North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards
Jury Biographies
Paul Abelson
Lisle, Illinois
Paul
Abelson grew up as a sports car buff, competing with a modicum
of success in club events with his Volvo P-1800 S. After
landing on his lid and finding that wheel-to-wheel competition
was not his thing, he "retired" to the corners
as a turn marshal with SCCA and the British Sports Car Owners
Association (BSCOA) of New York in the 1960s. After a long
absence from organized competition, the resident of the
Chicago area again became active in road racing. He maintains
his national license as a Race Control marshal and is a
regional Technical Inspector with SCCA's Chicago Region.
Paul is currently
Senior Technical Editor of Land Line Magazine, serving heavy-truck
owner operators and small fleets. Besides his articles on
equipment and maintenance, he has a column called "Personal
Wheels" in which he reviews four-wheelers. Previously,
he was Technical Editor of Super Driver Audio Tape Magazine.
At Super Driver, he reviewed passenger cars, pickups, vans
and SUVs each month, and wrote a column of miscellaneous
automotive information and opinion called "Car Guy."
Abelson has won gold, silver and bronze awards from the
IAMA, Truck Writers of North America (TWNA) and ASBPE.
Paul is active
in industry and automotive affairs. He is a program chairman
at the SAE Commercial Vehicles meeting and is among the
senior leadership of the Technology and Maintenance Council
(TMC). Between the two organizations, he wrote about a dozen
Recommended Practices on equipment and maintenance. He served
on various Boards of Directors, including TMC, TWNA, the
National Association of Show Trucks and the Illinois Trucking
Association Maintenance Council. The Air Force veteran has
a BS from NYU and a Masters from Michigan State. He has
a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) and regularly reviews
trucks of all sizes.
Phil Bailey
Lachine, Quebec
Phil
Bailey graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Staffordshire
University and arrived in Montreal in 1960. His father worked
all his life in the automobile industry, starting at Sunbeam,
building the ash frames for the World Land Speed record
car and finishing up at Jensen motors in charge of the FF
program.
Phil was deeply
involved in rallying at that time and was fortunate enough
to have participated in the Shell 4000 Trans-Canada rally
on several different occasions, driving for Renault. When
Renault withdrew from rallying and Canada, Phil got involved
with the Tremblant track as Press relations officer and
was blessed with many happy years of racing experience getting
to know such legends as Jimmy Clark, Bruce McLaren and Denny
Hulme, and doing a little club racing of his own on the
side.
Phil was also
a member of the American Racing Press Association and followed
the Can-Am series across North America for several years.
When the Canadian Grand Prix moved to the centre of Montreal,
Phil was recruited to do radio commentary.
In his retirement
from consulting engineering, Phil opened a garage whose
policy is honesty, integrity and technical excellence. From
his daily experience, Phil is able to explain, in simple
terms, to car owners with no technical knowledge, the whys
and wherefores of their particular problem and to assure
them that he is only doing what he has to do to keep their
car on the road.
Phil can be seen
from time to time on the Weather Channel, CTV and Channel
9, the community network. He writes a regular column for
the Montreal Gazette and a weekly column for the CanadianDriver
website. He has been a well known radio personality in the
Montreal area for many years. He has worked for both CJAD
and CFCF, hosting a talk show about the automobile industry.
Lyndon Conrad
Bell
Lafayette, California
Lyndon
Conrad Bell is Editor-in-Chief of OnWheels Incorporated's
publications African Americans OnWheels, Latinos OnWheels
and their website onwheelsinc.com. His work has appeared
in a variety of publications including; Automotive Marketer,
Autoworld Magazine, Essence Magazine and Forbes.com.
In addition to
a lifelong love of automobiles, Lyndon also enjoys going
places he has never been and seeing things he's never seen,
making him perfectly suited to judging a competition of
concept cars. After all, concept cars are cars nobody has
ever seen. Lyndon lives in Lafayette, California with his
lovely wife Lynda.
Michael Bettencourt
Oakville, Ontario
In
his adventures as assistant editor of Carguide magazine,
Michael Bettencourt has seen more than his share of weird
and wonderful wheels, both on the show stage and in living
metal. As a regular columnist for Performance Auto and Sound
magazine, he brings an aftermarket oriented perspective
to his work. "Think concept car designers are out there?
