In the final days of World War II, as U.S. troops advanced into Aschaffenberg, they encountered stiff German resistance in the form of something familiar: a Sherman tank, one of its beutepanzers, aka “loot tanks,” equipment seized in previous battles. In war, the loot can be as dangerous as anything.
Read MoreThe U.S. Marines are testing loading an amphibious assault ship with a baker’s dozen of F-35B Lightning fighter jets. The result is what the Navy and Marines call a “Lightning Carrier,” and it could be a glimpse into the future of naval aviation.
Read More“Good times or bad times, there are still ultra-rich people paying whatever needed to get what they like,” as the South China Morning Post quoted a Hong Kong real estate rep this week. Hard to argue with that when parking spots are trading hands at close to a million bucks.
Read MoreI have some bad news for those of you who enjoyed watching box trucks get sardine can’d on Durham, North Carolina’s most famous unforgiving bridge: the brutal 11 Foot 8 bridge. Miserably but rationally, the cruel, truck-roof-hungry bridge will be raised, to 12 feet four inches. This rail overpass has been a meager 11 feet, eight inches high for over a century!
Read MoreThe Trump Administration, determined to “get out of the Middle East” and its “endless wars”, is deploying 3,000 troops, including fighter jets and missiles, to Saudi Arabia. This being October 2019, the irony doesn’t stop there: the weapons the Pentagon is sending to protect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would have difficulty defending against the kind of drone and cruise missile attacks that prompted the deployment to begin with.
Read MoreChina’s 70th Anniversary parade, held earlier this month in Beijing, included the debut of one of the People’s Liberation Army’s worst-kept secrets: the Harbin Z-20 helicopter. The Z-20 medium helicopter, dubbed “Copyhawk” by Western observers, is a familiar sight because it’s a copy of the American UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. Still, the Blackhawk helicopter design is more than forty years ago and the U.S. military is forging ahead with a new generation of assault helicopters—some of which are t
Read MoreOver the past two weeks America’s power, prestige, and moral authority abroad have taken a body blow: President Donald Trump abruptly decided to withdraw U.S. forces from key a region in Syria. The decision to withdraw resulted in America’s Kurdish allies, one of Washington’s most loyal allies in the region, exposed to a military offensive by another one of America’s allies, Turkey. Here’s what’s going on.
Read MoreImporting a car into the U.S. is hard enough. You have to worry about getting it here, getting it past U.S. safety and emissions regulations, and then you still have to worry about getting parts for something that maybe wasn’t ever sold here. But it’s entirely different—and in some ways surprisingly easier—to import a 15-ton armored vehicle built for war.
Read MoreTuesday was National Day in China, which marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Like all authoritarian regimes the ruling Chinese Communist Party loves a good giant celebration of state power to remind everyone who is in charge, and the parade featured plenty of new weapons and technology. Here’s your Foxtrot Alpha guide to the most interesting new equipment spotted during Beijing’s parade.
Read MoreThough it’s been drowned out by other news lately, let us not forget about Iran. In recent months alone it shot down a $200 million U.S.-made drone, captured a British oil tanker, and was implicated in last month’s drone and cruise missile strikes against Saudi oil refineries. Conflict—at least in a limited sense—between the United States and Iran is a growing possibility, as Iran racks up a series of trollish provocations that go unanswered. As tensions between the U.S. and Iran flare up again
Read MoreTwenty-five years ago, the King of the Hill at BMW was the 8 Series coupe. It’s a crowd-pleaser at Radwood today, but it was a tough sell back in the day. That didn’t stop fans from wondering when BMW would make a full-on M version of that car—something that only happened in prototype form.
Read MoreMayuck is helping his younger brother who just started college with a car purchase. Naturally, he thinks his sibling isn’t all that smart when it comes to cars and he wants to find him something simple, cheap, and reliable that is, as he calls it, “idiot-proof.” What car should he buy?
Read MoreI’m not really sure who the 2019 Jaguar F-Pace SVR is for. The thing’s a snarling powerhouse, it’s not bad looking and it can dance if you’re looking to explore your limits. There’s a lot of angry energy bottled up in the body of this modestly-sized crossover.
Read MoreEvery year our friends at iSeeCars.com take a fresh look at pre-owned sales data to determine what cars hold their value the best, and which ones depreciate hard. This year’s list has your predictable winners like Jeep Wranglers and Toyota Trucks, but you may be surprised to see the GT-R hold value so well.
Read MoreIn case you may not be aware, Toyota brought back the Supra. It’s a good and fast car, with mostly BMW parts under the skin. It still packs a turbocharged inline-six that sends power to the rear wheels and while it may not decimate all, it does have a pretty reasonable starting price. But is anyone actually buying them?
Read MoreThere are a lot of mistakes that buyers can make if they aren’t careful that could end up costing them, including not understanding your budget or comparing deals. But the worst mistake. according to Edmunds, often comes after a savvy shopper closes their deal.
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 lifetime warranty offers, big luxury sedans under $25k, and a complex multi-car situation.
Read MoreJeffrey lives in Washington state and has played it pretty safe with his car purchases. He has had some solid rides but never really enjoyed any of them. It’s time to break free and get something that puts a simile on his face for under $15,000. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe 2019 Subaru STI S209 is the first-ever limited-edition S-car STI has homologated for sale in the U.S. It’s extremely exclusive, with only 209 cars available. That doesn’t sound like such a tough sell, does it? But there’s a catch.
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 off-lease luxury SUVs, the market for used Lexus sport sedans and at what mileage do cars become problematic?
Read MoreAaron lives in the DC area and loves classic cars with a bit of character, but what he needs is a sensible commuter car with decent gas mileage and can seat four. He is having trouble reconciling those two choices. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI know we sometimes give President Trump a hard time on here, but this time I gotta say he’s right. How can any American car company expect to compete against those sweet, sweet Alliances, LeCars, Encores, and Fuegos?
Read MoreFor the past few years in a row, the Ford Mustang has been the reigning king of sports-coupe sales in the world. The car’s looks, engine choices, price and manual transmission option are all big selling points. Sales of its competitor, the 2019 Chevrolet Camaro, aren’t doing as well, so Chevy is now offering some very, uh, targeted incentives.
Read MoreThe last time I bought a used car it set me back $9,000, which, according to new data from Edmunds, is just over average for a used car in 2019. That number is almost 75 percent higher than it was in 2010.
Read MoreWe never had kings or queens here in America. (Well, we did before we were our own country, but we showed those fools what we really thought of them.) If we did, though, they’d all be driving 2019 Lincoln Navigators. The car is flush with splendor, rich with opulence and brings back the lavishness that was sorely lacking from American luxury for too long. It is, simply, a beast of a car.
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 why dealerships especially suck for women, the best off-lease sedans, and the choice between a new C8 or a used R8.
Read MorePeople buy vehicles for all kinds of reasons. Some of them are rational, and some of them are emotional. There is nothing wrong with buying a car because it’s fast, or stylish, or it just makes you feel good when you drive it. However, when the primary objective is to transport the family, too many buyers forget to focus on the key question: “Which car will make this task easier?”
Read MoreMike is looking for an inexpensive car that can handle some track days, but he wants a cool ride from the ‘80s or ‘90s. Ideally, it would have a manual and rear-wheel-drive, but he isn’t too picky. However, he doesn’t have a ton of cash to spend and #Radwood cars are getting expensive. What should he buy?
Read MoreWe’ve already complained the newly-designated 2020 Cadillac CT4-V’s horsepower output is disappointing, as its measly 325 HP doesn’t recall the tire-melting thunder we’re used to from V cars. Now we know it starts at $45,490, and it’s not a bad value in the crowd it’s in.
Read MoreThe 2020 Jeep Wrangler will finally be available with a 3.0-liter EcoDiesel making a boatload of torque, and an alleged dealer order guide lists the upgrade will cost about $6,000 over the standard Wrangler.
Read MoreMost know that when we talk about car companies hopping on trends like autonomy, electrification, and efficiency, we’re not really talking about Dodge. Dodge, instead, has a lineup full of dinosaurs that get a thorough polishing, more power and maybe a new bow every year, and we eat it up. Every year. Somehow, it works.
Read MoreAs any car enthusiast in a relationship knows, it’s easier to own something boring and inoffensive to all parties than something fun that really gets under the skin of your partner. That, dear friends, is why the Volkswagen GTI Rabbit Edition was less of a rabbit that it was a unicorn. My wife, who usually confuses press cars with one another—citing either their uniform dullness or, in the case of the “fun” ones, their uncomfortableness and/or impracticality—loved the GTI.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of automotive history, now’s your chance: the last ever Saab to leave the factory is going up for auction. This is your time to shine.
Read MoreIt’s not a good time for Infiniti. The company’s lineup has received little praise from critics, its headquarters is now back in Japan after a confounding (Johan-directed) move to Hong Kong and—worst of all—it is getting absolutely creamed in the U.S. And with European operations already abandoned, it’s hard to see how the brand is going to turn itself around.
Read MoreIt wasn’t long ago that we were all impressed (Imprezed?) at Subaru’s ascent (okay I’m done, I swear) to record sales in the American market. The small Japanese automaker spent a decade going from New England, Colorado and Oregon’s all-wheel-drive golden child to mainstream success story. But these days, things aren’t that simple.
Read MoreMy relationship with the 2019 Range Rover HSE P400e plug-in hybrid was a brief and tumultuous affair. At first, this SUV was everything. I was completely enamored with its ergonomics and smooth acceleration. But over a few days and some miles, we had our tiffs. There were tantrums. I finally realized that the vehicle is imperfect.
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 exiting a lease early to jump on slow car sales, relying on computers for scheduled maintenance, and whether it’s better to buy or rent if you only need a ride for six months.
Read MoreDouglas is a delivery guy. He drives for UPS and also brings hungry folks food, from the local pizza joint. However, the shared pizza delivery vehicle got totaled and he is looking for a replacement. He now needs something cheap, reliable, and easy to get in an out of.
Read MoreElectric cars still aren’t cheap. Even something relatively humble like a new Nissan Leaf will put you out some $30,000. Because of battery costs, and the desire for high margins, it makes sense that a lot of automakers are leading with more expensive, luxury-oriented EVs. Volvo’s effort is the Polestar brand, launching with the lifted sedan-coupe-thing called the Polestar 2, and it won’t be cheap at first.
Read MoreWhen you go to buy a new car, how long do you really expect to make payments on it? Three years? Four? Maybe five? Lately, there’s a good chance it’s more than six years, which is an increasingly troubling sign for buyers, the auto industry and the economy as a whole.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that we like the Kia Stinger. It’s a fun, rear- or all-wheel drive four-door fastback with driving dynamics on par with a lot of German metal. And while new ones can be had with significant deals if you know where to look, the pre-owned 2018 models may be an even better value.
Read MoreHot damn, everybody, it’s Halloween! That one night a year when it’s acceptable to wear your S&M gear outside and threaten people to give you candy without the freaking police getting all up in your shit. I realize that for many of our loyal readers, Halloween is a difficult holiday because it’s often so hard to evaluate your haul of candy without an automotive reference. Well, as always, I’m here to solve your problems, so please accept this chart of Halloween candy to car equivalence. You’re w
Read MoreChevrolet gave a new C8 Corvette to the World Series’ most valuable player this year, which happened to be Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg. It’s the first-ever mid-engine Corvette and also the first-ever Nationals win in the World Series, so it fits well. But Strasburg won’t get the car right away.
Read MoreThe Hyundai Veloster N and 2020 Mazda 3 are both, technically speaking, economy cars with hatchbacks from Asian countries. They’re even priced about the same. But that’s where the similarities end. We happened to have one of each parked next to each other the other day, so we’ve got the opportunity to debate the finer points of both.
Read MoreI’m not sure designer Henrik Fisker will laugh at the irony, but the man who nearly sunk his first go at a new electrified automotive brand, Karma, has now named his next electrified automotive brand’s first crossover the Fisker Ocean.
Read MoreYou may recall earlier this month when German T.V. show Auto Mobil pitted the new Porsche Taycan Turbo S electric sports car up against a slightly outdated Tesla Model S P100D. Well, Top Gear just snagged a brand new Tesla Model S Performance—the quickest production Tesla ever built—and pitted it against the newcomer from Stuttgart. Here’s what happened.
Read MoreHere’s a bit of good news for our more liquid members of the Self-Shifting Actualization Cult: the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S and 4S (in both coupé and cabrio versions) will offer the option of an honest manual transmission and a real, foot-actuated clutch pedal. You’ll get to shift between a generous seven gears, which should keep you happy and busy until the sun goes supernova.
Read MoreSunbeam, Humber, Singer, Commer, Hillman, Karrier, Talbot, Simca, Barreiros, Hudson, Nash, Rambler, Metropolitan, Willys-Overland, Graham-Paige, Kaiser, Frazer, Graham Brothers, Maxwell, Chalmers, Fargo, DeSoto, Autobianchi, Plymouth, Imperial (twice), Valiant, Matra (ish), and Eagle. When [if?] this FCA and PSA merger goes through, it will be on the backs of these many dead brands.
Read MoreThe exciting loons over at DARTZ, the world’s most Latvian builders of deeply, lavishly over-the-top hyper-luxury SUVs that have famously included whale penis skin and bulletproof child seats, have just finished a new masterwork of ostentation and brutal absurdity called the DARTZ Prombron Black Stallion, which is named after a Sikorsky helicopter, not a horse.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal recently reported that Fiat Chrysler was in merger talks with France’s Groupe PSA, which owns Peugeot, Citröen, DS, and other car brands somehow including Opel. Now the news site reports that, per its sources, the two automakers have come to a merger agreement.
Read MoreIt’s not supposed to be shown until its reveal in Japan next month, but that leaky, leaky internet has dripped out pictures of Toyota’s new Daihatsu Rocky-based small SUV, the 2020 Toyota Raize. It’s based on Daihatsu’s version of Toyota’s modular platform (DNGA instead of TNGA and I bet you can figure out what the initials mean) and, being small but useful, it’s not going to be sold here in America.
Read MoreI’ve always been a fan of AMGs. More so the old stuff over the new stuff, but the philosophy of stuffing huge engines into cars that have no business getting huge engines has always been appealing. As an owner of a 17-year-old AMG myself, I’m always curious to see where AMG goes next.
Read MoreIn 2020, Ford will debut its new SYNC 4 infotainment system with the brand’s biggest screens ever, over-the-air update capability, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and a revised user interface with cloud capability. Here’s how it all works.
Read MoreThe current Nissan 370Z came out when most of us were still probably using flip phones, and while it’s fun, I think we can all agree it’s long overdue for a replacement. That replacement has been rumored for years, but always without anything concrete—and claims from Nissan that the company needs to focus on things like “mobility” and “not doing crimes” instead of low-volume sports cars. Now we may have some movement on a new Z.
Read MoreRemember back when Fiat Chrysler expressed interest in, proposed formally, and then abruptly cancelled a merger with Renault? Well in the years since then... What’s that? That was only 5 months ago? Jeez, 2019 has been a weird year.
Read MoreThe mid-to-late 1970's, and into the 1980's, were the glory days of cheap, boxy hatchbacks from all over the world. While hatchbacks had existed before, you could argue that Volkswagen’s Giugiaro-designed Golf (Rabbit for us fried-donutburger consumers) really set the design template for this era, spawning many very similar-looking little useful cars. After giving the matter much careful thought, I have come to the conclusion that the best-looking member of this class of car is the Fiat Ritmo.
Read MoreSo you just came home with your new, 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. What’s the first thing you do with it? A burnout, of course.
Read MoreYou can’t talk about De Tomaso without talking about Ford and, specifically, American Ford V8s. The domineering De Tomaso Pantera had them, as did the lovely Mangusta before it. So it’s only appropriate the stunningly retro De Tomaso P72 also follows suit with eight cylinders from Ford’s NASCAR partner.
