Autocar (stylized in all caps) is a weekly British automobile magazine published by Haymarket Media Group.

The publication was launched as The Autocar by Iliffe and Son Ltd.[4] "in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage" on 2 November 1895 when, it is believed, there were only six or seven cars in the United Kingdom.

It was also the first magazine to produce independently recorded performance figures for the Bugatti Veyron, which were published in the 31 May 2006 issue.

[7] Former Autocar writers include Russell Bulgin, Chris Harris, and former Top Gear presenter James May.

May was bored and to alleviate the boredom, he wrote the reviews so the first four spreads would spell the words "ROAD", "TEST", "YEAR" and "BOOK".

The other pages had another acrostic but that was not immediately recognizable as it was spread over the rest of the magazine, spelling seemingly random letters starting with "SOYO" and "UTHI".