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Audi (4)

  • The Audi R8 Is A Charming Relic Of A Mid-Engine Supercar

    While we were stopped at a light in rural New Hampshire in a $187,000 Vegas Yellow Audi R8, a middle-aged woman stepped from the sidewalk to holler at us. She could have simply been shaking her fist for the ruckus we were making, the $3,600 sport exhaust package and the pioneering Detroit Techno sounds of Carl Craig popping off along Main Street. Then we worried that she was making some lame Iron Man comment, referencing the 2008 Audi/Marvel collab featuring the first-generation R8, a quip we’d

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  • The 2023 Audi RS5 Competition Adds The Wrong Kind Of Imperfection

    Everyone loves to complain that modern cars have lost their character. They’re too competent, too isolated, too good. The cars of old were better because they were worse, these people say; automakers should start making cars worse to improve them. But what would it look like if a manufacturer actually listened to that advice? If a company known for tech and luxury decided to bank on character instead?

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  • The 2023 Audi R8 Coupe V10 GT RWD Is One Hell Of A Goodbye

    Audi’s R8 has been an incredibly long-serving and successful mid-engine supercar for sensible people who own dental practices or accounting firms. It’s somehow as face-meltingly fast as its twin, the Lamborghini Huracan, but it’s simultaneously more buttoned-down and less intimidating. It’s also currently going the way of the thylacine, and that’s sad. But before Audi puts its mid-engine naturally aspirated supercar out to pasture, the company is giving it one last hurrah.

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Beyond Cars (7)

  • Model F4 Phantom Hit By Train After Crashing In Britain

    It must have been a shock for a train driver in Britain when he smashed into the wreckage of a crashed scale-model kerosene-fueled fighter jet last month. And it must have been more of a surprise for the air accident investigators who had to look into the rather strange incident between Liverpool and Manchester.

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  • This Is Why We Don't Have High-Speed Rail In The U.S.

    Fourteen years ago, California had a dream: To connect the state’s two largest urban centers via the nation’s first high-speed bullet train, cutting the travel time between Los Angeles and San Francisco down to a brisk two hours and forty minutes. It would cost billions and take years, but everyone agreed it was a better decision than sinking money into yet another freeway. Now, almost a decade and a half later, construction has begun on a project seemingly all but certainly doomed to fail.

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  • Passengers Flee 19-Hour Train Ride From Hell

    A whole host of mechanical, medical, and staffing problems turned an average five-and-a-half hour train ride from Pontiac, Michigan to Chicago into a 19-hour ordeal on Friday, leaving passengers with no food, heat, lights, or working toilets for nearly a day.

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  • Lotus And Chris Boardman's Hour Record Broken After 26 Years

    Anyone who has followed professional baseball over the last few months knows that records can be contentious. Measures of achievement can be disputed, and marks as simple as an asterisk in the official record book can be debated for decades. Alongside the single-season home run record, the hour record in cycling is one of the most cherished and controversial in sports.

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  • The RadRunner 2 E-Bike: What Do You Want To Know?

    If you’ve been keeping an eye on the electric bike space over the past few years, you might have noticed a few fledgling brands coming in and shaking things up faster than cycling stalwarts like Giant, Cannondale and Specialized could hop on the e-bike hype train.

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  • Amazon Kills 'Scout' Autonomous Home Delivery Robot Program

    Amazon is pulling the plug on live tests for its “Amazon Scout” (not to be confused with the new VW venture) automated home delivery robo-cart thing. Bloomberg confirmed the statement made in an email sent on Thursday. The U.S. retail giant says it realized the ill-fated “autonomous machine” just didn’t meet the needs of its customers.

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BMW (2)

  • BMW M Cars Might Keep Getting Uglier, But They're Not Losing Straight Sixes And V8s Anytime Soon

    The new BMW M2 weighs about as much as a dwarf planet and has jowls, but it also has a turbocharged straight-six sending power to the rear wheels through a six-speed manual — so the pros and cons sort of balance out. It’s the last M car that won’t be electrified in some fashion, and BMW confirmed this week that it won’t prolong the death of internal combustion with three- and four-cylinder-powered models.

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  • BMW Debuts The Next-Gen M2 With 453 HP And A Six-Speed Manual

    Camouflaged pictures of the new M2 have been around for a while now, and much to the chagrin of many, it looked like it was going to continue the wildly aggressive styling trends of its bigger siblings. Now, thanks to an announcement made by BMW on Tuesday, we know that it’s definitely got hyper-aggressive styling, but it’s also got a lot else going for it.

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Boatlopnik (3)

  • Drought Exposes Sunken Riverboat On The Mississippi River

    Drought has caused the Mississippi river to hit historically low water levels, and it has led to a historic — and certainly haunted — riverboat casino being exposed. The Diamond Lady took its maiden voyage in the early 1990s and was taken out of commission in 1999, then later moved to the Riverside Park Marina in Memphis Tennessee, according to Action News 5.

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  • Drought Along Mississippi River Adding To U.S. Inflation Woes

    An intense drought through America’s heartland left 1,700 barges waiting for the Mississippi River to be dredged outside of Vicksburg, Mississippi, this week. The river is at its lowest levels in a decade, causing headaches for vital industries and communities that use the river as a major shipping route and source of drinking water.

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  • The World's Newest Supertanker Uses Sails To Help Transport Crude Oil

    As heavy industries take action to reduce their carbon footprint, many companies are exploring innovative methods to continue operations as normally as possible while reducing their reliance on fossil fuels. But I never thought that sails could be making a return to commercial shipping. It seems even more ridiculous that sails would be used to transport crude oil across oceans. However, the newest Chinese diesel supertanker is aiming to destroy the established conventions to bring wind-powered s

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Buying (22)

  • Dodge Will Reveal The Last Of The 'Last Call' Challengers And Chargers As Soon As Their Engines Stop Exploding

    Dodge has revealed six of the seven Last Call-edition Challengers and Chargers that will send the duo off with a bang next year. The final one ought to be quite special. While the rest are essentially visual packages, the last of the breed has been designed to embarrass the 717-horsepower Hellcat, and presumably the the likes of the even more powerful Redeye and Super Stock variants. It was supposed to be revealed at SEMA in Las Vegas next week. It won’t be, for a very good reason.

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  • Dodge's Last Call Special-Edition Models Wear A Hefty Price-Tag, Starting At Over $60,000

    Dodge has been sending its beloved Charger and Challenger muscle cars out with a bang, slowly revealing its Last Call Editions. Thursday, Dodge also released pricing for those special vehicles. And for those wondering how they’re going to find and get their hands on one, Dodge has also rolled out a new vehicle locator tool. Dodge owners and enthusiasts will be able to find the last examples of what they want, before it’s too late.

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  • You Can Make This JDM Nissan Homy Your Home

    You probably don’t need me to tell you that vans are incredibly popular right now. Some are fancy custom jobs. Others are much more humble. But either way, people love their vans. And while no one at Jalopnik HQ has pulled the trigger on one of their own, we definitely see the appeal. Especially this Japanese-market 1992 Nissan Homy.

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  • The Lotus Eletre R Hits 60 MPH In Under 3 Seconds, Costs $135,000

    When Lotus pulled the covers off its first-ever SUV (those words still don’t sound right together, do they?) in March, one of the details the company chose not to share was the price. The Eletre, in keeping with the brand’s “E”-themed naming convention, will have three configurations: Eletre, Eletre S and the range-topping Eletre R. It’ll start at £89,500, or roughly $101,000, the British automaker announced Tuesday.

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  • This Lincoln Aviator Dressed As A Rolls-Royce Can Be Yours

    Recently, I introduced our Glorious Leader Bob Sorokanich to one of my favorite corners of the internet: the Awful Taste But Great Execution subreddit. If you’re ever looking for further proof that money can’t buy taste, head over to /r/ATBGE. The car we’re talking about in this article, though, isn’t one that will ever be posted there. Instead, it’s one that my intrepid coworker Andy Kalmowitz found in another wonderful corner of the internet: Facebook Marketplace.

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  • Abarth's Divisive 4C-Based Classiche 1000 SP Concept Is Going Into Limited Production

    You may remember the Abarth 1000 SP — a Alfa 4C-based, coachbuilt-style concept from about a year and a half ago that was very divisive in its design. I hated it, some of you loved it, and it seemed as though that would be the last we’d hear of it. Abarth, however, had other plans in mind. The brand just confirmed the car will be built in limited numbers. These will be the final 4C Spiders, paying tribute to Abarth’s rich motorsport history.

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  • Everything You Can Customize In The Rolls-Royce Spectre Configurator

    Today, Rolls-Royce finally revealed its Spectre EV. It’s big, fast, pretty, and it’ll cost nearly half a million dollars. To me, a Poor who will likely never even see one of these in person, the full reveal of this luxobarge means very little. But along with that announcement came a far more impactful release: the Spectre’s configurator.

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  • Mazda Confirms Two Brand-New Engines For The U.S.

    Mazda is continuing its march towards becoming a premium automaker. We finally have official word that the Zoom Zoom brand is giving the U.S. market two brand new engine options that will debut in two new crossovers.

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  • The Nicest Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Costs Only Slightly More Than The Average New Car

    The 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid starts at $41,190, including destination. That’s quite high for a Mitsubishi but not the average new car — Kelley Blue Book pinned the U.S.’s average transaction price at $48,301 back in August. Mitsubishi revealed across-the-board pricing for every trim level of the Outlander PHEV this week, and for the nicest, best-equipped example, you’ll pay barely more than that: $51,340.

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  • Manual Transmission Returns To Some Mini Models For 2023

    Manual transmissions are an endangered species. At our last count, there were fewer than 30 models for sale on the U.S. market that offer a stick-shift option. And with every new model year that number seems to get smaller and smaller. But the last few years have shown that automakers recognize enthusiasts’ love for manuals. Mini is one of those automakers, and it’s bringing back the stick-shift for some models in 2023.

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  • 2023 Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica Is A Hardcore But Friendly Supercar

    The Lamborghini Huracan has had one hell of a hero’s journey since its introduction way back in 2014. We’ve seen it go from exclusively all-wheel drive to spawning rowdy rear-wheel drive variants. We’ve seen hardcore driver-focused Huracans like the Performante and STO come and go. Now, we’re seeing the end of that journey with this, the Huracan Tecnica.

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  • Nissan To Offer Pay-As-You-Go Lease Options For Buyers

    Nissan is rolling out a new lease option for buyers of certain models. Automotive News reports that Nissan’s finance arm, NMAC (Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation) has introduced a new low-mileage lease program that customers can add more miles to if they need.

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  • The 2022 Genesis GV70 3.5 AWD Rules, Seriously

    Luxury crossovers are a dime a dozen these days. Every automaker seems to offer one, with varying degrees of success. While the format is more or less established, there’s one luxury crossover that deserves some extra attention. It’s the 2022 Genesis GV70, and, like basically every Genesis product, it punches way above its weight class.

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  • Higher Interest Rates Mean Lower New Car Prices Won't Matter

    There’s really no such thing as good news, or at least if there is, it comes with a price, literally. NBC News is reporting that new car prices may finally start to decline as 2022 wraps up, but higher interest rates will keep monthly payments pretty much the same.

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  • We Almost Got An Alfa Giulia-Based Challenger And Charger, But Dodge Changed Its Mind

    As you’ve probably heard by now, the days are numbered for the Challenger and Charger, Dodge’s muscle car duo that has been riding on the same LX-derived bones for roughly a decade and a half. They’ll leave us in 2024 to be replaced by an EV, likely very much inspired by the Charger Daytona concept. But things could have gone very differently, as brand CEO Tim Kuniskis recently recounted to a few journalists on Autoline’s After Hours YouTube show.

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  • A Lot Of You Are Paying More Than $1,000 A Month For Your Car And It's A Little Worrying

    Edmunds, which is an automotive analytics and data firm, has a new report out, which says that the average monthly payment for new cars is now more than $700, which is completely ridiculous. This is in part because car loan interest rates are also the highest they’ve been in years. A little over 14 percent of buyers even have monthly payments over $1,000, according to Edmunds, which Edmunds says is the highest number on record and is frankly worrying.

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  • You People Are Finally Giving The Subaru Crosstrek The Respect It Deserves

    If a normie asks me what kind of car they should get, I almost always say a Subaru Crosstrek, which starts at $23,645, to which many people reply that it isn’t very fuel-efficient, and then I say fine get a Crosstrek Hybrid, which starts at $36,845, and then they say the Crosstrek Hybrid is too expensive, and then I say fine just get a Toyota Corolla Hybrid, which starts at $24,050. Getting a Corolla has been the right answer for about 30 years now, and you already knew it anyway, and stop bothe

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  • 2023 Kia Rio Shows Us What $17,500 Gets You In Today's New Car Market

    Sometimes I wonder if Kia remembers that it still sells the Rio, one of the cheapest new cars you can buy in America. For 2023, the Rio changes almost nothing at all, except for being $400 more expensive when you tally up hikes to MSRP and destination. Oh, and it gets a new oil level sensor this year, ostensibly for reasons. If I just bought a 2022 Rio, I’d feel like quite the chump right now.

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Advice (8)

Culture (70)

Car Design (6)

  • The Designer Of The McLaren P1 Doesn't Love The Solus GT

    McLaren surprised everyone a few months ago when it revealed a road-going version of its Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo concept, named the Solus GT. It’s certainly the most extreme road car McLaren has ever built, which isn’t surprising if you’re familiar with its predecessor from GT Sport or GT7; it also costs $4 million, and only 25 will be made. But does it look good? Frank Stephenson, the man who designed the McLaren P1, has a few notes.

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  • New Rezvani Vengeance Looks Ready To Crush All The Pedestrians

    Are you a wealthy former Blackwater contractor who wants a full-size luxury SUV but think the Cadillac Escalade looks too feminine? Are you a member of the Three Percenters who fantasizes about running over BLM protesters and thinks Tucker Carlson’s rhetoric doesn’t go far enough? Do you have $250,000 to spend? Then, boy, does Rezvani have the SUV for you.

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  • Watch This: An Incredibly Detailed Look At The C8 Corvette Z06

    When the C8 Corvette Z06 was revealed, the internet went absolutely wild for it. More power than the last Z, from a naturally-aspirated engine that revved to 8,600 RPM? It had all the makings of a masterpiece. And, as the reviews have come out, it seems that’s exactly what Chevy built. But how did the company do it? What did it take to build that engine, to make the chassis accommodate it, and combine both into a package cohesive enough to sell?

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  • You Have All Disappointed Me Once Again

    When people say, “the world is your canvas,” I don’t think they were talking about literally leaving everything in your life a boring shade of white, but it seems that car buyers are just desperate to maintain a grayscale world, iSeeCars reports. And that is extremely disappointing. You have all disappointed me.

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Chevrolet (1)

  • The 2024 Chevy Trax Just Had A Major Glow-Up

    Let’s be honest and say that the Chevy Trax hasn’t been the most memorable vehicle to come out of GM. I’ve driven one, and it was like licking an envelope with bad-tasting glue: you remember it for the bad taste it left in your mouth, and you hope you don’t have to ever do it again. Chevy seems to be wanting to leave an impression on buyers with Trax for 2024, as the second-smallest crossover in their lineup receives a much-needed redesign that should have it flying off dealer lots.

