the car attached to them. What do you want to know?
Read MoreYou know how everyone has been losing their minds and buying SUVs, trucks and crossovers while gas has been cheap? And the people with a little bit of foresight have been yelling back, “WAIT UNTIL GAS PRICES GO UP!” Well, that moment is now, kids.
Read MoreI had a Volkswagen Up GTI for a week in Europe recently, which was pretty much everything I hoped it would be, even after it blew a tire. And while I’m planning to write a full review soon-ish, I wanted to take one moment briefly before that to salute it’s most charming throwback feature. Yes, I’m talking about the plaid.
Read MoreThe Dodge Journey is the last of the crappy DaimlerChrysler-era cars in Fiat Chrysler’s lineup. It’s a vehicle that sells based on one fact: It seats seven and costs about as much as a pack of Juicy Fruit. And while I could tell you all about why history won’t look kindly upon the cheap SUV, I don’t need to make fun of the Journey today. Dodge has taken care of that on its website.
Read MoreThe 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS hardtop and Boxster GTS convertible are high-performance variants of the German automaker’s compact mid-engined sports cars. It’s safe to assume they’ll both be fun to drive, but we’re finding out for ourselves this week. So what do you want to know?
Read MoreYou’d think that if anyone would be able to crack the problem of flying cars, it’d be Einstein, right? I mean, after all, you don’t have to be some kind of Copernicus to know that Einstein’s a real Einstein. Even so, it seems improbable. That’s what makes this recently re-discovered film of Albert Einstein flying around in a flying car so wonderful. Is it fake? Well, yes and no.
Read MoreTesla had once considered adding additional safety features like eye-tracking technology and steering wheel sensors to its Autopilot semi-autonomous system, like General Motors competitor Super Cruise has, but allegedly didn’t because of cost, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreThe Ferrari F50 is one of my favorite cars, either the last or the next-to-last road car with a Formula One engine, depending on how you count it. But there was one detail I never fully appreciated until now: its very strange (and very expensive) rearview mirror.
Read More“Yeah, there’s a non-zero chance of polar bears,” is always a good thing to hear when planning a road trip.
Read MorePope Francis got a Lamborghini Huracan last year with a one-off design just for him. But what’s a pope going to do with a Huracan? Floor it down the streets of Vatican City, putting the fear of God in everyone? Of course not. The pope is going to auction it for charity, which he did. It sold for almost $1 million.
Read MoreDo you want to see a good car website filled with gorgeous images of machinery? Of course you do. So please allow me to show you the treasures that lie within Ferrari’s website.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Veloster is all-new for 2019, but thankfully it’s still a weird three-door hatchback. The previous Veloster couldn’t quite keep up with the interior and driving qualities of its main competition, but I’m on my way to find out if the new one has upped its hot hatch game.
Read MoreAnother of Jonathan Ward’s incredibly over-the-top builds, this beast started life as a Kaiser Wagoneer and has been given a complete ground-up rethink thanks to Icon. With a modern GM V8 and matching up-to-date drivetrain components, this truck is ready to bomb the beaches or carry its owner and their family to a cabin in the woods. With everything you might look for in a modern SUV, including ice cold air conditioning and enough power to haul serious ass, but in a gorgeous vintage wrapper, thi
Read MoreFormula One raced at the Circuit de Barcelona for the 5th round of the season today. Lewis Hamilton took the victory after streaking away from pole at the start of the race and never relinquishing the lead. With Sebastian Vettel making an unexpected late-race pit stop, his Ferrari fell into fourth and he didn’t score his predicted podium. With the first quarter of the season complete, Lewis Hamilton is beginning to build the foundation for his fifth world championship.
Read MoreCars tend to have a lot of bits attached to them that are absolutely unnecessary when they are converted into race cars. Usually that applies to things like air conditioning, radios, and carpets, but I absolutely love it when people take things to the extreme of removing the windshield frame and roof panel in the pursuit of weight loss.
Read MoreKevin Nicks of Chipping Norton broke his own previous World’s Fastest Shed record this weekend during a land speed event on the Welsh beaches of Pendine Sands. The previous record of 88.086 miles per hour was obliterated when Nicks reached a top speed of 101 miles per hour. A self-proclaimed master of the shed, Nicks has built his shed on a Volkswagen Passat platform. For the initial record, the car retained it’s stock 2.8-liter V6 engine, though according to the BBC it now has output of 400 hor
Read MoreYour mother has probably driven some rad cars in her life. Maybe they weren’t particularly rad at the time, but in retrospect have gained a following. Growing up, we had a handful of sporty-ish coupes in the driveway. I don’t really think any of them were particularly ‘cool’ on their own, but I was raised in the back seat of a scad of two-doors, which seems kind of cool in retrospect. She didn’t need a mega-sized SUV to haul a little kiddo around, just a mid-sized coupe with a decent trunk.
Read MoreWith an incredibly bumpy Rome Formula E street circuit laid out in front of him, pro-drifter Ryan Tuerck takes the Roborace ‘DevBot’ racing car, essentially a closed cockpit prototype with an electric motor at each of the four wheels and a combined 550 horsepower, out to set a lap representative of the human ability. When he gets out of the car at the end of the lap, the engineers tell the car to execute, and it drives itself on a quick lap of the same circuit.
Read MoreThe problem with being a gearhead is that it occasionally mixes quite well with a hoarder mentality. This seller is no exception, having amassed a collection of at least a couple dozen bikes, and they’re all for sale. The great thing about bikes, you can fit a whole lot of them in the same space as just a single car. If you have a single car garage, you could park at least half a dozen bikes in there. Collector-grade motorcycles tend to be less expensive, and usually better cared for in general,
Read MoreWWII connoisseurs looking to add some old vehicles to their collection, rejoice: you can now nab a beautiful 1942 Jeep Willys on Craigslist if you’re up to making the trip down to the El Paso area.
Read MoreDonkervoort Automobielen is celebrating its 40th year making hand-crafted super light sports cars this summer, and they’re marking the event with their best car yet: the D8 GTO-40, which is basically the most and best of everything ever in the car world.
Read MoreAfter a five-year hiatus, hipster-but-also-popular band Arctic Monkeys have finally released their newest album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. I, for one, couldn’t wait, mostly because of the fact that this album featuring a song that I thought was going to be incredible. That song was called The World’s First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip.
Read MoreWhen we describe a car’s aesthetics, there are certain words we tend to use. They can be sexy or sleek, square or sporty, functional or futuristic. Cars, however, are usually not called “fat”. Austrian artist Erwin Wurm is asking, why the hell not?
Read MoreYou know the feeling. Maybe you’re driving, maybe you’re checking out an auto show, or maybe you’re just following what happens in the car world—and then you see it. That thing. That one particular thing about cars these days that makes you immediately say “ugh” and want to turn to the nearest person to let them know how terrible you think it is that so many cars have [insert terrible trend here].
Read MoreBackup cameras are now mandatory in all new cars built for the U.S. market. The standardization went into effect May 1, 2018 which was originally issued by the Department Of Transportation in 2014.
Read MoreThe woman’s path to motorsport is paved with forgotten heroes and groundbreaking drivers who changed the landscape of racing only to be lost in the depths of history soon after. Eliška Junková, perhaps the most successful Czech Grand Prix driver you’ve never heard of, is one of those women.
Read MoreEver since Formula One announced that they were going to offer a new livestreaming service, people have been eagerly rubbing their hands together waiting for its debut. F1 TV was finally announced to be in action for the Spanish Grand Prix after several issues caused its release to be pushed back from the start of the season in March—and it’s been a total disaster.
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 Pagani Huayra, with a price of $1.4 million, was already expensive. Then the Pagani Huayra Roadster came along and smashed right through that with a $2.4 million price tag. Don’t worry, you can swing it. Just finance it!
Read MoreI don’t know if the the Buick Reatta is any good to drive, I mean, I can guess it’s not, but it brought me great joy to see one of our readers come to defend its honor in the comments today.
Read MoreThe first time you see an original Fiat 500, it’s hard to believe that it’s a real car. It’s as small as a toy. But see a Cinquecento in its element, cutting through the tiny Italian streets for which it was designed, suddenly the shape makes perfect sense.
Read MoreI don’t have all the answers. Never pretended to. But I thought I mostly had things figured out, you know? Like I had a pretty good grip on things, knew how to handle myself and get around. But I don’t recognize reality anymore. Not when a late 1990s Honda Civic Si can sell for as much as a new one, or an Acura Integra Type R can command a sale price of almost $45,000.
Read MoreAdam from Carwitter decided to put the audio track from the The Simpsons’ Canyonero fake SUV ad over factory B-roll footage of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan super SUV and it’s pretty funny.
