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Originally Posted by guybo
If I had $36k to spend on a car, it wouldn't be a Miata. This comparison is stupid, there's $10,000 difference between the cars. Why don't they just throw in a Cayman to the mix too?
If a mag is doing anything other than comparing like-for-like, they are selling something, not reviewing anything. MotoTrend is automotive "journalism" at its worst. Pick up the print magazine and check out the ads- the people paying the bills. Then look at the "review" of that product a few pages later. It happens all the time, they cannot be unbiased or they'll bite the hand that feeds them.
So for $10k less, there was only 1/10's between them AND the 86 has room for passengers in the back? Look outside the lines, that's a clear win to me.
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I wouldn't be so quick to jump to that conclusion. Without watching the video, this sounds like it echoes the last H2H they did between these two. And MT isn't the first publication to compare the two and come to this conclusion.
As someone who worked at an ad agency for a couple years and also at a major magazine publication in the ad sales department, I can tell you that what you're talking about does happen but it's typically so blatant that even your grandma would notice it; and it typically happens in much lower profile magazines.
Could MT be biased? I'd bet the higher ups might be. But when it comes to the actual writers and test drivers, I can assure you, they're gonna do their best to get their real opinions through even if they are encouraged to swing the piece one way or another.