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1-800-331-3030You Guys Really Have a Lot
of Thoughts About the April
Green Car Issue, Don’t You?
At the turn of the last century there was a
popular publication: HorseTrend. It was
dedicated to all forms of the most popular
personal transportation device then
available and provided evaluation, testing,
comparisons, and gossip concerning
breeds of horses, types of wagons, effi-
ciency of buggies, horse racing ... coverage
of all things horse-related.
Then a few horseless buggies began
to appear. Few in number, HorseTrend
treated them as novelties with little
coverage. After all, they couldn’t go as
fast or as far as a horse, and they were
expensive. No one knew how to fix them,
and places where you could buy gasoline
to fuel them were few and far between.
Clearly they were not worth any serious
thought or coverage. Besides the old line,
HorseTrend subscribers objected to any
coverage that wasn’t about their beloved,
traditional horse-based transportation.
There were only 8,190 registered cars on
the road in 1900, so why bother?
But 10 years later there were over
300,000, and the number rose exponen-
tially as automobiles got faster, more
reliable, cheaper, more comfortable, and
more fun; there was even racing!
The editors of HorseTrend listen to
their angry old-line, unimaginative
readers and supporters and ignored all
horseless carriage developments. By 1910
there were more automobiles on the road
than horse-drawn vehicles and a few years
later HorseTrend, still ignoring automo-
biles to the end, ceased publication.
Those who angrily ignore history, and
progress, do so at their own risk.
Kim T. Bené
Salt Lake City, UtahI read the pro/con reader feedback to
your Green issue and have to admit I
was surprised by the vehemence of the
anti-electric stance by one correspon-
dent. I like progress, and I ate that issue
up, because if you don’t watch your back,
somebody’s gonna smoke ya. Personally, I
like knowing what’s coming.
Progress is real, and I want to read
about this. Keep on keeping it real and on
topic, and I’ll keep reading.
Ryan Corman
Fargo, North DakotaReader on
locationMike Tyson
famously said,
“Everybody
has a plan ‘til they get punched in the
mouth.” This year has been a lot like
that for all of us. Joseph Carestia of
New York, New York, had big plans to
do a “long-planned loop of America”
this year. Instead he decided to “do
something useful and volunteer at his
local foodbank” during the pandemic.
He was kind enough to bring us along
to read during a quick break. Thanks for
helping out your fellow man, Joseph.MotorTrend seems to correctly think that
EVs are competitive products and that
“the democratization of the electric car is
finally here.” Great, but if people should
be cross-shopping gas and electric cars,
then you should include both ICE and EV
cars together in future comparison tests
(like you did with the BMW 3 Series, Tesla
Model 3, and Genesis G70). This is espe-
cially true now that we are about to be
flooded with dozens of electric vehicles.
How about a flagship comparison
between the new Escalade and Navigator,
and throw in the Rivian R1S, too?Thank you for publishing the world’s
best automotive content, even in these
difficult times.
Yeshiya Silverman
via email
As the competitiveness of EVs increases,
we’ll undoubtably start including them in
more comparisons against more traditional
gas and diesel vehicles.—Ed.Oops
Scott Evans’ Porsche 917 historic drive
was wonderful. I happened to read the 917
story the same day that Le Mans was on ...
what a great coincidence.
But on page 58, how could the photo
caption say that the 917 instrumen-
tation included a “water tempera-
ture” gauge?Whoever put that in should
be banished to riding in the back seat of the
awful Toyota C-HR you enjoyed so much!
Keith Dolan
Brooklyn, New York
Good catch. That gauge is actually the 917’s
oil temperature gauge. We’d banish Scott to
the back seat of the C-HR, but we’re afraid
he may like it too much—Ed.Your Say...