Category: Smart Cars

Editor’s Note: While waiting for unwanted visits from Presidential candidates pretending to be on the UAW bandwagon this week, Peter delivers more blistering High-Octane Truth about the strike in his “Subterranean...

Editor’s Note: Buckle up. This week, Peter delivers the sobering High-Octane Truth about the strike – and the sad and ugly reality that Detroit as we know it is on the precipice of a death spiral. In On The Table, we...

Editor’s Note: This week, Peter talks about the ugly reality that consumes this town – the “Detroit Thing” –that everyone wants to pretend doesn’t exist but rears its head on an all-too-frequent basis....

Editor’s Note: This week, Peter brings up one of our favorite topics – the Answers to the Questions Nobody’s Asking. Just in case you were wondering, they don’t call him The Autoextremist for...

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Rant, we’re reprising one of Peter’s most-requested columns as he discusses how our individual and collective experiences with cars have everything to do with who we are, and how this...

Editor’s Note: This week, Peter reminds us – yet again – that it’s the True Believers who will ultimately make the difference between success and failure for the auto companies. In On The Table, Ford aims...

Editor’s Note: This week, Peter puts his foot down hard on the gas, skewering what the “auto hobby” has become due to the hucksters and greed merchants who have taken over the car “thing.” In On The...

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Rant, Peter addresses the coming Era of Bad Ideas that’s threatening to swallow the automobile business whole. In On The Table, we revisit the latest scam from Porsche – aka...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo  Detroit. After 24+ years of writing content for this website, you would think I have seen it all. And yes, I pretty much have. But the beauty of the “swirling maelstrom” that churns and burns and defines...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo  Detroit. I keep waiting for reality to set in when it comes to the auto industry as practiced around here, but clearly that isn’t happening anytime soon. The “Grand Transition” to EVs is running at such a...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. Reaching the end of an era in any pursuit is fraught with peril and consumed by endless hand-wringing about its place in history. Was it as good as we thought it was? Or was it even better than we...

By Peter M. DeLorenzo Detroit. That I have a deep love of everything Pontiac is well known. I grew up immersed in this business – right in the thick of GM’s heyday – and Pontiac played a crucial role in both my formative years...