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Pay £100 to get pestered by telesales canvassers !
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 ...
ChampionOfChampions 16.03.2006 · Read Full Review
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Review of Auto Trader
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Modified to the Max
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 ...
Bankben 05.03.2007 · Read Full Review
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Review of Max Power
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Top Gear Magazine - Better Than The Shows?
Advantages: Informative magazine focused on the cars, just as much fun as the TV shows Disadvantages: Can be a little technical at times
The Top Gear TV programme has begin to achieve nationwide recognition in it's last few series, and with good reason; you'll struggle to find anything more entertaining on the box. However, with this popularity has come a burden of sorts - the new audience. Previously it was the reserve of automotive buffs, but now, people from all walks of life, whatever their opinion on cars, are tuning in, because it is such good entertainment. In short, while ... ...void? The answer comes in Top Gear magazine. The articles are more technical, and because they are targeted towards a more niche audience, place a much higher focus on the vehicles themselves. However, the wonderful sense of humour has not been lost, and the zany, entertaining nature still remains. The challenges for which the TV series is now famous for still exist (for example, the January 09 issue contained a drive across the spine of the USA ...
jonwebb5 28.01.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Top Gear Magazine
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Buying a car
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 ...
Valleysboy76 09.12.2006 · Read Full Review
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Review of What Car?
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Britains best selling car mag
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 ...
SNOWY1976 23.02.2005 · Read Full Review
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Review of Auto Express
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Nokia 6680
triband; battery life; reception/phone quality; key size (*)
Sony CMT-GS 10
Audio Home System - 50 Watts - Channels: 2 (Stereo) - CD Player - No
(*) Reviews by Ciao members
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