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What’s Your Favorite Celebrity Car? For whatever reason, people are enamored with celebrities, but as a car person I care more about celebrities’ cars than their latest tropical vacation or newest starring role. Celebrities are known to have some of the most ostentatious cars, but also some more mundane rides, too. If you’re a big Kardashian fan, then… Read more…

These Cars Are The Worst Deals Right Now, According To Consumer Reports Thankfully, the new car market is no longer anything like it was at the height of the pandemic. Dealers actually have inventory again, and there are deals to be had. Unfortunately, that’s not true for every single new car. While you can expect to get a few thousand dollars off on a Mercedes-Benz C-Class or an Alfa… Read more…

‘Buc-ee’s 444 Miles’ Billboard Delights Drivers In State With No Gas Station Allegiance Buc-ee’s, Wawa, Sheetz — these are the legendary gas-and-go outfits that have gathered cult-like followings in their regions. They involve gas pumps and decent food–the perfect mix for both road trips and every day running around. Out here in Michigan however, we have no such temple to America’s twin gods of gasoline… Read more…

Lee Iacocca Celebrated The Mustang’s 45th Anniversary With A Custom-Bodied Limited Edition This week Ford celebrated the 60th anniversary of its iconic Mustang, another big milestone for the brand’s pony car. While this 60th anniversary has brought a new special edition and some other fun announcements, 15 years ago the Mustang’s 45th birthday was celebrated in a very special way. Read more…

At $9,500, Is This 2006 Mercedes CLK500 Ready For Frugal Fun? With convertible weather right around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about cars like today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercedes. Let’s see if this droptop still needs a drop in its price. Read more…

Compare The 2025 Toyota Camry’s Comfort And Sport Trims From Every Angle Last week, Toyota flew me out to San Diego, California to test a handful of its newest and most exciting products. There was one vehicle, though, that many of my colleagues were willing to write off before they’d even seen it, and that’s the new 2025 Toyota Camry. I had a chance to test both comfort and sport trims —… Read more…

Used Car Buying Horror Stories, As Told By Jalopnik Readers Sometimes I wonder if the car-buying process is ever good, easy, or enjoyable. Sometimes I wonder if there are specific caveats that dictate used car buying must be especially terrible. This week, I asked the fine readers of Jalopnik dot com about their horrible used-car buying experiences, and you all delivered. From… Read more…

Unidentified Submerged Objects Are What We Should Really Worry About Officially, the U.S. government has no proof that sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena are the result of alien activity. Apparently, though, the definitely-probably-not-aliens have been observed operating unidentified submerged objects in our oceans, Fox News reports. They fly, too, but when they want, they… Read more…

You Won’t Recognize The 2025 Toyota Camry’s Sporty Aspirations When I told folks I was set to review the 2025 Toyota Camry, the response was pretty much standard across the board: “Good luck.” Good luck finding something interesting to say. Good luck remembering the finer points of the drive. Good luck enjoying yourself. Well, sorry to all the haters and losers, but the 2025… Read more…

Tesla Investors Pissed At Elon Musk For Vague Model 2 Stance Elon Musk is good at two things: having a lot of kids and pissing people off. Now, the Tesla CEOis angering his investors after he sent out an extremely vague social media post following a report from Reuters that the planned $25,000 Tesla is dead. He basically accused the outlet of “lying” on his social media… Read more…

‘No Reason’ Williams Can’t Win F1 Races And Championships Again, Says Jenson Button The Williams Formula 1 team last won a championship way back in 1997 and it took its last race win in 2012 when Pastor Maldonado took the checkered flag in a shocking Spanish Grand Prix. Since then, Williams has been stuck at the back of the pack fighting for Q2 appearances and points whenever it can get them. Now,… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he parked the truck in his garage, where it decided… Read more…

Three Million Hondas Possibly Impacted By Braking Defect That Has Injured 93 People About 3 million Hondas are facing increased scrutiny from the U.S. National Traffic Safety Administration after over 1,000 complaints about the unexpected activation of the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system. Now, those cars are facing an engineering analysis from the organization. Read more…

Boston Dynamics Built A New Robot For Hyundai, And It Will Haunt Your Dreams Atlas is dead, long live Atlas. The hydraulically-articulated version of Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot was retired last week in favor of its electric motor-driven version introduced on Wednesday. Hyundai is majority owner of Boston Dynamics, and the new all-electric Atlas will eventually replace the company’s… Read more…

Unhoused Man Builds Entire House Off The Side Of A Los Angeles Freeway Housing is tight across the country, but it seems to feel tightest in Southern California. Between low supply and rents that stubbornly won’t come down, residents — like myself — are being squeezed on both sides by the issues. Some are taking things into their own hands and literally making their own dwellings near… Read more…

Behind The Wheel Of The 2024 Maserati Ghibli 334 Ultima Read more…

Don’t Use Your Car As A Weapon We, as Jalops, all enjoy cars. It’s one of our defining traits. While we may get into our own debates about whether cars are better for pleasure or commuting, long trips or short grocery runs, there’s one use case we can all agree is bad: Cars should really not be weapons. Read more…

Ex-Congressman Madison Cawthorn Reportedly Hospitalizes State Trooper In Car Crash Last we heard from former North Carolina representative Madison Cawthorn, he had just been caught driving on a revoked license for a second time. He’d been pulled over three times in five months. The credibly accused sex pest who also had a habit of trying to take guns through airport security apparently hasn’t… Read more…

At Least 424 Cargo Ships Lost Power In U.S. Waters Over The Last 3 Years After the MV Dali brought down the Franklin Key Bridge in Baltimore, folks wondered how this could happen, and could it happen again? As if to answer this unspoken question, it almost immediately happened again: the APL Qingdao lost power near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor earlier this month. Read more…

You Must Apply To Buy Ford’s $300,000 Mustang GTD When Ford unveiled the hardcore Mustang GTD at Monterey Car Week last year, its aggressive face was plastered all across the internet, and as of Wednesday, Americans and Canadians can apply to potentially buy one.The application opens today, April 17, 2024, exactly 60 years after the first Mustang debuted at the 1964… Read more…