if you appreciate good journalism and good writing, and you aren't reading dan neil, you need to start. right now. right here. this is the first paragraph of the aforelinked article:
ONE is British, the other German. The Brit is a 1-ton, mid-engine atomic pixie stripped to the bare metal floor, a car so loud and raw that when its 220-horsepower supercharged four is at — how to put this delicately? — full suck, it sounds like an Oreck vacuum cleaner has taken up residence in your helmet. The German is almost exactly a half-ton heavier, a winged, ground-skimming vampire with a 415-hp, 3.6-liter flat six stuck in its keister. The sound of this engine is breathtaking, biblical, deeply sinister, like a two-man logging team cutting down the Tree of Knowledge.
now that is some goddamn writing. i challenge anyone to write an article about two cars that would make even the most spark plug and drive train-ignorant reader gasp in wonder. he's good. real good.
2 comments:
he may be a great writer, but it sounds like he has some serious problems with testosterone laced machine-love.
haha. that much, i concede. he came and spoke at annenberg. kirk hammett goatee, perfectly coiffed wave of hair, snazzy suit and tie. a new breed, a mechanosexual.
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