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HomeThe Truth About Cars

The Truth About Cars

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Vulpine: Detroit can force people to buy cars they don’t want

November 6, 2020 Steve 0

“Obviously you can, since the truck I’m driving is pretty close to 20% larger than I wanted, in overall dimensions. Nobody makes a proper ‘small’ truck for the US market as yet and hasn’t done […]

Chris Tonn waves flag
Media Analysis

Chris Tonn shows great promise in automotive marketing

November 6, 2020 Steve 0

Chris Tonn’s (2020) review of the 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe really stands out from the crowd. Rather than merely walking us through the redesigned SUV’s new features, The Truth About Cars contributing writer also got up […]

Hobby horse
Media Analysis

Would Matt Posky have raged against the horseless carriage?

October 30, 2020 Steve 5

If Matt Posky had been a journalist at the dawn of the 20th Century, I could see him raging against the horseless carriage. He might list its deficiencies, particularly when powered by one of those […]

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Prediction from 2015: High tech won’t be reliable

September 4, 2020 Steve 0

“The more electronic stuff automakers put into cars, the more and more people have to treat them like really big cell phones. Show of hands — who WANTS to visit their carrier store? That’s what […]

Lake Quinault country road in fall
Editor's Note

Why we’ve been slow to offer comments

October 10, 2019 Steve 2

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 […]

Media Analysis

The Truth About Cars should not enable violent talk

August 29, 2019 Steve 0

I recently came across Jack Baruth’s (2013) announcement of a new set of editorial policies at The Truth About Cars after editor Bartel Schmitt departed. One of the new policies was that there “will be […]

Mass transit in Portland, Oregon
Media Analysis

The Truth About Cars falsely stokes fears of private car ban

August 23, 2019 Steve 0

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 […]

Quotes
Quotes

Not everyone thinks offroading is grand

June 17, 2019 Steve 0

“Most of this offroading is laughable because it is just a vanity project. Look at the photo (in the story) – the Jeep could have driven around a puddle of water, but he went across […]

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Quotes

From horseless carriages to robots?

May 24, 2019 Steve 0

“The future is manufacturing robots similar to the Ford courier robot. . . . I’d bet within a few decades robots in the home will be common. Imagine if you had to make a decision […]

Elon Musk and R. J. Scaringe
Current Events

Tesla vs. Rivian: Henry Kaiser, meet Joe Frazer

November 28, 2018 Steve 0

Elon Musk now admits that Tesla nearly died last summer. The sidelined CEO told Axios on HBO that “the company was bleeding money like crazy” during the Model 3 production ramp up. Musk added that […]

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    1972 Buick Skylark Custom represented the end of an era
    September 1, 2026 5
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    1959 Ford Thunderbird was a gimmicky but hugely important car
    August 26, 2026 11
  • Compact cars became the neglected stepchildren of U.S. automakers
    August 21, 2026 21
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    AMC’s Roy D. Chapin Jr. succumbed to the illusion of bigness
    August 19, 2026 2
  • 1980 Ford Thunderbird and 1956 model
    Ford’s design talent in the 1970s wasn’t enough to halt a dramatic slide in sales
    August 14, 2026 13
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    Why wasn’t the 1971 ‘boat-tail’ Buick Riviera shrunk to compact size?
    August 14, 2026 24
  • Internet problems reminded me of U.S. automakers in the 1970s
    May 2, 2026 1
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