Alanis King
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Seat Heaters Are Perhaps The Greatest Car Feature There Is
It’s the week of Thanksgiving at Jalopnik HQ, but even the biggest of holidays don’t cause Jalopnik HQ to completely shut down. Someone, after all, has to provide you all with blogs to read while you’re avoiding questions about when you’re having kids or ignoring your family’s bad political views that somehow always come up…
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Chihuahua Absconds With Car, Drives Across Road
Everyone thought it was going to be the cats that took over—not the machines, war, or any other apocalyptic threat. “Why are you a cat person?” people ask, reminding me that dogs have owners and cats have servants. “Don’t you know they’re just sizing you up for a coup?” But at least I’ll have the…
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Porsche Wants To Get In On The Mobility Movement
Porsche is probably the last company you’d synonymise with “mobility,” since it said itself that the “Porsche sports car will be one of the last automobiles with a steering wheel” even after the world goes autonomous. But hey, everybody is a mobility company now, or wants to be — even Porsche. It’s the hot new…
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I Can Only Hope To Be As Calm As Brendan Gaughan After Flipping A 300KM/H Race Car
Toward the end of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Monday, which was delayed from Sunday due to rain and a lack of lights at the track, there was a giant wreck. That’s the norm. Less normal is the tendency for a car to do a full-on flip, since NASCAR tries its…