Here Are 26 Reasons Why You Probably Shouldn’t Buy That Cheap Ferrari The start of a new year is a great time to pick up a new hobby, whether it’s getting in the kitchen more often, learning to build a bike or taking on a new project car. If you are considering undertaking a restoration project, this video might convince you to avoid anything from Ferrari. Read more…

Vintage 1976 Citroën CX Review Makes Me Yearn For Wacky French Cars I came across this brilliant vintage Car And Driver first drive review of a 1976 Citroën CX and felt an instant pang of jealousy. French cars have always had a sort of je ne sais quoi that I adore and that sets them apart from all other cars, but Americans never really bought into it. German cars are precise and… Read more…

Traffic Jams: King Crimson – ’21st Century Schizoid Man’ The teens we employ forgot to post a Traffic Jam, so you know what that means: Auntie Erin is going to serve you up the dankest of prog rock so you can start the first real week of 2025 deep in the atonal guitar and eerie sounds you love. A song once dedicated to Spiro Agnew seems apt as we face down Donald Trump Part… Read more…

Brock Yates’ 1987 Lamborghini LM002 Review In Car And Driver Predicted The Rise Of The Super SUV At a car show in Los Angeles I was able to sit in a Lamborghini LM002 for the first time, which was a very memorable experience even putting aside the fact that it was the very LM002 that Beyoncé used to own. I’ve always loved this outrageous SUV, and seeing them in real life never gets old. Later that day I was… Read more…

Why Honda’s ATC Was Once America’s Most Controversial Ride When you think of an all-terrain vehicle, what image forms in your mind? If you’re younger you might picture a quad or a four-wheeler as your default ATV, but folks who knew the market before 1988 may know something different: This odd three-wheeler with no suspension, sold by Honda, and banned from the U.S. for the… Read more…

Fiat Sales Nearly Triple As Every Other Stellantis Brand Struggles In America Good morning! It’s Monday, January 6, 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…

Dodge Sold 1 New Viper In 2024 Automaker Stellantis didn’t have a great year in 2024, with sales down, calls to offload its brands and even the sudden departure of its CEO. There was one glimmer of hope for the company, though, as it managed to sell a new Dodge Viper in 2024 despite the car going out of production years ago. Read more…

The Nissan Aryia Is A Forgotten EV Bargain You have probably heard things haven’t been looking good for Nissan. While it’s likely that an alliance between Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi will materialize sometime in 2026, right now is a great time to score a used car deal on the Nissan EV that most people forgot about. Read more…

At $21,500, Does This 1999 BMW M Roadster Make The Grade? The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice M Roadster calls it a genuine beauty and laments that “BMW no longer builds automobiles like this.” Let’s see if this bygone beauty has an equally attractive price. Read more…

Nightmare Projects You Ditched, Cars That Deserve Deserve To Die, And New Years Wrenching Resolutions In This Week’s QOTD Roundup There are a lot of cars that we might all dream of driving, personally it’s an old Aston Martin DBS thanks to it’s awesome, angular looks and rumbling motor. Just because I want to drive it, doesn’t mean it’d be mind-altering for everyone to drive one, though. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read more…

Cheap BMW i8s, A Rare Plymouth Prowler And A Bad Idea With A 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV Coupe In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup These days, it seems like all the desirable, interesting cars are staying expensive instead of getting cheap so they can ruin the finances of normal people willing to roll the dice on maintenance and repairs. Those may be bad decisions, but we at least want the opportunity to make them, dammit. The BMW i8, on the… Read more…

Cars That Died And The Best Cars We Drove In 2024 In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Welcome to the future, or as we call it, 2025. It’s time to clear up that hangover, start those New Year’s resolutions and get ready to… work tomorrow, probably. To distract you from that impending doom, let’s talk about the cars that we (as in us at Jalopnik) are most excited for in 2025. – Daniel Golson Read More Read more…

Radioactive Roads, Deadliest Train Crashes Into Fire Truck And Neil Peart’s BMW GS In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup 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. – Erin Marquis Read More Read more…

Weekend News Roundup January 04, 2025 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…

Single Worker Forgot To Bolt Down Seats On Nearly 23,000 KIA EV9 SUVs Pobody’s nerfect, a my mom’s coffee cup like to remind me every morning as a kid. We’ve all made mistakes at work. However, not many of us have made errors that could kill someone under certain circumstances. Kia issued a recall for 22,883 Kia EV9 SUVs from the 2024 and 2025 model years due to missing seat mounting… Read more…

Man Attempts To Hijack Self-Driving Taxi, Gets Ride From The LAPD Instead Anyone who has ever asked a stranger in a coffee shop to watch their laptop knows unattended tech makes an enticing target for thieves. Waymo got yet another reminder of this fact this week after a man in downtown LA attempted to take over one of its driverless cars. Read more…

Oxen Rescue 550-HP Ferrari California Stranded On Beach In the olden times, people believed that a horse was twice as powerful as an oxen, which is why horses have been called on to pull everything from plows to carriages for centuries. Now, it turns out that a couple of oxen may actually have more oomph than 550 horses, after two of the animals rescued a Ferrari that was… Read more…

Dealerships Are Giving Discounts Again, And It’s Boosting Sales In 2024, car buyers got a very slight respite from the record-high car prices we’ve seen for almost half a decade now, and it seems like that trend will continue through 2025 thanks to dealers offering more and more cash on the hood of new cars. Stock at dealerships has pretty much recovered to pre-pandemic levels,… Read more…

This Is How 2 People Survived The Fiery South Korean Plane Crash Investigators are searching for why Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 crashed on Sunday in South Korea. The fiery runway crash killed 179 people onboard. There were only two survivors, flight attendants sitting in jump seats at the back of the plane. Their seat positions during the catastrophic incident likely saved their lives. Read more…

Whatever Is Going On With Infiniti’s King Tut Looking Headrests, I Think I Like It The large-and-in-charge QX80 flagship SUV is kind of a make-or-break product for Infiniti, and the good news is that it seems to be a step in the right direction for the ailing luxury automaker. With a starting MSRP of $82,450, the lux machine needs to deliver a premium driving experience, and at least some portion of… Read more…