Motor Trend is pretty much the bottom of the barrel, least credible of the "big three" car mags. (Car and Driver, Road&Track, Motor Trend) The reviews always read like so much ad flack, they have pretty much prostituted themselves into corporate mouthpieces for the car companies.

Now that I think about all of the recent and current cars in our garage were panned and slammed by the car magazines, 2006 Crossfire (slow, dated chassis, sales failure), '96 Cherokee Classic (crude, old fashioned suspension technology, rough, noisy), '97 Mercury Cougar XR7 w/4.6 SOHC V8 ( overweight, underpowered, dated styling, retiree's ride) 2005 Jeep Liberty CRD turbo diesel (ill handling, cutesy styling, noisy uneven responding diesel). Guess what, I don't care what the "experts" say. In a lot of cases they are simply wrong or off base in their opinions. As the years pass and I see for myself how inaccurate or misguided the judgments of the various car reviewers have become I have become a complete contranista !

In other words, if the car "experts" really, really just hate something I get interested in checking it out to form my own opinion. I like going against the flow and fighting the ignorant crowd of hacks parroting each other's idiot pronouncements. Let the Lemmings run off the cliff en masse, I'm heading the opposite direction folks !

Cincinnati Slim