Renew Your Autopian Membership And Get This Sweet Aztek Pin

Of all of our bad ideas, I think buying a Pontiac Aztek might be the best bad idea we’ve ever had. If you don’t remember, we said we’d buy a Pontiac Aztek and David would even live in it for a week if enough of you became members. Many of you signed up so we bought it, drove it around, and David just recently finished sleeping in it (more on that soon).

To commemorate this amazing moment, we are going to give members who renew (Vinyl+) one of these sweet, limited-edition Autopian pins made by our friends at Leen Customs. These are extremely cool and once we’re out of them we don’t make any more of that design so they are truly limited-edition.

If you’ve noticed all the posts lately about what you get if you renew your membership that’s because we launched membership in early December 2022 so many of you are getting emails asking if you still want to renew. It’s our big mission to make membership as valuable to you as your membership is valuable to us (it helps keep the server hamsters fed).

If you have auto-renew set, you don’t have to do anything. If you’ve disabled auto-renew you can log in to your account and reset it.

We ordered a lot more pins than we did last year so we have enough to cover just about everyone who is renewing between December of this year and well into next year. It’s possible they’ll last all the way until next December, but it just depends on how many people actually renew.

BTW, if you’re curious about the banner on the side, it commemorates this great trip we did with the great crew at Fuel Run. Check out the video below:

As a reminder, as a renewing member, you get the following:

• Cloth – Price drops from $70 to $50 for the year, a $20 savings.
• Vinyl – The cool new shirt + a pin.
• Velour/RCL – The shirt, the pin, and a license plate frame.

Here’s what those will look like:

What if you’re reading this post and you want to become a member today? We’ll likely do another, different pin next year so sign up and make sure to renew, and you’ll also likely get a bonus t-shirt if you sign up in the next couple of weeks. You’ll still get all of the member perks, including a sticker/shirt/badge/rust depending on the level.

The bonus t-shirt offer also extends to gifts. Here’s the link for that:

• GIFT CLOTH ANNUAL – $50
• GIFT VINYL ANNUAL – $100
• GIFT VELOUR ANNUAL – $250
• GIFT RICH CORINTHIAN LEATHER – $1,000

By the way, if anyone actually gifts RCL we will send an extra member shirt for whomever made the gift as a thank-you bonus.

Thanks again to everyone who is signing up/renewing/gifting membership. The ad markets are insane, we try to limit advertising as much as possible, and there are only so many partnerships we can do with our small staff. Having members like you helps us keep this place sustainable and allows us to make more informed decisions about staffing.

Many other sites you love are taking a similar hybrid approach (both Defector and The Verge have announced ads + membership in some form), so you’re not only supporting a website you love. You’re a pioneer.

Thank you.