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    19 of 22 Magazines Shuttered

    https://jalopnik.com/ten-publishing-...ign=2019-12-07

    Here is the full list of the 19 publications ending their print run.

    4-Wheel & Off-Road
    Automobile
    Car Craft
    Chevy High Performance
    Classic Trucks 
    Diesel Power
    Hot Rod Deluxe 
    Jp
    Lowrider
    Mopar Muscle
    Muscle Car Review
    Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords
    Mustang Monthly
    Street Rodder
    Super Chevy 
    Super Street
    Truck Trend 
    Truckin’
    Vette

    The move follows an alarming trend in the automotive print world following the shuttering of Autoweek’s print operations and acquisition by Hearst Magazines back in October, and a restructuring at Car And Driver last year that saw over a dozen staffers laid off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sithot View Post
    The move follows an alarming trend in the automotive print world following the shuttering of Autoweek’s print operations and acquisition by Hearst Magazines back in October, and a restructuring at Car And Driver last year that saw over a dozen staffers laid off.
    I always wonder who exactly is alarmed by this kind of news? Time moves on and we all have access to more automotive media than we've ever had in our lives - more than any of us could ever expect to consume. I, for one, wouldn't trade that to save the print dinosaurs.

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    Thanks for posting...very sad to hear.

    Quote Originally Posted by sithot View Post
    https://jalopnik.com/ten-publishing-...ign=2019-12-07

    Here is the full list of the 19 publications ending their print run.

    4-Wheel & Off-Road
    Automobile
    Car Craft
    Chevy High Performance
    Classic Trucks 
    Diesel Power
    Hot Rod Deluxe 
    Jp
    Lowrider
    Mopar Muscle
    Muscle Car Review
    Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords
    Mustang Monthly
    Street Rodder
    Super Chevy 
    Super Street
    Truck Trend 
    Truckin’
    Vette

    The move follows an alarming trend in the automotive print world following the shuttering of Autoweek’s print operations and acquisition by Hearst Magazines back in October, and a restructuring at Car And Driver last year that saw over a dozen staffers laid off.
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    About a week ago I decided to frame my/THE last issue of AUTOWEEK....

    Glad I saved a handful of my old ones...

    … and so it goes
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    Autosport is going the same, way I hear. Those who follow motor racing will know the role it has played here in the world class motor sport /and motor racing industry a lot of which operates out of Great Britain. Autosport's back issues chart the from who came to Britain from all around the world often at the most junior grass roots levels to make their mark as drivers but those also founded or worked among the famous teams on technical or team management roles. Also the many who had a go on the lower classes or club level but never made it. Books get written about things in retrospect but in Autosport the history of motorsport got charted real time in the columns documenting in detail the weekly results and storyline. History recorded as it unfolded one race at a time. Sad that this will be a lost resource. In my club they have Autosport back to its foundation also EVERY Autocar back to 1890s on the shelves. Fascinating as some of my pals who've visited the library and archives will attest. It is interesting to think who was actuay buying/reading Autocar magazine in the 1890s! While the modern channels have some obvious advantages resources, those irreplaceable paper archives are a different source of knoedge and a pleasure not found in the www. Only recently visited with a friend to dig thorough the race history of rheir 73 911 racecar -- things that won't be found in www. The librarian had opened the relevant glass shelves. Great morning spent hengong out and digging into the binders followed by a pleasant lunch and onto an increasingly hazy evening in the bar over an undisclosed number if bottles of claret to discuss what was found -- often the more facinating finds the adverts or other of the era distractions unearthed when turning a physical page.. instead using the targetted web search for old stuff and getting the modern ads appear on screen. Sad loss if the paper get squeezed out IMO.

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    PS let's not overlook that patina/ smell of original document. Photocopies and digital images are no substitute for the real thing. One of my dearest pals who Im pleased to have met through old Porsche ownership -- CEO of a financial services company -- who I know sometimes posts, here will forever be etched on my memory deeply sniffing the paper of his very rare original motoring document the night before heading down to CLM. They know who they are! A decent bottle on 19th buys my silence come to think of it this individual asked me to take in the original old magazine next time we meet even though I emailed an image of the article - yikes-- does Freud cover this ?
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    Not alarming at all.

