The Autopian

Early May, 2020. The UK was in a Covid lockdown that had started in March. We had all been isolating for two months, people traveling beyond their local areas were being stopped by police, and everyone I knew had been stuck in their homes for months unless they were queueing at their local shops for food. It was grim, even for those who weren’t ill and hadn’t lost anyone.

Everything might be bigger in Texas, but some Finnish pickups are longer than anywhere else in the world. This is down to some regulatory weirdness that caused some of the smaller “utes” to be stretched behind the rear axle at import in order to be classified as commercial vehicles the way they were intended in the first place.

They look kind of weird, and you can alwa...

Am I a negative person or a realist? Maybe I’m a little bit of both, since with automobiles I’m rarely disappointed at being disappointed. Due to a variety of circumstances – some of them outside of their control – car companies often let us down.

Recently, Honda teased us with an ultra-cool concept EV that they swore would go into production, but now it appears that w...

The Escape is one of those cars that got less interesting to me as it got better. The original, hybrid and boxy small crossover was really ahead of the market in many ways. While the model has i...

With the Audi RS6 Avant entering purgatory and the Mercedes-AMG E 63 wagon having last been seen several years ago, there’s only one choice left if you want a new wagon with a big V8: The BMW M5 Touring. With 717 horsepower from its plug-in hybrid V8 powertrain, it’s quick but hefty, and has jowls to match its curb weight. While removing the equivalent mass of a medium-sized ...