What is Old is New Again

Having spent a couple days in New York City attending the media preview of the New York International Auto Show,  we couldn’t help but notice that automakers’ heritage has become a great branding tool, even for cars that aren’t blatantly “retro”-styled – although those that are seem to get an extra helping.
In a repeat of the […]

SIA Flashback – The Long and Short of It

My love for the shorty-type cars is not unprecedented, as we see from Ray Scroggins’s article on shortened and lengthened cars from SIA #66, December 1981. Less a rigorous examination of the causes for shortening and lengthening cars, Scroggins’s article is more a stab at a compendium, showcasing some of the various types of cars […]