"Bigger, Better, Newer" this used to be the tag line of every auto salesman I ever met, but in today's world it should read "smaller, smoother, slower". Americans have a love affair with the automobile, but the love may be dying a slow death as the latest technology, electronics, and smaller engines make today's cars slower and more expensive to service. In the early 1970's the cars did not have some if any of these …showed first 75 words of 593 total…

…showed last 75 words of 593 total…loss of simplicity in repair and maintenance? Is the efficiency of a small engine worth the higher costs of maintaining it? Is it better to produce plain cookie cutter designed automobiles in lieu of creating a design that touches the owner and sticks in the hearts and minds of the public? Sometimes people need to take that step back and remember how much simpler life was without all the "new and improved" in our lives