Weekend Beyond Cars Roundup December 14, 2024 NASA’s iconic Space Shuttle is arguably one of the best things America has made thanks to its sleek looks, its use in the launch of the International Space Station and its contribution to our understanding of the cosmos through the countless satellites it launched into orbit. Russia’s attempt at building a space plane… Read more…

These Are The Cars From The Year 2000 You Want To Import In 2025 We’re just a few weeks away from entering the new year, which means there will be a new crop of 25-year-old cars available for import into the United States. Earlier this week I asked you to share what car from 2000 you’d want to import, and your answers ran the gamut. (A lot of them had already debuted before 2000,… Read more…

Honda CBR1000RR Repsol, Dodge Power Wagon Ambulance, Fire Truck: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Happy Friday, friends. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas out there, even though, without snow, it may not look it. The park near the climbing gym is selling trees, the air has that frosty nip to it and the floor of my apartment building’s hallway is absolutely freezing when I go out barefoot to pick up my… Read more…

Small Plane Splits In Half After Crashing Into 3 Cars At Intersection The cliché response when any small plane runs into mechanical trouble in the sky is to land on a public road. A pilot in Texas found out the hard way on Wednesday why this isn’t always the best idea. The pilot put his Piper Navajo down on a highway frontage road in Victoria and rolled straight into a busy… Read more…

These Are The New Cars Our Readers Are Most Excited About In 2025 Soon, the horrors of 2024 will give way to fresh, new horrors for 2025, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to look forward to. A new year also means new cars, and whether you plan to buy one or just hope to see one on the road, it’s always exciting when the new models start showing up on dealer lots. Read more…

What’s The Dumbest Thing You’ve Heard Someone Say About Cars? If you’re reading Jalopnik, you’re likely a car aficionado (and/or nerd), and thus likely to know more about cars than the average bear. If you know cars, then you know that they’re incredibly complex machines with thousands of moving parts. Beyond the mechanics of it all lies the somehow more complex and… Read more…

WRC Tearing Up Its Rulebook For 2027 To Allow Wider Mix Of Rally Cars And Powertrains The FIA World Rally Championship’s 500-horsepower hybrid Rally1 monsters are being put out to pasture. Motorsport’s global governing body approved a new flexible, future-proof and cost-controlled ruleset for international rallying’s top category in 2027. The “WRC27” regulations will allow internal combustion, hybrid… Read more…

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Hagerty Experts Say These Are The Collector Cars To Buy In 2025, I Have Some Thoughts The annual Hagerty Bull Market List is out, and there are still several days before Christmas to run out and grab one of these incredible vehicles for someone you love. Or for yourself. After all, why shouldn’t you treat yourself to a Lamborghini Gallardo to end 2024? If the big vintage car insurance company says… Read more…

Michigan Hyundai Dealer Admits Leasing Used Cars As New Ones, Other Violations Car dealerships aren’t known to look out for the best interests of their customers; in fact they’re usually better known for gleefully encouraging folks to make some of the worst financial decisions of their lives. LaFontaine Hyundai in Detroit suburb Livonia, Michigan, had its license reinstated last week after it… Read more…

Underwater Car Shoppers, Rogue Teslas And The Deadliest Cars On The Road In This Week’s News Roundup Americans owe trillions in car payments and the last few years have shown that people are willing to accept life ruining payments to be able to drive what they want. A recent video of a customer at a Mercedes dealership showed in real time just how wildly financially irresponsible folks who get into these car buying… Read more…

Datsun Sunny Truck, Ford Crown Victoria, Subaru WRX STI: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Happy Friday, friends. I’m calling it: It’s officially winter. I understand this isn’t really my decision to make, given that I’m “not a meteorologist” and that “watching “Twister” repeatedly doesn’t let you decide the weather, no matter how many times you do it” and “the seasons change on set dates regardless of what… Read more…

These Are The Deadliest Cars On The Road More cars are fitted with active safety features like automatic emergency braking and lane keep assist than ever before, and yet fatality statistics are higher now than over the past 12 years according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or IIHS. Experts say that the increase in fatalities has an array of po… Read more…

Remember When Porsche Race Cars Had An Engine In The Front? Porsche was ready to kill off the 911 in the middle of the 1980s with an eye toward replacing it with the heavier and faster 928 grand tourer. Porsche couldn’t just let the 911 die on the vine and not replace it in the world of motorsport, so the company was looking to promote its entry-level 944 model to represent… Read more…

Rogue Tesla Hits Other Cars Before Driving Off Rooftop With 2 Passengers Inside Two people were taken to the hospital after a Tesla went rogue in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday and drove off the roof of a parking lot. The Model S reportedly smashed through a barrier and landed in a loading dock with the driver and one passenger inside. Read more…

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Hertz rental cars When I was paying for my hertz rental car in Knoxville TN they told me I’m not allowed to take it across the Mississippi River… even though there is hertz locations on that side of the Mississippi. Anyone ever heard this? submitted by /u/BigBills10

The Blue And Gold Subaru Rally Cars You Love Owe Their Style To A Cigarette Company Rothmans. Marlboro. John Player Special. The best liveries in motorsports come from cigarette companies, and that holds true even for distinctive paint jobs on street cars. Next time you see a World Rally Blue WRX or STI on gold wheels, you can thank State Express 555 cigarettes. Read more…

The Worst Cars To Get As Holiday Gifts, Ranked Thanksgiving comes between Halloween and Christmas, but once the trick-or-treating is done, most companies skip right over it in favor of holidays that are more profitable. Automakers are no exception to the rule, with constant ads through the month of December trying to convince you that people actually give each… Read more…