Jap car magazines

[CJ]

My 'Japanese Performance' subscription in up for renewel and I don't know whether to continue with if for another year or switch to 'Banzai'. JP is a good mag with some decent feature cars, I feel its less 'bling' and more 'mechanical' than Banzai but I havn't read the latter in ages. What jap car mags do you guys read and how would you rate them?

CJ

[Myfeckin FTO]

I read both of them - the quality of the content can range quite a bit from month to month. I wouldn't bother with a subscription to either - I like just being able to thumb through both copies at the shop and buying the one that appeals more - and sometimes that means I buy both if they've something of interest to me.

[kevinod]

I used to buy a lot of magazines, (computer, car & football mags before anyone suggests anything more, em, unbecoming!! ) but I eventually came to the conclusion that pretty much everything is available on the web anyway, and you just end up with a pile of stuff you read once and throw away.

I guess not quite the same as having the mags but I don't have any less info and a good few quid more in my pocket... (jeez am I getting old?? )

Kev.

[PurpleRonnie]

my subscription has run out on both, I find that with the recent ones I have only spent about 10 minutes flicking throught them, Jap Performance tend to focus on more high powered cars, and I have forgotten the last time I saw a FTO in either of them

[Myfeckin FTO]

my subscription has run out on both, I find that with the recent ones I have only spent about 10 minutes flicking throught them, Jap Performance tend to focus on more high powered cars, and I have forgotten the last time I saw a FTO in either of them

I've still got the last 3 or 4 editions of Jap performance and Banzai that featured FTO's - think a couple of these guys are on the UK FTO site. Makes for interesting reading but I would still like to see a lot more features on them - Scoobys, Evo's and Skylines seem to be the main fodder on offer.

[PurpleRonnie]

my subscription has run out on both, I find that with the recent ones I have only spent about 10 minutes flicking throught them, Jap Performance tend to focus on more high powered cars, and I have forgotten the last time I saw a FTO in either of them

I've still got the last 3 or 4 editions of Jap performance and Banzai that featured FTO's - think a couple of these guys are on the UK FTO site. Makes for interesting reading but I would still like to see a lot more features on them - Scoobys, Evo's and Skylines seem to be the main fodder on offer.

well hopefully there will be a feature in banzai coming up some time soon featuring 3 impressive FTOs, but you didn't hear that from me

[CJ]

well hopefully there will be a feature in banzai coming up some time soon featuring 3 impressive FTOs, but you didn't hear that from me

Hmm, interesting PR, let us know which edition we're likely to see 'em in

CJ

[PurpleRonnie]

Sorry for bringing an old thread back to life, but we are going for the photo shoot on Monday and the feature should be in the April issue of Banzai

p.s any FTOOC UK guys on here, please don't put anthing on the forum, we are keeping it hush hush

[CJ]

Sorry for bringing an old thread back to life, but we are going for the photo shoot on Monday and the feature should be in the April issue of Banzai

Nice one PR, we'll keep an eye out for it.

CJ

[Myfeckin FTO]

Sorry for bringing an old thread back to life, but we are going for the photo shoot on Monday and the feature should be in the April issue of Banzai

p.s any FTOOC UK guys on here, please don't put anthing on the forum, we are keeping it hush hush

Great! I still have the last issue that covered the rolling road session with the Freak / Pat etc - looking forward to this.