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Concept Cars (1)

  • Alpenglow Concept Offers A Glimpse At A Forbidden Alpine Hypercar

    Alpine is still quite a young brand in its current incarnation. Renault resurrected the storied name in 2015 with a concept car for Gran Turismo, and the production-spec Alpine A110 followed two years later. The A110 has enjoyed some updates — we received the leaner, meaner S and the track-focused R in recent months — but the company is still figuring out what a true range looks like. A new concept, called Alpenglow, will supposedly help guide the way.

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Crashes and Safety (3)

  • Driver Accidentally Reverses Into 700-Year-Old Toilet At Japanese Buddhist Temple

    We’ve all had minor accidents in our cars. We generally accept that other people will make a mistake at some point in their driving lives. They’ll scratch a wheel rim on a curb or lightly bump against another car while parallel parking. However, once speeds increase and the risk becomes more significant, our tolerance for reckless mistakes vanishes. If someone sinks to a level where they could crash through the front of a donut shop, I hope they face harsh consequences. What about smashing into

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  • Car Fire Causes Closure Of New York City's Holland Tunnel

    My greatest irrational fear as a life-long New Yorker is getting stuck in one of the city’s vehicular tunnels during a fire. This might be the plot of Daylight, a 1996 disaster film starring Sylvester Stallone, but tunnel fires do occur in the real world. Three years after the film’s release, 39 people were killed when a truck caught fire in the tunnel beneath Mont Blanc between Italy and France. While Daylight’s tunnel scenes were filmed on a studio set in Rome, the film is primarily set in the

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Crime (3)

Entertainment (8)

  • Lewis Hamilton Says He And Brad Pitt Will 'Make The Best Racing Movie That's Ever Existed'

    Filming of Lewis Hamilton and Brad Pitt’s yet-unnamed Formula 1 movie for Apple TV+ is set to begin next year. Since both just so happened to be in attendance at last weekend’s United States Grand Prix — Hamilton was working the event, so he kind of had no choice — the film proved a hot topic of conversation. And the seven-time champ let the world know how excited he is for it.

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  • You'll Be Able To Build And Customize Pretty Ridiculous Rides In NFS Unbound

    Are you excited for Need For Speed Unbound? Color me “cautiously optimistic,” because I could use a good old-fashioned open-world street racer back in my life, with cop chases, unsavory characters thrust into cliched plots and off-the-wall cosmetic customization potential. Today, developer Criterion Games chose to focus on the latter, posting a few short videos of to highlight how far you’ll be able to take your builds in the highly anticipated racer.

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  • Old Racing Games Sure Had A Way Of Creating Fake Regionalized Cars That Never Existed

    Yesterday, I was playing Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 for the first time. Like all the TXR games Genki made back in the day, it’s not perfect, but it’s overflowing with charm and anyone would do right to bring the series back in some form of tribute today. It’s been a very long time since we’ve had a game about street racing on the Shuto Expressway that doesn’t require you to install mods on your PC. Anyway, as I scrolled through the car list, I noticed some oddities.

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  • Forza Horizon 5 Is Getting A Big Update For The Series' 10th Birthday

    In 2012, Microsoft Game Studios took a gamble. Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport had owned sim racing on console through the preceding generation, with the fourth entry arguably marking the series’ zenith. But a new U.K.-based development team named Playground Games saw potential in a spinoff that applied Turn 10’s physics model, based in realism, to a more casual, open-world street-racing context, under the guise of a music festival. Just like that, Forza Horizon was born. This month, the franc

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  • We Will Finally Get To See The Next Need For Speed This Thursday

    Need For Speed. It’s the racing genre’s equivalent of The Simpsons: beloved upon its inception and unbeatable in its prime, only to lose the magic long ago, to the point where there have been far more middling years than good ones. Inconsistency has been the one constant, though the reverence for those early days will never go away. Criterion Games will try to recapture it with the forthcoming installment — the 25th in the series’ almost 30-year run. It’ll be revealed this Thursday at 11 a.m. ET

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Events (2)

  • Jeep Shows Off All-Electric Restomod CJ Surge Ahead Of SEMA

    Forget throwing an LS engine in your Jeep CJ. You should put an electric motor in there instead, and Jeep is leading the way. At SEMA, the company is unveiling a battery-electric system that is meant to fit in classic Jeeps. It’s called the CJ Surge, and in a word, it’s sick. The “electromod” concept is meant to allow designers and engineers to better understand the potential of BEV parts kits.

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  • Who Modded It Best: 2022 SEMA Acura Integra Edition

    The Acura Integra is finally back, and true to form, Acura will have three heavily modified cars at this year’s SEMA show to highlight its tuning potential. They’re all pro builds that likely cost a truly absurd amount of money, so the odds of running into someone who did something similar at your local get-together are pretty low. But since each tuner took a drastically different approach to their Integra, we’re curious which one you think looks the best.

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EVs and Hybrids (1)

  • The 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 Is Already Sold Out

    Yesterday, GMC finally revealed the 2024 Sierra EV, an electric pickup truck that promises 754 horsepower and 400 miles of range. At least for now, it’s only available in one configuration: the $107,000 fully loaded Denali Edition 1. Although as of today, though “available” probably isn’t the right word to use because it’s already sold out.

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First Drive (4)

  • The 2023 Kia Telluride Keeps Punching Above Its Weight

    Normally, “best-in-class” is just a stupid marketing phrase when it comes to cars. Then I get in a Kia Telluride and I’m like, alright, fine, I get it. That’s because every time I drive a Telluride, I wonder why anyone would ever buy any other midsize SUV. It looks rad, drives well, comes packed with creature comforts and it’s even (relatively) affordable. Hell, I’d take one of these over plenty of luxury SUVs. The Telluride is a benchmark defined.

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  • 2023 Honda Civic Type R: First Track Drive

    They say to never meet your heroes. Put someone on a pedestal and they’ll only disappoint you, so by keeping your distance you can live in your brightest fantasies rather than heartbreaking reality. Of course, this isn’t always true – I’ve met the previous-generation FK8 Civic Type R, built from 2017 to 2021, and the reality of that car more than matches the dream.

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Ford (5)

  • 2023 Ford Super Duty Can Tow Up To 40,000 Pounds, More Than Any Truck In The History Of Trucks

    Full-size truck specs are getting way out of hand. Seriously. As evidence, take the 2023 Ford Super Duty lineup, which is available with up to 1,200 lb-ft of torque from the PowerStroke diesel engine, and when the right option boxes are ticked, you’ll be able to tow 40,000 lbs with a fifth-wheel. That’s ridiculous, particularly considering that the Blue Oval will sell one of these things to any geek off the street with no special license or qualifications required.

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  • Pour One Out For The Dear, Sweet Ford Fiesta

    We are gathered here today to mourn a dear friend. A steadfast companion, who stood by us all through thick and thin. When we needed cheap, efficient transportation, it was there. When we wanted something fun, lightweight, and flickable, it was there too. Yet now, as the light begins to fade from its freshly-facelifted eyes, it’s time for us to be there for the humble Ford Fiesta.

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  • Ford Recalls F-150 And Bronco Sport For Flickering Parking Lights

    Remember in Point Break, the scene where the cast is all playing beach football with only the light from their cars illuminating the sand? Apparently, the curmudgeons over at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have decided that sports by headlight are fine, but trying to host a vehicle-illuminated rave is just a bridge too far. At least, that’s what NHTSA is implying with its latest lighting recall for the Ford F-150 and Bronco Sport.

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GMC Trucks (1)

  • The 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Is A 754-HP Luxury Electric Pickup Truck

    When General Motors first unveiled the Chevy Silverado EV earlier this year, one thing was certain: the GMC Sierra EV wouldn’t be too far behind. The two trucks have pretty much been twins throughout the years. But now, GMC wants to change that. Friends, I give you the 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1. While it’s a close cousin to the all-electric Silverado, it’s here to change the way you think about GMC.

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Honda (3)

  • You Can't Get A Honda Civic Under $25,000 Anymore

    Let’s face it. Everyone is raising prices. There are still supply constraints and inflation. Unfortunately, that also means that things that were once cheap aren’t cheap anymore. Take basic modes of transportation. Cars like the Toyota Corolla and Nissan Sentra aren’t as basic as they once were. Some were still somewhat cheap, but automakers are slowly getting rid of basic small cars, either by eliminating them entirely or getting rid of base models. Honda has become one of those automakers ,as

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  • The Prologue EV Is A Return To Simple, Sensible Honda Design

    Honda’s first big EV bet here in the States will be the Ultium-based Prologue, an SUV built atop General Motors technology. It’s due to arrive in 2024, but we’re getting an extra early look at it today, as Honda’s just revealed a small collection of exterior and interior photos.

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  • Honda's 2023 CB750 Hornet Is A 90-HP Naked Bike That We Might Not Even Get

    Not too long ago, we wrote about Honda Powersports’ new prototype 750cc-class parallel twin Hornet engine and were pretty stoked about the possibilities that a 92 hp 270-degree crank parallel twin could generate. We know now that the Hornet engine was destined first for the CB750 Hornet naked bike, and you know, what? We’re still stoked.

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Hyundai (2)

  • Is The Hyundai Ioniq 5 An SUV? The World May Never Know

    The Hyundai Ioniq 5. I’ve never driven one, but just about everyone I talk to who has says it’s a great vehicle. The fine folks at MotorTrend agree, having just bestowed their coveted SUV of the Year award on the Hyundai EV. It seems deserved — so long as you believe the Ioniq 5 is actually an SUV. But is it?

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  • You May Want To Take Your Hyundai To The Dealer If It Has A Dual-Clutch Transmission

    What’s going on Hyundai? You OK, bro? It seems like the South Korean brand can’t catch a break lately. From recalls of its hottest models because they might burst into flames, oil consumption issues for millions of engines (replace my engine Hyundai!), a theft issue that’s probably going to get worse, and now this. Autoweek reports that Hyundai has issued a recall and issued a stop sale over certain models equipped with its eight-speed dual clutch transmission.

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Motorcycles (8)

  • Honda Is Bringing Battery Exchange Stations To Japan

    Honda has installed its first EV battery exchange station in Tokyo, Japan through a partnership with battery sharing service Gachaco. The debut of the Honda Power Pack Exchanger e: in Tokyo marks the beginning of what Honda hopes will be a large network of battery swapping stations in Japan, where riders can quickly and easily exchange their EV motorcycle’s depleted batteries.

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  • Riding A Monkey Bike Across Mongolia Is Amazing And Painful

    I’m in the middle of Mongolia on a dirt road and I’ve just fallen off my 49cc motorcycle for the… fourth time? Sixth time? I’m not really sure. It’s day two of The Adventurists’ Monkey Run and this fall hurts. I’ve actually ended up on the ground in front of the bike, hitting my head so hard as to shatter my helmet-mounted GoPro camera and doing something to my right hand to cause it to swell up like a Kardashian’s rear end.

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  • What It's Like To Live With An Electric Motorcycle In New York City

    When I tell my friends that I ride a motorcycle in New York City as my daily, they think I’m crazy. When I tell them it’s an all-electric 2022 LiveWire One, they think I’m absolutely nuts for a multitude of reasons. But an electric motorcycle is the ultimate form of transportation in the city, and I’m here to tell you why.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Keanu Reeves' Arch Motorcycle Debuts Second, Sportier Model Dubbed 1s

    If non-bike nerds know Arch Motorcycle for anything, it’s typically because it’s half-owned by ol’ Johnny Utah himself, Keanu Reeves (the other half of the company is motorcycle builder and generally rad human Gard Hollinger). In fact, its first model is named after Keanu, being called the KRGT-1, and it’s a gorgeous machine, even if you don’t love power cruisers.

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  • BMW Motorrad Debuts 205-HP M 1000 R And RR Superbikes

    BMW’s S 1000 R and RR have been among the spiciest, most competent and comfortable super sports and super naked bikes on sale for over a decade. Still, as they’ve gotten incremental improvements in that time, the competition has been coming on hard. Motorrad is no longer content to let the folks from Japan and Italy close the gap, so it debuted its new M 1000 R and RR models on Monday.

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  • BMW Has No Intention Of Changing Its Controversial Design Style

    If you don’t like the look of the 2023 BMW XM or the general direction the German automaker has taken its exterior designs lately, we have some bad news. BMW has no intention of deviating from its commitment to controversial styling, and it thinks the hate it gets is a good thing. Apparently, any reaction is better than no reaction at all.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • FALSE ALARM: You Can Still Order A 2023 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing (Update)

    Say what you will about more mainstream General Motors products such as the Chevrolet. Malibu or Cadillac XT5, there’s no denying its performance cars kick ass. Especially the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing. After our first drive, we said it “may be the best sports sedan ever made.” So we’re not terribly surprised to hear the CT5-V Blackwing is sold out through 2023.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Tesla Locks Its Trailer Mode Software Against Third-Party Hitches

    In today’s absurd market, it’s hard to find the right car. With chip and materials shortages still running rampant in the auto industry, people are often stuck buying whatever color, trim level, or options package they can find on a local lot. For many buyers, this means turning to dealerships or third-party providers to get those last few accessories, but it seems Tesla is only approving of the former — blocking owners of third-party trailer hitch receivers from using the company’s Trailer Mode

    By Amber DaSilva Read More

  • GM Pulls Ads From Twitter After Tesla CEO Elon Musk's Takeover

    Typically, we avoid automotive advertising news like it’s a DM from a high school classmate we haven’t talked to since before graduation. After all, one of the few things more obnoxious that being recruited for some new MLM would be filling this website with articles like, “Automaker Announces Plan To Increase Network Television Spending By 4 Percent In Q4.” But this is a little different.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Maine Begins Recalling Explicit License Plates

    Y’know the CA DMV Bot account, on what’s left of Twitter? It posts real vanity license plate requests made in the state of California, along with the customer’s explanation for their text — and the DMV’s response. It’s an incredibly fun account, where you can look through people’s entirely normal requests (“FISH”) and the DMV’s reason for denying them (“SEXUAL CONNOTATIONS”). Now, it seems someone may need to spin up a similar account for Maine.

    By Amber DaSilva Read More

  • Nissan GT-R, Presumed Dead, Is Back For 2023

    Oh, the Nissan GT-R. When no 2022 model showed up in the U.S., most people assumed it was dead, because why wouldn’t they? It’s an old car, and it was cancelled in Europe. Nissan kept selling 2021 models into 2022, but that seemed like the end of the road. Not true: Godzilla is not dead. It was only resting, waiting to return to the U.S. for 2023.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Joe Biden Lost A Drag Race In His 1967 Corvette

    Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., otherwise known as Joe Biden, otherwise also known as Joe, is the president of the United States of America and also a self-styled Car Guy. He appeared on Jay Leno’s car show this week and did a cool drag race with his 1967 Corvette. Unfortunately, he also lost.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Ford Ordered To Pay Millions For Allegedly Stealing Software

    Ford has allegedly been sharing secrets. And now, after a 15-day trial, a judge and jury have ordered the Detroit automaker to pay $104.6 million in damages for “breaching a 2004 licensing contract and misappropriating trade secrets,” to an Austin, Texas-based software company, as reported Automotive News.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • How A Fun Game About Off-Road Trucking Became The Center Of A Legal Slugfest

    Spintires. Mudrunner. Snowrunner. Whether you’re a seasoned sim racer, off-road enthusiast or merely enjoy getting into helpless, precarious situations with your friends that may require the use of a winch, these three titles are simple, pure fun. Unfortunately, their development has been pretty much the complete opposite of that, as an illuminating investigative piece from IGN’s Rebekah Valentine published on Wednesday has uncovered.

