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      01-19-2020, 09:17 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by RoundelM3 View Post
Yeah...I remember when Road & Track, which was what I considered THE best car mag got sold to the same publishing group that puts out Car & Driver and Motor Trend. So instead of great articles from the California viewpoint (and other non-Detroit areas), it turned into another C&D/MT "clone" with over a dozen full pages of advertising (8 pages for WeatherTech), a Michigan-based viewpoint, and articles about Trucks and SUVs. When Peter Egan left the mag, it went downhill from there.
I thought C&D and R&T were a pair and then MT and Automobile were a separate pair? Otherwise, I agree, the expansion of truck coverage and periodic political statements have made all the auto magazines less interesting.
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