Новости за 20.05.2024

Billionaires are having a moment with space right now. Elon Musk with SpaceX, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, even Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic — all the rich folks are building rockets so they can go look at space. But one billionaire isn’t satisfied with just looking at space: He wants to go touch it.…

BMW and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) are the latest manufacturers to land in hot water after the U.S. Senate Finance Committee found they both continued using parts made by a Chinese supplier that has been flagged for forced labor. BMW shipped at least 8,000 Minis containing the part after the company was informed about…

Here we are again, folks. Just when things seem to be calming down with the car market, someone lets their bank account get the better of them and starts things up again. The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser just started arriving at dealers across the country a month or so ago. I don’t even think I’ve even seen one on the…

Jaguar’s iconic E-Type sports car was derived from the three-time Le Mans-winning D-Type racing car, and in the later 1960s turned into a fairly successful racing car in its own right. It was, and remains, one of the most beautiful cars ever to set wheel to road, and in its day was significantly less expensive than…

In an all-too-common theme of today’s world, Tesla employees are working under the immense fear they’re going to receive a dreaded “Dear Employee” layoff email from CEO Elon Musk. He has slashed the Austin, Texas-based automaker’s workforce by over 10 percent, but he still does not seem to be done.

Remember “The Dukes Of Hazzard,” that neat little show that went off the air 40 years ago yet inexplicably remains a major part of car culture to this day? Well, Kid Rock remembers, and he apparently loved the show so much that he elected to adorn a new Cybertruck with the General Lee’s enduring livery.

Lamborghini’s iconic mid-engine V12 doorstop supercar from the 1980s stands out as one of the most aggressively styled vehicles of all time. The original Marcello Gandini-styled prototype was all angles and wedges, but it managed it in an elegant way. Paolo Stanzani’s tweaks for the production version upped the…

Lamborghini’s iconic 5.2-liter V10 engine will be no more one once the Huracán’s replacement hits production, but don’t worry because its replacement seems just as special. The new car, codenamed “Lamborghini 634" is set to debut later this year with a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged flat-plane crankshaft V8 with a hybrid…

Mitsubishi shocked us last week when it announced that North America would see more models towards the end of the decade. Along with more practical, boring news was the nugget that Mitsubishi is planning on giving us an outdoorsy van based on the D:X Concept, itself a sort of preview of a next generation of the Delica…

The NASCAR All-Star Race on Sunday night featured a first-lap tussle that escalated into a post-race brawl between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch at the recently repaved North Wilkesboro Speedway. Team Penske dominated qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 as if the suspensions for its push-to-pass scandal never…

If you’re not familiar with the Fiat Topolino, you’re probably not the only one. It’s a tiny electric city car that is based on the Citroen Ami and not sold in the U.S. In fact, even calling it a city car is a stretch because it’s technically considered a quadricycle that only has a 46-mile range and a top speed of 28…

Remember when you could just search for the information you needed on the internet and be reasonably certain the internet would provide you with a useful answer? Google, has a new idea: What if there was a way to spend billions of dollars on a system that provides users with incorrect and or useless information?

McLaren has previously called its 1993 MP4/8 “one of the best cars we ever made.” And while Ayrton Senna didn’t win the championship that season, losing to Alain Prost five wins to seven, it was seriously fast. It was also the last chassis to carry Senna to a race victory, winning the season-closing Australian Grand…

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The rollout of Tesla’s advanced driver assistance technology Full Self-Drive and Autopilot has been fraught with issues. There have been high-profile videos of it struggling with city traffic, deadly crashes with the tech engaged and now a new video has surfaced of a FSD-equipped Tesla driving full-speed into a rail…

A Delaware man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly stole a Tesla Cybertruck and led state troopers on a short but silly car chase. Milford resident Corey Cohee is accused of stealing the stainless steel electric pickup truck from a home in Lincoln, Delaware. What a goober.

This weekend’s Indianapolis 500 qualifying sessions were absolutely owned by the Penske organization as it managed to sweep the three front-row spots with drivers Scott McLaughlin, Will Power, and Josef Newgarden. Of the top four qualifiers—including Arrow McLaren’s Alexander Rossi—McLaughlin on pole is the only…

The Jalopnik audience had a lot to say about the crappy cars you’ve all driven. There are many cars on this list that objectively belong here, and some that surprised me. The comments were flooded with recession-era American cars, back when interiors were made from recycled toothbrush handles and cars had handling…

Remember Callum Design, the slick British engineering startup that promised to revitalize classics like the Aston Martin Vanquish? Well now instead of recreating stunning British grand tourers, it’s back with a new model that couldn’t be more different. Called the Skye, it’s an all-electric off-roader created by…

Good morning! It’s Monday, May 20, 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.

Every enthusiast has a list of automotive feats they’d like to do or see or drive before they shuffle off this mortal coil. But, whether those tasks are massive in scale or small and simple, there’s one thing they all share: They can’t be done simultaneously.

This weekend we saw Scott McLaughlin run a four-lap average speed of 234.22 to win the pole position for the 2024 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. That’s almost exactly three times as fast as 1911 race winner Ray Harroun’s average speed of 74.602 miles per hour. Technology has certainly come a long way in the last 113 years

Is it possible for a car to be too fast for a track day? When that track day is at the Nürburgring and there are hundreds of cars in the track day, yeah, it probably is. This car, a Ferrari 458 Challenge race car, is probably about as fast as an average track day enthusiast would want to go, as the speed differentials…

During my time of digging down the rabbit hole about the V8 powered Daytona, I discovered that Chrysler’s ownership of Lamborghini was a very strange time. This was confirmed when I discovered a story Bob Lutz detailed to Road & Track about Chrysler’s plans for the Italian brand. Apparently, the powers that be wanted…

Buying a Fisker Ocean right now is probably a terrible idea. Bankruptcy is looming, the factory isn’t building any more of them and even the cars themselves are having all kinds of problems. And yet, somehow, buying a Fisker Ocean isn’t the worst electric vehicle you could spend your money on. No, that honor goes to…