A run-down of my specialist talents
Road tests
My new-car reviews have appeared in many UK
motoring outlets, including 4car, Top Gear,
Autocar, Auto Express and Business Car.
Consumer/used
I write used reports for Auto Express and have my
own column/consumer page in Top Gear. My
buying guides have also appeared in Used Car
Buyer and Classic Cars for Sale magazines.
Previously, I wrote the magazine version of the
BBC show Right Car Wrong Car for Top Gear, and
have gone undercover twice for What Car?,
haggling at dealers and writing the subsequent
supplement.
Editing/sub-editing
I have extensive editing experience, including a
year-long editorship of EcoFleet magazine and a
longer stint at the helm of What Double Cab? (a
pickup magazine distributed alongside 4x4 and
MPV Driver). I’ve written, commissioned and
edited a one-off advertising magazine for Ford, a
motorbike supplement for the Evening Standard
and the programme for the latest Press Gazette
press awards.
I sub-edit Top Gear’s Test Drive Directory using
the latest InDesign software.
Web content
I regularly write for Channel 4’s 4car motoring
website (including some uploading and basic
HTML coding). Supplied content and helped in the
design of the UKTV Car of the Year 2007 website.
Fleet news/features
I’ve been writing for Fleet Week (now Business
Car) for six years, and now have my own column
(under a pseudonym).
Photography
This is a hobby that regularly produces pics good
enough for specialist publications such as 911
and Porsche World, 4x4 and MPV Driver and
Australian Penthouse (the rickshaw rally –
steady). Also seen in more mainstream outlets
such as 4car.
Adventure/travel features
Including the Plymouth-Dakar budget Sahara rally
in a £300 Porsche 924 (911 and Porsche World,
Motorsport News), the Indian Rickshaw Rally
(4car) and camping among the Le Mans hardcore
(4car).
Green technology/environment
The main focus of EcoFleet magazine. Now I
regularly write on green issues for Channel 4’s
4car website, including a month-long daily advice
feature back in Jan 07.
Past jobs, salaried or otherwise
Chief sub, Autocar (99-01)
Responsible for the copy in 90-odd pages of
weekly editorial. All the usual chief sub duties,
with a team of four to help me carry them out. I
also wrote new car reviews, long-term tests and a
weekly TV column.
Freelance writer, Marie Claire (98-99)
Contacts with the features editor at Marie Claire
secured me a raft of features, all far too
embarrassing to mention here.
Sub editor, TV Times (98-99)
On top of my subbing duties, I proofed pages
and, as head of the BBC desk, managed a team
of freelance subs.
Freelance writer
Travel and general features about life in Thailand.
Sub editor/features editor Thailand Times
I started on the business desk of this English-
language broadsheet daily before being made
features editor of the Entertainment section. For
the daily features page, I either commissioned or
wrote stories, as well as subbing it.
CV - the details
February 2001 – present
Freelance motoring journalist
Writing for: What Car? Daily Telegraph, Top
Gear, Autocar, Auto Express, 4Car, AA Magazine,
Evening Standard, Daily Record, Fleet Week, Fleet
Management, Sydney Morning Herald, 4x4 and
MPV Driver, Toyota customer magazine, Mazda
customer magazine, Vauxhall customer
magazine, Practical Classics, Classic Cars For
Sale, Motorsport News, 911 and Porsche World
Editor of: EcoFleet magazine (02-03), What
Double Cab? magazine, one-off Ford magazine,
What Van? Fleet (01-02), section editor for the AA
magazine, Evening Standard motorbike show
supplement (02)
Photographs seen in: Daily Telegraph, the
Guardian (rather small, admittedly), 4x4 and MPV
Driver, What Double Cab?, EcoFleet
July 1999 – February 2001
Chief sub, Autocar magazine
June 1998 – July 1999
Sub editor, TV Times
January 1997 – April 1998
Features editor, Thailand Times
1990–1994
Aberdeen University
MA (Hons) 2:1 History of Art
1984–1989
St Edward’s School, Oxford
Three A Levels (English, History of Art, Geography)
10 O Levels
February 1971
Born
Road tests
My new-car reviews have appeared in many UK
motoring outlets, including 4car, Top Gear,
Autocar, Auto Express and Business Car.
