Top Gear Magazine/UK
Top Gear is the name of a British automotive magazine produced continuously by Immediate Media Company (formerly BBC Worldwide and initially by Redwood Publishing for its first few issues) since September of 1993. It accompanied a long-running TV show of the same name until its March 2002 issue, before resuming under the relaunched programme from its November 2002 issue onwards.
Sales figures
At one point in time, the magazine was Britain's best-selling automotive magazine, peaking with more than 200,000 issues sold worldwide each month from the first half of 2008 through to the second half of 2009. Sales then remained over 190,000 copies per month for the next 18 months thereafter.
Decline in readership
Beginning from the second half of 2011, sales began a slow, yet gradual decline. Following the dismissal of long term presenter Jeremy Clarkson in March 2015, sales figures of the magazine were likewise as impacted as television ratings, with just 90,000[1] copies sold in the United Kingdom for the first half of 2016, with an additional 10,000 international sales. Sales partially recovered following Evans' departure from Top Gear, stagnating at 100,000[2] for the entirety of 2018, but fell once more to just 80,000[3] the year after. By 2020, sales had fallen further[4] to just 60,000 issues worldwide.
