STEVE BURNS
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What was the article about? As far as I can see it was about how stunning the Z cars are to look at, how well they drive, how fast they go and how they trounced the British sports cars of the era in most, if not all, respects.
......don't care or want to know anything about its history and I'm probable the same as the majority of readers so does it matter that all the extra padding in these articles is wrong?
What tires me out is that each article wastes 50% of available space giving us the history (false or not)....does every Porker article write about their WWII activities or the beginnings of Swallow Sidecars or British Leyland before MGs ?
It effs me off.
I understand exactly where you are coming from Albrecht. I am a Beatles fanatic and have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the band. When I read something about them that is factually incorrect it really irritates me and I feel like immediately firing off an email to the author setting them straight. So I can understand how you feel when you read articles about the Zs. But for someone like me (and probably most readers of that mag) the overall feeling you get on reading the article is that the Z is a beautiful and desirable sports car. And that is a good thing. Which is why I say we mustn't let the factual inaccuracies spoil the overall feel-good factor of the piece.I didn't think it did any of that very well at all.
It certainly didn't discuss the body shape and styling (it would have been interesting to devote at least a paragraph to some of that, especially why they looked how they did), the driving experience mixes up specs between different market models (so can't be accurate), "how fast they go" is a set of numbers (so available to all of us anyway) but again the article mixes up data for different market variants.
The theme (and the title of the article) makes much of "beating" British cars. The title mentions Austin-Healey, when only the Sprite was on sale at the same time as the S30-series Z and was already at the end of its development and production life. It also mentions Jaguar. What Jaguar did the S30-series Z "trounce"?
This "the Z killed the British sports car" idea is something that I've seen many times in pieces originating from the USA. It's not the whole story, is it? The British sports car industry pretty much killed itself by not keeping up with the times and by not investing in new technology or relevant new models. The British companies let new safety and emissions legislation sneak up on them and many other (including economic factors at home) led to their extinction. The Z didn't kill them off, it simply took over their abandoned nests...
So no, I don't think the article did what you said.
With near enough everbody now begining to believe this article is crammed with errors and incorrect information I would like to ask for a bit of clarification on these thoughts and wonder if people could list these errors.
What I would like to see is a list of errors ACTUALLY PRINTED in the article that the thread is about and not about what was not included in the article.
To start the ball rolling
1:Incorrect spelling of a name
But for someone like me (and probably most readers of that mag) the overall feeling you get on reading the article is that the Z is a beautiful and desirable sports car. And that is a good thing. Which is why I say we mustn't let the factual inaccuracies spoil the overall feel-good factor of the piece.
Oh dearsuch as yourself to list whet YOU believe to be errors and then someone more knowledgeable to correct and add to that that list.
So you hate to see people not using two os in the word tooJust 'whatting' your appetite Blobby !
And its TOO much.
What annoys me is the 260z 2+2 is seen as just a variation of a 260z 2 seater
So on that basis a 260z is just a variation of a 240z then! even more so, as they are on the outside, near identical,
where as a 2+2 is noticeably different.
Really hacks me off that the 2+2 is the poor cousin, when its a perfectly good car in its own right and sold far better than the 2 seater in some territories.
But then i am a little biased but even after all these years, it might as well be a F**king MGB!!
Certainly is when waiting for people to post up those famed errors as requestedLife is too short to bother I suppose.....
Like I said - make your list and see how it compares to those who comport to know better - you may be pleasantly surprised; go, on - we won't mock you or laugh.............
much !
What I am saying is compared to other articles it is far more informative on certain things than a hell of a lot of previous articles
And its TOO much.