    I just recycled 20 years of Excellence and Pano that were boat anchoring in the attic. It took multiple trips to the curb in the blue bin. On a side note, I can barely flip through my digital subscription of R & T--it's plain terrible and won't be renewed, unless, perhaps, Peter Egan returned with his monthly column, something I anticipated reading every month in the distant past.

    But I think there is more to this trend than simply digital media (such as this forum) substituting for print.

    There is an entire generation of people that just aren't into automobiles at the rate my generation (X) and those before me are/were. On the contrary, there is a growing number of younger people that find ownership of a car and perceived "negative" effects on society worthy of scorn. By extension, the social conscience on environmental impact and oil politics play a role in the demise of our beloved magazines.

    Softening prices on vintage cars, flagging new car sales while styles get blander to divert money into R&D for electrics/batteries/autonomy. Interest and excitement are waning, and unfortunately, I think it portends a sad long term trend for the industry and enthusiasm for it.

    I haven't missed an F1 race for 25 years (yeah, I'm that twisted); yet if the 2021 Formula makes it even less of a spectacle, I'm probably done with that too.

    And so it goes...
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    ...maybe my kids can bury me in an eco friendly sustainable casket made from recycled old car magazines /rare original automotive literature pulp; paying for my funeral using the meagre proceeds of my virtually worthless unusable polluting petrol 73 RS that by then have devalued back to the amount I paid for it in the early nineties because no one wants it. Possibly quite a nice apt send off

    Actually my daughter is looking for an old Elise built the year of her birth which was while I was working at Lotus in Hethel -- maybe there is some hope for our predominantly middle aged man hobby after all.
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    ...an example of little surprises found when leafing through an old magazine looking for something else ....today came across a one page article written at beginning of 72 about the evolution of early 911 handling. Article dating from the time of the model year 72 911 hitting the streets.in the UK. Presumably it was a by-product from their recent 911 2.4 S full roadtest.
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    Quite like the line drawing artwork...not credited to artist.Maybe from Porsche or reuse of one commisioned for an earlier launch article?
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    Nothing new in the one pager for early 911 enthusiasts these days especially folks on this Early S forum, but stuff they did in that era quite informative in what was after all a generalist wide circulation national motoring weekly ( no Porsche specialist magazines back then). Maybe a few details to quibble with. However the comments about the evolution over what was approaching its first decade must've been a revelation to many bearing in mind a 911 S was beyond the means of most readers. At £5400 it was about the same price as a Dino; both of which were twice the price of a V12 E Type. The then very popular here in G.B. Ford Cortina in a representative "middle of road" specification was roughly £1000.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beh911 View Post
    I just recycled 20 years of Excellence and Pano that were boat anchoring in the attic. It took multiple trips to the curb in the blue bin. On a side note, I can barely flip through my digital subscription of R & T--it's plain terrible and won't be renewed, unless, perhaps, Peter Egan returned with his monthly column, something I anticipated reading every month in the distant past.
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    I don't know, I think that magazines may become rare and even make some sort of comeback like LPs(vinyl records) which many people threw out and replaced with CDs, or even mechanical fuel injection which in the 1980s and 1990s many of Porsche mechanic threw away in the trash ( to hard to work on and getting all the linkages just right, price to rebuild the pump or just didn't have the knowledge ) but now wished they had kept it because it's worth a lot now, or like old car brochures that one would get for free at the auto show or dealers show room floor that fetch a pretty penny now. With more people throwing away/recycling magazines they will eventually become scarce and then who knows. Just look at the prices of the 2.7 911 from 1974-1977, these were considered the worst Porsche 911 to ever buy used. Anyway I'm open to offers on my set of Excellence magazines 1-188

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