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Year: 2023
Media Analysis
Demise of AROnline raises question: Should more be done to preserve online content?
Late last month Keith Adams (2023) announced that the British website AROnline would be shutting down after a two-decade run. The plan is to stop adding new content at the end of November and unplug […]
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Car Life called the redesigned 1970 AMC Hornet stylish but not fun to drive
Car Life magazine argued that the 1970 AMC Hornet met two out of three of the automaker’s stated goals for the car. Engineering Editor David Bean wrote that American Motors thought that the compact and […]
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Luciano Bove talked about why Harry Bradley was a great car design teacher
When Harry Bradley died last May, Dean’s Garage reposted a video from Luciano Bove that talked about how Bradley influenced his work as a car designer and educator (Smith, 2023). That video offers a fascinating […]
Data Dive
1964-77 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu shows growth of mid-sized American cars
Earlier this week a number of commentators discussed General Motors’ mid-sized cars (go here and here), so I thought I would add a new layer to the conversation by sketching the evolution of the Chevrolet […]
Drive-By Musings
If you could have foreseen the future in high school, would today’s cars surprise you?
This is a question that may be most interesting to older Indie Auto readers. What brings it up for me is a fictional story in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, which is a humor magazine. Alex Baze […]
Editor's Note
Thank you to those who have helped Indie Auto pass two milestones
Recently Indie Auto surpassed 1,000 posts. If you have cruised through our archives you know that this represents a broad range of content, from magazine-length histories to satirical ads. Indeed, one thing that separates Indie […]
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What predictions Jim Dunne got wrong in the first half of 1972
Jim Dunne, Popular Science’s Detroit editor, made a number of predictions in the first half of 1972 that didn’t pan out. For example, in the January issue he stated that for 1973 both AMC and […]
Letters to the Editor
Reader ‘doesn’t know what the author is talking about’
LS stopped by to respond to our article, “1970 Pontiac Firebird: Time to go on a diet.” I don’t know what the author is talking about. The 1970 Firebirds were lauded as a groundbreaking design. […]