Turbonutter
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One-make car magsNoticed the other day that that are now specific mags for the Impreza, Lancer Evo and also the Nissan marque ( Total Impreza, Total Evo and Total Nissan ) to exist alongside the BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Mini, Ford, Vauxhall, VW etc mags.
Just wondered if anyone on here bought any and, if so, which ones?
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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I occasionally read GT Purely Porsche, but that's about it.
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Turbonutter
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | I occasionally read GT Purely Porsche, but that's about it. |
There's at least 3 for the Porsche marque as well. Smaller circulation specialist mags seem to be on the up compared to the old big names ( Car, Evo, Top Gear etc )
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gonnabuildabuggy
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| Turbonutter wrote: | | Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | I occasionally read GT Purely Porsche, but that's about it. |
There's at least 3 for the Porsche marque as well. Smaller circulation specialist mags seem to be on the up compared to the old big names ( Car, Evo, Top Gear etc ) |
I think Kelsey publishing are behind all these? They also do the "Performance (VW, BMW, Etc)"
I get Total BMW for it's focus on older stuff and also good technical articles, Performance BMW is a bit chavvy.
They also do Retro Rides which I get.
What makes sense financially is that they run features across magazines so the same car might be featured in more than one publication - different words but same/similar pics.
I think....that this is the way to go in fionancial terms - going for core enthusiasts with targetted articles, and also focus on affordable cars.
Evo and Car went too far towards Supercars for my liking, just as publications did in the late 80's.
Top Gear isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr
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GT Purely Porsche is Unity Media - same guys who publish Performance Car.
Agree about Top Gear, especially as it now seems to be functioning as a trailer for the TV programme.
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Nice Guy Eddie
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In my early days when I had my Mk2 Golf I used to regularly get Performance VW as I really wanted to turn it into a rallye look a like.
I do sometimes purchase 911& Porsche world or GT Purely Porsche as they somtimes have fantastic buying guides in them that the more mainstream mags can't touch.
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simonp
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I used to buy Total Vauxhall occasionally if there was an article I wanted to read or I was in it. (I went to to 2 of the rolling road shoot-out things, not proper articles)
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Blarno
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I was featured, albeit in a small sense, in both Revs and Redline back in 2001.
There were a couple of pictures of me, my mates and my Mi16 in Revs at the French Hot Hatch track day at Three Sisters.
I was in a couple of pictures at the Redline 0-60 day at Peterborough, sitting on the spare wheel of my mate's Mk2 Golf while he did a run.
I tend to steer clear of one make mags, variety is the spice of life. It's bad enough on one-make forums.
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DaveGibson
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My TR8 was featured in Triumph World a few years ago. It was photographed at the TR Register International weekend one July but the article didn't appear until the following April.
At the time Triumph World was produced by CHP Publications but Kelsey bought the title two or three years ago and, so I understand, slashed the payment rates to freelance contributors then sacked all the staff.
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TimR
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I occasionally buy BMW Car mag but only if there's something in it that catches my eye.
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kraftwerk
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Subscribe to Volksword and Volksworld Camper and Bus; usually buy Mercedes Enthusiast; receive the the M-B Gazette, the Citroenian and Golden Wings Honda mag with club memberships.
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Twelfth Monkey
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One-make mags are for weirdoes. Like Chris.
I get 'What baldy' and 'My courtesy car is called Debbie' on a monthly basis.
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Turbonutter
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr wrote: | | GT Agree about Top Gear, especially as it now seems to be functioning as a trailer for the TV programme. |
Yep, I rarely get Top Gear anymore
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Matt
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I'll occasionally buy Total Vauxhall (someone's got to  ), Total BMW or BMW Car.
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SpecB
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I don't tend to get car mags anymore unless I have a train or plane journey!
Top Gear went west years ago IMO and Autocar stopped floating my boat last year so I cancelled.
I only ever got Volksworld when I had the Beetle but only a couple of issues when I needed something for it.
I get Subaru's in house mag free every few months (Pleiades) but that is only fit for wiping your bum on really.
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Frank Bullitt
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I occassionally buy Audi Driver if:
There is anything remotely A2 related or;
There is anything remotely 5-pot related.
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Stuntman
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I very occasionally buy GT Porsche if it's got something interesting (to me ) about Caymans in it. Otherwise, no.
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"him"
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I bought "Performance French Cars" once, and ONLY once...
The 'technical' articles were a joke!
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Apex clipper
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Gave up on the Ford ones yonks ago, there's only so much of shiny engine bays one can take, usually the same ones repeated.
Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this.
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DarthBalls
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| Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view?
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"him"
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Controversial... 
Does that make Jethro Bovingdon a fallen Angel?
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Apex clipper
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| DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested.
Thank God I'm an atheist.
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DarthBalls
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| Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested. |
Eh?
Time to un-bunch those panties there Shirley.
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Apex clipper
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| DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested. |
Eh?
Time to un-bunch those panties there Shirley. |
| Apex clipper wrote: |
Thank God I'm an atheist. |
Oh thee of little faith.
I knew what you were alluding too all ............along. 
