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Audi (2)

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2025 Audi Q6 And SQ6 E-Tron Are Completely Nice, If Not Particularly Distinctive Electric SUVs
Growing up, I always saw Audi’s cars, design language and overall vibe as the most modern, daring, and chic of any automaker in the U.S., but over recent years the brand seems to have lost its way a bit. One of Audi’s biggest distinguishing features nowadays are its OLED lights that can be programmed to display a different light signatures, but overall the things that once set the brand apart just don’t anymore. Now Audi is facing its biggest series of new model launches ever, as it plans to rel
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2025 Audi A6 And S6 E-Tron Reimagine An Iconic Model For The Electric Age
Audi is in the midst of a massive model line transformation with all of its even-numbered cars becoming EVs and all of its odd-numbered cars staying gas-powered. This shift aims to make electric vehicles like the all-new Audi A6 and S6 E-Tron extremely important in its portfolio. While it might be called the A6, this mid-size liftback is more of a replacement for the A7, just with the addition of electric power.
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Beyond Cars (12)

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Brightline, The Deadliest Train In America, Hits Fire Truck, Injuring 15
A Brightline train hit a fire truck in Delray Beach, Florida on Saturday morning, sending 15 people to the hospital, including three firefighters and 12 passengers. Thankfully, while the crash was serious, most of the injuries sustained from it were minor, and no one has died, BocaNewsNow reports. Three people were, however, listed in critical condition following the collision.
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Being Forced To Drive Everywhere All The Time Makes You Miserable: Study
When you like cars, idea of a society built around cars sounds pretty great. There are some downsides to that plan, though, and we’re not just talking about the risk of someone crashing their car into your house. A new study found that while not having a car in the U.S. is bad for your overall life satisfaction, so is being forced to drive more than half the time you leave the house, the Guardian reports. Basically, having to drive all the time is making you less happy.
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Florida Is Finally Getting Its Radioactive Road
Well, they’ve gone and done it. A company in Florida got last-minute approval last week from Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency to build a practice road using radioactive materials. It seems like such an obviously bad idea, but a bad idea never stopped the government.
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A Disney World Monorail Under The Christmas Tree Made My Holiday Even More Special
Putting a train under the Christmas tree was a time-honored tradition in the Kalmowitz household. When I was growing up, every year my family and I would spend hours setting up the train (sometimes two or three of them) under the tree, and I’d endlessly make them go back and forth. However, there was something I always wanted to do that I was never able to actually make happen: putting a Disney World Monorail under the tree.
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'Extremely Concerning' Carry-On Filled With Knives And Fireworks Stuns TSA
A woman at the Los Angeles International Airport had her holiday travel plans delayed after the Transportation Security Administration found 88 illegal items in her carry-on, including explosives and knives last Sunday. According to the TSA, the woman was traveling with “82 consumer grade fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms and one canister of pepper spray.” It isn’t clear what the woman planned to do with the items, although a TSA press release did say the number of banned items “surp
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You'd Buy Me This $1.9 Million 18th-Century Royal Caleche For Christmas If You Really Loved Me
While everyone else gets excited about the Williams Sonoma catalog when Christmas approaches, this year, I’ve set my sights a bit higher. I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately, and I realized I’m better than a set of Pillivuyt Chantal Porcelain dinner plates. I’m better than the Williams Sonoma Champagne Saber and Base. In fact, I’m too good for Williams Sonoma altogether. What I really deserve is a present from the Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gifts Collection. Specifically, this authentic 18th-c
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WD-40 Was Invented To Stop Missiles From Rusting
I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a Jalopnik reader out there who doesn’t have a can of WD-40 kicking around their house or garage somewhere. While using this wonder liquid to loosen a seized bolt, stop a door from squeaking or cleaning tree sap from your hood, have you ever stopped to wonder where it actually came from? I did, and the answer is, as always, the military.
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2,000 Drones Fall From The Sky After Failing During Light Show
Drone shows are meant to be the future of celebration as they’re a cleaner alternative to fireworks that don’t terrorize every animal within a five-mile radius. That’s not quite true when these shows go wrong and thousands of drones start falling from the sky, however, as was the case in China earlier this month.
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For The Love Of God, Don't Try To Shoot Down Drones, Even If You Think They're Alien Invaders
Folks in and around New Jersey lost their minds recently, and not just because they heard rumors that people might be allowed to pump their own gas. No, it’s because they keep seeing things in the sky that may or may not be drones, and it caused them to absolutely freak the fuck out. Is it aliens? China? Aliens working with China? The official line is that a change in the law now allows people to fly drones at night, and that’s responsible for most of the sightings. I can’t say for sure, but wha
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Rolling Robots Armed With Net-Flinging Guns Are The Latest Nightmare Fuel
If you thought the threat of police robots died with the demise of New York’s subway bot, you’d be wrong. A new rolling robot has been sent into the field in China. The spherical crime fighting device is a lot more sinister than New York’s failed attempt at robot policing and comes armed with net-throwing guns, tear gas and can pursue suspects at up to 22 miles per hour.
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Boston Tunnel Floods In 'Rare Occurrence' That Left Drivers Struggling Through 3 Feet Of Water
Massachusetts residents driving through Boston were met with a watery surprise when a storm caused the Ted Williams Tunnel to flood with as much as three feet of water last week. The tunnel, which was built during Boston’s infamous Big Dig, allows Interstate 90 to run under the city, reportedly flooded after a catch basin clogged, causing water to accumulate across about 400 feet of road, WCVB reports.
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Massive Solar Storms Are Making Tractors Act Like They're 'Demon Possessed'
Massive solar storms this year have meant that people across America have been able to see the Aurora Borealis like never before. The massive jets of charged particles that have been emitted by the Sun in these storms haven’t just made for a nice photo opportunity, however. They’ve also been wreaking havoc with high-tech tractors across America.
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Boatlopnik (3)

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Pirates Hijack Chinese Fishing Boat Off Somali Coast
Pirates are doing their very best to adapt to the modern world, swapping out their cannons and blunderbusses for more updated weaponry, yet piracy has been on the decline since the early 20teens. Security is just too tight, it seems, so a group of hijackers off the coast of Somalia tried a new tactic: Just get the security team on your side.
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Horsepower Is Dead, Australians Have Fish-Powered Boats Now
The world is looking for cleaner ways to get around, with everything from solar power to hydrogen power currently being tested by various startups around the world. Now, a budding Australian has come up with a new clean way of getting around on water, and it swaps horsepower for fish power.
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Passengers On Hunger Strike After Luxury Cruise Misses Antarctica Due To Engine Failure
Disgruntled passengers onboard a luxury Antarctic cruise went on hunger strike last week after the ship was forced to turn back from sailing to the South Pole. After 14 days at sea, the SH Diana was forced to sail to Argentina early after one of the ship’s two motors malfunctioned.
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Buying (18)

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Start Your New Year Off The Wrong Way With A 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV Coupe
If there’s one problem people have headed into 2025, it’s that they’ve just got too much money. It’s piling up in various rooms and spilling out into the streets, but don’t worry, your pals here at Jalopnik have just the solution: A 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV coupe that’s currently listed for sale on Cars & Bids. Sure, you may be able to get it for a relatively affordable price now, but don’t worry. Once you start having problems with a car that was never sold in the U.S., all that extra money will be
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The Best Cars For Short Drivers, According To Consumer Reports
In a way, it makes sense that tall drivers get a lot of attention. The Mazda MX-5 Miata may be great, but it’s hard to enjoy if you’re too large to physically fit inside. At the same time, though, tall people aren’t the only ones who have problems fitting into cars. Sometimes, it feels like automakers just completely forget that short drivers exist, too. Not everyone can be 5 foot, 6 inches, buddy.
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The Best Used Cars And SUVs You Can Buy For $10,000 Or Less, According To Consumer Reports
The average new car transaction price these days is nearly $50,000, which isn’t great when you consider the median income in this country is about the same. So if you need to replace your current car but can’t afford something new, you definitely aren’t alone. Decades of wage stagnation have put Americans in a tough spot and not just when it comes to being able to afford a new car.
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Used Kia EV6 GTs Are Basically Half Off And Still Make 576 HP
As the owner of a 68,000-mile 2015 Fiat 500e, I’ll be the first person to tell you that most people’s range anxiety is way overblown. I get around just fine in my little clown car even if I have to charge it pretty frequently. Still, I fully understand looking at the Kia EV6 GT’s specs and deciding to get something different. It costs $63,000 with destination, and while it does make 576 horsepower, it only has 218 miles of range. That will cover your daily driving needs, but for that kind of mon
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Convertible Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Jailbreak Dares You To Tempt Fate
While Ford and Chevrolet spent billions trying to make their respective pony cars finally go around corners good, Dodge knew that was a fool’s errand. Americans didn’t really want to go around corners. We wanted to go fast in a straight line. So Dodge spent all of its development money adding more power. Was it responsible? Nope. Was it good for the environment? Not at all. But it was a sales success. Unfortunately for those of us who enjoy a breeze in our hair, Dodge never spent any of its deve
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Buy This 2004 Saab 9-5 Wagon Runway Friction Test Rig And Watch Car And Aviation Nerds Flock To You
Saabs are weird, funky cars that are most frequently revered by nerds, be they car nerds or college professors, and this particular Saab might be the nerdiest car you can buy right now. It was modified by Scandanavian Airport and Road Systems (SARSYS-ASFT) and sent to Salt Lake City International Airport for duty testing runway friction levels to ensure safe levels of grip for landing planes, and it’s freakin’ badass. It’s currently being auctioned on Bring A Trailer, with just one day left, so
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Owning A 10-Year Old Supercar Gets Really Expensive
Did you know that McLaren recommends replacing the wheel bolts on your 650S every two years? A lithium 12V battery for the same car costs around $2,500, the headlights apparently fall out, the carbon fiber chips and cracks, and some of the paint colors are impossible to match correctly. It seems like there are a bunch of hidden costs to owning and operating a well-used and ultra-depreciated supercar. Is it worth it? Some people seem to think so.
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That $0 Fiat 500e Lease Deal Was Real
The Fiat 500e is one of the least expensive electric cars you can buy new, but it’s also a hard sell in a country terrified of density. Then again, the closer something is to being free, the easier it is to sell, so we were particularly interested when we saw a $0 lease offer on a new 500e in Colorado. We tried calling to get more information, but apparently, Larry H. Miller Fiat’s phones don’t work if you live out of state. As one reader told the Autopian, though, that nearly free 500e deal was
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The Best New Cars And SUVs For Tall Drivers, According To Consumer Reports
Regardless of how much money you spend, there aren’t many cars out there that are more fun than the Mazda MX-5 Miata. It’s an absolute hoot to drive and may actually be the perfect car. Unless you’re tall. If you’re more than six feet tall you probably won’t fit inside comfortably, which makes it hard to enjoy the Miata’s balance and handling.
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These Are The Most Reliable Cars And SUVs You Can Buy In 2025, According To Consumer Reports
Generally speaking, most people have the same three things as their top priorities when buying a new car: price, fuel economy and reliability. Price is pretty easy to check even if you know it may change depending on the dealer you go to, and so is fuel economy. Reliability, on the other hand, is a little more complicated.
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This $0/Month Fiat 500e Lease Offer Is Basically Free If You Don't Count Taxes [Update]
Sometimes we get lucky in this world when deals that seem too good to be true are actually just good deals. That – I’m fairly certain – is exactly what we’ve got going on at Larry H. Miller Chrysler Dodge Ram Fiat of Denver. As we come to the end of the year, this dealership is offering an almost unbelievable deal on a Fiat 500e lease. There are just two catches, from what I can tell: You’ve got to be a Colorado resident and you’ve got to be OK with driving one of the lesser electric vehicles on
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Don't Waste Money On A Supercar For The Track When You Can Go Faster In A Radical
Oftentimes supercar manufactures and supercar buyers alike will tout their superiority by way of lap times. Hell, Ford just did it themselves this week. Many of these are phenomenally fast street-legal machines, priced upward of a quarter-million dollars before options, like the Porsche 911 GT3 RS or the McLaren 750S. Hundreds of horsepower, lots of wild state-of-the-art electronic driver aids, trick aero and suspension, these cars have it all. They’re also low and stiff, giving up street comfor
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Hagerty Experts Say These Are The Collector Cars To Buy In 2025, I Have Some Thoughts
The annual Hagerty Bull Market List is out, and there are still several days before Christmas to run out and grab one of these incredible vehicles for someone you love. Or for yourself. After all, why shouldn’t you treat yourself to a Lamborghini Gallardo to end 2024? If the big vintage car insurance company says these cars are safe(ish) bets, then it’s not like you’re going to lose a bunch of money in the process, are you?
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These Are The Least Satisfying Cars And SUVs You Can Buy In 2025, According To Consumer Reports
Even the least expensive new cars cost a significant amount of money, so few things are more disappointing than quickly finding out you don’t actually like it. That’s not always the car’s fault, either. Sure, it sometimes turns out the electronics are haunted by ghosts, but people also buy cars that are too small for their needs, find out they can’t justify the bad fuel economy, and all sorts of other reasons. You’d like to think you’d figure all of those things out before you buy, but you also
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The Least Reliable Cars, Trucks And SUVs You Can Buy In 2025, According To Consumer Reports
New cars are so much safer than they used to be, and they’re generally more reliable, but that doesn’t mean that some cars aren’t more reliable than others. Figuring out which cars to avoid, however, can be difficult if you don’t want to spend hours reading various forums and trying to piece together reliability information on your own.
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Car Brands That Cost The Most To Maintain And Repair Over 10 Years According To Consumer Reports
It’s always exciting when you buy a new car, whether it’s truly new or just new to you. You’ve usually read reviews, comparison shopped, taken multiple test drives and finally made a deal on a vehicle that will hopefully better suit your needs. Maybe you needed something bigger or just wanted something more reliable, but regardless, you don’t see too many people buy new cars they think is worse than their old ones.
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Car Brands That Cost The Least To Maintain And Repair Over 10 Years According To Consumer Reports
One of the great things about buying a brand new car is that everything should work, and if it doesn’t, the warranty will cover those repairs. In fact, you might even be able to lend it to a friend or family member to drive without having to give them an entire rundown of the weird tricks they need to know in order to make it run right. Outside of the warranty period, however, you’re on your own. And the cost of keeping an out-of-warranty car on the road for 10 years can vary by thousands of dol
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You Can Buy The Last Great Jaguar Sports Car For Less Than A Miata
Jaguar is looking to turn a page and move in a radical new direction. While its rebranding gained polarizing reactions, the new EV concept is intriguing. The last time Jaguar had this much buzz was when it launched the F-type coupe and convertible and, if you are in the market for an old-school sports car, these vehicles are still some solid values.
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Advice (6)

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We Need To Replace Our Mazda5 With Something Newer But Just As Usable! What Car Should We Buy?
Wally has a 2010 Mazda5 that has done an excellent job of a family hauler with it’s balance of reasonable size and usability. But the old Mazda is reaching the end of it’s days and he wants to replace it with a similar type of car with more modern features. What car should he buy?
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I'm A Mobile DJ That Needs A Car For Family And Music Equipment! What Should I Buy?
Patrick is from New Hampshire and works as a mobile DJ. Unfortunately, his manual Outback was recently wrecked. Now he needs a family-friendly car with enough room for his gear and something hopefully fun to drive. What car should he buy?
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How End-Of-Year Car Deals Work And Why They Don't Apply To Every Model
Whether you celebrate Happy Honda Days or Toyotaton, December is generally a good time to buy a car. Automakers and dealers want to end the year with strong sales on the books, which usually means some extra savings for shoppers. However, not every model is going to qualify for these seasonal sales.
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I'm Looking For My First "Adult" Car! What Should I Buy?
Vipin is the family “car person” and has been tasked with helping his younger sister with her first real adult car. She is looking for something easy to park, luxury-ish, reasonably priced around $25,000 with good fuel economy and reliability. What car should she buy?
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The Hyundai Palisade And Kia Telluride Are Excellent Used Car Values Under $35,000
You probably remember when the Hyundai Palisade and Kia Telluride were some of the hottest family crossovers on the market. Demand far outpaced supply, and many customers paid well over MSRP for these three-row SUVs. With upgraded versions on the horizon, it’s a good time to remind you that you don’t need to spend a fortune to get the same style and substance.
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I Need '60s Style With Modern Usability! What Car Should I Buy?
Mackenzie lives in Texas and is looking to buy a fun drop-top with classic ’60s European style, but it needs to seat four comfortably and have some level of modern amenities. She is prioritizing style over speed. With a budget up to $40,000, what car should she buy?
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Culture (45)

