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We know how much you loved the Salami Data Shirts, so we figured it’s time to bring yet another monumental piece of merch to you all: a hoodie for your car’s shifter. Priced at $10 a piece or two for $15, you can choose from any of the four colors to make sure your car’s shifter is always decked out in the freshest threads possible. Buy yours today by clicking the link in our bio!⁠ ⁠ 📸: @darkcrustacean taken in Link in Bio by @theautopian
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7 months ago
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History is being made here at The Autopian and we cannot stress this enough how serious we are. Torch just discovered that data can be recorded onto a slice of salami. SALAMI WE SAID! Imagine your car’s ECU running on a deli meat build?! Or using the greasy meat as lubricant as well as a flash drive holding your favorite playlists for the radio?! Read more at the link in our bio! The future of automotive is here y’all. The future is: salami. taken in Link in Bio by @theautopian
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It’s sort of sad to see these random bald guys pull up in their kit cars (Fiero?) attempting to upstage the magnificent CrossCab. by @theautopian
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Man yells at cloud. by @theautopian
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2 days ago
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For decades, Toyota has sold a car that’s more premium and distinguished than even the nicest Lexus sedan. The Century has long represented the pinnacle of Toyota luxury, comfort, and status. It even housed Toyota’s only passenger-car V12 engine. Yet, America was never good enough to have them until they were 25 years old. Reportedly, Toyota is finally changing that, as America is about to officially experience Japan’s Rolls-Royce.⁠ ⁠ Toyota has spent the past several years nurturing the Century into something even bigger than it already was. By 2023, the Century was no longer just a single flagship car, but its lineup had a Century-branded SUV to go with the sedan. Then, Toyota spun the whole thing off as its own independent brand, one that Toyota said was “global” and meant to challenge Bentley and Rolls-Royce.⁠ ⁠ In October 2025, as Century became its own brand, Automotive News confirmed that Toyota had finally decided to bring the Century to America. However, details were scarce, and expectations were that we’d see the cars “within the next several years.” Today, Automotive News has moved up that timeline. Toyota is bringing the Century here in 2028, and when it arrives, it’ll be the flagship that Lexus has been desperately wanting for a while now.⁠ ⁠ And if you aren’t sold on the prospect of a Japanese ultra-luxurious sedan, do yourself a favor and look at the ones they’ve made over the years. If that ain’t a beautiful place to sit down and take a ride, I don't know what is.⁠ ⁠ To learn more about the dawn of a new Century, click this post at the link in our bio 🫡⁠ ⁠ (Photos: Toyota) taken in Link in Bio by @theautopian
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The jumping, flipping, upside-downing Tesla Roadster is officially nuts. More at theautopian.com, now by @theautopian
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3 days ago
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For the past three decades, there’s largely been an unspoken rule with the Porsche model range: No mid-engined car shall surpass the 911 unless it’s totally, completely bonkers. The 911 GT1 Straßenversion, a literal race car for the road? Bonkers. The no-assists banshee-screaming stick-shift Carrera GT? Bonkers. The hybrid all-wheel-drive 918 Spyder? Take a guess. That’s about to change. This is the Porsche Mission S. It’s not a full production car, but instead a glimpse of what’s to come—the first non-limited-production mid-engined car above the 911. Flash back 30 years, and Porsche was in rebuilding mode. After the tides of exchange rates turned and an early ’90s recession further affected sales, a two-pronged plan for survival was put into play. The four-cylinder 968 sports car and eight-cylinder 928 grand tourer were put out to pasture, their aged ’70s bones buried in pursuit of a new strategy: Build the first entirely new 911 since the original, build an entry-level mid-engined sports car beneath it, and have the two share a vast array of components to keep costs