Car Magazines Disappearing

[TeamOxford]

I hope that some of the stalwarts, such as R&T and C&D, can withstand the digital onslaught. I still love "books" too. There's nothing quite like sitting in one's easy chair and cracking open a new volume. Just the smell of newly printed paper adds to the romance of reading a book.

The digital format may be the choice of today's millennial, but like vinyl records, printed media will someday make a comeback.

Just sayin'............

TO

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by TeamOxford

The digital format may be the choice of today's millennial, but like vinyl records, printed media will someday make a comeback.
TO

I would not be surprised...or disappointed!

(I've still got a stack of LPs that would probably go 6 ft tall. Still listen to many of them! )

[rexcramer]

Are magazines a new app?

[kk2002s]

The digital revolution may be a double edge sword.Unless there's a hard copy any where we are eliminating parts of our history. Actual photographs are being replaced by digital images.

[BYprodriver]

Originally Posted by TeamOxford

I hope that some of the stalwarts, such as R&T and C&D, can withstand the digital onslaught. I still love "books" too. There's nothing quite like sitting in one's easy chair and cracking open a new volume. Just the smell of newly printed paper adds to the romance of reading a book.

The digital format may be the choice of today's millennial, but like vinyl records, printed media will someday make a comeback.

Just sayin'............

TO

Yep, no such thing as curling up in your easy chair with a good computer.

I hated when R&T moved their nice headquarters in Newport beach way up north. I used to test drive the press cars & then deliver to R&T which was 15 minutes from my house. Most of the car magazines went on a severe diet a few years ago & I haven't been buying many. Prices went up & content went down. Even canceled my PCA membership after Pete Stout left.

[Gilles]

Originally Posted by BYprodriver

Even canceled my PCA membership after Pete Stout left.

Bill, the only reason I keep my PCA membership is to allow me to donate every year (mostly), to the PCA foundation aka Membership Only Raffles...

BTW this fall they are raffling a GT4..

[JBauer]

Wow, Mustang Monthly surprises me. 😳 I really liked that one. I was a subscriber for 20 years. Every 5 years the would rehash the same thing but it was a great magazine for clasic Mustang owners.

[tommy583]

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car is the one I miss the most. If you never saw it, the content was mostly European sports cars. You can still view most of the past issues on the Hemmings website though.

[Burg Boxster]

Originally Posted by tommy583

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car is the one I miss the most. If you never saw it, the content was mostly European sports cars. You can still view most of the past issues on the Hemmings website though.

Wow - Hemmings is gone?!?!?

Sheesh...

Could swear I 'perused' that more than the Sears catalog... well, cumulatively LOL in my lifetime

[PaulE]

Originally Posted by Burg Boxster

Wow - Hemmings is gone?!?!?

Sheesh...

Could swear I 'perused' that more than the Sears catalog... well, cumulatively LOL in my lifetime

Not Hemmings Motor News and other Hemmings publications, they are still very much around last I checked. Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car was killed off a few years ago due to low readership/subscribers. They tried to fulfill the rest of my subscription with another Hemmings Magazine that was all American cars from the 1930's to early 1950's and I asked for my money back instead, which they did.

[thstone]

Originally Posted by tommy583

Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car is the one I miss the most.

This was my most favorite car magazine of all time!

[dsallean]

Originally Posted by thstone

This was my most favorite car magazine of all time!

Mine too! I was so sad when they halted production in 2017. Hemmings Classic Car is supposed to have some of the Sports and Exotic content now but it's not the same.