An SM-2 missile misfire and exploded onboard a German Navy frigate during military drills last week. Fortunately there was no serious injury to the sailors onboard, and now there’s video of the explosion and subsequent fire.
Read MoreWhen the HMMWV, AKA the Humvee, AKA the military version of the Hummer, first came out, people thought it was unstoppable. Then the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq happened, and it proved extremely vulnerable to everything from improvised bombs to mines to bullets. So this mean-looking thing is what the original maker of the Humvee has come up with as an upgrade.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever seen a picture of a World War II Jeep with brown paint between the points of its “invasion star,” you might have assumed it was just an aesthetic touch. But it was much more than that: the paint was there to keep soldiers safe. Here’s how.
Read MoreYou’re looking for a new seat for you fully sikkkk CRX. You’ve considered Recaros. Jamexes. Sparco seats. Have you ever considered an ejection seat, though? Because apparently Boeing will sell you one. A real one. Ripped out of a real fighter jet.
Read MoreNow that the mighty BMW M2 is here, you might overlook the 2018 BMW M240i Coupe. That’s unfortunate, because letting the medium-heat 2 Series slip by you would be a big mistake. This is still my favorite practical, comfortable, two-door, performance luxury car currently on the market.
Read MoreNow that Dodge is set to launch updated and faster versions of the Challenger and Charger Hellcat, you may not realize that you can score a 707 horsepower monster for less than a loaded minivan.
Read MoreAlex is the long-suffering Executive Managing Editor of the whole Gizmodo Media Group, which means he endures Jalopnik’s constant emotional abuse. As the saying goes, shit flows upwards, and everyone knows we’re full of it. He who has come to the inevitable conclusion that New York is trash if you actually want to drive somewhere, and he is looking for something inexpensive to escape the madness. What car should he buy?
Read MoreA quick glance at the speedo in the $1 million, 789 horsepower McLaren Senna showed I was knocking on 300 kph, and quick brain math meant that was nearing 186 mph. My foot stayed planted on the gas. Then at the 200 meter board… I stood on the brakes to make turn one at Estoril. We lost over 100 kph in no time at all.
Read MoreI had a 2006 BMW M5 with more than 180,000 miles dialed up in my possession the past four months or so. Well, until Sunday. It was fast, loud, fun to drive, and honestly, in pretty desperate need of repair. Instead of doing those repairs, I decided I’d trade the car for a much better car, a 2002 Honda S2000, that actually doesn’t need much work at all.
Read MoreSome dealers don’t like to play ball with this whole internet shopping thing. Even so, most know that if they refuse online price quotes they will lose sales, but some will send you numbers only to try to pull some tricks later—like altering the price due to your credit score.
Read MoreNew car smell should be the very last thing I notice. I mean, thanks to my work I’m hopping in and out of new cars all the time. It should have the same effect on me as iocane powder on Westley—inconceivable. So why is it right now smacking me right in the face? This is what happens when you’re in a pristine Mazda RX-7.
Read MoreRobert has a 14-year-old Volkswagen Passat with a lot of miles and not a lot of life left in it. His family refuses to ride in his car that probably should have been sent to the junkyard years ago, so it’s time for a replacement that’s safe but not lame. What car should he buy?
Read MoreAt first I had no idea what this all-new 2019 Honda Insight was supposed to be. Was it an Accord? Why would Honda re-use the name of a car nobody really liked? And would it bring any joy to drivers? But I found out what it is. It’s a hybrid for the Normals among us.
Read MoreThis past weekend, my friend and I took a 2018 Toyota Camry on a 1,700 mile road trip from Michigan to North Carolina to visit—and I know this may shock and surprise some of you—a Jeep junkyard. And while much of the trip was a complete disaster, and arguably pointless, I finally learned why the Camry is still the sedan king: because it’s multi-talented, and it just works.
Read MoreThe Regal TourX is a very nice wagon that Buick doesn’t want to call a wagon. But semantics aside, the automaker and its sales staff are pretty much clueless as to how to actually get new customers into these things.
Read MoreIn my travels I have found few places more ideally fit to open up a car—really open it up, I mean—than Interstate 10 in Texas headed west toward California. The Hill Country gives way to true desert and 80 mph speed limits between Kerr County and El Paso County, and while the State Troopers frown on this, every driver out there is doing closer to 90 if not more. In this instance, the car being opened up was a 2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake S, the little-known but visually stunning Jaguar wagon.
Read MoreI love the way the 2019 Volvo V60 layers luxury car fanciness with station wagon usefulness. It might look a little faster than it is, but what the V60 lacks in sheer adrenaline it makes up for in versatility, comfort and safety. Long live the longroofs.
Read MoreThe 2019 Jaguar I-Pace is quite an achievement. While the entire automotive industry is scrambling to get electric vehicles out by the end of the decade, Jaguar will begin delivering its new EV crossover before the end of this summer with the performance, style and range to challenge Tesla and everyone else.
Read MoreWhen it comes to new cars, the sedan segment is dying. Honda has been struggling to sell it’s tried-and-true Accord and Ford will soon abandon the sedan market almost entirely. Since no one is buying them you would think buyers could score a deal on a cheap pre-owned model, but currently, that isn’t the case.
Read MoreEveryone knows you aren’t likely to get top dollar for your trade if you give it to a dealer instead of selling yourself. But what if you think the dealer straight up lied about the value of your car only, to profit from it later? Unfortunately, your options for recourse are limited.
Read MoreCars are typically depreciating assets (unless you’re buying a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO) but this is actually good news if you’re a used car shopper. Here are the late-model cars with the highest three-year depreciation and the top one is kind of surprising.
Read MoreKyle’s E36 BMW M3 is doing what most German cars of that vintage do: rapidly fall apart and print repair bills. He’s ready to move on to something that can get him up the mountain for ski patrol duty. What car should he buy?
Read MoreNow is the time of year when a lot of younger drivers get a new ride. Teens are graduating and going to college, or if they’re really lucky, heading to their last years of high school in a car for the first time. You see a ton of “Best Cars For New Grads” articles out there, and while those lists are always debatable, one car you should try to avoid is also one younger drivers often gravitate toward the most: the Jeep Wrangler.
Read MoreYou don’t need to take the 2018 Jeep Wrangler off-road to enjoy driving it. Every ride in this thing feels like an adventure. But when you do push it off the edge of the map, the barbarian spec Rubicon becomes the best sidekick you could ask for.
Read MoreIf smaller cars are good, and station wagons are good, and big burbly V8 engines are good... you’re going to enjoy meeting the 503 horsepower 2018 Mercedes-AMG C63 S wagon.
Read More“What the hell is a Skoda Yeti,” you may be wondering, assuming you were even able to get passed the strange anthropomorphic face of this car, with its grille like an old Englishman’s mustache and headlights like a set of reading glasses perched on the bridge of a nose. Well gather ’round, and meet one of the neatest cars you’ll never see in America.
Read MoreI couldn’t even peel out of the garage in Manhattan before someone had stopped me. “Is that a Buick?” they shouted. “Yep! A Buick Regal.” Admiring the hatchback’s sleek frame, my new friend went on: “I remember when a Buick was something my grandma drove.”
Read MoreIf you have the patience to wait for it, it’s great to order a car from the factory exactly the way you want it. Often you can still score just as good of a deal on an ordered car instead of buying off the lot. But if your order gets changed, here is how the dealer is likely to handle it.
Read MoreJonathan moved from New York City to Los Angeles a few years ago and bought a 1998 Camry for $1,000. It was a smart and responsible move, but the old Toyota is showing its age it’s time for something new and fun. What car should he buy?
Read MoreEverybody loves a 911, but—and trust me on this—the Porsche Cayman GT4 is the best road car the company has ever delivered. The mid-engine layout gives it incredible balance, the six-speed manual makes it highly engaging. So when you add $20,000 in upgrades to that brilliant base, you’re pretty much into a superhero on wheels.
Read MoreElectric scooter sharing is bad business and a public nuisance. Venture capital funded companies like Bird that have dumped miniature EVs in cities are already getting chased out of San Francisco and Austin. But if you don’t care about any of that, the things are really fun and cheap to ride.
Read MoreIf you’re picking up a 2018 McLaren 570S Spider to look cool and make loud parking lot exits, you’re going to have a bad time. Don’t let the drop top, creamy leather and nice curves fool you–this car is aggressive and it’s not to be trifled with. In other words, it’s classic supercar through and through.
Read MoreSummer is here or will soon be here depending on whether or not you buy into BIG CALENDAR’s agenda, but regardless you need to get yourself a convertible and soon. The good new is, the Italian drop top you probably already forgot about, the Fiat 124 Spider can be had for some killer prices.
Read MoreWhen you’ve already got a garage stocked with Ferrari’s greatest hits, each time you add something to the collection, it has to be interesting. This particular Dino, now packing more than 400 horsepower from an engine stolen from the famous F40 supercar, would qualify as interesting.
Read MoreHave you, like so many of us, ever lamented that your vehicle is not suited to all aspects of your life? My friends, I have worked out the answer.
Read MoreThe first Cadillac Escalade came out in 1999, and it was a bland, pointless Lincoln Navigator competitor that was basically indistinguishable from a GMC Yukon Denali. But the Escalade’s first revision, with its chunky fender flares and face like a knight’s helmet, remains a glorious moment for luxury SUVs.
Read MoreI don’t think I had ever been in a car that did not have an obvious center area to rest your arm while driving that didn’t have a bench front seat, until yesterday when I climbed into a 2018 Toyota GT86 for the first time and put my elbow right into the parking brake.
Read MoreThe original BMC Mini is widely considered to be one of the most technically influential cars of all time. Its transverse front-wheel drive layout is the basic design of nearly all mass-market small cars to this day. Yet a surprising number of the Mini’s revolutionary design decisions were present in another tiny car 13 years earlier. There was only one prototype, and the strangely adorable little car is largely forgotten: the Duncan Dragonfly.
Read MoreThis would have been blasphemy back in the day, but I’m bored by horsepower. It’s cheap. It’s too easy. It’s too dumb. We’re at the point where a Cadillac with 640 horsepower has been on the market for years now. The horsepower wars are over, and we all won. But there’s a new war coming. The war over weight.
Read MoreAfter more than a year of doing these Meh Car Mondays, I’m starting to realize some things. Things like the most meh decade for cars seems to be the 1990s. At some point we’ll evaluate why this is, but for today I just want to talk about a fiercely meh car that’s very much a product of the 1990s: the Plymouth Breeze, a car you probably haven’t thought about in years unless you’re trapped in the trunk of one right now.
Read MoreThe best car I have ever owned was a 2003 BMW 325ci, and driving modern cars has made me miss it even more. One of the most unfortunate and glaring differences I notice is the frustrating thickness of modern steering wheels.
Read MoreThe world is full of iniquities, curiosities, and people who want to push boundaries we never even knew were set there in the first place. It is on that note that I’d like to introduce you to the surprisingly competitive world of toilet racing.
Read MoreWelcome back to Carspotting! It’s been a while but we’re back with the worst walking tour of New York City, headed by me, a hack who is barely qualified to tell you which subway lines go uptown or downtown. It’s no longer a live series—let us know what you think about this—but we’re still out to find the best cars of the Big Apple.
Read MoreYou and your car don’t owe anyone anything.
Read MoreI’m very fortunate in that our readers tend to be fantastic. They’re the sort of people that take note of what interests me as a writer, and then reach out to me with things they suspect I’d find interesting. As such, a number of readers have emailed me pictures of strange, secret taillights hidden in trunks, because they know I have a taillight fetish and love weird crap. They’re right! I am interested. Let’s talk secret taillights.
Read MoreI was asking my fellow Jalopnik writers for some Meh car suggestions, when I heard a rapping on the plexiglass of my work-pod. David’s pod was next to mine, and I saw him press a scrap of paper against the plexi, soggy from the nutrient-broth sprays, that read “ASPEN.” I was confused, because I was thinking Dodge Aspen, which is pretty terrible but hardly Meh. I turned in my head restraint to gave him a confused look, which he must have understood, because he made the universal three-thumb hand
Read MoreIf you’re like me, you’ve been in this situation countless times: you’re driving along with a trunk packed full of garbage bags of piping hot chili, when you get a flat tire. To get to the tire under the trunk floor, you have to pull out all dozen bags, and in the process one of the chili bags invariably rips, covering you and the trunk interior with scalding hot chili, ruining your all-white figure skating outfit. Did I mention you’re on your way to a figure-skating competition? Because you are
Read MoreThe Toyota GT86 Cup is a brilliant race car kit which makes the best street car I’ve driven in years even more enjoyable on track. One team tweaked their GT86 Cup even further for Nürburgring domination, and it held its own against much more powerful cars at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Bonus: they didn’t even add a turbo.
Read MoreThere’s a bewildering variety of methods and systems and traditions when it comes to how carmakers name their cars. Luckily, I took some expired medication that lets me know which ways are the best. Even more lucky is that I’m now going to share this wisdom with you, because you know I love you best. Here we go.
Read MoreI have a list, right here on my computer, of a bunch of interesting and important stories I need to be working on. And yet I know, deep down, that I’m not going to be able to do jack feces on anything until I get this insanely unimportant, painfully geeky, incredibly minor observation about one particular Jaguar XJ taillight out of my system. I think I have brain problems.
Read MoreThere’s nothing worse than discovering that your car pumps in fake or weirdly amplified noise. Sure, I know isolation from other road sounds is a luxury, but it just sounds completely fake. Unfortunately, many electric cars have picked up this baton of sadness and ran with it, as Jaguar’s new I-Pace makes some of the worst fake car sounds I’ve ever heard—and it won’t be the last one to lie to you like this.
Read MoreSaab always built unusual and perhaps even idiosyncratic cars, but it was also anchored by a sense of rationality. Sure, it put keys in weird places and used unconventional drivetrains (two-stroke threes, V4s, and longitudinal front-drivers) but it always had good, rational reasons for doing so. That’s what makes this Saab 906 Turbo custom car so amazing—it’s a Saab, freed from rational thought.
Read MoreThe Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line Expressway connects Tokyo to Chiba, and boasts a six-mile long underwater tunnel—the fourth-longest in the world. I’m driving a bright green Lamborghini Gallardo Balboni following a gold Aventador S. We’re doing, well, let’s just say literally some speed in the tunnel, when all of a sudden a white R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R pulls up next to us.
Read MoreHalf a mile from home, on my very first drive since my doctor forbade me from getting behind the wheel a month previously, I was cut off while in the middle of a wide right turn.
Read MoreSome cars are so powerfully meh that it’s almost like they have a supernatural ability to disappear from human awareness entirely. This week’s meh car seems to have that power, because even though it went through two names, I have trouble remembering it ever existed in either form. I try to picture one, and my mind just comes up with a memory of the broken image icon. The car I’m talking about is the crossover named the Ford Freestyle or, later the Ford Taurus X.
Read MoreUsually when people think of modifying a car, it’s to make it more of a car. Y’know—some engine upgrades, better suspension, that kind of thing. But if you’re French artist Benedetto Bufalino, your idea of a modification would be a little different. More along the lines of “so what if I turn this car into a pizza oven”.
Read MoreBen Beacock’s 1981 Volkswagen Scirocco had one slight problem: its engine was toast. So, he swapped it for the beloved 24-valve VR6 engine, and fabricated a ton of custom parts to move the engine to the middle—yes, the middle—of the car. It’s perhaps the most complicated fix to a relatively simple problem, and I couldn’t love it more.
Read MoreAs you know, every trunk has a lesson for us, if we’re willing to look hard enough. Some trunks teach us about perseverance, some about unconventional thinking, and some, like this one, remind us of the value of keeping things simple. Everyone, please welcome today’s inspirational trunk, the front trunk of the NSU Prinz.
Read MoreAsk anyone where their dream driving road is and they’ll probably tell you it’s somewhere in Europe. Perhaps somewhere near the Alps, or that one road in Romania that was on Top Gear with the impossibly long name. Some might say the Pacific Coast Highway in California or Route 66. But most probably wouldn’t say Japan. That’s because they haven’t heard of the Venus Line.
Read MoreWhen I won my high school’s “Biggest Fuckup Who’ll Never Amount To Anything, Ever, And Is Ugly” award, I swore that one day I’d show them, all of them, even if it meant cramming myself into a tiny asphyxiating 67-year-old three-wheeled deathtrap with a man vastly more successful than myself. I’m happy to say I’ve done just that, and you can watch it on TV tomorrow night.
Read MoreI feel like I always need to re-state a disclaimer before Meh Car Mondays about the fundamental nature of a Meh car: a Meh car is not a bad car. A Meh car is just a boring car, a car, that while perhaps highly capable of fulfilling its position as a car, is nevertheless free of character, charm, or any intangible or tangible quality that would somehow make a human being give a shit about it. In short, a car like the Kia Spectra.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of articles and talk and hand-wringing and general grousing about how people are just not as happy as they used to be, that everyone is lonely, and adults have no friends. Sometimes social media gets blamed, or it’s something either Millennials or Baby Boomers did, because they’re all jerks. But nobody seems to realize the real problem here: Our cars have become too reliable.
Read MoreWith time and distance, almost any failure in the car marketplace can become a desirable oddity. Case in point: the BMW 318ti, also known as the E36 compact. Why did writer Louis Keene choose it, above all others, for a cross-country road trip?
Read MoreI bought a stick shift car halfway across the country without knowing how to drive it. The road trip back is how I would learn. That, or they’d find me dead on the side of I-10 in a teal 1990s BMW compact, stalled for eternity. One of those.
Read MoreFerrari lover Scott Chivers jumped at the idea of saving an exceedingly rough but rare Testarossa that had been converted into a roofless Spider, but he didn’t turn it over to a shop for a full restoration. He’s been bringing it back to life in his own garage, leaving the exterior rough to make what might be the only rat-style Ferrari on the road right now.
Read MoreI’m not sure what to say to Alli. “I’m sorry” just feels so meaningless. I’ve repeated it too many times over the last week. I said it to Teo every time he smiled at me. Every time I changed his diaper. Every time I made his bottle. The phrase now feels so hollow and does nothing but add to my sorrow. I lean over the car’s transmission tunnel to talk to her, and all I can tell her is, “I love you.”
