Same, I knew it was a huge mistake the second they did it. I even thought I should start a channel to fill the void doing the same thing. Pretty sure no one would want to watch my annoying ass though 😂
same , it was a shame to lose it , but we have gained so many other youtubers with great content ... and of course the eternal MCM is loyal to its viewers 😂😊
This would be a great show for the Stradman and Sophia. They are both car people and could talk about car stuff. Show needs to be longer than 10 minutes.
Me too, ironically I won a one year subscription from a Rob Feretti giveaway, used it for a bit to keep walking roadkill, but found that I just wasn’t logging into it.
They had their reasons. They had mentioned at one point RUclips didn’t make a profit for them because they were putting TV quality production into their videos. It cost too much to produce for the RUclips platform
@@juliamiller2299 Me too, was so pissed when they moved to Motor Trend+, because I couldn't even subscribe from where I live unless I went through a VPN.
I dearly miss Roadkill on RUclips. It really was an outstanding show in the early days of RUclips having more of those. David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan are great hosts i would absolutely start watching again instantly if it was on here. I think it would be huge if they kept it up.
I'm one of the few boomers that is computer literate, unlike the majority. Of my boomer friends, none of them could competently use a PC. Many have since gotten smartphones, but they skipped over the PC years. And I like your original channel and this one. It's nice to watch young people involved in the automotive realm.
I did away with Cable TV (for a couple of reasons) and just hooked my PC up to my big screen living room TV and watched YT, etc with mouse and keyboard from across the room. TV is dead as is movie theaters
I was an avid watcher of Roadkill fist on RUclips and then on MotorTrend. I was a happy paying subscriber to MotorTrend on Demand but one day they announced that I can no longer renew my subscription because I live in South Africa, and that was the end of that.
That sucks about Freiburger and Finnegan missing out on a boatload of $$$ on RUclips. Met Finnegan at SEMA this past year and the dude was so patient and really took the time to chat with the fans that came to the booth he was at. Those guys, along with their friends like Dulcich, Fred Williams, Dave Chappell, Lucky Costa, Tony Angelo, sure I’m missing a few really deserve more
Crazy about motortrend! I paid for it for roadkill and ironically I found your show there I had no clue you had a yt channel. Your channel was sort of what inspired me to get started at yt
Thank you both for helping us understand the changes and where things are headed. I watch both of your youtube channels as well as being on Motortrend, but feel a stronger loyalty to your smaller more personal productions. Keep it up.
I`m sick of being nickeled and dimed to death by all these streaming services. MTOD wasn`t a good deal for the money. I hope Roadkill comes back to RUclips!
I was talking to someone yesterday who is in media financing. His clients LOVE RUclips because the audience is pre filtered. He said that it doesn't matter if a channel has 20,000 subscribers if they all are potential customers .
The last couple of issues of Hot Rod Magazine have been wrapped with a sleeve that said, sort of, that the magazine will be replaced or supplanted by online programming and four semi-annual issues suitable for coffee table duty. Very vague about whether or not the monthly issues will go away. Schmucks. That will mark the end of my 20+ year sub if they do.
Interesting! I have been subscribed to HR magazine for 30 years! I haven't received an issue in at least 6 weeks. I called twice and was told the last issue had the milk truck on the cover. I should be getting a new issue next week! We'll see. What a bunch of crap. 🙄
I was also a 30 year subscriber to both MT and Hot Rod. John Lieberman did me in on MT. He is so condescending to the fan base that does not buy into the EV only lie. Hot Rod electrified the '57, then Frieburger left, the writing was on the wall. It was clear which direction another great pillar of our culture was going.
I have been using Roku for years. I just realized this winter that live channels are available through Roku and one of those is a channel dedicated to classic Top Gear episodes 😮 So that channel has been worked into this platform to round out my fix…
You were the only program i subscribed for. Kept the subscription for the 2 months or so of airing and dropped it. There was absolutely just nothing there that i cant find better on youtube.
@149 Even the last few laps of the 13 episodes on/off scheduling of Engine Masters and RKG... there would be weeks where you had really nothing if you only subbed for the OG stuff and not Discovery bs filler. Finn got out at the right time and handed it to Cotten/Newbern
That was the right move, I looked at getting it to watch Diesel brothers but there just wasn’t enough other content for me to want to sign up. Discovery plus has tons of content so glad it went there. Fast & Loud lives on with great success on RUclips now.
