Porsche Once Tried To Celebrate Its Racing Victories With Their Slowest Car. It Shared An Engine With The AMC Gremlin: Glorious Garbage
If you look through the Glorious Garbage archives, wearing the appropriate white gloves and being very sure to have placed your chili dog in one of the pro...
San Francisco Tow Truck Appears To Try To Snatch A Car That Someone Is Actively Driving, And It’s Bizarre
I get that this story is a few days old, and while I'm not sure I have any special insight to bring to it, I think it's worth showing and discussing, becau...
Nine Cars Sold On Bring A Trailer For Less Than $10,000 Yesterday, And They’re All Fantastic
You know that fancy internet car auction site, Bring A Trailer? While it doesn't happen often, nine cars sold on the site yesterday for under $10,000, and ...
This Tiny Affordable Sports Car Is Like The Japanese Version Of A Lotus Elise
"Simplify, then add lightness.” That's the iconic saying Lotus Cars attributes to its founder Colin Chapman. It's been the driving force behind many lightw...
For $4.67 You Can Become An Autopian Member And Make David Live In A Pontiac Aztek
Y'all keep asking so here's the update: We are halfway through April and already 75% towards our goal of 200 new members/upgrades/gifts in our 2nd-annivers...
This Is What A Lotus 4-Door Sedan From 1987 Could Have Looked Like
"What does your car do?" The question was put to me by a friend's four-year-old son, who was clearly struck by some sense of purpose the car managed to...
What Do You Get When You Average All Your Cars Together? Autopian Asks
When the car world talks about fleet averages, they tend to be in the somewhat dull context of bureaucratically altered fuel economy figures. Not here at T...
GM Had GPS Navigation Working Back in 1992, But Abandoned It A Year Later
GPS navigation systems really hit the mainstream in the early 2000s. Another decade later, and they were included on just about every vehicle in the market...
Here’s How Modern Convertibles Use Special Pigment So Their Leather Seats Don’t Burn Your Butt
As durable and aromatic as leather can be, it does have some flaws as automotive upholstery. It need frequent care, requires touch-up if it grows worn, get...
Guess Which CEO Thinks He Should Get 60% More Money After Selling Fewer Cars, Cutting Jobs, And Constantly Bickering With The Italian Government
What is a company? Is it the value of everything it owns? Everything it knows? Everything it makes? If it's a public company, the value is ultimately the s...