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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Check out the lap records
Check out the lap records set at Adcock park by CCCC trackies...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Where the bloody hell are you? (As the saying goes...)
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
It's the silly season for car journos
Every newspaper and every car mag seems to have journos who like to vote for their own 'car of the year'. Let's face it - it's a wank. It's got precious little to do with actually choosing the car you want, rather it's an indulgence that makes the journos happy (because they get to drive lots of cars) and will please only the manufacturers who "win".
Look at this Aussie car of the year - the GM Holden Commodore. (From Carsguide.com.au) Heavier and thirstier than the previous model, it is a loathsome thing that will actually belt another nail into the climate change coffin. But it meets the criteria, doesn't it? Of course the journos set the criteria and off they go. In other places this is called corruption, or at least a conflict of interest.
But if we have an independent assessment of what's valued in a car, or even better if we select a panel of independent experts, they are deemed to 'not know cars'. At the end of the day journos need to sell newspapers (or websites, or mags) and will set the game up to be attractive to as many people as possible. So we can never get a true assessment of worth, as there is an inherent bias. We get what hey think we want. But what happens when the world is turning towards low-impact on the environment? Could it be that the journos will continue to feed us big, fast, fat cars as the "heroes" whilst we actually go out and buy smaller, lower-impact cars? Does anyone smell "irrelevance" here?
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Look at this Aussie car of the year - the GM Holden Commodore. (From Carsguide.com.au) Heavier and thirstier than the previous model, it is a loathsome thing that will actually belt another nail into the climate change coffin. But it meets the criteria, doesn't it? Of course the journos set the criteria and off they go. In other places this is called corruption, or at least a conflict of interest.
But if we have an independent assessment of what's valued in a car, or even better if we select a panel of independent experts, they are deemed to 'not know cars'. At the end of the day journos need to sell newspapers (or websites, or mags) and will set the game up to be attractive to as many people as possible. So we can never get a true assessment of worth, as there is an inherent bias. We get what hey think we want. But what happens when the world is turning towards low-impact on the environment? Could it be that the journos will continue to feed us big, fast, fat cars as the "heroes" whilst we actually go out and buy smaller, lower-impact cars? Does anyone smell "irrelevance" here?
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