What is happening at EVO magazine?
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trackdemon said:
simonrockman said:
Richard Porter's column reads like it was written for this thread. I laughed out loud.
Not read it yet, but that's usually one of the first things I read; always enjoyable.And that’s from someone who actually read Kravitz’s pieces-seems he’s off too.
So Mclaren tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.
Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Edit for spoiler.
Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Edit for spoiler.
Edited by Scrump on Friday 21st December 09:50
birdcage said:
So 
tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.
Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Thank you for the spoiler tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Edited by Scrump on Friday 21st December 09:51
I’m just not convinced there are any decent journalists left that will lower themselves to writing for a car magazine.
Oh they’ll happily try to be a YouTube sensation or ponce about the historic racing scene but actually go to a car launch, drive it and tell us?
The new A35 gets the driven treatment this month, it amounts to the entire article being a regurgitation of the press pack and the last two paragraphs being about how it drives. Two paragraphs!
The thrill ofdriving copy and pasting.
Oh they’ll happily try to be a YouTube sensation or ponce about the historic racing scene but actually go to a car launch, drive it and tell us?
The new A35 gets the driven treatment this month, it amounts to the entire article being a regurgitation of the press pack and the last two paragraphs being about how it drives. Two paragraphs!
The thrill of
simonrockman said:
birdcage said:
So tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.
Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Thank you for the spoiler tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Edited by Scrump on Friday 21st December 09:52
birdcage said:
simonrockman said:
birdcage said:
So tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.
Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Thank you for the spoiler tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
EVO has been such a poor read for however long you’ve done me a favour in not wasting my time to check if it’s changed. Viewed objectively it’s such a poor bit of matched up paper these days. You could literally grab any other magazine off the shelf in a newsagent these days and they’ll have a far better production feel than EVO. It’s embarrasing.
Never mind the other posters point - Laura’s other half - that the standard of car journalism is at such a weak level these days. Awful; just get Readly, and for the price of Good Housekeeping each month you can spend 5 mins flicking through EVO then spend quality time on the hundreds of other mags at your disposal.
Edited by Scrump on Friday 21st December 09:54
tigerkoi said:
EVO has been such a poor read for however long you’ve done me a favour in not wasting my time to check if it’s changed.
You've regularly regurgitated this opinion over the last year or so without giving any evidence that you've read any of the mag under it's new editorship.
Olivera said:
tigerkoi said:
EVO has been such a poor read for however long you’ve done me a favour in not wasting my time to check if it’s changed.
You've regularly regurgitated this opinion over the last year or so without giving any evidence that you've read any of the mag under it's new editorship.
But on a serious note, are you telling me the likes of Meaden, Gallagher have turned things around and made it more than Porsche, Porsche, Lotus Exige, Fiesta ST, Porsche, Anglesey, Porsche, AMG GT, Porsche, AMG GT C, Porsche, Matt Becker “handling genius”, Lotus Exige vs Porsche Cayman, AMG GT R.....zzzzz
I love Porsche, M and AMG etc products as much as the next man, but either they’ve got limited ability to score interesting rides from the other manufacturers so they keep drawing from the same well, or they genuinely think the same old routine makes for an easy month’s work.
Take their tagline - the Thrill of Driving. Does that mean that the only thrills we hear about are the same old cars on the same old roads? There’s been literally thousands of “performance” cars that are either in production or have been. Car making is over a century old. But (and as much as I like a 991 GT3 and nearly went for one) I’m pretty tired of reading about it or any sort of 911 variant most issues. Or another lightly evolved Lotus of some sort. Their sister publication, Octane has significantly broader car awareness, and Car magazine still entices with more jaunts abroad and far better photography.
But we’re all different. And thank God in an app I can skim read EVO one minute if there’s anything of interest, then spend more involved time with T3, Newsweek or Total 911 or whatever...at least I don’t begrudge that singular magazine subscription when it’s starting to bore me.
tigerkoi said:
birdcage said:
simonrockman said:
birdcage said:
So tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.
Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
Thank you for the spoiler tell Evo they have won and they would like to spend money on advertising to celebrate the fact they have decided they have won, which in turn ruins the article and makes the magazine look cheap and tawdry and loses all editorial integrity.Evo these days is trying to be Champagne journalism on lemonade money. 'Our Cars' could be written for your granny in the main.
As they say in Private Eye I am cancelling my subscription forthwith.
EVO has been such a poor read for however long you’ve done me a favour in not wasting my time to check if it’s changed. Viewed objectively it’s such a poor bit of matched up paper these days. You could literally grab any other magazine off the shelf in a newsagent these days and they’ll have a far better production feel than EVO. It’s embarrasing.
Never mind the other posters point - Laura’s other half - that the standard of car journalism is at such a weak level these days. Awful; just get Readly, and for the price of Good Housekeeping each month you can spend 5 mins flicking through EVO then spend quality time on the hundreds of other mags at your disposal.
Edited by Scrump on Friday 21st December 09:53
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