QOTD: What's Wrong With This Statement?

Michael Karesh
by Michael Karesh

A topic covered before, but clearly worth covering again…

The author: Georg Kacher, seasoned European bureau chief for Automobile (i.e. not a newb)

The place: page 31, April 2012 issue

The car: Bentley Continental GT V8

The statement: “Alternatively, you can work the shift paddles to keep the engine revving between 4000 and 6300 rpm, where the power and torque curves approach, intersect, and then run almost parallel to the limiter.”

Michael Karesh
Michael Karesh

Michael Karesh lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with his wife and three children. In 2003 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. While in Chicago he worked at the National Opinion Research Center, a leader in the field of survey research. For his doctoral thesis, he spent a year-and-a-half inside an automaker studying how and how well it understood consumers when developing new products. While pursuing the degree he taught consumer behavior and product development at Oakland University. Since 1999, he has contributed auto reviews to Epinions, where he is currently one of two people in charge of the autos section. Since earning the degree he has continued to care for his children (school, gymnastics, tae-kwan-do...) and write reviews for Epinions and, more recently, The Truth About Cars while developing TrueDelta, a vehicle reliability and price comparison site.

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  • Dimwit Dimwit on Feb 27, 2012

    I was told that wasn't going to be any math. Somebody lied.

  • Stuntmonkey Stuntmonkey on Feb 27, 2012

    Gah, that quote reminds me of the Springfield Civil war reenactment from the Simpsons, commemorating the time they fought for, against and beside the Union.

  • Wmba Wmba on Feb 27, 2012

    Kacher has been writing for decades for CAR and Automobile, and probably has as much seat time in high end cars as anyone in the biz. Best English writing German auto journalist. Damn fine review, I thought and gets right to the point with experience the usual auto journo cannot match. So he says what he feels I've always thought. If you haven't read him over the last 20 years or so, then your experience of car reviewing is too limited. In his mind's eye, no doubt he knows what he's nattering about, so maybe he's got this screwed up, who knows. It's a bit much musing about this when TTAC is rife with missing words, spelling errors and incorrect usage of apostrophe's virtually every day! And where Kriendler's road tests of Hyundais in Nevada no longer follow the "established" TTAC policy of revealing who paid for the junket, and what was received for free, you know to keep the great unwashed informed about who's dishing out the freebies looking for favors, wind noise be damned. People in glass houses ..... etc.

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    • Michael Karesh Michael Karesh on Feb 28, 2012

      I'm well aware of Kacher's experience, hence my surprise at this brainfart. The print magazines typically run everything through multiple proofreaders--a luxury those of us with lower budgets and multiple responsibilities cannot afford. Kacher's brainfart slipped past all of them.

  • CJinSD CJinSD on Feb 28, 2012

    I still remember the piece Georg Kacher wrote for Automobile Magazine about the then-new Jaguar XJ40. Best car in the world, he called it, and it was in the same issue with a thorough introduction to the also-new BMW E32 735i, a car which had at least a claim to consideration for best car in the world of 1986. In other words, people who are still taking him seriously 25 years later aren't paying enough attention.

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