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AUTO BILD, Europe’s biggest car magazine, offers up-to-date, passionate and surprising facts about cars week after week. With numerous driving reports, comparative tests and service articles, AUTO BILD provides practical decision-making assistance for all car drivers.
Auto Bild was first published on the last week of February 1986. The magazine is published by Axel Springer AG on a weekly basis. The website of the magazine was started in 1996. From May 2009, another magazine Auto Bild Motorsport began to appear weekly in Auto Bild.
Auto Bild with its worldwide licensed editions, of which more than seven million copies are sold every month, is published in 36 countries. Foreign editions include France’s Auto Plus, the United Kingdom’s Auto Express and Turkey’s Auto Show. The magazine also has a Polish edition, which is part of Axel Springer AG via its subsidiary Axel Springer Polska.
In the Netherlands, Auto Bild’s local edition is called AutoWeek and has been published since 19 January 1990.
The Finnish edition of the magazine, Auto Bild Suomi, was started in 2004, and is published by Fokus Media Finland. The Bulgarian version of the magazine is published under the name of Auto Bild Bulgaria which also published by Axel Springer AG.
In Spain, its edition is published on a weekly basis with the original name by Axel Springer AG. The Italian edition of the magazine, Auto Oggi, is licensed by Mondadori. In 2008, its Romanian edition was launched by Ringier. It is published on a bimonthly basis. On 15 November 2012, the Argentina edition was started by Grupo Veintitres which holds the license of the magazine.
Source Wikipedia: Auto Bild
