Avoidable Contact Forever

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The Story of TTAC, Part Two: About Last Night
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The Story of TTAC, Part Two: About Last Night

Second in the series

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This is a sequel to Part One. All disclaimers and warnings from that story continue to apply.

On October 17, 2012, after an extremely forthright discussion about overzealous editing of a Volvo review, I sent this email to Bertel Schmitt, who by then had ascended to Editor-in-chief of The Truth About Cars:

Bertel,

Let me give you a little bit of what Ameri…

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