ARIV, GM's E-Bike Brand, Is Launching In Europe With Two Models
General Motors’ new e-bike brand ARIV will, ahem, arrive on the scene in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands later this year with two models, called Meld and Merge. Each is powered by a compact electric motor, which assists pedal power with four different modes to move riders up to about 15 miles per hour with a 40…
Buy This Harley-Powered Piece Of Hot Rod History
The 1950s were an incredible time of ingenuity in the motorsport world. Guys in sheds were building incredible contraptions that were capable of speeds never seen before. Take the Super Shaker streamliner seen here for example. It started life as a Cooper sports racer chassis, and then the original builder/racer Bill…
McLaren 600LT a Good Car, Says Chris Harris
It’s hard to go wrong with the formula McLaren used to create the 600LT. Take the 570S and make it a bit lighter, give it a bit more power, and make it minuscule-ly longer. It’s still the most analog car in the McLaren lineup, with standard springs and shock absorbers without the tricky bits of the 720S, and that…
How to Understand the Daytona 500 and NASCAR in 2019
NASCAR isn’t as simple as trying to drive in a few hundred circles faster than everyone else, and hasn’t ever been. But that’s been the overarching idea for most of its history, up until the last few years, when rules overhauls introduced segmented races, a near algebraic points system and elimination playoffs.
Rakuten's Sitewide Sale Means Tons of Rare Gaming and Gadget Deals
Rakuten’s running another of its popular sitewide sales during Presidents’ Day weekend, with 15% off all orders, with a $60 maximum discount with the promo code SAVE15. You can check out their promo page to scan all of the deals, but the beauty of this sale is you can “force” a sale on super new or rarely discounted…
Pick Up a 55" 4K TV for Just $250 Right Now
I love buying refurbished electronics. For one thing, I’ve never had problems with any refurbs I’ve purchased. And right now there’s a great deal on a TCL 55" Roku 4KTV at Walmart.
This mint 1987 Buick GNX with eight (8) miles on it went for $200,000 on Bring a Trailer earlier today. Interestingly, that is not a record for the ultra-rare GNX model, as the last one ever made recently sold for $220,000.
The Buick Cascada, a Certified Meh Car, Is Dead
As Jalopnik’s resident Buick owner, I should probably have a little bit of sympathy for the death of the Cascada, as reported by Automotive News, but I absolutely don’t. While I absolutely adore my Regal TourX, I feel nothing for this compact convertible. It doesn’t mesh with the rest of the Buick lineup, it isn’t…
This Home-Built Hillclimb Honda Has All The Downforce Possible
Michigan is about as close as you can get in the U.S. to the climate of Scandanavian countries. It makes sense that when you combine a long cold winter with bored car folks, they’re bound to build the wildest and craziest stuff possible. That’s exactly the impetus behind Cody Loveland’s 1993 Honda Civic. When you have…
The 2020 Ford Mustang May Get a More Powerful Four Cylinder Option: Report
The Ford Mustang may be adding an engine option between the 310 horsepower 2.3-liter EcoBoost in the base car and the mighty 460 horsepower 5.0-liter V8 in the GT, friend of Jalopnik Bozi Tatarevic writes for Hagerty. This is according to his “sources at Ford” and appears to align with a VIN decoder document sent from…
Drunkenly Playing Gran Turismo Inspired This Real-Life Range Rover Race Car
We’re all familiar with the 900-horsepower Reliant Robins that can come out of driving games’ “tuning” options, but can you transform an unlikely vehicle into a track monster in real life? That’s what three friends want to find out with the Range Rover they bought “after a drunken night of Gran Turismo,” according to…
Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That's Too Dangerous to Release
Researchers at the non-profit AI research group OpenAI just wanted to train their new text generation software to predict the next word in a sentence. It blew away all of their expectations and was so good at mimicking writing by humans they’ve decided to pump the brakes on the research while they explore the damage…
People in Michigan Are Betting on When a Decrepit Saturn Will Break Through Ice
Michiganders from the upper peninsula—also known as as Yoopers—have me scratching my head today, as I just learned via Michigan news site MLive that a Rotary club is putting on a contest asking people to guess when a 1998 Saturn SL will break through ice and fall into a lake. And there’s even a live feed showing the…
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