I stopped buying TopGear magazine a while ago.

[CraigyMc]

Swifty Stig said:

robsco said:

Top Gear - More a magazine for young children than for enthusiasts. I know Evo has had a fair bit of knocking from many on here recently, but its still the best publication out there IMO.

+1 i agree on the evo part. i too prefer it. seems more structured and easier to read

Have a look at "Motorsport". It has these things called "articles", which involve "writing".

[mp3manager]

k-ink said:

Buying car magazines is sooo two decades ago.

Yep...I read all my mags on my iPad.

[Papa Hotel]

mp3manager said:

k-ink said:

Buying car magazines is sooo two decades ago.

Yep...I read all my mags on my iPad.

Do you get the mag on that exactly as it comes in print?

Don't you miss the satisfaction of keeping an article about your car by your bedside? Or throwing out the st issues?

[k-ink]

It's also a total waste of trees. Almost as bad a buying a newspaper.

[jon-]

Papa Hotel said:

mp3manager said:

k-ink said:

Buying car magazines is sooo two decades ago.

Yep...I read all my mags on my iPad.

Do you get the mag on that exactly as it comes in print?

Don't you miss the satisfaction of keeping an article about your car by your bedside? Or throwing out the st issues?

No, at least with the EVO iPad magazine you get some fancy interactive bits too.

[Mr Dave]

Papa Hotel said:

What's going on here? Are they hoping to pick up the Max Power boys now their st magazine is dead?

Thats unfair.

For a while Max Power went a bit more sensible and mature and in depth. It was actually an ok read, not as much T&A as previously and some actual interesting articles by people who are passionate and knew about cars.

Top Gear magasine isnt as good as that.

Unfortunately when Max Power started growing up even less people bought it.

[Motorrad]

Don't buy any car mags anymore total waste of time and money. Prefer driving cars to reading about them.

Likewise prefer 'hands on' activities to 'third hand' Grattan's underwear section.

Whatever floats your boat I guess.

[christofmccracke]

robsco said:

Its absolute rubbish. More a magazine for young children than for enthusiasts. I know Evo has had a fair bit of knocking from many on here recently, but its still the best publication out there IMO.

I used to buy a number of magazines until I found evo and its the only one I buy now,

[Papa Hotel]

Motorrad said:

Don't buy any car mags anymore total waste of time and money. Prefer driving cars to reading about them.

Likewise prefer 'hands on' activities to 'third hand' Grattan's underwear section.

Whatever floats your boat I guess.

Oh aye, you can't move round these parts for people driving their Zonda Rs about, clogging up the roads. Be honest, you're only ever going to read about one. Or maybe pretend in GT5.

[NorthernBoy]

I occasionally flip through one in the newsagents, but it's years since I bought one. I'm going off Evo a bit now, too, and strangely finding that I've started to read some articles in Octane (after two years of not getting round to canceling my subscription, despite not reading a single one of them in that time). It seems that in your 30s suddenly classic cars include things that you liked when they were new.

[Squabbler]

Stopped buying TGM two month after i discovered EVO back in 2005

[oobster]

I have a subscription to TG and I must admit I don't like the new layout/style. Still, it is good for a 10 minute read when sitting on the throne.

[HughesR1]

I think i was 17 when i thought... I haven't got time for this **** !

EVO all the way (or just chris harris vids on youtube )

[okgo]

Some people obviously like it as it's the most read mens magazine by a long chalk. And has stood up fairly well circulation wise.

And they get all the advertising off the back of that.

[i remember]

I bought my first copy of TG when i was about 13 or something, its number 108 anyway, then i bought another one then carried on missing only a few out until about number 200 then stopped buying it because i was just too fed up with random bullst and st reviews and stuff that just wasnt simple and straight to the point. Bought a copy recently only to get the calender, its been better but still st

So yeah , EVO mag since issue number 51 missing only a few ( lost them ) to this very date, FEB 2011 is a quality read btw

[Motorrad]

Papa Hotel said:

Oh aye, you can't move round these parts for people driving their Zonda Rs about, clogging up the roads. Be honest, you're only ever going to read about one. Or maybe pretend in GT5.

Hmmm I'd rather drive a Matiz at 10/10ths than read about some Italian supercar I wouldn't own even if I had the means.

[Colonial]

k-ink said:

It's also a total waste of trees. Almost as bad a buying a newspaper.

I do both.

Deal with it.

[alephnull]

Whats the verdict on EVO? I personally love EVO and pretty much never buy TG....Its just a shame EVO does seem to focus heavily on very un-obtainable cars...(not that TG is any better)

[NorthernBoy]

alephnull said:

Whats the verdict on EVO? I personally love EVO and pretty much never buy TG....Its just a shame EVO does seem to focus heavily on very un-obtainable cars...(not that TG is any better)

I can't see much point in me reading reviews of base-model Astras and the like. For one thing I'm never likely to buy one, but, if I did want to, I could just pop along to the showroom and try a selection out. I could then drive it exactly as it was meant to be driven (i.e. sedately in traffic, well within the limits of adhesion), and know what it was all about. When I bought my RS4 I did find a place with a demonstrator, but learned relatively little about it in a test drive around South London. Something like Evo gives me some extra information.

For me reading about quotidien cars would be like listening to music played exclusively on affordable instruments, or going to an art gallery to look at reasonably priced watercolours; close to pointless.

[alephnull]

NorthernBoy said:

alephnull said:

Whats the verdict on EVO? I personally love EVO and pretty much never buy TG....Its just a shame EVO does seem to focus heavily on very un-obtainable cars...(not that TG is any better)

I can't see much point in me reading reviews of base-model Astras and the like. For one thing I'm never likely to buy one, but, if I did want to, I could just pop along to the showroom and try a selection out. I could then drive it exactly as it was meant to be driven (i.e. sedately in traffic, well within the limits of adhesion), and know what it was all about. When I bought my RS4 I did find a place with a demonstrator, but learned relatively little about it in a test drive around South London. Something like Evo gives me some extra information.

For me reading about quotidien cars would be like listening to music played exclusively on affordable instruments, or going to an art gallery to look at reasonably priced watercolours; close to pointless.

Ok so i see your point...but Id like to read more on MX-5s, elises, TVRs, porsches instead of Ferraris, Lambos etc. I guess they would quickly run out of stuff to say if they mostly dealt with affordable (e.g. <£70k) cars.