Some cars are best left as prototypes. Maybe the design's too wild for production or the tech's so experimental it wouldn't work in everyday use. Doesn't mean they can't be fascina
Regular people collect baseball cards, stamps, comic books. Gets pricey sometimes but mostly just hobbies for people with a little cash to spare. Celebrities making millions? They go big. Lots of famo
America does plenty of things right when it comes to cars. Muscle cars? Nobody builds them better. Full-size trucks and SUVs? Same story. But naming car products? Americans get weirdly serious about i
Car theft has been around as long as street parking. Before cars, people stole horses. In 18th-century Pennsylvania, horse thieves got branded with the letters H and T on their foreheads after being s
Monterey Car Week just wrapped up, which means all the rich folks in pastel pants and fancy hats have cleared out of this swanky California town. Well, mostly cleared out anyway. Between all the ov
Okay, so here's the thing about car names. If you're Mercedes or BMW, you can literally call your car "X7 M50i" and people will still throw money at you because it's got that fan
Ever wonder why some gearheads get all worked up about whether someone's got a big block or small block under the hood? It's not just bragging rights – there's actually some real eng
Everyone knows the Germans are the kings of the performance sedan world. BMW M3, Audi RS4, Mercedes-AMG - those names pretty much run the show. But every now and then, someone else from across Europe
Everyone knows the big automotive YouTube stars, but what about the talented creators still grinding their way up? Jalopnik asked their readers to recommend channels with fewer than 200,000 subsc
Ever scratched your head trying to make sense of Polestar’s car names? Yeah, join the club. Polestar, spun off from Volvo in 2017, is still the new kid on the block аnd boy, do they love to keep