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Turbonutter
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| Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested.
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I think the early cars had quite different diff settings to the later ones Chris. Certainly they revised the engine management at least twice which makes a difference to how the boost is delivered. Are you on AF/AG(AF2) code or is yours a later car?
I've seen it a few times when a journo has revised his opinion on a car and it's often down to detail changes. Other times it's a different journo that gives a different opinion at a later test.
There is sometimes a certain amout of wanting to fit in with other journos opinions or the euphoria of a car launch that can colour a judgement as well imo
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DarthBalls
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[quote="Apex clipper"] | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested. |
Eh?
Time to un-bunch those panties there Shirley. |
| Apex clipper wrote: | | I knew what you were alluding too all ............along. |
En garde!
Actually the opinions of the Evo writers do seem to be held in stupidly high regard by some (on here and elsewhere). People on the MX5 forums worry about Evo not giving the Mk3 a good review at the time the car was introduced. Every other review goes contrary to the Evo view but this seems to matter little to 'the faithful'. Even Evo's recent backtracking over their opinion and their confusion of the 2.0 and 2.0 Sport (some mutterings of unannounced chassis improvements) didn't register. A single opinion of one writer or the imposed editorial line is just that - one person's opinion. Thankfully we bought our MX5 based on driving both the standard and sport 2.0 versions. We even tried a RC.
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Apex clipper
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| Turbonutter wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested.
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I think the early cars had quite different diff settings to the later ones Chris. Certainly they revised the engine management at least twice which makes a difference to how the boost is delivered. Are you on AF/AG(AF2) code or is yours a later car?
I've seen it a few times when a journo has revised his opinion on a car and it's often down to detail changes. Other times it's a different journo that gives a different opinion at a later test.
There is sometimes a certain amout of wanting to fit in with other journos opinions or the euphoria of a car launch that can colour a judgement as well imo |
Mike. As far as I can quantify the press launch cars were 'Tweaked' as to scare the bejesus out of the motoring hacks, afterall the last car to wear this badge was the Iconic Escort Cosworth and I suppose Ford were trying to up the game as most main stream marques had 1 or 2 hothatchs of their own...so a little fun with the press was a given, as they knew that the final cars weren't going to so brash, or so we believed???
I run the AF map, a ECU configuration that apparently helps with cold starting? That statement of fact.??<< I've no idea, as I picked mine up in 2003 in the first batch of cars so how the hell they knew that cold starting would be an issue ..I've no clues? 
The only source into why there is such a discrepancy into why the knowledge advocates trying lots of different 'RS's' maybe due to the power outputs on one car to another...I certainly saw a writeup where one owner rolling roaded his and was gobsmacked when the trace hit 247hp?? Totally standard??
Irrespective of what folks think I still after all these years still get a buzz out of the blue machine, and acting like a child at xmas when I spy the latest evo in the supermarket racking.
My wife and daughters aren't to impressed when we're walking round the store as I thumb through the mag...
"Look at that"
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Apex clipper
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| Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | DarthBalls wrote: | | Apex clipper wrote: | | Only buy evo...Like a modern bible that this. |
In the manner that Evo readers believe every word without question and want to kill anyone offering an alternative view? |
That's a fvcking big paint brush your splashing about.
Have we forgotten which car I drive? They weren't exactly falling over themselves with praise for it...but of course they must be right. It was only after they rolled up and where then testing the new Astra VXR that an RS owner also turned up at the same location, and handed them the keys to his blue car. They even wrote about and said they were amazed at the difference from the test mule they previously tested. |
Eh?
Time to un-bunch those panties there Shirley. |
| Apex clipper wrote: | | I knew what you were alluding too all ............along. |
En garde!
Actually the opinions of the Evo writers do seem to be held in stupidly high regard by some (on here and elsewhere). People on the MX5 forums worry about Evo not giving the Mk3 a good review at the time the car was introduced. Every other review goes contrary to the Evo view but this seems to matter little to 'the faithful'. Even Evo's recent backtracking over their opinion and their confusion of the 2.0 and 2.0 Sport (some mutterings of unannounced chassis improvements) didn't register. A single opinion of one writer or the imposed editorial line is just that - one person's opinion. Thankfully we bought our MX5 based on driving both the standard and sport 2.0 versions. We even tried a RC. |
Like I've said. Reference the RS. To take a publication on motoring as gospel would be foolhardy, as how you drive and feel the car would be a world away from what I would feel. Anyone who takes what 'so and so' 'reports', from a test drive, is usually a world away from what my actual feelings might be on having a test drive myself. Whatever they thought the strong points are weak points of a particular car may be, mine are somewhat different, but there again I don't test drive cars so my field of a wide spectron of cars is lacking.
Evo gives me a glimpse into a world of cars that I'll never (Bar a lottery) win may bring, but having drove and witnessed a certain amount of observations on certain cars that I've had the pleasure to drive WR1 being a prime example, and for it's on road manners..they had that pretty much nailed.
The other mags are comics in comparison.
The speed limit on the motorway shouts 70..I'll make my own mind up what's best..if you catch my drift.
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