• By Collin Woodard

    In What States Are Radar Detectors And Laser Jammers Illegal?

    Nobody needs a radar detector because nobody needs to speed. You might think you need to speed in order to make it somewhere on time, but that’s not the speed limit’s fault. It’s your fault for not leaving on time. Maybe get ready a little faster next time instead of making your lateness everybody else’s problem. And if you’ve seen how folks who own radar detectors drive, yes, they’re making their driving everyone else’s problem. Depending on the state you’re in, that radar detec

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  • By Jalopnik Bot

    Lucid CEO Praises The 185-Mile EV, Judge Affirms Right To Repair Honda Passport Pricing In This Week's News Roundup

    If you want an electric vehicle with the longest range possible, you buy a Lucid Air. Specifically, you buy a Lucid Air Grand Touring with 19-inch wheels and an EPA range of 512 miles. Even Tesla can’t match that. Range anxiety? What range anxiety? And yet, in a recent interview, Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson told InsideEVs he thinks 180-mile EVs are “the future,” which may initially sound like an absurd idea. But you know what? He’s right. - Collin Woodard Read More

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  • By Lawrence Hodge

    Elon Musk Is Planning To Bring His Useless Underground Loop To Dubai

    In an announcement of things that will definitely, for sure someday happen, Musk and the UAE’s AI minister Omar Al Olama unveiled this week plans for a new underground tunnel built by the Boring Company underneath Dubai. I guess they saw the Vegas Loop serving as a completely useful piece of infrastructure and wanted in.

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  • By Collin Woodard

    Elon Musk's Noxious Politics May Tank Tesla

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk currently has way too much power and has effectively taken over the federal government, but he isn’t invincible. Tesla, the main source of his wealth, is so overvalued, he’s vulnerable if the stock tanks. We aren’t at that tipping point yet, but public sentiment has already soured, even among owners. If this keeps up, it could spell disaster for Tesla, Wired reports.

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  • By Collin Woodard

    Ted Cruz Claims Researching Self-Driving Cars And Solar Eclipses Advance 'Neo-Marxist Class Warfare Propaganda'

    There are plenty of completely valid reasons to be skeptical of self-driving cars. Safety concerns are very real, especially since even the most advanced robotaxi prototypes don’t always get it right in what should be simple situations, and that’s before you throw inclement weather into the equation. There are also very real concerns about what self-driving cars would do to cities and you can’t forget the pollution that still comes from brake and tire particles. Ted Cruz, though? NPR repor

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  • By Lawrence Hodge

    Ford Quietly Kills The Transit Trail Over Supply Issues

    Ford quietly discontinued one of its off-road vehicles but don’t worry, it’s not the Bronco or any of the Raptor models. It’s the Ford Transit Trail which you may have forgot existed unless you’re an influencer living that #VanLife.

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  • By Amber DaSilva

    Google Is Tired Of Being Told Its 'Gulf Of America' Name Change Is Wrong

    Earlier this year, after presumably solving every other more urgent problem facing American citizens, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This move has very little meaning internationally, but American companies are already falling in lockstep with the order — and getting tired of anyone who tries to correct it back to the old name. Google Maps users have been leaving reviews for the Gulf of America, demanding it be changed back

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  • By Collin Woodard

    Federal Judge Says You Have A Right To Repair Your Car, But Automakers Vow To Appeal

    Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly passed the Right to Repair Act back in 2020. After some initial hesitation, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration threw its support behind the law. Automakers, however, sued to stop the law from going into effect. Unfortunately for them, a judge just dismissed the lawsuit, clearing the way for the law to go into effect more than four years after it was passed, Boston.com reports.

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  • By Bradley Brownell

    Cheap European Cars Are Ditching Infotainment Screens In Favor Of Phone Integration, And I Think Every Car Should

    Automakers in the U.S. are struggling to find ways to meet increasing demands for cheaper cars as the long-term repercussions of Trumpian economic uncertainty continue to unfurl. Some automakers have shown an interest in de-contenting existing models in an effort to make them less expensive to produce and pass some of those savings on to the customer. For now they’re all half-assed measures, because consumers don’t have an option to buy a car with no flashy and expensive infotainment screen

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  • By Amber DaSilva

    FAA Space Regulators Are Right To Fear Elon Musk

    Everyone knows that the Federal Aviation Administration regulates air travel, but fewer know about its Office of Commercial Space Transportation — an office that regulates commercial spaceflight, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Now that Musk and his posse of broccoli-haired children control the purse strings of the federal government, those regulators live in fear: Will Musk take revenge on them for halting SpaceX flights?

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  • By Lawrence Hodge

    BMW Wants $20,000 For A Set Of M Centerlock Wheels

    In November 2023, BMW did M owners in Europe a solid by giving them a new centerlock wheel option. Meanwhile, North American M owners made due with largely forgettable wheel and tire options; aside from a few gold-and-black performance wheel and tire options, nothing really stands out. Things have changed for the better for North American M owners as, BMW is finally bringing over those centerlock wheels to our shores. The thing is, the automaker is charging a pretty penny for them.

