Eyup all!

After four years on the magazine, I am leaving my current role as editor of TBMW to go and take on the fresh challenge of editor at Performance Tuner. It's a new magazine, I've mentioned it briefly before as I freelanced for it for the first two issues. The great thing is, because this is a multimarque performance title (only fast cars for me from now on, ), I can now mention my S in the copy! Ha ha! YES! And it'll also be on the mag's stand at the Castle Combe action day on April 21.

I'm looking forward to settling some pub/forum car debates! All ideas gratefully received!

Cheers

Matt

 

No more diesels.

 

I for one am looking for;

Proof that the Ibiza Tdi will out drag a 911 GT2 from 50-70.

The car I bought after the S2000 is the best, please validate my purchase.

S2000s aren't as quick as [insert mundane hot hatch here] in 'real world' situations.

Pound for pound, the [insert warmed up shopping car here] beats the [insert sports car here] hands down, and would probably keep up in the twisties.

 

Congrats on the new job Matt

How was the trip back from Valencia in the cab, and how was the 1 series?

 

Sponsor an S2000 owner (that'll be me) to pimp their ride (I'll let you put the magazine name on - if it's small )

 

Ha ha! Thanks all! Vixen and MarkB; I'll take those on board, I like the idea of promoting the mag on an S2K and also some of these debates, especially the Ibiza/GT2 one!

BB - sadly, there may be a few diesels. But not many. Not on my watch!

Blurter - 335i Convertible was a bloody stunner, the roof is a piece of genius and it sounds fabulous. Sadly, my 120d M Sport never arrived... the facelifter is due any moment so BMW has phased all the old ones off its fleet, and the 120d I was due to have is the only one on the fleet at the moment...

And it had a MASSIVE oil leak just prior to delivery, for which the parts to fix it were not available! A sad end to life with BMW!

However, it neatly bookends my time on the mag, as the first car I drove was a red E46 330Ci Convertible facelift model and I ended with the new version (335i SE in Space Grey, nicely!). From Three soft-top to Three, er, Hard-Top!

But I'm looking forward to being biased towards the S2000 in road tests! Ha ha ha!

 

Sorry Matt, I got a bit over-excited and forgot to say congrats

 

Congratulations on the new position!

Does it mean you HAVE to cover the S2000 in aftermarket tat?

 

Yes, me too. Conratulations

I might even buy a copy. I'll have to buy a Burberry baseball cap first though

 

No, not at all. It's not like Max Power/Redline/Fast Car (even though I know MP has had a major relaunch to get rid of tit & arse). It's trying to be a baby Evo (without the ego!), it's all about trackday performance, mechanical modding, fast road cars etc etc. It's an everyman mag as well - there's a nominal