Apr 13 2015584/13/15What The F Is A Lexus Performance Car?Chris Harris403I am baffled by Lexus because I’m English. We Brits don’t understand what Lexus is; never have done really. It’s the…
Rants4/2/15Apr 2 2015167Rants4/2/15RantsDear Automakers, Please Stop Making Turbos SuckChris Harris589When I was a kid, turbocharging ruled. The aim in life was to elongate the point between request and delivery, to…
Top Gear3/25/15Mar 25 2015332Top Gear3/25/15Top GearHow Top Gear Made Us All Care About CarsChris Harris403The third biggest loser in this sad saga of Top Gear is the wider car media, and the business that surrounds it. Of…
Mar 13 2015893/13/15Rejoice, The Manual Has Been Saved!Chris Harris189As the motorcar enters the post-manual-transmission epoch, I predict something bizarre happening: the re-emergence…
Mar 6 2015643/6/15Auto Shows Are A Chance To Run Into All The People You Talk Shit AboutChris Harris102 This year's Geneva show was one of contrition for your vertically challenged, vaguely brown UK correspondent. I…
Feb 27 2015382/27/15Why Every Car Brand Is Obsessed With Building Every Kind Of CarChris Harris179Watching eight-year-old boys play the game you lot insist on calling soccer is a peculiar pastime. As a spectator…
Feb 20 2015792/20/15How Auto Journalism Fails When Nationalism Gets InvolvedChris Harris192There was an unspoken rule when I started doing this job back in the 90s – as a British journalist you were supposed…
Feb 13 2015552/13/15Getting Lost In Dubai Can Make A Porsche 918 Hell On EarthChris Harris72 "Fuck you Travis Oval-piston-face." The words repeated and scorched the inside of my head and the anger grew and…
Feb 6 2015302/6/15On The Terrifying, Astounding Driving Skill Of Taxi DriversChris Harris105I can't tell you what type of Toyota it was, but it instinctively looked sub-Camry, and yet by the same token…
Feb 2 2015452/2/15A Lot Of New Car Technology Is Just Marketing BS That Doesn't WorkChris Harris269The role of the critic has long been ridiculed and lambasted for all the obvious reasons – so few of those who chose…
Jan 22 2015381/22/15The Way Carmakers Reveal New Cars Is False, Idiotic And NonsensicalChris Harris75I think his name was Hans Lehmann. He was the man for whom the dubious job description 'car scoop photographer' was…
Jan 16 2015641/16/15How Money Is (Not) Made In Auto JournalismChris Harris347Do you work in an industry that is fundamentally broken? If you do, does it leave you unsettled because you don't…
Jan 8 2015421/8/15Everything That's Awful About The Detroit Auto ShowChris Harris416There is much confusion and misinformation surrounding the actual definition of the phrase 'pure-joy.' To many it is…
Dec 11 20145812/11/14How Americans Can Simultaneously Build The Worst And Best CarsChris Harris316The first time I rode in an American car I didn't know it was an American car, but I did know it seemed very…
Dec 4 201415612/4/14A Ferrari, A Porsche And Soiled Pants: The Story I've Never ToldChris Harris106 Neal Pollack's quite brilliant confession of near-Lexus-soilage prompted many colleagues who knew of a past…
Nov 28 20144611/28/14We Were All Wrong, Chris Bangle Was A ProphetChris Harris296Chris Bangle may be history's most infamous car designer, ridiculed for taking a visual language that BMW carefully…
Nov 20 201410411/20/14How Formula One Actually Works: A Guide For Confused AmericansChris Harris230 Cricket is considered to be the most impenetrable game for non-Englishmen to comprehend. Being English I cannot…
Rants11/13/14Nov 13 201475Rants11/13/14RantsLamborghinis Are The Perfect Cars For People Who Can't DriveChris Harris153 The problem with writing a column with the working title 'the problem with Lamborghini' just before a major motor…
Nov 6 201430811/6/14"Chris Harris's Jalopnik Column, On Jalopnik"Chris Harris295 'Oh, and think of a name for your column too." The words sat discarded at the bottom of a Hardigree email…