There’s not a ton going on between Christmas and New Year’s, so I’m diving back into some of my favorite weird mysteries. The story of the first supposed murder in Antartica is a little hard to track down, but it’s one my Dad would often repeat when his snotty kids pulled out the chess set.
Read MoreNuclear annilhilation has become one of the quieter swords of Damocles hanging over our heads on planet Earth; but it’s still there, ready to drop at a moment’s notice. But perhaps the most terrifying part? We have a rough idea of how many nukes still exist in the world, but that number is nothing more than a well-educated guess.
Read MoreTesla’s second-gen Optimus robot is the biggest news in tech since Mark Zuckerberg grew legs in the Metaverse. Elon Musk claims this robot will eventually account for the “majority of Tesla’s long-term value.” Considering where Tesla was with the robot at its AI day last year, Optimus has made big steps forward, as the new model is faster, lighter, more agile, and uses delicate sensors in its fingers to pick up fragile things like eggs without cracking them.
Read MoreYou probably know Banks Power from their high-power diesel projects, like the GMC Sierra Sidewinder Type R track truck, or the diesel S10 that runs 7s in the quarter mile. Those kinds of enthusiast builds helped cement Banks as one of the premier diesel tuners in the world, which in turn helped them win a government defense contract in 2022. The U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office asked Banks to develop a new drivetrain for the old HMMWV to bring it into the future.
Read MoreOn paper, the Volkswagen Group is the largest overall automaker in the world in terms of employment, with nearly 700,000 employees across its brands all around the world. That dwarfs runners-up like BYD (~570,000), Toyota (~380,000) and Stellantis (~270,000). In contrast, British luxury brand Bentley, a Volkswagen subsidiary, only employs around 4,000 humans. But if you include all of the bees that Bentley employs, it easily takes the top spot.
Read MoreThe city that claims the first paved stretch of road in America added another first to its list: On Wednesday, Detroit became home to the first road in America that can charge electric vehicles as they drive.
Read MoreCruise ships are floating ecological disasters that mostly take you from tourist trap to tourist trap, but hey, at least you get to tell people you visited multiple countries on one vacation. And while drinks packages cost more than $100 a day, you can’t even bring any weed with you. Still, people continue to go on cruises that cost more than staying at an all-inclusive resort, and apparently, some are even insane enough to pay for a Royal Caribbean cruise that is scheduled to last NINE GAT-DANG
Read MoreIn 1988 a famous sailing yacht went missing, leaving behind a strange final message, a mangled investigation and questions of suicide, piracy, mutiny and drug trafficking. I’ve long been fascinated by ship wrecks and disappearances and this one is one of my favorites, not only because it’s such a mysterious story, but because the ship itself was so beautiful.
Read MoreThe Car Carrier cargo ship MV Golden Ray flipped on its side back in September of 2019 just off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia. It made for some pretty badass vacation photos, and an even more badass clean up operation that involved slicing the car carrier into sections via a giant chain. But what exactly happened to cause the MV Golden Ray to flip like this?
Read MoreCruise ships are terrible for the environment, breeding grounds for everything from norovirus to Covid and often end up costing more than expected, but at least if you take one, you can generally expect to be able to drive home once it’s over. That ended up not being the case for dozens of Carnival Cruise passengers who returned to port in Charleston, South Carolina only to find that a massive storm had destroyed their cars, WCSC reports.
Read MoreDuring World War II there were all sorts of technological innovations applied to a new kind of warfare, one that focused on destruction from the seas and skies. One of my favorite YouTube creators, a Scot named Calum, has covered the subject of one such fascinating failed innovation — the rescue bouy — at length, but now for the first time he gets to actually step inside the lone surviving example. Through the magic of the internet, we get to come along.
Read MoreImagine treating your family to a Christmas cruise to somewhere warm and sunny to destress and relax this holiday season and maybe even get a tan your coworkers will envy come Jan 2. Instead, Mother Nature and the cruise line conspire to send you, not to the beautiful Caribbean, but to sunny Boston, Massachusetts and Newfoundland, Canada, in the middle of December.
Read MoreAutomakers and some startups are hoping to win over buyers who might want to consider an EV but don’t want to be locked into a long term purchase by introducing microleases. These terms, often for a year or less, are being billed as a way to get people to try EVs or as a stopgap measure — and while they may seem like a great idea on the surface, the numbers tell a different story.
Read MoreFor almost ten years I’ve been sharing dealer stories and car buying advice on Jalopnik. I’ve told you about dealers that don’t want to send you quotes in writing to ones that go wild with the extra charges and add-ons. There are even dealers who thought it was a good idea to essentially kidnap a customer to make a sale. The car market has gone through some big swings and various trends but the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Read MoreDriving at 60 miles per hour, it would take nearly 71 days to cover 100,000 miles. For my family’s 2018 Buick Regal TourX it has taken just a smidge over five years to rack up that kind of mileage. Twenty-thousand miles per year every year for five years. It’s clear we’ve absolutely loved having this Rioja Red beauty on our side. Several years of street parking, fender benders, and long road trips would normally have a car looking pretty beat up, but this beauty is looking all the better with a
Read MoreLexus’s smallest crossover, the UX, might get ignored by some because it’s been a bit down on power since its introduction. While the brand made moves to remedy this by making the UX’s sole powertrain option a 181 horsepower hybrid setup for 2023, prior to that buyers could choose a base front wheel drive UX200 that puttered around with a non-hybrid 169-hp I4. That’s changed for 2025, with the UX gaining more power by way of the Toyota Prius.
Read MoreIf a two-door single cab truck is best, it follows that a two-door SUV is also best.
Read MoreIf a two-door single cab truck is best, it follows that a two-door SUV is also best.
Read MoreIf a two-door single cab truck is best, it follows that a two-door SUV is also best.
Read MoreIf a two-door single cab truck is best, it follows that a two-door SUV is also best.
Read MoreIf a two-door single cab truck is best, it follows that a two-door SUV is also best.
Read MoreChevy’s vintage slogan was The Heartbeat Of America and it very much was. Chevy has existed as The General’s entry-level value brand aimed at the everyman in America. Chevrolets are the hard-working, blue collar, good ol’ boys of the car market, but Chevy’s once snooty cousin Buick has recently started undoing its top buttons and hanging out at the local dive bar on weeknights.
Read MoreHonda is going to start offering a leasing program for its certified pre-owned vehicles because new car prices are just way too high at this point. The program is beingvaimed at buyers who want to keep their monthly payments low and don’t have the upfront cash for a big down payment, according to a statement from Honda.
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission has announced new regulations, called the Combating Auto Retail Scams Rule, that are meant to stop car dealers from screwing customers with hidden fees and other bait-and-switch pricing tactics. Oh, happy days!
Read MoreIf you’re a millionaire, nepo baby, or sugar baby, you just happen to have a few million lying around and you love to actually drive the high-end cars you own, I need you to stop what you’re doing and check this Lexus out. It’s probably the reddest — and raddest — Lexus you’ll ever lay eyes on.
Read MoreThe biggest deciding factors facing EV buyers today seem to be range and charging speed. How far can you go, and how quickly can your car get juice out of the plug. These are certainly important factors when it comes to an EV driving experience, particularly for longer-distance driving needs. When you’re headed back home for the holidays later this month, these are the EVs you want to reduce the amount of time you’re stopped at a charger, according to Car and Driver’s instrumented testing.
Read MoreToyota’s all-new Tacoma is expecting to hit dealer lots this month as they slowly trickle out of the factory. As of this writing, there are less than ten 2024 Tacoma’s for sale in the whole country. While the majority of those don’t have prices listed yet—presumably because the dealer wants to tell you how much the markup is over the phone or by coming in—at least one dealer is already marking its Tacoma up.
Read MoreA lot of car dealers don’t have much interest in selling EVs; some are politically opposed to the idea on its face, some just don’t want to make the massive investment their brands are demanding to update their stores to EV readiness and some are just philosophically opposed to learning anything about products and would rather lose a sale than look anything up. (None of this applies to my guy Gage at Betten Baker Honda, he took great care of my Mom and her new CR-V last week. Shoutout to Gage!)
Read MoreJohnny Carson may have been the most powerful on-screen performer in the history of Hollywood. From 1962 to 1992, he was perhaps the funniest man on TV, and his barb-sharp wit quickly became the model for late night hosts to emulate. The studio was paying him $25 million per year when he left “The Tonight Show,” and he could make or break careers with a single sentence. John Z. DeLorean sought to shine some of Carson’s light on his fledgling sports car company in the late 1970s and convinced the
Read MoreMatt is helping his eighteen-year-old niece search for the right set of wheels before she goes off to college. She is currently driving an old Prius that is no longer reliable and is looking for something reliable, and fuel-efficient for under fifteen grand. What car should she buy?
Read MoreNaomi lives in Nashville, recently graduated from college, and has landed what she calls a “big girl office job.” She is looking to upgrade her Nizzan Z to something a bit more luxurious and practical. With a $35,000 budget, what car should she buy?
Read MoreBuying a car can be a tricky process, and things get even more complicated when the dealer isn’t in your region, meaning you can’t do the transaction in person. However, shopping outside of your area can often mean finding a better car or a better deal. You just need to take a few extra precautions to make sure you don’t get hosed.
Read MorePeter works in a liquor store in Queens, NY his bosses own an aging PT Cruiser that he uses to deliver the booze. He wants to help them find a new ride that is roomy enough for delivery purposes but isn’t too big for NYC parking. What car should they buy?
Read MoreRobert lives in Florida and is finding that his 2014 Mustang not the ideal vehicle for talking the kiddo to school. Since the Ford is getting up there in age, it’s time for an upgrade with four doors. He wants something sporty-ish with respectable fuel economy. What car should he buy?
Read MoreNew Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday; it’s a rookie drinking night where average people spend way too much money in over-crowded bars in order to let loose for the first time in their lives, but only end up annoyingly drunk and making it everyone else’s problem. So instead of muscling up to the bar and overpaying for drinks at my local haunts, I skip the whole mess and stay home to watch some sort of television marathon.
Read MoreThe world of Jalopnik has changed a lot since May of 2021, the last time we gave you a rundown of all of our cars. We lost two of the site’s most prolific collectors, but a few of us (myself included) bought a few more cars to keep the average pretty high. It goes without saying that we gravitate toward older vehicles with an enthusiast bent, and we probably have spent more keeping these machines running than a lease on a new Accord. We are what we are.
Read MoreWhen you think about driving an old Porsche, you probably think about how much it takes to keep them up or restore them. I have a weird little collection of somewhat unloved models that the company has built, and I tend to buy well-loved examples at the bottom of their depreciation curve. There’s an art to keeping these machines up, and modifying them to my personal taste, without going totally broke. With the help of a used parts purveyor like DC Automotive, I can upgrade and tinker to my heart
Read MoreEveryone with taste knows that 2 Fast 2 Furious is a great movie. Amongst the silly plot surrounding Paul Walker’s Brian going undercover to bust a drug lord, 2F2F has the introduction of Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson’s fan-favorite characters, iconic cars like Brian’s silver R34 GT-R, the flashy landscape and fashions of Miami, a lot of ridiculous automotive CGI, and the best character that the F&F franchise has ever seen: Devon Aoki as the pink S2000-owning Suki.
Read MoreI live in what I’d call a “sleepy” Texas town; we boast a few thousand residents, we celebrate the arrival of every new fast food chain as a sign of civilization, and nothing big ever really happens. So why do we need six car washes? Why did we need to build four new facilities this year?
Read MoreThe ever-evolving electric vehicle landscape and lingering skepticism about going green has forced automakers to get creative with their marketing and sales strategies. Microleasing, according to Bloomberg, is the latest way to get butts in seats. The whole goal is to just get a prospective EV buyer behind the wheel of an EV while they wait a few months for their dream EV to finally hit the market.
Read MoreJust based on the photo shown here, you might assume I have a cool old Subaru Forester. Unfortunately for me, the truth is that I used to have a cool old Forester. As the license plate suggests, that picture was taken back when I lived in California. It was great for camping and even proved to be a shockingly capable off-roader. Plus, the visibility is absolutely fantastic.
Read MoreThe Ferrari Roma Spider is, by most accounts, a good-looking grand tourer. With more than 600 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time in the low three second range, it’s undeniably quick, and apparently, it’s quite fun to drive. What it is not, however, is a sexy, curvaceous Italian that’s finally gone topless. Talking about cars like they’re women you want to have sex with is weird and creepy. So stop it. We do not fuck the cars.
Read MoreTucked next to roads running through school zones in Japan are some hand-painted mascots known as “Tobita-kun, or more formally, “Tobidashi B?ya,” which means “running boy.” These signs are reminders for local drivers to slow down, and according to Atlas Obscura, they helped in Japan’s so-called Traffic War.
Read MoreI’m not sure if they torture kids like this still, but the worst four-week period of my 6th grade life was our unit on square dancing in gym class. And wouldn’t you know it? One of the worst experiences of my academic life — and possibly yours as well — can be blamed on Henry Ford.
Read MoreThe Half11 project has been a several-year process to build the ideal car dream shared by the Bridan brothers behind Southern California’s Oil Stain Lab. The idea behind this ridiculous car is the kind of thing only a kid could dream up, as they long ago dreamed about smashing a 911 and an IndyCar together. They started with the rusty shell of an old 912, and it’s been a seat-of-the-pants build ever since.
Read MoreIt has been brought to my attention that Ineos delivers the new Grenadier off-roader with a polite little “toot” button on the steering wheel to offer pedestrians and cyclists a comforting notification that you’re nearby and see them, bringing you to their attention without startling or deafening them. I think this is a great idea that should be implemented in more vehicles, because horns are obnoxious and should be used as infrequently as possible. But it got me thinking about how much I would
Read MoreSeveral automakers including General Motors, Toyota, Ford and Volkswagen as well as two airbag makers said they are against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s bid to recall 52 million airbag inflators. Officials for the safety regulator argued that the inflators produced by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive should be recalled because they could rupture and send metal fragments flying, according to Reuters
Read MoreI’ve been a big fan of the custom license plate trend, where states, countries, or provinces offer a neat little design that’s supposed to convey the spirit of the region. Whether it’s the turquoise shade of New Mexico’s plates or the polar bear shape of plates for Canada’s Northwest Territories, it’s a unique way to convey a little local spirit. That’s why here in Texas, you can get a burger on your license plate.
Read MoreAn abandoned car lingered for months in a Denver neighborhood and residents seized the opportunity brought by this holiday season to help the derelict sedan stand out. Residents tell KDVR the Chevy Impala sat in the same spot for “about three months,” gathering dust and generally being a nuisance. An unknown person (or group) festooned the car with Christmas decorations in hopes of drawing the city’s attention and finally getting the car towed. The plan worked.
Read MoreAs a car lover, how many times have your Christmas presents been wrapped in paper that’s covered in little red trucks hauling Christmas trees? How about all of the automotive-themed Christmas decorations at the store – there are always plenty of little red trucks hauling Christmas trees, whether they’re tree ornaments, little model trucks, mugs or even festive kitchen towels.
Read MoreI’m always on the lookout for new weekend car shows to go to in the Los Angeles area, especially as the number of traditional cars and coffees have dwindled in recent months (the long-running Malibu Country Mart show has been permanently shut down, for example). This past weekend a new show emerged, focused exclusively on Italian cars and motorcycles both vintage and modern, and it was excellent.
Read MoreNew numbers about non-Tesla EV market share and how many dealerships are selling electric vehicles are showing just how much Tesla’s market edge has shrunk in the past few years, according to data compiled by iSeeCars.com.
Read MoreThere’s another all-new Cadillac EV coming — the sever-seater 2026 Vistiq. It’s going to slot right in between the Lyriq and Escalade IQ, and it joins those models as well as the upcoming ultra-luxury Celestiq sedan and entry-level Optiq crossover in Caddy’s lineup.
Read MoreAutomakers love spending big bucks on uncountable numbers of car advertisements just to show you what they’ve got to offer. Sometimes, they’ve got to go the extra mile and get weird with it if they want folks to notice the vehicles they’re trying to move.
