Something curious happened over the weekend: a game called 'Spintires' rose through the Steam charts, eventually…
Something curious happened over the weekend: a game called 'Spintires' rose through the Steam charts, eventually…
After the Detroit Silverdome/Pontiac Silverdome dustup between Jalopnik Detroit and Gawker this weekend, quite a few…
I'd just like to remind everyone that assassination is the highest form of political protest. It could even be argued that the Second Amendment supports it...
Might be about the time I start looking for a new country to live in. This place is going to shit.
I won carspotting in Paris: here is a Facel Vega rounding the Place de la Nation on a beautiful May day.
I first saw this years ago on a TV show about Icelandic Land Cruisers that do glacier tours on giant low-pressure tires — they would do this out in the field with starter fluid and a lighter. By hand. Knowing a few Icelanders, it wouldn't surprise me if this was how they change their regular car tires, too.
The website Dirty Hero has dug up a fantastic old treasure trove of hand-drawn custom van styling tips that…
If you're like me, your one thought after seeing an auto museum's retrospective about a particular marque is "where…
Some might be able to build cars that are capable of higher speeds than the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport's 267.856…
I always loved Tatra's T87 because it seemed like a refugee from an alternate world that never was — a world of…
There were a number of streamliners in Germany in that era - many of the leaders in streamlining design were based in Germany in the '20s and '30s. The work by Paul Jaray is good to look up, as is the work of Wunibald Kamm or Edward Rumpler, if you want a particularly troubling personal story as well.
To know more about this era, I highly recommend reading "Grand Prix" by Marvano.
The Nazis were horrible. Unfathomably horrible. Any time you think you've seen just how horrible they were, go to…
Their solution? A chrome bowtie with the center cut out. They call it the "flowtie," and while it seems like a simple and obvious answer, it's good enough to allow three additional cubic meters of air into the engine per minute. Chevy says dropped the temperatures of engine coolant and engine oil by 2 degrees…
Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Cortina is an estate with plenty of room in the back, and apparently room enough up…
Like most of you, when I saw the first leaked photos of the Porsche 919 Hybrid Le Mans race car this morning, my…
It's a drawing.
Everyone knows the Porsche company's origin story, right? He designed a "People's Car" for that guy everyone gets…
Toy cars are a compromise: the simple ones "drive" like a roller skate, and the really serious ones are too…
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough see yourself become a villain to people who wouldn't buy one of your cars new anyway and bitch because you're super successful and can build whatever the fuck you want because people will buy whatever you make."