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Beyond Cars (4)

  • The Polaris RZR 200 Is Way Cooler Than The Mountain Bike My Parents Gave Me When I Was A Kid

    Man, kids these days get all the cool shit. When I was a pre-teen I got a WalMart-sourced mountain bike for my birthday, and I was over the damn moon about it. Oh, that was so cool, getting the freedom of riding around town, hauling my butt down to the local stop-and-go for a Stewarts Orange and Cream and a Little Debbie snack cake. Oh man, those were the days. These days kids get a 180cc engine with electronic fuel injection, 10 inches of ground clearance, 24 inch tires, LED headlights and tail

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  • The Gulf Of Mexico Was On Fire

    When an underwater gas pipeline leaks, you have a problem. And with the Gulf of Mexico, that problem is quite literally water that had lit on fire and which has since been extinguished.

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  • The 2021 Can-Am Commander Can Make Anyone Feel Like A Rally Driver

    Side-by-sides are versatile vehicles, offering great utility or outrageous off-roading ability. The 2021 Can-Am Commander is a crossover, smashing utility and good off-road capability into a single package. It may not be as powerful as some side-by-sides, but it can make anyone feel like a pro rally driver.

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Boatlopnik (5)

  • Long Beach Has Three Options: Preserve, Dry Dock, Or Sink The Queen Mary

    After reports showing hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs are needed to keep the Queen Mary afloat, a bankrupt leaseholder, an attempt to get the Port of Long Beach to control the ship, and the threat of a derelict Russian sub with a mysterious owner, the City of Long Beach might finally know what it needs to do with the boat.

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  • The Ever Given Has Spawned An Unholy Legal Mess

    The Ever Given, the ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal for a week and prompted an international shipping crisis, was is finally free to leave the Suez Canal, authorities said last week. But like every modern story this one won’t end there, as it will probably be tied up in court for months if not years.

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  • The Ever Given Is Finally Free To Sail The Seven Seas

    All the way back in March, the Ever Given container ship blocked up the Suez Canal, helping to push a shipping industry strained by the COVID-19 pandemic to the breaking point. Now, over three months later, the ship is finally on its way out of the Suez Canal.

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  • The Largest Yacht In The World Will Launch In 2024

    Say you’re millionaire (or billionaire) and you want a place at sea. You don’t want to live on a cruise liner because they’re for commoners, and you don’t want your own yacht. Now there’s option between those two! As CNN reports, 2024 will see the launch of the world’s largest “residential yacht.”

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Buying (25)

Culture (53)

  • Electric Cars Are An Inherently Anti-American Concept

    With a 1,700-mile drive behind me, I’ve had my fair share of time to do some thinking, and as any good automotive journalist does, I’ve been thinking about the widespread resistance to adopting electric cars, especially here in America. And I’m here to report that I think I’ve figured out a big reason behind this phenomenon: electric cars are inherently anti-American.

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  • Let's Talk About The Design Element Shared By El Caminos, Dodge Darts, And The Ferrari 308GTS

    If you get an El Camino owner, a Dodge Dart or Plymouth Swinger owner, and a Ferrari 308GTS owner together and crammed them into a damp tent, what do you think they could all find in common to bond over? The difficulties of trusting people’s intentions when you’re wealthy? The best way to drag a Jetski into a truck bed? How to best remove vomit from vinyl seats? No. None of these. There’s only one like point of commonality, and it’s worth taking note of, which is why we’re here.

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  • I Bet You Can't Identify Every Volkswagen SUV On Sale Now

    I noticed yesterday that Volkswagen had announced a new smallish SUV for the UK market, the VW Taigo. If you saw some pictures and thought, huh, that’s handsome, but haven’t I already seen that? Isn’t that a Taos or Tiguan or Teramont or something? No, buddy, it’s actually called a Nivus in China, but for the UK, VW decided to name it something starting with T, because confusion is fun. What’s also fun is this: can you identify the vehicles in VW’s baffling global array of crossovers?

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  • Whoa, Look At This Incredible Forgotten Trailer

    You ever go to Lowe’s because the good hardware store is closed and you need some tubing or whatever, and then when you’re leaving, you spot a type of trailer you haven’t seen before in your rearview mirror and turn around to go check it out? I have, and this was the trailer. An Apache Cub, a little worse for wear and being towed behind a Fiat 500.

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  • Is Mainstream Car Development Stagnating? Let's Figure It Out

    The other day in the Jalopnik Slack room, in between the usual sharing pictures of confusing rashes and pretending to read various writers’ deeply unsettling erotic poetry, our Editor-In-Something Rory stated that he felt that auto development was stagnating, as cars from 10 or even 20 years ago just didn’t feel all that different from modern cars. I could kind of see his point, but I think the observation is interesting enough to give it some scrutiny. Is car development actually stagnating, or

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  • Blip: Screaming Chicken Tikka Masala

    A number of years ago, when I was in India, I was finally able to see some Tata Nanos in their natural habitat, and it was glorious. I really liked the one you see here—this was a base model Nano, likely the cheapest new car in the world at the time, but I like how the owner dressed it up a bit—mostly with that red hawk decal on the hood.

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  • Someone Made An Absurdly Tiny Working Wooden V8 Engine

    Small block V8s aren’t really anything unusual, until you really start pushing the limits of small. We’re talking about a V8 engine with a displacement of about 0.11 cubic centimeters, which would be a 0.00011-liter engine, which is probably something they had in Europe for tax reasons. This tiny, tiny engine was made by a wildly talented (and patient) high school kid (well, he’s about to graduate) out of oak veneer, birch, and barbecue skewers. You need to see this.

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  • Sign-Toting Evangelists Show Up To GM Headquarters Demanding The Revival Of The Saturn Brand

    Over the weekend dozens of Saturn fans showed up to the streets outside of General Motors’ Detroit headquarters, the Renaissance Center, to demand the company bring back plastic cars and no-haggle dealerships. Saturn died in October of 2010 after just 25 years of production. While General Motors didn’t officially respond to the protest, and likely won’t be bringing Saturn back any time soon, the group of wacky fans announced they were taking their rally on to several other (not at all Saturn-rel

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  • Tom Hanks' Well-Loved Airstream Is Heading To Auction

    If you’re in the market for an Airstream trailer formerly owned by a celebrity like, oh, let’s say one of America’s most beloved film stars, you’re in luck. Bonhams is currently auctioning off Tom Hanks’ Aistream trailer that has been with the actor for decades.

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  • No One Told Me How Expensive Moving Is

    Buying a home is an expensive venture, and I thought I’d prepared myself for all possible fees that would be necessary — immediate repairs, paying for storage, hiring a professional to help me move my big-ass couch down nine floors — but nothing prepared me for the cost of renting a U-Haul.

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  • I'm Leaving Jalopnik With A Gift For Jason Torchinsky

    I got my job at Jalopnik in August of 2015 after starting a James Bond themed Kinja blog and emailing former Editor-in-Chief Patrick George my articles for a year. It’s been a crazy six years and I’ve been fortunate to share them with Jason Torchinsky who is still here, too. So I’m leaving him with a present.

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  • Here's How To Help Protect Yourself From Keyless Car Theft

    We’ve said it before, but stealing a car with a keyless ignition system is really easy. So easy, in fact, that it’s become a serious problem in the United Kingdom, among other countries. The National Police Chiefs’ Council there released a reminder Thursday that owners should be vigilant, and there’s actually a rather simple solution to help stave off the threat.

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  • One Of The Strangest Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Ever Found Would Make A Great Car Wheel Design

    I realize that we’ve been a little light on posts about the intersection of Egyptology and automobiles lately, and I regret that and sincerely apologize. As a way to make up for it, let’s talk a bit about an ancient Egyptian artifact that’s both one of the strangest and the one perhaps most suited to be a wheel option on a 1980s Saab. It’s called the Sabu Disc, or sometimes just the Tri-Lobed Disc.

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  • Stress-Testing The Changli: Canoe And Piñata Test

    I’m not sure if this is surprising to anyone or not, but I get a lot of questions from random internet people about the Changli. How is it so cheap, they wonder? Is it street legal? How fast can it go? Is it difficult keeping away all the people who see you in it and wish to have some manner of sex with you? They’re all valid questions. The two most common ones, though, I think are also the most important for modern life: can it carry a shitty canoe and is it piñata-proof? Today, I will answer t

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  • The Toyota Camry Will Never Die

    When I was a kid in the ‘90s driving a series of broke-ass Volvos from the ‘80s, a Toyota Camry was, truly, an aspirational car. It was reliable and stylish and had good resale value, which my cars had none of. My cousins, for example, had an XV20, and it had a multi-disc CD player in the trunk, which felt like magic. You could have given me an S-Class back then and I still would’ve longed for the Camry.

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  • Nissan Once Built A Stereo Just For Your Ass

    A good audio system is important to pretty much any car. It’s vital to be able to really motherfucking crank episodes of On Being until your eardrums bleed. Most automotive audio systems have been pretty focused on the ear as the primary receptor of sound, but there was one time, one magical time, when an automaker dared to try something different. In 1984, Nissan offered a system that was designed to pump music right into your ass. It was called the Bodysonic Amplifier.

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  • These Are The Five Automotive Innovations The Normies Actually Need

    I realize that when it comes to cars and what I like in a car, I’m kind of an outlier. I’m delighted by machines with well under 100 horsepower and the sort of comfort most people would associate with being dragged behind a tractor on a yoga ball. Maybe “outlier” isn’t the right word? Maybe “idiot” is better. Even so, that’s doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate what mainstream car buyers want. In fact, I’ve been observing automotive normies for a while, and I think I have some ideas about what they r

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  • My Yugo Gearshift Vibrates So Fast It Looks Like It's Phasing Out Of Reality So Let's See It In Slo-Mo

    As you’ve likely surmised, Yugo ownership is fiercely rewarding, a near-constant barrage of joys and triumphs that leave one reeling, as though punched into a gleeful, drooling stupor by the twin fists of satisfaction and appreciation. I’m currently punch-drunk from #YugoLife myself, and as I was driving the Yugo over the weekend, I found a fascinating little detail I’d like to share with you: the shift knob doesn’t appear to be too tethered to our reality.

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  • I Traveled To The Home Of The Yugo And Talked With A Serb Who Has Owned His Car For 30 Years. Here's What He Said

    You’ve probably all heard about the legendary Yugo GV — the Yugoslavian hatchback imported into the U.S. and sold as the cheapest car available in the 1980s and early 1990s. While lately the car has become a bit of a hipster-magnet stateside, in the land where it was built — now Serbia — the Yugo was and remains a real workhorse. Just listen to what this owner has to say.

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  • Volkswagen Passat Production Is Over, But Here's One Last Special Edition

    Production of the Volkswagen Passat is over in the U.S., with the sedan being phased out of the American car market as VW pushes on to bigger and better things, like SUVs and EVs. The stately passenger car gets one last hurrah inspired by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the Passat has been assembled for the last decade, since 2011.

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  • Obsessively Hiding Fasteners Is Stupid And It's Time To Stop

    I’m not sure what it is about humans, but we occasionally get very weird about the visibility of little round things. Nipples, for example. Headphone jacks. That ringworm scar on your thigh. But I think the most baffling little round things we spend a lot of effort trying to conceal are screwheads and other fasteners on cars. The efforts taken to hide the fact that things are connected to other things with other other things is just absurd. There’s nothing wrong with screws! Time to stop hiding

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  • Elon's Right, It's Good That The Cybertruck Doesn't Make Sense

    Earlier today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted something, that, to my surprise, I actually like. Now, I realize I’ve been critical of Musk and the dumb things he has tweeted before, but this time there’s a core concept in this tweet that I heartily approve of. This doesn’t happen too often, so I figure it’s worth noting when it does.

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  • A Man Jumped Off A Bridge To Escape A Traffic Jam In Louisiana

    Scoot over Florida Man, because there’s a new type of guy from Louisiana. A 26-year old man from Lafayette, Louisiana jumped off the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge and into the river after being stuck in a traffic jam. The incident was captured by Khory Vaughan, a guy who let his friend jump off a bridge.

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  • Blip: People As Afterthoughts

    I like when you can tell that a given artist is so into drawing cars, putting people into them is clearly just an annoyance. Look at the crew in this Ford Consul, for example: how are they even arranged in there? What’s up with the driver’s face? are they weirdly small? Someone just barely gave a shit.

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  • Behold, I Have Found The Most Disgusting Way To Draw Cars

    Thanks to the 5G transmissions coming from all of your brains (yay, vaccines!) that I pick up on my HAM radio, I know what you’re all thinking: is there any way I can draw crude sketches of cars and make them look, you know, disgusting and unsettling? Well, I’m delighted to say that the answer is yes, friends, you can! And it’s free and easy, thanks to the magic of Artificial Intelligence!

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  • Here's Everything You Need To Get Into Autocross

    These days, going fast is as easy as writing a check, but doing so properly and safely is a whole different matter. Who doesn’t love to go fast? Well, probably a lot of people, but that’s understandable considering the complete lack of performance driving instruction and experience the average driver possesses.

