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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

Truth was we were taking Pontiac performance off the race track, like the Corporation wanted, and putting it on the street,” with the GTO, “like the Corporation didn’t want,” wrote Wangers in his reserve Glory Days. Even Eighties automobiles won the Motortown contact, together with the Dodge Charger 2.2. AMCI) in 1981.

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Celebrating Steve Jobs’s Impact on Consumer Tech and Design

Cars That Think

The Macintosh, the iPhone, the iPad, and more The Macintosh , introduced in 1984, was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse. It made computers that followed it more accessible and user-friendly, and it sparked a revolution in personal and business computing.

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Tales From the Beat Episode 108: Dan Roth

The Truth About Cars

Ed and Dan have a spirited conversation about how Dan has applied his experiences to different spaces, the culture shock of going from a newsroom to corporate PR, the viability of auto shows as a PR tool, messaging EVs and more. You're going from journalism to corporate over at the many versions of Chrysler. It either will or it won't.