You should see what some people actually drive down the
street."
He also does
photography for the above publications, as well as writing
and shooting for Globe Megawheels, the weekly automotive
section for the Globe and Mail newspaper. Combine this with
his time as copy editor of motorsports magazine Performance
Racing News, and it's easy to see that he loves all things
sleek. "When a fresh concept hits the right buttons,
it's simply magic," says Bettencourt. "Hit the
wrong ones, of course, and it's more disastrous than amateur
standup comedy."
Warren Brown
Washington, DC
Warren
Brown has been covering the automobile industry for The
Washington Post since 1982. Brown, who joined the newspaper
in 1976, test-drives all manner of cars, from top-of-the-line
Mercedes sedans and the newest sports cars to Volkswagen
Beetles and SUVs. His auto reviews are lively, detailed
accounts of a car's good and bad points, addressing everything
from a car's highway performance to its "head-turning"
factor and sound system.
Kami Buchholz
Royal Oak, Michigan
As the name behind the online site www.kjbsyndicate.com,
Kami Buchholz provides readers with vehicle driving impressions
that emphasize the technical features of today's popular
automobiles. In addition to occasional general interest
articles in weekly and daily newspapers, she also reports
on product development trends as the Detroit Editor of Automotive
Engineering International, a monthly publication published
by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
Thom Cannell
Lansing, Michigan
This
veteran automotive photographer and journalist sold his
first story to the Competition Press in 1976. Originally
a racing reporter covering the North American rally scene,
Cannell began to cover USAC racing during the turbulent
change over from Offenhauser engines to V-8s and CART. Additional
assignments resulted in stories about NASCAR and even photographic
coverage of Formula One.
Since then Cannell's
stories and photos have appeared in every major US automotive
enthusiast publication: Car & Driver, Road & Track,
Motor Trend, Autoweek, Automobile, Truckin, Turbo, Sport
Truck, Street Truck, and more.
As a photographer
he has contributed to "every automotive manufacturer
from Audi to Yugo." Thom is US correspondent for Germany's
4Wheel Fun and a regular contributor to Florida International
and Street Truck. When not behind the wheel, you will find
him at a Lansing YMCA pursuing his "if I ever retire"
career as an ACE certified group exercise leader and personal
trainer.
Dan Carney
Herndon, Virginia
Dan
Carney is a lifelong car enthusiast residing in the Washington,
D.C. area. He is a freelance journalist specializing in
new technology and motorsports, writing for publications
such as FHM, Edmunds Inside Line, Truck Trend, Sports Car
International, and Automotive Engineering International
and many others.
Carney has authored
two books, "Honda S2000" and "Dodge Viper,"
both published by Motorbooks International. He is currently
president of the Washington Automotive Press Association
(WAPA). He is an avid motorcyclist, and his helmet is a
familiar sight at WAPA meetings. Carney also enjoys racing
his Formula Ford in Sports Car Club of America events.
Michael Cohn
Homewood, Alabama
Michael
Cohn is the Editor of Rockcrawler 4x4 and Off-Road Magazine.
Rockcrawler is an online publication located at www.rockcrawler.com.
The site covers trails, tech, truck features, and truck/SUV
news.
Michael has recently
added a new site, called SUVMag.com, which will focus more
on SUVs in regard to today's wider definition and demographic.
He is personally involved in every facet of the site's publication
and is very active in the off-road community on a national
level.
In addition to
his love for vehicles with transfer cases, Michael has been
a car nut since childhood and keeps up with all the latest
automotive trends and industry news.
Tom Crosby
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tom
Crosby is vice-president of communications for AAA Carolinas
and editor of GO Magazine, which is a bi-monthly publication
sent to 800,000 households. He writes new car reviews for
GO Magazine, AAA Carolinas' website and 10 newspapers in
North and South Carolina, including the Wilmington Star
in North Carolina.
Tom is a former
reporter for The Washington Star and NBC-TV in Washington,
D.C. He has been with AAA over 19 years and is responsible
for his club's public relations, lobbying, car buying service,
member relations and traffic safety departments.