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  • This Adorable Japanese Comic Proves I'm Not The Only Taillight Fetishist Out There

    Over the weekend, several people noticed something on Twitter and forwarded it my way, mostly because I’ve spent much of my recent career in a shameless attempt to convey to the world that I, for reasons that defy all logic and reason, really like vehicular taillights. While the life of a taillight fetishist can seem lonely, I’m learning it’s actually not, as proven through the industrial-grade charm of a Japanese comic about a woman riding her folding bike around Japan. The specific panels in q

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  • Let The MILF Mobile Live Its Best Life

    A new law against vulgar vanity plates might just put Maine’s favorite vehicle out of commission. That’s right: the MILF Mobile could see the end of its days, The Intercept reports.

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  • Blip: Did You Know This About Bowling Balls

    Sure, I threw a German Ford Taunus in there, but I’m not going to lie: this Blip is about bowling balls. Somehow, I never knew they had complex-shaped, often asymmetrical cores inside, made of dense material, like the one on top of the Taunus there (shown in cutaway).

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  • The New Loki Series Has An Excellent And Unexpected Hero Car

    Like many of you, I’ve been watching that new Loki series and have been very impressed with the whole mid-century/Eero Saarinen/Terry Gilliam’s Brazil sort of look to the show. The series has been pretty thin on cars, but that changed with this most recent episode, which featured some really excellent and I think inspired car-casting.

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  • Meh Car Mehstery: The Suzuki Kizashi

    I know many of you seek out Meh Car Mondays (on whatever days) for reasons of comfort and security. The categorization of a particular car as “meh” can be the only bit of certainty in the lives of a shocking number of people, and I’m always privileged to provide this service, to be that emotional rock. Unfortunately, I can not do that for you today, because I find myself trapped in a conundrum: Is the Suzuki Kizashi a meh car?

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  • The Museum Of Modern Art Still Doesn't Really Get Cars

    New York City’s esteemed Museum of Modern Art’s newest exhibit has a Volkswagen Type 1, a Cisitalia, an E-Type, a Citroën DS, a 1967 911, a Willys Jeep, a Smart Fortwo, an original Fiat 500, and one of Alain Prost’s F1 cars. Eurocentric, much, MoMA?

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  • Blip: Ami Wrangling

    See what’s happening here? This was a real problem in 1960s and 1970s France: little kids, coaxing innocent, unsuspecting Citroën Amis into private, enclosed yards, usually never to be seen again. To this day, nobody knows where these Amis are.

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  • It's Time For Real Talk About Power Seat Controls

    I’ll admit, I hadn’t given power seat controls much thought since I used an old Oldsmobile seat controller to play Atari games years ago. See, most of my miserable old cars have manual levers and pawls and ratchety things to scrape the seats into different positions. But, of course, many, many modern cars provide electric motors to do the work for you, and there seems to be two main schools of thought when it comes to seat controls: on the seat, or on the door. Let’s decide which we think is bet

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  • These Are America's Top 10 Also-Ran Carmakers

    Holy crap, America is 245! Sure, this country is hardly perfect, but it barely looks over 230, if you ask me. As long as you don’t look to carefully at roads and bridges and stuff like that, of course. I like to feature some standout American cars on the Fourth of July, and I usually try to avoid the usual American car attention hogs. This year, I want to really focus on America’s lesser-appreciated automotive heroes, so that’s why I’m doing this roundup.

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  • Here's How That Brain-Breaking 'Pzoom' TikTok Trick Works

    I don’t have a TikTok. That’s not a intended to be a flex or or anything, I’m just an old man. So when a hot new — I don’t know how to put this — physical activity becomes a phenomenon on the platform, it’s my youthful friends and coworkers who bring it to my attention. That’s how the “pzoom” trick, popularized by one TikTok user named Lightskinyogi, was brought to my attention over Slack on this fine Friday.

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Car Design (9)

  • Porsche's Minivan Has The Best Interior The Company Will Never Make

    Porsche’s electric minivan will probably never make it to production, but that doesn’t mean the project was a bust. The company says that the Renndienst gave it a lot of insight into the future of car interiors, and it repeats the concept car trope claiming that when AVs and EVs outnumber ICE cars, interiors will basically be an extension of your couch.

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  • You Can Use Your Phone To Pretend You Own A BMW Art Car

    BMW’s Art Cars are getting the Pokemon Go treatment, and will be going digital using augmented reality (AR). BMW partnered with Acute Art to bring its most creatively-painted machines to the real world — in a manner of speaking.

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  • The Terrifying VW Lamando Looks Just Like A Manga Monster

    While the U.S. mostly gets rehashed versions of the iconic Volkswagen Golf design repackaged into same-looking vehicles of various sedan and crossover configurations, the automaker is putting out all-new designs for the Chinese market and they certainly look interesting.

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  • What The Hell Is A Fratzog And What Is Dodge Doing With It

    Those of you watching Stellantis’ EV day may have noticed something interesting when they were talking about Dodge’s plans for a future electric muscle car. A particular design motif, seen in the taillight design, and what looked like an odd, roughly triangular logo. While I suspect some of you may have recognized it, there’s likely many who had questions. Questions like “what is that thing?” and “what does it have to do with Dodge?” and “does it have a funny name?” I’m happy to say that the ans

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  • Hemi Dodge Charger Pickup Kit Puts The Bed On The Ground Like Its Future Owner

    U.S. enthusiasts have long yearned after the forbidden fruit of international utes, now suffering a drought of local comparable cars pairing the utility of a pickup bed with the footprint of a sedan left by the collapse of the El Camino and Subaru Baja markets long ago. Now, a kit attempts to keep the dream alive, this time with the Dodge Charger.

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  • Taillight Trend Alert: The Technosquiggle

    Last night I was at the Southeast’s fifth-most popular taillight-themed bar, The Scarlet Bulb, when things started to take a strange, almost ominous turn. “Something’s happening,” slurred the old, drunk guy next to me, a former, now disgraced, taillight designer for a major OEM. A woman approached and flung the old guy heavily to the floor, taking his seat. “He’s an asshole, but he’s right. Something is happening.” Even more ominous was that I agreed with them. Something is happening in tailligh

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  • Here's How Easy It Is To Make A Bus

    Billionaires have spent their fortunes trying to “solve” the issue of vehicle congestion and mass transportation in the U.S., but they are often mocked for ignoring current systems that work and are affordable for everyone, like a bus line.

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  • Retractable Hard-Top Convertibles Are A Doomed Fad

    The onslaught of retractable hard-top convertibles over the last two decades basically died overnight, and since I don’t think many people cared enough to realize it, I also don’t think anybody is going to be upset over it.

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Concept Cars (6)

Crashes and Safety (14)

Crime (5)

Entertainment (13)

  • Here's Why Forza Horizon 5 Sounds So Good, Straight From One Of Its Audio Wizards

    Besides the sprawling new map set in Mexico and additional cars, aftermarket parts and events, Forza Horizon 5 is getting another upgrade in one oft-overlooked area: Car audio. Last week, Fraser Strachan, Lead Audio Designer at Playground Games, revealed everything the studio’s been doing to ensure vehicles in the next Horizon installment sound richer and more lifelike than ever before. To my ears, as well as those of many fans, they’ve made quite a stride.

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  • The Drivers In The New Grid Game Absolutely Hate Each Other

    Narratives and racing games historically haven’t mixed too well, though that’s slowly changing. You can thank Netflix for that. F1 2021's Braking Point story mode pulls more than a few plot beats from Drive To Survive, but it’s still ultimately a squeaky-clean Formula 1 tale. The team at Codemasters’ Southam studio has an even more dramatic racing story in the making, and it’s called Grid Legends.

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  • Rockstar Will Never Bring Back Midnight Club But GTA Online Just Got The Next Best Thing

    Grand Theft Auto Online has become quite the haven for street racing over its near decade-long existence. A number of updates, adding loads of models and new car customization features that far exceed what’s possible in most modern racing games, have made GTA Online a reasonable stand-in for Midnight Club or a more social Need For Speed, even without the licensed cars those games have.

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  • IndyCar Will Finally Get Its Very Own Dedicated Video Game In 2023

    The medium of gaming has not been particularly kind to American open-wheel racing. You have to go back almost 20 years to the last time IndyCar got its own dedicated title. We’ve received Formula 1 games every year without fail, but IndyCar hasn’t garnered the same kind of attention from developers. That will soon change.

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  • The New Grand Tour Special Almost Looks Good

    The new Grand Tour special premieres in a couple weeks on Amazon Prime, and, because of the pandemic, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May could only go so far as Scotland this time. This is probably for the best.

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  • F1 2021 Bets Big On A Story Mode You'd Be Better Off Watching On Netflix

    There’s a moment early in Braking Point, the new story mode of F1 2021, where protagonist and rookie Aiden Jackson speaks to the press after colliding with his teammate Casper Akkerman entering the Turn 11 left-hand sweeper at the Australian Grand Prix. Aiden and Casper are essentially squeezed into each other by Devon Butler’s diving up the inside; Devon is the unequivocal heel of Braking Point, and has made it his mission to drive a wedge between the two teammates — whether on track or in the

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  • How Do We Feel About F1 2021's Driver Ratings?

    A few weeks after revealing the ratings for its seven classic drivers, Codemasters has now posted F1 2021's current driver ratings for all of us to argue over. Once again, I think they’re worth sharing, because as a sports fan there’s nothing more weirdly satisfying than good-natured arguments with other fans about how over- or underrated a particular competitor is, based on selective evidence that supports existing biases. After years of doing it with Madden, NBA 2K and The Show, I’m excited t

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  • The First Video Game To Feature NASCAR Racers Had Hilariously Wrong Box Art

    It’s not surprising to find out that NASCAR, America’s most favoritest form of motorsport, has a very non-metric crapton of associated video games. What is surprising to find out is that the very first official NASCAR tie-in video game, which came out way back in 1984, had one of the most hilariously inaccurate box covers of, well, let’s say all time. At least in the context of NASCAR games.

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  • Watch These Two Dummies Recreate The Dumb And Dumber Mini Bike Road Trip

    Before Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels were making “serious” movies, they gave us one of the funniest road trip films of the early ’90s, Dumb and Dumber. One of the “dumber” antics the duo gets up to along the way — depending on whom you ask — is trading their van for a sweet mini bike “straight up.”

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Ford (4)

  • A Mere $150,000 Gets You A Ford Bronco First Edition On eBay

    With Broncos finally arriving in dealer lots, flippers have started to get to work. Seemingly playing into these people’s hands, Ford got a bunch of preorders for the Bronco First Edition. It’s pretty much just a trim for those who have to have the first of something. One owner who’s trying to get his and then some has listed his Bronco First Edition on eBay and is asking six figures for it.

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  • Some Ford Bronco Owners Are Reporting Their Hardtops Are Falling Apart, Growing Scales

    The Bronco’s roof has been a point of frustration for Ford and prospective owners since well before the SUV started being delivered to the first customers last month. Production snags pushed vehicles optioned with body color-matched and contrasting hardtops to at least 2022. Those with molded-in-color Carbonite Gray roofs are leaving the factory now. Unfortunately, it seems at least some of those could’ve used another quality assurance check or two.

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  • If You Need Heavy Duty Hauling Power On The Cheap Get An Ambulance

    On the face of things, people might think I have some moral opposition to the existence of trucks and diesel and big heavy haulers. To an extent, I suppose I do, but when they are used to the effect they are built for, they’re pretty great. It’s appalling in my mind that people use big diesel trucks as daily drivers to look hard or whatever, but for the niche tasks they’re designed to tackle, I have no qualms. Need to haul a boat? Great. Need to haul a 20-pound toddler? Get a minivan.

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Hyundai (1)

  • The 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Will Cost $23,995

    After what seems like years of waiting, Hyundai finally showed us the Santa Cruz pickup. Well, Hyundai doesn’t call it a pickup. It’s a “Sport Adventure Vehicle”. And now, nearly three months after its public debut, we have pricing.

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Motorcycles (19)

  • BMW's Got A New Bagger, Or Two

    BMW Motorrad has given its R18 a mild makeover, adding a heap of stuff to the already imposing cruiser and produced two distinct takes with its new bikes, the R18 B “Bagger” and R18 Transcontinental.

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  • The Perfect Beginner Bike Is Lawnmower-Powered

    These days motorcycles are too fast. Even the entry level bikes from major manufacturers have horsepower levels into the triple digits. There are certainly a few options out there for new riders just getting into two wheels, but they’re getting fewer and farther between. The key to a good first bike is a capable and sporty chassis and low enough horsepower levels to keep your head on straight. So obviously the answer is a 15-year-old Honda 919 sportbike with a 225cc lawnmower-based engine.

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  • The 2022 Harley-Davidson Sportster S Is A Paradigm Shift

    Harley-Davidson made me sit up and take notice back in 2019 with the launch of the brand’s all-electric LiveWire (which has since been spun off into an all-electric sub-brand). It was a great bike, but in hindsight it felt disconnected from the rest of Harley, like a small skunkworks within the company hellbent on a tangent. Earlier this year I was legitimately impressed by Harley’s Pan America adventure bike, but again it was a new bike in a new market disconnected from H-D’s traditional desig

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  • Ride Off Into The Sunset On Steve McQueen's Husqvarna Viking 360

    Celebrity-owned vehicles are hitting auctions in droves this summer. The latest is this 1968 Husqvarna Viking 360 raced by Bengt Åberg and formerly owned by Steve McQueen up for auction. If Tom Hanks’ sweet Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser doesn’t hit your spot, maybe this vintage Husky will.

