If you’re looking for a microcosm of why traffic in American cities keeps getting worse, look no further than Manhattan’s 14th Street. One of the city’s busiest streets and an important crosstown route, the wide boulevard is constantly snarled in gridlock, a state of affairs that has only gotten worse in the last few years.
Read MoreThe Brisbane Festival is an annual three-week arts extravaganza in Queensland’s capital, traditionally ending with some military flyovers before a lot of fireworks are set off in an event called Sunsuper Riverfire. This year, like in 2018, that included a C-17A Globemaster, looking pretty spry as it made it’s way among the city’s skyscrapers.
Read MoreAmong a sea of rubber-necking passersby, a woman from Bulgaria stops dead in her tracks, and some Polish men in a van slow to crawl. Eventually a dark-colored Porsche Cayenne rolls up and its windows rolls down slowly, revealing a young man originally from Moscow with many questions. All approach the car as one would an estranged, childhood friend.
Read MoreA Russian Navy expedition to the frozen wastes of the Arctic last week ended in disaster when one of the expedition ships was lost to hostile forces, specifically the kind with flippers and whiskers. The ship, an inflatable landing boat, was sunk by a walrus after the Russian expedition was deemed a threat to nearby walrus cubs. No walruses—or Russians—were injured in the action.
Read MoreJapan, which at the start of World War II was the proprietor of the world’s mightiest aircraft carrier fleet, is getting back into the naval aviation game after decades. Under pressure to counter a growing Chinese navy and air force, the island country is planning to convert two “helicopter destroyers” into full-fledged aircraft carriers, built to carry F-35B Joint Strike Fighters.
Read MoreIn the 1986 science fiction movie Aliens, heroine Ellen Ripley dons a powered exoskeleton suit to engage in hand to hand combat with the Xenomorph Queen alien. Now, thanks to modern technology, the U.S. Marines may soon do the same. Sort of. And minus the Xenomorph. (Hopefully.)
Read MoreOn September 14, some as-yet officially unknown perpetrators launched a complex attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. The attack was apparently carried out by drones, cruise missiles, or both. It cut Saudi Arabia’s oil exports by half, a big deal considering the country supplies 10 percent of all oil worldwide. Thanks to a handful of drones halfway across the planet, you could soon pay up to nine dollars more to fill up your F-150 at the pump. Call it the Drone Effect.
Read MoreTwice in the last month, the President of the United States has claimed that the Pentagon has weapons even more powerful than nuclear weapons, with the ability to easily kill millions. He is either bluffing, confused, or is incapable of understanding the difference between conventional and nuclear weapons.
Read MoreThe 2020 Zero SR/F fires up in total silence—it’s a trip. There’s no exhaust rumble or clattering pistons, just a few lights on the TFT dash. “Are you sure it’s on,” more than one person asked. But when you twist the throttle, you finally hear something. And more importantly–you feel something.
Read MoreSeventy percent Americans think showering the rest of the world with tanks, ships, planes, radar and munitions makes the U.S. less safe, according to a new survey, a bipartisan consensus on a policy that both Republican and Democratic administrations have embraced. Imagine that.
Read MoreA year ago, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis ordered America’s air forces to achieve what seemed like an unattainable goal: make eight out of 10 fighter jets ready for action within one year. Today, a good chunk of the Pentagon’s fighter inventory is set to hit that goal—all except for the newest, so-called “fifth generation” fighter jets. The disparity between the readiness of newer jets versus older ones calls into question whether stealth aircraft are too complicated to maintain such hi
Read MoreMaybe it was because I had just climbed out of a BMW i8 to get into the 2019 BMW X7, but man was I floored by how huge it was. Huge in every sense. Huge in stature. Huge in girth. Huge in presence. Huge to sit in. I was really going to have to exercise some serious depth perception with this car.
Read MoreThe Porsche 911 Speedster turns anywhere it stops into a postcard scene. Looking at it is fun; sitting inside is spectacular. Then you step on the gas, and die, drowned in a sense of pure heroism and hedonism. It is nothing short of glorious and you’ll never forget it.
Read More“Does it shit and git?” a rally crew member from another team asked me after I rolled up to my hotel in a burbling and strikingly green 2019 Dodge Durango SRT. “What...yes? I think so,” I replied.
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 selling a car with an extended warranty, avoiding markups with employee pricing, and buying a high mileage hot hatchback.
Read MoreJ.C. has had three Mustangs, but it’s time to upgrade. He has a healthy budget, too. But this new ride has to fit a car seat, have three pedals, and he would prefer something that has a different character than Ford’s V8 pony car. What car should he buy?
Read MoreToyota says the 2020 Supra feels different to drive than its mechanical twin, the 2020 BMW Z4 M40i. Actually, since the start, both carmakers have been hammering about how distinguished each car is, telling us they went off their own separate ways once the shared architecture was laid out.
Read MoreAfter more than seven years of production, the Tesla Model S finally has another high-performance electric sedan to compete against: the 2020 Porsche Taycan. In Turbo S form, it’s a 750-horsepower all-wheel drive EV that can rocket from zero to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds. It isn’t perfect, but after driving it over 400 miles through Europe, I came away more excited than ever about our electric future.
Read MoreI didn’t have much time with the 2020 Kia Telluride, but a few laps around town was enough to notice that it feels very low and long from the driver’s seat, much more so than any other truck-looking SUV I’ve been in lately. It’s the most disparate vehicle on a scale of “looks like a truck, feels like a car” I’ve driven, and I definitely don’t hate it.
Read MoreSport compact cars have come a long way since the days when they were warmed-over econoboxes. We’re now spoiled with fire-breathing, 300-plus horsepower compacts that’ll rip a new one to genuine high-performance machines, cars like the current Honda Civic Type R or the I’m-still-hanging-in-there Subaru WRX STI.
Read MoreThe trusty 2013 Vauxhall Astra used in Top Gear’s ‘Star in a Reasonably Priced Car’ segment from 2013-2015 is hitting the auction block. That’s right—the lucky purchaser of this vehicle will have the opportunity to pretend that they, too, are among the celebrities who have graced the driver’s seat of this car.
Read MoreEvan currently drives a brown Audi wagon, but like many of us he can’t seem to stay focused on owning the same car for a while. He’s looking to change it up with something faster that can sacrifice some practicality but still has all-weather versatility. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe 2020 Toyota Camry TRD and its larger Avalon TRD sibling are the natural next evolutions of the company’s sneaky push to inject more energy into its historically dull sedan lineup. It’s working, kind of.
Read MoreThere are some experiences of such intense beauty that they can cause your brain to short-circuit a little. Whipping the 2020 McLaren GT on an empty mountain road in the south of France, turning a sharp corner only to be immediately faced with a monolithic column of rock was definitely one of those moments. I heard a pop. Some important connection fizzled out. I may never be the same again.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of debate as to whether the BMW i3 was a success or not for the Bavarian brand. It was an incredibly interesting experiment, but its range left a lot to be desired, even with the gasoline engine option. But it must have done well enough to stick around a bit longer, and the good news for you is that some really nice examples can be had for less than $15,000.
Read MoreWhen I told my husband I’d be driving the 2020 Cadillac XT6 as my first-ever review car, he was far more stoked than I was about being in a proper SUV. “Just wait—you’re going to love it,” he said. “You’re not gonna want to go back to driving your shitty little hatchback all the time.”
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 issued revealed on a used car inspection, lift kits voiding warranties, and how long it should take a dealer to locate a vehicle.
Read MoreBrian’s wife loved her Audi Allroad but it met an untimely end. She is looking for a replacement wagon but wants something a bit more unique this time. She has a fairly healthy budget for an all-wheel drive hauler. What car should she buy?
Read MoreHave you ever been doing something, minding your own business, say, perhaps, in the middle of a flapjack eating contest, when it suddenly hits you that all of the great mid-engine minivans of the 1980s and 1990s are just gone, at least here in America? Instead of letting that despair consume you, causing you to eject a near-volleyball-sized mass of semi-chewed pancake onto the table in front of you, I’d like to give you hope by letting you know that the famous Mitsubishi Delica minivan is still
Read MoreThe 2019 Honda Passport has been heavily marketed as off-roady and adventurous. In reality, it can’t really do anything other small-medium SUVs can’t, but it’s a well-designed vehicle. If your expeditions are mostly around town and on the highway with some dirt miles in the mix, it’s hard to beat.
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 buying cars from far away, custom orders from Japanese luxury brands, and how to ethically off-load a lemon.
Read MoreOur world is generally pretty well understood. There are no more undiscovered continents, we’re in pretty much constant communication with everyone, everywhere, all the damn time, which means true mysteries are that much more precious. That’s why I’d like all of you to really enjoy knowing the fact that there is currently a hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai for sale in New Jersey, a mere 2,364 miles from the nearest hydrogen fueling station in America.
Read MoreIt’s tough to climb out of the 2019 Acura MDX Sport Hybrid with complaints. The vehicle’s very smooth, comfortable and easy to use. But its simplistic interface, which makes the SUV a standout in user-friendliness, also breaks the spell of opulence that makes luxury cars appealing in the first place.
Read MoreBrad flies private jets for a variety of clients, but despite the flashy nature of his job he has a pretty modest car. He is looking for something that can “blend in” a little better with some of the fancier rides that show up at the airport. However, he is working with a reasonable budget of around $30,000. What car should he buy?
Read MoreIt’s another sad day for small cars as the Fiat 500 hatchback will end its time here in America. This especially stings because the naughty, noisy 500 Abarth was probably the most fun you can have in a car of that size. However, if we are really honest with ourselves, the real value for these cars were the pre-owned models because you can get a lot of fun for not a lot of money.
Read MoreShortly after the 2020 Porsche Taycan dropped, with 750 horsepower and a $185,000 price tag for certain versions, the configurator went up, too. Are you bored at work and need to kill some time? Let’s do this thing together!
Read MoreLet’s say that you’ve decided the time is right for you to make the leap to an electric car, and let’s also say you have a damp paper bag full of $35,000 to spend. There’s a number of options out there, but I’d like to focus on the two most commonly cross-searched options. Should you buy a Tesla Model 3 or 20 of these weird Chinese no-name EVs that look a bit like shrunken Ford Raptors from Alibaba? It’s not an easy choice, but I’m here to help.
Read MoreThe Dodge Charger is one of the survivors of the sedanpocalypse, and in terms of features, it is thriving. The newest iteration of the model, the Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody—the wide body being the new part—now has a price tag, and it’ll run you a casual $69,645 on the low end.
Read MoreWhen the Nissan R35 GT-R came out in 2007, it ate Porsches for breakfast. It quickly established itself as nothing short of a missile on four wheels and with a sub-$80,000 price tag, it was the ultimate bang-for-your-buck deal of the century. It’s time for a little revisit of the first version of the R35.
Read MoreWhenever someone very boring strikes up a conversation with you about an old race car, without fail they will always bring up said car’s racing victories. In motorsports, winning is really all that matters—it’s largely what validates a car’s existence and its ensuing fanbase. So it’s weird why one of the most famous, iconic Bentleys ever made—the 1929 4½ Litre Blower Bentley—also happened to be one of the automaker’s biggest failures.
Read MoreI think it must be impossible to be a race fan without frequently imagining yourself behind the wheel of the machines you’ve spent your life drooling over. Whether it’s an old Formula One car or your favorite driver’s rally car, there’s something out there that would peak your bucket list. And I want to know what it is.
Read MoreAs far as I am concerned, the Jaguar F-Type is the best car Jaguar currently makes. It’s beautiful and makes wondrous noises. But it’s also getting quite long in the tooth, and folks have been discussing the successor car for a bit now. This newest rumor furthers the idea the next F-Type could have a BMW-sourced engine. Hm.
Read MoreYou deserve to look at something pretty. You deserve to look at something striking. You deserve to look at this Porsche 911SC.
Read MoreEngine swaps get us excited here at Jalopnik. There’s something wild and frankly transgressive about putting an engine in a car it wasn’t meant for. But not all swaps are equal. The best ones tell a story.
Read MoreAlpina makes BMWs go faster. They’re really good at it too. In the past, this wasn’t so hard. All they needed to do was have a good look under the hood and slap some stickers on BMW’s sedans, coupes and wagons. But BMW is making big SUVs like the X7 now, and while that big boy is no slouch, Alpina’s got some ideas for it and once they’re done, it’ll likely be coming for us in America too.
Read MoreHave you found yourself to be unworthy of a new Ford GT? Has Ford, perhaps, also found you to be unworthy of a new Ford GT? Well, then, you’re in luck! You will get at least one more glorious chance to be told just how unworthy you are of America’s 647-horsepower Le Mans car for the street. Exciting!
Read MoreGetting your first speeding ticket is never fun. For many (myself included) it’s a first brush with the law. A growing-up experience that’s as painful as they come, bruising ego and checking account alike. Estonia has an idea to soften the blow, though. They’re swapping fines for a time out.
Read MoreWelcome to Little Car in the Big City, where we highlight fascinating cars we’ve found walking around a town that is known for being bigger than everything else, but where every car is fighting to stand out: New York, New York.
Read MoreThe other day, I went out with some friends to one of those $20/all-you-can-cram sushi places. In the few moments when I wasn’t jamming delicious little packets of raw fish and sushi rice down my throat, tamping down with a chopstick as necessary, I happened to glance at some of the sushi and noticed something interesting. Here’s what I saw:
Read MoreBollinger, makers of gleefully boxy electric pickup trucks and SUVs that still aren’t available to buy just yet, had a big reveal yesterday of their four-door versions of their B1 SUV and B2 pickup truck. The SUV and pickup are very similar to the two-door versions we’ve seen (and crawled all over) already, but there are some updated numbers for power and battery size, though still no word yet on availability or pricing.
Read MoreWhat is a truck? A question a child might ask, but not a childish question. We see trucks every day, but do we actually know what the criteria is that makes a vehicle a truck? This came up earlier this week, when a commenter asked this deceptively simple question about a vehicle I described as a truck. Since I like making up rules for things automotive, I figured we may as well settle the question of What Is A Truck once and for all. Hold on tight.
