Longtime GM executive Bob Stempel, who rose to the rank of GM CEO in the Nineties, died Monday at his home in Florida at the age of 77. Most of the obituaries note that Stempel was ousted as GM’s chairman following a stormy two-year tenure that ended in 1992. The boardroom coup that ended in […]
Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees posted this photo showing a GM modelmaker in November 1954 with a pair of concepts, neither of which look much like the full-size Motorama concepts of the mid-1950s. Note the driver figure in the one on the left that looks like the Phantom Corsair – were these possibly […]
Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted the widespread adoption of internal combustion. They have only been recently reconsidered as a viable means of transportation. Gasoline-electric hybrids were similarly abandoned after Dr. […]