TTAC Welcomes Murilee Martin

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

From the moment I took over as TTAC’s Editor-in-Chief, I knew that I was going to need a lot of help in order to live up to the brand that had been built here for the better part of a decade. I was stepping into some big shoes, and filling them would have to be a team effort. I was lucky enough to inherit some of the best car writers on the web, and we’ve been able add even more talent to the roster over the last year. Now, as we welcome Murilee Martin (formerly of Jalopnik fame, also of Murileemartin.com and Hooniverse.com), we mark an important point in TTAC’s development: maturity (or something like it).

With the addition of Murilee, TTAC has a dream team of editors who will keep TTAC stocked with the freshest, most engaging car-related content on the web, and as a result we’re moving to a streamlined masthead. My faithful Managing Editor Bertel Schmitt and I will continue to handle major editorial and blogging duties while Paul Niedermeyer, Michael Karesh, Jack Baruth, Sajeev Mehta, Steve Lang and Murilee Martin each tackle the world of cars from their unique perspectives. Thanks to a major commitment from our owners, VerticalScope, we’re now able to keep this core team cranking out regular content while we augment their work with the best contributions from our worldwide TTAC contributor family and from around the web. The goal of all this is to consistently provide the very highest quality content, to host the most engaging debates and to keep you connected with the latest developments in the world of cars.

So, please join me in welcoming Murilee and thanking our owners for empowering TTAC to be the best damn car site on the web. I’m truly honored to have the opportunity to work with my personal dream team of writers as well as to serve you, our dedicated readers and commentators. Thank you all for making TTAC’s continued success possible.

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  • Domestic Hearse Domestic Hearse on Nov 18, 2010

    While you're "streamlining your masthead" Ed, during your site's evolution toward a new maturity, may I make a teensy, weensy suggestion... Lose. The. Bush. League. Logo. Really. Remember all the hand-wringing? Call for entries? Voting? Then plea by almost everyone that professional design help be called upon? Yet there it remains. The thumb-up, thumb-down design cliche. Right at the top of the page. Ugh. Yes, Ed, I know you meant masthead as in editorial/writer team. But I'm takin' this chance to jump on the logo issue again. It's time to match the "look" to the talent, especially now that Miss Murilee has arrived. One more thing. Let's go for the trifecta and bring back Loverman. (Though I suspect his eyes are still starry from getting to drive Bugutti's and car's of the year over at that "dying rag" that just somehow keeps right on truckin').

    • Edward Niedermeyer Edward Niedermeyer on Nov 18, 2010

      I hear you loud and clear. We are a premium website content-wise, and I completely understand the need to present ourselves in a more premium light than we currently are. A re-think of our aesthetics is definitely in the works... but as with putting a team together, this will take time. Patience...

  • George McNally George McNally on Nov 21, 2010

    Good stuff- looking forward to more Murilee and all the other writers.

  • CanadaCraig You can just imagine how quickly the tires are going to wear out on a 5,800 lbs AWD 2024 Dodge Charger.
  • Luke42 I tried FSD for a month in December 2022 on my Model Y and wasn’t impressed.The building-blocks were amazing but sum of the all of those amazing parts was about as useful as Honda Sensing in terms of reducing the driver’s workload.I have a list of fixes I need to see in Autopilot before I blow another $200 renting FSD. But I will try it for free for a month.I would love it if FSD v12 lived up to the hype and my mind were changed. But I have no reason to believe I might be wrong at this point, based on the reviews I’ve read so far. [shrug]. I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it once I get to test it.
  • FormerFF We bought three new and one used car last year, so we won't be visiting any showrooms this year unless a meteor hits one of them. Sorry to hear that Mini has terminated the manual transmission, a Mini could be a fun car to drive with a stick.It appears that 2025 is going to see a significant decrease in the number of models that can be had with a stick. The used car we bought is a Mk 7 GTI with a six speed manual, and my younger daughter and I are enjoying it quite a lot. We'll be hanging on to it for many years.
  • Oberkanone Where is the value here? Magna is assembling the vehicles. The IP is not novel. Just buy the IP at bankruptcy stage for next to nothing.
  • Jalop1991 what, no Turbo trim?
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