The first thing I saw at Pebble Beach was a ‘90s Ford minivan brake check a McLaren 720S so close the McLaren’s rear air brake deployed. Pebble Beach masquerades as a car show, but what you’re really there to see is the most expensive traffic jam of your life.| Jalopnik
Considered by many to be the most famous car show in the world, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the climax of the Monterey Car Week festivities. It’s a show held for charity where both pre and post-war cars are gathered at one of the best golf course in the world. As shows go, the Pebble Beach Concours is about as prestigious as it gets. I just wasn’t all that amazed by it.| Jalopnik
Monterey Car Week has to be one of the best weeks of the year for car enthusiasts, and it’s something I encourage everyone to try out at least once. There’s a whole plethora of cars to see that suit everyone’s tastes. While the week may be centered around the big fancy shows like the Pebble Beach Concours, The Quail, and Concorso Italiano, there are many other “free” events to make the most of your Car Week experience.| Jalopnik
Cambridge's transportation commissioner says 20-30 of the raised hunks of asphalt infrastructure are on the way, and the town will build as many as it can fund.| Jalopnik
American allies around the world, once eager to replace their own aging fighter fleets, are suddenly hesitating on purchases or even canceling orders altogether| Jalopnik
The menu has dwindled down to just a burger, three sandwiches, a hot dog, fries, a cup of chili, a slice of pecan pie and drinks, and all-day breakfast is gone.| Jalopnik
With plane incidents seemingly spiking, Elon Musk wants retired air traffic controllers to come back to work. Sadly, it's not that easy.| Jalopnik
Elon Musk and President Trump fired hundreds of FAA employees, many of whom worked in vital safety roles| Jalopnik
Elon Musk is a salesman, and recently he’s been selling two things: Electric cars and eugenics-backed fascism. His pitches for the latter have gotten loud enough that folks who bought into the former can no longer quietly ignore it, which has led to all sorts of Tesla owners plastering their cars with stickers that read some variation on “I bought this before Elon went crazy.” Here’s the thing: I don’t think they did.| Jalopnik
SpaceX is, for all intents and purposes, the current state of American space flight. Sure, there’s that Boeing rocket, but we’ve all seen how that’s going — SpaceX is now how NASA gets shit done. It’s also, according to reports from two separate regulatory bodies, a massive polluter of Texan waters.| Jalopnik
Elon Musk may be the richest person in the world, CEO of the most overvalued car company in the world and was rumored to functionally be Trump’s co-President. Yet, despite all of his financial success, he’s never been able to escape one simple truth: He is a deeply unlikable person. He can blame it on his reportedly self-diagnosed autism, but no one wants to be his friend including the Trump team, apparently, with some members telling the Daily Beast he’s the “guest who wouldn’t lea...| Jalopnik
Elon Musk has been promising self-driving cars are right around the corner for the last decade. And what a decade it’s been! Full of scandal, intrigue, and poorly manufactured cars and car accessories. We’ve seen the rise of the electric vehicle, the death of the affordable American car and the dizzying ascent followed by a rapid decline of the autonomous driving dream.| Jalopnik
Good morning and Happy New Year! It’s Thursday, January 2, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.| Jalopnik
Has anyone else ever noticed Elon Musk is a little weird about women – especially ones he has hired? A few of the best examples of this are a former SpaceX intern turned employee the multi-company CEO had a years-long on-again-off-again relationship with dating back to 2017 and his penchant for having babies with coworkers. In a new story from the Wall Street Journal, we get an inside look at just what sort of weird shit Musk has been up to with the women who work for him. It is not a pleas...| Jalopnik
As Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues his illegal and unconstitutional takeover of the U.S. federal government, he’s taken a special interest in destroying the United States Agency for International Development, Reuters reports. Cutting off foreign aid that specifically saves lives and improves health outcomes around the world may seem like the kind of thing that’s going to get people killed, but nevertheless, Musk says he’s “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” As a result, at least 30...| Jalopnik
Elon Musk is going after another government department responsible for holding his companies to account and see how the tables have turned at EV maker Rivian.| Jalopnik
Find out just how little power Tesla boss Elon Musk actually has in his new government role, Honda still wants Nissan, if Nissan axes its CEO, and more.| Jalopnik
