The SDL in the name of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercedes indicates class, engine type, and extended wheelbase. That’s a lot to glean from just three simple letters. Let’s see if the price tag is just as informative. 2024 Mercedes-AMG GLC43 Is A Hot Compact SUV With A Fascinating Engine Like the Queen … Read more
A vintage 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air sits parked in front of a Krispy Kreme doughnut store on May 12, 2022 in Daly City, California. Krispy Kreme reported strong first quarter earnings with net income of $4 million compared with a loss of $3.06 million one year ago. Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) My dad and … Read more
RuPaul Charles is best known for creating and hosting the global hit reality TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but Ru is also a car guy. In fact, in a March 2024 interview with NPR, Ru said, “I love cars. They represent freedom….” Ru’s first car video starred his R107 Mercedes-Benz SL, and it taught his 5.3-million … Read more
Image: Lamborghini Abuse of things like unemployment exploded the last few years, especially during the pandemic. This abuse isn’t just specific to the U.S. either it seems. A man in Australia has been busted for owning a Lamborghini despite collecting unemployment for the last five years. 2024 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS 4.0: Perfection On Four … Read more
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Alfa Spider is a hot mess. Could that factor—and an appreciably low price—mean a new buyer might clean up? Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) By any measure, yesterday’s 1972 Dodge Monaco wagon was large. It had lots of length, lots of seats, and, most notably for our purposes, lots … Read more
When I first got into Porsche’s smallest offering, the 718 Boxster GTS 4.0, I was immediately taken aback by how old it felt. A seven-inch infotainment, dozens of buttons, mostly-analog gauges and wired-only Apple CarPlay transport you back to a time that existed before COVID and the Biden Administration. Put simply, the car feels ancient … Read more
Despite the first-generation Mercedes-AMG GT using a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8, the racing AMG GT3 variant continued using the naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V8 used by its SLS predecessor. As Mercedes gears up to launch the next-gen GT racer, which will have a turbocharged engine, AMG revealed the new GT3 Edition 130Y Motorsport at Monterey Car Week. … Read more
After 10 years in production the Lamborghini Huracan has gone to the great bullpen in the sky, and its replacement is a whole different sort of beast. Enter the new Lamborghini Temerario, a plug-in-hybrid supercar that has the first (and currently only) production engine that revs to 10,000 rpm. Lamborghini says the Temerario “redefines the … 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
I’m on the tall side at a 99.9th-percentile 6-foot-8-inches tall, and I have a difficult time fitting comfortably into some cars, planes, clothes, buses and homes, so I can’t imagine the challenges faced by someone like Shaquille O’Neal who stands significantly taller than me at 7-foot-1. I’ve driven a lot of different cars, and I … Read more
