The 2020 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster Should Amplify Its Glorious 503 HP AMG V8

Instead of the usual fanfare of a big press announcement, social media push, media event and maybe even a livestream, Aston Martin instead unveiled the upcoming Roadster with a few photos in a couple of tweets, and didn’t say much else about it. Since there aren’t yet any details...

Dec 19, 2025

Porsche Calls Its Employees 'Porscheans'

About a week ago, Porsche released a press release talking about all the new jobs that were being added to build the Taycan, and to make their point that the switch to EV does not necessarily mean loss of jobs. That’s great and all, but I was most struck...

Dec 19, 2025

Somebody Drives A Mercedes AMG GT Into A Hydrant And It's A Spectacular Mess

I suppose sometimes the entire purpose of a post is just visually exciting schadenfreude, and I’m guessing this is one of those times. This is just a dumb wreck, allegedly caused by the young owner of the Mercedes AMG GT tearing ass around Koreatown, blowing through a stoplight, and hitting...

Dec 19, 2025

2020 C8 Chevrolet Corvette Delayed Over Worker Strike: Report

The new mid-engine is almost already , but everyone waiting on their car will have to wait a little bit longer due to the strike reportedly delaying production. It’s been amid contract negotiations with General Motors, shutting down most of the automaker’s U.S. manufacturing operations. That includes the Bowling...

Dec 19, 2025

The Lost Cars Cut From Gran Turismo 2

Gran Turismo 2 was my introduction to that famed series of racing games, and was as much my gateway drug into car culture as the first Fast & Furious movie or any of the buff books I’d spend my free time devouring instead of hitting my math textbooks. The...

Dec 19, 2025

Comment Of The Day: AMG Guy Edition

There are few things I love more than a Jalopnik deep cut or an old car-internet throwback. I see a crashed Mercedes supercar, . Did the SLR-crashing flatbill and deep-v wearer graduation to a new AMG GT? At least this modern Mercedes massacre didn’t take place over . I...

Dec 19, 2025

In A Battle Of Cool Nissan's R34 GT-R Slams The R35

If you add modern GT-R levels of power to a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R Spec-V, add a big brake kit, lightweight wheels, and modern sticky rubber, the resulting car is unsurprisingly awesome. What better way to test just how awesome it is than to pit it against the new...

Dec 19, 2025

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy — 'I Am Drinking Again'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. People argue with me but I have never been stronger. ...

Dec 19, 2025

Meet Nissan's New CEO, Hopefully This One Won't Be Accused Of Financial Misconduct

Nissan has a new boss, again, the General Motors vs. the United Auto Workers showdown marches on, America contends with China and more for of Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Makoto Uchida was named Nissan’s new CEO and president today, and he takes the reins at a time when the...

Dec 19, 2025

The Buick Cascada Has Been Put Out Of Its Misery

Well, it finally happened. The Buick Cascada——is dead. It’s time to wave goodbye to the plump convertible that never really warranted anything more exciting than a shrug and a ‘meh, I mean, it’s OK.’ announced last year that the Cascada would cease production at the Gliwice, Poland plant sometime...

Dec 19, 2025

'CARS ARE DEATH MACHINES': Someone Keeps Hacking Road Signs In Brooklyn

A week ago, road signs in Brooklyn warning drivers of construction on a major thoroughfare switched from displaying standard messages to slightly more, uh, aggressive screeds. They have not stopped. “BAN CAR STOP DRIVING,” read one. “CARS RUIN CITIES” said another further down the same street. It quickly became...

Dec 19, 2025

Apex: The Secret Race Tells The Tale Of A Mad Record-Breaking Drive Across America

There was a time in this country, starting in the mid-1970s and ending in the early 1980s, when the most daring car enthusiasts in America were the ones gunning to get from New York to Los Angeles by car quicker than anyone had done before. It was known to most...

Dec 19, 2025

Lamborghini's First EV Will Be A 'Mature' Coupe Design Likely Based On The Porsche Taycan: Report

With the driving sales and its first hybrid, the , out of the way, the Italian supercar maker is looking to introduce a fourth series production model, and it sounds like it’s going to be fully electric possibly built on the platform. At least, that’s what was heavily hinted...

Dec 19, 2025

'Not To Be Sexist, But': What It's Like Being A Woman Who Works In Automotive Journalism

At Jalopnik, we often talk about or are represented less in the car and motorsports industries—things that have long catered (and ) to the man’s man. But in 2019, more and more women are involved in it than ever, to say nothing of how we’re half of all drivers...

Dec 19, 2025

Elon Musk Wants You To Know The 'Pedo Guy' Thing Has Been Very Hard On Elon Musk

As part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit filed by Vernon Unsworth, the cave-diver called a “pedo guy” on Twitter and told a reporter is a “child rapist,” Musk was deposed by Unsworth’s lawyers, forcing him to talk for hours about the incident in excruciating detail. The of that deposition,...

Dec 19, 2025