My Mercedes-Benz S-Class Broke Down On The Highway

I’ll be the first to say buying a cheap used luxury car is, above all else, tempting. It’s like ordering a $10 eight-ounce steak and then realizing that the measurement was in pounds, not ounces—even if it does have an expiration date that may prove uncomfortable for most. Here’s how...

Sep 12, 2025

Please Help Me Get My $600 Jeep 1,747 Miles To Moab

I’ve only got a week until I embark for the 50th Easter Jeep Safari in Utah, and I’ve still got tons of work to do on my junky . But there’s no turning back now; I’m going for it. Here’s the route I’m taking. If you live anywhere along it,...

Sep 12, 2025

What's The Best Car You Can Only Buy Used?

What is the Best Car to Learn to Drive Stick? Today we have all kinds of exciting new forms of transportation to choose from! We have self-driving cars, we have hybrid sports cars, and we have whatever the hell the BMW X6 is. But as new forms of automobiles have...

Sep 12, 2025

One Week Until Moab And The $600 XJ Is Slowly Coming Along

$600 Jeep XJ Update: Part 1 Time is running out on Project Swiss Cheese, my $600 Jeep Cherokee Moab build. I’ve got only a week to go, and there’s still tons to do. But, thanks to some awesome readers from Oppositelock, I’ve made lots of progress since my. Here’s where...

Sep 12, 2025

My $600 Craigslist Moab Jeep Project May Come Right Down To The Wire

This weekend was a major success for my $600 Jeep XJ destined (hopefully) for the 50th Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. With help from friends and readers, I did some serious wrenching. But unfortunately, we uncovered two major problems—problems that are likely to bring this build down to the...

Sep 12, 2025

Getting 500 Horsepower On A Budget Turbo V8: How Hard Could It Be?

Getting 500 horsepower sounds simple: just stick a cheapo Chinese-made turbocharger on your equally-cheapo Chevy V8. But the actual process is a bit more involved. The newest episode of has friend of the site and his buddy Lucky turbocharging their LS-swapped $800 Camaro for as much horsepower for as little...

Sep 12, 2025

What Was The Worst You've Ever Been Screwed?

There are plenty of honest car mechanics, salespeople, and parts distributors out there. And then there are those who leave us screwed. [Welcome back to , where we ask you to tell us your greatest stories of success and failure, then we pull the very best of them to share...

Sep 12, 2025

Why The Subaru WRX Is The Best Family Car For Enthusiasts

Why The Subaru WRX Is The Only Family Car For Enthusiasts That you have to give up on a fun car when you have a family is a lie. The is a perfectly adequate spacious, safe family car. The only difference is that it has tons of power, great suspension,...

Sep 12, 2025

How To Turn A $250 Craigslist Beater Into The Sexiest BMW 3 Series Ever

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you the used husks of expired lemons, it’s time to get creative. On this edition of Build Of The Week, we delve into the mind of a person that sees a $250 BMW E30 shell on Craigslist and thinks...

Sep 12, 2025

We're Off! My $600 Craigslist Jeep Begins The 1,747 Mile Journey to Moab

This morning, two friends and I hopped into and started our long road trip to the 50th Easter Jeep Safari off-roading event in Moab, Utah. Here’s an update on #projectswisscheese. A couple months ago, I bought a $600 1995 Jeep Cherokee to show the world that you don’t have to...

Sep 12, 2025

How To Not Get Screwed When Buying A Used Car

In a perfect world, every car seller is perfectly honest and knows every fault with the car he or she is selling. But we don’t live in a perfect world, so here’s how to act and what to look for so you don’t get screwed buying a used car. Donut...

Sep 12, 2025

The Slippery Slope Of Modifying Your Car

“There was never a great plan to build it into what it is,” is a funny way to describe how you end up with a twin-turbo V8 restomod Pontiac Firebird in your garage. Those are the words of Kiwi Gregg Hamilton, currently Ken Block’s senior technician over at Hoonigan Racing....

Sep 12, 2025

Here's What It Was Like Driving A $600 Jeep Cherokee Over 1,800 Miles From Michigan To Moab

Last week, I wrote a telling you, the glorious readers of Jalopnik, that I was beginning my seemingly-impossible 1,800 mile journey from Michigan to Utah in a $600 Jeep Cherokee. Here’s how that turned out. The build began last fall, when I decided to I could get my hands on....

Sep 12, 2025

This Cheap Bugatti Veyron Is Exactly What You'll Need To Impress Idiots

Whenever my wife and I go out for dinner and I glance upon the table next us and see a woman’s designer handbag, I ask her if she likes it. Without missing a beat, she almost always says “It’s obviously fake.” I then ask her why anyone would buy a...

Sep 12, 2025

What Was Your Worst Wrenching Misdiagnosis?

One of the biggest nightmares in wrenching on cars is misdiagnosing faults. You spend hours and hours on what you are sure must be the problem, only to realize that you wasted an entire afternoon. Sometimes all the symptoms seem to add up to one thing. “Surely, the head gasket...

Sep 12, 2025