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Auto Car
14 hours ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
From Autocar firing James May to the rise of Max Power: this is the inside story of car magazines in the '90s
The answer can be traced to something that became common in media circles at the time, namely 'lifestyle'. There had been hints of it in car magazines for years, not least through Performance Car columnist Clarkson, who had pioneered a blokey tone that was more akin to the emerging lad culture of Loaded, FHM et al. Max Power went several steps further, needling the establishment with its underground modded car cruises and something largely absent from car mags of the time: humour. How dare they. As the magazines evolved, so did the focus of some advertisers, shifting from the bread and butter of 'Vorsprung durch Technik' to more brand-oriented concepts, where cars were associated with things that were inherently cooler, such as, you guessed it, lads' mags. It was around this time that Autocar, hot on the heels of its 100th birthday, relaunched with a striking yellow masthead penned at great cost by Pentagram, a renowned design consultancy. Inside, the photos became less descriptive and more atmospheric, while the features section evolved into something more weird. Autocar readers, accustomed to their weekly dose of car news and sport, were not convinced. The sales went backwards, and in less than 18 months the yellow masthead, known internally as 'the flying arsehole' (it was supposed to be a tyre), had been replaced by something altogether more traditional. The circulation recovered. Autocar was not the only car magazine to suffer from this identity crisis. Emap, revelling in the soaring circulation of Max Power, decided to close Performance Car in 1998 because of a perceived lack of demand for traditional performance motoring content. The senior journalists on Performance Car, Richard Meaden and John Barker, thought otherwise, and, with the backing of farmer Harry Metcalfe and publisher Allan Pattison, they launched Evo in 1998 on a shoestring budget. Evo made the definitive case for the traditional car magazine in the mould of Car and Autocar, complete with high-quality writing and 'photos you could frame'. It worked brilliantly. The car media's lifestyle experiment was not quite over, however.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Bradford bring in midfielder Power
Bradford City have signed former Sunderland and Wigan midfielder Max Power on a two-year 31-year-old spent the 2024-25 season with Danish top-flight club is the Bantams' first signing since they secured promotion to League One this month."I am extremely pleased to start our summer recruitment by bringing Max to the club. He brings a wealth of experience with promotions under his belt and proven quality," boss Graham Alexander told the club website., externalPower started his career with Tranmere before joining the Latics for the first time in July won the League One title with them in 2015-16 and 2017-18 before joining Sunderland in August returned to Wigan in June 2021 and had two further seasons there, during which time he again won the third-tier title in 2021-22, before joining Saudi Arabian club Al-Qadsiah in July 2023.
