What Car Should You Buy The experts at Jalopnik answer your car-buying questions. Sam has a 2005 Mini Cooper S, which is a fine little car, but not quite practical for a growing family. He wants something sporty, fun, and practical and has a pretty healthy budget to accomplish this task. What car should he buy?…
When someone says ‘kit car’ what most people think is ‘dangerously half-assed.’ Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Superlite may be dangerous, but it seems far from half-anything. Let’s see if its awesomeness makes it worth its asking. If you’re going to make something different, your goal should always be to make it better, right? Changing something…
The most powerful production versions of the Corvette and 911 probe the boundaries of road-car capabilities. From the August 2018 issue Rivalries never rest. A Bostonian’s contempt for New York doesn’t stop at baseball. Even when the Bears are garbage, the Packers don’t phone it in. The Wendy’s Twitter account won’t back down just because…
The Porsche badge on the hood is covered, but the automaker isn’t fooling anyone. Perhaps the best thing about this latest round of spy shots for the refreshed Porsche Cayman GT4 is what we can’t see. In truth, we see pretty much everything, and as you’d come to expect from Porsche the changes are minimal. We spy slightly redesigned side…
We might have just found the king of the unofficial Raptors. The Raptor is an amazing piece of machine. Its humungous size, imposing bodywork, and appropriately powerful power plants make it an attractive vehicle for those looking for appropriate horse and pulling power for their Ford monster truck. There’s only one problem: it comes with a high-output 3.5L V6…
The Porsche 911 is an icon, a staple of the automotive landscape. But imagine if it wasn’t called a 911… In 1964 Porsche revealed its new sports car as the 901. Today it is hard to imagine the Porsche 911 being called anything other than a 911, but 911 was the second name the iconic sports car…
The Forgiato set is only part of the story as there’s much more to this car beyond those massive wheels. Our idea of a Chevy Camaro SUV took the shape of a rugged electric vehicle to rival Ford’s upcoming Mustang-based crossover, but Corey Jones had something else in mind. He took a 2016 convertible and turned into…
Watch A Supercharged Miata Battle A Turbocharged Miata On Track The fight for forced induction supremacy. Mazda’s philosophy for the MX-5 Miata has changed little since 1989. The two-seat sports car has remained sprightly in both size and performance. It didn’t grow larger from one generation to the next or spawn a crossover variant to dupe nostalgic car buyers. The MX-5 Miata evolved through refinement. Each new iteration is somehow better than the last. The Miata is a symbol of affordable fun, spawning racing series across the U.S. along with a healthy supply of aftermarket parts. The Miatas in the video above are the results of the endless amount of customization an owner can do to their car. Both sport 1.8-liter four-cylinder engines, but they…
Acura and Infiniti have built two of their best products ever. But which is better? The 2019 Acura RDX and 2019 Infiniti QX50 are both brand new, and as we explained during our first drives with them both, they’re really good. In the past, these two weren’t even considerations along the Audi Q5 and BMW X3, but now there’s serious reason to choose…
The glass panels aren’t removable, though. Bugatti doesn’t intend to build an open-roof variant of the Chiron, the hypercar company’s new Sky View roof is the next best thing. The layout puts a fixed glass panel above each seat for a clear view of the heavens. Sky View comes with the extra advantage of increasing the Chiron’s headroom by…
