I haven't read Jalopnik or any of the other Deadspin-family sites in years. Thanks for the link. I very much enjoyed the article and the writer -- he seems to be a recent grad and comfortable mixing reviews of the automotive world, narrative, reporting, and cultural criticism. It looks like we get a healthy dose of all of these in the Jalopnik article. (If it seems odd that I poked around about this writer: I teach writing at The University of Illinois, and when I looked at his brief bio I saw that he's an OSU grad. I got a little curious about him because he is on a path I hope many of my students will follow and read a couple of stories. I thought they were pretty cool. Were they by-the-numbers reviews? No. But I liked the writing).

Lots of other reviews of this product are positive, or at least optimistic, by the way, and echo this article's main observations about the ambition and unfinished nature of the car, if in another mood.

Andrew Moss