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I was bored today. On call again and the nurses are looking after all the patients anyway. So i decided to wurite a letter to the editor of JP. How many of you would agree with me on this??:

 

 

Dear Editor,

 

I'd like to say congratulations on the magazine. I have been reading it for a year now and the standard of journalism is excellent. However, I am writing to you on what I feel is an inherent Subaru Impreza bias in your magazine.

My local newsagent used to reserve the magazine for me each month and I looked forward to the wide variety of cars and coverage of events. But over the last 5 months, I’ve been dismayed at the contents. This is because EVERY month there are articles on Imprezas. Why is this? How different is one 350bhp Impreza from another? From the spec lists the answer would be: not much. Surely there must be other cars that you can cover with interesting and innovative specs and modifications?

Imprezas already have their own magazine, with articles on modified Imprezas every month. So why does JAPANESE performance magazine feel that it must fill its pages with at least one Impreza a month? Don’t get me wrong, I really like Imprezas, and have had many an enjoyable tussle with one on track, but seeing one with 3-400bhp every month with the same old spec is beginning to get tiring. This month (March) should have been renamed IMPREZA PERFORMANCE. 3 articles on imprezas and 50% of the questions in ‘Jap answers’ dedicated to Imprezas.

It’s quite obvious why you feature so many Imprezas in your magazine. It can be seen on every Japanese meet, track day and event across the country. There are so many Impreza drivers, that you feel it’s in your interest from a sales perspective to produce a magazine for them. This provides you with more profits, and a larger circulation. However, at the same meets, you see Toyotas, Nissans, Mitsubishis, Mazdas and Lexuses. As the Market Leader you should be more representative of these marques.

Now as a Jap car enthusiast, having owned a GT4, 300zx, and Starion, I am a fan of the Subaru Impreza. However I cant help feeling that If you just didn’t feature them so often in your magazine. That maybe when the one special Impreza comes along, more people will stand up and take note. Rather than it being ‘just another Impreza’.

 

Thanks

 

Uzman

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Good point and well made.

 

If you want them to take notice, maybe :find out and use their name, use your real name and most importantly cut it down by at least half, preferably more.

im in favour,i was thinking of writing an article saying the same things,sick of reading same old same old each month.If it isnt imprezas its evos boring :headvswal i dont read the specs anymore,as you say there to similar,and its always a middle aged man wishing he had one 10years ago :D

 

more 300s me thinks

I diddnt bother to renew my subscription for this VERY reason.

 

So bore dof the same old sh1t.....

 

Never any 300's in ti so why bother?!? I do too like other cars but Evo's and Scoobies bore the tits off me....there so bland......sorry, no offence meant, just IMHO...

I stoped buying Jap Performance 2 years ago for that very reason,every month it had a scooby feature and I HATE SCOOBYS!

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it just really pisses me off that every road test they have has an impreza beating an evo. Like its sum kind of agenda by the editor. If they want road tests how about s l tts? ZX vs supra vs GTO or s rally slags or lightweight hatches or rwd vs awd on a trac etc etc but nooo its the same old scooby evo scooby evo

I was bored today. On call again and the nurses are looking after all the patients anyway. So i decided to wurite a letter to the editor of JP. How many of you would agree with me on this??:

 

 

Dear Editor,

 

I'd like to say congratulations on the magazine. I have been reading it for a year now and the standard of journalism is excellent. However, I am writing to you on what I feel is an inherent Subaru Impreza bias in your magazine.

My local newsagent used to reserve the magazine for me each month and I looked forward to the wide variety of cars and coverage of events. But over the last 5 months, I’ve been dismayed at the contents. This is because EVERY month there are articles on Imprezas. Why is this? How different is one 350bhp Impreza from another? From the spec lists the answer would be: not much. Surely there must be other cars that you can cover with interesting and innovative specs and modifications?

Imprezas already have their own magazine, with articles on modified Imprezas every month. So why does JAPANESE performance magazine feel that it must fill its pages with at least one Impreza a month? Don’t get me wrong, I really like Imprezas, and have had many an enjoyable tussle with one on track, but seeing one with 3-400bhp every month with the same old spec is beginning to get tiring. This month (March) should have been renamed IMPREZA PERFORMANCE. 3 articles on imprezas and 50% of the questions in ‘Jap answers’ dedicated to Imprezas.

It’s quite obvious why you feature so many Imprezas in your magazine. It can be seen on every Japanese meet, track day and event across the country. There are so many Impreza drivers, that you feel it’s in your interest from a sales perspective to produce a magazine for them. This provides you with more profits, and a larger circulation. However, at the same meets, you see Toyotas, Nissans, Mitsubishis, Mazdas and Lexuses. As the Market Leader you should be more representative of these marques.

Now as a Jap car enthusiast, having owned a GT4, 300zx, and Starion, I am a fan of the Subaru Impreza. However I cant help feeling that If you just didn’t feature them so often in your magazine. That maybe when the one special Impreza comes along, more people will stand up and take note. Rather than it being ‘just another Impreza’.

 

Thanks

 

Uzman

 

My thoughts exactly,bought my copy on sunday,could not believe how much devoted to Scoobys and Evo's,again,and the mag came with another smaller mag ALL about scoobys, :( jesus even the editors must be getting bored with it all by now

Used to buy it, but not anymore, infact I don't think I've brought a copy since I've had my Zed!

