A Chinese company has tested a supersonic anti-ship missile dubbed an “aircraft carrier killer.” The HD-1 ramjet-powered missile, intended for export, could help countries fend off American and other aircraft carriers, creating no-go zones off their coastlines.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump announced the other day that the United States will abandon a treaty, originally signed with the Soviet Union, designed to prevent the deployment of the exact sort of missiles that scare the bejeezus out of world leaders.
Read MoreDespite technological advances, the load ordinary soldiers carry in 2018 is probably greater than it’s ever been. The U.S. Army is hoping to help with that somewhat by introducing a new, lighter protective vest designed to stop bullets and shrapnel. The new Modular Scalable Vest weighs 20 percent less than previous vests, a feature badly needed by U.S. troops weighed down by their own equipment.
Read MoreThe U.S. Army is on the lookout for a new vehicle to replace the M2 Bradley, and it doesn’t want a vehicle with firepower the equal of potential adversaries. Instead the service is looking to outdo them, overmatching them with bigger, deadlier, longer range automatic cannon rounds to shred enemy infantry and armored vehicles.
Read MoreU.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has ordered this of the armed services: get your fighter jets ready for action. Mattis has instructed the services he wants four out of five fighter jets ready for combat within one year—which is a far cry from current levels.
Read MoreRussia has had a lot of wonder weapons in the news, from combat walkers to nuclear-powered cruise missiles. Many of these weapons verge on the ridiculous or are the product of propaganda, but some are legitimately concerning. One scenario that keeps Pentagon planners up at night: the threat of sea-launched cruise missiles, ferried halfway across the Atlantic by Russia’s new submarines, threading their way through American airspace to deliver their deadly nuclear warheads on unsuspecting targets
Read MoreA Russian company is jumping on the hypersonic weapons bandwagon, claiming it can design a high powered bullets that travel nearly twice as fast as current sniper rounds. The company, Lobaev Arms, believes it can field the weapon within a year—with a little government funding, of course.
Read MoreTwelve years after its first flight, a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter finally crashed last week. The aircraft, a Marine Corps F-35B variant, went down in South Carolina near a key F-35 base. The incident overshadowed another F-35 milestone that took place the same day, the first takeoffs and landing of the F-35 from the United Kingdom’s newest carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. Here’s all we know so far.
Read MoreLast week, China turned down a request for a U.S. Navy helicopter carrier to visit Hong Kong. And in May, the Chinese Navy was disinvited to this year’s RIMPAC exercises that attracted 25 countries from across the Asia-Pacific region. Both developments are pretty big deals in U.S.-China relations. Here’s why.
Read MoreJust like how Clark Kent and Superman are never in the same place at the same time, the 2019 BMW M850i xDrive shows up on the scene shortly after the 6 Series departs. Coincidence? Is the 8 Series just a replacement for the venerable 6 or, like Superman, something far more special?
Read MoreWhen stats for the 2019 BMW i8 coupe and its roadster counterpart came out last year, I was disappointed that BMW didn’t give this spaceship-like hybrid more power. This was its chance to finally make an all-powerful electrified halo supercar, I figured, and it missed the opportunity.
Read MoreIn perhaps what is the most Australian thing I’ve seen happen in a long while, an Aussie man used a mobility scooter to tow his boat because he’d lost his driver’s license. I’m so impressed by the gumption that I’m not even mad.
Read MoreArchaeologists searching the depths of the Black Sea discovered an intact shipwreck at the bottom that’s been there for at least 2,400 years. They believe it to be the world’s oldest intact wreck, which is incredibly cool.
Read MoreThe new Acura NSX took an incomprehensibly long time to get here, but anyone who has driven it will agree it was worth the wait. Not without a couple faults, but worth the wait. Now with a slew of updates for 2019, the NSX is somehow even better, if you can believe it.
Read MoreWe are approaching that time of year when some car buyers start freaking out about the upcoming cold weather and decide they need a larger, “safer” family car. Usually, this involves some kind of SUV with all-wheel drive. But I’m here to tell you that too many buyers are looking at this “family car” thing all wrong.
Read MoreSedan sales have been taking a plunge all over the car business, yet half of Acura’s six-vehicle lineup are four-door sedans. But Acura needed a better gateway car, something that (might) capture those oh-so-coveted millennials. Enter the updated 2019 Acura ILX, which looks much better now and has the drive to match.
Read MoreShop trucks are part of life for any joint that’s painting, restoring, and upgrading power in various cars and trucks. Errands need to be run, and supplies have to be picked up. Classic Car Studio Speed Shop is known for performing incredible upgrades on cool, vintage rides. They can’t make their runs around town in some ordinary Chevrolet Silverado. A quick set of wheels and a meaner exhaust setup wasn’t going to get it done.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing the best place to list your used car, getting a used Lexus vs a new Toyota, and warranties on salvage cars.
Read MoreAndy is a high school robotics coach, an amateur racer on the weekends and a new dad. His old Tacoma is not quite cutting it for kid and tow duty. He would also prefer something that is not a pickup truck. What car should he buy?
Read MoreEvery once in a while, Porsche makes the right combination of revisions, throws together the perfect selection of parts, and comes up with something brilliant. The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring is exactly that.
Read MoreThere is no missing the 2019 Mini John Cooper Works International Orange Edition as it comes down the street. With its flashy orange paint job and checkered graphics, subtle is definitely not in its vocabulary. This is nothing new; the JCWs have been the loud, extravagant performance Minis for years now, with a racing heritage that spans back decades.
Read MoreUnless you are buying a beater car off Craigslist with cash, your FICO credit score is a key determining factor as to whether you get approved for a car loan and how much interest you will pay. Now a new score, UltraFICO, is coming, and that could help a lot of people get approved at better rates.
Read MoreI knew as soon as I’d planned a vacation to Ireland with my girlfriend that I wanted to drive something weird and unusual—something I could never get back home in America. Everyone around Jalop HQ said the Citroën Cactus fit the bill, that it was a blast to drive. After getting to know the quirky crossover for a week, I can say I agree wholeheartedly, and that it absolutely sucks we can’t get one in the states.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are talking about local dealer service, manufacturer determined discounts and the risks of buying a used BMW.
Read MorePete spends most of the year on a boat, but when he is home he likes to drive fast and throw down some lap times. He is ready to swap his Corvette for something that can handle track days but doesn’t want the usual suspects. What car should he buy?
Read MoreWe have a running theory about Christian von Koenigsegg, the genius founder of Swedish hypercar company Koenigsegg, that basically states he’s actually from the future. He’s stuck in our era, trying to invent a car fast enough to take him back to his home time. After driving the $2.5 million, 1,360 horsepower, 277.9 mph Koenigsegg Agera RS, I don’t doubt this at all, and I think he may be close.
Read MoreI just don’t get it. Somehow we live in a world where non car-enthusiasts keep buying SUVs with no off-road capability, and car enthusiasts keep spending ridiculous sums on Porsche 911s. All this when really, they should all be buying this five-speed 1990 Plymouth Voyager Turbo for much, much less. What am I not getting here?
Read MoreI have a bone to pick with the Lotus Elise. Despite not having been sold in the United States for years now, and despite not having changed much since going on sale in the early 2000s, they have held their value here pretty consistently for the past few years. This is bullshit. Bring on the cheap used Elises, already.
Read MoreThe Volvo S60 has always been kind of an oddball choice for a midsize luxury sedan. It’s nice, it’s comfortable, it does things differently than your average BMW or Audi, but it also doesn’t really stand out in a major way. But the 2019 Volvo S60 is all-new, and now it aims to be more of a true sport sedan than ever.
Read MoreNew car transaction prices are rising, interest rates are up, and practically every analyst that covers the auto industry is worried about buyers being “priced out” of being able to afford that new car. Here’s one easy solution to this problem: people need to stop “overbuying” their cars.
Read MoreMorgan may be best known for making charming little cars that look like airplanes from World War II, but that’s not all it makes. There’s the Aero GT, which is a touch more modern. But after a short drive in this BMW V8-powered roadster, I’m pretty sure it can actually fly.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing proper paint care for a new car, high mileage leases and more.
Read MoreDan will soon take possession of a 300-acre farm in Kentucky, as one does. It’s a great opportunity, but now he needs a vehicle to manage all that land. He is thinking of spending a modest budget on a “farm truck” that will be exclusively driven on the property. What car should he buy?
Read MoreUnless you’re buying some rare vintage sports car as an “investment,” you can expect your new ride to lose value once you drive it off the lot. But some cars retain value much better than others. Our friends at iSeeCars have put together a list of the lowest and highest depreciating cars after five years, you probably won’t be shocked at the results.
Read MoreIt’s the classic muscle car recipe: take a small car and cram in the biggest motor available. Not a new concept, but it’s a good one. So if you have $30,000 to spend, new or used, what is the best small car-big motor combo?
Read MoreWe’ve been talking about Lynk & Co, the new Geely/Volvo venture to sell cars and SUVs and crossovers by not really selling them at all, for a couple of years now. Instead of selling cars, they want to use subscriptions to get you in their stuff instead—a new form of ownership and, if you can stand the buzzword, “mobility.”
Read MoreWhat business does an SUV have with nearly 600 horsepower? It’s not my job to rationalize that, but it is to go and see what it’s like. Enter the 2019 Masterati Levante GTS and Trofeo, both packing a Ferrari V8, like all SUVs ought to have.
Read MoreThat’s right! It turns out there are still “new” V8-powered Holden Commodores —or Chevrolet SSs to you American folk— for sale across Australia, despite the fact local production of the Aussie-built cars wrapped up last year.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. Sometimes folks get into a tough spot or don’t know what to do, so I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out.
Read MoreYou may recall earlier this week when I took a firm stand against ultra-low mileage collector cars on the grounds that it’s torture to have a wonderful car that you can never really let yourself drive. Well, now I’ve found the strange, twisted doppelganger to this concept: an ultra-low mileage car that nobody gives a shit about driving! A car like this 1993 Plymouth Sundance with only 94 miles on the clock. This is a very confusing car.
Read MoreJake just went through a divorce. He has a new job and a fresh start, so he’s looking for a new ride. Then he realized he never owned a car that he really felt a connection with. He is torn between a truck or something more performance-oriented. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI saw an ad for a car for sale this morning, the sort of car that, normally, I’d be very interested in. It was an ad for a 1964 Volkswagen Beetle, and it was in incredible shape. It was also selling for an absolutely bonkers one million dollars, which even for a Beetle fetishist like myself is the same level of insane as toothpaste made from live wasps. Why is this Beetle selling for a million dollars? Because it has only 22 miles on the clock. That’s also why this would be a miserable car to ow
Read MoreIt’s old. It weighs as much as a house. It’s not relevant anymore. It’s expensive, for a Nissan. No manual, no care. It’s a computer car, a video game car that requires no skill to drive. It looks like a brick. It’s got no soul. This is how the R35 Nissan GT-R gets written off, now a decade into its existence.
Read MoreIf you’re someone who ordinarily likes to go rocketing around in your 2016/2017 BMW M3 or M4, then this might pertain to you. NHTSA has just issued a recall on them and this one affects their “propulsion.”
Read MoreWhen you’re a kid, Halloween is about throwing off that winter coat your mother insists you wear over your costume and getting as much candy as possible. Halloween as an adult generally means getting drunk and spending Nov. 1 trying to remember where you left your car. Be especially mindful about that last bit because Halloween is apparently one of car thieves’ favorite holidays.
Read MoreBack in August, the Trump administration officially proposed scaling back Obama-Era emissions standards that would require automakers to achieve an average fuel economy of 46.8 miles per gallon by 2026. Instead, Trump wants automakers to hit just 37 mpg. The problem is, the proposal has so many errors that it’s left economists scratching their heads.
Read MoreIt is hard to find a car that more perfectly encapsulates the wildcat spirit of 1950s and ‘60s sports car racing, or just the whole Speed Racer ethos altogether, quite like the Howmet TX. It’s a conventional racing chassis with a turbine engine meant for a military helicopter and taillights off a Ford family car.
Read MoreNot that I would personally ever do so, but I understand why people reproduce. You, utterly pleased with your genetic makeup, just want another version of you to spend time with. And you buy that little “you” only the best of the best stuff, because they (and by extension, you) are entitled to the best. Like this Mercedes-Benz baby stroller. If you can’t give your child the maximum dynamism possible, why even have kids?
Read MoreGrrrrrrrrrr GRAUNCH GRAUNCH GRAUNCH GRAUNCH. A horrifying grinding noise, to me, is the scariest possible noise coming from your car. Not only because it probably means it’s going to be very expensive (or worse), but because cars tend to have lots of moving parts. It could be anything.
Read MoreFor years now, the new Toyota Supra has been the subject of hints, rumors, clues, winks, confirmations, photos and teasers of every kind indicating that a new Supra is finally happening. And as annoying as it’s been, I have to tip my hat to the company for generating so many stories out of basically nothing. This will all end in January, and the first one will go up for auction.
Read MoreSure, the new 2019 BMW 8 Series doesn’t have a manual anymore, or a V12, or pop-up headlights. But it does do zero to 60 mph in just 3.6 seconds, and was a mere two seconds off our man Robb Holland’s Estoril lap time in an M5. This is all to say it seems pretty fast and awesome, and soon you’ll be able to experience all that with the wind in your hair.
Read MoreIt’s Halloween, so here’s the scariest car-thing I could think of. Gaze in horror at what a Ford Mustang looked like in 1975!
Read MoreSo Jalopnik HQ had a momentary debate today on the merits of cooking, which eventually turned to the subject of what vegetable is best, which got us thinking about cauliflower—and, you know what, I realized we’ve never discussed Salvador Dalí stuffing a Rolls-Royce full of cauliflower and calling it art.
Read MoreThe co-founder of the struggling Faraday Future, Nick Sampson, has resigned from his role, claiming the company is “effectively insolvent” and unable to pay its debts as even more employees are reportedly furloughed and operations scaled back.
Read MoreFord is celebrating its announcement of continuing production of its supercar by another 350 units with this, the 2019 Ford GT Carbon Series, which drops some weight, adds some carbony visual flair, but doesn’t go quite as hardcore as the spartan GT Competition model.
Read MoreI’m fairly sure all of you have a person in mind for this: That one friend that you’re absolutely terrified to drive with. When you ride with them, it feels like you’re taking your life in your hands. Tell me about That One Friend.
Read MoreNEW YORK—Six days. Nearly 3,000 miles. Thirteen states. Almost 50 hours of driving. And through it all, zero mechanical issues. Though I almost can’t believe it myself, I am thrilled to report that our 1970 BMW 2500 successfully crossed the finish line last night, completing its white-knuckle dash from Seattle to New York City.
Read MoreWhile the prospect of warping a Ferrari 430 Scuderia under a body designed to look like a modernized Lancia Stratos and charging over $600,000 for it sounds ridiculous, it all begins to make sense seeing and hearing it testing on the dyno.
Read MoreYou remember Mahk, the “real person” with a Boston accent that says what we’re all thinking in those stupid Chevy ads? Well he’s back to take on the latest one about Chevy’s trucks, and now he apparently has a visual effects budget.
Read MoreFeel that excitement in the air, that electricity all around you, that moistening of the pants? That can only mean one thing: it’s almost Halloween, and that means it’s time for Halloween Car-Stumes, everyone’s absolute favorite Halloween tradition! This year we heard from many of you about how you’re dressing up your cars: here’s the hottest car-stumes this year!
Read MoreOlder cars from the early 20th century typically didn’t ride very smooth. Not only were the bodies basically just a bunch of wood or metal pieces harshly joined together and the suspension setups rudimentary, but the rigid structure of the tires also made the bumps and vibrations even worse. Now Pirelli is looking to bring back some of that “charm” for vintage car owners.
Read MoreI am very ashamed to admit to you that I grew up in Arizona and Texas wearing cowboy hats and boots and never in my life had I ever heard of what the kids are calling “horse drifting,” which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
Read More“Aha, I know the first car in the world,” you think, but you are wrong. You are thinking of the 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, and while that was the first car to feature an internal combustion engine, it was not the first car ever made. The first car ever built was this hulking, steaming, smoking monster, and it’s from 1769.
Read MoreFord Mustangs drift. This much we know. But that doesn’t mean that you, an individual with no prior experience, should try drifting your Mustang randomly in public. So when I tell you about the new Series 1 Mustang RTR option, I’m also telling you that you shouldn’t think you automatically become a drift king if you buy it.
Read MoreSometimes you’re young and stupid, and sometimes you’re, uh, not. Sometimes you get into that head space that says doing that One Thing to your car will make it cooler. You’re not always right.
Read MoreDETROIT, MI.—The moment I heard the plan, I knew what I figured would be the hardest part. Driving this 1970 BMW 2500 from Seattle to NYC meant crossing the Cascades and the Rockies. But that ended up being easy. What was hard was, of all things, getting from Minneapolis to Detroit.
Read MoreLODI, WI.—Hello. This update on the Bavaria vs. America road trip will be brief because we’re trying to haul ass to Detroit by the end of the day and we still have a long way to go.
Read MoreBetter known for up-fixing old off-roader Land Cruisers and Broncos, or for giving some extra muscle to some vintage soft cruisers, Icon has taken on a project that could be called a departure for the company. An existing customer of the company had this Fiat 600 kicking around, but was tired of it always breaking down and wanted to give it a little more usefulness as an around-town machine. Instead of the diminutive and noisy Italian engine, it’s not got about 100 horsepower worth of EV motor s
Read MoreLast spring, Porsche started teasing the world with short video clips of the build process of this “brand new 993" which incorporated some pretty unique processes. The German luxury sports brand debuted the finished product at Pebble Beach in August, and I saw it at Laguna Seca during Rennsport Reunion VI. Now the not-road-legal classic 911 built with new genuine parts has crossed the auction block for an incredible $3.1 million sum.
Read MoreThe late 60s and early 70s were, arguably, the greatest era for absurd automotive ingenuity. Everyone and their mother had enough wacky ideas to sustain a car company, but nobody was quite as legendary as George Barris. And no vehicle he produced will ever, in my mind, top the 1966 Supervan.
Read MoreIt’s one of the most frustrating and terrifying moments of owning a car. One minute, you’re driving along, minding your own business. The next, you’re in the middle of the road, pulled off to the curb, whatever—and your car is totaled.
