
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

This Official Photoshoot Of A Volvo Designer And His Beloved Taillight Is Proof I Didn’t Make Up Taillight Fetishism
I know there are a lot of you out there who believe that I have, somehow, just concocted the very idea of a rich, thriving

The Never-Sold-In-America Cadillac BLS Gingerly Holds Your Hand And Welcomes You To An Alternate Universe
When you think of a Cadillac, you likely picture one of three things: a preposterously excessive land yacht of 20 hectares with the ride quality
How A $5 Fuse Saved Me $500 And Got My Manual 4×4 Chevy Tracker Running Like A Dream
In a moment of weakness a few weeks ago, I broke my “no more cars” rule and bought a 2000 Chevy Tracker — a body-on-frame,

Honda Recalls The Ridgeline Over Fuel Tanks Unexpectedly Detaching
Honda issued a pretty serious Ridgeline recall, VinFast ponders an electric truck, McLaren unveils the Artura GT4. All this and more on today’s issue of

Choose Your Own Off-Road Adventure: 1983 Toyota Land Cruiser vs 1973 Land Rover Series III
Happy Friday, Autopians! Today, I decided that if we’re throwing out the price limit on Fridays, we might as well break the imaginary bank and

Cold Start: What Couldn’t Have Waited For 1987 On This Thing?
This may be a car you consider boring – and with good reason – but there are at least two weird things going on on

I Made Our Daydreaming Designer Imagine An Oldsmobile For Actual Old People
One of The Autopian’s greatest resources is a strange, almost unnatural ability to attract talented people and convince them to do dumb things for us.

Automotive Would You Rather: Awful Tapes Edition
You know what’s fun but we haven’t done in a long, long time? Played Automotive Would You Rather! I used to do this every now

The Ford Pro Electric SuperVan Takes The Concept Of Same-Day Delivery To A New Extreme
Ford builds an electric SuperVan, McLaren teams up with Nissan for Formula E, NHTSA regulators propose new black box requirements. All this and more on

Forgotten Forward-Opening Hoods: 1979 Ford Fiesta vs 1981 Datsun 310
It’s time once again for Shitbox Showdown! Today’s choices are sure to generate a lot of “those are both awful, what’s wrong with you, you

Cold Start: What’s The Matter, Buddy?
I find it very hard not to anthropomorphize vehicles, even with the medication I was given to control it. That’s why when I see something

There’s A Surprising Number Of Ways To Mark A Fuel Gauge, So Let’s Pick What We Like Best
With gas as expensive as the hand-crafted saffron water and human growth hormone lotion I order from the Dark Web to keep me looking young

A Deep Dive Into Why China Still Believes In Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles
China is the largest electric-vehicle maker and market in the world. But China doesn’t only bet on EVs. They are actively developing other alternative energy

I Drunk-Bought A Fiberglass Former U-Haul Rental Camper And It’s Fantastic
On Sunday, I made what is definitely now the biggest drunk purchase of my life. I sent a man 381 miles away a bunch of

Your Next Shipment Of Greasy Car Parts Might Arrive In An Electric FedEx Delivery Van
FedEx puts electric vans into service, Volkswagen keeps the family sedan flame alive, Toyota slashes production outlook. All this and more on today’s issue of

The BMW M3 Touring Is A Fast, Ferocious, Family-Friendly Wagon That Americans Can’t Have
The last time BMW put an M prefix on a wagon, things were very different. In the second half of the aughts, 1,025 E61 M5

Better than a $700 Tracker? 1986 Isuzu Trooper vs 1956 Willys Jeep Wagon
Good morning, and welcome back to Shitbox Showdown! Today, we’re going to see if we can find a better stickshift 4×4 than David did. But

Cold Start: Shameless Plug Approaching, Be Aware
Oh, hey, what’s this? It seems to be my award-winning [Editor’s Note: No awards won have been confirmed – JT] book, Robot, Take The Wheel, only

Can You Think Of Any Cars That Switched Engine Location On The Same Model? There’s A Few So Let’s Talk About Them
In general, where its decided to stick an engine in a car is a pretty huge part of its design and development, and, generally, that

The Tiny Bede BD-5 Was A Homebuilt Plane With Remarkable Abilities, And An Appetite For Blood
Back in the 1970s, enthusiastic pilots were offered an opportunity many found too tantalizing to refuse. They could build a plane that was easy to