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Dust-Caked Nissan 240SX Get Much Needed Deep Clean After Over 25 Years In Barn
Discovering a barn find is a car enthusiast’s dream. It’s an opportunity to be an automotive Indiana Jones, except the museum that car belongs in is your garage. A 1989 Nissan 240SX got a new lease on life earlier this month after getting parked in a barn in 1996 or 1998 and not touched since. The coupe’s lengthy cleaning process was as satisfying as watching it get recovered.
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We Should Have Listened To Jimmy Carter
President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. died on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. Carter will be remembered as a consummate humanitarian and Nobel Prize winning statesman who spent his retirement years building houses with Habitat for Humanity and all but eradicating a truly terrible parasite, the guinea worm, from the planet.
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Did We Know Mark Wahlberg Owns A Car Dealership In Ohio?
You know Mark Wahlberg for his acting roles in films such as “Daddy’s Home” and “Daddy’s Home 2.” You know him from his previous careers as a rapper and an underwear model and a violent racist, and you know him as the man behind the Wahlburger’s burger chain. But did you know Mark Wahlberg also owns a car dealership and that it’s located in Columbus, Ohio? Because he does, and it is. In fact, he appears to own several dealerships.
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Traffic Jams: Petey - 'Don't Tell The Boys
Yeah, I’ve got resolutions, but the New Year’s kind? Nah. That’s just a human construct of time, man. My resolutions are ongoing, like they came straight out of the United Nations. They’ll keep going forever.
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I Want To Drive The Jruck From Beyoncé's Christmas NFL Halftime Show
While the Christmas NFL game saw the Ravens absolutely obliterate the Texans on their home turf, the attention wasn’t really on the game, as it was drastically overshadowed by Beyoncé’s incredible live-on-Netflix halftime performance. The whole show was a non-stop visual blitz, but the real star of Queen Bey’s entourage was the denim-covered sixth-gen Ford F-series pickup covered in a patchwork quilt of denim. It’s perfect.
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Traffic Jams: Lady Gaga - 'Christmas Tree'
Happy first night of Hanukkah! And, I guess, merry Christmas. I thought this would be a fitting day for my Traffic Jams debut so I can bless you all with the greatest Christmas song ever written: “Christmas Tree” by Lady Gaga. Released in December 2008 as a digital download, a few months after Gaga’s debut album “The Fame,” the song samples classics like “Deck the Halls” and “The Little Drummer Boy” to create an extremely funny, catchy and raunchy ‘lil jingle.
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This Is The Jalopnik Staff Fleet As We Head Into 2025
Well, it’s the end of December, which means another year has passed without anyone forcing the Jalopnik staff to get real jobs. For that, we are eternally grateful. Allegedly, there are other jobs you can work that don’t require you to put pants on, but most of those don’t come with access to cool cars with gloveboxes stuffed with cash in exchange for positive reviews.
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These Are The Biggest Automotive Scandals Of 2024
What a year we’ve had in 2024. There was good news, like Lando Norris finally getting his first win in Formula 1, bad news like the demise of the Mitsubishi Mirage and unsurprising news, such as the end of another year without self-driving Teslas ruling the road.
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Jalopnik's Best Car Photos Of 2024
The process of shooting photos of a car can be extremely time-consuming. Capturing every single angle, detail, backdrop and element can take a hell of a lot of effort, and frankly, most of the time the pictures stink anyway. However, sometimes everything lines up and you end up with some truly lovely pictures. That’s what we’re celebrating here.
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I Saw A Cool Van
Holy smokes, is that a lifted four-wheel-drive third-generation Ford Econoline Club Wagon? Sometimes when I’m out walking the dog I find myself face to face with a truly never-before-seen specimen of automotive awesomeness. This time it was Ford’s incredible box van turned adventure machine. Out here in the American West there are all kinds of off-roady machines like this, but I’ve never seen one so magnificently done from this generation of van. But why not? The Econoline was named the 1978 Mot
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Traffic Jams: The Mountain Goats - 'Emerging'
The Mountain Goats don’t really have a Christmas album, or really any Christmas music, which is wild for a band that prides itself on being the best damn Durham-based Christian Dad rock on the planet (or at least in North Carolina.) Due to the lack of Christmas tunes, I nominate “Emerging” from the album Moon Colony Bloodbath, because it’s the Goats song that most often makes my husband shout “Jesus Christ Erin,” and isn’t He truly the reason for the season?
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This Sacramento County Patrol Car In Poland Is A Window Into The Strange World Of Fake American Police Cars In Europe
A Sacramento County Sheriff Dodge Charger is taking social media by storm this week, not for getting into car chases or any sick jumps, but for showing up a little bit outside their jurisdiction — over 5,500 miles away in Poland.
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Traffic Jams: Jon Hopkins - 'Music For Psychedelic Therapy'
It’s the final Friday before Christmas, which means most of my time is about to be spent wrapping presents, eating mince pies and traveling around the country to see various friends and family. It’s going to be lovely, but there’s sure to be a bit of drama here and there. During all that chaos, it can sometimes get a bit much and that’s when Jon Hopkins comes swooping in to save the day.
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Who Is Running Tesla While Elon Musk Plays President?
If Congress can’t pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government by Sunday, Republicans will have caused yet another government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to be willing to work with the Democrats to make something happen, the Washington Post reports, but then Elon Musk started tweeting, and before we knew it, the continuing resolution was dead. It wasn’t just one tweet, either. Musk spent hours trashing the bill, posting something like 70 times in an attempt to stop its
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Traffic Jams: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'The Dead Flag Blues'
A little inside baseball: I just wrote up a Traffic Jam for Chappel Roan’s “Red Wine Supernova.” Let’s be honest though, people. Very few of us are feeling Chappel Roan right now. I’d wager many more of us are feeling Godspeed You! Black Emperor. “The Dead Flag Blues” are a bit more topical towards life today:
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Colorado Wants To Take Your Keis Away
Law-abiding Japanese car enthusiasts are having their rights stripped away in state after state because a group of pencil-pushing nobodies with nothing better to do keeps poking their noses in it. The non-profit non-government lobbying group the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators has been involved in the banning of Kei cars and other legal imports to Rhode Island, Georgia, Maine, and Massachusetts, and now have their sights set on Colorado. The Colorado DMV is weighing a propos
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Traffic Jams: Chappell Roan - 'Red Wine Supernova'
Summer may be over, but that doesn’t mean the sounds of the summer have to stop. There’s no rule saying you can’t spend the winter listening to absolute bangers, dancing around your kitchen while you make your morning coffee, and I think you should do just that.
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Portland Will Never Beat Its Subaru-Loving Allegations
Subaru owners, apart from WRX vape bros, are a very specific type of person. They’re outdoorsy, granola and folksy in a corporate sort of way. That means they fit in perfectly in places that represent those same sorts of ideals and aesthetics, places like Portland, Oregon. Needless to say, they’re everywhere in that Pacific Northwest city, and “everywhere” isn’t even hyperbole.
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Teardown Of VW's V10 Diesel Shows It's One Of The Most Complex Engines Ever
There are some true engineering marvels of the automotive world out there, like the Bugatti Veyron, old Formula 1 racers such as the Lotus 78 and even humble city cars like the Scion IQ can have some pretty incredible engineering inside. Now, a teardown of a diesel engine produced by Volkswagen in the early 2000s has proven why it’s one of the most intricate and complex pieces of engineering out there.
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Liberty Walk Is In The Keyboard Business Now
We may all love Liberty Walk’s F40 bodykit for the Autozam AZ-1, but the company offers a kit for the genuine article Ferrari F40 too — a kit that Liberty Walk has now decided to honor with a mechanical keyboard collab. I know, that sounds absurd, but it’s actually more fitting than you might think.
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A Junkyard Supertruck Is Way Faster Than A Real GMC Syclone For A Lot Less Money
The legendary GMC Syclone was just about the fastest thing you could buy in 1991 with 280 horsepower from a 4.3-liter turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive for traction from a dig. In head-to-head tests the early-90s supertruck was quicker than a five-times-as-expensive Ferrari when new. In Car and Driver testing the Syclone ran a 5.3-second 0-60 time and a 14.1-second quarter mile time. Can you beat that with, like, five grand and a dream?
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Cybertruck's Latest Weakness Found After Pothole Causes $34,000 Damage
Since its launch a year ago, Tesla’s flagship Cybertruck electric truck has been stumped by all kinds of pretty mundane obstacles. It’s so far been caught out by snow, slight inclines, water and now one Cybertruck owner reports that a pothole left them with a $34,000 repair bill.
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Gifting This Levitating Cybertruck Model Lets Your Loved Ones Know You Actually Hate Them
It’s the season of giving, but not everyone in your life deserves a good present. Some people deserve to get crap, and that’s exactly what you can do by getting that very special someone a “Levitating Cybertruck” for Christmas this year. Man, Tesla really loves putting out shit like this rather than a well-built car.
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Counterpoint: Covering Your Car In Christmas Lights Is Cool And Good, Actually
It’s the holiday season — a time of joy, of whimsy, of doing things just because they’re kind of fun and they feel good. We should all be drinking egg nog, having snowball fights, and covering our cars with seasonal lights. Yet some folks — cough, cough, Owen — want to take that all away from us.
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Covering Your Car In Christmas Lights Is Dumb And Probably Illegal
People have been sticking Christmas lights to their cars for years, but this year the trend for illuminating your car for the festive season seems to have gone into overdrive. Unfortunately for everyone who just wants to spread a little Christmas cheer, in addition to endangering your car’s paint when lighting up your car like a Christmas tree, you may also end up on the wrong side of the law.
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Traffic Jams: Jack White - 'Archbishop Harold Holmes'
There are a few artists where I know that whatever they do next, I’m going to love it. Bands like Arctic Monkeys have had a hold on me for almost two decades, I’ve been a card-carrying Swiftie for years now and Jack White has been fueling my love for angry guitars since I first heard “Seven Nation Army.”
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Get Lost In The Desert And Find Your Way Back Again With A Trail Navigation App
There’s something beautiful and exciting about the human condition that makes us want to explore places we definitely should not go. We’ll look at a big pile of boulders in the middle of an inhospitable desert landscape and think it would be a good idea to build a machine that could get over them. Car dorks are even worse, because we’ll take one of Toledo, Ohio’s best machines and crank the bonkers dial to 11 building an off-road monster that is far more comfortable off-road than on it. Why do w
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Formula 1 Tires Are Surprisingly Great For Off-Roading
In order to extract the quickest lap times from a Formula 1 car, teams run on super-slick, super-sticky bespoke Pirelli tires that are purpose-made for running on some of the best race tracks around the world. But did you know that F1 tires are also great for off-roading?
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This $125,000 Hybrid Taxi Is The True Pinnacle Of British Luxury
If you’re in the market for a luxurious car to drive (or be driven) around town in style, then you might think something like a Range Rover or Rolls-Royce would be the perfect choice and the pinnacle of luxury, but you’d be wrong. The real answer to that perennial question is a modified and electrified London cab that’s teeming with understated opulence instead.
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The BMW M5's Weight Has Faced Criticism For Generations
When BMW released the official specifications of the new seventh-generation G90 M5 back in the summer, the internet lost its collective mind over the fact that it now weighs about as much as the moon at nearly 5,400 pounds. Armchair engineers, keyboard warriors, and a lot of industry experts raised hell about the midsize performance sedan’s gargantuan heft, but the most productive thing that came of all the outcry were some grade-A memes, and none of it was unprecedented. Yes, the G90 M5 is a he
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Traffic Jams: Los Campesinos! - 'Lonely This Christmas'
I finished my Christmas shopping this weekend with everything sorted a full two weeks before the big day. Is this what being a grown up is really like? This means I’m ready to plow head first into the holiday season with a mug of mulled wine in one hand and a mince pie in the other without a care in the world. Because of this, the Christmas music has already started playing in my flat and I’m ready to start inflicting festive tunes on strangers as well.
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Every Honda CR-X Should Have Come With Two Engines
The Honda CR-X was an economy car ahead of its time. Its chassis was well-designed and the weight was stripped back, making it a fun and exciting driver, while still keeping to its fuel sipping roots. But what would happen if you put an engine in the back hatch to power the rear wheels? That might turn the little two-seater into an incredibly fun all-wheel drive ripper that could keep up with just about anything in its era. I mean, sure, it’s only making about 220 horsepower with two 1.8-liter e
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Traffic Jams: HEALTH - 'ASHAMED (OF BEING BORN)'
Back in college, when I was porting cars around a GM dealer lot in the summers, the free demos of SiriusXM in each new car introduced me to a little band called HEALTH. This got a ball rolling in my head that eventually led me down the path of hyperpop, but I never forgot that love of HEALTH’s blaring synths.
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NFL Quarterback Joe Burrow Bought One Of The $3 Million Batman Tumbler Replicas
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is one of the faces of the National Football League – recognized and loved everywhere he goes. Yet, he must feel he isn’t getting quiet enough attention, so he is using part of his five-year, $275 million contract to buy one of the ten Batmobile Tumbler replicas Warner Bros. commissioned about a month ago. It’s a good use of $2.99 million if you ask me.
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This White Van Man Keeps London's Street-Parked Supercars Clean
For most of us, cleaning our cars involves heading out onto the street with a bucket of water and a sponge to scrub away the dirt and grime that builds up over time. For millionaires, it involves paying someone else to do that for you, and this white van man has carved out a niche cleaning some incredible cars parked on the streets of London.
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Traffic Jams: The Mountain Goats - 'Getting Into Knives'
Hope you’re feeling sharp this morning, and if not, it’s time to adjust your focus, cause we’re getting into knives! The Mountain Goats are about as close as Jalopnik can come to having an official band, what with former bassist Peter Hughes writing a few posts for us and Brad and I obsessively listening to every song for any hint of a car mention.
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Traffic Jam: The New Pornographers - 'Letter From An Occupant'
We have a headline about the new Popemobile this morning and it all it took was seeing “New po-” to make me think of the classic Canadian rock group The New Pornographers. Does this mean I need Jesus? More than likely, but I need vaguely fuzzy indie rock from the late 90s/early 2000s much much more. Especially if that music involves the goddess Nico Case.
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Leaded Gasoline May Have Caused Boom In Anxiety, Depression, And ADHD
Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel’s resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists always knew that heavy lead was a seriously bad thing for humans to be near, breathe in, or work around. In the 1970s the scientific community came together to confirm that even trace exposure to children with developing brains could be detrimental to their development. It still took over two decades to
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The World's Best Car Photographer Packs Around $40,000 Worth Of Gear Into His Carry-On
“Oh my god, there’s so much camera equipment in here.” If you’re a Transportation Security Administration agent opening up photo legend Larry Chen’s rolling carry-on camera and laptop bag, you might be surprised by how much he can pack in there. When he’s traveling all over the world to capture incredible photos he needs to bring a lot of equipment to make it happen, and it has to fit in a carry-on because if an airline were to ever lose the bag not only would he be out several thousand dollars
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Traffic Jams: Loose Tapestries - 'Can't Wait For Christmas'
Thanksgiving has been and gone, Christmas tree sellers are out in force and you’ve probably been sent out to the garage to start untangling festive lights. It’s happening, Christmas is finally here.
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Dry Ice And Lasers Used To Meticulously Detail Nigel Mansell's Old Ferrari F40
There are a lot of satisfying things to watch on the internet, like the massive tank that Porsche’s cars swim through on the production line or crash tests of luxurious motors. Those pale in comparison to footage of cars getting a long-overdue clean, especially rare cars like the Ferrari F40.
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Traffic Jams: Daft Punk - 'Face To Face'
One of my favorite internet wormholes to get lost in at the moment is the search for samples used in some of my favorite songs. I find it fascinating to learn how “Bittersweet Symphony” used a sample of a cover from a Rolling Stones song or how Amy Winehouse sampled Marvin Gaye, to name just a few particularly famous examples.
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2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: What Do You Want To Know?
I’m about to drive one of the most controversial cars of the 2020s that isn’t a Cybertruck. That’s right, I’m getting behind the wheel of the all-new and all-electric Dodge Charger Daytona, Fratzonic “exhaust” and all. Before I take this massively powerful out on the roads of Phoenix and on the track, I want to know what you want to know about it.
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Honda Has The 7,000 MPG Lo-Fi Beats You Need To Get Through Your Monday
How far do you think you could go on a single liter of high-test gasoline? If you’ve always dreamed of pushing a vehicle to the absolute pinnacle of performance and engineering, then the Eco Mileage Challenge might be for you. Ever since the event was founded in 1981 a group of enthusiastic smarty-pants eco freaks have been pushing the envelope. In the high-octane class, a team called the Wednesday Club recently set a new world record achieving an incredible 7,080 miles. Honda got hundreds of ho
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Flooded McLarens, Porsches And Ford GTs Are Filling Florida's Auction Lots
Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the country earlier this year, wrecking houses, bursting river banks and flooding cars. Lots and lots of cars. Now, some of those flood-damaged vehicles are turning up at auctions, including real bedroom poster cars from the likes of McLaren, Porsche and Lamborghini.
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Car Design (7)

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Your Rolls-Royce Deserves Bright Green Paint With Crystal Particles In The Clear Coat
As of 2023 the average age of new Rolls-Royce owners is 42, if you can believe it, and the 120-year-old brand’s percentage of owners who are under 40 is growing. Reflected in Rolls-Royce’s increasingly younger owners are the exuberant specs — while a few decades ago basically all Rollers were subtle colors like a beige or classic black, now many of the Rolls-Royces I see are baby blue, orange, or in the instance of this Cullinan I saw last weekend, bright green with crystals in the clear coat. A
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Does This Freak You Out?
One of the largest and fastest-growing car companies in China (and the world) is Nio, which has largely been focused on the more premium end of the electric car market. That’s now gonna change with Nio’s new Firefly subbrand, which was officially revealed last week with a cute ‘lil hatchback that will be sold in China and Europe. Details about the Firefly are pretty slim, but there’s just one thing I really want to know: Does it freak you out?
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The Anteros Coupe Was A Coachbuilt Supercar That Paired European Looks With American Power
If you want an exciting front-engine car with American power and slick styling, then you might think your options are limited to the likes of the Dodge Viper or an early Corvette. There’s another option though, as an American workshop once set out to create a new sports car that paired European looks with American power.
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Lexus' Copper Crest Is The Most Beautiful Color On Sale Today, And Nobody Cares
We all know most car colors are simply dreadful. For the most part, they’re a faded pastel of blacks, whites, grays and silvers. Sometimes, though, an automaker will come out with a color that is so lovely I’ve got to give it a shoutout. That’s exactly what Lexus did with its Copper Crest color that debuted on the latest generation of RX. It’s a sort of mix between copper, rose gold and pink, and dammit, it’s absolutely gorgeous.
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A Chiron Owner Wanted A Cup Holder, So Bugatti Designed Her A 3D-Printed One Just In Time For Christmas
When you get to the level of multi-million dollar cars like the Bugatti Chiron, the sky is basically the limit in terms of spec and customization. Whatever color combination, special artwork or one-off trimmings you ask for, Bugatti can do it. The company will even create custom parts for you after your car has been delivered, as one Chiron owner discovered when she asked for a cup holder.
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DS N°8 (Yes, That's The Name) Has An Interior Fit For Barbarella With A Headcrab Steering Wheel
It seems like Stellantis is in a perpetual state of turmoil that just keeps getting worse, but the French brands in the conglomerate appear to be on a completely opposite trajectory. Citroën and Peugeot have launched a bunch super-efficient hybrids and EVs with innovative and sometimes strange designs, and now the DS Automobiles spin-off luxury brand is about to release something wild called the N°8. It’s not a perfume but a new fully electric sedan-crossover-thing, and this week DS put out the
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The Haters Won't Admit Jaguar's New Type 00 Concept Looks Like A Modern Take On The E-Type
This evening Jaguar released its audacious Type 00 concept at Miami Art Week, with the pink and blue pair of coupes previewing the electric four-door GT that will go on sale in 2026 as the first model in Jaguar’s completely reinvented lineup. Lots of digital ink has been spilled about the Type 00's radical looks and its extremely controversial logo redesign and accompanying brand campaign — no matter what you think of the car, there’s no denying it’s the most anyone has talked about Jaguar in de
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Crashes and Safety (3)

