Originally Posted by massivewangers

i can think of a whole list of reasons why it sold!

It tapped into a massive market without even realising it. It gave people something to read like they'd never had before and covered a whole lifestyle, from half naked birds, to arsing about in cars.

It not only reported on the modified car scene, at it's height, it shaped the modified car scene.

I wonder how many people on this website wouldn't even be into cars if it wasn't for that magazine. It must have got thousands and thousands of people into the modified car scene who are still around today.

Max power seems to have a reputation for only featuring cars with tiny engines and big body kits, but i can remember seeing no end of big power stuff in there. I wonder, if it hadn't been for max power, would all the legends of top secret skylines and supras be around today? Would a lot of the uk tuning companies even exist?

We may not have liked everything they did, or everything they published, but no one can possibly deny it was a very very successful magazine, that did an awful lot to influence and shape the modified car scene as it is today.