Read MoreHow much power does the average gokart have? You know, like the ones you buy at the big box stores for $599 or whatever and your kids you have it wrecked within the space of the afternoon. Usually no more than a couple, right? The best of them have a 5 horse Briggs. This one has two, count ‘em, two Briggs & Stratton 5-horse motors to power the rear wheels. To paraphrase the old Kanye, no one man should have all that power!
Read MoreSamsung’s selfie-transmitting “satellite” that fell to the ground in rural Michigan is really damn lucky that it landed where it did and not David’s backyard. If it had touched down in the land of Jeep heaps, it might have found itself as part of David’s 2020 Moab overlander project. That’s a far sight better use for these materials than a selfie-transmitting “satellite” anyway.
Read MoreIn case you haven’t heard the news, Ford has decided to kill off its best-looking and most distinctive car, the Flex. I regard this as a terrible move, since Ford’s current lineup of SUVs and crossovers look, collectively, like a pack of wheeled suppositories with stupid faces. For about a decade, Ford had at least one car in their lineup they could point to remind people that they were still capable of designing a car that looked modern and sleek yet distinctive and novel. Now, they don’t have
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe that it was ten years ago that BMW/Mini first offered (well, in a limited release) an electric car, the Mini E. That EV Mini could go 100 miles on a full charge (though at the time it was sometimes reported as 156 miles, which must have been under utopian circumstances). This all-new 2020 Mini Cooper SE has a range of 114 miles, a solid decade later. That’s, uh, pretty shitty.
Read MoreIt seems like Mitsubishi’s dealerships are only attracting people who are desperate for new car financing and... nobody else. The brand’s in bad shape, but I bet a little nostalgia-leveraging and leaning into today’s overland trend would go a long way.
Read MoreSome of my favorite bands have names that are just random words misspelled, usually with Zs in them. Like Lazor. Ooh, or LimoZeen. I once saw them play on the “Zeenin’ Across the Country 2001" tour in Danapolis. They opened for a monster truck rally. It ruled.
Read MoreEverything about this (I think) 1972 Chevrolet internal corporate film is depressing and weird. The background music sounds like the band from a forgotten Village beatnik bar at 3 am, and the narrator sounds like Frank Sinatra half-heartedly laying into you for never picking up a check. It’s basically 15 minutes of GM pissing and moaning about how many imports are selling in America, and how it’s all because you aren’t working hard enough.
Read MoreThe Porsche 928 is a pretty incredible car for a lot of reasons, most of which revolve around the fact that it’s the only well-respected serious sports car with a rear based on the design of the AMC Pacer. Seriously, that’s true. But that’s not what I’m talking about today. The 928 has one strange little detail that I think is unique among nearly every other car, and I think that little detail deserves its own post. Which is exactly what you’re reading, right now!
Read MoreWorkers represented by the United Auto Workers union has voted to ratify a new contract with General Motors after 40 days of striking, Automotive News reports.
Read MoreOn Thursday, October 27, 1904, 115 years ago this Sunday, at precisely 2 p.m., New York City erupted in a cacophony of celebration. The city’s factories—there were many then—tooted their whistles in a call to mark not a shift change, but an historic turning point in the city’s history. Church bells rang, some for more than half an hour on end to the mild annoyance of local workers. Even the ships docked in the city’s shipyards—there were many then—blew their horns to join the deafening revelati
Read MoreEveryone and their brother seems to be introducing impractical EV concepts these days—you know, those cars that look cool and promise all kinds of awesome technology but will never, ever make it into production. So I’m very excited because Jaguar is introducing the Vision Gran Turismo Coupé as a part of the new Gran Turismo Sport video game. At least we’ll be able to see a concept in action, sorta!
Read MoreBy now we all know that Ford is planning to unveil an all-new battery-electric SUV based on Mustang design cues. The little teaser line-drawing they released shows Mustang-style triple-bar taillights and I suppose some Mustang-ish character lines there. One thing yet to be decided, though, is the name. I’m assuming they’ll want a name that evokes its Mustang inspiration while touting its SUV and electric qualities, too. This isn’t an easy task.
Read MoreThursday, a new teaser dropped advertising that the upcoming Ford Mustang-inspired electric SUV would debut on Nov. 17. Today, it would appear that a 3D render has leaked giving us our best idea of what to expect yet.
Read MoreThe eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf, which you’ll see called “MK VIII,” has officially bowed in Europe with gas, diesel, hybrid and natural-gas burning powertrains. No word on a performance GTI or R variant yet; VW is pushing high-tech connectivity first.
Read MorePicture this: you are walking down the sidewalk in Manhattan, no real destination in mind, sipping your coffee (because obviously, it’s New York, our blood is 90 percent black coffee), and suddenly out of the corner of your eye, whats this? Could it be? Yes! It is a bright yellow Maserati Quattroporte, a true Italian luxury sedan, in the flesh.
Read MoreIn 1976, at a Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes sat down with some Japanese government officials for burgers at 10:30 a.m. Rhodes wanted one thing: for Honda to build its first American plant in his state. The Wendy’s meeting was the latest in a series of overtures Rhodes had made to get the company to come in what had become a personal mission he’d been pursuing for years.
Read MoreThe flat-four Subaru EJ engine is like that tough old man who’s a fixture at a local dive bar: he won’t start shit with you, but he’ll definitely finish it if you step to him. Now, after 30 years in service, one of this engine’s more notable variants—the EJ20—finally sees an end to its production run.
Read MoreThe press releases for the all-new 2020 aren’t due to come out until tomorrow, but a German newspaper called Augsburger Allgemeine must have been so excited they forgot because they published what appear to be official photos already. What’s German for “oops?” It’s probably 30 letters long, whatever it is.
Read MoreI was hoping it wouldn’t be this bad. I saw the spy videos of the new BMW 4 Series running around the Nürburgring, and though the car was heavily camouflaged, it seemed like maybe the gigantic nose from the BMW Concept 4 had been dialed down significantly. Perhaps, I figured, somebody had come to their senses.
Read MoreThe Sacramento International Auto Show is one of those second-tier shows you don’t normally hear much about unless you’re in the area, or unless a local TV reporter goes to the show to shoot a segment and instead acts the fool to such a degree that he gets fired. The latter reason is why you’re hearing about this now.
Read MoreWhen I express my fondness for you, our regular Jalopnik readers, it’s not some contrived bullshit to curry your favor. I actually mean it. For the most part, I read the comments here and I like what I’m reading, whether I agree or not, and, on the internet, that’s a big deal. That’s why I’m not going to lie to you: we’re starting this weekly show because, well, it’s relatively easier to produce every week than most of our videos, which tend to be outside, with cars. But that doesn’t mean it won
Read MoreThe Lambert Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Richmond has trained rats to drive miniature motorized cars to reach food. They taught rats how to drive.
Read MoreEvery so often, you’ll hear a great story about someone who found a really freakin’ neat (or obscenely rare) car buried out in a barn somewhere. And those are cool and all, but what are the odds of that happening to most of us Average Joes? This isn’t a blog about the good stuff. I want to hear about your very worst barn finds, or the worst ones you’ve heard about.
Read MoreRoadway deaths in the United States declined in both 2017 and 2018, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports. The decline is accredited to the new safety and driver assistance technologies being implemented in cars.
Read MoreAny time Hollywood gets its hand on a good idea for a movie, there’s a pretty good chance that you can count on some details being dramatized and falsified in order to keep with the whole movie appeal thing. But how important is that accuracy to you when it comes to racing movies?
Read MoreThe new 2020 Cadillac CT4 was not received well, with performance figures far below the outgoing generation of Cadillac sedans. But there’s still hope for Cadillac, because the 2020 BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe is the CT4's new competition, and it may not be much better.
Read MoreTo the delight of brooding geeks everywhere, HBO has a new TV series based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic graphic novel Watchmen, and going off the first episode alone, it looks to be complex and engaging and very well done. I’m not going to spoil anything for anyone, I promise, but I will reveal one of the cars used in the episode because it’s a very good bit of car casting: a Buick Grand National.
Read MoreThe folks at Motor Trend strapped the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette to a dynamometer to see if the 6.2-liter Small Block “LT2" V8 actually makes the stated 495 horsepower, 470 lb-ft. The websites findings?: “The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 provided for all our testing produces more power than what Chevy claims.”
Read MoreThere’s very few hard and fast rules in life, but one of the best-known and most enduring ones is that One Doth Not Fuck With Another’s Ride. That means you don’t get to fiddle with someone’s parked car, no matter how interesting that car is. I just recently broke this rule, but I think it’s a rare situation where what I did is justified and right. But I figured it’s worth asking you, the greatest collective automotive hive-mind in the known universe, to see what you think and to, yes, probably
Read MoreFollowing the 2020 Audi A7 Sportback 55 TFSI e quattro (a plug-in hybrid) is the 2020 Audi A6 TFSI e 55 quattro. It’s another plug-in hybrid with an equally baffling name, but at least this time the all-electric range should be slightly better.
Read MoreGeneral Motors’ decision to build the new Chevy Blazer in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico was highly controversial. The company has taken fire from union representatives, politicians and consumers alike for starting Blazer production in Mexico after shutting down U.S. plants and laying off workers. Now, the plant that’s been a sticking point for the United Auto Workers as it fights to protect union jobs in Lordstown and Detroit-Hamtramck has been idled due to the strike.
Read MoreLustrous deep blue paint? Check. Fast-back shape? Check. Heart-shapged grille? Check. Everything is accounted for. Nothing is missing. You’re more than safe to use these photos of Bastian Voigt’s Alfa Romeo Alfetta 2000 GTV behind your icons and folders to keep things looking good on your devices.
Read MoreSome of us here at Jalopnik think that the Autobahn, Germany’s system of motorways with stretches without speed regulation, is overrated. It seems, though, that after a vote this week on whether a speed limit should be enforced over the entirety of the system, Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, disagrees.
Read MoreIt is with a heavy heart that we must announce Aaron Brown, Jalopnik’s indomitable social media editor, beloved car teen and maker of some of the worst vehicle decisions ever committed to internet print—and around here, that is saying a lot—is leaving us. Again. We will miss Aaron dearly, but as is tradition, we must roast him first.
Read MoreYour first car is usually some hand-me-down box of rust. In my case it was an ’84 Volvo 240 DL, the interior of which was immaculate but the exterior less so. Your second car, on the other hand, tends to be a more active decision. When I got word that a friend of a friend was selling a running ’90 Chevy S-10 for cheap, and I jumped.
Read MoreSometimes it is worth acknowledging the cars that live street-parked lives do not have it easy. You know, the ones that get a pitiful shake of your head as you walk by. And today, one such car is this 2014 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG which certainly has seen better days.
Read MoreThe AMG variants of the Mercedes C-Class have been powered by many different engines over the years. The cars have used straight-sixes, V8s, supercharged V6s (represent) and twin-turbocharged V8s. And if this new rumor I’ve just heard is true, then Mercedes might drop the V8 in the next AMG C63 model altogether in favor of a four-banger.
Read MoreThe tallest country, by averages, is The Netherlands. The Dutch are a tall folk with an average height just over 6 feet tall. Here in the U.S. the average man is 5 feet 10 inches, give or take. So why are cars built with such tall rooflines? Pretty much every normal workaday car, van, truck, or SUV I’ve reviewed in the last decade has left considerable headroom for my 6'2" mostly-torso frame. Like, enough room above my head that I could wear a Pebble Beach style hat with room to spare.
Read MoreThere you are, zooming down the road, hunkered to it in your sleek, smooth Mercedes E-Class wagon that cuts through air like a steak knife through butter, when suddenly, a seismic shift occurs. It feels as if you, in your sleek, smooth wagon, have been hit by an asteroid. Your car slows, your ride becomes rougher, all while you glance around wondering, “Are the aliens here? Is it my time?”
Read MoreHello my lovelies. I know it’s been a while. Did you think I’d forgotten about you? Of course I haven’t! Even I need a captive audience from time to time. Without you, I just have captives, and those get very dull, what with all their constant crying and begging. It’s enough to drive anyone to violence.
Read MoreAllow me to set the scene. You’re home alone... or, well, you thought you were home alone, but now there’s some creepy noises and strange phone calls, and you’re pretty sure something else is here. Or you’re camping in the woods, and that blonde girl who took all her clothes off earlier is absolutely definitely dead. Maybe the zombie apocalypse is here, and you need a getaway vehicle to stow life’s essentials. Who knows! But, pal, your life depends on a car as your only method of escaping from [
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers union reached a tentative agreement yesterday on a new contract with General Motors, one that includes things like a decent ratification bonus, a path for temporary employees to become permanent, raises, and no more cap on how much members earn in profit sharing. Maybe the biggest win, however, isn’t a change at all.
Read MoreIn 1897, Cambridge students lined the streets to protest a vote that would grant women the right to earn a degree at their prestigious all-male university. The budding shitheads of the turn of the century launched rockets, threw eggs, and hanged an effigy of the powerful “New Woman” from a building and subsequently mutilated it in the streets. That “New Woman” was identified by one defining accessory: her bicycle.
Read MoreThe first substantial Tesla Model S versus Porsche Taycan comparison has hit the internet, and it shows the Porsche crushing the less expensive Tesla in build quality, handling, and even acceleration. Here’s a look at the head-to-head between the two most impressive high-volume EV sedans on earth.
Read MoreToyota has been a pioneer in the mass electrification of automobiles, but they’ve so far avoided battery-only power, preferring to focus on combustion-electric hybrids like the now ubiquitous Prius, or very niche hydrogen fuel cell tech like the Mirai. It looks like they’re finally ready to dive into the battery electric pool, though, based on the size of their production-ready BEV, it’s the kiddie pool.
Read MoreDETROIT—The General Motors employees who have been working a picket line instead of an assembly line the past month say they have a backup plan if they can’t secure what they feel is a perfect contract: rain jackets.
Read MoreThe online configurator for the Tesla Model 3 has been updated, raising the price of the Model 3 Performance and Standard Range Plus. The latter also gets a range increase to an estimated 250 miles.
Read MoreBefore we get too deep here I have to admit that I don’t hate the design of the new Toyota Yaris. It’s a bit overdone and could stand to be simpler, but I’m glad that some of the wild design of a supercar has trickled down to a supermini. This thing looks a bit like if McLaren had designed it to sit as a four-door hatchback version of its 720S. Also, it’s available in wild colors, which is always good.
Read MoreThere’s a new global Toyota Yaris out on a new modular platform. Still here though: a six-speed manual.
Read MoreDesert racing isn’t for everyone–competition is punishing and standing on the sidelines will leave you picking sand from your pockets for weeks. But even if you’re not into that, can I interest you in tacos, swag, cervezas and stickers? Thought so. Come check out what’s called “contingency” with me.
Read MoreAfter being announced earlier this year, Volvo’s very first battery electric vehicle was officially shown to the world today, along with its name, the Volvo XC40 Recharge. It’s kind of an odd choice for a name, seeing as how recharging is likely the most problematic aspect of modern electric cars, but, well, I guess their focus groups thought it was cool.
Read MoreGeneral Motors and United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, CNBC reports, putting in motion a possible end to the strike that began one month ago to the day. The agreement still needs approval from the union council and ratification by union members.
Read MoreYesterday we found out about the 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S, the new “entry level” version of Porsche’s new electric sedan that costs closer to $100,000 than $200,000, thankfully. Porsche also helpfully released a ton of info on how you can charge it, including an Amazon deal of all things.
Read MoreAnother day, another Gran Coupe from BMW. The family grows with the addition of this: the 2 Series Gran Coupe. It comes in two flavors, the 228i xDrive Gran Coupe and M235i xDrive Gran Coupe. Let’s take a deeper dive.
Read MoreAfter spending decades gaining a reputation as the automotive industry’s biggest urban legend, the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette is finally here, real to the touch and driving under its own mid-engined power. All we need now is Half-Life 3.
