[QUOTE=gomarlins3,Jan 25 2007, 06:32 PM] I get Autoweek, Car an Driver, Motor Trend and Road and Track each month.

 

I rarely visit the magazine websites.... mostly just this stupid website since everyone here knows everything....

 

Road and Track is still great to read Plus I like how they show great pictures.

Anyone else reads Top Gear? Great magazine

 

ROFL, exactly!

I only get C&D, but their writing has really tailed off in the last couple years. It's still a decent read, but now more than ever I question why I subscribe. I'm not so much worried about the meaningless editorials. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they make a point, sometimes they are dead wrong. The one last month about Phoenix's concrete canyon art was decidely vaccuous and worthy of a "HUH?". And almost no mass market American car rag has decent photography. C&D has tried to fix this and has looked completely amateurish in the process.

I'm starting to drift toward mags like Car and Evo, because they are more of a total package, bias for Euro cars or not.

 

Haha, your right glossy pages are as good as it gets. VERY SHORT on content for me.

 

Over the years I have boiled it down to just a few mags.
#1- my favorite is AutoWeek, I just love being able to fold it in half and take it with me to read at a restaurant something that would be a pain with a computer
#2- Road & Track, I've been getting this since I was 13, I can't stop now...

For Formula One I use this amazing site, a printed magazine delivered to my door would offer me news that is just plain too old.
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?name=F1

 

Don't really care for the more "consumer" oriented rags - their priorities are different from mien 90% of the time. And internet is much more convenient and useful resource for car research.

Now Grassroots Motorsports on the other hand I enjoy reading cover to cover...

 

I subscribe to CD, RT, MT and AutoWeek on zinio.com. I get them delivered in electronic form on the day they are published. For me that is a great benefit since magazines get out here very late compared to you guys in the US.

What i find myself doing more and more is to look up reviews on youtube and other online video providers. Top Gear & 5th Gear on the telly also give quite a fix of motoring media.

 

Evo is probably the best car mag. Reviews cars you WANT to see reviewed. Good tests and good journalistic writing with lots of real opinions unlike the American mags which are afraid of offending sponsors and advertisers. Also, their reviews are not rehashes of a car's brochure like a lot of American car mags. As well, it

 

C&D was my most recent choice for a subscription but I still find them lacking.

I actually used to prefer Motor Trend when C. Van Tune was editor-in-chief and Mac Demere was driving for them (up to 2001, I think?). The articles were better, funnier, and more logical in general, with just a hint of craziness that kind of set them aside from the other mags at the time.

I'm constantly finding contradictions in magazines these days and it seems like most are just going with what makes them money, not what they actually think. Half of the writers are old guys that are just flat out opinionated and not very objective, and the other half are young guys kissing butt to their (future) corporate sponsors.

I do get Autoweek but I don't pay for it. Got it for free at the Lexus driving event.