What is happening at EVO magazine?
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fatboy69 said:
Octane mag is the same. Smaller, dreadful quality paper. Just generally unreadable.
My subscription was cancelled the day after I received last months issue which was the start of the smaller mag.
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Do you not like the content, or is it just the size and material?My subscription was cancelled the day after I received last months issue which was the start of the smaller mag.
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te.slk 32 said:
Interesting..
I've bought the last few issues of Modern Classics and the only thing that let it down was the paper quality
Fast forward four months and Octane (and now it seems Evo) have gone down the same route. I can only imagine it's cost
Yeah, Modern Classics is my preference now. I would ideally like a magazine that featured the Modern Classics type of cars with the Evo standard writing. Ideally the two magazines would merge, producing a hybrid I would actually want to buy! I've bought the last few issues of Modern Classics and the only thing that let it down was the paper quality
Fast forward four months and Octane (and now it seems Evo) have gone down the same route. I can only imagine it's cost
billzeebub said:
Yeah, Modern Classics is my preference now. I would ideally like a magazine that featured the Modern Classics type of cars with the Evo standard writing. Ideally the two magazines would merge, producing a hybrid I would actually want to buy!
I'd certainly buy that one as well - EVO photography and some of the cars from Modern Classics. I find every other month EVO tends to do an issue full of unaffordium for anyone who's not a City TraderThey redress it the next issue usually but those other issues tend to confuse 'thrill of driving' with the 'thrill of 75k plus cars'
^^This^^
Don't read EVO anymore as I'm not interested in how the latest 911 Turbo drives, but have a sub to Modern Classics. Exactly the kind of cars I want to read about, but the writing is just too shallow and superficial at times. It's also often poorly researched. They need to pass articles around the office for a bit of car bore proof reading before publishing. A recent pic of a UK Monaro with Holden badges stuck on it was hailed as some sort of rare pre-Vauxhall Holden import... The obsession with 'future investment value' in every article is tiresome as well. I keep buying it in the hope the writing will improve!
Don't read EVO anymore as I'm not interested in how the latest 911 Turbo drives, but have a sub to Modern Classics. Exactly the kind of cars I want to read about, but the writing is just too shallow and superficial at times. It's also often poorly researched. They need to pass articles around the office for a bit of car bore proof reading before publishing. A recent pic of a UK Monaro with Holden badges stuck on it was hailed as some sort of rare pre-Vauxhall Holden import... The obsession with 'future investment value' in every article is tiresome as well. I keep buying it in the hope the writing will improve!
s m said:
billzeebub said:
Yeah, Modern Classics is my preference now. I would ideally like a magazine that featured the Modern Classics type of cars with the Evo standard writing. Ideally the two magazines would merge, producing a hybrid I would actually want to buy!
I'd certainly buy that one as well - EVO photography and some of the cars from Modern Classics. I find every other month EVO tends to do an issue full of unaffordium for anyone who's not a City TraderThey redress it the next issue usually but those other issues tend to confuse 'thrill of driving' with the 'thrill of 75k plus cars'
Don't forget a lot of the cars they feature are borrowed from understanding owners (who won't be especially happy to have their car written up as a pile of turds!) and also can't necessarily be compared in a contemporary sense, but viewed on their own merits. With classic cars it's as much as how the car makes you feel-many are owned because of the nostalgia they invoke, mine included.
I agree with the comments about Evo-I'm lucky to be able to afford reasonable "Evo" cars but still feel at the bottom of their readership rung-it's getting more and more rare to see multiple features in one issue about cars I can actually afford!
Modern Classics isn't perfect but they really have caught the imagination of many petrolheads with the cars they feature and their enthusiastic delivery.
s m said:
billzeebub said:
Yeah, Modern Classics is my preference now. I would ideally like a magazine that featured the Modern Classics type of cars with the Evo standard writing. Ideally the two magazines would merge, producing a hybrid I would actually want to buy!
I'd certainly buy that one as well - EVO photography and some of the cars from Modern Classics. I find every other month EVO tends to do an issue full of unaffordium for anyone who's not a City TraderThey redress it the next issue usually but those other issues tend to confuse 'thrill of driving' with the 'thrill of 75k plus cars'
The final straw for me was when they got rid of the "Art of Speed" bit in the back of the mag - there was always a lovely, nerdy detail in the back which was just the job.
EVO went downhill years back for me, once all the 'advertisement features' came in and Harry Metcalfe left, before this I loved the sheer class of the content from the writing to the cars to the photography, combined with a real independent standing. As people who were truly passionate about cars they said it how it was even if it wasn't what the manufacturers would have wanted. There are cars out there that have a lot to thank for a 4 or 5 star EVO rating still to this day!
When I have picked up a copy more recently I've been disappointed by numerous elements not least sloppy typo's and generally poor content, it sounds from these latest changes that it's falling further and further away.
I'll always remember EVO fondly mind for what it used to be, plus I was lucky enough to have a full feature of my old car going back a few years (a 4k Subaru Impreza Type RA), which was a great experience, especially working on it with Henry Catchpole who I'd been following since he very first joined.
When I have picked up a copy more recently I've been disappointed by numerous elements not least sloppy typo's and generally poor content, it sounds from these latest changes that it's falling further and further away.
I'll always remember EVO fondly mind for what it used to be, plus I was lucky enough to have a full feature of my old car going back a few years (a 4k Subaru Impreza Type RA), which was a great experience, especially working on it with Henry Catchpole who I'd been following since he very first joined.
shost said:
Haven't read this months smaller evo. But why does the magazine being less shiny make it less of a magazine?
All my posh programmes from Lord March are matt. To my eye and flicking through the magazine looks a little more stylish.
I was particularly referring to the lack of an eCoty 2017, combined with the reduced size and cover shininess, hinting at potential financial problems at the mag.All my posh programmes from Lord March are matt. To my eye and flicking through the magazine looks a little more stylish.
daniel-5zjw7 said:
EVO went downhill years back for me, once all the 'advertisement features' came in and Harry Metcalfe left, before this I loved the sheer class of the content from the writing to the cars to the photography, combined with a real independent standing. As people who were truly passionate about cars they said it how it was even if it wasn't what the manufacturers would have wanted. There are cars out there that have a lot to thank for a 4 or 5 star EVO rating still to this day!
When I have picked up a copy more recently I've been disappointed by numerous elements not least sloppy typo's and generally poor content, it sounds from these latest changes that it's falling further and further away.
Totally agree with this. I remember buying issue 1 and signing up my monthly subs the following day. When I have picked up a copy more recently I've been disappointed by numerous elements not least sloppy typo's and generally poor content, it sounds from these latest changes that it's falling further and further away.
Cancelled last year, which was probably a couple of years too late really.
I've still got the last half dozen unread in the grey cover under my coffee table.
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