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Still love the show. Just watched an episode this morning where they shorten a 1950 F6
Old news and probably not the brightest idea in this day and age. Why it isn't an additional section in Hot Rod, is a question I have, but then its Peterson Publishing and they'll flood the market with whatever sells.
I know I'm not going to subscribe, even though I love the web show, I just don't want to pay to read about them dicking around with half-assed solutions, poor planning and last minute screw-ups. While entertaining, it isn't really magazine fodder, I'd say that would be more suited to novelization. GRM balances the humor of everyday life as a car-person with real solutions and data.
Just my opinion though, so don't take it as gospel.
Wow, $9.99 is the newstand price shown near the bar code.
It's been a long time since I've bought a magazine (GRM subscription aside) but that seems really high.
Edit: I had to check but GRM newstand price = $4.99
Perhaps we could at least thumb through it at the checkout before passing this much judgement.
I bought it right after it came out, I need to sit down and do more than thumb through it.
I was a little bummed when they went 'mainstream' and took the dodge sponsorship. Half of what made it fun was a no budget show. Hellcat swaps are not what they were about when they started. Also the youtube show now comes out a week earlier on their pay site.
I guess im happy to see them doing well enough to have sponsors and a magazine and website etc, but I hope the show doesnt get too commercialized. I can see it already with dodge everything in the new shows.
I enjoy the show but prefer car craft out of there publications. Roadkill would have made a good short section in hot rod as mentioned.
To me the show and maybe this magazine seems much more in-line with Car Craft and not Hot Rod. Hot Rod seemed to lose a lot of the tech & build stuff that Car Craft does, and Car Craft definitely has a lower-buck feel to their articles than H-R. Maybe a Roadkill supplemental issue sent out twice yearly with Car Craft makes more sense? It would give them enough time to build up a collection of really good articles and write-ups instead of trying to generate more content every four weeks.
Not that this idea will make it anywhere... but that's what makes more sense to me.
The thing I like most about roadkill is they just go out and have fun with cars. Which is what it is all about, right?
no worrying about bs like who built the most cubic inches, who has the shiniest paint, who has the lowest car, best tires, newest helmet, etc.
If the stubby F-6 is any indicator, Roadkill hasn't lost its way.
if you got to SEMA, you will see a HUGE "Roadkill" banner on the front of the building...
that had to cost a few of Dodge's dollars- and there isn't even a Dodge on the picture... unless Fiat owns Lamborghini- does Fiat own Lamboghini?
i can't even watch it any more... it used to be two guys having fun and doing stuff on the cheap... i didn't even mind the one off episode where Subaru gave them a car to thrash... but the Dodge money has changed everything..
In reply to novaderrik:
VAG owns Lambo.
I bought the mag when it came out last month. It's OK. I won't subscribe.
In reply to novaderrik:
Watch the latest episode. They are back to basics and screwing around and failing as usual.
Even the episode with the Hellcat Charger was an ok one as they crapped all over the Gas Monkey Garage folks and their inability to be shown or mentioned in an online web show, even though the results of the race were posted online along with footage from others at the event.
In reply to novaderrik:
The Rotsun at LeMons will change your attitude, I promise.
The Roadkill magazine is a little strange to me. I kind of assumed it would be a hybrid between automotive-based long-form adventure journalism (like, uh, no existing magazines - come to think of it, that pool of customers is probably pretty shallow) and how-to photoshoots (like Car Craft, GRM/CM or the old Project Car magazine, RIP) but it's not quite that.
There are some new (performance) car reviews as well as guest editorial from loosely-affiliated writers in the Motor Trend family. I'm not super surprised at that last part because Finnegan and Freiburger have got to be stretched pretty far with the additional responsibilities they've been getting dumped on them, but I expected more of the Hot Rod personalities (like Elena Scherr, who easily has enough crap in her yard to fill a magazine) and fewer of the Motor Trend ones, though I do think Jonny Lieberman is awesome.
I wonder a bit how long they had between "we're going to make another magazine" and "it's publication deadline time" for this first issue. I have a feeling the second issue will be more uniform. Having read Hot Rod since Roadkill first came out I've gotten a confusing impression of how Motor Trend has been run internally both before and after the TEN reshuffle.
I'll see how the next few issues are, whenever they come out, if I can find it. Right now I can only find it at one chain of bookstores, unlike Hot Rod, which is available pretty much everywhere. Assuming they're working on the distribution agreements before setting stuff up.
In reply to ssswitch:
I got it at my local grocery store, but they generally have a decent selection of car rags.
If it comes out that they killed Rod & Custom just for this, I will be pissed.
I snagged it and enjoyed it. If the stagger Elapsed Time and this I'll be good.
Offenderang
Zombie thread!
I just picked up an issue (the 2nd one) after thumbing through it at walmart. I'll read it tonight during my lunch break. From my quick skimming it seemed decent.
It's pretty decent, I like it. Although, is it just me or does the texture of the cover drive anyone else up the wall. I hate picking it up.
That said, I don't mind how they have reprinted articles from Motor Trend and 4 Wheel & Off Road and a few others, as those are magazines I usually don't read, so it's cool to see some of the Hot Rod-ish content from them,
I saw issue #2 a couple weeks ago. $10 bucks made me think better of it and I put it back on the shelf. It seems magazine are trying to hit a home run with each sale as circulation keeps dwindling.
NickD wrote: reprinted articles from Motor Trend and 4 Wheel & Off Road and a few others
Wait, seriously? $10 per issue and they are recycling content? I don't have much room to talk because I had to do the same thing, but my magazine was $5.99 an issue and my budget had been slashed to nothing.
$10 an issue? I baulk at paying that for Octane, Motrosport or Evo, but at least I'm paying that for an imported magazine, for a domestically printed mag, forget it. I'd fork over $5 to try it once, but not $10
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