If you want to be entertained while watching someone nearly kill themselves while trying to break a record you didn’t know existed, head on over to YouTube and check out this wild video of Chris Rollins. In it, he attempts to build a fast trash can to break a land speed record that shouldn’t even exist.
Read MoreThe Utah Department of Transportation posted a video of a huge freeway overpass sliding down the freeway last week using teflon skid plates and a little drizzle of something you likely have in your home: dish soap. It’s a study on how something common and unassuming and make a huge impact when used effectively.
Read MoreLego has built some truly astounding model cars. This year alone, it has premiered kits that faithfully recreate the Ford GT, the Porsche 911 and a duo of famous McLaren supercars. But what does it take to transform an icon of the road into a plastic kit that can be assembled by kids and adults alike?
Read MoreThis week, Bloomberg published a piece about how the latest U.S. vehicle emissions laws will reduce our nation’s demand for oil. The article estimated that America’s need for oil would drop by 17 billion barrels by 2055, causing a massive shift in the energy market — cutting down on emissions from both oil consumption and production. Then, Bloomberg went on to say that this is somehow bad.
Read MoreYou know what it’s like when you’re driving down the highway and an animal jumps out in front of your car. You slam on the anchors or swerve out of the way of a fox, loose cat or other four-legged friend. Now just imagine the shock of a driver in Colombia who had to do just that — but to avoid a hippo. And not just any hippo, but Pablo Escobar’s hippo.
Read MoreThe number of traffic deaths in the United States is at a record high. While a traffic death can happen almost anywhere motor vehicles can travel, nearly a quarter of all the country’s fatal crashes happen at intersections. The Colorado-based Fang Law Firm combed through 20 years of crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to identify the country’s most dangerous intersections and why they are deadly.
Read MoreAmerica’s infrastructure sucks, and potholes in Los Angeles have gotten particularly bad after the rain storms that hit Southern California in March. The city has said it has received almost 20,000 service requests for the road hazards since mid-December 2022. Unfortunately, there has been a big delay in road maintenance. Many people get fed up — including, apparently, Arnold Schwarzenegger. KTLA reports the former governor took matters into his own hands to repair a pothole after the city of LA
Read MoreI never thought I’d see the day that someone would try something as wild as using small household batteries in place of a car battery, but here we are. And I love it. YouTube channel Garage 54 — a channel known for doing wild shit — actually experimented and found out how many AA batteries it takes to start a small engine.
Read MoreCar colors, right now, are in a bad place. Too many beautiful vehicles are stuck wearing drab white, boring black, or — god forbid — Nardo Gray. Folks, we can do better. In fact, we deserve better. We deserve bright, eye-catching colors, hues that dazzle the mind and shout from the rooftops that this is no rented vehicle. We deserve BMW’s new Individual Visualizer, and its over 150 colors.
Read MoreThe BMW i7 is not only one of the coolest luxury EVs on sale today, but it’s got one of the best interiors in the business, and now, according to an announcement made by BMW on Monday, it’s earned itself some performance chops, too, with the introduction of the 2024 BMW i7 M70 xDrive.
Read MoreBMW’s flagship M performance vehicle is now an SUV, and while that may rankle more than a few people’s cankles, it’s just the world we live in. Plus, it’s not all bad, with the XM producing a not-inconsiderable 644 hp and 590 lb-ft and offering up a pretty wild interior that marks a huge deviation from BMW’s typically spartan cockpits. Things are about to get even cooler still, according to an announcement made by BMW on Tuesday, with the introduction of the even higher-performance XM Label Red.
Read MoreOkay, so maybe you’re having a hard time with the whole “BMW’s performance future is a hybrid SUV” thing. You aren’t out of touch; it’s the children who are wrong. Thankfully, BMW isn’t just wholesale abandoning the traditional sports cars its M division is known for. In fact, the 2023 M2 takes a refreshingly back-to-basics approach to performance.
Read MorePrivate security aboard a luxury vintage yacht opened fire on Yeman’s coast guard in the Gulf of Aden Friday, causing a brief exchange with the country’s military. The security team apparently mistook the Coast Guard for pirates.
Read MoreAfter sinking more than 80 years ago, the Japanese prisoner of war ship SS Montevideo Maru has finally been found by Australian search teams. Australian deputy prime minister Richard Marles confirmed that the ship was found in the South China Sea, where it sank in July 1942 with 1,060 prisoners of war onboard.
Read MoreThe rich do wild things with their money because, you know, why not? Jeff Bezos, for example, is worth about $127 billion, according to Forbes, or more than enough to drop $75 million on a support yacht with a helipad for his girlfriend, because his $500 million superyacht doesn’t have one, according to Luxury Launches.
Read MoreLast weeks, the world’s oceans got that little bit more crowded when shipping line MSC put its newest container ship into service for the first time. The record-breaking MSC Irina became the largest container ship in service thanks to its eye watering 24,346-container capacity.
Read MoreLake Superior, it’s said, never gives up her dead — unless you look really, really hard. With enough digging (or swimming), it appears that some ships don’t stay buried forever. At least, that’s what the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is looking to prove, and so far it’s proven Gordon Lightfoot wrong by finding two 109-year-old wrecks at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Next, the Society plans to find a third.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we love a big ship. Whether it’s a new record-breaking vessel launch or an older ship that’s jammed itself in an essential shipping route, we’re here for all our chonky boat boys. So today, we’re excited to share with you news of a brand-new world’s biggest container ship, and it’s a beast.
Read MoreThe fact that Lotus is going all-electric has definitely gotten some people’s underwear in a twist, and the fact that one of those electric vehicles is going to be an SUV sent some other people into fits. The thing is, though, if the Eletre is what Lotus needs to do to make money – ala Porsche with the Cayenne in the early aughts – then I’m fine with it, at least in theory.
Read MoreAlfa Romeo, the often forgotten Italian luxury automaker, has been in ok shape as of late. Following the loss of the 4C, the Alfa stables have been fairly empty, holding up as a party of two with the Giulia and Stelvio. But the party is expanding to three as Alfa gains a much-needed small plug-in crossover: the Tonale. The entire Alfa lineup (all two cars) will also see some updates in time to celebrate Alfa’s 100th anniversary.
Read MoreSince it was first introduced in 1970 and revived for its current iteration in 2008, the Dodge Challenger has epitomized American muscle car culture’s love of power, speed and size. But for all its adrenaline-pumping positives, the Challenger as we’ve come to know it is on its way out the door, set to be replaced by a still-powerful but all-electric spiritual successor. Thankfully, I got to say goodbye in the best way possible: By spending a week with the Dodge Challenger Shakedown, the first of
Read MoreFacebook Marketplace, over the past few years, has taken the vehicle-classifieds crown from Craigslist. It did so almost by accident; Facebook spun up Marketplace just as Craigslist instituted a fee for selling cars on its platform. Now, it seems new rules from Meta aim to get in on that cash — but only for dealers.
Read MoreWhen I told my parents that I’d happily play chauffeur for a weekend in exchange for their unflinching thoughts on a press car, they grimaced, because they knew what I was driving: a hated Jeep. My stepdad seemed so miserable about the prospect that I wasn’t even sure he’d deign to get in the damn thing. But by the end of the weekend, he was asking me what he’d have to pay if he wanted this exact vehicle. That’s because I was driving a 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee L.
Read MoreThe workhorse that is heavy-duty pickups seem to last forever. And with the wild car market the last few years, some have shown up for sale for as much as a brand new ½ ton or ¾ ton pickup. But as the market has cooled and prices slowly start to sort of get back to normal, some interesting things are showing up for sale. Take this 2004 Ford F-450 Super Duty Chassis Cab listed on Bring a Trailer.
Read MoreFor decades, Lotus has been turning out sharp sports cars that focus on driver engagement above all. That single-minded approach hasn’t always made money, so the folks in Hethel have had to find ways to drive down costs, usually through cheap interiors and questionable build quality. As a result of that cost cutting, there’s always been a “but” with Lotus’ cars, but not with the 2023 Emira. Lotus’ last internal combustion model offers a level of driving enjoyment you’d expect from this brand wit
Read MoreIf you’re an enthusiast with money to burn, you won’t settle for any lowly base-model sports car. No, you want the best—the fastest and most capable cars to be had in the low-six-figure range. But how do you decide what to buy? Should you opt for European performance, with the Porsche 911 GT3, or would you rather save a few bucks and get yourself a V8-powered Corvette Z06? Well, the guys from SavageGeese are here to help you figure it out.
Read MoreMaserati is a strange brand. It has this cache among the regular folk like it’s on the same echelon as, say, Rolls or Bugatti, when in actuality it occupies a tier somewhere just north of Alfa Romeo. The new Grecale midsize SUV starts at a mere $65,000, for crying out loud. Somewhere, an unscrupulous Toyota dealer is probably trying to shift a RAV4 Prime that costs more, as I write this.
Read MoreBetween sagging sales and being cut off from the $7,500 vehicle tax credit, Nissan had to do something to breathe a little bit of life into its aging Leaf EV. As of April 18th, new rules about battery material sourcing under the Inflation Reduction Act meant Leaf buyers could no longer take advantage of the discount.
Read MoreThe Kia Stinger — what I believe to be one of the best sport sedan offerings of the last decade — is preparing to ride off into the sunset because too many people love crossovers. Before it does, though, Kia is sending it off properly with a limited run Tribute Edition for its final 2023 model. After announcing the model at the end of 2022, Kia has finally released pricing.
Read MoreSome, perhaps many, of Tesla recalls are software issues that require an over-the-air update to fix, which prompt Tesla fans to say that they aren’t really recalls at all, in the traditional sense of having to take your car to a dealer to get some bit of potentially dangerous hardware replaced. This is sort of true, but ignores the fact that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nonetheless officially refers to them as recalls, because they all go through the same process. Also, som
Read MoreAuctioning off the first production model of a new and special car for charity is pretty much standard fare these days, and the 2024 Chevy Corvette E-Ray – VIN 001 – is no different. The automaker just sold off the first E-Ray at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach for $1.1 million. GM isn’t keeping any of that money, though. It’s all going to a cause: the education nonprofit DonorsChoose.
Read MoreJust last year, Buick shared its vision of the future with the very attractive Wildcat concept, complete with sleek lines and attractive angles not typically associated with the brand. It wasn’t long before the automaker unveiled the first of its vehicles to carry Wildcat’s design language: The Envista, which was destined for China. The tri-shield brand did later set the scene for the when the crossover may arrive on U.S. soil. That time is now, and it comes in at quite an affordable price point
Read MoreIt’s a known law of the universe, like gravity: Europe’s turn signals will always be better than America’s. Despite amber turn signals being perfectly legal here in the States, automakers usually stick us with boring old red — a color that both looks and functions worse. Amber is simply better.
Read MoreIt’s been a long two years, but new cars are finally selling below sticker price on average. It’s a sign the miserable car-buying market may be getting better for the average consumer. According to data from Kelley Blue Book, the average amount of money Americans spent on a new vehicle in March was $48,008. That works out to be $171 below the average new vehicle sticker price of $48,179.
Read MoreUnlike most automakers, Kia is in a unique position. The brand still sells cars and crossovers that start under $30,000. There are nine in total. One of them, the Seltos, has gotten updated for the 2024 model year. Including a $1,325 destination charge, the updated ‘24 Kia Seltos starts at $26,255.
Read MoreGfK is a market research firm that recently released new data showing that some 31 percent of new car buyers who paid more than sticker said they would tell others not to use their dealership, and that some 29 percent of buyers who bought over sticker said that they wouldn’t use the same dealer for service, while 27 percent of such buyers said they were done buying that particular brand, period, according to Automotive News.
Read MoreOne of the more underreported aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act was a provision for a tax credit of up to $4,000 for buyers of certain used EVs. These tax credits come with a heap of restrictions — your adjusted gross income can’t be higher than $75,000 single, or $150,000 on a joint return; the sale price of the car must not be more than $25,000; the gross weight of the car has to be less than 14,000 pounds; and so forth. But none of the restrictions are too off the wall, and you can see w
Read MoreThe recent arrival of the Lamborghini Revuelto is a big deal, as it’s Sant’Agata’s first genuinely new flagship hypercar in 12 years. It’s also the brand’s first series plug-in hybrid. Naturally, Lamborghini is hard at work on a proper battery-electric model meant to arrive by 2028. Thanks to our friends at Motor Authority, we now have some insight as to what that might look like.
Read MoreThe current Mercedes-Benz GLS is only about three years old, but time moves fast, especially for Merc’s big flagship SUV. The new GLS for 2024 is in many ways the same vehicle it was before, except with a larger grille, swanky new interior trim options and — gasp — a steering wheel with touch controls only.
Read MoreCharlie and his wife have traded foggy London for sunny California, but they have realized that America’s public transit system isn’t quite to European standards. They are looking for something safe, reasonably practical and low maintenance. What car should they buy?
Read MoreWhile there are signs that the car market is slowly improving in some segments, a lot of buyers are still feeling their budget is being stretched to score a quality vehicle. One of the biggest mistakes consumers can make is to only focus on the cost of the car and not the ancillary expenses that come with it.
Read MoreDylan goes to college in Montana and his 2008 Ford Taurus is too old and not great on gas. He wants something affordable with some level of practicality, better fuel efficiency, and can handle winter weather. What car should he buy?
Read MoreMatthew lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and wants to upgrade his VW Golf to something a bit nicer and sportier, though he doesn’t want it to look too over-the-top. He’s on the taller side, and needs room for sports gear, but he despises the idea of owning an SUV. What car should he buy?
Read MoreThere are some signs of hope that this bonkers used car market is slowly improving in the interest of buyers. While some segments are presenting some strong values, other areas are maintaining some serious premiums. To help buyers navigate the still complicated times of purchasing a car, iSeeCars released a study sharing where you can get the best value for pre-owned models this spring.
Read MoreSummer is almost here, which means we’re going to start seeing more interesting, fun vehicles come out of storage to play. We’re seeing more builds people are just getting their hands back on, to the ones putting the finishing touches in time for cruising season. And don’t forget about the track — with unexpected matchups to determine the best or worst, player’s choice.
Read MoreToday, the first trailer for Peacock’s new Twisted Metal series dropped. It’s a streaming-only TV show, based on a video game, because those are hot right now and people seem to like making them. Sometimes they’re even good!
Read MoreOver the past couple of decades, German tuning house Mansory has made a name for itself creating outlandish iterations of some of the world’s most exclusive cars. Most of these creations, like the two-door Lamborghini Urus it unveiled earlier this year, leave many people asking “Why?” But some parts of its latest creation might leave you wondering why Ferraris doesn’t offer that look fresh from the factory.
Read MoreThere are the car people at the track for whom money is no object, or at least it never comes up in conversation. They are the ones with the Italian supercars, and the best of them throw you the key and say, here, kid, take it for a spin. There are the car people at the track with the beat-up E36 M3s who have day jobs and are constantly saving up for their next mod, or at least racing seats, so the next time they do a hot lap they aren’t falling out of the window. There are the Real Racers at th
Read MoreGeneral Motors is apparently in the giving mood and has decided to create its own open source software protocol that’ll serve as a “starting point” for other automakers and developers. GM says this is all being done in an effort to create a better software experience for car buyers, and it comes on the heels of GM saying it would be cutting off Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The move reportedly comes as the automotive industry as a whole is looking to hire more software developers and programme
Read MoreMcLaren is reportedly getting ready to debut an all-new lightweight hybrid system in its next Formula-1-inspired flagship supercar. According to Automotive News, the British automaker revealed details on this sixth entrant into its “Ultimate Series” at a global retailer meeting earlier this week, and it’s expected to arrive around 2026.
Read MoreFuel economy isn’t usually at the forefront of pickup truck buyers’ priority lists, but it’s still important. Fuel prices have been on a pretty solid upswing for a while now, so every penny counts when you’re at the pump, even when the vehicle isn’t exactly fuel efficient.
Read MorePredictions of the future are always fun to re-examine years later. Some can be so completely off base, but the ones that hit too close to home are the ones poking fun of problems in their own time. Nothing ever really changes.
Read MoreSupervisors at a Tesla service center in Florida have reportedly violated U.S. labor laws by silencing employees, according to Reuters. Official U.S. labor board findings showed that employees were told not to discuss pay and other working conditions with each other, and they were told not to bring complaints to higher levels of management.
Read MoreJust about 20 percent of all new vehicles sold globally this year will be electric, according to a prediction from the International Energy Agency that was reported by Reuters. On top of that, the agency also predicts that the price of smaller EVs will soon drop low enough to match internal combustion-powered vehicles in North America and Europe.
Read MoreThere are a lot of important factors to consider when buying an electric car these days. You’ll want to take into account range, trunk space and looks, amongst other things, before making the switch to battery power. But what about weight; is that something you ever think about when car shopping?
Read MoreHarry Belafonte, folk singer and civil rights activist, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure in his home in Manhattan at 96 years old. Not only was Belafonte a groundbreaking singer, at one point as famous in the U.S. as Elvis Presley, but he used his fame and money to support civil rights movements across the South. Which is how he ended up running from the Ku Klux Klan through Mississippi in the dead of night with renown actor Sidney Poitier at his side.
Read MoreThe Ford Motor Company is opening a newly rehabilitated building Tuesday as part of a larger project to bring life, and jobs, back to one of Detroit’s most recognizable landmarks.
Read MoreBy now we all know that the Nürburgring Nordschleife is a magical, mysterious, alluring and dangerous place, and through various unofficial lap record attempts by manufacturers, we now use it as a benchmark for performance cars.
Read MoreThe name Tucker has become a cautionary tale in the automotive world for the kind of blue sky thinking, convention-ignoring iconoclast that decides that they can build a car that’s faster, safer and all around better than the brands that have been doing it for decades. It’s also become synonymous with that pie-in-the-sky car turning out to be something of a lemon.
Read MoreNo two humans in the world share the exact same tastes and interests, and us car enthusiasts are no exception. The muscle car crowd probably isn’t going to understand the Japanese import fans. Big truck devotees probably each have a different idea of what makes the best big truck. Today, the staff of Jalopnik is going to reveal some of our tastes. We’re going to talk about the vehicles whose hype we just don’t get.
Read MoreAs car enthusiasts, we all tend to find most anything involving cars to be fun. But this week’s curated roundup of YouTube videos are carrying a little more fun than usual. Maybe the warmer weather is to blame?
Read MoreI’m not a big person for the automotive YouTube scene, mostly because I’m not really one for watching videos of anything that is not directly tied to race car. But I’ll make one exception: I’ll watch every new WhistlinDiesel video the moment a new one comes out.
Read MoreAh, Suzuki. The automaker was sort of the Japanese Hyundai of the late 1990’s and the early 2000’s. It sold cheap but well equipped cars with a great warranty; the quality may not have been up to snuff compared to the likes of Toyota and Honda, but it wasn’t terrible. And there were some unique offerings too, from the wannabe sport sedan Kizashi to the Verona and its Porsche-designed I6 engine. Another unique offering was the Suzuki XL-7.
Read MoreThere are a handful of Japanese tuning shops that have reached an almost mythological status among car enthusiasts around the world. Names like Top Secret, Mines and Spoon are almost household names now, but other shops, often the ones that are doing the really wild stuff, fly much more under the radar. One of the best of these is the Yokohama shop Iding Power, and the list of cars being worked on there almost reads like the “Like Tears In Rain” monologue from Blade Runner.
Read MoreThere are many ways to refer to one’s car, the chillest and most normal being “my car.” If you own a non-luxury car, you can also get away with “my Chevy” or “my ‘Yota” or “my VW,” especially if your VW is old. If you have a luxury car, you cannot get away with much, as certainly no one wants to hear about your “Lexus” or your “BMW” and definitely not your “Bentley” or your “Infiniti.” The rules are broken — a bit — for supercars, in that if you own a Lambo or Ferrari you’ve spent a lot of money
Read MoreBy now, we’re all familiar with and properly smitten by the Ford Mustang SVO – aka the thinking person’s Fox body – with its focus on lighter weight and superior handling. It accomplished this by ditching big displacement, going with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, and adding a much sharper-tuned suspension.
