Good reading...:D

http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-fi-neil17-2009apr17,0,6173168.column

Dan really has to be one of the best automotive writters in the "Paper" biz today :thumbsup:

If it sounds like he really likes a car he's reviewing, you'd better go re-read it - I bet he is panning the he11 out of it and you just missed it ;)

Go to the LA Times site a read one of his recent articles on the new BMW 750 - it's one of the better I've ever written :yes:
Then see if you can fiqure out if he actually liked the car or not...

I like these lines;


"You have to understand, after four decades in the market, the Camaro nameplate stands for something: 40-ounce beers, mullet hairdos, barbed-wire tattoos, that trick where you put cigarettes out on your tongue. If you ever stole cable TV from your neighbor, own more than two stuffed deer heads or have ever confused your girlfriend's birth-control pills for Skittles, you might be a Camaro prospect.

Oh, please, don't even start with accusations of cultural stereotyping. I'm from North Carolina. A telephone pole with a Camaro wrapped around it might as well be the state tree."




"All you have to do is romp the throttle and hang on. Zero-to-60-mph acceleration comes in at 4.6 seconds; from there it's all gear-grabbing and clutch-humping until the car crosses the quarter-mile stripe in fourth gear at 13 seconds flat. So it's respectably quick. Indeed, the SS zips down the speedway on pace with the Subaru WRX STi. The difference: The Subie sounds like an RC airplane and the Camaro sounds like a gasoline-powered Gatling gun."

Yeah, I couldn't tell if he liked it or not, but it was entertaining...:D

Bet he's never turned a wrench in his life, but he can appreciate the "high-revving Nissan 370Z or Mazda RX-8". Oh, that damn pushrod is so archaic! Yet, he admires the Mustang with it's 'bland solid rear axle' from the 1970s! The horror! The LA Times should stick to reviewing movies and sushi restaraunts.