Tesla Says It's Identified the Cause of That Viral Model S Fire in China

makes some revisions after its viral car fire in Shanghai, backs out of a last-minute press conference, gets its data exposed, more automakers team up on self-driving cars, and ’s interest in trucks. All of this and more in for Friday, June 28, 2019. A surveillance camera caught a...

May 5, 2025

This Is a Great Red

Bright colors on cars are always a good thing, but occasionally you come across a particular shade that just stops you in your tracks. This morning, it’s the deep red on this convertible Number 1 Edition. It’s a special edition paint on a special edition car and it is...

May 5, 2025

We'll See How Long Aston Martin's Promise To Limit Crossover Production Lasts

Aston Martin is bringing the crossover, and soon Lagonda will also join the luxury crossover market. In a move that surprises no one, this means four-door Astons like the outgoing will likely cease to exist. But Aston is also being very careful about how its crossovers shape the brand....

May 5, 2025

There's More to the Fast and Furious Jetta's Backstory Than Its Invisible Brake Calipers

A MKIII Volkswagen Jetta apparently wasn’t The Fast and The Furious Technical Director Craig Lieberman’s first choice for what would be known as Jesse’s car–it was originally going to be an E36 BMW M3. But the Jetta’s origin story and post-Hollywood life is also pretty interesting. Lieberman sat down...

May 5, 2025

Bentley Will, In Fact, Sell You a $700 Pen

Bentley, the maker of luxury cars and encrusted in 100 carats of diamonds, now has a new set of writing utensils (that aren’t keyboards), all reasonably listed for around $600 to $700. Think, just think, about how many $252,000 books you can write for such a small investment price....

May 5, 2025

Man Owns McLaren for 10 Minutes Before Getting it Impounded

Everyone is excited when the first pick up their new car, especially if their new car is a McLaren 600LT. Then they’re really excited. Possibly medically excited. It’s pretty certain that the 39-year-old Vancouver-area new McLaren owner was pretty excited about his new purchase, because for excessive speeding and...

May 5, 2025

The Classic Ferrari 512S Modulo Concept Caught Fire In Monaco

When you drive a historic, one-of-a-kind car out on public roads, you’re always taking a risk. Risk of a crash, risk of someone else hitting you. Risk of fire, even, which is what happened to recently. There is only one of these cars in the world. Designed as a...

May 5, 2025

You Can Get a Great Deal On a Used Bus For Less Than $5,000

Car Time: Episode 8 Public transit is great for the deranged, attention-seeking communal city-living folks like me, but what about everybody else? It turns out you can get your very own bus for as little as $5,000 bucks with all of the pleasures of a city bus aesthetic without having...

May 5, 2025

'Lamborghini Has to Have a Naturally-Aspirated Engine': Audi Sport Exec

caught up with Audi Sport boss Oliver Hoffmann at the where he told the British car pub that his team’s trying to keep the V10 in the next R8, a hardcore “GT2” style R8 might be in the pipeline, and Lamborghini’s committed to staying away from turbochargers. Hoffman actually...

May 5, 2025

Here's Why GM Never Released an Official Nürburgring Lap Time For the C7 Chevrolet Corvette

We’re just a couple of weeks away from the reveal of the all-new , but the outgoing C7 generation Corvette will seemingly forever be haunted by its legacy of never getting an official Nürburgring lap time. So what gives? caught up with Jim Mero, who just retired from a...

May 5, 2025

Everybody Sleeping on the Geo Storm Hatchback was a Mistake

For 1990, General Motors introduced the world to the Isuzu-based Geo Storm. It was a deligtful economically minded lightweight sporty coupe, which was pretty well removed from anything else GM was doing in 1990. Of GM’s two youth-oriented sporty-ish wannabe Euro brands in the early 1990s, Geo was maybe sportier...

May 5, 2025

Ban Red Soft Tops

I apologize if it seems like a bit of mixed-messaging, especially from virtually all of my dearly beloved co-workers here at Jalopnik who tell me I am so grievously wrong that it is causing physical pain to them, so let me set the record straight: Red cars , but...

May 5, 2025

Give Us Your Pikes Peak Hill Climb Predictions

It feels like the Indy 500 wasn’t all that long ago. Le Mans was two weeks ago. The Nurburgring 24 was just 7 days ago. Now it’s time for another event to equal those in historical significance, the 97th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. There is...

May 5, 2025

Red Is a Good Convertible Top Color

Each and every one of us is entitled to an opinion on a given topic. Part of what makes us human is the ability to form subjective thoughts based on a lifetime of memories and influences. I can’t speak to the types of experiences that might have caused my...

May 5, 2025

This Is How You Do a Boring Car Right

I think my most fervently-held political belief may be my fierce allegiance to the Antiboca movement, the grassroots organization of people very much against boring cars. That’s why I’m so baffled about my fascination with this car, the Daihatsu Applause. It’s a boring car. I can see that. And...

May 5, 2025