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Your first car is usually some hand-me-down box of rust. In my case it was an ’84 Volvo 240 DL, the interior of…
The systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers. But the…
As Jalopnik’s resident car buying expert and professional car shopper, I get emails. Lots of emails. I’ve decided to…
Ever since Alexei Leonov first floated around like a Soviet piñata outside his Voskhod 2 spacecraft in 1965, people…
What are you doing, InsideEVs? Are you really that thirsty for Tesla truck clicks? Is there a gas leak at your…
Allow me to set the scene. You’re home alone... or, well, you thought you were home alone, but now there’s some…
In 1897, Cambridge students lined the streets to protest a vote that would grant women the right to earn a degree at…
Time to get into the spirit of Christmas, literally. Flaviar has two Advent calendars available for preorder that…
Aaron lives in the DC area and loves classic cars with a bit of character, but what he needs is a sensible commuter…
You know what I love about our readers? I mean besides everything, and the way they smell? The fact that one of our…
I’m pretty sure the Packard Clipper was the only car to have a picture of another kind of steering wheel as the center badge on its actual steering wheel.
In high school a friend of mine frequently wore a t-shirt proudly emblazoned with “Ballooning Is A Natural High”…
One of the best things I ever did with my Volkswagen was take a gigantic trunk half as big as the car itself, strap…
JoAnna Wendel is a science cartoonist and writer in Washington, DC. She loves space, planets, rocks, and her cat,…
One of the more lamentable trends over the last several decades has been SUVs, pick-up trucks and crossovers…
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This past summer I was minding my own business at a local establishment when a friend of a friend approached me…