What about Top Gear Philippines?

[mufflerlock]

Avid car fan ako at Just a query from a newbie like me dito sa tsikot. I understand that there are two remaining car magazines in the country, C! and Top Gear. Or are they messing up?

I would want to subscribe to car magazines nowadays specially when I saw the subaru impreza... I bought Top gear but the thing is, the high roller thingy, and the guy at the wrong car right car section, and the staffs of the magazine were all over the place. parang something is wrong-ska may full page pa sila sa huli.

Is top gear, any good as a car magazine? or better ang C! yoko namang bumili kada isang buwan para lang makita ang staff sa magazine ko. nanghihinayang ako.

[ghosthunter]

Is top gear, any good as a car magazine? or better ang C! yoko namang bumili kada isang buwan para lang makita ang staff sa magazine ko. nanghihinayang ako.

Top Gear Philippines as an informative automotive magazine, sadly no. As a form of entertainment that revolves (loosely) around the topic of cars, marginally. As a profit vehicle for SUMMIT publishing, defintely.

If you want automotive information, you might actually get fresher & better information directly from the internet. Its because I have noticed a number of their "articles" and pictures are seemingly sourced from the internet.

[mazingerZ]

I used to by Top Gear monthly when Mike Black was still the EIC. Na turn off ako when VB Sarne assumed the EIC helm kasi puro na lang pa cute yung nangyayari. C! is okay but parang ang daming advertisements and di ako makarelate sa mga high end cars na parati nilang finifeature. I bought a good book Automotive mechanics by Anglin and Crouse na lang to satisfy my craving and I do search the internet especially here sa tsikot. It is so sad what is happening with TGP.

[mufflerlock]

Thanks sa enlightenment. articles sourced from the internet? wow - id be better off to use internet na lang kesa bumili ng top gear kung ganun nga... hopefully, mas maging informative ang mga magazines dito, at may value for money...

[Dr.Kamiya]

I grab it as cheap way (compared to getting the uk mag) to get to clarkson's column.

[ghosthunter]

I grab it as cheap way (compared to getting the uk mag) to get to clarkson's column.

If all you want is a cheap way to get Jeremy's columns...

http://www.topgear.com/content/featu...larkson/1.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...remy_clarkson/


Can't be anymore cheaper than free on the internet.

[mazdamazda]

I would want to subscribe to car magazines nowadays specially when I saw the subaru impreza... I bought Top gear but the thing is, the high roller thingy, and the guy at the wrong car right car section, and the staffs of the magazine were all over the place. parang something is wrong-ska may full page pa sila sa huli.

Hehehe... I guess it wasn't just me who got irritated by the high roller article.



C! is a really good local magazine for its price.

[KBR]

man.. I thought that Top Gear and C! is one of those best car magazines in the PI. medyo hindi din pala.. maybe puro hype and porma lang ang laman ng mga nun??


anywayz, I hope that theres a magazine out there (localy made and published) na parang Car & Driver, Road & Track... or Sport Compact Car, Turbo, Import Tuner, Super Street. na finifeature nila ang mga local Import, Domestic & High End Luxury cars na makakapag relate talaga sa Philippine Domestic Market (PDM!! lolz!).

have some local Automotive news, reports, reviews, tech information, and so on. and have a featured car of the month.. along with other special feature cars, and a ride of the month. dapat maging "maka bayan" ang dating, hindi yung puro pang "konyo" lang or para lang pang "VIP" ang content ng magazine.

like how about a Tsikot.com Auto Magazine?? or somethin like that? what ya guys think?


aite, peace.

[mazingerZ]

Grabeng turn-off yung Santa Claus wrong car-right car feature ng Top Gear Magazine. 2 pages wasted . . .

[Flagg]

Just recently perused an issue of TGP (yung may Impreza sa cover)... it was like reading FHM... medyo nakakababa ng IQ.

[jaymd]

TGP is better because its cheaper. Yun C! kasi mahal yun lang nga makapal at maganda papel. Pwede cguro tanggalin na nila yung f1 supplement para magmura. Tsaka nakakiinis yun maliit na papel ng oris na palagi naka usli. Hirap tuloy magbasa. Sana magka Autocar asean na uli sa national bookstore.

[ghosthunter]

Grabeng turn-off yung Santa Claus wrong car-right car feature ng Top Gear Magazine. 2 pages wasted .

Just recently perused an issue of TGP (yung may Impreza
sa cover)... it was like reading FHM... medyo nakakababa ng IQ.

TGP is better because its cheaper.

Cheap magazine. Hence, you get what you paid for. Cheap price for cheap content.

[bbt]

Just recently perused an issue of TGP (yung may Impreza sa cover)... it was like reading FHM... medyo nakakababa ng IQ.

no offense, but top gear is a magazine, not a textbook... it's meant for light reading and entertainment, not to raise your IQ . in that aspect, i think top gear does a better job than C!

anyway, i don't really get where all this hatred for top gear is coming from. i actually listened to everyone's advice and started buying C! for a while instead of top gear. all i can say is, i found C! extremely boring. some of their articles consist of paragraph after paragraph telling you what the car's displacement is, how many airbags it has, etc. why buy a magazine for that when you can just as easily get the info from the internet? i also noticed how at times the writers seemed to be trying to be covering up for some of the flaws of the car they were reviewing. i find top gear to be a lot more honest because they actually tell you about a car's shortcomings.

[Type 100]

Ang hirap kasi sa local motoring press medyo obliged ang writers natin magbigay ng positive reviews ng kotse. Kung walang positive review, walang test-drive. A sad state of affairs, really.