Have you ever read these or just looked at the covers? Yes there are fantastic articles on supercars, but there are also many many many articles on new cars coming out in the average person's price range. They do excellent comparison tests on the newest hatchbacks coming out, or the newest sedans, or the newest convertibles, etc. They also do long term tests and give you updates on how the cars are doing after a year so you get an idea of how they hold up if you looking to buy a slightly used car. There are very good practical articles, along with the amazing supercar articles that make you drool. Just pick up a few at the library or bookstand and flip through them, you'll see.

 

sport compact car and motor trend for me. i'm actually fairly confident i'll be getting my Journalism degree here at UNC so that i can write for one of these publications.

 

I've had a subscription to them for several years and typically read it from cover to cover. I've also got all my old issues

 

I'm not discounting the fact that they have the latest road test of the new Volvo wagon out, however there is no educational value as to the potential of an automoble. This thread began as a suggestion of performance magazines focused on modifying a car. Have you ever seen an piece on how to: install or tune a turbo kit on a car, how to corner weigh a car, or how to perform a motor swap in Road and Track or Car and Driver? These publications are the equivilent to kindergarden, its time to step up to highschool.

 

you missed GRM's how to turbo anything?

 

I like all the magazines mentioned. Any suggestions for great auto web sites? In particular finding an honest mechanic.

 

I'm a noob when it comes to cars, my Maxima is my first vehicle. I find Project Car Magazine as mentioned previously to be quite helpful. Very detailed installation instructions.

 

I prefer, Modified Magazine, Turbo, Sport Compact Car, Nissan Sport Magazine, and Dsport Magazine, all seem to have a decent amount of knowledgeable info in these. I agree with choray911, if you want to read up on cars that you dream of having and want Jiffy Lube to change your oil, then get Car and Driver, Motortrend, etc. But if you want to gain some knowledge on actually tuning a car then get a tuner magazine.

 

Super Chevy???

Only real magazine that builds engines, compares heads, pistons, cams and etc and dollar per hp. Good stuff you are into building smallblocks.

 

I look at all the mags mentioned above at walmart or any other place that sells mags....I am only subscribed to Super Street and SCC.

 

+1 super chevy
car craft !

<--- chevy fanboy getting a 94 maxima march 16th.

 

neither is as good as it could be.

 

sport compact car is my fav

 

I'm really not into the Import Tuners and the Sports Compact Car magazines because i feel congested by all the merchandising and girly photos that distract me from the cars. Here are some of the few magazines that i subscribe to.

- Sports Car International (they have really well written editorials)
- Grassroots Motorsports (great if you're into preping your car for the tracks)
- Project Car Magazine (kind of a import take on the Grassroots magazine)
- High-Performance Driving (great magazine on driving techniques but are hard to find)
- Top Gear Magazine (for being up to date on cars that haven't made it to the states)

 

Car & Driver..I like it very much..

And i find a deal for 1 Yr 12 Issues is $3.40

..You can have a look.

 

i'm thinking about going to pick up a few copies today. can i pick up individual copies in like a cvs or something just to decide if i wanna subscribe or not?

 

Which magazine are you referring to? Libraries actually have a lot of these if you want to check that out. I know magazine stands (I don't know about cvs) have motortrend, car and driver, automobile, and road and track usually, I don't know about other car magazines.

 

well i went to cvs and took a look. i saw a few but only picked up motor trend. car and driver just doesn't interest me too much. i'm mainly looking for the nissan one though, could i pick up a copy of that anywhere or do i have to subscribe?

 

i actually hardly ever see models in SCC, usually import tuner and modified are full of the import models and such, Car and driver/motortrend are good for production stuff, but very little in the way of tuning/modding ideas. Super street hasn't really impressed me in awhile. i usually get one or more of the following:

Turbo
Sport Compact Car
Modified
Car and Driver
Automobile
and sometimes an Excellence to drool over ..

 

Nissan Sport Magazine is actually everything Nissan. Google their website.

 

yeah i googled their site and found out places like borders and barnes n noble carry individual copies. i'll pick up a copy when i go to the mall tomorrow from borders. and most likely subscribe tomorrow night if i like it.

 

Anyone checked out the free online publication Winding Road? I would say it is on par with Motor Trend if not better. Check it out.
www.windingroad.com

 

 

i subscribed to super street about 6 months ago, and wanted my money back about 5 months ago. They only have about one good article every month and usually it's a honda or something that doesn't interest me. Motor trend is the way to go!

 

I ended my subscription to SS when all they talked about was Nad's Man *****.

 

R&T has better technical analysis IMO, compared to MT and C&D. I read Cycle World too and I pick up an issue of SCC on occasion, which is alright, but I think it used to be better...Or maybe my attention span is getting worse. However, I enjoy the editorials and the articles pretaining to USCC, tech, projects and so on.

Moncef