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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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The Compact Car That Killed the Company

Posted January 07, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

The subhead to Ken Gross's story about the Hudson Jet in SIA #60, December 1980, succinctly sums up his well-argued position: "There was nothing wrong with this early compact… except that it killed the company." Gross laid blame squarely on meddlesome Hudson president Ed Barit, but also noted that the Jet was years ahead of its time, while also highly lauded by European car enthusiasts. Either way, as he relates, the Jet also proved to be the last new Hudson product before the 1954 merger with Nash.

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Re: The Compact Car That Killed the Company

01/08/2010 9:17 AM

I had one, a great little car. Very comfortable.

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