Neill
| Any other thoughts?
I'm the wrong person to ask as I probably only buy a car magazine once
every 2 years, if then.
Depends on your target audience really. I'd be more interested in the
technical details of fuelling, boost, turbo thermodynamics, etc - but
that's hardly mass-market stuff, although it has the advantage of being
generic rather than tied to a specific model.
With the current price of crude there would be something to be said for
talking about mods that improve fuel economy. I've proved to my own
satisfaction that neither fuel magnets nor adding acetone do any good,
but maybe some of the other snake oil treatments out there merit
investigation. There is also LPG addition for diesels - an interesting
topic in my view.
Another technical topic might be oils, for example: what are the
differences between the additive packages of Euro, Jap and US oils? Does
it really matter? Is it worth going synthetic? How often do you
*really* need to change your transmission oil?
Braking systems, tyres (of course!), headlight improvements (to HiD or
not to HiD), reliability of airbags once they reach 10 years old, ...
.. there are lots of technical topics that could provide a source for
articles, although hardly of the "lad's mag, Nuts with wheels on"
variety.
To go off-topic (or maybe off-target) slightly I think we are going to
see a growth in "alternative" cars over the next few years. Most will be
purely electric, or perhaps retrofitted electric/conventional hybrids
(eg batteries in the boot and motors in the rear hubs). This might be a
more fruitful avenue to explore...
Ho hum, back to real work!
CB
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