Read MoreZL1. Z28. Z51. ZR2. ZR1. Z71. Z06. Z24. One of those numbers represents the pinnacle of General Motors’ performance lineup, milled from dragon steel to slay 911s, McLarens, villages full of peasants, etc. One represents an option package on your Cavalier that brought stunning 16-inch alloy wheels. One means your Silverado has locking diffs.
Read MoreIt’s one of the basic tenets of driving: keep your eyes on the road because you tend to direct your car to whatever you’re looking at. That’s why rubbernecking at a side-of-the-road crash is kind of terrifying. But as it turns out, even race car drivers aren’t immune to the seductive call of driving directly into their line of sight. And at this weekend’s Formula 3 race at the Nosiring, that resulted in a pretty spectacular accident.
Read MoreThis Sunday, Formula One returns to its birthplace of France for the first time in a decade. The hype trains have been cruising at full force ever since the announcement was made that Paul Ricard would be on the calendar… but the start of the race didn’t exactly display the finessed driving that you’d expect from the world’s greatest drivers.
Read MoreGetting your car washed is such a happy experience. You get to take it to a place, pay a small fee and watch all the dirt and grim rinse off of it and into the gutter. Few things are as satisfying or cathartic. Except when it all goes wrong, like it did for this poor soul.
Read MoreThe first thing that happened when I drove a Tesla on Autopilot was an instant, unsettling feeling of not being comfortable in the car at all, thinking it’s always a moment away from crashing. Slowly, I got used to it and calmed down, just like everyone else I’ve talked to who has used Autopilot. This video from a British testing group shows exactly why that is a problem, and why we’ve seen the kind of Autopilot crashes that have been blowing up in the news.
Read MoreA prototype of the soon-to-be-unveiled BMW 8 Series coupe was involved in a serious crash in Bavaria on Saturday, killing the passenger.
Read MoreA Renault driver was hospitalized and two pedestrians narrowly escaped a 3,347-pound Chevrolet Corvette C7 hurtling at them uncontrollably in Tula, Russia, on Wednesday, after the Corvette struck the Renault and veered into a shop. The driver of the Corvette appeared to emerge unharmed.
Read MoreTesla regularly implores drivers that use the company’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system to pay attention to the road and keep their hands on the steering wheel at al times. But a new report on a fatal March crash involving a Tesla Model X says the driver only had his hands on the wheel for 34 of the final 60 seconds before the collision, and, in that time, he received no visual or audio warnings to put his hands back on the wheel.
Read MoreAt some point in its relatively short life, this crossover found itself staring at the dirt and wondering what must have led it to this sad, sad fate. It must have been, in that moment, when this Ford realized there was no Escape.
Read MoreListen. Driving a pace car can be stressful. You have to successfully lead a bunch of really fast cars around a race track behind the wheel of your own very fast car. Any number of things can go wrong, but they usually don’t. That is, unless you’re General Motors product development head Mark Reuss.
Read MoreWhen we talk about Karma, it’s usually… not in a good way. But sometimes, it pays off to be a decent person, and J’Mmar Coleman found that out firsthand.
Read MoreIn just a few short days of test driving, the 2018 Hyundai Sonata started to feel like one of my best friends. This comfortable little car is idiot proof in a way that’s not all in your face about it, making it a positively pleasant everyday vehicle.
Read MoreWho here likes planets? I know I do—hell, I even live on one! I suspect there’s many fellow planet-enthusiasts out there, which is why I decided to do this: try and find cars named for every planet in our solar system, including our disrespected pal, the dwarf planet Pluto. Aside from a couple of well-known examples, this was trickier than you’d expect. And now we’ve got it all for you in an animation. Nothing but the best for you!
Read MoreIn June 2002, facing numerous complaints about a tire that had been installed on thousands of motorhomes, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put out a service bulletin with one RV manufacturer to replace the tires for certain owners, free of charge. By then, Goodyear had received at least 20 injury and death claims over failures of the tire, the G159, as well as 310 property damage claims. Armed with knowledge of the high failure claim data, federal regulators are asking the company why it didn’t simply
Read MoreJust as Honda teased with concepts last year, all-new Monkey and Super Cub bikes will be returning to the U.S. starting next year, and they look incredible.
Read MoreDuring Tuesday’s Tesla shareholder meeting, CEO Elon Musk said the company would never develop motorcycles because he almost died while riding one when he was 17.
Read MoreAdam Lyon, a 26-year-old rider from the Scottish town of Helensburgh, died during the a Supersport motorcycle race on Monday at Isle of Man TT. Lyon is the second rider to die in less than a week at Isle of Man, after Superbike rider Dan Kneen died Wednesday during a practice session for the event.
Read MoreFord will be killing pretty much all of its cars, which will either be a brilliant move from a profit perspective or backfire spectacularly. The good news is that the Fiesta ST will stick around for the 2019 model year, along with a cheaper version that will give you the looks of the ST, but not the moves.
Read MoreThey say it’s the things you love that come back to hurt you in the end. When it comes to racing, sometimes it seems like all that “hurt” comes from a gang of the No Fun Police barging in and mandating a whole bunch of rules and regulations that require this balls-to-the-wall sport to refrain from indecent exposure, thank you very much.
Read MoreArguably one of the most incredible things about the 1950s was the insistence that we could absolutely use this potentially deadly technology in the most wholesome ways to create a really cool car.
Read MoreThey say that all it takes to achieve something it so speak it into existence. Name it, and suddenly you can wrap your fingers around it; the mysterious it moves into the tangible realm. When Ethel Flock Mobley’s father named her after the gasoline he used in his taxi, then it really only makes sense that this Alabama baby would grow up aching to feel the control that only comes from careening a car around a race track at impossible speeds.
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 Airbus BelugaXL was already hilarious. Born with a forehead the size of Arkansas and a growth on its back, the fact that the BelugaXL can fly at all was funny enough. But now that the first one has rolled out of the paint shop, it’s friendly face has swayed me from laughing approval to all-out love.
Read MoreY’all. I’m sick of seeing the frankly disgusting prices that some of the cars go for on the Bring A Trailer. Like this Honda Civic. And this Honda Civic, too. And also for this 1997 Acura Integra Type R, which just sold for $40,750. This is out of control.
Read MoreFollowing multiple automakers’ negative reaction in response to President Trump’s proposed increase of automotive import tariffs, General Motors and Mazda have separately encouraged the Department of Commerce to reject Trump’s proposal.
Read MoreFollowing the impressive performance boost of the new 5 Series, BMW has similar plans with the next generation of the 3 Series, which is reportedly going to be lighter and more powerful than the current hardcore BMW M3 CS.
Read MoreFor the past decade, Mitsubishi has been almost an afterthought in the U.S. car-buying market, fading from the popular imagination as it limped forward with older, cheap, uncompetitive cars and sank in quality rankings. But Fred Diaz, the newly minted CEO of Mitsubishi Motors North America—now a part of the Nissan-Renault Alliance—is trying to get the brand back in touch with American buyers.
Read MoreGas-guzzling RV sales are up, thanks to an increasing number of retirees and cheap gas. I’ll admit that living in an RV never made much sense to me. And now, thanks to a recent New York Times story about RV communities, I’m even more bewildered.
Read MoreWe discovered that the 2018 Volvo XC40 is full of “genius touches to make life easier” when we first drove it last year. But some of these touches are really just fun.
Read MoreThe 2019 Volvo S60 Polestar Engineered is a 415 horsepower stealth fighter of a sedan, the highest performing S60 and a looker on top of it. Just 20 were made available in the U.S. via Volvo’s subscription service Care By Volvo. Volvo started taking orders yesterday, and, yes, they went quickly.
Read MoreThere were just a couple dudes working on a cliffside when suddenly–a Eurocopter AS350 helicopter pops up like a playful sea otter and performs a rolly-flippy dance that might make you queasy just watching it from the ground. It is most excellent.
Read MoreSince all hipsters collectively decided that the counterculture thing to do was ride fixed gear bicycles everywhere, it’s time for true hipsters to one-up to mainstream hipsters. It’s time to bring back the Benz Patent Motorwagen from 1886 with this replica. Good year for a hipster revolution.
Read MoreI suppose Florida news outlets can be forgiven for not spilling much ink on this video, being used to insane thunderstorms and all, but, still, holy shit!
Read MoreRecently, Bloomberg estimated that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO will sell for a vomit-inducing $45 million at auction. This is after another Ferrari 250 GTO sold in a private sale for an even more vomit-inducing $70 million. Pretend those owners will actually drive their cars. Pretend that a small collision happens. What then? Ya need parts, kid.
Read MoreFor the cynical among us, it’s easy to say that Nürburgring record attempts are dumb, arbitrary, unregulated and ultimately meaningless. I would argue that actually nothing matters because we’ll all be dead eventually, and that very fast cars are good, so let’s all suspend our cynicism and gaze in awe at the unrestricted Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo’s terrifyingly fast 5:19.546 ‘Ring run today.
Read MoreGood news, Tesla Model 3 reservation holders! If you are among those in the U.S. and Canada who put put down a $1,000 refundable deposit for a car, now it’s time to get serious. You can now confirm your order with Tesla and configure your Model 3 however you want. That will also be an additional $2,500, please, which Tesla very much needs right now.
Read MoreYou’ll remember Italdesign as the company responsible for that batshit, carbon-bodied Lamborghini Huracán with the strange wheels. Now, it’s teamed up with Nissan to create the most lunatic GT-R I’ve ever seen, called the Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign. Also it has 720 horsepower, so.
Read MoreAs fun as Formula One and Formula E can be, they’re still missing that little something special from the glory days of F1 racing. The ear-numbing scream of the cars, namely. As times are getting stressful, it’s nice to reflect back on the days of screaming V12 racing to let off some steam.
Read MoreTravis Pastrana does things in all kinds of vehicles that I probably wouldn’t even attempt in Grand Theft Auto, which is why he’s so fun to watch. Check out a solid hour of him and his lunatic friends doing stunts in Action Figures 2, a classic action sports-style movie that went live today.
Read MoreI totally understand why they made a Need For Speed movie, I just will never understand why they didn’t bother to make a good Need For Speed movie. This movie so openly rips off the Fast And The Furious franchise I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the script started as a parody.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever done design work or art work or nearly any creative work for hire, at some point you’ve most likely encountered some asshole who wants to use your work for free in exchange for “exposure.” It now appears that Elon Musk is one of those assholes, stealing an image of a farting unicorn from an artist.
Read MoreLamborghini reportedly showed about 200 potential customers a prototype of a new hybrid supercar that’s set to debut soon, according to a website called The Supercar Blog. Treat it with skepticism, but Lamborghini’s been talking about production cars going hybrid for a while now. This would get that rolling.
Read MoreIt is with great sadness and regret that we must report that Asimo, Honda’s humanoid robot, will grace this land no more. Honda has ceased development of Asimo, thus bringing the 18-year story and/or life of the child-sized robot-child to a close.
Read MoreThe Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is investigating a homicide that occurred this week where two men shot and killed a construction worker. It released a surveillance video of the suspects’ getaway car and has offered a reward to anyone who can help lead investigators to their identification and arrest.
Read MoreYou know his stuff. If you’ve ever see photos from a Formula Drift event or a Pikes Peak Hill Climb, you’ve seen Larry Chen’s work. Chen is a professional automotive photographer and he’s one of the best in the business. This is his story.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin DBS is back baby, and gone are the days of the subtle looks that graced the silver screen in 2008's Quantum Of Solace. Now it’s a sleek land ship with lines that are reminiscent of stardust being ripped apart as its sucked into the black whole that is the car’s grille. Now you can configure one, and here’s the way you should do it.
Read MoreYesterday, I posted our first Radwood Mega Gallery from this past weekend’s show. I knew, however, that my intern-quality shots could never satiate the masses of ’80s and ’90s car fans that come to Jalopnik for their photo needs. Allow me to do better
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is done and only 3,300 were made, but did you really think Dodge was going to back down from that 800-horsepower mark? Did you? Well, here comes the 797-HP 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, which Dodge said is “possessed by the Demon.”
Read MoreIt’s lucky for me and my credibility that the 2019 McLaren 600LT is so cool beneath its badass top-exit exhausts because there’s no shame in loving a McLaren. Hell, if a Plymouth Breeze had top-exit exhausts, I’d probably love that, too. I never claimed I was sophisticated.
Read MoreThe street-legal dragster of a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon may be dead, but its tricks sure aren’t. The 2019 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is here, with the same 707 horsepower as it had before but some new features inspired by the Demon. It also comes with the option of a satin-black hood, for looks.
Read MoreSometimes, boring is good. When you’re dealing with 70,000 pound double-trailer FedEx trucks, boring isn’t just good, it’s fantastic. In the world of trucking, excitement usually means expensive or dangerous trouble. That’s how you could tell that Volvo’s relatively boring public demonstration of truck platooning was so successful: it hardly looked like anything was happening at all.
Read MoreIt’s impossible to look at the 2019 Aston Martin DB11 Volante without saying, “Wow.” I know this because I’ve tested the car’s effect on people and every single one of them said that. But beyond its beautiful looks from the outside, here are five things that you might not know about it.
Read MoreThe McLaren Sports Series already comes in a few street car varieties for us U.S. Americans. There’s the 570S, for sportiness, and the 570GT, for comfiness. But where is an ever-so-slightly longer version, for both raciness and longiness? Enter this, the McLaren 600LT.
Read MoreIt has taken years but the original BMW Z4's looks have finally grown on me. What does that mean? Should I buy one? What is the right answer here?
Read MoreJalopnik Movie Club: Friendly reminder that this week’s movie review is 2014's Need For Speed! If you have any hot takes, be sure to email me at justin [at] jalopnik [dot] com, or make your case in the comments below.
Read MoreYou’d think car paint would be tougher than fingernails, but you’ve probably also seen these annoying scratches on the doorhandles of your cars. I know mine’s got some. Here are some tips on how to fix that.
Read MoreI recently traded a friend of mine I met on the Dark Web some very rare vintage erotic lenticular pictures of Tyne Daly from her Cagney and Lacey era for a cordless drill with a battery that never needs recharging. I was having trouble getting it to work, so I opened up the battery and found a tiny quantum singularity, connected by two wires to the contacts. I accidentally dropped my phone on it, so now my phone keeps getting Craigslist pages from the early 2040s. I thought I may as well share o
Read MoreThere already aren’t that many mid-engined hardtop sports cars available today and it looks like we’ve just lost another: The Alfa Romeo 4C Coupe. Pity.
Read MoreFollowing President Donald Trump ordering the Department of Commerce to open an investigation to determine the effect of imports on national security, and his consistent rhetoric of increasing tariffs on imports including automobiles, Toyota clarified in a statement today that its 137,000 American workers are not a threat.
Read MoreHave you ever been driving along in your Porsche (real or hypothetical) and thought to yourself, “Man, this is great and everything, but why isn’t this Porsche a wine?” Well, you’re in luck because there is now such a thing as Porsche wine.
Read MoreIn case you hadn’t heard the obscure, sparsely covered and rarely opined-about news, Ford bought a train station recently—Detroit’s famous ruin, Michigan Central Station. People are so moved by it all that they’re calling up Ford and offering up all of the items they’ve stolen from the station over the years.
Read MoreWhen I visit the car-auction site “Bring A Trailer,” I expect to see automobiles. But I’ll gladly make an exception for this recent Ferrari F40 engine listing, which is filled with mechanically pornographic imagery of the Ferrari F40's amazing 2.9-liter V8. Prepare your souls for an up-close view of greatness.
Read MoreAfter turning up in full rad regalia for this past weekend’s Radwood car show in San Fransisco, I’m back in New York slightly sunburnt and jet-lagged. But it was not in vain, for I can now share photos of what was assuredly the biggest-ever meeting of weird and unique cars from the 80s and 90s.
Read MoreTraffic on the 110 highway near downtown Los Angeles was ground to a halt on account of a man posted up on a sign. He seemed to be shouting and hanging signs of his own, apparently protesting pollution. Police and fire are already on the scene trying to coax the individual off the ledge safely.
Read MoreMost of the time when we see in-development production cars testing on public roads, they’re covered in tarp-like material, wrapped with distracting patterns, and most importantly, they’re running. This camouflaged car from the Pagani Huayra line was not.
Read MoreThe entry-level, $35,000 Tesla Model 3 is still nowhere to be seen, but at least Tesla appears to have dropped the starting prices and costs of certain options on the other variants. I guess that tent is helping.
Read MoreThere’s a replacement in the works for the 1,160-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera RS, and it’s scheduled to show up at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show in March. In a photo that more resembles a T-shirt design than a teaser photo for a new car, we now know exactly what a rough, basic outline of it looks like.
Read MoreI know we’ve covered the 2018 Kia Stinger plenty. We’ve had a First Drive of the all-wheel drive one, we’ve had a full review, we’ve covered how it has beaten Mustangs on the dragstrip, the process of buying one, and even written about the freaking key. This car is covered. Even so, the nice press car elves dropped a 365 horsepower Stinger GT off at my house, so I have things to say about it, dammit.
Read MoreWe live in an age of unprecedented everyday performance, safety and fuel economy in new cars, but that has come with a massive decline in the sports car market. In decades past you generally needed a dedicated sports car if you wanted something fun, or at least served as a status symbol. Today buyers go for the big 600 horsepower crossovers instead, not tiny convertibles. Now there’s even more bad news for sports cars and it comes in the form of President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs.
Read MoreI’ve been powering through the final season of The Americans at last (no spoilers, please!) and it’s really made me want a Lincoln Mark VII LSC. Are those cool again yet?
Read MoreI’m not usually one for convertibles, but for a 2019 Aston Martin DB11 Volante, I’ll make an exception. It’s a sleek and beautiful machine with a menacing V8 soundtrack to boot. Aston Martin just sent me the sticker (aka the Monroney) for the press loaner I had over the weekend. Care to have a look with me?
Read MoreMassachusetts police pulled over a GMC Sonoma after spotting a tower of chairs and office equipment precariously fastened to the truck’s bed. Then, five days later, police pulled over the same truck. For the same reason. Except instead of chairs and desks, the precarious load was trees. Honestly, I’m not sure if I should be impressed or appalled.
