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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 […]
Media Analysis
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 […]
Media Analysis
Automotive News takes the cheap way out by discontinuing comments
In a way I get Automotive News’ decision to stop accepting comments on its website. As we have previously discussed (go here), the quality of the discussions has tended to be depressingly poor. Alas, the […]
Current Events
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 […]
History
More on whether Lee Iacocca was a great automotive executive
My essay about Lee Iacocca elicited some interesting pushback, so I would like to offer some follow-up thoughts. Some commentators have pushed back against my criticisms of Iacocca by pointing to things he did well. […]
Media Analysis
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 […]
Quotes
Matt Posky gets an earful from commentators at The Truth About Cars
Let’s post-mortem this thread, shall we? 1) Basically, what we have here was a ginormous food fight in which not one word was spoken about cars.2) Rehash of the same basic anti-employers-setting-COVID-safety-rules arguments from the […]
Current Events
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 […]
Current Events
Auto media largely ignore ‘code red’ IPCC climate change report
Few auto media outlets have acknowledged the most important climate change news in a number of years. Last Monday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021a) came out with its first major report since 2014. […]