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Amtrak Train Destroys Police Cruiser An Officer Parked On The Tracks
A police officer in North Carolina found out the hard way that there are some places you just can’t park a police cruiser. The Greensboro officer was responding to a collision involving two vehicles in Jamestown, NC, at the end of November, reports local news outlet ABC 11. Upon arrival the officer parked their state-issued Explorer Police Interceptor over the train tracks. Mere minutes later an Amtrak train came through and destroyed the police SUV.
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Truck Spills Lumber In Highway 'Avalanche,' Taking Out Car And Unlocking New Fear
A driver in Pennsylvania was caught up in a crash that looked straight out of a horror movie last week when a truck carrying lumber overturned and threw its load across the road. The pile of lumber flew over I-83, sideswiping a car and forcing it off the highway in the process. A tractor-trailer loaded up with lumber overturned while travelling across an overpass above I-83 in central Pennsylvania, reports CBS News. The truck flipped over and threw the lumber down an embankment and onto the I-83
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These Are The Deadliest Cars On The Road
Of all the cars on the road, these 15 models are involved in the most fatal crashes per mile driven.
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Entertainment (3)

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The Real Villain Of 'Home Alone' Is The Annoying Car Dork Who Makes The McCallisters Miscount Their Kids
Like many of you, I’ve watched “Home Alone” more times than I can count, but this year I noticed something that changed my perspective on the whole movie: the real villains aren’t the Wet Bandits or Kevin’s parents. It’s actually Mitch Murphy, the McCallister’s nosy, car dork neighbor.
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Porsche Designed The Awesome Spaceship For Naughty Dog's New Sci-Fi Video Game
At the 2024 Video Game Awards last week, Naughty Dog released the announcement trailer for its first new game franchise in ten years. Called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it’s centered around a bounty hunter in a late 20th century-style sci-fi world, and it looks like an exciting, ambitious turn for the studio behind games like “The Last Of Us,” “Uncharted,” “Jak and Daxter,” and “Crash Bandicoot.” To all of us at Jalopnik, the best part of the trailer is the reveal of the hero’s Porsche s
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Warframe 1999's Motorcycle Is A Fascinating Mix Of Retro And Modern Design
Warframe’s much-anticipated 1999 expansion dropped last week, and Tenno all around the world are being introduced to something new: ‘90s sportbikes. You can keep your railjacks and k-drives, there’s a retro motorcycle now available — or, is it a modern one? Both? Neither?
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EVs and Hybrids (2)

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Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It's Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals [UPDATE]
Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell it to you for an extra cheap good deal. One Hertz customer took to Reddit to show off a screenshot of the deal he got directly from Hertz, a 2023 Tesla Model 3 with 30,000 miles on
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What's The Best Used EV For A Cheapskate?
Electric vehicles have only really been a major part of the public consciousness for about 12 years from the launch of the Tesla Model S and Nissan Leaf. As these machines age they are starting to get pretty dang cheap. If you’re looking for something electric to add to your stable to make your commute gasoline-free and much less expensive, you might want to pick up one of the kings of depreciation. Kyle from Out of Spec went out and bought a bunch of cheap EVs and has been testing them in the r
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Found For Sale (12)

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This Is The Perfect Car And Yes, It Is A Chevy Cruze
This may sound unbelievable now but, once upon a time, car makers took chances on small cars. When they didn’t make a butt-load of money they stopped pretty quickly, but the few customers who could appreciate something a little different were able to purchase a small taste of joy. One such car is on sale right now in Wisconsin; It’s a hatchback, a diesel and yes, a manual—the holy trinity. And can you believe it, it’s also a Chevy Cruze.
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Someone Needs To Rescue And Catalog These Early 2000s Body Kits
The early 2000s are back, baby. The tech sector seems ready to pop, the kids are layering multiple tank tops above their baggy low-rise pants, and cars are getting lower, wider, and visually louder. Wide bodies with garish liveries are all the rage in the drift and time attack scenes, and those styles are trickling down to street cars — street cars that need body kits to fit the look. If only there were some sort of massive lot of ‘90s-’00s body kits sitting in England, all for sale as a bunch.
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Mazda Miata, BMW M3, Suzuki GXSR-750: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Happy Friday, friends. A very happy Friday indeed, because today you get your holiday wish: Dopest Cars as a single page, no slides to click through. Every listing, all on one page, like you’ve always wanted. Happy holidays.
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Steve McQueen's 'Le Mans' Porsche 917K Can Be Yours If You've Got A Spare $20 Million
Possibly the most iconic and recognizable race car in the history of four-wheeled anything, the Gulf-liveried Porsche 917, owes a lot of its star power to the kind of terrible 1971 Steve McQueen vehicle “Le Mans.” That very car, the one from the movie, the one that McQueen drove, is coming up for sale next month at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction, and it’s probably going to sell for a whole lot of money. This car, chassis number 917-022, has been part of Jerry Seinfeld’s private collection since 2001
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No Car Is More Expensive Than A Cheap Ferrari Project Car
Ferrari’s old entry-level California sports car is often unfairly derided for being a bit ungainly and not particularly sporty. One intrepid individual started an individual labor of love to blend a 2010 California’s modern usability with the classic good looks of a 1963 250 GTE. Unfortunately after what appears to be several years of work the project has been abandoned for the next sucker, uh, I mean, intrepid wrencher to finish up. Do you have the patience, skill, space, and desire to finish a
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Honda CBR1000RR Repsol, Dodge Power Wagon Ambulance, Fire Truck: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Happy Friday, friends. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas out there, even though, without snow, it may not look it. The park near the climbing gym is selling trees, the air has that frosty nip to it and the floor of my apartment building’s hallway is absolutely freezing when I go out barefoot to pick up my Taco Bell delivery. All signs of the season.
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Datsun Sunny Truck, Ford Crown Victoria, Subaru WRX STI: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online
Happy Friday, friends. I’m calling it: It’s officially winter. I understand this isn’t really my decision to make, given that I’m “not a meteorologist” and that “watching “Twister” repeatedly doesn’t let you decide the weather, no matter how many times you do it” and “the seasons change on set dates regardless of what the weather is doing anyway,” but I’m electing not to listen to the haters here. It’s routinely in the 20s here in Brooklyn, it smells like snow, and that’s winter to me.
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Buy This Sbarro Super Eight And Make Your Renault R5 Turbo-Owning Friends Jealous
So you want a performance-oriented rear-engine hatchback with massive fender flares. You could get yourself a Renault R5 Turbo, and be just like everyone else, or you could be unique and get this: The 1984 Sbarro Super Eight.
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Chevrolet Snowmovan Combines Interests You Didn't Know You Had
I have learned that it’s possible to learn something exists and immediately have it occupy a space in your brain which will almost certainly perish if I don’t have it. I am Veruca Salt and this hybrid van/snow machine is my oompa loompa, if I don’t get it now I may throw a fit that will end in bloodshed. When the snow starts to fly I begin to wonder why I’ve never owned any cars with tracks and skis. This is my opportunity, that is, unless one of you sneaks in and buys it out from under me. This
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What The Hell Are We Doing Here, Folks?
One hundred sixty thousand dollars American—that’s a lot of money for a car. You’d expect to pay that price for something like a Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo, 911 or a decently optioned Mercedes-Benz S Class. You probably wouldn’t expect to pay that for a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, but that’s exactly what happened recently on Bring A Trailer.
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This Street-Legal GT3 Cup Is The 911 R Porsche Should Have Built
Leave it to incredibly talented hot rodders in Japan to build a ridiculously fun but extremely uncomfortable street car from an old Porsche factory-built race car. This 996-generation Porsche 911 started life as the 89th GT3 to drive off the assembly line way back in 1999, and was quickly conscripted into the on-track battle for one-make series supremacy as a GT3 Cup racer. After spending a few years as a track-only car, it was first registered for the road in 2005 by Tanaka Tetsusaburo, who rac
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A Supercharged Small Block Snow Dragster Is The Perfect Winter Beater
Driving in snow can be a blast, sliding around through low-traction streets like you’re James Deane, but commuting in it can be a slog. If only there was a vehicle that could make your winter commute fun — say, something with treads, skids, and a supercharged Chevy 350 right behind your head.
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Motorcycles (11)

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KTM Has 265,000 Unsold Bikes Just Sitting Around
Legendary Austrian motorcycle brand KTM is up against the ropes at the moment getting pummeled. It was revealed during the company’s current insolvency hearings that it is sitting on a whole year’s worth of inventory, to the tune of 265,000 unsold motorcycles. In all my years on this big planet I’ve never seen company mismanagement on this order of magnitude. KTM owes its creditors some $3 billion, and apparently can’t move product to save its own ass. The future of orange is up in the air, and
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What A Helmet On The Ground Behind A Motorcycle Means
Hi, I’m a motorcyclist. If you see me hanging out somewhere give me a wave, I promise I’m friendly. If you see me on the side of the road with my helmet behind my bike, though, I’m asking you to do more than wave. That’s a bit of signaling we do to other riders (and the occasional kind driver) to say we need help.
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Bankrupt KTM Can't Pay November Salaries Or Christmas Bonuses
KTM has had a tough go of it recently. Maybe it was all that investment in the X-Bow, maybe the company didn’t make enough track-only RC 8Cs, or maybe the problem began when it turned down Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. Regardless, the ready-to-race manufacturer now looks ready for bankruptcy proceedings, and it’s now reportedly struggling to even last that long.
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Let Old MotoGP Races On YouTube Keep You Company Through The Winter Months
Folks, it’s cold out. While I may be the type of batshit to ride my motorcycle all winter, most people aren’t — it’s okay if you park your bike for the frigid months. Still, you’ll need something to tide you over until next riding season, and I have just the recommendation: Full MotoGP races from the past couple decades, all free on YouTube.
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Ride A Really Fast Italian Flag For Just $58,000
Ducati is giving 1,000 well-heeled riders an opportunity to celebrate the Italian heritage and culture of speed with the new Panigale V4 Tricolore superbike, and you could be one of them. You know, provided you’re willing to spend $58,000 for the privilege. The Bologna-based bike manufacturer has been rolling out red/white/green special superbikes since 1984 with the 750 F1, and this is the latest in a long line. With all of the modern superbike trappings, this is certainly the fastest and most
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How Cheap Is Too Cheap For A Suzuki Hayabusa?
Once upon a time, the Suzuki Hayabusa was the fastest thing on two wheels. It was the bike that ended the Speed Wars, the bike that killed the Super Blackbird, the bike so fast that it got regulatory attention — and now it can be had for 35 of your most crumpled hundred-dollar bills. Is that too cheap?
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Why Is Installing A Helmet Comm Still This Much Of A Pain?
I love motorcycle comms systems. I’ve had a Cardo PackTalk Edge for a while now, and a PackTalk Black before that — for as long as I’ve seriously ridden bikes, I’ve had a comm unit. I love having music in my helmet, I love the ability to make phone calls, I love being able to hear my turn-by-turn directions when I’m going somewhere I’ve never been before.
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Yeah, You Can Probably Ride A 100-Year Old Motorcycle To Work If You Aren't Boring
“Agricultural, weird, old, stinky. Yeah, but it’s really cool.” They just don’t build them like they used to, and that’s probably with good reason. If you’re looking for a bike with a certain hard edged feel, a unique flavor, and difficult-to-ride-factor there’s probably not much cooler, unique, or difficult to ride out there than a 100-year-old Harley. Unlike many cars from the 1920s, a motorcycle from that era is actually still pretty useable a hundred years later. So what does a bike from 100
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How I'm Planning To Ride My Motorcycle Through The New York Winter
Fun fact about New York City: It gets cold here. The wind chill outside my apartment right now is a brisk 26 degrees, and last weekend we got down to 25. I, a moron, of course spent that 25-degree day trundling all across Brooklyn on my motorcycle with nothing but a leather jacket, heated grips, and Gore-Tex gloves to keep me warm.
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Hear The Story Of Every Owner Norton Has Ever Had
Indian motorcycle outfit TVS purchased the historic band Norton last year, promising to bring the British marquee back to life after mismanagement from its prior owner. And the owner before that. And the one before that one, the one before them, and so on and so forth, because it turns out Norton is on its 11th owner since it was formed.
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What To Do After You Crash Your Motorcycle
There’s an old saying in motorcycling: It’s not if you’ll crash, but when. At some point, your number will come up, and it’s important to know what to do in the aftermath: What organs to get checked out, which bones to mend, whose insurance to deal with for months on end until it almost doesn’t feel worth it any more. Oh, and how to get your bike back up and running from all that damage.
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News (109)

