
The U.S. Is Finally Considering Doing Something About Those Electric Car Door Handles That Everyone Hates
The core idea of how a car door handle should work has not changed much in over a century of motoring. You manipulate a knob





What’s The Worst Thing To Happen To Your Car That Wasn’t A Crash?
Knock on simulated wood (I have an Ikea desk), I’ve had pretty good luck with my cars not getting messed up outside of a collision.

The Bonkers Toyota GRMN Corolla Costs More Than A Freakin’ Ford Mustang Dark Horse
All signs point towards the GR Corolla being in its twilight years. Toyota’s raucous little hatchback with a trick all-wheel-drive system and proper differentials has

The Cheapest New Nissan Leaf You Can Buy Is Also The Best Nissan Leaf You Can Buy
The more I drive new Nissan products the more I believe that multiple generations of terrifying Altima drivers, the rapid propagation of rental spec Rogues

The U.S. Is Finally Considering Doing Something About Those Electric Car Door Handles That Everyone Hates
The core idea of how a car door handle should work has not changed much in over a century of motoring. You manipulate a knob

Walmart Is The Future Of EV Charging In America
Did you know that 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart? That’s a wild fact, and it speaks to how ubiquitous the

The Ram Rumble Bee Starts At $62,790 But The One You Really Want Is Much More Expensive
Two months ago, Ram revealed the Rumble Bee, a lineup of shortened, widened half-ton street trucks with attitude. The SRT variant promises to be the

Let’s Rate The Kid Cars Of The 1972 Sears Catalog, Harshly
I know there wasn’t really a publicly-accessible internet in 1972, and certainly nothing like Amazon or Temu where you could just order whatever you want

This Small Company Takes Old Car, Plane, And Truck Parts And Turns Them Into The Coolest Tables And Lamps You’ll Ever See
Art pieces where discarded items are transformed into something new and old at the same time are among the coolest types of sculpture to me.

Which One Is Poetry In Motion? 1992 Nissan Stanza vs 2009 Nissan Versa
Today on Shitbox Showdown, we’ve a treat: A pair of Nissans, ready to impress. Though since they’re neither fancy, fun, nor fleet, I fear the

The Math Checks Out, Let’s Get Some More V12s! COTD
The Autopian is populated by a lot of engineers. David is one, as are so many of our readers and contributors. It’s rather lovely learning

A Series Of ‘Final Destination’ Level Coincidences Happened To Let The Sun Melt This Jeep’s Interior Like A Laser
You know what always kind of surprises me, religiously? The fact that we don’t worship the sun. Yes, I get that humans have worshiped the sun at

America Made An Epic V8 Wagon For The Masses But It Was Sabotaged By Beancounters
The Dodge Magnum is one of the most underrated cars of our time. A car sharing quite a few components with the Mercedes E-Class, it

This Is The Greatest Supra Ever But Don’t Call It A Supra
Broad Arrow is bringing a jewel of Japanese automotive culture to its The Quail Auction next month, with an ultra-rare factory-tuned special that could break

My Supposedly Reliable Toyota Broke On Me Again And Now I Hate This Car So Much I Want To Set It On Fire
I have spent much of my car enthusiast career telling people who need reliable transportation to just buy a Toyota, Honda, or maybe a Mazda

BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car’s Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It’s A Treat
You know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an

This Is What A $35,000,000 Car Looks Like
In terms of modern classics, there’s no car quite like the McLaren F1 when it comes to commanding high sales prices – but one example

You’ll Never Guess Which Vehicle Is Saving Mercedes-Benz. Okay, I’ll Tell You: It’s Vans
If there’s one thing I’ve come to appreciate about The Autopian audience is that y’all either have a van or greatly appreciate the vans other

I’m A Former Lotus Powertrain Engineer. Let’s Talk About Why One Of The Greatest Engine Types Ever Has Disappeared
A straight-six is two cylinders longer than an inline-four, right? I mean nice try at confusing the issue with the whole “straight” vs “in-line” thing,

The G-Wagen Convertible Returns To Make You Care About Mercedes Again
After teasing the motoring world ever so slightly, Mercedes-Benz’s social media team has whipped the covers off the latest entry in its long-lived G-Class line,

I Think The Woman In This Commercial With De-Badged Cars Is Making A Mistake
It’s always interesting to see the cars chosen for ads made by those large companies that sell used cars, because it gives a bit of