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  • Honda Wants Zero Motorcycle Deaths By 2050 And I'm Skeptical

    Honda is the biggest motorcycle maker and seller in the world, and the Japanese company says that it’s responsible for the safety of all of its riders. So, Honda wants to eliminate all rider and driver fatalities involving its bikes and cars by 2050. Honda claims new tech will get us there. I appreciate the effort, but I’m a little skeptical.

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  • Snell Relaxed Its Motorcycle Helmet Standards And Now The Rating Is Meaningless

    The Snell Memorial Foundation began with good intentions, developing a new standard for helmet safety which went above and beyond that of the Department of Transportation’s outmoded test. The standard for motorcycle helmets has been based on the standard for automobile helmets since the start, despite the two disciplines crashing in very different ways. The test requires a two-impact hit in the same location, which seems far more likely in a car with a roll cage than a motorcycle where the rider

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  • KTM's Track-Only Monster Sold Out In Five Minutes

    What do you call a KTM that is based on a KTM that isn’t really a KTM? Well, in this case you call it the sold-out-in-five-minutes RC 8C Ready To Race. This is a weird and interesting bike, as it is actually a Kramer GP2 890R under the orange skin. That isn’t to say it’s a bad bike, but it’s only tangentially a KTM, kinda, sorta. Anyway, the track-only bike from the company that doesn’t really build track bikes was limited to just 100 units, and a hundred people put down almost forty grand to bu

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  • Ducati's New Track-Ready Panigale V2 Is Also A Tribute To A Legendary Rider

    Ducati has a new limited-production track-ready race replica bike paying homage to the great three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss. The Panigale V2 Bayliss 1st Championship 20th Anniversary harkens back to the Australian wonder’s first championship in 2001 riding the iconic 996 R. While this bike isn’t based on Ducati’s fastest motorcycle, the balls-out Panigale V4, it is more in line with the original 996, as it is powered by a more traditional two-cylinder engine.

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  • Harley-Davidson Just Launched Its Own Craigslist

    It shouldn’t be that hard to find a used bike, especially when it’s a used bike from one of the biggest motorcycle brands in the world. While it hasn’t been impossible to dig around on Craigslist or eBay to find the Harley of your dreams (mine is an XR1200), the bar and shield has now made it extra easy with the launch of its new H-D1 Marketplace. This site is a nationwide register of every used Harley in the country, not just Certified Pre-Owned, but every used H-D currently sitting on an H-D s

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  • What Do You Want To Know About The 2022 Harley-Davidson Sportster S?

    Everything you thought you knew about Harley-Davidson is changing, and the new Sportster is proof of that. Sure the bike still has throwback-cool good looks, and forward foot controls, but it has been given so many changes in this new generation that it’s hardly recognizable as a Sportster. With a brand new Revolution Max engine making 121 horsepower and 94 lb-ft of torque, the power output sounds American Cruiser, but the internally balanced watercooled dual-overhead camshaft engine decidedly d

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  • The LiveWire One Has A Lot Of Potential On The Race Track

    What’s the point in racing if you aren’t aiming to make things better? Whether you’re looking to improve your machine, your reaction times, your teamwork, or your life, racing can make all of that happen and more. There is no better trial for a new motorcycle than one by fire, and that’s exactly what the Suicide Machine Co. racing team set out to do last weekend with a pair of unproven LiveWire One electric motorcycles. The team pit their rides against some of the best gas-powered bikes in the w

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  • This Must Be The Rowdiest Chief To Ever Exist

    Leave it to Roland Sands to build what might be the coolest motorcycle to ever wear the Chief name. Of course the guy who invented the Super Hooligans series for big-bore twin bikes is going to come up with a fun and interesting way to make the series all the more interesting. While the team has put together a number of FTR1200 racers to run on dirt in that class, this year the series is running a few paved road courses. Why not flip the class on its head and throw a massive aircooled twin in th

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  • Project Whiskey Is The King Of Dirtbikes

    Honda’s legendary two-stroke CR500R went out of production twenty years ago, but what’s not to love about a 60-horsepower watercooled two-smoker motor that zings to the high heavens? Well, for one thing it only came in a big heavy steel tube frame chassis. Around that same time, Honda was selling a smaller and lighter CR250 AF (that’s aluminum frame, not as fuck), and some dirt enthusiasts have created a little cottage industry of slapping the big motor in the little frame for the coolest muscle

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  • BMW Is Ready For The Electric Two-Wheel Future

    A new BMW EV is finally here, after going from one concept to another. The CE 04 is BMW Motorrad’s latest entry into the electric motorcycle market. OK, it’s a scooter, but that hardly matters in the context of what it represents.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Honda Once Made An Oval Piston Bike Engine

    Toyota is famous for its 2JZ engine. Mazda has the Wankel rotary. Subaru gets the “boxer.” These engines have earned our respect and admiration, even with their shortcomings. Honda has its own compromised engine which was an abject failure, but ended up being kind of a triumph anyway: the oval piston engine.

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  • Zero Teases New Supermoto; I've Ridden It, What Do You Want To Know?

    A few years ago Zero Motorcycles and Huge Design SF worked together to develop a concept motorcycle for the 2019 One Moto Show in Portland (below). It was a smash hit that everyone, including myself, was absolutely blown away by. While it had some obviously not-ready-for-primetime features, like the unergonomic flat seat, lack of rear fender, and CNC-machined aluminum bodywork, it was way too pretty to ignore. Now, Zero is finally bringing that gorgeous machine to the masses as the Zero FXE.

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News (79)

  • Mercedes-Benz Is Rushing To Build A Full Spectrum Of Electric Models

    This September at the 2021 Munich Motor Show’s IAA Mobility conference, Mercedes-Benz and its related brands will be showing off eight new models, five of which are battery electric and one is a plug-in hybrid. This is in addition to the brand’s already-unveiled electric EQV, EQS, EQA, EQB, and EQC models and further teased EQXX and EQT future models. As various countries and municipalities continue pushing automakers into the electric future, Mercedes-Benz has chosen to act immediately rather t

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  • Ford Turned A Surprise Profit Because It Can't Make Cars Fast Enough

    Ford said Wednesday that it had net income in the second quarter of $561 million, or a number better than the expected three months ago when it said that the chip shortage might cut production in April, May, and June by up to 50 percent. What might be bad times for anyone buying a Ford are good times for Ford itself.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • At $19,955, Could This 1995.5 Audi S6 Avant Be A Well-Kept Secret?

    Aside from its Avus wheels and subtle badging, today’s Nice Price or No Dice S6 doesn’t look all that different from its A6 Avant cousins. It’s what’s under those looks that counts, however, and we’ll have to decide if that’s enough for the seller to count on getting the car’s asking.

    By Rob Emslie Read More

  • ALPINA Has No Plans To Do An EV

    In a recent interview with Bimmer Today, ALPINA CEO Andreas Bovensiepen says ALPINA clients simply don’t want EVs. The CEO explained that a customer survey was done to gauge interest in an electric model. The survey found that their customers wouldn’t be interested:

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Maine Is Cancelling The Registrations Of Imported JDM Cars

    Owners of Japanese Domestic Market kei trucks and Mitsubishi Delicas in the state of Maine are dealing with the scenario of every car enthusiast’s nightmares. The state says it’ll cancel registrations of imported vehicles that doesn’t meet federal regulations, leaving enthusiasts confused.

    By Mercedes Streeter Read More

  • This NASCAR Crew Member Will Be Competing In The Olympics

    Every time the Olympics roll around, I know a lot of race fans wonder what it would be like if motorsport was included in the games in some way. But this year, they’ll at least be able to root for a NASCAR Xfinity crew member competing in a different sport.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • I Was Mad About The Cleveland Guardians Until I Wasn't

    The Hope Memorial Bridge — named for Bob Hope’s father, Harry Hope — starts, on the east side, at Progressive Field, the home of Cleveland’s professional baseball team. Four statues adorn it, with eight different Guardians of Traffic, an Art Deco touch that anyone who’s been downtown will immediately recognize.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Dealer Congratulates Woman That Bought A Car From Them With A Racist Facebook Post

    As if we needed another reminder that a lot of dealerships are trash, one North Carolina dealership recently took the trash to another level as Raleigh, North Carolina’s News Observer reports. Lumberton Honda in Lumberton, NC. sold a 2016 Toyota Camry to a woman named Trinity Bethune, and then posted a picture of her with the car on Facebook. The caption reads “??Congratulations to Bon Quisha on her 2016 Camry”.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • This Yugo Disguised As A SEAT Is The Most Self-Aware Car On Earth

    The cheapest car sold in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s — the Yugo — has recently become kind of ironically hip. Once the butt of countless jokes, it’s certifiably cool in the U.S. these days. But in Serbia, even over a decade since production stopped at the Kragujevac plant (which, incidentally, NATO bombed in 1999—Fiat later rebuilt it and it now produces the Fiat 500L), the Yugo remains a decent option as cheap transportation, and it is anything but cool. In fact, the Yugo is so uncool that

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  • This Is The Last Bugatti Divo

    The last Bugatti Divo is off the production line and headed to its owner, which means everybody else has officially missed their chance to own one of these 40 hypercars. The company says that this is it for the Divo, with production closing down just three short years after it was announced.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Uber And Lyft Drivers Across The Country Are Striking Today

    Ride-hailing drivers across the country are striking today. After a record number of drivers left their positions creating a driver shortage, the ones that remain are fed up. As The Guardian reports, drivers are striking over working conditions, better pay, and protection under the Pro Act.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • New Mexico Court Rules That Gas Stations Can Be Liable For Drunken Drivers

    Gas stations have a “duty of care” not to sell gas to drunk drivers, a New Mexico court has ruled, according to the Associated Press. The ruling’s implications are, for now, a little unclear, but a dissenting justice called the ruling a, “sea change in the law [that] could have far-reaching consequences for retail businesses.”

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Nissan Trademarks The Name 'Fairlady Z' In America, But I Don't Think It'll Be On The New Z

    One of the dedicated and observant fans of Nissan’s upcoming new Z car over at the New Nissan Z forum noticed that the company took out an interesting trademark very recently, on July 11 of this year: the name Fairlady Z. This is interesting because while Nissan’s famous sports car has been known by that name in Japan since the Datsun days, it’s never been called something so quaint in America. But even this trademark isn’t necessarily a sign that it will be known as a Fairlady here. Still, inte

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  • Terrifying Videos Of Severe Flooding In China Show People Trapped On Flooded Subways

    Nearly eight inches of rain fell in one hour on the city of Zhengzhou, China, which has been hit with torrential rain for the past few days causing massive flooding. The floods have caused chaos in the city, with roads so flooded cars have been floating and sinking, and people have been trapped in subway cars filled with waist-high water . At least 12 people have died, and the situation is far from over.

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  • The Second-Generation Audi RS3 Is Probably The Last Of Its Kind

    Audi unveiled the second-generation 2022 Audi RS3 on Monday, a car with a 5-cylinder engine that makes 401 horsepower and has a mode especially for drifting, along with all sorts of bells and whistles for track use. This track ready, gas burning, Audi hot hatch certainly feels like it could among the last of its kind.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Porsche Has Killed The Macan Turbo To Make Other Macan Variants Better

    Porsche’s second-best selling model globally, the internationally lauded Macan compact sport utility, has received a slight facelift for the third time since it was launched in 2014. With a bit of new sheetmetal to give it a fresh face, and a model reshuffle to give every model more power, this is the gasoline-powered Macan’s last dance. A new all-electric Macan is coming next year for the 2023 model year, and the two will be sold alongside each other until the gas Macan exits production.

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  • Kia Stinger Is On Its Way Out: Report

    The Kia Stinger was a game-changer. It’s a competent sport sedan from a brand that was once thought of as a joke. From the beginning, it was punching far above its weight. But as Korean Car Blog reports, the Stinger may be killed off next year.

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  • Philadelphia Could Ban Certain Traffic Stops To Curb Racial Disparities

    Driving while Black is a thing. It always has been. Whether you want to believe it or not, all the data is there. Now, at least one city may be on the verge of doing something about it. A recent column in USA Today details the efforts of one Philadelphia City Council Member to make a positive change.

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  • Ford Is Recalling Over 774,696 Explorers Because Of Possible Seized Ball Joints

    Ford said Friday that it is recalling 774,696 Explorers, from model year 2013 through model year 2017 because of a possible ball joint issue. That is in addition to a recall of 40,995 Lincoln Aviators for possible battery wire harness issues, and 34,939 F-350 Super Dutys for “rear axle housing spring seat interface weld issue.” Ford is having a busy Friday.

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  • A Ram Pickup Rolled Over And Shut Down Black Bear Pass

    A pickup driver in Colorado shut down traffic over Big Bear Pass and Bridal Veil Road after his Ram truck fell off the trail and flipped on Thursday, July 15. The driver and his passengers were not hurt in the rollover, but the accident closed a stretch of the pass just beyond Ingram Falls, according to the San Miguel County Sheriff.

