Denting your car sucks. It happens to everyone at some point or another, and it’s often more of an annoyance than a real pain — there are plenty of hacks for popping out your own dents. Yet, when a Cybertruck owner showed up to the service center with a dented door, Tesla wanted to charge $3,000 for the fix. The owner…

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Some car owners are willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid the time and monetary cost of having their vehicles pass an annual state inspection, including buying fake stickers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 22,000 counterfeit Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers in two recent shipments from…

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As part of our belief that hitting people with your cars is bad, Jalopnik maintains that hitting houses with your cars is also bad. People live in houses, and you should not hit them with your cars. Unfortunately for apartment residents in one Portland, Oregon building, someone didn’t get that memo and crashed into…

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It’s conceivable that a future American President will address the nation from the Oval Office on the day NASA successfully lands astronauts on Mars. They will likely praise the blood, sweat and tears it took to travel 140 million miles to the Martian surface. However, those same bodily fluids could be vital building…

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It’s been a terrible year for the Tesla Cybertruck and it doesn’t exactly sound like the kinks have all worked themselves out yet. The latest update reportedly bricked some Cybertrucks, leaving owners scrambling to figure out which of their other six-figure cars they’ll be forced to drive now that their rides are…

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Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing team went into pre-season testing cautiously optimistic. After finding its new Valkyrie Hypercar racer was several seconds off the pace, it is decided that the car won’t make its debut at the 24 Hours of Daytona in January while the team looks for a solution. Part of that solution…

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Low, light, minimalist and sinister as all hell, the Rodin FZero is an upcoming turbocharged V10 track-focused (though allegedly street-legal) hypercar that beats F1 around just about any track. Rodin does this by completely throwing out the F1 rulebook and starting from a clean sheet of paper. With a closed cockpit,…

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This may sound unbelievable now but, once upon a time, car makers took chances on small cars. When they didn’t make a butt-load of money they stopped pretty quickly, but the few customers who could appreciate something a little different were able to purchase a small taste of joy. One such car is on sale right now in…

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Driverless taxi services are a mouth-watering prospect for any business. There’s a 24/7 torrent of revenue without the need to pay wages for drives. The lack of a potential threat behind the wheel is also a welcome aspect. Unfortunately there’s a flip side to autonomous vehicles; the absence of a driver has emboldened…

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Rimac Group CEO Mate Rimac is a Croatian tech geek, engineer, and designer with a crazy level of insight into how cars are built because he’s in charge of building some of the fastest machines in the world. Just over a decade ago Rimac was wrenching on his home-built electric-converted BMW E30 and now he’s in charge…

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As of 2023 the average age of new Rolls-Royce owners is 42, if you can believe it, and the 120-year-old brand’s percentage of owners who are under 40 is growing. Reflected in Rolls-Royce’s increasingly younger owners are the exuberant specs — while a few decades ago basically all Rollers were subtle colors like a…

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Happy Friday! It’s December 27, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.

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You know Mark Wahlberg for his acting roles in films such as “Daddy’s Home” and “Daddy’s Home 2.” You know him from his previous careers as a rapper and an underwear model and a violent racist, and you know him as the man behind the Wahlburger’s burger chain. But did you know Mark Wahlberg also owns a car dealership…

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Yeah, I’ve got resolutions, but the New Year’s kind? Nah. That’s just a human construct of time, man. My resolutions are ongoing, like they came straight out of the United Nations. They’ll keep going forever.

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‘SPORT’ is emblazoned on each rear flank of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Impala, despite the model’s traditionally non-sporting nature. Should we be good sports and overlook the debatable decals in light of the asking price?

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With KTM’s recent financial mess, this could be the perfect opportunity for Sir Lewis Hamilton to step in and take control of a semi-competitive MotoGP team that is already up to speed.

