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When we launched Petrolicious three years ago, we decided to focus our resources on creating great content and not worry too much about inventing new user experiences on the site. And during those three years, you have rewarded us with your time and attention, despite the user experience having become vintage (dare I say, even Pre-War) by modern web standards. You put up with a painful mobile experience. You endured bouts of incredibly slow response times. And you shared our articles on Facebook, even though we would often show the wrong article image to your friends. I guess you loved us the way you love a vintage car, with all that comes with it.
We’ve long been due for an overhaul: so here’s the new Petrolicious. Unlike new iterations of cars that add weight and numbness, I think you’ll find the new experience a lot more agile and lightweight. We’ll be monitoring usage of the new site closely and listening to your feedback to make adjustments accordingly. And over the next few months, we’ve planned a few more exciting features and tools that we’ll be releasing incrementally.
Oh, and we decided to give our current film series a name: Made To Drive. I hope you enjoy and share the series trailer we put together. If you suspect that a series name implies additional series in the future, you would not be wrong! Look for a new film format coming very soon…
Maybe three years from now we’ll look back and feel nostalgic for the original Series I, Euro-bumper Petrolicious site, but somehow I doubt it. Enjoy, and please tell us what you think.
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Content makes the site, that’s why I have been here so long, the content is top notch, but I’m still getting used to the new layout and interface, it works but the comments section seems a bit disconnected, but hey ho, sure I’ll come around eventually, I like old things so it takes me a bit of time 😉
You content is top notch and keeps me coming back every week and often in between. Please continue to make the old content available. Five pages of videos is good but all of them would be a lot better.
I loved you old site. Biggest problem so far is having to click 4 times to start a video.
Hey guys.
You know I love what you do and I’m really trying to like this. I’m sure I’ll keep coming back, but the new stuff leaves me cold so far. Maybe it’s the white, or the logging in, or the new categories, and I definitely miss the old, simple petrolicious intro to the videos. I just don’t find myself looking forward to it like I used to. Like an old bud that’s gotten a little too cool or a GTV with new 18″ rims.
Hi,
I really like the changes. However, there seems to be one annoying issue (at least for me). The site does not remember my login/auto login. So far not really a problem. But now I get a pop-up asking me to login every time I load an article…
Would be nice to fix/change either the auto-login or the pop-up
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Afshin. Still getting used to this. After Latest comes Featured, which in this case is the amazing Alfa garage. Then comes your amazing film section followed by most popular. Is that most popular over any specific period of time? I must admit the white makes everything pop, but a little warmth was lost. I’ll keep at it as this is one of my two favorite daily sites, and no one does film like you do.
Not so much a comment on the updated website (I’ll have to have a proper play with it before I have anything useful to say..), but with the naming of the film series to “man and machine”…
Are you aware this is the name of a TV show in Australia, that also happens to be about people and their cars? Its just such a specific name.. that is (according to google at least) already in use for something so similar…
Not so much a comment on the updated website (I’ll have to have a proper play with it before I have anything useful to say..), but with the naming of the film series to “man and machine”…
Are you aware this is the name of a TV show in Australia, that also happens to be about people and their cars? Its just such a specific name.. that is (according to google at least) already in use for something so similar…
I despise having to log in to view a website for entertainment or research, which are the two reasons I do log in to Petrolicious. So far so bad, but I have not really used the new site yet. That said, I will never use Petrolicious on anything smaller than a large laptop, so please do not reduce the resolution of any graphic image.
I never liked the beige. While it may have added “character”, the white looks cleaner and makes the photos pop much more on the page. Perhaps adding something in the margins like a greyed out old car sketch that’s static but changes each time you load a different page would be cool when viewing on the desktop.
This is much more fluid and easy with cell phone than before. For now I do regret the graphics, I found the old version more refined and attractive in this particular point. But for the reading it is far better!!
What it misses too is the possibility to re-edit a post once sent if we want to correct it. For those whose english is not the first language that may be useful.
Thanks and keep this spirit!!
I love the new site!
Since I discovered the site a long time ago, it’s been one of the best feeds on my daily read. Every article and video is wonderful and different than other sites that only cover industry news and supercars exclusively.
I love the redesign and the beautiful image treatment and overall look.
I view the site through Feedly (an xml feed aggregate that I highly recommend) and I would like to see the same bold image and design be on my feed. Currently it shows a small thumbnail and one line of text. I still click because I know the content is amazing.
Sorry for the long post.
I think one of the things I like about old cars…is that they don’t change…
I am not really so interested in new cars, I like stopping time with the older cars.
We often hear that new cars are all the same…which seems to be true.
and I generally don’t like it when a web-site changes it format and turns out like all the rest.
I like massive photos…that fill the whole screen…and that seems to be lost here.
Our old site was built on rickety architecture that would frequently crash, we needed to make a transition to a new site architecture that could handle our ever increasing traffic load. We’re a really lean company that is self funded out of our own love of cars, as such some of the features we loved the most from the old site are going to be slightly delayed on the rollout.
Please, please bear with us as we lock down these issues in our Beta phase and rollout some of the features that you all know and love.
First impressions ? Overly busy .. the site has lost all its wonderful charm , artistry , visual appeal and beauty [ just opening the old site was worth the effort whether there was an article of interest or not ] … looking overly homogenized , sanitized , twitterized with the likes of myself [ Old Guys ] are definitely not the intended demographic as have been some of the articles of late . e.g. Boomers .. especially well informed Boomers .. need not apply . I had the gut feeling once y’all sold your souls this’d be the end result … hence my previous exit .. but I was hoping maybe i was wrong . Sadly … I was more right .. and quicker than I ever could of imagined . So Good Luck …. and Good Night gentlemen . Its been a strange trip indeed . But the journey .. like many a journey .. has come to an inglorious end
First impressions…
A bit clean and clinical, but I should maybe wait for the other tweaks that are coming before being too critical. I did prefer the way the images were laid out amongst the story beter than the new moving banner – and I miss the classic colours you are famous for.
I do like the fact that comments need to be specifically accessed rather than always visible.
Nononononono.
not yet another uninspiring web page with a “mobile-friendly-look”. It’s apparently quicker to load, yes, but dull. I’m sorry but it’s as dull as a grey car on a grey car park on a rainy day in northern Sweden and to me petrolicious is a bright red, noisy roadster on a back road. Spitting oil mist and flames out the sidepipes. Not this.
To me it seems as all “mobile-sites” try to filter the users information flow without knowing the user and none tailor to the individuals wants. I like seing “everything” at once and letting myself filter out what I want. Take pictures-in-a-row for example. Uninspiring! Now there’s arrows covering the beautiful pictures both to the left and to the right and it makes my eyes hurt. You used to have all the pictures in a wonderful mix right in front of my eyes, spreading out like a canvas of Giallo Ocra, Rosso530, Nero Etna and Blu Olandese. Now it’s just one at a hime it seems. Like standing in a queue and waiting for the next order of fries.
No, I’m not inspired, in fact my boner’s loosing wood.
Update the old look please and make improvements on that instead of filtering out the user’s experience. It’s not like mobile-views seem to actually work any better on either of my platforms anyway, they just function differently but not for the better.
bring back the canvas of cars!