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Hey guys,

While I may have sold the GTR a while back my interest in cars has hardly died off. I've been working on a blog, as a means for experimenting with and learning automotive journalism, and I think the time has come to push it out there a little and see what people think. At this stage it equates to a round up of interesting news articles, some from other sites some from more privileged media sources, and a handful of road tests that I've performed and then written up. Yes there's even photos of my old GTR and GTST in the Gallery :D

While any feedback is appreciated I'm most interested in what people think of the road tests. So jump over to Action Auto and take a look and let me know what you think - feel free to respond here or use the contact me option on the blog.

Thanks guys :)

Action Dan

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Whats your target audiance?

Imports / Exotics / Muscle cars... Just overall Unique cars of all manufactures?

Had a quick look at the site and is well presented, nicely informed and straight to the point facts. No bulls**t.

But I found that it is similar to a lot of other car website/forums, Iam also a member on Fast Autos Forum (FAF) they shed light on all types of unique cars but I tend to find a huge bias towards muscle / euro cars as it is an American site and majority of the members are from USA.

So they too would get a lot of sign ups/comments from Ford / Holden fans due to the nature of the engines they can relate to.

Where as in my opinion SAU = Skylines / Imports majority.

Got to remember the Skyline was only for domesticated market and then headed towards AUS, some to Europe and a niche went to USA.

Not many have expirenced a Skyline (beside Japan / AUS) until now, due to the New R35 GTR (At the same time dropping the "Skyline" name). So its not even a Skyline just a Nissan GTR R35.

Even then when the R35 GTR started hitting FAF, a lot of nit picking / arguing / 911 GT3 and Corvette comparisons, led me stop talking on FAF. Members just did not see what the cars good for and kept saying 911 GT3 is the best, Corvette absolute monster car ect. Either they did not believe the GTR R35 will crack the USA / Euro market or just pure bias to USA and Euro cars.

So Iam trying to say that Skyline enthusiast have found their website/forum (Skylines Australia / Skylines Downunder ect) and tend to stick to it. Well at least we got members who actualy drive Skylines and have a better idea on what they are on about rather than just reading magazines / internet / video games and car dvds.

My thoughts

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Cheers mate, thanks for the feedback.

The news articles are aimed at having regular content, I hate sites that rarely update, the idea is aimed more so at learning a bit of auto journalism so my main focus is the road tests and how people find the reading of those.

Again, Thanks for the feedback ;)

Dan

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Cheers mate, thanks for the feedback.

The news articles are aimed at having regular content, I hate sites that rarely update, the idea is aimed more so at learning a bit of auto journalism so my main focus is the road tests and how people find the reading of those.

Again, Thanks for the feedback :)

Dan

Updating content on a website. Great idea!

I too hate site that don't update.

And now that you have stated you main focus is road testing, ppl may use it for referance or another form of car magazine (Ezine = Electronic Magazine).

This shall be sucsseful, just work at it and maybe market your site.

Also another way to get ppl coming back is making sure the information about the cars is correct so ppl can rely on it as reference for researching cars.

:thumbsup:

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Thanks heaps for the feedback, appreciate the time taken.

Thanks to others who are hitting the site up, I can see you in the logs :whistling:

Feel free to make suggestions/comments etc

Cheers Guys

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