I am not surprised, I really have to say I like the format of the show. You two really work well together, also it does help she is so much easier on the eyes than you are.
Magazines will come back??? Not likely. When was the last time you saw a magazine section in a grocery store? I used to get gun, motorcycle and woodworking magazines and keep them for reference. I now use youtube and the internet for that.
@@jphilb I walked by one recently and was amazed at the number of mags still being published. Esp in the "manly" topics - motor sports, hunting & fishing, guns, etc.
We need more cat features. Love the channel. You both work ever so well together. Cheers from the Dashing Womble also on RUclips up here in Kansas City Missouri. 👍
Roadkill was always corporate. David and Mike just worked for Petersen publishing. And they still make an episode per month. Just like the beginning and it’s still just as good.
What? A sane comment regarding roadkill?! 😂 So many people are so wrapped up in the fact that it went behind a paywall even all these years later. People, it costs the same price as an automotive magazine we all bought for years and years. Let it go people 😂
I was so pissed when they took Roadkill away. That's what got me into cars, 10 yrs ago! And when I complained, people were like "Just pay for it". Well, i wasn't one of the sheep that paid for it. I found other car RUclipsrs including, Hoovie. That's what I was disappointed when I heard you had a show on MT. But glad you're still here, Tyler!
It was doomed from the start, They changed the format and feel of the most of the old shows like roadkill when they switched and MT was an awful user experience because it was slow and didnt always play episodes in order.
i just watched this on RUclips so technically that does make both of you---- youtubers. Successful tubers are personable and relatable so it's no slight being called one.... IMO it means the people who watch you would have you as a friend, and we all know you cannot have too many friends! I feel like this channel is gaining traction- you both have great chemistry so just keep up the great work and it will happen. Cheers!
How About When MotorTrend Canceled Every Paid Membership Outside North America Without Notice Or Warning? We Had To Do Google Searches Just To Figure Out Why It Stopped Working? And Yeah, We Went Back To Watching Our Favourites On RUclips. Smart Move MotorTrend!!!
I had a motortrend+ subscription, but there were only maybe 4 shows I really liked to watch, and they weren’t releasing new content often enough for it to be worth keeping my subscription.
So... I was a huge fan of Roadkill when they originally started on RUclips. When they announced they'd be moving to a paid subscription on an app, I totally signed up only to find out that the episodes would become more sponsor based and more sporadic. Another series that got it's start on RUclips is Hotrod Garage sponsored by UT... Look where that went.
dang - motortrend+ is my go-to. Hoping Discovery+ doesn't mess it up. Glad I've got a day job since I'd be starving if I was trying to youtube! Most of my videos are just documenting mountain bike trails for watching in the off-season or for riders wanting to check out a trail before they go.
I used to clean the windows at the building in Costa Mesa off Monrovia Street were the Motor Trend headquarters. I saw the new models cars and trucks before they hit the commercials. It was one of my better accounts. I did Quicksilver Gotcha, and a couple otherclothing brands too. They were all in the same industrial park in downtown Costa Mesa off Superior. Tyler might remember Zoobies restaurant and Cookoos nest next door. Vandals wrote a song about a big fight broke out between the cowboys at Zubies and the Punk Rockers at Cookoos nest. The punkers won.
I was pissed at MT when they axed Ed China, then Heather Storm, then Dirt every Day, then Junkyard Gold. But I still drop my $5 /mo for Roadkilll, Hot Rod garage and Roadworthy rescues. I guess I’ll follow to Discovery as long as they keep making new videos.
Problem is bigger streaming companies expect you to buy the full package. Netflix failing Got crazy expensive. Wanting me to pay for a bunch of garbage I didnt want. Need to keep it in packages.
With her hair pulled back, it shows that her natural hair color perfectly matches her eyes. She's stunningly beautiful in that natural setting. The blonde bleach look is trashy...
They began their downward turn when they cancelled Head 2 Head. But Motor Trend officially died the moment they stopped doing best drivers car the way they used to, with Worlds Greatest Drag Race.