Read MoreWell, it’s finally here. After almost 10 years of promises, the 2019 Mazda CX-5 diesel has arrived. And we have it to go tooling around with for a week. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreWe’ve talked a good bit about the 2020 Jeep Gladiator, and given it some pretty comprehensive testing, on and off road. Just recently, Jeep flew my sorry ass out to Lake Tahoe to try it out on the rocky, unforgiving Rubicon trail. We’ll get to that story soon, but before then, I wanted to take some time to show you all of the little details and Easter Eggs crammed into the Gladiator, because sometimes these little things get lost in a bigger review. So this is all about the little things.
Read MoreIt’s been over a year since Cadillac parted ways from its former boss, Johan de Nysschen. He headed up General Motors’ luxury arm for four years after time at Audi and Infiniti and now he’s back in the Volkswagen Group family. Everyone boomerangs around this industry, apparently!
Read MoreI’ll get to the stats and the juicy stuff in a second, but can we all just admire this green for a second? It’s a wonderful, vibrant green, the color of a venomous snake and perfect for the 2020 Audi RS Q3—a car where we admittedly couldn’t see a real point. But this green? Paint my house in it, please.
Read MoreAnother year, another Goodwood Revival, the car event that transports attendees back in time to a period where swing dresses and pillbox hats were the norm. I was fortunate enough to be able to make it back this year, and while the cars were interesting, I really spent much of my time admiring all the hats.
Read MoreWhen it comes to finding a place to park in a crowded parking lot, people tend to employ different strategies. Is it better to search for a spot closest to where you want to get to, or should you spend less time looking and just take whatever spot is open, and walk further? Which gives the optimal result, parking-wise? Finally, mathematics has been employed for something useful, as a new paper in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment claims to have solved this problem.
Read MoreThere I was, as I usually find myself on Wednesday afternoons, conscious in a coffin buried six feet under the ground with only a flashlight and my bare hands to get myself out. As I finally clawed my face free, I glimpsed around the dark cemetery to realize that hey, the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider is still for sale.
Read MoreA few months ago, I lost my mind over a very fun, in-real-life Need for Speed video. It was only a minute long, but the joy sustained me for quite a while. Now, Part Two is out and it’s nearly five minutes long! You guys.
Read MoreOne of the biggest advantages of electric vehicles is that they can potentially have far more packaging flexibility than combustion-engine cars. Companies have been taking advantage of this, as you can see in Tesla’s twin-trunk designs and Volkswagen’s volume-maximizing reborn electric Microbus. A startup called Canoo is taking a similar approach as VW, with an EV that’s a clever study in the maximization of interior volume. You know, a van.
Read MoreJudging by the lackluster response from you all regarding the Aston Martin DBX, Aston’s upcoming SUV, it doesn’t appear to be a particularly Internet Car™. But what if I told you it was just confirmed to have a 542-horsepower V8? Would you care then?
Read MoreI feel like the Audi RS7 has been around for a very long time, but apparently it’s only in its second generation. Meet the 2020 Audi RS7 Sportback. It’s not quite as powerful as the previous RS7 Performance—but with looks like these, do you even care? And as an added bonus, it finally seats five people.
Read MorePolka dots, bomber jackets and pearl necklaces in 2019 can only mean one thing. The Goodwood Revival came and went and brought back to life one of the greatest eras of motoring to date. Here’s your master gallery.
Read MoreOur sources in China have informed us, via coded telegraph, that Chang’an Mazda, the joint venture between China and Changan Automobile, is planning a “rotary announcement in six days.” Could this be the introduction of Mazda’s planned rotary range-extender engines for electric cars? The picture shows an original Mazda Cosmo, but I think it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing an all-new Cosmo. But maybe?
Read MoreIn a different lifetime (last year), I was in a small room at a casino in Las Vegas with Carsten Breitfeld and Daniel Kirchert, the co-founders of electric car startup Byton. You may remember them as the one with the giant screen. Anyway, they had just introduced their first electric crossover and were meeting with reporters. They were practically finishing each other’s sentences. Things seemed great.
Read MoreYou’ve all seen the videos. Cars screaming up hills, some with wings larger than snow plows. Pikes Peak comes to mind. These are hillclimb races, where the only thing you compete against is the clock. I got to try it out. It did weird things to how my brain perceived time.
Read MoreWe’re finally at the end of our Jason Drives Citroën Centennial Mini-Series Extravaganza Blowout Super-Bash 3000, and we’re wrapping it up with a very special 2CV, which maybe is more of a 4CV, since it’s made of two 2CVs. It’s called a 1952 Citroën Cogolin 2CV Bicephale, and it exists because a French fireman was once very frustrated.
Read MoreThe most ungainly, large, cumbersome vehicle I have ever driven was probably a full-size Ford E-Series church van towing a full-size flat trailer with a race car on the back, though I can’t say it actually felt larger than the most recent Mercedes S-Class I’ve driven.
Read MoreNine years ago Jaguar unveiled the C-X75 concept, a turbine-generator hybrid electric supercar. It was far and away the most advanced Jaguar in the company’s lengthy history, and arguably Ian Callum’s most fetching design of his entire career. This dream-worthy car was included in a mostly shit James Bond film before it was indefinitely shelved. Now the Spectre-tacular looks of the concept could make its way back into the real world as a replacement for the F-Type.
Read MoreDETROIT—Hamtramck and Flint, Mich., are still very much company towns, to the point where you spend a lot of time just driving in large arching curves around the General Motors plants at the core of each of these communities. For over a week now, these places have been buzzing with apprehension. But on the picket line where United Auto Workers members have ceased working, there is both anger and a grim resolve to see this strike through.
Read MoreIf you have some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket the next time you’re at the Hertz rental counter, and simply upgrading from “Ford Focus or similar” to “Chevrolet Malibu or similar” won’t give you the thrills you were after, consider this instead: a 750 horsepower Chevrolet Camaro stylized with inspiration from NASCAR’s Hendrick Motorsports team.
Read MoreRight off the bat, I’d like to remind everybody that’s considering banging out angry emails about “politics” and “bias” that I’ve also written about how a prominent Democratic presidential candidate didn’t know shit about cars. I think it’s important to revisit the idea that powerful politicians don’t know shit about cars because, A. they don’t and 2., they make policies based on not knowing shit.
Read MoreThe Karma Revero GT, which you might have called the “Karma Revero” or the “Fisker Karma” in the past, will have a new setup powering it in 2020. Because that setup leans heavily electric, the powertrain of silence, the Revero will also feature some fake “engine” noise in order to warn those nearby of its presence.
Read MoreIf you’re a car salesperson, you’ve got to know your product cold. You can’t be blindsided by questions about color combinations and trim levels. But you also need to know something else. Something even more important. If you want to sell some 1970 Dodge Monacos, you better know your customer too.
Read MoreAs we all know, the most famous example of a car turned into a machine to travel through time, not just space, is the DeLorean used in the Back to the Future movies. While dramatic and looking good for a movie, I’m not convinced this is actually a good choice at all for a time-travel vehicle. This question also came up on Reddit’s r/electricvehicles subbreddit, where a Redditor suggested that an EV is a better choice for a time machine. I’m not sure I buy that, either. Let’s think this through.
Read MoreIf, by chance, you may have wandered over to the ADESA salvage yard in Vancouver, British Columbia anytime over the last four years, you would have discovered a field of nearly 3,000 seemingly brand-new BMW and Mini models parked bumper to bumper, just rotting away.
Read MoreYou may have seen a photo going around of a line of McLarens parked on a dealership lot appearing to partially submerged in floodwater. While it did rain a lot in Houston yesterday, the dealership in question has assured us that the cars are fine.
Read MoreFor decades, California’s been able to set its own emissions standards, but the Trump Administration moved this week to end that ability as it seeks to create one national standard for (very debatably) cheaper, safer cars. But California’s not going down without a fight, and nearly two dozen other states are getting in on the action.
Read MoreOn a serious and not at all joking note, I’ve actually never driven a tank or an armored personnel carrier before, despite writing about them every so often. I expected to feel absolutely powerful while driving one. I was so right.
Read MoreSubaru has promised it would bring us a next-generation Subaru BRZ, and Toyota denied rumors that the Toyota 86 would get axed, so that only leaves one question: will the next-generation sports cars get more power? The answer may thankfully, finally be yes.
Read MoreI remember when the first-generation Prius was launched here in 2000. It was unlike anything else available at the time, from a stylistic, technological, and sociological standpoint. It was an economy-focused penalty box of a subcompact, but the green-focused among us grabbed hold. It was an important touchstone in the automotive landscape, and while it was largely ignored by enthusiasts, it was adored by everyone from travelling salespeople looking to save bucks on fuel to Hollywood actors look
Read MoreOn October 23, an arbitrator will sit down in Uber’s New York office and hear arguments in a case that could determine the ride-hail giant’s future. It is not about the employment status of a single driver, but rather the very legality of Surge Pricing, Uber’s flagship feature that adjusts the price of rides according to supply and demand principles.
Read MoreThe Bugatti Baby II, a new take on the tiny car founder Ettore Bugatti made for his youngest son’s fourth birthday in 1926, is a lot of things. You could call it a revival of history, as Bugatti does, or perhaps “the only Bugatti most of us can afford.” Or you could take the most direct route, which is a $33,000 kiddie car for the rich that sold out in three weeks.
Read MoreEarlier this year, Amazon invested $700 million in Michigan’s electric car startup Rivian, but now the company has built on that with an order for 100,000 vans to hit the roads by 2024, which is a lot of vans.
Read MoreNow that I’ve got the wheels, tires, and suspension on my Mitsubishi Montero build right where I want them, the car’s edging closer to becoming the ultimate long hauler. But it’s missing a key component: it needs cupholders.
Read MoreMost of us assume the end times are coming eventually, probably sooner than later at this rate. All of that considered, it might be time to consider what your vehicle lineup will be when the time comes—an armored SUV, perhaps, for the gloomier days, and certainly an extravagantly restored Land Rover Defender for when the rich need a private shuttle impenetrable by the poors.
Read MoreMitsubishi might be on the small side when it comes to automakers as a whole, but it dreams big—well, maybe “big” isn’t the word. Its dreams are weird, and in a world that often needs more weird, maybe that is a big deal. The newest iteration of that is this hybrid SUV concept, which will apparently debut soon.
Read MoreUnlike other shops who might send build updates, Sasaki-san simply set to work and finished the job. There was no unnecessary correspondence; he didn’t do anything beyond what was asked of him. We had no idea if the exhaust would sound the same as the original, the one that went viral, the old Mercedes that screamed like an F1 car with Sakai-san’s custom exhaust worth more than its asking price. But we trusted Sasaki as the true craftsman that he is. There was no need to doubt him.
Read MoreThe Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it will open a temporary exhibit this Sunday honoring the life of Jessi Combs, who died in August while attempting to beat her own land-speed record. The exhibit, “Jessi Combs: Life at Full Speed,” will run through Wednesday of next week.
Read MoreAmerican auto workers deserve better than the senior leadership of the United Auto Workers, several of whom have been the subject of a years-long corruption probe that has led to arrests and prison time. Those indictments keep racking up even as members negotiate for new union contracts. But white-collar crime doesn’t usually lead to raids at gunpoint until, according to The Detroit News, it does.
Read MoreTwo bits of news today you may not have know about: there is a Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, and also, the Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid is dead.
Read MoreWiesmann, the German automaker that at any given point in time may or may not exist, released some images today of its new car, powered by a BMW-sourced eight-cylinder engine. There’s no name for it yet, but it sure does look like a Wiesmann.
Read MoreA war between the Trump Administration and the state of California has been brewing for a while, with the former trying to relax vehicle emissions regulations and the latter refusing to relinquish its own power. Now things may be coming to a head, with the New York Times reporting that the White House will formally revoke California’s legal right to set its own tailpipe emissions rules sometime on Wednesday.
Read MoreI’m very fond of cars that don’t take themselves very seriously. There’s a reason why intense Tesla and Porsche and BMW and so many other strains of gearhead can be such a chore to be around—they’re too damn serious about their cars. Citroën 2CVs, by their very goofy, rudimentary nature, simply cannot have owners that take themselves so seriously. And, as a result, you get cars like this: the 1CV.
Read MoreThis is the 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package. Yes, it’s got a reeeeeeeally long name. Thankfully, all you need to remember is this is the most powerful version of the four-cylinder turbo EcoBoost Mustang you can get. Or, in other words, it’s the one you want.
Read MoreThe race for the fastest electric sedan around the Nürburgring maybe just got a hell of a lot more interesting. In August, Porsche’s first foray into EVs, the Taycan Turbo, nailed a 7:42 lap time, winning the crown for quickest four-door electric around the storied track. Then Elon Musk and Tesla showed up. Now what we’re hearing from the ’Ring is a Model S may have pulled a very unofficial 7:23 lap done by hand timing, which if true and can be repeated (or beaten) for the official lap will blow
Read MoreThe year is 2093. All gasoline motorcycles have been replaced by electric. What was once the savior of the two-wheeled rider has been rendered obsolete, and along with it, our safety. We no longer have the healing salve of the doppler effect to alert other motorists to our presence, all motorcyclists have died. Without loud pipes, how shall we save our own lives? Technology hast forsaken us.
Read MoreFor nearly all intents and purposes, self-driving cars aren’t “here” yet, in the sense that nearly nobody can summon a driverless car to come pick them up right this second. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t testing heavily, including with some Waymo test cars out in Arizona. We’re about to go check them out. What do you want to know?
Read MoreWhen you hear the term “vanlife,” what typically comes to mind is a young, attractive couple doing yoga in front of a spotless Sprinter van perfectly customized inside to look like a log cabin. At sunset. On a beach. Believe it or not, you don’t necessarily need to be an Instagram star with an expensive hipster-chic van to travel the country in a vehicle and live your best life. You can do it in a 20 year-old beat-up minivan with a small budget and fewer log cabin splinters.
Read MoreThis red pickup is about as far removed as you can get from the one Land Rover will no longer sell us, but with that massive blower up front, it’s far more striking to look at and probably a hell of a lot faster.