Read MoreCrossovers are the hot thing right now, but just because someone is willing to dish out the extra cash for some more space doesn’t mean they want to pay more at the pump. That’s why we decided to take a look at the crossovers that sip the least amount of fuel.
Read MoreToyota has pulled the covers off two new EV crossover concepts at the Shanghai auto show, and if your first thought was, “Wow those sort of look like every EV crossover” you aren’t wrong. These vehicles right here are the new normal, especially in China where Toyota will be aiming these offerings. With that in mind, let’s dive into the two newest Toyota bZ products: the bZ Sport Crossover Concept and the bZ FlexSpace Concept.
Read MoreThe following 10 video games may be about racing — or at least, driving — but they offer value beyond the element of competition alone.
Read MoreTesla has reportedly told U.S. regulators that a fatal crash involving a Model S earlier this year involved its automated driver-assist systems. According to Bloomberg, that’s the 17th fatal Tesla crash while the systems were engaged since June 2021. The number would likely be higher, save for the fact that the government didn’t require automakers to submit data on these accidents until then.
Read MoreThere are a ton of ways to make automotive content on the internet. Some people sit behind a desk and write about cars, some make tutorial videos about to work on cars and some make chaotic, weirdly funny over-the-top videos that try to make car culture as broadly appealing as possible.
Read MoreLincoln is giving the Nautilus – its second smallest crossover offering – a pretty serious update for 2024 to bring it more in line with the styling trend of its other three counterparts: the Navigator, Aviator and Corsair. If you already like the way those vehicles look, you’re of course going to be a fan of the bolder, brawnier Nautilus.
Read MoreThis week’s best YouTube videos includes a few that are wild. Ever think you would see a sixth-gen Honda Civic with as much power as a Bugatti? You’ll find it here and the disastrous result of all that power. We’ve also got a GMC Syclone with just 278 miles, getting washed for the first time since it was sold as a new car. There’s even a low-mileage Maserati GrandTurismo that has problems, which shouldn’t be surprising.
Read MoreNASA announced its Crawler Transporter 2 is now officially in the Guinness World Records as the heaviest self-powered vehicle in the world. But there’s a whole universe of big beefy vehicles right here on Earth to explore. You’ll find them here.
Read MoreIt’s been more than three years since Tesla unveiled the all-electric Cybertruck pickup and since then its design has proven divisive and difficult to put into production. It’s for that reason that it’s been beset with delays that have allowed a whole heap of other automakers to get new EVs on the market while we’ve been waiting for Tesla’s truck. One area that engineers seem to be struggling with is how to keep that gaping expanse of a windscreen clean.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever had to shop for tires (which, if you’re reading Jalopnik, you probably have), then you know that decent tires cost real money. Want to replace the stock Michelins or Continentals on your ride with the same thing? Expect to spend around $1,000 without breaking a sweat. But, of course, the big-name tire brands aren’t the only brands — so are cheap tires good enough these days to be worth saving a few bucks?
Read MoreA new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows that SUVs and crossovers are objectively more dangerous for cyclists than sedans because of their tall front ends. Basically, the taller front ends mean bike riders are being struck higher up on their bodies and are also at risk of being thrown under, not on top of, the vehicle hitting them.
Read MoreIf you’ve spent any time at all near a New York Police Department precinct, the first thing you probably noticed were all of the cars inexplicably parked on sidewalks, in bike lanes, and in crosswalks. Well, it’s not a one off thing in your neighborhood. It’s an epidemic, and a new study from a Ph.D. candidate at U.C. Berkley has proved it, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Read MoreLightyear Automotive’s downfall was quick. A render of its first car was shown in mid 2019. By the summer of 2022, the company said production was gearing up to start, which it did that same December. Then in early February 2023, mere weeks after announcing a second cheaper model, the company filed bankruptcy. Now just over two months after that filing, all the company’s goods are up for grabs in an impending auction.
Read MoreThe current generation DBS was unveiled back in 2018 and has been winning the hearts and minds of footballers, bankers, and other wealthy people ever since. But, its days are now numbered and Aston Martin will kill it off with the DBS 770 Ultimate. The British marque announced the new model earlier this year, confirming that it would build 300 coupes and 199 convertible examples of the final car. Now, it’s thrown the covers off the DBS 770 Ultimate Volante.
Read MoreElectrification may be the way of the future, but understandably not everyone is on board just yet. Some folks don’t even want to venture into the world of hybrids. Long term reliability and return on investment questions are all very valid ones, so we’ve decided to compile a list of new cars for people who want something that is great on gas but without the added cost or complexity of electrification.
Read More?Period-correct electronics in older cars are the bee’s knees, but they’re not always up to the standards of modern technology. As much as I want to put a MiniDisc deck in my old BMW, I’m not jumping through Sony’s DRM hoops just to put Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit mixtapes on MiniDisc. Not when all I have to do nowadays is connect my iPhone to an OEM-plus-style head unit via Bluetooth and stream music. But what if there were a way to connect so-called obsolete tech — like, say, a vintage factory
Read MoreI love car history and figured you all probably do, too. It was a safe assumption, because you provided the perfect bite-size tidbits of auto info to keep me happy and fed on facts for a long time.
Read MoreSay you’re a very fancy plutocrat, and you just got the notice from Aston Martin that your $3.5 million Valkyrie hypercar is finished. It’s been built to your exact specification, and now it just has to get from Jolly Ol’ England to your secret extinct volcano lair in the American southwest. How does it make that trip? In a big-ass crate, of course.
Read MoreIt’s pretty easy to find a car with ridiculous amounts of power these days. We’ve got family sedans that kick out more than 500 hp and even a Dodge that makes more than 1,000 hp. But nowhere is the high horsepower game more rampant than in the world of electric cars.
Read MoreTesla still may be the EV sales king in the U.S., but the automaker’s competition is quickly gaining. Automotive News looked at new-vehicle registration data and found that Tesla’s share of the U.S. EV market has fallen sharply since 2022. That’s despite the fact that Tesla has been slashing prices, not to mention a new round of federal tax incentives to encourage new EV buyers.
Read MoreOur speed laws here in America are generally pretty restrictive. That’s especially true when you consider that we’re the country that will sell any geek off the street a nigh-on 800 HP road car for under $100,000 (thanks Stellantis!) and then tell the person who bought it that they’re not allowed to go over 60 mph. Ever.
Read MoreFew cars are cheap anymore. Those that are, on various corners of the internet, are written off as rubbish because they don’t come with a billion horsepower or much sex appeal. The internet can be wrong about a lot of things. The Dacia Sandero is a cheap car, and it’s a rather charming little egg. James May championed the original, and I’d wager he’d dig the latest example you see here.
Read MoreThe Porsche Carrera GT is being recalled for a possible defect in its suspension, which could compromise the supercar’s maneuverability and increase the risk of a crash, as the National Highway Safety Traffic Agency describes. The recall specifically affects 489 models of the 2004-2005 Porsche Carrera GT, or about a third of total Carrera GT models produced, according to Car and Driver.
Read MoreThere are various ways to measure how American a given automobile or automaker is, which are typically an accounting of not only where the cars are assembled but also where their parts, engines, and transmissions are sourced, and how much of their manufacturing workforce is American. Cars.com, for example, produces an annual “American-made index,” which, last year, found the Tesla Model Y on top, with the Tesla Model 3 in second place, and the Lincoln Corsair in third, according to Cars.com’s me
Read MoreForce Motors, the Indian automaker behind the Force Gurkha, has just released the Force Citiline, a vehicle so big that it sports another row behind its third to comfortably fit a total of 10 adult passengers. Those of us who weren’t ready for three-row pickup trucks, beware: the four-row SUVs are here. Well, kind of.
Read MoreWhat sells in one part of the world may be a dud in another, and it’s for that reason that automakers like to tweak or, in some cases, develop entirely different versions of cars for certain markets. It’s a practice that has faded away somewhat in the 21st century due to globalization and consolidation, but it still happens in rare cases today. For this slideshow, we’re recalling those stand out cases where nameplates offered in North America paled in comparison to their counterparts elsewhere.
Read MoreThe release of the Acura Integra Type S is finally upon us. The Integra Type S (or Integurl, for those of you in a “cult, not a clique”) will be coming to dealers starting this summer in June, which, indeed, seems like the most appropriate time for the debut of this performance version of the reborn Acura Integra.
Read MoreRegular Car Reviews is known for a few things. First, for being weird, crass and using that voice. Secondly, for providing insightful and sometimes profound criticism not only towards cars but towards the societies and social norms that bred them. This review of the Rivian R1T has plenty of all of the above and, like the best RCR videos, it made me think.
Read MoreKia is recalling certain models of the Kia Soul EV in the U.S. and Canada due to a possible short circuit in the car’s battery pack. The possibility of the electrical short poses a fire risk while the car is in motion, thereby increasing the risk of injury, according to the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration.
Read MoreLuxury SUVs and crossovers are big sellers for the brands that offer them here in the U.S. At last count, North American luxury SUV sales accounted for nearly half of the entire globe’s appetite for these vehicles. That market dominance started years ago and built momentum in the 1990s as brands like Acura, Lexus and Infiniti started offering luxed-out SUVs.
Read MoreThis week’s YouTube videos are particularly unique. We have a couple of Mustangs, including one powered by a Super Duty truck engine. If that’s not for you, check out what’s probably the cleanest 1980s Mercedes E-Class you’ll ever see. Or how about what could very well be the next generation of automotive reviews?
Read MoreUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was under pressure to boost the ride-hailing app’s revenue in the wake of the global pandemic, which brought the overall economy in the U.S. to a screeching halt, but boosted the gig economy to such a degree that Uber could not meet user demand. Uber needed more drivers, and fast, but the company’s resistance to classify drivers as workers and a spate of grievances related to the Uber app’s infamously bad design — for drivers, that is — was holding it back.
Read MoreSomeone or something kept moving traffic cones in a construction zone along a popular tourist route on New Zealand’s South Island. The cones had been placed on the road at the entrance to Milford Sound in 2016 while the Te Anau, or Homer Tunnel, was undergoing maintenance, but the cones kept mysteriously moving, according to Earth Touch News. The culprit, it turned out, was some curious Keas, the world’s only alpine parrot, as the Guardian reports.
Read MoreIt’s spring, and the world is once again energetically and pointless busting forth in all directions, only to prepare to die in a few months. It’s enough to make the chronically detached revolt in horror at the sunshine and presence of humming life.
Read MoreCarlo Bugatti, was born in 1856 and later begat Ettore Bugatti, who founded the automaker originally known as Automobiles Ettore Bugatti, whose name is attached to modern cars that are very large and go very fast. But Carlo was not a car man, probably because in the 19th century they did not have cars that went very fast. Instead, Carlo was a designer, primarily known for his furniture.
Read MoreAutomakers aren’t just happy getting new-car buyers to pay recurring subscription fees for luxury upgrades — now, they’re working on launching subscriptions in used cars, which have thus far been immune to the monthly fees on many of the latest BMW, Volvo, General Motors and Toyota models. Now that newer vehicles are hitting the U.S. used-car market, there are more models with subscription-powered connected capabilities available to secondhand buyers. And carmakers now see their proprietary apps
Read MoreElectric cars are so hot right now, with companies like Hyundai, Ram, and VW all rushing to launch new EVs that can persuade buyers to electrify their lives. But do you know the one thing hotter than electric cars? Electric vans, and Ford has just thrown the covers off its latest.
Read MoreSince Porsche’s release of the 911 Dakar, there has been a bunch of renewed interest in the company’s earlier off-road efforts. Hell, Porsche even brought out one of the 953s it ran in the Paris-Dakar when it debuted its newest and most dirt-friendly 911.
Read MoreThe Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is a world-beater on the drag strip. Its 1,025 horsepower and super sticky Mickey Thompson tires help it get from 0-60 in just 1.66 seconds, and it’ll finish the quarter mile in just 8.91 seconds – making it the first 8-second production car in history.
Read MoreNormally I can’t be bothered to care about slot car racing. I mean, being a huge nerd myself, I get the appeal but A: I suck at it, and B: I can drive actual cars, so it’s just not something I’m into, or at least it wasn’t before I saw this wild-ass slot car track that just sold on Bring A Trailer for $205,000.
Read MoreEditor’s Note, Wednesday April 5, 1:40pm EDT: This article was originally published on April 5th at 11:35am with the headline “The 2024 Jeep Wrangler Will Finally Offer a Six-Speed Manual With the Turbo Four-Cylinder Engine.” Unfortunately, this is not true: A Jeep representative just contacted Jalopnik to clarify that, as has always been the case with the JL-generation Wrangler, the six-speed manual transmission will only be available with the standard 3.6-liter V6, not with the upgraded 2.0-li
Read MoreFor many car enthusiasts, we tend to gravitate towards one brand in particular, often eschewing all others. Sometimes it’s just because those cars are cool, or maybe it’s because we formed an important emotional connection to them at some point, but few of us ever go as far off the deep end for a car brand as Tyson Hugie has for Acura.
Read MoreOn-track car shootouts are pretty commonplace in this industry and the formula is generally the same: get a bunch of journalists who think they’re hot shoes, throw them in cars, turn them loose on a track and time the ensuing chaos. While this U.S. version may seem a little tired by now, Japan has always done things differently and that’s why Best Motoring/Hot Version’s track tests never get old. These are some of our very favorites.
Read MoreToyota very clearly loves their hybrid motors, so it seems very fitting that the Japanese automaker just announced that the fourth-generation Tacoma will be joining its hybrid fleet. In a press release, Toyota said, “The best-selling midsize pick-up in America is all-new for 2024 with electrifying i-FORCE MAX performance.”
Read MoreI hate detailing my cars. I don’t know why, either. I love looking at my cars; I love driving them too. I even don’t mind wrenching on them, but something about having to drag out the pressure washer and all the supplies – foam gun, wash mitts, buckets, soap, wheel cleaner, etc. – makes me cringe.
Read MoreI’m a big fan of the way the 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 looks. I know not everyone is onboard with the swoopy styling, but in my opinion its one of the best looking vehicles on sale today. Because of that, I figured we should check out how great it looks from just above every angle. Inside and outside, I’ve got you covered.
Read MoreRivian’s planned ramp-up of production is finally starting to bear fruit. The all-electric automaker reportedly built 9,395 vehicles in the first three months of 2023. That number actually beats what analysts predicted for the first quarter for the California-based company, according to Bloomberg.
Read MoreI know the 1980s were a different time. But sometimes I see things from back then and it shows me just how much cocaine was going around. Take the world of automotive promotional videos.
Read MoreThis week’s best videos are an odd collection of cool cars that highlight what’s best about YouTube. You can find great things to watch if you search hard enough. There’s one YouTuber who’s setting out to buy another YouTuber’s car. If that doesn’t strike your fancy, how about a cool muscle car retro review from MotorWeek’s retro reviews — the gift that keeps on giving? You can also check out how car buying was over 30 years ago.
Read MoreJust when you thought you were getting used to seeing BMW’s oversized kidney grilles on its M4 and M3 models, the German automaker has gone and strapped the divisive design detail onto another model, this time one that targets a much younger demographic.
Read MoreI cannot tell you why the simple act of cars sharing headlights and taillights is so fascinating, but boy do we have a doozy of a lighting-related tale to share today. It comes courtesy of Roy Sjoberg, the chief engineer of the original Dodge Viper, who relayed some previously unknown tidbits about the roadster’s design to YouTuber Four Eyes. The Viper has always had an unmistakable and unique scowl, which is why it’s surprising to learn that those slender arrays were not initially intended for
Read MoreThere’s something about an outlandish concept car that sparks joy amongst auto fans around the world. Sure, the angular styling, futuristic wheels, and bonkers interior are never going to see the real world, but they’re fun. The same can be said for most car configurators, which allow you to make your dream supercar in the spec you’d order, while knowing full well that you’ll never hit buy. Now, Cupra has combined these two made-up phenomena with its Dark Rebel concept.
Read MoreAuto Shanghai 2023 began today, and it’s already clear that it’s the only auto show that matters anymore. “Legacy” brands established in the West don’t even need to feign interest in the Detroit Auto Show to sell their shiniest, newest wares, while the Geneva Motor Show is moving to Qatar, because why not. But in China, all the major players in our neck of the woods have something to prove against the domestic giants, and so they’ve come out swinging this year. Like Honda.
Read MoreIt’s been a dark few years for Lancia. The once-legendary Italian automaker has had to make do with small hatchbacks and rebadged Chrysler products for about a decade at this point. Right now, it only sells one car in one market: Italy. But the tides may be changing with the introduction of a new concept: the Pu+Ra HPE. The name may need a little work, but underneath that is something very promising.
Read MoreA bill is heading to the Colorado governor’s desk this week that would make driving a semi tractor-trailer without a CDL license a $100 ticket. The bill is coming up near the one-year anniversary of an unlicensed semi driver killing a family of five in the state.
Read MoreSome folks like to treat driving like their aiming for a high score, whether it be speed, sound decibels, or license suspensions. One woman in Long Island allegedly has a lot of us beat at the tender age of only 23 years old.
Read MoreEveryone knows when you do a crime you’ve got to record it and uploaded it publicly to social media in order for everyone to know exactly how cool you are. It’s this logic that led Connecticut State Troopers straight to the driver who hit 133 mph in his 1970 Chevrolet Nova.
Read MoreIt has to be a worrying experience being a vehicle owner and listing it on Turo. Every booking comes with the possibility of someone doing something they’re not supposed to in the car. Especially for performance cars, which Turo has a ton of. But when a teacher is the one doing the renting, an owner shouldn’t have anything to worry about, right? Unfortunately, one Turo owner was proven wrong; Fox 32 Chicago reports that a teacher allegedly used a vehicle he rented from Turo in a land speed compe
Read MoreThis week, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed the first law in the nation to charge adults with a crime for helping a minor obtain an abortion, either via medicine or crossing state lines, without the parent’s consent.
Read MoreA Pennsylvania man had a hell of a Tuesday morning after he led police on a wild chase across three counties in a stolen school bus, then on foot while also stripping off all of his clothes. Oh and there just happened to be a dead deer in the back. Charming.
Read MoreThere is currently much-to-do about Former president Donald Trump’s Tuesday arraignment, but he is not the first president to face the long arm of Johnny Law — just the first to do so in the last 150 years.
Read MoreCraigslist can be a sketchy place to buy anything, especially big ticket items like cars. Typical rule of thumb is if you see something listed with a price that’s too good to be true, it likely is and you should avoid it at all costs. But, unfortunately, some people let the excitement take hold and all rationality goes out the window. They learn a hard lesson and literally pay the price. One man saw a Dodge Challenger Hellcat listed on Craigslist for $28,000 and had a thought it might be too goo
Read MoreWhen the new Forza Motorsport launches later this year, it’ll bring state-of-the-art physics, lush visuals with ray-traced reflections, detailed car damage and new tracks — like Kyalami and Mid-Ohio — complete with variable time-of-day and weather. It’ll also bring a breakthrough suite of accessibility features designed to help vision-impaired sim racers let loose on the digital asphalt in a way they’ve never been able to before.
Read MoreAfter February’s Gran Turismo 7 update brought Honda’s first Grand Prix-winner and the return of Grand Valley, and last month’s patch added five cars including the Porsche 959 and Toyota Alphard, April’s slate of new content has finally been teased. And while it looks to be a bit smaller on the surface compared to the last two, we already know that one of the inclusions is a big deal.
Read MoreA perfect Fast Saga trailer needs a few things: It needs your heroes bantering with each other, explosions, and cars lining up for a street race. But the latest Fast X trailer adds a cherry on top of all of that: Jason Momoa as Dante, absolutely chewing the scenery.
Read MoreIn a world before Forza Horizon pretty much set the standard for what always-online open-world driving games could be, there was Test Drive Unlimited on the Xbox 360. TDU recreated the entirety of Hawaii’s Oahu island at one-to-one scale — a stunning achievement, even 17 years on. Now TDU is bracing for a comeback, set on a very different floating rock: Hong Kong. And we got to see a glimpse of it this week in developer Kylotonn’s latest newsletter to fans.
