It’s been a bit since we last checked on the wacky mad scientists over at Garage 54. Lately, the crew has been playing around with plastic parts, making a set of plastic pistons. Do plastic pistons even work? Let’s find out!
Read MoreThere may not be a more important motorcycle in Harley-Davidson’s current lineup than the Pan America. If you want to play in the high-end adventure motorcycle space against hot tickets like BMW, Ducati and KTM, you’ve really got to bring the heat. Harley stepped up to the plate to build its first adventure touring bike and has fired a shot right across the bow of the big Euros. This is a firefight you’ll want to watch intently.
Read MoreElectric motorcycles are quiet but not completely silent. Before the handlebars wiggle in deep sand you’ll hear the crush as the hardpack gives way. The noise of a rear tire struggling for grip against a slick rock or splashing in the wake of a water crossing is audible for maybe the first time in an off-road riding career. Once you get used to the calm of desert riding without an exhaust note you won’t want to go back, and the all-electric Zero DSR Black Forest is a great bike to start with.
Read MoreWe spend some time talking about the racism built into American infrastructure, but we should spend a bit more talking about the corruption behind it, too. Here’s a video explainer on how the auto industry conspired to make it first illegal and then impossible to get around without a car.
Read MoreRussia is home to a bunch of wacky vehicles from whatever gets built by Garage 54 to the Sherp. One inventor is adding another creation to the list with his Hamster, a motorcycle that traverses terrain with a snowmobile track.
Read MorePresident Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers Monday to discuss his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal and how to fund it. At some point, the eternal question of raising the 18.4-cent federal gas tax was brought up; initial reports suggested that Biden was receptive to the idea.
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but my Sunday was completely ruined by Twitter (not for the first time). That’s because over the weekend the Young America’s Foundation tweeted this:
Read MoreIf your husband was killed in the midst of World War II, what would you do? If your name was Mariya Oktyabrskaya, you’d sell everything you own to buy a T-34 tank and go into battle to avenge him. And you’d be the first women to be made an official Hero of the Soviet Union.
Read MoreMoto Guzzi has been making the V7 model since the mid-1960s, and the formula has largely held true to that original design. A V-twin with the cylinders jutting left and right? Check. Shaft drive? Check. Magnificent sound? You’re damn right. In sync of the company’s centennial, the new generation is revamped with a better chassis, more powerful engine and new electronics, and it still has a properly vintage feel.
Read MoreA seafarer training facility in France is getting lots of attention since the Ever Given jammed the Suez Canal. The facility’s own miniature Suez Canal can help mariners learn lessons from the Ever Given fiasco with the help of awesome scale-model ships
Read MoreYou all probably recognize the above image as an early contended for ‘Meme of the Year,’ a tiny excavator doing its best to free the colossal Ever Given from its spot stuck in the Suez Canal. Who hasn’t struggled against seemingly insurmountable odds?
Read MoreA ship carrying 19 people capsized after encountering unusually rough weather in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast Tuesday.
Read MoreSometimes, it’s the little things that bring you the most joy, like finding out there is only one floating zip code in the U.S. and it is an adorable 45-foot mail boat.
Read MoreTwelve sailors onboard the Eemslift Hendrika had to be rescued by the Norwegian Coast Guard earlier this week, and the dramatic moment was captured on video. Unfortunately for some crew, weather conditions were so bad the air rescue team couldn’t lift them from the ship — so the sailors had to leap from their uncontrolled vessel into massive waves for a chance to be saved.
Read MoreDo not adjust your blog-reading device, that headline is not from a year ago. Toilet paper is just the latest necessity to suffer in the global shipping container shortage, and we could see high prices and empty shelves again in American supermarkets.
Read MoreChoosing the color of your car is a very personal thing, and I don’t know many people who select their color based on how it will affect their resale value. It turns out the color you can impact your value, and the colors that do the best may surprise you.
Read MoreBryan has a family member who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has always wanted to drive a convertible and Bryan wants to help her get what will likely be her last car. They have a pretty solid budget but want something that won’t drop in value too much.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car-buying expert and a professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve picked a few of your questions and will try to help out. This week we are discussing two conundrums regarding the current seller’s market for both new and used cars.
Read MoreAutomakers aren’t perfect. Hold on, before you slap me, just hear me out: Quality control is generally damn good among modern carmakers, but mistakes still happen. Thankfully, they’re usually not big, dangerous mistakes, but more often something minor — and I suppose a bit embarrassing. Something like the thing that’s wrong with this 2022 Hyundai Tucson.
Read MoreI recently had a chance to sort of drive 2022 MK8 Golf R and came away pretty impressed. From what I hear about the MK8 GTI, it’s going to be an improvement over the current car in just about every way—but that doesn’t make the one you can buy today obsolete.
Read MoreThe 2022 Mini hardtop is getting a surprisingly compelling value trim package with a ton of standard features the car didn’t get when this generation was introduced in 2018. The best part is Mini is holding the updated car at the 2018 model year starting price of $19,750 despite all of the new features.
Read MoreRick and his wife are in the market for a new family car. The problem is that they have so many conflicting requirements it leaves them stuck. They want roomy but not too big, fun but also fuel-efficient. What car should they buy?
Read MoreI recently purchased two vehicles at auctions in Japan. As one has reached America — and the other awaits its boat — this seems like a good time to answer some of your questions about vehicle importation. Many readers want to know how importing a car from Europe works.
Read MoreThe 992 generation GT3 is the current pinnacle of the 911 range. First impressions of this beast from behind the wheel are pretty much what you would expect. However, at this point in time, actually putting one in your garage is almost impossible even if you have serious money to spend.
Read MoreThe 2021 Kia Telluride gets pretty bad fuel economy, I thought, returning 23 mpg over 800-odd miles of driving. “I’d get something smaller and more fuel-efficient,” I thought to myself. What a fool I am! Turns out, pretty much every other car even remotely similar to this gets the same numbers.
Read MoreThe 2021 Ford Bronco hasn’t even hit dealerships yet, and already people are trying to make big bucks flipping them.
Read MoreFanatec is a company known for sim racing equipment that tends to occupy the pricier end of the spectrum. When I say that, I’m not even referring to the upcoming BMW M4 GT3 wheel that’ll likely land in the quadruple digits. Most of the brand’s wheels are far cheaper than that. But they’re still $300 or $400 — and that’s on top of whatever you spend on the wheel base and pedals. Unlike Logitech and Thrustmaster’s equipment, Fanatec’s hardware is sold piecemeal.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car-buying expert and a professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve picked a few of your questions and will try to help out. This week we are discussing cashing out equity in your used car and what to do if you find out the pre-owned car you are about to buy is “overpriced.”
Read MoreSomeone just bought a 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B STi on Bring on Trailer for $312,555. Despite the mind-boggling amount spent on this car, this auction isn’t even close to being one of the most expensive cars sold on the selling platform.
Read MoreJared is a sophomore in college and will be taking a long cross-country road trip this summer. His FR-S is not really ideal for such a journey so he is looking for something cheap, reliable and comfortable that he can pass down to his sister. What car should he buy?
Read MoreYears ago, I ranted about my distaste for most modern steering wheels found in current production cars. They’re just too thick and often too soft. I miss the old days of a thin, light circumference to grip. Now, a reader has emailed me to ask for some slim steering wheel options found on cars they can buy right now, so let’s help them out.
Read MoreJust a few years ago, car subscriptions seemed as if they were going to be the next big thing in vehicle purchasing. Every automaker from Porsche to Ford and even car rental agencies were getting in on the game. Now though, most of them have all but quietly vanished.
Read MoreMy Honda Beat is finally here in America! My quest to purchase a pair of Japanese Domestic Market dream cars is getting closer to completion and I’m happy to say that costs are about as low as I expected.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car-buying expert and a professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve picked a few of your questions and will try to help out. This week we are discussing turbo motors replacing V6s and why Audi would advertise a lower eTron lease price in some areas of the country.
Read MoreShopping for the best price on a car is just part of the equation, a great deal on a vehicle can be completely wiped out if you don’t correctly manage the financing. This is a good time to remind you to take a few key steps before going to the dealership, especially if your credit isn’t perfect.
Read MoreThe Ferrari SF90 Stradale is a 986-horsepower plug-in electric hybrid supercar with a price tag north of half-a-million dollars. I have good news if you’re in the market for one, as it has just come to my attention that the SF90 Stradale is eligible for the same federal tax credit you used to get when buying a Tesla.
Read MoreKatie lives in Philadelphia and her 1997 Honda Accord “Chum Bucket” is her vehicular best friend. However, after 24 years on the road and over 200,000 miles on the clock, she realizes that this friendship won’t last forever. She is looking for a new friend that is affordable, reliable, and practical.
Read MoreFirst, Nissan doubles down on subprime lending. Now it’s willing to pay dealers more money when customers take out longer terms. This is the new plan Nissan has laid out for dealers, according to a report from Cars Direct.
Read MoreAs Jalopnik’s resident car-buying expert and a professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve picked a few of your questions and will try to help out. This week we are discussing whether age or mileage is a key factor for a used car and what to do if your lease is up and you don’t like any potential replacements.
Read MoreThe Stellantis first-quarter sales report is out and revealed some automotive zombies are somehow still hanging in there. Savvy salespeople managed to sling not only a Chrysler 200 but a Dodge Dart, too.
Read MoreRob had two very cool cars, a 1996 Dodge Viper and a 2012 Subaru WRX STI. That was until the Viper caught fire, burned down the garage and took the Subaru with it. He is looking for a fast and practical car to replace both, and he has a pretty healthy budget. What car should he buy?
Read MoreI think with modern LCD instrument clusters steadily becoming the default choice for most cars, what I want to talk about today is something that is well on its way to extinction. Objectively, this isn’t a bad thing, as what I’m talking about are things that have no actual use or purpose beyond reminding a car’s owner of something they do not have. They’re devices that perform the opposite of a function, somehow. I’m talking about the empty Gauges of Nothingness used on car instrument clusters.
Read MoreAutoZone last month reported sales up 15 percent in February for its fiscal quarter ending then, while O’Reilly said Wednesday that it had the best quarterly same-store sales growth in company history. It’s very good, at the moment, to be in the auto parts business.
Read MoreHyundai’s N performance brand is growing, though its lineup is still a bit light here in the U.S. Across the pond, Hyundai has updated two versions of the i30 N for the UK that we should’ve gotten in the U.S. years ago.
Read MoreAt one point or another in our motoring lives, most of us have heard of how wonderful it is to drive a slow car fast. Of how much fun it is go WOT in some infamously slow car. The reason that idea refuses to die is quite simply that it’s true. It is fun to drive a slow car fast.
Read MoreThere’s something so strangely and artificially satisfying about that perfect cube of belongings there. Imagine moving into an apartment with an un-met roommate and they show up and unload that, right there. It’d be kind of daunting, but you’d be in a little bit of awe, right? Also you’d probably think this person desperately needs to update their electronics.
Read MoreConcept cars have always shown what could be or what could have been. Sometimes though, a concept received enough praise to where it was put into production virtually unchanged. But just because it wasn’t changed doesn’t always mean that the end product was good. Sometimes automakers shouldn’t have even bothered. To me, the NSX was one of those times.
Read MoreEarlier this week Formula 1 announced it was cancelling the Canadian grand prix, originally scheduled for July 13, in favor of a return to Istanbul Park in Turkey on the same weekend. It’s pretty much a repeat of what happened last year, which marked Turkey’s first F1 race in nine years. But neither Istanbul Park nor any of last season’s pandemic-prompted substitutions were accounted for in the F1 2020 video game, because they were decided too late for the developers at Codemasters Birmingham to
Read MoreBack in 2019, I completed a 4,000 mile road trip in a vehicle that, frankly, was destined for the junkyard. The series was wildly successful, garnering millions of pageviews, though one thing was missing: video footage. Jalopnik recently uncovered the lost footage, and now here’s episode No. 5, which shows the brake failure that left my me and my brothers stranded for *days in* a Days Inn a parking lot.
Read MoreI don’t throw around the word “hero” lightly. It’s an important, powerful word, and as such I hoard it like a miser, choosing to dole it out with all the associated ceremony to people who do things so trivial and tedious and absurd that it would make an absolute mockery of the word. This is one of those times, and Gareth Wild is a hero. A hero who parked in all 211 spaces in the parking lot at his local Sainsbury’s.
Read MoreThere are still a lot of unanswered questions about the deadly crash of a Tesla Model S near Houston on April 17, including whether Tesla’s driver assistance system, Autopilot, had any role and whether anyone was in the driver’s seat when the crash occurred. A new report from the local fire marshal’s office fills in a few more of the missing details.
Read MoreWe always talk about the ones that got away — the concept cars that inspired the public yet never got made. Cars like the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve or the Nissan IDx, lifted by mountains of hype that their respective automakers simply couldn’t transform into something real. History is littered with them. It’s sick.
Read MoreAfter months of teasing a prototype, then one production photo, and then an interior sketch, the 2022 Honda Civic has finally been revealed in full. We already know the 11th-generation Civic will spearhead Honda’s new interior design direction, but what else does the updated compact still have to offer?
Read MoreWhen we think about the first landing of humans on the moon, we generally think of two names: Neil Armstrong, who took that one small step, and Buzz Aldrin, who unwittingly posed to be MTV’s future mascot. But there was one other Apollo 11 crewmember, a crucial part of the team who never actually walked on the Moon, but without whom Neil and Buzz’ corpses would still be at Tranquility Base to this day. That astronaut was Michael Collins, and today he died at 90.
Read MoreThe 2021 Rolls-Royce Wraith and the 2021 Rolls-Royce Dawn will mark the end for those two models in the Americas, Rolls-Royce confirms. This is apparently in large part because of emissions regulations.
Read MoreStarry-eyed dreamers are forever putting together new car companies. A lot of the past attempts at automaker startups turned out to be failed experiments. Others limped along for years before ultimately dying. Some are still attempting to do business, their fates uncertain.
Read MoreSometimes money really does get you everything. Imagine being rich enough to approach an automaker and telling them, “I want you to build this for me.” That’s what one Japanese billionaire has done with this Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Read MoreAston Martin is going throwback with its newest limited edition car. The British marque is nodding to the iconic DBR1 with its latest V12 Speedster.
Read MoreLots of automakers have temporarily halted production in recent months because of the global chip shortage, but Toyota has been less affected, apparently because it is better at maintaining its supply chain. The company took the opportunity last month to cash in.
Read MoreI have a handful of old websites that I still hold dear. Among them is MuscleCarClub.com, an ancient online tome that is still better than anything else online.
Read MoreThe electric vehicle craze has given us many startups whose ambition exceeded their staying power. But of course this phenomenon goes back a long way, well before EVs. Today, we’re asking you which one promised the most and delivered the least.
Read MoreThere is a new Volkswagen, and I’m not talking about the ID.4, though that is also a new Volkswagen. Funny enough for a company that pretended to change its name to Voltswagen for a day (seriously, what the hell was that? Someone please get Volkswagen the vax), this week VW is touting the Taos’s fuel mileage.
Read MoreIt’s hard to say which automaker does the best interior designs. While car interiors and quality are now probably the best they’ve ever been, things really only started to turn around about 10 to 12 years ago, especially for the American makes. The bailout seemed to be wakeup call for them to get their shit together.
Read MoreRugged performance is the theme of the roaring ’20s, so I suppose it was only a matter of time until we got a minivan that at least pretended to be rugged. Toyota has taken the new Sienna, which already comes standard with all-wheel drive and a hybrid powertrain, and slightly increased the ground clearance, added a tow hitch, roof rails and tossed in its optional 1500-watt AC inverter in the cargo area to create what you see here: the Sienna Woodland Special Edition.
Read MoreYou know the Veloster N? Of course you do, everyone does. Well, what if it were taller and had four normal size doors? Actually, you don’t even have to imagine, because Hyundai’s built it for us. It’s called the Kona N, and today it became official.
Read MoreA McLaren 765LT burned to cinders at a gas station in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon. That’s bad enough, but the story gets worse: The car was fresh off of the lot with only 100 miles, and the owner had spent $560,000 on the British supercar.
Read MoreHonda is going back to the drawing room with its interiors, and it’s shown us a pretty cool concept. It made me recall the interior of the Honda S2000, which I have always thought was the coolest, most focused interior of any car. Still, it’s not my favorite. So I have to ask: What’s your favorite car interior of all?
Read MoreLotus’s final internal combustion powered sports car, previously codenamed Type 131, has a real name at last. It’ll be called Emira, the automaker announced early Tuesday, and it won’t be a hybrid.
Read MoreOn Monday after the close of business, Tesla announced its Q1 2021 financial results in its quarterly earnings call. The company turned a surprisingly large profit this quarter, but it didn’t do it by selling cars. Q1 net profit reached a new record for Tesla, at $438 million. Revenue for the electric car company was up massively to $10.39 billion. Unfortunately, all of that profit is accounted for in the company selling $518 million in regulatory credits, and $101 million was found in buying an
Read MoreDeath is inevitable. You can’t avoid it. You gotta go. But when you do go, you can make sure you go out in a memorable way. Especially if you’re a gearhead. From a classic car procession to JDM cars doing donuts, the sky is the limit for your last hurrah.
Read MoreFirst, to everyone who clicked because they glanced at the headline quickly and thought it had something to do with Foghat, my apologies. It’s got nothing to do with that, but instead is about something far more important: the fog lamp switch on a Toyota Hiace, the design of which may be the best foglamp switch design I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreAs you’re probably aware, the rap star DMX died on April 9. Over the weekend, his casket motored to his funeral at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn atop a tractor-tired Ford F-250 in a procession that encompassed 1,000 or so motorcycles, quads and three-wheelers. It was a fitting tribute to the man who released this video:
Read MoreDrag racing on public roads is a generally terrible idea, but is a good way to get cops to chase you down and get your license revoked, your car impounded, that sort of thing. It seems at least two D.C.-area cops had the brilliant idea to eliminate the middleman and just do some idiotic street racing on their own. Unsurprisingly, this ended up in a wreck and a lot of embarrassment.
