Archive for April 14th, 2008

…and we’re in the mood to buy a new used car. One of us had a black four-door 1998 Jeep Cherokee 4×4 Limited and he’s looking to replace his long lost off-roading love. If you want to help, feel free to drop us a comment below with a tip (remember kids, if there’s rust it’s… »

The good folks over at PickupTruck.com picked up on this interesting press release from Chrysler. It looks as though Chrysler LLC will be building on its relationship with Nissan Motors by building a full-sized trucks for the Japanese-European automaker. Dodge, as you all know, just came out with the new 2009 Dodge Ram 1500. Nissan’s… »

Like most college students who grew up in the suburbs and have taken a course in urban planning in the last 30 years, we graduated with a strong belief in the tenets of New Urbanism: higher densities, mixed-used development, transit-oriented design and economic desegregation. Then we graduated to find that most New Urbanist developments were… »

The majority of voters felt that an eternity spent wrenching on a pair of Willys Station Wagons would be preferable to eternity spent with a ‘58 Pontiac/’62 Mercedes-Benz combo, according to last Friday’s Choose Your Eternity poll. That’s fine, but what if you’d prefer endless toil on a hopeless challenging fast car? Something with light… »

2010 Cadillac BRX Caught In Wet T-Shirt Contest (4,080 views, 21 comments)
Hoon Of The Day: Hauling Zero-Turn Mower Doesn’t Improve Handling Skills (2,876 views, 49 comments)
2009 Cadillac XLR, Now In The Nude (2,837 views, 36 comments)
What’s Your Favorite 80’s Video Game? (126 comments, 1,694 views)
2008 Honda Accord Coupe, Part One (62 comments, 2,827 views)

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After proving unmanned ground vehicles could do things all on their own in the DARPA Grand Challenge and then following up with the Urban Challenge it was time to start talking the same language. SAE has standardized the communications protocols for umanned vehicles and has given it a sexy name to boot — Joint Architecture… »

After proving unmanned ground vehicles could do things all on their own in the DARPA Grand Challenge and then following up with the Urban Challenge it was time to start talking the same language. SAE has standardized the communications protocols for umanned vehicles and has given it a sexy name to boot — Joint Architecture… »

You hear a lot about the late-60s Chargers, the Malaise Era Chargers, and the current crop, but what about the forgotten ‘66 and ‘67 models? Some think they’re homely (and suspiciously similar in design to the AMC Marlin), but 40+ years sit pretty well on this ‘66 that the unstoppable Kitt found in her Denver… »

Back in the way off yonder, at least two of us on the Jalopnik staff spent time turning wrenches on an SAE car during college. These cars are nice reminder that the best engineers are the ones who wake up at one in the afternoon and still smell like Jager bombs. The SAE Collegiate Design… »

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With its crypto-Billy Idol soundtrack and jiggly graphics, this ad for the ‘91 Escort stands with one foot in the Eighties and the other in the Nineties. Check out that extraordinarily plastic-looking grille, which warned the unwary of the 127 horses under the GT’s hood. Perhaps Team Make:Way is onto something with their… »