The Willemsbrug, a bridge in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, was painted bright red when it was completed back in 1981. While it helps it stand out against the beautiful northern blue sky, it would also hopefully act as a literal red flag for ships to avoid, too, but a German barge just collided with it.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing whether or not to use equity from trade on a leased car, and how to tell how long a dealer has been sitting on a used car.
Read MoreAlan lives in Texas and will soon be relocating to Alaska. He plans on driving there so he wants something comfortable, unique, and rugged that can survive the long trek and the harsh conditions of Alaska. With a budget of up to $15,000, what car should he buy?
Read MoreThe three most precious resources on an overland vehicle trip are fuel, water, and shade. (Plus coffee.) (And an ample cooled beer stash.) Friendship also makes it more fun. I guess it’s a soft “three.” Anyway, MoonShade’s $350 awning does a fine job helping with two of them but its real value proposition is portability.
Read MoreThe Hertz bankruptcy saga is still ongoing. Not only does the company have to pay lenders $650 million to remain afloat, it now has until the end of the year to sell off nearly 200,000 vehicles. How this will impact the used car market going forward isn’t so clear.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing buying the current Crosstreck or waiting on the more powerful version, and whether or not to take advantage of the high trade-in market.
Read MoreRicky is about to conclude his time in the service and will be passing down his Ford Focus to his daughter. He is looking for something fun, affordable, and a little bit different. He has a limited budget but is open to all kinds of ideas as long as it has a manual transmission. What car should he buy?
Read MoreHonda is trimming down its lineup and on the chopping block along with the Civic coupe and Honda Fit is the Accord sedan with a manual transmission. Honda was willing to sell the three-pedal version with two engines, but the 2.0T paired with the six-speed made for an excellent daily driver. As of now, there are two left in the entire country if you want a new one.
Read MoreThe 2020 Nissan Sentra SV is a user-friendly, competent getaround car and surprisingly luxurious for $24,000. It’s not particularly exciting, but it is good on gas.
Read MoreIn 2006, Mini decided to supercharge its reborn hatchback and connect it to a manual transmission, making one of the most entertaining production cars ever made. Two generations later, the 2021 Mini John Cooper Works GP (the third) loses most of the original experience, but there’s now 300 horsepower to marvel at.
Read MoreMitch is longing to relive better times, and for him, that means a car from the 1980s. He needs something cheap that can fit four adults for road trips and such. He is flexible on the car and the body style as long as it is ‘80s awesome! What car should he buy?
Read MoreThe all-new Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport are coming soon to your local Ford dealer. The automaker is likely to sell boatloads of them, Ford is already rolling out finance specials on the smaller Bronco Sport. The problem is that depending on the term you pick, it may not be a great deal.
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has upended how people buy cars and also upended what kinds of cars people are buying. One throughline has been that demand for used cars is through the roof—even for used Porsches, a part of the market you might think would be a little less impacted by the economy taking a nosedive.
Read MoreLast week, we compared the new 250-horsepower Mazda 3 Turbo against the current crop of hot hatches posing its toughest competition. But Mazda wants to go premium, so let’s see how the new Mazda 3 Turbo stacks up against cars like the Audi A3, Mercedes-Benz A-Class, and more.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to pick a few questions and try to help out. This week we are discussing a new dad wanting to buy a vintage car as a daily driver, and making sense of all the 911 variants.
Read MoreI realize that “run over your nightmares” may seem overwrought, but I have an excuse: I didn’t write it. Those were the words my nine-year old kid Otto, when he clambered up into this brute and I stomped the throttle. “This car can run over your nightmares!” he yelled, and, really, he nailed it. That’s the whole, fundamental point of this wonderful, ridiculous thing.
Read MoreIn these uncertain economic times, I can understand turning to “financial experts” for car buying advice, and arguably one of the most famous is Dave Ramsey. Unfortunately, Mr. Ramsey’s insistence on only giving advice in black and white terms can result in information that is both incorrect and unhelpful, especially when it comes to zero percent financing.
Read MoreTim and his wife want to switch from two older cars to one newer, but much nicer car. They need something family-friendly, but not too big. It should be fun to drive, and with decent fuel economy. Even with a respectable budget, this one is a challenge. What car should they buy?
Read MoreAre you, by whatever misery inflicted upon you, in need of A Car? Just, four wheels, some space, and a vague sense that if you treat the machine right it will return the favor? Well, Honda Fits exist and are not painfully expensive. It’s not that complicated!
Read MoreAnybody curious about the discrepancy between the horsepower and torque figures from the leaked specs of the new Mazda 3 Turbo now has an answer: If you fill it up with the right gas, it’ll boost up to 250 horsepower. That makes it not only a bargain but very competitive in the hot hatch market.
Read MoreMazda is finally giving us more boost in the excellent Mazda 3 with an upgraded turbo model, but of course, the downside is that car with come with only two-pedals. However, those of you shopping for a serious hot hatch within the same price range can also find the monster Focus RS if you filter them carefully.
Read MoreDemand for used cars is through the roof, but it’s hard to know when it has reached a peak. Some think that will be sooner rather than later.
Read MoreJarod lives in Philly and he takes frequent trips to NJ Motorsport Park to race his Mazdaspeed3. He needs an affordable, reliable, and family-friendly tow-rig so he can bring his boys to the track. What car should he buy?
Read MoreA few months ago, Mini taught me how to do high-speed J-turns, also known as a 180, also known as the “Rockford spin.” I also got a hot lap in the passenger seat of the 2020 Mini John Cooper Works GP, but now I get to drive it myself and I want to know what you want to know.
Read MoreThere’s no operational reason to put a lot of thought into say, making a side mirror or a reverse light beautiful, but that eye for detail is what makes good cars great.
Read MoreNeil Ottaviano, a clay sculptor at General Motors, bought an amazingly decrepit 1962 Austin Healey Sprite from a Pontiac, Michigan junkyard, and spent months turning it into a bed for his son. The transformation is incredible. Check it out.
Read MoreI know the world is in a pretty weird place right now, and I suppose it says something about the human mind’s weird self-destructive gluttony for disaster that makes one even think in these terms, but what if shit got weirder? And, by weirder, I mean even worse, economically, politically, whatever, to the point where everything is going so terribly off the rails that it’s decided that, for some set of reasons that make sense in the context of this hypothetical shitstorm, that car sales in the U.
Read MoreOut of all of the new electric vehicles developed by Kia and Hyundai over the last few years, perhaps the cutest and most interesting of them all is the long-promised Kia Soul EV. But now it sounds like it’s never actually going to go on sale.
Read MoreBuried as almost a passing note in a recent investor presentation by car designer and EV startup founder Henrik Fisker was news that Volkswagen has delayed negotiations to supply powertrain parts for his company’s upcoming Ocean crossover. Sounds like a big problem.
Read MoreI saw this picture first on the evocatively-named VWSlut’s Instagram, and was struck by how strangely lovely this bit of axle and wheel looks, with all those holes drilled into it to make it lighter. I luckily don’t suffer from trypophobia, so I can appreciate the lace-like look of it all. Oh, if you do have that phobia of holes, though, um, sorry about this.
Read MoreOn the very week before the first Gulf War, Ford showed an innovative engine design for the ‘90s, modular in its layout and calling back to the most luxurious automobiles ever made. This is the story of “T-Drive” and Ford’s modular straight eight that never made it to production.
Read MoreThe 2021 Honda Odyssey is getting a facelift, which includes a snout that looks a lot like what’s on today’s Civic. I think the minivan actually wears it better.
Read MoreDon’t worry, you’re still going to be able to buy a 2021 Hyundai Veloster N with a stick. But now you can now also spec a dual-clutch auto with “N Grin Shift” which, apparently, lets you bump the turbo boost momentarily for a little surge of speed. Sounds fun.
Read MoreThe love of manual transmissions among automotive journalists has become something of a cliché. I absolutely understand that. That cliché has likely become more intense as the number of manual cars available for sale dwindles every year, becoming more and more niche. Recently, I’ve noticed a strain of criticism about this affinity for manuals, mostly coming from inside the automotive and automotive journalism industries themselves. Now, at the risk of sounding like a cliché myself, I think I nee
Read MoreI don’t think we’ve ever really covered much about L. Frank Baum’s famous stories about the land Oz here before, mostly because the stories (and the famous movie) are pretty thin on cars. But that’s not to say there aren’t any things like cars. In fact, in one of the later Oz books, there’s something that sure as hell seems a lot like some of the autonomous cars being developed today. Only, you know, much more weird and magical.
Read MoreUzi Nissan, the legendary owner of the nissan.com web domain who fought with the automaker of the same name for nearly a decade in court, has passed away from Covid-19 complications this month.
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, we asked you readers/ wrenchers/ mechanics/ whatever-you-identify-as to tell us your craziest shop stories. Anything you have encountered while working on cars that was unbelievable, between an accident or an owner’s negligence, is what we were looking for. I got a lot of emails from you, but don’t worry, there is still a chance you will get to be interviewed for a future video.
Read MoreNext time you’re out driving, check all your mirrors (as I hope you do anyway) chances are at least one of the cars around you is at least 16 years old. It might even be the car you’re driving.
Read MoreYou can find the weirdest shit in Nevada, and nowhere is that more true than on Craigslist. Two feet across, almost 19 feet long, and built from the beginning for going stupid fucking fast, these huge tubes were originally tasked with carrying fuel for an airplane. Right now they’re just hanging out in the middle of someone’s desert back yard, but imagine one of these suckers going 250 miles per hour ripping across the Bonneville salt flats. Hell yeah.
Read MoreBMW is trying to cover every base when it comes to future powertrains, but it has also largely played it safe with electric cars, and falling behind rivals like Mercedes and Tesla in the process. Monday, it said it was about to get a whole lot more serious.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz used to be the German automaker known for a century of crafting luxurious coupes, convertibles and limousines, building some of the most collectible, prized and personalized cars in the world. Today it’s known for big, boxy crossovers, and it seems the old Mercedes is about to be killed off.
Read MoreI think it’s safe to say that here at Jalopnik, we’re very much in favor of the following: Twingos, drifting, rear engines, making cheap shitboxes even more fun, and being openly and unashamedly delighted by any or all of the following. As someone frequently thrilled by cheap shitboxes, I admit I feel a sort of kinship with Piotr, his little Renault Twingo, and his dream of making it a drift car.
Read MoreNot unlike the producers and distributors of No Time To Die, Mulan, and The French Dispatch, the team at Genesis is worried about a launch botched by the Coronavirus pandemic and they’re holding back the 2021 GV80 crossover and redesigned 2021 G80 sedan until later this year.
Read MoreWe’ve been waiting on this TVR revival for a while. first, there was one delay. Then another. Followed by yet another. For a company that has long made a name for itself by building cars for people that prefer to fly by the seat of their pants, I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise that the firm’s management seems to take that philosophy to heart when it comes to running the business. But they want to convince you that it won’t get in the way of building cars. Not this time, at least.
Read MoreYou all know that I have a thing for the Italian coachbuilders. Those little workshops where trained metalworkers lovingly beat their soul into steel body panels, where craftsmen with generations of experience behind them painstakingly varnish hand-cut wood trim. Pininfarina, Zagato, Touring Superleggera. All of them with styles their own, taking the mass-produced and transforming it into the tailor-made.
Read MoreBack in June, the city of Troy, Michigan told me I had six weeks to get all 12 of my cars into compliance with an ordinance dictating that all vehicles stored outside must be both registered and functional. Many of my junkers were nowhere close to the latter. Now, over four weeks in and with a deadline looming, I’ve made good progress. But I’ve still got plenty of work to do.
Read MoreThe Rivian R1T and R1S—an electric truck and electric SUV respectively—that have been in the development for years now, were originally supposed to be delivered late this year. But the coronavirus pandemic—and perhaps some more normal delays—have now pushed delivery dates back into mid-2021.