Read MoreFollowing all the cars I saw on the road in Melbourne and beyond, I had some time to kill after the Pagani rally wrapped up. So in between sightseeing and visiting some art galleries, I went around some of the showrooms in the city. As great as it was to see some of the local culture out in the wild, the best stuff are always hidden inside showrooms. It’s just a matter of finding them.
Read MoreI’ll never forget overhearing what my parents paid for our house when I was a kid. “Dad, you idiot” I groaned. “We could have bought a Ferrari!” Yeah. Sure, I didn’t understand the concept of mortgages, and it’s a good thing he didn’t listen to me, because you can’t sleep in many expensive exotics. Except for one: the 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63S Wagon. It is as comfortable as it is quick.
Read MoreExecs from major automakers are spending their Friday morning with President Donald Trump, trying to do whatever they can to convince him not to roll back fuel economy standards as aggressively as he plans to. Before the meeting, the Detroit Free Press reports, Trump singled out one exec in particular: Fiat Chrysler’s Sergio Marchionne, whom he called “my favorite.”
Read MoreThere are two things you notice when you first encounter car culture in Germany. The first is the surprising number of Opels, and the second is that they have two perfect words to describe a particular kind of car, words that we oddly don’t have in America but desperately need. Those words are youngtimer and oldtimer.
Read MoreThe Ford Mustang is an affordable, powerful and occasionally unforgiving car. Those qualities have helped it earn a reputation of, uh, skidding out of control and plowing into groups of onlookers. Whoever owns this one clearly isn’t ashamed of the association.
Read MoreMagnus Walker, metalhead turned entrepreneur turned fashion designer turned famous Porsche collector, wants to have “one of everything Porsche’s made” and puts his own twist on pretty much every car he acquires. I love what he’s done with this 1980 924 Carrera GT.
Read MoreI’ve always been jealous of people I know, like Jason Torchinsky for example, who have been able to keep the same car pretty much forever. I’ve owned some great cars over the years, stuff I’ve really loved (and loathed), but I have nothing like the relationship Jason has with the yellow Volkswagen Beetle he’s owned since he was a teenager. Having a “forever car” is a special thing, and it takes a lot of work.
Read MoreThere was a minor dearth of hilarious comments today. But one person wrote something that tangentially made me think of sloths, so I have an excuse to post Raymond S. Persi’s Flash Slothmore, so all is forgiven.
Read MoreSupercars occupied a tiny niche at the fringe of the car market, but that hasn’t stopped them from capturing our imagination. In fact, it may even be part of why they do. Supercars adorn bedroom posters and find their way onto desks as scaled-down toy models. So, of course, it’s always fun to think about what they’d look like in the future. But how do we reconcile those dreams with a future where humans may not be driving?
Read MoreVolkswagen has a new hot hatch that’s almost ready for production, and it’s the most powerful GTI yet. Meet the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR concept car, a road version of Volkswagen’s IMSA race car that’ll go 164 mph if you ask Volkswagen to get rid of the car’s speed limiter.
Read MoreWhen Fast and Furious star Paul Walker died tragically and suddenly in 2013, he was in the middle of filming the seventh installment of the franchise, Furious 7. The event left the fate of the movie up in the air for a while, but eventually the crew was able to complete filming with the help of Paul’s brothers, Cody and Caleb, and some extensive special effects. Here’s how they did it.
Read MoreHere it is, finally, after years of teasers and camouflaged mules: The 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan. The Rolls-Royce of SUVs is here at last. And it has a wicked trunk setup.
Read MoreWe know that the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 will be the most powerful ever with over 700 horsepower. We know this because Ford told us. We also know it because it has a hood vent of startling proportion, as befitting a vehicle of such performance.
Read MoreFord is completely shutting down production of its best-selling F-150 for now, after a fire last week damaged a supplier, cutting off supply for a crucial part. Production at a Michigan factory that assembles the truck is stopping after the second shift Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The shutdown could last for several days, if not longer.
Read MoreThe Cadillac ATS sedan is dying at the end of 2018, and that’s sad. So to commemorate the dear Cadillac sports sedan’s passing, some of us are going to write about our experiences with Cadillac’s attempt to fight BMW’s 3 Series.
Read MoreOne Instagram poster claims that Rolls-Royce asked to have these images taken down, but you, the world, deserve to see the Rolls-Royce Cullinan, the SUV from the most grandiose carmaker on Earth. Particularly: those seats. My god, the seats.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin Vantage has been replaced, but for some reason the company is making 14 new, old ones called the Aston Martin V12 Vantage V600. It’s honoring possibly the most wonderful, and dumb car it ever made.
Read MoreMuch like its more popular, overshadowing sibling in the Dodge performance lineup, the 2019 Dodge Charger Hellcat will get at least one new giant air intake for its giant, powerful engine. Yes, that sentence says “Charger” Hellcat. It’s a thing. That two-door Challenger you like isn’t the only Dodge with some power.
Read MoreAs soon as I get home after a long day, the first thing I do is kick off my shoes. It’s the universal indicator that it is time to unwind and relax, and to quit stressing about everything. That’s why, I believe, it’s perfectly justified to drive barefoot, too.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Republican lawmakers and auto dealer organizations celebrated the passage of legislation that scraps a previous regulation that was designed to prevent racial discrimination in auto lending. Dealers have long made a fuss about the regulation, calling it unnecessary and burdensome, and now it’s almost certainly goin to be signed into law by President Donald Trump. But with endless amounts of studies and examples in the past showing that auto dealers will charge more to minority car bu
Read MoreNormally when you think of a roadster, you imagine an open-top car that is stylish, probably has two seats and is fun to drive. It doesn’t have to be fast, but there is an element of performance to it. The Panoz Roadster—a car that I had totally forgotten about—has only part of the formula right.
Read MoreIt is with some degree of sadness that I must announce to you that the Cadillac ATS sedan—scrappy would-be BMW 3 Series killer, occasional poster child for Cadillac’s troubles, handling delight and proof that rear-drive four-doors still matter—is no more. Production will cease at the end of the 2018 model year run.
Read MoreWhat model year should be the hard cutoff for wood on steering wheels? 1978? 1982? Last year? I welcome your thoughts.
Read MoreThe E30 BMW 3 Series is probably the go-to Craigslist car for people looking for something fun that’s also easy to work on and easy to modify. This also makes it difficult to find a car that’s still stock, but if you did, here’s how much power you can expect it to make.
Read MoreThe 2019 BMW M5 Competition is the one with black-chrome kidney grilles that you buy when you want a faster, louder and visibly more expensive car. It’s like an ///M version of the ///M version because we live in branding hell.
Read MoreA cruel and villainous groundhog was blocking traffic outside of Baltimore today, but thankfully, a cop came to dispatch true justice and shot it to death with a gun.
Read MoreToday my coworker Michael wrote a wonderful, but apparently incorrect take in which he claimed “There is no such thing as a flying car. All we have is lies.” But as one commenter points out, the only lies we have are Michael’s.
Read MoreWhen the Lamborghini Gallardo debuted in... 2003? Wait, lemme Google that. Yep, 2003. I remembered that off the top of my head. I have a problem. Anyway, when the Gallardo debuted, everyone criticized it for not being a “real Lamborghini,” small with a V10. But that idea wasn’t as new as people think.
Read MoreElon Musk, the billionaire CEO behind Tesla and SpaceX and extremely nerdy Bond fan, shocked the world when he showed up to the Met Gala with musician Grimes after Page Six reported the two were dating. But there was something even more shocking—his outfit.
Read MoreFive years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to tell one Aston Martin model from another. But now the company’s attacking the future full-on with EVs and SUVs while hanging on to manual transmissions and GTs. I sat down with Aston’s Chief Engineer Matt Becker to hear all about it.
Read MoreThere are plenty of trucks with snorkels designed to drive through rivers and streams, but back in 1982, an oil pipeline manufacturer decided to go one step further and build an amphibious off-roader called the Amphi-Ranger, which could be both a truck and a boat with the press of a button.
Read MoreAustralia: home to some of the weirdest and most dangerous animals in the world, kangaroo-proofing for SUVs, and the world’s largest supplier of Hemsworths. For a country with as much land and space as Australia there’s one thing they’ve been short on—Paganis. Before this year the total number of Paganis in Australia was one. Just one. Enter the Pagani Raduno Pacific Run, the first Pagani rally south of the equator.
Read MoreQuestionable aesthetics aside, the Honda Civic Type R is a fantastic driving machine that earned its famed red badges. The 2018.5 model gets a $600 price bump while remaining exactly the same. It could even potentially be a good thing for buyers if it brings those crazy markups down.
Read MoreLast month, we briefly highlighted that auto loans with terms lasting as long as 84 months are becoming more common, thanks to a number of prevailing factors. Turns out, I should’ve dug deeper: as the Financial Times notes, we’re witnessing an uptick in new car buyers taking on 96 month loans. Eight years, folks.
