Editor-in-Chief at Jalopnik. Not mad, just disappointed.
So the Toyota GR Performance cars aren’t much to write home about. We’ve been burned by these people before. The really sad fact of all this is it’s another reminder that we don’t get any of Japan’s cool mini-minivans.
Akio Toyoda is a man who lives for speed. He’s an amateur racer. He’s the patron saint of the rear-drive 86 coupe. He’s the driving force behind Lexuses that are fast and powerful. He secretly takes old race cars out of the Toyota vault and challenges teens to illegal drift contests. (Okay, not the last one, but I bet…
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It’s a real-life Iron Man story: a billionaire is terribly injured in a way that doesn’t kill him, but leaves him in constant pain and risk of further health problems, so he turns to technology of the highest order to protect him and save his life. It’s not a comic book though; it’s what the engineers at McLaren…
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I was appalled to learn that my colleagues, the Mikes Roselli and Ballaban, did not like the 2017 BMW M2. Too hardcore, they said. Too harsh and crazy and ill-suited to daily driving! I called shenanigans on that, and I’m thrilled to say I’m right and they’re wrong.
It’s Friday! This guy’s ready to get out there and drive like a champion in his Nissan 200SX. Are you?
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
“Come at the king, you best not miss.” That’s what Omar said, and it applies in scenarios like this one. The king is the BMW 3 Series, the midsize sport sedan everyone buys. And these days it has more challengers coming at it than ever. Meet the latest and most different one yet: the 2018 Genesis G70, the first…
I had high hopes for the Mini Clubman John Cooper Works. And I will admit that at first, I was disappointed.
In the early and mid-1990s, you could walk into your local Mazda dealer and buy any of these sporty coupes. And the RX-7. Things were better in the ‘90s.
Chris Bangle was one of the few modern car designers who nearly reached household-name status—and not always because people loved his work. As head of BMW design from 1992 to 2009, he oversaw a transformation of the brand’s styling from boxy and conservative to radical and forward thinking. Sometimes it worked,…
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
I work hard. I pay my taxes, most of the time. I stay away from any hard drugs and I try not to commit crimes. I am good upstanding American; I know this because I keep telling myself that I am and that makes it true. But there is one thing I can never have: the latest generation Audi RS4 Avant.
Like Subaru, when you think of Audi you probably think of all-wheel drive. Traction, glorious traction, pulling you through the corners and conquering the elements! But now Audi has moved the drivetrain of hooligans and psychopaths, rear-wheel drive, to its R8 supercar. Meet the Audi R8 RWS, for rear-wheel series.
Behold! You are gazing upon the future of Volkswagen. It is not in peculiar diesel hatchbacks that find clever ways to skirt emissions regulations, but in clean electric cars built in crossover SUV bodies that Americans might actually buy. This is the Volkswagen I.D. Crozz II concept.
The renaissance of the Toyota AE86, Eurobeat, endless memes: there’s a weird amount of modern car culture we owe to Initial D, the hugely popular Japanese manga and anime about street racing. Now creator Shuichi Shigeno is back with a new comic project, and I’m excited about it because this time he tackles the future.
