I stand in Sainsburys and read them in the shop. I won't pay it - it galls me to buy New Scientist now and again as well! You can get 3 proper books for a fiver. A lot of motoring journalism is a bunch of fibs anyway. 'Well this car does this.....blah blah' and you find they've tested one that won't even be available in the UK or something like that.

The British 'journalists' often can do little more than paraphrase the Press Release that comes with the car.

That's it in a nutshell - magazines seem far more focussed on promoting their advertisers than presenting a balanced view based on investigative journalism.

It's no consolation to say it's not just car magazines, it seems the same in every "specialist" magazine.

Edited by RT on 21/12/2011 at 07:31

Picked up a copy of Autoexpress in newsagents. Christmas special, thought OK looks quite interesting might give that a read but looked at the price £4.95, and it's a weekly. Normal weekly price is £2.25

The worst bit is that if you pick up a copy of L'auto-express in france the articles are sometimes just a translation of the english/german or whoevers did the original test, and as for the "articles" in our local papers, ie "western dail press" and south wales evening post, they are just copies of what you can read in the mags, but Autoexpress is overpriced anyway, stopped buying it and other car mags. Can occasionally read one in the local library, but as someone else said , you can buy lots of good books for a fiver.

Edited by OldRoverboy on 22/12/2011 at 13:49

£4.95 is way to much for a magazine, which claims to be the best selling weekly, but isn't.

Bobbin, 'I stand in Sainsburys and read them in the shop.' Me too, but not necesarily Sainsburys. Alternatively, I buy tham for £1 a week or two later. Anyway, I never buy AutoExpress. It's just too clinical.