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Beyond Cars (4)

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The U. S. Space Force Gets Its First Offensive Weapon Which Has Been In Use Since 2004
Last month, the new U.S. Space Force, which has been forcing space for many years before it was called “Space Force,” received their first official offensive weapon, a satellite jammer known as the Counter Communications System Block 10.2. It’s basically a ground-based satellite communications jammer that will prevent enemies from communicating with their space-based resources, and likely also preventing them from getting Netflix.
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Automakers Are Doing A Bad Job Pitching EVs To Us
A new JD Power survey has revealed consumer confidence in self-driving vehicles has declined and confidence in electric vehicles has flatlined. And the automakers may only have themselves to blame.
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The 2020 Royal Enfield INT 650 Is A Dirt-Cheap Modern Classic
The Royal Enfield INT 650 isn’t just a motorcycle, it’s also a romantic vision of the past. This bike is an anachronism in 2020, but in perhaps the best way possible. All of my present-day worries melted away as soon as I sat astride this little black beauty. If you’re impressed by statistics, this bike won’t scratch that itch, but if you seek to connect with a feeling, a soul, a spirit, it’s right here. And damn is it cheap!
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Russia's Giant World War II Victory Parade Has Been Postponed Because Of The Pandemic
Since the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, Soviet and later Russian troops have massed for massive parades at the major anniversaries of the end of World War II. This year, as Russia and the rest of the world celebrate seventy-five years since the defeat of Nazism, the parade will be postponed over fears surrounding the novel Coronavirus pandemic.
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Boatlopnik (2)

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Let's Chat About How Weird This Research Boat Is
I don’t spend much time thinking about boats or marine research these days, as I gave up on the marine biologist dream when I was 9 years old and found out the plesiosaur was extinct. But when I run across a boat as weird as the RP FLIP, as happened to me today, my brain goes into overdrive and it’s all I can think about. I’ve fallen into an information hole, so won’t you join me?
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Inside The Ship That Stands Watch Over The Melting Arctic
You can tell the Norwegian research vessel Johan Hjort is made for the Arctic because it holds a tanning bed inside.
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Buying (19)

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I Moved From Minnesota To Cali And I Need A Convertible! What Car Should I Buy?
Cody left Minnesota for sunny California and he is ready to treat himself to something with an open top and rear-wheel-drive. He is a fan of classic cars but needs something that he can use as a daily driver. What car should he buy?
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These Used Cars Have Taken The Biggest Sales Dive Due To Covid-19
We already know car sales have taken a huge hit due to economic and practical impacts of the coronavirus. I’ve explored some data on the sales drops in various areas of the country, and used cars have been affected more than new models. A recent study from iSeeCars shows which used models have lost the most sales.
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Answers To What I Assume Are The 10 Most Common New Car-Buying Questions
I know it sounds crazy, but I’m almost a century old and I’ve never bought a new car. New autogyros, hovercraft, locomotives, sure, but never a car. There’s just too many good used cars out there, and new cars depreciate far too quickly. Still, I know that many of you do wish to buy new cars, and, despite my entire and comprehensive lack of experience, I think I can help.
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The Best Thing About Driving A $670,000 Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Is The Joy It Brings Others
What’s the point of having fuck-you money if you never say fuck you?
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How Come 'Blue Book' Pricing Doesn't Seem To Apply To Certain Used Cars?
As 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 “Blue Book” pricing and used cars, why couples buy two of the same car and an affordable ride for a really tall driver.
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This Interactive Map Shows How Devastating Coronavirus Is On The American Car Market
Coronavirus has had a drastic impact on car sales due to a combination of factors such as dealer closures, stay at home orders, and economic insecurity. Sales data company Foureyes inputted publicly available data into interactive maps to illustrate how much of the market was really lost.
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I Adopted A Dog During Quarantine, Now It's Time For A New Ride! What Car Should I Buy?
Brian lives in D.C and adopted a puppy during the quarantine. Now that he will need to get to vet appointments, eventually to dog parks, and other adventures with the pup it’s time for him to upgrade his old Ford Focus. He wants something compact, but big enough for the dog and fun to drive. What car should he buy?
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What Is The Most Horsepower You Can Buy For $25,000?
Gas prices are plummeting and the price of a barrel of oil is less than zero. While we’re not suggesting you buy the thirstiest car you can, now’s a good time for a fun thought exercise: If you were to spend around $25,000 on a high-HP car, what gives you the most power for your money?
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How Zero Percent APR And Deferred Payments Can Be Financially Dangerous
In light of the economic impact of coronavirus and the general desperation of automakers to sell cars, several brands are offering special financing programs such as zero percent loans and/or deferred payment programs. Kia’s version is a good example of how these programs can be both possibly a bargain and financially dangerous.
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Why Are Dealers Refusing To Negotiate If I Make A Really Low Offer?
As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are talking about negotiating car deals, clearance pricing on Alfas, and legally registering a used car during coronavirus.
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It's Time To Upgrade My 200,000-Mile Corolla! What Car Should I Buy?
Chris runs a healthcare facility in NY state. His 2005 Corolla has reached the 200,000-mile mark and while it runs ok, he is thinking it’s time to upgrade. He is looking for something that looks professional but is reliable, and easy to park for under $25,000. What car should he buy?
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Used Car Prices Are Likely Coming Down, But It May Not Happen For A Few Months
The impact of the coronavirus on the car market is turning into a worst-case scenario for automakers, lenders, dealers, and rental companies. Naturally, consumers can expect prices to fall in the pre-owned market, but the full impact of COVID-19 may not materialize for several months.
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Don't Assume Car Dealers Might Be Desperate To Give You A Deal
Car sales have taken an unprecedented dive. Of buyers who can financially handle a new car right now, many are going to take advantage of huge savings from dealers and automakers looking to move units. But that doesn’t mean the opening offer is always going to be a good one.
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Almost All Of The Big Auto Insurers Are Giving You A Discount Because Of Coronavirus
Allstate and American Family Insurance said earlier this week that their auto insurance customers would get a discount because its customers were driving less. Since then, other auto insurers have fallen in line, with Geico, Progressive, Liberty Mutual, USAA, Nationwide, Travelers, and Farmers offering similar discounts.
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Will The Coronavirus Situation Allow Me To Negotiate A Better Price On Used Cars?
As 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 used car deals, five-day return polices, and driving non-Subarus in CO
By Tom McParland Read More
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I'm An ICU Nurse That Needs Something Fun And Cheap With A Manual Trans! What Car Should I Buy?
Tracey is an ICU nurse who is also continuing her education. She has a little one on the way and likes to drive fun cars, but her current car got totaled and she needs a viable replacement without breaking the bank. What car should she buy?
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You People Can't Stop Buying Trucks
Vehicle sales in total have completely fallen off a cliff, except for truck sales. They have only fallen off a small dune, because America doesn’t make any sense.
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The Average New Car Loan Is Now Over 70 Months Because You People Have Gone Mad
No one is buying new cars anymore, but many of those that did in March financed a scarily large amount of their purchase, in addition to stretching repayment over an average of nearly six years. This isn’t great!
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You Might Be Overpaying For Car Insurance Since Covid-19 Has Us Driving Less
Since COVID-19’s keeping us from driving while it’s ruining everything else, you might as well see if you can save money on car insurance. It’s possible that you could be paying less if you’re doing fewer miles this year. Or, maybe it’s time to adjust your own risk assessment.
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Culture (118)

