Cavallino magazine

I’m done..
No more cavallino, have them all and a subscription since nr.39, 260 is the last…
I know times change, but the quality dropped like a brick.

Facts and numbers are crucial, enjoyable non contributal owner journals are not.

its going down

sad….

 

I renewed mine when I got 248
261 is the last one for me
I also own a complete set

there is a picture inside one of the magazines from me when I was at my first Mille Miglia. done by Marcel

 

I have a complete set as well. As such, it’s difficult not to keep the series intact, but the decline in quality combined with the price increase makes me feel like a patsy* to continue.

*American for someone easily taken advantage of.

 

in 2022 I paid 165 $ - 2 years Europe - for an US magazine
in 2024 I pay 225 $ - 2 years Europe - for an Europe magazine

 

I would pay today's price if Cavallino provided what I am used to from decades of reading car magazines: Technical articles about performing maintenance,repairs,and modifications. Tests of aftermarket parts-installation and performance. Comprehensive road tests of cars like the ones that Road & Track used to perform before it became a coffee-table magazine. And that is what Cavallino is now: a coffee-table magazine.

 

Well, it never was intended to do those things and never will be simply because it can’t support all the costs of that with such a limited circulation. Even the mass market magazines can’t do all of that anymore.

I wouldn’t mind today’s price if they simply returned the magazine to its original niche as an elegantly presented, accurate and reliable magazine about Ferrari history, with respected authorities on the subject writing about interesting and important road and racing Ferraris and the people who built and raced them.

 

Marcel,
You are right. I just went through this issue last weekend. I'm afraid to see what the next, and I think the last for my subscription, will contain.

George

 

My subscription renewal notice arrived almost the same day as the most recent issue. The revised magazine, for all of its correctable faults, is missing something that the original had…a certain intangible texture and a sense of authenticity. The new format seems to be grooming the magazine to a particular look but should be paying more attention to content and accuracy over format. Editorially the content is inconsistent. There are some articles that cover interesting cars, people or subjects, but then they are spoiled by copy errors, poorly conceived photography, etc. At this time I don’t see myself renewing.

 

These days it’s form over substance, which is a sign of the times.

 

Yesterday I received #261 which I believe is the last on my subscription. I noticed that John Barnes is now shown as “founder” on the masthead whereas he had been titled “consultant.” Also his column is missing. I guess it’s serendipitous that my subscription, and thus my readership, would expire with his change of status.

One positive change I’ve noticed is that picture captioning has improved recently, so maybe somebody from the magazine reads this thread!

 

You may have noticed that right in the correction department they made just another error (chassis number of the Ron Stern owned ex Agnelli Testarossa Spider.............).
It is unbelievable..........

Marcel Massini

 

That’s sort of like having a Department of Redundancy Department.

 

FWIW, I am out too. Issue 262 will be my last. Two years ago, I paid $85 for a two year subscription, now they want $189. Meanwhile, complete 40+ year sets sit around on eBay with a $1400 ask. That's an average of roughly $35 a year, so "maintaining the set" is definitely not the financial argument it might once have been. All of this, combined with a magazine that no longer holds my interest beyond a rather disinterested five minute flip through, make walking away inevitable.

 

You can still maintain the set, just wait a few years. Doubt a set of the 2025 issues will go for $189 in 2027

 

Not much of that editorial/text (page 22) made any sense at all…

Paul

 

Kudos to Cavallino for their new shipping packaging - the thick paper enclosure with shrink wrap is IMO light years ahead of the prior packaging methods.

 

My subscription expired with the last issue.

 

Unfortunately a pretty wrapper does not make for great content...

Regards, Alberto

 

But at least Marcel's complaint about the cropped cover photograph has been resolved with a 'gatefold' cover design!

 

I think they’ve been doing that since they changed the binding and format some time ago.

 

There is a magazine for the Porsche community called '000' (triple Zero). Four issues per year, each issue 250 pages with hardly any ads, USD$80.- per issue, only available by subscription. This is probably the highest quality publication that I have ever seen, and should be a benchmark for any publisher. You can look at Cavallino any way you want, it's just not the real deal. Unfortunately neither is ENZO.

 

Latest issue talks about a 1961 365 GTB/4. Does nobody proofread the articles?

 

I have a 1991...

 

With a Corvette engine?

 

The poorfeeder quit….