Read MoreYouTube has two vehicular trends battling for views. On one hand, you have channels like WhistlinDiesel laying waste to the cars and trucks you love. On the other, channels like RRC Restoration bring those wrecks back to life. Many restoration channels also tackle old tools and home goods.
Read MoreWell, that didn’t take very long. The GR Yaris sold out in Mexico in just under one day, according to a report from Autocosmos. Pre-orders for a limited quantity of the GR Yaris model sold out same-day on April 15 after Toyota launched a surprise order period.
Read MoreDo you remember your first time using a roundabout? Chances are, it was not the first time of everyone else on the roundabout, too, which meant you had the luxury of learning the rules of the road by watching other folks make the loop with no problems. Unfortunately, if you’re a resident of this rural town in eastern Kentucky, you’re just shit out of of luck.
Read MoreThe iconic Fast & Furious franchise is growing one spinoff at a time, with the most recent rumors addressing some of Michelle Rodriguez’s critiques about the series: there aren’t enough women. What better way to address it than to give Rodriguez her own movie where she stars as Letty Ortiz?
Read MoreEarl Simmons, known worldwide as DMX, had his last ride at a funeral procession in Brooklyn, New York in the back of a customized Ford F250 monster truck with “Long Live DMX” etched on the side. And that wasn’t all—his procession to the memorial service at the Barclays Center was accompanied by thousands of motorcycles that shut down traffic in New York City.
Read MoreSometimes, we can learn great lessons from terrible things. Other times, it’s all just awful. What car was so irredeemable that you wish it simply never existed?
Read MoreIt has a mouthful of a name, but you may never drive a car as muscular as it is desperately fun. It’s the 2021 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody, baby!
Read MoreThis past week, I had the pleasure of attending the Texas Auto Writers Association’s Spring Roundup, which basically means tons of automakers brought their latest and greatest machines out for us fine folks to sample. And that also means I’ve gotten behind the wheel of quite a few cars that I’m excited to write about. Being the indecisive human that I am, though, I’m struggling to figure out where to start.
Read MoreFor years, I’ve had this vague dream that, one day, I will own several very obnoxious cars. I don’t mean a loud-engined beast that will annoy my old neighbors or a Subaru painted bright green. I mean a car that’s so awful—so absolutely egregious—that it will be collectively hated by both car enthusiasts and the Average Joe alike. And I think I’ve finally come up with an answer.
Read MoreThe ID.4 is a huge deal for Volkswagen as it looks to electrify its lineup. Now, the company is aiming to see how the ID.4 will handle off-road racing with its entrance in the NORRA 1000, scheduled to take place in Baja, California, Mexico.
Read MoreI’d estimate the grand total I’ve spent on the cars I have bought so far at about $40,000. That’s the total of a Jaguar S-Type R, a Chevrolet Sonic, an Acura TL Type S and my current Hyundai Sonata. Not impressive by any means, but I tend to play it safe.
Read MoreThe federal gas tax was last raised in 1993 and, anytime anyone countenances raising it, it goes nowhere. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington now say it is at least time to think about it.
Read MoreI’ll admit I feel a little dirty for writing about this but it is automotive-life related and I can’t deny the lurid fascination of watching a really miserable person behave really miserably. If you’re harboring any latent misanthropy this isn’t going to help, at all. It’s a tiny, infuriating one-act play about a woman lying to police to attempt to save a parking spot for her boyfriend’s Challenger, and, sadly, it seems to have actually happened. Oh, and there’s some subtle shade thrown at Subar
Read MoreAt nearly 30,000 square miles, with a population of nearly five million and a 2019 GDP of just under $200 billion, Southern California’s Inland Empire is not the boondocks region many people in LA think it is. The last few years have seen global online giant Amazon set its sights on Southern California, with the Inland Empire getting most of the company’s regional hubs. While bringing jobs and boosting local economies, economic success has come at a cost.
Read MoreA faulty Takata airbag has killed a 19th person in the United States. Honda confirms that a South Carolina driver died when the airbag inflator of a 2002 Honda Accord ruptured. Honda had warned the various owners of the vehicle about the unresolved recall more than 100 times since 2011.
Read MoreSen. Gary Peters, a Democrat from Michigan, and Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, are proposing legislation covering autonomous vehicles be attached to an otherwise unrelated bill working its way through Congress, according to a new report. This is probably not where great public policy begins.
Read MoreA former employee has accused Hendrick Toyota out of Concord, North Carolina of subjecting them to”hostile racial harrassment”. Insider reports that the employee, who is Black, quit because of health issues associated with the harassment
Read MoreI was thinking back to my first car the other day, as one does. It was a hand-me-down from my folks. A ratty, boxy-but-round ’94 Plymouth Acclaim that I hated back in high school. It was a POS, but you know what? It was free!
Read MoreI don’t really watch too many car shows now. That’s not to say I don’t watch them at all. But some of them try too hard to be more about entertainment and less about cars. Especially a lot of the YouTube channels. They can border on cringe. One show I have always enjoyed though was MotorWeek. Especially the classic episodes. You can’t get any better than John Davis and his weird obsession with a comprehensive set of gauges. Harry’s Garage gets an honorable mention from me too.
Read MoreIt’s been a few years since we last talked about Scott Tucker and his illegal payday loan shenanigans. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court made it much harder for the Federal Trade Commission to force him to pay back everyone he’s scammed.
Read MoreIf you’re any good at Gran Turismo, you might be able to take part in an Olympics-sanctioned event later this year ahead of the Tokyo Summer Games.
Read MoreRemember when the GR Yaris was announced and Toyota said it wouldn’t come to North America, but it also reassured us that we’d be getting a “hot hatch to call our own?” Yeah, we’re all still waiting on that Toyota. Fortunately, a sliver of a rumor’s just emerged from Japan that may give us an indication of what we can eventually expect in the long-awaited GR Corolla.
Read MoreIf you want to take an amazing road trip, stop caring how quickly you get somewhere and realize that the journey itself is the destination. Cliché? Sure, but take a long-distance trip on back roads instead of highways and you’ll understand. Just check out this amazing car collection I found in the middle of a field in Colorado while on my 3,500 mile road trip in Project POStal.
Read MoreIf you’re a sim racer who isn’t satisfied with belt- or gear-driven wheels, you’ve likely heard of Fanatec’s Podium DD1 and DD2 direct-drive bases. These mount the steering wheel directly to the motor shaft, offering more detailed feedback and significantly higher torque. But starting at $1,200, they don’t come cheap.
Read MoreIt has been quite a long time since I intentionally tuned in to an automotive program that wasn’t produced entirely for YouTube. I used to watch Top Gear and The Grand Tour, naturally, but burned out on those. But with all this time for us to collectively gather new things to watch, why don’t we share?
Read MoreA deal has been struck for McLaren to sell its iconic headquarters in Woking, England, to a New York-based firm for £170 million, or around $236 million, it was announced Tuesday. The complex had been on the market for months.
Read MoreTaillights are an important part of vehicle design. Our own Jason Torchinsky might say, the most important. Done right, they can almost bring the whole vehicle together. Done poorly, they can be terrible and distracting and ruin an otherwise Good Car. One of my favorite taillight designs is the current-gen of the MX-5 Miata. It just brings the car together and almost resembles an afterburner.
Read MoreA reader named Howard recently reached out to let us know something that at first seems quite trivial, but the more I thought about it, the more important I thought it may be. The something was the fact that for some vehicles, including the affordable Nissan Versa, Nissan is no longer including the screw-in tow/recovery hook. I’d bet that most of our readers have never even used or needed one before. Even so, I’m not sure I like the idea of them no longer being provided. Let’s think about this.
Read MoreRemember Test Drive Unlimited? One of the early examples of always online, open-world racing on consoles, TDU and its sequel were progenitors to the Forza Horizon formula, except with less of a focus on racing and more on being filthy rich living on an island. Not to say these weren’t racing games, but TDU was more about the vibes than the actual competition.
Read MoreAutomakers around the world are finding ways to deal with the chip shortage. Peugeot’s remedy to not having enough chips is removing digital speedometers from its 308 line and replacing them with old-school analogue speedometers.
Read MoreCitroën’s low-speed, no-official-driver’s license needed, eight horsepower electric city car, the Ami, may be one of my favorite new cars right now. It’s unashamedly French in their most esteemed engineering traditions, full of strange but clever decisions to achieve a specific, modest goal. It’s a weird and smart little machine, and it only makes sense that it should have ads that are weird and smart, too. As a result, Citroën seems to have rediscovered a car advertising lost art: not taking yo
Read MoreCadillac fully debuted its all-electric Lyriq on Wednesday, saying that it will start at $59,990, making it a bit of a weird value proposition for buyers also considering a Tesla Model Y or Model X. Cadillac said it would go into production early next year.
Read MoreA recall is underway for late model year Kia Seltoses and Kia Souls. The recall affects just over 147,000 2020-21 cars from the South Korean carmaker, which plans to notify its dealers and drivers in early June, according to Automotive News.
Read MoreTesla’s quality issues here and overseas are nothing new, though they seem to be coming to a head in China, where a woman was detained this week for protesting brake failures at Auto Shanghai. Now Tesla has a new message: Tesla is sorry.
Read MoreTaillights can be the most beautiful design detail of a car. A vehicle’s lighting can be a work of art all its own. What is your favorite taillight?
Read MoreTesla has, for years, operated with an air of impunity, thanks to lax oversight from the federal government. That has also left NHTSA with a lot of work to do. And the thing is, there are more Teslas on the road than ever, meaning it’s likely we’ll see more deadly crashes, too.
Read MoreAs Erik pointed out earlier, this discussion is probably going to fall along generational divides. Some will say that the glory days of the ’60s and ’70s were the peak. Others, like myself, will say that the last 10 or so years have been the peak, as America’s muscle cars saw power and performance levels never seen before. These cars have attained supercar levels right before we head into a possible electric future.
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Read MoreHarley released what it said was some good news Monday, posting better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. Except Harley then also said that its entire business model in Europe could be completely fucked.
Read MoreI recently did a dumb little DIY project I’ve been meaning to get to for years: I converted the hoax 1980's, Eastern Bloc dead goat polo arcade machine I built for sorta art reasons years ago into a Raspberry Pi-based multicade machine. Now my ratty fake Kyrgyzstani arcade machine plays thousands of games from all kinds of systems, which means there’s many new weird driving games to explore. One of these games is a 1993 arcade game called, dramatically, Lethal Crash Race. This game may have the
Read MoreThe muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s weren’t even called muscle cars back then. Muscle cars were, instead, Supercars. I’m guessing “muscle car” later stuck because it is more evocative, and also actual supercars started to come onto the scene. Still: When was peak muscle car?
Read MoreIt has been over a year since the last Radwood went down, and that’s totally not righteous. The car show that celebrates the angular and analog cars, bikes, and culture of the 1980s and 1990s had grand ambitions for 2020, but the world had other things to say about that. Instead of a full slate of shows, we had to stay away from each other. As of right now, 50 percent of American adults have received at least one dose of vaccination, and it looks like we can be optimistic about meeting up this s
Read MoreThis summer the Bayerische Motoren Werke will continue the relentless forward march in search of speed with its the M3 and M4 by adding all-wheel drive to its offerings with the M3 Competition Sedan with M xDrive and M4 Competition Coupé with M xDrive models. I don’t know who this is for. When has a sports coupe ever really benefited from adding two more driven wheels? In addition to being more complex, an AWD system hampers steering inputs, adds weight, and increases the price. This isn’t a ral
Read MoreWhile many carmakers were busy announcing concepts and upcoming cars at this year’s Shanghai Auto Show, Tesla had other things to sort at its car show booth. A protestor there climbed atop a Tesla Model 3 and began yelling about alleged faulty brakes in Tesla’s cars, from a Bloomberg report.
Read MoreThis is something that I’ve been thinking about ever since I was a little kid. One of the first books I bought entirely on my own — with my own savings for doing chores, getting to the bookstore on my bike, all that — was a big coffee table book of vintage Volkswagen ads. One of them was this famous one, of a ’54 Beetle being painted so it can pass for a ’64. The image always confused me a bit, though, and I want to finally talk about it.
Read MoreKids have awesome, vivid imaginations. Many gearheads likely got their start simply by having their minds blown about a vehicle.
Read MoreAuto Shanghai is this week, the first major auto show since the pandemic started, and the concepts and reveals are coming hot and heavy. You can disregard a lot of it — remember auto shows? — but the Honda SUV e:prototype seems like one that will stick around.
Read MoreActual people are attending the 2021 Shanghai auto show in person this week, which seems a little wild considering the year we’ve had. Regardless, automakers have arrived to reveal new cars, and among those introduced the 2021 Lincoln Zephyr Reflection concept sedan is quite the looker.
Read MoreThe last entry in F-Zero, Nintendo’s antigravity racing series, came out on the Game Boy Advance 17 years ago. The last major console release was F-Zero GX, co-developed with Sega’s Amusement Vision studio in 2003. Despite F-Zero tracks appearing in Mario Kart, and Captain Falcon being a Super Smash Bros. mainstay, Nintendo has exhibited no interest in continuing F-Zero over the last two decades. Fans will have to keep holding their breath.
Read MoreMaserati’s first hybrid, the Ghibli Hybrid, which debuted last summer, makes 330 horsepower with the aid of a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, as does its new Levante Hybrid, announced Monday. This car is as exciting as every other hybrid SUV, which is to say not at all.
Read MoreCars can act like bookmarks in our lives. Some stand out more than others, but I’ll always remember being bowled over by the first-generation Ford Expedition. What are the cars that captured your imagination as a kid?
Read MoreThis 1972 brochure for the charming little Fiat X1/9 is pretty delightful, but it’s so hard not to make a cruel joke about those not being clouds because they’re either smoke and steam because it’s overheating or maybe exhaust clouds, but I, like those clouds and that Fiat, will rise above.
Read MoreThey say crime doesn’t pay, but it certainly didn’t for the person who slashed one Maricopa, Arizona woman’s tires and left their severed fingertip behind.
Read MoreFrom the Ford Bronco to the Jeep Wagoneer, automakers have been pretty damn enthusiastic about bringing back classic model names to adorn their products. It’s a smart marketing ploy, of course, one that caters to the nostalgia we all hold for our favorite vehicles from a bygone era—but do you actually like it?
Read MoreWe live in a country defined by some very arbitrary laws, and one of the many concerns is that of the air freshener. These items, which are designed to be hung from your rearview mirror, can indeed be cause for the police to pull you over.
Read MoreThe covers came off the Ford Mustang at the World’s Fair in New York 57 years ago today, and a legend was born.
Read MoreThe story of Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael, the Twentieth Century Motor Company, and the three-wheeled Dale is one of the more sensational scandals that has crossed through the automotive world—but it’s a story deeply intertwined with our societal concepts of gender identity and, of course, transness. And The Lady and the Dale does a damn good job reckoning with the nature of being transgender and the inherent transphobia that has tinged the story since its outset.
Read MoreAs you may imagine, I have spent quite a lot of time eating my own words lately thanks to the giant, gas-guzzling Suburban I bought after dropping the hot “trucks should be illegal for purchase” take into the annals of Jalopnik. Lots of folks have reminded me of that specific blog, both as evidence that I should be canceled and that my change of heart should be celebrated. But it’s got me thinking: what car take would get you canceled?
Read MoreThere’s a new addition to Volkswagen’s all-electric ID lineup. Meet the VW ID.6, the brand’s answer to the full-size electric SUV. And while the brand hasn’t completely ruled out bringing the United States, it’ll remain a China-only model for the moment.
Read MoreIt would seem that once a person hits just the right mix of nationalism, royalty, wealth and age, they do extremely weird stuff like fiddle with the customized Land Rover Defender hearse that will one day carry their vessel to its final resting place, which is what Prince Philip apparently did.
Read MoreAs many philosophers have noted over the centuries, if you want a microcosm of the human condition and all its complexities, one need only look to the world of taillights. A great example of the Richness of the Taillight Experience can be seen in these ingenious Mercury Eight Station Wagon taillights from the 1940s. These taillights provide a very clever solution to a problem easily avoided.
Read MoreThe 1980s were an interesting time in the car world. Some cars were forgettable boxes, others were full of technology and others looked straight out of what people thought the future would look like.
Read MoreI know that to the uninitiated, this seems like a dumb question. If that’s the case, I assume you’ve never met a Viper fan.
Read MoreA North Carolina man and woman were attacked by a bobcat in their driveway earlier this week, and things got real crazy, real fast. What starts off as a sleepy suburban morning becomes a chaotic scene, culminating in the man throwing the bobcat and yelling “I’LL SHOOT THE FUCKER!”
Read MoreThe gas tax should be raised, along with other taxes intended to curb global warming, ideas which never get much traction in America because America but Europe is a bit more receptive. Even automakers are on board.
Read MoreThe Ever Given’s blockage of the Suez Canal earlier this month caused reverberating effects through the shipping industry. Gardeners in the UK are hunkering down as supply chain delays are causing a shortage of the essentials, like garden gnomes.
Read MoreMy first new car was a 2004 Mini Cooper S. I did a factory order and waited three months for it. Three years later it was declared a total loss due to flooding, but the terminal water damage inside wasn’t a result of the usual causes.
Read MoreIn 2021, I am what you would consider an older millennial. I have no recollection of what cars in the ’80s were like, having been born at the end of that decade and growing up around machines mostly from the early to mid-90s.
