What's amazing is Car and Driver did a stupid piece awhile back about how actually/allegedly using the battery generates heat so cold weather use of EVs is just fine, and it's a myth otherwise etc. I was like WTF are you idiots (like everything MSM, they toe the MSM/advertisers line) talking about. And here we are....
(Brock Yates - organizer of the Cannonball NY-LA races - is probably spinning in his grave at what C/D has become.)
What mag would you recommend today? I used to get them all at various times: Car and Driver, Road and Track, Motor Trend. My last was Automobile, even though it was somewhat hoity-toity in its demeanor. It did not survive a publisher's culling of low-popularity titles and the lofty opinionators are now silent as tombs.
I don't have one really. I quit doing print ones, as there is too little content to justify buying anything. I quit reading R&T site after one too many woke takes on things, and C/D is starting to push it (recent piece called Musk a loser of the year "because Twitter, enough said" (at least several commenters beside myself called them out on this). MT was always TOO obvious about being commercials for everything (they all are but it was always insane, and the obvious reason for their low-ass price). I agree Automobile was always too hoity-toity LOL. I used to read Excellence and have quite the stack of those, but haven't bothered so much as it got thinner, anything current is typically SUV crap, resto-mod's make me throw up (Singer can go to hell), etc.
The sad thing is, print journalism used to be good, magazines (ad revenue) thick, etc, and almost nothing has this kind of content anymore. The one mag I was still buying on the newsstand from time to time was Vintage Guitar, which apparently that market still keeps alive, but they screwed the pooch by, at the end of a "what is Clapton up to these days" piece said "I just wish he'd wear a damn mask." I sent them a scorching email about keeping the politics out of shit esp when the dude is vax-damaged and everything, and how I will never give them another cent.
Heh, I did buy a copy of Rimfire awhile back since they had a bunch of heavy-barrel target-type ones on the cover and I figured that would be interesting reading (it was).
And yeah, it's a total pity. Online writing doesn't really allow for the read-with-your-feet-up kind of stories and columns print does. You think about guys like Peter Egan for example, that's simply not going to happen again, unless somehow we go back. Guys like that would be writing about cars or whatever, sure, but they were writing about life, people, the world, etc too.
I hear some of the club magazines, like BMW Roundel or whatever, are where some the guys still in the business have gravitated to btw. (I knew a guy who'd been at Automobile - of all of them ha - for some time a couple jobs ago, so that's who mentioned this. He was interesting - he of course drove some hot shit from time to time. Example: he said of the 427 Cobra, he thought the clutch was gone and totally slipping, and the guy behind him said no you keep roasting the tires.)
What's amazing is Car and Driver did a stupid piece awhile back about how actually/allegedly using the battery generates heat so cold weather use of EVs is just fine, and it's a myth otherwise etc. I was like WTF are you idiots (like everything MSM, they toe the MSM/advertisers line) talking about. And here we are....
(Brock Yates - organizer of the Cannonball NY-LA races - is probably spinning in his grave at what C/D has become.)
Oh my God. What a stupid ass to say that battery generates heat so cold will work better.
Just try using Christmas light with battery inside the home vs outside and see how long the battery last. Simple and free experiments.
Dumb *f, even 5 graders should know.
Yup.
What mag would you recommend today? I used to get them all at various times: Car and Driver, Road and Track, Motor Trend. My last was Automobile, even though it was somewhat hoity-toity in its demeanor. It did not survive a publisher's culling of low-popularity titles and the lofty opinionators are now silent as tombs.
I don't have one really. I quit doing print ones, as there is too little content to justify buying anything. I quit reading R&T site after one too many woke takes on things, and C/D is starting to push it (recent piece called Musk a loser of the year "because Twitter, enough said" (at least several commenters beside myself called them out on this). MT was always TOO obvious about being commercials for everything (they all are but it was always insane, and the obvious reason for their low-ass price). I agree Automobile was always too hoity-toity LOL. I used to read Excellence and have quite the stack of those, but haven't bothered so much as it got thinner, anything current is typically SUV crap, resto-mod's make me throw up (Singer can go to hell), etc.
The sad thing is, print journalism used to be good, magazines (ad revenue) thick, etc, and almost nothing has this kind of content anymore. The one mag I was still buying on the newsstand from time to time was Vintage Guitar, which apparently that market still keeps alive, but they screwed the pooch by, at the end of a "what is Clapton up to these days" piece said "I just wish he'd wear a damn mask." I sent them a scorching email about keeping the politics out of shit esp when the dude is vax-damaged and everything, and how I will never give them another cent.
Wow. Thanks for the overview. What a pity. About the only magazines I keep now are gun and aerospace magazines.
Heh, I did buy a copy of Rimfire awhile back since they had a bunch of heavy-barrel target-type ones on the cover and I figured that would be interesting reading (it was).
And yeah, it's a total pity. Online writing doesn't really allow for the read-with-your-feet-up kind of stories and columns print does. You think about guys like Peter Egan for example, that's simply not going to happen again, unless somehow we go back. Guys like that would be writing about cars or whatever, sure, but they were writing about life, people, the world, etc too.
I hear some of the club magazines, like BMW Roundel or whatever, are where some the guys still in the business have gravitated to btw. (I knew a guy who'd been at Automobile - of all of them ha - for some time a couple jobs ago, so that's who mentioned this. He was interesting - he of course drove some hot shit from time to time. Example: he said of the 427 Cobra, he thought the clutch was gone and totally slipping, and the guy behind him said no you keep roasting the tires.)