Long-time auto journalist David E. Davis Jr. dies - AutoWeek Magazine
By STEVEN COLE SMITH on 3/27/2011
David E. Davis, Jr., inarguably one of the deans of automotive journalism, died Sunday, March 27, at age 80. Davis had been suffering from bladder cancer and had undergone surgery a few days earlier. Even so, his passing was unexpected--he appeared to be in comparatively good health and reasonably good spirits at the Amelia Island Concours in Florida just two weeks earlier.
Davis was the founder of Automobile magazine, which just celebrated his 25th anniversary, and prior to that he was the editor of Car and Driver. He had returned to the pages of Car and Driver in the summer of 2009 to write a monthly column for the magazine's editor, Eddie Alterman, a graduate of Automobile magazine.