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‘Driven To Write’ offers European take on a noncommercial auto website

February 28, 2022 Steve 2

I have mentioned before that monitoring the American automotive media reminds me of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On).” The buff magazines and websites spend so much time trying to mimic each […]

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Where you can go when family and friends aren’t enough

January 27, 2022 Steve 0
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Auto & Debt: Camaro No. 1 with key demographic

December 30, 2021 Steve 0
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December 23, 2021 Steve 0
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Car porn dominates Amazon.com’s top-100 automotive books

December 20, 2021 Steve 3

Since this is the season to buy car books, let’s find out which ones are the hottest at Amazon.com. If you click through the following links you will find that their top 100 auto history […]

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Corey Lewis offers a questionable take on the 1961-63 Imperial

December 16, 2021 Steve 0

Corey Lewis may be The Truth About Cars’ best writer these days, but his piece on the 1961-63 Imperial offers a questionable take in some ways. The biggest eye-opener is Lewis’s (2021) contention that Chrysler […]

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Auto media have largely ignored COP26 summit on climate change

November 2, 2021 Steve 0

In my weekly cruise through a list of trade journals and buff magazines, I found virtually no coverage of a major international climate change summit called COP26 (go here to see Indie Auto’s bibliography of […]

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Automotive Views: Men’s Health absorbs leading car magazine

September 16, 2021 Steve 0
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The downside of auto historians writing about their friends

September 1, 2021 Steve 0

(EXPANDED FROM 7/17/2020) One of the hazards of any kind of writing is that you can get too close to your subjects. In anthropology this has been called “going native.” Because we are human, we […]

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Automotive News’ report on EV startups has revealing gaps

August 18, 2021 Steve 0

Last week Automotive News acknowledged that “there has never been a better time for EV startups.” Even so, the trade journal couldn’t bring itself to fully explain why it has been “at least a century […]

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    May 7, 2025 15
  • 1958 Packard
    The 1958 Packard went too far in styling, size and pricing
    May 6, 2025 11
  • Circa 1958 Rambler American 2-door sedan
    Could Joe Ligo’s American Motors TV series expand the audience for auto history?
    May 5, 2025 6
  • Busek Museum truck
    Watching the sun set over the Busek Auto Museum
    May 4, 2025 1
  • The plight of dealers sheds light on when the postwar seller’s market ended
    May 3, 2025 4
  • 2026 Slate Truck
    Can the Slate Truck find a large-enough market to be profitable?
    May 2, 2025 5
  • Washington Capitol WWI statue at dusk
    What is Automotive News’ next step after tariff bill defeat?
    May 1, 2025 0
  • 1961 Cadillac
    The ‘compact’ 1961-63 Cadillac that went nowhere
    April 30, 2025 17
  • 2001-10 Chrysler PT Cruiser shows limitations of retro design
    April 29, 2025 12
  • 1968 GM premium big cars
    1965-68 GM big cars: The end of different strokes
    April 28, 2025 12
  • Circa 2002 Ford Thunderbird taillight
    Was the 2002-5 Ford Thunderbird two-seater inspired or stupid?
    April 22, 2025 10
  • A query, a thank you and an update on miscellaneous stuff
    April 4, 2025 0
  • 1956 Buick hood scoop
    Readers brainstorm ideas for future Indie Auto stories
    October 14, 2022 124
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