Read MoreHey, pal. I know we don’t talk much because you’re in the suits-and-hair-gel tier of society while I’ll be stuck in the sweatpants sphere for all of eternity, but I’ve got some bad news that you might want to hear. Ready? Are you sure? OK. I hate to tell you this, but your Lamborghini Aventador has been recalled.
Read MoreThe current BMW 2 Series coupe feels like the last of a generation of cars that maintained the classic BMW formula of rear-wheel drive, with a manual, not too big and a hell of a lot of fun to drive. The upcoming 2020 BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe sedan-thing apparently will take a big step away from that.
Read MoreAutoweek has been a voice in car culture and motorsports with a print edition that’s been around, in one form or another, since 1958. But on Monday, its owner, Detroit-based Crain Communications, said it had struck a multi-year agreement with Hearst Magazines to operate Autoweek as a “digital and experiential brand.” Autoweek’s bimonthly print mag is ending as a consequence.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson’s all-electric LiveWire bike, an attempt to attract a younger audience to its two-wheeled legacy, has been having one hell of a struggle just keeping its head above water. The numbers haven’t been great, but now there’s an even bigger problem: charging equipment. Harley-Davidson is ceasing both production and delivery immediately.
Read MoreAt long last, it seems to be a good time to be an Audi wagon fan in America. First Audi dropped the news that it will, at last, be sending us the ultimate in forbidden fruit longroofs: the Audi RS6 Avant. Now the luxury brand is looking to expand the A6 wagon lineup further with the all-new 2020 A6 Allroad, and it even comes with the signature feature that hopefully won’t be so troublesome this time around.
Read MoreIt has come to my attention that you are considering a wrap for your car. And that wrap, as I understand it, is to be matte black. First, there are some things you want to consider.
Read MoreWith only 209 being made, you’re fairly unlikely to ever see the new Subaru WRX STI S209 on the road. But if you do, know that whoever wanted this 341 horsepower super Subaru paid a lot of coin for it: $63,995, not including the $885 destination charge.
Read MoreAs the doors closed on our Waymo trip, a friendly chime played over the Chrysler Pacifica’s speakers. Because Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which has some history refining the user experience, I assume this chime was carefully curated from a collection of dozens, if not hundreds, of possibilities, specifically engineered to make me feel comfortable in a car that is now driving itself on public Arizona roads.
Read MoreWhat do you do when an extremely rare, but not particularly valuable piece of automotive history is in desperate need of a cash-intensive restoration? Do you spend the money knowing you may never get it back, or do you allow the unicorn to die? This is the dilemma that Dustin Sawyer, a director at a Wisconsin lab specializing in farm-related research, is facing with his Holy Grail 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Read MoreIt feels like just last month when we were introduced to Porsche’s first foray into the world of electric cars, the brutally fast 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S. That’s because it actually was last month, and it seems Porsche isn’t wasting any time in filling the rest of the lineup. Meet the Taycan 4S, which is now the entry-level Porsche sedan that runs on electrons instead of gas.
Read MoreAbout a year ago, we reported that GM was looking to discontinue the Cadillac XTS, and now we know the day is here. The last XTS was finished in Oshawa, Ontario this week and the FWD Cadillac sedan as we’ve known it since the K-body Seville launched in 1980 is no more.
Read MoreJust in case there was any residual doubt whatsoever, let me remind everyone: I’m an idea man. Got it? Ideas, right after urine and feces, that’s my body’s most quantitative output, and occasionally even the highest quality. I recently went rock crawling in a Jeep Gladiator on the famous Rubicon Trail, and that experience gave me some new—dare I say disruptive—ideas about how to improve the vehicular rock crawling experience. So prepare yourself.
Read MoreThings are peachy right now at Lamborghini. Thanks to the Urus SUV, the Italian automaker has enjoyed a massive increase in sales and welcomed a large number of new customers to the brand. But if things slow down, its parent company, Volkswagen Group, might start thinking about an IPO or even a sale.
Read MoreBack in February, Porsche announced the next generation of the Porsche Macan crossover—its best-selling vehicle—would go full-electric, abandoning combustion engines completely. New details reveal that instead of a electric conversion hack job, the new Macan will share more with the Porsche Taycan—including its dumb ‘Turbo’ and ‘Turbo S’ designations.
Read MoreAs you might have seen these past couple of weeks, BMW filed a set of recall documents for the 2020 Toyota Supra with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall involved seven cars with potentially faulty seat-belt guide-loop mounts, and the documents were published last month.
Read MoreThirty-seven year-old respiratory therapist and Porsche fan Mike Savina didn’t know what to expect when he arrived at a fallen barn not far from his home in West Virginia. He’d been told that there was, somewhere under the rubble, a classic Porsche 911, a vehicle he’d always dreamed of owning. That’s why Savina emptied his bank account down to the last $3.86 and, despite much of the car being obscured by debris, bought it without knowing if it could even be saved.
Read MoreWhile the term “Memorandum of Understanding” sounds like something you get after going through a six-week New Age anger management seminar, it’s actually more of a business love-pledge between two companies, in this case Boeing and Porsche. The two companies have business-love pledged to work together “to study the future of premium urban air mobility vehicles.”
Read MoreWhat do you get when you combine Toyota’s best-selling car with the most efficient powertrain setup it offers? Money, my friends. You get the recipe for something that’ll probably print a lot of money. This is the upcoming, 2021 Toyota RAV4 plug-in hybrid, and it might very well become the most popular plug-in ever.
Read MoreCharli XCX, the pop singer heralded as a car enthusiast icon with the release of the radioactively catchy “Vroom Vroom” single back in 2016, has let everybody down with her new music video for a song titled “White Mercedes.” The error on display here is truly embarrassing, a spit in the face, painful, and impossibly easy to avoid. And yet!
Read MoreThere’s a new Toyota Mirai out for 2021, and visually it’s a vast improvement over the previous Mirai, which was, to be charitable, a lunch-tossingly ugly vehicle. Fascinatingly, it’s gone rear-wheel drive this time, which almost never happens, but it’s still definitely a hydrogen-powered car.
Read MoreAhead of this weekend’s Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta, Chevrolet unveiled new technical specifications for the Corvette C8.R race car. Among them was a confirmation at the engine has a dual overhead cam setup with a flat-plane crankshaft, much like the Shelby GT350 Mustang and various Ferraris. This is a significant change for the race car, but it’s also big news for the street version—which is happening.
Read MoreBritish entrepreneur and bagless vacuum cleaner extraordinaire James Dyson has run into a little problem with his plan to reveal a supposedly radical electric car in 2020—and then later 2021: the money just isn’t there. And he’s calling off the whole project.
Read MoreYou have to love colored seatbelts. Red is great. The light blue belts in the Hyundai Veloster N are incredible. Now, the optional performance pack for the electric 2020 Polestar 2 may not add any more power, but it will wrap you safely in gold, among other things, for around $6,600 (in Europe).
Read MoreAs the official reveal of the 2020 Volkswagen Golf draws closer, Volkswagen’s been dropping teaser images for the car. We’ve already seen what it looks like from the outside, but here’s a glance at its inside.
Read MoreIt’s hardly a secret that the Aussies love their fast Fords. And while the Barra-powered monsters might be gone from the world these days, there are plenty of options for big power with good ol’ fashioned Blue Oval V8s. To make up for the lack of Aussie-built FPV goodness, Ford Australia is bringing this Grabber Lime 700-horsepower supercharged madness, dubbed Mustang R-Spec, to 500 folks.
Read MoreI hate to be the bearer of bad news, but fall is already upon us which means winter will be here any day now, pelting airport hubs around the world with blankets of snow and delaying flights for such an egregiously long time that you start wondering if it would just be easier to walk to your destination... or just try to knock out and take a nap. Which can be equally as fucking awful.
Read MoreBack in the olden days of 2018, backup cameras became mandatory on all cars built to U.S.-specifications after May 1. They were no longer part of convenience or technology packages. They became standard and were thusly rolled up into the car’s base price. Fast-forward to over a year later, and BMW is going through some trouble in paradise over these cameras.
Read MoreThe 2019 Volkswagen Arteon is Volkswagen’s new, albeit long delayed, flagship sedan. It’s more expensive than the rest of the VW sedan lineup, and it has that long, elegant body styling that says, “I’m here to make you feel important, not budget-friendly.” But no matter how much you spend on the Arteon, one thing won’t change: Its headlights will still suck. Badly.
Read MoreThis past summer I was minding my own business at a local establishment when a friend of a friend approached me somewhat hesitantly, looking as if he wanted to confess a dark, shameful secret that he had buried inside his soul for years. I figured whatever was troubling his mind had to be somewhat transportation-related because he would boast about his pickup truck like it was his own son, and he knew I worked at Jalopnik.
Read MoreBack in the day at General Motors, they used to boast they offered a car “for every purse and purpose.” Evidently the purpose of the Buick Cascada was “rental car customers who want a Chrysler Sebring now that Chrysler no longer makes the Sebring.” But that wasn’t even the worst thing about it.
Read MoreWant a family sedan with 600 horsepowers that can run from zero to sixty in 3 seconds? You bet your bottom dollar you do. And if you were already in the market for an M8, this two-extra-doors version is actually $3000 less expensive than the only-two-doors version, so you can save a few bottom dollars, too.
Read MoreOne August day in 2014, I found myself heading from work at Chrysler’s Technical Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan to my apartment 30 miles away in Detroit. The sky was pouring rain, and the world around me looked extremely saturated. But, having just spent the prior eight hours nerding out on Jeep cooling systems, I hadn’t realized just how much liquid had fallen. This ignorance was nearly my downfall.
Read MoreIt’s a hell of a rare thing for me to even want to consider sitting on a motorcycle, let alone riding one. But after reading Breaking the Limit by Karen Larsen, I was ready to quit my job, cut my ties, buy a motorcycle, and trek across the entire country on two wheels. That, my friends, is the best possible impact a good book could have.
Read MoreAs part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit filed by Vernon Unsworth, the cave-diver Elon Musk called a “pedo guy” on Twitter and told a reporter is a “child rapist,” Musk was deposed by Unsworth’s lawyers, forcing him to talk for hours about the incident in excruciating detail.
Read MoreAt Jalopnik, we often talk about how women get treated differently or are represented less in the car and motorsports industries—things that have long catered (and often still do) to the man’s man. But in 2019, more and more women are involved in it than ever, to say nothing of how we’re half of all drivers and most of the new car buyers. No matter what we do, some of that regressive attitude remains, and those of us who don’t fit the mold get targeted because of it.
Read MoreWith the Lamborghini Urus driving sales and its first hybrid, the Lamborghini Sián, out of the way, the Italian supercar maker is looking to introduce a fourth series production model, and it sounds like it’s going to be fully electric possibly built on the Porsche Taycan platform.
Read MoreA week ago, road signs in Brooklyn warning drivers of construction on a major thoroughfare switched from displaying standard messages to slightly more, uh, aggressive screeds. They have not stopped.
Read MoreWell, it finally happened. The Buick Cascada—which has been rumored to fall off the production line just about any day now—is dead. It’s time to wave goodbye to the plump convertible that never really warranted anything more exciting than a shrug and a ‘meh, I mean, it’s OK.’
Read MoreIf you add modern GT-R levels of power to a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R Spec-V, add a big brake kit, lightweight wheels, and modern sticky rubber, the resulting car is unsurprisingly awesome. What better way to test just how awesome it is than to pit it against the new 50th Anniversary Edition. Both are in the now-iconic shade of Bayside Blue, and they’re both big, boxy, and powerful examples of Japan’s (perhaps) most recognizable supercar.
Read MoreGran Turismo 2 was my introduction to that famed series of racing games, and was as much my gateway drug into car culture as the first Fast & Furious movie or any of the buff books I’d spend my free time devouring instead of hitting my math textbooks. The PlayStation game remains a series highlight for me too for another reason: the huge, almost unprecedented volume of cars available to race.
Read MoreThe new mid-engine 2020 C8 Chevrolet Corvette is almost already sold out completely, but everyone waiting on their car will have to wait a little bit longer due to the United Auto Workers strike reportedly delaying production.
Read MoreAbout a week ago, Porsche released a press release talking about all the new jobs that were being added to build the Taycan, and to make their point that the switch to EV does not necessarily mean loss of jobs. That’s great and all, but I was most struck by one key detail from that release: they seem to refer to Porsche employees as “Porscheans.” That sounds weird, right?
Read MoreInstead of the usual fanfare of a big press announcement, social media push, media event and maybe even a livestream, Aston Martin instead unveiled the upcoming 2020 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster with a few photos in a couple of tweets, and didn’t say much else about it.
Read MoreDetailing videos are satisfying in and of themselves, but there’s just something special about watching a Nissan R34 GT-R lovingly primped and preened by people who know just how special this beast of a car is. It is, truly, next level.
Read MoreIt’s tweedy, it’s topless and it’s going to be my ride around the Grand Canyon tomorrow. It’s the Bentley Continental GT V8 Convertible. What would you like to know about it?
Read MoreFerrari colors are controversial. Some people only like red. Others will make exceptions only for a few shades of yellow and black. There’s even a mad lad you might know who paints all of his Ferraris white. There’s one that tops all of those though, and honestly? It’s basically beige.
Read MoreThe Lincoln Continental’s suicide doors are back again for 2020 after a limited run last year. They’re pretty neat and probably the most unusual feature on any American sedan on sale today.They didn’t used to be, though. Lots of cars had them.
Read MoreGrowing up a nerd, I was never really interested in sports until I got to high school. I’ve always been a large dude, and I barely understood how to run plays, so naturally I folded into the big dumb lineman crew that all of my coaches found served the team best from the bench. I never touched the football in practice, and I was forbidden from even looking at it during games. I think I owned one, but I mostly kept it on a pedestal in my bedroom. I could only dream of one day throwing it. Thankfu
Read MoreLook at the car in the picture above and tell me you didn’t laugh. Maybe you just giggled, or pushed air through your nose a bit more forcefully. These are the only acceptable reactions to the downright preposterous Abarth 695 70° Anniversario. It’s glorious.
Read MoreFolks, you hate to see it. These days, when you’re a billionaire electric car/private space travel magnate who accuses a random guy in Thailand of being a pedophile on Twitter, you can’t even blow $50,000 to hire a private investigator to try and prove that guy is actually a pedophile without finding out said private investigator is really a convicted thief who’s lying about his military record and makes you look like a fool in public yet again. It’s just not fair.
Read MoreThe automotive industry has tirelessly been cheapening horsepower over the last couple of decades. Now, we find ourselves in an era of a gross abundance of vehicles in all shapes and sizes offering 500 horsepower or more. Here’s a look at three distinctly different cars with that much juice–let’s see how they compare.
Read MoreIt’s easy to forget just how popular and widespread smoking once was. For much of the 20th century, smoking was not just an indulgence some people enjoyed every now and then, but the default vice of pretty much every adult. That’s why cars ended up with cigarette lighters and ashtrays crammed in every door, and why bonkers accessories like the Ronson Robot-Liter exist.
Read MoreDemand for the recently revealed 2020 Porsche Taycan has been strong. Porsche hired 1,500 more workers earlier this year to prep for its first year of production. Now that the car has been revealed, Porsche has hired 500 more workers to keep up with demand.
Read MoreWe’ve just entered October, which means cold and nastiness on the horizon for those of us in the northern hemisphere, but in the Corvette-land it’s time to start thinking about having fun in the sun with your new drop-top ‘Vette. We knew this day was coming, and have already seen what it looks like in pre-production form, but the 2020 Corvette Convertible is now on display in all of its open top angularity.
