The Last Autos Editor

By: David Shapiro | The Awl

Last Wednesday morning, The New York Times announced that it would stop publishing the Automobiles section, a standalone section that comes out on Sundays, at the end of the year. I thought, like, "Damn, I love that little section." It's like Car Talk in that you don't have to care about cars, or know about cars, to get something out of reading it; it's full of quirky stories about people obsessed with their cars, e.g., Swedish people obsessed with classic American cars that look like they're rotting.