Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Japan
Those of us brought up in the '90s import scene were dealt a serious blow last week with the announcement that
HKS is shuttering its U.S. operations after years of stagnant sales in the States. Now comes word that the video series from
Best Motoring International and
Hot Version have been killed and the hosts disbanded.
2&4 Motoring, owned by Japanese publishing juggernaut Kodansha, has been responsible for the popular automotive video series for the last two decades, but slow sales and a lack of consistent revenue have taken their toll. The series' creators and their hosts - including Hideki Tanabe - are supposedly moving on to bigger and better things, making
Hot Version #110 and April 2011's
Best Motoring shows the final installments of the series.
[Source:
7Tune]
Best Motoring International, Hot Version are officially dead originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 01 May 2011 16:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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