Autoweek: My Husband Lives Vicariously Through This Magazine

One night each week, my husband happily comes home from work to find his favorite magazine, Autoweek waiting for him.

Commuting into Manhattan, he takes the train so it is not practical for our family to have a second car. The only car we have is our mini-van.

Autoweek returns him to a time before he was married; before he had kids; and was able to look at a car and not think I hope there's enough room so the kids don't kick the seat when I'm driving.

Autoweek is a great source of information on cars - all cars. There's concept cars, foreign cars, domestic cars, sports cars, racing cars, kit cars, and family cars.

Each issue generally includes a great deal of racing coverage. NASCAR, Formula 1, and many other racing circuits are covered. There are interviews with the drivers and their crews, as well as profiles of the different racing vehicles. Details are also given of the various tracks in each circuit.

If the past weekend was a race weekend, you're sure to find the latest news from trackside. In the back is a television listing giving the schedule for racing shows for the upcoming weekend.

Autoweek usually features one car predominantly in each issue. The September 17 issue featured a two page review of the Nissan Sentra SE-R. There were also smaller, more concise reviews of the Cadillac Deville DTS, Chrysler PT Cruiser, and Honda Odyssey EX W/NAVI. There is also news from the automotive industry - who's coming, who's going.

My husband wants to buy a "fixer-upper" to work on, and I suspect a great deal of the sources he will need will be found in the classified ads that take up about fifteen pages of the magazine. That is the one drawback - the amount of space this magazine devotes to advertising and classifieds.

So until the time comes and we have the "fixer-upper" sitting in our driveway for him to work on, Autoweek will let him dream and plan.



© 2001 Patti Aliventi