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, October 22, 2026

Chevrolet's Massive 1941 Facelift

Back in 2022 I wondered if the 1961 Chevrolet (and by extension, other General Motors cars) were drastically facelifted 1959-1960 models. ...

Monday, October 19, 2026

Figoni's Talbot-Lago New York Type "Goutte d'Eau": Multiple Views

This post is a follow-on to my post "Figoni et Falaschi: From Delage 135 to Talbot-Lago 'Goutte d'Eau'." It mention...

Thursday, October 15, 2026

General Motors' Early-1960s Transition to Nested Trunk Lids

One design detail Bill Mitchell instituted after becoming General Motors' design vice president at the end of 1958 was trunk lids neste...

Monday, October 12, 2026

France's "Big Three" Styling Variations 1937

In the late 1930s automobile manufacturers were largely concentrated in five countries: United States, England, Germany, France and Italy in...

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Peugeot 203 Walkaround

Peugeot is, and was for decades, one of France's three leading domestic automobile brands, along with Renault and Citroën. World War 2...

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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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