Archive for May 22nd, 2008

The 2009 Mazda6 is supposed to be “the first of Mazda’s “Zoom-Zoom Evolution” second-generation vehicles” — whatever that means. Although we’ve yet to get a chance to drive the Zoomage — we’ll be in the driver’s seat sometime in mid-June — our friends at Popular Mechanics have spent some time behind the wheel. We have… »

According to autoblog.nl, the Top Gear crew was caught while on location by a video-camera-wielding fan-boy of the show outside the race track. It was there they caught a glimpse, Bigfoot-like, of a driver in white racing gear similar to that worn by our Stiggie. More importantly, he was carrying a matching white helmet…. »

Topless Fiat fans rejoice, a Cinquecento drop top is on the way. No word on when exactly we (or Europe, rather) will get it, but expect to be able to enjoy the wind in your hair, the sun on your face and the mocking stares of homophobic passersby combined with retro Italian styling by next… »

We’re a little less than a month from the ‘official’ unveiling of the 2009 Subaru Exiga, but seeing the STI-looking one this morning and this scantily clad one now, we’re betting the embargo dam breaks before June 17th. It’s going to be like a game of whack-a-mole pretty soon here, trying to keep with all… »

At one point, depending on age, you may have found yourself in the back of a bus singing along with the chorus to Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.” The song was infectious, emotional, had an awesome video directed by Antoine Fuqua and is based on Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise.” The song is one of the biggest worldwide… »

The Mercedes Benz G-Wagon is a safari car everyone can love, despite its recent usurpation by fashionistas and the affluent douchebag class. For 2009 the Galendenwagen gets the three bar grille spreading like a virus from Ford to Mercedes, and new wheels, but more importantly a much more powerful engine. For ‘09, the G500 is… »

Britain beats Italy, though by the slimmest of margins, in yesterday’s Choose Your Eternity poll, with the ‘64 Lotus Elan eking out a 51/49 victory over the ‘60 Lancia Flaminia. That means we’ll need to set up a Britain-France PCH Schmackdöwn Challengeâ„¢ pretty soon… but that comes only after we cross the river of flaming… »

For those who find the the standard Mitsubishi Evo X to be too pedestrian for their tastes, we present to you the 2008 Mitsubishi Evo MR. Compared to the trimmed-down GSR, the MR gets the Mitsubishi 6-speed DSG transmission (which they insist on calling the TC-SST, as if there aren’t enough letters being thrown about… »

Looking for something fun to do over the summer? Are you in New York or Detroit? Maybe you should become a Jalopnik intern. You’ll get your name on the masthead, $200 in your pocket each month and that certain feeling that comes from knowing you’re one of the few, the proud, the obsessively obsessed with… »

Those of us who live in Alameda or Oakland might cringe a bit when our Berkeley neighbors once again make the national headlines for something silly, but the hometown of Philip K. Dick (not to mention plutonium) is a no-arguments international superpower when it comes to cool old cars- especially weird European machines- parked on… »