@@daveubermenschno what killed is by blocking everyone else that lives outside of North America from being able to pay to subscribe to the service. Not a very wise financial decision don't you think?
Don’t normally follow this channel but felt compelled to watch and comment. So much to say… As a long time print subscriber and customer, I’ve been slowly pushed away from MT. Putting shows like Roadkill behind a pay wall was a mistake. Recently they announced the print magazine was going away and everything was going online. Another trend is that they were becoming more and more woke, pushing EVs all the time and proclaiming EVs were the next big thing. I’m not drinking the kool aid and I won’t spend anymore if my money on their services. Goodbye and so long MT.
I have both discovery+ and motor trend and shockingly I didn't read a important email from MT+ but .... After watching this ... I checked and not only was i billed by MT today till march 28th .... I was billed for my discovery+ last week where most of the shows have migrated too already.... Seems like a last time cash grab ... Not cool WB
MT abandoned their core print audience by changing to a quarterly cycle. Many old readers for the past thirty (or even 50) years canceled subscriptions. Would love to see a video explaining ❤ MT did what they did. Obviously it's all $$, like any business.
Can we agree that the studio needs a little bit better lighting? While we are at it, Tyler should let April sort of be half of the show here, not monologue most of it himself... we wanna hear more of April :)
As much as I love the Motor Trend shows, I've never been willing to pay for the MT+ service. I enjoy your work, Hoovie, but unfortunately I never watched your show because the Car Wizard annoys the crap out of me.
I paid for MT+ for a few years but after a few show cancellations and losing og TG I eventually cancelled the subscription. There was some amazing content for a while though.
It's not dying, it's moving. It makes sense from a monetary standpoint because Discovery is operating two streaming services. Now they're going to one, reducing overhead. Tyler's account of how Roadkill was moved to MT+ is not correct. They started the streaming service and the subscribers had early access to episodes and additional content. It was years before it went exclusively behind a pay wall. At the time, the hosts' employment contracts did not allow them to do their own RUclips stuff (they've all since redone their contracts). Roadkill was ALWAYS owned by what is now the Motor Trend group. While their channel was the largest automotive RUclips channel, it contained Dirt Every Day and Hot Rod Garage, etc. They were never independent, they were always employees of Motor Trend Group. The move to their own service was made because of changes RUclips made to their monetization policy at the time. It was RUclips's own fault that they left.
We are filming for a YT channel and just went to do voice overs at a production studio in Florida and found out about all the cancelations... 😪😪 I feel bad for the talent and also all the staff in the studios. I hope they will pick up more work for well produced yt channels?
RUclips content is free so car people come here to watch. I watch the car shows I used to watch on the Networks like Wheeler Dealers, Chasing Classic Cars, etc. on RUclips.
I was upset when Roadkill/etc switched off RUclips, but I understand the economics changed with how they were being compensated so I have subscribed (albeit on and off as there was new content I wanted to watch). I'm concerned the content will be diluted further, and I can't think of any content on Discovery+ I want to watch
Looks like the Motor Trend magazine is close to the grave also. I’ve been a print subscriber for decades and received notification that they are condensing down to 4 issues a year, even though there loyal subscribers paid for 12 magazines a year.
The networks are on life support. They underestimated the auto industry content creators. The shows on motortrend are getting hard to watch anyways. RUclips is where it’s at. I find all I need there.
When they moved away from RUclips, I actually subscribed and paid. Then for some ridiculous reason they stopped anyone from outside of the US watching…. Being in the UK this was great. 😐
MotorTrend in general has been on a dreadful decline, and it’s truly sad. They have completely sold out to the EV propaganda and have long been embarrassingly biased.
I live in Australia and several years ago Motor Trend stopped all people in other countries from subscribing. Very short sighted. Fancy loosing all those customers and then trying to recover all those numbers
I have noticed the lack of shows since it switched from the Speed channel. Fortunately Iron Ressurection , and Graveyard Cars is still on. I like Hot Rod Garage too. Streaming is not cheap and I think it's a bit of a rip - off. Several years ago a fellow at Best Buy told me that regular TV would go away, I guess he was correct!
