United States vs. European Car Magazines

[fireguy]

European magazines are by far the better to read because their writers actually know how to communicate their excitement and passion for their jobs. The American magazines should find better writers and while their at it, print their magazine on paper that doesn't fall apart after a month!

[5vz-fe]

Looks like we need to get some of the Editors of "Car and Driver" "Motortrend" "Road and Track" "Automobile"....into this post =P~

I couldn't agree more, I always find myself sitting in Chapters reading those European car magzines rather than buying those cheap american ones. Yes, sometimes if I were to shop for cars, numbers do play an important role, but that just account for 5% of the time or less. I find that American car magazine spend too much time repeating information. IF I WANT CARGO SPACE I WILL GO TO UR INFO PAGE, don't have to repeat it in the text....

[heyloo]

Any ideas how to subscribe European magazines to US addresses?
...well if it wouldn't cost me a huge amount..-_-;

[TT]

It will cost you a huge amount, but you can subscribe to UK magazine in UK, in Europe like I do or in US, Australia or wherever

Already for continental europe the price goes quite high, but for US it is even worst, but for evo IMO, well worth: https://secure.widearea.co.uk/dennis...1728/SOCC.html

[SilviaEvo]

Euro publications have more resources to rarer cars because i think more people are interested in Europe's Supercars and have to go all the way to Europe to go write or film on them and waste money for that

[SFDMALEX]

Originally Posted by SilviaEvo Euro publications have more resources to rarer cars because i think more people are interested in Europe's Supercars and have to go all the way to Europe to go write or film on them and waste money for that

cars have nothing to do with it. We are talking about writing. In an English magazine they can put passion into trucks and ford ka's while American and Canadian magzines have hard time extracting some emotions from Ferraris and Lambos.

[HeilSvenska]

US magazines ARE horrible. I mean it's a country that likes Camries for god's sake (personally i love the country). For one thing, most American journalists are not witty, nor are they good with words. American columns are dull, except for Jamie Kitman's, who writes for the CAR. Quality of the papers themselves are horrid too. Once, some water got on to my Motor Trend mag and it bled, unlike high quality pages of UK mags. And the Photography...as a student who took a photography class, photography in American mags are appalling. They have no artistic value...they are mere profiles of cars. They are so bad that they make Lotus Elise and Ferrari 575M look boring. From what i see, the journalists in American magazines are old, at least 40 i guess, unlike young brits such as Tom Ford.

And for specialized mags in US, although they are focused, they hardly have any writing at all, mostly how to tune stuff, like Super Chevy and Sports Compact Car. and the magazines themselves are pretty naffy.

I say UK mags are the best and US (still) has one or two things to learn.