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I was on WYPR previewing the Baltimore Auto Show. Here are the links.

3/12/2019

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Click Here for My 2019 Auto Show Preview
Click Here for My 2018 Auto Show Preview
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Crossovers are pointless and largely terrible cars. So why do people keep buying them in such huge numbers?

3/7/2019

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There, I said it.  I honestly do not understand America’s love affair with the crossover.  Basically, what car companies do to create them is to take your average garden-variety hatchback or wagon, put new bodywork on it, and raise both the ride height and the price.  Because these cars are higher off the ground then their hatchback cousins, they are worse to drive and get much worse gas mileage.  They are also rather unappealing to look at; styling-wise, they are the car industry’s equivalent of a blobfish. Or would that be Ted Cruz? Same thing, I suppose.

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Following the demise of the Volkswagen Beetle, Rory looks at retro hits and misses of the automotive industry.

3/7/2019

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It’s old news by now, but I’m sure you have all heard that the Volkswagen Beetle goes out of production this year. The Beetle is one of the last remnants in the auto industry of a craze for “retro” cars, cars that imitated the styling of an older product by that automaker. There are some retro cars still coming out today, but the trend is not nearly what it was. Still, I thought I would take a look at some of the retro hits and misses of the industry.

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Mitsubishi is making bad cars on purpose

3/6/2019

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If you are reading this piece, you likely saw the headline. And if you saw the headline, you likely scoffed at the absurdity of the notion that a carmaker would deliberately be making terrible cars. I did too, but after eliminating all the other options, I had to go with the only remaining one. ​

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    Rory Cahill is a highly sarcastic teenage car enthusiast and amateur automotive journalist, who is especially interested in 80s/90s cars, classic off-roaders, and anything weird. He owns a 1984 Mercedes-Benz 300D Turbodiesel.  He is also very interested in rock music and politics, and wrote this whole bio in the third person because he is a filthy, filthy snob

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