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Automotive deaths: Where are our memorials?
(EXPANDED FROM 7/31/2020) I have driven past the above-shown memorial for so many years that I was surprised to see it gone last summer, presumably because of a road-improvement project. While making this stretch of […]
Current Events
Why are auto industry and media so surprised by Trump’s tariffs?
It’s been fascinating to watch the auto industry and media react to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. To the degree that this topic has broken through the usual phantasmagoria of new-product launches and nostalgic musings about […]
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Why hasn’t Consumer Guide Automotive fixed a discredited anti-Nader rant?
(EXPANDED FROM 11/1/2019) One way auto history websites can squeeze more profits from their content is to endlessly repost stories. That’s not a bad thing if the information is accurate, but it strikes me as […]
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Indie Auto receives an email from God Himself
Indie Auto gets all kinds of emails, but until today we have never received one from God. As you might imagine, this email has some exceptional qualities. For one thing, it is unusually long — […]
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Hotcars.com offers brilliant assessment of why the AMX didn’t sell very well
Us boomers can wax nostalgic about the great automotive journalists of the past. However, right under our noses a new generation is coming into its own that — truth be told — is even better […]
Data Dive
What’s Collectible Automobile’s beef with the 1978-80 Pontiac Grand Prix?
(EXPANDED FROM 8/25/2022) One of the more curious aspects of the postwar U.S. auto industry is the way that dramatic change was often normalized by the media — as long as it went in the […]
Editor's Note
What software would you use if you were launching an automotive website?
George Denzinger recently asked what software Indie Auto was considering switching to. This is pretty inside baseball, so thought it could be most useful to answer that question within the context of a larger discussion: […]