Motoring
11-04-2003, 06:24 AM
#11
I never try to wax eloquent about the driving experience. I know I can't compare. The greatest automotive writer of our time (or any other) is Peter Egan who writes for Road and Track. Please don't bother to post a disagreement with this statement or the name of someone who you think is just as good because you will be wrong. Some might say I am being opinionated, but in everyhting there has to be a best and he is it.
I eagerly await each issue of R&T and unless something amazing is on the cover (this month it was the Elise) I turn to his monthly column, Side Glances, and usually read it twice. I then check to see if he wrote another article in the month's issue and if so, I read that. Then I start at the front of the mag and read to the end. I love all of the writers and find the prose to be first class, but if the rest of the mag was filled with nothing but truck ads I'd still subscribe to read Side Glances. Egan has made me laugh, made me cry, made me remember and most importantly, made me think.
After read dozens of Peter Egan travelogues, taking me cross-country along dozens of interesting routes, in a dozens interesting cars I wouldn't even try to write about it myself.
I eagerly await each issue of R&T and unless something amazing is on the cover (this month it was the Elise) I turn to his monthly column, Side Glances, and usually read it twice. I then check to see if he wrote another article in the month's issue and if so, I read that. Then I start at the front of the mag and read to the end. I love all of the writers and find the prose to be first class, but if the rest of the mag was filled with nothing but truck ads I'd still subscribe to read Side Glances. Egan has made me laugh, made me cry, made me remember and most importantly, made me think.
After read dozens of Peter Egan travelogues, taking me cross-country along dozens of interesting routes, in a dozens interesting cars I wouldn't even try to write about it myself.
11-04-2003, 06:30 AM
#12
Originally posted by Legal Bill
...After read dozens of Peter Egan travelogues, taking me cross-country along dozens of interesting routes, in a dozens interesting cars I wouldn't even try to write about it myself.
...After read dozens of Peter Egan travelogues, taking me cross-country along dozens of interesting routes, in a dozens interesting cars I wouldn't even try to write about it myself.
Share with those of us who cannot afford a R&T $ubscription
Seriously, I only subscribe to Automobile at the moment, but am thinking of not renewing right away...b/c all my reading time in spent on s2ki.com
How about starting a thread on "My favorite auto mag..."
11-07-2003, 06:06 PM
#13
Thread Starter
[QUOTE]Originally posted by paS2K
11-07-2003, 08:05 PM
#14
While many times when I or we take off in the S we have a destination, the problem seems to be how long it takes to get there. Of course there are the main roads the problem seems to be we come to a stop sign & I'll say which way to do you want go? My wife picks a direction & we go, not necessarily towards our destination. Then we'll be going down the road & my wife will say STOP, that road looks interesting, & away we go.
We like to go up north in Wisconsin to Lake Superior it's about a 3 1/2 hour drive from our house. The last time we went it took 5 1/2 hours to get there.
Before it got cold (10*F tonight) we would get in the car to drive to the local ice cream shop about 5 miles away. Darn if it doesn't take 2 hours to get there.
We like to go up north in Wisconsin to Lake Superior it's about a 3 1/2 hour drive from our house. The last time we went it took 5 1/2 hours to get there.
Before it got cold (10*F tonight) we would get in the car to drive to the local ice cream shop about 5 miles away. Darn if it doesn't take 2 hours to get there.
11-08-2003, 06:33 AM
#16
Originally posted by ralper
We just want to go motoring at our own pace, in our own time with our little S as our magic carpet.
We just want to go motoring at our own pace, in our own time with our little S as our magic carpet.
On another note, I am put-off by some of the technology for the sake of technology concepts. This is fresh in my mind as I just watched a short piece on TV about the Tokyo auto show and one of concept cars was a van looking thing that "automatically did parallel parking!"
And, there was another van that had the floor planels that slide out and it opened up into a traveling picnic table. I quess Motoring has many sides. I like ours best.
11-08-2003, 07:09 AM
#19
[QUOTE]Originally posted by dlq04
