Car Craft, Super Chevy, Muscle Mustangs no longer printed

VRYALT3R3D said:

You brought up some great points but YouTube is not a good platform for a publisher to sell ads since most of the revenue goes to Google.

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I'm a little confused. Here's how it goes. Pretend MM&FF had a YT channel, and a half million subs. Every manufacturer would be begging to have their parts featured. Say MM&FF is driving down to FL to cover a race, vlogs the race but also the drive down and mentions how great their new Koni shocks make their 2003 cobra project car ride. That means Koni probably gave them the shocks for free, and maybe even made they to drop the mention. The more views, the more income MM&FF gets, the more sponsorships they get offered, the more content they can produce, the more views, the more money, etc, etc.

A big automotive YTer just talked finances in a recent video. With his GT350, he paid 53, has spent 4K on it, so 57K, but his 18 videos on it has made 48K. The car is worth maybe 40K at Carmax, so that's a 32K net if he dumped it today. That's just ONE of his many cars.

I remember back in the day, Car Craft, Motor Trend and Super Chevy were my big 3. With Motor Trend #1 on my list. When they showed up in my mailbox, my day was complete. I'd usually keep the current issues on my nightstand and browse through them multiple times. Really sad that so many magazines are being dropped. They'll be a day we'll be only reminiscing about printed magazines, most of which will become digital version unless they're dropped entirely. I used to work as a manager with a large printing company, so anything printed being dropped has a bit of a sting to it.

Me as well! Sad.

Yep, changing of the times.

I've got two boxes of Mustang and SVT magazines. What to do, what to do.

They make good fire starters. Haha

I stopped reading car magazines years ago when it became clear they were all just sales pitches for certain manufacturers.

Coiled03 said:

I stopped reading car magazines years ago when it became clear they were all just sales pitches for certain manufacturers.

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Agreed

They were the definition of news narratives back in the day.

Not sure I knew that these were even still in print.

I've got Car Craft magazines dating back to the mid-50s. Hot Rod starting with issue # 2

I miss the mags being more tech heavy. When TEN had massive facilities on each coast dedicated to the car mags they had the ability to produce some really great content. Recently they've basically had to snap up scraps from shops.

Lowrider magazine and Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords will be missed.
It's funny mane, I would go to the grocery store with my mom just to get a peek these mags lolol.

vortecd said:

I just renewed MM&FF for 2 years through Amazon and have not received my 1st issue so I cancelled it and see what happens on getting my money back

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My money has been refunded

pwrshft99 said:

It was bound to happen. I quit reading the Mustang mags after forums got popular.

The younger generation doesn't even care for that. They get their (mis) information from Facebook

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Very true. Quite a few car forums which were strong in users and content 6-10years ado are ghost town or wiped. Luckily some of the bigger one’s have stayed

sonicx said:

Very true. Quite a few car forums which were strong in users and content 6-10years ado are ghost town or wiped. Luckily some of the bigger one’s have stayed

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I still can't get over how MM just evaporated, they had a rocking coyote community.

Yes the last few years of MM&FF's went down to about a 1/4 of its full size and with mostly ads. I stopped in 2015. But no fear I saved every month/year of my subscriptions to MM&FF for the last 20 plus years stored away and will have much to look back on when I need reading material in the future or just sell them.

Weather Man said:

I still can't get over how MM just evaporated, they had a rocking coyote community.

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SVT has always been the best. I’m thrilled others have remained to add to the vast library of knowledge within threads.

1 Alibi 2 said:

My Automobile subscription runs to Aug. 2022.
My Car Craft subscription runs to Oct. 2022, & am not interested in some " on line " publication in it's place.
And I still get news papers delivered to my house daily..

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..............As a follow-up on this thread.
Got a letter from TEN Publishing telling me Automobile & Car Craft are history. Called them today, they agreed to extend my current subscriptions to Motor Trend & Hot Rod to equal the months remaining on the two defunct pubs. Added 31 months to Motor Trend & 30 months to Hot Rod, which I found to be an agreeable solution..

I mostly kept my MM&FF subscription as a charity case so oh well... now damned near everything is available online well before the mag comes out anyway