Read MoreOver the last few years, iRacing has been expanding beyond its titular PC sim racing service toward other kinds of racing games on home consoles. In late 2021 the company acquired Orontes Games, the creator of a futuristic off-road racer called Drag: Outer Zones, followed by Monster Games, formerly the maker of the NASCAR Heat franchise. On Tuesday, iRacing announced that its next move for PlayStation and Xbox players will be a comprehensive update to Drag, bringing a new name: ExoCross.
Read MoreI have always believed in the healing power of driving, and that extends to driving simulations. Unfortunately, video games are more expensive today than they’ve ever been, and even after you’ve paid the $70, it’s not uncommon to be repeatedly accosted by microtransactions intended to fleece you for yet more money. Also, plenty of them are launching broken. It’s just not a wonderful time for the medium right now. That’s why discovering Slow Roads this week has been so refreshing.
Read MoreThrough the years, Barbie has had a lot of cars. Like, a lot. So when the second trailer released for the upcoming Barbie movie, we hoped to catch a glimpse of a Barbie vehicle — maybe a bright pink Jeep, or a few shots of her custom Corvette from the movie’s posters. As it turns out, we got more than that — a lot more.
Read MoreCan you remember the first time you played Gran Turismo? Can you remember the first Gran Turismo you played? It’s hard to believe the series is a quarter century old, and that it was 25 years ago a good number of us mouthed the names “Skyline GT-R” and “Lancer Evolution” for the first time. In that span, we’ve been treated to seven mainline releases and five spinoffs from developer Polyphony Digital. Today, we’re ranking them all from worst to best, along with some déjà vu in the form of old int
Read MoreAs we explained earlier this year, 2023 will be the final model year for the Audi TT. The sleek, stylish coupe has been on the market for 25 years and three generations, and Audi’s sending it out with a bash. Specifically, a Cars & Coffee at Audi of America headquarters in Herndon, VA, on Saturday April 29th. I, personally, will be there, and you all are invited!
Read MoreThe Shanghai auto show is in full swing, and EVs have taken center stage. This year’s show is a microcosm of the Chinese auto market, where domestic EVs from Zeekr, BYD and SAIC are quickly gaining marketshare and capturing the attention of the public. Fully-electric cars are so appealing to drivers in China that carmakers are now desperate to differentiate their EVs, and they’re getting weird with it. At this year’s Shanghai show, EVs have featured wild tech, from in-car karaoke systems to crys
Read MoreThe 2023 New York International Auto didn’t seem as big as years past. That didn’t stop automakers from debuting new or updated models from across the spectrum. Hyundai and Kia delivered big with models like the Genesis GV80 Coupe and Kia EV9 EV; Stellantis dropped details on the upcoming all-electric Ram 1500 REV, and showed a nicely updated Jeep Wrangler. And of course, there was a whole collection of vintage cars, race cars, modified cars and more. Here’s everything Jalopnik fell in love with
Read MoreKia officially rolled out its three-row 2024 Kia EV9 at the 2023 New York Auto Show on Wednesday, and we learned a little more about this big beast of an electric SUV.
Read MoreWhen I drove the 2024 Subaru Crosstrek last month, I found it to be capable of getting you over the river and through the woods, if not overly enthusiastic about the task. But it seems that capability wasn’t enough for Subaru’s standards — the company wanted even more adventure from its smallest crossover. Now, we’re getting just that: This is the 2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness, with a little extra ground clearance and some adventure-ready add-ons, that just debuted at the 2023 New York Intern
Read MoreDuring the Super Bowl this year, Ram revealed the production version of its upcoming electric pickup truck, the 2025 Ram 1500 REV. But while the commercial did show off the truck’s design, it spent a lot of time making jokes about “premature electrification” instead of telling us about the truck’s specs. Now, Ram is finally giving us the details on its first all-electric truck.
Read MoreThe New York International Auto Show kicks off in the Big Apple this week, bringing automakers from around the world together to show off their latest and greatest creations. This year, Volkswagen has brought an update to its Atlas SUV to the show, which it says was inspired by the rugged Basecamp concept it showcased in 2019.
Read MoreFirst things first: It’s gorgeous. The Genesis design department, led by ex-Audi, ex-Lamborghini, ex-Bentley designer Luc Donckerwolke, is on a hot streak of releasing gorgeous vehicles, whether they’re production-ready or concepts like this. But looking closely, this doesn’t really seem like a concept car — it has all the hallmarks of a nearly production-spec machine. Meet the Genesis GV80 Coupe Concept.
Read MoreWhenever I’m helping someone pick out a new car, I ask four questions: What do you need, what do you want, what don’t you want, and how much are you willing to spend? Those first two questions are important — they split the requirements from the desires, to make a prospective buyer think about what really matters to them. Subaru, it seems, asked its owners the same few questions when developing the 2024 Impreza.
Read MoreFolks, it’s the weekend once again. For me, it’s a weekend of mixed emotions—on the one hand, 100 gecs are playing in my city tonight; on the other, the suspiciously cheap motorcycle I’ve been eyeing on Facebook Marketplace sold to someone who isn’t me. That’s life, huh? All its ups and downs.
Read MoreGrowing up in Georgia during the 1990s, it seemed like everybody had a Chevrolet Suburban. They were absolutely everywhere. My family went the far superior route and bought a Mazda MPV when my brother was born, but if I was riding with friends, there’s a good chance it was in a Suburban. Sadly, none of my friends’ parents had a Suburban that was reportedly built for SEMA.
Read MoreYou ever have one of those weeks that feels like a decade? Here we are on April 22, yet April 15 happened sometime in the late nineties. I’m sixty years old now, I think, longing to sit in a rocking chair out on a temperate porch and drink sweet tea.
Read MoreFolks, it’s hot out. Here in New York it’s been approximately one million degrees every day this week, which means we’re firmly in Fun Vehicle weather. I, personally, have been out motorcycling every day this week, simply because it feels like a lost opportunity if I don’t. Yesterday, out of sheer boredom, I decided to ride across all three bridges — plus the tunnel — that connect Brooklyn to Manhattan, just because I needed a reason to stay out in the beautiful weather a little longer.
Read MoreBack in the 1960s, motorcycle racing was a different world. It was a time before Rossi or Marquez, before literbikes and ground-effect aero, when top-tier racing could still happen at displacements smaller than Moto3's 250ccs. A time when Mike Hailwood still raced, and did so atop this: A 125cc Ducati race bike dubbed the Barcone. Now, that very bike is up for sale.
Read MoreAh, what fun we had last week. Talking about the internet’s least dope cars, getting our April Fools kicks all out. But this week, we return to form — to searching for the best, weirdest, wildest cars available online.
Read MoreHappy April Fools, y’all. It’s that hallowed day when everyone just makes stuff up and pretends it’s 100-percent totally real, often committing way too hard to the bit and making sure it’s not fun for anyone. I, of course, would never do that to you. I’ve never committed to a bit in my life. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Read MoreWhen Honda revealed the Prologue crossover, it was a lot of things for the brand. The first North America-bound EV, a vision of Honda’s electrified future— but not one built in-house. The Prologue is built on GM’s Ultium platform but it seems Honda doesn’t want that relationship to define its electrified efforts. In fact, the company is giving itself just two years to bring an in-house EV to market in the United States.
Read MoreFive years ago, Honda set a new front-wheel drive Nürburgring record with the FK8 Civic Type R. That car ran a 7:43.8, which stood untested for a year before Renault took the podium with its Megane RS Trophy-R and a 7:40.1 time. Now, Honda’s taken the throne back in a new Type R, with a 7:44.881 lap. Wait, what?
Read MoreLike most of us here, I absolutely loved the Veloster N. It was a raucous little car: Fast, energetic, nimble, and with a perfect exhaust note. Yet even after the Veloster’s death, its Elantra stablemate never gripped me in the same way — something was off about it. Now, it seems Hyundai’s nailed down exactly what needed to change: The car’s face.
Read MoreIt isn’t often that an automaker will completely break the mold with a new car. Sure, that’s been happening a bit more with the proliferation of electric vehicles, but a lot of times those all feel fairly similar. For the most part, they’re rounded-off boxes with a stubby nose and a rear liftgate. Hyundai went a different route with the Ioniq 6, and it’s all the better for it.
Read MoreCar payments aren’t the only thing people are falling behind on. All those shiny, new Harley-Davidsons you’ve probably seen (and heard) running around since the pandemic? Like their car counterparts — and nearly just as expensive — many of them are likely not being paid for either. We’re focusing on Harley specifically because the American motorcycle manufacturer says it suffered credit losses in the first quarter because people aren’t paying on their loans, and there are just not enough repo me
Read MoreWhen it comes to cars, the differences between engine layouts are pretty simple. Unless you’re buying a Subaru or Porsche, you’ve got your inlines and your Vs, all with a cylinder count that really matters less than their displacement. But in cars, you’re isolated — thousands of pounds of metal and rubber insulate you from the engine, making the differences between them less noticeable from the drivers seat.
Read MoreThe LiveWire S2 Del Mar is hitting dealers this summer, just in time for some two-wheeled EV fun in the sun. Deliveries are expected to begin in July in the U.S., where the LiveWire S2 Del Mar will start at $15,499 and reservations start at $100. That’s a compelling price point compared to the flagship LiveWire One, which starts at $22,799 in the U.S., and is a far cry from the original Harley-Davidson LiveWire, which cost nearly $30,000 at the time of its release in 2019.
Read MoreJalopnik had boots on the ground once more in Austin, Texas, at the 2023 Handbuilt Motorcycle Show and MotoGP at COTA. Stylish Chippewa boots on my part, if I may say so, though I’m not sure what kind of boots Elizabeth Blackstock wore. Maybe a pair of Corcoran jump boots. Regardless of how fly the boots were, the point is two pairs were on the ground in Austin for what could possibly be the best weekend for motorcycle fans in America: a world-famous motorcycle race during the day, and a huge mo
Read MoreLife on two wheels is filled with risks, and as someone who enjoys ripping around town on a motorcycle, it’s your responsibility to do as much as you can to mitigate them. A great way of doing that is having quality gear like a good helmet, CE-certified abrasion and impact-resistant gloves, pants, boots and jacket, all of which you wear every time you get on your bike. Now though, there’s something else you can do that can make a huge difference in crash survivability: wearing an airbag.
Read MoreThis past weekend marked Easter Sunday, a time when families often get together to eat ham. Being a member of a ham-eating family myself, I figured it was as good a chance as any to test out the long-distance chops of my little BMW G310GS — by riding it 175 miles round-trip from Brooklyn, NY to visit my family in neighboring Connecticut.
Read MoreThe pendulum has swung back around. What follows is a list of some of the fastest and most powerful motorcycles available in the U.S., which is to say these are some of the worst motorcycles for beginners regardless of location.
Read MoreThe 10-speed automatic transmission was truly a feat in the automotive world when it debuted. A transmission with 10 gears, compared to the 9-, 8- 6- speeds of yore, and potentially the “peak” of transmission development, simply because physics has its limitations. Regardless, the 10-speed created an even more gradual transition between gears to that would allow the engine to be more efficient, smooth, even faster. There’s a reason you can find it in so many vehicles today.
Read MoreI don’t know about the rest of you, but holy hell: I do not have great memories of riding the school bus in middle school or high school. It was loud, really diesel fumey and filled with asshole kids (myself included). My memories would be a lot worse if there had been a point where the driver had passed out at the wheel, though.
Read MorePassenger aviation was irreparably changed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global travel restrictions implemented to combat it. The world’s governments have lifted most barriers to travel, but U.S. commercial carriers haven’t recovered from their massive staff reductions. Three years later, service for passengers is still generally awful, according to the volume of complaints received by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Read MoreA group of 84 drivers in Palmdale, California scored a huge win recently when they voted to unionize with the Teamsters. But the real fight lies ahead. Vox reports that the whole situation is much more complicated than a simple vote.
Read MoreNew York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is looking to possibly eliminate physical side-view mirrors as a modern method of reducing the cost of bus maintenance and legal settlements from collisions, officials said this week. The side mirrors on city buses currently are very large, if you’ve never noticed.
Read MoreElon Musk will more than likely be deposed about his own statements about the self-driving capabilities of Teslas in the lawsuit against him over a wrongful death, a California judge ruled Wednesday. That’s despite Musk’s lawyers arguing that their client is so famous, many of his statements might be deepfakes.
Read MoreLast year, a Hyundai supplier in Alabama was accused of using child labor. And then another. In December, that number grew to four. Those signs were enough to get investigators to start digging, and now the results of those investigations are beginning to come to light. The broad strokes? Hyundai’s labor suppliers appear to have a long history of using children for manual work.
Read MoreJust when you thought some parts of our society couldn’t get any lower, they go even lower. ABC’s Allentown, Pennsylvania affiliate ABC 6 reports that the town’s parking enforcement came out to ticket people waiting in line for food banks. It’s exactly as bad as it sounds.
Read MoreFor rental car company Hertz, this summer is shaping up to be a really good one. The U.S.-based brand has said it is preparing for a strong summer because of high-ish travel demand, among other things. Because of this, it is projecting a 20 percent jump in second-quarter revenue from the first, according to Reuters.
Read MoreTrain companies have been making trains longer and longer to increase profits, but it’s the communities surrounding these trains that pay the price. A new report from ProPublica and InvestigateTV shows just how dangerous these long trains are even when they stay on the tracks.
Read MoreShelby has been a name synonymous with the Ford Mustang since the 1960s. Back then, the tuning outfit founded by Le Mans race winner Carroll Shelby poured as much horsepower as possible into the Mustang to create the 1965 GT350. Now, 100 years on from Carroll Shelby’s birth, the American tuning shop is turning its hand to Ford’s all-electric Mustang Mach-E.
Read MoreA whoopsie at a Sam’s Club gas station has caused a headache for drivers. CBS’ Fayetteville, Arkansas, affiliate KFSM reports a local Sam’s Club gas station mixup caused diesel fuel to be loaded into the station’s holding tanks. Predictably, some customers’ cars are feeling the effects.
Read MoreThe Tesla Model Y, which is due for some sort of super-secret update this year or next, used to be priced at over $60,000, but, as of this writing, it starts at $46,990, for the base model, which Bloomberg now says is less than the average new car price in America by about $759. If you’re looking for proximate causes, the upcoming update could be one, and also that there seems to be a bit of a glut of Tesla inventory at the moment. It seems Tesla has some incentive to move some Model Ys, in othe
Read MoreIt’ll come as a surprise to no one, but your car insurance rate doesn’t just depend on how good of a driver you are. If that feels unfair, you’re really not wrong. In a new story from Consumer Reports, the outlet found that drivers in New York with a clean driving record but a low credit score were quoted, on average, $1,367 more than identical drivers with excellent credit.
Read MoreLos Angeles is known for many things, like sunshine, Hollywood and police chases. Over the years they’ve turned into more of a spectacle than anything. A search of YouTube for local L.A. news stations coverage chases will bring up results with thousands or millions of views. But the reality is that these chases are dangerous situations, and more often than not end in people not involved getting hurt. The L.A. Times reports new findings show just how many people get hurt during these police pursu
Read MoreFord has seemingly been issuing a never-ending stream of recalls so far in 2023. There have been issues for the F-150 Lightning, the Mustang, the Explorer and even the Fusion due to all manner of manufacturing problems. Now, it’s been forced to announce yet another recall, this time affecting its Bronco and Ranger models.
Read MoreLast year, land Rover added a new model to its Defender lineup in the form of a longer, larger model that could seat eight. The Defender 130 was billed as a practical family hauler, with oodles of cargo space, comfortable room in the third row for adults to sit, and a very sensible hybrid inline-six. Now, Land Rover is letting the 130 have some fun and has thrown a V8 in the front of its biggest Defender.
Read MoreNine Mexican nationals have filed a lawsuit against Kia alleging they were misled about jobs they applied for, according to Bloomberg. The plaintiffs say they applied to work for the company as engineers, only to have them end up on the production floor doing manual labor.
Read MoreThe McLaren 720S is a benchmark supercar, mixing jaw-dropping track capability with a suspension setup that’s compliant and comfy even on awful, potholed pavement. It’s also slightly long in the tooth: McLaren introduced the 720S in 2017 as a replacement for the 650S. Now, the number rises again. Meet the McLaren 750S, with more power, lighter weight, and a totally revamped interior.
Read MoreIf you have the money, a Porsche Cayman is one of the best sports cars you can buy. They’re low, quick, comfortable and an absolute blast to drive thanks to their mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. But even with winter tires, you wouldn’t think the Cayman would be something you’d want to drive fast in the snow. That’s what your Cayenne is for.
Read MoreIn a bit of good-ish news, U.S. traffic deaths actually declined slightly in 2022. It reverses a two-year trend of increasing traffic deaths during the peak of the Covid pandemic. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 1.35 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2022. That’s down from 1.37 in 2021.
Read MoreThere aren’t many airline policies more controversial than Southwest’s approach to boarding. Instead of having an assigned seat, passengers line up in the order that they checked in and then race to grab the aisle and window seats before they’re all taken. The people who like it really like it, and the people who don’t hate it so much that many refuse to ever fly Southwest. As it turns out, though, there actually are limits to the “sit wherever you want” policy.
Read MoreCars can be incredible machines, but they should be enjoyed responsibly. Drifting a car at high speed through a public area lined with unprotected spectators isn’t responsible. Sideshows aren’t just an occurrence in North America but a global phenomenon. In Australia, the practice is referred to simply as hooning. Queensland has now passed the strictest “anti-hoon” law in the country. The new laws could even see spectators at sideshows facing charges.
Read MoreGeneral Motors is recalling over 40,000 of its medium-duty trucks due to a potential fire hazard. According to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it’s possible that brake fluid could leak onto the brake pressure sensor assembly. That, in turn, could cause the component to short-circuit and lead to a fire on certain 2019-2023 Chevy Silverado 4500HD, 5500HD and 6500HD trucks built by Navistar under contract for GM.
Read MoreThe 2024 Mercedes-Benz E-Class is finally here, and, well, it sure looks like a Mercedes. Maybe a grumpy bar of soap? It’s not bad. It’s just pretty nondescript and, aside from the new headlights, gets a lot of its styling cues from other models in the lineup, especially Mercedes’ EQ models. Then again, you don’t usually buy an E-Class to stand out on the street, so the whole understated-but-handsome thing works well here.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that I am a big fan of the Lucid Air. It’s one hell of a technological achievement, and the overall design is really pleasant. During my last go-round with the car, I got to speak to the head designer for the car, ex-Mazda maestro Derek Jenkins, about how I thought the Air would look so unbelievably good as a wagon. He hinted that there had been some design ideas for that but that it’s not likely ever to see the light of day.
Read MoreIn what might be the most Scottish drug bust of all time, Glasgow Road Police pulled over a vehicle on the freeway and found a lamb plus thousands of dollars worth of drugs in the car.
Read MoreIf you’re shopping for a new electric car, there are a few different facts and figures that you might want to consider before making the battery-powered plunge. The big figure is the range of your EV, as that shows how far you can travel on a full battery, while the MPGe rating tries to offer an easy way to compare efficiency in electric cars and gas-powered models. However, a new study has found that ratings for many EVs are far less reliable than for their gas-powered counterparts.
Read MoreLast week, news broke that 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis had died from a gunshot wound. According to CBS News, she and three other friends were trying to find a friend’s house in upstate New York and accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway. They realized their mistake and were in the process of leaving when 65-year-old Kevin Monahan came onto the porch and started shooting at the car. Gillis was hit, and by the time she was able to get medical attention, it was too late.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing the French love and are really good at, it’s a protest. Over the weekend — and coinciding with Earth Day — thousands of demonstrators set their sights on a new highway (or motorway as our European friends would say) in southern France. They took it a step further than just picketing, though. According to news site Common Dreams, protestors built a literal wall out of cement blocks as they vowed to defend local farmland and biodiversity in the area near the village of Saix.
