Which Car Magazine?

Which car Magazine do you like?

  • Motor Trend

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  • Car & Driver

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  • Road & Track

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  • Other

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Which car magazine do you think gives the best readability, best reviews and layout. Also doesn't cater to the "rich and famous" showing mostly cars that most of us could never have.
 
That rules out Du Pont Registry or Robb Report ;) :rolleyes:



Hmm...I always liked Car and Driver best :up
 
Do you chaps get EVO magazine in the states?:)



It's without doubt the best performance car magazine in the UK...The photography is simply sublime!:bow
 
I'm guessing that Sportscar International, Automobile, etc. are a bit too high-price-oriented for what you're asking about.



I voted C&D. I've been enjoying it for over 30 years, so that must indicate a pretty broad range of appeal (my interests in cars have changed a lot over the years).



Yeah, Autoweek is good too, and Sports & Classic Car and some of the other Brit mags are really down to earth, if a bit Euro-centric.
 
SCC (Sport Compact Car) has me reading intently, mixed with bursts of laughter. It's a bit corny sometimes, but the mix of great technical jargon and everyday BS'ing keeps me coming back.

Of course, I read all those other monthly's as well.
 
Grassroots Motorsports... for all the cars that the rich guys bought new and got tired of, and that still have lots of FUN left in them!









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I currectly subscribe to two "Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords" as well as "5.0 Mustang and Super Fords". I need to renew my subscription to Mustang Enthusiast. You mean there are cars out there other than the Mustang :nixweiss



Most of the rags like Motor Trend or Car and Driver tend to have their biases. I find myself getting darn right mad at them and have subscribed and unsubscribed so many times I just watch them on TV now rather than pay for the magazine.
 
Motor Trend for me. I used to read Car and Driver but after my subscription expired they offered me a renewal at a much higher rate than what was available to others. Switched to MT and have been with them for quite a few years now. Generally they cover almost the same cars but I actually like the style of MT better - just my opinion.



In the past I've also tried Roundell, SCC and something tuner related but don't have the time nor money for that any more.
 
Motor Trend, hands down, the others have too much auto cross and racing crap. Just test cars and trucks and report on your findings please.
 
Another SSC mag vote. The best import magazine I've read. It was one of the first and is still one of the best. The only report on cars that perform. Not just Hondas with intakes and loud exhausts.
 
I've been a C&D subscriber for years, but I've finally had it with their (IMHO) tasteless and sophomoric writing, (to me) unbalanced and contradictory opinions, and general decline in journalistic quality.



I find ROAD AND TRACK to be far more professional and balanced, and to top it off, my magazines ALWAYS get here, unlike C&D, where about 30% never arrive. I find the difference interesting, since they're sister publications.
 
The British magazine CAR is the most "tell it like it is", magazine I've ever read. The editors don't sugar-coat their words like most U.S. magazines do.
 
I voted for Car and Driver. I like their articles and reviews and they are not far from me so it is cool to see most of the testing going on on roads that I ahve driven on and the local race tracks.
 
I used to get Motor Trend, Road & Track, Autoweek, and Car and Driver. Motor Trend was so full of marketing hype in their reviews that I couldn't stand it anymore.



R&T I just didn't feel like paying double for since they changed their rates, so now I just get Car and Driver and Autoweek. I always used to get it for about $10 a year, then suddenly it's like $21. R&T does have nice articles on old/exotic cars, though, and has great large photography. It's a great magazine to read about cars you wouldn't buy. Though I have never found magazines to be very helpful for car shopping as they usually have vastly different criteria than I do (like any car over $30k, and suddenly money isn't a factor, so a car that is .1mph faster through a slalom is a huge factor, but $10,000 more price is trivial).



I'd drop Car and Driver if they adopt R&T rates. I was about to drop Car and Driver, when they sent me a renewal at $7 for a year. Autoweek, though, is worth it's weight in gold. :)
 
I get too many magazines. I end up doing a lot of skimming.



Excellence (Porsche Only)

Panorama (Porsche Only)

Roundel (BMW Only)

Road and Track

Car and Driver

Automobile

F1

Car

EuroTuner

Automotive Engineering

Autobody Repair News

SEMA

...and a couple others I can't remember right now.



I'm afraid my dinner party conversations don't get far beyond 0-60 times of the new Enzo or what Michael Schumacher thinks about the reworked chicane at Spa. To me, "well read" means not missing the latest offering from Coventry or reading the latest article from Peter Egan. Yea, one track mind. :nixweiss
 
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