AutoWeek is a every-other-week automotive enthusiast, consumer magazine based in Detroit, Michigan. Its content is divided between car news, car 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. 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. The magazine 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 every-other-week publication, it is often first to publish photographs of pre-production car models (known as spy shots).1
In January 2007, AutoWeek added Daily Drive, a daily e-mail newsletter sent to over 27,000 registrants.
In July 2008, AutoWeek.com added a social community feature called Car Life that has grown to over 20,000 registered users to date.
In August 2008 AutoWeek added AutoWeek TV, a daily 3-5 minute video newscast. It can be found at www.autoweek.com/tv
