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Letters to the Editor
Studebaker Lark V8 is a ‘little mountain goat’
This letter is a response to our story, “1959 Studebaker: Throwing the baby out with the bath water.” With all due respect I’m guessing that you have never driven a V8 powered Studebaker Lark. Much […]
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Media Analysis
Auto media are still not taking climate change seriously enough
Ezra Klein (2021) recently commented that “it seems odd that we would just let the world burn.” As a case in point, after summarizing climate change’s escalating predations, he argued that even President Biden’s plan […]
Links
How auto art can be more than idle entertainment for bored retirees
I just added two new entries to the “Bibliography of Links.” The first one is Cars as Art, which is a Facebook public group that focuses on “conceptual art and cars.” The site has pretty […]
Media Analysis
Auto media copy each other instead of covering news that matters
Last week I was once again reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On),” when surveying the automotive media. The major outlets fell all over themselves to cover many of the same […]
Letters to the Editor
Indie Auto seems to apply today’s sensibilities to 1966 Toronado
This letter is in response to our story, “1966 Oldsmobile Toronado: Just another shiny thing from General Motors.” Your analysis is just flat wrong! Our next door neighbors bought a new Toronado in 1966. It […]
Design Notes
2014-18 Corvette taillights: A veritable petting zoo on wheels?
(UPDATED FROM 7/15/2018) In taking a few quick photos of the final rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, I was reminded of an article about its chief designer. Shortly after the C7 Corvette was introduced, Tom Peters […]
Quotes
David Halberstam: Why Bunkie Knudsen ‘never had a chance at Ford’
“Bunkie Knudsen never had a chance at Ford. It was not that he lacked the skill to handle the job; indeed, that was something that almost never came up. It was that Ford was so […]
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