What about me?

I've told you about the blog, now how about a bit about myself.

Well, since I was a lad I have had an obsession with cars. Something about the styles and sounds of cars would always get me excited. I would always be building Hot Wheels tracks or playing various Need For Speed video games in between my sessions of searching for concept car photographs on the internet or sitting on the front porch listening for an occasional V-8 thunder.

I even made a website about it. www.jsite.com/sizzlincars

My obsession became so fierce I was soon able to recite the make and model of every car that would pass by, just to annoy the rest of my family.

My first car was a 1995 Geo Prizm with an 85 horsepower 1.6 liter engine. Or, to put it even simpler, it was a Toyota Corolla in clothes from a thrift store. To drive this car and find true enjoyment in it, you have to be crazy about driving. I beat the poor thing to hell, but it is still going as a testament to Japanese durability.

The defining moment in my relationship with cars was when I started my second job at the end of high school. I started working as a lot technician (basically a salesman's slave) at a Ford dealership in Cincinnati. This got me behind the wheel of some pretty exciting (Miata, Tiburon GTV6, Civic SI, Mustang GT) and very lame (Dodge Avenger, Mustang V6, Dodge Neon) cars. Before I knew it, I would be running errands while reviewing the car for an imaginary audience much like my heroes James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. It was then that I decided pursuing an education in journalism would be the way to go.

For now, I am trapped on campus dearly missing my '94 Miata that is parked in the garage back home.

So, what kind of cars get me excited?

All kinds. I get just as much of a kick out of a naturally-aspirated V-8 as I get out of a turbocharged four-cylinder. I'm more partial to simple, stripped out sports cars instead of muscle cars or luxury sedans, but it really depends more on the car. Some of my current favorites in the world are the Miata, the VW GTI, Focus RS, Cadillac CTS-V, etc.

Worst car I've ever driven?

Chevrolet Cavalier, late nineties, and that was just in a parking lot.

Best car I've ever driven?

Really tough, especially because I haven't been in too many genuinely exciting cars. I still want to say it was a Miata, but besides that I might go as far as saying it was one of the 2010 Mustang GT's I got to drive last summer, just because of how much of an improvement over the last Mustang it is. I feel like the new 5.0 may stack up to be the best entry level American musclecar.