Charger-25 Review of The Cars That Made America

The Cars That Made America (2017)

Disjointed poorly edited soap opera (warning: contains spoilers)

[3/10 · 4 September 2017]

The writers and editors of this boring mundane and biased presentation of what was billed as the story of the impact of the automobile on America wound up with an unbalanced soap opera largely devoted to the story of the infighting within Ford Motor Company. The program's stated objective consisted of some historic footage of the Interstate Highway System. The overly extensive treatment of the DeLorean whose relevance to the subject matter was never really explained should have been severely shortened and replaced with the history of Chrysler, which was given short shrift throughout. If you're going to do a program which is actually the story of automobile companies as opposed to the history of the automobile, how do you fail to mention Virgil Exner and the Chryslers of the 50's while making the centerpiece of automotive design the Edsel? And how do you cover muscle cars without once mentioning the 426 Hemi? And how many scenes do we need of Ford executives firing pistols? Don't bother with this pointless exercise in tabloid journalism which is an insult to the viewer.