Who Killed Roadkill

[@AmpasaurusWrecks]

I think what made Roadkill great was the chemistry between the guys and the budget big enough to allow crazy projects.

[@ronbelldvm]

I've watched a bunch of Engine Masters on KZbin and found it fascinating. I found Roadkill and Roadworthy rescues while staying at a hotel with the wife. There wasn't anything else on TV, so we watched several episodes. My wife now feels less worried when we take a trip in our classic car, as they're in better condition that what they were running. I appreciate their efforts, and like you, wish them much success in their future endevours.

[@VacFink]

I think what's missed in these discussions is that when it was KZbin it was lean and clean. Then each step up added production and cost and a demand for a bigger and bigger return. In the end, creator driven content is content for the viewer, not the investor. I'm glad to see it turn the right direction again.

[@daiichidoku]

You can see this in real time with VGG being perfekt as it is, yet the "Motortrend feat. Derek" vids I've seen just doesnt move me.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I am pretty sure that Finnegan and Freiburger Will Rise From the Ashes of this

[@curtisi4403]

As for cable shows, they were impacted a lot by social media and KZbin. What's also depressing is the lot of competition contest shows, on every network. With Roadkill and others alike, they never argued, screamed and went on drama tantrums, just clean fun. No matter what they will be missed. The joy of just turning on the tv, tuning in and sitting back. KZbin is great but mind you, because of accessibility, I tend to wander too often.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I agree that other shows came along after roadkill that used the same profile cleetus McFarland being one of the major ones that's made a great success of it

[@mechanknuckle]

Do you remember Shadetree Mechanic with Dave Bowman and Sam Memmolo? These guys really started it all I believe. I used to watch them every week. Every show has its run. Freiburger and crew will hopefully do MUCH better on their own. We'll all be watching, along side Autorestomod and MM

[@Stahodad]

I watched that show, back when TLC used to show you how to replace your own friggin roof...I learned alot..lol.

[@morganleblanc730]

I agree it's about the money. It's also due to mismanagement at an executive level. This happens all the time. I worked for several major corporation from Kodak, to Frontier Communications, Constellation Brands to Amazon then Aerospace. All of these corporation had executive making poor decisions in an effort to please share holders and corporate boards and let's not forget Government regulation requirements! This results in huge financial losses as you mentioned! The majority of the executives at Warner and Discovery more than likely did not get the passion we have for the automobile!

[@AutoRestoMod]

When I say it's all about the money that includes shareholders LOL

[@mikespringer9343]

When the magazines went out of business a few years ago only you and frieburger did videos about it. Thanks for this vid. PS Hot Rod magazine is only 4 issues a year now.

[@TheREALOC1972]

That's all changed now though, Physical Magazine Subscription is up 37% over the last 3 years, the ENTIRE problem with Magazines is they got too expensive and when the economy hit the skids people could no longer to pay fir luxuries like physical magazines at $12 a month for every magazine.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I miss the old days

[@cornbread7083]

WHAT,,,,,,,,,I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SUBSCRIBE......R U SURE..........I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU.......

[@Scrapla1]

Thank God for You Tube we will still be able to watch out fav's.

[@I_like_turtles_67]

KZbin is very restrictive, though. Content creators are slowly making their way to places like Rumble, where the platform doesn't punish people for wrong think.

[@Thirdgen83]

KZbin sucks. I wish more people would put their videos on Rumble.

[@jaynecobb6711]

​@@Thirdgen83 Yet here you are. On KZbin. Bellyaching, sniveling and whining about non-existent 'woke'. Typical MAGA chud.

[@DUNEATV]

KZbin will continue to go woke and you won’t be watching anything. They don’t want you to see.

[@TandDAutomotive82]

Its not a loss to the community. They will still be a huge part of this hobby and will still be putting out tons of fantastic content. Hopefully, the other employees/ hosts will land on their feet and get the support they deserve

[@AutoRestoMod]

Honestly the two of them need to go and do exactly what they were doing on KZbin where they are in complete control of what happens. While The Grand Tour that was done by Clarkson May and Hammond was run by the corporate shills it was still the same thing as Top Gear only different.

[@I_like_turtles_67]

A generation of young men rebuilding gasoline powered vehicles goes against the message.