Read MoreDodge has never been afraid to explore new market segments, especially when they build excitement. In 1978, the brand made its biggest step in that direction with a line of “adult toys.” No. NO. Not like that. Accessorized pickups, vans and stuff.
Read MoreCapping a summer of tense negotiations between the UAW and Detroit’s Big Three, the union today called for a nationwide strike as they push for higher wages and better job protections. The strike is set to begin just before midnight.
Read MoreThe production version of the 2020 Volkswagen ID.3 electric hatchback was finally revealed earlier this week, and despite it having a 341-mile range and 200 hp powering the rear wheels, VW is already talking about tuning it out to be a full hot hatch. Hell yeah.
Read MoreIt’s the 15th anniversary of one of the greatest publicity stunts in all of television—the day Oprah Winfrey surprised an audience of hundreds of people in need of reliable transportation with brand-new Pontiac G6 sedans, but then left them on the hook for the thousands in taxes that came with them.
Read MoreNearly 340,000 Ford Explorers from the 2017 model year will need a trip to the dealership soon, but not to be traded for new ones with a bit more power and ST badges all over—unless that’s your thing. Instead, it’s for a new recall, because the SUVs have been rolling around for years now with sharp seat edges. Scary!
Read MoreBy this point, I think you might have at least some inkling the new, 2019 Acura NSX is a great car. If you don’t, then here’s your newsflash. The car absolutely rips, and here are some of the things you asked us about it.
Read MoreFor me, the Acura TLX has never been a bad car, just one I struggled to recommend over any number of competitors. It’s comfortable, reasonably quick and presumably reliable! I just could never find a case to tell you to buy one over a comparable BMW, Mercedes or Audi—or even a Lexus. Will driving a TLX that’s built by hand change my mind?
Read MoreThere I was, just doing my job, writing about cars and whatnot, when I saw a sight that would haunt me from this point forward: the Cadillac CT4-V’s ghastly low horsepower number, which would have otherwise called for a quick glance and a disappointed sigh. But this time, my cursed brain contextualized the situation for me, and I wish it hadn’t.
Read MoreYou know what’s an amazing feeling? When you get a new crush. And my friends, I’m delighted to inform you that’s what happened to me today. I’m light-headed and gloriously delirious because today I have a new automotive crush: the 1966 to 1968 Abarth OT 2000 Coupe America.
Read MoreWhile pretty much all of the recent obsession with setting Nürburgring Ring lap record times and the rivalry between Tesla and Porsche is sort of idiotic genital-measuring, there is one foolproof way to guarantee that a record will be set: make the criteria for the record so specific that pretty much any result will set a record. That seems to be exactly what Tesla is planning by running a seven-seat Model S.
Read MoreLet me start off by saying I like Tesla. I really do. I was seriously impressed when I first drove a Tesla Roadster over a decade ago. That impression stayed with me all the way through to when I took the first ever lap of a Tesla at the Nürburgring. Tesla makes good, fast cars that I enjoy.
Read MoreThe 2020 Cadillac CT4 is here, with an all-turbocharged lineup, optional all-wheel drive, and the goal of attracting the “new generation” of Cadillac customers. Though it’s meant to lead in the new generation of Cadillac sedans to replace the ATS and CTS, it doesn’t do anything that you would call radical, not so much as adopting even a slightly more creative name.
Read MoreCool new pickup truck you’ve got there, pal! What is that, like, a Jeep Wrangler with a truck bed or something? A “Gladiator,” you say? They make those now? Wow, what a world we live in. Too bad it’s already being recalled.
Read MoreI suspect many, perhaps even most of you reading this are familiar with what I’m about to talk about, but it’s one of those things I haven’t considered in a while. Recently, though, it did pop back into my head, and for some reason I thought about it with a fresh, dewy brain, and I appreciated it all over again, I think in a way I haven’t in years. It’s something that Ettore Bugatti once said about the Bentley 3-Litre racing cars of the 1920s, and it’s such a damn good example of shade-throwing.
Read MoreAB5, the California bill that would codify a state Supreme Court ruling putting in place a strict test for whether a worker classifies as an independent contractor and has potentially profound implications on the ridehail industry, is awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature to become law. But that is unlikely to change much for Uber and Lyft drivers when the law goes into effect on January 1, 2020, as it appears at least one of these companies will gear up for a legal fight instead.
Read MoreMy tolerance for cars that many consider ugly is abnormally high. I’m delighted by goblin-faced Citroën Amis and have publicly defended the late ‘90s Fiat Multipla. I’m not squeamish. That said, I have to admit that I have recently learned of a car that even I can’t defend, aesthetically: the Denag Lorelei.
Read MoreSay, did you like that electric Volkswagen ID.3 that dropped at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week? I liked it a lot. If you want your practical, long-range electric people’s cars to not be made in a tent, it could be a great option for you. Too bad it’s not coming to America, a nation addicted to ride height.
Read MoreYou’re cruising down the road, your McLaren Senna’s engine roaring along as those around you look, do a double take, and inherit a confused expression as they try to decipher whether it’s an atrocious looking Transformer or a sports car. “Hmph,” you think. “Peasants. They wouldn’t know a Track Weapon (TM) if it were sitting next to them in traffic, which one is. Their poor souls.”
Read MoreIn the city of Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, you’ll be lucky to find this one nondescript garage. There’s no signage, branding, or any indication that magic happens here. This is Technical Garage Sasaki, home to the man behind Brilliant Exhaust, one of the wildest exhaust tuners anywhere in the world.
Read MoreI’m guessing you recall, vividly, that it’s the 100th anniversary of Citroën, and we’ve been celebrating with a Jason Drives mini-series about the bonkers and legendary Citroën 2CV. After starting off with the original 2CV, we’re back with the 2CV’s off-road brother, the Mehari. And not just any Mehari—this one is the rare Mehari 4x4. Oh and I also try to roll a 2CV.
Read MoreTo get it out of the way first: I think the 2020 Audi A7 Sportback 55 TFSI e quattro looks great. I think it’s sleek, aggressive and economical, since it’s a hybrid. What I cannot get over, however, is its name.
Read MoreRecently, Bugatti went out and did what many thought couldn’t be done with modern tire technology: It broke the 300-mph barrier, hitting nearly 305 mph in a “near production” Chiron plastered in orange stripes. And because success means nothing without commercial gain, the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ is here to commemorate the occasion—all for about $4 million each.
Read MoreThey say the ideal convertible weather is a warm and sunny summer’s day, but I’m not sure I agree. Rather, I think the perfect convertible weather is actually when it’s cold. Like in the fall, winter or early spring. Hear me out.
Read MoreGOLDEN, Colo.—Shortly after arriving at the Global Hyperloop Conference, Brad Swartzwelter looked me in the eye and issued himself a challenge. “If I haven’t convinced you by the end of this conference that Hyperloop is the most glorious transportation opportunity of our time, then I’ve failed.”
Read MorePre-war cars aren’t really my jam, but even I think the Blower Bentleys are cool. They look great and give off a palpable presence only a huge Bentley can. The problem with pre-war cars like that is they are usually rare and difficult to come across. But Bentley is making 12 new versions of the 1929 Team Blower cars, which will take them from very, very rare to merely very rare.
Read MoreThe new 790 horsepower 2020 Ferrari 812 GTS is the first series production front-engine V12 Ferrari convertible in almost 50 years, and it’s sadly probably the last time the stars will align to grace us with such a perfect combination.
Read MoreYou may not expect a 2.5-ton, 1998 Toyota SUV to sneak up on you. But it’s preying on your naivety. It’s right behind you.
Read MoreBefore Porsche had even shown the production Taycan to the public, it had a Nürburgring lap time. While we know well that the Taycan is not a direct competitor to Tesla’s Model S [or is it?] it seems that Elon Musk isn’t exactly pleased that people are talking about the Taycan instead of Tesla. As he is often wont to do, he sent a tweet yesterday ruling by edict from on high. Without anything to back it up.
Read MoreEarlier today Patrick asked all of you what kind of car you would steal if humanity and civilization as we know it simply collapsed one day. Our entire lives are built on a fragile paper mache foundation and it’s a very real possibility that everything could go pear shaped in a moment. Anyway, don’t worry about it. Enjoy your weekend.
Read MoreCars are complicated. They have many moving parts that are difficult to make at massive scale. For generations, car companies and their suppliers have employed hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to build the complicated cars.
Read MoreGood evening. We at Jalopnik regret to inform you that the collapse of human civilization is upon us. We’ve had a good, I don’t know, 10,000 years or so, but even the best parties have to end sometime. This leaves you facing an important question: what car do you steal?
Read MoreWhen you give you information to the DMV, you probably don’t think it’s going to sell that information for profit. But across the country, that’s exactly what is happening. Private investigators, consumer credit rating companies and a whole host of other businesses and individuals that deal in information to access your name and address if you happen to have a driver’s license.
Read MoreThe manual Jaguar F-Type is dead, may it rest in peace. I’m sad about it, so there’s really no better way to drown my sorrows than with supercharged V8 sound and fury. I’m driving the 2020 Jaguar F-Type SVR Convertible this weekend. What do you want to know about it?
Read MoreIt’s been decades and there is still no car like Mazda’s triple-rotor Eunos Cosmo, a vehicle more ambitious, more foolish and more amazing than many cars made since.
Read MoreThe 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo and Turbo S debuted this week. Despite its name, it does not include a turbocharger. It can not and it could not. It’s an electric car. Instead, the word “turbo” has taken on a symbolic meaning in the Porsche’s nomenclature. But before you get too mad, let’s remember that the annihilation of the word started years ago, with the Porsche 911.
Read MoreThe fight over cleaning up the nation’s fuel economy standards just got a whole lot dirtier.
Read MoreIt appears increasingly likely AB5, the California bill that would significantly narrow the definition of an independent contractor in the state and have potentially profound implications on the gig economy, will pass. Last weekend, Governor Gavin Newsom voiced his support of the bill, meaning he would likely sign it if approved by the legislature.
Read MoreOur automobiles no longer need tall chrome masts to receive and intercept radio signals for our audio enjoyment. For one thing, terrestrial radio is a dying media, and for another technology has marched on to provide similar signals with hidden or dramatically reduced antennae.
Read MorePart of what gave Alpine and its much-loved A110 street cred was how dominant the car was in rallying. It was small and lightweight, but it beat out pretty much everybody anyway. The new A110 brings that legacy to modern light with the Alpine A110 Rally.
Read MoreRight now, right outside my window, things are dark and weird and windy, like some big storm is about to hit. Which is because that’s exactly what’s happening; Hurricane Dorian is on its way. For those just south of me, in the lesser Carolina, South Carolina, Dorian has already hit, and it’s wreaking havoc. One good tip for those of you near the coasts: don’t, for some unfathomable reason, drive your damn Jeep Grand Cherokee into the ocean and then just, you know, abandon it there, like this sti
Read MoreAbove, you’ll see beloved Jalopnik editor emeritus Mike Spinelli flipping a monster truck, as one does. It can only mean one thing. /DRIVE on NBC Sports is back and kicking for its sixth season!
Read MoreI knew that even though Volkswagen ended Beetle (including Beetle-dressed Golfs) production in July, they wouldn’t ever really be able to not build some sort of Beetle, and I think this announcement proves that to be correct. VW is partnering with German EV conversion company eClassics to do conversions of classic, air-cooled Beetles into EVs with modern electric drivetrains. The first one they’re showing is a 1973 Super Beetle convertible, and it looks fantastic.
Read MoreFor a very long time, the Audi RS6 Avant was the forbidden fruit of wagon nerds in North America. It was the bitchin’ German battle-wagon that we could only eye enviously from across the Atlantic. Here’s a walk through them all, right up to the 2020 RS6 Avant, which we can finally have.
Read MoreJust recently, Bugatti took a pre-production, monstrously powerful Chiron out to break the 300-mph barrier that, until now, was said to be elusive only by virtue of the limits of modern tire technology. But while Bugatti hit nearly 305 mph, the company wants everyone to know it could’ve gone faster.
Read MoreThe 1960s were a wild time where anything was possible and unlimited speed potential was at the tip of your fingers. In 1964 Jack Griffith was determined to out-Shelby Shelby by shoehorning a smallblock Ford V8 into the engine compartment of the delightfully cute fiberglass-bodied TVR Grantura.
Read MoreHyundai running with retrofuturism for an electric concept car that’s scheduled to drop at the Frankfurt Auto Show on September 10. The?45?is sharp, stark, and somehow simultaneously optimistic and dystopian.
Read MoreSince the Ford F-series pickup truck was America’s best-selling vehicle last year (nearly a million sold, my God), the chances are good that at least one of you reading are affected by this latest recall, so pay attention.
Read MoreDo you remember Faraday Future? Last time we were talking about it, it was getting $225 million for one more go at this whole “making a car” thing. Before that, there were furloughs, a near bankruptcy, and some lawsuits. Now, it has a new CEO, the man who gave us the BMW i8 and co-founded Byton. Will he be the man to save Faraday?
Read MoreLet’s get something out of the way up front: Ray Magliozzi hates cars. And not in a my-car-is-a-pain-in-the-ass-and-it’s-always-breaking kind of way (though there is some of that too), but in a they’re-killing-the-planet kind of way. “How could you not?” Ray told me earlier this year. “They’re ruining the fabric of our lives.”
Read MoreThe most exciting new electric car that will be cruelly withheld from us affable, friendly Americans was revealed in production form today, the Honda E. Honda’s new electric city car retains the stylish, adorable look of the prototypes, and digs that adorable electric knife deeper into our guts with some really good-sounding specs: 152 horsepower and a 137 mile range. Dammit, Honda. Why do you have to be so cruel?
Read MoreThe future is electric and autonomous, in case you’ve managed to tune out the automakers droning on about it. The only question is when those characteristics will take over the market. Until then, we’re left with car companies’ visions of what that future will be, like this new concept Mercedes-Benz EQ interior.
Read MoreThe 2020 Porsche Taycan electric performance sedan is here, delivering on just about every promise of the stunning Mission E concept car. The Turbo name confusingly carries over from Porsche’s normie lineup, but who cares when the Taycan Turbo S puts out 750 horsepower.
