He oversaw the peak of a revived Chrysler and Jeep and engineered the Dodge Viper
Castaing retired in 2000, serving on many boards of directors, as well as being elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He served on boards as diverse as the Detroit Science Center and Reynard Motorsport. He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2010.
Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed Ford, all its products and everyone who ever worked there. This was his introduction to objective automotive criticism. He started writing for City News Service in Los Angeles, then moved to Europe and became editor of a car magazine called, creatively, Auto.
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