This weekend’s Sunday New York Times Automobiles section will be the Gray Lady’s last; the paper has decided—perhaps foolishly—for business reasons to no longer publish what had become, over 20 years, a weekend ritual for those of us in the business and many of you reading this now.
The closure hits home for us for a couple of reasons. First, several Car and Driver staffers and contributors past and present had written for the section, which was edited by the estimable Jim Cobb. Second, many of our friends and colleagues—including, yes, Cobb—lost their jobs. The Times will continue to publish automotive content on Fridays and in its business section, but for all intents and purposes, this is it, folks. The Times already shuttered its automotive news blog last year.
One of our pals and frequent contributors, John Pearley Huffman, has a review of the new Ford Mustang in the final Automobiles section in which he, as he said in a Facebook post, “took the opportunity to drift away from writing strictly about the 2015 Mustang and make [the] case that reviewing cars is something every newspaper and The Times in particular should be doing. Particularly if they claim to be offering any insight to American culture.” We couldn’t agree more, Pearley. Read the review in its entirety here, and pick up a copy of The Times this weekend to savor the section in its entirety one last time.
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