Modified Luxury & Exotics, the ride is over
11-24-08, 11:55 PM
#16
Lexus Test Driver
Automobile and Motor Trend, however, are of the same publisher.
12-01-08, 12:17 AM
#21
Lexus Fanatic
DAMN so we are losing sport compact and modified luxury and exotic. This is soooooo stupid. They are gonna keep import tuner for the teens and we get nothing. I am happy I saved all of my issues. They will probably get rid of heavy hitters magazine also. Its lost its appeal quickly
01-13-09, 09:02 AM
#22
Modified Luxury & Exotics Magazine
I know it's gone and that's the reason for this thread. I'm really gonna miss it. To me it was the best magazine out there. The very first issue I felt that the one mag for me had finally arrived. It happened reading the words of Craig Lieberman. He personally owned a few high end cars yet he gave props to Lexus. I knew then he was an open minded journalist. Not just because he liked our car....I just feel there is so much hating by other journalists they don't even take the time to see what the car is really all about. Most refer to it as an appliance, saying it it's good at what it does without a soul.
The other thing is most mags either go heavily into tech talk or bling. Not in between. Modified L&E was right there in between. You got that specs without hearing about how many washers were under a bolt. You heard a little about the owner without seeing his life story.
The pics were pretty good with enough angles to get the full effect.
WHen I saw that Lieberman had left the mag a few months ago, I knew the end would come soon. It came faster than I thought. The only mag left that's close is Heavy Hitters but it focuses on the car owners life story in their business as opposed to their cars. Many of them are guys who know nothing about the cars' build-up...they dropped it off at Will Castro or somebody, picked it up when it was done. These are guys looking for an extension of their *****...instead of being true enthusiasts.
I also miss Makes & Models. The write ups weren't that great, some were but at least the pics were nice and the models beautiful and classy.
More than ever I want to start a Lexus performace magazine but it looks like the magazine market is dead.
The other thing is most mags either go heavily into tech talk or bling. Not in between. Modified L&E was right there in between. You got that specs without hearing about how many washers were under a bolt. You heard a little about the owner without seeing his life story.
The pics were pretty good with enough angles to get the full effect.
WHen I saw that Lieberman had left the mag a few months ago, I knew the end would come soon. It came faster than I thought. The only mag left that's close is Heavy Hitters but it focuses on the car owners life story in their business as opposed to their cars. Many of them are guys who know nothing about the cars' build-up...they dropped it off at Will Castro or somebody, picked it up when it was done. These are guys looking for an extension of their *****...instead of being true enthusiasts.
I also miss Makes & Models. The write ups weren't that great, some were but at least the pics were nice and the models beautiful and classy.
More than ever I want to start a Lexus performace magazine but it looks like the magazine market is dead.
01-13-09, 10:25 AM
#23
Pole Position
NOoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are u serious? i didnt know it was gone, i just kept thinking i was too late to find it. We get limited amounds of them here in dubai. This was definitely my fav car mag, that really sucks. and I had no idea which makes it so much worse, bad surprise. Im REALLY gonna miss RIP ML&E
any idea why it shut down? sales? other?
are u serious? i didnt know it was gone, i just kept thinking i was too late to find it. We get limited amounds of them here in dubai. This was definitely my fav car mag, that really sucks. and I had no idea which makes it so much worse, bad surprise. Im REALLY gonna miss RIP ML&E
any idea why it shut down? sales? other?
01-13-09, 02:13 PM
#24
NOoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are u serious? i didnt know it was gone, i just kept thinking i was too late to find it. We get limited amounds of them here in dubai. This was definitely my fav car mag, that really sucks. and I had no idea which makes it so much worse, bad surprise. Im REALLY gonna miss RIP ML&E
any idea why it shut down? sales? other?
are u serious? i didnt know it was gone, i just kept thinking i was too late to find it. We get limited amounds of them here in dubai. This was definitely my fav car mag, that really sucks. and I had no idea which makes it so much worse, bad surprise. Im REALLY gonna miss RIP ML&E
any idea why it shut down? sales? other?
I just know it wasn't quite the same after Lieberman left.
01-13-09, 08:49 PM
#28
Lexus Fanatic
It was crappy. What was crappier is that I ordered a 2 year subscription 1 week before I found out. Same with sport compact car. I got burned. Now I am a forced european car subscriber.
01-13-09, 09:05 PM
#29
Lexus Fanatic
why would they kill this but yet lame teenage tuner mags with the half naked skinny " models" like import tuner or even super street stay around. Who makes these decisions????????
