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If you have a car in California and want to take it off the road for a while, to save money on registration and…

Plug-and-play LED replacements for halogen headlight bulbs are a popular car mod. LEDs often look brighter than…

It doesn’t happen too often, but this is one of those times where I’m writing an article because of something my…

When it comes to the various bits of infrastructure that help keep us safe while we drive, most likely the greatest…

Importing a car into the U.S. is hard enough. You have to worry about getting it here, getting it past U.S. safety…

Ever notice that some big trucks sometimes have random-looking extra tires attached to them that seem to be…

Automobiles and the infrastructure around them are complicated, which is why Jalopnik takes pride in writing explaine…

The other day, I was sitting in the back of a new Audi A8, lounging in my heated, reclined seat and playing with the…

Yesterday, it came to my attention that, incredibly, there are people out there who do not know what a van is. More…

Have you ever driven down a straight road and noticed that the car in front of you appeared to be driving sideways,…

If you love cars, I’m just about positive you started life loving toy cars. I’ve yet to meet any gearhead that…

This is one of the most common shared experiences in all of automobilia: You’re outside a car, trying to get in. The…

Quickly fading are the days when we were free to dream of cranking a lever connected to cables that would squeeze…

If you’ve ever looked at floor-mounted automatic transmission shift levers, with either disdain or genuine…

I just changed the oil in my Nissan Pao last week, and in doing so I was warned—several times—that my plan to…

You’re a gearhead. You know to chuckle knowingly and condescendingly when some dumbass refers to the “V4" in their…

Surely you knows you’re supposed to follow posted speed limits, but do you know how they’re set in the first place?

A lot of street driving novices might try to justify swerving like a maniac all over the road in some sort of effort…

Almost every EV in production today has one thing in common—lithium ion batteries, from the Tesla Model 3 to the Niss…

You’ve heard the term compression ratio before, but have you ever wondered exactly what it means? Well, it’s time to…