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Why does Joe Ligo’s PBS series sanewash AMC’s mid-70s recklessness?

October 6, 2026 Steve 20

(EXPANDED FROM 5/28/2025) The Society of Automotive Historians (2026) recently gave the 2026 E. P. Ingersoll Award to The Last Independent American Automaker. This television documentary about American Motors strikes me as an obvious choice, […]

2026 Ram pickups
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A pyrrhic regulatory rollback and how poorly the 1978 Matador coupe sold

October 2, 2026 Steve 12

The American car-buff media has struck me as rather stale lately, but one relative newcomer has offered a ray of hope. The Car Collective’s Substack is a “newsletter” (re: a website with email distribution) that […]

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October 2, 2026 Steve 0
1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV
Current Events

Is David Kiley right that Ford should replace Lincoln with a new brand?

September 2, 2026 Steve 21

David Kiley (2026) recently argued in The Car Collective’s Substack newsletter that Lincoln should be killed. His opinion piece shows a lot more spunk than what one might find in the vapid pages of Automotive […]

1980 Buick Skylark
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New Yorker story shows difficulties of an outsider reporting on auto industry

July 31, 2026 Steve 5

(UPDATED FROM 4/25/2024) Industry coverage by journalists from outside the automotive media can be a mixed bag. They are less likely to succumb to the groupthink that can undercut reporting from the likes of Automotive […]

2026 Slate Trucks
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Automotive News’ Laurence Iliff puts away pom-poms for the Slate Truck

July 28, 2026 Steve 15

Automotive News’ coverage of product launches tends to display lots of pom-pom waving, so it was curious that a recent story about the Slate Truck was fairly negative. I think it is entirely reasonable to […]

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Trending Books: The amazing story of an American legend

July 10, 2026 Steve 0
1969 Mercury Cyclone
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Motorcade magazine’s ‘sneak peek’ of the 1969 models made up a whole lot of stuff

July 3, 2026 Steve 0

(UPDATED FROM 4/17/2024) Motorcade is among the more obscure magazines included in the Automotive History Preservation Society’s archives. A preview of the 1969 models may hint at why the magazine apparently did not survive the […]

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Herrings Motor News shows how to make your muscle car really fly!

June 15, 2026 Steve 0
Robert McNamara upside down
Media Analysis

Automotive Hall of Fame post on Robert McNamara is still riddled with fact errors

June 15, 2026 Steve 30

(EXPANDED FROM 1/17/2024) More than two years ago we pointed out that the Automotive Hall of Fame posted remarkably inaccurate information about former Ford Motor Company executive Robert McNamara. Their fact errors still haven’t been […]

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