(UPDATED FROM 12/8/2021) Did Ford make the right move by pulling the plug on a US-built subcompact slated to be introduced in the fall of 1962? The car, initially called the Cardinal but later renamed […]
MH dropped a note to Indie Auto about the 1961 Dodge, perhaps in response to our article, “Chrysler’s collapse in premium-priced field was a bigger deal than Edsel’s.” Not much is written about the 1961 […]
“Mobility is as much about freedom and new vistas as it is about capitalism or the free market, and the young were taking up the former while the elder worried about the latter. Mobility in […]
Automotive News’ obituary of Gerald C. Meyer treated his tenure at American Motors with kid gloves. Meyers died on June 19 at the age of 94. Presenting a largely upbeat narrative would make sense if […]
That was the question Frank Aberdene kept on asking his colleagues. The way he remembers it, the ad campaign for the 1978 Lincoln Versailles was the toughest one he had ever worked on. The problem […]
I have lived almost all of my life on the West Coast so occasionally have to remind myself that it can be meaningfully different than the rest of the country when it comes to automotive […]
Peter DeLorenzo (2023a) recently made a big deal about how he supposedly transformed the automotive media. He argued that “the key differentiator for me was that I didn’t care about access, because I not only […]
A key way that American Motors was able to afford fielding both a compact and mid-sized platform in the mid-1960s was by sharing an unusual number of body parts. However, as Car Life noted below, […]
At the risk of disrupting an active comment thread, I would like to elevate to the front page a response by Peter Wilding to our story, “U.S. cars often suffered from weak styling continuity and […]
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