Predicting the future of the U.S. auto industry has always been fraught with peril. Popular Science’s Detroit Editor Jim Dunne got a lot of things right in his reporting during 1970, but a number of […]
Curbside Classic’s Paul Niedermeyer stopped by to offer his first-ever comment at Indie Auto. He raised some interesting points, so I am making them the focus of a data dive. He took issue with our […]
(EXPANDED FROM 8/28/2020) The 1962-64 Plymouth is one of the most prescient U.S. cars of the 1960s. Aside from the 1953 Plymouth, the 1962 redesign represented the first serious effort by a Big Three automaker […]
(UPDATED FROM 12/26/2020) General Motors had one of those “be careful what you ask for” problems. In 1962 the automaker captured three-fourths of the premium-priced, big-car market. This was a key reason why GM sold […]
(EXPANDED FROM 1/24/2022) The LTD was one of Ford’s biggest successes in the 1970s because it attacked General Motors’ hierarchy of brands in multiple ways. After failing to beat the popular Impala at its own […]
MH dropped a note to Indie Auto about the 1961 Dodge, perhaps in response to our article, “Chrysler’s collapse in premium-priced field was a bigger deal than Edsel’s.” Not much is written about the 1961 […]
“Because the wrap-around windshield has proven so popular Plymouth felt it necessary to incorporate this idea. Unfortunately, theirs just doesn’t look like a wrap-around from the outside. They’ve been extremely subtle about it — which […]
Indie Auto reader PR stopped by to offer his reaction to our “1965-68 GM big cars: The end of different strokes” article: I write to laud the research conducted and information provided in the article […]
“Before 1955 the compact cars, which had then included Rambler, Hudson Jet, and Volkswagen, were not outstanding sales successes. Their suggested list prices, and their actual retail prices, were comparatively high in relation to those […]
Reasonable people can debate when the Big Three automakers stopped building sensibly-sized cars during the postwar period. For example, one might point to the 1956 Ford because it was only slightly larger than its postwar […]
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