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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

Aussietop

Why I Bought A Dilapidated Kangaroo-Hunting Ute Sight Unseen In The Middle Of Nowhere, Australia

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How I Got My Navy Callsign By Shitting Myself In An F/A-18 Fighter Jet. Twice.

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Saab Put Reverse Lights At The Front Of Its Cars And It’s Actually Brilliant

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A Deep-Dive Into The History Of China’s Bizarre Jeep Cherokee XJ Clones

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A Deep-Dive Into The History Of China’s Bizarre Jeep Cherokee XJ Clones

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Saab Put Reverse Lights At The Front Of Its Cars And It’s Actually Brilliant

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How I Got My Navy Callsign By Shitting Myself In An F/A-18 Fighter Jet. Twice.

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Why I Bought A Dilapidated Kangaroo-Hunting Ute Sight Unseen In The Middle Of Nowhere, Australia

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You Know Things Are Bad When Honda Starts Selling Decade-Old High-Mileage Cars As Certified Pre-Owned

Thomas_Hundal April 4, 2022 10:18 am 11 Comments

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

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Aussietop

Why I Bought A Dilapidated Kangaroo-Hunting Ute Sight Unseen In The Middle Of Nowhere, Australia

Robert Varga March 29, 2022 5:00 pm No Comments

“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

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Stab1

How I Got My Navy Callsign By Shitting Myself In An F/A-18 Fighter Jet. Twice.

Bobby Mackay March 29, 2022 4:45 pm 5 Comments

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

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The Only Luxury Convertible Delivery Van Ever Made Has A Fatal Flaw

Jason Torchinsky March 29, 2022 4:15 pm 1 Comment

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

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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?

Huibert Mees March 29, 2022 4:00 pm No Comments

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

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Lotustop

Lotus’ First SUV Is A 600 HP Electric Beast That Can Detect The Presence Of Children

Jason Torchinsky March 29, 2022 3:25 pm No Comments

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:

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Saab Revs Top

Saab Put Reverse Lights At The Front Of Its Cars And It’s Actually Brilliant

Jason Torchinsky March 29, 2022 2:30 pm 6 Comments

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

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I’m A Real Car Designer And I’ll Draw Your Ridiculous Ideas

Adrian Clarke March 29, 2022 1:30 pm No Comments

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

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An Earthquake Ripped A Car’s Face Off Just Before A Big Design Review. Here’s The Story Of How Designers Rallied Through Chaos

Huell Howitzer March 29, 2022 12:30 pm No Comments

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

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Chinacherokeetop

A Deep-Dive Into The History Of China’s Bizarre Jeep Cherokee XJ Clones

Tycho de Feijter March 29, 2022 11:30 am 3 Comments

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

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Murder By Flashing Amber Light: A Mack Hardigraw Car Mystery

Jason Torchinsky March 29, 2022 11:30 am No Comments

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:

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Here’s Why Some Honda Navigation Systems Are Permanently Stuck in 2002

Thomas_Hundal March 29, 2022 10:00 am 6 Comments

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

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Alternate History Hot Rod Dilemma, Stellantis Edition: Humber Snipe or Opel Kapitän?

Murilee Martin March 29, 2022 9:30 am No Comments

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

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I Work At The World’s Quirkiest Car Museum, And I’m Going To Spill All The Secrets Here

RexLMM March 29, 2022 9:00 am No Comments

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

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Watch Us Talk About Our Plans For The Autopian On The Smoking Tire Podcast

Jason Torchinsky March 28, 2022 6:00 pm No Comments

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

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Nissan Finally Gets Off Its Ass And Develops Anti-Soup-Spilling Tech

Jason Torchinsky March 28, 2022 11:00 am No Comments

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

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The Production Volkswagen ID Buzz Isn’t Quite The Retro EV Microbus The World Was Hoping For But It’s Still Great

Jason Torchinsky March 28, 2022 8:00 am No Comments

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

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The Autopian Is Live! And We Want Your Feedback

Autopian Staff March 24, 2022 2:13 pm 3 Comments

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

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Welcome To The Autopian: The Ultimate Car Website For The People

Autopian Staff February 15, 2022 12:57 am 1,269 Comments

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

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