[@dougsmaintenanceshop5868]

Toyota and Ford think the way forward will be internal combustion engines on hydrogen. I don't know what message you are referencing but I don't think we are going to see some sort of end for internal combustion. People might want it but we are probably a century away from that happening. A better technology, a new element on the periodic table is needed. We just ain't there yet

[@Thirdgen83]

@@dougsmaintenanceshop5868 I guess they never heard of the Hindenburg.

[@idiotology5568]

@@Thirdgen83 I guess you don't know the difference between a balloon and a fuel cell.

[@Thirdgen83]

@@idiotology5568 You probably don't know the difference between a man and a woman...

[@idiotology5568]

@@Thirdgen83 Great come back.......cum back.

[@pedroequis9396]

You should know that Joe Zolper from Garage Squad just posted a video about this same topic. His channel is his name. Thank goodness we've gotten you and Joe on the tube now though!

[@TheREALOC1972]

Frieberger did one also and they both said the pretty much the same thing, WBD is shutting the channel down using "Death by re-run: because they don't want to be in the Automotive business, they did the samething to WCW (World Championship Wrestling) in 2001 after they bought out Ted Turner, WCW had the #1 and #3 shows on Turner Broadcasting and they sold it for less than 10% of what it was worth because they simply didn't want to be in the wrestling business, it's different here.... The Suit at WBD don't wanna be in the Automotive business.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I watched Joe's Short piece on it and he was pretty spot-on with his ideas. I've always liked Joe he's a pretty fun guy, at least what I've seen of him on the shows

[@14karatyt]

I very much appreciated the 'see ya on the rumble' comment. 😁

[@RecklessEnterainment]

I was a roadkill nutcase for the for a long time. I was obsessed in highschool and would wait until the night the new one would come out. I haven’t seen a single new episode in probably 4 years. It lost what made it fun to watch. Engine masters was fantastic and In my opinion the best show that got canned because of this. Frieburger and Finnegan will do fine with out it.

[@AutoRestoMod]

What I love about what Finnegan and Freiburger did was that they brought young people into the hobby that likely would not have been involved when the show was on KZbin

[@DragBoss351Cleveland]

Jeff, great summary, yes money is the driving force, without a doubt.

[@michaellowe3665]

Motortrend TV used to have about 6 or 7 shows that I was willing to subscribe to see. The remaining Roadkills are all they have left.

[@Built_2_Spill]

Way to love on all of the people involved with these shows. What a blessing to be able to start a new journey. In 2020 i bought a 66 F100. Your show, as well as theirs, have been a gateway to a new hobby for me. Thank you for being a positive example 🎉

[@ytwatcher8288]

me too! '66 F100 LB haha I watch all these guys when it's snowing I call it grease porn

[@AutoRestoMod]

I've been where these folks are at before and it's not any fun for sure

[@ytwatcher8288]

@@AutoRestoMod in hind sight it's sometimes remembered as fun 😆

[@kq2799]

Woke= anything I don't like...

[@codegame027]

Something about the cancellation smells funny but mum is the word

[@pauls7751]

Just like Street Outlaws. Something smells fishy when a network turns their back on one of their top shows

[@Racoldgin]

You got it right, it's always all about the money.

[@JamesTLangford]

Hell it wouldn’t surprise me if the epa isn’t threatening to fine them

[@AutoRestoMod]

They're mostly reserving that for the diesel shows

[@matzrat5006]

Road killed it's self, ran out of content. Roadkill Garage took off , Steve was and is a better match up with Fryeburger, just what i think.

[@curtthompson2787]

Nope, they had content. Got cancelled over execs and money. Watch Joe Zolper from Garage Squad talk about it on his channel.

[@murraysteele2240]

I've worked in the movie and TV industry for over 20 years. When the streaming services took off about 10 years ago, the industry exploded with everybody trying to make content. People got greedy and it got too big. Now it's collapsing on itself. It's all about the money to the people at the top. The industry moved across the country trying to find the cheapest place to make films and TV shows. Now they've slowed down productions and are not filming so much. The big movies that used to get filmed in Hollywood, then Atlanta, are now being filmed in England. Why? Because it's cheaper. The Roadkill guys were just caught in the middle. They had a good run, and I'm glad I got to see it

[@TheREALOC1972]

