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The man was visibly drunk as he stumbled into the car lot more than three hours past midnight. He took a call on his cell phone, then became enraged. The dealership's security cameras caught every idiotic minute of what happened next. More »
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The driver of a presumed-stolen Toyota Camry lost control and careened into a fire hydrant in San Diego earlier this month, releasing enough water to hold the car aloft for over an hour. More »
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It's not unusual to have neighborly disputes over what goes down on the other side of the fence, but one San Diego neighborhood has noticed an increasing eyesore ever since a Google Street View car started parking down the street. More »
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Street justice, extraordinary overkill edition: A boy throwing rocks at cars took a crossbow bolt to the belly yesterday, apparently as retribution for throwing a rock at a Toyota RAV4. The RAV4 had several passengers, one of whom literally went medieval on him, pulling out a crossbow and shooting the kid right then and there. Funny, I would have taken Goliath for more of a Chevrolet kind of guy. More »
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New information about yesterday's runaway Prius indicates the CHP had to tell the driver to use both the brake and the emergency brake. More proof of beige biting back. More »
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According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the previous driver of the loaner Lexus ES350 at the center of the fiery floor mat death recall also complained about the same acceleration issue, telling a dealership employee "You need to tell somebody." More »
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From New York to San Bernardino, drivers in America's cities live in their cars. Below we use Google Earth to take an in-depth look at the intersections of the nation's 20 most traffic-congested cities. More »
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Nissan's eliminating 110 positions in North America, moving their design team out of their recently built Michigan studio and consolidating them in San Diego. Full press release below. More »
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This just in: According to the video iReport of a man driving down Interstate 5 in San Diego county, the blazing wildfire just across the highway is indeed hot. The man was earlier told by law enforcement officers to evacuate the area, but evidently his sense of non-appointed iReporter duty called him onward to get a closer look. Thank goodness he did, or we might never know that "Whoa it's hot. I'm the only one on the freeway. Wow. I'm the only one on the freeway. Look at this." Video after the jump. More »
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Proving you don't have to put out Ferrari Enzo bucks to nearly kill yourself by driving like a complete idiot, a man in San Diego completely decimated his Acura NSX (erroneously referred to as a Honda Acura and an Acura Integra in various reports) in what is being reported as a street race with a black Honda Civic with a "Tuned By Reese" sticker on the back. That's the problem with street racing specially customized cars, other than the recklessness, you're an easy target for the police. The NBC affiliate in San Diego quotes one witness as saying "I saw the car in the gutter with a guy sitting it it without any front. He was holding on the the gearshift, and I think he was still in shock and still wanting to shift gears." More »
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Four cars in the neighborhood of UC San Diego were torched last night. All four vehicles were apparently Toyotas, and two of them, a current model-year Tacoma and Corolla, were completely destroyed. Investigators note that the only accelerant used appears to be gasoline. Man, once disgruntled French auto executives move into the neighborhood, all bets are off, apparently. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Skiny maneuvers the A6 Avant into proper takeoff position in San Diego. More »
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If you want to blast across the country, you can do it for as little as the cost of gasoline, accomodations, coffee and any incidental repairs and speeding tickets you may incur. If you wanna do it on the Bullrun, you've gotta pony up 14k. As an embedded journalist, we were provided with two nights of accomodations, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and at the W Hotel in San Diego, which, in the interest of full disclosure, Los Jalopniks must admit to you. They also provided us with meals in Las Vegas, snacks in Lake Havasu, more meals in San Diego, a taco truck in Fontucky and a last supper in Los Angeles. With that out of the way, click through for an abbreviated Jalopnik-style Team Party Crash. More »
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The Jundland Wastes are not to be travelled lightly! More »
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On an absolutely sweltering, uncharacteristically humid Nevada morning, after a blast to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway with Noah Lehman-Haupt in the SuperSpeeders/Gotham Dream Cars Ford GT, we hopped in the back seat of the Rensing/Nicole Audi A8L, did a quick lap of the Shelby proving ground, and shot off for lunch in Lake Havasu. Click through for the tale. More »
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To get to the W Hotel in San Diego, of course. From front to back, we have Keri Rensing (who drove the stage, shaving 1 1/2 hours off the time predicted by the GPS from Lake Havasu to SD), our intrepid reporter, who only nearly soiled his pants once, feeling somewhat like the inverse of Frog in Smokey and the Bandit, and Jennifer Nicole, whose girlish charms got us out of a momentary jam the following day on the way to California Speedway. Bret Haller captured the exhausted trio on their way to a date with bliss bath products. Needless to say, he and Skiny beat us to the checkpoint. More »
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We're not sure if TeeVee Wert really wanted to go on the Bullrun, as he made some namby-pamby excuse about being stuck at some Ferrari party because he needed to impress some girl and dragged Austin with him, thus leaving the fully-awesome Skiny without Jalopnik pals to hang out with in Detroit (note to people in general — you're missing out on radness if you don't hang with Skiny, he's probably nicer than you, we're willing to bet he's faster than you and he's undoubtedly cooler than you). More »
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A black SUV was headed from San Diego way down Mexico way carrying suspected illegal immigrants when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials began tracking it. As traffic began to bunch up near the border, the vehicle pulled to the side and agents approached. The driver then attempted to take off and swerve back into traffic, leading the agents to open fire. The shots killed the driver and the San Ysidro crossing, the busiest port of entry in the United States was closed for nine hours. It's been open for five hours now, so we're betting the line of cars on I-5 only stretches to Santa Clarita, not Bakersfield. More »
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Jeez, SD's turning into the city of wacky truck-related accidents. First a rig hauling a dumpster takes out a massive freeway sign and now a big rig whose driver stopped to ask directions watched helplessly as his semi began rolling down a hill, eventually taking out eight parked cars and smashing into a building. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but it seems to us that the town should consider changing its slogan to "City of Ridiculous Hal Needham Film Outtakes." More »
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Okay, so technically they're tuner cars, but the title pun was too good to pass up. IGN bro'd down at the Hot Import Daze show in San Diego and posted us'ns a report on the internets. While we only tend to encountered the pneumatic imported(?) ladies once a year at SEMA (we tend to frequent car shows populated by tattooed rockabilly chix), the IGN chaps were nice enough to capture the ahem action and package it up for us. Our favorite thing at the show had to be the Audi with the skateboard A/V system. But they should've used one of decks instead. More »
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