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While many news events have been postponed or cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, along with several new car drive events at home and abroad, the entire Autocar team is working to fill our online and print pages with lots of interesting stories. 

Online, as well as all the latest news and reviews we can bring you, we will increase our feature and opinion content, as well as repromote many of our best stories and videos from recent years. As ever, the website will be updated several times a day and you won’t miss any of the latest developments in the automotive world. 

In print, we plan to continue to bring you our magazine each and every Wednesday for both subscribers and newsstand buyers as we have done throughout our 125-year history. What we might lose in first drive pages we’ll hand over to even more features, and none of the magazine’s regular sections will disappear. We hope the magazine will continue to entertain, inform and inspire you, and moving away from news and new car drives, we hope to capture much of the spirit of our much-loved Christmas double issue.

We recognise that many of you will be required to self isolate at some point, and won’t be able to get to the magazine on the newsstand. There will be no interruption in our subscription service, though, and you can get five issues for £5 as a special offer here.

There are also several ways of getting the magazine digitally, either bundled with the magazine (five issues in print and digital for £7.50) by clicking here or on services including Readly or Exact Editions

The Covid-19 outbreak is creating plenty of disruption, uncertainty and anxiety. Cars - and Autocar - have always offered a welcome distraction and a dose of escapism, and we'll be (remotely) working harder than ever to ensure that continues.

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Mark Tisshaw

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Title: Editor

Mark is a journalist with more than a decade of top-level experience in the automotive industry. He first joined Autocar in 2009, having previously worked in local newspapers. He has held several roles at Autocar, including news editor, deputy editor, digital editor and his current position of editor, one he has held since 2017.

From this position he oversees all of Autocar’s content across the print magazine, autocar.co.uk website, social media, video, and podcast channels, as well as our recent launch, Autocar Business. Mark regularly interviews the very top global executives in the automotive industry, telling their stories and holding them to account, meeting them at shows and events around the world.

Mark is a Car of the Year juror, a prestigious annual award that Autocar is one of the main sponsors of. He has made media appearances on the likes of the BBC, and contributed to titles including What Car?Move Electric and Pistonheads, and has written a column for The Sun.

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jagdavey 17 March 2020

There's more to it than that....................

If CVID-19 is just like catching the flu, why are all the Governments taking so drastic steps???? I think they know more about it than they are telling us.

m2srt 17 March 2020

We could delve into the

We could delve into the realms of conspiracy theories but I think that is a futile exercise at the moment. All I know is that Covid 19 will still be having repercussions long after the virus itself is gone!
Takeitslowly 17 March 2020

By your OWN admission...

m2srt wrote:

We could delve into the realms of conspiracy theories but I think that is a futile exercise at the moment. All I know is that Covid 19 will still be having repercussions long after the virus itself is gone!

 

 

You state, "all I know is"...that didn't prevent you making that DANGEROUS comment posted above, so by your OWN admission, you posted about a subject, fully recognising that you know NOTHING about it...like I said previously a DANGEROUS knuckle dragger.

m2srt 17 March 2020

We could delve into the

We could delve into the realms of conspiracy theories but I think that is a futile exercise at the moment. All I know is that Covid 19 will still be having repercussions long after the virus itself is gone!
m2srt 17 March 2020

Covid 19 hysteria has gotten

Covid 19 hysteria has gotten way out of hand! Influenza kills, cancer kills, hell even masterbating has probably killed a few people! Covid 19 is being blown up out of all proportions. I'm sorry for the deaths but spare a thought for the countless number of people who have had their economic wellbeing stripped from them because of the media turning this mole hill into Everest! Each year influenza kills upto 650k people and the media is silent. A bit of context people please!
Takeitslowly 17 March 2020

Knee jerk reaction from just one of the many uninformed jerks

m2srt wrote:

Covid 19 hysteria has gotten way out of hand! Influenza kills, cancer kills, hell even masterbating has probably killed a few people! Covid 19 is being blown up out of all proportions. I'm sorry for the deaths but spare a thought for the countless number of people who have had their economic wellbeing stripped from them because of the media turning this mole hill into Everest! Each year influenza kills upto 650k people and the media is silent. A bit of context people please!

 

You are just one of the group of knuckle draggers, which no amount of logic, common sense or reality would alter your DANGEROUS view one jot. If you deigned to watch, not just the world wide coverage and foreign country emergencies, but also the daily UK govt updates, you would, yes even a moron such as yourself, would realise that the press reports are a mirror of these briefings...so no media circus here. You're not sorry for these deaths. or you wouldn't have typed your ludicrous vitriol in the first place. Go crawl back under the stone, lodged in the stagnant pool from which you appeared...or rant another time at my response...I'm waiting for you...