Without knowing it, I guess I did.

I like fun cars!

 

100%.

The S2000 is another prime example of this. Numb steering, twitchy/unforgiving handling, glass diff, questionable heads cracking retainers, moody transmissions, squeaks/rattles galore, etc etc, alot of them preferring the Z since it made more power/torque. Now they clamor for the S2000.

You learn after awhile that alot of these press folks pretty much parrot the same thing and don't want to go out on a limb. I think that was one of many elements that made the Clarkson era Top Gear so compelling, he especially gave his own opinion on stuff, with a clear, unapologetic bias towards British cars, but at least he didn't just go around parroting everything.

 

Today everything is narratives being pushed vs. reality and the truth. Doesn’t matter what it is. Sports, cars, bikes, name any hobby, narratives are pushed, reality and honesty are not. Reality and honesty don’t sell to many people, narratives do. Sadly narratives are based in marketing. Repeat said BS so many times, that it impregnates people’s minds. It works on the weak minded, and ill-experienced. Then throw in the revisionist history a certain generation applies to all things, and you have a stew of caca. I’d happily go back to subscribing to snail in the mail magazines with get this “pictures” vs. video if we could go back to some real honesty and reality…and integrity.

These days people don’t even buy vehicles based on their own metrics and own test drives. You’ll see stuff like this: “I watched all the reviews….I’m buying X”. Whatever strangers said about it means more to them than their own opinion. Same said type of people get on forums, and blab about this vehicle vs. that vehicle, and the laptimes. Yet they’ve never done a track day in their life, and never will so what do lap times have to do with something you’ll be getting in the line with all the other parents to pick up your rat? Most “performance” thing you’ll ever do is WFO on an on-ramp, or excessively speed on a highway in close proximity to other motorists, or WFO at a light to show out on someone else and their vehicle, then hop on the forums or your social medias and talk about X, that you smoked.

These days these clowns want to be “in” with the press officer of x, y, and z manus. Too skurred to say the truth for fear of offending them. Well the world needs critics, constructive criticism and offending people or companies is many times necessary. Journalism, reviewing of anything, and marketing are so interlaced now, so interconnected you can’t tell where one begins and the other ends.

 

Yeah the problem with influencers is that there's really no accountability. When you run a multi million dollar tv show, if you lose your credibility you have more to lose. Traditionalist journalists have to write corrections if they get called out correctly (forgot what it's called, recants? Correction?) and could get fired from their jobs that they worked really hard to get. But any type a personality with a smart phone can be a journalist now with zero skin the game, and the algorithm rewards echo chambering controversial reactionary content.

 

I think the word you are looking for, is a retraction. Yeah, if they ever did that, they’d have to admit they were wrong about something. Good luck with that. Being “liked” is more important than “skill” now. Sad. Is what it is though.