Read MoreThe original Jeep is about to turn 80. By comparison, the current Jeep Grand Cherokee has only been around since 2009, so it’s still pretty old. To add insult to injury, Jeep is keeping the current Grand Cherokee around for another year and reportedly selling it with an “80th Anniversary” edition.
Read MoreThe other day, I was listening to the radio. They interviewed a woman who had been laid off and was thinking about selling her car to pay rent, but she was scared that if she did, she wouldn’t have a place to live if she lost her apartment.
Read MoreLegendary car designer Ian Callum has been involved in a project you may have heard about: The first-gen Aston Martin Vanquish from the early 2000s is getting a limited-run resto-mod treatment. This week, the final production version was trotted out and it is, of course, lovely.
Read MoreLegacy automakers like Volkswagen, Jaguar, and Mercedes are currently racing to catch up with Tesla when it comes to electric vehicles. The evidence, so far, is that they are all very much behind, and Audi is no exception, with its new-ish CEO saying Thursday they were years behind.
Read MorePictured here is the alien species Marc Marquez leaving a MotoGP medical examination in Jerez, Spain to determine if the Honda rider and six-time-world-champion has enough range of motion to pilot his race bike this weekend. The double-thumbs-up is a typically human non-verbal communication device to portray good news. That good news is, in fact, that Marquez passed his examination and will be riding in the Andalusian Grand Prix as normal. This comes just four days after a crash broke his right
Read MoreFord is reportedly fast-tracking development of a pickup truck version of the 2021 Ford Bronco to take on the Jeep Gladiator, and it’s expected to debut in the next four years.
Read MoreThe Genesis G70 is as great as it needs to be, and also comes in a manual, but not enough of you bought that manual here in the States so now Genesis says that it’s going away.
Read MoreI’m delighted by how much attention my purchase of the Cheapest Electric Car in the World, the Changli Freeman, has received, especially in its home market of China, something I wasn’t really expecting at all. That sort of attention in China has led to remarkable videos like this one, where a Chinese YouTuber (or more likely, a journalist of some sort?) goes to the Changli factory and actually mentions me, and talks to the person who helped me buy the Changli in the first place! What an incredib
Read MoreCar theft in Los Angeles is apparently happening at the highest rates in a decade, “with coronavirus likely to blame” according to a report. It might be more accurate to blame “cars being parked for weeks due to people not traveling because of coronavirus,” but, I guess it’s kind of six or a half dozen.
Read MoreYou want to know that the pickup you’re dropping a pretty penny on is worth its salt, even if it’s going to be treated like a luxury sedan. It’s what you’re buying it, right? Truckmakers know that, and they’ll show you just how tough their offerings are. It’s what they’re best at.
Read MoreJD Power announced results of its Initial Quality Survey in June, including Tesla for the first time and revealing that owners reported more problems than any other automaker JD Power rated. Which made for an interesting contrast this week with a new JD Power survey measuring emotional appeal. Tesla has more than anyone.
Read MoreI believe I’ve made it abundantly clear that I’m an unashamed automotive anthropomorphist. Car fronts look like faces, headlights are eyes, and if anyone wants to fight me on that, I’ll be all over you like adorability on a hand-knitted Kirby plush you found on Etsy. Yeah, that’s right. Who’s tough now? Happily, I’m not alone, as I stumbled onto an amazing Twitter thread that started when someone realized comedian Nick Kroll looks kinda like a 2012-ish Volvo XC70, and then snowballed from there.
Read MoreTesla announced a second-quarter profit of $104 million today, marking its fourth consecutive profitable quarter, a first for the company. It’s a benchmark that many skeptics thought Tesla would never achieve, though as usual it comes with a tiny asterisk.
Read MoreMitsubishi is a brand that, in general, gives zero fucks, which confuses auto journalists, who respond by lobbing insults. But in reality, Mitsubishi sales have increased for seven straight years in North America. And today Mitsu announced the fourth-generation Outlander, the first new Outlander in almost a decade.
Read MoreThe Hertz bankruptcy has lurched through court since the car rental company declared Chapter 11 in May, but it hopes to buy some time to get its house in order by filing a proposed settlement with its lenders late Monday involving a one time $650 million payment under a new vehicle lease contract.
Read MoreThere’s nothing quite like the betrayal of discovering your favorite gas station has finally upgraded its diesel pump, only to find a giant nozzle that won’t fit your tank. Especially disheartening when this is the fourth gas station you’ve visited looking for fuel and your gauge is hovering above E.
Read MoreInterest in the 2021 Ford Bronco proved so high that Ford is increasing First Edition orders from 3,500 to 7,000, the company announced in an email to reservation holders on the waitlist for the limited First Edition package. The off-roader won over so many hearts that $100 reservations for both the two and four-door versions sold out in mere hours after its July 13 release.
Read MoreIf you’ve spent any time on the roads today I am sure you have noticed all of the exceedingly high-tech super sports machines blitzing past you have one thing in common: Buick.
Read MoreVolvo people will tell you that the company makes money by selling not that many cars, or just over 705, 452 globally in 2019, compared to rivals like BMW or Mercedes which do over three times that. And perhaps in part because its ambitions aren’t for volume Volvo said this week it expected a full sales recovery in the second half of this year.
Read MoreI’ll admit, I was a little conflicted about writing up this simple idea, because, really, how much do I want to make license plates easier to read for police? I mean, there’s plenty of good reasons to do that I suppose, but, well, I’m just not sure I’d want mine to always super legible. But that’s no way to think! So, what the hell, let me just explain this basic idea because it really could benefit everyone.
Read MoreThere is a slightly updated Arteon coming next year, a car which honestly more people should consider. Beyond that VW’s US lineup—all of which has been updated in recent years, except for the dead Beetle—won’t get much else beyond some infortainment. Though some models will get a semi-autonomous system that does 95.
Read MoreThe media relations director over at CarsDirect just emailed us to share that they’d confirmed the 2021 Jeep Compass would not be available with a six-speed manual. Which made me realize, hey, there was a 2020 Jeep Compass available with a six-speed manual!
Read MoreEarlier this year at the CES show, Jeep showed off a range of upcoming plug-in hybrid models, including the Wrangler. The first of those Jeeps badged ‘four by e’—namely the Renegade 4Xe and the Compass 4Xe,—are now available to order in mainland Europe. Both models offer up to 240 horsepower, and an average of 31 miles per charge in EV-only mode. Jeep says the 4Xe models are significantly more capable off-road than their gasoline-only counterparts.
Read MoreEveryone on a film set has a job. Lots of people are all around, but everybody does one little thing to make sure the whole operation works smoothly. And—I can’t believe I didn’t already know this—in the case of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, one guy held the prestigious job of “get arrested pretending to be the director.”
Read MoreSo, partially as a result of that jackass pandemic canceling my kid’s usual summer plans and making his little friends effectively unapproachable, I’ve become sort of obsessed with the idea of getting a canoe. The thinking is it could be something that I could do with him that would get us outside and be an alternative to him making a never-ending series of questionable, strange (but often funny?) TikTok videos. I finally got a canoe this weekend and was delighted to find that, yes, my little Ni
Read MoreThe Honda Accord Aerodeck is an exotic car you can live with. It’s a shooting brake that will never see a twin on American roads, but you can probably get most work done at your local Honda shop should anything go wrong. The shape is rare, the parts inside? Decidedly less so.
Read MoreThe name of the game this week is the triumphal return to form. Volkswagen has trademarked a mess of names that suggest an electrified look back at the brand’s history is on the way and, of course, the 2021 Ford Bronco finally crawled its way into the light.
Read MoreI think we tried this a long time ago, but what the hell, let’s do it again. I like to doodle, and this will give me a nice outlet for that. It’s one of those caption contests like those smug New Yorker bastards like to do, but ours will be full of cars! They’ll be not just car-toons, but carmics. That you can caption. Or, perhaps, craption. Yes, we’ll have our own Carmic Craption Carntest! Rolls off the tongue.
Read MoreSince June, I have been living under the suffocating cloud of a government-mandated Automobile Reduction Order. After telling me I was breaking an ordinance, my city gave me six weeks to ensure that all 12 of my cars become functional and registered. While this might sound like an easy job, it hasn’t been, because my cars are crap-cans. Here’s where I stand with just two weeks until my July 31 deadline.
Read MoreAs we’ve mentioned before, Los Angeles is a maddeningly good city for cars. When I lived there I routinely would spot such unicorns as Lancias and Tatras and Volgas and Jensens and Citroëns and Innocentis and at least one Dual Ghia, and on and on. But I never saw a RAESR Tachyon Speed. A reader named Philippe did, though, and he sent us some pictures.
Read MoreBefore we get started with this little garage chat [pull up a rolly stool, grab a beer from the fridge, we’re all friends here] it’s important to know that you don’t have to know how to wrench on anything to be a car enthusiast. It takes all kinds to make this community move, and I’m not going to shame anyone for paying a mechanic for repairs or upgrades. It’s also important to know that if you do wrench, you shouldn’t be expected to know how to do everything. So, let’s get started.
Read MoreAndrew Collins is a lifelong 4x4 enthusiast, former off-road guide, raced in the Baja 1000, he’s been around. I’ve been off-roading since I was 15, using the passion to score a job as a Jeep engineer, and then leaving for Jalopnik to up crap-can Jeeps and take them rock-crawling in Moab. Andrew and I are clearly off-road nerds; here’s what we think about the 2021 Ford Bronco.
Read MoreFriends, welcome back to another edition of your favorite weekly car identifyin’, fundraisin’, click-makin’ contest, the Slide Show Slog. The theme this time is Audis, because the prizes, well, get in here and check this out.
Read MoreThe Honda Fit is getting discontinued in the U.S., alongside the Civic coupe and the manual Accord. Which has me, a Honda Fit owner, feeling a little emotional, so forgive me when I say get bent, Honda.
Read MoreNissan has a new logo and new electric Tesla Model Y-fighting crossover on its way, but 2020 overall has not gone according to plan. And while we knew that part of the plan was to back off the volume ambitions of former CEO Carlos Ghosn, by cutting production 20 percent according to a new report it will be a bit more.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 138,000 Americans and sent ripples through even the most mundane aspects of American life, and that includes our daily grinds. So many people are working from home that, without all of us trapped in car commutes, National Public Radio is facing a historic downturn in listenership.
Read MorePresident Trump, Vice President Pence, and a few other folks addressed the public on a White House lawn in front of two heavy-duty Chevy Silverados and a crane today. General Motors, apparently, had nothing to do with this.
Read MoreFord was surprisingly cagey about the potential for an electrified version of its all-new 2021 Ford Bronco. But now, just a few days after its big reveal, a leak seems to hint that a hybrid Bronco is on the way.
Read MoreOh, I knew it. I knew Volkswagen had to be talking ex recto when they claimed they had no plans for an electric Beetle. Because why the hell wouldn’t they consider a new Beetle built on their MEB platform? It would even have the motor in the rear, just like The Universe intended. They’d be fools not to consider it, and it now looks like maybe, just maybe, they weren’t fools after all, as a member of the VWIDTalk forum found evidence that Volkswagen has reserved the European trademarks for e-Beet
Read MoreThe Chevy Sonic is dead. So is the Toyota Yaris. So is the Ford Fiesta. The Chevy Spark, Kia Rio, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Versa, and Mini Hardtop are all still sold here, and the Honda Fit is too, but maybe not for long. For my money, though, I’m increasingly in on the Mitsubishi Mirage.
Read MoreMaserati unveiled its first electrified offering today, the Ghibli Hybrid that will make 330 horsepower in a mild hybrid system in part powered by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder. Maserati claims it will still sound good.
