Thumb through the pages of Volkswagen van history and you’ll find that camping and the marque’s vans have been tied together since almost from the beginning. In 1951, Westfalia created its first camper van, the “Camping Box.” While campervan builds certainly date back decades prior, Westfalia is sometimes credited with helping to popularize the idea of making the idea of sleeping in a van turned into a camper. From there, you can find camping versions of VW vans past and present....

By the way, as I was finding those links up there, I also happened to find out that these exist: Why are we like this? Also, Couldn’t one interpret these as acts of love, or at least lust instead of aggression? Anyway, let’s get back to the wholesome world of taillights. The specific taillights I want to focus on are the ones used on third-generation Chevy C/K trucks from 1973 to 1987, and sixth-generation Ford F-series trucks from 1973 to 1979....

Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too well, pull up a throne and have a gander at the best of the rest of yesterday. Supra Engaging Ever since the outgoing M240i exited production, American BMW enthusiasts who enjoy a left leg workout have had to pop for an M car. That seems a bit egregious considering the joy of BMW’s deft chassis tuning still carries through to the smaller engines....

Leno described the terrifying accident in an exclusive interview with TODAY’s Hoda Kotb. Despite the serious subject at hand, Leno fires off a solid joke in the first ten seconds. Kotb starts by saying that she’s so happy to be sitting across from Leno, to which he responds: “Well thank you, I’m afraid I had to get on fire to be on the TODAY Show.” Leno from the jump reminds us that not even being on fire can take the funny out of him....

After 9.5 years in Michigan, I have completed the first half of my move to Los Angeles, and I’m completely overwhelmed. There’s just too much going on all at the same time, and this — coupled with a few days of illness — is my excuse for why I haven’t written the final chapter of Jason and my road trip across the country. But this very article you’re reading is the final chapter, so no more excuses needed: Here’s what it was like driving a radio-less, worn-out 1966 Ford Mustang 2,500 miles across America....

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Dave Matthews Band song. Call it a generational gap or Canadian radio stations’ strict adherence to CanCon rules, but I must’ve missed this band in its entirety. Nevertheless, we’re talking about a very successful Grammy-winning musical act here. All but two Dave Matthews Band albums have gone platinum, which explains why the band had full-fledged tour buses, cars you can poop in, for its 2004 touring season....

Looks like it’s the Colt! I tend to agree. My only problem with that car is that it’s all the way down in San Diego, while the Nissan is in my neck of the woods, so it’s my pick by geographical default. Though it would be fun to buy the Colt down in California and drive it up. If only I had time and money. Sigh. Anyway, it occurred to me that I’ve been heavily favoring large markets on here, particularly west of the Mississippi River, because I’m more familiar with those markets....

Get ready to fix it again, Tony; it’s the Fiat by nearly two-to-one. And I have to say I agree; four-door Darts are just kinda dowdy. Like something your aunt would drive. That little Fiat would be my choice, and in fact, it’s another one I’d probably drag home if I could. I’d get it running, and then love it and squeeze it and call it George. It’s just so adorable....

First, let’s take a look at just what Apple has introduced for us here: …and here’s Apple’s description: Before we get into my asking the Big Question, let’s look at the design of the gauge clusters themselves. These are especially interesting because they’re the clearest reminder that what Apple is making here is not just another center-stack infotainment system, but rather an entire operating system/user experience for your car, replacing whatever the original carmaker came up with....

First off, watch this video to see this EV baja beast in action: Power comes from a full Tesla Model S P85 drivetrain, with an 85 kWh battery pack and a 535-horsepower motor. Given how the typical Class 10 buggy doesn’t weight a whole lot, this thing offers hilarious acceleration despite the added weight of a battery pack. Plus, that big battery pack is said to give this prerunner an off-road range of 200 miles despite having the aerodynamic sophistication of a shed....

