Posted by: j.scribner - 16 December 2004 10:30:12
Hello- I just learned within the past several days that Primedia, the corporation that publishes VW Trends magazine has decided to stop publication of the magazine effective immediately with the February, 2005 issue. This information is from Wayne Dean, who many of you might recognize as a contributing editor to VW Trends, and moderator of Superbeetles.com (another website devoted to both regular and Supers). If you wish, you can drop by and visit his website, and get e-mail addresses for writing Primedia to voice your opinion on this matter, and also requesting refunds for any balance of your subscription, if you have one. I encourage everyone to take an interest in this matter, which was based on flagging ad sales for the magazine, as we all have probably benefited from information published by this and other air-cooled magazines (many of which Primedia publishes worldwide) Just for your information, John Scribner

Posted by: pre67vw - 16 December 2004 11:01:32
:shock: That would be a real shame to see that mag go. I don't think that VW Trends is very popular in Europe, although I subscribed to it for many years. I stopped because it was full of adverts!!

Posted by: Larry - 16 December 2004 15:06:23
I was still half way asleep when I first opened the forum. I am wide awake now. :shock: :shock: :shock: WOW Larry

Posted by: j.scribner - 16 December 2004 23:13:49
Latest update on this news- Perhaps partly due to a growing grassroots campaign by air-cooled VW owners and subscribers to VW Trends to e-mail Primedia Corp., they have apparently decided to publish a March 2005 issue of the magazine before letting it die. Wayne Dean will be sending out information to the 800 recipients of the superbeetles.com newsletter to encourage as many air-cooled VW owners to write Primedia as possible. Our hobby suffers when even a small part of it dies. John Scribner

Posted by: dragon - 17 December 2004 07:41:11
Däm! Sad to hear that. I have read it irregularly from 1984.....

Posted by: sambadude - 17 December 2004 20:26:59
that's because the dropped the covergirls back in the in the 80's [img]https://www.gearheads.dk/nuke/files/trends_170.jpg[/img]

Posted by: Larry - 18 December 2004 01:45:37
For additional information switch over to the "General/Chat" section of the forum. Larry :evil: :evil: :evil: p.s. I never thought that I would ever use the "Very Mad" faces.