mad_machine wrote:
...all the mags that Primedia raped...
exactly.
My two cents:
Primedia annihilated Petersen Publishing and McMullen Publisihing.
I'm one of those "strange" car guys that likes a little bit ofeverything.
I used to subscribe to: GRM, Excellence, Hot VWs, Hot Rod, Car Craft, Road & Track, Sports Car Market, 4 Wheel & Off Road, European Car and Automobile.
Now I subscribe to GRM, Excellence, Hot VWs, Classic Motorsports, Hemmings Sports & Exotic and SCM
My favorites were/are:
GRM - always
Excellence - always
European Car - they used to be a LOT more grassroots. I read them from 1992 until about 1999 and in that time you could count on, in pretty much every issue, a BMW (usually a 2002 or an E30), a Porsche (911 or a 924) and a VW (mostly A1 and A2 cars) and some really good technical articles. Primedia then turned them into a waste of paper by redirecting them into a magazine about six-figure "tuner exotics." Way to alienate your audience.
Road and Track - Just because they have Peter Egan, I'll never let the subscription lapse...until he retires or joins Classic Motorsports!
Also Rans:
Hot VWs - I have an air cooled VW. The magazine actually sucks but I buy it (and subscribe) because I don't want to see them go out of business.
Automobile: David E Davis Jr. Without him, what good is Automobile?
Hot Rod/Car Craft - only when Freiburger was in charge. I have no interest in 67 Mustangs built on $1.2M budgets...that don't even run properly!
4Wheel and Off Road - I had a Jeep and they had Freiburger