As a gay person, I spend a lot of time at friends’ apartments throwing on our favorite music videos and gabbing about them, and I’m always pointing out the cars. Just like in television or movies, car casting is super important when it comes to music videos, whether they be purely for background aesthetics or an integral part of the video’s plot. So today I ask you, dear reader, what’s the best car in a music video?| Jalopnik
Japanese auctions aren’t just populated with kei cars and boring commercial vehicles. For example, this 1993 Mitsubishi Canter Dekotora-style is a rig that can haul cars in extreme style.| Jalopnik
While the Christmas NFL game saw the Ravens absolutely obliterate the Texans on their home turf, the attention wasn’t really on the game, as it was drastically overshadowed by Beyoncé’s incredible live-on-Netflix halftime performance. The whole show was a non-stop visual blitz, but the real star of Queen Bey’s entourage was the denim-covered sixth-gen Ford F-series pickup covered in a patchwork quilt of denim. It’s perfect.| Jalopnik
At a car show in Los Angeles I was able to sit in a Lamborghini LM002 for the first time, which was a very memorable experience even putting aside the fact that it was the very LM002 that Beyoncé used to own. I’ve always loved this outrageous SUV, and seeing them in real life never gets old. Later that day I was reading period reviews of the Rambo Lambo, and Brock Yates’ 1987 piece in Car And Driver really stood out. Yates nailed the LM002's purpose, and predicted the rise of the modern ...| Jalopnik
Last Sunday, bad weather delayed the start of a Beyoncé concert outside of Washington, D.C. The Renaissance World Tour show would end after the D.C. Metro shut down for the night. It would be easy to assume that concert organizers would leave concert-goers stranded or wait for the government to bail them out, but they decided to pay $100,000 for the system to keep running themselves.| Jalopnik
Spacelopnik covers everything from the original space race, to NASA's plan for Mars, and companies like Boeing and SpaceX trying to make spaceflight affordable.| Jalopnik
It’s been a somewhat bewildering week for cars I grew up admiring. First, an automatic (!!!) but super clean 1994 Toyota Supra Turbo seems poised to crack $70,000 when its Bring a Trailer auction ends tomorrow, and then a humble 2000 Honda Civic Si sells for a stunning $22,700 on the same site—nearly as much as a brand new one.| Jalopnik
Hidden gems, rare oddballs, and the car curiosities that only enthusiasts know how to spot: when it comes to what Jalopnik found for sale, you know it's good.| Jalopnik
It’s a new year, and that means there’s a new list of EVs and plug-in hybrids that are eligible for the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. Because of more stringent requirements, quite a few cars that were on last year’s list are no longer eligible. However, we’ve got plenty of newcomers, and it’s actually slated to grow throughout 2025 as more vehicles go on sale.| Jalopnik
Modern car tech isn't just autonomous driving and dubious flying cars: it's EV batteries, high-tech dashboards, and robots, too. Jalopnik knows what matters.| Jalopnik
The 2020 Polestar 1 is so fast, so agile, and so satisfying to drive with its hybrid-electric 619 horsepower powertrain you would almost never believe it weighs as much as a Bentley Bentayga, or a Tesla Model S, or a Porsche Taycan. Almost.| Jalopnik
Cross a BMW 4 Series with an iX, and you get this: The new BMW i4, the company’s first fully electric sedan. Technically, BMW considers the i3 a sedan, but who are they kidding? This is a sedan.| Jalopnik
I was really excited to spend some time with the Kia EV6 GT. I read all the specs. 576 horsepower. 545 lb-ft of torque. 0-60 in less than 3.5 seconds. It’s the quickest car I’ve ever driven, but none of that matters. The only thing that matters is I couldn’t drive it without an extreme sense of dread. I knew that every single time I pushed the accelerator all the way down, huge chunks of driving range would be wiped away, and it would not be an easy task to replenish those lost miles.| Jalopnik
It feels like just last month when we were introduced to Porsche’s first foray into the world of electric cars, the brutally fast 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S. That’s because it actually was last month, and it seems Porsche isn’t wasting any time in filling the rest of the lineup. Meet the Taycan 4S, which is now the entry-level Porsche sedan that runs on electrons instead of gas.| Jalopnik
Whether you're buying or leasing a car, or you're looking for electric vehicle incentives, Jalopnik's buying advice covers all the tricks for the best deals.| Jalopnik
If insanity is repeating the same action over and over again and expecting different results, are we insane for always asking if the "next Corvette" will be mid-engined?| Jalopnik
