https://apple.news/ABAqKkykQSA-RUGqJK1HCKA

I hope that link works. If not let me summarize. It’s an Outside magazine article. I used to love this magazine. It’s basically trash now.

Some startup EV in California of course must have paid these guys to write this. 150 mile base range, empty. I said it was a pickup truck right?

My favorite line was something like, the magic begins when you stop thinking of it as a vehicle but start thinking of it as a blank slate. Or something Kamala Harris meaningless statement like that. Ugh.

I said it wrong. The real magic happens when you stop thinking of it as a vehicle but as a space. Space? These people need to lay off the energy drinks.

With a lot of Apple News links you have to have a paid subscription.

Edit to add: I believe this is EV in the article?

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...670029415#3670029415

‘Mid $20’s’? I like that part. Looks like they used a Ford as a model.

At that price, built in CA, are they just living off subsidies until they’re all gone??

4 pages on discussion here

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...670029415#3670029415

Oops, drabfour beat me to it

Oh I just miswrote the thread title. I actually don't give a shit that what the truck is like. I am gobsmacked that Outside magazine wrote an article that literally removed reality from the sentences.

"The magic begins when you stop thinking of it as a vehicle (it is in fact a truck, a vehicle) but as a space".

That is why I wrote the thread. I will change the title. That sentence which is indicative of the entire article, makes no actual sense. When did writers become retards?

Can you read? It’s right above your post. I miswrote the thread title. It ain’t about the car. It’s about the horrendous level of what passes for writing skills these days. I know you got a hard on for EV’s pre but this one is about authors.

Not to mention 2 guys ago you mentioned the same thing. Which is why I corrected the thread title and posted the above. Jiminy crickets.

Go read the linked article. It’s worse than paid advertising posing as literature. It is like listening to Kamal Harris spin a topic and at the end you still aren’t really sure what the subject matter was.

Has anybody mentioned this JibJab?

quote:

Originally posted by pedropcola:
I used to love this magazine. It’s basically trash now.

I used to subscribe to Outside in the 1990s, when I was really into camping. hiking, and especially mountain biking. The mag was well written and had great cutting edge articles like Jon Krakauer's pieces on his Mt Everest shitshow, resulting in his excellent book Into Thin Air. Also an article on the storm that killed a bunch of people including the Andrea Gail fishing boat produced a best selling book The Perfect Storm also the hit movie. It had excellent writing, more than reviews of outdoor gear. I haven't read it for years, but browsed through a copy a few years ago and it wasn't the same; it was thin, a lot of ads, and didn't seem to have the same quality writing. Sign of the times, I guess.

The funny thing is you used to be able to read stories by guys like Krakaeur and such. Great stories great tales. The used to have great gear reviews. Now?

(See I can jibjab too lol)

Used to love that mag.

Regardless of the subject matter: “Yuck. What an ugly piece of writing.”

I was hoping others would read it because if they did, instead of getting stuck on the truck topic, they would have been incensed by the damage that author did to the written word. lol

Yuck is a good way to describe it.

The author has written five vehicle reviews that were listed in his magazine resume. He has reviewed a few EVs (Jeep, VW and Rivian) as well as the LR. He also wrote about “the five best whiskeys.” He may actually be a reasonable guy who seeks to entertain the reader with word pictures, analogies, and concepts for a concept vehicle.

That is an interesting take on that article. A word picture, kind of like a word salad but with less clarity. Don’t think of it as a review, think of it as a space. Kind of like what’s between the authors ears.

I think sometimes writers get into the mode of "how creative and eloquent can my writing be?" rather than "how well can I tell the story?"

Yes. Art. I’m not wired that way. Maybe it’s just me. I recently read a sci fi book by an author recommended here. The book felt like it was a couple hundred pages too long. Lots of very extraneous detail that didn’t add to the story at all. I ended up skimming dozens of pages at a time. I’m a story guy. Or a tell me about the truck guy. This was neither. Lol

Show me on this doll where the EV touched you.

You've got EVDS.

Pedro's post isn't about the EV, man, it's about the crappy writing about the EV.

And yet he could have chosen quite literally anything else they've published in the past 2 or 3 years.

So enlighten us.

Is the rest of that author's body of work just absolutely stunning and spectacular?

Goodness, man.