The 2018 Audi RS4 Avant is not the world’s fastest station wagon, but I might have to argue that it should be the gold standard in cars that can haul ass and haul stuff. It fits everywhere, everything fits in it, and it’s ready to rock your world at the drop of a gas pedal.
Read More“I saw this at a rest stop in PA,” Jalopnik reader Joe wrote to me. “Any idea what it is?” Well, yes, but I have no idea what the fuselage of a C-130 Hercules airplane is doing getting dragged behind a truck. It makes for quite a sight, though.
Read MoreIn recent years, the first BMW M3 has become slightly more known for its ability to rival air-cooled Porsche prices at online auctions than for its driving prowess. The truth is the E30 M3 is excellent to drive, but its high-revving four-cylinder engine isn’t for everyone. Here’s what you should do instead of shoving your E30 M3 into a hermetically sealed bubble and waiting for its price to go up so you can retire on the Bring A Trailer sale: give it a beefier engine and then actually drive it.
Read MoreIf right here and now, I proclaim the 2018 BMW X3 M40i to be the bare minimum of what it is to be a sporty crossover, then maybe the SUV/crossover apocalypse can be slightly more tolerable.
Read MoreWhich cliché about how BMW “isn’t as good as it used to be” should I open this 2018 BMW M550i review with? Should we talk about the lack of a manual or wagon option, or how we miss high-revving naturally aspirated engines, or how a company that makes the X2 Active Tourer can still lay claim to being the “Ultimate Driving Machine?” Because the criticisms are easily dismissed here: the top non-M 5 Series is smooth, stately and fast without feeling extreme or exhausting.
Read MoreThe 2019 BMW X4 M40i is the sportier, lengthier, wider, lower version of the X3, a crossover that at low speeds is as soft and benign as a bear in hibernation. But believe it or not, on track it actually wakes up an angry, nimble grizzly of a car that can bite back if you’re not too careful.
Read MoreOnce again, our friends at iSeeCars.com have compiled the cars that people hold onto the longest. The list is quite different from the data they got last year and has both some predictable entries and surprising rankings.
Read MoreBuying a used car is a great way to get more value for your dollar, and getting a car with a certified pre-owned warranty adds some extra protection. But some dealers aren’t always honest when making claims about their “certified” cars. Here are a couple of instances that should raise some flags.
Read MoreBack in 2004, Mercedes defined the modern four-door coupe with the very first Mercedes-Benz CLS, which was basically an E-Class intentionally bent out of shape in a tragic styling exercise incident. Now there’s a third generation with an exciting new straight six engine, and it’s a hoot to drive and much easier on the eyes.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz seems to be replacing the saggy CLA model in the U.S. with the first-ever American market Mercedes-Benz A-Class. It looks great, it’s the first to feature some of the automaker’s newest tech and styling, and I had about five minutes on a hotel rooftop last night to check it out. Here’s what I know.
Read MoreSam has a 2005 Mini Cooper S, which is a fine little car, but not quite practical for a growing family. He wants something sporty, fun, and practical and has a pretty healthy budget to accomplish this task. What car should he buy?
Read MoreWhile the regular Cadillac ATS wasn’t much of a success despite being a good driver’s car, the ATS-V remained a favorite of this website. The ATS sedan is being discontinued but the ATS-V coupe will live on for 2019 with a price increase, one that sort of saves you money if you like carbon fiber.
Read MoreIt’s well-established that practically everyone hates the idea of President Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariff on all imported cars and car parts. But the latest possible outcome of that situation is that tariffs could keep low-income car buyers from obtaining hefty subprime auto loans to purchase new cars, Bloomberg points out today.
Read MoreThere is an old-school bit of car buying advice that says you should wait until a new model hits the showrooms to score a deal on the previous model. In other words, when the all-new 2019 Eagle Premier comes out, you may be better off waiting to get a great price on the still-good 2018 Eagle Premier. But while you can get some great deals on leftover cars, you’ll probably want to start shopping sooner than you think.
Read MoreSedans are having a rough time right now, though whether or not that means you can score a deal depends on the market that you are shopping in. But if you are looking for something with power, luxury, and reliability under $20,000, your best bet may be the car that got lost in a weird name change: the Infiniti Q40.
Read MoreKevin won a bet with his wife, and while the details of the wager are a mystery, the important part is that he is now going to spend some $200,000 to $300,000 on a seriously fast car. But he’s not sure which direction to go. What car should he buy?
Read MoreWhen it comes to buying pre-owned cars, I always stress the importance of a pre-purchase inspection. Getting a second opinion is more crucial for some cars than others. It’s especially important if it’s a performance-oriented car without a warranty. That is why you should always be suspicious of a dealer, like the one below, who denies the request for an inspection.
Read MoreThe Lexus LC 500 and 500h flagship coupes, Jalopnik favorites, are apparently getting a dealer cash incentive until the end of the month. This is big if you’re currently in the market for one.
Read MoreOf the three current Genesis offerings, I was most excited for the 2019 Genesis G70. The smaller and more athletic one. The one with a manual. And rear-wheel drive. And a mechanical limited-slip differential and launch control. The sports sedan. It didn’t disappoint at all. If the Germans think they can keep sitting on laurels in this class, they’ve got another thing coming.
Read MoreSometimes really cool cars come out and, for whatever reason, we forget about them. And then one day, the magic of depreciation takes hold and some interesting opportunities arise. This is the case with the Audi RS5, which was off my radar for awhile, only to reappear and for a great price too.
Read MoreMatt had one of the coolest Jalop cars ever made, a Cadillac CTS-V wagon. Sadly someone stole it and chopped it up for parts. So now Matt has a decision to make as to what to do next and he needs our help. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe 2018 Volvo XC40 looks cool as a cucumber in the back of a fridge, inside and out. But after putting about 800 miles on one and living with it for a week, I have to say I found this car frustrating in a lot of little ways.
Read MoreWe have said the Kia Stinger GT is the real deal as it offers a lot of performance and style for the money. One Kia dealer in Kentucky has really pulled out all the stops when it comes to promoting its inventory of these things.
Read MoreI just spent a week abusing the 2018 Kia Stinger GT–a $45,000 365-horsepower rear-wheel drive sport sedan made by a company that was largely invisible to driving enthusiasts 10 years ago. Suddenly Kia makes a legitimate practical performance car, and we all want to know how it compares to logical and maybe some unintentional rivals.
Read MoreDean Shaw, Volvo Cars USA’s handsomely bespectacled VP of corporate comms, bellows the word to a ballroom full of sleepy-eyed car journalists—conceivably to both wake them up and emphasize what the morning’s lecture would focus on: “Electrification!”
Read MoreThe average person puts about 11,500 miles a year on their car, but certain cars tend to rack up the miles more than others. A recent study by iSeeCars.com reveals the vehicles that drivers are really racking up the miles in every year.
Read MoreWhile some college students don’t need a car on campus, Imani goes to a school that is pretty isolated, and she needs a car to help her get around and help her enjoy some other activities. What car should she buy?
Read MoreIt seems like everyone has a crazy Craigslist buyer story, but this reader who was trying to sell a classic Mini got into what started as a price negotiation and somehow unwound into a weird racist tirade. Buyers like this make a solid argument for trade-ins.
Read MoreSomehow, the maniacs at Mopar have found a way to get you even more speed for less cash. The new 797 horsepower, 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye will have a starting price of $69,650, and the regular Hellcat gains an extra 10 ponies with a $5,000 price cut. Not bad all around.
Read MoreAn Aeromexico flight has crashed shortly after takeoff near Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Mexico. Mexican Secretary of Communications and Transportation Gerardo Ruiz Esparza reported the flight was carrying 97 passengers and four crew members. Government officials indicate there were no deaths in the crash.
Read MoreWe thought Mark Sawatsky had the engine swap of the century when he fit a Jaguar V12 into an MGB GT. Only problem: it didn’t really work, and then that lovely V12 died. So he did what any sensible person would do: hacked the roof off, added a Buick turbo four-cylinder, designed a new tube frame and suspension, and honed the aerodynamics using a computer simulation popular with Formula One teams.
Read MoreToday we wrote about about Toyota and BMW’s culture clash as the two companies worked together to develop the next Supra and Z4. This was all according to interviews with the Supra’s chief engineer, though one Jalopnik commenter thinks they know what really happened during the companies’ first meeting.
Read MoreThe digital speedo clicked up from 265 to 266 kilometers per hour, a good 165 mph. It was safe as can be and completely legal, because we were on a de-restricted section of the Autobahn that is, quizzically, a dead end.
Read MoreSleeper cars! They’re one of my favorite sub-category of cars. Highly customizable and with varying degrees of power and performance, they’re designed to blend fun and utility. What could be better?
Read MoreIt always brings me a special sort of miserable joy when I find a car for Meh Car Monday that nobody seems to remember. That’s the real mark of a true meh car, isn’t it? A complete and comprehensive forgetability, an almost supernatural amnesiac quality. The Buick Somerset has this in big, forgettable, damp piles. I bet even after reading this article about it, it’ll live in your mind for, at most, a few seconds before you forget it again. Because that’s the kind of car it is.
Read MoreChris Svensson, Ford’s global design director and a member of the team behind the stunning new Ford GT, lost his battle with cancer this past weekend at the age of 53.
Read MoreThe beloved Toyota 86 is back for 2019 with a new special edition, this time featuring upgraded suspension, better brakes, grippier tires and of course absolutely no discernible power increase to take advantage of the newfound performance parts.
Read MoreIf you’re a Chevrolet Corvette with an overwhelming desire to shut the Dodge Demon people up for good, New Jersey-based GM tuner Specialty Vehicle Engineering has the answer to your troubles with a famed name from Chevy’s tuner past. The company is now selling bored, stroked, and supercharged 1,000 horsepower Corvette Grand Sports at Chevrolet dealerships. Because why not more-than-double the stock horsepower?
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter if you’re the salesman or the interested buyer: Conducting a test drive isn’t always easy. Everyone has their own unique way of driving a car. Not all of them are safe.
Read MoreNot only does the 2019 Suzuki Jimny have the same adorable toughness on the inside as it does on its exterior, but there’s so much cool functionality in this cab and check out those gauge clusters! It looks almost exactly like a Suzuki Samurai with an airbag.
Read MoreI’m having a hard time pinpointing exactly what it is about the Milnes-Daimler Omnibus that makes me so uncomfortable. This thing is bulky. It’s big. It looks like it shouldn’t function and yet somehow it did. People of the early 1900s, tell me what you were imagining with this bad boy.
Read MoreKyle Long’s 1966 Volvo 122S wagon would be cool enough on its own, given that he swapped in the more modern five-cylinder engine from a 1995 Volvo 850. The week after finishing it, he took his freshly swapped wagon on a 7,000-mile cross-country road trip, where he’s well on his way to legendary status after already having to swap an engine and transmission just to keep going. ?
Read MoreBefore the Dodge Chargers were dragging safes through Rio in improbable bank heists, before the orange Toyota Supra, before living your life a quarter-mile at a time, before Dom and Letty and Brian, there was just Stephan Papadakis, his friends, and Los Angeles.
Read MoreBig Bear Lake is a popular vacation spot for the hordes of human beings who live in Los Angeles, which means the joint can get pretty jammed up. But if you time it right, there are endless excellent roads and dirt trails to drive on while you enjoy the clean air you can only waft 5,000 feet above sea level. Here’s why you should check it out.
Read MoreEvery now and then there’ll be a weekend where the whole world gets together and dials its car culture all the way to 11—or in this case, seven. That’s what 7s Day is; a giant celebration of Mazda rotary engines on the weekend of July 7 and 8 that happens in many cities, including New York. But here’s what went down this year in Mazda’s home country.
Read MoreI want every car company to make an SUV. Ferrari. McLaren. Aston Martin. Bugatti. Pagani. The lot.
Read MoreBeing a car salesperson can be a tough job. I mean, you have to deal with customers, who you and I know are usually the worst kind of people. Then again, the sales people can have their own issues. I feel like no place makes these issues come out more than the test drive. What’s your horror story?
Read MoreThe internet, and the astounding degree of personal connection it gives to all of us, is absolutely incredible. But at the same time, it makes me nostalgic for the days when we had to wait for our heroes to die and bitter tell-all books to be published to find out what pieces of shit they were.
Read MoreAs we came across the faded yellow ‘97 Porsche Boxster with the red wheels and huge dent, I knew this was going to be a very special episode of Carspotting. Raph not only knew this car, but also the exact spot where it would be parked, which apparently is where the owner has parked the little yellow Boxster for the last decade.
Read MoreAre you feeling sort of down? A little crappy? Buddy, I get it, and, even better, I know exactly what you need: a big, painful injection of vitamin Would You Rather, injected right into your neck! It’s been way too long, right? So let’s do this!
Read MoreThe AE86-generation Toyota Corolla is a highly desirable car nowadays, thanks to its starring role in Initial D, the rise of drifting in America and a general renewed interest in good ’80s cars. Colin Frost’s 1987 AE86 looks like the ultimate track weapon now, so you might not expect part of his build to include filling in goat hoof-marks on the roof with bondo. Here’s how Frost’s Toyota was brought back from life on the farm.
Read MoreRight now there are pretty much two kinds of rear seats you see in production cars: lounge chairs that swaddle asses in opulence, and basic benches that look like afterthoughts. We need, at least, one more variation of rear seat design.
Read MoreIf a magic horse were to come up to me today and tell me that if I pleasured them, physically, that horse would grant me a wish, I’d have my horse-pleasuring gloves on so fast your eyes would cross and the next thing you know there’d be one satisfied horse, a flash of bright blue light, and me, in 1990s Japan, surrounded by Daihatsu concept cars.
Read MoreOne of the concepts carmaker PR and marketing people have come to really latch onto in recent years is the idea of a carmaker’s “DNA.” By DNA, they mean a fundamental set of ideas, technical concepts, and design that have come to define a given manufacturer. It’s not a bad way to think about things, but it can lead you to some strange conclusions. Like this: there is no Volkswagen. Well, not DNA-wise. The company we call Volkswagen today is really made from Auto-Union DNA. I’ll explain.
Read MoreI bet if you assembled a dream team of the world’s most creative, open-minded, and visionary poets, freethinkers, and general imbibers of life’s rich, heady brew, and gave them a Plymouth Volare to feel, embrace, explore, experience, my guess is they’d come away thinking it’s “a car.” Maybe the more astute and/or high ones might realize it’s sort of old. That’s about the most you can hope for with a Volare.
Read MoreMany people will tell you that if you live in a city you need a small, compact hatchback to get around. A “city car,” they’ll say. This is bullshit, because the actual cars that park and drive around the middle of Manhattan are Oshkosh Medium Tactical Vehicles.
Read MoreSafari-style Porsches are the it-car of the moment, embraced by rally hooligans and show bros alike. Now Nico Samaras and Mark Gudaitis plan to take this 1968 Porsche 912 on the 2019 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge to prove it’s not just another pretty Instagram car.
Read MoreI tend to think one of the biggest and most persistent problems with modern cars is that they, for the most part, take themselves way too seriously. Almost every car now has to look imposing or tough or fast or suggest that the owner is rolling in cash, even if none of these things are true. This doesn’t have to be that way, and the Mitsubishi Pajero Junior Flying Pug is one of the best examples of what could be if cars stop taking themselves so damn seriously.
Read MoreYesterday, we reported that Volkswagen was either toying with the idea of a new, rear-wheel-drive electric four door Volkswagen Beetle, or our emotions, or both. Interestingly, the most interesting part of that is the four-door aspect, because there has never been an official four-door Beetle. There’s been some sort-of close attempts, which you now have to sit down and learn about because it’s mandatory.
Read MoreNames are one of the most important parts of cars. Names represent a car in the abstract, act as a stand-in for them when they aren’t physically before you. Names can evoke wonder or awe or even laughter. But which are the best car names?
Read MoreLast Christmas, I gifted all of you a very special, very correct take on compact discs, and how they’re the best way to listen to music while driving. That included a story about how I utilized an auxiliary cord input in one of my cars. After a recent journey to Michigan, I have another perspective to add: aux cords inputs should be mandatory on all cars, and all other options to listen to music should be discarded.
Read MoreHappy July Fourth! I’m a proud American, and as a proud American, I believe America’s automotive history is rich and diverse and complex enough that we don’t have to always celebrate, or even sale-a-brate, the usual suspects: the Corvettes, Bel-Airs, Camaros, Avantis, whatever. That’s why this year I want to honor America’s smallest, and likely ugliest, car ever made: the Eshelman.
Read MoreFull disclosure: I don’t think Aston Martin even uses these keys on new cars anymore. They were introduced around 2008, years before I said dumb things about cars for a living, but I don’t see that as a reason to let this go.
Read MoreWe’re Tesla shills. We’re Tesla shortsellers. We’re in bed with Tesla. We want to kill Tesla to do a favor for the traditional automakers and big oil. Here at Jalopnik, we’ve been accused of tons of things in regards to Elon Musk’s electric car company, and it’s because that company generates a lot of news that’s often a mixed bag.
Read MoreLife, as they say, is full of surprises. But how many of them are genuine? Every now and then something pops up that’ll genuinely catch you off guard. That’s the case with my recent drive on the Akagi touge, or officially known as the Joumo-Sanzan Panorama Highway, in the 2018 Honda Civic Type R. And it’s where I lived out the legal, daytime version of everyone’s Initial D fantasies.
