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nberry said:
If you read his article nothing more needs to be said. Unprecedented access!!! One on one with Porsche executives, driving the car and subsequently addressing the engineers...give me a break! Pure baloney you know it; I know and the readers of Automobiles know it.
That article belongs in the best propaganda by a non writer. Automobile magazine did not look good on this one.
That's a pretty presumptive pant load you've got there, all right.
Even I (this means me) had access to engineers from Porsche when I attended the Geneva auto show introduction of the Carrera GT last March. So did everyone else who attended. I had Roland Kussmaul's ear for as long as I liked, and he answered plenty of my dumb as well as tough questions.
About twenty years ago, I attended a Geneva auto show in the company of Car and Driver magazine (as their event photographer) for a special gathering of English speaking journalists to re-introduce the Audi Sport Quattro as a road car. I experienced first hand what every car company goes through to promote their wares.
We had dinner with Audi executives of all stripes. As it turned out, I was seated across from the executive engineer in charge of power train development. I had quite a good time discussing the relative merits of various combustion schemes, and so on.
EVERY magazine staff member from EVERY magazine had exquisite access to anyone and everyone that evening. I didn't get any "unprecedented" access any different from any other staff member. If anything, I was a bit retiring in my demands for information.
If you had any real knowledge of how press introductions work, you'd be too embarrassed to post here again.