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  • By Collin Woodard

    180-Mile EVs Are 'The Future' Says Lucid CEO, And He's Right

    If you want an electric vehicle with the longest range possible, you buy a Lucid Air. Specifically, you buy a Lucid Air Grand Touring with 19-inch wheels and an EPA range of 512 miles. Even Tesla can’t match that. Range anxiety? What range anxiety? And yet, in a recent interview, Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson told InsideEVs he thinks 180-mile EVs are “the future,” which may initially sound like an absurd idea. But you know what? He’s right.

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  • By Amber DaSilva

    Trump's Return-To-Office Forces 17,000 Workers Into 4,400 Parking Spaces In DC

    President Donald Trump’s second term has thus far been a deluge of executive orders. They’ve largely ranged from bad to horrifying, but one always stuck out as primarily just weird and out-of-touch: A ban on remote work for the federal government. As it turns out, this one’s even worse than it seems — government offices simply don’t have the space for all their new in-person workers.

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  • By Amber DaSilva

    Tesla Drivers Surpass Ram As Worst In Country: Study

    If there’s one thing Tesla owners love, it’s daydreaming about a time when their cars will ferry them from point A to point B without a single bit of driving in between. Unfortunately for us all, it seems those owners are doing that daydreaming behind the wheel as, according to a new study, they’re the worst drivers in the U.S. of A.

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  • By Bradley Brownell

    Corvette ZR1 Steals Five Track Records At Iconic American Road Courses

    There’s a new King in America today, baby, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. The new Chevrolet Corvette isn’t pulling any more punches with the new ZR1, proving it can beat the world’s best sports cars with five new production car lap records at four iconic American road courses. With 1,064 horsepower, a set of sticky Michelins, and enough aerodynamic downforce to force the earth out of orbit, this is a mega machine worthy of superlative.

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  • By Ryan Erik King

    Annoying Extended Warranty Pop-Up Ad Takes Over Jeep Owner's Infotainment Screen

    While extended warranty plans can provide additional peace of mind for new car owners, they are also a go-to upsell for manufacturers. Imagine if an automaker was still pushing that warranty plan long after you drove away from the dealership. One owner of a 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee kept receiving full-screen pop-up messages on their infotainment screen despite exceeding the maximum mileage to even purchase a plan.

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  • By Andy Kalmowitz

    BMW Boss Says V8s Are Here To Stay Thanks To America: You're Welcome, World

    The V8 is God’s engine configuration of choice. Sure, there are much more efficient ways to make power through smaller displacement motors with forced induction, but it’s nearly impossible to replace the vibes and feelings a big V8 gives you. It’s why the V8 is still in high demand in markets like the U.S. and the Middle East, where fuel is cheap. We’re willing to pay a bit more for the fantastic feeling of a V8 burble. It’s why BMW has decided to let the V8 stick around.

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  • By Daniel Golson

    Listen To The Bugatti Tourbillon's Hybrid V16 Scream To 9,000 RPM In ICE-Only Mode

    Without question my most anticipated car of this decade is the Bugatti Tourbillon, the follow-up to the Chiron that features the only powertrain worthy of replacing Bugatti’s world-breaking quad-turbo W16: a naturally aspirated V16. Not just any V16, but one with a 9,000 rpm redline and a total output of 1,800 horsepower thanks to a trio of electric motors. CEO Mate Rimac posted a video on his Instagram of a Tourbillon prototype undergoing track testing, giving us our best listen yet of the ab

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  • By Collin Woodard

    Cybertruck Using Tesla's So-Called 'Full Self-Driving' Assistance Software Crashes Into Pole

    When Tesla first began building the Cybertruck, it promised a long list of features, but they weren’t all ready to go at launch. If you wanted to go off-road in your shiny new truck, for example, you had to wait for the update that gave you an off-road mode. And if you wanted to use the same driver-assist software that Tesla offers in its other cars, you had to wait all the way until last October to get it. Don’t worry, though, Tesla’s so-called “Full Self-Driving” has wasted no time c

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  • By Andy Kalmowitz

    Lucid Wants To Be A Supplier That Just Happens To Sell Cars

    Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson seems to understand that the electric vehicle technology his young automaker builds is pretty much second to none, and that’s why he wants to start licensing it to other car companies. It’s a smart play. I’ve driven pretty much every EV platform you can buy in the U.S., and Lucid’s very well may be the best.

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  • By Jalopnik Bot

    Automakers Want To Make Cheap Cars For Us Poors, Everyone Wants A Four-Door Suzuki Jimny And More Musk In This Week's News Roundup

    Automakers may have finally realized that we’re all out of money, so they’re now apparently planning on bringing back cheaper cars. The plan is to do this through lower-end trims, value-focused special editions and even reviving cheap dead vehicles from their pasts. It’s welcome news for folks who see the average price of a new car – $49,740 – and shudder. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

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  • By Collin Woodard

    Massive Pedestrian Crushers Don't Actually Keep Occupants Safe Either, New Research Shows

    Large, heavy vehicles with high hoods and poor visibility are incredibly dangerous. Even people who drive them will admit that if they hit someone, that person would probably die. At the same time, though, people are selfish and want to look out for their families first. If they’re going to be in a wreck, they want to make sure the people inside their Pedestrian Crusher 9000 are as safe as possible. Except bigger doesn’t actually mean safer, as new research from the Insurance Institute for

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