Read MoreWow, here we are. You, there. Me, here. Me, the one in the car. You, the one out of the car. You’re looking at the car. I’m looking at you looking at the car. You’re seeing, and I am seeing. Together we are With Car, intertwined across a visual spectrum. Twelve cylinders, flat as a pancake. They are behind me. Red is around me. You do not see them. I feel them. You and I are linked, in sight. But there is a breach. I can hear the car racing in my heart. To you, it is a quiet idle. It’s time to c
Read MoreJust take a moment and look at that group of four people up there: famously flamboyant pianist Liberace, failed GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, noted actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr, and baseball hall-of-famer Gaylord Perry. Really, if you had to pick a more random, mismatched group of famous people, I’m not sure you could. And yet, if you were to get all of these people in a room together (and resurrected, for Barry and Liberace), they’d have at least one thing to talk about
Read MoreOh, hello. It’s me again, the Dodge Viper Girl. As you know, nothing pains me more than seeing a car that doesn’t get driven, especially if it’s a Viper. That gross, grimy Viper living in Venice, California, was my hero because it had 190,000 miles on the clock. This (decidedly nicer) blue Viper also gets driven. Everyone, take note.
Read MoreThe Nissan Juke, killed in the U.S. beginning with the 2018 model year, is back in the European market with new looks and less of that bug-from-an-alien-planet vibe we all knew and loved. It’ll also come with plenty of technology options and the choice of a six-speed manual, along with a base price of around $21,000.
Read MoreBack in January, a 2014 Tesla Model S crashed into a parked fire truck, and while no injuries were reported it did raise questions as to whether the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot driver aid was engaged before the wreck. Today, the National Transportation Safety Board released its report on the incident and the facts laid out make it pretty clear the driver was not aware of what was going on at the time of the crash.
Read MoreWith a half hour left to the start of the work day, I was confident. I’d driven back from Jalopnik’s track day at Monticello Motor Club after an early start so that I’d have plenty of time to fill up the gas tank and grab breakfast at the Wawa down the street from my apartment. There was just one problem: every single goddamn fucking pump was taken.
Read MoreThe Fiat 500, the teeny city car that never quite looked like it belonged in the sea of crossovers that is the United States, will now no longer be available in North America. Fiat Chrysler is officially ending its tiny offering with the 2019 model year, leaving only three models in its North American lineup.
Read MoreTurning a century old is a big deal for many of us. While I’m personally planning to celebrate my 100th birthday by almost dying in a kickboxing tournament and then, again, later, at a deli, I know I can’t choose how to celebrate a centenary for everyone. For a car company, though, I sort of can, which is why I decided we needed to have a small Jason Drives series about the 100th anniversary of Citroën, one of the most consistently weird carmakers ever.
Read MoreTo anyone else who isn’t familiar with or doesn’t give two hoots about BMW’s M-cars, the 2020 BMW M4 Edition ///M Heritage means absolutely nothing at all. But that’s not who it’s for. This is a special edition, one aimed squarely for the M nerds.
Read MoreLamborghini’s been talking about building a hybrid car for a few years now and we finally get to see it today, officially. This is the 2020 Lamborghini Sián, with a hybrid V12 powertrain. It’s being produced in extremely limited numbers, but it likely also represents the next generation of supercars we can expect from the Italian automaker.
Read MoreThe day after cracking a record of 304.7 mph with its Chiron Sport, Bugatti has announced that it’s all done with that sort of thing. It’s retiring from trying to set speed records.
Read MoreIt’s been almost a decade since Tron: Legacy came out. Whether or not you consider is a colossal failure of movie-making, you also cannot deny it had a kick-ass soundtrack. You don’t even need to see the movie if you haven’t yet. Just download the score and start driving to it.
Read MoreCrossovers. I don’t completely hate them and I will not apologize. Some crossovers used to come with manual transmissions, like the Porsche Cayenne GTS, BMW X5 and BMW X3, and they were pretty weird. Let’s embrace performance crossovers and bring that trend back with something like the 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo.
Read MoreWhen the $3 million Bugatti Chiron launched a few years ago, we all marveled at how slow it was. With an electronically limited top speed of 261 mph, it didn’t seem capable of matching its predecessor the Veyron Super Sport, which hit a Guinness-certified 267.8 mph record in 2013. It seemed like such a disappointment for the world’s petrostate oligarchs. Where are your bragging rights supposed to come from?
Read MoreThe blogging callouses on the tips of my fingers are throbbing, and that can only mean two things: it’s either time to elect a new Pope, or it’s finally Labor Day.
Read MoreThe cars on our roads are, on average, getting older. This is thanks, in part, to more reliable parts, better maintenance, and also slightly more depressing causes like lengthier auto loan terms. But just because the cars are lasting longer mechanically doesn’t mean the interiors can keep up, and this is a new problem for automakers to solve.
Read MoreI recently spotted on Jalopnik’s “The Way Back” Facebook page the photo above showing a table mounted inside a car’s cupholder and on its automatic transmission shifter. I thought it was a joke, but it turns out, it’s called the “Mobile Office Pack,” and it was an actual factory option on late 1990s Fords in Australia.
Read MoreIt shouldn’t be too surprising to learn that Porsche is extremely detail oriented. But the company is so obsessive over everything, it even has an official policy on an appropriate way to align the company’s crest in the center caps of every wheel on every single one of its cars.
Read MoreI was just on a trip to drive a Jeep Gladiator over a bunch of rocks (more on that soon) and while at the aerodrome to board my airship, I happened to notice one of the tugs used to drag planes around. This tug caught my eye because, unlike nearly every other airport tug I’ve seen, this one looked like someone actually took the time to design this thing. It was actually sleek! When the hell did people start giving a shit about what airplane tugs look like?
Read MoreBack in May, a new Japanese emperor ascended to the throne, and to celebrate, Emperor Naruhito ordered a custom Toyota Century convertible, the first one ever. The order was placed early to be ready for the emperor’s public coronation next month—but we’re getting our first look at this beauty now.
Read MoreI just got back from driving the 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package. You’ll see the review tomorrow, but I just wanted to note quickly how much I like the off-center badging on the car’s front grille. It’s classy.
Read MoreToday, Fiat debuted a resounding update of the 124 Abarth (already a good car) consisting of... absolutely no mechanical changes. Just some new decals. And you know what? I have no problem with this. Decals? Stickers? That’s the good stuff.
Read MoreI’ll admit I’m not the first person to think about the Nissan Pathfinder all day. I’m more of a “check the used-car sites to see if Lotus Elise prices are holding” type, and the Pathfinder doesn’t necessarily scream “Think about me, you absolute dunce!” It wouldn’t be a very compelling argument if it did.
Read MoreYesterday, Luigi Colani, a German industrial designer with an Italian name, died at the age of 91. While Colani was a successful designer of all sorts of things, from cameras to toilets, his transportation-related designs—cars and motorcycles and aircraft and trains and boats and almost every other sort of vehicle—were arguably less successful.
Read MoreRecently, I pulled up to a hotel after a long, regrettable four-hour drive across the barren and highway-ridden land that is much of the state of Texas. Out front sat a slate-gray SUV, appropriately positioned for photos from passersby as soon as they noticed the emblem up front and confirmed its authenticity on Google.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of exciting stuff happening in transportation in 2019, but let’s pause to appreciate the fact that we’re living in a moment at which Mercedes-Benz sells six different classes of convertible cars and 19 different models.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks there’s been a lot of heated discussion at The Red Lantern (the taillight enthusiasts bar and social club I hang out in) regarding the new 2020 Land Rover Defender’s taillights. This is mostly because the original Defender is seen by some as an icon of non-design in the taillight world, a vernacular design that has achieved notoriety despite itself. Can a modern re-interpretation capture the essence while making valuable updates? Let’s take a look.
Read MoreJust before the Frankfurt International Motor Show begins tomorrow, Volkswagen revealed the final production version of what is likely their most significant car in decades, the ID.3. You can think of the ID.3 as a Golf translated into an electric vehicle via Volkswagen’s new MEB modular electric platform. It’s not a Golf reworked to run on electrons instead of dead dinosaurs, it’s an electric car that’s designed from the same core beliefs as the Golf; as such, it’s not so much an EV Golf as it
Read MoreThe 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S debuted yesterday as the German performance car brand’s first attempt at a production electric car. While the fact that it makes up to 750 horsepower and goes from 0 to 60 mph in a claimed 2.6 seconds is impressive, there’s a bunch of cool details that really set it apart.
Read MorePeople? They’re complicated. Relationship statuses? Complicated. Finances? Complicated. Work-life balance? Complicated. Life? Complicated. But there’s one thing in this world that is far more complicated than anything else, and it’s this 1:8-scale Lego McLaren 720S.
Read MoreContrary to the popular belief of those of us who want to ignore the existence of aging or time, the year 2001 was nearly two decades ago, not last week. It also happens to be the year that the original Aston Marin V12 Vanquish came around, meaning the first generation of the car is as dated as all of us are.
Read MoreMoney doesn’t buy taste, honey, and Bugatti doesn’t want yours. Don’t try to bribe the company into building you something from your puny brain, because it doesn’t want to. It’s going to build what it wants, and you can either buy it or not, because Bugatti exists to design the cars and you exist to buy them.
Read MoreI have grown weary of life in the big city. The stress, the noise, the trash smells, the 19-year-olds in Brooklyn who ironically wear t-shirts featuring bands that were popular when I was 19—all of it has struck me with an unbearable case of l’ennui. Thus, now seems as good a time as any to announce I am leaving forever to live in the French countryside inside the new Peugeot Boxer 4X4 Concept camper van.
Read MoreAutonomous tech is all the rage these days as automakers look for more efficient ways to tackle transport, but I think Scania has come up with what is possibly the coolest looking heavy truck concept with AXL. This cabless beast is what all your sci-fi transport dreams should look like.
Read MoreA family in Katy, Texas has been displaced by a Ford Explorer Sport Trac that plowed straight into their house and came clear through to the other side. It might have kept right on trucking, too, if it hadn’t been for a brave tree standing its ground.
Read MoreI’m not sure if you have any plans for today, National Pancake Day, like maybe taking a special someone to a couples’ pancake spa or anything like that, but even if you do, I don’t think it can top what this Nissan Z driver did in Watervliet, New York. This guy celebrated the Day of Pancakes by having his own car completely pancaked by a truck full of flour, from which pancakes are made. That’s pancakular.
Read MoreCrash testing is a pretty significant part of car development—if your car can’t handle a big impact, then it probably shouldn’t be on the road. We’ve talked about how a smaller automaker like Rimac designs and crash tests its hypercars before. Now, we’re diving into it a little deeper with a video that shows a C Two chassis being crash tested again and again and again.
Read MoreYou’ve seen the annual “Top Safety Pick” car ads and the crash-test videos, with cars slammed into objects as their own debris pours down around them like a snowstorm. Perhaps the latter even convinced you not to buy a car you so desperately wanted.
Read MoreAuthorities in Los Angeles got a call for “headlights tumbling down a cliff” on Mulholland Drive, one of the area’s well-known driving roads, on Sunday night and used a helicopter searchlight to find a battered McLaren that had gone off the edge of the road.
Read MoreLate yesterday afternoon, along a mostly empty Canadian highway, the laws of physics grew bored and decided to have some fun with an errant box truck.
Read MoreTeens! They are amazing and also terrifying. These days some of them are getting addicted to flavored e-cigarettes; others are out there trying to kick climate change’s ass. Yet others still are getting into typical teen mischief, and if this Michigan crime is any indication, modern teens are more cunning than ever.
Read MoreYou’d think after all the times we’ve posted videos like these, we’d get sort of used to it by now. But, that’s not the case. Every time I see someone happily voyaging to Dreamsylvania while behind the wheel of a Tesla careening down a highway, I always marvel at how dumb this is. It’s not a fully-autonomous vehicle, dummies. That means you can’t fucking sleep in it while you’re supposed to be driving. Period.
Read MoreThe Fast & Furious movies are ostensibly about a culture of bolting accessories to cars—at least until stuff like this started being the norm—so it’s a natural vehicle for product placements. Some backstory on fitting sponsored parts into one car in particular, from the worst movie of the series, seems exceptionally wild to me 16 years later.
Read MoreYou bet your butts there’s a third Bad Boys movie coming out: Bad Boys For Life. The new trailer that just dropped confirmed, once again, it’s got good cars. Plus apparently exactly the same jokes you loved in the last movie from, wow, 2003. I’m still here for it and, I’m guessing, so are you.
Read MoreThe silver Nissan Skyline GT-R has been Brian O’Conner’s (Paul Walker) calling card ever since 2 Fast 2 Furious. Here are some more fun and behind-the-scenes facts about O’Conner’s hero car with Craig Lieberman, the technical director behind The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Read MoreThe 2020 Honda Fit is the car’s fourth-generation, and the first new one in seven years. We’ll see it in full next month at the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda confirmed today. I’m sure, like its predecessors, it will continue to be one of the most-just-goddamn sensible cars ever made.
Read MoreThings didn’t look good for the Frankfurt Motor Show even before the event took place this year—but now that it’s over, it’s pretty clear. This particular show is about as doomed as you can get without completely folding.
Read MoreI just crawled under the 2020 Land Rover Defender—the unibody, independent suspension-equipped successor to a legendary body-on-frame, solid-axle off-road brute. What I saw didn’t appear to be an SUV built on a special off-road platform, but rather a machine quite similar to other vehicles in the Land Rover lineup.
Read MoreThanks to the success of the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, the German marque wants to Maybach some other models, like the new Maybach GLS, just announced at the Frankfurt Motor Show. And, coming in at a predicted £150,000 ($184,822.50), this SUV is going to be nicer than anything I ever buy for the rest of my entire life.
Read MoreHyundai’s high-performance N Line has been turning heads since it first hit the automotive scene thanks to the fact that its cars have proved to be a hell of a fun time. Now, the i10 N Line is getting ready to hit the market in 2020, making it the fourth N Line model released since 2018, Hyundai says.
Read MoreThe 2020 Land Rover Defender is here, and it looks good, but only if you avoid the short-wheelbase model with the “floating pillar” option. Because a vehicle equipped that way takes an element that helped the last Defender stand out as a truly iconic piece of design—its large, upright greenhouse—and covers it with a cheap-looking, enormous-blindspot-creating fake pillar. Just look at this silliness.
