(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 […]
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 […]
Aaron Severson recently had an extended back-and-forth with Ate Up With Motor commentator timmy (2021). The discussion ranged from the viability of V12 engines and the relative merits of 1950s automatic transmissions to the prospects […]
Wayne Kady comments about the bustleback Buick: The April 2021 issue of Collectible Automobile has a letter from retired General Motors’ designer Wayne Kady. He described how GM’s head designer William Mitchell ordered him to […]
First of all, The Daily Drive should not to be confused with The Drive, the Drive Tribe and Driven Nuts (okay, that last one I made up). The Daily Drive is produced by Consumer Guide […]
The lead story on the 1971-78 Cadillac Eldorado illustrates what happens when automotive history sticks too closely to “just-the-facts” reporting. Collectible Automobile’s account of the second-generation personal coupe provides lots of useful background but sidesteps […]
“. . . I always considered myself an average designer, because there were so many good designers. I was very successful because I knew that you had to sell the design to the manager and […]
Particularly after the demise of Automobile Quarterly, Collectible Automobile’s bi-monthly print magazine has been the best all-around source of information about American automobile history. An individual issue typically has around 100 pages, the cover is […]
Curbside Classic is a fascinating case study of the difficulties of sustaining a financially viable independent media outlet. For example, last year Niedermeyer announced that ad revenue was down 15-20 percent because of increased use of […]
One low-cost way for an auto media outlet to post a 24/7 flow of content is to draw upon old car ads. This is business as usual for the The Daily Drive and its sibling, […]
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