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VIP SURVEY: What do you see here?
(UPDATED FROM 10/1/2019) We asked the above question to the most powerful people we know in and around the automobile industry and media. The photograph shows a parking lot in Olympia, Washington, circa 2015. Here are […]
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‘Driven To Write’ offers European take on a noncommercial auto website
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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What would happen to auto history media if they outlawed clickbait?
Surely it couldn’t happen here. This is America! But stay with me for a moment: What if scientists concluded that auto history clickbait was bad for your health. Too much exposure to it turns your […]
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TTAC’s Matt Posky raises false fears about end of owning private cars
Over at The Truth About Cars, Matt Posky (2021a) recently wrote that his “stomach was in a twist” because the government was “talking about the merits of reducing people’s ability to own things.” His story […]
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Thank you for helping to make 2021 a good year for Indie Auto
Before getting too far into the new year I should say a few words to close out 2021. Last year was a good one for Indie Auto. We produced some solid content despite increasing the […]
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Car porn dominates Amazon.com’s top-100 automotive books
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
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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Automotive News takes the cheap way out by discontinuing comments
In a way I get Automotive News’ decision to stop accepting comments on its website. As we have previously discussed (go here), the quality of the discussions has tended to be depressingly poor. Alas, the […]