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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: MudRat on July 29, 2008, 20:06:12
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Just wondering? Cheers :)
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I normally buy TOR & LROI monthly...
I like the roadbooks that TOR do
Cheers Gav
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I was keen on LROI, but after a few recommendations I swapped to TOR. They just seem a good deal more relevant to the average laner with more almost-stock vehicles featured.
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Umm, none of the above - Practical Performance Car. :cool:
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LRM or TOR the rest have there moments but bore me a little, just bought the new LROI and diddnt think much to it.......same as the last few issues really!
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In my order of preferance;
'LRM'
Bought since #1
The best columnists (Elson, Floyd, Crawthorne)
Good features, not overbearing
'LRO'
Bought since the first year of publication.
Used to be better (when Elson, Floyd & Taylor & Morrison wrote for it.
Possibly the best features, as it has a big publishers budget behind it
'LRW'
Bought since #1
John Carroll - what a nice man (remember his days of 'Back Street Heroes')
Northern Notions was a great irregular feature
Possibly a more nothern bias than the other titles (not a bad thing :clap:)
Some good project vehicles
'LRE'
Bought since #1
The best for history/word perfect facts, as James Taylor is a renown motoring historian (Rover in particular)
As for other motoring titles I partake of?
'Classic American'
Still got the first few issues hanging about, when it also featured trucks, guitars, boots, music & jeans, etc........
I might buy it 4 -6 times a year
'Top Gear'
Depends on cover features, or articles seen on the index page.
'Practical Classics'
Not as stuffy as the other classic mags, good fun.
'Classic & Sportscar'
I pick a few copies up at work from time to time, as a Lotus Elite owning Consultant brings them into his clinics waiting room, & I 'borrow' them :grin:
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I don't read any off-road mags.... the only car related mag type thing I read is Autoexpress :)
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no advertising motives for this then? :lol: :-k
LRM i find its good, but i do like a read of the other magazines
if they sold tor around me then id have it
cheers kieran
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Too be honest I only buy a magazine when there is something in it that interests me.
Only mag I regulary buy is Back Street Heroes..
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Classic Rock if the free CD seems interesting
TOR if they actually feature a new route....BTW anyone got a copy from earlier this year with the South Shropshire routes...)
Sunday Times...at times...
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This may sound a daft question but what is TOR? :-k
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Total off road magazine.
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I subscribe to TOR, l like the road books and the fact that its not all land rover!
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'LRW'
Bought since #1
John Carroll - what a nice man (remember his days of 'Back Street Heroes')
Only mag I regulary buy is Back Street Heroes..
Is it still on sale?
Do you remember the days of JC editing?, the articles by people like Jim Fogg?, illustrations by Loiuse Limb (later sketching & writing intermittantly in 'LRW'), & that great cartoon 'Gruff'?
(still nowhere near the equal of Ogri though!)
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why is the mags i buy always appear in plastic covers which you have to rip apart to read it ;)
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why is the mags i buy always appear in plastic covers which you have to rip apart to read it ;)
To keep them clean??
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why is the mags i buy always appear in plastic covers which you have to rip apart to read it ;)
To keep them clean??
At least it also means they'll slide easily into the pockets of the raincoat you're wearing upon their purchase :lol:
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Currently on Subscription to LROI which I like as its got a lot of content.
I ofen get bored with mags after a year or two so tend to buy wqhicvh ever one has the most relevent articles
Also reading
Octane (for the fast stuff)
Small Holder
Tractor and Machinery
Occasionally a Classics or |Kit car mag
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why is the mags i buy always appear in plastic covers which you have to rip apart to read it ;)
Home Improvement magazines???????? :lol: :lol:
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I get a subscription to LRM bought for me every birthday! But, I'm not convinced I would bother myself. Might buy it randomly otherwise.
Also have a subscription to TOR. Variety is the spice of life, as they say!
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I buy TOR every month and flick through a mates TWO on an irregular basis.
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I buy TOR based on the road books and I buy any of the other mags if there is a modded of interesting Disco on the front but just lately I haven't bothered as they seem to have the same cars in all the mags just a few weeks apart and they are all rammed full of adverts so if you take out all the ads and the repeats you end up with half a dozen new pages a month :roll: :roll:
I used to buy BSH and AWOL every edition until I got rid of all the bikes :'(
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I dont buy any of them anymore but i do read them all every month
We have *work* copys to read
:D
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i can buy all or any of them infrequently depending on whether i have the money in my pocket and whether something takes my interest, i did have a subscription for lroi but seemed to find the features were cyclical and they started repeating themselves, all the mags do this from time to time i suppose but i stopped the subscription as i found myself reading the same sort of articles again the following year
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i buy whatever takes me fancy when i go shopping. but i do like TOR as its not all LR although i also like LROI (even though i dont have a LR!) im not fussy, im reading LRE at the mo!
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i read???
whatever i like whatever the mood takes me and what freebies are on offer for the god children
Dazza :-.
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freebies always sway the vote!
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The one I shall NEVER buy again is LRW. They blocked the ALRC national from having any trade stands due to their contract with Eastnor. So we had no spare parts at all sold at the rally this year.
Mike
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I'm subscribed to TOR, when it comes to featured vehicles the land rover only mags are rather stagnent, though some of the other articles such as overland in the LR mags can be good reading. From time to time I still buy a LR mag, but its dependant on the contents.
About a year ago when bored I counted the pages of adverts in the mags just to confirm the obvious. Unfortunately I've misplaced the piece of paper with the results on but LRO had the highest with over 50% of the pages being adverts. TOR had the lowest % of pages as adverts, but with a lot of 4 or more to a page adverts and no multipage adverts there were probably getting on as many individal adverts in a TOR as the LRO.
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I used to subscribe to LRO, but got bored with it and the massive amount of ads and product tests with no conclusions or hard recommendations. Suspect that may be because of all of the freebies they've had and they dont want to upset suppliers.