Product Description

European Car targets European automobiles, road tests, and evaluates after market products, technical modification, classic retrospectives and project cars.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #375 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print

Customer Reviews

Nothing like it used to be.
European Car is a magazine full of eye candy. Lots of German and Italian uber-exotics grace its pages. While that's great, and it's enjoyable to read about such cars, EC has lost many subscribers due to its loss of focus on the more attainable European cars out there. The pages used to be full of VW, BMW, Audi and Porsche project cars that were all within reach of your average Joe with a taste for something other than the basic Camaro or Mustang. Many used Euro cars are very cheap and easy to get into for those that would otherwise not be able to buy a new car of the same make. I'd hoped that the focus on these cars would become more intense when Les Bidrawn took over as editor a few years back. Unfortunately, it appeared to me that that's when things really seemed to go downhill. I let my subscription lapse and can't see picking it back up unless the mag undergoes a major transformation. So if you're into top dollar, unattainable by all but the very few, exotic European cars, this is your mag. But if you are someone who just likes your basic European offerings and is looking for support and inspiration, you stand a good chance of being disappointed.

Should be called German Car, as that's about all they cover.
I was very disappointed in this magazine, the title led me to believe that it would cover "European" cars, in other words cars that you would like to see in America, but are only sold in Europe or other parts of the world. This magazine however seems to think that the only cars worth covering are BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi and VW. What about the French, Italian, Swedish or British cars? What about cars sold in Eastern Europe? It seemed all European car did was take the articles produced by other car magazine and just repackaged them with a few more pictures. Very disappointed in this Magazine.

Shallow articles and abusive subscription department
I've subscribed twice over the past 5 years and after my current subscription expires, I will not renew. Note that I am a car-nut and subscribe to most of the major car magazines--and have done so for nearly 30 years.

The articles are shallow. There's little technical information or how-to. It's mostly just brash tuner/manufacturer claims without much substance. It really seems debatable that modifications/upgrades/improvements are such. If anything, the more mainstream magazines (despite their first and foremost goal as an entertainment publication) do some real testing and present SOME objective testing/commentary.

The main reason I will never resubscribe to this magazine is their outright abusive and harassing subscription collection techniques. They send threatening collection notices and even turn you over to collection agencies even though you've paid MULTIPLE times. It seems their billing department is at least 3 months behind. Getting through their billing department is next to impossible.

In short, paying or getting unsubscribed from such a poor quality magazine is just not worth the hassle.