Weekend News Roundup February 01, 2025 Ever since it finally went on sale in 2023, the Tesla Cybertruck has been on the receiving end of some pretty bad press. The car has been hit with recall after recall, failed at some pretty basic truck tasks and hasn’t sold in the huge numbers Tesla projected. Now, the ridiculous truck’s owners report that they are … Read more…

Weekend News Roundup January 04, 2025 Things aren’t going so great at Volkswagen right now, and while the latest scandal likely won’t rise to the level of the diesel emissions scandal, a security lapse by VW’s in-house software developer Cariad did expose the locations of about 800,000 electric vehicles to hackers. The app owners used to access many of… Read more…

Weekend QOTD Roundup December 14, 2024 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…

Weekend News Roundup December 14, 2024 Have you ever bought a vehicle that turned out to not quite be as advertised, and wished you could just take it right back to the seller and give them a piece of your mind? Well, one Utah man tried after buying a used Subaru from a Mazda dealer, and did so in spectacular fashion: Driving the Outback straight through… Read more…

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