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Corporate focus on making money is myopic

November 27, 2018 Steve 0

“An industrial company that sees its primary focus as making money rather than making good products, is not going to make good products. ‘Their obligation is 100% to their shareholders’ is not a law of […]

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AMC: The ‘mother’ of flexible manufacturing

October 14, 2018 Steve 0

“AMC could be regarded as the mother of ‘flexabile manufacturing’ due to the wide variety of products, with limited facilities to build them. I took a tour of Kenosha assembly in 75. As I recall, […]

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Bob Lutz: Elon Musk is ‘tired,’ ‘volatile and unstable’

August 28, 2018 Steve 0

“I think Elon is tired. He’s worn out. He’s obviously got some emotional problems. He’s self medicating. He has shown some disturbing signs of being somewhat volatile and unstable. I think the right solution for […]

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Why younger people are keeping their vehicles longer

August 10, 2018 Steve 0

“Welcome to not being a baby boomer. car, house, retirement, savings. pick three.” — Jon368, Car and Driver commentator (2018) “You missed experience (travel, going out with friends, even the humble kick back costs, etc). […]

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Financial illiteracy among car buyers is ‘staggering’

July 20, 2018 Steve 0

“Those of y’all who live and breathe cars, and are fairly well versed in other fields, have absolutely no idea how an absolutely astonishing number of people actually buy things. Some years ago, my cousin […]

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Can a visionary like Musk execute at scale?

June 6, 2018 Steve 0

“This is no longer an innovation problem, this is an execution at scale problem — unless Tesla wants to be a niche innovator chasing profitability and sucking up cash. They need to become experts at […]

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Modern cars all look just the same

May 31, 2018 Steve 1

“I’ve been a ‘car nut’ for nearly 60 years and while I have always told folks that I don’t care for most cars built before WW II, I feel quite depressed that we have reached […]

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Should the Lincoln Continental get suicide doors?

March 27, 2018 Steve 0

“Suicide doors didn’t make the Lincoln cool. It was already cool. The doors made it even more cool. You can’t relive the past. Come up with something new. An all new cool that hasn’t been […]

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Peter Horbury: Electrics can look different

February 25, 2018 Steve 0

“I’m of the opinion that because you can make it different, because the electric powertrain gives other possibilities (you should). And I think Jaguar showed it beautifully with the I-Pace — where the front end […]

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Somewhere on the Internet a top-design list is wrong

December 10, 2017 Steve 0

“Any failure to mention the 1953 Cadillac Eldorado convertible is reprehensible.” — Stephen Smith, The Daily Drive

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