Car Reviewing
When reviewing a car, one should not have any expectations whatsoever. Best if you could raise or lower your standards to that of the targetted market.
For example, when reviewing a Mercedes Benz SLR, you have to raise your standards. Or else, you will sound like someone who just came out of your cave and finding a microwave oven. In the same way, when reviewing a budget car, you should lower your standards. You cannot compare the budget car to the Mercedes Benz SLR you just reviewed.
Let me give you two examples of this moronic behaviour of not adjusting your standards.
Example 1
A ‘motorin journalist’ (editor somemore) was testing the new BMW 120d which is a diesel with manual transmission. He complained and cursed the car for it lack of power. He mentioned something about having to keep a constant eye on the RPM and trying hard to keep it in its powerband while changing gears, going throught twisty roads.
Why in the world would you want to drive a diesel powered BMW like a track car?? Why not take a Catepillar tractor unto the Sepang track and complain about how bad it is?
Example 2
A well known motoring magazine, with an equally well known editor moronically benchmarked three cars; Toyota Prius, Perodua Kenari and the SmartCar against a Lotus Elise MkII Exige.
Like I told a fren of mine, it is like comparing which has better value; a RM1 bill or a RM100 bill, and then mocking the RM1 or its lack of value.
Some of them are really good reviewers who knows cars inside out and with their hillarious remarks and all that, they are fun to watch. Most unfortunately, they dun use their brains to think about what the general motorist needs.