Read MoreThe China-based startup Byton unveiled the production version of the M-Byte, its first car, this week at the Frankfurt Motor Show. You might remember the M-Byte and its giant-ass screen. Friends, the screen is still here, in a car Byton says will come to the U.S. in 2021.
Read MoreDid the BMW Concept 4’s snorty nostrils scare you too? Come here, come back to the light. BMW skunkworks Alpina has presented its take on the current 3 Series wagon. It’s mean, green and clean, and the site showing it off is actually quite fun to scroll through, too.
Read MoreIf you had to go off-roading in Blade Runner 2049, you’d want to do it in something like Audi’s new AI:TRAIL Concept And this thing owns so hard that I hope its design cues are implemented in every off-road vehicle for the rest of forever.
Read MoreThe 2020 Land Rover Defender debuted today at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and now the online configurator is live. Go ahead and option yours up to see if you can spec one as gorgeous as this one I just configured.
Read MoreThe Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS is a concept that shows what the S-Class may be someday: an all-electric, 469-horsepower barge with 435 miles of range. It’s one of the latest reveals at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, which, this year, seems to be just a bunch of European dudes standing around uttering “electromobility” over and over to themselves.
Read MoreCarmakers seem to have gotten the message that electric cars should be futuristic and cool, and the new Hyundai 45 concept is yet another retro-inspired electric hatchback that proves Hyundai is at the top of the hot hatchback game, and that the future may not be so bad.
Read MoreI hope you kids like the giant kidney grille on the new BMW X7 and updated 7 Series, because if this new BMW Concept 4 is any indication your next 4 Series coupe will be getting a lot of grille. Tons and tons of grille. Grille for days.
Read MoreAfter being killed off a few years ago, Land Rover’s most legendary vehicle—the Defender—is back, and though it does not appear as off-road focused as the old machine, it still looks awesome. Here’s what you need to know about the 2020 Land Rover Defender.
Read MoreThe 2020 Volkswagen ID.3 is the first of the German automaker’s upcoming onslaught of electric vehicles. We’ve seen it in concept form before but now it’s at the Frankfurt Motor Show in production spec, as a funky teal hatchback with a WLTP-estimated range of over 340 miles. And it should be a sin that us Americans won’t be getting this electron-powered Golf alternative.
Read MoreThe 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package is what happens when you drop the engine from a Focus RS into the body of a grand tourer. The exterior dimensions don’t change, but damn do they feel like they did. It’s amazing what a lightened nose and some good rubber will do.
Read MoreWe at Jalopnik love marveling at how mint-condition examples of relatively inexpensive cars from the 1990s and early 2000s are now selling for absurd figures as young professionals try to buy up their childhood dream machines. This time, let’s look at a 1997 Acura Integra Type R—a car that sold for ~$24,000 when new—that is in such immaculate shape that someone just picked it up for $82,000.
Read MoreWe can all admit that the mint-green paint on this 538-mile 2017 Ford GT is good, even if the car has been ignored, sitting aimlessly for the past two years for likely no purpose other than to flip it as soon as contractually possible. What we can all also admit—hopefully, at least—is that it was too expensive.
Read MoreThe year 2008 might seem like a long time ago, but it wasn’t. Just look at the Dodge Challenger, which, unlike yourself, hasn’t aged a day. But how can the used Dodge Challengers compete with the newer ones, given that they’ve kept the same cosmetics but come with more power, more features and a warranty?
Read MoreOn Friday night, I was sitting in my parents’ house doing what I always do when I’m bored: surfing Craigslist. Only this time, it wasn’t actually Craigslist, but rather various German car sales websites, since my parents live in a small town between Nürnberg and Prague. The search results are... interesting. Check out some of these awesome machines.
Read MoreThe problem with the second one was that it might be cursed. The problem with the first one was that it might be perfect. I finally got to drive two 1990s Toyota Crestas, dream cars of mine never originally sold in the United States, in the hopes that they’d disappoint me and I’d stop wanting to buy one. I didn’t luck out.
Read MoreYou’re a 1972 Datsun 240Z. You don’t have all your paint. You don’t have an un-cracked piece of your interior. But you run, day in day out, and you’re a champion in my book.
Read MoreI have nothing against the Cleveland Browns, that I know of. I often forget they exist, and one of my esteemed Deadspin colleagues even says the team is “a hot pick to be good this year.” (He doesn’t totally buy it, though, because they’re the Browns. In my very limited football knowledge, in which I always have to clarify what a “touchback” is again, I would have to agree.)
Read More“This truck is capable of towing 35,500 pounds. That’s about half of what a semi truck can haul,” emphasized GMC Executive Chief Engineer Tim Herrick. He was referring to the top-spec 2020 GMC Sierra HD 3500 dually, with a 6.6-liter Duramax turbodiesel V8 and Allison 10-speed. Even without the headline-grabbing 1,000 lb-ft of Ram’s Cummins engine, the Sierra manages to pull a few more pounds, largely thanks to optimized gearing.
Read MoreLow-profile tires are ruining modern cars, but that doesn’t mean you have to live with these monstrosities.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered about the length of car antennae? Of course you have—you’re a human being (or advanced AI, or a brain-augmented dolphin) reading this, and as such you’re full of curiosity and wonder and almost crippling physical desires. As such, you’ve likely noticed that many modern cars have dispensed with the tall, thin “whip” antennae of older cars and now have stubby little antennae, or even little shark fin things. Why is this? Why did we use to use such long antennae? Were they al
Read MoreIn a country as geographically varied as and as foreign to our way of doing things as Iceland, where do you even begin? I’ll tell you exactly where: car rentals.
Read MoreEvery few months the Honda Collection Hall—located on the grounds of the Twin Ring Motegi race track—will haul a few of its cars and motorcycles out for an exhibition on the short walkway in a park adjacent to the museum. The museum staff will diligently bring a bike out onto the “track” to demonstrate the start up procedure, warm the engine to operating temp with a series of revs, and then ride emotionless for a few minutes before returning the museum piece to its stand.
Read MoreA group of middle-aged people riding scooters and bicycles in Denver, Colorado went full-on road rage on each other over who knows what, and video of the incident that’s as comical as it is depressing made its way onto local news. It looks like we’re getting a preview of a future South Park episode.
Read MoreThe fourth-generation Mazda 3 launched this year, gunning, in its top trims, for cars like the Audi A3 and the Mercedes A-Class. It’s very good! Sales have been not so good.
Read MoreAfter a long lead time and controversial early reviews, the NSX is now accepted as a fast, capable and fun performance car that’s well-suited for daily driving. It looks good, too. There’s just one major sticking point: a lot of people don’t think it should be called NSX. They say it’s an affront to the old car, a misguided bastardization or a misapplication for hype alone. They’re wrong.
Read MoreIt was the late 1950s. GM’s Motorama had the public mesmerized with jet-inspired fin-festooned and chrome-covered show cars. Ford needed something to match. Ultimately, they decided to go with the nuclear option. They built an “atomic-powered” concept car. They built the Ford Nucleon.
Read MoreThree years ago, police near Portland, Oregon discovered a yellow Corvette submerged in Willamette River near a boat ramp. The Corvette, reportedly stolen over 20 years ago, was finally dragged out of the river by a team of divers working on a river clean up project.
Read MoreMike Pence showed up to Mackinac Island, Michigan in a convoy of eight cars. That’s eight more cars than Mackinac Island sees most days, since the island banned cars over a century ago.
Read MoreThe Mini Cooper John Cooper Works Knights Edition is not my favorite car I’ve tested. It’s harsh and it’s expensive. But it’s also loud. Delightfully, stupidly loud. That’s because it has a Bluetooth-controlled exhaust, which is one of the dumbest and best features I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreThree people were killed in a crash during round three of the Indian National Rally Championship. A motorbike carrying the three victims had entered the track when it was struck by Gaurav Gill’s Mahindra Adventure Super XUV300.
Read MoreOn September 1, Jared Black rolled Kevin Hart’s 1970 Plymouth Barracuda into a ditch. Hart and Black both sustained major back injuries, while a third passenger suffered minor injuries. Now, TMZ reports that Hart is preparing to be sued because his car did not have airbags or safety harnesses.
Read MoreWith two consecutive wins under his belt and a pole-position start to work with, Charles Leclerc had every reason to believe he had a shot at his third straight victory. He had the pace, he had the consistency, he had the pit strategy over his competitors. But, in a disappointing return to form, Ferrari handed the win to Sebastian Vettel Again.
Read MoreFor the first time this season, a team other than Mercedes has managed a 1-2 finish in a Formula 1. With great performances from Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc, Ferrari dominated the Singapore Grand Prix.
Read MoreOn Friday, Uber sued the city of New York over pieces of legislation that limit the amount of time that drivers can spend cruising the streets waiting for passengers and the amount of for-hire vehicles in the city.
Read MoreAs part of the New Deal, the Farm Security Administration (FSI) was launched to help relieve crippling poverty in rural communities. As small part of that mission, the organization documented life in the the communities in which it worked. These photos naturally included many road scenes, as the Great Depression had plunged rural America into a great migratory frenzy.
Read MoreIt’s a cool, misty morning when you land at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. You have to get to your hotel in the center of the city, but between you and a bed is eight kilometers of traffic the likes of which you have never seen before. How do you brave the journey? For years, the answer would probably be a Peugeot 404 or 504 taxi. No longer, it seems.
Read MoreIf you have a boat, a horse, a camper or anything else that won’t fit in a pickup or van, you probably pull a trailer. If you do, you probably know the importance of loading it up properly to keep things in control. If you don’t, have a look at this demonstration from U-Haul.
Read MoreThe 2020 Honda CR-V will have hybrid as an option, the company’s first electrified SUV of any sort in the U.S. This is just the beginning.
Read MoreSometimes, you have to look past our national no-snitching policy and report a driver who is endangering themselves and others on the road. Where do you draw the line?
Read MoreThe BMW i3 probably should’ve been a Mini all along, but it wasn’t. And while sales were at first tepid after its 2013 launch, they’ve picked up in recent years to a surprising degree. The i3 might eventually die, but it will still be sold for several years, a BMW executive told the Financial Times, though the company has no plans to update it.
Read MoreIn an exciting feat this week, Indian actor Poornachandra Mysore was the first Indian to walk on the lunar surface. That surface wasn’t actually on the moon, though; It was in Bangalore.
Read MoreWelcome to Little Car in the Big City, where we highlight fascinating cars we found walking around a town that is known for being bigger than everything else, but where every car is fighting to stand out: New York, New York.
Read MoreIn the wake of the September 11th attacks, George W. Bush famously told Americans to go shopping. The country was terrified, war was on the horizon and the last thing the government wanted was for fear to trigger an economic collapse.
Read MoreA decade or so ago, it seemed like hydrogen cars could be the long-range, clean alternative to fossil fuels we were looking for. Batteries didn’t seem up to the job, the infrastructure could be built out by converting gas stations and we should never run out. But after years of massive growth in the electric vehicle space, hydrogen cars are still rare, expensive and only available in limited areas.
Read MoreThe Toyota Land Cruiser is famously built to last. Used across the Australian Outback, throughout Africa’s toughest areas and in violent conflict zones by United Nations peacekeeping forces, it’s supposed to outlast everything else in the harshest conditions. According to a new study by iSeeCars, it’s also outlasting everything in American garages, with the highest average ownership length of any new car.
Read MoreWalking around the Frankfurt Motor Show this week, there were Audi E-tron shuttles zooming around to ferry attendees between the press room and the far reaches of the show. Like many E-trons in the European market, these ones had the camera-based mirrors that automakers have been putting on concept cars for the past 15 years. And despite usually being a sucker for tech gimmicks, I still don’t get this one.
Read MorePart of the problem with motorsports is that, with the distant perspective of most TV cameras, it’s hard to get a sense of how crazy the action on track actually is. Thanks to an amazing drone pilot, though, we now have an amazing close-up of what a 100-point run looks like in Formula Drift.
Read MoreYou may think that BMW’s core competency is its famed chassis tuning, smooth engines or seamless gearboxes. But all of those are now up for debate and none are visible at a static display. Instead, BMW decided to flex on us with some stunning colors. They’re not the loudest or brightest, but I’m in love with the deep and interesting paint jobs the show cars had.
Read MoreThis weekend, the NASCAR playoffs kick off. If that’s not your, thing, though, rest assured that we’ve rounded up a bunch of other great races going on throughout the weekend. If there’s something we missed that you think is worth watching, drop it in the comments below!
Read MoreYou see it in a flash as you round the blind corner on the twisty mountain road—the cloud of dust, your friend’s bike jammed under the guardrail, and they’re lying on their back in the middle of the road, not moving. Your first thought is, “Wow, that’s a bad crash.” Your second thought is, “What the hell do I do now?”
Read MoreIt’s been roughly six months since Ferrari showed us the F8 Tributo, the 710-horsepower, 568 lb-ft successor to the 488 GTB, at Geneva. Now, just in time for Frankfurt, we’ve finally been shown its drop-top sibling, the F8 Spider.
Read MoreWe’re always happy to have more cars on TV, especially when they’re on TV for cars sake, like in the new season of Proving Grounds, premiering tonight on NBCSN.
Read MoreHot off of record-breaking Pikes Peak and Goodwood climbs and a blistering Nürburgring record as well, Volkswagen decided it was time to bring the ID.R’s talents east to Tianmen Mountain in China to demonstrate what its electrified performance cars can do on yet another continent.
Read MoreJohn Margolies spent more than forty years traveling American roads and cataloguing the way cars shaped our built environment. Now, with his photos in the hands of the Library of Congress, you can have a look at what he found.
Read MoreWith the first hometown win for Ferrari since Alonso in 2010 and hot off a big success at Spa, Charles Leclerc has brought home his second win in a row (and second win ever) today at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
Read MoreSummer 1985 was Live Aid. Back To The Future came out. Pete Rose was corking his bat. The living was easy. If you lived in Japan, Europe or New Zealand, Honda wanted to sell you an Accord to match your easy living lifestyle. They wanted to sell you an Aerodeck.
