HAHAHAHAHA!
Now wonder the air times I saw were like at 4am and other similar times .
At 07:56 PM 3/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your show (and website) were brought to my attention via a post on
>the Dakota Mailing List (www.dakota-truck.net), where you're taking a
>bit of heat over the info posted on the "The Show" portion of your
>website where it says:
>
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>|Sport Truck Connection is the first National Television show devoted
solely to
>|new Light Trucks and SUV's. Each week, Mike and Jon, bring real world
>|information about these vehicles directly into your living room. They
test the
>|vehicles in the way that you would use them, NOT on a racetrack with
>|useless information about "g's" or "0-60" times, but rather how they would
>|be to live with, day after day, month after month. Items like, "Are the
seats
>|comfortable?", "Does the vehicle do what it was designed to do, and more
>|important, does it do what YOU want it to do?", "Do the sun visors really
>|block the sun?", "Do drinks in the cup-holders spill on corners?", "Are the
>|back seats just for looks?", "How does it ride, both on and off road?", and
>|many of the other pieces of the puzzle you don't always get to put together
>|when on one of those "all to short" test drives when buying or leasing a
>|vehicle.
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>
>
> I believe the main problem comes from your assertion that performance
>numbers ("g's", "0-60 times", etc.) are "useless". There are over 600
>members on the Dakota list, and a great number of us DO race our trucks.
>Obviously, the membership runs the gamut from die hard racers to grocery
getters,
>but many of us race at the dragstrip, several others autocross, and there is
>a huge "offroading" contingent. For some of us, sun visors, cupholders,
etc.
>ARE the "useless information", what we want to know are the perfomance
numbers,
>and how can we get faster?
>
> I believe that the day to day operation of the truck AND the performance
>numbers are important; by eliminating either one, you neglect a big part
>of the overall personality of a truck.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to bring this to your attention. I found it
>especially strange given the fact that the title of your show is
>"SPORT Truck Connection". If you're going to ignore performnance numbers,
>why not change the name to "Truck Connection"?
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> -Jon-
>
> .--- stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu ----------------------------------------.
> | Jon Steiger * AOPA, DoD, EAA, MP Race Team, NMA, SPA, USUA * RP-SEL |
> | '96 Dodge Dakota V8 SLT CC (14.58@93.55), '96 Kolb FireFly 447 |
> `--------------------------- http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~stei0302/ ---'
>
>
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