
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

Cold Start: Special Weekend Edition!
So, this is a bit of an experiment. I was excitedly bragging to my wife, Sally, driver of the money-incinerating machine that you can ride

Automotive Would You Rather: Magic Fish Or Magic Movie Edition
It’s a Friday before a holiday weekend, which means that, by law, nothing truly serious or productive can occur right now. That’s fine by me,

An Old Airstream Flying Cloud Is A Camper Built Like A Plane And Towable By Almost Anything
If you go to a campground today chances are you’ll spot giant rolling hotel rooms that cost as much as some houses. But if the

I Designed A New DeLorean That’s Better Than The New DeLorean Designed By DeLorean
It seems like there are vaporware high-end EVs being released with eye-rolling regularity at the moment, and a few weeks ago after some flashing of

Bushings Can Make A Huge Difference In How Your Car Drives: What You Need To Know
Let’s talk for a minute about bushings, a bunch of tiny unsung heroes scattered about your car. These little rubber pieces can be found pressed

You’ve Probably Seen This Weird, Tiny, WWII-Era VW Pickup Truck Before So Let Me Tell You What It Actually Was
If you’re really into a specific kind of car, and you consume a lot of media about that kind of car, chances are there are

The 2022 Acura NSX Type S Is A 600 HP Sendoff To A Car That Makes Dreams Come True
Last week I found myself under the blazing hot sun of Atlanta, Georgia behind the wheels of a trio of cars that relatively few people

With A Heavy Heart, I Regret To Inform You That The Fantastic Hyundai Veloster N Is Dead
Hyundai kills a few models including the Veloster N, Ford does away with brochures, BMW introduces crappy paint. All this and more on today’s edition

Home Sweet Home-Away-From-Home: 1980 Dodge Beaver vs 1983 Ford Tioga
Happy Friday, Autopians! I hope you all had a better week than I did. Let’s just say I’m glad to see the this week disappearing

Cold Start: Donkey Kong, Behind The Scenes
Look at this charming old 1948 Panhard truck illustration and tell me it doesn’t seem like the very vehicle that supplied noted angry gorilla Donkey

Today’s Taillights: The Workhorses, The Ford And Chevy Truck Taillights Of The 1970s And 1980s
One of the strange things about how we perceive reality is the sort of counterintuitive fact that when you see something everywhere, you’ll often stop

Here Are The Facelifted 2013 Model Year Suzuki Cars That Americans Never Got To See
It’s almost been ten years since Suzuki stopped selling cars in America. Call it a casualty of the Great Recession, a small player gasping for

The Last Car In The U.S. Without Standard Air Conditioning — The Jeep Wrangler — Finally Gives Up The Fight Against Refrigerant
It is the end of an era. The Jeep Wrangler JL — the final holdout against the tyranny of condensers, compressors, driers, evaporators, and R1234yf

Rotary Geo Tracker, Bremen Sebring, GAZ-21 Volga: Mercedes’ Marketplace Hunt
Hello Autopians! Welcome to a new weekly series determined to hook your peepers onto some fantastic vehicles! If you’ve read any of my previous work,

Stellantis Warns Of Industry Collapse If EVs Don’t Get Significantly Cheaper
Stellantis warns about EV costs, NHTSA looks into Honda phantom braking, the Nissan Titan might die. All this and more on today’s issue of The

Police Evacuate Apartment And Call In Bomb Squad Over A Car Part
“This morning, we investigated a suspicious item that resembled a possible explosive device. Our bomb squad responded and safely removed the object,” writes the Salt

Little Trucks For Doing Great Things: 1980 Toyota 3/4 Ton vs 1980 Dodge D50
Good morning, and welcome to Thursday, or as my wife’s boss calls it, “Friday Eve.” Today, we’re going to see if size really matters, and

Cold Start: That Face
I’ll admit that I’ve always loved the Citroën Ami’s design, despite knowing that, objectively, the front end is really, really awkward-looking. Some may say “ugly,”

Let’s Take A Look Inside A Ridiculously Complex Cup Holder From A BMW 3-Series
As a general rule, good German cars don’t have conventional cup holders. There are some exceptions, the current BMW M340i is just about perfect and

This Is What Cars Would Be Like In A World Full Of Dragons
We tend to romanticize dragons a lot in human culture, glamorizing the awe-inspiring majesty of gigantic, fire-breathing, flying lizard-beasts, painting pictures of them for centuries








