It's obvious that these folks have no clue when it comes to anything automotive. Lots of inaccurate and misleading information from a hipster point of view. It smells of a few young IT pros that got together and decided to profit from an online presence through marketing 101, nice photos and borrowed content.
Just look at their list of "real and fake" auto reality shows. Those descriptors (real and fake) don't even fit the article. You know there's always a measure of fake involved in reality TV. They misuse the terms to designate shows they enjoy (real) and shows they don't like (fake). Maybe they should thing more in a positive-negative mindset (assuming they have the brain cells available to do more than eat, poop and sleep). What's most disturbing to a car guy is that some of the "fake" shows are actually the most informative and correct.
Inaccuracy abounds at an embarrassing pace. They cited a show regarding the restomod of 10-wheeled trucks as 6-wheeled trucks. That's just simple stuff a 10 year old could grasp. And the list of fails go on and on.
Don't waste your time with this foolishness. I'll never regain the short time I spent reading their blather.
JA
jacobdorp
Hotcars is really a hot mess...
Hotcars is a car oriented website written by non car people. Their articles are full of misleading information. The articles written all have truth behind them, but the writers often fail to dig deeper into the facts, and end up giving misinformed information. Example, reading a section going on about why the 2019 Ridgeline is better then the Tacoma, one of the arguments stated is that the Tacoma starts at $25xxx and the Ridgeline starts at $29xxx. Even though the Ridgeline cost $4000 more, it makes up for it by coming equipped standard with a V6. What they failed to mention is that the Tacoma can be option with a V6 starting at $28xxx. Making it 1k cheaper than the Ridgeline, but still retaining a V6. At first they make it sound like the ridgelines a better deal, but in reality the Tacoma has better value. (I don't have a biased for either one just stating facts) Whenever they're talking about a certain car in their articles they always put a picture of said car in the top of the page. I often find that 1 out of every 20 ish articles will have a picture of the wrong car on the top of the article. Not a big deal but if your staff actually knew what they were writing about then that mistake would have never happened. An example, they were talking about the sportiness of the new Honda Accord, but then proceeded to show the front end of the Honda Civic type-r. I also saw this happen when they were talking about old Toyota 4Runners, but for some reason posted a picture of an old Dodge Durango. They had an article stating 25 reasons that Honda was better than Toyota. One of those reasons was that Honda has a car for everybody in every class, while Toyota fails to do so. They briefly touch base on the fact that the Toyota Avalon could be considered in the large sedan segment, but is often put into the mid-size category. Well their pointing out Toyota's flaw in that they don't have a large sedan, but in fact that argument is flawed because neither does Honda. So what point did they just prove? These are all small problems that are no big issue, but it's the fact that I find multiple mistakes like these, in every single article I read. It makes me think that somebody didn't do their homework thoroughly enough. They have fun entertaining articles to read, but often leave out large chunks of valuable information, give misleading information, and make mistakes that any car person can catch easily. If you ever see these articles as ads on Facebook while you're scrolling through your news feed, click on the comment section of the ad and you"ll often see replies from people like me complaining about the mistakes in the articles.
