Tesla Cybertruck Owners Are Trying To Sell Their Used Trucks For More Than The Cost Of A Brand New One
Tesla’s Cybertruck is selling surprisingly well. It’s outselling other electric pickups like the Ford F-150 Lightning and was also the best-selling vehicle over $100,000 this summer. Given the notoriety and novelty of the truck’s design, some owners think they’re sitting on an art piece that will make them a quick…
Space Travel Damages Astronauts At The Cellular Level
Space, the final frontier, is an environment so inhospitable and vast that it could only be compared to traversing the world’s oceans during the Age of Sail. While sailors struggled to fight scurvy two centuries ago, astronauts today now face the threat of damage at the cellular level.
Google Patents Tech That Won't Let You Drive If It Decides You're Doing A Bad Job
Tesla gets more headlines than Waymo, but Google’s robotaxi division is the one to beat in the slog that has become the race to develop self-driving cars. Even Waymo’s prototypes only offer rides in select areas, though, and it’s unlikely they’ll become ubiquitous in the foreseeable future. That hasn’t kept Google…
Too Many Cockroaches To Count Found In Airplane Meal Kitchens
Unless you travel exclusively on private jets, there’s a good chance that the food you’ve been served on your flights has been pretty awful. The lows to which airline food drops is much worse than some dry chicken or under seasoned potatoes, however; everything from live mice to dead cockroaches have turned up in…
Dually Cybertruck Mod Is Just Heavy Duty Truck Cosplay
For many, the telltale sign of a heavy-duty truck is a set of dual wheels mounted on the rear axle. Truck customizer Red’s Miami unveiled a unique dually Tesla Cybertruck. While I’m under no impression that Red’s produces shotty work, this project is the off-road equivalent of putting a time machine in a DeLorean.…
Driver Launches Mazda Off Cliff While Running From Police
A high-speed police chase in California came to a chilling end on Monday when the driver of a car that was being pursued by law enforcement drove off a cliff edge. The car smashed onto the beach below and the driver is now in intensive care after emergency services extracted them from the wreckage.
New Mercedes-Benz CLA Will Have Star-Shaped Headlights And I Want To Squeeze Its Cute Little Cheeks
In just a few weeks I’m going to Austria to do a lot of things in the Alps with Mercedes-Benz, one of which will be a winter testing ride along in the upcoming third-generation CLA. As that car inches closer to production Mercedes has released a video featuring CEO Ola Källenius driving the new CLA around the…
Traffic Jams: Colter Wall - 'Motorcycle'
The fools in charge left the keys to Traffic Jams on the counter, so I stole them while they weren’t looking and am using this opportunity to spread pro-motorcycle and pro-Colter Wall propaganda. Two wheels good and so are artists who actually write their own songs.
Here Are All Of The Worst Things Jalopnik Readers Have Done To Their Cars
We all do dumb things sometimes. It’s okay to admit it. Earlier this week we asked our readers to tell us all about the worst thing they ever did to their car. Some of these responses are downright heartbreaking, so buckle up for a little bit of automotive sadness. If you have your own story that you’d like to tell to…
Chicago Will Be The Latest City To Issue Automated Tickets For Blocking Bike And Bus Lanes
More major cities across the United States have been hopping on the automated ticket issuing system bandwagon that uses cameras mounted to city buses to photograph, identify, and ticket vehicles that block bike and bus lanes. The city of Los Angeles recently spent $11 million on 100 AI bus cameras, and New York City…
Lexus Designed The TX's Weird, Square Cupholders So They Would Fit Stanley Cups
Cupholders, no matter the vehicle they’re in, are usually round. Bucking that established trend isLexus’ three-row TX family hauler, which went with strange looking square cup holders that are removable from the center console. Why would Lexus go and willingly create chaos in what’s supposed to be a family vehicle?…
Donald Trump’s Win Paves The Way For Sky-High Tariffs And Scrapped EV Support
Good morning! It’s Thursday, November 7, 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.
Cities In Ohio Are Scooping Out Intersections To Prevent Street Takeovers
Like any community, the automotive enthusiast community has some factions and subsets that are more troublesome than others, and the latest battleground for automotive rabble rousers are street takeovers. Cities across the United States have faced weekly onslaughts of Chargers, G35s, Mustangs, Camaros, and other…
At $5,200, Would Only A Schnook Pass Up This 1977 Toyota Chinook?
According to the ad, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Chinook “runs and drives excellent” and even comes with a composting commode in which to do your business. Let’s see if its price might also mean business.
This Funny Citroën Sticker Advertises How Much Faster A Slow-Ass Hatchback Is Than You Running In Nikes, At Least
Last weekend at the Best of French and Italy show, one of my favorite automotive events in California, I spotted a window sticker on an obscure 1980s hatchback that made me laugh. It was on a Citroën LNA, a tiny ’lil thing based on the Peugeot 104 that was introduced in 1978 with a two-cylinder engine. 1981 brought a…
HondaJet Hits Car In Arizona Crash, Killing 5 [Update]
A Honda HA-420, better known as the HondaJet, crashed outside of Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday, hitting a fence and finally colliding with a car. The crash took place at about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday evening at Falcon Field Airport in the city of Mesa, CNN reports. A spokesperson for the Mesa Fire and Medical Department has…
Alleged Car Thief Commented On Facebook Posts From Dealership Trying To Track Him Down
When you get away with a crime, it’s generally encouraged that you actually get away — don’t dawdle around at the scene making faces at the victims until the cops show up. It seems one New Hampshire man never learned that the lesson applies to digital whereabouts as well, since after allegedly passing a bad check and…
American Electric Motorcycle Brands Debut Low-Cost Models In Bid To Win Over Riders
American EV motorcycle manufacturers Zero and LiveWire have both independently come to the conclusion that people aren’t really buying full-sized electric motorcycles in large numbers, and they need to invest in building smaller, lighter, less expensive, and more efficient relatively low-speed machines. Smartly, both…
Portland Airport's Llama Therapy Is Not Expansive Enough
If flying isn’t stressful for you, I’m jealous. For the rest of us, Portland International Airport offers an animal therapy program featuring big, adorable llamas. Every few weeks, the fluffy creatures visit the terminal so travelers can pack their worries away for a moment or two. While more airports should launch…
Hertz Apologizes For Threatening To Have Customer Who Drove 25,000 Miles In Rental Car Arrested
Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000 miles per business day.…
