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Automobile Magazine is an automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and is owned by Source Interlink. It was founded by a group of former employes of Car and Driver
Car and Driver

Car and Driver is an United States automobile enthusiast magazine. Its total Magazine circulation is 1.31 million. It is owned by Hachette Filipacchi M?dias....
 magazine, led by that publications’s former editor, David E. Davis
David E. Davis

David E. Davis, Jr. is an automobile journalist and magazine publisher. His career in the automotive industry spanned from race car driver, factory worker and car salesman to ad salesman with Road & Track and copywriter for Corvette advertisements before becoming a writer for Car and Driver magazine in 1962....
. Automobile distinguishes itself as more of a lifestyle magazine than the other automotive publications, an editorial theme that Davis greatly expanded upon from his tenure as the editor of Car and Driver.

Unlike most other automobile magazines, Automobile does not often do instrumented tests of cars or provide much technical data.






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Automobile Magazine is an automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and is owned by Source Interlink. It was founded by a group of former employes of Car and Driver
Car and Driver

Car and Driver is an United States automobile enthusiast magazine. Its total Magazine circulation is 1.31 million. It is owned by Hachette Filipacchi M?dias....
 magazine, led by that publications’s former editor, David E. Davis
David E. Davis

David E. Davis, Jr. is an automobile journalist and magazine publisher. His career in the automotive industry spanned from race car driver, factory worker and car salesman to ad salesman with Road & Track and copywriter for Corvette advertisements before becoming a writer for Car and Driver magazine in 1962....
. Automobile distinguishes itself as more of a lifestyle magazine than the other automotive publications, an editorial theme that Davis greatly expanded upon from his tenure as the editor of Car and Driver.

Unlike most other automobile magazines, Automobile does not often do instrumented tests of cars or provide much technical data. Instead, the reviews of vehicles are subjective experiential reports with the cars in their naturally intended, real world environment. Additionally, Automobile reserves a good portion of each issue covering vehicles no longer in production, but still relevant to collectors or automotive history as a whole. For example, it includes features such as "Collectable Classic," an in-depth review of a particular older car, and reports from recent classic and antique car auctions. It also has a regular column by former General Motors designer Robert Cumberford, who analyzes styling elements of current production models and show cars, often linking their design to those of older cars.

Automobile magazine is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, in the building which formerly housed famous college dive bar
Dive bar

A dive bar, or simply a dive, is a downmarket Alcoholic beverage bar serving a working class clientele.The term "dive" dates from the London of the 19th century when younger men wanted somewhere slightly more risqu? to spend their afternoons than the great clubs frequented by their fathers....
, The Pretzel Bell, and is published by Source Interlink Media, the same publishing corporation that publishes Motor Trend
Motor Trend

File:motor trend cover.jpgMotor Trend is an automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, issued by Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles, California, and bearing the tag line The Magazine for a Motoring World. Petersen Publishing was sold to British publisher EMAP in 1998, who sold the former Petersen magazines to...
. Davis retired in recent years and the current president and editor-in-chief is Jean Jennings
Jean Jennings

Jean Jennings is currently the president and editor-in-chief of Automobile Magazine. She co-founded the magazine in 1986 and has been involved in various roles ever since....
, who helped Davis found the magazine. Davis currently serves as the editor of Winding Road
Winding Road

Winding Road is a digital automotive magazine owned by Absolute Multimedia, Inc., of Austin, Texas, which also publishes 'The Absolute Sound' and 'The Perfect Vision.' It focuses on enthusiast-oriented vehicles along with news covering industry buzz, upcoming events, and more....
 magazine, an online automotive magazine.

While editor of Automobile, Jean Jennings was featured in a “video news release
Video news release

A video news release is a video segment created by a public relations firm, advertising agency,marketing firm, corporation, or government agency and provided to...
” produced for GM and shown on local television as if it were an actual news story

The name is also employed in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 by an unrelated magazine called , which was founded in 1946; the American magazine began publishing in 1986. The French magazine now belongs to the German group.

Automobile Magazine awards:
  • Automobile Magazine All-Stars
    Automobile Magazine All-Stars

    Automobile Magazine selects an annual list of All-Stars as their Car of the Year equivalent award....


See also

  • 0 to 60 mph
    0 to 60 mph

    The time it takes to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour is a commonly used performance measure for automotive acceleration in the United States and the United Kingdom....
  • Sports car
    Sports car

    A sports car is a term used to describe a class of automobile. The exact definition varies, but generally it is used to refer to a low to ground, light weight vehicle with a powerful engine....


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