OVERVIEW:
A re-titling of Sports Cars Illustrated,
Car and Driver was published by the
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. The publisher was Bradford Briggs, and the editor was Karl E. Ludvigsen.
Mr. Ludvigsen is credited with the name change, as he wanted to shift the
focus to a more general automotive magazine and not one just sports cars.
OWNERSHIP:
This title is still published but has had several different business owners through the years. Ziff-Davis sold the title to CBS in 1984 after David E. Davis Jr. had
returned as the magazine's editor-in-chief.
CBS held the title for two to three years, then in January, 1988 it was briefly owned by Diamandis Communications.
Within a few months it was acquired by Hachette Filapacchi Media U.S. Hachette owned it from April, 1988 until May, 2011, then Hearst Communications acquired it.
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PUBLICATION DATA:
All publishers provided net paid circulation data to multiple periodical compendia (N.W. Ayer, Gale Research or Oxbridge Communications)
from 1962 through 2005 (the last year for which we currently
have data). Over this time horizon, annual print production started at 395,000 and grew to slightly over 3,000,000. This represents
an eight fold
increase in print production.
CONTENT COMPLETENESS:
The magazine is still published as of 2022. Only images through 2010 are included at this time.