Buyer's Guide

There’s been a lot of talk about the Tesla Cybertruck having a deep desire to chomp people’s fingers off with its power frunk latch , but no one has been brave enough to stick their fingie i...

https://jalopnik.com/guy-closes-cybertruck-frunk-on-finger-and-it-goes-about-1851452764

Costco is known for its massive warehouses full of bulk consumer products and well-priced appliances , but nestled between discounted 24-packs of paper towel and giant boxes of trail mix, you’...

https://jalopnik.com/costco-members-can-get-up-to-2-000-in-coupons-to-use-o-1851452448

Atlanta is a pretty wild place. It’s got a huge car scene so much so that a rapper opened a club and sports bar at a local gas station. Owned by Migos rapper Quavo and local Atlanta restaurate...

https://jalopnik.com/rapper-quavo-opens-club-and-sports-bar-inside-an-atlant-1851452424

People tend to assume their state, and especially their city, has the worst drivers in the country. We tend to chalk that up to the fact that you’re going to notice a lot more bad behavior in t...

https://jalopnik.com/these-states-have-the-most-aggressive-drivers-study-1851451839

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There are hundreds if not thousands of accessories you can buy for your Jeep Wrangler . Many of them are super ill-advised, but one may stand (or sit) above the rest: a bolt-in third-row seat . T...

https://jalopnik.com/do-not-buy-a-rear-facing-third-row-for-your-jeep-wrangl-1851451879

There’s rarely ever data to back up the preconceived notions we all hold about how cars look, like how we’ve all been led to believe that police pull over red cars more often than others. H...

https://jalopnik.com/like-getting-speeding-tickets-keep-buying-foreign-1851451732

A door ding is a pretty minor mishap that can happen to the best of us. Usually, it’s a pretty simple fix that involves maybe polishing out the panel, adding some new cladding or, if it’s r...

https://jalopnik.com/fisker-ocean-totaled-over-910-door-ding-after-insurer-1851451187

Gustavo lives in Texas and has a Porsche, but doesn’t want to put too many miles on it. He is looking for a reasonably priced sedan with low maintenance costs that he can use for commuting so t...

https://jalopnik.com/i-need-a-reliable-sedan-to-go-with-my-porsche-what-car-1851450955

We all love road trips . We’ve all been on some incredible road trips. And if you live in the U.S. and haven’t yet driven coast-to-coast , you’re really missing out. You truly can’t under...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-worst-things-that-ever-happened-on-a-road-1851450056

Toyota’s upmarket brand Lexus has always been focused on innovative engineering concepts, though not typically in the service of speed . The pocket protector dorks at the company usually spend ...

https://jalopnik.com/heres-another-chance-to-own-the-worlds-reddest-lexus-lf-1851450852

Good morning! It’s Thursday, May 2, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories ...

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https://jalopnik.com/2024-lucid-air-pure-first-drive-lucids-cheapest-car-m-1851451164

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March after it was hit by a cargo shop that lost power. The strike from the ship brought the towers of the bridge crashing down and left the ...

https://jalopnik.com/explore-the-baltimore-bridge-collapse-from-every-angle-1851450854

There’s nothing like riding passenger on a road trip and letting the car lull you to sleep, but why is it that riding in a car makes folks so darn eepy? A 2018 study conducted by RMIT Univers...

https://jalopnik.com/here-s-why-you-get-so-sleepy-while-riding-in-cars-1851449886

Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes . Now, it turns out the rest of Am...

https://jalopnik.com/americans-are-driving-their-cars-to-death-in-order-to-s-1851450846

It’s officially May, which means the Indianapolis 500 is right around the corner. The iconic open-wheel race has been around for over a century and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-automakers-that-have-won-the-indy-500-1851449593

As Acura’s first fully electric vehicle, the ZDX Type S is an important car for the brand, but it’s not a genuine Acura or Honda product. The new ZDX is built on the same General Motors U...

https://jalopnik.com/2024-acura-zdx-type-s-is-speedy-and-spacious-but-still-1851439629

