Good Afternoon. This Audi R8 Was Turned Into A Freaking Flamethrower. It’s not easy to get a car to spit hot fire. It’s especially not easy when that car is an Audi R8, that paragon of Teutonic efficiency. But one way you can get it really cooking is by dumping an extra 775 horsepower into the beast,…
An unwritten rule in car culture dictates that in order for a car to be truly remarkable, it has to have forgivable character flaws that give it a unique personality that allows man to truly bond with tamed machine. It is exactly those traits that make this car, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the best used…
Who said this car was only made for straight lines? The new Divo is Bugatti’s so-called “handling car.” Its advanced aero work and sharper suspension gives it capabilities neither the Veyron nor the Chiron before it had. It’s a whole eight seconds faster around the Nardo handling circuit than the Chiron, in fact. But just because the Divo was built…
This will ruin your day. You’ve heard stories about treasure tucked away in the hull of a sunken Viking ship off the coast Maine. They’re a myth at this point, told over and over again to the point of parody. But there is a bit of truth to the claims – though they’re greatly exaggerated. The…
You own a custom Humvee limousine? That’s cute. Friends, when you make your living in the exciting world of automotive journalism, you see all kinds of interesting creations. Between manufacturer concept cars, industry events like SEMA, and custom car shows like Autorama, we’ve seen just about everything on wheels. Then something like this comes along…
Photo: Rémi Dargegen A vintage car dealer claims his customized 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwingwas stolen from a hotel near the Nürburgring, and he’s offering nearly $300,000 to anyone who returns it. And, according to a translation of a German news report his dealership’s Facebook page shared, that includes the thief. That report was from German tabloid Bild, which said the…
The auction house estimates it will fetch up to $550,000. Having been the world’s fastest production car upon its launch, the Porsche 959 needs no introduction. Only 337 were ever made, but this 1987 example is actually rarer since it’s the Komfort specification of which only 294 cars were built. Even though it’s more than three decades…
2018 Tesla Model 3 Performance: Here’s What We Thought What can one person determine about the ultra-important Tesla Model 3 Performance with just an hour and a half behind the wheel? Probably not much, but this week we had the collective brain-weight of four Jalopnik writers who took turns inside the quickest and most powerful version of…
Wait, seriously? You’re probably thinking that this is just a gimmick that Mercedes came up with to promote a new tech, but it’s not. The German marque has come up with a clever technology that’s as fun as it is functional. Called the Digital Light, this new feature lets a Maybach S-Class talk via its headlights. Literally. Don’t worry,…
Chassis number #11 combines electric blue and white with a lot of exposed carbon fiber. McLaren has been criticized by some for taking the concept of “form follows function” to the extreme when engineering the Senna, but it has not been an issue for the company in terms of customer demand. As the video shows, the…