Read MoreWe were shocked to learn late last year that there’s a new Tesla Roadster on the way. We were almost speechless when CEO Elon Musk started making claims that it could hit 60 mph in less than two seconds. Now a company test driver is claiming the insane figures we’ve been promised have only been “conservative” estimates.
Read MoreThough it seems hard to believe, violent crime rates in Mexico have skyrocketed in some areas to their highest levels ever, and further to the south in Brazil, declining crime rates have failed to convince the country’s wealthiest citizens that things are getting safer. In both nations, we now see conditions that are turning factory-armored luxury vehicles into permanent staples in the marketplace.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump is threatening a tariff of up to 25 percent on imported cars, an idea that everyone hates. While it’s being touted as leveling the playing field in what he sees as an unfair trade system, the tariff, unsurprisingly, would be very bad for the American consumers—to the tune of about $45 billion annually, or almost six grand extra per car.
Read MoreWhen this world feels like it’s going to hell—if it hasn’t already, which is debatable—the one true source of joy left will be Copart auction listings, where everything is beat up and the damage reasons are more ambiguous than size labels on women’s clothing.
Read MoreIf it’s time to go car shopping again, perhaps skip the Craigslist ads, the enticing CarMax warranty or Aston Martin of Cleveland. This year at the Silverstone Classic auctions in the UK, we find three similar and similarly priced street legal touring car legends—all of which are priced to sell and old enough to import to America. Question is, which one do you pick?
Read MoreIt’s strange to think about comparing modern cars with older ones because nearly all modern cars are bigger, heavier and usually more powerful. But when you compare a 1991 Acura NSX with a 2018 Lotus Evora 400, the line between the two gets blurry.
Read MorePhotos of the new Aston Martin DBS Superleggera flagship have leaked ahead of the car’s official debut, showing a stunning design that—according to allegedly leaked specs—will be backed up by a 715 horsepower jackhammer under the hood.
Read MoreWe already know that making a “tire” out of duct tape yields surprisingly not-bad results, but what if you make tires from electrical tape, and try ripping a burnout? In yet another episode in which he answers a question no one ever asked, YouTuber Garage 54 ENG tries just that.
Read MoreYou see this here neon green 1972 Datsun 240Z? You see how it has bronze wheels? Fender flares? I would drive the shit out of this thing. I would do unspeakable things to own it.
Read MoreInitial D has been a manga, it’s been anime, it’s been games, it’s even been a live-action feature film. But throughout all of those different media, it was missing something. Something smart. Special. Something beautiful. It was missing a little thing I like to call GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY.
Read MoreThere’s something funny to me about seeing a car as rare as an Aston Martin Vulcan for sale on any old car dealer website. Sure, Cleveland Motorsports is a luxury shop that sells Rolls-Royces, Astons and more, but it is still a car dealership, so the listing has a banner that says “Special Offer,” a window to see factory incentives, and a finance calculator. We can assume none of that applies here.
Read MoreThe fourth installment of Microsoft’s gravity-optional driving game, Forza Horizon 4, will soon be upon us. One of the game’s big draws is the sheer amount of cars you get to choose from. And it looks like there are over 450 this time around.
Read MoreI’m not sure just how closely you’re tracking the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) research into making new, more potent and capable ground vehicles, but they’ve been working like very secretive and dangerous little beavers and coming up with some pretty remarkable things. Like a whole new take on the wheel, which, let’s face it, has been resting on its laurels for quite a while.
Read MoreAlmost immediately after John Cena settled his lawsuit with Ford over the sale of his Ford GT supercar, Ford and the dealer that came into possession of Cena’s former car have settled as well.
Read MoreThere’s something special about having the very last of something, especially if those somethings are a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and a 2017 Dodge Viper. Fiat Chrysler has ceased production of the two, and the last examples of each, sold as a pair, recently fetched $1 million at auction. Update: The winner was Dan Snyder, a Dodge collector.
Read MoreThe most recent form of dangerous street racing currently plaguing Los Angeles are “sideshows,” which is where a large number of spectators and drivers take over intersections to watch cars perform stunts like donuts and burnouts. A few such sideshows took place over the weekend, drawing hundreds of onlookers.
Read MoreHow did a pile of 1950s-era General Motors “Turboglide” transmissions end up buried in a swamp near the site of GM’s current Parma Metal Center in Cleveland? That’s what this machine repairman who works there wonders, and even after he sent us photos, and some sleuthing on my part, we may never know the truth.
Read MoreIf you weren’t in San Francisco this weekend, you apparently missed one hell of a time. The third Radwood, the car show that celebrates the rides and fashions of the 1980s and 1990s, had its biggest and best showing ever.
Read MoreIf you’re like most people, you’ve probably been wondering why it’s taken the world’s two most important industries—the macaron industry and the automotive industry—so long to find a suitable collaboration. Well, wonder no more, beacause finally there’s a car built in partnership with the world’s leading macaron developer: the Renault Twingo PH Macaron, a joint venture between Renault and Pierre Hermé, Parisian crafter of fine macarons.
Read MoreRemember in 2001, right around the time the general public was introduced to the import tuner scene by The Fast And The Furious and “roll call” or “shopping list” decals became a fashion statement? If you do, I don’t have to explain why this is funny.
Read MoreThere’s a few things that share a name and general description both here and in the United Kingdom, but, for some cruel reason, maybe as penance for our misbehavior in 1776, the Brit just have better versions of. Kit-Kats are one example. I want to talk about three examples today, examples that our American readers will recognize as mostly shitty American cars, but were a different story across the Atlantic.
Read MorePink is a controversial color in the racing world. It’s a girl’s color—and we all know girls don’t race, right? Pink liveries for men are apparently emasculating, and women who drive pink cars? Well, they’re just shoving their femininity in everyone’s faces and subscribing to a stereotype.
Read MoreBefore the Formula One French Grand Prix at the Circuit Paul Ricard, Aseel Al-Hamad became one of the first Saudi women to drive a car to celebrate the end of the ban on women driving in the Gulf kingdom. And she did it behind the wheel of a 2012 Renault F1 car.
Read MoreIf there’s anything that really kills the fun of racing, it’s rules. Yeah, sure, there are definitely some rules in place that need to be there for the safety of human beings and all that, but sometimes The Powers That Be just get greedy. They have control, and so they go for it.
Read MoreYeah, that just happened. Romain Dumas climbed behind the wheel of Volkswagen’s electric I.D. R and just beat the all-time Pikes Peak record from Sebastien Loeb by setting the first-ever time under eight minutes.
Read MoreAh, yes. This weekend, Formula One made its celebrated return to très chic France after a decade of absence from the calendar, and that’s pretty great! Except, well—when it’s not. Which has turned out to be more of the time.
Read MoreThis weekend, Formula 2 drivers competed in their usual two races ahead of Formula One’s French Grand Prix. And while fans on Twitter were lauding the competition as being better than F1, the drivers in the series think otherwise.
Read MoreA “Quasar” is an extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a star-like image in a telescope. This has been your Peugeot Quasar learning moment.
Read MoreWhen you add a new car to your collection, if you’re anything like Tom from Tom’s Turbo Garage, you probably take a deep dive into the history and lore of your new purchase. The video below is exactly that, a collection of Autozam AZ-1 stories to help people understand the climate in which this car was built, and its significance to enthusiasts. Why would anyone expend the time, money, and effort it takes to import one of these tiny turbo machines to the United States of Grande? Maybe you’ll fin
Read MoreIn the late 1970s, Pikes Peak saw an influx of small lightweight open-wheel Neaman-Dreager roadsters powered by Porsche 914 aircooled flat-fours with barely 100 horsepower. These little under-1000 pound cars were taking the fight directly to the larger and more powerful USAC-style front-engine sprint cars and Indy roadsters. In 1979, California dirt track racer Bruce Canepa figured more power would be the correct answer, and slung a Porsche 911 RSR engine off the back end of his Neaman-Dreager c
Read MoreTomorrow we’re going back in time again when we visit Radwood NorCal, the perfect celebration of ‘80s and ‘90s automotive enthusiast lifestyle. This is the biggest Radwood yet, and the great news is that there is still plenty of room for you to bring your car and join in the fun! Even if you don’t have an ‘80s or ‘90s car, there is plenty to see and do for spectators as well. Jalopnik is sponsoring the show again, and you can see us there!
Read MoreAs a sports car fanatic, there is nothing I love more than a spartan interior, the neutral handling of a mid-engine chassis, nimble steering, and an incredible wind-in-my-genitals open-air driving experience. That’s why I just bought this 2012 McLaren MP4-12C cutaway car from Beverly Hills McLaren for only $24,880. Of course, I had to get the matching McLaren-branded windbreaker, so the grand total was fifty grand, but it was still a bargain, and well worth the cost of entry. Where else can you
Read MoreIn what could be a third volley in the coming trade war with the European Union, following steel and aluminum tariffs by the U.S. and a retaliatory tariff on motorcycles and denim by the European Union, President Donald Trump has again threatened to impose an import tariff on Europe-made vroom vroom machines. While the threats have been coming for over a month now, this is the first time that the president has placed a numerical value on the car tariff.
Read MoreMercedes has made their announcement to leave DTM at the end of the current season. This has served as something of a wake up call to the management of the series, realizing that they needed to shake up the regulations in an effort to attract more manufacturer support to the series. They’ve been in talks with Japan’s Super GT series to come to a common regulation rulebook since 2014, and this was the push they needed to make it happen, according to this report on motorsport.com.
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 MoreThere are no more BMW M2s, only the 2019 BMW M2 Competition now. That means 405 horsepower from a compact little package. And when I saw it decked out in German livery, I near lost my damn mind.
Read MoreNo questions. No second guessing. No sentimental hesitation. No “But it could definitely go another 100,000 miles.” No justifying the situation. No regrets. It is time to buy a new car.
Read MoreAston Martin has a long history of side-hustle attempts at creating luxury sedans, and their first big shot at it started in the 1970s with the Aston Martin Lagonda limousine—an oddball sedan with more quirks than you could count.
Read MoreThe danger of a car commercial showing a brand-new car alongside one of the classic models of that same car is that you run the risk of just making everyone who watches the ad remember how much more they liked the old car. Volkswagen’s taken this problem and added a new twist: their new ad makes you want an amalgam of old and new that just doesn’t exist.
Read MoreDoes your Lamborghini Miura have a wing on the roof? No. It does not. But the Lamborghini Mirua SVR does, now restored by Lamborghini Storico itself to live a full life on track in Japan, where it went from car to legend.
Read MoreOne thing that people like to do when modding their cars is to slap on some wider tires. It makes logical sense. More tire contact with the ground means more usable grip. But it’s not always that simple.
Read MoreFollowing the recent success of other period-themed automotive exhibitions, notably the 1980s and ’90s car show Radwood, I’ve decided to launch Litwood, a car show celebrating the car culture of the 2000s and 2010s. I am calling dibs on this now. Please prepare accordingly.
Read MoreSince 1967, if you’re a bigshot in Japan and you want to be driven around in a manner that’s befitting your considerable station, you really only have one choice: a Toyota Century. Now, after a 21-year reign of the outgoing model, an all-new hand-crafted Century emerges, ready for your quiet, dignified worship. And it costs about as much as two Lexus LSes.
Read MoreIf “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” crescendos in your head and your pulse picks up a little while you read this Craigslist ad, offering a Toyota MR2 in trade for labor on a Porsche 914, welcome to Jalopnik, you have found your people.
Read MoreWith all the talk of potential tariffs on cars going around, ostensibly to protect American carmakers, it’s worth looking at what cars actually are made in America, by American workers. The creatively-named car buying and selling site Cars.com just completed their annual roundup of the most-American-built cars, and the company with the most representation on their top-10 most American-built cars list is Japanese.
Read MoreA staggering 34.2 percent of all new vehicles sold in the first four months of 2018 were SUVs, with that segment’s 15 percent growth largely responsible for still-rising auto sales.
Read MoreWe’re coming up on the 30th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’s cartoon crossover classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit. There’s a lot to say about that movie, but as we’re on the cusp of the next big transportation shift towards electric cars, it feels especially relevant how that movie that touched on the conspiracy surrounding the death of the American streetcar.
Read MoreAfter a silly teaser showing a dude in a blazer, the Chevy Blazer is making a comeback next year as a stylish crossover that lacks the body-on-frame four-wheel drive credentials of its predecessor.
Read MoreNikki Haley, who President Trump nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations shortly after his inauguration, was in Ridgeville, South Carolina at the opening of Volvo’s new $1.1 billion assembly plant on Wednesday when Sweden’s Ambassador to the U.S. Karin Ulrika Olofsdotter took the stage and fired a broadside against the Trump administration. For an event designed simply to launch a new sedan—the American-built 2019 Volvo S60, in this case—it was unusually awkward.
Read MorePeople tow cars all the time. It happens every day, innumerable times, all over the globe. But no matter how mundane and common it may be, it’s worth remembering that it’s no joke, and there’s genuine, complicated physics involved. That and when everything goes wrong, it’s hard not to watch.
Read MoreAs I’ve made abundantly clear, I’m very fond of Volkswagen Beetles, especially the old air-cooled ones. There are also a substantial number of much, much older, also air-cooled beetles in the world, and these have nothing to do with Volkswagen. Volkswagen seems to forget this every now and then, based on the times that it’s filed takedown requests for works from artist and scientist Peggy Muddles who produces artwork with beetles.
Read MoreThe configurator for the 2019 Ford Mustang is now live. With it, you can spec out the EcoBoost Mustang, the convertible Mustangs, the EcoBoost premium Mustang, the GT, the GT premium and the Bullitt Mustang. Here are the ones that matter (to me).
Read MoreThe Orlando Sentinel posted a viral video on Wednesday of a deputy busting out the window of an SUV with a bear trapped inside near Lake Tahoe. The story said the SUV was rocking back and forth as the bear was moving around in it, and the deputy who freed the bear ran away before it climbed out.
Read MoreWhile our world slowly descends into a fiery hellscape, at least new vehicle quality is up. There’s a silver lining to everything. The 2018 JD Initial Quality rankings are out and the highest ranked brands are all Korean this time.
Read MoreOne of the big issues concerning electric vehicles is how pedestrians struggle to hear an oncoming, naturally-silent electric car in the streets. Following my recent first drive of the 2019 Jaguar I-Pace in Portugal, I think Europe already has this figured out.
Read MoreSome were there for the racing. Some for the engineering. Some for the crashes. But I was there for the memes. And boy, did Le Mans 2018 deliver.
Read MoreFollowing today’s report that a gaggle of German automakers are interested in convincing the European Union and the U.S. to get rid off all their automotive tariffs currently proposed and in practice, it could spell the end of the hated Chicken Tax. There’s only one question that matters.
Read MoreWe’ve finally welcomed the return of the BMW 8 Series, with attractive styling that isn’t quite as exciting as the classic model but still looks good. None of that will matter soon, as these patent renderings of an 8 Series Gran Coupe are going to ruin everything.
Read MorePorsche has announced that it is acquiring a 10 percent stake in Croatian supercar company Rimac, kicking off what the companies say will be a close collaboration.
Read MoreWere you aware that the Honda Civic Type R uses a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries TD04 turbocharger, running up 23 pounds of boost to make all of the car’s 306 horsepower? That’s great information, but it’s not even close to making the cut for the five things you really ought to know about driving this front-drive driver’s car.
Read MoreThe system’s current name is Highway Pilot, according to Henrik Green, Volvo’s Senior Vice President of Research & Development. The system will allow you to, “to ‘eat, sleep, work, watch a movie, relax, do whatever,” Green said today, a bold ambition for a company that previously had only said they had planned to be testing a Level 4 system by 2021.
Read MoreFinally, some potentially good news: in an effort to get the Trump administration to abandon its plan to place a 25 percent tax on all European auto imports, all three of the big German automakers—Daimler, Volkswagen, and NSU (just kidding, it’s BMW)—have come up with a proposal that would get rid of all car import tariffs between America and Europe. And that would include the hated Chicken Tax.
Read MoreGeneral Motors is recalling its 750-horsepower road-going monster at the top of the Corvette line, the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, for risk of airbags not deploying in the event of hard braking and acceleration. The recall includes about 500 cars, and GM engineers discovered the issue at a track day.
Read MoreRadwood, the ultimate celebration of 1980s and ’90s automotive nostalgia, is on this weekend in San Francisco. And we’re driving up from LA in something that’s as rad as cars come–a Pontiac Firebird. But not just any Firebird. This, friends, is a Knight Industries 2000.
Read MoreWith a competitive spirit that could shame most Olympians, you lovely Jalops submitted dozens of rad rides to our reader contest for this Sunday’s Radwood car show. It was a tough contest. The cars were very good! But in the end only three can be champions, and here they are.
Read MoreWe’ve all been dreaming of the day we could pair our love for BMW’s newest grand tourer with the nation that brought us the smooth tunes of the saxophone. It’s finally come, as BMW of Belgium’s configurator for the new 8 Series is live.
Read MoreThis year marks the 40th birthday of one of the greatest sports cars ever made: the wedge-shaped, rotary powered Mazda RX-7. So let’s celebrate a car that gave this world all the spinning triangle weirdness it deserved.
Read MoreFord, like every automaker, is racing to develop autonomous driving technology and deploy a slate of electric vehicles. So, we’re told, it bought a building. Game changer, baby.
Read MoreJust over a week ago, Mazda Japan announced its 2019 Mazda Miata—the light, little car everyone either loves, or hates because everyone else loves it—will go up to 181 horsepower and a 7,500-rpm redline. It was a huge jump from the current car’s power, but nothing was confirmed for other markets--until now.
Read MoreVolvo unveiled the third-generation, 2019 Volvo S60 today, and, I have to say, it’s a silver fox of a sedan. It also represents a bold bet on the American car market, since it will be Volvo’s first American-made car, at its new $1.1 billion plant outside Charleston, South Carolina.
