Historiography: Ahead Of His Curve
Automotive historians could tell you that the industrialist had his hands in practically everything after World War II.
Automotive historians could tell you that the industrialist had his hands in practically everything after World War II.
Even as we’ve heard of the run on rental vehicles due to the multitude of flight cancellations…getting any rental car may seem like a gift in itself.
How does a failure occur? Mismanagement is one source of the problem. Incompetency is another – perhaps notes as the biggest source of failure.
Does it have to win wars? Rule the Rubicon Trail? Blaze a trail for equality? Or, become the preferred ride for mall crawling?
This large SUV fit in its role nicely. It is substantial, loaded with technology, very robust, and heavier than most products sold alongside of it.
It took a few years, another corporate merger, and the opening of a new plant in Detroit to finally deliver on the elusive three-row SUV.
Now that I took a summer drive to the Midwest Automotive Media Association Summer Drive in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, let’s talk about what I drove at the Summer Drive.