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… Read more…

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 Read more…

Progress in the world, but still more to do (RNS) — Despite the many challenges our world has faced, and will continue to face in the years ahead, 2024 also brought progress. The post Progress in the world, but still more to do  appeared first on RNS.

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… Read more…

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… Read more…

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. Read more…

How Jimmy Carter created the religious right (RNS) — He threatened the GOP’s Southern strategy. The post How Jimmy Carter created the religious right appeared first on RNS.

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… Read more…

RNS reporters look ahead to the big religion stories of 2025 (RNS) — A second Trump administration tops the list, but RNS reporters also plan to cover the Jubilee at the Vatican, ongoing hurricane recovery efforts in the US and the spiritual experimentation of an increasingly unaffiliated population. The post RNS reporters look ahead to the big religion stories of 2025 appeared first on RNS.

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… Read more…

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… Read more…

President Carter showed us faith and Democracy can go hand in hand (RNS) — Carter, a deeply faithful man, played a role in advancing equality, including making my marriage possible. The post President Carter showed us faith and Democracy can go hand in hand appeared first on RNS.

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,… Read more…

‘A shining example’: Religious leaders praise the late former President Jimmy Carter WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘Well done, good and faithful servant, well done,’ Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock said of former President Jimmy Carter. The post ‘A shining example’: Religious leaders praise the late former President Jimmy Carter appeared first on RNS.

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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… Read more…

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. Read more…

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… Read more…

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. Read more…

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 Read more…