Determining whether a vehicle is good, bad, or something in between boils down to weighing what you get versus what you give up. If you want performance, you’ll have to give up practicality and giving up practicality means giving up usability. And when you give up usability, why have a car in the first place?

We know the Porsche Cayman GT4 is one of the best track-ready cars that money can buy. It’s got the big motor, a stick shift, and GT3 components all packed into a mid-engine platform. But how does it compare to the actual race-car version, the GT4 Clubsport? We joined our friends from CJ Wilson Racing at Willow…

The sound of a motorcycle is part of what makes a motorcycle, a motorcycle. It’s a key strand of DNA and if it were to go missing, what would that be like? Is it safe? Would anyone even want one?

There are people in this world who love surprises. I am not one of them. As Jalopnik’s Video Director, it’s my job to make sure surprises don’t happen while we’re on a video shoot. Yet, in late February, the Jalopnik staff managed to put one past me—and I don’t completely hate them for it.

We know that the Nissan GT-R’s twin-turbo V6 engine is hand-built, but what we may not know is who those hands belong to. At this year’s New York Auto Show, Nissan brought three Takumi, or master craftsmen, along with them to build a GT-R engine right on the show floor. We recorded it in real-time as it happened and…

There are plenty of one-word adjectives that describe the interior of this $170K luxury vehicle. Comfortable, lavish, supple, sumptuous. Those all work, but only one adequately expresses the feeling from the backseat — powered. Yes, there are so many movable things inside the S63 that I didn’t know if I could film…

What does one do when given the keys to a brand new, bright yellow Ford Mustang GT? Call up an equally radioactive green 2013 Mustang Boss 302 and rip up the best backroads known to man, of course.

The 5.2-liter twin-turbo V12 which lives under the hood of the new 2017 Aston Martin DB11 sounds like an exotic blend of burbles and symphonies. Just listen for yourself.

The A-10 Thunderbolt, also known as the “Warthog,” is my favorite aircraft of all time for one reason: its gun. The bullets that exit the tip of the plane’s barrel travel faster than the speed of sound. This means that if you’re an enemy on the ground and hear its telltale BRRAP, you’re already dead. I’ll likely never…

I picked one, two, three pieces of rubber from my eye as Chris Forsberg threw his car into neutral after a tandem run at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. His 350-horsepower Nissan was so sideways, it felt like the wheels were castors plucked from an office chair. I was riding shotgun, attempting to film it all.

Flexing is popular on Instagram, but it takes on new meaning for Jeep owners wanting to strut their stuff. When done correctly, the shots can be impressive. When it goes wrong, the video can be spectacular.

It’s no secret what happens during an auto show, but have you ever seen what happens before one? That’s what this week’s episode of Jalopnik Investigates is all about.

My Uncle Nick and I don’t always get to talk. A shame, considering he’s one of the true car guys in my family. While on the phone with him late last night, I did the math—seven months since we last spoke. He asked me, “What’s new?” I started with, “So Jalopnik started a YouTube channel...and 90,000 subscribers later,…

I know what you’re thinking. “V8 Camaro or bust.” I too, love the soundtrack of a small-block V8 pushing power to the rear tires, as god intended. But the V6 does impressive audio too. My colleague Andrew Collins mentioned how the exhaust is his second-favorite thing on the new 2016 Camaro, I’m here to prove his…

It was already an uncomfortable feeling, standing next to a custom motorcycle in the middle of a restaurant I didn’t know the name of, in a country I’d never been to, talking with a man I couldn’t understand. And then he fired the damn thing up.

Fact: Mitsubishi Evolution owners don’t like to leave their cars stock. Maggie Stiefvater, who owned a perfectly good Evo 10, is no exception. She SPRAY PAINTED her car (in a very picturesque setting, I might add) for reasons I cannot explain. What I can explain is the desire to modify your car when challenged for a…

Many many years ago, before you were even born, my dad asked me to “bring a tape down to the car” because he wanted to “show me something cool.”

If you do it right, detailing cars takes time. It takes a lot of time. So what if you’re detailing hundreds of LA Auto Show floor cars like George Perez of Executive Auto Grooming? Then you you’ve got to think of ways to save yourself time in the process. Enter the completely badass and one-of-a-kind detailing race…

There’s a tried and true recipe for car ownership that everyone should go through: buy a cheap car, neglect it, and see how long it’ll last. Sometimes you’ll be rewarded with resilience and that $500 beater lasts longer than something costing four times as much. Other times, you get what you pay for and you’ll wind up…