November 20, 2010 – After five long years, Top Gear's American cousin debuts Sunday on the History Channel. You'll probably watch it anyway - but in the words of a very successful car guy: More »
"Remind Me Why I’m An Alfa Romeo Nut?"
October 13, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today's installment: Classic love stories about classic marques! A wise person once said "We like because. More »
"As I Merged Uncontrollably Into Morning Traffic, I Recalled My Last Clutch Explosion"
October 7, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today's installment is something we hate to see in the Garage: A nice story with happy ending from a guy who knows what he's doing. Okay, so you can't lose 'em all, whether you're talking your fingers or the game of... More »
"At This Point, I’m Not Exactly Enthused With My Choice In Cars"
October 1, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today's installment: Is it really wise to put all your automotive eggs in the same brand basket? Here's one very near and dear to my own automotive heart. More »
"The Lord Manos’ Own Lube Shop"
September 24, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst-wheeled experiences. Today's installment: What happens when the oil-change guy isn't just evil, but an evil B-movie hypnotist? This infuriating tale comes to us from Chairman Kaga, and while it might not include self immolation (Work on... More »
"I Noticed The Prop Shaft And Exhaust Were Furry"
September 16, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today's installment features two interesting variations on that classic automotive theme: More »
"The Guy Seemed Nice Enough"
September 8, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today we re-learn autodom's oldest message: Everyone, absolutely everyone, is trying to screw you, even in Canada. Today's tale of woe comes to us from Rhitick, whose only sin—besides thinking the '03 Grand Prix... More »
"So I Poured More Gas In My Engine Bay"
September 1, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today's installment asks the classic question: Is this damn car trying to kill me? More »
Two Tales From The Wal-Mart Service Bays
August 25, 2010 – Welcome back to Garage of Horror, where we share your worst wheeled experiences. Today we have a twin-pack of tales from Wal-Mart, everyone's favorite retailer, employer, potential Jeff Gordon sponsor, and symbol for everything that's wrong with America. Yes, today's Always Low Opinions Of... More »
Commenter Of The Day: Ain’t No Chinese Secret Edition
July 16, 2010 – Our commenters — some hotshots! You guys really are, you know, because when those UFOs were spotted over China today, not once but twice, nobody believed they were real! More »
My Long, Hard Attempt To Grasp The Corvette
July 2, 2010 – Recently I had the chance, for the first time in my life, to experience a Corvette. It's a car I've always liked well enough, but I could just never figure out exactly what it reminds me of. This is Flashback Friday, a weekly feature where we republish classic stories from the Jalopnik archives. More »
Saturn Eulogy Redux: Some Plastic Is Not Recyclable
September 30, 2009 – Now that Saturn is officially, truly dead, we thought we'd reflect on the history of a GM division that tried, with varying degrees of earnestness, to be a different kind of car company. More »
NHTSA: Distracted Driving Caused 6,000 Deaths In 2008
September 30, 2009 – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood claims that 15% of all road deaths last year were due to driving while distracted. Texting while driving and other cell-phone-related driver behavior is the focus of a NHTSA summit that began today.
Build Your Own Google Street View Camera For $300
September 30, 2009 – West Point grad Roy Ragsdale used eight cheap web-cams, a cheap GPS unit and his taxpayer-funded education to whip up the PhotoTrail, a home-brew camera that takes panoramas of his surroundings. More »
Commenter Of The Day: Bambi, Your Mother Can’t Be With You Anymore Edition
September 29, 2009 – Cash for Clunkers has got everyone a little bit worked up and no mistake. When we published the full list of cars that were taken from us forever by the program, responses have ranged from muted satisfaction that so may Explorers were off the road to blistering anger that even one desirable car... More »
Eight Automotive Myths We Choose To Believe
September 29, 2009 – Sometimes traditional beliefs run contrary to the facts. Most times it's beneficial to examine those beliefs and adjust to a new way of thinking. But sometimes ideas attain the status of myth for very good reasons. More »
Jalopnik Crash Week: Post-Accident Report
September 28, 2009 – So Crash Week has shuddered, crunched and rolled end-over-end to a close, just as the IIHS released high-res photos of the '59 Bel Air/'09 Malibu crash test that started it all. More »
2010 Acura ZDX: First Drive
September 25, 2009 – The new Acura ZDX has a distinctive exterior, a sumptuous interior and both are strangely proportioned. So who, exactly, does Acura think is going to buy this thing? More »