Well folks, we made it! The time seems to have finally come where the weather starts warming up and we shed our winter coats for our spring finest. It’s been an intense winter for many of us...

https://jalopnik.com/what-s-the-most-essential-part-of-your-spring-car-care-1851450407

For better or worse, the automotive industry as it stands right now is all about numbers and specs . How fast is a car ? How much does it weigh ? What sort of 0-60 times can it do? What has the ...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-fastest-0-60-times-ever-set-by-production-1851448928

Silver is the traditional gift for a 25th Anniversary, and today’s Nice Price or No Dice 25th Anniversary S4 is rightfully painted Avus Silver. One of 250 special edition cars, this one also h...

https://jalopnik.com/at-25-900-is-this-2006-audi-s4-quattro-a-bargain-1851448255

The Spyker C8 is one of the rarest cars in the world. Even though the company was founded in 1999, the company didn’t actually start producing vehicles until 2003 with the C8. Just 266 C8s wer...

https://jalopnik.com/put-missy-elliots-extremely-rare-spyker-c8-down-in-your-1851449413

Everything that was cool in the 1990s has gone through the coolness cycle into dorky, ironically cool, and back to genuinely cool again. Watch enthusiasts and Formula 1fanatics are falling ove...

https://jalopnik.com/the-90s-tag-heuer-f1-watch-is-back-to-cash-in-on-your-n-1851449439

If there’s one thing New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants you to know about the student protests on the campuses of Columbia University and City College of New York, it’s not that the student...

https://jalopnik.com/nypd-claims-bike-chain-sold-by-columbias-public-safety-1851449427

A federal judge ruled last week that a British airline passenger must pay $20,638 for interfering with the flight crew on a United Airlines flight between London and Newark, New Jersey on March ...

https://jalopnik.com/unruly-passenger-must-pay-20-000-fine-gets-lifetime-b-1851449364

A Wavy Boats video of a group of partiers dumping two garbage cans full of trash into the ocean while leaving the Boca Bash then returning to the party has been making the rounds online and now...

https://jalopnik.com/boca-bash-boaters-caught-dumping-two-trash-cans-into-th-1851449242

When you were a kid and you had a little radio control car that you zoomed around the kitchen floor or built jumps for in the back yard, did you throw it away when the batteries died ? For many ...

https://jalopnik.com/evs-from-a-decade-ago-are-dying-an-early-death-but-the-1851449305

There’s nothing German automakers like doing more than screwing with their naming conventions, and BMW is once again doing just that. However, instead of making things more complicated and co...

https://jalopnik.com/bmw-is-once-again-changing-its-naming-scheme-1851448783

The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There ar...

https://jalopnik.com/ted-cruz-doesnt-want-you-to-get-an-automatic-refund-whe-1851448997

Ferrari unveiled an off-one special livery for the Miami Grand Prix that has left Formula 1 fans universally underwhelmed. The venerated Italian brand will be running its traditional red race c...

https://jalopnik.com/ferraris-blue-miami-f1-livery-sure-doesnt-look-all-that-1851448762

BMW calls the 15-horsepower 48 volt electric motor in the new CE 02 electric scooter an “externally excited air-cooled synchronous motor .” That’s a really fancy way of saying that the Mot...

https://jalopnik.com/the-bmw-ce02-motorcycle-uses-a-3-series-alternator-as-i-1851448605

Typically, you would think that once someone retires, their hobbies would include things like working on their project car , gardening or perhaps traveling the country in their RV. Apparently, th...

https://jalopnik.com/retired-texas-car-dealer-allegedly-cant-stop-doing-arso-1851448499

What if famed Italian design house made a sim racing rig that you’d be proud to have and display in your home? Designer Fabio Bilotta set out to develop this idea into the piece you see here,...

https://jalopnik.com/pininfarina-sim-racing-concept-brings-beautiful-design-1851448160

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing ...

https://jalopnik.com/aircraft-have-a-secret-wind-turbine-generator-for-emerg-1851447997

Despite the fact Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid off pretty much the entire Supercharger team earlier this week, he says the automaker still plans to grow the network… sort of. Musk’s post on his ...