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  • Man Crashes Flimsy Postal Jeep And Somehow Avoids Instant Death

    My 1976 Postal Jeep was the least safe car I ever drove despite it being in excellent mechanical condition. The fact is, the vehicle came from the factory with only two crash safety features: a lap belt and a steel bumper. The thing was a deathtrap, which is why today I’d like to celebrate the fact that an Ohioan named Jeremiah Langley is still alive.

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  • The 911 Turbo-Based Marsien Off-Roader Will Battle Singer's ACS

    Back in February, Marc Phillipp Gemballa — a new company started by the son of the late Uwe Gemballa who ran the Porsche tuner of the same name — teased a rally-ready machine powered by a Ruf engine, tentatively named “Project Sandbox.” This week, we have our first glimpse at it, and it’s since received a more formal moniker: Marsien.

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  • Ford Shelby GT350 Owners Class Action Suit Given The Go-Ahead By Court

    Ford made waves when it debuted the Shelby GT350 for 2015.More than just a track-focused GT, Ford was after the best. Cars like the Porsche 911 GT3 and BMW M4 were benchmarked during its development. Some owners say the final product isn’t what was promised as The Drive reports that a suit filed by some 2016 model year GT350 owners in 2017 over its track capability will be allowed to move forward.

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  • The 2022 VW GTI Is Back With A Higher Price And More Power

    Get your checkbooks out folks, because the 2022 MK8 VW GTI has arrived as an entirely new-from-the-ground-up hot hatch. The much beloved hot hatch has big shoes to fill as the MK7 was the best-selling GTI ever and it’s certainly been a favorite around here.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • The 2022 Volkswagen Golf R Is A $43,645 Drift Machine With 315 HP

    We’ve gotten a chance to play with the 315-horsepower new Golf R on ice and think that it’s probably the best hot hatch that you’ll be able to buy. The hot hatch looks like some properly good fun, but Volkswagen left one big question unanswered. How much will the thing cost? Volkswagen has announced that the price for the new Golf R is $43,645.

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  • The 2022 Hyundai Elantra N Is Serious About Taking On The Civic Type R

    It is almost deranged in these times to debut a 276-horsepower, non-hybrid, six-speed manual car, but that is what Hyundai has done this week with the 2022 Elantra N. There is also an eight-speed dual-clutch available. The most charming feature is the N Grin Shift [sic] which boosts a further 10 horsepower.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Bus On Bus Violence Ends With Driver Narrowly Avoiding Being Crushed

    Two public transit buses collided at low speed while negotiating a Singapore interchange station in Bukit Batok on Sunday evening. One of the buses was apparently pulling into the station while another was leaving. “The impact caused one of the buses to mount a curb and fall to its side,” said Bukit Batok member of parliament Murali Pillai.

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  • Dead: Every Veloster Except The N

    If you’re a fan of any of the regular Hyundai Veloster, you’d better act fast. Hyundai has confirmed to Car & Driver that all trims of the Veloster will be discontinued for the ’22 model year aside from the N.

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  • Audi's Grand Sphere Concept Is A Big-Ass Electro-Autonomous Wagon

    Remember the Audi Porsche Bentley Landjet thing that the three Volkswagen-affiliated brands teased late last year? Audi’s version of the Landjet — which, itself, is the centerpiece of VW’s Project Artemis vision to build big, hyperluxurious electric and semiautonomous cars — was previewed Monday under yet another, slightly more formal moniker.

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  • Unbelievably, My Weird Obsession With Manual Jeep Grand Cherokees Just Changed People's Lives

    For years, everyone has been laughing at me for my irrational obsession with an obscure, rare version of the frankly unimpressive first-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee. “Just because it’s rare doesn’t mean it’s valuable” the commenters say about the manual transmission vehicle (or “Holy Grail” as I’ve dubbed it). “Nobody cares about this car besides you.” I was beginning to believe these sentiments until this past weekend, when I learned that a woman in Vermont raffled her “Holy Grail” Jeep to ra

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  • Volvo Spins Off Combustion Engine Production

    The days of Volvo’s in-house combustion engine production are coming to an end. Volvo and Geely have started a powertrain company called Aurobay, a new joint venture that will be a stand-alone business, which will let Volvo focus its attention on producing EV drivetrains. It allows Volvo to distance itself from combustion engines as the brand fully commits to EVs.

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  • Elon Musk Will Take The Stand

    Elon Musk will take the stand on Monday in a court in Delaware, where some Tesla shareholders have sued to try to get Musk to repay the $2.6 billion Tesla spent on acquiring SolarCity in 2016 from Musk’s cousins. SolarCity, of course, has been an unmitigated disaster.

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  • Dead: Volvo V90

    Once de facto car for American families, the station wagon has been a niche product for a while now. It looks like another automaker has made the determination that selling wagons in America isn’t worth it. Volvo has announced that it won’t be selling the V90 wagon in the U.S. for 2022.

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  • Mazda Is Recalling Over 260,000 Cars Because The Steering Wheel Logo Might Explode Into Your Face After Airbag Deployment

    Nearly six years ago, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Mazda got its first report of the steering wheel Mazda logo fragmenting after airbag deployment, and hitting someone in the face. Mazda looked into the matter, and decided that there was a problem with the material used to make the logo, but that it didn’t pose a significant safety risk. Then more reports of people getting hit in the face started coming in.

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  • Dodge Is American Cringe

    Dodge used to be a fairly regular car company that would sell you a truck or sedan or van if you wanted, competing with the Chevys and Fords and Chryslers of the world. That is, until Ram split from Dodge and Dodge spent the last decade leaning into American muscle cars. These days, it’s leaning into cringe.

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  • See If You Can Match These Embarrassing Stellantis Mottos To Their Brands

    Carmaker press releases are absolutely jam-packed with combinations of words, genuine or made-up, that are enough to make most well-adjusted human beings cringe in sympathetic embarrassment or possibly retch, at least a little bit. Stellantis is really leaning hard into this bold tradition with its press release titled, catchily, Stellantis Intensifies Electrification While Targeting Sustainable Double-Digit Adjusted Operating Income Margins in the Mid-term. Incredibly, it gets worse. With “stat

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  • Gas Prices Are Expected To Keep Shooting Up

    Gas prices a year ago averaged $2.18 per gallon in the U.S., according to AAA, as the pandemic’s grip tightened and we all were driving much less. But now gas prices are back up to $3.13 per gallon on average in the U.S., and AAA says that number is likely to go up in August by as much as 20 cents.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Arkansas Sheriff Fires Deputy Who Killed Hunter Brittain

    The Sheriff’s deputy that shot and killed Hunter Brittain during a traffic stop on June 23 has been fired. The Lonoke County Sheriff’s department said the deputy, Sgt. Michael Davis, failed to follow procedure during the traffic stop, according to the Associated Press.

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  • Watch LIVE As We Finally See The Lotus Emira, Lotus' Last ICE Car UPDATING

    Lotus has been building small, nimble, sports cars with added lightness since 1948, and so far all of them have been powered by internal combustion piston engines. Today’s launch of Lotus’ latest car, the Emira, won’t change this pattern, but it will mark the end of it: the Emira, known internally by its traditional type number, 131, is said to be Lotus’ final, non-EV car. So it’s a big deal.

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  • Rimac Says It Will Let Bugatti Be Bugatti

    Now that the deal everyone knew was coming has finally been acknowledged, we can all start making assumptions about what Rimac and Porsche are planning to do with Bugatti. And if you feared the Croatian startup might start slapping red oval badges on cars like the Nevera, you can breath a sigh of relief, because Rimac is going to let Bugatti do its thing — for a little while, anyway.

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  • Canada Becomes Latest Country To Ban Sale Of Gas Vehicles

    Canada is following in the footsteps of places like California, the U.K., and France in becoming the latest government to set a target date for ending sales of gas cars. Reuters reported that on Tuesday the country’s Transport Minister Omar Alghabra set 2035 as the target year for a stop-sale on new gas cars and light-duty trucks. The country also set 2050 as the target for net-zero emissions. From Reuters:

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  • Ford Has Built A Million Fourth-Gen Transits In Missouri

    Ford sold a million Mustangs in one year back in 1965. That was whole lot of cars back then, but since then it’s been harder and harder to hit the seven-figures production number, let alone hitting it with a commercial vehicle. Since the fourth-gen Transit was introduced in 2013 and production at the Kansas City Assembly plant in Claycomo, Missouri, FoMoCo has shifted a million vans just here in the North American market. Impressive.

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  • Here Are The Cars That Made You Think Horsepower Is Too Accessible

    Engines are so advanced now that we can get power ratings that range from impressive to “are you kidding me?!” out of pretty much anything. We live in a world where you can get nearly 200 horsepower from an I3, V6 engines make nearly 400 HP with turbos while still getting almost 30 mpg.

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  • This Tesla Model S Plaid Fire Story Is So Odd I Thought It Was A Setup UPDATED

    When I was sent this tip yesterday, I’ll admit that my initial thought was that it had to be some kind of setup from ardent Tesla-fetishists hoping I could be tricked into reporting on a hoax Tesla story, which would feed their odd persecution complexes. The tip I got linked to a Reddit post describing a burning Tesla (possibly a Plaid?)driving along with no one inside, and then blowing up. A self-driving Tesla meandering on its own through a neighborhood, engulfed in flames? That’s a hell of an

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  • Fireworks Explosion Destroys LA Police Bomb Disposal Truck UPDATED

    A Los Angeles Police Department bomb disposal truck failed at the one job it was designed to do when it was destroyed after police officers intentionally detonated a large load of illegal fireworks inside the truck, injuring 17 people in the neighborhood surrounding the truck. (Oops! —ED) The LAPD seemed to have been really let down by the truck, as they must have had a lot of faith in it to detonate its contents right there in the middle of a densely-populated neighborhood.

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Nice Price or No Dice (19)

Nostalgia You Can Taste (4)

  • The Four-Seat Corvette Was Too Bad To Be True

    The year was 1962 and Chevy was throwing around ideas for the C2, which would take the car in a new direction and help make the Corvette the most famous car in the world. One thing GM considered (briefly) back then: a four-seat Corvette, which looks all wrong.

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  • Radwood Is Back And It's Bigger Than Ever

    On Saturday the world’s premier ‘80s and ‘90s era automotive festival—that’d be Radwood for the uninitiated—returned after a 19-month hiatus. Thanks to a high percentage of vaccinated locals, a huge outdoor venue, and sentimental value as the home of Radwood since 2017, the San Francisco peninsula was the site for a return to Rad. And what a rad show it was. Maybe the raddest one yet!

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  • The Volvo 850 T-5R Is Still Underappreciated

    It is usually called Cream Yellow, or sometimes Gul Yellow, but its actual name is T-5R Yellow, a pale, perfect shade for a pale, perfect car. For some reason, this car remains more liked than envied.

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Planelopnik (4)

QOTD (37)

  • What's The Weirdest Place You've Seen A Control Or Feature In A Car?

    There are a few anachronisms and weird bits in my daily driver. There’s a cigarette lighter, which I haven’t seen in a new car since I was a kid. There’s also a stick shift and I could make a joke about it being an anti-theft device, but I won’t. No, I want you to focus on that big, dumb door lock button. According to every one who rides in my car, that button is in a weird place.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Here Are The Other Vehicles You Drive

    Commercial vehicles can be a bit boring to those that don’t use them or aren’t into them. But for people that use them as intended, they are a godsend. Take my family’s Nissan NV3500 cargo van. We use it for deliveries. The thing is absolutely huge. We picked it over a comparable Ford Transit and Mercedes Sprinter because those are too narrow and don’t have a V8. Over 320 cubic ft. of cargo volume, 5.6-liter 375 horsepower V8, nearly 10,000 lb towing capacity; it’s a beast. And what’s weird is I

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • What's Your Car Industry Dream Job?

    We at Jalopnik are here because we love The Cars. We write about The Cars and y’all tell us what you think about them, but there’s a bunch of other ways to be a part of that world. What’s your car industry dream job?

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  • What's Your Favorite Item Of Automotive Apparel?

    We all have our vices, and one of mine is a crippling t-shirt addiction. It’s pointless, and I’ve tried my best to ween myself off snapping up the odd graphic tee on sight, but I still have moments of weakness. Typically I trade in band tees, but cars and motorsport are of course areas of interest too. It’s with that in mind that I ask you all: What’s your favorite piece of enthusiast apparel that you own?

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  • Here Are The Dumbest Cars You've Seen Someone Buy For Their Kid

    My aunt is known for wanting to be seen. If someone perceives her as being more than she is, especially being seen as rich, that’s a plus for her. Growing up, often extended to my cousin, her son. In the late 2000's when we were still teenagers, she thought it would be a good idea to get my cousin his first car. A used 2003 Cadillac STS. Dark blue, she paid just over $11,000 cash for it off a local lot. My grandpa and uncle tried to warn her: that Northstar was a ticking, expensive time bomb. Sh

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  • Tell Me Your Best Car Roasts

    My husband has come down with a bad case of general malaise as a result of a lot of Paperwork Nonsense regarding both moving and immigration, so he’s been bingeing Chappelle’s Show, and in honor of the excellent Player Hater’s Ball, I want to hear your best car roasts.

