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The McLaren 720S is a benchmark supercar, mixing jaw-dropping track capability with a suspension setup that’s compliant and comfy even on awful, potholed pavement. It’s also slightly long in the tooth: McLaren introduced the 720S in 2017 as a replacement for the 650S. Now, the number rises again. Meet the McLaren 750S, with more power, lighter weight, and a totally revamped interior.
As we explained earlier this year, 2023 will be the final model year for the Audi TT. The sleek, stylish coupe has been on the market for 25 years and three generations, and Audi’s sending it out with a bash. Specifically, a Cars & Coffee at Audi of America headquarters in Herndon, VA, on Saturday April 29th. I, personally, will be there, and you all are invited!
It’s a shame that HBO’s Succession isn’t getting another season. Poor Logan Roy, who is often whisked into and out of dramatic situations in the back of a Maybach sedan, will miss out on sampling Mercedes’ latest uber-luxe ride. For the first time, this one’s electric. It’s the Mercedes-Maybach EQS 680 SUV, the first of Mercedes’ EQ line of cars to be deemed worthy of wearing the Maybach badge. While both the S-Class sedan and GLS SUV got the big-M treatment, it seems, for now at least, that onl
Few cars are cheap anymore. Those that are, on various corners of the internet, are written off as rubbish because they don’t come with a billion horsepower or much sex appeal. The internet can be wrong about a lot of things. The Dacia Sandero is a cheap car, and it’s a rather charming little egg. James May championed the original, and I’d wager he’d dig the latest example you see here.
Okay, so maybe you’re having a hard time with the whole “BMW’s performance future is a hybrid SUV” thing. You aren’t out of touch; it’s the children who are wrong. Thankfully, BMW isn’t just wholesale abandoning the traditional sports cars its M division is known for. In fact, the 2023 M2 takes a refreshingly back-to-basics approach to performance.
The critter you see up there is a Cape cobra, also known as a yellow cobra. It’s one of the most dangerous snakes in Africa, with venom that can kill you by paralysis and respiratory failure in as little as one hour. That was a problem for pilot Rudolph Erasmus, who discovered one of these scaly bastards in the cockpit of his plane mid-flight this week.
In the battle of aesthetics versus aerodynamics, there are winners and there are losers. In the eyes of many, myself included, the Mercedes-Benz EQE electric sedan sits squarely in that latter category. Anonymous to the extreme, its ambiguous shape simply disappears in a busy parking lot. That doesn’t stop it from being a fantastic car with good performance, solid range, and a refined ride, but it just isn’t much to look at.
First things first: It’s gorgeous. The Genesis design department, led by ex-Audi, ex-Lamborghini, ex-Bentley designer Luc Donckerwolke, is on a hot streak of releasing gorgeous vehicles, whether they’re production-ready or concepts like this. But looking closely, this doesn’t really seem like a concept car — it has all the hallmarks of a nearly production-spec machine. Meet the Genesis GV80 Coupe Concept.
Yesterday, we gave you all the details on the seven concept rigs Jeep built for this year’s Easter Jeep Safari, ranging from an all-electric Wrangler with 650 horsepower and a stick-shift to a restomodded 1978 SJ Cherokee with the guts from a plug-in hybrid Wrangler 4xe. Jeep gave us a ton of photos of these concepts, so we figured we’d put them all in one place for you to ogle. Enjoy!
It’s springtime, and for Jeep fans, that can only mean two things: The 57th Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, is right around the corner, and Jeep has a bunch of rad concept 4x4s to show off at said event. Jeep has been building show trucks for EJS for years, and the 2023 crop of seven custom rigs might be Jeep’s best showing yet.
Eight ribs broken in 14 places. Both ankles, one knee, and one tibia broken. A broken shoulder, clavicle, eye socket and jaw. A collapsed lung and a pierced liver. This is what actor Jeremy Renner suffered in January when his PistenBully snowcat rolled on top of him as he was working to get a family member’s car out of a snow bank near his home in Washoe County, Nevada. Now, Renner is speaking publicly about that near-fatal moment for the first time in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer — incl
Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a first-generation Acura NSX that was purchased at auction for a mere $8,500. If you know anything about Acura’s first mid-engine supercar, you know that’s an astonishingly low price. Especially when you find out that the example in question has a mere 39,000 miles on the clock. For comparison, a 32,000-mile NSX sold for more than $80,000 on Bring a Trailer just a few years back. But this NSX has been sitting at the bottom of a river for the past 2
Dave Burnham is desperate to retire. One of America’s best Citroën mechanics and restorers — perhaps the best when it comes to the byzantine hydraulic systems used on models like the Traction Avant and the DS — Burnham has built his reputation through 40 years of dedication to the brand. His shop, Dave Burnham Citroën, sits about 30 minutes west of Albany, NY and maybe 20 feet from his house. It’s full of customer cars in various states of repair, plenty enough to keep him busy for years.
