[Layla's Keeper]

Here's my top five.

#1: Grassroots Motorsports (GRM) - It's a bi monthly mag, but it's chock full of road racing tech articles and info on racing YOU can do. Not ALMS/Grand-Am/Trans-Am stuff, but real world Autocross and SCCA club racing. They're all about going racing on a budget, doing it yourself, and using creativity and hard work to overcome cubic dollars. Their most famous project car is the infamous Ro-Spit; a Triumph Spifire with a Mazda 13B rotary engine.

#2: Automobile Magazine - Forget Motor Trend or Car & Driver, Automobile and it's staff of holier than thou experts give you not only the straight scoop on the latest automotive news, but give it to you with unyielding honesty. There's no lip service to manufacturer buzzwords or "new models". What's good is good. What's crap is crap. And they're more than willing to tell you about it.

#3: Sports Car International - purely an enthusiast magazine, SCI is all about enjoying motoring. Whether it's the hottest cars of the future, or the brilliant stars of the past, SCI gives wonderful insight into what makes driving enjoyable.

#4: Sport Compact Car - SCC is one of the few import mags that goes in tongue-in-cheek and accepts that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Instead of getting caught up in "lifestyle" stuff like Super Street or other similar import mags, SCC sticks to what really matters; making your car go faster and look better doing it. It's really all about the cars.

#5: Road & Track - the gentleman's auto mag, R&T has been the gold standard of motoring journalism as literature. Especially the ungodly cool Salon articles that examine the very heart and soul of vintage cars. The Salon on the Chapparal 2F stands out in my mind as one of the coolest things I've ever read. They're not quite as intense with their reviews as other magazines, but they're more about enjoying cars than picking them apart.

Leave that to Automobile.