Read MoreI suspect many of you saw the word “Sentra” and immediately exciting images of the under-appreciated classic Sentra SE-R popped into your head, or perhaps some of the charmingly practical ‘80s-era Sentras. If that’s you, you’re likely hurt and confused. Those Sentras weren’t meh!, you likely shouted, making everyone at the coffeeshop stare at you and a lone infant start to wail in fear. And you’re right. They weren’t. It’s the Sentras that pop into nobody’s heads, ever, that get the meh stigma:
Read MoreRallying is hard. Driving flat out on unpredictable road surfaces with people, other cars, and buildings as occasional obstacles is hectic, and even with a co-driver giving you directions as you progress through a hot stage, mistakes can be made, and often with far more dire consequences than racing a closed circuit or hillclimb. Things and cars can get wrecked in a hurry. Cars can break, causing a cascade of wreckage. The old rallyists motto of “Go fast, don’t hit shit” doesn’t always pan out.
Read MoreWe’re pretty lucky to be living in an era when racing is pretty safe, all things considered. We aren’t having Le Mans 1955-style accidents or seeing drivers die on the regular. But no one is infallible, and every so often we have a shocking reminder that we can’t get complacent.
Read MoreWe may have reached a new low as a nation this week (didn’t seem possible, I know, but here we are) when the National Transportation Safety Board—an agency whose job it is to determine causes of accidents—felt it had to make a statement telling people to stop hopping out of moving cars to dance to Drake’s new banger “In My Feelings.”
Read MoreWe’re used to seeing crashes on the infamous Nurburgring, but few are quite as violent as the wreck that totaled this Volkswagen Scirocco.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever gone to a rally event, you know things can get real sketchy real quick. It’s part of the beauty of the sport—spectators help shove cars back on track that go careening into the forest, cars fly by with huge chunks of the bodywork missing and everything else held together with duct tape. But sometimes, things are beautiful in, uh, a different way. For example, watching Ken Block’s rally car engulfed in flame like you’re watching a performance art piece.
Read MoreOn July 6, a 23-year-old woman in California crashed her Jeep Patriot off a roughly 250 foot cliff near Big Sur, and wound up stranded for a week at the base, just along the shore. To avoid dehydration, the California Highway Patrol apparently stated, the woman drank from her car’s radiator. It’s a good story, and one that garnered a ton of headlines, except the radiator part is just not true.
Read MoreMitchell Loewen, the 25 year old defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints football team, was part of a group of bystanders that helped rescue a man who became trapped in his Mercedes G-Class after it drove over the edge of a parking garage Sunday afternoon.
Read MorePolice in Los Angeles responded late Sunday to a head-on crash involving a Lamborhini Huracán and a Ford Mustang that, according to the Los Angeles Daily News, left two men injured.
Read MoreIt’s been a tough season for Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley. And things just got a whole lot harder during a Saturday morning Formula One free practice session at Silverstone. When, uh, his front-left suspension decided it didn’t feel like working anymore, and he went careening through the gravel and into wall after missing the Brooklands corner braking zone.
Read MoreGiven that modern cars are packed to the brim with airbags that can deploy almost instantaneously, it’s hard to ensure that they always are out when necessary but not creating a spontaneous bouncy house for no reason.
Read MoreA Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, a car which makes a McLaren F1 seems like a Honda Accord, is going up for auction at Pebble Beach. Now may be a good time, if you’re interested in dishing out what’s projected to be over $4 million, to talk about that time it caught fire during the shooting of Top Gear.
Read MoreA pickup truck with a silver Airstream trailer behind it is quintessential Americana. That’s as true today as it was 50 years ago, except now the experience can be ridiculously comfortable with a 2018 Ford F-150 diesel and a downright futuristic Airstream Basecamp trailer.
Read MoreEvery electric car asks you for something. Maybe it’s asking you to deal with range anxiety, maybe it’s a steep price. Some just feel weird or give up too much space to their conventionally powered counterparts. The 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid, though, doesn’t ask you for anything. It’s just a car, electrified.
Read More“It was like a bomb,” Albert Biermann told me, describing one of the more, uh, experimental settings for the Hyundai Veloster N during its testing at the Nürburgring. Biermann runs Hyundai N, coming off of his old job running the alphabetically-adjacent BMW M. If anyone knows how to make a fully-realized performance car, it’s Biermann and his team. But you don’t get a well-polished car without it being rough at first, and I wanted to know how rough things had been.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has opened an investigation into an allegedly defective Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. RV tire that’s linked to nearly 100 injuries and deaths.
Read MoreToday Harley-Davidson announced a plan to ride back to relevance on the saddles of some new bike designs and new stores. I don’t think it’s enough. Not even close.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson is in a uniquely desperate situation. It’s struggling to attract new riders, especially younger ones, its financials haven’t been great, and it’s in an ugly tariff war with America’s own president. The Motor Company isn’t giving up just yet though, and today announced a plan to get new blood buying.
Read MoreThe Benelli TNT600 is an Italian-branded Chinese-made naked upright sport motorcycle. Its power-to-price ratio is pretty excellent. It’s also a little lumbering and oddly bulbous. It’s a lot of bike for the bucks and it’s a lot of bike in general.
Read MoreNorthern Ireland motorcycle racer William Dunlop died after a crash during a practice for the Skerries 100 road race in County Dublin over the weekend, the motorcycle club hosting the race announced Saturday. Dunlop was 32.
Read MoreOver 400 feet of total jumps have been completed by Travis Pastrana tonight in Las Vegas: one jump over 52 cars, one jump over 16 buses, and one jump over the fountain in front of Caesars Palace hotel and casino—breaking three of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel’s most insane records. I was there, and it was an astonishing event. It was worthy of the fanfare, the pomp, and the circumstance.
Read MoreThe Toyota Prius is often falsely considered the anti-enthusiast’s car. While I could name a number of reasons why the hybrid Toyota deserves more credit, I’d rather just show you this video of some seriously slammed Priuses. Because they look hot.
Read MoreWhile researching details and tracking down visuals for my Los Angeles street racing story earlier this month, I stumbled across the treasure trove of The Fast and the Furious production stills on IMDB. Each of them is beautiful and perfect, a true time capsule of early 2000s grunge fashion and I cannot resist sharing with you all today.
Read MoreLook, we get it. There are Ferrari fans out there. There are Ferrari fans who have a lot of money and like to show it off, in a “please come to my unfathomably large home and see all of my rare collectibles” manner. “Exclusive” is to those people what “free food” is to the rest of us lowly common folk—irresistible.
Read MoreWhen we last left off from the Faraday Future saga, we learned that the company had been awarded a temporary certificate of occupancy at its Hanford, California factory. Following that, it seems like production has indeed begun, with the company announcing its first complete FF 91 body-in-white.
Read MoreThe concept of sharing public roads with the 840-horsepower 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is scary enough in itself. It’s even scarier—for anyone involved—to realize that some of those 840-HP Demons could get stuck on their cruise-control setting while out there.
Read MoreMy car is completely stock, so I’m always curious as to what other people who do mod their cars like to add. You might be the type of person who has modified their car so heavily that it’s unrecognizable from what it used to be. You might just do some light modding to fit your exacting tastes. If that’s the case, then what was the one single mod that you feel your car has benefited from the most?
Read MoreThe Mazda Miata has been the go-to light, agile convertible for enthusiasts on a budget for four generations now. If you’re wondering if cashing out for the newest one is worth it, or if you should just find an old one and save a hefty chunk of change, maybe this Nürburgring comparo will set you straight.
Read MoreCrossovers are all largely the same ambiguous blobby shapes these days, which is why it’s extra sad that the funky Nissan Juke is dead.
Read MoreLast year, Audi announced it would be bringing a suite of driver assist technologies, “Traffic Jam Pilot,” to the United States, but it would be difficult to get that approved through U.S. auto regulations. it turns out, it was too much for Audi, which has bailed.
Read MoreDodge Charger and Challenger air dams were apparently getting scratched during shipment between the assembly plant and the dealership, so Dodge installed some yellow plastic “shipping covers,” which are supposed to be taken off at the dealer. Except now people are keeping them in place because they like the look and some folks are even selling them on Ebay for a pretty penny.
Read MoreFor the handful of you who own a 2017 Mercedes-AMG G65, I have some bad news. The days of putting your V12 trucks into reverse and running over pedestrians are finished. I’m sorry to have to tell you this.
Read MoreToday on Regular Car Reviews, we have the Tesla Model 3 and also a deep dive into Elon Musk’s tweeting habits. Yes, this is going to be good.
Read MoreMecum Auctions sold a 2017 Ford GT for nearly $1.7 million in May, much to the distress of Ford and its buyer contract that, on paper, aimed to prevent quick resales. But rather than finding a true home at Mecum, this Ford GT found an expensive game of hot potato. It goes back to auction at the end of August.
Read MoreSleeper cars are fun because you can thrash most of the competition with them and then pass right by law enforcement without alerting anyone of the fun you’ve just had. What could be better?
Read MoreOne of the 2018 Tesla Model 3’s most distinctive features is its spartan interior, a virtually button-free environment with most controls confined in a horizontal touchscreen. Now, the automaker is planning to introduce a similar interior for its more expensive vehicles, the Model S and X, according to a new report from Electrek.
Read MoreOne of the great losses to the racing world was that Audi’s last Le Mans car never raced. Here’s an idea: Turn it into an electric car and put it into production.
Read MoreFred Durst is mostly known for being the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, so you would think his social media feeds would be full of.... you know what? I really don’t know. Nu metal? Backwards hats? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that Fred Durst’s instagram is almost entirely full of old woody station wagons.
Read MoreYou might’ve thought train robberies were a thing of the past, a relic of the Wild West, but that’s not the case in the Mexican town of Acultzingo, which is now considered the Train Robbery Capital of the World, according to Bloomberg. And it turns out, Mazda’s taking quite a blow financially as a result.
Read MoreIndian gigantoglomerate Tata has owned Jaguar Land Rover for a good while, but only now are we coming to expect a Tata SUV based on a Land Rover. If anything, it’s surprising it took this long.
Read MoreDo you remember HPD’s CR-Z Hybrid R Concept that was shown at SEMA in 2010? I’ve never stopped thinking about it. The CR-Z is the proto hybrid sports coupe that I wish had continued to be developed. If Honda were to offer a similar car today with the Civic’s 1.5-liter turbo engine and a plug-in hybrid electric motor boosting power to around 250 horses, it’d be a stellar little ride. Throw in a 30-ish mile EV-only range and you’ve got a modern day CRX that’s part HF and part Si. The CR-Z is the c
Read MoreWhat were you doing when you were 14-years-old? I was probably playing GameBoy in my room with the music turned up too loud and eating everything my mother put in the cabinets. Rob Noaker, however, just spent his 14th year on Earth winning a professionally contested motor racing event, yesterday’s MX-5 Cup race at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course.
Read MoreAfter a nasty rain during Saturday’s qualifying sessions in which Lewis Hamilton secured a dominant pole position, and following on from Hamilton’s successes in recent races, this Hungarian Grand Prix looked a foregone conclusion. After the starting lights went out and Lewis had gone ahead at the first corner as teammate Valtteri Bottas slotted in behind, that conclusion looked pretty secure. Following a faulty Ferrari pit stop in which points contender Sebastian Vettel’s front left wheel gun to
Read MoreThere was once a time when Desmodromic valve technology was cutting edge and a necessary competitive advantage for Ducati in racing. The Desmo head doesn’t use a valve spring to return the valve to the closed position, instead relying on a second valve rocker and a second lobe on the camshaft to pull the valve closed. In the early days of motorcycle racing, the metallurgy simply wasn’t available to build the strong valve springs necessary to avoid valve float at the engine speeds Ducati wanted t
Read MorePorsche’s original 356 design was quite fetching, especially considering the comparative frumpyness of its contemporaries. It was a compact, sleek, and rounded design in a world of excessive body lines and tail fins. Imagine pulling up next to a 1956 Cadillac in your 1956 Porsche and you’ll understand why the 356 is still a well-loved shape. Back in 1957, though, SoCal Kustom culture was in full swing and Dean Jeffries decided to build this ugly duckling as proof that he was capable of more than
Read MoreThe most painful part of moving up to the northeast from Texas is the speed limits. The goddamn speed limits. All I can do is groan and bang my head on the steering wheel in frustration like I’m Sammy Hagar. No, officer, I physically cannot drive 55.
Read MoreThe world of racing isn’t a particularly diverse place. We’ve talked about minorities in racing before, but we often assume that the people who climb into the car are at the peak of fitness. But why shouldn’t differently-abled folk get a taste of the action, too?
Read MoreArt cars are one of my favorite things in the whole entire world. I love ‘em. It’s fun to see what companies will come up with to just simply celebrate their achievements without worrying if people will buy it. It is the answer to the question “so what if Van Gogh used a car as a canvas?” and that is extremely my shit. But that does not mean that every art car is objectively Good.
Read MoreHistory remembers her as Elsie Wisdom, but her family would remember her as Bill.
Read MoreEveryone knows that Formula One isn’t cheap. My eyes kind of glaze over when they start talking about how much a single component of the car costs because I can’t quantify that much money even existing in one place, let alone being tossed around willy-nilly at engine replacements. I do know, though, that if you owe your sponsors money, that’s probably not a great business model. Turns out, that’s exactly what’s going on with Force India.
Read MoreThere used to be a time—a wonderful, beautiful time—when cars had built-in ashtrays. If cars come with cavities these days, it’s more cup holders, and how many of those do we really need?
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 MoreIt’s a rainy Friday night here in New York City, but the weekend is supposed to be sunny and warm, and I’m looking forward to getting to know the Range Rover Velar we’ve got for a few days a little better. Maybe you can help?
Read MoreTesla is a bit of a control freak when it comes to repairing its electric vehicles. If you try to buy parts to make your own repairs, they won’t let you. The company views it as a way of protecting its reputation and ensuring quality. But YouTuber Rich Benoit believes Tesla owners should be able to work on their own cars, so he found a way to do it.
Read MoreThe 2018 Honda Civic Type R’s quintessential color is Championship White, but Phoenix Yellow has also been a Type R signature in the past. Remember how good it looked on the Integra Type R? Well, somebody went through the trouble of properly respraying a Civic in factory-correct yellow and it’s actually pretty awesome.
Read MoreI hear you engineers out there, yelling about how automatics are faster and better at shifting than us mortals. But, as we’ve explained time and time again, they don’t make driving much fun. Thankfully, BMW says that it will keep putting manuals in its cars. As long as we buy them, of course.
Read MoreOut of all the racing-derived homologation cars to come out of the 1990s GT1 category, the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR was one of the greatest and wildest. Only 25 of them were ever built—and one is headed to the upcoming Pebble Beach auctions.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler has had a few security issues over the past few months, with Ram trucks and Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawks stolen from Detroit-area plants in May and November, respectively. But on Sunday, another theft took place, except instead of Trackhawks, the scoundrels nabbed Dodge Chargers.
Read MoreThe new acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has reversed Scott Pruitt’s decision to stop enforcing limits on “super polluting” trucks, shortly after a court forced the EPA to temporarily continue enforcement.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks, I’ve had several emails read to me that were sent from you people, wondering if this new condo that you’d read about in Miami belonged to me. No, it does not, and it’s rude of you to think so.
Read MoreOn the one hand, the Mercedes-AMG GT 4 Door Coupe is one of the most dishonest cars of a generation. On the other hand, it has monoblock wheels. Monoblock wheels. I love this car. It is the best.
Read MoreNew York City is considering a proposal to cap the number of vehicles driving for Uber, Lyft, and similar ride-hailing services, in an effort to combat a sharp increase in congestion and address low wages for drivers.
Read MoreThere are two definitive things that everyone instantly knows the second they look at the McLaren Senna. Number one, it’s an extremely, face-bendingly fast car. Number two, it’s a bit unpleasant to look at. But this one, chassis number 001, is doing a hell of a good job fixing that.
Read MoreIt’s too big, it’s too soft, it’s not special enough. The E36 M3 is everyone’s go-to for the worst of the right-sized M cars, practical and powerful in equal measure. But the reality of the thing is different.
Read MoreDid you know that 90 percent of all good cars are TVRs? This is the mid-2000s T350t, a car that is both good and also yellow.
Read MoreMaybe you forgot about it since it seems to fly under the radar, but Nissan makes a half-ton pickup: the Titan. I’m driving one with the 5.6-liter gasoline-fueled V8. There’s all kinds of clever bins and tie-downs that make me wonder why I don’t see more Titans on the road. What would you like to know about it?
Read MoreRe-newcomer to the supercar game Apollo is making waves with the most angular supercar since the ‘70s, but what interests me is its heavily reworked Ferrari V12, good for a ton of horsepower and a ton of revs. But pay more, apparently, and you get more.
Read MoreA mysterious Ford GT was able to cross the block for $1.2 million more than the car’s $450,000 MSRP at Mecum auctions in May of this year, despite the company aggressively enforcing anti-flipping provisions signed by all Ford GT buyers. Now, we know how that happened—Ford tried to block the sale, and now it’s seeking damages from Mecum.
Read MoreFilmmaker and automobile collector/builder James Glickenhaus’ team at Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus just unveiled its new SCG 007 LMP1, a vehicle that the company hopes will win Le Mans. To help accomplish that, SCG says it hopes to make some money selling road legal versions.
