First gear: Is it possible that part of the sales slowdown in China is due to the pent-up demand having been exhausted? Everyone that wanted one, bought one and doesn’t need another yet?

I didn’t see this yesterday or I would have told mine then. Oh well, better late than never.

That’s some good Kinja.

“Ran when parked.”

Two words: Magnum Hellcat.

The reason hydrogen won’t ever catch on is because it’s not a fuel, it’s an energy transport mechanism. It has to be extracted from water (which takes energy), compressed (which takes energy) and stored (which takes, you guessed it, MORE ENERGY). All it does is transport the energy from the power plant to the car,…

Great article. One question: A lot of times when someone from Jalopnik reviews a car, he or she mentions the other perks the manufacturer gave him or her (hotel, meals, etc.). How do those factor in on top of the cost of the car?

I think my favorite part about the Manned Venus Flyby mission is the fact that, to ensure that the service module engines were pointed the correct way in case of anything going wrong before the point of no return, the Earth-Venus injection burn would have had the capsule (and therefore the astronauts) pointed back…

The new Cruze looks like a Civic. Seriously. (While we’re talking about it, am I the only one who thinks the new Ford Edge looks EXACTLY like a Hyundai?)

So...they’ve got Kerry Earnhardt driving his dad’s car, Sir Kensington Blockworth driving the Hoonicorn, and Stirling Moss driving a 300SLR (not to mention they have an ENTIRE CLASS for SLRs)?

borrowed a vehicle from Auto America Automotive Corp.

I was reading the Wikipedia article on Billy Graham some time back (I don’t remember why), and the more I read the more I came to see how little he actually has in common with his descendants’ beliefs, given his stance on integration and his refusal to be aligned with the religious right at large. Since he’s been away…

So here’s my question: How do these things drive? Because looking at the specs, all I see is Honda’s version of the Chevy Trax/Buick Encore, and I know one of the biggest quibbles with those is the lack of power. The four-cylinder in the HR-V has the same amount of power, with less torque, and only about 300 lbs…

I’m calling it now: if you want to buy a car from one of the Big 2.5, buy it now. I smell a strike coming on.

Lots of “hush-hush” and “whoosh-whoosh.”

Why is the What Car Should You Buy? promo a still image instead of a video, you ask? Because the Photoshop minions at Gawker Media are still digitally putting pants on DeMuro frame by frame.

I think the sacrificing of Ram and the Wrangler in favor of Alfa proves that either 1) Sergio ultimately doesn’t care about what the US market wants or needs, or 2) he has no clue what he’s doing. I still think the reason behind the merger was because Chrysler was sitting on all that sweet, sweet cash and Fiat was…

I wonder what the market would be for a supplier of engines, like ZF or Borg-Warner are for transmissions.