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Don't waste your time or money! I read many 4x4 magazines and have for over 25 years. I am not at all impressed with the current crop available, especially Four Wheeler. Primedia Publishing has bought out most of the automotive enthusiast magazines out there and now dominates the market. It's almost as bad as Microsoft, (i.e. as it's a Microsoft World). Recent FourWheeler published the Four Wheeler of the Year Test and I received it with in 3 days of receiving my 4WheelDrive magazine with the same test. They both even had the same cover shot of the winning Soccer mom Station Wagon (maybe a fine vehicle but bad choice for a 4x4). Who are these testers, do they even live in the real world? Same vehicle won both tests and was on the cover of both mags. Inside the selection of articles were very similar and most case the same writing. My son and I both thought we had received duplicate copies of the same magazine. It was only by placing them side by side and comparing the cover names that we saw they were two separate magazines. When Peterson Automotive Publishing (owners of the Famous Auto Museum in LA by the same name) put out the mags they were excellent articles with original content covering a wide variety of subjects related to each different magazine audience. Then Emap bought out Peterson and quality declined somewhat. Then Primedia (a world wide publishing firm) bought them all out, and then quality went thru the floor. Don't waste your money on these subscriptions until they can get the quality back up to where it was when Peterson published these titles. It's an insult to everyone to think they could pull off stunts such as this. Buyer Beware! |
