Infiniti Is Killing The QX50 And QX55, But They’re Selling So Slowly That Dealers Won’t Notice For Six Months Infiniti’s already small lineup is about to get a little smaller. Following the discontinuation of the old-ass Q50 sedan, the brand is killing off its QX50 and QX55 crossovers at the end of 2025, but it’s building enough of them to keep dealers stocked for at least six months after that. That’ll give the brand enough… Read more…

Audi Adds Gear-Reducing Portal Axles To The Q6 E-Tron, Pushing Torque To Almost 10,000 LB-FT Audi is calling its stylish new off-road electric concept car a “reinterpretation of Quattro” that “showcases the potential of the PPE platform,” but there’s a much simpler reason this electric Q6 E-Tron concept is cool: It has portal axles. The all-black-everything Q6 E-Tron Offroad conceptis lifted nearly 6.5 inches Read more…

MotorWeek’s 1987 Ford Festiva Review Reminds Us How Imperialism Created Many Small “American” Cars The American automotive industry is best known for its large vehicles, be they pickup trucks, large SUVs, or big muscle cars. Most American automakers sold small cars in the past, but some folks may not be aware that many small “American” cars were actually designed and/or built by other companies in other countries. A… Read more…

LA’s Love Of Cars Led To The Wacky, Eye-Catching Googie Architecture Style For Roadside Businesses The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly familiar with buildings that exemplify the style. This distinctive kind of architecture is characterized by cantilevered roofs, swooping curves, dramatic angles, large sheets of plate glass,… Read more…

Alfa Romeo Hopes Scrapping All-Electric Plans Will Make Americans Care Again Good morning! It’s Monday, January 27, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

These Are The Weirdest Unmarked Police Cars You Might Want To Look Out For Last week we asked the Jalopnik audience to share the weirdest unmarked police cars they’ve ever seen, and honestly there were more off-the-wall models than I expected. I picked answers that were relatively current cars, save for a few seriously unexpected models from years past. My answer was the Subaru Ascent — not… Read more…

2025 Kawasaki Ninja 7 Hybrid Is So Close To Being A Great Motorcycle Is it possible to make one sport bike that does everything? When Kawasaki created the Ninja 7 Hybrid that must have been the design brief, because this motorcycle is truly a jack of all trades. Based on the cheap and cheerful Ninja 500 platform, but lengthened six inches to fit an extra 121.2 pounds of battery and… Read more…

How Much It Costs To Watch The Entire 24 Hours Of Daytona From The Ferris Wheel The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona is one of the most iconic races in all of motorsport. The venue itself – with its banked turns, long straightaways and festive infield all add to its mystique. One of the most iconic parts of the race, however, isn’t the Bus Stop or Internation Horseshoe. It’s the Ferris wheel in the… Read more…

Honda’s Most Entry-Level Cruiser Is Going Clutchless To Make It Even Easier To Ride Back in the 1950s, Honda struck gold with the Super Cub — a compact, lightweight scooter built to take anyone anywhere for any reason. It appealed to non-motorcyclists, it beat walking, and to this day it’s the best-selling motor vehicle in the world. Honda’s been chasing that high ever since, constantly making bikes… Read more…

WRC Driver Penalized For Sick Drift Around Monaco Hairpin The 2025 FIA World Rally Championship kicked off last weekend with the 93rd edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo. While the venerated event is known for its sights, sounds and spectacle, rally organizers would like to keep the show on the designated stage route. Stewards handed WRC2 driver Oliver Solberg a punitive… Read more…

Lada Powered By 50 Cordless Drills Is The Only EV Swap That Matters Taking an old car and making it run on electricity is so hot right now, with startups the world over popping up with the aim of electrifying everything from old Jaguar E-Types to lovely little Miatas. Now, a rusting Lada has been given the EV upgrade, but instead of cribbing its power from a Tesla or Cascadia Motion,… Read more…

Annoying YouTuber Tropes, The Next Presidential Limo And The Maintenance You’re Ignoring In This Week’s QOTD Roundup At the end of 2024, Honda and Nissan announced a merger to form a new company that will share products and ideas. Well, it’s been met with mixed reactions, to say the least. However, it did get me thinking about possible future automaker hookups, which eventually led to my question from last week. – Andy Kalmowitz Read… Read more…

Daddy Long Legs Train, Omnidirectional Orbs And The Return Of Supersonic Flight In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup A lot of pretty strange means of getting around have been invented over the years, with things like the steam-powered car, the hoverboard and amphibious bus all once promising to be the future of transport. They could all be beaten to the title of strangest means of getting from A to B by this elevated railway,… Read more…

A 70 Percent Off Car You Can’t Fuel And An Electric Van Built By The Fed In The ’80s In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup These days, most cars can be found at or below MSRP. Inventory levels have mostly recovered, and dealers are generally willing to work with you. That said, not every new car that you could possibly want is going to be a great deal. In fact, several new cars are still selling for more than MSRP. It certainly isn’t… Read more…

Cleaning Car Headlights, The Death Of The Novelty Antenna Topper And A Cop Looking At ‘Boobs Or Whatnot’ In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Wonder solution WD-40 seems to get used for almost everything these days, from cleaning the rust off nuclear missiles to de-greasing squeaky door hinges. It can also be used to clear chewing gum from surfaces and even helps free tree sap from your body panels, but can it also stop your headlamps from fogging up as… Read more…

Tesla’s Brand Value Nosedives, VW Dealers And Scout Rumble And BYD Is Dominating In This Week’s News Roundup One man is dead and two more were injured after a fire chief stopped to help a driver who hit a deer Sunday evening. Coweta County Fire Rescue battalion chief James Bartholomew Cauthen was driving near Stroud, Alabama when he saw a motorist who needed help. The two men then tried to go to a nearby property for help… Read more…

GMC Sierra EV Denali Goes 507 Miles In Edmunds’ Range Test, But It’s Not Very Efficient The GMC Sierra EV Denali just claimed the top spot on Edmunds’ EV range testing leaderboard by traveling 507 miles on a single charge, beating the previous record holder, the Lucid Air Dream Edition by one mile. Edmundssays it was able to achieve this range using real world parameters for its test. Rather than just… Read more…

New York’s Hottest New Restaurant Is… Takeout In The Back Seat Of The Cadillac Escalade IQ In an announcement straight out of a Stefon skit on Saturday Night Live, a handful of people will get a reservation at COQODAQ in New York City, “one of the country’s buzziest restaurants,” but instead of actually being inside the restaurant, they’ll dine in the back seat of the Cadillac Escalade IQ. The brand is… Read more…

New Orleans Freeway Looks Like A Winter Wonderland As Southern Drivers Wisely Stay Home Ten inches of snow fell on New Orleans earlier this week, a staggering total for a city on the Gulf Coast. The last time the Big Easy received this much snow was 1895. Yes, the same year Babe Ruth, J. Edgar Hoover and Buster Keaton were born. A winter storm passing through a city without snowplows created a landscape… Read more…

Wild Weather Pushes Passenger Jets Over The Speed Of Sound Supersonic air travel has been reserved for military pilots since Concorde went out of service way back in 2003. That’s been changing this week, though, as a fierce storm sweeping the Atlantic Ocean has propelled passenger planes to speeds of over 800 mph and some could still go even faster. Read more…