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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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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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Peter DeLorenzo: Auto journalism is a pay-to-play-for-access game

August 14, 2020 Steve 0

“I believe that the glaring sameness of the so-called ‘enthusiast’ car mags is still there and it’s still highly annoying. And there’s no denying that the days for the hard-copy print mags are severely numbered, and when […]

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Ford should not have killed the Thunderbird nameplate

August 7, 2020 Steve 0

“The Thunderbird is a storied Franchise with more equity than many other old nameplates. Why Ford allows T-Bird awareness to seep away from American consciousness while Chevy introduces its 8th Corvette is beyond me. By […]

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The crucial difference between access and accountability journalism

July 31, 2020 Steve 0

“These are two different views of journalism’s very purpose, forever in competition for status, resources, and power. These approaches require different skills, different practices, and different sources, and produce radically different representations of reality. Access […]

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Should Richard Teague have walked away from American Motors?

July 10, 2020 Steve 0

“I went to American Motors as assistant director of styling in September 1959. I saw the ’60 Rambler, and I almost walked out the front door. It looked like it was chiseled out of marble […]

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Peter DeLorenzo: Stop 84-month auto financing

May 21, 2020 Steve 1

“I would like to see the end of usurious financing in the auto industry. I know, good luck with that. Every time this business faces a crisis, the auto manufacturers somehow deem that the return of […]

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You didn’t mess with spy photographer Jim Dunne

August 25, 2019 Steve 0

“’He could be really helpful, but he could also be hyper-competitive,’ added John McElroy, who often had Dunne on his TV show, Autoline:Detroit. ‘He was hyper-competitive and never wanted anyone muscling in on his gig,’ […]

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