![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:29 • Filed to: Car magazines, media, print | ![]() | ![]() |
As with most of us I imagine, websites like Jalopnik have replaced the plethora of car magazines that I used to read back in the day. Every time I pick up an issue of Car & Driver now I notice that it seems to be short on content and long on advertisements.
Two magazines that I really miss though which are no longer in publication are Sports Car International and 0-60 magazine. Both magazines had minimal advertising, covered a broad variety of enthusiast topics and performance cars. One of my favorite SCI features was their top ten sports cars of the decade that covered the 60s/70s/80s/90s. I still have a few copies of both in my collection at home.
Any magazines that you guys miss from the heyday of print media?
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:37 |
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Being an import guy, I had subscriptions to Import Tuner, Modified Mag, and SuperStreet. There was just something so unique about flipping through the physical pages of a car magazine.
Oh, the irony of being a social media professional pining for the lost days of actual print media... haha
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:38 |
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0-60 might still have a website, as I thought they went online only.
Sport Compact Car will always be missed until the end of eternity. Thankfully you can find some of the staff over at MotoIQ.com.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:39 |
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0-60 is no longer a thing?
Happily, all the car magazines I grew up with are still in print, some are still good, others have taken a turn to worse.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:39 |
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I liked some of these magazines.
On May 29, 2014 Source Interlink Companies announced that it changed its name change to "TEN: The Enthusiast Network" and that it would cease production of numerous automotive titles as part of the company's name change. These titles include Popular Hot Rodding , Rod & Custom , High Performance Pontiac , Custom Classic Trucks , 4 Wheel Drive & Sport Utility , Mud Life , 5.0 Mustangs and Super Fords , Modified Mustangs & Fords , Camaro Performers , GM High-Tech Performance , Import Tuner , and Honda Tuning
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:50 |
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I loved SCC. All the import tuner articles without the ricey ridiculousness. I'm not sure I knew about MotoIQ, I'll take a look!
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:52 |
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OH MAN. I had a huge collection of SCI, spanning 1995-2003 or so. That was, hands-down, the best print mag out there. Hell, it was a 1992 interview of J Mays that I bought (ordered the back issue because it had an article on the Avus) that got me into car design in the first place. I kept my very favorite issues, but donated the rest to CCS's library when I graduated and moved from Detroit.
Damn shame. Best writers, best photos, most interesting features, and highest-quality printing.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 11:57 |
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Not print, but I miss the David E. days of Winding Road and the old Edmunds Inside Line.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 12:54 |
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Even being a hardcore domestic guy I loved SCC it was the best car magazine hands down.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 12:55 |
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I knew about 5.0 Mustang and Superfords but GM high tech performance, Rod and Customs and Popular hot rodding died too. Damn that sucks.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 13:02 |
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Yes sir, the Automotive section at the magazine place is looking kinda pathetic now.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 13:06 |
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Yeah Even the ones the survived are tiny now. My last issue of Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords was a 102 pages, only a few years ago they were always 300+ sad sad times.
![]() 11/21/2014 at 13:48 |
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Sport Compact Car... I learned sooo much from that magazine. I tear up just thinking about it, glad I kept most of my issues.
![]() 11/27/2014 at 17:18 |
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I miss the old TG Mag