Faraday Future Continues To Produce More Drama Than Actual Cars
A group of Faraday Future employees seek management change, Toyota will build EV batteries in America, Lucid Motors looks to raise more funding. All this a...
Rust Never Sleeps: 2002 Dodge Dakota or 1995 GMC Safari?
Welcome back to Shitbox Showdown! I'm still a couple of days behind you all. I've often been accused of living in the past; I guess that's literally true r...
Cold Start: Pre-Bokeh Bokeh
Have you ever really looked at a DAF 44? I think they're very attractive little cars, with an interesting grille-less face. It looks like a rear-engined ca...
The Way Bolts Work Is Far More Fastenating Than You Think: Tech-Talk With A Suspension Engineer
Dear Autopians. It’s time. It’s time to go deep. Deep into the depths of engineering nerdom. Do you want to know the physics behind how bolts work (they wo...
Attention: We Have Come Up With A Name For The Design Trend That Made Cars ‘Rounder’ In The 1990s
I have important news for everyone not just interested in cars or automotive design, but everyone with eyes, period: we at Autopian Linguistic Labs and Day...
How Taillights Caused A ‘Riot’ And Jail-Break In Small-Town Kansas In 1916
I'm so excited to be able to relay to you this incredible bit of circa-1916 breaking news, because it has so much good, deeply weird stuff crammed into it:...
Official 2023 Nissan Z Pricing Is Out, And It Looks Like A Bit Of A Bargain
The 2023 Nissan Z seems like a pretty good deal, the Moskvich might be coming back, 32 Hyundai and Kia owners must be terrified right now. All this and mor...
Chevy Citation or Pontiac Aztek: Which GM Five-Door Do You Love To Hate Less?
Greetings, future Autopians. I'm writing this from the past, last Friday, to be exact. So whatever the news was that you're all talking about this morning ...
Cold Start: The Mold And The Beautiful
I’m here in Michigan, on Official Autopian Business with David, part of which involves using my old Scion xB for some dumb stuff. The car has been sitting ...
How I Got Six Years Of Service Out Of A $220 Car
The paint in the Craigslist picture seemed to jump right off the screen. It immediately grabbed my gaze. “Whoa!" I believe was my initial utterance; seemin...
The MGB Is One Of The Only Examples Of This Automotive Linguistic Fluke
The way cars get named has its own subtle but powerful set of rules — rules that, like all good rules, are cruel and unforgiving and arbitrary. Mark Aronof...