Drift mags.

[Captain Muppet]

Drifting* has a 5 pager in this months (issue 4 if this thread has been kicked out of the grave again and it's 2009) free on-line general interest car mag: ROAD // magazine

Pages 49 to 53.

Free and on-line is the way to go, start small, get some advertising revenue based on download numbers and if it covers it's costs then we have the UK's first drift mag. But you have to wonder if it'll be any better than just surfing on here...

* OK, so it's only an MX5. My MX5 in fact, but it's media coverage, and it's in a magazine.

[ringer]

You should be sponsored by Jaffa Cakes!

[iamben]

Originally Posted by Stavros

That was in issue 1 of J-Tuner, and I wrote it. Over 3years ago now.

So i spose Stav, i should thank you for getting me into drifting and owning an AE86? although just got a phonecall from my bank manager, he wanted to call you a KANT

[Captain Muppet]

Originally Posted by ringer

You should be sponsored by Jaffa Cakes!

I wish. I spend more on McVities excellent Jaffa cakes than on tyres.

[Stavros]

Originally Posted by iamben

So i spose Stav, i should thank you for getting me into drifting and owning an AE86?

I do apologise sir

[neil a walker]

maybe its me getting old, but 6 or so years ago i used to buy all the mags.
fast car, redline, banzai, japanese performance car, evo,performance bmw
(and read someone elses max power) and the main petrol station mags like fastcar and redline just got really gay
actually, thats a understatment, they became plain embarrasing to buy actually, made to target an audience that were not old enough themselves to drive a car! what sells mags?
sum tart in a skimpy bikini laying all over a peice of shit with chrome wheels and a blue peter bodykit maybe?? i just could'nt bring myself to buy them, porn mags were easier to slap on the counter!
All turned into skylines on silly 20" wheels, 3000 watt sound systems, t.vs under the bonnet/bootlid, bodykits that looked like a office desk with the drawers removed
and just a complete "fast and the furious is cool, thats what the kids want" attitude. I just lost all interest and respect for them, the journo's project cars rarely got finished,half the time they obviously didnt know the frick what they were talking about and all had really sad nicknames,wrote articles like a young offender with tourettes and the mental age of a ten year old boy. it was painful reading to be honest

then j tuner came out, and i was genuinly impressed with the layout and writing, ok sometimes there were mistakes, but it was written for an adult audience in mind, rather than mags like fast car ect thinking the words wee and poo were the funniest frickin things in the world
It was nearly impossible to find anywhere other than wh smiths,but the little trek out of my way was always worth it, now if j tuner had the same distribution company as max power would future publications still of pulled it, the reason it wasnt selling the numbers predicted by their accountants was it was a bitch to get hold of
you can definatly tell that j tuner put the shits into redline ect, in fact dont most of the j tuner journos work for redline now

nowerdays a magazine like practical performance car is more up my street, its by no means perfect, but its what a magazine in my eyes should be about. (did anyone else buy it last month for the article on the 17 year old guy that build a bloody good audi quatro swb replica?)

New redline is a damn good read, phils s15 article was probably the highest point in a u.k tuning mags history in regards to quality and actual insight,
not some promo bimbo/local stripper draped in ann summers tat sprawled across every other page. Im so glad that sad part of u.k mags is nearly behind us now,
magazine guys...
soz to say it, but you all lost your way, car mags are for cars.
I understand you used to make a lot of advertising cash from 60 sec wank chat ect, but the scene was beyond gay tellys and sound systems were also just cheesy.....

drifting pulled a dying breed from the grave really, if drifting never happened in the u.k, you would have had fcuk all to write about. in my jaded eyes thats the truth
so, you can apreciate when someone who was at the first d1's and has watched the scene grow gets a bit pissed off when they have bought one of the mags hoping for an insightful read ends up £4 out of pocket and angry that their last purchase was indeed the full of schoolboy error rag that they subconciously knew all along.
sorry if i sound a bit of a snob, but an opened magazine in a cellophane wrapper is a bloody hard thing to get a refund on! we, the buying public have to trust you lot when we hand over our hard erned cash,as you now make it impossible to have a flick through before purchase. (thats some crafty shit)

Redline, keep it up, if you ever need inspiration look at the past and learn from it,Even better, just look through projects on builds on here! Some of the most awe inspiring projects i've ever seen have been on driftworks!
ok 90 percent of your readers are shoplifters, but there are also a few that look forward to a good read when we're at work sat on the bog, dropping the kids off.