Car magazine

[andyvdg]

Well that''s it. I''ve had enough. I''ve read Car magazine every month for the last fifteen years, and beyond that on a more irregular basis, and I''ve finally think it''s gone down hill too far. It looks more like GQ than a petrolhead publication. I can deal with that. But the content has deteriorated. The final straw was the Tuscan versus M Coupe article this month. Now usually I could read the story, then drive the car, and then think - yeah, they''ve really got it right. But this time, it''s all wrong. Including the details. I haven''t got the mag with me - but I can remember criticism of the immobiliser key location - which is irrelevant because you don''t need to use it (you can use the plipper). Handling details didn''t gel either. Sorry, but Evo wins hands down.

[RichB]

Indeed, but I just took out a years subscription because I had to use up some of my Amex. points somehow! R...

[Guy Humpage]

I've bought every issue of CAR since Summer 1990 (when I was 17) and kept everyone of them, although my mother threw the first 4 year's worth away when she moved house whilst I was at university... It's definitely gone downhill, I haven't dug out a back issue to re-read in a long time, so a couple of weeks ago I put the whole lot out for recycling. There's still the complete set of EVO's on the shelf as that has the same character as the early '90s CAR.

[mrtony]

EVO is a very good mag. Not only that the staff are really helpful. The MD at EVO Harrys used to run a Maserati Ghibli Cup, I was looking at buying one in May, and didn't know a thing about them. Dropped Harry an e-mail got two responses to my mails from him during an evening, which saved me from buying a duffer. Above and beyond anything you'd expect from any publication. ;-)

[dan]

Yeh.. but 'Performance Car' was always the top mag. I never understood why they stopped printing.

[Nightmare]

cos their distribution got too small for 'car' to keep them alive as a separate mag....but go look at the key contributors to an old PC then look in Evo....all rather familliar

[manek]

Too big an overhead from a big publishing house, I suspect. Printing and distributing a magazine is a very expensive biz in my experience as ex-editor of a national magazine, and it's made worse when you've got big corporate overheads to cope with. EVO seems to be a one-product company and mainly the better for it. Good luck to them! -Manek-

[raceboy]

I think EVO is owned by the same publishing house as Maxim, as they both had very similar questionaires in a couple of months ago.

[jazz]

I think CAR went down hill when Richard Meadham and John Barker left to form EVO. EVO has been spot on from the start. The launch party was one of the best nights out I have ever had! Jazz cheaper and faster motoring for all! http://www.transnational.co.uk/hpc/index.asp

[555]

And I thought it was me just geting bored with it. Been buying it for 20 years, made my mind up though, I wont buy it any more...

[ATG]

I pretty much stopped reading car mags when Performance Car went to the dogs. PC is entirely responsible for me becoming a junior petrolhead. Very interesting to hear Meaden and Barker are at Evo. Never read it, but I will now. Also a good place to send the summons when I sue those beggars for getting me into high octane bad habits.