Mechanics leaning out of vehicles is a time honored tradition. Here's a shot from back when a good bit of the TDF was dirt.
This is Gino Sciardis from the '49 TDF. Also, look at those friggin legs! Absolutely brutal!
Here's a mechanic doing a derailleur repair from a car High Speed Bicycle Wheel Change and Rear Deraille…:
Then there's the "tech". Mixed in with all those buttons and knobs and dials is a 200-watt Ufer stereo mounted inside a custom center stack, along with a dial pad just ahead of the shifter to control the roof-mounted (!) cell phone. Read more
I'm curious if the car changed names after it was repainted lime green? After all, it was called the "Ford 021C" because it's the Pantone code number for that shade of orange.
These guys are showing the one fact about these animals I know with 100% certainty: A deer never comes alone, if you see one crossing the road there will be more right behind it. Read more
Google's self-driving cars are required to have a brake, accelerator, and steering wheel to test in California. But…
Elon Musk joined Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval in Carson City to announce the selection of Nevada as the official…
My eponymous debut spoken word album is going to be titled 'Ingeniously Aggressive.' Read more
Finally after all these years that poor innocent pelican is off the hook.
A few thoughts. Read more
We've moved beyond the geewhizOMG phase of autonomous cars and into the dirty, nasty, contentious world of…
The esteemed auctioneers at Bonhams sold a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO for a mere $38.1 million tonight. Man, what a…
These are the stories that keep me reading Jalopnik. Someone reports something way out of context, and everyone else regurgitates it for pageviews, and about the only place where you get a different perspective is here. Thank you for that. Read more
I have to agree with you on this one, Damon. I'm all for gallows/black humor, but that doesn't mean I like seeing that as a front page article. I currently live in the Black Hills and went to school here for the past five years. We 'Sout' Dakohtans' have a hard enough time dealing with outsiders looking down their… Read more
These cars are going to be utterly impossible to live with after the Tesla warranty ends, because I cannot imagine how they're going to go 100k miles or more. Read more
So wait - The car that is having problems while still covered under warranty is getting them fixed? AND the car is also getting other pro-active fixes done for parts that have been known to cause issues? AND the manufacturer is offering a loaner car? AND the owner of the car didn't have to deal with a dealer at any… Read more
The situation is that Tesla is the pioneer of this field at this level of manufacturing, and well, people should be pretty amazed the cars don't stall mid driving or god knows other heavy and dangerous situations.
Everything looks professionally done and fixing things without them being an issue shows a real care and… Read more