These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In 2024 It’s no secret that we here at Jalopnik have been critical of Elon Musk’s stainless steel middle finger to the automotive industry. In fact, we wrote over 60 Tesla Cybertruck blogs in its first year as a real car in the real world. Read more…

Musk, Tesla, Twitter, And SpaceX Had A Hell Of A Year Tesla sales are tanking, Twitter is a fucking mess, SpaceX is coasting on Boeing’s failures, xAI is burning through billions, The Boring Company is a scam, and Elon Musk himself is trying to shut down the U.S. Government. The world’s richest man is a childish megalomaniac, and his actions in 2024 have only expanded… Read more…

2024 McLaren 750S Broke My Brain I’ve driven a lot of stupidly fast cars at Jalopnik this year. Stuff like the Lucid Air Sapphire, Chevrolet Corvette, Maserati GranCabrio Folgore and Bentley Continental GT Speed come to mind, but none of those cars have altered my brain chemistry and changed my DNA as the McLaren 750S did. You see, it’s not the fact… Read more…

This Is The Jalopnik Staff Fleet As We Head Into 2025 Well, it’s the end of December, which means another year has passed without anyone forcing the Jalopnik staff to get real jobs. For that, we are eternally grateful. Allegedly, there are other jobs you can work that don’t require you to put pants on, but most of those don’t come with access to cool cars with gloveboxes… Read more…

The Best Used Cars And SUVs You Can Buy For $10,000 Or Less, According To Consumer Reports The average new car transaction price these days is nearly $50,000, which isn’t great when you consider the median income in this country is about the same. So if you need to replace your current car but can’t afford something new, you definitely aren’t alone. Decades of wage stagnation have put Americans in a tough… Read more…

Revisiting Boeing’s Awful 2024 In The Skies And Space Boeing had a year that its executives will definitely want to forget. An inflight door plug blow-out on a 737 Max led the Department of Justice to shred its 2021 settlement with the aerospace manufacturer over the plane’s two fatal crashes. Boeing pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government and paid hundreds… Read more…

These Cars Didn’t Live Up To The Hype In 2024 We drive dozens, if not hundreds of cars every year. Some of them come around with a lot more hype than others. Folks aren’t really waiting in anticipation over things like the new gas-powered Chevy Equinox, but for some cars, there’s a ton of suspense leading up to their release. Read more…

At $7,900, Is This 1983 Ford Mustang A Ghost Of Xmas Past? Today being Christmas, the height of the gift-giving season, we’ll need to decide if this Nice Price or No Dice Mustang is a proper present or if its price makes you hope it comes with a return receipt. Read more…

These Are The Biggest Automotive Scandals Of 2024 What a year we’ve had in 2024. There was good news, like Lando Norris finally getting his first win in Formula 1, bad news like the demise of the Mitsubishi Mirage and unsurprising news, such as the end of another year without self-driving Teslas ruling the road. Read more…

Does This Freak You Out? One of the largest and fastest-growing car companies in China (and the world) is Nio, which has largely been focused on the more premium end of the electric car market. That’s now gonna change with Nio’s new Firefly subbrand, which was officially revealed last week with a cute ‘lil hatchback that will be sold in China… Read more…

Jalopnik’s Best Car Photos Of 2024 The process of shooting photos of a car can be extremely time-consuming. Capturing every single angle, detail, backdrop and element can take a hell of a lot of effort, and frankly, most of the time the pictures stink anyway. However, sometimes everything lines up and you end up with some truly lovely pictures. That’s… Read more…

I Saw A Cool Van Holy smokes, is that a lifted four-wheel-drive third-generation Ford Econoline Club Wagon? Sometimes when I’m out walking the dog I find myself face to face with a truly never-before-seen specimen of automotive awesomeness. This time it was Ford’s incredible box van turned adventure machine. Out here in the American… Read more…

A Disney World Monorail Under The Christmas Tree Made My Holiday Even More Special Putting a train under the Christmas tree was a time-honored tradition in the Kalmowitz household. When I was growing up, every year my family and I would spend hours setting up the train (sometimes two or three of them) under the tree, and I’d endlessly make them go back and forth. However, there was something I… Read more…

At $8,700, Is This 1985 Mercedes 300TD A Braggin’-Worthy Wagon? With a recent paint job and a clean MB-Tex interior, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 300TD looks ready for duty. We’ll still have to decide what such duty might be worth. Read more…

Traffic Jams: The Mountain Goats – ‘Emerging’ The Mountain Goats don’t really have a Christmas album, or really any Christmas music, which is wild for a band that prides itself on being the best damn Durham-based Christian Dad rock on the planet (or at least in North Carolina.) Due to the lack of Christmas tunes, I nominate “Emerging” from the album Moon Colony… Read more…

Lexus’ Copper Crest Is The Most Beautiful Color On Sale Today, And Nobody Cares 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…

Why Are You Reading Jalopnik On Christmas Eve? Today is December 24, which means there are only a few more days remaining before the horrors of 2024 give way to a fresh, new set of horrors in 2025. For many of you, that also means it’s the day before Christmas. For some of you, it’s the day before the first day of Hanukkah. For the most obnoxious Gen X-ers who… Read more…

The Anteros Coupe Was A Coachbuilt Supercar That Paired European Looks With American Power If you want an exciting front-engine car with American power and slick styling, then you might think your options are limited to the likes of the Dodge Viper or an early Corvette. There’s another option though, as an American workshop once set out to create a new sports car that paired European looks with American… Read more…

2024 Toyota Prius Is Hybrid Perfection There was once a time when the mere mention of the Toyota Prius elicited laughter and prompted remarks like “A Prius? Seriously?” from people who didn’t know any better. Not any longer. The fifth-generation Prius is the best looking and most powerful the hybrid has been in its 23-year history, and after driving one… Read more…

80-Year-Old Woman Donates Manual RX-7 She Owned For 25 Years To Mazda After Giving Up License A Japanese woman celebrating her 80th birthday decided to mark the occasion in a unique way. She not only surrendered her driver’s license, but also gave upthe manual Mazda RX-7 she’s owned for the last 25 years. Don’t worry, though, this is a heartwarming story Read more…