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Georgia To Teens: Fuck It, You Can All Drive Now
If you’re a 16-year-old kid who lives in Georgia and really wants to drive but go to pieces under pressure or are maybe not really so, um, skilled at driving just yet, then I think we’ve found the upside of this whole Coronavirus mess, just for you: Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has suspended the need to take a driving test to get your license. Hot damn, right? Time to get that license right now and figure out the details later!
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Tesla Turns A Q1 Profit On The Back Of Regulatory Credit Sales
With an international pandemic raging at the tail end of Q1, everything in the automotive sector was doom and gloom. Sales were down across the board from nearly every automaker in nearly every market. America’s leading electric car company bucked that trend, however, not only delivering more cars in Q1 2020 than it had across the same period in 2019, but also turning a $16 million profit in the process from $5.985 billion in revenue.
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Honda Dealership Mechanic Fired Because Her Coworkers Watched Her Adult Videos At Work
This story is pretty frustrating to hear about, especially if you believe that whomever you happen to work for does not get directorial control over your whole life. This is the story of Kirsten Vaughn, a former mechanic at Don Ayres Honda in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and also someone who made amateur adult videos.
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Because We're All Driving Less Due To The Pandemic It's Affecting Beer And Soda Production, Somehow
Just in case you don’t believe that everything is somehow deeply and profoundly connected, listen to this: because we’re all stuck indoors and driving less, there’s been less refinement of oil into gasoline, which means there’s less production of ethanol, which is an additive in 98 percent gasoline in America, which means that there’s been a sharp decline in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) production, which is made as a byproduct of ethanol production. And that means potential trouble for the
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Unable To Reconcile Two Global Crises At Once, GM Postpones Hummer EV Launch
Look, we’re all just coping with this thing at the moment, or trying to, day by day. Get off our backs! Also GM’s, which is now delaying the launch of the EV Hummer meant to revive and simultaneously turn around the anti-eco brand.
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How To Become An Automotive Engineer At A Major Car Company
A question I get a lot from younger readers is: How can I become an automotive engineer for a major car company? The answer is that there are many avenues to that goal, which is why—in addition to telling my own tale about how I scored my dream engineering job at Fiat Chrysler—I compiled stories from Ford, Nissan, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, and GM engineers.
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Dead, For Now: Whatever That Electric Lincoln-Rivian Thing Was Going To Be
Lincoln announced in January that it was making some kind of electric vehicle with Rivian, which Ford, Lincoln’s parent, has already invested a bunch of money in. That project is now reportedly on ice.
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This Isn't A Picture Of A Lamborghini Driving On A Track In The Rain
You all should know by now that I’m not in the business of lying to you. We have other people on staff to do that, and they’re much better at it than me. I’m here to force you to think about taillights or whatever. That’s why when I tell you that that picture up there of a yellow Lambo driving in the rain is not really a yellow Lambo driving in the rain, you should believe me. Because it’s really a toy car on a treadmill being sprayed with water.
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NHTSA Isn't Doing Enough To Protect Us From Giant Trucks
Pedestrians are dying on American roads in greater numbers every year, and government regulators aren’t doing enough to stop it, according to a new report on pedestrian safety from the Government Accountability Office. Its chilling title is “NHTSA Needs to Decide Whether to Include Pedestrian Safety Tests in Its New Car Assessment Program.”
By Erin Marquis Read More
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The World's Biggest Hospital Ship Is Leaving New York
The world’s biggest hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, will be leaving New York City this week, having treated 182 patients. The ship has 1,000 beds.
By Erik Shilling Read More
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The Bar Is So Low
There are just over 6,000 miles of streets in New York City, and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said Monday that up to 1.7 percent of them might soon be opened to pedestrians and closed to cars to give residents more outdoor space in this age of social distancing. That percentage isn’t a typo! This is all very embarrassing and pathetic!
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Here, Have Some Jalop-Appropriate Zoom Backgrounds To Use And Cherish
As we are all very likely aware, the real winner of this whole Coronavirus Pandemic nightmare is the plucky videoconferencing company Zoom, a company that conveniently came out of nowhere to somehow become the only method most of us have to see other live, human faces. Hmmmm. Also, they let you swap out your background of your video feed, so here, let us help and give you some truly Jalop-appropriate backgrounds to use! We’re helping!
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SnowRunner Is A Nuanced Off-Road Driving Game To Get Lost In For Days
Remember how much fun it was to sit in a sandbox and play with Tonka trucks? If you’re hell-yeah’ing, and you’ve graduated to video games, SnowRunner is for you. The same goes for train set kids. I was both. I downloaded SnowRunner last week, have barely been logged off, and have a lot left to do.
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The Slick Looking Chinese EV Xpeng P7 Claims A Longer Range Than A Tesla Model 3
The Guangzhou, China-based electric vehicle maker Xpeng, which, were it a human child, would only be old enough to be in kindergarten, announced today a new electric sports sedan, the P7, which boasts an estimated range of 439 miles, which you math whizzes may realize is longer than the Tesla Model 3's 419 miles. The Model 3 has been the longest-range EV for sale on the market, so this is big news.
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The First Semi Truck Was Invented 122 Years Ago To Transport The Earliest American Cars
In 1898, automobiles were still pretty new and pretty hot. In our laziest glory, we had invented a motorized way of moving ourselves around, but there was a problem. How do you transport the giant motorized machine you just invented? Well, you just make a bigger machine.
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China's Iconic Limousine Automaker Hongqi Partners With American Company To Make EV Sports Cars
Chinese automakers have been trying to break into the U.S. car market for decades with virtually no success. But many American companies are still trying to go the other way, and a new U.S. startup just signed a big deal with China’s leading political party’s favorite automaker.
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What's The Best Die-Cast Car You Can Buy On AliExpress?
You may have heard that our man Jason is awaiting delivery of a brand-new $900 electric car from Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba. It’s retail therapy taken to the Jalopnik extreme and we’re awful proud of him for it. But it’s not here quite yet and there are more cars to buy from China. Slightly smaller ones.
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Read This Fascinating Story Of How 'The World's Most Beautiful Woman' Changed Self-Driving Cars Forever
I don’t want to shock you guys, but, beautiful women haven’t always been taken seriously. Case in point, Hedy Lamarr, remembered today as the very definition of a bombshell beauty from the golden age of Hollywood, dubbed “the world’s most beautiful woman” by none other than MGM’s Louis B. Mayer himself, was also a brilliant inventor, whose patent helped shape the modern world and may be a key to making self-driving cars work.
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Dead: Lexus GS
Friday, Lexus unveiled the GS 350 F Sport, calling it the “best ever” GS. Unfortunately, after hitting that high watermark Lexus has decided to retire the entire GS lineup, citing, you guessed it, flagging sedan sales.
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Your Ridiculously Awesome Sunny Honda Civic Type R Wallpaper Is Here
It’s been a dark and deeply stupid week. I think we could all use some sunshine. For this week’s Weekend Wallpaper, we’re taking a walk on the lighter side with this sunny Honda Civic Type R shot by self-professed Hong Kong petrol head, Edwin Chan
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Would you just look at that majestic beauty? The new Case 580 EV is a new all-electric backhoe loader that can allegedly compete pound-for-pound with its diesel counterparts for a full day of construction site work on a single charge. Isn’t it a beauty? I wonder if it qualifies for an HOV lane exemption. And damn does it look good in that copper metallic. Does it come in a wagon?
By Bradley Brownell Read More
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Show Us The Weirdest Project Car Idea You've Had Lately
I’ve been sheltering in place for six weeks now. I am known in certain circles for having unorthodox and overly ambitious project car ideas, as I currently have a Porsche Boxster in my garage I’m trying to hybrid, and a Honda MB5 motorcycle I want to ton up. But lately I’m finding that the further into this quarantimes we get, my ideas get weirder. Maybe I’m not the only one. So tell me all about the weirdest project car/truck/motorcycle/snowmachine/rotorcraft idea you’ve had lately.
By Bradley Brownell Read More
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This Is What The Fast And The Furious Movies Would Be Like With The Main Cars Replaced With Model Ts
I can’t really say I’m a huge fan of the Fast and Furious series of movies, which seem to be about a group of strangely superhuman meatheads who pull all manner of improbable and wildly overcomplicated heists in a universe like ours, but with significantly altered laws of physics. Also, they like to say the word “family” with a whole lot of gravity, probably while making uncomfortable eye contact. You know what might make me like them more? If they had more Ford Model Ts.
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Traffic Is Down But Speeding Tickets Over 100 MPH Are Way, Way Up
Toilet paper supplies aren’t the only thing moving at a quicker rate due to the covid-19 outbreak. It would appear the diminishing traffic and open roads have encouraged some to break the traffic laws, as citations over the century mark are way up in recent weeks.
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Former Ford Focus Or Fiesta Owners May Have A Lot Of Money In Their Mailboxes Right Now
If you are one of the two million car owners who bought or leased a 2012-2o16 Ford Focus or a 2011-2016 Ford Fiesta you might want to check your mailbox. There could be a potentially big payday in there.
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The Mountain Goats — 'Going To Georgia'
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
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No, Elon Musk And Grimes Didn't Name Their Baby "Influenza"
I think so many of us being shut in for so long is starting to give everyone the sort of Space Madness you get from being trapped indoors on Earth, which is why things like “Influenza Musk” have been trending on Twitter. I first thought “influenza musk” referred to the unshowered stench of millions of quarantined people, but it’s actually far weirder. It’s referring to Tesla Boss Elon Musk and singer Grimes’ as-yet-unborn child’s name, which was rumored to be “Influenza.” It’s not.
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The Raddest Corvette In The World Is This C4 From Sweden
Last week this fly, phat, wicked rad C4 Corvette showed up on my Instagram feed. I snorted, assumed it was an illustration, and got on with my life. But how wrong I was! It’s real and it’s spectacular.
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The Infamous Brooklyn Trar
Today’s car companies love to tout ideas of modular platforms, where you could stick any kind of body on one mechanical chassis. Allow me reintroduce the trar. It’s a truck frame with a car body on top of it. Not a revolution, but a joy.
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Leaked Chevrolet C8 Corvette Schedule Shows 1,000 HP 'Zora' Model In 2025
Hagerty has gotten its hands on a supposedly leaked schedule of release dates for each upcoming trim of the new mid-engine Chevy C8 Corvette. It shows a range-topper is due to drop in 2025 as a 1,000 horsepower hybrid called the “Zora,” so that’s cool.
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The 2020 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance: Cancelled
The 70th world-famous Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been postponed until 2021 in the face of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Originally scheduled for August 16, 2020, the massive international automotive spectacle is the main tentpole of the Monterey Car Week festivities. Without the Concours, it’s unlikely that any of the other lesser events will continue this year.
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Tell Us About The Time A Dashcam Helped You Out
Once upon a time, our society relied on eye witnesses and good will to solve minor mysteries, like car crashes or vandalism or theft. Can you imagine? But with the magic of modern technology, dashcams have helped out tons of vehicle owners.
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Here's Yet Another Air-Cooled Volkswagen You've Never Heard Of And This Time It's Kind Of Like A Jeep
While I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a particularly religious man, I am starting to believe in some sort of demigod that conjures up strange and obscure air-cooled Volkswagens for me to learn about during times of crisis, to, you know, make the pain go away. I suspect the current Coronavirus lockdown is the crisis, and the Volkswagen Vemp and its derivative, the Dacuna Jeg, are the air-cooled VWs produced by this demigod to make everything a little better. So, let’s not anger Aetherattle, th
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Lotus's Last Combustion-Engined Car Will Be An 'Accessible Sports Car': Report
Lotus’s plan for the future is finally clarifying a bit; Bloomberg reports it is planning a car that “you can drive every day.” And it doesn’t sound like an SUV or crossover?
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Hyundai Didn't Stop Making Cars And Now U.S. Ports Are Full Of Them
Compared to the severity of the coronavirus outbreak across the rest of the world, South Korea had a relatively flat curve. This meant their factories kept running when everywhere else went into quarantine, and now they’ve built too many cars.
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It's Time We Talk About The Racing Scene In Ready Player One
I must admit that I was cautiously optimistic going into the theater for Ready Player One in March of 2018. I’m right in the demographic for this kind of thing, nostalgic for the 80s and 90s, student of popular culture, and a fan of director Steven Spielberg’s oeuvre. The movie had some suitably weird cars in it, and one of the big action set pieces was a race, as shown in the trailer for the picture. How could it go wrong?
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This Old VW Vanagon Brochure Contains An Interesting And Unintentional Hidden Brain Teaser
In these trying times, you should do whatever you can to soothe yourself, bring yourself quiet, almost meditative joy. However you go about it is your business, whether its yoga, large amounts of gin, vigorous, almost violent masturbation, whatever. For me, it’s digging through huge stacks of old car brochures (and maybe that other one there). While looking through a 1982 or 1983 (the year is not mentioned anywhere!) Vanagon brochure, I happened across a fascinating little automotive mind-bender
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Dead: GM's Maven
GM’s Maven, which was kind of like Zipcar, Car2Go, and Turo but with more GM, is dead.
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This History Expert Giving Context To Old AMC Commercials Is The Nerdiest Thing You'll See All Day
Pennsylvania-based TV producer and American Motors history expert Joe Ligo knows more about the extinct/now part of FCA (if that’s how you prefer to think about it) Kenosha-headquartered car company than anyone I know. That’s why it should be no surprise that he somehow made a string of old AMC commercials much more interesting by providing cool historical context.
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The 2021 Hyundai Veloster N Now Comes With Easy Mode
We’ve already seen how easy it is to learn to drive manual on the Hyundai Veloster N’s stick shift, even if it wasn’t quite what you expected. But if you’d rather not bother, the 2021 Hyundai Veloster N now comes with an auto.
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The Torchinsky Files: This Weird Old Console Had Some Of The Worst Driving Games
It’s no secret that there’s a special place in my heart for things that are, well, kinda crappy. I’m a Yugo owner, after all. And one of these kinda crappy things is the third-most popular home video game console of the (early) 1980s, the Magnavox Odyssey2. It’s a fascinating machine, so let’s dig into it a bit and see what the state of racing and driving games was on it. Spoiler alert: It’s kinda crappy.
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Guy Builds Human-Scale Lego Go-Kart And Oh Boy It's Good
Finally, here’s a development in the realm of human-beings-doing-things-on-Earth news that isn’t a total miserable shitshow: someone has used a 3D printer to build an 8.43 times scale version of a Lego go-kart, complete with working rack-and-pinion steering and (eventually) electric power. It’s pretty wonderful.
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The Price Of A Barrel Of Oil Is Somehow Below $0 Because Economics Is Weird
I’m not an economist. I’m pretty sure this is true because I own no bow ties and I’m also kind of an idiot with money. And as a monetary idiot, I’m absolutely baffled by how a barrel full of delicious, creamery crude oil can be below no dollars at all. In fact, as of this writing on Monday afternoon, a barrel of oil is $-35.00, which I guess means you can make almost $40 by buying a barrel of oil with no money? How is this a thing, again? I mean, even that nice steel barrel must have some value?
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Elon Musk Bizarrely Claims The Tesla Cybertruck Will Float 'For A While'
Elon Musk is tweeting again. This time it’s about the upcoming Tesla Cybertruck’s alleged, um, capability to apparently float, a least “for a while.”
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Help Save The Post Office With These Awesome Scale Models Of USPS Vehicles
Americans have been buying up stamps in an attempt to keep the U.S. Postal Service afloat during the current crisis, but you know what’s more fun than stamps and is also sold by USPS? These scale models of past and present delivery trucks.
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Mazda's Next Rotary Engine Likely To Be In The MX-30
We first heard about this thing almost two years ago now: a new rotary engine from Mazda. But not apparently for the RX-9, if and when that ever happens. No, this new rotary will likely act as a range-extender in the upcoming MX-30, according to Automotive News.
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You Need To Hear This Toyota Funk Song Somebody Found On An Old Record
“You asked for it, you got it, Toyota,” was the Japanese automaker’s big tagline for the U.S. market through much of the 1970s. You might have known that already. But I bet you’ve never heard the full-length funk song based on the slogan that was pressed onto vinyl records! Crank this. No, seriously, it rules.
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Bentley Scanned All 630 Parts Of The 1929 Blower To Rebuild The Legend
Just last September, Bentley announced it would be painstakingly recreating 12 examples of its most famous race car, the 4 1/2-liter boosted 1929 Blower Bentley. Those plans hit a major milestone this week as engineers pushed through the current crisis to finalize the CAD modeling of every part of the original Blower.
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These Ridiculously Awesome Weekend Wallpapers Bring The Great Outdoors To You
Remember motorsports? Remember outside? Jalopnik remembers. As do our friends over at Schofhauser Media who sent over these beautiful pics of last year’s Olympus Rally in Shelton, Washington.
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There's Finally A Car Show For Kids And I'm On It A Bit
Remember that period in your life before you could actually legally drive but you still loved cars and also before you got all lanky and weird-looking and couldn’t stop thinking about what’s going on in crotches? I sure do. It’s called childhood, and as a former child, I was delighted to see that there’s finally a real car show for kids happening, and even more delighted to take part in it. It’s called Backseat Drivers, and it’s on yet another new streaming network you’ve never heard of.
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Radwood Is Doing A Show In Cyberspace This Saturday And You Should Join
How long has it been since you went to a car show? If you’re in a northern state, the answer may be since last summer. The current international health climate isn’t exactly conducive to large meetings of like-minded enthusiasts. If you’re looking for a way to get involved in the car scene without leaving your house, Radwood has just the thing for you.
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Ford Now Expects A $2 Billion First-Quarter Loss
Earlier this week, Ford said that it expected a $600 million pretax loss in the first quarter, though it wasn’t sure what the tax expenses might be. Ford has now revised its loss figure very much downward.
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The Aston Martin Lagonda Was A Technological Marvel... When It Worked
When it debuted in 1976, the Aston Martin Lagona was one of the most expensive, technologically advanced, ambitious cars ever made. So why was it getting built by hand by a bunch of old guys in what looked more like a shed than a factory?
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The Cheapest Porsche Taycan Is Now Available And The EPA Says It'll Get 203 Miles Of Range
If your goal has been to own a Porsche Taycan with the highest possible range and save between $50 and $85,000 or so, holy crap is this a great day for you. I mean, it would be, if the world wasn’t shut down and you could actually go buy a car or whatever. I say this because Porsche announced today availability of the entry-level Taycan, the 4S, which starts at $103,800 and has an EPA estimated range of 203 miles.
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Big Star — 'September Gurls'
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
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Salvador Dalí Once Painted A Portrait Of A Datsun 610 Wagon
The famed Spanish Surrealist and provider of 85 percent of college freshman dorm room art, Salvador Dalí, was known for painting a vast panoply of subjects, from his early realistic still lifes (lives?) to his best-known Surrealist period, full of soft, melting clocks and great masturbators. Less well known is that he is also one of the art world’s most renowned painters of 1972 Datsun 610 Wagons.
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Everything You Hate About New Car Styling Is On This 1967 Mustang
Cars today are on sale, virtually unchanged, for years on end. At best they’ll get a light refresh midway though their production cycle. (You can think of zenki and kouki Nissan S14s, if that helps. It probably doesn’t.) But this wasn’t how it always was.
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Jalopnik Is Hosting Another Virtual Car Trivia Night FRIDAY So Get Ready For Some Fun
There’s a lot of general malaise and melancholy going around in this world right now, but we can’t let it obnubilate our love for automobiles. That’s why my colleague Jason Torchinsky and I will be hosting Jalopnik Virtual Car Trivia Night on Friday to remind you all of two things: 1) Why you love cars 2) That as much as you love them, you don’t know jack about them. That’s right, Torch and I will be bringing the fire this week. I’d be especially worried about Jason, as bringing fire is literall
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Mazda Will Give Free Oil Changes And Washes To Healthcare Workers, Even If They Don't Drive A Mazda
Mazda on Wednesday announced it will be offering free standard oil changes and what it calls “enhanced cleaning services” for U.S. healthcare workers at dealers nationwide. The program, called the Essential Car Care Initiative, is not limited to healthcare workers with Mazda products, as the company is opening its service bays for most makes and models from other manufacturers as well.
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You'll Be Alright
I’m supposed to write a goodbye post, I guess. I’m supposed to say something profound about the State of Cars, or the State of Jalopnik, or the State of All That’s Going On. But all I keep thinking is that everything is going to be fine.
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A Little Salmon Swims Upstream
Mike’s charmed life is filled with endless small indignities, at work and beyond. Only a person chipped away at every day would ever willingly describe their own body as being shaped like “a little salmon.” And that brings to mind one such small indignity, emblematic of his career thus far.
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Cowards Block Traffic In Michigan To Protest Coronavirus Lockdown Orders
It was only a matter of time before covid’s heartwarming stories of unity gave way to one where our more selfishness side would shine through. Hundreds of drivers took their cars to the streets of Lansing, Michigan, today in order to gridlock the capitol to protest the Governor’s extension of the state’s Stay-At-Home order.
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The 2021 Cadillac Escalade Base Price Bumped Up $1,000 In This Economy
Cadillac may have toned down the styling on the 2021 Cadillac Escalade for this new generation, but it isn’t toning down the price. The starting MSRP for the truck is now $76,195, or $1,000 higher than the outgoing model, or roughly one government stimulus check.
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What Cars Must Have A Particular Type Of Engine?
Earlier today, my valet brought me a stack of salmonskin pages of printed-out websites for me to read, with, as usual, words that sound kind of dirty highlighted. One of these pages was an Autocar UK article about the new Nissan Z car, and how it will have a twin-turbo V6. A vee six? Not a straight six? I shoved my valet down the stairs, hard, so I could think to the rhythmically soothing sounds of his head impacting on the stairs, one by one. Why am I unsettled by this?
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – 'Tha Crossroads'
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
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Everyone Shut Up I Just Re-Invented Trucks And SUVs
How’s your social distancing and all that crap going? Great, right? Are you at the stage yet where your seclusion and increasingly weird diet has transformed you into a superhuman, capable of achievements never before dreamed possible? I think I may be there, friends. I say this not out of a desperate plea for attention and help, but because I had a vision. A vision of a new kind of truck/SUV. I call it the Flipback.
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The 2022 Mazda 6 Will Be Rear-Wheel Drive With An Inline-Six Engine: Report
Mazda has never been a huge automaker, but they’re not letting that get in the way of their quest for luxury domination. The next-gen Mazda 6 will reportedly take on German luxury where it sleeps: longitudinal, inline-six engines on rear-wheel drive platforms.
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Delusional Jeep Hoarder Tries Convincing You That He's Not A Delusional Jeep Hoarder
A Michigan man has filled his suburban Detroit rental property with 12 automobiles. Locals are calling it an “eyesore,” though some say it’s an artistic masterpiece of vehicular corrosion. Our reporter, David Tracy—who just so happens to conveniently be the hoarder himself—took to the scene to get us an exclusive look at the leaky herd. What he discovered may shock you. More after a quick commercial break.All kidding aside, this video here, shot by former Jalopnik superstar (still a superstar,
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This Hummer H2 Fitted With 13-Inch Wheels Looks Like A Gorilla On A Tricycle
Art is an expression of creativity that can be manifested in any number of ways, including fitting 13-inch Lada wheels to the American monstrosity known as the Hummer H2. The kings of oddball automotive projects at Garage 54 have put the absolute limits of human creativity on full display here, as this has to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in all my days.
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What's Going On With This Karmann-Ghia From A 37-Year-Old Bond Movie?
The other night, thanks to a combination of hardly leaving the fucking house anymore and what I thought was gin, I put on the 1983 James Bond movie Octopussy while I folded the mountainous piles of laundry that have come to define the topology of my living room. While I’m not going to say this was the best, or maybe even a good Bond movie, it nevertheless held at least one good automotive mystery.
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Confusing User Interface And Poor Communication From Tesla Leaves Driver Stranded On Road Trip
If you’ve ever been within 50 feet of a happy Tesla owner, you’re likely aware that they can be fond of evangelizing Tesla ownership, often with an intensity somewhere between a campus preacher with a bullhorn and a lifelong Scientologist. There’s also a non-spiritual incentive as well: Tesla gives free Supercharger miles to people who refer new customers to buy Teslas. The way Tesla seems to make its customers aware of how many Supercharger miles they have access to seems like it has some signi
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Wolf Parade — 'I'll Believe In Anything'
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
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Daytona International Speedway Converted To Drive-Thru Coronavirus Testing Site
Not even the storied pavement of Daytona International Speedway is beyond the reach of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Friday, the speedway opened as the first drive-thru testing site in its home of Volusia County, Florida.
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The Legend Of The Reliable Lamborghini Countach
Months ago Matt Farah, a known driver of cars, was kind enough to offer me a lift. We both had to get from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, and “if I wanted a ride in his Countach” I was welcome to hop in with him. Well, one does not simply decline the chance to buzz the Pacific Coast Highway in a Lamborghini.
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Your Glowing Acura NSX Wallpaper Is Here
When life gets exhaustingly weird, it helps to turn to the comforting and familiar. We seek anything that feels like a hug for your insides; freshly baked treats, favorite TV shows and favorite cars can give us a warm feeling in our chests. The Acura NSX is such a vehicle and these glowing Weekend Wallpapers are just the thing to hygge up your heart.
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Is A Full-Face Racing Helmet A Good Choice For A Coronavirus Mask?
I’m sure we’re all being good little citizens and wearing masks when we have to venture out into the virus-saturated hellscape that is our current reality. It’s looking like all the difficult social distancing and mask-wearing is working, so I guess we’ll need to keep it up a while longer. This reality brings me to my current question: is a full-face racing helmet a good going-out-for-groceries mask option?
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You Could Spend $280,000 On A Stupid Watch With A Fake 16-Cylinder Engine Or Save $70,000 And Buy This Car With A Real One
I know there’s a lot of overlap between car people and watch people. I get why; watches are full of the complicated mechanical cams and meshing gears and all sorts of metal bits doing things to other metal bits that get us all so weirdly aroused. I do get it. So, you’d think that a watch with a little model W16 engine in it would be just fantastic, and, while it is very impressive technically, once I learned the price of this watch—$280,000 motherfucking dollars—I can’t help but see it as idiocy
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Mercedes Blew A Huge Electric Sports Car Lead
Seven whole years ago, Mercedes AMG was on the forefront of electric sports car technology. It had experimented with both a hydrogen-powered and a full battery electric vehicle version of its begullwing’d SLS AMG sports car, even going so far as to throw down an electric lap record at the Nordschleife [which has since been destroyed] back before there was really a market for EVs. I mean, the Tesla Model S hadn’t even been on the market for a full year by that point. Mercedes had a four-touchdown
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The Best Part Of The Next Forza Game Is It's Free And On Your Phone
We’re entering a new exciting age of mobile gaming—games which are usually free and surprisingly packed with content. There’s finally a serious racing game coming to phones with Forza Street, and I couldn’t be more excited.
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IndyCar Should Have Chosen The Deltawing
A decade ago IndyCar had a choice to make. It had issued a challenge to chassis manufacturers to design a replacement for the aging Dallara IR-05 that had been running largely unchanged since 2003. Traditional open wheel designs came in from Dallara, Swift, and Lola, plus a fourth conceptually radical design from Ben Bowlby dubbed the Deltawing. IndyCar made the wrong choice.
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Jerks Use Coronavirus To Break Illegal Cross-Country Cannonball Record
It was just November the last time the cross-country Cannonball run record was broken by three guys in a Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG. Considering nobody is traveling at the moment, it presented an opportunity for the record to allegedly be broken again, this time in an Audi A8.
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Our Crazy Russian Pals At Garage 54 Weld Two Ladas Together For Tandem Drifting
I’m sure you’ve all seen those amazing videos of highly-skilled drifters racing and drifting their cars around a track within inches of each other, right? It’s impressive. But what if you want to do this without the benefit of driving skill or a well-sorted car, or experience or anything like that? Then you can do what these loons did, and just weld two cars together.
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The FC Mazda RX-7 Is A Beacon Of Joy
The original Mazda RX-7 was a masterpiece. The final Mazda RX-7 was a work of art, and remains one of the most exciting sports cars you can buy. (I drove one!) But the FC Mazda RX-7, the middle child, is still cherished and hunted after. There’s something—something particular—about it.
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Hey Look, It's A ZAP Xebra
Yesterday evening my wife and I broke shelter-in-place to run out and grab some to-go burgers and shakes from a great local spot that was still operating from a pickup window. And what should I see out of the corner of my eye? A freakin’ Zap Xebra! It was just hanging out in the parking lot of a Spanish-language church as if it wasn’t an abnormal thing to see this strange 15-year-old three-wheeled electric “car”.
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Bugatti Boss Stephan Winkelmann Is Having A Normal One
Surely since the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, you’ve been waiting with bated breath for an update on how Bugatti top man Stephan Winkelmann is coping with the immense burden of presiding over a temporarily shuttered Franco-German hypercar manufacturer while sometimes staying at home all day. We are all in this together, folks. It’s a terrible time to be anyone, but Winkelmann has it really tough.
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A Strange Little Car Company You've Never Heard Of Has Basically The Same Exact Logo As Ferrari
If you described a carmaker’s logo that has a yellow shield with a prancing horse on it, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that anyone would think you were describing Ferrari’s logo, because, well, that’s Ferrari’s logo. But it’s also the logo of an odd little carmaker you’ve likely never heard of, but I bet you’ve seen at least one thing they’ve made. And I think Ferrari never bothered with them because it might have revealed a possibly uncomfortable truth about the origin of Ferrari’s famous badg
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Car Sales Are Settling In To A New Terrible Normal
At the beginning of this year, forecasters thought 2020 would see car sales in the U.S. of just under 17 million. That would’ve been a modest decline from 2019, when car sales were just over 17 million. Then coronavirus happened, and the new reality set in.
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Roads Emptied By Coronavirus Are Bringing Out The Speed Demons
Most of the nation is still shut down and will be for the foreseeable future. With much of the population hunkering at home, major metropolitan areas across the country, including New York, Los Angeles and Denver, are reporting an uptick in speeding tickets issued in the past few weeks. Some cities are even directing police to be more lax with speeding enforcement.
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Quick Question: Has Any Carmaker Sold A Car With A Roman Numeral Speedometer?
If a production car with a Roman Numeral speedometer exits, I don’t think I’ve seen it yet. I have a lot of hazy memories of some really old things from the early 1900s that might have had such a strange thing, but I haven’t been able to confirm anything. In a way, I’m a little surprised I haven’t found anything; this seems just like the sort of goofy-classy affectation that a mid ‘60s Lincoln or Imperial would have had, doesn’t it? I think so.
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Honda And Nissan Tell Their Furloughed American Workers To File For Unemployment
Honda idled its North American plants on March 23, while Nissan did on March 20, both to help contain the deadly outbreak of coronavirus, initially still paying its workers. But now both companies have told their furloughed workers to apply unemployment benefits as the shutdown of factories drags on.
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Surplus Is Forcing Traders To Store Global Oil Supply In Tankers At Sea
Right now, the world is producing way, way too much oil. We just have too much of the stuff. This is causing some very serious political and economic headaches right now, but it’s a boom for oil traders storing oil in tankers all over the world’s oceans.
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Ask A Car Nerd: What Cars Were Named For Family Members
Oh yeah, motherlovers, it’s that time again! You’re stuck indoors, you’re getting a little bored, a little randy, a little ready to ask some car questions that have been weighing on you, heavily. Luckily, we’re here for you, equally bored and randy, but we have answers we desperately wish to give you.
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Cruise Lines Are Getting Desperate
Cruises were a dubious proposition before coronavirus, but now they’re in far worse shape. That’s understandable, given the worldwide pandemic that has had some passengers trapped on ships for weeks. Almost everywhere cruise lines look these days, the news isn’t good.
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Overpass Is A Tediously Challenging Off-Road Powersport Simulator
I can understand why most of the Overpass reviews are bad–the game is way too brutal to be approached casually. You could call it a “racer” but it needs to be appreciated for what it really is: A technical UTV and ATV off-road driving simulator. If you’re already confused, this game’s not for you.
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America Instantly Collapses When We Can't Buy New Cars
“I think there’s no reason in the world we shouldn’t be open for sales. It’s a necessity,” PA auto dealership co-owner Donny Pursel told the Reading Eagle. The worst part about it is the guy has a point.
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Sunny Day Real Estate — 'Red Elephant'
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
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Seven-Year Car Loans Are Here To Stay
Carmakers are currently very desperate for buyers, since people are more into saving money these days, what with the global pandemic and ensuing recession. Jeep, for example, is offering zero-percent interest on a car loan for seven years on some cars for some buyers, just like Chevy, GMC, Hyundai, Buick, Jaguar, Genesis, and Ram. Reconsider if you’re thinking of doing this!
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Over 3,500 Rental Cars Lost In Airport Fire, Probably Including One Or Two Good Ones
If you’ve ever been curious about how densely rental car companies park their fleets at airports, over 3,500 rental cars just burned up in a massive 15-acre fire in Florida.
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I Really Don't Know How To Feel About Talented Tesla Cybertruck Fans Making Spec Website Designs For Tesla
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit conflicted here. Part of me is delighted to see people so excited about a particular car, and to see people using that excitement as a creative springboard. No matter what I think of a given car, I’m not going to shit on someone’s enjoyment of it. But then there’s a certain exploitative aspect going on here, a certain sort of creepy Tesla-fan willingness to Give Unto Elon that we’ve seen before, that just leaves me deeply unsettled. I’m curious to hear w
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The Honda Fit Is The Car We Need
I’ve been doing unpaid promotional work for the Honda Fit (I own one) for awhile now, even though Honda can get fucked since it hasn’t brought the new generation to the U.S. Still, Honda’s early returns on the fourth-generation Fit are very, very good.
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Call Of Duty Is Allowed To Play With AM General's Iconic Humvee: Judge
A big three-year legal battle between the studio behind the popular Call of Duty video game franchise and AM General, the maker of the U.S. military’s Humvee, has been settled in favor of the gaming studio. If you send your cars to war, it’s only fair they can be depicted in video games.
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Custom Car Shops Are Coming In The Clutch With Protective Equipment For Medical Staff
While large automakers are only just getting started building protective equipment and ventilators to meet the demand required to defeat the novel coronavirus pandemic, custom shops are already on task.
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I Literally Just Told You Earlier Today To Play Burnout But My God This Video Has Me Dusting Off Need For Speed: Most Wanted As I Type This Headline
Yeah, sorry about that. Burnout is great! Amazing game series. Love the crashes and the punk rock. I will always be a fan of it, but my ADHD has found a matter more pressing at the exact moment I found this video, and it is this video and the game franchise it is an homage to, Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
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The Car That Was On My Bedroom Wall
We all had bedroom wall cars, and one of the defining models of late-millennial poster vehicles was the Dodge Viper GTS. Being born in the ‘90s meant that you had missed out entirely on the last era of enormous-engined, ill-handling, rip-asunder-the-Earth-torque-creating American muscle cars. Japanese sports cars were stylish and quick but generally lacked in outright testosterone. The 5.0 Mustang was becoming a force to be reckoned with again, the Gran Sport had made the C4 into a formidable co
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It Is Time To Dust Off Burnout 3: Takedown
The Burnout series, which I was introduced to by Revenge, was one of the only game franchises I religiously played growing up. Each game has its own charm to it, its own unique spin on what makes this Burnout game a little different than the rest. Ultimately, I was best at Burnout Dominator, but my all-time favorite game was Takedown.
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I Just Really Hope The 2020 Mazda MX-5 100th Anniversary Special Edition Knows How Much I Appreciate It
I am not a complicated man. I see a white convertible sports car with a red wine cloth top and I get weak at the knees. There is nothing more to it than that. Mazda, indulging in a bit of navel gazing, decided to honor its own 100th anniversary by releasing a series of cars inspired by the first car it ever built. That little R360 on the right of the image above was the first car to wear the Mazda name back in 1960. White on the bottom, red on the top. The MX-5 on the left is the result, and it
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Hell Yeah We Might Get A Gazoo Racing Toyota Corolla Hot Hatch
Toyota has been hard at work getting us to care about Gazoo Racing, the automaker’s performance and motorsports arm, for the last few years. Think of it as Subaru’s STI division. They started with the new Toyota Supra, and now we may get a performance Toyota Corolla.
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Tesla, So Far, Is Surviving
Tesla’s manufacturing facility in Fremont, California was painfully late to close down, but it has been mostly idled because of the coronavirus,. Either because of or in spite of its late shut down, it still managed to do decently in the first quarter in terms of raw numbers, producing 102,672 cars and shipping 88,400, both improvements year-over-year.
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In Case You Forgot HOAs Are Terrible, A Florida HOA Reminds Us By Demanding A Nurse Remove Her Quarantine RV
I know over the years I’ve written a lot about HOAs and their actions, most of which I find to be the most reprehensible examples of human pettiness and misery, especially when it comes to residents and their cars or trucks. I freely admit that I am biased. And while my bias may be regrettable, it’s really hard to shake when they continue to do things like this, where a Jacksonville, Florida-area nurse is being threatened with a $1,000 fine if she does not remove the RV she has in her driveway t
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A brief moment of appreciation for Maserati.
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Ford Is Bringing The Mustang Mach 1 Back
After yesterday’s supposedly leaked VIN decoder revealed the hybrid Ford F-150 is coming very soon, another document has surfaced revealing the Ford Mustang Mach 1 will be back for 2021 as well.
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Here's Screenshots Of The Car Chase From Bullitt But With The Mustang Replaced By A Saturn SL1
One good thing about being forced to stay inside your house because of a virus is that it gives you a chance to really reflect on things and finally, perhaps for the first time ever, see things as they really are. For me, this has been the realization that the movie Bullitt, with its famous car chase scene and even more famous fastback Mustang, would really have been better if Steve McQueen was driving an early-to-mid 1990s Saturn SL1.
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Let's Look At Some Real New York City Cars: These Old Bikes
We went out to Gowanus in Brooklyn to go looking for some of the wonderful old cars street-parked in the neighborhood. But before we got into it, we found a great survey of interesting bikes, including one with some history.
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The 2021 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid Gets A Whopping 50 MPG
Gas may be dirt cheap right now, but if history is any indication, that can all change overnight when the economy starts to go under. When that unfortunate dawn comes, the new hybrid Hyundai Elantra and its claimed 50 mpg will be there for us.
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There's A Surprisingly Good Variety Of Car-Themed Cookie Cutters Available
I don’t bake a lot of cookies, but if I did, I’d like to use some car-themed cookie cutters so they could bake into fun shapes. Check these out!
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Imaginary Car From An Imaginary Country: The Korvid Republic Pandemic Car
It’s been a while since I pulled out my Big Atlas of Places That Aren’t So Much Real and looked to see what sorts of cars they built, but for some reason I can’t put my finger on, I was reminded of the Korvid Republic’s long battle with the Grouse Grippe epidemic, and the strange sorts of cars they ended up building as a result. I know it seems silly to rehash the Korvid Republic’s story to most of you, but, if you will, indulge me.
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Hyundai's Mid-Engine Hatchback May Get A 390 HP Hybrid 2.3-Liter Turbo Engine: Report
New spy photos of what’s clearly a mid-engine Hyundai Veloster hatchback have led to reports the production car will end up with a 2.3-liter turbocharged hybrid powertrain matching the concept car’s 390 horsepower.
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Harley-Davidson Has Some Neat New Motorcycles In The Works
With diminishing sales, a CEO who just was fired or quit or something, and a super-expensive electric flagship motorcycle, Harley-Davidson is in the middle of a crisis that will determine its existence. But two new bikes caught in investor documents show some much-needed promise.
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The New Ford Bronco Will Get Three 'Modern, Classic, Custom' Looks
Everybody wants to see the new 2021 Ford Bronco. A new report suggests we may see three new Ford Broncos.
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We Deserve Better Than The Leaked BMW 2 Series Coupe
Supposedly leaked pictures of what could only be the upcoming next-gen BMW 2 Series Coupe unfortunately looks like it’s been attacked with an axe and beaten until swollen.
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My New Favorite YouTuber Designed The Ferrari F430
The guy who designed the reinvented Mini, drew some McLarens and made the Ferrari F430 is now just making videos from his house about design, and they’re wonderful.
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The Toyota Yaris Makes For A Handsome Crossover
It turns out the awkward little Toyota Yaris can make for a handsome little crossover, as previewed by the new Yaris Cross. There’s also a healthy dose of Toyota’s new Mirai design language that I can’t be mad at.
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The Caterhams Have Wings Now
Caterham’s only marketing tactic is appealing to the nostalgia centers of our dumb lizard brains. Each of its models is a throwback to a simpler era of sports car when Lotus could get away with selling a coffin on four wheels as a new car on the merit of its simplicity. Decades later, the British kit-car maker has continued to play up the throwback simplicity of its Seven model. But occasionally it cranks up the nostalgia levels a bit, to great success.
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The 2021 Audi A3 Has Hyundai To Thank
We were all so excited back in 2013 that the Audi A3 sedan was coming to America, that we made peace with the smallest Audi sedan getting the least styling. The 2021 Audi A3, though, finally looks like an interesting car, and I think we can thank Hyundai for it.
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You're Probably Going To Have To Look At A BMW X8 Soon
In a move that has strong “Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades Now,” energy, the once-beloved German performance automaker BMW is further straying from god’s light, if a recent trademark caught by X7forum.com, via Automotive News, is anything to go off of.
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Exec Claims A Cadillac CT5 Wagon Is Under 'Active Consideration'
The last time Cadillac did a wagon, it was in 2014 and it had 556 horsepower. That was a long time ago, but the company’s chief engineer has revealed the new Cadillac CT5 may end up with more roof over the trunk, too.
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The Brazilian Volkswagen Fastback Was Even Weirder Than You Realize And Brings Up Some Big Questions
I’m well aware that if you even realize the Brazilian Volkswagen Fastback was weird at all, you’re already in kind of a minority, human-being-wise. But that’s okay—I’m here to walk you through this, and through it we will get, together. We’re going to start with this premise: though the Brazilian Fastback certainly looked like the Volkswagen Type 3 Fastback we all know and love, under the skin it was far stranger than even most hardcore air-cooled VW geeks suspect. Let’s dig in.
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I Asked A Real Car Color Professional Hard-Hitting Questions About Car Color And Here's The Result
It’s no secret that our nation—no, our world—is currently in crisis. Despite frivolous distractions like this whole “pandemic” and “global economic shutdown” we all know that the real crisis is the Crisis of Boring Car Colors. I’ve ranted about the tyranny of grays and whites and blacks before—colors the color professionals call “achromatics,” but now I have someone I can directly ask—Paul Czornij, BASF’s North American lead designer. So let’s get to the bottom of this.
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Here's FCA's Favorite 'Outrageous' Car Design Competition Winners
FCA and Ram design bosses Ralph Gilles and Mark Trostle recently hosted a student competition for the “wickedest and most outrageous” Ram truck designs, and the winning results are truly that.
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There's A Hot New V6 For The Hot New Acura TLX: Report
The Acura TLX sells well enough, but the automaker has promised to push the next generation to a new level of performance. A new report indicates they’re going to do all that with a new turbocharged six-cylinder engine.
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McLaren Wants To Take On Electric Cars With A New Synthetic Fuel
McLaren is not known for taking the easy way out of anything. This is a company that sold a car with a gold-plated engine bay for functionality, not just cosmetics. And now it thinks developing a car with synthetic fuel may be a suitable alternative to going fully electric.
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Ford Solves The Mystery Of The Mid-Motor Mustang
You may recall that earlier this week we repeated a plea from our friends over at Ford Performance who found an odd picture of what appears to be a mid-engine Mustang mock-up in the Ford design studio from around 1966. The image seems to have stumped their Ford experts and ex-employees, but I have good news! This mystery is solved, thanks for Ford’s own lead archivist.
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Mini's Manual Transmission Is Making Its Big Comeback
Mini was underrated for years as one of the few automakers offering a stick on any car, let alone more than one. There was crisis for the 2020 model year when almost no new manuals were offered, but they’re finally coming back.
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Noted Upholsterer Vilner Releases A Very Stupid Press Release
I’ll admit that I made the mistake of looking at the Vilner Garage website and seeing the actual people behind the boutique rich-guy car customizing outfit, because now I feel a little bad about what I’m about to do, which is shit on this press release they just sent out about a stupid Dodge Demon they customized the interior of. Then again, they have a history of extracting taste from cars via the application of a lot of labor and money, so I guess they know what they’re getting into.
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The Recycled Materials In The Polestar Precept Concept Are 50 Percent Lighter Than Normal Plastic
When the Polestar Precept concept from Volvo’s electrified sister company first debuted last month, I didn’t think there was a lot of specifications and details to really get excited about yet, as it was just a vague concept. And that’s still true! But it turns out the interior is actually interesting.
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Tesla Model Y Deep Dive Reveals A Much Better Engineered Car Than The Model 3
Automobile benchmarking company Munro & Associates is well known for having criticized the Tesla Model 3, with founder Sandy Munro calling the car’s quality flaws similar to “A Kia in the ’90s.” But now Munro has a Tesla Model Y, and after looking at it and talking with Munro experts, I’m convinced that the Y is much improved from the Model 3 on which it is based.
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Ford Can't Remember Anything About This Mid-Engine Mustang Concept From The 1960s
It never fails to surprise me about how poorly major automakers kept records up until quite recently. For example, Volkswagen seems to have no idea they may have been the first to develop first-person driving video games. In much the same way, Ford can’t seem to remember that time they built—or at least started to build—a particular two-seater mid-engined Mustang. So a bunch of Ford employees, ex-employees, and enthusiasts are asking for help.
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Bentley Has More Bespoke Versions Of The Bacalar If You Want To See What Colors You Can't Get
Bentley recently presented the Bacalar, a 12 car run that’s a rebody of the Continental GTC but costs $2,000,000 and the ability to have a roof. We’ve covered that it’s ridiculously excessive and won’t ever leave the owners’ garages (all 12 are spoken for already, so you can’t get one, sorry) but now Bentley has released demo images of what they envision could be selected from their nearly infinite options list.
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These Old Ghia-Designed VW Prototypes Are Some Of The Best-Looking VWs You've Never Seen
For a company that took almost forty years to come up with a real replacement for the Beetle, Volkswagen sure spent a lot of time trying to come up with replacements to the Beetle. Proposals for updated and improved Beetles and post-Beetles were developed and rejected all throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Some ended up evolving into the Type 3s, Type 4s, and Brasilia, and some just died. Among the dead are at least two that I think are worth you checking out today, which is why I asked you
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The New Ford Expedition's Airbag Seatbelts Still Don't Work With Common Child Car Seats
Some trims of the new Ford Expedition SUV will, in fact, not baby, as the inclusion of rear-seat airbag seatbelts are not compatible with many of today’s popular car seats for kids.
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Fisker Is Aiming For A UN Contract With The Ocean Force E Off-Road Package
Fisker on Monday unveiled the first of four different accessory packages its Ocean SUV can be ordered with when (if?) it reaches production late next year. The 300-horsepower electric SUV, which starts at $37,499, will come standard with rear wheel drive, but all-wheel drive models can be spec’d up into this Force E package ostensibly designed for off-road rescue and military work. Will we see a peacekeeping fleet of these in white on the nightly news?
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The Hyundai Prophecy Is A Return To The Golden Era Of Concept Cars
There have been far too few truly good concept cars in the last decade. Whether this can be attributed to a proliferation of new forms of media OEMs can use to reach consumers, a decreasing importance of auto shows, or the general tightening of belts that still hasn’t eased from the last financial disaster, I’m sure each company has its own reasons. In any case, we haven’t seen the multiple left-field concepts from automakers in recent years that were quite commonplace in the 90s and early 2000s
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Crashes and Safety (5)

