Just 18 hours before I had been sunning myself on a beach in Miami. But now, on precious little sleep, I found myself north of the Arctic Circle, frozen and staring at a gnarly, hulking, carbon-fiber-and-kevlar Dakar-racing Mini Countryman that cost over a million dollars. “What the hell am I doing here?” was the…
Ever since I started filming Formula Drift races, my mother, Amy Werman from our Worst Car Stories series, always joked about getting a ride-along with a professional drift racer. Here’s what happened when I got her one.
All-wheel drive is an increasingly common feature on cars today, from grocery-fetching Subaru wagons to small crossovers. But it was rally racing that really convinced automakers that sending power to all four wheels gives cars a massive edge on ice, snow, dirt and more.
On this, the latest episode of What Car Should You Buy?, we’re talking about exotic cars. You know, the flashy stuff. Loud, fast, expensive things. But how expensive do you really need to go?
Looks aren’t everything when it comes to cars. Around here we believe the Subaru WRX is the best all-around enthusiast car, especially if you have a family, but the ‘Rex has never been much in the design department. Some people demand more beauty in their cars.
By now you’ve seen our Facebook Live coverage of auto shows, car launch events, and a even a little taste of a regular everyday on-road adventure. (If not, you can re-watch the broadcasts.) Do you like where this is going?
I don’t know how a motorcycle cupholder-building goon like Andrew Collins got his hands on a classy car like a McLaren 675LT, but he has one for a few days. And if you tune in live right now, you can watch a tour of the car before he takes it up the California coast.
While other New York Auto Show people were going to lame parties, legendary tuner Akira Nakai built one of his famous RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF Porsche 911s at the HQ of The Drive in Brooklyn. I went there to to check it out, and I got a nice blast of noise.
Can you have a car that’s good on gas and still truly fun to drive? Of course you can! Welcome to 2016, where cars have the most power, most efficiency and fewest compromises ever. On the latest episode of What Car Should You Buy, the Jalopnik writers and our friends evaluate the best choices.
I hope you enjoyed your break. I hope you spent quality time with the people you loved, basking in the feeling that maybe, just maybe, everything will be alright. I hope you savored that feeling—because it’s all going away soon. That’s because the third season of Jalopnik Video starts today.
Perhaps you’re familiar with the artwork of Scott Park. He takes famous cars from movies and TV shows and turns them into adorable cartoon prints. Now his stuff is back again, in animated form!
It’s no secret what happens during an auto show, but have you ever seen what happens before one? That’s what this week’s episode of Jalopnik Investigates is all about.
My Uncle Nick and I don’t always get to talk. A shame, considering he’s one of the true car guys in my family. While on the phone with him late last night, I did the math—seven months since we last spoke. He asked me, “What’s new?” I started with, “So Jalopnik started a YouTube channel...and 90,000 subscribers later,…
I know what you’re thinking. “V8 Camaro or bust.” I too, love the soundtrack of a small-block V8 pushing power to the rear tires, as god intended. But the V6 does impressive audio too. My colleague Andrew Collins mentioned how the exhaust is his second-favorite thing on the new 2016 Camaro, I’m here to prove his…
If you do it right, detailing cars takes time. It takes a lot of time. So what if you’re detailing hundreds of LA Auto Show floor cars like George Perez of Executive Auto Grooming? Then you you’ve got to think of ways to save yourself time in the process. Enter the completely badass and one-of-a-kind detailing race…
Visiting family for the holidays can be pretty stressful. For Jalopnik editor emeritus Mike Spinelli and his family, the drive from Westchester to New Jersey was even more stressful than telling your Aunt Karen it’s time to cool it with the eggnog.
Randy Lanier got his start in grassroots sports car racing and then financed a motorsports career by moving hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana. It’s kind of fitting that after nearly three decades in prison, convicted as one of the country’s biggest weed kingpins, that he made his return to racing there too.
There’s a tried and true recipe for car ownership that everyone should go through: buy a cheap car, neglect it, and see how long it’ll last. Sometimes you’ll be rewarded with resilience and that $500 beater lasts longer than something costing four times as much. Other times, you get what you pay for and you’ll wind up…
Many car brands have died over the years. Today, none are as dead as Wartburg, the East German automaker that spent decades cranking out brutally simple cars while the capitalist West became ever more high-tech and luxurious.
When I was studying art history, some of the works I liked best were the ones never really meant to be seen — rough sketches from artists done in early planning stages of larger works, done to get a rough idea of feel or composition. That’s the context I like to view Henry Ford’s first car — a rough sketch. What…
