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How Fiat helped incite the protests in Brazil

19 hours agoVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

Fiat hired the famous Brazilian band O Rappa to write and record a song about cheering for Brazil on the streets. A campaign they did for the FIFA Confederations Cup happening right now, hosted by Brazil. Fiat is a sponsor for this cup, and therefore they invested big in this campaign. Show More Summary

Hell Yeah You Can Drift An Audi S4...With 800 Horsepower

yesterdayVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

People are always calling me saying, "Raphael! Raphael! Why do people buy Audis when rear-wheel-drive cars are so much better at drifting?" Well, you can drift an Audi, so long as you try hard enough. Read more...

The 10 Worst Cars of the 1980's

3 days agoVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

The Eighties are fondly remembered for break-dancing, mix tapes, big hair, leg-warmers and the threat of Global Thermonuclear War. But some things from the '80s are best left buried and forgotten, like this selection of craptastic automobiles. Presenting the 10 Worst Cars of the 1980's! Read more...

Think you need a truck to tow a fifth-wheel trailer?

4 days agoVehicles / Cars : Hemmings.com

Fifth-wheel travel trailers can offer up many advantages compared to their more conventionally towed counterparts, but chief among them is resistance to the phenomena known as sway. As we explained in our Skills 101 article on towing a trailer, sway can be caused by excessive speed, improper trailer loading or even the currents of air [...]

Yes, You Can Fit Five People In A Ferrari 458 Spider

4 days agoVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

Did you think that the Ferrari 458 is a two-seater? Bah! It just has two seats. That doesn't mean it can't fit five people. Read more...

Why the Need for Speed Movie Might Suck…or Kick Ass

4 days agoVehicles / Cars : AutomoBlog

Have you ever seen the movie Redline? It’s a 2007 racing flick that featured cars like the Koenigsegg CCX, Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini Murcielago, Ford GT, Porsche Carrera GT, and loads of other badass supercars. Sounds like a plot for a pretty badass movie. Here’s the trailer: But it sucked. Bad. The movie itself was contrived [...]Show More Summary

An uncanny sense of what the public wanted: a deeper look at Harley Earl

5 days agoVehicles / Cars : Hemmings.com

Speaking of Harley Earl, we recently came across this video – apparently put together by GM in the 1980s – extolling the virtues of the great designer, uploaded to YouTube by mrpitv, the same user who uploaded the Ford design studio video we recently posted. Plenty of footage of the Y-Job, the LeSabre, and many [...]

This is what we get for exporting both Jerry Lewis and NASCAR

We know you didn’t get enough 2CV cross action from the brief video we posted last week, which is why we’re posting this somewhat longer video, put together by 2CV Television, apparently a YouTube channel dedicated entirely to Citroën’s people’s car. Skip ahead to the 0:30 mark to get right to the action.

High Schooler Tries To Jump Over Car, Gets Hit, Lands On His Feet

last weekVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

Here we see a high school idiot apparently try and clear his friend's car, only to smack into the windshield, flip, and then land on his feet. Read more...

What's The Biggest Car Show Fail On Video?

last weekVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

If there's one surefire way to get kicked out of a car show, it's with a burnout. Unsurprisingly, this usually ends poorly for everyone. Read more...

Tree Falls On Extremely Unlucky Russian Driver

last weekVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

If a tree falls on a deserted road in Russia and hits the only car on the road at the time, will anyone hear it? Yes, because that Russian will have a dash cam. Read more...

Mini Tow Racing Is As Loony As It Sounds

last weekVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

Allow me to introduce mini tow racing, the looniest form of motorsorts I've seen in a long time. Read more...

Of snail shells and runaway trucks

Let this be a lesson to all you 2CV owners out there: Don’t get stuck at the end of a queue, always skip to the front. Now if that isn’t enough hot and heavy 2CV action, try this: 2CV cross!

The Beater Invasion Has Begun And We Got It On Film

last weekVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

Rally Baby Racing has survived the “Death Race” and destroyed an entire “Neighborhood”. A blind hobo stumbled across some “Lost Footage” buried behind an old accordion at the bottom of a ship's hull. Jim Glickenhaus’s Ferrari P4/5 witnessed them firsthand and immediately turned around and went home. Show More Summary

Meep Meep! Tim Lotts’s 1970 Plymouth Road Runner on Hemmings TV

2 weeks agoVehicles / Cars : Hemmings.com

You know you’ve got a keeper when your spouse goes looking for your dream car and finds it. In Tim Lotts’s case, his dream car was a Plymouth Road Runner, and his wife came across the 440-powered B5 Blue 1970 Road Runner convertible with air conditioning that he then proceeded to restore. For the latest [...]

Speaking of British Car Week…

2 weeks agoVehicles / Cars : Hemmings.com

As David LaChance pointed out the other day, this week is British Car Week, so we thought this video of an MG J2 arriving at the recent Celebration of Automobiles at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was appropriate, showing one of the challenges in driving an LBC. Thanks to reader John Olman for pointing it out [...]

Richard Hammond Explains Why The E46 BMW 3 Series Is Perfect

2 weeks agoVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

Before landing a gig at Top Gear, Richard Hammond worked for Motor Week, and he took the time to explain why you shouldn't buy a now-classic E46 BMW 3er. Read more...

Found Footage: 1950s Central American race action

2 weeks agoVehicles / Cars : Hemmings.com

When I think of hotbeds of sports car racing activity in the 1950s, Central America rarely comes to mind. But, just as they raced on the streets of Watkins Glen or across Sicily in the Targa Florio, there were races held on public streets in El Salvador. For several years in the late 1950s, after [...]

For $12,000, Get A New Slant On Swinging

3 weeks agoVehicles / Cars : Jalopnik

In the classic film, Eating Raoul, Baul Bartel’s character derisively announces that he and his wife, played by Mary Woronov, do not swing. The pair do however off swingers to steal their cash. Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Dodge is said to have once appeared in the TV show Swingers, but is its price worth killing for? Read more...

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