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Watch A Suzuki Swift Leap Into The Air Like A Freaking Jet Over A Roundabout
I know that most roundabouts have those sloping curbs that look enticingly like little ramps but, really, you should not use them for that purpose because if you do you’ll discover that they work extraordinarily well and will launch your car into the air like a goddamn majestic hawk, just like this little Suzuki Swift did in R?bie?, Lodz, Poland. Then it landed in a graveyard.
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It Costs So Much Money To Crash On The Nürburgring
The internet loves Nürburgring crashes. Race crashes, prototype crashes, crash compilations—we’re obsessed. But we don’t really talk about what comes next. The price penalty drivers face for wrecking part of the track is probably worth more than the cars.
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Guy Takes Pandemic Opportunity To Rip Through NYC Streets In A Gemballa, Immediately Crashes
It’s not clear if notorious supercar street racer @bc was at the wheel of his blue Gemballa Mirage GT, a tuned Porsche Carrera GT, if such a thing was necessary, at the time it ran wild on the virus-cleared streets of Manhattan. What is clear is the driver was completely off the rails. (Update: He did it.)
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Here's What Happens When A Van Filled With 1,700 Pounds Of Concrete Blocks Crashes Into A Wall
You’ve probably all seen standardized crash tests where cars filled with dummies crash into rigid or deformable barriers. But have you seen many crash tests of fully-loaded cargo vehicles? Check out this Mercedes Vito filled with 1,700 pounds of concrete blocks crashing into a wall at 31 mph. It’s disturbing.
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This Compilation Of Car Crash Videos With One Of The Cars Removed Is Deeply Eerie
When you think about it, this is really a pretty simple idea. It’s a simple concept, but it’s remarkably well-executed, and the results are pretty amazing and creepy. Take a video of a car wreck, then remove one of the cars involved. That’s it! Much like that Garfield without Garfield thing, the absence of a key element turns something alarming into something far more creepy and disturbing.
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Crime (3)

