These Are The Cars We’re Most Excited For In 2025 Welcome to the future, or as we call it, 2025. It’s time to clear up that hangover, start those New Year’s resolutions and get ready to… work tomorrow, probably. To distract you from that impending doom, let’s talk about the cars that we (as in us at Jalopnik) are most excited for in 2025. Read more…

I Watched 136 Movies In 2024 And Ranked Them By How Well The Cars Are Used I watch a whole lot of movies every year. Cinema is pretty much my only non-car-related hobby. It combines my twin passions of storytelling and sitting in a comfortable chair eating snacks. This year I saw more movies than any year previous, and some of those movies had some pretty rad cars in them. I thought it would… Read more…

These Are The Cars That Died In 2024 Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to the many good, bad and amazing cars that died in 2024. Some, like the Nissan GT-R or the Ram Classic, slipped slowly into old age and died surrounded by friends. Others, like the Audi A4 or Infiniti Q50, were unceremoniously slashed from their lineups over… Read more…

These Are The Best Cars We Drove In 2024 I drove a lot of really good cars this year, from supercars to affordable EVs and everything in between, and so did many of my colleagues. That’s why we’ve rounded up all of the best cars that we drove in 2024 for your reading pleasure. Despite some tough competition this year my top two were easy picks, but I have a… Read more…

Cars Are The Worst Way To Get Through Cities Cities and cars just don’t get along. Cities are compact, maximally utilizing space for their human residents, while cars aren’t — they take up precious space just sitting parked, and carry few people while moving. We’ve already seen that motorcycles are faster than cars for getting through vehicle-friendly Los Angeles Read more…

Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars Image: Tim Stevens / The VergeFor months, the location information of around 800,000 electric Volkswagen vehicles was available online due to a data leak, according to a report from the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The leak reportedly stemmed from the software running inside Volkswagen vehicles and could’ve allowed a bad actor to trace a dr…

Missing Malaysia Flight Goes Ham And A NASA Probe Goes Sunning In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over a decade ago. Malaysia’s government announced last week that it will resume its search efforts for the missing airliner. Maritime robotics company Ocean Infinity signed an 18-month deal to lead the effort and will receive $70 million if they can find the… Read more…

Aston Martin Might Remove The Valkyrie Race Car’s Mufflers To Let That V12 Really Sing: Report Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing team went into pre-season testing cautiously optimistic. After finding its new Valkyrie Hypercar racer was several seconds off the pace, it is decided that the car won’t make its debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January while the team looks for a solution. Part of that solution… Read more…

Formula 1 cars, explained for rookies – Cleo Abram (with Max Verstappen) submitted by /u/taulover

You’d Only Drive These Cars If They Were Free Last week, we told you about a screaming deal one Colorado Fiat dealership was offering on brand new 500es: $0/down and $0/month for 27 months. All a lessee has to pay is the sales tax, which comes out to something less than $1,800. In today’s day and age, that’s about as close to free as you’re going to get, and it… Read more…

These Cars Didn’t Live Up To The Hype In 2024 We drive dozens, if not hundreds of cars every year. Some of them come around with a lot more hype than others. Folks aren’t really waiting in anticipation over things like the new gas-powered Chevy Equinox, but for some cars, there’s a ton of suspense leading up to their release. Read more…

LPT take a video of your car’s condition now, and when you get new insurance even when signing up for a new policy, they don’t ask you to film or photograph your car’s current condition. I just got off the phone with my insurance company and they are trying to deny a claim that happened because they don’t have any photographs or video proving that the damage happened during the insurance coverage period. submitted b…

Honda and Nissan plan to merge as we enter the age of electric cars Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty ImagesHonda and Nissan have announced plans to merge as the Japanese automakers struggle with competition from rival brands in the electric vehicle market. The two companies confirmed on Monday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding that would create the third largest car maker by sales, behind Toyo…

Rental cars pushing EVs I’m kinda sick of it. I have nothing against EVs in theory but when you’re going a long distance or in an AirBnB or a hotel without a charger, they just don’t work. Unfortunately our infrastructure doesn’t yet support it. But every time I step up to a counter in the last year, that’s the default they give us, and get grumpy about changing it. …

Anyone live in their cars until they got on their feet? At first i was freaking out about being homeless but now im feeling better after 2 months of living in my car. I was looking at prices and i really don’t wanna spend the money on a place. I wanna pay down my debt and save 10k then maybe get a place but idk the more i live in my car the more comfortable im getting in just living in my car. i do m…

Falling Drones, Swarming Drones And Rolling Nightmare Robots In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Drone shows are meant to be the future of celebration as they’re a cleaner alternative to fireworks that don’t terrorize every animal within a five-mile radius. That’s not quite true when these shows go wrong and thousands of drones start falling from the sky, however, as was the case in China earlier this month. -… Read more…

Colorado’s Kei Cars Are Saved Colorado decided to consider arbitrarily pulling registrations for kei trucks earlier this week, after the shady American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators asked it to. Now, just three days later, the state has given up the effort — your Honda Beats and Subaru Sambars are safe. Read more…

NHTSA finally releases new rules for self-driving cars — but there’s a twist Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty ImagesThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new “voluntary national framework for the evaluation and oversight” of autonomous vehicles, a bureaucratic first step that could eventually open the floodgates for fully driverless cars. But there’s a twist: the agency wants self-dri…

Tesla’s ‘Brand-New Cars Not Drivable’ Because Of Failing Self-Driving Chips Tesla rolled out new hardware in its cars this year that was meant to usher in a new age for its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. Well, as it turns out, the new computer chips that were supposed to support this prosperous period of autonomy have a flaw, which means many are failing after just a few hundred… Read more…

These Are The Dumbest Things You’ve Heard People Say About Cars Last week we asked the audience the dumbest thing they’ve ever heard someone say about cars. Cars are complex machines that many of us have to interact with on a daily basis, so it’s unsurprising that there’s a lot of misunderstanding and straight up misinformation about them. Though often the dumbest things we hear… Read more…