Hemmings got political recently by highlighting a 1978 attack against U.S. bumper regulations then on the books. In his “Four Links” feature, Daniel Strohl (2020) pointed to a story in a staunchly libertarian magazine called […]
Automotive Atrocities! illustrates an increasingly popular genre: the car gallery. Authors take a theme — in this case cars that are supposedly infamous — and offer a few pages of info McNuggets. Repeat enough times […]
I was inclined to get the more recent edition of the Standard Catalog of Imported Cars: 1946-2002 (Covello, 2001) until I read Amazon.com reader reviews. I don’t tend to take these reviews very seriously but noticed an […]
Welcome to the December edition of Indie Auto. Most of my time in the last month was spent on the lead story, “Did a rumor cause the downsized 1962 Plymouth and Dodge?” This started as […]
The beltline is the transition area between the bottom of a vehicle’s side windows and its body panels. It might have a piece of chrome or a crease, but until recently you were unlikely to […]
This year’s Seattle auto show should have been held during Halloween rather than the second week of November. That’s because the auto industry’s latest wares were a frightful bunch. On the inside they offered the […]
Sometimes harried automotive writers have to scratch the outer reaches of their creativity to come up with an engaging story angle. As a case in point, consider Matt Posky’s (2018) take on Nissan’s production of […]
A Ford executive recently told Automotive News that the Fusion sedan’s forthcoming discontinuance was the result of a “breathtaking” decline in the mid-sized sedan segment that has “accelerated over the past couple years” (Martinez, 2018). In […]
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