Have You Noticed How News Sites Only Mention Imports By Name?

[dangerous_daveo]

Funny how those details that everyone loves are usually left out if the driver is in a Pulsar, or Camry, or Golf.

...and just like the media you only quoted what you wanted to, to make your point more relevent. What people want to hear.

He was in the wrong, he is 'one of us' so to speak. Hell he was VERY in the wrong. Maybe now we know this person is a skyline driver, maybe we should name and shame him??? Cause he aint going to stop driving in a hurry, and just continue to give 'us' a bad name.

Think of it from this point of view. Media, the point of it is to MAKE MONEY, not to do good, not to inform us of nice stuff, but to make money. Making money involves giving people a product they want or need. IE, hoons doing bad, people want to see that, so that makes money. Get it. We need to make good examples, shame the people who do bad. Its us that gives us our rep, and can make it worse or better. Having a whine about someones car getting named when they aren't legally allowed to drive for 6 years, then them driving off in said car... give it up dude.

End rant for now.

[scathing]

...and just like the media you only quoted what you wanted to, to make your point more relevent. What people want to hear.

He was in the wrong, he is 'one of us' so to speak.

1. I'm making an observation. When I see them mentioning Camrys and Commodores by name (which they do occasionally) I make a note of it too, usually in surprise.

2. I'm also not a journalist, so when I publish something I am not adhering to journalistic integrity. The article linked is not an opinion piece, at which I'd still be offended but by his opinion and not by his lack of consistency in reporting.

The driver is someone who's been repeatedly suspended for driving illegally, and continues to do so despite those suspensions. Whatever group he is a representative of, I'm not one of them.

[KamikazeR33]

6 years!! what the hell did he do? 645km/h in a 50 zone

then the guy who got done for 54 yrs must have been doin 11ty billion kilometres an second

[Topaz]

I actually believe imports are less dangerous than Falcodores/Camry's etc. Performance doesnt just include the engine, it also includes brakes, suspension (to say the relevant least) and if you add that to normal law abiding driving your actually better off arent you.

Media spins always portray import drivers as speeders and as if we are always "on boost" and accelerating hard because the cars make a pssshhh noise.....Its sad that they will never have their facts right because telling everyone import drivers are bad people on the roads is much better for ratings.

Its like forum flaming, every opportunity you get to embarrass someone publically, you take it.

[raz0r$harP.UK]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/north-...7545360994.html

It continues

Up to three men lifted the ATM into a waiting white van, before driving off in the van and a white Nissan Skyline.

[someonestolecc]

That SMH article isn't discriminatory though. It's quite clearly stolen as it's a hi-po car to get away with. Could have been a WRX or silvia or anything.

[scathing]

Up to three men lifted the ATM into a waiting white van, before driving off in the van and a white Nissan Skyline.

Yeah! Some of us are quite curious as to whether the van was a Mitsubishi Express or a Toyota Hiace. It might even have been a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter or Ford Transit!

Its those details that grab me, and make me want to buy newspapers.

[KamikazeR33]

it was a holden barina van thing!!

[**JaR**]

I actually believe imports are less dangerous than Falcodores/Camry's etc. Performance doesnt just include the engine, it also includes brakes, suspension (to say the relevant least) and if you add that to normal law abiding driving your actually better off arent you.

agreed.

but the media are idiots... omg a skyline makes a sick psshhh noise he must be one o them street racer FnF type hoons

sif the words nissan and skyline werent included in that article coz of the car it was. agreed with the others who have said that if it was just a random commo they would have said "to his car"

[Patto-]

I agree that had he owned just about any other car it probably wouldn't have been mentioned. Skylines have a reputation for being the car of choice for many reckless young hoons. Therefore the writer obviously though it worthwhile to include the type of car in his article. Which only adds to their bad reputation.

Strangley enough though, I noticed this photo in the Daily Telegraph the other day. Found it interesting that just about all the cars in the photo are Commodores, and the one high-performance Japanese car in the photo was incorrectly said to be a Commodore.

[edspaged2]

HAHAH! Poor silvia. Just out of curiosity, what happens to cars when they get impounded? Do you have to get them back after a certain time?

[funkymonkey]

its also an S14... which is a domestically sold model and not an import if you want to be technical

whoever owns it deserves to have it confiscated anyways for mounting gauges on the outside of the car.

[Patto-]

HAHAH! Poor silvia. Just out of curiosity, what happens to cars when they get impounded? Do you have to get them back after a certain time?

Usually keep them for 3 months in NSW. You have to pay the impound fees for the whole term. I guy I know got caught doing a burnout. Had to pay the fine for dangerous driving or something, also had to pay the towing fee from the Central Coast to the impound lot in Sydney, and then the 3 months worth of impound fees. He was a wanker who throughly deserved it though.

its also an S14... which is a domestically sold model and not an import if you want to be technical

Yeah, I know. But they are usually tarred with the same brush. And it definately isn't a Commodore, which was my main point.

Edited May 18, 2006 by shyster

[edspaged2]

its also an S14... which is a domestically sold model and not an import if you want to be technical

whoever owns it deserves to have it confiscated anyways for mounting gauges on the outside of the car.

Fulli sik Hektik Yo Gauges on bonnet! As if the interior gauges werent hard enought read! LOL

Usually keep them for 3 months in NSW. You have to pay the impound fees for the whole term. I guy I know got caught doing a burnout. Had to pay the fine for dangerous driving or something, also had to pay the towing fee from the Central Coast to the impound lot in Sydney, and then the 3 months worth of impound fees. He was a wanker who throughly deserved it though.

Yeah, I know. But they are usually tarred with the same brush. And it definately isn't a Commodore, which was my main point.

3 months!!! Thats a pretty long time dont you think? i also hear that if a car gets impounded a certain amount of times it then gets sold off?

[Topaz]

LOL, S14 Commonwhore

It also says they were all caught doing burnouts........

"Sorry officer my GTR is 4WD"

"Yeah, so"

"You can't really achieve these said burnouts with 4WD"

"Step out of the car please, sir"

"But I didn't...."

"YOU DON'T WANT TO CAUSE A SCENE NOW DO YOU, SIR?" (*policeman raises vioce)

[Sydneykid]

Always register your car in joint names, or better still in a company name. That way they can’t impound the car for any period of time because legally it’s not “your car”. It belongs to someone other than the driver, so they can’t punish them for something that they didn’t do.

Yes, it has been tried in court, it stands up and has precedent. Car registered in joint names, father and son. Son gets busted for “doing wheelies”, BS charge BTW, car gets impounded. Father needs car to go to work. Police say “no it’s impounded for doing wheelies”. Father takes it to court and wins, gets car back the same day.

Pregnant wife joint owner was even better, got that car back in under 5 minutes in court. Police and RTA not impressed, most angry prosecutor.

This is one of those cases when time is not your friend, get the car back NOW.

cheers

[scathing]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mother...8150178401.html

Someone runs over a mum and 2 kids.

They've impounded the car, so they know what it is, yet the make and model of the vehicle is somehow absent......

[edspaged2]

I have yet to receive a reply from the Sydney Morning Herald. They're probably in too much shock and horror that I was able to write out such a sensible and concise email that they couldnt reply

They probably thought that a skyline drivers vocabulary consisted mainly of 'fulli sik uleh's!' and 'wicked bruss!'