AutoWeek
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AutoWeek is a weekly automobile magazine based in Detroit, Michigan. The content is divided between automotive news, vehicle reviews, and motorsports coverage.
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.
Tony Merpi is now the publisher of AutoWeek and Leon's son, Dutch Mandel, is the editor and associate publisher. K.C. Crain Jr. is also associate publisher. AutoWeek's Executive Editor is Wes Raynal.
AutoWeek is published by Crain Communications, which also publishes Automotive News. Crain claims AutoWeek has a weekly readership of approximately 350,000.
Since it is a weekly (as opposed to monthly) publication, Autoweek is often first to publish photographs of pre-production car models (known as spy shots).
