Road & Track may be an increasingly obscure car-buff magazine these days, but it has elicited headlines in the mainstream media for pulling an F1 story by sportswriter and architectural critic Kate Wagner. The magazine’s […]
Car and Driver’s road test of a 1964 Ford Thunderbird reminded me of what I enjoyed about the magazine in its heyday. Although it threw in a few bits of fawning praise, that struck me […]
Flush with enthusiasm about the Big Three’s new compacts, the November 1959 issue of Road & Track made some bold predictions about what was next. “Detroit Beat” writer Don Mac Donald stated that “Detroit, stung […]
Curbside Classic recently posted a 1977 Road & Track test of an AMC Gremlin with a new four-cylinder engine. This got me thinking about how American Motors’ purchase of a power plant from Volkswagen was […]
(EXPANDED FROM 10/30/2020) When Road & Track decided to go after Ralph Nader in 1972, the magazine took unusual measures. Even before an “evaluation” of a Nader report hit the newsstands, Road & Track held […]
The Volkswagen Beetle was a hot commodity in 1959, but it was unknown how the car would hold up against the Big Three’s armada of new compacts in 1960. This led Road & Track magazine […]
Last week I was once again reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On),” when surveying the automotive media. The major outlets fell all over themselves to cover many of the same […]
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