Midsize luxury cars are well-known for their driving, styling, and fuel-saving perks. The RLX has a 6-speed transmission, variable valve timing and variable cylinder management. Its MPG metrics are 20/331/24 city/highway/combined.… Continue Reading
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Robert Calem: How The Internet Changed His Career
Robert E. Calem is in this month’s Autowriters Spotlight because his career reflects how the interplay between the Fourth Estate and the Internet has changed what he still dignifies with a capital: Journalism. Writing has always been a solitary endeavor, but when I began my career nearly three decades ago (in 1986) Journalism was a… Continue Reading
Bait and Swtich Auto Ads Under Fire
Times & Post outdo rivals in number of stories exposing dealer and factory ‘bait & switch’ lease and loan offers on late-model vehicles. Hundreds of dealers using ‘bait & switch’ ads have lost franchises. ‘Tough’ stories on dicey new-model ads have been used by Times and Post writers despite dealer and factory ad blitzes. Many… Continue Reading
Autowriters Spotlight: Ezra Dyer
At the risk of enjoying it too much, or being caught in a Little Orphan Annie Mug kind of infinite regression with Ezra Dyer writing about Ezra Dyer writing about Ezra Dyer, ad infinitum, he gave AWCom the facts to do with as we might. Salient among them is his uncommon coupling of humor and… Continue Reading