International editions are published or licensed by Bauer Automotive in South Korea (since March 2016), Brazil, China, Greece, India, Italy (through 2019), Malaysia (from December 2012 to March 2017, through Astro),[2] Mexico, the Middle East, Romania, Russia, South Africa (under the title topcar), Spain, Thailand and Turkey.

Significant contributors during the magazine's heyday included Henry N. Manney III, Douglas Blain, George Bishop, LJK Setright, Ronald Barker, Mel Nichols, Steve Cropley, Russell Bulgin, Philip Llewellin, James May, Stephen Bayley, Alexei Sayle and Rowan Atkinson.

LJK Setright in many insightful series of articles linked the development and history of the motor car to its social, technological and historical contexts.

In the 1990s and early 2000s (decade), the artist Hilton Holloway was responsible for a number of projected images of cars in development, first through graphic art, followed later by Photoshop compositing artwork.

In March 2009, the magazine's listings section (which gives details of new cars on sale in the UK) reverted to the name 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' – which it had used when it was created in the early 1970s – after an absence of nearly three years.