Read MoreI thought we were done hearing about the Pagani Zonda after its 18-year production run ended last year, but a few special edition stragglers are still showing up in the news. Today, it concerns the Zonda HP Barchetta, which Pagani says will cost $17.5 million. Excuse me while I go throw up.
Read MoreAs of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, speed cameras are dead in New York City. Well, not dead exactly, but the city is no longer authorized to hand out $50 tickets to motorists caught by nearly all of the cameras. For drivers who thought speed cameras were a flagrant violation of due process, it’s great news. For those who claimed they helped reduce crashes and traffic deaths—and the city itself did—not so much. But the reason they died actually has nothing to do with the cameras themselves.
Read MoreDo you like cars? Do you like making videos about cars that are fun and good? Do you think you can do better video than we can? Well, put your money where your mouth is and apply for a job as a Jalopnik Video Producer!
Read MoreIf you are of the opinion that Nürburgring production lap records are Good and Important, then you should know that Lamborghini just set a new one with the yet-to-be-unveiled Aventador SVJ. That lap time was 6:44.97. And it’s made absolutely, 100 percent sure that none of you idiots will dispute the lap this time.
Read MoreThe Toyota SF-R may have just been a concept when it debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2015, but to us, it was more than that. It was a light, small, entry-level sports car that looked destined for production. Things looked promising. But now, three years later, there’s still no S-FR. What the hell?
Read More2018 has been pretty good so far for Genesis, Hyundai’s new luxury arm. It launched the 2019 G70 and scored top marks in the 2018 JD Power initial quality test. Now, the results for the APEAL study are out and it looks like Genesis is the top dog once again.
Read MoreMitsubishi, the car company that broke my heart, is doing oddly well these days, with a veritable “sales surge” of crossovers. But, what if I told you it could be doing even better? Yes, that is the alternate future where Mitsubishi only sold us the Colt Ralliart Version-R Special.
Read MoreI never thought I’d see the day when a little Ferves Ranger would become a rap video car, but here we are. Honestly, I shouldn’t be surprised. The Ferves Ranger has star quality.
Read MoreGoodnight, Golf. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an early R32 on the road and that’s a shame. I love this design enough to settle for a GTI, but the all-wheel drive version is the one to invest in if you can.
Read MoreWe got a peek at the 2019 Mercedes A-Class in hatchback form earlier this year, but the U.S. market car will be sedan only. I’m still excited about it, because based on this batch of photos, it seems like a damn fine-looking little car.
Read MoreSouthern California is enjoying/enduring another heat wave this week, and the millions of cars that live out here are cooking. One of them is literally cooking.
Read MoreOK this one is throwing me for a loop. Land Rover, the SUV company, apparently wants to trademark a new brand name: “Road Rover.” If your reaction is “what,” that is also my reaction.
Read MoreIt’s mid-cycle refresh time for the Mercedes-AMG C63, and that means there’s a new face, a new transmission and new driving modes for the up-to-503 horsepower V8 Muscledes-Benz.
Read MoreSee that perfectly nice, well-lit living room? How there are books and nice plants in the background? And on the glass coffee table, some reading glasses, magazines, an iPhone and a, um, bigass tire? Is this really working with the aesthetic of this room?
Read MoreThere are plenty of great looking classic trucks on the road still, but there’s something about an early Land Rover that is just so freaking pretty. And this one in particular is on another level.
Read MoreIf I told you that there once existed a man who had himself sealed inside a car for over a year while trying to drive to all 48 contiguous states, and then, after not quite managing that, decided to try to collect pajama bottoms from every U.S. governor, you’d very justifiably think I was some loon making things up. But while you may be right about me being a loon, you’d be wrong about the making things up part. That’s because the man I described was real, and his name was Don Haynes.
Read MoreWe’ve been hurtling toward 25 percent car tariffs actually happening ever since Trump started threatening them in March. Now, The Washington Post reports that our president is determined to implement them even as advisors “scramble” to stop him.
Read MoreIn the years before I came to Jalopnik, I was a Jeep engineer, and when I arrived at Chrysler’s Technical Center in 2012, the company felt like it was firing on all cylinders. Employees were hard at work developing what would become the best cars in the company’s history. People were excited and optimistic for the first time in years, thanks in large part to CEO Sergio Marchionne, whose untimely death we learned about this morning.
Read MoreThe 2018 BMW M5 is an utter sledgehammer of a car. When you push the throttle, it doesn’t just accelerate, it seizes you by your lower jaw and rips you, screaming, through the cosmos. It’s really quite pleasant. A cure for old age, I daresay.
Read MoreBMW is a V8-heavy company today, with twin-turbo versions filling up just about every big-power model it has on sale. It’s hard to even remember when they were completely alien to the Bavarians, and how it broke back into the world of eights with a compact 3.0-liter, flawed from the start.
Read MoreThe 2019 Porsche Macan’s facelift is really more of a buttlift, since the biggest tweak to the car seems to be a sleek singular taillight stretched across the rear cargo hatch.
Read MoreSeriously. Stop it. You are ruining the secret. The secret that early Dodge Vipers could be some of the best bargain beater cars out there. I’m done with it.
Read MoreThis is far from the first time we’ve seen the Wienermobile on the track, and not even the first time at the Circuit of The Americas. And yet it’s always a good time.
Read MoreDo you ever gaze at the stars and lose yourself in the never-ending potential of the open universe? About how there’s so much out there and anything’s possible? Have you ever done that while sitting in a Bugatti Chiron? Well, ya can now.
Read MoreIt’s too early for me to predict exactly how Lamborghini’s current crop of cars (the Huracán, Aventador and Urus) will age and look to people in 50 years, but I can tell you this much: Lamborghinis from 50 years ago look freaking amazing.
Read MoreWe’ve been calling it by its project name BP23. We’ve been thinking about it as the three-seat successor to the McLaren F1. But now know it by its official name: McLaren Speedtail, and this is possibly because McLaren has run out of other names to give it.
Read MoreSergio Marchionne, the blunt, sweater-wearing, hard-charging CEO who never minced words while he transformed a dysfunctional Fiat and a bankrupt Chrysler into a global car-making giant, has died, his company confirmed early this morning. He was 66.
Read MoreRubber tires are so cliché. At Jalopnik, we like to encourage innovation and new ideas, so it’s about damned time we highlight a reasonable alternative.
Read MoreIn the Year of our Lord 2018, we are what must be 8,000 years from the original start of Dieselgate. A bunch of Volkswagen executives got arrested, everyone agreed to finally make some electric cars, done. Right? Wrong. You thought it was getting better, but instead it’s just getting dumber.
Read MoreThe 2019 Audi Q3 has been heavily updated inside and out, with a fresh design that’s thankfully a toned-down version of the recently revealed Audi Q8 SUV that also looks like a tough, perfectly capable crossover with a nose inspired by a staple remover.
Read More“It’s not my first day in New York. It’s not my first day in an aircraft. I did what I had to do. GOOD DAY.” So concluded a tiff between an Aer Lingus pilot caught in a jam and the New York City air traffic controller scolding him for said jam. It’s pretty hilarious.
Read MoreIf you are like me and saw the incredible green E28 BMW 5 Series in the Mission: Impossible Fallout trailer and immediately caught the disease of desire for one, I have bad news. The movie comes out this week, it’s surprisingly great, and now everyone else is also going to want an E28.
Read MoreHighway noise barriers are a pretty common blight on American interstates, there to protect nearby homes and businesses from the motoring sounds of cars and trucks whizzing by. But what if I told you they don’t shield noise all that well, and may even amplify it?
Read MoreThere I was, in Nürburg (as in, the Nürburgring), walking through the night to get a beer or two at the Pistenklause, the town bar. There’s a BMW center there, and I stopped to look at the DTM car chilling in their lobby. Neat! Cool car. But, wait, what’s that in the parking lot? Oh. It’s the new Toyota Supra and BMW Z4 just hanging out.
Read MoreRiding coach can be an excruciating, constricting experience, as airlines have for years worked to shrink the space for basic flyers in hopes of jamming more people into a plane. So the Wall Street Journal thought to ask the CEOs of every major airline what they think about flying coach today—while they were sitting in one of the cramped seats. One exec declined: United CEO Oscar Munoz. Nice.
Read MoreThe highly anticipated new Toyota Supra will share a platform with the upcoming BMW Z4 in a fascinating collaboration between two companies with very different cultures. Moto Miwa from Toyota enthusiast blog Club4AG compiled interviews with the Supra’s chief engineer, Tetsuya Tada, and shed light on just how different those cultures really were when it came to designing the two sports cars.
Read More“I once fell asleep in the back of a Range Rover while it was off-roading,” Matt Farah explains, plodding up a dirt track in a 2018 Range Rover Velar. The Velar is pretty much the least off-roady Range Rover ever, so any opportunity to see one raked over coals, or uh, rocks, is intriguing.
Read MoreThere’s really no better place in the world to assess the visceral, gut-level impact of modern taillight design than right here, the foremost crucible of taillight reactions on the internet. With that in mind, I’d like to pose a question to you: how do you feel about the design and layout of the new Hyundai Kona’s dual-location taillight setup?
Read MoreAs I enter the last week of my internship at Jalopnik, I’ve realized that—despite having a massive platform through which I can reach hundreds of thousands of people—I’ve yet to shamelessly profit off of this position by manipulating markets.
Read MoreThis Ferrari F12 in Iranian police livery is a conundrum. We’re not 100 percent sure of its origin—if it’s an actual vehicle used by Iranian police or just a policing enthusiast living in the Netherlands or something else entirely—but thankfully, none of that really matters. What does matter is that it’s also got an absurdly loud and screamy exhaust system.
Read MoreI know a lot of you out there are thinking “Road rage. Huh. I feel like I should try that sometime!” but I’m here to implore you, no, don’t, don’t do it. Getting so wrathful and angry over some bit of driving you didn’t like rarely does anyone any good, and, as in this incident in Denver, often turns out very, very badly for the road-rager.
Read MoreAll I’ve ever wanted to be is Hoon of the Day. The only reason I exist on this toilet earth and get up every garbage morning is to send it, and then go back and send it some more. Today I have reached the pinnacle of hoon achievement. Dictionary.com now quotes me as an authority on the term “send it.”
Read MoreYesterday’s colossal Japanese car meet was cool enough to remind me that I am definitely still all about tuner cars. If you couldn’t make it to LA’s Petersen Museum to see it for yourself, don’t worry, I have lots of pictures and opinions for you right here.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing I want people to take away from reading Jalopnik—besides obviously that Florida is terrifying—it’s that you have to be smart when you’re buying a used performance car. Has it been crashed? Has it been subjected to shady mods? Does it have secret problems lurking within? And in the case of the Subaru WRX, has anyone vaped in it?
Read MoreGenerally, when we think about automotive safety, it involves ways to not drive into people. The truth is, though, life isn’t perfect, and sometimes good people get driven into by cars. If you accept that this happens, you can then try to make a person’s car-impact experience as enjoyable as possible, and the results of that can end up looking like this 1974 Austin 1300 SRV5 safety research vehicle.
Read MoreThere are many things to love about the Lexus LS 500: it’s comfortable, quiet, well-appointed and refined. But that’s pretty much always been the case for the LS. What surprised me, though, was the engine.
Read MoreHorizontally-opposed engines are often referred to as “boxer” engines because the motion of the pistons sort of resembles a boxer, punching. Really, though, if any engine should be named for a boxer, it’s the other kind of opposed engine: the kind where the pistons actually “punch” right at each other. They’re called opposed-piston engines, and they’re fascinating.
Read MorePresident Trump’s plan to rollback Obama-era fuel economy targets is set to be unveiled this week, and if a new report from Bloomberg is accurate, that’ll include a revocation of California’s authority to set its own auto emission standards. For automakers, it’s their worst fear come alive.
Read MoreIn 20 days, I plan to have my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle ready for the Toledo Jeep Fest—a gathering of Willys, Kaiser, AMC, DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler and Fiat Chrysler-era off-road machines in the hometown of Jeep itself. But things aren’t looking good, and what’s not helping me is the fact that my Jeep has the bigger engine: the V8.
Read MoreConcern about the risk for Hyundai and Kia vehicles to catch fire has spread recently, with no official recall yet. One Virginia woman wants to hurry that process along, since she said she’s still on the hook for payments on her 2012 Kia Soul that burned to a skeleton of its former self earlier this month.
Read MoreOne of the best road tripping highways in the country has been shut down for a little over a year following a massive 75 acre landslide in May of 2017, and I’ve missed it dearly. Thanks to hard working crews and quick action, the highway has finally been re-opened as of Wednesday morning to through traffic, and several months ahead of schedule. The coastal road was blocked for nearly a quarter mile between Big Sur and the picturesque Bixby Bridge south of Monterey, California.
Read MoreI like when companies devote effort to breaking track records, and Porsche’s recent efforts, especially those with the 919 Hybrid Evo have produced spectacular result. Even more than traditional motorsport, lap records tend to be lawless territory where car and driver can go beyond the limits of the racing rulebook in an effort to produce speed. While everyone was chasing the 200 mph mark in the 1980s and ‘90s, lap records are seemingly all the rage in today’s automotive landscape. Production ca
Read MoreThe German Grand Prix was a startling fight with rain taking center stage and producing an intensely interesting race. In an event that saw the pole sitter retire and Lewis Hamilton surge from the back of the grid to the point yet again, it was a seriously great event for all who saw it. The title implications of this event will reverberate for the rest of the season.
Read MoreJust how charged is the discourse around Tesla these days? Can a journalist criticize the company without being called a short or a pawn for Big Oil? Can they write something positive without being called a member of Elon Musk’s cult? Evidently not on both counts, if you’re the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Neil, who apparently deleted his personal Twitter account after facing blowback from a review of a Tesla Model 3.
Read MoreIn his Australian SuperUtes debut, driver of the number 45 truck, Michael Sieders must have felt a wild set of emotions on the run down to that second corner. In one fell swoop he saw the two trucks that had started ahead of him push each other off into the gravel and he had clear track ahead. In his first race in the series, a series which is a feeder to the top-flight prestigious and super competitive SuperCars series, he was leading the race! Without any time to process that emotion, Sieders
Read MoreThis has been weighing on my mind a lot lately as I turn 31 today, and I’ve been a certified car fanatic for at least 15 years. I truly enjoy cars, the freedom and mobility they can facilitate in our lives, and most of all the camaraderie involved in the automotive community. Do you give car-related gifts to others, enthusiast or not? We all know those Lexus commercials are bogus, right? I mean, who is giving a luxury car as a gift without discussing it first?
Read MoreIf any of you car fans can get to the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles tomorrow, Sunday, July 22, I highly recommend you do so. An all-Japanese car cruise-in is going to take over the parking structure, and there’s also an excellent Japanese exhibit going on in the upper halls.
Read MoreIf you watch pretty much any form of motorsport, chances are you’ve heard the name Penske. Roger Penske built his racing empire from the ground up in the mid-20th century, and the team has been successful at just about everything they’ve tried. But back in the day, before all the fancy technology came to the fore of racing, all Penske had was Judy Stropus.
Read MoreAir travel is arguably the worst. There are long lines, airport food is somehow perpetually horrific, everyone is grumpy, someone is always late, and who the hell decided to bring a cranky baby on a flight departing at five in the morning. There’s so much else to worry about that you’re probably not wondering, “hey, what about bed bugs?” Well, my friends. I have bad news.
Read MoreGet ready, everyone. Your morning commute and late night cruises just got a whole lot more interesting.
Read MoreFiat Chrysler Automobiles has confirmed that longtime CEO Sergio Marchionne is in fact stepping down due to extended health issues, and his replacement is Mike Manley, the 54-year-old Brit who has spearheaded the growth of Jeep over the past decade.
Read MoreIt’s official. IndyCar is swapping its season finale at Sonoma for one at Laguna Seca instead, starting in 2019. A lot of people are stoked. A lot of people are definitely not. And I am definitely one of those people asking IndyCar “what are you doing?!”
Read MoreSergio Marchionne, the bombastic, sweater-wearing turnaround artist CEO credited with building the modern conglomerate that is Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is reportedly exiting the company amid health issues, according to multiple news outlets. The FCA board of directors met Saturday to determine who would succeed him.
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 MoreAbout a month ago, Romain Dumas squeezed himself into the fully-electric Volkswagen I.D. R and laid down the fastest ever climb time up Pikes Peak: 7:57.148. Today, VW has released every video angle the company collected of the record-smashing run.
Read MoreI’m throwing my well-used Honda S2000 up on a lift this weekend for the first time for some light maintenance, and I also want to give it a full look over while it’s up there. The car’s new to me and I haven’t done a real deep-dive yet (which I maybe should have done before letting all my co-workers hoon it.) What should I look for?
Read MoreThousands of documents detailing assembly line schematics, robotics configurations, and other trade secrets for automakers like Volkswagen, Toyota and Tesla were found on a publicly accessible server belonging to an automotive robotics supplier. It is potentially very bad news for these car companies, and here’s why.
Read MoreMission: Impossible Fallout, the sixth movie in the franchise, comes out next week, and it’s getting rave reviews so far. Apparently it’s really good! It’s a perfect opportunity to reflect upon the second Mission: Impossible movie, which is special for being pretty much the only one in the franchise to be considered objectively, unquestionably awful.
