Cars Look Better When They’re Dirty Living in the Northeast U.S. means the car you’re driving is perpetually dirty for about a third of the year because of rock salt, dirt on the roads and other pieces of grime picked up during the winter months. For a big chunk of the year, our cars are very dirty. Most people would tell you that that is a bad thing,… Read more…

Automakers Want To Make Cheap Cars For Us Poors, Everyone Wants A Four-Door Suzuki Jimny And More Musk In This Week’s News Roundup Automakers may have finally realized that we’re all out of money, so they’re now apparently planning on bringing back cheaper cars. The plan is to do this through lower-end trims, value-focused special editions and even reviving cheap dead vehicles from their pasts. It’s welcome news for folks who see the average… Read more…

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These Are The Vintage Cars You Want To EV Swap Earlier this week I had the chance to drive Everrati’s EV-swapped Porsche 911, and it got me daydreaming about other vintage cars that would be excellent candidates for electric powertrains. That led me to my question from earlier this week: What classic model do you want to EV swap? Read more…

These Are The Things Your Cars Need Before Spring It may only be February, but spring will be here before you know it. It’ll come even faster if it knows your project car isn’t ready, so earlier this week we asked what your car needs before warmer weather arrives. Today, we’re combing through just how unfinished your projects are. Read more…

These Are The Cars On Sale Now That You Think Will Become Future Classics Car prices are getting intense right now, with new car prices increasing as a result of new tariffs and second-hand cars booming thanks to collectors with more money than sense. If you wanted to make the most of those millionaires spending increasingly large amounts of cash on old cars, what kind of model do you think… Read more…

From Groceries to Cars, Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers President Trump’s new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China are likely to result in higher prices for lots of products, including computers, tequila and gas.

Changed the car’s transmission twice, keep or buy a new/used car? It’s a 2009 Mazda that I bought new in 2010 and didn’t take good care for it, it has almost 300k miles on the odometer. Since 2021, each consequent summer the car breaks down, either transmission, electronics, mechanics and such, I do repair it for like $1k-2k/year. Financially speaking, should I still keep the car? It’s tiring me out emotionall…

Annoying Car YouTubers, Perfect Features On Awful Cars And Weird Cop Cars In This Week’s QOTD Roundup We all love finding automotive diamonds in the rough. However, sometimes that diamond can be embedded inside a massive lump of coal. Earlier this week we asked what are the standout unique features of cars that aren’t worth aspiring to own. The comments had various answers ranging from basic automated operations to… Read more…

Here Are All The Great Places Readers Say They Would Teleport To With Their Cars There are so many fantastic driving roads out there in the world, and plenty of incredible cars to use in finding joy while driving them. Earlier this week we put forth a dream scenario in which you could teleport to anywhere in the world with your own car for a delightful 24 hour period of driving, and asked your… Read more…

Nearly 60 Million Cars On U.S. Roads Have Unresolved Safety Recalls, Up 16 Percent From Last Year We post a lot about recalls here, and there’s good reason for it. A new study by CarFaxreveals that there are 58.1 million cars on the road (or one out of five cars that you see) that have open recalls, meaning they have known faults that may be dangerous. That’s a problem, and that number is a 16-percent increase… Read more…

No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada Donald Trump’s levy will hit his country’s carmakers hardest

These Are The Oldest Cars You’re Still Driving From treasured cars to tried-and-true rides, very few people drive around in a brand-new car and trade it in after a handful of years. We asked earlier this week what are the oldest cars our readers are still driving. The collective fleet is an eclectic collection ranging from 1931 to 2007. While maintenance headaches… Read more…

Why Don’t Turbocharged Cars Need Hood Scoops Anymore? You never know what you have until it’s gone, and the proliferation of hood scoops on turbocharged cars is a perfect example of that. Looking back in time a decade or two, it was more common for turbocharged or supercharged road cars to have functional hood scoops, from station wagons to muscle cars to pickup trucks.… Read more…

These Are Perfect Features Found On Awful Cars We all love finding automotive diamonds in the rough. However, sometimes that diamond can be embedded inside a massive lump of coal. Earlier this week we asked what are the standout unique features of cars that aren’t worth aspiring to own. The comments had various answers ranging from basic automated operations to… Read more…

MotorWeek’s 1987 Ford Festiva Review Reminds Us How Imperialism Created Many Small “American” Cars The American automotive industry is best known for its large vehicles, be they pickup trucks, large SUVs, or big muscle cars. Most American automakers sold small cars in the past, but some folks may not be aware that many small “American” cars were actually designed and/or built by other companies in other countries. A… Read more…

LA’s Love Of Cars Led To The Wacky, Eye-Catching Googie Architecture Style For Roadside Businesses The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly familiar with buildings that exemplify the style. This distinctive kind of architecture is characterized by cantilevered roofs, swooping curves, dramatic angles, large sheets of plate glass,… Read more…

These Are The Weirdest Unmarked Police Cars You Might Want To Look Out For Last week we asked the Jalopnik audience to share the weirdest unmarked police cars they’ve ever seen, and honestly there were more off-the-wall models than I expected. I picked answers that were relatively current cars, save for a few seriously unexpected models from years past. My answer was the Subaru Ascent — not… Read more…

Daddy Long Legs Train, Omnidirectional Orbs And The Return Of Supersonic Flight In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup A lot of pretty strange means of getting around have been invented over the years, with things like the steam-powered car, the hoverboard and amphibious bus all once promising to be the future of transport. They could all be beaten to the title of strangest means of getting from A to B by this elevated railway,… Read more…

Why Cops Tap Your Car’s Tail Lights During A Traffic Stop Next time you get pulled over, in between frantically shuffling through the Wendy’s napkins and totally-still-in-date insurance paperwork in your glove box, take a look in your mirror as the cop walks up. You might see them tap your tail light on their way up to ask for your license and registration. But why do cops… Read more…