Read MoreRapid change in temperature is just plain bad for glass. Particularly for a large sheet of glass — like a car windshield — pouring warm water on frosty glass is likely to crack or shatter it, as the warm parts expand at different rates from the cold parts. The glass will crack simply to get away from itself. It’s a very simple scientific experiment; just wait until a below-freezing day and walk out to your car with a hot kettle of water. Boom, within seconds, you’ll have a broken windshield. If
Read MoreUpdate December 12, 2023, 06:25 p.m. ET: This story initally reported that the customer in question bought a Hyundai vehicle, but the automaker looked into the case following initial coverage and learned that Virginia Sousa purchased a used GMC Acadia at Lithia Hyundai. The carmaker reportedly reached out to the buyer to provide assistance. This story has been changed to reflect these new findings.
Read MoreA law allowing Ohioans over 21 years old to purchase legal recreational marijuana went into effect last week, and some who oppose the measure are naturally predicting a Refeer Madness-type future for the Buckeye State. Legal and accepted are clearly two different things. Here, once again, cars come to the rescue.
Read MoreIt’s the end of the road once again for our dear buddy, the Chrysler 300C. The final Hemi-powered 300 — a velvet red example — just rolled off the assembly line at Stellantis’ Brampton Assembly Plant in Canada. It comes just a few weeks before production of Chrysler’s full-size sedan ends altogether.
Read MoreEvery so often we like to look back at few models you may have forgotten about. No matter if they’re good or bad, now that these cars are gone, it’s cool to reflect on them sometimes. Mostly though, it’s fun to shit on just how bad some of these cars really were. We’ve done this before and we’re doing it again. So here are a few more cars you probably forgot existed.
Read MoreLast weekend I was walking through Beverly Hills when I came across a trio of bright red cars parked in front of the Beverly Wilshire hotel. There was a constant crowd of people surrounding them, with civilians taking videos for TikTok and carspotters shooting photos with their DSLR to get Instagram likes. I didn’t really understand what the fuss was about, as I’ve got no clue what these cars are.
Read MoreAfter two long years, Hyundai finally replaced the engine in my 2018 Sonata. It took multiple dealer visits, poking Hyundai corporate, thousands of miles of driving and hundreds of gallons of oil. Luckily it was done at no cost to me. Unfortunately, other Hyundai/Kia owners are either still awaiting a decision on whether their engine will be replaced, currently dealing with engine problems or have been outright denied a replacement.
Read MoreThis year was the first time I got to attend the Velocity Invitational at Sonoma Raceway in Northern California. It was a fantastic weekend full of cars straight out of my dreams. As part of the event, I was scheduled to do a ride along in a rally car driven freeride mountain biker turned rally driver, Brandon Semenuk. Things didn’t go exactly like I thought they would though.
Read MoreThe automotive world has come a long way since the 2008 launch of Gymkhana Practice, Ken Block’s first video in what would become a massive international series with hundreds of millions of views across fourteen Gymkhanas, a pair of Climbkhanas, a Terrakhana, and now two Electrikhanas. Ken and the rest of the Hoonigans became household names off the back of this series, and seriously influenced the trajectory of car culture in the last 15 years. As everyone reading this already knows, Ken Block
Read MoreA mysterious culprit had been at large since July in a mountain village in Italy, slashing tires and terrorizing car owners who parked in the historic center of Vastogirardi. Residents feared the tire slasher was a disgruntled neighbor or someone carrying out mafia-style intimidation, according to the Guardian. But it turns out the repeat offender was a dog named Billy who just had a bad case of gingivitis.
Read MoreGoodbye, my little boxy friend. Jeep is killing the Jeepster Renegade subcompact crossover in the U.S. and Canada at the end of the year.
Read MoreThe Petersen Automotive Museum has one of the worlds best collection of cars. It’s a place that any automotive enthusiast should visit at least once in their life. Luckily for me, I live nearby and tend to visit it at least 3 times a year. One of the best spots of the museum is its basement, affectionately referred to as the Vault. It’s its own separate collection that’s full of one offs and stuff you’ve literally only seen on movies or tv.
Read MoreThe 1990s weren’t as great as we remember them to be. I’m as guilty as any of you of regard the time before I had internet as the golden age of automotive enthusiasm. The cars were better then, right? No. We all have rose-colored glasses. The cars were built like crap, they were gutless, they were unreliable, and many of them were ugly. We should have expected better, but we didn’t know what better was.
Read MoreWhen I attended the Blazer EV launch event earlier this month, my biggest takeaway was how successfully this new electric car managed to act like a traditional car, from the traditional door handles to the traditional key fob to the un-EV-like power delivery, the Blazer EV is not trying to reinvent the wheel, it’s trying to offer buyers an electric wheel that feels the same as all the other wheels it has made in the past.
Read MoreEvery year since the release of the new Suzuki Jimny in 2019, Japanese tuning company DAMD has released body kits and other styling parts for the tiny SUV that make it look older and more retro or like other off-roaders such as the Mercedes-Benz G-wagen and Toyota Land Cruiser. For the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon, DAMD is releasing two new kits for the Jimny that transform it into ultra cute interpretations of two 1980s rally legends.
Read MoreWith 6,021 cars sold in 2022, last year was Rolls-Royce’s best sales year of all time, marking the first time the company built more than 6,000 cars in its then 118-year history. Despite the Dawn and Wraith exiting production and the Spectre only entering production near the end of the year, total Rolls-Royce sales for 2023 were only down 3 percent through Q3.
Read MoreIt can be hard to convince the non-car enthusiasts in your life to spend a few weekend hours at a car show, especially if it’s one that starts before 9 a.m. (even I have trouble with that). As enticing as the boozy brunch with friends afterwards might be, the thought of spending even 30 minutes surrounded by cars you don’t care about and nerds being super annoying about them isn’t exactly appealing.
Read MoreToday I was watching CarGurus UK’s video review of the BYD Dolphin, an electric hatchback with a base price in the U.K. of around £26,000, the equivalent of about $33,000. Current interior trends are leaning toward minimalism and deletion of physical switchgear, but the BYD Dolphin proves two things – car interiors don’t have to look austere to be modern, and affordable cars don’t have to be boring.
Read MoreThis past weekend I went to Macchinissima, a new Italian car show that was held in downtown Los Angeles. It was full of all sorts of weird and wonderful cars and bikes, including some seriously rare stuff, but the star of the show was this one-of-one Abarth-Alfa Romeo with unique bodywork by the legendary Luigi Colani.
Read MoreThe Porsche 928 is one of the brand’s funniest looking cars ever, with a rounded rear and greenhouse paired with a long, low nose that features uncovered pop-out headlights, giving the car a lovable frog-like look. Porsche sold more than 61,000 cars from 1977 to 1995, and the 928 has become one of its most beloved models. At RM Sotheby’s upcoming Paris auction, which kicks off Rétromobile week and the European auction season, maybe the rarest Porsche 928 of them all is going up for sale.
Read MoreMy favorite car that I saw at Monterey Car Week this year was the bright orange Bugatti Chiron Super Sport ‘L’Aura’ (French for “the aura”), a super bespoke build that wears a hand-painted “Vagues de Lumière” livery that mimics the way light falls and reflects on the car’s bodywork. It turns out I wasn’t the only one who fell in love with the car, as the owner’s husband decided to have his own Chiron Super Sport refurbished to match her spec.
Read MoreWe’re currently living in the golden age of automotive wheel design. Mercedes brought back the monoblock, Rolls-Royce offers huge discs, and Kia is producing wheels that don’t even really look like wheels. The surge in popularity of hybrids and electric cars has also seen the return of hubcaps and aero discs, and now Nissan has its own entry in the pantheon of excellent wheels with the updated Note hatchback for Japan.
Read MoreAs a kid, I was never good at receiving gifts. Even if it was something that I liked or wanted, if I hadn’t explicitly asked for it, I’d get upset. As an adult, that’s not really a problem anymore – I can just buy myself whatever I want, so when I get a gift from friends or family, I’m simply grateful and can enjoy it. A Bugatti customer recently took that sentiment to heart, commissioning herself a one-off Bugatti Chiron Super Sport for her 70th birthday. Now that’s self-care.
Read MoreAston Martin has produced tons of gorgeous cars over its 110-year lifespan, but many of the coolest Astons were actually designed by coachbuilders like Bertone, Ghia, Vignale and Zagato. At RM Sotheby’s upcoming Luxury Week sale in New York City, the auction house is offering up one of the rarest and most beautiful Aston Martins of all time: a 1954 Bertone DB2/4 Coupe.
Read MoreThe latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series is on the way. Well, it’s “coming soon” with a tentative release date in 2025. That’s not really soon, but I won’t argue semantics. Rockstar Games pushed the reveal of Grand Theft Auto VI ahead of schedule after the trailer leaked online earlier this week, so we now have our first look at the cars that will roam the streets of Vice City in the game. And they look good.
Read MorePorsche unveiled the third-generation Panamera last week, and with it came the addition of the updated sport sedan to Porsche’s excellent configurator. While only the base Panamera and Panamera 4 are currently available to build – the Turbo E-Hybrid will come closer to its launch – there are still a vast number of options to choose from that ensure no two Panameras will be the same.
Read MoreWinding through the gorgeous scenery and twisty roads near Anza Borrego State Park near San Diego on the launch event for the new Chevrolet Blazer EV provided beautiful sights, even if the actual driving was a far from stimulating affair. But Chevrolet has achieved something that Polestar and Tesla and have not with the new Blazer EV; An EV that doesn’t feel like an EV.
Read MoreOff-road-capable vehicles have never been more popular in the enthusiast world, with basically every new truck and SUV being marketed using its ability to hit the trails. But while most automakers are mostly sticking to “rugged” looks and maybe one specific off-road trim, Chevrolet is going all in with its ZR2 and ZR2 Bison family. As it currently stands, you can choose from three different ZR2 trucks – the Colorado, the Silverado 1500, and the Silverado HD – two of which also come with an even
Read MoreThe very first Cybertruck crash to occur on public roads happened Thursday in Redwood City, California, and it seems all the people involved made it out OK. The Toyota and the Cybertruck involved in the collision, however, didn’t fare as well.
Read MoreA Tesla Model Y engulfed in flames closed an interstate highway and required the assistance of myriad Alabama emergency services on Christmas night. To extinguish the fire, Pine Level Firefighters reported using 36,000 gallons of water over the course of an hour, further highlighting the ways local services may struggle to deal with car crashes and fires in this new electrified era.
Read MoreLast week, a cop in St. Louis, Missouri, crashed into an LGBTQ+ bar after, allegedly, he tried to swerve to avoid something and ended up in someone’s business. While the bar’s owner was arrested for the unforgivable crime of being angry that someone drove directly into his bar, St. Louis cops didn’t even bother to run any tests to see if their fellow boy in blue was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Vice reports. Apparently, crashing into a building doesn’t provide “reasonable suspicion”
Read MoreA Wisconsin man is facing a slew of charges including operating while intoxicated for a crash that killed four people on December 16. If convicted, this would be at least Scott C. Farmer’s fifth drunk driving offense, and the case is shining a light on the state’s drunk driving regulations, according to NBC 26.
Read MoreA bar owner in St. Louis is facing charges following an incident that all started with a police SUV crashing through the front wall of his business around 12:30 a.m. on December 18.
Read MoreFour teenagers were killed in a single-vehicle crash after hitting a metal pole in a fairly empty industrial area in Billings, Montana. Billings Police say the possible use of alcohol, speed and no seatbelts contributed to the accident at 2 a.m. on December 16.
Read MoreAn allegedly drunk 17-year-old girl crashed her Nissan Altima into the Massachusetts State Police barracks in Cheshire, MA on the evening of December 17. Talk about Big Altima Energy.
Read MoreA Florida man driving a stolen Ford Mustang allegedly crashed it into two sheriff’s vehicles and a Dodge Grand Caravan, killing three people and injuring two others on December 6, according to People.
Read MoreA Los Angeles man must have been very excited about the new Grand Theft Auto VI, since he recreated the game by leading police on a pursuit through downtown LA Monday night in an allegedly stolen truck.
Read MoreThe country with the highest drunk driving rate in Europe has been sending confiscated cars to Ukraine to help in the war effort against Russia for over a year now and, by Christmas Eve, the country managed to move another 271 cars to frontline fighters, and that’s not all.
Read MorePolice in Colorado arrested two out of a trio of masked robbers this weekend who allegedly held up a business at gunpoint after the thieves themselves became victims of a crime—getaway car theft.
Read MoreA Hawaii driver who was falsely arrested for drunk driving in November says a police officer told him to deny further examination at a Pearl City police station. The officer gave Ammon Fepuleai that advice under the pretense of saving him time while being booked for the arrest, which proved to be false and ended with prosecutors dropping the case for lack of evidence, according to Hawaii News Now.
Read MoreA vigilante woman has been found guilty of murder after chasing down and shooting an elderly black man who left the scene of a minor car crash. Hannah Payne “acted like a cop” and pursued Kenneth Herring in her vehicle after seeing him hit a truck in May of 2019, according to the Daily Mail. That’s right: Payne wasn’t even involved in the crash.
Read MoreFrequent car break-ins in San Francisco are a major problem for the city’s residents and the SFPD. Prosecutors and police are unable to punish thieves due to a statute demanding proof that a vehicle was locked at the time of a break-in, which most people are unable to provide. This has created a loophole that lets thieves go free, but San Francisco residents are fighting back with glitter bombs and clever devices, which make it easy to identify thieves.
Read MoreA Pennsylvania teenager was shot to death by another teen in Baltimore after deciding not to buy a car he saw advertised on Facebook Marketplace. Carlos Carrazana Ricardo was killed after he and his friend made the trip down to West Baltimore to check out a 2006 Acura TL they saw on Marketplace. He ultimately decided not to buy it and was shot in the head while driving away, according to The Baltimore Banner.
Read MoreYet another car was spared from the clutches (see what I did there) of thieves after suspects assaulted a Bethesda, Maryland restaurant owner and attempted to steal his manual Porsche 718 Boxster before stalling it twice and ultimately giving up.
Read MoreA new movie retelling the intense struggle for the 1983 FIA World Rallying Championship is slated to be released on January 5, 2024. The first trailer for “Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia” vividly illustrates how the production brought the Group B era back to life.
Read MoreAfter 10 years we finally get a follow-up to GTA V. Rockstar has returned the game to fan favorite city, Vice City. The fictional locale is based on the real-life city of Miami and from the looks of things in the trailer, certain other parts of Florida. There are even gators and they look like they attack people.
Read MoreHonda looks like it’s finally primed to get serious about electric vehicles. The Japanese automaker is planning to announce it will introduce 30 new EVs across the globe by 2030 with a goal of selling 2 million units per year.
Read MoreThere are conflicting reports on whether American car buyers are getting on board with electric vehicles. Even though almost 2 million EVs were sold this year, there seems to be a lot of inventory with some heavy discounts which usually means not enough buyers. Range anxiety is still a factor, and according to Consumer Reports, some EVs won’t go the distance they claim to.
Read MoreThe current Ford Mustang is brand new, which means it’s just about time for the rumor mill to start weaving tales of its demise. A new report from MuscleCarsAndTrucks holds the latest theory about the S650's fate, claiming that its thread will be cut in 2028 — but Ford disagrees.
Read MoreYou did it! You made it through this year, unless it killed you. I mean, presumably, it didn’t kill you, because you’re reading this. Unless it killed your past life, and this is a new you, reincarnated and still reading Jalopnik, in which case — get off Jalopnik, infant. Go watch Baby Einsteins or something.
Read MoreThere’s nothing car builders love more than a “Mad Max” theme. Everyone loves to take a car, jack it up on some big tires, paint it black, and weaponize it. But when they do, are they really thinking about “Mad Max”?
Read MoreIf you’re going to be tailgating during a backcountry deep pow snowboard sesh, you want Ken Block’s RaptorTRAX there providing support. This is the machine you use to drive snowboarders to the top of a mountain that doesn’t have a chairlift. The riders don’t even have to bring their wet snowy selves into the cab, as there are a pair of seats in the bed, and a rack on the sides to strap down your boards. There’s even a hitch-mounted grill so you can cook up some hot dogs on the mountain. Now it’s
Read MoreHappy Ides of December, folks. As I’m writing this, I’m en route to sunny, beautiful Los Angeles in an attempt to escape the December chill of New York. Also, to ride something that ought to be particularly fun, but more on that later.
Read MoreAs I was scrolling through my local Facebook Marketplace car offerings (as I am wont to do) I came across something you just don’t see every day for sale in Michigan; a JDM camper van, lovingly restored and free from major rust.
