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
I’m Mercedes And I Own Somewhere Between 17 And 19 Vehicles (Including A Bus)
Hello Autopians, I’m Mercedes! Yes, I did legally name myself after a car company and that’s a story that you’ll get to read in the
Remembering Star Wars Vehicle Designer Colin Cantwell, The Man Who Created The Legendary X-Wing Based On A Dragster
On May 21st, the design world lost one of its great concept vehicle talents, famous for helping bring the Star Wars universe to life. Colin
A Team Of Researchers Drove Around To Electric Car Charging Stations To See How Many Worked: Not Enough
Charging station service still sucks, Broncos are going boom, Bentley deploys the letter S. All this and more on today’s issue of The Morning Dump.
Fifty Miles Per Gallon Or Bust: 1981 VW Rabbit Diesel Vs 1989 Geo Metro
Good morning, Autopians! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was fine, except that I had to fill the gas tank on my daily-driver Corolla.
Cold Start: Wait, How Did You Get Here, Again?
The Peugeot 504 Coupé and convertible were really cool-looking cars, and one of those cars where the coupé version looked pretty radically different from the
Remember The Jeep That Blew Up 20 Minutes After I Sold It To A Nice Lady? I Have To Fix Its Engine And Drive It 250 Miles By Sunday
How do I get myself into such stupid situations? Seriously, why is it 7 PM on Friday and I have to literally repair half of an engine,
Here’s How Mexico’s Armored Volkswagen Jettas Perfectly Blend Security With Stealth
Let’s say you live in a place where powerful criminal organizations threaten your safety. If you have the money, what do you drive every day?
The 2022 Mazda 3 Turbo Is An Anti-Hot Hatch In The Best Way Imaginable
On the surface, the Mazda 3 Turbo is a bit confusing. A turbocharged engine and all-wheel-drive in a small hatchback should be a recipe for
Jeep Wrangler Gets Tired During IIHS Small-Overlap Crash Testing, Lies Down For A Quick Nap
The Jeep Wrangler rolls again in crash testing, Acura collaborates with Vince Staples on Integra ads, Mercedes-Benz launches a new GLC. All this and more
What It Was Like Daily-Driving A 57 Year-Old Junker Through An Entire Michigan Winter
Last fall I bought a 1965 Plymouth Valiant. Equipped with the Chrysler Slant Six “Leaning Tower of Power” mated to a three-speed column-shift manual —
Bad-Idea Bentley, Gambler Eclipse, or Earnest Dodge Van: What’s Your Shitbox Of The Week?
Another week, another Shitbox Showdown Friday roundup. This week we have only three finalists, because Jason and David are nice bosses who gave me Monday
Cold Start: Making Monobrows Mean Much
Since I’m still at this Toyota event, I figured I may as well keep all Toyotonic and use an old Toyota for today’s Cold Start,
Here Are All The Interesting Old Cars Hidden In Toyota’s Texas HQ, Plus A Robot That Plays The Trumpet
I’m here in the aching beauty of Plano, Texas, where Toyota plopped down its headquarters. The brand is showing me lots of Very Important new
The 2023 Toyota Corolla Hybrid Takes After Its Big GR Brother And Starts Spinning All Four Tires
The 2023 Toyota Corolla Hybrid adds electric all-wheel-drive, Jeep gets Jurassic again, Ford makes some big hiring moves. All this and more on today’s issue
No, I’m Not Kidding: A Cheap 1989 Bentley Eight! And Also, A Pretty Cool Geo Storm
Attention, Autopians: This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill. I have found a Bentley, an honest-to-Crewe Bentley, in our price range.
Cold Start: What’s The Point Of 4-Color Printing If You Don’t Use It?
The Neckar brand is interesting. Essentially, these were Fiats built under license by NSU (see the NSU/Fiat badge up in the top left), but things
Buick Just Whipped Up Another Attractive Coupe Concept That Will Likely Never See Production
Roughly a decade ago, General Motors decided to aim Buick squarely at Acura in the near-premium space. This had the benefit of largely washing away
Why Some Cars Have A Bigger Turning Radius Than Others
We’ve all been there. You’re leaving a party at a friend’s house located on a narrow dead end road. You get in your F-150 and
Let’s Look At Some Of The Details Of The New Lexus Design Language
The 2023 Lexus RX was just exposed to the collective mass of humanity, and like all recent Lexuses (Lexi? Oh, wait. It’s just “Lexus.”) the
How I Would Design A Modern Cabover Pickup Truck: A Car Designer Sketches Your Ideas
“The People have voted. The bastards,” a wise man once said. We have tallied your votes on the Autopian’s powerful Ball-o-tron 9000, a weird glowing
