Wanted: A Pontiac Aztec, Top Dollar Paid

The great orator Elbert Green Hubbard once said, "Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." And that's probably the best advice anyone could give this dollar-sign-happy seeker of the ugliest car ever built. It just goes to show, as Hubbard also...

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: Kia Rondo Korean BBQ Tour, Part 1

One of the more inane ways to review an automobile is to lambaste the machine for something it was never designed to be. Carping about how a Lancer Evolution rides harshly, or has a budget interior is an example of this phenomenon. Tom McCahill wouldn't pull such shenanigans, and neither...

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: Kia Rondo Korean BBQ Tour, Part 2

Not quite as large as a minivan yet bigger than a station wagon or tall hatchpact, the Rondo appears down the lines as a shrunken space wagon. The only angle we found somewhat odd was a direct side view. Fancy headlamps and wheels add style to economy. Space surrounds you...

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: Rondo Korean BBQ Tour, Part 3

Because you're not quite ready for a minivan, but need room for five to seven people and associated stuff in an economical and more wagon like than crossover package. Because you like the name, or have a Rondo thirst. Because you're looking to run track days in a small space...

Nov 15, 2024

You Don't Need It: MSN Money on Unnecessary Car Features

Most informed car buyers know, working the options sheet as if it were Vegas's Carnival World Buffet is the road to flash poverty. But check off those boxes judiciously and you'll save thousands and still get a car that won't leave you feeling like Cookie Jarvis at diabetes camp. But...

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Ducati Superbike 1098

Riding the 1098 away from Southern California Ducati came with a warning. Three busted-up 1098's sat in the repair queue outside the shop. As the foreman explained, the monobloc brakes could very easily pitch you right over the grips or low-side you onto the tarmac. With those images fresh in...

Nov 15, 2024

Ten Observations About a Rented Toyota Corolla

The WRX is getting re-clutchified, so for the past three days we've been tooling around the greater Los Angeles area in a 2007 Corolla. Our impressions are thus: Features the world's most legible instruments.Comparing the Corolla to Wonder Bread isn't fair — to Wonder Bread. The Corolla is more like...

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, Part 1

Legend has it Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, father of the modern helicopter, had a sign made up for display in the lobby of his company's technical office. The sign said this: "The bumblebee, according to our engineers' calculations, cannot fly at all, but the bumblebee does not know this and flies"....

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, Part 2

The SRT crew took a Grand Cherokee and meaned it up track style. The result is a low-slung brick fronted by a giant front air dam. Center exit dual exhaust on the other end puts a stop to any ridiculous ideas about towing. Why even pretend the thing is going...

Nov 15, 2024

Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, Part 3

Because you want an SUV that packs over 400 horsepower, runs a low 13-second quarter mile, handles like a slot car, and goes 0-60 in under five seconds. Because you like the idea of a vehicle assembled in Detroit, USA and Graz, Austria - next town over from Thal, where...

Nov 15, 2024

2007 Corvette Z06

[On the occasion of this year's in Detroit, we're catching up on the Detroit muscle we've driven in the past year. First up, the Corvette Z06.] It's a tricky day for the Corvette Z06. In its short life, Chevrolet's flagship Vette has topped more best-of lists than Arcade Fire, and...

Nov 15, 2024

1972 Dodge Challenger

Driving about in a it's easy to forget that while the formula for American muscle cars is still very much alive, refinements in technology have changed the experience drastically. Case in point is this 1972 Dodge Challenger. I drove this beast last year from Carlisle, Pensylvania to Detroit after having...

Nov 15, 2024

2008 Ford Focus Coupe, Part 1

If Ford's "Hi, I'm Dave" design language has created a Gillette-like lineup of Ford products, then the new 2008 Ford Focus is the most disposable of the family. From the tip of the dual-bar chrome grille, along a set of faux side vents all the way to the high rear...

Nov 15, 2024

2008 Ford Focus Coupe, Part 2

It's fugly. I feel like Ford asked three designers to work on separate designs for the 2008 Focus. Then the designers sat down with Ford's executive team and, rather than have to be mean to any one of the designers, they just used all of the designs. At once. We've...

Nov 15, 2024

2008 Ford Focus Coupe, Part 3

You love the Sync system more than you love driving. You love driving more than you love the Sync system. Suitability Parameters: · Speed Merchants: No · Fashion Victims: Yes · Treehuggers: Yes · Mack Daddies: No · Tuner Crowd: Yes · Hairdressers: Yes · Penny Pinchers: No · Euro...

Nov 15, 2024