I agree with 90% of what you said, The thing you missed is WBD bought Motortrend tv in order to shut it down. They didn't want to be in "Automotive tv" business, they have a history of doing it, they did the same thing to WCW (World Championship Wrestling) when they bought it along with TBS, TN, TCM and all the other Turner Cable Properties. WCW Monday Nitro was BY FAR the #1 viewed show on Turner networks, WCW Thursday Night was #3 yet they took it off t.v. and sold the company, Why? because they didn't want to be in the Wrestling business, They are doing the samething here with Motortrend TV, they are shutting it down using "death by reruns", After the spring season there are no new shows coming out on the channel because they don't want to be in "car business", and they are using "it's not profitable" excuse but I absolutely REFUSE to believe that, There's no way it's losing money, It's making money it's probally that it isn;t making as much as they feel it should.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Agreed

[@BiffTannen99]

I still do enjoy this channel. Good info on late 60s - 70s full size cars

[@grgoylone]

Too many spin-off shows diluted the brand imo

[@matzrat5006]

roadkill garage is better tho. Roadkill was good for the first 5 years was pretty good.

[@JamesTLangford]

Naa totally like what so many of what shows are going through. Buy competition and cancel new production and live off the catalogue. You can bet they have a no compete till existing contract is up

[@7andydroid7]

All of the mentioned shows were some of my favorites on tv in general, with Engine Masters being my overall favorite. I really looked forward to new episodes of all of these shows, and I will miss any of them that don't continue online.

[@aaronsnare9280]

Motor trend 2 largest sponsors were Dodge and Autozone, Dodge killed their v8 production and challenger/chargers. Autozone announced, days before MT, that they're closing 700 stores due to slumping sales.

[@xgford94]

Ok this is what we call a CLUE

[@normenderle550]

Advance Auto is closing 700 stores, not Autozone.

[@scottcorwin3483]

I think they canceled Roadkill due to safety concerns, Fryeburger's total refusal to wear shoes.😂

[@AutoRestoMod]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 that and the money

[@Poorschedriver]

Everyone could tell Roadkill was real, unscripted. We could relate because they were just 2 gear heads going on adventures and being hooligans routinely. Everyone is tire of all this reality TV "We're gonna lose the shop" BS and Roadkill was a breath of fresh air because it looked great but wasn't over produced. Plus there was just a wholesome friendship between Mike and Dave, and everyone else involved.

[@MrDmorgan52]

Your suggestions are exactly what I mentioned to Freiburger on his channel. Just form a production company and stay on KZbin. Even Dave Kindig got caught up in this. At least he has his shop!

[@AutoRestoMod]

Good stuff!

[@faizalkhaki6952]

VERY DUMB QUESTION, IM LOVING THE MUSTANG ASSEMBLY VIDEOS FROM 7 YEARS AGO. IM LOOKING FOR EPISODE 117?

[@AutoRestoMod]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZTLp3eJft2EpKMsi=lrLEGoyqPozsr_qx

[@gatoreye2000]

IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY

[@curtthompson2787]

Joe Zolper from Garage Squad has his own channel and goes off on what's going on and why. And yes, it's primarily executives and what they want to put the network's money into.

[@Bikedueder]

I CANNOT stand those street drag racing shows. I get bored stiff when watching them more than five minutes. ALL scripted, too much trash talking, fake drama. The sooner they go off the air the better.

[@chrishamman9432]

Creativity is being “out of the box”. Accounting and finance is the balance. Blaming others is projection.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Agreed

[@johnnyhonda7576]

I wish Engine Masters was still going

[@christophertaylor9100]

The best way to understand what happened is to look at MotorTrend as a whole. EVERYTHING was canceled, except for a handful of shows they are contractually obligated to continue. Its basically a dead channel.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Should we spend a little time talking about all the magazines that have died at the hands of many of these large corporations

[@christophertaylor9100]

@@AutoRestoMod Well we are in an era in which people do not really read much beyond twitter-length micro posts, so magazines are a thing of the past by this point. I don't say this happily, as an author, but that's just the world we live in, for now.

[@ironman6527]

As of today, David now has 269K

[@AutoRestoMod]

I expect it will grow from there too. I think the main reason that Finnegan has more subscribers at this point is he started doing the KZbin stuff much earlier than Freiburger

[@biastv1234]

At least Might Car Mods and The Skid Factory are still around

[@johnbarker5009]

IMO Roadkill and the associated shows showed us how to have fun without needing to be a millionaire. I admire what they build on Bitchin' Rides, to choose something well known from the opposite end of the spectrum, but the real message from that show is that "you" can't afford to be in the car hobby. Hopefully something else can come in and fill some of those gaps. The Powernation shows aren't on cable anywhere. FWIW, I think the Motor Trend network shot itself in the foot some by having a bunch of content you could only reach on their streaming service while the cable channel was showing the same content over and over again.

