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Month: July 2023
Design Notes
The 10 worst single-year redesigns of postwar American cars
Let’s rank the 10 worst redesigns of postwar American cars that, with one partial exception, were only in production for a single year. By “postwar” I mean between 1949-79. My rankings are obviously subjective, but […]
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Jalopnik gets better — but for how long?
(EXPANDED FROM 9/18/2020) A few years ago I starting reading Jalopnik again after a long lapse because its content appeared to have improved. However, I still don’t check out the website daily because there’s too […]
Letters to the Editor
Reader finds our 1961-63 Lincoln article ‘most negative of them all’
Indie Auto reader WM stopped by to offer his reaction on our article, “1961-63 Lincoln Continental was not as iconic as often described.” Well of all the articles written about the 1960s Lincoln, this is […]
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Car Life’s faint praise for redesigned 1967 Imperial hints at why it wasn’t a hit
Car buff magazine writers didn’t know it at the time, but the new-for-1967 Imperial would be Chrysler’s last big push in the luxury-car field. Although the brand lost its exclusive platform — just like Lincoln […]
Data Dive
1963 Rambler Classic was more of a compact than an intermediate
The 1963 Rambler Classic has been commonly described as an intermediate-sized car, but it was actually closer to being a compact in size, weight and entry-level prices. The Classic was only 189.3 inches long. That […]
Fake Design
The XR-400 wouldn’t have ‘saved’ AMC but it pointed in a useful direction
(EXPANDED FROM 7/7/2021) A few years ago Stéphane Dumas quite rightly noted that another alternative to the 1964 Rambler Tarpon concept car was the XR-400. This was a 2+2 convertible proposed to American Motors in […]
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Literature
1969 Ford LTD attacked GM’s hierarchy of brands in multiple ways
(EXPANDED FROM 1/24/2022) The LTD was one of Ford’s biggest successes in the 1970s because it attacked General Motors’ hierarchy of brands in multiple ways. After failing to beat the popular Impala at its own […]
Photo Essay
Port Townsend: The American dream’s new — and old — end of the road
(EXPANDED FROM 5/28/2021) Some say that the American dream ends in the sun-drenched surf of California. That may have been the case in years gone by, but not anymore. In 2020 California recorded a net […]