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Year: 2021
History
The ‘compact’ 1961-63 Cadillac that went nowhere
(UPDATED 12/16/2022) The 1961-63 Lincoln Continental is commonly viewed as the first downsized American luxury car. However, during this same time time period Cadillac also offered a more compact variant that has received little attention. […]
Media Analysis
Auto media are still not taking climate change seriously enough
Ezra Klein (2021) recently commented that “it seems odd that we would just let the world burn.” As a case in point, after summarizing climate change’s escalating predations, he argued that even President Biden’s plan […]
Links
How auto art can be more than idle entertainment for bored retirees
I just added two new entries to the “Bibliography of Links.” The first one is Cars as Art, which is a Facebook public group that focuses on “conceptual art and cars.” The site has pretty […]
Quotes
Why the safety-focused Tucker didn’t have seat belts
“(Preston) Tucker spoke with airline stewardesses and even an airline executive, who told him, ‘If we put a parachute under each seat, this would imply that an element of danger existed and would so terrify […]
Drive-By Musings
How might John Z. DeLorean have done as head of AMC?
Curbside Classic commentator Chris Cieslak (2021) noted that American Motors toyed with the idea of hiring John Z. DeLorean after he left General Motors. I haven’t read enough to write intelligently about why a potential […]
Media Analysis
Auto media copy each other instead of covering news that matters
Last week I was once again reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On),” when surveying the automotive media. The major outlets fell all over themselves to cover many of the same […]
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Proposed car designs, auto history timeline and old magazines
You’ll find a number of new links in our Bibliography. The most recent add is a Facebook page called Cars: Design & Style. It mainly posts illustrations of proposed models. There is less commentary than […]
Design Notes
Might the Rambler Tarpon have sold better than the Plymouth Barracuda?
In a recently published article about the Rambler Tarpon, Patrick Foster (2021) doubted that the show car would have sold better than the Plymouth Barracuda if it had reached production. His rationale was that neither […]