
The Tesla Cybertruck Is Dead, The Ford F-150 Lives
The Cybertruck was supposed to make the F-150 obsolete. It wasn’t supposed to be boring, like a Ford or a Chevy. It was supposed to

The Fuel Door On The New Corvette Doesn’t Lock Anymore And The Official Reason Is Weird
In the path of a car’s model cycle, it’s not unusual for things to go missing. The carbon fiber engine cover on the BMW i3,

Jeep’s New ‘JL-2A’ Is A Fun Part Of The Brand’s Comeback. Here’s How I Would Save Jeep
It’s a weird time for Jeep, who recently launched a ~$65,000 SUV that can only drive ~230 miles on a charge. The Wagoneer (the Grand

How Did Everyone Get This Wrong? VW’s New ‘Mission Efficiency’ Doesn’t Get 900 Miles Of Range Out Of A Small Battery
You may have seen a lot of stories floating around about how VW’s new Mission Efficiency concept has a range of about 900 miles; that

This Weird Folding Box Wants To Turn Your VW ID. Buzz Into A Camper So Complex It Would Make Rube Goldberg Proud
For several decades, the humble camping box has allowed van owners around the world to quickly convert their vehicles into small RVs. Usually, camping boxes

The Kia PV7 Is A Ford Transit-Sized Electric Van That Would Be Perfect For America
It’s hard not to love a van. The concept of a box on wheels for moving stuff is so perfectly utilitarian that it satisfies the

Why I’d Wait A Little Longer To Buy A New Car
It’s always hard to give general car advice given how much can vary from brand to brand, market to market, or even between two dealers from

What’s The Best Car We Never Got?
It’s a lesson we learn all too soon as car people: the best-looking, most interesting car designs often go unproduced. This is most understandable when

Would You Rather Go Older, Or Newer? 1980 Mercedes 240D vs 2012 Nissan Sentra
When you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel, sometimes you don’t have a whole lot of choice. Drop below $2,000 in the used car market

Holy Crap There Was A 3-Row, 7-Seat Nissan Cube
I have a certain fondness for small, unashamedly boxy cars. That’s why I used to own a Scion xB (which later became the Autopian Test

Corrections And Whale-Ections: COTD
One of the missions of the Autopian is to provide the most accurate information we can on a subject. We spend a lot of time

The Seemingly Random Tiny Ledges You See Above Airplane Doors Serve A Simpler Purpose Than You’d Think
Today’s commercial aircraft are marvels of engineering designed to get millions of passengers safely to their destinations over a lifetime of tens of thousands of

The Real Story Of How Whale Penis Leather Became The Most Infamous Upholstery Of The 21st Century
Remember way back in 2009, during the heady days of the early Obama administration and the release of the VW Routan and our collective obsession
I Drove An $11,000 Jaguar XF Trade-In And It Was Shockingly Good
“Hey Dave, an old Jaguar just got traded in for a Polestar 2,” our video manager Griffin told me. “Oh boy,” I thought. A 16-year-old

This Weird Brazilian Company Used To Build American Pickup Trucks So Huge They Towered Over Ford F-350s
There’s no secret that America is deeply infatuated with big trucks. Today, all of the Big Three are willing to sell you pickup trucks so

Here Are The Articles From The Last 30 Days Basically No One Read

GM Built An Ingenious Hybrid In The 1960s And Then Everyone Forgot About It
Roll call! What do you think was GM’s first hybrid? It’s not going to be the Chevy Volt, as that hit the market in 2010.

For American Car Enthusiasts, It’s About To Be The Worst Of Times And The Best Of Times
Yes, I’m aware I’m getting the quote backwards, but that’s just where I think the balance is. If there’s a theme of The Morning Dump

Citroën Considered Making A Tiny Version Of Their Famous Big Van
Look at that, I went two whole days without doing a Citroën-focused Cold Start! Should I get a medal? I should probably get a medal.

What Cars Would Be Six-Figure Collector Rides If Everyone Had Your Taste In Cars?
There are many factors affecting the upper echelons of classic car values, but it’s probably safe to say that the tastes of us Autopians are

Let’s Play ‘Track, Daily, Burn:’ Honda Accord vs Chevy Beretta vs Mazda MX-3
Good morning! Well, you picked ’em; now you have to tell me what you want to do with ’em. We’re going to play the car











