The current Royal Auto continues to follow its long established trend of
being more of a travel and insurance brochure than a magazine about
motoring issues.

This month's issue (March) has 90 pages (not including cover pages). Of
these, just 29 pages, and that's a generous count, have motoring content.
The rest comprise of advertising, articles on travel destinations, an
article about a prominent Melbourne barrister (what the f.ck that has to
do with motoring has me stuffed), holiday guides, insurance adverts and so
on.

I wonder if I asked the editor if he could make two issues - one that
consists solely of motoring related articles, you know, things about cars,
road safety, roads, tests of new gadgets for your car, and so on.

Hang on.

This month's PC User magazine has a review of car stereos.

Maybe this is the way of the future - where special interest publications
all morph into one gelatinous glop. We could see Woman's Weekly with
articles on the latest Ducati sportsbike, edited by the editor of The
Picture with a few home girls draped over the bike, while talking about
the latest lipstick and what's happening on Days of Our Lives, with a
followup on HSV's decision to market special prams with HSV logo'ed
"nappy" dispensers and miniture Yokohoma S01 tyres...

(Am I starting to sound like Toby, yet?)