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After dealing with things like arrests over false complaints of rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in […]
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik Auto shows are a shell of what they once were, with way fewer automakers exhibiting at the convention centers and the ones that are there not necessarily using the opportunity to reveal something new. Porsche doesn’t even go to the Los Angeles Auto Show anymore, which left a big space open on […]
Motorcyclists are always trying to get the most out of our bikes — the most sound, the most power, the most fun. Some folks take this to extremes, clearing out everything that could possibly interfere with those precious exhaust pathways, up to and including their spark arrestors. As a fellow motorcyclist, I beg of you: […]
Three years after unveiling its Seven concept at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Hyundai is using that same show to debut the production 2026 Ioniq 9, a large three-row SUV that’s a sibling to Kia’s EV9. (The name was changed from 7 to 9 to leave room for more future Ioniq models.) It’s a wild-looking […]
I’m a massive fan of Minis, both literally and figuratively. I’m 6-foot-8 and own a four-door 2017 Mini Cooper S hatchback, and anyone who knows me knows how much I love my car. In the modern profit-driven automotive market, automakers are consolidating product lines and simplifying option packages, often leading to more practical but more […]
Photo: Pramac Ducati 26-year-old Jorge Martin Almoguera, nicknamed The Martinator, became the fifth Spanish-born MotoGP champion in history and the first to win a title for an independent squad since Valentino Rossi took the 2001 laurels for Nastro Azzurro Honda. It was clear that the Ducati was the bike to have for 2024, as the […]
Photo: VinFast When we first drove the VinFast VF8, we weren’t impressed. Our headline said it was “simply not ready for America,” and the criticism only got worse from there. VinFast clearly rushed the development process and didn’t have a remotely competitive product to offer. Supposedly, the Vietnamese automaker planned to improve the VF8 over […]
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 13: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well […]
You don’t have a fraction of the talent that Michael Schumacher held in his left pinky finger, but if you have enough money you can buy the car he used to win his final races. Fighting tooth-and-nail with eventual champion Fernando Alonso in 2006, Schumi used this chassis as a tool to win the San […]
Typically, you’d think blue states would be the ones to invest in infrastructure improvements that are better for the environment than red states. Air quality affects us all, but one party has decided everything that leads to cleaner air is communism, and it isn’t the Democrats. And yet, when you look at how different states […]