Zoinks Scoob! There’s A Volkswagen ID Buzz Mystery Machine For Sale The best part about Volkswagen’s ID Buzz is its retro styling. From the brightly colored two-tone paint jobs to its front fascia and overall design inspired by the original Type 2 Bus, it looks great and unlike anything else on the road. If you really want to stand out, though, and think the Buzz could lean even… Read more…

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Glen Powell’s Super Bowl Ram Volcano Jump Actually Looks Possible For last night’s big Super Bowl ad, Stellantis brought out famed red Ram driver and general favorite Jalopnik movie star Glen Powell to drive a jump a volcano in a Ram RHO. After recalling the last time I did the math on a Ram jump, it made me wonder — could this jump actually be possible? As it turns out, yes it is.… Read more…

Fox Spent More Advertising IndyCar During The Superbowl Than It Did To Buy The Broadcast Rights Fox took a reported $34 million gamble on running IndyCar ads during Sunday’s big game featuring series drivers Alex Palou, Patricio O’Ward, and Josef Newgarden. In total the series was featured for one 15 second ad, four 30 second ads, and two 45 second ads on game day, with three getting play during the Super Bowl… Read more…

Cars Look Better When They’re Dirty Living in the Northeast U.S. means the car you’re driving is perpetually dirty for about a third of the year because of rock salt, dirt on the roads and other pieces of grime picked up during the winter months. For a big chunk of the year, our cars are very dirty. Most people would tell you that that is a bad thing,… Read more…

Boom Promises ‘Boomless’ Supersonic Flights With Debut Airliner Boom Supersonic might have snatched aviation’s holy grail after announcing on Monday that its XB-1 test plane had completed its maiden supersonic flight two weeks ago without producing a sonic boom audible on the ground. The dreaded boom smothered early commercial supersonic flight in the crib. The FAA’s 1973 ban on… Read more…

Automakers Want To Make Cheap Cars For Us Poors, Everyone Wants A Four-Door Suzuki Jimny And More Musk In This Week’s News Roundup Automakers may have finally realized that we’re all out of money, so they’re now apparently planning on bringing back cheaper cars. The plan is to do this through lower-end trims, value-focused special editions and even reviving cheap dead vehicles from their pasts. It’s welcome news for folks who see the average… Read more…

Electric Cars Aren’t Greener Until 25,000 Miles, A Brave Soul Uses A Fisker Ocean As A NY Taxi And Honda And Nissan Won’t Go Steady After All In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Not long ago, virtually every single new car was sold with a spare tire, a jack and a small tool kit to allow owners to swap out a flat tire for the spare on the side of the road. That has changed over recent years, with many carmakers dropping the standard spare tire to cut costs and reduce vehicle weight to aid fuel… Read more…

Affordable Hyundai Ioniq 6s, Mercedes Discounts Its EVs By $15,000 And A 911 Carcass In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup When we first drove the Hyundai Ioniq 6, we didn’t find it particularly sporty, but if you’re just looking for a comfortable daily driver, it’s fantastic. That said, there are two notable downsides — the styling is incredibly divisive, and it can get expensive fast. It starts just under $39,000 including destination,… Read more…

Starship Explosion Cleaned Up By Islanders, Trump Traffic Screws Up Palm Beach Airport And China Makes Jet Fuel In Space In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup A Space X test flight went spectacularly wrong last month when the Starship craft exploded in the skies above the Caribbean. The explosion littered the sky with debris and looked fresh from a Michael Bay film, but the fallout has been less glamorous for the residents of one tropical island nation who have been left cle… Read more…

Turning A Supersport Motorcycle Into A Penny Farthing Is A Gloriously Dumb Idea When humanity developed the motorcycle — its greatest achievement to date — it did so on the back of innovation that came before. The first motorcycle incorporated what we’d already learned from bicycles, which meant we never had the opportunity to make the same design mistakes as other two-wheelers. We never got a pen… Read more…

Chrysler Made The Hardest Super Bowl Car Commercial Of All Time For The (Checks Notes) 200 Sedan The Super Bowl has long been a showcase for automakers looking to show off their latest vehicles or give a new direction for their brand. Car companies will usually pull out all the stops with high-budget, high-concept advertisements with star-studded casts. It’s not exactly an uncommon practice, but one commercial… Read more…

Future Classic, Body-On-Frame SUVs And Vintage Car EV Swaps In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Car prices are getting intense right now, with new car prices increasing as a result of new tariffs and second-hand cars booming thanks to collectors with more money than sense. If you wanted to make the most of those millionaires spending increasingly large amounts of cash on old cars, what kind of model do you think… Read more…

Here Are Some Wet Weather Driving Tips My Midwestern Coworkers Laughed At Me For Not Knowing The West Coast is currently facing an atmospheric river that is dropping a significant amount of precipitation, and gauging by the number of sirens and horns I’ve heard over the past few days, we could use a refresher on some wet weather driving tips. Now, upon pitching this story to my peers, I faced chuckles and… Read more…

Massive Pedestrian Crushers Don’t Actually Keep Occupants Safe Either, New Research Shows Large, heavy vehicles with high hoods and poor visibility are incredibly dangerous. Even people who drive them will admit that if they hit someone, that person would probably die. At the same time, though, people are selfish and want to look out for their families first. If they’re going to be in a wreck, they want… Read more…

Stellantis Is The Only Automaker Bothering To Make A Super Bowl Ad This Year On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the Philadelphia Eagles in a Super Bowl rematch that is two years in the making. It’s really the Super Bowl poster child of the “nothing ever happens” mantra. It seems automakers feel similarly, and that’s why only one of them – Stellantis – decided to make ads… Read more…

The Cut Off For Those ‘I Bought This Before I Knew Elon Was Crazy’ Stickers Is 2018 Elon Musk is a salesman, and recently he’s been selling two things: Electric cars and eugenics-backed fascism. His pitches for the latter have gotten loud enough that folks who bought into the former can no longer quietly ignore it, which has led to all sorts of Tesla owners plastering their cars with stickers that… Read more…

Nine Percent Interest Rates And $8,000 Markups Make This A Bad Time To Buy A New Toyota 4Runner If you’re in the market for a new Toyota 4Runner I have some bad news for you: Prepare your finances because you’re about to get taken for a ride. Not only do 4Runner buyers have to deal with greedy dealership markups, they’re also facing high interest rates if they decide to finance their new SUV. Read more…

This Is Your First Chance To Buy A Used Faraday Future FF91, And It Has No Reserve On Bring A Trailer I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen a Faraday Future on the road. Our own Daniel Golson was lucky enough to have spotted an FF91 on the streets of Los Angeles last week, one of fewer than two dozen the company has built, and now it’s your chance to own one. This 2023 Faraday Future FF91 is seemingly the first… Read more…

Watch A Honda Rebel 250 Evolve Into A Dual Sport The Honda Rebel 250 is a perfect beginner bike: Low power, cruiser style, low seat height, everything that makes someone new to riding feel comfortable. Unfortunately for those looking to go off-road, those same factors make the Rebel a bad choice — unless, of course, you go and change just about every part of the… Read more…