Monthly Archives: July 2009

Autowriters Spotlight: Chris Poole

As might be expected, Poole’s roots in CG’s automotive operations have grown deep and wide. Apart from keeping tabs on the evolving auto industry and its products over the last three decades, he has contributed to or edited many of the marquee and period history books prepared by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide since the late 1970s.

Ezra Dyer and STI Exchange

This whole scenario, as constructed by STI, is incredibly bizarre. Generally speaking, an aspiring writer gets in touch with the manufacturers, who then talk to the fleet company to arrange test cars. I’ve never heard of a fleet company trying to foist cars upon a publication, unasked for, under the guise that they have a directive to do so from their “patrons.”

Consumer Groups Call for EPA Fuel Economy Ratings in all Advertisements

FTC Advertising Guide Needs Updating and Should Prohibit the Advertising of Non-EPA Fuel Economy Ratings

TV’s Jesse James fraudulently claims besting BMW’s FIA ratified hydrogen-powered World Record Speed Record

Cable TV personality Jesse James claims he set the world record for hydrogen-powered vehicles on June 16th on the southern California El Mirage dry lake.