Welcome to MSN Cars. MSN Cars is one of the most popular motoring websites in the UK, with independent figures suggesting the site receives over one million unique users per month.
In July 2009, judges from throughout the motor industry voted MSN Cars 'automotive website of the year' in the Headline Auto awards. Judges liked "the sheer reach of MSN Cars... they are well placed to bring different stories to different audiences and do so in an engaging way. It has an energetic vibe that projects enthusiasm."
As well as all the news, reviews, galleries and video you would expect from a leading car website, we also have the most comprehensive coverage on the web of all the major motor shows including Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Geneva and Detroit, with real-time coverage on unveilings during the first day of the shows with photo galleries, streaming video and interactive video together with top quality editorial coverage.
We also offer motorsport coverage from our partners crash.net, packed photo galleries and wallpapers, and offer access to maps and journey planning tools. We have commercial partnerships with some class leaders in their fields such as Auto Trader (for used cars), BeatThatQuote.com (for insurance), Money Supermarket (for car loans), and Reg Transfers (for number plates).
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The MSN Cars team
Tom Evans - Content Manager
Tom is the content manager of the website, and provides editorial direction and strategy as well as indulging his love of writing and driving fast cars ideally with the roof down. He has been working in the internet industry for over 15 years for companies including Pearson and NTL and now Microsoft. He loves motors.
Current car:
Clapped out Peugeot 406 HDi - "I used to have an MX5, honest..."; Volkswagen Passat CC GT TDI 170.
All-time favourite car: Original Jaguar XK8 (pictured right). "Still gorgeous, after all these years."
E-mail Tom directly:tomev@microsoft.com
Ian Dickson - Content Editor
Ian is a content editor on MSN Cars, a job that involves writing twin tests, news and features, to building web pages, writing headlines and subbing content. Before this he worked on Test Drive magazine where he was a features writer, and before that spent two years on the consumer and roadtest desks of What Car? In his spare time, Ian has written for Auto Express, Jack, T3 and the Fifth Gear website, and started his journalism life in the more sober role of editor in an internal communications agency.
Current car:
Audi A4 and Mazda MX-5. "I share the A4 with my girlfriend, and the MX-5 is my ace long-termer."
All time favourite car: "Where do I start? My all time favourite real-world car is a BMW 335d, alongisde which I would park a Porsche 911 (997) Turbo, a Ferrari 599GTB (pictured right), an Audi RS4 and a '70s 911."
Nigel Swan - Web Producer
Nigel became a car enthusiast long before he got his driving license, but turned it into a career in 2000 when he joined What Car? magazine as a writer. Other duties included writing for the the road test department and consumer desk and as well as filming, editing, presenting and scripting for the video team.
Nigel also wrote and produced video content for Autocar magazine and Pistonheads.com. As Web Producer for MSN Cars, his role includes writing reviews, news and features, building web pages and other web systems, writing headlines and subbing content.
Current car:
Skoda Superb SE 2.0-lite TDi PD 140
All time favourite car: "The best part about being a motoring hack is you get to drive so many cars. However, it means picking just one favourite is pretty difficult. I know my fantasy garage would include an Aston Martin DB5, current Range Rover, Ferrari 430 Scuderia and a new Nissan GT-R (right)."
Peter Burgess - Motoring Journalist
Peter's been a motoring journalist for some 30 years, starting off on Motoring Which? after a period as a mechanical engineer. He left which to become a presenter on Top Gear for a couple of series and since then has written about almost every car on the planet as editor of the Daily Express World Car Guide as well as producing his own title, the UK Car Catalogue. He helped launch MSN Cars in 2001, a juror on the World Car of the Year Awards, and a former chairman of the Guild of Motoring Writers.
Current car: Porsche 911. "It's a 1991 964 Carrera 4 coupe, which I've had since 1999. I keep looking at 'better' 911's but my car is such a peach I might never change it."
All time favourite car: "For a long time I would have said the Ferrari Dino 246 coupe. It certainly wasn't a disappointment when I drive one for a day in 2006. But I also have a soft spot for old Lotus, and having owned four, I have recently added yet another baby Elan (right) to sit nicely alongside the 911."
Dan Trent - Motoring Journalist
Learning his editorial craft in student media in Manchester, Dan moved to London where he worked for Dennis Publishing and contributed to Evo and Auto Express, among others. After helping to launch specialist title Mercedes Enthusiast and then going on to edit the magazine Dan has become something of an expert on the marque but has now diversified and broadened his automotive outlook beyond the three-pointed star. Equally at home with a camera as a keyboard, Dan contributes roadtests and features to MSN and a wide range of motoring publications.
Current car:
1995 Subaru Impreza WRX "As a country lad I had to have the estate version so I like to think my choice is more green wellies than Reebok Classics, despite accusations I am simply indulging my inner chav."
All time favourite car:
Mercedes 300SL Gullwing (right). "A two-day drive from Germany to London in a freshly restored Gullwing remains one of the highlights of my career so far. I'm just one lottery win away from owning one of my own..."
Richard Aucock - Motoring Journalist
Richard writes editorial for all areas of the site, including news, road tests, features and reports from the major motor shows. He has been writing since 1998, after winning a motor writing prize for aspiring young journalists while still at University.
Working at Motoring Research since 2001, Richard won the Saab Young Motoring Journalist of the Year award in December 2005 and the Headline Auto 'rising star of the year' award in 2009.
Current Car:
Golf GTI Mk 2 (right). "It remains great, even after 18 years."
Christopher Hubbard - Motoring Journalist
Christopher began working at editorial agency Motoring Research soon after graduating from Coventry University's MA in Automotive Journalism in 2006. So far he hasn't crashed anything and is thoroughly enjoying fulfilling the ambition he's always had to become a motoring writer. Don't ask him about working in retail though, or he might start to twitch...
Current cars:
"Ford SportKa. Best. Gearbox. Ever. BMW E34 520i. "£800 three years ago and still going. Just."
All-time favourite car: "No such thing - that's like asking for a single favourite film. Realistically, I think I'd like an R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R (right) - enough performance to smoke most supercars out of sight."
James Ruppert - Used Car Expert
James Ruppert sold BMWs in the '80s, then wrote the seminal Dealing with Car Dealers which revealed for the first time how the car trade operated.
As a journalist he's had an 18 year stint with Car Magazine as their used car guru, is still an Agony Uncle for the Independent on Sunday and a Special Correspondent for Autocar, as well as now a used car contributor to MSN Cars. At MSN he has overseen a new section around his love of high quality but good value used cars, called Bangernomics, and regularly answers users' motoring questions on his message board.
He is founder of vehicle inspection company Used Car Checks and he's also done telly and radio with a spectacular lack of success. He has recently published The British Car Industry: Our Part in its Downfall, a wry and well-received look at the demise of British Leyland and its sundry constituent parts. James has four vehicles with current MOTs and at his time of life quite fancies a Bristol, or Jensen Interceptor (right).
Zora Suleman - Video Presenter
Zora is an accomplished broadcaster who presents many of our "drive story" coverage and videos of motoring events like the British Motor Show. She has been working in the media since the age of 11, and recent assignments include reading the news for leading London radio stations Capital FM and Capital Gold, and on Channel 4's breakfast-TV show RI:SE.
The MSN Cars team write a regular blog - visit it here
Mail address & telephone
MSN Cars
Cardinal Place
100 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 5JL
Telephone:
Tom Evans: 0203 139 6716
Ian Dickson: 0203 139 6718
Nigel Swan: 0203 139 6717
