Photo: Logan Carter When I attended the Blazer EV launch event earlier this month, my biggest takeaway was how successfully this new electric car managed to act like a traditional car, from the traditional door handles to the traditional key fob to the un-EV-like power delivery, the Blazer EV is not trying to reinvent the … Read more
Convertibles are amazing, and some of the best cars of all time. Everyone loves to put the top down on a beautiful day. Well, except Daniel. Daniel Golson – 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Image: Jalopnik This is my 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL, which I bought back in the spring of 2021 about a year after moving to … Read more
Image: Toyota Matt is helping his eighteen-year-old niece search for the right set of wheels before she goes off to college. She is currently driving an old Prius that is no longer reliable and is looking for something reliable, and fuel-efficient for under fifteen grand. What car should she buy? – Tom McParland Read More … Read more
In 1988 a famous sailing yacht went missing, leaving behind a strange final message, a mangled investigation and questions of suicide, piracy, mutiny and drug trafficking. I’ve long been fascinated by ship wrecks and disappearances and this one is one of my favorites, not only because it’s such a mysterious story, but because the ship … Read more
white bicycle, or ghost bike, with a sign saying rest in peace locked to a pole on a New York City street is a memorial at the site where a cyclist was killed by a crash motor vehicle. Image: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group (Getty Images) Biking ain’t easy; in fact it can be straight up … Read more
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik New York City is a big and wonderful place, full of all sorts of weird people. Luckily for us, many of those weird people also drive weird and lovely cars. Because of that, I decided to take a look back at some of my car spotting highlights from 2023. What … Read more
New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday; it’s a rookie drinking night where average people spend way too much money in over-crowded bars in order to let loose for the first time in their lives, but only end up annoyingly drunk and making it everyone else’s problem. So instead of muscling up to the … Read more
Last week we reported on Daihatsu halting sales and shipments of all of its cars amid a probe into the Toyota subsidiary rigging safety tests of 64 different models, and now the situation has gotten even worse. On Wednesday, CNN reported that Daihatsu has now stopped production at all four of its Japanese factories, with … Read more
Automakers and some startups are hoping to win over buyers who might want to consider an EV but don’t want to be locked into a long term purchase by introducing microleases. These terms, often for a year or less, are being billed as a way to get people to try EVs or as a stopgap … Read more
Turkey’s Interior Ministry announced through an over-the-top sizzle reel that it has converted a fleet of seized luxury and performance vehicles for police use. The cars and SUVs were taken from an international drug trafficker and handed off to Istanbul’s police force as a consequence of his arrest, Motor1 reports. A Ferrari 488 GTB, a … Read more
