Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik While it may be tough to describe to your parents, significant others or friends who don’t care about cars, there’s something just plain cool about a ute. These car-based trucks once roamed the streets of the United States, but now they’re mainly relegated to South America and Australia, and even there are … Read more
That’s not a typo in the name of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Stepwgn; that’s actually how Honda named it. Let’s see if the price of this privately-imported mini-camper also looks like a mistake. Joyriding On Two Honda Bikes In The Hudson Valley Many comments on yesterday’s 2000 Ford F-150 Stake Bed noted its … Read more
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 1, 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: 45,000 Dock Workers Strike On East Coast Dockworkers on the U.S. … Read more
North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson has been credibly accused of previously being a frequent poster in a porn forum, which wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t allegedly referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and said he supported bringing back slavery. He also referred to himself as a “perv,” so when we heard … Read more
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it’s been put to work exploring the surface of the Red Planet. In the process, it’s traversed more than 20 miles of the lunar surface, which hasn’t been too kind on its little roving wheels. I Need A Sporty Ride That Can Haul … Read more
For decades, if you wanted cold drinks on a road trip, your only option was to pack a cooler with a bunch of ice. It worked back then, and it still works today, but coolers are heavy and bulky, so it was pretty awesome when some automakers started adding built-in refrigerators in their cars. At … Read more
Screenshot: BBC It may take years to recover from all of the damage caused by last week’s Hurricane Helene landfall. Flooding and high winds conspired to down trees and power lines and tear up concrete and asphalt, making the thoroughfares that the people of the region rely on impassable. Over the weekend reports from North … Read more
Photo: Kevin Carter (Getty Images) The National Transportation Safety Board warned over 40 foreign airlines on Tuesday that their Boeing 737 planes may be fitted with potentially dangerous rudder components. The agency identified 271 parts that could fail and jam the rudder control system. The NTSB discovered the issue while investigating a February landing incident … Read more
Photo: Ford As enthusiasts, we generally like cars. You probably wouldn’t be reading an enthusiast site if you didn’t like them in some capacity. And yet, the more you drive and learn about cars, you’ll inevitably start to become a hater. Not necessarily of the cars you already liked but of the cars that don’t … Read more
The CEO of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible that imploded killing five people last year was reportedly prepared to go to extreme measures to get his controversial craft in the ocean. Former OceanGate boss Stockton Rush reportedly told colleagues that he was prepared to bribe lawmakers if it meant his missions to the … Read more
