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Has a subscription to Automotive News become too costly?
When my subscription to Automotive News recently renewed I was surprised to see that the annual price rose to $299 from $169 last year. This is for the digital and print editions; if I had […]
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Historians fuzzy on Exner’s impact on 1953-54 Plymouths
(EXPANDED FROM 8/16/2021) Did Virgil Exner have any involvement with the 1953-54 Plymouth’s design? Automotive historians have tended to either dance around that question or offer varying — or even contradictory — information. As a […]
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Is it true that Indie Auto just doesn’t like Fords?
When Indie Auto gets a spike in readership for a specific story, we almost always receive a certain type of comment. As a case in point, BN responded to our story about the 1963 Mercury […]
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What to do if you didn’t get our weekly e-letter and two points about Facebook
Indie Auto sends out a weekly e-newsletter by Friday evening. If you didn’t get one then check your spam folder. If you find one of our newsletters there, mark it as “not spam.” Since we’re […]
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What would it take to fund Aaron Severson so he could focus on writing auto histories?
Aaron Severson (2024) recently announced that, due to a burst of donations, he would renew hosting-related services for Ate Up With Motor. That presumably keeps the website online but doesn’t address the cost of producing […]
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Why I stopped commenting on automotive blogs
(EXPANDED FROM 5/1/2020) Today someone commented on this post, which I wrote more than four years ago. So perhaps it’s time for an update on automotive-blog comment threads. Around 15 years ago I started to […]
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Thank you for helping make 2023 a good year for Indie Auto
I hope you had an enjoyable New Year’s Eve and see promise in the coming year. I also wanted to thank you for helping to make 2023 a good year for Indie Auto. As a […]
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Is Ate Up With Motor the ‘canary in the mineshaft’ for auto history media?
Right before Christmas Aaron Severson (2023) warned that “the future of Ate Up With Motor is looking quite bleak.” This strikes me as a wake-up call to the automotive history field. Severson is arguably one […]