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Porsche is celebrating 20 years in China, and it’s doing so in style: With a 996 designed to look like an inflatable swan. Read more...

This Porsche 996 Turbo is what happens when a billionaire decides he wants to win an SCCA championship and doesn’t care what it takes to make that happen. Scott Tucker, currently serving 200 months in prison for payday loan scams with usury repayment rates,…

If you had asked me two weeks ago what percent of the United States was currently ready for EV adoption, I’d probably have answered 30-ish. As it sits right now, eight days into a 10-day cross-country EV driving competition, I’m not sure it’s even that…

The time has come again, my friends, to delve into the world of Craigslist and the search term “project”. Every once in a while that search turns up a gem or two, and this one has been certified by this terrible car gemologist to be a real one. With the…

Any racer would consider their career a success if they had raced in Formula One, taken the Le Mans 24 victory thrice, an FIA WEC world championship, and two Formula Nippon/Super Formula championships. That’s exactly what Kazuki Nakajima has done since…

You may like wearing a branded baseball cap to showcase your favorite car brand, or you might have a hankering for a set of McLaren cufflinks. That’s fine. Read more...

Another week, another rumbling of the imminent return of Porsche to Formula 1. But this time, it looks like the stars might be aligning for Porsche’s return to the paddock. Read more...

Another week means another entry into our series featuring the sweet cars I found for sale online. Read more...

This week my wife and I are driving a brand new Porsche Taycan across the country for a reality TV special event called Charge Across America. It isn’t a race, because we get lots of points taken away if we speed, but rather it’s a rally meant to showcase…

For many people, the main issue with the Porsche 928 was that, from some angles, it looked like an AMC Pacer. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice custom edition addresses that by looking like a convertible Pacer. Let’s see if that’s worth whipping out the…

Porsche will not be going public any time soon, Stellantis didn’t make 600,000 cars because of the chip shortage, and Tesla. All that and more in The Morning Shift for October 28, 2021. Read more...

Rally driver Renée Brinkerhoff will set off for Antarctica this summer in an effort to become the first woman to race on all seven continents. Summer runs from October to February in Antarctica, though, which means that Brinkerhoff’s Team Valkyrie will find…

Hello Jalopnik readers! I’m Lalita Chemello, the new Managing Editor. Long time reader, first-time writer. Read more...

Last month Gran Turismo fans had oh so much to rejoice about when a jam-packed trailer for GT7 was shown at Sony’s PlayStation showcase event. We also got a release date of March 4 which, regretfully, is not now. I was really hoping for now. Read more...

Porsche loves to set blistering Nürburgring lap times. The 911 GT3 and GT2 RS each hold a spot among the top ten fastest production cars around the circuit, and the 918 Spyder and previous-generation 911 GT3 RS barely miss the cutoff. Read more...

There was a time when the Tesla Model S was the pinnacle of the electric car market. It was fast, had an impressive range and, if you ignored the quality control issues, was a fairly nice place to be. But now, rich people with a hankering to go electric have…

It was only 7 PM, but it was impossible to see outside. The wind howled through every crevice and cranny of the old road-trip van I’d used to get out to this event, and even though I was bundled in as many layers as I could find, I could still feel the cold…

It’s amazing the vehicles designers can come up with when they aren’t constrained by the forces of nature or regulatory restrictions. From sci-fi-inspired motorbikes to a space ship based on an old RV, when limited by nothing but the world of make believe,…

“The 962 is the best race car that I ever drove,” German driver Hans-Joachim Stuck once said of Porsche’s legendary Group C machine. “Brute force and unbelievable ground effects. The centrifugal forces were enormous, and there was no power steering.…

This is just for the third quarter but it still feels like a watershed moment. All that and more in The Morning Shift for October 11, 2021. Read more...