What Car Magazines do you read?

[Alex]

I subscribe to Evo and Circuit Driver. I buy Autocar every week. I don't subscribe to Autocar, because it would arrive after I've left for work, and I can't bear to read it a day late!

[Fat Richie]

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[simes205]

I used to buy a mixture of

Classic and Sportscar
practical classics
C&CC
PPC
Motorsport
EVO

now I just go and read them all for free in WHS.

I do however subscribe to F1 racing and have every issue since No.1.

[Platinum]

EVO subscription, and occasionally buy autocar/autoexpress if there is an interesting feature.

[mattrm]

Evo
PPC

[audidoody]

Less than a week since Haymarket bought PH and there's a thread entitled "what car magazines do you read?'. Ho ho .....

[waynepixel]

Well I did read CAR magazine, before it turn it self into a Fashion Magazine. Anyway!

[RedYellowGreen]

All of them

but mostly:
Evo (before that performance car)
car
Top gear
any of the Porsche mags

[DennisTheMenace]

Stopped buying all of them , they all seem to want to driver performance cars and nothing else, its now boring .

[GTRene]

Living in the Netherlands I read and are a member of

1= Auto visie

2= GTO (a very nice EVO like magazien

3= occasionally I buy a EVO mag or a Autoweek

and I've get some news from German and Dutch carwebsites who also sell carmagazines...and ofcorse PistonHeads my favorite site
GTRene

[Martin Keene]

A question for all of those people that subscribe to magazines, particulary evo.

What condition are the magazines in when they arrive at your house?

I had a, brief, subscription to CCC just before it went to the wall and most of the time they looked liked the posties had played football with them!

I didn't mind so much, but with evo at £4 a magazine, I would like it to remain neat and tidy.

[richb]

DennisTheMenace said:

Stopped buying all of them , they all seem to want to driver performance cars and nothing else, its now boring.

Must confess I'm of that opinion. I used to get both EVO and CAR on subscription, the sub for CAR was cancelled a copule of years ago then I got bored with EVO so cancelled that as well. Now I have a subscription for Octane, great mag!

[mg511]

Martin Keene said:

A question for all of those people that subscribe to magazines, particulary evo.

What condition are the magazines in when they arrive at your house?

My EVO always arrived with a brocken spine and often a ripped cover. I've never had such problems with other mags (music & film, plus Mrs MGs mags) so I don't know what they do to EVO in the sorting office.

[baSkey]

yep evo always has a broken spine. sometimes the cover is creased but less so in the last 6 mths.

(where's nervous!)

[Martin Keene]

mg511 said:

Martin Keene said:

A question for all of those people that subscribe to magazines, particulary evo.

What condition are the magazines in when they arrive at your house?

My EVO always arrived with a brocken spine and often a ripped cover. I've never had such problems with other mags (music & film, plus Mrs MGs mags) so I don't know what they do to EVO in the sorting office.

Cheers... Exactly my concern! I'll stick to buying it in the shops.

[scotty_917]

1. evo
2. Total 911
3. GT Porsche
4. 911 & Porsche World
5. Porsche Post
6. ...very occasionally Autocar (& Motor!)!!

[Twincam16]

Classic Cars - every month
Classics Monthly/Practical Classics - when they've got something interesting in them
Autocar - alongside Private Eye when I've got a long journey ahead of me

Interesting that people are making the 'bored of supercars' comments. I have similar feelings about Car and Evo (usually good reads but stuffed full of reports on cars almost too fast to use, that the vast majority of people can't afford - what about back-to-basics driving thrills and stuff we can afford and where to drive it?)

I have similar feelings about Octane (it's a great mag, I'm sure, if your name is Lord Brett Sinclair, or Jodie Kidd - maybe I'd appreciate it more if I had more money?), and, sadly (because I used to read it avidly nearly every month), Classic & Sports Car. Their featured cars are nearly all in the Octane league these days, even down to their 'Starter Classics', which used to be about interesting cheap cars for beer money but now we've got Alfa Spiders and Triumph Stags - huh? Also, much as I like Martin Buckley's feature writing, I don't feel that the format of the 'Backfire' column suits him as well as his old Classic Cars page. And they've stereotyped him as some kind of 'comedy Northerner', the classic world's Peter Kay, rather than its Jeremy Clarkson.

All IMHO of course...

[Phone_Monkey]

Don't subscibe to any, but do pick up Track and race car when I see it. Normally flick through Lax power etc, but tbh its a catalogue mixed with a soft porn mag.

[shropshire lad]

I buy Classis Car , Classic and Sports Car and sometimes Motor Sport.
Think my age is showing.

[richb]

scotty_917 said:

1. evo
2. Total 911
3. GT Porsche
4. 911 & Porsche World
5. Porsche Post
6. ...very occasionally Autocar (& Motor!)!!

And I'll bet EVO is top of that list for Porsche content