
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 Hyundai Stargazer Is A Small Van With A Weird Name And Promises Superb Practicality
Hyundai goes stargazing, new details arise regarding the Cruise AV crash, Porsche plans a third SUV. All this and more in today’s issue of The

The 2022 Chevy Blazer EV May Be The First Production Car To Be Available As FWD, RWD, And AWD
Chevrolet has just spilled all the beans on their new electric crossover, the 2024 Blazer EV. It fits in pretty seamlessly with the current crop

Lada Is Building Dumbed-Down “Classic ’22” Nivas Now, Thanks To Russia’s Stupid War
I suspect that there is a universal set of thoughts that go through the minds of everyone who has ever driven and appreciated a Lada

Same Number Of Gears As There Are Pedals: 1974 Ford Ranchero vs 1964 International Scout
Welcome back to Shitbox Showdown! Today, we’ve got two hard-working 3 speed manual vehicles that both need a little assembly. We’ll get there in a

Cold Start: GMC Means ‘Gazes Match Seldom’
This 1975 GMC pickup brochure is full of gloriously color-saturated photos of people and pickup trucks existing in vivid monochrome voids, which may explain why

The Tiny HMV FreeWay Promised Up To 100 MPG And Highway Speeds With A Lawnmower Engine
The 1970s brought a major change in how cars were built. A fuel crisis and a rough economy began pushing out land yachts powered by

My Fleet Is In Shambles And I’m An Absolute Idiot But I Did Fix My Yugo With Some Garden Hose
Just in case any of you out there aren’t feeling your best, or are perhaps having some difficulties with self-confidence or esteem or pleasure or

Kia Proudly And Unconscionably Evicts Adorable Hamsters In Favor Of Skeleton NFTs
Kia thinks NFTs are the future, the new Corvette Z06 is a six-figure car, dealers are mad at an FTC proposal. All this and more

Why I Quit my Job to Make a Documentary About American Motors Corporation
In the summer of 2015, I found myself sitting in a bedroom I rented from a stranger on Craigslist in a town I’d just moved

A Deathtrap, And A Hearse: 1993 Ford Mustang vs 1979 Cadillac Superior
Good morning Autopians: This is your wake-up call. It’s Monday morning; time to mainline some coffee and get back to pretending to work. But to

Cold Start: Familiar And Unfamiliar
I like this two-page spread from this 1980 Peugeot 604 brochure because, for me at least, it’s an interesting mix of the familiar and unfamiliar.

The 700 Horsepower V8 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R Screams Like A Mustang GT-500 Off-Road
Ford once offered not one, but two F-150 Raptors with a V8 engine, and then – in what felt like a cruel move – took them

A Car Designer’s Opinion On The Hyundai N Vision 74 That’s Currently Breaking The Internet
It was only a matter of time. Someone was going to absolutely nail the current fascination for all things eighties and cyberpunk on a concept

Meet The Italian-Styled Show Car That Inspired The New Hyundai N Vision 74
At this moment, everyone is losing their lettuce about Hyundai’s new battery and hydrogen fuel cell EV, the Hyundai N Vision 74. You yourself may be experiencing

The Story Of The Chrysler Concept Car That Sank To The Bottom Of The Sea
Myth: A Famous (or Infamous) Chrysler Concept car sunk to the bottom of the ocean aboard the Andrea Doria cruiseliner. Today most people refer to

Our Pal Doug DeMuro Borrows Our Aston Martin Cygnet, The Smallest And Strangest Aston Ever
One of my favorite things about our little enterprise that we’re trying to build here at the Autopian, other than our lax oversight of pants-compliant

Alleged Whistleblower Levels Safety Claims At GM-Owned Autonomous Vehicle Company Cruise
Cruise finds itself subject to an alleged whistleblower’s letter, Nissan reportedly plans to kill the Leaf, VinFast now has an American retail presence. All this

Fabulous Fifties Flops: 1956 DeSoto Fireflite vs 1958 Edsel Ranger
Happy Friday, Autopians! Today is the day when I throw out the price cap and go rogue. But not Rogue, because nobody wants that. No,

Cold Start: Dad Will Never Notice
One nice thing about Alec Issigonis’ incredible design for the Mini, seen here in Wolseley Hornet form, with a grafted-on trunk, was the massive door

The Stunning Hyundai N Vision 74 Goes Fast As Hell By Augmenting Battery Power With Hydrogen
There’s been a whole lot of hype around Hyundai’s N Day this year. Not only were rumors of a production electric N car flying like








