NASA Shook Apollo Rockets To Check They Could Survive Florida’s Hurricane Season The race to land man on the moon in the 1960s was a wild time for engineers, who were working at the edge of what was possible to try and fly a rocket the size of a 25-story building to our nearest astronomical body. While the science was groundbreaking, the testing process wasn’t always as cutting-edge. Read more…

These Are The Cars Everyone Should Drive At Least Once 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. Read more…

Elon Musk Looks Ready To Cash In On $250 Million Trump Gamble Good morning and Happy New Year! It’s Thursday, January 2, 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…

Suspects In New Orleans, Las Vegas Truck Attacks Reportedly Served On The Same Army Base New Year’s Day was marred by violence when two men used trucks in separate incidents that are now being investigated as terrorist attacks. While the attacks did occur on the same day, their methods were wildly different, and there was little reason to believe they may be connected. Now, it appears both men served on… Read more…

I’m Upgrading My Accord To An EV! What Car Should I Buy? Kevin is moving to a new home in Baltimore and is finally getting some space where he can upgrade his Accord to an EV and charge it at home. However, parking is tight and he wants something no bigger than the Honda but reasonably spacious on the inside. What car should he buy? Read more…

Tesla Yearly Sales Fall For The First Time Over A Decade For the first time in over ten years, Tesla’s sales were worse than they were the year before. This comes despite a year-end push from the Austin, Texas-based automaker meant to make up the difference in the fourth quarter. Still, Tesla sold 1.79 million vehicles in 2024, according to a release from the company.… Read more…

Turkish Airlines Isn’t Doing Anything About Its Bedbug Problem: Report Bedbugs, Cimex lectularius, are tiny vampiric asshole insects that come out at night to feed on blood. According to reports from travelers, these bugs are infesting Turkish Airlines planes, and the company doesn’t seem all that bothered by the bugs. Despite photographic evidence that the bugs were on their planes and… Read more…

The Weed Belongs To The Spider Monkey In The Onesie, Officer, I Swear. It’s His Rolls-Royce, Too Generally speaking, you shouldn’t break the law, but if you insist, it’s a good idea to remember the Jalopnik Law: commit only one crime at a time. One California man chose to ignore that advice Monday night and was reportedly speeding in his Rolls-Royce Ghost when officers pulled him over. They then proceeded to… Read more…

At $11,500, Is This 1966 Datsun 1600 ‘Fairlady’ A Fair Deal? While the Miata is the go-to Japanese distillation of the traditional British roadster, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Datsun proves it wasn’t the first. Let’s see if this handsome droptop comes with a price that instills some interest. Read more…

The Average Car I Drove This Year Was A $108,000, 415 HP Crossover I drove a lot of vehicles in 2024. To be exact, I got behind the wheel of 31 crossovers, nine sedans, eight coupes, seven convertibles, seven pickup trucks, four SUVs, three liftbacks, two minivans, two hatchbacks, one bonafide supercar… and two motorcycles. All in all, that works out to 76 vehicles tested… which is a… Read more…

These Are The Cars We’re Most Excited For In 2025 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. Read more…

I Watched 136 Movies In 2024 And Ranked Them By How Well The Cars Are Used I watch a whole lot of movies every year. Cinema is pretty much my only non-car-related hobby. It combines my twin passions of storytelling and sitting in a comfortable chair eating snacks. This year I saw more movies than any year previous, and some of those movies had some pretty rad cars in them. I thought it would… Read more…

Experiencing The Las Vegas Grand Prix Through The Eyes Of A Formula 1 Virgin Every morning I remind myself that I am the luckiest guy in the world, and that mantra continues to serve me well. Recently, the powers at be must have really heard me, because Mercedes-Benz invited me out to Las Vegas to experience my very first Formula 1 race. How did I get from Los Angeles to Vegas, you ask? Mercede… Read more…

Volkswagen, I’m Begging You To Make An ID Buzz Syncro The Volkswagen Bus is part of an elite group of vehicles that are instantly recognizable to almost anyone on Earth. Vehicles like the Bus and the Beetle, and non-VWs like the Ford Mustang, transcend the sphere of car enthusiasts and have found homes in the hearts and minds of all different types of people. Volkswagen’s Read more…

These Are The Cars That Died In 2024 Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to the many good, bad and amazing cars that died in 2024. Some, like the Nissan GT-R or the Ram Classic, slipped slowly into old age and died surrounded by friends. Others, like the Audi A4 or Infiniti Q50, were unceremoniously slashed from their lineups over… Read more…

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…

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…