Car magazines being cancelled

[Schwerin]

Less magazines and more pre-gapped spark plugs. There was a time in this country when young people actually could build and repair things. Now we have a generation that has to buy pre-gapped spark plugs because they can't or are afraid to gap their own. We used to sit on the john and read a magazine when we took a shit. Now we have all these people living thru a 3" phone screen to see what's in their virtual tool box.

3in phone screens? what is this 2005? Phones are 5.5-6.5in now.

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[Interceptor]

I have used the internet since early 2000’s anyway so it is not a loss to me. Less trees being used for paper equals more oxygen. ;). Next...

My young kid comes home from grade school and states basically that we should build houses out of stone/ concrete to save the trees. He learned that in school.
Then I ask him how many rocks has he seen growing out in the woods?

When the paper industry slows down because a lack of product needed then the property will be sold for greater profit to build homes. They will clear property of all vegetation to build the homes.
The tree farmers have a very efficient and healthy farming system that is actually very good for the planet. So by you not buying the magazines and using the internet you are damaging our earth!

 

[Zinc03svt]

My young kid comes home from grade school and states basically that we should build houses out of stone/ concrete to save the trees. He learned that in school.
Then I ask him how many rocks has he seen growing out in the woods?

When the paper industry slows down because a lack of product needed then the property will be sold for greater profit to build homes. They will clear property of all vegetation to build the homes.
The tree farmers have a very efficient and healthy farming system that is actually very good for the planet. So by you not buying the magazines and using the internet you are damaging our earth!

I do miss the bathroom stack. Lol.

 

[Zathras]

MM&FF used to have some great articles, I still have a few copies from the '90s.

 

[Stangfan6818]

What are they going to do with paid subscriptions for the print version? I just renewed my sub to MM&FF and Hot Rod for 3 years. Are they going to refund my money or convert it to digital?

I literally just renewed my subscription to Mustang Monthly for 2 years. My last issue was to be Jan 2020. I fired off an email to their subscription dept yesterday demanding a refund. Hopefully they will do the right thing.

 

[Rover]

Relax - it's evolution.
We know more about cars now that we ever did in the golden era of printed media.
We have more information at our fingertips which allow us to do so much more than before.
Google how to gap plugs if pre-gappers are freaking you out. It's all still there - so is ready made supper. lol
You get to decide. I check my pre-gaps. It's all good.
I cloned my hard drive this AM. Replaced front struts in a beamer last week.
Installed and fixed a hundred other things without readin a magazine on the can. Here's an idea - get up and do something until you really have to go poop. Much less wasted time sitting in the bathroom.

 

[Snakes&horses]

Well this sucks... I too just renewed muscle car review and mustang monthly for 2 years and am personally not a fan of digital content. I tried it but just didn’t like it. Guess I’m old school as well,at least I felt like with an actual hard copy I got something for my money ( full disclosure I’m one of those people that saves and organizes all my mags lol ) with technology constantly changing and laptops/iPads/tablets becoming outdated quickly or breaking the potential for losing your digital library can be high. I know others will disagree or like the digital trend and too each they’re own but I’m going to miss the walk to the mailbox to be pleasantly surprised to find mixed in with all the junk mail, bills and other nonsense flyers is a new car magazine or 2 that I will be able to happily hold in my hands and read at my leisure without having to sign on too my electronic device to retrieve ..... just my 2 cents

 

[Endokendal]

Less magazines and more pre-gapped spark plugs. There was a time in this country when young people actually could build and repair things. Now we have a generation that has to buy pre-gapped spark plugs because they can't or are afraid to gap their own. We used to sit on the john and read a magazine when we took a shit. Now we have all these people living thru a 3" phone screen to see what's in their virtual tool box.

And get the hell off my lawn you degenerates!
Wow, this would be really a funny post if it wasn’t so sad.
I’ve never understood the whole reading while taking a shit thing. I get it done and get out... who enjoys sitting in the stench?

 

[CB18]

Maybe they have wives that never STFU and the bathroom is the only place to get any peace

 

[EcoVert]

The only one I had was MM&FF which has become 80% advertising and my subscription runs out in April 2020. I wasn't going to renew any way.

 

[EcoVert]

“While TEN Publishing will no longer print the following magazines,” he wrote, “[MotorTrend Group] will continue to offer our audiences and advertisers digital coverage for these discontinued print titles online,” adding that subscribers to the shuttered magazines will be offered digital subscriptions to MotorTrend, Hot Rod or Four Wheeler as well as MotorTrend‘s video streaming service.

They can take anything branded Motor Trend and shove it up their a**es.

 

[Interceptor]

I too just paid for some subscriptions, not sure which ones, but it doesn't matter if they don't send them all. I ordered them for the free clocks that I'm hanging on shop walls.
The hot rod stuff as gone way to overboard now for me to enjoy.

 

[Balr14]

I was a subscriber to Car & Driver for many years. But, I gave it up about 2 years ago because what was in the magazine was already old news by the time it appeared in printed form. There were also sooo many ads.

 

[Vicr]

I’ve never understood the whole reading while taking a shit thing. I get it done and get out... who enjoys sitting in the stench?

I was never a shitter/reader but my father-in-law used to call it "the reading room".

 

[Weather Man]

When online forums can't survive because phone users have the attention span of knats from using facebook, you knew print wasn't gonna make it.

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