The Hemmings magazines are really fun, and v.cheap if you subscribe. Well worth $12--18/yr.

The latest editorial tweak to Motor Sport (UK) is more modern racing, less historic (but not the DSJ-style modern race reports).

I read CAR for 20 years, but gave it up.

I still read R&T, but that's because I'm a fogy. I can't imagine someone 20 years younger liking it.

thatguy01

Also, no yellow highlighting.

SwatLax

Automobile: Dyer, Jennings, Cammisa (sp?), Cumberford (By Design).

0-60: Seems to be very well written, hip, and very atypical to it's contemporaries (in a good way)

Sports Car Int'l: Very interesting stories on older soon-to-be classics.

VonPinto

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

yellofury * * * * *

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

I almost thought about starting a sub for Motor Trend but I read a few at the public library and it still pretty much sucks and I would of given Automobile a chance but frankly I find that mag sterile and boring even if Jean Jennings is from the hallowed halls of David E Davis.I cant really afford EVO or Top Gear on my salary so Im keeping my ongoing subscription to R&D purely for Peter Egan and Dennis Siminaitus....The overall design is still fairly decent and I have been reading R&D from the Miscellaneous Ramblings days.I think Thom did a decent enough job over the years he kept it classy and not dumbed down like Car and Driver. I mean C&D became obnoxious and
(Have you read Franz Kafkas garage??yeah its pretty stupid)

yellofury * * * * *

georgejetson

SwatLax

Armand Bengle

hootjigga

Hahahaha!!! Nice.

bugattatra

smokeydog001

P161911

GRM, on the other hand, is so righteous in its awesomeness that it is bordering on ass tattoo worthiness.

Bret

Today, Sports Car Market is the only mag I subscribe to. I pick up Collector Car and Hemmings Classic Car occasionally.

Uncle Bo, ironically aestheticized

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

Or was SwatLax merely predicting the beginning of the end?

I too subscribe to EVO exclusively, although the relative dearth of Se7en coverage compared to a few years back (when Meaden owned a Fireblade) and their somewhat predictable style/comparo results is starting to get tired...and it's very expensive to subscribe here in the US.

Motor Trend was always the worst US mag in my opinion.

Al Navarro

TRAMS_AM

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

Bumblebee

I have been getting AutoWeek since 82, and used to get C&D and MotorTrend, but passed on those, especially MT, don't like that rag much. I also used to buy RoadTest magazine, back in the day. Also, Sports Car Graphic, and I bought CAR back in the late '80s early '90s.

Oh, and I subscribed to Skinned Knuckles for a few years there. That's a good one.

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives

Oh, and the Jalopnik guys of course ;-)

rpm968

"My perfect sound would have the sprawling electronica of Boards Of Canada, the mournful guitar and sense of scale of Meddle era Pink Floyd, and the innocent, rough around the edges vocals of Emilliana Torrini. And perhaps a bit of Massive Attack bass and percussion."

You just described my perfect sound to a tee - what's creepy is I've never been able to do it myself. I might through in a little melodic Squarepusher (ala Iambic Poetry and Tundra) but that's damn close to what my head sounds like.

If you're ever in San Diego I need to buy you a beer.

bugattatra

evo, period. I used to read CAR as well before it became obsessed with goofy hair and the magazine's (admittedly great) style took importance over it's content about three or four years ago.

As a kid I used to voraciously read C&D, Automobile, R&T and about every other major American car mag every month for years and years, then they opened a Borders in my neighborhood and I discovered the British mags, since then I've never looked back.

I've said it before, the level of journalism, photography, content, design and ability to convey a car's unquantifiable characteristics is so vastly superior to American wrags as to make them look like they're put together by talented high school students. At first the sight of a new minivan or econobox that I didn't know about years ahead of time was odd, but the knowledge I've gained of how INTERESTING cars actually drive (rather than their skidpad ratings and styling critiques) is a more than fair trade off.

bugattatra

And Autocar is really starting to piss me off. Every single headline is some sort of ultimatum, things like "AUDI R8- don't buy that 911 just yet" and "NEW MERC GTI, Why the new Golf better be good".....

Why can't cars just be judged on their own merits? When a car is too new even for the magazines to have tested, why not let the buying public make their own minds up?

I'd love to be a motoring journalist. It's a bit like buying loads of CDs, listening to a load of music and deciding that nobody quite makes the exact music you're looking for, and wishing you had the skillz in place to record your own. My perfect sound would have the sprawling electronica of Boards Of Canada, the mournful guitar and sense of scale of Meddle era Pink Floyd, and the innocent, rough around the edges vocals of Emilliana Torrini. And perhaps a bit of Massive Attack bass and percussion.

It's the same thing which led Ferrucio to build his first sports car. We ourselves know what perfection is. We cannot be told.

I want a mag which just tells me what's going on in the car world. In a humourous, irreverant yet insightful way. Which is why I come to Jalopnik. There's always a little somethin' somethin' which sets it apart.

And by fuck I hope it stays that way.

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

MaxSmart32

*dances to Idiotheque*

bugattatra

(CandD, MotorTrend, and AutoWeek have either ended or will soon end)

SwatLax