I sent an email to SM about a van mag or regular feature.basically asked a direct question wether they had plans of doing something for the vanners. following is the reply.........



Thanks for your email, Geoff.

Direct answer: No, we will not do a magazine on panel vans. We need to sell a certain number of magazines to make a buck, and the van market is not big enough, even for a one-off mag. Sorry, but that’s the hard financial reality.

Will we do a regular section? Probably not, but we will continue to include panel vans in our usual mix of features and departments. I agree panel vans are part of the street machine family, and we welcome contributions from vanners to all our usual reader-focused departments – Your Stuff, Iron Maiden, Young Gun, Readers Cars, My Shed and On Any Sunday – and any new builds will be considered for features on the same grounds we apply to all potential feature cars. As far as covering van events, there’s a six-page feature on the 2009 Van Nats in the next issue, on sale in two weeks

Kindest regards
Geoff Seddon



Well that about says it all eh?