Read MoreAutomakers are always trying to cram new features into the interiors of their vehicles. Some of them are really awesome, some are gimmicks and some are just something to break down the road.
Read MoreIt was around this time last year when the rental car giant Hertz filed for bankruptcy, its profits having plunged off the deep end during pandemic lockdowns. Now that vaccination rates are rising, and infection and hospitalization tallies are leveling off (in some parts of the country anyway), people are looking to hit the open road after a year stuck inside. There’s only one problem: Rental cars are going for a premium, when you can find one at all.
Read MoreWe got a hint of what the Mercedes EQS would look like last summer with Vision EQS concept, but Thursday Mercedes officially premiered the production version. You’ll be able to get it, among other options, with a giant screen.
Read MoreWhile driving through rural Kansas in my $500 Postal Jeep a few years ago, I spotted a house in Scranton (population: under 600!) surrounded by demolition derby cars. I stopped by and met the owner, Austin, who give me a tour of his compound. It was awesome.
Read More“I know it’s 73 miles out of the way, but gas at this station in the middle of this dustbowl is 2.14 cents cheaper than in town.”
Read MoreCarmakers are always raving about how smart their latest models are, usually thanks to fancy digital assistants, semi-autonomous features and the like. And while that kind of intelligence can certainly be useful, with today’s QOTD we’re celebrating the opposite end of the spectrum: dead-simple, low-tech solutions to common car interior complaints, sometimes called “surprise and delight” features by automakers. What’s the cleverest interior feature you’ve ever come across?
Read MoreAudi unveiled its Q4 E-Tron Wednesday and it seems like a highly credible rival to Tesla’s Model Y. We got a preview of this back in March but now the real thing is here.
Read MoreSome cars get hate for no other reason than “everyone else hates it so I will too.” You don’t want to be a follower, but you also want to avoid being skewered for your lame tastes on car Twitter. For me, the car I’m a little embarrassed to like is the 5 Series Gran Turismo. Yes, it’s a rolling example of BMW trying to fill every niche it can, but it did what it did well. It’s comfortable, luxurious, roomy (the back seat has leg crossing legroom) and it has decent cargo capacity. Would I buy one
Read MoreThe first trailer for F9 came out over a year ago, before the pandemic, in simpler times. Now the second full trailer is out, ahead of the June 25 release.
Read MoreThe 2022 Honda Civic will be the Civic’s eleventh generation, and will also mark 50 years of Honda Civic. We got a preview of this in November, with the 2022 Honda Civic prototype, and again last month, but on Wednesday Honda released the real thing. What did we ever do without this car?
Read MoreOne of the weirdest things you can do to a car is bolt the fuselage of a plane to it. (I am always saying this.—ED) This 1979 Fleetwood Pace Arrow motorhome for sale on Craigslist wears the body of a Convair CV-240, but that’s only the beginning. It was also built in-part by a fugitive on the run.
Read MoreI feel like this happens to me all the time. I’ll see some weird car thing on this massive global database of weird car things and it’ll stay in my head, balancing on the tip of my brain like the forgotten name of the person at a party you’re currently talking to. This particular one is familiar and baffling all at once. It looks, at a glance, like an early Volkswagen Type 2 Microbus. But it isn’t. And I really want to know just what the hell it is.
Read MoreThe aftermarket does a lot of things better than factory equipment. Take exhausts for example: An M3 can come from the factory sounding fantastic. But spend a couple of grand on a nice Corsa system and it can make the factory exhaust sound like a kitten purring. Of course, there are a number of reason why automakers choose to equip cars the way they do, but sometimes, you encounter an aftermarket solution that’s so good, you can’t help but wish the car had come that way from the start.
Read MoreThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently opened an investigation into nearly three-quarter of a million GM trucks and SUVs after six crashes in which the driver’s airbag didn’t deploy.
Read MoreThe Polestar 2 is an excellent electric car that in a just world would pose a proper challenge to Tesla but has had somewhat of a slow start, perhaps deliberately. Also, Polestars are expensive, though Polestar said Tuesday it was trying to do something about that.
Read MoreHBO has a new series called The Nevers, about a bunch of women with supernatural powers in 1896 London. There’s a complicated plot and lots of characters whose names I forgot immediately and if I’m being really honest, this first episode is a bit of a mess. But the production design is excellent and there’s a fictional 1890s electric car, and it looks pretty cool.
Read MoreAs part of its push to create a lifestyle out of the Bronco, Ford established off-road driving schools and playgrounds for its owners. But Bronco owners in Vermont may have to wait as residents aren’t fond of the idea of off-roading potentially destroying their already rough roads.
Read MoreSpotify officially rolled out its first bit of hardware on Tuesday: the wonderfully named Car Thing. It’s not a retail rollout, since the project is still somewhat of an experiment, but the good news is if you can get a spot on Spotify’s Car Thing waitlist you’ll only pay for shipping. An active Spotify Premium account is a required for the waitlist, and it’s U.S. only for now.
Read MoreWe, you and everyone else fell in love with the Hyundai Staria when it was teased in shadowy renders back in March. It marked another design win for an automaker that has racked up quite a few of them in recent months, from its retro-futuristic Ioniq 5 EV to the sleek, pebble-like Prophecy concept.
Read MoreFederal prosecutors said Monday that they have chosen a former federal oversight official to monitor the UAW. This comes after prosecutors struck a deal with the union in December following a corruption investigation that went on for years. The UAW managed to avoid a federal takeover, but not a federal monitor.
Read MoreWhat’s your favorite mod to do on any vehicle you buy — an upgrade that the automaker should have made before even sending the car to showrooms?
Read MoreIt was inevitable that the new Ford Bronco would meet the same fate as the old Land Rover Defender and Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen: drafted into service as a hugely impractical six-wheel conversion.
Read MoreSome traffic patterns and roadway designs make you wonder who created them and why. Whether they’re the product of poor planning, bad design or attempts to find new solutions to traffic problems, we’ve all encountered confusing roadways.
Read MoreIn America, if you want to buy a big bland crossover, you have lots of options, from the Toyota Highlander to the Chevy Blazer. In Europe, your options are slightly more limited, as until fairly recently Europeans liked cars to be smaller. Sadly, this has been changing.
Read MoreI know I often write about my issues with Teslas — of which I have many — but I actually do think their cars’ fundamental design, drivetrain, battery tech, and packaging is excellent, and I appreciate their commitment to goofy things. I’m all for fun silly things in cars. And, it seems people have discovered a fun, silly thing in their Teslas. Even better, it involves buttholes. I do, however, have a conceptual problem with this butthole-related Easter Egg. I’ll explain.
Read MoreTraffic patterns try to organize the chaos that are our daily commutes. However, sometimes they get extremely weird. What is the weirdest traffic pattern out there?
Read MoreI have seen some truly impressive furniture stacks tied to the back of pickup trucks before, but nothing will ever top this overloaded Ford F-Series transporting what appears to be the contents of an entire house all at once.
Read MoreMichelin is known for two things: its tires and guide to the best restaurants in the world. Now, though, the company is looking to expand its operations into things like hydrogen fuel cells and 3D printing medical supplies as a way to bolster its funds in the post-COVID world, Reuters reports.
Read MoreThe return of the Ford Bronco has been met with approval on the behalf of anyone who likes revamped, maneuverable off-road classics, and Ford has been keen to make the most of it. Which now means that we could possibly be seeing Bronco-only dealerships in the very near future. One hundred stores have already taken Ford up on the offer.
Read MoreOn April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission made a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying three astronauts set to conduct geological experiments on the moon. But despite the promising launch, the mission became a project in crisis management that put spacecraft technology to the test.
Read MoreWhile there are a handful of automakers still desperately holding onto the concept of a hydrogen car, it seems like America has largely moved past hydrogen as a viable clean power option in favor of electric motors. But I have to know—if you could drive a hydrogen car, would you do it? Would you be interested in driving it for the longer term?
Read MoreThere’s a delightful subset of people in this world who spend their time putting functional gas engines into electric Barbie Jeeps, and I have respect for each and every one of them. But nothing has ever impressed me as much as this nifty little off-road kart we’re about to explore today.
Read MoreWhen was the last time you had the pleasure of watching a 1967 Ford GT40 Mark III take on a 2005 Ford GT at the drag strip? I’ll wait.
Read MoreYes, yes, I know. Elizabeth Blackstock, who has spent 1000 years grumping about truck owners, now owns a truck. A big, beautiful 1996 Chevrolet Suburban. Get familiar with this bad boy, because I’m sure you’ll be seeing it a lot around here. And for my introductory post to this sweet machine, I want to know what you want to know.
Read MoreLet’s imagine that we now live in a world where you can only drive cars from one year: the year you were born. How screwed would you be?
Read MoreThe MG Cyberster is an all-electric concept that has, depending on your eye, one of the most repulsive or intriguing grille designs I think I have ever seen.
Read MoreThe world of being an automotive enthusiast is much bigger than most people realize. It’s never been just about JDM cars or racing or muscle cars. There are entire subcultures that people take part in across the country and around the world. Often, they are regional, with followings that cease to exist if you leave the area or state.
Read MoreThere is no amount of reading into the history of General Motors that won’t bring up some comically incoherent bureaucracy, but even I was surprised when I realized there were a couple of years in the mid-1990s when General Motors was nominally in charge of both beaming satellite TV into American homes and Tomahawk missiles abroad.
Read MoreZenvo would like to remind you that it, a supercar company most famous for its car catching on fire on TV, does indeed still operate as a company.
Read MoreYet another space enthusiast trespassed onto the SpaceX site in Boca Chica, Texas, last month, risking legal repercussions and even worse, the ire of dozens of SpaceX faithful, the Verge reports.
Read MoreIt took Tesla over a decade to only sort-of build its EVs right, and if you think that legacy automakers will be any better at it, I have bad news for you.
Read MoreHas this every happened to you? You’re sitting, say, in a meeting at work, or maybe you’re doing a quick acoustic singer/songwriter set at a local club, or perhaps you’re chainsawing a massive tree to carve it into a grizzly bear sculpture, when all of a sudden you’re hit with an overwhelming urge to rummage in your car’s glove compartment? Of course you have. It’s part of the human condition. Sadly, for nearly every car, you’d be feces out of luck, and just have to choke back a sob of defeat. N
Read MoreLuxury brands are always looking for more and more obscene products to unleash on the moneyed few. First, it was Aston Martin with its luxury condos, then it was LA penthouses throwing in a free McLaren lease.
Read MoreThere are so many different ways to be a car fanatic. Whatever rabbit hole you choose to dive down, you can get sucked into a lifetime of losing yourself to the intricacies of a particular subculture. There are depths to some subcultures that become all-consuming, to the point where everything that is important to you is completely unknown to others, even to those as deeply car-devoted as you.
Read MoreThe FV Frangivento Sorpasso Stradale is a hearty dish, not for delicate palates. The thin al dente noodles are made with much more egg yolk than normal pasta, making it an exceptionally rich base. The dish is then topped with butter, olive oil, several handfuls of parmigiano reggiano, and shavings of fresh white truffle. It’s decadent. The flavors linger on the tongue for hours. You’ll remember this one forever.
Read MorePeople are known to have weird quirks when they drive, and some can be annoying as hell.
Read MoreMuch has been said about the rich getting richer during the pandemic, which is easy to understand conceptually. But nothing quite brings it home like the sheer number of Rolls-Royces being sold.
Read MoreProject POStal’s long-lost footage is back for round two. This episode shows just how miserable — but also exciting! — it was driving the $500 rust bucket on its very first test after many months of arduous wrenching. To me, and to most readers, the trip seemed hopeless. This first leg would be the first indication of just how hopeless it really was.
Read MoreJust in case you think that the era where you can read about car journalists like myself having, big, vulnerable, heaving feelings about things like turn signals and headlights is something new, I think I can show you this is not the case. No, car writerfolk have long given many heartfelt shits about things like this, and I can prove it with this late 1970s Autoweek article about rectangular headlamps. The writer is not into this “automotive styling fad.”
Read MoreAs the entire automotive industry continues reeling from a global semiconductor shortage, many manufacturers have been forced to temporarily shut down production, or just go ahead and build cars without necessary components and store them until a later date. Not Toyota, though.
Read MoreIf you ever find yourself riding a bicycle in Mexico City, or CDMX, do not let a friendly stranger borrow it. That stranger could just be a local bandit who has been stealing bikes from riders for more than a decade and a half.
Read MoreRoad rage is bad. Some of us get it much worse than others, but we all have specific things that annoy the hell out of us when we’re driving. There’s the usual stuff: drivers who don’t use blinkers when turning, drivers who tail too close or drivers who brake-check.
Read MoreThose of you who routinely tune into the TikTok station on your portable cellular HAM radio-TVs may have noticed a strange video — a video of someone doing something absolutely improbable and idiotic. For that very reason, the video has been blowing up over the past couple days, racking up millions of views. The video shows a woman washing a Toyota Highlander with what looks to be gasoline from a gas pump. Maybe you are not surprised to hear that I don’t think this is real.
Read MoreNikola, the electric truck startup that was once valued at $26 billion despite having no revenue, has had as weird a time during the pandemic as anyone. Nikola was accused of being an “intricate fraud,” and then its founder left. It has since tried to soldier on in diminished form but each new update is bleaker than the last.
Read MoreColorado is known for its beautiful landscapes, epic ski resorts and for being one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. Now, the state is auctioning off hilarious weed-themed license plates and it’s all for a good cause.
Read MoreRoad trips can be liberating. If they don’t go right, though, they can be one of the worst things in the world. From fighting with family to car trouble, any number of things can be a road trip go bad.
Read MoreIt’s an exciting time for Forza Motorsport, as Microsoft’s sim racing franchise is gearing up for a reboot and its first installment on the Xbox Series X and S generation of consoles. While there’s no indication as of yet that we’ll see the game released in 2021, developer Turn 10 Studios revealed Wednesday that it will soon be offering up a “part” of the upcoming project to play testers in its Forza panel.
Read MorePolestar is Volvo’s performance arm, an electric version of what AMG is to Mercedes or what Gazoo Racing is to Toyota. And like AMG and GR, Polestar tends to mirror its parents, in this case having a borderline-unreasonable obsession with trying to save us from ourselves.
Read MoreLater today, the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Department is expected to release its determination as to what caused Tiger Woods’ serious rollover crash back in February. But authorities have been mysteriously tight-lipped about their findings in the investigation thus far, and this forthcoming report won’t shed much more light on the accident, according to NBC News.
Read MoreRoad trips are supposed to be fun and relaxing, but some of us end up on a trip so bad that we wished that we stayed home. What’s the worst road trip you’ve ever taken?
Read MoreDoorDash delivery drivers are fed up with insultingly low pay from the app. Some drivers are fighting back by gaming the system to give out high paying deliveries, and it appears that the strategy is actually working.
Read MoreHaving a true 50/50 weight balance, more grip than power, great brakes, taut suspension, and aggressive (arguably good) looks are pretty much the keystones of a great sports car in this day and age. The Camaro Turbo 1LE delivered on all of those in spades. That car was introduced for the 2019 model year, and just as it was approaching its third birthday, Chevy hacked it from the lineup.
Read MoreEarlier today, I wrote about how there’s really only one two-door hatchback left on the American market, at least how we normally picture two-door hatchbacks. There’s also many sports cars with two doors and a hatch at the rear, and those are technically hatchbacks, too. Or are they liftbacks? Or three-door cars? I saw a lot of names for these, and I feel like we should try and decide if these terms actually mean different things. I mean, what else do you have going on right now?
Read MoreIt’s hard to find a more practical vehicle than a van. Back in 1994 the mid-engine Toyota Previa was the top of the line when it came to people hauling, and today the automaker’s Sienna is pretty remarkable in a lot of ways. I know that it still feels like 1994 was a just a couple of years ago, but literally everything about the new Sienna is head and shoulders above the old guard Previa. It’s difficult to put that difference into words until you bring the two vans into this juxtaposition.
Read MoreThe age of the electric truck is on us. They’re coming from Ford, Tesla, Rivian, GMC Hummer, Chevy, Bollinger etc. So if you’re going to be in the market for something with instant torque, your future looks bright. However, the ones that are coming are either a few years out, or we haven’t heard anything about them since they were announced (yes I’m talking about the Cybertruck). So it comes down to who’s going to be the first to get a foothold on the market. We asked readers who they think is c
Read MoreWe got our first (sort of) look at the electric Silverado earlier this year, a truck that GM has been talking about for years without a whole lot of visible movement. On Tuesday GM dribbled out a few more details.
Read MoreEarlier this week we got our first good look at the GR 86, Toyota’s take on the second generation of the rear-wheel drive, boxer-powered coupe it co-developed with Subaru. Toyota happens to share a close partnership with Gran Turismo, and the manufacturer’s Gazoo Racing division has wasted no time in announcing that the GR 86 is coming to Gran Turismo Sport later this year.
Read MoreWhile I know the whole Fast and Furious series has been a favorite among various Jalop staffers and our global community, I can’t say I’ve really been a huge fan. Still, I’ve watched a few of them — they do feature good cars and some of the most idiotic everything else — and there are scenes that stick in my head, oddly and persistently, like a rash or a nervous tic.
Read MoreYour contenders for first-to-market in volume are, in no particular order, are Rivian, Ford, GMC, Chevy, Lordstown Motors, Tesla, Bollinger, Nikola, Canoo and (maybe) Ram.
Read MoreCitroën’s old ads for the 2CV van variants, called the AZU or the Fourgonnette, were really charming and effective. It’s a simple idea: show the car with all the crap that was managed to be shoved inside it.
Read MoreNissan is on a roll lately, and I am excited that the carmaker has found a second wind. But just as Nissan started its victory lap, it fell victim to its own hubris. You see, Nissan tried to dunk on the Lincoln LS. That was a mistake.
