This month's Practical classics mag

[brammy777]

About aronline, he should make a book on the subject, id love to have it

[Spottedlaurel]

I'd love a motoring magazine which did huge in-depth articles about cars which usually only get a paragraph and one crap photo for their Wikipedia entry.Imagine a 10-page spread on the Honda Quintet with weird development shots, concept sketches, internal wranglings about how much to cost-cut by carrying over from the Civic, ideas which didn't make it past the design stage, the whole Quint vs Quintet thing, the badge-engineered Rover one for Australia, advertising decisions, interviews with all the lead staff, what the press thought at the time, clippings from old roadtests, etc.

Other than looking at it from the historical perspective, what you’ve described pretty much sums up what you get in Car Styling Quarterly and Style Auto. Well worth picking up if ever you see old copies.Thinking about it, you do get a historical thing as well, like the Laurel vs Toyota Mark II article in one of my copies, as it goes back through the previous models and discusses how successful they were in fair detail before then talking about the new ones.