The 10 Most Iconic Video Game Cars
You went faster in these than in any real car you’ve ever driven.
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The 10 Most Embarrassing Mistakes You Can Make While Driving
Some driver errors are quite common and do no harm, others are dangerous but fortunately quite rare. But there’s a middle ground of embarrassing, infrequent, burned-into-your-consciousness mistakes, and these are the ten worst.
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The 10 Worst Cars GM Ever Built
‘New GM’ isn’t doing great with eleven recalls in five months, but that’s nothing compared to these shitboxes.
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The 10 Worst Car Factories In History
These are the car plants where competence, build quality and all your hopes and dreams went to die. Their cars should have come with a sticker that said “Made With Pride in You Don’t Want To Know.”
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Why We Abandoned A Car After A 3,700-Mile Drive From Europe To Asia
There are a lot of reasons why it had do go down like this. One of them is that I started our journey without ever believing our old Lada could make it more than 3,500 miles on a brutal drive from Budapest to the Armenian capital of Yerevan. I couldn’t have been more wrong—but it still never got to go home.
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It's Okay That The Ferrari California Is The Exact Opposite Of An F40
Ferrari doesn’t need you to love the California T in order to sell loads of them, but it’s nice to know that the new version is miles better than their first try from 2008.
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The California Highway Patrol Went All Blues Brothers With Their 1961 Dodge Polara
The Automobile Club of Southern California restored one of the few original 1961 Dodge Polara Highway Patrol cars, and one thing is for sure: as Jay Leno demonstrates, those cops took their rides very seriously.
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A Glimpse Into The World Of Downhill Skateboarders: The Other Canyon Carvers
Every sports car driver and sport bike rider dreams of the perfect roads over Los Angeles, but we’re not the only ones (or even the fastest ones) who carve these canyons.
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Russians Use These Amphibious 4x4s To Find Their Lost Rocket Parts
What you see here is a TREKOL amphibious truck based on an UAZ-31514. It costs $26,500 worth of rubles, and the Russian space program uses it to find the stages falling off their Soyuz rockets, no matter how far in the woods they end up.
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This Gorgeous Film Shows What It's Like To Drive The Legendary Porsche 718
Porsche and Petrolicious put racing legend Derek Bell in the 1960 Porsche 718 around the Targa Florio with a cameo from the new 2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S, pointing out once again that we humans got fat and lazy.
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How About A 1967 Ford Fairlane With 650 Horses And Active Aero?
One can tune up a 1960s Ford Fairlane in many ways, and Pure Vision Designs felt their ‘67 had to turn into a NASCAR prototype that never was with 650+ horses and an eight foot timing chain. Now you can watch Jay Leno take it for a spin.
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There Are Road Legal McLaren P1 GTRs Everywhere
This shouldn’t really be happening, and that’s exactly why it’s happening.
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Alaskans Are So Happy About The Škoda Kodiaq That They Renamed Their City For It
Škoda, the best Volkswagen Group brand that Americans can’t buy, recently announced it will get into the seven-seat SUV game with a new vehicle called the Kodiaq. And in Kodiak, Alaska, the locals and mayor were so excited they decided to get in on the action by renaming their town for a whole day.
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What's Up With The Ford Focus RS' Drift-Ready Road Tires Anyway?
Is the Ford Focus RS’ Drift Mode for real, or is it just a quick way to murder your tires? Jeremy Clarkson seems to think it’s the latter. But since I was curious about this as well, here’s what Michelin’s main man could tell me about their special rubber at the Focus RS launch.
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The Toyota GT86 Shooting Brake Concept Is Your Practical Drifting Family Car
A Toyobaru Clown Shoe? Yes! Are they gonna make it? Well... maybe... one day, you know. Just like the convertible and 300 horsepower versions. Really.
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Max Verstappen Will Replace Daniil Kvyat At Red Bull F1
Red Bull Racing will replace Daniil Kvyat with Max Verstappen from Torro Rosso as Daniel Ricciardo’s teammate starting with the Spanish Grand Prix next weekend, the team announced today.
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The German Police Are Hitting The Gumball 3000 Hard
This is no Team Polizei. This is Die Polizei, making the ultra-rich showoffs known as Gumballers come to a Halt.
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A Huge Collection Of Ford's Performance Icons Is Up For Grabs
Car dealer and racing magnate Jim Click is selling his 1966 Ford GT40, 1969 and 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans Ams, two 1964 Shelby 289 Cobras and a 1966 Shelby GT350. It’s safe to say that RM Auctions has a real treat for Ford fans in Monterey.
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The Hatchback Of Notre Dame
Welcome to Paper Jam, the feature where we highlight the best automotive advertisements from the past! Print might be nearly dead, but our scanners are just getting warmed up.
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I'm Fed Up With All The Fake Exhaust Tips
Oh, the Bugatti Chiron. Six titanium exhaust pipes getting rid of whatever that two-stage quad-turbo eight-liter engine is spewing out of its 16 cylinders, and a double exhaust tip that does absolutely nothing. Form just doesn’t seem to follow function at the rear anymore.
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Volkswagen Says The Golf GTI Clubsport S Is The New Front-Drive Nürburgring King
Instead of fast Renaults and Seats, Volkswagen had to beat the Honda Civic Type R’s record this time, and with 305 horsepower on tap, their new GTI Clubsport S delivered, proving that a two-seater Golf can be very fast. VW claims it’s now the quickest front-wheel drive car around the legendary Nürburgring.
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Here's Your Guide To The Most Insane Cars Up For Auction In May
Got several million dollars burning a hole in your tuxedo pants? Need to own a car your neighbors are guaranteed not to have? My friend, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to Hammertime, Jalopnik’s new monthly auction guide listing all the weird and wonderful cars that we can’t afford, but you might, especially if your middle name is Centurion.
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The Scariest Engine
I strongly believe that the Lancia Delta S4 Group B prototype has to be the nastiest, deadliest and most potent automobile ever created by a major car company, mostly because it’s powered by a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine built by crazy people.
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Meet The Progenitor Of The Carbon Fiber Chassis
In 1981, McLaren won the British Grand Prix with the world’s first carbon fiber monocoque race car, the MP4/1. Today, all high-end road cars use the same technology, and we can thank John Barnard (and Salt Lake City) for that.
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The First-Ever V6 Volkswagen Amarok Looks Like A Perfect Rugged Euro-Truck
For the first time ever, the Volkswagen Amarok will be available with a 3.0-liter V6 TDI producing 220 horsepower and 405 pound feet at 1,500 RPM. In Europe, of course.
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When Ayrton Senna Had A Joke On Williams And Sonic The Hedgehog
See that ‘Roadkill Hedgehog’ sticker on Senna’s 1993 McLaren MP4/8? It was his message to Williams and their very fast Frenchman Alain Prost.
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This Is The Jaguar F-Type That Might Have Been
Eleven years before the Jaguar F-Type you all know and love today, there was another F-Type. It was smaller and lighter, aimed at the Porsche Boxster instead of the 911. But by 2002, it was dead thanks to Jaguar’s pointless Formula One efforts and Ford counting those beans, no doubt.
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