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
Rivian Reportedly Considers Letting Go Of Hundreds Of Workers
Rivian considers some cuts, Honda has a new CR-V, Lordstown Motors sees an executive shake-up. All this and more in today’s issue of The Morning
The New Ford Heritage Vault Is An Incredible Resource For Old Photos And Brochures
When Ford announced it was no longer issuing brochures for new cars, I felt sad. Sure, there’s a strong argument that brochures are expensive and
A Pair of Pale Blue Plymouths: 1963 Valiant vs 1984 Turismo Duster
Good morning! It’s time once again to look at some crappy old cars. On our second day of dead nameplates, it’s Mopar or no car
Cold Start: Soft Serve
Do you know the artist Claes Oldenburg? He’s one of my favorite 20th-century artists because he was ambitious and playful and understood that a good
This Vintage Aftermarket Bosch VW Accessories Catalog Features A Radio That Makes Your Car Slower And Fantastic Turn Signals And Taillights
I have a few larger-scale stories percolating at the moment, but I can’t just sit here and pretend I’m not incredibly distracted by hyper-important documentation
The 75 MPG Geo Metro Experimental Aero Car Is What You Get When An Engineer Wants To Send A Message
Currently gracing the pages of Facebook is a little car with a fun story to tell. The 1989 Geo Metro Experimental Aero Car is the
Smart Once Attempted To Boost Sales In America By Trying To Rebadge Nissan Micras
Americans have been living without the Smart brand as a choice in the marketplace for over three sad years. There are dozens of us [Editor’s
This Amazing Morris Minor Variant Was Immune To Fender Benders
Sometimes I’ll learn an automotive fact I wasn’t aware of before and realize that if I don’t tell someone about it, I might explode, messily
While New Car Supply Stays Tight, Used Car Wholesale Values Continue To Cool
New car supply stays tight while used car values drop, EVs seem to be growing legs, BMW tries subscriptions again. All this and more in
Ransom Eli Olds’s Forgotten Children: 1981 Toronado vs 2002 Silhouette
Welcome back to Shitbox Showdown! This week is another theme week: discontinued nameplates. Not companies that went out of business, but marques that were abandoned
Cold Start: Minor Threat
There’s so much to like here: the use of the word “mighty” when talking about a nearly half-minute zero to 60 time, the suggestion that
This Old Ford Styling Film Is Incredible And Features A Car That Feels Like The Template For Modern SUVs
I realize this particular 1964 Ford styling documentary is fairly well known, and I suspect that many of you reading this have watched it already.
Automotive Would You Rather: Eternally Damp Seats Or Magic Box Of Crap Edition
I suppose this is becoming a weekly thing now, this bit of mind-expanding cerebellum yoga that I like to call Automotive Would You Rather. I
My Yamaha U7E’s History May Be Lost To Time, But At Least It Has A Clean Carburetor
A couple of weeks ago I launched a project to restore the 1972 Yamaha U7E motorcycle that’s been sitting in my garage for years. I’ve
AMC Javelin, GM New Look, Caproni NSU Max: Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness
Welcome back to Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness! I’m always on the look for a good car or motorcycle deal. I’m also always looking at vehicles that
Volkswagen Is Considering Pay-Per-Use Automated Driving, Hopefully Via Quarters Into A Coin Slot
It’s not Thomas writing this today, it’s me, Torch, and I’m not happy about it. I specifically started my own site (with David and Beau,
How A Blood Pressure Pump Fixed My $700 Chevy Tracker’s Four-Wheel Drive System
The four-wheel drive system on a 2000 Chevrolet Tracker is a complicated nightmare that takes a conventional system and adds cost, weight, and complexity to
Let’s play Track, Daily, Burn: Ford Taurus vs Saab 900 vs BMW 735i
Good morning, and happy Friday, Autopians! We’ve made it through another one. Today, since it was a short week, I figured we’d stop at three
Cold Start: Is This Picture Evidence In Some Cold Case?
This lovely photo of a barefoot woman in a yellow pantsuit standing in the dirt holding a rifle while standing over what looks like a
General Motors Made Another Hot Pontiac Vibe One-Off That You Can Own, But Only Sorta Drive
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Thomas wrote about the excellent souped up one-off Pontiac Vibe GXP concept that popped up for sale. That
