But a fuckload more people will agree than disagree, and Road and Track are on the wrong side of the argument, and doubling down by being pedantic and whingeing about their audience. I think this is a recent thing. Automobile Magazine never ran like that. Motor Trend never ran like that. I'm willing to believe Road & Track is now because they haven't been worth reading for a long-ass while. 'member these? That's back when Road & Track used to care about precision. Back when they'd give you TRACK specs. Back when they were telling you things you couldn't just grab off the Internet because it involved original research. Now? Call your readers idiots for disagreeing that a fuckin' mustang isn't a sedan but a 240Z is.It's a fun thing to talk about, but obviously not everyone is gonna agree.
I think when car journalists write their opinion pieces, they have in the back of their mind a goal to get as many angry letters to the editor as possible. If you ever have a weekday afternoon where you find yourself bored with nothing to do, go to the library and look at a few back issues of magazines like Car and Driver and Motortrend and read the letters to the editor. People get their panties in a bunch over the smallest of details.