Read MoreGood day sir or madam. Do excuse me for bearing bad news, but it’s come to my attention that your Bugatti Chiron has been recalled. You will soon be contacted by a team of “Flying Doctors,” who will handle everything for you. Because that’s the kind of care you get when you spend over $1 million on a car.
Read MoreIt’s a summer Friday. You aren’t really working. We’re barely working. In fact we’re forcing the intern to watch Starship Troopers because he’s never seen it before (I know.) Instead, come chat with us.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin DB5 made famous by Goldfinger was actually two Aston Martin DB5s, one of which was used for the road scenes and the other used for the scenes with gadgets. The road car today resides safely in a private museum in Cincinnati, but the “effects car” was stolen from a Florida airport hangar in 1997, seemingly without a trace.
Read MoreThe 2019 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 is a new trim level that takes the regular 485 horsepower Challenger R/T Scat Pack and adds Demon features that promise to make the vehicle significantly faster in the quarter mile. Those features include bigger tires, special launch modes and beefier components.
Read MoreAlright, Hyundai. We need to talk about this “Iron Man Edition” of the Kona crossover real quick. First, Iron Man wouldn’t let one of his farts be transported five feet in a budget crossover with well under 200 horsepower, let alone put his face all over one. Second, refer back to the first point. It’s convincing enough.
Read MoreThe Nissan Leaf Nismo is going on sale in Japan this month, featuring a retuned computer that promises better acceleration and more performance-oriented tires and suspension. But the real speed comes from the strips of red trim, of course.
Read MoreNormally, I don’t consider myself a genocidal maniac, but if I had the opportunity, resources, and necessary permits, I’d genocide the hell out of mosquitoes. Fuck mosquitoes. I wish I had a an orbiting satellite that could emit a beam that converts mosquitoes into fireflies en masse. Keeping in mind that mosquitoes are the worst, this video of an Alaskan work truck covered in mosquitoes should be enough to make your day miserable.
Read MoreThe plan to rollback fuel economy standards set by former President Barack Obama has been kicking around President Donald Trump’s mind since taking office, and come next week, it’ll officially go live, according to a report from E&E News.
Read MoreYesterday, most of the auto industry joined together during a very official public hearing to slam President Donald Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariff on all imported cars and auto parts. But Trump’s team also heard from the general public—more than 2,300 comments in all—and, man, some of these remarks are sublime.
Read MoreCorrection: Friday, July 20, 2018, 11:45 a.m. ET: A previous version of this story incorrectly described the design as a four-cylinder hybrid. The patent could apply to other engines and the four-cylinder drawing was likely for simplicity. It has been corrected below.
Read MoreSix times per week, an empty plane used to fly from London’s Heathrow Airport to Cardiff, Wales. The next day, the plane would make the return trip without a single passenger. Half As Interesting, the second channel from Planelopnik-approved Wendover Productions, details why ghost flights like this sometimes operate from Britain’s biggest airport in his new video.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Justice is demanding Georgia Sheriff Butch Conway reimburse $70,000 for his purchase of a 707 horsepower Dodge Charger Hellcat, which has been deemed too “extravagant” of a purchase.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we accept and appreciate many forms of car enthusiasm. But one theme we tend to keep coming back to is “quality over quantity.”
Read MoreYou know what pisses me off the most? Shitty wood. It’s worse than posers decked out in cubic zirconia and socks pretending to be fucking sneakers. There’s been too much shitty wood for too long. It’s time to put a stop to it.
Read MoreI, like many kids from the mean streets of suburban Cleveland, am no stranger to the joust. After watching dozens of my friends succumb to the tempress that is the boat joust, I too cut my teeth shovin’ chumps into the depths of the Cuyahoga.
Read MoreThe Brabham BT62 is a $1.3 million 700 horsepower V8-propelled iteration of Le Mans legend David Brabham’s vision of the ultimate track car. Hell, it’s so extreme you have to be taught to drive it properly. Only 70 will be built, making it as rare as it is savage. All of that aside, the question that some have been asking is: Can you make it road legal?
Read MoreThe new Toyota Supra was sort of half-revealed at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. While we didn’t get a clear, camo-free look at the car, keen eyes on the ground did make some interesting observations about parts that the Supra appears to share with BMW.
Read MoreIn his endless quest to discover how regular household items combine with crappy Russian automobiles, Vlad from Garage 54 ENG just made a wheel out of 10,000 sheets of standard A4 printer paper and a whole lot of glue. He then bolted the creation to a sedan and drifted. Successfully.
Read MoreAround these parts, we sincerely believe convertibles are good, despite the roof-loving naysayers who insist on silly things like torsional rigidity. And if you love droptops, have $205,000 to blow and want to murder hypercars, the 2018 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet should be on your list.
Read MoreThe new Lockheed Martin LM-100J is essentially a civilian version of the C-130J Hercules already in service with militaries all over the world, from the United States to Denmark to India. But this civilian version is new, which means Lockheed Martin is trying to sell some planes. No better way to do that than with some tricks.
Read MoreA steam pipe exploded in the Flatiron District of New York City this morning, leaving a crater in the street and steam billowing over the buildings. Five people suffered from minor injuries. Locals have been told to “assume disruption of normal traffic” by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as the roads will be closed for a few days.
Read MoreIt’s actually sadder than it’s been in decades that we Americans don’t get French cars. So many of them are so good right now, from the Citroën Cactus to the Alpine A110 to the crazy handsome Peugeot 508. We can add another piece of delicious forbidden fruit to that modern list: the new Renault Megane RS Trophy, the hottest Renault hot hatch in the lineup. Can it unseat the Honda Civic Type R and the Ford Focus RS?
Read MoreLego just officially unveiled its officially licensed kit of the James Bond Aston Martin DB5, complete with ejector seat, radio tracker and the works. When I first saw the kit leaked a couple of weeks ago, even I, a massive Bond fan, was disappointed. But it left me with one question.
Read MoreIn 2010, we got the first Ford Raptor off-road performance truck. Soon after, the Ford Ranger left America. I know people have been hoping that some way, some how, the two would be combined and now you can literally watch that happen. We still have to pray that the Ford Ranger Raptor will some day be sold in America, but for now it’s pretty neat to watch them get built.
Read MoreThe 2019 Mazda Miata is Mazda’s answer to the prayers of the people—the prayers that start with “more power” and end with “amen, also please don’t forget the power.” The best part is, new fuel-economy ratings say the bump from 155 to 181 horsepower won’t cost more at the pump.
Read MoreGenesis, Hyundai’s new luxury brand, recently launched the third member of its lineup, the 2019 Genesis G70 luxury sports sedan. It’s a wonderful car, but its presence orients Genesis’ current trajectory eerily in the direction of Cadillac’s: heavy on sedans and too light on the SUVs and crossovers that everyone is actually buying.
Read MoreA federal court issued a stay on Wednesday on the EPA’s new policy of tacitly allowing unchecked numbers of heavy-duty trucks that skirt emissions rules by using older powertrains in new bodies.
Read MoreOne day, Ford will end up making 1,000 Ford GT supercars for a group of people handpicked from an application pool as worthy enough to spend $500,000 on the car in the first place. But those people may get the car later than expected, since Ford didn’t deliver GTs as quickly as planned its first year of production.
Read MoreAnnual service for the Bugatti Veyron is alleged to cost $20,000, so you might assume that working on the car is difficult. Your assumption is correct. Just watch what the team from Las Vegas-based exotic car rental company Royalty Exotics has to go through just to get access to the fluids and air filters.
Read MoreThe German government is asking 800 Tesla Model S buyers to pay back a 4,000 euro EV subsidy after regulators found that the company was exploiting a loophole in the law. For now, the electric automaker is footing the bill, while it appeals the issue with German regulators.
Read MoreAn Abilene, Texas Jeep Liberty owner received a warning from police for his absolutely inexplicable decision to strap an entire washing machine to his hood, completely obscuring his vision ahead of the car. The Jeep has a seemingly intact roof rack, on a seemingly intact roof. Why didn’t he strap it to the roof? What the hell is wrong with this guy?
Read MoreMy esteemed and wise colleague, Jason Torchinsky, is delightfully visiting our home underground bunker this week. Jason wanted to take the Yugo out for a spin. That shouldn’t have been a problem. Except the Yugo, UNUSUALLY, had a problem.
Read MoreFord issued a recall on Wednesday for more than a half-million Fusion and Escape vehicles that have a potential rollaway risk due to faulty shifter cable bushings.
Read MoreThe refreshed 2019 Audi TT just showed its face, but unless you’re an Audi enthusiast, it’s basically impossible to spot major differences between it and the outgoing model. The cars look nearly identical.
Read MoreRemember when we told you about how Singer, the gloriously OCD re-makers of Porsche 911s into incredible works of automotive art, teamed up with Williams to design an all-new 500 horsepower, naturally-aspirated air-cooled flat-six engine? Sure you do. Now you should just sit back and listen to it as it flings around the new Singer-Williams DLS.
Read MoreThe second-generation AMC Javelin was called the “Humpster” for its enormously arched front fenders. According to Hemmings, in 1971—after designing the two-seater AMX and the first-gen Javelin in the ’60s on the Rambler American platform (in an effort to “catch up to” Ford’s Mustang)—AMC nixed the AMX model and redesigned the Javelin to be much larger. The AMX name lived on as a performance variant of the new Javelin, shown above.
Read MorePresident Trump’s threatened 25 percent tariff on imported cars would not only dramatically impact automakers both foreign and domestic and cause car prices to increase, it would also spell disaster for PSA Peugeot-Citroën, which is already deep in the process of returning to the North American market.
Read MorePorsche, the German automaker that makes performance cars for watch collectors, has sadly become confused on the meaning of words and the industry phenomenon known as “spy shots.”
Read MoreSwiss artist Adrian Falkner, who signs his work as Smash 137, has filed a lawsuit against General Motors for featuring his commissioned graffiti artwork in a Cadillac campaign ad, claiming the automaker’s photos featured on social media infringed on the copyrights of his work.
Read MoreFor 364 days of the year, New Yorkers curse the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the subway because it is dogshit and prone to filth-waterfalls. But on that one special day, all of the hellish treatment pales in comparison to this one asshole who brought his motorcycle onto the subway.
Read MoreMan, it has been a long week, and it’s only Tuesday. We all deserve the kind of mental break only a video of a Audi being comprehensively detailed can provide. Automotive detailing is an expensive treat, whether it’s for a Toyota Camry or a Bugatti Chiron. That’s because it involves cleaning every crevice and every speck out of and off of a vehicle, along with other stuff like fancy coatings and washes to make that vehicle look better than it did even in the showroom.
Read MoreWhen people talk about multi-million dollar cars, everyone wants to talk about the speed. Or the luxury. Or the GOOOOOOOLD. But I like the littlest details, the ones most people don’t even think about. Like this, the key fob for the McLaren Senna.
Read MoreI found a copy of a great old book called Cars That Never Were in a used bookstore, behind a secret door marked with a pair of crossed pistons and reeking of old motor oil and decay. The book is full of interesting prototypes, but one caught my eye especially because of its novel design and engine choice. It’s a 1964 Ford prototype/styling mockup badged “Colt V-4,” and I can’t seem to find anything about it on this big, wide internet.
Read MoreBrabham’s return to the track is, categorically, A Good Thing. It returns a legendary marque to where it belongs, and it means there’s another uncompromisingly rapid car in the world. The BT62, Brabham’s 700 horsepower track-only megacar, will set you back $morethanyoucanafford and is basically a racing car. But that’s no surprise considering it’s the brainchild of David Brabham—son of Formula One legend Sir Jack and Le Mans-winning racer in his own right.
Read MoreWith some fanfare, Siemens announced earlier this month that it’d be attacking the Goodwood Hillclimb with an autonomous 1965 Ford Mustang. It went poorly. We finally have some explanations as to why.
Read MoreInfamous for having a strict application process for interested buyers, the new Ford GT frustrated a lot of people due to the how the law of supply and demand works. But if you’re one of the people who are eager for round two, then listen up: Ford is going to reopen the application process later this year, according to a scoop from Motor Authority.
Read MoreJalopnik reader named Jamie Anton sent just me photos of an awesome trading card deck he picked up while studying at General Motors Institute of Technology (now Kettering). Each card shows a picture of an engine or transmission, and the back of each is filled with interesting factoids like bore, stroke, firing order, gear ratios and assembly location. These may be the nerdiest car-related trading cards ever.
Read MoreA slate of environmental groups on Tuesday filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse a decision that allows certain trucks to vastly exceed emissions standards by using so-called glider kits.
Read MoreNo matter how much your Lamborghini-daydreaming younger self would try to cast you out like the devil was in the house if you told them, Lamborghini SUVs are already here and hybrids are on the way. It’s true, you tell your younger self, that Lamborghini is rolling with the trends of practicality and more efficiency.
Read MoreMY FRIENDS. I come bearing good tidings. After friend-of-Jalopnik Bozi Tatarevic found documents detailing two separate Supra powertrain options, Toyota has confirmed to Road & Track that we’re getting a four-cylinder Supra. Rejoice!
Read MoreMost car and tech companies are working toward self-driving cars by retrofitting vehicles with the necessary gadgetry to make them fully-autonomous But there is one weirdly-named, super ambitious secretive startup named Zoox that wants to build a car of the future for the ground up. And now, thanks to Bloomberg Businessweek, we have a better sense of how that might look.
Read MoreA 2019 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport has been reduced to shiny pile of disappointment, before its odometer even broke out of the teens. Forget “not broken in,” this poor thing barely broke out of the dealership parking lot.
Read MoreThe Polestar 2 electric car will have a claimed 400 horsepower and a range of 350 miles, Polestar COO Jonathan Goodman confirmed last week at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Read MoreManufacturing expert Sandy Munro, CEO of a Michigan-based engineering firm that dismantles and studies cars, has changed his tune when it comes to the Tesla Model 3. He had criticized the car’s build quality, comparing it to that of a “Kia in the ’90s.” But now, after Munro & Associates completed a full teardown and analysis, Sandy is “eating crow.” The Model 3, he says, is the most profitable EV out there.
Read MoreSometimes, when you make a mistake, there’s no way of talking your way out of it. And in fact, the more you try to explain the deeper you dive into a hole of your own making.
Read MoreGoodyear Tire & Rubber Co. could face a $105 million fine if it failed to properly report crashes to federal regulators that involve a RV tire linked to nearly 100 injuries and deaths, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s interim chief, Heidi King, told Congress last month.
Read MoreDeep within the Sahara Desert are vast supplies of iron ore, which is extracted and dumped into a train 1.8 miles in length. The train then embarks on a 437-mile journey to the Mauritanian coast, a trek captured in spectacular fashion on film recently by National Geographic.
Read MoreTerry Grant, a stunt driver who’s more than a little familiar with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, had already crashed out once this year trying to do the Hillclimb on two wheels. But then, later that day, he tried again.
Read MoreThe rumored Lexus LC-F is likely to come to market with a twin-turbo, 4.0-liter V8. It should look fantastic if the LC 500 is any indicator. It’s supposedly coming with 600 horsepower. It’ll probably do 0-60 in the low 3 seconds. It’ll be a faster, more expensive, more exclusive version of what I believe to be the best car on sale. I hope it never happens.
Read MoreWhether a person knows cars in and out or could be tricked into trying to buy blinker fluid, when most of us think of sports cars, we think of sleek, fast and refined. Nissan’s design boss, instead, insists the company’s next six-figure GT-R supercar be “the world’s fastest brick. Less wing, more brick.”
Read MoreOn Saturday, someone crashed a roughly $300,000 McLaren 720S in Northern Virginia, not far from well-known car show Katie’s Cars and Coffee. The driver had apparently only owned the car for a single day.
Read MoreEver-grounded and never-pretentious automaker Aston Martin is enlisting the help of Cranfield University, Cranfield Aerospace Solutions and jet-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce to explore a flying car concept that will simply never happen.
Read MoreI like museums as much as the next guy. Yes, even the ones with paintings of people who are most likely dead now and dinosaur skeletons. It’s a glimpse into artifacts from a bygone era and usually one of the few opportunities to see rare and exciting things. Sometimes they can be quite surprising, and also indicative of the people who run them.
Read MoreLast year at Goodwood, British rallycross driver Pat Doran ate it in a Ford RS200. This year Pat Doran’s son Liam suffered a similar misfortune, also in an RS200, though this time the trouble was less eating it than getting pantsed.
Read MoreSince Toyota won’t just spit it out and show us the car, we get to learn one fact about the 2019 Toyota Supra at a time, slowly piecing it all together like a giant jigsaw puzzle no one asked for. The fact of the week is that the Supra will likely have torque on par with the Lexus F cars but weigh 400 to 600 pounds less.
Read MoreBack in the 1960s, Marcos Engineering didn’t have enough money to display their Mini-based sports coupe at the Earls Court Motor Show like all the other manufacturers. So, they took a picture of the car outside the show, printed up a bunch of them, and handed them out to as many show goers as possible in a brilliant piece of guerrilla marketing history.
Read MoreThe lightweight McLaren Senna supercar made a run up the Goodwood hill this weekend with Bruno Senna at the wheel. The nephew of Formula One’s perhaps most iconic driver, former F1 driver in his own right, and 2017 FIA WEC LMP2 world champion, the 34-year-old Senna is also a McLaren factory development driver and helped ready his namesake car for production. Because he is perhaps one of the most familiar with the car, the marketing team signed off on giving him the steering wheel for a tour up L
Read MoreEach and every one of the 500 Toyota Soarer Aerocabins built were constructed in Japan during the month of April in 1989. Each one identical to the last, they all featured the same right-hand drive configuration, paint, engine, transmission, and fully-loaded options list. These are effectively an even larger and heavier MKIII Supra Turbo with a folding roof, and that makes it awesome.
