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The last thread gave me an idea to start a new thread 'What is your favourite car mag?'. I know this may be a BMW forum but I'm just curious what do people think of CAR, Top Gear, EVO etc. CAR, Top Gear and Auotcar in my opinion have lost their magic lately and Auto Express were never ever very good anyway. Also CAR readers, what do you think of the new format?
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Mick525i
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 21:52 |
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Classic car and top gear. But I aggree with you about TopGear and Autocar have lost their way abit Mick |
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 22:04 |
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thread moved to get more opinions.
Me - I tend to get TBMW or Auto Express. |
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 22:04 |
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I have every copy of CAR from 1990 - 2005 up in the attic. I stopped buying CAR regularly about 2 years ago because I thought it became too like Top Gear with straight forward reviews rather than the adventures they used to have.... Ferrari to Morocco etc etc. I started buying it again when they started the new format and thought it had become better, but when they did the PhotoShop M3 cover a few months back I promised I'd never buy another copy. It really p1ssed me off Now I'm a fan of EVO, and buy it every month. |
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 22:22 |
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EVO for me, used to subscribe to it, but now just buy the editions that are of the most interest to me. |
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 22:27 |
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My regular buys are: Autocar, TBMW, BMW Car, Thoroughbred and Classic, Classic and Sportscar. Plenty more that I pick up from time to time. I see the comments re. Autocar but think that by and large the quality and depth for a weekly mag is fantastic. |
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 22:31 |
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Yea I'm a regualar reader of CAR for about ten years now and I'm thinking of changing over to EVO myself. That M3 photoshop thing sickened me! I remember a few months back there was a magazine called Test Drive but that went t*ts up a few months back, it was a genuinely good read and I was disappointed when they pulled the plug on it. It was only ?2.49!! It was magazine starting off but wasn't successful and it had a variety of categories of cars from Seat Ibiza to Porsche 911. I sometimes buy Autocar as well but that review on the Audi S3 put me off it a bit
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 22:34 |
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performance bmw
 the other mags are bike mags
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I have every copy of Autosport from 196<cough> to the present - scattered around my house! SWMBO is very pleased....... |
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Posted: 09-March-2007 at 23:56 |
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No particular favourite. If they have a feature on the cars I like, then I read it. Sometimes I even buy the magazine.....
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Posted: 10-March-2007 at 00:12 |
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1. TBMW..now just subscribed 2. BMWCC mag..which in all fairness is getting better. 3. Fiesta |
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Always thought that the "Driving" supplement in the Sunday Times was brilliant in it's conciseness. Not too sure that the broader remit of "In Gear" is quite as successful.
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Performance Car from '94 until they got absorbed and died with Car. Then shifted to EVO, which grew from Performance cars ashes by Meaden, Barker, & Lord Metcalfe, which I have from Issue 1. This is my fav mag. Been buying Motor since 87, then Autocar&Motor, then Autocar till the early 90s, then shifted to mountain-biking mags. Threw out alot of the old car mags except for key ones (I now have select motor/autocar mags going back to 1981). Full autocar collection from 2000 but the Autocar website is so good I'm going to have to stop buying them as they just take up space. While i wouldn't be bringing a laptop in with me while I'm going for a dump, the way motoring websites are going now the reasons for buying autocar is reducing more & more; 75% of the mag content you read on the site 10days beforehand. |
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I am still buying CAR my oldest issue goes back to 1975! Also have Car Mechanics from the early 90s. Practical Classics is my other regular monthly buy since about 1998 My weekly purchase is Motorport News. I do get my name on a results page every 2 or 3 years, they have also published a letter of mine. |
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Motoring supplement in Wednesdays irish Times is about as far as it goes for me. They have this kinda witty young fella doing a bit of a column in it now. Now, what's the name of that column? Erosions, inclusions,.......... |
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Anyone remember Street Machine?
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*push*...Wha's that you say!?...*shove* |
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Performance BMW & BMW Car are the only 2 I buy every month.
Occasionally I'd buy Car, Evo or Auto Express or Autocar. Auto Express I glance at in the newsagents to keep up to date with what else is happening in the motorworld, along with Autocar. The only time I buy those mags is if I'm at the airport for something to read on the plane. (Every other journey bores me, except car one's) |
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