As the dreary trend toward the Universal Transportation Appliance or the crossover SUV will soon to be rendered even more drearily homogenous via electrification. It waxes, but it might be worthwhile to look at what wanes in the rearview and recall some of the heterogeneous cars that were once available. The Pillarless Hardtop Try to visualize a […]
Doomed: Studebaker Avanti (1963-1964)
Editor’s Note: This post has been excerpted from the forthcoming book, called Doomed. If you’ve ever hunted deer, you know that a dead deer can run for a surprising distance before it realizes it’s dead. So it was with Studebaker, one of America’s most famous deceased car companies. Though doomed by competition, it could no longer […]
The Yugo had its Merits
The joke goes: How do you double the value of a Yugo? Fill up the gas tank! True enough. And yet, nearly 800,000 of them were made and did you know that they were manufactured all the way through 2008? The Yugo was last sold in the US back in 1992, but it continued to […]
Taking the Time to Make a Luxury Car
The most exclusive and most expensive watches aren’t digital. They are meticulously hand-assembled mechanical things, with intricate wheels and mechanisms–the workings usually partially visible, so you can see and admire the workings and the workmanship. People pay huge money for them–in some cases, more than $50,000–even though they don’t keep time any better than a $5 Dollar […]
The Old Car Experience
If you’ve never driven an old car as opposed to a used car, you have probably never experienced certain things that were once part of the experience of driving a car. Like turning on the AC—assuming the car had AC. Many did not before AC became a given thing in the ’90s. You could feel the engine stagger under the load. It was […]
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