Read MoreFor the past few weeks, I’ve been referring to the upcoming Porsche Taycan as possibly the first true Tesla Model S competitor. But then I saw the Taycan’s $150,000+ price tag. While I still think it’ll draw in some Tesla buyers, I have to back off on my statement a bit and wonder: How the hell does the Tesla Model S still have no true, tight competition?
Read MoreThe world at the moment is beset on all sides by assholes. You know, the people who don’t put their carts back at the grocery store, who take up much-needed gas pumps while stuffing their faces, and who run red lights. And while not putting your cart back may not risk any lives (except your own, if I catch you doing it) running red lights is incredibly dumb and dangerous behavior. And in 2017 these assholes killed 939 people.
Read MoreDespite a flood of media coverage of the new Supra, we haven’t actually seen a lot of high-quality photos. Toyota’s press kit is pretty slim at the moment and the cars haven’t made it to a lot of serious photographers.
Read MoreThe late Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne famously told people not to buy the Fiat 500e, as each one loses Fiat $14,000. Were he still around, he’d be happy to see a new report from Autoblog that the Fiat 500e is dead in America after this year. But so are the 500, 500 Cabrio and 500 Abarth.
Read MoreDuring the year, the vast majority of my miles are logged in press cars. I have to review a car every week for my other freelance gig. To do that, I need to put a decent number of miles on the car I’m reviewing. And—since I work from home—that doesn’t leave a lot of regular driving for my normal car.
Read MoreJust over 14 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other parts of America’s southern coast, authorities have retrieved a full car from one of the city’s underground drainage canals.
Read MoreToyota Supras are expensive. Like, really expensive. But if you’re willing to forego unnecessary luxuries like front body panels and a running engine, there are lots of cheap ones. With a bit of elbow grease, you can turn one of these shells into a fully running, tire-burning MKIV Supra.
Read MoreBenefitting from a first-place start, Verstappen’s early retirement, his teammate holding up Hamilton and a top speed advantage, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc secured his first Formula One victory at the Belgian Grand Prix. After months of strategy problems and team dynamics getting in his way, Leclerc finally took pole.
Read MoreJeep went hard with the launch of the new Wrangler. For a while, Jeep was moving nearly as many Wranglers as Toyota moves Camrys. Unsurprisingly, that wasn’t sustainable. And now that Wrangler sales have calmed down, there are a ton of 2018 models still stuck on dealer lots.
Read MoreMax Verstappen is one of the most competent, consistent drivers in the world. Despite a constantly changing field and tons of challenges, Verstappen has pulled out 21 straight top-five finishes. 30 seconds into the Belgian Grand Prix, it became clear that he wouldn’t make that 22.
Read MoreI’m a big fan of ripping burnouts in a Hellcat or carving canyons in a McLaren. But, when it comes to the vehicles I own, nothing quite soothes me like an old-fashioned luxury barge. Unfortunately, there’s only one left on the market. Fortunately, it’s very good.
Read MoreOwning an actual show car is a dream of many. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe SEMA Tucson could be that dream fulfilled. That is, unless it comes with a totally nightmare of a price.
Read MoreForced induction sounds pretty aggressive, but when applied to the civility of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Range Rover it just sounds cool. Let’s see if this custom second gen’s price makes it sound like a good deal.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 924 is a bit of an anomaly. Being the S it shares the 944’s engine, but not its brute looks. That makes it a bit lighter, and just maybe, a good bit better of a deal.
Read MoreYou’ve probably never heard of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe LaDawri, but now that you have, you likely won’t be able to forget it either. Let’s see if this rare, Corvair-powered kit car from the past comes with a price that’s just as memorable.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Allanté has Hot Rod in script on its boot lid, a scoop on its hood, and some serious bling in its wheel wells. Could that all be enough to warrant its price?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom R32 says he needed a family-friendly and yet sporty hatch, but didn’t want to spend too much so he built his own. None of us wants to spend too much, and that’s why we’re here to judge both his work and his price.
Read MoreWhen you first look at it, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe FFR Daytona component car seems to be a hot mess. When you dig into it however, that mess tidies up nicely. Let’s see if its price cleans up just as well.
Read MoreWhen considering small sports cars, Mazda’s MX-5 is always the safe choice. Some of us want to live on the edge and that’s why cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Spitfire tickle many a fancy. Let’s see if this not-so-safe choice has a totally safe-to-buy price.
Read MoreUpon first seeing the Millennium Falcon, Princess Leia famously jabs Han Solo by mockingly asking “You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.” Those sentiments could easily also apply to today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Star Wars tribute van. Let’s see how brave its seller is in setting its price.
Read MoreThe mid-engine Corvette may be the new hotness, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ’79 exemplifies, there are still some older models with engines you can get behind. Let’s find out if this C3’s price puts it ahead of the pack.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Mercedes coupe is presently one-size fits all. That’s because its power driver’s seat is stuck in one position. Let’s see if its price puts it in position to still be a good deal.
Read MoreHold onto your hats, friends. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cobra replica is built on none other than the original car’s most bitter rival, the Chevy Corvette. Once you recover from that shocking revelation, we’ll get down to its price.
Read MoreBack in the day when fuel economy was king, cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe CRX ruled the EPA roost. Let’s see if this old school two-seater’s price means it’s still got money saving in mind.
Read MoreThe DB7 was given to Aston Martin by then-parent Ford after Jaguar turned it down as replacement for the XJ-S. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Vantage shows what a mistake that may have been on Jaguar’s part. Let’s see if its price might be just as erroneous.
Read MoreWith its vinyl-wrapped nose and donkalicious wheels, today’s Nice Price of Crack Pipe QX56 certainly stands out. Let’s see if those attributes help make its price a standout too.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Alpina is a grand cheaper on the dealer site than in its Craigslist ad, proving the value of Sherlockian sleuthing. No matter where it is, it’s wicked cool, but could its flexible price make it even cooler still?
Read MoreThe Mondial 8 has never represented Ferrari at its finest. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe example certainly does look right dressed in its traditional coat of red, but will one-hundred additional supercharged ponies seal the deal in making its price look attractive?
Read MoreIf luxury isn’t enough—since only ultra luxury will do—then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lexus may just be the car for you. That is, if its price isn’t ultra ridiculous.
Read MoreFord’s upcoming new Bronco will be a four-door, I guarantee it. If you can’t wait for that however, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Magnum custom has got you covered. Let’s see if you’d be willing to cover its price.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to ride a Café to the Café for your Café au Lait, then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe CB750 might be just your cup of full-caff tea. That is, unless its price makes it something you wouldn’t want to order to go.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Centaur was once part of Bill Harrah’s renowned Reno car collection. Could that, and its remarkable weirdness, make it easily worth its asking?
Read MoreIf you look out the windows at a busy airport, or maybe out the porthole on your next airplane ride, you might notice that many planes are mostly white but the ring at the forward tips of their engines is always silver. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not just style.
Read MoreLexus, in an effort to go for all four elements of nature except maybe fire (that’s Elon Musk’s realm, and probably shouldn’t spread), seems to be going for every method of luxury travel possible these days. It has cars already, of course, but it needs more. It needs cars and boats and planes, oh m—nope, not going there.
Read MoreGiven that there are approximately one million things to worry about when flying through the sky in a giant piece of metal, I thought I’d exceeded all possible opportunities to feel anxious before boarding. But because the world is a terrible place, there is, of course, always something else! This time, it’s the wonderfully delightful fact that an American Airlines employee purposely sabotaged a plane so that he might be able to get a little extra overtime!
Read MoreOh, McLaren—you’ve really gone downhill these past few years in Formula One. Ever since the ill-fated decision to swap to Honda in 2015, then Renault in 2018, races have just been a mess. It makes one wish for the good ol’ McLaren-Mercedes glory days, a time when— wait. Hold on. Holy shit, McLaren-Mercedes is coming back to F1 in 2021!
Read MoreFormula One team Toro Rosso has been on the grid since 2006 after Red Bull bought and rebranded Minardi. But that might not be the case moving forward. Toro Rosso has requested a name change for the 2020 season... to AlphaTauri. Which also happens to be the name of Red Bull’s ultra-expensive luxury clothing line.
Read MoreFour people, said to be in the IT department of Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes Formula One team, were fired in August after racially abusing a co-worker, according to The Sun. The firings were upheld on appeal last week.
Read MoreFor the first week of Autumn, Formula 1 heads to the Black Sea Riviera for the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday morning. Expect all eyes in Sochi to be on Vettel and Leclerc as Ferrari chases their fourth win in a row after last week’s one-two finish in Singapore.
Read MoreIf you’ve heard of any rally drivers, you’ve probably heard of Colin McRae. And if you have any idea what kind of cars go rally racing, you probably think of Subaru. This Impreza is a moving monument to two legends of motorsport.
Read MoreWith Mercedes power through the 1990s and 2000s, McLaren was one of the most dominant forces in Formula 1. But when Mercedes as a team set itself up to take control in the then-new turbo era, McLaren figured it would only ever be second-rate, so it embarked on a wandering journey to make things work with Honda (catastrophe) and now Renault (still not great). Now we are seeing a new report that McLaren could go back to Mercedes. The sound you hear is of McLaren fans tearing their hair out.
Read MoreThe heart of a Toyota Supra is a straight-six engine. That was the whole reason for the very first Supra existing, and it’s why Toyota went to the I6-experts at BMW to partner up on the new one. And yet, here’s the GR Supra race car with a 2.0-liter four-cylinder boosted to the moon and back.
Read MoreSeveral NASCAR Truck Series title contenders got smoked in the final race of the first playoff elimination round at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this month, and it wasn’t their doing—it was that of their spec engines, which all failed in quick succession. Two of those drivers were eliminated from the playoffs because of the spree of failures, and now their team wants the eliminations reversed.
Read MoreHyundai Motorsport hit the Hungaroring with its all-electric Veloster N to get the machine primed and ready for next year’s ETCR racing series. And man does it sound freakin’ cool.
Read MoreIt is an unspoken law of the universe: when a racing series makes regulation changes, the drivers will react pretty negatively across the board. The same thing is currently happening with Formula One’s proposed regulation changes that will take effect in 2021, with championship-winning driver Lewis Hamilton being one of the most vocal of the critics.
Read MoreEvery so often you stumble on some real great YouTube gems—like an exceptional explainer video of what karting is that came directly from 1960s Britain. Buckle in, race fans, because this is the most unintentionally hilarious thing you’ll see all day.
Read MoreWhile there are plenty of websites that offer a comprehensive list of racing results for a few different series, there really hasn’t been one official site developed by a sanctioning body itself. Until now, that is—the FIA is giving us all the info in a new site called Motorsport Stats.
Read MoreThere was a brief moment in the early 1990s when all of the major manufacturers building prototype cars to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans realized that the cost of their programs were about the same as what it cost to run a Formula 1 team, only F1 had much more air time and promotion in it. Teams quickly ditched endurance racing, and the Sportscar World Championship dissolved. But just before that moment, things were extremely tight.
Read MoreThis is an enlightening and instructional video on how to get pole position for your run group at the Monza historic races. Step 1: Be Sam Hancock. Step 2: Drive this mega 512 BBLM racing car. Step 3: Never be going not fast.
Read MoreJessi Combs died as a result of a crash attempting to set a new speed record at the Alvord Desert in Oregon in late August, but she may be eligible to posthumously hold the title for World’s Fastest Woman. At the opening of the Petersen Automotive Museum exhibition honoring her, it was announced that her times would be submitted for a Guinness World Record.
Read MoreThe thing about insults is that they’re usually only good the first time. Call your boss a mumpsimus with the professional skills of a whimpering toddler once and it’s funny; do it every day and it loses its charm. The latter is where NASCAR insults often get stuck, with someone throwing out something good every so often and everyone else recycling it for the next four decades.
Read MoreSpooky season is almost upon us, which means it’s time for zombies and ghouls and haunted graveyards to be temporarily fashionable once again. But this fall, rising from the dead isn’t just for the folks in the Halloween movies. It may also be for Rich Energy, our dearly departed sponsor of the Haas Formula One team.
Read MoreExtreme E, the new all-electric SUV racing series, has been drawing some pretty big names lately ahead of its first season in 2021. Now, we can add legendary Formula One designer Adrian Newey to the increasingly impressive list.
Read MoreOne thing that’s very difficult to discern among the drivers filling up the entry lists of Formula 1 races is that it’s hard to tell what, or who, is a “pay driver.” That is, who is only where they are because of skill, and who is there because of sponsorship connections. The line is impossibly blurred at this point. Everyone is a mix of both. What is not unclear at all is that nobody on the grid has such an outstandingly wonderful and mirthful mustache as that of the late Harald Ertl.
Read MoreOnce again, Tesla has defied expectations. After wrapping up its first-ever Nürburgring test this week and heading home to America, it’s pulled off an apparent hand-timed seven minute, 24 second lap in one of its Model S test cars, a mere second slower than the attempt at the beginning of this week—but still nearly 20 seconds quicker than the electric Porsche Taycan. And it bodes well for an exciting upcoming electric war at the world’s most famous race track.
Read MoreThis one’s a quiet weekend with only a few races going on, but you’re our loyal readers and you deserve to know where and when there are cars going round a track and how you can stick your eyeballs to them.
Read MoreStick a bunch of racers eager to make a mark on the sport into identically prepared Mazda MX-5 race cars, and let them loose on some of the best race tracks in North America, and you’re bound to see some exhilarating racing action. The Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup Series comes to an end this weekend at Laguna Seca. And what better place is there for such a thing to happen?
Read MoreThere I was, in a jovial mood with the sun shining overhead, on my way to look at some pre-war Bentleys at the 2019 Goodwood Revival when I found my way blocked by a crowd of people. Curious, I looked around and saw, to my shock, the petite gargoyle in the form of Bernie Ecclestone, standing in the way and inexplicably signing autographs.
Read MoreRenault Formula One driver Nico Hülkenberg is currently out of a ride next year, since with only 20 cars, F1 silly season is basically a prolonged game of musical chairs. Rest assured, though, Haas F1 was considering him—only to realize they needed to fix their race car before screwing around with anything else.
