A few years ago it would have been quite jokey to write, “We thought there weren’t enough car sites on the internet so we’re bringing you a new one!” For most of the last 20 years, the internet has been chock-a-block with car-themed websites, in any tone, language, or automotive niche you’d like.
Sadly, a combination of bad bets by private equity, the need to have Google deliver a large audience to your car content, and increasingly thirsty revenue-generation schemes have left many of our favorite URLs dead or dying in front of our eyes.
There’s some amazing automotive journalism happening out there, to be sure. And loads more to love in video formats (both vertical and otherwise). But there are fewer and fewer places we can just go and read car stories, in a clean and relatively un-fucked-with landscape.
Hence, CarsFancy. This is a blog where you’ll always see the latest story at the top of the feed, with human-written articles that we hope are interesting, and where we’ll always do our best to tell you jokes and tell you the truth. That’s it. That’s the mission statement.
Why is it called CarsFancy?
Maybe we’ll write more about fancy cars than others. Maybe we’ll write about all kinds of fancy stuff that people who like cars also often get into (like mechanical watches or English shotguns). Maybe it’s a nod to an old joke bandied about a previous newsroom between games of Finger Hockey. Maybe we thought it was a funny name for a website, the URL was available, and we’re trying to take things a little less seriously at this stage of our lives. What are you, a lawyer?
Thanks for checking out the party here at CarsFancy, we hope to see you around more as we build the place out. If you, like us, enjoyed car automotive internet as it existed a few decades ago (but with more pixels), we think you’re going to fit right in around here.
