Sport utility vehicles
Popularity of SUVs could offset climate advantages of EVs
Growth in the worldwide popularity of larger sport-utility vehicles could imperil efforts to reduce greenhouse gas reductions from electric vehicles. “SUVs were the second-largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions since 2010,” according to […]
Was AMC seriously considering a late-70s Gremlin wagon?
Dan Strohl (2022) has posted a photograph of what could have been a Gremlin wagon prototype. His story and comment thread offer a number of plausible ideas about what AMC had in mind, but I […]
How Brooks Stevens’s designs for a postwar compact Willys evolved
Recently Bill McGuire (2017) of Mac’s Motor City Garage reposted a story that included photographs of a never-produced postwar Willys passenger car called the 6/70. He offered intriguing details about the car, which included independent front […]
Will cars with ‘crying-eyes’ styling withstand the test of time?
The automotive media tend to “normalize” even pretty weird styling trends. One result is that robust critiques often don’t get much visibility until after a trend is fading away. I thus found it refreshing to […]