Read MoreWhile Volvo’s overall infotainment systems are widely hailed as some of the best out there, its navigation system, specifically, is known to be crap. But Volvo wants to remedy that. So now, if you can get one, your next Volvo will have Google Maps instead.
Read MoreI’m not sure who would consider a second-gen Dodge Dakota pickup a classic, but I’m glad somebody did because it’s really cool to see that one has survived two decades in unbelievably pristine condition.
Read MoreOn her 27th birthday in early April, Ontario-native Emily Nield got pulled over by Georgia police for speeding. After a police officer allegedly said her documentation—which included a Canadian driver’s license and not a hard-copy of a passport—was invalid, the officer handcuffed Nield and sent her to jail, CBC reports.
Read MorePeople are spotting new (2019?) Toyota Supra prototypes all the time now. Usually pictures of these cars are exciting, though last week we had a little scare when one was seen with some godawful Harvey Dent-faced wheels. Luckily today somebody saw one on some beautiful rollers I actually hadn’t seen before.
Read MoreI suppose some of you might think I’m a gold-thirsty and heartless monster, but I didn’t ask for this reputation, that’s just you plebs being jealous. I do have a heart, actually, and I’ll prove it to you by telling you a little story about how I gifted a limousine to my friend, V.
Read MoreTwenty years ago today, at 2 a.m. Eastern time, a press release announced to the world that German automotive giant Daimler would be merging with the third member of Detroit’s “Big Three,” Chrysler, forming DaimlerChrysler. On paper, the deal made tons of sense, but in reality, it didn’t bear the fruit its creators had anticipated.
Read MoreWould you rather date Twitter personality and billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his escape ship to Mars, or just be destroyed when the Earth blows up? It appears that legendary and extremely Rare artist Grimes has made her choice, and is rumored to be linked up with the SpaceX boss himself.
Read MoreIt’s true that driver safety tech in new cars is largely very expensive, but now there’s at least one thing you won’t have to pay extra for anymore: A backup camera.
Read MoreAnd now, let’s check in with Jalopnik’s News Editor Erik Shilling, who is on vacation in France with a borrowed Volkswagen Up GTI.
Read MoreIf you didn’t get to catch up with your fellow Jalopnik readers in Hollywood last month, or if you’re in LA and just want to see a whole bunch of interesting cars including my safari Scout, why not come through the Culver City Car Show this weekend?
Read MoreAutomakers that cater to the ultra wealthy are all about details. Aston Martin loves talking about its handmade vehicles. Bugatti will send “flying doctors” to tend to cars on a whim. The only word Rolls-Royce knows is “bespoke.” Then there’s Lamborghini, which put the wrong safety labels on its $2 million Centenario.
Read MoreThe turbocharged 2018 Mazda 6 will likely be one of the best-value sporty sedans you can buy new. On Tuesday, we’ll be spending some time with the 250 horsepower four-door and the people who built it. So what do you want to know?
Read MoreWhen the Ford GT came out in 2005, Ford asked what seemed like an unthinkably-high $150,000 for the supercharged Ferrari-fighter. Lol. These cars have gotten so, so, so much more expensive since then.
Read MoreLava from the Kilauea volcano has been creeping across Hawaii’s Big Island for days now, after the Los Angeles Times reports that volcanic instability began last Monday. On its slow but destructive path, the lava has consumed more than 26 homes, affected 1,800 residents and swallowed an abandoned Ford Mustang.
Read MoreWhat comes to mind when you think of Australia? Kangaroos, summer in December and doing the Locomotion, perhaps? For those not in the know, the car scene is probably not something that comes to mind. But after spending a week in Melbourne recently I found out it’s more than just utes and V8s—it’s just mostly utes and V8s. But there’s other stuff too that is very good.
Read MoreIn stark juxtaposition to the incredibly meh 6 Hours of Spa on Saturday, this afternoon’s IMSA race provided infinitely more on-track action in less than half the time. The race held battles in all three categories, ultimately ending with a maiden victory for Acura in the prototype category, Porsche’s second win of the year in GTLM, and 3GT Lexus also victorious for the first time in the GTD class. Even better, the full two hour and 45 minute race stayed green flag for its full time.
Read MoreThe Coys auction house is scheduled to pass this badass Brit roadster across the auction block next week during their Legende Et Passion auction in Monaco, and it might just be the best bang-for-the-buck in their whole lineup. Sure, this auction includes a BMW M1, a Porsche 959, and a variety of other sports and exotic cars, but none deliver quite the Whatta-Hell-Izzat factor as the TVR. With a combination of debonair attitude and shoddy Blackpudlian craftsmanship, you would be hard pressed to h
Read MoreThe 808 horsepower Dodge Challenger Demon is basically good for one thing: ripping insanely quick quarter mile times. As this drag battle with Chevy’s new Corvette ZR1 shows, sometimes there is more to victory than what is on a spec sheet.
Read MoreAutomakers are obsessed with turbocharging everything at the moment, being that consumers are demanding ever more power and low-end torque feel from their cars, while attempting to meet fuel economy expectations at the same time. That low-end boost is provided a number of ways, but effectively manufacturers desire the turbocharger boost to help provide additional power from just-off-idle RPM. Mazda has proven particularly adept at the task with their advanced SkyActiv engine family. Engineering
Read MoreYesterday I spent the day out with my wife, doing our normal day-off stuff. We went to see a movie, stopped at a few garage sales, and went to a few of our favorite thrift and vintage stores. She’s always on the look out for things with a practical use, but my eyes are always scanning the shelves for more car-related paraphernalia that I don’t actually need. There’s a wide disparity between needing and wanting.
Read MoreRoush CleanTech, a division of the same company that builds high-horsepower hot rods and runs a NASCAR race team, has developed an all-electric retrofit drivetrain for Class 6 and 7. The F650, unveiled last week in Long Beach at the ACT Expo green transport conference, is the first non-combustion vehicle the company has ever worked on.
Read MoreThere is only one racing road trip that can trace its roots directly to the original and famed Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial. Brock Yates’ 1 Lap Of America is that successor, and it’s going on right now. A bit more legal and less subversive than The Cannonball, the event has morphed into an annual road trip with extremely long transit sections and high-speed on-track driving to test the mettle of driver, co-driver, vehicle, and a single set of tires.
Read MoreOn May 3, a security guard at the Fiat Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Michigan called the police with a strange report: eight 2018 Ram trucks just off the production line quite literally crashed through the gate of the plant and drove off into the dawn.
Read MorePolice were called to Dover International Speedway on Friday morning after being called about a fight breaking out in the JP Motorsports garage. After a heated argument, the team’s co-owner Jerry Hattaway was taken to Bayhealth Kent General Hospital to treat his broken jaw, and crew member Lawrence Hayden was escorted to jail.
Read MoreFormula One is the most recent racing series to look to American sports and decide “yes, this is exactly what racing needs”. Namely, F1 chairman Chase Carey, as reported by Eurosport, thinks something NFL draft-style events will keep the hype train rolling well into the winter months.
Read MoreThe first round of the World Endurance Championship’s 2018-2019 super season at Spa-Francorchamps wrapped up on Saturday afternoon with news that may not come as a shock: Toyota’s TS050 Hybrids finished a solid 1-2. Which of course means that McLaren F1 driver and WEC rookie Fernando Alonso won the race.
Read MoreChina is in the midst of multiple transportation infrastructure projects, the first of which is set to be unveiled this summer. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge is the world’s longest sea bridge, intended to cut the travel time from the Chinese mainland to two of its Special Administrative Regions in half. But we’re wondering how that’s going to work, given that the cities this bridge connects drive on different sides of the road.
Read MoreThe first time Betty Skelton piloted an aircraft solo, it was the year 1938 and she was a mere 12 years old. Yeah, sure, it was technically illegal, but she’d been hopping in open seats of aircrafts in her spare time for as long as she could remember. She was probably more prepared to be a pilot at age 12 than most of us are to do, like, anything. Ever.
Read MoreRacing wouldn’t be racing without sponsorship. But sometimes, when people get desperate, there are some, um… well, people start to get creative.
Read MoreThere’s something about going to space that just awakens a sense of possibility. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to feel that regarding a NASA mission to Mars, but on Saturday morning, the InSight spacecraft launched from California for a six month journey to the red planet.
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 noise and motion in this clip of a 2018 Audi RS3, juiced with a whole bunch of prototype modifications from upgrader APR, is so fierce and fun looking that it’s giving me goosebumps.
Read MoreEngine bay decoration is an under-appreciated art because, well, it sits in the dark under the hood most of the time. But painting your valve cover and other engine parts are a great way to add automotive easter eggs to your car and this video is the best guide I’ve ever seen on how to do it easily.