Larry Edsall
Phoenix, Arizona
Larry
Edsall is editor of iZoom.com and a freelance writer based
in Phoenix, Arizona. A former daily newspaper sports editor,
he was on the staff at AutoWeek magazine for 12 years, most
of that time as the weekly magazine's managing editor. He
writes a weekly feature for The Detroit News, contributes
to several magazines and is the author of five books: Concept
Cars and Legendary Cars, both published by White Star of
Italy, as well as Ford Racing Century, Ford GT: The Legend
Comes to Life, and Hummer H3, all published by Motorbooks
International. He's at work on another Motorbooks project,
a book detailing the design and development of the Toyota
FJ Cruiser. He is founding president of PAPA, the Phoenix
Automotive Press Association and has driven more than half
a million miles on four continents while covering the auto
industry and its products.
Winston Goodfellow
Carmel, California
Winston
Goodfellow’s love affair with the automobile was kindled
in the mid-1970s when he was in high school. One day after
basketball practice, a teammate called out, "You have
to see this!" Parked next to the gym was a new Ferrari
365 GT/4 BB "Berlinetta Boxer" owned by a Saudi
prince who attended a nearby college. A few weeks later
Goodfellow saw another prince’s Lamborghini Countach
LP400, and he was hooked.
Goodfellow spent
most of the 1980s in the financial services industry, then
changed careers in the early 1990s to become an automotive
writer and photographer. Today his photos and words are
found in books and magazines around the world, and his fine
art prints hang in the homes and offices of auto executives,
designers and collectors. He is a Pebble Beach Concours
Chief Class Judge and a Seminar Leader with the Smithsonian
Institution.
"When I
started my career in the industry," Goodfellow reflects,
"I thought I would specialize in what
interested me—concept, performance and collector cars,
and their history. I soon found myself shooting and driving
things that were fast and cool, and spent time speaking
with the people who created them. I was like a kid with
his hand in a cookie jar!"
He hasn’t
looked back. "I am one of the luckiest people in the
world, for I have stumbled onto one of life’s great
secrets," Goodfellow goes on. "If you love what
you do, how can it be considered work?" Goodfellow's
photographic work may be viewed at RollingSculpture.com.
Lou Ann Hammond
Auburn, California
Lou
Ann Hammond is an automotive entrepreneur who is the owner
and founder of www.carlist.com, the longest running used
car database and one of the first auto sites on the internet.
Before joining
the automotive industry Hammond bought and sold foreign
oil for Chevron Corporation. Her first driving experience
was in Tokyo Japan, where she graduated from high school
at the young age of 16.
Hammond can be
heard every week on the John Batchelor show on ABC radio
New York. She is Vice President of Western Automotive Journalists,
a member of the Motor Press Guild.
Hammond resides
in Auburn, California, located in the Sierra Nevada foothills,
overlooking the Sacramento valley with her husband "Stretch"
and their dog and three cats.
Isaac Hernandez
Santa Barbara, California
Isaac
Hernández was born in Madrid, Spain, into a family of journalists,
editors and publishers. He earned a B.A. Degree in Professional
Photography, in the field of Media , at the Brooks Institute
of Photography in 1990. Other education includes pre-graduate
level work in Geography and History at the University of
Madrid, as well as post-graduate fine art, graphic design
and journalism. He also has produced a number of short films
and animations.
Isaac has been
photographing and writing about automobiles for over 10
years, publishing regularly in more than 40 motor-related
publications, with features as varied as drive impressions,
car culture, classic cars, motorsports and commercial trucks.
Currently, he's
the US West Coast correspondent for El Mundo, the second
largest national newspaper in Spain. His work appears regularly
in a quantity of magazines worldwide. Clients include National
Geographic, GEO, Cosmopolitan, Sports Illustrated, USA Today
and Playboy. Besides being on numerous covers, his photos
have been published in well over 100 titles worldwide.
Jim Jackson
St. Charles, Illinois
Auto
Writer Jim Jackson delivers The Times Newspapers' "driveTimes"
column to over 100,000 readers in 10 markets throughout
Northwest Indiana and Southeast Suburban Chicago. The Chicago-based
journalist has worked at The Times for eight years. He has
also served as Technical Manager for Vette-N-Vestments publications
and freelanced for Corvette Fever magazine. Jackson lives
in suburban Chicago and is a member of the Midwest Automotive
Media Association.
