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Local Motors Rally Fighter, Dodge Viper RT/10, Yamaha XSR900: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Folks, happy Friday. Did this week feel like it was all Fridays to anyone else? Monday was a Monday, but from Tuesday on everything just felt like the weekend was right around the corner. As it turns out, forever approaching the weekend without ever reaching it isn’t as fun as it sounds. Read more…

Watch Amazing Long Beach Grand Prix Onboards Through The Decades The Long Beach Grand Prix has been a major piece of international motorsport mystique since its inception in the mid-1970s. This is a race that has showcased Formula 5000, F1, CART, Champ Car, IndyCar, Formula E, sports cars, and vintage racers —and a bunch of other stuff too — though not always at the same time.… Read more…

Is Fernando Alonso The Aston Martin Taylor Swift Sings About On ‘Tortured Poets?’ It’s a big day. Taylor Swift just released her heartbreaking new album and surprised fans by making it a whopping double release with 31 songs and more than two-hours of new music. Have you listened yet? If so, have you spotted the subtle Aston Martin reference that some fans think is a nod to Formula 1 racer Fernando… Read more…

At $34,500, Is This 1971 Ford Torino GT A Classic Bargain? According to the seller, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Torino convertible is one of 1,613 GTs built for 1971. There are likely way fewer left today, so let’s find out what such scarcity might reasonably be worth. Read more…

Ford Wants To Remind You Of All The Times The Mustang Had A Good Livery By Giving It A Bad Livery When was the last time you saw a truly good racing livery? Think about it for a minute. A great stand-alone livery that will be looked back on as iconic in fifty years time, one that isn’t a throwback or homage, one that isn’t just a mishmash of black, white, and red —that’s a true rarity these days. I will say that i… Read more…

$10 Doesn’t Buy Much These Days, But It’ll Get You 3 Shares Of Vinfast With Some Change Left Over Considering how bad our first experience with the VinFast VF8 was, it didn’t seem like the best idea for VinFast to go public. Then again, no one at Jalopnik is an investment expert, so maybe someone smarter was giving better advice we just couldn’t understand. Right out of the gate, it looked like we couldn’t… Read more…

BMW’s ‘The Hire’ Short Films Are The Best Car Ads We Ever Got Read more…

San Jose Cops Caught Asking Drivers, ‘Are There Any Dead Babies In The Car?’ When you get pulled over, you generally expect the officer to ask for your license and registration. You generally don’t expect to be interrogated over whether or not you’re transporting any children’s corpses. And yet, that’s what an independent audit of the San Jose Police Department found happened at least twice… Read more…

Make This Street-Legal Ferrari Race Car Your New Daily Driver And Be As Cool As You Are Uncomfortable There is an old French adage that goes “one must suffer to be beautiful.” I don’t know much about that, but I would posit that one certainly must suffer to be truly cool. Everything in this world worth experiencing has a bit of a hard edge to it, a thing you have to give up to get it. That’s how cool is built. And if… Read more…

Lucid Air Grand Touring Keeps Best-In-The-U.S. EV Range Despite Tougher EPA Test The 2024 Lucid Air Grand Touring is getting some important updates that’ll take its world-beating 516 miles of range in 2023 to… 516 miles of range. I know that sounds wrong, but it’s actually correct: See, Lucid says the EPA made its electric range test more challenging for 2024, but thanks to a new heat pump and… Read more…

Air Canada Employee Arrested Over $15 Million Airport Gold Heist Exactly a year after 6,600 bars of 99.99-percent pure gold were reported missing at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Peel Regional Police has announced multiple arrests in connection with the brazen heist seemingly ripped straight from the silver screen. Law enforcement claims two Air Canada employees were… Read more…

I’m A Sporty Guy Looking For A Big (But Not Too Big) First Car! What Should I Buy? Casey is getting his driver’s license soon and is eying up some options for his first ride. With a budget limited to $15,000, he wants something comfortable with a bit of luxury and enough cargo space for sports gear. What car should he buy? Read more…

Enjoy The Highs: Success In F1 Is Mental As Well As Mechanical Formula 1 is a pretty predictable sport these days, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen taking to the top step of the podium at almost every race. For young drivers looking to make their mark in F1, this poses all kinds of challenges as hopes of scoring points slip away every weekend. Because of this, ex-racer and Williams… Read more…

EVs Are Still Too Expensive For Buyers, Despite Huge Discounts Electric vehicles are seeing huge discounts right now, but those new lower prices are still not enough to get folks to, y’know, buy them. Now, an ever-more-bloated EV inventory is pushing automakers and dealers to slash prices even further. Five-figure price discounts are no longer out of the question. Read more…

Cloud-Making Aircraft Probably Didn’t Cause Dubai’s Record Flooding Scientists are developing all kinds of wild tech to try and change our climate, including carbon capture machines to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and special chemicals that can create rain clouds in places susceptible to drought. Now, those very creations are being blamed for record-breaking flooding in the Middle… Read more…

Toyota’s Fifth-Generation Hybrid System Finally Made The Camry Fun To Drive The Toyota Camry has always been a lot of good things — reliable, efficient, comfortable — but it’s never exactly been thrilling to drive. That has changed with the introduction of the ninth-generation Camry. For 2025, Toyota’s trusty midsize sedan has been pared down to just one powertrain option, a 2.5-liter… Read more…

Formula DRIFT Is Back Formula DRIFT is back, baby, kicking off another year of sliding in Long Beach, California. The rules have changed (a little), the cars spent the offseason getting tested and tuned, and everything’s shaping up for a great year of drifting. Except that damn rain. Read more…

2024 Formula 1 Host Countries Ranked By Their Respect For Human Rights Formula 1 is a multi-million dollar form of motorsport that jets a lot of rich dudes all around the world. It’s a sport where cash is king, and The Powers That Be will take that cash no matter where it comes from. Sometimes, the money comes from other well-to-do rich dudes who have been investing in F1 for so long… Read more…

Elon Musk Apologizes For Underpaying Laid-Off Workers But Still Demands His Own $56 Billion Pay Day Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 18, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Watch A Car Briefly Serve As A Plane Before Crashing Into House Drivers have jumped all kinds of mad stuff in recent months, including one who got airborne jumping over a low-loader on a highway. Now, a driver in California got some serious air and managed to hop over a parked pickup truck before smashing into a garage. Read more…