These Are The Best QOTDs This Week

The battle between all-wheel drive and rear-wheel drive for winter vehicles rages on at Jalopnik. We’ve extolled the virtues of RWD cars with winter tires before, making a case for its usefulness in the snow when compared against vehicles with AWD. Utility in these cases is mostly down to traction, and proper tires are the key. But we wanted to know what winter vehicles readers would choose in a “spared no expense” scenario. - José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

When you’re behind the wheel, you’re usually not looking at much of your car itself. The seats, the trunk, the headliner — they aren’t really in your field of view. You know what is, though? Your gauges. They’re always in the periphery, always present, and yet so many carmakers just slap a few circles together when designing them. Don’t we deserve better? - Steve DaSilva Read More

Gauge clusters: you look at them every time you’re behind the wheel, but you’re usually focused on mundanities like speed or fuel economy. Yawn. Today, we’re here to talk about gauge clusters from a different perspective: The perspective of art. - Steve DaSilva Read More

Look, the Ford Aspire was a lot of things, some of them good. But one thing it was not, was aspirational. Unless your aspiration was to own literally any car.

Sometimes it seems like carmakers are stretching to name a new model, sometimes it seems like they drew a name out of a hat, but often the result is a name that writes checks the car itself cannot cash. - José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

We all love car names, but they’re not always honest. Sometimes a car is given a name that the machine does not accurately reflect. Or sometimes cars are given a name that’s completely opposed to the vehicle that wears the badge. It would almost be cruel, if it weren’t so funny. We asked readers to tell us what they believe are the cars with the most misleading names. - José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

Legislation in the United States currently mandates physical rear-view mirrors on the outside wings of vehicles to provide rearward vision, but other regions are already using rear-view cameras instead of old fashioned mirrors to maximize aerodynamic efficiency. There have been many different and sometimes weird attempts at reinventing, redesigning, and reimagining wing mirrors, and we know our audience will celebrate the weirdest wing mirrors with us, so weigh in with your opinion! - Logan Carter Read More

We’ve all seen unforgettable cars — stuff that’s burned into your brain until the day you die because it was just so damn cool or innovative, or you just really wanted to own it one day. But those vehicles are few and far between, and today, we want you to scour your brains for something a little more obscure: What’s the most forgettable cars? - Lawrence Hodge Read More