Read MoreThis month, 30 years ago, the Berlin Wall finally came down, and Germany began the process of re-unification. Before that, though, Berlin (and Germany) was split, with East Berlin transformed into a police state dedicated to building as many large, slab concrete buildings as possible. Many, many people longed to escape to better lives, and apartments. BMW decided to commemorate the anniversary of the Wall coming down by telling the amazing story of how nine people were smuggled out of East Germa
Read MoreFrom the 1991 Dodge Viper’s three-spoke wheels to the 2020 Alpina B7's 20-spokers, there are lots of options when it comes to the number of metal bits radially connecting a wheel’s lug hole-containing center disc to its outer barrel. But a spoke count you don’t see outside of steering wheels is “one,” so in move that can only be described as ingenious, a Russian man hacked all but a single spoke from his alloy wheels to see what would happen.
Read MoreBack in 2014, General Motors had to recall every single fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro key, meaning hundreds of thousands of key fobs sold with cars from 2010 to 2014. Well, GM has to do it again, because somehow they never stopped selling the potentially hazardous key fobs as replacements.
Read MoreDo you think the 335 horsepower, 456 HP, and 523 HP variants of the BMW X5 are all underpowered? No, of course you don’t, but that hasn’t stopped the Bavarian Crossover Brand from debuting a new BMW X5 M, along with its strangely-shaped sibling the X6 M, with a ridiculous 617 horsepower twin-turbo V8.
Read MoreVolvo’s first fully-electric car, the XC40, has been setting the rumor mill alight this year, with most of its details shrouded in speculation. But now we have some of the emerging info, and I am very pleased to announce that, yes, the electric XC40 will have a frunk.
Read MoreThe current Audi RS4 Avant has been on sale since late 2017, and it continues to be an absolutely ridiculous monster of a mid-sized wagon, but today Audi announced an update to the high-performance long roof. With a more aggressive front fascia to match the new RS6, and a new interior with the updated MMI touch, the RS4 continues to live on otherwise unchanged.
Read MoreIf you’re here, you’ve probably heard of Waymo, the Google self-driving car spinoff. You probably associate it with Chrysler Pacificas with white blobs mounted on the roof, but Waymo’s got another big, honking trick up its sleeve. Since 2017, Waymo has been quietly developing a self-driving semi truck using the same sensors and technology as it uses for the self-driving vans.
Read MoreCar2Go, an hourly rental car company that provides easy access to vehicles for travelers in various different cities across the world, just isn’t cutting it anymore. The company is ceasing operations in five big North American hubs—and it’s phasing out pretty damn quickly.
Read MoreI need everyone to promise not to look at these pictures of McLaren’s new, very very limited-run (they’re making all of five of these things) BC-03 hypercar, because McLaren has yet to officially release them, so looking at them, with their bold surface graphics and two-tone color scheme with novel yellow color-piping, sinuous curves, and massive rear wing, would be wrong.
Read MoreThe 2020 C8 Chevrolet Corvette. V8 in the middle. No manual. No chromies. Very affordable starting price. You know all of this! Now hear what the thing sounds like.
Read MoreIt was only a matter of time before the Toyota Supra got hit with a recall. I’m not harping on BMW/Toyotas’ build quality or anything here, it just seems like all cars get recalled over something or other these days. This time, it’s over some seat belts.
Read MoreCar camping is hot right now, and so are SUVs from the 1960s to the 1990s. I’m totally on board with all those things, so as far as I’m concerned, it’s a good time to be an enthusiast. But today, I was reminded that the Mazda MPV was a badass four-wheel drive SUV/van hybrid before it devolved into a Honda Odyssey knockoff. You overlanders should check these things out.
Read MoreIt wasn’t too long ago that Hyundai stunned almost everyone with the dramatic redesign of the 2019 Hyundai Sonata. It looks like that trend is going to continue, as teasers of the 2020 Hyundai Azera promise yet another fascinating sedan.
Read MoreBMW’s recent concept cars and leaked pics of their new 4 Series all have one very noticeable thing in common: massive, mutated kidney grilles dominating the front end. It’s a striking look, but I’m not so sure a good look, and while I’m all for reducing the grille to its most fundamental, iconic elements, I think there are better ways to go.
Read MoreThis job is tricky, because you sometimes have to make judgments based on very little data. You’d be surprised to hear that engineering sometimes works the same way—they’re called “Scientifically Wild Ass Guesses,” or a Swags. And I’m going to Swag that this random leaked photo on the internet indeed shows the upcoming “G80" BMW M3.
Read MoreWhen the 2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette moved its engine to sit behind the driver, I thought for sure its visibility would improve over the front-engine C7's. The hood’s shorter and doesn’t need to accommodate an engine, for crying out loud. But that’s apparently not the case, according to some very thoroughly gathered data.
Read MoreWhat are you doing, InsideEVs? Are you really that thirsty for Tesla truck clicks? Is there a gas leak at your offices? Because I’m having trouble figuring out why the hell else you’d point out what is clearly a Mars rover image and speculate that it may be the new Tesla truck. It’s got six colossal wheels and it appears to be pressurized. Oh, and it’s a fucking Mars rover.
Read MoreThe new 2020 BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe is very disappointing to look at. It’s the worst parts of the ugly European 2 Series hatchback and the U.S. 2 Series sports coupe bundled into a sedan that somehow looks worse than a Ford Focus. Turns out you can’t hide ugly with BMW M Performance parts, either.
Read MoreThere hasn’t been a more obvious oversight in automotive design lately than the 2020 Toyota Supra not coming with the giant curved wing that made the fourth-generation car an icon. But when these mistakes happen, there’s always the aftermarket to step in and do what’s right.
Read MoreIntellectually, I’ve always known the Citroën SM to be Cool™. It was a high-speed rocket car in its day, it was comfortable, it had self-leveling suspension and lights. But then I finally saw one in person. And I found my favorite aspect of it.
Read MoreSome of the most distinguishing things about the Volkswagen Golf GTI are the plaid seats and the golf ball-style shifter. They’re iconic touches to an iconic hot hatchback, and they were the ideas from one Gunhild Liljequist, an interior designer who worked at Volkswagen for some 30 years.
Read MoreAh, yes. That one thing all of our cars are missing, that one thing they all need more of... emotions? I guess if you’re asking Volkswagen, that’s what it’ll be giving you on its all-electric ID.3.
Read MoreI’m not really sure what the hell our pals over at InsideEVs were thinking, but at some point we’ve really got to put our foot down and say that not every fucked-up 3D model of a pickup truck where you remove the grille counts as a “Tesla Truck Render.” Look at that image up there. InsideEVs, why are you publishing this? That’s not a Tesla truck render. That’s a truck from a video game glitching out.
Read MoreBMW recently unveiled the Concept 4, whose name might not resonate because it was probably hard to get past the vehicle’s glaring grille in order to read the details. But even if the rest of the world thought the front of the car looked like the snout of a giant radioactive pig, BMW is standing behind it.
Read MoreCar Internet is deeply divided over whether it’s cool to keep the yellow “air dam shipping covers”—which Dodge installs on its Challengers and Chargers to protect lower fascias during shipping—attached, or if it’s best to throw them out. Thanks to a new video apparently taken at the Dodge Charger Widebody’s press launch, we now know what the car’s head designer thinks, and we’ve learned about a new cover color.
Read MoreBack in late 2018, we rejoiced when Lincoln announced that it was making 80 special edition 2019 Lincoln Continentals with rear-hinging suicide doors. All 80 of those cars sold in 48 hours, so Lincoln later promised to build more for 2020. Now Lincoln is delivering on that, but if you want to buy the new 2020 Lincoln Continental Coach Door Edition, get ready to drop some serious coin.
Read MoreElectric vehicles have been turning the tide in the automotive industry in terms of making cars better for the environment. But Japan’s Ministry of the Environment believed we could do better—and the result is an unprecedented supercar made entirely of wood.
Read MoreLook, life gets boring sometimes when all you do is wake up before the sun does in order to go somewhere and work for nine hours, leaving time for roughly two episodes of whichever show you’re streaming right now when you do get home.
Read MoreSince the newest generation of the world’s favorite tuner car is now here, it’s only right for Toyota Racing Development to bring its own version of a modified fifth-generation Supra to SEMA next month. Toyota gave us a hint about what that will entail this week: a modern GR Supra 3000GT Concept.
Read MoreIf someone were to ask you, “do you want to drift a bus,” there’s only one answer. Hell yeah I wanna drift a bus! Hyundai obviously knows what’s up here, because it’s developed a one-of-a-kind bus made specially for drifting. And it is glorious.
Read MoreI hadn’t even begun reading the news release on this Hyundai Veloster Grappler concept before deciding, unequivocally, that Hyundai can take my money. Hell, this thing could be a shell of a car without so much as a driver’s seat or an engine inside, and I would’ve signed up to buy four of them before I noticed.
Read MoreI don’t know what it is with the requirement that our future cars need to foster some deep human-car emotional bond, but Toyota is proposing a pretty similar thing with its LQ concept. This little car will include its very own artificial intelligence assistant named Yui, and Yui will be able to read your emotions in order to give you the very best mobility experience it can.
Read MoreSo many things in life tend to, if given enough time, disappoint. That’s why it’s so important to really appreciate those few, precious things that are truly consistent and reliable. One of those things are Daihatsu’s concept cars, which never fail to delight, and I’m happy to say that streak has not been broken this year. Check out what they’re bringing to the show.
Read MoreWhen it comes to auto design, it can often feel like all of the big ideas have already been explored, and that the world of design is, like the Earth, completely mapped and known. I’m not sure if that’s entirely true, as I believe there are still many undiscovered islands of design out there. Some, though, probably should remain uninhabited. I’m not sure how to escape this metaphor now, so I’ll just come out and say it: Toyota’s 1979 FCX-80 concept looked really, really weird.
Read MoreIn a new teaser image showing off Audi’s current lineup of production and concept electric vehicles, the automaker has revealed a fourth fully-electric concept which appears to be another sedan following the Audi E-Tron GT concept driven by Tony Stark in this year’s Avengers: Endgame.
Read MoreThe Tokyo Motor Show is coming up, and it usually doesn’t disappoint when it comes to fun concept cars. It looks like Mitsubishi is getting in on the fun this year, teasing two interesting concepts. One appears to be a sort of electric off-road dune buggy sort of thing, and the other is a Japanese-market-only Kei-class concept.
Read MoreThe pocket-sized electric car trend is here in full force, and Nissan is hopping on the hype train with its newest concept, the IMk. With its front bench seat and beautiful rose gold finish, it might just one of the best mini EV concepts I’ve seen yet.
Read MoreWe know. Upon seeing the photo above, which features perhaps a dozen or more logs impaling a Nissan Xterra’s windshield, you thought you clicked the wrong window and accidentally brought up that Final Destination movie you started for the millionth time last night—for reasons unbeknownst to you or anyone else.
Read MoreWe don’t talk much about the hydrogen fuel-cell crossover Hyundai Nexo—but we should probably change that, considering that it not only just survived its first crash test but also scooped up an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ along the way.
Read MoreOwners of the Ford Mustang—the car that democratized V8 power in the U.S.—have been terrorizing Cars and Coffees with their peel-out antics for years. One of the latest incidents is a nasty crash in North Carolina.
Read MoreImagine if The Fast and the Furious franchise featured a bunch of crime-fighting billionaires with ultra-fancy cars and was also directed by Michael Bay. Congratulations, you now have a pretty good idea of the plot of the new film 6 Underground. And yes, it is both as absurd and as explosive as it sounds.
Read MoreLast December the FBI raided the home and business of DC Solar founder Jeff Carpoff in California’s Bay Area, seizing well in excess of a million dollars in cash and a collection of over 140 automobiles—valued over $4 million—in relation to a massive charge of fraud. The allegations, to which an involved electrician and CPA have plead guilty, include what prosecutors call a $2.5 billion Ponzi scheme.
Read MoreOne of the easiest ways to save yourself a lot of time, headaches and energy in life is to not break basic road laws, as roads, unlike many other secluded places where laws are broken, are full of cops ready to hand out fines and jail time. The next easiest way is to not film yourself doing it for the ‘Gram or whatever.
Read MoreShortly after midnight on Monday, 59-year-old Kevin Hein was shot and killed during an armed robbery at a bar in Neenah, Wisconsin. His killer is still at large and police are seeking any information that might help identify the suspect or the car he used to flee the bar.
Read MoreEarlier this year, Tesla released “Sentry mode,” a feature that uses Tesla vehicles’ already-existing cameras to provide security footage of possible threats. The feature apparently works, because it just caught someone keying the bejesus out of a Tesla Model 3. And now that person has turned herself in to face criminal charges.
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk, who once failed to sue the Top Gear television program for libel over the show’s review of a Tesla Roadster, is once again beefing with Top Gear over the drag race results between the Tesla Model S and Porsche Taycan published to its YouTube channel.
Read MoreThe first Apex film was about car companies like Porsche and Koenigsegg trying to build the fastest cars on earth with the best technology of our time. It’s all lawful, socially acceptable even, unless you hate supercars. If that’s a story about what happens in the light of day, then the latest film in the series, Apex: The Secret Race Across America is about what happens in the shadows.
Read MoreThis week on Twitter, extremely English automotive brand Aston Martin confirmed that four of its cars, two modern and two plucked out of history, would be featured in the upcoming Jim Bond film No Time To Die. In case you’ve never seen a feature-length film with this Bond fellow, you might be surprised to learn that this is the 25th such in the franchise, many of which feature at least one (1) Aston Martin automobile.
Read MoreThere was a time in this country, starting in the mid-1970s and ending in the early 1980s, when the most daring car enthusiasts in America were the ones gunning to get from New York to Los Angeles by car quicker than anyone had done before. It was known to most as the Cannonball Run. And in 1983, a 32-hour, 7-minute record was set that was considered unbeatable.
Read MoreI have sat in the new Mazda MX-30, the company’s first full production EV, and I still couldn’t tell you how large it is, “freestyle” rear doors and all.
Read MoreYou knew BMW tuner Alpina would dial in a 3 Series sedan if you saw the treatment it gave to the 3 Series wagon. (Sorry, “Touring.”) We’re still waiting for specifics on what the next BMW M3 be able to do, but we have enough information for a little bench racing.
Read MoreFord will debut its controversial new “Mustang-inspired” electric crossover on Nov. 17, whether we want it or not.
Read MoreLet me just start out by saying that while, yes, so much of what Toyota is showing at the Tokyo Motor Show is deeply and richly bonkers, this is precisely what auto shows are for. Do I really think Toyota is going to be cornering that lucrative Quidditch market with their Nimbus 2000-killing e-Broom? No. But is it, along with all those friendly robots and pod-cars, more interesting than a plug-in Camry? Hell yeah. Let them play.
Read MoreIt’s tough to please car enthusiasts with concepts, isn’t it? Things that are too wild get dismissed as abstractions, then we’re presented with something vaguely practical it feels boring. The Nissan Ariya concept seems inoffensive but I’m having a hard time feeling anything resembling excitement for it.
Read MoreBack in 2017, it looked like Yamaha was preparing itself to enter the car market with two exciting concepts: the Cross Hub Concept compact pickup truck and the Sports Ride Concept, both projects influenced by McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray. Now the powersports brand has ditched any effort to build its awesome concepts.
Read MoreWhat are buggies going to look like in 20 years? Mitsubishi has an idea, and it’s calling the Mitsubishi Mi-Tech, an open-top SUV that has been stripped of doors and possesses a gas-powered turbine engine. All that to say: they’re going to be badass.
Read MoreIf you love Kei cars, then get ready for the Mitsubishi Super Height K-Wagon concept to get your heart beating a little faster, because this thing is delightful. The little van with the big personality debuted earlier at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show, and I really want to live in the future that it’s been built for.
Read MoreIt seems like everyone is showing up to the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show with some awesome new all-electric concepts, and Lexus is no exception. Its LF-30 Electrified concept features a motor in each wheel with the aim of this being implemented in all of Lexus’ EVs by 2030.
Read MoreI strode up to the Honda stand at the Tokyo Motor Show with one question burning in my heart, in my eyes, on my notepad: Why isn’t the Honda Fit planned for sale in America? What I got was a bit of a bummer as I looked over the rather handsome new car. “It is considered,” is all the head of the project could tell me.