Read MoreWelcome to Halloween weekend, folks—aka, the greatest time of year. In my many years of binge watching horror movies both quality and terrible, I’ve come to realize that there’s a pretty great connection between spooky shows and great cars. So, to celebrate this most blessed of holidays, here’s a quick little list of some of horror movie’s greatest rides (in my humble opinion, of course).
Read MoreBISMARCK, ND.—I’d love to tell you that our voyage across the country in a 1970 BMW 2500 has been fraught with danger, stress, ingenious repairs by the side of the road and last-minute wrenching heroics just as we run out of daylight. But the truth is—and I’m trying desperately not to jinx us here—everything’s been going well so far. In fact, it’s left me nervous, wondering what will go wrong.
Read MoreWho doesn’t love a good spooky story? It’s the perfect time of year to blur the line between the real and the supernatural—and here at Jalopnik, that means we’re doing it on four wheels. We’d like to introduce you to the 1964 Dodge 330 Limited Edition, nicknamed the “Golden Eagle”, a car with a reputation that could put Christine to shame.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to combine the practicality and transportation potential of a car with the vomit-inducing experience of a cheap fairground ride, this Ford Ka wedged to spin freely between two giant wheels is perfect for the masochist commuter.
Read MoreThe Montana license plate scam is a way for owners of high-end luxury to avoid paying sales tax by simply opening an LLC in Montana—which doesn’t charge car sales tax—and registering cars there. But the state of Georgia feels that this is cheating, so they’re cracking down. Here’s VinWiki’s discussion with an officer of the state’s department of revenue, who breaks down how Georgia is turning up the heat on the rich Instagram bros.
Read MoreMaybe the weather has a lot to do with it, but California is one of the hottest beds of car culture in the world. Especially Southern California. As someone born, raised and currently living on the East Coast, I’m always jealous of what West Coast car enthusiasts have access to. Thankfully, the second episode of the new season of /DRIVE on NBC Sports is all about Los Angeles, so you can at least get a small taste of it.
Read MoreBritish media company Unilad Tech posted a video onto its Facebook page showing an apparently German man describing—in a thick accent, of course—just how maddening it is to drive on American roads. It’s hilarious.
Read MoreThis is a sad story. It’s about a man who died, but also a sweet story about a devoted brother. I just got an email from a man named Paul, whose brother just passed away after years of struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s. His brother was a true gearhead, and he’s hoping there’s some Jalops in the area with classic cars who may be willing to take part in the funeral.
Read MoreEarlier this week, we learned that someone bought the design drawings and tooling for the Aston Martin Vanquish for $26 million, presumably with an idea to keep building cars based on it. That’s left me wondering what other cars I’d pay millions to start building again.
Read MorePeople pay absurd prices for Porsche restomods, but too often, those pricey, perfect cars languish away in sad collections, only coming out to park at Cars and Coffee. You don’t want that. You want a Porsche “reimagined” by a self-proclaimed redneck instead, complete with a mid-engine LS3 swap from a Cadillac Escalade. Burnouts all day!
Read MoreIf you, an enterprising American billionaire (or millionaire, I don’t discriminate), were looking forward to parading your brand-new, 2019 McLaren Speedtail up and down Main Street, then I have some bad news for you: The car isn’t street legal in the U.S. Foop.
Read MoreI’m a huge proponent of vans overall. I think the simple, basic one-box van design is one of the most effective motor vehicle designs of all time. I think vans can be cool and stylish and fun. But even I have to admit that white vans have something of an image problem, and that’s certainly not helped by things like this: a suspect in the recent series of attempted mail-bombings of Trump critics has been found, and he drives a white van covered in crazy shit, just like you’d expect.
Read MoreThis is a Daihatsu Hijet. You find these trucks and vans working all over the world, but ones like this from the ‘90s are just starting to come to the U.S. This one came over as a “low speed vehicle” limited to just about 25 miles an hour. But more importantly, this one is an actual fire truck.
Read MoreThe 2019 McLaren Speedtail officially dropped this morning after many, many months of hinting and shadowy teaser photos. It is devastatingly beautiful, elegant and striking all at once. And it has reduced your jaded, cynical writer back into a simple, gibbering child.
Read MoreBILLINGS, MT.—The bar we are in informs us, via loudspeaker, that “Power Hour” is soon to occur. Some inadvisable amount of booze will now be available for an even more inadvisable amount of money. It is a good time for us to settle up and walk back to our hotel. After all, we’ve crossed two mountain passes in a 1970 BMW 2500—10 hours in a nearly 50-year-old car—and we’re wiped.
Read MoreWe first saw the 2019 McLaren Speedtail last night, but that was just a limited set of pictures in a leak. Now the official pics and specs are out, and my word is it a monster. Everything on it is designed for pure, raw speed. Not only does it have 1,035 horsepower, but it’s got flexible carbon fiber that bends. Yes, bends.
Read MoreIf you want to be a car designer, you’d best be ready for a long and tough road ahead of you, because it isn’t easy. But a great place to start is by getting your ass into the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. It’s got a stellar transportation design program. I went for a visit recently to check it out.
Read MoreThe world is going ape-shit over crossovers, and Volkswagen wants in on the fun. So behold the 2019 VW T-Cross, an SUV that’s even compact-er than the compact Tiguan and the subcompact T-Roc. And while it may look cute in the picture above, I say: Don’t be lured in by its adorable dimensions, for it is likely to be just another boring crossover.
Read MoreThe driver sits in the center. Three screens await them in the cockpit. The start procedure involves roof-mounted buttons. Out the front view, everything’s about to go to warp. The 2019 McLaren Speedtail is a McLaren F1 from the future where everything flies in space.
Read MoreYes, I did an emoji in the headline because a brown Cadillac warrants that. As a loving send-off to the third generation of its V-Series performance models, Cadillac will build 300 special Pedestal Edition models of the 2019 ATS-V and CTS-V. The paint isn’t called brown, it’s called “Bronze Sand Metallic” but it sure looks brown to me.
Read MoreThe Honda Civic Si is back for 2019, with a $200 price hike and a major upgrade. No, that upgrade isn’t more power, and no, it isn’t all-wheel drive inspired by the top-of-the-line Ford Focus RS. The 2019 Si comes in snot gre—“Tonic Yellow Pearl,” because some automakers do care about keeping color alive.
Read MoreThe regulatory agency for ads in the UK announced Wednesday that it’s banning a new Ford Mustang ad for encouraging “unsafe driving,” but it wasn’t a Cars and Coffee video compilation. No, it was an ad to the tune of the famous poem “Do not go gentle into that good night,” which talks about rage a lot.
Read MoreSPOKANE, Wash.—Driving across the country in a nearly 50-year-old car that you don’t own, that you’ve never driven before, and that you’ve never worked on yourself isn’t exactly anyone’s most ideal plan. But it’s what we set off to do to try and haul this 1970 BMW 2500 from Seattle to New York, and I’m happy to say Day One ended on a good note.
Read MoreAston Martin went public earlier this month, and part of an initial public offering process is tons and tons of paperwork including financial disclosures. Usually it’s a very dull process, but for Aston, it was interesting, as some documents mentioned sale of the tooling for the recently-replaced Aston Martin Vanquish, which probably means somebody is up to something.
Read MoreI hope you’re ready to waste some time doing something really, really stupid, because that’s what’s about to happen. See, there’s a way you can get Google Translate’s speech synthesis system to do impressions of what sounds almost exactly like an old car trying desperately to start. And, by selecting different languages, you can make it sound like different old, shitty cars. It’s so stupid and fun and you know you’re going to try it.
Read MoreMazda’s mid-sized 5-passenger CUV has desperately needed a more powerful engine since the first generation was introduced back in 2012. According to the 2019 Mazda CX-5 U.S. order guide, leaked to the world on Reddit, it’s finally getting the more powerful engine it deserves. By tossing 250 horsepower worth of CX-9 2.5-liter turbo motor into the CX-5, it might finally have the guts to match its sporty visuals.
Read MoreIt’s always interesting to find that your obsessions had fellow obsessives long before you were born. That’s why I was so excited to see this old 1960 Popular Mechanics article about taillights, which is a deep dive into how taillights could be better, in an era when it seemed like the only goal was to see how much taillights could be made to look like jet exhausts. Plus, I think this is the first time that, at least publicly, the case was made for not just amber rear indicators in America, but
Read MoreAnother year, another predicted new-car reliability ranking from non-profit consumer products researchers at Consumer Reports. And this year, the domestic automakers aren’t looking so good, taking up 11 of the bottom 12 spots. Here’s a look at reliability rankings for all the brands.
Read MoreWe know the upcoming Porsche Taycan electric sedan is seeking to beat the Tesla Model S at its own game, and it’s now been spotted benchmark testing against a Model S P85D in the mountains of Italy on the iconic Stelvio Pass.
Read MoreIn America, the past few model years felt like the beginning of something truly wonderful for hot hatches. The Honda Civic Type R and Ford Focus RS were sold new here for the first time ever, and everything felt right. Then, with no loyalty at all, everyone tossed their hands up and yelled, “Screw small cars!”
Read MoreI’ve expressed my distaste for over-badging on cars before. Ideally, a car has two badges: One on its nose and one on its ass, with maybe its model name written somewhere once. So I’m speaking directly to Haval when I say that just because the real estate is available, it doesn’t mean it should slap a badge on it.
Read MoreIf you are a fan of wagons, your choices are slim in America. If you want a wagon with 3 pedals, you basically have one option in the way of the Sportwagen/Alltrack from VW. But for 2019 VW will allow you to get a fully loaded Alltrack SEL with manual goodness if you desire.
Read MoreLife has been so boring lately. All anyone wants to whine about is the widening gap between the rich and the poor. Which, the bigger the gap the better because it’s good to be as far away from them as possible. Look me in my black eyes and tell me I’m wrong. Luckily, Rolls-Royce crafted me a birthday present to pick my spirits up.
Read MoreAudi’s high-performance supercar is entering 2019 with a new look, an updated suspension package, and a bit more power. Audi says the sportier look is derived from their R8 GT3 and GT4 classed race cars. The new updates will be available in Europe as a coupe or a Spyder in early 2019, available to order now. Two different power ratings will be available from different tunes of the same V10 engine, mirroring the current R8 and R8 V10+ model designations.
Read MoreTomorrow, Raphael Orlove and I will attempt to do the... well, not impossible, but tricky and slow and cold: we’re gonna see if we can drive from Seattle to New York City in this lovely 1970 BMW 2500. Got any old car road trip tips? We’d love to hear them.
Read MoreIf we’re lucky, cars are largely with us through life’s ups and downs. We learn and grow as we age and our cars are there for us. Unfortunately, sometimes that means we learn through doing dumb stuff to them.
Read More[Every so often, Kavi Reddy, Gizmodo Media Group’s ever-so-cromulent attorney, has Good Car Takes. This is one of them.]
Read MoreDe Tomaso has had its fair share of troubles. After going through liquidation, re-branding, false starts and an arrest, it appears that the name has been resurrected at the UK Intellectual Property Office. What that means exactly isn’t immediately clear, though.
Read MoreIf there was some global contest where an eccentric trillionaire would give you any car you asked for, as long as no one else asked for that car, a pretty safe bet would be to ask for an Eagle Summit sedan, because absolutely nobody will remember or care enough about that car to speak its name. So, you’d probably win the car, but the car you’d win would be an Eagle Summit sedan, so is that really winning? I’m going to argue that no, it isn’t.
Read MoreWe live in a world full of folks with unbounded creativity. Some people do things like make an incredibly ridiculous limo out of a mid-80s Honda Accord. Some incredible humans, on the other hand, seek out and destroy every possible moment that could use a pun with the kind of efficiency usually reserved for when I decide to get all my groceries thirty minutes before closing time.
Read MoreI’ll always say yes to more car television shows. Cars are relatable for everyone in some form or another and the first episode of Proving Grounds, which is NBC Sports’ new car show, gives us plenty of automotive eye-candy to drool over and offers engaging hosts, all wrapped up in a terrific ‘80s aesthetic. But it doesn’t exactly offer anything groundbreaking.
Read MoreCiting a dispute with its primary investor, Faraday Future announced today employee salaries and hourly wages will be cut by 20 percent, CEO Jia Yueting’s salary has been reduced to $1 a year, and the company is facing an unclear amount of layoffs as it tries to stay afloat long enough to secure new financing and begin vehicle production by the end of the year.
Read MoreThere are a glut of well-rounded, ultra-fast cars on the market today, from the Porsche 911 GTS to, uh, all of the other Porsche 911s. Well, what I mean to say is that it’s easy to forget that it’s hard to get a fast car to have good performance and be nice to live with at the same time. At least it is, apparently, until you drive a new Aston Martin Vantage.
Read MoreWe are very much used to 0-60 mph (100 km/h) as a metric for gauging how quick a car is, just like we have top speed for its sense of outright power bragging rights. But I just bumped into a different metric: 20-40 mph in fourth gear, a test of a car’s sort of general performance is everyday driving.
Read MoreI don’t know how it happened, but I woke up this morning in the mood to be grossed out. And I’m taking you all with me. Turn back now or sit tight here, because we’re about to go through some really disgusting car messes.
Read MoreAs a painful-to-be-around hardcore old air-cooled Volkswagen geek, I sometimes forget that the arcane details and quirks of these old cars are not necessarily common knowledge to everyone. That’s why I was actually surprised to find that some of my colleagues—equally hardcore gearheads though they are—didn’t know the goofy yet wonderful method old Volkswagens used to wash their windshields. On the off chance that you don’t know either, I’d be delighted to tell you all about it. So prepare yourse
Read MoreThe U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ordered a transit operator in Florida to immediately stop shuttling kids to school in what the agency described as a “driverless” shuttle, and said the company’s use of the vehicle as a school bus is “unlawful.”
Read MoreWhen Cadillac isn’t busy trying to sort out its strategy for the future again amid a move back to Michigan from New York, it’s posting a whole bunch of potential hints at what’s cooking behind closed doors in photos on the Cadillac XT4 website, including an XT4 V-Sport and a mystery coupe.
Read MoreAna Delfosse’s rebellious spirit was visible from the time she was a child. With a father who was always joking about how men can do anything, young Ana would reply that she was “going to show that a woman can do it, too”.
Read MoreBuying a car is usually a pretty big deal. Even if it’s just going to be one to add to your collection of beaters that make your backyard look like a graveyard of better days, there are so many factors that go into the buying experience—and sometimes, it can just get straight up weird.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever flown before, you know the feeling: as you hunt down your seat, you’re hoping and praying that the person next to you won’t be some weirdo who doesn’t understand the concept of personal space. Normally, we’re pretty lucky. But on Tuesday, a Southwest flight had to make an emergency landing because of one man’s insistence that he play footsie with his seatmate.
Read MoreIt’s a cold day in Mother Russia, but of course it’s always cold. 2016 is nearly over, Christmas is days away, and you’ve been stopped by police. You’re there to meet your girlfriend, but if you’re stopped, she’ll think worse of you. She’d bet you a Snickers bar that you would be to her terminal on time. You think that if you drive through the glass doors into the Kazan airport, you can probably get away. Drop it in gear and hammer down, Comrade.
Read MoreTesla surprisingly announced on Thursday that a new mid-range option of Model 3 is now available, starting at $45,000. At the same time, the company quietly removed the capability to add the Full Self-Driving Capability package for $3,000 from Tesla’s online configurator. It’s a feature that should’ve never been offered in the first place.
Read MoreRight by my house is a small bar called The Amber Flash, one of the oldest and most run-down turn-signal fetishist bars. I went by there the other night for a nice crisp Blinker Fluid to, you know, take the edge off, when I noticed two sullen guys slumped over at the bar, holding damp paper towels to their faces.
Read MoreQuestion: What are you doing this Sunday night? And on the next consecutive four Sunday nights after that? Answer: Nothing! You’re keeping your schedule wide open and clear because NBC Sports’ /DRIVE is back for its fifth season. And yours truly will be making an appearance.
Read MoreWell, would you look at that. We’ve all miraculously survived an entire year since the last U.S. Grand Prix, and to celebrate, Texas is giving us cold and rainy weather for the week of. How kind. Anyway, time flies, which is why you should make the most of it by joining Jalopnik for our annual Formula One party in Austin.
Read MoreWhy bore yourself to death on a golf course lawn with millionaires scowling at each other from behind their Bugattis and Delahayes when you can hang out with your people, the ones who drive a nearly showroom-grade restored Subaru Justy? That is the magic of Radwood.
Read MoreWe know a hybrid Ford Mustang is coming, and we know a “Mustang-based” electric crossover is coming that’s maybe called the Mach 1, and it’s very possible the face of one of those cars was just revealed in Ford’s new ad campaign.
Read MoreNathan Churchel has always looked for ways to make his 1984 Nissan 300ZX Turbo stand out, as merely being the second person he knew of to swap in the massive VH45DE V8 from an Infiniti Q45 wasn’t enough. He gave the car a truly apocalypse-ready metal widebody, and was one of the showstoppers at Radwood Philly.
Read MoreIn case you haven’t heard, the Mega Millions Lottery is up to a staggering 970 million dollars. That is a mind-blowing, almost unfathomable amount of money, and I’m going to buy a ticket even though my chances—like yours—are absurdly slim. But what if you did win? How would you spend your winnings on car stuff? You are going to need to be creative.
Read MoreHot off the news that the Porsche Taycan sedan will be priced the below the Panamera to challenge the Tesla Model S directly in the European market, Porsche announced that its board has greenlit production of a crossover version based on the Mission E Cross Turismo concept. Bring on the electric lifted wagons!
Read MoreWith the demand for electric vehicles rising and EV production picking up the pace to match it, prices are slowly declining. With the arrival of the affordable $35,000 base model being pushed back until 2019, Tesla has announced a new mid-range Model 3 for just $10,000 more.
Read MoreThe second generation Audi R8 is entering the special edition phase of its life with the 2018 Audi R8 V10 Plus Competition Package. It’s a lighter V10 Plus with an aero kit and tweaked suspension, it’s going to cost more, and only 10 will make it to the U.S.
Read MoreTo all the Americans who were excited—nay, thrilled—for the 2019 Ford Ranger Raptor, I have some truly bad news: The truck is probably not going to come here. Sorry.