Read MoreMost of the time, you have nothing to worry about when driving behind a truck hauling logs or poles or anything else that has the potential to fall off and hit your car. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t completely justified to be cautious around them. Accidents happen, and it makes total sense to worry. No one wants to end up on the wrong end of a log that came loose on the highway. Typically, though, you wouldn’t think the truck drivers themselves would have to worry about getting hurt by their
Read MoreMost people became aware of how destructive bird strikes can be through the Miracle on the Hudson. In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River just off of Midtown Manhattan after the plane struck a flock of Canadian geese and lost all engine power. The number of bird strikes has risen dramatically since 2009, even if strikes with wildlife only significantly damage fewer than 20 planes per year.
Read MoreWhether it’s polluting our oceans and air, causing illness outbreaks or even straight up massive fist fights and sexual assaults, cruise ships are pure trash. We can add “storing loved ones improperly in drinks coolers” to the list of reasons to avoid these floating toilets.
Read MoreThanks to the pandemic slashing the supply of new cars and driving up the price of used ones, it can be easy to assume that your dream gamble on a heavily depreciated performance car you could never afford to buy new will forever be out of reach. For example, there was a time when I thought I might one day be able to afford a first-generation Audi R8 with a manual transmission. I just checked, and yeah, that’s definitely never going to happen. And then there’s the Maserati GranTurismo.
Read MoreIt looks like another round of deep layoffs may be coming to ride-hailing company Lyft. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the company’s newly appointed CEO said jobs will be cut “significantly” to reduce costs. The total number of jobs lost isn’t known right now, but the outlet says it could be at least 1,200, or about 30 percent of Lyft’s entire workforce.
Read MoreSeveral high-profile near-misses and minor ground collisions over the last few months have made improving safety a priority for the country’s airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration. An airline employee who died recently on the tarmac at an airport is one of the latest examples of why that is needed.
Read MoreOne of the unfortunate things about owning a car is that sometimes a critter decides to make your car its temporary home. For some reason cats, squirrels, rats, possums, snakes, lizards, heck even spiders don’t seem to know any better. But at least you can just grab a lizard and toss it out the window. If something larger like, say, a bobcat gets in, you’re probably going to have to call for backup.
Read MoreIn an ideal world, no one would ever get into a wreck. We’d just go about our days, all driving safely and responsibly with no reason to worry about what other drivers might be doing. But since we don’t live in an ideal world, we have safety features such as seatbelts and airbags that we can usually count on to make any crashes much less dangerous than they would be otherwise. But if, I don’t know, say, your seat breaks off the rails in a wreck, that could easily lead to injury. And it’s exactly
Read MoreBeing a gig worker as a primary source of income can be risky business. With the ever-changing face of tech, from rules and regulations to companies going under, you can lose your job at the drop of a hat. Drivers for Uber have been dealing with this exact situation; MarketWatch details reports of drivers having their accounts suspended over what Uber suspects are fraudulent activities.
Read MoreAttorneys General in 18 states across the country are asking the National Transportation Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall Hyundai and Kia vehicles because they’re more likely to be stolen, according to Reuters. The AGs — led by California AG Rob Bonta — argue that because they lack standard features like electronic immobilizers, it makes stealing them much easier.
Read MoreIt can be hard to give car-buying advice because people all have different priorities, likes, dislikes and budgets. So even though you may love one car, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right one for someone else. But if a large enough group of owners have had great experiences with a particular model, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy the ownership experience long past the initial test drive. With that in mind, here are the 11 midsize SUVs that Consumer Reports readers said were the most
Read MoreWelcome back to Gas Price Watch! It’s been a long few months since we last talked about this, but what day is better than 4/20 to bring gas back into the conversation? Prices have been climbing in the wrong [read: rising or more expensive] direction for a while now – pretty much since the end of 2022. According to AAA’s trusty gas price tracker, the average price for a gallon of regular fuel is currently sitting at $3.68, which is actually up five cents from just a week ago. Luckily for us tho
Read MoreBelieve it or not, 1983 was 40 years ago. How that happened, we’re still not entirely sure, but whatever. No time for another existential crisis today. We’ve got hatchbacks to talk about. Specifically, the four hatchbacks that MotorWeek included in the latest “compare-a-car road test” that television’s automotive magazine just posted on its YouTube channel.
Read MoreAutomatic crash notification is far from new technology. General Motors introduced OnStar in the mid-1990s, and since then, it’s spread to pretty much every new car on the market. According to Consumer Reports, 13 automakers include it on some of the cars they sell here in the U.S. for free, while seven others include a trial period of at least five years. But when the trial period runs out, you either have to pay for a monthly subscription or lose what could be a valuable safety feature.
Read MoreIt is, to put it politely, a bit curious that Mini cars are still sold on American shores, complicated as they once were, and appealing to a demographic — European curious, interested in non-luxury “small” cars, not interested in big trucks — that seems ever shrinking in America. Except, maybe, when it comes to EVs in the next decade, because a cost-conscious, small, and sort of stylish EV that doesn’t try to do too much could be a sell someday, because no one else is really trying it. BMW alrea
Read MorePrice is frequently cited as one of the most influential factors for passengers when choosing which airline to fly with. Most customers wouldn’t hesitate at the opportunity to fly business or first class for less than $1,000. Recently, a currency conversion error allowed customers to book tickets with All Nippon Airways for a fraction of the actual price. However, ANA might not honor tickets that took advantage of the pricing error.
Read MoreDue to a lack of inventory caused by supply chain issues over the last several years, dealers have been able to charge huge markups on new cars. It’s been great for them, but it’s also sucked for consumers. Even late last year, the average transaction price for a new car continued to creep closer to $50,000, and Toyota recently said it expects it to cross $50,000 this year. But as dealer inventory returns to normal, that may not actually happen.
Read MoreJaguar was relatively early to the EV party when it launched the I Pace back in 2018, but despite a few minor updates made to the car in the years since, that seemed to be as far as Jaguar’s electric ambitions went. Now, things are changing and the company has confirmed it’s working on three all-new EVs, including a four-door GT that will launch in 2024.
Read MoreHyundai is in trouble. This time it’s with the NHTSA’s Canadian counterpart, Transport Canada. Reuters reports that Hyundai Auto Canada will have to pay a fine after failing to notify owners of a recall notice within a timely manner.
Read MoreOne of the biggest downsides to owning a Tesla (aside from other people knowing you willingly gave Elon Musk money) is that they can be incredibly expensive to repair after a wreck. As a result, your Model Y could end up totaled even if the damage looks minor, and the miles are low. Insurance companies also charge a premium for Teslas and other electric vehicles. Tesla Insurance was supposed to fix that problem for owners, but if you regularly drive at night, it might not end up being the deal t
Read MoreYesterday afternoon, a parking garage in Manhattan’s Financial District collapsed with six employees inside. One was killed in the collapse, while five others were injured, according to ABC 7 News.
Read MoreA vehicle repossession is never a great experience, for any parties involved. For the car’s owner, it can be an embarrassing or a life-changing experience that disrupts your everyday life. For the repo company it can get real with owner encounters that can turn outright dangerous. But what happens when the company repossessing the vehicle is the one that makes the situation worse? Detroit Free Press details one woman’s alleged attack by the men repoing her vehicle, the police’s involvement and
Read MoreCars are getting recalled for all manner of reasons this year, from incorrect tail lights and deflating tires, to detached rear seats. Now, German automaker BMW has been forced to issue a recall for its X5 SUV due to faulty headrests in the second row.
Read MoreIf you’re not already aware, bears are smart. Like ridiculously smart. So smart that designing food containers that bears can’t open is basically an arms race at this point. Once one bear figures out how to open a new one, they also teach other bears how to do the same. Cars, on the other hand, are much simpler for bears to get into, which is why leaving your food in them can be a risky decision. All they’ve got to do is smash and grab. But as it turns out, you also have to be careful about leav
Read MoreSheetz is once again lowering the price of at least one of the fuels it provides as a gesture of goodwill to its customers. The combination gas station-convenience-store-car-wash-restaurant-beer-distributor says it will be lowering the price of E85 to $1.85 per gallon for the rest of April 2023. That’s a big discount when compared to what AAA says is currently a $3.07 national average price for E85.
Read MoreWe’ve had a number of posts about people crashing into houses lately, from Pete Davidson losing control of his Mercedes to a Jeep driver hitting a house so hard, it knocked the house off of its foundation. But this latest one is a real head-scratcher. Normally, drivers who hit people’s houses only hit the first floor because that’s where the road usually is. But one California driver somehow managed to launch their car into the second floor of the house they hit.
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines hasn’t been a stranger to organizational dysfunction over the past year. Most will recall Southwest’s mass cancellation of over 16,000 flights in late December provoked by a “once-in-a-generation” winter storm and inadequate staffing software. The most recent episode for the low-cost carrier occurred this morning as hundreds of flights were delayed for what Southwest has described as “intermittent technology issues.”
Read MoreAt this point, the jokes about a Lexus having a big grille have become so cliche, they’re not even worth making anymore. But then Lexus we saw the LM luxury minivan, and well, how can you not talk about how much of the front end is taken up by the grille? It’s absolutely massive, but, uh, at least it makes a statement? If you ever see one, you certainly aren’t going to forget it.
Read MorePolestar is on a bit of a roll right now, after wowing car fans with its Precept concept and the Polestar 6 convertible that could be on sale in 2026. Now, as it prepares to launch the Polestar 3 in the U.S., the Swedish automaker has unveiled yet another new model, but it’s missing something pretty integral to most modern cars.
Read MoreOwners of Hyundai models affected by the recent trend of thefts made famous in part through TikTok have been going through it. Aside from having their vehicles stolen, they’ve had to deal with everything from a horrible and slow rollout of anti-theft software and devices to insurance companies declining to cover models because of theft risks. It’s been rough. But as Hyundai has been trying to do right by its customers, some owners can expect a little relief in the form of insurance coverage. Hyu
Read MoreWell, yet another train has derailed. It’s been a couple of weeks, so it was probably time. It would be a shame if too many trains just stayed on the tracks and got to where they needed to go without anything going wrong. Train companies have got to meet their quota for environmental disasters after all.
Read MoreNew car smell. It’s like fresh baked cookies, or the smell of popcorn. People seem to love it. But it looks as if that smell may be more dangerous for us than we initially thought. CBS Austin reports a study has shown new car smell is linked to leukemia and rare nose cancers.
Read MoreIf there’s one trend that seems to be catching on with automakers that I’m super stoked about, it’s the whole “off-road everything” thing that we’ve already seen embraced by Porsche with its 911 Dakar and Lamborghini with its Sterrato. Now, it seems like Ford could be getting in on the fun with a lifted, all-wheel drive Mustang Raptor — at least according to a report published Monday by Car & Driver.
Read MoreIf you drove up Interstate 5 in Oregon last week, you could have been showered in $100 bills. NPR reported that an Oregon man wanted to bless others with the gift of money. Other drivers eagerly stopped on the highway to grab as much money as possible. Though, his generosity wasn’t well received by the police or his family.
Read MoreThe 2023 Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV was officially revealed today, making 649 hp and 700 lb-ft of torque. And to justify its “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it, pal” price, it also gets an incredibly opulent interior. Reclining executive seats come standard with little pillows for your comfort, and there’s even an option to add a calf massage feature. And, apparently, it will also be your wingman if you need a little help sealing the deal.
Read MoreWhen the entire world was swept up in the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020, one of the hardest hit industries was air travel. As the demand for flying fizzled, airlines scrambled to put their no-longer-needed planes in storage. The Airbus A380 was no exception. At 239 feet long, 262 feet wide and 79 feet tall, it’s the biggest passenger jet ever created, and for a while no one really needed or wanted it. But, as demand for air travel has increased, so has the need for the 560 ton A380.
Read MoreFor some unknown reason, people in cities refuse to stay cooped up in their homes and insist on walking around outside even though everyone knows that outside is specifically reserved for cars. That means that while driving around like a normal person, you run the risk of getting pedestrian gunk all over the front of your car if you so much as Facetime your friend or lean over to pick up the burrito you dropped. But Skoda thinks it has a solution.
Read MoreThe Smart Roadster Coupé from the early 2000s was a nifty little car and did a good job at replicating Smart’s styling in a low-lung, sporty car. It was the automaker’s first proper coupé but was sadly only on sale for three years. Now, in its new all-electric guise, Smart is making a return to the coupé segment with its new model, the Smart #3.
Read MoreVolkswagen brought a camouflaged ID.7 to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show where it talked up the ID.7's fancy intelligent air conditioning system, so we already had a decent idea of what it was going to look like. But now the German automaker’s latest electric sedan has been officially revealed. Meet the 2024 Volkswagen ID.7.
Read MoreIt’s a shame that HBO’s Succession isn’t getting another season. Poor Logan Roy, who is often whisked into and out of dramatic situations in the back of a Maybach sedan, will miss out on sampling Mercedes’ latest uber-luxe ride. For the first time, this one’s electric. It’s the Mercedes-Maybach EQS 680 SUV, the first of Mercedes’ EQ line of cars to be deemed worthy of wearing the Maybach badge. While both the S-Class sedan and GLS SUV got the big-M treatment, it seems, for now at least, that onl
Read MoreAlaska Airlines canceled 28 flights to or from the state of Alaska yesterday after a volcanic ash cloud drifted over western Alaska. The Seattle Times reported that the ash cloud was created by a recent volcanic eruption in the Russian Far East. The precautionary measure was taken to prevent powdered volcanic rock from damaging an airliner’s jet engines and potentially causing a failure.
Read MoreOne of the greatest barn finds of all time was recently uncovered in the Netherlands and will soon be sold at auction. The Palmen Barnfind Collection is named after its former owner. Mr. Palmen began collecting special cars over 40 years ago. He eventually stored over 230 vehicles in a church and two warehouses, where the cars were rarely seen by anyone. Due to circumstances and his increasing age, Palmen can no only longer keep his impressive collection, and Gallery Aaldering, a classic car dea
Read MoreCurrently, Bentley offers hybrid versions of the Bentayga crossover and Flying Spur sedan but no fully electric cars. That’s soon going to change, though, and when it does, Bentley hopes to win customers over by offering some serious horsepower. Something tells us it won’t be hard, either.
Read MoreLand Rover unveiled the fifth generation of its luxury SUV last year to some pretty good reviews. The latest and greatest Range Rover packed in oodles of luxury trimmings, a pristine finish and, unfortunately, a row of seats that wasn’t welded together correctly. Now, affected models are being recalled so Land Rover can fix the issue.
Read MoreStealing is wrong, and you shouldn’t do it. But if you are going to steal, at least steal something you can easily use. You know, like food or cash. There’s a reason people rob banks, after all. Even if the store or restaurant isn’t happy about making change, a $100 bill can still be spent pretty much anywhere. Stealing a bunch of coins, on the other hand, makes it incredibly hard to spend your ill-gotten gains. And yet, someone recently did exactly that.
Read MoreVanlife has exploded in the last few years, especially during the pandemic. Millennials and Gen Z flocked to vans, buses, and ambulances after being priced out of housing due to rising housing costs. As things slowly returned to normal, some found that living life that way didn’t quite work for them. But in some parts of the country, vanlifers never let up. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that vanlifers at the Port of San Diego have become a nuisance to both port officials and local resident
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is taking action against the growing trend in the New York City area of drivers evading tolls with obscured or counterfeit license plates. Along with the city’s public transportation system, the MTA operates seven bridges and two tunnels entirely within the city’s boundaries. These crossings don’t have toll booths and rely on photographing license plates for vehicles without an electronic E-ZPass tag.
Read MoreIn another unfortunate example of potential police excess, The Kansas City Star reported Wednesday that an 80-year-old man was chased and tased after police tried to stop him for going three mph over the speed limit. After he was tased, according to his lawyer, the driver dropped “like a rock.”
Read MoreWe weren’t expecting the new Toyota Prius to be cool because why would it be? And yet Toyota surprised all of us with a seriously cool Prius. The plug-in hybrid Prius Prime is the most exciting version since it makes 220 hp and offers 40 miles of all-electric range, but even the regular Prius still has people talking.
Read MoreThe Quadrifoglio name is turning 100 years old, so Alfa Romeo has decided to celebrate with 100th-anniversary editions of the Giulia and Stelvio. But unless you already have a great relationship with your Alfa Romeo dealer, odds are, you won’t be able to get your hands on one. That’s because Alfa plans to only build 100 examples of each for the entire world.
Read MoreCaterham is a small British carmaker that arose in the shadow of Lotus and has remained committed, for decades now, to its particular vision of a car, which are mostly variants of the Seven. In fact, Caterham sold more Sevens in 2021 than ever before, or some 670 new Sevens, I suppose because life is short and dozens of people thought they needed a completely impractical but very fun and lightweight British sports car in their pandemic-stricken life. Good news for those people, and their aspiran
Read MoreToyota’s Crown has returned to the U.S. After it was last sold here in 1972, the new Crown is serving as a replacement for the long running Avalon. While buyers may be still warming up to the new model on our shores, elsewhere, Toyota is planning a full Crown lineup. After previewing the coming models in 2022, Toyota released a few more details of the Crown Sedan, Estate and SUV that will be released in other countries.
Read MoreRain can be annoying, especially if you’re on a motorcycle, but it’s usually no big deal. We need it to keep the plants alive. What Fort Lauderdale, Florida is dealing with is nothing short of a disaster. Yesterday, the city got 26 inches of rain, with most of it falling in a mere seven hours, reports the South Florida Sun Sentinel. It had also already been raining for several days prior.
Read MoreSteve McQueen may be best known for driving the Bullitt Mustang, but he wasn’t just a Mustang man. Over his lifetime, he amassed an incredible collection of some of the most desirable cars and motorcycles ever sold. McQueen seemed to specifically have a thing for Porsches and Ferraris, and soon, you’ll be able to bid on one Ferrari that, unlike the Steve McQueen Ferrari California T, the movie star actually owned.
Read MoreFirst, came the midsize Chevrolet Colorado ZR2. Then the Colorado ZR2 Bison. After that, Chevrolet added the full-size Silverado ZR2. And the Silverado ZR2 Bison. So it should come as no surprise that Chevrolet just announced the 2024 Silverado HD ZR2 and Silverado HD ZR2 Bison. The demand for off-road trucks is there, so why not round out the set?
Read MoreChartering a private jet may suck for the planet, but we’re not going to pretend we don’t understand why people who can afford it do it. It’s no fun to have to deal with other passengers while flying, especially if one of said passengers decides to go barefoot. Unfortunately, private chartered flights cost as much as what some normal people earn in a year. Which is why we’re so jealous of Paul Wilkinson, the lucky passenger who recently ended up with an entire commercial flight to himself. It’s
Read MoreIt’s no secret that flying has gotten worse since the pandemic started. Flights get canceled, airlines shut down their customer service line, holiday travel gets ruined and there are no signs that it will get better any time soon. So if you’ve had a bad experience lately, at least you know you’re not alone. That doesn’t exactly make things better, but hey, at least it’s something?
Read MoreA woman in California has learned noisy actions with her vehicle are not protected free speech — specifically, honking your horn falls in the realm of safety, not free speech, The Monterey Herald reports.
Read MoreMiddle school was already tough enough before social media. You’ve got to start over at a new school, make new friends and deal with all the weirdness of puberty, as well as navigate an unfamiliar, constantly changing social scene. You don’t feel like a kid anymore, but you’re also far from being an adult, and as much as you want independence, you still need your parents to take you to hang out with your friend. One Florida girl recently found a solution to that last problem, though, by simply s
Read MorePolice in Texas rescued a woman from a submerged Jeep hours after the vehicle somehow made its way into a lake last week.
Read MoreRemember MG, the plucky British car company responsible for fun little sports cars like the MGB and the Group B-spec Metro 6R4? Well, after its collapse in the early 2000s, the British marque was revived in 2006 by Chinese state-run automaker SAIC, selling affordable vehicles in Britain, Europe and Asia. Now, MG seems to be getting back to its roots with a new two-seater all-electric sports car called the Cyberster.
