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While perusing our latest issue of the autowriters.com newsletter for February, we noticed an announcement by Truck Trend editor and Motor Trend writer Mark Williams that reveals the end has come for Motor Trend Classics, the bi-monhtly publication that was obviously a labor of love for the MT staff that produced it. Apparently, not enough advertising could be secured to keep it going. MT Classics was one of our fave rags to buy at the airport before a long flight. Devoid of any new car reviews, instrumented testing or industry gossip, it live or died by the quality of its writing, and it was actually quite good. The magazine's shape was big in the classic Euro tradition, which meant each page was a wall of pictures and text for the reader to slowly digest. Williams says that the people at MT responsible for the book are optimistic it will live on in some form, perhaps as a once-a-year specialty publication or as a new web asset for MT. Either way, we're a bit sad to see this one go, as its pages were filled with examples of automotive journalism stripped down to its essence - passionate people talking about cars they love.
Follow the jump to read the entire quote from Mark Williams of Trucks Trends and Motor Trends. You can also hit this link to see a video of Motor Trend Editor-in-Chief Angus Mackenzie explain the rationale behind the creation of MT Classic.
[Source: autowriters.com February 2007 newsletter]
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