Jason Torchinsky's posts

I’m guessing by now you’ve heard that carmakers have had to slow down or in some cases even stop production because…

Oh boy! It’s April Fools’ Day! That one day of the year where all the companies get to say fake things and get big…

To all my autojourno pals whining about getting taken in by Volkswagen’s clumsy gag about changing their name to…

If you’ve been paying any attention to the news lately, I’m sure you’ve seen some references to people freaking out…

Have I mentioned before how much I love that feeling of learning some new weird detail about a car? I love it. I…

I’m an owner/operator of a human child, and his long, frankly pretty unsuccessful experiment in remote learning is…

This 1967 Audi brochure has some novel page-layout work, and, more importantly, gives the holder something that…

SpaceX’s latest test of their prototype Starship upper stage came to an exciting and unfortunately familiar end…

As I suspect you’ve heard, Volkswagen of America is claiming that they’ll be changing their name to Voltswagen of…

I’m back! Yesterday I took the kid up to Duncan Imports to look at a bunch of cars, among which was this amazing…

So yesterday I did a little contest thing to identify air-cooled boxer engines, and I accidentally included one from…

Guess what? It’s the first Thursday of Spring! You know what that means, right? Of course you do: it’s the day we…

I wouldn’t call what’s happening a meltdown exactly, maybe more of a collective moment of clarity. Right now on Reddi…

Some cars have become so iconic that you kind of forget what they actually look like, and I think the Cobra, with…

Dodge seems to have decided that if its customers paid good money for their cars, maybe they should actually get to…

Tesla’s user experience team seems to really have it in for the traditional way cars are put into gear. Or, really,…

You know how you can take any ratty Porsche 911, slap on some big tires, a bunch of driving lights, and a bit of…

Quick, when you think of what makes a given area of land in America a viable state, what comes to mind first? A…

I think one of my favorite states of mind is something I call appreciative bafflement: A state of confusion so deep…

Everything about this old Lancia Flavia ad looks like that guy was instructed to meet the Flavia down by the river…