Nobody isn't saying that they aren't respected, but the corporate print mags don't see them as huge sellers on the newsstands. I fought that opposition long at hard while at GMHTP, but it's the simple truth. Once a platform for car guys to get car guy info, over the last several decades car magazines (particularly print) use their platform to help advertisers connect with the current breed of hobbyists. With only so many pages to fulfill that need, they merely focus on the bigger money makers, although they like to throw a bone to the throwback guys like yourselves... just to keep you engaged and renewing your subscriptions.
People love Turbo Buicks, sure, but putting them on the cover and doing endless tech stories and features on them isn't going to help Holley sell new LT1 intake manifolds. It's all about what's the latest and greatest in the hobby; what's hot, what's new, etc. Turbo Buicks were all over the car mags through the mid-to-late '90s, but as technology and thus, performance, continued to improve in the more mainstream performance cars the TR's became less and less relevant in the modern world of hot-rodding.
As I've mentioned earlier, you'll see fragments of renewed interest here and there as restoration and modern suspension/brake companies begin to offer components (largely due to LS-swapped G-bodies as a whole, but partly because of age). They're also caught in that weird period where they're too new to be lumped in with the GTOs and Chevelles of the '60s, but far too old to be in the same category of today's 5th- and 6th-gen Camaros. GMHTP was the only print mag that they truly fit into, and we all know what happened there...
GM EFI Magazine is the only place to see anything related to Turbo Buicks in today's world, on a regular basis.
People love Turbo Buicks, sure, but putting them on the cover and doing endless tech stories and features on them isn't going to help Holley sell new LT1 intake manifolds. It's all about what's the latest and greatest in the hobby; what's hot, what's new, etc. Turbo Buicks were all over the car mags through the mid-to-late '90s, but as technology and thus, performance, continued to improve in the more mainstream performance cars the TR's became less and less relevant in the modern world of hot-rodding.
As I've mentioned earlier, you'll see fragments of renewed interest here and there as restoration and modern suspension/brake companies begin to offer components (largely due to LS-swapped G-bodies as a whole, but partly because of age). They're also caught in that weird period where they're too new to be lumped in with the GTOs and Chevelles of the '60s, but far too old to be in the same category of today's 5th- and 6th-gen Camaros. GMHTP was the only print mag that they truly fit into, and we all know what happened there...
GM EFI Magazine is the only place to see anything related to Turbo Buicks in today's world, on a regular basis.
