Piratininga
Editorial policy
How Piratininga chooses its subjects and researches, writes, reviews and corrects its articles.
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Piratininga writes practical guides about cars for people who drive. This page says how each article is made.
The subjects
The articles answer questions that many people ask about their own car: how to drive more smoothly, how to look after the tyres and fluids, how to clean, what changes with each season and how the main parts work. Piratininga does not review makes or models, does not publish rankings and does not recommend shops or workshops.
The research
Each guide begins with research in sources that hold in several countries: international organisations, published research, technical standards and makers’ general information. The sources appear in the article itself. A number carries the source and the year it comes from; when a value is only an example, the article says that it is an example.
Because readers are in many countries, the articles avoid treating the rules or prices of one place as the answer. When something varies from one car to another, the article says where to check: in the owner’s manual, on the car’s label or on the trip computer.
The writing
The articles are researched and drafted with the help of artificial intelligence tools, from the sources cited, and checked before they are published: each number is compared with its source, and an independent review reads each passage to see that it says only what the sources support. Piratininga does not claim to have tested anything it has not tested.
The drawings and charts are made for the site. The charts show data from the sources cited, with the source and year in the caption.
Corrections and updates
When a reader points out a mistake, or when a source changes, the article is corrected and shows the date of the update next to the date it was published. Mistakes and suggestions can be sent to contato@piratininga.org.
Advertising and independence
Advertisers do not choose the subjects, do not read the articles before they are published and do not ask for changes. How advertising relates to the content is explained in the advertising disclosure.