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MH Rowe

This Is So Stupid

CarJitsu Is Precisely As Dumb As It Sounds

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

GRIMSBY, ENGLAND - JUNE 28: An aerial view of imported new cars on the quayside of Alexandra Dock at Grimsby Port on June 28, 2025 in Grimsby, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Life Lessons

Want To Buy A Car? Be Ready To Suffer

Tom Ley

Jamboroo

I Have Developed An Unexpected And Revelatory Bond With My Car

Former Defector intern, now freelancer.
For professional inquiries or tips please write lucybl00m@protonmail.com or yuck.20 on Signal.
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Lucy Bloom

You Can’t Be Too Careful

A family group shot of three children, two women and a cigarette smoking man gathered around and standing on top of a car roof parked on an wide street, several houses in the background, America, circa 1925.

History

A People’s History Of Climbing On Cars

Heather Chen is a former Defector intern and the managing editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator. She loves hockey, photography, and the good ol’ state of Michigan.

Heather Wei-Xi Chen

DETROIT, MI - SEPTEMBER 14: A worker cleans a RAM truck at the 2022 North American International Auto Show on September 14, 2022 in Detroit, Michigan.The NAIAS opens to the public on September 17 and features the latest state of the art electric vehicles, vehicle rides, the world’s first battery-powered Monster Truck, an Air Mobility Experience featuring flight demonstrations of jet suits, hoverboards, and vertical take-off and landing aircraft, a Dinosaur Encounter featuring 80 life-like and life-size dinosaurs, and the world’s largest rubber duck. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Arts And Culture

The Detroit Auto Show Used To Be The Future

LAS VEGAS, USA - JANUARY 06: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, showcasing the company's latest innovations in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on January 6, 2025. At the event, Huang unveiled advanced AI for training robots and cars, enhanced gaming chips, and Nvidia's first desktop computer, while also detailing how the company was expanding its data center AI technology to consumer PCs and laptops.

Funbag

AI Learned It By Watching You

I Am The Passenger Now

Voiture 4x4 de marque Jeep Cherokee à Tignes, France.

Let’s Remember Our Cars

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

Nicholas Russell

End of life petrol and diesel cars and vans are piled on top of one another as they wait to be recycled in a car scrapyard on November 29, 2022 in Glastonbury, England. The UK scraps over one million cars a year and many more petrol and diesel cars will need to be taken off the road if the Government is to reach its target for the number of electric cars to be reached.

Mods Asleep

I Will Drive This Fucked-Up Car Until One Of Us Dies

Aaron Gordon is a reporter covering transportation, infrastructure, and the environment. Most recently, he was a senior staff writer at Motherboard, VICE News’s tech and science website.

Aaron Gordon

A general overall aerial view of Arrowhead Stadium on December 25, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Soccer

The Good, The Bad, And The Unreachable: A World Cup Transit Report Ranking

In this photo taken on September 11, 2023, BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship are stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port at Suzhou Port, in China's eastern Jiangsu Province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Which Automaker Has The Ugliest Cars?

Alex Pareene

White blossoms covering a tree branch with a line of cars slowly driving on a road in the background.

Life's Rich Pageant

People Who Caused Traffic Nightmare At Pretty Tree Festival Complain Of Traffic Nightmare At Pretty Tree Festival

Giri Nathan

Daryl Morey smiles at a Sixers press conference.

Daryl Morey Has An Alarming Relationship With Cars

Should Cars Have Another Horn In The Back? (No.)

David Roth

The McLaren pit crew gets ready for a driver during the Miami Formula One Grand Prix.

Podcasts

Porpoising In The Speed Zone, With Luis Paez-Pumar

Jack Crosbie

We Have Confirmed That Headlights Are In Fact Too Bright

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

Politics

Which U.S. Presidents Could Parallel Park? An Investigation

Staff Writer
Find me on Signal @DefectorChris.19

Chris Thompson

A drawing of Giannis cleaning the windshield from the interior of the car.

Just How Much Of The Exterior Of A 1997 Subaru Outback Could Giannis Clean From The Passenger Seat? A Scientific Inquiry

Patrick Redford

Sports Highlight Of The Day

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Belgian Guy Parking His Car

Albert Burneko

The Telsa Cybertruck is on display at the recently reopened Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, July 1, 2020. - California Governor Gavin Newsom announced July 1, 2020 that the state would be shutting down indoor operations for restaurants, zoos, museums and several other sectors effective immediately due to concerns over the recent spike in COVID-19 cases. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)