Yes, because it was the lone Unmodified 1980s Domestic Pickup Truck to actually show up, Marshal won by default, but I’ll take it. So now this ratty, purple-hand-painted pickup truck with its muffler rattling around in its bed is now an AWARD WINNING ratty, purple-hand-painted pickup truck with its muffler rattling around in its bed. (top pic by Christopher Scott) An auto meetup award would be nice, too. 😉 Loving this site so far....

What I really love about the SM is that it’s not intimidatingly sleek or elegant; it’s both of those things, but there are still some odd choices throughout the car–proportions of windows, the odd low placement of the taillights, the friendly cocktail party of angles going on–and all of that, somehow, makes it more approachable and friendly, takes the coldness out of what could otherwise be an overly analytical design....

Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too well, pull up a throne and have a gander at the best of the rest of yesterday. Alright, Who Bought A Dart Last Quarter? Customers must be really desperate for new cars right now. Stellantis recently released its third-quarter sales figures and some very strange anomalies stand out among the legions of Ram pickup trucks and Jeep Wranglers that made it into customers’ driveways....

The Lexus takes it by a country mile as a quad-cam V8 and rear-wheel-drive prove hard to resist, even taking into account the car’s modified state. Anyway, let’s jump into today’s event. While many of us like to think that we can keep stables of roadsters and sports sedans, life often eventually forces its hand regarding practicality. Once a partner, children, a dog, family trips, daycare, sporting events, and all that stuff comes into the equation, a hatch really helps....

The Bronco Heritage Edition starts with the Big Bend trim and Sasquatch package and adds a bunch of ‘60s-inspired goodies. Specifically, flat fenders, white four-slot wheels, a white grille, white stripes, a white hardtop, white dashboard trim, and a blue plaid interior. Can you really put any more white accents on a Bronco? Sure, there’s a little bit of red accenting going around the grille badge and through the interior stitching, but the Heritage Edition generally keeps to its ethos pretty well....

First, a bit of background. The Vignale-designed T613 was introduced in 1975, and after the fall of Communism across Europe in the late 1980s and early 90s, the 613 was thought to be too primitive to attract Western buyers. Tatra was evaluating two approaches to a new, proposed Project T-625: a front-engined, water-cooled sedan, or a more traditional, rear-engined, air-cooled option. Unfortunately, Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution” of 1989 left many state-supported industries without clear direction – Tatra included....

A car roller coaster is probably exactly what you pictured when you heard the words: a roller coaster-type track, only with your normal car driving on it. This type of track had the erudite, sophisticated name of Whoopee Auto Coaster, and the first one was built in a Chicago suburb called Lyons, in 1929. The company that built the Whoopee, the factually-named Coaster Construction Company, built similar tracks in Los Angeles, Detroit, Seattle, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Camden, New Jersey....

Oh Canada Traditionally, Canadians are quite cheap. Don’t worry, I’m Canadian — I can say that. While Americans buy Accords, we buy Civics. We love No Frills grocery store and its disconcerting plain yellow packaging. Rummage around the average Canadian’s pantry and you’ll find plenty of things that look like this: In fact, Canada’s cheapness was a bit of a problem for Volkswagen when the brand introduced the Mark V Rabbit and Jetta....

Yep, that’s right. I just got off the phone with Wink CEO Mark Dweck, and he told me that he had the idea to import little useful cars like these after watching my first Changli video two years ago. “You don’t know this, but you’re the one who woke me up to this. I saw your YouTube video!” he said. I’m as shocked as you are, especially when I learned that Mark is a genuine, no-joke car guy — the sort of person that has owned multiple Aston Martins and Cords and Duesenbergs and all manner of remarkable cars....

Even if you can comprehend the idea of a silhouette, the disparity in the way animals and humans are represented is too great, and while we, as humans, understand this implicity, the aliens may not, thinking Earth is full of complex zoological life that’s intermixed with a society of robots that use anti-gravity tech to support their perfectly spherical heads. I guess there’s no way to stylize these animals effectively and have them retain their distinctive looks, like we have with people?...