David E. Davis, Jr. is an automobile journalist and magazine publisher. His career in the automotive industry spanned from race car driver, factory worker and car salesman to ad salesman with "Road & Track" and copywriter for Corvette advertisements before becoming a writer for "Car and Driver" magazine in 1962.

Claude Vorilhon was a singer at a young age and soon became a sports-car journalist and test driver for his own car-racing magazine, "Auto Pop". He replaced that activity with maintaining his religious Raëlian Movement which he founded as an atheist spiritual guide and metaphysical materialist under the name of Raël. In Asia, he recently has been referring to himself as the Maitreya of the West.

Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views.

Richard Mark Hammond (born December 19, 1969 in Birmingham), nicknamed "Hamster", is an English television and radio presenter best known for co-presenting the television programme "Top Gear" along with James May and Jeremy Clarkson from 2002 onwards, and co-hosting the live annual motoring show, MPH, in Earls Court and Birmingham NEC, alongside Tiff Needell and Jeremy Clarkson. He also presented "Brainiac: Science Abuse" and writes a weekly column, …

Csaba Csere is a Hungarian - American former technical director and the current editor-in-chief of "Car and Driver". He earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. Csaba Csere joined "Car and Driver" magazine as its Technical Editor in 1980. He specializes in stories about technical issues and first-person experiences in competition machines ranging from NASCAR stock cars to Formula 1 cars.

James Daniel May (born January 16th 1963 in Bristol, England) is a television presenter. He is best known as co-presenter of motoring programme "Top Gear" alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. He also writes a weekly column for "The Daily Telegraph's" motoring section. On "Top Gear", May is often referred to as "Captain Slow", …

Thomas Jay McCahill III (1907-1975) was an automotive journalist, born the grandson of a wealthy attorney in LarchmontNew York. McCahill graduated from Yale University with a degree in fine arts. (McCahill's father had been a football all-American at Yale). He is credited with, amongst other things, the creation of the "0 to 60" acceleration measurement now universally accepted in automotive testing.

Patrick Bedard (born August 20, 1941, New York City, New York), is an American automobile racing driver and journalist. He drove for Jaguar Cars in endurance racing and driving in the Indianapolis 500 in 1983 and 1984 finishing 30th both times, the 2nd time retiring through a colossal accident where his car flipped several dozen times. Bedard then retired from motor racing but continued to write for Car and Driver magazine where he spent a total of over 5 decades.

Leonard John Kensell Setright (10 August1931 - 7 September 2005) born in London, UK, was a British motoring journalist and author. Born of Australian parents he studied Law at University. He practiced for a time but hated it. He had wanted to pursue a career in the Air Force but poor eyesight prevented this. He therefore worked in a control tower position at an airport.

Nigel Roebuck (born in 1946, in Manchester, Lancashire, England) is an English journalist. Since 1971 he has reported on Formula One, and is considered one of the sport's most influential writers. Roebuck was educated at Giggleswick School in North Yorkshire, also the alma mater of Keith Duckworth, another well known figure in Formula One. He wrote freelance for many publications as well as being Press Officer for the Embassy Hill F1 team in 1975.

Ken Purdy (born 1913, died 1972) is considered by some in his profession as one of America's greatest automotive writers and editors. Purdy was born in Chicago in 1913, and raised mostly in Auburn, N.Y., by his mother after his father, songwriter W.T. Purdy ("On, Wisconsin") died when Ken was only six. Ken graduated in 1934 from the University of Wisconsin. Soon after, he got his first newspaper job with the Athol, Mass., "Daily News".

Denis Sargent Jenkinson, "Jenks" or "DSJ" as he was known in the pages of Motor Sport (1921-1997) was a journalist deeply involved in motorsports. As Continental Correspondent of the UK-based Motor Sport magazine, he covered Formula One and other races all over Europe.