astraboy

Does anyone else get fed up with the constant pairing of the two? I've stopped reading all the modified car mags now cos I would rather be honest and buy a copy of razzle. Okay a nicly honed female bod is nice to look at, as is a nicely honed car, but ffs, I cannot stand the way EVERY car from a 1 litre corsa (remember the supermodel ads at the launch?) to Formula one cars HAVE to have a bird with her norks out draped over it. Maybe its me turning into an old ****** but IMO the more you see of somthing the less impact it has. These days I dont even notice the girlies hanging off the car because after you've seen one bird with her thrups out you've seen the lot. I could go further but I would offend a some people so I'll shut my gob now. It just gets a little tiresome every now and again.
astraboy.

uncle buck

Bizarre

One of the old (1972) Motor Cycle News I've been reading through has a reader's letter (or two) on just this subject

Still a topic after all these years

I will scan the offending article and post it tomorrow for comparison

Da Booga

Know what you mean, I used to buy all of the major car mags and read them at work. It got to a point when my male colleagues would read the mags also and would call me "gay" etc. because I would rather look at the cars than the women

The only decent mag for car related features with no baps was Revs but even that's now gone down the same path as Max Power etc.

After all if I want to look at baps I have the internet

I wonder how long it will be before every post on Scoobynet has a picture of a semi naked female at the bottom of the page

Fuzz

The very reason I stopped buying lax bowels and fart car mags.
ahh the joys of dvd players, no more wobbly re-wind, pause button abused VHS tapes .



Andy

Little Miss WRX

Cheaper than **** mags though eh astraboy

Two for one

MarkO

Couldn't agree more. I get p*ssed off with the fact that every 'lad mag' (be it car-related, or just bloke-related) seems to feel the need to have soft **** on/in it.

Okay, so I'm no prude, but it irritates me that I feel uncomfortable reading Maxim etc 'cos to anyone else it looks like I'm leafing through a w*nk mag. Even the electronics mags are doing it now - I bought a copy of "Stuff" a couple of months back, and I could see my wife was slightly curious/concerned about it until I explained it was a gadget mag. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

As has been said, if I want a copy of Penthouse (or the content that's in it) I've got a web connection.

The only mag that doesn't really seem to have gone this way is Evo.

Brun

I'm quite happy to look at birds with their puppies on display. In fact, i'd love to do it for a living.

Jen

I find it quite annoying - they all look grumpy anyway!

Why do they never have men drapped over cars?!

shunty

Jen - my missus keeps saying that as well, how come when she buys home mags & decorating stuff there are no fellas with meat-n-veg out over the coffee tables

ps - thank god eh, might be bigger than mine

shunty

shunty

oh & astraboy - I agree with you on this, we must be getting old.

shunty

The Crushinator

I agree Astraboy! It's a bit sad

Little Miss WRX

It's sad mostly for the women who do it - then again I am sure they get paid enough to do it in the first place

It used to annoy me, but now I am not fussed about it. After all, the marketing guys are gearing it towards a particular audience and it sells well. Why change something that is successful because of some people complaining about it like me?

EVO and I am sure CAR do not have scantily clad women sprawling for the UK over bonnets, if they do I think it is in adverts.....

I agree with Jen - would be good to get some hunky guys doing a bit of sprawling for a change

rik1471

gay

MarkO

Who's gay?

astraboy

Rik, Why you ask, you cruising for some?

Dr Nick

Astraboy, was it you that got shot by that laser a while back???? I hope you got plenty of compensation because I just found out that it was not a laser pointer but in fact a new “Gay Ray”

It was being developed by evil scientists as an impotence ray to boost sales of Viagara but early experiments had some “untoward” side effects owing to the laser beam being pink.

Perhaps you could post some pictures of the offending images just so we will know which magazines to avoid.

Why don’t men model cars? Isn’t it obvious? Since women are only interested in household goods like vacuum cleaners and washing machines what you drape over a car is not relevant to them. And since a woman’s place is in the home, with no income they can’t afford to buy a car anyway. You might as well have a sheep stood on the bonnet…… don’t go there…..

In marketing terms this is called “Targeted advertising”. The target being people who think with their d***s.

“Women! For God’s sake don’t drive” – Chumley-Warner 1958

Jen

Now you're talking! Drape a Dyson over the bonnet and you've sold me! lol!

Jen

Little Miss WRX

Personally I much prefer the Kirby's

MATTeL

I have to agree with Astraboy.

I stopped reading Superbike becuase they decided to sprawl a naked woman onver motorbikes. They even had a "Readers Wives" section.

It is fairly pointless and covers up the actual subject. I have also noticed that the models expressions are nearly always aggressive... so not at all sexy!

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Can't say it really bothers me. I agree it has become a bit over the top and seems to take over and detract from the original format. But the fact is that its aimed at young men 16-25 and thats what they want to look at . . . bodykits & baps.

The worst thing about it is all those chatlines and stuff they advertise, really sad.

But the laydees, I say keep 'em

Brun

Cool, i'm 24. However, sod the bodykits. Show me them jugs!

shunty

most of them are fugly & hard faced anyway....

shunty

Mungo

I must say, it does slightly embarass me - there's always an ad in What Hi-fi (I think it's for a TEAC system) with some scantily -clad bird on it - why?

RallyMarshal

If youre bothered, switch to a proper car mag like CCC - though even thats going down the max'd route a little bit. However, proper cars, with proper mods and rallying/racing thrown in for good measure.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I suppose it keeps the 'Bottom of the range' models in a bit of work, enough to pay for their next boob/@rse job/bottle of peroxide anyway Saucer of milk anyone?

I'm LMAO at the thought of scantily clad geezers with their tadgers draped across the coffee table in "Homes & Garden" magazine

Sal



[Edited by scoobychick - 9/3/2002 4:22:22 PM]

astraboy

Innit, there was this one girl in a "well known modified car magazine" who was hideous.
**** like space hoppers, face like a bulldog licking **** of a thistle and lips with so much collegen in them that they looked like sombody had given her a smack in the mouth. Or six.
I wouldnt touch her with Pete Lewis's (no offence mate)
astraboy.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

LOL That should be a relief to Pete then

scoobyboy

i say keep them, it offers a lot of light relief to reading about some to$$er who's got a 1000bhp out of a 1litre nova! i mean whats better to look at a clapped out nova with a scooby vent glued to the bonnet or a fit as 19 yr old with jugs out i know what im looking at!!!!!!!

fatherpierre

Like most have said it's better than looking at a nasty old Sierra with the usual body kit and spotty, baseball capped youth at the wheel with an inane grin on his ugly mug.