Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2014 including 2 auto mfrs and a auto mag

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10-29-13, 06:33 AM

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its an age thing -- I'm betting folks 30 years and younger have zero paper subscriptions (newspaper? what is that?)

I'm torn between GenX and GenY/Millenials. The no home land line, and no paper subscription thing is definitely a Gen Y attribute. I just turned 36, BTW.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepste...nd-millennials

10-29-13, 07:26 AM

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I'll always have a warm place in my heart for J.C. Penny. They gave me my first IT job and they didn't require a drug test which would have been a big problem for me in 1987

HE LIVES!

hahhahahh at the drug test

10-29-13, 07:28 AM

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I used to have a home line, cable TV, and supscriptions to the paper, Car & Driver, and Motor Trend. I also had National Geographic. I cancelled all of them during the recession. I don't miss any of them.

10-29-13, 07:35 AM

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its an age thing -- I'm betting folks 30 years and younger have zero paper subscriptions (newspaper? what is that?)

I'm turning 24 years old soon............yet I still read newspapers (heck I've been reading newspapers since I was in elementary/grade school)

10-29-13, 07:38 AM

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I agree, and that's why I prefer Autoblog, for the same reasons. Especially C&D is so desperate to give their preferred brands the win in comparisons that they'll change the methodology and criteria of the comparisons to make it happen. C&D has done that for both Hondas/Acuras, and for BMWs also. It's all nonsense. Autoblog does indeed cut to the chase and isn't afraid to tell you if something sucks. I gave up on Edmunds. Their site literally became un-navigable, cluttered with all sorts of crap four or even FIVE layers deep just to still not find what you were looking for. Sure, more page hits for ad impressions and ad revenue and such, but if you make your site so damned annoying I'll stop visiting it, and then no page hits at all. Useless site to me now.

Autoblog doesn't even have comparison tests in the first place. I agree C&D needs to switch to an online format, but I truly believe their reviews are more in depth. Their performance numbers are expanded much more than Autoblog's and they have blurbs talking about what the car behaves like at launch and through the slalom.

I also like the fact that C&D has a bigger fleet of long-term calls with updates that occur more often. Autoblog isn't bad, but I don't think it's on the same tier as C&D.