Car & Driver tries to copy Road & Track?

[gsxr]

Huh. This is a variation of what R&T did a few years ago (link), but R&T upped the price by something like 3x. C&D appears to be keeping the same price, for now.

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[dionphaneuf]

Not surprising given issues in print/legacy media at large (see Sports Illustrated) but lame.
Their issues keep getting slimmer, and every year they have so many 'novelty' issues, it's rare to find ones dedicated to actually testing and comparing cars on sale today...you know, journalism. These include

• Lightning Lap
• 10 Best
• 25 Cars worth waiting for
• 'The EV Issue' or 'The Autonomy Issue'

Plus the page count has dropped from 150 in their heyday to ~80.
Sad!

 

[ace10]

If I had a subscription to C&D (which I don't), when they sent me a renewal notice I would tell them that I was going to pay half and that they should simply count each one of my dollars as two.

 

[TerryA]

I quit both R&T and C&D magazines after 10+ years of subscriptions when most of the pages were Weather Tech advertisements and very little actual content.

It became pretty worthless to me.

 

[Jlaa]

I quit both R&T and C&D magazines after 10+ years of subscriptions when most of the pages were Weather Tech advertisements and very little actual content.

It became pretty worthless to me.

Same! The weathertech ads were out of control. Remember the days when we would squint at those 1 page Tire Rack ads with a matrix of 50 wheels styles on one page, all printed in black and white….. and try to imagine how “Fittipaldi Style 500” would look on our car from a dinky 1/3” x 1/3” B&W photo?