Same reason here aswell, I've got nothing against Scoobys, their just like dog shit though, 'Get Everywhere'!! But there are more than just Scoobys and Evos that are Japanese performance cars. I don't mind reading a mag with quite a few different cars in it, I'm not biased just towards the Zed, I like to read about most things involved, but like what has already been said, you get bored of reading the same old spec lists, for the same old cars.

 

 

 

GIVE US SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!!!

ugliest car on the road...........................scoobyshite

The scoob is the XR3i of today, every kappa wearing muppet has one. The magazines are only interested in sales figures not quality of content. :(

Paul

I fart on the magazine and put it back on the shelf.

I flick through it whenever i see it on the shelf. If there's a Z in it, i'll buy it. Since ive owned the Z i reckon ive bought about 3 issues. (2 years)

As said above, they are trying to appeal to the biggest market. I still subscribe to it - fair bit about the 350Z this month as well. I find the tech sections are the most interesting parts...

 

Steve :)

'93 UK TT Manual

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I'm sure they'd do a feature on Macca's car if they were approached ;)

'93 UK TT Manual

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I was bored today. On call again and the nurses are looking after all the patients anyway. So i decided to wurite a letter to the editor of JP. How many of you would agree with me on this??:

 

 

Dear Editor,

 

I'd like to say congratulations on the magazine. I have been reading it for a year now and the standard of journalism is excellent. However, I am writing to you on what I feel is an inherent Subaru Impreza bias in your magazine.

My local newsagent used to reserve the magazine for me each month and I looked forward to the wide variety of cars and coverage of events. But over the last 5 months, I’ve been dismayed at the contents. This is because EVERY month there are articles on Imprezas. Why is this? How different is one 350bhp Impreza from another? From the spec lists the answer would be: not much. Surely there must be other cars that you can cover with interesting and innovative specs and modifications?

Imprezas already have their own magazine, with articles on modified Imprezas every month. So why does JAPANESE performance magazine feel that it must fill its pages with at least one Impreza a month? Don’t get me wrong, I really like Imprezas, and have had many an enjoyable tussle with one on track, but seeing one with 3-400bhp every month with the same old spec is beginning to get tiring. This month (March) should have been renamed IMPREZA PERFORMANCE. 3 articles on imprezas and 50% of the questions in ‘Jap answers’ dedicated to Imprezas.

It’s quite obvious why you feature so many Imprezas in your magazine. It can be seen on every Japanese meet, track day and event across the country. There are so many Impreza drivers, that you feel it’s in your interest from a sales perspective to produce a magazine for them. This provides you with more profits, and a larger circulation. However, at the same meets, you see Toyotas, Nissans, Mitsubishis, Mazdas and Lexuses. As the Market Leader you should be more representative of these marques.

Now as a Jap car enthusiast, having owned a GT4, 300zx, and Starion, I am a fan of the Subaru Impreza. However I cant help feeling that If you just didn’t feature them so often in your magazine. That maybe when the one special Impreza comes along, more people will stand up and take note. Rather than it being ‘just another Impreza’.

 

Thanks

 

Uzman

 

Marks Tip for the Day

 

Ever thought of not buy such a crap mag. Then what ever they put in there, it just wount p1ss you off. :D :D

To be fair they wanted to do a feature on my car once it was finished and they have emailed me a few times to try to get it sorted but its gone now anyway!! :(

 

Kirbz

Totally agree with this!,though JP ain't the only mag that went downhill.

Lax power,many moons ago was a regular for me,then the same thing happens

every issue had escort with kits on em' or the regulation corsa!

I now prefer reading the likes of RETRO cars as these seem to be more willing

to get their hands dirty. :)

its down to 2 reasons really.....

 

1. supply and demand - unfortunatly there is a lot of demand for impreza features by owners and teenie-bopper fans

 

2. Not enough of us offer our cars up for features !

If you waste time writing a complaining letter to an editor, mostly they just think "OK if you know so much, why don't you start your own magazine". So don't waste your breath / time / electrons.

 

If you write an article or letter about how great your car is, you might stand a chance of getting it published. The last time we did this, we got a buyers guide to the 300ZX in J Perf.

 

If you can't be arsed to do that, read Legrath's words and learn. And maybe just write a nice letter asking for more coverage of your favourite car.

 

After all, how much effort do you put in to responding to people who post here saying this forum is crap? So don't expect magazine editors to do anything else when you say their mag is crap...

 

Make nice noises to them and guess what?

If you waste time writing a complaining letter to an editor, mostly they just think "OK if you know so much, why don't you start your own magazine". So don't waste your breath / time / electrons.

 

If you write an article or letter about how great your car is, you might stand a chance of getting it published. The last time we did this, we got a buyers guide to the 300ZX in J Perf.

 

If you can't be arsed to do that, read Legrath's words and learn. And maybe just write a nice letter asking for more coverage of your favourite car.

 

After all, how much effort do you put in to responding to people who post here saying this forum is crap? So don't expect magazine editors to do anything else when you say their mag is crap...

 

Make nice noises to them and guess what?

 

 

you dont work for them by any chance do you!!

you dont work for them by any chance do you!!

 

errh no.

 

Just spent 25 years or so dealing with the media.

I agree about the Scooby and EVO brigade getting far too much coverage.

 

I still like to buy Max Power but prefer Redline TBH, recently they had an excellent DVD showing Simon Norris and Rocket Ronnie maxing the 200mph mark at TOTB last year.

 

Then there was an excellent program where they took their project Skylark, a nicely modded Mister 2 Turbo, a beamer and some other nice motors over to Paris and some show. Watched it quite a few times now when I've been bored!

 

JP and Banzai = Impizza and EVO Stick monthly! :D

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