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RIP Automobile Magazine
Just got a notice that Automobile has been discontinued - was a good mag.
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Wait... magazines are still a thing?
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Mags a thing?
Apparently not! I have digital subscriptions to some things, but still enjoy thumbing through physical car magazines, of which I get 7 (well, now 6).
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Some of us don’t like bringing electronics into the shitter.
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does seem, sadly, like a trend. Automobile now, Autoweek last month, Roundel deleting one month....worst of all by far was the demise of Bimmer a couple years ago.
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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.
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I liked automobile and subscribed at various points since the 1990s. I've had R&T at times as well. MT and C&D have been staples for me since 1991.
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Used to love Autoweek back in the day. New issue 4 times a month 52 a year.
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There was so much overlap with MotorTrend.
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Maybe if something other than car magazines.
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Automobile was a bunch of articles about how pretty the ride scenery was vs the actual car.
R&T got so weak I'm not even sure they were testing cars anymore. Autoweek was all advertising- I used to play "find the article" MT seems to get it and C&D always has - so I'm glad I have those - in paper format
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