Doug DeMuro > Quotes

“Mercedes sedans appeal to the kind of people who believe AOL is the best way to access the Internet.  They’re boring.  They’re old.  They’re not funny.”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars

“standard practice in California, where a married couple will go to the grocery store together in separate Priuses, just so each person can be seen saving the planet.   Unfortunately,”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars

“To get a clearer idea of the other half, allow me to paint a picture for you.  Imagine, if you will, nothing.  Now imagine that it’s endless.  Now triple that.  This is a perfect description of the United States between the Denver International Airport and approximately Wrigley Field. ”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars

“Some guys wash their cars, some guys drive their cars.  That’s an old saying among automotive enthusiasts,”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars

“mileage of each oil change, going back for years, to an age before it was socially acceptable to wear a beard like an unkempt bird’s nest. Number two: eventually, I posted news of my purchase on the 500E forums, which primarily consist of about nineteen guys who sit around and discuss how their car values are going up. Almost immediately, someone came on and replied that I was a thief: he had made a deal with the Fiat dealer earlier that afternoon over the phone for just eighty five hundred bucks, and he planned to come collect the car a few days later. And I swooped in and GRABBED IT! Quickly, the 500E forum turned on me in the way that only a forum full of sixty-five-year-old men can: with rampant misuse of the “QUOTE” function. I stopped posting almost immediately. In the end, I decided to flip the car—and I sold it within a couple months to a guy in Ohio for $16,000, or about six grand more than I had paid. It was a sad event, and I was disappointed to see the super sedan go—but as it was getting loaded on to the trailer for its trip north, one nagging thought kept me from getting depressed. At least I wasn’t”
― Doug DeMuro, Bumper to Bumper

“Windshield Wiper Normalcy   This is a hugely important category that’s overlooked all too frequently in car reviews.  Like most cars, the Honda Fit and Nissan LEAF have two windshield wipers.  In the LEAF, they’re about the same size.  In the Fit, one wiper is the size of that tree in California you can drive under, while the other is about as long a golf course pencil.  Why is this important?  Because as a professional automotive journalist, I have deemed it so.  Isn’t that enough?  Advantage: LEAF.”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars

“Like most cars, the Honda Fit and Nissan LEAF have two windshield wipers.  In the LEAF, they’re about the same size.  In the Fit, one wiper is the size of that tree in California you can drive under, while the other is about as long a golf course pencil.  Why is this important?  Because as a professional automotive journalist, I have deemed it so.  Isn’t that enough?  Advantage: LEAF.”
― Doug DeMuro, Plays With Cars