Read MoreThe trailer for the new season of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee is out, and it starts with a pretty delightful parody of the golden age of Volkswagen ads, which is pretty fantastic, especially the shot of the rare in-engine espresso maker. There’s also a really great set of cars this season, and some great comedians as well, including Tracy Morgan, John Mulaney, Dave Chapelle, Kate McKinnon, Jerry Lewis (the late), Zack Galifinakis, and more. This should be good.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a cease and desist letter to Dolder, Falco and Reese Partners, LLC, the company that makes an idiotic and dangerous product called the Autopilot Buddy, a $199 lump of plastic and magnets that fools a Tesla’s Autopilot system into thinking you’re paying attention.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered about the electricity that courses through your car? Do you suspect that there’s a captive bolt of lightning held in a magic jar? Of course you don’t. You’re not a Neanderthal. You know there’s a battery and an alternator. You may even know your battery provides DC current that the car uses, but your alternator generates AC current. Doesn’t that seem weird? Why is that?
Read MoreFor years, Nissan Rogues across America have taunted me with what—from a distance—looks like a heat exchanger under their rear fascias. “What could this mystery heat-exchanger be?” I’ve spent many sleepless nights agonizing. Well, after finally looking at a Rogue up close, and talking with Nissan, I have the answer.
Read MoreI hadn’t realized how dark it’d gotten until the fuse blew. The stadium lights flooding the road course at Englishtown blinked out and briefly, for the first time all day, the blare of drift cars stopped.
Read MoreTake one look around the JDM import scene in America and one thing becomes immediately clear: Something is going on in the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles.
Read MoreEver since I read about that whale who died because it had ingested 80 plastic bags, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how much plastic we just throw away. Thankfully, Volvo has pledged to alleviate things somewhat.
Read MoreAbout a year ago, my colleague David Tracy discovered that a 1962 Lockheed Jetstar once owned by Elvis Presley, the Elvis, was for sale and “as swanky as you think it is.” Well, it might be swanky in design, but months of sitting derelict have not been kind to this jalopass aircraft. Will you give it a good home?
Read MoreDo you need power windows? No. Do you need cruise control? You do not. Do you need a rear windshield wiper? Also, no. But I have figured out what you do need.
Read MoreThe last time Toyota teamed up on production duties with another automaker, we got the GT86 and the Subaru BRZ—cars that are very good, but also nearly identical in every way. We know that the new Toyota Supra will share a platform, transmission and engine with the new BMW Z4, but apparently their driving experiences will be quite different.
Read MoreIf you’re a diplomat on U.S. soil, you can steal, plunder and murder to your heart’s content without having to face the legal ramifications of your actions. But, by God, you better pay your parking tickets in New York City.
Read MoreLife, as glorious as it is, with its access to tacos and puppies and orgasms, is still a colossal ass-pain. That’s why I can’t begrudge this guy in St. Louis too much for doing what he did. Sure, driving a car with a roller jack instead of an actual front wheel isn’t exactly safe, but I suspect nobody would do this unless they absolutely had to. I hope.
Read MoreThe 2019 Audi A1 is the second generation of Audi’s tiniest hatchback, now with more interior space, more tech and—most importantly—a meaner look. It honestly looks like a lot of fun, which makes me sad that we’re not likely to get one here in the states.
Read MoreThe official Cyberpunk 2077 trailer dropped at E3 earlier this month and in it, we got a glimpse of one of the raddest supercars we’ve seen in a video game in recent memory. If this is the automotive aesthetic I can expect for the game, then I’m on board.
Read MoreLook upon it, mortals. Feast your eyes on the rare, beautiful majesty of an odometer reading that includes every known numeral, arranged sequentially. This is by far the most incredible feat ever achieved by this 2007 Honda Odyssey, and as such I feel duty-bound to share it with you. Bask, my friends. Let the grandeur of this odometer reading saturate every atom in your being.
Read MoreYou may’ve heard about President Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariff on all vehicles imported to the U.S. That’s all imported vehicles. But did you know Trump’s Commerce Department is accepting comment right now on the proposal? Well, it sure is, and you have until June 22 to offer a word on it.
Read MoreOver the weekend, Indiana State Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Stephen Wheeles tweeted about pulling somebody over for going too slowly in the left lane on the highway. Since then his post has blown up, which gives me hope that maybe people around America will get a clue and kindly get out of the fast lane when they want to drive slowly.
Read MoreFord has generated tons of goodwill in recent days, after it went public about a long-running rumor that it had purchased the City of Detroit’s most famous ruin, Michigan Central Station—so much so, a thief who stole a clock from the beautiful building decades ago has returned the antique.
Read MoreProfessional wrestler and former Ford GT owner John Cena has settled the lawsuit with Ford over the sale of his Ford GT. Cena was contractually obligated to keep the limited-run supercar for 24 months, but sold his anyway. Now he is settling that lawsuit with Ford for an undisclosed amount, which Ford will donate to charity, per an announcement made by Cena’s legal team today.
Read MoreIn a bizarre email sent out on Sunday, Elon Musk apparently claimed a Tesla employee sabotaged the company’s manufacturing operations and leaked sensitive information to third parties. On top of that, CNBC reports, the billionaire sent another email on Monday implying that someone may have intentionally started a fire on the production line.
Read MoreWe’re heading to Radwood, the fantastic 80s and 90s-themed car show in San Francisco, later this week. We want you rad readers to bring your rad rides, so we’re holding a rad contest to see which rad ride is raddest. Follow?
Read MoreAside from the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawks and the Lamborghini Urus (Uruses? Uri?) of the world, most supercars aren’t practical. They’re low to the ground, and they don’t carry much at all. But this Ford GT doesn’t need room to store vital stuff on the inside—its owner just carries his wheelchair on the roof.
Read MoreRolls-Royce is one of the few automakers left today that still uses a hood ornament to adorn the front of its cars. It’s called the Spirit of Ecstasy—a elegantly winged woman that who looks as though she’s experiencing a constant headwind. She was, allegedly, based on an actual woman named Eleanor Velasco Thornton.
Read MoreLincoln said last year it was getting rid of its bad MK names for its products, instead opting for names of real things, as in the new Lincoln Aviator. That also meant the MKC name was doomed. Now, starting in 2020, meet the Corsair.
Read MoreThere are a few things you learn as you try to navigate through the complex trickery that is life. One of those things is that no one but close family members actually puts in the effort to remember your birthday (thanks, Facebook), and the other is that if you have to request a price for something, it’s too expensive.
Read MoreWhile four Ford GTs were racing around the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France over the weekend, a regular old street legal version burned to the ground outside Munich, Germany. It seems that nobody was hurt, but you can stick a fork in this Ford because it’s definitely done.
Read MoreThe Polestar 1 will be a hyper-advanced, 600-horsepower hybrid sports coupe. And while it probably won’t be too light on its feet, what with the hybrid tech and the mandated safety standards, at least Polestar is using extensive carbon fiber in its construction to cut down on some of that weight.
Read MoreIt seems that I blew up not one but two car engines in my early days. It was not in my Porsche 914, however, as my son originally thought—that is fake news. One of them was a Sunbeam Alpine, and the other was a Renault Dauphine. The latter is a good example of why you need good friends.
Read MoreDave’s unbreakable Volkswagen Bug was a political guerrilla weapon. The battle was with the local prosecutor who hated 1960s student demonstrations and subsequently charged students under the Joseph McCarthy-era Indiana State Anti-Subversion Act. I began college in the fall of 1963 and quickly fell in with like-minded student liberal Democrats.
Read MoreI’d like to thank Jalopnik for the opportunity to share my old-school driving memories, which, as I think about them, were quite unique. Plus, I get the opportunity to share memories that perhaps my son, David, may read about for the first time.
Read MoreIf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is what was the first car I ever drove, and what my lousy teen-years Bondo beater was like, and how my parents and my spinster aunt with the cat glasses were set up for daily drivers, and all that Holden Caulfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Read MoreYou asked me about the times I hitchhiked by private plane, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. It was a long time ago, and it is a story that I don’t tell very often. It’s as if the beginning of the story is the best part—I once hitchhiked by private plane—and then it’s downhill from there. So it’s been good to think about this, to recall the details, and to piece it back together.
Read MoreSo often we tie our cars to the great events in our lives. This is my story.
Read MoreIn order to achieve production goals, Tesla started up a third production line this weekend. The two existing lines must take up quite a lot of space inside the former GM/Toyota facility, as the third line was built not in the factory, but in a temporary tent structure outside. The tent and the assembly line it houses were allegedly built in the span of three weeks.
Read MoreNot many residents of the Lower East Side of Manhattan owned cars in the 1960s and 1970s. A metal subway token, and a dose of courage, would get you to almost any corner in New York City your heart desired. The East Broadway subway station of the F train and the bus stop (for my daily trips to and from high school) were a mere nine-minute stroll from our walk-up.
Read MoreThis year, during the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, artist and photographer Jayson Fong sat down to his desk to produce one piece of art for each hour of the race. A motorsport fanatic of the first degree, Jayson’s art is usually quite detailed. For this endeavor, however, he needed to finish a piece quite quickly, and it took a more slapdash approach to backgrounds and settings to accomplish that. This makes for a unique and interesting visual aesthetic.
Read MoreWhen I was in the Navy in 1978, I was stationed in San Diego-Long Beach area. When I reported from the East Coast to California, I found I was going to be stationed on a ship that had just entered dry dock for a complete overhaul. This meant no sea time (a constant theme throughout my service). So now the Navy was like a nine-to-five job and I could get an apartment and go home most every night.
Read MoreThere are a lot of awful rule sets in the world of racing, but this season the ACO and the FIA have combined to produce what is perhaps the worst rule in racing history. While the rule was technically implemented at the 6-hour race at Spa last month, the full extent of its impact on endurance racing was shown in stark detail during this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Teams were given an artificial limit on how long their stints could be. For example, no team was allowed to run more than 14 laps
Read MoreWe didn’t so much cruise through the night at the Circuit de la Sarthe so much as we stumbled through it, crashing toward daybreak in a smoldering blaze of not-quite-glory. We’ve had fires. We’ve had crashes. We’ve had some drivers capitalizing on the shenanigans. Welcome to Le Mans.
Read MoreOur photographer Kurt Bradley is hard at work on the scene at the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans—and while he’s busy snapping away, I’m here to share some of his fantastic photographic highlights from the first half of the race and keep y’all updated on what’s happening on track. It’ll be just like you’re there at the Circuit de la Sarthe, too, I promise.
Read MoreBad news for the Fernando Alonso Hype Train: the car he’s sharing with Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima just served a 60-second time penalty, which means that the formerly-leading car came out in second place, two minutes behind the Toyota being driven by Mike Conway.
Read MoreWhile nobody has burst into flames or popped a tire in the middle of a stint (yet) this year, Le Mans has taken enough automotive sacrifices to please the racing gods for the rest of the summer at least.
Read MoreAmy Johnson didn’t realize how dissatisfied she was with her job as a secretary at a law firm until she saw an airplane take off from her backyard. As the wheels left the ground and the impossible hunk of metal and engineering took flight, Johnson realized that there was more to the world than just the daily grind that her life had become. It’s easy to imagine her closing her eyes, imagining the wind whipping against her face as she careens through thousands of feet off the ground and sees the
Read MoreWhen the World Endurance Championship announced its partnership with US broadcaster Velocity, the future of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in America seemed a little more promising. No more channel hopping. No more inconvenient interruptions or push-backs from Fox, who didn’t quite seem to grasp the fact that Le Mans is the biggest event in racing. All 24 hours of racing were promised to be aired non-stop in one place.
Read MoreThere have been plenty of cars designed throughout the years that are just… not great. And yet, we love them anyway. Last week, I asked you to tell me what terrible cars you love despite everyone telling you not to. There were some pretty great responses, so we compiled a list of the best of the worst so we can all revel in the beauty of the poor designs that are just too close to our hearts not to love.
Read MoreThe Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is an event deeply rooted in tradition. Historically, they haven’t been keen on taking any strong stands on political or religious issues—but this year, Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance chairman Sandra Button is calling on people to break with their traditions and vocally oppose Trump’s import tariffs in an email sent out to car enthusiasts.
Read MoreThere’s something undeniably quaint about the way the industrialized world imagined the future back in the 1950s. Looking at it now, you think less “future” and more “aww, look how retro!” And nothing epitomizes that more than the Astra-Gnome.
Read MoreIn a 24 hour race, it seems a little silly to get too keen on the first lap. I mean, there’s still a whole 23 hours and 59 minutes of racing left to go, and you’re not going to win a 24 hour race on the first turn of the first lap. But it’s also pretty much the biggest race ever and everyone is itching to take home that glory, which means it can happen. And it just happened to Andre Lotterer in the the Rebellion.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of Le Mans is a massive event, bringing out racing fans from all over the world to watch 60 cars battle it out on the unforgiving Circuit de la Sarthe, but one of the more anticipated fan events is the drivers parade through the city streets. At 5:00 p.m. local time, on the eve of the race, a huge procession kicks off at the Place de Jacobins, and winds its way through the Le Mans city center.
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 MoreFirefighting helicopters have been able to scoop water from the ground for some time, but this new tech allows them to do it without needed people standing by to tend the process. Either way, it’s pretty cool to watch.
Read MoreI can’t believe I’ve been calling myself a car enthusiast, let alone working for Jalopnik, without knowing that the word “Miata” has a specific meaning for so long. Then again, I guess I don’t spend much time studying Old High German.
Read MoreA sixth New York City cab driver has committed suicide after falling into significant financial straits. It’s the latest in a string of deaths that, according to driver advocates, is connected to the proliferation of ride-hailing apps in the city like Uber and Lyft.
Read MoreRight in the cross section of “cool car” and “drive ’em don’t hide ’em” is this gloriously well-loved 1995 Porsche 911, for sale, while also being on an adventure from Los Angeles to Anchorage and back. Is it possible for a car to be clean and filthy at the same time?
Read MoreI don’t break things that cost money for giggles and I’ve never had a situation when I actually needed to punch out a car window, so I can’t tell you if it’s difficult or not. But I can tell you that a Wisconsin dealership salesperson apparently punched a window out of a car being stolen, and it’s impressive.
Read MoreUpon realizing recently that everyone around here has all the fun while I’m stuck doing insane management tasks, I decided to have some fun myself. My companion for the weekend is a 2018 Honda Civic Type R. Ask me what you want to know about it?
Read MoreA little while back we saw the online debut of the Aston Martin V12 Vantage V600, a limited-run superspec car with the company’s big V12 and a manual transmission. Now it’s out in the real world and we didn’t realize that it is a widebody hulk of a car.
Read MoreA Philadelphia Craigslist ad caught our eye with its photos of a Ford Excursion crashed into a bank lobby, but that’s probably the least weird chapter of this SUV’s history, which involves an arrest, lasers and Snoop Dogg. Not to mention being run into by a drunk driver and somehow sustaining zero damage, dragging a repo tow truck down a street, having a door get shoved into a fender by another car, and—of course—driving through a bank window. This truck has been through it all.
Read MoreYes, it’s got an M in its name but it’s not actually an M car. This is something you and I must come to accept together. But besides that, what do you want to know about the 2018 BMW X3 M40i?
Read MoreHere it is, officially: The 2019 BMW 8 Series Coupe. We’ve been waiting a long time for this thing to show its face and, my God, does it look good.
Read MoreWhen you think about an Aston Martin, you generally think of something sleek and refined. And when you think of an American hot rod, you think of something brash and loud. And if you put the two ideas together, you get this: an Aston Martin hot rod.
Read MoreLast week we got confirmation from the FIA that Le Mans will have a new top class in 2020, with prototype design and road car looks, but the degree to which the class would balance on one side or the other remained unclear. Now we have a bit more detail on how this should all shake out.
Read MoreAs a tribute to the American fighter pilots who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Ford and RTR Vehicles created the one-off Eagle Squadron Mustang GT. Like the RTR we saw last year, this one will also have 700 supercharged horsepower.
Read MoreAt the 2005 Detroit Auto Show, Hyundai introduced its fifth-generation Hyundai Sonata, a vehicle whose looks were not just leagues nicer than its predecessor’s, but which have withstood the test of time and are still lovely 13 years later.
Read MoreI know leaked images are always pretty exciting, but, to be fair, this car has already proven to be leakier than the radiators in any liquid-cooled car I seem to own. First we got a big hint at the look of the resurrected 8 Series via the concept, we’ve seen the test mules, and at the beginning of the year, we saw what appears to be the car itself. Now, before its official release during LeMans, we’re seeing the official photos from BMW.
Read MoreDo you often wish you could watch your own car driving around from the outside, but just don’t trust any of your friends to drive it? I can’t say that’s exactly why Bjorn Harms of Urmond, Netherlands modified his C6 Corvette to be remote controlled, but he did, and it’s pretty amazing.
Read MoreIn the mid-1960s, Europeans looked across the pond and drooled over the Ford Mustang prancing along American highways (okay, a couple of Ford “T5s” made it to Germany). But late in the decade, Ford brought Europe it’s own “Mustang,” the beautiful Cortina-based Ford Capri fastback.
Read MoreLook at this old thing, this 1966 Ford GT40. Right-hand drive, as un-American as you can get, and Ford doesn’t even have the decency to stick a passenger side mirror on it. What’s so special about it anyway?
Read MoreDo you use your car’s headrests? Some readers said yes, some said no, but you’re all going to want one if you’re in a crash.
Read MoreCritics have been singing the 2018 Kia Stinger GT’s praises since the car was released last year, but today was the first time I’ve held the keys to one of these and hot damn–the fob is a thing of beauty. So is the T-shaped shift knob. If this car is as fun to drive as it is to touch, I think it’ll live up to the hype.
Read MoreI’ve talked about headrests in the context of one of these Quick Questions before, but it was in a biting context, not a use-it-for-its-stated-purpose context. So I feel like I owe headrests some real consideration. Now that I’ve considered headrests, I realized I’m not really sure I’ve ever actually used one while driving. Have you?
Read MoreAs he watched the video he turned to me and said “Some of these photos... I’m reliving this nightmare all over again.”
Read MoreHey, uh, let’s all be real cool for a second. Nobody is going to arrest me if I get this new Aston Martin Vantage GT4 race car, revealed today ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and just drive it around, are they?
