by Wallace Wyss - It was a car, or van or SUV or Crossover, that should never have been built. Oh on paper it looked interesting -- a four seater convertible, four wheel drive (but never actually meant to go off-road). But in the … [Read more...]
Editorial: Desertion on the Field of Battle – The Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet
November 3, 2024 By 3 Comments
Is Rolls Royce Guilty of Wretched Excess?
October 28, 2024 By 3 Comments
Enuff already... by Wallace Wyss - Far be it from me, a lifelong devotee of car styling especially of bespoke cars where the designers are allowed to offer customers the ultimate in creating something special just for them, to then knock … [Read more...]
Ferrari F80 Design Critique
October 21, 2024 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - High-performance car maker Ferrari supposedly make the most profit of all automakers per vehicle. They have an iron hand on the dealers marketing their cars and thus can enforce who buys them. It appears by the look of the new … [Read more...]
Opinion: Do Robots Buy Cars?
September 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment
by Wallace Wyss - If I had enough lifetime left for 3 or 4 more careers I'd love to be a clay modeler for an automaker. Maybe it's too late to be one of that diminishing vocation--they are using what is called 5 axis machines to whittle a car … [Read more...]
Editorial: A Note to Porsche Marketing
July 22, 2024 By 9 Comments
Why not bring back the 356? by Wallace Wyss - I was going through my knee deep files the other day and came across a couple pictures of very early Porsches--I'm talking pre-A. One was a picture of one of the first aluminum bodied ones that … [Read more...]
The Prowler: Why I Want One
July 18, 2024 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I want one. Now originally I was a critic, like why build a car that looks like a hot rod and yet has a V6 under the hood. Most respecting hot rods of this stripe ('32 Ford roadster lookalike) have V8s, usually … [Read more...]
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