You know my thoughts on not feeling bad if your car isn’t the top shelf model. Here’s another piece of advice: don’t be too steadfast in your beliefs. Be open to new experiences.

No one, except for white supremacists, seems happy with President Donald Trump’s doubling down on the “well BOTH SIDES were BAD” response to racially-motivated protests and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend. That included business leaders who struggled with how to handle their public ties to the…

Jalopnik’s Deputy Editor Michael Ballaban: Journalist. Lover. Patron of the arts. Anchovy syrup enthusiast. Above all else, driving god. But how did he get that way? Are heroes like Mike born, or are they made? It’s definitely the latter, and in our latest video, you’ll learn how by seeing what really happens at a…

One of my beefs with car culture—parts of it, at least, not all of it—is the way it emphasizes the biggest and the best. Especially in America, where horsepower and quarter mile times are king. Everything has to be SS or M or AMG or V, top shelf, for it to be any good. This is the wrong way to think.

Punch above your weight class today.

So, uh, how was your day today, fellow American citizen?

You kids wanna see something cool? Here’s a hi-res wireframe cutaway of the Infiniti Prototype 9, the faux-vintage electric race car concept that should be lame but is actually good.

There was so much to love about this summer’s latest Edgar Wright jam, Baby Driver. The stunts! The amazing soundtrack! Kevin Spacey being a weirdo! The charming Baby Driver and his nice girlfriend! But there’s one way to make it better, because it makes everything better: Eurobeat.

BMW has famously declared that sports cars are all but dead, but at some point they must have said “fuck it” to team up with Toyota and bring us a new roadster. We’ll see it later this week at Monterey Car Week, but for now here’s a teaser.

Breaking news: the 2018 Jeep Wrangler looks like... a Jeep Wrangler! This should surprise literally no one, but it’s now confirmed in what appears to be a shot of the new “JLU” Wrangler at Jeep’s Toledo plant. It comes to us by way of our friends at the JL Wrangler forums.

America’s proudest moment as a country came in 1967, when Carroll Shelby’s team of A. J. Foyt and Dan Gurney sent Ferrari’s team home crying into their spaghetti bowls at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That day, the Ford GT40 was cemented as a racing legend and America looked cool as hell. Now, to celebrate that kickass…

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Sadly, it is Monday again. What can you do? Drive to work in the opulence of your Lincoln Continental Mark VI like this nice couple here, I suppose.

Leave it to a tiny car company like Mazda to pull off something the big players have been trying to figure out for years. That’s the deal with the new “SkyActiv-X” series of engines, which use revolutionary technology to achieve diesel-like fuel economy with gasoline. If you want to see how it likely works, …

The world is often cruel and without reason. But! The Nissan Pao exists. So there’s that.

Hi! It’s Friday. A summer Friday, no less, and nobody really does any work during those. It’s time for you to slack off with us and talk about the cars, and anything else that’s on your mind.