Probably old news for some of you, but I only just found out!
see this thread on another forum for details:
http://www.racecar.co.uk/cgi/forums/YaBB.cgi?board=misc_parts&action=display&num=1063524155
Ned.
I heard about this yesterday (mentioned in Autocar magazine).
Its a shame, but as CCC was a magazine I used to buy regularly but haven't for ages because it changed and rarely had articles I was interested
in maybe it is not surprising - at least it didn't go the max power route - better to die gracefully?!
[Edited on 17/9/03 by andyps]
CCC had been searching for a change in formula for sometime. They plumped for buy-a-hot-hatch-and-track-day-it. If they'd have majored on
building cars (not how much money you can spend on a Civic Type R), they'd have been in with a chance. They had nice photographs but it got a bit
voyeuristic in the tuning department, not so hands on. As it was, those into wheels and frenzied masturbation bought Max Power and everyone else
surfed the web frequented sites such as this.
Real shame. Hey ho.
Neil.
I'm afraid I stopped buying it a good while ago after starting to suspect that it was being sponsored by the Lotus Elise owners club.......... I
will miss reading Dave Walkers articles when I'm in WH Smiths tho
I used to buy it too, about 6 months ago, but got sick of it, too many dull articles about rallying and car comparisons and other dull things that
aren't the practical side to making cars go fast. What really put the nail in their coffin as far as I was concerned was when they road tested
the R32, the article was boring, whinged about how soft it was (it's a road car, it's a VW golf, what do you expect?) and all this about 2
months after all the other car magazines had given their opinion. Admittedly, I can sypathise with them on being late - they probably wouldn't
have been the first to get the car to review, and they probably have to save money by going for longer lead times from the printers. But either way, I
buy EVO for road car reveiews, not CCC.
I hope all this doesn't sound too negative, I did genuinely rate CCC for quite a while, and they did at least dare to do something other than
fibreglass stick on bits and speakers.
Kingr
HELL
Where am i going to get my rally design catalogue now
Rally Design???
Batrads, I've just received my bank statement and CCC took my years subscription last month!!
The publishers are still going. Was the D/D not with them??
You should be able to get your cash back.
Ian