Say what you will about DARTZ, but you can’t deny that the Latvian maker of fever-dream-opulent armored SUVs is possibly the least risk-averse carmaker in the world. Whether it’s using unexpected skin from animals and animal parts for seat leather or, as they’re doing now, becoming the first carmaker to sell their…

Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle division, confirmed that it’s developing self-driving long-haul trucks earlier this month. Now we know what they look like.

The question of whether or not you can damage a car that asks for premium gas by using regular gas is one that never seems to die. I’ve seen this question tear families apart, with sobbing and recriminations—it’s not pretty. That’s why I reached out to an actual fuel systems engineer to get to the bottom of this…

Michelin is showing off a concept tire they’re calling VISION, even though it’s really a concept tweel, if we’re being technical here. Michelin also says the tire is “rechargeable,” whatever that means in this context, and also “breaks with the codes of a tire,” whatever the hell that means. Oh, and their promo video…

Who’s up for a scavenger hunt? There’s only one thing to find, and it’s big and yellow. It’s a Porsche 911, and it’s in some parking garage near the Empire State Building. I have a hunch, if anyone can find it, it’s Jalopnik readers, because they have a history of finding yellow rear-engine cars.

French cars, love them or hate them, are very rarely boring. Renaults, even when they’re designed to be utilitarian or cheap, somehow manage to have a certain interesting flair: look at the Renault 4 or Dauphine or Twingo: all cheap, basic cars, all somehow charming in their own way. Not so with the Renault Alliance,…

Generally, the ads in car magazines tend to be pretty predictable: cars, parts for cars, liquids you pour into various holes in cars, and those big rubber floor mats that want to rescue your pants. In an old 1968 issue of the British car magazine Autocar, though, is what I think may be the least-expected car-magazine…

Remember, back in the late ‘90s-early 2000s, the X-Files was on this big ‘black oil’ overarching storyline, where there was some weird alien black virus goop that would pour out of infected people’s eyes? Well, Rolls-Royce seems to have decided that this is just the thing to sell incredibly expensive cars.

We’ve known since the beginning of the year that there’s going to, finally, be a new Ford Ranger coming to the U.S. market by 2019. The Ranger has been alive and well overseas, but that’s not the one that will be coming here. We’ll be getting an all-new Ranger, and, based on what we can tell from these spy photos,…

It’s not widely known, but for a very brief period in the early 1950s, the Cold War was being fought with massive, bulbous slabs of cyclopean automotive futurism: the first concept cars. Before the Space Race got started, America and the Soviet Union squared off behind panoramic windshields and huge steering wheels. …

Let’s be honest: the Transformers series of movies are pretty awful. Even if we accept that a movie about space-robots that turn into cars and trucks isn’t the sort of framework that’s going to beget Citizen Kane, they’ve still been idiotic. But at least one good thing is happening: in the upcoming standalone Bumblebee movie

SEAT may be one of the biggest carmakers that’s almost unknown in America. They’re sold pretty much everywhere but America, and as a result even American gearheads who are aware of Citroëns and Skodas often forget all about Spain’s biggest carmaker. That’s probably why no American automotive journalists have ever…

Little kid brains are amazing things. I’ve worked with one for some time now, and am always amazed how good they are at data storage, and how terrible they are at making decisions that don’t end up with liquids flung around a room. This little guy here, though, is a great example of how incredible kids are at visual…

You’d think that, even without signs or cones or big yellow flashing warning lights, you’d be able to tell if you were parking in wet concrete because, well, it’s wet. That wetness didn’t seem to stop a DeKalb County, Georgia, woman from doing so with her BMW, and she’s claiming there was no signage warning her the…

Before you pass too much judgement on the designer of this deeply bonkers automotive chimera, I want you to keep in mind one thing: he did exactly what the client asked for. The client wanted an unholy mashup between a Mustang and a Ram 4x4, and, well, that’s pretty much what he got, with a bit of something like an …

When you think “air force missions,” I imagine a lot of images pop into your head: jet fighters, missiles screaming through the air, Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise playing shirtless volleyball, and that stock footage of an aircraft being refueled in flight I bet are all in the mix. One thing that probably doesn’t come up…

By now we all know that the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is an 840 horsepower exercise in mechanical bonkersism, a drag car cajoled into the bare minimum of street legality, available for any dipshit with $85,000 and a functioning metabolism to own. That dipshit with $85K in disposable income will have to sign some…

There was a run of a driverless MTA bus in Brooklyn at about 12:30 am this morning. Instead of using the usual set of sensors, cameras, and computers to produce a driverless vehicle, this bus was rendered driverless when the driver exited the bus and forgot it was in neutral, sending it careening down the street,…

It’s been a sort of open secret for a few years now that you can hack the infotainment system on some 2014 and up Mazdas with the right software on a USB drive. What is new, though, is that now the software required to do this is freely available on GitHub. What’s also interesting is how this security flaw has been…

Hey! Did any of you go to the Electric Daisy Carnival the other night? It was at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, if that helps? Did you go with a car, but come back without one? Did you maybe, somehow, manage to park your car on a rock? If so, the Nevada Highway Patrol wants to help.