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  • Do You Have A Road Trip Ritual?

    There’s a very specific Wendy’s in Virginia that my husband and I have found ourselves at no fewer than four times on our road trips from my apartment in Philadelphia to my family’s home in Texas. It’s a nice roadside restaurant-and-gas-station with decent bathrooms, and it always seems to appear at that point in our drive where we’re hungry, need to use the bathroom, and could use a fuel-up. We get gas, pull off to the side, and take a much-needed half hour break. It’s one of my favorite road t

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  • Did Your Parents Get You Into Cars?

    Some families bond over sports, or food or travel. Some do it over music. And still some other parents and their kids bond by stooping over an open engine bay and admiring what’s inside. Did you inherit your love of cars from your parents?

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  • What's The Weirdest Big Blue Thing You've Ever Seen On The Road?

    In case you didn’t see, a Big Blue Thing crashed into a Boston bridge on Monday afternoon and did damage that’s going to take months to fix. One reader is pretty sure it’s a cement silo, but we haven’t been able to confirm that. Regardless, it got me thinking about other big blue things I’ve seen carried by trucks on the road. Some that were not blue, even. What are the craziest big blue things you’ve seen?

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  • Here Are The Cars That Are Your Forbidden Fruit

    I love German super sedans from the late 00's. Specifically the D3 generation of the Audi S8. Powered by a 5.2-liter V10 (People often incorrectly state that the engine was Lamborghini derived. It wasn’t. The V10 was based on Audi’s 4.2-liter V8.) it made 450 horsepower. It was a $96,000 cruise missile. But the reliability and pricey upkeep have kept me away. Today, you can find them under $20k, albeit with high mileage. But one dent on that aluminum body will ruin you. That’s all on top of the

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  • Tell Me About Your Worst Car Failure

    If you’ve ever had a torrid love affair with an unreliable car, you’ve experienced the gut-punch that is an automotive failure right when you need it the least. I want to hear all about the time when your car betrayed you in the worst possible way.

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  • What's The Worst Thing You've Ever Left In Your Car?

    I admit that I’m a forgetful person. I get easily distracted, and that affects me as a driver. When I’m parking my car, I cut the ignition, shift into first, and pull my e-brake. The task leads me to forget about my belongings sometimes, and I’ll leave the odd item in the front seat. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever left behind in your car?

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  • Here Are The Car Companies That Have The Best Paint Colors Right Now

    A car company launching a matte paint color from the factory isn’t unprecidented, but it’s still unusual. That’s what Genesis has done in creating the launch edition for the redesigned G70. In doing it, Genesis became one of the few car companies in the last few years to launch a matte paint color for a mass-produced model. But Genesis is doing a lot of good things with its color choices. They get even better when you look at their interiors. Who else is offering blue leather seats right now?

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  • Which Car Company Has The Best Colors Right Now?

    You got your Nardo Gray, Laguna Seca Blue, Mint Green, Grabber Blue...there are a handful of colors that have seared themselves in our little car-person brains so completely that we remember their names. And while grey, black and white seem to have become the preference of consumers over the last decade or so, a great paint color can still drastically increase the appeal of a car.

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  • What's The Weirdest Unserviceable Part?

    A bad battery pack in one unlucky driver’s Tesla Model 3 nearly cost him $16,000 to repair. The driver was wary enough to get a second opinion from an independent shop, which ended up slashing the cost down to $700 by getting around the problem of an unserviceable nipple on the Tesla. What are some other weird unserviceable parts?

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  • What Are The Worst Habits You See On The Road?

    We are slowly (very slowly) going back to life before the pandemic and its lockdowns. A lot of us are on the road again, back to our commutes, and that means back to old driving habits — both good and bad. That prompts the following question: What are the worst habits you see on the road?

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  • What Backseat Driver Trait Annoys You The Most?

    My husband and I have been doing a lot of driving these past few weeks, which is the first time I’ve driven with someone in the passenger seat in years. I love this man. I wouldn’t have married him if I didn’t love him. But my god is he a terrible backseat driver.

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  • What Are Your Favorite Car Storage Tips?

    I hate packing. No matter how frequently I do it, I always either pack too much or too little, and I’m still a hot mess when it comes to packing a car for road trips. Please, share your tips with me. Help me learn. Help me understand how to pack my car.

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  • What Was The Worst Engine You've Ever Driven?

    If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you pride yourself on your car buying decisions. Sure, they might not all be winners in retrospect, but even for the most questionable choices in your history, there was probably a valid justification — some rationale that made it seem like a good call at the time. And try as we might, we can’t always convince our less car-savvy loved ones to heed our recommendations.

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  • Here Are Some Of The Coolest Things Car Brands Make That Arent Cars

    Only a brand like Aston Martin could pull off building an entire 66-floor skyscraper full of luxury apartments and penthouses. That’s exactly what’s happening in Miami. When it’s completed in 2022 it will be one of the few times an automaker transitioned to building real estate.

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  • What Are Some Of The Coolest Things Car Brands Make That Are Not Cars?

    Bentley wants its name on apartments. Mercedes-AMG has a boat. Volkswagen famously sells more currywurst sausages than cars, and Tesla even thinks it can take on George Clooney to make the goofiest tequila around. The car brands love to dabble, it seems. In some cases it’s more than dabbling, but it makes for fun “Huh — didn’t know they made that” moments. Some are weird and unexpected, which makes me want to ask this question: What are the best things from the car brands that are not cars?

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  • What Was Your Most Embarrassing Moment With A Car?

    The days of a car enthusiast are a mixture of joy, pain and maybe even some embarrassment. Sometimes things go so wrong that you just want to hide under a blanket. What was your most embarrassing moment with a car?

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  • When Did You Learn How To Drive?

    Learning to drive is a rite of passage for most teenagers here in America, but not everyone follows the same path to get there. I want to hear about when you learned to drive. Were you behind the wheel of the farm truck as soon as you could reach the pedals? Did you live in the city and forgo learning to drive until you finally had to move out to the suburbs? I want to know.

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  • What Was The First Car Lesson You Learned The Hard Way?

    In a perfect world, we would all learn our life lessons gradually and with grace — but that is generally not the way things work, especially when you slap a bunch of folks behind the wheel of expensive, fast machines and tell ‘em to go. So, I want to know what car-related lessons you were forced to learn the hard way.

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  • When Was The Last Time Your Car Caught On Fire?

    Car fires are probably one of the scariest incidents drivers can encounter, but they seem to happen quite a bit and that’s surprising to me. We just covered a Tesla fire where the driver was fortunate enough to escape the car, but ICE drivers have been dealing with these for a minute, too — ask me how I know.

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  • What's The Car That Made You Think Horsepower Was Too Accessible?

    Some of the most universally appreciated cars in car culture have a few things in common. Usually a good car has an excellent chassis, great steering feel, and an engine that allows you to wring its neck without breaking the speed limit. I’ve got things in mind like Mazda’s MX-5, the Lotus Elise, air-cooled Porsche 911s, an E36-generation BMW M3 and maybe like AE86 Corollas, right? Well, now we live in a world where 700 horsepower and 4,000 pound curb weights are normal, which is pretty much the

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  • Here's How Racing's Five Most Popular Categories Stack Up Demographically

    Racing has always been something of an anomaly when it comes to popularity, either outshining everything or fading away into the background. Right now, we’re sitting somewhere in the latter option, with widespread attempts being made to draw in new audiences. But it only takes one look at the demographics of these sports to understand where we can improve.

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  • SRX Was An Absolute Blast To Attend In Person

    The Superstar Racing Experience, or SRX, was the brainchild of Tony Stewart and Ray Evernham, a short-track stock car racing series designed with the fan experience in mind. I’ve been to my fair share of races, and I was bound and determined to evaluate this racing event from a fan’s perspective.

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  • Study Confirms That, Yes, Women Face Sexism In Motorsport

    For those of us massive nerds out there, it’s an exciting day when a motorsport article is published in a scholarly journal — and it’s an even rarer day when that motorsport article focuses specifically on women. And that’s exactly what happened earlier this year in a study that confirms that female drivers not only experience massive amounts of sexism but that those experiences are largely what keeps them from participating in sport.

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  • The Defender 90 Looks Even Cooler As A Rally Machine

    Bowler Motors is taking the new Defender 90 rallying in the 2022 Defender Challenge. This rally series will see 12 teams face off in seven rounds across the UK, and it’s a one-make competition. Really, it’s more like one-make, one-model; the only machines competing in this class are the Bowler-modified Defenders. It’s spec racing, got it?

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Lewis Hamilton Would Do It Again

    It is the crash that everyone is still talking about, and the crash that — if it ends up determining the Formula 1 champion — everyone will keep talking about, maybe for eternity. Yes, I’m speaking of the Lewis Hamilton-Max Verstappen coming together at the British Grand Prix. Hamilton was asked about it Thursday and he said he would do what he did again.

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  • Audi Used A Weird Loophole To Win A Formula E Race, But The Series Found A Way To Screw It Up Anyway

    There are some very strange loopholes in the Formula E rulebook, and credit to Allan McNish and the rest of the Audi pit lane staff for reading every word of it and understanding where an advantage can be made. During Sunday’s London E-Prix, which took place partially indoors and partially out, Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler driver Lucas di Grassi threw a fast one and gained several positions and the lead under caution because of it. Then it was all taken away for a stupid technicality.

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  • Romain Grosjean Is Ready For His First Oval Race

    Romain Grosjean has enjoyed an impressive first season in IndyCar midway through 2021. He claimed a second-place finish in only his third race, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, as well as a fifth at Road America. The Dale Coyne Racing driver initially abstained from all oval events but later announced an intent to contest the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway in Illinois — the track formerly known as Gateway.

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  • This Apocalypse-Ready Lamborghini Is Going To Race The Mint 400

    Lamborghini Huracans are basically a dime per dozen when it comes to YouTube “builds” these days. It seems like every 20-something influencer and their brother has a Lambo, so to stand out from the crowd you’re going to have to take things to the next level. B Is For Build brought a stripped down Lamborghini to SEMA in 2019 with a 1500-horsepower twin-turbocharged LS V8 engine, but for their next build ratcheted things up even farther. This time a wrecked Huracan was sourced for a real-deal off-

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  • Hugo Millan, Spanish Motorbike Rider, Dies At Age 14

    A statement from the Federation Internationale de Motorcyclisme (FIM), 14-year-old Spanish motorbike rider died after suffering severe injuries during a Sunday afternoon event at MotorLand Aragon. He was taking part in a European Talent Cup race when several riders crashed at Turn 5.

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  • SSC North America Reminds Us That It Knows The Tuatara Did Not Hit 300 MPH

    SSC North America made headlines last year when its Tuatara was reported to have hit record-breaking speeds of 331 mph, then again then people around the world began questioning the truth behind that claim. SSC’s CEO Jerod Shelby then announced that the team would be re-running the attempt with the goal of hitting 300 mph legitimately. Now, SSC has officially recognized it didn’t hit 300 mph — though Shelby is arguing that SSC North America definitely already did officially retract its initial s

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  • Fernando Alonso Wants F1 Qualifying To Be "Spicier"

    Formula One recently introduced sprint qualifying, a short race on Saturday to determine the starting grid for Sunday’s main event, as a way to spice up the series’ full race weekend schedule. But Alpine driver Fernando Alonso doesn’t think that’s quite enough. Oh, no. He wants things to get even spicier.

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  • Racing Was Actually Included In The Olympics Once

    Every time the Summer Olympics roll around, you’ll hear plenty of motorsport fans wondering why auto racing isn’t included in the Games. After all, plenty of us have spent time arguing that drivers are athletes, too, so it only seems fair to include it as part of the Games’ larger competition, right? Well, back in 1900, that actually happened.

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  • Does Brad Keselowski Own One Single Suit Jacket? Jalopnik Investigates

    NASCAR Cup Series driver Brad Keselowski has been a frequent feature of the motorsport news lately with his swap from Team Penske to a co-ownership and driver role at Roush Fenway. It’s a pretty massive career move for someone who has been with one team for over a decade. But that’s not what I’m here to talk to you about today. Instead, I want to discuss Mr. Keselowski’s suits.

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  • These Are Some Of The Goofiest Race Car Driver Names Of All Time

    There are some drivers that have names that just make it sound like they belong in the sport. Like, imagine Stirling Moss. That’s a good, solid name for a British race car driver, and it just sounds like he belongs in a prestigious sport like Formula One. Or you have someone like Fireball Roberts, who just fully belongs in NASCAR. But other drivers… well… they’ve got some goofy-ass names. And today we’re going to run through some of the best.

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  • FloRacing Removes Stream Of Short Track Race Featuring Racist Rant

    One track announcer’s racially- and nationally-charged speech at Iowa’s Kossuth County Speedway has turned the racing world on its head; some fans are wondering how this was allowed to happen while others — especially fans of color — are sharing their experiences with racing always being a fairly nationalist sport.

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  • Porsche Honored Motorsport Icon Pedro Rodríguez With Some Kick Ass Animation

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pedro Rodríguez’s death. The Mexican motorsport champ died racing at the 200 Miles of Norisring on July 11, 1971. Even though he raced bicycles, motorcycles, rally cars and Formula 1 machines, Rodríguez is remembered as the King of the Wet, and for driving Porsche’s 917 to victory in multiple endurance races.