Kevin
Kelly
Plymouth, Michigan
Growing
up in a U.A.W. household in the suburban Detroit community
of Warren, Kevin Kelly has seen the inner workings of the
auto industry from every perspective. His father worked
at GM's technical center as a clay model maker for 39 years,
allowing Kevin to get inside GM's massive design studios
as a youngster, although little did he know he was viewing
top-secret vehicles at the time because he was too busy
playing with the leftover clay.
Kevin began his
automotive journalism career on a bet from a friend, who
said Kevin would be unable to break his way into the world
of auto wordsmithing; he later cashed in on that free dinner.
After toiling in the ranks of radio journalism for several
years at Detroit radio station WPON, Kevin moved on to wire-service
journalism as correspondent for BridgeNews, working his
way up to the post of Senior Automotive Correspondent responsible
for managing global coverage of the auto industry.
After more than
five years in the wire service business, Kevin moved on
to the more exciting world of the auto trade press, joining
Ward's Communications as their European Editor. Having driven
the famed Fiorano Ferrari test track and traversed the Portuguese
auto industry during his four-year tenure at Ward's, Kevin
decided it was time to move on to greener pastures and joined
the staff of AD&P as Senior Editor in July 2005.
Tom Kelley
Charlotte, North Carolina
As
head of The Deadline Factory, Tom provides freelance articles
and photographs that appear in dozens of national magazines
with nearly 1.5 million readers combined.
Active in many
industry associations, including Detroit's Automotive Press
Association, SEMA and its TCAA division, and the Automotive
Aftermarket Industry Association, Tom is the co-founder
of the South East Automotive Media Organization (SEAMO)
and serves as a director of the Truck Writers of North America.
Along with technology
coverage that can include editing a shop manual or writing
about the latest telematics and intelligent-highway systems,
Tom also writes numerous light truck reviews from both an
adventure-travel perspective, and the business-user's perspective.
BJ Killeen
Sherman Oaks, California
BJ
Killeen, one of only a handful of female automotive journalists
in the country, is well known in the industry. The former
Road Test Editor of Motor Trend magazine now freelances
for numerous automotive titles, as well as writing for automotive
websites such as Popular Mechanics, and Pickuptruck.com.
She is the New Vehicle/Industry Editor for Super Rod magazine,
Hot Compact and Import magazine, and all the other Buckaroo
Communications publications.
BJ is currently
the Road Test Editor and co-host of "Driver's Talk"
Radio a live Saturday broadcast that covers Central California.
BJ also is an editor-at-large of American Woman Road and
Travel website, for women interested in automobiles and
motorcycles.
After receiving
her degree in English from UCLA, BJ joined the staff of
Motorcyclist magazine, where she cultivated a fondness for
motorcycles and dirt bikes. She then moved on to Motor Trend
magazine, where she worked her way up to become the road
test editor, and was responsible for writing many monthly
columns, road tests and comparison tests, as well as voting
in the prestigious Car, Truck, and Import Car of the Year
competitions. BJ also is the stand-in co-host of the nationally
syndicated radio program "America on the Road,"
with a listening audience of 3.5 million. BJ guest hosts
on the "The Car Show" and "In the Driver's
Seat" automotive radio programs. BJ also has appeared
on television as an authority in her field, most recently
on "Home Matters" on the Discovery Channel, as
well as on a variety of morning news shows across the country.
As a freelance
writer, BJ has worked on numerous writing assignments for
firms such as dkn Marketing, PBM Marketing, Jackson-Dawson
Communications, Paine and Associates, and Young and Rubicam.
She is a multiple winner of the prestigious IAMC awards,
and has served as a judge on numerous automotive competitions.
BJ also has done freelance writing for many of the major
automotive manufacturing companies.
A big racing
fan, her love of automobiles started early, having been
exposed to the field through her father, who owned an assortment
of collector classics, such as a '61 Austin-Healey 3000,
a '641/2 Mustang, and other vehicles. BJ, a native Southern
Californian, is married to automotive photographer Scott
Killeen and lives in Sherman Oaks, California, and also
is a two-year past president of the Motor Press Guild, the
organization that represents almost 600 automotive journalists
and industry representatives across the country.