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Cars Are The Worst Way To Get Through Cities
Cities and cars just don’t get along. Cities are compact, maximally utilizing space for their human residents, while cars aren’t — they take up precious space just sitting parked, and carry few people while moving. We’ve already seen that motorcycles are faster than cars for getting through vehicle-friendly Los Angeles, but a new set of tests from Chicago, LA, and New York City shows that cars lose nearly everywhere.
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Before You Ask, Yes, You Can Power A Car With 50 Drills
Everyone who has ever picked up an electric drill has wondered if it would be possible to use one to drive a car. Wait, you haven’t wondered that? Well I guess it’s just me and the Garage 54 hooligans. What if you had 50 drills? It makes sense for EVs to be powered by multiple electric motors, but what if each of those motors had its own battery and ran a common crankshaft via a series of complex pulleys and belts? Yes, this is a simple solution for the modern electric vehicle. No more wondering
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Brothel Visits Exposed In Volkswagen Location Data Leak
Things aren’t going so great at Volkswagen right now, and while the latest scandal likely won’t rise to the level of the diesel emissions scandal, a security lapse by VW’s in-house software developer Cariad did expose the locations of about 800,000 electric vehicles to hackers. The app owners used to access many of their cars’ features, including preheating the cars and checking their charge levels, reportedly left the data it gathered largely unprotected, Spiegel reports.
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Customs Agents Seize $1.4 Million In Counterfeit Vehicle Inspection Stickers
Some car owners are willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid the time and monetary cost of having their vehicles pass an annual state inspection, including buying fake stickers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 22,000 counterfeit Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers in two recent shipments from Israel. The stickers would be worth $1.4 million if they were authentic.
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Portland Demands Something Be Done After Car Crashes Into House For 30th Time, Starts Gas Fire
As part of our belief that hitting people with your cars is bad, Jalopnik maintains that hitting houses with your cars is also bad. People live in houses, and you should not hit them with your cars. Unfortunately for apartment residents in one Portland, Oregon building, someone didn’t get that memo and crashed into their house, starting a gas fire. As if that wasn’t bad enough, though, KGW News reports that neighbors estimate this is the 30th crash to occur on the property in the last 30 years.
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Tesla's Latest Update Reportedly Cripples Some Cybertrucks
It’s been a terrible year for the Tesla Cybertruck and it doesn’t exactly sound like the kinks have all worked themselves out yet. The latest update reportedly bricked some Cybertrucks, leaving owners scrambling to figure out which of their other six-figure cars they’ll be forced to drive now that their rides are temporarily out of commission. Don’t worry, though, they still love their trucks.
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New Zealand's 1,500-HP Hypercar Brings F1 Speed To Anybody With The Money
Low, light, minimalist and sinister as all hell, the Rodin FZero is an upcoming turbocharged V10 track-focused (though allegedly street-legal) hypercar that beats F1 around just about any track. Rodin does this by completely throwing out the F1 rulebook and starting from a clean sheet of paper. With a closed cockpit, no regulations on downforce or power, plenty of weigh reduction, and lots of aero work, the FZero packs some impressive specs to compete with Red Bull’s own throw-the-rulebook-away
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Passengers Threatened And Harassed In Driverless Taxis Feel 'Powerless' To Protect Themselves
Driverless taxi services are a mouth-watering prospect for any business. There’s a 24/7 torrent of revenue without the need to pay wages for drives. The lack of a potential threat behind the wheel is also a welcome aspect. Unfortunately there’s a flip side to autonomous vehicles; the absence of a driver has emboldened harassment and threats towards passengers traveling alone in Waymo’s vehicles.
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Tesla Cybertruck Owner Finds Grass Growing In His Truck's Exterior Trim
Earlier this week we rounded up some of the wildest Tesla Cybertruck stories from the year, and now we’ve got a late entry of another weird situation that’s seemingly due to the Cybertruck’s unique design. While fixing minor damage to their wheel arch trim, one Cybertruck owner discovered the truck’s rear air deflectors apparently creates perfect conditions for grass to grow.
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Stressed Amazon Driver Dumps 80 Holiday Packages In The Woods
With 80 more stops to be made on Saturday night a stressed Amazon driver in Massachusetts decided to pull off and dump the packages in the woods instead of getting them to their intended destinations.
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Musk, Tesla, Twitter, And SpaceX Had A Hell Of A Year
Elon Musk had another roller-coaster of a year thanks to political turmoil and odd behavior online.
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80-Year-Old Woman Donates Manual RX-7 She Owned For 25 Years To Mazda After Giving Up License
A Japanese woman celebrating her 80th birthday decided to mark the occasion in a unique way. She not only surrendered her driver’s license, but also gave up the manual Mazda RX-7 she’s owned for the last 25 years. Don’t worry, though, this is a heartwarming story
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A Tesla Plaid-Powered AC Cobra Is The Best Modern Rat Rod
Old cars with modern drivetrains are often terrible. People go too far in their restomods, turning classic muscle cars into the automotive equivalent of those LED-ridden black leather couches. But what if you wanted to deck out a classic car with modern power in a way that wasn’t cringe as hell? Well, you might chop up an AC Cobra and stuff a Tesla Plaid drivetrain in it.
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Rich People Are Buying Up Nuclear Bunkers, But It Won't Save Them
Wealthy folks from sea to shining sea are getting very concerned about a mine shaft gap, and they’re panic-buying bomb shelters like it’s the Cold War. Unfortunately for them, though, those bunkers won’t actually help them if things truly go south.
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Americans Are Finally Downsizing Because Bigger Cars Are So Damn Expensive
I’ve got some good news for all of the “big cars are evil and must be destroyed” circle jerkers out there: High car prices and elevated interest rates are pushing shoppers back to smaller cars. For years, U.S. car buyers have passed up smaller cars in favor of larger, roomier vehicles, but the tides seem to be turning as affordability issues hurt sales of big cars.
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Dodge Thinks Getting Skeptics Behind The Wheel Of The Charger EV Will Win Them Over
The last couple of years have seen Dodge pissing off a large part of its customer base. Aside from killing off the Charger, Challenger and nearly all of its V8-powered Hellcat performance variants, the brand also seems to be distancing itself from the Hemi V8 entirely, with the Durango being the exception. Now, with the new Charger EV finally starting to arrive at dealers across the country, Dodge is on a mission to win over skeptical buyers by taking the Charger on a tour to get butts in seats.
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Carlos Ghosn Says Nissan Is 'Desperate' Amid Merger Talks With Honda
The talks of a potential merger between Honda and a floundering Nissan have encouraged Carlos Ghosn to chime in from his comfortable self-exile in Beirut. The former chairman and CEO at Nissan stated in TV interviews that the potential deal is “a desperate move.” Ghosn is familiar with desperate moves — it’s been five years since he fled Japan in a Yamaha music case to escape prosecution on corruption charges.
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NYC Pizza Shop's Clever School Bus Has Caught The Attention Of Officials Who Want To Ban Outdoor Dining Areas
A bus you can eat pizza in is the stuff dreams are made of. Sadly New York City officials don’t seem to think so, as a Brooklyn pizzeria is in trouble for trying to get around outdoor dining laws by using a school bus parked in front of the establishment.
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Colorado's Kei Cars Are Saved
Colorado decided to consider arbitrarily pulling registrations for kei trucks earlier this week, after the shady American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators asked it to. Now, just three days later, the state has given up the effort — your Honda Beats and Subaru Sambars are safe.
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Tesla Recalls Cybertruck For The 7th Time Because The TPMS Warning Light Might Not Actually Warn Drivers
Oh, Tesla. The Austin, Texas-based EV automaker is recalling nearly 700,000 vehicles in the U.S. because of an issue with the warning light on the tire pressure monitoring system. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the recall impacts certain 2024 Cybertrucks, 2017-2025 Model 3s and 2020-2025 Model Ys. Before everyone freaks out and says “It doesn’t count because it’s going to be fixed with an over-the-air update,” I’d just like to say: yes, it does because NHTSA says so.
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Toyota May Finally Admit Its Mistake And Kill The bZ4X Name
People love to hate on the Toyota bZ4X due to its uninspiring performance, limited range and unattractive design, but they especially hate its name. Toyota will, of course, tell you that it makes total sense. The “bZ” part stands for “beyond Zero,” which means it’s electric, and the “4X” part means it’s a crossover, so what else was it supposed to name its first electric crossover? Something else? Actually, according to Motor Illustrated, Toyota plans to do exactly that and relatively soon, too.
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Tesla Buffing 'Foundation Series' Badges Off Cybertrucks To Sell At A Discount: Report
Tesla Cybertruck sales have hit a bit of a wall since it ran through its entire reservation backlog in a little over a year. Now, in an effort to lower its overall price, the automaker is turning some limited edition Foundation Series trucks into regular Cybertrucks, according to a report from Electrek. Originally, Foundation Series trucks were meant for reservation holders only, as they were the first ones produced They all had a $20,000 price bump and a bundle of features and accessories as we
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Dodge Swore The Durango Hellcat Would Be A One-Year-Only Model In 2021, But Now It'll Be Sold Through 2025
The Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat was first introduced as a one-year-only model way back for the 2021 model year, and Dodge briefly kept its word and discontinued it for 2022 following a short production run of about 3,000 units. Then-CEO Tim Kuniskis was even quoted saying, “you’ve only got one shot [to buy one].” When 2023 came along, Dodge reintroduced the Durango SRT Hellcat, and some 2021 Durango Hellcat buyers felt so slighted by the decision that they filed a class action suit against Dodge.
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2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Officially Runs The Quarter-Mile In 9.6 Seconds At 150 MPH
Chevrolet finally revealed the production version of the C8 Corvette ZR1 over the summer, promising us 1,064 horsepower and 828 pound-feet of torque from its twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8. That’s some serious power, and it gets even scarier when you remember the Corvette ZR1 is rear-wheel drive. That means the engine sends more than 500 hp to each powered wheel, which truly is an absurd figure when you think about it. Now, we’ve got official acceleration numbers from Chevrolet, and boy is this
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I Want To Make A Grand Entrance With The DS N°8
There’s just something special about French car designs. They’re weird, they’re cool, they’re gorgeous, they’re ugly, they’re some mix of everything. Most importantly, French cars are innovative and unlike anything else on the market, which is why I’ve always been obsessed. The latest new French model to debut is the DS N°8, an electric-only crossover-sedan thing that looks like the perfect vehicle to make a grand entrance in, like at the opera, or fashion week, or the grocery store.
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2025 Nissan Murano Offers A Fresh Look But Is Saddled With An Engine I Still Don't Like
The new Murano gets fresh style and a nicer cabin, but does the CVT still spoil the fun?
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Nissan Is The Latest Automaker To Give In To Bigots, Reverse DEI Policies
Nissan is the latest in a growing list of automakers and companies to give in to the snowflakes who feel key diversity initiatives aren’t fair. You can thank your local conservative activists for this. I’m sure this will make for a much more accepting, less hostile work environment for people of color and other protected groups.
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Teamsters Go On Massive Strike Against Amazon Days Before Christmas
Thousands of Teamsters union members went on strike against Amazon early Thursday morning at seven facilities in four states across the country. This, of course, is all happening at a deeply critical time of year for the online retail giant: the holiday season.
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Prinx Chengshan Recalls Over Half A Million Winter Tires For Insufficient Snow Traction
I went to the Bridgestone Winter Driving School earlier this year, and experienced the difference between quality winter tires, three peak mountain snowflake-rated (3PMS) all-seasons, and regular all-season tires on snow and ice. As a native Angeleno, I had minimal prior experience with snow driving, so the learning curve was steep, but the differences were clear. Good winter tires make a world of difference in acceleration, braking, and cornering on both snow and even straight-up ice. I’ve yet
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Nissan Will Continue Selling The Old Kicks For A Laughable $310 Less Than The New One
I feel like I start many of my blogs by saying this, but it bears repeating: New cars are too damn expensive. As someone living in a major metropolitan area on a writer’s salary, I have no idea how anyone is able to afford a new car right now, but Nissan is here to help out all my fellow poor people. It announced that it will continue offering the first-generation Kicks as a “lower priced alternative” to the much-improved second-gen Kicks, saving buyers a whopping $310.
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How The Jaguar Type 00 Can Save The Struggling Automaker
Jaguar revealed its ambitious electric Type 00 concept three weeks ago at Miami Art Week. The British luxury automaker is in the middle of a complete rebrand featuring a divisive new branding scheme and a soon-to-be-unveiled four-door electric GT. While the worst people online are still bashing their keyboards, Jaguar is blocking out the noise and listening to the most important voices: actual prospective customers.
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Progressive Adds Driver That Doesn't Exist To Man's Insurance Policy
Car insurance companies have been putting customers through it lately. Ever increasing costs of doing business have caused insurance companies to increase rates or outright make it hard to get covered. Others are taking things a bit further to get more money out of customers. Take Progressive, who added a driver to a man’s insurance who he says doesn’t exist, which also increased his premium.
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Tesla Offers Free Supercharging For Model S Again, But Says It'll Take It Away If You Charge Too Much
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s antics polarize society, and make it very difficult for folks to feel confident handing him money, but annoyingly, his company does produce some of the most efficient and affordable EVs that have access to the largest fast-charging network on the continent. Tesla’s first mass market vehicle, the Model S, was introduced to a vastly different world way back in 2012, and it was sold with the promise of free Supercharging for the life of the vehicle, an incentive that Tesla sto
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Shaq Is So Huge He Had West Coast Customs Make A One-Off Lucid Air Coupe So He Could Fit In It
Shaquille O’Neal is a big man with an even bigger car collection. On a podcast a couple months back, the former NBA star and basketball analyst said he owns 40 cars. Many of them are unique custom builds due to Shaq’s large stature — at 7-foot-1-inch tall, he can’t exactly fit in most vehicles, even one as large and spacious as the Lucid Air. So Shaq did what he’s done before: He had a custom Lucid made so he could fit in it.
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Electric Ram REV Delayed Until 2026 As Range-Extender Ramcharger Gets Pushed Forward To 2025
If you were interested in picking up the electric Ram 1500 REV pickup, you’re going to have to wait a bit. Slowing EV demand, specifically for half-ton electric pickups, has led the automaker to change the rollout plans for its pair of electrified trucks. The electric Ram REV is now delayed until 2026, while the range-extender hybrid Ram 1500 Ramcharger will take its place and launch in 2025 first instead.
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Electric Porsche 718 Development Isn't Going So Well: Report
It seems like we’ve been hearing about Porsche’s plan to electrify the Boxster and Cayman for eons, yet we’ve never seen anything closer to production-ready than the Mission R concept from back in 2021. A new report from Automobilwoche says why that may be: Porsche is simply struggling with the car’s development.
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Kia Launches Actually Pretty Cool K4 Configurator On TikTok Just In Time For The App To (Maybe) Get Banned
The landscape of automotive marketing continues to move more toward social media content creators and influencers, and the suits in Kia’s marketing department seem to be some of the most forward-thinking and eager to adapt. Today, Kia America launched a first-of-its-kind creator car configurator on TikTok, just as discussions of outlawing the popular social media app in the U.S. are getting serious. Regardless of the future of TikTok, this new configurator idea to promote the redesigned Kia K4 i
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Tesla's 'Brand-New Cars Not Drivable' Because Of Failing Self-Driving Chips
Tesla rolled out new hardware in its cars this year that was meant to usher in a new age for its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. Well, as it turns out, the new computer chips that were supposed to support this prosperous period of autonomy have a flaw, which means many are failing after just a few hundred miles on the road.
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NHTSA Mandates Rear Seat Belt Reminders And Enhanced Warnings For Front Seats
I can’t believe I’m writing this in the year 2024, but in case y’all forgot, seat belts save lives. It’s pretty black and white: Over half of all vehicle occupant fatalities in 2022 were people who weren’t wearing a seat belt. It simply boggles my mind whenever I see folks driving or riding in a car without wearing their seat belt, it’s like playing Russian roulette but in a much less badass way. Hoping to make a positive impact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finaliz
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The Porsche Design Luxury Skyscraper In Miami Is Sinking Much Faster Than Expected
The Porsche Design Tower in Miami, built in 2014, is one of 35 luxury beachfront properties along the coast that a recent University of Miami study has found to have sunk by up to three inches into the unstable sandy earth. Three inches might not seem like a lot, but this is much faster than most experts anticipated. If you, like footballer Lionel Messi, paid $9 million for an apartment in the Porsche Design Tower, your view of the skyline is now a few inches lower than it was a decade ago.
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GM Needs $350 Million Of Taxpayer Money Or It Might Raze Michigan's Tallest Building
Detroit’s Renaissance Center, home of General Motors, is an immediately recognizable part of the city’s skyline. It’s also nearly empty and only getting emptier, but GM has plans for what to do with the building after its offices have fully moved out. It wants to renovate three of the center’s towers, and demolish the other two, but only if it gets some of your tax dollars from the city and state. Otherwise, the company may just tear down the whole thing.
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Toyota Drops bZ4X Base Price By $6,000 For 2025
Toyota has led the industry with its gasoline-electric hybrids for decades now, yet the Japanese giant has all but abstained from offering a fully fledged EV. Its only EV offering is a frumpy little crossover named after a fax machine that has yet to impress anyone, the bZ4X. For 2025, Toyota has taken a drastic step to make its sole EV more appealing to potential buyers by dropping its base price by a whopping $6,000. The base front-wheel-drive bZ4X XLE now starts at $37,070, while the base pri
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Honda Prelude Returns To The U.S. Next Year As A Hybrid With Simulated Shifts Instead Of A Manual Transmission
Brace yourselves, because Honda is getting back into the sporty coupe business. On Tuesday the automaker announced that the Prelude will return to the U.S. in late 2025, two years after first debuting it in “concept” form. The downside? It sounds as if the new coupe won’t come with a manual transmission as was initially speculated.
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If The Hemi V8 Comes Back, It Won't Be In The New Dodge Charger [Update]
Carlos Tavares wanted the Hemi V8 dead while he was in charge of Stellantis, and he pretty much got his way. Right now, there are just three vehicles built by the automaker that carry the engine: the Ram 1500 TRX (and HD), the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 and the Dodge Durango. That’s it. Now though, it wouldn’t be a crazy idea to think this massive pushrod engine could make a comeback with the departure of Tavares and the incoming Trump administration that is poised to roll back emissions requirem
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School Bus Driver Shortages Are So Bad That Ridesharing Apps Are Stepping In
With paltry part-time pay and a CDL requirement, school districts are struggling to recruit new school bus drivers and shuttering their student transportation services as a result. Several purpose-built ride-sharing apps have risen to prominence attempting to fill the void. These apps essentially function as paid carpooling services with negligible pay and baked-in safety measures.
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Jeep Brings Back The 2025 Wrangler V6's Discontinued Automatic Transmission Due To High Demand
Despite the brand’s troubles, Jeep has a tendency to actually listen to its typically loyal customers. When Jeep customers want something they let the brand know, and that’s paid off for 2025. Just three months after announcing it would be discontinued, Jeep says it’s bringing back the automatic transmission to the V6-powered Wrangler, and it’s all because fans were asking for it.
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Official Reason For New Jersey Drone Sightings Is As Likely As It Is Boring
It looks as if the Feds have finally given us an official reason for the mystery sightings of drones over New Jersey and neighboring states over the last few weeks and damn if it isn’t boring.
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How Automakers Went From Boom To Bust After The Pandemic
Back when the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, wreaking havoc across the world, automakers enjoyed record-high profits as they raised prices because of a shortage of new cars. Now though, that honeymoon period is over, and these companies aren’t in a position to recover without a lot of pain.
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Empty Waymo Robotaxi Loops Roundabout 37 Times As If It Was Stuck In Logic Loop
The fledgling robotaxi services currently out on the roads aren’t quite fulfilling the ambitious promises of a fully autonomous future. One Waymo robotaxi seemingly got stuck in a roundabout last week, causing it to lap around the tight loop 37 times. Thankfully, there were no passengers inside for the dizzying ride.
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25 MPH May Be Too Fast For City Centers: Study
It’s an intuitive concept that a vehicle’s speed is the decisive factor in determining whether a struck pedestrian is seriously injured or killed. New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows front-end height compounds the injury risk created by speed. Findings show that a 25-mile-per-hour speed limit may be too fast for crowded city centers because of the country’s fondness for SUVs and pickup trucks.
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25 Years After Launching America's First Hybrid, 25 Percent Of Honda's Sales Are Hybrids
The turn of the century was an important time for Honda. The Japanese automaker brought its first hybrid to market, the fuel sipping and uniquely aerodynamic Insight coupe that also was the first hybrid to be sold in the United States. The first-generation Insight remans the most fuel-efficient vehicle ever brought to market with its 70-mpg highway rating. Now, 25 years later, Honda is celebrating its hybrid legacy and another important milestone.
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Renault 5 Turbo Is Back As An Electric Rear-Wheel-Drive Hot Hatch, And It Looks Awesome
The all-electric Renault 5, which looks awesome, promises to bring electric power to the masses and even has a baguette holder, is quite possibly my new favorite car. While you might have thought that the Alpine that’s based on this car was the perfect electric hot hatch, Renault has outdone itself with the new Turbo 3E.
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Nissan, Please Let Me Drive The Electric R32 GT-R
Nissan announced something weird early last year: An in-house shed-build, led by a single enthusiast within the company, to electrify an R32 Skyline GT-R. A year and a half later, the project is now apparently ready for its grand reveal at the 2025 Tokyo Auto Salon.
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Gorgeous Aston Martin Valhalla PHEV Finally Launches With Better Performance Than Expected
After first being revealed in concept form in 2019 — a concept that got almost completely cut out of “No Time To Die” because the near-production design was shown in 2021 between when that movie was initially supposed to release and when it actually hit theaters, thus rendering the concept’s appearance obsolete — the plug-in-hybrid Aston Martin Valhalla supercar is now actually ready to go into production. Luckily for the 999 customers that will own them, the final version of the Valhalla is eve
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Mysterious "Car-Sized" Drone Swarm Provokes Panic Across New Jersey
The Garden State is currently under siege from a drone swarm of unknown origin. The scare reached a boiling point on Sunday when a swarm of a dozen drones tailed a U.S. Coast Guard boat and 50 other drones were sighted flying into New Jersey from the ocean. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told Congress that he can’t say whether or not the drones pose a threat to the public.
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Modern Tires Put Porsche's Carrera GT Nürburgring Lap On Fast Forward
Seven minutes and 32 seconds. Way back in 2004 Horst Von Saurma tested the then-new Porsche Carrera GT on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for Germany’s Sport Auto magazine, and that was the time he set in its original form. This week the magazine was back at it again with the same car twenty years on, but this time fitted with Porsche’s new Carrera GT–specific, much stickier Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tire. Porsche pro driver Jörg Bergmeister set a lap with an old Porsche Carrera GT on new rubber,
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Cowards At BMW Killed Off A New M1 To Prioritize The XM
When the BMW i8 launched, it was met with a chorus from the automotive media: The car was nice and cool and all, but it could’ve really used more power to back up that styling. So BMW’s M division went back to the drawing board and penned a 560-horsepower successor that retained the supercar styling and hybrid drivetrain — only to kill it unceremoniously, shortly before a debut, to focus efforts on the XM.
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Electric 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Starts At $129,990, Over $40K More Than The Gas Escalade
Cadillac has finally released pricing for its biggest EV, the all-electric Escalade IQ, which is starting to reach dealers this month. Including destination (which is one of the highest I’ve seen at $2,290), the massive luxury EV will start at $129,990. That makes it $40,400 more expensive to start than an entry-level gas-powered Escalade.
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Project 2025 Has A Lot To Say About The Automotive Industry. None Of It Is Good
Donald Trump is a little bit over a month away from becoming the President once again, so it seems like a good time to look at just what his second administration could mean for the automotive world. Luckily (I guess) for us, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s in store based on things outlined in Project 2025 – a blueprint for a Republican presidential administration published by deeply conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. Sure, Trump has tried his best to distance himself from P
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GM Killed Off Cruise With A Slack Message
There are a lot of shitty ways to find out the project you’ve been working on for months or years has been scrapped, but few seem as inhuman as a Slack notification. That’s exactly how Cruise CEO Marc Whitten let his team know all of their work was for naught. Earlier this week, he posted a message in the company’s announcements channel with a press release link called “GM to refocus autonomous driving development on personal vehicles.” It’s no wonder people aren’t fans of CEOs right now.
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$30,000 Tesla May Not Be Dead After All
People who have been holding out hope for a cheaper Tesla shouldn’t abandon that dream just yet. A new report from Deutsche Bank shows that a new sub-$30,000 Tesla is on the way, and it has been nicknamed the Model Q. It should be noted that the price takes into account the $7,500 tax credit from the Inflation Reduction Act, and who knows how long that’ll be around?
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Car Tumbles Off Overpass To End 100 MPH Police Chase
Everyone with a driver’s license and half a brain knows how deadly police pursuits can be. One Milwaukee man apparently didn’t get the memo, because he smashed through a fence while fleeing at over 100 miles per hour and plunged off an overpass in August. The West Allis Police Department released dashcam footage of the dramatic wreck last week. The man climbed out of the destroyed car on the highway below and was immediately tased.
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Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares Personally Killed The Hemi V8
Carlos Tavares, recently-ousted CEO of Stellantis, is a man of strong opinions. He wanted the company’s vehicles to be more expensive to buy, cheaper to produce, and greener — a series of objectives that put him at odds with his staff, according to a new report. Those goals also led him to his move most noteworthy for enthusiasts: Killing off the Hemi V8 everywhere he could.
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Family Blames Elon Musk's Autopilot Lies For Son's Death In New Lawsuit
Could Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s casual relationship to the truth be his undoing? The world’s richest man is being blamed by family members for the death of a California man whose Model S crashed while Autopilot was engaged. They say claims made by Musk that self-driving technology was perfect and ready for road use contributed to driver Genesis Giovanni Mendoza Martinez’s Tesla crash in February of 2023.
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2025 Toyota 4Runner's Starting Price Is Just $120 More Than The Outgoing Generation
Toyota has finally released pricing for the actually brand new 2025 4Runner, and surprisingly, its starting price is just under $120 more than the old 4Runner’s. Don’t be fooled, though. Go for one of the new 4Runner’s new hybrid powertrains and/or new off-road trims, and you’re looking at a much pricier SUV
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Rivian Topped The Consumer Reports Owner Satisfaction Survey Despite Scoring Last In Reliability
The average price of a new car in the United States is over $48,000, which is over half of the median income of all households in the country, so you’d think the importance of owning a reliable car that minimizes unexpected expenses would be a top priority, right? According to Consumer Reports’ latest member survey of the average predicted reliability of different car brands, that logic doesn’t always play a big role in the real world. There were some surprises in the reliability survey, but wha
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GM Bails On Cruise To Focus On Super Cruise After Burning Billions On Robotaxi Development
General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi mapping unit returned to the Bay Area in September, about a year after one of its cars hit a pedestrian. That didn’t last long, though, as GM announced today that it “plans to realign its autonomous driving strategy and prioritize development of advanced driver assistance systems on a path to fully autonomous personal vehicles.” If you don’t speak press release, that’s GM’s way of saying it’s done with robotaxis and will instead focus on bringing more advanced ver
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You Can Finally Buy A Brand-New Hyundai On Amazon
If you’ve been wanting to buy a new Hyundai but you haven’t wanted to deal with one of their notoriously crappy dealers, Amazon just saved you a trip. The online retail giant has finally rolled out its online car buying tool for Hyundai that has been in the works for over a year.
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Man Returns Used Subaru Outback By Driving It Through Dealership's Front Door
Have you ever bought a vehicle that turned out to not quite be as advertised, and wished you could just take it right back to the seller and give them a piece of your mind? Well, one Utah man tried after buying a used Subaru from a Mazda dealer, and did so in spectacular fashion: Driving the Outback straight through the dealer’s front door.
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Star Trek Fan Gets Thousands Of Dollars In Tickets Because Of Old USS Enterprise License Plate
A fan of one of the greatest science fiction franchises of all time has been getting hit with traffic tickets that are meant for other people. A “Star Trek” fan’s love of the USS Enterprise has seen her receiving thousands of dollars worth of tickets even though she hasn’t driven her car in years and doesn’t even own the associated license plate anymore.
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Ferrari F50, Lamborghini Diablo Among Supercars Found In Syria's Presidential Palace Raid
Rebels storming Syria’s presidential palace this weekend unearthed a haul of supercars worth millions of dollars. Bashar al-Assad’s impressive car collection included models from Lamborghini, Ferrari and Aston Martin allegedly stored in several garages across the country’s capital of Damascus.
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Ford Mustang GTD Officially As Fast Around Nürburgring As Porsche 918 Spyder
When Ford unveiled the 2025 Mustang GTD last year, it pointed to the center field fence and called its shot like Babe Ruth. The Blue Oval promised its ultimate pony car could lap the Nürburgring in under seven minutes. That promise was fulfilled on Tuesday with Ford announcing an officially certified lap time of 6:57:685.
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Lucid Gravity Production Started Right On Schedule
More three-row electric SUVs are hitting the market (or getting ready to), from the recently revealed Hyundai Ioniq 9 to its platform-mate the Kia EV9 to Volvo’s EX90, and now dedicated EV startup Lucid has officially started production of its three-row offering, the Gravity, at its Arizona plant. Lucid said that it would begin Gravity production by the end of 2024, and unlike some car companies that overpromise or don’t miss goals, it stuck to its word, cough cough @Tesla cough cough.
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Toyota's Dumb Jock Robot Set A Guinness Record For Basketball, But It Will Never Be ASIMO
When Honda’s ASIMO died, he left a hole in our hearts shaped like a four-foot-tall spacesuit-looking bipedal robot. Now Toyota has tried to fill that hole with some jock ‘bot who plays basketball well enough to win a Guinness World Record, and I’m here to say: We can tell you tried to swap out the goldfish, and we’re not falling for it.
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Michigan Hyundai Dealer Admits Leasing Used Cars As New Ones, Other Violations
Car dealerships aren’t known to look out for the best interests of their customers; in fact they’re usually better known for gleefully encouraging folks to make some of the worst financial decisions of their lives. LaFontaine Hyundai in Detroit suburb Livonia, Michigan, had its license reinstated last week after it was briefly suspended by the Michigan Department of State (MDOS) after the state discovered a series of violations which created “an ongoing imminent threat to public health, safety,
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21-Year-Old's Used Camaro Deal Is One Of The Worst I've Ever Seen
After last week’s dealership story involving a customer nearly $30,000 upside-down on a Genesis they wanted to trade in on a Mercedes GLS, I thought I wouldn’t see anything that could top it for a while. I was wrong. A 21-year-old first-time car buyer got into one of the worst used car deals I’ve seen, on a used Chevy Camaro of all things.
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Works For TrueCar
Police are questioning a suspect in last week’s shooting of United Health Group CEO Brian Thompson. On Monday TrueCar date engineer Luigi Mangione was arrested on gun charges at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone recognized the man from images released by the NYPD following the shooting.
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Mercedes-AMG PureSpeed Goes Into Production With An F1 Halo And 195-MPH Top Speed
Let’s face it, the ultra-rich have it pretty rough these days. How are the millionaires and billionaires of the world expected to choose what exclusive limited-run special edition cars to add to their collections? Those folks really just can’t catch a break, because now Mercedes-AMG’s first Mythos series model, the windshield-less PureSpeed, is ready to take on the world after being revealed as a prototype earlier this year. 250 of the SL-based PureSpeed will be built, and while Mercedes still h
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Henrik Fisker Please Stop Doing This To Yourself
Henrik Fisker is at it again. This time, instead of being the head of a bankrupt car company that’s selling broken EVs that he designed, he’s getting into the food business.
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Missouri Has The Most Dangerous Traffic Laws In The U.S.
An advocacy organization just concluded a study into which of the states in the U.S. has the worst traffic laws, and hands down the answer was Missouri. Researchers say if the laws there don’t change, more people will die on the state’s roads.
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Former Stanford Student Finally Loses Defamation Suit Against Family Of 2 He Killed In Car Crash
Former Stanford student King Vanga killed Pamela and Joe Juarez in a car crash back in 2021. That is an undisputed fact. When the Juarez family told the university about the whole “killing two people” thing, however, Vanga sued for defamation, claiming they couldn’t call him a murderer because he had only been charged with vehicular manslaughter. As the Stanford Daily reports, though, in an actual victory for free speech protections, Vanga lost his lawsuit against Priscilla Juarez late last mont
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Tesla Claims Your Cybertruck Is Totally Holding Its Value, Actually, Don't Listen To The Market
Tesla, a company which once claimed its cars were appreciating assets, has indicated that it expects Cybertruck values to dip 30 percent over the first three years of ownership. According to the truck’s recently opened lease program a three-year 30,000 mile lease on a standard Cybertruck AWD model would see a buyout option of $54,930 at the end of the lease. Considering the starting price of $79,990, you’re driving $25,070 of value out of the vehicle. A Cyberbeast, with a starting price of $99,9
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Home Of '30 Rock' Actor Grizz Chapman Destroyed In Tractor-Trailer Crash
The home of “30 Rock” actor Grizz Chapman was destroyed after a tractor-trailer crashed into it after careening through a condo complex. In total, four people were injured, 11 cars were damaged and Chapman’s Woodbridge, Virginia, condo he has lived in for two years was left wrecked after the 18-wheeler driver lost control of his rig earlier this week.
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Drivers In One County Rack Up Nearly $600,000 In School Zone Speeding Tickets In One Month
Christmas trees may not see nearly as many presents in Manatee County, Florida this year, after drivers racked up nearly $600,000 worth of school-zone speeding tickets in less than three weeks. Since the county began issuing tickets for speeding in school zones on November 1, its sent out more than 5,700 fines, the Bradenton Herald reports. Will those fines finally get people to slow down, though? Considering the county has been issuing warnings for months, we’re going to go with “probably not.”
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McLaren Warns Window Could Fly Off $400,000 Supercar If You Hit 96 MPH
Supercars might seem exotic with their hand-crafted construction, rare materials and sky-high prices, but they’re just like the cars you or I would drive and can go wrong at any minute. Now, despite charging upwards of $400,000 for its 765 LT supercar, McLaren has revealed that it might not have stuck the rear window on correctly.
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2026 Hyundai Palisade Looks Awesome And Has A Front Bench Seat That Lets You Drive In Korean Bus Lanes
Hyundai is continuing its streak of new debuts that have showstopping designs with the second-generation Palisade, the brand’s largest SUV. The new Palisade has grown even bigger and boxier and has a more luxurious interior, and it now offers up to nine seats, at least in Korea.
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Two Missing After Surviving 1,000-Foot Fall In Pacific Coast Highway Crash
A mysterious crash in Malibu, California, over the weekend has police scratching their heads after two of the occupants in the car seemingly survived but then disappeared without a trace.
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Woman Claims Brain Injury Is To Blame For Her Racist LAX Bus Rant
A woman who recently went on a racist tirade against an Indian family on an LAX shuttle bus is blaming her racism on a brain injury.
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NHTSA May Investigate Fiery Tesla Cybertruck Crash That Killed Three
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the deadly Tesla Cybertruck crash that happened in Northern California last week. It left three young college students dead and another in critical condition. Right now, the California Highway Patrol is leading the crash investigation. We’ll see how far NHTSA takes it.
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California Man Allegedly Steals Over $40,000 Worth Of Fuel From A Gas Station Over 6 Months
Police arrested a 19-year-old man in San Diego earlier this week on suspicion stealing thousands of dollars worth of gas from a suburban gas station over the course of half a year.
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Memphis May Sue Hyundai, Kia Over Prolific Kia Boyz Vehicle Thefts
Add the city of Memphis, Tennessee to the group of folks pissed off at Kia and Hyundai for the whole Kia Boyz car theft fiasco. The city is apparently considering filing a lawsuit against the Korean automakers over the cost of an “epidemic of vehicle thefts.” The lawsuit is part of a package of “extraordinary litigation” that a special attorney would be hired to handle if approved.
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Tennessee State Senator Spectacularly Fails Field Sobriety Test After Allegedly Committing A Hit-And-Run [Update]
Dry January has become a popular trend in recent years as people decide to take a break from drinking, but Tennessee State Senator Kenneth Yager should probably consider a full Dry 2025 after Georgia cops arrested him on charges of failing to stop at a stop sign, hit-and-run and driving under the influence on Tuesday. As if that wasn’t already bad enough, the Tennessean reports the arresting officers claimed in their notes that he urinated on himself during the stop. If that’s not a sign it’s ti
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Rivian Opens Swanky New Joshua Tree EV Charging Station With Snacks, Coffee And Kids Play Area
Folks often blame range anxiety as a reason not to buy an electric vehicle even though they live in an urban area with ample charging options, but things get even trickier for people in rural areas or for people who like exploring remote areas. Many new EVs tout their ruggedness and off-road abilities, but there’s limited infrastructure for fueling electric off-roading. What’s the spelunking EV owner to do? As a manufacturer that exclusively produces off-road focused electric vehicles, Rivian ha
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New Popemobile Is An Electric Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, Just Like God Intended
The Pope has had a lot of cool and sometimes weird rides over the years, with Popemobiles ranging from Fiat Pandas and Mercedes-Benz MLs to Kia Souls and Jeep Wranglers. Probably the best and most iconic Popemobiles are based on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, first a W460-series 230G in the 1980s and then a later W463 G500 starting in 2002. Now the Pope is getting a new car, and it’s based on the fully electric Mercedes G580.
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Mazda CEO Says U.S. Deserves A Two-Rotor Rotary Engine Because The MX-30's Single Rotor Is Too Weak
Mazda’s famous rotary engine finally made its big return last year, but it wasn’t under the hood of a replacement for the RX-8. In fact, it wasn’t even in a performance car at all. Instead, it served as a range extender for the MX-30 electric crossover. You can’t buy that particular car in the U.S., but that doesn’t mean Mazda’s given up on bringing the rotary engine back to the Land of the Free. In an interview with Automotive News, the CEO said that’s because we need a more powerful twin-rotor
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Customer Tells Dealer They Are Underwater $29,000 On Car Loan And Willing To Accept A $2,500 Monthly Payment On A New Mercedes-Benz
Americans owe trillions in car payments and the last few years have shown that people are willing to accept life ruining payments to be able to drive what they want. A recent video of a customer at a Mercedes dealership showed in real time just how wildly financially irresponsible folks who get into these car buying situations can be.
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Hyundai Employees To Strike Unless South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Steps Down
When South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday, it took all of two hours for the rest of the country to decide that, actually, that would not be happening. Now, Hyundai workers in the country’s Metal Workers’ Union have decided that Yoon rolling back the declaration isn’t enough — they want him gone from office, and they’ll strike unless he leaves.
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Rogue Tesla Hits Other Cars Before Driving Off Rooftop With 2 Passengers Inside
Two people were taken to the hospital after a Tesla went rogue in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday and drove off the roof of a parking lot. The Model S reportedly smashed through a barrier and landed in a loading dock with the driver and one passenger inside.
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Miata EV Swap Gives You 160 HP, 150 Miles Of Range And Only Adds 220 Pounds
There are plenty of people who hate the idea of EV-swapping classic cars, but that still hasn’t stopped EV swaps from taking off. It’s entirely possible to figure out your own conversion, but for those of us who would rather not risk electrocution, there are plenty of companies that provide conversion kits that you can buy. One of the newest is something near and dear to many of our hearts — a conversion kit for the NA Miata from a company called Electrogenic.
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New York City's $83 Million AI Bus Cameras Issued Nearly 3,800 Unwarranted Citations
We have been writing about the implementation of AI cameras on city buses in various regions of the country for a while now, but the most populous city in the United States recently had a massive hiccup in the rollout of its cameras. As with other cities, New York’s AI camera program was slated to begin by issuing warning citations prior to issuing actual tickets, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) told NBC New York that some of its cameras were improperly programmed. This impro
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Would You Trade 40 Minutes Of Daylight To Prevent 300 Car Crashes? Musk's DOGE Proposes Axing Daylight Saving Time
When the world was at its lowest during World War I sacrifices needed to be made in order to support the global effort to snuff out nationalism, militarism, and imperialism. In a bid to conserve fuel and energy, the U.S. turned to Daylight Saving Time in 1918. We pulled the clocks forward by one hour during the summer to allow for the regular operation of day-to-day business and schooling to take place during sunlight hours, preventing the need for more lamp oil.
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Tesla Tells Cybertruck Workers To Stay Home
It’s been just over a year since Tesla delivered its first Cybertrucks, and just a couple of months since reports said that basically everyone who wanted a Cybertruck already had one. Last month the company started trying to move unsold units by offering lease deals, and now we’re seeing the final stage of a car that’s outsold its interest: Tesla is telling Cybertruck factory workers not to bother coming in to work.
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Republicans Are Back With Their Chemtrail Nonsense Again, This Time In Florida [Update]
There was a time when the morons who believed fringe conspiracy theories about chemtrails and weather manipulation were treated like the crackpot weirdos that they are. Now that Republicans have gone absolutely mad, though, those same conspiracy theorists have gained enough political influence that lawmakers have introduced a string of bills to ban chemtrails that don’t exist. Now Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia has joined the fun, filing SB 56, a bill to ban all forms of weather modificatio
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I Just Bought A Cheap, Decade-Old EV Because I'm A Glutton For Punishment
As some of you know, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my 2008 Subaru Forester for a while now. With an engine that needed to be rebuilt, a transmission that would occasionally drop down into third gear on the highway and who knows how many other gremlins hiding under the hood, it clearly needed to be replaced. At the same time, despite not feeling comfortable selling it to someone else, I also couldn’t quite figure out what to do with it because it still ran, and the gasket sealer
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Dodge Challenger Goes Airborne And Ends Up On Roof
A person has been killed, two others are in hospital and power has been cut to thousands after a Dodge Challenger flew through the air and crashed into the roof of a house in Idaho. The muscle car reportedly came off the road on Sunday and hit a berm, before going airborne and hitting power cables and two houses.
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Vivek Ramaswamy Is Mad About Rivian's Georgia Factory Because He Doesn't Know How Loans Work
Vivek Ramaswamy is angry at Rivian for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
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Jaguar Type 00 Concept Is A Pink Panther Acid Trip Of An Electric Coupe With A Stone And Brass Interior
The most annoying and stupid people on the internet have been screaming about Jaguar’s “woke” rebrand for almost a month now, despite the teaser campaign being extremely typical fashion-adjacent stuff that’s fitting for the new concept’s launch happening at Miami Art Week, and the “Copy Nothing” tagline actually being the company founder Sir William Lyons’ original saying, not something a new ad agency came up with. Now none of that discourse matters, as the new Jaguar Type 00 concept has been r
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Near-Bankrupt KTM Owes $3 Billion, 'Pauses' MotoGP Program
Austrian motorcycle giant and maker of the X-Bow sports car KTM is on the verge of bankruptcy and will begin a “self-administration” restructuring process to avoid dissolution. A big part of the company’s big money-saving efforts will see the MotoGP effort on the chopping block. KTM, which also owns motorcycle manufacturer Husqvarna and has a majority share ownership in MV Agusta and GasGas, says it will continue to race in MotoGP in 2025, simply tightening the purse strings and pausing race bik
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Edmunds Lost $57,000 On A Fisker Ocean In Less Than A Year
Against all odds, the first Fisker Ocean rolled off the production line a little over two years ago. It was supposed to be the car that brought Henrik Fisker back into the limelight as the CEO of a new electric car company. Soon, Fisker’s poor management would drive his EV startup into bankruptcy, leaving owners holding the bag. Many of them do still have their cars, but as Edmunds found out recently, the Ocean is now nearly worthless. In fact, its value dropped by $57,000 in less than a year.
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Invasive Seaweed Could Be The Next Biofuel To Keep Gas Cars On The Road
A team of researchers on the Caribbean island of Barbados have been working to create a new sustainable fuel to power cars on the island. Instead of using carbon capture or recycled cooking oil, the scientists have turned to an invasive species of seaweed that is taking over the island nations.
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Nice Price or No Dice (22)

