
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

Chris Bangle And His Obsession With Big Automotive Butts Made For BMW’s Best Designs
Now that I’m a BMW owner, I feel that it is time to unleash my deepest, darkest automotive hot take. If you’ve read my work

Toyota Starlet Glanza V, Volkswagen Passat W8 Wagon, Ford Econoline Pickup: Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness
Welcome back to Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness! As you know, working with cars is a blessing and a curse for me. I definitely have a problem with

Hot Wheels Has Never Made A Brubaker Box Toy Car. It’s Time To Fix That.
You know that urban legend/internet meme/collective false memory about a 1990s genie movie starring Sinbad that never existed, but people seem to remember it anyway?

I’m An MIT Enginerd And Battlebots Geek And This Is My Weird Van Collection
The sporadic afternoon thundershowers typical of midsummer weather in the South had given way to a humid miasma. Around me, the sound of cicadas fills

A Daydreaming Designer Is Forced To Design A Vehicle For A Nation With Enormous Money
Working for Torch, I am starting to feel like Dennis Hopper’s character in the film Apocalypse Now, blindly following a madman into the abyss. To

The Volkswagen ID.XTREME Concept Is An Off-Road EV Packing 3D-Printed Flares And Special Noises
Rugged-looking crossovers are all the rage these days, and Volkswagen’s dipping its finger into the fountain. Say hello to the ID.XTREME Concept, which feels like

The Legendary ‘Boaterhome’ Is A Chimera Of Van, Boat, And Concentrated Awesome
In July, Barrett-Jackson sold one of the most incredible vehicles that you’ll see on the net. That’s right, someone paid a reportedly record-breaking $77,000 for

This Australian Kid Put A Turbo On A Dirtbike In The Jankiest Way Possible
Welcome to “Oz Oddities,” my new regular feature wherein I write super-short articles about strange car culture in Australia, since I don’t have time to

Parts Bin Puzzle: Who Made The Lights On This 17-Year-Old Luxury RV?
Welcome back to Parts Bin Puzzle, the Autopian challenge where we give you a vehicle and you figure out where its bits came from! This

Used Car Wholesale Values Are Finally Starting To Fall, But Don’t Get Too Excited
Used car wholesale values fell again, Mercedes and Rivian team up to make vans, Ford gives BlueCruise an update. All this and more in today’s

Track-Daily-Burn, Second Chance Edition: M30 vs Grand Am vs Pinto
Happy Friday! As it was a short week, I decided it was time for another Track-Daily-Burn. But looking at the week’s winners, the choices were

This Is What AI Thinks A Moose-Powered Car Would Look Like: Cold Start
My friend Rob set up an instance of one of those AI image generators on a server, and I was playing with it, because these

Exploring Exciting Overseas Versions of One Of America’s Least Exciting Cars
It’s Valiant Month, people! To coincide with David’s big rescue mission down under and encourage our brave colleague, Torch suggested that ‘we’ should do something…which

The Most Amazing Car We Saw At Pebble Beach Had The Best Surprise
There are so many wonderful car shows and gatherings of interesting cars on our wet little planet that it makes me realize that explaining why

The Kollter RS1 Wants To Give You Lots Of EV Bike Range For Less Money
This week has seen the debut of the Jeep Recon and Chevy Equinox EV, as well as the first drive of the VW ID.Buzz, but

The Jeep CJ-5 Had One Of The Strangest Side Marker Solutions Ever Seen By Human Eyes
In the Taillight Subculture, side marker lamp fetishists, commonly known as Markies or, sometimes Posties, after the late Night Court castmember Markie Post, are usually treated

The 2024 Chevy Equinox EV Is A Lot of Electric Car For $30,000
General Motors is intent on making a big splash in the EV arena. While products like the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Lyriq certainly have

Look Inside The Latest Shipment Of Unexpected Cars For America’s Quirkiest Car Museum
At Lane Motor Museum, where I work as education director, we continue to add to our collection of rare and unique European vehicles. One way

Someone Went Through The Work To Import A Chevy Orlando Into The United States
Over the weekend I searched far and wide for vehicles to replace my rusty Volkswagen Touareg VR6 as my daily workhorse. Before I landed on

What Do You Think About The Upcoming All-Electric Jeep Wagoneer S?
Jeep had a big press conference yesterday, which I attended virtually from Australia because I’m Jeep-obsessed. During the briefing, Jeep Brand’s CEO Christian Meunier announced








