Popular Mechanics Magazine

Pros: Informative, illustrated, timely, lots of tips
Cons: Needs to be in more homes

Popular Mechanics Magazine Popular Mechanics has been a fixture my entire life and is always a pleasure to read. My home growing up had Popular Mechanics and its sister publication Popular Science among its steady influences and we always looked ...

Pros: Entertainment for everyone, any age
Cons: Website

Quick - which magazine has been around for over a hundred years and is still going strong? Yes, it is "Popular Mechanics" Popular Mechanics Magazine must have been one of the first items on the Epinions Inventory. It's been around forever and it seems ...

Pros: Lots of new products, Good home and automotive repair tips
Cons: Little depth, poor computer reviews, poor foresight into the actual mechanics of these technologies

Great New Products? You bet. Excellent automotive and home hints and tips? They're in there. Good, informative articles? Not quite.

Popular Mechanics always has intriguing covers, usually of some fantastic new mechanical beast...

Pros: heads up on new gadgets
Cons: nothing of substance about them or how they really work.

I've read this magazine since I was a young boy some 40 years ago. I remember when they actually told you how to do things that were useful and fun. Make your own speed boat, sailboat, dive scooter, hovercraft... . If I'm not mistaken two books I have ...

Pros: Same, decades old valued content, plus new Internet advertising technology.
Cons: Still more tempting than enabling in building things!

As a friend of Popular Mechanics from 30 years ago, when I thought that I actually could make some of the things in the articles, I was a little hesitant to come back to it now when I thought things would be over my head. However, I was enticed to...

Pros: nbothing
Cons: nothing

I found popular mechanics to be a very informative, very descriptive,and best of all It has some really great articles. One of great things about this magazine is it has a diversity of things and they are all very interesting. I really do like the...

Pros: Keeps You Informed Of Army, Navy, & Airforce Advances, Devotes A Section With Helping You Perform Routine Jobs Around The House, Also Devotes A Section To Routine Car Maintenance
Cons: None

Popular Mechanic's is a bit like Popular Science. Popular Mechanic's comes out once a month and will keep you in tune with the newest advances in army gear and machines, navy equipment, and air force jets. Popular Mechanics also devotes a section in each...

Pros: A very good magazine that is not afraid to cover fringe subjects.
Cons: Too few pages compared to issues published years ago.

I love this magazine. It isn't afraid to cover fringe topics like Area 51 and UFO's. Plus it has a good general coverage of automobiles and trucks and other mechanical gadgets. It has great columns, the cover stories are wonderful. Words cannot describe...

Pros: None
Cons: Very Bad Business Practice!

I normally wouldn't do this, but Popular Mechanics/Hearst Magazines has done me wrong. I am highly insulted to say the least! I used to like the magazine. It was informative and all that. But I received a letter today saying they would turn me ...

Pros: Very Informative
Cons: Fiction?

Popular Mechanics is a great informative magazine. It keeps us up to date on the latest technology, but how many of their articles are actually fact. The news content in the magazine is great! I see better worldly news in that magazine than in any other....

Pros: Great Overall Magazine
Cons: It only comes out once a month

The first time I read Popular Mechanics was when I was 3 years old and at my Grandpa's house. I loved it then and I love it now. No other magazine even comes close to the quality and value of Popular Mechanics. It has great articles explaining all the...

Pros: Very interesting and educational magazine
Cons: None

Every month whenever I see my issue of Popular Mechanics in the mail box, I give a gleeful little "he he". This is a magazine that you will look forward to receiving every month, and it has enough articles to keep you interested and reading for...

Pros: very well written magazine
Cons: magazine should have more pages

I have been reading Popular Mechanics since the sixties and have been subscribing to it since 1975. It has always been consistent with it's writing, and coverage on house repair, car repair, and the technologies that effect both.

The...

Pros: Latest science and technology news, along with car spy reports.
Cons: Not always interested in the project of the month.

A fine magazine. That is how I would describe this magazine, as it is extremely well written and innovative. Each month is an update on the the newest cars, foreign and domestic, and the Popular Mechanics road test, where they test drive vehicles....

Pros: Interesting articles on current and future technology
Cons: None I can see

Popular Mechanics is a great magazine. It contains informative, interesting articles. My parents bought a subscription for me in hopes that it would get me interested in science and raise my grade. It really have the information is expressed in such a...