Read MoreIf you can believe it, it’s a Friday once again. If my shopping trips to Guitar Center and Target today told me anything, it’s that we’re deep in peak holiday buying season. Also, that it’s getting a bit cold out to walk nearly forty blocks from the Jalopnik office to Guitar Center.
Read MoreIf you had a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket and wanted a unique car with low miles you just missed your chance with this incredible recent Cars & Bids listing.
Read MoreHappy December, everyone. The weather is finally starting to reflect the season, with highs in the 30s multiple days this past week. It’s beginning to feel a lot like freezing, so this week we’re borrowing the classic New England trick for keeping warm in the winter: Going to Miami.
Read MoreGeneral Motors has issued a recall for its brand-new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500, 2500, and 3500 pickup trucks due to mysteriously cracking roofs. Over 3000 models are affected by the recall, and GM has not issued an explanation for the roof concerns.
Read MoreDon’t count sedans out just yet. Hyundai is the latest automaker that’s showing it’s not throwing in the towel on the segment. The automaker redesigned its striking Sonata sedan for 2024 and now we finally know how much it’ll cost. Including a $1,115 destination charge, the 2024 Sonata starts at just $28,615, $2,050 more than the outgoing model.
Read MoreSUV used to be a term reserved for body-on-frame, truck-based vehicles, until the crossover came along and turned everything on its head. Now some automakers claim that their subcompact front-wheel-drive hatchbacks are SUVs or crossovers, and we have unibody trucks like the Ford Maverick and Honda Ridgeline that further muddy things up. So, what really makes an SUV an SUV anymore? As these terms grow more and more diluted, it seems the best explanation is that classifying a vehicle is all about
Read More(We are saying goodbye to 2023 by re-visiting our favorite posts from the last year. To see why we loved these stories, check out what we said about them here.)
Read MoreFor all my time on two wheels, I’ve never really understood cruisers. The weight, the power, the handling, the seating position — none of them made sense to me alone, let alone together. Now, though, I think I get it.
Read MoreWhen you hear the familiar potato-potato exhaust report of a high-performance American V-twin popping toward you on the street, you expect to see an old Harley with a millionaire dentist in blue collar cosplay. The gap between your expectations and the reality of this Russian hot rodder storming the streets in a self-propelled vintage Ural sidecar could not be farther apart. This machine — dubbed the “Siderod” — was built by Mad Badger Garage, and it somehow took more than two years to show up i
Read MoreIf there’s one thing rich folks love, it’s accessorizing. They’re big into hats, bags, and weird little crusty-eyed dogs to put into those bags. But when you’ve just bought yourself a shiny new Bentley Batur, you need to accessorize with something a little more interesting than a Bichon Frisé-laden Chanel bag — you need something faster, louder, and more paint-matched.
Read MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that airlines will have to inspect every Boeing 737 Max after a bolt was discovered with a missing nut during routine maintenance. The potential loose bolt is attached to a linkage on the rudder control system. Boeing also found an undelivered aircraft with a nut that wasn’t properly fastened, Reuters reports.
Read MoreLast week we reported on Daihatsu halting sales and shipments of all of its cars amid a probe into the Toyota subsidiary rigging safety tests of 64 different models, and now the situation has gotten even worse. On Wednesday, CNN reported that Daihatsu has now stopped production at all four of its Japanese factories, with the company admitting that it has forged the results of crash tests for more than 3o years.
Read MoreGeorgia may be known for its hot, humid summers, but its winters are pretty mild, so you wouldn’t think the sun would be causing any problems this time of year. Unfortunately for one family living north of Atlanta, that’s not the case. Their daughter’s 2022 Honda Civic is melting, WSB-TV reports.
Read MoreElon Musk is big mad at a report that kind of sort of implied that one of his favorite robots attacked one of his employees at Tesla’s Austin, Texas factory two years ago. The report never actually said it was one of his shiny (fuckable?) Optimus friends, but it didn’t exactly highlight that it was a terrifying robotic arm meant for picking up scrap metal.
Read MoreWhen the Porsche Taycan debuted in 2019, purists were infuriated by Porsche’s decision to name the top trim level “Turbo” despite the car being fully electric and not actually having a turbocharger. For the most part people have gotten over it — or at least, they should have by now — but there’s a new contender for their ire. Chinese company Xiaomi, the second-largest smartphone maker in the world, just unveiled its first car, and it has electric motors named V6 and V8.
Read MoreWe are losing some Real Ones this year, folks. Much has been said about the demise of the Dodge Charger and Challenger and Chrysler 300 line, but there are other models that are quietly sinking into automotive history, too.
Read MorePublic transportation agencies from sea to shining sea are allowing revelers to head out and come home on New Year’s Eve for free. Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are among the major cities in the United States that are offering free rides. However, these initiatives were implemented because of how deadly drunk driving on New Year’s Eve has become. Molson-Coors, a multi-national brewing company, sponsors free rides programs in multiple cities.
Read MoreElon Musk and all of his various enterprises took us on a wild ride this year. Here are the highlights.
Read MoreNow that George Santos has been kicked out of Congress and faces a long list of criminal charges, we haven’t heard much from him lately. Which really is too bad since he sure knew how to keep politics entertaining. Don’t you worry, though, he’s not going away quietly. On Wednesday at a little after midnight, he posted a nearly two-minute-long video on Twitter claiming that someone broke into his car and that it was all New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ fault.
Read MoreChilean car wash owner Matias Jara is being sued by Disney’s Lucasfilm movie studio, which claims its name and branding could mislead people into believing the car wash is somehow affiliated with the studio. According to a report by Reuters, Jara received the suit while trying to file the Star Wash name with Chilean patent authorities.
Read MoreCars are huge now. This is known. These massive vehicles kill more people than smaller cars — this is also known. Yet, when confronted with these facts, automakers seem to prefer complex, expensive, high-tech solutions to reduce crashes, when there’s a much simpler option available: Make cars smaller.
Read MoreThe dramatic conclusion of a police chase outside of Houston, Texas yesterday involved a SWAT battering ram and a lot of tear gas. The chase began when a Harris County deputy noticed a tractor-trailer stalled on I-10, according to KRIV. When the deputy turned his lights on, the truck’s driver started heading down the interstate and refused to stop. The truck weaved from lane to lane, seemingly attempting to shake the pursuer.
Read MoreIf you’re in the market for a car but have hesitated on actually buying something brand new because you’ve heard how quickly a new car loses value, then you’ll be interested in a new CNBC report: New cars are actually depreciating at a much slower rate than in the past. In fact, new cars are holding onto about 10 percent more of their value after three years than they had been back in 2019 — and yes, that’s partially due to the shake-ups caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreTurkey’s Interior Ministry announced through an over-the-top sizzle reel that it has converted a fleet of seized luxury and performance vehicles for police use. The cars and SUVs were taken from an international drug trafficker and handed off to Istanbul’s police force as a consequence of his arrest, Motor1 reports. A Ferrari 488 GTB, a Bentley Continental and a Porsche Taycan Turbo in the same motor pool has to be a dream for politicians and a nightmare for motor pool mechanics.
Read MoreCalifornia’s fast food workers are set to get a nice bump in pay in 2024. Starting in April, California’s FAST Act kicks in and raises the state’s minimum wage for fast food workers to $22 an hour. It’s got the industry up in arms, because, you know, paying people a living wage is world-ending stuff to them.
Read MoreRight now, the reality for electric vehicles is pretty grim. People are buying EVs, but the growth in sales is cooling. That’s having a ripple effect, from rising EV inventory at dealers to automakers rethinking their EV investments and production plans. Even EV charging companies are taking a hit.
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency’s annual report on automotive trends in the United States illustrates a strange landscape. At a nationwide average of 26 miles per gallon, fuel economy has never been better. Vehicle carbon dioxide emissions are also at an all-time low. However, pickup trucks and SUVs continue to dominate the market, directly contradicting a correlation the agency even laid out in the very same report. Page 15 of the EPA report reads:
Read MoreEV buyers rejoice. Starting January 1, you’ll be able to go to your local dealer and claim the EV tax credit as an actual discount on your vehicle. Surprisingly it looks as if dealers are on board with this plan too—at least some of them.
Read MoreA truck driver in Indiana is lucky to be alive this week after he spent six days in his wrecked truck beneath a freeway bridge.
Read MoreOut of all the legacy automakers, Volvo is one of the most steadfast and fastest working when it comes to the transition to electric cars. In every market the Swedish brand will only sell EVs by 2030, with no caveats or asterisks attached. Volvo already has a growing lineup of electric cars that are either on sale now or coming soon, and now thanks to a report by Swedish site Teknikens Värld, we know what the next one will likely be.
Read MoreBMW hasn’t even revealed the regular Touring wagon versions of the new 5 Series and its electric i5 variant yet, but just before Christmas the company released new teasers of the high-performance M5 Touring. Not only will this be just the third time the M5 has been offered as a wagon after the E34 and E60 generations, it also could become the first fast BMW wagon to be sold in America.
Read MoreChinese EV brand Nio recently held its Nio Day 2023 event, where it launched new charging technologies, gave company updates, and held performances to a crowd of more than 10,000 people in an Olympic stadium. The biggest news was the debut of the ET9 sedan, which Nio describes as a “smart executive flagship.”
Read MoreBiking ain’t easy; in fact it can be straight up deadly when faced with giant, speeding cars and infrastructure that focuses solely on those cars. But even parked cars pose a serious risk to bike riders in the form of dooring — or when a car driver opens their door into the bike lane, resulting in a crash. The Los Angeles Times spoke to transit advocates and people affected by dooring, who offered simple solutions to keeping the road safe for everyone.
Read MoreThe 2024 Ineos Grenadier may not even fully be on the lots of the brand’s 21 North American dealers and there’s already a problem. A recall has been issued for the Grenadier over its cool looking auxiliary switches as they can cause a fire.
Read MoreWhen travel bans lifted and the activities of the world resumed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the folks who had been confined to their homes were eager to hit the road — and they haven’t stopped. This year, the car rental industry earned a record-breaking $38.3 billion, according to Auto Rental News’ most recent fact book.
Read MoreEdward Scott Rock, a Philadelphia used car dealer, was arrested last week by federal authorities on charges of mail and wire fraud. Rock is accused of accepting payments from around 120 buyers across 36 states but failing to deliver a vehicle. Most of the vehicles involved were accessible for seniors, wheelchair users and people with disabilities, including a 2017 Ford T150 van sold to 13 different people over 11 months.
Read MoreWhen the world shut down in early 2020, the whole idea of “driving a car” ground to a halt for a lot of people. All those hours that would’ve been spent commuting, stuck in traffic, were now spent at home nurturing sourdough starter. But while the amount Americans drive has yet to reach the heights of 2019 — the amount of cars Americans are buying is still on the rise. In fact, it barely ever slowed.
Read MoreTesla’s Cybertruck has introduced plenty of manufacturing challenges, from its massive panes of glass to its stainless steel body panels, but there’s another thing holding big-time production back: the “4680" battery set to power the pickups, Reuters reports based on conversations with nine different Tesla workers.
Read MoreA 50-year-old Tokyo taxi driver is facing charges for killing a pigeon after plowing through a flock at 35 miles per hour. The driver is accused of violating a Japanese wildlife protection law, according to the New York Times. In Japan, all birds (even pigeons) can’t be removed or killed without government permission. This recent incident has restarted a conversation on whether or not pigeons should be granted such protections.
Read MoreTesla is recalling 120,000 U.S.-based Model S and X vehicles from 2021 to 2023. This has nothing to do with last week’s massive two-million vehicle recall over Autopilot. This time, it’s that the doors of the cars in question could pop open in crashes if the locks aren’t activated, NHTSA reports.
Read MoreCummins, an Indiana-based company that manufactures and sells engines, has been hit with a $1.675 billion penalty for intentionally selling defeat devices that could bypass emissions sensors, a direct violation of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice writes. It’s set to be the biggest ever penalty for a violation of the Clean Air Act, and it’s the second-largest environmental penalty.
Read MoreThe Chevrolet Blazer EV has only just hit the hit the market, but it already has a nasty reputation of faulty software issues that left one journalist stranded at a charging station and another review site logging one fault after another. As a result, General Motors has issued a stop sale for the Blazer EV thanks to those aforementioned software problems, Automotive News reports.
Read MorePandemic-induced supply chain shortages are finally working themselves out, so there’s a good chance that 2024 will be a much better year for new car buyers. Still, an abundance of cars on dealer lots isn’t going to magically turn a $60,000 car into a $30,000 car. The good news is, though, you can still find quite a few reliable new cars for $30,000 or less.
Read MoreA woman who served as an assistant to Vin Diesel is alleging that the actor and star of the Fast and Furious movie series sexually assaulted her in 2010. The allegations, as reported by Vanity Fair, come from a suit filed by Asta Jonasson in Los Angeles. In the suit, Jonasson claims that when she was fresh out of film school, she was hired by Diesel’s company One Race for a job with some unusual responsibilities.
Read MoreHumanity has come a long way over the last few hundred years, but we are still terrifyingly vulnerable and susceptible to fires. Firefighters have employed tank-like robots that carry hoses into burning structures to minimize the amount of time that humans must endure the unpredictable dangers of a rampant fire, but researchers have a new idea that may change how humans fight fires forever.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing New York City’s government loves, it’s the NYPD. They’re the perfect child, the enforcement arm that can do no wrong, and the cops will always see budget increases regardless of the effect — positive or negative — they have on their local community. Case in point: The subway.
Read MoreAston Martin first unveiled the Valhalla mid-engine supercar in concept form in 2019, saying that it would use a hybrid V6 engine and only 500 would be sold for more than $1 million each. Then, in 2021 Aston debuted the production-intent Valhalla design, announcing that it would instead use an AMG-based V8 hybrid setup and that 999 would be produced for around $800,000 each. Now, as a gift for the holidays, Aston has released the first images of a Valhalla prototype testing on track at Silversto
Read MoreHonda is recalling 2.6 million Honda and Acura vehicles in the U.S. because of a fuel pump defect that could cause the engine to stall while driving. In a statement, the automaker said it hasn’t received any reports of crashes or injuries related to the issue, which is always a good thing.
Read MoreA recent change to a single clause in a UK criminal justice law will soon allow police or the National Crime Agency to run facial recognition searches on a database of 50 million driver’s license holders in the country, in addition to social media images and surveillance images. UK officers have recently taken to using live facial recognition at major public events, including protests, which has brought concerns to the fore regarding privacy, discrimination, freedom of expression and assembly. T
Read MoreAs you can imagine, after Putin invaded Ukraine (on my birthday, no less!) and major automakers abandoned Russia as all the international sanctions rolled in, it’s been harder for Russians to get access to new cars. Don’t you worry, though, Russia isn’t going to let a little total alienation from the rest of the developed world stop it and its car industry. It can build cars itself, and they’ll be just as great as the ones it can no longer have. Take, for example, the Moscow Polytechnic Universi
Read MoreA 27-year-old Texas woman crashed her Land Rover into an electronic signboard in Palm Springs, California last August. The sign ironically read, “Don’t drink and drive.” Local police claim she admitted to drinking a pint of tequila before getting behind the wheel. Yesterday, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of willfully resisting and driving under the influence with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher.
Read MoreMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has long been a friend of the auto industry, pushing annual proposals for incentives and rebates into the state budget every year. Her most recent proposals have set aside $50 million to assist Michiganders in purchasing electric or hybrid vehicles. As both have been pushed aside by conservative state lawmakers, this year her incentives package request has been cut in half to $25M and allows provisions for incentives to buy new internal combustion vehicles as w
Read MoreBack in the good ol’ days, tobacco companies were some of the biggest sponsors of NASCAR, with iconic liveries from Skoal to Camel to Winston, and the legendary Winston Cup Series ran from 1971 to 2003. The Winston Cup meant far more than just tobacco sales over its 32-year history, even inspiring the Disney movie “Cars” that centered around the fictional Piston Cup.
Read MoreLast month American startup Lucid debuted the Gravity, its first entry in the hotly contested three-row SUV segment and an important model for the brand that currently only builds the Air luxury sedan. Speaking with Autocar in a new interview, Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson says the company’s next focus is on two mainstream models that will start at “around $50,000.”
Read MoreNissan Altima drivers, here’s an alternative story to read instead of this one. Okay, now that the coast is clear – we all have stereotypes that we hold about people who drive certain vehicles, mainly negative ones. Those views are usually shaped by anecdotes and watching crash videos posted on social media.
