[DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor

[Larry - Ohio Time]

Very true Bill. I think the crap would have a better chance of being read if
it was written well and entertaining as it was in the old days. We all love
a good story.

Larry - Cleveland

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Bill Lewis
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:36 AM
To: Rob Dumoulin
Cc: DeTomaso Mail List
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor

My subscription to CD expires soon - thankfully!!    My point is - who reads
those magazines.  All the articles are about cars that I will never buy,
describing (in excruciating detail) points that IMHO, who cares.  And, what
is the difference in a sedan/family car that has 300 or 400 or 500HP?
Seriously, who reads that crap!!!!    ---BILL Lewis

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:27:32 -0400
From: rob at dumoulins.net
To: cengles at cox.net
CC: mikeldrew at aol.com; detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor

Ditto here. I started subscribing to R&T in the early 80s and drop them
around 2004. Picked up a year of C&D a few years later but let it lapse for
the same reasons.
 
Now it's just First Freedom and Popular Mechanics.
 
Rob DuMoulin
904.476.8744
rob at dumoulins.net
www.kbsi.co
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-dumoulin/0/1b6/58
 
 
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, <cengles at cox.net> wrote:
 
> Dear Larry,
>
>
>               Hmmm.  It is the day of coincidences and great minds think
> alike.
>
>               I, too, have dropped my decades long subscriptions to R&T
> and C&D because of their descent into puerile writing.   I quit R&T when
> Peter Egan finished his last regular column.  For current reading,
> Grassroots Motorsports is a good solid publication for people that know
> enough about cars to be disappointed with what the mainstream mags have
> become.  GM's writing is not as good the old standards of R&T/C&D, but it
> is *honest* writing done by people that know cars, tools, driving and
> repairing sports cars.  My opinion.
>
>
>                          Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Larry - Ohio Time wrote:
>
>  Car & Driver was the only publication I read from cover to cover every
>> month
>> from '65 till around 95. The last years I found myself reading less and
>> less
>> till I got to the point of not renewing my subscription. I sill enjoy
>> going
>> back to re-read the old issues.
>> Car art by words.
>>
>>
>>
>> Larry (Popular Mech too) - Cleveland
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of
>> MikeLDrew at aol.com
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 12:56 AM
>> To: cengles at cox.net; detomaso at poca.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Automotive Journalism Humor
>>
>> Chuck,
>>
>> Brilliant stuff.
>>
>> To see just how far the standards of American automotive journalism have
>> plunged, pick up the August 1971 issue of Car and Driver, where the
Pantera
>> was introduced to the USA for the first time.   I was reading that issue
in
>> bed last night, and was bowled over at the outstanding prose contained
>> therein.   Not just one, but every single writer in that magazine had a
>> marvelous gift for expression, writing with a style and precision that
>> would be completely foreign to virtually all writers today.
>>
>> Sad....
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
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