[Rack776]

I have saved every issue of both HPP & PE since they were Thunder Am & GTO Enthusiast.

I'll be calling for a refund, I dont even want an other issue. Not worth the space
on my shelf or the paper its printed on.

I thought it was crappy thay did not do at least a farewell issue or round out one last month to make it
a full 12 issues, it was dropped on us pretty poorly......AFTER I resubscribed for a year!!!

I thought PE was getting kinda bad with errors & bad or stupid tech ideas,
(Hey! lets show the readers how to hack up a 76 Trans Am dash for A/C, WTF?!?!?!)
But at least the photos were Good to look at, this just plain sucks.

Editor Jason Scott was kinda cocky with his replys on correcting some pretty
big or misleading mistakes in the magazine.
I hope he has to work at Auto Zone or Pep Boys for the free '69 Firebird parts he needs
for his personal project car....How many 04-06 GTO exhaust stories can one mag
run anyway?

If I had wanted Hemmings Motor News I would go buy it, Auto Enthusiast is just a bad rip off of that.
This looks like the kind of magazine the local garage would have on the table in their waiting room,
something you read in 10 min......not something I'd collect
and save for future reference, or tech how to's.

Why do Chevy & Corvette need their own sections?!?!?!?

I just hope HPP stays on track, I'll be bummed if it starts to go to hell as well.
I'll keep my subscription to HPP I just hope they dont "transfer" me over to HOT ROD or something YEECH!

[Rack776]

Just a heads up,
Amos Publishing WILL NOT refund any money if you decide to cancel.
a subscription, they will however allow you to switch to the other magazines
they offer such as toy collector ect, or use the money they owe you as a credit
for other auto items on their web site, The number I called was: 1-800-448-3611

Guess I have 9 months of Junk mail to look foward to

[MikeNoun]

The thing that I would be most upset about is how they forced this new "Auto Enthusiast" down your throat. Here's Amos Publishing's philosophy:

1) They could tell you Pontiac Enthusiast was going away months ago, allowing you to decide whether you want to subscribe to the new Auto Enthusiast Magazine, or get a refund on whatever you've already paid for. But that would cost them money....

2) They could have stopped sending renewal notices months ago, but then they wouldn't be able to screw you over when they switch magazines. In other words, they got your money...

3) You paid for a fairly expensive magazine in Pontiac Enthusiast, then they throw this Auto Enthusiast at you, NOW they give you the opportunity to get another magazine, but most of the other magazines are cheaper, and they don't interest you. In other words, they got your money....

Kudos to Amos Publishing, they raked in tons of money and pulled the old switcheroo on you guys. They're laughing all the way to the bank. Classic American business tactic.

By Amos Publishing's estimate, out of every 100 people that just received Auto Enthusiast instead of Pontiac Enthusiast:

50 people will have no idea what Auto Enthusiast is, they'll think it's a new magazine they got for free. After a couple months, they'll realize they didn't receive Pontiac Enthusiast, just shrug their shoulders, and forget about it.

25 people will be angry, but won't follow up with Amos Publishing. They'll be taken.

20 people will choose another magazine, which means Amos Publishing got your money anyway, so they win.

5 people will actually get pissed, and demand a refund.

So...as far as Amos Publishing is concerned, 5 out of 100 will be unhappy. They'll take those odds.

Welcome to the American way of doing business.

[goatwgn]

Was going to start my own thread on this when I got the magazine yesterday. I will miss PE and will not be renewing my subsription to this Corvette/Chevy/Mopar/ late model Mustang magazine. If I wanted to read about these, there are plenty of other magazines for these already on the shelves.The pre 72 classics section is a joke as well. Although I own a 66 I enjoyed reading about the later model Pontiacs as well. Hemmings Muscle Machines is a much better magazine for its content and even coverage of all kinds of Detroit iron. This reminds me of how GM themselves did away with Pontiac (and earlier on Oldsmobile) and then tries to ram Chevy and Buick down our necks. Amos publishing evidently wants to ram Corvettes and Camaros down ours. What happened to Jiw Wangers commentaries-nothing here to comment on I guess. Advertisments everywhere, and the article on the 66 reminds me of a Car and Driver "short take" type of review. Being they "combined" all these magazines into one, they should have given somewhat equal coverage to all the type of cars in the previous magazines. I guess if the power goes out in the winter these will give me something to use to help start a fire with in the fireplace.