Car & Driver Legend Joins Web Site "The Truth about Cars".www.ttac.com Welcomes Brock Yates Brock Yates was executive editor of Car and Driver, an American automotive magazine. He was a pit reporter for CBS' coverage of certain NASCAR Nextel Cup (then Winston) series races in the 1980s, including the Daytona 500. as New Columnist WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Truth About Cars (TTAC) announced today that legendary Car & Driver columnist and Cannonball Run founder Brock Yates will write a regular column for the popular automotive website. "Like many enthusiasts, I grew up reading Brock's column in Car & Driver" TTAC publisher Robert Farago said. "We're proud to welcome such a talented and insightful writer to our little corner of cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. ." Farago claims that www.thetruthaboutcars.com is the controversial columnist's logical home. "TTAC is the internet's most fiercely independent automotive website, free from the hidden, corrupting effects of automotive advertisers. No one else can offer Brock brock n. Chiefly British A badger. [Middle English brok, from Old English broc, of Celtic origin.] the total editorial freedom and intelligent informed readership that he deserves." Yates will write a no-holds-barred editorial for TTAC on a weekly basis, bringing his acerbic wit and take-no-prisoners writing style to bear on the issues, products and personalities on the minds of today's pistonheads. "I'm looking forward to kicking some butt on this kick ass site," Yates said with characteristic bravado bra·va·do n. pl. bra·va·dos or bra·va·does 1. a. Defiant or swaggering behavior: strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado. b. . "If anything, the arrogance, ignorance and stupidity that bedevil the auto industry has gotten worse. I look forward to telling it like it is." Yates is slightly less enthusiastic about the interactive part of the program. "I'm excited about checking out readers comments and replying; something you can't do in a magazine. But I'm a little nervous about using the haunted goldfish goldfish, freshwater fish, genus Carassius, of the family Cyprinidae, popular in aquariums and ponds. Native to China, it was first domesticated centuries ago from the wild form, an olive-colored carplike fish up to 16 in. (40 cm) long. bowl to do it." Farago says he's determined to make sure Yates "gets" web 2.0. "Despite his well-earned rep as a journalistic assassin, Brock is a charming man. I look forward to introducing him to TTAC's 500k monthly readers. This is gonna gon·na Informal Contraction of going to: We're gonna win today. be fun." |
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