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Home2021February

Month: February 2021

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Letters to the Editor

Preserving web-based automotive history is important

February 26, 2021 Steve 1

The following letter is from rivguy: This is a response to a four-year-old post (go here), and happily the Curbside Classic site is still alive and well. I discovered CC over six years ago. At […]

Automotive News shows its bias
Media Analysis

Automotive News backtracks on shift to electric vehicles

February 26, 2021 Steve 0

The editorial board of Automotive News sounds schizoid. Earlier this year an unsigned editorial argued that the “debate over the wisdom of converting the world’s automotive fleet from fossil fuels to electrical propulsion is now […]

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Current Events

How would you save the Chrysler brand?

February 12, 2021 Steve 6

Jalopnik recently took a walk on the clickbaity side by asking readers how they would save Chrysler: The brand. The post by Rory Carroll (2021) elicited the usual range of responses, from earnestly mundane to […]

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Readings

Patrick Foster’s George Romney bio is rose-tinted but valuable

February 12, 2021 Steve 1

Patrick Foster (2005) once lamented that he couldn’t find a publisher for a book on George Romney. “A typical rejection goes something like this: George Romney led an exemplary life, was honest in business, never […]

Quotes
Quotes

‘Doling out progress at the minimum possible rate’

February 12, 2021 Steve 0

“The US auto industry has been perhaps the best example of a sector falling into a rut and doling out progress at the minimum possible rate for at least 30 years. It’s criminal IMO that […]

Quotes
Quotes

Keith Bradsher: ‘Extreme users’ in auto media have driven SUV design

February 5, 2021 Steve 0

“Even some auto executives and engineers complain that media comparisons of off-road driving capabilities have put pressure on them to design ever taller vehicles with ever more expensive four-wheel-drive systems that almost nobody needs. In […]

Automotive News shows its bias
Media Analysis

Automotive News stops dragging its knuckles on climate change

February 5, 2021 Steve 0

A recent Automotive News editorial (2020) flatly declared that the planet “is warming at a dangerous rate, and the global auto industry has a major role to play in fixing the problem.” Another unsigned editorial […]

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Auto Paedia

Counterfactuals and whether AMC had a chance of survival

February 5, 2021 Steve 4

(UPATED 3/9/2023) A few years ago Lotus Rebel (2021) drew upon our AMC Pacer story to suggest alternative approaches for that car’s design in a comment at Ate Up With Motor. That website’s publisher, Aaron […]

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