Consumer/used
I write used reports for Auto Express and have my
own column/consumer page in Top Gear. My
buying guides have also appeared in Used Car
Buyer and Classic Cars for Sale magazines.
Previously, I wrote the magazine version of the
BBC show Right Car Wrong Car for Top Gear, and
have gone undercover twice for What Car?,
haggling at dealers and writing the subsequent
supplement.
Editing/sub-editing
I have extensive editing experience, including a
year-long editorship of EcoFleet magazine and a
longer stint at the helm of What Double Cab? (a
pickup magazine distributed alongside 4x4 and
MPV Driver). I’ve written, commissioned and
edited a one-off advertising magazine for Ford, a
motorbike supplement for the Evening Standard
and the programme for the latest Press Gazette
press awards.
I sub-edit Top Gear’s Test Drive Directory using
the latest InDesign software.
Web content
I regularly write for Channel 4’s 4car motoring
website (including some uploading and basic
HTML coding). Supplied content and helped in the
design of the UKTV Car of the Year 2007 website.
Fleet news/features
I’ve been writing for Fleet Week (now Business
Car) for six years, and now have my own column
(under a pseudonym).
Photography
This is a hobby that regularly produces pics good
enough for specialist publications such as 911
and Porsche World, 4x4 and MPV Driver and
Australian Penthouse (the rickshaw rally –
steady). Also seen in more mainstream outlets
such as 4car.
Adventure/travel features
Including the Plymouth-Dakar budget Sahara rally
in a £300 Porsche 924 (911 and Porsche World,
Motorsport News), the Indian Rickshaw Rally
(4car) and camping among the Le Mans hardcore
(4car).
Green technology/environment
The main focus of EcoFleet magazine. Now I
regularly write on green issues for Channel 4’s
4car website, including a month-long daily advice
feature back in Jan 07.
Past jobs, salaried or otherwise
Chief sub, Autocar (99-01)
Responsible for the copy in 90-odd pages of
weekly editorial. All the usual chief sub duties,
with a team of four to help me carry them out. I
also wrote new car reviews, long-term tests and a
weekly TV column.
Freelance writer, Marie Claire (98-99)
Contacts with the features editor at Marie Claire
secured me a raft of features, all far too
embarrassing to mention here.
Sub editor, TV Times (98-99)
On top of my subbing duties, I proofed pages
and, as head of the BBC desk, managed a team
of freelance subs.
Freelance writer
Travel and general features about life in Thailand.
Sub editor/features editor Thailand Times
I started on the business desk of this English-
language broadsheet daily before being made
features editor of the Entertainment section. For
the daily features page, I either commissioned or
wrote stories, as well as subbing it.
CV - the details
February 2001 – present
Freelance motoring journalist
Writing for: What Car? Daily Telegraph, Top
Gear, Autocar, Auto Express, 4Car, AA Magazine,
Evening Standard, Daily Record, Fleet Week, Fleet
Management, Sydney Morning Herald, 4x4 and
MPV Driver, Toyota customer magazine, Mazda
customer magazine, Vauxhall customer
magazine, Practical Classics, Classic Cars For
Sale, Motorsport News, 911 and Porsche World
Editor of: EcoFleet magazine (02-03), What
Double Cab? magazine, one-off Ford magazine,
What Van? Fleet (01-02), section editor for the AA
magazine, Evening Standard motorbike show
supplement (02)
Photographs seen in: Daily Telegraph, the
Guardian (rather small, admittedly), 4x4 and MPV
Driver, What Double Cab?, EcoFleet
July 1999 – February 2001
Chief sub, Autocar magazine
June 1998 – July 1999
Sub editor, TV Times
January 1997 – April 1998
Features editor, Thailand Times
1990–1994
Aberdeen University
MA (Hons) 2:1 History of Art
1984–1989
St Edward’s School, Oxford
Three A Levels (English, History of Art, Geography)
10 O Levels
February 1971
Born
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