We should applaud Motor Trend: It's not just anyone who can nail shut their own coffin while laying inside it.

To be fair, I think they learned it from Csaba "I'm taking my redesigned square ball and going home" Csere over at C and D.

But I cannot read Jalopnik on the toilet. Motor Trend and Car And Driver, however, are perfect!

Ill stick with my "The Daily Show of the autobogosphere" as one C&D commenter puts it :)

I think the amount of print-versus-web clashes that gets featured here is silly.

You guys in the internet car media don't need to be so fixated on what the print car media does or says. You've already won the credibility war.

No one cares. O, wait Ray Wert does. No offense, but I could not care what someone at MT says on their blog. It is the equivalent to writing to the C&D editors and bitching about the layout or exclamation marks on the cover.

Writing about cars/models/news > blog wars.

IMHO, Motor Trend is the Detroit Times of automotive-enthusiast publications (online OR print).

i care, ray, so keep it up.

I saw a copy of Motor Trend once. I was wondering what a GM sales brochure was doing in a dentist's waiting room.

"Good old fashioned journalism" has about as much cache with me as "Good old fashion whoring."

Seems odd that a magazine with a three-month lead time that demands manufacturers continue conducting "long lead press previews" would dare talk about "exclusive firsts". Even their most time-sensitive pages go to press at least two weeks before they hit the street. That's two weeks where blogs, dailies or even weeklies can beat them to the punch. If they have an "exclusive," then it can only be a quid pro quo arranged by a manufacturer. Stone makes a bogus argument.

Motor who?

I'm sorry, I was distracted by the broad in the photo.

@brandonvalentine: I'm glad someone else said it before I did. I'm not really sure why she looks so fetching.

"But Motor Trend is large, significant, and respected enough..."

they lost me right there...

As stu-rock said, it is yet another print v. online content battle. Since I work for neither entity as of late, I can honestly say that print is spiraling towards extinction but will continue to be very vocal about being scooped on the internet. As I had told many a print editor, those people who are internet savvy don't want to read old news, which is exactly what most print is by the time "new" news gets to the newsstands. The very second a press release is mass emailed out by a manufacturer, it is very old news 2 months later on the stands.

I'd ignore it though, the print side is just making a bunch of noise as they continue to lose out to online content. I could practically write a novel about this whole subject from an online perspective but I digress...