Read MoreIt was a hot and dry day on Saturday for the first of Formula E’s double header races in New York City this weekend, and it turned out to be an eventful day. As the NYC race weekend is Formula E’s final of the 2017-18 season, the entire championship was on the line. Sunday, however, is shaping up to be a bit more of a knock down drag out fight for the closing win of the season.
Read MoreOne pedal driving is available in many battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, allowing drivers the option to brake to a complete stop without actually pressing on the brake pedal. The car’s electric motors can use the regenerative braking power to great effect. Leave it to Engineering Explained to explain how this functionality works to make your EV commute a little easier.
Read MoreSince Red Bull Global Rallycross went down in a smoldering heap, Americans have been deprived from experiencing top class racing on a mixture of dirt and tarmac. Fortunately with the announcement of Americas Rallycross and the FIA’s World Rallycross making their way to Circuit of The Americas in Austin this year, fans can get a taste of dirt in the Texas heat.
Read MoreI understand the appeal of soccer. There are elements of tribe pride, athletic endurance, and brutally fierce competition that add up to an awesome experience. The sport is essentially dead here in the U.S., but practically every other country in the world goes berserk for a bunch of dudes chasing a ball around an open field. Go visit Europe during the World Cup, for example, and you’ll see evidence of that. If soccer wants to take North America by storm, simply bring us Moto Ball.
Read MoreFor some reason, I’ve got a thing for cars that feature what many designers would consider a serious faux pas: narrow track widths and wide bodies. No, I can’t explain it, either.
Read MoreAlex, the host of YouTube show LegitStreetCars, has a few Mercedes AMGs kicking around his garage. In recent testing, Alex saw his old C43 AMG lose a few drag races against a car it probably should not have lost to. In looking at the data from his runs, the car was producing 0-60 times a couple seconds slower than what the magazines saw in testing when the car was new. He wanted to know what he could do to make the car compete with the brand new version of itself.
Read MoreLike a getaway scene in an old school Brit bank heist film, Grant Williams drives his 1959 Jaguar Mk1 sedan racer at full tilt and only half in control. It’s well known that drifting and sliding is rarely the fastest way to negotiate a circuit, but at Goodwood you’re rewarded for being memorable. If Grant had simply set his mind to putting up as good a lap time as the old Jag could muster, it’d be lost in a sea of awesome. Arms flailing at the huge steering wheel, a burnout so big the start line
Read MoreLaguna Seca hosted open-wheel races for Indy Car style cars from 1983 until 2003 under the Championship Auto Racing Teams sanctioning body banner, marking 21 seasons of incredible racing. Since Champ Car World Series ran there as a one-off in 2004, the circuit hasn’t seen much in the way of top-flight open-wheelers aside from the vintage weekends and Marc Gene and Ferrari’s lap record set in 2012 aboard a 2003-spec Formula One car. All of that changes next year as IndyCar and WeatherTech Raceway
Read MoreApropos of nothing, Lamborghini has returned Minardi M191B chassis #003 to vintage racing duties after a lengthy seven-month restoration by the company’s Polo Storico division. Many of the original 1990s Lamborghini and Minardi staff were involved in the restoration. Polo Storico is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Lamborghini’s history, and its short-lived Formula One efforts are certainly under that umbrella.
Read MoreThe U.K. government announced on Monday that every newly built home would come with a charge point for electric vehicles as part of its Road to Zero initiative. The initiative’s aim is to end the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars and vans by 2040, and one stop along the path to that goal is to ensure all homeowners will have a place to plug their EV in for a charge up.
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 MoreAston Martin stuffed a V8 engine into its cute little Cygnet city car as a one-off commission project for a person who has a better imagination and bigger wallet than any of us, and it’s like a wasp in car form—miniature in size but terrifying enough to send full-grown adults running in the opposite direction.
Read MoreA small, Alabama-native fish species that rarely grows longer than an inch had a big impact on the 2,400-acre site of the planned $1.6-billion plant for Toyota and Mazda. A lawsuit about the fish’s potential for extinction with development in the area was filed in June, and the automakers announced that work to build the plant was temporarily halted on Thursday—just over a month later.
Read MoreToday we told the story of UK cops pulling over someone who was driving a headlight-less Peugeot 206, using vice grips as a steering wheel and a bucket as a seat. For the record, I would never do such a thing. Ever. Probably.
Read MoreBack in the 1970s, when a self-driving car meant a brick on the throttle, people raced each other from coast to coast to protest national speed limits and to celebrate American freedom and also because it would be something fun to talk about. In 1981, they got a bunch of stars and the guy that started it all to make a movie about it called The Cannonball Run.
Read MoreWhile watching the FIFA World Cup a few weeks ago, my boss noticed players sitting in race car seats, and ordered me to figure out why. So I reached out to one of the biggest race car seat manufacturers, Recaro. Here’s what I learned.
Read MoreWe see cars like this Peugeot 206 pulled over every now and again, and I’ll admit I have pretty complex feelings when I see these. Part of me thinks it’s insane and dangerous as hell to drive a car in this condition on a public road. And that part is right. But there’s another, stupider part that’s weirdly impressed. Maybe it suspects that I myself am just a couple of bad decisions away from committing an equally idiotic act.
Read MoreLook, up in the sky! It’s a bird! (No.) It’s a plane! (Ehhh.) It’s a flying car! (No, definitely not). So what is it? According to its manufacturer, Opener, this is a new ultralight all-electric fixed-wing extreme short/vertical take-off and landing (ESTOL/VTOL) aircraft. That’s too damn to long to say, so let’s just call it by its given name, the Blackfly. And it looks fun.
Read MoreVice President Pence’s family gas station business, Kiel Bros. Oil Co., went belly-up back around 2004. But now, 14 years and over $21 million in government cleanup costs later, the Associated Press reports that much of the environmental aftermath of that company’s operations remains.
Read MoreThe Honda Mean Mower V2 is powered by a 189-horsepower engine out of a CBR1000RR Fireblade. It can top 150 mph. It can cut grass. And here it is at the Goodwood Festival of Speed hooning up a British aristocrat’s driveway like a bat out of hell.
Read MoreA Lexus RC F GT3 race car caught fire in the paddock at the 2018 Goodwood Festival Of Speed. Driver Scott Pruett is and thankfully unhurt, but the car looks pretty well cooked.
Read MoreMy good ol’ Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo did what it does best a few days ago: it broke. This time around was different though; the car graciously allowed me to fix it for free.
Read MoreIn a country with a rich automotive history as Italy, there are bound to be some special automotive museums scattered around the place. On my last trip to Italy I went to some of the more obvious ones such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Pagani. This trip I was in search of some lesser known museums. And located in the outskirts of Milan in a place called Arese, not far from the headquarters of Zagato and Touring Superleggera, is perhaps the best automotive museum in the world.
Read MoreEven if we assume that, at some level, pretty much every elected official sucks and will find some way to take unfair advantage of their position while in office, you still hope the people who make up your government have at least the minimal amount of intelligence to not be stupid about it. That’s clearly not the case with Arizona state House representative Paul Mosley (R-5th District), who used “legislative immunity” to get out of speeding 97 mph, then bragged to the cop about speeding much fa
Read MoreCrammed into a red Porsche 911 Turbo S Porsche convertible, we slotted into the traffic rolling towards Times Square with an R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R pulling ahead of us. Beside it waited another R34 Skyline, a hen’s tooth V-Spec II Nür. For one moment, for that whole night, really, there was no 25-year import rule. There were no boring cars. Only rows and rows of rotary Mazdas, Japanese-market Toyotas, and Skylines upon Skylines.
Read MoreA couple weeks ago, Harley-Davidson said that it was moving some production overseas thanks to President Trump’s trade war, which made our president mad and led to some angry tweets. After all that, Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury revealed yesterday, he went back to Harley and asked, a bit sadly, could you really not move those jobs overseas.
Read MoreIn a June 2017 meeting with Tesla employees, CEO Elon Musk solicited their complaints about safety issues and promised to address their concerns, so long as they refrained from trying to organize a union, the National Labor Relations Board alleges.
Read MoreWhile the exact source of Mad Mike Whiddett’s rage remains unclear, we now have definitive proof that his hood wants no part of it.
Read MoreToday, I asked readers to describe the nastiest surprise they’ve ever found on a car after purchasing it. One commenter’s post is arguably a car-buyer’s worst nightmare. Prepare to cringe.
Read MoreIf you don’t follow the world of soccer, you may not know that megastar Cristiano Ronaldo recently completed a transfer from the Spanish club Real Madrid to Juventus. You may also not know that this move has a bunch of Fiat Chrysler workers so mad they’re going on strike. Here’s why.
Read MoreSiemens worked out a way for autonomous car to suck even more fun out of driving by developing a self-driving system that could be fitted to classic cars, like the 1965 Ford Mustang it ran at the Goodwood Hillclimb today. It’s too bad for them that the system sucked.
Read MoreLook, just because you’re driving a $100,000 supercar doesn’t mean you don’t have to drive along at a snail’s pace like the rest of us plebeians. No no, you too have to suck it up as all of those 500+ horsepower go to waste. And if you don’t—as these people near Niagara Falls, Canada didn’t—your car’s getting towed.
Read MoreBritish sports car manufacturer Noble has been making one car, the M600, since 2010. But today, they just showed up to the Goodwood Festival of Speed with an all-new entry level concept, the Noble M500, which will reportedly come with a 550 horsepower twin-turbo EcoBoost V6.
Read MoreSometimes, you have to wonder if people in Florida want to keep the “Florida man” joke alive, thus continually passing the baton on depicting caricatures of human stupidity. A new Florida man, when stopped by cops recently, claimed he wasn’t drinking and driving because he only drank bourbon while stopped.
Read MoreMcLaren has announced a new plan to launch 18 models in the next seven years in order to offer a full-hybrid lineup by 2025. This is in keeping with the company’s long-running plan to never let a car sit on sale for more than 15 minutes without announcing a replacement.
Read MoreA group of geniuses in Texas converted a Jeep DJ-5M Dispatcher mail Jeep into a Star Destroyer, and built a fleet of other Star Wars-themed vehicles to drive along with it. Just. Wow.
Read MoreElectric vehicles, autonomous vehicles and logging-industry vehicles; as we look to the future, these are the segments most likely to see massive disruption and incredible levels of investment from major companies.
Read MoreThe new Toyota Supra made its “world debut” on Thursday at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, once again reminding us that we still don’t know a lot about the car and that Toyota likes it that way. We haven’t even seen it, really.
Read MoreBloomberg is out this morning with a a well-reported, well-sourced deep-dive into Tesla’s ongoing Model 3 production hell, which is worth reading in full. I will highlight a few passages here, though, one revealing an episode of absurdist horror and the other, well, the other is just very, very bleak.
Read MoreWhen the Porsche restorers at Singer Vehicle Design announced they were partnering with racing firm Williams Advanced Engineering, we were excited without having seen anything. Even more so after we saw their first collaboration. And now that we’ve seen their latest project together, we’re wondering who we have to kill to get some seat time.
Read MoreTesla has confirmed it delivered its 200,000th vehicle in the U.S. this month, meaning the phase-out of the $7,500 federal electric vehicle tax credit prospective customers can take advantage of has begun. By Jan. 1, that amount will be cut in half.
Read MoreYou may not remember the rumors that Aston Martin was going to shove a V12 into its infamous Cygnet city car, but you’re never going to forget that they went ahead and shoved a naturally aspirated V8 in there instead despite the car being dead for over five years.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 3 already has a performance version on the way, but if you don’t want to wait around for that, you can get a lot more out of the electric car just from upgrading the tires, brakes and suspension.
Read MoreNowhere is safe for diesel. Stuttgart, home of two massive automakers that produce diesel vehicles, has announced that any diesels that don’t meet Euro 5 standards will be banned from city streets in 2019.
Read MoreLast year, DHL announced its commitment to net-zero emissions for its logistics operations by 2050, and the company has been slowly making the switch to hybrid and electric vehicles for years. But it’s the odd mix of delivery vans in the company’s fleets that proves automakers have been overlooking the opportunity to develop new vehicles for delivery services for far too long.
Read MoreEarlier today I wrote about the latest version of the Ariel Atom, and I have to say the one thing I wasn’t expecting to be that impressed about on the car was its instrument cluster. But, as usual, I was wrong! The new Atom 4 has a fantastic instrument cluster, an all LCD one that’s not hampered with needless and silly fake-analog skeuomorphism. I hope this catches on beyond niche cars like this.
Read MoreA Florida-based coachbuilder that specializes in turning hard-top cars into convertibles got its hands on a 464-horsepower Cadillac ATS-V Coupe, and morphed it into something amazing—a convertible. Here’s how the company did it, from reinforcing the unibody to custom-forming the top to yield the perfect shape.
Read MoreThe New York Police Department, considered one of the most well-funded and heavily-equipped police forces in the world, apparently owns a $4 million spy plane that can detect nuclear bombs from the sky.
Read MoreOn behalf of the human car-buying community, I’d like to formally apologize to the Tata Nano, and wish it a fond farewell. The Nano is effectively out of production now, with just one car built in June, and was, if we’re honest, a sales failure. But I don’t blame the car, which I maintain is brilliant; this one is on us, and our ridiculous and all-pervasive ideas about status.
Read MoreBefore I drove the 2018 Lexus LC 500, I was pretty sure it was my favorite car on sale. Now that I’ve borrowed one for a weekend and spent hundreds of miles enjoying its naturally aspirated V8 and fantastic sound system, I know it’s my favorite car on sale.
Read MoreA woman in Cornwall, Ontario accidentally drove away in someone’s Infiniti after mistaking it for her Nissan rental car, the local police posted on Facebook. After two weeks, she returned what she though was her rental car, and complained about how “unkept” it was before realizing her mistake. Here’s how the Canadian woman wound up in such an embarrassing mess.
Read MoreA former Tesla technician accused by the automaker of stealing reams of confidential data and leaking it to outside sources now has an attorney, and he’s doubling down on his allegation that Tesla made misstatements to investors about placing punctured batteries into Model 3s that were shipped to customers.
Read MoreOn Monday morning, Tian Xia saw an ad on Nextdoor, the social network, for a 1996 Mazda Miata with around 57,000 miles for sale for $300, seemingly too good to be true. The car had some front-end damage, but otherwise ran well, even the air-conditioning worked. Tian didn’t waste any time, completing the purchase later that day. It was an honest steal.
Read MoreMercedes is getting serious with AMG, and by “serious,” I mean “slapping its badge on anything that moves.” As such, I’m inclined to believe this report that the in-house performance arm will make a mid-engine sports car to rival the Porsche Cayman. Well, to be honest, I don’t have to have any great reason to believe it. I could just use this today.
Read MoreBy what grace of god this 1981 Honda Accord was left unscathed over the past 37 years I do not know, but please take in how utterly immaculate it is, up for sale now with a scant 6,000 miles on the clock.
Read MoreFord is killing off almost all of its cars and sedans in North America because modern buyers walk around in a crossover-obsessed haze, but the Fusion may stick around—kind of. Bloomberg reports that the Fusion name, at least, may live on in the form of a Subaru Outback-rivaling sport wagon.
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a car that can get to 60 MPH as fast as a McLaren P1 but without all that annoying “bodywork” and for about 1/25th the price, boy are you in luck, because Ariel just announced the Atom 4, which uses the engine from the Honda Civic Type R. That engine allows the gloriously skeletal car to go from immobile to 60 MPH in 2.8 seconds. This thing is pretty much just an alloy of adrenaline and fun, cast into the rough shape of a car.
Read MoreA diamond plating-covered, Mercedes S-Class sitting tall on a Russian GAZ frame would be a total abomination if it weren’t so damn cool. Just watch this off-road beast—made up of a smorgasbord of parts from various cars—make Jeeps look downright pathetic.
Read MoreThe time has now come: Even if you didn’t reserve one during the Eisenhower administration, you can now order a Tesla Model 3. Of course, you can’t order a $35,000 Model 3 because that doesn’t exist. But the SpaceX submarine does exist and is currently just left in a cave, so if you want that maybe Elon will let you have it.
Read MoreThat’s me. Do you see me? I’m the Flash Green one there. I’m the Volvo V70 R. Whooooosh. Bye there. You missed me. I was flying fast under the radar, understated speed.
Read MoreListen, this is a little awkward, but I’ve been working all day here in these blogmines for over a month now and not one of you has bought me a damned thing. I bust my back grinding out news and spittin’ hot takes for you, and you can’t even send over a fruit basket?
Read MoreThe feds on Monday criminally charged a former Apple employee with theft of trade secrets, claiming the ex-staffer attempted to download a blueprint for a self-driving car to a personal laptop, before trying to flee the country and join a new startup in China.
Read MoreYou may think you know what a coupe is, but you’ve never seen a coupe like this coup.
Read MoreFormula One has long been trending toward becoming two-tiered, with a handful of real competitors racing alongside some poor bastards without a shot in the world. This past weekend’s British Grand Prix was a case in point, a good demonstration of how far off-pace most teams are.
