Journalism standards
Car and Driver gives Roy D. Chapin royal treatment in 1970 AMC Hornet story
Car and Driver under David E. Davis gave the royal treatment to American Motors’ head Roy D. Chapin Jr. A case in point was a story about the 1970 AMC Hornet, which treated Chapin’s marketing […]
Car and Driver does better than Motor Trend in assessing 1970 Dodge Challenger
Motor Trend‘s road test of the 1970 Dodge Challenger was largely laudatory, noting that “Dodge has had a few years to observe what’s been going on in the pony car field and has incorporated many […]
Road & Track displays lack of journalistic independence by pulling F1 story
Road & Track may be an increasingly obscure car-buff magazine these days, but it has elicited headlines in the mainstream media for pulling an F1 story by sportswriter and architectural critic Kate Wagner. The magazine’s […]
Pat Foster barks up wrong tree by lauding an AMC Gremlin GT with a 360 V8
Since last summer’s departure of Daniel Strohl from Hemmings, I have mainly been drawn to its website because of a Pat Foster column. He has become one of the most prominent U.S. auto history book […]
Reader of 1959 Studebaker design-theft story dismisses ‘useless exercise’
Neil stopped by to comment on our story, “1959 Studebaker: Was it really design theft?” He wrote: “I think this is a useless exercise. Tho it seems to me as the Valient came later, it’s […]
Has a subscription to Automotive News become too costly?
When my subscription to Automotive News recently renewed I was surprised to see that the annual price rose to $299 from $169 last year. This is for the digital and print editions; if I had […]
Car and Driver playfully roasts a 1964 Ford Thunderbird convertible
Car and Driver’s road test of a 1964 Ford Thunderbird reminded me of what I enjoyed about the magazine in its heyday. Although it threw in a few bits of fawning praise, that struck me […]
Peter DeLorenzo launches a lazy attack against decarbonization mandates
Peter DeLorenzo has finally acknowledged that the decarbonization of the automotive fleet could be significantly driven by public-sector actions. However, he does so by spewing a bunch of lazy anti-government insults. Does this represent his […]