Read MoreThe Howe & Howe Ripsaw is likely best known for its appearance in The Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment of the Fast and Furious movie franchise. The tank is part of a unique vehicle fleet used by the heroes to lure and destroy a hijacked Russian nuclear submarine in the Arctic. While theater-goers might have assumed it was a prop built for the movie, it’s actually a fully-functional vehicle. Now, the Ripsaw used in the 2017 action film is going up for auction next month.
Read MoreTowing companies are still some of the most sketchy businesses around. It seems every time one pops up in the news it’s because they were doing something they shouldn’t have. This time isn’t any different. The United States Justice Department announced a towing company has settled a suit after allegedly auctioning off vehicles of U.S. service members while they were deployed.
Read MoreRussia’s most active volcano, Shiveluch in the far flung Kamchatka region, got very active indeed Tuesday morning, when it shot volcanic ash 12 miles above sea leave only to come back down and doused rural villages. Of course, my first thought was, but what of the cars?
Read MoreA wealthy anonymous bidder paid 55 million Emirati dirhams, roughly $15 million, for a license plate at an auction in Dubai. The world record amount was spent for Dubai’s “P 7” license plate, breaking the previous record by over $750,000. Absurdly low license plate numbers have long been considered a status symbol in the United Arab Emirates and have been auctioned off to the Gulf state’s ultra-wealthy.
Read MoreOccidental Petroleum Corp., one of the most productive oil and gas producers in the U.S., wants to keep producing that gas and oil even in the wake of a de-carbonizing world. To do that, Occidental is using a Hail Mary play: a massive carbon capture plant deep in the heart of Texas.
Read MoreBuilding bridges isn’t easy. It takes time, care, and dedication to truly make another person feel comfortable in your presence, to break down those barriers that so often interfere in the earliest days of new relationships. Even more difficult than that, however, is building real, actual, physical bridges. Take, for example, the Italian plans to link Sicily to the mainland — a project that’s been in the works for over 150 years.
Read MoreWhen trucks crash, it isn’t fun for the people who get delayed by the truck blocking the road, and it certainly isn’t fun for the driver who has to deal with the fact that they made a terrible mistake. But at least if the truck in question is carrying an interesting payload, it can be an interesting story to read about. Say, for example, Bud Light, potatoes, tomatoes or eggs. A truck spilling toxic, contaminated soil, on the other hand, is decidedly not fun.
Read MoreWe’ve written before that EVs, with all of their nickel, lithium, cobalt and other rare metals, are not all that green when you take mining into account. You can add destruction of one of the last isolated tribes in the world to the not-so-green list of deforestation, ocean pollution, and worker abuse in part caused by the EV craze.
Read MoreBeing wrongfully arrested over a vehicle that was legally rented has been an issue in recent years, with Hertz attracting a lot of negative attention. Now, KTLA reports that a woman is suing another car rental company, Avis, over being wrongfully arrested after the company reported her rental car stolen.
Read MoreIf you’re not already familiar, Spike has been Mini’s bulldog mascot since the modern Mini was introduced back in 2001. It’s not exactly the most well-known mascot in the world, as evidenced by the fact that the only article we have that mentions Spike is a 10-year-old post from a time when a writer by the name of PRBot still worked here (RIP). Presumably, he’s more well-known among actual Mini owners. And soon, if you buy a new Mini, he’ll also be your new digital personal assistant.
Read MoreWe’d really prefer it if people would stop driving their cars into other people’s houses (as well as other people’s cars and other people in general), but unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen any time soon. It’s certainly not an everyday occurrence, it happens often enough that we don’t usually don’t cover those stories unless, say, Pete Davidson is the driver. Or in this particular case, there’s a unique angle such as the car now holding up the house it hit.
Read MoreAs huge fans of minivans here at Jalopnik, we were excited when Kia announced the new Carnival. And after finally getting a chance to drive it, we ended up liking it even more than the incredibly popular Kia Telluride. So if you’re one of the wonderful people who actually chose a Carnival over a Telluride, we salute your decision and clearly impeccable taste. That said, you should definitely check with your dealer to see if yours has been recalled over problems with the sliding doors.
Read MoreSan Francisco is the epicenter of self-driving car testing and development, with dozens of robotaxis roaming the roads. Manufactures want more taxis with more area and more drive time, but the technology isn’t perfect, and the proliferation of self-driving cars is causing a significant spike in chaos on city streets. Wired got ahold of the dash cam footage of eight of these incidents, and they look just as frustrating as you probably imagined.
Read MoreSeventy years after Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, the coronation of King Charles III was always bound to be a different ceremony. For example, the advancements in transport technology have been unbelievable. Britain had co-developed a supersonic passenger airline with France, and the Concorde was retired after 27 years in service. The monarch, though, will still be heading to and from the state occasion in a horse-drawn carriage.
Read MoreIt may be hard to believe, but the car in these photos is an Infiniti G35 wearing a body kit. It’s from a company called Vaydor, and if you had the misfortune of watching 2016's Suicide Squad, you may recognize it as the car the Joker drove in that movie. And if you like the look or are one of those weirdos who idolize the Joker, this car can be yours for a mere $110,000. Or $2,060 a month for 75 months.
Read MorePorsche has indicated that its next hypercar is at least five years away due to next-generation battery development. It’s been almost a decade since the Porsche 918 Spyder debuted, and the German automaker is exploring what its successor’s powertrain could look like. Since the production of the hybrid hypercar ended in 2015, Porsche now produces its electric four-door Taycan and developed the Mission R electric racing prototype. The manufacturer has also invested in the development of synthetic
Read MoreYou know the Toyota GR Corolla. It’s a 300-hp turbocharged hatchback with all-wheel drive and seriously mean looks. When we got our first chance to drive the GR Corolla, we found it was an absolute blast to drive, especially on the track. And with the WRX now sold only as a sedan, you could argue that the GR Corolla now fits where the WRX hatch used to be. But can you actually rally a GR Corolla, or is it really only good on asphalt?
Read MoreWhen Renault built the R5 Turbo 3E as a nod to the original R5 Turbo, it went all out. It used two electric motors to send 375 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels only, added a huge hydraulic handbrake and and gave it a 50-degree steering angle. It was also built on an FIA-compliant steel tube chassis and given carbon fiber body panels. You’d think it would make a fantastic rally car, but sadly, that’s not the case.
Read MoreWith its massive budget and low pay for soldiers, providing service members with properly operating gear is the least the U.S. Army can do to repay those who have elected to serve. It often falls short of this goal, however, and now it appears that, ironically, a safety feature in army-issued parachutes are killing service members in freak accidents.
Read MoreIf you own a Tesla Model 3 you may want to check out the latest recall. Autoblog reports that a small number of examples of the popular EV are being recalled over a suspension issue that could cause some components to come apart while driving.
Read MoreFor some reason, despite New York City’s density, walkability and extensive public transportation system, people still choose to drive cars in the heart of the city. When you take all the traffic into consideration, getting around by car makes even less sense. Apparently, lots of those drivers love to illegally park their vehicles in NYC’s bike lanes — and the city doesn’t seem at all interested in putting a stop to the problem.
Read MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration is concerned that leaky bathroom faucets on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner could allow water to seep into flight-critical electronics on the aircraft, and is proposing repeat inspections of all 787s in the U.S. The regulator’s actions follow reports of water from the lavatory flowing under the cabin floor and into equipment bays on multiple 787s operated by one airline. However, Boeing and the FAA disagree on how widespread the issue is across currently active 787s
Read MoreTesla has been ordered to rehire Richard Ortiz, a previously fired pro-union employee, after a federal appeals court ruled that Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, broke the law in firing him, Wards Auto reports. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling from the National Labor Relations Board from back in 2021 that found Musk’s online threats to take away stock options if employees unionized amounted to unlawful coercion. At the time, the NLRB also ordered Tesla to rehire Ortiz with
Read MoreCurrently, Ram depends on Walkinshaw Automotive to convert left-hand-drive trucks that it ships to Australia to right-hand drive. And last year, Bob Graczyk, head of Ram Trucks International, made it sound like Walkinshaw did such a good job, there was no reason to consider building right-hand-drive trucks in-house. But now, there’s been so much demand for Rams in Australia, that may eventually change.
Read MoreHeading out on the open road today usually starts with opening Google Maps, Waze, or another navigation app, then inputting a destination. It’s safe to say that the era where most drivers find their route through paper maps is over. However, every Wisconsin state highway map is now freely available online. The archive offers the chance to look back at how the Badger State’s road network has expanded over the past century and the various ways the state has portrayed itself.
Read MoreDozens of members of the Congressional Black Caucus signed and delivered a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Thursday imploring the him to investigate federal funds going to racially biased traffic stops.
Read MoreWe’re big fans of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 here at Jalopnik. It’s a little weird, may or may not be an SUV and is just overall a really good electric vehicle. By now, most of the outlets and organizations that give out awards have given at least one to the Ioniq 5, and thanks to its retro-futuristic design, even people who don’t care about cars at all notice it on the road.
Read MoreSay what you want about Tesla, but one thing you can’t deny is the fact that the brand has almost single-handedly made electric cars mainstream. At one point it was almost as if the brand was the only manufacturer making electric cars. And with nearly every manufacturer on the planet gunning to be “the next Tesla”, it’s caused an EV arms race. But that high Tesla has been riding with record sales the last few years may be fading, as Bloomberg notes that two of the brand’s best-known models are o
Read MoreThe Biden Administration, along with guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency, will propose the toughest rules ever implemented on vehicle emissions in the U.S. These regulations would put the country on par with other nations who have already pledged aggressive timelines to significantly reduce emissions within the next decade.
Read MoreLast month, Hyundai revealed specs on the 2024 Kona Electric, and at the time, the press release said the long-range version would have more than 300 miles of range. But that was on the European test cycle. Because the EPA is more conservative in its estimates than Europe is, we did some quick back-of-the-napkin math and guessed that when the range was announced for the U.S., it would be more like 260 miles. Turns out, we were right on the money.
Read MoreIt would be a compliment to say new vehicle sales were lackluster in 2022. Last year, sales figures were at their lowest in over a decade, with supply chain issues and high-interest rates the most significant factors behind the decline — things mainly outside the control of automakers.
Read MoreTesla puts sensors and cameras all across its EVs, both on the exterior and interior. The cameras work as part of Tesla’s driver-assistance and safety systems, spotting hazards in the road and helping drivers park in tight spaces. But every Tesla records all manner of activities that go on inside and outside the cars, whether they’re driving or stationary. A new report reveals that, for years, Tesla employees have had seemingly unfettered access to videos recorded in customers’ vehicles, sharing
Read MoreSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is once again in hot water for seeming ethics violations, this time, instead of getting all tangled up in his wife’s election denialism, he’s allegedly taken lavish, undisclosed vacations on a superyacht and private jet, on the dime of a republican megadonor.
Read MoreLos Angeles has the highest homeless population in the country. At just over 65,000, it’s a serious problem for the city. One way the city’s Metro transit agency is now using to keep the unhoused out of subway stations: bright lights and classical music, according to the L.A. Times.
Read MoreAs car security has advanced, the world of auto theft has quickly melded with the world of hacking. The advent of high-tech car keys means that hotwiring is out and methods like relay attacks are the new way to gain unauthorized access to a vehicle. Now, however, it seems that attackers have found a new way to entirely bypass the electronic security on modern cars: A method called CAN injection.
Read MoreHonda is recalling almost 564,000 CR-V compact crossovers. The recall report submitted to NHTSA states that roadway de-icing agents could cause frame corrosion. The recall covers CR-V crossovers built from 2007 until 2011 and registered in salt-belt states. Automotive News reports Honda received 61 customer complaints about the issue between September 2018 and March 2023.
Read MoreAmsterdam Schiphol Airport, Europe’s busiest airport, has struggled to operate with reduced staff numbers while working to limit the airport’s impact on the environment. Last year, the Dutch airport capped the daily number of departing passengers at about 67,500 people. Schiphol has recently re-instituted passengers caps and is aiming to ban private jets from the airport, among a raft of other measures.
Read MoreElectric vehicles continue to get more popular in the U.S., but they still only make up a small percentage of overall new vehicle sales. Other countries, however, are seeing huge growth in the sale of electric vehicles. But they aren’t actually electric cars. Many of them are rickshaws, the bicycle and motorcycle-based three-wheelers that are a popular form of transportation in many Asian countries.
Read MoreThere is no perfect energy source, nothing that will power our vehicles without some kind of catch. Consider hydrogen. For decades it’s been propped up as a worthy alternative to oil, even if infrastructure-related hiccups seem to always hold it back from reaching its full potential. Nevertheless, there seems to be a bit of space left for hydrogen-powered vehicles even in a battery electric-dominated world. But new research indicates that hydrogen buildup could have adverse effects on the climat
Read MoreDistracted driving is dangerous. From using in-car technology like your big-screen infotainment systems, to the worst offender of using a cell phone while driving, everything could be a gamble for your own or someone else’s life. It’s why states have been cracking down on distracted driving. The newest law, comes from Ohio, where WHIO ABC 7 reports that drivers there can only use their phone when the vehicle is completely stopped.
Read MoreGordon Murray Automotive officially revealed the T.33 Spider this week, an open-roof version of the T.33 coupe that we first saw a little more than a year ago. Like the coupe, it has a 607-hp naturally aspirated V12 that can rev to 11,100 rpm and sends the power to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual. Gordon Murray also revealed that while the T.33 was originally supposed to offer an automatic, too, that option was dropped due to the very low demand.
Read MoreJust a few months back, rail workers across the country nearly ground the economy to a halt — rightly so — over things like worker safety, work/life balance and most importantly, sick leave. While some union rail workers have since been given a handful of sick days, many are still without, and most are still unable to use them. One Union Pacific rail worker utilized those sick days, and claims he was fired for using them. Now he’s taking Union Pacific to court, the Associated Press reports.
Read MoreIf you head over to Mercedes-Benz’s online configurator, you may be surprised to see that at least temporarily, there’s no AMG C 63 available for you to build. For now, the most powerful C-Class that you can order is the less extreme 2023 Mercedes-AMG C 43. It wasn’t too long ago that the baby AMG’s performance figures would have been seriously impressive and not second-best. After all, the 2023 C 43 makes 402 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque, and it’ll hit 60 mph in 4.6 seconds.
Read MoreE-bikes are a solid choice for personal mobility, particularly in cities where traveling by car is frustratingly slow. They’re also expensive. Naturally, some Democrats in Congress recently proposed an e-bike subsidy that would slash 30 percent, up to $1,500, off the cost of any e-bike for taxpayers making less than $150,000 per year. Unfortunately, we’re living in the year 2023, which means that proponents of the bill are getting dragged into yet another culture war. And this one involves the s
Read MoreYesterday, a jury in San Francisco ordered Tesla to pay just under $3.2 million to a former factory worker who alleged that the automaker ignored the racist treatment he received during his time working there as a contractor. The New York Times reports the trial lasted five days and ended with plaintiff Owen Diaz receiving “$3 million in punitive damages, and $175,000 in past and future noneconomic damages.”
Read MoreThe closure of the United States-Canada border was one of the most disruptive measures taken in North America during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Amtrak, America’s government-owned railroad company, was forced to cease all three of its international services to Canada. This week, the company restored its Adirondack service between New York City and Montreal, Canada, though, the trip is now 30 minutes longer due to lower speed limits, mainly in Canada.
Read MoreThere’s nothing wrong with the Mk2 Volkswagen GTI, but at the same time, if you’re in the market for a late 1980s hot hatch, it’s kind of an obvious choice. Maybe a little too obvious. You’ll still get your fair share of attention from fellow enthusiasts, but come on, you can do better. Instead of buying a Volkswagen GTI, go for the Giugiaro-designed weirdo that is the Isuzu I-Mark RS Turbo.
Read MoreThe compact van segment is in dire straits here in America. Ford recently announced the end of the Transit Connect in the U.S., Ram killed off the Pro Master City and the Nissan NV200 is no more.
Read MoreFord’s BlueOval City is gearing up to be a game-changer for both the company and many residents of the state of Tennessee. The 4,100-acre, $5.6 billion campus is planned to make Ford a leader in EVs. With thousands of new jobs, it could be a boon locally, but not for everyone, as Tennessee Lookout reports that the state has been allegedly lowballing Black farmers for their land as room is made way for new roads that will lead to BlueOval City.
Read MoreAs supply chain issues continue to improve, we’re seeing more inventory on dealer lots and fewer cars selling over sticker. Unfortunately for consumers, that’s about where the good news ends. Used car prices have been rising, making it harder for cash-strapped buyers to afford to replace their aging vehicles, interest rates are on the rise, and the percentage of extremely high monthly payments continues to increase to eye-watering levels.
Read MoreLast year, the Transportation Security Administration found an astounding number of firearms at airport security checkpoints across the country. The federal security agency located over 6,000 guns in terminals, a new record surpassing the record set in 2021. The American public is doing its best to make sure we break this record for the third consecutive record. TSA agents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) have seized five guns over the past four days.
Read MoreTravelers making the 14-mile trip to the Edinburgh Park train and tram interchange from a park-and-ride in Fife, Scotland, will be able to pile into one of five double-decker self-driving buses starting in May—though the autonomous aspect may not be immediately evident to customers.
Read MoreA woman who was arrested on homicide charges after the death of a traffic cop and subsequently had the charges dropped is now suing the city Phoenix, Arizona’s ABC 15 reports.
Read MoreIt’s probably not accurate to describe my family as car enthusiasts, but over the years, we’ve generally driven interesting cars. Both my parents can drive stick and started teaching me as soon as I got my license. I learned my love of the manual transmission from them and currently own a six-speed E39 540i that I plan to keep forever. And yet, thanks to my dad, I learned to hate one very specific manual car: his 2012 Hyundai Sonata. It’s been my mortal enemy for years, and I finally need to wri
Read MoreCalifornia has gotten some seriously needed water the last month or two. State reservoirs once dry and barren are now plentiful, sitting at 107 percent; snow packs are at 235 percent. Suffice to say that most of the state has been pulled out of the drought. But all that water, that suddenly has no place else to go, has caused flooding and displaced residents, particularly in the state’s Central Valley. It’s also become a problem in the construction of California’s high speed rail system, accordi
Read MoreSenator Joe Manchin is still pissed off that the Biden Administration’s implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act isn’t nice enough to fossil fuels. Bloomberg reports that the Democratic Senator from West Virginia is upping his fight against the President’s signature climate bill.
Read MoreAsk the typical person how much parking most cities have, and their answer will probably be “not enough.” And it’s easy to see why: When you’re used to every Walmart having 1,000 parking spaces for customers, it can be annoying to not be able to park right in front of the restaurant you’re trying to eat at. But just because it may not feel like cities have enough parking, that doesn’t mean that’s actually the case.
Read MoreRemember 13 years ago when not-yet-disgraced Lotus CEO Dany Bahar introduced a bunch of new concepts at the 2010 Paris Motor Show? It’s been a long time, but Jalopnik remembers. We also remember how they all got canceled.
Read MoreCurrently, there are only two states in the U.S. that allow drivers to text while behind the wheel: Missouri and Montana. Every other state in the country has recognized that it’s dangerous enough to outlaw, but for some reason, those two states have been the last holdouts. Soon, though, that could change, as Missouri is getting closer to making it illegal to text and drive.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik, we’re firm believers that every sports car would be infinitely better if it had no roof. And, clearly, legendary car designer Gordon Murray feels the same way as his automotive upstart has just teased the release of the T.33 Spider, which chops the roof off its awesome V12-powered supercar.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice BMW E46 M3 comes in an interesting color combo with some mods to make it even more unique. Let’s see if its price gives it a universal appeal.
Read MoreSmall vans are dead in the U.S., and when they were a thing, not too many did passenger van duty. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Ford Transit Connect is one of the few that did. Will its price make Van Life all the more appealing?
Read MoreWhile the 1970s might not have been a great era for cars, it was a great era for car window louvers. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Celica is for all you louver lovers out there. Let’s find out if the price on this dealer-offered coupe means it’s got it made in the shade.
