March 28, 2008 – You do a bit of writin' for a living, you fall into some patterns, habits, etc. Like, you see certain words, you grow acquainted with them, but you never really think about using them. More »
Commenter Of The Day: Reversal Of Fortune Edition
March 27, 2008 – Try this on for size: Between the wars, at its pinnacle in the 20th century, Britain exerted dominion over almost half a billion people. Yes, yes, it would all go completely to crap in less than 50 years and leave us associating the UK with the likes of the Spice Girls, Simon Cowell and Amy... More »
Union Pacific Rail Hops On Green Train Like Some Treehugging Hobo
March 27, 2008 – Sometimes we're astonished by the kinds of spin we witness around Green issues. Take Union Pacific, for example. They just dropped a press release that touts their contribution to the environment—because they ferry around hybrid cars and are expanding their rail network, to the tune of a cool... More »
Commenter Of The Day: Junk In The Trunk Edition
March 24, 2008 – Yowser! Sometimes our commentariat gets a tad b**tchy, and we mean that in the best possible way, because it usually cracks us up. Like, seriously. Just a general announcement: More »
Commenter Of The Day: Page Six Edition
March 21, 2008 – They say you haven't really arrived in New York until you've made it into a certain tabloid. Which sells for less than a buck. And was founded by Alexander Hamilton. More »
Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction
March 21, 2008 – What is it about wildly influential California artists and their romance with the automobile? Heck, if cars had never come to Cali (perish the thought), Cal Arts would barely have any faculty! More »
One-Minute Judgment: Wert Assesses The Transit Connect
March 21, 2008 – Our whip-wielding road crew warden gallant leader put on his bespoke suit and Burberry cravat at the New York Auto Show and told thestreet.com exactly what he thinks of the adorable Ford Transit Connect, which is bravenewworld-speak for "New York City Taxi Concept." Wert was slingin' the deadpan...
Commenter Of The Day: Fake Covert U.S. Federal Government Space Aliens Edition
March 20, 2008 – We all love the mythology of Area 51 and all, but when it comes to great exercises in pop-cultural paranoia, secret bases in the desert and under ground skunkworks lose out to... More »
What Bentley Believes: 17-Page CO2 Manifesto Has Been Read
March 20, 2008 – Bentley is refreshing. Their ultra-luxe, mega-horsepower sleds, favored rides of autocrats, royalty and rap tycoons, are such a specialized product that the Craftsmen of Crewe can pretty much reduce their whole climate-change/fuel-scarcity strategy to a question of customer relations. More »
Kia Koup Concept Teased At New York Auto Show Soiree
March 20, 2008 – A certain South Korean carmaker was keeping busy after hours in the City That Does Not Know Sleep: Kia brough us this striptease of the Kia Koup concept vehicle as the sun set on Day One of the New York Auto Show. From what we can tell, the new design is all slim, sleek and...
2008 New York Auto Show: Jalopnik Does Day Two!
March 20, 2008 – The team's all here at the Javits Center and ready to go. If you've read all our coverage so far, feel free to skip right over this post. However, if you've not yet had a chance to check out our full taste of the big, red and juicy autogasmic apple — More »
Commenter Of The Day: Unsafe At Any Speed Edition
March 19, 2008 – Wow, it's been a thrilling first day here at the New York Auto Show. We've been postin' like mad, and the Jalopnik commentariat has been right there with us. More »
Backseat Nav/Entertainment Screen Distracts NYers from Cabbie Hoonage
March 19, 2008 – It was just like old times! On the eve of the New York Auto Show, several Jalopnik staffers hopped into a cab, called out an address—and immediately felt the familiar sensation of a Ford Crown Vic having its pedal jammed to the metal. More »
Bentley Brings 17-Page Emissions-Reduction Plan To NYC, Also Some Dang Expensive Cars
March 19, 2008 – Let's just get this out of the way up front so you can come back later: Bentley brought no new luxurious nor mega-costly glistening sheet metal hand-rubbed to a burnished sheen by ambidextrous master craft-rubbers at their lush production palace factory in Crewe, England. More »
Most Liked Ad: Hummer For The Win!
March 19, 2008 – Just prior to Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli's New York Auto Show keynote speech this morning, some guy who works for The Dark Lord of All Media Rupert Murdoch conducted a none-too-brief awards ceremony for carmkers, their marketing muckety-mucks, and their ad agencies. More »
Keynote! Chrysler CEO Nardelli Heralds New Era of “Globality” At Struggling Carmaker
March 19, 2008 – Did you know that Bob Nardelli is a "car guy?" He is, baby. Of course, that didn't stop him from trotting out something that most legit car guys would rather drink used motor oil than sit through: More »
Commenter Of The Day: Checking My List, Checking It Twice Edition
March 18, 2008 – The car show circuit has wound its merry way to the Big Apple. And with the New York Auto Show about to commence, we know that everyone has a whole bevy of things they just gots to see. More »
Is New York City The Last Bastion of Body on Frame?
March 18, 2008 – It sure is. Maybe we're just unusually attuned, having been rendered all self-reliant by SoCal life, where being ferried around by somebody else is a sign of weakness. More »
Was It Savvy Or Stupid For Chrysler To Close Its Cali Design Studio?
March 18, 2008 – Beware the Ides of March. By now, Chrysler's Pacifica Design Center in Carlsbad, CA should be a warren of ghost-cubicles, with perhaps a few shreds of jettisoned sketches for futurecars scattered on the industrial carpeting, reduced to janitorial found art. More »
Jackie Stewart Knows Death
March 14, 2008 – The Formula One season gets started this weekend in Australia, so of course Jackie Stewart (number 8 on the top 100 F1 drivers of all time list) is talking. More »
