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Road & Track 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...
 enthusiast 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...
, founded by two friends in 1947. It is owned by Hachette Filipacchi Media
Hachette Filipacchi Médias

Hachette Filipacchi M?dias, S.A. is the largest magazine publisher in the world. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardere Media of France....
 and is published monthly.

Road & Track focuses on both production and 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....
s, and is the only automotive magazine that gives more than a passing glance to motorcycle
Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a Single track, two-wheeled motor vehicle powered by an Motorcycle engine. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as Touring motorcycle travel, navigating Naked bike, Cruiser , Motorcycle sport and Motorbike racing, or off-road conditions....
s. This is no small coincidence, since it is the sister publication of Cycle World
Cycle World

Cycle World Magazine is a motorcycling magazine in the United States. The magazine is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Regular contributors include Peter Egan ....
 and the two magazines share offices and some editorial staff in Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, United States south of downtown Santa Ana, California. As of 2008, the population was 84,554....
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Compared to other major American automobile magazines, Road & Track (often abbreviated R&T) focuses much more on auto racing
Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports....
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Road & Track 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...
 enthusiast 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...
, founded by two friends in 1947. It is owned by Hachette Filipacchi Media
Hachette Filipacchi Médias

Hachette Filipacchi M?dias, S.A. is the largest magazine publisher in the world. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardere Media of France....
 and is published monthly.

Road & Track focuses on both production and 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....
s, and is the only automotive magazine that gives more than a passing glance to motorcycle
Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a Single track, two-wheeled motor vehicle powered by an Motorcycle engine. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as Touring motorcycle travel, navigating Naked bike, Cruiser , Motorcycle sport and Motorbike racing, or off-road conditions....
s. This is no small coincidence, since it is the sister publication of Cycle World
Cycle World

Cycle World Magazine is a motorcycling magazine in the United States. The magazine is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Regular contributors include Peter Egan ....
 and the two magazines share offices and some editorial staff in Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, United States south of downtown Santa Ana, California. As of 2008, the population was 84,554....
.

Compared to other major American automobile magazines, Road & Track (often abbreviated R&T) focuses much more on auto racing
Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports....
. Former race car drivers often contribute material, including Paul Frère
Paul Frère

Paul Fr?re was a racing driver and journalist from Belgium, born in Le Havre . He participated in eleven World Championship Formula One Grands Prix debuting on 22 June 1952 and achieving one podium finish with a total of eleven championship points....
 and former Formula 1 champion Phil Hill
Phil Hill

Philip Toll Hill, Jr., was a United States automobile racer and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship....
. In their January 2006 issue, they featured a new contributing writer, Gordon Murray
Gordon Murray

Prof. Gordon Murray is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous McLaren F1 'supercar' road car....
, the designer of the McLaren F1
McLaren F1

The McLaren F1 is a sports car designed and manufactured by Gordon Murray and McLaren Automotive. On March 31, 1998, it set the record for the fastest production car in the world, 240.1 mph , which it held until the introduction of the Bugatti Veyron in 2005....
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Their trademark stylized ampersand
Ampersand

An ampersand , also commonly called an " 'and' sign," is a logogram representing the grammatical conjunction "and". The symbol is a Typographic ligature of the letters in et, Latin for "and"....
 (&) is the title of a monthly article showcasing the latest developments in future cars and prototypes. Other monthly features include "Road Tests" and "First Drives" of the latest production cars. Editor-in-Chief Thos L Bryant, Engineering Editor Dennis Simanaitis, and popular Editor-at-Large Peter Egan
Peter Egan (columnist)

Peter Egan is the author of the Side Glances column in Road & Track magazine and the Leanings column in Cycle World magazine. He is noted by his readers as having a self-deprecating, ironic, and sometimes dark sense of humor, and for journalistic and compassionate accounts of his many road trips, including detailed accounts o...
 all have monthly columns.

In 2004, Road & Track developed a new magazine concept titled Speed, which focuses on the aftermarket tuning trend. In the February 2006 issue, it was announced that Speed will be a web-based
World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
 magazine, no longer being printed.

Like many auto magazines, Road & Track used to publish an annual Ten Best list, but it has not done so in years. 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....
, also owned by Hachette Filipacchi Media, publishes their own Ten Best list
Car and Driver Ten Best

Car and Driver magazine annually nominates a list of what it considers the Ten Best cars and Five Best trucks.All production vehicles for sale in that calendar year are considered with these restrictions:...
.

Trivia

Road & Track magazine also contributed to the 1994 video game, The Need for Speed
The Need for Speed (video game)

The Need for Speed is a 1994 racing game video game, developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts. It is the first in the Need for Speed, which spans more than 15 titles to date....
, to help the designers match vehicle behavior and sounds to that of the real cars.

See also

  • 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....
  • 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....
  • 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....


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