Blood Could Be Key Ingredient For Concrete On Mars It’s conceivable that a future American President will address the nation from the Oval Office on the day NASA successfully lands astronauts on Mars. They will likely praise the blood, sweat and tears it took to travel 140 million miles to the Martian surface. However, those same bodily fluids could be vital building… Read more…

Portland Demands Something Be Done After Car Crashes Into House For 30th Time, Starts Gas Fire As part of our belief that hitting people with your cars is bad, Jalopnik maintains that hitting houses with your cars is also bad. People live in houses, and you should not hit them with your cars. Unfortunately for apartment residents in one Portland, Oregon building, someone didn’t get that memo and crashed into… Read more…

Customs Agents Seize $1.4 Million In Counterfeit Vehicle Inspection Stickers Some car owners are willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid the time and monetary cost of having their vehicles pass an annual state inspection, including buying fake stickers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 22,000 counterfeit Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers in two recent shipments from… Read more…

Cybertruck Owner DIYs A $3,000 Repair For $25 Denting your car sucks. It happens to everyone at some point or another, and it’s often more of an annoyance than a real pain — there are plenty of hacks for popping out your own dents. Yet, when a Cybertruck owner showed up to the service center with a dented door, Tesla wanted to charge $3,000 for the fix. The owner… Read more…

At $4,750, Does This 2003 Chevy Impala Stand A Sporting Chance? ‘SPORT’ is emblazoned on each rear flank of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Impala, despite the model’s traditionally non-sporting nature. Should we be good sports and overlook the debatable decals in light of the asking price? Read more…

Traffic Jams: Petey – ‘Don’t Tell The Boys Yeah, I’ve got resolutions, but the New Year’s kind? Nah. That’s just a human construct of time, man. My resolutions are ongoing, like they came straight out of the United Nations. They’ll keep going forever. Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Owner Finds Grass Growing In His Truck’s Exterior Trim Earlier this week we rounded up some of the wildest Tesla Cybertruck stories from the year, and now we’ve got a late entry of another weird situation that’s seemingly due to the Cybertruck’s unique design. While fixing minor damage to their wheel arch trim, one Cybertruck owner discovered the truck’s rear air… Read more…

The Best Cars For Short Drivers, According To Consumer Reports In a way, it makes sense that tall drivers get a lot of attention. The Mazda MX-5 Miata may be great, but it’s hard to enjoy if you’re too large to physically fit inside. At the same time, though, tall people aren’t the only ones who have problems fitting into cars. Sometimes, it feels like automakers just completely… Read more…

Lewis Hamilton Could Be The Savior KTM’s Ailing MotoGP Team Needs With KTM’s recent financial mess, this could be the perfect opportunity for Sir Lewis Hamilton to step in and take control of a semi-competitive MotoGP team that is already up to speed. Read more…

Someone Needs To Rescue And Catalog These Early 2000s Body Kits The early 2000s are back, baby. The tech sector seems ready to pop, the kids are layering multiple tank tops above their baggy low-rise pants, and cars are getting lower, wider, and visually louder. Wide bodies with garish liveries are all the rage in the drift and time attack scenes, and those styles are trickling… Read more…

Canoo Imposes ‘Mandatory Unpaid Leave’ On All Employees, Locking Workers Out Of Systems Until 2025 Good morning! It’s Monday, December 26, 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…

You’d Only Drive These Cars If They Were Free Last week, we told you about a screaming deal one Colorado Fiat dealership was offering on brand new 500es: $0/down and $0/month for 27 months. All a lessee has to pay is the sales tax, which comes out to something less than $1,800. In today’s day and age, that’s about as close to free as you’re going to get, and it… Read more…

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight Crashes Near Aktau Under Mysterious Circumstances An Azerbaijan Airlines flight from Baku to the Chechnyan city of Grozny crashed Wednesday, killing 38. The plane flew hundreds of miles off its route and crashed on the wrong side of the Caspian Sea in Aktau, Kazakhstan, with 29 survivors currently being treated at a nearby hospital. Russian officials initially blamed… Read more…

I Want To Drive The Jruck From Beyoncé’s Christmas NFL Halftime Show While the Christmas NFL game saw the Ravens absolutely obliterate the Texans on their home turf, the attention wasn’t really on the game, as it was drastically overshadowed by Beyoncé’s incredible live-on-Netflix halftime performance. The whole show was a non-stop visual blitz, but the real star of Queen Bey’s… Read more…

Stressed Amazon Driver Dumps 80 Holiday Packages In The Woods With 80 more stops to be made on Saturday night a stressed Amazon driver in Massachusetts decided to pull off and dump the packages in the woods instead of getting them to their intended destinations. Read more…

Private Space Station Set To Break Free From ISS 2 Years Early The International Space Station is nearly five years from its scheduled death date. NASA’s funeral plans include seeing a private station springboard off the ISS before the older station plunges into the Pacific Ocean. However, the space agency announced last week that the private Axiom Station could break free “as… Read more…

We Need To Replace Our Mazda5 With Something Newer But Just As Usable! What Car Should We Buy? Wally has a 2010 Mazda5 that has done an excellent job of a family hauler with it’s balance of reasonable size and usability. But the old Mazda is reaching the end of it’s days and he wants to replace it with a similar type of car with more modern features. What car should he buy? Read more…

NASA Solar Probe Set For 430,000 MPH White-Knuckle Ride Skimming The Sun The Parker Solar Probe is expected to skim the Sun’s outer atmosphere on Tuesday. NASA’s probe will come within 3.86 million miles of the solar surface, closer than any human-built object ever. It might seem distant, but Mercury is 39.4 million away from the system’s namesake star. The probe will be coming in hot in… Read more…

At $16,000, Is This 2015 Audi S5 Quattro The Coupe To Scoop? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice hot Audi has an effective factory theft deterrent—a manual transmission. Let’s see if its price makes it a steal anyway. Read more…

Traffic Jams: Lady Gaga – ‘Christmas Tree’ Happy first night of Hanukkah! And, I guess, merry Christmas. I thought this would be a fitting day for my Traffic Jams debut so I can bless you all with the greatest Christmas song ever written: “Christmas Tree” by Lady Gaga. Released in December 2008 as a digital download, a few months after Gaga’s debut album “The… Read more…