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1986 Ford Mustang LX

Back when we had the Do Fox Mustangs Belong In DOTS? poll, 63% of Jalopnik readers who bothered to vote said they thought it was a good idea. So, I grabbed the camera and set out on foot to photograph the first pre-90s example I could find. 28 seconds later, here's this abused-but-proud '86 LX showing up in my viewfinder (the same thing happened when I went looking for a Malaise Volvo 240). These things are still everywhere on the island (along with their Fairmont, Granada, Mark VII, and other Fox brethren). Sure, I could have held out for a '79, or maybe one with 80s graphics, but beaters are cool!
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9:00 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,774 views, 77 comments

Latest by Slantsick goes hybrid: Burns Oil and Rubber: @Skunky: I actually owned one of those- and with the 2.3.. whatta pig that car was. @busbodger: Finally, some evidence that I didn't own the only straight-six Fox Mustang ever built. more »

progressive automotive x prize

Progressive Automotive X Prize Mustang Claims 400 HP, 110 MPG; We Claim Baloney

Doug Pelmear is claiming his '87 Stang is good for 400 HP and a 3 second 0-60 MPH time, all while returning a 110 MPGe figure. MPGe? Yeah, that's miles per gallon equivalent; because he's using E85 ethanol, that figure might be about 80 real miles per gasoline gallon. So, is Doug one of those garage tinkerers who managed to create a magnetized fuel line or a super-efficient set of exhaust bearings which promise an amazing 100 MPG, but whose patent hasn't gone through yet, or it was destroyed in a fire, or the dog ate it? Well, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... More »

4:20 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
6,083 views, 95 comments

Latest by n/a: Misplaced decimal poin.t? You mean the car gets 4000 HP and 1100 MPG?!? more »

transformers 2

Transformers 2 Pictures Show *GASP* A Robot!

Another day of filming Transformers 2 has unveiled some key insights. The first is that Transformers 2 will feature robots; in this particular case, a sort of smaller, dragon-like Transformer who feeds on whomever is inside that vehicle. Given that most of the scenes filmed at Princeton University have featured the Saturn Astra, one could make an assumption that the vehicle pictured is the same Astra, especially noting the windshield slope and sunroof placement. Click through to see the next insight. Yes, it's about Megan Fox. More »

2:40 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Travis Hudson
7,986 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: @TR3-A: Ditto. My thought were "...surely that is not the engine that powers that vehicle, it must be the 'show' engine. The 'stunt' should be a tired 70's era, oh so tired, 350 small block with a Quadrajet." more »

official car pundit drinking game

Official Car Pundit Drinking Game: 2012! 2012! 2012!

With news that GM may be halting new truck development, our good friends at the Fox Business Network just had to have us back, which means another episode of the official car pundit drinking game. We get more name love (drink) from Stuart Varney and even argue a bit with the lovely Tracy Byrnes. Though she doesn't want the Civic, it was the best selling car in May. Just saying. And to Buckster, I took your advice and gave "1984 Tom Cruise" his hair back.

4:40 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,605 views, 49 comments

Latest by Volvo144: If she flips her left arm up and away like that, I'm gonna freaking LOSE IT!!! Wow, is she dumb as dirt or what. And the government allowed her to procreate? So much for Darwinism. more »

classic ad watch

The 1981 Mustang Runs On White Powder!

When you're a six-foot-tall, 80-pound 1981 babe, the list of things you need for a hot night on the dance floor is pretty short: 1) Cocaine. 2) Absurdly high heels. 3) A Ford Mustang. 4) Cocaine. 5) Cocaine. Ford was eager to provide Item #3, and the 88 HP four-cylinder engine lets you save your money for you-know-what!

11:00 AM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,950 views, 41 comments

official car pundit drinking game

Official Car Pundit Drinking Game: Luxury Cars And WTF Is High-Test Fuel?

For those of you who don't get Fox Business Network but do like to drink in the middle of the day, we've pulled down the video of Hardigree rapping about fuel prices and luxury cars. You can just see him start to have a stroke as Stuart Varney starts asking about "High-Test" instead of premium fuel. We're going to add "massive eyebrow shifts" to the rules of the official car pundit drinking game so call a cab or take the train home. But hey, Stuart likes the name so maybe he didn't notice Matt having a stroke...

