Audi R8
It’s been years since my reflexes and budget allowed me to indulge my passion for fast cars. Posting the occasional article here — about F1 or the Dakar Rally — is about as far as it goes, nowadays.
But, I received an offer of a free sub to Winding Road in an email. Registered [quick and easy] > downloaded the ,pdf of Issue 18 [15.5mb] > and began to graze among the current crop of interesting hardbody beasties.
Having blasted up the Pikes Peak path to the clouds in days of yore — and becoming more and more a fan of diesel-powered critters — special fun was reading the test of a VW Touareg V-10 turbo-diesel up that particular yellow brick road. Nothing but torque! Phew.
Cars aren’t always easy to photograph. The crew at WR do a terrific job. I won’t fill up more of our DU space with photos of enchanted autos, today. But, download a copy of the .pdf and see what kind of technology transfer is possible — in more ways than one.
Yes, it’s online for distribution — not browsing — but, offline afterwards, it’s a treat for motorheads. In my case, via the new clean GUI of Acrobat Reader 8.
If you want a really fast car disguised as a luxury sedan, try a Lexus GS450H. I leased one a couple of months ago and it’s really fun to drive, plus, being a hybrid, it gets great gas mileage for a high performance car (339 hp).
If you haven’t seen Zinio, they do excellent transfers of “dead tree” editions to digital.
It is especially great for people living overseas, like me, where the mailing charge on American magazines double or triple the subscription costs.
http://www.zinio.com
What in the world are you doing here?!? Salivating over horsepower? Driving just for pleasure?
I thought we were all supposed to huddle in our tightly packed, cramped apartments and drive crappy Priuses as little as possible or we’re going to die from Global Warming (TM) !!
Uh, 3 — didn’t download the .pdf or read any of the articles, eh? Ain’t nuthin like Republican tunnel vision.
Been reading Winding Road for a while…it is excellent! Not only is it well laid out, well written and has fantastic photos, it is quite a large monthly publication (more like the British mags, like CAR and Top Gear than US mags like Car and Driver(which just redesigned their mag with LESS content and an indecipherable layout) and Road & Track).
The only thing…if you like to download it in the PDF format, make sure you download it when you get the new issue notification (or check the site every month)…the only way to get past issues is to read them on the web directly, which is not as satisfying as the well put-together PDF.
Os.
Just a clarification: Winding Road is not a print magazine that has been transferred to electronic format. It is digital only (note the landscape page layout). That makes a huge difference in readability (no scrolling, fonts correctly sized), vs. the typical Zinio transfer.
Also, Winding Road comes as either a .pdf or a fully online version (using the Olive reader). The online version lags the pdf by a few days.
They also offer a neat application that downloads and archives the pdf each month (called Automatic).
Thanks for the heads up on this digital mag. It’s terrific.