Comment of the Day: Sitrep Edition

It’s fun to sometimes imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes. Sometimes you just want to pretend to be, I don’t know, a nice guy who brought home a free Jeep Grand Wagoneer. And maybe you have it because you just love Jeeps so much. Like so, so much. In...

May 4, 2025

Someone Filmed a Modern Car Race With a 1968 Camera and the Results are Amazing

A YouTuber named decided to break out his vintage 1968 camera and record a modern track day, dubbing over some old-timey racing commentary. The resulting film makes it feel like modern race cars have somehow traveled back in time. It’s lovely. The clip, which includes lots of footage of...

May 4, 2025

Ty Segall — 'Taste'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Will Ty Segall ever stop recording bangers? The answer is, reasonably, 'nope'. ...

May 4, 2025

We're All Driving Vastly More

I’m not going to lie to you, it’s a bit of a slow summer Friday out there, news-wise. Hopefully that’s a leading indicator that it will be a slow summer Friday for you, work-wise. Anyway, onto for Friday, June 21, 2019. If we’re going to do anything about this...

May 4, 2025

The 2020 Polestar 1 Hides Its Ridiculous Weight With a Surprisingly Simple Suspension Setup

Many modern performance cars come with some sort of fancy technical adjustable suspension setup. But not the . Its suspension is much more straightforward, which is surprising considering it weighs more than a literal Bentley. The new . The Polestar 1 weighs in at over 5,100. That can’t be...

May 4, 2025

Ford Could Be Cooking up a Racy Le Mans-Inspired Version of the Ford GT

Over four years since the was , Ford is coming up with something new for it. The details are scarce, but you can see from the teaser photo above that it appears to have a giant, Le Mans-style rear wing, big enough to eat a turkey off of. Ford’s...

May 4, 2025

Nissan's Ice Cream Truck Prototype Is a Solution to a Quietly Nefarious Problem

We’ve reached the point of EV development where everyone can go ahead and get wild and start imagining literally all the potential uses for an eco-friendly vehicle (I’mma let you in on a little secret. Exactly like with a conventional car, EVs can do pretty much anything). And it’s...

May 4, 2025

The Ultimate Japanese Tuning Shop That Disappeared

There was a golden age of imports and tuning in Southern California, and Riki Yoshida was lucky enough to have been there for it. Born in Japan, Yoshida and his family emigrated to the United States when he was three, settling down in Torrance, California. While attending university, he also...

May 4, 2025

On Davey G. Johnson: A Memoir by the Guy Who Built the Car Internet with Him

[Editor’s Note: It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we must convey the news that beloved former Jalopnik writer t. Mike Spinelli was not only Davey’s editor here at Jalopnik, but a good friend.] I wrote this in a notebook some time after Davey Johnson’s motorcycle was found near...

May 4, 2025

Karma Issues Another Stop-Sale on the Revero, This Time for Side-Impact Protection

Oh, those poor souls who saw the of the old and, entranced by its looks, bought a 2018 without doing a quick Google search—you know, to a bit about it, maybe. It’s now on its second major U.S. safety recall in less than two months, this time for a...

May 4, 2025

Watch The Biggest Oil Refinery on the East Coast Explode Into a Massive Fireball

A Philadelphia oil refinery experienced a fire that caused at least three massive explosions in Southwest Philadelphia around 4 a.m. this morning, reports. Thankfully four employees only suffered minor injuries that were able to be treated on-site, and the blaze is still burning though firefighters reportedly now have it under...

May 4, 2025

New Cars That Need to Die (and Driving a '90s JDM Rally Cheating Legend)

video-80db39a6-0219-45bf-b70c-4b72124d09ee Automotive technology changes, design moves forward, performance capabilities climb. But for some reason there are cars that seem to not even get a hint of that innovation. Cars like the Mitsubishi Mirage, the Chevy Impala, and —how and why do they still exist in their current form? On this...

May 4, 2025

Sure Looks Like Lego Leaked a 2020 Land Rover Defender Two-Door

We’ve known there’s a new coming, though so far we’ve only seen heavily camouflaged prototypes running around. But it kind of looks like Lego has leaked it early. Or at least, it did its best. I first came across the Lego photos from someone I follow on Twitter, ,...

May 4, 2025

Comment of the Day: It's Hard Not to Drive a Lot When America's This Spread Out

In , my brilliant coworker Aaron Gordon wrote about a report from the Department of Transportation stating that Americans drove 43 percent more miles in April of 2019 than they did during the same month 25 years prior. Even though vehicles are cleaner now, driving isn’t great from an...

May 4, 2025

Try Carquations: The Most Fun You Can Have With Wacky Automotive Pseudo-Math

It’s Friday afternoon, pals! Your week of laborious, sweaty toil is over! It’s time to grab a sock soaked in grain alcohol and a tube of pizza and relax! And what’s the best way to relax? With math! Lots and lots of math! Well, that’s not entirely true. It’s...

May 4, 2025