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Home2022

Year: 2022

1971 AMC Gremlin X rear close
Editor's Note

If you are new here, why is this website so . . . different?

April 24, 2022 Steve 2

Daniel Strohl (2022) over at Hemmings has kindly shared a link to our AMC Gremlin story. This has resulted in a wave of new readers. If you are among them, welcome to Indie Auto. Do […]

History

Four reasons why the AMC Gremlin was a bad idea

April 20, 2022 Steve 13

(UPDATED FROM 4/20/2022) The AMC Gremlin may be one of the most memorable cars of the 1970s, but it was a bad idea for four often-forgotten reasons. I grant you that what I am about […]

1969 Pontiac GTOs ad
Quotes

So what exactly is a ‘muscle car,’ anyway?

April 18, 2022 Steve 5

“For this writer, the Pontiac GTO not only defines the genre (it was a mid-size or intermediate body), but also the beginning and end of the Muscle Car Era; 1964-1974. Some might argue that the […]

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Automotive Views: Honda’s 2023 HR-V shows the future of US small cars

April 14, 2022 Steve 0
Quotes

What Bill Mitchell didn’t like about John Z. DeLorean

April 6, 2022 Steve 5

“I didn’t like his aloof egotism. He’d sit in a meeting and open his briefcase and brush his hair, and he’d dress floozy, you know, and he called us the establishment. He was a queer […]

A Baruthosaurus at the keyboard
Media Analysis

Successful automotive journalists need to master these two rules

April 4, 2022 Steve 0

(ORIGINALLY POSTED 5/24/2014) Many are called but few are chosen to be professional automotive writers. Some things you can’t control, like technological change and media consolidation. However, aspiring writers can increase their odds of success by […]

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Automotive Views: Texas campaign against ‘Sunday Ethanolism’ advances

April 2, 2022 Steve 0
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Links

Stan Mott’s life of creative risk taking could get you thinking

March 31, 2022 Steve 4

Dean’s Garage has posted an autobiographical essay by Stan Mott (2022) in the wake of his recent death at the age of 89. His story illustrates how the creative spirit that draws designers to the […]

Quotes

GM set its prices for a 25-percent return on investment in 1950s

March 30, 2022 Steve 2

“But if its return on investment averaged 25 percent for 1950 through 1955, well above the corporation’s target and the highest return in American industry, why couldn’t General Motors reduce the prices on its cars, […]

Links to automotive websites
Links

Jack Baruth’s Riverside Green blog shows the decline of a once-promising writer

March 29, 2022 Steve 1

Whatever else one might say about Jack Baruth, his writing stands out among American automotive journalists. As a case in point, who else had the journalistic courage to offer a trenchant critique of David E. Davis […]

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