My Evo seems to be shrinking

[Dominic]

Anyone else notice that Evo magazine is getting smaller?

Also, one of the highlights, the car of the year feature seemed like a bit of a feeble effort this year, just a list of individual road tests. I guess their budgets are tightening as the printed media is suffering against on line competition.

[greido]

I've been meaning to cancel my subscription for about a year as I pretty much lost interest in it and also never have time to just chill and read these days. I've got a pile of around a dozen still in their wrapper; only time I read it is the odd time I'm going on a flight an download a copy onto my ipad. I'm not sure if there is an ipad only subscription available? - Must check that out.

[j2 lot]

I pretty much gave up,on car magazines a couple or years ago as they might as well have been brochures for Porsche and/or BMW. I did try a free trial of an on- line magazine app and they seemed to have improved but not enough to make me subscribe when the trial finished.

[renmure]

I got bored with it when it went all Supercary years ago.

Modern Classics is my monthly car mag these days.

[campbell]

I get EVO online. Forget to read it half the time. Need to set a reminder!

[Stevoraith]

Cancelled my subscription a couple of years ago as I never had time to sit down and read it.

They kept sending me it until a few months ago.

Even when it was free I couldn’t find the time to read it!

[Lazydonkey]

Not noticed it getting smaller but do agree that the car of the year wasn't nearly such a good event (if that makes sense) this year.

[Alistair]

Got a few still to catch up on due to lack of reading time recently - noticed the media they are printing on has changed to a different grade - could that be why it feels smaller - or are there less pages? I've just started reading January.

Always found it odd though how the one that comes through the post is for about three months ahead! A month or two fair enough - but three?!?!

Agree re ECOTY - not as big a deal made of it this year and normally quite like that.

[Dark]

I cancelled my subscription in Dec, it doesn't hold my interest like the old days.
Social media and the constant stream of information has ruined the anticipation & excitement of EVO dropping through the door!

[ed]

I used to get this using Clubard vouchers but gave up about a year ago.

[alicrozier]

Got a few still to catch up on due to lack of reading time recently - noticed the media they are printing on has changed to a different grade - could that be why it feels smaller - or are there less pages? I've just started reading January.

Yeah, they changed the paper and format etc 3 or 4 issues ago. You'll see the new ones are actually physically a little bit smaller.
Laying a new one on top of old it's quite obvious. Similar quality content though, although I agree that ECoTY a bit of a non event compared to previous years.

[pete]

I got bored with it when it went all Supercary years ago.

This. Although you are a bit supercary ';)

[Corranga]

I got bored with it when it went all Supercary years ago.

Modern Classics is my monthly car mag these days.

I bought the current (or last months?) Modern Classics, the one with the Maserati GranSport in the group test, which belongs to a fellow Maserati forum owner. It was a good read, but I was through it in about 3 hours. What was nice was that I bought it online, delivered to my door, and I think it cost the same as the cover price too. I suspect I'll continue to cherry pick magazines now and again based on individual issue recommendations or interests.

[Dominic]

Ok, ignore all my previous comments, EVO is clearly wonderful and well written by true experts:

And finally, what's your favorite car launched in the last 20 years?
Any number of 911s (including a Singer) commend themselves, as does the Ferrari 458 Speciale. However, I think an S1 Elise Sport 135 is my pick.

[campbell]

Shallow

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