What Is Jean Jennings Wearing?

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• chuckgoolsbee :
  November 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
  
  

  She’z like been all pimped up d00d!

• 210delray :
  November 6th, 2008 at 9:53 am
  
  

  If she’d remove that scarf (if you can call it that) AND took off that silly hat, she’d look a lot better.

• tigeraid :
  November 6th, 2008 at 10:17 am
  
  

  I really wish she wasn’t considered an “automotive expert.” Ever seen her on that Discovery show, “Ultimate Cars”? Jesus.

• AllStingNoBling :
  November 6th, 2008 at 10:18 am
  
  

  to RF: No kidding! It looks like she lost a fight with a set drapes.

• carguy622 :
  November 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am
  
  

  She’s obnoxious. I remember seeing her and Csaba Csere being interviewed about the BMW X6 once and she was so loud and forceful. She kept screaming “It’s so ugly!” like a spoiled child.

• SherbornSean :
  November 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am
  
  

  Is that the same Chris Hanson that busts the pervs?

• jerseydevil :
  November 6th, 2008 at 11:06 am
  
  

  I knew it would come to this sooner or later – TTAC as fashion police.

• 1996MEdition :
  November 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am
  
  

  Yet still another reason for pitching my TV

• Robert Schwartz :
  November 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
  
  

  “She kept screaming “It’s so ugly!” like a spoiled child.”

  but she was right

• Detroit-Iron :
  November 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
  
  

  I don’t know if it is her fault, but around the time she became Prez/Ed in Chief of Automobile I stopped reading it.

• timd38 :
  November 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
  
  

  I just left SEMA and the blue #6 Camaro is beautiful!

• JEC :
  November 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
  
  

  I remember her on some Discovery specials. Her commentary always sounded like drunken pub top-trumps, complete with bad intonation and too-loud vocal level. “IT WAS a great CAR, nothing CAME CLOSE to (BLANK) back in THE (BLANKS) BECAUSE (BLANK)”

• 50merc :
  November 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
  
  

  Yes, there should be a law to keep people from wearing silly clothes.

• David Holzman :
  November 6th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
  
  

  Amazing. She looks like she’s been hanging around Cambridge or Berkeley.

• joeaverage :
  November 6th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
  
  

  OH WOW! One of those antique Camaros they never got around to building…

• Morea :
  November 6th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
  
  

  I gotta agree with joeaverage, they aren’t even building this thing yet and their pimping it at SEMA. By the time it arrives it will be yesterday’s news (if it isn’t already.)

• Johnster :
  November 6th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
  
  

  Meow!

  Poor Jean. Back in the day (late ’70s or early ’80s) when David E. Davis gave her her first real writing job at “Car and Driver” he had his wife go shopping with Jean to help her find some clothes that were more professional and to give Jean makeup tips. (Obviously they didn’t take.) Davis later brought Jean with him when he started “Automobile Magazine.”

  Jean seems to have been involved in the coup that kicked David E. Davis out of “Automobile Magazine” and led to Jean’s replacing David at the helm of the magazine for several years. She did manage to get remarried so there’s no need for her to “dress up” anymore, anyway.

  With no more Davis family influence, Jean has returned to looking like the former schlubby taxi driver she was before Davis hired her. Meow!

• NeonCat93 :
  November 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
  
  

  She won the hat from Jerry Pitts in a poker game and is just rubbing it in.

  The scarf is in case she has to strangle a hooker.

• Stu Sidoti :
  November 6th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
  
  

  Many moons ago, when she worked for ‘Automobile’ and the Web was just taking off, I wound up spending a very painful afternoon with her discussing a car that I helped design…We were about to release an early non-saleable production version to her and a photographer for the day.

  Well there’s nothing I like more than discussing art and design with someone who clearly is out of her depths…she didn’t even have the manners to stop chewing her gum while she was talking to us.

  She came across as one of those people who had never worked in the car industry and sounded like she believed every word of every press release ever written without a single independent thought in her head…and they wonder why print media died?

• GiddyHitch :
  November 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
  
  

  “I don’t know if it is her fault, but around the time she became Prez/Ed in Chief of Automobile I stopped reading it.”

  Detroit-Iron, you should give Automobile another shot. Ever since Gavin Conway (a Brit) took over, the writing has gotten edgier, the Editor’s retorts have gotten snarkier, and the articles have gotten more diverse (the unwritten rules to buying a Ferrari, exploring the festival surrounding the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, working on a Lambo assembly line … er, station, etc.). Plus, they hired Ezra Dyer full time.

• Johnster :
  November 6th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
  
  

  Stu Sidoti : She came across as one of those people who had never worked in the car industry and sounded like she believed every word of every press release ever written without a single independent thought in her head…and they wonder why print media died?

  Jean comes from family of writers. Her late father, Robert Lienert, was a copy editor at the Detroit Free Press and later became the editor of Automotive News. Her brother is also some sort of writer/reporter who has written about the automotive industry. Family connections help.

  Prior to “Car and Driver” and the taxi driver gig she also worked as some sort of test driver for Chrysler. In her early years at CD she would wax eloquent about what wonderful handling cars the Omni 024/Horizon TC3 were and I knew she’d drunk the Detroit Kool-Aid.

• sellfone :
  November 6th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
  
  

  She’s obnoxious.

  +1

• prattworks :
  January 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
  
  

  I just read a piece she wrote on the Automobile magazine website about how GM is actually, truly, really this time – making the cars Americans want.

  Here’s the link:

  http://blogs.automobilemag.com/6401595/editors-soapbox/vile-gossip-detroit-is-already-making-cars-that-people-want/index.html

  This seemed a bit askew, so I googled her and found she once did an ‘infomercial’ for GM back in 2006 that was pawned off as actual news.

  Here’s the link.

  http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr41

  Methinks Jean is a bit too cozy with GM to give her readers an unvarnished opinion of the state of affairs in Detroit. I do, however, appreciate Jamie Kitman’s frank, funny, and thought-provoking column in her magazine’s pages.

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