Car Style Critic

A blog about automobile styling. The emphasis is on history, but the appearance of current production and concept cars will be evaluated as well.

Thursday, November 21, 2024

1932 Daimler Double-Six 40/50 Walter Sport Saloon

Back in 2014 I wrote a popular post titled "Very Long Hoods." One of the cars shown was a sporty 1931 Daimler V-12 drophead (con...

Monday, November 18, 2024

1958 Studebaker-Packard Hawks Compared

A classic American car design was that of the 1953 Studebaker Starliner hardtop coupe. Credited publicly to famed industrial designer Raymo...

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Bristol 406 Zagato: What Were They Thinking?

The classic Bristol 401 design that I wrote about here was replaced in 1958 by the Bristol 406 . A year later the Bristol 406 Zagato app...

Monday, November 11, 2024

1992-2011 Mercury Grand Marquis: 3 Generations?

The Wikipedia entry for the Mercury Grand Marquis (as of early August 2024) states that there were four "generations" of that mod...

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Oldsmobile Cutlass' Front/Rear Facelifts 1968-1972

Back around 1970 General Motors had plenty of cash and continued its long-time policy of facelifting cars annually during the course of a de...

Monday, November 4, 2024

Auburn 851 Speedster: Multiple Perspectives

Critics needn't criticize in the negative sense. And, I have nothing negative to say regarding the styling of the boat-tail 1935-1936 A...

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Donald Pittenger: Undergraduate art major. Ph.D. in Sociology, Demography from a fancy Ivy university. Software system and user interface designer and programmer. Writing about art and design on the Internet since 2005. Email: dbpittenger (at) earthlink.net

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