Daniel Golson

6 days ago | jalopnik.com | Daniel Golson

The years of my life can now be split into BB and AB sections: Before Beyoncé and After Beyoncé. Earlier this week I went to night four of her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, and I am forever changed. There has never been and will never be a performer like Beyoncé; as she sings in "Alien Superstar," she's one of one, she's number one, she's the only one.

6 days ago | jalopnik.com | Daniel Golson

Just a few weeks after Pope Francis died the day after a combination 4/20 and Easter Sunday where he had a meeting with JD Vance, the papal conclave at the Vatican has elected a new Pope — and he's American. Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old from Chicago, will be known as Pope Leo XIV. This new guy also seems to disagree with JD Vance, which is a pretty good start.

1 week ago | jalopnik.com | Daniel Golson

Now that electric cars are no longer in their infancy, we're starting to see more niche segments, innovative engineering and, most importantly, performance models appearing. We've known that Mercedes has been working on its electric AMG.EA architecture for a while, with the company showing off the Vision AMG concept in 2022 and more recently releasing photos of camouflaged prototypes of the production version in testing.

1 week ago | jalopnik.com | Daniel Golson

Despite a pair of great new EVs that bookend both sides of the price and size spectrum in the EX30 and EX90, Volvo is having a tough time in the U.S. both in terms of sales and manufacturing. Volvo sales in China are down recently, but a new model for a competitive segment should rectify that. This week Volvo released the first teasers of the new XC70, an SUV with no relation to the old lifted wagon XC70.

1 week ago | jalopnik.com | Daniel Golson

When the eighth-generation Chevrolet Corvette debuted in 2019 it was controversial in a lot of ways. Its styling was divisive, it didn't offer a manual transmission anymore, and, of course, it went mid-engine for the first time in the model's history. But most controversial of all may have been the super driver-centric interior design, which featured a vertical row of buttons running along a spine that separate the driver and passenger sides of the dashboard.