Thomas Hundal
Thomas Hundal is an enthusiast-focused automotive journalist whose coverage combines deep mechanical insight with a sharp eye for design and oddball cars. He writes regularly for The Autopian, where he brings chassis detail, driving feel, and tasteful or outrageous styling choices to the foreground of his stories. His work stands out for its blend of technical fluency and playful, highly specific description, anchored by hands-on experience with performance-oriented cars.
Enthusiast Reviews And Driving Detail
At The Autopian, Hundal is a daily contributor responsible for a steady stream of car reviews and feature pieces. His reviews lean heavily on driving dynamics and mechanical character, reflecting a background of writing about cars professionally and spending substantial time behind the wheel of performance-oriented machinery.
In the car reviews section, he tackles modern enthusiast models such as the Ford Mustang GT FX Convertible, framing the experience in terms of how a car shapes everyday life and evokes specific eras, in this case a vaguely ’90s-tinged staycation. Across these pieces, he focuses on how chassis tuning, powertrain choices, and transmission setups translate into real-world enjoyment, informed by his own manual-gearbox sports cars and interest in track use and wrenching.
The tone is informal but precise, with attention to details like steering feel, ride quality, and the way a car’s personality emerges over time.
Design, Art Cars, And Tasteful Modifications
A defining strand of Hundal’s work is his attention to styling, proportion, and the line between tasteful modification and outright weirdness. In a piece on the designer of the new Mini reworking the BMW M5 Touring, he focuses on how subtle redesign choices can make an already powerful wagon look far more restrained and coherent, treating aesthetics as seriously as performance.
His article on Jeremy Clarkson’s last Grand Tour car dissects mid-engined proportions and Paolo Martin’s styling, breaking down how borrowed elements from models like the Ferrari 308 and Lancia Delta Integrale combine into a cohesive semi-exotic without losing practicality.
He highlights specific details - taillights, exhaust tips, seats, steering wheels - and judges whether each change enhances both usability and visual appeal, describing some modifications as “well-judged” and “correct, comfortable, tasteful.” In his coverage of Lexus’s MOTOMORPHOSIS project with MSCHF, he leans into the bizarre, explaining circular and helical Lexus art cars as sculptures that deliberately break the rules of what a car has to be, while still cataloguing the structural and design logic that makes them work as objects. Taken together, these stories show a consistent interest in design experiments, art cars, and the boundary where creative reimagining becomes either inspired or indulgent.
News Roundups And Industry Coverage
Beyond reviews and design pieces, Hundal contributes to The Autopian’s ongoing news and analysis streams. His work is prominent in recurring formats such as The Morning Dump, where articles collect multiple industry developments into digestible, conversational roundups. Within these, he tracks mainstream manufacturers, niche projects, and electric vehicles, with frequent coverage attached to tags like Tesla and Nissan that signal attention to both mass-market brands and the EV transition. The stories often sit in the site’s featured category, indicating that his news coverage is central to the masthead’s daily output rather than occasional sidebars. His approach in these pieces is to connect corporate decisions, new models, and policy shifts back to how they will affect enthusiasts and everyday drivers, maintaining the same clear, accessible tone he uses in reviews.
Freelance Work Across Automotive Outlets
Hundal’s work extends beyond The Autopian, where he is a core contributor, into a broader freelance portfolio.
Professional bios and outlet author pages list bylines at TractionLife, AutoGuide, and The National Post, with earlier work noted at DoubleClutch.ca. Across these publications, he is described as an automotive journalist obsessed with almost everything on four wheels, from track driving and tire-shredding to long-term wrenching on well-used cars. His roles include serving on the board of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada and judging for the Canadian Car of the Year program, positioning him as both a working reviewer and a formal evaluator of new vehicles.
This combination of freelance breadth and professional committee work reinforces a coverage style that treats enthusiast fun, everyday usability, and critical assessment as parts of the same job.
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