I stopped buying TopGear magazine a while ago.

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I can't remember the last copy I bought, the whole thing was getting a bit daft so many months ago I just stopped buying it, probably over a year ago. Until today...

What. The. fk?

It's like the motoring equivalent of Loaded now, lots of bright colours, big fonts, stupid little segments that are very like "it's new but is it any good?" from Fifth Gear. There seem to be more ads than ever before and it seems to be editorial policy to point and explain everything to the moronic readership, even Evo isn't this patronising.

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

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Ozzie Osmond said:

randomwalk said:

I usually find I can read all the stuff that interests me whilst the OH shops the aisles at Tescos, so rarely buy it.

Do you take in a portable player to use the CDs/DVDs as well?

Be fair, it took me all of 30 seconds to decide the mag was st once I'd popped the bag open.

I only bought it for the Stratos feature, but found myself too disappointed to even flick through to it yet. Maybe tomorrow.

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randomwalk said:

arfur daley said:

Practical Classics is a better magazine.

I read that at Tescos too lol, good article on a Jensen Interceptor rebuild in last 2 issues.

Now that sounds infinitely more interesting than the family tree of some stty VW concept.

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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?

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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.

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Manks said:

On my Christmas list I asked for a subscription to "Car" or Evo.

I GOT a subscription to Top Gear, "because the children can enjoy it too".

Next year I'll just ask for Fireman Sam toys to make matters easier for all concerned.

This made me LOL.

I hope the kids got subscriptions to Playboy TV and a chainsaw, you know, so you can enjoy them too?

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captainsmelly said:

The magazine is just like the tv program, it's mindless drivel writtin for (and seemingly sometimes By) children.

Factual, but ironically spoiled by the poster's own punctuation and odd choices of capitalisation.

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captainsmelly said:

Papa Hotel said:

captainsmelly said:

The magazine is just like the tv program, it's mindless drivel writtin for (and seemingly sometimes By) children.

Factual, but ironically spoiled by the poster's own punctuation and odd choices of capitalisation.

Sorry, mostly blame man flu

No, I'm sorry, I try not to go in for grammar Nazism.

Sympathies on the man flu, I know the pain.