Tag: jalopnik.com
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Ferrari Insists New $640,000 Luce EV Is A Serious Car, Not An Elaborate Prank Like You All Assume
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Jaguar did not just reveal a surprise redesign of the I-Pace that we all assumed was long-dead. Some Chinese phone company has not revealed a new ‘Ring-conquering robotaxi. The car you see here is real, and when it goes on sale, it will be sold as the Ferrari Luce,…
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Initiates Largest Change In 70 Years, Solicits Bids To Replace Caltech As Its Manager
NASA announced Friday that it will be soliciting bids for a new operator to take over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the center responsible for every single American Mars rover, and whose Voyager probes are the most distant manmade objects in the universe. Essentially, NASA is putting JPL under new management when the current agreement…
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Felix Rosenqvist’s Last Lap Onboard Is A Thrill Ride To Indy 500 History
When Felix Rosenqvist chased down and nipped David Malukas at the line to win the 110th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, it was the closest finish in the race’s history. The two drivers were only separated by 0.0233 seconds as they crossed the Yard of Bricks for the final time. The Swede began the last-lap shootout…
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Trying To Find Parking In North Korea Is A Chore These Days
For a country that was reportedly banned from importing luxury goods, including cars for nearly two decades, it’s surprising to see that North Korea’s people are experiencing a phenomenon drivers in other countries know too well — trouble finding a parking spot. The car culture in the authoritarian state is alive and thriving, Reuters reports, when in…
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Fanny Packs Are Race Day Game Changers
I don’t like keeping things I don’t use. That’s normal enough, or at least I’d like to think so. Anyway, I recently ended up with a fanny pack for mostly irrelevant new travel backpack reasons, and it seemed too nice to give away, but I had no idea what I would use it for since…
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Lucid Buys Back Engineering Explained’s Air Due To Excessive Software Glitches
Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained put his hard-earned YouTube money where his mouth is when he leased a 2025 Lucid Air Touring. He’s a fan of EVs and liked what Lucid offered enough to get one of his own. However, he has since suffered a series of unfortunate events with the car — bad enough for…
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Has Car Ownership Become So Expensive It’s Basically A Luxury Now?
These days, cars are expensive, insurance is expensive, and gas is expensive. All these costs add up, and it’s a lot. It’s getting bad enough that 39% of respondents to a recent LendingTree survey say that owning a car is a luxury they can’t afford. We’re not talking about a Rolls-Royce here, but owning any car at all.…
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Ford’s Pickup Production Problems Are Giving GM, Ram An Opportunity To Catch Up
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, May 26, 2026, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. This is where you’ll find the most important stories that are shaping the way Americans drive and get around. In this morning’s edition, production issues for the…
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Here Are The Best Years For Cars
Most of us look back on our teenage years pretty fondly, and sometimes those rose-colored glasses can hide some nastiness in the periphery. Over the weekend I asked the Jalopnik commentariat to tell me the objective best year for cars. You can define that however you want, from driver amenities and reliability to technological advancement…
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At $5,995, Is This Buick-Powered 1979 Chevy Chevette A Sleeper That Could Keep You Up?
While it looks mild-mannered and comes from an era when cars elicited yawns, not ya-hoos, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Chevette has some tricks up its sleeve. We’ll have to decide what all those might be worth. Yesterday was the last Monday in May, which means that here in the U.S., it was Memorial…