Americans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. … Read more

Headache-Worthy Cars, Car Buying Horror Stories And Blameless Automakers In This Week’s QOTD Roundup

Image: Standret (Shutterstock) My family has had the same mechanic for what must be 20 years now. He’s less a mechanic and more family at this point. He’s always completely honest and accommodating, and has saved us thousands of dollars over the years by getting our cars back on the road in a timely and … Read more

Colorado lawmakers kill supervised drug-use sites bill in Senate

Colorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal. On Thursday night, two Democratic senators joined with the Senate Health and Human Service Committee’s three Republicans in voting to kill House Bill 1028, … Read more

These Are The Best Of Our Burning Questions This Week

A car typically spends a dozen years on the road in the United States. Vehicles can serve as a makeshift time capsule for design trends, so driving down the street is like journeying through different eras in time. We asked readers earlier this week which car designs aged like milk, and the comments were filled … Read more

Attention Car Owners! Rear Seat Belt Alarms Mandatory From THIS Date; Rs 1000 Fine For Not Complying

Home Car And Bike Attention Car Owners! Rear Seat Belt Alarms Mandatory From THIS Date; Rs 1000 Fine For Not Complying This safety feature alerts the passenger sitting in the car with a beeping sound to wear the seat belt and this sound does not stop until the passenger wears the seat belt. A seat … Read more

You Can Thank Rich Folks For All The Clay-Colored Cars

Oh, OK. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your dealership and select that lumpy grey 4Runner because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you drive around town. But what you don’t know is that 4Runner is not … Read more

The First Car To Ever Go Over 100 Miles Per Hour Was An EV

You’ll be forgiven for not knowing much about the automotive world around the mid-1890s. It was a long time ago, and the world was a very different place back then. The automobile was pioneered by thousands of people making iterative improvements to four-wheeled transport, some more important than others. History remembers the Henry Fords and … Read more

Colorado legislators float overhaul of RTD’s board, planning processes

Colorado lawmakers are drafting legislation that would deliver a sweeping overhaul of the Regional Transportation District — significantly reshaping and downsizing the governing board to remove nearly all elected seats while attempting to align the transit agency’s planning with broader housing and climate initiatives. As formulated by the legislation’s three Democratic sponsors, who represent suburban … Read more

Maruti Suzuki ordered to refund car’s price as airbag did not deploy during accident

A consumer panel in Kerala has ordered automobile giant Maruti Suzuki India Limited to refund the price of a car they sold to a customer as its airbag did not deploy during an accident three years ago. The Malappuram District Consumer Commission issued the order based on a complaint filed by Mohammed Musliar, a native … Read more