Tom
McCahill fue un crítico de automóviles en revistas como Mechanix Illustrated, Popular
Science, y Reader's Digest. Sus artículos criticaron los
accesorios, la mecánica, y las estrategias de ventas, y fue amigo de los
grandes de las corporaciones, creando también enemigos poderosos. En vocabulario:
goons, in lieu. Y un video de un test
drive a un Edsel de 1958
Thomas Jay McCahill III (1907–1975) was an automotive journalist, born the
grandson of a wealthy attorney in Larchmont, New York. McCahill graduated from Yale University with a degree in fine arts.
He is credited with, amongst other things, the creation of the "0 to
60" acceleration measurement now universally accepted in automotive
testing. He became a salesman for Marmon
and in the mid-1930s operated dealerships in Manhattan and Palm Springs,
featuring Rolls Royce, Jaguar and other high-line luxury cars. The depression
and his father's alcoholism wiped out his family's fortune.