Read MoreAh, the myriad joys of a vintage car: the feel of the wheel wriggling in your hands, the sound of the engine as you blip the throttle. Now Siemens is looking to remove all of that with a self-driving 1965 Ford Mustang that it plans to run up the famous Goodwood Hillclimb this year.
Read MoreLast month, we borrowed a replica of KITT—the crime-fighting 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am that co-starred with David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider—to drive from LA to an ’80s and ’90s car show in San Francisco. But KITT didn’t make it to San Francisco. Actually, not even close.
Read MoreI had a disturbing exchange with our fresh-faced young intern, Mack, yesterday. We were discussing the new Porsche Cayenne Coupe, a vehicle that is not, in any way, a coupe. I mentioned this, to which Mack responded “Yeah but at this point shouldn’t we just accept that the traditional definition of that word is gone?” Immediately the restraints in my work-pod tightened and I was given a jolt of calming electricity because my bio-readings spiked with rage. No, Mack, we’re not just going to give u
Read MoreBankers from Germany’s Südwestbank are recommending investments in vintage automobiles, and it’s not hard to understand why: the Porsche 911 has increased in value 683 percent over 13 years, according to Bloomberg, handily stomping the German Stock Index, DAX. Other 30+ year-old German cars also outperformed the German stock index.
Read MoreOwners of the Bugatti Chiron already know the heady thrill that comes with knowing that the car kept immobile in their air conditioned garages is the fastest in the world, if they were ever to drive it, which they won’t. Now, 40 very lucky money-gorged fools can spend almost six million dollars on a new version of the Chiron that will be faster and handle better, in the incredibly unlikely event one ever actually gets really driven. It’s called the Divo, and you’ll never get to drive one.
Read MoreQuite literally around the corner from Italy’s Zagato, in the same Arese industrial complex, in an equally unassuming building is Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. Much like their neighbors Touring, is an independent run coachbuilder. The difference is at first glance Touring appears to be a much smaller operation, and arguably an even more bespoke one.
Read MoreThis is your periodic reminder that despite what the snobs tell you, the 996 Porsche 911 is good and cool, and maybe you should consider getting one.
Read MoreThis week I’m roaming around in a 2018 Mini John Cooper Works Clubman ALL4 which is a wordy way to say “the performance trim” of what is essentially the Mini sedan, paradoxical though that may be. What do you want to know?
Read MoreA Canadian driver was pulled over yesterday and hit with over $,1500 U.S. in fines when it was discovered that the trailer being used to haul his pretty large sailboat was made from old pallets, duct tape, and, presumably, some industrial-grade hope. Oh, also, the builder was careful to include no brakes.
Read MoreIf you’re looking to load up your Kia Stinger GT, it might help to have a clue how the storage space is accessed.
Read MoreBack in February, I documented a brief and stupid saga involving the vending machines that allow you to buy MetroCards to ride the New York City subway. Now, thanks to William Finnegan in The New Yorker, we have some more context about those machines. Hilarious context. Enlightening context. Sad context.
Read MoreAre you uncontrollably addicted to doing dumb, adventurous things with cheap cars? Do you prefer a pick-and-pull to a car dealership’s parts department? Is the most important card in your wallet your AAA Premiere card? Come join us in our new Facebook group, The Way Back.
Read MoreThe Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign that we saw last month was, in a word, polarizing. I thought it looked great. Most of you disagreed. Well, if I had over a million bucks, I’d buy one just to spite all of you.
Read MoreIt’s a shame when pioneering companies are left to rot and die. Remember Kodak, Polaroid, and Blockbuster? It happens in the car industry plenty of times— MG, Saab, DeLorean, and Pontiac all come to mind. But perhaps the most tragic of all is Lancia. While still technically around, gone are the days of World Rally Championship victories and charismatic road cars. Instead it’s now stuck making tarted up Fiats and rebadged Chryslers, a shadow of what it used to be.
Read More$112,895. That’s where 2019 BMW M850i starts. Hey, nobody said the new flagship coupe would be cheap.
Read MoreThe Bugatti Veyron is the kind of car you see driving around a city center at five miles an hour, at best, or sitting in a climate-controlled garage at worst. That’s what makes it so shocking to see one being used to all of its abilities: doing 1184 horsepower all-wheel drive donuts in the dirt.
Read MoreIn the least shocking news ever, the new Toyota Supra will keep with Supra tradition with a front-mounted inline-six engine and a rear-wheel-drive layout. You know what else isn’t shocking, at all? The fact that the road-going Supra is going to “debut” later this week in a camouflage wrap.
Read MoreIt’s not that often a picture of a Citroën will cause me to do an immediate and forceful spit-take, whether I’m drinking a beverage or not, but this one, found on Sacremento Craigslist, certainly does the job. If you’re not sure why that is, I suspect it has something to do with the colossal and strangely proportioned naked (except for boots), face-down woman sculpted into the body of the car. That’s my hunch.
Read MorePorsche recently gathered a group of nine cars from their history to remind you that pretty much everything they’ve ever built looks just a little bit dorky.
Read MoreI was first made familiar with Yoshikawa’s meticulous work during my period of obsession with Toyota’s 2000GT. As a young man I was enamored with the work and history of Carroll Shelby, which led me to the Toyota sports car. Yoshikawa literally wrote the book that defined the history of the 2000GT, and I saved my rare-gotten pennies to buy a copy of the $300 tome. He was once the premier metal fabricator for 2000GT restorations, but has discontinued the practice with age. From there, in doing a
Read MoreFollowing the recent GoldRush Rally, which began in Boston on June 22nd, and ended in Las Vegas, Nevada last Sunday, two Lamborghini-driving participants were presumably heading back home when one of them suffered a huge automotive loss outside of St. Louis, MO.
Read MoreI was positively flabbergasted when I watched YouTube uploader RavenwestR1's mashup of Forza Horizon 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5. The level of attention to detail required to manipulate one game to produce an essentially identical video is astounding. They had to have been working overtime to produce a video so faithful to the source material in just the few short weeks since the Forza trailer dropped.
Read MoreAfter setting a new lap record pace in qualifying (video below) and nabbing the pole position for the starting grid of his home Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was flying high as the red lights went out ahead of the 52-lap Formula One sprint at Silverstone. It only took three corners for everything to be completely upended. First, Hamilton has a little of himself to blame, as he got a very poor start off the line and was beat to the first corner by Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, but the heaviest share o
Read MoreIt is perhaps a bit cliché to say they don’t make cars like this anymore, but it’s true. Properly coachbuilt Italian runabouts are a thing of the past, but this Fiat Vignale 1100 Desiree is perhaps the perfect example of what was once a popular trend. Take a boring standard Fiat 1100 and add a gorgeous, if a bit busy, Giovanni Michelotti-penned body by Carrozzeria Alfredo Vignale in Turin, Italy, and you’ve got a handsome little sporty car. This particular example hides an even more exciting his
Read More“We aren’t going to make it Captain,” a young sailor worriedly shouts at his boss as he bursts into the bridge. The Captain furrows his brow and pushes a lever forward on the console. If he pulls it off, he’s a hero. He’ll surely be promoted. It’s all down to this one delivery, getting his soy bean cargo to port in Dalian before the trade war tariffs are implemented. If the ship makes it, the company gains a 25 percent trade advantage. In my vision of how this all went down, this is the perfect
Read MoreWhen we look back at the post-WWII automotive designs pouring out of manufacturers, we probably would think of them as “modern” by today’s standards. But at the time, the industry was ready for something fresh, and engineers were ready to deliver. Tons of concept cars showcasing the future appeared at exhibitions while their more streamlined aerodynamics and sleeker, more exotic bodies became the norm in the market.
Read MoreLast month, Koenigsegg announced that their limited production Agera RS line was coming to an end. Each one of the 25 units produced have been sold, including the factory test RS, and the RS has absolutely demolished the record for fastest production car. The only fitting way to send off this incredible vehicle after eight years of butt-kicking is to create two final models and name them after some of the biggest badasses in movie history.
Read MoreThere’s a certain allure to trackside seating at a superspeedway. You’re right there. Bones and teeth rattle every time a car comes careening in front of you, so close you could almost touch it. Sure, you might not be seeing the whole view of the circuit, but for the first time you truly get to see the speed—blink, and you’ll miss the three cars battling for the lead.
Read MoreChances are, most of us are never going to have a chance to step foot on a Formula One pit lane—let alone even, y’know, walk into a factory. It’s a good thing we’ve got guys like Steve Matchett, then, who can tell us all about his experiences so that it’s like we were hanging out there the whole time.
Read MoreThere’s something about music and cars that just kinda goes hand in hand. I’m sure some of you out there like a pure, silent driving experience, but nothing rivals the memories of a solid playlist and a long, long drive when the time is right.
Read MoreEvery so often, there are drivers who burst onto the racing scene with all the brilliance of a supernova, dazzling everyone they come across only to fade off into the distance just afterward with no traces left in the history books of their brilliant presence. Dutch racer Liane Engeman was just one of those people.
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 MoreEver since the Tesla Model 3 debuted we’ve been wondering a nagging question. Questions about its production rate, build quality, and worker conditions were all mere breezes rustling past our ears compared to The Big One. The Thing On All Of Our Minds. Can the Tesla Model 3 drift? It turns out that yes, yes it can.
Read MoreMaybe Sicario is not a car movie, but it is a movie with one of the most dramatically tense first acts that slowly builds up to a convoy sequence through Juarez, Mexico that you will never forget, in one of the best movies of the decade.
Read MoreThere were only 23 Lotus Elite Super 95s produced, including one that Lotus gave to racing legend Jim Clark as payment for Clark’s Formula One driving instead of actual money. A fair deal, if you ask me.
Read MoreIt’s July. It’s too damn hot outside. You already blasted through Glow and Westworld and you need some good car television in your life. Who can you turn to but Jerry Seinfeld, whose latest season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee drops on Netflix today?
Read MoreIf there’s one thing I learned on my recent trip to Italy, it’s that style matters. Looking good is more important than looking where you’re going. So it’s no wonder the storied art of coachbuilding—creating customized bodies for cars—is still well and truly alive in the nondescript town of Arese, Northern Italy. Here you’ll find the headquarters of two of the most famous and important names in coach building: Zagato and Touring Superleggera.
Read MoreAfter five long, grueling, year-long laps as one of Jalopnik’s most beloved and prolific staff writers, we must announce that Stef Schrader—our best Porsche fan and chief Puffalump enthusiast—is taking the checkered flag and leaving us.
Read MoreA design patent granted on July 3 to GM Global Technology Operations for a “VEHICLE BODY EXTERIOR” shows images of an athletic, sleek-looking coupe that many believe will be the all-new Cadillac CT5 Coupe. While we’re not certain of that, it is an interesting design that will give Cadillac a type of sporty car it’s been missing.
Read MoreI know what you’re thinking. You took one look at this shadowy render, read the horsepower figure in the headline, climbed to the roof of your house and screamed to the neighborhood, “THAT’S BULLSHIT!” But no, dude, you’re wrong. The Alieno Arcanum is definitely happening. I’m, like, so convinced of it.
Read MoreIf you’re the sort of person who demands less roof and more wood and nautical charm on your cars, then I’m sure you’re aware of the 1958 Fiat Jolly, a Ghia-designed beach car made by cutting the whole top off a Fiat 500, replacing the seats with wicker chairs or two-tone boat vinyl, and sticking on a fringed surrey roof. It’s charming as all hell, and probably the classiest way to make people suspect you own a yacht. Now Fiat has teamed up with Garage Italia to make an all new one called the Fia
Read MoreIt’s got style. It’s got speed. It’s got heart. It’s the adrenaline-pumping, track-destroying vehicle of your dreams. It’s the infamous UPS Package Car, and you can’t have it.
Read MoreI’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is.
Read MoreThe Aston Martin DB5, famed for its role as the car of choice for James Bond, and its handsome and elegant design, does not translate well in LEGO it turns out.
Read MoreAfter a decade-and-a-half of waiting and years of taunting and teasing, we’re finally going to see the production version of the new Toyota Supra next week at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Read MoreI never imagined I would see a Toyota Supra NASCAR before I actually saw the new Toyota Supra, but here we are. NASCAR has confirmed that Toyota will run the Supra in the Xfinity Series starting next year.
Read MoreWe talked about the vans on the track earlier today, but one of you once took a van over the tracks.
Read MoreSome news today for hopeful owners of the 2019 Honda HR-V, Honda’s Fit-based compact crossover that is fine to drive: it’s getting the Honda Sensing safety package and a volume knob, but it’s losing its manual transmission option, which it (checks notes) definitely had.
Read MoreChina is set on Friday to implement a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soybeans, in retaliation against tariffs imposed by the U.S. earlier this month. In an effort to stave off the added costs of importing goods, a U.S. cargo ship carrying soybeans is racing to northern China to beat the deadline for when the new tariff is set to go into effect. The joys of a burgeoning trade war.
Read MoreIt’s officially summer and I’m told that the commonfolk start bellyaching for something called a “vacation” during these warm months. I suppose it’s something of a break from the “work” they do to “earn” money and pay their “bills.” But what the hell, I decided to try out this vacation to see what all the fuss is about.
Read MoreIn numerous states, by simply being poor, you run the risk of losing your driver’s license. But in a win for advocates of the poor, a federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that that state’s law violates the Constitution, according to the New York Times.
Read MorePlans for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor have been in the works for years, but it took until today for something more concrete to materialize. On Thursday, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority—the entity overseeing the project—announced the company that will build the span, and now we have a glimpse of what it might look like.
Read MoreQueensland, Australia’s police department is rolling out 50 Kia Stinger patrol cars this week after the sports sedan received “top reports” from officers, News.com.au reports. This is not surprising, since the car seems like a perfect car for this job.
Read MoreNo, it’s not M for murder, nor is it M for another automaker’s performance arm. Volvo’s M stands for mobility, which is a new brand that it launched yesterday that users will be able to access via an app.
Read MoreWatching a 2018 Mazda Miata RF be driven by a skilled lunatic is always fun, but seeing one whip around in the green and orange quilting livery of Mazda’s famous Le Mans winning rotary-powered 787B is extra excellent.
Read MoreLast night, I finally saw Incredibles 2 at the local drive-in theater. While this already provides the tenuous car connection necessary for me to write about it on Jalopnik, it turns out Pixar’s latest creation is filled with dope vehicles that deserve recognition.
Read MoreAs we wave goodbye to the second generation of the “new” Volkswagen Beetle, a car that never quite reached the astronomical sales of the original car, we’re already getting indications that VW may be planning a revolutionary new electrified model that would return to its rear-wheel drive roots.
Read MoreThe current-generation, 2018 BMW M5 is a 600-horsepower, AWD war hammer that really does feel like it can take on anything on the road and win. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreI’ll gladly talk about the McLaren F1 all day. McLaren F1 this, McLaren F1 that. But there is only One True King of the road-going McLaren F1s, and that is the McLaren F1 GT. It was longer. More luxurious. With more downforce and less drag. And now there will be a McLaren P1 from the same mold.
Read MoreWhat do you do if you’ve never actually waxed a car before and aren’t sure where to start? You Ask a Clean Person, duh.
Read MoreToday is America’s birthday, and so your hardworking Jalopnik staff is taking a little time off to grill meat, drink High Life and contemplate the Oldsmobile Toronado. We suggest you do the same, but even if you don’t, we have a day of posts ready for your perusal. You’re welcome.
Read MoreYou might remember last month we wrote about a strange political ad that was making the rounds suggesting German Chancellor Angela Merkel thought Americans were “suckers” and that Germany (and especially Volkswagen) was planning to “dump cheap cars” on the U.S. market. Something about the ad just seemed strange, aside from the odd way it was misrepresenting the facts. We never did quite figure out the purpose of the ad, though now we have a possible explanation, and it involves Egypt, Skodas, an
Read MoreIf rising gas prices were starting to give you flashbacks of those dark, dark times when a gallon of gas was almost enough to cover lunch at work, your flashbacks are probably more like glimpses into the future. U.S. crude oil prices hit more than $75 per barrel on Tuesday, their highest since November 2014.
Read MoreThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce is, at heart, a deeply villainous organization, but, as they say, the enemy of your enemy can be your friend. The Chamber is going after President Trump hard, compiling a list of the states hurt the most because of retaliatory tariffs, and it’s no surprise that states that build cars will be among the worst hit.
Read MoreAs we prepare for this year’s mid-week Fourth of July holiday, a time when even the most honest and lawful citizens suddenly become devious pyromaniacs in their quest to find the largest and most questionably-legal explosives within driving distance, we should review some best practices for how to transport fireworks as safely as possible.
Read MoreRuth Sheehan and Dennis Lillefloren departed their Florida home in September 2004, heading north for what should’ve been a memorable moment in their life together. Both retired from careers in the Navy, they’d planned stops to visit their newborn grandchildren in Virginia and a Navy football game in Maryland where they’d see their son, all before heading west to Indiana in a 2001 Monaco Diplomat motorhome purchased only a year prior.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of reasons to be excited about the upcoming 600 horsepower Polestar 1 coupe, but if you need to relax your eagerness to drop $155,000 on one, just take a few minutes with the car’s configurator and you’ll calm right down.
Read MoreDinos, produced by Ferrari from 1968-1976, were strange birds, having been named for Enzo Ferrari’s son but not carrying a Ferrari badge, since they were considered too cheap and too slow for the Ferrari name. Still, a few thousand were built, with over 150 of those recently gathering in Maranello to celebrate Dino’s 5oth anniversary.
