Congratulations to Iain Kelly who has scored the job of editor at Motor magazine

[Marv]

Hey Iain have you done something to Motor's Facebook interaction already? Lots of good stuff being posted lately without the old Motor style of insulting the readers' intelligence. Bravo. I'll end up subscribing again if this carries through to print.

Thanks bloke. Tested the waters a bit, but have a heap of cool "stuff" to post up from Monday (when I am officially in the role).

Since PF is taking over another part of the universe, can you do some more of the give two blokes a grand (or whatever) each and they buy stupid cars and do humourous things with them (like TG but better)? ta

They have done that already, 2009/2010. Was a good read.

from what I remember EA/ED? falcon, 5L holden Volvo, first gen RX7, and a Beetle.

Definitely on my radar, but paying for it is the tricky

Useless trivia - GT actually accidentally bought that Beetle back recently. He didn't even realise it was the same car until the bloke casually mentioned it was used by a car mag in a story.

Yeah I enjoyed that too. Think I have those issues lying around somewhere. Would love to see that again.

Marv when is the first issue under your reign of terror?

The May issue will be my first. The boys wrapped up Amac's last (March) on Tuesday, we've got April going together now, but my first full issue will be May

I met you once at a skidpan day when you may have been working for Speed. Therefore I feel I am qualified to say congrats, dude.

Ha wow, that's an age ago! Cheers Baggins

I broke into Marvs office while in Sydney. Security was shithouse. Some tattooed and pierced dudes from mini truck monthly buzzed me in and showed me where his scotch stash was in his corner office. Nice view.

Come back once I've moved into my palatial* office and we can sit around drinking beer while I pretend to be in an important advertising meeting.


*it's 15 cats long, 12 cats high and 12 cats wide

[-Matt-]

So Mr Kelly when are you moving to Melbourne with Wheels, Motor, Auto Action etc relocating to Melbourne ?

[Marv]

I'm not.

[Jim]

Is april going to be the issue with my car on the front? LOL

[Sonicman]

Can we get posters of unaffordable cars back in the magazine? Pretty please?

[-Matt-]

Thanks

BTW what's with the content lately ?

This month had a few write ups but most of the car tests were from George Kacher and other overseas write ups. There was not much Oz input.

Take out the regular columns Morley, Taylor etc and the small reviews after the Letters to the editor there was not much new write ups

[BigMuz]

I'm not.

That's fucked dude.

[Nafe]

I wouldn't imagine a lot of staff would be looking to move. It's fucked.

[lysdexia]

Shitty situation for all involved

[Marv]

Thanks

BTW what's with the content lately ?

This month had a few write ups but most of the car tests were from George Kacher and other overseas write ups. There was not much Oz input.

Take out the regular columns Morley, Taylor etc and the small reviews after the Letters to the editor there was not much new write ups

Was 2 weeks into redesign issue with all-new, all different content. Nekminit, have to switch to old format and dig yarns from fat air due to a production issue. Cue mass OS content.

Should be proofing pages for Sept issue (same old format) now but my motivation is in the fucking bin. It's galling how close I got to making my perfect mag, but that's the industry I guess.

WHO WANTS TO BUY SOME FUCKIN' WEED? COME SEE ME AT THE UMINA SKATE PARK OR CALL 1800 UMINA WEED DELIVERIES

[GTREA]

So what happened?

I got a subscription offer from Wheels in the mail, 2 years for $79 or something,....$3.30ea....seems like a good deal....will they last 2 years?

[E30is]

latest mag has lotsa nice cars but no test data and actual performance figures just some guys giving personal opinions on shit wtf

also need a better system for rating cars better, have various criteria and score each and sum them to get a total.

[Stix Zadinia]

that's shitty for everyone involved, after speaking to GT I loved the new direction motor was taking!

[Shonky]

So what happened?

I got a subscription offer from Wheels in the mail, 2 years for $79 or something,....$3.30ea....seems like a good deal....will they last 2 years?

Doubt that's 24 months. 12 months.

[Marv]

So what happened?

I got a subscription offer from Wheels in the mail, 2 years for $79 or something,....$3.30ea....seems like a good deal....will they last 2 years?

Yeah. They've moving to Melbourne, not closing shop, mate.

latest mag has lotsa nice cars but no test data and actual performance figures just some guys giving personal opinions on shit wtf

also need a better system for rating cars better, have various criteria and score each and sum them to get a total.

See my post above. Bit hard to organise cars, journos, shooters, tracks, etc then put it all together in 2 weeks.

Scores for the cars would be good on one hand, but I think it might work better for Wheels, which is more stat-based (and has resources to put together those tables and data).