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Bitter Old Man’s take on Jeremy Clarkson
“It’s truly sad when the real person shows up and ruins your preconceived notions of how they actually were. (Jeremy) Clarkson, who was blessed with the talent to write really well, and was engaging as […]
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Car and Driver: Rambler was a ‘dreary’ protest car
“This nation’s car market has always supported a handful of what seem to be ‘protest cars.’ There were a lot more of them before World War II, but the post-war era has had it share: […]
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Keith Bradsher: ‘Extreme users’ in auto media have driven SUV design
“Even some auto executives and engineers complain that media comparisons of off-road driving capabilities have put pressure on them to design ever taller vehicles with ever more expensive four-wheel-drive systems that almost nobody needs. In […]
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Indie Auto wins 2020 E. P. Ingersoll Award
The Society of Automotive Historians has given the 2020 E. P. Ingersoll Award to Indie Auto. The award is named after Edward Platt Ingersoll (1861-1920), who was the editor of Horseless Age. This was the […]
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Is TTAC editor Tim Healey okay with irrelevant disinformation?
This week Matt Posky (2020c) led off a post about a Biden cabinet nomination with a riff about “international money-laundering allegations against the Biden family.” The Truth About Cars reporter linked to a story that […]
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The future of auto blogging after the fall of Rome
“I think we’re kind of in a postmodern, ‘Fall of Rome’ era of blogging. The golden age is well behind us, and there’s a glut of content and channels, a few barons and a lot […]
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Mike Spinelli: How Jalopnik got its name
“I don’t know who the hell it was. I like to think it wasn’t me, but it probably was . . . and we had been drinking a little bit. And so somebody says Jalopnik. […]