Read MoreI’ll freely admit that the competition for Best Cabinet in Motoring History isn’t one of the most fiercely competitive titles, but if it ever becomes so, and you’re asked to make some wagers on it, may I suggest you consider laying some money on Herr Hofmeister’s cabinet here? There’s some gooooood stuff in there. Here, have a look.
Read MoreThe Toyota Yaris is dead in America, but Toyota doesn’t want you to give up on its other sedans just yet. A lot of other sedans. The automaker announced new versions and features on the Avalon, Camry, and Corolla Wednesday, possibly because it wants to put that whole Yaris business behind it.
Read MoreA new report shows Iowa, South Dakota, and South Carolina recently joined Nebraska in offering up drivers’ license records to the federal government in order to help the Trump administration get to its goal of tracking the citizenship status of every adult in the United States and redistricting states based solely on eligible voting-age population.
Read MoreFor the last decade or so many of us have been scratching our heads and wondering just what the hell Nissan was up to. The company has seemingly been slow to react to change and has very little in the way of exciting new product. On Tuesday evening, we found out exactly what Nissan has been doing, reinventing itself. In addition to a new Nissan logo, the company has transformed the vehicle behind that badge as well. The Ariya is a new direction for a company desperately in need of any kind of di
Read MoreNissan revealed a new logo during its 2021 Ariya electric crossover showcase. It’s lighter and sharper than the current/outgoing embossed “NISSAN” hamburger, and I think it’s a big improvement.
Read MoreDid you forget that the 2021 Nissan Ariya, an electric crossover which should conceptually appeal to millions of people, is being revealed tonight? It’s OK, Ford Bronco fever fezzed us all up. But, the Ariya is going to be live in about an hour. Seems like somebody on Twitter might have gotten the drop on it, though.
Read MoreTesla’s Autopilot is not a fully autonomous system, even the part called “Full Self-Driving Capability.” Which is confusing only for those of us who expect words to mean things, a group that includes a court in Germany.
Read MoreWelcome back to Talkin’ Trucks and Gettin’ Stuck, Jalopnik’s unofficial Twitch show, where I beam an hour or so of narrated virtual off-roading out into the internet for you to enjoy. Hop into the chat and let’s discuss trucks!
Read MoreTesla CEO Elon Musk is nearing the threshold to have stock options worth around $2.4 billion available to him, the second of 12 tranches of options worth potentially tens of billions. It’s a big, possibly scandalous amount of money for a CEO! It will also be very difficult for Musk to ever see a dime of it.
Read MoreWhile the current Acura NSX is a bit of a benchwarmer in the hierarchy of high-performance sports cars, Honda may apply the NSX’s hybrid technology to push the fan-favorite next-generation Honda Civic Type R to the edge of 400 horsepower.
Read MoreBy now we’ve all seen the 2021 Ford Bronco, and from what I can tell, the reaction has been quite positive. I think Ford did a remarkably—possibly even surprisingly—good job on the design of the new Bronco, and I think it’s worth taking a little bit of a deeper dive into the design of it. It’s a retro-inspired design, but not exactly a retro design, though Ford has clearly jumped all the way back to Bronco’s roots. Let’s dig in.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco was unveiled tonight, alongside the Bronco Sport. The smaller Sport has a standard “4X4 system” which judging by Ford’s description is an off-road-optimized all-wheel-drive system. And, unlike the more hardcore Bronco, it gets a unibody structure and independent suspension front and rear. It bears some mechanical similarities to the Ford Escape, though looking through the specs it should be pretty capable.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco is here. Ford said that the two-door version will start at $29,995, or $205 more than the two-door Jeep Wrangler, both including destination charges. Pricing for the four-door and Sport trims will be more.
Read MoreAs an old-ass mough-fough, I grew up in the era just prior to when parents actually started to really care if their kids lived or died. It was a different time! No one wore seat belts or helmets, and if you were stuck in a car seat, it was to keep you contained and out of the way instead of actually safe. It sounds awful now, but I promise, it wasn’t all bad. Like this, for example: back in the day, you could be a kid on a road trip in a Beetle and have your own cool-ass little play zone.
Read MoreThat’s right, friends, I realize it’s summer, but it’s time again for us to enroll in Taillight University, because taillight appreciation and knowledge doesn’t take vacations. Today I want to address the strange but recurring fetish in Taillghtdom for the White or Clear Taillight, and to specifically focus on the pioneer of this trend, Cadillac’s Three-Phase Rear Lighting System.
Read MoreJeep posted this slightly blurry teaser of what appears to be a Hemi-packed Wrangler or Gladiator on its Twitter feed this morning as an opening salvo against its new rival, the long anticipated, highly leaked Ford Bronco just hours after the Bronco once again showed its face before its planned massive multimedia debut.
Read MoreThe 2021 Subaru Crosstrek is finally getting some more power in one trim, after years of complaints about the car being underpowered. A whole 30 horsepower more will come in the Sport trim, though you’re gonna have to pay for it.
Read MoreLast week, Afshin Behnia, the founder of the car culture website Petrolicious, apparently posted and then deleted bad and racist posts on Facebook. Today, he said was stepping down and letting new ownership step in.
Read MoreThose of us old enough to remember the dot-com bubble in the late ‘90s will recognize a familiar feeling with what’s happening with Tesla, a feeling that maybe all of this really could change the world. Or maybe it will come crashing down. Or maybe, more accurately, these are just the growing pains of a new beginning.
Read MoreI love Subaru because it’s a case where the stranger car won out. As Mitsubishi has long given up on the Evo, it’s the WRX and STI that endure, weird warbling flat-four engine and all.
Read MoreWithin our lifetimes we may see a major manufacturer offer a wing as large as seen on that one BMW E36 with SEND NUDES written on the back.
Read MoreMercedes has been locked in a battle with BMW for the luxury US sales crown for years, a competition that increasingly seems dated. It also seems hard to say in 2020 that any automaker is “winning” exactly.
Read MoreYou can read all the manuals and watch hours of video, but nothing beats hands-on wrench-turning experience if you want to get better at understanding how your car works. But cars, tools, and workspaces are expensive. This video game Wrench, however, could make practical mechanical training much more accessible.
Read MoreIf you go to pretty much any car company’s website in 2020, you’ll find a “build-and-price” page where you can pick colors and options for any model, see how specs look and get an MSRP. That’s been around for ages, but you might not have seen an older example of a digital car configurator than this incredible “Chevtech Disk Drive” MS-DOS program from the ’80s.
Read MoreEarlier today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai that Tesla would have “basic functionality” for its full self-driving technology by the end of this year. What he didn’t say, though, is that we’d get to use it anytime soon.
Read MoreWhile we’re all busy twiddling our thumbs waiting for that GR-turned Corolla hot hatch to show up, we will instead reportedly be served a different mutation of the car with the all-new 2021 Toyota Corolla Cross.
Read MoreA secret operative near the North Carolina Center for Automotive Research test track took a little hike through the woods and discovered something pretty exciting: a very stripped-down Ford Mach-e doing donuts, drifting, tearing ass and generally hooning like a delighted loon. What’s going on here? Is this an official Ford project? Let’s do some speculating!
Read MoreLast month, I wrote about how the city of Troy, Michigan notified me that my collection of 12 cars was breaking an ordinance, and that I had six weeks to change that. Now, three weeks later, time for me to get my machines into compliance is running out, and I haven’t gotten very far. But it’ll probably be fine. Here’s where I stand with only three weeks left to go.
Read MoreRolls-Royce is known for making some incredible limited-run vehicles with wildly unique traits, like preventing you from speeding or (via an outside coachbuilder) permitting elegant dumps to be taken within its leather-slathered interior, but this seems to be the first time a limited run of Rolls-Royces has been inspired by both the look of the Matrix movies and that brain-teaser sculpture in front of the CIA building. Like the CIA sculpture, this Rolls-Royce limited run of 50 cars is called Kry
Read MoreIntroducing Slideshow Slog, a new game where we make a big, brutal, unwieldy slideshow full of car pictures and you play by clicking, and clicking, and clicking... and trying to figure out exactly what cars are on each slide.
Read MoreChevy said today that it would end production of the Sonic by the end of this year at its plant in Lake Orion, Michigan. I like to think that this is because someone at Chevy woke up this morning and discovered that Chevy still makes the Sonic.
Read MorePostal trucks, those boxy, little right-hand drive workhorses known far and wide in America, are bursting into flames at a rate of one every five days for the last six years, and no one knows why but it probably has something to do with how old the vehicles are.
Read MorePop-up headlights have been dead for 16 years, but enthusiasm for cars with hideaway lights has never been stronger. If you need proof of that, look no further than this group of five drivers. Bored with quarantine, and looking to socially distance in a group, these SoCal car folks headed for the Angeles Crest Highway, as one does. Three Japanese cars, one American, and one German with almost nothing in common, except that their headlights could be lowered into the bumper.
Read MoreI’ll admit, when it comes to cars, I often find myself drawn to the outlier designs, the weirder engineering, the trends that didn’t catch on just because, well, that’s what’s interesting to me. Sometimes, though, an example of one of these engineering roads-not-taken surprises me in how, well, rational it seems, even when compared to the current orthodoxy in automotive design. I think the biggest example of this can be seen in an obsolete Volkswagen of Brazil design from the 1970s, especially w
Read MoreGM sued Fiat Chrysler in November over alleged racketeering. The case has sort of ambled along since, but got interesting a couple weeks ago when the judge in the case got upset and wrote one of the most entertaining legal orders I’ve ever read. After that, GM wanted the judge off the case but this week was told that isn’t happening.
Read MoreJalopnik’s unofficial Twitch show Talkin’ Trucks And Getting Stuck is back at its regular time, 4 p.m. pacific (right now!) and I’ve got an exciting two-part rescue quest cued up for us. Come hang watch in real-time.
Read MoreThe fifth-generation LS made its debut over three years ago now, in Detroit no less. Which means it’s just about time for a mid-cycle refresh. This time, it comes with a touchscreen.
Read MoreKia’s initial production plans for its new Kia Telluride three-row SUV were 60,000 units built per year. With actual production capacity now peaking at 100,000 units and still not enough cars to meet demand, Telluride buyers are going to have to wait.
Read MoreSUV startup Ineos has been in the news for about five seconds and it has already managed to piss of 1,000 potential workers who would be building its not-a-Land-Rover-Defender. It’s publicly considering ditching its plans to make its vehicles in Wales and Portugal and make them in France instead. I am beginning to think that this kind of factory-switching is an integral part to the startup car business.
Read MoreI bet we all kind of remember that kid from high school who was a painful, socially inept dork who nevertheless craved the approval and attention of the popular kids with an often terrifying ravenousness. That was the same kid who discovered drinking and weed by the end of senior year, and re-worked his whole personality to be anchored on those two things that he knew were easy paths to popular-kid acceptance. Elon Musk is the Final Form of that kid, and he’s reminded us with some ridiculously o
Read MoreMazda of Mexico dropped the best kind of teaser for the reportedly upcoming turbocharged Mazda 3, with a long teaser that revealed the turbo model will likely come with at least 227 horsepower and 310 lb-ft of torque.
Read MoreBefore Cadillac built its Allantés on an assembly line stretching from Pininfarina’s shop in Italy to a plant in Detroit where they were finished, Chrysler was sending its Crown Imperial limos across the Atlantic in the other direction to be appointed by the luxury experts at Ghia.
Read MoreMaserati has a new mid-engined sports car on the way, the MC20. Inside is the Nettuno, the brand’s first in-house motor. It’s a three-liter twin-turbo (or should we say biturbo?) V6 that’s good for more than 600 horsepower. It’ll probably do great in that car, but it’ll need to find its way into other models in order for Maserati to get the most out of its investment.
