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Designer of 2020 GMC Sierra HD strived for a ‘pissed-off feel’
“I already had an idea of what I wanted to convey. A lot of inspirations were locomotives, really high-end and futuristic military equipment, NASA, and really high-tech objects. . . . The front end was […]
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Alex Taylor III on why GM’s product cycles lengthened in the 1970s
“GM’s product development cycles in the 1960s, which had been among the shortest, were becoming among the longest in the industry, according to GM’s own in-house history. More content dictated by federal regulations was part […]
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Does Rivian lose more than $100,000 on every vehicle it sells?
Reuters recently reported that every time Rivian Automotive Inc. sells an electric vehicle, it loses “hundreds of thousands of dollars due to staggering raw material and production costs, their latest earnings statements showed” (Sriram, 2022). […]
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Peter DeLorenzo: Transition to electric vehicles can’t be dismissed as a fad
“. . . (T)he notion that the more ‘traditional’ automakers are too far ahead of the unfolding BEV transition is laughable. It’s not just traditional industry lead times at play here; it’s the fact that […]
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2013 Infiniti G50: How to overdo a promising design
(EXPANDED FROM 3/29/2016) Nissan Motor Company has had bursts of design brilliance. For example, the 2007-2013 Infiniti G-series sedans were downright elegant in their subtlety (Wikipedia, 2022a). Alas, when it was time for an updated […]
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Halberstam: Big Three’s ‘shared monopoly’ held back innovation for years
“The Big Three in the auto industry stood virtually alone, possessors of what was in effect a shared monopoly, for the price of entry was too great for any start-up company. In an environment like […]
Letters to the Editor
Reader offers additional reasons for ‘lower, longer and wider’ trend
Our “Auto Paedia” article about Detroit’s tendency to make its cars “lower, longer and wider” during the post-war period continues to generate an interesting discussion in the comment thread. One comment I would like to […]