The White House and the American automobile industry have had an up-and-down relationship over the past century. And while Detroit isn’t quite the goliath it once was, the automobile industry accounts for around three percent of the United States’ GDP today. For comparison, the technology sector amounts to ten percent of the country’s gross domestic product.| Jalopnik
While at the F-Type launch, Jaguar designer Wayne Burgess told a story that I can’t believe I’d never heard before. It has to do with former GM VP of Design Bill Mitchell, the Mako Shark concept car, and a taxidermied shark head. The story may be apocryphal, but who cares? It’s too good.| Jalopnik
The narratives around John Z. DeLorean usually go one of two ways. He’s either remembered as an iconoclastic hero of American motoring, a David who fought one Goliath after another until he lost everything in an unfair and overzealous prosecution by the U.S. government, or scorned as a charlatan and a fraud who thought rules didn’t apply to him. But DeLorean’s life was too big to fit in just one box. And the new documentary film Framing John DeLorean is a chance to examine him from all ...| Jalopnik
Over 53 years ago, the Boeing 747 took its first flight with a destination for the history books. The aircraft had earned the nickname “the Queen of the Skies” and became synonymous with the term jumbo jet. But with just four aircraft left in Boeing’s order book the ride has come to an end for one of the most majestic planes put into production.| Jalopnik
The pair of Boeing 747-based jets are currently expected to be delivered in four years.| Jalopnik
President Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs provoked the Chinese government to call on its airlines to boycott Boeing.| Jalopnik
You might not be buying a 787 yourself, but the impact of new tariffs on affordable - and safe - air travel could leave you grounded.| Jalopnik
Few things could ever force me to drive into oncoming traffic, especially on a motorcycle. But this rider did exactly that to get away from a road-raging lunatic.| Jalopnik
Car crime may happen, but modern security is more than just annoying alarms. Trackers, immobilizers, and more: Jalopnik knows all the ways to protect your ride.| Jalopnik
There’s increasing debate in Germany over whether or not they should be adding speed limits to the Autobahn’s legendary unlimited section – especially since their last election a few months ago. Now, those calls are being renewed after a Bugatti Chiron owner tried to max out his car on the public road.| Jalopnik
If you need a family car that will still get your heart racing, I'm here to tell you that you should just shut up and buy the redesigned Porsche Panamera GTS.| Jalopnik
Hailed by some as the most beautiful car ever made, the E-Type usually commands a sky-high price. So what makes this Jaguar so (relatively) affordable?| Jalopnik
This weekend’s Miami Grand Prix was the most-watched F1 broadcast in the U.S. in the history of the sport, and it wasn’t even close. There are many factors for this, including that the event was broadcast on the terrestrial ABC instead of its typical ESPN, the race took place in the Eastern Time Zone so it was on at 4 pm Eastern instead of the normal early mornings we usually see, and to some extent, Americans wanted to see a race on home soil. A full 3.1 million Americans were watching L...| Jalopnik
Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is the greatest that Formula One has ever seen. I don’t necessarily mean his on-track talent, though there’s an argument to be made for that as well. I’m referring, here, to his ability to understand fashion like no other racing driver ever has. This man knows the gravity of the situation at hand, his first day at the longest-running and most-famous F1 team in history, after winning more races than any driver the championship has ever seen with Mercedes ...| Jalopnik
Lewis Hamilton contains multitudes, many of which, like music, don’t have much to do with racing Formula 1 cars. Another interest of his is fashion, on display again last night at the Met Gala, which, in the fashion world, is one of the biggest nights of the year.| Jalopnik
As Formula One grows in commercial appeal to a wider audience, we’ve seen more and more high-fashion magazines covering the series and profiling the drivers. I, personally, have loved watching F1 evolve from a niche, masculine sport to a widespread cult phenomenon here in the United States — and few things exemplify that more than a recent feature published in Vanity Fair.| Jalopnik
From classics like Top Gear and The Grand Tour, to streaming newcomers and upcoming YouTube stars, car and bike entertainment has never been more interesting.| Jalopnik
Imagine being a NASCAR driver listening to fan after fan repeat the same "Talladega Nights" lines they've heard ten million times before.| Jalopnik
