In This Story Data shows that American car buyers have little-to-no sense of creativity when it comes to the color of their vehicle, with the four most popular colors being white, black, silver, and gray. It’s rare to find a colorful car at all, let alone one in a statement color like pink, and finding … 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 Wednesday, August 28, 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 Property Brothers First Car Literally Spoke To Them 1st Gear: Walter P. Chrysler’s Heir Wants To Buy … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, August 16, 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 Property Brothers First Car Literally Spoke To Them 1st Gear: Stellantis Shareholders Sue Over Sucky Earnings Stellantis … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik I recently got stuck in Amsterdam for two days thanks to the Crowdstrike outage, which gave me a weekend’s worth of time to explore the glorious city. Amsterdam contains 165 canals that total over 60 miles in length, and on the streets that border them you’ll find some of the best carspotting … Read more
The great thing about vintage racing is that you don’t have to be super aggressive if you don’t want to. You have an opportunity to race against some great competition, and have a lot of fun, but you can err on the side of preserving the car, or even blame your lack of pace on … Read more
67-70 Mercury Cougar over 67-70 Mustang Although I fully admit this is a judgement call. First off, I find the Cougar styling cooler because the Mustang look is more common with Ford still riffing off of it. But I do agree the Mustang is iconic. As for value, it’s pretty much a wash,with both cars … Read more
Despite being what the company has become best known for, it’s been decades since Lancia last produced a true hot hatch — not exactly surprising given it’s only sold one car for the past decade anyway. That’s finally changing next year with the roadgoing Ypsilon HF, a fully electric performance version of Lancia’s funky new … Read more
Back when today’s Nice Price or No Dice GTI was introduced, having a 16-valve engine was uncommon in its class and, hence, worth an extra badge. This one has gone way beyond just that performance feature, with a turbo and every cool name in accessory-land. Let’s decide what one might be required to pony up … Read more
This all-white wonder you’re looking at here is the second-most rare variant that Porsche has ever built. While it looks like any other 911 to the layperson, this is a motorsport-division-built rally racer from 1984. With some extreme weight savings tricks, the engineers managed to get this thing down to just 2,160 pounds, nearly 600 pounds … Read more
