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just letting u fellas knw whats on in issue 76. as it wont be instors for like another week.

thank my GF for the subsription present..

its starting to look like hot4s.. :P

oh well..

midori Seibi centre 350z

sema auto show

QLD's CUR53 JZA Supra

APH04H BNR32 460KW atw

EVo IX MR review

HR 31

workshop review Mercury motorsport

an S13

and other tech stuff

its starting to get a bit disapointing. and thinner.. oh well be a good read later on.

enjoy

mark.

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I've moved on from HPI.. has to be something pretty decent in it to buy it now.. Get Autosalon more now instead..

There was a thread about this 4 months ago.. alot of people were wondering why there were so many ads from the same company the editor owns..

Always an interesting topic of convo aussie car magazines.. BRING BACK SPEED.. not the best I know, but atleast it had more than 50 pages in it.. Although I don't mind autosalon..

Yeah, I am a subscriber to HPI and I am getting a little dissappointed with it too. People have a whinge when there are too many Skylines in it, but lets face it, there are HEAPS of Skylines in Oz now and they are the most popular import, so why shouldn't the magazine have more of them in there??

I really liked Speed but it was shortlived. Would like to see it back too.

Auto salon Mag is gay...pick up the current issue and read the page that describes what it is like to drive a turbo.....It was the gayest thing I have ever read....and I read the script for broke back mountain

Always an interesting topic of convo aussie car magazines.. BRING BACK SPEED.. not the best I know, but atleast it had more than 50 pages in it.. Although I don't mind autosalon..

Yeah I liked SPEED too (maybe because my GTR was in it!! lol), more for the quality images and feel than anything else. It was certainly not a publication you could hope to actually learn anything from though with regard to modding. It was the Mitsubishi 3000GT of car mags, looked great, but not much substance.

i remeber speed it was like a sister mag or something.

not a big fan of HOT4s or autosalon as its all rice.but now they r changing ther diet to a bit of meat.. see a few beefy bits instead of vinyls..

anyway. HPi was real good around 6months ago. but its dying down. ;)

just thought ill let u guys knw whats in it so u can choose to buy it urself or not.

Auto salon Mag is gay...pick up the current issue and read the page that describes what it is like to drive a turbo.....It was the gayest thing I have ever read....and I read the script for broke back mountain

bahahahaahahahhhahahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what no SCC06 article??

:P

Nah they chose not to publish it as they have "supported us in previous years and its old news"

I wrote up the article and gave them high quality images and nothing, they said that if we could do something original then they would be a part of it, but they have had enough cruises to sink a ship... They also suggested their readers have heard enough about skylines...

Zoom FTW!

Zoom subscriber for years now... Its an educational read...

It is a shame that the magazines are losing quality. I have cancelled all my subscriptions of magazines and I have a subscription with Ignition DVD and when that expires I am done!

Go to enough cruises and read enough forums and all the info you want is on there anyways.

i got my hpi today in the mail.. not too bad of a read i thought

i don't like zoom because its too many datsuns with huge engines in them running 10s and the like.. i like to see original cars modified in their original form to improve on it. not interested when thigns get too abnormal...

and autosalon is too many gay cars that are never street driven

speed was the perfect mix in my opinion. was shattered when it was axed!

It is a shame that the magazines are losing quality. I have cancelled all my subscriptions of magazines and I have a subscription with Ignition DVD and when that expires I am done!

Go to enough cruises and read enough forums and all the info you want is on there anyways.

thats true.

ive learnt more om my old work mates and the forums than from the magazines. but it is nice to get the GTR special from HPi that was a good read. this issue addresses oil and sumps and pumps.. basic stuff but it was good.

i did like the article on the evo9 MR

if u buy HPI from the shops u normally get an old issue and an old issue of ZOOM aswell. zoom was good but focuses more on drags. drift battle is pretty good. have a guess what that is a bout. but if u need infomation about cars. its not a good idea to just read it only. best is to talk to people who knw ther stuff.

my bro read the s13 RB20 conversion guide once and said that sounds easy lets put an RB20 in the S13 when we get some $$$. hehe

all in all i still think its worth the $10 a month.. :)

another one for speed. i'd rather look at the old issues of speed than buy any of the mags on sale at the moment.

then again, I see why they binned it in favour of quality publications like "2DMAX". :esarcasm:

Long ago I had a good relationship with HPI.. 2 leather covered non VIP cars in one issue was the last straw, it is now dead to me :)

Did everyone else get their Drift Battle? I scoured a heap of news agents here on the Sunny Coast with no luck.

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