I have mentioned before that monitoring the American automotive media reminds me of the Bruce Springsteen song, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On).” The buff magazines and websites spend so much time trying to mimic each […]
Surely it couldn’t happen here. This is America! But stay with me for a moment: What if scientists concluded that auto history clickbait was bad for your health. Too much exposure to it turns your […]
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 […]
Before getting too far into the new year I should say a few words to close out 2021. Last year was a good one for Indie Auto. We produced some solid content despite increasing the […]
Since this is the season to buy car books, let’s find out which ones are the hottest at Amazon.com. If you click through the following links you will find that their top 100 auto history […]
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 […]
In my weekly cruise through a list of trade journals and buff magazines, I found virtually no coverage of a major international climate change summit called COP26 (go here to see Indie Auto’s bibliography of […]
(EXPANDED FROM 10/20/2021) My essay about Lee Iacocca elicited some interesting pushback, so I would like to offer some follow-up thoughts. Some commentators have pushed back against my criticisms of Iacocca by pointing to things […]
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