One good monthly for covering new vehicles such as you and I might actually buy is AMI Auto World, which is available at some newsstands or by subscription. It started out as Auto World Weekly but was biweekly even then and is now a monthly.
Here are the car magazines I actually subscribe to: Car and Driver, Automobile, AMI Auto World, Grassroots Motorsports, and Classic Motorsports. These should be available from your local megabookstore's magazine rack. Years ago, I used to get Motor Trend and Road & Track, but I kept finding too many silly mistakes and dumbing down in the former and too much elitism in the latter.
Concerning the first two on my subscription list, I agree that they waste far too much ink on hyperexpensive machines that no one short of Donald Trump or Bill Gates will ever be able to afford. This is a problem with books, too, I might add. You see far more trees wasted writing about Ferraris than you do about, say, Toyotas. Just try to find a good book history of Toyota, one of the world's top automakers. It ain't out there, at least not in English.
As fascinating as the high-speed bahn burners and supercars are to most people, in today's driving world they are totally irrelevant. The highest speed limit on public roads in the US is 75 mph on western interstates. Here in the east, some states allow 70, but 65 is more typical. Not much room to get away with stretching the legs of a 200-mph wondercar. The same holds true with most other countries, where speed limits of 100 kph (62 mph)-120 kph (74 mph) are typical. Even Germany is placing speed limits on many stretches of autobahn that never had them before. And beware the photo radars in many areas. I just can't see why the car magazines waste so much ink on the costly high-performance stuff. Many of us are doing well to be able to buy a $20,000 car, let alone a $75,000 vehicle!
Here are the car magazines I actually subscribe to: Car and Driver, Automobile, AMI Auto World, Grassroots Motorsports, and Classic Motorsports. These should be available from your local megabookstore's magazine rack. Years ago, I used to get Motor Trend and Road & Track, but I kept finding too many silly mistakes and dumbing down in the former and too much elitism in the latter.
Concerning the first two on my subscription list, I agree that they waste far too much ink on hyperexpensive machines that no one short of Donald Trump or Bill Gates will ever be able to afford. This is a problem with books, too, I might add. You see far more trees wasted writing about Ferraris than you do about, say, Toyotas. Just try to find a good book history of Toyota, one of the world's top automakers. It ain't out there, at least not in English.
As fascinating as the high-speed bahn burners and supercars are to most people, in today's driving world they are totally irrelevant. The highest speed limit on public roads in the US is 75 mph on western interstates. Here in the east, some states allow 70, but 65 is more typical. Not much room to get away with stretching the legs of a 200-mph wondercar. The same holds true with most other countries, where speed limits of 100 kph (62 mph)-120 kph (74 mph) are typical. Even Germany is placing speed limits on many stretches of autobahn that never had them before. And beware the photo radars in many areas. I just can't see why the car magazines waste so much ink on the costly high-performance stuff. Many of us are doing well to be able to buy a $20,000 car, let alone a $75,000 vehicle!