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Ohioan Survives Pushing A 2016 Dodge Challenger To 180 MPH On Michigan Roads
The Michigan vs. Ohio rivalry is about more than just college football. Residents. of the two states have always had a mutual distaste for each other, so when an Ohio driver disrespected some traffic laws by pushing their 2016 Dodge Challenger to the limit, they naturally headed north of the border to the pleasant peninsula. Michigan State Police clocked them at 110 miles over the 70-mph speed limit.
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Police Chases Are Dangerous And Need To Stop
High speed pursuit has long been a fascination in this country. Running from the cops is practically a national tradition. Hell, NASCAR was basically founded on the back of prohibition-era runners. Every time there is a major police chase, it’s breaking news nationwide. The most recent of which involved an Arizona man running from the police in his Smart ForTwo.
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The Absurd Story Of How Some Genius Crashed Into The Same Home Three Times With Two Different Cars
“...HIGH DRIVER CRASHES INTO HOUSE...THREE TIMES...WITH TWO DIFFERENT VEHICLES,” the California Highway Patrol’s Marin-area office writes on its Facebook wall before continuing: “The details of the call were so strange that we started our response not really knowing exactly what had just happened.” Buckle up for an absolutely absurd story.
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Entertainment (4)

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The Car Chase In Son Of A Gun Has Land Cruiser Drifting And Violence
I saw a post on my Facebook feed the other day, something like: “The Australian movie Son Of A Gun has good SUVs and Ewan McGregor.” Needing no further sales pitch, I found the movie and watched it. Don’t, it sucks, but the Land Cruiser/Nissan Patrol chase is awesome and you can watch that here.
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The Grand Tour Took Quite A Hit From Coronavirus
Jeremy Clarkson and The Grand Tour executive producer Andy Wilman hosted a live YouTube stream earlier this week where discussed how the pandemic has delayed the series’ forthcoming Madagascar Special and indefinitely postponed a jaunt to northern Russia.
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The Best James Bond Movies To Re-Watch Right Now
Got some time on your hands right? Well now is a perfect time to sit down and enjoy all that the longest-running movie franchise in history has to offer. That would be the 24 James Bond movies, but if you don’t want to sit through all of them, here are the ones that deserve a second chance.
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Maybe The Best Car Chase Film Is Straight Out Of Bubble-Era Japan
As a shameless anime dork, I have seen a ton of horrible, horrible animated television shows. It comes with the territory—there are some masterpieces, and a lot more series that really are not worth the time it takes to even watch the opening credits. Luckily for you, this also means I can save the pain of struggling through yet another episode of drivel and direct you straight to the good stuff. Let’s have a look at a forgotten classic from the writer of Gunsmith Cats.
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Events (1)

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Coronavirus Could Have Spread Faster And Earlier If The Detroit Auto Show Had Been In January: Experts
It doesn’t really do anyone any favors to dwell on theoretical situations, but it’s probably a really good thing that the auto show in Detroit was changed from its traditional January date to a June event. If the North American International Auto Show had been held in January, it may have sparked an earlier and wider spread of Covid-19 both here in the U.S. and abroad.
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Ford (1)

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A Ford F-350 With Huge Tires And A Lance 855S Camper Makes A Comfy Portable Home
For decades, folks have been putting campers in truck beds to effectively turn pickups into RVs, but few are as well-established as a company called Lance. Its “Altimeter” build combines a sweet mobile domicile with a lux Ford F-350 upgraded for off-road driving. There’s a lot to like about this rugged mobile living setup, but it’s not for everyone.
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Found For Sale (8)