Rev. Ross R. Miceli is accused of fabricating the name of the Corvette raffle winner, as well as the winners of other smaller prizes.| Jalopnik
Say you’re looking for a classic, cheap rear-wheel-drive sports car for cruising in the countryside over the weekend, or even whip out for the occasional track day session. You could get an old British roadster, but the headaches that come with those cars have pretty much turned you off by now. And besides, you’re not a goddamn mechanic, but an average human being with a normal life, maybe a few kids and a mortgage to pay. All you’re looking for is a cheap way to let off some steam behi...| Jalopnik
The Ford Pinto was born a low-rent, stumpy thing in Dearborn 40 years ago and grew to become one of the most infamous cars in history. The thing is that it didn't actually suck. Really.| Jalopnik
The Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia is one of those car that even non-gearheads tend to like, because it’s just a fundamentally pretty object. It’s elegant and friendly and curvy and sleek all at once, while being approachable and inviting. It’s just a lovely little design for a car, and pioneered the idea of a sporty car, as opposed to an actual sports car. Sure, it looked like it might be fast, but it wasn’t and it didn’t care. The Ghia is an undeniable classic, so you may as well learn t...| Jalopnik
From sports bikes to city runarounds, electric racers to comfy cruisers, motorcycles have never been more varied. Jalopnik is as happy on two wheels as four.| Jalopnik
The same weekend that the Motorcycles — with uppercase “M,” per Plato’s idealism — took over Austin, I finally went on my maiden voyage aboard an EV. I should say astride rather than aboard, as it just so happens that when MotoGP and the Handbuilt Show converged on the Texas capital, I went for a long ride on a 2023 Zero SR/F, making it the first EV I’ve operated on public roads.| Jalopnik
For at least the last few years, the idea of an Apple-built and branded automobile seemed plausible, if not totally possible. Apple is known almost exclusively for its clean designs, competent user interfaces, and at least the facade of quality, if not the genuine article. Why shouldn’t the computer company build a car? Cars are basically four-wheeled computers anyway. After announcing a few weeks ago that Apple had given up on its multi-billion dollar automobile boondoggle, it has come to ...| Jalopnik
The Rivian R1T and R1S you see above might look pretty much the same as before, but don’t be fooled. Say hello to the “second generation” of Rivian’s electric truck and SUV, a mid-cycle update on the styling front but a comprehensive overhaul of pretty much everything under the skin. After driving the whole “Gen 2” lineup on the roads around Seattle, off-road at DirtFish rally school, and on the drag strip at Pacific Raceways, it’s clear Rivian’s designers and engineers were f...| Jalopnik
Audi may be taking the "if you ignore them, they can't hurt you" approach to tariffs, but the pinch is already here if you're looking for car parts.| Jalopnik
The arguments over just how expensive new cars are going to get continue.| Jalopnik
From cars to motorcycles, Jalopnik is your go-to site covering everything with an engine—including automotive news, buying guides, and expert commentary from our staff.| Jalopnik
Earlier this week, Canadian officials ordered the evacuation of Yellowknife, the capital of the country’s Northwest Territories. A 400,000-acre wildfire is just ten miles away from the city of 20,000 people. The Canadian military has been mobilized to help fight the wildfire and evacuate residents. Every resident was given a deadline of noon today to leave — and Air Canada has been accused of price gouging those attempting to flee by air.| Jalopnik
Consumer Watchdog found when companies use surveillance pricing, they tend to favor the wealthy and instead offer higher prices to customers with lower incomes.| Jalopnik
This bill would protect users from a service that would charge you more if your phone's battery is low and you're trying to get home.| Jalopnik
When Monterey Car Week kicks off this year, the local cops plan to treat it as an "all hands on deck" situation| Jalopnik
"Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data."| Jalopnik
They say there are two types of motorcyclists: those who have crashed and those who haven't yet. YouTuber Doodle on a Motorcycle joined the former group.| Jalopnik
Truckers hauling export freight to the Port of Los Angeles this week will likely be turning around and heading home with an empty load.| Jalopnik
Owning a supercar can be expensive, even if you have the means. The engineering and parts that go into making these vehicles perform the way they do can be shockingly expensive. Take what one dealership charged a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren owner for brakes.| Jalopnik
