Jason Torchinsky's posts

I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I tend to have a number of slow-simmering automotive research projects…

When it comes to car dashboards and instrument clusters, a certain amount of standardization has sort of organically…

I really like this picture combination from the 1965 Opel Diplomat brochure because it suggests that our…

I’m not sure if you’ve been keeping up with the news, and if you haven’t, I hate to be the one to break it to you,…

Volkswagen dropped off another car for me to check out, and it came with a full tank of sparky, swirling electrons.…

You may remember last week when I wrote about an absurdly hyperbolic claim of alleged life-saving from a Tesla…

It’s March! Which means we should likely all consider the Nissan March, which is what Nissan called their Micra in…

Remember early this week when that Boeing 777's right-side engine failed, blowing off the entire engine housing and…

The 2021 Volkswagen Arteon feels like one of those car-designers sketches made real, and in a world now mostly…

I’ll be honest, among the vehicles I was expecting to write about in the Year of Our Whomever 2021 I did not…

Man, old Panhards sure were cool. Air-cooled, flat-twin engined sports cars like this CD model. So sleek! They look…

I suppose I may as well start this off with a reminder that no sinister baby-eating organizations are paying me to…

Don’t ever tell me that Rolls-Royce isn’t paying fierce attention to the entire scope of humanity and carefully…

I actually don’t have a goofy joke for today’s picture; I just really liked it, as a piece of commercial art. It has…

I know we’ve been doing a lot about the new mail delivery vehicle, but think about it — this is, more than most new…

It’s not often I want to listen in on anyone’s calls to the insurance company, but I suspect this one would have to…

As an owner/operator of a Nissan Pao, I feel like I’ve earned the right to scrutinize auctions and prices and pass…

Yay, a Metropolitan! But, wait, how did that third person get there? Did they cram in that tiny space behind the…

Today we learned that the venerable Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the nation’s default mail delivery vehicle for over…

We’ve long known that the lovable brainiacs over at JPL and NASA like to hide Easter Eggs and messages in their…