657 articles on Cars

  • Smart's Electric Car Isn't Very Smart
    Daimler has a lot of work to do if the Smart Electric Drive is to succeed. There¿s a lot to like about the itty-bitty EV, but as it stands the car is underpowered, overpriced and in need of a serious rethink. To be fair, the car we spent a week driving is a second-generation model, one ...
    04.19.11
  • Algal Fuels Could Cut Oil Imports 17 Percent
    Forget hydrogen. Algae may be the fuel of the future. A study by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory finds algal fuel could replace 17 percent of the petroleum the United States imports for transportation fuel each year. Of course, one of the major concerns about algae is the volume of water needed to produce it. ...
    04.15.11
  • An Escalade Slays Godzilla
    By Matt Hardigee, Jalopnik Go-fast guru John Hennessey's got this great shtick going where he pits his Frankenstein monsters against stock versions of cars we associate with performance. It's total nonsense, but how the hell do you not watch a twin-turbo Cadillac Escalade race a Nissan GT-R? I visit the Hennessey HQ in Sealy, Texas, with some ...
    04.14.11
  • IBM App Predicts How Your Commute Will Go
    Updated 5:35 p.m. EST April 15 to address the possibility of incorporating weather forecasts into the modeling tool. IBM is testing smartphone technology that can predict traffic jams and warn commuters before they ever take to the road, something it promises "will ultimately help drivers around the world." IBM is one of several companies exploring how to ...
    04.13.11
  • Eyjafjallajökull one year on: What have we learned (and not learned)?
    It has now been one year since the eruption that closed the skies over Europe and captured the world's attention. Before April 13-14, 2010, most people outside Iceland (or this blog) had ever heard the name Eyjafjallajökull and suddenly (much to the dismay of broadcasters everywhere), it became a household name. We've talked about the volcano - ...
    04.13.11
  • This Is the World's Greatest Driveway
    By Matt Hardigee, Jalopnik Kiwi racing champion Rod Millen does everything better than you. Your old Toyota has 130 horsepower. His old Toyota has 800. Your driveway's a cracked asphalt mess. His driveway's a mile-long, race-paved dream that mimics the best race tracks in the world. When Millen visited the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2002 he ...
    04.11.11
  • Top Gear Responds to Tesla's Lawsuit
    Andy Wilman, the executive producer of Top Gear, shares his thoughts on Tesla Motors' libel lawsuit against the popular BBC program in this piece written for Jalopnik. You may know that Tesla has issued a writ against Top Gear for defamation and malicious falsehood over the road test that we broadcast of the Tesla Roadster in ...
    04.06.11
  • Tuner Drops Diesel Into BMW Z4, Gets 63 MPG
    By Matt Hardigee, Jalopnik Conundrum alert, gearheads! Does your lust for diesel outweigh your desire for speed? Is a sexy BMW drop-top more, or less, sexy when you ditch a potent six for a diesel four? And would you rock AC Schnitzer's 99d concept car? Let's start with the facts: A brand-new BMW Z4 went under the ...
    03.31.11
  • Hyundai i40: The Wagon You Don't Deserve
    Hyundai penned the i40 at its Rüsselsheim design studio, where serious men do serious things. With pencils. Nonetheless, Hyundai's i40 is designed with Europe in mind. So where's ours? That's a very good question. Oh, that's right. Only the Germans get wagons now. That's because they buy them. We buy eight-passenger luxobuses with enough A/V equipment ...
    03.03.11
  • Master Chief, Your Vehicle Is Ready ...
    AstroBionix was still putting decals on the Thor Ultimate Deployment Vehicle, a 600-horsepower, all-wheel-drive rig built by Italian coach builder Fornasari, when we snapped this pic from the Geneva auto-show floor. Imagine a real-life Warthog from "Halo." The Austrian firm says it does something with space technology. I'd be more specific but my brain started hurting ...
    03.02.11
  • Audi A3 Concept: The Sedan You'll Hate to Love
    Budget-minded enthusiasts like hatchbacks, mostly because such people only get one car and have to make it count. The Audi A3 Concept challenges this preference by dropping all that's lovable about the RS3 hatch into a sleek sedan. I'm a hatch man. I like a big, glassy round hatch that can take all my equipment. I ...
    03.02.11
  • Steam-driven eruptions continue at Bulusan in the Philippines.
    After a few months of intermittent explosions since late 2010, Bulusan in the Philippines looks to be at it again (although not really a "major volcanic eruption" as the Huffington Post claims). The volcano produced a 3 km / 9,800 feet plume (top left) while the Tokyo VAAC is warning of ash as high as FL120 (3.6 ...
