Ethan Cole — Editor-in-Chief & Automotive Technical Researcher

Ethan Cole is the Editor-in-Chief & Automotive Technical Researcher at Dragon Auto Guide. Every guide on this site crosses his desk: he writes and edits the pages, sets their structure and voice, and decides what does not get published. He works from documented verification records only — if a figure has no record behind it, it does not appear on the page. His standing rule: every number traces to a document, and where we can’t verify, we say so rather than guess.

What does the Editor-in-Chief actually do here?

Three things. He turns verified records into pages an owner can act on — what to do, what it costs, when to stop and call a specialist. He filters: a figure that fails verification is cut, and the cut is documented, not hidden. And he names the traps — the recurring ways a spec sheet or a service schedule misleads an owner get a name that sticks, so you can spot the next one yourself.

What is he not allowed to do?

This list is the point of the page.

• No number without a record. However plausible a figure looks, if it has no documented verification record, he cannot write it.
• No settling technical disputes. When sources disagree, he flags the conflict for technical review. He does not pick the winner.
• No approving his own language. Every page he edits goes to a separate language gate that he cannot close.
• No publishing. The hand that edits is not the hand that puts a page live.

The editorial line is four words long: Independent. Technical. Evidence-based. Owner-focused.