Online-only motoring 'magazines'

[RacingBlue]

I quite like Petrol Blog. AROnline is good for British stuff.

www.petrolblog.co.uk
www.aronline.co.uk

[excel monkey]

RacingBlue said:

I quite like Petrol Blog. AROnline is good for British stuff.

www.petrolblog.co.uk
www.aronline.co.uk

Petrolblog looks good.

ARonline seems to have tied itself up with Honest John. Some of the detail on ARonline is great, but the partisan bias when reviewing old BL turds like the Ital and Allegro is almost comical.

[camshafted]

The Supercar Kids is an interesting one, targeted towards youngsters as an e-zine.

Great photography from some young, talented snappers.

http://www.thesupercarkids.com/TSK-home.htm

[storminnorman]

W00DY said:

excel monkey said:

petrolsniffer said:

http://jalopnik.com/ almost forgot about this one

Not a great Jalopnik fan. Just seems to be click-baiting nonsense. Current top story is a video "Watch A Ferrari Owner Go Nuts On This 'Pee Prankster'".

Jalopnik is awful. Take other people's material and add a sensationalist headline.

Another downvote for Jalopnik. As you say, a lot of their content is just rehashed from elsewhere (classic Gawker 'journalism'), either directly or dressing someone else's story up to look like their exclusive. The articles that they do produce are poor - quite often the writers are just spouting their own opinions. You can see their market, it's pretty trendy but lowest common denominator stuff (plenty of stupid 'memes'). I can't believe articles often contain pretty coarse language - doesn't bother me per se, but in the context it just reeks of immaturity (recent article on Ecclestone for example).

Sadly one of their better writers, a Hungarian named Peter Orosz appears to have left the site. Not to mention the constant facelifts that make it increasingly less useable.

Something about the gawker sites really grates with me clearly

[bmthnick1981]

excel monkey said:

Petrolblog looks good.

Yes it does, sites which focus on older cars which aren't quite classics it most peoples eyes are always interesting. Cars of the 80's, 90's and 00's are good to see and read about. I think that's why I prefer reading my older copies of Performance Car vs. current copies of EVO etc.

[Olivera]

http://blog.axisofoversteer.com/

[pincher]

www.motorpunk.co.uk for an 'alternative' view of the motoring world, co-written (well, crayoned) by our very own Crack Fox.

Please support him - he has 7 feral kids badly in need of a haircut and toenail scrub, 5 (5?) incontinent grandparents and a Porsche 968 to support. It's not a Clubsport though, so gets no sympathy from me

Edited by pincher on Thursday 4th July 23:23

[rob.e]

The Crack Fox said:

pincher said:

www.motorpunk.co.uk for an 'alternative' view of the motoring world, co-written (well, crayoned) by our very own Crack Fox.

Please support him - he has 7 feral kids badly in need of a haircut and toenail scrub, 5 (5?) incontinent grandparents and a Porsche 968 to support. It's not a Clubsport though, so gets no sympathy from me

Edited by pincher on Thursday 4th July 23:23

Ta ! Please read it, my C5 needs new batteries and an inner tube.

That looks great - not see it before. I remember Crack Fox's write up on rental fiat 500's and the elise/champagne trip - some great writing there too.

[DazzerVR6]

• raises head above parapet*

Glad you liked it. The Crack Fox and I have put a lot of time and effort into the early issues.

Great fun to do - my writing works best half way through a bottle of Merlot; not sure my liver will make it to issue 12. Drunken spell checking is also pretty futile.

Dr.O

[DanglerDoo]

excel monkey said:

Petrolblog looks good.

ARonline seems to have tied itself up with Honest John. Some of the detail on ARonline is great, but the partisan bias when reviewing old BL turds like the Ital and Allegro is almost comical.

The research done for ARonline is immense. Gotta love it for its geeky levels of detail ... which I love ...and makes me a geek I suppose!

The reverential ways it "bigs up" the BL stters is quite funny. He clearly wanted us to love the MG6 too - that didn't happen much did it? I actually like the Honest John stuff too.

[8vFTW]

Not so much a magazine, but Jay Leno's Garage on YouTube is pretty good. The guy just loves cars, and he always has people who know about the car to come along and talk about it. From things like the new Corvette and Fiat 500L to crazy custom creations like Randy Grubb's DecoLiner.

It's all original content too, not just the copy/paste deal that you see so much of online.

[V8mate]

The Crack Fox said:

Thanks

Issue 2 went live yesterday, 24 hours of Lemons, Morgan up some mountains, RC cars, Plymouth - Dakar rally, a Vauxhall Chevette and other nonsense in it.

Great issue!

Have shared amongst right-thinking folk.