Show Us Your Most 'Dad' Car

It’s Father’s Day, and it’s time to think about ultimate dad cars. You want something practical, but you want it to be fast and maybe a little bit flash. Maybe your own father had a really cool car that you’ll always associate with dad life, or maybe you’re a...

May 4, 2025

Lorde — 'Ribs'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. I’ve woken up with a different some from Pure Heroinestuck in my head every day for a week. Now it's your turn. ...

May 4, 2025

The Chevy Silverado Isn't Doing So Great

The Renault-Fiat Chrysler merger could still be in the works, the Chevy Silverado is on struggle street, Carlos Ghosn, and more in for Monday, June 17, 2019. The new Silverado a tough sell, given that the base model came with a four cylinder engine, which is powerful enough but...

May 4, 2025

I Woke Up in 2019 to Realize BMW Is Still Selling a V12

Here I was, thumbing idly through the internet, when I hit upon an with BMW CEO Markus Flasch that was published over the weekend. The interview touches upon BMW’s plans for hybrids, EVs, M-cars and then totally reminded me that BMW still actually makes a car with a V12!...

May 4, 2025

Former GM Exec Bob Lutz Impressed by Random Tesla Model 3

Bob Lutz, a former top executive from all three of the major American automakers, occasional , and casual skeptic of, recently came across a and was surprised to be impressed by its build quality. I didn’t have room to mention up there that , his latest contribution detailing this...

May 4, 2025

When Mercedes Battled Jaguar Battled Nissan Battled Toyota Battled Porsche Battled Mazda Battled Aston Martin at Le Mans

This year’s Le Mans marked a . It was a historic back-to-back victory (one in which I lost $1 betting on Kobayashi to beat Alonso), but it was also one executed against no other factory-run race teams in the top prototype category. It was not always this way. For pretty...

May 4, 2025

The 2020 Porsche Boxster Spyder and Cayman GT4 Finally Bring Back Flat-Six Power

Certainly among the best driving experiences Porsche has ever built, the 981 Boxster Spyder remains an excellent road-going sports car, while the Cayman GT4 is a simply transcendent drive on a track or smooth canyon road. That’s great and all, but they’re old news. Porsche is back with a...

May 4, 2025

Large-Scale Search Ends for Davey G. Johnson, Missing Car and Driver Journalist and Jalopnik Alum

For the past two weeks, the close-knit community of automotive writers and aficionados of speed everywhere have been hoping for good news about , the Car and Driver writer and Jalopnik alum who went missing on a motorcycle trip in California. Unfortunately, as of today, it seems that good...

May 4, 2025

Neko Case — 'Magpie to the Morning'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. ...

May 4, 2025

The 2020 Lexus GX 460's Spindle Grille Is More Gaping Now Than Ever

The number of updates to the 2020 can be counted on your fingers, but perhaps the most obvious one is the spindle grille. Or Predator-face, depending on your choice of science fiction. It’s less broken up by lines now, so it carries a similar effect to that of ....

May 4, 2025

China is Cracking Down on Electric Car Safety After Tesla and NIO Fires

Fires have China cracking down on EVs, Ford is in the middle of an important connected-car discussion with the government, Volvo and NVIDIA are working on self driving trucks, FCA apparently can’t keep its suppliers happy, and more in for Tuesday, June 18, 2019. China, the breeding ground for...

May 4, 2025

A Massive Thank You for Coming to Our Le Mans Party!

We cannot thank you all enough for making the trek out to Red Hook in Brooklyn for our to watch race cars, eat food, drink booze and paint with us. It was such a kickass time! Over the weekend, at least 200 people showed up over the course of...

May 4, 2025

James Bond Will Drive the New Aston Martin Valhalla in Bond 25: Report

will reportedly ride eternal, shiny and chrome into the gates of Valhalla in in the new Aston Martin AM-RB 003—which has been officially renamed the after the Viking legend of a warrior’s paradise. Aston Martin announced the name of the Valhalla today, its new middle-supercar slotted under the hypercar...

May 4, 2025

A Vintage Toyota Corolla SR-5 Drag Car Isn't the Weirdest Thing You'll Find in Brooklyn

Carspotting: Williamsburg Today it’s not hard to think of Japanese auto companies being periodic specialists in high-revving, fun, little cars. But back in the ‘70s that was still something of a new concept. We went looking for a bit of that history in Williamsburg, and found a lot more, too....

May 4, 2025

BMW Not Even Interested in M Car Hot Hatchback: Report

BMW doesn’t appear to want to even bother making a M version of the new front-wheel-drive/all-wheel-drive , as a new report claims. I clicked on interviewing BMW M product boss Carsten Pries () expecting that the guy would talk about M’s core vision and how a hatchback doesn’t line...

May 4, 2025