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-says-he-still-wants-to-grow-supercharger-netw-1851448435

It’s confirmed: Adrian Newey , perhaps the greatest car designer in the history of Formula 1 , is departing from the Red Bull Racing team that helped define his legacy. Red Bull has confirmed ...

https://jalopnik.com/adrian-newey-will-leave-red-bull-in-2025-over-allegatio-1851448338

For some people on the internet, the American muscle car died with the launch of the Mustang Mach-E , for others it’ll come when the Dodge Charger Daytona roars onto our streets in the coming ...

https://jalopnik.com/artist-crashes-two-firebirds-together-at-one-inch-per-d-1851448207

Adrian Newey is one of the most iconic Formula 1 designers of all time, and his genius has been on full display at Red Bull Racing for almost 20 years — but according to longtime BBC reporte...

https://jalopnik.com/red-bull-boss-inappropriate-behavior-could-send-f1-s-b-1851445136

Boeing just can’t catch a break. From failing safety checks to losing panels and other parts, to the mysterious death of a whistleblower, this is a dark time for the aerospace giant. The cru...

https://jalopnik.com/rescue-slide-falls-off-boeing-plane-only-to-be-found-by-1851447891

I love a good daydream . Everyday life can just be so boring and constricting . It’s good to let the ol’ noggin run wild for a little bit, fantasizing about the things we want if we lived in ...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-your-dream-four-car-garages-1851445740

It’s no secret that legislation tends to lag behind technological and social advancements, but as technology advances at higher rates than ever before, legislation needs to react faster. Aut...

https://jalopnik.com/new-california-law-hopes-to-stop-robotaxis-from-dodging-1851447318

My 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo is nearly out of paint jail after an admittedly quite short stint at Two Brothers in Canton, Ohio. This color-change project started in November and should be done an...

https://jalopnik.com/the-new-paint-on-my-porsche-911-turbo-looks-so-good-tha-1851447136

When I was a kid, my family took me to a drive-through “safari ” somewhere up in Canada as part of our family vacation. During that safari, a big-ass monkey jumped on top of our car; as some...

https://jalopnik.com/whats-your-most-irrational-driving-fear-1851445556

Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what’s goin...

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-took-17-million-in-federal-charging-grants-b-1851447241

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories...

https://jalopnik.com/sky-high-depreciation-and-massive-repair-bills-force-he-1851447937

While it may never be the first away from a light, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo could reasonably eventually be the last car standing. Let’s decide what such immortality might just cos...

https://jalopnik.com/at-10-500-is-this-86-volvo-240-wagon-a-sensible-deal-1851445234

As the Formula 1 world commemorates the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s death at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix , Netflix released the first trailer for “Senna,” its limited series about...

https://jalopnik.com/every-detail-you-might-have-missed-in-netflixs-new-ayrt-1851446858

The SEMA show is always great. It can kind of be a downer though because most of the vehicles you see will never be made for sale. Not unless you want to spend a lot of time and dollars parting...

https://jalopnik.com/this-sema-ford-maverick-show-truck-is-a-symphony-in-tea-1851446744

Four zebras escaped from a transport trailer outside of Seattle, Washington, on Sunday en route from a farm to a petting zoo in Montana, leading police and area residents on a wild chase , acco...

https://jalopnik.com/zebra-gang-escape-petting-zoo-with-daring-interstate-ru-1851446798

Tom Walkinshaw Racing is back , and to celebrate, TWR has, of course, revealed a restomodded, racing-inspired Jaguar XJS coupe that it calls the Supercat. Considering Walkinshaw’s history of ra...

https://jalopnik.com/magnus-walker-backed-twr-xjs-falls-victim-to-the-same-u-1851446689

If you like the Tesla Cybertruck for its angular styling and alleged toughness, then consider this Zeal Motor Fat Truck 2.8C that’s currently for sale on Bring A Trailer. It may not be able ...

https://jalopnik.com/forget-the-cybertruck-this-is-the-off-roader-you-reall-1851446663