Dancing on the proverbial graves of beleaguered car companies has become all the rage in the past decade. We saw a lot of it in 2008 — including the poorly chosen campaign rhetoric that has come back to haunt Michigander-non-g…
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So once again the fossil fuel party hangover is setting in. A good portion of the big windfall in record-setting auto industry profits in 2011 were in trucks and premium high performance models. Because fuel prices had modera…
Just before the General Motors bankruptcy in June of 2009 this commentator made an observation on a national network news broadcast — that many of the problems of the…
When people find out that driving and reviewing new cars is actually a job the first question out of everyone’s mouth is: ”So what’s your favorite car?” Over the years the value …
Right about now Clint Eastwood is fondly recalling those mid-sixties Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns where he never had to say more than a dozen words in an entire film. After his gra…
Throughout automotive history perceptions of beauty have been very particular to the beholders. In the early 1950’s Sears sold a car called the Allstate which was a thinly disguised Henry J — know…
The 2012 Philadelphia Auto Show rolls into the Convention Center this weekend with great optimism as the continued strength of the US car market appears to be a leading indicator of a wid…
A curious sidelight of doing auto manufacturer test drives for the past 30 years has been taking note of the big national TV ad campaigns that always seem to break right around the…
Ford wanted a boxy-type vehicle to go up against the Scion XB and the Honda Element but roomier. We know the big three automakers are in serious financial trouble, and who knows which ones will be around at the end of the year. Ford may be better off ri…
LET’S TALK CARS… STATION WAGONS HAVE COME A LONG WAY.. YES THAT PANELING LOOK WAS IN THE 70’S.
BUT NOW IT’S ALL ABOUT A WAGON THAT IS SLEEK AND STYLISH.
