Skip To Main Content
Jason Torchinsky on Muck Rack

Jason Torchinsky

As seen in: The Autopian, MSN, Yahoo Entertainment, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, Gizmodo, Gizmodo en Español, New York Post, The Atlantic, Quartz Weekly Obsession and
Hello! I'm the co-founder of car website theautopian.com! Also, I'm an affable dipshit. Ask me about taillights! You'll regret it, a bit!
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Jason

Contact Jason, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

China Is Kicking Our Asses In The Full Size Cars Made Of Burnable Paper Market

|
By Jason Torchinsky
| The Autopian
There’s a global war happening, and we are losing. Well, I guess “we” is only relevant if you’re not from China, specifically from the Chinese paper company Dachanglong Paper Company (大昌隆紙號), who seem to be the dominant global leader in close-to-full-size cars made of paper designed to be burned in accordance with traditional Chinese worship and mourning rites and rituals, part of a larger category of papercraft known as Joss paper.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

These Pictures Of The Super Beetle’s Trunk Show How Proud VW Was Of Their Grand Achivement

|
By Jason Torchinsky
| The Autopian
For reasons only understandable to myself, my now-disbarred therapist (I’m not even certain that therapists have to pass a bar exam? It’s possible she was a lawyer, which would explain a lot, though not why she was able to prescribe medicine that she made herself in the back of her Econoline) and my former rabbi, I have an unusual appreciation of ads and press photographs of Volkswagen Beetle trunks, especially the ones from Super Beetles.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

How This Old VW Ad Made Me Realize We Aren’t Panicked Enough About AI

|
By Jason Torchinsky
| The Autopian
I know we’ve talked a lot about AI here on the Autopian before, and I’m sure you’ve heard our commitment to not use any AI to replace actual writing or art or anything like that. We have many reasons for this – AI is not sentient, has no idea what it’s like to drive, to own a car, to care about a car, to get its fingers mangled when trying to release one of those awful springy hose clamps with needlenose pliers – but mostly it’s a choice, and a pushback against the increasing amount of AI slop.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 8,278 licensed articles (8,292 Total)