Motortrend did a deal with the Murdoch devil and therefore people all around the world were unable to access it. This pissed a lot of people off and made them never go back. Me from Australia included. They should have stayed on RUclips.
Sad that Motortrend+ is going away. I actually watch about 1-2 hours of shows on there every day. Some new content and some old content (Engine Masters, Graveyard Cars, Roadkill shows, and others). I guess EVs are killing all of the car content too.
Wow... good to see cancelling the rest of the world from watching it led to its demise.. the bright side is that everyone outside of the US might actually be able to watch it again!!! Thats kinda exciting!!
Mr Hoover, Don't assume all boomers are stuck on cable TV🧐 And not just here ,cos of your adorable in all manners GF 😅 Love the show and the chitter chatter
I had no issue paying for motortrend, was well worth the small amount. But motortrend decided to turn its back on its worldwide customers and only allow North American customers access, and that was the end for me. Haven’t seen an episode since .
I subbed to MTOD when Roadkill went behind the paywall. I ended my subscription about a year and a half ago. THE CONTENT WAS TERRIBLE! In order to find RKG - HRG - RK etc, you had to scroll past all the scripted garbage fake tv style drama shows. It was so frustrating I just canceled my subscription.
RoadKill was my favorite content on RUclips. but i never watched a single episode when it went behind a pay wall.
Tell us you're a dirt-poor deadbeat without telling us you're a dirt poor deadbeat. Who can't afford what was it, like $5?!
same
Same, I knew it was a huge mistake the second they did it. I even thought I should start a channel to fill the void doing the same thing. Pretty sure no one would want to watch my annoying ass though 😂
same , it was a shame to lose it , but we have gained so many other youtubers with great content ... and of course the eternal MCM is loyal to its viewers 😂😊
As someone who payed to get on the other side of that wall…you didn’t miss anything at all 😂
When they move all the stuff from their YT channel to their Motortrend+ stuff I stopped watching all their shows anyway, so no big loss to me.
Karma took its toll now.
This would be a great show for the Stradman and Sophia. They are both car people and could talk about car stuff.
Show needs to be longer than 10 minutes.
Me too. Paying for something that we got for free on RUclips was a bridge too far.
Me too, ironically I won a one year subscription from a Rob Feretti giveaway, used it for a bit to keep walking roadkill, but found that I just wasn’t logging into it.
Yup I did too.
Putting wildly successful YT content behind a pay wall is like Coke changing to New Coke.
They had their reasons. They had mentioned at one point RUclips didn’t make a profit for them because they were putting TV quality production into their videos. It cost too much to produce for the RUclips platform
Interesting take on the roadkill switch from YT to MT. I LOVED the old roadkill format.
I always watched Roadkill when it was on RUclips, but when it left, I said goodbye to them.
@@juliamiller2299 me too. Ppl make millions on YT. Was is not enough for the RK guys?
@@juliamiller2299 Me too, was so pissed when they moved to Motor Trend+, because I couldn't even subscribe from where I live unless I went through a VPN.
I wrote off MT when they reneged on their promise of RK remaining free on YT. Never looked back.
Tell us you're a dirt-poor deadbeat without telling us you're a dirt poor deadbeat. Who can't afford $5?!
I dearly miss Roadkill on RUclips. It really was an outstanding show in the early days of RUclips having more of those. David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan are great hosts i would absolutely start watching again instantly if it was on here. I think it would be huge if they kept it up.
I originally signed up because of original Top Gear and then a few months later it disappeared…nothing of real value on it now.
I'm one of the few boomers that is computer literate, unlike the majority. Of my boomer friends, none of them could competently use a PC. Many have since gotten smartphones, but they skipped over the PC years. And I like your original channel and this one. It's nice to watch young people involved in the automotive realm.
I did away with Cable TV (for a couple of reasons) and just hooked my PC up to my big screen living room TV and watched YT, etc with mouse and keyboard from across the room. TV is dead as is movie theaters
Yeah same with the Firestick for me
Not disrespect but you look more like a GenX than a boomer
@@michaelmaas5544 Thanks, I’m well preserved for 65 lol
I was an avid watcher of Roadkill fist on RUclips and then on MotorTrend. I was a happy paying subscriber to MotorTrend on Demand but one day they announced that I can no longer renew my subscription because I live in South Africa, and that was the end of that.
