Motor magazine

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Motor is an Australian motoring magazine published monthly by ACP Magazines. Motor magazine was originally Modern Motor, the former word connecting it with its first publishing company. However, colloquially it was called Motor, and it formally adopted this title in the late 1990s.

Motor is a stablemate magazine to Wheels, but Motor focuses more on performance cars. The magazine runs two annual competitions, "Performance Car of the Year" (PCOTY), and "Bang for Your Bucks" (BFYB), the latter awarding the car with the ideal blend of performance for price.

The magazine is often the center of controversy, one example being the exclusion of the Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) F6 Typhoon from PCOTY 2005 due to clutch problems. FPV had blamed Motor for flat shifting, when the problem lay in the clutch itself. The following year, Motor and FPV made up when the magazine named the F6 Typhoon the Australian Performance Car Of The Year.

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