The Road Rat is a fairly new journal that attempts – very successfully, we think – to overhaul the conventional model of the car magazine.
And we stress ‘overhaul’ rather trying soup the thing up. It’s less interested in technical detail and performance. The Road Rat instead firmly believes there are many interesting and untold stories located in both the past and the present, on the road and on the race track. And, most pleasingly, The Road Rat is a proudly analogue thing: a lush, beautiful, valuable, collectable and exquisitely crafted magazine.
About issue 18 from the publisher:
The 18th edition of The Road Rat goes deep into the technology, culture, history and myth of some of the most-evolved cars of all; from Ferrari 250 GTO to Gordon Murray T.50 — seven decades of cars too rarified to be simply ‘supercars’. With a 34-page portfolio by Benedict Redgrove (of NASA: Past and Present Dreams of the Future) at its centre, surrounded by The Road Rat’s globally celebrated writing, photography and design; Merc SLRs, Porsche GT1s, the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and David Bowie and of er… ‘influencers’.