|
New retro cars magMercdan68
@forddan68
Club Retro Rides Member 68
|
|
Anyone seen the new retro cars mag? Superb at last a car mag that has features On normal everyday older stuff and up to the early 2000s If budget cars are your thing , this mag imo is superb I’m in no way connected with the mag Just appreciate a decent read on cars I like and stuff I should like!
|
|
Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1998 ex bt fiesta van
|
|
|
|
New retro cars magfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
|
|
Didn’t I read somewhere that it no longer features modified retro / classic cars though?
Just standard oem retro cars?
|
|
|
|
|
New retro cars magMercdan68
@forddan68
Club Retro Rides Member 68
|
|
Didn’t I read somewhere that it no longer features modified retro / classic cars though? Just standard oem retro cars? Yep sometimes it’s good to see unmodded stuff There isn’t a mag for that era of cars in oem spec So it’s a good addition to my monthly reads
|
|
Last Edit: Jun 2, 2019 20:10:53 GMT by Mercdan68
Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1998 ex bt fiesta van
|
|
fogey
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,596
|
|
|
Isn't this the same territory as 'Modern Classics'? (Don't buy it, so don't actually know) Also Retro Cars is now only bi-monthly I believe.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It is not a retro car magazine if it doesn't feature modified cars. Retro cars does not equal bangernomics. Or even modern classics. Or even just "we couldn't find another place to feature these" cars. If they wanted to launch that magazine they shouldn't have done it under the Retro Cars name it is insulting to those of us who have been doing this thing for the past 15+ years. Would be like if Custom Car now only exclusively featured Max Power era vehicles, sure they are "custom cars" but not what your audience signed up for.
That being said, what a boring premise for a car magazine too. Awful all round.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Isn't this the same territory as 'Modern Classics'? (Don't buy it, so don't actually know) Also Retro Cars is now only bi-monthly I believe. Modern classics has overlap I think, but I overall is a much better and more rounded concept of a magazine.
|
|
|
|
|
New retro cars magMercdan68
@forddan68
Club Retro Rides Member 68
|
|
Agree to disagree....
|
|
Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1998 ex bt fiesta van
|
|
|
|
|
Sadly I cant remember the last time I bought a mag, I tend to get my fix here.
|
|
|
|
skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 5,546
Club RR Member Number: 11
|
New retro cars magskinnylew
@skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member 11
|
|
Meh stopped getting subscription a few years back as it was going down hill. These days Practical Performance Car and Practical Classics cover my requirements just fine. I did have a subscription to Modern Classics, and it is good, but it just feels like your reading a financial investments brochure. Which ones to invest in next etc
|
|
|
|
Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,715
Club RR Member Number: 34
|
New retro cars magDez
@dez
Club Retro Rides Member 34
|
|
It is not a retro car magazine if it doesn't feature modified cars. Retro cars does not equal bangernomics. Or even modern classics. Or even just "we couldn't find another place to feature these" cars. If they wanted to launch that magazine they shouldn't have done it under the Retro Cars name it is insulting to those of us who have been doing this thing for the past 15+ years. Would be like if Custom Car now only exclusively featured Max Power era vehicles, sure they are "custom cars" but not what your audience signed up for. That being said, what a boring premise for a car magazine too. Awful all round. There was a FB discussion with a few of the old guard regarding this when it first appeared, and the conclusion was similar, albeit a bit more pithy. It’s trying to blatantly cash in redefine a term that has been in use a good while, and pisses all the wrong people off by doing so. In terms of content it’s about as exciting as a bog standard vauxhall vectra. Bangernomics people by and large don’t buy magazines. Who do they sell advertising content to? Back street car dealers? No one else is gunna be interested and without ad revenue it’s dead in the water anyway. Sad the last death throes of the title have ended up like this really. They could have at least let it die with dignity. Kelsey though I guess. They’ll flog a dead horse till it’s burgers.
|
|
Last Edit: Jun 2, 2019 22:45:16 GMT by Dez
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lot to be said for Horse burgers, I miss them now that Tesco is only putting cow in their burgers!
