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Tetsujin

Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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OK so i just had a brief rant about the televisual entertainments program 'fifth gear' in another thread and in doing so came up with a question:

what car magazines do you all read? and what do you think of them, i.e. which are good for factual boring stuff, which are good for different sections of the market etc etc?

personally i tend to buy EVO every so often and that's about it, and i do think it's rather stylish, i'd almost consider it the EDGE (if you know your games mags) of the car magazine world.
 
I read..

Evo - becuase it's down to earth, decent, and about interesting cars.
Top Gear - becuase I subscribed years ago and keep forgetting to cancel it. It really isn't very good
Autocar - because it's about the only half decent regular car magazine with accurate performance figures and experienced testers you can actually trust.

What Car? is just the most boring magazine in the entire world, seemingly judging every car on its number of cupholders. Auto Express is a collection of badly written press releases.
 
Mopar Muscle (only sold in the usa/on the web)

I don't bother with anything else, I don't want to know what 100 diffrent cars are and there performance times, I'm not interested in the market value of a million cars I don't own. Not intrested in performance parts for cars I don't own. Or reviews of cars I can't afford or aren't looking at buying.
 
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I used to read Retro Cars. First car magazine i made the effort to buy every issue... which lasted a few months and then they stopped making it :(
 
I normally switch between two.

Practical Performance Car - Good at showing that you don't have to spend a bomb to get a quick car.

Practical Classics - Some useful guides in there.
 
Don't really buy magazines but last two months I've bought Max Power. Really good read nowadays,no chavvy crap.Nice looking cars and they do talk about engine and stuff.
 
[TW]Fox;10028254 said:
What Car? is just the most boring magazine in the entire world, seemingly judging every car on its number of cupholders. Auto Express is a collection of badly written press releases.
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exactly... how these two magazines are still around is beyond me.

Cant say i agree on tg tho, however it depends on what your wanting from car mag. Top Gear is more about the lifestyle of being a petrolhead now, whereas autocar, like you rightly state, is streets ahead when it comes to actually road testing cars.

so for me its Top Gear, Autocar and occasionaly evo/car if im really stuck for lunchtime reading material.
 
Keep meaning to subscribe to evo and perhaps autocar.
Currently have a subscription to top gear, but even though I cancelled it about a year ago they still keep sending me magazines....nevermind!
 
I subscribe to Evo, but other than that I don't really bother with car mags unless I'm going on a long journey or holiday somewhere. When I do buy other mags, they tend to be Top Gear and Autocar.
 
PPC of course but I find that German mags are very good and I get a regular stream. Auto Motor und Sport has a lot of good technical articles you'd never get in a mainstream UK mag.
 
been reading CAR for as long as i can remember
i think it's the best car magainze out there. very well written and the photography is fantastic
 
PPC
Octane
UltraVW
VolksWorld
Retro Ford
Practical Classics
Evo
Performance VW
Performance Bikes

And half a dozen more...

*n
 
Evo or Top Gear here, only used to buy them for train journey reading but I don't use trains any more. TG would only get bought when evo wasn't in stock. evo clearly wins out on the car stuff, but JC's column in TG mag is usually amusing on some level or another.
 
Practical Performance Car
Stre....Sorry, American Car World (RIP SM)
Custom Car
Occasionally Practical Classics.......
Classic Trader
Race Engineer

That's about it really :)
 
I subscribe to EVO and AutoExpress (hey someone has to ;))

Buy the occasional TopGear when its cheap at shows but otherwise its a waste of cash. The half of it that isn't stats :rolleyes: isn't particularly well written and the photographs look amateurish compared to EVO.
 
I enjoy reading Evo and Classic and Sports Car Magazine. Dont' subscribe to either of them however. I ocassionally read practical classics as well because I'm interested in maintaining cars.
 
I've got a Top Gear subscription, simply because it was cheap with my clubcard vouchers :o

Its OK, wouldn't pay full price for it.

On a trial subscription of Octane which seems a bit different from my quick 30 second thumb through. Won't keep it going at the end of the trial though as I simply don't have enough time to read through them. I'm about 3/4 of the way through reading the interesting bist of my first Top Gear mag... and got 4 sat completely unopened :o
 
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