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At $7,500, Should We Be Glad To Have Found This 1999.5 Land Rover Discovery II?
The ad for today’s Nice Price or No Dice Disco shows us the truck in question and all the seller’s other Landys. Let’s see if this long-time Land Rover fan has set a price that might make us all just as enthusiastic.
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At $7,500, Is This 2010 Mercedes R350 A Redemptive Deal?
When it comes to kit—AWD, seven seats, an efficient diesel engine—today’s Nice Price or No Dice R350 has got it going on. Let’s find out if its price tag ensures those goods will soon be going to a good home.
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At $4,750, Does This 2003 Chevy Impala Stand A Sporting Chance?
‘SPORT’ is emblazoned on each rear flank of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Impala, despite the model’s traditionally non-sporting nature. Should we be good sports and overlook the debatable decals in light of the asking price?
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At $16,000, Is This 2015 Audi S5 Quattro The Coupe To Scoop?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice hot Audi has an effective factory theft deterrent—a manual transmission. Let’s see if its price makes it a steal anyway.
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At $7,900, Is This 1983 Ford Mustang A Ghost Of Xmas Past?
Today being Christmas, the height of the gift-giving season, we’ll need to decide if this Nice Price or No Dice Mustang is a proper present or if its price makes you hope it comes with a return receipt.
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At $8,700, Is This 1985 Mercedes 300TD A Braggin'-Worthy Wagon?
With a recent paint job and a clean MB-Tex interior, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 300TD looks ready for duty. We’ll still have to decide what such duty might be worth.
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At $19,999, Does This 2008 Mitsubishi EVO X GSR Have The Goods?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice EVO X represents the last hurrah for Mitsubishi’s long-running rally car for the street. We’ll have to decide if this one’s price tag warrants any applause.
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At $39,500, Is This 1998 Panoz AIV Roadster A Fair Weather Friend?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Panoz is a true roadster, offering minimal provision for inclement weather or occupant comfort. Let’s see if this rare sunny-day-special’s price rains on our parade.
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At $7,500, Would You Do A Lap Of Luxury In This 1976 Cadillac Seville?
One of Looney Tunes’ most famous cartoons is 1950’s The Rabbit of Seville, a short that pits Bugs Bunny against Elmer Fudd to the tune of Rossini’s opera buffa. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Cadillac Seville might not be quite as zany, but we’ll still have to decide if its price bugs us.
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At $29,999, Is This 2000 Bentley Arnage T Red Label An Exclusive Bargain?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Arnage T Red Label is the last Bentley model shared with Rolls Royce, as the two former flatmates were split between VW and BMW during the model’s run. It’s now an old-school example of British steel, and we’ll have to decide how much silver and gold it should take to own.
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At $21,500, Is This 1972 Volvo 1800ES Shooting Brake Worth A Shot?
Like Vincent Van Gogh, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo was less appreciated during its production run than in later years. Let’s see how appreciative we might be about this tidy example’s price.
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At $12,500, Does This 1985 Porsche 944 Track?
Whether driving to the gym or at the gymkhana, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 944 looks like a lot of fun. Let’s find out what that sort of fun costs these days.
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At $31,000, Is This 1967 Logghe Dragster A Cackling-Good Deal?
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Logghe dragster was built not to barrel down the quarter mile but for “cackling” car meets. That’s a unique and specific role, and it will require some novel thinking on our part to decide what it might be worth.
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At $5,900, Is This 2009 Mercedes E350 Dressed To Impress?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercedes claims it’s always been garage-kept. That would explain the discordance between its tidy presentation and the 317K it shows on the clock. Let’s see if there’s still life left in it and what that might reasonably be worth.
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At $13,500, Would You Get The Scoop On This 2007 Subaru Forester?
Regarding cars, it’s generally a good idea to avoid other people’s projects, but the mods on today’s Nice Price or No Dice Subaru might make it an exception to that rule. That is, of course, only if the price is right.
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At $17,000, Is This 1994 Ford Bronco XLT A Bucking Good Deal?
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Ford 4X4 claims we will find no other “at this quality and at this price.” Let’s decide if those factors add up to a bargain Bronco.
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At $19,495, Does This 2000 BMW M5 Sound Like A Bargain?
While mileage-heavy, today’s Nice Price or No Dice M5 has the paperwork to prove it’s not all used up. Let’s see how much paper and silver it will take to buy.
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At $8,500, Will This 1994 Dodge Dakota SLT 5.2 Prove A Magnum Opus?
A First Nations tribe, the Dakotas take their name from the word “friend” in their language. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Dodge Dakota looks nice enough to call a friend, but is it a very friendly deal?
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At $9,995, Would You Pimp Your Life In This 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis?
With its low mileage and impeccably clean presentation, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Grand Marquis looks to be the perfect old-school cruiser. Unless, that is, if its price is cruisin’ for a bruisin.’
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At $17,950, Is This 1966 Ford Fairlane A Fair Deal?
Named after Henry Ford’s Dearborn estate, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fairlane wagon is a model of car that once dominated suburbia. Now, much rarer, we’ll have to see how domineering its price appears.
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At $13,500, Could This 1980 Triumph TR8 Give You A Wedgie?
Once called by Car and Driver “the reinvention of the sports car,” today’s Nice Price or No Dice TR8 is now considered a classic. It’s still a controversial classic, and we’ll have to see how contentious its price might prove to be.
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At $7,500, Is This 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport The 4X4 For You?
According to the seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Jeep, pretty much everything that can be replaced has been. There’s still some work to be done, and we’ll have to decide if that means the price also needs fixing.
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Nostalgia You Can Taste (4)

