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. […]
We haven’t checked in with our friends at Over-Drive Magazine lately, so what’s up? Welp, they’ve got a third “issue” that doesn’t appear to be a magazine anymore — just stories posted on their website. […]
DB stopped by to offer a response to our story, “1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme: Monument to a fading dream.” There was no downsizing which hindsight would have been the right direction. I have owned three […]
One of the most underrated cars of the 1960s was the 1963-66 Dodge Dart. This “senior” compact anticipated the size of the contemporary family sedan during a time when the American auto industry was fixated […]
Peter DeLorenzo (2023) continues to insist that design is the “Ultimate Initial Product Differentiator” in the American automobile market. Among “mainstream” vehicles he singles out the Cadillac Lyriq for bringing “high-concept executions to the street.” […]
(EXPANDED FROM 10/22/2021) One of the most pervasive myths in US automotive history is that a V8 engine became essential to an automaker’s success in the first half of the 1950s. This narrative is summed […]
One could point to a number of car designs that represented the turning point where foreign automakers began to outshine Detroit in the late-60s and early-70s. The first-generation Jaguar XJ strikes me as particularly important. […]
David E. Davis often wrote about his road trips when he was editor of Automobile. Jack Baruth (2011) suggested that the magazine’s motto, “No Boring Cars!” served as “an excuse, er, reason to demand an […]
Patrick Foster (2023) recently suggested that a merger of Hudson and Willys could have made sense — and he devoted a Hemmings column to explaining why. This is an intriguing scenario, but I have a […]
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