Read MoreYou usually don’t expect to see a car fly over your head while you’re driving, but according to one witness, that’s exactly what happened in a suburb north of Chicago on Tuesday afternoon. At around noon, the driver of a 1997 Buick flew off the Edens Expressway and tore through a fence before catching on fire and crashing into a building, CBS News Chicago reports.
Read MoreDowntown Los Angeles experienced the highest spike in vehicle theft over the past ten years in comparison to all other bureaus of the city, up more than 300 percent when compared to 2013. Obviously a lot has happened over the last 10 years, including that whole global pandemic that thrust millions into instability, and vehicle theft is actually down compared to those pandemic years, and violent crimes are actually down, too.
Read MoreAs it turns out, the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV that stranded InsideEVs’ Kevin Williams in Virginia isn’t the only Blazer EV with problems. This time around, it isn’t a press car. Instead, it’s a Blazer EV that Edmunds bought with its own money less than two months ago. With only 1,600 miles on the odometer, it’s now been at the dealership for two weeks with numerous issues.
Read MoreRosalinda “La Jefa” González Valencia was sentenced to five years in prison for laundering money through a car wash she owns in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Prosecutors argued that Valencia was laundering money for Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the dangerous criminal organization allegedly run by Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera-Cervantes.
Read MoreIt has been fourteen years since the original Ford F-150 Raptor appeared with 310 horsepower from a 5.4-liter naturally-aspirated V8. All these years later and Ford has cranked up the power to well over double that with the 2024 Raptor R’s 5.2-liter supercharged V8, which now makes 720 hp. The newly-revised Raptor R is the most powerful off-road full-size truck to ever hit the market, even besting Ram’s now-dead Hellcat-powered 702-hp TRX.
Read MoreBeing pulled over by the cops sucks. Depending on who you are, it can be an easy or harrowing experience. No matter who you are though, one of the most annoying aspects of being pulled over is the police asking you, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” Luckily, starting January 1, drivers in California won’t have to hear it anymore.
Read MoreAfter years of delay after delay, Tesla has finally delivered a few Cybertrucks. It won’t be built in large numbers anytime soon, but it does sort of technically exist. Is it probably unsafe? You betcha. Still, if you have $120,000 on hand, you should be able to get one relatively soon as long as you live in California or Texas. And when you do eventually get your Cybertruck, at some point, Elon Musk insists you’ll be able to use it as a boat once Tesla releases its Cybertruck Boat Modification
Read MoreThe Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev. has installed a new self-service screening lane in an effort to speed up the TSA check process. This pilot program — part of the Science and Technology Directorate’s Screening At Speed initiative — will begin in January in an effort to determine effectiveness and efficiency. Airlines are seeing more travel than ever as people flood through airports around the country at higher than pre-pandemic rates. If the program is successful, we’ll see
Read MoreTesla has asked a U.S. judge to kindly pause one of its ongoing lawsuits regarding racial bias and the harassment of Black workers, Reuters reports. Why put a pause on something that important? Well, Tesla has a few other similar harassment lawsuits it wants to get cleared up first. No big deal.
Read MoreI finally got around to watching the Gran Turismo film this weekend. It wasn’t good, despite having been based on the extremely interesting story of racing driver Jann Mardenborough rising to the podium at Le Mans from a kid who played video games. The story was a great one to adapt to cinema, but it was poorly done and overly-and-unnecessarily dramatized. A few weeks ago I watched a screener of Ferrari, the new Michael Mann film, and it was very good (aside from the horrible CGI video game car
Read MoreToyota recently turned the long-running Crown nameplate into a full four-car lineup in Japan: there’s the traditional Crown Sedan (now a twin of the Mirai), the Crown Crossover (which we get in the U.S. as just the Crown), the Crown Estate (now offered in the U.S. as the Crown Signia), and the Crown Sport (a compact SUV). Toyota has now released more details about the plug-in-hybrid version of the Crown Sport that will be available in Japan, and it makes me wish we got it in America even more.
Read MoreTesla cars have been prone to certain parts failures time and again, but the electric vehicle company has attempted to pin the blame for those failures on its drivers, citing vehicle “abuse.” Now, a new Reuters investigation shows that Tesla has been aware of these systemic issues in its vehicles but instead attempted to divert responsibility onto its paying customers.
Read MoreLook, as cool as it could be and as much as automakers want it to happen, a worldwide switch to hydrogen passenger vehicles is just not realistic or even possible. But as the technology improves, hydrogen fuel cells become more appealing and possible for use in commercial applications, like long-haul semi trucking and delivery vehicles. Mercedes-Benz has previously shown a prototype hydrogen fuel-cell semi that did 621 miles on one tank, and now the brand has revealed a prototype Unimog that use
Read MoreThe Tesla Cybertruck launched with much fanfare earlier this month, and Cybertruck sightings in the wild have skyrocketed. Recently a video of a Cybertruck went viral, showing a stuck Cybertruck hauling a Christmas tree get rescued by a Ford pickup after it failed to climb a gentle snowy grade. Ford CEO Jim Farley responded to the video on Twitter, saying, “Just to be clear… this is a Super Duty and NOT advertising. Glad a Ford owner was there to help.” Now the Stanislaus National Forest is capi
Read MoreWhen InsideEVs’ Kevin Williams got his hands on a 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, he had big plans for it. Starting in Columbus, Ohio, he was going to take it on a 471-mile road trip to Raleigh, North Carolina, testing out its real-world range, charging speed, comfort and driving experience. Considering that vehicles built on General Motors’ Ultium platform have had plenty of problems since it was first rolled out, he knew it might not be a hassle-free trip, but as he pointed out, the Blazer EV was re
Read MoreVolkswagen Group, owner of the U.S.-based EV charging infrastructure operator Electrify America, has finally announced its commitment to the North American Charging Standard (NACS, also known as the Tesla charger) beginning in 2025 for many of its brands. The company said it will also explore adapter options so preexisting electrified vehicles can charge via the Tesla Supercharger network, but it says that pursuit also won’t start until 2025. When other brands open access to NACS chargers, they
Read MoreJust over 10 percent of Canadian new car buyers this year chose to buy a battery electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. According to CTV, the exact number is 10.3 percent. The Canadian market is relatively small, as the massive frigid country is expected to purchase around 1.63 million new cars, trucks, and SUVs in 2023, meaning EVs will account for just 167,890 units sold to our northern neighbors. The Canadian government is mandating that automobile manufacturers increase their electric
Read MoreA software engineer was looking at the inventory of a Chevrolet dealer when he noticed the website’s chatbot was powered by ChatGPT and decided he wanted to see how far he could take the conversation away from car sales. He successfully managed to get the dealership’s chatbot to write him a Python script, and shared his screenshots on Mastadon, a new Twitter/ X alternative where the screenshots generated big interest before getting shared to X where they went viral.
Read MoreThe Nio ET7 is already one of the longer-range electric vehicles available globally, with its 100-kWh battery pack option giving the large Chinese sedan a range of 360 miles on the European WLTP cycle (which is a bit more optimistic than the EPA cycle). Now the ET7 is offered with a huge 150-kWh semi-solid-state battery pack, and Nio’s founder, chairman and CEO William Li took one on a journey across China, going 649 miles without needing to charge.
Read MoreThe Tesla app is pretty much mandatory when you drive the American EV manufacturer’s products. It’s capable of controlling so many vehicle functions, including everything from HVAC to mapping out your next charge. One California man, an abusive husband with a restraining order, used the app for something much more harmful. The Tesla app can be a silent technological partner in stalking and furthering abusive control practices.
Read MoreA car dealer in Delray Beach, Florida has been charged with federal wire fraud for allegedly stealing nearly $8 million from investors in December 2020. According to federal investigators, Stephen Neary, the owner of Palm Beach Auto Group, “misappropriated investor funds for his own personal use and benefit, without any notice to, or authorization from, his investors,” WPBF reports.
Read MoreMicrotransit is the latest American trend in public transportation to replace buses. Many small towns and underserved city neighborhoods have introduced affordable, app-based transit services operated using vans. While microtransit has proven to be popular, that popularity has been a problem. These services are prohibitively expensive to expand and highlight why bus services exist in the first place.
Read MoreLexus has finally redesigned the rugged GX after letting the second-generation model run for more than a decade. The 2024 Lexus GX 550 has dropped the V8 and now comes with a 3.4-liter twin-turbocharged V6 that makes 349 hp and 479 lb-ft of torque. It also comes in six trims, with a base price of $64,250 and the top-spec Luxury+ version priced at $81,250. Deliveries won’t begin until “early 2024,” but the configurator is now live, so even if the new GX isn’t here yet, you can now at least figure
Read MoreAmerica’s favorite trash meat product found exclusively under the seats of old minivans, Slim Jim, announced this week that its promotional Nissan Z sports car had been stolen in Southern California. A Con Agra Foods social media intern has called upon fans of the tube meat — known as the ‘Long Boi Gang’ — to find the car, dubbed Fast Meat. The car recently made a stop at the World Wrestling Entertainment event in Chicago, before traveling to Los Angeles, Calif. for a promotional video shoot. Th
Read MoreMeet the new boss, same as the old boss. McLaren this week unveiled the replacement for the GT model, a lightly facelifted version of that car now called GTS. The GTS gets a 14 horsepower bump from the old GT to 626 total, and drops 22 pounds to get down to just 3,351. Almost everything about this car is a carry over from the GT, though McLaren did add a couple of scoops and strakes to barely visually differentiate it. You probably won’t notice it in the “butt dyno” but the GTS is a bit quicker
Read MoreA new stat has emerged to set Tesla bros alight on social media platforms around the world: prospective Tesla drivers are involved in crashes more than the drivers of any other car brand, a LendingTree analysis reveals.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz is the first automaker to gain approval to sell a Level 3 automated driving system in the United States; the first customer-owned S-Class and EQS sedans in California and Nevada equipped with the Drive Pilot system hit dealer lots this month. Drive Pilot allows you to take your hands of the wheel and eyes off the road in traffic jam situations up to 40 mph, so you can read a book, watch a movie on the Hyperscreen, more easily talk to your passengers or even use your cellphone, depe
Read MoreWhile customers wait months for the delivery of their new vehicles, Kia Canada has decided to lock up its inventory in warehouses to game sales figures and avoid looking too successful in front of the big bosses, a CBC report reveals.
Read MoreWhen you buy a new car, lemon laws and manufacturer warranties generally protect you from a lot of headaches and potential reliability issues. Unfortunately, a lot of people can’t afford to spend $50,000 on a new car, which often means taking a risk on a used one that’s outside its warranty. What initially seems like a great deal can quickly turn into a maintenance nightmare.
Read MoreThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or IIHS has been holding automakers accountable for public safety since the ’90s, by putting new cars through more stringent and realistic crash tests than required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA. Thanks in part to the work of the IIHS, new cars are safer than ever, but the IIHS’ focus has recently shifted to the back seat where occupant safety has stagnated.
Read MoreWe all do dumb stuff when we’re young. Speeding. Crashing the occasional car. Staying out way too late the night before your college final. Usually, though, we don’t do anything so reckless that it sends multiple people to the hospital. And yet, that’s what happened Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado when an SUV rolled over in a parking lot, crushing five people, KKTV reports.
Read MoreHyundai’s stunning N Vision 74 concept is heading for a limited release production run in 2026, according to a report from Korea’s ET News. The hydrogen-and-battery-electric hybrid sports car was unveiled in July of 2022, and has been running laps around the minds of enthusiasts everywhere ever since. The N Vision 74 will allegedly hit showrooms in 2026, though only 100 examples will be built, and thirty of them will be reserved by Hyundai for racing.
Read MoreTropical cyclone Jasper has hit some areas of northern Queensland, Australia with over a year’s worth of rain, causing flash floods and washing out roads, making evacuation a difficulty. Authorities say this is the worst flooding on record in the state, and the rainfall isn’t expected to abate for another day. The flooding has become so extreme that airplanes are stranded on the city of Cairns’ runways, and crocodiles have followed floodwaters into towns.
Read MoreA heavily intoxicated driver hit and killed a pedestrian on Saturday night in Dallas, Tex. The driver, Nestor Luján Flores, proceeded unimpeded — despite the victim’s body occupying the passenger seat — for over 38 miles to a town called White Settlement on the west side of Fort Worth, where he stopped in the parking lot of a Jack In The Box. A worker in the restaurant called police to investigate after the grey Kia Forte had been parked for three hours. Police responded shortly after 11 p.m. to
Read MoreIt’s been a long year. The Titan submersible getting crushed? That was only six months ago even though it feels like it had to have been at least two years ago considering all that has happened since then. Elon Musk, especially, has been in the news constantly and rarely for anything positive. Yes, he finally managed to deliver 10 Cybertrucks, which is great news for Joe Rogan fans, and he cut prices on most of Tesla’s lineup, but he also made it abundantly clear over the last year that even if
Read MorePresident Joesph Biden wrapped up his weekend with a bang after a car crashed into a parked SUV part of his presidential motorcade as he was visiting a campaign office in Wilmington, Delaware Sunday night.
Read MoreEarlier this week Alfa Romeo confirmed that its first electric vehicle will be the upcoming Milano crossover, which will be positioned below the Tonale in the lineup and offer both pure EV and plug-in-hybrid powertrains. While at the event, Autocar interviewed Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato, who dished about how the electric Giulia replacement will remain a sedan, plus Alfa’s potential plans for EV sports cars.
Read MoreThe fully electric next-generation Porsche Macan will finally go on sale in 2024 after multiple delays, and Porsche’s original plan was for the current gas-powered Macan to soldier on alongside the new Macan EV for at least a couple of model years. According to a report from Automotive News, in most of Europe that will no longer be the case, as the existing Macan will be pulled from sale in the spring due to new cybersecurity rules.
Read MoreEarlier this month, Michael B. Jordan, the actor known for his roles in “The Wire,” Creed and Black Panther, crashed his Ferrari 812 Superfast into a Kia Niro that was parked on the street. The Sunset Boulevard crash destroyed the front end of Jordan’s Ferrari and likely ruined the Kia owner’s day. After all, getting to meet a celebrity isn’t so great when it’s because they just totaled your car. Now, a newly released video of the crash raises even more questions about what the heck happened.
Read MoreThe No. 1 license plate for the Australian state of New South Wales has gone up for auction for the first time. The leading bid for “NSW 1” is already over the astronomical mark of 10 million Australian dollars (or $6.7 million) with six weeks left. The country’s previous record of AU$2.2 million for the highest-selling license plate has been shattered four times over.
Read MoreIf you have a Porsche Taycan Turbo S electric super sedan, and you spend a lot of time at full throttle over 100 miles per hour, you might have noticed that your car has gotten quicker lately. Porsche quietly pushed out a pair of software updates which have allowed the Turbo S model to “overboost” its electric power at higher speeds to arrive there even quicker. The German automaker didn’t tell anyone about this, but Car and Driver recently tested a new 2023 Turbo S and compared it against the d
Read MoreIt’s almost a cliche these days to point out to a Boomer that “they don’t build them like they used to,” is actually a good thing because cars these days are so much safer than they were in the 1960s and 1970s. That doesn’t mean that all cars are equally safe, though. Some are definitely worse than others. Take, for example, two cars not sold in the U.S., the MG 5 and Mahindra Scorpio. As Motor1 recently reported, both got zero stars in their Australasian New Car Assessment Program.
Read MoreRight to Repair is a major issue in cars, where automakers do everything they can to prevent independent shops from being able to fix new vehicles — forcing owners back to dealerships for service. But cars, it seems, have it easy. Hackers out of Poland found that trains get far, far worse.
Read MoreA Senatobia, Miss. youth who was taken into custody back in August for urinating in public has been placed on probation for three months, and ordered to write a report about Kobe Bryant, his idol. Quantavious Eason made headlines over the summer when the third-grader was arrested for emptying his bladder behind his mother’s car in a parking lot. The family’s lawyer Carlos Moore has indicated that the boy will not be declared delinquent or in need of supervision, and the incident will not be used
Read MoreThe leading provider of mobile connectivity service in the United States AT&T has announced it will begin operating some Rivian Commercial Vans and R1 models in its fleet early next year as part of a pilot to analyze how Rivian’s EVs can improve fleet safety, cut costs, and reduce the telecommunication giant’s carbon footprint. AT&T also announced that it will be the sole provider of internet services to all Rivian vehicles in the U.S. and Canada.
