"Slow and steady wins the race" is an age old slogan that implies those who conserve their energy and pace themselves are the ones around long enough to reap the fruit of their frugality. Today's eBay challenge is to find an equally frugal car under $5000 that sips fuel like it's getting paid to do it.
Being the owner of a Merkur XR4Ti and the son of another XR owner, we were both very excited when we heard Ford was reviving the 2.3 Turbo engine in the Mustang. The Mustang hasn't been powered by a 2.3 Turbo since the SVO which ended production in 1986 and featured the same engine that was slotted into a Sierra body to create the Merkur XR4Ti. The new EcoBoost Mustang is the closest we will get to having a modern XR4Ti which is why we decided to have a look at it.
During the first round of practice for the U.S. Grand Prix , I stood on a grassy hill about 50 feet from Turn 1 and had a lovely chat with a Jalopnik reader at just above room-level conversation as the cars blasted past us. Neither of us wore earplugs. Last year, that would have been impossible.
Some weapon systems look even more terrifying than they are deadly, which can be an added psychological warfare benefit. Aircraft like the bat-winged B-2 Spirit have a sinister mystique that fits perfectly with their ability to sneak into a country in the dead of night and obliterate highly defended targets. It is one scary beast, even when its weapons bays are empty.
The Formula One grid is a lot smaller than normal in Austin this weekend because the Marussia and Caterham teams are both too cash-strapped to run the race. Adding insult to injury, the teams could technically face penalties from the FIA for not showing up, but race stewards have decided otherwise.
We all remember the first time we saw The Fast and the Furious on the big screen, and most of us peeled out of the parking lot in our 127hp Honda Civic EX. If you long for those days when you made the VTEC kick in, now is your chance to own an original movie car with this 1996 Integra GS-R.
Boeing and Monarch Airlines finalized a deal today for 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, at a list price of $3.2 billion. The order put the MAX at 2,325 orders from 48 customers, making it the fastest-selling commercial plane in the company's history.
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Today is Halloween which makes it the perfect time to talk about the best orange cars. It's not an easy color for a car to pull off, but when done well, there's nothing else like it.
It's quite possible my 1992 Miata—faded reddish paint, worn driver's seat, cloudy plastic rear window and all—saved my life. Not in the way that cars are supposed to, with airbags deploying and crumple zones crumpling and lots of drama. It was much more gradual than that, slower and quieter and mostly internal.
It seems the Circuit of the Americas is good to Lewis Hamilton. He won the inaugural race back in 2012, and he's off to a very strong start for this year's race. Hamilton topped both practice sessions today, narrowly edging out Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.
A little irreverence is exactly what truck marketing has been missing, and GM's new videos shilling the 2015 Chevy Colorado do a perfect job acknowledging the silliness of truck ownership while making it sound undeniably appealing.
Sebastian Vettel, the winner of last year's U.S. Grand Prix, will start this year's race from the pit lane after Infiniti Red Bull officials confirmed his car is running a new engine — his sixth for the season.
This week, Infiniti Red Bull Racing brought the 2011 Red Bull F1 car and the Q50 Eau Rouge prototype to do some donuts in front of the Texas State Capitol. I got a ride along with Sebastian Vettel as well as both drivers' thoughts on the Austin race, the new cars and the next season.
Internet mysterio and Manhattan lap record holder Afroduck's trial started today and immediately descended into "unbelievable comedy theater," as Alex Roy, Jalopnik's man on the scene, reports. To begin, a twenty minute discourse on the Monaco Grand Prix.
10th Voyage Studios is cooking up this wacky YouTube mockumentary "Zombie Cleanup;" starring the bumbling idiots of a mismanaged zombie-disposal company and their '99 Chevy Silverado with a utility bed and mounted machine guns.
It's Halloween, so many of us are planning our elaborate going-out costumes , perhaps car-related, but all likely involving lots of extra shaving. But what about cars themselves? Don't they deserve scary costumes? Of course they do. And at least one designer, Luigi Colani, is doing his part.
There's very little to say about Toyota's 1G-GZE supercharged straight six. Well, except that it was a ghost and it appears to have haunted at least one innocent dog.
In August 1996, 82-year-old Nuccio Bertone came home from a holiday in the south of Italy feeling poorly. Six months later, on February 26, 1997, he was gone. The man who had transformed his father's unnotable coachbuilding shop into one of the world's most respected automotive design houses, with a factory in Grugliasco capable of producing 70,000 cars per year, had died 11 days before the Geneva Motor Show.