[@RLTango]

3:24 - Ding! Ding! Ding! I truly is about money and how much you can make on the right off. WB killed the Red vs Blue / Rooster Teeth franchise too.

[@scarbourgeoisie]

Roadkill was great and I enjoyed it while it lasted. But it was nowhere near the level of craziness that was Top Gear. Not even in the same League.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Top Gear was a great show about Men Behaving Badly according to what women think. 🤣🤣🤣

[@TxStang]

Joe Zolper did a video to explain why , basically they made cuts to Motor Trend to slash the budget as it did not turn a profit .

[@AutoRestoMod]

While I agree with Joe I don't know that he actually has any inside facts other than his suppositions. But Joe basically came to the same conclusion that I did it really boils down to It's All About the Money

[@docwyte]

I don't think there was any "agenda" in cancelling these shows. It was purely a business decision, maybe not even about the money, but in just wanting to go a different direction. As a gearhead who loved Engine Masters, HRG, Roadkill Garage and Dirt Every Day it sucks and it's puzzling as you'd think advertisers would be lining up for ad spots on those shows, but I guess not. Freiburger, Finnegan and Alex Taylor will be fine, but guys like 4X Fred, Dirt Head Dave, Lucky and Dulcich (does he even have a YT channel?) will struggle more. As much as I love the Dirt Every Day hosts, their stuff on YT is hard to watch, they're much better together than solo, same with Lucky and Dulcich, those guys don't have the personality to carry a show themselves and their solo camera work is rough... I do feel badly for the entire Production company crew, that's now out of work. It's one thing to say "Oh, they're used to it" and another entirely to be out of work, from a very stable situation and now have to scramble to find another job...

[@AutoRestoMod]

No one ever gets used to being let go from a job I'm just saying that TV production folks are more used to things ending faster than we are out here in the rest of the world

[@tomberan1282]

Jeff I believe what’s is happening to Motortrend TV & alike is much what is happening to our media and alike. Personally I watch very little “TV” or cable but more so streaming services, KZbin & Rumble. I follow a number of shows including Autorestomod, Uncle Tony’s Garage, Kiwi’s Classic, Vice grip, Finnegan’s Garage & more. I truly believe the corporate model is dying, look at our past elections and where many got their information to make decisions such as Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, Matt Tiebe, Glenn Greenwald and more. Cable news outlets such as CNN or MSNBC are crashing and appear to soon be sold off. I personally I’m excited by these changes and see huge opportunities for shows such as yours and, more so, the hobby of classic cars, trucks & alike. The new generation is online and TV or such are in fact, in my view, dying breads. For you and all others who produce these videos & stream them I see real growth. Change is much like a curve in the road, just turn the wheel and follow through accelerating on the way out.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I agree with you. It's a whole new world.

[@Dons166]

Fennigan did a long KZbin video on Friday

[@shawnwarner2609]

Yes, it is normally about the money...however, unless the balance sheets of each program are made public, we don't know if those cancelled were profitable or not. And it wouldn't be the first time a company axed a profitable asset, division or program because it didn't fit their vision. And then there are just plain bad management...I'll defer to the decision makers at Jaguar.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Hahahahaha, Jagurar. It certainly got us talking about it, though, didn't it?

[@Axel_Andersen]

Can someone please tell me what is/was Roadkill?

[@AutoRestoMod]

It was a show about hooning cars. It was part of the Motor Trend TV network. And I think it's so its greatest success when it was actually just on KZbin.

[@Dons166]

But how expensive was Road Kill to produce? Seemed pretty low budget for a TV show

[@johnlewis1257]

I will always be a long time fan of freiburger Finnegan and all the rest I'll watch them anyway possible

[@AutoRestoMod]

They probably will go back to the drawing board and do another show I don't think they'll be able to call it roadkill though

[@phillymike4767]

I think Tony Angelo saw this coming. He said it mas the commute from east to west coast, good enough reason. Maybe he felt it was coming to an end.