Read MoreFifth Gear, the other British car show—you know, the one that’s still mostly about the automobiles—has been off the air for years now. But today we have great news from host and race car driver Tiff Needell: Fifth Gear is back.
Read MoreLast night, I watched one of the new Avengers movies. I actually don’t know whether it was new, because I don’t keep up with them. Thor got his hair cut, if that helps you remember which one I mean. Anyway, it was fine, and so were the action scenes. But this cat riding on the roof of a 60-mph van totally blew all of that out of the water.
Read MoreWith the Porsche Missi... errr... Porsche Taycan on the horizon, the famed German sports car brand is preparing for its electric future. But I’m impatient and don’t want to wait for the all-electric 911 that could take years to arrive, so for now I’m glad that renders of such a thing exist.
Read MoreI’m about to scratch a major item off my photography bucket list: I’m covering the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend for Jalopnik. And in addition to shooting the race and tracking how Porsche’s team in particular wages war on track for a day straight, I have a good ride in the form of this 911 GT3.
Read MoreI know that the specs listed about trucks are just long columns of boring numbers, but those numbers actually do have some meaning in the messy real world. The amount of weight you can comfortably place in the bed of the truck, the payload, that’s one of those numbers. Even though neither that boulder or that Ranger can read or understand numbers, together they do a remarkably good job of demonstrating why they’re important.
Read MoreWhen you consider that Jeep is the most important and valuable brand that Fiat Chrysler has to offer, it starts to make sense that FCA would attempt to Jeepify everything else in its portfolio. Including the Fiat 500X, which already shares its platform with the Jeep Renegade. Let us not get bogged down by details!
Read MoreGood news if you like hybrids but want them to be fun: Volvo is going to start offering Polestar Engineered editions of their T8 plug-in hybrid S60 and V60 models. This not only brings the performance-oriented Volvo models enthusiasts have wanted to market, but it also proves that there is still light in this world. Specifically in Gothenburg.
Read MoreSometimes you’ll see an image of a vehicle that’s so wildly appealing and enticing that its very image grabs you and launches your mind into imagining all of the possibilities such a vehicle could allow you. This 1991 Toyota LiteAce 4x4 van does just that, a fact I know to be true because I haven’t stopped daydreaming since I saw it.
Read MoreI’ve long maintained that drifters are the new hot rodders, but it was still surprising to me when I heard Chris Forsberg’s Nissan 370Z Formula Drift pro car with an 800-plus horsepower VQ V6. This car idles like a big block gasser.
Read MoreDuring the entire last half of 2017, more than a dozen U.S. states were making a fuss to become the site of a $1.6-billion production plant for Toyota and Mazda. Now that the companies have picked Alabama, the fuss has changed—the plant could put a rare fish species at risk of extinction, according to a recent lawsuit.
Read MoreHere’s an example of how not to make the donuts. A Dodge Charger caught fire while doing donuts for a crowd at a car meet in Anaheim Monday morning, reports KTLA. Around 50 to 100 people were there at this unauthorized meetup and standing way too close to cars doing stunts, including this one that burst into flame.
Read MoreThe big, hulking and silly Aston Martin Vantage V600 is not a car you think about very often. Or see for sale ever, really. But if you want something that’s rare, stupidly powerful and representative all that’s marvelous about British engineering, then kindly pay attention to what I have to tell you next.
Read MoreHonda, which you probably know as a car company, actually makes a ton of stuff that Aren’t Cars. One of those things is a private jet, which Honda has helpfully called a HondaJet. And I’m about to go for a ride.
Read MoreStock up on snacks and energy drinks, find your most comfy chair, and get ready for the most wonderful racing weekend of the year. It’s time for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, a full day of magic and sweet, sweet race cars. We put together this nifty guide to tell you how you, too, can watch one of the most prestigious races in the world.
Read MoreMary Barra became the first woman CEO of a major automaker when she took charge of General Motors in 2013, and years later, she’s still mostly surrounded by men in automotive leadership positions. But in a few months, Barra will have the GM’s first-ever female chief financial officer reporting to her.
Read MoreRegular, bottom-exit exhaust pipes: Who needs ‘em, I say! You want a car with unconventional exhaust exits. And this new McLaren, whatever it might be, looks like it has top-exit exhaust pipes. I don’t even need to see the rest of the car, I’m already in love.
Read MoreThere’s a new Tesla in town. It’s a shiny new Tesla Model S Shooting Brake built by coach uilders RemetzCar and penned by London-based Niels van Roij Design. It was launched at the Dutch Embassy in London so I went to have a look at it, and to be given a passenger ride by the man who commissioned it: Dutch car enthusiast and shooting brake superfan Floris de Raadt.
Read MoreThe other day in the office we were trying to figure out if anyone still made dogleg gearboxes in the modern era, and then our intrepid intern reminded us that the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S had a dogleg seven-speed manual. The shifter itself looks super cheap for a $200,000 car, but the layout is good!
Read MoreTouchscreens are all but unavoidable in cars now, so it’s only fitting that they deserve a closer look. Roadshow went through and reviewed every automotive infotainment system on sale in 2018 in one of the most detailed consumer guides I’ve ever read here, and you should definitely check it out.
Read MoreTired: Porsche 911 Safari rally cars. Wired: Porsche 356 rally cars lovingly restored by stylish French guys. Holy moly, this rakish ’59 P-car is a thing of beauty and the story behind it is even better.
Read MoreAs the four-door Aston Martin Rapide sedan soldiers toward a decade of production, the company has decided to give it a stimulant in the form of lime green decorations and a 580 horsepower AMR performance trim with 465 lb-ft of torque.
Read MoreRick & Morty and Community creator Dan Harmon unleashed a Twitter rant for the ages on Sunday, describing the bizarre experience of horrendous service and unengaged staff he had during a recent trip through New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Read MoreRecently, on the advice of someone online who claimed to be a doctor (I later found out it was a nine-year-old and a dog, working together) I attempted to microwave an elixir made from Propecia, Red Bull, and mildly used cat litter. Lacking cover to prevent boil-over, I used an old Hayes 300 baud modem I had laying around and placed it atop the stainless steel cup. The resulting explosion, while painful, had one remarkable side effect: I can now access Craigslist ads from the future.
Read MoreAs I was gallivanting around Manhattan this weekend, I spotted, on two separate occasions, a Volvo S60 Cross Country. In the days since I decided this is what the future of sedans looks like.
Read MoreMost things are terrible, but Radwood—the grassroots car show that celebrates the rides of the 1980s and 1990s—is good. It’s back at the end of this month in the San Francisco Bay Area. Once again Jalopnik is getting involved with the show, and we want you to get involved too! Update: It’s past the 2 p.m. ET deadline, so the contest is closed!
Read MoreIf I were a car thief, which I’m not, I wouldn’t sell my stolen goods on Craigslist. And yet, a guy from Memphis was arrested on Monday for doing just that, according to police. The car in question? A BMW i8, offered for the low price of $87,000.
Read MoreThe one million dollars that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo granted to Cadillac in order to renovate its SoHo headquarters didn’t sit well with everyone. GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro criticized the governor today, calling the grant “preposterous.”
Read MoreThere are a lot of clever jokes to make with the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat—cat jokes, hell jokes, jokes about how things might break off into your hand at any time. But this Hellcat looks like it traveled to hell and back, and is now ready to claim some poor soul who thinks it’s a feasible project car.
Read MoreVintage Audis have two reputations: they are absolute monsters to drive in the winter and they are impossible to find nowadays in running, working condition for reasonable money. Well, friends, take a look at this $750 of frail German steel.
Read MoreYesterday we saw what must be the world’s most used Dodge Viper, with 190,000 well-worn miles on the clock. I think it is fair to say that at least 70 percent of those miles have been burnouts.
Read MorePeople are all about hauling other people and things around these days, hence everyone throwing their money at crossovers and SUVs. But not every vehicle protects passengers equally. Before you go out and buy a new midsize SUV, you should probably know how well—or poorly—some of them hold up in a crash.
Read MoreThe 2019 Genesis G70 is yet another mid-sized luxury performance sedan designed to take on the Germans. And while the Germans might lead it in terms of brand snobbery, the G70 has a few appealing things besides being from a fresh new brand: it comes with a manual option, and that version will be loaded up with all sorts of high-performance toys.
Read MoreIf you’ve seen our videos on the incredible abandoned, discarded classic cars in Hong Kong, and longed to learn more, here’s an excellent new documentary discussing why these priceless gems were left to rot. It even features Victor Ma, my brother and me!
Read MoreOccasionally, when I’m in a masochistic mood, I like to daydream about first-gen Dodge Vipers. You don’t see that many of them and they are so hilariously bad that they are actually amazing. This red one I’m showing you now is the grossest, grimiest, most disgusting example of an early Viper that I’ve ever seen. And that is what makes it perfect.
Read MoreIf you go to Europe, you will notice that there is a shockingly low number of American cars dotting the streets. There are hardly any pickup trucks, and it’s a real event if you see something like a Corvette or a Camaro. Do Europeans actually buy American cars?
Read MoreThe Bugatti Chiron is an absolute engineering marvel, and its W16 is as well, with a twin-to-quad turbo setup that makes 1,500 horsepower while not weighing any more than its predecessor in the 1000-horsepower Veyron. But how much does that engine weigh, exactly? A ton. Well, almost.
Read MoreSome automotive paint hues are timeless—red or black, for example, never go out of style—while others become immediately emblematic of their era. Let’s just say we find it weird there are very few burnt orange Mercedes-Benz sedans with matching hubcaps anymore. But today, let’s talk about this retro Panther, and whether it rocks a green that speaks singularly of the Seventies.
Read MoreThis feels like something from a William Gibson cyberpunk dystopia novel, where the government has become so weak and useless, private corporations have been taking over the basic upkeep of the nation. But it’s not a William Gibson novel, there’s no plucky protagonist with some sort of cybernetic implant, it’s just America in 2018, with crumbling roads that Domino’s has decided to fix. For the sake of the pizzas.
Read MoreA garbage truck with an allegedly intoxicated individual at the wheel raised absolute hell in Brooklyn, NY over the weekend. Nine vehicles and a few trees were apparently destroyed as the heavy three-axle sanitation truck tore around and landed in somebody’s front gate.
Read MoreI know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this take, but I don’t care. I gotta LIVE MY TRUTH. I gotta FOLLOW MY BLISS. And my bliss, for this exact moment, is what looks to be the 2019 BMW Z4, revealed in these patent drawings way before the curtain officially drops.
Read MoreWant to know an interesting factwich about Tesla’s self-driving Autopilot system? Here it is: it’s not really a self-driving system! It’s a start, sure, but it’s a Level 2 autonomous system, which means a moist, fuzzy human being has to be ready to take over at a moment’s notice if the system fails to perform like it should, which happens. Also a fun fact: a sleeping person cannot be expected to take immediate control. That’s why this video is kind of alarming.
Read MoreE3 2018 is in full swing right now, and yesterday Microsoft showed a trailer for the next Halo game: Halo Infinite. As all game trailers go, it looks real slick, but I couldn’t help but notice from the trailer that the Warthog is still around? I find this concerning.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 is being shown off today at the M1 Concourse racetrack in Pontiac, Michigan. While it’s a lot like the outgoing model year car, Ford says it offers some important track-oriented upgrades.
Read MoreFor weeks, the scuttlebutt has been that Ford is planning to scoop one of Detroit’s most adored ruins, Michigan Central Station. On Monday, Ford confirmed the purchase, and said the Blue Oval will adorn the property.
Read MoreLikely in attempts to tell the entire world to shut it about the Miata needing more horsepower, Mazda is finally giving in. The updated Mazda Miata will have 181 horsepower, a 7,500-rpm redline and a telescopic steering wheel—at least, that’ll be the case in Japan.
Read MoreForza Horizon, the XBOX version of what goes on in your head when you’re procrastinating at work, is taking the fourth installment of the franchise to Great Britain later this year. Being a UK native, and having driven around a large chunk of the actual UK, I have a decent idea of what the game will be like, so here’s a guide as to what to expect.
Read MoreRolls-Royce hosted their inaugural “Cars and Cognac” last Friday, but didn’t announce it publicly so you couldn’t show up and ruin it with your grubby little hands.
Read MoreThis is a 1989 to 1994 BMW Alpina B10 Biturbo, apparently the fastest sedan in the world on its debut with a top speed somewhere around 180 mph, per Alpina. It’s a very ‘90s Alpina morning over here on Jalopnik.
Read MoreAnnounced for an October 2nd release, Microsoft dropped this Forza Horizon 4 official trailer during the E3 conference today. And like the other entries in this beloved it series, it’s gonna be an awesome car vacation.
Read MoreIt’s difficult to call what happened in Montreal today a race, exactly. At the front of the field, it was Sebastian Vettel who had qualified on pole, run away at the start, and set the car on cruise control leading every single lap and never looking back. This was an incredibly boring Formula One Grand Prix, which is not exactly typical of the Canadian circuit, having forged a number of indelible memories in the collective consciousness of the F1 viewing public. I guess it’s cool that Ferrari wo
Read MoreUK-based classic car sellers Fast Classics have brought to market this one-of-one 1988 Mercedes 190 built by Brabus. Their asking price? £132,000. Now, if you can pick yourself up off the floor after seeing that stratospheric price, take a look at the listing for the full explanation of what exactly makes it worth so much dosh. If the BMW E30 M3 is too slow, and Mercedes’ own Cosworth-tuned 190E 2.5-16v isn’t hard core enough, then the Brabus 3.6S Lightweight is perhaps the ’80s touring-car mons
Read MoreFernando Alonso is the fourth most prolific racer in Formula One history, having already entered 299 Grands Prix with this weekend’s Canadian run set to be his 300th—only Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button, and Michael Schumacher have run more. He’s been saddled with some terrible racing cars in recent years, and he can’t seem to catch a break with his career moves, but he still deserves to be ranked among the best F1 drivers of all time. I will contend to my dying day that if he’d made better co
Read MoreRoad trips are perhaps my favorite thing about cars. I drove my Porsche 912E across the country and back last summer, and just yesterday my wife and I drove 500 miles to get some really good ice cream in San Francisco. It’s the pure joy of cars that they provide us the escape, the mobility, the freedom to go and do what we please when the moment strikes.
Read MoreAndre Da Silva is a stunt man and actor for television, movies, and video games. He’s also an out-and-out muscle car fanatic, and for an incredible reason. His mother was killed when she was hit by a car after her own automobile had broken down. Andre vowed that nobody in his family would ever have a breakdown again, and learned how to wrench in honor of his mother. To have an incredible automotive fanaticism grow out of such a tragic event, and spawn a life of collecting and building and drivin
Read MoreAssembled from the boxy oddness of the Series 2 Fiat 127 supermini comes the greatest beach car design ever. Looking a bit like a cross between an old Fiat Jolly and a Volkswagen Thing, this Moretti Midimaxi was built purely to provide its owner joy. Just look at the ugly duckling styling and try to imagine the unimpeded perfect open air motoring experience that being behind the wheel with the top off and the windshield folded down would provide. Equally at home puttering around the French Rivie
Read MoreI’m a big proponent of de-guilting guilty pleasures. What’s the point in enjoying something if you never actually get to share it with anyone else? Ridiculous. We all have them—and now it’s time to share.
Read MoreWe all know that humans have been writing books since the invention of the wheel. But a lot of us forget that there are tons of amazing books about racing out there waiting to be read. That’s a crying shame.
Read MoreImagine: you’re walking down the streets of west London when, suddenly, a Matchless motorcycle comes screaming past. At the helm is a teenage girl, her hair flying wildly behind her. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you might have doubted the passenger in the sidecar: but it is most definitely a collie seated beside its owner. You would have just witnessed a young Mildred Petre falling madly in love with speed.
Read MoreListen. I didn’t want to have to be the one to say this, but I’m going to be the one to say it. Big pickup trucks should not be allowed on the roads as a casual everyday driving vehicle.
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 MoreAn Italian design house has taken an already-gorgeous Alfa Romeo 4c and somehow turned it into something significantly prettier called the Alfa Romeo Mole Costruzione Artigianale 001. If you prefer your jaw to remain bruise-less, right about now would be a good time to place some soft pillows on the floor.
Read MoreOn the heels of the gorgeous 2018 Peugeot 508 sedan, which we saw in February, comes the new 2019 Peugeot 508 SW wagon. I love it, because of course I do. And if you love it, then you, like me, are a masochistic idiot.
Read MoreSometimes—not that often, but sometimes—I’ll encounter a car I haven’t seen for years and suddenly see it in a new light, or, maybe more accurately, the light it was originally intended to be seen in, minus all the buildup of my own prejudices and ideas. This happened to me just the other day, when I saw a mid-to-late 1990s Buick Riviera, and was struck by just how weird that car was. Good weird, though.
Read MoreWith sales plummeting, major nameplates being cancelled and the world collectively switching to crossover, the modern sedan is fading toward irrelevancy. It’s about damn time. Good riddance.
Read MoreWith that new Bumblebee movie coming out, the subject of Transformers Ethics and Culture has been gaining increased attention and scrutiny lately. This national focus has caused many Transfomers scholars to ponder some complicated questions, such as this ethical pickle: if a Transformer dies, is it disrespectful to drive them around in their car form, as you would a conventional car?
Read MoreAs part of the same 70th anniversary celebrations that gave us the tragic new name of the Porsche Mission E, the automaker immediately made everything better and revealed a new Porsche 911 Speedster Concept.
Read MoreCadillac, the crown jewel of American luxury cars, is staying in New York City after all.
Read MoreNews of Porsche developing its gorgeous Mission E concept into an all-electric sports car lineup has been very exciting, at least up until this point. According to a presentation by the CEO, the production version will unfortunately be called the “Taycan.”
Read MoreChrysler has somehow managed to highlight the Chrysler Pacifica’s biggest flaw in this commercial featuring actor Kathryn Hahn. That biggest flaw, as we noted in our review, is a shifter dial that can easily be mistaken for a volume knob, and Chrysler appears to show Hahn doing just that in this commercial.
Read MoreWe got our first glimpse of the 2019 Volvo V60 back in February, and, this week, I finally got a chance to drive it. And while I’ll have more to say about that shortly, in the meantime: What do you want to know?