Read MoreAt its ever-advancing age, it’s safe to consider today’s Nice Price or No Dice Audi S6 Avant to be a classic car. Despite that designation, it’s also an eminently practical car, offering three rows and plenty of storage. let’s see what such desirable discord might just be worth.
Read MoreFor today’s Nice Price or No Dice contest, we’re looking at a supercharged, manual transmission Nissan Xterra that’s a little rough around the edges. Will its price leave us feeling a little rough about this 4x4, too?
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mazda MX-5 wants the car gone by tomorrow as they have found another car to buy and are in need of the cash. Let’s see if this Miata’s price will help them move the metal.
Read MoreComing in at the tail end of a movie can be frustrating. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice V70R isn’t quite at the tail end of its useful life, and if the price is right, it may be worth riding into the sunset.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice AMC Eagle makes the claim that the model is “The original crossover.” Let’s see if the price makes it worth jumping into this Eagle’s nest.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder is a car I’m sure most of us will regard with “Oh yeah, that was a thing that happened.” Let’s see if this “like new” edition is priced to make a sale happen.
Read MoreWith 580 horsepower on tap, a six-speed manual, and a bad attitude, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 should be a ball to drive. It’s a shame then that it’s only been driven a little over 3,600 miles. Let’s see if its price drives a hard bargain.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice VW Caddy is a truck built for and in the land of the pickup, the U.S.A. Let’s see if its price and condition will ensure domestic bliss.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice S4 comes in an interesting color combination of Phantom Black over a two-tone black and copper interior. That’s all well and good, but it’s what’s underneath the aesthetics that makes this Audi fun. Let’s see if its price tag ruins the party.
Read MoreDue to their simple, no-nonsense nature, old trucks like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Ford F-150 are still perfectly viable for everyday work and play. Let’s see how this nicely equipped long bed works when we consider its asking price.
Read MoreThe ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice BMW Z4 M Coupe presents the car as mechanically sound (and supercharged), but aesthetically challenged, suffering from hail damage. Let’s see if the divots also put a damper on the price.
Read MoreWhile the new GMC Hummer might be the biggest and most over-the-top electric truck on the planet, today’s Nice Price or No Dice gas-engined H2 is more traditional and comes at a third of the cost. Let’s see if it’s cheap enough.
Read MoreIt’s been a long, cold, wet winter, making the prospect of enjoying a sunny-day drive in a roadster like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fiat all the more appealing. Let’s see if this Fiat is priced to break out the sunscreen.
Read MoreWhile electric vehicles are all the rage these days, hybrids like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Porsche Cayenne may prove more practical in the near term. Let’s see if this Cayenne is a true Porsche, and more importantly, if it’s not priced like one.
Read MoreChevrolet is once again vowing to kill its Camaro. That’s ok though since today’s Nice Price or No Dice ‘98 proves there’s plenty of life left in older editions. Let’s find out if this modded SS’s price makes it a killer deal.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice contest isn’t for a single vehicle, but for a package deal of three. Let’s see what you all think of the price of this tempting trio of Bricklin SV1s, and whether misery loves company.
Read MoreWith its unique door arrangement, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Clubman is the most innovative car that BMW has released under its Mini marque. Let’s see if this well-equipped and low-mileage example is worth opening the door to one’s wallet.
Read MoreElectric restomods of classic cars are becoming increasingly popular across the industry, with OEMs even jumping into the fray and debuting kits at shows like SEMA. In France, electric conversions only just became allowed back in 2019, with the first company to get approval for homologation and sale being R-Fit Vintage, approved in 2021. R-Fit’s first offering was for the Citroën 2CV, and its kit for the Renault 4L was unveiled earlier this year. I got to see R-Fit’s conversions up close at Rétr
Read MoreAn Air India pilot allegedly let one of his female friends spend time in the plane’s cockpit during a flight from Dubai to Delhi on February 27. As you may have imagined, this is in direct violation of a litany of safety and procedural norms set by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, according to the Hindustan Times.
Read MorePolice are reportedly investigating a purported cinema-style heist after $15 million in gold and valuables was stolen at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, April 17. According to the BBC, it’s a location that is often used to ship gold mined in the province of Ontario. It may sound like something out of a B movie, but this really happened.
Read MoreWhen you’re booking an airline ticket these days, it can feel like you have to pay extra for everything. From seat selection, to priority boarding and even snacks can all come with an additional fee these days. But nowhere are airline fees more tiresome than when it comes to your packed essentials, where carriers, around the world, managed to rake in more than $29 billion in fees last year.
Read MoreAir travel can be a uniquely hellish experience in so many different ways. But one thing that can ease the burden of cranky passengers, hollering babies, and mind-numbing delays is a nice, well-designed airport, with everything you ever needed.
Read MoreA Volga-Dnepr Airlines Antonov An-124 has been sitting on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson International Airport for over a year. The cargo aircraft delivered COVID-19 test kits from China and landed in Canada on February 27, 2022. However, Canada’s government closed its airspace to Russian-owned, chartered or operated aircraft on that same day in response to Russia invading Ukraine three days earlier. After racking over $300,000 in parking fees, the Antonov will finally leave Toronto Pearson soon
Read MoreThe utilitarian design and the rivets holding everything together can make it feel like airliners are built to last forever. Despite this illusion of longevity, a commercial airliner can expect to last around 27 years in service. But once they leave an airline’s fleet, there are still millions of dollars worth of components hidden in their fuselage. Now, a new report from CNBC has broken down what makes the remains of an airplane so expensive.
Read MoreThe People’s Republic of China seemingly set its sights on breaking Airbus and Boeing’s duopoly over the commercial aviation market. According to CNBC, Airbus and Boeing combined control 99 percent of the market for large commercial planes. The Comac C919, China’s first large airliner, was delivered to its first customer last December. However, China might have used illicit means to design its first large single-aisle airliner.
Read MoreThe critter you see up there is a Cape cobra, also known as a yellow cobra. It’s one of the most dangerous snakes in Africa, with venom that can kill you by paralysis and respiratory failure in as little as one hour. That was a problem for pilot Rudolph Erasmus, who discovered one of these scaly bastards in the cockpit of his plane mid-flight this week.
Read MoreWhat was your student dorm like? Mine was a bland, bottom-floor apartment with gray walls, a tiny shared kitchen and a distinct lack of soundproofing. For pupils at a flight school in Alaska, their campus housing is about to get a whole lot more exciting, as the school prepares to convert an old Boeing 727 into student housing.
Read MoreThe Technik Museum Speyer in, you guessed it, Speyer, Germany, had a dream: To bring the massive Boeing 747 to the masses. The only snag was just how to get such a big plane to their location and then prop it up on the roof to seem as if it were taking off from the parking lot. But when it comes to Germans, they aren’t the least bit daunted by an engineering challenge.
Read MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration is looking to avoid a second consecutive summer of delays in the New York City area. The FAA has stated it is making efforts to mitigate a significant shortage of air traffic controllers. The federal civil aviation agency has asked airlines to reduce the number of flights in and out of John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and New York LaGuardia Airport during the summer months, all to avoid a meltdown of delays and cance
Read MorePeople love the Porsche Cayenne. Sure, there was a long period where purists and snobs liked to bash it because it wasn’t a 911, but those days are mostly gone. People now recognize that it’s an unbelievably well-engineered vehicle that’s both amazing to drive on-road and surprisingly capable off-road – not that most people will ever do more than drive through a puddle – and on Monday Porsche announced a refresh for 2024 that promises to make the Cayenne even better.
Read MoreWhat can I say about the 992-generation Porsche 911 GT3 RS that hasn’t already been said? It takes everything that was good with the 991.2 version — and there was much good stuff — and pushes it to the extreme. The 2023 GT3 RS’s full active aero system and the on-the-fly, driver-adjustable damper system are without peer. Porsche turned up the wick on the 4.0-liter naturally aspirated flat-six engine, now making 525 horsepower, and the gearing in the 7-speed PDK automatic gearbox has been tuned s
Read MoreOne of the nice things, I think, about Jalopnik is that we’re never afraid to talk about our own blind spots. Whether that’s a need to learn how to drive stick or no real understanding of Formula 1, us writers are just here hoping to learn anything and everything about the world of cars.
Read MoreIf you ask me, we’re living through kind of a fallow era for taillight creativity. Oh sure — with the ubiquity of LEDs, you’d think automakers might be inspired to get more creative. Instead, they’re all doing the same car-wide strip thing now, which was novel once upon a time but has been absolutely done to death over the last handful of years. Where’s the originality? We asked you what taillights in automotive history were truly ahead of their time, and you delivered, as you always do, with a
Read MoreSome of the best television ever put on air is the Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May era of Top Gear that ran from 2002 to 2015. Dozens and dozens of episodes of pure gold were pumped out of the BBC to televisions all over the world. Or, if you’re like me, a lot of them were ripped to 144p YouTube videos since we didn’t get Top Gear over here.
Read MoreI like cars. Like, everything about cars. Car fiction, car history, car art, car movies and television — all of it. And it’s clear you do too! This QOTD has clued me in to new animes and reminded me of old favorite books. We even had a movie expert chime in on the best automotive scene in film!
Read MoreTaillights are important. They serve a valuable purpose in terms of safety of course, notifying you that the car ahead is slowing down. But they’re also the part on any car that you end up looking at the most. We’ve discussed our favorite taillights in the past, but today we’re paying tribute specifically to those that really were ahead of their time.
Read MoreParking is a universal experience for anyone navigating on anything with wheels. Earlier this week, we asked you for your worst parking stories — and you did not disappoint. The stories provided had it all. Someone had their Toyota Avalon crushed by a tractor-trailer. Another person got berated by an arrogant doctor for using a hospital handicap spot to get their mother to her cancer treatment.
Read MoreWhat’s this? Did I cleverly find a way to bring back Traffic Jams? Nope! It’s a Question of the Day about cars in media. I tricked you!
Read MoreDesigning a vehicle is no easy process. Automakers love giving us a preview of what they envision the future to be, or what’s to come — typically in the form of a concept car. But what looks good on a concept doesn’t often translate well to reality once things like federal safety regulations and new technology must-haves start mingling with a designer’s pen. Some can come out rather alright, victorious even. Some we wish they’d have tried again.
Read MoreStudent drivers do it. Racing drivers do it. Truckers do it. Valets get paid to do it. We all do it. We all have to park our cars at some point. Some vehicles have the capability to park themselves, but technology can’t eliminate the need to park. Parking is a universal experience for drivers, and it can be the worst aspect of driving.
Read MoreWe asked and you answered, and what we love most is that MotorWeek, throughout its long history, seems to mean as much to you, our readers, as it does to us barely socialized journalists. Whether it’s through new reviews, retro reviews or segments like Goss’ Garage, this automotive institution has made its mark on car culture. Here are some of your favorites.
Read MoreAs we head into the mid-2020’s, I thought all cars would look something like the from 2012’s Total Recall — and be, you know, cooler. Instead, today’s designers are trying to tackle the latest trends while implementing rapidly advancing technology and safety standards, and let’s be honest, they don’t always stick the landing. These designs sometimes try way too hard to do something different — and some just make no sense. And then there are the designs that straight up deceive, like exhaust out
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Jetta and Toyota Corolla decided to cosplay as each other in the aughts. Or at least I still think so, because the two looked eerily similar at one point. And I wanted to know what other cars readers think have copied another’s style, or which others looked suspiciously similar to their rivals and competitors.
Read MoreIn many ways, MotorWeek feels like the Rosetta Stone for modern automotive video content. John Davis and his crew were out at Roebling Road dodging cones and aggressively adjusting seats well before things like the Power Block came about. The reviews were well-considered and mostly hold up today, so we’re curious about your favorite Motor Week reviews.
Read MoreWhile Korean and Japanese vehicles are popular in the U.S., Chinese automakers still aren’t ready to start selling cars here. Unless, of course, you count a company such as Volvo that is currently owned by Geely. But in time, that’s going to change.
Read MoreMaybe it’s just me, but I’ve always thought that the fifth-generation Volkswagen Jetta and the ninth-generation Toyota Corolla are basically the same car.
Read MoreI get it—not everyone loves a stationary car. In the immortal words of Dominic Toretto, nothing’s sadder than locking a beast in a cage. But sometimes, you want to see more than you’d usually come across at your local parking lot Cars and Coffee. Sometimes, you want to see something that belongs in a museum. Earlier this week, we asked for your favorite automotive museums, and you gave us a wealth of answers. Let’s see what you said.
Read MoreThe Shanghai auto show is this week, and while some of the cars that have been revealed there, such as the Volkswagen ID.7, will show up in the U.S., there have also been plenty of Chinese cars that we’ll probably never get. A decade ago, that wouldn’t have been particularly disappointing, but these days, China makes some wonderfully weird, interesting cars that would give plenty of other countries’ automakers a run for their money.
Read MoreThe world is home to a vast expanse of places to see and things to do, which most certainly can make anyone’s list of cool, interesting and exciting adventures a bit overwhelming. If you were to ask me or my other fellow writers about our specific “to-do” lists, I’m sure they’d run deep with automotive adventures. So we wanted to know, what automotive adventures grace your list?
Read MoreWe all love automobiles in motion. Track days, drift events, autocross — it’s always fun to see a car being used. Even a parking lot meet hits the same notes, as cars at least have to drive as far as a Starbucks to attend. We all appreciate when things are actually used for their purpose, rather than locked down in climate-controlled garages to preserve some imagined future value.
Read MoreYou all really seem to love cute cars, and I am starting to understand why. There is a certain joy that can come from a little car with a smiley face complete with big headlights (the eyes). You just wanna put it in your pocket and walk away. While I may never completely understand the joyful bliss that is a cute car, I still wanted you, our readers, to share your favorite cuties with the rest of us. Maybe your suggestions could help me understand what’s so great about those lil’ guys.
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I’m always thinking about the next trip I’m going to take. Whether it’s a quick camping trip upstate, or a trek across the border to the Canadian Grand Prix, I need to have something to look forward to if I want any hope of waking up happy. But if you were to take a wholly car-themed trip, where would you go?
Read MoreWhen do you believe car design was at its absolute peak, and who was responsible for that triumph? That was the question we posed to Jalopnik commenters earlier this week, and you certainly didn’t disappoint with your answers. Whether it’s understated German luxury, the pageantry of American design in the ’50s and ’60s or the most cutting-edge of modern EVs, you’re guaranteed to find something you like in this roundup of the best of the best. So let’s look at some pretty cars, shall we?
Read MoreI’ve never really been one for tiny cute lil’ cars. They just don’t really do it for me, but you all seem to like them a lot — and so does the rest of the Jalopnik staff. I suppose I can see why: For every Dodge Challenger Demon 170, there should be a Citroën Ami to bring balance to the universe. It’s what leads us to today’s question.
Read MoreWe’ve asked plenty of car design-themed questions for Jalopnik’s Question of the Day over the years. But I’ve searched and searched, and I don’t think we’ve ever asked one quite like this: What particular brand, over a particular time period, produced the best-looking group of cars the industry’s ever seen?
Read MoreThe perfect getaway car. Does it need to be quick? Or stealthy? Do you want to stand out and make a point, or blend in to daily traffic — never to be found by authorities?
Read MoreI love automotive history, and it seems so do you. Whether it’s tales of paramilitary women’s groups supporting Depression era sit-ins or the strange saga of how America’s busiest border crossing became the lynchpin in a private empire, there are tons of little interesting, mind-blowing nuggets of stories and facts out there. What are some of your favorites?
Read MoreCars that didn’t quite make the leap to extraordinary examples of auto manufacturing and design are generally lumped into two categories. There’s the cars that were an engine or chassis-tuning away from something memorable, and then there are the cars that looked promising on paper, but the automaker went to lengths selling us on something the car didn’t quite deliver on. Either way, for either category, the cars were just a let down.
Read MoreCar chases are a staple of movies and television. An important event (good or bad) happens, and the hero or villain takes off in a chosen vehicle — leading a fleet of vehicles, typically with cars from the local authorities, on a long chase capable of turning vehicles into scrap metal along the way. Let me be clear. High-speed pursuits are only incredible in fiction. Police pursuits, in reality, are horrific and usually result in the injury or death of complete bystanders.
Read MoreWatching a car or motorcycle transform from abject garbage to a beautiful piece of machinery is a deeply satisfying thing. What is less satisfying is dealing with all the hardships of doing it yourself, whether that’s the massive expense, the space needed to blow a car or bike completely apart, the skills needed to undertake the work or even just the time commitment.
Read MoreDesigning a car requires massive amounts of capital, time, resources and ideas. It begins as a twinkle in a designer’s or engineer’s eye, and after an elaborate process, and several hundred millions of dollars later, it makes it to production and into your garage. You’d hope with that kind of investment that every car an automaker rolls out would be great. And some are. Then there are those that feel like the automaker stopped short of making something special.
Read MoreYou would think that, among car enthusiasts, crossovers are both the setup and punchline to some joke poking fun at the majority of drivers, who we presume are perfectly willing to buy whatever boring car is available at dealerships. But it turns out that modern crossovers haven’t just won over so-called normals (as one reader referred to them), but car enthusiasts, too. It’s a big tent, after all.
Read MoreI recently turned 38, and one of the things I am proud to have (mostly) learned is that while I have the appetite for car restoration, I don’t have the time, money, patience or organizational skills necessary to pull one off (other than the ‘69 Honda CB project that I’m halfway through).
Read MoreIf you’re a car enthusiast, you’re probably perfectly happy to watch shows such as Top Gear that are all about cars. But if you tend to watch with people who don’t get excited to talk about how the Isuzu I-Mark Turbo RS held up against the Volkswagen GTI, a show that’s entirely about cars may be a bit of a hard sell. Then again, just because a fictional show has an actual plot doesn’t mean it can’t still be full of cool cars.
Read MoreCrossovers get a lot of hate from car enthusiasts. We tend to blame them for the great sedan and wagon purge from the U.S. auto market — despite our obsession in America with big trucks and SUVs. This fixation predates the crossover craze brought on by models like the Lexus RX 300 and Pontiac Aztek, which we now recognize as the early successes and failures (respectively) of the segment.
Read MoreWho doesn’t like a modified car? From drift missiles to salt-flat speedsters, the world of custom cars is as diverse as its members, those willing to hack their cars up to fit a non-factory need. Earlier this week, we asked you what your favorite styles of car modification are. Today, we’re taking a look through your answers.
Read MoreRecently, I started watching a show on ABC called Will Trent. OK, technically I watch it on Hulu, but it’s an ABC show. You get what I mean. Anyway, it’s not the greatest show ever made, but it’s entertaining enough and is a well-above-average police procedural. Plus, the main character (named, you guessed it, Will Trent) drives a beautiful Porsche 911 Targa. The man has taste and clearly some money, too.
Read MoreBy now, I’m sure we’re all in agreement that every sports car should be a convertible, right? But who says the joy of feeling the wind rushing through your hair should be reserved for those of us with a sporty little number?
Read MoreModifying a car is a fantastic chance to personalize it. Sure, you can slap the standard Stage 2 mods on your Subaru, but that’s not making the car any more yours — it’s just making it slightly faster and torching your warranty. No, the best car mods are all about making a car fit you better, both in form and in function.
Read MoreIt’s pretty easy to walk into a car dealer and come out with a bucket load of power these days. Hyundai will sell you a Velsoter N that pushes 275 horses and Toyota’s GR Corolla puts out 300 hp. Lamborghini just announced its bonkers 1,001 hp hybrid hypercar and Dodge unveiled a 1,025 hp Challenger. We had to ask, is all of that power necessary?
Read MoreEarlier this week, 23-year-old Arab-American racer Toni Breidinger announced that she’ll be making her NASCAR Truck Series debut with TRICON Garage at Kansas Speedway’s May 6 event. As a brand ambassador for Victoria’s Secret, Breidinger will be carrying a pink-and-black VS-branded livery for the event — and it’s about damn time. We need more motorsport sponsors just like this one.
Read MoreThe 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans is just over six weeks away, which means we’ll soon see Jimmie Johnson, Jenson Button, and Mike Rockenfeller hit the track behind the wheel of an endurance-racing specced and NASCAR-inspired Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. The goal of Garage 56 has always been to display unique advancements in the automotive and racing spheres, but for seven-time NASCAR Champion Johnson, there’s another goal in mind: Introducing European fans to the American stock car scene.
