The growth in homelessness in the Pacific Northwest has resulted in increasingly large numbers of people living in their cars, campers and trailers. The above photograph from a year ago shows an encampment along a […]
Automotive News‘ comment sections enable denialism and conspiracies about COVID-19. This is unfortunate because the trade journal has otherwise offered good coverage of the pandemic. For example, Automotive News recently posted a poignant story about […]
The auto buff media tends to avoid discussing the political dimensions of the industry for good reason. Readers can have strong views, so why risk antagonizing anyone? Indie Auto doesn’t want to make anyone mad, […]
“Well — you have to give him credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he’s also doing the rockets. He likes rockets. And — he does good at rockets too, by the way. I […]
Lockstops (2019) concluded that Greens and leftists “are like a cancer.” 28-Cars-Later (2019b) suggested that mercenaries should be hired to “start popping the heads off” members of the European Union Commission. Why the vitriol? Because […]
The headline was about as alarmist as you can get for an auto enthusiast website: “UK Parliament Committee Wants to Ban All Private Cars and Trucks by 2050.” Writer Ronnie Schreiber (2019) then proceeded to […]
A notable exception to the automotive media’s lack of attention to climate change was a package of stories Automotive News published in 2007. No, not last month or last year — a decade ago. Let’s […]
Steph Willems (2018) has joined the “they’re coming for our performance cars!” scare campaign. Much like a recent column by Keith Crain, Willems is vague about how this imagined dystopia shows up except to say […]
Keith Crain sounds sad. The editor-in-chief of Automotive News predicts that governments will “do their best to try to ban any vehicles that have even the slightest hint of performance using conventional fuels such as gasoline” (Crain, […]
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