Well, Iv cancelled EVO.
Discussion
pablo said:
Sadly, Octane is becoming more and more like a lifestyle magaazine rather than a classic/historic sportscar magazine,
Eh? Its always been like that. Not changed since issue 1.pablo said:
with articles on watches, boats, some chap goes to london to buy a tailored suit FFS!
I'm interested in the precision engineering of watches and the transferability of parts and knowledge from boats to cars and vice-versa. I also like motoring aparrel - dressing for the occaision (and car) etc. Love it.
pablo said:
the other gripe is almost every car in a main feature is seemingly for sale with a major auction house and thus is nothing more than an elaborate advert.
I don't find it so. I think the articles are wonderfully well written and give a good balance of history and dynamics. When you think about it logically, car magazines are there to provide you, the consumer, with their technical and dynamic expertise on a car so that you can use the advice to your advantage when attempting to buy, if you so wish. Octane does the same, it's just auction houses now sell them, not the manufacturer. Despite this, the articles how their enthusiasm for the car itself...unlike an advert.In Octane though, you get a great deal of technical knowledge to back up their interpretation of the car's dynamics as opposed to what other's provide in their articles.
In short, it's brilliant.
Combover said:
In Octane though, you get a great deal of technical knowledge to back up their interpretation of the car's dynamics as opposed to what other's provide in their articles.
In short, it's brilliant.
Whilst they're not strictly the same type of magazine, I find Motorsport much better. More fact and history and much less 'lifestyle'.In short, it's brilliant.
Sometimes i don't mind the lifestyle stuff, but then i think of what disdain Dennis Jenkinson would have held it all in, and then i think "yuk!"
I still purchase Evo regularly, but find myself often disappointed, to a greater or lesser degree, by the content.
For me, the problem stems not from the magazine covering too much exotica, but more from the fact that it has mutated into merely an upmarket version of the other monthly car magazines, covering primarily new models, with little focus on the past.
A cursory examination of my collection of Evos demonstrates that this was not always the case: the 205 GTI, original Mini Cooper and MK1 Golf were pitted against modern hot hatches in one group test; other articles included a test of Porsche 911s from the 1970s to the present and features on WRC cars.
I am not asking for a magazine that only covers cars in my price bracket, but it would be nice to have a bit of variety, not only in cost, but also in age. How about pitting one Lotus/Porsche/Ferrari model from each of the last 4 decades against each other on road and track, for example? Am I the only one who would be interested in reading something of this kind?
For me, the problem stems not from the magazine covering too much exotica, but more from the fact that it has mutated into merely an upmarket version of the other monthly car magazines, covering primarily new models, with little focus on the past.
A cursory examination of my collection of Evos demonstrates that this was not always the case: the 205 GTI, original Mini Cooper and MK1 Golf were pitted against modern hot hatches in one group test; other articles included a test of Porsche 911s from the 1970s to the present and features on WRC cars.
I am not asking for a magazine that only covers cars in my price bracket, but it would be nice to have a bit of variety, not only in cost, but also in age. How about pitting one Lotus/Porsche/Ferrari model from each of the last 4 decades against each other on road and track, for example? Am I the only one who would be interested in reading something of this kind?
jjwprestidge said:
a bit of variety, not only in cost, but also in age. How about pitting one Lotus/Porsche/Ferrari model from each of the last 4 decades against each other on road and track, for example? Am I the only one who would be interested in reading something of this kind?
Classic & Sportscar often covers that kind of test - maybe not to Evo levels of anal detail but enough for you to know what's what. It's not all beards and Super Snipes.
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