Autocar (magazine)

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Autocar

description Special interest magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Automobiles , motorsport
language English
publishing company Haymarket Group ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
First edition November 2, 1895
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 30,672 copies
((January 1 - December 30, 2016))
editor Mark Tisshaw
Web link www.autocar.co.uk

Autocar is a weekly automotive magazine in the UK , by the Haymarket Motoring Publications Ltd is issued. The first edition was published in 1895. The magazine describes itself as "The World's oldest car magazine" (in German: The oldest car magazine in the world) . Autocar now appears in several international editions, including those for China, India, New Zealand and South Africa.

history

Advertisement for Autocar from 1897
Title page of the October 14, 1932 edition

The publication was founded on November 2nd, 1895 by Iliffe and Sons Ltd as The Autocar "in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage" (in German: in the sense of mechanically propelled road vehicles) , at a time of which it is assumed that there were only six to seven cars in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In his book Drive On! pointed LJK Setright that the journal of Henry Sturmey as a propaganda organ for Harry J. Lawson , founder of the Daimler Company was established and journalist in the early days of the magazine. Henry Sturmey resigned as editor of The Autocar and left the company in 1901.

Autocar claims to have invented the road test (single test ) in 1928 when they analyzed the Austin 7 Gordon England Sunshine Saloon. Autocar magazine has been published regularly every week since its inception, except during periods in the 1970s when there were strikes. In 1988 the magazine took over its long-term competitor The Motor , which was sold on January 28, 1903 by Temple Press Ltd. Founded. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Autocar & Motor , and later the name Autocar was reverted to. The magazine was first in its history in many respects, including the first individual tests (road tests) and the first independent performance tests of the Jaguar XJ220 , the McLaren F1 and the Porsche 911 GT1 . It was also the first magazine to be able to collect independently recorded mileage data of the Bugatti Veyron . These results were published in the May 31, 2006 issue.

Rubrics

  • News - contains spy photos and information about car models not yet presented to the public.
  • First drives (driving reports) - short individual tests of newly introduced vehicle models.
  • Group tests - comparison of a vehicle model with competing models
  • Motorsport - Summaries of news in racing, mainly from Formula 1 and rallying.
  • Road tests (individual tests) - detailed tests and analyzes of a newly introduced vehicle model per issue. In the next issue before Christmas, Autocar publishes a "road test" of a rather unusual vehicle. These tests include the tests of the New Routemaster , the HMS Ark Royal , Concorde and the HMS Diamond .
  • Used car news (used car news)
  • Long term car tests (vehicle endurance tests)
  • New car data (information on new vehicles)

Employee

In the 1950s, the sports editor of John Cooper magazine used components from the Cooper T11 to make the Cooper Alta .

Former Autocar writers include Russell Bulgin , Gordon Wilkins , Chris Harris, and The Grand Tour host James May .

Current Autocar editors are Richard Bremner, used car expert James Ruppert, Editor-at-Large Matt Prior and Editor-in-Chief Steve Cropley.

The current editor is Mark Tisshaw.

International editions

Autocar has been licensed to publishers worldwide and is currently published in 16 countries outside of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This includes spending in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam.

price

In 1952 The Autocar was sold for one British shilling, the equivalent of five pence after the British pound was converted to the decimal system. In 1968 the sales price of Autocar rose from two shillings to two shillings and a sixpence (equivalent to an increase from ten pence to twelve pence and half penny after the conversion of the British pound to the decimal system).

In 1972 the price had increased fivefold from 1952 and was 25 pence.

In 1992 the price was £ 1.25. The magazine sold for £ 3.80 in June 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autocar profile at abc.org.uk
  2. ↑ Car magazines in 1993 . Website Mag Forum. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  3. ^ The online home of the world's oldest car magazine Autocar, September 28, 2011, accessed October 2, 2011, Autocar website
  4. ^ Website Grace's guide British Industrial History. Retrieved February 26, 2013
  5. ^ Setright, LJK: Drive On !: A Social History of the Motor Car . Granta Books, 2004, ISBN 1-86207-698-7 .
  6. ^ Website Grace's guide British Industrial History. Retrieved February 26, 2013
  7. ^ Kettlewell, Mike: Cooper: Forerunner of the Modern Racing Car . In Northey, Tom, editor: World of Automobiles. Volume 4, Phoebus, London, 1974. p. 430.
  8. ↑ a b James May - Autocar - Flickr Album . Flickr. May 21, 2007. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  9. ^ Haymarket Media Group - Magazine - Autocar . In: Haymarket website . Archived from the original on October 1st, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 2, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haymarket.com
  10. ↑ News and Views: Autocar 2s 6d. In: Autocar. 128, Volume: (nbr 3752), published January 11, 1968, p. 59
  11. ↑ Jeffrey Daniels: 25 Years Ago. In: Autocar. 146, edition: 4203, May 28, 1977, pp. 58-61