The midyear in autos: 10 ups and downs

Upside: Sixty-five-year-old Road & Track magazine, which has a circulation of 723,245, appoints a new editor-in-chief and begins a move from its longtime editorial headquarters in Newport Beach, Calif. to Ann Arbor, Mich.

Downside: Longtime readers worry that the change threatens to further erase the personality of a magazine that once celebrated the imported two-seat roadster, typically driven by a gentleman wearing string-back driving gloves and operating controls "that fall readily to hand." They brace for more covers featuring red Corvettes and test drives that pit Mustangs against Camaros.

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