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • Uber Drivers Will Make Fewer Left Turns From Now On

    Left turns cause accidents. Data from the NHTSA shows that some 22 percent of traffic accidents involved vehicles taking left turns at intersections. Uber is taking this data and doing something with it to make drivers and its customers safer. The company has rolled out a slew of new safety measures for driver and rider safety. Among them is having drivers take fewer left turns.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • This Is Why Self-Driving Startup Argo AI Is Shutting Down

    When the news broke yesterday that Ford-backed self-driving startup Argo AI would be closing its doors, it was a major shock. That’s partly because it felt so sudden but also because, at the time, we had no information on exactly why that decision had been made. However, after Ford’s Q3 earnings call, we have a much better understanding of the automaker’s thinking.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Wild Rumor Claims Next-Gen Toyota GR86 Will Be A Turbo Hybrid

    The current Toyota GR86 is a fantastic sports coupe, but if there’s one complaint you see over and over again is that it doesn’t have enough power. Ever since the original showed up as the Scion FR-S (RIP Scion), keyboard warriors have insisted Toyota made a mistake by not offering a turbo version. If the latest rumor is to be believed, it may only be a matter of time before they get their wish.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Autonomous-Driving Startup Argo AI Is No More

    Argo AI, the self-driving car startup that attracted a $1 billion investment from Ford back in 2017, is closing its doors. TechCrunch reports that the more than 2,000 employees were told this news today in an all-hands meeting that included an address from the startup’s founders.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Faulty Module Is Locking Polestar 2 Owners Out Of Their Cars

    When we first drove the Polestar 2, we liked it a lot. More paint options would have been nice, but overall, it felt like a great EV. As long as you were into the 2's looks and were OK with it coming in gray, white or black, we probably would’ve recommended going for it. But recently, a growing number of owners have had complaints that tie back to one module causing all sorts of problems.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • GM Will Expand Cruise Robotaxi Service To Austin And Phoenix This Year

    Robotaxis are coming ya’ll, whether we want them or not. Though, they aren’t close to being ready for primetime, as even more companies are getting into them, from startups to legacy automakers. GM is the latest automaker going in for a bigger push of its robotaxis, as Motor Trend reports plans to bring them to more cities.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Ram's Plan To Sell Trucks In Australia Is To Let A Local Factory Do The RHD Conversion

    If you want to sell your left-hand-drive vehicles in a country that drives on the left, you’re going to have to figure out a way to make them right-hand drive. Usually, automakers do it from the factory, but that’s expensive, which means a lot of vehicles never make it to those countries. But Ram’s taking a different approach with Australia: Just shipping left-hand-drive trucks over and having a local company convert them.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Experts Suggest Taxing Large Vehicles Could Curb Pedestrian Deaths

    The number of pedestrian fatalities in the United States is at its highest level in over three decades. Coincidentally, there are more SUVs, crossover SUVs and pick-up trucks on the country’s roads and streets than ever before. Over half of America’s vehicle sales currently are of models in those categories. While drivers of large vehicles aren’t more likely than those in coupes or sedans to hit pedestrians, studies have shown that large vehicles are more likely to kill a person than injure them

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Former Owner Of Mansion With Mercedes Buried In The Yard Was One Sketchy Dude

    Last week, landscapers discovered an unidentified car buried in the yard of a $15 million mansion in Atherton, California. If you read that story and got the feeling something criminal had to have happened, you weren’t alone. We felt the same way. While we still don’t know exactly what happened, new information seems to confirm our initial suspicions were far from unfounded.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • American Airlines Is Getting Rid Of First Class On International Flights

    Flying overseas in business-class or better is one of those things — like getting the Good Seats at the game — that, once you’ve done it, it’s hard to go back to coach or the bleachers. Some luxuries, you will convince yourself, are worth paying for. According to The Wall Street Journal, one such option — first-class seats on international American Airlines flights — is soon going away. American says this decision was made, in part, to add more business-class seats, which these days, are more or

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • There's Only A 25 Day Supply Of Diesel In The U.S.: Report

    The U.S. is getting worrying close to a nationwide diesel shortage. Bloomberg reports that demand for the fuel is up, but at the same time supply in the United States remains at the lowest level of the season, ever. On the other hand, gasoline prices remain relatively steady. The current average price for a gallon of gas is now $3.82, according to AAA, still considerably lower than the current average price for a gallon of diesel at $5.34.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • Toyota Canada's Application To Buy A GR Corolla Morizo Is More Stringent Than The Ford GT's

    We really do live in wild times. I mean, Toyota sells a 300-horsepower, all-wheel-drive Corolla. If you know someone who saw that one coming a decade ago, you should probably start letting them pick your lotto numbers. But if you live in Canada, the story gets even wilder. In order to buy the track-focused GR Corolla Morizo Edition, Toyota requires you fill out an application first.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • The Ineos Grenadier, Which Is Technically Not A Land Rover Defender, Starts Production

    It’s been about five years since B-Tier Brosnan-Era Bond Villain Jim Ratcliffe announced plans to build his own version of the ancient Land Rover Defender. It sounded like a crazy plan at the time, but apparently, if you’re a billionaire you can just throw money at anything you want and make it happen. And eventually, it did happen. The Ineos Grenadier is now officially in production, according to Motor1.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Stellantis CEO Says Chinese EV Tariffs Are Needed To Avoid 'Social Unrest'

    Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has had a lot to say lately. During the Paris motor show, for example, he announced that Alfa Romeo is profitable enough to fund its own future, then he later suggested scrapping new emissions regulations to allow automakers to focus on electric vehicles. Now he’s called for temporary tariffs on Chinese EVs to avoid “social unrest.”

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Companies Are Betting Big On Luxury Bus Travel

    Buses don’t exactly have the best reputation in the U.S. In a lot of cities, service is too infrequent to be convenient, and a lack of dedicated bus lanes means they’re often no faster than simply driving. And while services such as Greyhound and Megabus offer relatively affordable trips between cities, they’re not exactly glamorous. But what if you could take a luxury coach instead? Would that actually change how Americans are willing to travel?

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • 2023 Hyundai Grandeur Is A Sleek And Luxurious Flagship Sedan

    Hyundai has been killing it in the design department as of late, and the newly-unveiled seventh generation Grandeur is no exception. If you’re not sure what the Grandeur is, don’t worry. It’s just the Azera in pretty much every non-Korean market. It most likely isn’t coming stateside though. But no matter, just look at this thing.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • Arkansas Shop Builds The Modern GMC Jimmy We Wish We Could Have

    It’s almost an understatement to say off-road SUVs are all the rage these days. And it’s not just the Jeep Wrangler that’s a hot commodity, either. Demand for off-roaders is so high that Subaru added the Wilderness trim to several of its models, Ford was able to justify bringing back the Bronco, and even the ancient Toyota 4Runner consistently sells above sticker. But has GMC brought back the Jimmy to capture its own piece of that segment? No, it has not.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • This Pontiac V8-Swapped Porsche 911 Is A Blasphemous Creation Of Possible Genius

    Depending on when you read this, you can either buy or just missed the opportunity to buy a 2002 Porsche 911 with an engine-swap from a Pontiac G8 GT. It’s currently listed on Cars and Bids, and, at the time of writing, is priced at a surprisingly reasonable $19,000. Not bad for a 911 if you don’t mind taking on the risk of buying someone else’s project.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Thank Recession Fears For Lower Gas Prices

    We’ve won the war, but at what cost? Gas prices are finally on the downward trend again after a brief price rebound, but it’s not for the sake of prices coming down indefinitely. Rather, demand for gas is down because of recession fears. Because of this, the average price of a gallon of gas now sits at $3.87, according to AAA.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • 2024 Cadillac Celestiq Production Car: This Is It

    As major automakers transition to EVs, they generally take one of two approaches: put customers at ease by adding an electric powertrain to a familiar model, or attempt to entice buyers with a radically unique experience. Cadillac has finally unveiled the long-awaited Celestiq ultra-luxury fastback sedan, and I think it’s safe to say, the company is taking the latter approach.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Stellantis Is Considering Pulling Out Of China

    The world’s largest car market is becoming a tough place to do business for legacy automakers. So much so that some are considering leaving the Chinese market entirely. Bloomberg reports that Stellantis is the latest automaker considering leaving China over business difficulties.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Tesla Reportedly Shifting Battery Production From Germany To Texas

    In a move that suggests there’s even more trouble at Tesla’s German factory than previously reported, the electric automaker appears to be taking a step back and shifting its focus to its Austin, Texas facility. A report from Handelsblatt first covered by Electrek says problems with battery production have led Tesla to begin moving manufacturing equipment out of Germany and into Texas.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Stellantis CEO Wants To Get Rid Of EU7 Emissions Regulations

    Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares had a lot to say at this year’s Paris Motor Show, including calling on the EU to get rid of the now-delayed EU7 emissions regulations. But as Autocar reports, it’s not because he wants to sell a bunch of Hellcats and TRXs in Europe. Whether he’s right or wrong, his position is more nuanced than simply wanting to keep selling gas-powered cars.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Alfa Romeo 'Is Now In A Position To Fund Its Own Future'

    It may be hard to believe if you live in the U.S., but according to Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, Alfa Romeo is making money. Enough money that the brand is actually profitable and, thus, not going anywhere anytime soon. And boy, do we really want to believe that’s true.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Meet The 2023 Mercedes EQE And 2024 AMG EQE SUVs

    Mercedes is here to bless your Sunday with two gorgeous new machines for the future, the 2023 EQE and the 2024 AMG EQE SUVs. And yes, that latter name means Merc is giving us an electrified performance machine.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • Lotus Honors Emerson Fittipaldi With Special-Edition Evija Hypercar

    Every Lotus Evija is special. After all, it’s a 2,000-horsepower electric hypercar that costs around $2 million and can run to 186 mph in nine seconds. That power is also enough for the Evija to break 200 mph. Oh, and it’s made by Lotus. If you ever see one in real life, consider yourself lucky. But now there’s a limited-edition Evija that’s even more special: the Evija Fittipaldi.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • French Rally Canceled Due To Fuel Shortages Caused By Oil Workers' Strike

    The Coupe de France des Rallye is a national amateur rally competition in France. But it’s not like a conventional rally, with a single touring schedule of events for the trophy. Rally crews compete in a plethora of rallies across France to rack up points and qualify for a national final on a region-by-region basis. However, there won’t be a champion crowned this year because the final has been canceled due to a fuel shortage attributed to an ongoing strike.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Nikola Founder Called 'Con Artist' By Prosecutors

    Nikola founder Trevor Milton was put on blast by prosecutors in a New York courtroom when they called him a “con man” while urging jurors to convict him for lying about the company’s status in order to defraud investors.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • The Apollo G2J Electric Prototype, Testbed For Future Hypercars

    The last time we heard from Apollo, the German boutique automaker had revealed a stunning supercar with a starting price of $2.7 million. The Intensa Emozione was powered by a naturally-aspirated 6.3-liter V12 engine and had the looks to match an engine that radical. Only ten IEs will ever be produced, and two have been delivered so far. However, Apollo has already set its sights on a new project centered around a dramatically different powertrain.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • The Polestar 3 Is The First Polestar Designed To Print Money

    Is the Polestar 2 an SUV? I’m personally not sure, but I can say for certain that the Polestar 3, unveiled in full on Wednesday afternoon, definitely looks like an SUV. The manufacturer calls it an SUV, and I think it’s fair to say anyone on the street would describe it similarly. This is a good thing for Polestar, because SUVs happen to be quite popular, you may have noticed.

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • St. Louis Plans To Sue Hyundai And Kia Over Vehicle Thefts

    Hyundai and Kia thefts are up across the country thanks to the dumb trend of instruction videos showing how to steal cars going around social media. Some cities are being hit harder than others. While Hyundai finally released a fix owners have to pay for, some cities are taking more serious steps. WION news reports that the city of St. Louis Missouri is planning to take legal action against Hyundai and Kia over the vehicle thefts.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Honda Will Start Building EVs And Their Batteries Right Here In America In 2026

    “Proactive” and “eager” are not words most would likely use to describe Honda’s investments and general attitude in electric vehicles up to this point. The company offers a city car in Europe that’s cute but not a stellar value, and here in North America it’s had to rely on General Motors to give it something to bring to the table after the Clarity’s demise — and we won’t even see that something for another two years. So the brand’s announcement today that it’s planning to pour $3.5 billion into

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • Nissan Just Sold Its Russia Business For One (1) Euro

    In a brief release on Tuesday, Nissan, which up until March of this year manufactured cars in Russia, said that they were giving up on it and exiting Russia. Nissan also said it would be selling its Russia business for one Euro, which is currently worth 98 cents. In its release, Nissan says the loss it is taking is “extraordinary,” no less than four times, which is accounting-speak for “sorry everyone this is a weird one.”

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • Uber's Background Check Company Sucks

    You probably haven’t heard of the background check reporting company Inflection before, but you’ve almost definitely know the companies that use its services. And the companies that use Checkr, the company that recently bought Inflection. Uber, Airbnb, Turo, and DraftKings are all customers.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Shocking: People Who Buy 'Semi-Autonomous' Cars Pay Less Attention While Driving

    So you bought yourself a fancy new car. One with the full suite of driver-assist features: lane keep, radar cruise, the whole shebang. The salesperson even told you it was something called “level two self-driving,” which must be better than whatever level one was. The thing basically drives itself! Surely, you can check just one text from behind the wheel, right?

    By Amber DaSilva Read More

  • Uber/Lyft Drivers One Step Closer To Becoming Employees

    Uber and Lyft certainly won’t be happy about this, but the New York Times reports that the Labor Department has issued a proposal that would make it significantly easier for rideshare drivers to be considered employees. Along with stronger worker protections, drivers would also get company benefits they currently don’t have access to as contractors.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Rising Oil Prices And Demand Cause Gas Prices To Jump

    After months of gas prices decreasing every single day, we are starting to see weeks of those lower prices being wiped out by a new upswing in cost. Across the country, the average price of a gallon of gas is now $3.92 per gallon, according to AAA.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • General Motors Is Getting Into The Energy Business

    General Motors sees EVs as a solution to our increasing energy demands, Hyundai and Ford are catching up to Tesla and the European Commission might finally stop dragging its feet over ever-stringent internal-combustion emissions rules. All that and more in this Tuesday edition of The Morning Shift for October 11, 2022.