Read MoreRUF Automobiles has been blowing minds and setting performance standards for decades, and now its newest production vehicle has finally arrived in the U.S.. It may share some visual cues with the 993-generation Porsche 911 , but it’s all RUF here– made entirely out of carbon fiber and featuring a Mezger-based but RUF cast, naturally-aspirated, dry sumped, water-cooled aluminum flat-6, this ain’t no average Porsche. The new owner received delivery of the first RUF SCR in America on December 12.
Read MoreWhile a transition towards electric vehicles has steadily taken hold to combat climate change, EVs aren’t filling up city streets and highways in proportional numbers to sales. Scientific American found that gas vehicles were driven 62.4 percent more than EVs between 2016 and 2022, based on odometer readings. The environmental impact of EVs could be overestimated if electric cars aren’t being relied on by high-mileage drivers or used as daily drivers for multi-vehicle households.
Read MoreAn Australian woman has been arrested after she allegedly stole a Krispy Kreme delivery van filled with 10,000 donuts. According to police, she stole the van from a gas station on November 29, and it was found abandoned in a parking lot a week later. Worst of all, she didn’t even give away the donuts, as the van was found still filled with thousands of spoiled donuts, the Standard reports.
Read MoreThe 2024 Toyota Tacoma configurator is now live, which means it’s officially time to play Build Your Own Truck. Sadly, the Tacoma TRD Pro and Trailhunter aren’t available yet, and the hybrid powertrain that’s good for 326 hp and 465 lb-ft of torque is also missing, so some of the best theoretical configurations can’t be built just yet.
Read MoreThe stainless steel wedge future space pickup truck is here, sort of. The rapid acceleration and generally poor visibility will probably contribute to these trucks occasionally getting in scrapes with other vehicles on the roadways of America. Because the exterior of the Tesla Cybertruck is “cold rolled stainless steel,” and it allegedly forms a stressed exoskeleton, those fender benders could get quite pricey to repair. While traditional cars have deformable plastic bumpers that can easily be r
Read MoreA recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the devastating toll that road crashes have globally. The United Nations agency estimates there were 1.19 million deaths in 2021. Such a high human cost is only compounded by the staggering $1.8 trillion cost on the world’s economy these incidents have. While the figures do seem bleak, the world’s roadways are gradually getting safer, and WHO has laid out common-sense measures for countries to improve road safety.
Read MoreCruise lines are waging a war on drugs. Lately the big floating pollution and bacchanalia machines have been pulling out all the stops to prevent marijuana products from getting aboard. Carnival Cruise Line has started bringing a squadron of drug dogs to root out the druggies and drag them back to land. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, passengers are confused at the sudden about face, as they’ve previously openly smoked or consumed edible marijuana with no repercussions. Other
Read MoreFederal prosecutors stated that Nikola founder Trevor Milton will likely receive an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, Reuters reports. Milton was convicted last year on two counts of wire fraud and a count of security fraud. During the trial, prosecutors called Milton a “con man” and argued that he lied about the electric and hydrogen-powered truck manufacturer when he led the company.
Read MoreOne of the most anticipated cars of 2024 is the new Lexus GX, which has been fully redesigned for the first time since 2009. We’ve already been privy to details about the GX’s boxy styling and much improved interior, as well as all of the specs for the new platform and turbocharged engine — and now we finally know how much it will cost. The 2024 Lexus GX will start at $64,250 (including $1,350 for destination), an increase of $4,025 over the outgoing model, and it can reach past the $80,000 mark
Read MoreAmerican driver Tanner Foust finished eighth overall at the 2023 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, driving a wildly aero-modified Radford Type 62-2 in a historic John Player Special-aping livery. His time of nine minutes 37.326 seconds was quick enough to win the Exhibition class, despite being nearly a minute slower up the hill than overall victor Robin Shute. To commemorate the tiny company’s class victory, it will build you your own identical downforce monster, should you want one.
Read MoreWe saw the release of the updated Genesis GV80 SUV last month, which brought subtle exterior styling tweaks but a big overhaul to the cabin. Now, Hyundai’s luxury brand unveiled the updated G80 sedan in Korea, which gets similar tweaks to keep this three-year-old luxobarge looking fresh.
Read MoreGreat news, everyone! Jalopnik’s favorite gas station, Buc-ee’s, is expanding its already massive Daytona Beach location to include a new car wash. Because this is Buc-ee’s, a gas station that will sell you brisket, home decor, dog toys and baby clothes along with fuel for your car, rest assured that it’s not going to be just any car wash. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal the new gas station car wash will be 235 feet long.
Read MoreThere’s no denying that traffic in Austin, Texas can be awful. The city could seriously use a more expansive rail network. Still, that doesn’t give anyone the right to steal their Uber driver’s car so they can get to the airport faster, a lesson one woman learned the hard way when she was arrested inside the Austin-Bergstrom Airport for doing exactly that, Fox 7 Austin reports.
Read MoreFederal car safety office the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this week took a big first step toward requiring automakers adopt new technology to prevent intoxicated drivers from starting their vehicles. For the last two years the agency has been researching possible directions to take, and how the mandate will manifest. The administration has now released its summary of that research, and issued a call for public comment.
Read MoreWhen Land Rover debuted the fifth-generation Range Rover back in 2021, the British automaker announced that a fully electric version of the new big body Range would be coming in 2024. Now, Land Rover has released the first teasers of the Range Rover Electric, opening up the waiting list for customers as the brand’s first EV enters its prototype testing phase.
Read MoreOur old friend Doug DeMuro sure has come a long way since the days when he needed his parents to cosign a loan for the Ferrari that jumpstarted his YouTube career. After starting and then selling his ownership stake in Cars & Bids, he was able to buy a Porsche Carrera GT, a car that definitely cost a lot more than that old Ferrari. And what do you do when you buy an incredibly valuable, low-production supercar with an engine that was originally developed for Formula 1? You take it to the track,
Read MoreAfter more than a dozen years on sale, Lancia is finally getting ready to replace its compact Ypsilon hatchback with a brand new generation based on the Opel Corsa. The new hatch was previewed earlier this year by the rad Pu+Ra concept, and now the production Ypsilon has leaked in more ways than one after a prototype was crashed into a river in France.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles City Controller’s office released an audit this week detailing how the LAPD spends its budget. As it turns out, the police department’s $3.2 billion annual budget shows some serious overspending, and while the $47 million it spends on helicopters is a mere 1.4 percent of its accounting, that kind of money is more than many city government agencies get for their entire department, including the Department on Disability and the Ethics Commission. And the helicopters are overwhelmin
Read MoreRemember Karma Automotive, the Chinese-owned, California-based company that acquired Fisker Automotive’s assets and began selling the Fisker Karma as the Karma Revero? No? Vaguely? Well, it’s still around and, even though it’s sold less than 1,000 cars in the last 10 years, the new president has his eyes set on competing with Ferrari and McLaren, Automotive News reports.
Read MoreRapper 2 Chainz was hospitalized following a multi-car crash in Miami early Saturday morning. Thankfully, no one died, and 2 Chainz’s injuries were said not to be life-threatening, CBS News Miami reports.
Read MoreA culture of competitive DUI arrests by officers and police departments is leading to the breakdown of civil liberties in Colorado, according to a lawyer hired by Harris Elias. The city of Loveland has agreed to pay Mr. Elias $400,000 over a 2020 arrest in which both a breathalyzer test and a blood test proved he was not drunk or under the influence of any drugs. The following year nearby Fort Collins police put Elias in jail for three days in the pursuit of a DUI conviction, but again his blood
Read MoreIt’s official. Christmas is less than two weeks away. For millions of Americans who celebrate, that means it’s almost time to trek back to their parents’ house to spend a few nights sleeping on mattresses and pillows that should have been replaced years ago. Plus, of course, there’s the food, the music, the sweaters, the extended family you just saw at Thanksgiving and the presents.
Read MoreIf you’re anything like me, then you enjoy watching people do dumb things. Today’s slideshow is a followup post since people never learn: This set of speed bumps in Fresno, Calif. might be the most entertaining thing in this much-mocked town. My TikTok feed is full of dumb drivers making stupid mistakes, but my favorite genre of this are the compilations of drivers neglecting to notice speed bumps and going for an unexpected flight.
Read MoreWhile Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to go EV-only where markets allow by 2030, with a growing lineup of electric vehicles already on sale, it isn’t giving up on internal combustion engines just yet – especially when it comes to the AMG performance division, which is using electrification to extract massive power from gas motors. The latest model to get the AMG E Performance plug-in hybrid treatment is the SL roadster, making history as both the first PHEV droptop from Mercedes and the most p
Read MoreThe California Division of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has hit Tesla with a $36,000 fine for negligence in the case of an employee being “seriously injured” last April. The worker, a quality control specialist, was trapped in a Model Y when the assembly line lurched forward, hitting the open door on a post and slamming it shut. Tesla’s fine stems from a failure to ensure the power to the assembly line conveyor belt was turned off before the QC workers started their inspecti
Read MoreIf you bought a used car recently, you might want to go and check the odometer reading. It could be off. A new report details that odometer tampering is not only widespread, but it’s getting worse.
Read MoreDrivers in California are still dealing with the effects of a tightening insurance industry. From increasing rates and premiums to companies outright refusing to cover drivers, its hard out here. Mostly though the whole situation stems from insurance companies being mad that California regulations won’t let them be greedy as CalMatters reports.
Read MoreThe annual Hagerty Bull Market list is out, giving you just enough time to buy one of these ten collector cars in time for the holidays. You deserve a gift, don’t you? You’ve been a particularly good car enthusiast and you deserve something fun. So why not park your money somewhere it’ll be (potentially) accruing equity?
Read MoreOne of the most important factors in the implementation of electric car charging infrastructure is location. Beyond just having fast-charging stations along popular commuter and road trip routes, those chargers should be installed in places with amenities for drivers to use and enjoy while they juice up their vehicles. Volvo is doing just that, having now opened its first 50 fast chargers at more than a dozen Starbucks coffee shops in a partnership with ChargePoint and the java giant.
Read MoreThere isn’t necessarily anything wrong with the BMW Z4. When we last got behind the wheel, we liked the way it drove and found the interior significantly nicer than its platform-mate, the Toyota Supra. And unless you really want a convertible, now that the Supra can be ordered with a manual transmission, it’s been hard for BMW to get enthusiasts interested in the Z4. That all changes for 2024, though, as the Z4 will no longer only be offered in the U.S. with an automatic transmission.
Read MoreA 56-year-old woman, identified as Maria Schwab from Schertz, Texas, was struck by a white 2016 Infiniti SUV at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday morning while visiting Chicago for a work trip. A 40-year-old off-duty Chicago police officer lost control of her several-thousand-pound projectile when she dropped her cell phone and took her eyes off the road to look for it. The driver abruptly swerved up onto the sidewalk, striking and killing Schwab. The officer has temporarily “been relieved of her poli
Read MoreAccording to Tesla, the driver-assist feature that it calls Autopilot is “intended for use on controlled-access highways” that have “a center divider, clear lane markings, and no cross traffic.” The owner’s manual also points out that it may not work well in areas with hills or sharp turns. Still, despite having the ability to limit where drivers can use Autopilot, it chooses not to. As the Washington Post found, that decision has led to at least eight serious and even deadly crashes.
Read More“If you have an argument with another car, you will win,” Elon Musk said during Tesla’s November 30 Cybertruck delivery event. This is much of the problem that traffic crash analysts are having with the preliminary crash videos released by Tesla. Cars with crumple zones will deform around their passengers, dissipating the impact and dulling the forces some before they reach a soft and squishy human body.
Read MoreWhat was supposed to be a festive night of fun and cheer in Bakersfield, California turned into a nightmare Thursday night when the driver of a white Ford F-150 crashed into the crowd waiting for the city’s annual Christmas parade to begin, running over three people. The victims were taken to the hospital for their injuries and are reportedly in stable condition, although the extent of their injuries is currently unknown, Bakersfield Now reports.
Read MoreThere’s nothing cops love more than PIT maneuvers against seemingly every vehicle that appears in their windshield (except, maybe, killing dogs or beating their spouses). But Florida, as always, has to up the ante: Down there, the cops don’t just PIT civilians. Now, they’re starting to PIT each other.
Read MoreBetween June 23 and September 5, Porsche built 53 Boxster and Cayman models for the U.S. market with a little snippet of code that makes them potentially totally illegal to drive. The German automaker says an employee was manually altering code in the rear vehicle control unit, which now allows the rear spoiler to over-extend, potentially blocking visibility of the car’s CHMSL. As a result, the company is issuing a recall to fix the faulty code, which affects all 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 and 718 Boxst
Read MoreAn Uber Eats driver in Washington, D.C. had a workday from hell last month. The Hyundai she used for deliveries was stolen while she was at the Union Market food hall. The keys to her personal Lexus, as well as details of her home address, were inside the car. The woman told WRC-TV that it took at most 15 minutes for the thieves to get to her home and steal her other vehicle.
Read MoreStellantis has only kept dealer lots stocked with electrified versions of its vehicles when possible in the 14 CARB-compliant states since June of this year because of legislative inequality. The world’s third-largest automaker by revenue has formally lodged a petition against the California Air Resources Board to combat this inequality.
Read MoreIt seems like everywhere you look, a car dealer is trying some shady behavior, and today’s story comes by way of Ohio’s NBC 4 and features Lux Auto Depot, a luxury car dealership in Ohio.
Read MoreEarlier this year Chevrolet announced that the strong-selling Bolt EV and EUV were going to get the ax. GM is on track to sell 70,000 of these this year, which is a pretty strong number for the tiny electric runabout. According to a report from InsideEVs, the Bolt will get a stay of execution with a major mechanical overhaul for the 2025 model year, but only the plastic-cladding-and-taller-suspension EUV model (introduced for the 2022 model year) will live on. The standard Bolt EV, introduced in
Read MoreThree police officers in Decatur, Alabama have been fired and a fourth has been suspended after they fatally shot a man while his truck was being repossessed in September. The announcement came from the city’s mayor, according to CBS News 19.
Read MoreA driver in the parking lot of Utah’s Layton Christian Academy was reportedly blinded by the sun and ran over a mother and her two young children on Tuesday. One of the children, a three-year-old girl, was able to get out from under the car on her own, but the mother and her two-year-old son remained trapped underneath. To get them to safety, between 20 and 30 high school students got together to lift the car up, allowing an airman from the nearby Hill Air Force Base to pull them to safety, KSL
Read MoreCalifornia wants school districts to move from diesel-powered school buses to their electrified counterparts. Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials have implemented a 2035 requirement that all newly purchased or leased school buses have to be zero-emission. School districts in rural parts of the state don’t see EV buses as a viable option, though, the L.A. Times reports.
Read MoreThe saga of Florida’s infamous Booty Patrol Truck appears to be headed toward the ending we all knew was probably inevitable. Owner Gabriel Luviano-Renteria has been arrested and charged with impersonating law enforcement and obstructing police, Orlando’s WKMG reports.
Read MoreThe first Fiat 500e was an adorably half-hearted attempt at producing an electric version of the Italian icon, but a brand new second-generation 500e debuted a few years ago for European markets that brought major improvements. Now, Fiat has finally released U.S. details for the 2024 Fiat 500e, which will go on sale in a few months.
Read MoreElon Musk is using ex-girlfriend Grimes’ tweets to prove to custody courts that she primarily lived in Texas despite her claims that she lived in California. This distinction is important, because Texas has a cap on maximum child support payments where California has no maximum cap.
Read MoreActor Alan Ruck, star of “Succession” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” was driving through Hollywood in his Rivian R1T on Halloween night when a somewhat mysterious traffic crash occurred. Ruck’s electric pickup was stopped waiting for a red light when the truck rapidly accelerated forward into the back of a Hyundai Elantra before hitting a BMW X3 and then blasting headlong through the wall of a nearby pizza shop. The Elantra driver was pushed out into the intersection, where it t-boned another d
Read MoreStellantis and Ample are beginning a new battery swapping partnership by servicing a car-sharing fleet of Fiat 500e EVs in Madrid, Spain. The proposed site is slated to open in 2024, and the modular battery-swapping tech should expand to privately-owned Fiat 500s before potentially developing other Stellantis EVs to work with this system as well. Ample claims its battery swapping robots can yank your cells out and replace them with a fully charged pack in under five minutes.
