Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Manufacturing/Plants, Fisker Fisker Automotive appears to be wrangling up its proverbial ducks and properly aligning them again after halting production nearly two years ago. After filing for bankruptcy, the Chinese company Wanxiang, like an angel made of money, scooped up the maker of the Karma range-extended electric Read more
Welcome to Cars of The Ku, a new weekend segment where I highlight a cool car I’ve found around where I live. Ku (?) is the Japanese word for "city ward." Today’s car of the Ku is this mint green Nissan Pao. Read more…
Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend? Read more…
Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Motorcycle, Specialty, Racing Every once in a while, Mother Nature has a rather tenuous relationship with her children. Such a scenario plays out each and every year as mankind clings to one of the last vestiges of open space left on our planet, the Bonneville Salt Read more
Want to own one of the strangest car designs of the past three decades? Meet the Italdesign Aztec: it’s possibly the strangest Audi ever made and it’s yours for three quarters of a million bucks. Read more…
It’s good that it isn’t, though. We’d probably all pay a lot more in insurance premiums. Read more…
Filed under: SUV, Etc., Safety, Videos, Crossover, BMW, Russia, Luxury Nobody should be shocked that a big, heavy vehicle like a semi truck takes a longer distance to stop than the average passenger car; it’s just basic physics. However, this BMW X5 driver seemingly has a major problem grasping the Read more
Filed under: Coupe, Sedan, Performance, Cadillac, Ford, Luxury 2015 Ford Mustang first drive Finally. After drooling over the 2015 Ford Mustang since it first drove onto our screens last year, we’ve now had the chance to drive Ford’s pony car in and around Los Angeles. Jonathon Ramsey focuses on what’s Read more
So there I was in the passenger seat of Brian Mitchell’s 7-second, blown-alcohol Nova. He had just done a John Force burnout and was backing up to stage the car to make a quarter-mile pass. So there I was in the passenger seat of Brian Mitchell’s 7-second, blown-alcohol Nova. He Read more
[To protect its windshield from rocks and trees and whatever else you might encounter on a rally in the early ’70s, this Fiat Abarth 124 Spider had a sort of ante-windshield made of mesh bolted to the fenders. I have never seen one outside of this press picture. Photo Credit: Read more