To All: It’s been almost one year, January 29th, 2008, since I was attacked while walking for exercise. Trauma doctors, surgeons and dentists took most of the year to put me back together. I’ve undergone facial reconstruction surgery, eye surgery to rid me of double vision and I’ve done time in the dentist chair. I… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Pit Notes – January 2009
Hats off to IMPA for its informative November Impact coverage of a timely presentation and Q & A with Efraim Levy, senior industry analyst in Standard & Poor’s U.S. Equity Research Group. . . . Steve Saleen is back in the muscle car business after selling Saleen, Inc. and departing an aborted venture involving a… Continue Reading
Lane Changes – January 2009
With no explanation from the publisher nor comment as yet from Csaba Csere, he is out as vice president, editor-in-chief of Car and Driver. He left at the end of 2008 after 28 years with the publication, 16 as EIC. Hachette Fillipacchi Media Sr. VP and group editorial director John Owens is acting EIC until… Continue Reading
Across the Finish Line – January 2009
Terry Jackson, January 6, 2009. He covered autos for newspapers in California and Florida and continued to write about them while serving as Deputy Features Editor at the Miami Herald. Bob Carlson, December 18, 2008. The popular Porsche PR pro lost a long battle with cancer. In addition to his winning personality, he is best… Continue Reading
Road Ahead: Change Your Mind
We need to wake up and begin paying attention, to realize we can’t continue like we have, living the complacent and conspicuously consumptive lifestyle that too many have come to regard as an American birthright. It is just not sustainable, and that, sustainability, is the key to the future, to moving our civilization forward instead of backward.