I have a pitch. Instead (or as a supplement) to the new car reviews that we all know and love, how about some old car reviews? Not sister-mag old, but the junk the people on this forum typically drive. It could be combined with the buyers guide that pop up from time to time. Reliability, where to buy parts, how well a coke bottle fits in the armrest, how fast it feels etc. Just a regular old car review, but GRM style. Start with the trinity (is the P71 still in the trinity?) and work from there. heck, pick some random car out of readers rides and ask the owner if they'd like to write something up. I could sure use this kind of info, as could many of us, because as easy as it is to find out how the 350Z compared against it's competition, how much Jeremy Clarkson liked it, how fast it went around the ring, how many idiots wrecked theirs in balls of flame... it's indescribably hard to find any such information about a 240Z, or an E30, or a Turbobrick - especially given that it's 10-20-30 years since these cars were new and even if that info is around, it's pretty useless. For instance, I can find reviews of the original GTO, but they're next to useless because all of the cars were tuned on the spot (sometimes by the journalists!) to be ringers. Try buying a real '66 GTO and equalling the performance of some of those road tests with regular bias ply tires... Contrary to that, I can find reviews of a turbobrick, but nobody runs around on stock boost, that would be stupid.
Anyway, any takers?