low. In 1996, the Boxster entered the world, and its position in the Porsche lineup was cemented. Around the turn of the millennium, calls for a more powerful Boxster were answered by the 3.2-liter S model. Up 49 horsepower over the original 2.5-liter car, this 250-horsepower roadster filled the gap to the 296-horsepower 911, but nothing more. There was no 911-rivalling mid-engined car. Not yet. In 2005, things got even closer with the launch of the Cayman S. Effectively a tin-topped Boxster S, its 295-horsepower 3.4-liter flat-six split the difference between the 280-horsepower 3.2-liter Boxster S and the 325-horsepower 3.6-liter 911 Carrera. At the turn of the 2010s, the Boxster and Cayman gained their first true high-performance trims, the Boxster Spyder and Cayman R. The former made 320 horsepower and the latter 330, both so close to the 997.2 911 Carrera’s 345 horsepower. See where this is going? . . . More at theautopian.com, link in bio by @theautopian
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If you’re wondering where the rest of this apparent Silverado went, it didn’t go anywhere. By design, it was never there in the first place. And if you’re wondering what kind of engine might be under the hood, surprise, you won’t find an engine at all. Not there or anywhere else on the truck, because it’s an EV. And as you have no doubt guessed, there are no accommodations for a driver because it will be unmanned.⁠ ⁠ So what is this thing? You’re looking at GM Defense’s proposed Unmanned Ground Vehicle or UGV, which I sincerely hope will be pronounced “Ugvee.” The UGV’s mission will be “silent logistics” and evacuations, which both sound like great uses for unmanned technology on the battlefield. As our own @hardibro said in Slack, “It’s such a terrible waste to put people in danger to move pallets of shit,” and I can’t see any argument with that. Likewise, anyone in need of evacuation is likely under fire or otherwise in danger, so all the better if they can be rescued without putting other personnel at risk.⁠ ⁠ Tech details from GM Defense are scant beyond the vehicle being based on the Chevy Silverado 3500HD heavy-duty pickup in dually configuration, and built upon “skateboard architecture.” Here’s the entire bit on the truck from the GM Defense release:⁠ ⁠ “GM Defense unveiled its Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) concept, built on a rugged Chevrolet Silverado 3500HD dual-rear-wheel skateboard architecture to support silent logistics and casualty evacuation, with functional trials targeted for 2027.”⁠ ⁠ CarBuzz‘s Ian Wright’s reporting from the UGV’s unveiling offers more tech insight, stating, “The specs show a 100-kWh rechargeable energy-storage system and an 8,000-pound maximum payload.” Motor1 added more detail, noting:⁠ ⁠ “Autonomy comes from Scout AI’s Gx Ground Agent driving system. The display also paired the truck with a LOCUST X3 counter-drone laser weapon and a Squarehead Discovair G2+ acoustic drone-detection sensor.”⁠ ⁠ To learn more about this new ‘truck’ from GM, click this post at the link in our bio 🫡⁠ ⁠ (Photos: GM Defense) taken in Link In Bio by @theautopian
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3 days ago
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Camshafts in cars move intake and exhaust valves up and down. The Kelly Clarkson bird uses one to move wings and chirp in an amazing lifelike way. @davidntracy breaks down how this mechanical bird actually works. by @theautopian
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4 days ago
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This fall, two especially special Honda NSXs have popped up in the automotive media. One is perhaps one of the most important NSX examples ever – it was the car Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One legend and NSX development driver, drove in the early 1990s as his personal car. The other is the Pininfarina-designed, Judd-powered JAS Tensei NSX restomod that strives to be the ultimate development of the first-generation NSX.⁠ ⁠ Senna’s connection to the NSX is thanks to his time with McLaren, which ran Honda V6 Turbos in their F1 cars of the era. With that direct link established between the two, it was only natural that the development of Honda’s new mid-engined sports car would benefit from Senna’s input. ⁠ ⁠ The Brazilian driver talked plenty about wanting a stronger and stiffer chassis among several other things, and he ended up having two NSXs of his own with access to a third owned by a friend. His primary red NSX currently has 39k miles on its odometer, and it’s going to auction in two weeks, with estimates thinking it could go over a million.