Can u hear the grill sizzling? TTAC EVISCERATES car journo hacks

[Rupert]

Canteens?

The only thing I don't like about the no cup holder situation is that I can't just grab a cup of coffee-- I need a sealed mug.

[Soup DeVille]

One. 

I would be fine replacing it with a cupholder, except that it would get in the way of the shifter.

I'm betting its a serious stamped metal one with adjacent lighter though.

[SVT666]

Were people really dehydrated before Chrysler started the cupholder arms race in 1984?

Nope. We held the drinks between our thighs. Made driving a stick a very wet experience.

[Rupert]

I'm betting its a serious stamped metal one with adjacent lighter though.

Yep. Fortunately my car was never smoked in...

[Rupert]

Nope. We held the drinks between our thighs. Made driving a stick a very wet experience.

[Laconian]

That's what he said

(gender pronoun altered to reflect SPIN reality)

[mzziaz]

That's what he said

(gender pronoun altered to reflect SPIN reality)

[AutobahnSHO]

Nope. We held the drinks between our thighs. Made driving a stick a very wet experience.

my cousin showed me that it takes manliness to drive stick with a slurpee and no lid in the city
(no cupholders in his 70s Corolla)

[Tave]

Engaging ABS takes super duper track skillz? Yeesh...

The problem is journalists are journalists, racecar drivers are racecar drivers, and there isn't enough overlap between the two to satisfy all the demand for automotive reviews. Not to mention most of the car buying public, and probably most of the auto journalism audience, doesn't really care about "at the limit" vehicle traits.

[MX793]

Engaging ABS takes super duper track skillz? Yeesh...

The problem is journalists are journalists, racecar drivers are racecar drivers, and there isn't enough overlap between the two to satisfy all the demand for automotive reviews. Not to mention most of the car buying public, and probably most of the auto journalism audience, doesn't really care about "at the limit" vehicle traits.

An auto journalist is exempt from going to track days, participating in auto-x, or attending HPDEs?  One needn't be a "professional" race driver to have experience with pushing a car to its limits.

[MrH]

Engaging ABS takes super duper track skillz? Yeesh...

The problem is journalists are journalists, racecar drivers are racecar drivers, and there isn't enough overlap between the two to satisfy all the demand for automotive reviews. Not to mention most of the car buying public, and probably most of the auto journalism audience, doesn't really care about "at the limit" vehicle traits.

That's why I like Chris Harris so much.  Part journalist, part stud driver, part entertainer.  Few do it better IMO.

[Madman]

Everyone likes to do their best Clarkson impression.

The genesis of this whole "I'm a driving GOD!" school of auto journalism pre-dates Clarkson.

I'm afraid we have to blame the legendary LJK Setright for this.

Setright must have possessed the world's most sensitive pair of buttocks because, if his articles are to be believed, his posterior was able to detect the tiniest of variables in suspension geometry, tyre compounds, damper settings, axle ratios and camber alignment in any car he drove.  Indeed, if the man were to run over a sixpence, Setright's magic bottom would be able to determine if the coin were facing up heads or tails!

Not to be outdone, other motoring journos soon became imbued with this super-human ability to pinpoint the most miniscule "flaw" in a car's set-up from nothing more than a quick blast on some mountain roads.  They've been imitating Setright's "Princess and the Pea" syndrome since at least the 1970s and it continues to this very day.

[93JC]

We interrupting your regular programming for this important news bulletin. Car journalist hacks attack other car journalist hacks in some sort of desperate plea for readers. More at 11.



(Obviously I didn't even bother reading this shit. They're all hacks.)

[Northlands]

That's what he said

(gender pronoun altered to reflect SPIN reality)

That was great!