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In a way, it makes sense that tall drivers get a lot of attention. The Mazda MX-5 Miata may be great, but it’s hard to enjoy if you’re too large to physically fit inside. At the same time, though, tall people aren’t the only ones who have problems fitting into cars. Sometimes, it feels like automakers just completely…

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Earlier this week we rounded up some of the wildest Tesla Cybertruck stories from the year, and now we’ve got a late entry of another weird situation that’s seemingly due to the Cybertruck’s unique design. While fixing minor damage to their wheel arch trim, one Cybertruck owner discovered the truck’s rear air…

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The early 2000s are back, baby. The tech sector seems ready to pop, the kids are layering multiple tank tops above their baggy low-rise pants, and cars are getting lower, wider, and visually louder. Wide bodies with garish liveries are all the rage in the drift and time attack scenes, and those styles are trickling…

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Wally has a 2010 Mazda5 that has done an excellent job of a family hauler with it’s balance of reasonable size and usability. But the old Mazda is reaching the end of it’s days and he wants to replace it with a similar type of car with more modern features. What car should he buy?

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Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell…

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The International Space Station is nearly five years from its scheduled death date. NASA’s funeral plans include seeing a private station springboard off the ISS before the older station plunges into the Pacific Ocean. However, the space agency announced last week that the private Axiom Station could break free “as…

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With 80 more stops to be made on Saturday night a stressed Amazon driver in Massachusetts decided to pull off and dump the packages in the woods instead of getting them to their intended destinations.

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While the Christmas NFL game saw the Ravens absolutely obliterate the Texans on their home turf, the attention wasn’t really on the game, as it was drastically overshadowed by Beyoncé’s incredible live-on-Netflix halftime performance. The whole show was a non-stop visual blitz, but the real star of Queen Bey’s…

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An Azerbaijan Airlines flight from Baku to the Chechnyan city of Grozny crashed Wednesday, killing 38. The plane flew hundreds of miles off its route and crashed on the wrong side of the Caspian Sea in Aktau, Kazakhstan, with 29 survivors currently being treated at a nearby hospital. Russian officials initially blamed…

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Last week, we told you about a screaming deal one Colorado Fiat dealership was offering on brand new 500es: $0/down and $0/month for 27 months. All a lessee has to pay is the sales tax, which comes out to something less than $1,800. In today’s day and age, that’s about as close to free as you’re going to get, and it…

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Good morning! It’s Monday, December 26, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.

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The Parker Solar Probe is expected to skim the Sun’s outer atmosphere on Tuesday. NASA’s probe will come within 3.86 million miles of the solar surface, closer than any human-built object ever. It might seem distant, but Mercury is 39.4 million away from the system’s namesake star. The probe will be coming in hot in…

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Today’s Nice Price or No Dice hot Audi has an effective factory theft deterrent—a manual transmission. Let’s see if its price makes it a steal anyway.

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Happy first night of Hanukkah! And, I guess, merry Christmas. I thought this would be a fitting day for my Traffic Jams debut so I can bless you all with the greatest Christmas song ever written: “Christmas Tree” by Lady Gaga. Released in December 2008 as a digital download, a few months after Gaga’s debut album “The…

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It’s no secret that we here at Jalopnik have been critical of Elon Musk’s stainless steel middle finger to the automotive industry. In fact, we wrote over 60 Tesla Cybertruck blogs in its first year as a real car in the real world.

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Boeing had a year that its executives will definitely want to forget. An inflight door plug blow-out on a 737 Max led the Department of Justice to shred its 2021 settlement with the aerospace manufacturer over the plane’s two fatal crashes. Boeing pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government and paid hundreds…

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The average new car transaction price these days is nearly $50,000, which isn’t great when you consider the median income in this country is about the same. So if you need to replace your current car but can’t afford something new, you definitely aren’t alone. Decades of wage stagnation have put Americans in a tough…

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Well, it’s the end of December, which means another year has passed without anyone forcing the Jalopnik staff to get real jobs. For that, we are eternally grateful. Allegedly, there are other jobs you can work that don’t require you to put pants on, but most of those don’t come with access to cool cars with gloveboxes…

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Tesla sales are tanking, Twitter is a fucking mess, SpaceX is coasting on Boeing’s failures, xAI is burning through billions, The Boring Company is a scam, and Elon Musk himself is trying to shut down the U.S. Government. The world’s richest man is a childish megalomaniac, and his actions in 2024 have only expanded…