Read MoreThere has been a lot of coverage that the wonderful Honda E is not being put on sale in America, but today the car’s project leader revealed that the car was originally intended to be sold here. And that’s not all.
Read MoreMazda today unveiled its first new battery electric vehicle in the 2020 MX-30 crossover during the Tokyo Motor Show. The MX-30 is roughly the same size as Mazda’s upcoming CX-30, which fits into its lineup between the CX-3 and CX-5. Mazda has not yet unveiled the MX-30's powertrain, but it will have a 35.5-kWh lithium ion battery pack, if that helps. We don’t yet know range or power numbers.
Read MoreWe are trash. I’m trash, you’re trash. Your sweet aunt is trash. And so is your kid. Which is exactly why we don’t deserve the nice concepts Suzuki has dreamed up for the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show. They are too good and pure for this world.
Read MoreThis 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is it. The Big One. The most powerful, street-legal car Ford has ever built. We’ve poked and prodded it from top to bottom. Now all that’s left to do is drive it.
Read MoreThe 2019 Ford Edge ST is certainly quicker than its more pedestrian stablemates, but it lacks the raw performance capabilities of its smaller, more famous cousins, the Focus ST and the Fiesta ST. As a more-exciting-than-stock family car, it does just fine, even if the asking price is a little stiff.
Read MoreFord Mustangs have always blended into the grey for me. Even the really rare or crazy ones. Mach 1s, GT500s, EcoBoosts, or even the rental spec V6s; it doesn’t matter. As exotic as they try to be, they’re always part of the norm here in America. But that concept changed for me once I got to experience a new Ford Mustang RTR Series 1.
Read MoreIf you’re not spending your Saturday scouring Facebook Marketplace, then you probably have a life. I, however, do not, and that means I get to make you look at this amazing 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback that has been grafted onto a 1973 Ford Bronco chassis. The Frankensteinian result may be the pinnacle of four-wheeled Americana.
Read MoreThe Dodge Omni was not an exciting car. Interesting, maybe, with its FWD arrangement imported from Chrysler’s Simca over in Europe, but certainly not exciting. That all changed when Shelby got their hands on the car and turned it into the GLH-S, and if you’re looking for a way to feel what fast was like at Chrysler back in 1986, all you need is 32 large.
Read MoreWhat do I want for the holidays this year? Oh, you. You know you don’t have to get me anything. The only gift I need in life is your friendship. Yes, really! Why would you ever question that? You know better.
Read MoreAh, shit. There’s a Celica All-Trac for sale, and it’s only $6,800. Oh no.
Read MoreThe era of hassle-free Ford GT resales is coming, as the two-year prohibition on reselling the car is finally expiring on early models. But in addition to all of the V6 supercars preparing to come onto the secondhand market, we’re also about to see just how many people bought these things for no reason other than to let them sit around and make a profit when the clock expired two years later.
Read MoreIf there are two things in life that I find to be inarguable blessings to this Earth, aside from emissions and such, they are the Mazda Miata and any motor vehicle with “Hellcat” in its name. Thus, similar to a department-store blowout jewelry sale where I may or may not lose control and hide everything I bought from my husband in various corners of the house, I am blessed to have missed the memo on the auction of this Hellcat-powered Miata until after it sold.
Read MoreI think we have confidently established two things here on Jalopnik. The first is that wagons are good, and the second is that green cars are also good. Therefore a logical conclusion would follow that a green wagon is extra good. If you are looking for such a ride, a dealer in California has one of the most unique Audi Allroads I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreI you want to build a limousine, chances are you’ll want to start with something big, seeing as the aim is to maximize interior volume. What a normal limousine-builder would definitely not want to start with is a tiny 1993 Ford Festiva. That would make no sense, but then, here we are.
Read MoreLast week Indian debuted a new monster V-twin engine called PowerPlus, which is a 108 cubic inch motor with “best in class” 122 horsepower and 128 lb-ft of torque. The newly launched fixed fairing bagger, called Challenger, is the first bike to carry this liquid-cooled overhead cam powerplant.
Read MoreHonda and BMW have been fighting a long battle to see which of them could fit more Rs on their super sport motorcycles. Honda, it seems, is determined to win this battle. The Japanese motorcycle maker has trademarked the name CBR1000RR-R, according to motorcycle.com, and is poised to use it as the name for its upcoming superfast race replica.
Read MoreAston Martin, which keeps pumping out products from hardcore track cars to SUVs and evil lairs, is adding a new category to that lineup soon: an Aston motorcycle, the first of its kind. The bike will be the result of a collaboration with a company dedicated to motorcycles and will debut next month.
Read MoreIt’s fair to say that Harley-Davidson is pretty proud of its Milwaukee Eight V-twin engine, especially in its most potent form, the 117 cubic-inch monster reserved for only its highest echelon bikes. Indian Motorcycles just fired a shot across the bow of the Wisconsin cruiser bike juggernaut today with the official launch of the PowerPlus engine. This 108 cubic inch overhead cam watercooled heckin chonker of an engine develops a class-leading 122 horses and 128 lb-ft of torque.
Read MoreItalian two-wheeler company Ducati has unveiled an aggressive new lineup of production sport motorcycles ahead of the Milan Motorcycle Show today. It’s a massive infusion of new product which sees a new halo superbike for the brand, a new Streetfighter (which we saw a pre-production version of at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb), new versions of existing product, and a trio of new e-bikes. It’s all very exciting.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson released its third-quarter earnings this week, and for a company desperately trying to turn itself around as its customer base ages, there were pockets of good news. Revenue fell, but by less than analysts thought it would. Shares rose. The numbers come after Harley signaled it knows its future largely isn’t here.
Read MoreThe 2020 Harley-Davidson Low Rider S is the kind of black-and-chrome evil animal a lot of people think of when they imagine what a good Harley might look like. But really, it looks good because it’s not trying too hard.
Read MoreAs I rode down a dark, wet I-95 getting blown past by buses and tractor-trailers Sunday night, I just kept thinking how I didn’t want to die in a hoodie with “Clickbait” written across it in varsity letters, covered by an Alpinestars jacket.
Read MoreHarley’s new LiveWire is shockingly fun to ride and an explicit bid from Harley to get younger riders to buy its wares. That isn’t working out so far, though, according to a Reuters report. The numbers are, in fact, pretty bleak.
Read MoreSwiss FMX champion Mat Rebeaud is clearly a massively talented rider. Team him up with an Alta Redshift electric dirt rider, a massive freestyle course on a cow farm, and a Red Bull videographer, and it’s a recipe for awesome. Peel it back to its most basic, and this video shows just how jarring it can be to see such incredible energy expended mostly silently. You can hear the cows, a nearby stream, the rip of gravel tires on dirt, but no exhaust note.
Read MoreMany automakers are bailing on sedans, but not Nissan, which recently introduced a new Versa amid turmoil at the top of the company. Where does Nissan’s faith come from? The children.
Read MoreWith an ambitious pit strategy and a hell of a performance, Lewis Hamilton came from a third-place start to win the Mexican Grand Prix. Hamilton had an opportunity to clinch the driver’s championship multiple races early, but he didn’t quite open up a wide enough gap between himself and his teammate Valterri Bottas.
Read MoreSubaru is recalling 228,500 2017-2019 Imprezas and Crosstreks for faulty PCV valves, an issue that could require total engine replacements. Owners of affected vehicles will have to take their vehicles to the dealer, where CarComplaints reports that they’ll be inspected to see if the engine needs to be swapped.
Read MoreIf you want your car to automatically brake for collisions, beep when you’re about to back into something, turn on its wipers when it rains and deploy its airbags during a collision, you’re going to need a lot of sensors. And when those sensors start being used for phone accelerometers, automated driving systems and aerial inertial navigation systems, you’re going to stretch your capacity pretty thin.
Read MoreThe BMW 750i received a slew of updates for 2020, with new technology throughout and updated styling both inside and out. All of that, though, has been overshadowed by the arrival of The Grille. Like the X7, BMW’s flagship sedan now carries a massive schnoz.
Read MoreListen, letting some jabroney chop the roof off of your car isn’t necessarily a great idea. In general, I think custom convertibles are usually terrible and generally unsafe. And even though I think it looks cool as hell, I couldn’t possibly suggest that anyone buy this.
Read MoreAs we noted on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to incentivize electric vehicle sales using a scrappage scheme in the mold of Cash For Clunkers. This is a well-intentioned plan and the goal of increasing EV adoption is a good one. It just ignores one serious problem: Cash For Clunkers sucked.
Read MoreI know this is all just a branding exercise conjured up by the people at Wired who like to turn people’s obsessions into money, but as far as these things go, this is a pretty fun one. Porsche designers and Lucasfilm designers teamed up to design an all-new spaceship, which will be presented at the premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker later this year. There are talented designers in both camps, approaching this design challenge from very different places, so the results should be pretty
Read MoreWe love classics. We love wagons. We adore classic wagons. And this one, a 1974 Chevy Impala, looks fantastic.
Read MoreAustralian Airline Qantas is running tests on a planned direct flight between Sydney, Australia and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. If it happens, it’ll be the longest commercial flight in the world, a marvel of aviation engineering and—based on early reports—an absolute nightmare.
Read MoreAs more and more shops start bringing classic cars back to life with electric drivetrain swaps, FIVA (the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens or international federation of historic vehicles) realized it was the perfect time to give a garbage opinion that no one asked for. The Torino, Italy-based organization, in what is quite clearly a publicity stunt, “denounced” EV conversions in a statement.
Read MoreThe world is ending. A recession is looming. The Collapse Might Finally Be Here. It was easy to see the double-digit percentage drops across the board as a sign of The End Times. But the real problem wasn’t a stalling economy or a total crash in demand. It was a poorly explained and little-known change to the automotive sales reporting calendar that made a slightly down month look utterly catastrophic.
Read MoreThe Ferrari 488 Pista is fast. Very, very fast. But we’re not quite sure how fast, as Ferrari tends to opt out of official lap record chasing and likes to avoid comparison tests with objective performance benchmarks. But Sport Auto, a German car magazine, managed to set a hot lap in the 488 Pista at the Nürburgring.
Read MoreThe Subaru Outback sells well for its segment. In fact, according to J.D. Power data referenced in a CNBC video on the U.S. wagon market, the Outback makes up basically the entire U.S. wagon market.
Read MoreAfter launching as an all-hybrid taxi service nearly ten years ago, Green Cab Madison is taking a big next step. They’re welcoming a fleet of 20 Tesla Model 3 taxis to their fleet and aim to replace the rest of their hybrid cabs with more EVs next year.
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 MoreIf you were a discerning Brazilian GM executive with a taste for waffles and french fries, there would only be one vacation spot on your list: Belgium. But if you were such a successful fellow, you’d certainly have an entourage to take with you. That’s where the Veraneio comes in.
Read MoreYou probably think the best Honda Civic to ever wear the Acura badge was the Integra. After all, the Civic-derived Integra GS-R and Type-R that followed it still rank today as the top front-drive sport compacts ever built. Actually, though, the most interesting Acura Civic (this may get confusing) was not the Integra at all. It was the Acura EL, which later mutated into the Acura CSX Type-S.
Read MoreEver since Alexei Leonov first floated around like a Soviet piñata outside his Voskhod 2 spacecraft in 1965, people have been free floating in space, first to learn how, then to get things done. While the first woman walked in space back in 1984 (cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, on Salyut 7), today is the first time a multi-astronaut spacewalk has been undertaken with an all-female crew. It’s about damn time.
Read MoreHonda released an image of the new Fit yesterday, which I’m terribly excited about, being a Fit owner myself. Then came troubling news that the new Fit may not be making it to American shores.
Read MoreA monster breaks through its chains to escape certain death at the hands of gladiators for the entertainment of the Roman upper crust. Doesn’t really seem like the kind of image that could sell a Renault of any kind, let alone the Renault 18 Diesel, but there was one man who could make that work. And that man was Sergio Leone.
Read MoreFor the first time, Radwood’s celebration of everything motorized and otherwise during the ‘80s and ‘90s shipped up to Boston (I’m so sorry). It might have been a rainy day, but the cars came out and They Were Good.
Read MoreTyphoon Hagibis made landfall in Japan yesterday with the strength of a Category 3 Atlantic Hurricane. Though Valtteri Bottas had clear weather to claim the podium at Suzuka today, many cars were off the road because of the weather conditions. To keep their precious rides out of the wind and rain, some Japanese gear heads sought refuge in mall parking lots.
Read MoreThe Jewish holiday of Sukkot (the Festival of Booths) begins tonight at sundown and has always been one of my favorites because its central custom is essentially a ritual mobile home, the Sukkah. Sukkot commemorates both the fall harvest and that 40-year detour in the desert and so it is traditional to spend as much time as possible during the eight days of the festival in one of these temporary structures. In the past, that meant building your own. Today, one can come to you.
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 MoreAfter an era of working with Japanese motors, Lotus will join the rest of the Geely stable in using variants of a shared family of engines. Along with the battery electric powertrains like the one found in the Evija, the motors may also serve as an important component of Lotus’s current reinvention.
Read MoreVisually, the Lamborghini Huracan is one of my favorite supercar designs out there. It’s the exact right blend of angular Lamborghini aggression and smooth, modern surfacing.
Read MoreEight years ago, it looked like BMW was positioning itself in a good place for the electric future. It founded BMW i, a sub-brand to bring electrified products to its dealers, and invested massively in carbon fibre reinforced plastic production to make lightweight, efficient vehicles at low costs. But that bold attitude is nowhere to be seen in BMW’s current plans as reported by InsideEVs, which include keeping the 6-year-old i3 around for a few more years and canceling the i8 entirely.
Read MoreIn yet another dark turn for Trucktober, Mack Truck employees represented by the United Auto Workers have been unable to reach an agreement with parent company Volvo Group. Effective at 11:59 on Saturday, workers will walk out of facilities in Pennslyvania, Maryland and Florida.
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of debate over how much good the EV tax credit does, whether the number of cars it covers should be increased or if it should be phased out altogether. But in the meantime, people and companies are falsely claiming millions of dollars of tax credits.
Read MoreIf you’re driving a car that’s hit by another vehicle, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says you’re 28 percent more likely to die if that vehicle is an SUV. That’s not exactly great news, but considering SUVs used to be 132 percent more deadly than cars, it’s a welcome improvement.
Read MoreThe 2019 Japanese Grand Prix is currently on pause, with all Saturday track action canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis. That means there’s no Formula One Action on TV, but there’s a silver lining: F1 just used it as an excuse to live stream the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix, one of the most exciting races ever.
Read MoreThe Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R drives great. It sounds amazing. And, thanks to Jalopnik reader Wills Frantz’ photography skills, it also looks spectacular.
Read MoreHBO’s Succession is a brilliant show with a fantastic rotating cast of rich people and rich people’s cars. There are some old Defenders, a few Wagoneers, plenty of Range Rovers and a deluge of S-Classes. But then there’s Rhea Jarrell (Holly Hunter), a high-powered CEO of a news conglomerate that arrives in the back of a Jaguar I-Pace.
Read MoreIt’ll be a solemn Truck Month at Chevy and GMC dealers this TruckTober, as parts shortages from the ongoing United Auto Workers strike forced its last North American pickup plant to shut down last week.
Read MoreFans of all-electric British race cars and Danish injection-molded building bricks rejoice, Lego has announced a new set featuring the I-Pace eTrophy and the I-Type Formula E racecar.
Read MoreIn a move surely intended to channel its namesake, a Hellcat on a dyno lit itself on fire. Luckily, the whole situation was resolved without injury and uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
Read MoreIn case the current trade war hellscape wasn’t irritating enough to navigate, the World Trade Organization has just opened up a new batteground. In a ruling announced Wednesday and reported by CNBC, the WTO authorized the U.S. to levy tariffs on Airbus planes in response to illegal government subsidies. Soon, it’s expected to offer a similar verdict on Europe’s desire to slap tariffs on Boeing planes.
