The Autopian

2 days ago | theautopian.com | Lewin Day

When it comes to cars, each country tends to develop its own unique tuner culture. Americans love their muscle cars and lifted trucks, Australians specialize in rorty V8 sedans, and Japan pioneered the turbocharged sports car. Over in Iran, though? There’s a bit of a movement centered around the wonderful Peugeot 405 and, in particular, with a style that’s not common almost anywhere else. We first explored the Iranian connection with the tasteful French sedan a couple of years ago.

2 days ago | theautopian.com | Lewin Day

For American kei car owners, the last few years have been tough. Many have been hit with surprise registration bans, and faced all kinds of struggles in dealing with hostile bureaucracies intent on demonizing their legally imported vehicles. For those in the state of Colorado, though, salvation is in sight, with a new law giving kei cars the legal status they deserve. As reported by Car & Driver, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed a new bill, HB25-1281, into law on Friday.

4 days ago | theautopian.com | Alanis King

I’ve never been a Miami person. Every time I go, I end up in an area that’s loud, expensive, and subject to membership fees. The bars, which are sometimes right below or above your hotel room, bump until the early-morning hours. Supercar exhausts and police sirens wail down the streets, day and night. The social clubs are so strict that when I hosted an event at one last year, I went to the on-site restaurant for lunch and had to beg them to let me buy food because I wasn’t a member.

4 days ago | theautopian.com | Mercedes Streeter

Lee Iacocca is an automotive legend who has just shown up everywhere throughout automotive history. The first Ford Mustang? Iacocca was there. The Chrysler K Car? Iacocca was there. Minivans? Oh, you bet Lee Iacocca was all over it. The hero of Chrysler even tried to work his magic on e-bikes. Now, there’s a new Pope, and we can’t shake the feeling that the new guy looks an awful lot like Iacocca. The comments on our post were great. Canopysaurus:Leo Ima Popa.

5 days ago | theautopian.com | Jason Torchinsky

I feel like we’ve had a lot of papal content here on the site lately, but I’m not sure there’s a way around that? A new pope was just chosen, and that’s big news, and popes have special cars and even right before that we were talking about building cars in the Vatican – it’s just been shockingly pope-heavy around here lately. And as much as I’d like to escape this ecclesiastical hole, it keeps pulling me back in, automotively. You know why?