6/30/2006

IT’S THE TRUTH

Some of you know this already, but I’ve started writing for The Truth About Cars, a website I’ve read and loved for the past couple years. My first two pieces are up on the site now. You can read this one about the sad state of domestic-brand subcompacts, or this one about what that first car means to high school kid. I am hopeful there will be more.

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  1. I too am a small car guy. I like the higher gas mileage and feel more comfortable manuvering a small car. The Focus is the only option from a Detroit company. Thus I end up looking at Mazdas and Toyotas.

    Comment by Sean Hackbarth — 7/1/2006 @ 12:54 pm

  2. Mmmm . . . the Mazda3. Tasty.

    Comment by Mark — 7/1/2006 @ 1:22 pm

  3. Yup. A few co-workers have them. Not “Zoom. Zoom.” Yum. Yum.

    Comment by Sean Hackbarth — 7/1/2006 @ 1:42 pm

  4. Behold, a 3-door Honda Civic coming out in January 2007:

    http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/06/29/2007-honda-civic-type-s-3-door-hatchback-unveiled/

    Comment by Sean Hackbarth — 7/2/2006 @ 2:08 am

  5. Holy Gran Turismo, Batman!

    Comment by Mark — 7/2/2006 @ 6:54 pm

  6. “In the late eighties, one car bestrode our teenage world like a colossus…”

    I see rsfc even had an effect on your writing…

    Jon

    Comment by Jon — 7/5/2006 @ 11:22 am

  7. I commented to your widdle bitty article. You forgot the first-gen Saturns, which were quite good (I owned one and loved it - about 98% as good as the Civic or Corolla of the day).

    Comment by M1EK — 7/10/2006 @ 4:13 pm

  8. Those first Saturns got no love, but everybody I knew who owned one seemed to like it.

    Comment by Mark — 7/10/2006 @ 7:22 pm

  9. I had one of those first generation saturns. Completely unimpressed. The only thing that it had going for it was that nothing broke. Outside of that, it was underpowered, not good looking, barely fit 3 people (though I once put 9 in it) and generally speaking un-loveable.

    Every other car I’ve had in my life, I’ve really enjoyed driving. That Saturn was nothing but a tool. A tool that served the purpose of locomotion quite well, but quite without interest.

    Comment by Me — 7/11/2006 @ 12:49 am

  10. “Me”:

    In other words, it was a perfect Corolla or Civic competitor. QED.

    (I had an SL2, which had the more powerful engine - and it was somewhat fun to drive at that level, but I get what you’re saying about presumably the SL1).

    Comment by M1EK — 7/12/2006 @ 8:49 am

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