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Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently on its way to its service station, 930,000 miles away from the planet it was made on. Once there, this triumph of engineering will explore our universe with groundbreaking technology far beyond what’s come before it. However, when it arrives,…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover While it may seem sacrilegious for a manufacturer to jack up a low-slung sports car and give it knobby tires, the idea may not be all that wacky if you think about it — lots of horsepower and sporty dynamics, combined with the ability to hit the…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover What’s the difference between hydraulic fluid and transmission fluid, besides how they’re labeled? You may be interested to know — since you clicked on to this article — that transmission fluid is actually a type of hydraulic fluid. At least, it acts as a hydraulic fluid in…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on its way to Earth’s Lagrange Point 2, where it will conduct a detailed survey of the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble did. It will do so with a primary mirror 7.9 feet in diameter, the same size as…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover As we mentioned this summer, sub-$500 new car payments are becoming few and far between. In fact, during Q2 of 2026, the monthly new car payments hit a record $777. Yet with a little time — and a little math — we’ve managed to turn up six…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover While SUVs and crossovers dominate new car sales, they aren’t the only spacious people movers available. Minivans are still out there, with almost 400,000 buyers opting for these boxes on wheels in 2025. However, unlike utilities, the minivan market has only a handful of players, making comparison…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Although stingy automakers mean fewer shoppers are leasing cars, there are still some relatively good deals out there. It’s important to understand how leasing a car works to make sure an offer works for you. A basic example: many of the very cheapest leases limit how far…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover By far the most impressive automotive facelift of this year has been the BMW 7 Series, which adapted extremely well to the automaker’s Neue Klasse design language, and the rest of BMW’s lineup will be doing the same thing with pretty great urgency. Camouflaged prototypes of the…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Crashing cars very carefully on purpose is a serious and expensive affair, which is why your favorite car review website or automotive journalist likely leans on formal third-party crash test results for a data-driven perspective on the safety of specific vehicles. That information typically comes from one…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Howdy! Hello. Bonjour, or bonsoir, or whatever time of day it is when you’re reading this. I’m going to assume you’ve stumbled upon this blog at about four in the morning, bleary-eyed and staving off sleep with all the caffeine, taurine, L-carnitine, and whatever else you can…