Sport auto (France)

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Sport-Auto is a leading French automobile magazine. The magazine specializes in sport and luxury cars.

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History and profile

The magazine appeared first in 1962. [1] It is part of and published by Editions Mondadori Axel Springer (EMAS), a joint company of the Mondadori France publishing group and Axel Springer France on a monthly basis. [1] [2] EMAS acquired the magazine in 2009. [2] The headquarters of the monthly is in Paris. [3]

Jean Lucas and Gérard "Jabby" Crombac were its chief editors from 1962 to 1989. One of its directors was Jose Rosinski who co-founded the magazine.

In 1973, Gérard Crombac, Thierry Lalande, Luc Melua and Jean-Louis Moncet, journalists with the magazine, assembled a kit "fun sport car" in a week-end for a low cost and got a mediatic success. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sport Auto. France". Mondadori. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "EMAS acquires AUTO JOURNAL and SPORT AUTO magazines". Axel Springer. 1 October 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. Pierre L. Horn (1991). Handbook of French Popular Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 286. ISBN   978-0-313-26121-3 . Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  4. Crombac, Gérard (February 1973). "Nous Avons Monte Un Fun-Car Liberta-Simca Pour 7500 Fr En Un Week-end" [We built a Liberta-Simca kitcar for 7500 Francs in one weekend]. Sport Auto (in French).