If you've been following me on Twitter and were wondering what on earth all those descriptions of cars were all about, they were supposed to be my impressions of a car after twenty to thirty minutes with it. I went into what I was attempting to do in a Saturday post on Clunkerture, but mercifully no one noticed. I didn't realize the sheer amount of cars I drove, and honestly, I think so many tweets about a lot of cars definitely came off a bit obnoxious, so I'm probably never undertaking that experiment again. But I promised to embed all the tweets in one post. So in this post are all my reactions to the cars I drove during the Western Automotive Journalists 2014 Media Days event.
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Back in April, the Western Automotive Journalists association had a Media Days event which involves getting manufacturers to send over all the cars that auto journalists love, allowing them to drive those cars on the Monterey backroads and then at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for brief periods of time in each car. (Putting “Mazda Raceway” in front of Laguna Seca is a must if you want road test Mazdas.)
Read MoreClunkertest: 2002 BMW 530i
This is the moment everyone (including me) has been waiting for. The first road test on Clunkerture. It was a long time a coming (about a week), but I finally had time to write the review and (more importantly) get some pictures of the car.
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