Read MoreSome people can make some car mods work for them. Others can’t, especially when they go overboard with the mods, be they decals, exhaust systems, lighting or whatever. And sometimes favorites mods are to the detriment of the car. We asked readers what their guilty pleasure mods were.
Read MoreEveryone loves the Veloster N. For about $32,000, Hyundai’s funky hot hatch, oftentimes powder-blue, offers a relatively inexpensive ticket to driving joy. You get a 275-horsepower, 2.0-liter inline-four, a lovely sounding exhaust and delightful handling thanks to a nifty electronically controlled limited-slip differential. It’s got it all.
Read MoreThe pandemic, if anything, has seen the divide between the rich and the poor grow ever wider, and not just the super rich, with the car lending world as good a lens as any. Subprime borrowers — or those with the worst credit histories — are falling further and further behind, according to a new report.
Read MoreThe second-generation Subaru BRZ debuted late last year with an updated 2.4-liter Boxer engine making 228 horsepower. Now its badge-engineered twin, the 2021 Toyota GR 86 has debuted claiming four more horsepower over the new Subie, despite sharing most of the same hardware.
Read MoreLeaving a car looking just like it came off the assembly line is nothing less than a character flaw to many of us. But some modifications are long out of style or are even downright silly. An enormous wing on a car that’ll barely break the speed limit is, uh, questionable.
Read MoreThe saga of the Ever Given was a beautiful one while it lasted—is there anything funnier than a large boat getting stuck in the narrow Suez Canal?—but it’s had lasting supply chain effects that are pretty miserable. And that’s not even as bad as the flack that one woman—Marwa Elselehdar—is getting for a role she didn’t even play in the event.
Read MoreRight now, NIO is only selling its five-seater ES6 SUV to its home base: China. But it turns out that one has been spotted in South Bay, an area hear San Jose, California, without camouflage.
Read MoreLet’s gather ‘round and pour one out for the semi full of exotics that lost its life on April 1, 2021 in Houston, Texas. I wish it was an April Fool’s Joke. The hauler, carrying a Ferrari SF90 Stradale and a 488 Spyder, was unable to cross a set of railroad tracks in time before it was absolutely creamed by the oncoming train.
Read MoreI had never driven a luxury car until 2018. My family were more of the practical types, buying used machines or lower-trim new cars that could get the job—commuting and hauling the kids around–done. I didn’t realize there was a vast middle step between our Tahoe and, like, a Bentley, not on an experiential level. That shit just didn’t exist in my small realm of life.
Read MoreIn October 2020, GMC introduced an electrified pickup version of the classic gas-guzzling Hummer. Now, we’ve got our first look at the 2024 GMC Hummer SUV, which came in the form of a teaser clip commercial during the NCAA’s Final Four March Madness event.
Read MoreIf you know the name Robert Opron, you know what it means: a legacy of cars designed to reflect light in a certain way, ones shaped like the organic structures that inspired them. You’ll know the unique beauty of a Simca, a Renault, or a Citroën, French classics that defined an entire generation. Opron has died on29 March, 2021 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France at the age of 89.
Read MoreAutomotive safety has come a startlingly long way since the mid-20th century, but that doesn’t mean we’ve solved the safety problem yet. And revisiting Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed over five decades after its publication shines a light on all the work we have left to do.
Read MoreI’m in the process of making my first vehicle purchasing experience for a vehicle that is Just For Fun, not because I desperately need it. And I have been in a heated debate with my husband about what we need to name it.
Read MoreAlmost exactly ten years ago, on April 27th of 2011, Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes purchased Caterham Cars. While the company was mildly successful selling recreations and continuations of a sports car model Lotus stopped selling in 1972, Fernandes pumped a ton of money into the brand and brought it to a new level of international recognition. I have no idea whatsoever if that came with an increase in car sales, but maybe. Anyway, Fernandes has decided to move the company on to a firm out
Read MoreSnacking while driving can be beneficial, especially on long trips. Snacks that are crunchy or require extra effort like my favorite sunflower seeds can keep you alert and stop you from falling asleep. Other times it can be a good distraction, especially if you’re in a car full of sleeping people. Some of us prefer sweet, some of us go straight for the salt. Here are your favorites.
Read MoreForza Horizon 4 has been actively supplied with a drip feed of regular content since its 2018 release, and lots of it’s been free. That kind of consistency in long-term support is rare in gaming — outside of blockbuster titles like Fortnite, anyway — but it’s ensured that I return to FH4 every few months. This time, I’ve been drawn back by the addition of Rod Emory’s Porsche 356 RSR.
Read MoreTesla said Friday that it delivered 184,800 cars in the first quarter of 2021 globally, the vast majority of which were Model Ys and Model 3s. If it keeps up that pace, this year will be Tesla’s best ever — by some margin.
Read MoreIncreasingly large, heavy trucks and SUVs are eating up our efficiency gains for fuel economy, crushing our car safety gains with pedestrian deaths. We know we can’t keep marching in this direction, but where does that leave the Kia Telluride?
Read MoreThe U.S. Capitol is on lockdown after an attacker rammed a car into two Capitol Police officers, injuring them, reports WKYC. Numerous other reports also noted gunfire in the area. Capitol staffers are being barred entry and exit from buildings on Capitol Hill.
Read MoreTiger Woods had a very public crash in a Genesis GV80 last month, the cause of which has been the subject of much speculation. Recently ABC News reported that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has determined the cause of the crash.
Read MoreIf some filthy hooligan crawled out from a manhole and seized you as you were returning from your daily donut store run, pinning you to the ground and sending your donuts bouncing and rolling away like a dozen lost spare tires, and then demanded, at shiv-point, that you tell him something a Ferrari 500 Superfast has in common with most Tokyo Cabs, do you know what you’d say? Do you? DO YOU?
Read MoreIn the wake of the Capitol riot, which saw five people die, many companies, including Ford, declared that they would pause political donations. According to a new report, that is no longer the case for Ford, including donations to Republican lawmakers who sided with former President Donald Trump in his bid to overturn election results.
Read MoreOh, boy. Food and the road: These are the things that we Jalops absolutely need to go on living. They don’t always go well together, and maybe the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is a little too on the nose, but I’m going to say that’s only because hot dogs are a little risky when it comes to eating in a car.
Read MorePresident Joe Biden unveiled a $2 trillion package to boost the economy and rebuild American infrastructure, including $174 billion to help electrify the American car market. There weren’t a lot of specifics, except that Biden said he wanted to build a network of 500,000 chargers across the country. But an industry letter earlier this week can help us fill in some of the details.
Read MoreSpecial things happen when two companies get together and collaborate on a vehicle. One of my personal favorites is the Ford/Yamaha relationship with the Taurus SHO. Beginning in 1989 and ending in 1999, the two companies worked together on three generations of Ford’s hot-rod family sedan, spanning three different engines. The original and excellent 3.0-liter V6 will always be best.
Read MoreI don’t know why this just occurred to me, but the Honda CR-V is hideous. It’s an awful looking car, and it has looked awful for years. What’s more, I don’t think Honda cares at all, because Americans just keep buying more of them the uglier they get.
Read MoreLordstown Motors unveiled two of its beta Endurance trucks on Wednesday, the first of 57 beta versions it has planned as it tries to defy the skeptics and begin mass production in September.
Read MoreDacia’s had a good run lately with cheap EVs and simple but clever features in its cars. Today, it looks like the Romanian carmaker is still having a good time, because its April Fools’ prank is actually funny. Dacia sent a Duster into space.
Read MoreThere are certain expectations you have as a customer purchasing a new vehicle. One of them is that the wheels on said vehicle don’t contain any holes, aside from the ones intended to be there in the first place. Unfortunately, a small number of C8 Corvettes are deviating from this standard industry practice.
Read MoreOh boy! It’s April Fools’ Day! That one day of the year where all the companies get to say fake things and get big laffs everywhere and everyone’s delighted at all the japes cascading around and no one is just tired and sick of it all, already. We don’t really do April Fools’ posts here at Jalopnik, because I believe making shit up for giggles is a right we have all year long. Not just one day. That doesn’t mean we don’t still consider it, so here’s ten April Fools’ posts we didn’t bother writin
Read MoreProject POStal was a miracle. It was a $500 Postal Jeep plagued with serious mechanical and structural problems, a nerdy dude and some friends working in a cold garage, and a very tight budget. The goal? To off-road the junkyard-grade automobile on the epic trails of Moab, Utah. But to get there, I’d first have to somehow limp a rotted cube carcass 1,700 miles on America’s back roads.
Read MoreWhen carmakers overcome their rivalries to join forces on a single vehicle, pretty strange things can happen. The entertainment world has a phrase for this phenomenon — the ever-anticipated “crossover event” — though crossovers have a different connotation in car land. So we’ll refer to these inspiring displays of teamwork as “collaborations” instead.
Read MoreThe Golf GTI is beloved for a reason. In its current version here in the U.S., the GTI is a five-door Volkswagen hatchback that can go get groceries just as competently as it can go autocrossing. But in markets abroad, the Golf is not the only VW that wears the GTI badge. In some European countries, the Polo and its little brother, the Up, bear the initials, too.
Read MoreThe Porsche 914 was one of Porsche’s most polarizing designs, largely because it was such a departure from the traditional Porsche look, and as a result I think it tended to get unfairly maligned. What I never realized, though, was that there was a brief attempt made to alter it for the American market, partially because a designer doing contract work for Porsche didn’t like that the 914 lacked jump seats for kids or legless friends.
Read MoreHonda is cleaning up its interiors with a redesign. The new Civic will be the first of its cars to fully apply this new approach, which Honda Interior Design has just previewed. Honda calls this new design “Simplicity and Something.”
Read MoreMuch like the quickening a Highlander feels when beheading a fellow immortal, I feel a strange and powerful surge of energy whenever a certain event transpires. For me, it’s not beheading anything. It’s learning about some weird car feature I never knew before. This time, the feature is one on a car that’s much less exotic (to us Americans) than those where these oddball features are usually found: it’s on a Corvette. The feature? Windshield wipers that are hidden under a cover that automaticall
Read MoreFerrari is gunning for a fully electrified vehicle in the near future, but in the meantime it’s going to double down on its favorite things: high fashion and ICE supercars. Ferrari will host a full-on fashion show this summer, according to WWD, but the real looker here is the new Superfast.
Read MoreA reader named Jeff spotted this in the parking lot of his local library, and as with many things spotted in library parking lots, he found it confusing and a little unsettling. Because the library was in Boulder, Colorado, this wheel was on a Subaru. That’s not the weird part. The weird part is with the bolt pattern on that wheel, and how it relates to the spokes. They’re, uh, fighting? There’s something wrong here.
Read MoreJudge me all you’d want, but there’s really very little here I don’t like. It’s a shameless knockoff of a 1960s-era Volkswagen Beetle, converted to electric power, stretched to four doors and glammed up an awful lot. It’s irreverent and fun and a bit silly, all things sorely needed in modern car culture. I wrote about it last week, but now this thing has more pictures and a name: the Ora Punk Cat. Wow.
Read MoreLife is simply too short to live in grayscale, no matter what any of those ‘the most popular car color is once again silver’ studies claims. In fact, it’s about damn time we even start moving past bright primary colors. It’s time for some soft, beautiful pastels. And Aston Martin totally gets it.
Read MoreOne of the keenest senses of accomplishment I felt as a kid was completing a LEGO Millennium Falcon. I was probably no older than eight, and I was tasked with entertaining my four-year-old brother in the process, so following all of the instructions and actually creating a finished product was fairly impressive. But now that feat looks weak, because one of Renault’s designers used LEGOs to design the hybrid transmission available on the PHEV and hybrid Clios, Capturs, and Meganes.
Read MoreHoly crap, there’s actually a new pickup truck available for sale in America that doesn’t need its size described with architectural terms. This is a truck that’s been teased and talked about since 2015, when the much more Subaru Brat-like concept was shown at the Los Angeles auto show. The production version is more Subaru Baja than Brat, but it still fills a hole in the American market that desperately needs filling.
Read MoreThe 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 comes in 13 individual colors and, in a gesture of extreme kindness, one of them is Kermit Green.
Read MoreChina’s motor industry has had few hang-ups about designing cars that look a hell of a lot like someone else’s cars. While the industry has moved away from that a lot, and has been developing its own distinctive design languages for years, you still sometimes see some comically derivative designs pop up. In this case, it’s one of the most iconic, well-known designs in all of motoring: the Volkswagen Beetle. Great Wall seems to have decided not to wait for VW — it’ll just go ahead and build an E
Read MoreThis was unexpected, but delightful, kind of like finding the last brown rye cracker thing in a bag of Chex Mix that you thought you’d already fully scavenged. The “this” I’m referring to is an old ’70s-era Hyundai Pony that was converted to an EV and re-styled by Hak Soo Ha, Hyundai’s chief interiors designer, and showed up on Instagram. It’s a real old Pony, and I think the updates to it — which are mostly modern but do include some Nixie tubes on the dash — are all very clever and look great.
Read MoreRolls-Royce wants you to know that it’s a very practical carmaker. That it values livability above all, and that it has finally heard the cries of Cullinan owners who’ve clamored for a sliding luggage drawer beneath their trunk. The drawer is custom-ordered for clients and operated by a button to slide out for access to specific gear from food and drink utensils to tech gear.
Read MoreCars get bigger every year. I doubt much could convince Kia now to downsize the Telluride, because people buy big cars. Big cars fit more cargo and more people. But some cars laugh in the face of that paradigm, and I was reminded of this by the Mexican market three-row Honda BR-V, which scoffs at the Telluride’s excess.
Read MoreLong-haul electric semi trucks have been talked about for quite a while, with the best known being, of course, the Tesla Semi, which we’ve been talking about since 2017. With Tesla’s Semi pushed back yet again, other competitors have started to enter the space, with the latest being Chinese carmaker Geely. The company had some pictures of its sleek-looking big rig leaked earlier today. It’s similar to Tesla’s Semi, but maybe even a little cooler looking?
Read MoreI’ve always liked the body style known as the two-door hatchback, or as it’s often and confusingly known, the three-door. One of those “doors” is a hatch not really meant for people, but whatever — I still like them. You know the type of car I mean.
Read MoreSay what you will about SUVs, but people love them, and there’s a plenty good chance your next car will be one if you’ve got a few kids. So, if you’re in the market and you want to find something capable, then you need to check out SUV Battle on YouTube.
Read MoreThe “U” in SUV stands for utility. The whole idea is to go as far into the middle of nowhere, with as much stuff onboard, as possible. With that in mind, please enjoy the BMW X5 Le Mans, an SUV with a racing V12 and no utility whatsoever.
Read MoreWelcome to Cars Of Future Past, a weekly series here at Jalopnik where we flip through the pages of history to explore long-forgotten concepts and how they had a hand in shaping the cars we know today.
Read MoreWelcome to another installment of Cars Of Future Past, a series here at Jalopnik where we flip through the pages of history to explore long-forgotten concepts and how they had a hand in shaping the cars we know today.
Read MoreWelcome to another installment of Cars Of Future Past, a series here at Jalopnik where we flip through the pages of history to explore long-forgotten concepts and how they had a hand in shaping the cars we know today. Last week we turned the clock back to 1991 to chat about a featherweight, rear-wheel drive two stroke-powered Toyota sport coupe called the AXV-IV. This time, we’re going even further back — nearly 40 years back, actually — with a Ghia-designed Ford concept that aimed to take on th
Read MoreWhile we can often be quite a disagreeable bunch in the car enthusiast community, one thing it seems many of us can agree on is that the Genesis X Concept looks phenomenal. Which is why I should be excited that the luxury carmaker recently posted a tweet asking how many people would put down a $1,000 deposit for one.
Read MoreWelcome back to Cars Of Future Past, a new weekly series here at Jalopnik where we flip through the pages of history to explore long-forgotten concepts and how they had a hand in shaping the cars we know today. Last Wednesday’s installment focused on the Honda S2000's often overlooked starting point — the Honda SSM — and likewise, this week’s traces a similar through line from the ’90s to one of Toyota’s most celebrated modern enthusiast cars — only, with way more years in between.
Read MoreThe midengine C8 Corvette may have been a very, very long time coming, though you can primarily blame General Motors for stoking the fire. Decades and decades of design exercises, show cars and racing prototypes explored the possibility of such a vehicle, all while the company shied away from committing to it.
Read MoreA Toyota Supra literally exploded on a highway in Southlake, Texas on April 25, and no, this was not a stunt for a Michael Bay film. The car caught fire — and blew up moments later — along State Highway 114 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Read MoreEverybody wants a swimming pool, at least until its thousands of gallons of chemical-laden water come splashing down through the ceiling of the parking garage it was precariously built above. Which is exactly what was captured on video in Brazil this week.
Read MoreIt’s noteworthy but not unprecedented that a 71-year-old woman was injured by an object crashing through the windshield of her car as she drove down a Florida interstate this week. What was remarkable about this incident was the projectile in question.A turtle.
Read MoreOver the weekend, there was a horrific crash in a Tesla Model S that claimed two lives, It took firefighters over four hours to extinguish the burning car. Significantly, crash investigators are certain that nobody was in the driver’s seat at the time of the crash; the bodies were found in the passenger’s seat and the back seat. Our reporting of this story generated a lot of comments wondering why we cover Tesla crashes like these, and speculating that there’s some sort of organized vendetta aga
Read MoreTwo people are dead after their Tesla turned into a fireball upon striking a tree in Spring, Texas, a town just north of Houston, local news station KPRC 2 reports.
Read MoreIf you’re flying over the part of North Carolina where I live, you’ll see what looks to be a few little settlements just hacked out of a thick forest. And that’s pretty much what’s going on here. Woodland creatures, building their little roads and buildings, but always surrounded by trees. Huge, hulking trees. Watching, waiting, poised to strike.
Read MoreA driver of a 2008-ish Hyundai Santa Fe must have been in a whole mess o’ trouble, because they pulled a shockingly Hazzard-county type of move when, Wednesday, in Daytona Beach, Florida, they broke right through a traffic warning arm and proceeded to jump across the gap of an opening drawbridge. Aside from humankind’s innate desire to do badass shit, it is so far unclear why the hell the Hyundai driver did this.
Read MoreThe California Highway Patrol has shared its account of a gnarly car crash that could have ended worse for a Maserati driver in Oakland, California. Luckily the car-on-concrete collision only ended in the loss of property rather than life.
Read MoreThe past year of pandemic-related stoppings of almost everything was miserable. But I suppose if you really had to dig up a bright side, you could say that there were fewer morons coming out of Cars and Coffee events in cars they really aren’t equipped to handle, causing wrecks and ruining things.
Read MoreA new study from relative newcomer Root Insurance wants to prove what we’ve all suspected these past few months: that we are driving more distractedly. There are few things that raise my suspicions about it.
Read MoreA massive train crash took place yesterday in a tunnel just outside of Hualien city, Taiwan. The train, the Taroko Express, was carrying almost 500 people who were heading to the Qingming religious festival, where people pay respects to their ancestors, when the crash took place. At least 50 of those people have died as a result of injuries sustained in the accident.
Read MoreA Lincoln Navigator crashed into a fire engine on Detroit’s east side on Wednesday, causing the engine to plow into a gas station in spectacular fashion. That’s crazy enough, until you learn that this is the second time that a fire engine has crashed into this particular gas station in the last two years. Even better is how the local news covered it.
Read MoreA Powhatan County, Virginia, public-school bus picked up an unsuspecting passenger on its regular route Thursday morning when a deer came crashing through the windshield. The fortunate ungulate got up and left the bus through the front door, and nobody was injured. But the video is unbelievable.
Read MoreI feel like this is the sort of thing any semi-competent robbing team/club/troupe should have been able to see coming. If you’re going to pull up in a van to try and roll some dude pumping gas, you really should realize that your mark will be holding a weapon capable of spraying a noxious, dangerous, highly flammable liquid all over you. This realization did not occur to some Chilean robbers, who learned it the hard way.
Read MoreRogue radio operators managed to crack into the Chicago police channel on Tuesday and broadcast the verdict from the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis directly into CPD squad cars and to portable radios worn by officers. The Chauvin verdict came just days after the release of bodycam footage of a Chicago police officer shooting a 13-year-old kid.
Read MoreFlorida governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law Monday that, among other things, will legally protect drivers who plow into groups of protestors from civil lawsuits.
Read MoreIn a scene vaguely reminiscent of something from a Hunter S. Thompson novel, a woman in Los Angeles was caught on camera Tuesday threatening traffic and firing a gun wildly into the air while waiting to merge at a stop sign.
Read MoreA motorcyclist escaped serious injury after hitting a wayward wheel on an interstate in San Diego, California, last month. According to witnesses, the wheel was not from a car on the highway, but launched by some jerk in a gray shirt from the top of a hill.
Read MoreRather than create a tribute to a vehicle that participated in a renowned event, here’s your chance to actually own one. This 1992 Land Rover Discovery for sale on Cars & Bids isn’t a lookalike; it actually survived the punishing Camel Trophy.
Read MoreI don’t know when I first encountered Eegor the Eyesore on some Pacific Northwest regional Craigslist. Was it months? Years? Whatever the date, I am surprised to announce that the sweetest little pink racecar is back up for sale.
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago an International MXT went up for auction on Bring a Trailer and sold for the astronomical price of $76,000. If you like outrageous trucks but don’t want to spend anywhere close to 76 large for one, then this 1991 Ford F-700 monster truck, at $10,000 on Craigslist, may be the rig for you.
Read MoreAnother week means another entry into this series featuring the sweet cars we found online.
Read MoreThe RV world is chock full of weird stuff like a milk tanker built into a yacht or an airplane converted into a camper. Today’s find served a volunteer fire department in the Midwest before being converted into the ultimate Class B RV.
Read MoreEven though the Chevrolet Vega was arguably one of General Motors’ worst vehicles, it still proves to be an attractive classic car proposition today. This 1972 Chevy Vega Wagon is up for auction by Big Bend Community College on Public Surplus. With only 31 miles on its odometer, this Vega may be one of the lowest mileage examples left in existence.
Read MoreAnother week means another entry this series featuring the sweet cars we found online.
Read MoreModern pickups can be absolutely gargantuan, but what if you want a pickup that’s bigger than them all? This 2008 International MXT offered on Bring a Trailer dwarfs a puny Ford Super Duty.
Read MoreAnother week means another entry in the sweet cars found online that I wish I could drive. I like finding cheap used cars that can either be daily driven right away or daily driven after minor work. Over the past couple of years, I’ve turned it into a bit of a skill to purchase many cars and motorcycles.
Read MoreAnother week means another entry in the sweet cars found online that I wish I could drive. I like finding cheap used cars that can either be daily driven right away or daily driven after minor work. Over the past couple of years, I’ve turned it into a bit of a skill to purchase many cars and motorcycles.
Read MoreSelling an unfinished project car is almost always difficult. A project started and then stalled usually shows the vehicle at its absolute worst: partially disassembled, every flaw and problem obvious and glaring, the sheer scope of the project revealed bare, and having already claimed at least one victim. Even with that in mind, when I saw this dramatically cut-down old RV I was taken by just how fantastically miserable this thing must be to sell. Then again, at the same time, it’s weirdly comp
Read MoreRemember when a BMW fan flew out to Europe to pick up his dream BMW E92 M3 in Atlantis Blue, only to find it painted in Atlantic Blue? The 2013 BMW M3 coupe and its light blue hue is up for grabs on Bring A Trailer and it’s already up to a mind-boggling price of $63,000.
Read MoreListen, this thing has been ringing my celly non-stop for the last year wanting me to just hang out. I’m not the kind of guy to be tied down to just one Corvette. This Ex-Briggs Cunningham Corvette with Le Mans history is a little desperate, and you’d really be doing me a favor if you took it out for a nice spa day and a Can’t Buy Me Love makeover before dinner, drinks, a movie, and maybe some vintage racing at Monterey Car Week this summer. It’s a good car, it’s fun to be around, and it has a l
Read MoreWhen did Honda last make a cool car? Perhaps the latest Honda Civic Type R is a contender, but its fans have an age limit, and the current car is pretty old. The all-electric 2021 Honda E is a fresh new face, and it’s poised to shake up the Japanese auto industry with retro flair.
Read MoreI’ve been doing a fair amount of winch research lately, and one thing I’ve always kind of wondered about is winching your truck backwards with front-mounted winch. Do you just kind of sling the cable underneath and start winching?
Read MoreHaving no choice but to pump my own gas when I was growing up in the southern U.S., I was shocked to learn there are places in this country that to this day forbid freedom-loving Americans from ever filling the tank themselves. Here’s why New Jersey and some parts of Oregon have weirdly strict gas pump rules.
Read MoreHusqvarna is determined to not fall behind as motorcycles transition to electric propulsion. The bike maker has reworked its Vitpilen design and adapted it for electrification to show off a new EV concept, the E-Pilen.
Read MoreNext summer on a flat AF salt pan in Bolivia, racer and TV host Guy Martin will attempt to set a record as the fastest human on two wheels. The record attempt will be completed on this ridiculous custom-built 30-foot-long steel and aluminum trellis frame bike, powered by a 1,200-horsepower Rolls Royce British military helicopter turbine engine.
Read MoreMotorcycle makers have made some splashy announcements about the effort to electrify bikes, but nowhere near as many as carmakers have. Bike makers are taking a slow and steady approach to electrification, but Gogoro and Hero MotoCorp are now teaming up to bring EV scooters to the biggest two-wheel market of all.
Read MoreWay back in 2006 a former NASA engineer who had done some design work for Bay Area bicycle companies figured out a way to make electric motorcycles somewhat viable. Fifteen years later, that company is known as Zero and it builds some of the most technologically-advanced electric motorcycles in the world. The DSR has proven to be among the company’s most successful models, and to celebrate fifteen years of electrified two-wheeling, as well as the fact that today is Earth Day, Zero teamed up with
Read MoreMV Agusta is still plugging away in the sport touring segment, thankfully. And it just updated its touring bike, the Turismo Veloce, for the 2021 model year.
Read MoreThe KTM 1290 Super Duke RR is one R more hardcore than the standard 1290 Super Duke R. With a 13o1cc V-twin engine making 180 horsepower and 103 lb-ft of torque in a bike whose total weight is just 397 pounds, the RR is going to be really fast. As impressive as its lap times, however, is how quickly it sold out.
Read MoreAll-wheel drive is a curious rarity in the motorcycling world. Plenty of concepts exist, but few make it to production for everyday people to buy. This 2015 Christini AWD 450DS for sale at a U.S. General Services Administration’s auction is one of them.
Read MoreSegway still exists, you may be shocked to hear, and is on a roll making a bunch of weird products, from hybrid ATVs to robots that can handle last-mile deliveries. Its latest creation is an electric motorcycle that gets its watts from a fuel cell rather than a lithium-ion battery pack.
Read MoreNext month the Indian bikemaker Royal Enfield will drop a new model for the North American market, an inexpensive single-cylinder 349cc model called the Meteor. This little thumper will undercut the already bargain-priced INT 650 by fourteen hundred bucks, and offers a similar level of fun-to-dollar ratio and throwback looks that RE has become known for.
Read MoreIn a turn of events that no one could have possibly foreseen, COVID-19 cases are spiking in Florida after the 80th Annual Daytona Bike Week, RideApart reports. And I can’t help but think: If only there had been some way to avoid this.
Read MoreTo paraphrase the iconic Spice Girls, if you wanna understand the motorcycle basics, you gotta get with Ryan F9. The good-natured Canadian folks at FortNine have been putting together some of the most interesting and well-produced motorcycling videos for beginners, experts, and everyone in between for quite some time now. And every time they drop a new one, it’s always a stop-what-you’re-doing-and-watch moment. This most recent video sees the flannel-clad lad tearing a small vintage Suzuki limb
Read MoreHarley Davidson had a rough 2020. When its CEO quit — no wait, was fired — after a long sad decline, a turnaround plan was put in place that cut the company’s cheap bikes and bet big on luring in a younger, broker generation of riders with certified pre-owned bikes instead. Now there’s a new scheme that I’m sure will put young’uns in the saddle like nothing else: the Harley-Davidson X Aerosmith collection.
Read MoreYou probably won’t be surprised to hear that trying to shove a tall U-Haul moving truck into a low-ceiling parking garage is going to result in damage. But you likely will be surprised to see how big of a disaster can result if the truck’s driver does everything wrong. Seriously, just watch as this U-Hauler absolutely wrecks a garage’s sprinkler system and continues to just make things worse and worse.
Read MoreI can’t believe I’m saying this, but this cute little VW Cabriolet is one of the most exciting cars I’ve ever driven. Under the hood is the revered Volkswagen VR6 motor, and though it makes only around 170 horsepower, it absolutely screams, rocketing this little convertible down the street in a way that truly has me shook.
Read MoreThe rental car shortage has left agency lots barren, with the only available cars marked up to ridiculously high prices. But travelers in Hawaii have found an interesting workaround: Rent U-Haul trucks.
Read MoreNew York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority cancelled its test of security cameras in subway cars after it was revealed that the manufacturer has links to the Chinese government and specializes in facial recognition technology.
Read MoreFans of off-roaders like the new Ford Bronco and Jeep Gladiator are soon to have an attractive option for a camper to bolt to their rigs. GEHOcab is bringing its flashy carbon-fiber campers to America.
Read MoreThe intricacies of history, politics, and geography mean that Minnesota’s Northwest Angle was completely cut off from the rest of the United States during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, the 120 people that make up the small community decided to solve the problem of no-contact in a unique way: through a 22-mile long ice road.
Read MoreI’ve loved Jeeps since I was a kid. I studied engineering just so I could help design the new Jeep Wrangler, and I currently own enough Jeeps to where the city I live in is complaining. I’d never owned a Toyota until a few months back, when a reader offered to sell me her 100 Series Land Cruiser. I bought it. Here’s what I think of the legendary off-road vehicle after driving it across the country.
Read MoreI’m guessing by now you’ve heard that carmakers have had to slow down or in some cases even stop production because there’s a global shortage of microchips of all kinds. Modern cars are crammed full of these silicon thinking-flakes, so if there aren’t any around, cars won’t get built. This is a strange situation, to be sure, and it’s worth digging into why it’s happening. So let’s do that.
Read MoreUsually I send out any changes to the Jalopnik style guide in an email with the subject line “Copy Diktat.” But today I’m going to post it on the site so as not to confuse readers. We’re making a rule about the way we refer to Tesla’s driver-assist features.
Read MoreYou may be surprised to learn that today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fiberfab MG is not based on a VW Bug, but on a Chevy Chevette. That may make it closer to the original classic it emulates, but will it also make it worth its asking?
Read MoreThe 1980 movie “Urban Cowboy” turned the pickup truck into a status symbol. The status of today’s Nice Price or No Dice F-100 pickup is cosmetically restored and mechanically resto-modded. Will its price convert that status a to a “sold” pickup?
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice XE is a model that Jaguar introduced to go up against BMW’s mighty 3 Series. It may have fallen short at that task, but could this car’s wildly depreciated price tag mean that in this case at least, failure is an option?
Read MoreAs ironically misnomered as Chevy’s Celebrity may have been, the condition of today’s Nice Price or No Dice wagon may make the hyperbole forgivable. Let’s see if this Chevy’s price is anything to celebrate.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice GMC pickup features a dealer-installed body kit from a company that goes by the name of Rage. Let’s see if this over-the-top truck has a price tag that might make it an outrageous deal.
Read MoreGeo was once General Motors’ island of misfit brands, and today’s Nice Price or No Dice Tracker was the marque’s cute-ute from partner Suzuki. What might so convoluted a past be worth in today’s dollars?
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Opel says that if you’ve ever wanted a Manta, this is it. With just 20,000 miles recorded, it is, admittedly, a very nice example. Is it nice enough, however, to command a premium price?
Read MoreThe C4 Corvette may not be considered the best edition of the marque, but as today’s Nice Price or No Dice drop-top proves, it’s still a pretty — and pretty desirable— car. Let’s see if this manual-equipped C4 is also a pretty good value.
Read MoreIn case you hadn’t noticed, Lincoln’s new-car lineup in the U.S. is all SUVs and crossovers. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Town Car seems to be a fine example from the heyday of the company’s luxury-sedan past. What might you pay to travel down so fancy a memory lane?
Read MoreIt’s almost time to start thinking about gifts for those so-called Grads and Dads promotions, and today’s Nice Price Or No Dice Alfa Spider might just prove to be the perfect choice for either. That is, if it’s a deal, and the real deal.
Read MoreThe color of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Audi S4 is, appropriately enough, Tornado Red. That’s fitting for a car that should be a blast to drive. Let’s see if its price can cause a dust-up too.
Read MoreWhile the number of Popsicle-green car-based mini pickups with Lambo doors can probably be counted on the thumb of one hand, that’s just what today’s Nice Price or No Dice BRAT is. Let’s see if this custom truck’s price is a deal — or whether it rates another kind of single-finger salute.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice VW touts it as being the “Lowest Price Eurovan on Craigslist.” We’ll just have to see about that and decide if that low price is low enough.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fiat 124 shows it sitting up to its hubcaps in a half-grave of dirt and weeds. That’s no way for a desirable Italian sports car to spend its days, which means we’ll have to decide its fate and maybe its freedom.
Read MoreIt seems that while we weren’t looking, old Mercedes wagons have gotten expensive. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice 300TE isn’t all that pricey, which makes it stand out. Let’s see if that not-too-pricey price makes it an outstanding bargain.
Read MoreThe Lotus Seven was perhaps the world’s best-loved kit car. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Seven is an homage to that original. Let’s see if its price makes it honorable in its own right.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Civic Si touts the car’s respectably low mileage but counters that by showing us the plethora of dings, dents and chips the car has accumulated over those few miles. Let’s see which outweighs the other, and at what price.
Read MoreThere’s so much going on with today’s Nice Price or No Dice modded Fiero that it’s hard to know just where to begin. Its seller no doubt hopes that no matter where we start, the end is a thumbs-up for both the car and its price.
Read MoreSmall trucks like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Ranger are a rare breed these days. With its stepside Splash package, this one is even rarer. Let’s see if that, and its seemingly nice overall condition, can overcome its price and a salvage title.
Read MoreIn the ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Porsche 924, the seller says it could be your next project car. It certainly looks like it needs some work. Let’s see if it’s worth its price or the effort.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice AMG wagon has two more estates in his collection, and that apparently makes for one too many. Let’s see if the price will make an eager buyer only too happy to take this one off his hands.
Read MoreIndividual entrepreneurship seems to be yet another victim of the global pandemic. That could all change with today’s Nice Price or No Dice Dodge ice cream truck. How much might you invest to be your own boss and bring grins to the faces of unfamiliar children?
Read MoreSo I was educating myself about the oft-maligned Yugo this morning, as one does, when I discovered an attribute I wasn’t previously aware of: the car’s front-mounted, full-size spare tire.
Read MoreThe gullwing-door Toyota Sera is one of the most curious vehicles in the Japanese automaker’s history, and most of that can obviously be attributed to its nifty entry system. You might not be surprised to learn that as a product minted in the throes of Japan’s bubble economy of the late ’80s, the Sera’s doors weren’t its only noteworthy trait.