Read MorePart of what I love about the old air-cooled Volkswagen community is that the nature of the cars themselves encourages experimentation and a certain degree of freedom and whimsy when it comes to modifying cars or the accessories available for them. That’s why things like fake wind-up keys or those Rolls-Royce hood kits existed for Beetles, and people actually bought them. I’ve just been alerted to the existence of another old-school VW accessory, and I’ve got to admit I find this one really baff
Read MoreThis whole post is really just about one little bit of trivia, but it’s such a satisfying bit of trivia, I felt like all of you deserved to be aware of it. It has to do with that 1981 Steven Spielberg cinematic milestone Raiders of the Lost Ark, particularly the opening scene with that remarkably spherical boulder, and a Honda Civic.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that car companies have long turned to flashy advertisements to turn their cold vehicular appliances into fantasies we want to welcome into our lives. At Jalopnik, we happen to adore those cold vehicular appliances on their own terms, but we love the fantasies they’re wrapped in too.
Read MoreThe Dodge Journey is finally dead after the 2020 model year, a Fiat Chrysler spokesperson has confirmed. When production ends in the fourth quarter of 2020, the crossover SUV—which by then will have been around for a dozen years—will ride off into the sunset of mediocrity, taking with it one of the most maligned car platforms of the modern era: The Chrysler-Mitsubishi codeveloped “GS” platform.
Read MoreHey gang, do you like giant vehicles meant for Antarctic exploration? I do too! In fact, I recently wrote about the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, an ambitious American vehicle that ended up a tremendous flop. But there is another Antarctic Snow Cruiser, a Soviet one that actually worked. It’s the Russian Kharkovchanka and not only did it work, it worked well into the 21st Century.
Read MoreThe Dodge Grand Caravan is dead. Long live the Dodge Grand Caravan.
Read MoreWhat defines a successful car? Is it how it sells when it’s new? They fly off of the lot, you see them everywhere. They’re affordable, a dime-a-dozen on the roads, and super popular. But, decades later, many of them sit underneath a highway overpass gathering dust, someone wrote “wash me” on the window, it has been rear-ended a few times, and overall looks neglected.
Read MoreToday Dodge trotted out the inevitable 710-horsepower 2021 Durango Hellcat, 797-HP Charger Hellcat Redeye sedan, and an 807 HP Challenger called the Super Stock that effectively replaces the Demon. The 2021 Durango R/T also got some revisions. Neat, I guess!
Read MoreTesla, more than ever, is a Rorschach test, a company that drives some people absolutely mad at its very mention, a company that some people have been bored with for years, a company that some people would sacrifice a limb for. Maybe the only interesting thing about it is that it keeps persisting.
Read MoreIf the name Ineos isn’t familiar to you, it’s probably because you still know them by their old name, Inspec Ethylene Oxide Specialities. Ring a bell? No? Weird. Anyway, they’re a big London-based, multinational petrochemical company that happens to have a founder, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who really wanted to make a conceptual and aesthetic descendent of the Land Rover Defender. Even though he’s not affiliated with Land Rover, he was pretty much able to do so, because, you know, he’s loaded. The resu
Read MoreA couple of months ago Maserati let everyone know that it was not only continuing to develop its MC20 supercar, but that it is developing its first 100 percent in-house engine design for it. This new engine has an exciting new name; “Nettuno”. Ooooh. Aaaah. It’s a 621 horsepower/538 lb-ft twin-turbo three-liter V6, and according to Maserati it uses “Formula One technology” to do it.
Read MoreYou may have heard recently about a new AI algorithm designed to extrapolate what a face looks like from really poor-quality, low-resolution sources, called Face Depixelizer. The tool is pretty remarkable in how incredibly naturalistic the resulting faces that it generates look, though if we’re honest what you’ve likely heard about it has more to do with how weird the results are when it’s fed video game characters as input, or how it seems to have a bit of a racial bias. I just wanted to run so
Read MoreThe tenth-generation of the Lincoln Continental—reintroduced in 2016 after 14 years gone—will die again, Ford said today. Production will be halted by the end of the year in the U.S., and eventually in China as well. It’s the newest victim of America’s obsessions with SUVs.
Read MoreLast week, the auto industry was cautiously optimistic that new car sales in June might rebound, at least compared to April and May. But no one was terribly optimistic about the second quarter as a whole. Today, the numbers came in, and, to varying degrees, they are across the board terrible.
Read MoreCadillac, a once well-respected American luxury brand, has had difficulty getting and retaining customers in a highly competitive segment where foreign brands dominate. Cadillac hopes that an all-new sports sedan, the CT4, will start to change that. I have my doubts.
Read MoreVolvo says it hasn’t received any reports of injuries tied to possibly faulty seat belts in almost 2.1 million of its cars, and also that the issue in question is “very rare,” but it’s issuing a recall anyway. The integrity of Volvo seat belts must never be questioned.
Read MoreI have my issues with the McLaren P1's design. Alright, I have one issue: there is a FAKE WINDOW on a top-tier hypercar. Regardless! The car’s designer Frank Stephenson explained how he penned the thing, and gave a good tip on how to make a car look good in the process.
Read MoreI have to admit, this concept EV design from the German company Electric Brands punches so many of my car-design buttons: friendly face, modularity, maximum space utilization, extreme utility, all that. I really like it. There is just one issue I have with this remarkable concept they’re calling the eBussy, though: they really should have had someone pop that name into Urban Dictionary before making the big announcement.
Read MoreThe Porsche 944, like every other mildly cool car from the ’80s and ’90s, is starting to be appreciated anew now that it’s old enough to stoke nostalgia. The Porsche factory went ahead and restored this 1991 944 S2, essentially the ultimate production 944, to new-spec and looks sweet.
Read MoreThere are certain cars that have a timeless quality to their designs, a glorious mix of form and shape and proportion, but almost always tethered to their particular era. But at least one car feels like it could be timeless with minimal changes: the NSU Ro80.
Read MoreBentley experimented with the idea of three-dimensional wood interior bits on the EXP 10 Speed 6 concept back in 2015, and now you’ll actually be able to get it on the new Flying Spur. It’s funky. I’m not sure about it. But it’s always fun to see automotive artistic experimentation.
Read MoreI don’t think anyone is really arguing that the Plymouth Volaré wasn’t a towering pantload of crap. Nobody misses the egg-sliding-on-a-frying-pan handling, the bulky yet anemic 5.2-liter V8s wheezing out 145 horsepower, or the local carnival-grade approach to build quality, but I think maybe some of us might miss the shocking spectrum of available interior colors you could get on these things. Just look at that.
Read MoreGordon Murray brought us the iconic McLaren F1. Now he’s making his own three-seat supercar successor, the GMA T.50 with an all-new Cosworth 3.9-liter V12, and they just fired it up for the first time.
Read MoreWhile China was once infamous for their automotive acts of, charitably, near-plagiarism, over the last decade or so the larger Chinese automakers have distanced themselves from this practice and done a lot to define a uniquely Chinese design language for their cars. That doesn’t mean that everyone is doing that, of course, as you can see in this new truck from Foton (a subsidiary of BAIC), which looks an awful lot like a Ford Raptor. So maybe you can get a 2021 Ford Raptor if you can’t wait for
Read MoreWhen was the last time you thought about the Renault 5, or as we in America called them, the “Le Car,” which was AMC French for “the Renault?” It’s probably been too long, and that makes me cross, very cross indeed. I want to make us all consider the Renault 5 right now to appreciate a little design detail that has become so incredibly common on modern cars that I bet you don’t even see it. Lemme show you what I mean.
Read MoreEach morning it is the same sun that awakes us, but so too do we welcome each day as a new experience. And though it is not as if the Maserati MC12 has ever left us since it debuted in 2004, so too may we celebrate it again today as if its existence was just as fresh and full of possibility.
Read MoreJust before Ford unveiled the new Bronco, Jeep busily attempted to steal the show by sticking a V8 in the Wrangler. Jeep was trying. It was a bit of a dud, but at least it was trying to get in there, get some people thinking again about that stalwart Jeep, not just the new cool Ford. Missing from the conversation was GM, for a good reason: Even GM has to know that the new Blazer is as desirable as falling down a flight of stairs.
Read MoreSaleen is really, um, confusing. They’re one of those companies that somehow keeps hanging on, despite always seeming to be on the brink and a company who’s biggest recent news was about allegedly bringing back their 20-year-old supercar. But Saleen is more than that. Saleen is also about some gloriously terrible Photoshop jobs, which is precisely what’s happening now, with Saleen’s announcement of their version of the new Ford Bronco.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz just posted some highlights from its old AMG Black Series catalog. Since those cars are awesome, here’s a post running down the AMG production cars that have been deemed worthy of Black Series badges.
Read MoreIt was in mid-December of 2017 when I got the bad news. The 500th and final of McLaren’s hyper exclusive Senna hypercars had been allocated and I would not, in fact, get to drive home with a super awesome hole that I could see through in my door.I considered renting one of those NASCAR saws to cut a hole in my old Bugatti Veyron’s door, but ultimately decided against it because it’s a vintage car now and I couldn’t stand to modify it. I have never been more disappointed to have a company not ac
Read MoreThe whole point of concept cars is that they’re cooler than normal cars. That’s why carmakers build them—to hint at future design directions, introduce potential new technologies, inspire, excite, and, yes, usually disappoint you when the production version of the car comes out and it seems so, you know, normal. Once, though, this wasn’t the case. There was one car for whom the concept version was way, way less cool than the production car. That car was the Ford Ka.
Read MoreThere are multiple reports that the front trunk lid of the new mid-engine Chevy Corvette may pop up while driving, according to two NHTSA complaints and other forum accounts, forcing Chevy to investigate.
Read MoreFor most of our readers, when an unfamiliar car enters our field of vision, our brains lock onto it and flood our systems with whatthefuckisthatatonin, the neurotransmitter responsible for making us wonder, long and hard, about what unidentifiable cars are. In this case, the car is a peculiar but sleek yellow four-door spotted in Paris.
Read MoreOne of the more interesting recent Tesla Model 3 competitors is the Polestar 2, made in China by Geely as Volvo’s electric sibling marque. We’ve already gotten a look at the handsome beefy-sedan design of the Polestar 2 and generally know its specs, but now, finally, we’ve been shown that it has fun, animated taillights. This is important taillight news.
Read MoreI fully realize that what’s likely an embarrassingly-sized portion of what I do here is to complain about things in the auto industry, like some cranky old bastard with hemorrhoids and a lifetime of regret. But I’m pretty sure my hemorrhoids have cleared up, and I also give credit where it’s due, which is what I intend to do right now. Specifically, I want to give Ford credit for its instrument cluster design for the new F-150, which is boldly non-skeuomorphic.
Read MoreA driver at the WeatherTech International Challenge vintage races held at Road America in Elkhart, Wisconsin miraculously walked away from a crash over the weekend that sent his vintage race car flipping end over end.
Read MoreI’ll admit that I wasn’t familiar with Pog, a French YouTuber who appears to have a lot of Euros, a large model of TinTin’s moon rocket and an interesting collection of cars, with what looks like some Ferraris, a Porsche 918, and at least one Renault Kangoo. He also has a limited edition Mini John Cooper Works GP, but he, um, rolled it in his backyard.
Read MoreDavid T. Hines allegedly fraudulently accepted $3.9 million from the U.S. government’s Paycheck Protection Program, meant to support businesses that were struggling to pay employees during the current COVID-19 quarantine. Then he crashed the brand new Lamborghini he bought with the money instead.
Read MoreI know we have said some pretty salty things about Tesla and Elon Musk in the past, but that doesn’t mean we don’t acknowledge that their cars have some remarkable design and engineering, and some very novel, and, in this case, especially useful features. Like Sentry Mode. While normally this system is designed to detect ne’er-do-wells pestering the Tesla itself with its built-in cameras, this time it helped to foil the theft of an air-cooled Porsche 911.
Read MoreFor the past few decades, it seems like every government’s agency to any social problem has been “what if we just paid cops to handle it?” with disastrous results. Now, Berkeley, California may take one responsibility away from police: traffic stops.
