Is it me or have the journalistic standards of this magazine plummeted? I picked up a copy of this supposedly family magazine and as appalled at the inaccurate copy (the Morgan Three Wheeler has a Harley engine apparently not one from S&S Cycle) which was often littered with expletives. Are they aiming at the chav, max power market or something? It was just grim anyway and a shame as I remember it as a good mag back in the late 90s.

I think motoring journalism has gone to pot in general really with only Andrew English in the Telegraph being able to write good copy about vehicle characteristics with good technical knowledge.

It has been garbage for a while, and I stopped buying it ages ago. Top Gear mag has become just like the show, poor journalistic 'talent' & sod all about cars. Come on, how much of the actual mag is made up of adverts?

Had a 12 month subscription bought for me and have to concede it has dropped off the scale when it comes to good reading! Oh well still have Evo to look forward to! ;0)

Oh well still have Evo to look forward to! ;0)

I'd recommend Evo. Very good magazine with interesting questions posed back to the reader at times. Long term tests are quite good to

I haven't bought Top Gear for a few years now and i agree that Evo is better.

Top Gear brand (both show and mag) is past it's sell by date.

Top Gear brand (show and mag) is past it's sell by date.

I'd recommend Evo. Very good magazine with interesting questions posed back to the reader at times. Long term tests are quite good to

+1

Used to buy Top Gear....loong time ago when QW and TN were still in the show, and the mag was good.......have bought EVO ever since it first came out.....still have the First ever cover!!!........but for VAG stuff always read VW Driver.....(I still have some old copies when it was Audi & VW Driver!!!)

I'd recommend Evo. Very good magazine with interesting questions posed back to the reader at times. Long term tests are quite good to

+1 couldnt agree more,very good magazine.

...I read "Car" occasionally, but it is a bit of a BMW fanboy monthly...

have the journalistic standards of this

lmco :rofl:

Proper motoring journalism is available in Motor Sport.... not much in the way of new car reviews, but the best mag on the market imho. I have bought a few copies of Octane recently and have been pleasantly suprised by the quality of the articles in that mag... but it's aimed at car buyers way above my price range.

I've had octanee subscription for about 3years now. very good mag.

More in my dads price range than mine, but it does have good quality articles and interesting reads.

Highly recommended and to no ones surprise it is linked to Evo, kind of a classic and exotic version of Evo mag

I've subscribed to Evo for a few years and can't help but think it's all got a bit insular. The contributors love bigging themselves up and more and more stories seem to be about cars that they own and run. I'd rather read more reviews personally.

IMHO Car Magazine is the best.

Somebody bought me a subscription to Top Gear Mag. It's just a load of adverts interrupted by pictures of cars, and if you're lucky, some words describing the cars underneath.

I used to have a subscription to Car Magazine. I could take that mag on holiday and still be reading the lengthy articles two weeks later on the plane back home. Far superior magazine.

Octane isnt bad, and Keith Adams at the mag is a lover of all things crap when it comes to cars, especially if it has a BL badge. He runs the pretty damn good Austin -Rover online site. He also at one point drove a Felicia estate across Europe in a banger rally.

Octane isnt bad, and Keith Adams at the mag is a lover of all things crap when it comes to cars, especially if it has a BL badge. He runs the pretty damn good Austin -Rover online site. He also at one point drove a Felicia estate across Europe in a banger rally.

I always thought Top Gear was a thinily disguised 'Lads Mag' and had little to do with cars and more to do with contributors egos and the contest to out 'simile' each other. 'Car' magazine, which used to have the finest of automotive literary minds, has dumbed down to in resent years too.