If you live in the northern hemisphere, winter is supposed to be cold. That’s not as much the case anymore, but with colder weather comes the yearly series of articles that promise to address the serious nature of the debate over warming up your car. It’s also all made up. It’s nonsense. I refuse to believe that…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/the-annual-debate-over-warming-up-your-car-is-imaginary-1851692580

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The argument is often made that most new cars all look very much alike save for anomalies likeTesla’s abominable stainless-steel refrigerator on wheels. This phenomenon is far from new, though. Hopping on trendy design bandwagons is a safer bet for automakers than innovating a truly unique design that may or may not…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/watch-this-video-about-the-homogenized-headlight-design-1851690360

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When Kawasaki strapped a supercharger to a Ninja, everyone went wild for the most powerful production motorcycle ever put together. Now, with a new EICMA release, it seems Honda wants to update that spirit into an even wilder form factor: A V3 engine with an electrically-driven supercharger. Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/hondas-v3-with-an-electric-supercharger-is-the-coolest-1851690213

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The modern car is a pretty marvelous thing when you think about it. They can have slick styling, luxurious interiors packed with all kinds of creature comforts and come with more technology than you can shake a stick at. Some features on new cars, however, are just there to get people talking.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/what-s-one-automotive-gimmick-you-love-to-hate-1851691986

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Lamborghini’s inaugural season as a Le Mans Hypercar constructor in the FIA World Endurance Championship ended about as ignominiously as it possibly could have, with a DNF classification at the recent 8 Hours of Bahrain. Across the eight-race season, Lamborghini only managed to finish five times, with an average…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/lamborghini-kills-fia-wec-program-after-one-season-of-t-1851690855

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Telling people range anxiety isn’t real and can’t hurt you has done little to alleviate the problem. Last week we asked readers to take into account their current life and think: just how much range do they need an EV to have for it to work for their needs? These were their responses. Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-much-ev-range-you-actually-need-1851678000

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Autonomous cars are the future, when that future happens on a large scale is anyone’s guess but it is likely still aways out. While most of the key players like to throw around the “mobility” buzzword, a segment of our population sees that term very differently. Tesla’s new Cybercab is step in that direction, but it…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybercab-excludes-the-people-that-need-autonomous-1851670870

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Cybertruck owners have had quite the year so far in 2024. They’ve had to clean own their brand new cars themselves, faced rusting problems brought on by transport issues and been hit with five recalls already. Now, owners are reporting that all this bad press has hit their insurance, with some Cybertruck drivers…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/geico-is-cancelling-tesla-cybertruck-policies-as-it-doe-1851666570

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In the U.S., cargo vans are a serious business. That’s why they have serious names like Express, Econoline and ProMaster. Luckily for us, automakers in Europe took a lighter approach to naming their cargo vans, and it created some wonderful results.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/european-vans-have-ridiculously-cute-names-1851663555

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For decades, if you wanted cold drinks on a road trip, your only option was to pack a cooler with a bunch of ice. It worked back then, and it still works today, but coolers are heavy and bulky, so it was pretty awesome when some automakers started adding built-in refrigerators in their cars. At least until you try to…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-why-your-car-fridge-probably-sucks-1851661142

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NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it’s been put to work exploring the surface of the Red Planet. In the process, it’s traversed more than 20 miles of the lunar surface, which hasn’t been too kind on its little roving wheels.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/this-is-what-12-years-on-mars-has-done-to-curiosity-s-w-1851661624

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Every new generation of Porsche 911 GT3 RS is more outrageous than the last, with increasingly race car–like aerodynamic packages designed specifically to extract the fastest lap times and best performance possible. The current 992-gen GT3 RS is no different, with wild fender cut-outs, fins on the roof, a deep…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/is-this-porsche-911-gt3-rs-without-a-rear-wing-blasphem-1851660019

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Cars are expensive to own — too expensive, in fact, and getting pricier all the time. Don’t feel too bad for yourself, though. Depending on the state you’re in, some poor sucker might have it even worse. Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-states-where-it-is-most-expensive-to-own-1851650806

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Climate change is real and it’s going to make infrastructure around the country even worse than it already is. At least, that’s according to experts who say that a warming planet is going to make bridges crumble.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/our-garbage-infrastructure-will-only-get-worse-thanks-t-1851645381