Read MoreThe Lancia Rally 037 is one of those classically proportioned sports car designs that simply doesn’t age. Straightforward, purposeful and unblemished by frivolous aggressive features, the 037 represents the nexus of form and function. That’s unsurprising, considering the road-going 037 Stradale was built for homologation purposes, and is truly a competition rally car at heart.
Read MoreRemember the giant Stratolaunch Roc carrier plane? It’s been a couple of years since it last took flight in 2019. The world’s largest plane, thanks to its 385-foot wingspan, finally made its second test flight on Thursday, reports Space.com.
Read MoreThe Cocoa Beach Airshow took an unfortunate turn on Saturday as a World War II-era Grumman TBM Avenger bomber experienced an engine failure and had to ditch into the ocean. The plane was fresh off of an 18-year restoration and may never fly again.
Read MoreI’ll be the first to admit that I do not understand high fashion, but I am absolutely perplexed by this $39,000 airplane-shaped bag that’s part of Louis Vuitton’s Fall/Winter men’s collection.
Read MoreA gender reveal stunt ended in tragedy on Tuesday when the plane carrying out the reveal crashed into the sea off the coast of Cancún, Mexico. Two people in the airplane died in the incident, and authorities are investigating.
Read MoreThere are an awful lot of manufacturers out there talking about their motorsports heritage and how their current sports car is really a “racecar for the streets.” When you dig down into it, it’s all smoke and mirrors. Sure, their racecar might use the stock engine block or the headlights from the street model, but when it comes down to it that’s as deep as the connection goes. Porsche, however, is one of only a very few manufacturers that can directly make the connection between its factory race
Read MoreI would like to officially change my position on whether or not Nikita Mazepin deserves his Formula 1 seat. Mazepin still doesn’t deserve it, but let’s keep giving it to him anyway because he’s been nothing but hilariously and delightfully bad.
Read MoreThe new flagship of BMW’s M Division, the M4 GT3, is getting closer to running Bavaria’s three fastest colors in the 2022 racing season. In the lead up to that, BMW has been putting the new racecar through its paces, and the M4 GT3 has now passed its road test at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, or “north loop.” I’m tempted to say the grille helped, because I’m team bucktooth all the way.
Read MoreWednesday’s test of the 2021 WEC field at Spa-Francorchamps seemed to reveal a problem, at least for Toyota. The new Hypercar class was always intended to be slower than the outgoing LMP1s — cost-cutting was part of the brief behind the new formula, after all. But they weren’t supposed to be slower than privateer LMP2s, which is how it appeared the new regulations would play out, much to Toyota’s chagrin.
Read MoreDick Mann, the legendary motorcycle racer who did a bit of everything in motorcycle racing, is dead at 86, according to Cycle World. Let’s watch one of his greatest races, the 1970 Daytona 200.
Read More“Green! Green! Green!” OK. Here we go. Four laps remaining after the restart. My Pirelli tires, as good as they are, are starting to fade under the punishment of 30 minutes of racing a 3,500-pound, high horsepower, rear-wheel-drive car on Sonoma’s notoriously rough circuit. I’m still leading the race but my early five second buffer to the rest of the field is gone. Down to a few car lengths at best. That’s what an ill-timed, late-race, full-course caution will do.
Read MoreIt was presumed that the will-Lewis-Hamilton-stay-or-will-he-go drama would go on all season, given that that’s what happened last year and Hamilton is on a one-year contract. Except on Thursday Hamilton said he planned to be in Formula 1 next year, the strongest indication yet that he actually will stay.
Read MoreFive-time Le Mans champion Oliver Gavin will hang up his helmet following this weekend’s 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps FIA WEC race. The 48-year old Briton looks like he belongs in yellow Corvette overalls, as that’s how the world has seen him for the last twenty seasons of racing since he joined Corvette Racing in 2002.
Read MoreDuring the four-session WEC Prologue test event that went down this week at Spa Francorchamps, a real problem reared its ugly head. The rollout for Hypercar has been fraught with numerous issues, but ultimately the result is that Toyota is the only company to have arrived to the first race with a Hypercar to race. And it’s extremely slow. Slower than LMP2.
Read MoreWhen Fernando Alonso announced that he was leaving Formula 1 at the end of the 2018 season, he cited the sport’s predictability as one of the reasons he became disillusioned with it.
Read MoreIf you were planning to head over to Montreal on June 13 for the Canadian grand prix, please adjust your schedule. COVID has cancelled the F1 race there for the second year in a row.
Read MoreI appreciate the world of professional drifting because it produces things that are unlike anything else on track. While sports car racing kills its weirdos (here’s a good history of the DeltaWing), drifting keeps generating them. Here is my new favorite: a 2000s Nissan Silvia made to look like it came out in the 1980s with a custom-built Mazda four-rotor.
Read MoreFormula One has been trying to fix the one part of the sport that isn’t totally broken this year — qualifying. I have been a fan of F1's three-stage knock-out qualifying system for years, and some seasons have certainly entailed an even more entertaining Saturday event than the actual race on Sunday. In an effort to switch things up, the series is going to introduce a new method of setting the grid, a 62-mile sprint race on Saturday with three World Championship points delivered to the winner, i
Read MoreThe Monaco Historic was on this weekend, and the star of the vintage F1 race was 1990s Ferrari F1 driver Jean Alesi driving the 1970s Ferrari 312T raced by Niki Lauda. Everyone was enamored with its period-appropriate tight action on-track, and slightly less enamored with its even more period-appropriate crash.
Read MoreWhile hundreds of thousands of people across the globe lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was a pretty damn good time to be the CEO of a high-profile company—even if your company was hit hard by lost business, like Boeing or Norwegian Cruise Line. And among the top-10 highest paid CEOs in 2020 was Gregory Maffei of Formula One, the New York Times reports.
Read More21-year-old Colton Herta has looked unstoppable since his entrance into the IndyCar series, and the Andretti Autosport driver proved his competence behind the wheel after smoothly dominating the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg from pole position. He barely made a mistake the entire day, responding to the disappointment of his first-lap crash at the opening race of the year. Even his race-winning donuts were perfect.
Read MoreRacer Derrick Lancaster has been hospitalized in critical condition after his car caught fire during an accident during yesterday’s ARCA race at Talladega Speedway.
Read MoreThree of the Australian Targa Tasmania rally’s competitors have died in the past 24 hours, series organizers confirm. One driver, Shane Navin, was killed yesterday while driver Leigh Mundy and co-driver Dennis Neagle were killed in a different crash today.
Read MoreSay what you will about Formula E, but the energy management portion of each event provides a special form of strategy that you don’t see anywhere else. Each driver has a certain amount of battery power that he can use. Use too much, and you’ll either be stranded on the track or disqualified after the race. And that’s exactly what happened this morning during FE’s first-ever race on a proper circuit in Valencia.
Read MoreWe’ve reached the point in the Formula E season where The Powers That Be feel confident in announcing the latter half of the schedule—and while there aren’t many massive surprises, we will be heading to a new venue for the Mexico ePrix.
Read MoreWhen Valtteri Bottas and George Russell collided at the Emilia Romanga Grand Prix last weekend, it was obvious that it was a bad one. Bits of carbon fiber littered the track and resulted in a red-flag period for clean-up. While neither driver was physically hurt, the teams suffered a big blow where it really hurts: the pocketbook.
Read MoreMost people know that racing operates in differences in thousandths of seconds, but there are other ways numbers can come bite you in the ass. Just ask Stoffel Vandoorne, whose pole position with Mercedes at the Valencia ePrix was taken away after just one wrong number.
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 MoreFormula 1 presents itself as the pinnacle of car technology, which is why it’s funny that the cars run on 13-inch wheels. These are, of course, impossibly advanced 13s, better than any wheel you, I, or any other mortal would ever fit on a car. But they are 13s nonetheless. But, F1 is still taking steps to toward sizing up to 18s.
Read MoreHonda’s Formula 1 development team didn’t need to try this year. The Japanese automaker announced it was leaving the sport, as well as its cooperation with Red Bull, last October. It was a surprising blow to a partnership that seemed to only blossom over the previous two seasons. Red Bull will do its best to pick up the pieces with a new powertrain effort of its own, ensuring all the progress Honda’s made won’t go for naught.
Read MoreThe thing about me is every time I encounter a new video of the Matra V12, I post it. It’s that simple!
Read MoreLike swallows returning to Capistrano, Ken Block is back in a Subaru. Ford’s marketing budget must be breathing a sigh of relief because he will be running six rounds of the ARA championship here in the States in a Vermont Sports Car-prepped WRX STI.
Read MoreI remember when I was first starting to learn about cars online how difficult it was to track down certain cars you’d hear about in the margins. A BMW M1 rally car, which only ran a few short events? You’d be lucky to find a picture or two.
Read MoreIn 2020, despite delaying the race to August, the Greatest Spectacle in Motorsports was forced to run without fans in the stands thanks to the hell that is Coronavirus. Takuma Sato was forced to celebrate his second Indy win to a silent crowd. This year, despite the fact that this country still experiences nearly one thousand deaths from this disease every single day [thirteen and a half thousand globally], the track has decided that it will sell enough tickets for 40 percent capacity, or 135,00
Read MoreRegardless of whom you blame for the high-speed collision between Valtteri Bottas and George Russell at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Formula 1 race, we can all breathe a collective sigh that both drivers emerged safe. Bottas’ Mercedes suffered the biggest shunt, with Russell’s Williams jackknifing left after its rear wheels hit a wet patch on the fringe of the asphalt, sending it up and on top of the Mercedes’ sidepod. The halo safety device kept Bottas’ helmet clear of any impact, but the left
Read MoreMcLaren has already had a bumpy road in its entry to full-time IndyCar racing. When it tried to launch an Indy 500 effort for Fernando Alonso in 2017 it ended in tears with a blown engine. 2019 was pure disaster as Fred failed to even qualify for the race. When it joined forces with Arrow Schmidt Peterson for a full-season effort, however, things turned around in a big way. And it’s looking like McLaren boss Zak Brown wants to invest even more into this program.
Read MoreLast year during the FIA’s KZ Karting World Championship event, things got a little bit Saturday Night Special when Luca Corberi tangled with Paulo Ippolito, sending Corberi off the track and binning his TonyKart 401S. Corberi then went nuclear, launching into a rage at his competitor. That’s pretty common when you’ve been given the chrome horn, I’ve seen it time and time again in professional sports. After crossing the track multiple times, throwing his bumper at Ippolito, and physically attack
Read MoreFamed racer Vic Elford is unfortunately facing a cancer recurrence and is in need of support from his friends and fans. A GoFundMe page is live right now, with a goal of $150,000 to cover Elford’s medical expenses.
Read MoreSunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was kind of a mess, but in a fun way. A wet race with gradually drying conditions meant lots of slippery battles and tire strategy. That all meant the race was enjoyable to watch, among the more enjoyable races of recent memory, for certain. One particular coming-together saw George Russell’s Williams attempting a pass on Valtteri Bottas’ Mercedes in a battle over 9th position, and it ended with both cars slamming into the wall after 180 mile per hour contact.
Read MoreIt’s here. It’s actually happening. Formula One will be contesting the Miami Grand Prix from 2022 onward. And somehow, hell has not frozen over, nor do I see any pigs flying.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever driven a car with shitty suspension, you know how important a decent quality ride is for doing things like, not hating your life. And if you think it’s important in your road car when you’re driving your kids to school, you know it’s crucial in a race car. That’s why we’re going to be breaking down suspension in Formula One today.
Read MoreRace day dawned a damp one at Imola for the Formula One Emilia Romanga Grand Prix, which promised plenty of chaos. And the second race of the season delivered with Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing dominating the event from flag to flag while pandemonium reigned behind him.
Read MoreThe fate of the proposed Formula One Miami Grand Prix has been quite a precarious one. One minute, it’s happening, and the next, someone is suing the prospective trace over any number of complaints: noise, traffic, you name it. But things actually appear to be moving forward.
Read MoreCancel your plans for this Sunday, because you’re watching IndyCar. No ifs, ands, or buts.
Read MoreAfter 265 days off his bike due to a broken and slowly healing right arm, MotoGP rider Marc Marquez has climbed back on his bike for practice at Portimao ahead of the Portuguese Grand Prix. And what does he have to say for his already-impressive lap times? “I don’t understand what’s going on. I’m just riding the bike, trying to follow my way.”
Read MoreIn two weeks time a champion on two wheels and four will attempt to add a trophy to his case from yet another different discipline of motorsport. Travis Pastrana will be joining the nigh-unbeatable Red Bull-sponsored KTM factory team for the Atlanta round of the Progressive American Flat Track series AFT Singles class. The guy has definitely done a lot more dangerous stuff than this, but it’ll be no easy running, considering the level of talent he’s stacked up against in the series.
Read MoreThe Monegasque Formula E event has been held three times in the series’ seven seasons thus far. For the first five years it ran alternating years with the Monaco Vintage Grand Prix event, existing in 2019, 2017, and 2015. The event is back for 2021, running on May 8th, but unlike previous events this time the electric open wheelers will race on the full Monaco GP circuit.
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Read MoreIt is highly likely that one of Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, or Valtteri Bottas will win Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, but let’s allow ourselves to dream for a minute.
Read MoreFormula 1 rookie Nikita Mazepin doesn’t deserve an F1 seat, but he has one anyway, most likely because his billionaire dad’s company is throwing a lot of money into the Haas team. This situation might be mildly irritating except that Mazepin’s start in Formula 1 has been comically and delightfully bad.
Read MoreThe 2021 Canadian Grand Prix is scheduled for June 13, and with a spike in COVID-19 cases in the country it’s all but certain the race will be held without spectators. Well, so long as Canada pays Formula 1 for its lost ticket sales.
Read MoreScuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, its two 007 LMH race cars, and drivers will not be taking part in the opening round of the FIA WEC on May 1st, despite having been included on the entry list. This week Jim Glickenhaus confirmed to motorsport.com that his team will be sitting out of the series until after it has had an opportunity to run a 30-hour endurance test to finalize the car’s specification before it is locked into homologation.
Read MoreWhat you see here is Bentley’s newest race car, the Continental GT3 Pikes Peak, built explicitly to attack the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this June. This is the third time in as many years that Bentley has launched a factory effort at PPIHC, following a production car record in a Continental GT in 2019 and a production SUV record set by a Bentayga. This time Bentley is aiming for the Time Attack 1 record, a lofty goal, with mountain regular Rhys Millen at the wheel — Millen also drove i
Read MoreThe FIA WEC’s GTE Pro category has nearly completed its lifecycle and will soon be collapsing into a heap of bones and dust. What was once among the most factory-supported racing categories in history with efforts from Aston Martin, Porsche, Ferrari, BMW, Ford, and Chevrolet has become a shadow of its former self in just two seasons’ time. Aston and Ford pulled their factory efforts altogether, Porsche and BMW significantly scaled back. Ferrari was never truly serious about it. With the North Am
Read More2021 is likely to be an interesting year for Mercedes F1 and, by extension, the entire Formula 1 grid. The team didn’t win the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix in the typically dominant fashion that most of us probably expected. Merc’s Lewis Hamilton got lucky when an illegal outside pass from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen forced the Dutch driver to concede the position he gained. By the time he did, his tires no longer had the grip to make a run at Hamilton again.
Read MoreOn Sunday, EV battery suppliers SK Innovation and LG Energy Solution reached a settlement in their long-running dispute, saving SK from a ban that would’ve locked the firm out of the U.S. market for the next 10 years.
Read MoreI have maintained for several years now that IndyCar is some of the best open-wheel racing you can watch, and if you haven’t believed me yet, then I’m going to let this virtual reality lap of Sebring do the talking for me.
Read MoreAfter seeing posts on social media, I knew RACEWKND, a new Formula One magazine designed for the ultra-fan, was going to be huge. But when I pulled the torso-sized ‘zine out of its envelope, I was surprised. Now this is cool.
Read MoreThe terribly-named eSkootr Championship is coming in the near future, and folks: I am ready for this ridiculous concept. Especially now that I found out these electric scooters are going to be cruising along at over 60 miles per hour.
Read MoreThe MotoGP signed a three-year deal to host a race in Indonesia back in 2019 only to have its plans postponed by COVID-19—but the series has announced it plans to stage a test at the Mandalika Street Circuit to prepare for a return to the track with the ultimate goal of arriving in March of 2022. And the United Nations has slammed that plan as a terrible one.
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Read MoreDaniel Ricciardo is a good driver and also a bit of a smiling assassin. He’s got smiles but he’s also got takes.
Read MoreLewis Hamilton’s contract expired at the end of last season, and the question of will-he-or-won’t-he sign a new one for 2021 was one of the biggest unknowns throughout last year. Hamilton did eventually re-up, but way later than maybe anyone wanted. It sounds like 2021 could more or less be a repeat.
Read MoreClimate change is killing Rally Sweden. It’s actually been killing the rally for several years now, because death at the hand of global warming is never quick. In organizers’ latest measure to stave off the event’s snowless demise, next year’s running will relocate north by some 500 miles, away from its typical place in Värmland County, about 100 miles east of Oslo in Norway.
Read MoreThe current qualifying system in Formula 1 involves three stages in which drivers try to post their best lap times. F1 has said they might change that, or at least trial, a system of qualifying races instead. It sounds like it’s all but gotten the green light to do so this season.
Read MoreThe 2021 Formula 1 season started only a little more than a week ago with the Bahrain Grand Prix, though teams that likely won’t be vying for the title — everyone except Red Bull and Mercedes, that is — sure sound like they wish it was 2022 already.