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Volkswagen, I'm Begging You To Make An ID Buzz Syncro
The Volkswagen Bus is part of an elite group of vehicles that are instantly recognizable to almost anyone on Earth. Vehicles like the Bus and the Beetle, and non-VWs like the Ford Mustang, transcend the sphere of car enthusiasts and have found homes in the hearts and minds of all different types of people. Volkswagen’s long-awaited revival of its iconic blunt-nosed bread box on wheels, the fully electric ID Buzz, excites normies and car nerds alike, but Volkswagen has the chance to take things o
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1984 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta Was Slow As Hell But Had Extendable Control Pods And A Swiveling Radio
The preferences of the modern car buyer are so vastly different now than they were 40 years ago. It’s hard to imagine that there was actually a point in time where Chevrolet thought a fancy Camaro focused on luxury and technology would ever sell, but the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta was just that. While it’s still hard to conceive of any reason that someone would buy one, the latest MotorWeek Retro Review showcases some unique touches in the interior of the Camaro Berlinetta that were improved over th
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Mercury Almost Made A Sporty Sable Using Taurus SHO Parts
Unless you’re old enough to remember the muscle cars of the 1960s, Mercury’s name hardly ever comes up when talking about performance. Sure there were models like the Cougar XR-7, Tracer LTS and Marauder, but beyond those, Mercury never received anything that was really special. Things might have been different had engineers got their way in the late 1980s, though. Mercury had plans for a performance version of its Sable sedan, and it even released a special edition to test out some of the ideas
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Rarest GM B-Body Wagon Was The Last Rear-Wheel-Drive V8 Oldsmobile
Oldsmobile is long gone. By the time the brand was phased out in the early 2000s it was a shell of its former self, but Oldsmobile used to make interesting cars like the 442, Trofeo and Aurora. One of the brand’s last interesting cars, and likely one of the rarest, was a badge job of General Motors’ full-size wagon from the early 1990s: the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser.
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Planelopnik (12)