Read MoreThe British F1 race car manufacturer, Brabham, is back! After some time away from the limelight, Brabham, who used to create some of the best race cars the world has ever seen, has reinvented itself with a new car: The BT62. During the BT62's big launch in London I got the chance to ask a few questions about the car that weren’t included in the press release.
Read MoreA self-driving minivan belonging to Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, was involved in a crash in Chandler, Arizona on Friday. The aftermath looks brutal. (Update: In a statement to the press, Waymo says the self-driving Pacifica was actually in “manual mode” just before the crash. This conflicts with the police statement.)
Read MoreAfter three years of doing about 450 Nürburgring laps a year, this RSR Nürburg Nissan GT-R is finally ready to retire from track duty. Now it’s time to tabulate everything it’s burned through over all that high-stress mileage.
Read MoreImagine you, a member of the public, are driving about in your Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing and minding your own business. As you do. Suddenly, while stopped at a light, the inattentive driver behind you taps the back of your car with his. You would have become a murderer that day, but because Mercedes is now selling reproduced body panels for 300SL Gullwings, you don’t have to be. Mercedes pretty much saved that guy’s life.
Read MoreSubmarines are the coolest thing ever, until you realize using one means you’ll be hundreds of yards deep as a small pocket of air in a large, unrelenting body of water—inescapable if something, you know, goes wrong. With that cheery thought in mind, Aston Martin now has a production version of its submarine.
Read MoreThe Lotus Esprit’s initial design was a classic shape, one that Lotus didn’t want to change for a good three decades. Except when the 1981 Esprit Turbo added a big duck tail spoiler in the back, Lotus designers had to block it with another, smaller hidden spoiler. Why? Too much downforce.
Read MoreNo less than 10 brand-new Dodge Rams rolled off the assembly line and on to burst through the factory gate at the Fiat Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly Plant early yesterday morning, a “cluster theft” of surprising size and audacity.
Read MoreThere isn’t a single alternate universe out there where making a tire out of plastic coke bottles should work, but that’s what makes this strange Russian car experiment so fascinating. I know it won’t work, but I can’t look away. I want to see how and when it will fail, and the results deliver.
Read MoreGas costs in the U.S. are climbing, with the average price as of early May sitting right around $2.99 according to Bloomberg. But before Americans get too sour, let’s compare U.S. fuel prices against those found elsewhere in the world.
Read MoreThe Transporter’s stunt choreography and car chases were so good it launched the career of Jason Statham, and conned me into buying a BMW as a teenager. I’m not sure which was a more significant contribution to the culture. You be the judge.
Read MoreSome 14 years ago an angel was born. That angel sounded a trumpet. That trumpet broke down a wall made of porcelain. Behind that wall: the Maserati MC12, a car that still continues to defy any bounds of reason or earthly restrictions whatsoever.
Read More“We were called to the 1200 block of East Broadway to a report of a naked male underneath a car,” Lt. Scott Powell of the Newton, Kansas, Police Department told The Topeka Capital-Journal. “He was attempting to stick his penis into the tailpipe of the vehicle.”
Read MoreDid you just drop over $100,000 on a 2018 BMW M5? If you did, I’ve got some bad news: it is now slow and dated. You should have waited for the BMW M5 with the Competition Package, which would make your stupidly powerful German luxury sedan one-tenth of a second quicker.
Read MoreEx-Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to the German automaker’s never-ending Dieselgate scandal, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
Read MoreOkay, okay, so some people might have died while utilizing Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system. It’s still the best one there is. Or it isn’t, because Cadillac’s Super Cruise is also a contender, and one Ryan Felton (wrongly) believes it’s better than Autopilot, plus it hasn’t killed anybody.
Read MoreAn important discussion arose in the Jalopnik pod this week: why, in Batman Begins, did Batman ask then-Sgt. Jim Gordon if he could drive stick before he got into the Tumbler Batmobile, when there’s no way the Tumbler Batmobile has a manual transmission? Why would Batman just lie like that?
Read More“How many times can this woman write the word ‘actual’ in a headline?” you ask, annoyed. Well, you would actually have to assure yourself this is an actual situation, too, if you had to blog about someone buying a wall sign—a sign!—of letters and numbers alluding to “Lambo” for the price of an actual Lamborghini.
Read MoreIn a part of the Bible almost surely ripped out by a brigade of executives at car companies as to not hint at our sad future, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse rides up in a Ford Edge ST, an on-road automatic SUV with a performance badge on it. But not in Europe. Europe has been spared.
Read MoreThe big selling point for modern Hyundais are their impressive warranties, especially the 10-year, 100,000 mile powertrain one. But last month, the Federal Trade Commission warned the company that its warranty may be illegal because it appears to void out if owners don’t use Hyundai’s own parts.
Read MoreSay you want a car and you want a motorcycle, but you can only get one because Reasons. So what do you do? At first, you think you’re stuck, but then you realize that you are not, because you could just buy this 1985 Honda City R and Motocompo, in which you get both a car and a bike.
Read MoreThe Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What’s interesting about it is exactly what made it possible—simple and cheap to build—is exactly what doomed it as well.
Read MoreThe V12 is a pinnacle of engines, almost exclusively reserved for luxury cars and exotic sports cars. As such, its rare you find one built like a real hot rod, with lumpy cams and all. That’s why this Nissan Silvia drift car with a very custom Toyota 1GZ is so exciting. Well, that and how amazing it sounds.
Read MoreAfter initially restricting the Genesis luxury brand to only a select number of dealers, Hyundai came to the revelation that more distribution leads to better sales and has decided that now Genesis models can be sold to through any Hyundai dealer.
Read MoreThe back door of a Brinks armored truck opened up while driving down I-70 near Indianapolis earlier today, reportedly flooding the streets with as much as $600,000 in loose cash.
Read MoreLike Nissan, Subaru is in hot water for having unqualified staff signing off on final vehicle inspections. This is a big deal in Japan, where authorities ordered Subaru to conduct an investigation. That investigation, the company said in a release Friday, revealed that employees meddled with fuel economy and emissions quality control results.
Read MoreUnderneath a quiet office building in even-quieter Irvine, California, there rests some of the loudest, strangest, most glorious race cars and historic cars ever made. This is Mazda’s hidden basement in Southern California, something few people even inside the company ever see. What’s funny is it didn’t start out as anything like it.
Read MoreBrabham, they of making really fast race cars, has returned. Meet the BT62, a 700 brake horsepower naturally aspirated V8 carbon fiber track special. Only 70 will be made and it costs £1 million plus taxes and before options, or about $1.4 million for you. It also as cool as they come.
Read MoreMichael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, is reportedly being examined by the FBI, in part because of his time as a New York City taxi business owner. This week, he’s receiving some extra scrutiny over his time an attorney in a new investigative report by Rolling Stone: the outlet found he represented clients in the past who staged car accidents for insurance money.
Read MoreThe drag nightmare of a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was only planned for one model year, but its less powerful sibling isn’t going anywhere. The 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is a go, and the first teaser images of the car show that it’ll have a full-on snout with dual snorkels on the hood.
Read MoreYou can buy a brand new Lada Niva (well, technically it’s called the “Lada 4x4") today that’s really not much different than the Niva that launched in the late 1970s. Just look at that awesome, lifted little 4x4 hatchback. It is what off-road dreams are made of.
Read MoreThere are good interiors and there are bad interiors, but the best interior is plaid. Volvo in their wagon-wisdom is well aware of this and so, will now offer the upcoming 2019 V60 wagon with an option for plaid seats.
Read MoreThe President is a reality show host and the Pope is selling cars. 2018 is weird.
Read MoreThe concept for former Wheeler Dealers host Edd China’s new “Edd China’s Garage Revival” show has tons of potential. An affable, capable mechanic travels around the world to help people get their projects back on track, Unfortunately, the pilot episode is a bit slow.
Read MoreWhen I’m a passenger in a car on a long ride, one of my favorite things to do is nap. I love napping in general, but napping in a car is even better because you can gain distance while doing nothing. And just like everything else in the world, a superior method exists.
Read MoreThe 2019 Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid rights a lot of wrongs by finally bringing 22-inch wheels and massaging seats to the Cayenne lineup—a nearly unforgivable oversight—and it’s also quicker and more powerful than the outgoing model.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger Hellcat lives up to its name. It’s devilishly fast, built for demolishing quarter miles but somehow allowed on streets—if their owners can stay alive. And then there’s the Demon.
Read MoreWe’ve seen pictures of that crazy Lamborghini Huracan with a giant camera hanging off its nose, but now there’s footage showing exactly why the “Huracam” machine was built in the first place: to chase down supercars.
Read MoreFord might not think it can make a profit off of a Fiesta, but it does seem to like the idea of a motorcycle that pops out of a car’s face.
