These Great Cars Were Ruined By Their Transmissions A transmission can really make or break a car. Sometimes you’ve got all the right ingredients: a good engine, the right drive wheels, a pretty body and an excellent suspension, but the way gears are dispatched leaves a lot to be desired. It’s a real killer for a car’s vibe if you ask me. That’s what led us to our… Read more…

Consumer Reports Says These Are The Cars With The Biggest Current Discounts If you’re shopping for a new minivan, it’s hard to beat the Toyota Sienna’s combination of reliability, practicality, good gas mileage and available all-wheel drive. But as Tom pointed out recently, the only way to get one is to either wait a long time for an allocation or to pay a big markup in order to skip the… Read more…

Over 100 Cars Are Indefinitely Trapped In A Collapsed Parking Garage At A Hospital In Florida The parking garage of a hospital collapsed on Wednesday in Jacksonville, Florida, trapping over 100 cars belonging to hospital staff and patients. Nobody was hurt in the partial collapse, but car owners were told their vehicles will stay in the parking garage pending a full investigation by engineers, according to WJXT Read more…

Shortened Volkswagen Bug, Whale Isuzu, Gyrocopter: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Sometimes, you come across something on Facebook Marketplace that simply cannot be explained. Modern science has only taught us so much, and some things are just beyond our comprehension — we almost need to develop new language to encompass such wonders. Read more…

Nearly A Fifth Of IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Cars Are Electric Ahead of the 2024 model year the IIHS stepped up the requirements for its highest Top Safety Pick+ award. Previous winners aren’t grandfathered into the award and must increase their safety standards to continue to be sold as a TSPP awarded automobile. Notably, this year the independent, nonprofit scientific and… Read more…

Georgia Mayor Wants To Penalize Owners Who Leave Unsecured Guns In Their Cars So far this year, about 1,200 guns have been stolen out of cars in Atlanta. But despite what suburbanites outside the perimeter may tell themselves, that’s not just an Atlanta problem. It’s a problem throughout the entire state. According to WSB-TV, about 14,000 guns are stolen in Georgia every year. And the mayor of… Read more…

EV-Swapping Classic Cars Doesn’t Really Make Sense The electric era is coming, whether we all like it or not. It’s an exciting time — new propulsion methods, new forms of tuning and modifying, a whole new world of power adders to consider. But if you’re thinking about updating your classic car to the 21st century, you might want to hold off for a few more years. Read more…

These Are The Most Common New Cars On Your Local Roads Teslas, Trucks and three-row crossovers seem to be the most common new cars on the road. Even though Jalopnik readers wrote in from across the U.S. — and beyond — it looks like Tesla EVs and full-size pickup trucks are the most common vehicles. And sales figures back their claims up. Read more…

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VinFast Is Mostly Selling Cars To Itself A majority of the 11,300 electric vehicles VinFast has sold worldwide this year were to… itself. Barron’s reports that over 7,000 EVs were bought by Green and Smart Mobility. It’s a Vietnamese taxi company that is – you guessed it – controlled by Vingroup, owners of VinFast. The news comes from a filing with the Securi… Read more…

Watch Sebastian Vettel And David Coulthard Run Championship-Winning F1 Cars On The Nürburgring Grand Prix cars first raced on the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife the year it was inaugurated in 1927, and would continue to race there every year until 1976 (with notable exceptions for The Great Depression, a World War, and a demand for increased safety in 1955 following the tragedy at Le Mans). The German Grand… Read more…

As Cars Get More Connected, Cars Are A Soft Target For Hackers If you want a Tesla with heated rear seats, you have a couple of options. First, you can pay Tesla $300 to have them activated. That’s the easy route, but it’s also frustrating to know your car is equipped with heated seats that you have to pay to use. Alternatively, as Patrick George reports in The Atlantic, you can… Read more…

Atlanta Officials Push To Outlaw Booting Cars Booting cars is big business in Atlanta. The city may be in charge of booting vehicles on public streets, but apartment complexes, businesses, parking lots, and other private property owners make it very profitable for private booting companies to operate in the city. Now, some Georgia lawmakers are working on… Read more…

Tesla Model 3 Finally Gets Feature Other Cars Have Had For Decades Tesla unveiled its refreshed 2024 Model 3 last week with an updated face and slightly redesigned interior, but the really big news here is that the Model 3 is finally getting something that’s been available in much cheaper cars for over a decade now. That’s right, you can now get a Model 3 with a blind spot indicator.… Read more…

Are used cars (3-5yrs) worth it in this market? I recently heard used cars are not worth buying. Now, with even higher interest rates, am I still better off financing a new Honda SUV having an 823 FICO, 783 equifax? Income is 93K and 75K. Debt: almost $280K total between our home and 50K student loans. submitted by /u/elephant9514

Found some vintage cars parked outside an old garage. submitted by /u/Sea-Crazy-3019

AI for cars: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk Tesla’s latest version of FSD had taught itself how to drive by processing billions of frames of video of how humans do it, Isaacson writes.

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Honda Stepwagon, Case Excavator, Ford Weed Ambulance: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online I’m beginning to realize I have an… eclectic definition of dopeness. Most people would say that a Yamaha R1 is dope, or an E36 M3, or even a Volvo 240 wagon. I certainly agree with all those sentiments, but I think they’re missing something. There’s a hole in most lists of dope cars, and it’s shaped like a weed… Read more…

These Are The Cars You Say Had The Worst Engines All engines come with tradeoffs. Some lack horsepower but make up for it with a lot of torque. Some are glorious to wring out but will cost you thousands of dollars in repairs down the line. Some aren’t particularly powerful but get great gas mileage and will last forever with only regular oil changes. Some are… Read more…