
Why A Freezer And Grill Have Been Such Useful Tools For My eBay WWII Jeep Project
You may think of your freezer and grill as places where only food goes, and where nasty, oily car parts very much do not belong.





Which Baja Bug Would You Play With? 2002 VW New Beetle vs 2015 Polaris RZR
When you think of Baja bugs, what’s the first place you think of? Michigan, in the middle of February, right? Yeah, OK, not so much.

Pick Which Of These Cars You’d Drive Home In: Winter Olympics Edition
I’m told the Winter Olympics are currently happening, which I guess explains why my local curling supply store has been so damn busy lately. And

I Finally Met A Fellow Autojourno Who Has Been Nursing A 12-Year Old Grudge Against Me And Oh Boy, The Drama
If you’d like to read this fascinating tale of a petty, long-term grudge and other spilled tea of the seedy automotive journalism underbelly, please consider

Meet What Would Be A Hilarious Remix Of ‘The Safety Dance’: COTD
The Autopian community has a near superhuman ability to turn serious car subjects into something to laugh about. I missed a few COTDs, so here’s

Commercial Flights Keep Getting Diverted Because Passengers’ Laptops Are Disappearing Into Inaccessible Voids, Here’s How
There’s a fascinating phenomenon happening in commercial aviation, and it’s that flights are getting diverted because passengers are accidentally dropping their laptops. These computers end

Suzuki Embraces Its Inner General Motors By Rebadging A Toyota
Ah, Suzuki. If you were to bring up the Japanese brand to the average American, they’d probably think you were talking about boat engines, motorcycles,

America’s Largest Auto Show Has Become Half Its Former Size, Here’s Why You Should Still Go To It
It’s no secret that most of America’s auto shows aren’t what they used to be. Grand displays full of concept cars and bombastic themes are

Ford Just Recalled A Van Because The Engine Might ‘Slip’ Out Of Place
Like most drivers, I like my engine where it is. Bolted in securely, aligned with the transmission, skilfully isolated on carefully designed rubber-insert mounts. Doesn’t

The Designer Of The iPhone Made A Ferrari Interior And It’s The Company’s Best In Years
For as long as I have been driving cars for work, I have known one thing about Ferrari: It doesn’t really know how to make

I’m Going To Physically See Toyota’s New EV Highlander In About An Hour. What Are You Curious About?
As you likely have heard from the local newsies screaming EXTREE EXTREE READ ALL ABOUT IT! TOYOTA TO MAKE HIGHLANDER AN EV from outside your

Why The Toyota Highlander Becoming An EV Makes A Ton Of Sense
Releasing a new electric vehicle for the United States in the year of our lord, 2026, is not for the faint of heart. But if

The Mid-Range All-Wheel-Drive Toyota Camry Might Just Be The Deal Of The Year
It’s no secret that cars are now frighteningly expensive. If you feel like $50,000 is the new $40,000, that’s because it is. Data from the

What Is The Most 1990s Car?
As quickly as I conjured up today’s Autopian Ask, I already had my answer (which is only my answer, and needn’t be yours): the third-generation

Choose A Wild Thing: 1979 Chevy Van vs 1981 Mercedes 300SD
Not very many cars are really all that weird from the factory. I mean, sure, there’s Citroën, and other French marques, and the occasional oddball

I’m At A Toyota Event So Let’s Look At An Old Celica And Something Even Older I Happened To See
I’m here at a colossal, fancy resort in Ojai, California for a Toyota event about some cars I promised them I wouldn’t tell you about

Good News: Astronauts Can Finally Go Into Space Without Having To Break Their Crippling Phone Addiction
I have many addictions. Cars are a big one, obviously. Shopping for cars on Facebook Marketplace, too. I also love sugar to the point where

Rest Assured, We Will Never AI Slop You (On Purpose)
If your memory stretches all the way back to three days ago, you’ll recall that Brian had a story about the efficacy of banning lead

America Wasn’t Cool Enough To Get Mercedes-Benz’s Cutest Car, But You Can Buy One Without Paying Tariffs
The world is full of fun cars that Americans never officially got access to. Japanese Domestic Market cars tend to get all of the attention,

A Lot Of The Reactions To Waymo AVs Using Human Intervention When Needed Feels Needlessly Alarmist
Automated Vehicles (AV) are getting a lot of attention at the moment, specifically Waymo’s robotaxis. This stems primarily from a congressional hearing that took place

The Biggest-Rotor Helicopter In The World Could Lift Over 10,000 Pounds And Be Heard From Eight Miles Away
Helicopters come in all sorts of weird shapes and sizes. In the early days of mass-produced helicopters in the 1940s and 1950s, engineers experimented with












