<VV> Fw: [Crosley_Gang] 1949 Crosley Hotshot...one of the Worst cars of all time????

[Tony Underwood]

At 06:50 PM 9/11/2007, Spencer Shepard wrote:
>Gang, I also belong to the Crosley club (being the owner of a '52 
>Super Sport). The Time article also maligned one of them with 
>inacuracies in "facts" and obvious lack of knowledge of the subject 
>vehicle. One of the members wrote the following to Time. I thought 
>it was pretty good. Spence Shepard ----- Forwarded Message ---- 
>From: "Posti at aol.com" <Posti at aol.com> To: 
>Crosley_Gang at yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 
>11:10:41 AM Subject: Re: [Crosley_Gang] 1949 Crosley Hotshot...one 
>of the Worst cars of all time???? I sent this to the Times Editor: 
>To the Editor: I was very surprised and disappointed to see the 
>depths to which Time's journalistic standards has sunk. The 
>Times.com article "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time" by Dan Neil is not 
>only grossly incorrect in many technical aspects, but written with a 
>style and language more suited to a teenager's blog than a Pulitzer 
>Prize-winning automotive critic. For all of his professed knowledge, 
>Mr. Neil obviously does not have a clue about many of the older 
>vehicles he ravaged, and did not feel the need to research his 
>'facts'. Such irresponsible journalism is disturbing in any media, 
>but when it appears under the Time banner I have to cringe. Yes, 
>this article is a piece of fluff, simple-minded filler to entertain. 
>Sadly, Time's reputation and the seeming expertise of the author 
>give it undeserved credibility. Too many readers who share Mr. 
>Neil's ignorance will simply accept his unsupported and often random 
>blathering as fact. And that, to use one of Mr. Neil's phrases, 
>marks Time as a truly 'craptastic' publication. Robert Stein 
>Norfolk, VA ************ ********* *********



This is pretty much what I'd intended to say in my own letter to Mr Neil...

It saves me the trouble to redundantly comment.





...however, I may still do it anyway.    ;)



tony..