PistonHeads

PistonHeads is an online news site dedicated to the automotive industry. The site contains motoring related articles, used car classifieds, and an internet forum.

PistonHeads
Type of site
Automotive Website
OwnerCarGurus
Founder(s)David Edmonston
URLwww.pistonheads.com
Alexa rank 9,392 (As of 27 January 2019)[1]
Launched1999
Current statusActive

History

PistonHeads was founded in 1999 by David Edmonston as a TVR website. It expanded into a more general performance car forum over the next three years, and Manek Dubash, previous editor of PC Magazine UK, was appointed news editor in 2001, while Edmonston managed the technical aspects and oversaw content. Edmonston sold Pistonheads in January 2007 to the Haymarket Media Group by which point it encompassed all aspects of motoring.[2]

On 13 February 2004 the BBC television programme Look North broadcast a news item about alleged death threats made to speed safety campaigners on the PistonHeads website. A complaint was made to Ofcom that the item portrayed the website unfairly but the adjudication did not uphold this view.[3]

PistonHeads is also the title sponsor of the annual Performance Car Show, hosted alongside Autosport International, at the NEC in Birmingham.[4]

In 2019, PistonHeads was sold to CarGurus for an undisclosed amount.[5]

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See also

References
  1. "Pistonheads.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  2. Haymarket acquires PistonHeads, haymarket.com, retrieved 2009-01-29
  3. Adjudication - Complaint by Mr David Edmonston, on behalf of Petrolheads Limited (PDF), ofcom.org.uk, 2005-05-04, archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-04-13, retrieved 2009-01-29
  4. PistonHeads Show, pistonheads.com/show, archived from the original on 2012-12-01, retrieved 2012-12-07
  5. Haymarket agrees sale of PistonHeads to CarGurus, pistonheads.com, retrieved 2018-12-06


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