Its a victim of "most folks won't pay to read a paper magazine subscription with a lot of similar information online for free these days"
Road & Track magazine ending?
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This is a key point. A lot of what goes in a magazine is either old news or news one can read for free online. Half of magazines are ads anyway. Newspapers are the same. People have decided to stop paying hundreds of dollars a year to have a newspaper delivered that gives you news you read online or saw on television the day before.
The local paper in my area is around $700 a year for seven days a week delivery. That’s insane.
Here is a photo from the latest digital Road and Track. Enjoy.
I have a friend somewhat older than I, who as a kid remembers wiping his butt with the Eaton's catalogue. Now there was a family unhappy to see print go by the wayside. P.S. he said if you crushed up a page, it made it a lot softer. 
Still getting Car and Driver til it runs out. Sites like this plus a whole slew of YouTube sites like Asian Petrolhead and Alex on Autos give me info on what I'm interested in. Probably only 20% of CandD was actually of interest. Plus less paper to mess up my house.
Our local paper is also expensive. They also have it set up now so that if you try to use their website, you only 3 free articles per month. If you want to have unlimited access, they charge $12 per month. So even if you go all digital, it is $144/year. Still crazy.
I have a friend somewhat older than I, who as a kid remembers wiping his butt with the Eaton's catalogue. Now there was a family unhappy to see print go by the wayside. P.S. he said if you crushed up a page, it made it a lot softer.
The New York Times works well for that.
Not if it's the electronic version.
Oh and my handyman tells me not to use red rosin paper for toilet paper. I'll take his word for it.
Washington Post costs me $300 for that. A building full of reporters and editors costs money.
I got the Washington Post last year when they were running a promo at $29 for the year for just digital access. I was thinking of the Wall Street Journal at one point it was $4 for 4 weeks, but that promo seems to have just ended.
On a cold morning I rather read the paper in bed flipping through the pages, not sitting in a chair in front of a computer screen scrolling with a mouse.
My son is 26 and he’s still into cars; he’s thinking of an M235i or M240i. He reads my magazines when he’s home visiting. He and I are also part of the 0.001% of auto racing fans who follow F1, IMSA, and NASCAR.
JHZR2
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Ive always loved magazines... I don’t enjoy the e-versions as much,
Chubba, and I thought he was on C&D.
oops...wrong rag!
Been that long since Ive had them in my hands.
Chubba Chedda
Easy to look up now, 20 years ago not so much.
Or if you have Hungarian ancestry...
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