Transcultural Automobilities reads contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural, global perspective. It is one of the first studies to understand the genre as global and posits that the road narrative’s geographical spread requires new theoretical approaches that do not relate the genre to America or American hegemony. Indeed, road narratives show that driving a car is both a universal experience and a specific one, informed by the socio-cultural and political context in which it takes place. Moreover, in the realm of the imagination, narratives of automobility produce new ideas, narratives and imagined experiences in relation to driving. This is particularly the case at a time when cars are embroiled in debates around fossil-fuel consumption. My study of contemporary Anglophone road narratives moves beyond a “methodological nationalism” (Beck, Theory, Culture & Society 24: 286–290, 2007)—dominating studies of the genre so far—and outlines how the concept of “transcultural automobilities” enables such a move beyond established methodologies to more adequately grapple with the cultural complexities of twenty-first-century automobilities.