About MSN Cars
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. Our aim is to provide passionate, expert and unbiased information and advice to get you motoring.
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, British, 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), Experian (for used car data checking), and Reg Transfers (for number plates).
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Tom is the content manager of the website, who also writes stories and headlines, programmes the promotions and advertising, and provides editorial direction and strategy. He has been working in the internet industry for over 10 years for companies including Pearson Television and NTL. He loves motors.
Current Car: Clapped out Peugeot 406 HDi, whatever we have in. "I used to have an MX5, honest..."
All-time favourite car: Original Jaguar XK8 (pictured right). "Still gorgeous, after all these years."
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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 the now-deceased 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 (pictured right), a Ferrari 599GTB, an Audi RS4 and a '70s 911."
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 (right) and a new Nissan GT-R."
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. Helped launch MSN Cars back in 2000. A juror on the World Car of the Year Awards.
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 feel another baby Elan could sit nicely alongside the 911. It's really just a matter of finding the right car at the right price."
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. “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…”
Current Car: Golf GTI Mk 2. “It remains great, even after 18 years.”
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 car: "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 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.
Founder of vehicle inspection company Used Car Checks and author of the best seller Bangernomics, he's also done telly and radio with a spectacular lack of success. James has four vehicles with current MOTs and at his time of life quite fancies a Bristol (right), or Jensen Interceptor.
