(EXPANDED FROM 8/9/2022) A few years ago Corey Lewis (2022) wrote that the 1960 Lincoln’s entry-level model was “rebranded as simply ‘Lincoln,’ to compete with the new base model Chrysler New Yorker (1960-1962) and Series […]
“While [The Truth About Cars] has always thrived on pull-no-punches discourse, and though I have personally learned and grown from the criticism I received as editor here, the sense of entitlement demonstrated by some members […]
(UPDATED 6/26/2024) If you subscribed to car buff magazines back when you were a kid, do you do so anymore? As a young lad I subscribed to up to five different magazines, but I wouldn’t […]
(EXPANDED FROM 5/1/2020) Today someone commented on this post, which I wrote more than four years ago. So perhaps it’s time for an update on automotive-blog comment threads. Around 15 years ago I started to […]
(EXPANDED FROM 9/18/2020) A few years ago I starting reading Jalopnik again after a long lapse because its content appeared to have improved. However, I still don’t check out the website daily because there’s too […]
Ronnie Schreiber recently submitted a comment to our story, “Peter DeLorenzo draws questionable lessons from automotive history.” What follows is his entire comment in unedited form: “I find it interesting that the environmentalists who warned […]
(UPDATED FROM 1/25/2014) Joe Ligo has produced a well-rounded overview of the AMC Pacer’s short and mostly unhappy life. The almost 35-minute documentary is posted on YouTube. “I’m impressed with the film,” wrote Truth About […]
Over at The Truth About Cars, Matt Posky (2021a) recently wrote that his “stomach was in a twist” because the government was “talking about the merits of reducing people’s ability to own things.” His story […]
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 […]
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 […]
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