More pages, greater insight, and a hardcover format for the yearbook covering the car industry’s global trends
Wellington, December 2 (JY&A Media) What do you do with a car yearbook that had critical acclaim but modest sales? You double-down, increase the page count, and raise the price.
From the Perodua Axia E to a unique Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII, and many models in between, Autocade’s second annual comes in hardcover for the first time (accounting for the price increase), though UK buyers can continue to get free postage included in the £24·99 special sale price.
Promoted with the slogan, ‘Better. Longer. Harder,’ Autocade Year of Cars 2025 captures the Zeitgeist of the global automotive landscape, guiding readers through this world’s rapid changes, examining significant models, relevant history, design, marketing, and trends for the year ahead.
Topics include the new push for aerodynamics; a guide to Chinese luxury marques; spotlights on the Ford Capri, Renault 4 E-Tech, Lamborghini Temerario and Dodge Charger; a tribute to the late Marcello Gandini with a guide to his production designs; a list of some of today’s designer names; an analysis on Stellantis’s recent strategy; retro ads from Ford; a look back at interesting cars sold during recessions; and whether the US finds itself out of step with the rest of the world’s automotive trends.
Autocade’s editors continue to present thoughtful commentary, beautiful imagery, and detailed research, showcasing automotive bloodlines again, plus a double-page spread charting drag coefficients since the 1930s.
Publisher Jack Yan, who founded the original Autocade website in 2008, said, ‘We had incredibly positive feedback to the 2024 yearbook, from William Woollard and Giles Chapman among others, and our customers said they wanted more of our voice coming through alongside the beautiful imagery. We’ve listened, and we’ve delivered.’
Autocade Year of Cars 2025 is available directly from the publisher at libriz.co or lucire.biz and is printed in the UK.
Note 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 2025 is available to media on request.
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Autocade Year of Cars 2025 drag coefficient timeline Medium-resolution JPEG, 429 kbyte |
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| Autocade Year of Cars 2025 Chinese luxury car directory, two selected pages Medium-resolution JPEG, 956 kbyte |
Autocade Year of Cars 2025 Ford Capri drawings Medium-resolution JPEG, 596 kbyte |
About Autocade
Autocade was founded by Jack Yan in 2008 as an online car encyclopædia after he found many existing references lacking in accuracy. Its contents, limited to a single-paragraph entry for each generation of a car model, are backed up by offline resources and painstakingly researched. It is often quoted by other resources such as Wikipedia. In 2023, a print counterpart was created to provide an informative, entertaining read to complement the original site.
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
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@jyanet.com
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