Same here
That sucks about Freiburger and Finnegan missing out on a boatload of $$$ on RUclips. Met Finnegan at SEMA this past year and the dude was so patient and really took the time to chat with the fans that came to the booth he was at. Those guys, along with their friends like Dulcich, Fred Williams, Dave Chappell, Lucky Costa, Tony Angelo, sure I’m missing a few really deserve more
Crazy about motortrend! I paid for it for roadkill and ironically I found your show there I had no clue you had a yt channel. Your channel was sort of what inspired me to get started at yt
Thank you both for helping us understand the changes and where things are headed. I watch both of your youtube channels as well as being on Motortrend, but feel a stronger loyalty to your smaller more personal productions. Keep it up.
I`m sick of being nickeled and dimed to death by all these streaming services. MTOD wasn`t a good deal for the money.
I hope Roadkill comes back to RUclips!
I was talking to someone yesterday who is in media financing. His clients LOVE RUclips because the audience is pre filtered. He said that it doesn't matter if a channel has 20,000 subscribers if they all are potential customers .
The last couple of issues of Hot Rod Magazine have been wrapped with a sleeve that said, sort of, that the magazine will be replaced or supplanted by online programming and four semi-annual issues suitable for coffee table duty. Very vague about whether or not the monthly issues will go away. Schmucks. That will mark the end of my 20+ year sub if they do.
Same situation with the MotorTrend magazine. I’m out as a subscriber.
Interesting! I have been subscribed to HR magazine for 30 years! I haven't received an issue in at least 6 weeks. I called twice and was told the last issue had the milk truck on the cover. I should be getting a new issue next week! We'll see. What a bunch of crap. 🙄
I was also a 30 year subscriber to both MT and Hot Rod. John Lieberman did me in on MT. He is so condescending to the fan base that does not buy into the EV only lie. Hot Rod electrified the '57, then Frieburger left, the writing was on the wall. It was clear which direction another great pillar of our culture was going.
I get all the car content I need on this platform.
I have been using Roku for years. I just realized this winter that live channels are available through Roku and one of those is a channel dedicated to classic Top Gear episodes 😮 So that channel has been worked into this platform to round out my fix…
You two are doing a great job. Keep up the good content and we will keep watching.
You were the only program i subscribed for. Kept the subscription for the 2 months or so of airing and dropped it. There was absolutely just nothing there that i cant find better on youtube.
So much for Roadkill. 😭
The handwriting was on the wall a LONG time ago...
@149 Even the last few laps of the 13 episodes on/off scheduling of Engine Masters and RKG... there would be weeks where you had really nothing if you only subbed for the OG stuff and not Discovery bs filler. Finn got out at the right time and handed it to Cotten/Newbern
Roadkill was dead to most of us when they went behind a paywall.
Greed ruins everything.
That was the right move, I looked at getting it to watch Diesel brothers but there just wasn’t enough other content for me to want to sign up. Discovery plus has tons of content so glad it went there. Fast & Loud lives on with great success on RUclips now.
April time to wake up, you're here with a lot of viewers returning.
You are a RUclipsr now, together with you're other jobs lol 😂
Love you guys ❤!
Amazing insight into the industry, thank you for sharing!!
The second they went to the pay to watch roadkill I bailed. Miss the old days of roadkill
I am not surprised, I really have to say I like the format of the show. You two really work well together, also it does help she is so much easier on the eyes than you are.
I remember getting my monthly magazines every month. Hot Rod, Cycle, and more. Magazines will come back.
Magazines will come back???
Not likely. When was the last time you saw a magazine section in a grocery store? I used to get gun, motorcycle and woodworking magazines and keep them for reference. I now use youtube and the internet for that.
Magazines will come back?? What are you smoking😂
Ah haha. Never
@@jphilb I walked by one recently and was amazed at the number of mags still being published. Esp in the "manly" topics - motor sports, hunting & fishing, guns, etc.
Very few people under 30 read for pleasure. People are passive consumers. Sit, push button.