Read MoreWe’ve had to make do with the Ford Mustang GT350 for years now. Don’t get us wrong, it’s an incredibly good car. But with Hellcats and Demons and all sorts of Camaros putting out easily north of 600 horsepower, we knew Ford had to be cooking up more. This is the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 with more than 700 horsepower.
Read MoreThe Ford GT made headlines two years ago, not only because of its surprise unveiling, but also because you had to go through Ford’s selective application process to even be allowed to buy one. I guess if you missed out on the first 1,000 GTs, then you’ll get another chance at the new ones Ford is planning to build.
Read MoreThere’s a lot at steak as a human. If you break something, those involved will try to milk you dry financially—even when you really needed to punch that wall or kick that breakable item. But when you’re a cow? When you’re a cow, you can just moove it and groove it to your local car dealership and wreak havoc.
Read MoreWhen the new Nissan Leaf was introduced with only a 40 kWh battery pack touting a range of 151 miles and a price just under $30,000, people questioned how it would compete with new EVs like the Chevy Bolt and Tesla Model 3. But Nissan also promised a long-range model, and a new report suggests it will start at a competitive $36,000.
Read MoreCare by Volvo, Volvo’s subscription program that was off to a rocky start here in the U.S., has expanded to Canada as of this week. The setup there is slightly different than what we have here, but it includes winter tires. Sounds pretty ace to me.
Read MoreThe upcoming all-electric Porsche Taycan is clearly meant to be a challenger to the Tesla Model S, but any assumptions that it would sit as a flagship model over the entire Porsche range are wrong. Porsche wants to price it below the Panamera, where it can better give Tesla a real run for its money.
Read MoreBears getting into cars continues to be one of the strangest phenomena to frequently come up in my timeline, and this recent video of a bear casually opening not one, not two, but three car doors just like a damn human has me really on edge.
Read MoreIt took Amanda Ogle, a homeless woman living out of her 1991 Toyota Camry, over a year to get her car back from Lincoln Towing of Seattle, which towed it from the parking lot it was left in after being stolen from her. Two court orders and a $21,634 bill later, she’s still fighting the company over damages.
Read MoreI’d like to tell you about a vicious cycle regarding the awesome Audi RS wagons that dominates my brain every time I think about them. I’m telling you because I believe that nobody should suffer alone, so I’m taking you on this journey with me.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Type 2, better known as the Microbus, VW Van, Hippie Bus, Kombi, or whatever else, may be one of my favorite vehicles of all time. Even though it has a sort of whimsical reputation today, the truth is that it’s one of the most straightforward and rational vehicles ever developed.
Read MoreWas the 840-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon not powerful enough for you, or is that just what you’re telling everyone because you’re ashamed of not ordering one in time? Swing by your local Chevrolet dealership soon, then, because the 1,000 horsepower 2019 Yenko Camaro is your chance for redemption.
Read MoreSadly, there most likely won’t be an all-new car to replace the aging Nissan 370Z for the 50th anniversary of Z next year. But the automaker wants to be clear that it hasn’t forgotten about that and the next-gen Nissan GT-R, both of which it plans on bringing back “one way or another.”
Read MoreSometimes it can feel like enthusiasts’ cars don’t get the love they deserve. Manual transmissions have been abandoned by the masses and tons of folks keep buying soft SUVs that lack off-road capability and ride like cars. That’s why it’s so refreshing to hear that, according to an Autocar interview with Suzuki’s UK boss, the new body-on-frame, solid axle-having, boxy Jimny is coming out of the gate hot.
Read MoreLet us pause for a moment to appreciate the subtle, classy beauty of the Lexus SC, pictured here in its original Toyota Soarer form. It’s like a Supra, if you made it put on a nice suit and get a job in finance.
Read MoreRace cars designed to do one very specific thing very well are usually fun, in some way. Dragsters, F1 cars, track beasts like the Ariel Atom, cars made to race for pinks at streetlights like the Hellcat, they all have that certain assured quality of something that knows what it was made to do. That may be why this crazy-ass thing, named Otto Kross I, caught my eye. It’s the only car I can think of specifically made to win at autocrossing.
Read MoreClearly, BMW thought that our current crop of crossovers and SUVs were not large enough, so it made the 2019 X7 goddamn massive. This is it. Meet it. See it. Internalize it.
Read MoreTo the surprise of no one, Detroit City Council on Tuesday signed off on a $104 million tax break for Ford to rebuild the Michigan Central Station near downtown Detroit. The project is slated to become the hub of Ford’s autonomous and electric vehicle efforts, and it’ll come to fruition with the very generous help of Detroit taxpayers.
Read MoreThe state of car colors in America is bleak. Despite some automakers offering a decent color or two, U.S. streets are overrun by black, white, gray and silver cars. But the 2019 Chevrolet Camaro is here to highlight those black and white streets like required reading for school, with Blinding Yellow as a factory color.
Read MoreThis past Sunday, cars, bikes and trucks of varying degrees of radness descended upon the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the inaugural Radwood Philadelphia event. It kicked ass.
Read MoreThis week’s New Yorker features a scathing article on Google’s self-driving car program, detailing the stories of nightmarish mismanagement and at least one crash involving self-driving cars that went mostly unreported. We want to shine more light on what happens behind closed doors in our race to get self-driving cars on the road, and the best people to share what’s really going on are the everyday engineers, programmers, mechanics and drivers involved in these programs.
Read MoreDriving, I think we can all agree, has gotten too damn easy. Safer, yes. Faster, most definitely. More comfortable, certainly. And these days many modern luxury cars—and even affordable ones—will go out of their way to help you do it. But unlike your average disgraced Silicon Valley tech executive, we believe history matters, and that it’s important to experience the way things were to learn where you’re really going.
Read MoreThis 270,000-mile 2004 Mazda MPV has led a tough life towing a camper, hauling around a family, and braving salty Illinois and Michigan winters. And yet, after having had a chance to drive this tired silver minivan, I found that it wasn’t tired at all. In fact, the thing drives like it’s brand new.
Read MoreI don’t allow messes in my car. There’s no eating when you’re inside. There is a wad of microfiber towels at the ready in the trunk and in the seat pockets to wipe up the crap. But clearly, not everyone abides by this lifestyle. What’s the most disgusting mess you’ve seen in a car?
Read MoreWe know. You have Camaro dreams but face a reality of parenthood, where cars with two doors and sporty rooflines can be a detriment to loading up the kids. Chevy came to the rescue by blowing the Camaro’s exterior up like a balloon and into the 2019 Blazer, but it’ll cost you: This thing apparently tops out at $49,000.
Read MoreIf you ask me, dashboard technology peaked in the late 1980s with the Subaru XT, and we’ve never really surpassed that.
Read MoreBeing a writer in this glorious modern age is fascinating. On one hand, it means every little mistake you make is immediately found and people all over the world get to call you a moron in real time. On the other, it means that your readers can get directly involved, which I love. That’s why today’s Meh Car comes from a reader named Preston who suggests not just any Meh Car, but his own Meh Car: a Lincoln MKT. Yeah, I forgot that was a thing, too.
Read MoreAnthony Levandowski, the controversial former Google engineer at the center of the major lawsuit between Uber and Waymo over trade secrets last year, is the subject of a new extensive, scathing, head-spinning story featured in this month’s New Yorker. One of the many incredible details is an alleged crash where Levandowski took a self-driving car where it wasn’t meant to go, resulting in a Google exec getting severely injured.
Read MoreIt’s always a good day when Porsche decides to GTS-ify one of its models. Today, Porsche has announced that the Panamera is next on the list with the introduction of the Porsche Panamera GTS and GTS Sport Turbo.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz AMG performance division said two years ago that it would make a $3 million Formula One car for the road, built with the engine used in a series often called the pinnacle of motorsport. But it’s not so easy to tone down an F1 engine to the point that it can share stop lights with the Ford Fusions of the world, which is why the car’s on a nine-month delay.
Read MoreAir-cooled Porsche 911s: I’m so over them. Sure, they look nice and sound even nicer, but their revoltingly high resale prices and ensuing hoard of bothersome purist fanboys have all but soured the cars for me. At least this one guy found a use for his air-cooled 911 that didn’t involve driving it and then talking over other people about driving it.
Read MoreWe’re well into the new era of electric cars. Hot on the heels of Tesla, nearly every major automaker has implemented or will implement an electrified vehicle of their own. And Porsche’s offering, the upcoming Taycan, will be the one to beat.
Read MoreThis Sunday at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Radwood once again proved that it’s grown beyond just a dope car show for fans of teal and splash graphics. It’s now a movement, a true staple in car culture. And you made it happen.
Read MoreIt’s a hard day for all of us when it’s time to give up on a car, especially if it has high personal value. If you’re on the fence about this very decision yourself, you might find some answers here.
Read MoreThe Bloodhound SSC hoped to be the world land speed record holders by now, saying in 2015 that they hoped to make an attempt the following year. But that didn’t happen, though the Bloodhound did make a couple low-speed runs at an airport last year. Now, the BBC reports, the company says they need £25 million more to finish the job.
Read MoreI think I have a candidate for the coolest street-parked car in Manhattan, and it’s not this AMC Gremlin still living on the Upper East Side. But I do think this Gremmie may be the city’s strongest, grimiest survivor.
Read MoreHey pals! You know what we haven’t done in a while? Not that, I made some promises to people about that. I’m talking about having a good, honest, tricky-but-fair taillight identification quiz! This is how you spend a Sunday afternoon, people. Not glumly riding out the clock on the weekend, watching depressing Dr.Who reruns—you flex your taillight identification brain-glands and feel like a goddamn champion.
Read MoreWith more and more attention being paid to the terrifying issue of climate change, we’ve seen more and more automakers experimenting with their own version of the electric vehicle as an attempt to stay in tune with the needs of our planet. Now, Jaguar is considering being one of the first brands intending to entirely swap out their internal combustion engined cars for EVs.
Read MoreI have been spending far too much time on Bring A Trailer and Craigslist lately. It’s time. It’s time I start carefully curating a garage of very terrible vehicles that only a mother (or me) could love. But, uh, folks—there’s some real weird buying caveats out there.
Read MoreWhen Ewy Rosqvist bought her first Mercedes-Benz, she didn’t have racing in mind. The only girl born to a Swedish farming family, she was encouraged to attend an agricultural college to study veterinary medicine, a career that required her to drive up to 200 kilometers every day on narrow dirt roads. She needed something nimble and quick to get her from Point A to Point B.
Read MoreBack when it first arrived at the Geneva Motor Show in 2016, the Morgan EV3 electric three-wheeler looked good with its streamlined carbon fiber body, shiny brass battery cooling fins, and offset headlight. But after the production date of late 2016 became late 2018, now we have news via Autocar that the EV3 is being shelved. Sad.
Read MoreIf you’re like most Tesla fans, you’re likely always a little disappointed that you can’t somehow liquify a portion of Tesla and drink it down, so it may become one with you, inside forever. Happily, that problem seems to be solved, unlike Model 3 production issues or deliveries, thanks to what looks to be Tesla getting into the tequila business. Oh, good.
Read MoreA Virginia teenager driving his mother’s Kia Soul in July saw smoke and pulled over. He said the “whole car went up in flames” in about five minutes, burning to a shell of its former self. Hundreds of others reported similar, prompting an advocacy group to demand Hyundai and Kia recall 2.9 million vehicles.
Read MoreThe readers have spoken. Team Jalopnik has our cars and our outfits ready to go. The Blaupunkts have Stop Making Sense on cassette ready to go. All we need is you at Radwood Philadelphia on Sunday!
Read MoreFor years, I have been meh about the LS swap. General Motors’ ubiquitous V8 engine fits almost anywhere! It makes a lot of power! I know, I know. But it’s so common. It is the “live, laugh, love” of engine swaps, my dudes. It is as basic as pumpkin spice. I got bored of hearing about them.
Read MoreToyota is recalling roughly seven hundred 2019 Toyota C-HR crossovers because some bolts in the rear suspension could come loose and “cause the rear wheels to detach.” Here’s what’s going on.
Read MoreIt’s 11 a.m. deep in the Mojave Desert, the sun already laser-boring into everything it touches, and Bob is driving the stagecoach a hair too fast, speeding down Fury Road while tidily dispatching his not-first Bud Light of the morning. The whiskey still fixed to the stagecoach’s roof rattles as the scenery whips by: People draped in chains and spikes and gas masks and armor. Cars bristling with mounted machine guns and animal-skull hood ornaments. The Last Chance Casino, the chaotic streets of
Read MoreIf you’ve long been a fan of the wider rear ends of the all-wheel drive and GTS Porsche 911s, you’re in luck when the all-new 992 generation drops next year. According to a report from Car and Driver, Porsche’s going to keep things simple on the next 911 by making them all widebody.
Read MoreMark this day down in the history of all great things automotive, folks, because I’m here to deliver some great, wonderful, incredible news. Idris Elba, one of greatest (and dare I add debonair) actors of our time, is joining the Fast & Furious franchise for their spin-off Hobbs and Shaw. Oh, hell yeah.
Read MoreHave a gander at this truck towing a truck towing a truck towing a dump-truck hauling a Toyota Rav4. Many of us have probably seen tractor-units towing other tractor-units, but it’s the RAV4 in the dump-bed that puts this setup squarely in the “bizarre” category.
Read MoreEvery so often we get this gnawing feeling in the back of our heads: “What if only the most UN-cool, the most NON-rad cars show up to Radwood Philadelphia? Just Chevy Luminas, as far as the eye can see.” Rest assured, just these three cars alone will knock your goddamn socks off.
Read MoreTesla may be the leader in electric vehicles at the moment, but its model of disruption has run afoul of union advocates and, potentially, labor laws. The latest: a document facing a challenge from the National Labor Relations Board in response to alleged leaks, that led one Tesla official to have employees—in his words—“renew their vows” to confidentiality.
Read MoreThe 2020 Jaguar F-Type will come with a BMW twin-turbo V8, as CAR Magazine reports. This is some Cold War shit. Jaguar versus Aston Martin, in a proxy war between BMW and AMG.
Read MoreAs you know, we have spies everywhere, swiveling their wet, glistening little eyeballs hither and fro, looking for interesting cars. One of our volunteer reader field operatives, Andrew, sent us some fascinating pictures of a very disguised Range Rover mule or prototype of some sort. Note the odd proportions of the car, and the size of those rear doors. What’s going on here?
Read MoreJames Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and a non-executive Tesla director, is “in line” to replace Elon Musk as chairman of the company, according to the Financial Times. Musk must relinquish the title after settling a fraud case last month with the SEC over tweets.
Read MoreThe reviews are in and the Alpine A110 is one of the most enjoyable, best-handling cars in a generation—ultra-light and ultra-fun. Unless a moose walks out into the road, apparently. Then you might be going backwards into a tree.
Read MoreDo you sometimes get the feeling that things are bad and terrible all of the time? Well, they are. But! There are rays of hope and joy that break through the clouds of our misery on occasion. This drone-shot video of Formula Drift racer Matt Field’s 1,060 horsepower Corvette tearing up a mountain road is definitely one of them.
Read MoreThis is going to be hard to believe, everybody, but someone on the internet had a nuanced but even and sensible take on Tesla.
Read MoreLike pretty much every major automaker, Volkswagen is planning a big electric car push starting at the beginning of the next decade. But besides charging infrastructure—which VW is trying to fix—one of the big problems with EVs is cost. There’s no economy of scale and battery tech is still expensive, so most of them haven’t been cheap. But VW thinks it can price its new EVs “for millions, not millionaires.”
Read MoreIt’s often the case that BMW’s biggest competition is itself from a few years ago. “I miss the old BMW,” the enthusiasts declare, always referring to the same car from two generations back while deriding the new one as fat and wallowing and not as sporty as it should be. Around here we call it Bavarian Brainfart Disorder, or BBD, and while it’s not always a fair assessment it does have some merits. But guess what: BMW is aware of this, and they’re sick of hearing about it.
Read MoreI’m in sunny, beautiful, not-at-all plastic Los Angeles to visit one Andrew Collins, our beloved reviews editor who is sunny and beautiful and currently on leave with a smashed-up hand (hand review forthcoming). To guide us around, we’ve snagged ourselves a 2019 Porsche 911 GTS, and it is already absurd. Absurdly good.
Read MoreAmong the car-driving population, squirrels get a lot of hate. “Stupid squirrels, always switching directions in the road!” we say, forgetting we humans built the roads that give squirrels such dire crises. We’re all monsters, really, except this guy—when he hit a squirrel, he sat by its side and nursed it back to health.
Read MoreLike many people, there’s a part of my brain that unconsciously stores visually similar things. That’s why we can see faces in bathroom sinks and also why I’ve always thought that the 1969-1975 Volvo 164 looks strangely similar to the 1972 Chevrolet Camaro. I kept thinking about it this morning, so instead of taking over my day, let’s just purge it by bringing it all out into the open and wondering what if Volvo re-badged a Camaro in the 1970s?
Read MoreA few days ago @S15babe_’s now-purple Nissan Silvia blew up on the automotive internet, fast becoming the most hated car online. It’s too low! It has too much camber! Some guy with dreadlocks and face tattoos took my dream car and ruined it. Indeed, look at my camber, ye mighty, and despair.
Read MoreThe little Mercedes-Benz 190E remains one of the most well-built cars of the modern age. Dependable? Certainly. Fast? Not so much, unless you spring for a Cosworth or something. That is, unless you drop a big-turbo LS into the front of it.
Read MoreRadwood Philadelphia is coming up this weekend, and we want YOU to be there. We even want your CARS to be there. And because we want you and your cars, we’re going to seed the mix with some of the best. This is part II of the Radwood Philly Contest, and we’re going to need you guys to vote on some things. Update: Contest is closed and winners will be announced soon!
Read MoreOne of my favorite things to do when visiting a country is to check out its local car museums. It’s a good indication of what types of cars are appreciated there, how the local car industry has influenced life around it and how the local culture has influenced the cars as well. Unlike in Italy, where a lot of the museums are located in more or less the same area, the Japanese museums are much more spread out. One in Japan that’s always eluded me was the Nissan Zama Heritage Collection—until rece
Read MoreEveryone is anticipating the new Toyota Supra (still!) wondering if it will stand up to the last one, if it will be a success. The thing is, those aren’t the same thing.