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The Miata Is Always The Answer Miata Is For Sale
There is no one great Miata. The whole point is that there are so many of these attainable, accessible sports cars out there. If you’re looking for a two-door that’s easy to own and fun to drive, a Miata is always the answer. That said, the feature car in Miata: The Answer To Every Question is up for sale and could be yours.
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Some People May Think This Modified Ghia Is Blasphemy But They're Just Timid Fools
When I was sent this Bay-area Craigslist ad for “VW Karmann Ghia Parts - $50" I clicked the link expecting to see, oh, I don’t know, maybe a couple of headlight trim rings and a broken chrome badge that read “KAR__AN__hi_” but what I found was so very, very much more. This isn’t just some source for Ghia parts—this is a bona fide Ghia monster, and it very much deserves to live.
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You Can Own Part Of F1's Ugliest Moment
For reasons perhaps beyond anyone’s understanding, F1 started running proboscis noses in 2014. They were universally loathed, and quickly banned, and now you can own one.
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The Perfect Pickup Truck Is For Sale
If I could buy any pickup truck in the world right now, it would be this amazing 1983 Jeep J10 pickup for sale on Bring A Trailer. Everything from the color, to the engine, to the transmission, to little things like the mirrors—it’s all so perfect. Just look at this machine and you’ll agree.
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This Connecticut Kia Dealer Is Selling A One-Off '65 Pontiac Banshee Concept Car
When John Z. DeLorean tells you to put together a Pontiac sports car to slot under the Corvette, this is what you build. It’s a straight-six powered two-seater called the XP-833 Banshee, meant to share much under the skin with the contemporary Tempest. But while it looks plenty appealing, the car never made it to production, just the concept car (and a V8-powered, drop-top sibling) survived. And now it’s back on the market, complete with the kind of images you’d expect from a used Pontiac listin
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A Beautiful 'Holy Grail' Jeep Grand Cherokee Is For Sale For $2,650 And I'm Trying To Resist Buying It
For sale right now near Providence, Rhode Island is a beautiful, garage-kept example of a “Holy Grail” Jeep Grand Cherokee—one of only ~1,500 ever built with a manual transmission. I once went through hell to obtain a broken one of these rare vehicles, but now there’s one in seemingly decent condition ready to be snatched up for under three grand.
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You Know The Economy Is Bad When 'Bring A Trailer' Is Offering This Rusty Shitbox Mitsubishi Three-Wheeler
The car auction website Bring a Trailer has earned a reputation as a place that offers mint-condition, low-mileage cars that sell at ridiculously high prices. Yet, on the site right now, with a current high bid of $700 with only one hour left, is a 1960 Mitsubishi TM15FL three-wheeler. And it is rusty and fantastic.
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What Car Would You Buy With Your $1,200?
We’re all about to get $1,200 in economic stimulus. Well, some of us. And let’s be realistic, most of us will be saving it for emergencies, such as paying down the massive cost of getting treated for COVID-19, or paying rent as unemployment skyrockets. But hey, if you wanted to be depressed, you wouldn’t be reading my blogs on a Saturday, you’d be watching CNN or something. So let’s have some fun. With your $1,200 paycheck, what car are you buying in the imaginary parallel universe where the wor
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Honda (1)

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Honda Is Going To Make An Even Smaller Monkey Mini-Bike: Report
Even though Honda’s Monkey mini-bike is already diminutive retro ride, a report from Autocar India points to patent filings that suggest another, even smaller Monkey could be on its way to production.
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Jalopnik Explains (1)

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A New Hobby For You To Lose Yourself In While Boreantined
For me, it is now week three of self isolation. A bum immune system has kept me from leaving my house much, but luckily, I have an absurd array of inane solo hobbies to keep me occupied (plus, you know, writing these blogs), and I’m here to share one of my favorites with you all in these boring times.
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Jalopnik Investigates (1)

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Source Claims That Karma Will Lay Off Most Workers And Some Recent Prototypes Have Been Fake
The Fisker Karma is a car with a fairly short but quite strange life. Originally released in 2012 as a strikingly designed hybrid gasoline-electric sedan most notable for its dramatic proportions and alarmingly cramped interior, the car has since had a change of ownership and is now known as the Karma Revero. Karma has recently been announcing new models and showing prototypes of new technology. However, I’ve spoken to a source in the company who tells me that the new models have specs that are
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Motorcycles (9)

