Parker's Car Guides

Parker's Car Price Guide, April 1991 issue

Parker's Car Price Guide is a monthly magazine and, more recently, a website with reviews and price lists for new and used cars in the United Kingdom. Initial searches are free, with payment required to access further details.

It was founded in 1972 and is the longest-running price guide available to the public. It expanded over the years to offer reviews, technical data and marketplace intelligence along with pricing. The portfolio of products has been edited by Kieren Puffett since 2004.

More recently it has specialised in testing high-performance luxury cars, leaving reviews of more typical vehicles in car ownership to sister publications such as CAR magazine.

Parker's also offers valuations for commercial vehicles (vans and pick-ups), and the section is headed by Liam Campbell. Since 2008, Parker's is owned and published by the German company Bauer Media Group.

Time line of key dates

1972: Launch of the Parker's Car Price Guide. 1st issue: March 1972, priced at 20p
1973: Full colour front page
1997: Emap buys Parker's portfolio from Parker Mead. Last Parker Mead edition of the Price Guide was August 1997
1998: Winter 1998 was the first edition of 'Parker's Car Chooser Magazine' which ran until 2006
1999: parkers.co.uk website launches
2000: Website ABCe audit: 117,432 users
2001: Emap Consumer Media Website and Expanding Brand of the year
2001: Website ABCe audit: 316,621
2002: Parker's Car Price Guide and Parker's Older Car Price Guide (Parkers Plus) merged
2003: Spot colour (red) introduced
2003: The company relocates from London to Peterborough and Steve Rose takes over the editors chair from Nick Barfield
2005: Parker's Car Price Guide goes full colour and introduces pictures
2005: Website ABCe audit: 539,062 in March of this year
2005: Website ABCe audit: 706,054 unique users and 13 million page impressions
2006: Website ABCe audit: 1,005,658 unique users and 19,971,999 page impressions in March of this year
2006: April/May 2006 Last edition of Parkers Car Chooser Magazine
2008: Bauer Consumer Media acquires Emap's Media Division, including Parker's Car Price Guide

External links

Official website

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