Thirteen cars, from the Ford Fiesta ST to the Ferrari F12berlinetta, met in Michigan two months ago for Road & Track's first "Performance Car Of The Year" shootout. Seven were eliminated around the "Motown Mile" concrete airport road course, one died an ignominious death in the hills of Ohio, three made it to the finals, one was crowned the 2013 #pcoty.
In a nod to the "new media", the magazine permitted a pair of online-writer controversialists to participate in the event. Jalopnik's Travis Okulski spent the day at the track with us before jetting off to a Bentley event where the journalists were being allowed to hunt some of Joseph Kony's child warriors in open-topped Continental GTCs while being force-fed foie gras in a test of meta-irony. (That's not even remotely close to being true; I think he went home to bathe his golden retriever or something.) You can read his coverage here.
Your humble E-I-C was permitted to attend the whole thing, annoy the other writers, perform a couple of double-yellow passes that will haunt the nightmares of the magazine's editorial staff for years to come… and, oh yeah, I wrote the story that made the young girls cry. You can read it online if you like, but I'd really prefer that you buy the magazine on the 19th and read it there. Not because I need the money, although I do. It's more for the fact that this 3,200-word barbaric yawp is meant to be held in your hands and read old-school. There's very little concession to short attention spans or quick paragraphs. I wanted you to be right there with us as we drove the cars. So buy the magazine, okay?
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com
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