Read MoreThis is the Pagani Zonda Revolución, shot recently lapping at Imola. It’s part of the tail end of the Zonda line, a never-ending series of last-run cars to mix Italian supercar style with a naturally-aspirated AMG V12. Listen to it. It’s hard to believe, still, after all these years, that this is a German engine.
Read MoreIf you had asked me what I thought about dumping a bunch of terrified, usless robots in a city that would scream and freak out and threaten to call the police if you touched them, I’d have probably told you no thanks, we’re cool. Well, nobody did ask me, and now there’s these rental scooters all over a city and they won’t stop screaming and threatening to call the cops.
Read MoreThere are few lines of music that can fire you up like the sweet bass guitar riff that kicks off Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone.” Every time I hear that shit I am on a motorcycle, racing jets, deep in the heroic delusions I so genuinely enjoy. Now it sounds like we might get a redux.
Read MoreHonestly, folks, do we really have to say this? Do we really have to advise the human population not to leave pigs in hot cars, based on irresponsible actions by members of this human population? We evidently do, so listen up: Don’t leave your pigs in hot cars.
Read MoreImagine a reality where the government is totally corrupt, the city of Detroit is desperately trying to get back on its feet, police forces have become overly militarized with weekly reports of unjustified authoritative violence, and the overwhelmingly negative news coverage is only cut by condescending ads for ridiculous products. Now put down your phone and settle in for a review of RoboCop.
Read MoreFinally, my 2Fast 2Furious dreams are coming true.
Read MoreGeneral Motors and Honda announced that they were partnering up to develop the next generation of batteries for both companies’ electrified vehicle offerings.
Read MoreDaimler debuted two new fully-electric Freightliner commercial trucks today, adding to the company’s growing fleet of electric vehicles spread among the Mercedes, FUSO, Freightliner and Thomas Built brands.
Read MoreYep, you read the headline right. Your readings comprehension skills are still fantastic, as always. The Hyundai logo, that stylized H contained by a car-badge-ubiquitous oval, is actually based on a somewhat strange image of two men shaking hands. I asked Hyundai; they confirmed it.
Read MoreReading through comments online, it seems like a lot of people don’t think the 2019 Audi Q8 looks bad. A lot of people think it looks nice—elegant, even. Most of us respectfully disagree and can recommend a good eye doctor if needed. The good news for pro-Q8 people is that Audi wants to spread the big SUV’s looks across its SUV lineup. The bad news is that they probably need to see our eye doctor friend.
Read MoreThe second-generation SW20 Toyota MR2 has a bit of a killer reputation, supposedly impossible to buy, difficult to own and more than a little challenging to drive. We linked up with the owner of a pristine low-mile 1991 Turbo who has not lift-off oversteered into a tree and went over some of the misconceptions and little-known features about the car.
Read MoreIf you’re doing anything that can be categorized as “road rage,” it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re at least struggling with assholeism. This guy in Austin, Texas, though, appears to be so overtaken by chronic assholeism that he’s committed one of the stupidest road rage acts I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreWhen we last checked in with Care by Volvo, it was a mess. Members of the much-anticipated Volvo subscription service—which for $600 includes a car, insurance and basic maintenance—reported cars that went undelivered, silence from customer service and one blown deadline after another. But now we know it was because Volvo didn’t have the right “paperwork” in place, of all things.
Read MoreHere he is, everyone: Steve Mercedes, the inventor of the Mercedes. He is very proud of what he has invented, as you would be! Please show him the proper respect and deference during your time on Jalopnik.
Read MoreLook, you may have things like “science” or “math” that will tell you that Kristaps Blušs’ carbon-kevlar BMW M3 with a 9,000 RPM American V8 under the hood isn’t technically the fastest car in the visible universe, but empirical evidence (this video, my own eyes and ears) suggest otherwise.
Read MorePeople are dumb and will only make you sad. Cars are always there for you. If I put my car in people-shoes, I can pretend it’s my friend and we’ll be best friends forever!!! Here’s how the crazy Russians at Garage 54 did just that with one of their previous weirdo builds, which works far better than it should.
Read MoreJetBlue is tightening its emotional support animal allowances for flights next month, limiting the critters allowed on its planes to just dogs, cats and miniature horses. To be clear, full-size horses are no longer allowed.
Read MoreYou only need to hear this advice once, but it could end up saving you.
Read More“LOOK OUT WORLD! HERE COMES FORD!” The jubilant musical cast of this 1982 Ford Mustang commercial was onto something with this, for sure. It’s as if the writers of this bizarrely prescient jingle could see the Mustang’s future marred by many embarrassing Cars and Coffee wipe-outs. Have a listen!
Read MoreDamn the Alpine A110. Damn it for its 248 horsepower for 2,400 pounds. Damn it for existing. Most of all, damn it for not being available in America.
Read MoreDid you know there’s a whole other Spider-Man series that takes place in a multiverse where each universe has its own version of Spider-Man? I’ll admit I was not aware of this arachnid-humanoid-related development, but I am now. There’s a new movie coming out about one of these Spider-verses, and, for our purposes, the most important thing you need to know about that parallel universe is that Yugos are still being made. What a glorious universe.
Read MoreIt takes a while to forget a true sports car. Massive engines, sonorous exhaust notes, and evocative styling tend to leave a lasting impression. Aston Martin is no stranger to this, often making legendary cars that epitomize cool and are remembered for ages. They also made the Virage.
Read MorePolestar is working up its first all-Polestar production car, but back in 2008 it started work on its first all-Polestar race car, the five-cylinder C30 S2000. It. Sounded. Awesome.
Read MoreThe heart of a Tesla, or, really, any electric car, is its battery pack. Engineering a pack that’s reasonably compact, light and structurally sound while holding as much electricity as possible is no joke, so it’s always interesting to rip these things open and see what makes them tick. So far, no one (well, outside of Tesla) has done this to a Model 3 pack. Well, that is, until a few weeks ago when the team at EVTV Motor Verks got their hands on a wrecked Model 3 battery and found some really s
Read MoreIt wasn’t scary at first. “It will be fun,” my friends at Jalopnik said. But I was anxious. I’d never done autocross before. I’ve barely driven new cars, and I’d never driven an electric vehicle at all.
Read MoreDearest One True Space Boy Elon Musk: I have located a suitable vehicle to act as your next test payload for when you want to shoot another car into space. It is a Cadillac SRX, but I think everyone will agree that it needs to be fired directly into the sun after a two-and-a-half-foot-long snake crawled out of one of its air vents.
Read MoreAs an unapologetic Volkswagen obsessive, I feel like I’ve seen almost every old, archival photo of the prehistory of the iconic Beetle, even the disturbing and difficult ones from the car’s birth under the Third Reich. Of course, I haven’t seen everything, and occasionally I’ll encounter a truly unexpected photo that shows something quite weird and confusing, like these two photos of a Volkswagen effigy in what might be either a parade or protest from 1939.
Read MoreThe Ohio Department of Transportation has some sage advice for motorists: “Don’t Be This Driver,” referring to the person piloting an SUV, which drove the wrong direction on a highway onramp, onto an overpass, and into a parking lot for a total of, according to Fox 8 News Cleveland, 1.2 miles. In reverse.
Read MoreChances are this video will make you grimace and say things like “no, dummy, no stop don’t no stop” at your screen. And yet you’ll still watch it, and it’ll hurt the entire time. Why do we do these things to ourselves? We do, though. We do.
Read MoreAt Tesla’s shareholder meeting on Tuesday, the company revealed this fuzzy teaser image—which we found on Electrek—of its upcoming compact crossover, the Model Y. Here’s what we can glean from it.
Read MoreIn a stroke of genius, Vlad from YouTube channel Garage 54 ENG decided to fill an old Russian Lada sedan with five tons of concrete. The result? Getting the manual-trans car to move at all under its own power with all that weight onboard was a real struggle that likely chewed the hell out of that clutch.
Read MoreThere’s a McLaren 570GT running around Manhattan with diplomatic license plates. Well, license plate. Its owner appears to be using some of that international attaché clout to avoid affixing a front tag. But decoding the rear plate indicates that the car reps the archipelago of Seychelles.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk announced that full production of the entry-level $35,000 Tesla Model 3, arguably the motivating factor behind the majority of the car’s hundreds of thousands of deposits, will begin in the first quarter of next year at Tuesday’s monthly shareholder meeting.
Read MoreThere were Transformers movies before Michael Bay.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into a corrosion issue at Mazda following over 20 reports from owners who say rust in their 2009-2010 Mazda 6s has caused, or nearly caused, a steering failure.
Read MoreLet’s be honest: even for a series of movies based on a line of plastic toys, the Transformers movies have generally sucked, pretty dramatically. So, my expectations for this new Bumblebee movie are pretty low. That said, there’s been some decisions that have given me the barest bit of hope: Bumblebee is a Volkswagen Beetle again, not a Chevrolet Camaro, and this trailer isn’t just a dimwitted orgy of explosions and idiotic one-liners.
Read MoreHere it is, the 2019 BMW X5, the all-new version of BMW’s big SUV stalwart. These pics that were spotted on a Chinese car forum by Carscoops and a BMW rep confirmed their authenticity to us. It’s a tasteful evolution from the outgoing model, with bigger nostrils, an interior looks slightly fancier, and taillights that look totally different than those of X5s of yore. The new X5 looks great.
Read MoreRigg Hipps, a track construction director with the monster-truck series Monster Jam, sometimes has the same nightmare. The nightmare is this: It’s the day of a Monster Jam event, and Rigg arrives at the stadium, looks out, and sees no dirt.
Read MoreLate after practice at Formula Drift New Jersey, while Federico Sceriffo’s crew worked to replace a CV joint twisted into pieces by the 900 horsepower Ferrari 599 drift car behind us, I asked Federico why he chose to twin-supercharge the 6.0-liter V12 and not go with more expected twin turbos. “Yes, to keep the sound,” he said with a smile. “That’s it. Just to keep the sound.”
Read MoreA Jalopnik reader had the misfortune of experiencing a fire extinguisher go rogue in the middle of a track day. We can laugh because nobody got hurt, but man, you do not want your car to fill with dry flame retardant while you’re trying to drive fast.
Read MoreTwo weeks ago Friday, I kicked off what was planned to be a badass drive from Austin to Los Angeles, delivering my friend’s Porsche 964 to him. I’ve driven from Austin to LA a few times, even in another Porsche, back when I had a 997. I drive across Texas once a year, as I have a habit of buggering off to Marfa to do very little in a cool, artsy town. It should have been easy.
Read MoreI’ve lamented many times the horrible road salt in Michigan, which is why I have decided to start a series called “True Survivors of Detroit” in which we applaud Motor City-area cars that—despite heavy corrosion and questionable structural rigidity—continue trudging on like champions. This week’s survivor: a rotted-out Dodge Ram 2500 conversion van.
Read MoreFirst, if you’re drinking coffee or something and just did a panicked spit-take when you saw the all-new 2019 Audi Q8 up there, I apologize. Unfortunately, there’s not much we can do about it. Audi’s press release claims this is the “new face of the Q family,” so unless you work with deep-sea angler fish for a living and have become de-sensitized, Audi’s big SUVs will likely cause you alarm.
Read MoreThe upcoming all-new BMW Z4 is the often-chastised German brand’s attempt to convince us all that the sports car isn’t dead, and that it can beat the Porsche Boxster. A pre-production drive reported by Auto Express promises the car is “somewhere between good and very good.” If true this also bodes well for the new Toyota Supra, which shares a platform with this car.
Read MoreThe average price of new cars creeps up every year, and the herd of affordable secondhand stuff seems to get thinner at the same the time. But there are still plenty of sweet vehicles on the market that can be had for pretty short money. I fantasize about a few in particular all the time. What about you?
Read MoreHave you ever wanted a Ford GT so, so badly, to the point that “drivability” is an optional feature and status as an actual “car” isn’t required? Then today, friends, your lucky day. Say hello to this lovely used 2005 Ford GT, which looks as much like a Ford GT as you do your profile picture on the internet.
Read MoreI’m never exactly sure how patents like this work, when they’re attempting to patent a concept that’s been around for a good long while. In this case, the good idea is having a curtain/screen to turn the area below a van or hatchback or SUV’s tailgate into a little private area, suitable for doing shameful things without everyone knowing. Companies have been selling things like these for a while, and people have been rigging their own, but now Ford is attempting to patent the idea of the tailgat
Read MoreIt feels like Radwood, the car show that gloriously celebrates the angular, analog and awesome cars of the 1980s and ‘90s, has been a part of our collective modern car culture forever. But it hasn’t! The show’s only a year old. Now, after making a huge, neon splash in 2017, the show is coming home at the end of this month, and if you’re in Bay Area you should definitely go.
Read MoreChief executive officer of Lotus Jean-Marc Gales just stepped down “for personal reasons,” and will join a company that restores and sells old classic cars. Replacing Gales at Lotus is Feng Qingfeng, vice president and chief technical officer of Geely, the Chinese company that, as of 2017, has owned a controlling stake of Lotus.
Read MoreHere’s a good way to keep pesky bumps in the road from ruining your day: fit bigger tires! A smattering of take-off parts from desert racing teams doesn’t help, either. Bonus: you can even take your kid along for the ride in this sweet desert 2004 Chevy Silverado prerunner.
Read MoreWe’ve all had that feeling about another driver on the road—that moment you know they’re going to make a boneheaded move, and you need to be ready. Sure enough it happens, but catastrophe is avoided because you anticipated it. Will our robot cars be able to do the same?
Read MoreJackie Stewart’s transition from three-time Formula One World Champion to businessman and public figure was pretty flawless. It’s pretty hard to argue with someone as universally well-known as Stewart when it comes to cars; the man was basically a self-made racer who dug his own path to success.
Read MoreJust because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should do it. This is how I feel about this 1971 Porsche 914 with a 350 Chevy V8 engine selling on Craigslist right now for $9900.
Read MoreWalk into any city and you’ll see about a million different modes of transportation. You can hail a taxi, grab an Uber or Lyft, rent a bike or car, pick up a Car2Go or Zipcar—the list goes on and on. But an app service in Seattle is looking to change things up.
Read MoreI have had a transformative experience. I have just attended my first rally event.
Read MoreRacing is cool in and of itself, but one of the things that makes it special is the memories you make and the communities you find. Since summer is kicking off means there’s pretty much racing going on all the time, I asked you guys what some of your coolest, most meaningful racing memories are.
Read MoreHave you ever started planning a road trip only to realize how annoying it is to pack everything? I mean, you’re gonna need a tent. If you’re hitting the lake, you can’t forget the boat? And there’s nothing worse than trying to find non-perishables because your cooler can only last so long. It’s such a hassle that you might just give up on the whole fiasco because you can’t be bothered.
Read MoreThe woman’s journey into the racing world was, ironically, a slow one. It took a slow trickle of hard-headed ladies eager to see what speed was all about in order to set the stage for women to come, testing out the waters one race at a time. And the first of those women was Hélène van Zuylen.
Read MoreIt was the black and green ESM Nissan of Pipo Derani that swept to the pole in qualifying yesterday, but it was the Cadillacs back on top after a short street-course back and forth battle with Acura. This race, again, showed that IMSA is the greatest series for sports cars in the world right now, and if you didn’t catch it live, you’ll need to watch the replay, because it was supremely entertaining.
Read MoreUnderneath this wild Pininfarina-designed body shell sits a Ferrari 512S race car chassis. Built in the early 1970s, this car was toured around the show circuit as a concept for future design elements before it was retired to a life as static art display in the Pininfarina offices. Just four years ago, Ferrari mega-enthusiast Jim Glickenhaus was able to convince Pininfarina to sell him the car. His plan then was to get the car back into running and driving condition.
Read MoreKia’s Stinger GT is remarkably similar to Ford’s Mustang GT in that they’re fun to drive, about the same price, similarly beautiful, and pretty darn close on the drag strip. Given ideal conditions and an ideal driver, the Mustang GT will eke out a victory in the quarter mile, but as has been proven before, and again in this video, the Mustang doesn’t always have the balls to get the win. Stock for stock, the Kia is factory-rated to run a low 13-second et, while the Mustang is occasionally capabl
Read MoreChris Runge has been hand-hammering gorgeous ‘50s-inspired sports car bodies for a handful of years now. With each successive project, he gets a little more creative with the bodywork, but each is gorgeous in its own way. This particular example, Frankfurt Flyer 004 built in 2016, is for sale on Bring A Trailer right now, and it deserves to find a forever home. Besides, wouldn’t you want the opportunity to put your butt where Jason has put his butt? Wait, that came out wrong.
Read MoreWhat a difference a week makes. Last Sunday I came to you with the glorious news that perhaps there was a chance of a new Dodge Viper. The Viper is all that is right with the American car industry as a whole, it’s aspirational but attainable, it’s fast, rowdy, and a little bit scary to drive. I was excited at the prospect of a new snake-head-shaped Dodge supercar, and I fell for the ruse. I come to you on this sad Saturday morning with hat in hand to tell you, dear reader, that I was wrong. Serg
Read MoreCelebrating its 70th anniversary this year, and probably something like a thousand Le Mans entries, Porsche is out to prove that Germans can occasionally be nostalgic about something. While practically every car on the grid for the last decade has been some combination of red, white, and black, Porsche has painted up two of its four GTE Pro class 911 RSR entries in vintage liveries reminiscent of cars Porsche have run at Le Mans before in the 70s and 80s. Forget running the race, Porsche wins.
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 MoreThis is a Craigslist post from Rhode Island selling a 1993 Mazda Protege. That shouldn’t be a big deal. But this Protege, while it appears to be in quite good shape, is missing something. Specifically, it’s missing well over a foot and a half of Mazda Protege. And, what makes it even more incredible is that this fact is not addressed once in the ad. I’m very confused.
Read MoreToday is National Donut Day, which big-time national donut chains usurped to lure you into their doors. Much better, it’s as an excuse to roast tires, and an exceptionally appropriate way to drive your ultra-rare Ford GT, as demonstrated by pro drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr.
