What gets me is that, as of late, these magazines are just full of crap. They're not serving us any information we can't get off thet internet, they're at least a month late with spy shots and "future forecasts", and now we get their slanted, editorial-style of writing instead of a nice, 3rd party "objective" review of the product.
I can't flip through a car magazine without being inundated with ads. At least Sport Compact Car (SCC) has a better understanding of the product and a better overall attitude, but half their mag is advertising!
I use the recent Motor Trend debable as a good example - they firmly shoved their foots in their mouths with the Cobalt / SRT comparison. They purposely made the SRT-4 look slow, so that the Cobalt wouldn't look too slow. They still haven't responded to the many letters SRT faithful sent them, and they're probably just going to ignore the whole thing.
Motor Trend just pisses me off. Bunch of fluffy-hat frenchmen that can't drive. That, and their new "artsy-fartsy" magazine layout looks more like they're trying to be cool than write about cars.