No worries, and I wasn't intending to direct my comment to you or anyone specific. Just trying to get the facts out.
Austin may be new to all of this, but I am not. I genuinely would not ever allow any report to be published on either of our sites that I felt would have come from embargoed press material. I've been on the other end of that (having embargoed material and someone else breaks it). I hate it and never aspire to put anyone through it.
To be honest, I was told that Ford was getting rather jealous of the relationship between GM and GMI. Perhaps Ford is loosening the strings a bit? Wishful thinking perhaps, but I've seen more unusual things happen in this business. We do have press fleet access at FIN, which is a terrific start! I do hope you some of you guys get involved in our review process...we always ask for photo requests, questions, etc. when we have a press vehicle in the garage!
Will we be wrong on some stuff? Perhaps. My goal is for FIN to have a similar reputation as we have at GMI, which is quite good. I have full editorial control on what is published...and I am not one that kills accuracy just for the sake of hits. I want a long-term reputation with FIN, not a short one!
Thanks for the welcome!