I love Subaru because it’s a case where the stranger car won out. As Mitsubishi has long given up on the Evo, it’s the WRX and STI that endure, weird warbling flat-four engine and all. Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
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Dakar’s New Classic Class Was Made Just For Me
Since its first running in 1978 between Paris and the seaside Senegalese city that gave the race its name, the Dakar rally has hosted competitors from across motorsport driving some of the most unique and imaginative vehicles ever to race. The race may take place in Saudi Arabia only now, but a new Classic category…Read […]
Here Is Some Very Sketchy Driving
We tend to think of rally driving as being all perfectly balanced slides, intentional, with the driver and co-driver working in tandem to make a car go faster than the tires would allow, gliding around loose corners. This is not what you see here.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
When Rear-Engined Skodas Tore Up The 1981 Rally Acropolis
In the ‘80s, Skoda wasn’t a brand of Volkswagen rebadges, it was a little automaker from a Communist country that kept its motors in the back and its cars on the rally stage, even if they were never big contenders. I like that attitude. I like it a lot.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
When Rear-Engined Skodas Tore Up The 1981 Rally Acropolis
In the ‘80s, Skoda wasn’t a brand of Volkswagen rebadges, it was a little automaker from a Communist country that kept its motors in the back and its cars on the rally stage, even if they were never big contenders. I like that attitude. I like it a lot.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
These Ridiculously Awesome Weekend Wallpapers Bring The Great Outdoors To You
Remember motorsports? Remember outside? Jalopnik remembers. As do our friends over at Schofhauser Media who sent over these beautiful pics of last year’s Olympus Rally in Shelton, Washington. Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Enjoy This Huge Stash Of Rad 1980s and ’90s Rally Videos
Weren’t you just saying you wish you knew where to find hours and hours of sweet old video clips featuring really rad cars from the 1980s and ’90s? Well… you’re welcome. The YouTube channel “VHS Rallies” has you covered.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
How To Use Your Handbrake To Improve Your Winter Driving
Coming from Texas and now living in the northeast, I am perpetually in awe watching my Canadian husband maneuver a vehicle in winter weather. In the midst of a snowstorm a few weeks back, he busted out some wild moves with his handbrake that had me looking just like that Pikachu meme. Confident driving on […]
One Of The Wildest Volvos Ever Built Is Back On The Market
You hear about a car that’s got a full cage, stainless exhaust, a fuel cell… hell, even adjustable suspension. Sounds like serious business. Then you find out it’s also an early-2000s Volvo S60 road car. Plated up and everything. Okay. Then you find out it’s for sale.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
The 2020 Rallye Monte Carlo Historique Had The Good Cars
A few weeks back we brought you the news from the 2020 Rallye Monte Carlo. But that race was filled with Hyundais and Toyotas. This week’s Rallye Monte Carlo Historique had Alpines, Porsches, and not one, not two, but three mighty Lancia Stratos (Stratoses? Stratii? Straterix?) taking part. You know, the Good Cars.Read more… Continue […]
How To Master The Trickiest Kind Of Driving
There is nothing more challenging than having to cover ground on unfamiliar roads. But there is a whole training school devoted to this kind of driving and it’s a bit of a dying art.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
There’s A Good Chance Climate Change Will Kill The Rally Sweden
Rally Sweden, with its treacherous snow-packed roadways and unique winter conditions, has been a longstanding gem in the World Rally Championship calendar. But the fate of this month’s February 13-16 event is currently hanging in the balance because there’s just not enough snow.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
There’s A Good Chance Climate Change Will Kill The Rally Sweden
Rally Sweden, with its treacherous snow-packed roadways and unique winter conditions, has been a longstanding gem in the World Rally Championship calendar. But the fate of this month’s February 13-16 event is currently hanging in the balance because there’s just not enough snow.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
There’s A Good Chance Climate Change Will Kill The Rally Sweden
Rally Sweden, with its treacherous snow-packed roadways and unique winter conditions, has been a longstanding gem in the World Rally Championship calendar. But the fate of this month’s February 13-16 event is currently hanging in the balance because there’s just not enough snow.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
The Monte is on!
The Monte is on! Shakedown was yesterday and the first special stages begin today and conclude on Sunday. Here we see Evans getting very loose in his Yaris. Good shit.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
The Cars Of Big Speed Are Back
There is a four-wheeled creature which travels around the world inflicting its shouts upon the hills and dells of rural municipalities all over the globe. Right now they are shooting around the hills and forests near Monte Carlo shouting their tiny hearts out, zooming zooming zooming toward the horizon. They cry out…Read more… Continue Reading […]
The East African Safari Classic Rally Looks Fun As Hell
This week Porsche 911s, Ford Escorts and even a Rover SD1 ripped through Kenya and Tanzania as part of the Safari Classic Rally. While part of the course had to be abandoned, the rally went on and it looks like it was a pretty damned good time. Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Modern Rally Legend Citroën Is Leaving The World Rally Championship Because Driver Sébastien Ogier Left
Any time I’ve ever had a big breakup, I usually just cut off all my hair, dye it a new color, and buy a spicy new wardrobe. That’s why I truly relate to Citroën’s decision to completely leave the World Rally Championship after its driver and six-time WRC champion Sébastien Ogier opted to leave them […]
It’s a rare treat to see young rally star Oliver Solberg gas hopping and hittin’ switches in his Sub
It’s a rare treat to see young rally star Oliver Solberg gas hopping and hittin’ switches in his Subaru WRX STI Lowrider. He may not be a true OG, but what he lacks in style he makes up for in effort. Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Here Is The Sideways Alpine Rally Car That Shoots Fire
You knew that it was out there. In the mountains. In the ether. The Alpine A110 rally car for competing in the FIA’s R-GT class brimming with interesting rear-wheel-drive sports cars. And yet here it is, with the inimitable sports car rally master François Delecour at the wheel, sideways and farting fire.Read more… Continue Reading […]