Rats in Max Power..

bought the mag, must say i'm going to start making a habit of this. Tis bloody ace.

No won't! I felt compelled to make all sorts of excuses to the newagent bloke when I had to buy it a few months ago for the Lo-rdz article. Never again...

After years of encouraging idiot behavior and ruining long running modified car meets i am amazed anyone thinks a few more acceptable cars in a magazine is going to help. The sooner max power mag disappears the better

An understandable sentiment I turned up at a hot rod/custom car meet years ago in my Golf to be turned away from the near-empty car park as "we don't want any of those Max Power krooZ nobheads here, sorry mate sure you understand etc etc"... Had to park it round the corner! A few of them did wander over to have a look at it though

its not just a case of "a few acceptable cars" tho.

They changed it ... four(?) months back, and every issue since then has had something of interest. Theres been the hoodrides/rats, lowriders, andys victor, an article on VIP, plus loads more.

typically, we're a bunch of open minded people when it comes to cars. Surely we should be the same with the mags - especially when it seems this one is turning the corner

Three or four months is hardly going to change over a decades worth of damage inflicted on the modified car scene by the magazine. I suspect the change in direction has more to do with falling sales and advertising revenue than anything else

The 'NOVA KREW' have still got 'Fast Car' (F.U.K., geddit? : to take with them into the toilets so no probs there.

Fair comment although i don't recall Custom Car ever rating cruises on available underage bints or glorifying the Cruizin culture that max power does. I hope Max power goes the same way as street machine

goes the same way as Street Machine - as in changes its name and features lots of Mopars?

I remember Custom Car glorifying all manner of silly things, like doing donuts in a Thames van on a cross chanel ferry car deck... like taking the head off the hog roast and impaling it on the velocity stack of the editor of another mag's Camaro...

I have issue 1 of Custom car somewhere and the editorial says"whats Custom Car about - its about birds, its about disco, its about a scene"

Although thinking back now the Thames van incident may have been in "Street Rod & Machine Monthley". But CC was often featuring muchos silly antics. and to a lesser extent still has been doing recently. NSRA forum and Gasser seem to be the only places in the world that stern words are given to those doing burnouts in public places, IIRC CC recently refered to them as "the usual antics at the Ace" (although recent can be any time in 5 years according to my memory)

So our laundry isn't that sparkly white either.

Cars + testosterone = sillyness.

2 years ago, 18 months ago I'd say Max Power was at its lowest eb in terms of being nothing but bad language, pointless attitude and nothing to say.

However to their credit for about a year before the relaunch they had been promoting safer driving and all manner of other things in respomnse to the terible driving stats for their readers' demographic.

4 issues back they sacked most of their staff and started again....

the back of Hot Rod is full of adverts for Viagra and knob enlargement devices (I don't mean 70s Trans Ams either)

If people recognise their mistakes and make good on them I say give 'em a chance.

An d you have to give credit, a hell of a lot of effort has obviously gone into the new Max Power. Its top drawer production quality right through. I think ths is "make or break" and they've thrown a lot at it to get it good.