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Originally Posted by FirestormFRS
You realize most of the staff of C&D are former automotive engineers from inside the industry? I'm not sure where you get your info but they don't use any "manufacturers data" for road tested cars. They log all the data themselves.
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Never said they used "manufacturers data" for road test data. They will take manufacturers hype on whatever features and generally try their best to sell it for them. (not always though, Q50 steer-by-wire they rightly called out as crap)
They are generally cheerleadery shills for the industry, catering to car *consumers* much more so than to enthusiasts. Of course that helps them sell a ton more mags.
They're definitely much more interested in tactile feel of plastics that I'll seldom if ever touch than in genuine underlying car goodness. My impression is that they don't have a lot of hands-on experience tweaking cars, but it may just be that their market is 90% motivated consumers whose primary interest in cars is how they will make others perceive them.
Anyway, I occasionally pick up a copy for a flight, and it always seems more like I've read a big advertisement than anything about the things that excite ME about cars.