We need more cat features. Love the channel. You both work ever so well together. Cheers from the Dashing Womble also on RUclips up here in Kansas City Missouri. 👍
Roadkill was always corporate. David and Mike just worked for Petersen publishing. And they still make an episode per month. Just like the beginning and it’s still just as good.
What? A sane comment regarding roadkill?! 😂
So many people are so wrapped up in the fact that it went behind a paywall even all these years later. People, it costs the same price as an automotive magazine we all bought for years and years. Let it go people 😂
I was so pissed when they took Roadkill away. That's what got me into cars, 10 yrs ago! And when I complained, people were like "Just pay for it". Well, i wasn't one of the sheep that paid for it. I found other car RUclipsrs including, Hoovie. That's what I was disappointed when I heard you had a show on MT. But glad you're still here, Tyler!
It was doomed from the start, They changed the format and feel of the most of the old shows like roadkill when they switched and MT was an awful user experience because it was slow and didnt always play episodes in order.
i just watched this on RUclips so technically that does make both of you---- youtubers. Successful tubers are personable and relatable so it's no slight being called one.... IMO it means the people who watch you would have you as a friend, and we all know you cannot have too many friends! I feel like this channel is gaining traction- you both have great chemistry so just keep up the great work and it will happen. Cheers!
How About When MotorTrend Canceled Every Paid Membership Outside North America Without Notice Or Warning? We Had To Do Google Searches Just To Figure Out Why It Stopped Working? And Yeah, We Went Back To Watching Our Favourites On RUclips. Smart Move MotorTrend!!!
Good morning! Can’t wait for another great show.
I had a motortrend+ subscription, but there were only maybe 4 shows I really liked to watch, and they weren’t releasing new content often enough for it to be worth keeping my subscription.
I miss roadkill. That was one of my favorite car shows till paywall.
Your show was the reason I subscribed to Motortrend+. Hopefully, it will be on Discovery+.
Congrats on reaching 50K subscribers quickly! This channel is growing fast. Sorry Tyler but we all know it's because of April. 😃
This was a very informative GMYT video today. Thank you.
I for one appreciate your consistency and work ethic. Keep it up!
Hey there. Interesting information. Thanks. April….so lovely with your hair tied back.
Realistic statement,TV is dead!I stopped paying for cable years ago.Total waste of money!
So... I was a huge fan of Roadkill when they originally started on RUclips.
When they announced they'd be moving to a paid subscription on an app, I totally signed up only to find out that the episodes would become more sponsor based and more sporadic.
Another series that got it's start on RUclips is Hotrod Garage sponsored by UT...
Look where that went.
dang - motortrend+ is my go-to. Hoping Discovery+ doesn't mess it up.
Glad I've got a day job since I'd be starving if I was trying to youtube! Most of my videos are just documenting mountain bike trails for watching in the off-season or for riders wanting to check out a trail before they go.
nelix is the true star of this show!!!
I'm happy about this being from the UK I can't get motortrend +.
I Hope that we can Watch the Shows in germany again! Is is the best what they could do!!!
Motortrend + was epic when it first launched. Unfortunately it didn’t take long before they turn off the tap to Australia 😢
When they left RUclips I have just been waiting for this. Anyone could understand this would never work.
Companies are realizing that not everyone meeds their own streaming service. There are just too many now.
I used to clean the windows at the building in Costa Mesa off Monrovia Street were the Motor Trend headquarters. I saw the new models cars and trucks before they hit the commercials. It was one of my better accounts. I did Quicksilver Gotcha, and a couple otherclothing brands too. They were all in the same industrial park in downtown Costa Mesa off Superior. Tyler might remember Zoobies restaurant and Cookoos nest next door. Vandals wrote a song about a big fight broke out between the cowboys at Zubies and the Punk Rockers at Cookoos nest. The punkers won.
I was pissed at MT when they axed Ed China, then Heather Storm, then Dirt every Day, then Junkyard Gold. But I still drop my $5 /mo for Roadkilll, Hot Rod garage and Roadworthy rescues. I guess I’ll follow to Discovery as long as they keep making new videos.
Tyler really upgraded on the chick front
Got a friend who is on a Motortrend show right now and you wouldn't believe the time commitment and project delays that the show production incurs.
