Week Twenty-Five: In Which I Have Been Published in CAR Magazine.

It took some doing and a few meetings and began as just a tight-word-count Double Page Spread picture-with-labels but I am proper chuffed! I am on about The Great Options Rip-Off published in the July issue of CAR magazine from Bauer.
I called my new mate at CAR today and she kindly checked which issue and pages for me. (And I think is even going to send me a copy..) As it’s a monthly, I hadn’t got over excited about publication dates, as I know I will get to see my work in print eventually and having to wait is all part of it. The Internet is like writers’ Heroin though. Pressing ‘˜Publish’ is a rush every time
So do go out and check it in WH Smiths, they never sling out browsers!
It has at its root, the issue of how expensive say, rear seat DVD is from the showroom, versus the fully professional options you can find in the specialist dealers. Ones that retain the new car’s warranty issue, offer deeply superior specification kit and save a grand on factory prices! For me it’s all to do with more mainstream motorists getting to hear this than about my attempting to take over the world. If lots of the huge readership of CAR magazine get the ‘˜I didn’t know you could DO that!’ sensation, from time to time, then I am a happy and evangelical fat Ice writer. But of course getting one’s feet right under the table’d be niceall depends on whether their readers’ interest is piqued or not.
Back at the records, it’s that Rifiki moment when it is tiiiiime..to dismantle a full test bench of front components, rear ovals, subwoofer, bass amp and four channeler, to run a slew of new reviewing. I will do some subs from JBL first as they are pre-mades and I can bring you the skinny faster than with anything else.
And I’ll hook the Blau New York 800 up at last, now the Caliber is done, to the second test bench. That and finishing off a set of Magnat home speakers for Home Cinema Choice.
It all sounds dead glam but I still have dreams at night about bloody carp fish mocking me.
Adam Rayner Online Editor