Yey! A New Car Mag!! Modern Classics
Discussion
Kinky said:
DoctorX said:
Wow - that's pretty cool. Not come across that before 
andy43 said:
Kinky said:
DoctorX said:
Wow - that's pretty cool. Not come across that before 
43034 said:
Hoping values sky rocket overnight due to that.... Not that I want to sell mine though. f
king love it!
I hope they hold off doing that for a couple months king love it!
I'm about to start a job with no need for a car. So a weekend car is needed. I'm probably going to go for a 147 GTA though.
I got it at the weekend and have read it right through. Generally good, it fills a gap in the market and covers a wide range of cars, all of which could be described as modern classics, no matter what the snobs might think. But why the references to 'investment' in several instances; I bought the magazine to read about the cars and it does very well in that area, you can leave investments to the Financial Times.
GreenArrow said:
Got a copy of new mag today. its great, right up my alley! I have long said there was a gap in the market place for classics built after 1979, as Classic and Sports car and Classic car are stuck in a permanent 60/70s time warp, yawn, where anything that isn't an MGB, E Type, Aston or Triumph TR is NOT worth writing about.
I agree. They seemed to have acknowledged the 80s/early-90s market a little more of late, probably due to the rising values more than anything else, but I always got the impression it was a little forced. An article on, for example, an E30 M3 or Sierra Cossie almost felt like it was being written under sufferanceThey have missed a trick IMO, which this new mag will hopefully make up for
DoctorX said:
top tip. i'm downloading stacks of stuff, all the main uk car magsJustin Case said:
I got it at the weekend and have read it right through. Generally good, it fills a gap in the market and covers a wide range of cars, all of which could be described as modern classics, no matter what the snobs might think. But why the references to 'investment' in several instances; I bought the magazine to read about the cars and it does very well in that area, you can leave investments to the Financial Times.
I'm sure it does indeed fill a gap in the market; I've been reading Dutch and German magazines with a focus on 1970s-and-later cars for years now and had always been wondering why no one attempted something similar here.I must agree with JC, though: the editors are either completely obsessed with buying these cars as 'investments' themselves, or they think that this is what is going to sell copies of their magazine. Perhaps they are even right about the latter, if the popularity of UK tv shows that hype the property market in a similar way is anything to go by.
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the (modern and older) classic car bubble (for examples of that on this forum see here, here or here); do we really need a magazine that will potentially make that bubble even bigger?
Yes, the quality of the paper it's printed on could be improved, but I'd what I'd really like to see is writing aimed at genuine enthusiasts, not speculators with more money than passion for cars.
Edited by nimchimpsky82 on Wednesday 14th October 17:02
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