So, please stop with all this "track day" crud! And WAY! over-optioned vehicles.
Maybe 1% of your readers ever even see their feet on the surface of a racetrack, much less ever drive or ride on one. Comparing the racetrack attributes of five 160hp 435lb 1000cc Sportbikes is meaningless unless it is just in the context of yet another vicarious video-game-like FANTASY. Whether the S550 or the A8 is faster around Sears Point (do they even call it that, anymore?) is not going to tip the average buyers decision one way or the other, is it? Much less so for someone buying a "Cute ute"?
More comparisons like the recent one between a 5(?) year-old previous Generation 3-Series BMW and a new one, which was interesting. Between a new BRZ vs. a used Boxter (or whatever it was). How's about a motorcycle magazine comparing a 10 year-old (lightly) used Sportster with a new one, taking into consideration the extra $'s that are almost always thrown at a new one before it ever leaves the showroom?
And while you are at it could at least one of the magazines test something other than the most fully optioned examples available? How's about just one test of the new Impala with the I-4? Why do they always get a 3-Series with enough optional crud on it to push it way, way into 5-Series territory. A Porsche with over $40K in OPTIONS?
How's about the new Cherokee with side-by-side comparison between FWD and the three AWD systems: if you are not headed towards the Rubicon Trail why do you need to climb a cliff face?
Testing $50K+ 1/2 ton pickups? Why not the one's people actually buy?
Cheers!
p.s. RANT DONE!
Maybe 1% of your readers ever even see their feet on the surface of a racetrack, much less ever drive or ride on one. Comparing the racetrack attributes of five 160hp 435lb 1000cc Sportbikes is meaningless unless it is just in the context of yet another vicarious video-game-like FANTASY. Whether the S550 or the A8 is faster around Sears Point (do they even call it that, anymore?) is not going to tip the average buyers decision one way or the other, is it? Much less so for someone buying a "Cute ute"?
More comparisons like the recent one between a 5(?) year-old previous Generation 3-Series BMW and a new one, which was interesting. Between a new BRZ vs. a used Boxter (or whatever it was). How's about a motorcycle magazine comparing a 10 year-old (lightly) used Sportster with a new one, taking into consideration the extra $'s that are almost always thrown at a new one before it ever leaves the showroom?
And while you are at it could at least one of the magazines test something other than the most fully optioned examples available? How's about just one test of the new Impala with the I-4? Why do they always get a 3-Series with enough optional crud on it to push it way, way into 5-Series territory. A Porsche with over $40K in OPTIONS?
How's about the new Cherokee with side-by-side comparison between FWD and the three AWD systems: if you are not headed towards the Rubicon Trail why do you need to climb a cliff face?
Testing $50K+ 1/2 ton pickups? Why not the one's people actually buy?
Cheers!
p.s. RANT DONE!