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Year: 2021
Media Analysis
How can the auto history field better support small-scale publishing?
Aaron Severson recently had an extended back-and-forth with Ate Up With Motor commentator timmy (2021). The discussion ranged from the viability of V12 engines and the relative merits of 1950s automatic transmissions to the prospects […]
Editor's Note
A newsletter glitch is fixed and other Indie Auto changes
Over the last few weeks some readers of our e-newsletter have been confronted with “403 — permission denied” messages when attempting to follow links to the website. That turned out to be a technical glitch […]
Drive-By Musings
Flying car entrepreneurs sound a lot like early auto pioneers
A recent New York Times story on the flying car industry didn’t explicitly compare it to the early automobile pioneers, but it’s not hard to see the parallels. Flying car entrepreneurs speak in lofty terms, […]
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History
Would AMC have done better if George Romney had stayed longer?
Would American Motors have continued to be successful in the second-half of the 1960s if George Romney had stuck around? He stepped down as CEO in 1962 to successfully run for governor of Michigan. This […]
Quotes
Paolo Tumminelli: Car design has become a caricature of itself
“We are experiencing a situation where the number of car fans is constantly decreasing, but at the same time, they demand more and more. With fake grilles and fake exhausts, the car has become a […]
Media Analysis
Peter DeLorenzo continues to continue with his usual swagger
It’s good news that Peter DeLorenzo is not going to retire after all. Last week an editor’s note suggested that his website, the Auto Extremist, might close (Word Girl, 2021). However, in his latest column […]
Current Events
Whyte’s ‘The Sack of Detroit’ gives auto history a hard-core libertarian spin
As I was reading Paul Niedermeyer’s critique of Kenneth Whyte’s new anti-Nader book, I found myself wondering how the auto buff press would have responded if the book had been published in the early-70s. In […]
Quotes
In defense of the bland 2022 Toyota Corolla Cross
“I honestly don’t understand what you’re expecting. This car is fundamentally no different than anything else in its class with the crucial distinction that it likely will be orders of magnitude more reliable. . . […]