The Goodwood Estate lies on 12,000-acres of delightful English countryside that hides 32 miles of woodland routes and one very fast historic race track in the middle. Don't have a vintage Bugatti? That's ok, now you can drive BMWs all over the place.
Virgin Galactic made a bold disclosure on their Twitter account this afternoon, saying their Space Ship Two had experienced an anomaly during a flight earlier today. They will release a statement soon, upon which we'll give the the details of the event.
Highway I-270 near Urbana, Maryland had to be shut down for about 20 minutes this morning after a bag of cash fell off an armored car onto the fast lane. Apparently a lot of people were willing to forsake their own safety for some free money which, yeah, sounds about right.
Here are a couple of cheap combo deals to teach your old car new tricks.
The Brazilian-made Ford-owned Troller T4 flaunts a dated look and basic appointments; but who cares about adaptive cruise control when you've got a 51º of approach angle? Take a pass at Troller's "Build Your Own" and show us how you'd set yours up.
So you think turbocharged engines are synonymous with imports? Think again. Here are a dozen American-made forced-air specials that waved the stars and stripes with pride.
Two changes are coming to the Formula One United States Grand Prix. The FIA will change the F1 qualifying format in response to Marussia and Caterham's absence , and the series plans to test a yellow flag speed limit.
Buried in a Reuters article on Hyundai’s new Prius-fighter was talk of Hyundai’s new Aslan sedan. The Aslan is intended to take on the growing sales of imported sedans in South Korea, namely the VW Passat, BMW 3-Series and Audi A4. Based on a front-drive architecture, the Aslan seems to occupy a slot between the […]
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This is the Nissan March R. Built in 1988, it is a supercharged and turbocharged 110 horsepower, hatchback with a limited-slip front differential and a weight well under 2000 pounds. And nobody's ever heard of it.
The Snake, the two-mile and 21-turn famed stretch of Mulholland Highway, is widely considered to be one of the best driving roads in the world. On any given weekend, you will see hundreds of motorcyclists, exotic sports cars and most likely Jay Leno hitting the apex of each turn on this expert driving road.
I'm not going to say that this is the best video on the Internet right now, but this might be the best video on the internet right now.
Since 2011, Ferrari has been required to file "early warning reports" regarding safety issues with NHTSA. The only problem is they, umm, forgot. Now Ferrari owes the feds $3.5 million in fines. Whoops.
There are fast cars, and then there's the Porsche 911 Turbo. This insane symphony of performance blasts you from 0-60 mph in just over 4 seconds and keeps going to nearly 200, with an unmistakable flat-6 soundtrack. This bonkers speed machine can now be yours for less than the price of a used BMW 328i.
(N.B. This review was penned by my grandmother, Yvette Lerner, posted under my account) When my husband, daughter (Derek’s Mum) and I left England in 1962, we left behind a beautiful MG Magnette. Upon arriving in Canada, my husband went out and bought the first car he could find with a V8 engine. We had […]
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The rumors are true . Daimler has purchased a 25 percent stake in Italian motorcycle maker MV Agusta through its AMG performance arm, putting it (a quarter) on par with Audi, which purchased its rivals at Ducati in 2012, and of course BMW which has had its own motorcycle brand since the 1920s.
We may have accidentally made Ferrari Challenge one of Jalopnik's favorite motorsports, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. There's more to the series than "LOL RICH GUY CRASHES CAR " and we're here with winning driver Carlos Gomez to prove it.
Considering that candy corn is barely edible in the first place, I'd say putting it in your mouth is gross enough. NASCAR driver Kurt Busch wanted to see how many pieces of candy corn fit in his mouth, and the results are hilarious. Enjoy!
This frankentruck is part Chevrolet Silverado 2500, part Range Rover, part tuner-car, and all... well, what do you think?
Honda claims their upcoming 2015 Civic Type R will be their most hardcore performance car ever. It sounds awesome, especially considering it's based on a car as ordinary and pedestrian as the Civic. Honda explores that duality in a new ad that you simply must watch.
This summer, I drove from my home in Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles and back again. It's just something I've always wanted to do. It was a special trip for me, not just because I got to see the whole country and spend time with some of my favorite people, but because the idea of driving a Ford Mustang clear across the USA has been on my mind ever since I was a little kid.
