Winding Road Magazine Review

Winding Road, a pretty appropriate name for a automobile related site. It hints performance, adventure and excitement. Well, except that "Winding Road" is not strictly speaking just a site about cars, it is an online magazine. It churns out monthly issues with bright and glossy pages of car reviews, news and info, just like a real magazine. The best thing is: you get a free 3 year subscription. Yes, we all like free things don't we?


Yes, it gives you an opportunity to enjoy the magazine, and you can unsubscribe at any time. But what does it offer? Let's start at looking at the website's main page. There is a tab entitled "Road Tests".



Under this section, you will find all road tests of automobiles listed alphabetically by manufacturer. Although it does not have every model as per manufacturer listed, it still is a good collection of reviews. I believe the list will grow steadily over time.



Under the "News" section, you get news and scoops on automobiles updated on a daily basis. I think this section is important to keep the content fresh and keeping the readers happy.Afterall, no one wants to wait one month between issues to catch up on automotive news.



Next there is a tab entitled "Spy Shots", but the funny thing is that, it is linked to the "News" page. I think they should really seperate the pages to differentiate between news and spy shots. It will get the readers confused here, and defeats the purpose of putting two different tabs to link to the same page. There are a couple of other sections such as "Hot Cars" and "Features". In my opinion, these extra sections are not unique enough to be placed there. It feels too much of a repitition.

The next section of "Videos" however warrants attention. One cannot deny that video is a powerful media, and watching videos of automobiles is entertaining for car enthusiasts. However, they should be categorized by manufacturer and not only by month. My only gripe is that, the videos are too scarce. They should bump up the video content to keep it interesting.

It is quite evident that the main attraction of "Winding Road" is its monthly publication of online magazine. You not only can read and print the current issues, but catch up on past issues that you may have missed out. All in all, it is worth taking a look.