Ford is taking the 2024 Mustang racing on the world stage. When the S650-generation Mustang was revealed late last year, Ford made a big deal of talking about how the new pony car would race just about everywhere in 2024: NASCAR and NHRA, of course, but also Australian Supercar, Daytona, and Le Mans. This week, Ford released a bunch of photos of the new Mustang GT3, the track-only beast meant to compete in IMSA and WEC, testing at Sebring. Gaze in wonder with us.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is upgrading its ongoing investigation into a rash of failures of high-pressure fuel pumps affecting diesel-powered Ram, Jeep and BMW vehicles. Nearly 500,000 vehicles could be affected, and so far, the working theory is that these fuel pumps, supplied by Bosch, are failing because of America’s garbage diesel fuel.
Up until a few days ago, when Dodge unveiled the 1,025-hp Challenger SRT Demon 170, the Tesla Model S Plaid claimed to be the fastest-accelerating mass-production vehicle on earth. Tesla says the top-dog Plaid can do 0-60 in 1.99 seconds and rip a 9.23-second quarter-mile. To do that, you’re going to have to engage Drag Strip Mode, and a newly-released video from Tesla explains exactly what happens when you activate that setting.
Last night, Dodge took the wraps off the most outrageous Challenger yet: The SRT Demon 170, making 1,025 horsepower on E85 and capable of 0-60 in 1.66 seconds and an 8.91-second quarter-mile (on a prepped drag strip, with a real hot-shoe at the wheel). Beyond just the horsepower, a lot of that acceleration power is down to the tires, Mickey Thompson ET Street R drag radials, which are barely street-legal and designed for drag-strip performance. The Demon 170 accentuates its skinny-front-fat-rear
Dodge just revealed the 2023 Challenger SRT Demon 170 to the world, and it is a beast: 1,025 horsepower and 945 lb-ft from a street-legal, factory-stock vehicle, capable of doing an 8.91-second 1/4 mile at 151.17 mph and ripping from zero to 60 in 1.66 seconds. You can read our complete article on the Demon 170 here, including in-depth technical details on how Dodge managed to get Bugatti horsepower out of a car with an MSRP of $96,666. Here, we’ll just be gazing at every image of the Demon 170
My goodness, people sure do have opinions about the BMW XM – especially the way it looks. Yes, it’s big. Yes, the proportions are kinda awkward. And yes, you can get it all bedazzled with gold trim. But if you decide to write off the XM solely based on its polarizing appearance, you’re making a big mistake. This SUV is one of BMW’s best new products in years.
There are gutsy scams, and then there’s this: At this very moment, a Bitcoin scammer is hosting a fake press conference livestream on YouTube purported to be a surprise collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and Tesla. It’s completely fake, but it’s actually kind of convincing.
Roger Snider started his photography career with capturing images for fashion ads. But about 15 years ago, he began taking photos of decked-out big-rig trucks — first in Japan, and later in the U.S. His work caught the attention of National Geographic, which inspired him to track down the most beautiful big-rigs on earth for a photography project that’s been going on since 2005.
This isn’t a car. What you’re looking at is a 300-hp, all-wheel-drive recipe for hooliganism. The only time I wasn’t driving this car to its absolute limit was when I tested its cargo capacity by making a run to the grocery store. Yet even with a trunk full of bruise-happy Honeycrisps I couldn’t keep from toggling into Sport mode on the way home.
We’re one week past the four-year anniversary of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which went down in Ethiopia shortly after takeoff on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 people onboard. It was the second crash involving a Boeing 737 Max airplane, occurring just a few months after Lion Air Flight 610 went down in Indonesia on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 passengers. But now, in U.S. court proceedings between Boeing and the families of roughly 80 victims of the Ethiopian Airlines cras
Harley-Davidson’s image is as star-spangled as anything. And in 2023, that presents a challenge: Building motorcycles in the U.S. is expensive. So when Cycle World published evidence that seemed to indicate Harley was about to import a made-in-China motorcycle to the U.S., Harley fans got notably concerned. The truth is perhaps less scary: Yes, Harley is going to import the Chinese-made bike you see above to the U.S., but it won’t be offered for sale.
The United States Pentagon released dramatic footage this morning recovered from an unmanned U.S. Air Force drone that was knocked out of the sky in international airspace over the Black Sea, just off the coast of Crimea, by a Russian fighter jet this week. The video from Tuesday’s incident, which you can watch below, shows two Russian Su-27 fighter jets passing over the American drone — first dumping fuel on the unmanned aircraft, and then striking it. The drone crashed into the Black Sea, and
Do you feel it? The air is warming, the ground is thawing, the sun may even still be visible when you get out of work. Springtime is around the corner, and here at Jalopnik, that can only mean one thing: It’s time to get into some DIY car projects, or just teach yourself exactly how an automobile works.
You know, for as much as we talk about the Toyota Supra, people tend to forget about the BMW Z4. But neither of these cars would exist without the other. While driving the updated 2023 Z4 in Florida last week, Michael Wimbeck, the car’s development boss, talked about how BMW wouldn’t have been able to do a new generation of the roadster without sharing the cost of the project with Toyota. And come on, do you really think Toyota would’ve fully funded a standalone low-volume sports car on its own?
