What Car?

Buying a car is one of the most expensive purchases most people are going to make so the publishers have made a magazine which makes buying a new car much easier that any other mag in the country. It contains the most popular cars in the UK e.g. Ford Fiesta, Peugeot 206,Toyota Yaris and one of my faviroutes, Fiats wonder car the Punto!! The contenders are nicely laid out beside one another, and then the test is started!. The cars are marked out of 5 for each rating. The cars are tested for the following. Performance . Ride and handling . Refinement . Behind the wheel . Equipment . Space ... more

One of my first ops on this site was about my favourite magazine – a car magazine of course! -, Auto Express. It still is, but there is another magazine I tend to read and it’s called What Car? (For all you people who haven’t read the category) I never used to read What Car? or Auto Express but I used to read a magazine called Complete Car. I found some the other day and I still think they were good (I got my name in their once). But they merged with Autocar and so dropped in my estimation. I tried Carweek but that mysteriously went defunct. This then led me onto Auto Express ... more

If you are in the market for a new or used car it is important to get advice from a number of sources. If you have a friend in the know then that’s good for you but many haven’t. In this case there is plenty of advice out there but whom do you trust? There are many opinion channels including those like Ciao who offer good hopefully unbiased advice but in the plethora of car magazines on the newsagents shelf who can you trust. For many years when it has got time to renew my company car I have bought a couple of consecutive copies of What Car and used its articles to point me in the right ... more

I was very surprised to find that no one else had reviewed this magazine. I was under the impression that it was at least one of Britain's best selling car magazines. Oh well. I hope mine is sufficient. I have visited this site a few times. It doesn't seem to be updated as often as Autoexpress.co.uk (please read my review of that as well) but still, it has plenty of encyclopediac information available, such as car prices and specification. Also, it offers the big special guides which WhatCar? is famous for - safety and security - which are worth reading if you are in the market for a new car ... more

What Car? is an epic Bible of a car magazine, 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 ... more