Winding Road
I love car magazines. I love free stuff. What’s not to love about a free on-line car magazine?
Winding Road is literally free, yet it’s a propper car magazine. It’s free because they have almost no distribution costs. All their costs are paid through their advertising.
WR focus on what could be loosely called drivers cars so the uncharitable could say that they’re avoiding things that they’ll have to say are awful. They’re based in the US so they’ll occaisionally feature things that people in the rest of the world don’t get (or are spared). I’ve often heard my US-based car-blogging friends complain that the US auto press are scared to say that “domestic” cars are any good or to criticise foreign cars, particularly Honda and BMW. The current issue of WR has a US v. Europe feature and if you think the results are obvious, it’s worth a read.
Ben, is the new project of David E Davis, from AutoMobile magazine? I’ll have to check it out thanks for the heads up. I’m sure it will be just as anit domestic as the rest of the auto rags, but for free I can tolerate it.
Glad to see you back blogging,
Joe
Comment by Joe aka BigFordFan — February 13, 2006 @ 4:03 pm