Problem is bigger streaming companies expect you to buy the full package. Netflix failing Got crazy expensive. Wanting me to pay for a bunch of garbage I didnt want.
Need to keep it in packages.
A good reminder for me to catch up on the MotorTrend+ content before it goes away (not signing up for Discovery+).
Same here the discover stuff I watch is on hulu.i pay the 5 for motor trend but I'm not paying 15 for it.
Same cost more content? Makes no sense 😂😂😂😂😂
Motortrend+ is by far the best value in streaming. So much good content.
Who even owns it eventually..please bring back Dirt Every Day
With her hair pulled back, it shows that her natural hair color perfectly matches her eyes. She's stunningly beautiful in that natural setting. The blonde bleach look is trashy...
They began their downward turn when they cancelled Head 2 Head. But Motor Trend officially died the moment they stopped doing best drivers car the way they used to, with Worlds Greatest Drag Race.
Interesting car news, I'm here for the cat!
I'm cool with this actually. I left mtod after they canned dirt every day, but I happen to just have a discovery+, so cool.
RIP Motortrend+( another victim of corporate greed)
Haha, deadbeat children not being able to afford $5 or being so lazy they can't click on a link is now the fault of "greedy corporations"?
extreme captilalism is how USA is being described now 😮
MT+ did not have a good app, and the website wasn't that great. Plus there's so much available on YT. That's what killed it.
@@daveubermenschno what killed is by blocking everyone else that lives outside of North America from being able to pay to subscribe to the service.
Not a very wise financial decision don't you think?
Don’t normally follow this channel but felt compelled to watch and comment. So much to say…
As a long time print subscriber and customer, I’ve been slowly pushed away from MT. Putting shows like Roadkill behind a pay wall was a mistake. Recently they announced the print magazine was going away and everything was going online. Another trend is that they were becoming more and more woke, pushing EVs all the time and proclaiming EVs were the next big thing. I’m not drinking the kool aid and I won’t spend anymore if my money on their services. Goodbye and so long MT.
I have both discovery+ and motor trend and shockingly I didn't read a important email from MT+ but .... After watching this ... I checked and not only was i billed by MT today till march 28th .... I was billed for my discovery+ last week where most of the shows have migrated too already.... Seems like a last time cash grab ... Not cool WB
I missed this, thank you for the news sad as it may be
I enjoy this show. I love the different topics and, of course, the personalities. Tyler, April, Jake, and Neelix are crushing RUclips.
MT abandoned their core print audience by changing to a quarterly cycle. Many old readers for the past thirty (or even 50) years canceled subscriptions. Would love to see a video explaining ❤ MT did what they did. Obviously it's all $$, like any business.
I stream on IPTV. Happy with the product and price. I don't see that going away anytime soon.
Can we agree that the studio needs a little bit better lighting?
While we are at it, Tyler should let April sort of be half of the show here, not monologue most of it himself... we wanna hear more of April :)
As much as I love the Motor Trend shows, I've never been willing to pay for the MT+ service. I enjoy your work, Hoovie, but unfortunately I never watched your show because the Car Wizard annoys the crap out of me.
I paid for MT+ for a few years but after a few show cancellations and losing og TG I eventually cancelled the subscription. There was some amazing content for a while though.
I was paying $40 a year which was a great deal. It went up to almost $70 so I canceled. RUclips works for me.
Mazal Tov on reaching 50k subscribers, well deserved.
It's not dying, it's moving. It makes sense from a monetary standpoint because Discovery is operating two streaming services. Now they're going to one, reducing overhead.
Tyler's account of how Roadkill was moved to MT+ is not correct. They started the streaming service and the subscribers had early access to episodes and additional content. It was years before it went exclusively behind a pay wall. At the time, the hosts' employment contracts did not allow them to do their own RUclips stuff (they've all since redone their contracts). Roadkill was ALWAYS owned by what is now the Motor Trend group. While their channel was the largest automotive RUclips channel, it contained Dirt Every Day and Hot Rod Garage, etc. They were never independent, they were always employees of Motor Trend Group. The move to their own service was made because of changes RUclips made to their monetization policy at the time. It was RUclips's own fault that they left.
