When Irv Rybicki was interviewed by Dave Crippen (1985) about his design career at General Motors, he told a story about how the 1971 Cadillac Eldorado supposedly got opera windows. The Monte Carlo was initially […]
Debate within the Ford Motor Company about whether it should come out with a smaller, more economical car was discussed at a number of points in a corporate history by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest […]
President Trump’s recently signed budget bill is big and complex enough that its impacts in just one area — climate change — have been subject to debate. For example, a Princeton University research group recently […]
AAA recently projected that an unprecedented 72.2 million Americans would travel within the country during the Independence Day holiday weekend. Of that total, 61.6 million were expected to travel by car at least 50 miles […]
Do you ever wonder why American automotive history can have such a dumbed-down quality? I would argue that a big reason why is that the subject has never gained much traction in the scholarly realm. […]
Research has found that an increase in motion sickness has accompanied the growth in popularity of electric vehicles — and there is a scientific explanation for why. “Greater sickness in EVs can be attributed to […]
Brooks Stevens was a complicated character. For example, he championed ultra-simple car designs but also coined the term “planned obsolescence” to describe an industrial designer’s mission (Adamson, 2003; p. 129). One way that played out […]
Daniel Knowles, the midwest correspondent for The Economist, grew up in the United Kingdom and as a reporter has traveled extensively around the world. So when he recently wrote a book about the automobile, he […]
My perception is that there has been a fairly good gender balance at the auto shows I regularly attend at the LeMay Collections at Marymount. Thus, I wonder why so few women appear to participate […]
Whether John Z. DeLorean was merely a car guy with a tragic life trajectory or a sociopath has been an ongoing debate here at Indie Auto. Thus, I was intrigued to come across David E. […]
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