What is the deal with the car magazines

[MYSTA KANG]

I just have to vent on this!
Ok I love to read what the Car Testers say about different kinds of cars that are new. So while I was in Wal-Mart I picked up about 4 mags and started reading them one by one. I cant remember all the names but I remember one I putting the MM down. I had to read it again. It said something like the MM doesnt live up to its name like the other Super Sport it tried to copy.

My first thought was whoever wrote this about the MM must have an agenda he/she is wanting to convey. Then I looked at all the other comments on the other 4 door cars and they all of them had paragraphs compared to the fragment made on the MM.

What other B-body on the road can stand up to a stock MM-none. Im not counting the luxury cars im talking about modern muscle. The style of the MM is second to none. This is the only car I ever heard of getting a police escort while they were doing 80mph on the highway. What other Muscle car has heated seats, sunroof, factory 18 inch wheels, premium sound and a club of great people.

Last but not least, what other muscle car with all of that cost under $33,000 brand new.

[2003 MIB]

Kang,
It's an underappreciated car. The majority of the population thinks it's a trim package on a Grand Marquis. Some of what they say is true- I think it is a matter of torque. The stock car just can't cash the tire-smoking check the looks are writing. The stock MM vs. the stock SS match pretty closely but the afternarket support for a pushrod V8 in a car that ended production in 1996 is amazing. A mildly modified SS will eat a mildly modified MM in the quarter. You need a Big Dog mod from Trilogy, KB, DR and the boys if you want to keep up or win.
It is the lack of appreciation or respect the mags give us and the cars that make this a "cult". We give parts away, dish out advice and argue but it's a lot of fun and you can learn a lot too.
There's no other car like it available today- buy it, mod it and enjoy it. Magazines are printed to sell ads and make money. Marauders are made to drive and enjoy the fellowship of others who "get it". Screw them and enjoy the new ride.
-Dan

[SergntMac]

Kang,
It's an underappreciated car...Screw them and enjoy the new ride.
-Dan

What he said...only LOUDER!

[MYSTA KANG]

I guess 10 years from now when the mods for the MM get even better they will love the MM just the same. Im not talking about the SS but MIB I can see what you are saying. The SS is a nice ride. I guess I was captured in the moment of that put down by that one magazine. The guy who wrote it might be mad cause someone in here handed his A$$ to him on a plate either on the highway or the track.

[2003 MIB]

I guess I was captured in the moment of that put down by that one magazine.

I would swear on my Reinhart chip that most of us here have felt the same way at one time or another. ..

[Haggis]

Kang,
It's an underappreciated car. The majority of the population thinks it's a trim package on a Grand Marquis. Some of what they say is true- I think it is a matter of torque. The stock car just can't cash the tire-smoking check the looks are writing. The stock MM vs. the stock SS match pretty closely but the afternarket support for a pushrod V8 in a car that ended production in 1996 is amazing. A mildly modified SS will eat a mildly modified MM in the quarter. You need a Big Dog mod from Trilogy, KB, DR and the boys if you want to keep up or win.
It is the lack of appreciation or respect the mags give us and the cars that make this a "cult". We give parts away, dish out advice and argue but it's a lot of fun and you can learn a lot too.
There's no other car like it available today- buy it, mod it and enjoy it. Magazines are printed to sell ads and make money. Marauders are made to drive and enjoy the fellowship of others who "get it". Screw them and enjoy the new ride.
-Dan

Took the words right out of my mouth. Couldn't have said it better, thanks 2003 MIB.

[Marauderman]

What he said...only LOUDER!
I second that motion!!! :banana2:

[2003 MIB]

Thanks, Guys but I think the real kicker for Kang will be on the 24th...He'll meet Logan will be at the Chuck's Cruise and see his car. The potential of this platform will let him know he made a good decision.

[mcb26]

Whenever I read a review from some of these mags. I just remember some of their cars of the year Corvair, Vega, Pinto ect. I just figure Mercury doesn't spend enough on advertising in that mag to get a good review. I don't care what any of the mags say, Marauder is still the best all around car I have ever driven.

[Fourth Horseman]

What is the deal with the car magazines

Short answer... they suck. :down:

[gpfarrell]

The car magazines are ignorant... and Mercury's PR department wasn't real bright either.

The writers don't know what a Marauder can do because the cars they drove had tight motors... we know they loosen up, but the keyboard jockeys don't hang out here.

Mercury should have filled their press-pool with 5,000 mile Marauders and offered a dealer-installed package similar to DR's stage 1... then you'd see entertaining comparisons where the black MM stomps on lots of high profile stuff.

I don't really mind the magazines getting it wrong though... kinda feels like we're all in on a secret and they're all out in the cold.

[MYSTA KANG]

Man I cant wait that long. Logan and I suppose to meet later this week :up:

I bet when he raise the hood up it might be glowing!

[MYSTA KANG]

gpfarrell I agree. This is a secret.....AND IM GLAD I AM PART OF THAT SECRET!

[2003 MIB]

I bet when he raise the hood up it might be glowing!

STAY AWAY!!!!!!- With that man's luck lately it'll be radioactive!!!

[MainEngDwarf]

And here I thought I had the only Radioactive Marauder. :alone: