67 911 , 69 911S, Ford V Ferrari 906LH, 85 Carrera...and-gasp! a bunch of Corvettes, Musclecars and Italian crap(330GTC,GTA/M,308GTB)
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I've heard that Autosport might have reconsidered. I do hope do as I read it every week -- hard copy.
. . . how many of us have ever read --- never-mind had an actual subscription to . . . ANY of these rags? . . .
. . . in the last Ten YEARS?
Lowrider?
Seriously?
K --- maybe Automobile excepted . . . 'cept I dropped my subscription even before DED passed-away
By then, all there was on offer was Kitman going-on + on about his Volvos + SAABs, and what's-her-name whining about pretty-much everything --- with the rest of the articles written-up by Kacher
Shocked they lasted this long
For what they were charging for that? --- rather put the money in my gas tank . . . and take a drive
Too bad, too. I used to LOVE reading R&T and C&D kinda grew-up on the stuff --- but never MT --- IMO = total garbage . . . . . .
. . . but guess which one made it to/rules TV, now?
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Last edited by LongRanger; 12-15-2019 at 07:54 AM.
Speak for yourself. I’m really going to miss LowRider.
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The equal question, of course, is how many of those impacted visit this site?
As to MT, yep, agreed—until that wasn't true anymore. MT was the butt of every joke among those in the business, as well—until Angus took over (whenever that was). Then it was suddenly, arguably better than some of the others, if not all of the others. Real drivers, real lap times on proper circuits set by Pobst, real road testing, real stories. One of the real surprises to me was how Angus did it. Most "turnaround" editors come in and dump the staff. He didn't. And I respected that. A lot.
And then came MT Classic, which was very well done (but still didn't make it). MT TV looked like the new halo for a long time. That got cut back heavily, too, if I understand the moving and shaking correctly.
The real issue with 19 of 22 being shuttered has less to do with what each of us may or may not like and more to do with the trend—a trend that reminds me a bit of Borders and Barnes & Noble taking out all of the local book stores and newsstands. When I was at Excellence, the performance of those two "directs" was seriously impressive against traditional distributors like Curtis. But then Borders went under, after taking out so many independents. Today, there is—to my knowledge—just one place you can buy Excellence in all of Marin county, and it's been that way for many years.
While there are ways to make a buck with online content, the concern of a Borders scenario (wiping out what's there...and then disappearing) is one to be considered.
Just my 2 cents...
Stout, I strongly AGREE with you. It's just awful that a big store like Borders comes and causes all the moms and pops, independent bookstores to close, and then the big bad giant(Borders) closes also.