What’s happening to my MotorTrend+ subscription?
On 28 March 2024, if you subscribe to MotorTrend+, one of two things will happen:

You will automatically be a discovery+ (Ad-Free) subscriber and get access to MotorTrend+ video content. To learn more, go to I'll automatically be a discovery+ subscriber.
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Your subscription will simply end on 28 March 2024 and there will be no further charges. For refund questions, go to My subscription will simply end.

Its also $70/yr now, I canceled

Its also $70/yr now, I canceled

Its also $70/yr now, I canceled

Really? My current subscription is $4.99/mo. $70/year is $5.83/mo.

84 cents is killing you?

Thanks for the info. I stopped using them after they bumped up their price from $2.99 to $4.99. At $70 a year, not that important enough to watch when I am bored.

I used to write for them but they made it impossible for me to work anymore and now I think the guy I used to work for is gone. They stopped writing new content a while back, Hot Rod is now mostly just recycled content from earlier years. I think the end is near for all print magazines and maybe even the online stuff.

Most of the magazines they produced were profitable. But Discovery did not want to be in the publishing business, so they kill them. Even though it was the only thing supporting MotorTrend+, as MT+ has never made a profit in all the years of its existence.

And they won't sell the properties because they don't want someone to make a competing successful brand off of one of their old Intellectual Properties. So they just killed the magazines and let them sit forever.

And now with Hot Rod only being quarterly, they no longer need a bunch of new articles. They only need a handful of new articles a year, so they aren't producing anything extra really anymore. Now until the end they are just going to keep regurgitate old stuff.

Discovery hates the original MotorTrend shows. It goes against everything that they want to do. Just have garbage cheap shows full of drama to entice women into watching, since more often than not the woman is the decision maker in the house. They do not want content that guys like us will watch, because we are such a small niche. I heard this from one of the the execs in a meeting over there a few years ago.

Any loss of anything related to the car hobby is a big loss in my eyes. We need to support this hobby anyway we can.

Well that’s interesting, mine says I’m being moved over.

I used to write for them but they made it impossible for me to work anymore and now I think the guy I used to work for is gone. They stopped writing new content a while back, Hot Rod is now mostly just recycled content from earlier years. I think the end is near for all print magazines and maybe even the online stuff.

It’s obvious from the content in the latest Hot Rod quarterly rag that old content is the norm. Won’t be long before Hot Rod magazine will be a thing of the past.

Per the notice:
" It’s the end of the road for Warner Bros. Discovery‘s MotorTrend+ automotive streaming service. The media company announced that MotorTrend+ will be shut down after content from the service is fully migrated to Discovery+ and Max at the end of March. The majority of current MotorTrend+ subscribers will be automatically switched over to Discovery+’s ad-free plan by the end of March, retaining their same subscription price. The company said eligible MotorTrend+ subscribers will receive email instructions on how to access Discovery+. MotorTrend+ subs who signed up through certain third-party partners will not be moved over.

I’ll stay, for now.

Might be other worthwhile stuff on discovery, I’m looking forward to checking
It out.