Best weekly car rag

I currently subscribe to three car magazines: Grassroots Motorsports for my bi-monthly amateur motorsports/project car fix, Road & Track for my monthly car comparison and vintage car fix, and Autoweek for my weekly new-car-news-first fix. No other printed publication can touch Autoweek for being the first to press with the latest and greatest car news and racing coverage. And they always do it with beautiful photography, informative and entertaining writing, and an easy-to-read format.

Best for news!

While this magazine may be the good for racing and car reviews I keep getting because it gives real NEWS. All the other car magazines have lead times of months or more. Autoweek can tell you what happened last week in the automotive world. Where this appeals to me most is finding out what new cars are coming. If you are someone that wants to know that the new Mini-Cooper is coming this Spring then you could have read it in Autoweek two years ago, with pictures! Learn week by week that the new BMW M3 is delayed, things like that. They often have driving impression reviews months before other car magazines. Another sometimes great part of this magazine is the last page called BWTM for 'But Wait There's More...'. Here they make fun of the automotive news. Other than those sections the full car reviews are average at best, not as good as Car & Driver. The racing coverage of Nascar, F1, Cart and sometimes IRL is good but you only get about 2 pages of each per issue. Not much coverage of other racing. The editorial columns are 2nd rate and not as good as Car & Driver. Buy it for the news, that's my review!

Best for racing coverage

Many of the columnists, writers, etc. (Leon Mandel, Rich Ceppos) "graduated" from other, monthly car magazines. Overall, this magazine covers racing much more thoroughly than the monthlies (not surprising, considering that a weekly can cover individual races), yet still extends to individual car reviews and to other aspects of the automotive world (Keith Martin's classic car auction reviews are an example) and industry news events much more quickly, again because AutoWeek can cover those issues almost immediately, as they happen. Still, if you want covrage of Formula One, CART, IRL, and NASCAR, among the major magazines, this is your only choice.