It may be the funniest show on TV, but for car nerds, Archer is like a kiss on the mouth from Bar Refaeli. The animated spy comedy is swarming with cool cars. Watch any five minutes at random and you’ll see so much automotive eye candy, it's as if Hemmings, not the FX network, produced it. We grilled executive producers Adam Reed and Matt Thompson, and the show’s art and animation wizards, on how and why Archer provides the best car spotting on TV, from the pitch-perfect choices of its main characters’ rides, to the baffling selection of automobilia creeping across the backgrounds.
They gave us the inside story on how they pick the cars, how they build and animate them, what vehicular surprises might await in future episodes and which cars helped make them the top-class creative nutbags they are today.
Rally Co-driving Behind The Scenes Part 2: The Bag
I'm back for part 2 of Co-driving Behind the Scenes and today we're going to talk about one of the most important pieces of equipment for a co-driver; the co-driver bag. From the start of recce (pronounced wreck-E, short for reconnaissance, refers to the period before the rally when competitors can slowly drive the…
CNN Is Now Trying To Drive The Tesla Model S From D.C. To Boston
As I write this, journalists from CNNMoney are attempting to do what the New York Times failed to do: drive from Washington to Boston in a Tesla Model S, making use of the company's innovative Supercharger stations along the way. Will they pull it off?
For as long as I can remember, racing games have either been a simulation or an arcade experience, but rarely have the two intermingled. But the arrival of games like Grid and Forza Horizon have merged those two categories into an interesting grey area. And now we have Grid 2, which will be making that grey area even greyer.
I Think We Found A Way To Get Couples Into Rallying
This is WRC champion Petter Solberg with his wife/co-driver/mechanic Pernilla, on their way to winning the historic portion of last weekend's Rally Sweden. If they can rally together, why can't you and your significant other?
Drifting Looks Cooler From Above
One of the coolest car events in the world is the annual drift competition in front of Romania's Parliament building. It looks even better from above.
Citroën DS, The Miracle Of Travelling
Our very own Wolverine, Nino Karotta tried to teach you some Hungarian with his review of the bonkers Renault Avantime or the two-faced BMW M5, but when it came to the roadtrip with a Scion FR-S from Barcelona to Budapest, the team took the time to shoot everything twice so you could enjoy the video in English as…
Among Elon Musk's many rebuttals to the New York Times' failed drive of the Tesla Model S is that the car never fully ran out of battery power, even when it was being towed away on a flatbed truck. Not true, says the towing company.
When Car Collecting Becomes Destructive
All of us love seeing classic cars still on the road. There is something that stirs inside us to see some former legend of days before still prowling the streets. Many of us would love to have more than one of these beasts in their garage. But how many is too many? Some of us have the means to restore one or two. 50? …
Nothing Says Love Like A V8 Engine Shaped Like A Heart
It's Valentine's Day. That means the fellas and ladies out there have to get something special for their lucky significant others. Instead of flowers, why not get them some artwork? Some V8 artwork.
A letter from Jalopnik readers to Lindsay Lohan and all other terrible celebrity drivers: don’t buy these ten cars.
A VW for Italians! It's red, it's compact, and it can take Italian traffic/parking. The Cross up! is coming to Geneva.
Jaguar Land Rover Profits Up, GM Profit Sharing Down, And Jimmy Hoffa…
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
As promised, Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk has fired back against New York Times reporter John M. Broder's ill-fated test drive of the Model S, and he has done so with data logs from the car. And these logs appear, at least, to contradict some of what Broder wrote in his story.
Suburban Reptiles - Saturday Night Stay At Home
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