[@pauls7751]

Another biggie is Discovery basically turning their back to the Street Outlaws franchise. No new programming for over a year now but Discovery hasn't released a statement. The drivers all swear they don't what the future holds. Of course there could be a hush clause in their contracts.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Believe me there are hush clauses as well. I've been in that boat on the print side of things when I was the editor for Mustang and Ford magazine and got let go. Fortunately I was in Florida which was a right to work state and I didn't have to worry about them coming after me if I went to work for another magazine.

[@pauls7751]

​yessir I remember when you were the editor of Mustangs and Fords. You probably lived in Lakeland. It seemed like Lakeland was the center of the Mustang hobby back then? I was a member of the Mustang Club of Tampa for many years before I retired and moved to the North Georgia Mountains. I bet we have a lot of mutual friends like Mark Houlihan. Plus Merve and Pat recently retired. Enjoy the show​@@AutoRestoMod

[@patton9696]

KZbin is a better platform for this content than ANYTHING THAT DISNEY TOUCHES

[@rickyfulks6656]

Especially that tackled intro,a frigging dead animal WTF

[@AutoRestoMod]

Lol

[@gilliansheppard5383]

You so true for what you say. If roadkill didn’t exist on KZbin, I personally wouldn’t have the kick to start the project I am working on, on summer day. Because back in the day KZbin was “real” when Tv show was … tv show (not so real), it shows that sort of thing was possible in real life. (Not from US by the way, I have an European point of view on this subject. So like some say: “don’t be sad it’s ending, be happy it’s ever happens “ (My 65 mustang coupe will run one day, it will !!! (lol)) 👍

[@AutoRestoMod]

Keep working on that car!

[@smh28v6]

Since discovery took over they just made it harder and harder for anyone outside the US to watch so obviously the viewers just got annoyed and left. And when it moved to max even people in tbe US couldn't watch so low views due to their own incompetence and money is probably what killed it

[@jaypeacock3884]

Went the same way as the SPEED channel and Steve Magantes Junkyard Gold, what a shame... we have to band together and keep this hobby alive, dont get it right, just get it running yall....

[@AutoRestoMod]

I think KZbin is the last Bastion of that sort of programming. Us guys are typically in control of our own destiny (except for Donut Media).

[@johnhaas2523]

Speed channel going away and rebranded is all about money for The Murdoch family as apeed TV wasn't making money unlike Fs1 but Fox was still better financial shape than discover Warner but now if speed TV existed today probably would be in same shape

[@2dooroldford]

The beginning roadkill was good, the later shows were more like advertising, roadkill garage was good, ultimately it became advertising. The rest of the motortrend shows weren't good, I loved dirt everyday. Your show is far more informative. So in my opinion far superior. KZbin is where my entertainment comes from. Stacey David's gearz is the advertising and informative show that sticks around, he even realized youtube is where it's at

[@terremolander5243]

They were great shows!!! It really sounds and smells like a $$$ issue.

[@JamesTLangford]

If you recall discovery was original home of the biker and monster garage. I kinda expected it when it when discovery took them In my opinion i think they have a no competition order till the new shows air Also remember hoonigan production is still out there

[@AutoRestoMod]

I think on the whole, you're going to see less and less automotive content on TV networks because it costs a lot of money for production. Plus, less and less of the people in Hollywood understand automobiles. They really understand things like bachelorettes bachelor's and people yelling at each other

[@leethomas9198]

I dig the shirt

[@oscarwalton1188]

I think they should have stayed on KZbin instead of the pay wall route that limited the audience because motor trend wasn't available every ware especially outside of the us and these days a show needs all the audience they can get roadkill wasn't the weak link here it's discovery/warner that dropped the ball.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Honestly, it's not the first ball that Discovery has dropped. Warner Discovery lost the NBA contract, and that cost them a pretty penny. Remember, these cats lost 10 billion dollars. Roadkill at all was just one of the small Band-Aids that they put on the gunshot wound.

[@vonmarko1363]

Ok, you lost me at “woke conspiracy”. Roadkill and the other shows were cancelled because Motortrend is part of a dying medium, cable TV and print media. Pretty much all of the cool old car magazines and TV shows are gone now, victims of mergers, acquisitions and changing demographics. Frieburger and company should have stuck to KZbin instead of selling their souls to Discovery, another dying company. I’m sure Frieberger and company will just transition back to KZbin with a similar style show, I doubt that they own the rights to the “Roadkill” name now though. This isn’t a matter of “wokeness” killing off old media, it’s the result of changes in the market, you know, that thing that a certain group of people love to say will save the would, but don’t seem to know how it works.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Oh I never said it was about a woke conspiracy. You obviously typed that before the end of the video. My theory is that it is really all about the money.

