The Autopian

Something I love about working for The Autopian is that all of my co-workers are absolute characters.

Chances are, if you need to move a car from one place to another and you cannot drive it for some reason, your first stop might be your local U-Haul shop.

It’s hard not to root for Mitsubishi.

I got to watch various friends and colleagues report back from the big Formula One race at Circuit of the Americas this weekend, and it was a first time for a few of them, which means I get to hear all about how different it is to be in the garages/paddock

It’s no secret that it hasn’t been the smoothest past few years for Porsche.

Over the past few days, I’ve done a lot of driving.

Since 1971, Amtrak has served as America’s quasi-public national railroad.

A Tennessee-based YouTuber named Michael Pick bought a BMW i3, cut up the carbon fiber body, and turned the vehicle into a miniature pickup truck.

In the not-so-olden days of the Black Eyed Peas having top-ten singles, you’d almost always have to pay extra for an automatic gearbox in an economy car.

Car rental app Turo bills itself as the alternative and more interesting way to get a car, with a real nod towards car enthusiasts.

There are approximately eight days to go until extremely consequential midterm elections in the United States.

Oh, snap!

Last weekend I purchased a new 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee after realizing that my 5-speed “Holy Grail” project hadn’t gone anywhere in five years and wasn’t likely to go anywhere in the next five years.

I’m so sick of RAV4s.

There’s more to Fiat than, well, Fiat.

I have been a car enthusiast my entire life.

When we last discussed Stellantis patent applications, the giant conglomerate was imagining an EV with a battery fire situation dropping the pack out the bottom of the chassis as the car and its occupants skedaddle to a safe distance under 12-volt power.

Fuel prices are near record highs across the United States, and no more so in California, where the average price of regular gasoline recently touched $6.42 in Los Angeles.

The most important kind of company to have as a nation was, for much of the 20th century, an automaker.

Good morning!

Other than Ford Model Ts, pace car replicas, and the Buick GNX, you can usually choose the color of the car you buy.

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but the Autopian Mainframe, recently upgraded to a fully-expanded Mattel Aquarius (we’re talking 16K, AI-inflated memory priced be damned) soaking in a tub full of experimental Compute Enhancement Fluid (the composition of…

Ever since I was a wee 7th grader and saw a burgundy Toyota Previa on a trip to Arizona, I have been obsessed with the egg-shaped minivan.

A little over a decade ago, I bought a first-generation Mazda MX-5 from Germany.

I have a real fondness for the period of time between 2000 and 2010, which is maybe an odd thing to say given that my experience was book-ended by the 9/11 attacks and a global financial crisis.

Look, I’m all for naming a car after a principal or founder of the company.

Nearly every presentation for a new car I attend involves an executive talking to their car, and their car talking back to them.

If you’re reading this website, you’re obviously very much into automobiles.

Good morning!

Even though I was born in the Apollo Era, barely, the spacecraft that I think had the most influence on my childhood had to be the Space Shuttles.

Apparently, the diecast cars of today are only the latest of a long line of small, wheeled toys that date back thousands of years.

Fifty bucks for an organizer that sits in your console?

Have you ever seen some jackass parking diagonally across two to four parking spots and wondered just what particular manner of jackass that person could be?

I always assumed that acting as publisher for a website in this era of the internet was going to be an extraordinarily challenging job, and I probably underestimated the difficulty by about 300%.

When was the last time you were in a convoy?

Dubai’s police force maintains a special Luxury Tourist Patrol Fleet of police cars.

General Motors is gearing up to launch an all-new generation of its revered Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks.

There’s been a lot of discourse lately about how the undersides of Hot Wheels toy cars have become more simplified over time; as someone with a longstanding and deep-seated interest in the undersides of toy cars, this post got me thinking about toy cars,…

The car market is both better than you’d guess and, if you’re a certain type of car buyer, much, much worse.

Some say that there’s a doppelganger or uncannily similar twin of each and every one of us somewhere else in the world.

Coming this Friday, and every other Friday for the next few months, will be a new podcast covering one of the most important topics of our time: The Fast and the Furious film franchise.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you’re starting a small business, mobile dog washing or antique furniture delivery or something, and you find yourself in need of a van.

Today’s story about the rental car ridiculousness reminded me of a scary bill I once received from, hmm, I want to say Enterprise.

When I was a kid, I was as Volkswagen Beetle obsessed as I am today.

I don’t think I’ve ever paid what I expected to pay when renting a car.

Give someone a car brand and ask them to name a car from that brand, and you’ll probably get some highly expected answers.

The United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas was the first Formula One race I ever attended and therefore has a special place in my heart.

“David, can you please fix the garage?”

When you buy a used car, especially one well out of warranty and advanced in age, it’s generally accepted that a pre-purchase inspection (PPI) is highly recommended.

My friend and longtime collaborator Carrie McLaren, who I’ve been working with since the ’90s ‘zine boom, has a new physical ‘zine she’s writing and publishing called Ape Shit, which focuses on, you know, monkeys and apes and non-human primates, and how we