I’m a car nut – just like you
It’s not always easy admitting to being a car enthusiast these days. A growing public awareness of the environmental damage that motor vehicles can cause, means celebrating cars as anything more than convenient transportation, is becoming a rarity. That’s fine by me. I still believe there’s a visceral pleasure that comes from accurately controlling a complex machine like a car to deliver exciting performance through challenging terrain.
In other words – driving cars can be very cool, if the car does what you want, when you want it to.
And that’s the heart of it – to be satisfying a car needs to respond immediately and accurately to the driver’s inputs. If it doesn’t, anyone looking for fun and a rewarding experience is left disappointed.
It’s getting harder to find vehicles that offer true performance driving. I’m not talking about necessarily fast cars, just cars that accelerate, turn, and brake exactly how you want them to. Driver assist aids in many new vehicles can become barriers to this ideal. But at CarNut the search continues for exciting drives.
Not all the vehicles I review could be described as Driver’s Cars…they’re getting to be so thin on the ground I’ve had to test vehicles that have other appealing attributes, too. It could be they’re a funky design, include fascinating new technology, or possess some other indefinable charm. Whatever it is, I try to fathom it and let you know if it works or not. I’m not paid by anybody for my reviews and I can say what I want without fear of manufacturer push-back. But to be fair, I only really drive vehicles I believe will come out well from my time behind the wheel.
Making these videos takes too much effort for me to waste time on most vehicles, so if it’s on CarNut, you can be assured a car’s got merit.
Cheers for watching.
Blu.