Yes, today Jalopnik, the most-read car enthusiast website, ran a review of the Toyota RAV4. I have my reasons.
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We may be an enthusiast site but our readers buy normal, ordinary, working cars to park next to their Karmann-Ghia projects and smoldering Fox Mustangs much more than people think.
Plus, I believe in putting an enthusiast lens on the cars normal people buy, like the Subaru Outback and Honda CR-V. It’s important to stand out in the sea of boring consumer-oriented car reviews; we need to test the big things people drive. It’s why I’ll want to test the 2018 Toyota Camry later this year. (And by that I mean send someone to test; I’m certainly not doing it.)
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There’s also the fact that sometimes it means an inexplicable hit that pays the bills for other shit we want to do. I’ll let reader Ctyke explain:
You gotta do what you gotta do.