Read MoreConventional wisdom holds that if you get a flashy color for your new car, expect it to depreciate faster than a car in a “safer” tone. Well, wisdom be damned, because—according to a new study—the color that’s most likely to be discounted in used car transactions is beige.
Read MoreI love Soviet things. I love surprises. This truck? This truck is both. It’s a ZIL-130 truck with the 600 horsepower drivetrain of a BMW X5M underneath. And it’s more than surprising for anyone who pulls away next to it from a traffic light.
Read MoreA few months ago, Aston Martin and Zagato released renders of the DBS GT Zagato. When we saw it then, we were amazed by a few things. First, it has no rear window, second, it’s incredibly expensive and third, you have to buy a DB4 Zagato Continuation with it.
Read MoreIt should come as no surprise that a babied car is going to perform differently on the dyno than one with more than 300,000 more miles on it. But what is the cost of all those miles? Can your car keep its power while you drive it hard and often?
Read MorePagani Zonda Roadster. Aston Martin One-77. Jaguar XJ220. Jaguar XJ200 race car. These cars and more are all going to be offered at auction and you ought to know about them.
Read MoreIt’s unusual to encounter a tire that is genuinely, biologically disgusting, but that’s pretty much exactly what happened in Derby, England, when a police officer noticed that a minivan had a front tire that appeared to be suffering from a severe dermatological disease. Being a tire, this wasn’t exactly the case, but it’s still pretty dangerous, and, let’s be honest, gross.
Read MoreWilmington, North Carolina police are on the lookout for the driver involved in a hit-and-run over the weekend which killed one 30-year-old Justin Allen Corbett. The report says Corbett was struck while crossing Market Street near the Walmart around 7:45 p.m. Sunday evening.
Read MoreIt’s Halloween, my favorite day of the year, and in honor of that, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Buick is a car that could be either a trick or a treat, depending on how handy you are with a wrench. Let’s see if its price means it stands even a ghost of a chance.
Read MoreThe dealer selling today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Viper claims that not even your bad credit could keep you from driving it home today! Let’s figure out what all that might really cost you.
Read MoreDieselgate is fresh enough in people’s minds that trusting VW can be stretch. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Golf is well-optioned but also rocks the TDI. Let’s see if its priced to make that stretch a little less sweat-inducing.
Read MoreWhile most Coronas are served with a slice of lime, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Toyota Corona comes in lemon yellow. Let’s see how much green you might think it’s worth.
Read MoreSmall sporty cars are few and far between these days. Ones like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cobalt that really push their econobox envelopes are even rarer. Let’s see if this supercharged Super Sport comes with a price tag that could make it a far more common sight in your driveway.
Read MoreThe Yukon Gold potato is neither from the Yukon nor actually gold. It is a fitting reference however for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GMC, however, since it is both. Let’s see if the price on this old-school two-door 4X4 comes across as fully or only half baked.
Read MoreSome special editions are... well, less special than others. Being one of 1,050 trim package editions makes today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jag one of those. Maybe its price will improve its standing.
Read MoreFord used to advertise that their Granda line was nearly indistinguishable from the far more expensive Mercedes S-Class. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe coupé proves that was a lie, but with a V8 and a four-speed stick, could its price turn you into a believer?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 318Ti represents one of BMW’s most infamous mullets—E36 upfront and E30 in back. Let’s see if this M-sport spec’d car also comes with a hair-raising price.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cayman comes with both some modest mods and all the original parts those replaced. Let’s see if it can overcome that “other people’s project” burden with perhaps a not so burdensome price.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jeep touts as a selling point its use in a photoshoot that also featured actress Drew Barrymore. Let’s see if his price is more of a draw than is Drew.
Read MoreChevy’s Corvette has long come in good, better, and best editions. When it comes to C5s, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Z06 represents the model at its best. Let’s see if that’s good enough to meet its asking price.
Read MoreThe dealer selling today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MK VII describes the model as a “legend.” While that’s disputable, there’s no doubt that this big coupe is of a style that today almost only exists in legend. Let’s see how epic its price might be.
Read MoreWhen you think of legendary Porsche products, cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cayenne probably won’t be at the top of the list. The diesel model’s lack of popularity has driven extraordinary depreciation, meaning perhaps more of us could drive it as well.
Read MoreBeing a “one-owner” car holds special cachet in the used car market. Having that one owner be the late great Carroll Shelby as is the case of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pantera turns that cachet into holy crap! Let’s see what being ‘Ol Shel’s car might just be worth.
Read MoreIf your motto has always been “go big or go home” then you’ll love today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe “big coupe” Bimmer. Let’s find out if this Teutonic two-door’s price tag is also kind of a big deal.
Read MoreChevy’s 350 V8 may be the go-to choice to pump up the grunt of Jeep’s beloved CJs, but as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe FJ proves, it can make for a fun Toy too. Let’s see if this almost-there Land Cruiser’s price has you just as pumped.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda PC800 is named for one of the world’s greatest roads—California’s legendary Pacific Coast Highway. Let’s see if this rare touring bike’s price means that its buyer would be the one taken for a ride.
Read MoreWith BMW investing heavily in crossovers, electrics, and autonomous cars it’s heartening to remember that they’re also responsible for cars like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe E39 M5. Let’s see what this history lesson might be worth.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Miata lacks the original car’s wonderful pop-up headlamps but perhaps makes up for that with a pop-up roof. Its real attraction is its pressure-fed engine, but could that make it worth its asking?
Read MoreCalifornia has brought back its black and gold license plates for all the retro lovers in the state, and they might do so for the ‘70s blue plates too. You wouldn’t have to wait if you bought today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dart, but that’s only if its price isn’t too much to swing.
Read MoreWith just a single turbo and a body that hasn’t aged all that well, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Supra MKIII doesn’t quite have the cachet of its successor or that of the current edition. That of course means it’s cheaper than either. We’ll just have to decide if it’s cheap enough.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe V70R describes the car as the cleanest in the land and himself as its ‘curator.’ Those are impressive credentials, but could both the car and its price live up to the hype?
Read MoreSomeone, something, some guiding spirit of light and practicality, is parking dozens of imported Japanese Domestic Market vans of all shapes and kinds under a freeway in the Bay Area, a local has recently discovered.
Read MoreIn troubled times, a nation needs heroes of all kinds to look to, and it appears we’ve got one, Jorge Manalang, who took down an airport catering cart that went feral and started doing autonomous donuts, faster and faster, threatening to slam into workers on the tarmac or the airplane at the skyway. The video of the event went pretty viral, with even a future former United States President re-tweeting it.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure everyone who’s ever taken a kart around an indoor go-kart track has wondered, hey, I wonder if I could drive a car on this track? Usually, the thought comes to you because your hands are vibrating so much on that little steering wheel you can’t feel them anymore, but it’s a valid thought regardless. And for most cars, the answer is no, no you can’t. But a Honda Z600 isn’t most cars.
Read MoreFormula One has officially announced the regulations that will guide the sport from 2021 onward ahead of this weekend’s United States Grand Prix over in Texas. From the sound of things, F1 is actually confirming the fact that it’s trying to make racing more accessible for everyone. But, most importantly, these cars look damn good.
Read MoreRemember how everyone hated the first few seasons of Formula E’s pit stops? There was no recharging or swapping batteries; they swapped whole cars, going from one depleted car to an identical, fully-charged one that looked like nothing had happened. Remember how Formula E developed a higher-capacity battery that could last the whole race without requiring any pit stops? Yeah, well. That’s not really working. Formula E wants to bring pit stops back, and it wants fast-charging to do it.
Read MoreI can’t remember exactly when I decided I was going to become a Marussia Formula One fan, but I’m fairly certain it all started as a joke. Oh man, I surely laughed to my friends, what if I became a fan of the backmarkers? Haha, funny joke, Elizabeth! You just signed yourself up for several years of pain and disappointment!
Read MoreThe all-female open-wheel W Series has announced that, starting in 2020, it will no longer allow a season champion to compete the following year. This has come as some pretty disappointing news for both fans and drivers alike, reminding us once again that the series has the right intentions but the wrong execution.
Read MoreWith Fernando Alonso confirmed to be racing at Dakar—thus taking on yet another impressive challenge in the motorsport world—everyone has been wondering what’s next. Maybe rallying? The two-time Formula One champion is decidedly against the thought of joining the World Rally Championship. And it all comes down to trust.
Read MoreNASCAR does not encourage fights, executive Steve O’Donnell has said on behalf of the sanctioning body multiple times. It does not encourage them at all. People even get suspended! (Well, in the fight between Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin over the weekend, a crew member got suspended, not Logano or Hamlin.)
Read MoreFormula One’s prospective Miami Grand Prix—the street race taking place in the Miami Dolphins stadium—has been pretty back-and-forth with the whole “is it happening or not” thing. And a public meeting with the board of county commissioners at Miami-Dade City Hall on Tuesday proved once again that this race is going to be one hell of a struggle to put on.
Read MoreMost of us have taken a car above the ton. Some of us have taken a car to VMax, usually an economy car of some sort that tops out just over the triple digit mark. A lucky few of us have touched 200, usually having spent lots of money to get there. A rarefied few have driven anything with wheels above 250. To reach 334 is astonishingly fast to most mere mortals, but for the Bloodhound and Andy Green it’s just the beginning.
Read MoreOtt Tanak made history last weekend as he became the first Estonian driver to ever win the World Rally Championship title—a title that you could argue took him an entire career to build toward. In a career laden with drastic ups-and-downs, Tanak has been both a rally-winning driver while also having been dropped from the series and then demoted, making his first title extra sweet.
Read MoreIf you’re going to trust anyone to tell you how to set up you Formula One car, it’s gotta be someone with some damn good experience under their belt and knowledge you can trust. And that’s why Graham Hill, two-time F1 World Champion and the only driver to ever achieve the coveted Triple Crown (wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500, and the Monaco Grand Prix), is the perfect man for the job.
Read MoreThere are three races left in the NASCAR Cup Series season, which is around the time drivers still going for the title start to get testy. It was Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano’s turn at Martinsville Speedway this weekend, in a fight that led to Hamlin being thrown to the ground in a move NASCAR will “probably” penalize.
Read MoreDuring qualifying for Sunday’s Virgin Australia Supercars’ Gold Coast 600 race, Penske Ford driver Scott McLaughlin suffered a huge crash that saw his car go sideways against the protective barriers. While McLaughlin was fine, the impact of the crash sent one of his shock absorbers flying several stories up onto someone’s balcony.
Read MoreHow do you define success in racing? Aside from the usuals—championships, race wins—I think Sebastian Vettel has introduced us to a new one: having so many damn trophies that it stops being cool receiving them and instead actually kinda sucks because this one is ugly as sin.
Read MoreHalloween is this week, readers! We hope you have your costumes all sorted out and ready to go, but, in case you needed a little inspiration for you and your friends (or special loved ones) before you hit the spooky party scene tonight, then we’ve got a few fantastic motorsport-themed ideas here for you depending on all your needs.
Read MoreFormula One will be howling around the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City for the Gran Premio De México this weekend, and there’s racing in Germany and Japan on as well.
Read MoreDale Earnhardt Jr. fans have learned a lot about their favorite former driver since his retirement. First, there was the full extent of the concussions he suffered while racing. Now, there’s the fact that Junior was a pretty avid smoker for a significant part of his career.
Read MoreLewis Hamilton, who could become a six-time Formula One champion Sunday, has been talking a lot lately about how we all can and should do better for the environment. It’s been suggested, then, that Hamilton trade his hybrid race car in for an electric one in Formula E, but that’s not in his plans.
Read MoreThere’s a new Audi RS6 Avant coming out in sometime in the very near future, but if you want yours used with a little bit of added starpower, you might consider buying Kimi Raikkonen’s old Audi. Which, yes, is currently up for sale.
Read MoreTwo-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso has really been living life since he retired from the series in 2018, aside from, you know, that thing that happened at the Indianapolis 500 this year. He’s been competing in all kinds of series and disciplines across the world, and the next up is the Dakar Rally.
Read MoreA small heavily-forested area in Northern Germany played host to an ADAC rally for vintage cars last weekend. That sentence alone makes me want to uproot and move to Germany immediately. When I look at the final podium results for the Visselhoeveder Herbstrallye, it makes my eyes well up with tears of beauty. Martin Schutte won the rallye in a Mitsubishi Evo VII, Helmut Beckmann came in second place in an Evo VIII, and Andreas Dahms came in third with this incredible green narrow body Porsche Ca
Read MoreAfter almost a week and a half of deliberation, the FIA has decided that both of Renault F1 Teams’ cars should be disqualified from the Japanese Grand Prix. The reason? A braking device on the car that wasn’t totally illegal was determined to be personally offensive to the FIA, who did not like it and decided to ban it.
Read MoreThere are currently four races left in the Formula One race season, with the next up being the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday. But that’s not the only thing on the calendar, since having four races left means it’s about time we start discussing clinch scenarios for perpetual drivers’ champion Lewis Hamilton.
Read MoreThe plague is upon us once again. The livery gods have decided to be cruel and update their gray-white-red livery scheme to black-white-red for Formula E’s sixth season. Seriously. Two-thirds of all the colors on Formula E cars this season are black, white, or red. Has the entire series forgotten that other colors exist?
Read MoreFormula One has been progressively getting with the times lately, including its own streaming service, and the apparent next step in that process is to put race coverage up on Twitch. F1 will do that for this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, streaming all of the coverage for free in six different countries.
Read MoreJust last week, it was announced that the Formula One Miami Grand Prix we all doubted would happen may indeed happen by virtue of a purpose-built track at the Miami Dolphins’ NFL stadium. But even that’s iffy, and the stadium is now petitioning against residents who are petitioning against its tentative F1 race.
Read MoreThe top tiers of McLaren open-wheel racing have been in a loop of pain for years, some of it by McLaren’s own doing and some of it simply because life is hard. But even with the Formula One team’s eyes toward a brighter, Mercedes-powered future in 2021, life had to get at least one more gut punch in.
Read MoreMercedes is making its Formula E debut this year as the series launches into its sixth season, and the team is already making waves at pre-season testing in Valencia. The Mercedes’ power unit sounds way different than any of the other cars on track, especially under braking. What’s up with that?
Read MoreThere’s a pretty common assumption that racing drivers and motorcycle riders aren’t actually athletes in the sense that a machine does most of the work for them. Bunk. As a counterargument, I present to you: Alex Marquez’s frankly ridiculous upper body strength as he saves his bike from imminent disaster at the Moto2 Japanese Grand Prix.
Read MoreYou’re right. There is no Formula One race this weekend. No single-seat cars, no tire change strategies. No Bernie Ecclestone. But that doesn’t mean there’s no racing to watch. There is. And we’ve got the details.
Read MoreFive-time Formula One Champion Lewis Hamilton has been very vocal about his current eco-friendly bent. Whether he’s going vegan or encouraging fans to treat the world with respect, Hamilton is using his platform for a more activist cause. And reigning two-time Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne is challenging him to put those feelings into action by testing out a Formula E car.
Read MoreOh, Formula One. One year, officials are cheering for a computer to toss a digital checkered flag in attempts to eliminate human error and confusion—you know, showing a flag too soon and ending a race early. The next, people want to bring back the power of the real checkered flag, because, wait for it: The computer ended the race too soon.
Read MoreTwo different NASCAR teams are assessing damage to their haulers this week after one wrecked while losing control on the interstate and another caught fire, both while carrying race cars and other supplies to Kansas Speedway. The hauler drivers were OK in both cases, with the pair involved in the wreck released from the hospital on Thursday.
Read MoreDo we really need to go over this? Are you sure we have to talk about this again? Seriously? Apparently we do. So, let me say this one more time, loud, for the people in the back: implying that ticket sales are down at racing events because drivers aren’t dying with alarming frequency anymore is an incredibly bad and very irresponsible take.