Read MoreFrom New York City to San Jose, California, Black Lives Matter protesters are facing injury and sometimes death at the hands of those who would use their vehicles as weapons.
Read MoreA driver in what looks like a Dodge Durango rammed a crowd of protesters in Times Square last night, dragging one person a whole block. News this morning is that the driver was taken into custody but released and will face no charges. They are getting away with it.
Read MoreThe 2020 Ford Ranger is the second-best “mid-sized” new truck you can buy for daily driving right now, and for the moment it’s my personal favorite.
Read MoreI know it’s been nearly two weeks since we first got a reimagined Ford Bronco to complement the JL Jeep Wrangler on mall parking lots in left lanes on rutted off-roading trails, but there’s one thing I can’t stop thinking about: The reborn Chevy Blazer that could have been. And this Sunset Gold and white-roofed 1974 specimen of the original K5 truck isn’t making it any easier to move on from the notion.
Read MoreOne of the best things about my job is that I’m now in the position that, when some alert gearhead at some random place in the world encounters something like, say, an ad for a car shaped like a human penis, I’m the person they reach out to. That’s exactly what happened today, when a reader named Joel sent me this Craigslist ad for a well-executed dick-shaped car. Now, the ad is fake, but the car is—or was—very real, and I think deserves some attention.
Read MoreA friend of mine knows someone selling a beautiful 1961 Willys Pickup for the paltry sum of $750. Just a few months ago, I would have transferred the money within milliseconds, as at the time, I was in a years-long trance that I liked to refer to as “Buy First, Think Later.” But times have changed. I have a new motto in life (I’m still developing something clever for a philosophy that involves some amount of sensibility and self-restraint). I just declined the Jeep. And I have to tell you, dear
Read MoreThe Jeep CJ-7 you see in this picture is mind-boggling. It doesn’t look odd from the outside, but one peek underneath, and you’ll realize that you’re looking at the work of a person whose brain needs to be studied under a magnifying glass. Because inside that brain is the genius capable of mounting a Buick engine into the rear of a Jeep. Using rebar.
Read MoreThe Sultan of Brunei and his family have long had a bad name ‘round these parts, mostly for hoarding all the good cars in warehouses on an island in the Pacific where they sit in darkness and dust, rotting away. But it turns out they’ve committed a sin even darker than that. They made this.
Read MoreUnlike Ferrari, Maserati, McLaren, and the rest of the big supercar names, Lamborghini hasn’t really liked to push on its racing cred. That’s usually because the cars the band has fielded on the track haven’t done all too well. This one is no exception, but that doesn’t make it any less cool.
Read MoreWhen it comes to getting pets, I’m very much in the rescue, don’t buy camp. There’s so many wonderful dogs and cats that need homes in animal shelters that it seems insane that anyone would pay, say, a dog breeder for a pet. That said, I’ll admit I’m less clear about how I feel about the practice of swapping a 1996 Land Rover Discovery for a dog. Maybe it’s because I’ve only encountered it one time, in this particular Craigslist post, and I haven’t really had time to fully process it.
Read MoreI just moved to a new neighborhood and down the street is someone who street-parks their Ural sidecar motorcycle. I haven’t snagged my own picture of it yet, but it’s a neighborhood fixture and it got me thinking: Where is that electric Ural we were teased with a few years back and why can’t I buy one yet?
Read MoreThe Royal Enfield Himalayan is a simple, rugged, inexpensive, and unpretentious ADV motorcycle. It’s rough and tumble and ready to roll off into the desert or single-track at a moment’s notice. By all accounts, it’s great at what it does. But it, like all ADV bikes, skirts on the dorky side. They’re upright, have big windscreens, mounting points for extra luggage, and a thick comfy seat. All of that is functional, but it certainly doesn’t cut a figure that screams “badass” or “beautiful”. With a
Read MoreThere are a lot of truly exciting things happening in the world of motorcycle racing these days, from flat-track racing to motocross and everything in between the competition is seriously fierce and innovative across the board. Thanks to MotoAmerica, there’s a new game in town for the folks who love to ride the big bagger bikes, they can root for one of fourteen teams in this fall’s King of the Baggers invitational at Laguna Seca.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson, which is in the midst of reshaping itself following the ouster of its CEO earlier this year, said today it was eliminating hundreds of jobs at the company in what Harley said was a strategic restructuring.
Read MoreSecond-quarter results for automakers have ranged from the good, to the bad, to the ugly as companies navigate the coronavirus pandemic. Ford’s, meanwhile, might be best characterized as the weird.
Read MoreThe Jeep Cherokee, like basically every vehicle Fiat Chrysler builds, comes in roughly four million different trims, the most expensive of which is now dead.
Read MoreA teenage transgender woman participating in a peaceful protest in support of Black liberation and civil rights was pulled into an unmarked van by New York police in Manhattan on Tuesday. The event has sparked outrage among protesters and city officials alike.
Read MoreFord now has some robot “dogs” that do tasks at its transmission plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan. I hate them.
Read MoreThis weekend marks a full year since I began holding down the fort on Sundays around these parts. It’s also my last weekend on the job before I start law school next month, so I wanted to say thank you to all of you for putting up with my blather.
Read MoreCities are struggling in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most were already operating on razor-thin margins, or even in the red when the illness came through and blew a giant hole in already shaky budgets. But where some see challenges, others see opportunities. A coalition of mayors and urban leaders from all over the globe released a report last week on what they believe is the way forward for better, cleaner, and more vibrant cities. Not all that surprisingly, it involves redeveloping citie
Read MoreWhen the Space Force, which is essentially a re-name and re-organization of the Air Force Space Command, first unveiled their emblem early this year, everyone pointed out that it looked a hell of a lot like the emblem of the fictional Starfleet Command from Star Trek. Perhaps as a result of this, Space Force just unveiled a new logo, and, yes, it doesn’t look as Star Trekky. Now it looks like an upside-down Pontiac badge.
Read MoreDeliveries of Mazdas with its Skyactiv-X engine—the tame but incredibly fuel-efficient engine that’s been in the works for years—began late last year in Europe, after Mazda had previously said that’s about when it might come to the U.S., too. But then in January Mazda said nevermind it was delayed for the U.S. Then the pandemic hit. I’m beginning to wonder if this will ever happen at all.
Read MoreRemember a couple of weeks ago when we showed you that spy video of a very modified Ford Mach-E drifting around like a loon at a North Carolina test track? We speculated that it might have been some sort of joint project with Ford and Ford tuning company RTR, and that’s exactly what it is. This is the Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400, a seven-motor’d prototype that makes a total of 1,400 horsepower, which I suppose is adequate for most uses.
Read MoreBBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG, known for its iconic basketweave wheels, has once again filed for bankruptcy. While the company will be restructured under proceedings similar to an American Chapter 11 filing and will likely live on, the announcement shows how precarious the current economic situation can be for suppliers of specialty auto parts.
Read MoreLast year, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus wowed us all when its reborn Boot dominated the Baja 1000. That car, a mid-engined GM LT4-powered supercar for the dunes, is well on its way to production in both two and four-door guise. But SCG has another prerunner coming, one that you’ll build yourself.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Arteon, which landed on American shores for the first time for the 2019 model year, is getting a refresh. for 2021. Part of that refresh is a 315-horsepower R trim that you’ll be able to get in either fastback or wagon guise. If you live outside of America, that is.
Read MoreEven though the used car sales are setting records due to a shrinking new car inventory, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find a quality used car for an affordable price. Our friends at iSeeCars.com released a new study that revealed the best-used car bargains under $15,000.
Read MoreIf you squint hard enough at the above press photo, you’ll notice that the name Wrangler appears on the outside sidewall of the tires, the brand name of Goodyear’s line of tires that will come equipped on some versions of the 2021 Ford Bronco. That name will not be there when the cars ship, Ford said this week, because Jeep.
Read MoreI always thought FCA USA LLC was a weird name. After all, it stands for “Fiat Chrysler Automobiles United States of America Limited Liability Company.” But now I don’t think it’s so odd, because Fiat Chrysler and French automaker PSA Groupe have announced that their merger will be called “STELLANTIS.” It’s different.
Read MoreManuel “Matty” Moroun died on Monday at 93 years old. That name might not mean much to you if you’re not from metro Detroit or Windsor, Canada, but around these parts, he was known mainly as the billionaire who owned, among other things, the Ambassador Bridge, which just happens to carry roughly 27 percent of all merchandise trade between Canada and the U.S.
Read MoreNASCAR’s ratings have been down for years now; a steady erosion of viewership thanks to complicated and ill-advised rules changes, in addition to bad politics, the latter problem it’s recently shown interest in trying to change. Now, Tony Stewart has a new racing series launching next year that is trying to fix the racing part.
Read MoreAfter waiting what feels like years to see the final iteration of the production Bronco, it has been leaked just days before Ford’s official launch of the off-roader. On Friday afternoon this photograph of the Bronco, which appears to be official Ford marketing collateral, was posted to the Bronco6G forum by Administrator Doug. While it’s partially obscured by the blitz of sand spun up by the front wheels in this picture, there are a few things we can tell in this photograph. Let’s break it down
Read MoreThe very first Aston Martin DBX rolled off the assembly line this week at the company’s factory in St Athan, Wales. It’s fair to say pretty much the entire company is riding on the SUV.
Read MoreSome American corporations have been forced to come to Jesus in the past few weeks with acknowledgements of racial insensitivity, failures in workplace diversity, and other contributions to institutional racism — but for the most part this reckoning has largely bypassed the automotive industry. Or so we thought, before hearing that Ford Motor Company has a situation brewing that could lead to a re-examination of the automaker’s role in law enforcement.
Read MoreThere is a whole world out there for black market key fobs, as there probably is for pretty much everything. This week, the feds said that nearly 2,000 key fobs had been stolen over a six-month period from new cars at a railyard outside of Detroit and later sold for over $60,000. A Detroit man has been charged in the alleged scheme.
Read MoreIf you thought the noose story was over when the FBI concluded a swift and thorough investigation into the actual noose that was definitely hanging (but just, in the normal way) in Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega, look out—America’s special boy is tweeting!
Read MoreWhen it came out, the Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world. Really. Its 120 mile-per-hour top speed was the very top. Since then, surviving examples have been relegated to Concours duty, with rich men poring over refinished trim and delicately preserved patina. That’s one way to respect a legendary car. Ths company has another one in mind.
Read MoreMost Fiat Chrysler workers have been back in factories for over a month now after being temporarily laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic. And while production has restarted it’s also been temporarily stopped at two separate plants by workers over coronavirus, and FCA is fed up.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Boxster says they need a bigger car. Based on the pics, what they really need is a coupon for a car wash. Could the car’s dirty disposition be overlooked for its down and dirty price?
Read MoreThere’s something inherently special about a 12-cylinder automobile, and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jag just so happens to be one of those special rides. Let’s see if its price brings that unique nature to the masses.
Read MoreLots of car makers offer plug-in hybrids, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe C-Max Energi has a rep for being one of the few that are actually kind of fun to drive. Let’s find out how energetic you may be about its price.
Read MoreDespite the Dakotas being so vast that they demanded to be split into two states, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dakota namesake pickup is only a mid-sized. We’ll have to decide if its price means its seller is in a huge state of denial.
Read MoreThe styling of Fiat’s original 500 earned it the nickname Topolino which was also the name Italians gave Disney’s iconic mascot, Mickey Mouse. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 500 Abarth is that car’s modern successor but does this hot drop-top have a price that will prove just as Mickey Mouse?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Geo calls the custom beast “Truccar” and says it needs nothing aside from rear tires. That may still prove a sticking point as there are four of them on this dually. Could that make its asking price a bridge too far?
