“We may speculate, of course, that had Ford gone ahead with the U.S.-market Cardinal/Taunus P4 and if that had been reasonably successful, it might have spawned follow-on FWD derivatives in the manner of the later […]
Picking Indie Auto’s 1st Annual Spammer of the Year Award was challenging. In 2020 we received so many spam messages worthy of consideration. However, Eric Jones earned the crown for both the outstanding quantity and […]
A job description for a news reporter opening at GM Authority sheds light on the brave new world of automotive journalism. The lucky person hired is expected to write seven, 300-word articles per day. That’s […]
In retrospect, Studebaker shouldn’t have assigned Brooks Stevens to restyle its Lark for 1964. He may have had a more mainstream design sensibility than Raymond Loewy, but Stevens was also the guy who coined the […]
“(T)he truck market was going to break out of its previous boundaries and begin a historic climb in which it would eventually surpass automobiles in total sales. In time trucks would become the biggest and […]
Doing Indie Auto’s been fun, but it’s not making me rich. So when I heard that hotcars.com was hiring freelancers, I thought: Here’s my ticket! Thank you, Automotive Books and Periodicals, for posting their “We’re […]
(EXPANDED ON 1/27/2023) In doing research on our “unresolved postwar mysteries” story, I came across a piece of information that challenged one of my long-held assumptions. George Hamlin and Dwight Heinmuller stated that the Briggs […]
“Levine prolifically wined and dined the trade press, but he also took what he considered any disrespect for the brand personally. (And if he didn’t take it personally, he certainly acted as if he did.) […]
(EXPANDED 8/3/2022) The 1969-71 Chrysler was an unfortunate example of a promising design that went sideways because of a few bad decisions. The Chrysler was exceptionally clean and purposeful for an American premium-priced car of […]
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