Advantages: Lots of colour. Smells great! Disadvantages: Facts incorrect. Biased tests. Messy layout. Overuse of colour.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a car enthusiast pure and simple, choice is good, more the better, but this magazine perfectly reflects the state of the current motor industry......
.....Too many cars made, too few buyers to snap them up......
......Too many magazines on the shelf, not enough market for them.
Having read just about all the carmags over the last 30 years, I suppose I am hard to please, in this day and age one tends to expect greatness straight out of the blocks.
I purchased issue 1 in November 2004, it was on "Special Introductory Offer" at £1.85. A bargain indeed, my weekly Autocar magazine is now £2.20.
The regular monthly price is now £3.70
However never judge a book by its cover, a carmagazine needs to be factual and accurate, after all most data is easy enough to check with manufacturers sites ...
Advantages: informative,cheap,good read Disadvantages: none found
If like me you are a petrol head this is the weekly carmagazine you want,I subscribed to auto-express about two years ago and still look forward to it being delivered through my letter box every wednesday the 13 issue subscription cost me £12.48 plus i got the first 6 trial issues free which works out at 65p per magazine saving me £1.15 per issue as it costs £1.80 per issue if you brought it off the shelf from a news agents.Plus at the moment if you subscribe you recieve a free AA route planner worth £9.99 so a real bargain at the moment.
The magazine
On the front cover pages is a brief description of the main storys in this issue example: This week 19-25 jan 2005 its showing the new bmw 3 series,The new bentley,and the new Jaguar XK
Inside the magazine every thing is devided into catagories,News week,New cars ...
SNOWY1976 23.02.2005
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Advantages: well laid out, full of stats, takes years to read it all! Disadvantages: Puts you off buying that hot hatch when you see the MPG
What Car? is an epic Bible of a carmagazine, full of every possible stat you could think of on every single car for sale in the UK. It was the 1st motoring magazine to include the specs for each and every car and soon all the competition followed suit, but What Car? Also has many other strengths over the competition.
Like most magazines What Car? starts of with short blips of news which would include items such as Safety breakthroughs and new cars currently that have previously been unseen. The magazine then gets its feet wet getting stuck into car reviews, and the magazine usually does this by road testing 3/4 similar cars i.e., Small Executives, and picks out the one it would recommend. In the tests all there is all the data you would expect from the cubic feet of space in the boot to the Miles Per Gallon of the car ...
Aj2001 31.01.2001
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