My best friend in high school drove a black ’57 or ’58 Chevy Impala (I can’t remember which) convertible. Cruising in that baby on a hot summer day was a quintessentially American experience. It was THE coolest car on the road.  One occasionally saw some weird European thing driven by some odd eccentric, but in [...]

Talk about a clash of cultures. It will be fascinating, in kind of the same way a cockfight is fascinating, if you can ignore the blood, to see how Chrysler fares with its new partners. If a company run by Fiat execs, the union, the federal government and what’s left of the Chrysler management can [...]