Read MoreFor many of us, voting is only a slight annoyance, but for millions of Americans, it’s extremely difficult to find time off from work and even find a ride to get to their local polling location. That’s why both Uber and Lyft are partnering with non-profit organizations to offer discounted rates to voters who would otherwise struggle to find a ride.
Read MoreThere’s something so comforting in life when the day isn’t going your way and you slump down in a bathroom stall, defeated, only to be uplifted by layers upon layers of motivational quotes—instead of insults or rumors from a decade ago—written on its walls. This 1982 Porsche 911 SC is the car equivalent of that.
Read MoreI don’t know if you know this, but Jalopnik’s Jeep-fanatic David Tracy actually has a huge soft spot for a certain small, retro Japanese import. I respected his love for the first-gen Mazda RX-7, but I never truly understood it until I drove one myself very recently. And I walked away truly sad that we don’t have more options today in terms of small, light, analog-feeling sports cars.
Read MoreUnbeknownst to me, Chrysler has been selling cars in New Zealand, presumably to the MOPAR-or-no-car contingent of wealthy sheep that live there. Or, rather, Chrysler did sell cars down there.
Read MoreThe way we think of car driving is that it’s bad for the environment but good for people and the economy, but a recent study suggests that as some point we hit “peak car,” and that the economy can actually grow after we hit it.
Read MoreHolden lost a lot of cool points when GM wrapped up production of the V8 Commodore in Australia last year after 69 years, but the company has seemingly taken the time it now has not producing V8 muscle cars to work out an unbelievable and actually impossible electric time attack race car with 1,340 horsepower. So that’s something.
Read MoreDetails on the new Toyota Supra have been trickling out seemingly forever, to the point where a leaked parts catalog pretty much shows off the whole car. But that parts catalog tells us a lot about the car’s internals, including a ton of new details about its BMW engine.
Read MoreIt’s the most wonderful time of the year, folks. Temperatures are dropping, everyone is busting out their coziest sweaters, and there’s probably already a Christmas display set up at Target. Yep, it’s coming up on winter, and last week, I asked y’all how a Texas gal should get ready for her first ever winter of driving in the northeast.
Read MoreYou know what most car games have been missing? A little dog who naps in your garage while you waste money fixing the broken body panels on your car instead of driving.
Read MoreFord has cut all of the cars in its American lineup in favor of trucks, SUVs, and crossovers. All cars but one, that is. And I think there’s a way to sneak a second car back in there. Or at least, half of a car.
Read MoreAnybody who tells you that you have to enlist a pricey automotive shop to restore a basket-case car is a fool. Casey Madrick picked up one of the most beloved driver’s cars of all time—a 1976 BMW 2002—and restored it himself at home using everything from old Volvo parts to a tree stump in the process. It’s a car too good to give up on, so it’s worth getting creative to fix it.
Read MoreThe company once known for its 16-cylinder engines and speed limiters for its cars’ own good delivers the final blow, saying it, too, may add an SUV to its lineup. Thus, we all fall, clasping at the backstabbing, crossover- and SUV-driven puncture wounds from every automaker we once thought pure.
Read MoreAustralia, once the land of big V8 muscle cars but spurned by companies like Ford and General Motors, which shut down manufacturing on the continent, has turned to the Kia Stinger GT as its new go-to sports sedan.
Read MoreThe Apollo IE is a gloriously silly car. Only ten will be built, each costs $2.7 million before options, and its naturally aspirated V12 can theoretically run at 1,000 horsepower.
Read MoreThis morning we wrote about the spiraling costs of American trucks, inspiring many of you to argue a lot of things, including, I shit you not, a few, “Actually, trucks are great value these days.”
Read MoreNormally, concept cars are done for automotive companies. When the company that commissions a concept car is outside of the usual car-making business, that’s when things get nice and bonkers. A great example of this is a concept car commissioned by the promoters of the Chicago and San Francisco boat shows, along with Evinrude, the marine outboard engine maker. As you’d guess, the result was half-car/half-boat. But not in the amphibious half-car/half-boat way. This was really more of a boat weari
Read MoreThe seemingly ever-changing Aspark Owl electric hypercar is back on the auto show circuit after its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 2017. It showed up to this year’s Paris Motor Show now claiming to have 1,150 horsepower and a non-refundable deposit ask of just $1.15 million.
Read MoreThe cars: they are meant to be driven. Not stuffed away in a garage to “collect value,” not treated like priceless objects never to be touched. Driven! That includes sideways through a gravel pit, especially if the car is a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Why the hell not?
Read MoreA Chrysler Pacifica test car outfitted with technology from Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo crashed into a median back in June after the operator meant to be monitoring the system in the driver’s seat reportedly fell asleep and inadvertently disabled the self-driving system, The Information reports.
Read MoreAfter a terrifying two years of rapidly increasing traffic-related fatalities, the number of people killed in traffic crashes in 2017 dropped 1.8 percent over 2016—but the NHTSA reports that 37,133 people still died, and numbers are still way up from where we were just a few years ago.
Read MoreIn 1989, an American Honda dealer named Gary Duncan won a trip to Japan and the Tokyo Motor Show. It was there that he first saw the delightful, retro Nissan Figaro, and started an obsession that has lasted for decades and created the greatest and most surprising car collection in the country.
Read MoreI know it’s probably been like, almost an hour since you thought about Elon Musk, right? Well, I’m here to finally remedy that, by letting you know that Elon reportedly forced the Tesla board to pull out of a fairly generous settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission by threatening to resign from Tesla if the Tesla board did not publicly defend and support him, according to the New York Times.
Read MoreMore than 1.8 million people in Japan bought new kei-cars in 2017, meaning one in three new cars sold in Japan last year had engines with only 660cc. The kei-car is very much a uniquely Japanese product that only seems to only make sense in Japan. So what’s it really like to live with one? I found out.
Read MoreThe upcoming 2019 Porsche 911 992 generation won’t look vastly different from the outgoing 991.2. I know this because I’ve seen the mules already. So have you. They’ve been running around Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Nürburgring and now, apparently, Salt Lake City, Utah. What’s weird is that Porsche is still taping them up in the back.
Read MoreKanye West took a tour of Detroit’s College for Creative Studies yesterday afternoon, posting videos of himself touring various student projects. And then he apparently hopped up on a table and started ranting about Elon Musk’s troubles over alleged stock fraud, telling his audience to “leave that man the fuck alone.”
Read MoreMore and more automakers are investing in autonomous tech and today GM announced it’ll be joining up with Honda to build an autonomous vehicle, with a lot of money promised to change hands.
Read MoreRenault took the covers off of this extremely French concept car at the Paris Motor Show today, and it’s claiming the ideas behind this car will revolutionize ride sharing for upscale clients. The EZ-ULTIMO is the third in a trilogy of concepts—after the EZ-GO and EZ-PRO. It is billed as an autonomous, electric, connected, and shared mobility service solution. Renault thinks that this sleek and slinky mobile hipster bar will be deployable as an on-demand shuttle for the wealthy to use for a sing
Read MoreWhile some automakers have been producing cars in South Africa for decades, Northern Africa countries like Morocco and Algeria have become more and more industrialized with increasing production, and the region is quickly becoming a new hub of automotive manufacturing.
Read MoreThe EPA rates your car’s fuel economy through a driving cycle on a dyno meant to replicate city and highway driving. Sure. OK. But I don’t get why they don’t also rate your car, like, exactly in actual highway driving.
Read MoreLast I checked, the world is a pretty huge place. That means there’s lots of room for cars on it, and, even better, the kinds of cars that are scattered over the globe tend to be remarkably varied. If you’re like me, you want to know what those far-flung carscapes are like, everywhere. So, let me help you by showing you the carscapes of two places, Chile and Argentina.
Read MoreThe 2019 Mazda Miata is just barely pricier than the last. That might not come as a surprise to some, since it looks the same on the outside. But the new Miata is a lot different than it looks, since it’ll roll around with 181 horsepower to the 2018 model’s 155—all for less than $500 more.
Read MoreOne fateful day in the middle of the Texas summer, when temperatures were expected to be around 105 degrees, my mother, Jodi, and I pulled up to an off-road park outside of Dallas. It didn’t take us long to realize there wasn’t much shade out there, and that we were in over our heads with this business.
Read MoreAs much as we fight and fight against the fact, our cars probably won’t stick around with us forever. Eventually things start to break, costs start to mount and it just doesn’t make sense to keep them around anymore.
Read MoreWe got a new BMW 3 Series today. It’s not every day that happens! (More like every seven to 10 years, generally.) The G20 model has a lot of improvements over the outgoing car, but things are not looking good for the manual transmission—and that’s a huge loss for us all. Let’s talk about what it has to live up to to stay the luxury sport sedan (and coupe, and wagon) benchmark.
Read MoreAudi CEO Rupert Stadler, who temporarily stepped away from his position at the company after being implicated in Volkswagen Group’s Dieselgate scandal and jailed back in June, is finally leaving the company after months of deliberation by the automaker’s lawyers and board of directors, Reuters reports.
Read MoreI had visions of myself, decades from now, withered and gray and hunkered down in a fortified underground base, away from the fallout and the mutant cannibals out roving the future wastelands, hunched over an ancient computer and desperately working in Photoshop to finally piece together an accurate render of the new Toyota Supra—just to see it once before I died.
Read MoreThe Nissan Z is aging out without an announced replacement, the GT-R is older than God(zilla), and the XTerra died out in 2015. While all somewhat disappointing, don’t let your guard down for something like the promising body-on-frame 2018 Nissan Terra, a would-be successor to the XTerra, because it’s not coming stateside either.
Read MoreThis week’s Meh Car Monday is sort of a counterpart to another recent Meh Car, the Cadillac Catera. Where the Catera was an American brand looking to Europe to find a car that would be more exciting to Americans, the Cadillac BLS was an American brand taking a European car and trying to sell it to Europeans, but without anything at all that you could give a shit about. It was, however, the only Cadillac ever to have a Fiat engine, so I guess that’s something. But not much.
Read MoreThey say money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS and the two are basically the same thing. It’s quick, responsive, agile and fun as hell. Ours was canary-yellow, which only made it better. Here are five things you should know about it.
Read MoreHi there. I hope this blog post finds you well. Did you have a restful weekend? I hope so. Anyway, let’s get down to brass tacks: you may be hearing some business about a possible mid-engine hybrid Subaru sports car in development. I’m going to go ahead and save everyone some time by just calling bullshit on this today.
Read MoreWorker smarter, not harder, as the saying goes. But what about faster? Faster is good too. And the United Kingdom’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, thinks her fellow Britons would waste a lot less time—and productivity—if the national speed limit were raised from 70 to 80 mph.
Read MoreThink your 17-and-a-half-foot-long Rolls-Royce Cullinan is big? Think again. What you need is this stretched version offered by the small German company Klassen, run up to nearly 21 feet and costing you about $2 million USD.
Read MoreWe’ve spoken at length about the merits and disadvantages of the super minimal interior in the Tesla Model 3, which focuses all of the car’s information and controls on a single touchscreen. It’s hard to believe the system is road legal, and it’s something one unlucky owner caught on video trying to explain to the cops.
Read More“Make good decisions!” you parents definitely shouted at you as they dropped you off on your first day of school. Don’t you wish you could have yelled the same thing back at them, especially when it came to their cars?
Read MoreNow I know that the largely American Jalopnik audience doesn’t care much about Skoda, Volkswagen’s bargain Czech subsidiary, beyond maybe a general sense of longing. But a Skoda concept is coming to the Paris Motor Show that’s actually pretty interesting, and hopefully a sign of good things to come.
Read MoreWe may be deep in the throes of the sedanocalypse, but make no mistake that the 3 Series is still vital to BMW and its bottom line. And even as it faces more and more competition each year, and as it’s gotten bigger and heavier over the years, it’s still probably the sport sedan benchmark. Here’s the new generation of 3 Series that will lead this famed model into the future.
Read MoreWhile I’ve never seen it in person, there are a lot of examples online of the glass roof on the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model X sometimes have a very strong orange tint. Some owners love it, some hate it, apparently it’s totally normal, but here’s what causes it.
Read MoreGlass explodes. Metal screams against metal. A car crash is a waking nightmare, but one that has become increasingly survivable—and we have piles of dead bodies to thank.
Read MorePeople always joke that Porsche has just been making the same car, the Porsche 911, with marginal improvements for decades, but that just isn’t true. It actually makes a seemingly infinite number of variants of the 911, and it’s gotten so confusing the company produced a video to educate us.
Read MoreI’m not sure if you saw this story this morning, but modern cars are absolutely outrageously expensive to fix after even a minor collision. Some of this has to do with all the cameras and sensors and robotic feely-bits crammed into the extremities of cars, but a big part of the blame needs to fall on the fact that modern automotive design has effectively eliminated the bumper. And that’s idiotic.
Read MoreIf you like somewhat cartoonish, retro-inspired designs for your cars, then the late 1990s was a wonderful time to be alive. While hindsight hasn’t always been kind to this design trend, I’ll admit that I’m oddly fond of the cars that came from this school, especially the vintage cars re-born into modernity, like the Volkswagen New Beetle, the Mini, and the Fiat 500. Subaru also considered mining their history, but, for some reason, never pulled the trigger.
Read MoreWhy, it seems like just yesterday (it was April) when General Motors dropped the first photos of the updated 2019 Chevrolet Camaro, leaving enthusiasts everywhere uttering a collective, “whuh?” Now it turns out the Camaro SS’ new face—which hasn’t been doing it any favors from a sales perspective—could get a redesign very soon.
Read MoreAs technology has advanced, automotive headlights have become more and more intricate with LEDs, logos and funky shapes. Some are even broken up across the car’s face. A new trend to watch for is colored accents in headlights, and let me tell you—I don’t hate it!
Read MoreIn case the, you know, McLaren didn’t signal your wealth to the world loudly and proudly enough already, the company is badging its yet-to-debut, $2.3-million, three-seat McLaren Speedtail in “a range of optional finishes” such as 18-karat white gold paired with carbon fiber. McLaren’s calling it a “Badge of Honour.”
Read MoreOn Wednesday, I wrote about the 1,000-horsepower 2019 Yenko Camaro package and its addition of a “non-functional scoop and grille” to the factory car. As I said then, and as I still say now, everyone loves a non-functional scoop and grille! Just plug that into an online image search and you’ll understand.
Read MoreBecause we exist in an era when, by the year 2023, 100 percent of all new movies made will be comic book sequels, remakes and reboots, we are getting a possibly R-rated Batman spin-off starring The Joker that’s set in the 1980s, apparently doesn’t have Batman in it, is modeled after a Scorsese mob flick and is titled, appropriately, Joker. I don’t know if this appeals to you or not, but the cars look great.
Read MoreI’m excited for the Porsche Taycan, Porsche’s upcoming all-electric sedan. We’ve yet to see the production version of the sleek thing (though the “concept” will pretty much be it), but some artistic renderings of what it could look like show something extremely promising.
Read MoreSo much of a car’s character can be determined by its face, the arrangement and styling of lights and grilles and sheet metal and bumpers that give a car its identity. The 1970 Mercury Cyclone GT deserves your attention, because there’s never really been a car face quite like this one, and, since we now care about not killing pedestrians, there likely never will be again.
Read MoreOriginal, air-cooled Volkswagen Beetles were very popular in the kit car world because you could essentially just lift the body off and replace it with any fiberglass anything you wanted: fake Porsche speedsters, MG TCs, weird vans, whatever. This isn’t nearly as easy to do with a modern, Golf-based Beetle, but that didn’t stop this Russian shop from turning a new Beetle into a re-imagined Zaporozhets.
Read MoreMitsuoka, one of the last bastions of actual raw joy left in the automotive world and the leading transformer of boring Nissan econoboxes into hilariously cartoon-like vintage Jaguars, has announced a new triumph: they’ve used their powerful Mitsuoka Magic to transform a new Miata into a dead ringer for a 1963-1967 C2 Corvette Sting Ray. They call it the Rock Star.
Read MoreI bet most of our regular readers have, at some point, blown the mind of one of their non-gearhead friends by pointing out the little arrow in almost every modern fuel gauge that shows what side the fuel filler is on. It’s a fantastic and simple bit of human-machine interface design, which makes it sort of insane that nobody knows the name of the brilliant designer who first came up with the idea. Well, that’s all changed. We now know the designer’s name, and can finally give them the recognitio
Read MoreThe incredibly long and sort-of-public gestation period of the new Toyota Supra means that by now, when the proud parents, BMW and Toyota, want to actually reveal the car, nobody’s going to care because we’ve basically seen it all already. While even though we’ve already driven the car, much of the interior and exterior were still hidden or disguised. Now, though, thanks to a bunch of parts renderings, we’ve seen everything.
Read MoreThe word “meh,” despite its meaning, is interesting. The origins could be from Yiddish, but most now agree that it was popularized by the Simpsons. The usage, however, is not in dispute at all: boring, dull, unremarkable, unable to have shits donated, bland. We use it in our own Meh Car Monday series, and recently Honda has started using it in ads to show some very literal Meh cars. The thing is, I’m not so sure those cars would actually be meh.
Read MoreThe British creative studio INK has been having some fun lately, sort of both at the expense of and in glorification of some of the most notorious British cars from the 1970s. I’m not entirely sure of what any actual message that these animations may be saying, but they’re incredibly well done and deeply amusing to watch. Plus, I kind of love these cars.
Read MoreSome cars, either through history or circumstance, have timeless designs. Take the Porsche 911, the Jeep Wrangler, the Ford Mustang (most of the time.) But some cars weren’t meant to be special or unique—yet years later their style still resonates anyway. What is the best “normal” car that still looks good?
Read MoreI’ve made no secret of my disdain for the McLaren Senna’s visage (and the rest of it, for that matter). I find its design to be harsh, rude, incohesive and butt-ugly. Unlike the very sleek and excellent 720S. But this very well could become one of those cases where I’ll stomach the way it looks because of how incredibly it performs.
Read MoreBMW is fortunate among auto makers in that it has one of the most recognizable and iconic design elements, its twin“kidney” grilles. Often imitated, these oblong-shaped features have been on nearly every front-engined BMW since 1933. Once, in the hands of a very famous Italian designer, this design element took an odd turn that I can’t help but find clever and even sort of funny.
