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Chris Harris says the 2012 Nissan GT-R is one of the most interesting cars in the world to behave badly in. Why? Because the car's amazingly byzantine all-wheel drivetrain fights against aggressively reckless inputs. More »

I don't post a lot of Skoda wallpapers because no one sends them to me, but it is one of my favorite VW Group companies (the Skoda Superb is hot). Why I enjoy it can be summed up in this shot of a Skoda Fabia S2000 flying over a crest at Rally Sweeden, where driver Sebastian Ogier won his class... More »

Several women who flew through Dallas/Fort Worth's airport have filed complaints against the TSA claiming that officials asked them to walk through the body scanners multiple times. More »

One of the great successes of the Web is the unstoppable propagation of ludicrous conspiracy theories. Used to be that in-jokes like the Church of the SubGenius and the tales cooked up by bored John Birch Society types and the TimeCube had to pass by word of mouth, but now every twelve-year-old... More »

Space junk is a serious if little-appreciated problem. Dead satellites, spent booster rockets, and other orbiting technical garbage place active satellites and manned craft in significant peril. More »

Yesterday, we proved our formidable bandwagon-jumping skills with a "What People Think Car Guys Do" chart-meme-thing. Since then we've been getting lots of folks clamoring for their own brand-specific versions. More »

A Jalopnik reader caught this Ferrari 599 crashed off the road near Jacksonville, Florida. Apparently 612 horsepower and rear-wheel-drive are a bit of a handful in the rain. More »

Lotus has produced some fine convertibles in the past — the original Seven, both front-and rear-drive Elans, the Elise — so you'd think a quirky announcement alluding to a new open-top model would be welcome. More »

There are 22-year-old cars and then there is Honda’s ethereal NSX, still as mellow and brutal, as sleek and industrial as back in the day when Ayrton Senna was still around to contribute his magic to its chassis. Until Honda’s meandering efforts to create a worthy successor bear... More »

German medical and precision parts manufacturer Böhm just released two new model cars, both powered by an engine that's seriously old school — a Stirling air engine. More »

Trophy wives rejoice! The 2012 Ferrari California will get you to Barney's that much faster thanks to an increase in power to 490 hp and a removal of around 66 pounds — More »

We don't know if competitive moose wrangling is a thing, but if it were, we figure that offroad tractor racing would be its motorsports equivalent. More than 30,000 spectators came to see this, the "Crimean Extreme Club" and their racing tractors. More »

The world was supposed to meet Volvo's new hatchback at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, but a French car magazine just leaked this grainy photo to us all. More »

Surpassing 250,000 miles on a single car during its lifetime is a remarkable feat. Paul Habib, Jr. did that on his 2006 Honda Civic in just the first two years he owned it. More »

The motor is the heart of any car. Sometimes that heart has a hard time pumping life into a car that needs or deserves much more. What powerplant promised the world but left owners flat-footed? Ford's Romeo 4.6 modular V-8 was supposed to be the next great blue-oval engine when it came out: More »

Ever since Karl Benz registered his patent in 1886, Germany has been the home of high-quality, high-velocity wheeled transportation. Whether for racing, Autobahn travel, or just everyday use, German cars are still in many ways the standard. More »

A fire at a box and supply store in Ohio last night quickly spread to a car collision repair shop next door that also stores vintage automobiles. Firefighters and workers at the garage rushed to save the cars from the intense fire. Firefighters and workers managed to save a 1960s Camaro, a '67... More »

Matt Messer brutally crashed his Ultra-4 truck in last weekend's King of the Hammers race in the desert east of Los Angeles. Unable to see through the dust, he went from charging to zero in an instant. More »

Red Bull teamed up with gaming rig maker Playseat to make their own Red Bull Racing F1 rig. You can buy it now — as long as you're willing to drop $1,500. More »

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 parcel it out to you one story at a time. More »

