Car & Driver... New Format NO GOOD!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Car & Driver... New Format NO GOOD!

Posted: 10/31/2006 5:19:43 AM EDT

I got my December issue yesterday. New format. No complaint with most if it except for the micro font printing. I admit to being somewhat over 35 and I have a new prescription for my glasses but talk about eyestrain.

I hope they get enough complaints to ditch that font.

M4-AK

Posted: 10/31/2006 5:31:37 AM EDT

[#1]

Smaller font for text = more room for ads.

I can't stand Car&Track&Road&Driver anymore. The paltry auto racing coverage they do have is 9 months old, and their editorial content is, IMHO, horrible. Even their photography has been in a decline for about 10-12 years. Automobile has superior editorial content and photography, and AutoWeek has actual news.

Posted: 10/31/2006 5:38:07 AM EDT

[#2]

those mags are like gun mags, they hardly have any negative reviews nor the balls to say "This product sucks ass!" Any negatives are sugar coated or glossed over

Posted: 10/31/2006 5:45:22 AM EDT

[#3]

I knew they were headed for the head when Brock Yates left/got fired. They had three sentences buried somewhere that said he left to pursue other interests and that was all, I thought it was kind of a slap in the face. I like Automobile magazine, it focuses more on the drive rather then all the points that C&D uses, that and it has better pictures.

-JTP

Posted: 10/31/2006 5:54:56 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I knew they were headed for the head when Brock Yates left/got fired. They had three sentences buried somewhere that said he left to pursue other interests and that was all, I thought it was kind of a slap in the face. I like Automobile magazine, it focuses more on the drive rather then all the points that C&D uses, that and it has better pictures.

-JTP

Yes, he was let go due to cost cutting. I swear this mag will fold if us middle aged guys can't read the font.

Posted: 10/31/2006 6:01:26 AM EDT

[#5]

agreed. hard to read font wise.. as well as the graphics are so stark and in contrast..its hard to focus on the text.

Posted: 10/31/2006 6:11:23 AM EDT

[#6]

I hated Motor Trend as they could never say anything bad about a car. C&D was not like that, now they are. Nothing objective anymore. Now they say whatever the Mfr wants them to say. R&T has fallen into the same rut. I don't buy them anymore because of it.

Posted: 10/31/2006 6:13:03 AM EDT

[#7]

Car Craft.

Posted: 10/31/2006 8:26:14 AM EDT

[#8]

I let my subscription expire this year. It was the same old pap, over and over again.

My only subscriptions are Motor Cyclist and American Rifleman.

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