This month's mag features the Alfa GTV in the buyers guide and next month it's the Fiat Coupe. Both my cars featured in successive months and I don't even know the editor!

Ah but the Club do, and we like to put in a word for the membership. Hopefully it should be acurate too

only 29 days till the next issue is out

Is it me or since they've been taken over the mag seems to getting better and better every month some great cars and articles

We have had some input into the proposed article and have helped to iron out some minor irregularities.

Auto Italia have been giving the Coupé, and the club, quite a bit of coverage in the magazine of late. First there was the article featuring 4 modified Coupés. Soon there will be another featuring a Lancia Delta, an Alfa GTV of course a Coupe. And then there is the Coupé Buyers Guide. ALL the cars for these features have been club member cars and I feel that throughout 2008 we have built a strong relationship with the magazine.

I do hope that more of us could consider giving the magazine support. I myself decided this year to turn from occasional buying into becoming a subscriber. Auto Italia not only provide the Italian car fan, and enthusiast, with a fantastic magazine, they also provide us with three of the best Italian car shows in the UK. So please do consider giving them your support.

Thanks

Bob

It's good to see a Big mag like Auto Italia to work closely with clubs and there members makes for some interesting reading.

Been getting the the mag for 6 years

I've been a subscriber for about 3 years and I've noticed a big improvement over the past few months. It's a great magazine and a year's subscription makes a great Christmas present!

I'm so happy I saw this thread, I was in the newsagents today looking for a decent car mag, and could'nt see and Italian based mag, even though it had a huge choice of car mags. Where do you purchase this mag as i'm interested
Cheers Steve

Theres a shop finder thingy on their website.
I put in a Durham postcode and it returned this

Cheers Ed, I can now get one 3.7 mile away
Steve

Subscription to Auto Italia is on my Xmas list.

Great job from FCCUK in increasing the profile of our club and our cars.

Subscribed

£44 for 13 issues ... cheaper than driving the Coupe to the newsagents 13 times

The buyers guide, is perhaps one of the best buyers guides I've ever read

Congrats all those involved

WOW it looks much better in printed form

Got mine today and very impressed, only one mistake when they mention the best colour LE...we all know it's the steel grey that looks best

Got mine today too, great article and v nice example of a Plus, didn't know Sprint Blue was a colour option for the Plus! You learn something new every day eh?! Also, not sure whether it's my particular copy or not but the car looks a bit "matt" paintwork wise

The matt paintwork thing is done on a majority of shots for buyers guides. IIRC its a spray on substance.

Id love a matt paintjob, another thread though ehh

Ah, I see!

Just read the article really impressed

How many times do I have to go round this forum correcting mistakes

I still haven't managed to get a copy yet. The usual place that I get my copy hasn't had them delivered yet.

I wanted to read the section on the Alfa V6 too.

In the shops from today according last months blurb.

Good article, the Plus's exhaust tail-pipe could have done with a polish, and the engine a bit of a scrub - but a good read.

I got mine yesterday

The car used in this feature is a daily driver and I think it represents well what people should expect to find when going to buy a Coupe.

Bob

Can't say I agree with you. Most other buying guides feature a mint example which this certainly wasn't. Take a look at the GTV Cup featured in last months guide for example. Also, disappointing to see yet another sprint blue car featured; we could do with seeing some other colours IMHO.

Ha ha, I knew my engine bay would eventually draw a few comments, sadly i have better things to do than clean it, especially as usually I don't look at it unless i'm putting oil or water in it.
If i'd had more time than three evenings in the middle of winter to prepare I might have had a go at it, but there you go

The matt paintwork is not a spray on substance, it looks like that purely because the car is parked in a seamless room painted entirely in matt white and the lights are all bounced off the ceiling so you don't get any depth of reflection

Um.

Red,
Silver,
Black,
Yellow,
and now Sprint Blue.

Fair choice of coupe colours in Auto Italia the past couple of months there.

There's been a porto and a scots green in an article before as well

There are always those that will critisise

We, the club, (Especially Bob) have worked hard to get the Coupé featured more in Auto Italia. They too have been great and the wealth of recent features is fantastic testimony to a health relationship. Who cares what bloody colour the featured car is anyway, the aim of the club is to promote the car and maintain interest in it. In that way we will ensure specialists will continue to cater for it and ownership remains affordable, feasible and enjoyable.

I thought Eds car looked great, and as a daily run car it is in far better condition than mine. It is also owned by a true enthusiast who has also stepped up and done his bit for the community and club.

John