Where do you like to get your automotive journalism? Personally, lately I've made no secret of how i feel about the traditional automotive press. I've had it! I've had it with having them dismiss and IGNORE American cars as irrelevant. I'm SO sick of them shoving "you should want a German car/Honda" down my throat! I'm done! Motor Trend, in particular, is DEAD TO ME. "We don't like this car because it's not a German car/Honda". ARGH!! I saw an article recently where the Focus RS lost to the Civic Type R. Give me a f***ing BREAK. The RS is TWICE the car the Civic is. I remember when the latest Golf R came out. They were SO happy to hand the hot hatch title back to the Golf from the Focus ST. They didn't even care to wait for the production version and actually compare them back to back!
Even the future preview sections in magazines like Automobile and Car and Driver are WEAK. They have MAYBE one blurb about a future car, usually one i don't care about. And then the rest is all tech and statistics and crap! LAME! That used to be my favorite part of the magazine! At one point i knew every last detail of every car available because i was THAT interested! That's gone now. The "new cars for 201X" issues are lame too! Unfortunately Motor Trend does the best one of those because they say SOMETHING about every new car. The others pick and choose a few to say something about and just leave the rest out. STUPID! Subscribing to more than one car magazine, there should not be anything coming out from a car manufacturer i don't know anything about. Happens all the time now. Even from Ford!
Anyway, I've been checking out a few "car opinion" type youtube channels lately. I've found some of them enjoyable. Sometimes you'll even find one where the person actually DOESN'T look down his/her nose at EVERY American car and doesn't necessarily wish it was a German car/Honda! It's SO strange!
This guy, I've enjoyed a few of his videos. He seems a little bit out of touch and his news-reporter way of speaking gets old after a while, but overall, pleasant to watch. (I've been watching some Lincoln videos lately out of curiousity).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUSv8b-V5I4
Now, THIS guy is .... well, crude, but enthusiastic, haha. I think the title for this video should have been "Elegant As F***".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jo3-924Ek
I've also enjoyed The Fast Lane stuff. They seem pretty knowledgeable and the guys are easy to like.
Anyway, what do you like? Where do you get your automotive news fix? I do read Autoblog and Jalopnik sometimes, but they are definitely old school automotive press. Same as any magazine.
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