I don't have one really. I quit doing print ones, as there is too little content to justify buying anything. I quit reading R&T site after one too many woke takes on things, and C/D is starting to push it (recent piece called Musk a loser of the year "because Twitter, enough said" (at least several commenters beside myself called them out on this). MT was always TOO obvious about being commercials for everything (they all are but it was always insane, and the obvious reason for their low-ass price). I agree Automobile was always too hoity-toity LOL. I used to read Excellence and have quite the stack of those, but haven't bothered so much as it got thinner, anything current is typically SUV crap, resto-mod's make me throw up (Singer can go to hell), etc.
The sad thing is, print journalism used to be good, magazines (ad revenue) thick, etc, and almost nothing has this kind of content anymore. The one mag I was still buying on the newsstand from time to time was Vintage Guitar, which apparently that market still keeps alive, but they screwed the pooch by, at the end of a "what is Clapton up to these days" piece said "I just wish he'd wear a damn mask." I sent them a scorching email about keeping the politics out of shit esp when the dude is vax-damaged and everything, and how I will never give them another cent.
Heh, I did buy a copy of Rimfire awhile back since they had a bunch of heavy-barrel target-type ones on the cover and I figured that would be interesting reading (it was).
And yeah, it's a total pity. Online writing doesn't really allow for the read-with-your-feet-up kind of stories and columns print does. You think about guys like Peter Egan for example, that's simply not going to happen again, unless somehow we go back. Guys like that would be writing about cars or whatever, sure, but they were writing about life, people, the world, etc too.
I hear some of the club magazines, like BMW Roundel or whatever, are where some the guys still in the business have gravitated to btw. (I knew a guy who'd been at Automobile - of all of them ha - for some time a couple jobs ago, so that's who mentioned this. He was interesting - he of course drove some hot shit from time to time. Example: he said of the 427 Cobra, he thought the clutch was gone and totally slipping, and the guy behind him said no you keep roasting the tires.)
LOL maybe? So I asked the guy in all the wild stuff he drove (he was with the mag for 11y)(and no they don't get a get-out-of-jail-free card road testing of course) what were some interesting things you might not guess, and he said 2 things, one the 289 Cobra is a way better balanced car and still very fast, and two, Ferraris are totally hit/miss, like one will be fantastic and another model a total dog, but Porsches are always the same, you can drive a 356 or a modern one and the feel/DNA is basically the same (in my limited experience, true, I drove one 70s 911 once, a couple 928s, and had a 944). I wonder if this still holds true with the current generations/sedan shit etc....
I don't have one really. I quit doing print ones, as there is too little content to justify buying anything. I quit reading R&T site after one too many woke takes on things, and C/D is starting to push it (recent piece called Musk a loser of the year "because Twitter, enough said" (at least several commenters beside myself called them out on this). MT was always TOO obvious about being commercials for everything (they all are but it was always insane, and the obvious reason for their low-ass price). I agree Automobile was always too hoity-toity LOL. I used to read Excellence and have quite the stack of those, but haven't bothered so much as it got thinner, anything current is typically SUV crap, resto-mod's make me throw up (Singer can go to hell), etc.
The sad thing is, print journalism used to be good, magazines (ad revenue) thick, etc, and almost nothing has this kind of content anymore. The one mag I was still buying on the newsstand from time to time was Vintage Guitar, which apparently that market still keeps alive, but they screwed the pooch by, at the end of a "what is Clapton up to these days" piece said "I just wish he'd wear a damn mask." I sent them a scorching email about keeping the politics out of shit esp when the dude is vax-damaged and everything, and how I will never give them another cent.
Wow. Thanks for the overview. What a pity. About the only magazines I keep now are gun and aerospace magazines.
Heh, I did buy a copy of Rimfire awhile back since they had a bunch of heavy-barrel target-type ones on the cover and I figured that would be interesting reading (it was).
And yeah, it's a total pity. Online writing doesn't really allow for the read-with-your-feet-up kind of stories and columns print does. You think about guys like Peter Egan for example, that's simply not going to happen again, unless somehow we go back. Guys like that would be writing about cars or whatever, sure, but they were writing about life, people, the world, etc too.
I hear some of the club magazines, like BMW Roundel or whatever, are where some the guys still in the business have gravitated to btw. (I knew a guy who'd been at Automobile - of all of them ha - for some time a couple jobs ago, so that's who mentioned this. He was interesting - he of course drove some hot shit from time to time. Example: he said of the 427 Cobra, he thought the clutch was gone and totally slipping, and the guy behind him said no you keep roasting the tires.)
To borrow a line, "Some day, my prince will come."
LOL maybe? So I asked the guy in all the wild stuff he drove (he was with the mag for 11y)(and no they don't get a get-out-of-jail-free card road testing of course) what were some interesting things you might not guess, and he said 2 things, one the 289 Cobra is a way better balanced car and still very fast, and two, Ferraris are totally hit/miss, like one will be fantastic and another model a total dog, but Porsches are always the same, you can drive a 356 or a modern one and the feel/DNA is basically the same (in my limited experience, true, I drove one 70s 911 once, a couple 928s, and had a 944). I wonder if this still holds true with the current generations/sedan shit etc....