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • GreenTeam Sets A New EV Acceleration Record

    You can’t really talk about acceleration these days without mentioning the Tesla Model S Plaid. It’s insanely quick, running from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.0 seconds, even beating the insanely expensive 1500-horsepower Bugatti Chiron. But it’s not actually the quickest EV in the world. At least not anymore. For that, you have to look at Germany. Specifically, Stuttgart.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Michigan Carvana Dealership Suspended For Being Awful (Update)

    Carvana, the relatively new CarMax competitor, hasn’t exactly been in the news for good reasons lately. Just a quick search shows it’s bleeding cash, it laid off workers the same day it spend $2.2 billion buying an auction company, it lost its ability to sell cars in Illinois twice, and customers have been filing tons of complaints. So it probably shouldn’t be surprising to hear that Carvana’s in trouble yet again.

    By Collin Woodard Read More

  • Nio Is Working On One, Possibly Two Sub-Brands For Cheaper EVs

    While Nio’s North American launch is still taking shape, the Chinese EV maker has built out its plan to expand into Europe, starting with Norway and Germany before rolling out across the continent. But expansion isn’t Nio’s only objective; the startup will diversify its offerings as well, with the foundation of another, lower-end brand that has not yet been named.

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • The Dangers Of An All-SUV Police Force Fleet

    The mass adoption of SUVs in America is apparent almost everywhere, but no where is it more visible than in the nation’s police departments. The flashing red-and-blue lights now ride higher on SUVs more often than sedans now, and that’s not necessarily good news for police or citizens.

    By Erin Marquis Read More

  • The 2023 Toyota Highlander Gains A Turbocharger

    It’s difficult not to be impressed by the sportier offerings manufactured by Toyota, like the GR Corolla or Supra. However, vehicles like the Toyota Highlander are the bread and butter of the automaker’s model range. While the brand’s cars and crossovers are seen as boring, they at least carry a stamp of reliability. So when Toyota introduces the new 2023 Highlander, there’s not a ton of excitement, but improvements under the hood might entice a little more of your interest.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Uber Is Back In 'Autonomous' Years After Fatal Crash

    Uber is partnering with the Hyundai-Aptiv joint autonomous vehicle venture Motional in a huge 10-year agreement that could potentially create, according to the companies “...one of the largest deployments of autonomous vehicles on a major ride-hail network, with the potential to reach millions of Uber riders.”

    By Erin Marquis Read More

  • Car Haulers Are Lobbying Congress To Raise Weight Limits In Order To Move More EVs

    EVs are coming in mass quantities to roads near you, and car-haulers need to be able to haul more of them to help keep costs down and the market chugging along. But the weight increase haulers like the American Trucking Association are asking for — a full 8,000 pounds— could make our already deadly roads deadlier and already crumbling infrastructure more crumbly, all while worsening pollution.

    By Erin Marquis Read More

  • Alpine Uses Dark Magic, Lots Of Carbon Fiber To Make A110 R Somehow Even Lighter

    The Alpine A110, a car whose styling one of my coworkers once said “makes them want to die,” keeps getting better. This week we’ve received what could very well be the apex of the A110 line — the A110 R. The “R” does not stand for racing, however, even though that’s something A110 has always done quite well. Alpine will have you know it actually stands for “radical.”

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • Gas Prices On The Rise In Parts Of The U.S. Due To High Demand And Low Supplies

    I fear the uptick many Americans are seeing in gas prices won’t be slowing down anytime soon. While much of the increase in prices have been centered around the West Coast, those higher prices are spreading to more and more states across the country. The national average gas price now sits at $3.81 per gallon, and much of the U.S. is seeing prices far higher than that, according to AAA.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • Ford Performance Kit Adds Horsepower, Torque To Base EcoBoost Engine

    Ford Performance has gotten its blue-oval-shaped fingers on the Bronco’s four-cylinder EcoBoost engine. The in-house tuner is giving the engine a 30 horsepower and 60 lb-ft of torque bump over the standard engine. That brings the numbers to 330 horsepower and 385 lb-ft of torque out of the 2.3-liter four popper.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • Ford's Super Duty Won't Be Going Electric For A Very Long Time

    We had thought that towing range for the F-150 Lightning would be very bad before the truck was out, and, indeed, publications like MotorTrend recently confirmed as much, getting as little as 90 miles of range towing a 7,218-pound trailer. It sounds like with Super Duty, Ford won’t even bother with electric for the foreseeable future.

    By Erik Shilling Read More

  • The Daihatsu Tanto Fun Cross Is My New Best Friend

    Here in America, we like our vehicles big and fast, and god help anyone that gets in their way. But over in Japan, things aren’t quite so menacing — their cars are smaller, happier, more fun. Out there, the keijidosha reigns supreme, with boxy vans putting every cubic centimeter allotted by regulations to full, practical use.

    By Amber DaSilva Read More

  • The New Maserati GranTurismo Comes With Either A Twin-Turbo V6 Or An Electric Drivetrain

    Little else compares to a classic European grand tourer. A luxurious interior, a sleekly-shaped exterior and a powerful drivetrain mated together to create the perfect machine for traversing a continent. Maserati has unveiled the newest iteration of its GranTurismo, a vehicle that harkens back to the A6 1500, Maserati’s first production road car, while also looking ahead to the future as its first all-electric vehicle.

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  • What The Hell Happened To Supersonic Passenger Flights?

    Ever since the supersonic Concorde was grounded in 2003, airline passengers — at least, wealthy airline passengers—have yearned for the return of faster-than-sound transit. Today, a trip from New York to London takes seven hours in the air; the Concorde could do it in under three hours in 1976. In an era where the wealthy have more money than ever to shell out for exclusive experiences, and precision manufacturing is easier than ever thanks to computer-aided design, the skies seem ripe for a Con

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  • United Airlines Wants People Who Drive To Fly On Electric Planes Instead

    Cars aren’t the only polluters. If we want to save the planet, every part of how we travel has to change, and that includes airplanes. Whether or not that method of clean travel will catch on though is another thing. But as CNBC reports, United Airlines thinks electric planes will be the next generation of air travel, but mainly for short, regional flights.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • You Can Enjoy Unlimited Flights For One Year... On Frontier

    In 1981, American Airlines famously offered a lifetime unlimited AAirpass. The frequent flyer pass gave passengers the ability to book a limitless number of flights at no additional cost. The treasured AAirpass initially retailed at $250,000 (about $820,000 in 2022 U.S. dollars). American got a much-needed injection of revenue from well-off flight-happy customers with the scheme.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • F1 Helps Break Passenger Records For Austin-Bergstrom Airport

    Austin-Bergstrom International Airport had an eventful year before October. Serving the Texas capital has been a challenge dealing with the same flight delays, cancellations and staff shortages impacting nearly every other airport across the country. On top of that, Austin-Bergstrom nearly ran out of jet fuel in the spring. The airport even suffered a three-hour power outage last month. However, Austin-Bergstrom is also seeing its passenger numbers rocket past pre-pandemic levels and now breakin

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Frontier Airlines Hiring Candidates With No Flight Experience To Tackle Pilot Shortage

    It might seem like the easiest solution for the ongoing commercial pilot shortage would be to simply hire more pilots. However, prior decisions by airlines have ensured there isn’t a large pool of qualified candidates left to pluck from. Many carriers offered their employees buyouts and early retirement to downsize during the early height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Those former employees don’t want to return largely due to lackluster pay and substandard working conditions. So, in response

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • World's Third Richest Man Sells Private Jet Because He's Afraid Of Twitter

    If you’re one of the richest human beings ever to walk this Earth, chances are you’re pretty insulated from the rest of the world. You don’t really need to concern yourself with the opinions of others, to even consider the whims of the proles. At least, that’s how things were — before that damned Twitter came around, giving the unwashed masses unfettered access to your billionaire psyche.

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  • Bogus Bag Check Fees May Cost American Airlines $7.5 Million In Class Action Settlement

    Oh, airlines. They get away with so much, and when they’re having a rough time they get away with even more, almost always at your expense. Every so often there’s a glimmer of good news, though, when the industry is held accountable for its aggressively greedy policies, and today happens to be one of those days. American Airlines is settling a class-action lawsuit to the tune of $7.5 million for unfairly charging passengers for checked bags they shouldn’t have had to pay for in the first place.

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  • Use Of A Nuclear Weapon Would Likely Ground All Air Travel: Report

    Russia’s denial of airspace to western airlines has added hours to already long and complex flights, but that’s not the only concern airlines are facing. A lack of insurance against nuclear war might mean aircraft will be grounded all over the world in the event of the use of even a smaller, tactical nuclear device.

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  • Boeing 737 MAX Models Could Stay Grounded

    According to Reuters, Boeing will seemingly only have until December to prove the airworthiness of the 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) proposed extending Boeing’s deadline until September 2024 by attaching an amendment to the U.S. Senate’s annual defense bill. However, the latest version of the bill allegedly doesn’t include the crucial amendment.

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  • Delta Throws $60 Million Into eVTOL Flying Taxi Trend

    It’s starting to get repeated at this point. A major American commercial airline has made a significant investment into an eVTOL flying taxi startup. American Airlines and United Airlines have already invested tens of millions of dollars into close-to-speculative ventures. Now, Delta Air Lines is joining them to leave Southwest Airlines as the last of America’s “Big Four” commercial air carriers not to get on the trend. Though, it’s not surprising that Southwest isn’t interested in offering thei

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  • Delta And MIT Are Partnering To Eliminate Climate-Damaging Contrails

    Delta Air Lines is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to tackle the issue of persistent contrails. In recent years, passenger airlines have been making significant efforts to reduce their impact on the climate. For example, Delta has entered a partnership to secure up to 385 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel. However, it could be years until widely-used commercial aircraft are certified to fly solely on sustainable fuel, instead of in a blend with conve

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Porsche (5)

  • The 2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS 'Tribute To Carrera RS' Is Exactly What The Name Suggests

    While this is unlikely to come as a surprise to most of you, Porsche’s new GT3 RS is no great beauty. It’s a wild, violent, aero-before-all, no-holds-barred track car that doesn’t really care about style. Except now Porsche has gone and put one of the all-time best color combinations on the new GT3 RS to celebrate the classic Carrera RS from the 1970s, and the results are surprisingly great.

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  • 2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T Is The Best Car (For People Who Can Afford A 911, But Maybe Not A GT3 Touring)

    So, the base Porsche 911 Carrera is a seriously formidable sports car. It does everything well, including destroying canyon roads, going on road trips or picking up groceries. Unfortunately, Porsche has set up its notoriously expansive options list in such a way that you can’t option some of the better performance tech unless you spend the extra cashish to get the Carrera S.

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  • New Porsche 911 GT3 RS Laps Nurburgring 13 Seconds Faster Than A 918 Spyder

    Nurburgring lap times are one of those things that’s culturally relevant because it’s interesting despite being basically useless when comparing cars in the real world. Still, it’s worth talking about when someone goes out and sets a completely bananas hot lap like Porsche just did with its brand new, aero-crazy GT3 RS.

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  • What Do You Want To Know About The 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 Touring?

    Because you are all refined sophisticates, you likely already know that the Porsche 911 is the best car. I mean, that’s just been the case since 1963 and is an immutable fact. Among 911s, there is one model which stands above all others, and it’s the hardcore, driver-focused GT3.

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  • The 2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Is Bewitching And Bewildering

    Modern cars offer a level of configurability that wouldn’t have been possible even ten years ago. But honestly, when they’re so competent in their default form, what does changing the settings really do? How much does activating “sport mode” truly gain you in lap times? When was the last time your neighbor engaged Sand mode on their Defender? The truth is, the more options we’re presented with, the less we’re inclined to use them. For the most part, they’re ultimately gimmicks, designed to give

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QOTD (41)

  • These Are The Life Skills You've Learned By Working On Cars

    Wrenching on cars can bring out a lot of emotions. Joy and wrath, stress relief and spite, zen and going absolutely apeshit. It can be quiet, meditative work, or it can mean bashing on a rusted-out bolt until you’re about ready to roll the car off a cliff. But no matter how your project goes, it’s always a teachable moment — the car, and the process of working on it, will educate you in the ways of the world.

    By Amber DaSilva Read More

  • What Is The Spookiest Car Of All Time?

    Happy Halloween to all who celebrate! In honor of everyone’s favorite costume-themed holiday, we’ve got a very special Halloween edition of our Question of the Day. We want to know what you think the spookies vehicle of all time is.

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  • These Are The Most Beautiful Cars You've Owned

    Every car is, in its own way, beautiful — except, of course, the revived Ford Thunderbird — but some still outrank others. Everyone has a single car that they’d rank as their prettiest, above all else in the stable. Yesterday, we asked you for the best-looking cars you’ve ever owned, and today we’re combing through the answers.

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  • What Life Skill Did You Learn Through Wrenching?

    Working on your own car is both fun and cost-effective. But it’s also another, secret third thing: educational. Wrenching can teach you all sorts of new skills, from wiring and diagnostics to things as simple as “knowing when your torque wrench actually clicked, so you don’t wildly over-torque your transmission drain plug and almost destroy your gearbox by sending shards of crush washer into the sump.” Not that I’d know anything about the latter, of course.

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  • What's The Most Beautiful Car You've Owned?

    Sometimes, you don’t buy a car for its specs. Sure, horsepower and torque are nice, but some cars are so pretty that you don’t even care about any hard data. People will tell you that this is the wrong way to make car-buying decisions, that you should pore over stats and figures before putting down your hard-earned money, but I say the aesthetics matter just as much.

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  • These Are Your Guilty Pleasure Cars

    We all love cars here. But some cars, for some reason or another, we feel we shouldn’t love. Of course, that never stops us from having our own particular tastes, but it often stops us from sharing them — too often, in fact. We should be proud of our guilty-pleasure cars. Yesterday, we asked you to share yours, and today we’re combing through the results. Let’s see what you secretly love.

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  • What's The Weirdest Thing You've Seen At A Dealer?

    As a Brit, American car dealers confuse me to no end. All this talk of franchising, allocations, and sky-high markups makes shopping at a dealership sound a bit like navigating the Wild West. And that means, to me, that you must have seen some weird stuff when perusing the local car lot. Have you?

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  • These Cars Should Never Have Been Killed Off

    Cars get killed off just about every day for a bevy of reasons. Maybe they were slow sellers. Maybe the manufacturer is headed in a different direction. Maybe they wanted to spite you personally.

    By Andy Kalmowitz Read More

  • What's Your Guilty Pleasure Car?

    If you’re a regular Jalop reader, you probably like cars. I know, kind of an out-there prediction, but I’m just guessing. In fact, I’m willing to bet that you like lots of cars — big cars, small cars, fast cars, and cars that only feel fast. But what about the cars you know you shouldn’t like, the ones that make you feel a bit perverse for loving them?

    By Amber DaSilva Read More

  • These Are The Worst Things You Have Left On Your Roof

    When you’re laden up with stuff and getting ready to clamber into your car, the roof can feel like an obvious place to rest something while you open the door. But, it’s also an easy spot to leave, and forget, something important before you set off.

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  • What Car Should Never Have Been Killed Off?