Ashly Knapp
Seattle, Washington
Before
and during college, Ashly drove a Checker Marathon Cab nights
in his native Manhattan. It was his first job as a professional
driver. Over the next few years' young Ashly worked as a
car mechanic and an automotive retailer.
After college Ashly studied personal transportation costs
and their relationship to personal values. In 1977, he founded
AutoAdvisor, Inc. the nation's oldest national consumer
consulting and buyer's service. Today autoadvisor.com has
helped countless individuals acquire better, safer, more
reliable vehicles at lower prices.
Ashly became an auto writer in 1978 when he was asked to
write monthly automobile reviews for the AAA. In the late
80's he worked with Money Magazine to publish their first
real automobile transaction price guide and continued to
do so for many years. During his independent career he has
worked with J.D. Powers, Zeno Group, Automotive News, Reuters,
and had his own automotive talk shows on ABC and NBC affiliates.
In addition he has written for many publications over the
years.
Ashly has always enjoyed studying automotive technology
and its relative value to the individual. Presently Ashly
co-writes a monthly column for Physician' Money Digest and
Dentist Money Digest as well as others in the health care
lifestyle area. He co-writes his columns with his Award-winning,
auto journalist wife, Jean Swenson.
Ashly continues to be quoted regularly as well as doing
numerous national electronic media guest spots. He's presently
working on a book to be published during the'07 model year.
Ashly lives with his wife and family 417 feet above sea
level on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill.
Bob Kroupa
Greensboro, North Carolina
Bob
Kroupa is one of the Principals of the Automotive Writers
Group with offices in Greensboro, NC and Chicago, IL.
Bob is recognized for his work with new automotive releases
for all major manufacturers and models with his reviews
for the Greensboro News & Record daily newspaper, and
is a main contributor to their Auto Show Publication.
He is the Editor and Publisher of the Vette-N-Vestments
Monthly Corvette Market Letter now in it's 26th year of
production. He is recognized across the country for his
knowledge and expertise in the aftermarket Corvette arena
and has amassed an extensive data base on Corvette resale
prices. Bob also has a monthly column "sold, Sold,
SOLD!" in Corvette Enthusiast Magazine. In addition,
his articles are featured in Old Cars Weekly, Cars and Parts
Magazine, Magazine Corvette as well as the Corvette Quarterly
Magazine.
Jim Meachen
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Jim
Meachen is an editor for the Goldsboro News-Argus in Goldsboro,
NC. He has been covering the auto industry and reviewing
new vehicles for over 10 years. He currently writes a weekly
review for the Goldsboro (N.C.) News Argus and the Los Angeles
Daily News. His reviews also appear on line.
Meachen is a
native of South Dakota and worked for several newspapers
in South Dakota and Iowa before coming to North Carolina.
He spent four years in the Air Force during the Vietnam
era writing and compiling a quarterly history of the 68th
Bombardment Wing.
He has
won several writing awards during his long tenure with the
News-Argus, first as sports editor and currently as executive
news editor.
Mark Phelan
Detroit, Michigan
Based in Detroit, Mark Phelan has covered the auto industry
around the world for nearly 20 years. Curently an auto critic
for the Detroit Free Press, he previously has edited and
written for a wide variety of consumer and business publications.
Phelan lived
in Europe for several years and wrote extensively about
the auto industry there. He was founding editor, and most
recently Editor-In-Chief, of Automotive Business International
Magazine, a German publication covering vehicle news, business
and technology issues.
Phelan has also
written for the New York Times, Road & Track Magazine,
Ward's Communications, Automotive Industries Magazine, and
many other publications.
Chris Poole
Glendale, California
Chris
Poole, 55, has served since late 1986 as West Coast Auto
Editor for Publications International Ltd. (PIL), home of
Consumer Guide books and magazines. He is also editor-at-large
for PIL's bimonthly Collectible Automobile magazine, recently
honored by the Society of Automotive Historians for continuing
excellence. A lifelong car enthusiast, Poole joined PIL
at its Chicago-area headquarters in mid-1979.
Among his many
book and magazine credits are Great Book of Sports Cars
(with Graham Robson and the late Dean Batchelor), The Encyclopedia
of American Cars (with Richard M. Langworth), and Ford:
The Complete History, an SAH Award of Merit honoree.
