Subscriber Reviews
One of the best sports car magazines
This U.S.-based magazine is easily among the best for sports car enthusiasts. Excellent photography, driving impressions from amateur racers, styling impressions from professional car designers, and thoughtful, very descriptive reviews from all over the world make it my favorite. It easily compares with the best from Europe and the U.S. and is soley focussed on sports cars. No trucks, no SUVs, no minivans. Just excellent sports car reviews and photography. Highly recommended.
SCI would be worth a subscription alone to get access to Peter Brock's articles and photography. Brock is the designer of the Shelby Daytona Coupe and other race and street cars. He's a sculptor and Art Center trained car designer, an engineer, winning race car driver and team manager, excellent photographer and all-around solid sports car guy. He does it all because he loves cars. Same with the other writers and staff of SCI. Love and knowledge of the subject makes Sports Car International great.
The Best Automotive Magazine
Sports Car International is, by far, the best automotive magazine currently being made. This is the magazine that Road and Track, Car and Driver, Motortrend, Automobile, and all the others wish they could be. This magazine is a little more pricy and it only comes 6 times a year, but that does not diminish its excellence. This magazine has far fewer subscribers than the big names, but that doesn't stop it from consistently having the most beautiful photographs, the best writing, and the least ads. While the big names have endless pages of advertising, SCI has few. Also, this magazine is one of the most focused ones on the rack. You won't find Honda Civics, Cadillac Escalades, or any other crappy vehicles. The magazine reviews more than sports cars alone, but they do an excellent job limiting the coverage to "sporty" cars. The variety is also overwhelming. If you subscribe to Motortrend, you might get 3 or 4 sporty cars in one issue. The very first issue I bought had reviews of the BMW M Coupe, the Ferrari 360 Spider, the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona, the Aston-Martin Vanquish, the Aston-Martin DB4, the Porsche Carrera 4, and others. The motorsports coverage and features relating to the automobile industry are also second to none. If you love exotic and sporty vehicles, there is no other magazine to get.
One of the best car magazines.
I never seem to find this one at most book stores and it is one of the most intelligently/thoughtfully written magazines I have ever read. There are beautiful color photos inside and not many ads. It seems to be everything automobile magazine was supposed to be (nice photographs, european style, and different), but automobile could never pull it off.