“Proud, that’s what the industry is — proud of itself. And with reason. It proved its vitality, its flexibility. It proved that it responds to public demand, after all. Sure, there was a period of […]
(UPDATED 11/25/2022) For 1956 the Big Three were on relatively good behavior. Only one of their products was outrageous enough to be nominated for Indie Auto’s Ugly Car of the Year Award. All the rest […]
Richard Teague may have been a talented car designer and a nice guy, but he wasn’t the ideal match for what was needed at American Motors. Indeed, the cars developed under his tenure as head […]
“But it was after he joined Chrysler in 1949 that (Virgil) Exner made his most lasting impression, with Chrysler’s ‘Forward Look.’ Exner couldn’t change Chrysler’s upright, dowdy cars fast enough. Featuring bodacious, streamlined bodies and tail fins, the ‘Forward Look’ […]
“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 […]
“In late 1958, Printers’ Ink conceded that ‘there is a widespread feeling that ‘they don’t make cars the way they used to’ — either mechanically or from the point of view of interior decor.’ And […]
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