Quote:I said this last thread and I'm going to say it again, Matt isn't the smartest guy when it comes to car tuning. He isn't wrong that you can ruin a car by doing certain things to it, but where he is wrong is that people ruin cars by not understanding what they do to it. Someone whos buying or tuning a mustang to do 700hp and nothing else isn't making it that way to handle well in the canyons or to win autox events. They do it because they want a highway monster machine, ie, a car that goes fast in a straight line. And I know that Matt knows this and he's written this article just get people like me riled up, he's writing this article just to get clicks.

Now I know this is just Matt's opinion but a lot of people just take his opinion and talk about how right he is while they rattle off in their own echo chamber here on /r/cars. There are other sides to everything he says in this article. Matt talks about not wanting to break things on your own car, but he also can't turn a wrench for the life of him. He isn't someone who understands what its like to work on a car with your own hands, break it, and then fix it yourself. The guy in the fiesta who has done his tranny 3 times may seem like an idiot but that guy actually loves that car. And I doubt matt has every truly loved a car seeing as how he goes through cars like theyre nothing.

His third point is all opinion about how he thinks cars should be done/look and he states it like he is the end all be all automotive god. Just because he doesn't like harnesses on a daily doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who don't feel bothered by the extra time it takes to put it on. People generally do things for a reason and I don't think he can wrap his head around opinions he doesn't agree with. And further on he goes on to talk about stance, which I know everyone on reddit hates, but the thing is about people who actually stance their cars also actually drive them. Theyre not the kind of person to leave a car in a garage and never drive it. And while its beyond some people how they drive a car so low around on the streets, its not that bad, its not that dangerous, and its definitely fun being in a car that gets looks good or bad.

For his next point Matt still doesn't understand that people do things for a reason. Can he really not understand the fun in having a 335 thats as fast if not faster than the m3? Has he never even considered the idea of a sleeper car? And he mentions his mustang that he spent a load of cash on that still doesn't run right, and he assumes because he fucked up a build that means that building any cheap car to be fast is a bad idea. Its just a logical fallacy and its a very one sided argument.

The thing that makes me mad most of all about these articles is than instead of actual automotive journalism Matt is resorting to buzzfeed style titles and list style articles. And he knows that his opinions will be matched on loads of internet forums and places like reddit meaning he gets easy click and easy money because there isn't anything people like to do more than jerk their own ego off. This is a hell of a wall of text but this article is so one sided that its unreasonable. He even replied to my last post and said himself that he isn't a tuner at all, yet here he is again writing yet another article about what people should and shouldn't do when he himself doesn't know anything about modifying cars other than it costs a lot of money for someone else to do it for you.

And Matt I know you'll probably read this like you did my other post and if theres anything I want you to take away from this is that you're better than writing buzzfeed style articles that only exist to rile people up. And I didn't start watching your videos to hear end all be all opinions on cars and whats the right way and wrong way to do things, I want to hear about subjective experiences on things you actually understand, and not things that you pretend to understand.

Jake Wrote:I may think you're nuts for commuting in a straight-piped Corvette with Recaros, six-points, no AC and no radio, but hey, you do you. If you're happy with it, then so much the better.

JPolen01 Wrote:

Jake Wrote:I may think you're nuts for commuting in a straight-piped Corvette with Recaros, six-points, no AC and no radio, but hey, you do you. If you're happy with it, then so much the better.

Woah woah. Don't be so mean to Dj.

JPolen01 Wrote:

Jake Wrote:I may think you're nuts for commuting in a straight-piped Corvette with Recaros, six-points, no AC and no radio, but hey, you do you. If you're happy with it, then so much the better.

Woah woah. Don't be so mean to Dj.

SlimKlim Wrote:I just skimmed the article earlier, didn't realize it was controversial until I went back to the reddit post and scrolled through the comments. I assume this was the post you were talking about?

Apoc Wrote:This article is bullshit.

It doesn't mention plastidip.

rherold9 Wrote:why is this even a big deal?

Apoc Wrote:did you hear what the ceo did??????

Mike Wrote:

Apoc Wrote:did you hear what the ceo did??????

ohhh mahhhhh gerrrrrrdddddddd it almost made major news outlets! the humanity! an administrator can edit a message board!?

Jake Wrote:.

I feel like the worst offenders are the unevenly-modded cars combined with the un-modded drivers. I hear so, so many people say "oh yeah I'll come to the track just as soon as I........" and at that point, I tend to stop listening as intently. These are the people who think that without that $2500 built diff or $500 tune, their car will just not do well at an HPDE. Just come out and learn something, jeez. Given that we've had a consistent HPDE student in a stick-shift 1999 Camry LE, any other arguments about "the car isn't ready" are invalid. And the same people who will bitch about the $350 weekend price are the ones who don't bat an eye at the $500 tune. I don't understand that type of prioritization but to each their own.