Read MoreAs part of Fiat Chrysler’s recent Dog And Pony show for investors, the company’s Chief Technical Compliance Officer, Mark Chernoby, described FCA’s ambitious electrification plans, which include the rollout of mild hybrid, hybrid, plug-in hybrids, and pure electric vehicles across 30 nameplates. Here’s what that plan looks like.
Read MoreIt’s both a wonder and a shame that a movie like Dude, Where’s My Car could get made, and if nothing else, it shows how far society has come in the last 18 years. Not much about it has aged well, especially not the rampant homophobia, misogyny and racism, and that’s all after the 2000 movie scored a mere 18 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. I saw how it fares today for you readers, and I feel like you all owe me a drink now.
Read MoreNissan’s had this Star Wars tie-in deal for years now, and there’s no evidence it makes any real sense at all, or sells cars. Well, I think Nissan finally figured out what it’s good for: making their semi-autonomous system look useless and stupid. Great job, team!
Read MoreI am not a person who goes looking for strange and interesting aftermarket wheels online, so it came as a shock to me when I first laid eyes on these Mugen MD-Fs, the most unexpected tuner car wheels I had ever seen.
Read MoreAll of the traditional obstacles thrown in your way during a high-speed chase – PIT maneuvers, spike strips, the lot – are designed to slow you down. But what if, WHAT IF, you’re going very slow already? Or did I just BLOW. YOUR. MIND.
Read MoreLet’s be clear about something right off the bat: all of this information is coming from Fiat Chrysler’s Capital Markets Day investor’s meeting, and as such we should all enjoy a nice, large, juicy grain of salt with all of these predictions, dates, numbers, whatever. That said, FCA has revealed its autonomy plan, and it includes having Level 4 autonomous cars for sale by 2023. We’ll see about that.
Read MoreNews broke today of Maserati’s plan to finally turn the lovely Alfieri concept into an EV, which would also have hybrid or plug-in hybrid variants. Who would provide these powertrains, you ask? Ferrari, that’s who.
Read MoreIf you’ll check your notebooks of printed-out articles I’ve written that you all keep, you’ll notice that the last time I wrote about the Nobe 100 was last year, when the charming little retro three-wheeler only existed as data on a computer. Now, though, it has physical form, right here in our reality! That’s a big step!
Read MoreThe gorgeous Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione might be making a comeback. I know, I’m filled with emotion at the thought of that, too. But not just as a another front-engined sports car; rather, as an insane mid-engined supercar. Be still my heart.
Read MoreAlfa Romeo’s GTV is a storied nameplate if there ever was one. The GTV, which stands for “Gran Turismo Veloce,” or Fast Grand Touring, has been an Alfa Spider, an Alfa Giulia, an Alfa Alfetta, and a Spider again. And now it’s back with a lot of power.
Read MoreWhat do you get when you want to lunch on a Raptor? You get a Tyrannosaurus Rex, naturally. This is the Ram TRX, complete with at least 575 horsepower, and Ram parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles just confirmed it’s going into production.
Read MoreEstate sales are often great places to find bargains. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom BMW E39 is an Estate that’s for sale, but will its M5 updates make it an unbelievable bargain?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Corvette seems to be shy a zero on the mileage in his headline. He’s less shy in his effusive praise of the car’s mods, but should those mods mean its price should drop a digit too?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Elise says he’s in no hurry to sell. That’s despite the car looking hurry-up as hell. Let’s see if his price has you hurrying to empty your wallet.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX7 says it’s long belonged to his wife. They’re both now leaving the country and the car behind. Let’s see if its price is something you could get behind.
Read MoreThe modern Honda Civic is a good car, but is it a funky car? When it comes to Civics, you don’t get much more fun and funky than today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 4WD Wagovan. Let’s see if its price brings the funk.
Read MoreThe eBay ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe S5 initially claims it to be supercharged. That’s baloney as the 4.2-litre V8 in these cars does its thing without the aid of a blower. We’ll have to see if the price, contrastingly, does blow.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s somewhat Frankencar Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW Caddy says it was a dad and son project. Let’s see if the result, and its price, has you wanting to be its new sire.
Read MoreThere are no two countries more divergent in the reputation for the quality of their cars than Japan and Italy. That didn’t stop them from combining their powers for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mazda-based Fiat Spider. Will its price prove equally unstoppable?
Read MoreWith the immense versatility of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Envoy XUV, you could haul steer manure—and maybe even the whole steer—without ever smelling it! Let’s see if this jack of all trades comes with a jacked up price.
Read MoreA famous Simpson’s episode had Principal Skinner passing off a kitchen fire as the Aurora Borealis, to humorous effect. No such chicanery is necessary with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Olds Aurora, though its price might still prove delightfully devilish.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe cop car Crown Vic claims you won’t find more car for the money. That’s probably true seeing as they don’t build ‘em this big anymore, but we’ll still have to weigh the size/price balance.
Read MoreThe SPG appended to today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Saab 900 stands for Special Performance Group, but that doesn’t mean it was designed by a heartless committee. Let’s see if this black beauty’s price makes it a group you wouldn’t mind joining.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe says its Forest Green paint is rare. Let’s see if that exclusivity, and its price, has you shouting run, forest, run!
Read MoreDo you enjoy being driven as much as you do driving? Is so, you might just like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lexus. It’s luxurious and offers, in Lexus’ words, V12 power with V8 economy. Let’s see if its price is also driving a good deal.
Read MoreHyundai’s Accent might not be everyone’s first choice for a fun car, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Ute proves, it can be made to be so. Let’s see if this tiny trucklet’s price also puts the accent on value.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ‘09 Porsche is one of just 183 manual-equipped GTS models imported to the U.S.. That makes it more of a curiosity than your average SUV, but will its price also prove worth a pique?
Read MoreFor everyone whose mantra is DIY there’s another who’d rather somebody else just do the work. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe E46 M3 has already had a lot of work done, but will its price make it DOA?
Read MoreHurst and Cadillac may be an unexpected combo, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe hot CTS shows, they needn’t be mutually exclusive. Just how exclusive is their combined price, however?
Read MoreImpersonating a police officer is a serious offense. As today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mustang proves however, aping a cop car is just fine. Let’s see if this not-a-cop notch’s price lays down the law.
Read MoreWhile silver is the traditional 25th Anniversary gift, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1992 Camaro—which marks the model’s 25th year—is black on black. Let’s see if this manual-equipped droptop’s condition and price have you giving up the green.
Read MoreThe dealer selling today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Tahoe says it was his uncle’s truck, and was only used when appearances mattered. Let’s see if it’s priced to might make an appearance in your driveway.
Read MoreI’m no stranger to road trips, and have a habit of doing them in fun cars. Most of the time they go as planned; other times they go very badly. But a trip from London to Le Mans and back in a 2018 Porsche 911 GT3, one of the most hardcore and extreme Porsches you can buy, was thankfully be one of the smoother ones—and surprisingly more comfortable than anticipated.
Read MoreBoth the 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS and its convertible sister the 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS are built around angry little mid-mounted engines juiced to make more noise and power than they have a right to. If that sounds like a good recipe for great driving... Yes. Yes it is.
Read MoreAny time a situation pops up in the motorsport world that involves women, folks of LGBTQ+ identity, or people of color, such as our interview with transgender racer Charlie Martin or Formula One opting out of grid girls, you’re liable to see a plethora of the same type of comments made on in the Twitter replies, the Reddit thread, or the comments page. There’s a wealth of people in this world who just simply don’t want to acknowledge that there are people out there who might have a different exp
Read MoreIt sounds unbelievable for any car to lap the 12.94-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife course in only 5:19.546. The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo went 51.58 seconds faster than the former overall lap record, with an average speed of 145.3 mph. What’s even weirder, though, is that the last record remained unbeaten for over 35 years, and wasn’t even that big of a deal when it was set.
Read MoreThe Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo is the kind of delightful vehicular creation that happens when you let engineers run free without having to adhere to strict series regulations. It is ludicrously fast, and 919 driver Timo Bernhard just destroyed the Nordschelife track record with a time of time of 5:19.546—nearly an entire minute faster than Stefan Bellof’s longstanding lap record of 6:11.13.
Read MoreIt comes as no surprise that more attention was paid to Toyota’s overall win at the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, with its triumph in the top class this year coming after two heartbreaking losses to Porsche in 2016 and 2017. Toyota also added Formula One’s two-time world champion Fernando Alonso to their driver lineup, hoping that would give them another advantage.
Read MoreIt’s hard to grasp exactly how crazy the idea of racing up Pikes Peak really is from photos or maps. This year 77 cars and bikes of all shapes and sizes rocketed toward the sky in one of the world’s greatest races, braving steep drop-offs and treacherous bends. But what does that really feel like?
Read MoreWhen I flew to France to shoot the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, it was more than just a work assignment; it was a life goal. Less than two years ago, I decided to quit a much more lucrative career to pursue my passion, rather than just sporadically doing photography as a paying hobby. It was a big risk, but now I’ve completed the bucket list, and I keep wondering one thing: what’s next for me?
Read MoreFormer Formula One test driver Susie Wolff is now in charge of her own race team in one of the world’s major all-electric racing series, Formula E, and plenty of other women are taking charge in their own respective disciplines. Here are some of the great things women in motorsports are up to lately.
Read MoreThis crash is the stuff of nightmares—not just racing-themed nightmares, but, like, all nightmares. This is the equivalent of being trapped in a glass box with nowhere else to go, seeing all of the improbable ways to escape while constantly getting hit by other objects also stuck in that glass box.
Read MoreEuropean Formula 3 driver Ameya Vaidyanathan epitomized the whole “look where you want to go” advice in operating a vehicle over the weekend, when he slammed a stalled car at the start of a race. Now, officials are looking at whether he “meets the standard of ability and awareness” for F3. Ouch. That’s harsh.
Read MoreWhat makes Formula Drift different from all of the other racing series in America is not just the variety of cars that show up—everything from V8-swapped 1990s Nissan 240SXs to a 900 horsepower twin-supercharged Ferrari—it’s that they’re all competitive.
Read MoreVolkswagen took a car to the famous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with the intention of beating the record for fastest electric vehicle up the mountain, but it didn’t just beat that one. It also beat the all-time record—leaving both so far in the dust that all the dust had probably settled by the time they got there.
Read MoreA Jannarelly Design-1 OSC decked out in “Official Safety Car” branding was set to do a demonstration run between the motorcycle and car run groups at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but it crashed Thursday afternoon, reports KOAA. The car veered off the road in nearby Colorado Springs and crashed into the trees. The driver was cited for careless driving.
Read MoreAs an accredited motorsports photographer, I’ve been fortunate enough to cover many of the biggest series on the planet. With Formula One, MotoGP, WEC, IMSA, Pirelli World Challenge, and others on my résumé, I’ve experienced a solid mix of hurdles and successes at racetracks all over the globe. But until last week, the the 24 Hours of Le Mans had always been at the top of my bucket list.
Read More“No one except sweet baby Jesus” would have stopped one dad from jumping over pit wall and onto the track at South Boston Speedway to help his son get out of a burning race car, but the track will stop him from doing certain things in the future. He’s been put on probation for the rest of the year.
Read MoreA good fictional character once said, “I just wanna go fast.” That’s a noble pursuit, yet when you delve into the world of racing, you come up against so many rules and regulations in most series prohibiting you from so much that you just want to tear your hair out. Not so much at Pikes Peak.
Read MoreOne of the most amusing things about land speed racing is that there seems to be records for everything. Now Volkswagen wants their very own record in Bonneville’s G/BGC class, so they’re bringing a brand new 2019 Jetta to the salt flats to make that happen.
Read MoreIt all seemed like a joke at first: Former Formula One driver, former NASCAR driver, former rallycross champion Scott Speed got suspended from iRacing at the start of this year for trying to intentionally wreck another player in the racing simulator. But there was more to this story, and we went to iRacing headquarters to track it all down.
Read MoreDuring a pre-race press conference for the Formula One French Grand Prix on Thursday, humanity’s hero and one true savior Fernando Alonso said, verbatim, that his recent overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was “a higher level than any other victory in Le Mans.” Yes, the Le Mans that’s been around since 1923.
Read MoreThe NASCAR All-Star Race has been bad for so many years that it’s hard to remember when the last halfway entertaining one was, until this year. NASCAR finally found a way to make its All-Star event and the many, many, many other races like it into a good show, but that won’t happen again this year.
Read MoreGetting to complete my photography bucket list didn’t come easy. For years I’ve bothered Jalopnik Editor-in-Chief Patrick George to get me there, but it ain’t cheap, and credentials for the 24 Hours of Le Mans are not easy to obtain for anyone. Finally this year the stars aligned, and I made my way down to France for the annual biggest race on the planet.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s new I.D. R Pikes Peak electric car set an untouchable qualifying time of 3:16.083 today with Romain Dumas behind the wheel, the company announced today. Qualifying only uses the first 5.2-mile section of the course, yet the pace demonstrated today shows that the electric record they want to claim on race day should be in reach.
Read MoreMike Jones’ race in the NASCAR Late Model 100 ended with a big fiery crash, so his dad and Crew Chief Dean jumped to the rescue in an act of pure love, pulling Mike out of the burning race car and even going back in to turn on the car’s fire suppression system. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the all-time one true NASCAR dad.
Read MoreThe 24 Hours of Le Mans might not have had the riveting action like we expected it to thanks to some lame new rules, but at least one battle for the win did get interesting after the race ended. Officials disqualified the winning team in Le Mans’ second-tier class, over an illegal device to speed up pit stops.
Read MoreJust last year, Honda Formula One engines were a mix of the biggest joke and the biggest mechanical plague in the sport. “Honda” was so synonymous with “bad” in F1 that you could practically swap the words out in a sentence. Now, Honda is the new engine supplier for F1’s third-best team, Red Bull Racing.
Read MoreThis year Toyota capped off what looks like the end of the modern LMP1 era, from Audi vs everybody to Audi vs Peugeot to Audi vs Porsche to Porsche vs Toyota to Toyota vs itself. Among all of these vehicles, let’s remember the one that most sounded like a pod racer: the Toyota TS030.
Read MoreJeff Green, an Illinois dealership owner and former Pro Mazda Championship racer, died Saturday in a wreck at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. Green turned 61 just a week before, and friends described him as a “true gentleman who would always help anyone out at any time” in Facebook posts after his death.
Read MoreMotorsport renaissance man and two-time Formula One world champ Fernando Alonso was part of the winning No. 8 Toyota TS050 team that finally—after years of almost winning and absolute heartbreak—won Le Mans. Now that he’s got two of the three wins for the Triple Crown of Motorsport, it’s obvious where he’s heading next: Indy.
Read MoreAfter years of trying and failing, the No. 8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid has finally taken the Le Mans victory the team has so desperately wanted. In doing so, Toyota has become only the second Japanese manufacturer in history to win the race overall, following on from Mazda’s 1991 victory. While Audi and Porsche both quit FIA WEC series competition in the last couple of years, leaving Toyota with no credible combatants for the overall, the victory was still not a guarantee. Le Mans is a fickle race, an
Read MorePorsche celebrated its 70th anniversary this year with utter domination of both GT classes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Porsche’s beloved “pink pig” livery finally redeemed itself with a commanding win of LMGTE Pro, and that’s on top of the No. 77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR winning the LMGTE Am class.
Read MoreWith a little over an hour and a half to go, the No. 7 Toyota TS050 slowed abruptly from second place. Sure, 13 laps separated it from the next car given that the Toyotas are that much quicker than the privateer LMP1 teams, but you have to finish the race to be classified—as Toyota knows painfully after their leading car broke with just ten minutes to go in 2016.
Read MoreTired yet? The road used for the 24 Hours of Le Mans just gave everybody a good chance to make another pot of coffee because it’s kind of falling apart. A drain cover came loose, so cars circulated behind a safety car Sunday morning while race personnel tack the cover down more securely.
Read MoreIt’s early in the morning at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and in case you didn’t pick it up from the cutaways to sleeping crew members, folks are clearly a bit tired. This morning started off with a few major crashes ‘n’ bashes. One of the unlucky cars that had to retire was one of the brand new BMW M8 GTEs as it was on a mad charge to climb up from ninth place in its class. Ouch!
Read MoreRacing the 24 Hours of Le Mans is such a monolithic effort that just getting to the starting grid is a challenge. That was especially true for Core Autosport this year, which had to pretty much start over at the last minute after one of its cars got wrecked in qualifying.
Read MoreSteve Millen is a very accomplished racer. He’s bagged the 24 Hours Of Daytona, IMSA GT Driver’s Championships, a whole bunch of other things and most relevantly today, he ran the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice including a stint behind the wheel of the factory-sponsored Nissan 300ZX in 1994.
Read MoreAhead of the Ginetta GT 5 Challenge race weekend at Silverstone during the June 8 weekend, racer Charlie Martin sat down in front of a crowd at the drivers’ meeting. With a rainbow sticker in hand, she explained a rather simple—but effective—plan: place one of these small stickers somewhere on your car to show your support for the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month. Show that you’re willing to make racing a more inclusive space for everybody. Easy.
Read MoreFord GTs will be some of the coolest cars to watch that the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, if only because they have roadgoing counterparts. If you’re into them, Ford Performance is setting up a live show just for its four GT race cars which you can watch here.
Read MoreToday Toyota announced what we’ve been expecting for months now: The Gazoo GR Super Sport Concept will go into production, 1,000 horsepower from a turbo, hybrid 2.4-liter V6 and tech fit for a Le Mans prototype. But this is about more than just a car going on sale.
Read MoreElectric cars aren’t a new thing at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a 156-turn mountain course where both drivers and automakers go to prove themselves. But running an EV comes with challenges, and Volkswagen had to figure out rapid charging for its 670-horsepower electric prototype in a setting that caters to cars that can swallow a tank of gas and be on their way.
Read MoreSome outlets are perfectly content covering the greatest race in the world, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with stock and wire service images. And... well we do that too, I’m not gonna lie, but this year we had to send one of our own ace shooters over there to go the extra mile. Here’s his report from Thursday’s day of qualifying.
