Before the 2&4 offices closed down earlier this year, the staff told me that Best Motoring was actually a liability for the growth of the company and even Hot Versions sales couldn’t sustain the future of both titles. In fact, Hot Version sales outnumbered Best Motoring, 2:1. This put huge pressure on the production staff and so the decision was made by the parent publishing giant Kodansha to axe one title and ressurrect the other.
Those of you around the world that were saddened by our news that both Hot Version and Best Motoring were being killed off in our news scoop back in April can now breathe a sigh of relief because as we predicted, one of the titles is being saved and continues on with the themes of Touge, drift and tuning segments with all the right characters and protagonists in the mix.
