Adamson, Glenn; 2003. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Bradsher, Keith; 2002. High and Mighty: SUVs — The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got that […]
AMERICAN MOTORS Clarke, R. M.; 2004. AMC Rambler Limited Edition Extra: 1956-1969. Brooklands Books, Surrey. Foster, Patrick R.; 1993. American Motors: The Last Independent. Krause Publications, Iola, WI. ——–; 1998. The Story of Jeep. Krause Publications, Iola, […]
Automotive history and journalism are a bit like baseball in the sense that numbers are integral to the conversation. Even so, most media outlets — particularly web based — tend to avoid charts, graphs and tables. […]
(UPDATED 12/15/2022) Volkswagen Group’s global design chief Walter de Silva is worried that optimizing aerodynamics in order to meet tightening emissions standards could hurt aesthetics and branding. In an Automotive News question-and-answer piece, he complained […]
In the April edition of Collectible Automobile (2014), Patrick R. Foster noted that Saab was the last European automaker outside Warsaw Pact countries to produce two-stroke engines. The Swedish automaker switched to a modern four-stroke […]
Bryce Hoffman, a Detroit News auto industry reporter, offers a sympathetic perspective about how Ford navigated through the Great Recession. Hoffman was given a great deal of access to company leaders and internal documents. In return, […]
This is the last of the four-part Cars of series, which cover the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. As as with the others, this is an oversized hard-cover book that emphasizes color photographs but includes some advertisements. Minimal text […]
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