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Year: 2021
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Proposed car designs, auto history timeline and old magazines
You’ll find a number of new links in our Bibliography. The most recent add is a Facebook page called Cars: Design & Style. It mainly posts illustrations of proposed models. There is less commentary than […]
Quotes
A Zen answer to the question, ‘Are cars still getting better?’
“To go all Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on your happy ass: is better, better? Because if getting the most technology, the strongest brakes, the best NVH, the lowest coefficient of drag, and the best fit […]
Current Events
Why are Automotive News’ comment threads so terrible?
A recent Automotive News (2021a) comment thread adds to the impression that the publication is not very concerned that it is fueling fact-challenged polarization. Why wouldn’t “the nation’s pre-eminent newspaper covering the automotive industry” possess […]
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Letters to the Editor
Mid-50s Packard design fit the space-age-inspired times
This letter is a response to our story, “The 1955 Packard’s styling was an evolutionary dead end.” Your need to read more thoroughly what actually happened in the mid-1950s. In that era, Cadillac was the […]
Letters to the Editor
Excessive styling may not be right approach for minivans
The following letter is in response to our story, “2018 Honda Odyssey: Somebody’s going to hell.” It appears that the Japanese manufacturers have decided to produce the “expressive” models of minivans. Honda to greater degree […]
Letters to the Editor
Indie Auto seems to apply today’s sensibilities to 1966 Toronado
This letter is in response to our story, “1966 Oldsmobile Toronado: Just another shiny thing from General Motors.” Your analysis is just flat wrong! Our next door neighbors bought a new Toronado in 1966. It […]
Design Notes
2014-18 Corvette taillights: A veritable petting zoo on wheels?
(UPDATED FROM 7/15/2018) In taking a few quick photos of the final rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, I was reminded of an article about its chief designer. Shortly after the C7 Corvette was introduced, Tom Peters […]
Quotes
David Halberstam: Why Bunkie Knudsen ‘never had a chance at Ford’
“Bunkie Knudsen never had a chance at Ford. It was not that he lacked the skill to handle the job; indeed, that was something that almost never came up. It was that Ford was so […]