    You know that feeling of your favorite TV show getting canceled before it was supposed to? How about your preferable fast food place taking your favorite item off the menu? It sucks, doesn’t it? Let’s apply that same logic to cars. It’s what brings us to today’s question.

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  • What Was The Worst Thing You Left On Your Roof?

    You know the scene, bags on your back, arms full of supplies for a long trip and a phone in your hand. You pop something on the roof of your car to free up a hand so you can open the door and pile all your accouterments in. Next, you clamber in behind the wheel, start the car, and set off. Only to hear a suspicious clattering from the roof that reminds you about that coffee that you propped up there and is now starting to trickle down the rear window. Great start to the day.

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  • What's The Coolest Stock Rear Wing Ever?

    As car fans, we all know that the best way to show off the performance of your shiny new sports car is to fit a massive wing to the back of it. Despite science proving that the wing increases resistance, we know that, really, it makes you go faster.

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  • What Ford Deserves The Raptor Treatment Next?

    Did you know that October is National Raptor Month? No, neither did I until earlier this week. Apparently, over the course of the month, we’re supposed to celebrate our favorite raptors, which in this instance includes things like Peregrine Falcons, Andean Condors, and that all-American hero, the Bald Eagle.

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  • These Are Your Favorite Cars For Having Fun In The Snow

    It’s starting to smell like winter outside, with cold winds that pierce their way through even an N95 mask. That means we’re counting down to snow season, to parking lot donuts and tail-sliding trips to the grocery store. But what will you make those trips in? Yesterday, we asked for your favorite winter weather hoonmobiles, and you gave us a surfeit of answers. Let’s take a look at a few.

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  • What's The Best Car For Having Fun In The Snow?

    It’s the middle of October, which means the weather’s starting to cool down. Our own Erin Marquis has already seen the first snowflake of winter, which means those long months of ice-covered roads are nigh. But while snow may be an inconvenience to commuters, for those just looking to get from Point A to Point B, it can be an absolute blast for us enthusiasts. As long as we’re in the right car, that is.

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  • These Are The Vintage Cars You Think Aged The Worst

    As they get older, some cars age gracefully and manage to become more desirable than they were when they first rolled off the factory floor. While that’s true for the likes of the original Mini or Mustang, it’s not the case for everything.

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  • What's The Worst Example Of Automotive Badge Engineering?

    Like plenty of things invented in the 20th century, badge engineering was awful but I kind of miss it. Car companies — typically American, but not exclusively so, as the image above indicates — would take a vehicle from their arsenal, make minor visual tweaks, and sell it under a completely different make and model. Sometimes that would result in more premium features, like leather seating, for example. Other times it would be the exact same damn car. In either case, nobody was ever really foole

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  • These Are The Most Misunderstood Cars Of All Time

    Peoples’ understands of vehicles when they first go on sale isn’t always perfect. It leads to things like the Pontiac Aztek being a laughing stock 20 years ago, rather than just being a boring run-of-the-mill crossover that it would be if it were on sale today. That’s what prompted yesterday’s question.

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  • What Vintage Cars Have Aged The Worst?

    We’re all used to seeing the same beautiful old cars rolled out for automotive meets and Jalopnik slideshows. Things like the Aston Martin DB5, Ferrari 250 GT California, or the C3 Corvette all look as timeless and elegant now as they did when they first rolled off the factory floor. But not every vintage car has managed to age in the same majestic way.

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  • These Are The Cars You Think Everyone Should Experience

    We’re all into cars ‘round these parts. But not everyone is, and that’s something we all have to understand — or change. The right car in the right place can make all the difference in the world, and getting every person behind the wheel of these cars will surely make gearheads out of them. Yesterday, we asked you what cars every person should drive in their life, and today we’re checking out your answers. Let’s dive in.

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  • What's The Most Misunderstood Car Of All Time?

    Sometimes cars just miss their mark in terms of public perception. An automaker puts out a new vehicle, and no one gets it. Maybe the marketing campaign behind the new car is to blame, or maybe it was ahead of its time. Regardless of the reason, the vehicle ends up being extremely misunderstood. That’s what leads us to today’s question.

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  • The Best Six-Cylinder Engines Of All Time, According To You

    V8s are too fuel-hungry, and four-cylinders too banal. The true goldilocks choice is the six-cylinder, and manufacturers know it. Why else would there be so many variants — inline, V, VR, flat? Yesterday, we asked for your favorite six-cylinder engines, and today we’re combing through your hundreds of answers for the best — with exhaust sound clips for maximum viewing pleasure. 

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  • What Car Should Everyone Drive At Least Once In Their Lives?

    Some people just don’t understand car enthusiasm. Who can blame them? To many, cars are just an appliance — a way to get from point A to point B, and nothing more. There’s so much more to this weird automotive world of ours that they just can’t see, so much they’re missing out on. But what if, like Cinnamon Toast Crunch, they could see it? What if we could make them?

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  • What's The Best Six-Cylinder Engine?

    We, as car enthusiasts, generally tend to love V8 engines. The power, the torque, the sound — by our deeds we honor him. But, as practical and reasonable people, most of us actually drive four-cylinders. Even with a turbo sitting pretty in that engine bay, halving your number of cylinders will boost your fuel economy and drastically cut tailpipe emissions.

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  • These Are The Stories Of How You Got Into Cars

    If you’re a regular reader of Jalopnik, chances are you’re into cars. But you likely weren’t born with that interest, emerging fully-formed as a human with opinions about catalytic converters and fuel injection. Somehow, you gained that interest along the way — but how? On Friday, we asked how you got into cars, and some of you even didn’t go for the “through the door” joke. Here’s what you said.

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  • What Is The Worst Special Edition Vehicle Ever Made?

    Through the annals of automotive history, there have been hundreds – if not thousands – of special edition vehicles. Some have been very good. But then there are things like the Volkswagen Golf Harlequin and the Lincoln Town Car Jack Nicklaus Signature Series (don’t question me). Those are whatever. That’s what brings us to today’s question.

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  • These Are The Worst Generations Of Your Favorite Cars

    It might be tricky to choose at times, but deep down we all have a favorite car. But if your top choice is something like a Mustang that spawned seven different generations over the years, can you honestly say that you love every one?

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  • How Did You Get Into Cars?

    As soon as you have an interest in something, people want to know why. Say you love making pasta, friends will ask why you do that instead of just buying it at a store. Or if you suddenly get into crochet, people might wonder what led you to pick up yarn. And if there’s one passion I’m sure we all share here at Jalopnik, it’s cars. So, why did you get into cars?

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  • These Are The Cars That Got The Worst Facelifts

    Cars, like many things in this life, change. Sometimes they change a lot, but they also change a little, in between those bigger changes, to make them seem newer than they really are underneath. We call these “facelifts” or “mid-cycle refreshes.” Yesterday we asked you for the worst facelifts ever, cases where the nipped-and-tucked versions of cars looked worse than their original designs. Here’s what you told us.

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  • What's The Worst Generation Of Your Favorite Car?

    Few cars come and go after a single generation, most earn updates, facelifts, and countless redesigns over the course of their lives. And mostly, these tweaks and changes can be for the best and improve performance and styling. But, not every generational change can be for the better.

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  • What Car Got The Worst Facelift?

    In the wonderful world of car design, you have generational changes — you know, “all-new” models — and then you have those slight, mid-gen updates, to tide over vehicles that have gotten a bit long in the tooth, a bit dated looking. Some of those facelifts work wonders, as we’ve discussed. Some, regrettably, do quite the opposite. Today we’re discussing those unsuccessful attempts.

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  • These Are The Cars You'd Take To Your High School Reunion

    High school reunions. Some people shudder at the phrase; others welcome the opportunity to catch up with long lost friends, acquaintances and crushes. And others still try to imagine what they’d pull up in, if they could pull up in anything. We asked you that very question, and as usual you offered lots of creative answers, and some real ones. For the record, mine would be a yellow Geo Metro, with a red lightning bolt decal down the side. A kid at my school had one of those and if they happen to

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  • What Car Would You Take To Your High School Reunion?

    First, you get the invite email. The Class of 20XX is reuniting at the old stomping grounds in a few months, and you’re invited. You think you can ignore it, but then the texts start to trickle in. Friends, acquaintances, all asking if you’ll be there — your absence will be noted. Shit, I guess you gotta go to this thing.

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  • These New Cars Already Look Old

    We’re at a bit of a turning point in car design, where models like the Rivian R1T, Porsche Taycan and Lucid Air are starting to look like the cars of the future that sci-fi has been promising for decades. But alongside these sleek, modern models are a raft of cars whose designs are stuck in the past. The kind of cars that might be brand new but look like they already need a refresh.

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  • This Is Ferrari's New Le Mans Hypercar, The 499P

    Ferrari has officially launched the 499P, the sports prototype it hopes will bring a 10th overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans back to Maranello. The iconic Italian automaker has developed a modern challenger for the Le Mans Hypercar category while celebrating the 50th anniversary of its most recent endurance prototype triumph.

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  • Ross Chastain Wallrides Into NASCAR's Championship 4

    Yesterday, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell won the Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Raceway to seal his place into the Championship 4 field at NASCAR’s season finale, and absolutely no one cared. The spectators, the broadcasters and even the other drivers were in disbelief over what happened behind Gibbs. Trackhouse’s Ross Chastain put his right foot to the floor and rode the wall to book his place in the Championship 4.

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  • Late Paperwork Saved Fernando Alonso's 7th Place Finish In Austin

    One of the most shocking moments of last Sunday’s United States Grand Prix was when Lance Stroll’s blatant block on Alpine’s Fernando Alonso. As Alonso attempted to pass the Canadian down the Circuit of the Americas long back straight, Stroll looked into his mirror and turned left directly in front of Alonso. The pair collided. The left-rear tire on Stroll’s Aston Martin shredded, and he was spinning into the barrier.

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  • Aston Martin's Formula 1 Cost Cap Issues Were Due To Desks And Chairs

    This morning, the FIA finally announced penalties for Red Bull Racing after the team overspent Formula 1's cost cap in 2021. It’ll have its wind tunnel and CFD hours reduced, but at the end of the day — but lost in the online discourse is the fact that Aston Martin also had cost cap filing errors, and possibly for the most hilarious reason in the world. It messed up filing expenditures for office furniture.

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  • Fast & Loose Is The F1 Podcast Every New Race Fan Needs

    The growth of Formula 1 in America has brought with it a massive interest from personalities who may not have paid much attention to the European spectacle in the past — and it has also resulted in big names getting involved in the sport. For that, you need look no further than the Fast & Loose podcast on Amazon’s Amp. Hosted by Will Arnett (Arrested Development, BoJack Horseman, Smartless), Michelle Beadle (ESPN, What Did I Miss?), and The Kid Mero (Desus and Mero) alongside F1 World Champion M

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • The United States Grand Prix Reminded Me Why I'm Here

    When a Formula 1 car is beached in a gravel trap, there’s no getting out of that situation alone. You can rev the engine and spin your wheels as much as you want, but you’re only going to dig yourself deeper into the problem until the rescue crew decides it’s time to help. It’s frustrating to see your forward momentum stutter to a halt, embarrassing to know that you contributed to your own failure in front of an audience, humbling to watch someone else pick up your pieces while you climb onto th

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  • A Walk Through The 'House That Newman/Haas Built' Before It's Dismantled For Auction

    What qualifications are needed to declare something as legendary? Is it the amount of wins a driver or team brings to the table? The names that graced a team’s roster, or the names behind a team? In the case of Newman/Haas Racing, it was all of those. The team, running for almost 30 years, 1983-2011 through the CART and Champ Car series had names like Carl Haas and Paul Newman feeding the fire. The roster? Consisting of names like Mario and Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, and Sébastian Bourdais

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  • Ferrari Trento Brings Tradition And Modernity Into F1's Podium Celebrations

    In 2021, Formula 1 made a significant but perhaps overlooked change. After decades of years of partnerships with French champagne makers, it turned its eyes to a new horizon and signed Ferrari Trento to serve as the podium celebration drink of choice. For the first time in F1's history, a sparkling wine waited for drivers on the top three steps of the podium.

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  • This 1960s Book Can Still Teach You How To Race

    If you’re an aspiring race car driver (or sim racer; in this house, we don’t judge) who also happens to be struggling to grasp the core fundamentals of car handling and control, then you’re in luck. Sports Car and Competition Driving by Paul Frère from 1963 can tell you everything you need to know.

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  • The 15 Most Successful Formula 1 Cars Of All Time

    Formula 1 is a funny sport. While some fans celebrate the heroes in the driving seat for their masterful on-track action, others will argue that they’re only as successful as their last car. And in a year that has seen Red Bull driver Max Verstappen set records, that similar mantra of “it’s all because of his car” is being batted around again.

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  • Audi Selects Sauber To Become Factory F1 Team In 2026

    Near the end of August, during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, Audi confirmed that it would be entering the FIA Formula 1 World Championship as a power unit supplier for the 2026 season and beyond. Though, the German automaker didn’t confirm which cars would be fitted with its 1.6-liter turbocharged hybrid engines. However, the worst-kept secret in the Formula 1 paddock was the identity of the team in negotiations with Audi.

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  • This Is How America Could Get Its Next Formula 1 Driver

    This year, Formula 1 has been close to securing an American driver for the first time since 2015, but countless issues have risen to the fore to keep that from happening. But over the United States Grand Prix weekend, Williams team principal Jost Capito confirmed that the team is fully prepared to sign Logan Sargeant alongside Alex Albon for 2023. He just needs a few more super license points.

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  • NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Will Race On Ice In 2023

    In recent years, NASCAR-sanctioned stock car racing series have ventured out to new unique event venues. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted the Busch Light Clash season-opening exhibition race on a quarter-mile bullring inside the legendary stadium in February and is scheduled to do so again next February. Also, in 2023, the Cup Series is slated to run a points-paying round on a street circuit in Chicago. Next week, NASCAR’s European-based championship is taking its drivers onto an entirel

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Zhou Guanyu's Self-Expression In Formula 1 Comes Through Fashion

    Zhou Guanyu may be a Formula 1 rookie with the Alfa Romeo team this year, but he’s already making an impact in one surprising way: The fashion world. Alongside Lewis Hamilton, F1's first Chinese driver is showing that self-expression is a critical part of the sport’s new direction.

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  • Retired Sebastien Ogier Is Still Winning And Getting Fined Doing What He Wants

    A part of all of us aspires to live like Sebastien Ogier. Show up, collect a trophy and go home. The 38-year-old Frenchman retired from international rallying at the end of 2021 after securing his eighth World Rally Championship. In 2022, Ogier competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship with the Richard Mille LMP2 team. Though, he dropped out after competing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Ogier told motorsport.com, “Even though it was announced differently, we were always clear with the team

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  • How To Tackle An 8-Day, Off-Road Race Through The Desert

    The desert expanse of Southern Nevada and California more closely resembles Mars than it does Earth—no water for hundreds of miles, powerful dust storms, and few signs of civilization to speak of. No matter how easy the car commercials make it seem, one doesn’t just casually off-road through this type of terrain without an airtight plan or a trustworthy co-pilot.

