The more other car magazines I buy, the more I love GRM

I bought a copy of Zpopular Hot Rodding today, and in it, they installed a $5300 suspension kit into a 2975-9 Nova (maybe a $1000 car), then capped it off with $4000 forged wheels. GRM would never do something so foolish as to throw $9000+ at a $1000car. Maybe it's because of Tim's upbringing in the car business or maybe GRM funds its own projects, or maybe the GRM crew just has more sense, but not doing stupid things is one more thing I love about GRM and their real-worldapproach to project cars.

...and THAT is why we are all here. I remember C/D did a "budget" build of an Accord I think. Now it was for an IT class so there's more money that goes into a project like that, but I remember they put, something like 16K into the engine and trans 15 years ago or more. GRM is what we're all about.

Why do you keep butting other car magazines then?

Because our insatiable thirst for content is not satiated by one issue of GRM every couple months :)

I guess my joke was lost due to quick reading...

berkeleying auto text! The word but was not intended to be in the title of this thread. I wanted to say, the more other car magazines I READ, the more I love GRM. Makes a little more sense that way, no?

Jaynen wrote: Because our insatiable thirst for content is not satiated by one issue of GRM every couple months :)

And they don't cover trucks or diesels.

I signed up for 2 years of R&T for $12 - I enjoy Peter Egan's articles. Add $2 more and I got C&D for a year.

I travel a lot and read a lot and end up reading these and ditching them on a plane. I keep some of my CM or GRM to read again.

I read Hot Rod, Car Craft, Hemmings Sports & Exotic,Hemmongs Classic Car, Excellence, Road & Track,Car & Driver, Automobile, GRM, CM, and Hot VWs.

If I had to pâre it down, I'd keep only GRM and Excellence

You really should turn off that autocorrect.

The reason PHR put that kindof suspension under that nova was advertising. I'm sure that whoever the company was either gave it to them, or sold it at a steep discount to get it in their magazine. I'm sure they wrote about how it's "A night and day difference" and handles "like it's on rails."

That may be true, however you were expecting to read a tech article, and were duped into reading an advertisement. Don't get me wrong, I understand that's how marketing and all that works, it's how publishers pay the bills to make payroll, print all the issues, keep creating content etc etc, but I hate how so many features, articles, stuff like that are just product placement anymore.

irish44j wrote: Why do you keep butting other car magazines then?

Sorry I messed up your joke.....the typo in the thread title was driving me nuts. If I had seen that there were jokes based on it, I would have left it alone.

I am not BoostedBrian wrote: you were expecting to read a tech article, and were duped into reading an advertisement.

That's another reason why I loved GRM's bracket article; they were trying to pass on info, and were not worrying about trying to sell anything.

I read other magazines. I recycle other magazines. I will bequeath my GRM collection . . .

ZOO wrote: I read other magazines. I recycle other magazines. I will bequeath my GRM collection . . .

+1

When I discovered GRM.. soon afterwards the vast collection of other magazines found themselves recycled.. much to the dismay of the guys who pick it up ever two weeks

Other magazines are stupid

I still read other car rags but they are just that car rags. I keep my all GRM and Classic Motorsports. I only keep the occasional other mag if and only if a specific article is relevent to my interests.

GRM and C&D here, and quite honestly, I think the only reason I still get C&D is inertia. I've been reading it since my early teens, damn near 30 years.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. We have an awesome crew.

LopRacer wrote: I still read other car rags but they are just that car rags. I keep my all GRM and Classic Motorsports. I only keep the occasional other mag if and only if a specific article is relevent to my interests.

Outside of the awesome 4yr sub deal for $16 for 5.0 Mustang and Muscle Mustang & Fast Fords plus my dad giving me 1yr worth of Hot Rod, this is how I read magazines now. Although since the diesel stuff really has taken off, I read them A LOT more and subsequently buy.

I look forward to new GRM's and Classic Motorsports the most in the mail, though I will cheat on them and pick up a copy of EVO and Octane from time to time.

Plenty of other magazines out there have writers with just as much passion as the GRM crew. Many are limited by their corporate masters yet still find ways to incorporate great content. I enjoy Octane and quite a few of the marque specific rags. Even Freiberger and his minions interest me as I didn't grow up loving Civics and Miatas. The GRM crew does compile the best classifieds/ad content in the business, though. As to being beholden to manufacturers-GRM must also be guilty-why else would they have ever gone on for so long about that miserable Ridgeline

Dear GRM ,

Please never sell out.that is all.

Thank you

R&T and C& D are too cheap not to get, if you ere to buy one copy of each per year, you'd spend more than the combined subscription cost ($12). I like Hot Rod, but they are way guilty if the product placement project cars, Hot VWs I read so they don't go out of business ;I love air cooled VWs and a of their conpetition has died off). The only ones I keep for future reference are GRM & Excellrmce(Porsche magazine & a good read)

Thank you to whoever fixed the title of this thread!!!!!