Cruise Ship Stomach Bug Illnesses Hit 12-Year High: CDC Cruises are gross. With so many people in a confined space, vacation-goers play a game of illness roulette anytime they step on a cruise ship. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 16 gastrointestinal illness outbreaks aboard vessels in 2024, a 12-year high. While the figure is the highest total in… Read more…

Buy This TVR Chimaera So You Have An Excuse To Spend All Your Extra Money On Tires If you want to risk life and limb in the U.S., we aren’t exactly short on vehicular options. From the heavily depreciated Dodge Challenger Hellcat to the Dodge Viper and even the humble superbike, you’ve got choices. But what if you want the thrill of a lifetime behind the wheel of something a little less common? In… Read more…

Vegas Cybertruck Bomber Suddenly A ‘Chad’ To Gaetz Now That We Know He Was A Trump Supporter Traditionally, blowing up a truck outside a hotel has been considered bad. You know, because hurting other people is bad? Well, apparently, if you’re a former representative who nearly became the new attorney general, that’s not always the case. On Twitter, Matt Gaetz, the disgraced former Florida representative,… Read more…

California Road Users Face Several New Laws In 2025, Many Aimed At Street Takeovers Well folks, we’ve officially made a quarter of the way into the 21st century, and the California government is celebrating by instituting an array of new laws aimed at road users. Governor Gavin Newsom signed hundreds of bills into law during the regular legislative session, plenty of which don’t apply to cars,… Read more…

New Nissan Xterra May Be On The Way After Trademark Filing Nissan enthusiasts – if there are any left – it may be time to rejoice. A new application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office back in December shows the company may see a future for the Xterra stateside. It would be a triumphant return after the off-roading SUV was discontinued back in 2015. Read more…

IndyCar Teams Spend The Cost Of A Small House Just On Wheels Every Year, But Switching To Aluminum Could Save Thousands Let’s say you run a three-car IndyCar team with a fourth car scheduled to run at the Indy 500, like, say McLaren or Andretti. How much do you think you’d have to budget for a season’s worth of wheels? Each car is going to need around 12 sets of pricey aero-optimized lightweight magnesium wheels from one of the few… Read more…

Tesla’s Cybertruck Just Became Eligible For $7,500 Federal Incentive, Still $32,590 More Expensive Than Originally Promised As everyone was watching the ball drop and celebrating under a fireworks-filled sky when the clock ticked over into 2025, the IRS was unveiling its newly revamped list of vehicles eligible for the $7,500 federal EV tax incentive. Surprise of all surprises, the controversial Tesla Cybertruck made the cut this year. Read more…

Two Dead After Small Plane Crashes Into California Warehouse A light aircraft crashed into a warehouse in California on Thursday, killing two people and injuring a further 19. The aircraft hit the roof of a warehouse building in Orange County at around 2 p.m., sparking an explosion and fire at the scene. Read more…

What Car Deserves To Die In 2025? There are a lot of fun cars coming out in 2025 that we are pretty excited to see hit the highway. Cars like the Alpine A290 will add a dash of excitement to EVs and the new Porsche Boxster has some pretty big boots to fill, but in order to make space for all this newness, something old might have to go. Read more…

EV Power Finally Makes Supercars As Fast As Superbikes It’s law: Cars may be fast, but bikes are faster for the money. Sure, two wheels lose cornering grip relative to four, but a $3,500 Suzuki Hayabusa will match a Bugatti Veyron in the quarter mile — straight line speed goes to the bikes. Electric power, though, is starting to even that equation: Now you’ll only need a P… Read more…

Start Your Super Villain Era With This Perfect Plymouth Prowler Woodward Edition Want to look like you have a scheme to take over the world? Or maybe you just want something cool and unique to drive around in? If either of those sentiments speaks to you, Bring A Trailer has got the car for you. This Plymouth Prowler Woodward Edition currently for sale has a cool two-tone paint job and… Read more…

At $10,500, Is This 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee A Grand Bargain? Modern-day Jeeps don’t seem to be as sturdily built as their forbears. Fortunately, there are plenty of older Jeeps, like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Grand Cherokee, to remind us of what the brand once meant. Let’s decide what this one’s price means to us. Read more…

Traffic Jams: Martha Reeves & the Vandellas – ‘Jimmy Mack’ Yeah, we’re cool kids at Jalopnik. We’ll post techno and indie and the coolest of all music, progressive rock. But sometimes, you want to go back to the sweet succor of your childhood. There’s nothing like a little Motown to start your day, a music allegedly inspired by the steady beat of the automotive production… Read more…

Donald Trump Insists He’s Still Calling The Shots, Not Elon Musk Good morning! It’s Friday, January 3, 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…

Tesla Recalled Over 5 Million Cars Last Year, More Than Any Other Automaker in The U.S. Tesla had quite an eventful 2024. Its radical (bad) Cybertruck had its first full year on sale, which resulted in a seemingly endless supply of hilarious and innovative new ways to break and fail. Its CEO Elon Musk made political waves, and the company unveiled its two-seat driverless taxi, among other things. In 2024… Read more…

90 Percent Of New Cars Cars In Norway Are Electric Norway is leading the entire world when it comes to electric vehicle adoption. Nine out of ten cars sold in the Nordic country in 2024 were powered by electricity. That puts the country well on track to hit its goal of only adding EVs to the road in 2025. That’s a lofty task, but if anyone is equipped to do it, Norway… Read more…

Trespasser Arrested After Sneaking On To 2 Delta Flights In 3 Days The winter holiday season is a stressful time to be inside an airport for millions of people. One woman at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport decided to make it less stressful by flying without all the trouble of actually buying a ticket. Read more…

You Can Buy The BMW GS That Neil Peart Beat On Harder Than The Drum Intro To ‘Tom Sawyer’ You will never be a rock god or drumming GOAT like Rush’s Neil Peart, but you can buy his 2004 BMW R1200 GS, you know, if you’re a Working Man. Who needs a Red Barchetta when a great motorcycle like this is Closer To The Heart? This Marakech Red machine was purchased new by Peart from McBride Cycle in Toronto and it… Read more…

Steam Coming Off Your Fast-Charging EV Might Look Scary, But It’s Not Dangerous Electric vehicle fires are extremely dangerous and difficult to extinguish, but they actually occur a lot less frequently than gas car fires. That said, if your EV appears to start smoking while charging in cold temperatures, don’t call 911 just yet. It may just be steam from the heat pump, which is necessary to get… Read more…

This $35,000 BMW i8 Shows They’re Getting Temptingly Cheap 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…