About Driving Line
Driving Line accelerates automotive passion by providing a fresh angle of what fuels automotive enthusiasts. Our goal is to tell the untold stories from every corner of the car world. From automotive content featured here on our website to the pages of our quarterly print magazine, our social and our video channels, we invite you to get behind the wheel with us. It’s certain to be an interesting drive.
Driving Line History
Launched in 2012 by Nitto Tire with the goal of creating a bridge between unique enthusiast niches, Driving Line was created to bring high-quality editorial content to wherever automotive enthusiasts were beginning with DrivingLine.com. From off-road to tuner, diesel to import, Driving Line brings all kinds of enthusiasts together. We believe that there is more in common between gearheads of all sorts than those items that differ between specific enthusiast niches.
As many print magazines began to close up shop, Driving Line moved in to fill the gap, releasing their first print magazine issue at SEMA in 2014. The print magazine has continued since then as a quarterly publication, featuring the best and most interesting stories from Driving Line, and distributed at events around the country, as well as being accessible in digital magazine format.
DrivingLine.com relaunched in 2015 in a whole new format, with full-length articles, galleries and videos all accessible from the homepage, so that enthusiasts were never far from the content they were looking for. It also had upgraded search and recommendations, helping to fulfill its mission of bringing enthusiast niches together.
Alongside that, Driving Line branched into all of the places where people were consuming content. You’ll find exclusive Driving Line content on all of its channels, from DrivingLine.com to its print magazine, Facebook, Instagram, IGTV and YouTube. It may be an article describing the latest diesel tech or a video taking you through some remote wilderness, but you can be sure it’s always based on a passion for everything on four wheels.
You’ll continue to find daily automotive content with high-quality images and reporting on all the places Driving Line is. If you’re lucky enough, you’ll even get to snag up one of our exclusive summer print photo annuals, gathering all the best photos from the past year into one gorgeous book worthy of any coffee table.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief – Kristin Cline
Director of Audience Growth – Mike Sabounchi
Digital Content Editor – Greg Friend
Senior Off-Road Editor – Ali Mansour
Associate Editor – Matt Wheatley
Truck Editor – Matt Moghaddam
Project Manager – Randy Wilcox
Awards
2019
- Content Marketing ROI/Measurement Program (Driver Battles) – Finalist
2018
- Best Social Video for Auto & Auto Services (Huracán Drift) – Bronze
- Best Transportation Publication – Finalist
2016
- Best Content Marketing Video Series (Journey to the Hammers) – Winner
2015
- Best New Publication – Print (In Design category) – Winner
- Best New Publication – Print (In Editorial category) – Finalist
- Best Transportation Publication – Winner
- Best Use of Video (Getting Started) – Winner
2014
- Best Overall Digital Publication – Honorable Mention
2012
- Best Series of Articles – Gold
- Best Editorial – New Publication – Honorable Mention
