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Discuss! :)

My favourite is MOTOR, for obvious reasons.

I've started buying SPEED, which is a well rounded magazine - sometimes their writing standards seem to be lacking a little, but no magazine is immune to shitty writers (it's hard to find people who know what they're talking about and can talk about it in an interesting, informative way).

I also buy Fast Fours and Zoom on occasion (they're about fast four and six cylinders, unlike some). I've bought SM a few times, but sometimes their bogan writing tone and style annoys me (it's good to be patriotic but a line has to be drawn somewhere...). I used to buy wheels heaps, but they've become more of a "car buyer's guide" than a bible for the enthusiast. They are waaay too formal nowadays (informative rather than entertaining), and they drive too many shitboxes. They've become too political for my liking, since Ged Bulmer took over. But they're very professional, and have some great photos (so do SPEED).

Don't get me started on HOT4s. Let's just say they're the scum of the proverbial fish tank. ;)

Yeh so obviously a part of car culture is reading car mags, so what are your favourites and for what reasons do you love em? Similarly, what are your opposites and for what reasons do you LOATHE em?
 

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I very much enjoy SPEED and I think the magazine is cleverly aimed at a niche not targeted before. Love the S15 in this month's issue <3

I used to also like wheels very much but my preferences are tipping more towards motor now.
 

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I used to get all those mags for free off the newsagency :D I liked most of them but I only ever paid for fastfours. I like this one because the articles are of a better standard than others I've read and they cover car audio as well as performance. Motor and wheels were usually a pretty good read but yeh I probably wouldn't pay money for them...
I'd have to agree that hot4's isn't that good and I didn't like zoom too much either
 

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Street Machine
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MOTOR
Wheels
ZOOM
MINIworld
MINImag(sometimes)
SPEED

brother gets HOT4s, fastfours, Autosalon and some drift mag (which i steal all of them:))
 

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my brother gets Street Machine. I like to read it.
 

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Argonaut said:
I'll also found a new interest in F1 Racing since the series is actually starting to involve racing.
Haha ... so true Argo! But the mag has evolved some what over the past few years. It just used to be about the glamour side and what the drivers ate for lunch, but now it looks at the technical aspects of set ups which are quite enjoyable to read.

Although, its a bit expensive for some glossary pages. I have a subscription and it cost $69 a year, i think from memory, not that bad. But I didn't get my free ferrari poster :(
 

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I was into car mags like 3 years ago like fastfours/hot4s :( and some other random ones

but I got sick of wasting money on them :|

their some new car mag comming out soon where each new mag has a car dvd and its like 10 bucks.....sounds alright ....may pick up a copy
 

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STREET MACHINE!!! How dare you bad mouth SM slip streem, I don't know how you lot read wheels and motor, there boring as all fuck, i don't wanna read about a new astra with cup holders.
 

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DaddyK said:
STREET MACHINE!!! How dare you bad mouth SM slip streem, I don't know how you lot read wheels and motor, there boring as all fuck, i don't wanna read about a new astra with cup holders.
And i dont want to read about some big ass brick with an oversized engine in it....whats your point?
 

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Each to their own, friends. :) Wheels, Speed, SM, Motor, AutoAction... all are produced in the same building by Australian Corporate Publishing (ACP). The idea is to have an umbrella over every car enthusiast and to cover ALL tastes - you make the most money this way. We simply have different tastes!
 

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DaddyK said:
True slip...but 0.1.1 if there big cars, how are big engines over sized for them? An oversized engine is a 3.0 ltr 2jzgte in a ta23 celica!
oh, the amount of engine swaps that are worse...

keeping with toyotas, 4.0 V8 into same celica

or 351 into capri or escorts.... :s

640 into capri
 

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OK well first i've only ever seen 1 or 2 celica's in australia with the v8 conversion, and since when the HELL has a 351 fit into an esky?!? Also capri's are made for big engines mate, seen the size of there engine bays?
 

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DaddyK said:
OK well first i've only ever seen 1 or 2 celica's in australia with the v8 conversion, and since when the HELL has a 351 fit into an esky?!? Also capri's are made for big engines mate, seen the size of there engine bays?
how long have you been reading SM for??

mate...its like the old morries having blown 351s in them (a few)

and i've seen a few celicas with V8s, not heaps, but a dozen or so (i'll admit, half from magazines...)
 

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I've been trying new car magazines to scope them out and draw the cars.

I'm in favour of: Wheels, Speed and Motor
I've got: Redline and J Tuner
 

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