James Taylor has been writing professionally about cars since the late 1970s, and his interests embrace a wide range of older cars of all makes and nationalities, as well as classic buses, lorries and military vehicles. He counts the BMW E34 range among his favourites of the 1980s and 1990s, and remembers the excitement that they created when they were new as well as the concern that they aroused within rival car manufacturers who realised how hard they would have to work to keep up. James has written well over 150 books, and among them have been several definitive one-make or one-model titles, including a large number for Crowood. He has written for enthusiast magazines in several countries, has translated books from foreign languages, and is also an expert coach in effective writing, working in both the public and private sectors. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and the younger two of his four children, and makes sure that he always has something interesting in the garage as well.