Read MoreTesla dramatically dropping the retail prices of its electric vehicles has perhaps been a boon for some of its customers, but the fleet buyers have found the move a bit unnerving. Following the news that Hertz would slow its purchases from Tesla, German competitor Sixt is going a step further, discontinuing purchases of Tesla EVs and selling off the Teslas it does have. According to the report from Bloomberg, the bright orange rental company is showing major losses on its EV rental program this
Read MoreIn the U.S., most people typically drive less than 20,000 miles in a year. Germany’s Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg, however, drives well over 100,000 miles a year – and in a Tesla Model S. As InsideEVs reports, his 2014 Model S has officially crossed the million-mile mark, and currently sitting with just under 1.2 million miles on the odometer. Which, by any standard, is a lot of miles, especially for an electric car.
Read MoreTesla is offering Cybertruck reservation holders the opportunity to configure a limited-edition Foundation Series truck. The electric automaker will only produce 1,000 limited-edition pickups, starting at $120,000. The invitation will be appealing to those who want to get their hands on a Cybertruck fast. Despite live-streaming a delivery launch event, previous delays and a $1,000 voucher to order another Tesla have raised concerns about how quickly the Cybertruck will be produced.
Read MoreThe rules surrounding EV tax rebate eligibility change for 2024 and it starts in just a few weeks. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about which cars will be eligible for the full $7,500 federal incentive. Unlike the current system, which requires you to take the discount from the purchase of the car as a reduction in your tax bill when you file taxes, the new system will allow dealers to take the full amount as an instant discount from your purchase price, and it’ll be applied to yo
Read MoreThree North Carolina–based Marines were found dead in a car over the summer. The car was parked in front of a convenience store, and there were no signs of foul play. An autopsy later ruled out drug use or suicide and confirmed they died of carbon monoxide poisoning, although how that happened wasn’t immediately clear. Now, a newly released report suggests it was caused by a disconnected exhaust, ABC News reports.
Read MoreOne of the most eagerly anticipated vehicles of the next couple of years is the replacement for the Dodge Charger and Challenger. Last summer Dodge debuted the electric Charger Daytona SRT concept, a two-door coupe with retro styling that was billed as a close preview of the brand’s first production EV. More recent reports have suggested the production Charger will also be available with gas engines, too, but Dodge has been keeping most details close to its chest.
Read MoreRam has announced a recall that affects more than 142,000 pickup trucks due to problems with their turn signals. If you’ve spent much time on the road with Ram owners, it would be understandable if you assumed this means the turn signals don’t turn on. In this case, though, it’s actually the opposite. The turn signals won’t automatically turn off, Cars.com reports.
Read MorePutting out a car fire in Bow, New Hampshire got a lot more complicated than expected for emergency responders last Saturday when the heat from the blaze caused several hundred rounds of ammunition in the car to begin exploding. Thankfully, no one was killed by the crash that caused the fire in the first place or by the exploding ammunition, NECN reports.
Read MoreMorgan’s Super 3 launched just about two years ago and remains one of the most exciting cars on the market today. It’s a lightweight little thing that doesn’t have a ton of grip, making the driver push for every little bit of speed. Now imagine that platform, but instead of the Ford-cribbed turbocharged 3-cylinder, it has an in-house developed electric motor and a rack of batteries good for 150 miles of range. How great would that be?
Read MoreSeven sedans and three sports cars make up this year’s Car and Driver 10 Best cars. The 10 best trucks and SUVs list features two EVs, six crossovers, and two trucks that could not be more different. It’s a really interesting collection of twenty vehicles that really shows the best of the market as it is available today. This year, with inflation being what it has been over the last couple of years, the base price cap has been pumped up to $110,000, and there are a ton of great cars available un
Read MoreNorway’s largest private sector union is considering blocking the shipping of any Tesla car bound for the Swedish market. The Fellesforbundet (United Federation of Trade Unions) could start its blockade of the electric automaker’s vehicles as early as December 20, Reuters reports. The Norwegian union aims to help force Tesla to agree to a collective bargaining agreement with Sweden’s Tesla mechanics.
Read MoreA former Tesla employee in Norway has come forward as skeptical of the company’s ethically questionable practices with regards to its driver assistance software packages. In an interview with the BBC Lukasz Krupski said he was concerned about the readiness of the both company’s software and hardware for the task of assisted driving. The reams of leaked data Krupski took with him, including customer complaints about Tesla’s braking and so-called Full Self Driving package, seem to support his skep
Read MoreA version of the Tesla Cybertruck has finally been revealed, with the top-of-the-line version offering a claimed 320 miles of range and the ability to launch from zero to 60 mph in only 2.6 seconds. And while not all of the specs are as impressive as what was originally promised, Tesla still delivered in one important area — unpainted, stainless steel body panels. With a unique body, though, comes the challenge of repairing it when the Cybertruck inevitably gets in a wreck.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz has been thinning its U.S. herd over the past couple years, discontinuing slow-selling cars like the A-Class sedan and consolidating other models that cannibalize each other. One of the most recent examples is the new CLE coupe, which was unveiled earlier this year. The CLE slots in between the old C-Class and E-Class coupes in terms of size, acting as a replacement for both, and now Mercedes-AMG has worked its magic on the CLE to create the CLE53.
Read MoreFor its second model year Lucid is streamlining its Air sedan lineup, discontinuing some of the more niche trims, adding newly optional features and lowering some prices.
Read MoreNew Zealand’s Mad Mike Whiddett is among the coolest dudes in motorsport, and he’s obsessed with making loud Mazda rotary engines and ripping smoke from his tires. For over a decade he’s been building wilder and wilder cars, topping his own builds with every new release. He thought he had peaked when he unveiled the #Nimbul Lamborghini drift car at Goodwood in 2019, but on the flight home from that event, he dreamed up the five-rotor 787D racer. It took four years to get from that first drawing
Read MoreMore than a year after declining to file charges against Mike Tyson for repeatedly punching him in the face on a plane, Tyson’s victim is looking for compensation to the tune of $450,000.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that America’s roads have been getting more dangerous. And as easy as it is to blame cell phones, every other developed nation has plenty of cell phones but has still managed to make its roads safer while the U.S. gets worse. Don’t worry, though. NBC News reports the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has an idea for how to fix this — taking the stunt driving out of car commercials.
Read MoreIf you’re not glued to your television screen and mainlining Fox News 24 hours a day, it can be hard to keep up with all the nefarious things that President Biden is accused of doing. Apparently, he’s incredibly corrupt, and, in fact, he’s so corrupt that no one can even find actual evidence of his corruption. Don’t you worry, though, Republicans are going to get to the bottom of this, and now they have proof that he’s been bought and paid for by China by way of a Ford Raptor that he bought for
Read MoreItalian luxury jewelry brand Bulgari has been designing exciting things since 1884, which is coincidentally about as long as cars have existed. After 139 years making timepieces and jewelry the company decided to try its hand at designing a concept car for the newest Gran Turismo game, and I guess as a collaborative tie in for a new ‘sporty’ watch design. I don’t really care about the watch, but the car is extremely 1970s and cool as hell.
Read MoreIt’s quick. It’s rare. It’s gorgeous. It’s a 2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe, and it could be yours. Yes, the car you see here is currently for sale on Cars & Bids, so all you have to do is offer the seller more money than anybody else, and before you know it, one of the best-looking coupes that America ever made will be in your driveway, ready for you to take it for a spin. Although, while it’s called a coupe, it comes with a removable targa top, which means you can enjoy the open air any time
Read MoreWe have another reminder of just how slimy some towing companies can be. A woman in Chicago is accusing a local towing company of wanting $10,000 before she can get her car back.
Read MoreBefore National Electric Vehicle Sweden, the Chinese company that bought Saab’s assets when the Swedish automaker went bankrupt, gave up on making cars, its engineers developed an electric sedan called the Emily GT. And while we probably won’t ever see another new Saab, we might actually get to see the Emily GT thanks to a Canadian company called EV Electra that just bought the rights to produce it.
Read MoreBeing mistaken for a celebrity is not unheard of in LA, especially when you and that celebrity both have exquisitely ripped bods. Case in point, I’ve been mistaken for Michael B. Jordan a number of times and, usually, I’d gladly trade places with the actor, but maybe not on Sunday when he crashed a nearly half a million dollar Ferrari into a parked car.
Read MoreA Marion County, Florida ambulance responding to a call last week ended up in an emergency situation of its own when it was hit by both a bus and truck while driving through an intersection. The crash sent 15 people to the hospital, although, thankfully, no one was killed WKMG News 6 reports.
Read MoreThe aviation industry has dealt with severe personnel shortages since the start of the coronavirus pandemic back in 2020. Specifically, continues to be a dire need for air traffic controllers. The New York Times spoke with current and retired air traffic controllers to illustrate how awful the present situation is for overworked employees and the risks it poses to the general public.
Read MoreThe brand growth for Genesis has been an incredible trajectory to watch. Spinning off from Hyundai with initially mediocre offerings, the company now delivers world-class luxury machines with some of the best and most cohesive design in the world. While the Genesis X Gran Berlinetta Vision won’t be parked in your driveway any time soon, it proves that the brand is ready to push its way up into the upper atmosphere, the rarified air, where supercars dwell. And all of this has happened in the span
Read MoreA Danish EV driver faces a hefty fine for negligent actions that led to the destruction of their own car and damage to their own home. On Saturday, in order to combat the below-freezing overnight lows in Stenlille, Denmark—about 40 miles from Copenhagen—and keep their electric car’s battery warm, the homeowner placed a toaster underneath the car and cranked the knob to eleven. Sometimes you have to think through your ideas once or twice before acting on them.
Read MoreFor most new car buyers, reliability is one of their top concerns, and for good reason. New cars are expensive enough as it is, and no one wants to deal with the cost or hassle that comes with something breaking. Warranties help with the cost, but it’s still frustrating and inconvenient to deal with repairs even if they don’t cost you anything. So if you’re looking for the best reliability possible, what cars should you consider?
Read MoreAtlanta City Council is calling on the Georgia General Assembly to pass a bill that would create harsher penalties for dangerous drivers, including a lifetime driving ban for repeat offenders. If passed, it would target drag and street racers, drunk drivers and superspeeders, Axios reports.
Read MoreTesla is offering a $1,000 discount to Cybertruck reservation holders who place an order or lease for another model. The new discount does raise a few questions in the wake of the Cybertruck Delivery Event. Why would someone purchasing a Cybertruck want to buy another vehicle immediately? How long are reservation holders going to wait before receiving their post-apocalyptic pickups?
Read MoreTesla finally revealed the production version of the Cybertruck Thursday. The specs don’t match what was promised when the concept was revealed, but for $60,990, you can get a base-model, rear-wheel-drive truck that can hit 60 mph in 6.5 seconds and 250 miles of range, while the $99,990 top trim will do 60 in 2.6 seconds and has 320 miles of range. What if just having a Cybertruck isn’t enough for you, and you want to make it unique? That’s where the accessories come in.
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year again—the end— when we take a moment to look back on all the cars, price tags, as well as your comments and votes that made up Nice Price or No Dice for 2023. As they say, “Wrap it up, I’ll take it!”
Read MoreWith its thirteen-inch lift and 37-inch tires, a running start may be required to get up and into today’s Nice Price or No Dice 4Runner. Let’s decide if its price makes it worth the effort.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice Lumina Z34 was once Chevy’s answer to Ford’s SHO Taurus. Let’s see if this handsome coupe comes with a price that will have buyers answering the call.
Read MoreYou can get today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cayenne in any color you like, as long as it’s Sand Yellow. Let’s see if that almost-never-optioned color and a hybrid drivetrain can account for the car’s asking price.
Read MoreToday is Boxing Day. And what better way to celebrate that than to have a car powered by a boxer engine for Nice Price or No Dice? Let’s find out if this Scion’s asking is anything worth celebrating.
Read MoreA popular theme this holiday season is “the little red truck hauling a Christmas tree.” Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Chevy only needs the tree to make that meme a memorable reality. Let’s see if its price tag is just as memorable.
Read MoreThe original engine in today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercedes earned the unenviable nickname “Rod Bender” owing to too-common failures. This car’s engine has been replaced, making that problem moot. Let’s see if its price needs some adjustment, too.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice El Camino proudly wears a dragon crest on its hood, part of its Royal Knight trim package. Let’s see if that unique and rare aesthetic upgrade makes it worth dragging out one’s wallet.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice Baja represents one of the last times Subaru got really funky. Let’s see if the price tag on this high-mileage but seemingly well-maintained weirdo pickup makes it funky fresh.
Read MoreCarroll Shelby named his AC-based sports car after a snake that could strike with lightning-fast speed. In contrast, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Python shares its moniker with an asp that’s best known for slowly suffocating its prey. Hopefully, the price of this rare one-off won’t stifle your enthusiasm.
Read MoreIt’s hard to talk about today’s Nice Price or No Dice Plymouth without pronouncing its name “LAZ-ERR” while employing air quotes like Austin Powers’ Doctor Evil. Let’s see if this time capsule coupe comes with a price tag that’s just as satisfying.
Read MoreYou don’t get much more ’80s ostentatious than today’s Nice Price or No Dice 911. Let’s see if this Gemballa-bodied Targa comes with a price tag that might be considered contrastingly less outrageous.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice MR2 is claimed to be an Antique Automobile Club National Award winner. Let’s see if this impeccably clean coupe comes with an equally winning price.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Disco says they “just pulled it out of my warehouse to sell it.” That almost makes sit a barn find, but we’ll have to see if it will cost the farm to buy.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice Lexus has a cassette player in its dash and is notable for being one of the last models sold in the States with that old-school technology. Let’s see if that helps make its price music to our ears.
Read MoreThe seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice E500 claims it to be the “last non-AMG V8 wagon offered by Mercedes” but has still festooned it with AMG badges and wheels. Let’s see if the price has escaped that “AMGification.”
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice Duster is about as Mad-Maxican a car as you could want. Let’s see if we can find any beauty in the price tag for this post-apocalyptic Powerstroke-powered beast.
Read MoreConsider all the things that could potentially go wrong on today’s Nice Price or No Dice Z3, and then read the ad and realize most of those issues have already been addressed. Let’s see if this purportedly well-maintained roadster is equally well-priced.
Read MoreToday’s Nice Price or No Dice Paseo convertible was a one-and-done model only available for the ’97 model year. Let’s see if exclusivity and an excellent presentation can account for its asking price.
Read MoreWhile today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo has over 230K on the clock, the rebuilt five-pot under its hood has only done 1K of that. Let’s see what this uber-cool wagon might just bring in cold, hard cash.
Read MoreAccording to the seller, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Del Sol is in “showroom condition.” Of course, that would have be a showroom not in the U.S., as this version of the targa-top two-seater was never sold here. Let’s see what such exclusivity might be worth.
Read MoreThe builder of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo has traded its 2-litre engine for a DOHC Marine 2.5. That’s just one major change the car has seen. Let’s see how much pocket change it should reasonably require to buy.
Read MoreThe 1980s were good to the producing partnership of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. While Simpson was known as something of a shit heel in Hollywood, he got results, and with Bruckheimer helping him out, those results were worth billions. Beginning in 1983, when their first film together Flashdance, garnered $201.5 million from a $7 million budget, they were untouchable. After that the duo went on a run, producing banger after banger with Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, and Beverly Hills Cop II c
Read MoreI love a clean, low-mileage car just as much as any of us, but I don’t like seeing these same cars with insane price tags on them. This is one of those instances. Found through my random scrolling of Facebook car groups, Vern Eide Honda in Sioux Falls, South Dakota has this 1995 Honda Accord sedan for sale. It is immaculate. The problem is that it costs more than the original.
Read MoreBuilding an airplane is no easy feat, but one man spent 10 years and 10,000 hours painstakingly crafting a 1:60 scale model of Boeing’s 777-300ER using nothing but manila folders and glue in what may be the longest wait time ever for a Boeing machine. The paper airplane game has just met its match.
Read MoreA flight carrying British cruise-goers from Barbados to Manchester was forced to divert to Bermuda after an incident of extreme turbulence two days before Christmas. There were 225 passengers onboard the Airbus A330-200 operated by Maleth Aero, a Maltese charter airline. When the aircraft landed, 11 people were transported to a local hospital to treat minor injuries, according to the BBC. Everyone ended up spending the holiday stranded in Bermuda, as it took days to arrange a replacement flight.
