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Retired NBA Star Lamar Odom In Yet Another Car Crash Over Weekend
Photo: Sthanlee B. Mirador (AP) Retired NBA star Lamar Odom was involved in yet another car crash last week. WFMZ reports that the wreck took place in Los Angeles at about 3:00 a.m. on Monday morning and that he is currently “totally fine.” Odom was reportedly on his way home from a friend’s house when, […]
This Is What It’s Like To Drive A Six-Wheeled Formula One Car
There was a time when Formula One was known far more for its wild engineering solutions than it was jet setting billionaires and celebrity grid interviews. In 1976, with new regulations coming in to narrow the front wings, Tyrrell set about building a wild new concept to take aerodynamic advantage of that. Broadway Star Wendell […]
There Were Two ’80s And ’90s Car Shows In The Midwest This Weekend And I Went To Both Of Them
Photo: Bradley Brownell/Jalopnik There is nothing more appropriately 1980s than nostalgia for the 1950s, and as a millennial living in 2023, there’s possibly nothing more appropriately modern than nostalgia for the ’80s and ’90s. I think being part of the last generation that grew up in pre-internet times we have a collective longing for those […]
Here’s The Push You Need To Start Your Own Local Car Gathering
When I first moved to Cleveland about two years ago, I wasn’t exactly enthralled with the local car gatherings. Any of the big cars and coffee type events got overrun with revving supercars, kids looking for TikTok clout, and hooligans trying to turn it into a sideshow. Most of the cruise-ins are certified boomer bait, […]
It’s Every Car For Itself On The Risky Roads Of Guadalajara, Mexico
The chaos of Mexican roads never ceases to amaze me. No matter how many times I’ve driven there — whether it’s just south of the border, or the great Mexican North, or the capital city itself, CDMX — I’m still left gobsmacked by the feeding frenzy that is Mexico’s public road system. How Actor Brian […]
What’s The Most Unkillable Car Ever Made?
Is this old Volvo unkillable? Photo: Volvo We’ve talked long and hard about what could be America’s least reliable car, the cars you think deserve to die and even the ones that left us far too soon. But what about the ones that have stood the test of time and lingered on? The cars that […]
Car Insurance Prices Are A Major Factor In Recent Inflation Surge: Report
The average new car transaction price in August — $48,451 — was down 2.4 percent from the start of 2023, marking the largest decrease in the last decade. That’s a great reprieve from the soaring heights of early this year, but current prices are basically identical to what they were in August last year. So […]
Cop Who Shot Driver 5 Seconds After Leaving Squad Car Charged With Manslaughter
A Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a man last month surrendered to officials on murder charges Friday. 2024 Polestar 2 | First Drive Officer Mark Dial shot Eddie Irizarry Jr. only about five seconds after exiting his police car. Police pulled Irizarry over for driving erratically including making an illegal right turn and […]
Watch A Typhoon Push A Car Backwards As It Drives Into The Wind
Southern China has been battered by Typhoon Haikui. High winds and the heaviest rains in recorded history have flooded cities like Hong Kong and Shenzhen, injuring multiple people and compounding damage already created by last week’s super typhoon Saola. Even though Haikui was downgraded to a tropical depression after making landfall, its devastation has been […]