[@EricSpratt]

They didn’t sell their souls. Motor Trend owned all their content

[@biglakehotrods381]

They will all end up on you tube and be just fine. Too many spin offs maybe a bad thing?

[@UFPTX]

The KZbin numbers will be much larger than viewer numbers on TV. Cable TV/ legacy media is dead at this point.

[@AutoRestoMod]

If not dead at least on life support

[@Scotiapilot1966]

Money 100%. With type of show and content, it’s hard to find advertisers that will or even understand the viewership.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I'll tell you that the advertisers actually chased the most number of viewers. 90% of them don't give a crap about the content they just want the numbers. You can have a show that is a high-quality show that does a great job, but if it doesn't have the numbers, the advertisers will stay away and droves

[@djsutice0]

They killed of a lot of revinew just by refusing to deal with EU privacy policy and flat out refused and cancelled all subscritions from the EU. Making it impossible for people in the EU region to watch or pay for motortrend programs.

[@AutoRestoMod]

But I'm really curious as to just how many people in the EU are watching Motor Trend TV compared to the United States. My show is 92.6% US market.

[@jimpatnode4445]

As for looking for sponsors I would submit you should check out Tony A's stay tuned when he discussed the cost of getting sponsors.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Sponsors are hard to co.e buy at the level MT TV was operating at there were heaps of mouths to feed at Motortrend Studios. The rates go up accordingly.

[@mistersecret88]

They killed all the ghost shows on disc+ too

[@AutoRestoMod]

I don't think that the chopping block is quite done yet to be honest with you. This is starting to look like the French Revolution.

[@carljohnson7517]

Street outlaws was canceled by Discovery too.

[@AutoRestoMod]

A lot of things will be falling off the cliff as Warner Discovery+ regroups.

[@billythehardheadgoat]

Roadkill killed themselves when they wanted to go on a subacription base

[@AutoRestoMod]

Once again we're talking about what the corporation wanted to do. Freiburger in Finnegan were just hosts on the show they had no real control over the destiny of roadkill or any of the other shows Motor Trend TV work with

[@rchydrozz751]

I thought it was cancelled years ago. My station only show the older shows.

[@ronaldsimmons8346]

It's ALWAYS about the money. Always.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Always

[@jbolty]

sadly hot rod culture is not a thing for the young generation. Any car worth having for one of these projects is 50+ years old. A kid who is 20 now knows nothing of carburetors or non computerized ignition or roll up windows.

[@cornbread7083]

FROM THE HIP: I just learned this bad news from here , right NOW: FIRST 80% of my TV watching has been SpeedChannel and Velocity all the other buyouts including MotorTrend , what is that 15 years ????? Your gig here is more hands on & teaching than 90% of the channels I mentioned ! You do ( at times) excellent work. I just think your lacking in many other areas. Improving but I feel more is needed. This video I think is almost terrible, "woke" should have NEVER been mentioned !!!!!! PERIOD !!!!!! Your other reasons & comments I think were very general knowledge, some half truths & maybe some no truths. I agree the TV shows are great/good mostly. Some of your facts I think are almost right on. This from me watching for 15 years , everyday, yes pretty much, not all day, but many hours a day alot !!! Friebur,ger is a jerk , not always, but you can tell he hates to be wrong & seldom admits hes wrong & blames most things on whoever is close by !!! Fienegan and many others get irritated with him all the time, you can see it plain as day in there faces ! His last editorial ( I think )for HOTROD MAG, he even said he is hard to work for !!! Fienagan has said he was away from his family way too much.....The shows I think were getting very repetitious, and dangerous. They broke the LAW all the time. Also the shows were at times just stupid, I am referring to ROADKILL. Still though they are like SOAP OPERAS TO women , you have to watch them.......ha........ Percent wise, your channel here has much more hands on , actual learning, that is why I have endured your videos shortcomings, because you do EXCELLENT WORK , most of the time !!! been a viewer for several years. I may/could/should elaborate but I hate to type..........I do like your work, and see your improving, just disappointed in this vid........THANK-YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT..............ha

[@AutoRestoMod]

Isn't it awesome that we have the ability to express our opinions freely? I worked at Petersen with Freiburger, though we were on opposite coasts and ran two separate magazines. He at Hot Rod me at Mustang Monthly and Mustang and Fords. Yet I can't speak to his nature fully. We are all liable to fall short of our goals. We work toward perfection, but it can and does elude us.

