2027 Nissan Murano Drops the Base SV Trim, but the SL Trim Gets a Price Cut

• Nissan is reworking the Murano lineup for 2027, dropping the base SV trim and adding a new Dark Armor variant (shown here).
• With the SV gone, the price required to get a Murano has climbed by $2320 to $45,535.
• The Murano SL is now $2770 less than last year, but it loses its panoramic sunroof, 10-speaker Bose stereo system, and in-dash navigation for 2027.

Before Nissan overhauled the Murano for the 2025 model year, the mid-size two-row SUV had mostly been forgotten, with sales dwindling to just 19,316 units in 2024. But the redesign, which brought a bold, luxurious look, saw sales skyrocket to 42,747 units in 2025. Now, for the 2027 model year, Nissan is reworking the Murano lineup, dropping the base SV trim and slashing the price of the SL trim.

Your LED Light Bar Is Ugly, Get Vintage Halogen Fog Lamps Instead - Jalopnik

Bradley Brownell/Jalopnik

LED light bars look terrible. That's not to say they don't have their place, because they definitely do. I've worked on Baja 1000 crews, and I've seen first hand how a good light bar can illuminate the night desert like it's noon time. If you're entered in off-road competition and it takes place at night, you'd be silly to use anything else. For the rest of us, who mostly drive our off-road vehicles on paved roads to get groceries, and do most of our dirt driving in the middle of the day, light bars are overkill. 

What Car Needs To Gain Another Axle? - Jalopnik

Daniel Golson/Jalopnik

For the most part, vehicles on the road have just two axles and four wheels in total. Sure, there are things like semi trucks, cargo vans and buses that have three or more axles, but in terms of the cars, trucks, SUVs and everything in between that regular consumers are out here buying, you're almost always stuck with only two axles. And that's a shame, because vehicles with more than two axles are just plain cool. Case in point, the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 you see above, which I recently spotted in Beverly Hills and then saw driving around Monterey Car Week.

Bentley Torcal EV Is Getting Sheep Wool Upholstery And Ombré Wood Trim - Jalopnik

Bentley

This arguably isn't even a hot take anymore, but I've always found leather in cars to be overrated. It gets hella hot and sticky in the summer, freezes up in the winter, and is prone to cracking as it ages, yet it remains the default luxury car upholstery material. Bentley appears to have heard those cries and is doing something new: its upcoming all-electric Torcal crossover will offer an interior laced with 100% Merino wool.

One-Of-Two 1935 Duesenberg SSJ Special Speedster Once Owned By Clark Gable Wins 75th Pebble Beach Concours - Jalopnik

Daniel Golson/Jalopnik

As you're probably aware, Monterey Car Week just concluded, and as you could probably guess, I'm tired as hell after four days of running all over the peninsula to schmooze and stare at incredible cars. The main event is always the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on Sunday, and this year marked the 75th anniversary of the event. My hope for the Concours is always that I'll see cars that I've never seen before, and this year I got that in spades, mainly thanks to the featured classes that showcased Vignale coachwork and 1930s streamliners.

The 5 Quickest Cars You Could Buy In The '70s - Jalopnik

There are plenty of creative ways in which to rank an assortment of cars. We've looked recently at the SUVs with the most spacious third rows and at the fastest street-legal cars ever built. While every metric certainly has its value, for a gearhead, arguably the thing that gets us all most excited is quickness, meaning acceleration, rather than top speed.

7 Common Mistakes That Could Be Damaging Your New Tires - Jalopnik

mpohodzhay/Shutterstock

It's nice to have a set of shiny new tires, but not so nice to have to pay for them. That's something most of us would like to have to do as rarely as possible. Yet, many of us are making mistakes right now that could be shortening the lifespan of our new tires.

Florida Man Just Needed A Nap, So He Jumped A Barbed Wire Fence To Break Into An Airbus A320 And Sleep In The Bathroom - Jalopnik

Sandi Smolker/Getty Images

Look, we've all been there. You're out late, you're wiped out, and you've just got to crash somewhere. Could be a friend's place, could be in your car. But obviously, only the truly desperate would pass out on a park bench. No, much better would be to scale an eight-foot barbed wire fence at an airport, break into an Airbus A320, and take a nice little nap in the bathroom. That's the way that true heroes do it. And America's truest hero is none other than Florida Man, this time going under the alias Samuel Lackey. So when Lackey needed somewhere to rest his weary head on the night of August 1, you bet he jumped the perimeter at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and made his way over to an empty JetBlue, mobile staircase still attached.

Gordon Murray Strikes Again with the S1

• Gordon Murray Special Vehicles has just shown its third supercar, the S1.
• Mechanically based on last year’s S1 LM, the new car is more touring-focused.
• Only 64 will be built, and all are spoken for.

Gordon Murray, the engineering luminary behind the McLaren F1, is not slowing down. His current firm, Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA), has already produced the T.50, sort of a modern-day take on the F1, and the Sixties-inspired T.33. As if those cars weren't special enough, last year he created Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV), which he says allows for more creative freedom to play with ultra-low production cars.

Bridges And Roads Are So Fundamental To Human Survival That The Geneva Conventions Protect Them - Jalopnik

Fpg/Getty Images

Planes, trains, automobiles, and the infrastructure built to support them are vital to human survival. They're so essential to life that these thoroughfares, like the Strait of Hormuz and its disputed freedom and opening, become massive trigger points in wars. Without them, the people who live or work within cut-off areas can suffer substantially as they are stranded, starved, or basically left to die, similar to how the U.S.-Iran war is stranding soldiers in the Strait. A devastating World War II annihilated many of Europe's bridges and roadways, so much so that nations convened in 1949 to add an entire section to the Geneva Conventions to protect that critical infrastructure. It would ensure many nations' roads and bridges would be protected from being destroyed in war in the future.