Read MoreOur emissions standards are probably the biggest booster to automotive performance in the past half century, making our cars not only more eco-friendly but more powerful, too. Trump has been trying to cut it all down, but now California and 16 other states suing to stop him.
Read MoreHave you ever seen a Tasmanian Tiger? Probably not. Neither have I, and that’s because they’re extinct. I didn’t know these even existed at all until my recent trip to Australia, where I also got to know another extinct beast a little bit better: the Holden HSV GTS.
Read MoreIt looks like Michigan Central Station, the long-abandoned, enormous train station that stands out as one of the most illustrative artifacts of Detroit’s decline, is going to have a new owner soon, according to reports: Ford.
Read MoreRecently I was on the hunt for a nice 997 for a client I came across a listing for a reasonably priced Turbo cabriolet... only to see a sea of crimson. I’m sorry but red interiors just ruin it for me.
Read MoreThe Silicon Valley gazillionaire of concern today is Jan Koum, now ex-CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, a Facebook subsidiary. Koum, according to the Washington Post, is peacing out over the usual complaints of “strategy” and “Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption.” But importantly, he’s already got a backup plan and it involves air-cooled Porsches.
Read MoreWhen someone says five-point-oh you probably go straight to visions of Mustangs and white rappers. Well, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW is almost a five-litre and has a stick to boot. Lets decide if its price has you saying five-point-oh yesss.
Read MoreYou’ll be forgiven if you never knew today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lumina Z34 even existed. Given its specs and price, you might just suddenly wish that you had.
Read MoreElmer Fudd’s always pronounced his ‘Rs’ as ‘Ws,’ and would no doubt love today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi. It rocks both luxury accoutrements and a “W”12 engine. That is of course, unless its price proves to be cartoonishly too high.
Read MoreCalled the Monte Carlo elsewhere, today’s Nice Price of Crack Pipe Lancia Beta went by Scorpion in both the U.S. and this particular car’s home, Canada. Let’s see if its price brings a stinging rebuke, eh?
Read More“Rode hard and put away wet” seems to be an apt description of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe FJ80. You’ll have to have to decide if its price makes the somewhat rough appearance excusable.
Read MoreWith specs and a price similar to yesterday’s Bimmer, you might think today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 370Z is déjà vu all over again. We’ll just have to see if this supercharged sports car’s price has you doubled over with laughter.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Z4 is notable because it’s in my neck of the woods, and I’ve even actually seen it on the road. Let’s see if it’s priced to move a little closer to your hood.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX7 has a three-position top! That’s a pretty nest trick. You’ll have to see if its price puts you in the position to consider buying it.
Read MoreWhat’s missing from the present day are expressive auto decals like the ‘screaming chicken’ worn by today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Trans Am. Would you pay the price to be so expressive? Or, are you chicken?
Read MoreThe claim made for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ZO6 is that it puts out over five hundred ponies at the wheels. That’s by way of a Lingenfelter supercharger and a lot of other work, but is it enough to lift twenty-five grand from your wallet?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Infiniti represents such an unmemorable car that it even played the punchline to a joke in the movie Three Kings. Let’s see if that anonymity demands a less princely price tag.
Read MoreMating an old Ranchero body to a 4X4 Ranger chassis seems so obvious, you have to wonder why aren’t there more examples like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender running around. Will its price make this a match made in Ford heaven?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘undercover corvette’ starts off the ad announcing that he’s dropped its price by more than five grand. He says that’s firm, and unlike the car, he’s not faking.
Read MoreYou notice you don’t see too many nuns driving Dodge Hellcats? Why might that be? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Hellcat might be your chance to be un-nunly. That is, if its price and lien aren’t cause for alarm.
Read MoreThe party may be winding down for the Fiesta ST in the U.S., but you wouldn’t know it with used editions like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ’14 still shindigging it. We’ll have to see if paying this one’s price would make its buyer a raving lunatic.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Supra is said to be a two-owner car. Will its desirable specs make you want to be number three? Or, will its price scare you off?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Avant claims it to be 100% reliable. That’s one hell of an endorsement, but will this old Audi’s price make that advocacy 100% beside the point?
Read MoreIn America, we like things big—big deals, big wheels, Big Macs, and big digs just to name a few. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercury is a pretty big car, but will its price prove to be a big disappointment?
Read MoreNext to paying Kanye to say nice things about you, a Yacht is the ultimate expression of wretched excess. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Caprice is a land yacht, but for the masses. Will its price however, have you saying some not so nice things about it?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 3 Series is one of four the seller has on offer. Its old-school cool Hardy & Beck add-ons make it the most interesting of the group, but let’s see if its price is enough to get your undies in a bunch.
Read MoreWhen it comes to desirability and coolness factor, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe NX may very well be a sure thing. That doesn’t necessarily mean however, that its price is a stone cold slam dunk.
Read MoreLet the description in the title for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep sink in for a minute and then wonder why it’s not sitting in your driveway right now. Maybe its price has something to do with it?
Read MoreYou could totally up your off-road game with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Xterra. That is, as long as its price doesn’t have you thinking its seller is off his rocker.
Read MoreThe 2018 Porsche 911 Carrera T is like a Ghost of Good Cars Past. Except it’s real, and here to restore your faith in the current state of cars. This is the new lightweight 911 and it’s easy to enjoy but difficult to master. It’s a little too intense for casual use and pretty much the perfect modern Porsche.
Read MoreNASCAR used a vastly different aerodynamics package for the All-Star race this year, and the racing showed it. It went from the typical racing style of 1.5-mile tracks like All-Star host Charlotte Motor Speedway, which resembles a conga line full of folks who don’t want to touch each other, to race full of passes and battles for position. Now, NASCAR may start using this fix more often.
Read MoreDirt-happy racers love to use the phrase “press on regardless,” but the inaugural Americas Rallycross event whipped out an epic display of that mantra in practice thanks to Timo Scheider. Scheider’s hood flopped up and blocked most of his windshield during most of one race, but did that stop him? Nah.
Read MoreThose of us hoping the kinks would be worked out with F1 TV after its disastrous debut two weeks ago were out of luck Sunday morning for the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix. In my case, F1 TV Pro’s live stream worked fine through the pre-race and then crashed on the opening lap.
Read MoreThe “greatest spectacle in racing” just one-upped itself in one pit stop. The No. 26 pit stall and car of Zach Veach burst into flames after a fueling mishap during today’s Indianapolis 500, but his crew yelled at him to drive off anyway. Fortunately, the wind blowing over his car put out the flames in no time. Speed is good, friends!
Read MoreWhen Danica Patrick lost her Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series ride at the end of the 2017 season, she said she’d compete twice more, in two of America’s biggest racing events, before retiring from the top levels of the sport in 2018—the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500. Both of those attempts ended in a wreck.
Read MoreIn Formula One, Monaco is as difficult as it is beautiful. It’s hard to pass, so seeing that happen is impressive but rare. It’s the spectacle of modern F1 cars hustling through a course where they barely seem to fit at speed. That’s why Daniel Ricciardo’s pole position lap—which set a new record there—is a must-watch.
Read MoreAs Formula E coalesced from vague rumors, carbon fiber mock-ups and promising press releases into an actual, real life racing series, it looked like the series of the future. Not only were they turning electric cars into something exciting, but they were paying attention to social cues, too. There were two women (Katherine Legge and Michela Cerruti) lined up on the starting grid—more than you’d find in a lot of other series. They were bringing quiet, pollutant-free racing to city centers. An
Read MoreIt’s 1934. The driver that has just set the fastest Women’s Outer Circuit record at Brooklands parks her car and emerges, triumphant. At only 4'10", she’s dwarfed next to her 10.5 litre V12 Delage, a vehicle that she has almost effortlessly mastered. The adoring press captures her radiant smile as she removes her helmet and smooths a hand over her immaculate baby blue overalls. Her name is Kay Petre, and she is the first woman to go 129.58 mph around England’s famous banked circuit.
Read MoreDesert racing really is like Mad Max’s world of fire and blood. While ramming competitors out of your path is generally against racing rules and unsportsmanlike, racers do occasionally nerf each other. When these crashes are captured with a helicopter camera, they’re pretty wild to watch.
Read MoreCitroën fired their World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke and his codriver Paul Nagle “due to an excessively high number of crashes,” per a statement released by the team today. This comes less than a week after Meeke had one of the worst-looking crashes of his career at the attrition-heavy Rally de Portugal.
Read MoreThe Indianapolis 500 is one of several races that will leave you planted in front of the TV this Sunday and it’s known for one strange tradition: the winner gets handed a bottle of milk to drink and/or pour all over themselves. Indy 500 drivers even designate their preferred kind of milk before the race. Here’s what your favorite driver wants to drink if they win IndyCar’s big race.