Read MoreThe Haas Formula One squad has had a rather inauspicious start to the 2021 season. It didn’t have its chassis updates ready for the first round of the season in Bahrain, so it decided to press on without them, effectively running a low-downforce version of last year’s car with no further changes aside from what was mandated by the 2021 rules change. It was instantly obvious that the team was slow, with handsy shitbird Nikita Mazepin crashing in turn three and Mick Schumacher finishing the race i
Read MoreThis is a public service announcement: do not clean your windshield by asking your buddies to throw a bucket of water of it while you are driving in hot conditions at speed.
Read MoreIf you had the luxury of watching the Extreme E season opener as it aired, you were in for a treat: it was a hell of a lot of fun, and there were two clear front-running teams: those owned by former Mercedes Formula One rivals Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. And it was Rosberg’s team that triumphed in a big way.
Read More“Guess how much the hot lap costs,” one of my fellow media members, adventure writer Jim Clash from Forbes, asked me at a dinner hosted by Formula One’s tire manufacturer, Pirelli. He was referring to the single lap out in a supercar we’d be scheduled to partake in during the weekend.
Read MoreBehind the wheel of a Praga R1 in the Britcar Championship, racer and transgender activist Charlie Martin is lining up for what she feels will be her best shot at proving herself ready for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. When we got a chance to sit down to chat with her in February, Martin sounded more than ready to get behind the wheel after a long stint away due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreExtreme E, the all-electric SUV racing series that’s taking to extreme weather climates to raise awareness about climate change, is kicking off its first event this weekend. The Desert X Prix takes place in Saudi Arabia, and so far, we’ve seen two incredible qualifying sessions. But if you live in the United States, you aren’t going to get to watch it.
Read MoreHypercar hasn’t really gone the way that the FIA and the ACO had hoped. It might get there in the end. The new class, picking up where LMP1 left off, starts this year with a pair of Toyotas and maybe a pair from Glickenhaus eventually. Next year Peugeot joins the fray, and the year after that we’ll see Ferrari on the grid. Okay, so by 2023 Hypercar might actually be good. The unfortunate side effect is that to make Hypercar happen, the FIA had to significantly castrate the tier-two LMP2 category
Read MoreThe Australian Grand Prix is due to be one of the final races of the 2021 Formula 1 season that just kicked off last weekend in Bahrain. Held at Melbourne’s Albert Park, the circuit is currently undergoing significant reprofiling in parts to produce faster and closer racing in preparation for its November 21 running. New photos and a map released Thursday have given us an early peek at the changes.
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Read MoreEarlier today, China put Tianhe, the core module of its new space station, into orbit. It’s the 12th space station to be put into orbit (Salyuts 1 and 3 through 7 , Mir, Skylab, the ISS and the two Chinese small Tiangong orbital labs) and will also mark the first time two separate operational space stations have been in orbit since Mir de-orbited in 2001.
Read MoreOn April 25, 1990, NASA placed the Hubble Space Telescope into low orbit around Earth. It wasn’t the first telescope placed into orbit, but it’s been one of the longest-lasting and most versatile, providing gorgeous images of space that have furthered our understanding of astronomy and introduced future generations to the magic of the universe.
Read MoreSpaceX launches go perfectly every time except when they don’t, but thankfully it’s so far, so good for its launch early this morning. This crewed flight to the International Space Station is SpaceX’s second operational mission for NASA.
Read MoreNASA successfully pulled off the first powered, controlled flight on another planet with its Ingenuity helicopter this week. The tiny rotorcraft managed to take off for a few seconds and land without any major incident. We also learned that the Martian atmosphere could potentially create enough static to make the copter glow.
Read MoreLast year, NASA had narrowed down to three possible candidates to build the lunar landing vehicle for the Artemis program’s return to the moon: Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX. Today, NASA announced they picked the next lunar lander: Starship, built by SpaceX.
Read MoreIn case you weren’t aware, today is the 60th anniversary of humans first leaving the Earth and venturing out into space. That first human was Yuri Gagarin, citizen of a country that’s no longer really here, but what he and the Soviet engineers who built that first spaceship, Vostok 1, did is still incredible even today. What’s also incredible is the way that first mission to space came to an end, and how it involved a little girl protecting potatoes from a hungry calf.
Read MoreNormally, NASA likes its probes to make contact with other objects in space in a very controlled manner. You want to land a rover on Mars, not drop a rover on Mars, for example. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is different. This time, NASA is going to stomp the ion pedal and just ram the damn thing with their spaceship, because fuck you, asteroid. Also, they’ll learn a lot about potentially diverting dangerous asteroids from becoming meteors that hit Earth. But mostly because they do
Read MoreToday’s featured electric car owner isn’t the first one to convert his previously unreliable British car to a dependable EV, but he is the first in our series to perform a home conversion with absolutely no prior experience.
Read MoreCool roof, bro. I say that any time I see Tesla’s Solar Roof, which enjoys prominent placing alongside the carmaker’s EVs on its website. It really is a cool roof, intended to pair perfectly with the Tesla EV in your driveway. But more and more homeowners are running into installation costs much higher than those quoted by Tesla, the Verge reports.
Read MoreYou ever love something so much it hurts? You try to ignore it, try to distract yourself to stave off that pang of pining, until it inevitably rises to the surface and all those emotions come flooding in. That’s sort of how I felt when I first saw Suzuki’s new Misano concept this morning. I really miss Suzuki.
Read MoreToday Toyota announced that its Princeton, Indiana plant will build two new eight-passenger EV crossovers. One will wear a Lexus badge, the other will be a Toyota. This new car will be the first Lexus vehicle produced at the plant.
Read MoreToyota is going racing with a hydrogen combustion engine, mainly as an experiment and continuation of Toyota’s somewhat unhinged obsession with hydrogen. Still, I think you will agree that it sounds good.
Read MoreTwo of the auto industry’s well known specialists are partnering on modular EV development. Italdesign and Williams Advanced Engineering are working together on a platform called the EVX, which could be overlaid with a number of body styles.
Read MoreGM issued a slightly strange recall last year for 68,667 Chevy Bolts that may or may not catch fire while parked. It said at the time that it had only a temporary fix for the issue; GM said Thursday it now has a permanent one.
Read MoreAfter a remarkable 2020, Nio is back on an upward trajectory — and its next target is Europe. The fabled EV haven of Norway, to be more precise.
Read MoreThe folks behind the $53,000 Bugatti Baby II and the Aston Martin DB5 Junior have a new trick up their sleeves. Their latest is a revival of the Tamiya Wild One radio control car, but this time as a giant off-road buggy you build yourself and then drive.
Read MoreVolkswagen announced the GTX performance version of its ID.4 EV today. The crossover looks promising, with all-wheel-drive by way of dual motors and a combined power output of 299 horsepower, making it the marque’s fastest EV to date. There were hopes that the model would come to the U.S., but that’s not going to happen, at least not exactly.
Read MoreIn the many years I’ve spent being body-roommates with myself, one thing I’ve learned is that not all of my ideas are good ideas. I’ve also learned that sometimes I still need to act on those less-good ideas, and I suppose that’s how I feel about my experience going on the YouTube show of Warren Redlich, an unashamed Tesla-stan, a man whose Twitter bio proclaims “Elon fanboy” and has the title “Bishop of Muskanity.”
Read MoreIf there’s one area where you wouldn’t expect Tesla to run afoul of the law, it’s emissions. And yet.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model Y Performance starts at $60,990, gets an EPA-estimated 303 miles of range and runs zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds. The Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition will start at $64,900 and also goes from zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds, but its “targeted” range is only 235 miles. Also, Ford is still eligible for the $7,500 EV tax credit, while Tesla isn’t.
Read MorePeugeot may have recently tied the knot with Fiat Chrysler in a merger called Stellantis, but Peugeot has had deals with all sorts of automakers for ages. Toyota and Peugeot have been making vans together in France since 2012 and they installed a fairly novel modern radio for it, by the looks of it.
Read MoreLotus is set to become an EV carmaker after the release of its final combustion model, the Emira, but the company is also partnering with other EV hopefuls and will share its new platform, the E-Sports. Alpine will use that platform to develop its own electric sports car by around 2025, Automotive News reports.
Read MoreCalifornia residents have long been able to apply for financial help from the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, or CVRP, the state’s EV incentive program. However, the project just ran out of funding, potentially affecting thousands of potential car buyers.
Read MoreOne of the largest car companies on the planet, Toyota, is set to make software engineers half of its new technical hires, the Japan Times reports. It’s only a matter of time before software hires outpace mechanical ones.
Read MoreThere’s a moment in Van Halen’s fifth studio album, Diver Down, where the tense riffs of “Intruder” bleed right into “(Oh) Pretty Woman,” the single that brought the entire album to life. You go from moody to carefree in the blink of an eye, and it’s the kind of incredible transition you just don’t hear in between songs anymore. At least, not when you’ve got the AUX cord plugged in to jam on your favorite playlist mix.
Read MoreThe German auto parts supplier Bosch is a little mad that the European Union is pushing so hard for the electrification of the auto industry. Bosch, one of the largest suppliers in the auto industry proficient in electronics, is upset that the EU has become “fixated” on electric cars, as the Financial Times reports.
Read MoreYou probably couldn’t come up with two more graphic illustrations of the fundamentally schizophrenic nature of today’s American automobile industry than the RAM 1500 TRX 4x4 and the Tesla Model Y. Even if you set out to do so, which I hadn’t.
Read MoreThe pitch of electrification is frequently about environmentalism and efficiency, saving the planet by cutting our dependence on oil. A less-discussed aspect of electrification that I see in this week’s story is one of freedom: freedom to stop worrying about commuting in a project or spending your garage hours working on your daily. This week’s Jalopnik reader, Mike, has discovered that he can do both — commute and have the time to fuss around the workshop — with one car.
Read MoreWe’ve been talking a lot about Tesla and autonomy this week, mostly because of the fatal Tesla crash this past weekend, and how it appears that no one was in the driver’s seat at the time of the wreck. Predictably, this has sparked a lot of blowback from Tesla enthusiasts, who are notoriously, um, enthusiastic. One enthusiastic fan is Warren Redlich, who just posted an interview with electric vehicle and longtime Tesla observer Taylor Ogan. In this interview, Redlich suggested that other AV comp
Read MoreAs a miserable old bastard who grew up before easy, ubiquitous internet access was a thing, I often pause and marvel at how incredible it is. If you want to know everything there is to know about, say, amphibious vehicles, you can do that, quickly and easily. Same goes for taking a moment to appreciate the joy of someone’s mother eagerly manipulating someone’s genitalia with their skilled, determined hands. Both of these things exist on this colossal global network. Or, at least they did. This i
Read MoreA fatal Tesla crash this weekend that involved an apparently driverless Model S has renewed safety questions about Tesla Autopilot, including whether there are enough safeguards to ensure drivers are paying attention while it’s engaged. Consumer Reports found this week that the answer is, uh, no.
Read MorePolestar is the anti-Tesla. It’s obvious that Polestar wants to do things differently, and ultimately in a way it says is better. Maybe not better at making money, but better at making a difference. Now Polestar’s CEO, Thomas Ingenlath, is again directing his ire and criticism at the posers in the industry.
Read MoreElectrification has impacted prototype and open-wheel racing across various categories, but it’s remained largely absent from GT. That will soon change, as the FIA released new details Wednesday on its upcoming Electric GT class.
Read MoreFord isn’t willing to sell you an old-fashioned three-box sedan anymore. But if you live in China, it’ll give you something that vaguely resembles one, called the Evos.
Read MoreHey, do you remember ever hearing something about how new EV architectures would allow car designers to rethink traditional form factors and create cars packaged for maximum comfort/utility/looks? “Human-centered” designs that put people, not engines, gas tanks, transmissions or drivelines, first?
Read MoreToyota wants to return to form. It wants to be at the forefront of electrification once more and relive its days as the de facto segment leader. The carmaker is no longer targeting the hybrid segment; it now wants to lead in BEVs and the new bZ series is how it plans to do so.
Read MoreGenesis is joining the pack of battery-electric vehicles with its new Electrified G80. The first EV from Hyundai’s luxury sub-brand comes standard with all-wheel-drive and a neat function that lets the vehicle to act like a emergency power supply, powering appliances.
Read MoreThe Nissan Leaf recently celebrated its 10th birthday, and the Tesla Model S isn’t far behind. That means we’re smack dab in the middle of a decade of “modern” battery electric cars, and we can now observe how these vehicles — and their battery packs — have aged.
Read MoreWe’re still locked into thinking that 300-odd miles makes a “long range” EV. Well, Chinese carmaker BYD says its newest platform will get this little hatchback to double that.
Read MoreFerrari has read the room. The Italian carmaker is finally admitting that electrification is where cars are heading — in its case, more like being dragged kicking and screaming. Nonetheless, Ferrari is now pushing its battery electric car release up by five years, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Read MoreAudi’s electric range is finally taking shape, now that the E-Tron GT and Q4 E-Tron have joined the existing E-Tron crossover. And in case you thought the E-Tron branding couldn’t possibly get more puzzling, Audi just revealed a concept of the A6 E-Tron it expects to hit showrooms sometime in the next two years.
Read MoreOne of the coolest features about the new GMC Hummer electric vehicles is CrabWalk—but we have yet to see it in action out in the wild. Well, at least, until now.
Read MoreLast summer, Elon Musk, the shy, reclusive CEO of the Tesla electric-car making concern, stated that the company was “very close to Level 5 autonomy” — that is, autonomous vehicles capable of complete self-driving — and all that remained were “many small problems.” I argued that those many small problems are, in fact, a huge deal and represent the inherent chaos of the world that must be dealt with. A fun example of this is currently blowing up online, as a Tesla owner shows how his car gets con
Read MoreMercedes premiered its new all-electric version of the S-Class, called the EQS, on Thursday. It is a big deal for them, which is why the EQS’s press release is dozens and dozens of pages. Here are 28 interesting things I found after devouring it all.
Read MoreHow are you enjoying your autonomous car?
Read MoreThe launch of the lovely Ford Mach-E has been an interesting one, with a series of delays, cars getting bricked, and a (tiny) recall as models only just begin to roll out to customers. Also of interest is that Ford will start selling these things online, just not to Americans.
Read MoreGM might be still working on getting its EVs to take off in the United States, but in China it is running away with a sales success: The four-seater Wuling Hong Guang Mini EV, which was outselling the Tesla Model 3 two-to-one earlier this year. Part of that comes down to the price (about $4,100) and part of that is the adorable design, which just got more adorable.
Read MoreTesla sells a lot of cars in China, but the U.S. is the largest market for its EVs. You’d think, then, that the world’s largest Supercharger station would be right here in the U.S. of A.Not so. That honor goes to Shanghai. That may be changing, as The Drive reports Tesla plans to build an even larger Supercharger station in Coalinga, California.
Read MoreThe Mazda MX-30 is officially bound for the U.S. available in California by the end of this year. It’ll be our first fully-electric Mazda, with a range-extended version with a rotary soon after.
Read MoreFord has been hyping this since last year, but Wednesday it said its Level 2 semiautonomous driving system is finally coming to many 2021 Mustang Mach-Es and 2021 Ford F-150s via over-the-air software update later this year. It’s called BlueCruise. It’s probably just as problematic as other Level 2 systems.
Read MoreVintage Vespas are undeniably cool. Even if they’re not your particular cup of Nespresso, it’s hard not to smile as you watch one roll past. They’re just happy little two-wheelers. It’s not easy to improve on the icons, but high up on that list is a fully electrified drivetrain. And, of course, there’s a kit for that.
Read MoreIt slices, it dices! This home EV charger has more uses than the Super Bass-o-matic 76. Instead of having a separate units for controlling everything, Dcbel’s r16 unit will connect your solar array to your home and the grid, manage your stationary battery power storage, charge your electric vehicle faster than any other home charger, and it can facilitate vehicle-to-home power backup in an emergency. It’s the whole package in one little box.
Read MoreWow, it’s been a hot minute since there was new Apple Car news, huh? Ever since the will-they/won’t-they saga between the tech giant and Hyundai fizzled into the troposphere, things have been astonishingly quiet. Too quiet. Apple needed another willing partner, or partners, to get things moving again. It appears it’s found them in Magna and LG.
Read MoreThe clever minds at Yamaha don’t always get the credit they deserve for developing some pretty rad car engines over the years. A fair deal of them were built for, and in collaboration with, Toyota, including the 2ZZ-GE, the 3S-GE and the stratospheric-revving 4.8-liter V10 in the Lexus LFA, though the company has contributed to vehicles from other marques as well.
Read MoreTen years ago Mate Rimac had no idea the newly formed company carrying his name would end up supplying Porsche and Hyundai, become synonymous with yet another Richard Hammond crash, or grow so fast he’d have to build a new $238 million campus for 2,500 employees outside of Croatia’s capital, Zagreb. Rimac has gone from struggling to pay employees to a shining example of new Croatian industry, and now it’s planning to build a factory to match its reputation.
Read MoreIt sounds like Europe is ready to call bullshit on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and automakers aren’t too thrilled about it. When the automakers aren’t too thrilled is when you know that a proposed public policy is probably good.
Read MoreI feel that I can confidently assume we have all, at some point, gotten distracted while driving. Whether we were jamming to the radio, taking a call, or checking our phone just for a second, taking your eyes off the road is an ubiquitous part of driving. And Lexus designed a car to show you just how dangerous it can be.
Read MoreYou’ve heard of regenerative braking in electric vehicles—you know, how the battery recovers some energy every time you use the brakes—but I have a feeling you’re all going to love the new mid-trip charging solution Mercedes has developed for its AMG Hybrid: drifting.
Read MoreWhen Margaret A. Wilcox developed the car heater, she did it in an era where being a mechanical engineer was a rarity—and which was even more difficult for a woman. Every time you warm up your icy extremities behind the wheel on a cold winter day, you have Wilcox to thank.
