Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Chris Tsui)
Flystock/Shutterstock Back in 1992, the state of Maine shoved about 20,000 old tires price of rubber underneath a stretch of Dingley Road within the town of Richmond. It was an experiment to see if the state could mainly kill two birds with one stone: help roads hold as much as the freeze-thaw cycle that causes potholes, and cut down on rubber waste, too. The freeze-thaw cycle is the phenomenon of water in the bottom wreaking havoc on roads when temperatures swing between seasons. We all know what you are picturing, though, and no, they didn’t just stack a bunch of…
McLaren It looks like just yesterday McLaren was dropping off my P1 to go together with my Porsche 918 Spyder and Ferrari LaFerrari, however the hybrid batteries in those cars at the moment are sufficiently old to warrant replacements — time flies once you’re having fun, et cetera. One aftermarket firm, V Engineering, has developed a brand new battery for the McLaren P1 that also improves the automotive in two key areas: weight and electric driving range. This aftermarket lithium-ion battery is 12.4 kWh moderately than the unique’s 4.72 kWh. The corporate hasn’t yet given an official number as to what…
Mazda In Mazda’s July 2026 sales report, its sole sedan and one in every of its oldest models, the Mazda 3, nearly doubled its sales over last 12 months while the brand’s SUVs almost universally slid. The Japanese automaker sold 3,903 Mazda 3s within the U.S. last month, up a whopping 87.5% in comparison with July last 12 months. Isolating for the more popular sedan version, sales are up 91.8% year-over-year whereas the marginally dearer hatchback grew 77.4%. Taking a look at the identical metric for Mazda’s other products, the whole lot except the entry-level CX-30 —which is arguably little…
Kenmo/Getty Images This may not come as much of a surprise to enthusiasts who’re tuned into this form of thing, but in the event you have not been being attentive, first-generation Ford Broncos have turn out to be bona fide collector’s items in recent times, and values have exploded accordingly. At the highest end of the market, three restomod Broncos crossed the Barrett-Jackson auction block in Scottsdale last 12 months, trading hands for $257,000, $340,000, and $400,000, with the latter two ending up in the highest six highest-grossing lots at the entire event. Even stepping down from high-dollar restomods, and before…
Tesla Tesla released a barebones, rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck in April of last 12 months, and a brand new recall inadvertently reveals just how badly it sold. Starting at $71,985 (about $10,000 lower than the AWD Cybertruck was on the time), the stripped-out version of Tesla’s controversial pickup was quickly discontinued in September, presumably as a consequence of poor sales. Because Tesla doesn’t publicize model-specific sales aside from Model 3/Y combined together and “Other Models” lumped in with one another, we didn’t really understand how poor those sales were — until now. The corporate is issuing a recall on Cybertrucks with the…