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MotorTrend has a firm, meaty grip on the future

July 28, 2021 Steve 0

To honor the death of Mustang 360, we are rerunning a review from June 10, 2020. The life of this legendary website was tragically cut short when it was folded into Hot Rod magazine, whose […]

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Automotive Views: New Ford meets growing need in west

July 8, 2021 Steve 0
2018 Honda Odyssey
Letters to the Editor

Excessive styling may not be right approach for minivans

June 25, 2021 Steve 0

The following letter is in response to our story, “2018 Honda Odyssey: Somebody’s going to hell.” It appears that the Japanese manufacturers have decided to produce the “expressive” models of minivans. Honda to greater degree […]

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David Halberstam: Why Bunkie Knudsen ‘never had a chance at Ford’

June 22, 2021 Steve 4

“Bunkie Knudsen never had a chance at Ford. It was not that he lacked the skill to handle the job; indeed, that was something that almost never came up. It was that Ford was so […]

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Automotive Views: Ford gives two words a major redesign

June 11, 2021 Steve 0
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Ads comparing Ford Granada to a Mercedes were ‘brilliant’

May 19, 2021 Steve 0

“The Granada/Mercedes campaign was a stroke of absolute brilliance. Why do you think we remember it 40 some years later after nearly every Granada has been made into a Huawei refrigerator? Ok, so Consumer Reports […]

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Letters to the Editor

Kim Margosein: Ford Maverick was the last of the simple cars

April 30, 2021 Steve 3

When Indie Auto opened up its comment threads, I failed to “enable” that function on a few stories. That included, “What a simple modern car should look like.” So Kim Margosein used our contact form […]

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Aaron Severson: Would Ford Cardinal have spawned FWD derivatives in U.S.?

April 23, 2021 Steve 9

“We may speculate, of course, that had Ford gone ahead with the U.S.-market Cardinal/Taunus P4 and if that had been reasonably successful, it might have spawned follow-on FWD derivatives in the manner of the later […]

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Patrick Foster: International failed to grow with truck market

April 16, 2021 Steve 0

“(T)he truck market was going to break out of its previous boundaries and begin a historic climb in which it would eventually surpass automobiles in total sales. In time trucks would become the biggest and […]

1965 Lincoln Continental
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Could you give feedback on my sample article for hotcars.com?

April 9, 2021 Steve 1

Doing Indie Auto’s been fun, but it’s not making me rich. So when I heard that hotcars.com was hiring freelancers, I thought: Here’s my ticket! Thank you, Automotive Books and Periodicals, for posting their “We’re […]

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    A pyrrhic regulatory rollback and how poorly the 1978 Matador coupe sold
    October 2, 2026 12
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    Did the 1962-65 Chrysler 300 ‘dilute’ the letter series?
    September 29, 2026 7
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    Three rules led to a stultifying level of conformity in 1960s U.S. car design
    September 24, 2026 12
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    Data on imports sheds light on their dramatic gains from 1964-80
    September 18, 2026 5
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    1974 Chrysler New Yorker was a tragedy that played out on four levels
    September 16, 2026 16
  • Internet problems reminded me of U.S. automakers in the 1970s
    May 2, 2026 1
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    Readers brainstorm ideas for future Indie Auto stories
    October 14, 2022 141
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