Read MoreIn a revelation that surprised absolutely nobody who’s been paying even the smallest bit of attention to Elon Musk’s under-Vegas tunnel project for the past few years, the underground loop beneath the Las Vegas Convention center was finally unveiled today, and it’s about as exciting as a sheet of unpainted drywall discarded in a closed office park. It’s just some Tesla Model 3s driving slowly in a tube, and if that gets you excited then I hope you enjoy the many orgasms you get while driving dow
Read MoreBusinesses flexing a bit of legal chicanery to reap the greatest benefit certainly isn’t a new phenomenon under capitalism, though what Tesla’s been doing with the Model 3 in Canada recently is an especially absurd example. The automaker has been selling an intentionally terrible version of its entry-level sedan in the Great White North for the past two years, though it’s tried to keep the car’s existence on the down low — until now.
Read MoreOne thing that I’ve been curious about is how homebrew electric car builds compare to OEM efforts at EVs, especially as we’re still in the early days of widespread manufacturer adoption. Jalopnik reader Allan has both: a 1983 E21 he converted himself and 2014 BMW i3 that doesn’t even want to see a wrench.
Read MoreThis week Daimler Trucks North America announced that it is accepting orders for its two revolutionary new all-electric freight trucks. Production is scheduled to begin in 2022, and aim to reduce the fleet emissions of large interstate shipping companies. The eM2 box truck and eCascadia freight tractor bring EV tech into the world that needs it most—goods transport.
Read MoreHonda has a fun idea for an electric motorcycle. Three patents filed in Japan by the marque shows a motorcycle that looks a lot like a Grom and hopefully it sees the light of day.
Read MoreBy now, most of us realize that the automotive world is currently in transition. We’re moving from internal combustion cars to electric cars, and while the way EVs generally look and drive is quite similar to what we’re used to, the fundamental technology is different enough that now is the time we can really rethink how everything is done. And we, as car-owning consumers, should rethink things; we should have a say in developing an automotive world that is to our benefit, not just to the benefi
Read MoreOpel really wants young people to buy its new Mokka-e, the fully electrified version of its redesigned SUV. And it’s decided the best way to attract younger drivers is by hosting a house party and telling them to “SHUT UP & DANCE.”
Read MoreThe first Tesla, as we all know, was a heavily re-worked Lotus Elise transformed into something novel: An electric car that was fun, not just good for the environment. Tesla wanted to work with an established manufacturer on its first effort, but it wasn’t initially Lotus. The original plan was with the Scion xB.
Read MoreThere’s a story I’ve run into twice now, and it concerns car companies turning away enthusiasts from getting a shot at owning their early modern electric cars.
Read MoreFor years now, car companies have been making electric cars but not a profit off of them. The price of developing an EV doesn’t match up with the price people are willing to pay for them, and we often see these cars subsidized by both governments and manufacturers themselves. With this in mind, I adore the $435,000 Mercedes-Benz SLS Electric Drive from 2014.
Read MoreGM has been trying to convince everyone that it is a technology company now, at least on par with Tesla, which is silly because automakers are some of the oldest tech companies around. But, anyway, with the rollout of the 2024 GMC Hummer EV, GM seems doubly concerned with reminding you how tech it is.
Read MoreWith Hyundai Motor Group’s two new EVs, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 hitting dealerships later this year, the company has big charging plans for the home market. Inside EVs reports that Hyundai is set to roll out its network of fast-charging stations in South Korea.
Read MoreIt’s the year 2018. COVID-19 isn’t a thing. The American-made Tesla Model 3 is leading the global electric vehicle sales market. The world seems relatively normal.
Read MoreGM unveiled its $100,000 Hummer EV SUV over Easter weekend — a little early, if you ask me. The 830-horsepower SUV won’t be available until 2023, while the truck is set for sale later this year. Weirdly enough, the cheapest versions of both are not available until 2024. Reservations are underway, nonetheless.
Read MoreNo more can we say that the electric 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS is good for big screens and nothing else — because it has a big range, too. We’re talking an estimated 478 miles per charge on the European WLPT test cycle, which is more than the Tesla Model S can currently manage. That’s pretty exceptional. You could drive from Tijuana, Mexico to Modesto, California and still have some battery left to spare.
Read MoreOn April 3, 1885, history was set in motion. Gottlieb Daimler was granted a patent for his grandfather clock engine design, kicking off what would be one of the world’s first motorcycles.
Read MoreWaymo, the Google-backed autonomous vehicle development company, just published a blog on its site that revealed two important things: First, employees are known as “Waymonauts,” and perhaps of equal importance, the CEO, John Krafcik, is stepping down. I hope this isn’t because he’s upset that people have been egging Waymo’s test vehicles?
Read MoreElectric cars are heavy. This isn’t news to anybody, but it’s still something EV designers struggle with. The reason they’re so heavy is because batteries are heavy. For example, the batteries in a Tesla Model S account for nearly a quarter of the car’s entire weight. That’s a lot. Efforts to reduce battery weight by building batteries that are also part of the car’s structure are a promising concept, and a team of Swedish researchers seem to have made a big advance here, developing a structural
Read MoreIs it sacrilegious to convert the purest of the performance-minded sports cars of the 20th century into an electric vehicle, devoid of the fumes of a catless British motor and mechanical clunks of a four speed manual transmission? Honestly, who cares? It’s 2021. Montero (Call Me By Your Name), widely decried for its provocative and unorthodox portrayals of religion and sexuality, has 69 million views (nice) as I write this. Sacrilege is fun if you’re enjoying yourself, and today’s featured EV ow
Read MoreSouth Korean battery manufacturer SK Innovation has been in a precarious spot over the last couple of months. Hit with a 10-year import ban by the U.S. International Trade Commission as punishment for allegedly stealing trade secrets from rival LG Energy Solutions, SK stands to lose business from big name partners like Ford and Volkswagen. A spokeswoman at the company even said it might have to abandon its construction of a factory in Georgia, which is already underway.
Read MoreThe United Auto Workers union is none too pleased with General Motors’s big investment in a Mexican plant, Volkswagen may be approaching its day of reckoning for its dumb Voltswagen joke, and Stellantis is bringing in a friend from France. All this and more in this Friday edition of The Morning Shift for April 30, 2021.
Read MoreFord made a big pile of money in the first three months of this year but still has a big problem on its hands, the European fate of Harley-Davidson could be in Joe Biden’s hands, and Lordstown Motors had an “unfortunate administrative error.” All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 29, 2021.
Read MoreThe industry that makes parts for car companies is worried about electric cars making them obsolete. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 28, 2021.
Read MoreToyota bought Lyft’s self-driving unit, Lotus wants to go all-electric by 2028, and Tesla. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 27, 2021.
Read MoreDemand for cars and trucks is on the rise, but inventory of cars and trucks is not. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 26, 2021.
Read MoreHonda can’t be rushed, airlines are confident they’ll be able to take your money again, and Alfa Romeo still can’t catch a break. All this and more in this Friday edition of The Morning Shift for April 23, 2021.
Read MoreThe Biden administration is reportedly about to undo Trump’s auto emissions regulations with California heavily in the mix, Lordstown Motors had a failed off-road race, and some trims of the Mustang Mach-E don’t have the best headlights. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 22, 2021.
Read MoreSome states want out of this whole fuel-burning cars thing, and they want Joe Biden’s help to make the split. That and more in The Morning Shift for April 21, 2021.
Read MoreBMW is doing well, Elon Musk tries to clarify things after a deadly Tesla crash, and Ferrari hired a guy from Top Gear. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 20, 2021.
Read MoreI’m as surprised as any of you as I type this: there seems to be some good news for Harley-Davidson. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 19, 2021.
Read MoreWashington state just out California’d California, some 800,000 Subarus will soon need to visit home, and Ford just added a new exec that will do lobbyist-type things but isn’t technically a lobbyist. All that and more in this TGIF edition of The Morning Shift for April 16, 2021.
Read MoreThere are lots of EVs coming out in America at this very moment, and lots more planned for the future, but the EV scene is a whole lot more interesting in China. That and more in The Morning Shift for April 15, 2021.
Read MoreWe Americans love e-bikes, and we should have bigger subsidies to get people to switch over to them. We just shouldn’t do what France is getting up to. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 14, 2021.
Read MoreHyundai is getting investigated for alleged insider trading, GM has maps, and Australians absolutely despise EVs. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 13, 2021.
Read MoreFrance just voted to ban all short-range domestic flights that could be covered by train instead. It’s a healthy reminder that all of this — our world that prioritizes cheap air travel, car commuting, the cheap and fast destruction of our planet — doesn’t have to be this way. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 12, 2021.
Read MoreThe fate of a prominent battery supplier rests in the president’s hands, yet another Black media mogul is imploring General Motors to do better, and crowds may return to F1 at this summer’s British Grand Prix. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, April 9, 2021
Read MoreMercedes is once again the top-selling luxury car brand in the U.S., Tesla is mad at the government in Germany, and the Alfa Romeo Tonale. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 8, 2021.
Read MoreElon Musk has a simple solution for Tesla cars equipped with cameras capable of spying: Just don’t turn them on! It’s just that easy. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 7, 2021.
Read MoreThe auto industry is going back to the well, GM’s contempt for its dealers is plain, and Japan. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 6, 2021.
Read MoreTesla is getting into it with the National Labor Relations Board, but it’s not about suppressing unions or poor workplace conditions. Actually, wait, it is about that. But it’s also about a tweet. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 5, 2021.
Read MoreThe federal government is getting serious about this whole semiconductor thing, Porsche would like some of the batteries everyone else is having, and Volkswagen’s van division might just get by with a little help from a friend. All that and more in this Friday edition of The Morning Shift for April 2, 2021.
Read MoreHyundai and Kia are back to setting sales records, CarMax is buying Edmunds, the chip shortage is really bad news for Ford and the F-150, and Tesla. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 1, 2021.
Read MoreIf you’re fond of being really, really tense and panicked and then infused with a sense of sudden relief, all caused by people you’ve never met (likely) a half world away, then boy are you in luck. That’s because this security-camera video of a Vangani Railway Station Pointsman heroically leaping into harm’s way to save a six-year old who fell on the tracks will absolutely deliver that feeling.
Read More“You know, we’re all the way out here in the middle of nowhere. I could just drive off and keep you if I wanted!”
Read MoreIt is an unequivocal fact that this absolutely rips, but there’s no way in hell you’d catch me trying anything like this. At a certain point in your life, you just have to stand back and realize that it’s okay to not try a backflip over an Amtrack train on your snowmobile. I’ll never get the opportunity to do that, and at fifteen I’d have been bummed to learn such a thing about myself, but in my mid-30s I’m more than happy to watch someone else do it and concede the experience.
Read MoreIf you’re anything like me, you’re trying more and more ways to find a little bit of goddamn peace and quiet in this era where we’re working, learning, and generally just living from home. And if you’re anything like me, the effort required for a hobby is simply too much. Thankfully, I have an alternative: cab-ride train videos.
Read MoreHave you ever loaded up a truck with cargo, people and a trailer but had no idea how much it all weighed? The 2021 Ford F-150 has an answer for this conundrum: It can actually weigh your load for you.
Read MoreLittle three-wheeled truck-like vehicles form a big part of China’s workhorse fleet, and they do all sorts of jobs all over the country. That doesn’t mean that every little truck is ideally suited to every job, as these two hapless pottery-loading fellas seem to have learned. From the start of this video, I think most of us can predict the outcome, but I admire the optimism, determination, and steadfast resolve of these guys to not use a real ramp or find a truck with sides.
Read MoreThe response to COVID-19 has required all hands on deck, and carmakers have pitched in to provide support as the global vaccination effort has ramped up. Usually, it’s in the form of lending production capacity, but Toyota is pitching in with a gnarly overlander that finally has an especially good reason to exist: vaccine delivery.
Read MoreI don’t know of a more delicate way to put it: The Shelby-tuned version of the Chinese Great Wall Cannon pickup has an Xbox controller for a grille.
Read MoreChinese carmaker WEY thinks it has a winner on its hands with its SUV, the Tank 300. Now, it’s officially shown off a modified version of its Chinese market-only Bronco doppelgänger, called the Cyber Tank 300, in anticipation of a full reveal at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show. This new Tank kind of rocks.
Read MoreFinally, after years of teasing, Hyundai has debuted its new 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz pickup truck, and it’s unlike anything else on the market. Here’s a look at this small, all-wheel drive, 275+ horsepower pickup truck from Hyundai.
Read MoreI bought a 2002 Lexus LX470 last week sight unseen, and ever since, Toyota Land Cruiser fans have been messaging me things like “Dude, that thing is unkillable. Keep it. Love it. If you want to bathe with it, just know that that’s not weird in our circles.” Surely this SUV can’t be perfectly fault-proof, right? Well, after driving in my fancy Land Cruiser for a few days, I know the answer is “no.”
Read MoreThe Jeep Gladiator is putting on a 10-gallon hat and some ostrich-skin boots, y’all, because the poor thing is just sitting on dealer lots. Jeep thinks it can turn that around with a little Texas persona.
Read MoreI think we’ve pretty well established that our readers spend a lot of time driving behind trucks, staring at the backs of trucks, and this meditative process of contemplating truckly posteriors naturally leads them to ask questions. Like why the quilted metal doors? Or, as I want to explore today, what’s the deal with that little, inset door on the back of some trailers, most often refrigerated trailers? Is it a pet door?
Read MoreThe notion that there might one day be vehicles for sale that are part BMW and part Toyota is outright ridiculous.
Read MoreThings are going to go wrong on this trip. I know this, because the plan is absolutely foolish. I bought a 275,000-mile fancy Toyota Land Cruiser (a Lexus LX470) sight unseen. I took two trains to pick the car up. Now I’m driving the huge off-roader 2,500 miles to Seattle to fix and drive a 1958 Jeep that’s been sitting for decades. I haven’t made it far, because the trek began with a major blunder involving a used tire shop.
Read MoreThe islands of Hawaii are littered with some of the most absurd World War II Jeeps in existence. Modified almost beyond recognition, the former war machines take on the likeness of legendary 1950s and 1960s American iron. These are like the Jeepneys of the Philippines, except even more soulful.
Read MoreMazda Australia has released a new souped up version of its little pickup, the BT-50. This new version is called the BT-50 Thunder and is only for the Australian market for now, with no word on export markets yet. I guess you could say that this is truly the thunder from down under.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks we’ve looked at a brake fluid tester pen that can help you maintain your car’s braking system, a cordless ratchet that can save wrenching time and a torque multiplier to bust loose a lug nut when your impact wrench won’t do the job. This week’s cool tool is a drill-powered winch that can make loading vehicles onto a trailer much less of a pain.
Read MoreI traveled 2,500 miles to revive a 1958 Jeep FC-170, hoping that I could somehow get the vehicle back on the road. Unfortunately, the Jeep was infested with mice, its carburetor was in desperate need of a rebuild and repair, and the engine itself didn’t even turn over. I opened up the inline-six motor to see what was going on, and let me just say: It wasn’t pretty.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks we’ve looked at a cheap jump-start battery pack that actually works, a brake fluid tester pen that can help you maintain your car’s braking system and a cordless ratchet that can save wrenching time. This week’s cool tool is a torque multiplier that can bust loose a lug nut when your impact wrench won’t do the job.
Read MoreI’ve been trying to fix my hopeless 1958 Jeep FC-170 for over a week straight now, but the whole project nearly came to a screeching halt as a result of my own stupidity. Here’s how I nearly burned my host’s enormous garage to the ground in the process of rebuilding my Jeep’s carburetor.
Read MoreI’m writing to you now from just outside a laundromat in Stanwood, Washington. I’m covered in grease from head to toe after a weeklong battle with the crappiest Jeep on earth: a 1958 Willys FC-170 that hasn’t run in probably two decades at least. The Jeep was mouse-infested, its body has crumbled to rust and the engine isn’t even trying to run. It is hopeless, and yet I cannot stop trying to fix it.
Read MoreIt was too weird and too cheap not to pick up on a long drive home: a Bianchi Advantage, a somewhat glamorous step-through hybrid frame, hanging out in a motorcycle repair shop in farm country for $20.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks we’ve looked at an extension wrench that loosens bolts in tight areas, a tap socket to restore damaged threads and a cheap jump-start battery pack that actually works. This week’s cool tool is a brake fluid tester pen that can help you maintain your car’s braking system.
Read MoreDo you ever get to a point in a multi-year project where you start to lose steam and you’re worried that the thing that used to be a car sitting on your QuickJacks in the garage is rapidly transforming into a really expensive paperweight? Lately that’s how I’ve been feeling about my Boxster. I used to love this car, but then I decided to turn it into an ambitious electrified track car and it’s been in various states of disassembly ever since. Well, over the weekend I hacked off the windshield, a
Read MoreI’m feeling a bit weird right now. Yesterday I finally drove a 1966 Ford Mustang that I’d bought as a gift for my brother back in 2012, and have been storing ever since. The experience was so invigorating that I don’t know if I can ever look at my Jeep collection the same way.
Read MoreA few years ago, I wrote a surprisingly popular article titled “I Regret Lifting My Daily Driver.” The story described how I paid over $1,000 to ruin my Jeep’s ride, handling, braking, acceleration, and fuel economy. Now, after dealing with this for seven years, I’m making some changes.
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Passat W8 has an infamously unreliable eight-cylinder engine that even seasoned mechanics won’t touch. One Volkswagen expert and YouTuber is tearing down one of these scary engines and revealing its mysteries for everyone to see.
Read MoreOver the past few weeks we’ve looked at the ChassisEAR to pinpoint worrisome noises, the extension wrench that loosens bolts in tight areas and the tap socket to restore damaged threads. This week’s cool tool is a cheap jump-start battery pack that won’t die after the first use.
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