Read MoreMotorsport back in the day seemed like it must have been one hell of a time. In an era when it was rare to, y’know, actually take your cars out to test them before you brought them to the track, so every so often, a team would show up at the track only to find, lo and behold—their seemingly revolutionary car was a hot mess. Such was the situation with the 1968 Marcos Mantis XP.
Read MoreThere’s something especially heartbreaking about a beautiful concept car that never gets a chance to see the light of day. Especially one that looks like the super sick car in Blade Runner 2049. That’s right. I’m looking at you, 1972 Maserati Boomerang.
Read MoreA truck lost its load of metal balls yesterday afternoon, sending 44,000 pounds of projectiles gleefully bouncing down one of Seattle’s steep streets. Balls everywhere, what a mess!!!!!
Read More1.) The first ever crash between two cars, both equipped with airbags, was between TWO Chrysler Lebarons! Both drivers survived. One’s last name was Woody and the other’s last name was Van Steelant, and I didn’t make those names up.
Read MoreOctober is a spooky month, and while some neighborhoods are busy being traumatized by Freddy and Jason and teen vandals, this neighborhood knows no fear like the drainage ditch in this person’s yard.
Read MoreNow, I’m not even going to pretend this is particularly timely, or even something I discovered on my own. Because it isn’t, and I didn’t. But it’s something so achingly pure and beautiful I nevertheless felt compelled to share it with you: the greatest, most concentrated collection of driver idiocy ever recorded on video.
Read MoreJust in case you thought that none of the cool kids ever do anything as lame as really making sure their loads in pickup truck beds are completely secure, let me scare you straight, you little punk: look what happens when you don’t properly secure your loads. You can cause situations like this, where a sheet of plywood sliced almost all the way through this Accord’s windshield. Yikes.
Read MoreWe’ve all done it at least once in our lives. We’ve looked at a road sign and gone, “pfft, yeah right”, and gone right on our merry way. You might have gotten lucky with your extra-miles-per-hour-above-the-speed-limit shenanigans—but watch what happens when hubris gets the best of us.
Read MoreAfter burying three cars, and finding them to be totally ruined by the time he dug them up a year later, Vlad, host of YouTube channel Garage 54 ENG, decided to attempt to start the vehicles’ engines. Watch as the intrepid wrencher tries to bring life to machines that appear decidedly hopeless.
Read MoreA guy racing Ford Mustang against another Mustang recently crashed into a utility pole, completely destroying the car but somehow not the driver himself, who got away easy with merely a broken jaw, some missing teeth, and a broken shoulder.
Read MoreTesla made waves earlier this week by announcing that the Model 3 scored five stars in all of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s crash test categories, leading to the claim that it has “the lowest probability of injury of all cars the safety agency has ever tested.” The Tesla cars have long had a strong record for safety, but this would take it to a new level. Here’s some of the engineering behind what makes the Tesla Model 3 so safe.
Read MoreLast fall, Vlad, the wacky Russian car experimenter who hosts YouTube channel Garage 54 ENG, buried three cars, as one does when one has a car YouTube channel. Those cars were a Lada 1200, a Toyota Corsa, and what appears to be a late 1980s Audi 100. Here’s what it looked like when he dug these cars up one year later.
Read MoreFor some reason, there’s apparently been a recent uptick in airbag thefts, and some thieves have been exclusively choosing Honda vehicles as their targets, USA Today writes in its report on the issue. Here’s a look at how bad this strange problem has gotten in some parts of the U.S.
Read MoreLegal recreational weed became a thing across all of Canada on Wednesday, and just one hour into the day of celebration, Winnipeg police issued its first ticket to a driver for getting high while in a car, reports the CBC.
Read MoreImagine you have have to go to the hospital for a bit of surgery. You leave your car safe and sound in its parking space, reasonably expecting it to be there when you get back. That wasn’t the case for a man only identified as “Mr. G,” whose BMW was mistakenly seized and crushed by his local government in a case of “maladministration” while he was laid up.
Read MoreStealing someone’s beloved car is such a scumbag move. But unfortunately, it happens. This time, the owners of a wonderful, yellow 1970 Ford F-250 Camper Special are distraught over the truck’s disappearance. Let’s see if we can help them find it.
Read MoreBBC’s Top Gear has two new leading hosts alongside Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Andrew Flintoff, who are two white English dudes instead of the promising co-hosts Sabine Schmitz and Rory Reid. Since neither come from journalism or racing background, you may be wondering if they can drive! Turns out they can, at least beyond the speed limit on the motorway.
Read MoreEveryone’s favorite BBC motoring show has been in a state of near-continual flux since Jeremy Clarkson punched a guy over some cold cuts, got fired and took his buds to Amazon’s The Grand Tour. Now Top Gear returns for a 27th series, and beloved YouTube tire-slayer Chris Harris is back as well—with two new fresh faces also hosting.
Read MoreThe 2018 LA Auto Show is right around the corner. Usually this mobility-focused show doesn’t offer much of the extremely cool stuff, but it looks like we can expect some kind of pickup truck from Jeep this year. Will it be the Scrambler? Possibly!
Read MoreWith a few teasers under our belt, it was pretty evident that Mopar wasn’t going to be taking any prisoners this year. While GM showed off an 800KW electric crate motor kit as a “concept”, Mopar was bringing down the house with four-digits worth of supercharged Hemi crate motor power they’re calling the Hellephant. The name is an homage to the original 426 Hemi, as it was nicknamed that for its huge size, weight, and power. The new supercharged 426 produces an even 1000 horespower and 950 lb-ft
Read MoreTake one totally trashed 2013 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. Take one, frankly rather nice, 1963 Volvo 122S Amazon. Now get some sort of mad wizard machine like in Jeff Goldblum’s horrifically disgusting The Fly. What you get is this SEMA special, known as the V06.
Read MoreReader, I am vexed. Vexed, I tell you. The Honda Corporation, in all of its vastness and magnificence, sometimes makes things that are good, and sometimes makes things that are bad. That boring Acura RDX? Bad. This Honda Ridgeline that’s been absolutely transformed into a dune-bashing buggy? Good. Extremely good.
Read MoreRight now you can buy a car called the BMW X3 M40i. It has 355 horsepower, it’s got hustle in a straight line, and it can probably take a mild corner without toppling over. It won’t set your hair on fire, but it’s fine. The X3 M40i doesn’t set a very high bar to clear. Acura has seen that low bar for SEMA, and tried extremely hard to got as far under it as possible.
Read MoreIf the Chevrolet Camaro’s lovely-sounding V8 motor doesn’t do it for you, and you’re the kind of person who really just wants ridiculous but silent acceleration, then behold the eCOPO Chevrolet Camaro. Shown off at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, it’s a 700 horsepower fully-electric powerhouse that can turn drag strips into pools of melted rubber.
Read MoreLook. Look at that wickedly orange and modded Nissan 370Z. It’s been swapped with a twin-turbo V6 that makes 400 horsepower. It has a manual. A manual! But rather than excitement or joy, this car only gives me a deep sense of sadness.
Read MoreElectric cars are quickly coming into the mainstream, especially in Europe. So, since I was at the Paris Motor Show this week, I figured I’d walk around, look at at all the nice electrified powertrain tech (focusing on cutaway displays), and talk to engineers about what we can expect from the cars of the near future.
Read MoreMercedes physically revealed the Mercedes-AMG A35 yesterday in Paris after debuting it online a few weeks back. I had a chance to sit in the little hot hatch today, and now I deeply need to drive this little oddball of a car.
Read MoreI’m here on the show floor at the Paris Motor Show sitting right next to the new 2019 BMW 3 Series. I’ve taken a bunch of pictures of some mechanical bits, of the interior, and of the sheetmetal. But if there’s something more you want to see, let me know. I’m willing to put my shutter button-pushing index finger to the test.
Read MoreAt least you can count on Porsche to build the cool shit that it trots out (I can’t say that for certain other automakers). The German automaker has greenlit production for the awesome and retro 911 Speedster Concept that we saw back in June.
Read MoreFollowing the Audi R8 LMS GT3 in 2015 and the Audi R8 LMS GT4 in 2017, the new, 2019 Audi R8 LMS GT3 is the latest of the German automaker’s customer-friendly race cars. They’ve all looked awesome and this one is no different.
Read MoreThe BMW 3 Series basically originated the idea of the modern sport sedan. That’s why it’s had three pedals since the beginning, even as the market for manual gearboxes has been on the decline. But today, the Bavarian automaker introduced the new seventh-generation 2019 3 Series with one glaring omission: a third pedal on U.S. spec models. Has BMW’s iconic driver’s car—one of the final hold-outs in its class—finally given up on the stick?
Read MoreThe new 2019 BMW 3 Series is finally here, and not only does it look good, but it’s got more power, more space, more technology, and more of pretty much everything else—except weight. Here’s what you need to know.
Read MoreYou may recall that earlier this year Ford made the decision to phase out all of its cars in North America except for the Mustang. We were supposed to get a ruggedy wagon called the Focus Active, too, but a certain President of the United States of A Certain Place managed to kill that. The result is a Ford lineup of just trucks, crossovers, and SUVs. Oh, and Mustangs. It’s left the Ford EcoSport as the last little Ford for America, and while it’s not terrible, it’s really just a wheeled reminder
Read MoreIn a past life I got to drive a rally-prepped Toyota Corolla rally car up in the Pacific Northwest. It was absolutely incredible, one of the best cars I’ve ever wheeled. Here’s one that’s even better and it’s for sale. How much better? Well, this one’s seller is asking $20,000.
Read MoreThis young and aggressive turbo Dodge Neon had so much going for it when it was built. It was an inexpensive and fun way to go fast, even if its interior was an ergonomic disaster and its build quality was on the lower end of poor. The aughts decade was a new era of American performance car, and the Dodge SRT-4 was the most shouty way to jump into that market. But this lovely low-mile example has been trapped in a bubble thanks to the evil magic spell of its current master.
Read MoreFor sale right now in Colorado is a bearded, flannel-wearing millennial’s dream: a vintage Mercedes Benz 190 diesel that solves the problem of high rent with a built-in camper. It’s actually a really cool setup.
Read MoreThe Acura Integra was a legendary front-wheel drive, VTEC-engine’d sports car that could pretty much out-handle anything in its class. So this red example for sale on Classiccars.com would still be cool if it were totally stock. But it’s even cooler because it isn’t, thanks to a huge turbocharged, carbureted V8 engine in the back seat. Even if it makes the car borderline undrivable.
Read MoreLimousines are usually stretched versions of luxury cars or they’re silly cars that were stretched as a joke. But then there’s this car: a 1980s Honda Accord, which is oddly stuck in neither category: it was never luxurious enough to be a real limo, and it wasn’t really absurd enough to be a joke. It really makes no sense.
Read MoreThe absolute holy grail of Turbo Dodge performance, this Shelby-upgraded 2.2-liter turbo featherweight track car remains the best car to ever be built in Florida. Weighing just under 1900 pounds and flaunting over 225 horsepower thanks to a rare 16-valve Shelby cylinder head, a big T3 turbo, and a fifth fuel injector, this Consulier GTP has an incredible power to weight ratio. The design is a turn off to many, but it’s hard to argue with the analog performance provided by lightweight constructio
Read MoreYou’re looking at an Vemac RD320R, one of the most interesting race cars of one of the most interesting racing series in recent years. But you’ve probably not seen it before, because it was competed half a world away in Japan’s Super GT series. For some reason, though, there’s one for sale in the States.
Read MoreSad that you missed out on Radwood Philly because you didn’t have something rad to bring? Well dry those tears because here’s your chance to own one of the raddest cars to ever exist: Matt Farah’s very own 1988 Ford Mustang SSP 5.0. And if you buy it, the proceeds go to the cause of your choosing.
Read MoreWhy, hello, you there, do you happen to have a 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS? Of course you don’t! But if you did, this guy would trade you a big chunk of his waterfront property in Florida for it. Maybe next time.
Read MoreYou know an auction is good when the Ferrari F40 isn’t even the most interesting thing for sale.
Read MoreIt supposedly costs about $20,000 to change the oil in a Bugatti Veyron, which admittedly looks like a big enough pain to warrant that much. But that’s also the day price to rent Bugatti’s aging but still terrifyingly powerful supercar, in case you had some loose change and weren’t sure how to use it.
Read MoreProfessional wrestler John Cena’s former 2017 Ford GT, which wasn’t supposed to be resold for two years, has been resold a whopping five known times since he got the car a year ago. It most recently went on the block, again, and sold for around $1.3 million—a decent chunk less than it fetched last time.
Read MoreIt’s happening. Here you are, yet again, staring at all of your hopes and desires on a computer screen, hoping the auction price stays stagnant just like your car collection seems to. A clean, sparkling, low-mileage 1994 Toyota Supra Turbo is on the virtual block at Bring a Trailer, and this is finally your moment. That is, if the price doesn’t go any higher.
Read MoreMoney doesn’t buy happiness, but since coins and colored pieces of paper fund our lives for some reason, it’s always nice to spend less and get more. Take this $8.6-million Florida mansion, whose seller is throwing in not one, but—clears throat for The Price Is Right voice—two not exactly new but very expensive cars!
Read MoreIt looks like a normal, mid-‘80s Buick Regal on the outside, but under the hood and inside, a Toyota fan did something deeply, maniacally absurd. And perhaps ingenious.
Read MoreThe Lotus Elise is a great little sports car and has been on my bucket list for some time, but I’ve never imagined being able to afford one. It turns all I need to wait for is one with a slight scratch and crack in a bumper, like this 2006 Elise for sale on eBay with a salvage title.
Read MoreI like it when Craigslist ads bring up philosophical questions more intense than wondering if a person can ever, truly, know what they have. Ads like this one, for what’s just called a “1973 Porsche” bring up fascinating questions like “at what point does this car stop being a Porsche?” I’m really not sure this Porsche is a Porsche anymore.
Read MoreThe Nissan Skyline GT-R is one of those ‘90s tuner cars that doesn’t really exist in stock form anymore. And if they do, they’re usually really hard to find and expensive. One guy in Australia chanced upon a stock one in pristine condition recently, and it just might be one of the last ones out there like that.
Read MoreWhat are you up to later? Wanna knock over some banks and buy this gorgeous red left-hand drive 1967 Toyota 2000GT off Bring a Trailer with me? Sure you do. We’ll put in some work and be in this beauty in no time.
Read MoreI’m not sure what’s going on this week that’s bringing us all this disgusting stuff, but here we are. At least this time there’s a journey from revolting to acceptable, a pattern we should all strive for in our lives. The car here is a 1994 Eagle Talon TSI that’s spent a decade in the woods, and has accumulated a massive amount of filth, mold, rodent skeletons, and stench. If you know of a car in a similar sad state, this video is a good guide to how you bring a car back from the depths of revul
Read MoreIt was my dreaded nightmare and it finally happened: The garage valet scraped my car. Fucking dammit. I was pissed. What do you do if this happens to you?
Read MoreNo matter what kind of serious driving you want to get into, learning how to trail brake is key. It sounds simple at first—braking hard into a tight corner then trailing off the brake as you turn in—but it’s tricky to nail and magic when you get it right.
Read MoreHi, I’m Ishaan Jhaveri. I’m a data journalist who works with Gizmodo Media Group’s Special Projects Desk. I worked with Ryan Felton on the latest story about subprime lender Credit Acceptance, and the effect its collections cases have had on the people of Detroit. In case you’re a fellow data nerd, here’s how I did it.
Read MoreZero Motorycles, the company that’s been pioneering mainstream electric motorcycles for the last 13 years, has updated its entire lineup for 2019, with refreshed looks and more range and power across the board.
Read MoreIf someone were to offer me a track day on Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha M1 MotoGP bike today, I wouldn’t have to think about my answer. I’m too old to go haring around a racetrack on an expert-level race-bike, I’m not even flexible enough to fit on it, and I couldn’t go anywhere near fast enough to appreciate it for what it is. So I’d say thanks, but no, thanks. In 1986 someone asked me a similar question and I didn’t have to think about my answer then, either. I said, “Hell yes!”
Read MoreMichael Avenatti, a lawyer who is representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Donald Trump and maybe enjoys his role a little too much, and is also a possible 2020 presidential contender in his own right, is a legit racecar driver, too. But Avenatti recently told Autoweek he may not run for president if it means he has to give up racing.
Read MoreGoodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s CEO and board of directors “took active steps to conceal and avoid disclosure” of their involvement in an alleged cover-up of problems linked to the G159 tire, a company shareholder alleges in a new lawsuit. The Goodyear tire is linked to at least 10 deaths and has exposed the company to fines as high as $105 million and potential criminal liability.
Read MoreIndyCar is looking pretty good for the 2019 season, adding COTA and Laguna Seca to the schedule. America’s premier and only top-flight open-wheel racing championship manages to field one of the most competitive and talented pools of drivers, while still managing to be a racing series you may be vaguely familiar with, but don’t bother to actually watch.
Read MoreGoogle’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, announced on Tuesday that it’d secured the first permit in California to launch fully-autonomous cars with no safety driver onto public streets. Brace yourselves.
Read MoreFrom what I can tell, modern life feels like it’s composed of about 87 percent bullshit. Sure, there’s good stuff floating around, but there’s just a colossal amount of bullshit-wading one has to do to get there. That’s why I think it’s important to pause and contemplate the original 1980 Fiat Panda, one of the least bullshit-encumbered cars ever produced. Think of it like meditation.
Read MoreI’ll preface this one with a reminder that Meh Cars are not necessarily bad cars. Sometimes they’re good cars that just don’t have much reason to be, or anything to actually do. It’s like if you believe in reincarnation, the idea that a wonderful, caring, creative soul could be born as, say, a vole. Voles do their jobs just fine, but all of the really special stuff of that soul just isn’t going to be able to be expressed as a vole. So that’s sort of what the Scion xD was: a decent soul born as a
Read MoreA small group of Tesla shareholders in late September accused the automaker of deceiving them about the progress of the Model 3 sedan production, claiming the company and CEO Elon Musk knew its timeline was impossible to attain. Now, the automaker is facing a federal investigation over that very issue, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreEarlier today, we wrote up Consumer Reports’ latest new-car reliability ranking, in which American brands did very poorly. Though one of you had a solution.
Read MoreEveryone needs to relax, but especially the drivers of a Ford Explorer and Nissan Rogue duking it out recently on a public highway outside Washington, D.C.
