The Rodding Roundtable
Motorhead Message Central => Rodder's Roundtable => Topic started by: enjenjo on November 23, 2023, 02:16:50 PM
I see hot Rod is changing their format. Starting the first of the year they will be quarterly " worthy of any car fan's coffee table". Plus a free one year subscription to Motor Trend. Whoopee!
Hmmm, sounds like happy spin around the continued, slow decline of automotive periodicals.
slow?
My subscription runs until November 25. Wonder how they are going to handle that, since the new price is $30 a year for 4 magazines?
HRM stopped being relevant decades ago. They have probably grown weary of online TRJ worship and figured if ya can't beat em, join em.
The last couple years HRM has had some decent content and features, but considerable recycled content too. My expectations for the new HRM is not high. Speaking of TRJ, I haven't seen a new one in a while.
I discontinued all magazines 2 decades ago.. Even with the consolidation of a few labels , I saw little value in them.
Same for the TV shows current offering. How many shows can there be about finding old stagnant sitting vehicles? Bolting in various levels of parts, then driving them? I was doing that 40 years ago. Granted the cars I dealt with had only sat for 1 or 2 decades in most cases.
I am sorry to see the state of print these day. I still have all my dads HRMs going back into the 60s and have been dragging them around the Country for 50 years! In the end, the industry did it to their selves. It started with Peterson being sold off and just snowballed with venture capitalists etc etc. I see a niche surviving such as in my black powder hobby. Muzzleloader magazine caters to that crowd and isn't trying to make shareholders money. I don't think TRJ will ever regain their status but SOMEBODY will fill their shoes.
Even down here lots of auto related magazines have disappeared from the shelves.
Australian Street Rodding has ceased operations after many decades of publication at issue 400.
I have all 400 from the seventies until the end. It's sad moment in our hobby that's for sure.
Looking at the barely shelved racks at any store it's not just our hobby that is feeling the change but all magazines across the board.
Its a sign of the times sadly.