| About
AutoZine & the Author What's
AutoZine?
AutoZine is my personal car website founded on September 1997. Throughout the years, AutoZine has been non-commercial at all - no sponsorship, no advertisement thus no income. In other words, I do it just for fun. The Author So, who am I ? My name is Mark Wan, a resident of Hong Kong. I speak Chinese as mother tongue and think in Chinese. That’s why you’ve already found so many grammatical mistakes in my writings. I started reading car magazines since 1984. In the beginning I read only local magazines, then as my English improved, I moved to English publications entirely, mostly British and American magazines.
The Creation of AutoZine As soon as my PC connected to internet in early 1997, I spent days and nights browsing thousands of automotive web sites listed in Yahoo. However, I was disappointed that none of them met my expectation, as the standards of those days were quite low, admittedly. In particular, none of the sites had a global knowledge about European, American and Japanese cars simultaneously. The internet was supposed to break regional barriers, but still no one was capable of exploiting its power. That’s why I decided to do it myself. Once the target was set, everything became unbelievable: I learned html and JavaScript, then spent countless of nights and holidays to do research and to write about some 200 new cars and 100 classic cars. This process took 6 months to finish. On Sept 1st, 1997, AutoZine finally went online. Over the years it evolved a little bit. Reviews got longer and more detailed, pictures got bigger and technical analysis strengthened. These days, I don't spend as much time here as the early days, but still try to keep the new cars updated as far as possible. Through working on this site, I really learned many more about cars. Want to learn more about AutoZine? you can read FAQ and History. Copyright© 1997 by Mark Wan @ AutoZine |
|||||||||||||||||||||||