Mercedes Streeter

Japan has a way of making some things just a bit cuter than you’ll find them in other places. Kei cars adorable and Honda’s old ASIMO somehow packed so much character into its little body. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Japan has also made a cute Corvette. Thomas wrote about the Mitsuoka Miata […]

My favorite genre of car video is the revival, or more specifically, Vice Grip Garage. There’s something about watching a guy bring something back to life that’s just so relaxing. Derek Bieri has even inspired me to try my hand at my own revivals. Just wait until 40 years from now, when today’s cars are […]

Car publications have a weird habit of posting news and reviews at three in the morning. The reason why is equally as ridiculous.

One of the weirder parts of car journalism, at least from the perspective of a reader, is the embargo. You may wonder why your favorite car publications push out reviews at 3 a.m. when most people in that publication’s market are sleeping. Often, automakers have journalists agree not to publish anything until a certain time, […]

One of the missions of the Autopian is to provide the most accurate information we can on a subject. We spend a lot of time making sure we get things right, but as humans, we do goof up. This has been the case throughout all of car journalism, because humans are imperfect creatures. Yet, our […]

One of the great promises of electric cars is the skateboard chassis. An automaker may choose to contain all of the guts of their electric car in a chassis that can scale up or down to fit a variety of bodies. A handful of automakers claim to have some sort of skateboard chassis in production, […]

The United States started a trade war with Canada, then escalated it. President Trump plans to ban Canadian goods, including the Can-Am Spyder

Rebadging cars is common in the auto industry, but campers get badge engineering, too. Here's why one camper might be sold under four brands.

One of the accepted realities of RV ownership is that your unit will almost certainly break, leak, or find some extremely weird way to break. Yet, hundreds of thousands of these things are sold each year. I have written in depth about RV problems and the costs to fix them. Clearly, we RV people are […]

For the past 5 years, the most important tool I've owned is this lithium power station. It has powered my whole life from my garage to camping