    02.20.11
  • Expanded evacuations as the Kirishima eruption continues
    I spent most of the weekend with some sort of cold/flu/virus, so I'm only now catching up with all the goings-on that I missed over the weekend (not that my head isn't 100% cleaned up, but Mondays are Mondays). Looks like I got a lot of reading to do, but I'll start with an update ...
    01.31.11
  • Friday Eruption Update: Kirishima, Bromo, Galeras, Kizimen, Colima and more!
    This has been one busy week, both volcanically and personally, so I'm going to try not to write another three posts today. So, instead, let's try to summarize all the action from the week and get in a few words about some events that were missed in the Yellowstone and Kirishima noise. Kirishima: And as soon ...
    01.28.11
  • Kirishima eruption in Japan still going strong
    I had a fun time last night speaking to the Licking County Rock and Mineral Club - lots of talk about volcanoes and we spent some time talking about our newest best friend, Kirishima. The impressively-erupting Japanese volcano (see below) has finally made it into the english-speaking media but not in the way I expected. ...
    01.27.11
  • Etna starts off 2011 by putting on a show
    I am a little late to the party, but all the waiting for the past year (and more) for new activity at Mt. Etna in Italy have paid off. The volcano has now entered a new eruptive period, the first since 2008-09, with some specatular fire fountains and lava flows from the eastern flank of the ...
    01.13.11
  • BMW's 340-Horsepower Autobahn Blitzkrieg
    DETROIT -- The BMW 135i was supposed to be the shorter wheelbase mini-M3 we've wanted since the E30. It wasn't. But the 340-horsepower 1 Series M Coupe's a step in the right direction. BMW unwrapped it for us here at the Detroit auto show early. To hate on the current 135i Coupe is to complain about ...
    01.10.11
  • One-of-a-Kind Amphibious Car You Can Buy Now
    Have you always wanted a vehicle you can drive on land and water? If you don't mind an amphibious car that needs a little testing and troubleshooting, the Dobbertin HydroCar could be for you -- if you're equal parts wealthy and crazy. Rick Dobbertin is renowned for imaginative projects. The Hydrocar, listed for $777,000 on eBay, ...
    01.03.11
  • Historic Stadium Becomes Clunker Graveyard
    Bush Stadium in downtown Indianapolis was built in 1931 as a field for Negro and minor-league baseball teams. Today, it's a historical relic holding hundreds of rusting vehicles traded in under "cash for clunkers," a spooky memorial to waste. If you're a fan of baseball movies, you've seen Bush Stadium. It stood in for Comiskey Park ...
    12.15.10
  • 6-Wheeled Sports Car Headed for Production
    After 32 years of development, the Covini Engineering team claims this is the production version of the six-wheeled C6W it finally is unveiling this week. The future is now. The unusual sports car takes its engineering inspiration from the Tyrell P34 Formula 1 race car of 1976. The Tyrell had two pairs of 10-inch front wheels ...
    12.02.10
  • The signs that lead to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption
    Nothing like a good Nature paper to get the media's attention, especially when it was about the biggest air traffic disruption in almost a decade. Of course, the headlines I saw were just plain confusing on the whole: "Iceland Eruption linked to weird magma plumbing", "How the Icelandic volcano issued warnings for months before its ...
    11.19.10
  • Eruption Updates (11/9/2010) for Merapi and Bulusan
    A couple of updates on two of the volcanoes that have caught people's attention right now! Oh yes, and sorry about the brevity of many of these updates lately - time, it seems to disappear much faster right now, so I've had to spend a little less time on the posts than I'd normally like. ...
    11.09.10
  • Merapi Update for 11/8/2010: Death toll climbs as activity calms
    A quick update on the ongoing eruption at Merapi in Indonesia - the death toll has now reached at least 141 since the eruption started on October 26th. This number is likely a low estimate as officials in Indonesia think that people are buried in the thick ash and mud deposits from pyroclastic flows and lahars that have come ...
    11.08.10
  • Merapi Update for 11/4/2010: The eruption worsens
    The new eruptive phase at Merapi appears to be getting worse - and from the sound of it, the volcanologists at the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation aren't sure what to expect. Surono, the head of the Centre, described the volcano as entering an "even worse stage" and that "we have no idea what's happening ...
    11.04.10


 

 

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