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.
Besides publishing the monthly title, Ziff-Davis editors also created these yearbooks which started with the re-titling to Car and Driver.
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 Filipacchi Media U.S. Hachette owned it from April, 1988 until May, 2011, then Hearst Communications acquired it.
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PUBLICATION DATA:
Ziff-Davis, CBS, Hachette Filipacchi and Hearst Communications all 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). Average monthly print production started at 197,500 issues and grew to slightly over 1,500,000 by 2005. This r
epresents an eight fold increase in print production. More information can be
found in the print volume details section.
CONTENT COMPLETENESS:
The magazine is still published as of 2024. Only images through 2020 are included at this time.