If you haven't been keeping an eye on the automotive world recently, EVO Magazine's Chris Harris pretty much went out and called out one of Mazda's greatest achievements, the MX-5 a.k.a. Miata.
You don't sell 900,000 units if it's garbage, right? Well, Harris thinks otherwise since he directly compared it to fecal matter.
But coming to the MX-5's defense is The Truth About Cars, which presents an interesting argument against Harris. In fact, it is so good I won't even bother attempting to summarize it.
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In the rarefied world of auto journalism, EVO magazine has assumed a place at the top of the food chain, for its derring-do tales of “flat out motoring”, performance car snobbery of the highest order and rich douchebag “contributors” whose only qualification is owning an absurdly expensive car that masquerades as a “long term tester”.
Like foodies, hipsters and other urban vermin, the EVO crew clearly gets off on the elitism of motoring rather than the appreciation of an automobile or the joy of driving. Figures then, that Chris Harris, supposedly a thinking man’s Jeremy Clarkson, criticized the Mazda MX-5 as being “shit”. According to Harris, the Mazda is “slow, precise and unsatisfying”. On what planet.....
[Source: The Truth About Cars]
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