If you know someone who owns a screaming chicken-era Pontiac Trans Am, it’s best to keep them off the computer today, and maybe for a couple of weeks. Because when they find out what Trans Ams are fetching at Barrett-Jackson this year, they’re going to lose their mullet-covered minds.
There's two ways to build a car for winning an endurance race. Bolt one together that's honed for speed and hope it doesn't blow up, or choose durability over pace and count on the other teams falling apart. For last year's 25 Hours of Thunderhill, Davidson Racing brought the fast car — a Norma M20F with a tuned BMW…
If there's one consistent complaint about the new Ford Mustang, it's that maybe too many edges were sanded down in the transformation from Dearborn street rod to global BMW-fighting coupe. Thankfully, there's a shop in Nevada named for a late great Texas bad ass which specializes in taking Ford products and roughing…
Yes, yes, "Miata" is always the answer. But for those who aren't consecrated in Bob Hall's Church of the Soft Tops, every year the editors of Yahoo Autos gather in central California, take the keys to a selection of the best of 2015 and wring them out but good to anoint our Car of the Year. This year we had 17…
Those of us who were kids in the '80s will likely never forget the summer when this blonde surfer dude put out a killer music video telling off the cops in his sweet black Ferrari. Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55" was not just classic rock-n-roll but ahead of its time; when states started raising their speed limits,…
Hi, I'm Justin Hyde. You may remember me from such blog posts as "because racecar" and "Cobb Shifter: The Short-Throw Life Saver." I punch buttons for Yahoo Autos these days, and thanks to the magic of Kinja and the traffic yearnings of Matt Hardigree, I'm able to share some of our exploits with you. Like this trip…
When I retire at 80, and take over some family land outside of Branson, I'm going to open a museum dedicated to American consumer innovation. It'll have fill-your-own Combos machines, a video tribute to Billy Mays and this Lincoln monster truck-amino limo, with nothing but Lee Greenwood on the stereo.
This mashup of 1973's "Paper Moon" with Gillian Welch's "Hard Times" has been stuck in my brain for weeks now, spinning like the hood ornament Ryan O'Neal's character keeps on his Model A. Something about the song, the sight of old dust that looks new, and about choosing your reaction to what ails us all.
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Maybe it's the sweet smell of forbidden fruit, but there's something about the Porsche 959 that's kept it near the top of many American enthusiast lists for nearly a quarter-century. Why someone let this one sit for 23 years without starting leaves me gobsmacked.
There's never been an appreciable audience for online video reviews of appliance cars. That hasn't stopped AutoTrader from making dozens of drowsy vids spiked with enough hot actresses and models to fill a Hummer limo. Because when the cars are boring, people will still check out the pretty faces, right? Right? Here's…
When Fisker Automotive won heaps of praise from Vice President Joe Biden and a $529 million loan from the U.S. government, officials touted the Karma luxury sedan as getting up to 100 miles a gallon, going 50 miles on a full battery charge and offering "supercar" performance. None of those targets were met — but…
Author Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series doesn't just draw from Cussler's own imagination, but also his garage — a sprawling antique car collection that includes such notables as the ever-lustful Cadillac V-16. MaxxCravesTheOldGizmodo will never earn enough to buy even a Caddy V-16 badge off his Jalopnik comments,…
I promise that after today, our comments of the day for the rest of the week will be as un-serious as possible, but for today the best conversations still involved Dan Wheldon, including Armchair Racer's reaction to The Booth Babe's post on life as a racer's spouse.
After years of delay, Fisker Auto has cleared one final hurdle with the achievement of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions approval, and the first cash for a Fisker Karma has traded hands. How much gas those wealthy Karma buyers will save is still a mystery, but not for much longer. UPDATE Mystery over.
After 14 months and a couple thousand posts, this is my last week at Jalopnik. Hand over your yearbooks for a minute, and I promise to keep my pen drawings safe for work.
Following Dan Wheldon's death at the IndyCar race in Las Vegas on Sunday, his fellow drivers mourned the loss of their friend — then began to talk openly over Twitter about organizing themselves to push for safety changes.
Shawn Weimer needed a trip to a Detroit area gas station and convenience store at 3 a.m. last week, but knew he was too drunk to drive his GMC Safari. So he enlisted the nearest designated driver: His 9-year-old daughter, who used a booster seat to see and steer.