[@jasonmushersee]

hotrods to smart phones & they took the arcade out of our walmart no more claw tattoo/vape shops booming

[@shadvan9494]

this is mostly WB/Discovery's fault. I have heard rumblings from people that used to work for Discovery. originally Discover used to be about scientific stuff like animals eating other animals, then MythBusters and Dirty Jobs came along, and then it just became more scripted reality tv series, like Fast and Loud, Misfit Garage, the current street outlaws thing. got to have all the fake drama to keep people coming back. and roadkill doesn't have that kind of drama. nor is that kind of drama needed in a shows like RoadKill. so, when WB told Discovery to cut the budget, they kill everything that was not outlaw street racing. To be honest i saw the writing on the wall as soon as Motor Trend was sold to Discovery. they are not exactly known for being a great place to work from what i have heard. its part of the reason Arron left Fast and Loud. the filming schedule with grinding them down and they just could not turn out a quality product in the time requirements, I heard the same thing about American Choppers. 17 years ago, i worked for a company that did a corporate bike with them and Discovery made if hell to even work with them and the time frame for filming and everything. it was 100% true. the bike itself was beautiful, but it was nonfunctional. the electrical was garbage, there were a half a lot of bad grounds, where they just attached the ground wire to the painted frame, so thing worked intermittently. also with the huge front tire, it was unrideable in anything like a strait line. so when Disco looks at something like Roadkill they have no idea what to do with it, so they killed it.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I think roadkill and the other shows were just easy targets for discovery. At this point I believe they are just looking for the most amount of money that they can cut out of anything. 10 billion will make you start looking for wholesale cuts.

[@freddixon2902]

Paramount did the same thing with Power Nation.

[@AutoRestoMod]

I think a lot of the people in Los Angeles have absolutely no idea what to do with car culture. It is why you see so many of these kind of shows that do so well on KZbin falling apart after they get off of KZbin

[@franktatom1837]

The death of any series is due to ad revenue, which is based on ratings and the demographics of the audience. Top-rated programs can be canceled if the demographics do not produce ad revenue. Which group spends money? That's the demographic group they want. A bunch of 55-70 year old guys mostly on fixed incomes that like old cars are not the demographic that produces high ad revenue. Don't believe me? Green Acres, Hee-Haw, and other rural comedies were all canceled when they were in the top ten in ratings because the biggest audiences were in the south and in rural areas - places full of non-spending folks. Few in NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. were watching. So what replaced them? Urban comedies, the Bob Newhart show, Mary Tyler Moore show, et al. The Grand Tour was expressly stated by Clarkson in the last show as ending because the cars made today were boring and not worth testing. To go from testing Lamborghinis to Teslas wasn't interesting to him. More performance, perhaps, but less soul.

[@avgjoegeek71]

My guess is that the people who make the decisions from the company who bought them out decided its not worth the $$ spent on the show. But it sucks that corporate pretty much screwed the show. They should never have been placed behind a paywall. That was a nail in the coffin. But we've seen a ton of Car related media have been killed for many reasons. I'm not thinking its a "woke" thing here.

[@arthursilva6140]

There's a lot of people who enjoy the type of content they do and hopefully someone with a brain will pick them back up and I'm sure they will do a lot more of this stuff on Facebook.

[@muddymo7641]

After awhile is was overkill.

[@RonMcwhirter]

I for one absolutly refuse to use a streaming service. Our bill is already over 100 per month for 200 channels i dont even watch. As for freiburger and crew. I will be watching on uTube. Moter trend will be gone and thats to bad. By

[@genemanno1533]

I just figured the tree huggers got it caned because of the excessive childish tire burning smoke every time they started the cars. Honestly that along with the girly giggling got old fast. I did like the Steve Dulsish build stuff in his barn. The childish spinning the vehicles in circles not so much. The unsafe attire working on cars was stupid and not a good image for TV. I do like the saving of junk cars and trucks and putting them back on the road. The disrespect for new tires is sickening. So there was good and bad in the show. Must have been viewed as mostly bad that’s why it’s gone. Ya can’t believe everything ya read and see.

