One third of the Grand Tour hosting roster, affable granddad, and punctilious automotive fanatic, James May will be found either annoying or relatable depending on your own predilections. Personally, I find his pedantry borderline endearing, and as I grow older I find myself drifting in a May-ward manner. I hope I…

The IndyCar Series is at Circuit of The Americas for the first time ever, former series champion Will Power is on pole position, there are no track limits in the 19th turn, and Stadium Super Trucks is here. If you couldn’t tell by now, that means it’s shaping up to be a good weekend in Austin.

Science has been seeking an answer to the question “What is a Mercedes-Benz R-class?” for years to no avail. Nobody has ever been able to capture one to study it closely. Several researchers have offered hypotheses, but the debate rages on. Wagon? Van? SUV? Hatchback? Marsupial? The world may never know. 

It’s the IndyCar Series’ first time at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, meaning basically everything is a record—lap times, session results and the like. And, with Saturday’s qualifying wrapped up, the first ever pole sitter for an IndyCar race at Circuit of The Americas is 2014 series champion Will Power.

There is something freeing about the idea of a motorcycle with a fuel capacity larger than most cars. With a huge 43 liter front tank, a 17 liter rear tank, and a pair of side tanks, assuming you packed enough survival gear, you could ride this damn thing across any large stretch of uninhabited land for basically as…

This is IndyCar’s first time running at the famed Texas circuit, and it comes as no surprise that all of the racers are scrambling for as much time to familiarize themselves with the new track as they can. With one of the sessions on Friday basically nulled thanks to an engine explosion (when was the last time a…

It would seem that Daigo Saito’s 2JZ-swapped Mk5 Supra has had some teething issues, as it has already gone aflame. While running this weekend in Japan, the car suffered a couple of big errors involving flame emitting from both ends of the car. It would seem that perhaps the fueling system isn’t quite as sorted as it…

Detroit is overflowing with big fast off-road truck rumors right now, as Ram is planning a Rebel TRX which will supposedly make use of the Hellcat supercharged Hemi, and it would seem that Ford is fighting back with its own supercharged V8 hopped up version of the Raptor. According to Car and Driver’s sources within…

You probably know the name Bucky Lasek if you were a follower of action sports in the 1990s, as he was everywhere. Well, now he’s a car guy, and he’s got a DIY car build YouTube channel that is as dirty and grungy as you’d expect from a retired skater punk. He’s built up a GC8 Subaru Impreza with STI power and a…

GM’s been making headlines lately because of plant shutdowns and job cuts, but now for some not-terrible news: The company says it will add 400 jobs in Michigan as it invests $300 million into a new electric car, which will be sold in addition to—and based on the architecture of—the Chevrolet Bolt.

Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?

A few seconds of Netflix’s Triple Frontier trailer–where a red pickup truck with a cool roll bar gets all crashy–was enough to get me to watch the movie. That’s a decision I vaguely regretted before ultimately deciding the flick was just fine. But the cars, oh man, the cars are perfect.

Two new production-ready electric bikes were given display space at Honda’s booth during the Tokyo Motorcycle Show today. While Honda has shown off a few electric car concepts lately, it has largely been quiet on the electric two-wheeler scene. That these two bikes are based on existing architecture and look mostly…

While my friend David Tracy is working his knuckles to the bone in a frigid Michigan garage trying to bring a dilapidated postal Jeep back from the dead, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate myself for finding possibly the only car mod that’s easier than applying stickers.

There is a lot of speculation floating around about the upcoming mid-engine Corvette. With a series of order guide documents leaked this afternoon, perhaps now we have more questions than we had answered. Where is the manual transmission option? Among many others. One particularly strange question revolved around…