Read MoreSome of our readers are probably not familiar with the details of Canadian politics, but I’m fairly sure we’re all familiar with bullshit, so this situation should be at least a little relatable. Essentially, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney appears to have made promises to the Motor Dealers’ Association of Alberta (MDA) in exchange for a substantial amount of campaign contributions. One of those promises was a proposed ban on “RHD Asian Vehicles.” Also, those contributions may be a
Read MoreIn keeping with an ongoing theme in our lives, we have the technology to fix things, but it’s all way too expensive. And we’re not just talking about you. Cars that have all those new and advanced safety features are also really, really expensive to fix if they get into a collision. Even if it’s a minor one.
Read MoreTesla managed to hold to CEO Elon Musk’s word that it would report a profit in the third quarter of 2018, telling shareholders on Wednesday that it posted a $312 million net profit this past quarter. Deliveries were a key issue this quarter, however, the company said.
Read MoreIce-T, the multi-disciplinary celebrity who currently plays a cop on Law and Order: SVU, was arrested and released this morning for toll evasion as he approached the George Washington Bridge connecting New York City and New Jersey, according to TMZ. The McLaren 720S he was driving was also found to be missing a license plate.
Read MoreEvery morning I wake up, splash some water on my face, and say, to no one in particular, “Today’s the day we’ll see the auto industry start trending away from absurdly long loan terms. Surely everyone will realize, today, that this can’t end well.” Today is not that day. In Canada, we’re told by way of the CBC, more than half of all new car loans carry 84-month terms. Weeeeee...
Read MoreThe driver of this truck was said to be “looking a bit unhappy” after a bridge opened the tops of some Range Rovers he was transporting in Perth, Scotland, this morning.
Read MoreThe 2019 Mercedes-AMG G63 has been out for a hot minute now, and given AMG’s ability to put unreal power into ordinary Benzes, it shouldn’t be too surprising that the new G63 goes, wait, 149 miles per hour? Who the, what, with, the where, what? What?
Read MoreA Lamborghini Huracán Spyder went up in flames Friday evening in Boston, not far from the library, a place you may not be expecting a Lambo or its owner to be.
Read MoreBack in 2009, when the automotive industry was in crisis, the Canadian government gave $1.1 billion to Chrysler to help the company stay afloat, an outstanding amount which, with interest, has nearly doubled. Except that now, according to the CBC, it’s been quietly written off. Fiat Chrysler made $4.3 billion in profits last year.
Read MoreWell, there you have it, folks. After months of speculation—with confirmation that he wouldn’t be returning to Formula One and the full force of Alonsomania reaching maddening heights post-Le Mans—Fernando Alonso has made it clear. He will not be joining the IndyCar series for a full-time campaign in 2019.
Read MoreIf you’re into racing, chances are, you’ve played at least one racing game in your life. With technology ever on the rise and sim racing becoming more than just a ‘game’, Germany’s racing governing body, Deutsche Motor Sport Bund, has decided to officially proclaim sim racing as a legitimate motorsport discipline.
Read MoreImagine for a moment that you are Spencer Pigot. The 2018 IMSA season has been one piece of bad luck after another, but there have been moments of brilliance. The Mazda RT-24 prototype you’re sitting in, entered by Mazda Team Joest. You qualified in third place, but the ten hour endurance race has worn on both driver and car alike.
Read MoreLast year, McLaren made the Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo concept, a car that you lie prone in to drive and also one that only existed inside the video game Gran Turismo Sport. Now, McLaren has confirmed it’s building a real car likely inspired by that concept.
Read MoreWe don’t actually have any truly self-driving cars on the roads just yet, but, according to a new poll, 71 percent of drivers across the world think they can buy one today. Of course, they can’t. Perhaps even more alarming, 11 percent of drivers are okay with the idea of having a little nap while using current driving assist technologies like adaptive cruise control. What the hell is the matter with you, global drivers?
Read MoreYesterday morning, John Amdor was biking in the great city of Chicago when he heard a noise behind him and turned around to find a Toyota Avalon in the bike lane. The Avalon then continued in the bike lane, shocking cyclists and pedestrians as Amdor shot video. That’s not your lane, Avalon!
Read MoreA few years ago, Alfa Romeo was proud that it could get 237 horsepower from its 1.75-liter turbocharged four-cylinder 4C engine. Here is one from the 1970s making 600. Also, it revs to 9,000 RPM. Also it sounds amazing.
Read MoreI recently got back from a weeklong vacation in Ireland, where I had my first experience in a right-hand-drive car, and had to cruise around the countryside on the left side of the road. It was weird and strange at first, but in short order, I loved it. Driving a right-hand-drive car owns.
Read MoreJust in case you’re skeptical about just how much work a drag racer’s parachutes do to slow down a speeding car, here’s an excellent demonstration. Even though they’re not making that hot caliper-on-rotor contact of the brakes, a car’s drag chutes are incredibly important, as you can see right here on Pro Mod racer Mike Bowman’s Chevelle at Gateway Motorsports Park.
Read MoreIt’s been a while since we’ve seen a US broadcaster debut a halfway decent reality show about cars. If you want to see some decent television about the automobile, we usually turn to classics like Top Gear, rather than some of the cringier programs that interpret “reality” to mean “very terribly scripted pseudo-reality”. Well, NBCSN is out here to change that.
Read MoreGoddamnit. The Big Boats of bountiful buoyancy have once more bashed beneath the waves. This is B.S., and a bummer.
Read MoreStreet Outlaws, now in its fifth year on TV, will have its new season premiere Oct. 22. The “outlaws” this time are in Memphis, and this season will presumably include more racing (in controlled, legal environments) and more drama, all while insisting that you should never illegally street race even as they do their best to make it look cool.
Read MoreLet’s be absolutely clear here: what I’m about to tell you about is a very bad precedent for anyone who works on their own cars, or may want to work on their own cars in the future, or even anyone who wants to keep any control over their own transportation, and not become a data farm for huge companies. In a European Union vote today about autonomous vehicle registrations, it was decided that any telemetry generated by the vehicle is copyrighted by the carmaker. This is bad.
Read MoreAround 200 Ford GTs are being recalled because hydraulic fluid could leak onto the exhaust and “may cause a fire,” Ford says. One fire in Germany has been confirmed to be related to the issue, though Ford says no one was injured in that fire and the company is not aware of any other incidents or injuries related to the issue.
Read MoreBMW launched their newest 3-series sedan at the Paris Motor Show last week, which is a pleasant, but not overly dramatic evolution of the outgoing car. Recently, found in design registration documents filed with the Brazilian government by QuatroRodas, the 3 Series Touring wagon was leaked to the world. It’s an aggressive yet simple redesign, and will surely be the non-SUV choice of New England upper-middle-class suburban moms.
Read MoreThe folks over at CarMax have put together some interesting data regarding the popularity of manual transmission automobiles sold through their pre-owned dealership network. What they found has certainly been sobering, as just 3.7% of their nationwide sales are manually shifted. Interestingly, CarMax’s own data also showed that there were some cities where the manual transmissions were more popular. Little pockets of enthusiasts, perhaps.
Read MoreThe Lotus Europa was a car so small and light that, if you were walking on the street and it was parked, you might miss it. All of 1,500 pounds, the Europa was designed to be an affordable rear-engined sports car, on sale for £2,600 in 1967, or about $27,000 in today’s money. This example, a rebuilt 1969 Europa Type 54, has only aged a little bit.
Read MoreI asked an Aussie here in the office about Bathurst earlier today. His only reply was “Holden forever.” Indeed. The Ford Falcon, however, is not forever.
Read MoreFor some reason, Audi seems to have a complicated relationship with Vehicle Identification Numbers. They’re not really complicated things, but Audi has admitted to using falsified VINs on South Korean cars in an effort to make emissions testing verification more difficult. As a result of this, three Audi employees are under investigation.
Read MoreThe Ottawa Police Service needs help identifying the car in the image above, as its driver may have information about an 11-year-old girl who has been missing for over two weeks.
Read MoreBack in the heady days of pre-recession 2007 the economy was going gangbusters and Maserati had no problem selling people on the idea of a $1.5 million track day car that they didn’t actually have to own. Back when the car was fresh, Maserati would store, prepare, and transport the racer to the track for you during special events a few times a year. It was, and remains, a play thing for the ultra rich, but at least now you can park it at your house, even if you still can’t drive it on the street
Read MoreIn some ways, this week’s edition of Meh Car Monday is going to be even trickier to write, because it’s not just about one meh car, it’s about a whole meh car brand. The brand is staggeringly meh for a number of reasons: first, it was Canada-only, second, it didn’t even have any cars unique to it, third, it only lasted two years, and nobody still cares enough for a fourth reason. It’s a brand that never really had any reason to exist, and now that it doesn’t exist, it’s basically like it never e
Read MoreA new report from the United Nations offers a terrifying and stark forecast of the immediate consequences of climate change—far worse than previous thought, as The New York Times put it. One particular noteworthy point offered up is a call for cities to transition to electrification, and fast.
Read MoreI can’t say I recommend this, exactly, but it is a thing people do.
Read MoreOne of the major complaints people make about EVs is that they have short ranges and long charging times. The second generation Toyota Rav4 EV sold from 2012 to 2015 was no stranger to that complaint, seeing a range of just 103 miles. The Rav4 EV was built in a partnership between Toyota and Tesla, and a total of 2,489 units were built. This enthusiastic owner wanted to increase the range of his Toyota, and built this simple trailer solution to double his battery capacity, nearly doubling his ra
Read MoreHow did it come to pass that Steve McQueen was bestowed the title of “King of Cool” when Paul Newman was infinitely more badass, arguably more talented on the race track, and unequivocally more talented on the silver screen? Besides, he had to be the baddest mother in the land to finesse this Bob Sharp Racing-prepared Datsun 280ZX around the track to win the SCCA C Production championship in 1979. Now is your chance to own that car.
Read MoreMany years before Honda built their now legendary Accord-based four-slamming-door high-roof miniature van, the Odyssey name was used by Honda’s Powersports division for a minimalist single-seat off-road go-kart. It weighed just under 400 pounds, and used a 250cc two-stroke ripper of an engine for personal off-road mobility.
Read MoreThere’s an old racer’s adage that contends the addition of power is helpful on the straights, but the subtraction of mass is helpful everywhere. By getting your car as light as possible, there is less weight to move through the corners, and even the brakes will perform more efficiently. To put this theory into practice, the folks at CarThrottle removed about 300 pounds from the interior of their BMW 330D wagon to see how much quicker it would be around the short race track they use for testing.
Read MoreThe Tour de Forest rally is going down in Olympia, Washington this weekend, and it’s short one competitor thanks to some damn grand theft rally. Early on Saturday morning, this 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R, in full rally livery and with an extensive West Coast rally history, was stolen from the parking lot of Hotel Red Lion Olympia. The car had run reconnaissance on the stages all day Friday, and was tucked in for the night at 10:30PM. The next morning when the team woke up to check in for Parc Expos
Read MoreImagine. You’re enjoying your day, minding your own business, and then someone from the bank pops over and tells you that they’re seizing your car because you defaulted on a loan that you never actually took out. Welcome to Tage Kendall’s life.
Read MoreThe possibilities for a tire seem pretty limited. Yeah, everyone knows you can stick ‘em on cars. You can make a swing out of them. Throw them around during a workout. Bury them in the ground and let the kids play on them. You’re probably not thinking “I am going to take this tire and make into the most intricately beautiful work of art you’ve ever seen”.
Read MoreElon Musk has had his fair share of questionable headlines recently, but it looks like he’s still out to do a little good in this world. In the midst of July’s rush to save the soccer team trapped in a Thai cave, Musk stated that he wanted to do something about the water contamination problem in Flint, Michigan. Now, according to a tweet made by Flint Community Schools, he’s making good on his promises.
Read MoreAt long last (emphasis on long), we’re finally getting the new Toyota Supra. We know that it’ll share parts with the upcoming 2019 BMW Z4 Roadster. So I guess it’s not that surprising to see a BMW parts catalog supposedly listing the car as part of its supported models.
Read MoreThe beautiful disaster that is H2Oi has made its annual unofficial appearance once again. After being cancelled and moved to Atlantic City, car enthusiasts still show up to Ocean City, Maryland every year for a week-long party and what has been bestowed the honored title of most ticketed car show of all time. This year, H2Oi did not disappoint.
Read MoreYesterday morning in North London, a replica Porsche 356 Speedster was pushed into a canal by a delivery van, producing no serious injuries but a good bit of automotive slapstick.
Read MoreLyft has been trying to push car owners across the U.S. to leave their vehicles parked for a month, offering up to $550 in return that can be used on an array of so-called mobility options—public transit, bike-sharing platforms, and the like. A week in to its expanded effort, the ride-hailing company says it found 150,000 people in 35 cities willing to give it a go. There’s some caveats, though.
Read MoreJust in case you’re planning on doing some crimes and then attempting to escape the authorities by driving really fast, you should probably pay attention to this: Michigan State Police have had a lot of fun on a track, and they’ve found the fastest-accelerating and overall fastest police car: the Ford Police Interceptor Utility. Yes, that big cop SUV will hit 150 mph.
Read MoreChampion Porsche, the Florida dealer at the center of a scandal involving a former employee who’s accused of pocketing $2.5 million in deposits for cars that didn’t exist, has agreed to reimburse victims of the scam, reports Automotive News.
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson, old man who once had a travel show about stereotyping Dutch people and other European nationalities, just actually’d the guy who broke the sound barrier. This is the amazingly dumb Twitter fight I needed today.
Read MoreTesla’s ability to mass-produce the Model 3 sedan has been questioned for months, but the automaker said on Tuesday that production of the all-electric car has been “stabilized.” But while it made more than 52,000 in the third quarter of 2018, the company said it remains stuck in “delivery hell.”
Read MoreLos Angeles authorities have charged a 28-year-old man with a DUI for operating an electric scooter, the first known case of its kind in the city, reports the Associated Press.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cadillac celebrates All Hallows’ Eve two ways—by being a hearse, and by being the last thing you’d want to have chasing you down a dark road. Let’s find out its price is a trick, or a treat.
Read MoreThe Fox body Mustang has long been viewed as offering some of the best bang for your buck you could find. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GT is a lot of bucks, but is it enough bang?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bertone unquestionably has the oddest off-roader name imaginable. The rest of the truck is more fascinating than funky, but its price may still weird you out.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe X6 is a car that is built to really stand out. In fact, shrinking violets likely need not apply when it comes to its purchase. Let’s see if it’s price is as ostentatious as its presentation.
Read MoreNeat, Neat, Neat is an awesome song by the punk band, The Damned. It’s also how the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Supra describes his car. Let’s see if its price makes you think we’re the ones being punk’d.
Read MoreThe GTO in the name of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pontiac stands for Gran Turismo Omolgato, but a more familiar eponym is goat. Let’s see if this muscle-laden coupe’s price makes up for its somewhat barnyard appearance.
Read MoreIf you don’t have anything to do today, you can take a look at the build the seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer undertook. You’ll have to decide if a better use of your time might be just buying it.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe V50 Volvo is a car that you might not recall. To jog your memory: it sports a hairy turbo engine, six-speed stick and AWD. Could that combo, and its price, make it totally memorable?
Read MoreOriginally conceived as an ugly duckling coupe, Triumph’s last-ever TR turned into a beautiful swan once the roof was chopped off. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe TR8 adds balls to that beauty with a modded V8. Let’s see if the price makes it pretty as a picture as well.
Read MoreMovie stand-ins usually do a decent job of mimicking the celebrities they double. That’s not quite the case with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Delor…I mean Bricklin. Let’s see if this weird BttF homage has you trippin’ over its price tag as well as its flux capacitor.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Range Rover has nearly 300,000 on its clock. Let that sink in for a moment—this is a Range Rover after all—then let’s figure out what it’s worth.
Read MoreThese days, go big or go home is a popular mantra by which to live. You could easily do both in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick. That is, if the price is right.
Read MoreThe 25-year import rule allows a lot of interesting cars to be brought to the U.S. these days. With all those choices, someone decided to put the effort toward today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Panda. Let’s see if it was worth the wait.
Read MoreFor a seller who touts the one of one uniqueness of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Camaro, he’s sure parsimonious with the pics he’s using to sell it. We’ll have to see if he’s simply hoping the numbers add up.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 325iX calls it a Winter Beast and says it’s ready for whatever Santa Season has to offer. Let’s see if its price really makes it more accurately a winner beast.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Civic has 233,000 miles on the clock. The thing of it is, not a one of them really shows. Let’s see if this super clean hatch can get a buyer to show up with its asking.
Read MoreA few things aren’t right on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 928. Consider it if you will, a work in progress. Let’s see if this project Porsche’s price makes it a work of art.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Baja Bug brackets its name in his ad with triple Xs like it’s the title of some old school porno movie. We’ll have to see if its price actually makes it that scandalous.
Read MoreI’m going to go out on a limb and say that today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Accord wagon represents the best looking model of the best looking edition of Honda’s mid-size standard barer. Let’s see if this one can bear its asking price.
Read MoreThe dealer selling today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe C63 says in its ad that the car is FAST FAST FAST. That’s entirely possible, but what we’re here to decide is if its price is too HIGH HIGH HIGH.
Read MoreLike movies that are so bad they are good, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pontiac Aztek is a car whose time may finally be at hand. Let’s find out if this camper-equipped Pontiac’s price deserves a round of applause.
Read MoreWhen it was new, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 528e represented the bottom of the E28 model lineup here in the US. It’s not so new now, but will its five-speed stick and price tag ensure it still rises to the occasion?
Read MoreCutting a car’s roof off is usually a bad idea, structurally speaking. That is, unless it’s a body on frame like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cutlass. Let see if this custom droptop’s price makes you weak in the knees.
Read MoreBack in 1984, legendary U.K. motoring journalist L.J.K. Setright called the Ferrari 412—and by extension its 365 GT4 2+2 and 400i siblings—“one of the few most beautiful, and one of the two most elegant, bodies ever to leave the lead of Pininfarina’s pencilling vision.” Many would disagree with such a hot take, but I applaud him his bravery in controversial opinion. And now you can have a gorgeous brand-new 412 in Ares Design’s “Project Pony” rebody of the current GTC4Lusso.