Read MoreOh, Rich Energy’s tweets. You were not long for this world, but you certainly made your mark on us while you were here. For that, we thank you. May you rest in peace, and may we meet again. Please.
Read MoreIt’s one of the most frustrating things in motorsport: a race team does something egregiously stupid in a race that the driver couldn’t control, but the driver is still the one who ends up getting punished for it. But penalizing a team but not the driver (or vice-versa) that is a hell of a lot harder than it sounds—unless you like your racing with a little bit of communism.
Read MoreWhen NASCAR visits its two gargantuan ovals formerly known as “restrictor-plate tracks,” Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, a few common themes emerge each time: racing in large packs, wrecking in large packs, manufacturer alliances in the draft, and out-of-bounds rules.
Read MoreIt’s kinda-sorta-maybe officially happening: the Miami Formula One race could potentially be on the calendar as soon as 2021. There’s still a lot up in the air here—this race has been an on-again, off-again thing for years—and that means it’s time to tell us what you want.
Read MoreThe electric Volkswagen I.D. R race car has been setting records around the world, and with the Nürburgring and Pikes Peak under its belt, the team headed over to China to tackle the Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road. To no one’s surprise, the team set itself an impressive record—but now we finally have onboard footage of the I.D. R actually hitting the road.
Read MoreThe International Motor Sports Association has produced some of the best racing of the last decade in North America, perhaps some of the best racing in the world. The series today announced that it would be appointing former Mazda North America director of motorsports, John Doonan, to the position of series president.
Read MoreThe Miami Grand Prix that never was may still be, according to a report from the Miami Herald. The Herald reports that Formula One came to a preliminary agreement with the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium for a race in May 2021, and both are waiting for approval from the government of Miami-Dade County.
Read MoreHow early in the year can a Formula One driver secure enough points to be crowned World Champion? It’s a question I’ve always wanted to know but was just far too lazy to find the answer to (math? No thanks!). But now, thankfully, my itch of curiosity has been scratched, and it didn’t even require me doing basic algebra.
Read MoreWhen it first showed the 2020 Corvette C8, Chevy was proud of its magnetic shocks, aluminum suspension, choice 19-inch wheels, and big 6.2-liter V8. But when it comes to the actual race car, you won’t find any of that stuff. Everything gets smaller and simpler. Well, except for the gas tank.
Read MoreToward the end of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Monday, which was delayed from Sunday due to rain and a lack of lights at the track, there was a giant wreck. That’s the norm. Less normal is the tendency for a car to do a full-on flip, since NASCAR tries its best to keep cars on the ground.
Read MoreSomething magical happens when a racing surface gets wet. True talent distinguishes itself from the masses of the mediocre, as the less impressive drivers just entirely forget how to drive. Strategy both flies out the window and becomes the most important thing in the world. Records are set. Legends are made. But what wet race stands at the pinnacle of it all as the best, most exciting, most incredible wet race of all time?
Read MoreJust one day after Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in Japan, Valtteri Bottas took advantage of a cloudless sky over Suzuka today to win the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix and help Mercedes Benz clinch their sixth Constructors’ Championship in a row.
Read MoreIt’s a three day weekend, but the action is all happening this Saturday and Sunday. Between the 24-hour Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta and a Formula 1 race in Japan that’s shaping up to be quite the battle, there’s a lot to pay attention to.
Read MoreAs Typhoon Hagibis approaches Japan, Formula One officials have decided to start taking action to, hopefully, reduce any unnecessary danger to fans and drivers attending the Japanese Grand Prix. All Saturday action has been canceled, and qualifying has been moved to Sunday morning before the race.
Read MoreThe year 2022 still sounds, upon first mention, like when Zenon is scheduled to graduate from college. But it’s actually no more than a few years from now, and it also happens to be the year that NASCAR could possibly maybe introduce some element of hybridization into its race cars.
Read MoreIt’s better to ask forgiveness than permission, or do whatever we want and then apologize later. At least, that’s what we’ve been telling ourselves since we could talk, and that’s the motto Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel seems to still live by—but instead of cookies before dinner, he’s applying it to team orders.
Read MoreAnyone who doesn’t live under a rock already know that cinematic driving scenes and stunts don’t exactly make sense in the real world (but, I mean, who goes to the movies to feel like they’re watching real life anyway?). But if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like for an actual, professional driver to break down some of the more classic driving scenes in recent film history, then, my friends, you are in luck,
Read MoreIf you asked me this morning to describe the Japanese Grand Prix in one word, my answer would probably have been ‘wet.’ Talking to both my coworkers (some bigger race fans than others) and my husband (also a race fan) produced a similar response: why the hell is does this race always seem like it’s wet?
Read MoreThe Haas Formula One team entered into a title sponsor partnership with British energy drink company Rich Energy that went down as well as a can of Rich Energy goes down: not great. But it seems like our early suspicions were true. When the Rich Energy deal tanked, Haas had cash to fill the void.
Read MoreWiring harnesses are one of the unsung heroes of motorsport. These complicated nests of wires basically make the cars function the way they do, so designing and producing one requires a high level of skill and a minimal threshold for error.
Read MoreWhile Formula One’s Dutch Grand Prix may have secured a slot in the series’ prospective 2020 calendar, the race is far from guaranteed to happen. That’s because of a rare case of F1 coming face-to-face with governmental regulations.
Read MoreAnyone pretty familiar with racing knows that starting a race car isn’t anything like starting a road car—in fact, it’s about ten times more difficult. And launching a World Rally Championship Hyundai i20 comes with its own set of twists and turns.
Read MoreIt was 1971. Like this week, the Rallye Du Maroc was on, and cars were whizzing through the Moroccan desert. Most of those cars were French, but only one had an Italian heart inside. It was that combination that would prove more than effective.
Read MoreThis weekend, like most weekends, there are drivers in cars trying to go faster than one another. You can watch them. You should watch them. And we’ve got the details.
Read MoreEver since its introduction to Formula One, the Virtual Safety Car has been one of the more frustrating regulations due to the fact that it can often alter the outcome of a race by being deployed at its most critical juncture. But it doesn’t always have to be that way—and now there’s a video explaining how.
Read MoreAfter NASCAR Truck Series team Thorsport Racing had three out of four drivers sidelined from a cutoff race in the series’ elimination playoffs by virtue of spec engine issues, eliminating two of the drivers from playoff contention, the team publicly disavowed blame and asked for NASCAR to reinstate them. NASCAR has denied the request.
Read MoreIndyCar is finally implementing its aeroscreen—the series’ solution to head protection—in 2020, and the initial verdict is in after the first round of testing. Not only does this thing look awesome, but it’s also pretty functional as well.
Read MoreMarc Marquez had one hell of a crash during FP1 ahead of the Thailand Grand Prix. He lost the rear of his bike heading into turn seven during the last ten minutes of the session and was subsequently launched into the air. Somehow, he managed to make it out okay.
Read MoreWe knew that the mid-engine Corvette would spawn a racing variant, but we weren’t quite expecting to see it unveiled so soon. During the launch of the new Corvette Convertible at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening, Corvette factory racer Tommy Milner fired up his new racer and made a surprise debut on stage.
Read MoreWe all know that Formula One is one of the most expensive forms of motorsport, but sometimes we need a reminder of just how costly things end up being. Mercedes has gone ahead and released plenty of figures regarding the cost of running a championship-winning F1 team in 2018.
Read MoreThe Bloodhound Supersonic Car has had one hell of a rough time these past few years. Aiming to be the first car to hit 1,000 mph, the whole operation went into administration before being saved by entrepreneur Ian Warhurst. It’s now been renamed the Bloodhound LSR (after Land Speed Record), and the machine is actually heading out for its first runs since it was brought back to life.
Read MoreMazda Motorsports has finally found some success with its DPI program in the IMSA series, and is following that up with the addition of a new factory-supported racer for the 2020 season. Like all good compact car manufacturers with a motorsport program, Mazda is finally jumping into the deep end of the TCR pool to fight against the likes of Audi, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Alfa Romeo, and Honda.
Read MoreIn this day and age of over-sanctioned racing, there are plenty of stupid rules in motorsport around the world—but possibly no rule is quite as pointlessly dumb as Formula One’s demand that drivers retain the same helmet design for a full season lest they face an ambiguously defined financial punishment. And this dumbass rule came into play yet again ahead of last weekend’s Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom.
Read MoreThe Ram 2500 represents the end of an era in which farmers, construction workers, and even suburbanites could shift their own gears in a brand-new full-size pickup. That’s right, the Cummins diesel-powered heavy-duty Ram was the U.S.’s final full-size truck with a manual transmission, and after having driven it, I can say: My god are we now deprived.
Read MoreSometimes adulthood just feels like an ever-expanding list titled Shit I Need To Worry About, though it’s nice to know that there’s some things that just aren’t likely to make that list. Normally, “satellites falling from the sky into your yard” is one of those things you shouldn’t bother putting on your list, but the fact that a satellite just crashed onto a Michigan family’s yard might make you reconsider that. Though, to be fair, it wasn’t really a satellite. But it was close.
Read MoreThe Soviets dominated the early days of space travel. Up until the Apollo manned lunar missions by NASA, most of the big space firsts and milestones were followed by a little hammer and sickle. It was frustrating and demoralizing for the West. But, once, in 1966, on the verge of yet another Soviet triumph in space, a plucky little country with barely any space program of their own pulled off one of the best hacks and biggest scoops in the history of space exploration. This is the story of how th
Read MoreLike most people, I have some favorite cosmonauts. And, like many people, one of those favorite cosmonauts has always been Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, a crew member on the first joint American-Soviet space mission, and, significantly, the first artist in space. Leonov died today, at the age of 85.
Read MoreI’m very excited about the SpaceX Starship, mostly because it represents the first spacecraft being designed for general-use space travel that goes beyond Earth orbit, and, well, that’s exciting. Currently, SpaceX has built a rough steel full-size prototype called Starship Mark 1, which they plan to launch in a suborbital test flight soon, and an orbital flight soon after. It’s impressive as hell, but it’s important to remember it’s still basically just a shell with fuel tanks and engines. Here’
Read MoreIt’s going to be properly cold soon, and that nasty white stuff is going to start falling from the sky. There is a chance that you might want a vehicle with four driven wheels to help you accelerate away from a stop and maneuver through corners. This is the alleged impetus behind a lot of people I know purchasing SUVs and big pickups. But what if you just want a comfortable sedan from a European brand that is somewhat fun to drive? Do you get the Audi with Quattro, the Bimmer with xDrive, or the
Read MoreIf a helicopter and an airplane had a little Einstein genius baby, that baby would be the Fairey Rotodyne, a passenger airliner that was said to be capable of vertical takeoff. It was supposed to be the hot new thing almost six decades ago—the way everyone would be getting around. And then, shockingly, it failed.
Read MorePart of what makes electric car ownership difficult is the lack of available charging infrastructure away from the home. People can feel trapped by an EV’s range if their destination isn’t close to a charging station. Overall, we need to grow the charging infrastructure, and one Maryland gas station owner is helping the cause by converting his business into a charging station.
Read MoreAll of the major autonomous vehicle companies–your Waymos and your Cruises and your Argos and your Ubers and your Voyages and your Pony.ais and a whole bunch of other companies you’ve probably never heard of—test in urban areas, interstates, and suburban-style roads. Few, if any, dedicate any time whatsoever to testing on rural roads.
Read MoreThat gasoline-gargling backfire exhaust sound some cars make decelerating, which can really only be described as “snap crackle popping,” has become pretty popular since motorheads almost unanimously got enamored with it in cars like the Ford Focus RS and Jaguar F-Type. But what’s really happening there, and does it add any actual performance benefit?
Read MoreIndustrial supplier BorgWarner has picked the preposterously impractical Ariel Nomad to demo some of its new electric car propulsion tech. Obviously, the company has a sense of humor to balance out its pragmatism.
Read MoreNissan has unveiled a new test car based on the Leaf e + that’s designed to try out the company’s newest four-wheel drive software. The whole purpose here is to provide a better, more efficient ride quality for the company’s influx of electric vehicles.
Read MoreA wrongful death lawsuit filed with the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida earlier this month alleges the motorized retractable door handles on the Tesla Model S prevented the rescue of the driver as smoke and flames filled the cabin.
Read MorePorsche is probably the last company you’d synonymize with “mobility,” since it said itself that the “Porsche sports car will be one of the last automobiles with a steering wheel” even after the world goes autonomous. But hey, everybody is a mobility company now, or wants to be—even Porsche. It’s the hot new thing.
Read MoreIt’s rare that we have enough foresight to determine which moments in time will prove to be historical turning points for societal change. But when the kingdom of Saudi Arabia allowed women to begin driving in June of 2018, just about everyone could tell that it would be a moment that redefined mobility in the Middle Eastern country. And HBO was there to capture the first moments of it in the new documentary Saudi Women’s Driving School, which will debut on October 24.
Read MoreFor years I’ve gone back and forth over the practice of obscuring license plates on photos on the internet. License plates are already publicly-viewable things, so what’s the point in obscuring them, right? Well, now I think there actually is a good reason to obscure your license plates in photos because it appears that Google and Facebook are actually reading the plates in photos, and then making the actual license plate alphanumeric sequence searchable. I tested it. It works.
Read MoreHyundai has decided to push the boundaries of autonomy with its new Machine Learning-based Smart Cruise Control technology. Just when you think self-driving cars aren’t personable enough for you, now that autonomous vehicles will learn how to drive just like you!
Read MoreLast month, the Koenigsegg Regera beat Koenigsegg’s previous record time for accelerating from 0 kph to 400 kph and braking back to 0, which had beaten the time the Bugatti Chiron set back in 2017. Now there’s more evidence that not only did they not fake it, but it also sounded super weird.
Read MoreAt the beginning of October, Lyft rolled out a mandatory app update for its drivers. After installing the update, drivers noticed they could no longer see how much the rider paid for any given trip. It’s yet another move that potentially undercuts Lyft’s (and Uber’s) legal logic that classifies drivers as independent contractors instead of employees, to say nothing of how it further obscures how the app actually works.
Read MoreFord has promised to make many, many electric vehicles, but so far they have not made any. That is going to change soon—including with a “Mustang-inspired crossover” which I’m not sure anyone asked for but whatever—and Ford is getting ready for it by forming a bunch of “partnerships” over how their customers can charge said yet-to-exist EVs.
Read MoreThe idea of converting classic cars to EVs has been around a while, and a number of companies, including some major automakers, have been retrofitting old, classic cars with all-new EV drivetrains. Individual tinkerers have been doing this as well, but it’s not as easy as you’d hope. Dealing with salvaged EV drivetrains is difficult, with complex control and cooling systems. Now it finally looks like there’s going to be an easier way, as Swindon Powertrain is planning on introducing an all-in-on
Read MoreFlying, as I have written before, is one of the more vexing climate-related problems facing transportation. There are no good answers for cleaning up aviation except to fly a whole lot less, reversing the massive growth in the aviation industry over the last several decades that is projected to continue for several decades more. So, those who are taking the climate crisis seriously are thinking about ways to get people to fly less.
Read MoreAs evidenced by the army of bot-like social media accounts that yell at anyone who dare criticizes Elon Musk or Tesla, many people love their Teslas. But, the caveat there is most people love their new Teslas. The vast majority of Teslas on the road today are less than four years old. So we really don’t know how well they hold up.
Read MoreIf you’re scratching your head wondering which number gasoline to put in your car, don’t overthink it. Just Google the manufacturer’s recommendation and run with that. If you’re curious about what those numbers mean in a practical sense, check out this video.
Read MoreIt’s still autumn, but that just means it’s time to start your winter car prep now. To avoid getting caught with the wrong tires in the first snowstorm of the season, here’s your annual reminder to think about investing in a set of winter tires. But what kind of winter tires? Maybe this will help.
