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NHTSA Pledges To Modernize Headlight Standards Again, For Realsies This Time
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration establishes regulations for virtually everything on all cars sold in the country, but NHTSA is not known for being especially progressive or proactive with its legislation. Ever notice how U.S.-market cars of the early 1980s had uglier headlights than the…
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New Medians Intended To Prevent Street Takeovers Coming Straight Into Compton
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover We’re probably more inclined to condone having “fun” in cars than the average website, but street takeovers (sometimes also called “sideshows”) are a reckless and dangerous aspect of modern car culture that arguably gives anyone with even a passing interest in fast automobiles a bad name. You’ve…
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Rivian’s Annual Halloween Mode Goes Ghostbusters With Officially Licensed Movie Sounds, Games, And A Spooky Voice Assistant
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Automakers love to celebrate the holidays, but there’s no getting around the fact that a lot of what they do is just lame. And yes, that includes essentially every April Fools press release in at least the last 15 years. That said, connected cars and increased onboard…
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2027 Chevrolet Trax And Trailblazer Are Subtly Updated And Grayer Than Ever
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover I don’t mean to alarm you, but we are officially in the fourth quarter of 2026. On one hand, that means we’re all a little closer to death, but on the other it means it’s time for automakers to start rolling out the updates they’re making for…
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Williams Wants F1 Backmarkers Allowed To Spend More Money Than Their Faster Rivals
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover If you started a space program in your backyard, then raced NASA to low Earth orbit on a fixed budget of $400 million, NASA would still win every time. No equal spending cap could eliminate the built-in advantages of America’s space program, with its existing facilities and…
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I Have $25,000 And I’m Looking For An All-Wheel-Drive Commuter Car! What Should I Buy
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Paul lives in Pennsylvania and his work grants him a vehicle allowances. He is looking to spend about $25,000 for a reasonably fun, all-wheel-drive commuter car. He already has a BMW M roadster for the weekends so this doesn’t need to be too wild. What car should…
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2027 BMW iX3 M60 Has 100 More Horsepower Than The Old X3 M Competition
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover The BMW iX3 is the brand’s best-looking crossover in years, thanks to its Neue Klasse design language, but there’s been a problem: BMW hadn’t yet announced a performance version of the iX3, leaving us with only the iX3 50 xDrive model and its measly 463 horsepower at launch. Now,…
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Bribing Iran For Safe Passage Through Hormuz May Be Happening More Than We Think, Analysts Allege
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate prices are both up about 5% today, with Brent sitting just over $105 a barrel and WTI coming in close to $93. Or at least they were at the time of writing. Things could easily get worse, but they also aren’t…
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Hybrid-Free Ferrari 296 Challenge Stradale Spied Wearing Funny-Looking Camouflage
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover The lineage of mid-engine Ferrari sports car is a long and storied one, but the track-focused, hard-edged, lightweight, charge-more-for-less models didn’t really kick off until the 360 Challenge Stradale bowed for the 2003 model year. It’s been 23 long years since then, and Ferrari has continued to…
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Boeing Wins Navy Contract, Will Make All Sixth-Generation Fighters Across All U.S. Service Branches
Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover After winning the contract to build the F-47 sixth-generation fighter for the U.S. Air Force in March 2025, Boeing has just won the contract to build the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter for the U.S. Navy. This will account for all American fighter jets for this era, giving Boeing…