There are several Corvette magazines available.

Which ones seem to be important or helpful? That is dumb question for folks are looking for different things.

Just ordered my new 2014 -- so would appreciate what some of you think I should try.

Thanks, Roger

 

"Corvette" magazine is a good read for all around coverage of all generations of Corvette, including great write ups on modified vettes. They have covered the C7 extensively and I'm sure they will continue to do so. I usually end up reading each issue cover to cover.

 

Corvette Magazine is by far the best

They have the best covers


They have the best C3 articles


They have the best C2 articles

 

I ran out and bought Car and Driver, Road & Track, and Motor Trend. Of the three, I thought that Motor Trend was the most in depth followed by Car and Driver and then Road & Track in last place since it felt like it was more about Tony Stewart than the car.

 

Just picked up Automobile magazine today. Nice pictures and a decent article. I had found it online previously though.

 

Corvette Magazine

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Your question was about Corvette Magazines. I assume those magazines that are exclusive to Corvette. MT , Car /Driver, R&T not Corvette magazines but do give some coverage. The best is CORVETTE covers all years and has great advertisers..

 

True that. My mistake. I ran out and grabbed all of the ones with any coverage just to have them to go with my Vette one day.

 

The August 5th AutoWeek has a nice looking AW Stingray on the cover. Fairly good article too.

 

Sounds like I need to hit another store

 

I am a Charter Subscriber to Corvette Magazine from when it first went into publication 11 or 12 years ago.

 

Become a member of the NCM (if you aren't already), and you'll get "America's SPORTS CAR" as a bonus.

 

I second (third, fourth, fifth, whatever) saying the best Corvette specific magazine is Corvette Magazine, which I subscribed since their first issue. I also get Vette Vue's magazine. It's an interesting magazine--the magazine is 1/2 height of traditional magazines. While the writing of the articles are a little "amateur night", they cover a different variety of topics and they've done a pretty indepth review of the new C7.

I dropped C&D years ago due their VERY anti-GM bias, especially by a few of their writers.

I like R&T, until recently. It seems like Larry Webster, who was originally from C&D, is trying to turn it into what C&D was. I'll still read it because of Peter Egan (who is one the best automotive writers in my opinion). The current issue of R&T has a good article on Tony Stewart driving the green C7, but something just seems to be off with the color in the pictures.

MT is like the US Today of the car magazines. They brought over a few writers/editors from Sport Compact Car magazine, who appear to know what they are talking about. So, it's getting better.

Automobile magazine has great pictures and, for the most part, good writing.

And of course Autoweek (or is it now Auto-ever-other-week) is still a good read.

But again, if you are looking for a great Corvette centric magazine, I'd recommend Corvette Magazine.

 

IMO...None of them are worth the paper they are printed on unless you like to flip though the same stuff year after year. Just search the internet and save yourself the subscription fee. I have the flame suit on...I know it's going to happen...but this is my opinion...I have yet to find any car mag worth it anymore. I swear they just start copying old crap from years ago...

 

I used to get a few different Corvette specific magazines.

With all the up to date information here, and other Corvette specific web sites, I don't get any.

I just don't see the need for them anymore.

 

Corvette magazines - I recall getting a few years of free issues of Corvette Quarterly after I took delivery of my 2007 C6. Not sure if that is still around.


Car Magazines - I pay for the whopping $8/year subscriptions to MT and R&T, simply for the convenience of not having to read everything while sitting in front of my Laptop.

 

Yes, I signed up to get a free issue and they have sent me a few. Good magazine. I think its $20 and 9 issues per year or $36 for 2 years.
GM high tech seems like a really good mag too if your into the mod scene more.

 

In the Stone Age I have bought and subscribed to numerous American automotive magazines for many, many years.
I have always enjoyed them, both for their pictures, for the technical articles and coverages of race events, as well as for the advertisements by aftermarket suppliers.
I remember very well that, when I wanted to order something, I contacted the supplier by telephone or wrote a letter. Payments? Those went via an international money order, from the Netherlands to the US!
Well, today we live in the "Electronic Age", don't we? So ... at last I got rid of stacks and stacks of saved magazines.
Only one subscription remained, namely "America's SPORTS CAR" from the NCM (yes, I am a proud member!) - see my previous post here.

My archive resides on the World Wide Web now, technically speaking in the cloud, via bookmarked links, or downloaded on my laptop.

I realize that some of you, full of nostalgia, will consider all this as a deadly sin. Well, before I'll give you a chance to me, please allow me to pay you back somewhat by providing a list of Facebook links to magazines, blogs, communities, aftermarket suppliers (to be supplied - see my comment below), and VIPs in the Corvette World (who are in my friends list there). To me, these lists are a source of valuable information and they open the gate to even more.
Neither of the lists is exhaustive. If you like the idea, I can easily extend them, guys!






NCM

National Corvette Museum



(Online) Magazines

Car and Driver
ChevyHardcore
Corvette Fever Magazine
CorvetteOnline.com
CorvetteWeb Magazine
GM High Tech Performance Magazine
Hot Rod Magazine
Motor Trend Magazine
Super Chevy Magazine
Vette Magazine
Vette Vues Magazine



After Market Suppliers

I have a whole list of suppliers of Corvette parts who are on Facebook and from whom I have purchased in the past. Most of them, if not all, are supporting CF members as well. All have an excellent reputation.
The list-to-be may be of interest to my fellow members, and could be extended over time (by me or by anybody else).

However, I do not want to violate any forum rules. So, I will not include any links here without explicit permission from one of the moderators.



Blogs / Communities / Forums / Groups

ALMS Corvette Racing
C7 Corvette Stingray Forum
C7 Corvette Stingray Supervettes
CorvetteBlogger
CorvetteForum.com
DigitalCorvettes.com
GM Authority
High Tech Corvette
Hightech Corvette
Jalopnik
LSXTV.com


Facebook Friends

Kirk Bennion
Adam Boca
Pete Callaway
Reeves Callaway
Mark Carlyle
Harlan Charles
Rick Conti
Wilmer Cooksey Jr
Jeremy Formato
Dana Forrester
Karl Geiger
Lou Gigliotti
Louis Gigliotti
Dave Hale
Jim Hall
Jason Harding
John Heinricy
Patrick Herrmann
Kerry Hitt
Robert Kotan
Jamie Meyer
Caleb Newman
Aaron Pfadt
Randy Pobst
Wendell Strode
Ernst Woehr
Mike Yager



Race Teams / Drivers

Corvette Racing
Team Chevy

• Olivier Beretta
• Jan Magnussen
• Tommy Milner
• Johnny O'Connell
• Andy Pilgrim

Miscellaneous

Greenwood Corvette Race Cars
Larbre Competition Team


DHUSA Diecast Cars
Diecast Hobby-usa
Scale Callaway
Scale Visions