...anyone bought it yet?

Came out today, I picked a copy up earlier. The purple Dimma 205 is on the cover fom the very first issue, with the back half of the mag being devoted to all the stuff they've done over the years. Not read it all properly yet, but a nice little momento at least.

Comes with a poster with all the mag covers on it, it's shocking how many of them I owned back in the day!

Also, there's a section on all the editors, and I notice for the 2007-08 slot, they've just said "Someone else" and "Mucked things up for Max and the scene". Who was that? Dan or any of the other mag peeps know?

Anyway, free reminder for anyone that was thinking of getting it. I think it will probably be come back some day. There was mention of a few special issues I think, but I wouldn't be surprised if it made a full return eventually.

 

might get that for old times sake

 

I'll be off out bit later to purchase one. The very 1st Max Power I bought was when I was 13 and it was I think an April 1997 issue with a blue Renault 5gt turbo on the cover and fell in love with the mag till about 2001 when I realised it was all just silly plastic cars and ridiculaaarse sound systems. Will be sad to not see it on the shelfs anymore tho!

 

I never bought lax power mags cause i thought the cars just look so shit.I think its mad that the mag has come to a end.Why has it stopped making mags for anyway????

 

I brought the first issue and that was the last time I brought it!

I still have it somewhere, even tried selling it on ebay a few years ago.....

 

It seems that the MAX POWER car scene has changed , 10 years ago the car scene was a lot different than it is today so the mag would have done well . Used to buy it in the late 90's , was a good read then .

 

yeah might go and buy it just for old time sake

 

Rather stab my own eyes out. Performace Ford, Fast Ford, Evo are much better reads and don't have 1.2 Corsas outside McDonalds

 

havent bought it for years but used to all the time when all i could afford was my 1.4 corsa with 17s and combat kit haha. looked ok 10 yr ago used to enjoy going to local cruises like spillers ect.
ah the good old days of having a slow car that you would blow all your wages on everyweek .

 

That may be, but I think I'm right in saying that Max Power outsold all of them by a stupendous margin, which shows it was doing something right!

 

Very true. Ashamed to say I actually used to buy it in the days when I had a Peco Big Bore 4 on my Mk3 Fiesta 1100

 

Never brought one, my mate did and well... It was shit...

 

Sod the peco big bore , cherry bomb back box , set car alarms off from 1/2 a mile away .Ha Ha Ha

 

Loved the 'spit or swallow' interviews

 

used to love max power, always dreamed of a dimma 205.......they may have been slightly over the top but the car scene just seems a bit bland now.

 

most of the swallowers were lying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Quite a few people never brought the magazine it seems. Wonder if any of them bought it either!

Ive not BOUGHT one since about 95!

 

I reckon it sold well because hormonal boys could look at pictures of girls with few clothes on, without having the embarrassment of being seen buying a girlie magazine.

Can't think of any other reason it sold...

 

Well if they spat it out at least they had it in their mouth (or do you think they were lying about that part too?)

 

Even I will be getting this. A momento of what was once a great mag that turned to total crap and then tried to recover itself again.

 

i reckon most of them dodged it and it stuck to the back seats of the saxo they were in at the time...i ve bought one or two with stains ive kept away from.

 

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.

 

i have loads of max power revs fast car etc from the early/late 90s and they are still a good read today

 

My life revolved around max power when i was 13. sad but completely true. I bought it from about 1997 to 2002. had every month.

but there was 1 issue with a car that had 4 tv's under the bonnet and i thought... hang on a minute, thats not really "max" power is it!

but i loved it. went to max live and everything. it was a huge part of my teenage life and helped shape who i am now without doubt.

 

I went to Max Power Live several times, always really enjoyed it. A lot of the cars weren't necessarily my thing, but nice to see the crazy stuff people were doing, and there was always some really tasty stuff in there. Think it always had a really cool atmosphere too, kind of a living version of the magazine somehow, lots of noise from cars and stereos, then with half naked birds everywhere, can't lose

What makes me giggle about the women thing, a lot of those saying how sad and pathetic it is, I bet loads of them would go to the Gatebil shows where they have loads of scantily clad lasses too and they'd all be creaming in their pants, not to mention I bet they all look through the men's room on here with glee

 

All my old Max Powers went on the bonfire back in November. Was loads of them

 

What was max power about??/

Why so popular???


It was known as the MAX POWER culture - MAX POWER BOY RACERS and so on...

Not..

Fast Car
Revs
PPC
Fast Ford
Etc

...


MAX POWER Rocked.

 

I'll deffo go and get this tomorrow, Maxy P was hugely influential on my teenage years and left me with bad eyesight and a right arm like arnie!

 

i went out and bought this yesterday for old times sake.back in the day when i was starting out in the trade i loved this magazine,the latest goodies out on the market,yes i admit the half naked birds in it but the styling lengths people went to just to get cover.used to buy this,revs,redline,fast car each and every month plus max power live was immense.
over time i grew out of the big kitted thing but it still paved the way for the scene that alot of people love today

R.I.P Max Power

 

Wasn't maxy p a staff writer?

Is there something you should be telling yourself

IIRC he had a nice mk1 golf gti that he blew up, then it spent 2 years getting rebuilt into a rather nice motor.

 

i will be getting this just for old times sake

 

does anyone remember max power trying to crack 200mph on the a1 with top secret supra?

 

amen brother!!!

 

[quote=YOREVOL;5289454]does anyone remember max power trying to crack 200mph on the a1 with top secret supra?[/quote

Yep, I do!!! It was at daft o'clock in the morning and I think he got locked up for it!

 

You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR-htBGWHpw

Look at how much the steering wheel moves

 

That's mentioned in the mag a couple of times. Can't think it helped the reputation with the authorities too much

 

I meant Maxy P the mag not some dude that used to write for them you tool!

 

Max chav...
never bought one always thought it was crap.

 

bought he mag yesterday and i have a few words

the back to what made it great sections are great, as long as they are talking about the cars

the rest of the mag however is pants

there is no denying the quality of the motors they've got in there, they are all very very different, but it's the tits on show that don't make it family friendly, i certainly couldn't bring it home to show my son what it's all about, let alone the wife

and the rest of the mag, if you changed the title to something other than max power, i can see it struggle to sell many copies

times have changed and max failed to change with them, from being an originator it became a bit too lazy and the name was thought to hold enough clout to keep it going and while everyone else changed the game it suddenly found itself out of sync

one thing i couldn't understand though was what happened in their editors choice when they've missed out one who "was shit"?

can anyone shed any light?

mind you, the inside back ocver is absolutly spot on

 

Interesting points raised here.

I don't think anyone can ignore what Max Power did for the scene. It literally set the path for the way many mags are made today IMO.

I, like many remember vividly my first Max Power, and how it got me into cars/the scene and most importantly journalism. Without one shadow of a doubt I wouldn't be writing for a car magazine now if it hadn't been for Max.

You simply can't possibly tarnish them as a chav mag of the past.

I'll be buying the new one, like others for old times sake.