My Car Quest

January 23, 2025

The Tesla Wanna-Bes are Legion

by Wallace Wyss - THE ELECTRIC CAR AGE IS UPON US and the big question among investors is “Who is the next Tesla?" Though it seems like with more than a half dozen American-based contenders in the EV-only (no ICE cars as well) there is a … [Read more...]

Marketing: Tesla – No TV Commercials, No Print Ads – But For How Long?

by Wallace Wyss - At the risk of invalidating the first few years of my professional life—where I was an ad copywriter in Detroit--I have come to wonder if automakers advertising their cars on TV or in print is at all useful. I began to … [Read more...]

Marketing: Hummer EV – Predicting a Flop

by Wallace Wyss - Originally, way back there was a military vehicle called the Humvee or Hummer. That made an impractical civilian car. So General Motors copied the styling and made a heavy vehicle that had similar styling, even offering it as a … [Read more...]

Ford: An American Contender Reluctantly Enters the EV Arena

Editors Note: This article is preparation by contributor Wallace Wyss for a book tentatively entitled How Tesla Killed Detroit. Reader comments are welcomed. Mike Gulett by Wallace Wyss - There are a lot of parallels between the first … [Read more...]

Editorial: Marketing – Does Lack of Models Hurt Tesla?

by Wallace Wyss - At first I puzzled why does Tesla, the world's most successful electric car brand, have so few models? And all the production ones look sorta/kinda the same. Oh, they've showed various prototypes like for the pickup truck … [Read more...]

Editorial: A Shotgun Marriage Proposal

by Wallace Wyss - For you newcomers (born after 2000) you might not know the old American phrase "shotgun marriage." That's when a young man has been instrumental in creating an offspring but it so happens he's not the marrying kind. That's when … [Read more...]