Cars, trucks, or vehicles in general don’t really fall into a bucket of things I want to learn about on a regular basis. Anytime I’m around my younger brother, however, I learn a little more than I’d ever wanted to know. He’s got opinions of every car and knowledge of car parts that cost more than the actual car itself. I felt qualified to give Car-O-Focus a fair review, despite not being as big of a car buff as my motorhead of a sibling.
The archives go back to December 2006, making this site about six months old according to the posts I could find. Each post is three or four very small paragraphs that make up the first part of the post. Readers then have to click on a link that takes them to a completely different URL for the rest of the entry. This would become increasingly annoying if one was reading the site through an RSS reader.
The layout of the site is extremely distracting. Red is one of my favorite colors, but having so much of it on this site drew away from the actual entries, which were also a bit tedious to read at times with white text on a dark gray background. There are so many Google ads thrown all throughout the site that readers will have a hard time distinguishing between a link the author suggests or an ad of some sort. There were often up to 15 separate ads on any given entry.
In the “about” section of the blog, the author explains that he wanted to start a site that had a particular niche. He does do a good job of staying in the niche he’s chosen.
I didn’t particularly find this blog as one I would return to anytime in the future. I didn’t even find the need to pass it along as a link of interest to my brother, who, as I mentioned before, loves anything to do with cars. It’s just another blog that happens to be out there and ready for someone to accidentally stumble upon when searching for a BMW review, but not one I could see winding up on too many lists of “blogs one must read or their life will not be complete”.