Read MoreThose bemoaning the demise of small and lovable hatchbacks in the U.S. auto market can bemoan slightly less now, for I have confimed a legal way that you can own a new Mazda 2 hatchback in the U.S.
Read MoreThis past weekend, I was the passenger in my colleague’s Honda S2000 for what could have been a lovely drive had it not been for the severe amount of sunburn. This painful experience left me determined to log on and remind you all to always try to park in the shade.
Read MoreThe tragedy of the commons is catching up with the smartphone-activated electric rental scooters that I love to ride and people on the internet love to hate. As of last weekend there are more Bird and Lime scooters in my westside Los Angeles neighborhood than ever, but also, a lot more of them are broken.
Read MoreActivists in New York City have been calling for officials to support increased wages for financially-struggling drivers, as at least six have committed suicide in recent months after falling into debt. Now, a new study from the city’s taxi commission is offering one potential policy change, calling for a $17.22 minimum wage for all drivers who earn a living from ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft.
Read MoreThe basic gist the auto industry’s shift toward big honking vehicles is that, as a result of cheap gas and a decent economy, car buyers are now totally hooked on SUVs. But there’s an untold side to that equation, as an investigation by the Detroit Free Press and USA Today recently found: more pedestrian deaths, which are up 46 percent overall since 2009
Read More1980s and ’90s nostalgia is coming back as loud and proud as the first guitar riff in the Miami Vice theme song, and it might be one of the best things to happen to car culture in a long time. Roll up to a Radwood show with us in this video and see what everybody’s freaking out about, man.
Read MoreWho doesn’t like dyno tests? Miserable people, that’s who, or perhaps low-down dirty miscreants who have shoved Iron Dukes into their GTOs. The rest of us always enjoy the cold, hard truth that a dyno wrings out of cars, and today we’d like to share this comparison of a 2018 BMW M3 with the Competition Package and a regular 2018 BMW M4.
Read MoreI’ve got umbrellas on the brain ever since I found out that the 2019 Aston Martin DB11 Volante can be optioned with one. The trouble is, only the hyper-exclusive cars seem to come with them. What’s up with that?
Read MoreMarcos Trevino is the epitome of a supercar owner, even if his jam is American iron instead of high-end European exotics. His 840-horsepower 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is meticulously clean, garage-kept and still with some of its original plastic on the seats, while he uses a yellow hand towel to keep fingerprints off of its fresh black paint. The difference between Trevino and other supercar owners is that he’ll likely never drive this car, or any of its more than 800 factory-rated horses.
Read MoreThe northeastern United States experienced some near-record high temperatures this past weekend. These extreme temperatures not only affected how people spent their time outdoors (see also: didn’t), but also the infrastructure. That’s when you know it’s officially Too Damn Hot Out. Clarification: The heat affects how the bridge raises to let boats pass through.
Read MoreTesla did it. Sort of. It hit its goal of 5,000 Tesla Model 3s per week (albeit half a year late), bringing it to over 7,000 cars a week total. Production was up 55 percent this past quarter over the one before it, Tesla says, and the company is declaring it all its trouble“worth it.” But there has been trouble.
Read MoreBack in September of last year, we learned that Toyota would begin to offer sportier, Japan-only Toyota models with the new GR Performance line. Today, we see the first of that line, the Toyota 86 GR Sport, and, uh, meh?
Read MoreUnlike the boring and processional Le Mans 24 from two weeks ago, IMSA’s 6 Hours of The Glen race was a fight for the lead in all three classes for the full run time of the race. In what turned out to be an incredibly hot New York day with track temperatures reaching well into the triple digits, this was a taxing day for the race drivers, and they fought their hearts out.
Read MorePikes Peak has long been one of the most fascinating motorsport venues in the world. It’s still the wild west of motorsport, where budgets, engineering, and driver talent are the main factors in how fast you can go. Ingenuity and engineering are rewarded, because there is hardly a rulebook, there is no balance of performance, and there are no limits on power output. As they used to say in racing, at Pikes Peak you “Run what you brung, and hope you brung enough.”
Read MoreWhen building a brand new race car, sometimes it serves well to do set a few benchmarks and run testing on individual components. If you’re testing a brand new drivetrain in a brand new chassis, you may have too many variables to properly suss out what needs to be fixed first. A driver can only provide so much input, and if the whole thing is pants, you’ll spend the rest of your development cycle chasing down problems. Volkswagen only had nine months from the start of their I.D. R program until
Read MoreGran Turismo Omologato is a series of Italian gobbledygook to most people, but to automotive enthusiasts, it can mean the world. And it can mean several handfuls of millions of dollars to collectors. Ferrari built thirty three examples of the V12-powered 250 GTO in the early 1960s to take on international motorsport. They were reasonably successful on track, but moreover they were just plain gorgeous. 56 years later, that translates to big money changing hands for the opportunity to own one.
Read MoreAmid considerable doubt about its future, production methods and labor practices, Tesla reportedly hit a crucial milestone for the Model 3 sedan today: the elusive and long-sought goal of 5,000 cars produced per week. While the company hasn’t officially confirmed the news, it’s a huge deal if it’s accurate and one that could go a long way toward establishing Tesla’s long-term viability.
Read MoreNext Sunday, live on the History Channel, Travis Pastrana and the rest of the Nitro Circus crew will debut a three-hour broadcast called Evel Live. During the course of three hours, Pastrana will attempt three different Evel Knievel stunts at various locations on the Las Vegas strip.
Read MoreTesla has been building cars for nearly 15 years, but it’s still learning the best way to do that as it ramps up production of the make-or-break Model 3 to the target of 5,000 cars per month. It’s much more a running work in progress than you might think.
Read MoreThe longest points-paying streak in Formula One history has ended with Lewis Hamilton’s retirement from Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix with engine troubles. This weekend marks the first time that Lewis has not been in a top-ten points-paying finishing position since his retirement from the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2016. This retirement, combined with Sebastian Vettel’s 3rd place finish, revokes Hamilton’s championship lead by a single point.
Read MoreLooking back through the pantheon of automotive side stripe packages is a great way to get depressed by the state of current side stripe offerings. Every decade has some pretty awesome options, and the current lineup pales by comparison.
Read MoreStation wagon backends are like hats: the jauntier the angle the more fun that’s implied. The angle of the rear glass on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi Avant is pretty steep and the car looks pretty fun. Let’s see if its price is equally steep and, well, less fun.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Hilux claims it to be ‘stupid clean all around.’ Let’s see if this old hauler’s price makes it a stupid good deal too.
Read MoreWhen someone says ‘kit car’ what most people think is ‘dangerously half-assed.’ Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Superlite may be dangerous, but it seems far from half-anything. Let’s see if its awesomeness makes it worth its asking.
Read MoreOpening the bonnet of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Spitfire reveals not the hoary old Triumph four, but a precision engineered M10 from BMW. Let’s see if its priced to make the switch to a new owner.
Read MoreMerkur was a failed brand, but that can’t be blamed the Ford subsidiary’s two models, which were both hella hip in their own way. Let’s see if the price on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Scorpio has it going your way.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe CJ10 is a Jeep you’ve probably never even heard of. Now that you have, you’re going to have to see if its price is worth a listen.
Read MoreMazda’s MX5 is one of the best driving cars on the planet, which calls into question why today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate has only gone 23K. Let’s see of those low miles add up to a high, but maybe acceptable price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Beetle has been made longer, lower, and wider, and if you look hard enough, you’ll see elements of Porsche 959 in its design. Will that, and its price, have you choosing the Bug Life?
Read MoreHolden Caulfield is a literary character that you probably wouldn’t want to hang out with, as honestly, he’s kind of a dick. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Commodore, on the other hand, is a Holden you might not mind getting to know, That is, if this Maloo is worth the Moolah.
Read MoreChrysler once had this thing with Mitsubishi that produced a slew of cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Conquest. Neither company is doing so hot now, but we still have their very hot offspring. Let’s see if its price at least brings the heat.
Read MoreSequels are often not as good as the original, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX7 Turbo II might prove to be a car that’s an exception. Let’s see if its price makes it just the ticket.
Read MoreThere are very few truly iconic movie cars. There are even fewer cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mustang that try to recapture that movie magic for today’s enthusiasts. Let’s see if this Ford’s price makes it box-office boffo.
Read MoreDesigno sounds like the worst superhero ever, one whose super power is infallible fashion sense. It also sounds like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes E class, which features special trim and… some other attributes.
Read MoreY2K was the now laughable threat of societal collapse supposedly threatened by the inability of Windows computers to recognize the new millennia. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe NX2000 shows Nissan solved the problem a decade beforehand. Will its price be enough to start a riot?
Read MoreToyota MR2 Spider prices are all over the map, but you don’t usually have a pin drop on one that’s as rough as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate. Could its low price make it worth investing in a little polish?
Read MoreMercedes is a fine exemplar of the phrase ‘they don’t build ‘em like they used to.’ Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 300TE is an example of the standard that’s no longer being met. Could its price build on that?
Read MoreThe X in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 280ZX stands for X-sports car, as the model is more a GT than a corner crusher like its immediate predecessor. Some people do like their cars to be a bit softer, but will this classic coupe’s price put you between a rock and a hard place?
Read MoreBeing a cylinder down and having a whiffle ball body makes today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Legacy a bit of a daunting proposition. Let’s see if its price can turn things around.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Amigo says he’s owned it for 19 years and in that time has only ever used it to go camping. Let’s see if its price has you getting ready to pitch a tent or a fit.
Read MoreI don’t quite know where to start with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Smart Limo. I mean, it’s obviously the perfect ride to book for the Lilliputian Prom, but will its price raise a big stink?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Frontier represents one of the last of the compact pickup trucks sold here. We’re going to see if this supercharged Crew Cab’s price will make it contrastingly big on value.
Read MoreThe Saturn Ion proved to be one of the most innocuous, least engaging cars GM ever built. That is however, unless it’s a hot Redline edition like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender. Let’s see if its price makes it a hot deal.
Read MoreThe 2018 Nissan Frontier can be the cheapest new pickup truck in America, undercutting largely because it hasn’t been redesigned since 2004. That’s not the case outside the U.S. though, where the Navara has replaced it. Here’s what America’s missing in Nissan’s latest diesel-powered mid-sized pickup.
Read MorePit stops are some of the most fascinating, and often some of the most glossed over, parts of a car race. That’s because while they’re essential to any race that goes past a tank of fuel or a full charge, they don’t take much time to do. Here’s a chance to slow things down and really appreciate what goes on during one.
Read MoreIt weighs 440 pounds, it endures temperatures up to 140 degrees, and it’s been on a four-year stint that amounts to the same distance as going around the earth and then some. Not my luggage, despite what you might assume, but the absolute unit at the back of the first generation of Formula E race cars. Slapping the roof of this bad boy would earn you a disapproving look from the engineers but you can fit 33,865 miles of racing without a single failure inside it.
Read MoreNASCAR teams are great at bending rules until they break, working around new rules that dock car performance, and using existing rules to get an advantage. That last part is why you might see a race car with a windshield wiper sticking straight up on a sunny, dry day, and why NASCAR may start mandating when teams can and can’t have a wiper on their car at road-course races.
Read MoreNo race on earth is like the Isle of Man TT. No race will probably be like it ever again. In our safety-obsessed, lawsuit-happy world, the wild annual motorcycle race through the towns on this tiny island in the Irish Sea is an anomaly that few get to witness and even fewer experience. But you can come close by watching the mini-doc In Loving Memory, now free on YouTube.
Read MoreAustralian racing superman Daniel Ricciardo made guzzling victory champagne out of your shoe famous, but Billy Monger—the teen racer who lost both his legs in a devastating British Formula 4 race in 2017—just one-upped him and everybody else who’s ever done a “shoey” in a big way.
Read MoreMiami’s City Commission approved a plan 10 ten years of Formula One racing in the city along a course that looked like a demented bobby pin monstrosity. This proposed layout was so bad that Lewis Hamilton offered to step in and fix it. For this and other reasons the race will never happen, but now it will especially not happen until 2020, at the very least.
Read MoreFormula One driver Lewis Hamilton just signed another two years of his career to Mercedes, which hasn’t been as dominant as usual lately but evidently isn’t hurting financially because of it. Reports say Hamilton will make up to $51.9 million per year through 2020, or way more than LeBron James’ contract.
Read MoreDriving a Mini Cooper S brings up different conversations depending on where I am. Around the mechanics at work, it’s all questions about reliability. To which I get to explain the joy that of owning basically a high mileage BMW, but with none of the badge or prestige. You can see the commiserating nods over oil consumption and premature failing components. Replacing thermostat assemblies every 40,000 miles? Totally reasonable.
Read MoreFormula 2 driver Santino Ferrucci was once America’s next great hope for a Formula One driver, but it only took him a few days to tank that by driving a race car with a phone in his hand and crashing into his teammate after a race. His former team has now kicked him out because of that and, the team claims, not making his payments to race in the first place.
Read MoreNo matter what the wreck-filled commercials and the popular, continually recycled historic footage might lead you to believe, most racing crashes aren’t reminiscent of Hot Wheels cars flying off of a poorly built ramp. This one was.
Read MoreMost jobs don’t designate the kind of underwear people have to wear, and those who work from home technically don’t have to wear any. (That’s probably true in offices, too, actually. Who’s going to know?) But two Formula E drivers are $6,000 poorer for wearing the wrong underwear to work over the weekend.
Read MoreThe car from Roborace, an upcoming autonomous, electric series, successfully ran the Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb without ramming nearby objects. The same cannot be said for the autonomous 1965 Ford Mustang that attempted Goodwood, perhaps scientifically proving that Mustangs will be Mustangs.
Read MoreAmericas Rallycross is North America’s next big shot at bringing delightful vehicular chaos in race form to the masses. The series’ first-ever North American round is this weekend at Austin’s Circuit of The Americas, and the course is going to be a blast.
Read MoreThis year, the Bahrain Grand Prix took place on Sunday, April 8. Three days later, every single team and all of their equipment was in Shanghai in preparation for the Chinese Grand Prix. The logistics required to make that incredible 4,000+ mile transfer happen are awe-inspiring, but Formula One pulls them off without a hitch.
Read MoreFord has spent a lot of time and money over the past few years to remind you that Ford = Le Mans. Ford GT = Le Mans. Ever heard of this thing called Le Mans? Yeah, Ford won that. Meanwhile, in the background, there’s Honda, and a short but sweet program it ran with the original NSX.
Read MoreWhen you move into a place with a yard that isn’t mowed for you, lawn mowers become a sort of passive enemy. They sit there, reminding you that when the grass starts growing, you’ll have to spend important hours of your life cutting it regularly because we’ve decided as a society that manicured yards are superior.
Read MoreNASCAR is a constant game of officials making rules, competitors cheating the rules, and officials making more rules to curb the cheating. When NASCAR put a chicane in its new road course at Charlotte Motor Speedway to slow cars down on the oval portion, drivers testing on the track just started cutting through it.
Read MoreDespite the team boss saying political ads weren’t allowed, Formula 2 driver Santino Ferrucci—who drew near-universal ire this weekend for running into his teammate after the race ended and holding a phone while driving from the support paddock to pit lane—and his family “insisted” on trying to run President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan on his race car. The request was denied by the sport’s governing body, the FIA.
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, the Volkswagen I.D. R electric race car broke the all-time record at Pikes Peak. It was the first car to ever set a time under eight-minutes, and now there’s a video of the full 7:57.148 run.
Read MoreNo matter how close the electric takeover of the auto industry seems, there’s always the occasional reminder that the future isn’t as perfect or as within reach as we imagine. Take this Tesla-based Electric GT Championship race car, which only made it a lap and a half at full power recently before getting too hot.
Read MoreDriving down New Jersey’s Route 34, you immediately knew who was going to Formula Drift and who was not. A long file of lowered Subaru WRXs, stanced BRZs, enloudened Mitsubishi Evos and lowered Volkswagen Golfs, right turn blinkers flashing frenetically, awaited their turn into the stadium parking lot during one Saturday in early June for the fifth round of the 2018 Formula Drift Championship at Wall Stadium in Wall Township, New Jersey.
Read MoreThe newest racing rendition of the Toyota Supra, which we still haven’t seen a street version of yet, by the way, debuted last week. It’ll head to the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series next year, trading the Supra’s drag-racing roots and historically customizable inline-six engine for the land of the screaming V8s.
Read MoreFormula 2 Racer and Haas F1 junior driver Santino Ferrucci has been handed multiple penalties for transgressions both on track and off. He received a fine for texting and driving while transitioning to the grid before the race. He was disqualified from today’s sprint race for intentional contact with teammate Arjun Maini and refusing to attend a subsequent hearing. And finally he was suspended from the series for the next two race weekends for rear-ending Maini during the cool-down lap.
Read More“Out of bounds” almost never applies in NASCAR, but passing below the yellow line at a restrictor-plate race tracks is a no-go. Driver Justin Haley got a harsh reminder of that Friday, when he barely dipped below the line in a bold move for the win and got penalized. But the call, and the rule, could be a lot clearer.
