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Car porn dominates Amazon.com’s top-100 automotive books
Since this is the season to buy car books, let’s find out which ones are the hottest at Amazon.com. If you click through the following links you will find that their top 100 auto history […]
Corey Lewis offers a questionable take on the 1961-63 Imperial
Corey Lewis may be The Truth About Cars’ best writer these days, but his piece on the 1961-63 Imperial offers a questionable take in some ways. The biggest eye-opener is Lewis’s (2021) contention that Chrysler […]
Auto media have largely ignored COP26 summit on climate change
In my weekly cruise through a list of trade journals and buff magazines, I found virtually no coverage of a major international climate change summit called COP26 (go here to see Indie Auto’s bibliography of […]
The 1967-74 AMC Ambassador didn’t measure up in roominess or quality
(EXPANDED FROM 11/14/2015) A point of contention in a number of Curbside Classic comment threads has been whether the last-generation AMC Ambassador had as much interior room as the Big Three’s full-sized cars. The short answer: […]
The downside of auto historians writing about their friends
(EXPANDED FROM 7/17/2020) One of the hazards of any kind of writing is that you can get too close to your subjects. In anthropology this has been called “going native.” Because we are human, we […]
Automotive News’ report on EV startups has revealing gaps
Last week Automotive News acknowledged that “there has never been a better time for EV startups.” Even so, the trade journal couldn’t bring itself to fully explain why it has been “at least a century […]