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… Read more…

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… Read more…

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… Read more…

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 anold disused wheelbarrow. What if you put them all together with a… Read more…

Pope Francis makes Jubilee year appeal to end hunger, debt woes and death penalty (RNS) — The pope’s appeal was made for the World Day of Peace, coinciding with the launch of the 2025 Jubilee year. The post Pope Francis makes Jubilee year appeal to end hunger, debt woes and death penalty appeared first on RNS.

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 … Read more…

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Grading Students: A High School Teacher Challenges the System Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Grading Students: A High School Teacher Challenges the System When I served as a superintendent, I fired a teacher for giving an A to every student he taught. George D. was a high school social studies teacher in Arlington (VA) when I led the district (1974-1981). In the Fall of …

Faith leaders express dismay amid report Trump will allow immigration raids at churches (RNS) — ‘I have 30 kids in a Sunday school class — I don’t know who is documented and undocumented,’ said one Latino pastor. The post Faith leaders express dismay amid report Trump will allow immigration raids at churches appeared first on RNS.

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… Read more…

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? Read more…

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… Read more…

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. Read more…

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. Read more…

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. Read more…

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… Read more…

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… Read more…

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? Read more…

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… Read more…

Our Roasts and Toasts of 2024 + Tiffany Bluhm Gather ’round with your marshmallows and cups of cheer, it’s that time of year to send good tidings and spiced takes. The post Our Roasts and Toasts of 2024 + Tiffany Bluhm appeared first on RNS.

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… Read more…