Having a baby means sleepless nights and changing lots and lots of diapers. The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Merkur XR4Ti has changed its turbo 2.3 for a carb'd 302, but now needs to make way for his new arrival. More »

Mmm, nothing like huffing in that sweet sweet new car smell. If they could make that into an eau du toilette pour homme, I would bathe in it daily. But, according to a new report by the Ecology Center testing over 200 of the best-selling 2011 and 2012 cars and trucks, what we know as that new car... More »

You'd think Rutledge Wood would have a chip on his shoulder, with all the crap he and his co-hosts get about Top Gear America. He doesn't. In fact, his family sends him links to all the horrible things people say about him and his co-hosts, and he just laughs. More »

Photographer Cooper Naitove enjoys shooting cars so much he's moving to Saudi Arabia to work for one of those supercar dealership/tuning shops that cranks out mind-bogging exotics. More »

Fifty years ago next Monday, John Glenn became an all-time American hero when his small chunky single-seat spacecraft did three laps of Earth. The flight was a huge morale boost for a beleaguered US space program that had suffered numerous setbacks. In this age of constant exposure and celebrity... More »

It's St. Valentine's Day, which means couples eating heart-shaped pizzas at home and lonely people hooking up like sweaty electromagnets. For the former there's Tums, for the latter at The University of Michigan there's Senior Kellyann Wargo, who just launched a Walk of Shame Shuttle to ferry the... More »

Lexus is not a company that is prone to cutting corners when it comes to promoting its products. Case in point: Their TORI 500 campaign for the new GS sedan is literally formed around Sports Illustrated swimsuit babe Tori Praver. Along with the usual smart-device materials and high-profile events,... More »

So my friend Garnet Hertz created this little meme called "What People Think." It's the image macro things that have been all over your Facebook walls this week. More »

Brian Ahlert, a 41-year-old worker at Chrysler's Belvidere assembly plant, faces drunk-driving charges after he was pulled over on the way home from what he claimed was a very liquid day on the job. Ahlert was stopped around 8 PM on February 11 after motorists called in reports of his 1995... More »

Last week’s ridiculous Hummer accident in Hungary has, predictably, become the pictorial meme in these still-frozen parts. Apart from a well-executed and faithful tribute in Lego, this obligatory Star Wars AT-AT version may be our favorite. Photo by Hétköznapi frázis More »

Hold on to your luggage, folks, this is the 2013 Audi RS4 Avant. Audi's überwagon gets an upgrade for the next generation visually, while still sticking with a 450-hp version of the company's 4.2-liter V8. The new RS4 isn't supposed to bow until the Geneva Motor Show next month, but images leaked... More »

Sakichi Toyoda was born in Japan 145 years ago today on February 14th, 1867. By all accounts a hard-working entrepreneur, Toyoda's greatest success was building a small business manufacturing textile looms. More »

Prepare yourself for another roaring episode of E39 M5 hoonage. Today's festival of skids is set in a suburban parking lot, where everything is quiet and placid until this BMW shows up. We have a bonus episode as well, entitled "BMW E39 M5 Burnout Scares Some Hasidim," where a red light burnout... More »

(Deadspin.com ) We don't have a lot of information on this video, other than that it stars someone named "Junior" who pulls a wheelie while riding his Yamaha YZ450F with some buddies and accidentally flips his bike all the way around. More on Deadspin »

This is a story about how I found the basement for the world's most storied auto museum with a key from an old Volvo and realized I loved something more than cars. More »

Germany is both the accepted home of the automobile and the source of the most popular high-performance driving machines in the world today. Most automakers are slouching towards international blandness, but the German marques still embody a particular cultural mindset. More »

It's a dangerous world out there for the powerful and famous, who are constantly under threat from kidnappers, stalkers, paparazzi and super fans. An even bigger threat exists for the bodyguards who have to throw themselves in front of the bullets. More »

When Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger jumped out of a ballon gondola from 102,800 feet in August 1960, he set four aerospace records which stand to this day. More »

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 parcel it out to you one story at a time. More »