If you had to think of two ends of a spectrum of classiness in the automotive world, with one end being as class-free as a drunken hammer fight in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and the other end as classy as a princess on a gilded horse, what would be at each end? Maybe a novelty car horn that honked out tunes on the…

This video isn’t particularly new, but I’d not encountered it before. It’s a promo for Mutec, a company that modifies expensive cars into even more expensive cars, and it seems they also make them bulletproof. Here you can watch them shoot the crap out of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and it’s weirdly serene.

Autonomous cars are coming, and while it may sometimes feel like they’re already here, they’re really not. It can still be confusing, since every manufacturer with anything remotely like an autonomous vehicle seems to overstate what the cars can do. Luckily, levels of autonomy have been decided, and knowing them can…

Look, we all know vans are sexy as hell, but that doesn’t mean you can’t comport yourself with some dignity, right? Someone should maybe remind this suspect from Dayton, Ohio that you can’t just bone every hot van you see, even if they are all painted red and seem like they’d be totally down for it.

It’s been a little while since the last Would You Rather, hasn’t it? You’ve missed this, haven’t you? Of course you have. Your brain needs this sort of hypothetical exercise, just like your car needs its pedals Armor-All’d into glossy, black slippery, grip-less slabs. So let’s get to it.

It’s fair to say that a very likely unhealthy portion of my life revolves around cars, and a truly alarming percentage of my thoughts are automotive-related. These are my jackstands to bear. That’s why I always love finding a whole new automotive concept I somehow have missed. This time it’s the excitingly dull…

If you’re considering buying an electric car, but just aren’t sure if an electric car will be able to do what you need, you can stop wondering, because some researchers you’ve never met have already figured it out for you: it’ll work. Well, at least for nearly 90% of you.

Oh man, we’ve all been here, right? You break into a car, just about certain that the chemical-labeled boxes inside will contain the ingredients to sweet, sweet meth, but instead you find you’ve just stolen a ton of foul-smelling stoat anal gland secretions? Oh, it’s a story as old as time itself, and it’s happened…

Technically, Ford has been selling driver-less cars since always, because it is illegal to sell people with cars. But this time the automaker will sell a car that cannot be driven: a fully autonomous car, with no human driver controls, much like Google’s autonomous car. The planned target markets are commercial…

It’s easy to know what a beautiful car is—you see something like, say, a Lamborghini Miura, and you just feel that wonderful ache in your chest. Same goes for ugly cars– one glimpse of an Aztek and you can feel your gonads crying out in despair. But what about those cars that, somehow, manage to exist in both camps?

I know I’m a few days late for a real obit, but as the self-appointed Lead Droid Researcher here at Jalopnik, I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the man inside the machine, Kenny Baker, who died this past week.

This particular bit of news is very local, but the issue it addresses is universal, and perhaps especially relevant to those of us with lives that may involve the ownership of cars and related machines. It’s about a guy in Schaumburg, Illinois, and his 25-foot trailer. Also, how much his neighbors hate his trailer.

Today’s probably been pretty rational and reasonable for many of you, full of competency. I can’t have that. So, to help restore balance to the world, please accept these free terrible ideas for cars.

Last week, we covered the reborn Fisker Karma (now the Karma Revero) re-introduction, and there was one detail in that reveal I don’t think I paid enough attention to: the solar roof. Karma says it will “create enough energy to power the car.” That’s bullshit, but many sites are reporting it not just as true but …

A gasoline piston engine that can dynamically change its compression ratio —that is, the amount by which the piston squeezes the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder—has long been a holy grail of engine design. It looks like Nissan is the Indiana Jones of engine design, then, because its luxury division Infiniti will…

In case you’re not aware, I take my beat as Jalopnik’s Fictitious Robot Chief Reporter very seriously, which is why I’ve been scrutinizing the recent Rogue One trailers so much. First, we’ve identified one known astromech droid, and now we’re introduced to a whole new class of droid. So let’s see what we can figure…

When I was writing up my review for the 2016 Beetle Dune Convertible, I was considering cramming it full of painfully geeky Dune references, but I talked myself out of it. But I still sort of want to, so let me just get it out of my system real quick right now, in a few paragraphs. So, you know, brace yourself.

In hindsight, I realize this was a terrible idea. I guess I was just excited to be going racing, and I suppose my giddiness turned into an unreasonable optimism. Deep down, I knew we weren’t likely to beat Road & Track’s team at American Endurance Racing. But that didn’t stop me from betting R&T web editor and former …

The 2016 Volkswagen Beetle Dune convertible deceptively named for two reasons: first, while “Dune” in the context of a Beetle is an obvious reference to dune buggies, this modern Beetle really isn’t any more off-road capable than a normal one. Second, it seems to have almost nothing to do with Frank Herbert’s iconic…