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Harley-Davidson's Turnaround Plan Is Beginning To Take Shape
Harley-Davidson ousted (fired?) its CEO in late February at the urging of at least one shareholder, who felt that the motorcycle maker needed to shift its focus back toward heavy, expensive things that boomers buy instead of aggressive expansion overseas. As it turns out, that is now also Harley’s new plan.
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BMW Won Dakar In 1985 With A Busted Junker Of A Motorcycle
Dakar isn’t the kind of race you want to take on with a less-than-perfect motorcycle, but in 1985 Belgian rider Gaston Rahier managed to win on a broke-as-shit BMW GS. Rahier had already won the Dakar in 1984 and was confident that his much-improved 1985 ride would help him repeat. But then in a pre-race media appearance he put a foot wrong and wadded the bike up in a huge crash.
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Kawasaki's New EV Motorcycle Has A Manual Transmission
Last November at the EICMA show, Kawasaki showed a quick look at its new electric sportbike, and for the last two months it has been loading little teaser clips of it ripping around a closed circuit to its YouTube channel. The bright green moto manufacturer has been careful to not unveil much about the project it’s calling “EV Endeavor” in the videos. We don’t know how quick it is, or how long it takes to charge, or how much power its electric motor makes, but we do know a few things about it. P
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Harley-Davidson Knows This Might Get Worse
Harley-Davidson shut down its American factories on March 18, around the same time automakers in this country were idling their plants as well. Those factories have remain shuttered, while Harley today said that it was making deeper cost cuts as the coronavirus pandemic persists in shutting down the world.
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The Floor Is Lava
You remember jumping from the arm of your parents old mauve sofa onto the ottoman before climbing across onto the bookshelf to reach the TV remote shouting THE FLOOR IS LAVA as a bored human with a single-digit age, right? That has to be a part of developmental growth in the life cycle of a homo sapiens sapiens. Well, extremely good trials bike champion Toni Bou is playing that game at a much higher level of difficulty than any of us were.
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This Wild Motorcycle Was Built To Go Really Fast On Ice
Last year—to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Indian Scout—Indian Motorcycle teamed up with Workhorse Speed Shop to build an incredible monster of a motorcycle to tackle high speed events. They called the bike Appaloosa. For 2020 the bike received a few big updates, and was shipped to the frigid Russian winter to run at the Baikal Mile event, on ice.
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The Harley-Davidson LiveWire Is Quicker Than A Tesla Model 3 Performance
It’s no secret that Harley’s new electric LiveWire is quick in a straight line. I mean, sure it weighs 550 pounds, but it’s got 105 horseponies and 86 lb-ft of torque, which isn’t insignificant. And being electric, it’s all available instantly. We know that electric vehicles have developed a reputation for being quick, with Tesla’s Model S routinely waxing the floor with Hellcats at the drag strip. The electric Harley isn’t a match for the S, but check out what it does compared to the more reaso
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The 2020 BMW R18 Is The Kind Of Throwback Cool The World Needs Right Now
BMW has been teasing the R18 for over a year now, first with a series of customs using the new “big boxer” engine, then with a concept version, and finally the real thing was unveiled on Friday afternoon. BMW’s take on the big cruiser bike (and by extension the U.S. motorcycle market) is finally here, and it was worth the wait. This thing looks great, and with BMW’s focus on deleting as many frills as possible to bring the focus back to the essentials of motorcycling, I be it rides pretty great,
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The 2020 Ducati Multistrada 1260S Will Expand Your Comfort Zone
Sitting curbside, this matte black Ducati Multistrada has an angry look to it with narrowed eyes and flared nostrils. It looks like an unbroken horse pissed at the prospect of you hopping on its back. Once I clambered aboard it was obvious that it was just a major case of resting bitch face, and it welcomed me with a warm embrace and a calm idle that said: “We got this.”
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How I Built A $100 Drive-In Movie Theater To Hang Out With Friends While Social Distancing
In an attempt to hang out with friends without risking the spread of coronavirus, I’ve built a drive-in movie theater in my backyard. Here’s how I did it.
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Hang Out With Other Jalopnik Readers On Friday Night At Virtual Car Trivia
If you yearn for near-impossible car trivia questions, Friday night is your time to shine. That’s because my coworker Jason and I will be hosting Virtual Car Trivia on Zoom, and all are invited. It’ll be a great way to meet other Jalops as you and a team of four or five commiserate over the ridiculous obscurity of the car questions Torch and I came up with.
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I Believe In Elon Musk
There is a take so hot, a take so powerful, a take so dangerous, many people warned me that it was a take not worth taking. “People will laugh at you,” they said. “Your career will be over,” they said. “That take is bad,” they said. Undaunted, I have forged ahead. The take is simple: I believe in Elon Musk.
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These fellas are from a 1966 Austin FJ commercial truck brochure, but they sure look like you’re about to be subjected to nine minutes of unfunny improv about three people in a car.
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These Trivia Questions About Cars Are So Hard, It's Okay If You Don't Even Know Half The Answers
It’s wild to think that Jalopnik has already completed four weeks of Virtual Car Trivia—a way to bring readers together during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a lot of fun, though, and this week Jason, a special guest, and I brought some darned random questions to the Zoom session. See if you can answer them.
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It’s the middle of the week! So let’s sale-abrate with something else in the middle, like the fantastic center-mounted foglamp of the Fiat 1400B! I love factory center-mounted lamps; they’re so rare. In fact, all I can think of now is the Subaru flip-up one and that one on that Austin turbine car. Anyway, enjoy.
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I picked this 1978 Plymouth for Today’s blip because this is one of the very few times I know exactly where a car brochure picture was shot, and I’ve been there, many times. That’s the little kiddie railway station at Griffith Park in LA; I used to live like five minutes away, and took my kid there plenty. They normally don’t let you park there, and, even if they did, I think this dude’s confused. Don’t take your luggage on the tiny train, sir. Here’s a tip: if you can straddle the train car, it
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Ooooooooohhhhhhh, thanks, Bentley! Thanks for clearing up why one may have a light fitted inside of a trunk! This really helps. Turns out, it’s not for cooking tiny cupcakes! Who knew?
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This Dingy Old Renault EV Comes From A Better Place
You would think that electric cars might be perfect for Israel. In a country where gasoline costs nearly $5.50 a gallon even during the Coronavirus price drop, people should be clamoring for a solution to fossil fuel addiction. But as the owner of this car (and the CEO of the company that sold it) learned, a bright idea isn’t always enough.
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You're Probably Underestimating How Much Your Car Is Costing You
There is insurance, registration fees, inspection fees, parking fees, repairs, fuel, tolls, maintenance, speeding tickets, traffic cameras, the cost of the car itself, and tools, if you work on your own car. It all quickly adds up.
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It’s Friday! I know it may not feel like it, since we’re all trapped in a nightmare where days bleed into one another without differentiation, like a machine extruding ground beef, forever, but I promise you it is Friday. And that means we can get in our Fiat Ritmos and drive to the Portal to Dimension Fuego, where we can finally dance with the firepeople. Yes, the elegant, erotic people of the flame, just waiting for us with their searing embraces! We’re coming, firepeople!
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The Polestar 2's Price Might Give It A Chance Against The Tesla Model 3 Performance
The Polestar 2 began production in China in March, with a planned release here in the U.S. by late summer, Polestar said today. The company also revealed its price in the States after saying in October it would start around $65,000 in Europe.
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Jalopnik Is Hosting A Virtual Car Trivia Night On Friday And There Will Be A Special Guest
My coworker Jason Torchinsky and I started Jalopnik Virtual Car Trivia Night because staying at home by yourself and not engaging with car enthusiasts sucks. Hanging out with 65 other car fans, drinking alcohol, and failing to answer absurdly obscure questions? That doesn’t suck. At all. Which is why you should join us tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. There will be a special guest.
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The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 Is A 1,400-HP Electric Drag Racer Promising 1/4 Mile In 8 Seconds
Ford Performance is apparently still testing its prototype 1,400 horsepower, 1,100 lb-ft, all-electric Ford Mustang CobraJet 1400 drag car before it hits the drag strip later this year, but the high-performance division of FoMoCo has given the world a sneak peek. Behold the silent Ford Mustang electric drag car.
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Fun fact! In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Kool-Aid Man was an actual man, Nathan Koylaid, a former U.S. Army youth hydration specialist who roamed the country in summers with a crude remote hydration detecting machine that took up most of his Willys truck. When he detected levels of intense dehydration (among children especially) he would drive to them, often breaking through fences and walls, and forcibly re-hydrate them with a sweetened water admixture, dyed bright colors to differentia
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We're Beginning To See What The New Normal Will Look Like
For the cottage industry of organizations that make it their business to predict how many cars will be sold in the U.S. this year, it’s been a chaotic year, from early projections of just under 17 million to new projections of 12 million or lower. The more interesting question, though, isn’t how many but simply how.
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Try Answering These Car Trivia Questions That Stumped 65 Car Enthusiasts Last Week
Every Friday during Jalopnik Virtual Car Trivia Night, Jason and I ask 40 borderline-impossible questions, readers try to answer them, and the team that scores the most points gets literally nothing. Here are the absurdly obscure questions from last week, and here’s how much readers struggled.
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The 1989 Plymouth Speedster concept car, meant to blend sports-bike design with that of a convertible sports car, has a shape you might expect to see on 1990s Japanese cars or even vehicles from the 2000s. Speaking of Japanese cars, the engine is a 2.0-liter Mitsubishi inline-four. The brakes are four-wheel vented discs, the suspension is fully independent, and finally, the most impressive and advanced feature on a car from 1989: The transmission is a three-speed automatic. Womp Womp.
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Some Kind Of Auto Lending Crisis Is In The Making
Auto lending in the midst of an economic collapse is never pretty, as people stop paying on their car loans to divert money to more immediate necessities like food and shelter. This collapse is no different.
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“Hey, did you find a new gardener?”
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Automakers Are Determined To Restart Their Plants, Sooner Or Later
Automakers in Europe and the U.S. are gearing up to re-open their plants, even if, without widespread testing, it probably isn’t safe to do so. Still, automakers, who are watching their profits go up in smoke the longer the plants are idled, are determined to reopen, many in the next few weeks, with new procedures they say will help stop the virus’s spread.
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Yes, scientists, yes, place the components for the Erot-O-Ray in the back of the Opel, and soon we’ll have the whole city--then the whole WORLD--so aroused that all commerce will cease, and everyone will be at my mercy! Oooh ha ha ha ha ha ha! Also, happy Monday.
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How Are You Going To Configure Your Ferrari Roma?
Ferrari stunned us when it showed us its new Roma 2+2 GT car back in November. While some people were weirded out by its body-colored egg-crate grille, I was sold. Now, looking at one in Grigio Ingrid in the new configurator, I’m enamored. Yeah, even with the weird headlights.
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This Mitsubishi Work Truck Has Earned Its [Diamond] Star
While certain tax loopholes have made it fashionable for some contractors to drive Ram and Silverado 2500s and Ford F250s here in Israel, most pickup trucks are much smaller and get worked much harder. Like this Mitsubishi Hunter L200 Triton, a truck we don’t get to see back in America.
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Which Is Your Favorite Jeep Easter Safari Concept?
For years, Jeep has used its Easter Safari event at Moab in Utah as an opportunity to show off what its lineup of vehicles might look like if its designers and engineers’ creativity and imagination were fully unleashed. It’s always been awesome. This year, though, we’re going to miss out because of the virus.
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If The Ford Festiva Didn't Party, It Just Didn't Cut It
Selling a Kia in ‘90s America wasn’t going to be easy, even if you’re one of the Big Three. Sure, Ford had shown that it more than capable of getting its own mediocre cars off the lot back then, but what about a captive import Kia? That took some emotion.
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“Let me tell you, android to android, this baby right here (slaps roof) can fit so many euphemistically decommissioned organics in it.”
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Porsche Is Competing With Tesla Until They Say They're Not
The Porsche Taycan is seen in some circles as a challenger to the Model S, even though it’s much more expensive and intended to be sporty, or at least sportier than even Tesla’s performance models. Porsche hasn’t done much to dispel this notion of a rivalry, cheekily thanking Elon Musk for free P.R. last September, but now it is insisting there is none.
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This Porsche 911 is from a picture I took right off the screen of an Apple //e running 1988's Test Drive by Accolade. It’s using the Apple II’s Double Hi-Res graphics mode, available on 128K machines, which started as a side effect of the 80-column text mode. It’s a weird mode: 560x192 pixels, but color pixels technically take 4 pixels wide, so it’s like 140x192 for 16 colors, but white and black (and the gray, kinda?) can take advantage of the 560 resolution, all on the same screen at the same
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Who here remembers that cult where a whole bunch of people would group-marry a new Pontiac and then they’d use it to drive into cities and release lizards into post offices? What were they called, again? The Greenies? Rev. Maveron Greene, the guy who used to be on that TV show where he played the telekenetic priest with the dog started it? Remember that guy? Is this ringing a bell for anyone?
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Here's A Few More Sexually Suggestive Car Names
Hey beautiful. Yeah you. Are you interested in some hot, steamy car talk? Yeah you are, you dirty wrencher. Ok, not to be a tease, but uh, this isn’t as sexy as my lede made it out to be. Some cars names are just deeply, deeply weird. Or if not “weird,” they’re definitely something Freudian. Some names are the source of childish giggles.
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Those Giant Hospital Ships Are A Messy Part Of The Solution
The USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort have literally steamed their way to Los Angeles and New York, respectively. They are the longest-serving hospital ships in continuous operation in the nation’s history, and in biological terms, old age is a liability for COVID-19 patients. In terms of Navy hospital ships, old is all the nation’s got.
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Blackwing Isn't Dead Quite Yet
Cadillac’s Blackwing, a twin-turbo, 4.2 liter V8 that it only put in the CT6-V and CT6 Platinum, is definitely cool, even if the concept of it is a thing a lot of automakers have been doing for a long time. Cadillac said Tuesday that it was keeping the name Blackwing around but not just for the engine.
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Back in 1958, West Germany’s most famous ventriloquist, Heinz Norplant, became the first person to ever use a car as a ventriloquist dummy, choosing a brand-new Opel Kapitan to be the host of his short-lived talk show, Das Chaos Des Kapitäns, a play on the term “Captain’s mess.” The show was cancelled after four episodes when it was realized that Norplant would end every interview with his guests by undertaking a long, detailed description of what he guessed their genitals looked and felt like.
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Nissan Insists That The Third-Generation Rogue Will Definitely, Absolutely, Take It To The Bank, Get Here On Time
We’re all still inside because of the pandemic, and Nissan’s factory in Smyrna, Tennessee, where the new third-generation Nissan Rogue is supposed to be made, is idled. And you might reasonably think that all of that would delay the launch of said car. But no! Nissan says that this car will absolutely still be arriving in the fall, for sure.
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You Will Probably Fail This Difficult Car Quiz From Jalopnik's Trivia Night
Jalopnik’s second Virtual Car Trivia Night, held on Friday over the Zoom video chat software, was a huge success with roughly 75 participants from around the world. Jason Torchinsky and I wrote 40 difficult questions that stumped quite a few contestants. But will those questions stump you? Here, have a look.
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NASCAR Driver Says N-Word During Live Racing Stream
Kyle Larson, who is 27-years-old, half-Japanese, and old enough to know better, calmly uttered the N-word while doing a virtual race last night on Twitch. The most charitable reading is that he didn’t know his voice was being broadcast to the world, but, come on, man.
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Only Polski Fiat developed cars specifically able to enter the chaotic world of Abstract Expressionism and drive effectively. With special steel supports designed to deal with potential punishment from DeKooning’s colossal women, a limited-slip differential to tackle the uneven surfaces of a Pollock or Franz Kline landscape, and even special door handles to foil the abstract organelles of Arshile Gorky or Clyfford Still, these were by far the best cars to use to tour the world of action painting
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They Did Surgery On A Maybach
A company called Xenatec has taken some Maybachs and relieved them of their rear doors. And I’m into it. Really into it. Good thing there’s one for sale.
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39 Years Later, The First Space Shuttle Launch Is As Emotional As Ever
It was just about noon. The sky was clear. The air was warm. Then a deafening rumble meant it was time. Columbia had launched and a new, more practical, more liberating era in space exploration had begun.
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What's Your Urban Parking Nightmare Story?
This morning I was sitting on my balcony drinking my coffee and daydreaming about discontinued French hatchbacks l like I normally do when I heard screaming coming from the street below. There was an altercation. About parking.
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This SsangYong Actyon Isn't Sorry For How... ...Striking It Is
When a country like Israel makes the jump to private vehicles with the voracious pace usually reserved for when I’m scarfing down donuts, options open up for automakers looking to undercut the big players. That’s basically what Ssangyong did and this Actyon is evidence.
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Totally normal context for an Oldsmobile Delta 88. That’s exactly where every one of those ended up.
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Gas Prices Keep Tumbling Downward
The coronavirus pandemic and a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia that saw production shoot up created a perfect storm for low gas prices, as demand collapsed and supply increased. A tentative deal to curtail production and the fact (false hope?) that shelter-in-place won’t be around forever mean that cheap gas won’t either. Still, the numbers for now are jaw-dropping.
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It's Getting Real For Nissan
Nissan had a post-Carlos Ghosn recovery plan before all of this, but that’s all pretty much down the drain at this point. Now, the plan is contraction.
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Let's See If We Can ID This Side Mirror Cover To Help Catch A Fatal Hit-And-Run Driver
I’ve just received an email from a reader who works at a Honda dealership, and currently has a police officer inspecting the side mirrors on the cars. There’s a good reason for this: there was a fatal hit-and-run accident, and all that’s left at the crime scene is the shattered remains of what appears to be a right-side mirror. I’m hoping maybe we can figure out what kind of car it came from.
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Happy Friday, whatever that means, anymore! Enjoy this adorable Fiat-based camper, where you can take it and camp by, it looks like, a fishing wharf or something? Imagine the joy of waking up, stepping out, and sucking in a lungful of decaying smelt air! Ahhhhhh, yeeeeesssssssss.
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I Love My City But It Ate My Car! What Should I Buy?
Skip is the communications director for a hospital in New Orleans. He loves living in the Big Easy, but life isn’t so easy for automobiles once the water rises. He lost his ride due to flooding and is looking for a replacement. What car should he buy?
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Everyone, everyone, quick, get your heads into something metallic! The woman in the Maverick—don’t look at her!—she’s attempting to use mind control on us. All of us! That fixed stare, the finger at the temple—I know what’s going on! I can feel it, it’s happening, no wait, my mind, please no wait yes oh no yes yes mistress I am at your command.
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Jalopnik Is Hosting Its Second Virtual Car Trivia Night On Friday So Get Ready For Obscure Questions (FULL)
Last Friday, 63 mostly sober Jalopnik readers logged into a Zoom meeting only to be bombarded by obscure automobile questions that my coworker Jason and I carefully crafted for maximum devastation. Now, by popular demand, the automotive bloodbath continues on to week two. If you want to participate in Jalopnik’s Virtual Trivia Night on Friday, here’s what you need to do to sign up.
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This 1956 DKW brochure has perhaps one of the best/worst lines in any brochure, ever, and, thankfully, one that could be applied to pretty much any car: “Even in very low temperatures, the engine is always “there.” That is a pretty nice feature to have in a car, a non-temperature-based system for your engine to escape.
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Nuro's Grocery Robots Granted Permission To Run Amok On The Streets Of California
Following the approval of Alphabet’s Waymo to run without a safety driver, Nuro is only the second company to be allowed totally driverless testing on California roads. Mostly because the Nuro R2 prototypes aren’t big enough to fit a driver anyhow. On Tuesday the self-driving startup was granted a permit allowing its two prototypes the ability to test in nine California cities.
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What’s going on in this Talbot brochure, exactly? Are they saying that the car has front seat comfort equivalent to a beachside real-estate office waiting room? Is that plant dead? Are they drinking tang? Why is she looking blankly ahead like that? Also, look at the size of that video camera rig resting in the back seat, with its separate recording unit, and marvel at what your phone does, just for a moment. Now you have extracted all you can from this image. Congratulations.
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These 50 Obscure Car Questions From Jalopnik's Virtual Car Trivia Night Will Stump You
On Friday, Jason and I hosted the first ever Jalopnik Virtual Car Trivia Night—a two-hour car nerdfest in which 63 participants from around the world tried answering some seriously deep cuts. Many struggled and made fun of Jason and me for the obscurity of our questions, but it seems we all had a great time. For those of you who couldn’t make it: Try answering these 50 questions.
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Remember how hard Ford had to fight to get people to think of the Torino as something other than a “balloonist’s car?” It’s one of the most famous cases of automotive typecasting. In fact, it wasn’t until Starsky and Hutch changed the show’s premise from two balloonists who fought crime to two cops who fought crime as part of their jobs that the Torino perception began to change.
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I Really Want A Peugeot 309 GTi And I Don't Care What You Think
Earlier this weekend, I did something I’m not supposed do. I tweeted a blog. I told everyone how much I want a Peugeot 309 GTi. But now I’m going to correct my mistake. I’m going to blog my tweet. Here goes. I want a Peugeot 309 GTi. Badly.
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Motorsport, Politics, And Identity Collide At High Speed In Neal Bascomb's 'Faster'
For a while now, I had been looking for an angle to tell the story of Rene Dreyfus, the Jewish racer driving for plucky little Delahaye who took on Germany’s Silver Arrow Grand Prix aces as the shadow of Nazism fell across Europe. Luckily for all of you, author Neal Bascomb’s is here and he tells Dreyfus’s story better than I ever could.
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What Was Your Neighborhood's Hero Car?
Every neighborhood has its hero car. The one all the kids on the street turn their heads to gawp at mid-inning during a whiffle-ball showdown. They’re not always what you’d expect, but these cars all make the same impression. And I bet they’re seared into your memory, deeply intertwined with the very love of cars that has you reading Jalopnik to this day.
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Two Tel Aviv Citroëns Sit Through Lockdown
Back before Israel and the United States went steady, the little speck at the eastern end of the Mediterranean had a different best friend: France. If you look close enough here, you’ll find some rides that reflect that era. Like these two.
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Could The "Anti-Shock Sticker" On Chrysler's Captive Imports Captivate American Buyers?
When Chrysler was down in the late-Malaise dumps, before Lee Iaccoca’s K-Cars could steal the scene, the name of the game was the captive import. Cars like the Dodge Challenger and the more aptly named Plymouth Sapporo hit the scene in ads like these as a value-play focused on Americans looking for something else after years of wheezy domestic boats.
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GM And Honda Are Making Two New Electric Cars Together For America
Sorry, I meant “vehicles” in the headline. These will be vehicles of some type—probably a crossover and an SUV if I had to guess, though neither company said what Thursday—and they will be made here and allegedly ready for the 2024 model year. GM is supplying the platform, while Honda is doing the interior and exterior design work, which is probably for the best.
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Owners Are Offering Their Empty RVs To Medical Staff During Coronavirus Fight
While Facebook might not be known for doing much good in this world, a group of RV owners are helping to make a difference in the lives of those on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Okay, here’s your shut-in car fantasy scenario for the day: You wake up in the driver’s seat of a lovely, mint condition 1962 Sunbeam-Talbot. This is what you see. You hear a rustling behind you to see a wet paper bag on the back seat, twitching and shaking. Your phone buzzes. It’s a text message that just says”NOW.” What do you do?
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Jalopnik Is Hosting A Virtual Car Trivia Night On Friday And You Better Be There (Update: FULL)
With the coronavirus putting the world on shutdown, weekends have become nothing more than weekdays minus the awkward video meetings with bosses. It’s not great, but there’s positive news for those of you bored and alone in your homes on Friday night: Jalopnik’s hosting a virtual car trivia hangout. And it will be, as the youths are saying these days, “turnt.” (I think).
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GM Retooled A Closed Plant To Make Face Masks In Just 11 Days
On March 20, General Motors brought in an initial team to turn an empty 2.7 million-square-foot factory into a mask making facility. Work started Monday and, by April 8, some 20,000 masks will be produced at the formally shuttered Warren Transmission plant in Metro Detroit. Once all the kinks have been worked out, the automaker could be producing up to 50,000 masks a day, 1.5 million a month and selling those masks at cost.
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Behold: The worst Ford Mustang Ever. It’s the second-generation “Mustang II” model built between the 1974 and 1978 model years. The 1977 car shown here is called the “Ghia,” and it was meant to be the luxurious trim (other body styles included hardtop and “2+2" fastback, which could be had in Mach 1 or in Cobra trims), with a vinyl top, opera windows, vinyl seats, and “spoke like” hubcaps. The standard motor for all body styles was a 2.3-liter overhead cam engine that you may know well from the
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Nice Price or No Dice (22)