Read MoreOver 300 travelers from India were stuck in the small Vatry Airport in the Champagne region of France when their charter flight was held over claims of human trafficking, the AP reports. The flight was heading to Nicaragua and contained young children, families, and 11 unaccompanied minors, according to Insider.
Read MoreTaylor Swift was the biggest celebrity polluter in the world in 2022, and that pace is being kept up this year because of her new romance with Kanas City Cheifs tight end Travis Kelce. She has apparently tallied up over 12 journeys (and counting) in the past three months alone, according to the Daily Mail.
Read MoreOne Chinese man has been charged with three counts of theft after Singapore officials uncovered that he stole $23,000 in cash from the luggage of three passengers on their Scoot flight to Singapore, Channel News Asia reports. Hong Kong officials have previously warned of a spike in thefts on flights in the region, and this is yet another example.
Read MoreA couple of folks learned the hard way what a simultaneous ice bath and massive insurance claim feel like after their plane landed on a seemingly frozen lake and broke through the ice.
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines has been hit with a record-setting $140 million fine for pretty much shitting its pants during the 2022 holiday travel season. The civil penalty leveraged against Southwest is 30 times larger than any Department of Transportation airline fine in history, according to a statement from the DOT.
Read MoreA Concorde turbojet engine that spent years listed on eBay finally sold over the weekend to one lucky buyer, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be making supersonic booms of their own anytime soon.
Read MoreA massive storm wreaked havoc on passenger air services in Buenos Aires, Argentina yesterday. Wind gusts over 60 miles per hour threw planes around the tarmac and rattled terminals apart. Footage has even emerged on social media of an Aerolíneas Argentinas Boeing 737-800 being pushed into a set of boarding stairs by the wind. Argentina’s flag carrier reported that the storm took 16 planes out of service, according to Aviacionline.
Read MorePolice arrested 14 workers at the Tenerife Airport out of the Canary Islands in Spain on Friday for allegedly stealing millions in fancy jewelry, smartphones and plain, cold-hard cash from passengers’ checked luggage. Yet another 20 workers face a police investigation into their actions.
Read MoreA single-engine plane stunned drivers in North Carolina last night when it was forced to land on an interstate highway. The aircraft’s pilot made a distress call to Asheville Regional Airport regarding an engine failure before their Diamond DA-40 crashed onto I-26 and burst into flames. NBC News reported that reported that two occupants were aboard the aircraft. The pilot and passenger were transported to the hospital without any life-threatening injuries.
Read MoreDelta Air Lines Flight 135 was scheduled to fly from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Detroit, Michigan last weekend, but mechanical issues stranded passengers at a remote Canadian Forces Barracks for over 21 hours while the airline attempted to send relief planes and crews to evacuate the passengers before a record-setting blizzard would have kept them there even longer.
Read MoreI don’t know how many times we’re going to have to tell you folks this, but please do not try to bring anti-aircraft ammunition through airport security. Apparently, a traveler in Hawaii didn’t get the message, because he tried to do just that, and he got in a lot of trouble.
Read MoreFederal law enforcement has accused a Russian-Israeli dual national of stowing away on a November flight to Los Angeles from Copenhagen, Denmark. However, the mid-40s man wasn’t hiding in some secluded portion of the aircraft. He found a way to board the Scandinavian Airlines flight and take a seat without a ticket or passport. He claimed to the FBI that he didn’t know how he did it.
Read MoreKinectAir is the latest venture to tout itself as the Uber of private aviation. In the public imagination, rideshare startups have dramatically transformed the taxi industry by providing a cheap and convenient service through smartphone apps. However, chartered flights can either be convenient or relatively cheap, but not both.
Read MoreTwo Breeze Airways passengers were arrested on Tuesday after an argument aboard a flight caused a bomb scare that led to a flight diversion. After one of the passengers said the the word “bomb” during a heated exchange, the pilots chose to land the plane. The bickering travelers were handcuffed and escorted off the aircraft by police upon emergency arrival to a Jacksonville airport rather than the flight’s original destination of Providence, Rhode Island, as Business Insider reports.
Read MoreThe American military announced that it has grounded its entire fleet of V-22 Ospreys after a fatal crash off the coast of Japan. A preliminary investigation showed an equipment failure likely caused the crash that killed eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members, the Associated Press reports. At least 475 tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft are in service across the United States Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy.
Read MoreAn Aviastar Tupolev Tu-204-100C had an engine burst into flames as it took off from an airport in Eastern Russia today. The cargo plane was departing for China, a journey that has become common over the last few years as Russian air freight traffic has increased in an attempt to resist Western sanctions. The sanctions have also led to a marked rise in aviation incidents involving Russian aircraft.
Read MoreIf there’s one place you really, really don’t want to experience any engine problems, it’s when you’re more than 30,000 feet in the air and strapped inside a glorified cigar tube. So it was a big deal when it came out that a London-based company was accused of selling counterfeit engine parts to airlines. Now, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office’s investigation into AOG Technics has led to an arrest, Business Insider reports.
Read MoreWhile most people have to deal with lengthy waits through security checkpoints or being crammed in economy-class seats, the wealthy can either charter a flight on a private jet or they might own an aircraft outright. Private jets have been around for almost as long as jet-powered passenger aircraft have been in the skies. These smaller planes also tend to be faster on the airliners operated by commercial carriers. Here are the fastest private jets ever built:
Read MoreAn off-duty airline pilot accused of trying to shut off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737’s engines mid-flight has been indicted on 84 charges. However, none of them are attempted murder, according to The New York Post. It looks like the grand jury just couldn’t commit.
Read MoreThe family of a teenager in North Carolina is suing American Airlines because they say a flight attendant taped an iPhone to an airplane toilet to record her using the bathroom on a September flight. Lawyers for the 14-year-old girl and her parents say the airline “knew or should have known the flight attendant was a danger,” according to the Associated Press.
Read MoreYouTuber and former Olympic snowboarder Trevor Jacob was sentenced to six months in prison for obstructing the investigation of the plane crash he intentionally caused. Jacob pleaded guilty to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation last June in Los Angeles, the New York Times reported. The stunt was planned and filmed to produce a viral video for profit and notoriety.
Read MoreThe Airbus A330-800neo is the European aircraft manufacturer’s worst-selling plane. Only a single order was placed for the mid-size long-haul jet this year. Airbus somehow managed to do this despite having an effective market duopoly with Boeing during a historic shortage of airliners.
Read MoreAs it turns out, planes are really dirty. Every single day, millions of people are ferried around the world on what are pretty much flying buses, and in order to keep up with ever-tightening schedules, turnaround times to clean planes between flights are shrinking. Because of that, cleaning crews, who are doing their best, may not get every single nook and cranny on an airliner.
Read MoreIn aviation, there’s a theory called Big Sky — the idea that there’s just so much sky out there, it’s unlikely for two planes to ever hit each other. Before radar and GPS, it was an accepted way for pilots to avoid midair collisions. As it turns out, it’s a little less accepted when you’re running air traffic control.
Read MoreA small Piper Cherokee airplane crash-landed on a busy highway and then ran into a Kia Soul in Minnesota, injuring both the pilot and the driver, according to CBS News. Police say the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. on November 28 in the southbound lanes of Highway 81, about six miles northwest of Minneapolis.
Read MoreIs it rude to honk your horn? Yes. Is it rude to not use your turn signal lights when changing lanes. Also, yes. Is it rude to be on the phone at a stop light looking at memes? Well, it depends on what color the light is. Just kidding. It’s always rude. And yet many of us do these things anyway. Which of these are you guilty of? What’s the rudest thing you do when you’re driving?
Read MoreEach year, I’ve taken to asking you fine readers of Jalopnik to peer into your crystal ball and tell me just what you think is going to happen in the automotive world for the upcoming year. From the painfully true (nope, car prices still aren’t normal) to the hilariously incorrect (Charles Leclerc as Formula 1 World Champion), these are how your predictions fared.
Read MoreThe world of the automobile is packed with interesting and compelling stories. So many larger-than-life impresarios, back-woods innovators, and cop-dodging scofflaws of yesterday would make incredible Hollywood heroes (or anti-heroes) and villains today. I know I’d love to see a film about the American south developing a love for speed hauling moonshine during the prohibition era. Or maybe a dramatic retelling of the tragic events of Le Mans 1955. Or the tale of Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan.
Read MoreMerry Christmas my fellow Jalops! I hope you’re all doing exactly what you want to do today, whether it’s being with family or sitting along with yourself, I hope you’re happy today! If I could just have a moment of your time, I’d love to discuss the question we posed to you fine folks a couple of days ago.
Read MoreBaby, it’s almost Christmas, and whether you celebrate or not, there’s one thing all car enthusiasts have probably thought about before: what car does Santa drive? No, I’m not talking about his sleigh. That’s just impractical for most of the year. We want to know how he gets around the North Pole and what he drives around the world when he’s not doing Santa business.
Read MoreMan, those teenage years; bad skin, bad mental health, and bad decision making skills. Yet somehow, it’s supposed to be the best time of your life. I asked you for your youthful automotive indiscretions, and you delivered. Some of you treated the comments section like a confessional and dished out truly crazy stories.
Read MoreI asked earlier this week which car companies readers wished still built cars. Responses spanned from the 1930s through the 1990s and 2000s, all the way to corporations that are currently producing vehicles. However, the general theme from most commenters was that they’re tired of the SUVs and crossovers being pumped out by automakers at the moment. Without further ado, here are the car companies you wished still built cars:
Read MoreWhen you’re a teen, your brain doesn’t always work as well as say, a fully grown adult. You’re more prone to taking risks and reacting emotionally, and yet, we give these half-formed humans the keys to multi-ton vehicles and say, have fun!
Read MoreThere was lots of love for forced-induction rides last week, especially from those who live at altitude, but for the sea level dwellers, naturally aspirated engines still hold a special place in our hearts. From Ferraris to Fords and one wild card submission that almost makes sense, these are the cars that you wish were naturally aspirated
Read MoreSome car buyers are simply looking for a way to stay in their comfort zone when going from dealership to dealership, and a few manufacturers are still coasting on reputations that they no longer deserve to drive sales. However, the models and manufacturers we might feel most at home with could no longer exist despite the quality vehicles they produced in the past.
Read MoreWe’ve denounced the lack of buttons and knobs in modern cars before, but we wanted to give readers a chance to air their grievances, too. We asked readers what car settings have no earthly business being buried behind a touchscreen.
Read MoreUntil relatively recently, turbochargers were a pretty niche technology. Automakers such as Audi, Porsche, Saab, Subaru and Volvo still used them in some of their vehicles, but they weren’t remotely as common as they are today. Take the Porsche 911, for example. As recently as a couple of years ago, you had to spring for the incredibly expensive 911 Turbo to get a turbocharged engine. Today, though, even the base 911 Carrera is turbocharged, and you have to cough up enough money for a 911 GT3 to
Read MoreSome people love getting presents more than others, but even people who aren’t big on presents still appreciate getting a nice, thoughtful gift, especially if it’s something they probably wouldn’t buy for themselves. Did I need a fancy German chef’s knife? Nope. I would have been happy with a $30 one from Amazon. Do I absolutely love that thing? You bet your ass I do.
Read MoreWith all the latest evidence that roads in the U.S. are getting more dangerous, it’s a mystery why touchscreens continue to flood our cabins. What good are laws stating we can’t use our phones in our cars when there’s an even bigger screen floating on the dashboard? I don’t get it. In light of that, what settings or features do you think should never be placed behind a touchscreen?
Read MoreWe asked readers to share stories of their worst traffic encounters with police. They obliged with detailed and thorough sagas of run-ins with highway patrol and city police departments, with the running theme being just how vindictive law enforcement officers can be. But these traffic stops didn’t seem to go too far past verbal hostility and aggression towards readers, luckily.
Read MoreMost of us have been there; you’re cruising along somewhere between Point A and Point B, maintaining a perfectly reasonable speed regardless of what little things like “speed limit signs” say, when your rear view mirror lights up red and blue. Shit. They got you.
Read MoreSometimes car enthusiasts and the vehicles they really want are just star-crossed lovers. For whatever reason, you two just can’t be together. It’s sad, but it’s just a fact of life when you’re a car lover. We can’t (or shouldn’t) always get what we want, and that thought is what led me to our question from last week.
Read MoreThere are so many great cars not sold here in the U.S. market. For one reason or another, automakers don’t think that Americans will buy small cars, or cars with manual transmissions, or sports cars, or coupes, or wagons. Damn, all the wagons! Some of those reasons are regulatory, but some are just based on vibes.
Read MoreAs car enthusiasts, we have many automotive loves and only so much room in our garages (in my case, room on the street). That means we have to be a bit choosy about what we drive. Some stuff – even though we may love it – is just too flawed to justify owning. That’s what brings us to today’s question.
Read MoreChores are a pain but putting them off just means even worse suffering down the road. Y’all have seen your fair share of devastatingly dirty cars. From the leavings of children (always the children!) to the crusty film left by folks in that #VapeLife.
Read MoreIt has always been true that Europe builds some of its coolest cars for the home market and refuses to import them to the U.S. So many great cars over the years have been excluded from our shores, and while the number seems to be a bit lower these days, there are still a few notable exceptions. Alpine A110, and particularly the 73 San Remo commemorative special edition, is my nomination for the best car we don’t get here in the U.S.
Read MoreWe asked earlier this week what are the worst things about driving in the winter. Unsurprisingly, no reader commented that it was their poor driving skills. There was a wide variety of replies ranging from unprepared drivers and unaware pedestrians to the headaches of just dealing with the ice and snow. Without further ado, here are the worst things about driving in the winter:
Read MoreCars; some of us treat our autos like second homes and that’s not always a good thing. Playing a game of “hey, what’s that smell?” is at least a little easier inside a car. There’s only so many places grossness could hiding, but what lurks under car seats and inside of the center console could shake Marie Kondo to her very soul.
Read MoreFrom EVs to pickups and sedans, there are more than a few new models expected to hit the street in the coming year or two. Of course we’re definitely excited to get a look at what’s coming, but what the what public is excited for matters more.
Read MoreThe days are getting shorter and the temperatures are dropping. Winter arriving means there will inevitably be a couple of massive snowstorms across North America over the next few months. Unless you’ve never left Florida or Southern California, you’ll deal with white stuff falling from the sky at some point and end up driving in less-than-ideal conditions behind the wheel of a vehicle that might not be up to the task.
Read MoreWhen we asked which cars you’re waiting to turn 25, a few commenters expressed their disinterest in the ever-popular and impressive imported Nissan GTRs that reach eye-watering prices in the U.S. market, and focused more on Euro cars and Mexican-market cars which was refreshing.
Read MoreAs we wind down 2023 and head into the fourth year of a decade that has had a rough start, its good to know we have some pretty good cars coming in the next year or two that we can look forward to.
Read MoreSome cars inspire our love and affection. Others deserve nothing but ire and derision – the kind of hate that let’s us go on at length, as our readers did when we asked about the first cars they ever truly hated.
Read MoreIt turns out that being a three-time Formula 1 world champion doesn’t get you a leg up at the rental car counter, as Max Verstappen recently learned when on vacation in Portugal. As reported by The Sun, Verstappen’s family and friends arrived in Algarve on three different private jets, having booked 20 rental cars through Sixt with the intent to drive to the Algarve International Circuit (also known as Portimão), which Verstappen had rented out for two days.
Read MoreGroup B rally cars are considered some of the most incredible racing machines of all time, and the Rallye Monte-Carlo is one of the most challenging events in motorsport history. Why not carve out 40 minutes of your day to check out this incredible video of the 1986 running of the Monte Carlo Rally?
Read MoreMotorsport’s popularity is on the rise here in the United States, and we’ve been absolutely blessed with a year chock full of great headlines. From the wild saga of Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix to Marc Marquez’s shock departure from Honda in the MotoGP realm, these are the biggest headlines to rock the racing world in 2023.
