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, December 4, 2025

Oldsmobile's Attractive Delta 88 Royale Hardtop Coupe: 1969-1973

Bill Mitchell (Wikipedia entry here ) was in charge of design at General Motors 1958-1977. That was from the tailfin era to when governmen...

Monday, December 1, 2025

Chrysler's Other 1950 Concept Car from Italy

Chrysler Corporation's first postwar "concept car" was the Plymouth XX-500 of 1950 that wasn't actually a true Concept Car...

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Morris' 1948 Postwar Line - Updated with Side-Views

In 2019 I posted "Morris 1948 Badge Engineering -- And More!" but did not include my preferred use of profile views to illustrate...

Monday, November 24, 2025

Bugatti Type 57 "Galibier" Berline, 1934-1939

Thanks to World War 2, Bugatti's efforts to replace 1934+ Type 57 models were put on hold. Patron Ettore Bugatti died in 1947. Post...

Thursday, November 20, 2025

1954 Chrysler-Ghia GS-1 Low-Production Car

Chrysler Corporation sponsored several Italian-style concept cars designed by Vigil Exner in the early 1950s. They were built by Carrozzer...

Monday, November 17, 2025

2004 Pontiac Grand Prix Walkaround

Back in 2005 I briefly considered buying a Pontiac Grand Prix, but thought it was too similar to the Oldsmobile Intrigue I was driving. S...

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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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