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1960s
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Brock Yates called postwar U.S. auto leaders ‘Grosse Pointe myopians’
(EXPANDED FROM 11/1/2018) “Grosse Pointe myopians” is a pejorative term that automotive journalist Brock Yates (2018) gave to the management class of U.S. automakers in an essay published in the April 1968 issue of Car […]
History
1968-70 Dodge Charger: Who should get credit?
(EXPANDED FROM 12/29/2023) This is another Indie Auto story that has received a fair amount of blowback. For example, one presumably former reader alleged that I was a “Chevy fanboy” because I called the 1968-70 […]
Design Notes
The 1964-65 Lincoln Continental was a step backward rather than forward
(EXPANDED FROM 4/13/2022) A brochure for the 1964 Lincoln Continental was almost apologetic in describing “significant improvements” to the car. “You will appreciate greater leg room, knee room and head room. In the rear compartment, […]
Current Events
What do the fires of Los Angeles have to do with the auto industry?
As I write this, the weather at SeaTac International Airport near Seattle, Washington is cold, cloudy and sporadically rainy. That’s quite different from 1,000 miles south in Los Angeles, which is battling an unprecedented series […]
Data Dive
Why did Mitsubishi fail in the United States?
(EXPANDED FROM 2/9/2024) There was good news and bad news about Mitsubishi’s U.S. sales in 2024. The good news: Sales were up 25 percent, led by its Mirage economy cars. The bad news: This was […]
Satire
Hotcars.com offers brilliant assessment of why the AMX didn’t sell very well
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 […]
Data Dive
What’s Collectible Automobile’s beef with the 1978-80 Pontiac Grand Prix?
(EXPANDED FROM 8/25/2022) One of the more curious aspects of the postwar U.S. auto industry is the way that dramatic change was often normalized by the media — as long as it went in the […]
Letters to the Editor
Reader argues that ‘AMX was not a sectioned Javelin’
SG stopped by to comment on our story, “1968-70 AMX was American Motors’ answer to a question nobody asked.” AMX was not a sectioned Javelin. It was designed first and was supposed to be a […]
Literature
1953-73 Chevrolet Corvette ads gingerly showed changing gender roles
(EXPANDED FROM 6/10/2022) One of the more common types of clickbait on auto history websites is to post an old-car ad and throw in a few paragraphs of background. Cranking out lots of short, breezy […]