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SIA Flashback – False Starts and Second GuessesAs far as automobile designers go, Eugene Bordinat isn’t discussed today in the same reverent tones as Harley Earl or Bill Mitchell (or even his predecessor, Elwood Engel). However, he presided over a challenging and rapidly changing era of design at Ford, an era that Jan Norbye captured i... |
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SIA: Global chip sales showing sequential growth, hints of recoveryThe latest efforts to “Go Green,” along with the rise of netbook computers, helped boost global chip sales in August by 5 percent, compared to the previous month - a common way for companies to gauge their recession-recovery efforts. On a year-over-year basis, sales were down 16 perc... |
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SIA Flashback – Call Me A Cab!Even though Checker hasn’t built a taxi in nearly 30 years, people still associate the brand with taxis, and vice versa. Which is why I’m glad that Ray Scroggins, in his article for SIA #54, December 1979, discussed not just Checker taxis, but also Rambler, Studebaker, De Soto, Ford,... |
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SIA Flashback – Everything AND the Kitchen SinkToday, we’d probably call Louie Mattar obsessive-compulsive. With a goal of absolute non-stop driving, he built his 1947 Cadillac into quite the road warrior, including a shower, a complex on-to-go tire-changing system and a combination toilet/washing machine (no, don’t ask). Thirty ... |
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News: Sia's homecomingAfter embarking on her first-ever Australian tour earlier this year, Sia is doing it all again this November. ... |
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SIA Flashback – A Half-Hour History of TurbochargersFunny how history repeats itself. During the fuel crises of the 1970s, many automotive engineers latched on to turbochargers as a means of reducing weight and thus saving fuel while maintaining the power outputs we’re used to. During the fuel crisis of the last couple years, turbochargers ... |
