Normally, we try to focus on cars that actually exist in the real world here on Jalopnik. But with the San Diego Comic-Con about to start and The Venture Bros movie coming out, we've been distracted ...

Over a year ago, we wrote a short story revealing that the dash of a MINI Paceman looks just like the outline of Mickey Mouse's face. The designers couldn't have done this by accident – it's just too ...

Animation can provide a fascinating window into the past. In the 1950s and 1960s, as cars became a fixture in contemporary life, animators made all kinds of films about automobile culture, exploring ...

Normally, I wouldn't want to bring up something of this gravity during the holidays, but I have to take a firm stand on an issue that's been bothering me for a long while. I've sat by long enough and ...

The car world is full of some really awful stereotypes and catch phrases. We often hear that X or Y model is "the car for you", "has been designed specifically for the young demographic" and "packs ...

Adulting is boring. There are just so many rules: Get to work on time, pay your taxes, don’t cry when Mufasa dies. It’s enough to make you long for the simplicity of Saturday mornings as a kid, when ...

How could this not be the ultimate cartoon car? To start, it's a rag top, so it's got sex appeal. It's a family car, seating a whole family and its pet dinosaur. Most importantly, it's the ultimate in ...

Auto design today seems to be about where architecture was 20 years ago. The clean functionalism that loosely dominated for so many years—when it was clear what a beautiful car looked like (namely ...