Subject: automotive editorial standards

[SuffolkD at aol.com]

Brett:
You sure he didn't try and tell you that GM invented the Z carrying both the 
Z24 and the Z28 in their Chev car lines and that now the king of all Z's is 
the Truck Z71 off road?
-Scott by BOSTON

>   Royal Ford of the Boston Globe ..........(snip)
Answered my email saying, and I quote, complete with missing 
> capitalization and bad grammar: "total brain fart on my part is all i 
> can plead. was juggling notes,installed an audi engine in a z. that's 
> the problem when the results of your daily labor are seen every 
> sunday by 2 million people."
> 
> Cocky #$@!....ever heard of proofreading your work before you send it 
> to 2 million people?  Or knowing enough about the automotive industry 
> to know that BMW hasn't turbocharged a production engine in what, a 
> zillion years, and in fact considers turbos 'cheating'?
> 
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