Automobile (magazine)

{{short description|American automotive magazine}}

{{About|a magazine named "Automobile"||Automobile magazine}}

{{Distinguish|text = Automotive Industries magazine, previously known as The Automobile}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| title = Automobile

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| image_alt = The June 2008 cover of Automobile

| image_caption = The June 2008 cover of Automobile featuring a Pontiac Solstice and a Volkswagen Scirocco

| editor = Mike Floyd

| editor_title = Editor

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| editor_title2 = Managing Editor

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| category = Automobile magazine

| frequency = Monthly/10 issues per year{{cite web |url=http://www.automobilemag.com/news/automobile-magazine-gets-bigger-bolder-better/ |title=Automobile Magazine Gets Bigger, Bolder, Better |first=Mike |last=Floyd |publisher=Automobile |date=June 15, 2017 |access-date=January 19, 2019}}

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| total_circulation = 278,238

| circulation_year = 2016

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| founder = David E. Davis

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| firstdate = {{Start date|1986|04|df=y}}

| lastdate = {{end date|2020|02|}}

| company = Motor Trend Group

| country = United States

| based = Los Angeles

| language = American English

| website = {{URL|http://www.automobilemag.com}}

| issn = 0894-3583

| oclc = 31735584

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Automobile was an American automobile magazine published from 1986 to 2020. It was founded in 1986 by a group of former Car and Driver employees, led by David E. Davis with support from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation,{{cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=2011-03-28 |title= David Davis Jr. Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/business/media/29davis.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2013-11-06}}{{cite web|title=Auto Magazine Founder David E. Davis Jr. Dies |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/03/28/financial/f065531D09.DTL#ixzz1HuuLP5Sk |website=SFGate |publisher=Hearst Communications |date=2011-03-28 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} using the credo No Boring Cars.{{cite web |title=David E. Davis, Jr., Automotive Journalism's "Hemingway on Wheels," Is Dead |url=http://www.insideline.com/car-news/david-e-davis-jr-automotive-journalisms-hemingway-on-wheels-is-dead.html |publisher=Insideline.com |date=2011-03-28 }}

Automobile positioned itself more broadly than the other automotive publications, an editorial theme expanded by editor David E. Davis: the magazine de-emphasized instrumented tests and elaborate technical data, instead offering subjective, experiential reports; providing in-depth review of older cars with its Collectible Classics series; and offering styling analysis with its column by former General Motors designer Robert Cumberford.{{cite web|url=http://www.cision.com/us/2013/06/top-10-national-automotive-magazines/|title=Top 10 National Automotive Magazines - Cision|date=26 June 2013}}

In 1991 the magazine was bought by K-III Communications (later Primedia).{{Cite news | title=K-III Bid Wins Murdoch Mags| work=Variety | url=https://variety.com/1991/scene/markets-festivals/k-iii-bid-wins-murdoch-mags-99126319/ |date=1991-04-29}} In 2007, the publication was acquired by Source Interlink (later TEN: The Enthusiast Network).{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1431561720070515/ |title=Source Interlink to buy Primedia unit for $1.2 bln |website=Reuters|date=2007-08-07}} In 2017, it became part of Discovery Communications.{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/08/discovery-communications-partners-ten-network-auto-portfolio-1202141715/ |title=Discovery Communications Partners With TEN Network For Auto Portfolio |work=Deadline |date=2017-08-03}}

In December 2019, Discovery's subsidiary TEN Publishing announced the discontinuation of Automobile.{{cite web|url=https://www.foliomag.com/ten-publishing-shuttering-19-print-magazines/|title=Exclusive: TEN Publishing Is Shuttering 19 Car Magazines|date=2019-12-06|publisher=Folio}} Its final issue was dated February 2020.