Well, Iv cancelled EVO.
Discussion
nervous said:
Total 911 has been really rather excellent for the last few months. They've taken on some new talent and I love everything he writes. Thoroughly recommended.
They've let you do it again?Does that mean there's pictures of the back of Ric's head in WH Smiths across the country again?
Frik said:
nervous said:
Total 911 has been really rather excellent for the last few months. They've taken on some new talent and I love everything he writes. Thoroughly recommended.
They've let you do it again?Does that mean there's pictures of the back of Ric's head in WH Smiths across the country again?
(plus features now too)
alock said:
Just wait till the new ALFA 8C is launched. EVERY magazine will waste many-many pages reviewing it even though it has already sold out. What a waste of time.
Rubbish. I'm not likely to be taking delivery of a £1.25M Maserati 250F anytime soon either, but I loved the piece Richard Meaden did on driving it at the Nurburgring to commemorate THAT drive by Fangio.Some of you need to take out a What Car? subscription by the sounds of it...
anonymous said:
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JBs only criteria for judging cars seems to be how good they are at travelling sideways 
be that a large Merc or a Fiat 500.His writing seems to lack any depth when compared with the likes of RM and JB. Personally I think Evo became all the poorer for it (hence my previously uninterrupted subscription was not renewed about two years ago. . . . . )
Tin Hat said:
I must say that after 4 years of subscribing to Evo, I am getting pretty sick of it myself - It just feels a bit 'smug' from cover to cover. All that Aston trash this month, yawn! ( I am sure that that was a result of a few boozy dinners at AM's expense)
This sums it up for me. Evo way too full of itself. Have not renewed my subscription this time round, after many years. Only articles in Evo still worth reading IMHO tend to be written by Barker, Meaden or Tomalin.Not renewing the subscription has freed up time to read other magazines and websites - providing me with a broader range of material and opinions.
It felt strangely liberating the other day to check the Evo website, read what was contained in the latest issue and elect not to buy it.
Edited by theturbs on Monday 14th January 14:31
stedale said:
Hey look a "horses for courses" type thread.
Here's my tuppence:
EVO: great, my favourite read. I like to read about the drive and associated "adventure" as much as the car. Great writing and great pics.
Practical classics: Stymied by needing to pander the 'It's not a proper classic' crowd
PPC: likeable, as does what PC can't but chronic typos
Classic Cars: Buy occassionally dependent on cover stories
Classic and Sportscar: Can't live with the prose.
Any other mags: how many cubic feet of luggage space...
So there!
Not read Intersection have you.Here's my tuppence:
EVO: great, my favourite read. I like to read about the drive and associated "adventure" as much as the car. Great writing and great pics.
Practical classics: Stymied by needing to pander the 'It's not a proper classic' crowd
PPC: likeable, as does what PC can't but chronic typos
Classic Cars: Buy occassionally dependent on cover stories
Classic and Sportscar: Can't live with the prose.
Any other mags: how many cubic feet of luggage space...
So there!
I'm not keen on Meaden myself - he's just a bit too earnest in his attempts to be a 'Good Writer'. Tomalin's okay, Barker is as good as ever. Catchpole is alright, but obviously in that puppy-dog keen mode of the new staffer. Bovingdon never caught my attention much.
Anybody else feel strangely outraged about the bit in Harry's end-of-term review of the Clio when he revealed that if you switch off the electronics, it will understeer straight off the road? Not if you exercise some throttle control, as the chip has been doing for you all along...
Anybody else feel strangely outraged about the bit in Harry's end-of-term review of the Clio when he revealed that if you switch off the electronics, it will understeer straight off the road? Not if you exercise some throttle control, as the chip has been doing for you all along...
Slippydiff said:
JBs only criteria for judging cars seems to be how good they are at travelling sideways be that a large Merc or a Fiat 500.
His writing seems to lack any depth when compared with the likes of RM and JB. Personally I think Evo became all the poorer for it (hence my previously uninterrupted subscription was not renewed about two years ago. . . . . )
Back when PC was in its pomp, J Barker was all about sideways, but it wasn't annoying - it was fun. Maybe that's what's missing from Evo nowadays... be that a large Merc or a Fiat 500.His writing seems to lack any depth when compared with the likes of RM and JB. Personally I think Evo became all the poorer for it (hence my previously uninterrupted subscription was not renewed about two years ago. . . . . )
Fiddlemesticks said:
ECOTY 2001,2,3,4,5,6,7 and next year 8.:
We get car. First impressions nasty, then nice, then nasty.
Drive to france. A, B an C are driving down. We meet D there. We get lost.
Tuck into some food. All lovely. Early start but when the car park is as good as it is then no problems.
We drive off. A comes back, tells B how good something is. A is right. XYZ car is free. I take the keys whilst i have a chance. Drive of my life, great road blah blah. We stop for food. Some nice beers. Drive some more. Stop for dinner, lovely name drop on cafe. Photographer needs some more light shots. We drive some more, light, roads, controls: lovely.
Next day. Revisit car. Find out its a million times better than first found. Lots more contradictory statements.
Porsche wins. The end.
Rinse and repeat for ever more.
We get car. First impressions nasty, then nice, then nasty.
Drive to france. A, B an C are driving down. We meet D there. We get lost.
Tuck into some food. All lovely. Early start but when the car park is as good as it is then no problems.
We drive off. A comes back, tells B how good something is. A is right. XYZ car is free. I take the keys whilst i have a chance. Drive of my life, great road blah blah. We stop for food. Some nice beers. Drive some more. Stop for dinner, lovely name drop on cafe. Photographer needs some more light shots. We drive some more, light, roads, controls: lovely.
Next day. Revisit car. Find out its a million times better than first found. Lots more contradictory statements.
Porsche wins. The end.
Rinse and repeat for ever more.
Brilliant and wholly accurate. Bravo sir.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff