
Here’s How The BMW i3 Performs As A Family Car
My wife just took a step out of the house for a couple of hours, leaving me with my one-year-old, who is undoubtedly going to





Big Beautiful Boosted BMW: Members’ Rides
Last week on Members’ Rides, we met Sean and his Civic collection. I always love seeing the rebuilds, and I really need to get myself

How Ford Is Copying Tesla’s Homework To Make Your Next Repair Bill Cheaper
A few years back, Tesla became one of the first big-name manufacturers to adopt a new type of assembly process, which it called “gigacasting.” This

Help Me Identify This Very Old Die-Cast Tiny Ambulance
Do you have objects in your life that have somehow managed to follow you around all your life, without you even trying? These aren’t things

Which Rear-Engined Rarity Is Your Pick? 1959 Fiat 600 vs 1973 VW Thing
Happy Friday! Today, instead of the typical Friday runoff, we’re going to look at a new pair of cars, because the week’s contenders just don’t

Why Print Design Matters: COTD
The average person probably doesn’t grow up thinking that font choice matters until they end up formatting their first resume in Comic Sans. It might

Toyota’s Weirdest 2JZ-Powered Car Is Now Legal To Import To America
The turn of the millennium was a gold rush for retro cars. From the Volkswagen New Beetle to the Jaguar S-Type, just about every automaker

You Can Now Complain Directly To The Government About Blinding Headlights (If You’re Canadian)
If there’s one topic that’ll get anyone with a car riled up—enthusiast or not—it’s headlights. Every single person I’ve talked to about modern headlights has

Ferrari Is Delusional If They Think This ‘Hand Painted’ Badge Is Worth $15,000
I realize that saying something from Ferrari is overpriced is hardly a bold stance, but I recently encountered an example that I just couldn’t roll

Nightmare Mercedes And Dream Garages, You Know How We Do: Only Fanbelts
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The Cheapest Lamborghini Aventador SVJ In The Country Has 87,000 Miles And Has Definitely Seen Things
People ask me all the time for the secret to buying super-cheap cars. My answer is always the same: Stop caring about mileage. I’m a

You Can Now Submit Your Most Unhinged Car Ideas Directly To General Motors
Sometimes, you really do wonder if automakers are listening to their customers. Sure, focus groups for new models are run, but when it comes to

Pontiac Once Tried To Match The Mighty Ford Taurus SHO With A Hotted-Up Grand Prix, Guess How That Went
No one saw the Taurus SHO coming. A slick-looking Ford aero sedan powered by an impossibly high-tech, Japanese-developed powerplant was not something anyone expected to

Canada’s Reliance On U.S. Safety Standards Is Making Life A Whole Lot Easier For Chinese Manufacturers
Aside from the world’s longest undefended border, the United States and Canada share many things. Great lakes, oil pipelines, trade routes, mountain ranges, and languages,

This Seems To Be The Only Home Computer Deliberately Designed To Resemble A Car And Named For One
I think I’ve made it pretty clear that my secondary geeky fetish after obsolete ridiculous cars is obsolete ridiculous computers and video game consoles. I

Some Employers Are Being Car-Ageist Against People Who Drive Older Cars
How new does a car need to be for it to be considered reliable and dependable? There are as many answers to that as there

Can You Believe There Are Two Of Them? 1982 Nissan Sentra vs 1983 Nissan Sentra
When you think of race cars, a first-generation Nissan Sentra might not be the last car you would think of, but it’s pretty far down

So That’s Where All That Range Is Coming From: COTD
BMW drivers and their turn signals are like oil and water: They don’t mix. Okay, the years-long running joke about how BMW drivers never use

The Hyundai Veloster Turbo Press Trip From 2012 Was Wild And I Drank A Cigarette
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This Museum In Tampa Bay Is Auctioning Off A Set Of Exceedingly Excellent Cars, And You Should Buy One (Or Several)
If you’re like most readers of The Autopian, one of the biggest problems you face every day is a painful overabundance of money. There are

GM Parted Out One Of Its Own EV1s To Keep That Private EV1 Restoration Going
If you haven’t been following the saga of the General Motors EV1 that was abandoned by a university in Atlanta, sold at a tow pound,












