These Are The New Cars Our Readers Are Most Excited About In 2025 Soon, the horrors of 2024 will give way to fresh, new horrors for 2025, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to look forward to. A new year also means new cars, and whether you plan to buy one or just hope to see one on the road, it’s always exciting when the new models start showing up on dealer lots. Read more…

GM Still Wants To Crack Autonomy Despite Closing Unit Meant To Do Just That Good morning! It’s Thursday, December 12, 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…

At $5,900, Is This 2009 Mercedes E350 Dressed To Impress? The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercedes claims it’s always been garage-kept. That would explain the discordance between its tidy presentation and the 317K it shows on the clock. Let’s see if there’s still life left in it and what that might reasonably be worth. Read more…

Amtrak Train Destroys Police Cruiser An Officer Parked On The Tracks A police officer in North Carolina found out the hard way that there are some places you just can’t park a police cruiser. The Greensboro officer was responding to a collision involving two vehicles in Jamestown, NC, at the end of November, reports local news outlet ABC 11. Upon arrival the officer parked their… Read more…

What’s The Dumbest Thing You’ve Heard Someone Say About Cars? 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…

Formula 1 Tires Are Surprisingly Great For Off-Roading In order to extract the quickest lap times from a Formula 1 car, teams run on super-slick, super-sticky bespoke Pirelli tires that are purpose-made for running on some of the best race tracks around the world. But did you know that F1 tires are also great for off-roading? Read more…

Get Lost In The Desert And Find Your Way Back Again With A Trail Navigation App There’s something beautiful and exciting about the human condition that makes us want to explore places we definitely should not go. We’ll look at a big pile of boulders in the middle of an inhospitable desert landscape and think it would be a good idea to build a machine that could get over them. Car dorks are even… Read more…

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona EV Is Convincing Muscle Car Cosplay Dodge has never been a terribly forward-thinking company. Cars like the old Charger and Challenger were made to remind you of the glory days of the American muscle car. They had massive engines, were as big as medium-sized yachts and weren’t great at going around a corner. Now, the 110-year-old automaker is looking to… Read more…

Rarest GM B-Body Wagon Was The Last Rear-Wheel-Drive V8 Oldsmobile 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…

GM Killed Off Cruise With A Slack Message There are a lot of shitty ways to find out the project you’ve been working on for months or years has been scrapped, but few seem as inhuman as a Slack notification. That’s exactly how Cruise CEO Marc Whitten let his team know all of their work was for naught. Earlier this week, he posted a message in the company’s… Read more…

Why Is Installing A Helmet Comm Still This Much Of A Pain? I love motorcycle comms systems. I’ve had a Cardo PackTalk Edge for a while now, and a PackTalk Black before that — for as long as I’ve seriously ridden bikes, I’ve had a comm unit. I love having music in my helmet, I love the ability to make phone calls, I love being able to hear my turn-by-turn directions when I’m… Read more…

WRC Tearing Up Its Rulebook For 2027 To Allow Wider Mix Of Rally Cars And Powertrains The FIA World Rally Championship’s 500-horsepower hybrid Rally1 monsters are being put out to pasture. Motorsport’s global governing body approved a new flexible, future-proof and cost-controlled ruleset for international rallying’s top category in 2027. The “WRC27” regulations will allow internal combustion, hybrid… Read more…

Don’t Waste Money On A Supercar For The Track When You Can Go Faster In A Radical Oftentimes supercar manufactures and supercar buyers alike will tout their superiority by way of lap times.Hell, Ford just did it themselves this week. Many of these are phenomenally fast street-legal machines, priced upward of a quarter-million dollars before options, like the Porsche 911 GT3 RS or the McLaren 750S.… Read more…

$30,000 Tesla May Not Be Dead After All People who have been holding out hope for a cheaper Tesla shouldn’t abandon that dream just yet. A new report from Deutsche Bank shows that a new sub-$30,000 Tesla is on the way, and it has been nicknamed the Model Q. It should be noted that the price takes into account the $7,500 tax credit from the Inflation… Read more…

What Car From The Year 2000 Do You Want To Import In 2025? Last week I was in Germany and Austria for a work trip that you’ll be hearing more about soon, and local carspotting got me thinking about how in less than a month, we’ll be able to import cars from the year 2000. That’s right, the turn of the millennium happened 25 years ago, bringing a new era to the cars that are… Read more…

Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares Personally Killed The Hemi V8 Carlos Tavares, recently-ousted CEO of Stellantis, is a man of strong opinions. He wanted the company’s vehicles to be more expensive to buy, cheaper to produce, and greener — a series of objectives that put him at odds with his staff, according to a new report. Those goals also led him to his move most noteworthy for… Read more…

These Are The Car Companies Non-Car People Love We all have our specific tastes in cars, our Great Walls and Blackwoods and Skylines, but what do the regular commuters around us love? That’s the question we asked earlier this week, and today we’re looking through your answers. Read more…

Car Tumbles Off Overpass To End 100 MPH Police Chase Everyone with a driver’s license and half a brain knowshow deadly police pursuits can be. One Milwaukee man apparently didn’t get the memo, because he smashed through a fence while fleeing at over 100 miles per hour and plunged off an overpass in August. The West Allis Police Department released dashcam footage of… Read more…

Family Blames Elon Musk’s Autopilot Lies For Son’s Death In New Lawsuit Could Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s casual relationship to the truth be his undoing? The world’s richest man is being blamed by family members for the death of a California man whose Model S crashed while Autopilot was engaged. They say claims made by Musk that self-driving technology was perfect and ready for road use… Read more…

2025 Toyota 4Runner’s Starting Price Is Just $120 More Than The Outgoing Generation Toyota has finally released pricing for the actually brand new 2025 4Runner, and surprisingly, its starting price is just under $120 more than the old 4Runner’s. Don’t be fooled, though. Go for one of the new 4Runner’s new hybrid powertrains and/or new off-road trims, and you’re looking at a much pricier SUV Read more…