Here's What Those Black Dots at the Edge of Your Windshield Actually Do

It’s springtime! Time to start working on your project car, learn a new wrenching skill, learn how things work under the hood, or just spruce up your daily driver. All month, we’ll be looking back at our best informative, maintenance and DIY articles from Jalopnik’s near 20-year history to...

Sep 13, 2025

I Was Not Prepared For How Insanely Rusty My Lexus SC400 Was

Sometimes those sleep deprived, middle-of-the-night Craigslist spelunking sessions end in the discovery of a true unicorn—something that appears to be perfect and pristine on the outside, an ideal fit for your garage and your dreams. But even if you hit on such a vehicle, it can hide dark secrets within....

Sep 13, 2025

My 1948 Jeep Off-Road Project Is Ruining Me

Well, turns out buying as an off-road project was a major mistake. The car is in shambles, my garage is in shambles, even my house is in shambles. As for me, I’m struggling to keep it together mentally. After buying my 1948 Willys CJ-2a this past summer with intentions to...

Sep 13, 2025

Ten Hilariously Overpriced Cars You Could Buy On eBay Right Now

In the used car market there are automotive bargains, and then there are cars priced so heavily out of anyone’s comfort zone that you wonder if they’re really trying to sell the car at all, or just look like they are to placate a furious partner who wants their garage...

Sep 13, 2025

Crazed British Tuning Shop Attempts To Put Three-Rotor Mazda Engine In Vintage Jaguar

Vintage Jaguar engines have such a reputation for breakdowns that it’s not uncommon to see ones with engine swaps. Most people go with brutally simple American V8s in their place. One shop in the UK decided to go in the opposite direction. This is , as notes. You may remember...

Sep 13, 2025

I Transformed My Car With Two Affordable Interior Swaps

Here in Japan I drive a , a supermini that was kind of a precursor to the Fit you’re familiar with. Honda, unfortunately, never made a Logo Type-R, but I’m getting close with a few simple and affordable interior swaps. I used factory parts, just never in way the factory...

Sep 13, 2025

The Most Dedicated Mechanics In The World Wrench On The Streets Of Hong Kong

A lot of people regard —who have mechanical ingenuity bred from decades in a closed economic system—as the best wrenchers on earth. I think that title belongs to the mechanics of Hong Kong, because they do their wrenching on the streets. Nobody can MacGyver a fix for a car like...

Sep 13, 2025

Watching This Guy Remove A Bushing With A Drill Is Completely Mesmerizing

Nothing may be as deeply satisfying as watching an old, pressed-in bushing slowly pop out of its hole thanks to a clever use of a drill. Removing these bushings is a difficult and annoying task, so here’s an alternate method that may be of use and doesn’t involve lighting a...

Sep 13, 2025

eBay Challenge: The Most Pointless Cars You Can Buy Today

When automakers get desperate to satiate the car buying public, they sometimes take chances on unconventional models that are great in their own right. However, sometimes they just create automotive monstrosities that serve only as thinly veiled tax write-offs. Your challenge this week is to find the latter - those...

Sep 13, 2025

Why Buy A Nissan Sentra When You Can Buy This Porsche 911 Turbo With Just 590,000 Miles?

You know, $18,000 will buy you a lot of car. You could get yourself a reasonably well-equipped new Nissan Sentra, if you hate yourself and hate driving, or any number of nice older used cars. But none will be as good and nice , because it is a Porsche 911...

Sep 13, 2025

What Are Velocity Stacks And Why You Want Them On Your Car

Velocity stacks may not be the absolute coolest thing you can put on your car, but... actually, you know what? They are the coolest thing you can put on your car. Here’s what they do, how they work and why everyone goes nuts over them. Velocity stacks are also called...

Sep 13, 2025

Take A Peek Under The Hood Of The Insane All-Wheel-Drive Four-Rotor Mazda RX-7

“Project Ahura” is the world’s first all-wheel-drive four-rotor FD Mazda RX-7, and it’s exactly as insane as you’d expect it to be. It was built from a car that YouTuber had since he was a teenager, and he’s here with a tour of everything under the hood that makes it...

Sep 13, 2025

Please Help Me Get My Rusty 1948 Jeep 1,800 Miles To Moab

I’ve only got about a month to prepare for my trip from Detroit to Moab’s Easter Jeep Safari, but I’ve still got about a . I really didn’t think those whole project through, but screw it, it’s too late to turn back now! Here’s the approximate route I’m taking. If...

Sep 13, 2025

What's Your Most Unrealistic Automotive Fantasy?

Have you ever had a wish so improbable that merely mentioning it to people would get you weird looks and at-you-not-with-you laughter? Well, come on in, because at the risk of me being scarred for life by the comments, I’m curious to know what your wildest, most unrealistic automotive fantasies...

Sep 13, 2025

These Are The Most Pointless Cars You Can Buy On eBay Right Now

Cars don’t have to make sense to everyone, but at some point they have to make sense to at least someone. Last week, , and it turns out you all have way more free time than I had ever imagined. Consider my expectations thoroughly exceeded. 10. 2006 Ford F-650 Party...

Sep 13, 2025