I Bought A Deeply Underrated Gem Of A Modern Motorcycle That All Of America Slept On
If you pay a visit to a dealership of an American motorcycle brand, you’ll see a lot of the same thing. You’ll usually find a
Why Hyundai Has To Recall Only Silver Cars Over A Serious Safety Defect
Most recalls are pretty boring. I sift through a large number of recall reports for my job here at The Autopian, and many of them—these days, at
Choose Your Favorite Not-Really-A-Dodge: 1991 Monaco vs 2002 Stratus Coupe
The history of Chrysler over the past fifty years or so is a long and sordid tale of joint ventures, bailouts, purchases, sales, and mergers,
Here’s Some Surprising Things I Learned Looking Through This 1966 Rolls-Royce Brochure
Rolls-Royce has been the acknowledged highest standard of automotive excellence – ugh, I hate the word excellence, but whatever – for over a century. Most
I Wonder If The Lotus Restomod Can Swim As Well As The Original: COTD
Have you ever heard the saying, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen?” I feel like we’re living in
I Love It When Car Execs Dress Down For Press Photos In ‘Power Jeans’
Full disclosure: I am easily amused by things that amuse almost no one else. The good news is: David is wrenching, Mercedes is driving, and
To Celebrate The Strange Success Of The Data-Salami Thing, We Have A Shirt For You
I have to be honest with you about something: for someone who makes his living producing content on the internet, I’m not sure I really
‘We Strongly Shun The Idea:’ I Asked Every Carmaker If They Plan To Put Pop-Up Ads In Their Cars, Here Are Their Answers
The idea of having a pop-up advertisement appear in your car for the latest lease deals at your local dealership or for a hot new
What Were / Are Your Favorite Car Magazines?
(Stroking long, white beard) Remember magazines? In the pre-internet era, when ink on paper ruled, magazines were essentially your only entrée to the gated worlds
The Guy Who Designed The DeTomaso Pantera Also Designed The Best Ford You Could Buy In 1978
Ford’s run of super-small cars in the United States over the past few decades has been admittedly less than stellar. Actually, let’s not be polite:
The Genesis GV70 Is An Extremely Pleasant Luxo-Crossover And Its Butt Looks Like A Porsche 928 And/Or An AMC Pacer
I’m not really a luxury car kind of person. I can appreciate them, certainly – I’m not made of stone, after all – but my
Don’t Be Mad: I Actually Love This Lotus Esprit Restomod
Restomods have their place in the world, but most of them don’t excite me. Striving to differentiate the new car from the old one, small
I Drove Our Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet 1,555 Miles Across Four States, Now The Real Challenge Begins
When Griffin and I began filling the Autopian Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet up with gear for a 3,400-mile trip across America, there were doubts that we
Ford Has An Ideal Small Car It Could Sell Here Very Quickly
This week has been strange, with the government promoting the idea that both wood-panelled station wagons and Japanese-style kei cars could suddenly be sold in
Why The World War II Jeep Is One Of The Greatest Automotive Engineering Achievements In History
The Apollo Missions. The Manhattan Project. Ford successfully beating out Ferrari at LeMans. There are certain engineering achievements in American history that have seemed almost
This ’60s Rover Brochure Is For People Who Don’t Want To Do Anything The Normal Way
The Rover P6 2000 is a pretty interesting car. It was directly inspired by the revolutionary Citroën DS, translated through a lens of Britishness, and
Choose Your Favorite: Fiat 500 vs Chrysler New Yorker vs Plymouth Valiant vs Chevy Blazer
This week, we’ve been looking at cars with one obscure connection between them, and we’ve ended up with four finalists with very little in common.
I Wish Every Car Had A Joystick Like This New Kia Concept
Just two days ago, Kia teased a new concept car across its social channels, and it had me fascinated. The car’s EV-like proportions and four-door
Woah, That Lexus Concept From This Summer Is Actually The New LFA, And It’s Electric
This past August, I was one of the first people to walk through the gates of The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering in Monterey during Car
Toyota’s GR GT Supercar Gets A Hybrid V8 And Looks Astonishingly Good
Since the retirement of the Lexus LFA in 2012, the world has been waiting for a new halo car from Toyota. Now, after years of
How Bad Does A Free Car Have To Be For You To Say No?
Ask a car enthusiast what their ideal number of cars is, and the answer will probably be n+1. In this case, n means the number