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Sometimes we come across news that makes it seem is if there are real life “Grand Theft Auto” characters walking among us. Take the lead singer of an LA punk band who made his way to the other wise peaceful region of Yosemite National Park and allegedly spent the day tearing shit up in a very un-punk way. Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/la-punk-frontman-ends-bizarre-alleged-crime-spree-with-1851631688

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Good morning! It’s Monday, August 26, 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.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/ford-loses-44-000-on-every-ev-sells-as-it-switches-to-1851631232

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Boeing launched its Starliner spacecraft into orbit on June 5. The plan was for the craft and its crew to dock with the International Space Station for eight days and then return to Earth safely. That didn’t quite happen, and the craft has now been stuck in space for more than 60 days and NASA is now worried that it…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/nasa-delays-starliner-decision-over-fears-boeing-craft-1851622779

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After a long investigation, federal agents descended on a Northern California towing company last week to raid a towing company accused of illegal operations in San Fransisco. Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/towing-company-with-history-of-illegal-tows-raided-by-t-1851622260

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There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t often get to see this junk up close to find out how a lifetime in space affects man-made objects, until now.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-a-rocket-looks-like-after-15-years-abandone-1851611618

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In the years leading up to the 2024 Olympics, Paris wasted no time making the city more people-friendly. It added more than 600 miles of bike lanes, planted 65,000 trees, created hundreds of pedestrian plazas, invested in light rail and returned streets to the people. The same year the International Olympic Committee…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/las-plan-for-a-car-free-2028-olympics-was-laughable-at-1851611023

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Car enthusiasts love a good sport sedan, but more than a few cars with performance intent have been lost to history. Some were great and actually fun to drive, while others weren’t so much, but at least the intent was there. Some lasted for a few years, while others were dead on arrival, tainted by a market hungry for…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-some-performance-sedans-you-probably-forgot-a-1851609524

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Following the success of the Zonda and Huayra, Pagani announced its third car — the Utopia — in 2022. It has a twin-turbocharged V12 that makes 864 horsepower and 811 lb-ft of torque, as well as an optional seven-speed dogleg manual transmission. That car was a coupe, though, so what is the Pagani-loving billionaire…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/pagani-utopia-roadster-is-one-of-the-few-convertibles-y-1851609022

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If you’ve ever heard an ice cream truck playing a little jingle as it drove down your street on a hot summer day, you’ve been touched by the marketing genius of Bob Nichols. You’ve never heard of him, but he’s the guy responsible for all of the music that gets played out of nearly every ice cream truck across the…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/almost-all-ice-cream-truck-music-is-controlled-by-one-c-1851580706

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Three words: Made in America. We Americans carry quite a bit of national pride when it comes to our homegrown car manufacturers, be they Fords, Chevys, or Mopar. On this, the fourth day of the month of July, we celebrate American independence. Given the current political climate, however, I know why I’m not feeling…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/only-2-american-carmakers-make-this-list-of-the-most-am-1851576288

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It’s the Fourth of July, babes, and to celebrate the land of the free and the home of the brave (ignoring all of the bad shit going on right now), we’ve decided to make today’s question all red, white and blue. We want to know what car you all think perfectly exemplifies America.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/what-is-the-most-american-car-ever-1851573803

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An analysis of British road traffic accidents in a recent study concluded that battery electric vehicles and hybrids are significantly more likely to strike pedestrians than gas or diesel vehicles. According to data compiled from 32 billion miles of BEV and HEV travel and over 3 trillion miles traveled in gas and…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/electric-vehicles-hit-3-times-more-pedestrians-than-gas-1851493125

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Happy Monday! It’s April 15, 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.Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-lays-off-10-percent-of-its-entire-workforce-1851410125

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Former Formula 1 driver and current Lamborghini factory racer Romain Grosjean is taking on a new challenge this season: He’s one of a handful of drivers who will be putting the Lamborghini SC63 race car through its paces at endurance events in the IMSA and World Endurance Championship series. Let’s let him take us on…Read more...

https://jalopnik.com/let-romain-grosjean-show-you-how-lamborghinis-sc63-hybr-1851348158

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