Read MoreOne of the coolest feature on any old car is a set of vent windows: those triangular panes of glass that funnel air in from the outside. Many modern cars have the same triangle-shaped glass on the front doors, except it’s fixed, and therefore useless. This is a huge missed opportunity.
Read MoreGreat news for all you beer drinkers out there: in just a handful of months, independent craft brewer BrewDog is launching their very own airline. And yes, that most definitely means you can now spend your entire flight sampling creative drinks and eating awesome food.
Read MoreIf there is one thing I did not expect to see today, it’s a Nazi cosplaying plane dropping out of the sky and onto Southern California’s 101 freeway. The plane touched down in the center of the northbound lanes, slamming into the center divider and draping one wing over into the southbound lanes about 30 miles west of Los Angeles proper.
Read MoreWhat is it about California and planes suffering mechanical failure only to land in the middle of a highway? It seems like Cali is the only state where this is a regular occurrence—and, as of Friday, we can add another one to the list.
Read MoreOn most flights I’ve been on, everything gets held up even if something as minor as the latch that holds the rolling trash-dolly in place is too tarnished. Only after it’s perfect can the plane take off. That sure as hell wasn’t the case with this Air India flight, which kept right on going even after the pilot clipped the top off a brick wall and whacked into an instrumentation tower.
Read MoreThe National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on that near-miss at San Francisco International Airport in July of last year, where a plane had to abort a landing after nearly colliding with four other loaded planes on the taxiway and nearly took out “over 1,000 people.”
Read MoreThis sounds like something straight out of a goofy military comedy, but I assure you this is real: a Belgian technician accidentally set of the cannon of a military plane during maintenance, which shot another plane. That plane blew up, damaging the initial plane in the process. Talk about a bad day.
Read MoreIn our stupid, overdone, poorly-written summer-replacement-series that currently stands in for reality, you may recall that yesterday hip-hop musician Kanye West met with President Donald Trump, where they discussed, well, things. Among those things was an airplane. An airplane West showed Trump on his iPhone, a plane he said should be made by Apple, run on hydrogen, and is called the iPlane 1. Here’s why all of that is stupid.
Read MoreWhat if you took the best parts of the latest Porsche 911 GTS and put them in a package you could use to haul your family around? That may be a question nobody’s asked until now, but here’s the answer to it: the 2019 Porsche Panamera GTS.
Read MoreIf this is what it takes to get an AE86 properly sideways, I don’t know if I’m up for it.
Read MoreHaving recently kept up with Detroit-bound traffic on I-94 across Michigan in the middle of the night, in the rain and wind in a howling 1970 BMW 2500, I thought I knew what warp speed felt like. Nah. This is WRC Catalunya from over the weekend and holy hell is it fast.
Read MoreLewis Hamilton needed to finish seventh or higher in order to mathematically preclude Sebastian Vettel, his last eligible competitor with a chance, from the 2018 World Championship and take it for himself. By sitting back and allowing everyone else to fight it out, Hamilton trotted home in fourth, the last car on the lead lap in the Mexican Grand Prix. Meanwhile, for the fifth time in his career, Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen comes home with the victory without ever having grabbed a pole posi
Read MoreSébastien Loeb edged out defending WRC champ Sébastien Ogier by 2.9 seconds to win RallyRACC Catalunya this weekend. If that seems like a sentence that could have been written years ago, there’s good reason for that. Loeb has been largely absent from the World Rally Championship since the 2013 season. The French rally ace’s last win was Rally Argentina that year. In the meantime he’s been putting serious efforts into RallyX, WTCC, and Dakar campaigns.
Read MoreThe stories of the handful of women who have attempted a break into Formula One have all been fraught with some kind of disaster. Many of them didn’t qualify. Many of them didn’t finish a race. But no woman’s tale is quite as strange as that of Giovanna Amati, the last woman to have entered a Formula One World Championship race.
Read MoreRookie IndyCar driver Robert Wickens was the victim of a terrifying wreck at Pocono in August, a wreck which broke nearly his entire body. Wickens shared a video Thursday of him in rehabilitation, while also confirming that he is now paraplegic.
Read MoreIf we’re honest, no one truly needs a reason to build a racing circuit on their residential property, there for whenever they feel the need to walk out the front door and tear stuff up. Keeping to that ever-successful life mentality, this New Zealand driver built himself a drifting track right around the edge of his house.
Read MoreThe Porsche 919 Evo is still on its tribute tour through America, with the latest installment in the video series showing it drive up the Pacific Coast Highway. What’s more interesting, though, is that it took a van full of computers, a giant antenna and a team of over 25 people just to get the car rolling.
Read MoreNiki Lauda, hospitalized for a “severe cough” and illness while on vacation just a few days before, underwent a lung transplant in Austria around the beginning of August. Nearly three months later, reports are that the hospital released him to undergo “intensive rehabilitation” over the next few weeks.
Read MoreSantino Ferrucci, the F1 development driver for Haas who infamously had his contract terminated when he intentionally wrecked his teammate in this year’s FIA Formula 2 championship, and drove a racecar with a phone in his hand, has been ordered to pay his former F2 team 502,000 Euros, or just over $575,816 in damages.
Read MoreIn an extended nine-minute interview with The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah got to the basics of what makes Lewis Hamilton who he is. Lewis has a tradition of touring the American talk show scene during the week prior to the U.S. Grand Prix, including a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live two years ago, and Ellen last year. He is a genuine and affable in all of his interviews, but seems particularly comfortable with Noah.
Read MoreKimi Raikkonen’s down to his last few races with the Ferrari Formula One team before heading to Sauber, but he reminded everyone not to count him out just yet on Sunday. In an unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat type of U.S. Grand Prix, Raikkonen won his first F1 race since 2013 while Lewis Hamilton’s fifth-career title got put off for at least another week.
Read MoreThe somewhat awkwardly named BMW i Andretti Motorsport team set the fastest times in Formula E pre-season testing at Valencia this week, some five seconds per lap quicker than the pre-season testing at the same circuit a year ago. The team’s lead driver Antonio Felix da Costa posted the best lap with a 1:16.977s time, absolutely trouncing Oliver Turvey’s 2017 test time of 1:21.822.
Read MoreSchaeffler Group is an incredibly large automotive components conglomerate. It owns companies which produce everything from tires and belts to wheel bearings and EV motors. It is also title sponsor of the Schaeffler Abt Audi Formula E team. As a way of activating that sponsorship, the team built a wild all-wheel drive Audi RS3 race car powered by four Formula E electric motors, one for each wheel. And the team has given Daniel Abt carte blanche to race it in reverse.
Read MoreThe Formula One driver championship is essentially decided, with leader Lewis Hamilton only needing score eight points more than Sebastian Vettel to clinch his fifth title. So, no, that’s not the close, exciting battle battle at this weekend’s U.S. Grand Prix. The real battle is Max Verstappen versus the kerbs.
Read MoreFormula One may be making its one stop of the year in America this weekend, but there’s another red, white and blue flag that’s important to this particular U.S. Grand Prix: the one British F1 star Lewis Hamilton could wave to celebrate his fifth series title on Sunday. He’ll start first in pursuit of that title.
Read MoreCyan Racing, once called Polestar before Volvo bought the name and performance division, is an independent racing team that campaigned Volvos to Touring Car racing victories, most recently winning the 2017 World Touring Car Cup. Now Cyan has partnered with Volvo’s weird new little brother, Lynk & Co to run a Lynk & Co 03 sedan in the FIA World Touring Car Cup.
Read MoreHonestly, the Nürburgring feels kind of like one of those tracks where literally anything goes. You can bring just about anything out there for a track day and mess around, spray paint the track if you think you can get away with it—you name it. Aside from outright reckless behavior, it’s hard to imagine getting banned from the Nürburgring.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreThe McLaren F1 is a car you love. The Toyota Supra is a car you love. The Porsche 911 GT2 is a car you love. The Nissan Skyline GT-R is a car you love. The Toyota MR2 is a car you love(?). The Acura NSX (in this case, technically Honda NSX) is a car you love. Here’s all of them racing against each other. Really.
Read MoreLook, if you’re only going to watch one Formula One race a year, you might as well do it this weekend, when the lone American race on the calendar (for now) comes to Austin, Texas. Here’s what to expect ahead of the U.S. Grand Prix on Sunday.
Read MoreOn the track, it racked up wins. Off the track, it racked up rumor. Its speed was a dream come true. Its handling could be a nightmare. And when the race car vanished, it became the stuff of legend and lore.
Read MoreThe “Kansai All Stars” annual drift competition seeks to crown the best drifters of the Kansai region of Japan, pitting drift teams representing different prefectures against each other in five-car trains. Because it is 2018, the full event coverage was quickly uploaded online, and in it we are treated to the story of the Idiot Son drift car.
Read MoreFormula One is a tight-knit world of distant super-technology, secret from all of us. Even the smallest parts have a kind of mythical glow about them, unattainable. But also, old pieces of these cars show up in private hands all the time, and you can just buy them.
Read MoreThe FIA’s 2020 Hypercar Class, bringing homologation prototypes back to Le Mans, just got a new set of changes. The main focus is that everyone is already trying to fight what killed the series last time: costs and builds getting out of control.
Read MoreRecent reports claim driver Guy Edwards, who ran 11 Formula One races over three years in the 1970s, has died at age 75. Corrections to those reports came out Tuesday morning, with Motorsport.com’s saying a “former colleague of Guy’s was able to track him down ... and confirm that he is very much still with us.” Oops.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure that driving while you really, really have to take a shit is at least as dangerous as driving drunk. Your body tenses up, your focus shifts from the road ahead to the road within, on which you’re desperately trying to stop the flow of, um, traffic—it’s just dangerous. Better to pull over and find a place to poop, like this French rally driver did, mid-race, at the home of an accommodating Welsh couple.
Read MoreA corner worker died in a crash at the recently renamed WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca during a track day over the weekend, the track confirmed to Jalopnik on Monday. A track spokesperson gave no other information on the worker or on what happened in the incident.
Read MoreThis will come as a welcome surprise to that one weird guy in your town with a yard full of transaxles, but a Porsche 968 won a racing event. It won this year.
Read MoreLamborghini finally clinched their first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) class championship during the grueling 10-hour Motul Petit Le Mans race yesterday. The number 48 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 battled for the title with its closest rival, the number 86 Acura NSX.
Read MoreIn the mad dash to make Formula One a more exciting sport, everyone has their ideas that they think will be the biggest factor in crafting a consistently good race product. Now, even Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton is pitching his ideas into the mix: hell yeah, he says, we should have Super Weekends.
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 MoreAfter an officiating miscommunication led to this year’s Formula One Canadian Grand Prix ending a full two laps early, F1 announced Friday that it won’t rely on us humans to end races anymore. A computer will get the responsibility instead, and digital checkered flags will be the new norm.
Read MoreRed Bull’s motorsport program will let MotoGP riders test Formula One cars for publicity and all of that junk, but you better believe the privilege isn’t the same the other way around. When Red Bull F1 driver Max Verstappen asked to get on a racing bike for fun, the team shut that idea down because it’s too dangerous.
Read MoreRed Bull loves to put its F1 cars in places where you would not normally see F1 cars. And it is pretty cool to see them off track. Max Verstappen has raced up a mountain in the Alps and pulled donuts in downtown Budapest. Red Bull’s latest video puts Verstappen on a road trip that will take him along the Continental Divide in Colorado and Miami Beach, Florida, and nowhere else. Talk about flyover country—Red Bull couldn’t even be bothered to drive through it!
Read MoreAt Rennsport Reunion, an event full of every conceivable mind-blowing Porsche that you can think of, one car upstaged them all. It wasn’t an ex-Le Mans car, a shop build funded by an unlimited pocketbook, or even a Paris-Dakar racer. It was this rowdy, dirty, lifted 1974 911 Targa with the fenders sawzalled off that competes in off-road racing. It wasn’t even racing at Rennsport and it won the weekend.
Read MoreThat is, it does until the engine blows up.
Read MoreStadium Super Trucks founder Robby Gordon’s had issues with racing officials in Australia, like when they banned him from competing for doing donuts in a race truck on the street. But this new spat is far bigger: This week, the Supreme Court of Victoria upheld a suspension of his entire series from the country.
Read MoreGymkhana—those ridiculously entertaining videos featuring rally driver Ken Block doing insane stunts in absurd driftmobiles—is now a new Amazon Prime video series called “The Gymkhana Files.” And my god does it look promising.
Read MoreFIA Group 5 class racing went through four distinct generations from the early touring car races of the late 1960s through the off-the-wall bonkers silhouette racers that dominated the international sports car scene from about 1975 to about 1983. Perhaps the most iconic and dominant racer developed for this series was Porsche’s 935, but its closest competitor—in Europe, at least—was the Zakspeed Group 5 Capri.
Read MoreThe idea of a “female Formula One championship” has been public for more than a year, and that idea—now called the “W Series”—will apparently become a reality with its inaugural season this spring. It has merits from a practicality standpoint, at the cost of taking a large step back for women in the context of motorsport.
Read MoreMonster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne announced in August that he would retire from full-time NASCAR competition after this season, but he won’t finish the season after all. Just two weeks after that announcement, bizarre complications with heat exhaustion sidelined him indefinitely.
Read MoreThere have been rumors about Formula One heading to Vietnam’s capital for a street race all year, but it won’t be as easy as putting down some paint, rumble strips and kerbs. If it happens, the race will take place on a mesh of street course and purpose-built F1 circuit, which will then also become a public street.
Read MoreSomewhere inside Porsche must be a secret directive to race everything they make. Someone has to race the Porsche—or else it is no Porsche. We’ve seen everything from rally Cayennes to Panamera touring cars, and now, at last, I got to watch Porsche tractors race on Laguna Seca. Yes, tractors. I even got to drive one after the race to see how it worked! My life is now complete.
Read MoreAmerica’s short tracks have long been plagued by closures, with small, defunct ovals scattered across Google Maps, some captured in time before developers’ bulldozers took them out and others slowly succumbing to the growing weeds. But Badlands Motor Speedway in South Dakota is a bizarre case all around.
Read MoreAfter picking up the pole position in this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, with Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas playing the ever reliable wing man on the outside of the front row, Lewis Hamilton got away at the start with the ease of a seasoned veteran. With ease, he quickly stretched out a length or two at the front. Hamilton’s only championship rival, Sebastian Vettel, had started down in eighth position, but launched up the field to fourth, thanks in part to Max Verstappen collidin
Read MoreWhen Annie Soisbault imagined herself as a figure in the sporting world, she didn’t see herself as a racing driver—not at first. With seven French junior titles to her name, Soisbault thought she would surely be a tennis champion, competing internationally and taking home coveted wins at Wimbledon.
Read MoreWelcome to Formula One in the early 1960s. I bet you’re expecting free-wheeling danger-loving manly men competing for the World Championship, the Steve McQueen cool that everyone expects of drivers in the sport’s most dangerous era—especially from a team as prestigious as Ferrari. So, what if I told you that the battle for first came down to a neurotic skilled at worrying himself sick and a German count with a degree in agriculture?
Read MoreIt’s the most wonderful time of year, folks. A whole slew of wonderful, beautiful overpowered sedans will line up to kick off a 621-mile party around Australia’s notoriously difficult Mount Panorama Circuit. That’s right—the Bathurst 1000 is kicking off tonight, and we’re here to tell you how to watch it.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreFor whatever reason D1's lower-tier league does not seem to have as high microphone quality as the main D1GP Japanese drifting series. As such, D1 Light’s three announcers basically blew out their levels all through the most recent round at Ebisu. It was glorious.
Read MoreSuzuka is one of the greatest F1 tracks in the world, home to one of the most difficult, committed corners on any circuit: the high-speed 130R. This year, Formula 1 drivers want to take it with DRS on, their rear wings wide open.
Read MoreLook, we know. You’ve read the Harry Potter series 27 times. You’d still be afraid of vampires if it weren’t for the Twilight books, but now you feel like you’re fully prepared to seduce one into not killing you. You have a deep appreciation of the written word in all of its glorious forms.
Read MoreWomen are showing the boys’ club how it’s done in racing lately, as they often do—like 17-year-old Hailie Deegan winning a NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race in her 18th start, or Ana Carrasco becoming the first female motorcycle racing world champion. Here’s what women in motorsports are up to lately.
Read MoreRacing schools seem to be pretty notoriously difficult to keep in business. Just take a look at the Skip Barber Racing School, which filed for bankruptcy in May of 2017. Now, the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving—a name that almost needs no introduction in the world of speed—has followed suit, filing for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday afternoon.
Read MoreNASCAR wants the cars in its top-level Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series to not string out like a broken bracelet from a Walmart claw machine, and encourage actual side-by-side/back-and-forth racing. NASCAR will try to do that, in part, by taking its Cup Series cars from about 800 horsepower down to 550.
Read MoreThe first question I had when I watched the short video of Vaughn Gittin Jr. drifting the Nürburgring was how many sets of tires did he go through? Three, the answer is three sets of Nitto NT555 G2s.
Read MorePorsche ran one of its last-of-the-oddballs Indy racers at Rennsport Reunion this past weekend, briefly letting the turbo V8 sing in its 1990 March chassis. What I find particularly charming is how the team pulled some data from the car.
Read MoreAny trip to Texas in September is expected to be a scorcher. But that’s what Americas Rallycross and the new World Rallycross got when they came to Circuit of The Americas this weekend. Still, 18,000 fans braved the heat and patches of rain for one hell of a show, and what we hope will be a strong start to years of quality dirt-filled racing in Austin.
Read MoreThe 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans started on June 17 and ended June 18, nearly four months ago. On Oct. 2, Le Mans organizers announced the official finishing order of the race. A drawn-out penalty appeal left a group of class winners unaware of whether they’d actually won for four months. And now we know, so that’s good.
Read MoreNASCAR’s made a lot of changes to its top levels in the past couple of years, like overhauling how its races and championships work. There’s a lot that still needs to change. But the impacts of competition changes NASCAR has made have been arguable at best, and largely targeting the wrong thing—until the roval, that is.
Read MoreFormula One wants more uncertainty, and, theoretically, there are a few simple ways to do that: becoming a spec series, gagging the people giving team orders, slashing Ferrari and Mercedes’ tires, or, perhaps less effectively, changing the qualifying system. F1 seems to be leaning toward the latter.
