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Why We Aren't Driving Natural Gas Powered Cars

America is in the midst of the biggest energy boom since Texas' 20th Century Gusher Age. All over the country, new drilling techniques have created an abundance of cheap natural gas. With domestic production at more than 25 billion cubic feet per day, prices are as low as they've ever been. More »

The P4/5 Competizione Is The Fastest Ferrari Ever To Lap The 'Ring

The Ferrari P4/5 Competizione just made history during 24 Hours of Nürburgring qualifying by setting the fastest lap ever in a Ferrari-powered vehicle, besting the Ferrari 599XX's 6:58.16 with a time of just 6:51. And his car is street legal. Sort of. More »

How A Mechanical Horse Is Like An HDTV Converter Box

Times of technological transition make interesting things. Because of the transitional nature of the things, they're usually not destined to be around long, but they're absolutely necessary for a certain magical moment. Think 8-track to cassette adapters or those USB 3.5" floppy drives they had for the first iMacs. More »

Mitsubishi i-MiEv Goes Evo

Mitsubishi will enter the wild tube-frame, carbon-body AWD electric racecar you see here at this Year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. One electric motor drives the front wheels and two power the rear for a total output of 320 HP. More »

The World's Smallest Cars Are Back On Sale, For Insane Money

Like an adorable, tiny zombie popping out of its tiny, adorable window-box grave, the Peel P50 and Peel Trident are back from the dead. Neither of the tiny, tiny cars has been built since 1966, but a new company, with funding from the BBC's show Dragon's Den, is starting production up once again, as announced earlier this year. They're street legal in the UK and US, and you can buy them for an absurd price £10,000 ($16,000). More »

How I Turned A Passion For Cars Into This Gauge-Inspired Watch

My buddy Bradley Price owns an old '83 Alfa Romeo GTV6 and lets me ride in it occasionally. Also he makes these incredible watches for people like him who love vintage style but can't afford to drop thousands of dollars on a car-inspired watch. I can't give you a ride in his Alfa but I did ask him to explain how he started a brand and how his watches ended up looking so unbelievably glorious. More »

How Carroll Shelby And A Gang Of Nerds Beat Enzo Ferrari

If you only know the late Carroll Shelby for his tuner cars, you're missing an amazing story of how, during the mid-1960s, his little, nerd-filled race shop in Los Angeles helped Henry Ford II exercise his famous vendetta against Enzo Ferrari. Playboy editor A.J. Baime tells that story in his book, Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. More »

This Is NASCAR’s New Art Truck

Nelson Piquet Jr. will be running this new livery in the NASCAR Truck race in Charlotte, NC this weekend. Created by UK-based artist Death Spray Custom, the unique livery is a shocking foray into credible design for the popular race series. More »

GM Will Remove $10 Million Worth Of Ads From Facebook

Mere days before Facebook goes public, General Motors announced that it will pull $10 million in advertising from the social media site. GM execs told the Wall Street Journal they're not getting appropriate bang for their buck from Facebook's paid ad content. More »

The Complete Master Plan To New Jersey’s Formula One Grand Prix

A new leaked document reveals the exact layout and plans for the next Formula One circuit, the Grand Prix of America in New Jersey. The map explains some of the many challenges in bringing F1 to the New York metro area. More »

Yes, It's Ethical To Drive A Stick Shift

I really shouldn't have to even be answering this question. This week in Salon David Sirota wrote an article asking "Is it ethical to drive stick?" It's great to see a mainstream, intelligent publication like Salon talking about manual transmissions, except for one thing: the article is inane, and the fundamental question its asking is insipid. And, some of the facts are wrong. And it's whiny and stupid. Okay, five things. Other than that, it's great. More »

770 HP, 74 MPG, Looks That Can Kill

Releasing these new photos of the Porsche 918 Spyder, the company has announced some exciting development news: with the aid of its electric motors, the plug-in hybrid prototype is currently developing 770 HP and returning up to 74 MPG. Also, ummm...I messed my pants. More »