Poole works out
of his home in suburban Glendale, California. His editorial
duties range from testing new models to writing about historic
automobiles. Poole is a past secretary and vice-president
of the Motor Press Guild, the Los Angeles-based association
of automotive writers and public-relations professionals.
He also appears occasionally on local and national radio
and television as guest automotive commentator.
Brenda Priddy
Phoenix, Arizona
Lens
extraordinaire Brenda Priddy has earned a reputation as
one of the world's pre-eminent automotive "spy"
photographers. Her undercover exclusives are a regular feature
of The Car Connection and other popular websites and publications.
These popular stealth-type photos are in high demand and
her client list has included publications such as Car &
Driver, Road and Track, AutoWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Business
Week and USA Today. Brenda's business has been highlighted
in several print publications, including Newsweek, Motor
Trend, Sports Car International, and various domestic and
international newspapers, and her pictures have appeared
in various books - from automotive interests to text books,
and even encyclopedias.
Her first "cover
shoot" was for the recently published book, Toyota
FJ Cruiser, written by Larry Edsall and published by Motorbooks.
Ms. Priddy contributed photos to nearly every chapter, and
for the first time in many years, didn't have engineers
and security personnel blocking her view.
In addition to
lurking behind trees and juggling multiple cameras with
high- tech lenses, Ms. Priddy also writes about the automotive
industry and is a contributing editor and photographer with
several national automotive publications. In what little
free time there is left, Brenda devotes herself to volunteering
as an advocate for AEDs (automatic external defibrillators),
and is helping to bring these lifesaving devices into schools,
work places and communities.
When not writing
reviews, photographing future cars or promoting AEDs, Brenda
relaxes with her family, including her two children, Becca
(a Theater Arts major) and Zak (a soon-to-be-famous rock
guitarist and robotic engineer). They live in Arizona with
a house full of dogs, cats, tortoises and a mother in-law.
Sylvie Rainville
Beauport, Québec
Thirty
six years old, Sylvie Rainville boasts of an enviable experience
in automotive journalism. Before taking over from her dad
Jacques Rainville who passed away in January 2001, she got
involved doing various things under her dad's supervision.
As a full time contributor with the Quebec City French paper
Le Journal de Québec, she covers various aspects
of the auto world like concept vehicles, industry news,
new cars review, gossips about local dealers and other relevant
companies. She also does an auto supplement 5 times a year
for the same publication.
Sylvie is also
the editor of the French edition (Le Magazine Carguide)
of the prestigious Carguide Magazine published 6 times a
year, by Formula Publications based in Oakville, Ontario
(Canada). Before her promotion as editor, Sylvie did various
assignments for the magazine. Sylvie also writes a weekly
column, a prestige and luxury car review, in Le Journal
Économique, a publication covering the economic activities
in Quebec, Canada. She is also an associate editor of the
website www.guideauto.com, founded by her father and some
of his colleagues back in 1977.
www.guideauto.com
is viewed as a major automobile website on account of its
complete informative content and presentation. Sylvie, being
a person who loves motorsport entered the 2002 Rally Targa
Newfounland, the ultimate North American tarmac rally that
run across that Canadian province. She also attends major
events in automobile such as international auto shows in
Detroit, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, just
to name a few. In her everyday life Sylvie lives in the
suburb of Quebec City with her husband and her two lovely
dogs.
Jim Scoutten
Franklin, Tennessee
Jim
Scoutten's career began in All News Radio while still in
broadcasting school; then came TV News, starting as weekend
anchor for the ABC affiliate in Honolulu. He's been a Reporter,
Anchor, Producer and News Director, while working for stations
in Minneapolis, Honolulu, Phoenix, Seattle, Greater Houston,
and Savannah, GA.
Scoutten produced
shows on automotive news, new vehicles and classic cars
for TNN for 12 years. He formerly produced Car and Driver
TV, working closely the Csaba Csere, Editor in-Chief of
Car and Driver Magazine. Under Scoutten's direction, Car
and Driver Television won five International Automotive
Media Awards for excellence in broadcast reporting.
Scoutten continues
his long time Car and Driver association as a contributor,
providing new vehicle reviews for Car and Driver Radio,
heard nation-wide on 125 radio stations and on XM and Sirius
Satellite Radio.