Read MoreRaces are won by more than just drivers. They’re won by people like Brehanna Daniels, who changes the rear tires on a NASCAR race car by jumping over a wall and onto pit road, sliding to the opposite side of the car and getting to work on a tire—all while other race cars are whizzing by. Daniels slams five lug nuts with a pit gun, removes the old tire, and slams on a new one in the same manner. She has to hit all five lug nuts in about a second, then she runs to the other side of the car and do
Read MoreI like dirt. I like Porsches. I really like Porsches that hoon in the dirt. Did you know Porsche built a 959 for Group B? Group B, as in the most insane era of rally? For the first time ever, a Group B Porsche 959 rally car is going to a public auction. You should buy it—for me. Otherwise, you’re all dead to me.
Read MoreI have been fascinated by the concept of lawn-mower racing since high school, when a guy in my grade, who called me “Vroom Vroom” because I liked NASCAR and often yelled “VROOM VROOM!” over everyone’s heads to get my attention in the hallway from many feet away, mentioned it once.
Read MoreRecovery from a major natural disaster doesn’t happen overnight. There are still folks along the Gulf Coast who are still struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Harvey tied Hurricane Katrina for the most destructive storm in US history in 2017. So, Robb Holland had an idea: To transform a Toyota 86 flooded during Hurricane Harvey into a race car in order to raise awareness and drive funds to the State Firefighters and Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas. Here’s how it went.
Read MoreTrack time is usually the domain of the lightest, smallest cars you can buy, but not among the Dajiban fans. They have Dodge vans. They go on track. Here’s how they make it work.
Read MoreSome wrecks are easy to see coming, like when two NASCAR drivers get into an old-fashioned shoving match for the win on the last lap of the race. Others are hard to believe even after they’ve occurred, like this spec Mazda Miata colliding with a tow truck on track in the middle of a race.
Read MoreWhile the high-tech Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo was trying to set a new lap time record on the Nürburgring’s insanely long Nordschleife course, I couldn’t help being distracted by the action happening on over on the grand prix track. Big, rowdy, diesel-belching race trucks were sliding around the curve at the end of the track in practice. I think I found redneck heaven.
Read MoreGoing up Pikes Peak on a nice day at race pace is a feat for the brave, but climbing the mountain in foul weather with poor visibility is pure lunacy. This year, Victor Kuhns was the last person to make it all the way up Pikes Peak before officials paused the race for foul weather and shortened the course, and you must watch him brave hail, snow and fog to make it to the finish.
Read MoreLet me tell you, I’m sick and tired of rolling up to clubs with my Rolls-Royces and Bentleys. Too easy, too predictable. Give me a true show stopper. Give me this three-person Formula One car. I bet you this is getting me to the front of the VIP line.
Read MoreThere is a such thing as speeding in racing, and it’s enforced on pit road to try to keep a driver from turning their pit crew—or someone else’s—into a set of high-speed human bowling pins. NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer got three pit-road penalties in a row on Sunday, yet managed to finish fifth in the race.
Read MoreI have waited for this moment for years. I have begged and pleaded for Regular Car Reviews to review a last-generation Mitsubishi Lancer forever, as it is a truly regular car. I know, because I own a 2010 Lancer GTS that has been the butt of many “reasonably-priced car” jokes. Finally, Mr. Regular reviewed mine at its second home: Harris Hill Raceway.
Read MoreThe Germans aren’t exactly known for being laid-back on a good day, but the morning of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was particularly stressful.
Read MoreNothing was normal about the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, including that a driver who had a 12th-place car most of the race wound up with a lead so big he was almost sure to win. But that was just the beginning, and led to some of the best racing you’ll ever see.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ram 1500 Tradesman is supposed to be “the cheap one,” but once you start spec’ing items like the big engine and towing packages that unlock the truck’s maximum capability, the price creeps up quickly. Meanwhile, the interior’s still pretty spartan. Here’s what that all-business configuration is like to drive.
Read MoreEven though the routine teleportation of humans and objects from one point in space to another is, at this point, entirely fictional, that doesn’t mean that people aren’t hiding things from you. Because, let’s face it, they are. I know most people are too chickenshit to take on Big Teleport, but I’m not, so get ready for some real talk about teleportation.
Read MoreIf there are three things that put a smile on my face in this cold, heartless world, they are space, history and satisfying YouTube videos. So when a chance to combine those three passions came up today, on the 49th anniversary of the first moon landing, I knew I had to share this with all of you.
Read MoreI’m not sure how closely you’ve been following the cislunar space real estate market, but NASA has been planning to build something in an interesting halo orbit around the Lagrange Point between the Earth and the moon. This station has been called the Deep Space Habitat or Deep Space Gateway in the past, but the latest incarnation is known as the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway. Oh, and the deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administratio
Read MoreThis past Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organization performed a crucial pad-abort test on their crew capsule spacecraft, a successful crewed launch of which would make India only the fourth country ever to independently launch a human into space, after the (late) Soviet Union, United States, and China.
Read MoreA former Tesla technician accused by the automaker of stealing reams of confidential data and leaking it to outside sources, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the automaker over statements made by CEO Elon Musk in recent weeks. There is some wild stuff in this new complaint.
Read MoreWe’ve written plenty before about the wonderfully weird electric car market of the past, but, thanks to The Dallas Morning News for digging up an old story this week, I want to stake out the 1975 all-electric Elcar as my likely favorite pick of that era.
Read MoreLyft is seeking out Chicago residents to give up their cars for a month, and in return, will pay them $550 in credits for other forms of transportation, reports The Verge, including Lyft rides, bike-sharing, and public transportation.
Read MoreUber is ending its effort to develop self-driving trucks, just two years after the controversial acquisition of the autonomous trucking unit that ensnared it in a high-profile legal war with Google and caused countless controversies for the ride-hailing company.
Read MoreTaxi drivers in Spain are entering the third say of a strike designed to put pressure on the nation’s government to cap the number of licenses issued to ride-hailing services like Uber, reports Reuters.
Read MoreHere is something I want to do: Drive across the country, nonstop, until I reach the Pacific Ocean. What I’d like to do is break one of Alex Roy’s records, but if I don’t, whatever. I just want to do it. My colleague, Jalopnik Deputy Editor Michael Ballaban, thinks this is a terrible idea. [Editor’s Note: It’s a terrible idea. - M.B.]
Read MoreDespite its very harsh ups and downs in recent years, Faraday Future has somehow ended up with a $2 billion lifeline to see through the making of its first production vehicle, the all-electric FF 91. The startup has said it’ll happen at some point this year, but a new document filed with the federal government suggests the first iterations could come soon.
Read MoreOne of the main talking points about Uber and Lyft is that, by getting more people to take taxi rides instead of drive, congestion would ease up everywhere. That hasn’t happened. And now, according to a new study, it appears Uber and Lyft’s services to pool riders into cars, with the ostensible purpose of helping alleviate congestion, isn’t helping either.
Read MoreWhen you’re immersed in the toxic sideshow that is the ongoing debate between Tesla’s bears and bulls, it’s common to feel like whatever’s happening with the automaker—production problems, the CEO baselessly calling someone a pedophile—can’t get any stupider. But we may have just hit the apex of stupid.
Read MoreFord is planning to spend $4 billion on developing self-driving cars by 2023, the automaker said Tuesday, in an announcement that also detailed the creation of a new spin-off entity cleverly titled Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC. It seems like Ford is consolidating all its self-driving ventures and tech under one roof: the new division will “encompass all aspects of its self-driving vehicle business operations,” the automaker announced.
Read MoreBesides a few of the minor, current examples of driverless cars cruising around cities like Phoenix, we’re still decades away, if ever, from a full-fledged takeover of autonomous vehicles on public streets. The achievements that have been made to date, however, can be attributed to pioneering engineers like Ernst Dickmanns, whose effort to outfit vehicles with autonomous technology back in the 1980s is profiled in this fascinating Politico story from last week.
Read MoreMajor automakers and startups are vying to launch electric vehicles in the U.S. in the coming years, competing for a small slice of the car buying public. But however crowded the field gets here, it’s nothing like what’s going on in China, which now has, no joke, 487 electric vehicle makers based in the country.
Read MoreThe updated Nissan Leaf EV features a revamped, kind of boring look and an interesting emphasis on the electric car driving experience. But the forthcoming long-range trim—dubbed the Leaf E-Plus—should make it a tad more exciting, with a new report saying it’ll have a total output of 200 horsepower, making it a solid competitor with Chevy’s Bolt and the Tesla Model 3.
Read MoreLess than a week ago, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was in a Thailand cave with a mini-submarine his team made that didn’t quite work out for the daring rescue of 12 boys and a soccer coach trapped inside. Now, he says he wants to help resolve Flint, Michigan’s water contamination crisis. Expectedly, this latest move drew scorn from critics—what, exactly, does Musk know about water quality issues, or what Flint has faced? But luckily for him, a book about Flint’s years-long crisis has just bee
Read MorePorsche has rolled out a smart gameplan for the debut of its Misison E all-electric sport car—now unfortunately dubbed the Taycan—by coupling efforts to install super-fast DC chargers at all of its U.S. dealerships with the car’s release. Now, Porsche says it has its first set of 800-volt, 320 kW chargers connected to a grid.
Read MoreTesla put up big numbers in the second quarter of 2018, having delivered a total of 40,740 vehicles to Model S, X, and 3 customers. But the increase to production drew Tesla ever closer to the ceiling for the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit that customers can take advantage of. Tesla won’t say if it reached that threshold—200,000 vehicle deliveries total in the U.S.—but it’s close.
Read MoreAfter a rocky few years, would-be electric startup Faraday Future started 2018 on what seemed to be the most solid footing it has had since launching its ambitious electric vehicle project. The company reported $2 billion in new financing, and it’s working fast to build out a factory in California, breaking ground just last month. But it continues to be dogged by allegations of financial mischief—the latest being a lawsuit filed last month by a Chinese consultant that claims Faraday’s chief exec
Read MoreTesla now wants to build a factory in China with an annual production capacity of 500,000 vehicles, according to reports. The planned project comes just one day after Tesla hiked prices for the Model S and Model X in China due to a brewing trade war with the U.S.
Read MoreWe’ve been seeing concept cars featuring cameras in place of traditional side-view mirrors for what feels like forever, and here’s another one! The 2020 Audi E-Tron SUV concept has them too, and these are probably the closest to a production set up we’ve seen so far.
Read MoreCalifornia has the most stringent regulations for self-driving cars in the U.S., including a strict mandate for companies to file a “traffic collision” report involving any autonomous car. This, it turns out, encompasses even when a golf ball strikes a robot-operated car.
Read MoreCalifornia’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has opened a new investigation into Tesla, after receiving a complaint from one of the automaker’s employees at its assembly plant in Fremont, California, a spokesperson confirmed. It’s not immediately clear what the complaint entailed.
Read MoreTesla’s milestone on Monday that it made 5,000 Model 3s in a single week, a long sought goal for the automaker, is being dimmed by the departure of another executive. Doug Field, Tesla’s top vehicle engineer, is leaving the company for good, after stepping away for a reported leave of absence in May.
Read MoreA billion dollars going to a new manufacturing plant, 700 million losing out to tariffs and more await you on The Morning Shift for Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
Read MoreThe car tariffs are starting to hit consumers, FCA’s new CEO has some very large shoes to fill and the trucking industry’s attempts at attracting new drivers await your rapt attention on The Morning Shift for Monday, July 30, 2018.
Read MoreWho knew what and when about the health of Fiat Chrysler’s fallen former CEO, tariffs galore, Ford’s troubles and more await you on The Morning Shift for Friday, July 27, 2018.
Read MoreUnions, tariffs, and everything else making life good and/or hell.
Read MoreEmissions rules to cover all 50 states, automaker profits getting hit by new steel and aluminum prices and Volvo’s having a rough time with investors. These stories and more on The Morning Shift for Wednesday, July 25, 2018.
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Read MoreThe 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback isn’t a soul-sucking anonymobile only to be bought by rational people who’ve never thought about cars in a way that makes them feel feelings. It’s not a driving enthusiast’s dream, either. But this hatch seems to have revived a long-lost something from Corollas past that made them universally appealing.
Read MorePickups are great for hauling heaps of whatever, but less optimal for keeping your tools organized. Unless you’ve got a nice cargo-sorting system like this old Ford Super Duty’s sweet disappearing bedside tool box. I mean, it looks amazing, though I think I see why this tech didn’t catch on.
Read MoreWhile cutting grass on Sunday, the old, rusting and generally terrible weed eater my husband and I got as a housewarming gift slash “giving this to you is better than throwing it away” yard tool took three tries to not cannibalize its own line. It was 101 degrees, and I was about to throw it at a fence and go buy a new one.
Read MoreThis week the 2019 Ford Ranger Raptor was let off the leash in Australia, where it was developed, and the Aussies all seem to be saying the same thing: riotous off-road, a little weak off the line.
Read MoreThe 2018 Ford F-150 is still available with a good old fashioned V8, but the top engine option is the turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6. Even better than that is the High Output 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6, but you can only get that in the Raptor off-road truck—until 2019, when you’ll be able to get the big booster daddy in the ultra luxurious F-150 Limited.
Read MoreSeeing a late-model Toyota Hilux in the U.S.A. is a rare and special occasion. Seeing one here dressed for war is, uh, actually a little disconcerting. But we’ll take the manufacturer license plate to mean this thing comes in peace. For now.
Read MoreThe 2019 Suzuki Jimny has just been redesigned for the first time since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, but it’s still the same square and plucky international off-roader we know and love. Watch it frolic and fight its way through assorted obstacles here.
Read MoreSummer is in full swing and you know what that means–it’s bad driving on the beach season! The people in this poor Jeep Wrangler were probably having a lot of fun until the ocean tried to eat their vehicle. It damn near got the thing, too.
Read MoreOff-road vehicles and fireworks are two things that bring great fun to our lives. Mixing the two, though, can be a questionable move, as a Jeep Wrangler driver in Maryland celebrating the 4th of July learned the hard way.
Read MoreOne poor Jeep Grand Cherokee is going to get wrecked in this at the hands of the biggest tow strap I’ve ever seen. Dry your misty eyes, for this ZJ did not crash in vain. It died for the laughs.
Read MoreI’m supposed to be taking my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle to the Toledo Jeep Fest in a couple weeks, and while that’s not likely to happen, there is good news: I’ve been saving lots of money on my project by using forums, Craigslist and junkyards.
Read MoreThere are a lot of things that you and I argue about on this website every day, but the universal belief is that everyone needs a good set of tires. They are one of the most important aspects of your car. Especially when it comes to track days.
Read MoreI know what you’re thinking: “Wait, that doesn’t look bad at all!” Trust me, I thought the same thing.
Read MoreDespite the world oohing and ahhing over the Bugatti Veyron, the car was never that compelling to me. Its all-wheel drive system probably had something to do with it and that there were plenty of other fast and expensive things that were much more exciting. But a Veyron with a rear-wheel drive conversion? Now you have my full attention.
Read MoreI just got my beloved full-size Jeep J10 pickup that’s been sitting in my backyard for over a year up and running, as I plan to (probably) sell it to finance work on my lovely 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle. But there’s a problem: I can’t drive the J10 out of my yard, because there’s a bird’s nest on the front driver’s-side tire.
Read MoreI’ve owned countless used cars that have been abused by the Northeast’s terrible winters, that have suffered from bizarre mechanical maladies and have been downright horrible decisions on my part. But none have made it out as well as my recently purchased 184,000-mile Honda S2000.
Read MoreIt’s the same routine every week. While parents are sending kids to school and “fur-parents” are walking their dogs, I am shuffling my car children between parking spots. Sometimes they’re happy, sometimes they act out, but they are definitely alive and have opinions on how they’re treated.
Read MoreUnless you’re wealthy or you plan to be soon, please do yourself a favor: don’t buy a rare project car. It won’t be fun at all, and your wallet will end up a shriveled, dry mess, possibly in a dumpster in a back alley somewhere.
Read MoreWhen I traded my beautifully-driving $1 Oldsmobile Alero to my landlord for his totaled 2003 Kia Rio, I thought I was giving him the deal of the century. But last night, he came knocking on my door to deliver some scary news: his brakes went out.
Read MoreMy grandfather, nicknamed Popeye because of his huge forearms, was a wheeler dealer decades before Mike ran off Edd (allegedly). As a kid, he and I got up at the crack of dawn, and scoured the Southern California drive-in swap meets. The Paramount, the Roadium, were just two drive-in swap meets on our weekend circuit.
Read MoreI’ve made some bad purchase decisions in my life, usually because of sheer enthusiasm to own a vehicle I’ve always lusted after. But sometimes even rational, thought-out purchase decisions like my 1979 Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle end up delivering nasty surprises. Like my front frame horns, which have been hacked off.
Read MoreI couldn’t help but feel bad for this little Ford Ranger. Having been subjected to years of abuse and neglect, it looked absolutely terrible. I knew that under all that dirt and grime was an honest machine that had plenty of life left in it—if only I could work some magic to bring it back from the brink.
Read MoreIn May, I reported a story about a blackjack dealer who died in 1997 from an apparent explosives accident in an Arizona desert. His car, a 1980 Datsun, was left out there for 21 years, until recently, when total strangers from a Facebook group united the car with the man’s son, who got straight to wrenching. What he discovered was a vehicle in remarkable shape.
Read MoreThe world’s wrecking yards are filled with cars that deserve their fate—or at the very least don’t generate much sympathy for having arrived at their final resting place. And then there’s this 1974 BMW 3.0CSi Coupe.
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