Anyone here take Corvette Fever, Corvette Enthusiast, Vette Magazine or any other corvette magazines? Are they any good? Recommend one over the other etc.?

 

I like Vette, and Corvette Magazine. not sure about the others. they both seem to have some good C4 tech articles.

 

Corvette Fever is a good read. Same for Vette.

 

I am rather partial to www.corvetteenthusiast.com
for many reasons - Probably the most relevant here, is the editor has pledged to get C4 stuff in there whenever he can

I subcribe to CF and Vette too, but C.E. is the one I read cover to cover 3 x's over

 

I subscribe to Vette, Corvette Fever, and Corvette Enthusiast. I find Corvette Enthusiast to be the best of the three by a wide margin. I see little difference in quality between Vette and Corvette Fever. I've also been impressed with the one and only issue of Corvette Magazine that I have, but haven't yet taken the time to get subbed.

 

I subscribe to Vette, no reason really why I chose that one. Either way, they are all OK, none is great in my opinion.

 

The team at Corvette Enthusiast demonstrate more personal attention and knowkedge of our sport/hobby than most of the other current car rags. When they talk about Vettes it's about 99% on target and I always get the feeling that these guys are as much interested in our Vattes as we are. Can't think of another magazine that pleases me more of the time!

 

Chris,
Any word on Callaway or the mag for July?

 

The only two worth reading are Corvette Magazine and Corvette Enthusiast.

I won't even look at the others unless I know someone from here will be in it.

Corvette Enthusiast has broke out to be the top magazine in the industry(and I'm not just saying that because I know lots of people on the staff).

Hot Rod and Fourwheeler are still my #1 magazines though.

 

this topic comes up about once every 4-6 months.

I can't stand the drivel that Corvette Fever and Vette publish. It reads like one big advertisement. It's like they are afraid to be honest about the shortfalls and problems with these cars.

I simply hate it when articles start with banal crap like "enthusiasts (you know who you are!)"... the issue that ended it for me was when Vette (I think, they are both primedia pubs), did a story on Vette's and servicemens wives. It had 5 pages or so of women, in skimpy outfits, carrying guns. How right wing, G. Gordon Liddy can you get? It was just a waste of paper.

And after 9/11 (a total and complete tragidy, don't get me wrong), but both mags started to "honour" our soldiers, police and firemen. After a while, it was like a jam song in a concert, they couldn't figure out how to end it.

I just got tired of articles about some bottle blonde chicky with a pink 87 vert w/leopard skin seat covers, thinking it's something special... the mags took on the editorial quality of a local club newsletter. Junk. (this is not an insult to club newsletters, most don't get the benefit of professional writers).

I read Corvette Magazine and sometimes Enthusiast. I still find CE can drift to close to the edge in the drivel department... but they are trying to steer clear.

I wish primedia would merge CF and Vette into one GOOD publication. I see no reason to have 2 POSs out there.

These poor mags and their lack of C4 coverage is the reason we have created www.c4guru.com. It's going to be cool... join. It's free.

 

Corvette Enthusiast (formerly Cars & Parts Corvette) is probably the best of the four major Corvette mags, with Corvette Magazine not far behind. CM has less how to's than CE, but is the better written of the two.

Vette and Corvette Fever are both published by the same company (Primedia). Vette was based in California, but recently moved to Florida (where CF is based) so there will be some changes in the staff. (I don't know if that will be for the better). I believe Vette is supposedly going to concentrate on "rodded" vettes, while CF on more factory oriented restos. They both tend to spend a lot of time on the latest generation Corvette.

 

I subscribe to all four and I like Corvette Enthusiast 1st & Corvette Magazine 2nd. Very high quality mags. But I like the others too!

 

Thanks for all the replies, I'm convinced to try Corvette Enthusiast.

 

probably the most of the publications mentioned so far. I've been a charter subscriber ever since they started publishing. Pretty well balanced, as they cover all six generations - but don't emphasize the C5/C6 anywhere near as much as Corvette Fever and Vette. I have a subscription to Corvette Fever that I am letting lapse, because I'm tired of the same old stories all the time.
I also like a small publication called "Vette Vues" published in Florida that mostly caters mostly to the restoration and C1-C3 crowd. I find the articles seriously interesting, because I'm currently saving up to buy a '65 or '66 Coupe and will be doing lots of restoration work myself.

 

I just received the latest issue of Vette magazine today. First, the editor says they are going to emphasize performance, so that should take care of the Vette Babes, firemen, and cops issues for those who hated that. The mag did feature two racing L88 C3s, and the readers rides featured were badass supercharged cars. So if they keep it up they will have a different flavor from the past, and different from the other mags. I personally enjoy features on historic racers.

Corvette Enthusiast seems to be closer to the drivers among us, and isn't just about NCRS perfection.

 

I subscribe to CF because I got a few years really cheap at a corvette show.have tons of vette mags also from years ago.since I've only been a corvette owner again,the past 2 months after 5 years,Ive been thinking about subscribing to vette again.however,my favorite corvette mag was CARS and PARTS CORVETTE,before it was corvette enthusiast.the layout,detail in the articles,and pictures were by far better than anything out there today,although it wasnt that C4 specific,I really miss that mag dont know what some of you guys see in corvette enthusiast,but they had articles with different names from 10 years ago in CF.

 

 

Poor "Vette Vues"... that mag is sooo sad... it looks like it was done by a bunch of Church goers doing the weekly newsletter. they may have good content, but I can't get past the presentation. I wonder if they are still using a linotype machine...

 

I have subscribed to those but really like Corvette Magazine. This one has lots of general and historic articles.

 

I get Vette, Fever and Enthusiast and I enjoy them all, but Vette and Fever are like clones of each other so I may let one of them lapse. Seems to me like $29.95 a year is a little steep for the content in those two, especiallu considering all the advertisements and genaral lack of C4 articles.