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2020s
Photo Essay
Why don’t more people customize the paint schemes on their vehicles?
This BMW reminded me of how rarely automobiles in the United States display customized paint schemes. The only time I can remember when this has been a mass-market phenomenon was during the surfer van boomlet […]
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Quotes
Robert Cumberford: Car grilles suffer from ‘wretched excess’
“Grilles serve as a car’s face, so it is important to use them as marks of identity, and they should be big enough to be recognizable. But there’s a limit that necessarily comes into the […]
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Over-Drive magazine’s story about Packard’s demise has an odd take
Over-Drive offers an unusual mix of qualities for an auto history multi-media venture. Its website includes a digital repository of information about old cars such as brochures, specification sheets and even paint codes. In addition, […]
Editor's Note
Our lead story illustrates how auto history is a team sport
The lead story for Friday, July 21 was an update of “1965-68 GM big cars: The end of different strokes.” I didn’t expand this story because I thought it was already pretty comprehensive, but I […]
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Current Events
Recent sales figures show how different the West Coast is from rest of nation
I have lived almost all of my life on the West Coast so occasionally have to remind myself that it can be meaningfully different than the rest of the country when it comes to automotive […]
Media Analysis
Does Auto Extremist’s Peter DeLorenzo have conflicts of interest?
Peter DeLorenzo (2023a) recently made a big deal about how he supposedly transformed the automotive media. He argued that “the key differentiator for me was that I didn’t care about access, because I not only […]