Other good auto related sites to read?

I enjoy this place as much as everyone else, but what else is out there in scary adult Internet world?

I found Jalopnik recently, scan the headlines for interesting stuff. What do you recommend? (Not really into pro racing like NASCAR, not a total gear-head able to rebuild my 4AGE in my sleep, ...)

Bonus points for rally and rallycross content.

The answer to what car is always Miata. (Or Fox Body Mustang, if your mind is broken like mine.)

The answer to what automobile website is always GRM.

I just found The Hog Ring Forum yesterday. While it sounds like it should be a top notch place to go for all of your swine showing needs, it's actually an auto upholstery forum. Not a huge pile of stuff on it but enough to keep me busy for a bit and convince me that I already know how to sew well enough to try and sew an interior.

In reply to mazdeuce:

That's weird, it sounded like an upholstery forum to me...

I browse the Hokey-Ass Message Board every now and again.

I try the HAMB and Garagejournal every now and then but am quickly turned off by a lot of the attitudes in both forums.

retrorides.proboards.com is a great UK based forum. As long as the subject matter isn't too modern EVERYTHING is accepted there (for the good and the bad) and the strict "If you don't have anything nice/constructive to say, then don't" rules make for some great threads and a general positive attitude.

I'm a lurker and info sponge at Corner Carvers, The HAMB and Pirate 4x4.

I specifically avoid www.advrider.com because I do not feel I have the time to dedicate to it.
I have read some fantastic ride reports there that read much more like literature than they do a forum. Here is a favorite:
Detroit to San Diego, Zen and the art of motorcycle negligence (can you afford to give up an entire day reading?)
Father takes 13yr old son cross country.

excerpt said: ...I stumbled upon “The Big Idea”. Instead of running out to the end of my leash, jerking up short and dejectedly heading back to the doghouse I figured out a way to double the leash and finally bite the mailman. I WOULDN’T TURN AROUND. I would go straight out for my whole vacation and abandon my recent nearly used up rat bike and fly home. To add an element of excitement to the trip my 13 year old son (drifter) expressed an interest in tagging along. Aye Karumba!

Same trip from the son's perspective

The following year he takes daughter from SD to Alaska (another full day of reading)

Plans to sell bike in Alaska and fly home but on-line community returns the bike to him.

He has more...that will keep you busy now.

PS: I have never owned a bike but these just read great.

mazdeuce wrote: I just found The Hog Ring Forum yesterday. While it sounds like it should be a top notch place to go for all of your swine showing needs...

That's more or less what those handy upholstery fasteners were originally invented for.

HAMB is good. Car Lounge is entertaining but bring a thick skin and possibly a flame suit.

Other than GRM, I like onehotlap.com. On YouTube, I like drivetv but they either hit a homerun or you can hear the crickets in the grandstands, there is no in between. In print, Roundel (the BMWCCA magazine) and Automobiloffer some of my favorites. After the first snow of the season, I also cruise the naisoc forums to hear the sob stories.

I used to follow edmund's insideline but recently, they changed it into edmunds "what's hot" which is much worse IMO.

Am I the only person that finds the SCCA magazine boaring, as in just above consumer reports boring?

there is nothing else - this is all you need.

Datsun310Guy wrote: there is nothing else - this is all you need.

Yeah, I gave up searching for an alternative to GRM when I read this: http://www.trackpedia.com/wiki/Magazines_on_racing

Jerry wrote: I found Jalopnik recently, scan the headlines for interesting stuff. What do you recommend?

.....not reading jalopnik!!!!

[edit: I do have accounts at the HAMB and metalshapers to make it easier to search for metalworking/fabrication info. I don't regularly read there]

JohnRW1621 wrote: I specifically avoid www.advrider.com because I do not feel I have the time to dedicate to it. I have read some fantastic ride reports there that read much more like literature than they do a forum.

Yep, I can get lost on there for hours on end. It's nice to be retired when you go there. Some of the threads can run several hundred pages.

Mmadness wrote: Am I the only person that finds the SCCA magazine boaring, as in just above consumer reports boring?

Mostly. Only been a member since 7/11 so I was trying not to judge. Of course the rallycross bits are somewhat entertaining.

Hal wrote:

JohnRW1621 wrote: I specifically avoid www.advrider.com because I do not feel I have the time to dedicate to it. I have read some fantastic ride reports there that read much more like literature than they do a forum.

Yep, I can get lost on there for hours on end. It's nice to be retired when you go there. Some of the threads can run several hundred pages.

Some of the ride reports on adv rider are practically literature.

ShadowSix wrote: Some of the ride reports on adv rider are practically literature.

Agreed.

JoeyM wrote:

Jerry wrote: I found Jalopnik recently, scan the headlines for interesting stuff. What do you recommend?

.....not reading jalopnik!!!!

Really? Seems like they have some interesting stuff from time to time. Am I missing something?

Jerry wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

Jerry wrote: I found Jalopnik recently, scan the headlines for interesting stuff. What do you recommend?

.....not reading jalopnik!!!!

Really? Seems like they have some interesting stuff from time to time. Am I missing something?

Jalopnik is a division of Gawker Media, who have done some shady stuff from time to time.

I like to look at the restorations going on for some of the euro fords on passionford.com. It's neat to see cars we never got ripped down for rebuilds.

I got nuthin' unless you want to know about diesels, drag racing, and other assorted mishmash of sites.

Ranger50 wrote: I got nuthin' unless you want to know about diesels, drag racing, and other assorted mishmash of sites.

I kind of want to learn more about drag racing. Any place that discusses FE Fords would be great too.

Sky_Render wrote:

Jerry wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

Jerry wrote: I found Jalopnik recently, scan the headlines for interesting stuff. What do you recommend?

.....not reading jalopnik!!!!

Really? Seems like they have some interesting stuff from time to time. Am I missing something?

Jalopnik is a division of Gawker Media, who have done some shady stuff from time to time.

Jalaopnik is the TMZ of automotive media. All sizzle and no steak. Back a few years they were a good site, great community, good writers, good editing, actual research, etc. Then Gawker decided they weren't making enough money and changed all of their sites to focus on the all mighty dollar and generating clicks. Many of the hardcore community folks left since the community was destroyed, the editors and writers left and now they focus on attention grabbing headlines and poorly researched articles and press releases to fill out their site along with paying Google and other search engines to keep their results near the top of the list.

Ignore them and stick with GRM, Classic Motorsports, Hooniverse, The Truth About Cars, HAMB and some of the other recommendations found in this thread.

turboswede wrote:

Sky_Render wrote:

Jerry wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

Jerry wrote: I found Jalopnik recently, scan the headlines for interesting stuff. What do you recommend?

.....not reading jalopnik!!!!

Really? Seems like they have some interesting stuff from time to time. Am I missing something?

Jalopnik is a division of Gawker Media, who have done some shady stuff from time to time.

Jalaopnik is the TMZ of automotive media. All sizzle and no steak. Back a few years they were a good site, great community, good writers, good editing, actual research, etc. Then Gawker decided they weren't making enough money and changed all of their sites to focus on the all mighty dollar and generating clicks. Many of the hardcore community folks left since the community was destroyed, the editors and writers left and now they focus on attention grabbing headlines and poorly researched articles and press releases to fill out their site along with paying Google and other search engines to keep their results near the top of the list. Ignore them and stick with GRM, Classic Motorsports, Hooniverse, The Truth About Cars, HAMB and some of the other recommendations found in this thread.

While all that is true, it costs me nothing to include Jalopnik in my RSS feed and scan it for anything interesting, which they do still sometimes have.

I'm also a regular on Corner-Carvers.