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.

Monday, September 7, 2026

What Were They Thinking?: Recent BMW Frontal Designs

Once upon a time, a BMW was "The Ultimate Driving Machine." The company's product line was fairly understandable: 3-series, 5...

Thursday, September 3, 2026

The Colorful 1955 Studebaker Speedster

I was shocked when I saw the first pictures of 1955 Studebaker hardtop coupes. The beautiful 1953 and only slightly degraded (due to a mini...

Monday, August 31, 2026

1942 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet Walkaround

The most distinctive classic first-generation Lincoln Continentals were the 1942 models. That's because Lincolns were heavily facelift...

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Chrysler's New 1976 "Compacts" Look A Lot Like The Previous Ones

This post deals with yet another seeming instance of a new design retaining elements of the superseded design, Chrysler Corporation's 19...

Monday, August 24, 2026

The Redesigned 1942 Cadillac Sixty Special

Cadillac introduced its Sixty Special model for the 1938 model year. Styling was by the young Bill Mitchell, who later became General Motor...

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Volvo 144 and 244: Same Body for 27 Model Years

Long gone are the late 1930s and circa-1950s, along with the occasional Detroit practice in those times of keeping a design in production fo...

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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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