|
|
|
|
fogey
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,596
|
|
|
Does bi-monthly = limited appeal?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Does bi-monthly = limited appeal? I think bi-monthly is a weird one, a monthly magazine has a certain rhythm to it and you can expect a certain level of quality on a monthly magazine. For a quarterly magazine* you expect more pages, more quality and a higher cover price. Bi-monthly sits in a weird spot. I guess niche titles being bi-monthly works (I believe Retro Japanese is bi monthly?), but for a magazine to move from monthly to bi-monthly with little to no content change is a bit odd (Retro Cars went bi-monthly early last year I believe). *Retro Rides magazine will be quarterly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There isn’t a mag for that era of cars in oem spec I missed reading this before. www.modernclassicsmagazine.co.uk/ has been around a while, and is edited by a former Retro Cars editor (ironically?). OEM, 80's, 90's, early 00's cars, from across the spectrum of cars. Quality content, well written and I've enjoyed every issue I've picked up.
|
|
|
|
|
New retro cars magfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
Club Retro Rides Member 99
|
|
Does bi-monthly = limited appeal? I think bi-monthly is a weird one, a monthly magazine has a certain rhythm to it and you can expect a certain level of quality on a monthly magazine. For a quarterly magazine* you expect more pages, more quality and a higher cover price. Bi-monthly sits in a weird spot. I guess niche titles being bi-monthly works (I believe Retro Japanese is bi monthly?), but for a magazine to move from monthly to bi-monthly with little to no content change is a bit odd (Retro Cars went bi-monthly early last year I believe). *Retro Rides magazine will be quarterly. More likely that the editor can alternate between two publications - monthly rota between retro cars and AN other. Is Midge still retro cars editor? He's banzai magazine editor too albeit I think that's still monthly. Wait ... retro rides magazine?!? In print or on-line? interesting
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Is Midge still retro cars editor? He's banzai magazine editor too albeit I think that's still monthly. Nope he isn't, they replaced him to do this change. Most of the editors at Kelsey seem to have a number of other jobs, I know that Simon from Classic Ford is now contributing to Speedhunters. Midge when I met him at SEMA described himself as an editor for hire, and was doing I think three magazines at the time, maybe four. Wait ... retro rides magazine?!? In print or on-line? interesting Print. Seeing as retro cars are now no longer represented in print form it seemed worthwhile doing it. I've had some help from the publisher of Street Machine to get numbers together. I'm currently flat planning it, getting a team assembled and then I'll probably Kickstarter it, is a relatively risk free way of testing that people actually want to buy it
|
|
|
|
|
New retro cars magMercdan68
@forddan68
Club Retro Rides Member 68
|
|
I enjoyed it , I’ll buy it, bought practical classics since I was a kid too , good discussion all the same as always on this forum
|
|
Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1998 ex bt fiesta van
|
|
fogey
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,596
|
|
|
All mags are distributed on a 'sale or return' basis. If a mag first goes on sale in say January then the sales figures for that will not be available until March/April. So launch or revamp a monthly mag and the publisher is basically committed to producing 3 or 4 issues before receiving any sales figures. I guess bi-monthly or quarterly means less outlay before knowing how well received the mag is. . . .
|
|
|
|
luckyseven
Posted a lot
Owning sneering dismissive pedantry since 1970
Posts: 3,839
Club RR Member Number: 45
|
New retro cars magluckyseven
@luckyseven
Club Retro Rides Member 45
|
|
Wait ... retro rides magazine?!? In print or on-line? interesting lol. This. Do tell....? I gave up on Retro Cars when it turned into Fast Car and upset the incomparable dbizzle with some ill-chosen words about it being written by retards for infants ...which obviously was never aimed at his normally excellent prose. However, it remains true that it was largely written by/for those unable or unwilling to accept the style vacuum of M*x P*wer was rightfully dead and buried and move on. I can't see that going massively boring the opposite way and going bi-monthly is going to help. I never remember to look for bi-monthly mags, not even Retro Japanese which was actually good
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I have been buying Retro Cars since the beginning and I am sad to say that was the last issue I will buy. I appreciate a standard classic car but these weren't even that interesting when new. Just dull cars with dull road tests.
I felt that I was reading a long out of date Auto Express picked up in a waiting room. I hope the magazine finds it's readers and is a success but won't being going with them.
P.S Midge now is editor of Performance Vauxhall.
|
|
|
|
|