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My feeling is that I don't care to spend extra dough to read about cars I'll likely never drive, encounter, or have no relevance to discussion in my job (since I live and work in the United States). If I'm really interested in a car I've never heard about, I'll just Google it...don't get me wrong, there's some interesting whiz-bang stuff over the pond, but who really cares what I think about a Renault that I've never driven? I'll leave to my fine GTPlanet members to fill that void.
So yeah, I just read Car & Driver and Road & Track, since I like ampersands. I'm just kidding and teasing myself trying to read anything else. Car and Driver is getting a little bland, but I really enjoy when they test all sorts of weird stuff (which seems to be less and less, lately), R&T for the nostalgia...they both move a lot of their content online now. Both used to routinely put out massive 196/224-page magazines back in the late-1990s, but the days of those kinds of issues are long gone.
Automobile seems to have great editorials and columns, good interviews, so it's great for hearing opinions and people, but not so much for test drives and comparison, for some reason. Motor Trend has improved a lot, but it reminds me of Automobile in a lot of ways. None of them are terrible, to be honest...but I generally avoid the specialist stuff: The import-car magazines usually suffer from immature writing...bikini-clad chicks don't make up for lousy content. If Playboy can balance it, so can you. European magazines are hard to find (every Borders is gone now), and forget about finding them in an American airport. Yearly overseas subscriptions are too dear for my wallet.
Last edited: Aug 10, 2011