No Car Is More Expensive Than A Cheap Ferrari Project Car Ferrari’s old entry-level California sports car is often unfairly derided for being a bit ungainly and not particularly sporty. One intrepid individual started an individual labor of love to blend a 2010 California’s modern usability with the classic good looks of a 1963 250 GTE. Unfortunately after what appears to be… Read more…

Gifting This Levitating Cybertruck Model Lets Your Loved Ones Know You Actually Hate Them It’s the season of giving, but not everyone in your life deserves a good present. Some people deserve to get crap, and that’s exactly what you can do by getting that very special someone a “Levitating Cybertruck” for Christmas this year. Man, Tesla really loves putting out shit like this rather than a well-built car. Read more…

Ride A Really Fast Italian Flag For Just $58,000 Ducati is giving 1,000 well-heeled riders an opportunity to celebrate the Italian heritage and culture of speed with the new Panigale V4 Tricolore superbike, and you could be one of them. You know, provided you’re willing to spend $58,000 for the privilege. The Bologna-based bike manufacturer has been rolling out… Read more…

At $12,500, Does This 1985 Porsche 944 Track? Whether driving to the gym or at the gymkhana, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 944 looks like a lot of fun. Let’s find out what that sort of fun costs these days. Read more…

2025 Nissan Armada Is Finally The Patrol We’ve Been Asking For Last time Nissan redesigned the Armada it was a big deal, and not just for the Nissan dealers who desperately needed something that wasn’t more than a decade old in the lineup. You see, for the 2017 model year, Nissan brought over the SUV known in international markets as the Patrol and gave it the Armada badge. While… Read more…

Weekend QOTD Roundup December 14, 2024 If you’re reading Jalopnik, you’re likely a car aficionado (and/or nerd), and thus likely to know more about cars than the average bear. If you know cars, then you know that they’re incredibly complex machines with thousands of moving parts. Beyond the mechanics of it all lies the somehow more complex and… Read more…

Weekend Beyond Cars Roundup December 14, 2024 NASA’s iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our understanding of the cosmos through the countless satellites it launched into orbit. Russia’s attempt at building a space plane… Read more…

Weekend Car Buying Roundup December 14, 2024 The annual Hagerty Bull Market List is out, and there are still several days before Christmas to run out and grab one of these incredible vehicles for someone you love. Or for yourself. After all, why shouldn’t you treat yourself to a Lamborghini Gallardo to end 2024? If the big vintage car insurance company says… Read more…

Weekend Car Culture Roundup December 14, 2024 Oldsmobile is long gone. By the time the brand was phased out in the early 2000sit was a shell of its former self, but Oldsmobile used to make interesting cars like the 442, Trofeo and Aurora. One of the brand’s last interesting cars, and likely one of the rarest, was a badge job of General Motors’ full-size wagon… Read more…

Weekend News Roundup December 14, 2024 Have you ever bought a vehicle that turned out to not quite be as advertised, and wished you could just take it right back to the seller and give them a piece of your mind? Well, one Utah man tried after buying a used Subaru from a Mazda dealer, and did so in spectacular fashion: Driving the Outback straight through… Read more…

Electric Mercedes-Benz CLA Could Be A Breakthrough Moment Typically, when I get to do a ridealong in a new car, prototype or otherwise, the car is actually, you know, in motion. Today though, sitting in the passenger seat of a camouflaged prototype of the upcoming third-generation Mercedes-Benz CLA, we’ve spent most of the drive route completely stopped. That’s not anything… Read more…

25 Years After Launching America’s First Hybrid, 25 Percent Of Honda’s Sales Are Hybrids The turn of the century was an important time for Honda. The Japanese automaker brought its first hybrid to market, the fuel sipping and uniquely aerodynamic Insight coupe that also was the first hybrid to be sold in the United States. The first-generation Insight remans the most fuel-efficient vehicle ever brought to… Read more…

How Cheap Is Too Cheap For A Suzuki Hayabusa? Once upon a time, the Suzuki Hayabusa was the fastest thing on two wheels. It was the bike that ended the Speed Wars, the bike that killed the Super Blackbird, the bike so fast that it got regulatory attention — and now it can be had for 35 of your most crumpled hundred-dollar bills. Is that too cheap? Read more…

Massive Solar Storms Are Making Tractors Act Like They’re ‘Demon Possessed’ Massive solar storms this year have meant that people across America have been able to see the Aurora Borealis like never before. The massive jets of charged particles that have been emitted by the Sun in these storms haven’t just made for a nice photo opportunity, however. They’ve also been wreaking havoc with high-te… Read more…

This $0/Month Fiat 500e Lease Offer Is Basically Free If You Don’t Count Taxes Sometimes we get lucky in this world when deals that seem too good to be true are actually just good deals. That – I’m fairly certain – is exactly what we’ve got going on at Larry H. Miller Chrysler Dodge Ram Fiat of Denver. As we come to the end of the year, this dealership is offering an almost unbelievable deal on… Read more…

These Are The Most Reliable Cars And SUVs You Can Buy In 2025, According To Consumer Reports Generally speaking, most people have the same three things as their top priorities when buying a new car: price, fuel economy and reliability. Price is pretty easy to check even if you know it may change depending on the dealer you go to, and so is fuel economy. Reliability, on the other hand, is a little more… Read more…

Counterpoint: Covering Your Car In Christmas Lights Is Cool And Good, Actually It’s the holiday season — a time of joy, of whimsy, of doing things just because they’re kind of fun and they feel good. We should all be drinking egg nog, having snowball fights, and covering our cars with seasonal lights. Yet some folks — cough, cough, Owen — want to take that all away from us. Read more…

Rwanda Aims To Host Formula 1 In Africa For The First Time In Over 30 Years The current breakdown of F1 Grands Prix by continent is pretty astonishing for its noticeable gap. Nine races are held in Asia, eight in Europe, five in North America, and one each in South America and Australia. Africa remains the only habitable continent on the planet to not host an F1 race in over 30 years. The… Read more…

Trump Frustrated Boeing Delays Means He Won’t Fly On New Air Force One Planes He Ordered In 2018 When Donald Trump was elected to a second term as President in November, he called Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg to check on the progress of the new Air Force One planes he ordered during his first term. Unfortunately for the failed steak salesman, the two new Boeing 747 planes won’t be ready until at least 2029, after… Read more…

Buy This Race Car To Complete Your Dale Earnhardt Cosplay Dale Earnhardt’s death in 2001 rocked the sport to its core and has thankfully lead to a revolution in car and driver safety. The seven-time NASCAR champion was an icon and among the most popular drivers in history. His legacy remains unmatched, and many fans still hold that he’s the greatest to ever do it. If you’re… Read more…