Not for much longer.

GM High-Tech Performance is dead, or will be after the Aug issue.

I used to subscribe to the print version, but dropped that a few years ago. I would pick up one off the news stand when I saw something I liked, but last year I re-uped for the digital version.

I liked that they covered cars without carbs and didn't just focus on strait line cars, but there articles were always thin, just covering the surface and missing a lot of the cool details. The also spent so much focus on the pretty cars and not covering much in the cool and fast cars that didn't have flawless paint. There are a load of subject I wish they had covered, but that would have required deep articles on things like how they actually tuned the ecu for the latest engine they built for a project car.

Another member of the print media falls. They weren't the first and I'm sure they won't be the last.

Wow, I have some old issues I kept with 3rd gen stuff in them. I haven't read too many car mags lately at all (I pretty much quit buying car mags about 4 years ago), but I'm still surprised to see them go.

I agree Bill. My car was featured, and then I wrote an article for them as well. I always hungered for more details in the articles, I was shocked that they took the article I wrote. Before Freidburger and HOTROD featured him, I begged the staff to feature StanIROCZ's car, but they didnt citing something about it not having a stock enough interior. WTF??? They seemed hypersensitive to keeping things on the surface so as not to loose the reader's interest. They seemed to cater to the guy with lots of money that wanted to throw money in bolt ons at a C6 or 5th gen Camaro, when frankly thats not what lots of us wanted to see. Not enough hardcore content, period. Featuring Austin's car is a perfect example of why HOTROD is doing OK and GMHTP is dead.

There are several more titles that are no more to include Camaro Performers, Chevy High Performance, Pontiac High Performance, and a few more. In addition to shutting down certain magazines, they shut down Source Interlink distribution which is how they got the magazines to stores. Also, Source Interlink Media is now known as TEN, or "The Enthusiast Network". The brands they kept are located on this home page of their new website. The Enthusiast Network

This post has been edited by RacingZ-44: Jun 2 2014, 07:59 PM

Wow, so magazine print media has gone the direction of FM radio media, controlled by some big NY corporation that spews the same stuff in a different order on all the stations they own across the nation. Nice.

It is sad to see it go, however this forum and other online venues have become a great medium for the exchange of information similar to what you would find in the magazines. That's the same reason why I don't own a Haynes manual for my car -- there's plenty of good information in there, however most of it can also be found online with color pictures and helpful tips from others that have done the work.

As a guy that's always loved cars, however had zero knowledge as to how to actually work on them it sure is nice having such a knowledgeable and friendly group of folks to lean on for advice.

This post has been edited by Midnight02: Jun 3 2014, 01:17 AM

Is GMHTP and any of the others above going to continue being 'published' online, or are they going to be gone even from there??

It's sad that the print media is dying. Many years ago there was a GREAT alt-country/'Americana'/new folk/bluegrass music rag called "No Depression", it too went the way of many mags/newspapers about 3-4 years ago. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

The mainstream media mags have absolutely no relation to what we do with cars.

Didja ever notice that a car build or test article was immediately followed by a multi-page advertisement of the company who manufactured the parts used or tested in said build?

I was at Gigliotti's shop one day helping build one of his WC Vettes when Johnny Hunkins called and basically offered a reduced advertising rate in exchange for a supply of F-Body suspension goodies for an article in GHHTP. My bubble was burst.

They install a full line of BMR suspension parts and ... BAM ... 4 pages of BMR advertising.
Have a tire shoot-out between three or four of the major brands and ... BAM ... 4 pages of Tirerack.com advertising.

And the conclusions were so predictable ... "could feel the BMR suspension working as the car felt more planted and stable." what?

"The Toyo tire didn't grip as well as the Hoosier and the Hoosier didn't have the life span that the Toyo had. But in a straight line, both performed equally well." What?

Glad my car got in GMHTP before it got cut.

Shame, I remember riding my bike to the 7-11, buying a Slurpee and looking at car mags all afternoon.....great times growing up.

I largely gave up on the car mags 4 or 5 years back. I still keep some of the old issues around that had some good solid builds, but i can't say I'm surprised to see multiple titles go. Occasionally I'll pick up hotrod and thumb through the pages, once in a while I'll buy it when something piques my interest. The only magazine I subscribe to these days is racecar engineering and I grab it digitally.

The other Brit rag, "Race Tech" is also very good, but neither have a lot of relevance to what we build, save for the very general suspension set up, weight distribution, cg, instant center, tire tech, brake, and engineering articles.

But I DO love reading about the current WRC, WTCC, and Global Rallycross Championship rides which are ONLY covered in these publications. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/2thumbs.gif)

This post has been edited by dailydriver: Jun 6 2014, 02:03 AM

oooooo. I've loved the trial copies of racecar engineering. $45-50 is still a lot for a digital magazine, but much cheaper than the $100 they've charged in the past for the paper copy.

This post has been edited by roostmeyer: Jun 6 2014, 04:56 PM