Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikHere's A Dozen Of The Worst Tire Names I Can Think OfSometimes I just have to write these things to get them out of my head, okayByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 17, 2021Comments (90)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikI've Got The Perfect Cover Story For That Chinese Knockoff EV BeetleI bet VW will come after Ora for their shamelessly copied Beetle designs, but I have a planByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 16, 2021Comments (61)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThis Strange Tiny British Kit Car Has Some Wild Brochure ArtIt's a tiny, plastic little cheese wedge with a Mini engine shoved in the rear, but it sure looks like a blastByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 15, 2021Comments (32)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikLet's Play The You-Have-To-Pick-One-Car-From-This-Parking -Lot GameYou've all played it, so let's play it together, why not?ByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 11, 2021Comments (99)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThe World's Largest Time Capsule Is Preserving Some Crappy CarsYou'd think that if you went through the trouble of sealing a car into a time capsule, you'd pick a really great…ByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 11, 2021Comments (25)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThe Fiat Ritmo Cabriolet Had The Weirdest-Opening Trunk I've Ever SeenI'm a fan of the Ritmo's unconventional styling but holy crap is that trunk weirdByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 10, 2021Comments (48)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThere's Something Really Weird About Opel GT EnginesAll Opel GTs are like this, and there's something baffling here. See if you can spot it!ByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 8, 2021Comments (62)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikA Bus Toy I Designed Is Now Actually A Real Thing You Could BuyI scrawled this on a whiteboard and now it's an actual thing and that's excitingByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 2, 2021Comments (30)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikWhich Car Will You Pick From This Random Medical Center Parking Lot?Stuck waiting in a Medical Center Parking lot, there's not much else to doByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 2, 2021Comments (266)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikHere's The Stupid Simple Fix For The Cheapest Electric Car In The World After It Nearly Caught FireThe fix, like the Changli itself, was simple and cheap. Like me, too, I suppose.ByJason TorchinskyPublishedNovember 1, 2021Comments (85)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikBehold 2021's Official Jalopnik Halloween Car-Stumes!All of these costumes can be ordered just by shouting your credit card number out a window!ByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 29, 2021Comments (31)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikI Can't Believe I've Never Heard Of This Weird But Oddly Expected VW Beetle Prototype BeforeI've long suspected that a water-cooled original Beetle must have been tried, but I'd never seen this one beforeByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 27, 2021Comments (46)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikMy Changli Crapped Out On Me For The First Time EverI guess the good news is that the nature of the Changli means that you can't really get stranded too far from homeByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 27, 2021Comments (151)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThis Has To Be The Best/Worst Disney's Cars/Transformers Mashup Bootleg There IsI was just in Athens, Greece, and managed to purchase the best thing in the cityByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 26, 2021Comments (23)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikDeer Are Idiots And I Hit One In My PaoI'm okay and the kid's okay and I'll get the car fixed, but there's nothing fun about smacking into a lot of venisonByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 25, 2021Comments (259)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThis Could Be The Best Decal Kit Ever Offered By A Major CarmakerThe Plymouth Arrow isn't a particularly well-remembered car, but props should be donated for thisByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 12, 2021Comments (51)
Car CultureTorchlopnikNow playing Car CultureTorchlopnikThis Is The First Time A Jason Drives Car Has Stranded Me, But I Still Love ItThis lovely little 1954 Panhard Dyna Z maybe wasn't really ready for jaunty drive around town after allPublishedOctober 11, 2021Comments (14)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikThat Time GM Accidentally Made An Ad For The VW RabbitThis is all nice and weird GM stuff, so get ready for a lot of head shakingByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 8, 2021Comments (86)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikHere's An Automotive Puzzler: Does The Subaru 360 Have A Trunk?As I've said before, a question a child might ask, but not a childish question.ByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 7, 2021Comments (45)
Car CultureTorchlopnikCar CultureTorchlopnikTo Keep The Ford F-150 Lightning Apolitical, Ford Should Not Do These ThingsI misunderstood Ford's intent, and came up with some trim packages that now I don't think they should useByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 7, 2021Comments (172)