Read MoreExtreme E, the all-electric off-road racing series, is set to transition to hydrogen power in 2024 — but before it does, it’ll bid adieu to its electric powertrains with its first-ever race in America. Unfortunately, the Phoenix, AZ season finale will conflict with Formula 1's sophomore Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Read MoreEach year, my family rings in the holiday season with a massive sugar cookie baking and decorating party. We cut cookies out of a rolled-out slab of dough, bake them, frost them, and then go absolutely hog wild covering them in sprinkles until they’re bordering on the edge of inedible. This year, I had an idea: What if I do that exact same general thing, except I make some race car Christmas tree ornaments instead? And what if, perhaps, I taught you all how to do it? ‘Tis the season for crafting
Read MoreAfter qualifying for IMSA’s 2023 Petit Le Mans finale, I sat down to speak with Sheena Monk of Gradient Racing — one of the few race teams in the sport with a primary all-woman lineup — about how the impact her gender and presentation have had on her career. With a set jaw and fire in her eyes, she told me, “Oh, this is such a relevant moment to have this conversation. I have a lot on my mind.”
Read MoreIt goes without saying that the world of motorsport can still be hostile to diverse groups that don’t quite look like the traditional fan. Thankfully, we also live in a world of ample resources, where any fan can create their own community designed to connect the throes of people who might previously have felt isolated by their identity. In the racing podcast world, best friends Alex and Zack are curating that LGBTQ+ community by starting The Gay Racing Podcast.
Read MoreFormer Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica equated racing in electric open-wheel series Formula E to having sex with an inflatable doll, e-Formula.news reports.. The 39-year-old Polish competitor has competed in three different FIA world championships but has no interest in contesting the all-electric single-seater category. Kubica is set to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship with AF Corse in a Ferrari 499P Hypercar next year.
Read MoreFairytale weekends are rare in motorsport, but during the 2022 Petit Le Mans IMSA weekend at Road Atlanta, Gradient Racing had just that kind of weekend. An unidentified electrical fault prevented the GTD team from qualifying, which meant that the team started from the very back of the grid. Before the race, the team tore apart the entire car, found the issue, and repaired it before the green flag. Thankfully, the 10-hour duration of the event was long enough that Gradient Racing picked up one p
Read MoreFormula 1 is in the closing stages of its next big calendar move, relocating the Spanish Grand Prix in 2026 from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to a new street circuit in Madrid, the country’s capital. However, the championship’s commercial rights holder has yet to inform the Royal Automobile Club of Spain (RACE), the national body that officiates the race alongside the FIA.
Read MoreHyundai’s 1980s-inspired angular monster electric hot hatch, the 641-horsepower Ioniq 5 N, is getting its own one-make racing series. The new eN1 Cup racer is effectively Hyundai’s version of Porsche GT3 Cup, allowing privateer racers to hit the track in identical equipment to sort out the best drivers from the als0-rans. The series aims to be on track in just a handful of months, kicking off in Korea before hopefully spreading to other markets.
Read More(We are saying goodbye to 2023 by re-visiting our favorite posts from the last year. To see why we loved these stories, check out what we said about them here.)
Read MoreCompeting in just one or two series isn’t enough for race teams anymore. No: organizations like Andretti Global and McLaren Racing are looking for success in as many series as possible — but it’s not quite world domination that these teams have in mind. They’re pursuing a broader market for their brand.
Read MoreIf a race happens in the Atacama desert and no fans are around to witness it, has that race actually happened? Extreme E, an all-electric off-road SUV racing series founded by Alejandro Agag of Formula E, has challenged the concept of fan engagement since its first season in 2021 — but three years on, it was time to check back in with the series. Has the fan-free push really been working?
Read MoreOpen Lia Block’s Instagram on any given day, and there’s a good chance you’ll find her at a distinct race course somewhere on the planet. Block, who is the 17-year-old daughter of the late Ken Block, spent her 2023 on an absolute tear, becoming the youngest person to win the American Rally Association championship while also contesting events in Extreme E and Nitrocross. Next on her list, though, is a brand-new challenge: F1 Academy.
Read MoreIf you’re of a certain age, there’s a good chance you have at least one fond memory of attending a Monster Jam event, or itching to go. The series absolutely thrives when it comes to fan engagement, whether those fans be adults or children, men or women — and this year, I attended Monster Jam World Finals XXII in Nashville where I made a point of finding out just what brought so many fans to the Nissan Stadium to brave a rain-soaked event.
Read MoreOf the 24 drivers who qualified for the 2023 Monster Jam World Finals in Nashville, Tennessee, four women hit the dirt to compete for season-ending accolades: Krysten Anderson, Kayla Blood, Cynthia Gauthier, and Linsey Read. And before track action took place, I had the opportunity to sit down with the first three of those racers to really get a sense of what makes Monster Jam so welcoming to women — and the solidarity that comes from competing alongside other members of your gender.
Read MoreDecember is here, which means the holiday season is right around the corner — or, in other words, it’s time to start panicking about all the gifts you haven’t bought. It can be especially difficult to shop for a motorsport fan; so many of the gift guides and listicles suggest the same ol’ boring shit, and we know you actually want to knock someone’s socks off this year.
Read MoreA midsize crossover with a 500+ horsepower turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive sounds like the stuff performance cars are made of. You’d be right about that with the Maserati Grecale Trofeo. It’s a damn good performer. When that performance comes attached with a six-figure price tag though, you start to question certain things.
Read MoreThe International Space Station is due for decommission in the 2030s. NASA is currently evaluating how to go about retiring the station: options include letting it burn up in the atmosphere or pushing it into a graveyard orbit. There’s another option that doesn’t involve disposing of the ISS at all, which would extend the life of the station by leveraging its considerable size and mass for future space missions. The ISS could be the ideal anchor for a skyhook that would act like a slingshot to p
Read MoreIf there are any aliens out there, we’ve just introduced them to one of humanity’s finest inventions: the cat video. As part of its deep-space laser experiment, NASA just streamed a 15-second clip of a cat named Taters to earth. Its origin was a spacecraft called Psyche about 19 million miles away. Not too bad, right?
Read MoreNASA spent three months looking into drug use at SpaceX, but the federal space agency is keeping quiet on what it found.
Read MoreFor the last eight months, unbeknownst to most of the world, a massive scandal in the space community has been brewing. A tomato, grown as part of NASA’s VEG-05 challenge to cultivate food in a zero-gravity environment, went missing. The resulting witch hunt accused astronaut Frank Rubio of having eaten the tomato under his care. Despite steadfast denial that he’d consumed the multi-million dollar experimental tomato, his fellow crew members aboard the International Space Station remained confid
Read MoreFor at least the last decade, Elon Musk has been obsessed with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Almost as obsessed as he is with escaping the shackles of Earth to live on Mars. According to reports from the time, Musk was afraid that artificial general intelligence was going to advance to a point that it would take over humanity as the dominant species on this planet, and that was one of the primary reasons he saw as a reason for leaving to expand human culture on Mars. There’s
Read MoreThe astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station were treated to a light show in space on Wednesday after the Russian Progress ship MS-23 burned away upon reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. The cargo ship had undocked from the ISS just four hours prior to its return trip, as Space reports.
Read MoreIf you read our BRZ tS review, you know I was just in Sicily driving some Subarus. As you’ve no doubt gathered by now, the other car was the Subaru WRX TR. With the demise of the U.S. market STI at the hands of America’s goofy emissions regime the WRX TR assumes the mantle of Subaru’s most performance oriented car. It’s also the last AWD sedan you can get with a manual transmission in the US. Theoretically, it’s pitted against some excellent AWD hatches—a very good Golf R and the instant classic
Read MoreThe Targa Florio is easy enough to read about, you’ve probably come across plenty of photos of Porsches and Ferraris there. When you see a blue Porsche 908/3 with a big orange arrow running down the drivers side, you probably think “Targa Florio.” I certainly have for as long as I can remember. But having just come back from running the actual course in its largest configuration in the new Subaru BRZ tS and WRX tR, I have to admit I had no clue what the race was really about.
Read MoreOne key to making EV adoption to work is fast charging. People that are used to filling up their gas tanks in mere minutes won’t be so easily swayed by the idea of having to sit at a charging station for nearly an hour. While there are certainly EVs on the market that can get people back on the road in less than 20 minutes, some EVs need a bit more time. And when I say “a bit more,” I mean over 20 minutes just to get to 100 miles of range.
Read MoreAutonomous cars have been hitting public roads in a handful of cities around the United States, but the driverless phenomenon has raised one particularly perplexing question: How do we keep those driverless cars in check when they break traffic laws? NBC really delved into the matter this week.
Read MoreDespite the many advances in modern automotive technology, the forward collision mitigation systems on cars, SUVs and pickup trucks still struggle to detect vehicles that aren’t also cars, the IIHS reports based on new data. Automatic emergency braking and front collision warning systems have a hard time identifying semi trucks and motorcycles, which results in more crashes with those kinds of vehicles.
Read MoreCostco knows that you keep coming back for the rotisserie chicken and Kirkland brand, but you can now also buy a cheaper 2024 Chevy Blazer EV at your local warehouse. Chevy notified its dealers that Costco members are eligible for a $1,000 rebate on the Blazer EV through January 2, according to Cars Direct.
Read MoreFord CEO Jim Farley says the automaker is committed to keeping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its cars, which is in direct opposition to General Motors’ recent decision to drop the popular features. GM is reeling from its announcement to eliminate the option for Apple and Android integration, and the carmaker is now claiming these features lead to cell phone use in the car.
Read MoreGM is still dealing with the fallout of its decision to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of developing its own in-house system. In the last eight months, the company has had to deal with skeptical dealers while still maintaining its in-house system will be “compelling.” Since neither of those options have really changed public opinion so far, GM is now claiming that Apple CarPlay and Android Auto actually cause safety issues.
Read MoreYou may be cool, but you’ll never be as cool as this certified badass driving an early Z31-generation Nissan 300ZX, blasting down the highway with an original Nintendo Game Boy on the dash reading out your speed in giant blocky green digital numerals. This is the height of Radwood-era cool, and you know it. Nothing could ever top this level of cool.
Read MoreDespite billions in investments for the development of EV infrastructure in the U.S., not a single charging station had gone live thanks to President Joe Biden’s 2021 law — until now. The first EV charger paid for by Biden’s Bipartisan deal has come online in Ohio, according to Reuters, which marks the operational start of what the feds claim will be a national network of EV charging stations.
Read MoreHyundai has previewed a new tire design that has snow chains built right in, which would improve traction in snowy conditions without the inconvenience of manually installing tire chains in the winter. The snow chains would deploy at the press of a button, like something out of Speed Racer, by making use of what Hyundai calls “shape memory alloy.”
Read MoreDanish pension fund PensionDanmark is dumping all of its Tesla stock and putting the U.S. EV maker on its exclusion list of the companies it chooses to invest in – or not. The fund is selling all of its Tesla shares due to Elon Musk’s refusal to enter into labor agreements with unions in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, according to Reuters.
Read MoreExperts have said that one of the ways to speed up EV adoption is for them to support bidirectional charging. The ability for owners to power their house off their car or from the grid is vital. Just nine EVs on the market currently support bidirectional charging, but now VW has announced that its electric ID models will support the technology.
Read MoreTruck fans are already cooling on EV pickups despite more options on the market and news of upcoming models from the likes of Chevy and Ram. The Silverado EV and Ram 1500 REV have yet to be released, while the Tesla Cybertruck has recently joined the Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning for sale in the U.S. And, yet, all of these current and upcoming EV trucks are trailing the electric Toyota Tacoma in popularity, according to a survey from Autolist.
Read MoreSince the early release of the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer this week, the internet has been embroiled in discussions about the series to date. This, of course, includes the World’s Most Online Man: Elon Musk, who took to what’s left of Twitter Monday night to declare that he “tried” Grand Theft Auto V, but couldn’t get into “doing crime.”
Read MoreMy name is Steve. My world is sparks and blood. Once, I was a blogger — a keyboard warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us was in our own way broken. But at least I got this Cybertruck before it all fell apart, which has been super helpful in all my wasteland raiding.
Read MoreHappy Wednesday! It’s December 27, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreHappy Wednesday! It’s December 27, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreHappy Tuesday! It’s December 26, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Thursday, December 21, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreHappy Wednesday! It’s December 20, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Tuesday, December 19, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Monday, December 18, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Friday, December 15, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Thursday, December 14, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Wednesday, December 13, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Tuesday, December 12, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Monday, December 11, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Friday, December 8, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreHappy Thursday! It’s December 7, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Wednesday, December 6, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreHappy Tuesday! It’s December 5, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Monday, December 4, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreGood morning! It’s Friday, December 1, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Read MoreThe small town of East Palestine, Ohio, ended up in the headlines for weeks this February after a Norfolk Southern train hauling dangerous chemicals jumped its tracks and created an environmental nightmare for residents and clean-up crews alike. After almost a year, things are not much better in East Palestine.
Read MoreHyperloop One is the company born to bring Elon Musk’s much hyped contention that it would be possible to engineer underground or above-ground virtually airless tubes to facilitate ultra-high speed mass transit to life. That dream now appears dead as the company has laid off most of its employees and is trying to sell its remaining assets.
Read MoreFolks planning to ride from Newark Penn Station into New York City got a surprise this morning when a loose bull showed up on the tracks. His presence caused 45-minute delays as police attempted to corral the large bovine without anyone getting hurt, NBC New York reports.
Read MoreTrains are just objectively awesome and, when run properly, provide a clean, affordable way to travel between cities without having to fly. But after decades of underinvestment, the U.S.’s rail infrastructure lags behind the rest of the developed world. Thankfully, the Biden administration is working to change that. Today, the White House announced a new $8.2 billion investment in high-speed rail, providing funding for 10 rail projects across the country.
Read MoreRemember that era where tons of companies tried to convince us that rentable electric scooters were the future of transportation? The two-wheeled menaces started popping up on city streets like a micromobility plague, becoming the favored mode of travel for drunk folks in cities. But that dream has died. Bird Global, one of the most recognizable names in the scooter game, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Wired is going to take you through the whole story.
Read MoreThere’s definitely a feeling of schadenfreude when we see social media posts of Tesla Cybertrucks trying to do truck things and just completely shitting the bed. In what likely was an attempted PR stunt on Monday, some genius took a pre-production Cybertruck “Release Candidate” into Southern California’s Stanislaus National Forest, down the Corral Hollow Trail, and took it well off the trail to gather a downed Christmas tree. Unfortunately for the Tesla employee involved, the truck couldn’t make
Read MoreNo car has ever driven at higher altitude than this 992-generation Porsche 911 Carrera 4S with portal axles. On Saturday the Porsche crew, led by racing driver Romain Dumas, reached the highest peak of the west ridge of the Ojos del Salado volcano in Chile, after doing an exploratory run up to 19,000 feet in 2022. That’s the tallest active volcano in the world, for anyone keeping track, stacking up at just over 22,000 feet above sea level. The new 911 C4S still has its stock 3-liter turbo flat-
Read MoreNissan gets dunked on for letting models like the Frontier languish for years. But, the truck saw a model update well before the release of the 2022 Frontier, which is mechanically much like an old Frontier with a new design. Outside of the U.S., the successor to the second-generation Frontier came in 2014 with the NP300 or Navara, which was deemed too small to succeed in the American market.
Read MoreChris and Julie Ramsey completed their 10-month road trip from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole, making them the first people on Earth to drive a car, EV or ICE, over 18,500-miles from the top of our planet to the bottom of it.
Read MoreInterest in off-roading and overlanding is growing among auto and outdoor enthusiasts alike. Naturally, automakers are going to cash in on this craze by offering some kind of off-road focused trim and Genesis seems to be testing the waters. The luxury automaker has partnered with off-road company Delta to make a GV70 overland concept.
Read MoreEither the world is not ready for self-driving cars, or self-driving cars are not ready for the world. After all the avoidable crashes and injuries in 2023 — some of which were fatal — I’m going to say that it’s the latter rather than the former. Autonomous vehicles are clearly not ready for use on public roads where other motorists and pedestrians present frequent and unique problems that AVs have shown they are unequipped to solve.
Read MoreHere at Jalopnik we published more than 6,000 stories in 2023, including everything from new car reveals and tech deep dives to racing interviews and recaps, and governmental issues and police force fuckups to comedic crashes and plane incidents.
Read MoreWe’re living through an exciting time for the automotive industry (and transportation as a whole). As more automakers start electrifying their lineups while facing stiff competition from new EV startups, we’re also getting some of the best and most exciting gas-powered passenger vehicles the world has ever seen, from trucks to purist sports cars. The same goes for motorcycles, boats, airplanes, bicycles, trains and all other modes of transportation, too.
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