Noticed Something About Car Action Mag.

[sherbs]

Has anyone else noticed or am I imagining things that "Car Action Magazine" only does articles and features on companies that run adds? Ex, when was the last time you saw a new Holmes or Vanquish product reviewed? For me this is not what a magazine should be. I have emailed them multiple times and asked about a Vanquish Phoenix review. Nothing at all in return!

[OutLore]

Pretty much anything in printed and/or legacy media of all types these days is paid for by advertisers. Make of that what you will and read between the lines where a magazine review is concerned.

[mikemcE]

As above, it’s a dying body of art. Very few magazines today to start and auto and models were slim picks anyways.


Hang up and Drive

[sherbs]

So I am not mistaken. Wanted to make sure it was just not me. Gone are the days of an honest review or a review of a product that is not paying the reviewer.

[OutLore]

Originally Posted by sherbs

So I am not mistaken. Wanted to make sure it was just not me. Gone are the days of an honest review or a review of a product that is not paying the reviewer.

Gone are the days of an honest anything for the most part.

[BJoe]

Um, it’s been like that for decades, a lot of the Peterson magazines were like that and when Sport Compact Car decided to do a test of more “scammy” products advertised and gave honest results, those advertisers walked away and it killed the magazine.

[durok]

NOT an RC site, but a couple of the best Jalopnik writers have joined up with another massive car fanatic to come up with a new type of automobile enthusiast website:

https://www.theautopian.com/car-news...or-the-people/

I've been a huge fan of the guys articles on their old site, and this looks VERY promising...

[sherbs]

Originally Posted by OutLore

Gone are the days of an honest anything for the most part.

Can't argue that, even YouTubers give high reviews on crap to keep the freebe's coming.