Best Car Magazine Subscription?

[pocketkiller]

I want to get a car magazine subscription, but I dunno which is the best magazine. Please vote or specify other.

Thanks

[SAZABI]

Hyper rev. :rollsmile
Japanese Option
Chinese Car and driver
Chinese Option Fans

[Duke]

If you have the slightest interest in turning your own wrenches or truly understanding cars and driving, Grassroots Motorsports is the best magazine in North America, hands down. Especially if you are not indepenedently wealthy and don't enjoy torturing yourself with pictures of cars that cost several times more than your house, and which you will never own while you're alive.

[Noel]

HyperRev is more like a specific model car bible instead of a magazine unless you own alot of different cars to begin with.

But I'd agree, Japanese Option takes the hat on the latest car tuning especially for Japanese makes.

[Joker]

<--reads Honda Tuning as well :thumbsup:

http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/

[ChinchillaX]

Hyper rev. :rollsmile
Japanese Option
Chinese Car and driver
Chinese Option Fans
Sazabi has a great taste in car magazines as I read these too. I get them when my uncle goes to HK and buys them for me.

As for mags you find at newsstands I say Road & Track and Car & Driver are the good ones.:)

[larchmont]

Dunno, except that from what we've heard, "Automobile" seems the be the WORST.

Aside from that, any of the other 3 are a good read.
I think Car and Driver tends to have the kinds of things that are of the most interest to "people like us"; I can say almost for sure that it's the mag that has been quoted and cited the most on the TSX forums.

Larchmont, whose favorite "car mags" are Consumer Reports and ConsumerGuide. :D

[HondaMan]

<--reads Honda Tuning as well :thumbsup:

http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/

:sprint:

[TSX 'R' US]

now if only TSXClub was a magazine as well.... :D

[ChinchillaX]

now if only TSXClub was a magazine as well.... :D
use photoshop and create a cover of the TSXClub magazine for us lol.:D

[TSX 'R' US]

use photoshop and create a cover of the TSXClub magazine for us lol.:D
:laugh: :laugh:

[pocketkiller]

OK thanks for the replies. Maybe I should clarify more of what I'm interested in. I don't really care too much for the modification data of magazines. I do like some simple things, but not extensive mods, so I dunno if "honda tuning" would be good for me. I like reading about new cars and new gadgets/systems etc. Test drives and comparison tests I like as well. I could care less about testing Ferrari's and Lambo cuz I'm never gonna drive those, and they are just a waste of space in my magazine.

Thanks

[bob shiftright]

Larchmont, whose favorite "car mags" are Consumer Reports and ConsumerGuide.

Hmmmm. I was actually going to post that Consumer Reports should be a poll choice, since it was probably your very fav car mag! :D

I've been reading Road and Track since (blush!) the late 1960s, so that's what I'd recommend!

Magnum's Ferrari 308 would do 0-60 in about 8 seconds according to a contemporary R&T road tests. Meaning that today an Acura TSX 6-speed would beat it, and a TL would just about suck the Ferrari's doors off! (Not to mention a Honda Odyssey minivan.) Ain't mass-market technology grand? So I enjoy reading about this Ferrari and Maserati and Lambo stuff, like computer shifted gearboxes, since if it's any good, it's going to filter down into $26k Acura sedans in just a few years.

http://www.autoweek.com/images/articles/100266

[larchmont]

.....Magnum's Ferrari 308 would do 0-60 in about 8 seconds according to contemporary R&T road tests.....
What year car was that?

[bob shiftright]

What year car was that?

The 308?

It was built from 1975-1985.

CLICK HERE (http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=100266)

[larchmont]

The 308?

It was built from 1975-1985.

CLICK HERE (http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=100266)
Very inneresting....

I see they actually claim 7.3 for 0-60, which still is in the ballpark of what the 6MT TSX can do.
(Heck, I've claimed I can beat that with my 5AT!)

But what I don't understand -- I could have sworn that quite a few cars back then did way better than that. Or maybe they didn't.....

My first car was a '69 Chevy Nova, which I think was a V-8, and of course the car weighed about 12 pounds :D so I figure it must have done 0-60 in about 7 seconds or less, and God knows it sure felt like it did.

You mean it didn't?

[bob shiftright]

But what I don't understand -- I could have sworn that quite a few cars back then did way better than that. Or maybe they didn't.....

Road Test performance numbers were much less credible in the 1960s and 1970s than they are today. For example, Car and Driver Magazine published a road test of the Pontiac GTO with a 0-60 figure of 4.6 seconds. That particular GTO had received a little bit of "preparation" prior to it being provided to the Car and Driver staff. The "preparation" included substituting a modified "Super Duty" 421 cubic inch motor for the 389 that you could actually buy from your Pontiac dealer. (Both the 421 and 389 motors were externally identical.) (This is one -obvious- reason that Consumer Reports actually goes out and BUYS the cars it tests!)

CLICK HERE (http://www.web-cars.com/gto/cd-gto_gto.php)

For a "unprepared" Pontiac GTO that C/D tested subsequently, they reported a more plausible 6.9 seconds 0-60. (This is today's Volvo station wagon territory.)

Performance numbers backtracked quite a bit in the 1970s and early 1980s with the imposition of fuel economy and emissions standards.

I mostly believe the numbers published in Road and Track, in part because the climate and therefore track conditions are more stable in California than in Michigan, in part because they seem reluctant to publish numbers that don't make much sense.

I had a V8 Dodge Dart, and it "seemed" fast in part because the brakes and handling were so poor.

[larchmont]

.....I had a V8 Dodge Dart, and it "seemed" fast in part because the brakes and handling were so poor.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I imagine my Nova was similar in power, and I guess on those other things too although I never noted any problem there.

And indeed I didn't mean any 0-60 times that I read, because I didn't read anything back then. I was just talking about how my car felt, and what I saw on other cars.

If the power/acceleration of the cars back then was so much worse than what a lot of us think and remember, I guess it just goes to show something or other.