McClaren's 'world's most powerful trail-legal e-bike' has a problem
McClaren's 'world's most powerful trail-legal e-bike' has a problem
McLaren, better known for its high-performance sports cars, has just announced a series of new electric bikes, including what the...
Spoiler: it's only as powerful as the rest of the European government mandated limited bikes at the top of the range.
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I’m still baffled that the author couldn’t read the brand name on the actual image of the bike in their own article and realize that it’s “McLaren.”
And it’s not like once or twice. It’s every single occurrence of the name in the article.
Micah is ... well he's definitely not trained as a journalist. Seems like a nice guy, though, and he is enthusiastic about EVs of all sorts, so I cut him some slack.
I mean… sure… but I honestly think it’s weird that an “enthusiast” evidently doesn’t care enough to trivially verify that they’re spelling the name correctly, when the images they’re using for the article have the branding spelled correctly in prominent locations in basically every shot.
That’s frankly extremely lazy. But minutiae like that frustrates me somewhat more than the average bear, so my perspective is probably skewed a bit.
I didn't even notice that 😂
I mean, a performance car brand that fields an F1 and Formula E team is fairly recognizable… or at least it should be to an author of an electric vehicle website. 🤦