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  • Red Bull And Formula 1 Team Founder Dietrich Mateschitz Dies At 78

    On Saturday, October 22, Dietrich Mateschitz died at age 78. As the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and the founder/owner of Red Bull Racing’s Formula 1 team, the Austrian billionaire has had a truly incredible impact on the sporting world. Currently, there is no further information on his death, Associated Press reports.

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  • Circuit Of The Americas Is Formula 1's True Home In The U.S.

    With its skyrocketing popularity in the United States, Formula 1 is more poised than ever to take advantage of the diverse audiences this country has to offer. Last weekend’s race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, though, proved one thing: The sport needs to preserve its proper racing heritage in the U.S.

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  • 'Rookie Season' Is A Must-Watch For Anyone Who Has Dreamed About Racing

    How would you fare as a race car driver? It’s a question I know I’ve asked myself many times, and most race fans will have done so, too. Frank DePew, though, has been out here living that dream, and you can relive his first year of competition alongside him in a new documentary called Rookie Season.

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  • How To Make The Most Of Your Trip To The United States Grand Prix

    The day has finally come: It is officially the United States Grand Prix weekend. As a former resident of Austin, TX, I’ve made this event a yearly endeavor, and I like to think that I’ve really figured out the best way to attend the race. So, if you’ve got tickets and are heading to the track for the first time — or if you’re a seasoned veteran looking to maximize your trip — then I’m here for you.

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  • Formula 1 In America Was Never The Same After 2005 United States Grand Prix

    While Formula 1 doesn’t boast a long history of races so terrible that they turn an entire country off a certain kind of motorsport, one such race took place less than two decades ago at the 2005 United States Grand Prix. Unfortunately for F1, the politics-driven chaos was the antithesis of what American audiences needed after watching its own domestic series torn apart time and again by similar infighting.

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  • FIA Announces Changes Following F1's Tractor Incident In Japan

    Ignoring the confusion over whether on not Max Verstappen won the 2022 F1 World Drivers’ Championship, Formula 1’s drivers left Japan seriously concerned over the handling of an incident early in the rain-affected race. On the second lap, Carlos Sainz lost control of his Ferrari at the exit of Suzuka’s hairpin and aquaplaned into the barriers. The safety car was deployed, then marshals and a recovery vehicle were sent to the severely damaged Ferrari at the track’s edge.

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  • Porsche To Formula 1: Not Dead Yet

    Today, the FIA World Motor Sport Council convened at the Royal Automobile Club in London for its third meeting of the year. FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem officially opened the session by addressing the members of international motorsport’s highest committee and summarizing the significant developments that took place under the supervision of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile since the council’s previous meeting in June. However, a single sentence in the address piqued the intere

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  • Formula 1's American Street Races Were Doomed To Fail From The Start

    For years, Formula 1's Long Beach Grand Prix succeeded against all odds. There was no reason why a race at a run-down port city should have worked, but it did, and the sport spent years trying to reclaim the glamour of a race it allowed to die with several other ill-conceived street events around America that tried — and desperately failed — to capture the attention of the American fan.

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  • McLaren To Use Digital Ad Screens On Its F1 Cars

    Formula 1 cars having the ability to change their livery while out on track sounds like a marketer’s dream and a commentator’s nightmare. Teams might replace a sponsor’s logo in a particular market or run a one-off livery to commemorate a special occasion, but they never make these changing during a race. McLaren has now taken the first step in bringing the world’s fastest billboards into the 21st century.

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  • Valtteri Bottas Says F1's Perception In America Changing Rapidly

    Formula 1 is booming in America right now, a sentence nobody would have predicted reading 10 years ago. The sport is gearing up to host three races in the U.S. next season thanks to the addition of new races across the country, and new and returning fans are flocking to the fastest sport on four wheels.

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  • All The Non-Race Meet-Ups At The 2022 United States Grand Prix

    It’s finally here, friends. This week marks the 2022 United States Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas, and it’s one of my favorite weekends of the year. I know there’s more than enough in the great city of Austin, TX to provide you with a weekend of entertainment — but if you’re looking to hang out with some like-minded folks who also love racing, then this list is for you.

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  • The Rise And Fall Of The United States Grand Prix At Watkins Glen

    To truly thrive in America, Formula 1 just needed one thing: A stable, reliable race that could entice drivers and fans to attend from far and wide. After struggling through Sebring, Riverside, and a decade of uncontested Indy 500s, F1 finally seemed to strike gold with Watkins Glen International in upstate New York. But all good things, unfortunately, cannot last forever — especially with more exciting events on the horizon.

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  • This Handy Chart Will Help You Keep All Those Formula E Team Changes Straight

    We’re getting dangerously close to the start of the next Formula E season. The all-electric racing series will kick off with its first race of season nine in Mexico on January 14th. When the lights go green, the series will field 22 brand new cars that promise closer racing and speeds of 200mph. But do you know which teams will be lining up on the grid in 2023?

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  • How Hubris Killed The United States Grand Prix At Riverside

    Let’s say you came from out of state and wanted to host a pretty massive event at a venue that already has an established and dedicated local fanbase. It would perhaps make sense to treat that venue with ample respect — to assume, perhaps, that your event would not outshine all the other events and to act accordingly. Well, when Formula 1 came to California’s Riverside International Raceway, it did so with a massive ego that almost immediately came back to haunt the series.

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  • Formula E Is Reportedly Ditching FanBoost For 2023

    One of Formula E’s much-maligned gimmicks might just be laid to rest this year. The Race reports that FanBoost is set to die with the introduction of the Gen3 cars as a way to add “authenticity” to the racing product. I know I’m not alone when I say it’s about damn time.

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  • The 1959 United States Grand Prix At Sebring Almost Ended In Financial Ruin

    As Formula 1 neared its first decade of existence, promoters in America began to look at the World Championship and wonder just what it would take to actually bring the globe’s greatest racing stars to United States. Unfortunately, the first-ever United States Grand Prix at Sebring was a little bit of a disaster. Despite a stunning finish, small crowds killed the Florida race — but Alec Ulmann, who set up the event, was willing to try again.

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  • MotoGP's Maverick Viñales Criticizes Supersport 300 After Recent Rider Death

    The lower categories of international motorcycle racing have had a tragic last two years. In May 2021, 19-year-old Jason Dupasquier died in a Moto3 qualifying session after falling off his bike and being struck by another bike. In July 2021, 14-year-old Hugo Millan died in a European Talent Cup race after falling off his bike and being struck by another bike. In September 2021, 15-year-old Dean Berta Viñales died in a Supersport 300 race after falling off his bike and being struck by another bik

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  • Alex Bowman Sidelined With Concussion For Three More NASCAR Cup Series Races

    Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman will remain on the sidelines for at least three more NASCAR Cup Series races, RACER reports. After a crash at Texas Motor Speedway on September 25, Bowman has been suffering concussion-like symptoms, and a check-in with a doctor this week has shown he isn’t ready to make his return to the sport.

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  • NASCAR Will Foot The Bill For 2023 Cup Series Safety Upgrades

    NASCAR has faced ample criticism from fans, drivers, and media alike when it comes to the construction of the Cup Series’ Next Gen car — but for 2023, it sounds like the sanctioning body is going to solve those problems. At least, that’s what a leaked memo reads, as per Road & Track.

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  • Formula E Champion Stoffel Vandoorne Joins DS Penske For 2023

    The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship has had a sillier-than-usual silly season, with manufacturers and teams joining the drivers in the traditional high-stakes game of contractual musical chairs as everyone prepares for the Gen3 era. Mercedes-EQ is withdrawing from Formula E after winning its second consecutive championship. DS and Techeetah have parted ways, and now the French luxury brand is allying with Dragon Penske Autosport.”

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  • Williams F1, IndyCar Sponsor Rokit Has Left Sport In Shambles

    If you’ve followed motorsport — honestly, just about any form of motorsport — over the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a car sponsored by a company called Rokit. Rokit has dipped its toes into everything from IndyCar to Formula 1 to Formula E, and it’s also secured deals with other sports teams, like the Oakland Raiders, the Los Angeles Chargers, and the Houston Rockets. Except, as Sportico writes, the company has left a path of lawsuits, bankruptcies, and abandoned deals in it

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  • Meet Shayna Texter-Bauman: The Winningest Rider In American Flat Track Singles Racing

    Shayna Texter-Bauman has taken the literal roughest tracks to become a respected female racer in flat track competition. The now 31-year-old became the first-ever woman to win the American Pro Singles Class in flat track racing back in 2011 and today remains the “winningest rider in American Flat Track Singles History,” with 19 victories to her name. After conquering the Singles’ class, she was ready to take on something bigger, more challenging, and also, her family, entering the SuperTwins cla

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  • W Series Ends 2022 Season Three Races Early Due To Lack Of Funding

    W Series is ceasing its 2022 season, effective immediately. The women’s-only single-seater championship announced in a statement that the next round supporting the United States Grand Prix in Austin and the season-ending doubleheader at the Mexico City Grand Prix have been canceled. CEO Catherine Bond Muir said, “It’s with both great sadness and frustration that we announce that our much-anticipated final three races of the 2022 season in Austin and Mexico City will not go ahead.” The organizati

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  • The FIA Response To Suzuka's Trackside Recovery Truck Is Disturbing

    The 2022 Japanese Grand Prix started under rainy conditions and resulted in multiple crashes and collisions on the first lap that ultimately resulted in a red flag. But just as the red flag flew, a recovery tractor had entered the track while cars were still circuiting Suzuka. And so far, the response has been miserable, with AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly taking most of the current blame.

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  • FIA Confirms Red Bull Overspent Its 2021 Cost Cap Budget

    Formula 1's governing body, the FIA, has finally released its much-anticipated conclusion regarding the overspending of $145 million cost-cap budgets in 2021. It confirms that the Red Bull Racing team did in fact significantly overspend its budget — but so far, no penalties have been announced.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • The Loophole That Enabled Max Verstappen To Win His Second Formula 1 Championship, Explained

    During post-race interviews after the rain-delayed Japanese Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen was told multiple times that he had won his second World Championship, which he adamantly denied, and he wasn’t the only person confused: Most teams — and plenty of the commentators — had no idea what had just happened. It all comes down to a loophole in the rules.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • We'll Get Our First Camouflage-Free Look At Ferrari's Le Mans Hypercar On October 30

    Once upon a time, Enzo Ferrari said that the prettiest race car is the one that wins the best, or something. It makes for a slick quote, and we can all understand Ferrari’s point, but that doesn’t make it true. The Scuderia couldn’t buy a win during the 1992 Formula 1 season for example, and yet that fact does nothing to abate my appreciation for the F92A’s silhouette.

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  • Sebastian Vettel's Japanese GP Helmet Pays Tribute To Arai

    This weekend, the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is visiting Suzuka Circuit for the first Japanese Grand Prix since 2019. Friday’s practice sessions were running in wet conditions, so only time and the weather radar will prove if today’s track mileage will be useful on Sunday. Though, one interesting development did come out of practice. We got a good look at the special helmet that Sebastian Vettel will be wearing for his final F1 race at Suzuka.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • This Faux Saudi Arabian Prince Wooed Tyrrell's Formula 1 Team With Money That Didn't Exist

    Sulaiman Al-Kehaimi showed up in the Formula 1 paddock for the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix with flair. He threw a massive race-weekend part in a mansion — said to be attended by none other than Cher herself — and promised a struggling Team Tyrrell that, as a Saudi Arabian prince, he had the money to buy a controlling stake in the destitute team. Except, he wasn’t a prince at all, and Tyrrell finally succumbed to failure.

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  • Maserati Formula E Team To Be Headed By James Rossiter

    Among the many shake-ups taking place ahead of Formula E’s next season comes a new team principal for Maserati MSG Racing, a team that was formerly known as ROKiT Venturi. Taking the helm will be James Rossiter, a former racing driver and, most recently, the sporting director for the DS Techeetah team.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • What Happens When Motorsport Meets The Olympics?

    The Olympic Games is, by every significant measure, the largest sporting event on the planet. Over three billion people around the world watched the most recent edition of the Summer Games in Tokyo. Understandably, usually once every four years, racing fans speculate and craft what-if scenarios on how motorsport could be incorporated into the modern Olympic program. Seeing the interest in the national team competition, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) decided to create its own

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Formula 1's Crypto.com Sponsor Is Falling Apart

    If you’ve watched a Formula 1 race this year, there’s a good chance you have — if only unconsciously — seen plenty of Crypto.com ads. Along with companies like Aramco, DHL, Emirates, and Heineken, Crypto.com has looked like it’s become one of the key players in financing the future of global open-wheel motorsport. But right now, all that money might be drying up.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • Here's How Max Verstappen Can Win His Second F1 Title This Weekend

    Try as he might, Red Bull racer Max Verstappen still hasn’t managed to get his hands on world championship number two. The Dutchman had his first chance at glory in Singapore last weekend, but ended the race in seventh so couldn’t quite stake his claim. He’ll have another chance at the crown this weekend, in Japan.

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  • Team Lotus' Essex Formula 1 Sponsorship Collapsed In The Wake Of Financial Scandal

    If you were to imagine the consummate playboy of the late 1970s and early 1980s, there’s a good chance you might picture someone like David Thieme. Show up to any elaborate Team Lotus party during a Formula 1 weekend, and you would inevitably find Thieme holding court with his goatee, black fedora, and square sunglasses. He and his company, Essex Overseas Petroleum Corporation, seemed impossibly good at making money and spending it on racing. And then he was arrested.

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  • The One Way An F1 Cost Cap Breach Could Threaten Verstappen's 2022 Championship

    Millions of Formula 1 fans waited with bated breath in anticipation of an announcement from the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). Motorsport’s international governing body was expected to reveal its findings after its investigations of financial statements submitted for the 2021 F1 season. It is rumored that two F1 teams, believed to be Red Bull and Aston Martin, beached the cost cap last season. Instead, the FIA published a release stating there will be a delay until the Monday a

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Every Safety Car Ever Used In Formula 1

    Formula 1 has a raft of important safety features that keep drivers from harm over a grand prix weekend. There are barriers across the circuit to absorb the impact of a crash, the halo device fitted to every car protects each driver’s head and medical teams are on hand for a quick dispatch if anything goes wrong.

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  • IndyCar's Juncos Hollinger Racing Set For Exhibition Tour Of Argentina

    It’s been nearly a decade since the NTT IndyCar Series has last had a championship round outside North America. Since the final São Paulo Indy 300 in 2013, the only regularly scheduled IndyCar race outside of the United States has been on the streets of Toronto. However, IndyCar is going to be getting help reinvigorating interest in South America from one of the series’ smallest teams.

    By Ryan Erik King Read More

  • Leyton House's Gorgeous Formula 1 Cars Came With Financial Scandal

    When Leyton House, a Japanese real estate company and lifestyle brand, bought its way into Formula 1, it did so by taking over the longstanding March team and rebranding it with Leyton House’s gorgeous turquoise paint scheme. Within five years, though, Leyton House founder Akira Akagi was arrested due to financial scandal, and the bloodline of the storied March team was no more.

