A 20-year-old driver named Lewis Hamilton recently got sentenced to eight months in jail and a temporary ban from driving after a police chase in March, according to the Daily Star. He’s not the Lewis Hamilton most of us are familiar with, not that the Daily Star’s headline would’ve keyed you into that.
I won’t lie–car journalists are lucky. And generally pretty spoiled. And sometimes insufferably entitled. So much so that Richard Porter, a Top Gear veteran and current script editor for The Grand Tour, has created a character who is the ultimate car reviewing hack, who is both hilarious and horrible.
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Over the past year, as Tesla has struggled to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan, the company has made it a priority to slam news outlets that report on its alleged labor violations and manufacturing woes. On Monday, the PR strategy became utterly unhinged. The implication has become clear to reporters…
The 2018 New York International Auto Show is happening right now, so if you’re in town, definitely grab a ticket and head out to the no man’s land of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to see all the cars! Here’s what Jalopnik found while poking around the show floor during the media days.
Over the past few years, legacy print magazine Motor Trend has built up a sizable and enviable digital video operation, including 5.6 million YouTube subscribers and an ambitious on demand video network. But earlier this week, in another sign of YouTube’s fading relevance to publishers and the increasing revenue…
Earlier this week, The Detroit News published a mostly glowing review of the Tesla Model 3. The newspaper, apparently super jazzed about the take, decided to give it prominent real estate, on the front page and above-the-fold. After the story was published, someone went into the online version and made a change to its…
The subject line of the email read, “VIP INVITE - Toyota Winter Olympics Travel Experience.” And upon reading the body, Toyota was clearly serious about the VIP treatment. An all-expenses paid, 10-day trip to South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, plus fun perks, but not for private guests or friends—for…
It feels like a lifetime ago, but the Detroit Auto Show came and went this month! There were a lot of trucks and crossovers, some cars, and what you don’t often get to see, the media people doing what they do. Here’s a kind-of behind-the-scenes look at those people.
If you have an apartment or house that you simply need filled to the ceiling with automotive swag, auto shows are the best place to get your free and pointless shit. You are handed so much branded crap at these shows that it’s frankly kind of gross. However, hocking brand shit on eBay while the press conferences are…
“WOOOOO!” go the cheers. “YEAHHHHHHH!!!!” a man yells. They scream. They holler. But worst of all, they clap. And they clap for—and this is true—a fucking Volkswagen Jetta.
The 90s! What a time. Cell phones were still new. CDs were a big deal. The world wide web was in its infancy. On the internet, things looked basic. And that was cool! For instance, auto.com—check out that stylish layout up top!
As part of an effort by the Republican-led U.S. House and Senate to reconcile their legislation that aims to drastically cut taxes for the rich, the $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles is hanging in limbo. In a poorly-argued, haphazard piece, the Wall Street Journal editorial board says it should be eliminated,…
For the past few years, I’ve held a dark secret: while my colleagues at Jalopnik scrambled to learn every detail they could get about the all-new 2018 Jeep Wrangler, I already knew most everything. I just couldn’t say anything to them.
Tesla’s had something of a rough go lately. Long the disruptive darling of both the automotive and tech worlds, the automaker has struggled to ramp up production of its new Model 3 sedan to meet its self-stated targets, and in addition to facing numerous worker lawsuits over alleged discrimination, it is now facing…
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Recently, Parker Nirenstein from supercar YouTube series Vehicle Virgins went to a Michelin press event where there was an autocross. You know, actual hard driving that requires skill and precision, the likes of which we don’t see on supercar YouTube very often. He is immediately called out by Alex Roy. It is…
Fox Sports, a media group that presumably covers sports, will eliminate about 20 writing and editing positions in order to focus on video, reports Bloomberg. The reason? Actual sports reporting is hard.
The man who dropped off the keys to a loaner 2018 Audi R8 Spyder at my trendy eighth-floor walk-up on the Lower East Side shuffled away after the transaction was complete, looking over his shoulder longingly at the shining supercar like he was walking away forever from his firstborn son.
The lead up to the 2017 Geneva Motor Show had more leaks than a Russian diplomat’s Google Calendar, and with those leaks came the requests from automakers to this humble publication to pull those posts and photos down until they are “officially” released. Now is a good time to remind all involved that you cannot take…