Just found this website.
http://thetruthaboutcars.com
I've searched the forum and could not find mention of it. So hopefully its not a repost. Mea culpa if it is.
Here's a sample from a review of the Jeep Commander - granted not an interesting truck but check this out:
"Even if Shell V-Power was free, you wouldn?t want to waste it on the new Jeep Commander.
Before I tear the Commander a new tailpipe, I want to point out that Jeep?s largest ever SUV is as a far more civilized beast than the rough-and-ready Cherokees of yore. Sure it looks exactly like the rough-and-ready Cherokees of yore: a remorselessly rectilinear shape with all the aerodynamic efficiency of a breeze block. And yes, it sucks gas with the same gay (but butch) abandon as its four-by-forbearers. And the Commander boasts all the steering feel of its predecessors (i.e. none). But the big Jeep is a thoroughly modern motor that carries five passengers in safety and comfort, regardless of weather (ex tornados) or terrain (ex precipices). It?s those two remaining passengers that are the bitch.
Well, if they?re not bitches when you put them in, they will be when they get out. After five minutes in the Commander?s tippy-up ?theater-style? rear seats, full-sized adults will wish they weren?t. Thanks to a foot well that?s shallower than the British Royal family?s gene pool, even polypeptide deficient three-year-olds sitting in the way back run the risk of giving themselves a pair of shiners with their knees (try explaining THAT to social services)."
They are very candid (often scathing) about the cars they test (hence the name of the site). I think Jezza would be proud. However, they don't have the resources to test every car out there. So the test archive is a bit small, but still meaningful.
I'd rather read this stuff than the "we're-funded-by-auto-maker-advertising-so-we-can't-say-shit-about-the-cars-even-if-we-had-a-mouthful" journalism we get in North America.
This should help me pass the time between CDN $15 issues of Evo & Top Gear magazines. Hope you enjoy it.
http://thetruthaboutcars.com
I've searched the forum and could not find mention of it. So hopefully its not a repost. Mea culpa if it is.
Here's a sample from a review of the Jeep Commander - granted not an interesting truck but check this out:
"Even if Shell V-Power was free, you wouldn?t want to waste it on the new Jeep Commander.
Before I tear the Commander a new tailpipe, I want to point out that Jeep?s largest ever SUV is as a far more civilized beast than the rough-and-ready Cherokees of yore. Sure it looks exactly like the rough-and-ready Cherokees of yore: a remorselessly rectilinear shape with all the aerodynamic efficiency of a breeze block. And yes, it sucks gas with the same gay (but butch) abandon as its four-by-forbearers. And the Commander boasts all the steering feel of its predecessors (i.e. none). But the big Jeep is a thoroughly modern motor that carries five passengers in safety and comfort, regardless of weather (ex tornados) or terrain (ex precipices). It?s those two remaining passengers that are the bitch.
Well, if they?re not bitches when you put them in, they will be when they get out. After five minutes in the Commander?s tippy-up ?theater-style? rear seats, full-sized adults will wish they weren?t. Thanks to a foot well that?s shallower than the British Royal family?s gene pool, even polypeptide deficient three-year-olds sitting in the way back run the risk of giving themselves a pair of shiners with their knees (try explaining THAT to social services)."
They are very candid (often scathing) about the cars they test (hence the name of the site). I think Jezza would be proud. However, they don't have the resources to test every car out there. So the test archive is a bit small, but still meaningful.
I'd rather read this stuff than the "we're-funded-by-auto-maker-advertising-so-we-can't-say-shit-about-the-cars-even-if-we-had-a-mouthful" journalism we get in North America.
This should help me pass the time between CDN $15 issues of Evo & Top Gear magazines. Hope you enjoy it.