Read MoreThe Monaco Grand Prix organizers were among the loudest opponents to Formula One’s decision to end the use of “grid girls” this year, so they’re going to have them anyway. Yet their role will change for this year, and there will be a mix of male and female models on the grid. So, progress? This actually sounds like progress.
Read MoreFollowing the fatal crash of Jules Bianchi at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, Formula One developed and introduced a new virtual safety car system the next racing season, which slows drivers down during a caution without the need of a physical pace car on the track. This video from Chain Bear F1 on YouTube explains how the virtual safety car system works in Formula One:
Read MoreDonald Trump, a big boy known to like big toys, mentioned that he’d love to get into Martin Truex Jr.’s NASCAR race car and drive it away. This, of course, is a pretty natural reaction to a loud stock car. We as a country should indulge this, as it would be an invaluable learning experience for Trump.
Read MoreBarbie Jeep Racing is perhaps the most pure, good form of four-wheel racing on the planet. Put adults on de-powered kids’ toys, and let gravity do the rest. It usually leads to epic off-road downhill wipe-outs, but at this year’s Hyperfest, Barbie Jeep racers had to stay on Virginia International Raceway’s pavement.
Read MoreMoto3 raced at Le Mans over the weekend, running on the road course famous for a Mercedes getting launched into the air, another Mercedes getting launched into the air, and now Jakub Kornfeil getting launched into the air taking a jump off of another rider’s bike crashing in front of him.
Read MoreEarlier on Saturday morning, during the first run of the Amarante stage of Rally Portugal, Kris Meeke collided with a tree and absolutely demolished his Citroën. During a fast left-hand turn, Meeke went off the road and wasn’t able to stop before he and his co-driver Paul Nagle were thrown into the forest.
Read MoreWar had a habit of making women into racers. With the men occupied on the battlefield, someone had to maneuver ambulances through shell-cratered roads at high speed, rushing to and from emergencies. Some women became absolutely infatuated with the challenge and the adrenaline and looked to find ways to get that same heady rush after the war. One of those women was England’s Gwenda Hawkes.
Read MoreIf you talk to an IndyCar fan about Bump Day, you’re going to get two very drastic responses. People are either super incredibly excited about the fact that we’re finally going to see cars bumped again, or they’re dreading the entire day of qualifying dedicated to seeing which drivers aren’t going to make it.
Read MoreDuring race 1 at Winton Motor Raceway in Australia on Friday night, driver Grant Thompson went for a spectacular aerial flip that absolutely destroyed his car.
Read MoreMotocross is a blast to watch, with its high-flying antics, rad slides and mounds upon mounds of dirt flung in the air. Yet I discovered a way to improve it yesterday: by running the whole series on cute little Vespas instead.
Read MoreThe Nürburgring 24 Hours was the most insane car party I’ve ever been to, but behind all the wild campgrounds, there was still a race going on. Manthey Racing driver Laurens Vanthoor set a new pole-winning lap record for the Nürburgring 24 Hours in the No. 911 Porsche 911 GT3 R, and hot dang, it is fast.
Read MoreThe Dodge Viper is one of the last truly intimidating cars, with a ludicrously powerful V10 up front and no mercy given to the nut behind the wheel. Running it on a nice, safe track with ample runoff is crazy enough, but the Aussies at Whitehot Motorsport made their Viper into a rally car and took it on the Targa Tasmania.
Read MoreNASCAR teams cheat, or “bend the rules,” to say it nicely. They always have, and it’s kind of hilarious. But a “far more thorough” inspection system this year is causing all kinds of problems. Teams are mad that they keep failing, and NASCAR’s mad that teams can’t just bring legal cars.
Read MoreSome vintage racing events lure crowds with the promise of Formula 1, Can-Am, and Le Mans exotics of years past. But this year’s Classic Motorsports Mitty was focused on a more mainstream marque: Datsun and Nissan.
Read MoreWe’ve sat through half of a beautiful day and half of a very wet, very foggy day for the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Now we finally have a winner after an insane last-hour battle that happened after a long red flag for fog: the No. 912 Porsche 911 GT3 R of Manthey Racing.
Read MoreRain came last night to the Nürburgring 24 Hours and barely let up all morning. It’s been extremely slippery out there, which gave us a lot of attrition. Only two cars are on the lead lap with just under an hour left—a Mercedes-AMG GT3 and a Porsche 911 GT3 R—and oh man, they’re at each others’ throats.
Read MoreThere’s a siren at the end of the Nürburgring 24 Hours’ pit lane that blares every time a car enters the pits. With 146 cars in the race and between four and six cars crammed in each garage, you hear this siren constantly. Pit lane at the Nürburgring 24 Hours race is a constant struggle not to get hit by anyone’s car, and I have a newfound respect for anyone who races here.
Read MoreThis year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours was looking like an easy home race for Manthey Racing, with two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs in first and second place mere moments before. Their shop’s just down the road, man. They’ll do fine! Sadly, their No. 911 Porsche driver Romain Dumas just crashed at Pflanzgarten with just under 14 hours to go. Oops.
Read MoreThe No. 48 of Mercedes-AMG Team Mann Filter lost one of its wheels in spectacular fashion exiting pit lane tonight during the Nürburgring 24 Hours race. So, instead of waiting for their three-wheeled car to come back to them, a mechanics from the team brought tools and the wheel to the car.
Read MoreIt’s Craiglist’s favorite phrase beyond “no lowballers:” “needs fuel pump.” Unfortunately for the No. 40 Aston Martin Vantage V8, the first lap of the Nürburgring 24 Hours was a bit too true-to-Craigslist. A fuel pump problem brought their car to a halt at the first hairpin of the race.
Read MoreKansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas developed a large bump hours before the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race scheduled for this evening. So officials simply drilled and sawed into the bump, only to find a bunch of water underneath.
Read MoreI knew the Nürburgring 24 Hours was a big deal before I got here. They’ve got 15.99 miles of track to run tons of cars at once, and regular enthusiasts routinely go door-to-door with Le Mans winners. But the sheer size and scale of this event is larger than I could have ever imagined, and the utter lunacy of racing here is why you should burn your weekend watching it, even from home.
Read MoreTypos are bad and embarrassing. Why, the very website you are reading once called the then-GOP presidential nominee “Tump” in a headline. So we’re sympathetic to the particularly noticeable typo before this weekend’s Formula One race, designing a “#SpainishGP” logo that got painted across the race track. Then some poor souls had to paint over it.
Read MoreIf there are two things that are in abundance in racing, it’s GT3 cars and Porsche 911s. Eight of the 29 cars in the top class at this weekend’s Nürburgring 24 Hours are 911 GT3 Rs, so this was as good a place as any to unveil the new 2019 version. It’s meant to be faster and easier to drive than ever, which of course means I’d like to hoon it.
Read MoreA Formula One race in Miami is one step closer to happening, even if the proposed circuit layout looks like a ton of bobby pins smashed together. Now the Miami City Commission approved plans for an F1 deal that would start in 2019 and last until 2028, meaning the city manager now has to formalize the agreement.
Read MoreIf you like race cars but are one of those “millennials” who doesn’t respect the longstanding institution that is “cable,” the good news is that Formula One’s new F1 TV streaming service is here. In the U.S., it’ll cost up to $11.99 a month to watch all of the F1 and none of the network television you could ever want.
Read MoreOn a normal day, the Nürburgring is heaven for car dorks. This weekend, over 200,000 racing fans—including me—will descend upon the ‘Ring to watch 151 utterly insane teams try to race for an entire day on the full 12.9-mile Nordscheleife course, and I can’t wait. My mind is slowly exploding from the awesomeness that awaits me at the Nürburgring 24 Hours race.
Read MoreRussian race car driver Matevos Isaakyan was heading up the hill on the famous Eau Rouge corner during the Six Hours of Spa last weekend when his car spontaneously decided to do not one, but two backflips. And somehow, he was physically just fine after it.
Read More#Brands are important. And because sponsors don’t forget about us on a casual Saturday afternoon while we’re sitting in our multi-million-dollar mansions or wrecking our brand-new race cars, we cannot forget about them during all of our major life events. It’s just common courtesy.
Read MoreSomewhere in their large, expensive homes, NASCAR’s founding family is nervously laughing, hoping no one notices the beads of sweat rolling down their faces as they dodge the question of whether their long-held stake in the sport is for sale. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Read MoreThe Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo is giving racing fans what we’ve always wanted: pure, unrestricted speed. Since it is not racing the 919 anymore, Porsche dropped the series-mandated restrictions and are on a warpath to dominate lap records across the globe. Yet we all know that only one lap time really matters: the Nürburgring. No Nürburgring, no care. Just do it already, Porsche.