[@johnlopez805]

It was Alex Taylor she killed hotrod garage and then it rolled down hill

[@mattg7952]

Well Hoovie said MT gave him a million dollars roughly to produce a season of his show total cost involved. So do the math across 5-7 shows. and just on the MT side and nothing else. You can see where the network could get 41 billion in debt pretty easily across the board.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Agreed

[@jamesdewiel4736]

A lot of people cut their cable

[@AutoRestoMod]

We did!

[@gravedigger8]

i've not turned my tv on for 3 weeks except for the election

[@AutoRestoMod]

Honestly I don't even watch TV

[@tomsoil9909]

What about the shows that anen't so good on MT? What's up with them? We are not hearing about them.... Roadkill made MT!! I will follow Roadkill where ever they go!! F MT!!

[@AutoRestoMod]

Sadly, for most people, the only place Roadkill is going is away. I am not sure that Motor Trend will let go of roadkill for David Freiburger to continue on KZbin. They just shut everything down.

[@bubbavazquez]

They sold out, should have kept their videos on youtube.

[@davidkuhn3970]

FYI Frieburger had nothing to do with the sell out. He was just an employee.

[@mattg7952]

​@@davidkuhn3970An employee under contract who was happy to be funded by corporate dollars instead of bailing and going to KZbin years ago.

[@Fatty420]

Roadkill was always a Motortrend owned/produced show. It was never a couple-of-guys-on-YT-that-got-picked-up-by-a-network.

[@davidkuhn3970]

@@mattg7952 He had nothing to do with the decision to go off KZbin and make it only pay only.

[@AutoRestoMod]

They didn't have any control over what happened. They were just hosts on the show

[@KayakTN]

Looking at MT's programming, the whole thing looks like a wasteland of reruns. There's maybe an hour or two of new content over any 24 hour period.

[@AutoRestoMod]

The big problem they have is that the size of the studio that was producing it was pretty big and not able to produce a ton of shows, and thus, you go into re-run hell.

[@rustyicepick8462]

Maturation?

[@michaelwelch5392]

But you're so sexy when you put on your tin foil hat.😆 Well spoken. You know when one door closes another opens. A lot of those guys are going to be making those steps, best of luck to all of them. And thank you for your time and effort you make week in and week out.

[@AutoRestoMod]

Have you been watching me in my off time again? 🤣

[@larrytorrez7079]

Stupid to get rid of Roadkill and other car show

[@otisbailey5455]

Accountants are probably drawing the line on what stays and what goes. If you want to find the problems follow the money. No organizations or affiliated groups have any effect on big business. Foolish to look underlying causes

[@AutoRestoMod]

Too true like I say it's all about the money. You've got to make the stockholders happy LOL

[@approachingtarget.4503]

You're high!

[@AutoRestoMod]

Not yet but give me a little time

[@sombra6153]

A “bang shift” EV just wouldn’t have worked or even resonated with viewers….

[@AutoRestoMod]

EVs are the future that the political folks are pushing. I'm just not sure that we're ready for that future yet.

[@sombra6153]

@ I hear you. The market, not the government will drive that future.

[@chrismurphy110]

paywalls killed roadkill

[@AutoRestoMod]

Maybe, probably, but what really killed them was the fact that there were/are other shows that were/are doing very much the same thing on KZbin, Cletus McFarland for one. While it is all about the money, peversly, car folks just don't want to pay the money for the shows LOL. And there are less and less sponsors available for shows like roadkill or any of us.

[@maldo72]

Both of them need to take a page out of cleetus and branch out on their own to create their own media brand and not be employees anymore for the corp woke people to take it away from them. the corp people never get shows like this and destroy everything they touch and can never see the big picture or can change fast enough with times this shows in the magazines and media they produce. What sucks is that they don't own any of the tv rights to the show they created or had the foresight of how big this would have come.

[@AutoRestoMod]

That's what I did in 2010!

[@Good-Enuff-Garage]

I wonder if Musk's D.O.G.E had anything to do with it

[@papasmodelcarroom8450]

Who cares it doesn't matter There gone and it SUCKS 😢😢😢

[@AutoRestoMod]

Agreed.