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Welcome to The Autopian, the ultimate car-culture website run by two of your favorite former Jalopnik authors/dipshits, David Tracy and Jason Torchinsky! It’s been a
You Know Things Are Bad When Honda Starts Selling Decade-Old High-Mileage Cars As Certified Pre-Owned
Lead photo credit: Honda Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized news stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s
Why I Bought A Dilapidated Kangaroo-Hunting Ute Sight Unseen In The Middle Of Nowhere, Australia
“It’s about two-thirds the height of a standard beer can,” Australian Autopian reader Laurence Rogers told me over a video chat, describing the diameter of
How I Got My Navy Callsign By Shitting Myself In An F/A-18 Fighter Jet. Twice.
So there I was…smack in the middle of the Arabian Gulf at the helm of an F/A-18 fighter jet thirty thousand feet overhead one of
The Only Luxury Convertible Delivery Van Ever Made Has A Fatal Flaw
It’s odd to think about, but some car companies have managed to find so much success that they erase themselves from history. American Bantam is
I Led The Design Of The Tesla Model S’s And Ford GT’s Suspension. Now I’m Answering Engineering Questions For The Autopian. Where Did I Go Wrong?
When I saw the Ford GT show car at the 2002 Detroit Auto Show, I knew right then and there I wanted to be part
Lotus’ First SUV Is A 600 HP Electric Beast That Can Detect The Presence Of Children
The Eletre, Lotus’s new battery-electric SUV feels like someone at Lotus just wanted to take care of as many firsts as possible in one vehicle:
Saab Put Reverse Lights At The Front Of Its Cars And It’s Actually Brilliant
The back tables at the Crimson Lantern are bleak, forgotten places shunned by the popular cliques of the various factions of Taillifestyle — the amber-clad
I’m A Real Car Designer And I’ll Draw Your Ridiculous Ideas
Car design is easy right? When something looks wrong or bad, it’s just the designers being lazy, isn’t it? Those marker pushers should get out
An Earthquake Ripped A Car’s Face Off Just Before A Big Design Review. Here’s The Story Of How Designers Rallied Through Chaos
It was a crew of two in the design studio that Friday morning. Everyone in our newly-relocated crew from the Detroit studio was there earlier
A Deep-Dive Into The History Of China’s Bizarre Jeep Cherokee XJ Clones
In the early 1990s many small Chinese carmakers started building weird body-on-frame versions of the legendary unibody SUV, the Jeep Cherokee XJ. These Chinese XJ-like
Murder By Flashing Amber Light: A Mack Hardigraw Car Mystery
Whether you chose to call the ruined landscape known as Hat Trick Gorge a graveyard or junkyard really depended upon what had brought you there:
Here’s Why Some Honda Navigation Systems Are Permanently Stuck in 2002
Almost every navigation-equipped Honda and Acura model made from 2004 through 2012 is currently suffering from something known in the I.T. industry as the Y2K22
Alternate History Hot Rod Dilemma, Stellantis Edition: Humber Snipe or Opel Kapitän?
When the shooting stopped— or at least paused— after World War II ended, the automobile factories of every major car-building nation in the world had
I Work At The World’s Quirkiest Car Museum, And I’m Going To Spill All The Secrets Here
When Jason approached Lane Motor Museum about contributing to The Autopian, I had one thought: If I were a regular schmo who knew nothing about weird car
Watch Us Talk About Our Plans For The Autopian On The Smoking Tire Podcast
The always charming and engaging Matt Farah and Zack Klapman had us on the TST podcast when we were in LA last month, and we
Nissan Finally Gets Off Its Ass And Develops Anti-Soup-Spilling Tech
Look, say what you will about modern Nissan–say that their product line is largely forgettable, stale, a competent but uninspiring fruit cup with a precious
The Production Volkswagen ID Buzz Isn’t Quite The Retro EV Microbus The World Was Hoping For But It’s Still Great
Are you familiar with the sexual practice known as “edging?” You pretty much live on the internet, like all of us do, so I bet
The Autopian Is Live! And We Want Your Feedback
Welcome to The Autopian, the ultimate car-culture website run by two of your favorite former Jalopnik authors/dipshits, David Tracy and Jason Torchinsky! It’s been a
Welcome To The Autopian: The Ultimate Car Website For The People
Another Pre-Launch Update: Nissan Finally Gets Off Its Ass And Develops Anti-Soup-Spilling Tech Look, say what you will about modern Nissan–say that their product line