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Azerbaijan Airlines Flight Crashes Near Aktau Under Mysterious Circumstances
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight from Baku to the Chechnyan city of Grozny crashed Wednesday, killing 38. The plane flew hundreds of miles off its route and crashed on the wrong side of the Caspian Sea in Aktau, Kazakhstan, with 29 survivors currently being treated at a nearby hospital. Russian officials initially blamed the crash on a bird strike, Reuters reports, although other aviation experts aren’t so sure.
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Revisiting Boeing's Awful 2024 In The Skies And Space
Boeing had a year that its executives will definitely want to forget. An inflight door plug blow-out on a 737 Max led the Department of Justice to shred its 2021 settlement with the aerospace manufacturer over the plane’s two fatal crashes. Boeing pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government and paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight One Step Closer To Being Found 10 Years After Vanishing Thanks To Ham Radio Breadcrumbs
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over a decade ago. Malaysia’s government announced last week that it will resume its search efforts for the missing airliner. Maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity signed an 18-month deal to lead the effort and will receive $70 million if they can find the aircraft. The search will utilize low-power transmissions to trace potential flight paths MH370 could have taken in 2014.
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Hey, You Can't Shoot At Drones, That's Our Job: Feds
The Federal Aviation Administration banned drone flights over parts of New Jersey starting on Wednesday through January 17. Drones have been prohibited from flying over 22 communities in the Garden State designated as “national defense airspace,” citing “special security reasons.” The federal government stated that deadly force may be used against drones that pose an imminent threat. “Shit just got real,” to quote Michael Bay classic “Bad Boys II.”
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Don't Get Scammed With TSA PreCheck For Your Holiday Travel
Occasional fliers, when standing in line to remove their shoes at security, always glance longingly at us frequent flying types over in the PreCheck line. Our wait times are shorter, our laptops remain in our bags, and our shoes are still firmly attached to our feet. They wonder how they could ever access such luxury, how they could join the ranks of the PreCheck elite. Then, apparently, they get scammed.
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Airlines Can't Go Around Mistreating Disabled Travelers Anymore
Airlines in the U.S. have a terrible track record of handling the equipment of disabled travelers. After hitting American Airlines with a record $50 million fine for its numerous violations of the Air Carrier Access Act, the Department of Transportation is implemented sweeping protections for disabled travelers.
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100 Stinky Pigs In Cargo Hold Divert Flight And Lead To 26-Hour Delay
Passengers onboard a 12-hour flight to Mexico had a pretty uncomfortable ride after they took off from Amsterdam this weekend. The discomfort wasn’t due to rough air, poor food choices onboard or anything like that, instead it was because the cabin filled with an awful smell thanks to 100 pigs that were loaded into the hold.
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80-MPH Airships Could Be The Future Of Sustainable Luxury Air Travel
When people think of airships, they either picture the Goodyear blimp circling the skies of major sports events or the Hindenburg going up in flames. Multiple start-ups are looking to up the notion that dirigibles are an archaic form of transportation. The enterprises claim that rigid airships will herald an era of sustainable luxury air travel despite only having a top speed of 80 miles per hour.
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Trump Frustrated Boeing Delays Means He Won't Fly On New Air Force One Planes He Ordered In 2018
When Donald Trump was elected to a second term as President in November, he called Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg to check on the progress of the new Air Force One planes he ordered during his first term. Unfortunately for the failed steak salesman, the two new Boeing 747 planes won’t be ready until at least 2029, after Trump’s second term ends.
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Small Plane Splits In Half After Crashing Into 3 Cars At Intersection
The cliché response when any small plane runs into mechanical trouble in the sky is to land on a public road. A pilot in Texas found out the hard way on Wednesday why this isn’t always the best idea. The pilot put his Piper Navajo down on a highway frontage road in Victoria and rolled straight into a busy intersection, colliding with three ground vehicles. Four people were injured in the multi-modal wreck, with one person airlifted to the hospital.
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American Arrested For Bringing Golden Handgun To Clown School, Sentenced To A Year In Australian Jail
Here in America, we love two things: Guns and clowns. Those seem to us to be pretty universal points of adoration, yet it seems other countries aren’t quite so fond of them. When an enterprising American woman tried to combine the two at an Australian clown school, she was arrested for “illegally importing” her 24-karat gold-plated 1911, the Guardian reports.
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Airbus Thinks A Lone Pilot Can Fly A Plane From The Toilet Just Fine
When airlines are in serious financial trouble, they start furloughing pilots. Airbus is working to transform the desperate measure of reducing operations costs into a sales pitch for its planes. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) claims the European aerospace giant is proposing putting a toilet in the cockpit to allow for single-pilot flying. The world’s largest pilot union is understandably pissed about the idea.
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These Are Your Automotive New Years' Resolutions
Welcome to the last week of 2024. How was your year? I can’t hear whatever you’re saying out loud to your computer, but either way the year is coming to a close — it’s time to get planning for your 2025 adventures. Last week, we asked for your 2025 automotive resolutions, and today we’re parsing through your responses.
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What Nightmare Car Projects Did You Ditch This Year?
The sun is about to rise on a new year. While it’s the perfect opportunity to look ahead to shiny new cars and fun projects, we should also take a moment to reflect on the things that we are glad to be leaving behind in 2024. There are projects housed in countless garages that are going nowhere for one reason or another that enthusiasts can’t wait to rid themselves of.
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You'd Only Drive These Cars If They Were Free
Last week, we told you about a screaming deal one Colorado Fiat dealership was offering on brand new 500es: $0/down and $0/month for 27 months. All a lessee has to pay is the sales tax, which comes out to something less than $1,800. In today’s day and age, that’s about as close to free as you’re going to get, and it spurred on the question I asked you last Friday.
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Why Are You Reading Jalopnik On Christmas Eve?
Today is December 24, which means there are only a few more days remaining before the horrors of 2024 give way to a fresh, new set of horrors in 2025. For many of you, that also means it’s the day before Christmas. For some of you, it’s the day before the first day of Hanukkah. For the most obnoxious Gen X-ers who have ever walked this earth, it’s the day after Festivus. Which raises a very important question — What the heck are you doing reading Jalopnik on a day when you could be doing literal
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What's Your Automotive New Year's Resolution?
Folks, get the Veuve chilled and your voiceboxes all warmed up for “Auld Lang Syne” — it’s almost time for the new year. 2025 promises us plenty of good and plenty of bad, but it also promises us all a fresh start. A chance to do something new, or maybe something you’ve always wanted to do. We’ve all set New Year’s resolutions, but so many of those are boring attempts at self improvement. Gym memberships, budget apps; these things don’t spark joy. Cars, trucks, and motorcycles do, so today we’re
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These Are Your Most Controversial Car Opinions
If there is one thing I have learned writing for Jalopnik for seven years, it is that the commenters here have a whole lot of deeply seated opinions, and you’re more than willing to defend them. Earlier this week we asked you all to provide us with your most controversial automotive opinion, and boy howdy did y’all deliver.
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What Car Would You Only Drive If It Was Free?
Recently, I told you fine folks about a wildly good lease deal being offered on Fiat 500es at a dealership in Colorado. At full price, the 500e is not that compelling of a car. It’s slow, has poor range and is far too expensive, but with this lease deal, it’s pretty much free for over two years. The only thing you’d have to pay is a few grand in taxes. In this day and age that’s as close to free as you can get. A deal like that makes the 500e a super compelling vehicle to own, and it got me thin
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What's One Car That Everyone Should Drive At Least Once In Their Lifetime?
There are a lot of universally loved cars out there, cars like the Ferrari F40 and the E-Type Jaguar have won thousands of adoring fans around the world. Sadly, we won’t all get to drive automotive icons like these in our lives, but I wondered if there are any cars that we really should try and get behind the wheel of at least once during our short time on this Earth?
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These Are Your Worst Car Gifting Stories
Earlier this week we asked for your worst stories involving car gifting. For a lot of enthusiasts, it can be an exciting prospect to either make use of vehicles after their previous owners no longer use them or to share a passion with younger drivers. However, gifting doesn’t always work out for the best. Recipients may be ungrateful for the car or the gift might not have the best intentions. Without further ado, here are your worst car gifting stories:
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What Is Your Most Controversial Car Opinion? No Judgements
Everyone carries an opinion or two that is somewhat controversial. Maybe you keep it to yourself because you don’t want to cause a stir, or maybe you shout it from the mountain tops to trigger the libs or whatever. Today, and today only, we are all here to listen and not judge. You can sound off in the comments section below with your most unhinged, deranged, and unpopular automotive opinions.
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These Are The Worst Gas Mileages You've Ever Seen
Last week, we asked readers what’s the worst gas mileage they’ve ever seen. From towing with SUVs both old and new, to sport compacts off-road toys, all of these are a stark reminder of just how bad vehicles can be for the environment and our wallets. These were the thirstiest of our reader’s responses.
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These Are The Dumbest Things You've Heard People Say About Cars
Last week we asked the audience the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard someone say about cars. Cars are complex machines that many of us have to interact with on a daily basis, so it’s unsurprising that there’s a lot of misunderstanding and straight up misinformation about them. Though often the dumbest things we hear folks say about cars come from the mouths of folks who don’t know much about cars, sometimes those of us who know more than the average bear still spout off with some egregiously inc
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What's Your Worst Car Gifting Story?
At one point in our lives or another, we’ve made sweetheart deals for cars with friends or family. An adult gifting an old car to a teenager fresh out of their driving test. Maybe, you sold an unwanted car taking up space in your garage to a friend at less than the market price. While there are typically good intentions at the start, someone can easily change their mind.
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These Are The Cars From The Year 2000 You Want To Import In 2025
We’re just a few weeks away from entering the new year, which means there will be a new crop of 25-year-old cars available for import into the United States. Earlier this week I asked you to share what car from 2000 you’d want to import, and your answers ran the gamut. (A lot of them had already debuted before 2000, but I’ll let it slide.) Click through to see the best ones, and let us know in the comments which is your favorite.
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What's The Worst Gas Mileage You've Ever Seen?
Vehicle fuel efficiency has improved drastically over the last 15 to 20 years. Some crossovers and pickup trucks are capable of getting fuel economy that was once reserved for midsized sedans. That hasn’t always been the case. Even now with engine tech the way it is, there are still some vehicles out there that get sinfully bad gas mileage that can be downright ridiculous.
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These Are The New Cars Our Readers Are Most Excited About In 2025
Soon, the horrors of 2024 will give way to fresh, new horrors for 2025, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to look forward to. A new year also means new cars, and whether you plan to buy one or just hope to see one on the road, it’s always exciting when the new models start showing up on dealer lots.
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What's The Dumbest Thing You've Heard Someone Say About Cars?
If you’re reading Jalopnik, you’re likely a car aficionado (and/or nerd), and thus likely to know more about cars than the average bear. If you know cars, then you know that they’re incredibly complex machines with thousands of moving parts. Beyond the mechanics of it all lies the somehow more complex and multifaceted world of car culture. From the bougiest Formula 1 races and multimillion-dollar classics to demolition derbies and monster trucks, car culture can be mighty difficult to understa
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These Are The Car Companies Non-Car People Love
We all have our specific tastes in cars, our Great Walls and Blackwoods and Skylines, but what do the regular commuters around us love? That’s the question we asked earlier this week, and today we’re looking through your answers.
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What Car From The Year 2000 Do You Want To Import In 2025?
Last week I was in Germany and Austria for a work trip that you’ll be hearing more about soon, and local carspotting got me thinking about how in less than a month, we’ll be able to import cars from the year 2000. That’s right, the turn of the millennium happened 25 years ago, bringing a new era to the cars that are importable into the United States under our annoying laws. So, what 25-year-old car do you want?
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These EVs Would Be Better If They Were Gas-Powered
I’m a big fan of electric vehicles. If you ask me, they’re better than their gas-powered counterparts in 99 percent of situations, but I am not the arbiter of truth, and I like hearing the opinions of other folks. Some people out there aren’t buying into the whole EV thing yet, and whether they’re right or wrong isn’t for me to say. Everyone is entitled to their own bad opinions. That’s sort of what led me to my question from last week.
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What New Car Are You Most Looking Forward To In 2025?
2024 has certainly been a year, but don’t worry, it’s almost over. All we have to do is make it a few more weeks, and 2024 will be in the rearview mirror as we cruise into 2025. Next year will surely come with its fair share of horrors and regrets, but you know what’s a fun distraction from those kinds of worries? Cars. Specifically, new cars. We’ll get to see and drive all sorts of new cars next year, and that will be fun.
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These Were The Greatest Formula 1 Seasons Of All Time According To Readers
Formula 1 wrapped up another year with a weirdly entertaining Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that saw the constructors title come down to the wire, an emotional split between Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes oh and, oh, Valtteri Bottas also ran his last F1 race.
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What Car Company Is Most Beloved By Non-Car People?
We here at the good ship Jalopnik tend to have eclectic tastes. We like our brown manual diesel wagons, our Ladas, our Urals. Yet, in all our eccentricities and fixations, we might miss out on some knowledge from the wider world: What cars do normal people like?
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These Are The Car-Related Apps You Can't Live Without
Your phone is basically glued to your hand these days, so you might as well use it to make your driving experience better. Obviously we would never condone using a cell phone while you’re driving, but there are plenty of apps that can really elevate your drive, or provide entertainment in between drives.
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What Was The Greatest F1 Season Of All Time?
With one final wave of the checkered flag, the 2024 Formula 1 season will come to an end on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, what did you think to it? Sure, Max Verstappen clinched a fourth title with little competition, but drama elsewhere on the grid made it quite an entertaining year. But was it one of the best?
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What EV Would Be Better If It Was Gas-Powered?
I love electric vehicles. For 99 percent of driving applications, an EV is just a better, more pleasant experience than its gas-powered counterparts. However, not everyone agrees with this sentiment, so they’d prefer if they were powered by good ol’ dino juice rather than electrons. That’s what led me to today’s question.
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What's The Best Car-Related App On Your Phone?
Technically mobile phones have had applications installed since the 1980s with simple calendar, clock and calculator inclusions, but it took until the iPhone’s arrival in 2007 for the apps we know to be apps today. I am of the age that I came up learning how to get from one place to another by reading maps in a pre-internet age, then learned printing out turn-by-turn directions from Mapquest, and now I can just push buttons and follow the blue line. I think proper map apps today are maybe the mo
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These Are Your Worst Driving Experiences In Foreign Countries
Driving overseas can create headaches as you acclimate to the local customs and practices over the brief time. We asked our readers to share their worst experiences behind the wheel in a foreign country. Surprisingly, a large amount of comments involved Germany, but it wasn’t entirely about the autobahn. Without further ado, here are the rental car scams, bridge collapses and out-of-hand traffic:
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These Are The Best Examples Of Platform Sharing
Platform sharing is all but necessary to run a successful car company in the modern world, but which automakers have done it best? Last week we asked you that exciting question and you sounded off. From the logical answers to the absurd, our readers didn’t disappoint.
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What's Your Worst Driving Experience In A Foreign Country?
Many fantasize about traveling abroad to drive on iconic roads like the Stelvio Pass in Italy or the Transfagarasan Highway in Romania. Still, not every strip of pavement is a scenic byway. Every country has typical streets and highways, as well as the traffic that comes with them. The congestion can arguably be worse than at home depending on the region.
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KTM Likely To Leave MotoGP In 2026 If Racing Division Isn't Sold Off Next Year
It’s not a secret that KTM is in deep financial trouble. The Austrian motorcycle manufacturer is nearly $3 billion in debt and entered self-administration in late November. KTM is reportedly planning to shut down its entire MotoGP division in 2026. This would include its four-bike top-class effort along with its Moto2 and Moto3 programs. The racing division’s demise is projected to save KTM $47.7 million annually.
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Aston Martin Might Remove The Valkyrie Race Car's Mufflers To Let That V12 Really Sing: Report
Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing team went into pre-season testing cautiously optimistic. After finding its new Valkyrie Hypercar racer was several seconds off the pace, it is decided that the car won’t make its debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January while the team looks for a solution. Part of that solution might be found in completely removing the Valkyrie’s exhaust mufflers and giving the Cosworth-built V12 a real roar. The car is currently slated to bow in racing trim at the 12 Hour
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Lewis Hamilton Could Be The Savior KTM's Ailing MotoGP Team Needs
With KTM’s recent financial mess, this could be the perfect opportunity for Sir Lewis Hamilton to step in and take control of a semi-competitive MotoGP team that is already up to speed.
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Tuthill's Carbon Fiber Porsche Rally Car Was Built For Africa But Loves The Snow In New Hampshire
Is a vintage Porsche any good at rallying? Are you silly? An old Porsche drives great at normal everyday speeds, but it really comes into its own at full send, opposite lock, sliding sideways. Porsche wasn’t convinced that the 911 would ever be a proper competition car when it was first built in 1964, but after a couple short years of development the now-legendary car won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1968, and the rest is history. That should answer your question, but in case you still had some rese
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Liam Lawson Is Walking Right Into Red Bull's Trap
The old Red Bull is back. For the last decade, since Sebastian Vettel departed for Ferrari the energy drink team has fumbled through half a dozen junior team drivers who weren’t ready for the big leagues, promoted too soon and died on the vine. New Zealander Liam Lawson has been promoted to the second Red Bull seat, replacing the one guy who proved Red Bull’s junior system is bunk, 14-year F1 veteran Sergio Perez.
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Carlos Sainz Celebrates His Final Day As A Ferrari Driver On Track With His Dad
Carlos Sainz Vazquez de Castro made his debut as a Scuderia Ferrari racing driver almost four years ago, and in his time wearing red overalls found four Grands Prix victories and 21 further podium finishes despite the recent Red Bull domination. Carlos has departed Ferrari to make room for seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, moving on to Williams Grand Prix for the 2025 season. In his last official act as a Ferrari driver, the team put on a celebratory day for him at the famous Pista Di Fiorano
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Ford's Electric Van Is Faster Around The 'Top Gear' Track Than Any Supercar Ever Made
Think of the fastest supercar you can. Got it? It’s slower around the ‘Top Gear” test track than an electric Ford Transit. Koenigsegg’s 1,600 horsepower Jesko Attack holds the current lap record around the Dunsfold circuit for street-legal vehicles with a one minute 10.9 second run. While ‘Top Gear” was still filming there, the Stig managed to top the times with a Ferrari SF90 Stradale just slightly behind at one minute 11.3 seconds. Honestly, there isn’t much out there quicker than those mega m
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Rallying A Mercedes Is The Classy Way To Go Fast
Mercedes-Benz isn’t exactly known for its rally heritage, but for a brief moment in the late 1970s the company decided to throw some effort into the sport by building a pair of 450 SLC 5-liter Rallye. It actually won a few events and might have carried on with a bit more luck. With more development, the five-liter eater might have had some more success through the 1980s. Unfortunately the program was dropped in 1980, but an intrepid shop in Germany has carried on the legacy with its own SLC rall
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Buy This Race Car To Complete Your Dale Earnhardt Cosplay
Dale Earnhardt’s death in 2001 rocked the sport to its core and has thankfully lead to a revolution in car and driver safety. The seven-time NASCAR champion was an icon and among the most popular drivers in history. His legacy remains unmatched, and many fans still hold that he’s the greatest to ever do it. If you’re so inclined, you could buy this Monte Carlo stock car that was used in the 2004 ESPN biopic film “3 - The Dale Earnhardt Story” and live out your dream of being The Intimidator.
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Rwanda Aims To Host Formula 1 In Africa For The First Time In Over 30 Years
The current breakdown of F1 Grands Prix by continent is pretty astonishing for its noticeable gap. Nine races are held in Asia, eight in Europe, five in North America, and one each in South America and Australia. Africa remains the only habitable continent on the planet to not host an F1 race in over 30 years. The sport used to travel to South Africa for a race at the famed Kyalami circuit beginning in 1967, but the country didn’t have enough money to cough up for F1 to keep coming back after 19
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WRC Tearing Up Its Rulebook For 2027 To Allow Wider Mix Of Rally Cars And Powertrains
The FIA World Rally Championship’s 500-horsepower hybrid Rally1 monsters are being put out to pasture. Motorsport’s global governing body approved a new flexible, future-proof and cost-controlled ruleset for international rallying’s top category in 2027. The “WRC27” regulations will allow internal combustion, hybrid and full electric powertrains under a wide variety of body styles.
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Formula E Is The Best Racing On The Planet Now
The Formula One season ended last weekend with a pretty solid race and some decent excitement. If you ask me, however, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was completely overshadowed by the chaos and manic nature of Formula E’s season-opening Sao Paulo E-Prix and the debut of the new Gen 3 Evo cars. When I tell you this race had everything, I mean it was packed from wall to wall with strategy, pack racing, more overtakes than an entire season of F1 and some incredible wheel-to-wheel action. In F1, the pole
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Sergio Perez Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Cost Red Bull The Constructors' Championship
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this. Despite Red Bull’s ace driver Max Verstappen already clinching the championship with ease the team will leave the 2024 season no better than third in the constructors’ championship behind Ferrari and McLaren. Speaking to the press ahead of this weekend’s season finale Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Red Bull’s Sergio Perez displayed incredulity that his team didn’t try harder to win the constructors’ championship. “I’m obviously part of a big organization, a
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Max Verstappen Is A Violent Bully And His Actions Are Going To Get Someone Killed
I think it goes without saying at this point that four-time Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen is a generational driver talent. He’s certainly among the best to ever do it. He’s also an insufferable asshole who uses his car as a weapon. Saturday night, ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix (which Verstappen easily won) he allegedly threatened Mercedes driver George Russell with putting “his fucking head in the wall.” During Saturday’s qualifying session Verstappen driving unnecessarily slowly cause
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Remember When Porsche Race Cars Had An Engine In The Front?
Porsche was ready to kill off the 911 in the middle of the 1980s with an eye toward replacing it with the heavier and faster 928 grand tourer. Porsche couldn’t just let the 911 die on the vine and not replace it in the world of motorsport, so the company was looking to promote its entry-level 944 model to represent the Stuttgart crest on the race track. For 1987 the company built a limited run of 944 GTR race cars, including this one which ran in IMSA GTO competition. It looks as wild as it soun
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Former Michael Schumacher Security Guard Accused Of Attempting To Blackmail Family For $15.8 Million
People really just won’t leave Michael Schumacher and his family alone. The former Formula 1 driver with seven driver’s championship titles under his belt has been out of the public eye since he suffered a head injury in a skiing accident more than a decade ago. Last year, a German magazine had the gall to publish an AI-generated interview with “Schumacher,” and now ESPN reports a former security guard is set to go to trial over allegations that he and his co-conspirators tried to blackmail the
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Genesis Reveals GMR-001 Hypercar That Will Take On Le Mans
An overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is a highly-sought accolade among luxury automakers like Audi, Ferrari and Porsche. In a somewhat surprising turn, Genesis aims to join that select group. The Hyundai luxury brand revealed the GMR-001 Hypercar on Wednesday, its prototype racer that will compete in the 2026 edition of the French endurance classic. The program’s first two drivers were also announced: Three-time Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer and two-time IMSA champion Pipo Derani.
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Iron Dames All-Women Racing Team Grows With Porsche Support After Lamborghini Fumbled The Bag
Porsche Motorsport has signed up for an alliance with all-women team Iron Dames which will last for “several years” and see the team flying Stuttgart colors in the FIA WEC, European Le Mans Series, Asian Le Mans Series, and IMSA sports cars. Since Lamborghini’s decision to depart the FIA WEC, leaving Iron Dames holding the empty bag, the team has been looking for a new manufacturer to work with in future seasons. As part of the deal Iron Dames driver Michelle Gatting will be promoted to official
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Bernie Ecclestone Can't Drive His F1 Cars Anymore, Decides To Sell Them Off
You remember international motorsport’s supervillain Bernard Charles Ecclestone, right? The 94-year-old was perhaps the most important figure in bringing Formula 1 to the masses, and managed to elevate himself from a dealership salesman to a successful team owner to running the whole series in just a few short years. His work at the top of the sport made him wealthy beyond imagining. After a 652 million pound tax fraud bill came due, the nonagenarian billionaire has to sell off his collection of
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2024 Bentley Flying Spur Edition 8 Exists So Your Chauffeur Can Have Fun Too
When I first walked up to the 2024 Bentley Flying Spur Edition 8 I’d be driving around Southern California in a parking garage below LAX, I was a bit disappointed. Usually, when I head out to LA, I do my best to get fun, sporty cars for my stay to take advantage of the wonderful roads we don’t get back in New York City, but it wasn’t to be this time. No, I was stuck with a massive Blue Crystal limousine that weighed more than my apartment building and seemingly couldn’t get around a corner witho
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2024 McLaren 750S Broke My Brain
I’ve driven a lot of stupidly fast cars at Jalopnik this year. Stuff like the Lucid Air Sapphire, Chevrolet Corvette, Maserati GranCabrio Folgore and Bentley Continental GT Speed come to mind, but none of those cars have altered my brain chemistry and changed my DNA as the McLaren 750S did. You see, it’s not the fact that it can hit 60 mph from a standstill in a Car and Driver–tested 2.3 seconds, or the fact that it can hit 206 mph on a straight bit of road. It’s the fact that if you put your fo
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These Cars Didn't Live Up To The Hype In 2024
We drive dozens, if not hundreds of cars every year. Some of them come around with a lot more hype than others. Folks aren’t really waiting in anticipation over things like the new gas-powered Chevy Equinox, but for some cars, there’s a ton of suspense leading up to their release.
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2024 Toyota Prius Is Hybrid Perfection
There was once a time when the mere mention of the Toyota Prius elicited laughter and prompted remarks like “A Prius? Seriously?” from people who didn’t know any better. Not any longer. The fifth-generation Prius is the best looking and most powerful the hybrid has been in its 23-year history, and after driving one around for over a week, I get why owners are so loyal to the Prius. I also understand why Toyota seems to be taking its sweet time getting in on fully electric cars. When your hybrids
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2024 Mercedes-AMG GT63 S E Performance 4-Door Is Egregiously Fast, Expensive, Unnecessary Yet Cool
I’m not fancy. I’m just grateful that I get paid to write about and drive cars all day, and honestly it doesn’t take much to make me happy. I own a 2017 Mini Cooper S, and when people ask me what my dream car is I don’t really have an answer because my Mini does everything I need. I buy new clothes maybe once a year, I live in a studio apartment, and my favorite food is a tie between mozzarella sticks and pupusas. Having said that, when the fabulous folks at Mercedes offered to loan me a nearly
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2025 Nissan Armada Is Finally The Patrol We've Been Asking For
Last time Nissan redesigned the Armada it was a big deal, and not just for the Nissan dealers who desperately needed something that wasn’t more than a decade old in the lineup. You see, for the 2017 model year, Nissan brought over the SUV known in international markets as the Patrol and gave it the Armada badge. While the Patrol name might not mean much here, in other markets and among enthusiasts, it’s a legendary off-roader that gives the Toyota Land Cruiser a real run for its money.
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Electric Mercedes-Benz CLA Could Be A Breakthrough Moment
Typically, when I get to do a ridealong in a new car, prototype or otherwise, the car is actually, you know, in motion. Today though, sitting in the passenger seat of a camouflaged prototype of the upcoming third-generation Mercedes-Benz CLA, we’ve spent most of the drive route completely stopped. That’s not anything to do with the car itself, but rather the conditions. With head of the electric drive system Timo Stegmaier at the wheel, we’re trying to drive up the Timmelsjoch mountain pass in A
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2024 Dodge Charger Daytona EV Is Convincing Muscle Car Cosplay
Dodge has never been a terribly forward-thinking company. Cars like the old Charger and Challenger were made to remind you of the glory days of the American muscle car. They had massive engines, were as big as medium-sized yachts and weren’t great at going around a corner. Now, the 110-year-old automaker is looking to change all of that with the introduction of the 2024 Charger Daytona EV.
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2025 Genesis GV80 Doesn't Mess With A Winning Formula
It’s rare for an automaker to do everything right, but Genesis is in that position right now. From the G70 sport sedan to the G90 flagship and everything in between, every vehicle Genesis makes is stellar. That continues with the 2025 GV80. Recently refreshed, Genesis’ biggest SUV enters its fourth model year with small impactful tweaks but no major changes, because why mess with a winning formula?
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Blood Could Be Key Ingredient For Concrete On Mars
It’s conceivable that a future American President will address the nation from the Oval Office on the day NASA successfully lands astronauts on Mars. They will likely praise the blood, sweat and tears it took to travel 140 million miles to the Martian surface. However, those same bodily fluids could be vital building materials for long-term habitation on the Red Planet.
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Private Space Station Set To Break Free From ISS 2 Years Early
The International Space Station is nearly five years from its scheduled death date. NASA’s funeral plans include seeing a private station springboard off the ISS before the older station plunges into the Pacific Ocean. However, the space agency announced last week that the private Axiom Station could break free “as soon as 2028,” two years ahead of schedule.
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NASA Solar Probe Set For 430,000 MPH White-Knuckle Ride Skimming The Sun
The Parker Solar Probe is expected to skim the Sun’s outer atmosphere on Tuesday. NASA’s probe will come within 3.86 million miles of the solar surface, closer than any human-built object ever. It might seem distant, but Mercury is 39.4 million away from the system’s namesake star. The probe will be coming in hot in more ways than one, hitting 1,800 degrees while hurtling through space at an awe-inspiring 430,000 miles per hour.
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Russia Isn't Abandoning The ISS Early After All
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Roscosmos threatened to withdraw from the International Space Station by the end of this year. The space agency backpedaled last year to a 2028 departure. In a TV interview last week, the Director General of Roscosmos stated that cosmonauts will stay until NASA and SpaceX de-orbit the space station in 2030.
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SpaceX Ground Control Lost Power For An Hour During Spacewalk Mission
Conducting a crewed space mission isn’t like going out on a cross-country road trip. You can get by just fine without cell service on an isolated stretch of highway, but a spacecraft losing communications is typically the precursor to a disaster. SpaceX lost power for at least an hour at a California facility during Polaris Dawn, a five-day mission in September that featured the first private spacewalk in history. The company’s mission lost its ability to command the mission’s Dragon spacecraft
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NASA's Bigger, Faster New Space Helicopter Will Go Where Rovers Can't
NASA carried out a record-breaking feat when it flew a man-made craft on the surface of another planet for the first time with the Ingenuity probe. The American space agency is now preparing for a repeat of this achievement with a new Martian helicopter that could be bigger, more powerful and reach places other rovers could only dream of.
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SpaceX Delays Mean Astronauts Stranded On ISS Have To Wait Even Longer To Come Home
The two NASA astronauts stuck on the International Space Station by the issue-plague Boeing Starliner now have to wait a little longer to return to Earth. NASA announced on December 17 that February’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission has been pushed back until March at the earliest. The delay will allow SpaceX more time to complete processing on a new Dragon spacecraft for the mission.
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Elon Musk Isn't Allowed To Know About SpaceX's Spy Satellites
SpaceX has contracts to do all sorts of work for the United States government, from putting Toyotas on the moon to plunging the International Space Station into the sea. The company’s work includes secret projects for the U.S. military, but CEO Elon Musk wouldn’t know much about that — he’s not allowed into those rooms at corporate HQ.
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NASA's Artemis Program Delayed Again, China May Win Modern-Day Space Race
With the Space Launch System facing potential cancellation, the Artemis program will already a rough time paving a path to the Moon and it’s only getting worse. NASA announced last week that the next two Artemis missions will be delayed again following the discovery of Orion’s capsule heat shield cracked and chipped away in places during the Artemis I mission in 2022. NASA’s return to the Moon is now slated for mid-2027 at the soonest.
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Russia's Abandoned Rival To The Space Shuttle Is A Rusting Reminder Of The Race To Govern Space
NASA’s iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our understanding of the cosmos through the countless satellites it launched into orbit. Russia’s attempt at building a space plane of its own, however, was far less successful and now one of the few reminders of its existence sits rusting in a hanger in the desert.
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Nuclear Hearts Of NASA's Voyager Probes Are Dying Taking The Crafts With Them
After launching into space almost 50 years ago, NASA’s Voyager probes are reaching the end of their lives. The nuclear batteries onboard the two spacecraft are running out of juice, which means NASA is counting down the days until the death of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 by slowly shutting off systems one by one.
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Listen To Mate Rimac Explain The Difference In Managing Heat Between EVs And Gas Cars
Rimac Group CEO Mate Rimac is a Croatian tech geek, engineer, and designer with a crazy level of insight into how cars are built because he’s in charge of building some of the fastest machines in the world. Just over a decade ago Rimac was wrenching on his home-built electric-converted BMW E30 and now he’s in charge of Bugatti and Rimac, two sides of the hypercar coin. Obviously Rimac is inextricably tied to advanced electric propulsion, and Bugatti wouldn’t be what it is without massive gas-guz
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Digital License Plates Can Be Hacked To Dodge Tolls And Tickets [Update]
Digital license plates have been around for several years, promising to save states money shipping metal plates while also dragging their respective departments of motor vehicles into the 21st century. Except Wired reports they can also be hacked to change the plate number at will, allowing drivers to avoid paying tickets and tolls. In fact, they can also allegedly stick other drivers with their fines, which doesn’t sound good. That could even be considered bad, actually.
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This Complete Tear Down And Rebuild Of An Audi W12 Is Automotive ASMR
Volkswagen Group’s W12 engine was one of the most complex powertrains to ever be put into a vehicle. There’s a reason why you’d probably want to steer clear of one of these things if you find them used. Maintenance and fuel costs are high, and some owners even had serious problems with things like oil consumption. One Audi W12 owner in China got lucky when he found a shop that did a complete rebuild on their engine for what honestly feels like a bargain.
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These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In 2024
It’s no secret that we here at Jalopnik have been critical of Elon Musk’s stainless steel middle finger to the automotive industry. In fact, we wrote over 60 Tesla Cybertruck blogs in its first year as a real car in the real world.
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The Morning Shift (19)

