One of the best parts of being at Monterey Car Week is just driving around the peninsula and carspotting. You’ll see everything from Ferrari 250 GTOs and unrestored pre-war Bugattis to brand new hypercars and one-off concepts casually sitting in traffic or in parking lots. It’s really incredible. But this year, the car I spotted … Read more
Not only is today’s Nice Price or No Dice Saab a drop-top, but it also has performance chops, as it sports the reasonably rare Viggen package. Let’s see if that makes its price anything worth getting worked up over. 2025 Jetta GLI: The Last Manual Volkswagen A common idiom derived from baseball is to “swing … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, September 5, 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. The GM EV1 Was a Great First Effort With No Follow-Up 1st Gear: Automakers See Sales Boost With … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 6, 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. The Toyota CH-R Is Dead in America 1st Gear: Toyota Cuts EV Production Targets Toyota has already proven … Read more
In the midst of an American manufacturing collapse, Flint, Michigan, spent millions building a twisted monument to the very industry that was leaving its citizens high and dry. AutoWorld, the world’s first automotive theme park, was sold as the answer to Flint’s woes. It would turn around the city with the highest unemployment in the … Read more
Happy Friday! It’s August 30, 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. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ For Climate Change Disappears From Tesla’s Website Elon … Read more
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Chevy says “If you like Vegas, come check it out, you won’t be disappointed.” Let’s see if the price proves otherwise. The Honda CR-Z Was a Great Idea in the Wrong Package We had a real nail-biter in the voting yesterday. Many in the comments complained … Read more
It’s been over a year since Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed to open up the company’s Supercharger network to vehicles from other automakers. At the time, it was looked at as a great move for the auto industry and, in theory, it still is. However, more than 12 months later, Tesla’s network (with nearly 30,000 … Read more
Compact crossovers are the darling of the automotive industry right now. Basically every automaker has at least one, and some have even more than that. Because of this fact, when a new entrant to the market comes out, it needs to be quite impressive to capture the attention of your average Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 … Read more
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik Sometimes, I am very confused by the choices car companies make when it comes to the interiors of their vehicles. There’s a lot of two-steps-forward, one-step-back stuff going on, and a great example of this is drive mode selectors. Car companies have decided that even on the most mundane of … Read more
