Tuthill’s Carbon Fiber Porsche Rally Car Was Built For Africa But Loves The Snow In New Hampshire Is a vintage Porsche any good at rallying? Are you silly? An old Porsche drives great at normal everyday speeds, but it really comes into its own at full send, opposite lock, sliding sideways. Porsche wasn’t convinced that the 911 would ever be a proper competition car when it was first built in 1964, but after a… Read more…

NYC Pizza Shop’s Clever School Bus Has Caught The Attention Of Officials Who Want To Ban Outdoor Dining Areas A bus you can eat pizza in is the stuff dreams are made of. Sadly New York City officials don’t seem to think so, as a Brooklyn pizzeria is in trouble for trying to get around outdoor dining laws by using a school bus parked in front of the establishment. Read more…

You’d Buy Me This $1.9 Million 18th-Century Royal Caleche For Christmas If You Really Loved Me While everyone else gets excited about the Williams Sonoma catalog when Christmas approaches, this year, I’ve set my sights a bit higher. I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately, and I realized I’m better than a set of Pillivuyt Chantal Porcelain dinner plates. I’m better than the Williams Sonoma Champagne Saber… Read more…

Carlos Ghosn Says Nissan Is ‘Desperate’ Amid Merger Talks With Honda The talks of a potential merger between Honda and a floundering Nissan have encouraged Carlos Ghosn to chime in from his comfortable self-exile in Beirut. The former chairman and CEO at Nissan stated in TV interviews that the potential deal is “a desperate move.” Ghosn is familiar with desperate moves — it’s been five… Read more…

Used Kia EV6 GTs Are Basically Half Off And Still Make 576 HP As the owner of a 68,000-mile 2015 Fiat 500e, I’ll be the first person to tell you that most people’s range anxiety is way overblown. I get around just fine in my little clown car even if I have to charge it pretty frequently. Still, I fully understand looking at the Kia EV6 GT’s specs and deciding to get something… Read more…

1984 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta Was Slow As Hell But Had Extendable Control Pods And A Swiveling Radio The preferences of the modern car buyer are so vastly different now than they were 40 years ago. It’s hard to imagine that there was actually a point in time where Chevrolet thought a fancyCamaro focused on luxury and technology would ever sell, but the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta was just that. While it’s still hard to… Read more…

A Chiron Owner Wanted A Cup Holder, So Bugatti Designed Her A 3D-Printed One Just In Time For Christmas When you get to the level of multi-million dollar cars like the Bugatti Chiron, the sky is basically the limit in terms of spec and customization. Whatever color combination, special artwork or one-off trimmings you ask for, Bugatti can do it. The company will even create custom parts for you after your car has been… Read more…

Traffic Jams: Jon Hopkins – ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’ It’s the final Friday before Christmas, which means most of my time is about to be spent wrapping presents, eating mince pies and traveling around the country to see various friends and family. It’s going to be lovely, but there’s sure to be a bit of drama here and there. During all that chaos, it can sometimes get a… Read more…

Donald Trump Just Doesn’t Know Where He Stands On EVs Good morning! It’s Friday, December 20, 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…

2024 Mercedes-AMG GT63 S E Performance 4-Door Is Egregiously Fast, Expensive, Unnecessary Yet Cool I’m not fancy. I’m just grateful that I get paid to write about and drive cars all day, and honestly it doesn’t take much to make me happy. I own a 2017 Mini Cooper S, and when people ask me what my dream car is I don’t really have an answer because my Mini does everything I need. I buy new clothes maybe once a year,… Read more…

What Car Would You Only Drive If It Was Free? Recently, I told you fine folks about a wildly good lease deal being offered on Fiat 500es at a dealership in Colorado. At full price, the 500e is not that compelling of a car. It’s slow, has poor range and is far too expensive, but with this lease deal, it’s pretty much free for over two years. The only thing you’d… Read more…

Dodge Swore The Durango Hellcat Would Be A One-Year-Only Model In 2021, But Now It’ll Be Sold Through 2025 The Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat was first introduced as a one-year-only model way back for the 2021 model year, and Dodge briefly kept its word and discontinued it for 2022 following a short production run of about 3,000 units. Then-CEO Tim Kuniskis was even quoted saying, “you’ve only got one shot .” When 2… Read more…

WD-40 Was Invented To Stop Missiles From Rusting I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a Jalopnik reader out there who doesn’t have a can of WD-40 kicking around their house or garage somewhere. While using this wonder liquid to loosen a seized bolt, stop a door from squeaking or cleaning tree sap from your hood, have you ever stopped to wonder where it actually came… Read more…

Convertible Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Jailbreak Dares You To Tempt Fate While Ford and Chevrolet spent billions trying to make their respective pony cars finally go around corners good, Dodge knew that was a fool’s errand. Americans didn’t really want to go around corners. We wanted to go fast in a straight line. So Dodge spent all of its development money adding more power. Was it… Read more…

These Are Your Most Controversial Car Opinions If there is one thing I have learned writing for Jalopnik for seven years, it is that the commenters here have a whole lot of deeply seated opinions, and you’re more than willing to defend them. Earlier this week we asked you all to provide us with your most controversial automotive opinion, and boy howdy did y’all… Read more…

At $39,500, Is This 1998 Panoz AIV Roadster A Fair Weather Friend? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Panoz is a true roadster, offering minimal provision for inclement weather or occupant comfort. Let’s see if this rare sunny-day-special’s price rains on our parade. Read more…

2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Officially Runs The Quarter-Mile In 9.6 Seconds At 150 MPH Chevrolet finally revealed the production version of the C8 Corvette ZR1 over the summer, promising us 1,064 horsepower and 828 pound-feet of torque from its twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8. That’s some serious power, and it gets even scarier when you remember the Corvette ZR1 is rear-wheel drive. That means the engine… Read more…

Buy This 2004 Saab 9-5 Wagon Runway Friction Test Rig And Watch Car And Aviation Nerds Flock To You Saabs are weird, funky cars that are most frequently revered by nerds, be they car nerds or college professors, and this particular Saab might be the nerdiest car you can buy right now. It was modified by Scandanavian Airport and Road Systems (SARSYS-ASFT) and sent to Salt Lake City International Airport for duty… Read more…

Don’t Get Scammed With TSA PreCheck For Your Holiday Travel Occasional fliers, when standing in line to remove their shoes at security, always glance longingly at us frequent flying types over in the PreCheck line. Our wait times are shorter, our laptops remain in our bags, and our shoes are still firmly attached to our feet. They wonder how they could ever access such luxury,… Read more…

Hey, You Can’t Shoot At Drones, That’s Our Job: Feds The Federal Aviation Administration banned drone flights over parts of New Jersey starting on Wednesday through January 17. Drones have been prohibited from flying over 22 communities in the Garden State designated as “national defense airspace,” citing “special security reasons.” The federal government stated that… Read more…