4:00 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
2,402 views, 74 comments

Latest by n/a: somebody please tell matt how to pronounce the word "Porsche" more »

official car pundit drinking game

Official Car Pundit Drinking Game: Jalopnik Editor Gets Crazy Like A Fox Over Gas Prices

It's been awhile since we last had a chance to hoist some drinks over a Jalopnik editor hitting the airwaves. Luckily, our intrepid associate editor in Chicago is giving us a chance to drown our sorrows over the high price of gas on the Fox Business Channel this afternoon at 1:35 EST. Matt "Holla-Holla" Hardigree will be going toe-to-toe with Stuart "Little" Varney and they'll be talking about whether luxury cars are taking as big a hit on the new sales market as SUV's. If you don't know the rules of how the game is played, head over here to check them out. If you do (or once you do, we should say) hit the jump and get to providing us some new rules for the world's only official car pundit drinking game. Then, if you happen to be in one of the plethora of media markets with FBC, turn on the boob-tube, pop open your favorite libation, and get ready to play.

12:30 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
852 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: My usual Fox Network Drinking game is something like this: Prepare beforehad with a lazy suzan and a designated pour-er. Line the susan with shot glasses. At the commercial, pour-er switches. Nouns: one shot. Verbs: one shot. more »

el camino

Another Ford Fairmont Durango For Sale, Can You Resist The Foxchero?

Whereas many of the El Camino-ized vehicles we share with you, like the Volvo XC70chero, are unique custom jobs of varying degrees of quality, the Ford Fairmont Durango was actually built in a factory. The history is muddy, but after the demise of the Ranchero, Ford worked with National Coach Products in some capacity to help the company produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 212 of these 5.0-powered, Fox-bodied trucks. What it lacks in details it more than makes up for in style and power, and all for just $24,500. Details below the jump.

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9:20 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,351 views, 31 comments

Latest by Galaxie500: Swap a 5.0 drivetrain in it and put a mustang front clip on it, then you would have a Mustang-whatever... more »

down on the street bonus edition

1976 Audi Fox Wagon: Choice Of Discerning Pit Crew Members!

The cars driven by the team members and audience at the 24 Hours of LeMons race tended to be more interesting than what you'd see in your typical East Bay parking lot. I saw an AMC Hornet with a trunk-mounted computer, a small-block XJ6 with a wicked-looking hood scoop, and this very clean Fox wagon... which turned out to be owned by Shawn, a helluva good mechanic who showed up as a last-minute crew addition and proved incredibly useful in the Black Metal V8olvo pit action. That's Shawn fueling our car in the gallery below. I can't recall the last time I saw an Audi Fox in any condition, much less one this nice.

4:20 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,300 views, 35 comments

Latest by n/a: Thanks for the mention of my 1969 XJ-6. Yes, the hood scoop is funtional. Car runs with a 400 ci Chevy. Big juice can, highrise, Holley and Pete Jackson gear drive give it a serious sound. What can you expect more »

We saw Speed Racer after a few hours of donwload, and yes, it was horrible. But speaking of movies involving cars, anyone see those pics of Megan Fox topless over at brother site Defamer today?

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alternative fuel

Grassolean Helps You Find Hippie Fuel Stations

Need to find a station to fuel up your Mercedes 300D with biodiesel? How about tips on how to prevent all that soy based fuel from gelling up when the hard freeze hits? Well now you can find out where all the professional hippy fuel buyers get their fix at Grassolean (it's funny cause they replaced the word gas with grass and came up with a clever wordplay version, see how they did that?). The site offers everything you need to know about the art and science of being a veganfueler. As an added bonus, the eco-warrior himself Bill O'Reilly interviews BFF Darryl Hannah about biodiesel in this clip from 2003. You can tell it's that old since Bill quotes LA gas prices that aren't a thousand dollars a gallon. More »

1:30 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
482 views, 20 comments

Latest by beercheck: @chrystlubitshi: There, but for the grace of God, go I. more »

accidents

BMW 320D Touring Turns Fox Into Hamburger (Not Safe For Weak Stomach)

Imagine cruising in your brand new, 2007 BMW 320D Touring at 230 kph (~143 mph) along the pristine asphalt of the Autobahn, listening to the finest in German techno. All of a sudden from the roadside, a flash of fur streaks across the road and you feel a mild thump, accompanied by a spray of rouge across the bottom of the passenger side windscreen. All of the warning lights explode across your instrument panel. If you are the fellow who drives this particular BMW, you don't have to imagine anything, because this scenario played itself out recently and the fox who did the streaking did not live to tell his tale. Excuse our discretion, but the gallery for this one is below the fold... More »

12:30 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By bwojdyla
11,930 views, 60 comments

Latest by BuddyHinton: You fools. The driver was Bangle. This is part of his new "Fox-surfacing". Look for it in 2010. more »

classic ad watch

Capture A New Fox Mustang For Just $4342!

