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Donald Trump took a shovel to John DeLorean’s estate

November 13, 2020 Steve 1

“DeLorean spends the rest of his life in and out of court. He declares bankruptcy in 1999. His Bedminster estate is purchased by a Connecticut-based golf-course development partnership, who within two years will sell it […]

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Vulpine: Detroit can force people to buy cars they don’t want

November 6, 2020 Steve 0

“Obviously you can, since the truck I’m driving is pretty close to 20% larger than I wanted, in overall dimensions. Nobody makes a proper ‘small’ truck for the US market as yet and hasn’t done […]

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In 2010 Jim Farley itched to beat up GM

October 30, 2020 Steve 0

“There was a saying going around Ford: GM was like the kid who was born on third base and yells out, ‘Hey, Ma, I hit a triple!’ Farley and his fellow Ford executives and workers […]

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Ralph Nader on Car and Driver magazine vilifying him

October 17, 2020 Steve 0

“Some of the commentary (in the 1960s and early ’70s) was so absurd as to invite permanent satire. Whoever writes the history of this will, I’m sure, be able to comment on how the automotive […]

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Mike Spinelli: Car buff readers can be sanctimonious nitpickers

October 9, 2020 Steve 0

“You know how it is when you are 12 years old and your parents do something that embarrasses you and you unload on them? Some people have never really left that (stage). I think that […]

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Jose Delgadillo: Yesterday’s big Cadillac is today’s big truck?

October 2, 2020 Steve 0

“Today I put on 75 miles driving around the South Bay. What did I see on the road? Expedition after Expedition, Suburban XLs, Escalades, Full size, quad cab pick ups of every marque and plenty […]

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Lucid: Weight and aerodynamics matter as much as advanced batteries

September 25, 2020 Steve 0

“Peter Rawlinson, who led design of the Tesla Model S and is now chief executive of the electric car start-up Lucid, likes to wow audiences by showing up at events dragging a rolling carry-on bag […]

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H. Donald Capps: Severe case of ‘autophobia’ permeates academia

September 18, 2020 Steve 0

“By the end of the twentieth century, the automobile helped transform that century in ways that might have been difficult for those at the beginning of that century to imagine. . . . Yet, there […]

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Prediction from 2015: High tech won’t be reliable

September 4, 2020 Steve 0

“The more electronic stuff automakers put into cars, the more and more people have to treat them like really big cell phones. Show of hands — who WANTS to visit their carrier store? That’s what […]

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Aaron Severson: Packard more salvageable than Studebaker

August 28, 2020 Steve 1

“I do think Packard would have been the more salvageable of the two brands, but Packard was already having trouble making ends meet (which is why they went looking for a merger with another company […]

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    Could Trump’s tariffs force out of the U.S. market 11 car brands?
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    May 7, 2025 17
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    May 6, 2025 17
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    May 5, 2025 10
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    May 2, 2025 5
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    The ‘compact’ 1961-63 Cadillac that went nowhere
    April 30, 2025 17
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    1965-68 GM big cars: The end of different strokes
    April 28, 2025 13
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    Was the 2002-5 Ford Thunderbird two-seater inspired or stupid?
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