Read MoreThey always say the more the merrier, and seeing as today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Audi A4 has not one but two turbos on its swapped-in V6 you would imagine it’s pretty merry. We’ll have to decide if that merriment is in any way diminished by its price.
Read MoreRemember when Top Gear attempted to kill a Toyota pickup and they couldn’t? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 4X4 gives you the chance to try. Let’s see if it’s priced well enough to stave off those attempts.
Read MoreThe Range Rover P38 is seen as the marque’s low-point in terms of reliability. That may be the case in general, but today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Vitesse has managed more than 200K and still looks, and seemingly runs, like new. What might that anomaly be worth?
Read MoreHonda recently relegated the Accord to auto-only status while their upper-scale brand, Acura, has been manual-free for years. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Legend hails from a better time and sports a five-speed stick. Let’s see what you might throw down for this throwback.
Read MoreFerrari’s Dino series was named for Enzo’s beloved son who passed away before his namesake line of V6 and V8 engines and the cars they powered could see the light of day. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 308 GT4 is of the last of that series of cars. Let’s see what this classic son of a Ferrari might just be worth.
Read MoreThe consignment seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volvo 240 says its second owner is offering it up because his wife thinks the car is “too old to drive.” That’s pretty shortsighted considering it’s a Volvo and probably younger than its accuser. Let’s see if it’s priced to make her loss someone else’s gain.
Read MoreOne place where the Mustang and Camaro one-up the Dodge Challenger in the pony car wars is in inviting the great outdoors in. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe R/T seeks to redress that inequity but carries a price that also may be less than inviting.
Read MoreThere’s a YouTuber that we all know who admits to being afflicted with bad decision-itus, and claims as evidence the recent purchase of a V8 E38 just like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate. Let’s see if the price tag on our car makes it a much better decision.
Read MoreThere’s a new Bronco dropping tonight, but in this day and age who has the cash—or the inclination—to buy a first-year new model? Our Nice Price or Crack Pipe Bronco II is that new trucklet’s great grandfather and is appreciably cheaper. Let’s see if it’s cheap enough.
Read MoreHonda’s S2000 has always been a coveted car and the model’s prices reflect that furor. Major mods, however, like those made to today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe s2Ki can drive prices in either direction. Let’s see if this one’s price has you thinking about driving it yourself.
Read MoreSome people consider BMW’s 1-series, like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 128i to be the spiritual successor to the company’s famed 2002. Let’s see if low mileage and a potentially low price means this one stands a ghost of a chance.
Read MoreBig trucks are where it’s at right now in the auto market, and today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Ram is pretty big. Let’s see if this imposing truck can account for its also big price.
Read MoreErik Buell built his first motorcycle as a racer but by the time today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe S3 Thunderbolt rolled out of his Wisconsin factory, road bikes ruled the roost. Let’s see if this Harley-powered sport bike’s price might equally rule.
Read MoreThe options for sporty AWD wagons may be few, but as shown by today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Subaru, they can be quite compelling. Let’s see if this Legacy’s price makes it an equally compelling purchase.
Read MoreSafety standards and aerodynamics preclude modern-day Bimmers having shark-nosed styling like today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe E28. That retro cue isn’t the only attraction here, as behind that nose lies an LS1 V8, late of a Chevy Corvette. What could all that goodness possibly be worth?
Read MoreIf your AWD needs extend no further than traversing the sinuous streets of the tony Hollywood Hills waiting for your next movie gig, then today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Evoque may just be the car for you. That is if its price seals the deal.
Read MoreFord’s F-Series may outsell every other vehicle on the planet, but how many members of that mechanical multitude would you consider classics? Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe F-150 XLT 4X4 may very well be a contender. We’ll just have to see if its price is as equally a class act.
Read MoreFor months, years even, I’ve spotted this little brown Volkswagen out of the corner of my eye as I turn onto a main thoroughfare, or going the opposite way on a city street, or it buzzes by while I’m stuck in traffic. It’s been doing very slow laps on the Ehra Lessien in my brain ever since. This lovely little aircooled has haunted my dreams. Earlier this week I went for a walk into town to pick up a couple slices of pizza and was finally face to face with the object of my affection.
Read MoreI don’t know what it is about this day, today, in this heat, that has me feeling particularly caring, particularly optimistic. I am looking for somewhere to be kind, and god help me, today it’s the last Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Read MoreTypically, large airplanes have a major difficulty landing if the infrastructure isn’t in good operating condition. Having a nice clean runway to set down at is paramount if you’re delivering a few dozen passengers to a far-flung locale. But the surface of this planet is over 70 percent covered in water. What if you could land a big ass plane on the water instead? China’s got that covered with its new AG600 Kunlong.
Read MoreIt’s really interesting, to me, the way COVID-19 has affected our everyday lives in unexpected ways. Last week, we reported on NPR losing a quarter of its listeners after a dramatic drop in American commutes, and now it seems our reduced rate of flying and taking cruises is affecting the accuracy of weather forecasts.
Read MoreTrigger warning: if you’re not a fan of flying, the following video explains how nearly once every three days, a large commercial jet crashes, a tenth of which resulted in fatalities over the last decade. While that’s considered a safe statistic, it means airlines need a protocol for when it happens.
Read MoreAfter defining commercial air travel for more than five decades, the Boeing 747 will finally leave production, according to a report from Reuters. The news wire reports that Boeing had made its final orders for parts more than a year ago, signaling the end for the double-decker quad-jet that has been built continuously since 1968.
Read MoreThe electric powertrain nerds at EV West are doing everything they can to propel Southern California hot rod culture into the future. Electric drivetrain swaps in old cars are their bread and butter, but in the process they’ve realized just how fast these things can be. With a custom tube-chassis, a slippery aerodynamic body, a hopped-up Tesla motor, and a rack of high-tech batteries, these mad scientists are aiming for an electric land speed record.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreThe Daytona International Speedway has had a road course “roval” element since 1959, running endurance and sprint races for sports cars there ever since. NASCAR has not ever run the road course in an official capacity. Some NASCAR drivers have plugged into Daytona 24 sports car teams for the big race, but August 16th will be the first time we’ve seen the big stock cars running the infield and the bus-stop chicane. Only there’s one difference between this NASCAR road course and the Daytona 24 roa
Read MoreThe sport of Formula One is taking the coronavirus pandemic about as seriously as any sport has. Not only is the series limiting travel and limiting personnel on site, but every single person entering the premises is tested weekly, and tested every other day during Grand Prix weekends. Thus far the testing has found only a small handful of positive cases, but this week Racing Point driver and ten year veteran of the sport tested positive following some trans-Atlantic travel. As a result he will
Read MoreThe 98th running of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is going down one month from Thursday, and Acura just pulled the covers off of its competitors for the event. Instead of the MDX and RDX racers that the automaker has fielded for the last couple of years, it will be attacking the hill with a pair of new TLX Type-A sedans.
Read MoreWe only have ten Grands Prix left together. The 2020 F1 season got off to a late start and has shrunk from a massive schedule to just 13 races at 11 tracks. I won’t even get a chance to see these beautiful pink Racing Point F1 Team babies in person this year, as all of the North American rounds of the championship have been killed off due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. And the pink is all but guaranteed to disappear from the car next year when the team is renamed
Read MoreFerrari Chairman John Elkann knows that the Prancing Horse won’t be sitting atop the Formula One podium any time this year. And because the sport has instituted a mandatory chassis freeze for the 2021 season it’s extremely unlikely that Fezza will be anywhere near the front next year either. He told Gazzetta dello Sport “We have had a number of structural weaknesses that have existed for some time in aerodynamics and in the dynamics of the vehicle. We have also lost out in engine power.”
Read MoreIt’s all good and well that the Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 can create tremendous clouds of tire smoke when thrown around Ford’s proving grounds. That’s not too hard to do. But there’s a better way to get to know whether all that high-torque sorcery going on in that car means anything at all. That way is hill climbing.
Read MoreThere were originally gonna be grands prix in Texas, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico this season, but Formula One said Friday that those won’t be happening. The reason isn’t very surprising.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read MoreIt seems like just yesterday, but in fact is was just a little over five years ago that BMW first rolled its M6 GT3 race car out for its first demonstration laps. In that time a lot has changed in the GT3 landscape, and BMW has been struggling to keep up, considering its car is one of the largest in the field (discounting the Bentleys and Nissan GT-Rs). The former Bimmer GT3 is dead, so say hello to the new M4 GT3 race car.
Read MoreThe 2020 Racing Point RP20 chassis bears a—how do I put this delicately?—more than passing resemblance to the 2019 Mercedes AMG F1 W10 EQ Power+ chassis. In the paddock and online the RP20 has been dubbed “The Pink Mercedes” because of this, and this whole thing is causing a lot of consternation over in the Renault garages. You see, Renault had to design its own 2020 chassis, and it seems that it hasn’t done such a great job of that, in fact. So the yellow team is bringing a series of protests a
Read MoreAutomaker Acura and her racing team partner Team Penske have announced their upcoming scheduled separation just 32 months into their marriage. A representative for Penske released a statement on Tuesday to SportsCar365 which read: “We are proud of the efforts that our organizations have put forth together over the last three seasons but we simply couldn’t align on how we should go racing in the future.” Ugh, my OTP is breaking up, and it’s breaking my heart.
Read MoreMarc Marquez is the reigning MotoGP world champion and one of the greatest motorcycle road racers of all-time, but even by his standards Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix was dramatic.
Read MoreFive-time US rally champ Travis Pastrana had exceedingly bad luck in his return to American Rally Association racing this weekend in the Southern Ohio Forest Rally. After an impressive start in the first stage, Pastrana’s 2019 Subaru WRX STI burned to the ground after he stopped mid-second stage with a mechanical issue. Pastrana and co-driver Chrissie Beavis managed to exit the car unscathed though the Subaru was totally consumed.
Read MoreThe Concorde Agreement—the contract between Formula One and its teams, renewed seven times since the inaugural one in 1981—is expiring this year amid ... everything. But despite that—or maybe because of it—Ferrari and McLaren indicated this week they’re ready to re-sign. Smaller teams aren’t quite there yet, but it seems like everyone’s getting close.
Read MoreWelcome (BACK) to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?
Read More“Did I ever look around and think, Dang, there’s not a lot of black and brown people around me at the track?” Bubba Wallace writes in a new post about racism in his life and in NASCAR, the noose hung in his garage. “Nah.”
Read MoreTravis Pastrana has basically done it all at this point. He’s broken practically every bone. He’s won 17 X Games medals. He’s a rally champion five times over. He’s competed on two wheels and for in everything from supercross to Pikes Peak to NASCAR. He’s jumped out of airplanes without a parachute. Pastrana has even held jump for distance records on a motorcycle and in a car. The dude is properly insane in the best way possible, so surely any race track he opens will be equally bonkerballs.
Read MorePorsche will theoretically sell you a 991 GT2 RS-based 935 race car right now. I mean, not right now, because they’re sold out by now, but you know what I’m getting at. The Porsche-certified track-only car was about three quarters of a million dollars new, and they occasionally trade hands for $1.5 million now. If that’s too much for your household finances to bear, rest easy knowing that you can faithfully replicate the experience using engineering, dumpster diving, charity, and $500.
Read MoreOh boy, there is a huge game of musical chairs going on in Formula E right now. It’s looking like most teams will have at least one driver change ahead of the kickoff of the 2020-21 season. For the most part this kicked off with the sacking of Daniel Abt by Audi for hiring a ringer to stand in for him during an online race. On Tuesday, a bombshell was dropped as Sam Bird announced he’d be leaving Envision Virgin Racing, where he has raced for six seasons, for Jaguar. Let’s take a look at how we
Read MoreWelcome back to the second edition of Racing Recap Roundups from our friend Robb Holland. It was another busy weekend of motorsport action with F1, NASCAR, endurance and sprint sports cars, and an IndyCar double header. If you missed any of the action, here’s a quick look at what happened this weekend.
