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Can you believe it's been a whole year since we posted our first thread soliciting ideas for an all-new Subaru magazine?

Posted June 23, 2004:
https://www.i-club.com/forums/subaru-general-30/possible-new-subaru-magazine-63723/

From that initial thread, and others like it posted to other forums, we created Subiesport Magazine. This has been an exciting year, and we have a lot to cheer about! Top "good things" include:

- Never missing a press deadline
- Only blowing up the project 2.5RS engine once
- Keeping the layout and printing top-notch
- Nobody on staff has suffered a stress-induced stroke (yet)
- Armin's mud-bogging article...we need to do something like that again soon!
- No speeding tickets on the staff!
- Total readership of 30,000 Subaru owners and enthusiasts!
- 5,000 subscribers!
- Circulation in over 30 countries--Including New Caledonia and Germany!
- Ever-increasing orders from Borders, Barnes & Noble, Chapters, Hastings, Etc...
- Record high sell-through on the newsstands!
- Made a 1-800 subscription line available for subscription orders, address changes, etc.

Of course we're not perfect, and we see that there are some areas that we still need to work on, or that we've messed up in the past:

- More Legacy coverage!
- Some prizes took way to long to deliver to contest winners.
- Still finding small (and some large) typos after an issue prints.
- Still not shipping periodical class (the permitting process is expensive and long)
- We need to get out to more events (like the recent Wicked Big Meet)
- We need to finally start doing our own meets!!
- Magazine is still "only" bi-monthly (sorry, no plans to go Monthly--yet.)
- Customer service could always use improvement
- Post office still looses a few copies of every issue. I also suspect some mail carriers are snatching issues; we're considering going to opaque bags to reduce pilferage.

My principal goal for year two is to actually get Subaru corporate to take us seriously. Some departments within Cherry Hill are cheering us and helping where they can, while others are actively campaigning to keep us out of "the loop." Oh, if you only knew!

Okay, so now that we've covered the basics, we want to hear from I-Club members about what you would like to see from Subiesport Magazine in our second year. Want more Legacy coverage? More GL coverage? Want to read interviews with Subaru's corporate leaders? More from Japan? More tuning or driving tips? Any areas we need to improve upon dramatically? Any that we're particularly good at already?

Thanks for reading, thanks for subscribing and here's looking to a fantastic second year! If you're not yet a subscriber, we have a special offer on our Web site--check it out!

Cheers,

Ryan Douthit, Publisher
Subiesport Magazine
http://www.subiesport.com

 

Certainly more Legacy GT coverage.

Shops are starting to come around to this car, and so there should be plenty of potential for this market.

 

You guys should do more coverage on sonic yellow bugeyes

Honestly, I still need to subscribe, I've been a lazy, lazy bum

 

Get the zero to hero rs running again and on the dyno.

 

Did you see our latest update?

http://bbs.subiesport.com/forums/sho...p?threadid=149

Lots of Dyno time on that car in the last few weeks. One more session and we'll be ready for the next stage.

 

i payed for a whole year and i only got one issue so far, and its been like 4-5 months already

 

email me your info and I'll check your account details: ryan@subiesport.com

 

you guys need to do more footage on hawaii subies... we have the highest per capita of subies...(STi and WRX) than any other state!
oh, and CONGRATS!


aloha from the summit of *-^-Mauna Kea-^-*

 

You should have articles available online like other car magazines.

 

Please visit Subaru aftermarket tuning facilities to speak with the principals involved. Report on their tuning philosophies, their shop equipment, their products, and take pics, too.

I'd like to see our vendors represented such as Gruppe-S, Perfection Motorsports, S-Squared Motorsports, and Vishnu Performance. Others, of course, would be Cobb Tuning, ESX, and Prodrive.

I've been a subscriber since the beginning and I feel that each issue has improved over the previous ones.

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I'd like to see an article on i-club, with a spotlight on our admin here who is an icon in the Subaru community.

 

I'm disappointed with the 'tech' Q&A column edited by Jeff Perrin. While some of his advice is sound, it's quite apparent that he is promoting his products and only his products. His suggestion of using a boost controller on a Subaru turbocharged vehicle doesn't take into account the dangers of running lean by not providing additional fueling. He makes no mention of true forms of engine management such as the Ecutek reflash, Cobb AccessPort, the TurboXS UTEC, or the Vishnu Performance XEDE piggyback.

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"…axles of evil…" - george w. bush

 

Great feedback so far, thanks!