Car & Driver

I was looking through a Car & Driver magazine today, and noticed Dweezil Zappa is listed in the masthead as a contributing editor.

I also noticed one of the letters to the editor was from a person in Berkely Heights, NJ.

C&D is a publication I only read when waiting in a doctor's office.

SnowMongoose wrote: C&D is a publication I only read when waiting in a doctor's office.

I won't even read it then.. I would rather watch the clock move.

I let my subscription expire a year ago and they continued to send issues for six months after.

As in Frank's son?

Dweezil is Moon Units brother.

Swank Force One wrote: As in Frank's son?

Yes. He has a new album out in May, I signed up on his Pledge Music page to help support it & get an autographed copy. He sent out a sample of one of the final tracks yesterday & it's badass. It's the only track he & his dad collaborated on. I can't wait to hear the finished product!

I never knew he was a car-guy though?

He's been there for a few years. He is more of an eco-friendly kinda guy though.

This was in 2011, test driving the Sonata Hybrid:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pHuotKGQ7E

I have a little over 20 years of post-David E. Car and Drivers in my cellar. Reading them makes me sad to see the arc of their decline with the retirement of each writer who made the magazine great.

Maybe I should give the current crop of writers a chance; Eddie Alterman seems pretty OK, but hell, they don't even spec manual cars for tests anymore. It's just sad.

That was my favorite magazine in the late 80's. It's certainly not what it once was.

Out of all the publications, I still get C&D. I used to get Automobile, but they never had deals on their subscriptions to renew (for a while) and let that lapse. Then my wife ordered C&D without my knowledge and I don't mind it. It's waaaaay better than Motor Trend.

I used to read it. It became another Road and Track, that was the end for me.

I quit reading all the car mags when it became clear that everything in them was stuff I'd read online 6 weeks earlier. After that, I would read Peter Egan in R&T when I went to the drugstore. Then they put Egan's columns online, and it was all over.

I miss Brock

In reply to Gearheadotaku:

I agree wholeheartedly! Brock Yates was among the elite top tier automotive writers of the past 50 years. More recently he had a monthly column in Vintage Motorsport. Still very interesting but not as controversial as in his Car and Driver days. Sadly, due to his illness he had to retire a few months ago.

Only read one C&D in years, and that was in the doctor's office. Same for MT, BUT - then a friend gave me an issue of MT with a test of the new Z06, and lo and behold, THREE track tests by Randy Pobst!! I may have to look at an issue now and then.