Read MoreOh yes, the 333 SP was a masterpiece of motorsport engineering in its day, and continues to inspire two and a half decades after its introduction. This car marked a return to top flight sports car racing for the Scuderia in over two decades, and hot damn was it successful. From 1994 to 2003 the 27 triple three chassis officially entered 144 races and won 56 of them. That’s a pretty great win ratio, no matter how you cut it.
Read MoreIt’s a tough time to be a 33-year-old four-time former Formula One champion without a ride for the 2021 season. There are so many talented up and comers on the grid these days, and Sebastian Vettel has been shown up by many of them. In the recent shuffle of drivers that happened after his current team—Ferrari—unceremoniously kicked him out it was proven that at the very least McLaren and Renault don’t want anything to do with him.
Read MoreRallycross might be the perfect outlet for electric motorsport right now. The rounds are short and the action is fast paced, meaning cars don’t need a lot of range for a ten minute heat race. The instant torque means electric rallycross cars can dig out of the hole in rapid fashion. And while the weight takes a proper hot shoe to control, it’s far less of a detriment in a loose surface series than one that requires grip. All of that is why I’m so excited about STARD’s Projekt E electric Ford Fie
Read MoreMicromobility. Last mile transportation. E scooters. Mobility. Whatever you call it, the damn things are a pox on our society. They litter the sidewalk, they’re constantly broken, they purport to be inexpensive transportation but require a smart phone to operate. There are myriad reasons to dislike the Birds, Limes, and Jumps of the world, but this electric scooter racing championship looks cool enough to nullify all the bad stuff.
Read MoreAs Spanish driver Fernando Alonso plans to try the Indianapolis 500 again after a rough race last year, he’s also diving back into Formula 1 with his winning Renault team.
Read MoreSeven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson was supposed to race at Indianapolis yesterday, and he was supposed to test an IndyCar this week ahead of a potential 500 bid. Cadillac prototype racer Felipe Nasr was supposed to race at Daytona on Saturday night. Bob Tasca, III was planning to race his Ford NHRA funny car this coming weekend. None of that can happen now, because they all caught coronavirus.
Read MoreWe’re going to try something new here this week. This weekend’s full schedule of racing was a breath of fresh air after months without our favorite motorsport series running at all. Formula One finally returned, IndyCar and NASCAR shared a track weekend for the first time in history, and IMSA shipped off back to Daytona. Every time you turned around, there was another great race to watch. Well, We’ve got a recap of all the action straight from the typing fingers of a bonafide racer. Without furt
Read MoreSince its first running in 1978 between Paris and the seaside Senegalese city that gave the race its name, the Dakar rally has hosted competitors from across motorsport driving some of the most unique and imaginative vehicles ever to race. The race may take place in Saudi Arabia only now, but a new Classic category will bring some of its past back to life next year.
Read MoreValtteri Bottas may have brought home the win at today’s Formula One season opener in Austria, but the real news today is McLaren driver Lando Norris’s first finish on the podium, even though he does have to thank Lewis Hamilton for soaking up a five-second penalty that pulled him down to fourth place.
Read MoreWith the cost to run a championship-level Formula One team has hovered around the half-billion dollar level for the last decade or so. Now, obviously that cost will be significantly decreased with the new regulations mandating teams spend no more than $145 million starting in 2021. Knowing that, what do you think it costs to run a Formula E team? The modern series uses future technology and employs some of the best drivers in the world, so surely it’s got to be expensive, right?
Read MoreIn a recent contest which paired the Envision Virgin Formula E team with award-winning illustrator Rob Biddulph and National Geographic Kids, children 13 and under were given the opportunity to draw a climate change-influenced Formula E livery. And the winner would get their livery on a real Formula E car. The contest has been run, and the car you see here is the winner.
Read MoreHopefully in the next few days NASA will be launching their new Mars rover, Perseverance, to the Jezero Crater on Mars, where, hopefully, it will find some signs of past (maybe even present?) microbial life. This in itself is wildly exciting, but Perseverance has a passenger that makes it all even more remarkable: a helicopter named Ingenuity.
Read MoreNo longer happy to just be forming a conga line across the night sky, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are now ruining astronomers’ views by racing side by side through low Earth orbit.
Read MoreI know you wake up every morning wondering: “What’s Donkervoort up to?” Well, after claiming to have a car that can pull two g’s in a turn, its now adding an embellishment. Would you like your Dutch supercar in colored carbon fiber?
Read MoreOne of the stranger things about the coming of autonomous vehicles is the dawning realization that, sometimes, they still may need to be driven by a human. And, at the same time, if a vehicle is primarily autonomous, you can no longer count on the fact that one of the passengers inside will actually know how to drive a car. So, this puts automakers in the strange position of designing interfaces to control an autonomous vehicle’s speed and direction without actually driving. That convoluted bit
Read MoreI’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but, despite some disappointment from members of the Canoe Elite, I am now a shitty canoe owner. I haul my canoe around, like so many others, on the roof rack of my car. People haul all kinds of things on the exterior of their cars—cargo carriers on roofs, bikes at the rear, lumber hanging out of the back—every single day. I realized as I was driving around with my car’s canoe hat that this common practice would introduce a slew of issues for autonomous cars
Read MoreIf you’ve been paying attention to automotive lighting trends like I’m sure you have, I suspect you’ll agree that we seem to be on the cusp of another automotive lighting revolution. Luckily, this revolution looks to be a fun one, as it’s about blocky, dynamic displays in vehicle lights that remind me of old 8-bit graphics. It seems that one of the first cars to employ such lighting may be the upcoming 2021 Audi A3 and RS 3, as we can see in some leaked slides.
Read MoreBMW said earlier this year that it’ll be making gas engines for at least 30 more years, and while its electric ambitions are kind of lame, it emerged Friday that they’re doing a fuel-cell version X5, too.
Read MoreJaguar Land Rover has announced that it has patented a “predictive touch” technology which essentially lets you use touchscreen controls without your finger actually coming in contact with the screen surface. Seems like a great solution for fingerprints, though I’m skeptical it won’t be frustrating.
Read MoreI can’t decide if the silent terror of seven electric motors actively shredding rubber against rock vibrating through the cabin of the new 1,400 horsepower Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 driven by Ken Block is a good noise or a bad noise.
Read MoreIn America, as we all know and lament, manual transmissions are an endangered species, like the Carolina Bottleneck Squid, the last one of which I accidentally slammed in my car door this morning. In the rest of the world, they’re still thriving, but that doesn’t mean the manuals are safe. Automatics are always looming, though, in some places, that path is a bit stranger. Like in India, where Hyundai has introduced a manual transmission that you shift, but with no clutch. Sort of like the Volksw
Read MorePlug-and-play LED replacements for halogen headlight bulbs are a popular car mod. LEDs often look brighter than incandescent lights, but “looks brighter” and “illuminates better” are not the same thing. I got a stern talking-to from an actual lighting expert about LED retrofits, and science says: Putting LEDs where halogen bulbs are supposed to be is generally not actually an upgrade.
Read MoreIn case your invitation to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai got lost in the mail, don’t worry because Elon Musk couldn’t make it in person either, instead delivering a video that answered a number of questions posed to him regarding AI and, significantly, Tesla’s Autopilot semi-autonomous system. In this video, Musk claimed that Tesla is “very close to level five autonomy,” and that there are “no fundamental challenges,” just “many small problems.” I’m not so sure I agree
Read MoreTesla, you might have heard/noticed, has been on quite the roll, with its stock surging in recent weeks to make it, on paper, the most valuable automaker in the world. That has been a boon for Tesla, but it’s also helped attract millions to Tesla’s would-be rivals, too.
Read MoreFirst, I need to be clear that I am not here to kink-shame anyone. Sex is great, masturbation is great, and you do whatever the hell you want to get yourself off, as long as everyone involved is thrilled to be a part of it. Now, with that out of the way, I have to say that I find the Automoblow, the “first sexual pleasure device for self-driving cars” incredibly alarming. The reason I’m alarmed isn’t because of the part that involves you shoving your turgid junk into something that looks like a
Read MoreThe Lotus Evija, the 2,000-horsepower electric flagship that will pioneer the next-generation of sports cars from the automaker, is not targeting low-speed acceleration. Lotus wants its car to beat the supercars where they thrive—closing in on 200 mph as fast as possible.
Read MoreI’m pretty sure that, for most of us, this present isn’t really the future we’d hoped for. Sure, we have amazing pocket computers and have avoided putting pizzas in pill form, but we’re in a pandemic and an era of unrest and idiocy. BMW sure as hell isn’t making things better with its announcement of its version 7.0 of its cars’ operating system, an update that will allow for subscription-based models for features like adaptive cruise and heated seats. This is a terrible path to go down for the
Read MoreAutomakers have borrowed a ton of money to get through the pandemic, FCA and GM salaried employees are getting their full paychecks, FCA and Mazda are struggling, and the UK is discussing EV mandates. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 31, 2020.
Read MoreVolkswagen posted a big loss, as did Renault. Also someone has a dumb idea about GM’s name. That and more in The Morning Shift for July 30, 2020.
Read MoreGeneral Motors is considering delving into its strategic Mitten Reserve as its critical Missouri truck plant faces absenteeism in the face of coronavirus. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, July 29, 2020.
Read MoreHarley-Davidson is losing money earlier than expected, Land Rover gets France’s seconds, Nissan continues to lose big, and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, July 28, 2020.
Read MoreThe legendary Mitsubishi Pajero is getting the axe as Mitsubishi looks to cut costs. GM is continuing with its EV plans despite coronavirus setbacks. Ford dealers are apparently having issues getting repair parts. The VW ID.3 is getting some love. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 27, 2020.
Read MoreThe Renault Zoe is the EV champion, Volvo’s transition to electrification is coming along, Carlos Ghosn’s son apparently used cryptocurrency to helped Ghosn flee, and more issues with car manufacturing in Mexico. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 24, 2020.
Read MoreEven the haters are saying that Tesla did good, some Fiat Chrysler workers are mad, and Daimler thinks it will make a profit this year. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 23, 2020.
Read MoreYou can’t literally get away with alleged murder if you’re a U.S. diplomat in the UK anymore, sorry. Also, the U.S. is worried about plane pollution, FCA and Waymo are partners for life, and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, July 22, 2020.
Read MoreVW and Ford are worried about batteries, Volvo gets hit by a supply chain bottleneck, GM’s Mary Barra thinks next year will be much better, and things are looking up for Tesla. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 21, 2020.
Read MoreFord really thinks it might have a shot at taking down Wrangler, Jeep might have found a solution in Japan, and Renault has managed to build a car people kind of want. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 20, 2020.
Read MoreDaimler did better than expected, there’s a purge at Volkswagen, and New York is investing hundreds of millions in electric vehicle infrastructure. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 17, 2020.
Read MoreCadillac’s EV plans suck, American Airlines is preparing to furlough thousands, Subaru gets a fuel-pump lawsuit, Tesla registrations are down in California, and more in the Morning Shift for Thursday, July 16, 2020.
Read MoreTesla hit another extremely high stock price again, as the Financial Times reports, and we can’t help but talk about it. That and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
Read MoreBMW just jammed some batteries into an X3 and called it a day like we didn’t already do this dance with the Mini E, the BMW ActiveE, and the other EV Mini I can’t remember the name of. Tesla has it easy. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, July 14, 2020.
Read MoreUsed cars have maybe never been hotter, Tesla reduces the price of the Model Y, and Fisker goes public. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 13, 2020.
Read MoreMexican suppliers are struggling to meet U.S. automaker output, Tesla is wiping the floor in the local Chinese EV market, and the Netherlands will sue Russia for human rights violations for the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17. That and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, July 10, 2020.
