Screenshot: Liam Doran There is a fine line between wack and inspired. Liam Doran toes that line with incredible deftness with his most recent monster Mini Cooper pickup. This little guy features a pair of Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R engines, each pushing high-rev ponies to the tires. This flyweight wonder is built to go fast, do … Read more
Screenshot: tpain on Instagram T-Pain’s “Rick And Morty”-themed Pickle Rick drift car is the subject of a story that has dragged on for years. The short version is that this car was a pretty standard LS-powered Nissan S14 drift build, and T-Pain loaned it to his mechanic and friend for use in a television show. … Read more
Since Americans first laid eyes on Best Motoring, Initial D, and Pluspy, we’ve wanted nothing more than to slide ’90s JDM shitboxes through the mountains of Gunma. But why spend all that time yearning for the touge roads of Japan, when we’ve got mountains aplenty right here at home? Jalopnik Finds Another Top Secret Project … Read more
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb event founded over 30 years ago that takes place in West Sussex, England every summer. Goodwood isn’t known for being a particularly rowdy automotive event, in fact the website recommends “smart casual” as the dress code, but that didn’t stop New Hampshire–born pro drifter Ryan Tuerck from annihilating the … Read more
If you’re familiar with the Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya, you know he loves to take very cool cars and get them slideways on track. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is a very cool car, as are the RN22e and Vision N 74 concepts. So naturally, when Hyundai handed Tsuchiya the keys to all three, he … Read more
Up until now, the majority of my driving has been on roads or highways and has pretty much always involved pointing forwards. I’ve not done a ton of track driving and have definitely never attempted to drift — until today. Caterham believes that with a little bit of hard work and a whole heap of … Read more
Who doesn’t love a wall of death? Motorcycles whipping around in circles on perfectly vertical planes, kept from falling only by the friction of their tires and the centrifugal force of their speed. In fact, wouldn’t it be nice to have a wall of death of your very own? Restomodded EMC Mercedes 250GD Wolf Colin … Read more
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. Jalopnik Finds Another Top Secret Project Car at NYIAS: An S15 … Read more
Ignacio has relocated from South America to New York state and is looking for an affordable car ideally with all-wheel drive to manage his commute to the train and eventually pass it down to a teenage driver. With a budget of up to $20,000, what car should he buy? (Welcome back to What Car Should … Read more
Despite growing up in Massachusetts and spending seven years in Michigan, I cannot stand winter, which is why I happily moved to Los Angeles a few years ago. I hate the cold and wind, I hate the slush, I hate having to get bundled up. But the one thing I miss is driving in the … Read more
