
Over A Century Ago, A Man Tried To Reinvent Coastal Transportation With A Train That Was Also A Boat And A Pier
Traveling between two points along a coast probably isn’t something that many people have to think much about. Today, you’ll find lots of options like





The New Dodge Charger Is Already As Heavy As A Pickup, So Why Not Put A Bed On It?
Many cars were seen quite differently half a century ago. What they were back then doesn’t translate the same today. Recently, our Mercedes Streeter was

Trust Me On This, The V8-Powered Lexus IS 500 Is Going To Be A Future Classic
How does one know if a car will be a future classic? Usually, anything that’s the last of its kind is a good sign. Think

Bad EV Bets And Tariffs Have Cost Automakers More Than $100 Billion
Our brains like to compress large portions of history into small, bite-sized descriptions that allow us to understand a time in the past without fully

BMW’s April Fools’ Joke M3 Station Wagon Race Car Was So Popular That It’s Actually Been Made Real
On April 1, 2025, BMW shared on social media some images of a BMW M3 Touring—a wagon variant of the M3 we don’t get here

Over A Century Ago, A Man Tried To Reinvent Coastal Transportation With A Train That Was Also A Boat And A Pier
Traveling between two points along a coast probably isn’t something that many people have to think much about. Today, you’ll find lots of options like

2CV Update: It Now Runs From Its Actual Fuel Tank!
As you may recall from my last 2CV update, I was still driving it using a five-gallon fuel can in the passenger footwell instead of

Hyundai Tells Dealers To Stop Selling The Fanciest Palisade Trims After A Child Was Killed By The Power-Folding Seats
Hyundai announced on Friday that it’s ordering dealers to stop selling certain trims of its three-row 2026 Palisade after an issue with the second- and

Which Tiny Three-Cylinder 4×4 Would You Take Home? 1991 Subaru Justy vs 1999 Daihatsu Terios Kid
We’re starting the week off small. We’re going to look at two itty-bitty four-wheel-drive imports, both rocking three-cylinder engines. One is a US model, and

Ah, So That’s How French Fries Are Really Made: COTD
One of the wonderful quirks of the Internet is that it’s a perfect delivery vehicle for news of totally silly events. If you’re having a

I Wish I Were As Brave As This Mustang GTD Owner Who Got His Car Delivered New To A Porsche Dealer
Buying a really expensive sports car comes with a lot of extras. You get extra-special service at the dealership, a bunch of extra supplies for

This May Be The Only From-The-Factory-Van Designed For Dogs
I haven’t taken the time to look over our reader demographics and conclusively figure out just who makes up our vast, erudite audience, but I

It Seemed Like Everyone Was On Drugs This Week, But Only One Of Us Actually Was: Tales From The Slack
Would you like to see what’s going on in The Autopian Slack? All you have to do is become a member and you’ll be invited

The World’s First Production Scooter With A Carlike Airbag System Is Here And It’s Weird
Motorcycle technology generally trails behind what consumers can buy in cars today. Motorcycles didn’t get blind-spot detection until 2021 in the Ducati Multistrada V4 S,

I Can’t Stop Watching Video Of This On-Fire Japanese Sweet Potato Truck Blasting Through Red Lights To Get To A Fire Station
Having spent the majority of my life glued to a screen of some kind, there aren’t many things on the internet that truly surprise me
Assembling A WWII Jeep From Scratch Means Organizing Hundreds Of Parts From eBay Sellers. Here’s How I Do It
Seemingly every day for the past five months, there has been at least one new part of a World War II Jeep in front of

A-Class? More Like ‘No Way, Pass.’ Plus: Stephen Bolts! Only Fanbelts
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Your Favorite Affordable Sports Cars Are Now Stuck In Time, And That’s a Good Thing
The car industry is at a weird inflection point right now. The federal government’s elimination of emissions standards for vehicles built in 2012 and later

Electric Cars Were Never Going To Save Us
IIf you’re an environmentalist, the cancellation of all of its electric cars probably feels like a betrayal by Honda. It’s the “Earth Dreams” company. Honda

One Of The World’s Smallest Diesel Pickup Trucks Got 80 MPG And Its Engine Was A Built-In Jobsite Generator
The Japanese Kei truck is a wonderful creation that many Americans are still discovering for the first time. These little trucks do much of the

Someone Help Me Understand VW’s Four-Door Choices In The Air-Cooled Era
Volkswagen, at least air-cooled-era Volkswagen, has a very strange relationship with four-door cars, and it’s not a relationship I understand. For most of the air-cooled







