Owners Beware: Halloween Is a Terrifying Time for Cars
A staunch consumer advocate tracking industry trends and regulation. Before joining TTAC, Matt spent a decade working for marketing and research firms based in NYC. Clients included several of the world’s largest automakers, global tire brands, and aftermarket part suppliers. Dissatisfied with the corporate world and resentful of having to wear suits everyday, he pivoted to writing about cars. Since then, that man has become an ardent supporter of the right-to-repair movement, been interviewed on the auto industry by national radio broadcasts, driven more rental cars than anyone ever should, participated in amateur rallying events, and received the requisite minimum training as sanctioned by the SCCA. Handy with a wrench, Matt grew up surrounded by Detroit auto workers and managed to get a pizza delivery job before he was legally eligible. He later found himself driving box trucks through Manhattan, guaranteeing future sympathy for actual truckers. He continues to conduct research pertaining to the automotive sector as an independent contractor and has since moved back to his native Michigan, closer to where the cars are born. A contrarian, Matt claims to prefer understeer — stating that front and all-wheel drive vehicles cater best to his driving style.
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I'll be out in the pumpkin patch as usual, freezin' ass and waitin' for the Great Pumpkin or Model 3, whichever shows first. Scoff all you like, Saracens.
Back around 2000 I lived in a gated community of mostly retirees. One Halloween I went into Chicago to stay with a buddy and see George Carlin. I came home to find that while I was gone, someone drove their car over 100 feet down my driveway to rear end my Wildcat hard enough to pop the dash pad loose. Obviously whoever did it was never caught so I'll never know whether it was just some drunk who missed a turn or whether it had to do with the neighbor kid who liked to let "friends" into the development to break into cars and wound up having to pay me $1800 in restitution.