Editing Motor Trend (section)

{{short description|American automobile magazine}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Motor Trend
| logo = Motor Trend.svg
| image_file = Motor Trend Summer 2024 cover.webp
| image_caption = Cover of the 75th anniversary issue (Summer 2024)
| company = [[Motor Trend Group]]<br>([[Hearst Communications]])
| total_circulation = 553,838	<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |title=AAM: Total Circ for Consumer Magazines |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |access-date=2022-09-19 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220919180131/https://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |archive-date=2022-09-19 }}</ref>
| circulation_year = June 2022
| frequency = Quarterly (print)<br>Monthly (Digital)
| language = [[English language|English]]
| category = [[Automobile magazine]]
| editor = Edward Loh<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/motor-trend-names-new-editor-in-chief/154934 |title=Motor Trend Names New Editor-in-Chief|date=17 November 2011 }}</ref>
| editor_title = Editor-in-Chief
| firstdate = {{start date and age|1949|9}}
| country = United States
| based = [[El Segundo, California]], U.S.
| website = {{URL|http://www.motortrend.com}}
| issn = 0027-2094
}}

'''''Motor Trend''''' is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949,<ref>{{cite book|author=David N. Lucsko|title=The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915–1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7a30Mjro3QC&pg=PA247|access-date=2015-07-24|date=2008-10-07|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8990-5|page=247}}</ref> and designated the first [[Car of the Year]], also in 1949.<ref name= "WOW">{{cite web|url=https://jilmcintosh.typepad.com/jil/car_of_the_year/|title=Ford Fusion: It's tops with MotorTrend |author=Jil McIntosh|date=2009-11-18 |access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref><ref name= "DNA">{{cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/business/slideshow-the-world-s-best-car-magazines-1179504|title=The World's Best Car Magazines |publisher=Essel Group - Daily News Analysis India|date=2008-07-24 |access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref>

[[Petersen Publishing Company]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] published ''Motor Trend'' until 1998, when it was sold to British publisher [[EMAP]], who then sold the former Petersen magazines to [[RentPath|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://echo-media.com/medias/details/8182 |title=MotorTrend |publisher=Echo Media |access-date=2017-02-10}}</ref>

Publication was monthly but changed to quarterly in 2024.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.gminsidenews.com/threads/motor-trend-to-suspend-monthly-publication-1q24-will-go-upscale-as-quarterly.308070/ |title=Motor Trend to Suspend Monthly Publication 1Q24; Will Go |date=19 November 2023 |access-date=2024-06-01 |via=GM Inside News}}</ref>

In December 2024, [[Hearst Communications]] acquired [[Motor Trend Group]] and most its assets including ''Motor Trend'' from [[Warner Bros. Discovery]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-12 |title=MotorTrend Acquired by Hearst, Owner of Car and Driver, Road & Track |url=https://autos.yahoo.com/motortrend-acquired-hearst-owner-car-200947253.html |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=The Drive |language=en-US}}</ref>