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Auto loan debt is at an all time high . While some of the blame for that can be put on things like stubbornly high interest rates and ever increasing car prices , some folks just never learned t...

https://jalopnik.com/gas-station-night-club-carolina-squat-trucks-and-a-tik-1851454629

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/tesla-ditches-gigacasting-bmw-changes-names-and-we-1851454630

Now is a good time to snap up C4 Corvettes like today’s Nice Price or No Dice convertible. Let’s see if the price tag on this low-milage and seemingly rare color example will make buying it ...

https://jalopnik.com/missy-elliott-s-rare-spyker-a-sema-ford-maverick-and-a-1851454631

Flying is one of those strange times where you just have to go with the flow and do as everyone else does. So you put your liquids in a small separate bag , make an impromptu whiskey purchase at...

https://jalopnik.com/nude-cruise-boarding-planes-suspicious-bike-chains-in-1851454632

Discussing car design is difficult. How do you define the most influential car? You’re trying to rank art , which is kind of topic that get you disinvited from future dinner parties at your sn...

https://jalopnik.com/dream-4-car-garages-and-nightmare-road-trips-in-this-we-1851454633

Owning a supercar can be expensive, even if you have the means. The engineering and parts that go into making these vehicles perform the way they do can be shockingly expensive . Take what one ...

https://jalopnik.com/doing-a-brake-job-on-a-mercedes-benz-slr-mclaren-can-co-1851455095

Whether you believe in climate change or not, you can’t deny that life on Earth has faced increasingly frequent and intense weather anomalies in recent years. More people across the United S...

https://jalopnik.com/nissan-versa-driver-demonstrates-why-you-should-never-d-1851454988

The launch of the Fisker Ocean has been plagued with problems , and those problems are now compounding in ways that make everything worse for owners. See, problems mean repairs, but parts shorta...

https://jalopnik.com/fisker-resorts-to-fixing-customer-cars-with-preproducti-1851454868

It’s nearly time to turn off your work computer, and your overworked brain , for a few dozen delightful hours of you-time known colloquially as the weekend. In anticipation of ending your capi...

https://jalopnik.com/let-some-rowdy-8-000-rpm-lancia-rally-cars-melt-your-wo-1851454537

When you get on a plane, there are plenty of things that you can reasonably expect may go wrong. The person in front of you might recline their seat and drape their long hair over the screen. A ...

https://jalopnik.com/70-vomiting-passengers-turn-frankfurt-flight-into-livin-1851454612

The Transportation Security Administration is seeking to significantly expand the use of facial recognition technology at airport checkpoints and legislators are rightfully concerned. A letter ...

https://jalopnik.com/senators-call-out-tsa-facial-recognition-as-useless-and-1851454510

New video released by police in New Haven, Connecticut shows a speeding ATV rider crash into a cop car that purposely blocked its path, severely injuring the rider and damaging the cruiser. Th...

https://jalopnik.com/cops-use-cruiser-to-block-atv-rider-from-speeding-down-1851454503

When you’re looking to travel across America, do you book yourself a flight or would you prefer to spend hours on a train as the countryside flashes by? If you don’t fancy either and prefer...

https://jalopnik.com/this-82-year-old-woman-wants-people-to-start-hitchhikin-1851454187

My friend group was recently looking at taking separate cars on a road trip from Los Angeles to Yosemite when we were saved from that logistical nightmare by a big Pearl Beige Metallic GMC Yuk...

https://jalopnik.com/gms-super-cruise-is-handy-but-it-definitely-has-its-qu-1851453268

You have a dream car. You know you do. What would you do to own it? Would you suffer the indignity of buying a car in a color you don’t love , or with an automatic instead of a manual if it me...

https://jalopnik.com/is-it-better-to-buy-a-great-example-of-a-cheap-car-or-a-1851454326

Ferrari has issued a press release that claims the car you see here is the new V12 Ferrari that will replace the 812 . And, as you can see, there are multiple Ferrari badges on the car, which ty...

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-allegedly-a-new-ferrari-1851454272

You may have heard of the famous “Doomsday” Plane , meant to keep the government up and running even if our world has been eviscerated by nuclear hellfire since the early 1970s. Well, now it...

https://jalopnik.com/new-doomsday-plane-will-allow-u-s-government-to-live-o-1851454230

As the 1990s came to a close, there were two things that were unambiguously cool as hell: Pokémon and the Volkswagen New Beetle . Combining the two created a sensation that couldn’t be matche...

https://jalopnik.com/pikabug-i-choose-you-1851454090

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed in March after it was struck by an enormous container ship that lost power while exiting the city’s port. The collision left the stricken Dali ...

https://jalopnik.com/new-baltimore-bridge-span-to-cost-1-9-billion-and-wont-1851453784

Here in the U.S., we tend to lament that Mitsubishi doesn’t really make anything fun or unique for us anymore. The current Outlander and its PHEV version are pretty good and the Mirage is che...

https://jalopnik.com/mitsubishi-pajero-pinin-is-a-mini-italian-designed-off-1851453633

When I picture a nightmare working environment, I think about a surreal all-hands meeting where Auric Goldfinger tells his entire company that they’re going to irradiate Fort Knox with a weapo...

https://jalopnik.com/boeing-terrorized-employees-into-ignoring-missing-non-c-1851452656

Growing up as a car enthusiast means you usually go through phases of different cars or car segments that you like. Like styles of clothes, usually you end up looking back on some of the cars a...

https://jalopnik.com/what-lame-car-did-you-love-when-you-were-a-kid-1851452990

If you really think about it, the act of driving is terrifying: Our frail bags of human flesh control massively heavy and complex pieces of machinery alongside other frail bags of human flesh doi...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-irrational-driving-fears-that-haunt-jalop-1851451438

Good morning! It’s Friday, May 3, 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 yo...

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-lays-off-lowly-paid-interns-weeks-before-summer-s-1851453709

Mario Andretti is famous for having won races in pretty much every series you’ve ever heard of—and a few you probably haven’t. He also signed off—literally—on today’s Nice Price or No...

https://jalopnik.com/at-29-700-is-this-1995-ford-mustang-gt-a-deal-1851451179

Tesla’s latest round of layoffs have left both the auto industry and company stock holders shook. Falling sales have forced the automaker to cut 10 percent of its total staff. Its left broads...

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cancels-4-planned-supercharging-sites-in-new-york-1851450750

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 big on cars, so much so that city officials have considered some pretty harsh penalties if you’re caught doing something dumb like speeding or street rac...

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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https://jalopnik.com/2024-lucid-air-sapphire-first-drive-sickeningly-fast-1851451161

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 ...

https://jalopnik.com/another-elon-musk-promise-dies-as-tesla-scraps-gigacas-1851450953

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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