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HomeDownsizing

Downsizing

1962 Dodge Dart and Lancer
Letters to the Editor

Paul Niedermeyer updates his thinking on origins of 1962 Plymouth and Dodge

December 6, 2023 Steve 4

Paul Niedermeyer stopped by Indie Auto to share his current thinking about the downsizing of the 1962 Plymouth and Dodge. This is a response to a story we ran almost two years ago entitled, “Did […]

1980 Chevrolet Citation
Letters to the Editor

General Motors lost styling leadership in early-80s in ‘a morass of boxiness’

June 15, 2023 Steve 10

At the risk of disrupting an active comment thread, I would like to elevate to the front page a response by Peter Wilding to our story, “U.S. cars often suffered from weak styling continuity and […]

1983 Ford Thunderbird
Media Analysis

How accurate were Popular Mechanics’ predictions about 1980s cars?

March 16, 2023 Steve 3

For its September 1975 issue, Popular Mechanics’ Detroit Editor Robert Lund asked executives from each of the Big Four U.S. automakers to predict what cars would be like in the decade ahead. Lund started off […]

1973 Chevrolet Malibu SS
Quotes

John Z. DeLorean: Downsizing GM cars for 1973 was opposed by Mitchell

March 18, 2022 Steve 17

“The K-Car program proposed a common body and chassis for all the GM cars in the intermediate and compact car classes. On the Chevrolet lines alone this meant building the Chevelle, Camaro and Nova, which […]

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