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Motor Trend

Motor Trend
Cover of the 75th anniversary issue (Summer 2024)
Editor-in-ChiefEdward Loh[1]
CategoriesAutomobile magazine
FrequencyQuarterly (print)
Monthly (Digital)
Total circulation
(June 2022)		553,838 [2]
First issueSeptember 1949 (1949-09)
CompanyMotor Trend Group
(Hearst Communications)
CountryUnited States
Based inEl Segundo, California, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.motortrend.com
ISSN0027-2094

Motor Trend is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949,[3] and designated the first Car of the Year, also in 1949.[4][5]

Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles published Motor Trend until 1998, when it was sold to British publisher EMAP, who then sold the former Petersen magazines to Primedia in 2001. Motor Trend bears the tagline "The Magazine for a Motoring World". As of 2024 it is published by Motor Trend Group. It has a monthly circulation of over one million.[6]

Publication was monthly but changed to quarterly in 2024.[7]

In December 2024, Hearst Communications acquired Motor Trend Group and most its assets including Motor Trend from Warner Bros. Discovery.[8]

  1. ^ "Motor Trend Names New Editor-in-Chief". November 17, 2011.
  2. ^ "AAM: Total Circ for Consumer Magazines". Audit Bureau of Circulations. Archived from the original on September 19, 2022. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  3. ^ David N. Lucsko (October 7, 2008). The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915–1990. JHU Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-8018-8990-5. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  4. ^ Jil McIntosh (November 18, 2009). "Ford Fusion: It's tops with MotorTrend". Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  5. ^ "The World's Best Car Magazines". Essel Group - Daily News Analysis India. July 24, 2008. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  6. ^ "MotorTrend". Echo Media. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  7. ^ "Motor Trend to Suspend Monthly Publication 1Q24; Will Go" (Press release). November 19, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2024 – via GM Inside News.
  8. ^ "MotorTrend Acquired by Hearst, Owner of Car and Driver, Road & Track". The Drive. December 12, 2024. Retrieved December 17, 2024.

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