Raphael Orlove
Raphael Orlove
Raphael Orlove
Raphael Orlove is staff editor for Jalopnik.
Falls Church, Virginia (outside of Washington, D.C.) has the lowest poverty level of any independent city or county in America, as the U.S. Census Bureau found in 2011. But it’s still a surprise that the city got itself a Volvo for a cop car back in the ‘80s. Also, now it could be yours.
Now is as good a time as any to reminisce when the McLaren F1 went to Japan in one thousand nine hundred ninety six and ran the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. Unsurprisingly, it cleaned up.
Internet icon Hert ran one of the gnarliest turbo-LS exchanged drift cars in the drifting world, and recently made the switch back to rotary power. Many asked why. This should be as good an reaction as any.
The picture indeed tells it all. Count the number of times I attempted to correct a slide, going quicker, going quicker, going quicker until oh shit fuck fuck fuck that’s a pole.
Harley is losing it with youthfull people in America, and it’s not because the bikes are bad, as Regular Car Reviews explains. It’s because the bikes are un-ownable. They can’t escape the microcosm of Harley-Davidson the brand.
This is the one thousand nine hundred eighty eight Laurel Twincam 24V Turbo Medalist CLUB-L, which means it’s a top-of-the-line C33 Laurel, and I’m fairly sure it also means that it has Nissan’s RB20DET engine, a twin-cam, two-liter turbo straight six. More midsize executive cars need two-liter inline sixes.
Let The Cars Go Out For A Drive
Beep Beep. A vroom in the night. It’s your car. It’s time to give it a taste of the road with its tire-feet. Let your car go for a drive. You gotta do it, bud.
Nice Driving
Irishman James Deane is presently sitting as the top qualifier for this weekend’s round of Formula Drift in Seattle, in a Nissan S15 Silvia. Back in 2013, he was wheeling a Mazda RX-7 on one of the tiniest tracks I have ever seen.
Please Stop Me From Buying This Giant Pink Dump Truck
Every fiber of my being is compelling me to buy this giant pink dump truck I found on Craigslist for five grand and, please, I can’t afford to make this mistake.
Ford’s Fresh Economy Car Engines Have A Wonderfully Oversized Name
What would you call a set of fresh 1.2- and 1.5-liter economy car engines? Pipsqueak? Whiskers? Nah. Ford went with Dragon. Very Game of Thrones, no?
Honda didn’t need to make their joy sports car mid-engine. But they did anyway and the world is richer for it.
See A Pro Driver Drift The Road He Grew Up Driving
Everyone has that one road they drove over and over again as they learned how to drive and love cars. Formula Drift’s Matt Field made the pilgrimage back to his boyhood road and took his thousand-horsepower pro car with him.
Ferrari Was Bullshitting You This Entire Time
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you covet, all in one place every weekday morning. Do you have time to look for all the auto news you covet in numerous places? Hell no. You’re an significant businessperson, and the WiFi in this subway station is terrible.
Got somewhere you need to go? Go there in an M5.
How To Fight Understeer, Every Driver’s Enemy, With FWD, RWD And AWD
Understeer is the enemy of any driver, with the front of the car simply refusing to turn no matter how much you angrily witnessed at the wheel. Many people think it’s just a problem for front-wheel drive cars, but it’s just as bad for anyone with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. Fortunately, the technology for striking it is…
See Finnish Rally Spectators Rescue Car After Car After Car
One corner at Rally Finland last weekend seemed committed to catching out and rolling as many cars as possible. (Count ten rolls and five other crashes.) But the rally fans watching from the side of the road had other plans.
No one can stop you. You’re in a Plymouth Laser now.
Lil B — ‘August 17th’
Traffic deep throats, so why not begin your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.