I Might Have a New Favorite Japanese Kei Van-Costume Company

I’ve always admired the Japanese car market’s unique ability to not take itself too seriously, and to be open to having actual, honest fun with their cars. One of the best ways to see how this manifests itself is in the thriving industry of aftermarket kits for Kei-class cars...

May 4, 2025

Your Rally-Spec Reproduction Mk II Ford Escort Dreams Are About to Come True

If you’re reading this, chances are you already know why you love the —you know, the ultra-fun rally legend . Now, you might have a whole new reason to love it, because two UK firms are teaming up to build an all-new reproduction version that will likely cost you...

May 4, 2025

This Is a Hilariously Short Trail of Possible Hit-and-Run Evidence

If you hit a car and then just try to drive away like nothing happened, you suck. Don’t do that. If you have accepted the fact that you do, in fact, suck, and decide to be shitty and drive away, though, you may want to be somewhat less dumb...

May 4, 2025

What Other Classic Car Deserves a Full Reproduction?

Earlier today, we told y’all about how two British companies are teaming up the way it should be—rally-ready and relatively affordable. And it got us thinking here at Jalopnik: which cars do you think most deserve a reproduction? Folks are pretty torn about the whole “reproduction” thing. When I...

May 4, 2025

This Barn Find 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback Came With the Ashes of Its Former Owner

Back in November of last year, a Georgia man drove to North Carolina to pick up a 1968 Ford Mustang fastback, but when he arrived, he found a surprise. In the passenger seat sat a mason jar filled with the ashes of the pony car’s former owner. The story,...

May 4, 2025

A Wave of New Crossovers Is Coming And We Will Never Escape It

We’ve been given a glimpse of the future of the automobile, and it looks bleak my friends. With pretty much every manufacturer clamoring over themselves to abandon sedans for hatchbacks on stilts they call crossovers, there are a ton of them on the market. But according to an annual...

May 4, 2025

HUNNY (feat. Bleached) — 'Saturday Night'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. This song took a couple listens to grow on me, but once it did, I have not been able to stop listening to it. Like "put it on repeat...

May 4, 2025

The Last American Chevy Cruze Has Had Four Different Owners Since March

The , one of a slew of GM cars to be unceremoniously executed. The last Cruze came off the Lordstown GM plant’s production line in March. It has since changed hands no fewer than four times. Its newest owner is simply delighted to have it. John Kufleitner, who owns...

May 4, 2025

Car Sales Are Slipping Into Recession-Level Decline

Car sales seem to be hitting recession levels of decline, China is eyeballing hydrogen fuel-cell tech, oil tanker attacks boost oil prices, and Infiniti seems to be getting some much needed help. All this and more in for Thursday, June 13, 2019. May was another bad month for automakers...

May 4, 2025

Lamborghini Is Actually Considering Putting Its Wild Off-Road Huracan Into Production

, the , hasn’t completely lost its way. No, Lamborghini still has some good ideas, like it debuted recently. And that particular idea might just make it to production. Lamborghini itself has only shown the concept, called the Huracan Sterrato, in what appeared to be render form, with some...

May 4, 2025

Man Leads Police on a Chase in a Mail Truck and the Outcome is Predictable

If I had to make a list of “worst vehicles to use to escape the police,” the mail delivery truck would be somewhere just below tractor and forklift. And yet one Florida man apparently went for it anyway, and the results were 100 percent predictable. This rather depressing event...

May 4, 2025

Tesla's Claim That It Outsells the Toyota Camry 'By Revenue' Doesn't Really Mean Anything

At Tuesday night’s annual shareholder meeting, CEO reassured everyone that there was for the company’s cars, and that the was actually the best-selling car, by revenue, against heavyweight competitors like the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and whatever the hell a “Honda Corolla” is.But what does that actually mean? After...

May 4, 2025

U.S. Government Denies Tesla and Uber Chinese Tariff Exemptions

The U.S. is doubling down on its refusal to exempt Tesla’s and Uber’s request to dodge a 25 percent tariff on key parts for its electric cars and entire e-scooters because they are coming from China. Both companies submitted a request to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative...

May 4, 2025

The 288-HP Alpine A110S Is the New Reason for Your Existential American Sadness

For American car enthusiasts, 25 years isn’t just the time frame for a quarter-life crisis, it’s the countdown until we can we never got the chance to buy here. And, as of now, we can go ahead and put the new Alpine A110S on the clock. The Alpine A110S...

May 4, 2025

Porsche Is Getting Into the Car-Wrap Game

Life, for big companies, is really all about taking existing ideas and finding ways to profit off of them—whether that’s Instagram , or an automaker bringing the typically post-factory idea of paint and wrap customization in house. If only the rest of us had it that easy. That’s exactly...

May 4, 2025