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Is $3,450 An Upfront Deal For This 1999 Subaru Outback?
Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subaru is described as being “family owned since new” and with just 67K on the clock, that’s a family that obviously doesn’t get out a lot. Let’s see what it might cost to add this low-mileage wagon to your family.
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At $5,950, Is It Your Civic Duty To Buy This 1982 Honda Wagon?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Civic calls it a “Classic.” That’s just because it’s old and at a certain point everything gets anointed with that descriptor. It’s also brown, a wagon, and sports a five-speed stick, which makes it almost in a class of its own. What might that be worth?
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At $4,995, Would You Cross Paths With This 2005 Chrysler Crossfire?
A six-speed stick is what makes today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Crossfire a fairly noteworthy contender. Let’s see if this literal Daimler-Chrysler car’s asking price makes it even more so.
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At $7,500, Is This 'Super Clean' 1995 Nissan 240SX A Super Steal?
Unlike most S14s you might find, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 240SX hasn’t fallen victim to the drifter crowd, or seemingly to the bad maintenance brigade. Let’s see if this survivor’s price can survive our scrutiny.
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At $15,000 Canadian, Could This Rare 2008 Saab 9-7x Show You The Aero Of Your Ways?
Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Saab is really a Chevy Trailblazer SS wearing IKEA clothes. Let’s see if this rare Corvette-powered Canadian earns its Swedish stripes.
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At $8,999, Would Buying This 1979 BMW 733i Limousine Be A Stretch?
Nothing says social distancing on the road better than today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW E23. That’s because this 733i limousine features a divided driver and passenger space. Let’s see what safe motoring might cost these days.
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At $25,000, Would You Enlist With This 2008 AM General M998 HMMWV?
You may not be going out much during our pandemic pandemonium. Once this is all over, however, you’ll want a truck like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Humvee to take you to ALL the places you’ve been missing, no matter how remote. Let’s see what such potential freedom might just cost.
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At $8,000, Is This 'ViperVette' The Mega-Merger We Deserve, Or Simply The One We Need?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Viper-bodied Corvette claims it to be a great winter project. That seller also says the car underneath is a ’96 when its dash is clearly a half-decade older than that. Could its price be low enough to mask those misrepresentations?
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At $20,000, Could This 1995 Porsche 968 Cabriolet Make A Lasting Impression?
It’s okay to be last if you can also be best and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 968 both the last and arguably one of the best of Porsche’s original front-engine four-cylinder line. Let’s see if this one’s price puts it first on your list.
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At $8,200, Is This 2007 Mercedes ML 320 4-Matic CDI A Crossover That Could Make You Cross Over?
Mercedes Benz may be one of Germany’s preeminent automotive brands, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe ML was actually built in Tuscaloosa Alabama. Let’s see of this diesel-powered wagon’s price reflects any of the South’s famous southern comfort.
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At $6,900, Would You Throw Your Greenbacks At This 1963 Chevy Corvair Greenbriar?
Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate represents one of the most infamous car lines GM ever has offered. This Corvair Greenbriar is also one of the coolest minivan models anyone has ever built. Let’s see if this unjustly maligned people-mover’s price is just, or is just too much.
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At $46,000, Could This 2016 Jaguar F-Type Be Your Type Of Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe F-Type represents Jaguar’s return to the glory days of its sports car past. It also represents a serious level of depreciation. Let’s see if that’s an elevator ride down you’re willing to hop on.
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At $4,990, Is This Low-Mileage 2009 Nissan Cube A Square Deal?
You may have forgotten that the Nissan Cube ever even existed, although the two-tone paint and color-keyed wheels on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate will bring the memory back in flash. Let’s see if this car’s whimsical style has a price to match.
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At $1,500, Is This "Barn-Find" 1979 Mazda RX-7 A Barn-Burner Of A Deal?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe RX-7 claims it to be one of the earliest built but also to be in non-running condition at preesent. Let’s find out just what you think it might be worth to wake up this Rip Van Wankel.
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At $3,500, Could This Plain Jane 2001 Ford F150 XL Be A Plain-Good Deal?
Ford’s F150 has been the country’s best selling vehicle for decades, but few sold have been strippers like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 2001. Let’s see if its low-specs come with an appreciably low price.
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At $4,500, Would You Beat A Path To This 1989 Nissan Pathfinder XE?
Rust is such a problem in America’s mid-section that the ad for today’s Minneapolis-offered Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pathfinder goes so far as to note that the truck comes from out of state. Let’s see if its price makes you think the seller is out of their mind.
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At $8,500, Would You Stick With This 1988 BMW 735i?
If you like all the cars, then you’ll love the ad for today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bimmer as it pretty much lists every one that’s ever been made. Let’s find out if this 735i’s rare manual gearbox can make up for that faux pas, and more importantly, make its asking price.
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At $3,995, Does This 2002 Cadillac DeVille DHS Deliver?
You could drive around in today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cadillac and pretend you’re a Disney villainess. Let’s see if its price means you don’t have to be too Cruella to be kind.
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At $16,900, Is This 1995 Toyota MR2 Turbo Really 'The Poor Man's Ferrari?'
The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe MR2 describes the model as the “poor man’s Ferrari.” Let’s see just how accurate that might be, and if it comes with a price that makes it a title that’s richly deserved.
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At $25,500, Is This 1987 Yugo GV 'Two Good' To Be True?
The Yugo may have long been a punchline here in the States but seeing as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe GV has been punched out to house, not one, but two Cadillac V8s, maybe it’ll be the one getting the last laugh. Let’s see how serious this crazy car’s price ought to be.
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At $7,250, Could This Spotless 1987 VW Golf GT Actually Be Spot On?
It’s important to note at the outset that today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Golf is a “GT” and not a “GTI.” Let’s see if that distinction and an amazingly clean presentation can command a price that could have you saying “aye, aye, aye!”
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At $6,200, Would You Plug Into This 2012 Chevy Volt Premium?
Hybrid cars and trucks seem to have fallen out of favor in the face of pure electrics and low fuel prices. That doesn’t mean a plug-in like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volt doesn’t still have its appeal. Let’s see just how jolting a price this innovative Chevy might carry.
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Planelopnik (4)

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Harrison Ford Still Pretty Fucking Far From Best Pilot In The Galaxy
Casting Harrison Ford as a pilot in Star Wars was likely one of the most dangerous products out of Hollywood inflicted on society, as the actor and amateur pilot has yet again narrowly avoided disaster trying to fly his plane.
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This Italian Company Thinks It Knows What Post-Pandemic Airplane Cabins Will Look Like
As airliners sit languishing on the tarmac while humans around the world distance themselves from one another and avoid, one Italian company thinks it’s found the solution to air travel in the social-distancing era, for us economy passengers, at least.
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The First Airplane To Fly In England Was Absolutely Ridiculous Looking
Most of us can roughly picture what the first real powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, looked like: two big parallel and rectangular wings, held in a flimsy-looking structure of wire and slats that held a prone Wright brother and an engine with a propeller. It’s general look sort of makes inherent sense when we think about how aviation developed. If you’re trying to picture the first powered aircraft in England, though, it’s a very different story, because it looks like a mobile display for a Ve
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This Is What An Almost Completely Paused Air Travel Industry Looks Like
A friend of mine and fellow-Yugo owner (also a former actual movie Herbie owner, and now an owner of one of the Porsche racecars from Ford vs. Ferrari), Tory, works for a major airline, and was taking one last trip before going on leave. Tory sent me some pictures and a little video of what the world of air travel looks like right now, and it’s downright surreal.
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The Hungarian Grand Prix Is The Next Domino To Fall In F1's Doomed Calendar
Formula One wants to get back to racing sooner rather than later, and for some teams it might be a matter of survival that it does. Following the cancellation of the French Grand Prix earlier this month, that makes ten races that have been scrapped from the calendar, and it’s looking like an eleventh is in the offing.
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North Carolina Governor Gives Approval For A Fan-Free NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 On Memorial Day Weekend
It’s beginning to look like NASCAR may be the first series back on track during our ongoing international coronavirus epidemic. In less than one month from today, NASCAR is tentatively expecting to race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, running the Coca-Cola 600 on May 24th in North Carolina without any fans present. During a press conference on Tuesday, North Carolina governor Roy Cooper confirmed that the race could go on as planned, unless health conditions in the state get worse.
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Seven Minutes In Heaven
Grab your smartphone and head for the coat closet, because things are about to get loud, a little scary, and potentially quite messy. You’ll want some privacy for this one. This incredible head to head battle between a pair of evenly matched vintage Porsche 911 racers is bound to have you squealing with joy for the next seven minutes.
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DTM Has A Few Options
The future of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft looks a bit bleak at the moment. We’re in the early stages of an international economic depression, and it was bound to cause the tightening of the purse strings at many automotive companies, as well as non-automotive sponsors. On Monday, Audi announced it was ending its efforts in the DTM championship at the end of the 2020 season, and that’s if a 2020 season even happens.
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This Plucky Little Alfa Romeo Hill-Climb Car Deserves A Few Minutes Of Your Attention
This buzzy little Alfa making its way up an Italian hillside is the perfect way to start your day. What better way to get going than with a little “I think I can” energy?
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The Cost Of The F1 Shutdown Has At Least Two Teams Sweating Bullets
The 2020 Formula One season has already been blown wide open by the coronavirus pandemic. A full 9 grands prix have been cancelled or postponed at this point, and things don’t look promising for at least some of the remaining 13 races. Each of those races which have gone un-run are costly for teams, the series, and drivers. Commercial rights money is drying up, sponsors are not willing to pay for cars which stay hidden away in the factory. Some teams are getting desperate.
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After Two Years Of Delay, Fiat's New Tipo Touring Car Is Ready For 2020
Though we haven’t seen much live racing in 2020, Fiat hasn’t lost hope yet. Its new Tipo TCR touring car, originally promised for 2018, is going to finally hit the track later this year once events are back on the schedule.
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This Ferrari F355 Screams With A British Accent
The phrase “shout it from the mountain tops” is meant to invoke imagery of someone proclaiming some heartfelt sentiment to everyone, whether acquainted or not. Usually used as a way of professing love for someone or something. In the case of this Zytek-powered Ferrari F355, it is the thing doing the shouting for which I have fallen smitten. This hillclimb car was built for competing in the Swiss hillclimb championship, and I’d be happy to drive it to the top of a mountain and shout right along w
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Formula E Is One Step Closer To Scrapping The Whole Season
The FIA’s all-electric open wheel racing series is on the ropes for the 2019-20 season. Having started in November, the racers have already completed 5 rounds of the championship, but with Thursday’s announcement that all races in May and June have been indefinitely suspended, there are only two race weekends remaining on the schedule.
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'IMSA' Is 'Racing' At 'Laguna Seca' Right Now
There isn’t any racing going on right now thanks to the hellscape that is planet Earth amid a deadly international pandemic. Obviously racing doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, but it is a piece of normal life that I must admit to missing right now. Thankfully, most of our favorite international racers are committed to continuing racing.
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NASCAR Driver Kyle Larson Fired After Using N-Word
Kyle Larson used the n-word during a racing stream Sunday night, and he was suspended yesterday by both his team and NASCAR over it. Today, Chip Ganassi Racing said that he is now fired.
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Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One And Mille Miglia Legend, Has Passed Away At 90
Formula One great Sir Stirling Moss, 90, has passed away this morning, according to an FIA press release. Though Moss never took home a championship, his skill and finesse had made him one of the biggest names in open-wheel racing.
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Allow This McLaren M1B's Buttery V8 To Soothe Your Soul
Has there ever been a cooler series than Group 7 in the mid-to-late 1960s? Back then the way to build a fast car was to shove a big American V8 in a lightweight and nimble European chassis and jam the loud pedal as often as possible. The cars were incredible, but were matched on talent from the roster of amazing drivers who ran in that series. Mark Donohue, John Surtees, Phil Hill, Jim Hall, Dan Gurney, Graham Hill, it was a goddamn who’s who.
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Formula One Won't Give Up On The 2020 Season Until October
The 2020 Formula One season schedule originally had a massive 22 race weekends on the board, but nine of those have already been cancelled or postponed (and a tenth, the French Grand Prix, on deck). As the motorsport community continues to spiral in the wake of the covid-19 international crisis, the series managing director Ross Brawn has set a “drop dead point” for running a season almost by default.
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Enjoy This Huge Stash Of Rad 1980s And '90s Rally Videos
Weren’t you just saying you wish you knew where to find hours and hours of sweet old video clips featuring really rad cars from the 1980s and ’90s? Well... you’re welcome. The YouTube channel “VHS Rallies” has you covered.
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Formula One's 2020 Season Continues To Dissolve
Following the absolute omnishambles that was the delayed-too-late Australian Grand Prix (above), Formula One has been postponed or cancelled an additional eight rounds. The Canadian Grand Prix, originally scheduled for June 14th, is the latest of them to fall victim to the coronavirus global pandemic. Of the 22 grands prix originally on the schedule, now only an unlucky 13 remain unmoved. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg that is F1's problem pile right now.
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Next-Gen NASCAR Debut Delayed A Year
NASCAR’s next-generation prototype car was supposed to debut in full at next year’s Daytona 500, but delays in development due to the novel coronavirus have pushed those plans back another year.
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89-Year-Old Bernie Ecclestone Still Fucks, Fourth Child Due This Summer
Former Formula One boss and billionaire ghoul of note Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that his 44-year-old wife of 8 years Fabiana Flosi is with child. This will be Ecclestone’s first child with his third wife. His eldest, Deborah (65), was born to his first wife Ivy Bamford before having two further daughters with his second wife Slavica Radic, Tamara (35), and Petra (31).
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McLaren Formula One Drivers Take Voluntary Pay Cut As The Team Weathers Coronavirus Shutdown
McLaren Formula One racers Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris have both agreed to take a voluntary pay cut as many team members have been furloughed. The McLaren factory is all but shut down in the wake of an F1 season delayed by the spread of coronavirus across the globe.
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MotoGP Rider Handed 18-Month Competition Ban For Allegedly Accidental Steroid Use
Aprilia rider and one-time MotoGP race victor Andrea Iannone has been banned from the sport for 18 months following a positive test for steroid use at last November’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The ban will be enforced from December 17th, 2019 through June of 2021, meaning the Italian will miss all 2020 rounds (whenever the season does eventually re-start) as well as the first part of next season.
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NASA Selects Three Companies To Build Moon Landers And Yeah, SpaceX Is One Of Them
As you may be aware, NASA is planning on a return to crewed lunar missions, partially because we left three perfectly good lunar rovers up there and partially because NASA’s Artemis program’s stated goals are to return humans to the moon by 2024 and established sustainable operations by 2028. Since we don’t understand how teleporters work, at least not yet, we’ll need to get to the moon with landers, and NASA has selected the three companies that will be building them.
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The Navy Releasing The UFO Videos Doesn't Answer Our Questions
Three long-viral videos seemingly showing UFOs are now officially official, as they say, as the Navy has fully released “FLIR,” “GOFAST,” and “GIMBAL.” The Navy says it released the videos “in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.” How foolish they have been.
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Technology (7)

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Toyota Has Sold 15 Million Hybrids
Toyota was the first to market with a mass-produced hybrid model in the form of the original Prius way back in 1997. Right now, across all platforms and markets, Toyota and Lexus reportedly offer 44 different hybrid models. As a result of public acceptance of electrified technology, Toyota says it has now sold 15 million vehicles worldwide with hybrid drive. That’s a hell of a milestone.
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Porsche's $1,500 Retro Radio Means Old 911s Can Have OEM Touchscreens With CarPlay
Porsche’s going to sell factory-branded touchscreen infotainment systems in both single and double-DIN slot sizes for those of you with older P-cars who can’t live without Siri, Spotify, et al. for the duration of a drive. I bet Stuttgart sells every single one it can make.
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We Can Now Watch Google's Secret Self-Driving Cars From 2009
Google announced in late 2010 that for the past year, Californian drivers had been sharing the road with a secret self-driving car project. Many years and one death at the hands of rival Uber later, we can finally see 2009's testing footage.
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You Can Use Jumper Cables To Listen To The Radio And Possibly Get Killed, Horribly
We all know jumper cables are incredibly useful things: they can get your car started when the battery is discharged, they can be used for torturing people for information or sexual gratification, or they can even hold up your pants in times of severe beltlessness. What I didn’t realize is that they can also be used to listen to AM radio, as long as you don’t mind poor audio fidelity and a very real risk of a painful death.
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Ford Is Testing Distancing Wristbands That Buzz When Workers Are Too Close Together
Necessity is the mother of invention, so they say. And in that vein, Ford is developing proximity wristbands that buzz when workers are closer than the CDC recommended 6 feet apart to reduce the chance of contracting coronavirus. Ford is desperate to re-open its factories, but apparently wants to do so in a relatively safe manner.
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Waymo Suspends Autonomous Vehicle Testing During The Pandemic But Perhaps They Should Rethink That
Earlier today, Waymo, the Alphabet/Google-owned company developing autonomous ride-sharing vehicles, issued a statement saying they would be suspending all operations, including their “fully driverless operations.” Unlike most activities during the pandemic, I think perhaps this actually could be a good time for Waymo to be testing AVs. Let’s think about this.
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A Lucid Air Prototype Delivered Over 400 Miles On A Charge
Back in February, before the entire state of California went on lockdown, Lucid Motors was busy doing some long range testing in its Air sedan prototype. Ever since the car was first teased, Lucid has thrown around some pretty big numbers, including 400 plus miles of range, a 0-60 time of around 2.5 seconds, and a top speed of over 200 miles per hour.
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The Morning Shift (22)

