Here Are Your Best Answers Of The Week Ending December 02, 2023

Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in QOTD. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed.

The Mazda MX-30 Is No More (In The U.S.)

These Are The Best Cars From Brands You Hate

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Psychologists and philosophers will debate sunup to sundown about whether our perception shapes our reality. Here at Jalopnik, though, we’ve got proof for one side of that fight: Carmakers you all perceive as bad, and the reality of their truly incredible cars. Last week, we asked for the best cars from automakers you hate, and today we’re peering through your answers. Read More

These Are The Coolest Car Companies

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We asked readers to tell us what car company deserves to be called the coolest, and the majority of you responded with esoteric automakers. Good. There was a healthy dose of automakers known to those outside the cognoscenti, such as Mazda, which is beloved by many. Also good. But not one mention of cool British automaker Bristol? Really? Anyway, here are the companies readers think are the coolest: Read More

These Are Your Auto Recall Horror Stories

Photo: Hyundai

Building cars is hard, and when you build a lot of cars every year, it’s especially hard to build more than a million cars a year without there ever being a mistake at the factory or a flaw in a batch of parts. That’s where recalls come in, and in general, they’re a good thing. You don’t want your car to have a dangerous flaw, but you definitely want the automaker to fix it (for free) once they notice. Read More

What’s Your Auto Recall Horror Story?

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Last year was one of the biggest on record for automotive recalls. The industry blamed supply chain issues and worker shortages for the shoddy build quality that caused many of the recalls. Then again, OEMs were compelled to keep churning parts to build cars for record profits, which the auto industry has lately seen. Read More

What Car Are You Waiting To Turn 25?

2000 Audi A2Image: National Motor Museum/Heritage Images (Getty Images)

We get some cool cars here in the U.S., but we always want what we can’t have. Whether it’s a car you drooled over on an old episode of “Top Gear,” or one you read about in imported JDM magazines, once it turns 25-years-old it becomes eligible to import. Read More

These Are The First Cars You Truly Hated

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Some cars inspire our love and affection. Others deserve nothing but ire and derision – the kind of hate that let’s us go on at length, as our readers did when we asked about the first cars they ever truly hated. Read More