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I ask the above following my visit to Asda today. While taking the escalator I glanced down at the clearly signed motor magazine section to see if Practical Caravanning was in, and this section includes those so called lads mags.

Well imagine my shock when confronted with those covers of topless women, with fake tans who have probably never done a proper days work in their life, barely covering their nipples with their fingers!

Is it the case that Asda doesn’t think it’s customers know the difference between a bonnet and a breast?

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often wondered what calibre of car mag had nekid chicks in them myself.

Chavi ones!

Of course I prefer older cars so I guess my favoured "Bonnet ornament" would be a handsome middle aged women wearing tweed!

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None in the kit car mags I tend to buy either. Nekid ones that is.

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Yes, well, there are car magazines and there are "car" magazines...

I was brought up on Triple C as well as some of the older titles - many f which are still in print today (sans boobs)! Unfortunately, the seem to reflect life and popular culture. From what I've seen, the ones the OP refers to are as much "lifestyle" magazines as motoring ones. I feel sorry for the "yoof of today" in many ways. I was lucky enough to become of age at a time when a young lad could modify a car and see what difference it made whilst still being able to insure it for "only" one arm and leg. These days, cars are so much more complex and so deeply unpopular with the powers that be, that kids don't get a chance to tinker with them to see how they work quite so much. As a result, I have a horrible feeling this country might have bred it's last Colin Chapman! All that's left for today's "young blade" is to upgrade one's stereo and stick lots of pretty lights on one's car!

OK, that's a bit bleak. There are publications still out there that include more technical modifications but I think you have to be comparatively well off to be able to do that kind of thing successfully nowadays so they are more "niche" publications than mainstream. I guess that to be fair, we also need to look at whether these mags are "as well as" or "instead of" the more traditional motoring magazine. I think it's laregly (but not entirely) the former. Increasingly, I think, a car is seen as a fashion accessory and there is therefore a new "market" ready to be exploited - people who have little interest in cars, per se, but who wouldn't be seen dead in the "wrong" brand of trainers any more that they'd want to be seen in the "wrong" model of car.

I actually bought a copy of Autocar today.

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Show us your cars and we'll let you know

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yup usual forum rules apply... no photo, didnt happen.

remind me what they both look like and i'll give you my professional opinion

My car's about a 34C...


I was once in a newsagent in Kingston Upon Thames, and the chap in there had all his porn on the second shelf down (kind of high eye level), and the car mags on the top shelf.
Being in mercurial form, I pointed at Autocar etc., and berated him for being a peddler of filth.

Yep, I remember spending many a sunday morning stripping my carb down and blowing the jets through etc, what have the poor young lads got to do on a sunday morning these days...strip down their girlfriends I suppose......

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

There is a difference between "lifestyle" car mags and those actually directed towards car enthusiasts.

I subscribe to Car and there was an article one month featuring a beautiful smartly (and fully) dressed woman pictured with the car being reviewed. The next month there was a letter of complaint published!

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Was the complaint that she WAS dressed?

I guess I was a young naiver thing, but when I went to my first motor show - I was none too old either - I was amazed at the bling and scantily (for the era - remember early 70s) clad ladies that were draped over the bonnets. I guess then they had to attract attention somehow from the rust-harbouring seams on the wings etc

On a serious note, I was embarrassed a few years' ago when I took a copy of, I think, "What Car?" from the rack and accidentally (honest!) dislodged a girlie mag which fell open on the floor at the centrefold.

No, if it was one of the older-established car magazines, it was probably that she was a woman!

I believe that I might live in the Mecca of patrons of the nekkid chick car mags, Southend. You shoud come and have a look at the calibre of laydees they are trying to impress

TVR had a stark naked woman posing on one of their cars in the 70s at some motor show. One of my old man's books has a picture of same in it!