While Car Mechanics is a different kettle of fish, I pretty much gave up on motoring magazines a couple of years ago. Just got sick fed up of reading pages upon pages about cars I have absolutely no interest in, and never getting any more than a passing few lines on cars I was interested in. That and the overwhelming obsession with power (more is always better than less and you can never have too much), speed and roadholding.

I may go back to classic car magazines because there always seemed to be a more even spread of coverage going from small cheap classics right up to seven figure exotics.

Thanks for the reminder JH. Pressreader is great for any magazine type.

I'm with you bbd. I just skim through the magazines such as Autocar, AE and Car.

You look at the price of the exotica being reviewed and wonder, "who is buying these!?"

There doesn't appear to be a lack of buyers when you see the showrooms with such cars though.

When I passed my test in 1980 and bought my first car a1969 mini, I developed a keen interest in car maintenance, magazines like car mechanics, popular motoring ect, we’re invaluable in my quest for learning, indeed, they enabled me to carry out my own repairs and servicing, nowadays of course, repairs consist of checking the fluid levels and tyre pressures.

While Car Mechanics is a different kettle of fish, I pretty much gave up on motoring magazines a couple of years ago. Just got sick fed up of reading pages upon pages about cars I have absolutely no interest in, and never getting any more than a passing few lines on cars I was interested in. That and the overwhelming obsession with power (more is always better than less and you can never have too much), speed and roadholding.

I may go back to classic car magazines because there always seemed to be a more even spread of coverage going from small cheap classics right up to seven figure exotics.

Yep. I used to get Car free with my bank account(!) and it was basically just a bunch of cars that only the very wealthy (or daft) would buy. There seemed to be a new Porsche 911 every single month.

I sometimes read a bit of news on some of the online mags, but a cross section of the revues on some cars could have all been written by the same person with a few words changed around.

As for video revues, yuck.