Rory Carroll's posts

Usually I send out any changes to the Jalopnik style guide in an email with the subject line “Copy Diktat.” But…

You guys remember Matt Hardigree? He used to run this site and was responsible in one way or another for bringing in…

Turns out, there’s a 100 percent effective way to teach people to drive a stick shift. I first heard it several…

Today, reports that Volkswagen’s U.S. arm would change its name to Voltswagen to reflect its transition to electric…

The cargo ship Ever Given has been blocking the Suez Canal for a few days now, blocking a crucial trade route and…

Last night I was searching for a NASCAR-style Hurst Shifter, similar to one that I have packed away in storage…

This is going to sound like a classic “bad thing is actually good” take, but hear me out: I think the big, ugly…

This thing has been around for a while, but I’d never seen it, so I have to assume some of you missed it, too. It’s…

Here’s one that nobody will get mad about! The speed limit: What should it be? On the one hand, modern freeways and…

Last week, I twice found myself standing at a gas pump, in single digit temperatures waiting for what must have been…

This has been kicking around in my head for months, so now you get to have it kicking around in your head: Your car…

Hello, friends. Welcome to Jalopnik Tech, an editorial initiative aimed at demystifying electric cars and advanced…

Jeez, reading the comments (currently sitting at 643) from Tom’s post on dealerships detaining people against their…

Here, we have a classic conundrum. You’ve got your car (in this case, a little primer-colored van) on one side of a…

In the absence of a parent company named Chrysler, the individual Chrysler brand is...what is it exactly? Is it…

Because you’re you, I’m assuming you were distracted from the second half of the Super Bowl trying to figure out…

You don’t have to be a dad to legally own a Honda Odyssey, but fatherhood did unlock a previously unacknowledged…

Erin dropped this question in Slack last night and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Since I started…

If you’re looking for an overlanding rig, but you refuse to buy one that you can’t hold in your hand and/or put in…

As you may have heard, Elon Musk became the richest person in the world yesterday, thank god. (Elon, if you’re…