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…

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…

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…

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…

Being Forced To Drive Everywhere All The Time Makes You Miserable: Study When you like cars, idea of a society built around cars sounds pretty great. There are some downsides to that plan, though, and we’re not just talking about the risk of someone crashing their car into your house. A new study found that while not having a car in the U.S. is bad for your overall life satisfaction, so is… Read more…

KTM Likely To Leave MotoGP In 2026 If Racing Division Isn’t Sold Off Next Year It’s not a secret that KTM is in deep financial trouble. The Austrian motorcycle manufacturer is nearly $3 billion in debt and entered self-administration in late November. KTM is reportedly planning to shut down its entire MotoGP division in 2026. This would include its four-bike top-class effort along with its Moto2… Read more…

Before You Ask, Yes, You Can Power A Car With 50 Drills Everyone who has ever picked up an electric drill has wondered if it would be possible to use one to drive a car. Wait, you haven’t wondered that? Well I guess it’s just me and the Garage 54 hooligans. What if you had 50 drills? It makes sense for EVs to be powered by multiple electric motors, but what if each of… Read more…

We Should Have Listened To Jimmy Carter President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. died on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. Carter will be remembered as a consummate humanitarian and Nobel Prize winning statesman who spent his retirement years building houses with Habitat for Humanity and all but eradicating a truly… Read more…

Missing Malaysia Flight Goes Ham And A NASA Probe Goes Sunning In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over a decade ago. Malaysia’s government announced last week that it will resume its search efforts for the missing airliner. Maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity signed an 18-month deal to lead the effort and will receive $70 million if they can find the… Read more…

Body Kits And Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell… Read more…

Freaky Nio Hatchback And The Most Beautiful Car Color On Sale Today In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup We all know most car colors are simply dreadful. For the most part, they’re a faded pastel of blacks, whites, grays and silvers. Sometimes, though, an automaker will come out with a color that is so lovely I’ve got to give it a shoutout. That’s exactly what Lexus did with its Copper Crest color that debuted on the… Read more…

This Is The Perfect Car And Yes, It Is A Chevy Cruze This may sound unbelievable now but, once upon a time, car makers took chances on small cars. When they didn’t make a butt-load of money they stopped pretty quickly, but the few customers who could appreciate something a little different were able to purchase a small taste of joy. One such car is on sale right now in… Read more…

New Zealand’s 1,500-HP Hypercar Brings F1 Speed To Anybody With The Money Low, light, minimalist and sinister as all hell, the Rodin FZero is an upcoming turbocharged V10 track-focused (though allegedly street-legal) hypercar that beats F1 around just about any track. Rodin does this by completely throwing out the F1 rulebook and starting from a clean sheet of paper. With a closed cockpit,… Read more…

Aston Martin Might Remove The Valkyrie Race Car’s Mufflers To Let That V12 Really Sing: Report Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing team went into pre-season testing cautiously optimistic. After finding its new Valkyrie Hypercar racer was several seconds off the pace, it is decided that the car won’t make its debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January while the team looks for a solution. Part of that solution… Read more…

Tesla’s Latest Update Reportedly Cripples Some Cybertrucks It’s been a terrible year for the Tesla Cybertruck and it doesn’t exactly sound like the kinks have all worked themselves out yet. The latest update reportedly bricked some Cybertrucks, leaving owners scrambling to figure out which of their other six-figure cars they’ll be forced to drive now that their rides are… Read more…