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Donald Trump Takes Elon Musk's Side In H1B Visa Fight
Happy Monday! It’s December 30, 2024, 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.
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Don't Expect Used Car Prices To Drop In 2025
Happy Friday! It’s December 27, 2024, 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.
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Canoo Imposes 'Mandatory Unpaid Leave' On All Employees, Locking Workers Out Of Systems Until 2025
Good morning! It’s Monday, December 26, 2024, 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.
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Honda And Nissan To Merge In 2026, Creating World's Third-Largest Automaker
Good morning! It’s Monday, December 23, 2024, 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.
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Donald Trump Just Doesn't Know Where He Stands On EVs
Good morning! It’s Friday, December 20, 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.
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NHTSA Says Never Mind To Massive Airbag Recall After Lengthy Fight With Automakers
Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 19, 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.
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Honda And Nissan In Merger Talks To Compete With Tesla And China
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 18, 2024, 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.
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EV Charging Infrastructure Will Continue To Expand Under Trump Whether He Likes It Or Not
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 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.
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Stellantis 'Will Survive' As Ferrari Chair Rushes To Repair The Damage
Good morning! It’s Monday, December 16, 2024, 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.
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Trump May Kill Crash Reporting Requirements Tesla Has Fought Against
Good morning! It’s Friday, December 13, 2o24, 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.
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GM Still Wants To Crack Autonomy Despite Closing Unit Meant To Do Just That
Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 12, 2024, 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.
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Electric Car Buyers Almost Never Go Back To Gasoline
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 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.
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Tesla Cybercab Will Be Remote Controlled Until FSD Improves
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 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.
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Automakers Call On Donald Trump To Slash EV Targets So They Finally Hit Them
Good morning! It’s Monday, December 9, 2024, 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.
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Elon Musk Spent A Quarter Billion Dollars To Get Donald Trump Elected
Good morning! It’s Friday, December 6, 2024, 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.
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GM May Drop EV And Hybrid Goals If Trump Administration Eases Regulations
Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 5, 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.
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Americans Can't Get Enough Of Hybrid Cars
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 4, 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.
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Elon Musk Loses His $56 Billion Pay Pack Yet Again
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, December 3, 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.
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Stellantis CEO Quits During Critical Period For The Automaker
Good morning! It’s Monday, December 2, 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.
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Trainlopnik (2)

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Broken Down School Bus Evacuated Minutes Before Being Hit By Train
More than a dozen children were evacuated from a school bus in Belgium after it broke down on a rail crossing last month. The driver of the bus escorted the 16 children on board to safety moments before a train passed through and totally destroyed the bus.
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These Stretchy Trains Can Run On Different Tracks By Widening Their Wheelbase
American trains are pretty simple beings, really. They carry people from A to B in rudimentary comfort with very few bells and whistles. That isn’t the case with rail travel overseas though, and trains in Switzerland even come with the ability to run on different width tracks thanks to some very clever wheels.
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Everyone, And I Mean Everyone, Needs A Supercharged Wheelbarrow Hot Rod
We’ve all been there. You’re sitting around your fab shop shooting the shit with your pals and start thinking you should do something with your pile of vintage military surplus aircooled four-cylinder generator engines, a tiny supercharger, and an old disused wheelbarrow. What if you put them all together with a custom frame and air suspension and ripped it up to 45 miles per hour? Have another beer or two and it goes from a good idea to a tremendous idea.
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This Kenyan Company Is Building Totally Rad All-Terrain Wheelchairs
Never underestimate the ingenuity of the human population. They say necessity is the mother of invention, and that seems to be the driving force behind the Safari Seat, an all-terrain gear-driven wheelchair built in Kenya for people with limited mobility to get around. Most wheelchairs are optimized for paved sidewalks and building hallways, but living in the African countryside doesn’t exactly afford wheelchair users a lot of paved and level paths. YouTuber JerryRigEverything went to Kenya to t
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Loose Cables And Low Fuel Pressure Blamed For Dali's Crash Into Francis Scott Key Bridge
More than eight months after a huge container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, investigators have begun piecing together the failures that led up to the disaster. The Dali ship hit the vital river crossing after a blackout onboard and now it’s emerged that the loss in power could have been caused by loose cables and low fuel pressure on the ship.
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Volkswagen (1)

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2025 Volkswagen Taos Is Exactly What You Think It's Going To Be
The 2025 Volkswagen Taos is not an exciting vehicle. When you mat the gas pedal, pull back on the shifter and grip the steering wheel, you aren’t filled with a deep sense that this compact crossover is meant to be a bastion of driving enjoyment. Instead, you’re met with middling acceleration, a silky smooth transmission and a steering system so light you can almost hear it telling you to calm the fuck down. This might make it sound like I am not a fan of the Taos, but you’d be wrong.
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Wrenching (8)

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Parts Bought For A Neglected Project Are Basically Free, That's Car Math
From the ashes a phoenix will rise. I bought my 1997 Porsche Boxster track car a decade ago and it has been largely idle since 2020. I had grand plans when I pulled it into my garage and put it up on my Quickjacks. It’s been a couple of years since I had even laid eyes on the car, having moved across the country, and I don’t have any vision of when I’ll get back to it. So instead of letting all of this stuff sit around and collect dust, I decided it was best to grab a bunch of parts from this pr
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Body-Swapping A Hellcat With A Town And Country Is As Hard As It Sounds
When you think of a “Hellcat swap,” what do you picture? Probably someone pulling the engine out of a car and replacing it with a V8 out of a Hellcat, right? Well, what if there was a far more complicated way to swap a car? What if you could just lay the body of another car atop a full Hellcat chassis, would that be better for you?
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Cybertruck Owner DIYs A $3,000 Repair For $25
Denting your car sucks. It happens to everyone at some point or another, and it’s often more of an annoyance than a real pain — there are plenty of hacks for popping out your own dents. Yet, when a Cybertruck owner showed up to the service center with a dented door, Tesla wanted to charge $3,000 for the fix. The owner managed it for just $25.
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I Lowered My Daily Driver And You Can Too
My cute little strawberry-colored hybrid is all grown up. This week I finally finished installing the lowering springs on my 2016 Audi A3 E-Tron daily driver and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been driving lowered vehicles as my everyday machines for about 15 years, and sitting just a little bit lower than factory makes my heart sing. A rather simple coil spring swap and some cool wheels is all most cars need to look their best. The aesthetic and handling benefits of lowering a car more than outwei
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I Broke My Car In A Way That Was So Dumb I Could Only Laugh About It
We all make mistakes, right? Yesterday in the waning hours of sunlight after struggling with a car project for about five hours, I broke my car in a way that I’ve never seen before. Surely a consequence of fatigue, cold, laziness, and rush, I accidentally snapped the mounting ear off of my Audi’s driver side front brake caliper. And the funny thing is, I wasn’t even working on the car’s braking system at all, I was installing front lowering springs. It was all going so well, right up until it wa
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Honda Sells Spicy Electrical Tape To Stop Rodents Eating Your Wiring
Clever designers around the world have come up with all kinds of ingenious creations over the years. Mazda’s famed rotary engine is admired by many, the energy recovery systems in Formula 1 engines made them some of the most efficient in the world and now Honda has a special rodent-resistant tape that’s packed with chili heat to stop rats and mice from chewing through your car’s intricate writing looms.
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Learning Things The Hard, Painful Way Is A Key Component Of Wrenching
Forgive me readers, for I’ve been foolish. In an effort to make my little hybrid econobox a bit more fun to drive and even cooler to look at, I ordered up some progressive rate lowering springs and H&R sway bars from ECS Tuning. There isn’t much information out there on modifying an Audi A3 E-Tron, so I was taking a few leaps of faith here. In poking around at listing after listing I found most sway bar manufacturers list sway bar fitment as “all FWD MQB models,” except I found out the hard way
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Your Next Project Car Needs A Twin Turbo Hayabusa V8
The world of engine swaps is a broad one, covering everything from swapping one inline four for another to stuffing a three-rotor Wankel into a DeLorean. We’re used to seeing LS after LS and K-swap after K-swap nowadays, but there’s something cooler lurking behind all those pages of YouTube results: Engines like this twin-turbo Hayabusa V8, which was built for open-wheel cars but should be put in every chassis imaginable.
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Year In Review (3)

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These Are The Cars That Died In 2024
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to the many good, bad and amazing cars that died in 2024. Some, like the Nissan GT-R or the Ram Classic, slipped slowly into old age and died surrounded by friends. Others, like the Audi A4 or Infiniti Q50, were unceremoniously slashed from their lineups over the cardinal sin of not being an SUVs. One model died in 2024 from total corporate implosion.
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These Are The Best Cars We Drove In 2024
I drove a lot of really good cars this year, from supercars to affordable EVs and everything in between, and so did many of my colleagues. That’s why we’ve rounded up all of the best cars that we drove in 2024 for your reading pleasure. Despite some tough competition this year my top two were easy picks, but I have a lot of honorable mentions that could’ve made it on.
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These Are Jalopnik's Best Animal Stories Of 2024
We are all animal lovers here at Jalopnik. Almost all of us have pets and, when animals face down transportation, we are usually on the animal’s side. This year, we covered a lot of critters: everything from the always entertaining Orca whales and their class war on the sailboats of the world to bears (or people who look like bears) taking their claws to cars.
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