Stick to testing 1.2 fiestas and clio's what car !! Leave the performance car tests to Evo.
Evo boys are nutters too though. If a car does something well then it lacks "personality", if it has room for improvement then "personality" is forgotten and its not good enough.
Basically they want every car to be refined to perfection, but as soon as something is they moan about how they loved the good old days when taking a corner a little fast would leave you glad to still be alive and there was a significant chance a wheel might fall off at any moment and disappear off into the distance. The net result is every car ends up with 4/5 and a conclusion that reads "good, but missing something."
Same with Top Gear, you
must own an Alfa, even though they will then spend the next 5 minutes reeling off a list of Alfa facts most of which should lead a sane person to stay well clear of them. Its all very well for these reviewers to talk about "exciting" cars because they don't have to invest a significant amount of their own money and if it should go pop its not like that is going to affect their work like it would if oen of us failed to meet a sales appointment or something.
I'm also fed up of how mags describe each and every element in detail and for each one conclude "good" or "not as good as" because this really tells me nothing at all. I honestly get 100x as much useful information from a 100 word post by one of you guys compared to a 5000 word article by these mags.
