David E. Davis Jr. | Automotive journalist, 80
David E. Davis Jr., 80, the founder of Automobile Magazine and a longtime automotive journalist, died Sunday at an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital of complications from bladder cancer surgery.
David E. Davis Jr., 80, the founder of Automobile Magazine and a longtime automotive journalist, died Sunday at an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital of complications from bladder cancer surgery.
He split from rival Car and Driver to start Automobile in 1985 with financial backing from media mogul Rupert Murdoch. He had been editor of Car and Driver twice, moving its operations from New York to Ann Arbor. - AP