This just showed up in my interweb feedbag :

https://www.motortrend.com/news/roadkill-canceled-motortrend-still-plenty-ahead/?

Now if we the automotive community can find a way to add shiplap to our interiors, I think we will have a show the entire Discovery or Magnolia channels will broadcast!

As DF said "Motortrend is new cars" and that's exactly what i thought when the name changed. What a network full of new car tests? Why can't there be network channel with all kinds of shows automotive related shows on it? I like the Speed channel, When it ended some of the programming went to MavTV. Don't know what they have for programming now. It was interesting to see what Joe Zolper said about Discovery(the videos are on youtube" What’s happening to our TV content? Is Motortrend over?". And I agree! Seems the networks the own have tons of old reruns. How do they make money off of reruns. I understand the "automotive enthusiast" is a small niche and it's not going to attract a big network to spend money on it but look at the garbage that's on TV now? It simply blows my mind that Ru Paul's Drag Race is still on. Who in the "F" watches this garbage? And it really pisses me off looking at the cable bill and have to pay to see the few channels i do watch(and support the ones i don't). I really think TV is going the same way music did. Have a streaming network that put's on the programming you want to watch. Shame the big $ networks can't follow that concept. There is the "Food Network" where is "OUR" network?

It really is mindblowing the crap on tv that's successful as you mentioned; Rupaul, and too many other garbage shows to even remember. Housewives, jersey shore, fake drama cooking shows with blue and red dyed hair freaks. Empty headed garbage.

I'm still on cable/dvr and tbh it's because I don't want to take the time nor the energy to learn something new and jump through all the hoops with a new system and fees.

I'm not surprised. It is super difficult and very expensive to do car builds for TV. Car builds take a long time, require a lot of expensive talent and a lot of expensive parts. It is almost impossible to build cars on a schedule these days since a lot of parts are not in stock. Roadkill was an attempt to do an end run around a lot of this stuff by hacking things together with zip ties and duct tape but still in the end, the cars needed to run for the show to work. So that means that someone somewhere had to be wrenching on the stuff and buying parts and all of that.

I'm not an insider anymore so I don't know what happened but my guess is that the money just ran out. That was what happened with the magazines a few years back. The money ran out and the gravy train slowed down and then ground to a halt. I spent about 10 years on the gravy train and it was great. I still miss it.

Shame they will be gone. I assume they will pop up again elsewhere in some fashion. One of the few shows I watched on a regular basis.

You can BET we will never get anything dedicated to us. I dont think the actual viewership numbers would be there. Too many love struck teens and confused young adults to milk the viewership money from.

The only car show that had mass appeal was Top Gear. RK was a low budget U.S. gearhead version in some ways.

I'm not surprised. It is super difficult and very expensive to do car builds for TV.

[quote]I'm not surprised. It is super difficult and very expensive to do car builds for TV.