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I’ve driven a lot of stupidly fast cars at Jalopnik this year. Stuff like the Lucid Air Sapphire, Chevrolet Corvette, Maserati GranCabrio Folgore and Bentley Continental GT Speed come to mind, but none of those cars have altered my brain chemistry and changed my DNA as the McLaren 750S did. You see, it’s not the fact…

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We drive dozens, if not hundreds of cars every year. Some of them come around with a lot more hype than others. Folks aren’t really waiting in anticipation over things like the new gas-powered Chevy Equinox, but for some cars, there’s a ton of suspense leading up to their release.

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Today being Christmas, the height of the gift-giving season, we’ll need to decide if this Nice Price or No Dice Mustang is a proper present or if its price makes you hope it comes with a return receipt.

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One of the largest and fastest-growing car companies in China (and the world) is Nio, which has largely been focused on the more premium end of the electric car market. That’s now gonna change with Nio’s new Firefly subbrand, which was officially revealed last week with a cute ‘lil hatchback that will be sold in China…

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What a year we’ve had in 2024. There was good news, like Lando Norris finally getting his first win in Formula 1, bad news like the demise of the Mitsubishi Mirage and unsurprising news, such as the end of another year without self-driving Teslas ruling the road.

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The process of shooting photos of a car can be extremely time-consuming. Capturing every single angle, detail, backdrop and element can take a hell of a lot of effort, and frankly, most of the time the pictures stink anyway. However, sometimes everything lines up and you end up with some truly lovely pictures. That’s…

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Holy smokes, is that a lifted four-wheel-drive third-generation Ford Econoline Club Wagon? Sometimes when I’m out walking the dog I find myself face to face with a truly never-before-seen specimen of automotive awesomeness. This time it was Ford’s incredible box van turned adventure machine. Out here in the American…

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Putting a train under the Christmas tree was a time-honored tradition in the Kalmowitz household. When I was growing up, every year my family and I would spend hours setting up the train (sometimes two or three of them) under the tree, and I’d endlessly make them go back and forth. However, there was something I…

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If you want an exciting front-engine car with American power and slick styling, then you might think your options are limited to the likes of the Dodge Viper or an early Corvette. There’s another option though, as an American workshop once set out to create a new sports car that paired European looks with American…

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There was once a time when the mere mention of the Toyota Prius elicited laughter and prompted remarks like “A Prius? Seriously?” from people who didn’t know any better. Not any longer. The fifth-generation Prius is the best looking and most powerful the hybrid has been in its 23-year history, and after driving one…

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Today is December 24, which means there are only a few more days remaining before the horrors of 2024 give way to a fresh, new set of horrors in 2025. For many of you, that also means it’s the day before Christmas. For some of you, it’s the day before the first day of Hanukkah. For the most obnoxious Gen X-ers who…

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We all know most car colors are simply dreadful. For the most part, they’re a faded pastel of blacks, whites, grays and silvers. Sometimes, though, an automaker will come out with a color that is so lovely I’ve got to give it a shoutout. That’s exactly what Lexus did with its Copper Crest color that debuted on the…

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The Mountain Goats don’t really have a Christmas album, or really any Christmas music, which is wild for a band that prides itself on being the best damn Durham-based Christian Dad rock on the planet (or at least in North Carolina.) Due to the lack of Christmas tunes, I nominate “Emerging” from the album Moon Colony…

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With a recent paint job and a clean MB-Tex interior, today’s Nice Price or No Dice 300TD looks ready for duty. We’ll still have to decide what such duty might be worth.

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A Japanese woman celebrating her 80th birthday decided to mark the occasion in a unique way. She not only surrendered her driver’s license, but also gave upthe manual Mazda RX-7 she’s owned for the last 25 years. Don’t worry, though, this is a heartwarming story

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Old cars with modern drivetrains are often terrible. People go too far in their restomods, turning classic muscle cars into the automotive equivalent of those LED-ridden black leather couches. But what if you wanted to deck out a classic car with modern power in a way that wasn’t cringe as hell? Well, you might chop…

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