Why I love... MAX POWER

The 1990s wasn't just a golden decade for sports cars and supercars: it also ushered in the era of the modified car. Young drivers, buoyed by a strong economy, access to innumerable cheap motors and an explosion in the fibreglass and in-car entertainment markets, flocked to put their own spin on almost everything they could get their hands on.

- CHARLIE MARTIN

Peugeot 205s, Citroën Saxos and Vauxhall Novas were by far the hottest properties, but even Rover's utterly dreary 25 hatchback could be redeemed in the eyes of the generation’s cash-flush creatives.

It was only natural, then, that publishers would seek to capture the attention and indeed the wallets of this booming market. Tens of modded-car magazines popped up seemingly overnight, but none did it quite like Max Power, the first and best of the bunch.