I Think This Was The First Home Racing Video Game To Simulate A Manual Transmission
I’ve been meaning to write about this interesting footnote at the crossroads of automotive and video game history and interests for some time, but kept
I’m Back From Goodwood And Here’s The Car With The Worst Nickname There: Cold Start
I’m back! Last night my airship moored at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Dirigible Station, and I was released on zipline down to thunk solidly on
The 2024 Hyundai Kona Grows Up And Gets Ready For The Suburbs
A stereotypical road map of American adulthood starts off something like this: Move to a hip urban area, establish a career, fall in love, get
This Place Was Better Before You Got Here! COTD
If you haven’t heard, we’re hiring! We’re looking for a cool deputy editor or managing editor to help the Autopian be the best site it
The Electric Volkswagen ID.X Performance Concept Is A Wild 550-Horsepower Family Sedan
Going fast and having fun have been components of automotive appeal forever, and lairy pumped-up versions of everyday cars don’t seem to be going anywhere
The Autopian Is Hiring. Here’s What We Ask In Our Job Application
The Autopian has been around for nearly 1.5 years, and currently receives roughly 3 Million monthly pageviews. Our team cannot thank you, dear readers, enough
Man Buys Broken ‘Mechanic’s Special’ BMW i3 For Dirt Cheap. Fixes It In Front Of The Seller In 3 Minutes And Drives Off
It’s a seller’s worst nightmare: You put a car up for sale for dirt cheap because it’s broken. Then someone stops by, pays you, and
I Took Our Snow-Crushing Mercedes Party Wagon Off-Roading And It Was Total Chaos
I just spent the weekend at a celebration of all things off-roading. Detroit 4Fest was Michigan’s go-to party for wheeling and to learn how to
Here’s The Engineering Behind Why The Can-Am Maverick’s Suspension Looks So Insane
Hello fellow Autopians and welcome to another edition of “Ask an Engineer.” This time a question came to me via our very own David Tracy
Lotus Built A Sedan Quicker Than The One The UK Government Tried To Ban And It’s Suddenly Okay
Back around the turn of the 1990s, Lotus shocked the world with a 177-mph super sedan meant to take on the world — a vehicle
U.S. Energy Secretary’s Staff Blocked An EV Charger With A Gas Car, Got A Lesson On America’s EV Infrastructure Problems
A fascinating thing we’ll all have to navigate as electric vehicles become more mainstream is charging station etiquette, as our own David Tracy recently encountered
Unlikely Big City Beaters With Stickshifts: 2004 Ford Mustang vs 2008 Volkswagen Eos
Good morning, and welcome to another week of cheap cars! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. The All-British Field Meet was a blast; I got
Please Enjoy Peak 2010 Automotive Journalism Fashion
It takes about 20 years, in my estimation, for something to seem like it’s far enough in the past to casually separate it from the
Why Engineers Use $1000 Hammers To Hit Prototype Cars So They Sound Good And Don’t Explode
As a noise, vibration, harshness (NVH) engineer, I get to play with some neat tools. From lab-grade microphones and accelerometers, anechoic chambers, acoustic cameras, to
A Fair Warning To The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Tales From The Slack
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We Need To Talk About The Chinese ‘Tank 300’ Off-Roader Because It Just Defeated Australia’s Most Grueling Hillclimb
Have I been living under a rock? Apparently so, because I — an avid off-roader — somehow am only just hearing about an amazing off-road machine
These 323s Are The Coolest Bubble Era Mazdas To Never Make It To America: Holy Grails
One of the more frustrating parts about being a car enthusiast in America is watching what drivers in other countries get to buy. We still
The Retrofuturist Cars Of Sci-Fi Noir Film ‘Gattaca’ Are Still Relevant Today, Let’s Make More Of Them
“Nothing ages as quickly as yesterday’s vision of the future” For the most part, this statement by film critic and magazine editor Richard Nelson Corliss
The World Might Need Almost 6 Million Tons Of Lithium By 2030 And It’s Not Clear We Can Mine It Fast Enough: Report
The big concern over electric cars has been demand, but the greatest threat could be upstream supplies (i.e. the stuff that is required to make
Show, Slalom, Or Swap-Meet: Hillman Husky vs Jaguar XJ6 vs Mini Cooper S
Good morning, and happy Friday! We’ve made it to the end of our short week full of British steel, and now all that remains is
Keep That Motor Warm, Guv’nuh: Cold Start
Blimey, Autopians! We have quite a few of the Autopian Staff out at the moment; Jason and Beau as mentioned yesterday are in the United