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Advantages: Well established, popular magazine for those buying & selling cars
Disadvantages: Expensive to advertise in, used as LEAD FODDER by every canvasser in town

...Ad I placed in the Auto Trader This review is really about my own extreme dissapointment with what little value The Auto Trader seemed to offer me when selling my car Firstly it needs to be said that I have a couple of dodgy second hand car dealer types as acquaintances so I canvassed their opinions as to the best way to sell my car privately WITHOUT FAIL, everyone I asked said, "stick it in the Auto Trader" so I had the impression that it should ...
...So, I log onto the Auto trader website and am quite pleased that I can upload my own photos and write my own ad, pay for the ad, edit it etc etc etc with relative simplicity Your print advert ( The one that appears in the actual magazine ) is limited in the amount of words you can use to describe your vehicle but for your Online version of the ad you can write hundreds upon hundreds of words and include many large digital pictures I opted for the ... Read review

Advantages: Best of all the car magazines, Subscription savings are huge
Disadvantages: Never any decent free gifts

I was looking to buy my first car, and being an 18 year old male i wanted a good looking one.Restrained by a £1000 budget and a realisation that the insurance wud cripple me no matter what, i sought after a way to make a standard (Corsa,Punto,Micra,Fiesta etc) look more than average. The price is very reasonable, although there are a lot of adverts not relating to cars (Lotsa premium rate dirty hotlines) Fantastic car to girl ration makes this ...
...the most novice car enthusiast. One criticism i wud have is the it is sometimes aimed at the more well off boy racers, with some cars ideas costing £60,000 or more. It tends to be the same cars featured again and again (Honda civic is a popular front pager) but the products on offer are second to none. Recently lost its section for used car sales, similar to Steven Gerrard losing his right foot. Still a very good read though, Miles ahead of rival ... Read review

Advantages: Reviews, Humour, Information, News, Unusualness
Disadvantages: None

...If your a fan of Top Gear the TV programme then without doubt you will love this. The magazine contains various different articles from James May, Richard Hammond, Jason (fifth gear) along with a whole array of others. The Clarkson column, two pages long, is always funny and a good read. Then theres the cars, there's information about concepts, new exclusives, and reviews about supercars aswell as the normal. A great addition is to all the articles ...
...such as price, engine size, top speed, 0-60, and the price per calendar month for you to purchase it. A great section of the magazine is 'Lifers'. Were reporters have to live with the car they are reviewing (I think for six months) and report back on every month on whats good and whats bad. Theres also a price guide with prices of all cars on the market with details regarding there top speeds, 0-60 times, insurance groups, co2 emissions and lots ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to read, unbiased
Disadvantages: none

...its always good to know what is going on in the manufacturing world! being quite cheaply priced as well (in comparsion to buying a car!) i would highly recomend this to anyone that is looking to buy a car, and avoid the car salesman's biased approch to whatever dealer he works for, (no offence) Go on! buy it! i promise you wont be disappointed ... Read review

Advantages: informative,cheap,good read
Disadvantages: none found

If like me you are a petrol head this is the weekly car magazine 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 ...
...£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,Features,Road tests,Regulars,Sportsweek. News week This covers any new news on official or unofficial pictures of new cars being ... Read review