We have an unabashed man-crush on consummate car-guy and all-around-legend, "Maximum" Bob Lutz. But that's not the only reason we're presenting him with this official offer of employment as a special contributor to Jalopnik. We just finished penning the following letter we'll be sending to GM's reti...

A member of Marcos Ambrose's pit crew chased a loose tire into the infield at Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500, trying to save drivers from a fiery crash. But no good deed goes unpunished. During green-flag pit stops on the race's 67th lap, Jimmy Watts, a gasman on Marcos Ambrose's pit crew, chased a loose...

Sometimes wrecked exotic cars aren't the fault of their uber-wealthy d-bag owners. Sometimes it's just some schmuck who rams into their rear end. Example A: the unfortunate owner of this 2008......

newVideoPlayer("/WheresTheFord_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Fox Business just had Ford's Scott Monty on, and Liz Claman showed us exactly the problem we warned about Friday. You can't find Ford on Twitter. Monty, predictably, told her how to find Ford. The self-promotional Scott Monty showed Claman sh...

Irking us more than the term "social media" are the so-called social media "experts." None annoys us more these days than Ford's Defender-from-Ranger-Danger navel-gazing "guru" and Twit-king, Scott......

Chevy plans to reveal the official "Bumblebee II" Camaro from Transformers 2 here at the Chicago Auto Show. To celebrate the new-look, they've brought his robot mode. Here's a gallery of how they built it. In addition to the how-to gallery below that makes us want to scream "No disassemble #5!", we'...

Ford US auto sales were down 44% in January, worse than the 31.9% drop expected by analysts. Anything larger than a Ford Focus was hit hard. SUV sales? Down over 50%. Trucks? Down over 40%. What was......

Chris Bangle, polarizing and iconic BMW chief design honcho, is quitting "to pursue his own design-related endeavors beyond the auto industry," the German carmaker said Tuesday. A gallery of "Bangle......

Ding, dong the Jobs Bank is dead! Sorta. [Freep]...

Chrysler Australia's getting in trouble with their newest ad using an Obama-imitating voice-over to try and sell a Dodge Nitro. The ad campaign's name? The "Yes We Can" sale. Seriously. It's not quite as bad as Chrysler Europe electrocuting a dog with a Dodge Nitro, but it's definitely not good. Aus...