A Daydreaming Designer Imagines The Corvair Surviving Into Days Of Disco
Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing I took a wrong turn and I just kept going The above lyrics to Springsteen’s Hungry
Never Leave A Trail Worse Than You Find It, Or Else You May Lose It
I Drove A VinFast VF8 And It Wasn’t As Bad As I Expected
The 2023 Chrysler 300C Is A Reborn SRT8
The reborn Chrysler 300C was something of an American icon. The Ralph Gilles-penned, V8-powered bruiser took the largely front-wheel-drive full-size sedan class by storm with
Here’s Why Car Wheels Are So Flat These Days (And No, It’s Not Just Aerodynamics And Styling)
Hello Autopians! Have you ever wondered why designers show sketches of concept cars with massive deep dish wheels, but when those cars actually make it
Airstream’s New Rangeline RV Is Pretty Much Perfect And Almost Affordable
Airstream’s clearly been spying on me because the just announced Airstream Rangeline Class B van-based RV is exactly the vehicle I’ve wanted them to build
The Ferrari Purosangue Is Ferrari’s First Ever SUV And It’s Got A V12 And Suicide Doors
I imagine the past couple decades of Porsche and Maserati and Bentley and Lamborghini and even Lotus SUVs have adequately prepared us for this day:
Our Professional Car Designer Draws A Mini Truck Made By Mini
I arrived at The Autopian with a fresh pack of Copic markers and full of optimism. Remember those happy summer days when I asked you
This Junky Postal Jeep With A Chevy V8 Engine Is A Reminder That America Is The Wild West Of Car Culture
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned traveling Europe in a diesel minivan, checking out abandoned cars in Hong Kong, and fixing a ute in
The ‘Quantum Leap’ Reboot Has The Worst Fake Manual Shifter Ever Seen On TV
I think by now we’ve all glumly accepted that a good portion of our entertainment diet is made up of reconstituted ideas. I’m not saying
Mechanic’s Specials: 1990 Volkswagen Jetta vs 2002 Mazda Protegé 5
Good morning! Today we’re continuing with our sub-$1000 week, and I’m sorry to say that neither of today’s cars runs. But neither of them is
Mercedes And Hyundai Will Continue To Develop Combustion Engines
Hyundai plans to keep making combustion engines, Mercedes is open to future V8 production, Cruise doesn’t think its robotaxis will ever be fully autonomous. All
The 1960s Understood The Power Of Stripes: Cold Start
Whatever you think about what was going on in America in the 1960s, I feel like it should be absolutely an unassailable fact that
I Saw Some Hilarious And Genius Custom Cars At The Missouri Gambler 500
Over the weekend I took my broken Volkswagen Touareg and drove it nine hours southwest into Missouri. There, I met a bunch of strangers for
This Amazing Old Delivery Van Was A VW Bus 10 Years Early And Proves The Corvair Was Not America’s First Rear-Engined Air-Cooled Vehicle
It’s strange how certain automotive ideas seem to be oddly eternal. The rear-engined box-on-wheels style of commercial vehicle, best known in its form as the
The Pagani Utopia Is A V12-Powered, Manually-Shifted Masterpiece
Pagani just released its latest hypercar and it’s a bit of an unexpected masterpiece. The Utopia is the company’s third new car since its founding
The 2023 Lincoln Corsair Gets A Massive Grille And Some Nifty New Color Options
When I first saw the 2023 Lincoln Corsair, my reaction was a simple “Oh.” No bemusement, no pondering, just a simple acknowledgment of what Lincoln
How Does The 2024 Ford Mustang Sound Stack Up To Other Mustangs?
The 2024 Ford Mustang will debut at this week’s Detroit Auto Show and we’ll be there to cover it. Details have been scant (at least
The Daydreaming Designer Shows How To Make A Budget Tiny House From A Broken RV
There’s a movie where David Byrne says: “Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had …. It has finally come true, but they themselves
Dueling Horsemen: 1985 Chevy Cavalier Convertible vs 1990 Chevy Cavalier Z24
Welcome to another exciting week here on Shitbox Showdown! This week, we’re going to limit the purchase prices to three digits, and try our damnedest
Here’s What A ‘Shed Skid’ Is And Why Australians Do Something This Ridiculous
I cannot believe a “shed skid” is an actual thing that Australian car-folks do. In the U.S., owners of powerful cars will sometimes head out
Electrify America’s Solution For Charger Confusion Is To Add More Confusion
Electrify America rolls out a new strategy to make people go “huh?”, renters can’t charge electric vehicles, Ferrari CEO John Elkann compares cars to soccer.
You Want Me To Put Them WHERE: Cold Start
This 1957 Ford Taunus (that’s Ford of Germany, but the brochure is Dutch) brochure illustration is really a wonderfully-rendered bit of mid-century advertising art, with
