This full-race Ford Ranger might not have all that much in common with the road-legal truck it’s "based" on , but hot damn does it look like a riot to blast over the Atacama desert and jungles of South America. Read more…
Filed under: Green, Videos, 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Asia, Emerging Technologies, Electric, Future, Lightweight In this video post, we take a ride in the Spira4u foam car, which was designed to be “soft, safe, sexy,” according to its maker. It’s at least one of those three. Take a look at Read more
Justin Capra, a Romanian inventor who claimed to have invented the first functional jetpack, died on Monday at the age of 81. Capra used to say that he built his jetpack in 1956, well before Bell Aerosystems’ 1961 untethered flights with their rocket belt. The only problem? He was never Read more
Filed under: Ferrari, Motorcycle We test the Ducati Scrambler; The List heads to the birthplace of Ferrari; Autoblog Podcast #414 is ready for your listening pleasure. Those are the top stories for Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Continue reading What you missed on 1.21.15 What you missed on 1.21.15 originally appeared Read more
With the original British version of Top Gear now being simulcast in the US, BBC America was faced with a bit of a dilemma. Namely, what should they broadcast immediately after it? They didn’t have Top Gear USA; that’s on the History Channel. So the answer is Mud, Sweat and Read more
Filed under: Videos, Weird Car News A homeowners’ association in New York has filed a lawsuit seeking to keep residents from parking their own pickup truck in driveway. Continue reading Couple fined for parking Ford F-150 in their own driveway Couple fined for parking Ford F-150 in their own driveway Read more
Today’s topic is: How to buy a used car without getting screwed. It’s brought to you by your old pal Doug DeMuro, noted Jalopnik columnist, who once purchased a BMW M3 from a shady used car dealer whose sales manager insisted that I make out the check to him personally. Read more
Filed under: Celebrities, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Super Bowl Commercials Mercedes-Benz and Toyota begin the rollout of their 2015 Super Bowl commercial campaigns. Mercedes has ex-wide receiver Jerry Rice trying to debate an eight-year-old about the relative speeds of tortoises and hares, while Toyota has some other ex-pros showing off Read more
Jean Calvin traveled to sample two Firebirds: a 1968 Pontiac Firebird Ram-Air convertible, and a 1967 ‘Bird that recieved the “full-house” Bobcat treatment.
In 1969, checking the “Shelby G.T. 500” block on your Ford dealer’s order form got you a 428-powered missile that differed from a stock Mustang more than any other variation on the Ford pony car theme before or since.