Wellington, November 17 (JY&A Media) In the tradition of Auto Universum and other motoring annuals, the third edition of Autocade Year of Cars is out, examining the state of the global industry, highlighting new models, and tackling areas of interest such as car design and marketing.
Previous editions have had endorsements or positive reviews from author Giles Chapman, and historian and former Top Gear presenter William Woollard, while contributing editor Mark Dixon called it ‘brilliant’ and ‘totally absorbing’ in Octane.
Autocade Year of Cars 2026 has plenty to satisfy automotive aficionados, covering everything from the Renault Twingo E-tech to the Bugatti Tourbillon. There is a guide to some of the year’s new models across the globe, an examination of car design’s 30-year cycle, whether BYD will overtake Ford in the sales’ charts, the evolution of BMW’s kidney grille since 1931, a celebration of the Rolls-Royce Phantom’s centenary, and more.
A hardcover A4 volume with a dust jacket, it is lavishly presented and printed in the UK on high-quality paper, and retails for £29·99. It can be ordered via the publisher’s retail site at lucire.biz.
About Autocade
Autocade has been around since 2008, originally as an online encyclopædia at autocade.net, often referenced by Wikipedia. In 2023, with what appeared to be record traffic, the decision was made by Autocade publisher Jack Yan and his partner Amanda Satterthwaite to develop a yearbook in the tradition of Auto Universum and Automobile Year, but keeping the topic on road cars exclusively.
‘I grew up on those annuals as well as World Cars and the Australian Wheels Yearbook,’ says Mr Yan. ‘I wanted something like that, but priced reasonably.’ The first edition’s inspiration from both Auto Universum and the Wheels Yearbook is clear: the latter is why it was softcover to begin with, selling at a lower price.
That changed last year as Mr Yan and Ms Satterthwaite decided to make Autocade Year of Cars more substantial and presentable, going with a hardcover volume instead.
It is not the first time Mr Yan has taken a web property and extended the brand to a print edition: he founded the fashion website Lucire in 1997 and, in a pioneering move, extended it to a print edition in 2004, leading to publishing in seven countries.
A lifelong car enthusiast, he decided early on that Lucire would have a motoring section in the vein of Vogue Paris’s column penned by Homéric that he would write, and has had decades of motoring journalism under his belt. The column was called ‘Autocade’, a name Mr Yan had wanted to use for years.
In 2025, a website called Autocade World was set up at autocade.world to support customers, and includes several members-only articles as well as digital versions of previous editions.
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Notes to editors
Autocade is a registered trade mark of Jack Yan & Associates and may be protected in certain jurisdictions. All trade marks are the properties of their owners and are used in an editorial fashion without any intention to infringe.
A sample PDF copy of Autocade Year of Cars 2026 is available to media on request.
If you have any download issues, this release is also available with image links at https://jyanet.com/info/2025/11/in-the-tradition-of-car-yearbooks-autocade-year-of-cars-returns-for-third-edition/.
About JY&A Media
JY&A Media is the independent publishing house behind Lucire and Autocade, founded in 1987 as Jack Yan & Associates in Wellington, New Zealand. Its main titles began online, Lucire in 1997 and Autocade in 2008, before their brands were extended into print editions, Lucire having taken what was an unprecedented path in 2004. It is also responsible for licensing these editions, with Lucire’s first internationally licensed print edition appearing in 2005. Its publishing activities are grouped under Lucire Ltd.
Contact
Jack Yan, Publisher
Autocade
T +64 4 387-3213
E [email protected]
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