
I Turned My House Into A Car Factory And It’s Taking Forever To Change It Back
Assembling a WWII Jeep from scratch took a toll on my body, my marriage, and my house, and I’m working to improve all three. Since





The Wonderfully Silly Nissan Leaf Nismo Doesn’t Have More Power But You Do Get A Pair Of Recaros
Sometime in the past decade or so, economy cars became a little bit dour. Shaking off bright hues and the occasional unexpected performance package for

America Was In A Frenzy Over The Oscar Meyer Weinermobile Being Stuck In A Tunnel. The Autopian Has An Exclusive: It’s Fake
Alert! Alert! Alert! Everyone, pay attention, dammit, I have Weinermobile news! Oscar Mayer Wienermobile news, dammit, so drop whatever you’re doing, I don’t care if it’s a

I Turned My House Into A Car Factory And It’s Taking Forever To Change It Back
Assembling a WWII Jeep from scratch took a toll on my body, my marriage, and my house, and I’m working to improve all three. Since

My Family’s Camper Is So Broken That It Still Needs Work After Spending $7,500 On Repairs
One of the most accessible ways to get into RVing is buying a used camper. RVs depreciate like luxury cars, and units that aren’t even

It’s Wild To See What Shows Up At An Autopian Meetup
The best part of doing an Autopian meetup is the people. That’s why any of us do this. People are what make cars interesting, not

EV Sales Might Bounce Back As Soon As Next Year: Report
With all the doom-and-gloom headlines around EVs in America, you can be forgiven for thinking that the sky is falling. Honda writing down its 0

These Are The Best Cars From Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
Last night, I saw Christopher Nolan’s three-hour long adaptation of O Brother Where Art Thou, set in the Bronze Age Greek world and titled The Odyssey. Christopher

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Was Actually A Car Movie, We Just Didn’t Know It
Somehow I forgot to acknowledge June 5th this year. I really should have recognized it last year, because it marked forty years since one of

Choose A Carbureted Classic: 1985 Toyota Tercel vs 1987 Dodge Ram 50
Hey, do you know what a float bowl is? How about an accelerator pump? Mixture screw? If you think I’m just throwing words together, there’s

I Drove The Ultimate Boomer Car. It’s Both Terrible And Amazing
The Plymouth Prowler exists for one reason and one reason only: Boomers were reaching the pinnacle of their careers at the start of the millennium,

Impressive Feats Of Grillelessness: The Third Generation Pontiac Firebird
Sometimes I think I have so many automotive fetishes that maybe, legally, I should have to make my presence known, in person, to any automotive

Shaq Just Scored Two ’64 Impala Lowriders, And One Of Them’s A Boat
Seven-foot-one, multi-millionaire NBA legend and car lover Shaquille O’Neal has just become the proud owner of two custom 1964 Chevrolet Impalas, one of which is
What Cars Do You Respect But Wouldn’t Care To Own Yourself?
I’ve never liked the idea of calling a car a “guilty pleasure”; there’s no reason to feel guilty about liking a giant land yacht or

The Oshkosh AirVenture Show Is So Huge That I’ve Walked Seven Miles And Haven’t Even Seen A Quarter Of It Yet
Every year, more than half a million people drive, fly, or ride their way to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for an entire week of all things aviation.

Why Lee Iacocca’s Ferrari F40 Needed $60,000 In Servicing Even Though It Was Only Driven 320 Miles
Enzo Ferrari is said to have once proclaimed, “Race cars are neither beautiful or ugly. They become beautiful when they win.” Since the 1987-introduced Ferrari

Autopian Labs Has Developed The World’s Most Advanced Stain-Tolerant Shirt And You Can Order One
You may not be aware of this, but this delightful website that you (hopefully) read non-stop day in and day out is actually just one

Traditional Carmakers Keep Making This One Mistake And It’s Killing Them
You know what the single biggest gripe I have about automakers is? Well, if you regularly read The Morning Dump you can probably list out

This Strange Handbuilt VW Beetle-2CV Hybrid Is Confusing The Hell Out Of Me
I’ll admit, I do sometimes worry that I focus too much or too often on my own idiosyncratic fetishes for Cold Starts. I do try

Which Twin-Cam Sedan Is Your Style? 1995 Saturn SL2 vs 1997 Plymouth Neon
On today’s menu, we have two small domestic sedans from the 1990s, both of which are equipped with their optional twin-cam engines. One has a

Come Hang Out With The Autopian In Ohio And Detroit This Week (Now With David)
Ford just dropped off a new Explorer Tremor that I’m excited to drive to Ohio tomorrow, if only because it’s that new Marsh Grey color









