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The 1956 Lincoln’s styling proved to be a one-year wonder
The 1956 Lincoln was one of the brand’s most-important postwar cars. Almost 54,000 cars left the factory — an all-time record not broken until 1966. The Ford Motor Company was clearly intending to make a […]
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Once upon a time, car wheels were 36-to-42 inches in diameter
Indie Auto’s latest Sponsor of the Week is the legendary Auto & Debt magazine, whose January 2023 issue road tests the hot new 36-inch wheels. Of course, this is a fake ad that mocks the […]
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The 1961 Buick was a pivot point for GM’s troubled brand
The 1961 Buick represented a shifting point for General Motors’ deeply troubled premium-priced brand. The car’s styling lurched from the swaggering flamboyance of the 1950s to the more utilitarian conservatism of the 1962-64 models. This […]
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Designer of 2020 GMC Sierra HD strived for a ‘pissed-off feel’
“I already had an idea of what I wanted to convey. A lot of inspirations were locomotives, really high-end and futuristic military equipment, NASA, and really high-tech objects. . . . The front end was […]
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2013 Infiniti G50: How to overdo a promising design
(EXPANDED FROM 3/29/2016) Nissan Motor Company has had bursts of design brilliance. For example, the 2007-2013 Infiniti G-series sedans were downright elegant in their subtlety (Wikipedia, 2022a). Alas, when it was time for an updated […]
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