This section provides background on key terms used in Indie Auto. Because this is a journal of opinion, Auto Pedia also presents a point of view. Feel free to disagree here.
The terms are listed in alphabetical order and cover a wide range of topics in business management, design, the automotive media and public policies.
Also see RE:SOURCES at the bottom of this page for links to other websites that offer concise definitions of automotive terms.
New listings are added on a running basis. Existing listings may also be updated.
- Access journalism
- Accountability journalism
- Airdam
- Antitrust regulation
- Bigger, glitzier, more powerful
- Beltline
- Brand management
- Counterfactuals
- Detroit Mind
- Economies of scale
- GM envy
- Grosse Pointe myopians
- Greenhouse
- Groupthink
- Halo car
- Industry consolidation
- Lower, longer, wider
- Pillar (A-D)
RE:SOURCES
- Ate Up With Motor has terrific background on automotive technical terms. Go here for a post with design definitions.
- Wikipedia has brief definitions of design terms.