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2022 Toyota Sienna taillight
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Why is the Toyota Sienna minivan’s styling out of this world?

May 3, 2026 Steve 9

(UPDATED FROM 3/4/2024) AUTOMOTIVE VIEWS NEWSWIRE — It’s no accident that the Toyota Sienna minivan stands out from the crowd when it comes to styling. Disturbed by declining sales, the automaker decided to give it […]

1972 Chevrolet Camaro front quarter
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Declassified 1970s documents spark debate among auto historians

April 1, 2025 Steve 4

(UPDATED FROM 3/30/2023) Newly declassified intelligence documents show how a crash program by American automakers to switch to eggcrate grilles for their 1972-73 models thwarted a space alien invasion. The strategy worked so well that […]

Tumwater cemetery at dawn
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Indie Auto receives an email from God Himself

January 22, 2025 Steve 9

Indie Auto gets all kinds of emails, but until today we have never received one from God. As you might imagine, this email has some exceptional qualities. For one thing, it is unusually long — […]

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Hotcars.com offers brilliant assessment of why the AMX didn’t sell very well

January 6, 2025 Steve 1

Us boomers can wax nostalgic about the great automotive journalists of the past. However, right under our noses a new generation is coming into its own that — truth be told — is even better […]

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Auto blinders (or peepers): How they improve the human condition

December 19, 2024 Steve 5

(EXPANDED FROM 5/26/2021) Automotive blinders, also known as auto peepers, are the narrowing of windows between the C- and D-pillars of vehicles. This design feature blocks a driver’s rearward vision, which assists in human population […]

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Jaguar Type 00’s design masterfully cures Great Britain’s ‘industrial disease’

December 9, 2024 Steve 5

Jaguar has been heavily criticized for a rebranding effort that has culminated in the unveiling of the Type 00 concept car. While I get that complainers will complain, somebody needs to cut through the noise […]

Would you pick the 1970 Ford Falcon
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If you had to pick one . . . ?

April 1, 2024 Steve 4

The year 1970 was a particularly good one if you fancied ‘rithmetic. Take this Ford Falcon Futura Club Coupe — it saves money in so many ways. Yet you don’t have to give up spaciousness […]

1950 Studebaker Champion convertible
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1950-51 Studebaker was ‘pinnacle of postwar styling’ that could have saved automaker

January 8, 2024 Steve 13

Now that The Truth About Cars is publishing stories developed with artificial intelligence, Indie Auto has no choice but to keep up with the competition. We have thus created a new feature called “The AI […]

Parking lot in Olympia, Washington circa 2015
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VIP SURVEY: What do you see here?

March 7, 2022 Steve 4

(UPDATED FROM 10/1/2019) We asked the above question to the most powerful people we know in and around the automobile industry and media. The photograph shows a parking lot in Olympia, Washington, circa 2015. Here are […]

1974 AMC Matador and Richard Teague
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The untold story of how Dick Teague designed the 1974 AMC Matador coupe

October 4, 2021 Steve 3

Dick Teague nervously checked his fly and centered his tie as he heard the entourage of AMC executives march down the hallway toward his design studio. He’d made many presentations over two decades but had […]

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    Tatra was yet another automaker that deemphasized aerodynamics by 1970s
    May 22, 2026 12
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    May 13, 2026 5
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