Author: The Autopian

Over the past couple of years, auction sites like Bring-A-Trailer and Cars & Bids have been the source of some wild transactions. The COVID-era boom has cooled off quite a bit over the past year or so, but these sites’ reputations still persist: If you want to overpay on seemingly anything, look no further. Not […]

With the torque splitter diff from the RS3, more power, and tweaked suspension, the 2025 Audi S3 promises more gumption.

Weathering a rainy or lazy day, learning something new, recalling something old; there are a bunch of reasons to sit back and binge watch YouTube. And if you’re like me where you’re inundated with DIY wrenching channels day-in, day-out, there’s never any shortage of watching someone turn a wrench anywhere on Earth, and on any […]

You know what I’ve never done? I’ve never written an op-ed for CNN about how I think people who appreciate wine are a pack of pretentious numbnuts who think they can taste leather and oak and plums in something made exclusively out of grapes. I’ve never done that because, while I am fully capable of […]

It was just last fall that the Houston Coffee and Cars event, one of many nationwide morning car meets, felt it had to temporarily ban Camaros, Mustangs, and Chargers after too many of those owners were doing burnouts and donuts leaving the event. They had another event this morning with a huge number of cars […]

This weekend is the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, a fancy car event for fancy car people (and also for us last year). It’s also ModaMiami, a new fancy car event that was started specifically out of spite toward Hagerty and the now-Hagerty-owned Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Oh boy. The car world you see on Instagram reels […]

This weekend is the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, a fancy car event for fancy car people (and also for us last year). It’s also ModaMiami, a new fancy car event that was started specifically out of spite toward Hagerty and the now-Hagerty-owned Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Oh boy. The car world you see on Instagram reels […]

You know what I think is important for cars, but seems to be wildly uninteresting to the big companies that actually make cars? Forgiveness. Yes, dammit, forgiveness! Specifically cars that are forgiving of our all-too-human propensity to smack into things, sometimes. Really, it’s a wonder we don’t do it a hell of a lot more with our […]

So at this very moment our own David Tracy is, for complex and probably unknowable reasons, driving around a Lexus dealer loaner car, an NX. He just called me up to ask me a very valid and perceptive question: does anyone like power interior door handles? I’m glad to hear this question because it’s one I’ve asked […]

Yesterday, Tesla stock closed at a price per share of $188.18, and while that’s down from the company’s 52-week high of $299.19, it still makes Tesla more valuable than the next four most valuable car companies combined – Toyota, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BYD. But it wasn’t always that way. When I started at Tesla as […]