It seems to be an issue of "business v. hobby" in that the people who own the magazines are focused on the business side and subsequently hire other business types who generally know little of the hobby. The hobby people associated with the mag either capitulate or move on/out. In the case of MA, it would seem they hired a 9 yo to do their writing (or perhaps an aspiring novelist). As I am sure most of you agree, there is no "one" magazine that features everything from feature cars to "how to" stuff. Seems each is focused on one or 2 areas only which I am sure is a product of space and time as well as editor interests. What many people do not understand is that magazines make money from advertisers not subscriptions/readers, however you don't get advertisers if no one reads the mag; so there is this constant seesaw type affair going on between these two. Us readers don't like the mags all that much but there isn't much to choose from, so you have somewhat of a captured audience. Subsequently the magazines push the vendors to advertise to get in front of us readers, however advertising space takes up editorial space and therefore the editor has to decide what to print. Given the very diverse nature of this hobby, it is exceptionally difficult to attend to the needs of the many as no matter what you do there will always be someone who isn't happy. I personally would rather see articles on restomods, garage builds, etc whereas another side of the hobby wants to see full accurate restorations and another full on drag cars, then you have the newer less experienced people who want do it yourself articles. All that said, I can put up with a lot except very poor written articles (MA) and wasting 1/2 or even a full page on irrelevant crap (like the article written from the car's point of view). Once in a while might be funny, but every issue sucks.