What Goes Through A Biker’s Head When You Try And Kill Him

As car drivers, you've been there before. Distracted by that game of Angry Birds, the burger you're shoving into your fat face or just asleep at the wheel, you've nearly killed a motorcyclist. You might even have tried to do so on purpose. But underneath that helmet is an actual human being. Here's what happens when you try and kill one of us. More »

The Greatest Car Review Detail Ever

A few years ago I was in a used bookstore in the Tenderloin section of San Francisco. Getting to this place meant running a gauntlet of agressive tranny hookers, but it was all worth it, as I found a pristine copy of one of the greatest auto review magazines ever published: a February 1967 copy of Road Test. More »

Fiat Photo Bombs Volkswagen With Elaborate Street View Prank

Well played, Fiat. By paying attention to when Google's fleet of camera cars were snooping around Södertälje, where Volkswagen's Swedish operations are headquartered, Fiat zinged their rival good. How? By parking a Fiat 500 right in front of the front door when Google's Street View cars were out. More »

Did You Know Volkswagen Sells Ketchup And Sausage?

Volkswagen was doing a surprising amount of R&D in the 1970s. They developed one of the first computerized driving simulators, they introduced their first unibody cars, and they were preparing the complex migration of their product line from rear-engine, air-cooled cars to modern FWD water-cooled ones. Oh, and they developed their own currywurst and special ketchup. More »

The Ten Fastest Comic Book Cars

When it comes to boasting about the fastest cars in the world, why restrict yourself to cars that actually exist? These ten rocket-powered, flying, impossible vehicle-things are what Jalopnik readers call the ten fastest comic book cars ever. More »

Identify This Truck And Help Police Catch A Gas Thief

Law enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run last month. More »

The 3-Series Wagon Returns To The U.S.

Now that America has the fifth-generation 3-series, BMW announced that the sport wagon version will be available next year. No word yet on what powertrain options will be available in the wagon — most likely the same ones offered in the sedan: a 240 hp turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder or a 300 hp turbocharged 3.0 liter inline six. More »

How To Murder Your Mail Order Bride In Death Valley

"Oh hey, do you guys know how far the nearest gas station is?" The guy was sunburned, clearly dehydrated and living in a fantasy world as he staggered into our hidden campsite, 25 miles or more from the nearest road. With a flat tire and no ability to read a map, gas was the least of his worries. His...companion, sassily sipping on a PBR in the background, seemed to agree. More »

The Oldest Cars Still In Production

The announcement last month that Lada will finally stop building the 2107 (also called the Riva) was sad news. At least sad to those of us perverse enough to love the idea that the 1966 Fiat 124 was still in production somewhere. That Lada was part of an ever-shrinking club of true automotive survivors. Let's see who's left. More »

The World's 'Fastest Amphibious Car' Is For Sale

You know what sucks? You're tearing down the road at a fun but safe 150 mph, when all of a sudden there's an estuary or a river or a pier or swimming pool or an ocean or some other sort of watery annoyance that seems like all it wants to do is make you stop having fun. I mean, come on! I know the Earth is 75% of that drippy crap, but, frankly, I'm sick of it. More »

The Ten Worst Small Cars For Big People

Tall people historically make more money and enjoy more success than shorter individuals, but these advantages are wiped out when it comes to cars. The smaller you are, the more cars you can drive. Here are the cars Jalopnik readers think are the worst for big people. More »

New Jersey Motorcyclist Killed In Crash With Two Rental Ferraris

"Prepare to be at the center of attention when you rent this car" reads the description on exotic car rental company Gotham Dream Cars' page for the Ferrari F430 that killed a motorcyclist when the two collided head-on yesterday morning in New Jersey. More »

Williams F1 Team Garage Explodes Into Flames After Victory Photo, Injuries Reported

The Williams F1 team was celebrating their first victory in eight years at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona with a team photo when something, possibly a KERS unit, sparked an explosion. Video shows the garage burst into flames and sources are reporting multiple injuries. A team member was apparently pulled out of the blaze with his legs on fire. More »

