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Originally Posted by 350ZED
I felt the need to have to register and respond to this thread so I can clear up some things for you all.
Mike and Bling are not Nissan employees.
The car was a press car for Mike, not Bling.
Mike is an editorial writer for various media outlets.
Yes, they had bad judgment and got caught up in a ridiculous situation.
Mike is a well respected figure in the automotive community. You may recognize a LOT of his work in the tuner magazines that you see on stands today. He was the West Coast Editor for Modified Mag, and this can be verified in the last issue. He no longer works with Modified, but he has a number of freelance photography and editorial in other publications.
With that said, it was an idiotic thing to do- taking a press car for his own personal performance testing, and on top of it all, RECORDING and uploading the internet. But it's over. Whatever the fall out is, he will pay for his actions without a jury present.
People make mistakes, give him a break. Outside of this incident, he provides brilliant editorial and insight to our car world.
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I really don't care how respected or liked someone is, it doesn't give them free license to do as they please.
The problem is it gives all journalists a bad name when one of them takes a press car, hands it over to an unauthorized user for their personal joyride session, and then uploads it on the internet as a joke.
If I were in charge at Nissan that would be the last time a press car was given out with free license to any journalist.