The Purists Won

To be a part of the automotive industry is to hear an endless stream of moaning and complaining, especially when it comes to Porsche’s cars. If Porsche deviates at all from something it used to do, you never hear the end of it, such as when . And now...

May 4, 2025

Comment of the Day: We Have a Better Name for the Tesla Truck

Today we saw a moment of innovation, the likes of which had not been seen since some BMW engineers , or maybe since people in the . We got a Tesla pickup truck! There was only one problem: the name. Robotics YouTuber chopped a Model 3 so that it...

May 4, 2025

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Returns to Netflix July 19

Jerry Seinfeld’s , the show in which he picks up a comedian and takes them to coffee in a sometimes perfect/ car, usually framed around his interpretation of their personality, will return with new episodes to its relatively new home at next month. This season will feature a cast...

May 4, 2025

The 2020 BMW 8 Series Gran Coupe Is For The Real Sedan Heads

If you want a nice and good and fine four-door BMW, you get a BMW 5 Series. If you want a nice and good and fine version of that four-door but want it with only two doors, you get a BMW 8 series. If you want a nice and...

May 4, 2025

The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Has an Earth-Shattering 760 HP

After months of not knowing, the power figures for the are finally here. The supercharged V8 will put out 760 horsepower and 625 lb-ft of torque. Basically, it’s enough to drag down the moon. Back in January, we that the GT500 would have at least 700 horsepower, which would...

May 4, 2025

Dangerous Dame -- 'My Name Is Dame'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. I have no idea why this popped into my head the other day, but I struggled to find anything else that scratched the same itch it did. An Oakland...

May 4, 2025

The Nissan-Renault Alliance Is Disintegrating: Report

More Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance drama, General Motors’ fight with the United Automobile Workers union, Walmart’s plan to go driverless and profit, Geely’s new autonomous-software partner, and how London will handle that little “pollution” problem it has. All of this and more in for Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Carlos Ghosn, and...

May 4, 2025

Dyno Test Reveals the 2020 BMW Z4 Has a Lot More Torque Than BMW Claims

Everybody went crazy when put the new on a dyno and found more power at the wheels than what was claimed by Toyota at the crank. Sadly, the Supra’s sister car, the , isn’t as surprising. sent Jalopnik the recent dyno results of his 2020 BMW Z4 M40i, which...

May 4, 2025

Watch the Very First Honda Automobile in America Come Back to Life

, and to celebrate, the company released a documentary that not only shows the captivating restoration of the very first Honda car brought to the U.S.,a 1967 N600, but it also describes Honda’s fascinating history in the daunting home of The Big Three. The story of how Honda got...

May 4, 2025

Jaguar and Land Rover Still Can't Top Even Mitsubishi In J.D. Power's Initial Quality Rankings

It’s another year, which means it’s time for another round of awards. Up first is the , which reflects problems in the first 90 days of new-car ownership. Just like , the Korean automakers Genesis, Kia and Hyundai ranked the highest. And coming in dead last? Poor Jaguar. As...

May 4, 2025

Comment of the Day: Automation Is Wage Reduction

Automation gets glorified in some circles and vilified in others, but really it’s just another management move like all the others. Which is why Jack Shaftoe’s comment on needs to be highlighted: Automation is good, automation is bad, automation is coming, so we might as well have a universal...

May 4, 2025

Chastity Belt — 'Drone'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Seeing Chastity Belt live was so transformative I had to sit on the side of the road on the way home for an hour just to absorb their beauty....

May 4, 2025

Volkswagen Continues to Test Inexplicable and Joyous T-Roc Convertible

I have checked our archives and was astounded to find by our very own Justin Westbrook that seemed to infer that the very idea of a Cabriolet was ludicrous. It’s not very often that I disagree with my colleagues (), but this is one of those times where I...

May 4, 2025

The (Mostly) Non-Beetle Cars of the Streets of Puebla, the VW Beetle's Final Home

I was just down in Puebla, Mexico, visiting the Volkswagen factory there (I’ll explain that more soon), and while there I found some time to explore and be your eyes, ears, and, if no one is looking, tongue, to experience the cars on the streets of Puebla. Last time,...

May 4, 2025

Wildly Improbable Nissan-on-Nissan-on-Nissan Wreck Reveals Universe to Be a Simulation

There’s all kinds of theories floating around now that reality, the place where you sleep and pee and buy lunch, may in fact be a simulation of some sort, run on some vast, unknowable computer. Even I normally am pretty dismissive of this idea, at least until I saw...

May 4, 2025