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The Big Three Are Eating Through Cash
A look at the factors in play as The Big Three burn cash during the coronavirus shutdown, Nissan’s performance in China could spell good news for the industry, and Tesla is making money from CO2 credits. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 30, 2020.
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Ford Has To Get Its Shit Together
Ford recently announced it expected a $2 billion loss in the first quarter. Now it expects even worse for the second. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 29, 2020.
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Elon Musk Is About To Get A Big Payday
Tesla’s solid stock price is about to pay off big for Elon Musk, factory restart dates at the Big Three are pushed back, and Caterpillar is hurting. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, April 28, 2020.
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The Auto Industry Is Really Ready For This Shit To Be Over
Car sales are (maybe) on the uptick, reopening factories is extremely complicated, and GM needs cash. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 27, 2020.
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The UAW Isn't Ready
The UAW doesn’t think an early May plant restart is a good idea, tornado damage to a key supplier’s facility could put Ford, Toyota, and FCA further against the ropes, Toyota says demand is actually higher than it expected, and VW is now building its ID.3 electric car. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 24, 2020.
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Daimler Is Feeling The Pain
Daimler is in the garbage can, so is Renault, so is Hyundai, and so are auto suppliers. I am happy to report that I am not (currently) in a garbage can. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 23, 2020.
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The Old Normal Isn't Coming Back
The car world is still struggling to get back to some kind of normal, but it looks like the old normal will never return. In some cases, that ain’t bad. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 22, 2020.
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How The Oil Market Got So Messed Up
We need to explain how the oil market crashed so hard yesterday, car output is expected to plummet this year and Daimler and Volvo are busy partnering up over fuel-cell tech. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, April 21, 2020.
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No One Knows What's Happening With The Used Car Market
The used car market in a shambles along with everything else, Hyundai likes its position amid coronavirus, and the price of oil is nosediving. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 20, 2020.
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Why May 4 Could Be A Defining Day For The American Automobile Industry (But Also Maybe Not)
May the 4th be with the American auto industry, Nissan is hitting the brakes on restarting car production, Volvo is hitting the gas in Europe, and a Chinese market resurgence could provide some much-needed relief for VW. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 17, 2020.
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Volkswagen Doesn't Know How Bad This Will Get
Volkswagen’s profits are tumbling, Bentley extends its production shutdown, and Ford hopes to possibly restart production with the help of wristbands. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 16, 2020.
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Elon Musk's Ventilator Program Has Become A 'Fiasco'
The playbook for helping out in the time of Coronavirus is clear, and yet every day we find new screw ups. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 15, 2020.
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Ford Expects $600 Million First Quarter Loss
Ford (and everybody else) is losing a lot of money, Big Oil’s production cut is basically meaningless, and it’s going to be rough for electric cars for awhile. That and more in The Morning Shift for April 14, 2020.
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Gas Can Be Had For Less Than $1 A Gallon In Michigan
Fuel is getting crazy cheap, OPEC appears to be unable to stop the slide, and global factories are slowing due to a dearth of demand. It’s a dreary Monday, and it’s the Morning Shift for April 13, 2020.
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Michigan Dealerships Get The Green Light To Sell Cars During Coronavirus Shutdown
Dealerships just got the green light to sell cars in Michigan, EV startup Rivian presses the pause button, VW furloughs workers, Renault asks for a lot of money. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 10, 2020.
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Automakers Think They Have A Plan For This
Automakers are desperate to reopen their factories, Tesla has record shipments in China, and Mercedes pulls ahead of BMW in the U.S. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 9, 2020.
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Tesla Furloughs All 'Non-Essential' Employees Due To COVID-19
Tesla is putting its workers on hold and cutting salaries, car production is warily re-starting, airlines are cutting airplanes, and some ventilators. All that and more in the Morning Shift for April 8, 2020.
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There Goes Nissan's Recovery Plan
The world falling apart is very inconvenient for Nissan’s recovery plan, the PSA-FCA merger is still on the books, big oil is making big moves, and all that and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, April 7, 2020.
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Car Companies Can Expect To Lose At Least $100 Billion
We may have a clearer picture of how coronavirus-related shutdowns are going to hit the auto industry. That and more in The Morning Shift for April 6, 2020.
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Ford Wants A Cash For Clunkers-Like Government Stimulus To Boost Car Sales
Could Cash for Clunkers return? Automakers crank up medical equipment production, auto sales are down and more people in the industry have died from the coronavirus. That and more in The Morning Shift for April 3, 2020.
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One Of The World's Largest Auto Suppliers Sets New Profits Expectation: Zero
As car sales tank, the companies that make the parts that make up a car are realizing that, well, they’re probably going to make no money at all. And that’s the best case. That and more in The Morning Shift for April 2, 2020.
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The Car Sales Catastrophe Is Here (Updating)
The terrible sales reports are here, including Hyundai, Fiat Chrysler, Porsche, and Europe, and the UAW is trying to shape up. That and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
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The 2020 Toyota Supra Has Noticeably Better Bite With A Tune From Litchfield
We all knew tuners would be coming for the A90 Toyota Supra. Litchfield was one of the first to have a go cranking more grunt out of the car’s BMW-sourced powertrain, and its first car took the stock output from 335 to over 400. And there’s more to come once its ECU has been properly mapped.
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I Got To See The God Of Trains
I have been a car enthusiast since I was two years old, but I have been a train enthusiast since the moment I was born. Unfortunately, it’s incredibly difficult to get a locomotive into a garage, or drive one to work (especially if you live in the States), so that enthusiasm is usually left at the wayside in favor of automobiles. My area is basically devoid of passenger rail, and it is significant effort to try and watch intermodal freight trains which I admittedly have seen thousands of from tr
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Transportation (2)

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It's Almost Time To Start Importing Ford Kas
Ford’s most sensible car of the 1990s, the European-focused supermini known as Ka, is coming up on its 25th anniversary. Which means that while it was not available in the U.S. market when new, it will soon be eligible for import. Which can only mean that we will soon see the city streets of America positively littered with the little bubble-shaped wonder. Come this time next year if you haven’t already imported yours, you’ll be the odd one out!
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The 'Peace Line' Carried Jews Out Of Egypt By Bus (And Even Brought Them Back)
This week is Passover, when we celebrate that super-long road trip across the desert from Egypt to Israel that my ancestors took a few thousand years back. Since then, travel between Egypt and the Promised Land usually hasn’t been much easier. Except for that brief period when there was a bus, of course.
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Trucks (17)

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As The Trucking Industry Proves Essential, Tesla Pushes Semi Back Again
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the electric automaker’s Tesla Semi truck project has been pushed back again while the company manages and overcomes the current covid-19 outbreak. But the delay comes right as the trucking industry proves its value.
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Come Watch Some Live Trucking And Chat On My SnowRunner Stream Here
This video game SnowRunner has helped quench my thirst for off-road adventure, a little, and I’m hoping it could also be a tool for interacting with people reading Jalopnik. If you’re into trucks or games or just want to chat, I’d love it if you tuned in to my stream and let me try to entertain you this evening.
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British Land Rover Nerd Drives A Jeep Cherokee XJ And Realizes Its Greatness
A dozen folks have sent me a recent video showing legendary British car journalist Harry Metcalfe realizing—ostensibly for the first time—just how incredible the Jeep Cherokee XJ is. It’s a beautiful moment caught on film, and you should all watch it.
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Old Mercury Pickup Trucks From Canada Weird Me Out
Alternate universes scare me. The idea that there could be a reality so similar to our own but with the slightest difference that somehow changes everything is so spooky. I think that’s what bothers me with these trucks. They’re Mercury pickups, but WHY?
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This Badass Old Van Is Actually A Modern Ford F-150
I paw through a lot of Facebook groups and forums looking at modified vehicles belonging to people I don’t know. (If you also think this is fun, we could probably be friends.) But a modern chassis, drivetrain, and dashboard swap over to a classic body project always piques my interest. In this case, the body is especially cool: A righteous Grumman delivery van from the ’60s.
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Man Uses Oil Barrels Instead Of Wheels For His UAZ Off-Roader And It Doesn't Work Out At All

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Check Out This Dramatic Nighttime Desert Racing Footage
The new Race Motion video series is a collection of badass clips from desert races. That’s it. But they’re intensely cinematic and I’m big into them, so please enjoy the latest installment in this visually impressive series: The Mint 400 at night.
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The Ford Ranger Now Offers A $825 Factory Tune Up To 320 HP
Nothing brightens a day quite like more horsepower, and Ford’s letting it shine with a new performance tune for the current generation of the Ford Ranger pickup truck.
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Here's A Neat Ambient Backcountry Soundtrack To Make Quarantine Feel More Outdoorsy
Nitto Tire must be on a creative marketing kick because, in addition to that batch of 360-camera trail ride videos, we now have a set of SoundCloud tracks featuring ambient recordings from off-road trips posted by the company. Actually, they’re really nice to listen to!
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This Video Format Is Like A Fun Off-Road Version Of Google Street View
While we’re all stuck at home missing the smell of fresh air and the sound of knobby tires crushing sand, somebody at Nitto Tire had the mildly brilliant plan of slapping a 360-degree camera on the roof of a 4Runner and recording the trip down some trails for us to tag along on.
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The Arabian Toyota Land Cruiser 'Heritage Edition' Is Way Cooler Than America's
Here in the United States, the coolest Toyota Land Cruiser you can buy new is the 200-Series Heritage Edition. This version of the mighty 4x4 has nice wheels, some decorative treatments inside, and black leather seats. The United Arab Emirates has its own version, with a manual transmission and cloth(!) interior.
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This Is How Sudanese Militants Get Their Hands On So Many Toyota Pickups
We’ve known for a long time that Toyota’s Land Cruisers and Hilux pickup trucks are the go-to vehicles for armed groups of dubious legitimacy. You see them on the news all the time in locations across the Middle East and Africa. But how do these trucks, usually called technicals, make it from Toyota’s factories to the fleets of armed militants?
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Ford's Bronco Sport Launch Delayed Until September: Report
Though we’ve known what the 2021 Ford Bronco Sport will look like for a little more than a month, you’ll have to wait a little longer to see one in the flesh. Until September, most likely.
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Here's The Cinematic Driving Footage You Needed To Get Fired Up Today
Racing in the desert really does feel like some kind of mythical battle. Masses of metal clang and bang, leather and rubber stretch and sway. Oil and blood mix on the hands of people hard at work. This new “Race Motion” video series captures that in cinematic magnificence.
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The Next Ford F-150 Lariat Interior Looks All Digital With A Few Important Buttons Left
I’ve been so busy stumbling over myself in a haze of stokedness over the new Ford Bronco that I forgot that we’re almost due for an F-150 update. Check out this freshly leaked set of pictures, showing what sure looks like the next Ford pickup cab interior. And there’s more to look at than the big swaths of screens.
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Australian Truck Racing Is The Ultimate Lockdown Bingewatch Material
With motorsport off the calendar indefinitely, it’s been crucial to plunge deep into the mire of YouTube to find some machines on a track. Luckily for you, I’ve plucked one such video out for you and it comes from Australia. It’s the inaugural Shell Formula Diesel Super Prix from 1987.
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The Hybrid 2021 Ford F-150 Will Be Paired With Base 3.5-Liter V6: Document
We’ve known a hybrid Ford F-150 pickup was on the schedule for this year since 2017, but word on the electrified truck has been relatively quiet since. But a new VIN decoder document appears to show it’ll get a 3.5-liter V6 and debut for the 2021 model year.
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Wrenching (8)

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I Took My Car To A Mechanic For The First Time In Years And I Feel Weird About It
I do all my own work on my cars. I rebuild engines, transmissions, and brakes. I weld up rusty frames, I repair steering boxes—I do it all, and mostly because I like to learn, and also because I’m a cheap bastard. But yesterday, I dropped my beloved Jeep J10 pickup off at a shop and paid a lot of money to have work done, and I feel a bit weird about it.
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How To Get Started Welding For Dirt Cheap
Welding is a human superpower, there’s no question about it. It takes traditional ratchet-turning to an entirely new level, allowing you to fuse metal together to rebuild rotted frames, build special tools to extract seized bearing races, remove broken bolts—the possibilities are endless. And while welding is hard, it’s not something you should be scared of. Just watch me, an amateur, show former Jalopnik writer Kristen Lee the ropes on a $100 welder.
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This 1966 Ford Mustang Has Been Sitting For Eight Years And Now It's My Main Summer Car Project
Today is the 56th anniversary of the Ford Mustang’s 1964 debut at the Word’s Fair, an occasion that reminded me that I own a beautiful 1966 Ford Mustang. It’s a car that has languished in garages over the past eight years, but that changes this summer. It’s time to get this red [insert pony or other horse-related noun/cliché] back on the road, where it can [insert horse-related verb like “prance”] freely like the car gods intended.
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How I Turned A Free Jeep Grand Wagoneer Into A Decent Example Of A True Classic
When I took ownership of my free Jeep Grand Wagoneer last summer, I had low expectations. The Jeep hadn’t run in many years, it was filled with mouse crap and it was fairly rusty. But after some wrenching and cleaning, I’ve now got a decent example of one of the most value-appreciating Jeeps in all of the land. Check it out.
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My Free Jeep Grand Wagoneer Drives But Nearly Started A Demolition Derby In My Backyard
Oh boy is today’s wrenching tale a classic DT blunder. My Jeep Grand Wagoneer, which I obtained for free from a generous reader named Tammy, has been giving me hell, with its brakes failing, and its motor refusing to consistently start. Over the past few days, I’ve mended those problems (sort of), and gotten the Jeep to drive under its own power. Then things nearly went off the rails.
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There Is No Better Time To Deep Clean Your Car Than Right Now
If your brain is wired like mine, your car is basically always dirty. There is a sliding scale of what is considered “clean” and the definition changes to be just slightly cleaner than however clean you just finished getting it. However, with nothing to do, now is the change to attain the platonic ideal of clean with your car.
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Help Me Decide If I Should Adopt These Free Jeeps
“Free beach vacation in return for taking my rusty Cherokee” reads an email from a Long Island-based reader about his 1995 Jeep XJ. This comes just days after a Pennsylvania-based reader told me about his 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee: “If you’re interested in it it’s yours for the taking...That’s right... Free.” Now I have decisions to make, and I could use your help.
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How To Remove Pistons From An Engine
Since Michigan has a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus, I’ve been partaking in what I am now officially dubbing Wrenchfest 2020—an all-out repair assault on my various broken cars. Last weekend was a good one for my Jeep Cherokee Golden Eagle, as I cracked into its AMC 360 V8 engine. Here’s a look at how I removed those eight pistons.
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