Quite frankly, almost all my TV consumption is YouTube now. I follow a bunch of car channels, and I sit down at night and watch their latest uploads and by then...I'm ready for bed.

In the last 5-6 months the only things I've watched on actual TV are election coverage and football.

Don't see how its any more fluff than anything else you watch. I really get a kick out of the fact that so many of these guys are just ordinary people. Alex is just a guy who likes reviewing cars, puts a lot of work into his videos clearly. These channels have gotten these ordinary people press access, press cars, etc. I think thats really cool.

 

 

 

Truly, I enjoy the enthusiast reviews with a high production quality way better than the "professional reviews". Its interesting to me that the enthusiast reviewers have way more subscribers than MotorTrend, Cars.com, etc.

Can't remember the last time I even picked up a car magazine. Its a shame, but its a dying thing.

 

Part of the problem with traditional journalism, though, is that, at least in my opinion, it puts too much power in the hands of editors, owners, and managers....who sometimes worry more about image than substance. That is one reason why I myself never wanted to work for an auto magazine...and I turned down an offer, several years ago, from one local newspaper to write a regular auto column.

 

 

OK, well, if that is your opinion, then so be it.......we'll respect it. But I don't know where you're going to find another reviewer as thorough....Good Luck.

And, don't forget, if Alex is not that interesting, it's not about him, or any other reviewer. It's about the vehicle. And Alex talks about the vehicle (and its competitors), not himself.

 

 

 

 

I don't do that much reading online. I look at a computer all the time at work, I prefer to watch reviews.

My dad was in the commercial printing paper business, he sold paper to printers and end users for use in magazines, catalogues, company annual reports, etc. That business is a huge barometer for the print industry, its done lol. At one time it was a huge business (did you know that the paper industry was at one time the second largest employer in Washington DC?), and he did very well...but today the guys I still know who worked with or for him are having to do other things on the side to make ends meet. Company he worked for is gone, etc. Sad.

Thats a great description. There are some times you want to be entertained, and some times you want to be informed. For instance, I don't care to sit through a 30 minute lecture on a Hyundai Elantra, but I will watch an entertaining 5 minute video about one, and I'll watch the 30 minute lecture about an S560 multiple times. The end result is though I know more about a Hyundai Elantra than I did before I watched the 5 minute video, which expands my knowledge about cars and segments and thats great. So, both have their place.

No offense Mike, but I skip over most of your reviews and get to your driving impressions for instance. Its just more detailed content than I want to know.

 

I understand.....no offense at all. I do reviews for the benefit of all of Car Chat and CL, not necessarily one specific person, though most of them are done by one or more specific requests from specific persons....some of them outside CL, in my personal life (got a lot of requests, for instance, for the new RAV-4). And you probably don't need my reviews.....you do enough test-driving on your own. You got to shoehorn yourself into the latest Miata, for instance, before I did LOL.

(Speaking of shoehorning, too bad neither you or I had a video of me trying to get in and out of a Lotus Elise (now THERE was something truly funny)....by comparison, the diminutive Elise made the Miata's cabin look almost like a roomy limo. I reviewed one some years ago up at Criswell, which is not far from where you live, before they dropped the Lotus franchise. At the time, I was 6" 2" and probably around 280. The salesman (and he sold those cars for a living) told me forget it, it was impossible. Well, I wouldn't forget it...I had never let any car defeat me in the past, and I wasn't going to start then. I had to actually lie down, completely sideways, head-first, push myself across the seats, curl my legs up under me, then SLOWLY bring my big legs back down and under the low fixed steering wheel, squeeze my big torso into the seat while twisting it back longitudinally, and bend/splay my legs around the steering wheel so they could operate the three pedals (no automatic transmissions in the Elise). I could barely shut the door, as it banged against my left leg. Once in, the salesperson gave me a look of amazement. He said....."OK, you proved you could get in....can you actually drive it?" I said, "Darn right I can drive it"...and went out and did a more or less normal test-drive, though using the clutch pedal, with my legs splayed like that, was sometimes a little awkward and took some care. I wrote up the review that night and posted it the next day.

(I won't go into how I managed to get out of the car, but trust me...it was equally funny).

 

 

colour match body cladding will be release in 2 years at the minor model change.

 

You are very well informed! The retool for the Cambridge plant begins early Feb with production beginning in early March. Woodstock began production this week.