The Autopian

A little while back, Jason told us about how Slate was collaborating with the candy brand Smartie’s to create wraps for their new trucks. These would be the bright, pale pastels that make up the individual flavors of their very chalky candie...

Cars are, in case you hadn’t noticed, complicated. So many moving bits and wires and flaps and things that make sparks and things that are not supposed to make sparks and valves that spray fluids and hoses and clamps and you get where I’m going here. There are an awful lot of moving parts involved in the process of taking dead dinosaur juice and converting that, chem...

There are plenty of new car buyers out there, but I’ve never been one of them. I don’t love how complicated new cars have become, I’m not especially interested in giving up all the data they request, and the value proposition seems worse and worse all the time. Very few would make my short list. 

The 2027

It’s already not going well. I’m attempting to simply change a tire in a virtual world that feels a little like Lawnmower Man meets that one Dire Straits video. The issue is that I’m not following the proper procedure, which includes putting on safety equipment, and ...

The term “project car” scares off a lot of people, but it shouldn’t. Really, any car that isn’t your primary mode of transportation should be considered a project, especially ones that are fifty years old like the cars we’re going to look at today. Something is always going to need fixing. And the little repair jobs are often more satisfying than the big ones. So today, I’m g...