Ford Hiked The Maverick’s Base Price By Nearly 25 Percent In Three Years

Ford Hiked The Maverick’s Base Price By Nearly 25 Percent In Three Years

The 2025 model year Ford Maverick was revealed earlier this week with a host of new features, styling tweaks and the availability of an all-wheel-drive hybrid model. Amid all that news, no one is really talking about the Maverick’s price. In the three years since the Maverick went on sale, its base price has risen by … Read more

This Commercial Is Not How You Sell Cars, Mazda

This Commercial Is Not How You Sell Cars, Mazda

Screenshot: Mazda Here at Jalopnik, we’re big fans of Mazda. We love the Miata so much, it might as well be our unofficial mascot. We also regularly encourage friends and family to buy Mazdas because they’re great cars. I’m personally responsible for at least five CX-5 sales and a couple of Mazda 3s. So it … Read more

2025 Toyota GR Corolla Gets Optional 8-Speed Auto And Track-Proven Upgrades

2025 Toyota GR Corolla Gets Optional 8-Speed Auto And Track-Proven Upgrades

As we expected, following its introduction on the GR Yaris earlier this year, Toyota is adding the option of an 8-speed automatic transmission to the GR Corolla hot hatch. The new auto comes along with an overall facelift for the 2025 model year GR Corolla that brings more torque, tweaked styling and other new features. … Read more

RTR Brings Mystichrome Paint Back To The Mustang Because Ford Won’t

RTR Brings Mystichrome Paint Back To The Mustang Because Ford Won’t

We live in an age of fantastic car colors. Vibrant greens, bright blues, gorgeous reds — and all of them absolute crap compared to RTR’s revived Mystichrome. We’ve done it, everyone, we’ve found the ideal car color. We can stop painting cars anything else. 2024 Mustang Dark Horse On Track And The Road | First … Read more

Monstrous Twin-Engine Mitsubishi-Powered Geo Metro Could Be The Thing That Kills You

Monstrous Twin-Engine Mitsubishi-Powered Geo Metro Could Be The Thing That Kills You

When this Geo Metro was just an economical commuter for its first owner back in 1995, it weighed 1800 pounds and made 55 horsepower from a one-liter inline-three engine. According to the person selling this monster, the since-modified car allegedly weighs less than it did in stock form despite carrying six total liters, twelve total … Read more

What’s The Worst Sports Car Ever Made?

What’s The Worst Sports Car Ever Made?

Image: Chevrolet Automotive history is filled with cars that just weren’t it. In every segment, there is a slew of cars that can be genuinely hated. Today we’re talking about sports cars, and one of the worst — at least in my opinion — is the third-generation Chevrolet Camaro. 2024 Mustang Dark Horse On Track … Read more

Watch This Camaro SS Grind On The Wall Of A Track While Racing A Miata

Watch This Camaro SS Grind On The Wall Of A Track While Racing A Miata

Gif: Backroads Streetcars YouTube You probably shouldn’t go full send at the track if you don’t know what you are doing; good advice that might have benefited this Camaro driver who not only embarrassed themselves at a racetrack in Illinois, but likely totaled their car in the process. Chevrolet Is The Target To Beat This … Read more

Why Won’t Automakers Tell Us How Often People Actually Charge Their Plug-In Hybrids?

Why Won’t Automakers Tell Us How Often People Actually Charge Their Plug-In Hybrids?

On paper, plug-in hybrids offer the best of both worlds — electric power for daily driving and gas power for longer trips — but to get the most out of a PHEV, you have to charge it. Take the Toyota RAV4 Prime, for example. It has a 42-mile electric-only range, is rated at 94 MPGe … Read more

Old Payphone Pedestal Saves 2 People From Being Crushed By Out-Of-Control Car

Old Payphone Pedestal Saves 2 People From Being Crushed By Out-Of-Control Car

Surveillance camera footage captured a truly wild scene as the lives of two people were saved from a car that was about to roll over them in Milwaukee over the weekend. The hero in all of this? A disused payphone pedestal. This is why it’s important to embrace tradition. The incident starts with a two-car … Read more

GM Is Selling Formerly Faulty Bought-Back EVs At Deep Discounts

GM Is Selling Formerly Faulty Bought-Back EVs At Deep Discounts

GM’s Ultium vehicles have had a shaky few years, with the company buying back vehicles for problems ranging from shaky build quality to risk of spontaneous fires. Now those cars are finding their way to the used market with some huge discounts. You just have to trust GM finally fixed the underlying issues with the … Read more