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  • The Audi RS Q E-Tron Is The Hybrid Desert Runner We All Need

    When Audi enters a new form of motorsport, it pulls out all of the stops. Starting with next January’s Dakar rally, the four-rings manufacturer will enter three of these brand new RS Q e-tron machines, one each for Stephane Peterhansel, Carlos Sainz, and Mattias Ekström. That’s a hell of a lineup.

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  • Helio Castroneves Earned A Full-Time IndyCar Ride In 2022 By Winning The Indy 500

    Meyer Shank Racing threw out a bombshell of an announcement on Thursday. Not only would 2021 Indy 500 winner and series legend be getting back in the car for a full-time ride with the team in 2022, but the team was expanding to two full-time seats for the 2022 season. While much of this was already guessed at, the next part was a total surprise. The team also announced that British driver Jack Harvey—who has been with MSR since both he and the team joined the series together in 2017—would vacate

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  • If You Watch One Video On That Max Verstappen/Lewis Hamilton Crash, Make It This One

    By now I’m willing to bet you’ve made up your mind on the crash between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen in the first lap of Sunday’s Formula 1 race at Silverstone. Even if you have, I recommend taking a moment to watch Chain Bear’s just-released video on the incident, which unpacks it from multiple perspectives and introduces some context that might’ve passed you by if you merely watched the action unfold live.

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  • The Bentley Continental GT3 Shows How Much Work Goes Into Climbing Pikes Peak

    Bentley’s Continental GT3 Pikes Peak did pretty well at this year’s Hill Climb, managing to come in second in Time Attack 1 and fourth place overall. The machine was the best performing among the renewably-powered cars. Bentley claims it did so well, its run would have been record-breaking — if not for the closures that stopped the cars from safely finishing the last third of the climb.

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  • Helmut Marko Is Not OK

    In my 15 or so years of watching Formula 1, I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a crash — or at least one that could fairly be described as a “racing incident” — generate so much discussion as the one between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen at last weekend’s British Grand Prix. Everyone lost their shit: Over the collision itself, who was more at fault and whether Hamilton’s 10-second penalty was severe enough. More than 48 hours later, people are continuing to lose their shit.

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  • Andretti Sticks With Formula E Despite BMW Ditching

    Indianapolis-based Andretti Autosport have been involved in Formula E since the start, all the way back in 2014. The team has been operating under the BMW i Andretti Motorsport banner since the team joined forces with the Bavarian brand with the new second-gen chassis in 2018. While BMW officially exits the sport at the end of this season, Andretti will continue on with BMW power until the end of next season—season eight—ahead of the switch to Gen 3 for season nine. Once that supply contract is

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  • That Lewis Hamilton-Max Verstappen Crash Still Doesn't Feel Right

    Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix on Sunday, passing Charles Leclerc three laps from the checkered flag to take the lead and the win. But there was more than a hint of controversy to this one, after a Hamilton made contact with championship-points leader Max Verstappen on the opening lap and sent him crashing out of the race.

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  • Now Is The Time For A NASCAR Driver Union

    Last week, NASCAR and Atlanta Motor Speedway announced that the track would be undergoing a serious reconfiguration where most everyone was expecting nothing but a much-needed repave. The reaction from fans has largely been negative, and the few drivers that have been willing to speak about the change have voiced their disapproval. Most drivers, though, haven’t wanted to say anything. And it’s been the same with the quality of NASCAR’s Next-Gen car. That’s why now is the time for a NASCAR driver

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  • Tony Stewart Crowned As The First-Ever SRX Champion

    When Tony Stewart announced he was co-founding a short-track stock car series called the Superstar Racing Experience, most race fans were confident that he’d probably perform pretty well in the series. But while it was no shock that Stewart was crowned the first-ever SRX champion last night, there was so much more about the series that served as a pleasant surprise.

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  • Black Racing Pioneer Charlie Wiggins To Get His Own Movie

    If we could create a list of all the world’s greatest drivers who never got a chance to compete in the Indianapolis 500, Charlie Wiggins would be at the top of the list. A dominant driver who won the prestigious Gold and Glory Sweepstakes four times, Wiggins would have normally been a shoo-in at the 500-mile race. Wiggins, though, never got to compete because of the color of his skin. Now, a new documentary aims to display his life on the big screen.

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  • Max Verstappen Wins First-Ever Formula One Sprint Race

    This weekend saw Formula One’s first attempt at a sprint race in place of a traditional qualifying session. After an incredible start from second place, Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing managed to win the race by almost two seconds, which means he’ll start Sunday’s feature Grand Prix from pole position.

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  • Meet Frankie Fazzary, The 7-Year-Old Boy That Changed Racing In America

    You don’t arrive at Watkins Glen International so much as it seems to appear out of the rolling hillsides of upstate New York. One minute, you’re battling the steep rise-and-fall of a one-lane gravel road. The next, you can spot the faint twinkle of a grandstand peeking between the leaves. If you blink, you could easily miss the iconic baby blue Armco barriers that line the now 3.4-mile Grand Prix course.

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  • The Response To The Hamilton Commission Shows Why It's Necessary

    This past week, The Hamilton Commission, an organization started in part by Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, released a 93-page report detailing the state of racial equality in motorsport with a specific emphasis on the inclusion of Black people. The response to the report’s release shows exactly why we need it.

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  • Stellantis Should Absolutely Run The Peugeot 9X8 Hypercar In IMSA As A Dodge

    Peugeot’s 9X8 prototype is one of the many reasons the forthcoming era of Le Mans Hypercars and LMDh machines has sports car racing fans so excited. The smorgasbord of brands that is Stellantis will have a proper car to potentially win the world’s greatest endurance races, against the likes of Ferrari, Toyota, BMW and Porsche. That’s a good table to have a seat at.

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  • Ford Has A New Scent For EV Drivers Who Miss The Smell Of Internal Combustion

    According to a recent survey commissioned by Ford, twenty percent of drivers say the number one thing they’ll miss when moving to an electric vehicle is the smell of gasoline. First of all, that seems bonkers because gasoline smells horrible. But it gets worse, because nearly 70 percent of respondents claim they would miss the smell to some degree. Man, if I never smell gasoline again, it’ll be too soon. Anyway, Ford has you gas-sniffing monsters hooked up because it just launched a new scent so

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  • Lando Norris Still Sounds A Little Shaken Up

    Almost every Englishman had a shit Sunday after England lost to Italy in the European Football Championship, but Lando Norris, who watched on at Wembley Stadium, had an even worse time, getting mugged after the game. He said Thursday that he still isn’t 100 percent ahead of Sunday’s British Grand Prix.

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  • The 2022 F1 Car Looks Really, Really Good

    Formula 1's 2022 regulations have been in the works for years — so long, they were originally supposed to be enforced in 2021. But they were delayed, as so many things were over the past 18 months. Thursday presented the first official look at a life-size model in the flesh, rather than a sketch or rendering, and it looks pretty damn good.

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  • Alfa Romeo Is Still In On Formula 1 For Some Reason

    Alfa Romeo, which came back to Formula 1 in 2018 decades after slowly fading out of its last dramatic return to the sport, has opted to re-up its contract with Sauber and keep racing beyond this season, according to Formula1.com. This is somewhat of a surprise in that I expected Stellantis to take one look at the middling F1 team and say, “No, thanks.”

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  • Lewis Hamilton Spells Out F1's Institutional Racism And How To Change It

    The Hamilton Commission, started by seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton and co-chaired by Royal Academy of Engineering CEO Dr. Hayaatun Sillem, published a comprehensive report Tuesday detailing the systemic barriers to the involvement of Black people in motorsport, and in engineering fields at large.

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  • MotoAmerica Doubles Down On Racing V-Twins To Attract A Larger Crowd

    Motorcycle racing in the United States of America was practically on life support as recently as five years ago. I knew that MotoAmerica had a hit on its hands with the King of the Baggers series when I attended a closed-doors race last fall, but had no idea how incredibly receptive the two-wheeled community would be until this weekend’s likely-to-be-record-crowd at Laguna Seca.

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  • Watch Sam Schmidt Power This Head-Controlled Corvette C8 At Goodwood

    When racer Sam Schmidt crashed at Walt Disney World Speedway ahead of the 2000 IndyCar season, he was diagnosed with quadriplegia, which effectively ended his racing career. But this weekend, advancements in technology mean the IndyCar team owner is racing a Corvette C8 up the hill at Goodwood.

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  • Linda Vaughn And The Ongoing Concerns About Grid Girls

    Linda Vaughn is an icon of American motorsport. The Georgia-born beauty used her good looks and charm to become a force of marketing and a familiar face in the NASCAR, IndyCar, and NHRA paddocks. People still line up for hours just to get her autograph, such is the power of her character. And I think it’s time to work through a question that has been posed to me several times over the last few years: How is Vaughn different from the grid girls that are much maligned in the modern era?

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  • What You Need To Know About The 2022 Formula E Schedule

    Formula E, the all-electric open-wheel racing series, has just announced its full calendar for the 2021-2022 season, the eighth of its existence. While we chatted a little about the calendar’s release, I want to run you through the big talking points that you need to know as we get ready to race.

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  • NASCAR Is Getting Its Own Documentary Series Now

    NASCAR tried its hand at the sitcom when it released The Crew on Netflix earlier this year. Now, it’s giving fans what they’ve been asking for: a documentary series in the style of Netflix’s Formula One series Drive to Survive, which will be airing on the USA Network.

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  • F1 Icon Carlos Reutemann Dies, Age 79

    Argentine Formula One icon Carlos “Lole” Reutemann died earlier this week at the age of 79 after battling the impact of intestinal hemorrhaging that started in May 2021.

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  • There Are Rumors That NASCAR's Next-Gen Car Is A Disaster

    If you’ve been on NASCAR Twitter or Reddit the past few days, you’ve probably heard some weird rumors about the Cup Series’ Next-Gen car. Specifically that it may be delayed. Specifically that it’s dangerous. Let’s walk through what appears to be going on.

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  • Your CART Heroes' Favorite Recipes Revealed

    Ever wondered what your favorite Championship Auto Racing Teams heroes cooked up in the comfort of their own homes? I’m here to share, courtesy of Champions: Favorite Foods of Indy Car Racing.

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  • Formula One's Sprint Qualifying: Explained

    Next weekend, Formula One is introducing something a little different to the table. Instead of the traditional qualifying session, the series has introduced something called sprint qualifying. We’ll run you through everything you need to know about the new form of racing so you’ll be able to follow along.

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  • IMSA And WEC Will Welcome Each Other's Prototypes For The Good Of Sports Car Racing

    We’ve been covering the ongoing decisions, commitments and defections in sports car racing related to the new Le Mans Hypercar and LMDh prototype categories for a while now. And the news has been largely great: a number of manufacturers are developing cars to one spec or the other, and the WEC’s acceptance of IMSA’s LMDh formula means that whether a team builds a prototype to primarily race in North America or the rest of the world, it can compete for the overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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  • Formula E Will Travel To Three New Countries Next Season

    On Thursday the world’s premier electric open-wheel racing series announced its 16-round season schedule for 2022. Season 8 will travel to Saudi Arabia, Mexico, China, Italy, Monaco, Germany, the U.S., and the U.K., as it has before. New on the calendar for next season, however, are single-event rounds in Cape Town, South Africa and Vancouver, Canada. In addition there will be a double-header on the streets of Seoul, South Korea.

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  • Ford's New Hybrid Rally Car Is A Puma

    The M-Sport Ford Rally team has finally debuted its hybrid prototype, the Puma Rally1. This car will replace the beloved M-Sport Ford Fiesta in upcoming WRC seasons, now that the competition is moving on to partial EV drivetrains.

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  • Always Start Your Porsche 917 With Brake Cleaner

    An example of the most iconic Porsche race car of all time, and arguably the most iconic race car of all time, a Le Mans-raced Gulf-liveried kurzheck 917, is coming up for sale next month at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction. It didn’t win the race in real life, but this is the car that is depicted as having won the race in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans movie, and that’s maybe even more important. It probably won’t set a record for the most expensive car ever sold, but it wouldn’t shock me to see this one

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  • FIA WEC Cancels Japanese Round Over Coronavirus Concerns

    For the second year in a row the FIA WEC will stay the heck away from Japan, thanks to increased cases of coronavirus. This is, of course, in spite of the fact that the fucking Olympics are heading to Japan basically as I write this. Ongoing travel restrictions mean that the race would be difficult, if not altogether impossible to host. The race was originally scheduled for September 26th.

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  • Patricia Fernandez Is The Only Woman Racing Baggers

    Racing baggers was laughed off as a one-time thing by many motorcycle folks, racers and street riders alike, but it has come a long way in just a few months. What was once a single-race invitational during the MotoAmerica weekend at Laguna Seca last year has evolved into two major national series in 2021. And for good reason, it whips all kinds of ass. Major factory efforts and seriously qualified riders have joined the bagger revolution, including the one and only Patricia Fernandez.

