
Why The Slate EV Truck’s Crank Windows Aren’t As Good As The Ones In Your Vintage Truck
The $24,950 Slate EV pickup truck’s most polarizing feature is its crank windows. It’s such a primitive, old-school feature that no other car in the





Audi’s New Car Philosophy Seems To Be To Complicate, And Then Add Heaviness: COTD
Cars come with the baggage of having stereotypes. American cars are built like crap, Italian cars break down, Japanese cars run forever, and Chinese cars

Which Old Ford Looks Like More Fun? 1951 Ford Custom vs 1995 Ford Escort
We’re wrapping up our week of single-make Showdowns with a pair of Fords. They’re about as different as you can get, and there’s 44 years

For Whom The Chicken Screams: Only Fanbelts
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JC Whitney Used To Sell Knockoff Hubcaps With Weird Bootleg Brand Names On Them Like ‘Food’
One of the most common “tells” of images created with artificial intelligence (AI) is that things like logos or written text are often strange, corrupted

The Hummer H3 Was The Right SUV At Precisely The Wrong Time
Why doesn’t GM have a Ford Bronco competitor? You’d think that one of America’s major truck and SUV manufacturers would jump at the chance to

What’s The Weirdest Thing You’ve Found In Your Engine Bay?
When cracking open the hood of an old car for the first time, you’re bound to find some surprises. Rusty bolts, mangled wiring connections, cracking

This Mazda Miata Driving Simulator Was Reborn As Namco’s Legendary Ridge Racer Arcade Game
One of my lasting childhood memories is the Saab 900 based driving simulator at the Saab dealer in the next town. It was an OG

Here’s My Simple Solution For How BMW Can Keep The Manual Alive For Years To Come
For a few years now, BMW has been warning the public that its manual transmission offerings will soon disappear. It feels like that, lately, whenever

Volkswagen Has Brought Back Its Iconic 641 HP W12-Powered Golf GTI To Remind Us How Delightfully Insane It Used To Be
It’s no secret that the Volkswagen of today is not the company it used to be. Today’s Volkswagen sells sensible crossovers with either a sensible

If Only Pontiac’s Sunbird Formula V8 Ran Like The Mini Trans Am It Appeared To Be
We give Malaise Era General Motors a lot of flak, but virtually nobody here at The Autopian denies the General at its junkiest still made

Holy Crap, The New Audi RS5 Weighs 1,112 Pounds More Than The Old One
Some of the figures produced by today’s performance cars are absolutely loopy. Twenty-ish years ago, a Porsche Carrera GT made 603 horsepower, accelerated from a

Porsche’s New CEO Reportedly Had To Offer Employees Amnesty In Order To Find Out How Bad Things Really Are At The Company
It’s a view held by many that Germany produces the best cars. I’m not so sure that’s true anymore, but at least Germany produces the

How Fixing My Cheap Boxster 30 Minutes At A Time Has Saved Me Over $2,400 And Let Me Keep My Social Life
Working on cars can be fun. In a world of complex problems with multiple solutions that are rarely zero-sum, there’s a certain healing in doing

Mercedes Has To Replace The Battery Packs In Its Most Normal EV, Here’s Why You Should Buy One Now
The Mercedes-Benz EQB is one of the company’s most inoffensive, perfectly plain vehicles. There is nothing incredibly notable about it, good or bad. It looks

Which Saab Would Make A Better Story? 1971 Saab 96 vs 1999 Saab 9-3
I believe – though I’d have to go back and check – that no Saab has ever lost a Showdown. And that’s not going to

Let’s Figure Out What Car Front Ends Look Like These Hardware Store Springs
Last week; was it last week? Was it more than a week ago? No, I think it was last week – I was in Los

When Star Trek’s Captain Picard Looks At An Audi: COTD
There are a bunch of flexible and squishy humans that run this publication, and sometimes we make small or silly mistakes. Usually, it’s something like

Vermont Has Electric Transit Buses That Can’t Charge When It’s Cold Outside, But It’s Not Because They’re EVs
One of the greatest applications for present-day electric vehicle technology is buses. School buses and transit buses run defined routes that are within the range

I Went To The Press Trip After The One Where That Guy Yelled At Jason, And You Don’t Know The Half Of It
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Here Are The Chrysler, Jeep, And Dodge Products Most Likely To Get Hemi V8s, Ranked
If you’ve been following the saga of Stellantis, the parent company of brands like Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, you’ll know it’s in the midst












