"Aye, Aye" I'm Alastair, 18 from Fife. I'm a 2nd year student studying a degree in Busines...
"Aye, Aye" I'm Alastair, 18 from Fife. I'm a 2nd year student studying a degree in Business Information Technology (try saying that when your drunk!) in Edinburgh.
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Car magazine is one of the UK's most respectable 'car' magazines. The magazine follows a similar if not identical format to all the other car and bike magazines on sale, but Car magazine excels in its photography. The front cover of the magazine is always eye catching and inside the editors always seem to try to use their own pictures rather than those supplied by manufactures.
The magazine is very well written although its fair to say some of the reviews can seem the same and it doesn't have the humour found in Top Gear magazine. Car is a more serious consumer magazine and has won many awards for it's in depth features and news stories.
As with all monthly publications it suffers from being behind on the breaking news stories that you'll find in weekly magazines such as Autocar, but the news content is always detailed, accurate and often takes a different approach to other publications.
Car is very much a sports car orientated magazine, and although you'll find reviews on virtually all new cars, the main features and head to head reviews are about performance cars. They wont compare an Astra estate to a Focus estate for example. Which is probably the reason I buy this over magazines such as What Car which is more about family and rep transport.
There is also a very comprehensive catalogue of new cars which is almost certainly the best of any car magazine on sale today. And finally, the magazines also runs a fleet of 'long termers' cars which the writers run over a period of 6-12 months and are regularly commented on, these are often witty and provide a good incite into how new cars perform over lengthy periods of time.
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