
20 Days Wrenching With My Australian Friend Convinced Me Not To Give Up On My Impossible eBay Jeep Project
Back when The Autopian started, a reader named Laurence bought a Chrysler Valiant Ute on my behalf. I then flew all the way to Dubbo,





The Only Way To Prevent Your Pickup Truck Plane From Dumping A Bulldozer At 30,000 Feet: COTD
I love looking into the wacky ideas that engineers come up with to solve specific problems. Some of these solutions don’t make a lick of

What’s On Your Gotta-Drive Bucket List?
The list of cars I’d like to drive is basically “every car,” in that if you give me a chance to take a spin in

I Joined 200 Women On A Mountain For A Weekend Of High Octane Dirt Bike Thrills And The Motorcycles Weren’t Even The Best Part
Motorcycles, especially dirt bikes, offer an entire world of possibilities to have fun, get your heart rate banging, learn something new, and better yourself. But

This 1000 Horsepower ‘Masterpiece Supercar’ Has A 100% Carbon Fiber Body And A Fun Autopian Connection
Brabus, the European tuner most famous for hotting up Mercedes-Benz cars but not just Mercedes, is honoring its late co-founder Bodo Buschmann with a “High-Performance

20 Days Wrenching With My Australian Friend Convinced Me Not To Give Up On My Impossible eBay Jeep Project
Back when The Autopian started, a reader named Laurence bought a Chrysler Valiant Ute on my behalf. I then flew all the way to Dubbo,

The Ford Bronco Filson Is The New Eddie Bauer Edition
If you’ve ever watched a show made by Taylor Sheridan, you’ve seen someone wearing Filson gear. The 129-year-old outdoor brand is known for its high-quality,

Volvo’s CEO Admits There Are Too Many SUVs, Opening The Door For Wagons And Vans
I attended a brunch with the leadership of Volvo Cars yesterday, and the frank and plain-spoken CEO Håkan Samuelsson captured my attention with the answers

Airplane Engineers Once Designed A Crazy Plane That Carried Bulky Cargo Out In The Open Like A Giant Flying Pickup Truck
Cargo aircraft come in all shapes and sizes. Conventional jets like the Boeing 747-8F, the Antonov An-124, and the Airbus A350F are basically giant flying

Will You Stick With The Chrysler Concorde, Go For The 1995 Saturn SL2 , Or Choose The Mystery Car?
Something just occurred to me about this new Let’s Make A Deal idea, something I hadn’t thought of. I’ve just given myself fifty percent more

I’m On A Quest To Find Every Fisker Ocean In New York And I Need Your Help
Through a strange twist of fate and municipal regulation, one of the most commonly seen cars on the streets of New York City is now

The Most Satisfying Car Button Rant You’ll Read All Week: COTD
One of the worst trends in the modern automotive industry is deleting physical controls for options buried on a screen. The days of being able

The Volvo EX60 Has A Panini Press Charging Door, Which Is Actually Smart
I’m standing in the giant mall contained within the Oculus that near the World Trade Center in New York and in front of me is

This Bear-Spraying, Bulletproof Camper Promises To Be A Portable Bunker For The Apocalypse, And Now You Can Stand Up In It
Most travel trailers are boring white boxes where the most exciting element might be an outdoor kitchen or a new location for a toilet. Off-road

Everyone Is Losing Their Minds For A Tiny French Hatchback In Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo 7’s most recent game update brought along the usual mixed batch of three new vehicles for players to drive. The 1,286hp Yangwang U9

The Bronco Sport Seems To Be The Biggest Three-Cylinder Passenger Car In Automotive History
I bet you’ve found yourself in this position: you’re sitting at an outdoor cafe, a hoagie in one hand and a sock puppet in the

What Are Your Favorite Car Doors?
Climbing into your car through the driver’s side window may look cool if you’re a Duke boy or a NASCAR driver, but most of us

Oh Wow, Ford Is Building Some Kind Of Smaller Ford Bronco Hybrid
Good morning! I’m off to a Volvo event this morning and then, tomorrow, I’m off to a Ford event. What that Ford event is going

Here’s What The Scout Lineup Might Have Looked Like If International Harvester’s SUV Had Made It To 1987
If there is such a thing as an SUV historian, that person would say that 1980 was a year of bad timing for the then-emerging

The Autopian Sent Me To A Press Event And It Was Way Different Than I Expected
As soon as I stepped off my flight in SFO, I was worrying that my overpreparedness would give away my newbie status. Similar to showing

The Manual Nissan Z Nismo Is A Forgotten Gem
When I stepped out of the manual Nismo Z at Sonoma Raceway, all I could think of was how pleasantly surprised I was. Truth be









