Chernobyl’s Cars Paint a Fascinating and Grim Picture Of Soviet Life

At this very moment, the highest-rated television show on IMDb, beating out The Wire, Breaking Bad, the first few actually good seasons of Game of Thrones and other worshipped favorites is a that happened 33 years ago in a country that no longer actually exists. The series is HBO’s...

Apr 5, 2025

The Two Disappointing Cadillac V-Series Cars Are Just Part of a Bigger Letdown

When you consider everything that has gone through in the last 14 months— in part over the company’s , for beautiful , , when the competition are well on their way to production, with its semi-autonomous technology—the two woefully underpowered seem quite on brand. To recap: the Cadillac CT4-V...

Apr 5, 2025

Seattle Woman Says She Jumped Out of Moving Uber After Continual Harassment From Driver

A woman in Seattle said she jumped out of a moving ride after the driver continually harassed her, running away and later filing reports with the local police department and Uber. She said the driver, whom she’d hailed to take her home, locked the doors shortly before she pried...

Apr 5, 2025

Quick Question: What Carmaker and Video Game Company Share a Name?

I know usually these Quick Questions are deep-thought exercises designed to expand your mind into new, directions, today’s Quick Question is a straight-up simple automotive trivia question: what car company and video game company share a name? I don’t want to give too much away, so all I’m going...

Apr 5, 2025

We're The Staff of Jalopnik, Let's Chat

We made it past Memorial Day, and that means one thing: from now until Labor Day (maybe a bit after that, honestly) summer Fridays are in full effect. That means you aren’t really doing any work on afternoons like these. I know we sure as hell aren’t! Instead of...

Apr 5, 2025

Hot Damn it's a Hot Rod

You’ve probably seen some of the project cars that Mike Burroughs has built. You might be familiar with his badass BMW, Rusty Slammington. Or maybe you know his . Or his first hot rod build, with BMW power, that . He’s hammered together a lot of projects in the...

Apr 5, 2025

Porsche Forgot to Give the Boxster Bergspyder a Roof

Porsche is known for taking risks to build exciting and compelling sports cars. Porsche offers a variety of flavors of mid and rear engine sports cars to fill a variety of niches. If you want a hardcore track monster with a roof, they’ve got you covered. The standard Boxster...

Apr 5, 2025

The First New Lotus in 11 Years Will Be Unveiled next Month

The 71-year-old British sports car maker has a new electric hypercar coming next month. We already know that , as it was made official at the Shanghai Auto Show a couple of months ago. When the new car is unveiled on July 16th, it will become the first new...

Apr 5, 2025

Thrill to the Charming Music Made by Hot Wheels Mustangs Hitting Xylophone Keys

Humans have been making music for thousands of years, and yet somehow it has taken us until the year of our Great Camshaft two thousand and one score less one until someone has figured out you can make sweet, sweet music by running Hot Wheels into xylophone keys. The song...

Apr 5, 2025

If You Want A McLaren Senna Buy a McLaren 650S GT3 Instead

Chris Harris isn’t known for his car buying advice. He’s great at giving viewers a good show and describing what he’s doing. He’s a very compelling television show host. But what he doesn’t traditionally do is save wealthy people gobs of money on their track day car choices. But...

Apr 5, 2025

More Track Capable Cadillac V-Series Models Are on the Way

Cadillac unveiled the new to the public late on Thursday evening. The cars were not received by the enthusiast public particularly enthusiastically, and I think Cadillac could read the room. Removing horsepower isn’t usually a popular tack, and Cadillac has attempted to dissuade the torches-and-pitchforks crowd from ransacking its...

Apr 5, 2025

I Am Not Doing This With You, Toyota

Let me tell you what I’m happy to be done with: the rumors, concept cars, prototype drives, spy photos and wild theories about the , all of which have been in ready supply since the joint venture with BMW was made known six or seven years ago. (That doesn’t...

Apr 5, 2025

The Ferrari P80/C Screams in Torment That it is the Only One of its Kind

Humanity is cruel and unusual in its treatment of the Ferrari P80/C. We have created it. Given it life. But to have created such a delightful thing and not seen fit to have given it a mate or a friend of its own kind, let alone an ultimate purpose,...

Apr 5, 2025

Your Ridiculously Awesome Lancia Delta Integrale Wallpapers Are Here

The Lancia Delta Integrale HF owned the hot hatch game in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. With a couple hundred turbocharged horsepowers on tap and four driven wheels, this Group B homologation monster would really scoot. The driving experience is typically Italian, arms flailing and immensely passionate, but...

Apr 5, 2025

Kendrick Lamar — 'A.D.H.D'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. good kid, M.A.A.D. city is still one of the best albums of the early 2010s and I’ll hear no arguments to the contrary. ...

Apr 5, 2025