Where To Start When Your Car Won't Start

Getting into your car, turning the key and hearing... nothing is one of the biggest bummers of automobile ownership. Here are some tips on what to do if it happens to you. YouTubing Mechanic Chris Fix had this happen on his Mazda pickup truck (also known as a Ford Ranger)...

Sep 13, 2025

Watch An Engine's Beautiful Explosions Through A Transparent Cylinder Head

You might think there’s nothing refined about gasoline being pumped into your car’s engine to create big, loud, hot explosions. But one look at those gorgeous explosions and you might think these dirty gas engines are a bit more sophisticated than you gave them credit for. That’s because gas and...

Sep 13, 2025

I Can't Believe How Long This $250 Mercedes Survived Without Oil

Oil is the lifeblood of every gasoline and diesel-burning automobile engine. It flows through the components, keeping them cool and lubricated. Without it, the engine would just seize up and fry itself. But apparently they can keep on churning for longer than I expected. Our English friend Alex over at...

Sep 13, 2025

Get Your Bank Account Ready, The Porsche 997 Turbo Just Got Stupid Cheap

The concept of a free lunch is an impossibility in nature. You need to put energy into a system to see it come out. However, used prices, as we all know, don’t obey things like the laws of physics, and therefore sometimes present the market with world-beating cars for the...

Sep 13, 2025

This Coal-Rolling Diesel Corvette Is Perfect Sacrilege

Few car nerds get as pissed about a digression from tradition as Corvette fans, which is why I absolutely adore this pristine 1968 ‘Vette with a Cummins 6BT diesel swap. Also, it rips. The ‘Vette in question used to have a pretty ordinary big block (gas) Chevy V8, until the...

Sep 13, 2025

Here Are Ten Of The Most Reliable Cars For Less Than $2000

When the paycheck can’t come fast enough, it’s good to know that the cheap cars we drive won’t give up the ghost and destroy whatever hope we had of making ends meet. That’s why for less than a $2,000 on eBay, and to be honest, I couldn’t have done any...

Sep 13, 2025

This Gulf Livery 2JZ-Swapped '68 Ford Mustang Is A Fantastic Idea

Last week we mourned the death of the , one of the all-time great accessible enthusiast cars. The Mustang has a long and rich history of six-cylinder motors, all the way back to inline sixes in the original one. That’s why Beau Miklethun’s 2JZ-swapped Mustang is shockingly appropriate. As documented...

Sep 13, 2025

Amazon Is Cranking Up Its Auto Parts Sales To Fight With The Major Chains

Amazon wants to ramp up its car parts business to compete with the big boys like O’Reilly Auto Parts, Autozone, Napa Auto Parts, and Advance Auto Parts, the reports. Will we all soon be buying even more of our parts from Amazon instead of the box stores? The newspaper has...

Sep 13, 2025

This Timelapse Of The Ultimate Citroën 2CV Teardown Is Beyond Satisfying

Never have I wanted to go into a garage, tear an entire car apart and put it back together more than after watching this video. It is a pressure welling up inside my chest since last October, We see a couple of Citroën 2CV owners (this is a 1989 Charleston...

Sep 13, 2025

I Just Spent $5000 On A Car Lift And I Couldn't Be Happier

Wrenching on cars as a hobby requires that you come to terms with the fact that unless you’re Tony Stark, you won’t have equipment that matches your ambition. However, spending the equivalent of a used Honda Civic on one piece of kit can bring you one hell of a lot...

Sep 13, 2025

This Guy Just Bought Maybe The Lowest Mileage BMW E46 In America

I love driving—and occasionally fixing—my 32-year-old . The various flaws and quirks it has picked up over the decades are part of its charm, its character. But like any old car owner I often wonder what it was like when it was brand new, shining and pristine. One Jalopnik reader...

Sep 13, 2025

I Modernized My Truck By 40 Years For Just $6

Building a project car with limited money and skills forces you to find creative solutions to basic problems. But sometimes finding the dumbest “solutions” end up making me feel like a goddamn genius. I spend a lot of my free time tinkering with my 1975 , which means I spend...

Sep 13, 2025

eBay Challenge: Hilariously Overpriced Cars

It’s one thing to know where bargains sleep at night, but it’s another to realize that there is no logical reason why a car still commands most of its asking price ten years down the line, despite not actually being very good. This week, your challenge is to find the...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What Happened When I Cracked Open A Junkyard Turbocharger

Here's What Happened When I Cracked Open A Junkyard Turbocharger In a quest to witness and explain the magic that lies inside the air-squeezing contraption called a turbocharger, I headed to my local junkyard to grab those slimy snails and tear them apart. Here’s what I found in the first...

Sep 13, 2025

Feel The Deep Satisfaction Of Painting Perfect Racing Stripes

I’ve never painted racing stripes on a car myself. But man, watching this video is right up there on the scale of satisfaction with hitting an exact increment at the gas pump or pulling a crusty booger out of your nose on a cold day. As you’ll see if you...

Sep 13, 2025