AutoWeek

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

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Originally a biweekly motorsports newspaper named Competition Press, it 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 News & AutoWeek and it began to publish weekly. In the mid-1980s, 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.

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Regarded automotive journalist Rich Ceppos is now the publisher of AutoWeek and Leon's son, Dutch Mandel, is the editor. To date, AutoWeeks Executive Editor is Kevin A. Wilson.

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AutoWeek is published by Crain Communications, which also publishes Automotive News. Crain claims AutoWeek has a weekly readership of approximately 350,000.

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A television version of the magazine aired on SPEED Channel until the spring of 2005.

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