Experts Say You Shouldn’t Buy These Sports Cars, But They’re All Wrong In an effort to give you some practical advice when it comes to buying a sports car, some less informed publications have cited “experts” that say certain models are too expensive, unreliable, outdated, or even dangerous. But you don’t buy a sports car with the same logic you buy a Camry, which is why you should try… Read more…

Cars Once Again Used By Small Town To Fight QAnon Queen Of Canada Our least favorite Queen of Canada is still up to her old tricks, but now small-town Canadians know how to handle her kind: with loud, annoying, non-stop blaring of car horns. Read more…

Porsche 911 GT3, Unimog, Pontiac Solstice Coupe: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online I’m no longer a morning drive time radio DJ, but sometimes you just need to flex those saying-a-phrase-no-human-being-would-ever-say muscles. This is one of those times. Welcome back to another Friday here at Jello Picnic HQ, where the weather is getting colder but the cars stay hot. Read more…

How will driverless cars ‘talk’ to pedestrians? Waymo has a few ideas Image: WaymoFor years, developers have been working on ways for driverless cars to communicate intent to other road users, either through audio recordings or visual cues. Today, Waymo says it wants to be one of the first companies to put some of these methods into practice. The Alphabet-owned company’s driverless Jaguar I-Pace vehicles will use…

Most Used Cars Are Getting Cheaper Except For Trucks Used cars are finally getting a little cheaper, according to Cox Automotive. After what seemed like an interminable series of price hikes across all vehicle segments, used prices are going down. The only caveat is that pickup trucks are trending in the other direction and are getting slightly more expensive instead. Read more…

These Are The Most Significant Cars In History (According To You) History: you don’t know where you’re going if you don’t know how you got there. I’ve always been a big buff of the before times, and so are many of you! I asked about cars that turned the tide of the past and you delivered with some obvious and very interesting answers. Read more…

GM now has its own API for software developers to make cool apps for its cars Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeGeneral Motors is ramping up its efforts to create “a free, universal language” for software developers to make cool apps for its vehicles — and, notably, the vehicles of its competitors. GM announced a new vehicle services definition called “uServices” for the automotive software developer community. In es…

Ferrari Will Sell You One Of The Quickest RWD Production Cars In History Somehow Ferrari has done it. The Italian Stallion brand has cracked the RWD acceleration code, beating out the McLaren Artura and Lamborghini Huracan STO in Car And Driver’s recent acceleration test of the mid-engine hybrid V6 monster known as the 269 GTB. Read more…

The Atlantic Is Right About Classic Cars For The Wrong Reasons People are allowed to like whatever cars they want to like for whatever reasons they want to, but this recent think piece from author Rich Cohen at The Atlantic just made me boil with rage. The premise within posits that the age of the Boomer dominating the world of automotive enthusiasm has come to a close, and it’s… Read more…

These Are The Worst Cars You Ever Bought We asked you earlier this week what were the worst cars you have ever bought. The comments were filled to the brim with stories that opened with hopeful purchases that ended up a nightmare. A few people were quick to realize that they were getting screwed over from the beginning. Others just needed something cheap and… Read more…

Lucid Only Managed To Move 478 Cars In August Just 478 Lucid Airs were registered in the U.S. in August, and that brings the eight-month total of sales to 4,267 units. At that pace of new vehicle registrations, it’s fairly likely the luxury EV startup will fall well short of its “more than 10,000” vehicles sold production goal by the end of the year unless some… Read more…

Here Are Some Performance Cars You Probably Forgot Existed Over the years, the term “performance car” has had different meanings. While some of these cars may have been cool for their time, many have now been lost to history. But this being Jalopnik, we don’t easily forget cars. Some of these models can be looked back on for nostalgic reasons, even if the performance of the… Read more…

These Cars Have Seen The Biggest Year-Over-Year Sales Increases In 2023 When it comes to the best-selling cars so far this year, the top five isn’t anything particularly interesting. Ford takes the top spot with 573,370 F-Series pickups sold, followed by the Chevrolet Silverado at 411,758 and the Ram pickup at 332,441. The Toyota RAV4 and Tesla Model Y round out the list with 302,831 and… Read more…

These Are The Best Cars Named After A Bird Birds make some of the best namesakes for cars because cars can, indeed, fly. Birds also make for good namesakes because it’s easy for a cool-sounding car to make a schlub like Phillip J. Fry feel confident by the sheer act of driving. We all know buying a car can be an emotional purchase and one word goes a long… Read more…

F1 Cars May Lose 18-Inch Wheels Because The Cars Are Too Damn Heavy Formula 1 is considering ditching the current 18-inch wheel size after only two seasons in a drive to reduce the weight of cars across the championship field. F1’s stakeholders aim to take 110 pounds off of the cars when new regulations are introduced in 2026. The chassis dimensions will already be trimmed for the… Read more…

Americans Will Not Stop Buying Cars Good morning! It’s Thursday, October 5, 2023, 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…

Our Favorite Weird Press Pictures Of Cars When a new car gets unveiled or updated, it usually comes with a slew of fairly standard photos showing off every detail of the car, both broad and minute. For the most part, they aren’t terribly interesting pieces of photography, but they don’t really have to be. They’re just supposed to, you know, show off the car. Read more…

People Are Souring On Self-Driving Cars The public’s trust in self-driving cars has declined for the second year in a row, according to a study conducted by J.D. Power and MIT. The growing distrust applies to self-driving cars in general, including autonomous vehicles used by ride-hailing services, as well as autonomous driving systems such as Tesla’s… Read more…

The Best Cars In The Rennsport Reunion VII Parking Lot Rennsport Reunion is an almost overwhelming experience for any Porsche fanatic. Hell, this wasn’t even my first one and I was nearly brought to tears by the quality and diversity of ass-engine’d sports cars in Monterey’s Laguna Seca raceway. These are some of the best cars from just the parking lots. Read more…

What Are The Best Cars That Are Named After A Bird? I’m not a big fan of naming cars after places or things but I’ll make an exception for birds. Naming conventions for cars don’t get much better than the timeless tradition of baptizing a machine in honor of a bird; the practice persists even to this day. And out of all the cars that have been named after a bird, which… Read more…