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Motor Trend

Description

This is a contemporary world car magazine which provides evaluations of automotive products for all varieties and styles of cars. Its feature material includes motor sport and technical departments, auto industry news, styling and engineering details, safety reports, race car reviews, equipment and accessory buyers guides and impressions of new trucks and off-road vehicles.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-05
Summary: "I've had an over four-decade subscription with this magazine."

Not quite sure, but I think I started getting MT when I was fifteen or sixteen; thus, it's been a staple in my life for close to 45 years.

Because of this long association, I can wholeheartedly recommend the magazine for its coverage of the auto industry: developments, innovations, prices, and its history.

The photos of cars from all angles give the reader a great "look" of what he or she may be interested in purchasing.

The magazine has quality editorial content that is both informative and thought-provoking.

MT is the premier auto magazine on the market.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-05-18
Summary: "Free Car Show Subscription"

Payment to the Baltimore car show during the winter gave you a free one
year subscription to Motor Trend.

problem is it never showed.Very suspect.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-04-14
Summary: "Motor Trend Pros And Cons"

I think the basic impulse for Motor Trend is to rank an auto according to its acceleration speed. How fast does it get to 60? A tenth of a second is world-shaking and important. So is engine growl. The men who wrote these reviews are reporters who try for a fair and logical assessment of the vehicle. They are not consumers who are shopping for cars. I can't recall an article that mentioned exactly what goes into a featured car? Not a word and buddy, that is essential and I'll tell you why. For 20 years I was the marketing director of a mid-size American luggage company. We made our product in the factory I worked in. So I was familiar with every part and every component of our manufacture. Then our owner went overseas to manufacture our exact product. Well it wasn't exact. It was far from exact. Instead of being carefully sewn it was stapled. When our suppliers ran out of basic components, they simply purchased different ones, inferior ones knowing our product would sell on its former reputation. A current example of the utter lack of principle is Toyota. It's a money game and Motor Trend appears to be in on the game by not scrutinizing manufacture and componentry. So I am naturally skeptical of imports because engine roar and acceleration numbers don't tell me a thing about the dependability of the hundreds of parts that assemble in a new auto. And before I spend twenty, forty or sixty thousand for a new car, I want to know a lot more about its manufacture. I often wonder what Motor Trend said about my Olds. I drove it without trouble for eleven years and sold it to a fellow worker who gave it to his son who used it for four additional years through college. And maybe beyond? otor Trend is still here and Olds isn't. Is there something wrong with that equation?

velvetman
Chapel Hill, NC

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-07
Summary: "Mark A. Shepard"

My son is an automobile fanatic and loves this magazine. He especially likes all of the class ratings.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-10-08
Summary: "Never Received It"

Ordered this magazine two months ago and as yet have not received one copy.