Read MoreI didn’t know that an electric Smart car racing series existed until last night, and I’m absolutely heartbroken that I didn’t get to see the series’ Vallelunga race live. If you haven’t seen the clip yet, then strap in and get ready to see the most absurd racing accident you’ve ever seen.
Read MoreNew England’s favorite metalcore sons Killswitch Engage will be on a NASCAR track soon—figuratively, not literally, as one isn’t advised to casually venture onto a NASCAR track with the high-speed traffic and all—and so will all of my nostalgia from the years when I only wore hardcore band T-shirts with unidentified melting figures printed across them.
Read MoreThe Nürburgring is host to a very exciting (if very unofficial) pissing contest between Tesla and Porsche over whose four-door electric car is the fastest around the track, and the results are impressive. After Porsche set a very quick 7:42 second lap time, Tesla came back, with seemingly minimal planning, and set an astounding 7:23 (again, unofficial) lap time.
Read MoreSunday will see the final race of the 2019 IndyCar championship take place at Laguna Seca in California, and the title has yet to be decided. Who’s going to be the one to take it home?
Read MoreRobert Kubica was on the rise in his career at one of motorsport’s highest levels, Formula One, when he suffered a horrific 2011 rally crash partially severed his arm. Kubica made it back to the top eight years later with the Williams F1 team, against all predictions, but his comeback won’t last into 2020—at least, not with Williams.
Read MoreBack in May, IndyCar debuted its aeroscreen concept as a sleek form of head protection in response to many other series’ adoption of the halo. That was pretty much the last update we’d heard of it—until now. And the best part is, we’ll get to see it in action on track next month.
Read MoreScuderia Cameron Glickenhaus is back at it again. This time the team has a plan to build this gorgeous race car—dubbed SCG007—to tackle the 2020/2021 FIA WEC season. It will compete in the “Hypercar” class against entries from Toyota, Aston Martin, and Rebellion Racing, plus some others that are alleged to be coming, but have yet to confirm involvement. If this was a competition of who could build the prettiest car, however, SCG would already have won.
Read MoreIt feels like we go through something similar every year regarding Formula One: all this brainstorming about how to “solve” the series’ problems, or how to make it more interesting. This time around, The Powers That Be are wondering if they should implement qualifying races in exchange for the current format.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, we posted about one YouTuber’s journey to dive deeper into the history of Air Base Speedway, a seemingly lost NASCAR track. There isn’t a ton of information out there about the track, the 1951 race it held, or its fate. But in an update to the video, we’re starting to piece together more about this mysterious track.
Read MoreOn Aug. 10, NASCAR Truck Series driver Grant Enfinger won the series’ regular-season championship, awarded to the driver with the highest amount of points accumulated—and thus the most consistent success—over the first 16 races of the year. By Sept. 13, he was out of contention for the title.
Read MoreUnderstanding modern NASCAR can be difficult for anyone trying to get into it. You may be baffled as to why races have premeditated cautions or why they don’t just give the trophy to the driver who collects the most points, like in the old days. It gets easier with time, but like anything, it’s good to start with the basics—especially with the NASCAR playoffs upon us soon.
Read MoreWhen Formula E burst onto the racing scene at its first-ever race in 2014, people were skeptical that the series would actually survive. Electric cars weren’t quite in vogue yet, and people wondered who the hell would even be watching. Five years later, it turns out that a hell of a lot of people have been tuning in—and many of them are younger fans.
Read MoreExtreme E—the all-electric SUV racing series aiming to be something like an eco-friendly rally in the wildest climates—isn’t starting its inaugural championship season until 2021. But the series has already started announcing its driver program lineup, and, holy shit, it is chock full of world championship-winning talent.
Read MoreSUPER GT’s Honda NSX-GT has always been different from both its road-going self and its competitors: it’s always been a mid-engine layout. But that’s going to change for the 2020 season. Honda is moving its engines to the front.
Read MoreFormula One driver Lewis Hamilton went vegan a year back or so due to what he felt were health benefits, animal rights concerns and other reasons. Good for him. But he also enjoys a good burger, so he’s backing the opening of a vegan burger chain called Neat Burger alongside UNICEF ambassadors and entrepreneur Tommaso Chiabra. And I need to know what it’s like.
Read MoreInstead of competing in what I hoped would be my second big rally race of the year this coming weekend, I’ll be sitting this one out as I try and make some pennies trickle back into my checking account.
Read MoreNASCAR fans today were not at all prepared for the news bomb that Wood Brothers Racing was about to drop on the racing world: driver Paul Menard will be ending his 4,000-year career in NASCAR and retiring at the end of the 2019 season, to be replaced with currently drive-less Matt DiBenedetto.
Read MoreThe new Formula E documentary, And We Go Green, made its world premiere on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was lucky enough to be in attendance to see its release—and it might just be the best racing documentary I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreOur beloved Hyundai Veloster N is going electric.
Read MorePour one out for Rich Energy, race fans (if you were ever able to find an actual can of Rich Energy to pour out, that is). The saga looks like it’s finally over. The embattled would-be energy drink company and its bombastic leader are finally parting ways with the Haas Formula One team.
Read MoreFor the first time since it began nearly 16 years ago, the postseason in NASCAR’s top-level Cup Series will run without one of the most successful drivers in series history in contention for the title: seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson.
Read MoreLast week, and in a tweet last night as well, the National Rifle Association rebuked NASCAR after the racing series denied advertisements for K-Var Corp., a large distributor of firearms, ammunition and firearm accessories, as part of a claimed “gradual shift” of position on firearms. The sponsorship denial, issued August 19th, came just days after Cup cars battled it out at Bristol in the Bass Pro Shops NRA Annual Night Race.
Read MoreWhen the field is all running on dry-weather racing slicks and a downpour starts, you’d be forgiven for expecting a crash or two. But during today’s Citroën DS3 cup race, drivers weren’t that lucky.
Read MoreThere’s been a decent amount of debate over whether or not so-called “sausage kerbs” are actually safety devices. While they’re supposed to slow cars down by punishing drivers who take a wide line, they’re also glorified speed bumps that can devastate low-slung cars.
Read MoreNico Rosberg should have nothing to prove. He’s a Formula One champion, the son of a Formula One champion, and he retired on top. And yet, for some reason he spends his time being a YouTuber. Now current F1 driver/son of an F1 driver Max Verstappen just called out Rosberg as “the new Jacques Villeneuve,” because of what Verstappen pegs as being intentionally controversial hot takes. It’s pretty much the harshest criticism you can give in F1, but more than that it epitomizes the fact that no one
Read MoreLast weekend, Anthoine Hubert lost his life at a fatal crash at the Formula 2 race at Spa-Francorchamps. Since then, there has been confusion and a fair share of misunderstandings as to how the incident happened. But Chain Bear F1 has posted an enlightening video that explores the accident without utilizing the traumatic footage of the incident itself.
Read MoreMan oh man, have I missed Pastor Maldonado. The former Formula One driver has just casually mentioned this week that he totally expected to sign a deal to race with Ferrari for the 2014 season, prompting the entire world of racing to sit back and ask, “hahahaha—wait, what???”
Read MoreIt’s hard to imagine Formula One without an Italian Grand Prix—it’s been on the calendar every single year since 1950. Thankfully, we won’t have to: the Autodromo di Monza will be coming back to host another five years of F1 races, with its new contract only expiring in 2024.
Read MoreMost NASCAR tracks have incredibly well-documented histories compiled throughout the ages. Even if you’ve never heard of it, someone somewhere definitely has. Well—except for the mysterious Air Base Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina.
Read MoreYes, my literary-but-automotive friends, the rumors are true: the Jalopnik Race Car Book Club is making its triumphant return! Get your reading glasses on, because we’re going to take a ride.
Read MoreLast August, the orbital module of one of the Soyuz spacecraft used to ferry astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the International Space Station was discovered to have a small hole. This hole was an issue, as it was causing an alarming leak of the breathable air inside the ISS into space. The hole appeared to be a human-made drill-hole, not anything like an asteroid strike. It now seems that the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos knows why that hole was there, but they’re refusing to tell NASA. Fo
Read MoreBetween December 2017 and March 2018, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences—a foundation headed by Tom Delonge of Blink-182 fame that’s dedicated to investigating alien life—posted some strange videos of UFOs captured by the military. And, according to the US Navy, those videos are real, they’re confidential, and they never should have been released.
Read MoreThe U.S. government has finally allowed STI—Subaru’s elite squad of performance engineers—to build a tricked-out WRX for the American market, and the result is an incredibly sticky track-slayer. It’s the 341 horsepower 2019 Subaru STI S209, and it has so much grip even professional rally drivers will struggle to get it sideways.
Read MoreJust a few days ago, Tesla announced their new Version 10 software update, which included such things as the ability to play Cuphead and watch Netflix while in park, as well as their new Smart Summon feature, which frees humanity from the brutal indignity of short walks to their cars in parking lots. As you can imagine, people have been trying out the Smart Summon feature eagerly, leading to Twitter posts of people discovering that maybe, just maybe, it’s not exactly perfect.
Read MoreSometimes rich people really dig into an engineering project only to complete it, lift their head and somberly wonder to themselves, “what was the point of all this?” When that happens, they create arbitrary records for their projects to attempt to beat, which Koenigsegg claims it has done by launching a Koenigsegg Regera from 0 to 400 km/h (248.5 mph)and back to 0 in a claimed record time.
Read MoreBMW doesn’t sell a self-driving car, but it did take some time to produce a quick 20 second video about what the world would be like if it did. And it turns out, people would fuck.
Read MoreThere is generally nothing very good about Cadillac’s CUE system. Its touch screen infotainment system is riddled with haptic feedback, clunky design, and respectively outdated tech. And now it appears to be the cause of a class-action lawsuit that one 2014 Cadillac ATS owner is pressing against GM.
Read MoreThe things happening in the world of electric hop up right now easily parallel the hot rod movement of post-war Southern California. The new tech powertrains are getting cheaper and easier to come by, so do-it-yourselfers are grabbing those bits to make stuff go fast and look cool. This particular hot rod blends the old style with the new drivetrain, using the bits from a Zero SR motorcycle to power the rear wheels. It’s pretty standard stuff, but it’s still rad as hell.
Read MoreI just drove the Porsche Taycan, and though I can’t give you a full review until later, I can say what the Porsche Taycan’s P.R. Manager told me at dinner about Tesla’s Nürburgring record attempts and Elon Musk’s Porsche Taycan-related tweets. As he pointed out, Tesla has helped Porsche more than it hurt it.
Read MoreThere’s no denying that there’s a story to be told about Tesla. The challenge comes when you need to distill the hype, the hope, and heartache of the company’s 16 years into a digestible narrative that doesn’t read like hagiography or a how-to manual for the shorts. But journalist Ed Niedermeyer gave it a shot, and the result is a mostly even-handed account of how we got from an electric Lotus prototype to the Model 3.
Read MoreFive years ago, the California Department of Transportation completed a $1.6 billion project to rebuild a 10-mile portion of the Sepulveda Pass of the 405 in Los Angeles. The project, like nearly all highway expansion projects, was billed as a way to relieve congestion and improve travel times. Often, such projects are also sold to the public as environmentally friendly because stop-and-go jams result in higher emissions than free-flowing traffic.
Read MoreToday is a good day for the Tesla Model 3. The car just earned a Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, making it the first award Tesla has won from the agency.
Read MoreWe all know that running your car out of fuel is a bad thing for obvious reasons like the fact that it can leave you stranded. There’s also a good chance you’ve also heard that running on empty can cause damage to your car. But what actually happens?
Read MoreJust because the US government is mandating that your electric vehicle has to have detectable engine noises doesn’t mean some automakers won’t be using engine noises to make a quick buck. Case in point: the new Porsche Taycan, which offers a legitimate mp3 of engine noises as an option... if you’re willing to spend $580.
Read MoreThe United States federal government wants you to have choices when it comes to your quiet electric cars. It’s requiring automakers to include artificial motor sounds in any of their quieter hybrid and electric cars—but you, the owner, will actually be able to select which particular sounds you prefer.
Read MoreMazda is a small company compared to its rivals, mostly seen these days trying to perfect the internal combustion engine, talking some shit about electric vehicles, and building a new rotary engine. Electric is the future, Mazda’s stance has been, but maybe a more distant one for us than others. Well, the future is almost here.
Read MoreThe 2020 McLaren GT is a showcase of impressive automotive technology, one of the most immediately-appreciable of which is its “proactive” suspension setup that effectively predicts road conditions. In the 720S, this tech is used to maximize grip. Here, it’s dialed-in for comfort.
Read MoreWith the reveal of the 2020 Ferrari 812 GTS on Monday, I fear-mongered that it could be the last of a dying breed of naturally-aspirated Ferrari V12s. But now it looks like Ferrari is out to prove me, and most of the governments of the world, very wrong.
Read MoreReinforcing once again that there is a trade-off between comfort and responsibility, the most fuel-efficient airlines are also the ones that cram the most passengers onto their planes, according to a new study.
Read MoreBack in 2013, Google’s self-driving car unit ran an experiment. They decided to give their semi-autonomous driving technology to a handful of employees with long highway commutes, as recounted by Waymo CEO John Krafcik at IAA Frankfurt. Because it was not fully tested yet, Google made those employees agree to several stipulations:
Read MoreAfter making a bunch of noise on Twitter about taking the Tesla Model S to the German Nürburgring after the Porsche Taycan set a record there, Tesla instead claimed it set a record time for a sedan around Laguna Seca. The only problem is the track reportedly did not officiate it, so their time didn’t “officially” break any record. You can’t make this stuff up.
Read MoreEarth is getting hotter, which is bad news for a lot of reasons. One new reason hotter temperatures are bad news: diesel engines spew far more toxic particles when the temperature rises about 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), according to a new study by The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) initiative, and many times higher than the average emissions permitted under EU regulations.
Read MoreYeah, sure, Bugatti breaking the 300+ mph mark with the Chiron is a pretty big deal, but have you ever seen something go 6,599 miles per hour before? Can you even see that?