⁠ ⁠ Fast forward to the NSX of today, and there’s a restomod built by an Italian company called JAS Motorsport. JAS has been building competition Hondas such as the second-gen NSX GT3 racing car, so it knows Hondas and the mentality behind the NSX, and daringly it has chosen to improve on the 1991-2005 original. The resulting car was shown this week at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, and it’s even got a beautiful modern rendition of pop-up headlights that are worth celebrating 👀⁠ ⁠ The car, named Tensei for “rebirth” in Japanese, has been created to show what the first-gen NSX would have developed into, were it made today. This means body panels crafted completely from carbon fiber, with the A and B pillars and the central tunnel of the original chassis strengthened with carbon Kevlar. With Pininfarina let loose on the exterior design, the Tensei still looks like an NSX, with the glasshouse identical, just with a more muscular cyberpunk body.⁠ ⁠ To learn more about the two new NSXs, click this post at the link in our bio 🫡⁠ ⁠ (Photos: JAS Motorsport, RM Sotheby's, Photo by Ercole Colombo via RM Sotheby’s) taken in Link In Bio by @theautopian
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4 days ago
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One of my favorites at this year’s Galpin Car Show…the GT51, better known as the Wicked Shoebox! Our team from the Autopian got to talk with the owner and take a closer look at this incredible Ford. Porsche racer and team owner Bruce Leven dreamed of a Ford coupe built to race in Europe in the 1950s. Through six years of design and craftsmanship it was finally brought to life. From its reshaped body to the little semaphore turn signals that pop out behind the doors, there is so much to appreciate. Bruce never got to drive it as he passed away. Seeing his dream preserved and shared with fellow car lovers makes having it at our show even more special! #galpin #ford #porsche #carshow #lincolncontinental taken in Galpin Motors by @theautopian
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A bit over a week ago, Fiat teased a new concept that would mark the Multipla’s return to the limelight – for the second time, if you also count the tiny Multiplina concept that the Italian carmaker touted a while ago. The Multipla is Fiat’s multi-purpose vehicle, originally manufactured in two forms: initially, the 1956-1967 “minivan” version of the Fiat 600 platform with up to six seats, and the late 1990s bulging 3+3 wagon with a very weird modular design.⁠ ⁠ Fiat only described the Multiplay concept with a tiny logo, combining those two vehicles, and mentioned that it would have “an ingenious mechanism (that) enables the vehicle to switch from one configuration to the other in just a few movements.” Now, Fiat has shown the concept at the Paris motor show, and boy, is it wacky. ⁠ ⁠ The Multiplay concept has a wide, round light pattern from one side mirror to the other, Geordi La Forge style, with a large Fiat logo in front of the front passenger. A pair of C-shaped DRLs are shaped into the front bumper, on both sides of a huge MULTIPLAY logo.⁠ ⁠ While the original Multipla wasn’t offered in crossover form, the design has been translated into something chunky, with unpainted black plastic surrounding the wheelarches. The moon-buggy looks are complemented with big four-spoke wheels, which at least are a big plus.⁠ ⁠ Offering a different approach to a “modular” design, the Multiplay’s trick also justifies the wordplay in its name. The rear section of the roof slides back and forth, from a full long-roof wagon length to a shorter pick-up variant, leaving the rear deck in the open if necessary.⁠ When the roof is moved forward, the rearmost seats stack up, and the car becomes a four-seater, with the C and D pillars joining neatly.⁠ ⁠ The rearmost side windows slide down into the quarter panels, a feature not often seen in any production passenger cars except a Japan-market Nissan Cedric station wagon, and that had the window behind the rear wheel, not above it. As the roof moves forward, it reveals a flexible bed cover.⁠ ⁠ To learn more about the new Multiplay, click this post at the link in our bio 🫡⁠ ⁠ (Photos: Fiat) taken in Link in Bio by @theautopian
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