Driving at 60 miles per hour, it would take nearly 71 days to cover 100,000 miles. For my family’s 2018 Buick Regal TourX it has taken just a smidge over five years to rack up that kind of mileage. Twenty-thousand miles per year every year for five years. It’s clear we’ve absolutely loved having this … Read more
Photo: Mini Pandemic-induced supply chain shortages are finally working themselves out, so there’s a good chance that 2024 will be a much better year for new car buyers. Still, an abundance of cars on dealer lots isn’t going to magically turn a $60,000 car into a $30,000 car. The good news is, though, you can … Read more
Tucked next to roads running through school zones in Japan are some hand-painted mascots known as “Tobita-kun, or more formally, “Tobidashi Bōya,” which means “running boy.” These signs are reminders for local drivers to slow down, and according to Atlas Obscura, they helped in Japan’s so-called Traffic War. Forget Autonomy, Drivers Still Want Control The … Read more
Photo: Ferrari The Ferrari Roma Spider is, by most accounts, a good-looking grand tourer. With more than 600 horsepower and a zero-to-60 time in the low three second range, it’s undeniably quick, and apparently, it’s quite fun to drive. What it is not, however, is a sexy, curvaceous Italian that’s finally gone topless. Talking about … Read more
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik 7-Eleven is the best convenience store there is. There’s something deeply comforting about walking into that fluorescent-lit, orange, green and red box and picking out some sort of soft drink with your buddies. It’s a very liminal space in a lot of ways. At night, it feels like another world … Read more
Photo: Nic Coury/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Each year, I’ve taken to asking you fine readers of Jalopnik to peer into your crystal ball and tell me just what you think is going to happen in the automotive world for the upcoming year. From the painfully true (nope, car prices still aren’t normal) to the hilariously incorrect … Read more
A midsize crossover with a 500+ horsepower turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive sounds like the stuff performance cars are made of. You’d be right about that with the Maserati Grecale Trofeo. It’s a damn good performer. When that performance comes attached with a six-figure price tag though, you start to question certain things. The Maserati … Read more
Humanity has come a long way over the last few hundred years, but we are still terrifyingly vulnerable and susceptible to fires. Firefighters have employed tank-like robots that carry hoses into burning structures to minimize the amount of time that humans must endure the unpredictable dangers of a rampant fire, but researchers have a new … Read more
Hyperloop One is the company born to bring Elon Musk’s much hyped contention that it would be possible to engineer underground or above-ground virtually airless tubes to facilitate ultra-high speed mass transit to life. That dream now appears dead as the company has laid off most of its employees and is trying to sell its remaining … Read more
A woman who served as an assistant to Vin Diesel is alleging that the actor and star of the Fast and Furious movie series sexually assaulted her in 2010. The allegations, as reported by Vanity Fair, come from a suit filed by Asta Jonasson in Los Angeles. In the suit, Jonasson claims that when she was … Read more
