Motor to cease publication in June after 68 years.

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Bill Tuckey (and Romsey Quints) are sadly missed.

As is Peter Robinson.

It's seems a world wide phenomena. Road & Track that I used to have a subscription to is essentially dead. No way was I paying the US$1,000 they suddenly wanted for a quarterly glossy picture book edition.

That initial idea seemingly changed per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_%26_Track

In August 2020, the magazine transitioned to bi-monthly publishing and dropped the use of the full “Road & Track” title. In addition to the title change, the magazine design was relaunched in a minimalist style, and offered new subscription packages ranging from $75 per year to almost $1000.[8] Prior to the relaunch, several key contributors left or were let go.

...and seems constantly changing per https://join.roadandtrack.com/pubs/H...ng_code=footer but they lost me as did Wheels and Motor when they became more photo glossy pictorials. It seems the publishers assume people want to just look at glossy photos rather than actually read these days. They may be right from my observation of my own kids, but that is also easier and better to do on the Internet rather than by buying a magazine.

I no longer have any Car Magazine subscriptions (Unique Cars has also gone from my mailbox ) except for "Hot Rod" (and that will go once the four year subscription I somehow now have expires; probbaly due credits from subscription from other mags that have folded) and I have moved on to watching more You Tube Channels such as South Main Auto, Auto Expert-John Cadogen, Harry's Garage and Tyrells' Classic Workshop. Sometimes even Hoovies Garage and Scotty Kilmer. The only magazine subscription I have now is for Silicon Chip. I actually mainly just listen to the audio on these You Tube channels while do other things on the computer and only switching to look if they are talking about something I want to look at.

I also used to subscribe to both Car Craft and Hot Rod (originally Peterson Publications) but Car Craft died with my last subscription (ceased publication coincidentally after the last issue arrived) and I won't be renewing the Hot Rod one. I think the best Australian Car Magazine was the very short lived "Autofix" (I suspect it died as it was probably eating into the sales of Gregory's Workshop Manuals from the same publisher). Sports Car World was my next favourite but that also vanished decades ago.