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Yeah, the writing was on the wall 2 yrs ago when I suggested that past Tech articles should be sorted and made available for download at cost - like sheet music. The glum looks across the table told all...

Adding 2cents worth.

Agreed there is less being advertised, agree prices appear to be going up

An issue I have is the Price vs Quality.

Mostly really well overpriced poor examples up for sale at the moment.

I'm particularly Talking about the ones on Carsales ATM.

This. It's sad yet laughable at what some people want for the worst examples of a car.

It's the same for any sort after car. I had the chance to buy some beautiful 'cult' cars as a teenager and am now kicking myself because the prices have sky rocketed. The only car I have seen drop and not go back up in price is the evo6, no doubt one day it will be like its predecessors.

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Word on the street ia hpi wont be around much longer at all, infact the last issue may have already been produced.

it wouldn't surprise me to find out zoom is going to follow it, compared to what they use to be the magazines aren't worth the money anymore. They are thinner then ever and losing the tech articles they just became boring

We should make this a seperate thread but from what i was told when i was getting my s15 featured in hpi they are condensing hot4s, zoom, hpi all into fast fours. So my car will now be featured in fast fours. Always wanted it in hpi but fast fours will do :)

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I find the usa magazines are more technical content like super street and import tuner but that's just me

US import magazines have had a die-off in the past few years unfortunately. Sport Compact Car was excellent for tech articles and so was Modified Mag. Import Tuner was light on that but had lovely cover models lol. Turbo was kind of in-between. Now all of those are gone and we just have D-Sport and Super Street. D-Sport has picked up the slack though for technical articles and always has great stuff on the basics plus in-depth parts tests.

I subscribe to both since I don't want them dying too but the rise of the internet has been hard on print magazines.

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