You can be a car enthusiast and acknowledge that cars cause a lot of problems in society. You can love driving but realize that we’ve dedicated too much space and too many resources to the automobile. You can thrill at a sports car and understand that driving isn’t a human right.
— Bob Sorokanich (@RSorokanich) March 24, 2019
This tweet from Bob Sorokanich, of Road & Track, was in reply to a response to an episode of The War on Cars podcast where (spoiler alert) it was revealed that one of the hosts of the classic radio show CarTalk actually hated cars. I saw this tweet this morning and its related thread, from Bob Sorokanich and wanted to re-share it here. CarTalk, or at least the podcast episodes of it, got me through some long boring nights in late night jobs and kept me connected with cars after I left the field of auto parts sales. In many ways it felt like a radio show based around working at a very well-informed parts counter.
I’d never heard of The War on Cars podcast but this episode was pretty interesting and seems worthy of a listen. Even though I mention the car hatred mentioned in part of the episode, it’s not really an anti-car kind of episode. I’m not sure about the rest since again, I hadn’t heard of it since today. It’s more about how analytically-minded the hosts were rather than political.
It’s funny though, I almost wonder after listening to this if “Click and Clack” might have had something to do with my love of tiny cars. Cars that were otherwise known as “reasonable-sized cars” before the big takeover of SUVs in the mid-
Jimmy Morgan
April 4, 2019 at 6:26 PM
I have fond memories of the reasonably sized cars of the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.
Kids today are like “yes but we called these cars land yacht” but what they don’t understand was that their wheelbase were short, and short wheelbase makes everything better. All real enthusiasts knows that.
Check out the wheelbase of a 1972 Eldorado, it’s about the same as a Miata. Very eye opening.
Short wheelbase with big displacement is were it’s at, and that is why true enthusiasts only get 1.8 NA’s.