Marc K. Stengel
Nashville, Tennessee
Marc
K. Stengel is a syndicated columnist whose "What I'm
Driving At" weekly column appears nationally in newspapers,
assorted magazines and the Internet "webzine"
TheCarConnection.com. Stengel also contributes to the publications
Sport Compact Car and AMI AutoWorld and his written for
The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review ,The
(London) Spectator, the Pittsburgh City Paper, (Charlotte,
NC) Creative Loafing, Memphis Flyer, Miami New Times and
the (Birmingham) Black & White Weekly. He has worked
for TV's Road Test Magazine on TNN: The Nashville Network
and Motor Trend Television.
Over the years,
his work has been selected for various awards from the International
Automotive Media Conference and the Tennessee Outdoor Writers
Association.
Jeff Taylor
Chicago, Illinois
For
nearly 20 years he has been professionally involved with
automobiles. For the past twelve years he has been an automotive
writer for Pioneer Press Newspapers (Chicago, IL). Specifically,
those duties entail reviewing new vehicles, covering motorsports,
and a little aftermarket news.
In addition to
Pioneer Press Newspapers, he has also produced automotive
edit for Lerner Newspapers, (Pioneer Press subsidiary in
Chicago), contributed to a couple of NASCAR books, produced
pieces for Firestone's travel website, Vehicom Publications
(custom dealer branded magazines), and was a contributor for Metro Magazine a lifestyle
monthly in the Raleigh/Durham area.
Jeff is an active
member of the Midwest Automotive Media Association, and
a 1988 Journalism graduate of Southern Illinois University.
Kelly Taylor
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Kelly
Taylor has been a professional journalist since beginning
in 1988 as a general assignment reporter with the Winnipeg
Sun. That same year, he took a similar position at the Brandon
Sun in Brandon, Manitoba until August, 1989, when he began
at the Winnipeg Free Press as a business reporter.
In 1995, Taylor
began a series of upward moves, joining the night copy desk,
later becoming a makeup editor and assistant news editor
before assuming his current role as automotive editor in
August of 2000. Taylor is responsible for all aspects of
editorial production of the automotive section, including
recruitment of freelancers, writing and editing copy and
layout and design of the section.
Taylor is also
a member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada
and an evaluator for the Canadian Car of the Year Award,
which is determined during a rigorous four-day selection
process at a race track outside Belleville, Ontario. Kelly
was recently named 2002 Canadian Automotive Journalist of
the Year by the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada,
an award presented by Jaguar.
Jim Tucker
Marietta, Georgia
Jim
is Publisher of Southern Automotive Journal, a monthly trade
publication focusing on news, trends and perspective in
the automotive aftermarket and retailing fields. The publication
is distributed in five southeast states: Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Jim began his
automotive publishing career with his first magazine, Georgia
Automotive Business. He has published several automotive
related publications over the last ten years.
Arv Voss
Vallejo, California
Arvel
"Arv" Voss is a Northern California based freelance
automotive journalist whose Auto Impressions column appears
in various newspapers and magazines across the country.
A fan of things automotive since childhood, he has collected
and restored many cars and trucks over the years, among
those still owned, are a 1925 Chevrolet Touring, a 1939
Ford sedan delivery, a 1940 Ford Pickup street rod and a
1957 Porsche Speedster.
Voss made the
move from the advertising and marketing side of the newspaper
business over a decade ago to the editorial side where he
could pursue his passion for wheeled vehicles. A charter
member of the Western Automotive Journalists, he served
two terms as president of that organization and several
years as a Vice President prior to that. He and his wife
reside in a restored Victorian Vallejo city landmark that
is on the National Registry as well. Also an avid sailor,
he is a Past Commodore of the Vallejo Yacht Club and additionally
enjoys boat restoration.
Max Wickens
Hamilton, Ontario
Max
Wickens is a veteran reporter, editor and photographer.
He began writing about automobiles and the industry in 1961
and is formerly the Canadian correspondent for Automotive
News.
As a nationally
syndicated columnist, he was one of the 8 founders of the
Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. Also, he served
for a while as an auto industry communications executive.
Max currently freelances for Car Guide magazine and the
Wheels section of the Toronto Star. He also contributes
to and occasional co-hosts 2 weekly automotive radio shows
in the Toronto area.