Read MoreYesterday, the Soyuz rocket carrying an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut failed, forcing the crew capsule to make a dramatic ballistic descent back to Earth, just as the abort system is intended to do. The rocket failure means the Soyuz spacecraft and booster will be grounded until the problem is found, which leaves the world in a unique position: for the first time, the only access to space is not via the United States or Russia. It’s through China. It also may be time for America to
Read MoreElectric car startup Faraday Future is circling the drain (again), with the company confirming Tuesday that co-founder Nick Sampson has departed and most employees will be furloughed. At the same time, embattled CEO Jia Yueting is dealing with serious problems of his own: a Chinese investor is trying to convince a California judge to make Jia repay a $100 million debt he incurred back in China.
Read MorePlenty of auto manufacturers are known for high-tech factories that make halo cars. But usually those facilities are in Europe, like Bugatti’s sparkling white plant in France or McLaren’s incredible speed laboratory in England. Acura would like you to change your thinking here, one of the most advanced car factories in the world can be found in America’s heartland.
Read MoreIt’s possible that the Volkswagen Beetle has one of the most complicated and often disturbing origin stories of any car, which is why there’s often so much fascination surrounding really early cars. Very early cars are notoriously difficult to find, which is why the restoration of this car, with a serial number of 20, is such a big deal. What’s also a big deal is the incredible level of detail and, let’s be honest, the sheer, intense VW-geekery.
Read MoreA game-like survey called the Moral Machine has been polling over two million people from 233 countries over the past two years to get their input on how autonomous vehicles should behave, morally, in life-or-death situations. The results from the massive poll have now been published in the journal Nature, and the results are somewhat expected, but there are some surprises.
Read MoreTesla pulled out all the stops over the summer to hit an ambitious target set by Elon Musk: report a profit in the third quarter of this year. The automaker indeed posted a $312 million profit on Wednesday, a tremendous feat to consider, given it’s making only all-electric cars. So what now?
Read MoreComputer vision is no joke. It’s remarkably difficult to get inert bits of metal and silicon to be able to look around themselves and generate some idea of what’s around them. That’s why it’s really not all that surprising to see mistakes like this. But that doesn’t mean it’s not also kind of funny, because we humans very rarely mistake washers and dryers for buses unless we’re really, really drunk.
Read MoreToday, as we swung forlornly in our individual work-pods, a number of us here at the Jalopnik Automotive Content Origination Facility (JACOF) found ourselves drawn into a strange discussion: what counts as an automatic transmission, or a manual transmission? It seems obvious, but it’s actually a little more complex.
Read MoreSome of you hardcore machining enthusiasts have probably known about abrasive flow, also known as extrude honing, for a while now. I just discovered it, and I can’t stop watching the cleansing metallic ooze flowing through manifolds, leaving clean and polished intakes in their wake. They’re like those awful pimple-popping videos, only not as disgusting and vastly more satisfying.
Read MoreThe 2019 Jaguar I-Pace has generated plenty of buzz, with the automaker expecting it to produce 240 miles of range on a single charge. The official result, per multiple reports, is that Jaguar landed a few miles shy of that target, clocking in at 234 total.
Read MoreWhile smacking your hand into the center of a steering wheel is the generally-accepted default way to sound a car’s horn, there’s been a number of other methods over the years: rings, buttons, stalks, levers—honk-producing actions have been wildly varied. Perhaps one of the greatest yet mostly forgotten ways was an option on many American car brands from 1969 to 1974—the Rim Blow steering wheel.
Read MoreMy 2008 Honda Fit Sport had been a model of reliability until, a few weeks ago while driving back from upstate, I began to smell something, like plastic burning. I pulled over and opened the hood and saw a puff of smoke rise out. About $1,600 and several days later, I began to contemplate if my 10-year-old car was in fact well into its adulthood.
Read MoreThis is Tesla’s brand new charging station in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong—a site that Tesla calls one of the biggest Tesla destination charging stations on earth, and the very biggest one in Asia. My brother and his friend just stopped by the facility to have a look. Here’s what he saw.
Read MoreI’m a little concerned about the lives of some of our readership, as one reader named Anubhav emailed us to let us know he was so bored he was actually spending time on Buick’s website. While this suggests deeper problems, he did notice one strange detail: on the promo video for the Regal GS, the car seems to have a burned-out headlight.
Read MoreJohn Barrasso, a Republican senator from Wyoming, got over $400,000 from the oil and gas industries in the last election cycle, more than anyone in Congress, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. So it’s something less than a surprise that on Tuesday, Barrasso introduced legislation to wipe out the federal electric vehicle tax credit.
Read MoreSimulated and amplified engine sounds are all the rage these days, and there are various ways to implement them. Systems that use the speakers to play a noise like those from BMW are often chided for being fake, but those that just pipe in the vibrations to the cabin are somewhat accepted. Ferrari has filed a patent application for such a system but with a lot more complexity.
Read MoreThere are many, many ideas and concepts and startup companies around right now that envision shared autonomous vehicles as a way to eliminate private car ownership. For many people, that’s great, but for people like us, filthy-fingernailed car lovers, there’s not all that much appeal to these ideas. But autonomy doesn’t just have to serve those who don’t care about cars—autonomous vehicles have the potential to make car ownership better, too, and I think I have an idea how.
Read MoreElectric vehicle batteries are a problematic business: About half of the carbon generated by building the whole car is dedicated to the lithium-ion cell system, they weigh a lot—the Tesla Model S’ clocks in at 1,200 pounds, even at the smaller 85kWh size—and then there’s charging time, which for your current average electric car is measured in hours and not minutes.
Read MoreJust days after copping to an extremely generous settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over his infamous “funding secured” tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked the agency on Thursday with glee, calling it the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission” (ha ha) and potentially scuttling the entire deal for, I dunno, a joke? Nonetheless, the SEC’s probably hopping mad today, and it totally deserves what happened.
Read MoreHey, there. Feeling kinda stressed out? Overworked? Under-rested? Girl, saaame. Extremely same. That’s why you should take three and a half minutes out of your busy day to just sit back, relax a bit and watch this Polestar 1 prototype build video. It’ll help you find some inner peace.
Read MoreI’ve always thought that the BMW i3 is one of the most originally-designed cars you can get today, inside and out. It’s also the only battery-electric vehicle on the market that can be bought with an internal-combustion range-extender option. Well, it was, because BMW announced they’ll be dropping the range-extender version in favor of an i3 with an improved battery that extends the range to 193 miles.
Read MoreSemi-autonomous features are increasingly prevalent in cars these days but also, as many have argued (including myself) possibly very dangerous. Today, Consumer Reports published their rankings of four of the most widely known semiautonomous systems, finding that Cadillac’s Super Cruise was the best and Volvo’s, well, not.
Read MoreSee? And you thought all that praying to Ahura Mazda was for nothing, right? Well it worked: Mazda’s legendary Wankel rotary engine is coming back! To cars! Of course, Ahura Mazda’s power isn’t exactly what it was back in 500 BCE, so there’s a catch: the rotaries will just be used as range extenders for upcoming Mazda electric cars. Still, the rotary’s back! Finally, you can have apex seal problems on an electric car!
Read MoreLevel 2 autonomy is the best we have on any production car sold today, and it’s not that great, really. Level 2 requires the person in the driver’s seat to be ready to take over driving at a moment’s notice. There’s several ways to try to make sure this is possible, from easily defeated steering wheel sensors like Tesla, to Cadillac’s use of cameras to watch your eyes. BMW has announced it will use a similar eye-watching system.
Read MoreBig Oil doesn’t like a carbon tax, I’m shocked, Chinese spies blamed for plane tech theft, GM profit surges while Mazda sees losses, and Elon Musk is busy trying to make things happen at SpaceX. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for a very spooky Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018.
Read MoreAutomakers squabbling over emissions regulations, Brexit anxiety, Chinese car sales and more await you in this The Morning Shift for Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018.
Read MoreFCA might not abandon Ram production in Mexico after all, China considers an EV sales tax cut, and NHTSA’s thinking about headlights—all of this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.
Read MoreGM’s beefing with the Trump administration, Honda might move some Fit production to Japan, and Ford and Volkswagen are becoming better friends—all of this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.
Read MoreElectric-vehicle production, fights over fuel-economy standards, earnings reports, unprovoked car fires and Aston Martin’s Brexit headaches—all of this and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model 3 is changing short-sellers’ minds, GM’s Cruise is lagging behind, and the DOT is getting fidgety about self-driving car safety. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, October 24, 2018.
Read MoreExpensive trade wars, who the shorts REALLY want to win, and burning BMWs. This is the Morning Shift for October 23, 2018.
Read MoreGM get the Ford treatment, Germany can’t make up its mind, and for some reason regulators can’t just trust Audi with “software updates.” These stories and more for The Morning Shift on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018.
Read MoreFord tries to reassure the public and its dealers that it knows what it’s doing, Trump’s auto tariffs are an “open question” and Porsche’s doing great. These stories and more for The Morning Shift on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018.
Read MoreA new study implying that legalizing marijuana could cause more car crashes, more news on Hyundai and Kia fire reports, VW’s boss says the future of Germany’s auto industry could be bleak, and much more. This is The Morning Shift for October 18, 2018.
Read MoreTesla forges ahead in China, Ford maybe forges ahead with a VW partnership, hot J.B. Hunt trucking news, and much more. This is The Morning Shift for October 17, 2018.
Read MoreIt’s grave times out there for the auto industry. I mean, something must be going wrong, because BMW and Mercedes-Benz are working together. All that and more on The Morning Shift for October 16, 2018.
Read MoreFord’s looming layoffs, a Chinese electric car company is actually selling cars, and Sears is nearly dead. This is The Morning Shift for October 15, 2018.
Read MoreTesla’s tax credit time is up, oil production is at all time highs, BMW isn’t confident about next year, and an auto supplier founder is suing his daughter over the family fortune. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, Oct. 12, 2018.
Read MoreChina’s struggling auto sales, German automakers fighting stricter emissions regulations, an American leading the Volkswagen North America arm, joint ventures in China and talks about ethanol. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.
Read MoreCar loan interest rates are too high, a Tesla investor takes a big stake in a rival, and so much more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.
Read MoreSurprising (and bad) news for Jaguar Land Rover, the prospect of a Chinese-built Lexus, and so much more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018.
Read MoreThe real reason SUVs and crossovers are performing so well, Americans can barely afford new cars, Faraday Future is still a mess and more today on The Morning Shift for Monday, Oct. 8, 2018.
Read MoreCalifornia’s considering a counter-proposal to the Fed’s desire to freeze mpg standards, new autonomous car development guidelines are out, why Honda chose to work with GM instead of Google’s Waymo and more. This is The Morning Shift for Friday, Oct. 5, 2018.
Read MorePickup trucks are shockingly expensive, the Tesla Model 3 is selling well, oil prices are creeping up and more. This is The Morning Shift for Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018.
Read MoreMore bad news for Ford, Honda’s sedans struggle, good news for Elon Musk’s profits and so much more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018.
Read MoreThings are not looking good for the supposedly most advanced and technically able auto industry in the world. The day of regulatory reckoning is here, in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018.
Read MoreA new NAFTA deal, more battles over fuel-economy regulations, a jailed CEO with the chance for a big payday, and the sedan that keeps on dying. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.
Read MoreFayetteville, Arkansas outlet 40/29 News reported on Oct. 15 that maintenance crews had to go check on a bridge about an hour away from the city after a bus that was more than three times the weight limit drove across it. The bridge, built in 1949 and called Beaver Bridge, is wooden and has one lane—perfect for a giant bus to stage the most clenching video of the week.
Read MoreThis car did not start out as a jacked-up off-roader destined for deep mud pits. No, it was a fairly basic mode of transportation, likely owned by a suburban family of four that wanted something reliable with all-wheel drive to get Timmy to swim practice in January. But now the car is something different. Very different.
Read MoreI’ll tell you what I thought the first time I laid eyes on the 2019 BMW X5: It was so damn plain! “WHERE IS ALL THE CARBON FIBER!?” I bellowed at the clouds. “HOW WILL EVERYONE KNOW THAT IT IS SPORTY?” And the BMW gods, forever listening for people clamoring to spend money, answered.
Read MoreWhen we last left off with Ken Block and his next Gymkhana film, we didn’t know much about it, except that there would be a series of episodes on Amazon Prime of behind-the-scenes footage of the upcoming GymkhanaTEN. The Hoonitruck, unveiled today, will be the official hoon tool and it’s as badass as they come.
Read MoreI just returned from a Ford event in which I got to take a ride in a 2019 Ford Ranger on a heavily-groomed “off-road course.” And while I can’t draw any huge conclusions, I can say this: I’m beyond excited to test this thing off-road against its mid-size truck rivals like the Tacoma, Colorado and Frontier. Because on paper, it looks like it could put up a good fight.
Read MoreWe’ve been really hard on what Nissan has been doing with its stateside lineup lately, but it’s not our fault they save the coolest stuff for other markets. It’s been knocking its off-road stuff out of the park recently, first with bringing back the XTerra for everyone but us, and now with these rad Nissan Patrol special editions.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ford Ranger Raptor sailed into our off-road dreams in a fury of spraying dirt and splashing mud. And then those dreams were subsequently smashed because we also learned that the version we’ve seen wouldn’t be coming to the U.S. market. So if you’re driving around (likely in Michigan) and you see a 2019 Ranger Raptor, do not get your hopes up. That’s not the one for us.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Fiat Chrysler announced a recall for over 18,000 2018 and 2019 Jeep Wranglers because failing welds were causing a critical suspension mounting bracket to detach from the frame. Now we have the instructions for how Fiat Chrysler plans to fix the bad frames, which the company said could cause some Jeeps to “crash without prior warning.”
Read MoreMy coworker Ryan Felton knows absolutely nothing about Jeep history, and yet for some reason he insisted on tormenting me—me, of all people—with a “history lesson.” The resulting video is the dumbest, most factually-inaccurate recording in automotive history. Do not let your children watch.
Read MoreThe Ford F-Series lineup of trucks is extensive and ranges from consumer versions of the F-150 all the way up to commercial versions of the F-750. That truck and the F-650 are Class 6 vehicles that are called the Ford Medium Duty range. But they may not be around for long. Update: A Ford spokesman more vigorously denied this report after it was published.
Read MoreToday a couple of my colleagues were discussing on the internet that the late 1970s to mid 1980s Ford F-Series was a remarkably good-looking truck, better than most people think of it. And that’s true, but it did make me wonder what the best-looking truck actually is. Like, the best ever.
Read MoreWhile a midsize truck like the Ford Ranger might brag about a pitiful 2.3-liter turbocharged four cylinder, the full-size Chevy Silverado will now sport a hulking 2.7 liter, now rated by the EPA at 20 city/23 highway/21 combined mpg.
Read MoreThe Bollinger B1 is a rugged-looking, American-made, electric SUV that incorporates one of the most brilliant designs in auto history from a space-utilization standpoint. And soon it’s getting a truck sibling: the B2 pickup, which promises even better cargo storage capabilities.
Read MoreThe number of new cars available with a manual transmission gets smaller every year, and even sports sedans like the new BMW 3 Series are getting rid of them for the U.S. market. And while trucks and SUVs have overwhelmingly been equipped with automatics in recent years, we might have a new savior in the form of the upcoming 2020 Ford Bronco.
Read MoreNew Jeep Wrangler JL owners have been complaining about frame welds for months, and some have even experienced frame failures at a critical suspension mounting bracket. Now Fiat Chrysler is issuing a recall due to risk of a “vehicle crash without prior warning.” Here’s why this is such a big deal.
Read MoreThe only engine available for the 2019 Ford Ranger will be a 2.3-liter EcoBoost turbo four-cylinder. And even while it’s down on cylinder count from V6 competitors like the Chevy Colorado, Ford claims it beats every other gasoline engine in its class when it comes to sheer torque.
Read MoreI have to admit, I sort of admire this person’s determination and willingness to help his friends. These are admirable qualities, it’s just that they maybe didn’t execute their plans in the best way. At least, that’s what the Valley Division CHP felt, when they arrested this person who appears to have been driving a rental box truck towing an SUV, which was, in turn, towing a camping trailer. That’s a train, buddy.
Read MoreWhen I bought my 1976 Jeep DJ-5D postal Jeep back in August, I knew it wasn’t going to be perfect. $500 cars rarely are. But after recently taking a closer look at my purchase, I realized that my long-time desire to own a postal Jeep definitely had gotten the best of me. Because this thing is rough.
Read MoreWhile cleaning my house on Saturday, I took a peek under a tarp in my garage, and rediscovered a car that I hadn’t really thought about in years: my “secret” 1966 Ford Mustang. It’s a vehicle that’s just been sitting for nearly a decade, and I think I need to do something about it.
Read MoreIn general, I try to avoid in-home explosions when I can. I mean, nobody’s perfect, and, sure, some explosions are going to slip through the cracks, right? Of course they will. Like the explosion that must have happened last night, to a car battery I kept in my basement office/workshop/dork lair.
Read MoreIt’s about that time of year when most people start thinking about shopping for winter tires in preparation for the cold and snowy months. We’ve written about the importance of winter tires before, but here’s how you can decide what size tire to buy.
Read MoreHow did my house devolve to this level? This is the question I asked myself last night after returning from a five week stay in Germany to a suburban Michigan home that has become, essentially, a junkyard. Just look at this place!
Read MoreOne of our dashing readers emailed us just now with a question I’m not really sure I’m seeking an answer to: “Want to know just how truly disgusting people are?” our reader asks, rhetorically, because he damn well knows the answer. He suggests that those who want to know the answer to that question simply seek out service technicians and have them describe cars that have been brought in. Then, he sent us this picture. This horrible, humanity-shaming picture. Now, out of equal parts cruelty and c
Read MoreMy 1999 Audi A6 Avant is a nice old car. The emphasis however is on old and that means it needs a good bit of attention to keep it happy. Here’s what that entailed this year, along with a handy Pain-In-The-Ass scale for each.
Read MoreYou may have noticed I’ve been silent about my recent BMW E30 purchase. The fanfare of buying an elderly autobahn cruiser has been met with months devoid of updates. I can tell you it’s not because I’m having the time of my life driving it. It’s because I found something catastrophic within.
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