Read MoreIf you know anything about me, you know that my two passions in this world are food and motorsport — so imagine my absolute joy at finding out via Food52 that one of Australia’s most popular patisseries was founded by Kate Reid, a former engineer for the Williams Formula 1 team.
Read MoreLast Sunday, Kyle Busch won his second NASCAR Cup Series race of the season at Talladega Superspeedway. Busch found his way from third to first on the final lap as Bubba Wallace and Ryan Blaney collided. Busch’s victory is only his sixth career win behind the wheel of a Chevrolet, but it adds to the brand’s total of over 800 wins in NASCAR’s highest division.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, how to watch this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix and Würth 400 at Dover, and where you can talk about it, all in one convenient place.
Read MoreMarc Marquez has been absent from the MotoGP since the season-opening round in Portugal. During March’s Portuguese Grand Prix, the eight-time world champion collided with RNF Aprilia rider Miguel Oliveira and broke the thumb on his right hand. The fracture was surgically stabilized, and Marquez missed the two races as he recovered. He has stated that he hopes to return to competition next month but fears that an early return could end his career.
Read MoreEvery year, I try to find some new and interesting way to engage with the upcoming Formula 1 season. Sometimes, that’s attempting to drink my way through the year. For 2023, however, I decided to try something different. I’m cooking my way through the F1 season with my new project, Grand Prix Gastronomy.
Read MoreScuderia AlphaTauri has announced a major reshuffle of its senior management structure. Franz Tost will step down as team principal of the Red Bull-owned Formula 1 team after the 2023 season. He will serve as a consultant for the team in 2024. Tost was appointed to lead the team after the energy drink company purchased Minardi in late 2005 and rebranded the Italian team as Scuderia Toro Rosso for the 2006 season. AlphaTauri has announced that Tost’s role will be split into two positions.
Read MoreThe FIA Formula 1 World Championship introduced Saturday sprint races in 2021, originally called “Sprint Qualifying” to distinguish it from the main race on Sunday. The new format was divisive and confusing for fans. Traditional qualifying was still held to determine the starting order for the sprint race, but the sprint’s results would then set the Sunday starting grid and the sprint race winner was credited with a pole position. So, F1 has now decided to make the sprint race a standalone event
Read MoreI hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Fernando Alonso and Taylor Swift are not dating. Sure, there’s plenty of rumor and speculation around the happy not-couple, but none of it’s true. It’s not even that the rumor is wrong—the rumor is fake, nothing more than a fun bit of imagination from the folks over on Tumblr.
Read MoreFor many, rallying is the purest form of motorsport because its events are still held on closed public roads. While the roads are closed to traffic, rally stages are still a difficult environment to keep safe for competitors and spectators. An incident during last weekend’s Rally Croatia showed how unruly fans can be a danger to everyone around them including themselves.
Read MoreThe German magazine, Die Aktuelle, which published an AI-fenerated interview with Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, has fired its editor and apologized to the seven-time world champion’s family, according to Reuters. Schumacher hasn’t been seen since December 2013 after suffering a serious brain injury while skiing in the French Alps.
Read MoreFormula E held its Berlin E-Prix this past weekend, but the race start saw an unexpected delay: Climate protesters swarmed the grid, climbing fences and gluing themselves to safety vehicles. If you think that Formula E — a series noted for being electric — is an odd choice for a climate protest, you aren’t alone. Think about things a little differently, however, and the choice of venue starts to make sense.
Read MoreAt the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this year, odd officiating by the FIA resulted in Fernando Alonso receiving a penalty, only to have that penalty overturned after his podium position trophy had been given away to George Russell. It’s not the first time Formula 1 and/or the FIA has been unclear on its own rules. In fact, the history of the sport is littered with even more egregious examples. Today, we’re talking about the F1 drivers that should have been penalized for a particular breach of t
Read MoreMelissa Paris misses racing. You wouldn’t be able to tell initially while in conversation, or during the occasional cuts MotoAmerica TV coverage makes to Paris, standing in her garage, watching her team or her husband on track. She looks focused. Confident. Sometimes fierce. It’s not that she doesn’t love the work she is doing with her team, MP13, supporting two young riders in MotoAmerica’s Twins Cup and Junior Cup classes for 2023, or that she hasn’t enjoyed her role as a mentor to younger rid
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, how to watch this weekend’s GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway and Berlin E-Prix at Tempelhof Airport, and where you can talk about it, all in one convenient place.
Read MoreThis weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series is visiting Talladega Superspeedway for its first of two races there during the sanctioning body’s 75th anniversary season. Superspeedway racing has become nearly synonymous with NASCAR’s marquee events. The massive race tracks feature speeds over 200 miles per hour, big packs racing nose to tail, even bigger crashes and spectacular photo finishes.
Read MoreThe cover of last Saturday’s edition of German tabloid Die Aktuelle advertised “the first interview” with seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, who has spent the last decade recovering from a traumatic brain injury he suffered while skiing. Schumacher’s quotes in the “interview” were actually supplied by an AI chatbot, which Die Aktuelle revealed at the end of the piece. The racing legend’s family intends to take legal action in response, multiple outlets reported Thursday.
Read MoreDespite being three years away from the 2026 Formula 1 season, it is already one of the most anticipated moments in racing’s future. Ford is returning to the world championship in a partnership with Red Bull Racing. Audi is entering F1 for the first time as a power unit manufacturer and aims to get up to speed as quickly as possible. The German manufacturer has stated it will test a completed 2026 power unit before the end of this year.
Read MoreWhat were you up to when you were 18 years old? American racer — and Guinness World Record setter — Chloe Chambers has her path figured out: She’s taking on her first-ever sports car racing season with TPC Racing and Monoflo International in this year’s Porsche Sprint Challenge North America series.
Read MoreImagine this: you’re at the race track, and one on-track session just ended. You’ve got about an hour to kill before the next one. What are you going to do to kill time? At plenty of circuits, your options are fairly limited: you’re out here deciding whether you should buy food or if you want to buy some merch. But when I headed to Circuit of the Americas for this past weekend’s MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas, I had one entirely novel activity that I could try: I could get a tattoo.
Read MoreRacing is a physically demanding sport, but on a handful of occasions, those physical demands far exceeded merely driving. In fact, quite a few Formula 1 drivers throughout the years have been so close to finishing a race when their cars died that they hopped out of their machines to push them across the line. Today, we’re looking back at those drivers.
Read MoreThere are some people in this world who seem impervious to the dangers of this world, who can throw themselves into any situation and appear to come out unscathed. They’re the kind of people I just assume to be immortal — and for me, Craig Breedlove was one of those people. His death earlier this month shouldn’t have been a shock for someone who has lived such a long, full life, and yet I was surprised. I took it as my sign to finally sit down to read his biography Ultimate Speed: The Fast Life
Read MoreJuan Manuel Fangio, who, if you’re a certain vintage of Formula 1 fan is definitely the greatest F1 driver of all time, or, if you’re another vintage of F1 fan, is the second-greatest F1 driver of all time, or, if you’re an even more recent vintage is the third-greatest F1 driver of all time, is also the oldest man to ever win a Formula 1 championship, in 1957, when Fangio was 46 years, 41 days young. Fernando Alonso, who last won an F1 title in 2006 with Renault, is currently sitting third in t
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, how to watch this weekend’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, MotoGP races in Austin and NASCAR races at Martinsville, and where you can talk about it, all in one convenient place.
Read MoreHyundai Motorsport driver Craig Breen has been killed in a testing accident. Hyundai was conducting a pre-event test on asphalt roads in Croatia before the FIA World Rally Championship round there next week. According to DirtFish, Breen went off the road and his Hyundai i20 N Rally1 collided with a pole. The 33-year-old Irishman was fatally injured in the crash while his co-driver was unharmed. The incident is being investigated by Croatian authorities and Hyundai.
Read MoreWay back in April of 2020, when we were all huddling down in our sad little survival hovels (read: apartments) trying to avoid catching Captain Trips, Ford was out setting badass electric drag-racing records with its Mustang Cobra Jet 1400. That last part meant it had 1,400 hp on tap to deliver a mad-decent 8.128-second ET at 171.97 mph, making it the fastest full-bodied EV to do the standing quarter-mile. Well, according to an announcement made on Thursday, Ford is back at it with the Mustang S
Read MoreIf you’ve read some of our previous coverage of NASCAR driver Cody Ware, you’d probably come away with the impression that he’s a pretty great guy. After all, he helped Brad Perez break into NASCAR and gave Ryan Ellis his first Cup Series start since 2016 after knocking him out of an earlier race. But recent news might change that impression, after Ware was arrested for assault.
Read MoreGrowing up, my family would often take a walk around the neighborhood after dinner. And a lot of those walks would involve dropping in on our sort-of-adoptive grandparents who were usually already sitting out in lawn chairs, enjoying the Georgia humidity. They never really invited us to come by, but at the same time, they made it clear they enjoyed it when we did. If I ever showed up at Charles Leclerc’s house uninvited, though, that would be incredibly rude and creepy. For some reason, Formula
Read MoreFormula 1 has had a problem for quite a while: Its merchandise, honestly, kind of sucks. If you’ve been looking for anything cool, cute, or comfortable for a more petite frame, you’ve been shit out of luck. But podcasts like Two Girls 1 Formula are taking the lead in the motorsport merch arena by releasing their own limited run of customized hockey jerseys in partnership with Rare Breed BX and designed by Riley Girmann as a way for fans to celebrate the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix.
Read MoreWelcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing. Here’s how to watch this weekend’s NASCAR dirt races at Bristol Motor Speedway and the Formula Drift season opener, and where you can talk about it, all in one convenient place.
Read MoreCraig Breedlove, legendary land-speed racer and the first person to break the 600-mile-per-hour mark in a car, has died at the age of 86, according to the Southern California Timing Association.
Read MoreRace tracks, unlike American football pitches, don’t have to conform to the same rules and regulations that ensure uniformity across the sport. This means that where one football field plays pretty much the same as another, no two race tracks are alike.
Read MoreThis Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., the city of Chattanooga is hosting a “block party” downtown where members of the public can immerse themselves in the sights — though perhaps maybe not yet the sounds — of international rallying. This is a demonstration event, and it’s a critical first step in Tennessee’s bid to host the first World Rally Championship event on U.S. soil in 37 years, if all goes according to plan.
Read MoreIt’s Formula Drift season once again, with drivers preparing for the series’ first round later this week in Long Beach. Teams are finally unveiling their 2023 cars, showing off liveries and builds, which always throws attention towards one person: Ryan Litteral.
Read MoreBack when Ford first debuted the 2024 Mustang, the company showed off a slew of different racing versions — cars built for everything from NHRA drags to Le Mans. But one form of privateer-focused motorsport was missing from that race-ready lineup: Drifting. Now, we finally get to see what a Formula Drift-spec 2024 Mustang looks like. This week, the RTR drift team revealed three new, highly-modified 2024 Mustangs, each sporting a brand-new livery for Formula Drift. Starting with next week’s round
Read MoreWhen we talk about Formula 1 legends, it tends to be very easy to point to the list of World Champions as being the be-all-end-all of the sport’s greatest drivers, but that means missing out on so many racing legends. Some great drivers could put up a hell of a fight, but never won a race. Some battled hard for championships that eternally eluded their grasp at the very last moment. Still others could storm through the field at Le Mans but just didn’t have the right single-seater equipment to ma
Read MoreIt’s not uncommon to see smaller, Fiat-based Ram pickups — like the Strada and Toro-derived Ram 700 and 1000 — roaming Latin American roads. Ram is working on yet another small truck for the region, specifically targeting the Brazilian market. And this one is carrying a lot of hype, if the initial teaser’s any indication.
Read MoreI know, I know. You saw 2024 Buick Encore GX and about lost your marbles from all the excitement. But before we get too amped up about Buick’s newly face-lifted crossover, let’s dial the energy back a bit so we can talk about it in a more reasonable tone.
Read MoreFifteen years. Three presidential elections. A global pandemic. All this and more took place between the introduction of the second-generation Toyota Sequoia and its final production year in 2022. By the time it rolled off into the sunset, the Sequoia was absolutely ancient by industry standards. But now that its replacement is here, was it worth the wait?
Read MoreLast year, Acura introduced us all to the fifth-generation Integra. But Acura fans were skeptical — wondering where the performance of the ‘90s Integra Type R had gone. Well, folks, here’s your answer: The 320-horsepower, turbocharged, widebody, manual-transmission Integra Type S.
Read MoreMaking and selling exotic, high-performance cars for vast sums of money is unsurprisingly tricky, but maybe not for the reasons you’re thinking. You see, when you have a storied brand known for selling achingly pretty cars, people will often buy those cars regardless of their flaws. They want to see those cars in their garages — and, maybe more importantly, they want to be seen in those cars, because of what it says about them. That sounds good, but the other edge of this sword is that, when you
Read MoreThe Toyota Corolla has been the commuter car for the better part of five decades. With the addition of the Corolla Cross small CUV back in 2022, the nameplate continues to reign supreme in the “I don’t care about cars, but I need one” segment of the market. For the most part, the Corolla has been a fairly dull piece of machinery that works extraordinarily well and sells even better — but leaves us enthusiasts feeling pretty cold.
Read MoreThe year was 2010. Shuffling was in vogue, LMFAO was still on the radio, and Kia had decided to completely usurp the momentum that Scion brought with the xB by introducing its own boxy trendy hatchback, the Soul. Together with some animated hamsters, the Kia Soul coalesced with the nephew-uncle electronic music duo to create one of the most memorable and successful car advertisement campaigns. And yet, more than ten years later, LMFAO split up, TikTokers hate the Kia Soul for some reason, and sh
Read MoreThe automotive industry is in a real transitional period at the moment. More and more all-electric vehicles are coming to market, and some people are eager to make the swap. However, even if they want to, not everyone is ready to make that switch just yet, and there are some valid reasons why. Toyota is here to bridge that gap with the all-new plug-in hybrid Prius Prime.
Read MoreIn the battle of aesthetics versus aerodynamics, there are winners and there are losers. In the eyes of many, myself included, the Mercedes-Benz EQE electric sedan sits squarely in that latter category. Anonymous to the extreme, its ambiguous shape simply disappears in a busy parking lot. That doesn’t stop it from being a fantastic car with good performance, solid range, and a refined ride, but it just isn’t much to look at.
Read MoreAfter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than 12 months ago, senior figures at the country’s space agency threatened to pull out from the International Space Station – even going so far as to unveil its own future competitor to the space base. But now, a year on, the country has pledged to instead retain its spot on the ISS until 2028.
Read MoreIn the race to become the first billionaire in Space, Richard Branson did a pretty good job with his Virgin Galactic outfit. But after flying very close to space back in July 2021, the privateer spaceflight company has sat dormant with no orbital action since Branson’s flight. Now, the company is ramping up its testing schedule and has taken to the skies once again.
Read MoreThe Moon is quite the happening place these days. This week, a private company is making a go at a lunar landing. If successful, the Tuesday landing would also mark the first time Japan has landed on the moon and the first time an Arab county has explored the lunar surface.
Read MoreThis morning, SpaceX’s Starship rocket was set to make its biggest test yet: Liftoff from the company’s Starbase launch site in Texas, with reentry and splashdown in Hawaii. At first, things were going well—the rocket did manage to leave its launchpad in Boca Chica. Then, things went sour quickly, culminating in a massive midair explosion.
Read MoreWhen a satellite is sent into orbit, it’s launched up there with a mission to do and a time frame in which to complete it in. Usually, they have enough fuel on board for the length of the mission, or are constructed to last in orbit for as long as they need to be up there. Once the mission is over, satellites are left up in space until they fall out of orbit or can be cleaned up, and today one retired satellite is scheduled to come crashing back to Earth.
Read MoreIf you’re a bit of a space nerd — and I assume most of us here at Jalopnik are — then it’s a pretty exciting time right now. We’ve got the most ambitious space telescope of all time in service, NASA is experimenting with Martian aircraft and the European Space Agency is launching all manner of exciting probes to far-flung planets. Its latest mission is the Juice probe, and it successfully launched into space this morning.
Read MoreOn Thursday, a European spacecraft will start its eight-year journey to Jupiter in an effort to study the biggest planet in our solar system and three of its moons. According to Axios, the mission will be to check out the moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. It’s being done as part of mankind’s ongoing quest to find life outside our planet. The Juice mission will also mark the first time a spacecraft has orbited a moon other than our own.
Read MoreIn the three-ish centuries since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, humanity has done some deeply terrible things to the planet. We’ve filled it with tire dust, made the air thick with smog, and generally turned “outside” into a worse place than ever before. Things have gotten so bad that our previous methods of pollution tracking — EPA-run stations on the ground — no longer suffice. Now, we need to track pollution from space, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is ste
Read MoreRichard Branson’s latest venture, the satellite launch company Virgin Orbit has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Long Beach Post reports.
Read MoreNASA and the Canadian Space Agency introduced the crew of the Artemis II mission Monday just outside of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The three Americans and one Canadian represents humanity’s first return to the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Read MoreUnless you’re buying something purpose-built, for track-day prowess or all-terrain grip, you likely don’t think much about your tires. As long as they hold air, separate your wheels from the road, and don’t cost too much, they’re likely fine until they pop. Unfortunately, it seems the factory-installed tires on some Subaru Ascent crossovers may be doing that sooner rather than later.
Read MoreAmericans are growing interested in switching from ICE-equipped models to EVs, whether new or used. The latest report from used car retailer CarMax says that search volume for EVs has doubled in the last year, spurred on by higher gas prices throughout the country. More car shoppers are now seeing these searches through to the purchase of a used EV, trading in their ICE-equipped cars in the process. And according to CarMax, Toyotas are the “most traded in brand for EVs,” which is telling for the
Read MoreThe Lotus Eletre is set to introduce a series of firsts for the brand. Not only will the Eletre be the first-ever Lotus SUV, but it will also be its first-ever EV, as well its first autonomous vehicle. The Eletre is currently in use as an AV in China, where it’s close to achieving Level 3 autonomy, as Autocar reports. But Lotus is already looking ahead of that milestone, and it plans to reach Level 4 with the Eletre in the near future. In order to do that, however, Lotus says that our SAE autono
Read MoreOwning and driving an older car is pretty cool in a lot of ways. There’s the nostalgia factor, of course, or maybe it’s just more analog and engaging, or maybe you just like the attention you get in it, or perhaps, like most of us at one point or another, buying a new car just isn’t financially possible.
Read MoreA UK-based company has modified the Toyota Hilux by adding a third axle and extra pair of wheels to turn the legendary pickup into a fire truck that’s specifically designed to put out EV fires. Even though EVs present less of a fire risk than their ICE-equipped cousins, overall, EV fires are harder to extinguish when they happen. Firefighters have struggled with such fires for years now, but the custom car builders at Prospeed have come up with a purpose-built solution dubbed the Hiload 6x6.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has certainly received some blowback for its decision to abandon Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its future electric cars, but it’s sticking to its guns. The company’s head of software, Scott Miller, has made it clear he believes customers are upset over losing phone projection merely because they’re used to it, not because they love it. On Tuesday, GM’s chief finance officer told Yahoo Finance that it’s up to the company to create something better, and he expects it will.
Read MoreFor those of you that can’t parallel park or just can’t park in general, you may have some relief coming. Hyundai has shown a new steering system that can operate each wheel independently allowing for maneuvers that may not have been possible before.
Read MoreCalifornia is one of the largest markets for electric cars in the U.S.. But its southern half (also the warmer half) is home to many of those EVs. Frankly, it has to be fairly important, since Mercedes is giving the region its own special edition of the EQS EV sedan. But that’s not all. Not only will buyers get their very special region-only car, it also comes with lots of free stuff.
