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Detroit, 2:43 PM
Sat Dec 5
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And how did they manage to bring back Davis and O'Rourke and still lower the quality of the writing? Instead of the occasional awkward use of a pop culture reference, they now seem to be consciously trying to quilt together as many as possible as some kind of style experiment. I DON'T CARE WHAT A MIDDLE AGED AUTO JOURNALIST THINKS ABOUT PARIS HILTON.
12/02/09
Your dead on with the decay of real wit in the mag. It began to hurt my head to read it. Coveting john phillips was the straw for me.
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12/02/09
Even with its leg in the trap, GM manages to poop out a car or two that blacks the eye and bloodies the nose of the mighty MB SL63. And I'm looking forward to next year when we may see, instead of a Fit, a Fiesta. That should be fun.
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12/02/09
Assuming they can wrench it away from Ford, who appear to be adjusting the strap to fit their own heads at the moment. Never mind they're trying to fit themselves in there with VW. VW's corporate structure is, in a word, bizarre. VW may be the Emperor Joker but anything can happen. If VW tries to buy itself again and the deal falls through, does that mean they dissolve themselves in a fit of pique?
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01/22/09
Aside from that, it's a great car. Best-handling family sedan you can get for under a few grand these days, and it was quite good in its day as long as you didn't mind sticky door locks (on the base model) and a lack of rear seat room. Hell, even the trunk ain't bad.
I like it well enough.
01/22/09
CAR magazine blew the whistle on the political machinations of the European CotY award years ago, which went a long way to explaining Fiat's 9 awards and Renault's 6, compared to BMW's big fat zero.
01/22/09
As others have said - the Town Car doesn't deserve to be on the list. Ford aimed for the wants and needs for a particular demographic, gave them exactly what they wanted and it was a home run. It's laughable 18 years later when you see ratty beaters with the tail scraping the road, but it was a good honest car... unlike 90% of what Dodge and Pontiac sell. You knew exactly what you'd be getting with a town car, and if that was your taste - excellent.
Truth be told, this crap is why I stopped buying car & driver and motor trend years ago. It's so easy to poke fun of cars years later out of their context. Truth be told - when consumer reports refused to recommend a toyota before any of those mags had something bad to say - says a lot.
01/22/09
01/22/09
I loved that car. How they can piss on it now really shows that they are no longer a magazine that you can take seriously.
I was not going to renew C & D last year, but they called me and offered me 3 years for $20.
Won't take that call again, can't wait for it to end.
01/22/09
I guess this is the kind of artile to expect from the new editor at C&D. It is almost as good as his first column posted here a couple of weeks ago.
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01/22/09
I have a plan to someday get a manual Duratec Mystique with a rod knock or some such trouble and drop in a 3.0 from a Taurus. That'd be a good time.
01/22/09
Wait, so the Alliance was crappy because of the Wisconsin people who built it?
You can have a turd sculpted by Picasso, but it's still going to smell like a turd...
01/22/09
Bad performance?
Bad reliability?
Lousy sales?
Not profitable?
The most profitable, highest-volume cars would be considered terrible in the enthusiast's book.
From a sales perspective, the GTO was an epic flop. In my book, it's one of the best cars of our time (for the price).
01/22/09
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01/22/09
They just described Suzanne Summers' character from American Graffiti. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Also, capping on the XR4Ti? Bastards, that was a damn interesting car.
Car and Driver can suck my hairy left nut over a good portion of this list.