Topic: Bob Lutz
For decades, post war Europe and North America had two different ideas of the motor car as Europeans opted for small Beetles, Minis and Cinquecentos while Americans chose something much, much bigger.Fiat, Opel, Ford, Volkswagen, even Mercedes and BMW were on trend, ...
General Motors ( GM - news - people ) created the first design studio in the industry in the late 1920s, and dominated the industry with those longer-lower-wider looks. That might have had a lot to do with GM's decline.. A larger ...