Read MoreGet a rolling BMW E36 shell for $200, add the V8 from a Chevrolet Suburban and cobble together parts you can’t afford or that don’t exist on your own. There’s a pie plate in the front to keep the cold air intake in place, anatomical doodles in the trunk, and did we mention the camper top? Behold vehicular perfection.
Read MoreThe France family has been in control of NASCAR since Bill France Sr. founded it in 1947, staying in power so long that they’re still known as the “first family.” But just over a week after NASCAR acquired another major racing series, Reuters reports that the family is in talks of potentially selling its stake in the sport.
Read MoreAt 21 years old and with a deal to race at the Indianapolis 500 later this month, Pietro Fittipaldi crashed into an outer barrier in the days before the first World Endurance Championship race of the year on Friday. The wreck shattered the front end of his prototype, and he has “suspected fractures” to both legs.
Read MoreBobby pins, if you ask anyone who likes to pin hair out of their face and eyes, are a good way to keep things under control. But bobby pins are also really easy to lose. Luckily, I think I’ve found all of the bobby pins I’ve lost in my lifetime. They were used to layout the proposed circuit for the Miami Formula One race.
Read MoreFormula One might cultivate a reputation as the pinnacle of motorsports, the most technically advanced series out there. But it still makes remarkably dumb errors, which gave us this wonderful little not-a-cheat about tiny vents in the floor.
Read MoreCheck out those nice wide shots and rich colors that only the real, super wide honest-to-God celluloid can provide. I didn’t plan to spend my afternoon wrapped up in gorgeous vintage racing footage. It was just one of life’s happy accidents.
Read MoreIt’s been almost a year since Porsche announced it was ending its 919 Hybrid LMP1 endurance racing program and focusing its efforts on Formula E, closing off an era of racing that saw 17 victories, and three Le Mans wins in a row. Now the car is on a farewell tour around the world, rolling through New York City and hitting the major landmarks.
Read MoreWhen it comes to preparing a wheel for a NASCAR pit stop, the goal is a lot like the reoccurring theme Goldilocks kept stumbling upon—the glue holding lug nuts on the wheel can’t be too brittle or too syrupy. It has to be just right, or else it could become a competition disaster.
Read MoreOn Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway, Spencer Gallagher led his first lap ever in the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series. That lap also happened to be the last one, meaning Gallagher got to celebrate his first win in a NASCAR national series. Four days later, NASCAR suspended him for failing a drug test.
Read MoreOne of the purest joys in all of racing is when the race cars aren’t in competition and just get hooned like regular cars. Red Bull Racing was Hungary (get it? GET IT??? Like, Hungary “the country,” “hungry” the need for sustenance... you know what? I’m sorry. Jesus, I’m sorry) for donuts this week, so they let Formula One driver Max Verstappen out in downtown Budapest to nuke some F1 tires. It is a delight.
Read MoreReports came out earlier this week that Formula One could add another race date on the continent its former leader called a big shit hole, North America, as soon as next year, and the City of Miami confirmed Tuesday that those reports weren’t overly eager. A multi-year deal could start in the city as soon as 2019.
Read MoreI’m in moving this week, which means I must physically wrestle all the junk that I have no idea why I kept. I don’t need more stuff. I need to rid myself of stuff. But I will make an exception if you buy me this championship-winning Cadillac DPi-V.R for my birthday. I don’t have one of those, and it’s for sale!
Read MoreWhile things have been more fortunate this year, most of the 2017 Formula One season was an absolute parade. The numbers backed that up, with overtaking stats dropping in half from the year before. Now F1 just slipped new aero rules by to promote more passing next year, even as teams oppose them.
Read MoreFox Sports has been the bane of endurance fans’ existence for its bizarre channel changes and banishing races to deep-cable channel Fox Sports 2. Now that’s changing. The World Endurance Championship moved from Fox to Velocity this year, and now IMSA announced they’re moving to NBC Sports in 2019. Now you might be able to watch actual endurance racing in America.
Read MoreThere are few things more awe-inspiring than the moon landings of the 1960s, even to this day. Today, we’d like to celebrate the life of Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon, who has passed away peacefully in Houston on May 26, 2018.
Read MoreThough Subaru’s sales game has been unstoppable in recent years, even as it keeps making fun and good things for us to drive, there’s one lucrative segment it has yet to conquer—the big three-row crossover one. The 2019 Subaru Ascent aims to change that, and unlike the black sheep Tribeca it actually looks and feels like a Subaru.
Read MoreHere’s another reason why keyless fobs are terrible. Thieves in the United Kingdom managed to steal someone’s Mercedes-Benz in about 20 seconds by remotely boosting the car’s key signal to unlock the vehicle, according to Carscoops.
Read MoreIf you consider the massive amount of data Google has gathered on the world around you, it might be surprising—maybe reassuring?—to learn the company can’t track down something as simple as a trailer. But that’s indeed the case: Since January, Michigan police have been trying to locate a car hauler stolen from Waymo, the company’s self-driving car unit, and have so far come up dry.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Consumer Reports said it couldn’t recommend the Tesla Model 3, after finding what it called “big flaws” in the electric sedan’s braking distance. But the publication reversed its decision on Wednesday, saying an over-the-air software update promised by CEO Elon Musk fixed the issue.
Read MoreThe New York City subway system is a mess, and now instead of reading about why that is, you can play a very simple game and experience it yourself. It’s called “MTA Country,” and it’s hell. It’s tongue-in-cheek solution, revealed once you win the game, isn’t any better.
Read MoreThe reason an Uber self-driving car fatally struck a pedestrian in March is coming into sharper focus, thanks to the release of a preliminary report on Thursday from the National Transportation Safety Board. But the agency’s findings raise a notable question: If the car—a Volvo XC90 outfitted with Uber’s own self-driving tech—had had its driver assistance functions from Volvo engaged at the time, including automatic emergency braking, could the impact of the crash been lessened or avoided entire
Read MoreTesla is trying to ramp up production of the Tesla Model 3 to 5,000 units per week by the end of June, and it’s starting to see some progress toward that goal. This week, the automaker pushed out 500 Model 3s in a 24-hour period, according to an email from CEO Elon Musk.
Read MoreUber informed “about 300” workers of their termination earlier today as part of plans to shut down its self-driving car testing program in Arizona following a fatal crash in March, where one of the company’s test vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian, according to The Arizona Republic.
Read MoreThe consumer advocacy groups Center for Auto Safety and Consumer Watchdog called on the Federal Trade Commission today to investigate Tesla for “deceptive advertising and marketing practices and representations” made regarding Tesla’s Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system. The letter specifically points out advertising, statements, and marketing materials that give the impression that the Autopilot system is far more capable than it actually is right now.
Read MoreHey, who feels like doing something mildly stupid, but audible enough so people around you can wonder what the hell is going on with you? You, that’s who? We’re going to conduct a little experiment here: I’m going to write out some things you can say with the people-mouth stuck above your chin that sound like engine noises, and you’re going to tell me what kind of engine it sounds like! This’ll be fun, trust me.
Read MoreTesla has a new crossover, a semi, and a Roadster in the pipeline, but CEO Elon Musk is adamant the automaker doesn’t need to raise new capital to fund those projects. An analyst from Goldman Sachs disagrees, and suggested Tesla needs a big round number to make it happen: $10 billion.
Read MoreIn some corners of the world where Elon Musk’s word is taken as gospel, there’s a prevailing view that it’s irresponsible for news outlets to cover car crashes involving semi-autonomous technology as diligently as we’ve seen lately. Whether it’s Tesla investors stanning hard for the company, claiming “not one” reporter covers regular car crashes, or even journalists themselves casually agreeing with Musk, you see this perspective everywhere. It’s wrong.
Read MoreHyundai didn’t plan too far ahead when it came to dealerships for its Genesis luxury brand, but it’s looking way into the future on something much more important: holograms in cars. Holograms? Holograms. Holograms, like a wispy version of your significant other, sitting in a passenger seat next to you.
Read MoreYou could consider Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system a bold and revolutionary, if admittedly incomplete, step toward autonomous cars. Or you could think the company has no business giving it that name. Or that human beings are too irresponsible not to use it in exceedingly dumb ways. I actually think all of those things are true, as well as this: You should not buy or use the “Autopilot Buddy” device, ever.
Read MoreThe owner of a Tesla Model S that crashed into a parked firetruck in Utah last Friday said she had the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system engaged at the time of the incident, police said Monday. More than likely, this crash will lead to yet more scrutiny around Tesla’s driving assistance system, which is already under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Read MoreI’m not really a fan of proximity keys, or keyless-entry non-keys, or smart keys, or whatever you want to call the things that aren’t exactly keys anymore but are used to open and start your car without having to be in actual contact with the car. Still, I don’t think I realized how bad they could be.
