Archive for May 23rd, 2008

It’s Memorial Day weekend and our overlords at Gawker have granted us a half-day today and a full day off on Monday. So we’ll probably be spending our long weekend chugging down beers, bitching about gas prices, watching the Indy 500, engaging in more self-flagellation and playing with some cars we’ll be talking about next… »

If there’s one thing Automotive.com knows, it’s how to create web content for auto buff books that is extraordinarily useless. But who knew they could create something actually useful — like a widget to find the cheapest price of gas around town? Mazel Tov, Automotive.com, you’re finally becoming a man. Now get in that tool… »

Remember the Datsun 710? You still see 510s around, maybe the occasional 610, and the early Maxima was actually an 810. A 710 sighting, however, doesn’t happen every day, so we were very happy when Anthony sent in these excellent shots of a 710 wagon he spotted in New Westminster, B.C. It’s rusty, but doing… »

Looks like reader James Kenney is in a prime location for catching first glimpses of new Ford products. After bringing us a look at that first picture of the 45th Anniversary Ford Mustang, the most over-the-top OMG-amazing-drop-dead-sexy Mustang variant since the one before it, he’s managed to spot an actually sexy All-Wheel-Drive version of the… »

Despite the small size of the image, it appears the 2010 Pontiac G8 Sport Truck has moved on from cobbled together show car to pre-production tester. A forum member over at GM Inside News spotted these camouflaged (why?) cars around Melbourne and snapped one off before the driver made a speedy getaway. The grille on… »

The current state of gas prices may not be as big of a ball-buster for Prius owners, but recent reports suggest that there aren’t as many Priuses on the road as there could be because of manufacturing shortages. One move by Toyota to try and combat this shortage is by building a $192 million battery… »

If there’s anything to remember this weekend as gas prices reach $3.831 per gallon, it’s to not fall for gas-saving gadgets. These gadgets are hidden in a corner of your local auto parts store or advertised at 3 a.m. on television, but the fact of the matter remains that they just don’t work. Popular Mechanics… »

With our MSPaint-level cartographic skills and a batch of gas data from the always instructive GasBuddy.com we present to you the average gas prices by state. The cheapest gas by average is found in Wyoming ($3.646 per gallon), where no one lives, while the most expensive gas is in Connecticut and Hawaii ($4.171), where people… »

newVideoPlayer(”JettaSportWagen.flv”, 494, 300,””);Now that we’ve proudly provided you with our review of the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen, we now just as proudly present the following Jalopnik original production: Wheels of Desire, der film.

Original post by Mark Arnold… »

Yesterday, our DAF-photographing French friend Franzouse sent me the kind of question that takes quite a bit of thought to answer:
Two very good friends of mine just quit their jobs to go on a 6 month road trip along the Pacific, from San Francisco to Panama; Their plan is to buy a vehicle in SF,… »