
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





Ford Recalls A Bunch Of Explorers That Could Develop Uncontrollable Rear-Wheel Steering On Their Own
Rear-wheel steering is a neat piece of tech that, as the name suggests, turns the rear wheels to help a car maneuver. In modern rear-wheel

Which Low-Mileage Sedan Is Your Choice? 1989 Mazda 323 vs 1995 Ford Taurus
People buy cars to drive them, with very few exceptions, so it’s not surprising to see big numbers on the odometers of inexpensive used cars.

Toyota’s Only Production Vehicle With A Midgate Was Wonderful And Had Bonkers Ads With Golden Mermen
I’ve only owned one Toyota in my car-owning life, and true to Toyota’s reputation, it remains one of the most reliable and trouble-free cars I’ve

When The Comments Teach You Something New: COTD
The Autopian runs under a main rule that our stories have to be Entertaining and Enlightening. It’s our ‘Double-E’ concept that I think makes us

You Might Hate The New Mazda CX-5 For All The Reasons Other People Will Love It
The challenge Mazda faces is, in many ways, the same one this website does. A part of me would love to be a website that

We Need To Talk About How Ford Basically Built A Backwards Nissan GT-R
Here at The Autopian, we’re suckers for weird. Locking differentials in regular sedans, the handful of rear-engined front-wheel-drive cars ever made, the insane Leyat Helica

This 1870s Invention Made Train Travel Faster And More Reliable And Also Inspired A Weird Expression We Use To This Day
Have you ever used an expression or idiom and then taken a moment to actually listen to what you just said? And then noticed that, hey,

Bring A Trailer Says It ‘Sold’ A Car For $0 And It’s Sending The Internet Into A Frenzy
Publishing content to the World Wide Web is a pretty time-consuming job. When I worked as the social media editor at Road & Track Magazine

State Lawmakers Want To Close The Loophole That Says This Isn’t A Motorcycle
The electric bicycle, or e-bike, is a fantastic tool. You can use an e-bike to commute, to go on an off-road adventure, or to do

You Can Be The Next Owner Of The ‘Roadkill’ General Maintenance Charger Hellcat
If there’s one media title of the past 20 years that’s done more for American automotive enthusiasm than anything else, it’s Roadkill. The spirit of

Watch Some New Yorkers Fail At Driving In The Snow After Being Asked Not To Drive In The Snow
If you live in the Northeast, there’s probably a blanket of snow covering everything outside your home right now. As I write this, I’m currently

Tariffs Increased The Average Car Price By $1,200, But Cars From One Country Actually Got Cheaper According To One Study
The most extreme prognostications about the increase in car prices due to tariffs–tarifs that the U.S. Supreme Court recently deemed at least partially unconstitutional–haven’t yet materialized.

I Just Made Two Idiotic Mistakes While Building My eBay WWII Jeep
I’ve been working on cars pretty much daily for 15 years, and yet it never ceases to amaze me how foolish I can be with

Your Neighbors Don’t Have To Know That The Genesis Electrified GV70 Runs On Batteries
Who said that electric crossovers have to look strange? The Tesla Model Y looks like a suppository, the new electric Mercedes-Benz GLC looks like a

Lamborghini Kills Its First EV Because There Are ‘Close To Zero’ Buyers For EV Sports Cars
The year 2026 will be a time of reckoning for electric sports cars, especially within the Volkswagen Group. As the company reportedly tries to cut

Which Four-Speed Would You Stick With? 1984 Dodge Rampage vs 1990 Honda Civic
Manual transmissions aren’t even an option on most cars these days, but once upon a time, you could choose from more than one. Spend more

This Might Be The Baddest-Ass Toyota Echo Around
Remember the Toyota Echo? In other parts of the world, they were the first generation of the Yaris, and in still other places, they were

Isuzu Used To Make A Diesel Truck So Economical It Got Better MPG Than Most Pickups Today
The modern pickup truck is an incredible feat of engineering. Today’s trucks can haul inconceivable loads while being almost as comfortable as a luxury car.

We Finally Know What Really Killed The Dinosaurs: COTD
There’s a dinosaur in the automotive world. I’m not talking about the Chevrolet Express, though that’s old enough that it might as well be ancient

The 2026 Toyota C-HR is Part Of Something That Toyota Is Quietly Bringing Back From The Past
So the embargo to write about the 2026 Toyota C-HR happened a couple of days ago, but for whatever reason I didn’t feel an intense












