The Truth About Cars
By Samir | December 19, 2009
Recently, most of my focus has been to write about cars for TheTruthAboutCars.com. The subject was something I felt passionate about, and the former editor, Robert Farago, was excellent. Most of the copy I’d send would be morphed into delicious prose by his finger tips. Farago brought a contrarian, independent mind to the internet automotive universe and it stimulated many of us to pick up a keyboard and write!
On November 17, 2009, Robert left TTAC. Without its guiding light, the site has become a lot more tame and uninspiring. While I still love cars and read about them every day, I can’t say I feel the need to write about them anymore. I guess it was an instance of the medium inciting the message - without a medium, I don’t have a message.
So I’m going to return to my blog, writing about whatever I want, whenver I want. If it’s cars, so be it. If it’s dating, religion, literature, movies, concerts, trips, philosophy, politics, etc., so be it. If it’s life in general… so - be - it.
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Carticles!
By Samir | June 23, 2008
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Automotive Haiku 2
By Samir | April 14, 2008
Twelve pistons in synch
But gas costs more than in
All our yesterdays.
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Carticles!
By Samir | April 3, 2008
Well, busy season at work is over and I for one look forward to resuming regular blog entries.
On that note:
Carticle #1: Executive Pay in the Automotive Industry.
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Carticle
By Samir | January 10, 2008
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Automotive Haiku 1
By Samir | December 30, 2007
Ups, downs, lefts and rights
Resembles the Nurburgring
I’m talking of life.
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More Carticles
By Samir | November 30, 2007
Here’s my latest editorial on Sales and Inventory at GM and Toyota.
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Carticles for November
By Samir | November 17, 2007
-Automakers Cross The Thin Green Line
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Car thoughts
By Samir | July 6, 2007
Watching Jean Charest’s lame duck government has really extinguished my interest in politics at the current moment. Stephen Harper has resolutely adopted Jean Chrétien’s middle of the road approach, which will get him re-elected, but the downside is that Ottawa has gotten pretty boring too.
So, on to cars, then…
Via Autoblog, I’ve learned the Fiat 500 is now on sale in Europe. The car is an iconic little A-segment job, that is aimed directly at the VW New Beetle and the BMW Mini Cooper.
Just looking at that car, you realize that no matter how it drives, or how unreliable it’s electronics are going to be (it is Italian after all), it is still the car to own in the segment. Wow, hot.
Also, you may want to check out my review of the GMC Envoy, one of the worst trucks I ever had the “privilege” of driving. It’s here, at The Truth About Cars.
Chrysler, newly sold off by Daimler to Cerberus, released its sales figures today. Over 50% of examples were sold to fleet customers, not retail. That’s not a good sign when rental agencies and government are what’s keeping a company alive. It’s what happened right before Studebaker went under (way back when…). It really leads me to think that DCX actually paid Cerberus not to run Chrysler, but to break it up, get what it can from the revenue-producing assets, and extinguish the insane pension and health care liabilities.
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More carticles… (car articles)
By Samir | June 17, 2007
I’ve been a bit busy writing lately, on things non-political…
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=3956
It’s only 800 words but it did take some research.
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