Re: Impulse+my opinions (long impulse!)

[Riley McDowall <rileym@sfu.ca>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Kevin McGrath wrote:

> where they took a few very heavily modified Porsches out on some desert
> road trying to hit 200 MPH. Now I don't like them forgetting to give us
> information, but what othe car mag has such blatent disrespect for the
> law? EC does and I don't know why but I get a huge kick out of it. Call

Yeah, I liked that article too!  Used it as an example of why EC is better
than C&D, etc when talking to some friends.  But....word is on that
article that it was done by a freelancer (no doubt affiliated with Power
Haus); what's worse, they printed speeds taken off the speedometers of the
various cars instead of using proper radar/lidar measurement.  The 911
Turbo will NOT do 192 - Motor Trend could only get 181 or thereabouts from
it in their last 'ultimate' test.  I can only imagine how inflated the top
speeds on the 944 and 911 convertible were....

> me childish or whatever but I like their F U style of writing
> sometimes.   

I've gotta say I am really disappointed with the writing in EC these days.
Where do they find these hacks?  I've seen English 12 essays with C
minuses on them that read better.  Its' the same formula every time -
start with a dictionary definition of something, yak about all the great
mods, then conclude with some remark relating back to the intro.  It's
f*cking horrible....look at the last few issues and tell me I'm wrong...

Les Bidrawn and James Sly write good articles, I will give EC that.  But
I'd love to know what they do with all the Neuspeed/RPI/Autotech/CEC
advertising dollars they pull in every month.  They sure as hell aren't
spending it on putting out a better magazine.  

I started writing this in a good mood, and now I'm pissed off...:P

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