Matt Hardigree is the Publisher of The Autopian, where he covers a wide range of topics related to the automotive industry. With a focus on car news, reviews, and analysis, Matt provides readers with insights into the latest trends and developments in the world of automobiles.
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By: Matt Hardigree
The extremely generous and hospitable folks at Hagerty invited me out to Lime Rock Park to watch them put together this year’s Bull Market list. If you’re not familiar, this is when the company’s data geeks and journos get together to decide which cars might be a “good buy” right now. The goal isn’t to […]
By: Matt Hardigree
It might be hard to be a mainstream European automaker, but it ain’t so bad if you make so few cars you can charge double the MSRP cost for a ‘customized’ version. This is the world Rolls-Royce wants to enter as it doubles down on extravagance. Can you have whatever you want? According to the […]
By: Matt Hardigree
New cars have gotten unnecessarily expensive and this is keeping a lot of buyers on the sidelines. Given that new cars have an average transaction price approaching $50,000, it sometimes feels like there are no good deals to be had. That’s not entirely true. If you want an affordable, gas-sipping car and are a little […]
By: Matt Hardigree
The board of creeky global automaker Stellantis is meeting in New York this week and I wrote this morning that “I don’t see a version of this meeting that doesn’t end with someone losing their job.” We’ve now got the full list, and it starts at the top with the ‘retirement’ of Carlos Tavares, pictured […]
Last night was a bit of a blur. There was the Cybercab liveblog. Stellantis shook up its own leadership, but kept Carlos Tavares around for a little bit longer. Toyota returned to F1. I drank what I thought was a peppermint tea but was actually a laxative tea. It was like we had the Morning […]
By: Matt Hardigree
General Motors gets a lot of blame for killing the electric car in 1999 after it abandoned and then destroyed most copies of its groundbreaking GM EV1 electric car. Celebrities like Danny DeVito and, especially, Ed Begley, Jr. got upset that they had to return their vehicles and made a big public spectacle of GM’s […]
By: Matt Hardigree
There are many reasons I might not envy the average Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram dealership right now. With the highest inventories and the weakest products, there isn’t a lot of room to improve. It’s even worse for the customers who “took a bath on their last vehicle” and are now entirely stuck. The shortage-fueled sugar high that Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge/Ram […]
By: Matt Hardigree
It's possible that the Tesla Cybercab is exactly the right form factor and technology to skip ahead of Waymo and Cruise to overtake the robotaxi market. A bet against Elon Musk isn't always one that pays off. If the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, a near-third is probably government regulation. How, exactly, is Musk going to clear that inevitability?
If you didn't grow up in Texas, you might take the “everything's bigger in Texas” bit as a joke. I can assure you that it is no joke. Endowed with wide open spaces and an indefatigable desire to be noticed, there's a certain type of Texan who sees it as their duty to achieve the maximum. Few places embrace this bigness better than the Buc-cee's chain of gas stations.
By: Matt Hardigree
Here's a wild stat to start out the day: There are 41 plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models on sale in the United States. You know how many regular hybrid (HEV) models there are? Just 39. And, yet, HEVs are dramatically outselling PHEVs, as are electric cars. What's the deal?
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