    By Elizabeth Blackstock Read More

  • Saudi Arabia's Sports Minister-Prince Promises F1 Race Will Definitely Be Safer Next Time

    Last weekend, Saudi sports minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal appeared at the Singapore Grand Prix to deliver an update on security improvements for the next Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah. This year’s edition of the race was overshadowed by a missile attack on a nearby Aramco oil refinery. After the incident, Formula 1’s drivers had to be convinced to race that weekend after a four-and-a-half-hour long meeting in the paddock.

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  • The Ford Mustang GT4 Will Be The First Seventh-Generation Mustang Ready To Race

    Last month, Ford announced a plethora of new or remodeled racing vehicles resembling the seventh-generation Mustang unveiled during the same presentation. While the Blue Oval’s latest pony car will be available to customers in Summer 2023, the racing iterations of the new Mustang are expected to hit tracks around the world in 2024.

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  • Formula E Will Finally Race In Tokyo In 2024

    The 2023 Formula E calendar might not have been filled yet, but that hasn’t stopped the all-electric racing series from looking ahead to its 2024 season already. After months of speculation, Formula E has announced that its 10th season of on-track action will finally see the sport host a race in Tokyo.

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  • Formula 1's First Black Team Owner Came And Then Disappeared

    With a promise of $125 million, a royal lineage, and a sponsorship from his very own T-Minus brand, Prince Malik Ado-Ibhrahim became Formula 1's first Black team owner when he purchased a majority stake in the longstanding Arrows team. Then, with half the season remaining, this Nigerian prince disappeared.

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  • How A Fake Machine Said To Predict The Stock Market Became A Formula 1 Sponsor

    When Jean-Pierre Van Rossem debuted his Moneytron machine, he did so with one massive claim: Here was a supercomputer that could accurately predict the stock market and beat out the capitalist system. Invest your hard-earned dollars in Moneytron, he said, and you’ll become infinitely wealthy. With his Moneytron earnings, Van Rossem became the majority owner of the Onyx Formula 1 team in 1989 — and then things collapsed.

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  • Pour One Out For The Ram 1500 Classic Regular Cab, Short Box, For It Is No More

    Nobody seems to like or buy regular cab, short bed pickups anymore, but you could still get them from the Big Three if you wanted to. That’s starting to change, though, as Stellantis looks to be the first to send off the configuration. The regular cab, 6-foot, 4-inch bed Ram 1500 Classic will not return for 2023, per Mopar Insiders.

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  • The Specialized Turbo Creo SL Is A Nearly Perfect Electric Road Bike

    Most electric bikes that you see on the street are set up for commuters and delivery riders. They’re heavy, with wide tires to soak up bumps, and come decked out with fenders and luggage racks. Bikes like this are great if you want to leave the car at home and take an electrically-assisted ride.

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  • The Lamborghini Urus Performante Delivers On The Track Or In The Dirt

    “So the track is a little bit cold this morning, we’ll do a few laps to warm up before we really open up the car,” Matteo, my driving instructor for the day warned me before he led me out for our first lapping session. This is the sort of guidance I’d expect to hear at an October track day, but it’s not the sort of thing I’m used to hearing before climbing into an SUV.

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  • The 2023 Ariya Proves Nissan Is Getting Serious About EVs

    Everyone gets on Nissan for leaving the same products on the market for a long, long time. Now, the company is making efforts to turn things around. In the last few years, nearly every vehicle in the brand’s lineup has been completely redesigned or heavily updated. That means the long-lived Leaf is getting another all-electric sibling. And the Ariya should get people talking.

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  • The 2023 Kia Niro Is Appealing As A Hybrid Or An EV

    I’ll be honest: I have my favorites when it comes to hybrid systems. To me, the most efficient hybrid is a Toyota-style ECVT setup, placed in an ugly hatchback body that I’ve probably conned myself into thinking is the pinnacle of driving efficiency. Sure, Toyota’s hybrids are mechanically robust, but in my opinion, they’re ugly, and generally not fun to drive. The power delivery is syrupy, like pouring corn-laden Mrs. Butterworth’s imitation maple syrup on a freezer-burnt Eggo waffle. In the sa

    By Kevin Williams Read More

  • The 2023 Escalade Is Cadillac's Past And Present, But Not Its Future

    Cadillac is in an interesting position right now. The company wants to launch a new brand identity, but its most iconic product doesn’t really mesh with that new direction. Cadillac has said many times that from here on out, all its new vehicles will be electric. That leaves its flagship, the Escalade, in a weird spot.

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  • NASA Brings Together 16-Scientist Panel To Research UFOs

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Monday the members of a 16-expert panel to research so-called Unidentified Arial Phenomena, commonly referred to as UFOs, from across the sciences to research strange, inexplicable lights in the skies.

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  • NASA Says Artemis 1 Will Launch For Real Next Month

    Hurricane Ian seemed to just be the latest disaster to set back the first launch of the Artemis 1 rocket and its unmanned Orion spacecraft, but NASA announced rolling the rocket back into its hanger allowed engineers to give everything a thorough once-over. With minimal work, the rocket should be ready to launch in just one month’s time.

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  • When William Shatner Went To Space, All He Saw Was 'Death'

    William Shatner is not now — and never was — a spaceship captain, but he played one on TV. In 2021, William Shatner finally went to space aboard a gratuitously phallic spacecraft owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Don’t read into that too much. But instead of feeling triumph or the undaunted spirit of James T. Kirk, Shatner felt dread and says he saw only “death,” as CNN reports.

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Technology (25)

  • The Aston Martin DBX Has A Delightful DB5 Tribute In Its Dashboard

    This past weekend, I had the pleasure of driving an Aston Martin DBX 707, the performance variant of the British company’s first ever SUV. There’s a lot to like about the DBX 707 (which, despite its name, is only rated for 697 hp in the U.S. — the 707 figure refers to PS, the European power-output unit of measure). But my favorite little detail was something I discovered the moment I activated Adaptive Cruise Control.

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  • XPeng Strapped A Drone To A Hatchback And Called It A Flying Car

    Flying cars are the future, apparently. That’s what tech companies like to say whenever they wheel out a new vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft that they’re tenuously claiming is a flying car. So far, very few of these creations have made it off the drawing board and into reality. Things changed this week, when Chinese tech company XPeng strapped a drone to a hatchback and called it a flying car.

    By Owen Bellwood Read More

  • Lucid's New Home Charger Adds Up To 80 Miles Of Range In One Hour

    With EV adoption on the horizon, many still have range and charging anxiety. Will there be a charger available where I’m going? Will it give me enough juice to get back home? These are the questions a lot of potential EV owners are asking. Now, Lucid should be able to offer some reassurance to Air owners, thanks to a new home charger that can deliver up to 80 miles of range per hour plugged in.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Tesla Could Cut Production Costs By Half, Igniting Rumors Of Cheaper Tesla Model

    During Tesla’s latest earnings call, Elon Musk said that the EV maker is working on a new platform that could slash its production costs by half. This cheaper platform would be the company’s third, and it’s stoking rumors about the long-forgotten $25,000 Tesla, anecdotally known as the Tesla Model 2, according to Automotive News.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • One Province In China Has More EV Charging Stations Than The Whole U.S.

    The Chinese province of Guangdong now has more EV charging stations than the entire United States combined. The coastal province has added hundreds of thousands of charging stations in the last few years, as Bloomberg reports. And now that China is on a charging station install spree, Guangdong has accrued close to 372,000 charging locations, which is over three times as many as in the U.S., where public EV stations number 112,900.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • Honda EVs May Qualify For The EV Tax Credit Thanks To GM Doing The Heavy Lifting

    Honda has its first EVs coming in the form of the Honda Prologue and the return of the Acura ZDX. But they’ll be Honda/Acura products more in name and design only because of Honda and General Motor’s EV partnership. The EVs will be produced in GM’s facilities with the General’s Ultium batteries and Ultium drive systems. And as Automotive News points out, this may result in pricing playing out in Honda’s favor.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Hyundai Built A Mini Resort Powered Entirely By Ioniq5s

    Automakers seem to be growing more aware of just how fragile our electric grid is. More and more EVs are coming equipped with either V2L (vehicle to load) or V2G (vehicle to grid) capability. This allows EVs to act as a rolling generator, able to power appliances, a home, or shore up the grid itself. Hyundai is using this capability to showcase how its Ioniq 5 EV can power a vacation rental. And if you’re in the UK, you can book a stay there to experience it.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Stellantis CEO And EU Executives Can't Agree On EVs

    Stellantis executives can’t seem to get on the same page as far as EVs are concerned. The head of the automaker conglomerate, CEO Carlos Tavares, insists the auto industry is rushing recklessly into the EV transition. But Uwe Hochgeschurtz, the former CEO of Opel and Vauxhall and current COO of Stellantis Europe, says the company will go purely electric because that’s what people want, as Electrek reports.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • New Jersey Bill Takes A Soft Stand Against In-Car Subscriptions

    In-car subscriptions are one of those impending modern calamities that unite everyone in disgust. Nobody who isn’t a C-suite executive at at automaker or one of their suppliers wants them. It should be the job of our elected officials to shield us from the erosion of our rights as consumers (and people, but that’s a whole other story). Wouldn’t you know, my home state of New Jersey might just take a stand. Jersey!

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • California Startup Wants You To Replenish Your EV (And Personal) Energy Stores At Taco Bell

    Americans love fast food, spending some $110 billion a year on it. With the come age of electric cars and fast charging not yet perfected, people need a place to wait while their vehicle charges. What better way than the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant? As Business Insider reports, one California startup is hoping to do just that by placing EV chargers in the parking lot of aTaco Bell.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Foxconn Wants To Make EV Trucks For Tesla And Apple

    Foxconn has two more EV concepts to add to its growing list of electric cars, including a fully-electric pickup called the Model V. The Taiwanese company rolled out the new EV truck at this year’s Hon Hai Tech Day alongside a small EV crossover called the Model B.

    By José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

  • The Jeep Avenger Is A Tiny, Europe-Only EV

    A little over a month ago, Jeep dropped its EV plans on us. It showed us three EV models that Stellantis says are coming in the near future. Today, one of those models made its debut, but exclusively for the European market. Jeep has introduced the Avenger as its first EV for production.

    By Lawrence Hodge Read More

  • Scientist Might Have Cracked 10-Minute Electric Car Charging

    Ask pretty much anyone why they aren’t considering buying an electric car in the year of our lord 2022, and they’ll probably tell you it’s because of the charging times. Sure, top EVs from the likes of Lucid and Ford can cover more than 200 miles per charge, which is comparable with the amount of miles you’ll get between refills of your gas-powered motor.

    By Owen Bellwood Read More

  • Sony Honda Mobility Is The Wild Card In Honda's EV Future

    Sony Honda Mobility, the partnership between the like-minded tech and automotive giants to commercialize Sony’s Vision-S and Vision-S 02 concepts, is moving fast. The two firms joined forces in March, and in June they provided an update that they’d be seeking to create a new, standalone brand. On Thursday at a joint press conference, they announced that their vehicles will be built at an unnamed Honda facility in the United States, and that they’d be sold in North America and Japan in 2026.

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  • Hyundai's Next-Gen EVs Will Get 50 Percent Better Range Than Today's Models

    Hyundai’s E-GMP electric vehicle architecture is among the most competitive out there currently from any automaker, thanks to its 800-volt design and solid driving dynamics. In the future, it’ll be replaced with a new platform that Hyundai is calling the Integrated Modular Architecture, which the company detailed on Wednesday morning. It’ll come in two flavors — eM and eS — and if the manufacturer’s projections bear out, it’s going to blow E-GMP out of the water.

    By Adam Ismail Read More

  • Google Keeps Making Android's Driving-Focused Modes Worse

    One of Google’s brightest ideas in the last decade was the Android Auto app. Different than the experience that you get when you plug an Android device into a new-ish car, the Android Auto app resided exclusively on your phone and gave your device a unique user experience built for driving, with large text, big UI elements and quick access to the sorts of features you’d often use behind the wheel, like phone calls and media controls.

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  • Volvo Believes Electric Trucks Are Key To Dominating U.S. Commercial Market

    Volvo is making inroads in the U.S. truck market now that the sale of EV big rigs is taking off. Volvo Trucks is currently ahead of its competitors in the U.S., including Mack, Peterbilt, International and the stalwart Freightliner, which has dominated the sale of commercial trucks in the U.S. for years, according to Automotive News.

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  • Roller Coasters, Basic Clumsiness Are Triggering The iPhone 14's Automated Crash Detection

    The 2022 iPhone line’s ability to detect car crashes and automatically contact emergency services garnered a lot of attention when the products were unveiled in September — even though that sort of cleverness has been present on Google’s devices for years. (Admittedly, this stuff only tends to get acknowledged when Apple does it.) The benefits of such a feature are obvious, but critically only when actual car accidents are identified — not activities that tend to register data merely resembling

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  • Please Don't Give The Robots Guns, Pleads Boston Dynamics

    By now, everyone’s seen the videos of Boston Dynamics robot dog, Spot. It can walk, run, hop on two legs and even dance—it’s mighty impressive. But with every video released by the American robotics firm, it felt like we were edging closer to the ultimate goal of four-legged drones that could be equipped for battle and replace soldiers. A pretty terrifying idea.

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  • Toyota bZ4X Is No Longer At Risk Of Its Wheels Falling Off After Simple Recall Fix

    The Toyota bZ4X is going back on sale now that Toyota has figured out how to keep its wheels from falling off. Toyota will resume production of the fully-electric crossover on Thursday, now adding washers to its wheel hub bolts. Toyota will then resume sales on October 26 in Japan, with bZ4X sales in the U.S. following shortly afterward, as Automotive News reports.

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  • Every Ridiculous High-Tech Feature On The 2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS

    When it comes to technical wizardry, the Porsche GT3 RS is in a class by itself. This carbon-fiber cloaked machine is an aerodynamic powerhouse, and if there’s a moving part anywhere on the exterior, chances are you can adjust it for maximum downforce. It’s practically one tire change away from being a full-on race car. Let’s dive into everything that makes the 992-generation GT3 RS a monster of downforce and tunability.

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  • Tesla Bails On Ultrasonic Sensors For Future Production, Report Says

    If there’s one thing that Tesla loves, it’s hyping up the capabilities of its Autopilot driver assistance system. I mean, hot damn, they love talking about how much safer it is than a human driver and how it’s going to lead to robotaxis in the future and a bunch of other nonsense, and that it’s going to do so without the use of lidar.

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The Morning Shift (20)

  • GM And Ford Are Getting Chips Into Their Cars That Need Them

    Ford and GM are having slightly different experiences getting semiconductors into their unsold cars that need them, Mazda will soon finally tell us about its electrification strategy and Stellantis’ dream of Jeep in China is officially over. All that and more in this spooky edition of The Morning Shift for Monday, October 31, 2022.

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  • Europe Finalizes 2035 Death Date For ICE-Powered New Cars

    The days of internal combustion engines in Europe are officially numbered, Volkswagen and Volvo are licking their wounds, and used car dealers are reminiscing about happier times — as in, 2021. All that and more in this “We’re Headed for a Recession” edition of The Morning Shift for October 28, 2022. Hey — at least it’s Friday!

