The rise, fall, and rise again of retro car design
The past becomes the present when designers are inspired by an automotive brand’s past. But is it the easy way out?
Bringing Up the Rear
Why Chrysler embraced rear-wheel-drive after many automakers had embraced front-wheel drive.
The first luxury SUV? It wasn’t the Range Rover
Land Rover didn’t offer the first luxury SUV. That honor falls to Kaiser Jeep, which fielded the first one in 1966. Too bad it didn’t succeed.
How Packard could have doomed Chrysler Corporation
Imagine Packard being bought by Walter Chrysler and Charles Nash after their stints at GM. It came close to happening.