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Road & Track displays lack of journalistic independence by pulling F1 story

March 18, 2024 Steve 4

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 […]

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Immigrant to US says buying a new car was very different back in Europe

November 13, 2023 Steve 2

“Buying a car was another big culture shock when moving to the US. I think people here just don’t realize how absurd this dealership stuff is. In Europe you test drive a car, then choose […]

Elon Musk on Joe Rogan's podcast
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Elon Musk’s infamous interview: What the auto media missed

December 11, 2020 Steve 0

Joe Rogan’s (2018) podcast with Elon Musk may very well be the most infamous — and high-visibility — interview of an automotive executive ever conducted. Alas, the event received so much attention for the wrong […]

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Electric cars once more popular than gas-powered

February 24, 2019 Steve 0

“By the turn of the 20th century, horseless carriages had replaced horse-drawn carriages in most major American cities. In 1901, an estimated 38 percent of cars in the United States were electric, 40 percent were […]

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Can a visionary like Musk execute at scale?

June 6, 2018 Steve 0

“This is no longer an innovation problem, this is an execution at scale problem — unless Tesla wants to be a niche innovator chasing profitability and sucking up cash. They need to become experts at […]

Elon Musk discusses climate change when introducing Tesla Model 3
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Auto media on Tesla: See no climate change

April 6, 2016 Steve 0

The jury is still out on whether Tesla can meet its lofty goals, but the automaker deserves credit for a paradigm-rattling marketing campaign. In unveiling its Model 3, Tesla emphasized the need for an aggressive response to […]

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