
Just A Handful Of Hours On The Bonneville Salt Flats Were So Overwhelming That I Ended Up Tasting The Salt
For over a century, gearheads have descended onto the Bonneville Salt Flats in the northwest corner of Utah to run their cars and motorcycles as





Nissan Put The Guy Who Made One Of Their Weirdest Designs In Charge Of All Design
Nissan Motor Company’s global press office in Yokohama put out a very short press release to announce that its longtime head of design, Alfonso Albaisa,

The Upper Deck Lounges In Boeing 747s Are A Reminder Of How High We Soared, How Far We’ve Fallen
I have a theory. There’s a set amount of Good Stuff in the universe, and a set amount of Crap, and the ratios aren’t great.

What Are The All-Time Toughest Cars And Trucks?
I’d say car and truck commercials don’t talk about toughness like they used to, but then I realized I haven’t seen a car or truck

Ram Will Now Sell You A Pickup Truck With A 900 Horsepower Supercharged V8 And A 60,000-Mile Warranty
Welcome to the return of the muscle truck. While hopped-up mulch haulers seemed to largely disappear around 20 years ago, they’re now back with a

The 701-Horsepower Porsche 911 Turbo S Is The Ultimate Test Of Self-Control
When did the Porsche 911 GT3 RS become the new Lamborghini? Seemingly overnight, Stuttgart’s extraordinarily hardcore rear-engined sports car went from being a road-legal ride

Just A Handful Of Hours On The Bonneville Salt Flats Were So Overwhelming That I Ended Up Tasting The Salt
For over a century, gearheads have descended onto the Bonneville Salt Flats in the northwest corner of Utah to run their cars and motorcycles as

Lucid Is Delaying Its Midsize Crossover For A Very Good Reason
Lucid is an extremely confounding company. It makes, arguably, some of the best electric cars in the world. They are remarkably efficient and cleverly packaged.

Counting Truck Tailgate Letters Until We Get To The One With The Most
You know what’s an underutilized medium for literature? I mean, other than skywriting? Truck tailgates. Though not normally considered as a viable means for disseminating

How Would You Rather Stand Out? 1991 Pontiac Bonneville vs 2006 Hummer H3
Some cars keep a nice low profile. Nobody notices a silver Toyota Prius, or a white Chevy Express van; they just fade into the background.

It’s Not The Greatest SUV In The World, It’s Just A Tribute: COTD
Some who cannot afford the performance version of their favorite car will instead build a sort of replica of that car from a lesser model.

There’s Only One Way An Electrified Miata Makes Sense
The Mazda Miata holds a special place in the hearts and driveways of a great many gearheads. The little roadster is among the last of

The Feds Want To Know Why Ford’s One-Liter Ecoboost Wet Belt Engine Keeps Failing Catastrophically
We all make mistakes, but at least they usually aren’t federal-investigation-level bad. That’s not always the case when you’re a major automaker, though. The smallest

A Boeing 747 Should Have The Cockpit In The Back, Not The Front, Because It Looks Way Cooler (Even If It’s A Bad Idea)
I’m sure you will be unsurprised to learn that I am not an aerodynamicist or a planeologist, nor would I even call myself an airplane

Our Website Is Misfiring On Cylinder 3 (It’s Showing Videos To Members). I Promise It’ll Be Fixed As Soon As We Can Get To The Junkyard
Hey everyone! If you’re a member of the site, you know one of the perks is usually that you don’t see ads. While that’s partially

Polaris Just Dropped A $50,000 Side-By-Side That’s More Powerful Than A Subaru WRX
We’re living in a golden age of horsepower. Bone-stock Corvettes with four-figure outputs, EVs that run nine-second quarter-mile times, turbocharged snowmobiles and literbikes fast enough

China Is The Reason Why You’re Not Paying More For Gasoline
While gas prices have risen a lot since the beginning of the year, they haven’t reached the apocalyptic heights many were originally predicting. That’s the

Ranking The High-Back VW Beetle Seats And What Monsters They Sorta Look Like
This is one of those things that has been lurking in the back, disused areas of my brain for decades. You know, in the storage

We’re Making You Get A Pickup Truck. What’ll It Be?
Don’t ask me what the scenario is where The Autopian is somehow empowered to force everyone to get a pickup truck and why we’re not

Which Is A Better Use Of $1,200? 1997 Ford Aspire vs 2000 Chevy Tracker
It’s been a while since I’ve given you a silly scenario to help you choose between cars, so I think it’s high time we did

It’s Hard Not To Love A Good Fender: COTD
One of the greatest parts about being a car enthusiast is learning what makes someone’s heart skip. I’m a sucker for stupid engines, weird engineering,