Read MoreThe judge overseeing the big GM-FCA racketeering case throws it all out. China wants your new car smell to be healthy. GM shakes up its management. Carlos Ghosn apparently paid a hefty sum for his wild extraction from Japan. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 9, 2020.
Read MoreDealerships got a whole lot of money from the federal government, Daimler will cut even more costs, and Audi thinks it sees opportunity. All that and more in The Morning Shift for July 8, 2020.
Read MoreChinese automakers have struggled to sell in the U.S. for decades and it’s only getting harder, VW is almost out of its dieselgate mess, and Boeing is losing more sales. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
Read MoreFull-size pickups are now outselling everything, Nissan’s CEO going toe-to-toe with investors, concerns about coronavirus at GM’s bread-and-butter plants, Germany’s slow coronavirus economic recovery. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, July 6, 2020.
Read MoreThe vile, troublesome, wicked, loathsome Chevrolet Silverado has been having a hard time, such that it only just scraped past the Ram in sales this quarter. But the two of them may have an even greater problem looming, and I’m not talking about the Ford F-150. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, July 2, 2020.
Read MoreAmerican car companies love to talk about how seriously they’re taking coronavirus precautions. We’ll see that put to the test when their most plant that churns out Escalades and other ultra-profitable SUVs is called into question. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, June 1, 2020.
Read MoreA few years back I reviewed the Toyota Prius Prime and overall I found it to be a technically impressive car. It accomplished its main job, getting excellent fuel economy, remarkably well. I recently spent a week in one to see what else I could get out of it. You know what? I did get something! That something was really fucking annoyed.
Read MoreIn an attempt to convince Berliners to wear their masks properly while on public transport, the BVG, the company that runs the city’s U-Bahn, trams, and buses has a new approach according to a report from Deutsche Welle: encouraging riders to forgo deodorant.
Read MoreThe Toucan Rescue Ranch shared some sloth news on IGTV that’s just relevant enough for me to justify posting on Jalopnik so here goes: A female two-toed apparently snuck into a truck’s engine bay and was discovered after a 40-mile drive. Said sloth has now been rehabilitated and returned to the wild.
Read MoreOne of the few complaints I have about the 2021 Ford Bronco’s cosmetics is the way the door jambs look with the doors removed. Based on what I’ve seen, Jeep’s Wrangler does a better job looking designed to be doorless. But this problem’s been tackled before. By the Bronco, in fact.
Read MoreOff-road outfitter ARB has just announced that its new piece of lighting kit will be a 9-inch circleish-shaped driving light with 36 OSRAM LEDs with five brightness settings you can control from your cab. They look cool.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco checks almost all of the right boxes for an off-roader you can live with, and Ford is doubling down on customization with new options, including these newly-leaked tube-frame doors.
Read MoreWhen GM announced it was bringing Hummer back as a new all-electric crossover and pickup truck brand, we were all left to wonder if the truck would go for utility or aesthetics. Rather obviously, Hummer went for aesthetics.
Read MoreEast Coast Defender, a Florida company that stuffs V8s and lots of leather into old British trucks, has just set a new record for most-square-inches-of-sunroof on a car. I mean, it has to have, right? Look at all that glass!
Read MoreWhen you start looking at the math of the 2021 Ford Bronco’s gear ratios, it seems like the truck can do ridiculous power multiplication. What the hell are you supposed to do with 29,372 lb-ft of wheel torque, anyway? Well, there’s more to it than that, as the inimitable Jason Fenske explains in this video.
Read MoreI know we’ve been talking a lot about the Bronco, and just yesterday it was announced that Ford is planning a new small pickup based on the Bronco Sport platform (the Ford C2 platform), to be called the Maverick. Here’s the thing, though: Wouldn’t you rather see a pickup based on the 2021 Bronco? Of course, you would.
Read MoreOff-road overland outfitter ARB has basically taken GoPro’s best business idea and applied it to roof racks. The company’s BASE rack looks slick and, more significantly, comes with its own ecosystem of accessories. It gives you lots of customization potential; it gives ARB lots of revenue potential.
Read MoreIf your Ford Bronco fever has already chilled out since last week, Ford would now like to direct your attention to the rumored compact pickup based on the Ford Bronco Sport likely to be introduced next year.
Read MoreThe U.S. Forest Service has a fleet of 4x4s it uses to buzz around America’s woods doing trail maintenance, fire prevention, Bigfoot hunting, and whatever else. These vehicles used to all be sprayed in this lovely green; that paint job on an American truck is iconic. I had to see how it’d look on the 2021 Ford Bronco.
Read MoreTo get an understanding of how the 2021 Ford Bronco will stack up against the undefeated Jeep Wrangler off-road, I had to get nerdy. I interviewed the Bronco’s Chief Program Engineer and Vehicle Engineering manager, reached out to other engineering experts in the auto industry, visited a Jeep dealership to snap photos of underbody hardware, and pored over every new Bronco image I could find on the internet. I went searching for nuggets. Here’s what I learned.
Read MoreThis U.S. Forest Service-spec V8 manual-shift ’95 Bronco is so mint my breath got better just looking at the pics. It was just listed for $15,000, and the 2021 Ford Bronco just dropped starting at about $30,000, so the question is begged: Would you rather have a new one or this oldie plus a bunch of money for fuel and maintenance?
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco is the most exciting enthusiast-vehicles to come out in a long time. Two pillars of its coolness are its seven-speed manual transmission option and Sasquatch Package that lets you add front and rear lockers, a 4.7 gear ratio, and big tires to any trim level. But now I hear Ford won’t let you buy both? This is an outrage.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco is coming out swinging with seven trim levels and five packages to pick from at launch. There’s a lot of good stuff here so let’s break it all down and figure out which version will be the best to buy.
Read More2021 Ford Bronco fever is full-on over here. We’ve got a big thread of info being updated as rapidly as possible to discuss the specs, but for those who just want to see it from every possible angle, here’s the biggest batch of 2021 Ford Bronco pictures I could wrangle.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco has finally been revealed to the public. Pull up a chair, crack a beverage, and let’s discuss the vehicle’s officially confirmed highlights and specs.
Read MoreThere’s only half an hour left until Ford reveals the 2021 Ford Bronco, but the forum for the new sixth-generation Ford Bronco, Bronco6G, isn’t waiting. Someone on the messaging boards just posted new exterior and interior images of the new Ford off-roader, and they look amazing.
Read MoreIt’s July 13, the day of the 2021 Ford Bronco reveal, and Jeep has just announced a 6.4-liter V-8 Wrangler Rubicon 392 Concept—clearly as a way to take some spotlight off FoMoCo’s new Wrangler competitor. But it won’t work, because we’ve seen this before.
Read MoreThis world would be a better place if there were just a little more honestly in it, which is why I’m such a big fan of Jalopnik reader Mark Tucker’s 1989 Forest Service Chevy K1500 Cheyenne. It is exactly what it looks like: A no-bullshit green, mean (actually, kind), hauling machine. Let’s all pay our respects to this honest pickup.
Read MoreRenault’s revolutionary new battery-electric D Z.E. freight truck has been in construction since March of this year, but was delayed several months thanks to the global coronavirus lockdown. Despite each truck only taking 50 hours of assembly work from start to finish, this one has been on the production line for several months. The electric freighter was finally delivered to Delanchy Group where it will deliver fresh food throughout France.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco is dropping next week with a ridiculously robust media blitz you will have a hard time ignoring. Here’s a rundown of how and when to see the 4x4’s final form first, because you’ve got options!
Read MoreThe 3.0-liter EcoDiesel V6 in the 2021 Jeep Wrangler has now officially also been confirmed for the off-roader’s pickup sibling. That’s great, but the 2021 Jeep Gladiator EcoDiesel will only be available on trims that also come decked out for rock-crawling, so it’s not going to be cheap.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco is scheduled to drop Monday, July 13, 2020, but eager enthusiasts over at the Bronco6G forum have been discussing a huge alleged leak detailing specifications and options all week. It can’t be confirmed with 100 percent certainty, but it’s certainly interesting enough to discuss.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco is debuting in just a couple of days, but spy photos have been all over the internet for months. We haven’t seen any detailed ones showing the interior, though. Until now.
Read MoreFord will introduce the new Ford Bronco a week from today, when Ford will also begin accepting $100 deposits for it, though it’s unclear what that gets you. The Bronco will have two-door, four-door, and sport versions, though those three appear to just be the beginning of Ford’s aspirations for the Bronco name.
Read MoreThe Bentley Bentayga’s not really my cup of drool, but we had to check in on what was getting changed for the 2021 redesign. I’m glad I did, because get a load of this reptilian green-on-green gorgeousness.
Read MoreFord is effectively adding three new off-roady trim levels to the Ranger pickup by bundling some accessories that make the truck look cooler. And, yes, raise its cross-country capability somewhat. Let’s go through them and see what’s good.
Read MoreThe new Ford Bronco will be unveiled on July 13, not OJ Simpson’s birthday. That’s about two weeks from now, with details leaking out almost every day. One of those details is that Ford confirmed this week it will let you give it $100 just to line up to buy the SUV, but the details on what that actually buys remain a bit opaque.
Read MoreThere’s no question that Tesla absolutely revolutionized electric cars and that they have some really elegant engineering and careful design for their cars. There’s also no question that they have some real quality control problems and their CEO kinda, you know, sucks. I guess the CEO part isn’t really germane here, other than, unlike every other car company, when something goes wrong, unsatisfied customers tweet to Elon directly. Like this one did, because his brand-new car just suffered a huge
Read MoreEver since writing about the city of Troy, Michigan requiring me to fix or sell my fleet of 12 cars, I’ve received an outpouring of vitriol from homeowners. But between the claims that I’m an inconsiderate neighbor and folks calling me a hoarder, some words of solidarity have shined through. Some of them come from people in similar situations, like this man from North Carolina, who has 10 cars, much to the chagrin of his HOA. He needs our help in deciding which to keep.
Read MoreI did buy my 1987 Schwinn Cimarron with the intention of riding it. It’s a bike. Riding it places is the whole point. But I also bought it as a project, as something to teach myself how to fix. A few weeks into owning it and I’m discovering it’s maybe better at one thing than the other.
Read MoreI was surprised to find myself riding my $150 Schwinn just one day after it arrived, half-disassembled, in the mail. But I was also not particularly surprised that I had it taken apart before that day was over, sidelined by an interesting old part I can’t seem to find online.
Read More“Don’t Trust Your Life To These Jack Stands,” Jalopnik wrote after Harbor Freight recalled over 1.7 million jack stands—safety devices meant to keep vehicles lifted so you can work under them. Now, per a new letter from Harbor Freight’s owner and founder, the stands that replaced some of the recalled ones have also been found to be faulty. Yikes.
Read MoreI’ve been wrenching primarily in dark shitty hovels for most of my life. I’ve rebuilt engines in basements, swapped transmissions in rooms with dirt floors, and tore a 1968 Mustang GT apart bolt-by-bolt in a dimly lit former amateur butcher shop. When I moved out west where the cars are without rust, I vowed that I’d never do extensive work in a terrible shop ever again. Which is why I’ve halted all of my car projects to focus on getting our new garage into shape.
Read MoreAfter months of searching, I sent $150 to a guy I had never met, for a bike I had never seen with my own two eyes, 3,000 miles from my apartment. A good question would be: why?
Read MoreI think I figured out a solution to my problem of “not wanting to be in my dark and gross garage.” I’m just going to start dismantling my cars and bringing them into my apartment one piece at a time! Who else is trying to squander their July 4th staycation getting greasy with a needy automobile?
Read MoreA reader named Nicholas emailed me on Monday asking for advice on which of his five dilapidated vehicles he should keep, and which he should sell. The vehicles are: Isuzu Rodeo, Ford F-150, Chevy Cavalier, Toyota Camry, and Ford Ranger. Let’s see what shape these cars are in, and give Nicholas some level-headed Jalop-advice, shall we?
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