Read MoreThe most famous corners in racing are all about elevation change: Eau Rouge at Spa, The Corkscrew at Laguna Seca, the Minami jump at Ebisu. Now, please welcome the“Roller Coaster From Hell,” recently run for the first time at Estonia’s Kehala Ring.
Read MoreThere are a few sporting events throughout the year that attract even the most casual of fans, just because they’re so big and so important. Like the Indy 500, Daytona 500 or Monaco Grand Prix, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one. If you’ve committed to watching cars for 24 hours straight this weekend, here’s what you should know.
Read MoreAfter a miscommunication between officials ended the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix early and caused a lot of grief for Winnie Harlow, the celebrity who waved it, F1 could start using a computerized checkered flag. No, really, F1 may hand the most iconic symbol in motorsports to computers over a rare mistake.
Read MoreAt the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Toyota’s LMP1 squad is basically the Highlander—and we’re not talking about the truck. There can be only one...factory hybrid LMP1 team remaining in Le Mans’ fastest class. Thus, we’re not that surprised to see the No. 8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid set the fastest time in the first qualifying session today.
Read MoreWith virtual motorsports simulators like iRacing, all it takes is logging onto a computer and suddenly be transported to a race track across the world in a race car you’ll probably never get to touch in real life. The virtual driving experience is so realistic, though, you’ll feel like you have. Here’s how iRacing does it.
Read MoreEveryone remembers the Audi Quattro, as piloted by Michéle Mouton and other legends, but what of its successor, the Audi S2? Here’s a vintage clip of victory donuts that shows that the S2 is, in fact, good.
Read MoreIt wasn’t surprising that Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel took the checkered flag first on Sunday at the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix. What was surprising was when he took it, since a major miscommunication led the flag to be waved before the finish and effectively end the race more than five miles early.
Read MoreAfter the 1955 Le Mans disaster, Switzerland banned motorsports entirely. Any sport that could kill 83 spectators and injure 180 more was deemed reckless and irresponsible, and the Swiss government refused to have that kind of catastrophe take place on their own soil. But now, after over six decades, Formula E is changing that by bringing electric racing to the streets of Zürich.
Read MoreWhat do you get when two Indian racers want to start breaking some boundaries and having fun with racing? You get the Xtreme 1, or X1, Racing League.
Read MoreA 20-year-old driver named Lewis Hamilton recently got sentenced to eight months in jail and a temporary ban from driving after a police chase in March, according to the Daily Star. He’s not the Lewis Hamilton most of us are familiar with, not that the Daily Star’s headline would’ve keyed you into that.
Read MoreFormula One driver Max Verstappen said at a recent press conference that he “might headbutt someone” if journalists (and other people, too, maybe?) keep asking about how much he’s been crashing his car in F1 lately. It’s not the cute and loving kind of headbutt like a pet cat does, though. He seems mad.
Read MoreFormula One helmets are tougher than bad steak at a cheap restaurant you knew looked sketchy but went to anyway, as shown by YouTube video upon YouTube video of people trying to break them with sledgehammers and other weaponry. But they don’t get to that point without some ridiculous testing requirements.
Read MoreFor the past few months, the top hypercar manufacturers and the FIA have been in talks to decide what the top class of sports car racing will look like at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and beyond. Their conclusion is to have a new level of freedom for hypercar design for LMP1 prototypes.
Read MoreThere are trick racing videos that leave you deeply satisfied at the end, like where a car fits neatly into a close gap, or pulls off a ludicrously fast, well-choreographed pit stop. This clip of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters at the Hungaroring is the exact opposite of that. This one left me confused and angry at how they let this happen in the first place.
Read MoreA woman who accused Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen and a member of his entourage of sexually assaulting her at a bar during Montreal’s 2015 Grand Prix weekend is now the subject of a police complaint from Raikkonen claiming harassment and extortion, according to reports. But the woman who made the allegations on her personal blog told Jalopnik her goal was to sit down and talk about the alleged assault with Raikkonen, and that she was “disgusted” with his apparent retaliation.
Read MorePorsche was spotted today turning fast laps at the Nürburgring with their now-unrestricted 919 Hybrid Evo Le Mans prototype. Now that they’re no longer running the car at Le Mans, the 919 is now attempting to dominate lap records across the world—and let’s be honest, it’s about time they give us a ‘Ring time. Could this be the start of a beautiful new lap record attempt?
Read MoreFormula One has given us a great look at the obstructive view of the new F1 halo design from a camera strapped to Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly’s noggin as he raced around the Monaco Grand Prix.
Read MoreA friend sent me this video of car noises dubbed over little toys playing in a sandbox and I thought it was pretty cute. Then I learned, no, they’re not toys at all. This is just a very strange and interesting way to photograph cars, utilized in one of the most extreme driving environments ever.
Read MoreThe Russian Proton rocket, the Soviet Union’s and then Russia’s primary medium-lift workhorse rocket, is finally being discontinued after a remarkable 53-year run. A Proton rocket launched the very first space station ever into orbit (and every Soviet and Russian one since). A combination of highly toxic fuels, a launch site outside of Russia, and competition from SpaceX all sealed the Proton’s fate.
Read MoreBack in March, President Trump pulled the idea of a “Space Force” out of his well-seasoned anus and thought it was a fantastic idea. Funadamentally, it’s not a bad idea at all, and I know this because we’ve effectively had a Space Force for decades, even if it hasn’t been called exactly that. Now, he’s directed the Department of Defense to create a “Space Force” as a sixth military branch.
Read MoreCome on, Elon, try to keep up. I know you’re busy running all those companies and spending some quality Grimes-times, but if you took a minute or two to do a quick Google search, you’d have noticed that I wrote about incorporating small rockets into a car just like you proposed in your tweet. This was back in 2012! I didn’t follow up on it for two reasons: A) there’s some real issues, and 2) I’m kind of a broke dumbass.
Read MoreFormer Tesla technician Martin Tripp told Jalopnik on Thursday that he’s lawyering up and plans to file a countersuit against the automaker, which accused him on Tuesday of stealing reams of confidential data and making false claims to news outlets. That’s all to say nothing of his heated, headline-grabbing email exchange with CEO Elon Musk.
Read MoreLate Wednesday, after Tesla filed a lawsuit against former Gigafactory technician Marty Tripp, the ex-technician shared emails with the Washington Post that highlighted a heated back-and-forth between him and CEO Elon Musk. At first, it seemed like Musk fired off a quick jab before the suit was filed, calling Tripp a “horrible person.” But a copy of the entire exchange provided to Jalopnik offers a more illuminating dialogue—with Tripp acting first.
Read MoreAfter cryptically saying in an email over the weekend that Tesla had been sabotaged by a recently-fired employee, the automaker sued a former technician on Tuesday, alleging he stole reams of confidential data and made false claims to news outlets.
Read MoreThe idea with autonomous driving technology is that, eventually, the driver will be removed from the equation to do whatever they want while their car drives itself. That vision, however, is decades away from becoming reality, if ever. Yet the Koch Brothers, the billionaire libertarian oil tycoons known for unleashing a typhoon of money into our political system, are leaning on the promise of a driverless future to spike public transit projects around the United States.
Read MoreActress Mary McCormack, best known for her role on the political drama “The West Wing,” called Tesla out on Saturday after her husband’s Model S abruptly caught fire while in traffic, a sight she captured on video and has since been shared widely on social media. The incident caught the attention of General Motors, which attempted to garner some sweet PR juju by offering McCormack a Chevy Bolt EV—currently the main competitor to Tesla’s Model 3 sedan—as a loaner in the meantime. Hot damn. GM say
Read MoreDockless bike-sharing, like dockless e-scooter renting, has proliferated across the U.S. at a rapid clip that hasn’t always gone over so well. Nowhere has it developed into such an issue like the City of Seattle, Wired contends today in a deeply-reported feature.
Read MoreMaybe one day I’ll try an e-scooter, but for now, after spending weeks reading about their sudden emergence in cities across the U.S., with writers everywhere gushing about how, actually they’re cool, and that they could develop into a viable business and ease congestion, I’ve concluded that I absolutely hate them. Fuck scooters.
Read MoreBoth General Motors and Lyft have ambitious goals to commercialize autonomous taxis in some way, but after teaming up more than two years ago, with the former investing $500 million in the latter, it seems they’ll no longer be pursuing that endeavor together.
Read MoreElectric scooters have flooded the streets of several cities across the U.S., propped up by venture capitalists backing several scooter renting startups that are duking it out to become Scooter Champion. One in particular, Bird, is raising an additional $300 million in new funding, according to The New York Times, which would value it at $2 billion. To rent scooters.
Read MoreTesla is laying off approximately 9 percent of its staff across the company, CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday in a staff-wide email, which he characterized as “an effort to reduce costs and become profitable.”
Read MoreElectric car startup Byton made a big splash at this year’s CES Conference, introducing an SUV concept with a whopper of a center dash screen. Now, it has a half-billion dollars more in funding to get off the ground, along with a new concept, a fully-autonomous, all-electric sedan called the K-Byte. It looks sharp.
Read MoreTesla has been dogged by reports that it fails to report serious workplace injuries on legally-mandated logs, and now the automaker’s former safety director is claiming in a lawsuit that he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about the alleged practice. Update: Tesla has responded to the lawsuit, alleging that the executive was fired after management received an “onslaught of complaints” about his behavior, which included intimidation and making allegedly inappropriate comments about
Read MoreTesla has been a leader in semi-autonomous driving tech for some time, but that’s been a double-edged sword. While ahead of many competitors, it now faces several investigations over crashes involving its Autopilot system and a flurry of criticism from safety advocates over how it is advertised. Nonetheless, CEO Elon Musk said this weekend that Tesla will start to introduce “full-self driving features” to Autopilot this coming August—a statement that’s already being misinterpreted.
Read MoreElio Motors recently emerged from a months-long period of silence with ostensibly promising news of a $2.5 million investment from Overstock.com, a website that surprisingly still exists. Only now we know just how badly Elio needed it. By the end of 2017, Elio didn’t even have enough cash on hand to buy one of its own vehicles, according to a report filed Friday with the Securities Exchange Commission.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has treaded carefully with the rollout of its semi-autonomous system called Super Cruise. Until now, GM’s only made it available on the most recent Cadillac CT6s, but now the automaker is planning to expand it beyond Cadillac after 2020 and eventually to all of its U.S. brands, reports Automotive News.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has said it wants to deploy a fleet of self-driving Chevy Bolts for a commercial ride-sharing service at some point in 2019. But ahead of that, GM’s self-driving unit, GM Cruise, is aiming to deploy autonomous cars without a driver at the wheel as part of a pilot program in San Francisco that, emails obtained by Jalopnik suggest, could launch imminently.
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 MoreThere’s a story over at Bloomberg today that highlights the work of an engineer named Zhu Lingyun who believes, if all goes according to plan, he’ll have a two-wheeled electric pod thing on the road in two years. Always two years! Anyway, Zhu’s idea is interesting because it’s actually based off an old Ford concept, the 1961 Gyron. This makes me think it’s a great time to look back at the Blue Oval’s funky idea from a half-century ago.
Read MoreWaymo, the self-driving car spinoff of Google, made a big splash last week by announcing it struck a deal with Fiat Chrysler to add 62,000 Chrysler Pacficia hybrid minivans to its upcoming fleet of autonomous taxis. Turns out, the move could have a big impact not only on Waymo’s bottom line but also potential buyers of electric cars in years to come, too. It appears that nothing’s stopping the company from seeking as much as $465 million in federal tax credits as a result of the order, according
Read MoreThere’s an official mission statement Tesla employees learn when they first start their job: “Accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy.” It’s an ambitious proposal that hinges on selling attractive, electric cars under a business model that’s unique to the auto industry—a “direct sales” approach where vehicles are sold directly to consumers by Tesla, not through a third-party dealer, as is customary and often legally mandated at the state level.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist who alleged in January that one of the automaker’s self-driving Chevy Bolts knocked him off his bike in a California crash. The settlement for the case, the first known to involve an autonomous car crash, comes as GM moves to quickly accelerate the development of its self-driving technology.
Read MoreAre you piping hot mad? Fiat Chrylser’s departing chief Sergio Marchionne said last summer that Maserati would lead the automaker’s way into the electric vehicle future, surely pissing off traditionalist fans of the brand. Now we have an idea of what that might look like: 0-60 sprint in under 2 seconds, and a top speed of 186 mph. If they pull it off, that will be pretty amazing.
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 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 that are your air, that you need to know to live.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that are your air, that you need to know to live.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that are your air, that you need to know to live.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that are your air, that you need to know to live.
Read MoreGood morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories that are your air, that you need to know to live.
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.
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 MoreThe 2018 Toyota Yaris GRMN is a tightly-wound compact car with a manual transmission and a supercharger. Its output may be modest, but you get to use all it’s power all the time. And that gives you the ability to make every drive an absolute riot.
Read MoreThere are plenty of fun cars you can buy right now, but enthusiasts often run into the same problem with the new toys: too much digitization, too much assistance, not enough flavor. A 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo might not catch today’s cars in a zero to 60 sprint, by my God, it’s got the teeth to make up for it, and then some.
Read MoreFrom an engineering standpoint, this Dodge Caravan-turned-pickup truck (which I’m now dubbing “Caratruck”) for sale on Facebook Marketplace is a disaster. But from an enthusiast’s standpoint, who gives a damn? This machine is incredible.
Read MoreI try to avoid lobbing clichés like “holy grail” and “ultimate barn find” around too often, but we’ve got a freaking 1983 Toyota four-wheel drive manual transmission single cab pickup truck with less than 8,000 miles on our hands here, people. It’s time to freak out.
Read MoreThough an all-new 2019 Ram 1500 has already hit the market, the older “DS” platform truck isn’t going out without a fight. Ram just announced the new name of the 2019 version of the “outgoing” Ram: Ram 1500 Classic. And if you want a 2019 Ram with a regular cab, it’s your only option.
Read MoreBack when legendary designer Brooks Stevens helped style the original “Rhino Grille” 1963 Jeep Wagoneer, he probably didn’t expect Jeep to keep the basic fascia design alive for 29 model years. And yet, the brand did just that, though the average person may not realize it.
Read MoreFord Broncos were born to run free, and this little Baja video has some of the most satisfying scenes of a sweet old 4x4 in its element. This ’68 Bronco is a little beefier than your average vintage SUV, which makes it that much more exciting to watch in the wild.
Read MoreSuzuki’s very first official photos of the 2019 Suzuki Jimny include a picture of the off-roader’s chassis, and there’s good news: it looks like the little Japanese billygoat has the goods to continue the Jimny’s reputation of being an off-road monster.
Read MoreThe Mahindra Roxor is the modern incarnation of the original civilian Jeep, the Willys CJ-2A. But to find out if it’s as good in the rough stuff, I took the Indian side-by-side and my junky 1948 Willys off-road, and beat the crap out of both. After flooding the Willys’ engine and denting the Mahindra’s tub, one winner rose to the top. But by just a hair.
Read MoreAn allegedly intoxicated woman attending a music festival this past weekend in Minnesota somehow managed to get her head stuck in what looks like a first-generation Chevy Silverado’s exhaust tip. The fire department had to save the day with power tools, though the truck had to take one for the team.
Read MoreSome genius human being in Washington has crafted an excellent sleeper truck out of a 1998 Chevrolet LT and the same 6.2-liter supercharged LS9 V8 found in a Chevy Corvette ZR1. This rig looks like a normal Hard Like A Rock-era Tahoe, except it’s much, much more.
Read MoreHere it is, the 2019 Suzuki Jimny—the next generation of one of the closest modern off-road billygoats to the original Willys Jeep. It’s supposed to launch sometime this year, but until then, enjoy these spy shots of what Suzuki has confirmed is indeed the 2019 Suzuki Jimny.
Read MoreGMC just debuted a new version of the 2019 GMC Sierra called the “Elevation,” and not only is it damn good looking, but it also comes stock with an all-new 2.7-liter turbocharged inline-four engine, and can be optioned with an “X31" off-road package.
Read MoreFor decades the “Jeep Wave” has been a way for Jeep owners to greet one another, and it’s a lot of fun. But there’s one misunderstanding about this tradition thats been tearing at my soul: people think it applies to all Jeeps, when in reality, most Jeepers—including my poor self—get no love.
Read MoreTwo years ago I traded a 2000 Toyota Tundra for a 1975 International Scout and have been building the old truck into a manifestation of my fantasies ever since. Specifically, my dream of a jungle-themed Scout on an adventure from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. That’s where my shiny new hood bird comes in.
Read MoreIn its recent investor meeting in Italy, Fiat Chrysler dropped a number of bombshells, including this one: a new mid-size Ram model is coming for 2022. Is this finally the return of the dearly-departed Dakota? UPDATE: It’s coming to the U.S.!
Read MoreJeep, the one true extremely profitable son of the Fiat Chrysler behemoth, revealed in their five-year plan for investors today that they want to build a new Deserthawk lineup centered around “ultimate high-speed sand capability.” To that I must say, “do it, fools.” It’s an extremely good idea.
Read MoreForget an R34 Nissan Skyline or a diesel Land Rover Defender. The 2018 Volkswagen California van is the not-legal-in-America car you should be lusting over. It’s comfortable to live in, easy to drive, has an expanding roof... what more could you possibly want from a big rolling brick?
Read MoreThe “new VW bus” is real, and it’s spectacular. It’s just not for sale in America. But that didn’t stop Volkswagen from calling its new camper the “California” and letting us live in one for a couple days. So check out all the amazing toys and gadgets that are in this van-sized mobile house.
Read MoreOpening up a rotary engine is fun, letting you see how those magic triangles make power. And it’s absolutely fascinating when they’re beaten to hell inside, with dents and scrapes and cracks, showing where all the wear points on these things are.
Read MoreAfter two of my vehicles—my 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer and my 1948 Willys-Overland CJ-2A—decided to crap the bed this week, I received a reminder that the best way to fix a car isn’t to simply replace components, it’s to understand how the components failed in the first place.
Read MoreWhen my 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer overheated after spewing all of its coolant from a broken hose, I worried that the 1,700 mile journey from Michigan to Utah had reached its end. But those concerns quickly disappeared, because the Jeep’s AMC 360 V8 just kept beasting on.
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