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  • Josef Newgarden Finally Takes His IndyCar Win At Mid-Ohio

    Josef Newgarden finally managed to break 2021's Team Penske curse during Sunday’s IndyCar race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Whether luck was on his side, his skill finally triumphed, or he had some extra good vibes due to the fact that this weekend signals Team Penske’s 50th anniversary since its first-ever win, the driver finally took the race win he’s been so close to nabbing several times this year.

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  • How To Cheat The Racing Line Like A Champion

    If you’ve ever gone to a racing school, you’re going to learn one big thing right away: how to drive the racing line. Theoretically, this is the quickest path around a race circuit, so you’ll always want to take it, right? Well, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • This Stadium Super Trucks Fight Has More Layers Than You Think

    This weekend, Robby Gordon’s excellent Stadium Super Trucks racing series put on one hell of a show at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in support of IndyCar — including an extended post-race fistfight between drivers Bo LeMastus and Bill Hynes. But even more interesting than this kerfuffle are the drivers’ off-track actions.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • Here's To You, Sebastian Vettel

    Sebastian Vettel may be on a low streak right now, but the German driver defined Formula One for a certain stretch of time in the early 2010s. And today, as he turns 34, I think it’s time we revisit his frankly impressive career.

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  • Josef Newgarden Beats Colton Herta To IndyCar Pole By 0.0031 Seconds

    The IndyCar race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course always promises to be a great one, but this weekend, the competition is even closer than usual. Few things show that more than this afternoon’s qualifying session, where Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden topped Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport by 0.0031 seconds.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • Don't Worry, Lewis Hamilton Has Signed With Mercedes F1 Through 2023

    Reigning Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton has spent much of the last few years alternating between hyping up his fans and keeping them on their toes. With talks of a potential retirement on the table, Hamilton’s plans have been a bit of a mystery. At least, until now — the British driver has signed on with Mercedes through 2023.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • You Can Actually Watch The W Series For Free In America

    In an era of streaming costs and weird motorsport TV packages, it can be hard to get your hands on an affordable viewing of a live racing event. But believe it or not, the all-woman W Series actually has one of the few broadcast packages you can watch for free in the United States. You just need to figure out how to access beIN SPORTS XTRA, which anyone with a smart TV or even general internet access can do.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • Alex Zanardi Is Communicating, Training And 'Stable,' A Year After Crash

    It’s been little more than a year since racing driver and Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi was involved in a collision with a truck while handcycling in Tuscany. Zanardi underwent a number of surgeries to treat the severe cranial and facial trauma he suffered as a result of the crash, though he’s reportedly shown promising steps in his recovery since.

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  • Dallara's Track-Only EXP Is A Lap Time Bargain

    Sometimes to do more you have to start with less. At least that’s Dallara’s theory when it comes to the new track-only EXP based on the Stradale street car. Weighing just 1962 pounds and pushing 492 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque from a Ford-derived 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, the EXP is pretty much the peak of power to weight. Being that Dallara builds race cars almost exclusively, the EXP is quite good at going fast on track. At least some of that speed is owed to its massiv

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Spacelopnik (4)

  • Supervillain Kidnappers Just Missed Their Best Chance To Kidnap The Richest Man On Earth

    My biggest takeaway from today’s short, edge-of-space flight by Jeff Bezos in his Blue Origin rocket was not one I expected. It was the realization that there must not be any supervillains on Earth, because today was an absolute once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an evil supervillain to kidnap and the richest person alive and hold him for ransom, and the opportunity was absolutely squandered. The guy was literally floating slowly down from the sky, wrapped up in a box! I’m really disappointed.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Richard Branson Didn't Ride A Bike Before He Didn't Go To Space

    Remember a few days ago when billionaire-knight Sir Richard Branson strapped into a sleek-looking rocket plane with a few close friends and flew up to just about the edge of space? I mean, not quite space by most international standards, but pretty damn close. You may also remember that in the livestream video of the historic-ish event, Branson was shown riding his bike, all athletic and shit, to the launch. Well, it looks like that part’s not really so true. Sorry.

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Subaru (3)

  • The 2022 Subaru BRZ Will Start At $27,995

    The Subaru BRZ is in its second-generation for 2022, after debuting mid-November of last year. Subaru released pricing for the model and its trims on Thursday, but, luckily, the price hasn’t increased much.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • What Do You Want To Know About The 2021 Subaru Crosstrek Sport?

    I’m driving a new, blue, Subaru Crosstrek Sport this weekend and I’m pretty excited. I have always admired Subaru for pulling off one of the better cons on Americans. I mean, Americans love cons. We love getting conned. We love conning other people! We love it when we get to buy a Toyota Corolla but with worse reliability and gas mileage in exchange for all-wheel-drive we don’t need.

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Technology (56)

  • VW's High-Profile EVs Are Having A Hard Time

    VW’s ID models had a rocky start getting into dealerships, but everyone sort of half-hoped that once sales were up and running, the mainstream rivals to Tesla would take off. That’s only come half true.

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  • One Of The World's Biggest Miners Is Throwing Billions At Lithium

    Rio Tinto Group is building a lithium mine in Serbia, and the company is going to spend a whopping $2.4 billion on its development. Rio’s Jadar project marks the first big move into lithium by a mining major, according to Bloomberg. You might recall the company, due to its destructive mining practices in Australia.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Rivian Has Names For Its Six Upcoming Vehicles

    Back in early 2019, just after completing a $700 million funding round, Rivian founder and CEO R.J. Scaringe outlined the company’s future plans in a Bloomberg interview. One of the plans was to have six vehicles in its lineup by 2025. Two years later, with the launch of the R1T and R1S supposedly coming in September, Rivian is fueling speculation about those future plans. The Rivian Owners Forum has found six trademark filings the company has made for new vehicle names.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • The Company That Gave You Pac-Man And Gundam Is Making Sounds For Nissan Now

    Modern cars do a lot of beeping. Some do so much you’ll want to drive them into a lava pool. To be fair, though, there’s a lot of little things modern cars want your attention about, and they have to talk to you somehow. Nissans have been no exception, and have had a vocabulary of beeps that mostly sounded like they were stolen from thrift store clock radios. They were, at best, annoying. Nissan is doing something about that, and has enlisted the help of the company that gave us Pac-Man and Pole

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  • Elon Musk Sure Didn't Sound Certain About Full Self-Driving On Tesla's Earnings Call

    Overall, Tesla’s Q2 Earnings Call was very positive for the company: It made a healthy quarterly profit of $1.1 billion, and a big chunk of that money came from actually selling cars, not regulatory credits. That’s great! Some of that money also came from people dropping $10,000 (or, by subscribing for $99 or $199 a month) for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, which is currently in a beta stage of development. During this call Tesla CEO Elon Musk brought up an interesting question about when and

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  • Tesla Cybertruck Backburnered For Real Car That Exists

    Tesla’s timeline for its Cybertruck is proving even more tentative than before. Production of the Cybertruck has been delayed again, and Tesla executives confirmed during the company’s latest earnings call that pickup production will start only after that of the Model Y at its Austin, Texas plant.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Lordstown Motors Is Trying To Stay Afloat

    Lordstown Motors, the electric truck startup that may or may not be a going concern for much longer, disclosed Monday that it had struck a deal with a hedge fund to buy up to $400 million in Lordstown stock over three years. The deal is to help Lordstown keep the lights on.

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  • Mercedes To Lock Full Rear Wheel Steering On The German Market EQS Behind A Subscription

    Slowly but surely, our friends at the automakers are starting to lock features behind a paywall. If there’s one thing that people love, it’s paying a monthly fee to use something they already paid for. But, as Auto Motor und Sport reports, the German-market Mercedes-Benz EQS flagship EV will have its full rear-wheel steering capability locked behind a subscription.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Tesla Made A Record Second-Quarter Profit

    There is a certain species of Tesla hater online that likes to tell you that, Actually, Tesla is only profitable because it sells lots of regulatory credits to other automakers, even though that particular revenue stream is a single-digit percentage of Tesla’s total revenue. Well, so much for that point now, anyway, after Tesla released second-quarter earnings Monday that show a quarterly profit of $1.1 billion, or several hundred million more than Tesla took in regulatory credit sales. That’s

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Attempting To Find The Perfect Two-Car Solution

    When I write EV Ownership Stories, I hear from a lot of people who make an electric car a part of their broader fleet. But the constraints of space, time, and money often dictate that just a couple of cars can be kept around, and this week’s featured EV owner, Evan, has picked two solid choices.

    By Victoria Scott Read More

  • Mercedes-Benz' Claims To Have Level 3 Automated Driving But There's Still A Huge Problem

    Mercedes-Benz must have held some sort of event—our invitation got lost in the mail, I guess—that put some journalists behind the wheel of their new 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS, with its Drive Pilot semi-automated driving system, which they’re claiming is Level 3. This level means the driver doesn’t have to pay attention when the car is in control, but still needs to be ready to take over if requested. There are all kinds of problems with this, so let’s break it all down while I’m still nice and work

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • Mercedes EQXX Looks Like The Engineering Exercise To Push Electric Cars Into The Future

    620 miles is the distance David Tracy would cover driving from his place in Detroit to the G/O media offices in New York City. The fact that he could do that trip in an electric vehicle without stopping to charge is next-level awesome. Mercedes-Benz claims that this seemingly impossible future is coming soon with the teaser of its upcoming EQXX electric machine. A real world range of 620 miles seemed utterly impossible just a few years ago, but these days I believe Mercedes.

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  • Lucid Got Its SPAC Deal Done After Begging Robinhood Traders To Vote

    Lucid Motors, the Tesla challenger that has spent the summer making its case, is going public via SPAC merger. The deal was set to be approved by shareholders on Thursday, except not enough of them showed up, which led to Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson at one point urging, “Whether you’re a Robinhood trader or managing via a traditional brokerage, please, please vote.”

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Another Recall For The Chevy Bolt Might Actually Fix Its Potential Fire Problem

    General Motors has issued another recall for the Chevy Bolt due to defective battery cells which could ignite and start a fire. The recall affects almost 69,000 cars and applies to 2017-19 model years, exactly like the previous recall GM issued. This time, GM is going to replace the batteries instead of relying on software to stop the fires, per Reuters.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • GM Says You Can Trailer Hands-Free In Six 2022 Models

    GM said Friday that it would have hands-free trailering, automatic lane change, and a better navigation display for its semi-autonomous Super Cruise system in 2022 Cadillac Escalades, CT4s, CT5s, Chevy Silverados, GMC Sierras, and GMC Hummer EVs. It’s safe to read this as yet another bid to get ahead of Tesla, or stay ahead, depending on how you see it.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Toyota's Interactive Owner's Manual App Thing Is A Good Idea

    The owner’s manual is a pretty well-understood concept at this point. I doubt most of the Jalopnik audience would say it’s in need of improvement — it’s a floppy book that contains general information about your vehicle, and it serves that purpose well. But technology affords us new, potentially more convenient and engaging ways to convey information, and so I believe the interactive manual app thing Toyota is pitching in tandem with the new Sienna could be a pretty good idea.

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  • Honda Wants Help Building Its Electric Cars

    Now that the auto industry is shifting to electric cars, Honda is looking for help. And it’s happy to take that help from rival carmakers. The Japanese auto giant reportedly will not turn away competitors looking for new “strategic alliances,” according to a report from Bloomberg.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Aston Martin Says Its Fully-Electric Cars Are For Real This Time

    Aston Martin’s first battery-electric car will go on sale in 2025. Aston projects a relatively quick timeline for its debut BEV, which will bump another car from its lineup and pave the way for the rest of its fully-electrified cars, plural, per Automotive News. I’d get excited, but we’ve been here before.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • The 2022 Volvo C40 Will Start At $58,750

    Volvo has finally released pricing on its C40 crossover coupe EV. It debuted in March and Volvo opened reservations for the EV around the same time. For $500 customers could place a reservation for the C40 and then be notified when the production opened to finalize details. Now, with pricing fully revealed, it looks like that coupe-like roofline will cost you over $4000 more than its XC40 Recharge sibling.

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  • Tesla Is Going To Make Many Owners Pay $1,500 For FSD Hardware They Already Bought

    Ever since 2016, Tesla has been saying that all of their cars “have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability.” Now, I may not be a brain-genius like Elon Musk, but that sure sounds like everyone who bought a Tesla between that announcement in 2016 and today would have a car with everything it needed for “full self-driving.” These Tesla buyers, like most people, probably are of the opinion that you really only need to buy something one time to own it. Tesla, however, seems to have a d

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  • Tesla Full Self-Driving Is Now Available As A Subscription

    If you own a Tesla, you’ll likely know that adding the company’s “Full Self-Driving” feature, a NHTSA level 2 driver assistance feature, would come at a pretty hefty price: $10,000, to be exact. Now, the electronic driver aid will be available on a subscription basis for $99 or $199 per month, depending on the vehicle.