Read MoreLast week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk accepted the implicit challenge of the recently revealed 2020 Porsche Taycan by promising to send a Tesla Model S to the infamous Nürburgring, implying an attempt to beat Porsche’s claimed record lap time. Musk now claims the Model S has set a record at Laguna Seca—likely a distraction from the fact that Tesla can’t set a ‘Ring time yet.
Read MoreNow that the American automakers have, for the most part, ceded the small car market to the import brands, you would think they would try to field competitive offerings in the crossover/SUV segment. However, when it comes to what most car buyers are really looking for in a family car, the domestic brands do not seem to be reading the market very well.
Read MoreWindshield wiper technology has been pretty stagnant since Mary Anderson came up with, basically, the swiping blades we recognize today. Sure, we have intermittent settings and rain-sensing and Mercedes had that bonkers Monoblade, but the concept hasn’t changed much since 1903. According to a patent filed in March and published just five days ago though, the reign of the single-pivot wiper may be in trouble, as Tesla has a new idea. A wiper idea.
Read MoreTuner car legend Stephan Papadakis, his team and some collaborators are trying to build a 2020 Toyota Supra that will make 1,000 horsepower on an engine dyno. Since the car’s brand new, an aftermarket doesn’t really exist. So a lot of upgrade parts will have to be built for the first time. Here’s a little look at that process.
Read MoreAs we all know, making cars is hard, to say nothing of making cars that drive themselves, which is exponentially harder. I’d like to think we at Jalopnik have done an OK job illustrating for you, our dear readers, just how hard making autonomous cars has proven, but just in case we haven’t, here’s another go at it.
Read MoreLyft disrupted the taxi space. Then it invented the bus. Then it got into scooters. Now, it’s created a service that’s like Enterprise Rent-A-Car except... well, actually, it’s basically just Enterprise.
Read MoreI made a mistake this week. I tweeted. I tweeted that, while I like the Porsche Taycan, I was disappointed that it couldn’t beat the range of the Tesla Model S years after it came out. And while I stand by the opinion that the Taycan isn’t fundamentally changing the game, Audi took the time to explain to me what non-Tesla EVs are bringing to the table.
Read MoreEarlier this week, Bugatti claimed that the 304-mph Chiron could have gone faster if they had gone to a higher altitude place, like, say Nevada. They brought up Nevada, of course, because it is the first high-altitude place that comes to mind and not because Koenigsegg did its record-setting speed run there.
Read MoreToyota launched its highly versatile Toyota New Global Architecture modular platforms in 2015. They underpin both Toyota and Lexus models, and now there’s a new application just for small cars.
Read MoreWe know what the future of Volkswagen looks like today—or at least, what the future of cars according to Volkswagen looks like. Many models, diverse in body styles, all riding on one modular platform and powered by electricity. An EV onslaught, the scale of which the world has never seen before. But it wasn’t always this way.
Read MoreIt’s a terrible feeling when you realize you’re either locked out of your car or it won’t start at all. Recently, several Tesla owners found themselves stranded when the company’s app went down for a few hours over the holiday weekend.
Read MoreTesla is ruled to have interfered with union organizing, Fiat Chrysler owes a lot of money over misleading sales figures, Maserati looks toward our electric and autonomous future, more lawsuits over the Trump administration’s efforts to block California from setting emissions rules, and more on the General Motors strike. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, Sept. 30, 2019.
Read MoreGeneral Motors decides to “do what’s right” after considerable pressure and criticism, Toyota deepens its ties with Subaru, auto workers fear the labor impact of electric cars and more for this Morning Shift of Friday, Sept. 27, 2019.
Read MoreThe UAW strikes are costing GM hundreds of millions, Trump’s tariffs are costing Michigan jobs, and Europe is pivoting away from airline travel. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019.
Read MoreThe United Auto Wokers’ strike continues today, but there’s a lot of car news around the rest of the world as well. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s CEO charged by German prosecutors, Carlos Ghosn is still a thing, and Uber gets a short reprieve in London. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019.
Read MoreBoth the United Auto Workers and General Motors are preparing for the strike to go long, Ohio’s Lordstown plant workers want a car to make, Europe’s automakers continue to freak out over a no-deal Brexit and more on The Morning Shift of Monday, Sept. 23, 2019.
Read MoreThe fate of the “unallocated” Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant is in question, some advice for saving some money at the car dealership, Germany’s aggressive next steps to fighting pollution and more await you in The Morning Shift for Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump is officially waging legal war against California over vehicle emissions, the other war (trade war) is forever, General Motors may have screwed Ford and Fiat Chrysler, and so much more going on in The Morning Shift for Thursday, September 19, 2019.
Read MoreUpdates on the UAW vs. GM strike battle, who’s going electric, and bad news for European auto sales. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, September 18, 2019.
Read MoreGM’s strike could hurt Michigan’s economy if it doesn’t end soon, Ford is almost certainly building two cars based on VW’s electric car platform, Germans are protesting against SUVs after a fatal crash, and much more. Here’s what you need to know for The Morning Shift of Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019.
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers’ 46,000 General Motors employees are on strike as contract negotiations continue, and are overshadowed somewhat by a corruption scandal among union leaders. Here’s what you need to know for The Morning Shift of Monday, Sept. 16, 2019.
Read MorePeak irony from the UAW corruption investigation, car rationing in New Delhi, a meh German economy, and Ford bails on another one of its tech ventures. All this and more in in The Morning Shift for Friday, September 13, 2019.
Read MoreFord’s electrification plans, still-slumping car sales in India and China, talks of Nissan’s next CEO, and bills that could give franchise dealers in California more freedom and better automaker reimbursement from warranty work. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019.
Read MoreAs we all wait for California’s AB5 to get signed into law today, other news also abounds in the world of cars and transportation. We have a lot to discuss about Ford, strikes, and Vietnam. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, September 11, 2019.
Read MoreVW is mad everyone’s messing with the economy, Tesla is making moves to expand Fremont, BMW has Brexit plans, and more, more, more. We’re getting wet and wild in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, September 10, 2019.
Read MoreAnother boss at Nissan is out, German automakers wonder about their place in this world, and Bugatti might make a car that seats four humans. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, September 9, 2019.
Read MoreCalifornia might not be allowed to set zero-emissions standards anymore, GM workers in South Korea are about to strike, and automakers are desperate to avoid a no-deal Brexit. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, September 6, 2019.
Read MoreMary Barra is walking into Donald Trump’s lion’s den today, more on the UAW corruption situation, and more drama from Nissan. All of that and other news in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019.
Read MoreCadillac’s “futures” strategy remains vague, TomTom is in the news once more and Hyundai’s winning streak. All of that and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019.
Read MoreFord’s big EV play, drama at the United Auto Workers negotiations, and some more executive-level intrigue at Renault-Nissan. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, September 3, 2019.
Read MoreThanks to a partnership between Geely and German startup Volocopter, air taxis will apparently be coming to China in the near future so that we can live all of our Blade Runner hovercar dreams. Maybe.
Read MoreLabor Day, which is today, honors the men and women who toiled in obscurity but made our towns, cities, and the country as a whole a better place to live. This is especially true for those who worked before the labor movement took off in the early and mid-20th Century. Those workers built much of the critical infrastructure we rely on today despite horrid conditions and treatment by management.
Read MoreHis Holiness, the leader of the Catholic church, has ridden in many vehicles on parades to receive well-wishings from parishioners around the world. But the Nissan pickup truck he’s using on the island of Mauritius is one of my new favorites.
Read MoreThe upcoming Rivian R1T is a packaging wonder and a promising start to the inevitable electric pickup truck wars, promising to put Ford, GM and Ram scrambling to catch up. We finally get to see it in something other than the boring silver color. Now it’s blue, and it’s a very good blue.
Read MoreI live in Ohio. My dad had a Ram. I like my space. Frankly, it was inevitable. But it doesn’t make it any easier to admit. I’m a pickup truck guy now. And I’m sorry.
Read MoreI’m on a campaign to convince you that the Mitsubishi Montero is the greatest SUV of the ’90s. It’s not a particularly popular opinion–people keep laughing at me and climbing back into their lame old Land Cruisers, squawking about solid axles. But what if I told you the Montero could launch a freaking airplane off its back?!
Read MoreFord’s technology division outlined an idea for a removable hardtop that would go on a pickup truck in a patent published Thursday and filed back in 2018. Neat!
Read MoreFord has revised its mighty Super Duty truck lineup, otherwise known as “F-250 and up.” Every new truck that gets trotted out seems to come along with crazy-high payload and towing capacity claims and these are no different. 37,000 pounds? What the hell weighs 37,000 pounds, man.
Read MoreYou may recall that just a couple of days ago, I was losing my mind-kittens over an airport plane-hauling tug that was surprisingly sleek. Well, that sent me down a rabbit hole of airplane-towing equipment, a hole that had hidden inside it one of my new favorite vehicles, the Talet-30. The Talet-30 was designed to pull things, I believe, mostly aircraft, but it seems like it could be a fantastic do-all-kinds-of-stuff vehicle, were you to liberate it from the airport. Also, it’s just deliriously
Read MoreAs the Hardbody was to the Toyota Pickup, as the 300ZX was to the Supra, so too is the Nissan Patrol to the Toyota Land Cruiser. And the thing just got a new face in its new spiritual home: the Middle East.
Read MoreFord is going to sell suspension upgrades for the Ranger and F-150 pickup trucks that are slightly more robust than the existing FX4 off-road trim, but well shy of the extreme Raptor on cost and capability. It’s actually a pretty interesting development for the truck scene.
Read MoreEveryone loves to see a big, burly truck fail at accomplishing a basic task that even a tiny city car could handle, which is why this video of a six-wheeled Ford F-250 struggling to climb a slight incline is so satisfying.
Read MoreA parade yesterday filled Moscow’s Garden Ring with all kinds of heavy equipment, from large trucks to helicopters and boats, in a massive show of force. But this wasn’t the Victory Day Parade. That’s in May. This was the Moscow Municipal Service Vehicle Parade.
Read MoreLand Rover brought its long-awaited 2020 Defender to Frankfurt this week, but one long-standing member of the range was absent and with good reason. Land Rover has reportedly decided that there won’t be a new pickup version of the Defender. And that’s a damn shame.
Read MoreThe 2020 Toyota 4Runner is getting Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and Amazon Alexa compatibility, some driver-assistance alerts as standard equipment, and a revised instrument panel. But the SUV’s best new feature is the Army Green color you can now spec on the TRD Pro.
Read MoreFor reasons I don’t fully understand, a beautiful, green, manual transmission, non-running, 1995 Land Rover Discovery has taken up residence in my backyard. And after looking at this British off-roader closely, I think I’ve fallen in love.
Read MoreThe 2020 Land Rover Defender has finally dropped. Most reception seems positive, but many comments seem to be variations of: “It looks like a 10-year-old concept car.” I don’t know about that, but then again, let’s look back at one Land Rover concept that was from 10 years ago and may well have informed this new Defender.
Read MoreElon Musk has been talking about building a Tesla pickup truck since late 2017, when he showed a mock-up of a novel cab-over type of pickup that is seemingly based on the Tesla Semi Truck, and, at least in the one rendering we keep seeing, is capable of carrying a full-size conventional pickup truck in its bed. Just a couple of days ago, Elon tweeted that the truck is likely to be shown in November.
Read MoreDespite rumors of its impending demise, you can still buy a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser at a U.S. dealership right now. We get the venerable 200 Series version SUV here in the States. But if you lived in South Africa, you could get a Land Cruiser 79 Namib, which is much, much cooler.
Read MoreEver notice that some big trucks sometimes have random-looking extra tires attached to them that seem to be pointlessly floating? Those aren’t spares and they’re not for decoration, even when they’re mounted on the top of the truck.
Read MoreYou can install the world’s largest lift kit on your truck, but its axles are still going to be close to the ground. Big tires help, of course, but portal axles are the galaxy brain mod for getting ground clearance. Here’s a cool examination of how one works, and apparently, this kit will fit on your older Jeep Wrangler.
Read MoreWe knew the new Defender was coming. We even knew it was coming to America. It still is coming, but now it’s a little closer. The Next Land Rover Defender, heir to the legacy of the farm and adventure trucks that came out of Solihull, England from 1948 until 2016, will be introduced later this week but, thanks to some leaked magazine pages, we’ve got some more details now.
Read MoreNew York City is many things—a holy city of cuisine, an epicenter for art and culture, the home of the baffling cronut—but it’s not really a city for cars. Not in the traditional sense. But it is also home to some of the most badass vehicles around: a fleet of Mack trucks owned and operated by the New York Department of Sanitation for the city’s dirtiest jobs.
Read MoreThe 2020 Polaris General XP 1000 is an off-road buggy designed to have a useful amount of cargo capacity as well as performance capabilities that make it fun to drive. Polaris calls this a crossover, because it’s landing in a space between the two main types of UTVs: sporty and agricultural.
Read MoreOne of the most coveted Jeeps of all time is a relatively low-volume, stretched version of the regular 1997 to 2006-generation Jeep Wrangler. It’s called the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. Let’s look at how this elongated Wrangler combined key on-road and off-road traits to become a legend in the Jeep community.
Read MoreDealing with automotive fluids might be one of the more miserable the unsung inconveniences of being your own mechanic. And even if you pay somebody to maintain your car, it’s important to know the age and condition of your car’s various bloods.
Read MoreIt all started 14 months ago with a straightforward objective: buy an older BMW 3 Series in need of some work, make it fully functional, and freshen up its appearance. It was a process I’d done before, and one that I’m sure I’ll do again. However, this time I greatly underestimated what I was getting into.
Read MoreWhen the BMW dealership gave Alex Palmeri a $17,000 estimate to fix his 409,000-mile E39 M5, the car was declared mechanically totaled. At that price, it would cost most of its value to repair. Palmeri wasn’t ready to give up, though.
Read MoreI recently got my Jeep J10 pickup on the road again and, while it’s quickly becoming my favorite vehicle, I couldn’t help but notice one thing: It’s slow. As hell. And now that I look at the numbers, I can see why; Its power-to-weight ratio is laughable. Here are some lethargic cars that somehow beat or come close to my J10 in this metric.
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