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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Your tires are the only thing separating you from the road. No matter how advanced and capable the car is, all of that capability has to be translated onto the road through four small contact patches. Understandably, if you want the very best grip you can get, you are likely going to spend extra and…

A lot of legendary engine builders have tried to turbocharge their way into victory lane at the Indianapolis 500. The very first one, however, wasn’t a name that today’s gearheads typically associate with the race or any motorsports, for that matter. That honor belongs to Cummins, better known around here for building reliable diesel truck…

Saab opened the floodgates for reliable turbo performance back in the ’80s, and automakers haven’t stopped innovating since. BMW used single and dual turbochargers to make the most of its engines’ displacements, and some brands have even put little electric motors in turbochargers to minimize lag, such as Porsche in the new 911 Carrera GTS…