SCC first magazine to go

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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.

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Sad, maybe they should have taken an ad out in GRM before they gave up. I have never even seen a copy in the wild... but I am always a sucker for "the go-to title for gearheads".

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I searched SCC not the full name before I posted..........

clownkiller wrote: 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.

Sad to see a magazine go down, but I'm not surprised. I've only read a few issues in the last 7-8 years vs having a subscription in high school.

There always seemed to be an air of arrogance in their writing. And the issues are literally 45% the size they were back in the 1998-2000 time frame.

Man that sucks. I really liked that mag. Yes Dave Collman sounded like a wise-a$$, but don't we all? Without that rag, I might have never learned about anything but V-8s and drag racing (thanks CarCraft). How is it that SuperStreet lives? That , by far, is the worst piece of crap I've ever "read."