Road Rat Magazine
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I've just seen an advert for this new magazine starting up. Looks like it could be decent as it claims not to obsess with s
te like 0-60 times and whether my brakes weigh a gnats cock less than yours.......which suits me fine.
Anyway, thought i'd share the link.......make of it what you will.
https://theroadrat.com/
To be clear, I have no affiliation with this publication at all, I just thought it might interest some of you motley bunch too.
te like 0-60 times and whether my brakes weigh a gnats cock less than yours.......which suits me fine.Anyway, thought i'd share the link.......make of it what you will.
https://theroadrat.com/
To be clear, I have no affiliation with this publication at all, I just thought it might interest some of you motley bunch too.
Didn't look bad till I got to the bit about £12.50 an issue 
I'm a bit out of touch with print prices but a quick google tells me EVO is under a fiver on the shelf and usually available for 5 issues for £5 sub, GQ appears to be similar, it's even more expensive than the stylefest that is the Aston Magazine, which I usually just pick up for free from the dealer.
Good luck to them for trying something new but I 'd be surprised if the yearly subscribers get all 4 magazines.
I'm a bit out of touch with print prices but a quick google tells me EVO is under a fiver on the shelf and usually available for 5 issues for £5 sub, GQ appears to be similar, it's even more expensive than the stylefest that is the Aston Magazine, which I usually just pick up for free from the dealer.
Good luck to them for trying something new but I 'd be surprised if the yearly subscribers get all 4 magazines.
I have a copy of the magazine - it's great, beautifully presented and produced. It doesn't compare in its production values to magazines on the news stands from WHS etc. Its printed on quality paper and has around 250 pages. More of a book really, so for me the cover price seemed good value.
And goes on from there with the following ham-fingered effort
We are proudly analogue and believe some things - but most beautiful cars - just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obesssive need to climb. For is an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
It's intelligible, but if there were many examples of that it would go on the log burner.
We are proudly analogue and believe some things - but most beautiful cars - just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obesssive need to climb. For is an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
It's intelligible, but if there were many examples of that it would go on the log burner.
Thanks Ryan, missed this post first time around. I like the look of this particular Rat, so ordered the first issue immediately, let's see how long it takes to get to Switzerland...
The price may seem a bit high to some but if the print & paper quality is filled with quality content then I'll sign up for a subscription too.
In these days of temporary, cheap and thoughtless digital content, it's really nice for journalistic based dinosaurs like me to page through a well produced publication!
The price may seem a bit high to some but if the print & paper quality is filled with quality content then I'll sign up for a subscription too.
In these days of temporary, cheap and thoughtless digital content, it's really nice for journalistic based dinosaurs like me to page through a well produced publication!
Shinjuku79 said:
And goes on from there with the following ham-fingered effort
We are proudly analogue and believe some things - but most beautiful cars - just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obsessive need to climb. For is an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
It's intelligible, but if there were many examples of that it would go on the log burner.
It's actually unintelligible because they start the sentence by posing a question, "For is an open road etc." but then conclude, not by answering it, but by saying "is our rat." That make no sense. We are proudly analogue and believe some things - but most beautiful cars - just belong in print. Our name comes from a saying that climbers have. ’Feeding the Rat’ is the need to deal with an obsessive need to climb. For is an open road, a track, a messy old garage and not a snowy mountain summit, is our ‘rat’.
It's intelligible, but if there were many examples of that it would go on the log burner.
RichB said:
It's actually unintelligible because they start the sentence by posing a question, "For is an open road etc." but then conclude, not by answering it, but by saying "is our rat." That make no sense.
That whole piece has a little "English is a second language" sound to it, but I'll cut them some slack and see if it's an ongoing theme. Gassing Station | Aston Martin | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff