Новости за 01.03.2024

American car enthusiasts (myself included) spend a lot of time bemoaning the demise of the station wagon in the U.S., but perhaps even more annoying to wagon die-hards is the proliferation of wagons that are fitted with a lift kit and body cladding to make them more appealing to American buyers. Such models include…

Both LAPD and Los Angeles County Sheriffs have made efforts to crack down on street takeovers. Task Forces interrupt takeovers before they even start, and have made arrests and impounded vehicles that participate in the shenanigans. An unexpected ripple effect of these takeovers is that thieves are stealing vehicles…

NASA Engineers have just finished applying the final coat of clear over the beloved “worm” logo on the rocket boosters of the Artemis II, which marks the return of the bold red letters that best embody the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The worm logo has come crawling back, according to Space,…

I don’t know about anyone else, but I love a good sleeper car. It’s always hilarious to slap other drivers in the face with power and performance from an otherwise innocuous car. More than a few automakers have given us factory sleepers before, and two sleeper models from Cadillac are getting too cheap to ignore now…

A truck driver in Louisville, Kentucky will have one hell of a story to tell after his rig crashed through the barriers lining the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge on Friday. Louisville Metro Police stated that the Sysco tractor-trailer was involved in a collision before the cab was left dangling 70 feet over the…

Hyundai announced on March 1 that it would be tackling the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this June with a massive four-car effort. The Korean automaker is bringing a quartet of Ioniq 5 N racers to the hill, and judging by the drivers it has selected for its team, it is looking to break the…

Cars and anime are a time-honored pair. They go together like chocolate and peanut butter, as generations of shows from Speed Racer to MF Ghost have demonstrated, so it’s only natural that studios keep making beautiful shows about racing. Now, though, a new trend is cropping up again and again: Anime car ads.

Normally when we recommend you make a wildly financially irresponsible purchase, we’re talking about a car that you could probably afford by, say, liquidating a well-stocked college fund. Should you actually sabotage your kid’s future to buy a car, even if it’s rare and awesome? Of course not. It’s just something you c…

Formula 1’s extremely deep roots are firmly planted in continental Europe, but the sport’s organizers are dangerously close to trimming those roots back in order to push the sport further into developing markets. The current contracts for many of the series’ most iconic tracks — including Spa-Francorchamps (above),…

The Environmental Protection Agency is lifting the summertime ban on E15 ethanol sales across several Midwestern states. The Associated Press reports that drivers in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin will able to fill up on ethanol all year round forever starting in 2025.…

February 29 is a weird day. It comes around once every four years, bringing with it questions about if we should be paid extra for the day, if it’s good or bad luck to get engaged on the sacred day and guesses as to whether fancy watches will keep up with the extra day. In New Zealand, however, they had bigger…

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is a great electric vehicle, but the version we really want to drive is the Ioniq 5 N. After all, it makes more than 600 hp and can hit 60 mph in the low-three-second range while also behaving like a “corner rascal” on the track. We’re just not under any illusion that any Jalopnik staffers will…

A pair of AirPods are at the center of an international mystery after race driver Louis Delétraz left his headphones on a United Airlines flight. Delétraz, who said he left the Airpods under a seat in row 16 of a flight to Geneva, Switzerland, tracked the headphones as they flew across the globe. But when they made a…

Billy Peltzer was warned not to get his shiny new G Wagen wet, feed it after midnight, or let it out in bright light, but did he listen? Not a chance. Now destruction is upon us as the lovable G has been transformed into its evil counterpart, the gigantic havoc-wreaking mischief-on-four-wheels Unimog. A horrifying…

A driver in Oregon has been captured on video careening off the highway and plummeting 200 feet in a reported case of distracted driving, reports Oregon Live. In a dashcam video shared on the site, the driver of a black car can be seen crashing off the roadway and vanishing out of frame.

One Uber Eats delivery driver seems to have their personal beliefs interfere with the successful delivery of an order — and now the customer is asking for help in an effort to figure out what went wrong. The problem? The customer ordered Plan B, and their driver refused to deliver it.

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Folks, happy Dune release day. By the time you’re reading this, I’ll have already visited Arrakis once more, but for now we’re all united in our anticipation. Will Denis Villeneuve pull it off again? I think so. He’s Denis Villeneuve, after ll

Just this week, it was announced that a road-going version of the stunning Jaguar CX-75 had finally been created almost 14 years after the car was first unveiled. As a result, I found myself thinking that the Jag could have been unveiled today, and its design would still look breathtaking. Some cars just don’t age, it…

Following the La Rose Noire and Amethyst cars that were shown last summer, Rolls-Royce just unveiled its third of four coachbuilt Droptail models. The new Droptail is called Arcadia, named after the “heaven on earth” realm from Ancient Greek mythology, and while its exterior design is more subtle than the other…

When I asked you all to tell me your ideal two-car garage “solution” earlier this week, I certainly didn’t expect to be quite as overwhelmed with differing responses as I was. I guess when you ask car enthusiasts to talk about their favorite cars, they’ll just jump with joy at the opportunity. I get it. I’m just like…

Good morning! It’s Friday, March 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.

Financial advice is a fraught topic. It’s important to everyone — we all have to participate in the market economy on which our society is built — but the methods that work for one person often don’t work for another. So, when Dave Ramsey comes calling, it’s often best to just not pick up.

Thanks to the phenomenal depreciation that’s hitting almost every EV on the market, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Taycan asks almost half what a new model would cost. Let’s see if that makes it worth plugging in.