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 Cover of the Summer 2024 issue, 75th anniversary issue | |
| Editor-in-Chief | Edward Loh[1] |
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| Categories | Automobile magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly (print) Monthly (Digital) |
| Publisher | Motor Trend Group |
| Total circulation (June 2022) | 553,838 [2] |
| First issue | September 1949 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | El Segundo, California, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0027-2094 |
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 2019 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]
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- ^ "Motor Trend to Suspend Monthly Publication 1Q24; Will Go" (Press release). 19 November 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-01 – via GM Inside News.