2019-10-01_CAR_UK

Aston’s basking

shark front grille

not appreciated by

Nick Burnham

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’80s when I was working and living

in Norway for 10 years and read every

single article as the only wheels I could

afford then was a 1976 Mazda 616.

Dreaming of better.

I hope this helps your campaign to

improve the paper quality.

Nick Brunner

Best since 1980

Ben Miller’s description of a day with

the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera

Volante is the single best piece of

writing about a car that I’ve read since

CAR’s description of a fast dash across

Germany in a then new black Porsche

924 Carrera GT (yes, I’ve been reading

CAR that long).

Sadly I can’t remember the author

[Mel Nichols] and I loaned the maga-

zine to someone who lost it years ago,

but I recall the same sense of being in

the car with the author rather than in

a chair reading a magazine. I’d love to

read that review again.

As to the car – absolutely stunning

and then ruined by the cheap nasty

gaping grille that looks better suited to

a Fiesta ST. Who thought it was a good

idea to throw away Aston’s signature

grille? It’s like BMW ditching the kidney

grille, genuinely bizarre.

Finally, a word on paper quality.

Making such a quality publication

out of such cheap paper is a little like

finishing a new Ferrari with matt

emulsion on a roller. You know it’s as

good as it has ever been underneath,

but you can’t escape the conclusion

that it just looks and feels low rent.

Take a look at Motor Boat & Yachting

magazine – they facelifted about the

same time as you but upgraded rather

than downgraded the paper quality and

the effect is transformational.

Keep up the good work and the great

drive stories, and sack the accountant

that specifies your paper quality!

Nick Burnham

Keep the feedback coming – it all

helps in our efforts to make CAR

the magazine you want. And Nick,

you’ll find this and many more of Mel

Nichols’ best drive stories in the book

And the Revs Keep Rising: Great

Drives in Fast Cars, published by

Haynes in 2013. BM

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