Really good car magazines

[Deschodt]

I've discovered a lot of stuff thanks to this OT forum, books, movies, music, that I might not otherwise have heard of.. So I thought I'd do the same ranking some of the 20+ car mags I get every month (yes I'm insane, yes I like to read)... Someone might discover something...

- Best car Magazine overall: EVO - no contest. Good writing, great photography, dream cars galore, and if $10+ at the local Barnes and nobles is not for you, the Ipad version has videos and more pictures for $4.99 per issue. Fantastic, enough said.

- Best Porsche Magazine: Excellence, by a mile. Used to get 911& porsche world, GT purely Porsche, Classic Porsche, and a few more, but Excellence over the last 2 years has moved from Good to $%$#% excellent. Long hoods, modern cars, tech articles, good stuff and great writing. And $ for $ much better ROI than the british porsche mags.

- Best US car mag: Does it even matter? I mean, if you are patient you can get subscriptions for like $8 each. So get them all and decide... R&T for Peter Egan, Automobile for Ezra Dyer, Motor Trend for occasional great comparison tests featuring the likes of Randy pobst... For $8 I don't even bother choosing !

- Best Club Mag: Roundel (but you gotta be into BMWs too ;-) Roundel wipes the floor with Panorama. In fact I hear it wipes itself with panorama. Second best: 356 registry mag, superb one, if you are into 356s. 3rd: Esses (early 911 registry mag), on account of being smaller and too quick a read, but a *very* good magazine if you like long hoods (who doesn't ?)

- Best classic car mag: Classic and Sports Car (so UK mags are generally nicer than ours, OK). By a mile. "Thoroughbred and classic cars" is also occasionally very good. Hemmings sport and Exotic car is 3rd for me, on account of being way too short a read, and a little too british car centric on average. Octane is 4th, very nice if they feature a car you like, but a little short an pricey otherwise. 5th: classic motorsports: Occasionally good enough that I resubscribe, then I remember why I let it lapse (90% british cars)

- Best F1 mag: Joe Saward's Grand prix plus (PDF). Produced a few hours after the race, good insight and also a great blog. Motorsport too, but it's not just F1.

- Hard to put in a box: Motorsport. The grand daddy of them all, as old as the wheel itself. Nigel Roebuck (f1 writer since forever) has a 5+ pages column stuffed full of interviews with Moss, Fangio, Andretti, you name it he's got it, and I'd buy it just for that. It covers current F1, old F1, old Sports car, rally, interview with driving legends etc... That's the only you're least likely to read in 30 minutes, it's a brick and it's good !

- Best biweekly: Autoweek, for Corey Farley and Mark Vaughn mostly, but I liked it better when it was weekly !

- Best classic car market mag: Keith Martin's sports car market. Valuations on cars you do know can be as debatable as poor Bruce Anderson's, but all in all, a good fun read.

That's me... What good reads am I missing ?

[masraum]

I'm somewhat with you. I've got a bunch of Evo, but I've never subscribed. I guess it just doesn't do it for me that much, but it is good, definitely better than the Top Gear mag.

Excellence, I've always liked it. I used to subscribe. I've got one issue of Classic Porsche (the first I think). It was good, and the Brits know how to put a mag together, but I don't know how it will be long term.

R&T for Peter Egan mostly, but I like their car reviews when they get special cars or put together comparos or competitions.

Motorsport is awesome. I like it very much and have also subscribed. I wish they had an iPad subscription available!!

My other favorite is Octane. I guess I dig these last two because they do a lot of vintage stuff, and I love vintage stuff. Again, I wish I could get it delivered to my iPad.

I've also got a fair number of Vintage Motorsports. It's good, but can't touch Motorsport.

Grassroots Motorsport. Decent, I pick it up from time to time if I see an article that looks interesting, like Porsches, Miata, etc....

[Tobra]

Grassroots Motorsport always has something that interests me

[onewhippedpuppy]

Damn, you guys have some spare time! I have to take business trips and read on the plane to catch up on my magazines, there's probably 6 months of issues sitting in a drawer. My current subscriptions:

Car & Driver - used to be amusing, now trying to hard to be funny but simultaneously not offend anyone. Otherwise mediocre, I probably won't resubscribe.

Automobile - better in every way than C&D. Good pieces on older unique cars, good photography, and the "Modern Classics" articles in the back are always fun.

Plane & Pilot and Flying - part passion, part work related reading.

[VincentVega]

I really enjoy Sports and Exotic Car. Like mentioned above it's usually a quick read but I usually end of looking on ebay for at least 1-2 cars after every issue.

[KaptKaos]

Only mag I can add is the brit mag "Retro Cars". Classic euro cars - hot rodded. Lots of fun stuff there.