Never been to Germany before or lapped the track hundreds (or thousands) of times, I want to know what kind of car you'd next want to drive on the Green Hell.| Jalopnik
The ZR1X lapped the 'Ring in 6:49.275 while the nonhybrid ZR1 set a time of 6:50.763, both with Chevy development drivers behind the wheel.| Jalopnik
Today's 1996 Volvo 850 has had a remarkable 391,000 miles to amass all kinds of interesting and perhaps frustratingly unidentifiable odors| Jalopnik
The seller says its built three-rotor engine was professionally assembled before living life a quarter-mile at a time, sending an RX-2 to 9-second quarter-miles| Jalopnik
Albert Lemaître, the winner of the 1894 Paris-Rouen, stood trial for murdering his wife a dozen years after his historic victory, and got away with murder.| Jalopnik
The Lexus LFA is a little bit of a hard car to pin down.| Jalopnik
We pose the big questions: you tell us the answer. QOTD is your chance to talk back, whether it's the cars you can't wait to see, or the classics you miss most.| Jalopnik
The 199 mph infraction was a record for the mobile radar enforcement trailer stationed on the roadside.| Jalopnik
Offered as part of an estate sale, today's MG TD is a literal garage find that. Could its price prove a solid starting point to get it out of the garage?| Jalopnik
A single Cessna 172 was stolen twice over the past week from two general aviation airports in Southern California.| Jalopnik
Spurred by new lap records, I asked the Jalopnik audience to tell me what cars they'd want to drive around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.| Jalopnik
Today's Nice Price or No Dice MX-5 claims it has gone a thorough restoration and touts it as "a turn-key, investment-grade car for someone who wants the best."| Jalopnik
Anyone who's survived a major crash may have a new perspective on life, and Giugiaro is no exception.| Jalopnik
From cars to motorcycles, Jalopnik is your go-to site covering everything with an engine—including automotive news, buying guides, and expert commentary from our staff.| Jalopnik
Elon Musk's pivot toward right-wing politics is having an undeniable market impact on his car company, and not the good kind.| Jalopnik
All meat, no filler: The Morning Shift brings you the big stories of the day, curated by Jalopnik's team of auto enthusiasts, experts, and obsessives.| Jalopnik
The Biden Administration, along with guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency, will propose the toughest rules ever implemented on vehicle emissions in the U.S. These regulations would put the country on par with other nations who have already pledged aggressive timelines to significantly reduce emissions within the next decade.| Jalopnik
Tariff woes, praise for Trump from unlikely quarters, and an expensive shakeup in racing. It's all happening in The Morning Shift this merry Monday.| Jalopnik
The juxtaposition of statements made by Donald Trump and Canadian PM Mark Carney could not be more different when it comes to the automotive industries.| Jalopnik
We're looking at which cars Donald Trump's new 25 percent import tariffs will hit hardest and his threats against automakers if they raise prices.| Jalopnik
Today we're looking at Trump's new tariffs on all imported cars, hearing about incoming Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa's ideas to woo Honda back and more.| Jalopnik
Tesla's sales woes continue, Hyundai tries to curry Trump favor, and VW gets more driver-assist tech. It's all happening in The Morning Shift.| Jalopnik
In today's The Morning Shit: the latest drama to hit Tesla: mass trade-ins of its cars, how Hyundai slashed vehicle thefts in the U.S., and more| Jalopnik
In the U.S., a household income of at least $250,000 a year puts you in the top 10 percent of all income earners| Jalopnik
There’s no denying it, the long-delayed launch of the Cybertruck has been a sales success for Tesla. The angular behemoth has become one of the best-selling six-figure cars and it’s now the third-best-selling electric vehicle in America. That impressive run could be coming to an end, however, as it sounds like Tesla may have reached the bottom of its reservation list.| Jalopnik
The best-known name in electric cars no longer has the EV segment to itself, but Tesla is counting on divesting human drivers altogether with its Autopilot.| Jalopnik
From affordable city runabouts, through crossovers and SUVs, to trucks and pickups, all the way to sports cars, convertibles, and supercars, Jalopnik knows all.| Jalopnik
Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertruck this week--nearly every Cybertruck ever sold. That's remarkably fewer than Tesla's claim of a million reservations.| Jalopnik
Elon Musk's ill-advised bet on MAGA customers to save Tesla, Audi's possible plans to increase car prices in the wake of Trump's tariffs and more.| Jalopnik
Tesla owners are struggling with the realities of protest-selling their EVs, plus, Elon Musk still thinks he's worth $56 billion and more.| Jalopnik
