This chapter provides the theoretical framework for engaging with transcultural automobilities, challenging the understanding of the road narrative as an American genre. Drawing on research in (literary) mobility studies, it highlights how literary scholarship can enrich mobility studies and vice versa. It further elucidates the advantages of a transcultural approach to automobilities (2.1). This chapter also presents a synthesis of key findings from the literary corpus in light of how road narratives are changing in the twenty-first century, highlighting two exemplary partial universalisms: the GPS system and environmental concerns. Building on these, it closes with a discussion of aesthetic strategies employed to imagine automobilities in the twenty-first century (2.2).