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Automotive News’ sense of urgency on climate change amounts to empty words
Automotive News (2024) recently posted the editorial, “Believe the storms: Climate change is real.” The piece has a decidedly retro quality because it makes an argument that major media outside the auto industry acknowledged long […]
Media Analysis
Collectible Automobile’s 1974-83 Jeep Cherokee story avoids inconvenient questions
The February 2024 issue of Collectible Automobile has a story about the 1974-83 Jeep Cherokee. As is typical for this magazine, you will find lots of nice photos and a comprehensive recitation of product specifications […]
Design Notes
Is Tesla Cybertruck a brilliant breakthrough or a gimmick?
(EXPANDED FROM 3/12/2021) When Tesla’s Cybertruck was unveiled a few years ago, Electrek commentator Benjamin Winters (2021) dismissed the design as “objectively bad.” When he received pushback, Winters countered by arguing that “I’m an industrial […]
Design Notes
1969 International was too little, too late to save brand’s big-truck ambitions
(EXPANDED FROM 4/23/2021) International Harvester went a long way toward sealing its fate with the introduction of the redesigned D-Series pickup and Travelall in the 1969. Perhaps the biggest problem was that IH waited too […]