March 2013 - Indie Auto

Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile

March 17, 2013 Steve 1

The American auto industry may not want to admit this, but Unsafe at Any Speed is arguably the single most influential automotive book of the last 70 years. As discussed at Curbside Classic (Niedermeyer, 2012), Ralph Nader […]

Ford: Decline and Rebirth 1933-1962

March 13, 2013 Steve 0

This is the final of a three-volume corporate history that runs more than 500 pages of dense text and few photographs. The authors were arguably at their best in presenting in vivid colors the deterioration […]