Even if they are winter rated, studded and studless tires will slip quite readily if you apply enough throttle in deep snow or on black ice. The winter rating only helps the rubber to stay soft at low temperatures, it does not make the road surfaces stickier. That’s why plow trucks use chains and spray sand/salt as…

Wrong, the need for AWD/4WD all depends on how much snow and ice you get. If you live in high elevations where the snow and ice stick around for the entire winter, you will need the extra drive wheels both to get going and to keep momentum when going uphill and around corners. If you try to drive up an icy hill with…

Personally I don’t think there are enough articles on Jalopnik that would actually help cultivate a new generation of car enthusiasts. Most of the content is just news about new cars, which often aren’t marketed to enthusiasts, or griping about issues with dealers and automakers, which aren’t relevant when buying…

The point of modern concept cars is not just to sell cars, it’s also to help sell video games, movie tickets, and streaming subscriptions. Movies and TV are well known for being great platforms for car ads, and more recently Gran Turismo, Forza, and other game franchies have been partnering with automakers to develop…

I think you can learn far more about assembly and disassembly by watching restoration channels on YouTube.

For most drivers it’s also illegal to use Spotify or any other apps on a smartphone while you’re driving. The laws that ban cell phone use while driving don’t give any exceptions for apps that have a car UI, it’s all or nothing. Thus the infotainment system is the only way to legally use these apps while driving.

There is a very good reason. In many places it is illegal to use your cell phone while driving. No matter the intention, that also includes banning the use of apps that mimic a car UI, because nothing stops the user from exiting the app through the normal means and opening up apps that are definitely unsafe to use…

The thing is, many of those old 90's compacts haven’t just disappeared. You can find countless running examples available on Craigslist and Facebook, so if that’s your thing then you still have tons of options. When execs say that particular market has “dried up”, what they really mean is that everyone who loves these…

But EV drivers (and designers) want their vehicles to stand out from the gas-guzzling crowd, to signify difference, if not to signal virtue.

That’s not why we had automatic belts. It was during the transition period when not every vehicle had an airbag yet, the automatic belt was accepted by the NHTSA as a substitute for an airbag for a while.

Nobody is going to talk about the automatic seat belts that used to decapitate passengers? I find this analogy to be a very poor choice because there’s history of mandates leading to more deaths, especially so with seat belts.

“But some people on vegan diets (no animal products), can live healthy lives - that’s very clear.”

You can reduce your meat intake by eating more nuts, legumes, grains, fruits, and vegetables instead.

Solar doesn’t work when the clouds are out. Not everyone lives in sunny ass Nevada.

Even if the road is painted completely wrong and a UFO lands in the middle of the road, the car still cannot crash and still needs to do the right thing...It can’t be dependent upon the road markings being correct....It’s just gotta be ‘no matter what, it’s not gonna crash.’

I want to know exactly what Toyota sees in FCEVs that most other carmakers don’t.

Getting from point A to point B is not the sole reason why consumers buy vehicles. Have you not noticed the uptick in truck sales lately?

EV delivery trucks are the real reason Wall Street is getting all hot and bothered over GM.

So how does it fare on gravel roads or when there’s a foot of wet snow outside?

Hard pass. The whole point of upgrading to LEDs is so you can do cool lighting tricks that incandescent cannot; instant on and off, lighting strips, animations, switchbacks, color shifting, etc.