Month: September 2020
Lucid: Weight and aerodynamics matter as much as advanced batteries
“Peter Rawlinson, who led design of the Tesla Model S and is now chief executive of the electric car start-up Lucid, likes to wow audiences by showing up at events dragging a rolling carry-on bag […]
1958 Studebaker: Honesty is the best policy
If you went by the above photo alone, you would get a misleading impression of the 1958 Studebaker. Yes, the colors are grossly exaggerated, but an even bigger problem is that the photo only shows […]
Commentators explain how a fat Corvette stops space aliens
Some of the web’s most important writing is buried in auto blog comment sections. One of my all-time favorites is a soliloquy by Truth About Cars commentator Petezeiss (2014). In response to criticisms of the 2015 Corvette Z06’s weight gain, he […]
H. Donald Capps: Severe case of ‘autophobia’ permeates academia
“By the end of the twentieth century, the automobile helped transform that century in ways that might have been difficult for those at the beginning of that century to imagine. . . . Yet, there […]