Laugh away, but putting the Mustang on the new Fox Ford platform for the '79 model year de-Pinto-ized the car and made it possible to say the words "Mustang" and "performance" in the same sentence without giggling. But I gotta be honest here, the song in this ad drove both me and Señor Johnson crazy... More »

2:00 PM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,008 views, 19 comments

classic ad watch

Ease On Down The Road In An '80 Mercury Capri!

We can look at the 1980 Capri in two different ways. Was it yet another underpowered fake-sporty Detroit rattletrap, or the raw material for countless Fox Ford freaks who would stuff all manner of insane engines into its lightweight chassis? The Fox is the gearhead's friend, so we can't look at this car the way we'd look at, say, a Lynx or Monarch. In any case, this ad scores very high on the Malaise Era Cheepnis-O-Meter.

2:30 PM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By Murilee Martin
757 views, 20 comments

they're making glass on the desert

Vintage Tamiya Lust, Sated

Somewhere around 1986, we got the bug to have a badass R/C car of our own. We scrimped. We saved. We scrounged, and we didn't buy an RC/10. Or an Optima. Somehow, we believed that the Tamiya Fox was obviously the coolest R/C money could buy, thus dooming us to a life of fetishizing Citroëns and Mantas. Regardless, that car frankly was pretty awesome to an eleven-year-old boy; we spent plenty of hours terrorizing motorists and wayward dogs with the torquey little buggy, which eventually ended up with a candy-apple red '67 GTO body, thus pre-dating our eight years of GM A-Body ownership by um, three years or so. Steve Finkbuilt has a slightly older fantasy — that of Tamiya's Sand Scorcher Baja Bug. And given that the car is from the company's pre-ABS-plastic era, it goes for far too much money for an econo tinkerer like himself. So, naturally, he built his own, using a venerable Grasshopper chassis as the basis. [Finkbuilt]

7:15 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,453 views, 16 comments

Latest by poolsk8r: HAHA-a coworker and myself were just talking about our teenage RC driving days before we could drive the real thing. It's funny cuz I had a Grasshopper with a Baja Bug body added later too. more »

crazy like a fox made from carbon fiber and aluminum

Caparo T1 Breaks The 1,000 HP Per Ton Barrier, to Debut at Goodwood

If you've been dreaming about an F1 car you can drive to Starbucks, dream no further. Caparo will begin delivering their close to $400,000 track-day special in July. And the stats are just stoo-pid: 575 horsepower at 10,500 rpm from a 3.5-liter V8; zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds; 0-100 mph in less than five seconds. Top speed is rumored to be infinity and the brakes are so powerful the T1 goes slower than not moving (fine, 100-0 mph in 3.5 seconds). The biggest news of course is that Caparo, for the first time ever, is going beyond 1,000 hp per ton in a production vehicle. In fact, they have achieved the insane figure of 1,045 hp for every 2,000 lbs. Not a word about five-mile-per-hour bumpers, though. Completely bonkers specifics after the jump. – Jonny Lieberman More »

10:04 AM on Fri Jun 8 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
4,192 views, 34 comments

Latest by my favorite car is a motorcycle: @wohho: Gordon Murray and his team have done many cars besides the amazing F1 "no holds barred street car". Just because a road car, a track car, and a grand turismo are different machines doesn't mean that more »

super maxim-um promotion potential

Transformers Movie Update: Pontiac Builds Excitement With High-Res Pics Of Jazz, Megan Fox

Yesterday's shotgun blast of shots wasn't quite enough to sate the PR machine, as it seems the marketing blitz surrounding the new live-action Transformers movie continues unabated with new shots via Maxim and their three-way promotional deal with General Motors and Paramount. They're the first high-res shots of the Autobot Jazz in both his Pontiac Solstice form as well as his rockin' robot look. Take a gander via the gallery below. – Ray Wert More »

3:30 PM on Wed May 16 2007
By Ray Wert
34,314 views, 23 comments

news

Vivica Fox Popped for DUI: "I Got Drunk And Drove, I Wish To God That I Hadn't, But I Did."

Obviously distraught after getting booted off Dancing With The Stars, Vivica A. Fox (known to many as Vernita Green) apparently got liquored up and decided to go for a drive. She was pulled over late Tuesday in LA after passing a patrol car at 80 mph and then failed a field sobriety test. A breathalyzer test revealed a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit and she was hauled off to the pokey. No word on if she screamed "You can't do this to me, i was in Soul Food" at any time during the arrest. – Matt Hardigree More »

3:30 PM on Thu Mar 22 2007
By Matt Hardigree
5,407 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: Ironic.....her latest moving coming out is "Caught on Tape"....guess she was Kickin It Old Skool... more »

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