It's going down........old media is almost dead.

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Source Interlink kills Sport Compact Car, laying off 115 employees

Posted Nov 21st 2008 4:01PM by Damon Lavrinc
Filed under: Etc.


We just got off the phone with Joey Leh, former editor of Sport Compact Car, who informed us that the majority of the magazine's staff was laid off yesterday and that the February issue will be the last SCC you'll find on newsstands. The death of SCC follows Source Interlink's execution of Turbo earlier this year, and reports suggest that 115 employees have been given the boot and more titles could be axed in the future.

Sport Compact Car was the go-to title for gearheads obsessed with small displacement engines, forced induction, number crunching and the black arts of ECU and suspension tuning, with a dedicated focus on down-and-dirty tech, unique reviews, stellar writing and going fast on a budget. Both the page count and circulation numbers have dropped over the last five years, although according to our sources, ad revenue was up and distribution was holding steady.

On a personal note, SCC was the magazine that got this scribe hooked on driving and the finer points of air-to-fuel ratios, provided me with my first freelance gig and inspired me – primarily through the writings of Dave Coleman, Josh Jacquot, Mike Kojima, Andy Hope, James Tate, John Pearley Huffman and Jared Holstein, among many others – to pursue my dream of writing about cars. SCC will be sorely missed and the world is truly a worse place without it.

Hit the jump to see a list of everyone who has made Sport Compact Car possible over the last two decades.

From SportCompactCarWeb.com

 

So much for my years subscription. They offering rebates? lol

 

It's sad to see this, SCC was my favorite mag of the kind but i guess this was coming considering how thin the mag has become.

 

To those that said the economy isn't affecting them in the thread from Ron B.;

OPEN YOUR EYES lol

Sadly, this isn't the first and will not be the last And America elected a Democrat lol

 

dang, another one gone

 

aww sad to hear

altho i barely ever got one

 

this blows

 

That's actually a good thing.

 

How many riced out cars can you stand to look at? Drifting and tests between the civic ex and sentra just dont excite me.

 

...cause the GOP was doing such a great job for the last 8 years...

 

Haha hey, if you want to get bailed out of a house you can't afford and see your tax dollars waste away on things we've already tried before by all means

RIP SCC, you got worse over the past few years but you are what sparked my interest in this sport.

 

Dood, don't you know? Trickle down economics and deficit spending is the best thing ever! And a 39% tax rate on the top 1% is socialism! (despite the top 1% being taxed at 94% in the past) Don't forget about how they're going to ban all guns and there will be riots if Obama wins!

****ing retards, I swear.

 

Haha where is the hug emoticon when we need it

 

Ryan, Lets not get into a political discussion please.. not the place for it

 

Good idea but you're killing what could be one of the longest and most active threads in this section. JK def not the place for it.

 

Haha it is directly related to the topic at hand, well sort of is good enough for me!

 

i havnt liked looking at even the cover of that mag for a few years now. They should have kept turbo mag and killed scc and import tuner long ago.

 

ehhh not really..

just thank your lucky stars that you have a good job man.. some other people arent so fortunate

 

best thing american could have done seen as the GOP has totally screwed up the economy

I agree the SCC was a joke IMO for those very reasons thats why i changed to honda tuning lmao!

Well it is not just bailing people out of houses that needs to be done how many times have the government bailed or help big business???

Besides all the money wasted fighting wars we should not even be fighting would have been enough to pay for the bail out package how many times over???

 

Darn...I've been subscribing to SCC for 7 years. I enjoyed the very technical articles, and the less rice compared to the other magazines. I hope I get my money back, my subscription ends in 2010.

 

Sometimes we have to think beyond ourselves, if everyone thought the same way a boring world it would be. This industry is like an eco system.

 

wtf. that sucks

 

mags need new flavor in sc, i think there will be something soon. i can feel it.

 

SCC= Subaru's, Cones & Cornering yawn.

 

I am sorry bud but I am not gonna subscribe to a rag that I wont read. I had rather read popular mechanics, really.