Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Status of the car enthusiast world... ? Not so good, iconic magazine Hot Rod, and tv show Top Gear are over as we knew them

Top Gear just announced they are done. No plan to continue. https://www.thedrive.com/news/top-gear-is-officially-off-air-for-the-foreseeable-future

Hot Rod just announced no more monthly issues. Now, it, and Motor Trend, will be quarterly, and cost more for subscriptions, which I doubt, anyone is excited to pay, when obviously the future of Hot Rod Magazine is not long in the print version. https://help.motortrendondemand.com/hc/en-us/articles/21232231896461-MotorTrend-and-HOT-ROD-Magazine-Quarterly-Issues-Price-Increase-and-Customer-Offer

if you look at one of the recent issues of Hot Rod, it's half the size an issue was in 2010, and is full of ads, not of features on hot rods. 

2 comments:

  1. Who didn't see this coming? One side wants all electric. The other side wants Dodge Hellcats with 700 hp hemis. The car culture requires and extension cord now.

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  2. I opened my first Hot rod magazine in years the other day. it is physically smaller, and nothing like its former self. No tech articles, no how to's.....a shade of its former glory. Guess i will just have to reread my older copies.

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