Dealership That Had 2020 Toyota Supra Marked Up To Nearly $200,000 Sells It For $100,000

It’s Toyota Supra season at dealerships, otherwise known as that time when your BMW jokes benefit from a slight renaissance in popularity—“Will they accept it at the BMW service centers? Ha, ha! Get it?”—before they get worn out again. But that also means it’s season, like this recent Supra...

May 13, 2025

Here's Why The Names Of So Many Aston Martin Models Start With A 'V'

If I had to rank all the letters of the alphabet from lamest to coolest, ‘v’ would be somewhere in the top five—it’s sharp and badass, commanding the kind of respect only the fronting letter of vampires and vacations can garner. But apparently Aston Martin has the same idea....

May 13, 2025

Is Mercedes Trying To Tell Us Something?

I try not to critique people in their decisions, so long as those decisions do not harm me, any other living being, or society as a whole, like most halfway decent people should do. But it’s time someone stepped in and tried to figure out what is going on...

May 13, 2025

Karma Automotive's SC1 Vision Is Coming To Pebble Beach In All Its Technological Glory

While its official debut came a few months ago at Auto Shanghai 2019, the SC1 Vision hasn’t made its way stateside—at least, not yet. If you’re headed to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, you’ll find this bad boy at on the Concept Lawn. Karma is calling this the “Vision”...

May 13, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Three Doors Good Edition

Any time the comes up, there are takes and opinions about its unusual door situation. Is the one-and-two door design practical and convenient, or an affront to your aesthetic sensibilities? It seemed to me like most Jalopnik commenters, especially those who identified themselves as Veloster owners, were in favor...

May 13, 2025

This Governor Vetoed America's Worst Automotive Law And Should Be Remembered As A Motoring Hero

When it comes to heroes of early motoring in America, most people tend to think of figures like Henry Ford, Ransom Eli Olds, or, if you want to go older and wackier, But in the mid-1890s, Pennsylvania Governor Daniel Hastings also had a very direct impact on America’s nascent...

May 13, 2025

The 2019 Porsche Cayenne Turbo Plug-In Hybrid Claims A Hilarious 671 HP

The 2019 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid has a boosted four-liter V8 cranking out a claimed 543 horsepower, plus an electric motor rated to 134 hp, all hooked up to an eight-speed automatic which can allegedly propel the car to 183 mph... with 664 lb-ft of torque on tap...

May 13, 2025

The First-Gen Honda Civic's Trunk Doors Cause Me Immense Mental Anguish

I’ve always really liked first generation (1972 to 1979) Honda Civics. They were really well-built and designed cars, with impeccable engineering (remember, in an appealing, usable little package. These first Civics have also always baffled me with their weird trunks. Let me explain. For some reason that absolutely eludes...

May 13, 2025

White Lies — 'Death'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. I had this song on repeat-one for a solid three months last year and never got tired of it. That's how you know it's an absolute banger. ...

May 13, 2025

NHTSA Boss Who Helped Lead Rollback Of Fuel-Economy Standards Resigns

The top boss of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration resigns, car sales in India are bad, Uber and Lyft get called out for having drivers with car recalls on the road, the NHTSA looks into airbags on the Subaru Forester, and emissions rules come for Renault’s budget brand....

May 13, 2025

The Most Realistic Cars In Fast And Furious Were The Three Black Civics

Honda Civics were staples of the tuner car scene in the late ’90s and early 2000s. They were common at import car shows before The Fast And The Furious came out and the aftermarket catalog was deep. In fact, that’s why they got a prominent role in the movie....

May 13, 2025

Maybe The BMW i3 Should Have Been A Mini All Along

Mini claims to have received over 45,000 deposit ordersfor the new electric , and considering that’s about double the European sales of the last year running similar hardware, maybe the i3 should have always been a Mini. MINI E Project Leader Elena Eder recently updated the order figure for...

May 13, 2025

Tempest, The Podcast About Our Complicated Relationship With Cars, Is Back For Season 2

Cars are more than just hunks of metal that get us from point A to point B. The best ones have unforgettable stories to tell. From a 94-year-old Tuskegee Airman whose life was full of racing glory to a pool shark with a proclivity for Jeeps to a woman...

May 13, 2025

The New Acura Type S Concept Is Starting To Look Like The Acura We Miss

A and at least one other Type S model have been promised for the near future, and today Acura’s trotting out the Type S concept to get us hyped and hint at what its next practical-performance cars should look like. One of the moldiest car-enthusiasts clichés is that Acura’s...

May 13, 2025

Actually The 2020 Lincoln Aviator Makes Almost 500 HP For Some Reason

When the new hybrid was introduced last year, it was promised to have an estimated 450 horsepower and 600 lb-ft of torque. It turns out Lincoln was apparently way underselling it then, because the official numbers are now up to a ridiculous 494 HP and 630 lb-ft of torque,...

May 13, 2025