Motortrend, Car & Driver, or Road & Track?

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Little cousin is selling magazines for school fundraiser. I can get a years subscription to any of these for $11. Any personal preferences?

I'm a big fan of comparisons/shootouts instead of individual reviews if that matters.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I first subscribed to C&D, then R&T (both are owned by the same parent company). I dunno. I think C&D was maybe better written (funnier perhaps). R&T is prettier, larger with more pictures I think.

 

[Tominator]

C&D for the editorials! Motortrend 2nd and I wish I could find the time to read them!

 

[JC]

#1- Car and Driver. Better columns, funniest.
#2- Road & Track. Best spec charts.
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#last- Motor Trend. The AOL of car mags

JC

 

[vi edit]

Two concrete plugs for C&D, and one "maybe".

Hmmmm....

 

[WinkOsmosis]

European car magazines are better, but out of those I would pick C&D, if only because they proudly state that they are anti SUV, unlike some magazines that like them as much as sportscars.

 

[Zenmervolt]

R&T is far and away the best I've read. Peter Egan's collumn alone is worth a subscription to R&T. R&T has better tests IMO.

ZV

 

[Thegonagle]

C&D for sure. Great writing, witty extra features (without C&D, I wouldn?t know what a ?Heavy Dresser? is, nor the maximum lift, and "ZOOT quotient," of a Toyota forklift), they still try to test every car that comes on the American market, and they actually pick a winner in their often large comparison tests.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer
European car magazines are better, but out of those I would pick C&D, if only because they proudly state that they are anti SUV, unlike some magazines that like them as much as sportscars.

I agree. CAR magazine out of the UK is quite good.

 

[Random Variable]

I stopped reading the print magazines a long time ago, but the Car and Driver web site has the most useful information of the bunch.