When Pontiac’s infamously retina-searing Aztek pops up in popular auto industry analysis, it’s usually as little more than a throwaway punchline. So credit Thebigmoney.com’s Matthew DeBord for trying to leave the Thesaurus entry for “ugly” out of a recent piece dedicated entirely to one of the great modern styling miscalculations. Unfortunately, his admirable restraint serves

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Remember The Aztek!

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned the “YouthMobile 2030″ design challenge associated with the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. At the time, we highlighted GM’s “Car Hero” entry, but Audi’s designs deserve mention, too. The company has submitted two vehicles, the eOra and the eSpira, both of which were created with tomorrow’s social media-savvy ..

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Video: Audi’s Entries For The ‘YouthMobile 2030′ Competition

The die is cast. Robert Farago, the man who founded this site nearly a decade ago and nursed it into relevance and notoriety, has left the building. Those of us who remain behind take his burden onto our willing shoulders, dedicated to realizing his dream of a car blog that covers the most relevant industry

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TTAC Bids Farewell To Its Founder

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Ask the Best and Brightest: How Many GM Executives Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

You know how terrorism experts talk about increased “internet chatter” as foretelling some kind of attack? On Monday, GM will release its post-C11 financial results which, thanks to dubious accounting, could very well mean nothing. Even so, I’m getting the feeling that there’s some bad news a brewin’, ’cause the MSM is kissing some major

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NYT: GM Tries Harder

In four day’s time, my byline will appear on this website for the last time. During the previous nine-and-a-half years, I’ve watched the mainstream automotive press slowly evolve from paid cheerleader to . . . nope that’s it. No progress there. Despite having written literally thousands of diatribes against the media’s willful ignorance on the

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Between The Lines: Freep’s Whitacre Whitewash

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McLaren MP4-12C Puts Mercedes SLS to Shame

While reading through some of our analysis of Chrysler’s five-year plan, you may have found yourself wondering “what did the Pentastar boyz do to convince you of their company’s viability plan besides flash powerpoint slides at you for seven hours?” To fully comply with TTAC’s stringent disclosure standards, we present Chrysler’s material compensation for the

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What’s Wrong With This Picture: The Price Of Optimism Edition

Gag. And sigh. I’d kinda hoped that New York Times would stay away from the FoMoCo-flavored Kool-Aid long enough to see the potential drawbacks to the automaker’s inflatable seat belt idea. Or at least provide a reasonably coherent and comprehensive argument for the overarching supposition that the brand’s dedication to passenger safety supersedes that of

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“Is Ford Once Again Leading the Way in Auto Safety?”

WreckedExotics.com heads off the reservation to offer some discarded not to say abandoned Rolls Royce parts. Apparently the bits “Was [sic] removed from an undamaged Phantom to make a custom body. It includes the trunk lid with hinges and trunk liner, rear window, rear quarter windows, interior rear quarter C-pillar trim with wood and mirrors.

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WreckedExotics Offers Rolls Royce Phantom Parts for Tuner Sacrilege