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Americans in the throes of one of the hottest summers on record can stop worrying about rising utilities prices. Turn off the stove and start cooking breakfast inside your car. This should be a no-hassle adjustment, especially if you eat breakfast at 5:00 pm. More »
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From his mother's basement to the shelves and showcases of millions, Robert Reder co-founded Monogram models in 1945 — choosing the larger 1/24th scale over the industry standard 1/25th. By the 1960s, Monogram had the box art to beat. More »
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Most stop-motion build videos are simple, one-camera-angle affairs. But these guys from Poland went all Robot Chicken on the genre, turning the assembly of their Group A Suzuki Swift into an objet of stop-action madness. And the Oscar goes to... More »
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We're not aware of the Alfa Romeo Brera ever having competed in Paris-Dakar, but if it did it would naturally be grayed out like those ash-covered cars parked downwind of Mount St. Helens. More »
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The Renault 4 may be a weird little French hatch but Madagascar’s native trees have got it beat: they grow upside down. More »
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Citroën Mehari-driving Franzouse did a double-take when he saw this Fiat 500 parked in front of a Fiat dealership in Paris. More »
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Having just moved one timezone to the east, I've performed a fairly severe purge of the automotive tchotchkes that accreted in my office. Still, new ones keep showing up, and I cannot bear to ditch them. More »
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A while back, someone emailed us a T-shirt design based on some of my caffeinated, candy-powered babbling. Thanks to the efforts of a few intrepid Jalopnik readers, you can now buy a copy of that shirt. Who's in? More »
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Get to work on time? Not if you just sit there reading hacked road signs. Pay attention to the road! [CollegeHumor] More »
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Back around 1990, when I was a broke-ass slacker and figured out how to make beer for cheap, I got into making custom photocopier-and-glue-stick custom beer labels. You've seen Powerglide Road Soda, and now I've unearthed another old label. More »
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Since I still get emails from boombox freaks who want to buy the Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox (sorry, can't part with it), three years after the original post went up, I've decided to drag the post from Murilee's Writing Wrecking Yard. More »
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It's clear that this junked Hyundai's paint scheme was the result of a mix-n-match backyard-bodywork adventure. But still, if it worked for Volkswagen... More »
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When you're rollin' Grand Marquis style in Kuwait, laughing at the suckas in their effete Benzes, you need to let the world know how you feel about… well, we can't quite figure that out. More »
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You never know what you'll find when you wander the Island That Rust Forgot! More »
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Choosing a Lamborghini is not an easy flip of the coin between a Gallardo and a Murciélago. Towering above them all is the R8: not the Gallardo-based Audi R8, but Lamborghini’s very own R8 tractor. More »
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We recently returned from a trip to Mexico. This Volkswagen Beetle was sitting by the road on part of the old Carrera Panamericana route. Think the nose looks weird? Wait 'til you check out the car's back half. Arriba fahrvergnügen! More »
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Remember the $500 Yugo-turned-whale from last summer? Sure, you wanted to buy it for daily-driver use, but the price was just too high. Avast on the poop deck, maties, because Queequeg done 'pooned the price tag! More »
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A week ago, someone emailed us a design for what we are officially calling the World's Greatest Most Bestest Center Differential T-Shirt Ever What Ever Ruled the Land. Turns out people actually enjoy candy-fueled, caffeine-powered babbling. Who knew? More »
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The sales pitch for this thing is priceless: "Looks like a model car? It is in fact a fashionable car-shape mobile phone. FM radio let you keep pace with the nowadays events." Ooh! You don't say! More »
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Few machines represent The Future like the flying car, and no publication has championed the fantasy more zealously than Popular Science. Here's a look back at its feverish, 77-year-long vision. More »
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Let's review what's going on here: This is a Model T. It's powered by a Boeing T50/Model 502 gas turbine, the same thing the government once put in helicopters and anti-submarine drones. Now you can buy it on eBay. Gah! More »
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What do Trabis and Hitler have in common apart from Godwin’s Law and the lack of steel after World War II due to heavy Wehrmacht usage? More »
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With wings, added lightness and sure-footed handling, what appears to be a pigeon on the Geneva show floor is most likely a secret Lotus prototype on the loose. More »
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Stop-motion cars, cross-linked interactive videos, and a guy who sounds like he was born on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! YouTube has been used for a lot of cool promotions, but as far as we're concerned, this one takes the cake. More »
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Wacky Packages have been around for more than 40 years now (the '73 reissue of the first series got me hooked as a first-grader), and plenty of the stickers were gearhead-centric. Now you can get 'em seven feet tall! More »
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Yeah, we’ve shown you Heikki Kovalainen’s crashed F1 Lotus yesterday—but have you noticed the fancy custom Adidas sneakers the team are wearing? More »
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Until they allow nitro’d Icelandic 4×4’s to compete at the Winter Olympics, speed skiing is the next best thing for petrolheads: straight downhill, 150+ MPH, faster than a man dropping from an airplane. More »
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Why drag a car behind your bus-conversion RV when you can stow it inside? Sure, we've seen that concept before, but the Shorty Mini out-awesomes the Volkner by several orders of magnitude. More »
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The Miura’s signature eyelashes around its headlights draw many comparisons. But what exactly is their function? More »
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Your racing suit needs to be covered in patches, so everyone can tell you're serious. This way you'll get the proper respect when you show up to Executive Pointe Luxury Raceway for a weekend of Spec Achieva racing. More »
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Italian firm Ferrari da Varese wants to sell you an officially licensed $15,000 pen dubbed the Bugatti Type A. It features something called a "writing engine" and contains both palladium and sapphire glass. Ettore, we're sorry. More »
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Dragoning is not the sole domain of Audi R8’s. Recent photographs of a much earlier product of the Volkswagen Group shed light on the high potential of Type 2 Transporters in attracting mythical reptilians. More »
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Are you part of the 2% of our readership who’s female? Are you a girl on the move? Well, here you go. Please excuse the typography. And the men’s shades. [Pukka Pressies] More »
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An Ohio appeals court has ruled that tickets can't be issued based on a car looking or sounding like it's speeding. The decision comes after real American hero Daniel Freitag fought a ticket issued because his Lincoln Navigator sounded fast. More »
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With a new apartment comes a new bathroom. Luckily, I've just found the perfect toilet paper holder for it. An AUTOart CNC-machined aluminum-billet center lock racing toilet paper roll. Anyone want to buy me an early Hanukkah gift? More »
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Many of us have looked at a beat-to-hell sedan, then reached for the Sawzall and created an open-air summer cruiser. Then, when the weather turns cold/rainy, it gets junked. But if you're Belvedere Adrian, you keep driving it for decades! More »
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This stop-motion movie's plot is harder to figure out than a Michael Bay flick, but luckily the toy-car-on-toy-car action is even more epic. Who knew toy soldiers were such good drivers? More »
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In all the excitement of the Scuderia Flatpack V8olvo getting on its roof at Thunderhill we forgot all about their incredible new team logo! More »
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Why should Pontiac's iconic Screaming Chicken hood decal be restricted to Malaise Era Trans Ams, or even Pontiacs? Your '87 Hyundai Excel or '93 Buick LeSabre deserves a four-foot-wide Screaming Chicken, and now you can afford one! More »
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Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt your regularly scheduled weekend programming to bring you shocking footage. Despite all evidence to the contrary, we're able to provide video proof a Jaguar product can indeed go 100,000 miles. Suck it, Joe Lucas. More »
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