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Cars That Died And The Best Cars We Drove In 2024 In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Cars That Died And The Best Cars We Drove In 2024 In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

A collection of our best posts of the week in car culture

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Photo: Cadillac, Daniel Golson/Jalopnik, Jim Watson/AFP (Getty Images), Wob/ Bring A Trailer (Fair Use), Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images), Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Image: Fisker, Screenshot: Universal Pictures, California Department Of Insurance
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Rear 3/4 view of a blue Cadillac Celestiq
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Welcome to the future, or as we call it, 2025. It’s time to clear up that hangover, start those New Year’s resolutions and get ready to... work tomorrow, probably. To distract you from that impending doom, let’s talk about the cars that we (as in us at Jalopnik) are most excited for in 2025. - Daniel Golson Read More

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to the many good, bad and amazing cars that died in 2024. Some, like the Nissan GT-R or the Ram Classic, slipped slowly into old age and died surrounded by friends. Others, like the Audi A4 or Infiniti Q50, were unceremoniously slashed from their lineups over the cardinal sin of not being an SUVs. One model died in 2024 from total corporate implosion. - Erin Marquis Read More

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Front 3/4 view of a blue Mercedes-Benz G-wagen
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik

I drove a lot of really good cars this year, from supercars to affordable EVs and everything in between, and so did many of my colleagues. That’s why we’ve rounded up all of the best cars that we drove in 2024 for your reading pleasure. Despite some tough competition this year my top two were easy picks, but I have a lot of honorable mentions that could’ve made it on. - Daniel Golson Read More

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024.
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP (Getty Images)

Good morning and Happy New Year! It’s Thursday, January 2, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

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a blue 89 vanagon syncro driving up a grassy hill
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The Volkswagen Bus is part of an elite group of vehicles that are instantly recognizable to almost anyone on Earth. Vehicles like the Bus and the Beetle, and non-VWs like the Ford Mustang, transcend the sphere of car enthusiasts and have found homes in the hearts and minds of all different types of people. Volkswagen’s long-awaited revival of its iconic blunt-nosed bread box on wheels, the fully electric ID Buzz, excites normies and car nerds alike, but Volkswagen has the chance to take things one step further and revive the rugged, all-terrain Syncro. The ID Buzz is already offered with all-wheel drive, so why not lift it a bit and offer another flavor of nostalgia with an ID Buzz Syncro? Or Zyncro? - Logan Carter Read More

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game at Northwest Stadium on December 14, 2024 in Landover, Maryland. Trump is attending the game with lawmakers and Cabinet nominees including, Vice President-elect JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and others.
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Happy Monday! It’s December 30, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. - Amber DaSilva Read More

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Discovering a barn find is a car enthusiast’s dream. It’s an opportunity to be an automotive Indiana Jones, except the museum that car belongs in is your garage. A 1989 Nissan 240SX got a new lease on life earlier this month after getting parked in a barn in 1996 or 1998 and not touched since. The coupe’s lengthy cleaning process was as satisfying as watching it get recovered. - Ryan Erik King Read More

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Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik

I drove a lot of vehicles in 2024. To be exact, I got behind the wheel of 31 crossovers, nine sedans, eight coupes, seven convertibles, seven pickup trucks, four SUVs, three liftbacks, two minivans, two hatchbacks, one bonafide supercar… and two motorcycles. All in all, that works out to 76 vehicles tested… which is a lot. OK, technically there are two cars I’m slated to drive this year that I haven’t completed testing of, but that’s just a small detail. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

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The start of the record-breaking roll in “The Fall Guy”
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I watch a whole lot of movies every year. Cinema is pretty much my only non-car-related hobby. It combines my twin passions of storytelling and sitting in a comfortable chair eating snacks. This year I saw more movies than any year previous, and some of those movies had some pretty rad cars in them. I thought it would be a good idea to give you all a rundown of the ten most rad and ten worst disappointing use of cars appearing in film this year. Why not, right? - Bradley Brownell Read More

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We are all animal lovers here at Jalopnik. Almost all of us have pets and, when animals face down transportation, we are usually on the animal’s side. This year, we covered a lot of critters: everything from the always entertaining Orca whales and their class war on the sailboats of the world to bears (or people who look like bears) taking their claws to cars. - Erin Marquis Read More

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