Read MoreOne of the hypothetical projects in Tesla’s pipeline is a new Roadster, a sports car with a supposedly whopping 620 miles of range and a 0-60 time of 1.9 seconds. When CEO Elon Musk debuted it in November, the accompanying pictures of the car suggested the interior would be minimal, akin to the uber-minimalist Model 3. But in a new video released this week by Tesla, we get a clear shot inside the Roadster, and it’s downright spartan.
Read MoreIn October, General Motors made a big splash by announcing it was applying for a permit to test autonomous cars in New York State, with plans to deploy vehicles on the busy streets of Manhattan in “early 2018.” But more than six months later, the automaker has yet to receive final approval for the necessary permit to begin testing, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Read MoreFirefighters in California had to put out the smoldering flames coming from a Tesla Model X battery involved in a March fatal crash, even days after the crash, according to a new report from KTVU in California.
Read MoreTwitter-maniac Elon Musk posted what he called a Tesla “quarterly all-hands video” on Wednesday, and it includes a quick glimpse of a covered vehicle, which immediately sent fanatics of the automaker into a frenzy. What is this? A Model Y prototype?
Read MoreThe National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching a team to Florida to investigate a fatal crash Tuesday involving a Tesla Model S that left two high school seniors dead. The agency said it doesn’t expect, at this time, that Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system will be a part of the investigation.
Read MoreUPS is planning to deploy a fleet of 35 modular, all-electric delivery vehicles for a trial program in London and Paris, the company said Wednesday, and being as boxy as they are, I love them.
Read MoreUber has concluded the likely reason why one of its self-driving cars fatally struck a pedestrian earlier this year, according to tech outlet The Information. The car’s software recognized the victim, Elaine Herzberg, standing in the middle of the road, but decided it didn’t need to react right away, the outlet reported, citing two unnamed people briefed on the matter.
Read MoreEarlier this year, California’s department of motor vehicles rolled out a new set of regulations for companies that want to conduct driverless car tests on public roads. But despite the painstaking effort that went into crafting the regulations, the DMV says there is one company in the state that’s allowed to test cars without a driver at the wheel—and it has some safety advocates calling for action.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk admitted in an unusually tense conference call last week that he doesn’t have a site confirmed to launch production of the Model Y crossover, but he’s confident (as always) it’ll start making the car in 24 months. By all accounts, it’s an aggressive, if not insane, timeline.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal led to the indictment of nine employees, including its former CEO, but a court-ordered settlement required the German automaker to dump gobs of cash into electric vehicles. When it comes to fast charging infrastructure, we’re now seeing what the investment might look like.
Read MoreJust days after filing a $2 billion lawsuit against Tesla for allegedly lifting the design of its own semi, startup Nikola announced with beer maker Anheuser Busch that it’ll purchase “up to” 800 hydrogen-electric powered semi-trucks from Nikola. The deal is, perhaps unsurprisingly, light on specifics.
Read MoreIn his quarterly conference call with financial analysts on Wednesday, the last thing Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk wanted to answer were Wall Street analysts’ questions about how much money the automaker needs to keep the lights on this year. So he cut them off, declared their queries “boring, bonehead questions” and instead opened the floor to a retail investor and super fan from YouTube. It was a strange experience.
Read MoreThe auto industry has treaded lightly after a self-driving Uber fatally struck a pedestrian in Arizona. Toyota, for its part, hasn’t conducted autonomous driving tests since, and now the automaker’s looking to work out more complicated autonomous driving scenarios away from the public in a new private facility set to be constructed in Michigan.
Read MoreOn a call with financial analysts Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk said the automaker will launch production of the Tesla Model Y crossover in 24 months, but the company hasn’t confirmed a location where it’ll be built.
Read MoreIn the coming months, Tesla plans to shut down production for about 10 days in total, the company said on Wednesday in a letter to investors, as it plans to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan to 5,000 units per week.
Read MoreTesla and drivers who filed a lawsuit last year over the delayed rollout of the automaker’s updated semi-autonomous Autopilot system have agreed to settle the case for $5 million, according to Electrek. The settlement, if it’s approved by the court, would require Tesla to pay affected owners between $20 and $280.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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Read MoreThe 1984 Jeep Cherokee was such a dramatic redesign, it somehow made its predecessor from one model year prior, the SJ Cherokee, look like it belonged in another century. I know this, because I just drove both back-to-back; the SJ is, comparatively, a pile of junk.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ford Raptor is getting new hardware over the outgoing 2018 model, including fancy Fox shocks that detect when the vehicle is flying, as well as off-road cruise control called “Trail Control.”
Read MoreIf you thought the seemingly everlasting “old” Mercedes G-Class would actually go away completely, you underestimate its power over the militaries and corporations of the world. It’s still being built alongside it’s refreshed and improved replacement.
Read MoreEver since the premiere of the second season of Westworld—the HBO show that’s maybe best described as a mix of Jurassic Park and The Terminator, to give you some sense of its optimistic and uplifting tone—several people have asked me “what’s up with those space-looking buggies?” Well, the vehicles are real, and I’ve actually driven one.
Read MoreBig, beautiful all-terrain tires are key component of any off-road build, as they add ground clearance and traction. Plus, they look awesome. But they’re also going to cost you some performance, and you can see exactly how much in this dyno test.
Read MoreThe 2.0-liter turbocharged 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL’s fuel economy figures are in, and with numbers as high as 24 MPG combined, the world finally has a Wrangler with fuel economy that’s actually borderline “livable.”
Read MoreYou’ll finally be able to get the 2019 Chevy Suburban with GM’s voracious 6.2-liter V8 this summer in the Suburban RST–an aftermarket-inspired “high performance” take on the company’s 18.6-foot long flagship SUV.
Read MoreWe knew that the 2018 Volkswagen Up GTI was probably going to be the greatest car ever made last May. A year later, and after a week of driving it across Europe, I’m happy to confirm that the 2018 Volkswagen Up GTI is, in fact, the greatest car ever made forever and ever, amen.
Read MoreWhen a 24 Hours of Lemons team offered me a free Volkswagen Type 4—the largest air-cooled car VW ever made—I had to haul it more than 2,000 miles from California to Texas. Seemed like a perfect opportunity to find out if the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas can haul families and one of its ancestors, right?
Read MorePeople have been stuffing bigger batteries and more powerful drivetrains into little toy cars for decades, so it’s about time someone stuffed a tiny little gas engine into it. The mad geniuses at YouTube’s Grind Hard Plumbing Co. adapted a 240-cc engine from a Honda CRF230 dirt bike to fit in a Barbie Mustang using Craigslist go kart parts, and the resulting grown-up toy is amazing.
Read MoreThis past weekend, I found myself at a small gas station in San Antonio, Texas helping a random guy fix his junky, early 1990s Ford Explorer. After 20 minutes with no luck, he and I were about to give up, and I was about to—in a questionable move—give a random person a ride home. That’s when I had a stroke of genius involving a piece of paper.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we love seeing some really crazy builds. Cars are largely very boring these days, so anything that comes along that makes us stop and go, huh, is appreciated. Today’s spectacle? A BMW V10 engine stuffed into a Lotus Elise. Hell. Yes.
Read MoreWe knew my $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer project was going to have a hard time driving 1,700 miles from Michigan to Utah, especially over the Rocky Mountains. But we weren’t expecting the Jeep to burst a hose and vaporize its coolant after the mountains, on the flat home stretch.
Read MoreA couple months ago, after I struggled to decide if I wanted to buy a 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle, readers told me I’d be a fool not to. So I heeding their advice and hauled the Jeep home through an ice storm. Yesterday, I finally washed the big SUV, and my god were readers right: this Jeep is incredible.
Read MoreBack in 1999, right after our son Langston was born, something amazing happened. No, it wasn’t us realizing that being parents was the most important task of our lives. Or that children are outstanding learners, even when they’re babies. Nope, it was much more interesting than that.
Read MoreLast fall, I bought an $800 Jeep Grand Wagoneer that hadn’t run in 12 years. After months of wrenching, in March, I drove with my coworker Andrew Collins on a grand journey from near Detroit, Michigan to the off-road trails of Moab, Utah. Here’s video of that trip’s first leg—the Jeep’s first highway voyage in over a decade.
Read MoreRight now, I’m trying to get my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle on the road, and I’m struggling to answer a question: How much preventative maintenance should I do? (Because this is getting expensive).
Read MoreI ran my Jeep out of gas on Friday, stranding me in an “authorized vehicles only” turnaround between carriageways of one of the busiest stretches of Michigan’s Interstate 75. But I didn’t call AAA like I normally would have; I requested a Lyft. And it worked great.
Read MoreIf you want to maximize speed on an ice racetrack, studded tires are the way to go. But they’re not always cheap, so YouTuber Garage 54 ENG decided to make his own using self-tapping screws and some old tires. The results are actually impressive, even if this idea isn’t exactly “advisable.”
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