"djmt1" (djmt1)
11/18/2015 at 09:06 • Filed to: None
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"djmt1" (djmt1)
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Damn it, there goes my Jaguars looks better than Bentleys joke. Boo! This is what editors are for.
Sam
> djmt1
11/18/2015 at 09:26 |
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I assume they got a nice check from Ford's PR department.
Rico
> djmt1
11/18/2015 at 10:25 |
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Oh wow can anyone grab the story for us to read? I’m sure it’s been screen shotted or cached somewhere on the interwebs. Now I want to read it!
Montalvo
> Rico
11/18/2015 at 10:54 |
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It pretty much bashed on the car from borrowing a lot from the Ford parts bin. They said the interior looked like a fusion with some fancy seats and whoever wrote it could just feel the hard plastics through their computer screen.
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Rico
> Montalvo
11/18/2015 at 10:55 |
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Lol damn
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Montalvo
> Rico
11/18/2015 at 11:04 |
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Yeah, as I was reading it they kept just tearing into the thing for whatever reason. Not sure what was going on. There were a few positive notes such as the improved aesthetics but the majority of the article was very critical.
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> djmt1
11/18/2015 at 14:21 |
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Wow just read the cached copy.
That was ridiculously anti-Lincoln for no reason. Seemed like “I love the way this looks but it’s probably a piece of shit and I hate it”
this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> Rico
11/18/2015 at 15:04 |
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http://jalopnik.com/the-2017-linco…
A-a-rons gone rogue!
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this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> djmt1
11/18/2015 at 15:06 |
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This is why editors are helpful
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Rico
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/18/2015 at 15:25 |
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Lmao, I tried to pull the cached version of the page this morning and kept getting the “you must be a member” nonsense. The article wasn’t THAT bad, Ford needs to hear honesty but I am sure Jalopnik wants that Focus RS as soon as possible so you gotta play nice.
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this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> Rico
11/18/2015 at 15:29 |
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Yup me too, couldn’t get past that till I figured out how to hide inside the Google cache result. Welcome to the People’s Republic of Kinjanistan!
Patrick George
> djmt1
11/19/2015 at 09:44 |
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Yeah, I’ll tell you what happened. It was a perfect storm of weirdness. Before I went to bed Tuesday, because I’m three hours behind in California for the LA Auto Show, I wrote The Morning Shift about the new Lincoln and set it to publish at 9 a.m. This saved me from waking up at some ungodly California hour to do it.
Jason ETA actually Aaron, working on East Coast time, didn’t see it and wrote his own Lincoln story, but when mine went up (and I was still asleep, because West Coast) he deleted the one he wrote. Had I been awake we would have just left it up.
We pretty much never delete stories for the reason you see here, plus it’s bad for SEO and Google and shit, but it kind of happened by accident. Sorry for any confusion but I promise there’s nothing nefarious going on, just auto shows fucking up our usual time zones.
Jason Torchinsky
> Patrick George
11/19/2015 at 09:51 |
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Just FYI, I didn’t write it, Aaron did. It was just logistical, like PG said, not content. Interestingly, Patrick liked the car more than Aaron did, and that sort of dissent I think is just fine.
wbizarre - OEM fetishist
> djmt1
12/05/2015 at 11:26 |
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This was a terrible terrible article, but shouldn’t have been deleted. If a car is condemned by the press before it even comes out, what chance does it have? Journos say they want Lincoln to survive, then go and write crap like this. I remember another Jalopniker jumping on the hate-wagon too, something to the effect of “It can’t be a good luxury car with FWD!”