Read MoreBillions are being poured into EVs, yet Toyota, so far, is standing firm in its belief that EVs aren’t the only answer to the future of transportation. The Wall Street Journal reports that while the company is getting ready for the new Prius Prime to hit dealer lots, Toyota is also making moves to convince more buyers plug-in hybrids are a solution. Toyota even calls it “practical.”
Read MoreLess than a year ago, there was some evidence that the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV wouldn’t be around for too much longer, with GM making its EVs on a new platform and the Bolt’s sales never quite being so hot and also that whole fire disaster which really put a stain on things. On Tuesday, GM made it official: Production for the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV will end later this year.
Read MoreOfficials are starting to realize the power potential that EVs have. As global warming brings more extreme weather, EVs can potentially be used to bolster the power grid in some states with blackout-prone grids. One state that has recognized the potential for this is California; KTLA reports a bill is being proposed that would require bi-directional charging capability on EVs in a few short years.
Read MoreBack in February, Ford temporarily paused F-150 Lightning production due to a fire at one of the automaker’s holding lots in Dearborn, Michigan. On Thursday, CNBC posted footage retrieved via a Freedom of Information Act request from the Dearborn Police Department showing the blaze, as it engulfed three of the electric pickups.
Read MoreNorway has worn the crown of the world’s “land of EVs” for some time — enough that even we have noticed over the years. So it makes sense that the Nordic nation is home many samples of the EVs available on the planet. But they were not happy about receiving one particular vehicle... and let Ford know it. Just like the country’s coordinated movement to be a leader in EVs, it rallied its countrymen to ask Ford to send the F-150 Lightning overseas. And according to the Detroit Free Press Ford fina
Read MoreThe lackluster energy density of batteries is one of the biggest obstacles to widespread vehicle electrification. Current lithium-ion batteries used in most electric vehicles usually are a significant percentage of an EV’s weight. The Ford F-150 Lightning weighs around 6,500 pounds. The electric pickup truck’s battery weighs 1,800 pounds alone. The large size of batteries increases costs and reduces range. However, silicon anode batteries could drastically change the nature of electrically-power
Read MoreIf there’s one thing V8 Ford Mustang owners like doing, it’s reminding people that they drive a V8 Ford Mustang. Now, The Blue Oval is making that task easier than ever. The 2024 Ford Mustang’s key fob will now let users remotely rev their engines. The feature has a simple, elegant name: Remote Rev.
Read MoreEven though the inventions of Rudolf Diesel and Henry Ford are seen as some of the earliest and most crucial developments in the world of automobiles — much to the chagrin of Cugnot fans everywhere — fully-electric cars are often overlooked as the pioneers of self-propelled technology they are. The gearheads from Donut Media are here to change that with their latest well-laid out video about what it’s like to drive a 100 year-old EV. Spoiler alert: even after a full century, and then some, the e
Read MoreThe new BYD Seagull debuted at the Shanghai auto show this week. The sale of EVs is surging ahead in China, the world’s biggest auto market. Despite the many EVs on display from auto giants such as Toyota and Volkswagen, as well as those from American EV makers like Tesla, the “hi-vis” yellow BYD Seagull stole the show, according to Reuters. And it’s all down to the Seagull’s absurdly low starting price of ¥78,000, or around $11,327 at current exchange rates.
Read MoreGM recently shook things up with its announcement that the company is phasing out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in future EV models. But some buyers may be turned off by their models as phone projection is a big part of some people’s buying decisions, and industry experts and analysts were left thinking just what the hell are they thinking. Apparently, GM doesn’t think a whole lot of the backlash: The Verge reports the company is hoping to win over buyers with a new system.
Read MoreSince the dawn of time, Car Nerds and Watch Nerds have existed in harmony. People love watches for the same reasons we love cars: the mechanical action and functionality, the wide-ranging aesthetics, the ability to nerd out and flex on your friends and coworkers. It certainly helps when watch companies pair up with motorsports teams and their products are worn by famous Car Nerds, like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
Read MoreFord’s prospective $3.5 billion plant in Michigan, where it will manufacture batteries using technology licensed from China’s CATL, has been a source of ire for some lawmakers since its very announcement. Last month, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio and West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin came down on Dearborn hard for the plan, which they believe flouts the energy security goals of the Inflation Reduction Act. On Monday, Missouri Representative Jason Smith joined them, sending a
Read MoreThe Chinese workers who Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised last year for working mandatory 12-hour shifts during the COVID-19 lockdowns are taking to social media in an appeal to Tesla, which has reportedly reduced performance bonuses for an unrelated safety incident at the Gigafactory in Shanghai. These are the same Tesla workers who went above and beyond to burn the “3am oil,” in Musk’s own words, and they are now upset over the bonus cuts, according to Reuters.
Read MoreAs the race for self-driving cars heats up, there’s another automotive world that’s quietly trying to automate: Construction equipment. Far from the consumer-focused world of cars, however, the goal of autonomous construction vehicles is one that’s more difficult to pull off — and more sinister in its intentions.
Read MoreDaytime running lights have been mandatory safety equipment for decades in certain parts of the world, but not in the United States. In Canada and the European Union, DRLs were required long before LEDs became popular, and ushered in the era of DRL designs that automakers use to give their cars a visual identity. Many modern cars, such as the 2023 Toyota Corolla, now come with DRLs down to the lowest trim, but not all cars do. And far from just looking cool, daytime running lights also reduce th
Read MoreWhich cars will be eligible for the full $7,500 federal tax credit has been a bit of a complicated mystery for months, as the feds finalize their rules and the full effect of the Inflation Reduction Act is felt. On Monday, the Treasury Department released an updated list of models that will be eligible for the $7,500, for cars put in service on or after Tuesday. Just ten models make the cut, but not all variants of them do. Here is a list of the ten that make it.
Read MoreYou’ve likely seen it on the highway — a car that’s tailgating, darting between lanes, passing in the shoulder. You, a (presumably) human person, understand what that means: An irritated driver is behind the wheel. As autonomous vehicle development continues, those cars will eventually need to learn how to respond to that same situation. But, how do you teach road rage to a robot?
Read MoreEven though the global EV transition is well underway for passenger cars, electrification of the commercial truck segment is just getting started. Pepsi is now using Tesla Semis in California. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola still seems to be fighting the Coke-Pepsi wars, with the company announcing it will start using Volvo VNR Electric trucks in Canada. It’s a start, albeit a slow one, but Bloomberg analysts say that EV commercial trucks will reach cost parity with diesel trucks by 2030, and hydrogen FCE
Read MoreZoox has had to disclose the details of its “self-certification” process after federal regulators in the U.S. raised questions about the safety of the Amazon-backed company’s autonomous vehicles, or robotaxis, which started operating on public roads in February of this year.
Read MoreYesterday, the New York Police Department debuted its latest set of high-tech policing equipment. We New York denizens will soon come face to face with robot dogs, daleks, and something new: A pneumatic gun that can fire a sticky GPS tracker at a moving vehicle.
Read MoreSan Francisco is known for its fog. The thick, low-hanging water vapor can make visibility tricky, especially behind the wheel. Now, it seems that driverless vehicles are running into the same problem — with five cars from Waymo’s fleet waylaid by heavy fog Tuesday morning.
Read MoreThe first fleet of Tesla Semi EVs in the world will begin delivering Pepsi in California. PepsiCo is finally rolling out its fleet of 21 Tesla Semi all-electric commercial trucks to begin operating on local routes out of its Sacramento bottling plant, as the Sacramento Bee reports. The Tesla big rigs have a range of 400 miles per charge, and PepsiCo has also installed four 750-kilowatt Tesla chargers to keep the EV trucks topped-up onsite.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever been to a national park, you may have found it confusing to navigate. Trails seem to split off and recombine at random, and those vast expanses of natural wonder aren’t exactly dotted with cell towers and wifi hotspots to help you figure things out. Now, it seems Google wants to tackle the problem.
Read MoreEVs are heavy. That extra weight they carry could be putting some portions of infrastructure at risk. The Telegraph reports officials in the UK are worried that older multi-level parking garages could be at risk of collapse due to all that weight.
Read MoreFord’s popular full-size trucks, such as the Ford F-150, boast new technology to make trailering and towing easier. The U.S. automaker has debuted its new Pro Trailer Hitch Assist, which leverages artificial intelligence and sensors aboard the F-Series to help drivers perfectly position their truck’s hitch ball under a trailer hitch with the push of a button. There’s no more need for 23-point turns and all the frustration of misaligning a truck and trailer when coupling the two.
Read MoreDistracted driving aficionados can name a thousand ways to draw your attention away from the road ahead of you. Texting, changing your Spotify playlist, drinking while FaceTiming and rolling your own cigarettes. But distracted driving is a market ripe for evolution, where new ideas are constantly being developed and iterated on. Take, for example, the latest development from Domino’s: A CarPlay app that allows you to tap your way through a pizza order while driving.
Read MoreHackers discovered a bug that gave them access to user info and allowed them to remotely open and close garage doors from Internet-of-Things brand Nexx, as Motherboard reports. Nexx’s wi-fi controllers connect to common garage door openers, turning existing hardware into networked devices that owners can operate from anywhere in the world.
Read MoreIt was on Wednesday when Nikola, the highly-troubled startup electric truck startup, filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that they were selling up to $100 million worth of stock to Antara Capital, a fund that has previously invested in Nikola, at a valuation of $1.12 per share. The stock closed Wednesday at $1.50 per share on the stock market, which is more than $1.12 per share, meaning that Nikola is selling a chunk of its business to investors at a discount.
Read MoreSelf driving cars once seemed as if they were the way forward. Companies like GM, Ford, and, infamously, Tesla dove into the technology. But after quite a few hiccups, it looks as if A.I. and self driving car tech isn’t the savior some thought, as Adam Conover points out.
Read MoreA gilded Pandora’s box awaits miners at the bottom of the sea, where polymetallic nodules rich in nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper abound. Despite us not knowing yet how much damage deep sea mining for EV metals can do, operations could start by 2024 given a loophole in the regulations meant to protect the ocean floor.
Read MoreCarmakers face a new problem with EVs, which are so quiet in operation that they can be dangerous for pedestrians and fellow drivers alike. The fully-electric autonomous robotaxis that Zoox is developing (and planning to deploy on public roads soon) present a similar problem, albeit twofold, as the Amazon-backed AVs need to emit sounds that are simultaneously soothing, yet firm enough to make passengers listen for important audio cues in the cabin.
Read MoreWhen Tesla unveiled its yoke for the Model S and Model X, over two years ago, the company said it would be the future of automotive control. It was going to let your car fly, turning it into a SpaceX rocket ship without all the exploding. Yet now, two years later, the once-standard yoke is an added-cost option in Tesla’s configurator. What happened?
Read MoreTesla has had an interesting time figuring out its pricing, as new competition from more established competitors hits the EV market. The company is constantly decreasing, increasing, and generally messing with its MSRP in attempts to best meet this new competition and contend with shifting EV incentives. Now, Tesla is at it again, cutting prices on every single one of its models.
Read MoreLimousines in America are more or less dead, Daimler has a new medium-duty electric truck brand, and Mercedes. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for April 28, 2023.
Read MoreToyota had a solid 2022 by anyone else’s measure than its own, Volvo won’t cut prices until it sees demand slide and Elon Musk and the president of South Korea had a little chat in our nation’s capital. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Thursday, April 27, 2023.
Read MoreStellantis will part ways with thousands of union employees in the coming months, Honda has a plan, and life sure is good for battery-maker LG. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has some bad but mostly good news, Hyundai’s Georgia battery plant is official, and a key executive at a Chinese EV maker has foreseen a world of hurt. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Tuesday, April 25, 2023.
Read MoreTesla plans to ship cars from China to North America, according to a new report; plug-in hybrids are due for a moment of truth; and dealers. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for April 24, 2023.
Read MoreToyota unveiled another new plan for electrification, there is more monkey business with Tesla prices, and China. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for April 21, 2023.
Read MoreElon Musk is willing to take the hit on margins if you couldn’t tell by all the price cuts, Renault most certainly isn’t, and the F-150 Lightning’s first conquest outside North America will be Norway. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Thursday, April 20, 2023.
Read MoreTesla did the thing again, Rivian is plotting out its future charging network and General Motors has paid the U.S. government to settle a hiring discrimination case. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
Read MoreFoxconn has resumed production of Lordstown’s truck, Hyundai and Kia are speeding up delivery of their theft-thwarting software updates, and the newest Lincoln will also be the first to be imported to the United States from China. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Read MorePorsche’s first-quarter 2023 results are in; suppliers for Stellantis, General Motors and Ford are dreading a potential United Auto Workers strike later this year; and Ineos’ wildly expensive off-roader will call Austria its home. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Monday, April 17, 2023.
Read MoreEveryone loves the Jeep Wrangler 4xe, Lucid needs a win, and Ferrari can’t lose. All that and more in this Friday edition of The Morning Shift for April 14, 2023.
Read MoreA key Harley-Davison exec is riding off into the sunset, automakers and suppliers are finding that the best sites for factories in the U.S. are actually quite limited despite the abundance of space in this country, and Toyota and Exxon are proposing cleaner gasoline. All that and more in this Thursday edition of The Morning Shift for April 13, 2023.
Read MoreThe Biden administration has put forth tough emissions criteria for the end of the decade, Volkswagen’s brand chief has been candid about the task of building an electric vehicle that everyone can afford, and a Ford factory in Ontario will be reborn next year. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Read MoreThe federal government is finally realizing not all electric vehicles are created equal, BMW’s sales were a little soft last quarter, and CarMax is doing alright. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Tuesday, April 11, 2023.
Read MoreTesla is already facing a class-action suit about alleged spying on footage from customer vehicles, Ram has no good news for us and China’s new car industry is keeping flat, even despite loads of price cuts. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Monday, April 10, 2023.
Read MoreToyota’s electric vehicle plan is taking shape, Tesla investors want an adult in the room, and General Motors just had to recall its self-driving taxis to make them better at recognizing San Francisco’s bendy buses. All that and more in this Friday edition of The Morning Shift for April 7, 2023.
Read MoreThere are still a few Ford, Chrysler and Jeep models that come with federal EV tax credits, everyone in Washington is talking about free-trade deals and one battery manufacturer is beating Tesla to the race it started. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Thursday, April 6, 2023.
Read MoreVolkswagen has a big recall on its hands for its biggest SUV, Kia has big plans for the future buoyed by its recent triumphs and Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares made big money in 2022, perhaps too much. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for Wednesday, April 5, 2023.
Read MoreStellantis has also noticed that average new vehicle financing terms are getting longer, GM’s electric cargo vans are proving somewhat popular, and a never-ending tire trade secret scandal has swung back in Goodyear’s favor. All that and more in this edition of The Morning Shift for April 4, 2023.
Read MoreTesla has found that massively slashing prices on your best-selling products is a great way to drive more purchases, Volkswagen wants everyone to know that the upcoming Golf refresh will likely mark the last with a gas engine and China has — get this — too many public EV chargers. All that and more in this Monday edition of The Morning Shift for April 3, 2023.
Read MoreWe’ve all been there. You’re in your car, Doritos and Fritos blasting from the stereo, when the worst possible thing happens: You arrive at your destination. What are you supposed to do now, stop the song partway through? Or do you keep it playing, staring through your windows at the people awaiting your arrival? Truly, Sophie’s choice. But it’s a knot Rivian managed to slash, and now Toyota is following its steps.
Read MoreThe fourth-generation Toyota Tacoma has been a stalwart of the rumor mill for at least a year and a half, which is a long time. Mercifully, all will be revealed soon. Last week we learned that a TRD Pro version of the midsize truck will be offered with an i-Force Max hybrid system, much like the Tundra and Sequoia. And today, Toyota has pulled the cover off a new trim level for the long-awaited pickup. It’s called “Trailhunter.”
Read MoreAmerica’s deadliest train, a private passenger service called Brightline, slammed into a truck hauling cars in Hollywood, Florida, earlier this month in a scene that looked like something out of an action movie than real life.
Read MoreIt’s not your imagination: Freight trains are becoming more prone to entirely preventable incidents, including derailment. On paper, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration protects workers who come forward with reports of unsafe working conditions. The reality, however, leaves workers in a lurch between slow-moving bureaucracy and retaliatory companies.
Read MoreIt’s happened again: A freight train has derailed, this time operated by Montana Rail Link, sending 25 cars tumbling into the Clark Fork River Sunday, ABC reports. This derailment is just the latest in what seems to be a country-wide epidemic of out-of-control trains. According to new reporting, it’s a disease with a very clear and familiar cause: corporate greed.
Read MoreHovercrafts. Sure, they seem like a rad idea. I mean, you fire up a big ass fan and then blast across land or sea, lightning strike rescue style. In reality, they’re inefficient, hard to control, loud, and dumb, which is why they aren’t really a thing much anymore. Unless, of course, you’re Rich from Rich Rebuilds.
Read MoreHave you ever tried to put together a piece of Ikea furniture only to find out that you missed a bolt somewhere, and now it’s wobbly? And then, instead of taking it apart to fix it, you shove a matchbook under the wonky corner? Ok, now imagine that scenario, but instead of a Billy bookshelf, it’s a wildly overbudget terminal at a major international airport, and because of a mistake somewhere along the way, this terminal that was supposed to fit 20 widebody jets simultaneously now only fits 16.
Read MoreMountain bike design has come a long way in recent years. From modified BMX rides that were first taken off-road and crazy creations like the Slingshot that was ridden in the late ‘80s, to the beastly electric monsters you see out on the trails today. Along the way, bike builders experimented with all kinds of tech to try and make their rides faster, lighter, and more reliable. And never one to shy away from dabbling in different sectors, automaker Honda even tried its hand at mountain bike desi
Read MoreMercedes-Benz’s G-Class has been venturing boldly off the beaten path with its trademark stoic demeanor for 44 years now. After building exactly 499,999 of the rough-and-tumble boxes on wheels, Merc decided to do something special for the big 500K: Make the only G-Class I was ever sad I couldn’t afford.
Read MoreOver 1.7 million Ram pickups have been recalled in the last three to four months. And it doesn’t seem as if the recalls are letting up. Yet another has been issued by the NHTSA for Ram pickups due to an engine software issue that could cause the pickups to stall.
Read MoreRivian makes some incredible electric vehicles, with its R1T pickup and R1S SUV standing as shining examples of what electrified off-roading can be. But their performance, engineering, and attention to detail don’t come cheap — Rivians can be optioned into six-figure territory with relative ease. Now, it seems the company wants to democratize its performance by introducing a mid-range variant of its trucks; it just so happens that new variant has 700 horsepower.
Read MoreSeen in the crush of combat, or driving down a street, any observer could be forgiven for thinking a Rheinmetall Lynx is a tank. The tracked vehicle is armored and turreted, and it was built by the German arms giant as a way to counter new developments in Russian armored vehicles in the 2010s. February 2022 saw the introduction of the Lynx 120mm, which sports a main gun as big and powerful as that of a proper battle tank. Understanding the Lynx is a way to glimpse the last decade of thinking abo
Read MoreAutomakers have been freaking out since the Biden administration reworked how the federal electric vehicle tax credit works to disqualify foreign-built EVs. See, EVs still haven’t really hit price parity with internal combustion vehicles, so using that tax credit as a carrot to bring buyers other than eco-warriors and early adopters into the fold was a big sales strategy.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s New Beetle doesn’t get a lot of respect. This is especially true with the exceedingly cute and twee first generation, but there’s one Beetle from this generation that deserves all the respect, and that’s the Beetle RSi.
Read MoreVolkswagen’s entry to the EV world has come in fits and starts. Most of the company’s electrified ID line isn’t available in North America, and one of its two U.S.-bound models — the ID.Buzz — hasn’t even technically been revealed yet. And now the ID.4, the only EV Volkswagen sells in the U.S., can’t even be sold — thanks to a stop-sale order from the automaker, after reports of doors swinging wide open while the car is in motion.
Read MoreA lot of you probably know that I’ve been spending a ton of time working on my 2003 Porsche 911, but that project is just about where I want it as far as being a daily driver. While they say a project car is never truly done, this one is done enough for me to turn my attention to my long-suffering motorcycle project: My 1969 Honda CB350 build.
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