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This morning, Eddie Alterman was named the new Editor-in-Chief of Car & Driver, Hachette's slightly-tarnished-but-still-storied automotive enthusiast magazine. Interestingly, Hachette insiders tell us Jalopnik's readers helped make this a reality. More »
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In tough times, a buff book needs a man with a plan to make readers love cars again. That's why Jalopnik reiterates its support for former MPHer Eddie Alterman for Car & Driver Editor-in-Chief. More »
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Jalopnik has confirmed Csaba Csere, the famously unpronounceable Editor-in-Chief of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines' flagship moneymaker Car and Driver, will be resigning his position effective January 1, 2009. Why? More »
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Car und Driver Editor-und-Chief Csaba Csere spent a few moments in front of the camera yesterday rebutting the hot political non-issue of "tire pressure" fuel savings. Let's be clear here, we happen to agree with Csaba that Obama's numbers may not be fully accurate. But interjecting and glossing over ANWR without discussion while trying to "deflate Obama's tire pressure theory," is the kind of equal-handedness that makes us think Csaba should stick to the manual print press and stay out of the national energy debate. But, if Csaba wants to get into the ring, then by all means. In fact, we've got a question for him. Considering the U.S. Energy Information Administration tells us "the main impact...on the amount of oil actually recovered from ANWR is likely to occur after 2030...", will his magazine still be in print when all that gasoline finally gets to the market? While we wait patiently for an answer, hit the jump to see Csaba in action. More »
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The buff boys over at the buff book named Car und Driver appear to be needing some crucial reader input on their April issue. They, or a duly-sworn representative, have taken it upon themselves to send out some versions of their cover to a small clinic group of readers to determine which shots should get the limelight of being an actual C&D cover. What's really funny to us is we remember overhearing a conversation involving Editor-in-Chief Csaba Csere at Narita Airport in the Northwest Worldclub waiting for our flight back from the Tokyo Auto Show. Csaba was loudly proclaiming how his publication is very careful with embargoed information, never — ever — letting outsiders have access to covers. We also remember hearing him say that other outlets (in the case being talked about, it was Motor Trend's accidental embargo breach on the Nissan GT-R) need to be more careful with covers that reveal sensitive information — and that Car & Driver doesn't ever run clinics or provide PR teams with covers that include embargoed information. Yes, well, we're assuming Csaba's going to have a little bit of egg on his face this morning. Because as you can see, there's two possible covers of Car & Driver's April issue — one above and one below the fold, each revealing the same thing — the new 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 in it's full glory, and a 425 HP rating — well before the official unveil of the new muscle car at the Chicago Auto Show in two weeks. Oh yes, and the new Pontiac G8 GT will have a HP rating of 362. One more pic below the jump and of course, our gallery of spy photos below. UPDATE: AutoWeek's gone ahead and jimmied the door on the embargo, busting it even further open with some more embargoed press shots on the new 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 — so we're going ahead and dropping the whole salvo as well in the gallery below. More »
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We just saw Chubby Checkers Sabra Sarah Csaba Csere, zee editor-und-chief of Car und Driver revealing the top ten cars for 2008 live on CNBC, 'merica's business channel. Hmm, maybe we need a top ten list to give out as an exclusive...hmm, not so shabby of an idea — we'll have to look into that. In the meantime we'd like to link to the list from CNBC's web site — but they don't appear to have it up and the buff book appears to have a website more dedicated to the "show" than the "go." So instead we've got Car & Driver's Amerigasm top ten best cars for 2008 below the jump: More »
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Brock Yates is one of the more divisive figures in automotive journalism. In fact, we feel like a redundant dunce in even saying that, but whatever. Still, we were really shocked when Sweet Peet D. mentioned that Csaba Csere had let Yates go. To us, being thirtysomethings, Yates is more an icon of Car and Driver than David E. ever was. He was the magazine's mascot; he was one of the primary reasons we got into automotive writing. We didn't always agree with the cut of his jib, but we almost always found his words chewing on. His retort to Csere's May, 2006 C/D column posted on the One Lap site wasn't something we noticed 'til today, but we thought it was worth reposting. Check it after the jump. More »
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10.9-second time in the quarter? Naught to sixty in 3.4 seconds? 427 cubic inches of aluminum Ford V-8 huffed by a couple of turbochargers? Hey, it's only 589 large. Csaba takes it for a spin and comes away impressed, but somehow, not as impressed as one should be when those specs are accounted for. Is The Csere just getting jaded? Or is there something at the S7 that's just not quite right? Because for nigh-on six-hundred-thousand dollars, it seems like it should inspire more spastically awesome prose from C/D's EIC. More »
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We just heard from Tony Swan over at C/D regarding the reduction of his role at the mag, which we reported on a couple of days back, mentioning that per Autoextremist, he was being pushed into early retirement. Swan replies: More »
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We'll admit that over the last couple of years, we haven't enjoyed Car and Driver or Automobile as much as we once did. With their young talent pools having been cherry-picked by David Pecker and his posse to put together mph and Dan Neil having filled his plate in Los Angeles, there's a certain spark that's missing. And while Primedia's cost-cutting measures are legendary (we recently heard an anecdote that a low-level editorial position at Hot Rod pays $15,000 a year less than it did two decades ago), Hachette, according to Sweet Peet D. is putting the screws to Csaba Csere to trim costs. What does this mean? It means, bye, Brock! More »
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