When Wired.com’s Autopia recently chose a list of ten perfect snowpocalypse vehicles, the site’s readers howled in protest. After enduring a pummeling over their choices, the staff invited those readers to come up with their own list. Here it is. More  Read More →

Ken Block crashed out of last weekend’s World Rally Championship race , bringing an otherwise strong showing to a premature end. We were sad to see him go, but thankfully, YouTube was there to show us how it happened. If you’re interested in more WRC coverage, the guys at Axis of Oversteer have assembled a nice collection of YouTube highlights here. Former F1 hotshoe Kimi Raikkonen also crashed out; Citroen drivers Loeb, Solberg,... 

An out-of-control Toyota Prius was brought to a halt today in San Diego by a California Highway Patrol car putting itself in front of it like a brake. According to the CHP, the car suffered from a stuck accelerator. UPDATE. The driver of the runaway Toyota Prius, 61-year-old James Sikes called CHP while driving eastbound on Interstate 8 near San Diego around 1:30 PM PST, complaing about a stuck accelerator and being unable to…  Read More →

In a press conference today, Toyota slammed the mechanics behind Brian Ross’ ABC News report on unintended acceleration , showing how they were manipulated by recreating the same fault on a Chevy, Mercedes, Honda and Ford. Here’s how the hoax occurred. The Toyota press conference held this morning and broadcast to anyone who would listen was a sign beige is fighting back by pivoting media focus to the most ridiculous report, from... 

The 2011 Ford Super Duty is a gamble. Ford abandoned the well-known Navistar-supplied Powerstroke diesel for a brand new all-Ford designed powerplant supposedly delivering monstrous power, squeaky-clean emissions, better fuel economy and the same price. Seems suspiciously impressive. Full disclosure: Ford wanted me to drive the new Super Duty so much they flew me out to Prescott, Arizona where they put me up at a weird hilltop hotel casino,... 

Check out those whitewalls! This 1947 magazine ad for the General Squeegee has it all: beach babes, a mint-green postwar Detroit bomb parked in the sand, and the craziest-looking tires we’ve ever seen. Dig those parallel-groove treads and optical-illusion shoulders, cats!  Read More →

A wild day at the Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons… so wild, in fact, that I couldn’t get a complete standings list before the other LeMons carnies hosed out the Tilt-a-Whirl and hopped a freight out of town. We were all pretty shaken up when the ONSET Cavalier wagon hit the wall, flipped, and burned early in the afternoon, especially when the driver had to be taken away in an ambulance with possible vertebrae injury . The roll cage... 

The Austin Mini had the fourth-longest production run of any car in history , behind only the Volkswagen Type I , the Morgan 4/4 , and the Morris Oxford/Hindustan Motors Ambassador . By 1989, it still had 11 more years to go! This ad for the Rover Mini 30 Limited Edition features 1960s icon Twiggy going all misty-eyed over some beater Mini parked near her chauffeured Roller, resulting in a bunch of hallucino-Anglo-sixties imagery overcoming... 

Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. All this time and we haven’t seen a single GM G Body in this series? This car belongs to the former owner of the ‘65 Dodge D100 we saw a couple years back ; he’s since sold the truck and taken on this Monte as his latest project. It definitely needs some work, but  Read More →

Gotta watch out for those unintentionally accelerating Toyotas. They’re everywhere. Even, apparently, on Late Night with David Letterman. ( Hat tip to AutoObserver ! )  Read More →

These ten cars — the March Forza Motorsport 3 DLC — constitute the first of our two Jalopnik -branded downloadable content packs. You came, you saw, you guessed , and you just might have won. Our exclusive look at the cars below. A quick refresher: Jalopnik is working with Turn 10 Studios to bring you two custom download packs for the Xbox 360 game Forza Motorsport 3 . One pack was chosen by you…  Read More →

Yes, NASCAR is coming to GT5 and now we have new racing video and a clip of Kazunori Yamauchi himself running around Texas Motor World speedway watching a real stock car race. Let’s hope their backhair modeling improves. [Sony via MotorTrend ]  Read More →

This is what we call “winning at life.” While mortals lust after the opportunity to drive the Nurburgring, Wolfgang Blaube took a Mattrack-equipped Hummer H3 on the Green White Hell for Autobild . Ring time? Immortally badass, that’s his ringtime. [ AutoBild ]  Read More →

When you picture a tractor you’re picturing the classic John Deere 4020 in iconic green-and-yellow. To celebrate the famous piece of farm equipment John Deere commissioned Chip Foose to customize a 1970 model. According to Wojdyla, he Foosed it up. Honestly, it looks like every other Foose design to me and the design of the rollover protection is an interesting take on a key feature of the original. Wojdyla, though, freaked out when he... 

Fifty-six years after he won the last Formula One Grand Prix held in Switzerland, the Maestro is applying a dab of oppo yet again at the Geneva Motor Show. Why the gap? Motor racing was outlawed in Switzerland after the 1955 Le Mans disaster. It was not until 2007 that the ban was lifted, allowing the Bremgarten grands prix of yore to become Technicolor history. The last one was held in 1954, the year when Juan Manuel Fangio was lured from Maserati...