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Year: 2022
History
AMC’s Roy Abernethy was confronted with three big threats in 1960s
Auto historians — both professional and armchair — tend to beat up too much on Roy Abernethy’s leadership of American Motors in the 1960s. Thus, it was good too see Geeber (2021) recently respond to […]
Letters to the Editor
Looking at battery-powered vehicles from both sides now
George Denzinger took the time to write a lengthy follow up to our “Quotes” post, “If automakers focused more on efficiency would there be less pressure to go EV?” This is the kind of deeper […]
Design Notes
1966-70 Studebaker: Putting lipstick on a pig?
(EXPANDED FROM 8/28/2020) Studebaker’s prospects for survival as an automobile manufacturer arguably ended when it shut down its South Bend plant in December, 1963. The biggest reason why is that the corporation’s board of directors […]
Quotes
Is Teutonic car design obsolete?
“Maybe. Then again . . . maybe not. Perhaps this is all just temporary. Consider what happened to American car design in the wake of the 1958 recession. Suddenly, all the jet-aged, tail-finned, twin-turbined, dynaflowed […]
Links
‘Driven To Write’ offers European take on a noncommercial auto website
I have mentioned before that monitoring the American automotive media reminds me of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On).” The buff magazines and websites spend so much time trying to mimic each […]
Photo Essay
Willapa Bay can be a surreal drive back and forth in time
You could speculate that there are more cows than people in southwest Washington. But when I recently spent a few days there I didn’t see many cows. Just decaying old barns and grain silos. And […]
Design Notes
How would a facelifted Hudson have fared in 1955?
(EXPANDED FROM 1/2/2021) Hudson as been a popular topic with readers this week so I have expanded a story that takes a different angle: What might have happened if Hudson had managed to remain an […]
Quotes
If automakers focused more on efficiency would there be less pressure to go EV?
“Just think, a little more focus on efficiency and we wouldn’t be forced to go all electric in the future. I love power, so don’t get me wrong. But with such dismal mileage that these […]
Letters to the Editor
Hudson would have been the best option for a Packard tie up
Paul West has offered a sophisticated counterpoint to the conclusions in my article, “Would Hudson have been Packard’s best merger partner?” I am thus elevating his comment to the front page. Nice article, Steve. I […]