Steph Willems (2018) has joined the “they’re coming for our performance cars!” scare campaign. Much like a recent column by Keith Crain, Willems is vague about how this imagined dystopia shows up except to say […]
If you are fascinated by streamlined cars of the Depression era and in the Portland, Oregon area this summer, you may enjoy seeing the “The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930-1942.” The Portland Art […]
“Those of y’all who live and breathe cars, and are fairly well versed in other fields, have absolutely no idea how an absolutely astonishing number of people actually buy things. Some years ago, my cousin […]
Sometimes harried automotive writers have to scratch the outer reaches of their creativity to come up with an engaging story angle. As a case in point, consider Matt Posky’s (2018) take on Nissan’s production of […]
A Ford executive recently told Automotive News that the Fusion sedan’s forthcoming discontinuance was the result of a “breathtaking” decline in the mid-sized sedan segment that has “accelerated over the past couple years” (Martinez, 2018). In […]
The headline may seem overly dramatic. After all, ugly car design doesn’t have nearly the negative consequences of, say, melting the polar ice caps. However, visual blight has been proven to increase the incidence of […]
In his rousing introduction to Auto Extremist’s annual “Brand Image Meter,” Peter DeLorenzo (2018) argues that “image wrangling is now the Number 1 priority in this business.” The reason is that a “democratization of technology […]
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