Lotus’ First SUV Is A 600 HP Electric Beast That Can Detect The Presence Of Children
The Eletre, Lotus's new battery-electric SUV feels like someone at Lotus just wanted to take care of as many firsts as possible in one vehicle: It's Lotus'...
Saab Put Reverse Lights At The Front Of Its Cars And It’s Actually Brilliant
The back tables at the Crimson Lantern are bleak, forgotten places shunned by the popular cliques of the various factions of Taillifestyle — the amber-clad...
I’m A Real Car Designer And I’ll Draw Your Ridiculous Ideas
Car design is easy right? When something looks wrong or bad, it’s just the designers being lazy, isn’t it? Those marker pushers should get out of the way a...
An Earthquake Ripped A Car’s Face Off Just Before A Big Design Review. Here’s The Story Of How Designers Rallied Through Chaos
It was a crew of two in the design studio that Friday morning. Everyone in our newly-relocated crew from the Detroit studio was there earlier than usual be...
A Deep-Dive Into The History Of China’s Bizarre Jeep Cherokee XJ Clones
In the early 1990s many small Chinese carmakers started building weird body-on-frame versions of the legendary unibody SUV, the Jeep Cherokee XJ. These Chi...
Murder By Flashing Amber Light: A Mack Hardigraw Car Mystery
Whether you chose to call the ruined landscape known as Hat Trick Gorge a graveyard or junkyard really depended upon what had brought you there: Were you l...
Here’s Why Some Honda Navigation Systems Are Permanently Stuck in 2002
Almost every navigation-equipped Honda and Acura model made from 2004 through 2012 is currently suffering from something known in the I.T. industry as the ...
Alternate History Hot Rod Dilemma, Stellantis Edition: Humber Snipe or Opel Kapitän?
When the shooting stopped— or at least paused— after World War II ended, the automobile factories of every major car-building nation in the world had been ...
I Work At The World’s Quirkiest Car Museum, And I’m Going To Spill All The Secrets Here
When Jason approached Lane Motor Museum about contributing to The Autopian, I had one thought: If I were a regular schmo who knew nothing about weird car m...
Watch Us Talk About Our Plans For The Autopian On The Smoking Tire Podcast
The always charming and engaging Matt Farah and Zack Klapman had us on the TST podcast when we were in LA last month, and we had an absolute blast talking ...