... I am sure you have noticed Car magazine on the shelves. Living in England means there are plenty of choices as what one reads about Cars. One noticed that this months issue has a new revamped buyers guide. So I decided it was a good time to take a look as it is some time since I last read ... Read review
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A review by essential1 on Car Magazine June 3rd, 2005
Author's product rating:
Quality of content
Good
Quality of photography
Excellent
Advantages:
Updated all the time
Disadvantages:
£3 . 90 a copy
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Hi. It's been great so far to help people and share information. I am sure you have noticed Car magazine on the shelves. Living in England means there are plenty of choices as what one reads about Cars. One noticed that this months issue has a new revamped buyers guide. So I decided it was a good time to take a look as it is some time since I last read a copy. I noticed on the cover 31 roadsters are to be tested and excellent time to get up to date on the dream car market . I know you must be laughing dream cars we just want to get from a to b. It is no little matter then that this is a dream car mag bigging up the normal car market.
The contents page confirms it Aston Martin, Bently, BMW, Ferrari, Lambourghini, Morgan, Rolls Roycw all the big hitters in the dream car world but also Ford Focus, and Vauxhall Astra! The most expensive a 218.39mph Maybach Insane a very expensive machine that can not be bought it is some years to go before it is offered to the most fasionable end of the market with a car harking back to the glory days of 1930's Germany! I know the Furer would like it!? Hence, I am sure you know now this is prototype and dream car school boy fantasy world magazine.~The Look~ -------------
It's a shiney paper magazine colour on every pageall pictures fantasy dream loving it living the life of the richest man in the world style. I liked that clearly. It's got over 240 pages of it.
The pictures make evey extra features that the machine itself does not have seem like it has it all. It's also got zoom photo of all most every dream machine in the world. Watches are all well catered for Aston Martin has its own watch a snip at $100000 it has menu, set up, lap timing features. This is very useful not only do you control the most expensive car from your chair but you have added control of a wrist watch that times you movements to the micro second. It can be streatch to think robots are to do with cars but a robot is tested as well and compared to other movie robots.
The extra big feature is the back pages that feature on the real cars and are they slated especially Rover and the city Rover though they are all you could want The Good Bad and Ugly is every thing it comports to address it is itself good bad and ugly. It is all up to scratch a table looks better with in on it.
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As for the content it is not going to be a concern for many, I could tell you that, it's very lite read like on offer by other companies. But the models it tests and companies it is interested in and with are different products than most will want to own. The fact is the average car buyer is mocked laughed at and ignored on almost all of its pages.
It's so very light in content it is in a dream a million miles from the everyday.
~Price~ -------------
About the price it is to be concerned about at £3.90 it is expensive. I got it as it is to me like a catalogue of dream machine the price never has had a special offer it is something very much the same every where and is not dependent on different retailers I bought mine at W H Smith at co-op you get many points on your dividend card £1.50 worth.
~Ease of Use of information~ -------------
It's has a very simple to use the car selection guide. That's a good point compared to some as it is all up to date and magnificent. It has Parkers.co.uk as a provider of info on the normal cars I have never used it but it looks accurate.
Another point is the easefullness of finding out what is good and what bad. The ratings of cars go up to 5 all Ferraris get 5*.~Consumable~ -------------
As it's highly economic to buy with the facts as that is not what this magazine cares much about and most of us have had cars two yearsat least it is likely that how it has or will last are up to me this time I will be lucky to have no problems at all. Lots of factors are involved in this scenario it has a lot more than the watt of the motor that matters or so it is using the power the manufactures to big up there products once you have it its your problem.
~Advantages~ -------------
It picture quality and features are excellent for my limited needs a big 'WOW' factor but the unsould advise has a no 'WOW' factor and I can recommend the extra features of Which magazine here. It is so clear and bright to read after the read I threw mine in the bin. So handy, so useful I can recycle it's it is then highly lifestyle and dream world oriantated to use. I do not know wheather it is made to tell anything useful or to pass the time it seems to me either will do.
~Disadvantages~ -------------
As it does not record that there is any problem it glosses over all problems over cars other wise not anything yet of course I can use my computer to find out anything I want to know about cars on cioa !
~Overall~ -------------
I am strongly recommending this product as a dream world mag not as I found that this is the best way to buy a car or find the best in the market but because it has served my needs well.
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