Read MoreOne of the more lamentable trends over the last several decades has been SUVs, pick-up trucks and crossovers becoming the default option for many car-buyers. We at Jalopnik have lamented this trend because smaller cars tend to be more fun, not to mention more affordable, and Americans are often guilty of buying more car than they really need. It’s also proven quite bad for environmental reasons.
Read MoreAt the heart of how Americans get around is a paradox: the vehicles we use keep getting more efficient, but the emissions from those vehicles have gone way up.
Read MoreThe U.S. government is seeking input from the public so it can decide if cameras should be allowed to replace mirrors in our cars, like they are in other countries. Specifically, Bloomberg notes, the feds want research, because they’ve got a number of concerns about this whole camera-instead-of-mirror concept.
Read MoreWhile it may sound a little counterintuitive, a few tiny controlled explosions can actually be a good thing if you accidentally crash your electric car. New technology from Bosch, though, could possibly make our EVs far safer in the event of a crash with a few controlled detonations.
Read MoreWhile the new all-electric Volvo XC40 still hasn’t been officially shown to the public, Volvo has been keeping us well-updated with all the cool shit the new EV will have. And that includes introducing Android Automotive OS, a brand-new operating system that debuts on this car designed to level up Volvo’s infotainment game.
Read MoreUber is rolling out a new trip mode called Uber Pet. Unfortunately, this does not mean Uber will be bringing a pet to you, as I initially hoped. Instead, it’s a trip mode for when the rider is also transporting a pet, which will now include a small additional fee of $3 to $5, according to The Verge. The pilot will roll out in Austin, Denver, Nashville, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Tampa Bay for now.
Read MoreThe 2020 Toyota Supra infamously shares a lot of its mechanics with the new BMW Z4, including its engine. Lucky for Toyota, the Supra’s 335 horsepower single-turbo straight six is extremely capable, and one racing team is trying to push it to make a whopping 1,000 horsepower.
Read MoreThis week has just been jam-packed with videos of Teslas in Smart Summon mode driving nervously and timorously through parking lots, occasionally stopping, sometimes making weird mistakes before owners go running up to them in a panic. One recent video seems to show a police officer pulling over a Tesla for running a stop sign, but, not really surprisingly, it’s fake.
Read MoreIs there anything more annoying than holding a button down for several seconds while your windows roll down? Sure, plenty. But this is a small problem that’d be easy to solve.
Read MoreClimate change protesters lost control of a fire hose spewing fake blood, resulting in a better metaphor than even they could have hoped for.
Read MoreDriver-assist technology like automatic emergency braking, lane centering, and adaptive cruise control are becoming more and more widespread and even sought out by buyers. But we still have very little idea how much safer they actually make the roads or even to what degree drivers use or like those features.
Read MoreOver this past weekend, we wrote about how quickly people were trying out Tesla’s new Smart Summon feature, part of the recent Version 10 software upgrade, to have their cars autonomously drive to meet them in parking lots. The results were often less than ideal, with Teslas getting confused and behaving in strange ways, sometimes nearly or even actually causing damage to itself or other objects, and pretty much always making everyone nervous. That’s still going on, and will likely continue.
Read MoreElectric cars are held up by pretty much everyone as a viable solution to the emissions nightmare that is internal combustion engines as long as they’re adopted quickly enough, the electricity comes from renewable energy and we also drive a little bit less. But all cars—electric or traditional—may also be a source of entirely different and serious form of pollution.
Read MoreHyundai Motor Group, which primarily makes cars, has announced that they hired a former NASA administrator to lead a new division to “provide innovate and smart mobility solutions never seen or thought of before.” Truly, machines that fly are a new idea.
Read MoreAn Italian-American conglomerate teams with a French giant to become the world’s fourth-largest automaker. We’ll go into all of that on this very spooky Morning Shift of Oct. 31, 2019.
Read MoreA deeper look into Tesla’s third-quarter financials, Volkswagen and its doom and gloom attitude, a concern about independent mechanics and more await you in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019.
Read MoreAuto companies take sides on Trump’s fuel economy battle, GM made a nice pile of change while workers were on strike, Porsche “online” sales, Mr. Musk goes to trial, and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, October 29, 2019.
Read MoreMitsubishi is trying to get back into the game, GM’s plant closures could indirectly screw over Ford and Fiat Chrysler, discussion on electrification and its effects on jobs. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, October 28, 2019.
Read MoreDemocrats getting serious about this whole ‘electric cars’ thing, the sticking points in the tentative UAW-GM deal, and Tesla’s slightly more expensive Model 3. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, October 25, 2019.
Read MoreTesla’s big plans for China, some (bleak) third-quarter earnings updates, the latest on Carlos Ghosn and more await you in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019.
Read MoreMore General Motors contract news, future emissions regulations in the U.S., Nissan’s plans for the future, Volkswagen’s bet on the electric ID.3, and Faraday Future is still a thing and still raising money to stay one. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019.
Read MoreJapanese automakers are finally giving in to electric cars, not everyone in the union loves the proposed contract with General Motors, Renault and Nissan only have a year to sort things out, and much more for this average Morning Shift for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019.
Read MoreFord can’t get the new Explorer right, Volvo will be making an electric XC90 in South Carolina, the United Auto Workers’ General Motors contract ratification vote is happening, and more for this most glorious Morning Shift for Monday, Oct. 21, 2019.
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers are still on strike even with a deal in sight, Nissan’s new boss plans a slow and steady recovery, Volkswagen’s American babysitter is sticking around and more for this most glorious Morning Shift of Friday, Oct. 18, 2019.
Read MoreWhat to expect from the General Motors strike’s tentative resolution, what Elon Musk is up to now, and how to encourage people to buy your eco-friendly cars: All this and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, October 17, 2019.
Read MoreThe General Motors-United Auto Workers strike may be approaching its end, Hyundai and Renault autonomous car news, possible plans for mandatory tech to detect if drivers are drunk and more on The Morning Shift of Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019.
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers gather the troops in Detroit as the General Motors strike approaches its second month, Dyson’s electric car effort was further along than we thought, Faraday Future’s founder is headed for bankruptcy and more on The Morning Shift of Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.
Read MoreThe GM Strike continues to roll along into its second month, the economy is bad, but VW is optimistic they can still make bank on EVs, and Chevy thinks they’ve “cracked the code” with the new Bolt. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, October 14, 2019.
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers strike at General Motors goes on, the falling prices of used cars, Toyota’s bet on hydrogen, safety tech doing the opposite of what it’s meant to, and Renault’s new interim chief executive. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, Oct. 11, 2019.
Read MoreHello and welcome to a new day, a new year. I hope you feel as though you are true to yourself, because there are a lot of car companies in need of some self-reflection today for The Morning Shift of Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.
Read MoreThe UAW’s biggest topic of concern is clear, new developments in that ongoing UAW probe, additional background information on Nissan’s new CEO and more await you in The Morning Shift of Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019.
Read MoreNissan has a new boss, again, the General Motors vs. the United Auto Workers showdown marches on, America contends with China and more for The Morning Shift of Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019.
Read MoreUnion contract negotiations between the UAW and General Motors faces yet another setback, Nissan is eating itself alive with financial misconduct allegations, the trade war with China is hitting U.S. rail hard, and much more in The Morning Shift for Monday, October 7, 2019.
Read MoreTesla hit an important milestone but still fell slightly short of analyst predictions, public and private entities alike want the UAW vs. General Motors strike to come to an end, and Brexit remains very bad for the UK. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, October 4, 2019.
Read MoreThe feds are looking into Tesla’s troublesome Smart Summon feature, the Model 3 is crushing it in the Netherlands, Toyota is revamping a sedan plant to keep up with SUV demand, a glimmer of hope among poor sales numbers and more for The Morning Shift of Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019.
Read MoreSeptember was an absolute disaster for new car sales, more bad news may lay ahead for the car industry as a whole, General Motors’ striking workforce digs in, Tesla’s going to China and more for The Morning Shift of Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019.
Read MoreTesla finds itself in a revenue quandary, a General Motors strike update, Ford tries to stem losses in India, more Brexit mess, and another guilty plea in the United Auto Workers leadership corruption scandal. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, October 1, 2019.
Read MoreUntil 1969, you could go to the Myrtle Avenue-Broadway station in Brooklyn, walk upstairs, and go back in time, to a borderline-decrepit wooden platform served by an ancient wooden train car (the last ones in the system), and there you could continue your journey west on the Myrtle Avenue Elevated.
Read MoreJohn Hollister is sick of two things: being asked if that’s his real name and the traffic getting to John F. Kennedy International Airport. As a consultant, Hollister travels often for work and says he racks up some $2,500 a month in Uber fares just for airport trips alone. Which is why, on one cool and bright October Friday, Hollister flew to JFK in a Blade helicopter.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted a big, boxy beast of an electric truck, then Bollinger is the perfect place for you to start. And you should probably act pretty quick, because the Bollinger B1 and B2 utility vehicles are targeting deliveries in 2021. And even though Bollinger wants to sell these bad boys for a whopping $125,000, all you need right now is a $1,000 deposit.
Read MoreLast week, I visited the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah, and found myself fascinated by machines that share quite a bit in common with old-school Jeeps that I regularly lust after. But what I found more interesting than the commonalities were the differences. So let’s look at some hardware found under one of the most legendary 4x4 nameplates in history, the Toyota Land Cruiser.
Read MoreThe Nissan Frontier introduced nearly 15 years ago is still on sale. It hasn’t been updated since 2009. At this week’s Tokyo Motor Show, the automaker confirmed that it will finally update the truck to better take on new competition like the Ford Ranger and Jeep Gladiator.
Read MoreWhen you think “rally car,” you’re probably not thinking “Toyota Tacoma.” But you, my friend, would be missing out on the very wonderful world of absolutely sending it behind the wheel of a pickup for one hell of a great time.
Read MoreG-Wagen, Jimny, or Jeep? Three squared-off boxes designed to keep going when the asphalt runs out and the going gets rutted. Despite their outward similarities, these three trucks have very different approaches to making the most of their off-road gifts, and the guys at CarWow put them all to the test.
Read MoreThe defunct-but-hardly-forgotten General Motors brand Hummer getting resurrected for electric SUVs is an idea that’s been kicked around before. But today, a new report from Reuters lays out some specifics of how EV trucks could be a big part of GM’s future, and the name “Hummer” is pinballing around again by association, partially because of the United Auto Workers union’s efforts to keep a plant open.
Read MoreChevrolet announced it’s going to run a Silverado in the Best In The Desert off-road racing series’ 1200 Stock Class, which is neat, but far more interesting is the fact that the truck will run a version of the Multimatic Spool Valve shocks that make the Colorado ZR2 cool and unique. Does this mean a Silverado ZR2 is in the pipeline? I’m beginning to wonder.
Read MoreThe letters T-E-X-A-S adorn the top of a dinged-up license plate screwed to an old Chevy’s rusty rear bumper, on which you can barely make out “Bob Ellis Chev Olds”—a Winona, Mississippi-based car dealership whose internet trace dries up in this old 1978 newspaper article. Just a few inches ahead, in the bed of the truck, stands a horse, the type of animal normally transported in a trailer, not in a pickup bed.
Read MoreThe current Chevrolet Colorado mid-size pickup feels a bit dated compared to the competition, so The General is spicing things up with a new face that looks like it wants to eat you and also a classic tailgate design.
Read MoreBack in June, Ram announced that its newest generation Ram EcoDiesel was “expected to lead the segment on fuel economy.” Then in July, Chevy dropped a bombshell: Its new inline-six diesel Silverado pickup had scored an incredible 33 mpg highway. Now the Ram’s EPA numbers are out, and while good, they aren’t best-in-class.
Read MoreLong, meandering adventures are the real reason I like cars. Baja Mexico in particular, in all its rugged and remote glory, has been a favorite stomping ground of mine. A year ago, a big crash sidelined me from such things. Now, I’m increasingly back in the saddle, so I want to get off the grid again—and do it the right way.
Read MoreChevy had a good third-quarter for truck sales, with Silverado sales up 16 percent compared to the second quarter as 155,482 moved. But that wasn’t enough to get out of third-place in Detroit’s truck wars, as Ram bested them again, as they did in the second quarter. Chevy will have to get used to the view from third.
Read MoreLook, I’ll be honest here: I’m in Nova Scotia with our own David Tracy in a wonderful new Volkswagen camper van you can’t get in America no matter how loud you scream about it. And internet connectivity is pretty spotty, so the chances I’m going to be able to look at what you’d like me to cover are, well, pretty slim. Sorry. I mean, I’m going to try, but I like you all way, way too much to lie to you.
Read MoreBack in September, a truck dropped a gorgeous 1995 Land Rover Discovery off in my backyard. Though I marveled at the perfection of its paint and body panels, I didn’t crawl underneath or even try to start the motor. But now that I’ve given the Land Rover a solid once-over, I can finally tell you what’s wrong with this mysterious British 4x4. Well, sort of.
Read MoreA couple of months ago, I purchased this late-1970s Scamp 13' trailer to use as a tow-behind home for a year of travel. I’m sick of the boring shit I put up with in every day life, and this little escape pod is going to allow me to ditch the hamster wheel of the workaday to explore parts of the country I’ve never seen before. But first, I have to whip it into shape.
Read MoreWe’re all terrified of getting ripped off by car mechanics–it’s a cliché for a reason. And since most people don’t really understand how their cars work or how they’re maintained, the process of getting a vehicle worked on can be nebulous and intimidating. But if you feel uncomfortable with something, you don’t have to take anybody’s word at face value. You can always shop around.
Read MoreBack in June, I used a 2020 Jeep Gladiator to tow a free Jeep Grand Wagoneer 250 miles from Dayton, Ohio to suburban Detroit. Since then, the Woody—which, as you might imagine considering its price, is a rodent-infested piece of crap—had languished in my backyard. But last weekend, the heavy SJ-platform machine moved under its own power for the first time in over a decade. Here’s how I pulled that off.
Read MoreIn what will surely go down in history as one of the most Galaxy Brain court rulings of all time, a Michigan appeals court determined that a tire rotation does not, in fact, include tightening the lug nuts.
Read MoreOne of the best things I ever did with my Volkswagen was take a gigantic trunk half as big as the car itself, strap it to the roof rack and slowly drive it home, across two boroughs of New York City. Because in that trunk is a tap and die kit.
Read MoreYou can only learn you’re very wrong about the life choices you’ve made one way: the hard way. By chasing the American Dream, buying a house and filling the garages and backyard with cars I never had time to drive, I ran myself ragged chasing the things that I thought—that I was promised—would make me happy.
Read MoreIt came to me in the wide, swishy passenger seat of Jonathan Ward’s 1949 Mercury hot rod. All the right smells were imprinting the moment we rolled through industrial Chatsworth, California. Sun-heated steel from the dash; stretched leather; a vague tinge of nicotine on Ward’s jacket. One thing was missing, though: gasoline. The car wasn’t burning any.
Read MoreI spent every moment of daylight this past weekend tending to a 1985 Jeep J10 and a 2000 Jeep Cherokee. Why did I sacrifice the few precious hours I have to possibly enjoy a social life? Because if I wait too much longer to fix my cars, I’ll be royally screwed. And so will you if you do the same.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that I love our Buick Regal TourX. We’re closing in on 20,000 miles with the car and we’ve not quite owned it for a year. It’s been a great daily driver. My wife and I decided we wanted a bit more versatility from the car and as such decided to get a trailer hitch installed. We opted to have our local dealer install the factory Buick accessory hitch. It conforms to the letter of an installed hitch, but it doesn’t exactly look finished. I set out this afternoon to remedy that.
Read MoreLots of folks don’t realize just how much of an automotive town Kenosha, Wisconsin once was. And part of that has to do with the fact that today, the city’s auto sector is basically nonexistent. Still, I intend to pay homage to Kenosha by driving my AMC-built Jeep J10 pickup there on a 740 mile round trip.
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