December 2018 - Indie Auto

GM envy

December 1, 2018 Steve 0

GM envy is a tendency of other automakers — first domestic and later foreign — to slavishly copy the basic structure and strategy used by General Motors in its heyday. This has occurred despite General […]

All-time best climate change coverage by auto media?

December 1, 2018 Steve 0

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 […]

2019 auto design: One step closer to machine guns?

December 1, 2018 Steve 1

This year’s Seattle auto show should have been held during Halloween rather than the second week of November. That’s because the auto industry’s latest wares were a frightful bunch. On the inside they offered the […]