$400,000 Ferrari 599 GTO Crashes Into Taxi Killing Two

The driver of a rare Ferrari 599 GTO — the fastest street-legal Ferrari ever — collided with a taxi Saturday morning in Singapore, resulting in his own death and the death of the taxi's passenger. More »

Carroll Shelby, Automotive Legend, Dead At 89

Before reality TV, and even still to a very large degree now, the best known name associated with performance cars to the average person is Carroll Shelby, and with good reason. Shelby has been considered a legend in the field for decades, and his influence is still strong to this day. He died today at the age of 89, as a result of complications from an illness. More »

This Is What Happens When You Roll A Cadillac Over A Wall

The cross-country street legal One Lap of America rolled into Road America for their latest stage today, leading the drivers of the CTS-V Sport Wagon to roll their wagon so hard it flipped over a retaining wall. The car spared itself with an explosion of airbags so that the driver could walk away uninjured. UPDATE More »

How GM Designers Pranked Their Boss For Owning A Ferrari

Chuck Jordan is one of the most famous car designers of all time and, like all enthusiasts, he loved his Ferraris. The only problem was he was the lead designer for General Motors, not Ferrari, so one day his employees at the GM Design Center decided to have a little fun with his prized Daytona. More »

The Ten Stupidest Ways To Get A Ticket

There are few smart ways to get in trouble with the cops, but there are definitely a few unintelligent ways to find yourself on the wrong end of the law. Here are the infractions Jalopnik readers think are the stupidest ways to get a ticket. More »

The Post In Which I Tell You I'm Leaving

As many of you may already know, my six-and-a-half year reign of terror at Jalopnik ends this month. That's right, I'm movin' on up the management ladder, ending my streak as the Gawker editor with the highest longevity. That means we will soon have a new driver here at Jalopnik — Matt Hardigree, the hardest working writer and editor I know. More »

Atlanta Wants To Ban Drifting

Drifting enthusiasts love Atlanta. They can legally race their cars in Turner Field's parking lot six times per year. But if one Atlanta city council member has her way, that will all end soon. More »

Oh, That's Why Cars In Horror Movies Never Start The First Time

After discovering the incredible secret of how movie cars shift, I decided to do some more investigating into the magical world of movie cars. Like, why do cars in horror films never seem start when someone is in danger of being mauled by a psycho or a werewolf? More »

I'm Rutledge Wood, Host Of Top Gear USA, Ask Me Anything

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With two seasons of Top Gear USA done and in the books, it appears as though the audience for the History Channel show continues to grow. So, will it be around for a third season? We have no idea. More »

The Ten Greatest Upsets In Racing History

Motor racing, like many sports, is often dominated by a certain team or a certain driver. But all Goliaths fall eventually. Chosen by Jalopnik readers, these are the ten greatest upset victories in auto racing history. More »

This Jeep Owner Vandalized His Own Car In A Dealership Protest

They do things a little differently in the Middle East. After waiting since April 16th for parts for his Jeep from the dealer, a man in the State of Kuwait spraypainted complaints about the dealership all over his Jeep and parked it right in front of their door. It's a "I will blind my eye if it mars your sight" kind of thing. More »

2012 Chevy Camaro ZL1, 'Never Say Never' To Lotus Sale, And Tesla Loses More Than Expected

This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important? More »

Identify This Car And Help Police Catch A Killer

Law enforcement agencies from across the U.S. have reached out to Jalopnik for help with car identifications since your input was "critical" to solving a hit-and-run last month. More »

This Man's Quest To Build His Dream Car Is Driving Him Insane

Koji — no separate first or last name, just "Koji" — is a man of remarkable skill, talent, and determination who is attempting to build his dream car in a garage somewhere in Washington. He's also a man with a pretty dim view of how most of us spend our time. Mostly because he's simplified his life to one focus — completing his ambitious dream. More »

The Ten Slowest Sports Cars Of All Time

Take one look at these purpose-built sports cars and you'd expect them to be fast. You would be wrong. Even before we got used to powerful V6 Camrys, these ten rides chosen by Jalopnik readers were the slowest sports cars the world had ever seen. More »