Let’s be honest: he Chevy Malibu hasn’t been particularly interesting since that glowing one with the alien in it flew off into the sky. I found the last one I drove to be breathtakingly average. But now it’s gotten a pretty striking re-design! Is that enough to make you give a shit?
You bitched and moaned during the first round of America's Next Top Car Blogger, but now it's your turn to have your voice directly heard. Vote for your two finalists below.
On today's Chevy Volt drive, our Justin Hyde has learned there are situations where the Chevy Volt's premium gasoline-fueled engine kicks in to motivate the wheels at speeds as low as 30 MPH. What then, does that make the Volt?
Jaguar is studying what it would take to put the C-X75 concept from the Paris Motor Show into production. Translating its 780-hp turbine/electric setup could take years, but Jaguar engineers promise no XJ220-like power switch. Should Jag take the leap?
After seeing this outrageous baby-blue Jaguar V12-powered trike from Kiwi-land on eBay, we immediately thought of Jagged Edge, a twin-turbocharged motorcycle version. Now we want to know, which madness-machine stokes your fires and why?
An exciting Super Bowl was matched only by some exciting Super Bowl car commercials. Mostly. Which commercial was the best? We've got every car-themed commercial below, ready for your viewing and voting pleasure.
Each week we'll let two silver screen automotive icons face off and let you decide which stays and which one goes home, tailpipe between their legs. That's right, it's like an online Thunderdome — except without the death thing. We call it the "Star Car Shootout." Let's get ready to rumble.
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Though the kitchy and hilarious "Jump of Legends" didn't make your cut in the vote for Jalopnik's final Evel Knievel tribute, the handsome and impressively constructed "Creation of Evel" did, with a commanding 37.4% of the vote. This tasteful work was contributed by reader Thomas Reynolds, who hails from the beating…
A few Friday's ago, the hoon world lost the renegade of the ramp, the sultan of speed, the king of compound fractures, Evel Knievel. We asked you to work up your personal tribute to this monster of pop culture and you responded in spades. In the last days, we put together the Jalopnik Counsel of Awesomeness and…
We've seen lots of cars and a few trucks in the Down On The Street series, but just one proper Detroit pickup truck. I've shot a couple more y'all haven't seen yet, but I've been sticking to an arbitrary cutoff year of 1955 for pickups to qualify for photographing (actually, I should probably use 1953, that being the…
Last week, the Hoon of the Week award was won by the amazing Sprint Jumpers; since we've once again managed to find a hoon for every day this week (with a special Bonus Hoon to boot), we're going to celebrate Friday with another Hoon of the Week poll! Make like a Loyale and jump...
Since the last seven days produced a bumper harvest of Hoon of the Day entrants, we're gonna have our first-ever Hoon of the Week poll! Just make like a Sprint driver and jump...
On the occasion of the day after D. Boon's birthday, and having had all manner of fuel scents drift in from the harbor over the last few days, we started wondering why what we yanks call "gasoline" has so many names around the world. The Germans refer to it as "Benzin," based on the fuel's benzene quotient. The…
It's been a rocky thirteen months for the talking heads manning the turrets of the automotive towers of power in Detroit. There's been precious little good news to go around, and when it has come it's always been just before, just after or just during a fiery hailstorm of fecal matter flung from both outside the…
Responding to alleged dealer grumbling at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas, Ford CEO Alan Mulally agreed to step up and into an as yet undetermined dealership for one day to sell Fords directly. While details are still hazy as to when and where, we do know that Ford officials are…
We are very, very tired, and it's all BMW's fault. We were up much too late discussing Scotto's call out of CAR over 3-Series spy illustrations, but first, we got into another round of arguing with Kasey from Dubspeed (known to y'all as Punkey) about whether the 1-Series will actually sell in the U.S. Kasey, being…
Due to the rather tumultous affections of the last five women we've fallen for like a flaming lunchbag of well-overly-ripe okra dropped from 45,000 feet onto the Bonneville Salt Flats, we've developed a serious thing for Neko Case's music. It's what happens when punkers grow up, gain an appreciation for the rural and…
What? You made it through round one without nodding into your minestrone? There may be hope for you yet (or a part among the insurance industry's puppet-show cast, also known as automakers). Cast your vote for Most Significant Premiere at the Detroit Auto Show, Round 2 and really test your wakefulness. And no return…
There may not have been a less exciting Detroit auto show on record than 2007, barring that one in the '90s, during which Jac Nasser fell asleep introducing the Ford Contour, and Rick Wagoner chose "scented candles" as the theme of his breakfast keynote. Nonetheless, automakers still managed to introduce cars at the…
Lately, the big car shows have been lousy with pre-production concepts. These cars pre-introduce (nolo contendere) actual models officially (or unofficially) slated for production over the next few years. In Detroit, such proto-cars graced the stages and spun on turntables, existing alongside the radical concept cars…