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  • A Brief History Of Gasoline: How Standard Oil Built Its Toxic Monopoly

    Before you can begin selling one of the deadliest products man has ever made – leaded gasoline – it helps that the corporate persons have reckless and ruthless pasts. Over the course of its next four installments, Jamie Kitman’s Brief History of Gasoline will examine three of the main actors in the saga that brought us tetra-ethyl lead and a host of other unsavory gasoline additives. DuPont and its longtime corporate ward, General Motors, who invented leaded gasoline, will be considered in the w

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  • From Boutique Roadster To Best-Selling Sedan: Tesla As An Early Adopter

    Polarizing as it is, Tesla is the dominant name in the EV conversation stateside. It was early to the full EV market, the Supercharger network has helped buyers realize long-distance electric car travel is at the very least coming (and in many cases, it’s here already), and the range and power of its cars is consistently at the top end of offerings in the U.S. Today’s featured EV reader, David, has owned Teslas since the very early days, starting with the Roadster. His ownership experience has b

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  • NHTSA Issues Chevy Bolt Spontaneous Combustion Warning

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued an alert for all 2017 to 2019 Chevrolet Bolt owners, following the recent fire in Vermont State Representative Timothy Briglin’s car and another noted in the missive. This is, of course, after two safety recalls for potential fire hazard due to a manufacturing defect in the LG Chem battery packs.

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  • Supercars Can't Hide From Emission Regulations In The EU Anymore

    The electric supercars are coming, and it’s not because carmakers like Ferrari and Koenigsegg have voluntarily committed to drastically reducing their carbon emissions, but because regulations in the EU are going to make low-volume car makers adhere to the same standards as the rest of the industry. There will be no more low-volume exemptions. Well, maybe for the lowest volumes, I guess.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • One Of America's First Lithium Mines Could Be In The One Place Where A Lithium Mine Would Be An Improvement

    As you likely know, to make all of those batteries that store power for electric cars, an awful lot of the alkali metal lithium—the lightest solid element, in case you weren’t aware—is needed. It’s not particularly common, the 25th most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, and demand for it is growing, thanks to EVs. So it makes sense that GM would be interested in a lithium mine, and they’re talking about putting one in one of America’s most renowned shitholes, the Salton Sea.

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  • The Opel Astra Earns Its Blitz Badge With A Hybrid Option

    Opel has just announced its newest compact hybrid, the redesigned Astra. This PHEV is another Opel that fits into the strategy Stellantis announced during its big EV Day, where the company showed off its plans for electric cars. For the U.S., Stellantis revealed that Dodge is “not” selling EVs (it is), and Jeep is still wading in the shallow end with its 4xe tech. This Astra is, obviously not gonna be available here in the U.S..

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Tesla Quotes $16,000 To Repair Model 3, Independent Shop Did It For $700

    Remember last week when we featured a teardown of the Ford Mustang Mach-E battery pack? One of the things noted was that it was less integrated than Tesla’s battery pack, more modular, and perhaps a bit less advanced-seeming. It did appear to have one huge advantage: repairability. Repairability is a big deal, and one that Tesla seems to be ignoring, at least in the case of this new Model 3 that had a problem with its battery pack. A problem that Tesla wanted a sphincter-straining $16,000 to fix

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  • The 2022 Zero FXE Is Shaped Like The Future

    Why do electric motorcycles have to look like gas motorcycles? For EV motorcycle mainstay Zero, the answer has always been market acceptance. This is the company that has sold more electric motorcycles than any other, so who am I to argue with them? With the FXE, however, Zero is dipping a toe into the electric aesthetic pool, and among other mixed metaphors, it’s a fucking home run.

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  • Videos Showing Off Tesla's New FSD Beta 9 Are Out And Are Both Impressive And Alarming

    Around July 10, Tesla began to send out another beta revision of updates to its suite of semi-automated driving tools, collectively and misleadingly known as Full Self-Driving (FSD), with this latest version being called Beta 9.0. Drivers who have qualified to participate in the public-streets beta-testing of the system have been uploading videos of their experiences, and while it’s certainly impressive in many ways, it’s also clear there’s a long way to go still, and there are even some downrig

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  • Watch Sandy Munro Do An Initial Teardown Of The Ford Mustang Mach-E's Battery Pack UPDATED

    This video is a great reminder not to loan Sandy Munro your car, because he’s going to tear it apart. That’s just what he and his team does, and as long as it’s not your car, it’s great. We’ve leaned on Munro’s teardowns many times before to learn what’s hiding inside our cars, and today is no exception. This time, Munro has opened up the Ford Mach-E’s battery pack, so let’s see what’s inside.

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  • Someone Caught Canoo's EV Sedan Out In The Wild

    It’s been a rough year-or-so for L.A.-based startup Canoo. From its high-profile executive departures and a deal with Hyundai falling through to an SEC investigation announced hours after pricing was made public for its lifestyle vehicle, some people may think the company won’t actually deliver. That may change soon, as the company recently announced Oklahoma will be the site of its assembly plant. Want even more? A sedan may be coming, as Reddit user Mcardiel007 snapped these pics of the compan

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  • The Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Is The Second Of Many

    The fifth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee is set to be fully launch at the New York Auto Show in August, which means that, ahead of that, Jeep will keep dropping crumbs of new information about it to generate blogs like this. In this case, a photo.

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  • An Electric Ram 1500 Pickup Is Coming In 2024

    The Stellantis EV Day media event on Thursday was chock-full of news about its various brands’ electric futures. Ram announced that it’s getting on board with electric pickups with its own Ram 1500 battery electric vehicle due to hit the pavement in 2024.

    By Mercedes Streeter Read More

  • Nikola's Shareholders Know Who's To Blame

    Nikola, the electric truck startup whose plan for success seems to rely on total chaos, is a public company with shares that can be bought by you, if you enjoy gambling. Shareholders can also vote on things, like a recent advisory vote on a proposal to pay big compensation to “named executive officers.” They did not approve.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Mercedes Is Still Playing Coy About Its Formula E Future

    About a month ago, the Mercedes-EQ Formula E team announced it’d signed an option with the series to begin development of its Gen 3 car. “Development,” in this sense, is pretty much tantamount to attending meetings alongside all the other constructors — but don’t mistake it as a confirmation of ongoing participation. The Gen 3 regulations are expected to kick in after the next season, beginning with the 2022-23 championship, and last until the end of the 2025-26 campaign.

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • Elon Musk Didn't Realize How Hard Self-Driving Would Be Which Is Why He Should Read This Paper

    Very recently, Elon Musk admitted something on Twitter that I believe has been obvious to many people for quite a while: making self-driving cars is really, really hard. Sure, Elon has flirted with this realization before, but has tended to come to dismissive conclusions about the reality of, um, reality, like when he said Tesla was close to full autonomy, save for “many small problems.” The full scale of those “small problems” seems to be hitting Elon now, which is why I think he should read th

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • For A Reliable 1980s Maserati, Just Add Electrons

    Maseratis and electricity go hand in hand in the same way that oil and water do. They’re frequently said in the same breath as one another, but not fondly. Odd, then, that this week’s reader feature - one that for a change, I got to actually test-drive - is a Maserati made more reliable by adding quite a bit of high voltage to the mix.

    By Victoria Scott Read More

  • EV Shopping With A Guy Who Drives Everything

    I’m loosely in the market for an electric car. I am not alone. Sales of electric vehicles hit record highs in the first quarter of 2021. Purchases of battery electric vehicles (BEV) went up by nearly 45% over 2020, and those of hybrid (HEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) more than doubled.

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  • The New Volvo Recharge Concept Is An Echo From A Past We Ignored

    You’ve likely seen statistics like, “a majority of daily commuters in the U.S. only drive less than 60 or 100 miles a day,” a lot in the debate over the benefits of electric vehicles over gasoline. The stats are used to counter the common misconception of long charge-times for modern EVs, but what if I told you we’ve been having this same debate for over a decade and wasted all that time?

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Toyota (2)

  • The Toyota Supra A91-CF Is The Most Expensive New Supra Ever

    Remember that special edition Toyota Supra with a carbon fiber body kit that the company was only going to make 600 of? If you were waiting on pricing for it don’t worry, it’s as expensive as you were probably thinking. Cars Direct reports that a dealer order guide shows the Supra A91-CF will start at $64,275.

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Trucks (3)

  • I Could Still Totally Take Out A New F-150

    A number of blogs and viral tweets have been making the case that new Ford F-150s, Rams, and other pickups and SUVs have grown as big as the tanks that fought in WWII. To this I say: So? I would still easily crush any of them in combat.

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  • It's Ridiculous How Much Nicer The New Jeep Compass' Interior Looks

    The 2022 Jeep Compass showed itself at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday, and while there are a bunch of subtle alterations to exterior design and content availability, the big change is the interior. Based on these new photos, it’s in a different league than the 2021 Jeep Compass’ cabin.

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Volkswagen (3)

  • The 2022 VW Taos Is Like Market Research In Vehicular Form

    I guess I may as well get this out of the way right up front: it wasn’t easy for me to be interested in the Volkswagen Taos. That’s not because there was anything wrong with it, quite the opposite, really. It’s that you don’t really pay attention to things that just work, like fire hydrants or trash cans or light switches. When they’re done right, they’re almost invisible. I’m not saying the Taos is invisible, but I am saying that it is very much a product of what studies must show is what peopl

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • The Volkswagen Arteon Is Your Opportunity For An Awesome Deal

    You are probably very tired of reading about the mess that is in the car market right now. Inventory is slim, which means prices are up. Even “regular” cars are being sold for over MSRP, but if you are in the market for a stylish German sedan/hatchback, these discounts on the VW Arteon are a reminder of better times.

    By Tom McParland Read More

  • The Weird VW T-Roc Cabriolet Crossover Is A Surprise Sales Hit In Germany

    Perhaps recent travel restrictions have made some folks in Germany and Europe realize that traveling locally can be safe and just as appealing as travel abroad. Maybe they want to amplify their daily commute to get the most out of life (when the weather is nice.) Whatever it is, the convertible VW T-Roc has surprisingly accounted for over 28 percent of the model’s sales so far this year.

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Wrenching (9)

  • The Humble Digital Caliper Takes The Guesswork Out Of Precise Measurements

    Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at the rivet nut, a little fastener that creates a nice, threaded hole where once there was only misery, a ratcheting brake caliper piston spreader, a tool that’s better at the job of spreading brake caliper pistons than a C-clamp and an advanced diagnostic scanner for deep down diagnostics. This week’s cool tool is the humble digital caliper, a tool that makes measuring easy, if not fun.

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  • How Knowing About The 2008 Boston Celtics Helped Get Me Through A Bulgarian Border Checkpoint

    “Come back with me!” the police officer yelled out of his car’s window after pulling alongside my $600 diesel manual Chrysler minivan just as I was leaving Bulgaria. “Oh boy,” I thought to myself. “This could be bad.” Thoughts of corruption, bribery, and other stereotypes about Eastern Europe swirled through my head. I turned my 260,000 mile minivan around and followed the officer to a guard shack.

    By David Tracy Read More

  • An Advanced Diagnostic Tool Can Make You A Wrenching Superhero

    Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at a flare nut wrench that helps to make easy work of changing out brake and power steering lines, the rivet nut, a little fastener that creates a nice, threaded hole where once there was only misery, and a ratcheting brake caliper piston spreader, a tool that’s better at the job at spreading brake caliper pistons than a C-clamp. This week’s cool tool is an advanced diagnostic scanner. These tools can offer you dealership level diagnostics in your own garage

    By Mercedes Streeter Read More

  • This Is Why You Maybe Shouldn't Use Bug Spray To Clean Your Lights

    I realize this isn’t a new thing, but thanks to the cyclic nature of stuff on the internet, sites like TikTok have been featuring something that was big about five years ago: using bug repellent to clean cloudy old headlights. The results look to be quite dramatic, and it’s hard not to want to try it, so I did—but there’s a pretty big caveat.

    By Jason Torchinsky Read More

  • I Put In A Second Driveway Because I Have Too Many Cars

    About a year ago my wife and I downsized our house from a suburban half-acre with a pair of garages to an urban 0.17 acre duplex with an ancient one-car. So making space for our seven cars and a travel trailer was already going to be difficult, but then I went and bought an ambulance. You know, like a dummy.

    By Bradley Brownell Read More

  • A Ratcheting Brake Caliper Piston Spreader Can Make Brake Jobs Quicker And Easier

    Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at an ozone generator that supposedly helps to get bad smells out of a car, a flare nut wrench that helps to make easy work of changing out brake and power steering lines and the rivet nut or nutsert, a little fastener that creates a nice, threaded hole where once there was only misery. This week’s cool tool is a ratcheting brake caliper piston spreader, a tool that’s better at the job at spreading brake caliper pistons than a C-clamp.

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  • This Little Wonder Is A Rivet And A Nut In One And Better Than A Self-Tapping Screw

    Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at a silicone tray that saves you time (and a few swear words) by keeping your tools within reach, an ozone generator that supposedly helps to get bad smells out of a car and a flare nut wrench that helps to make easy work of changing out brake and power steering lines. This week’s cool tool is the rivet nut or nutsert, a little fastener that creates a nice, threaded hole where once there was only misery. This recommendation comes from NickHasCars and numero

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  • Replace Rusty Power Steering And Brake Lines With The Help Of A Flare Nut Wrench

    Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at a magnetic drain plug remover that helps you change fluids without getting you covered in stinky gear oil, a silicone tray that saves you time (and a few swear words) by keeping your tools easily within reach and an ozone generator that supposedly helps to get bad smells out of a car. This week’s cool tool is a wrench that helps to make easy work changing out brake and power steering lines.

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