We are filming for a YT channel and just went to do voice overs at a production studio in Florida and found out about all the cancelations... 😪😪 I feel bad for the talent and also all the staff in the studios. I hope they will pick up more work for well produced yt channels?
RUclips content is free so car people come here to watch. I watch the car shows I used to watch on the Networks like Wheeler Dealers, Chasing Classic Cars, etc. on RUclips.
I'm sure Freiburger and Finnegan aren't hurting but just imagine what could have been. Hot Rod probably owned the name Roadkill though.
And before them all, CarTalk!
Goodmorning! Geoff buys cars hit a pheasant, and he ate it!
Motortrend’s streaming service was a dumpster fire from the beginning. It never worked correctly for me. It was terrible.
I was upset when Roadkill/etc switched off RUclips, but I understand the economics changed with how they were being compensated so I have subscribed (albeit on and off as there was new content I wanted to watch). I'm concerned the content will be diluted further, and I can't think of any content on Discovery+ I want to watch
Looks like the Motor Trend magazine is close to the grave also. I’ve been a print subscriber for decades and received notification that they are condensing down to 4 issues a year, even though there loyal subscribers paid for 12 magazines a year.
The networks are on life support. They underestimated the auto industry content creators. The shows on motortrend are getting hard to watch anyways. RUclips is where it’s at. I find all I need there.
10:22 Ho Lee Fook Hoovie 🤣😀😳 That joke would never make it past network suits lol
When they moved away from RUclips, I actually subscribed and paid. Then for some ridiculous reason they stopped anyone from outside of the US watching…. Being in the UK this was great. 😐
MT just went from 12 print issues a year to 4, and to appease their subscribers they offered a free year of MT+. So much for that I guess
MotorTrend in general has been on a dreadful decline, and it’s truly sad. They have completely sold out to the EV propaganda and have long been embarrassingly biased.
I live in Australia and several years ago Motor Trend stopped all people in other countries from subscribing. Very short sighted. Fancy loosing all those customers and then trying to recover all those numbers
I have noticed the lack of shows since it switched from the Speed channel. Fortunately Iron Ressurection , and Graveyard Cars is still on. I like Hot Rod Garage too. Streaming is not cheap and I think it's a bit of a rip - off. Several years ago a fellow at Best Buy told me that regular TV would go away, I guess he was correct!
Motortrend did a deal with the Murdoch devil and therefore people all around the world were unable to access it. This pissed a lot of people off and made them never go back. Me from Australia included. They should have stayed on RUclips.
Love Aprils shirt. Hoovie you need some styling ques from the queen.
Motor trend was ok but in Australia we got kicked of a couple of years ago. The major problem was not having rights for a lot of the content here.
Sad that Motortrend+ is going away. I actually watch about 1-2 hours of shows on there every day. Some new content and some old content (Engine Masters, Graveyard Cars, Roadkill shows, and others). I guess EVs are killing all of the car content too.
That’s what greed gets them. Glad to see it backfire so badly but of course they still want to charge. Should’ve come back to YT
Wow... good to see cancelling the rest of the world from watching it led to its demise.. the bright side is that everyone outside of the US might actually be able to watch it again!!! Thats kinda exciting!!
Mr Hoover,
Don't assume all boomers are stuck on cable TV🧐
And not just here ,cos of your adorable in all manners GF 😅
Love the show and the chitter chatter
Good luck with the project. Mick London
Alienating a majority of your base in order to profit off of a minority is a great way to ensure short-term success! 😁👍
I had no issue paying for motortrend, was well worth the small amount.
But motortrend decided to turn its back on its worldwide customers and only allow North American customers access, and that was the end for me. Haven’t seen an episode since .
Ols school tv ... thanks for making me feel old 😂😂😂
I subbed to MTOD when Roadkill went behind the paywall. I ended my subscription about a year and a half ago. THE CONTENT WAS TERRIBLE! In order to find RKG - HRG - RK etc, you had to scroll past all the scripted garbage fake tv style drama shows. It was so frustrating I just canceled my subscription.
Exactly. The app worked like trash.
Thank you for toning down the nervous giggling. Great piece and excellent information.
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