Life Is Beautiful: Alpine Will Run An All-Pink Livery Again It’s been a rough few weeks lately in the F1 world, what with the series taking a hiatus ahead of the Las Vegas/Qatar/Abu Dhabi triple-header to end the 2024 season. With festivities kicking off in Las Vegas shortly for the second Grand Prix of a three-year contract in the city, Alpine has given everyone something to… Read more…

Seattle’s Reddit-Famous Abandoned Cybertruck Is Up For Auction If You Want One That Is More Broken Than Usual When Tesla talks about the Cybertruck, it frequently pumps up the massive slab-sided $80,000 monstrosity as the pinnacle of masculinity, toughness and strength. It’s often compared to big overwrought machinery from the annals of science fiction, compared to something from “Blade Runner,” “Aliens,” or “Robocop.” Company… Read more…

Buy These EVs Before The End Of The Year To Get The Full $7,500 Federal Tax Credit It’s better for the planet and people who breathe air if more people who drive gas-powered cars switch to driving electric vehicles, so it makes sense that the federal government would want to incentivize making the switch. The fact that the incentive is a tax credit can make it difficult to understand, though, and… Read more…

Tesla Scraps Factory Paint Protection Wrap For Its Unpainted Cybertruck Tesla reportedly scrapped its factory wrapping service for the Cybertruck after less than a year on sale this week. The wrapping service, which is designed to protect paintwork on cars from chips or rust that might be picked up in daily drives, has been removed from the Tesla site after being sold out since January. Read more…

Frontier Airlines Gate Agent Shakes Down U.S. Navy Sailor For $50 On Veterans Day While retailers mainly use Veterans Day as an early sales window to draw in customers before Black Friday, the holiday is intended to honor everyone who has served in America’s military. A Frontier Airlines gate agent allegedly decided to spend November 11 extorting a U.S. Navy sailor. She demanded $50 via Cash App at… Read more…

Wall Street Analyst Thinks Removing Steering Wheels And Brake Pedals Will Make AVs Cheaper Than Regular Cars Investors are all abuzz right now on the news that Donald Trump will make it easier to get autonomous cars on the roads. Tesla stock shot up on the news, and Wall Street analysts justified the jump by saying much of the company’s value is based on its AI efforts. Here’s the issue: The analysts are wrong, and… Read more…

This Brand New Viper Crate Engine Promises To Fulfill Every Bad Idea You’ve Ever Had Sadly, Dodge doesn’t make the Viper anymore. Up until it ended production in 2017, America’s brash supercar was one of the few places you could find a naturally aspirated V10 engine. Now, amazingly, one of those V10 engines is up for sale and its never been used. Read more…

Watch The Real Roadkill Story According To David Freiburger Roadkill is officially dead. Cohost Mike Finnegan shared that news over the weekend, but at the time, we didn’t have a lot of details other than the fact that the production company was shutting down, and there would be no more episodes of Roadkill once the 13th season aired. I tried reaching out to both Finnegan and… Read more…

Lamborghini Huracan Stolen By Hackers Rerouting Delivery Truck Kris Bryant, star third baseman for the Colorado Rockies, recently had his Lamborghini Huracan stolen as it was being shipped to his home in Las Vegas. Luckily, police retrieved the supercar and the story behind how it was stolen is wild. Read more…

Buy This Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake, Or You’ll Never Know True Happiness Most cars are little more than practical transportation that gets people from point A to point B. Far fewer cars could be considered rolling works of art, and only a handful combine the two into rolling art that’s also practical enough that you could conceivably drive it daily. The 2019 Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato… Read more…

You Shouldn’t Power An E-Bike With Disposable Vape Batteries, But Companies Probably Should As far as I can tell, Gen Z is all about two things: Suckling from disposable vapes and riding newfangled electronic bicycles. Now, thanks to a YouTuber, those two generational pastimes can now be combined into one by powering an e-bike with batteries reclaimed from disposed vapes. Read more…

After Hertz Workers Abandon Their Location, Customers Show Up And Take Whatever Rental Cars They Want After dealing with things like arrests over false complaintsof rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in customers… Read more…

The WRC Hybrid Era Is Over Way Too Soon The World Rally Championship has always positioned itself as the pinnacle of international rally competition, and the move to hybrid powertrains for the 2022 season was indicative of its desire to be a technology test bed for the manufacturers in the sport while increasing the power, speed, and spectacle of the top… Read more…

China Unveils New Space Shuttle That Totally Doesn’t Look Familiar At All A common saying often attributed to Oscar Wilde is that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness,” and the latest example of that comes from the space race. China unveiled a new space shuttle last week to keep the Tiangong station supplied as the nation expands its space… Read more…

RIP Roadkill After 13 seasons, MotorTrend’s Roadkill will reportedly come to an end. The popular show was cohosted by former Hot Rod editors David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan and featured exactly what enthusiasts actually wanted to see in a car show: real people doing awesome stuff with cool cars without all the manufactured… Read more…

Racing-Inspired Hyundai Elantra N TCR Edition Has A Huge Swan-Neck Rear Wing It’s impossible to overstate how good Hyundai’s Elantra N is. The model just fot a facelift last year, and for 2025 Hyundai is making an already good thing even better by adding some motorsport-inspired bits to a new special-edition Elantra N. Called the Hyundai Elantra N TCR Edition, it’s inspired by the Elantra N… Read more…

Jorge Martin’s MotoGP Championship Is The First For An Independent Rider In 24 Years 26-year-old Jorge Martin Almoguera, nicknamed The Martinator, became the fifth Spanish-born MotoGP champion in history and the first to win a title for an independent squad since Valentino Rossi took the 2001 laurels for Nastro Azzurro Honda. It was clear that the Ducati was the bike to have for 2024, as the Italian… Read more…

Riding A Motorcycle Cuts Travel Time Through Notorious Los Angeles Traffic Nearly in Half Around 83 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and in many parts of the country traffic is worse than it has ever been. For the sake of convenience and reducing traffic, it would be in all of our best interest to promote the legalization of motorcycle lane-splitting in every single state. Adding protected bike… Read more…

TikToker Turns The O’Reilly Auto Parts Jingle Into Something Beautiful We all know the O’Reilly Auto Parts Jingle. It’s been around since the 1990s and it’s just undeniably catchy, but what if it was more than that? What if the O’Reilly Auto Parts Jingle was beautiful, melancholy, thought provoking and even inspirational? Well, one TikToker made it just that. Read more…

Rats Love Revving Engines Say Scientists Who Taught Them To Drive Tiny Cars Not all lab rats have the most exciting lives, but a few lucky rats got the job of a lifetime when they were chosen to participate in a University of Richmond Lambert Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory study where they teach rats to drive. As it turns out, rats are pretty good at driving. In fact, as Futurism reports,… Read more…