AutoWeek

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March 26, 2007
AutoWeek magazine.

AutoWeek is a weekly automotive enthusiast, consumer magazine based in Detroit, Michigan. Its content is divided between automotive news, vehicle reviews, and motorsports coverage.

Originally a biweekly motorsports newspaper in Detroit, Competition Press (July 1958) began publishing news and reviews in the mid-1960s. As vehicle reviews and automotive news became more of the publication's focus, its name was changed to Competition Press & Auto Week and it began to publish weekly. In the mid-1990s, under the direction of longtime editor and publisher Leon Mandel, changed its name to simply AutoWeek and transformed from a tabloid newspaper into a magazine.

AutoWeek is published by Crain Communications, which also publishes Automotive News, among 30 other trade publications. AutoWeek has a weekly readership of approximately 3 million. Keith "KC" Crain, Jr. is now publisher of AutoWeek. Leon's son, Dutch Mandel, is the editor and associate publisher.

Since it is a weekly publication, AutoWeek is often first to publish photographs of pre-production car models (known as spy shots).

In January 2007, AutoWeek added Daily Drive, a daily e-mail newsletter sent to over 24,000 registrants.

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