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Pickup trucks are by far the most popular vehicles in the United States — Ford alone sold more than 828,000 F-Series models last year — and it seems like new trucks are getting introduced or teased all the time. Just this week Kia confirmed it’s working on a body-on-frame pickup, and Hyundai is doing the same,…

Sir-Mix-a-Lot likes big butts, and that means today’s Nice Price or No Dice Pacer wagon is right up his back alley. Let’s find out if this fishbowl of a car is priced to make us just as happy. The mantra of “buy low and sell high” is sound financial advice, albeit not without risk. Whether…

Formula 1 has always been at the forefront of cutting-edge automotive engineering, be it vehicle dynamics or engine tech. Unsurprisingly, the pinnacle of motorsports has seen a lot of change since the days of yore, including the F1 evolution from V12s to V6s. It was during the 2014 hybrid era when fans were introduced to something called…

Automakers have been quietly burying the clutch pedal for years, and BMW — one of its last serious defenders — has not exactly been shy about the prognosis. According to the Drive, M division boss Frank van Meel told reporters as recently as February that, from a pure engineering standpoint, the manual “doesn’t really make…

Every few months, we at Jalopnik (and basically every other automotive media publication) pore over automaker sales reports to find nuggets to write about, like dead cars that were still being sold or how popular a brand-new model is. But every once in a while, these typically mundane spreadsheets lead to a real mystery being…

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll recognize Bucky Lasek as one of those rad shredders from back in the day. He’s been professionally skating since 1987 and racing rally as a Subaru Rally Team USA driver from 2012. You might think a super well-known SoCal extreme sports guy, who has won 13 X-games gold…

The automotive world is a rich tapestry of communities that spans as wide as “things with four wheels” down to the most esoteric of subjects. Covering this space means I get exposed to almost every type of niche automotive community you can think of, but I think I just found one that blows them all…

Two of influential New York City street and pop artist Keith Haring’s art cars are on display in the city right now for the first time in history, and the exhibit is open to the public. Heck, even the parking is free. If you’re anywhere near New York City right now, you don’t have an…

Xavier lives in Michigan, and unlike most high-school kids who prefer to bury themselves into a screen, he wants to deep dive into a project car. With a $5,000 budget and a need for speed, what car should he buy? (Welcome back to What Car Should You Buy? Where we give real people real advice…

Maybe there’s a ceasefire in the Middle East, and then again, maybe there isn’t. The whole situation might’ve changed in the time it took me to type that sentence. Either way, you shouldn’t expect airfare to come back down to earth based on any ceasefire announcements, at least not for another few months. That’s according to Willie…