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  • Toyota Isn't Quite Ready To Boost EV Output

    Toyota says it still isn’t going to really boost production of its first mass-market electric vehicle for a few more years, Faraday Future is slashing salaries because the start-up EV maker is running out of cash, and Mercedes-Benz is the latest manufacturer to quit the Russian market. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, October 26, 2022.

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  • Tesla Slashed Prices In China

    Elon Musk cut nine percent off the price of a new Tesla, but only if it’s one made and sold in China; Hyundai wants you to know that it’s a luxury carmaker now; and the U.S. is gonna need to mine a whole lot more lithium for all these upcoming EVs. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, October 24, 2022.

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  • Toyota Finally Admits It Won't Make Its Full-Year Production Target

    The global chip shortage and supply chain issues mean Toyota is about to miss the mark in terms of production, a new report predicts top automakers could invest nearly $1.2 trillion in EVs by 2030, and Tesla’s lithium refinery plans in Texas get the green light. Those stories and more in this freaky Friday edition of The Morning Shift for October 21, 2022.

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  • Elon Musk Swears Tesla Isn't Having Demand Problems

    Elon Musk is adamant that Tesla does not have a demand problem for its vehicles, Geely is in the planning stages of boosting its 7.6 percent stake in ever-struggling Aston Martin, and Tesla finally admits its vehicles are not ready to be approved as full self-driving this year. All that scrumptious automotive news and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, October 20, 2022.

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  • The Porsche-Volkswagen Situation May Be Too Complex For Its Own Good

    Volkswagen and Porsche’s weird financial and corporate setup are getting a little too strange to get a grip on, the UAW isn’t happy about Hyundai and alleged child labor, and BMW and Amazon Web Services are teaming up for vehicle data software. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, October 14, 2022.

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  • Carvana Wants You To Beg For Its Return To Michigan

    Carvana wants Michigan buyers to petition for its return, Volkswagen is going long on autonomy, and the joint Honda/Sony EV will be made right here in the U.S. of A. All that and more The Morning Shift for Thursday, October 13, 2022.

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  • Tesla Is Luxury Car Sales King In The U.S. And It's Not All That Close

    Tesla is leaving every other luxury vehicle brand far behind in terms of U.S. sales this year, General Motors is investing millions in an Australian minerals company to secure raw materials for its Ultium battery cells, and Toyota finally opens a plant in Myanmar that was put on hold because of a coup. All those stories and a lot more The Morning Shift for Wednesday, October 12, 2022.

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  • Rivian's Big Recall Is Making Investors Nervous

    Rivian’s investors are unhappy with its recalls, Renault and Nissan are looking to renew their vows, and Audi is considering a new factory in the United States. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, October 10, 2022.

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  • BMW Says Everyone Wants A Luxury EV

    BMW claims Americans love high-dollar EVs, The U.S. is headed back to the cobalt mines, and Stellantis is somehow being buoyed by Dodge and Chrysler. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Friday, October 7, 2022.

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  • Ford Raised The F-150 Lightning's Price Once Again

    Ford is hiking up the price of the base F-150 Lightning Pro for the second time in two months, Porsche is now Europe’s most valuable carmaker after its IPO, and Honda is planning to drastically cut vehicle output at two plants in Japan this October. All that automotive goodness and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, October 6, 2022.

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  • Ford Tripled Its EV Sales Despite A Dip In Total Deliveries

    Ford keeps its place as America’s second best-selling EV maker after tripling its sales of electric cars, Porsche is being sued for $300 million over claims it “withheld inventory” from a Florida dealer, and U.S. public transport ridership is getting back on track after the pandemics. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, October 5, 2022.

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  • GM Sold Way More Cars Last Quarter, But Forecast Looks Bleak

    General Motors has outsold Toyota again in the States, Rivian’s present is stable but future looks uncertain, and Ferrari is trying to figure out how a whole bunch of its internal documents were dumped online. All that and more in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, October 4, 2022.

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  • Tesla Third Quarter Sales Hit By Delivery Delays

    American EV-maker Tesla posted smaller than expected sales for the third quarter of 2022, Toyota things America’s EV targets will be hard to meet and Stellantis says the chip shortage is here to stay, for now. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday October 3, 2022.

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Toyota (6)

  • Toyota Wants To Lift Your Tundra With New TRD Kit

    OEM vehicle mods are great. First, they’re usually covered under a warranty (although read the fine print like “as long as it’s dealer installed). You also don’t have to worry about the risk of voiding your vehicle warranty. Plus, you can get them installed at a dealer, which again, helps with the warranty. And with the recent explosion of enthusiast vehicles coming to market, automakers have been giving those customers a way to get exactly what they want. Toyota, who’s typically great with mod

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  • The 2023 Toyota Crown Is Gleefully Weird And Impressively Quick

    There are generations of drivers in the U.S. who have no idea what the 2023 Toyota Crown is, or what it represents. The last time Toyota sold a new Crown here in America was in 1972; most of us born after Generation X have no recollection of the model. Some might say Toyota itself has no idea what the Crown is — or was — given the design of this latest model: No longer recognizable as a sedan, and much closer to a crossover.

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  • New Toyotas Come With A Free Decade Of Connected Safety Services

    We’re entering the era of connected cars, or vehicles that have services that always need to be on. And you know what this means: subscriptions. That’s right. Automakers are doing whatever they can to keep making money off you long after your car payments have stopped. Not all automakers are coming for your wallet right away. Automotive News reports that, starting in 2023, buyers of new Toyota and Lexus vehicles will get a 10-year free trial period for the company’s Safety Connect and Service C

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  • Toyota Will Do Up A Plug-In Hybrid Crown Eventually: Report

    The forthcoming Toyota Crown family is a strange proposition, and I’m still not sure where it fits in a world where Lexus also exists, but Toyota is going to give it a shot in the States anyway. Leading the charge will be the Crown “Crossover Type” — sort of a replacement for the Avalon, but lifted higher, because that makes any car considerably more marketable nowadays. Here it’ll be known only as the Crown, full stop. Toyota teased it with hybrid powertrains and standard all-wheel drive, but i

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  • The Toyota FJ Cruiser Has Been Discontinued Again, This Time In The Middle East

    No — you did not wake up in 2014, I’m sorry to say. The affable Toyota FJ Cruiser has actually been on sale this entire time, just not where you could buy one. That’ll end very soon, though. Toyota, which has been selling FJ Cruisers in the Middle East for this entire time, is sending the quirky SUV out with a Final Edition for buyers in that region next year.

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Trainlopnik (2)

  • Threat Of Rail Strike Returns After Union Rejects Deal

    After coming to a tentative agreement last month, it seems that the country’s freight railroads are back on track for a cataclysmic strike. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED) has voted against the proposed five-year contract, with 56 percent of members opposing the deal. The union will return to the negotiation table with the Class I freight railroad before a potential strike, but things aren’t looking good.

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Transportation (3)

  • No, The IIHS Isn't Recommending 'Monster Trucks' For Teen Drivers

    When shopping for a car for a teen driver, safety is usually the top concern for parents, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a solid resource. Unfortunately, some outlets think that publishing crash statistics for small cars is the IIHS’s way of saying parents should buy their kids an Escalade. Here’s why that’s a lousy conclusion.

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  • White House Announces First Grants Of $12.5 Billion Bridge Investment Program

    In late January, the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed on the same day President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak in the same city to promote the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The coincidental timing of the collapse that injured ten people and severed a natural gas pipeline, thrust the dangers of the country’s aging and crumbling infrastructure into the national spotlight. At the collapse site, the President said, “They’re going to fix them all. Not a joke. This is going to be a gigant

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  • Dead: Tokens At America's Major Suspension Bridges

    As the country’s most heavily used paid thoroughfares transition to free-flow cashless tolling systems without toll booths, it seems inconceivable that toll road authorities are still dealing with proprietary tokens. With electronic toll collection systems like E-ZPass and FasTrak becoming a near-mandatory aspect of driving on America’s toll highways, tokens seem like relics of a bygone age.

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Trucks (4)

  • Edmunds Took Its Ford Lightning And Rivian R1T To A Tractor Pull

    Electric pickup trucks are rad. They do all the stuff a truck is supposed to be good at, like hauling and pulling and generally making tons of torque, but they do it in near silence and without belching tons of black diesel smoke. Sure, they’re still in their infancy, but that isn’t stopping Edmunds.com’s Ryan ZumMallen from taking their long-term test Ford Lightning and Rivian R1T to a tractor pull in Northern California.

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  • Rivian's Sorry For The Recalls, But Pats Itself On The Back For Quick Service

    Rivian has had its share of recalls lately, and snags in the scaling-up process that have led to some finicky, failure-prone parts. Like the powered tonneau covers on the R1T pickup that we discussed yesterday, for example. But CEO RJ Scaringe prides himself on dealing with those hiccups in a manner he considers quick, and he credits that agility with the company’s franchise-less service model.

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  • Rivian Temporarily Discontinues R1T's Powered Tonneau Cover Because It Keeps Breaking

    If you’re the proud owner of a Rivian R1T who’s less proud of your electric pickup’s power-retractable tonneau cover, Rivian’s not so pleased with it either. The powered tonneau has proven unreliable for some customers, who’ve reported jerky, noisy operation and, in the worst cases, an inability to open completely. The startup truck maker recently sent emails out to R1T reservation holders who had optioned the powered tonneau and are still waiting for their trucks, announcing that the option has

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Unpaved (14)

  • The 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Is Scary Quick But Shockingly Friendly

    These are strange times in the auto industry. After years of waiting and two generations without it, Ford is putting a V8 back in the Raptor to create this, the 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R. At the same time, Ford is making a fully-electric F-150 pickup truck. The supercharged, Shelby-powered Raptor R and all-electric F-150 Lighting exist at opposite ends of a single spectrum, and going between the poles of Ford’s (and America’s) best-selling model can be jarring.

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  • General Motors May Make A Midsize Hummer EV Truck

    General Motors could follow up the release of the Hummer EV Pickup and SUV with a fully-electric midsize truck. The U.S. automaker is considering adding a smaller Hummer EV given the runaway success of the revived brand and latest demand for lower-emission cars, according to Bloomberg.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Epilogue: No Stages, Just Celebrations

    “Most of the men I know want to be able to compete in the Rebelle Rally,” said a competitor on Saturday morning after completing the 1,600-mile, all-women’s navigational rally across the Nevada and California desert. “Even my husband wants to do it,” she added.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Stage Seven: Decision Day At The Imperial Sand Dunes

    The Imperial Sand Dunes in the southeast corner of California is one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. The remote location has been used as a backdrop in many iconic films, from Lawrence of Arabia to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. It also happens to be where the final stages of the Rebelle Rally take place.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Stage Five: All You Need Is A Map And Endurance

    As the 2022 Rebelle Rally entered Stage Five on Wednesday, teams headed off the start from Base Camp 2 near Spangler OHV area, and staff began breaking base camp to continue to move further south towards Amboy, California, and spend the night camping nearby the iconic (and rumored to be haunted) Roy’s on Route 66.

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  • Stage Four Of The Rebelle Rally Was A Big Shake Up

    After a night at Base Camp 2 near Dove Springs, on Monday night, the 2022 Rebelle Rally got underway Tuesday morning, with competitors starting their day with an On-Route Enduro that took them up through a Joshua Tree forest, across part of the Pacific Crest Trail, and back into Dove Springs before heading south to a new challenge in the Spangler OHV Area, near Ridgecrest, California.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Stage Three: Marathon Leg Proves Tough For Everyone

    Competitors woke early from their self-camp night to start the second half of the marathon leg of the seventh annual Rebelle Rally, a 1600 mile, all-women’s offroad navigational rally taking place this week in the Nevada and California desert. Teams spent Sunday night at Fish Lake Valley Hot Springs where they camped without the support of the Rebelle staff, mechanics or a comfortable base camp.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Stage Two: A Marathon Through The Desert

    Stage Two of the Rebelle Rally began on Sunday with chilly temperatures at Base Camp One outside of Belmont, Nevada. Sunday’s live show featured presenters Emme Hall and Matthew Johnson bundled up in hats, gloves and scarves as the sun rose, and the rally competitors packed up their tents and readied their vehicles for the third official day of the competition.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Tech Inspection At Tahoe Base Camp

    The 2022 Rebelle Rally, the longest navigational rally in the U.S. with all female competitors, kicked off at Incline Village yesterday with 108 racers going through Tech Inspection on Wednesday and early Thursday before heading to the first base camp about five hours away from Tahoe.

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  • Rebelle Rally 2022: Eight Automakers Put Production Off-Roading Darlings Through Grueling 1,600 Mile Test

    As the first official day of the Rebelle Rally gets underway in the Lake Tahoe area—the 110 women of the seventh annual event spend their day going through a rigorous tech inspection, then head to the first base camp located near a ghost town with a population of only eight people, the same number of manufacturers keeping their eyes on the teams they have participating.

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  • 2022 Rebelle Rally Begins: But What The Hell Is The Rebelle, Anyway?

    Today, 110 women will begin an off-road competition like no other. They’ll use nothing more than a paper map and compass to navigate more than 1,600 miles of off-road trails throughout the California and Nevada desert, as the Rebelle Rally, the all-women’s off-road navigational rally now in its seventh year, begins near Lake Tahoe. The grueling 10-day navigational competition is the longest in the U.S., is GPS and cell phone-free and nothing to take lightly. I know; I competed in the Rebelle Ra

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  • 2023 Kia Telluride Gets More Expensive Just To Go Off-Roading

    The Kia Telluride is getting more expensive for its latest release as Kia continues its slow ascent through the price range. Compared to the outgoing model, the 2023 Kia Telluride will cost an additional $2,64o due to a price bump across the entire Telluride lineup and a small hike in delivery charges.

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Volkswagen (2)

  • The VW ID Buzz Is Microbus Nostalgia Done Right

    I got to drive Volkswagen’s new ID Buzz electric van twice this summer, and it’s a good thing I had a second go. While these days VW is known for cars like the GTI, the ID.4 EV, a couple of decent crossovers, and a certain emissions scandal, there are two Volkswagens that evoke undeniable love and nostalgia: The Bug and Bus. Volkswagen has already had its second and third coming of the Beetle, but we’ve been without a Bus for eons. In fact, the automaker has been teasing microbus concepts for de

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Wrenching (2)

  • Cool Tool: Wera Joker Self-Setting Wrenches

    So, I’m right in the middle of a massive motorcycle project, where I’ve been taking a 1969 Honda CB350 and turning it into a seriously gnarly little brat tracker. It’s been a ton of fun, and since I haven’t done a build like this before, it’s meant buying or upgrading a bunch of my tools. Unfortunately, I didn’t see these rad self-adjusting wrenches from Wera before I did that.

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  • How I Learned To Work On Cars

    I’ve been working on my van the past couple days, out in the parking lot behind my building. A few of the neighbors, as they come and go, stop to check on the progress. Most are just being polite, making conversation. This is Texas after all; talking to strangers is generally encouraged. I was gone a long time. I forget that. But some are actually interested. They ask where I’m planning on driving, say they’re thinking about getting a van, or reminisce about the time they had a van. One story we

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