Despite the fact that a whole lot of Americans aren't sold on a car-centric lifestyle, the country's Interstate Highway System is the backbone of American transportation, covering over 46,000 miles of American roadway and helping the country's some 240 million licensed drivers travel from coast to coast with relative ease. The Interstate Highway System as we know it now is the result of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which was signed into law by President Eisenhower and initiated what has since been called the U.S. Department of Transportation claims it's been hailed as the greatest public works project in history – though personally I'd give that to something like Japan's robust train system, including the world's fastest passenger train at 375 mph or China's 28,000 miles of high-speed rails.
The Porsche 911 Turbo is one of those cars that’s overqualified for public roads, and it has been since 1975. Dig into the throttle for more than a few seconds and you warp into the realm of a viral traffic stop for your local PD. So maybe you save the 911 Turbo’s talents for your nearest road course, and that’s a good answer for the coupe. But what about the ragtop variant? What do you do with a car like the 2026 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, a four-seat convertible that hits 60 mph in 2.2 seconds?
The posh confines of most Bentleys make it easy to forget about the English luxury brand’s storied motorsports history. Yet drive the new Continental GT–based 2027 Supersports, with its street-fighter stance and chest-thumping exhaust note, and that heritage seems much closer at hand. As the company’s most driver-focused car to date, it forces you to reconsider big Bentley coupes in a more purposeful light.
It seems that every week the high-end automotive market is tripping over itself to offer another new seven-figure status symbol/value store on wheels to the privileged elite. Over the weekend I asked the Jalopnik commentariat for their opinions on extreme-expense hypercars and whether they were still relevant to the automotive market, to their lives, or even to their dreams. Their answers absolutely did not disappoint.
When Texas voters heard in 2023 that the state legislature had passed a law that would add a $1 fee to their car insurance bills, they probably didn't mind too much. Catalytic converter thefts were up at the time, and they were told the dollar would fund efforts to reduce those thefts. What they probably didn't expect was that a new Texas Tribune investigation would reveal the state spent tens of millions of dollars generated from that $1 fee on Flock cameras that keep everyone in the state under constant surveillance.
Owning a motorcycle doesn't mean you need to become the sort of person who considers splitting crankcases a relaxing Saturday afternoon. Heck, it doesn't even mean that you understand how motorcycles work. But even riders who happily outsource the serious wrenching still have basic maintenance, inspections, and troubleshooting to deal with, and investing a bit in the essentials can go a long way.
The time has come for me and 51 of my future best friends to begin our two-week trek into the wilderness of Northern Canada and Alaska. This has been a journey a decade in the making, as I first heard about the Alcan 5000 rally from famed Canadian driver Andrew Comrie-Picard when I interviewed him about the event for my now-dead podcast back in 2016. Because I have that Midwesterner urge to do things the hard way on purpose, and I'm a guy who deeply enjoys type 3 fun, I was instantly hooked on the idea of a 5,000-plus mile rally that won't see a paved road or chain restaurant for nearly two weeks. When my buddy Alex asked me last November if I wanted to participate in the event, I didn't even think, I said "yes" before he'd finished his question.
Part of growing up is realizing that a far-from-limber rich guy struggling his way out of a supercar isn't so much poetic justice as it is a cautionary tale. Time comes for us all, and it doesn't take an Aventador with 4.5 inches of ground clearance to make getting in and out of a vehicle a non-trivial task. Noted senior-citizen advocates over at AARP identify seat height, door size and weight, roofline, sill height, and even steering-wheel position as factors that can make entering and exiting a vehicle easier or harder.
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The era of the cheap pickup truck is over. It has been for a long time. The market used to be packed with cheap compact work trucks, the kind of rigs you could have as a third vehicle for trips to the lumber yard or hauling the scrap from a home renovation project to the dump. Some manufacturers are flirting with the ability to offer a stripped-down no-nonsense truck, like the Slate or Ford's soon-to-be-launched Fathom, but even those are perilously close to thirty grand.
It's not necessarily a surprise that Consumer Reports and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have their own independent ways of measuring fuel economy. After all, they're two completely independent organizations, and while one claims to be "widely known for its rigorous research and testing," the other is part of the U.S. government. The result is two very different approaches to the matter.
